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Using defaults and indexes
by Cecil Westerhof 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

In my template I have: \long\def\letterclosing#1#2{ \blank[line]#1, \blank[3*line]#2 } And in the main file I have: \letterclosing{Hoogachtend}{Cecil Westerhof} But I would like to have this as the default, so I could use: \letterclosing Beside that I would like to have the possibility to use: \letterclosing{business} or \letterclosing{family} This would then use defined values. When the first parameter is filled, but not with a recognized value, then the second parameter should be filled. If not, the compilation of the file should generate an error. Is this something that can be done? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Litter in the Garden
by John Devereux 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

There appears to be a spam/hacking attack in progress on the context garden, e.g.: <http://texshow.contextgarden.net/command/special> <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/MetaPost> :( -- John Devereux

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Howto make citations work in aps bibtex
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hi All! Have an issue getting \cite command working properly. Working on a undergraduate thesis in physics and the bibliography. I have read in bibmod-doc.pdf(Tacos manual) and also on the wiki about how to make this work properly. So I did set this in the preamble of my document. It sees the referenser.bib and a proper *.bbl file is produced. \usemodule [bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=referenser] \setuppublications [alternative=aps,criterium=all] \starttext \cite[ref] does only display [1] as a result. \stoptext I tried \cite[authoryear][ref] but it gets some annoying results. Because i want the result be like this in the output Example: These statements has been declared by [authorlastname,(year)] Please give a code sample how to make this work! Thanks in advance! //Janneman

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setupindenting
by Cecil Westerhof 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

With setupindenting I can define the level of indenting. But I want a different level of indentation for different paragraphs. How can I do this? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Defining a function
by Cecil Westerhof 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

I defined a command as descriped in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Processing_Lists. (\def\IHaveTo#1#2{I have to #1 on #2.\par}) If I define it in the tex-file that is processed it works. But when I put the definition in the template file that is used, it does not work. What do I need to do to define a command in a template file? -- Cecil Westerhof

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2NUP, spreading a table on 2 pages
by Antoine Junod 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hello List, I'm trying to design a little booklet on the form two A5 pages on a A4 sheet. It's not hard to do as it is well documented. The problem is the following: I would like to add a table (actually a people list with firstname, lastname, mobile, address and so on and so on) that is quite wide. The idea is to put it on a double page (ie, when you open the booklet, the table is on both the left and the right page). The easy way would be to 1) manually cut the table in two tables (a left one and a right one) that fit on a page and 2) to put them each on their own page, beeing sure the left one is on a left page. Here, the difficulty is to align both tables accross the pages. Another way would be to ask context to do that by himself. Is there a way to do that? Thanks for your reply, -AJ

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Re: [NTG-context] colored column
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hallo Hans, > > What is the problem here? > > maybe a typo? \{C{red} looks weird > See: ------------------------------------------------------------------- % Key "\{": Enclose template in braces. \NewFormatKey \{{% \!taDataColumnTemplate=\!thx{\!thx{\the\!taDataColumnTemplate}}% \ReadFormatKeys} ------------------------------------------------------------------- in thrd-tab.tex > > \starttable[o1|C{red}|] > \VL red \VL\SR > \stoptable This doesn't work! Try \starttable[o1|C{red}|c|] \VL red \VL should be black \VL\SR \stoptable Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] colored column
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hallo Hans, > > > What is the problem here? > > > > maybe a typo? \{C{red} looks weird > > > > See: > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > % Key "\{": Enclose template in braces. > \NewFormatKey \{{% > \!taDataColumnTemplate=\!thx{\!thx{\the\!taDataColumnTemplate}}% > \ReadFormatKeys} > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > in thrd-tab.tex Will this FormatKey be repaired? If yes, I would keep this in my example collection. Gruß, Wolfgang

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Layout for writing a letter
by Cecil Westerhof 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

I am just starting with working with ConTeXt. I was wondering if there is a good template for writing letters? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Math alignment problem
by Marcin Borkowski 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

Hi all, I'd like to typeset a system of simultaneous equations. I want it to have a brace on the left (like "cases"), but inside I want it to have two columns aligned like "align". Also, I'd like to have the vertical space between the equations be small (like in cases), not so big as in align. How to do this? -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl)

