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new alpha
by Hans Hagen 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Hi, I uploaded an new alpha release to the website. There is an experimental (cool) feature tracker available (mostly of interest for arab users): \definefontfeature [arab-default] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes, ccmp=yes,locl=yes,calt=yes, liga=yes,clig=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes, mark=yes,mkmk=yes,kern=yes,curs=yes] \starttext \showotfcomposition{arabtype*arab-default at 48pt}{-1}{الضَّرَّ} \page \showotfcomposition{arabtype*arab-default at 48pt}{-1}{لِلّٰهِ} \page \stoptext The attached file shows what this will give you. (-1 in the above example means go from right to left) ps. it's realy an alpha, currently it does not provide registers due to upcoming integration of new structure and multipass mechanisms ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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bug in beta
by Yue Wang 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Hi, Hans: I run into problem using my original typescript (it works last year). What's wrong there? [yue@localhost ~]$ context --version MtxRun | main context file: /usr/home/yue/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex MtxRun | current version: 2008.11.10 21:40 Here is the error log: ! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-log.lua:75: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got table) stack traceback: [C]: in function 'format' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-log.lua:75: in function 'report' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1431: in function 'after' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:895: in function 'load' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1845: in function 'otf_to_tfm' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:2066: in function 'read_from_open_type' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:333: in function <...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:315> (tail call): ? ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:260: in function 'read' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:645: in function 'read' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:752: in function 'command_2' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \lowleveldefinefont ...s ", "\@@fontfallbacks " )} \edef \somefontspec {at \s... \xxdododefinefont ...efont {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.52 \setupbodyfont[myfont,11pt] ? ^D ! Emergency stop. \lowleveldefinefont ...s ", "\@@fontfallbacks " )} \edef \somefontspec {at \s... \xxdododefinefont ...efont {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.52 \setupbodyfont[myfont,11pt] ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! Yue Wang

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alpha
by Hans Hagen 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Hi, I uploaded a new alpha. - partial rwewrite of the open type feature processor code which is also somewhat faster now (the most recent luatex bin is slower due to redundant ff code, so eventually we might geven ain a bit more speed) - i will finish it when i run into fonts that i can use for testing - i need to discuss some issues with idris with respect to arabic - we might need to add some more detailed control (dus to interpretation options of the otf stanmdard cq. specific fonts) - i might make this an intermediate current (i still haven't finished the new structure code) 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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I need bold math italic and symbols
by Zhaopeng Xing 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Hi, Can anyone show me how to write math contents in bold and italic fonts? {\bf } can only produce upright letters. In LaTeX, we can make use of the command \pmb for this purpose. Is there any shortcut like this in Context? Thanks. -- Zhaopeng XING Tinbergen Institute

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Looking for ConTeXt commands for ...
by Mohamed Bana 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

I'am trying to convert a doc to ConTeXt, and I'm also trying to make it as close to the original as possible. How do the command below translate to ConTeXt? 1. \geometry{a4paper, textwidth=5.5in, textheight=8.5in, marginparsep=7pt, marginparwidth=.6in} 2. \scriptsize => \tfxx? 3. \LARGE and \Large 4. \Huge and \HUGE thanks

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ctx files
by Alan STONE 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hi, How do you call ctx files from within a main ctx file ? Thanks, Alan -- * texexec --lua foo * ConTeXt minimals ver: 2008.10.08 23:34 MKIV fmt: 2008.10.13 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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line spacing in frame with centered text
by Alan STONE 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hi, How do you get a uniform line spacing in the following frames where it's not the case ? \setuplayout[header=0pt,footer=0pt] \def\myFrameSetupA{\setupframed[width=\textwidth,frame=on,top=\vss,bottom=\vss,align=middle]} \def\myFrameSetupB{\setupframed[width=\textwidth,frame=on,location=middle,align=middle,offset=15pt]} \def\myFrameTextA{Text\\In A\\Frame} \def\myFrameTextB{Text\blank[medium]In A\blank[medium]Frame} \def\myFrameA{\framed[height=50mm]{\bf\myFrameTextA}} \def\myFrameB{\framed[height=50mm]{\bf\myFrameTextB}} \def\myFrameC{\framed[height=50mm]{\switchtobodyfont[35pt]\bf\myFrameTextA}} \def\myFrameD{\framed[height=50mm]{\switchtobodyfont[35pt]\bf\myFrameTextB}} \def\myFrameOne{\myFrameSetupA\myFrameA} % OK \def\myFrameTwo{\myFrameSetupA\myFrameB} % OK \def\myFrameThree{\myFrameSetupA\myFrameC} % line spacing is not uniform \def\myFrameFour{\myFrameSetupA\myFrameD} % line spacing is not uniform \def\myFrameFive{\myFrameSetupB\myFrameA} % OK \def\myFrameSix{\myFrameSetupB\myFrameB} % OK \def\myFrameSeven{\myFrameSetupB\myFrameC} % line spacing is not uniform \def\myFrameEight{\myFrameSetupB\myFrameD} % line spacing is not uniform \starttext \myFrameOne \blank \myFrameTwo \blank \myFrameThree \blank \myFrameFour \page \myFrameFive \blank \myFrameSix \blank \myFrameSeven \blank \myFrameEight \stoptext -- Best, Alan

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scratchdimen mess (alpha)
by Peter Rolf 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hi all, can someone test the attached example with the (latest) alpha version of ConTeXt? Using mkiv I get no additional space in case of the \scratchdimen example. I tried it with two new installations (minimals) from the scratch and also used several luatex versions, but the error remains. Strange... Best wishes, Peter MtxRun | current version: 2009.01.04 22:10 This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.30.3-2008112822, build 1587 OS is Windows XP SP3 \starttext \def\Space#1#2% {\framed[width=#1,height=#2,frame=on