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Re: [NTG-context] Adobe ArnoPro in mkiv
by abbg770＠city.ac.uk 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Thomas A. Schmitz <thomas.schmitz <at> uni-bonn.de> writes: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use the Adobe ArnoPro font (just testing if it will work > with > ConTeXt). The font does work with ConTeXt/XeTeX, but not in mkiv. When I > try to compile my test file with mkiv, I get this error message (which > isn't very helpful to me): > > (/home/tas/texmf/tex/context/type-arnopro.tex (/home/tas/texmf/tex/ > context/type-arnopro.mkiv)))) > MtxRun | return code: ? > ...live/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua:572: attempt > to compare number with nil > > I'm using the latest beta and luatex 0.28.0 > > Can anybody explain what's going wrong here? > > Thanks > > Thomas > Hi, Did you manage to fix it? LuaTeX goes into (what I think is) an endless cycle --- I haven't allowed it to terminate naturaly, as it takes far too long even on a quad core. load otf | warning: Bad pair position: glyphs 0 & 3148 should have been < 2846 load otf | warning: Bad pair position: glyphs 0 & 3250 should have been < 2846 load otf | warning: Bad pair position: glyphs 0 & 3784 should have been < 2846 ... I should point out that on my Vista box LuaTeX crashes when I attempt to access the font information. mtxrun --script fonts --list "arnoproregular" --info % crashes %%% file %%% \starttypescript [serif] [arnopro] \definefontsynonym [ArnoPro-Regular] [name:ArnoPro-Regular] \definefontsynonym [ArnoPro-Bold] [name:ArnoPro-Bold] \definefontsynonym [ArnoPro-Italic] [name:ArnoPro-Italic] \definefontsynonym [ArnoPro-BoldItalic] [name:ArnoPro-BoldItalic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [arnopro] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [ArnoPro-Regular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [ArnoPro-Bold] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [ArnoPro-Italic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [ArnoPro-BoldItalic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Serif] [features=latin-smallcaps] \stoptypescript \definetypeface[adobe][rm][serif][arnopro][default] \setupbodyfont[adobe,11pt]

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issue with imposition
by Pablo Rodríguez 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi there, I would like to use the imposition capabilities from ConTeXt to be able to print a PDF book in a standard laser printer. To save paper, I use the 2UP arranging option thanks to this code from the wiki: \definepapersize [filius][width=135.9mm, height=231.8mm] \setuppapersize [filius][A4,landscape] \setuparranging [2UP,doublesided] \setuplayout [backspace=0pt, topspace=0pt, width=middle, height=middle, location=middle, header=0pt, footer=0pt, grid=no, marking=off] \starttext \filterpages[ZittrainTheFutureoftheInternet.pdf][4:351][height=21cm] \stoptext The PDF file can be downloaded from http://futureoftheinternet.org/static/ZittrainTheFutureoftheInternet.pdf. The issue here is that I get a resulting paper size with the filius height and not with 21cm from A4. I have tried have the output in a standard A4 paper size, but all that I got is a scaled down PDF. I would like to avoid scaling the document if that were possible. Is there any way, given the example above, to impose the filius paper size on a real landscape A4 without having to scale down the PDF document? Thanks for your help, Pablo

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Math align with \startcases
by Otared Kavian 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi everyone, This question is primarily intended for Aditya… but I guess other fellows on the list can also help me solve the following alignment problem: Is it possible to have an alignment like the rsult of the following with \startcases...\stopcases? \starttext \startformula \startmatrix[align={right,left,right},distance=3pt,left={\left\{}, right={\right.}] \NC -\Delta u + g(u) \NC{} = f \NC \quad\mbox{in } \Omega\NR \NC \displaystyle {\partial u \over \partial {\bf n} } \NC{} = h(u) \NC \quad\mbox{on } \partial\Omega \NR \stopmatrix \stopformula \stoptext Actually I used to have such alignments with the following structure (in good old plain TeX...): \starttext \startformula \cases{ \eqalign{ -\Delta u + g(u) &= f \cr \displaystyle {\partial u \over \partial {\bf n} } &= h(u) \cr } \quad \eqalign{ &\hbox{in } \Omega \cr &\vphantom{{\partial u \over \partial {\bf n} }} \hbox{on } \partial \Omega \cr } } \stopformula \stoptext (which gives approximately the same result as the first example above, but clearly the math-alignment structure set up by Aditya and Hans is much more elegant. (Although I prefer the vertical distance between the lines obtained with my plain TeX structure: by the way is it possible to fine tune such things in ConTeXt). So my question is: whether one can use \startcases ...\stopcases instead of \startmatrix ... \stopmatrix in order to obtain the result of the plain TeX example? Thanks in advance: OK

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new cv-resume module
by Marsel Fahie 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi Idris This is da boni-man just checking in to see how you are doing and I quite enjoy reading of your success so Jah Bless

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A few questions about aligned maths
by Morgan Brassel 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi everyone, I read carefully the two 'My Way' from Aditya regarding math alignment (thank you for those, they were extremely useful to me, and should maybe get even more visibility on the wiki), and I have some questions about it: 1) Is there a way to modify interline spacing in 'cases' environment? I find it a bit short when using the displaystyle option. 2) I noticed that the interline spacing is not the same in the 'align' and 'aligned' environment (it's larger in 'align'). Is there a way to make 'aligned' use the spacing of align? It looks better with displaystyle maths. 3) Aditya, I saw your remark in your 'My Way' concerning the 'multline' environment. I must admit I would really be glad to see it appear in ConTeXt! I'm afraid I'm not able to implement it myself... I use it a lot with amsmath: when a formula is just too long for one line, I put it on two with multline. The first part of the formula is left aligned on the first line, and the second part is right aligned on the second line. It seems impossible to get the same result with only 'align'. Would it be difficult to make it available in ConTeXt? Best regards, Morgan

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Re: [NTG-context] weird bug updating minimals
by Mojca Miklavec 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Just start with a clean script. For example, replace the whole file >> with something like this: >> >> (If luatex binary works well ... then nothing else in minimals that >> could "crash" at that moment is system-dependent, so I really suspect >> some mix up of local system libraries on your computer.) >> >> >> if not modules then modules = { } end modules ['mtx-update'] = { >> version = 1.002, >> comment = "companion to mtxrun.lua", >> author = "Hans Hagen, PRAGMA-ADE, Hasselt NL", >> copyright = "PRAGMA ADE / ConTeXt Development Team", >> license = "see context related readme files" >> } >> >> os.execute("rsync -av >> rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/bin/luatex/osx-ppc/ >> tex/texmf-osx-ppc/") > > OK. If I run this minimal version of mtx-update.lua, I get the same error. > If I call the rsync ... command directly, it completes... What does locate libiconv.2.dylib return you? Do you have any other version apart from the one in /usr/lib? otool -L /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib probably gives you 7.0.0, right? My only explanation is that luatex shields some system libraries. I have this for example ... > otool -L /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.3.9.sdk/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib: /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 71.0.0) Maybe, maybe, maybe ... the cross-compiled luatex binary includes /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10[whatever]/usr/lib/ into library search path with bigger precedence and then luatex sees that library before the one in /usr/lib when rsync requests it? Taco - would that be possible? How could one check if that might be the case? Mojca

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contextgarden.net
by Patrick Gundlach 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hi, within the next 24 hours contextgarden.net will be on a new machine. Expect some broken things. If things keep being broken after one day from now, I'd be happy to receive bug reports. Warning: this also affects the update of the distribution (formally known as the "minimals"). I'll put a page on the wiki where I list the status of the transition: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/New_Server (not there yet) Thanks for your patience! Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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weird bug updating minimals
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hi all, Mojca, after Taco resolved one issue with the latest luatex, I was trying to update on my osx-ppc box, and I am encountering a strange bug: when I run the ./first-setup.sh script, the rsync processes fail with this message: MtxRun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.lua dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib Referenced from: /bin/sh Reason: Incompatible library version: sh requires version 7.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 5.0.0 and so on. Now this box has several more or less abandoned installations of darwinports and fink, but this looks like it's trying to link to the library provided by the system (OS X 10.5.6) and complaining it's too old. Any pointers to this one? All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] colored column
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hallo Wolf[gang], > > \setupcolors[state=start] > > \starttext > > \starttable[ o1 | \{C{red} |] > > \VL red \VL\SR > > \stoptable > > \stoptext > > > > This was an older example which worked some years ago (see: > > http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/020803.html) but is > not > > working anymore. > > > > What is the problem here? > > I can' help you to fix the original keys (need to be done by Hans) > but you could define your own key. > > \NewFormatKey W#1% > {\ReadFormatKeys b{\localstartcolor[#1]\{} > a{\}\localstopcolor}} > > \setupcolors[state=start] > \starttext > \starttable[o1|W{red}c|] > \VL red \VL\SR > \stoptable > \stoptext > > Regards, > Wolf It is allways nice to learn something new. Thank you! Wolfgang

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colored column
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hallo! \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \starttable[ o1 | \{C{red} |] \VL red \VL\SR \stoptable \stoptext This was an older example which worked some years ago (see: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/020803.html) but is not working anymore. What is the problem here? Wolfgang

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MPgraphic with rounded corners
by Duncan Hothersall 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hello all. I have adapted a bit of MP code from Aditya from a mailing list message dated 2006-05-19 (http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060519.214124.9174ac0e.en.html) to ensure that when a page break occurs in a textbackground there is a forced vertical space inside the box at the top of the new page. This code works fine for me (although interestingly not in the garden): \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:myexample} path p; for i = 1 upto nofmultipars : p := multipars[1] topenlarged 8pt bottomenlarged 8pt; fill p withcolor 0.9white ; draw p withcolor black withpen pencircle scaled \MPvar{linewidth}; endfor; \stopuseMPgraphic \definetextbackground[ExampleBackground] [mp=mpos:par:myexample,location=paragraph,leftoffset=1em,rightoffset=1em,rulethickness=1pt] \starttext \input knuth \endgraf \starttextbackground[ExampleBackground] \dorecurse{13}{\input knuth \endgraf} \stoptextbackground \input knuth \endgraf \stoptext But now I need to make this box have rounded corners, and I am very confused when reading core-pgr.tex because that is a level of MP code I just don't understand. Would somebody please be able to tell me what to change in the above to make the corners of the box rounded (with a radius of 2mm)? Thank you very much! Duncan

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Re: [NTG-context] Kerning and Minion Pro
by Andreas Harder 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

>> I've a curious problem: With Palatino or Latin Modern kerning seems to >> work as intended, but what's the matter with Minion (example below)? > This appears to be caused by the fact that in MinionPro most > (not all, but most) of the kerning is specified via kern classes. Than you for explanation! But, is it possible to activate kerning for MinionPro? And what about the following example? \startbuffer[KernTest] \startlines Tänze, Tanze, Väter, Vater, \stoplines \stopbuffer The kerned „Väter“ can't be right (with MinionPro). Greetings, Andreas

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MKIV bug
by Yue Wang 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Hi, Hans Using context=experimental, the following cross references all appear as ?? MKII works fine. \placeformula \startformula \startalign \NC v \NC = u + at \NR[eq:v] \NC h \NC = ut + \frac12 gt^2 \NR[eq:h] \stopalign \stopformula Equation (\in[eq:v]) tells the final velocity after time $t$ and equation (\in[eq:h]) tells the distance travelled in time $t$. Yue Wang

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Kerning and Minion Pro
by Andreas Harder 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

Hello, I've a curious problem: With Palatino or Latin Modern kerning seems to work as intended, but what's the matter with Minion (example below)? \setupcolors[state=start] % \mainlanguage[de] \definefontfeature[basekerned][default][mode=base] \definefontfeature[nodekerned][default][mode=node] \definefontfeature[nonekerned][default][mode=base,kern=no] \starttext \startbuffer[KernTest] \startlines Av, AV, LT, LV, Ly, TA, To, Ty, Te, T. Va, V., Ya, Yo, Y. \stoplines \stopbuffer \startTEXpage % Minion Pro \startoverlay {\vbox{\red \definedfont[name:MinionPro-Regular*nonekerned at 100pt]\getbuffer[KernTest] }} {\vbox{\blue \definedfont[name:MinionPro-Regular*basekerned at 100pt]\getbuffer[KernTest] }} {\vbox{\darkgray\definedfont[name:MinionPro-Regular*nodekerned at 100pt]\getbuffer[KernTest] }} \stopoverlay \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage % Latin Modern \startoverlay {\vbox{\red \definedfont[Serif*nonekerned at 100pt]\getbuffer[KernTest] }} {\vbox{\blue \definedfont[Serif*basekerned at 100pt]\getbuffer[KernTest] }} {\vbox{\darkgray\definedfont[Serif*nodekerned at 100pt]\getbuffer[KernTest] }} \stopoverlay \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage % Palatino \startoverlay {\vbox{\red \definedfont[file:texgyrepagella-regular*nonekerned at 100pt]\getbuffer[KernTest] }} {\vbox{\blue \definedfont[file:texgyrepagella-regular*basekerned at 100pt]\getbuffer[KernTest] }} {\vbox{\darkgray\definedfont[file:texgyrepagella-regular*nodekerned at 100pt]\getbuffer[KernTest] }} \stopoverlay \stopTEXpage \stoptext This is luaTeX, Version snapshot-0.31.3 ConTeXt ver: 2009.01.14 11:29 MKIV Thanks, Andreas

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t-lettrine - broken?
by Bart C. Wise 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

A while back, there was a thread that was dealing with an Findent problem in the t-lettrine package (http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg- context/2005/009097.html). The problem was that the Findent was indenting the dropped-capital then indenting the first line of text. It should only indent from the dropped- capital to the first line of text. Taco provided a fix which works. Version: 2005.02.27 However, the current t-lettrine package in the minmals - beta exhibits the old problem again: Current beta version: 2006.01.27 Can we get the minimals-beta (and subsequent versions) fixed? Thanks, Bart P.S. Much thanks to Taco for providing the t-lettrine package!

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[***SPAM***] How to add pdf bookmark without adding it to the content?
by Andrey Riabushenko 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

I have tried many ways \bookmark[section]{Bookmark text} seems to add bookmark twice and it is also appears in the table of contents which is strange. I have prepared a small example that demonstrates the problem \setupinteraction [state=start] \setupinteractionscreen [option=bookmark] \placebookmarks [part,chapter,section,subsection] [part, chapter] \title{Contents} \bookmark[chapter]{Contents} \completecontent \starttext \dorecurse{7}{\input tufte \input knuth} \stoptext I using latest stable ConTeXt minimals on FreeBSD and compile with mkii.

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Fourier in ConTeXt (was Fonts readily available in Context)
by Mikael Persson 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Hi, I am starting a new thread about this: Is there really support for fourier in current ConTeXt? I've not been able to get it working since long time ago. I get utopia text working, but not fourier math. See the previous threads: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070830.154143.005528b8.en.html and http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080928.193441.874bb515.en.html 1) Can anyone explain to me why these fonts are not working at the moment? 2) Is there any plan on fixing this issue? 3) If there is anything I (as a simple user) can do, please tell me. Kindest regards, Mikael

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Re: [NTG-context] MPgraphic with rounded corners
by Duncan Hothersall 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Thank you to both Aditya and Wolfgang; I think I need to get a better grounding in the basic principles of MetaFun before trying to dabble again... Duncan

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TreatFirstLine: loss of spaces
by Bart C. Wise 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

The code below changes the first line. However, there are no spaces between words and therefore, the justification is also off. You can even leave the first parameter empty and you get the same results. Am I missing something? \starttext \TreatFirstLine {\sc} {} {} {} The combined color and font effect is also possible, although one must be careful in using macros that accumulate grouping, but the commands used here are pretty save in that respect. \stoptext Thanks, Bart

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Re: [NTG-context] horizontal space in \inframed and \hskip
by Michael Green 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Luigi Scarso wrote: > There is a space in between \ClassDate{..} and \ClassTopic{..}: > \ClassDate{Monday, January 26} \ClassTopic{glaucon's challenge} > > Is my pdf right ? > > -- luigi Oh thank you, that's exactly what I wanted. It's hard to believe that didn't occur to me. A space takes space. Imagine that! mjg

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horizontal space in \inframed and \hskip
by Michael Green 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

I am having some trouble with horizontal spacing. I'm trying to set one width for \inframed and \hskip but the two are coming out different. Here is an example. It is a syllabus for a college course. I would like the entries for topics (e.g. “Glaucon’s challenge”), descriptions (e.g. “Glaucon poses …”), and readings (e.g. “{\it Republic} …”) to start at the same horizontal point on the page so that their left edges will be aligned. I use the longest date on which class will be held to define a horizontal length (longestdate). I use that length to set the width of a frame for text that precedes ClassTopic and an hskip that precedes both ClassDesc and Reading. I expected the horizontal space to be equal. But ClassTopic is a couple points to the right of the other two. Thanks! %% Start example file %% Horizontal length of longest date -- taken from http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070314.120612.adab0a8b.en.html \def\setwidthof#1\to#2% {\bgroup \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#1}% \expanded{\egroup\def\noexpand#2{\the\wd\scratchbox}}} \setwidthof{{\it Wednesday, January 28.\hskip 1em}}\to\longestdate %% Definitions \def\ClassDate#1{\item \inframed[width= \longestdate,frame=off,align=right]{\it #1. }}% \def\ClassTopic#1{{\WORD #1}}% \def\ClassDesc#1{\hskip \longestdate #1}% \def\Reading{\hskip \longestdate {\sc reading} }% \starttext \title{Syllabus test} \startitemize[n] \ClassDate{Monday, January 26} \ClassTopic{glaucon’s challenge} \ClassDesc{Glaucon poses a challenge for justice. We’ll talk about the nature of his test. What must Socrates prove about justice in order to satisfy the challenge? Do we really have to meet such a demanding test?} \Reading{{\it Republic}, Bk. II, 357a–369b, pp. 38–44.} \ClassDate{Wednesday, January 28} \ClassTopic{origins of the state} \ClassDesc{What problem does the state solve? That is, why would people who didn’t have a state want one? What did Plato believe was the primary cause of conflict in human affairs?} \Reading{{\it Republic}, Bk. II, 368e–376e, pp. 43–52.} \stopitemize \stoptext

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Framing the text area of a part page w/ tikz/pgf.
by Bart C. Wise 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

The code below frames the text area of a part page. The part page removes the footer and headers, then I use definelayout to change the text height & width. It works find until I load the pgf and/or tikz modules. When either of those modules are loaded, the frame is forced to the next page. The only way I can make the frame stay on the page is to reduce the height of the frame; however, then it doesn't fit the text area that I've defined. Why when I load the modules pgf and/or tikz does the frame for the part page get forced to the next page? How do I fix it? Is there a better way to do this? (don't say remove the pgf and tikz modules :-) ). Thanks, Bart \showframe %\usemodule[pgf] %\usemodule[tikz] \definelayout[PartLayout][ header=0in, headerdistance=0in, footer=0in, footerdistance=0in, ] \setuphead[part][ command=\MyPartCommand, footer=high, header=high, placehead=yes, ] \def\MyPartCommand#1#2{% \setuplayout[PartLayout] \framed[% rulethickness=5pt,% height=\textheight,% strut=no,% width=\textwidth,% ]{\vfill This is A Part \vfill\vfill} \setuplayout[reset] } \starttext \part{This is part one} \stoptext

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mkiv and MetaPost
by Otared Kavian 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Hi all, I have a file which contains the lines below: I can typeset it and obtain a correct result with mkii, but not with mkiv (the second buffer named "axes-1" does not result in a MetaPost graphic when one says \processMPbuffer[axes-1]). The file and the resulting PDF can be found on http://www.kavian.fr/tex/bug-mkiv Thanks in advance for any help. Best regards: OK %%%%%% begin bug-metapost.tex \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startbuffer[axes-1] textextoffset := ExHeight ; numeric u ; u := .5cm ; vardef arrowheadonpath (expr p, s) = save autoarrows ; boolean autoarrows ; autoarrows := true ; set_ahlength(scaled ahfactor) ; % arrowhead p if s<1 : cutafter (point (s*arclength(p)+.5ahlength) on p) fi enddef ; path xox ; xox := (-u,0)--(8u,0) ; path yoy ; yoy := (0,-u)--(0,7u) ; draw xox withcolor blue ; draw yoy withcolor blue ; ahfactor := 4 ; % default is 2.5 fill arrowheadonpath(xox,1) withcolor .625blue ; % try .25 fill arrowheadonpath(yoy,1) withcolor .625blue ; % try .25 \stopbuffer \startbuffer[chemin-1] textextoffset := ExHeight ; numeric u ; u := .5cm ; z1 = (5u,0) ; z2 = z1 rotated 60 ; z11 = z1 rotated 15 ; z12 = z1 rotated 30 ; z13 = z1 rotated 45 ; z0 = (2u,0) rotated 30 ; path gamma ; gamma := (0,0)--(5u,0) ; draw gamma withpen pencircle scaled .4mm withcolor .625yellow ; path gammaR ; gammaR := z1..z11..z12..z13..z2 ; draw gammaR withpen pencircle scaled .4mm withcolor .625yellow ; dotlabel.bot (btex \switchtobodyfont[10pt] \strut $R$ etex, z1) ; path gammaRR ; gammaRR := z2--(0,0) ; draw gammaRR withpen pencircle scaled .4mm withcolor .625yellow ; dotlabel.top (btex \switchtobodyfont[10pt] \strut $R{\rm e}^{2{\rm i} \pi/n}$ etex , z2) ; dotlabel.rt (btex \switchtobodyfont[10pt] \strut ${\rm e}^{{\rm i}\pi/ n}$ etex , z0) ; label.rt (btex \switchtobodyfont[10pt] \strut $\Gamma_{R}$ etex , z11) ; fill arrowheadonpath(gamma,.4) withcolor .625yellow ; fill arrowheadonpath(gammaR,.4) withcolor .625yellow ; fill arrowheadonpath(gammaRR,.4) withcolor .625yellow ; \stopbuffer This file has been typeset on \currentdate{} at \currenttime, with \doifmodeelse{mkiv} {mkiv, LuaTeX revision \luatexrevision, (LuaTeX date stamp \luatexdatestamp)} {mkii, using the command: \type{texexec basic-test.tex}}, ConTeXt version \contextversion. % LuaTeX version \luatexversion, This MetaPost graphic is shown with mkiv: \placefigure[middle][-]{}{\processMPbuffer[chemin-1]} {} \blank but not this one \placefigure[middle][-]{}{\processMPbuffer[axes-1]} {} \blank nor this one \placefigure[middle][-]{}{\processMPbuffer[axes-1,chemin-1]} {} \stoptext

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Fonts readily available in Context
by Curious 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Hello All: There are quite a few fonts available in Latex with matching math fonts. The way a user like me who understands nothing about fonts can use them is to simply load a package. For example, for charter I can simply use the command \usepackage[charter]{mathdesign} Or, to use Palatino for text and some maching math fonts, I can use the command \usepackage{mathpazo} Are there fonts in Context with matching Math fonts other than Computer modern that can be used in an as simple manner,i.e., by just issuing few commands. If yes, can you please guide me to a resource which lists at least some of these fonts (again they should have matching math fonts) and the simple commands necessary to load them. I would find that really helpful Thanks very much.

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Change the font to Charter
by Curious 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Hello All, I have been using Latex for sometime and am thinking of switching to Context for at least some types of documents and hence have been trying it out. I love the charter font and tried to use the following commands to use the Charter font \definetypeface [charter] [rm] [serif] [charter] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [charter] [12pt,rm] However, when I compile the file with texexec I get the following warning: pdfTeX warning: pdftex (file ec-bitstrea-charter.map): cannot open font map file Can someone please help me fix this problem? I get the charter font output, however, the results are different from what I get with Latex. The letters seem more spread out and there seems to be more spacing between the words in the Context output. Could this be because of the above warning?

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Catcode tables
by Wolfgang Schuster 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Hi, can you fix the catcode related macros in syst-cat.mkiv, the macros did not work because a few macros are not define like \savecatcodetable and a few other are only defined in the MkII part like \catcodetable. Wolfgang

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Undefined control sequence: \_
by Peter Münster 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Hello, With the following test file, I get an "undefined control sequence" error: \starttext cc\_KNX \starttable[|c|] \NC cc\_KNX \NC\AR % here is the error \stoptable \stoptext But only with MKIV, no problem with MKII. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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beta
by Hans Hagen 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Hi, Taco and I have decided to release a beta now. Officially there should have been a current end of december but there were too many things going on at the mkiv/luatex end to make that happen. Most changes concern mkiv anyway as we've kind of frozen mkii. Also, due to the number of changes in the lua code making a diff now would take too much time and not gain much. The next current will be in the second half of februari. Before that we will have a series of alphas that use the new structure related code. They're alpha because for a while there might be some compatibility issues (solving them depends in testers noticing them). This is also the first big deviation between mkii and mkiv, since it opens up the way to new functionality. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Check your posts
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Hi all, Since yesterday evening localtime the ntg mail server switched to an external service for spam filtering. It is already clear that the mail server indeed handles much less spam now, so it looks like a great success. Still, it is a rigorous change, and for the new few days I want to ask everybody to keep an eye out for disappearing posts. This message is crossposted. If you want to reply, please do so to me personally, not to the lists. Best wishes, Taco

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transparency in MP (alpha)
by Peter Rolf 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hi Hans, transparency in MetaPost is broken here. No \scratchdimen involved this time... ;) MtxRun | current version: 2009.01.07 00:35 This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.32.0-2009010322, build 1724 Regards, Peter \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[ghost] [a=1,t=.7,s=1] \starttext \startMPcode fill unitsquare xyscaled(3cm,3cm) withcolor red; fill unitsquare xyscaled(1cm,1cm) withcolor \MPcolor{ghost}; % broken \stopMPcode \framed[background=color,backgroundcolor=red,foregroundcolor=ghost]{A transparency test} % OK \stoptext

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MP color and interaction (alpha)
by Peter Rolf 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hi, seems that color support is also broken in case of interaction. I get no red frame for the attached example. Best wishes, Peter \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \definesymbol[no][] \definefield[check-me][check][setup3][yes,no][no] \setupfield[setup3][n=1024,width=2cm,height=2cm,rulethickness=3pt,corner=round,framecolor=red] \field[check-me] \stoptext

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trouble with xetex and metapost
by Jesse Alama 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Using MkII (ver: 2009.01.09 16:57 MKII fmt: 2009.1.11 int: english/english), XeTeX (3.1415926-2.2-0.999.6 (Web2C 7.5.7)), and metapost (Version 1.005 (Web2C 7.5.7)), and metafun (2008-10-19 15:21), I run into some trouble with \usestaticMPfigure: [snip] systems : end file texexec-mpgraph-temp at line 62 system : cont-err loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) ) Output written on texexec-mpgraph-temp.dvi (3 pages, 324 bytes). Transcript written on texexec-mpgraph-temp.log. TeXExec | runtime: 0.487307 This is MetaPost, Version 1.005 (Web2C 7.5.7) (texexec-mpgraph.mp [1] metafun 2008-10-19 15:21 ! A group begun on line 144 never ended. <to be read again> normalend end->...message.metafunversion;message"";normalend ; l.182 end .; ? Any idea what might be going on? Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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style of last table row (on every page)
by Mojca Miklavec 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hello, I'm forwarding a question about natural tables from our mailing list: How to make a different border on bottom of the last table row on every page? \setupTABLE[r][last][bottomframe=on] only works on last page, not on every page. I thought naively that \bTABLEfoot ... \eTABLEfoot could do a dirty trick, but apparently only the header gets repeated on every page: the footer does not. Mojca

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upgrading to the latest alpha
by Mehdi Omidali 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hi, I want to update my minimal installation on windows to the latest alpha. Seems that just copying the files in the base folder of the latest alpha to the corresponding folder in the minimal distribution is not working. Should I do something else?

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Why Garamond and Symbol are not included in TeX Gyre ?
by Yue Wang 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hi, I think the two font families are distributed by URW in free licence? Yue Wang

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Problemen met sites
by Cecil Westerhof 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Bij www.pragma-pod.nl krijg ik een netwerk time-out en https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ geeft onbekend certificaat. -- Cecil Westerhof

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Indentation in itemize
by Curious 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Hello Folks, Is there a way to have the first level of items indented. The second and subsequent levels are indented by default, but how does one achieve indentation of the first level. I looked at the options in the Context manual and I see that the default value of indentnext is yes. However, I think that applies second level onwards. Thanks in advance.

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Sample farsi file
by Ilda Khaki 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

can someone send me a sample file to type farsi?

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lucida and mactex 2008
by Jerónimo Alaminos Prats 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hello, I have been using the lucida fonts without problems for a long time. They work like a charm with mactex 2007 but moving to the 2008 version I've found that some math symbols are shuffled or simply do not appear in the pdf. For example, \midint compiles correctly but do not appear in the pdf result. I have checked everything that I can imagine but cannot find a reason for this behaviour. As example, the result that I get when i compile \setupcolors[state=start] \usetypescript[lucida][texnansi] \usetypescript[lucidabfm][texnansi] \usetypescript[lucidaboldmath][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[lucida,10pt] \starttext \showmathcharacters \stoptext can be seen at http://www.ugr.es/~alaminos/_Media/lucida-2008.pdf Any ideas? Thanks, Jeronimo ------------------------------------- Jerónimo Alaminos Prats Dpto. Análisis Matemático Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Granada Granada - 18071 alaminos(a)ugr.es

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alpha
by Hans Hagen 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hi, there is a new alpha; this one reports (for certain features) if characters are missing in a font (which is the case in the reported farsi font) there are two experimental tricks: \checkcharactersinfont \removemissingcharacters these force an extra pass over the nodelist for checking (just after the fallback pass) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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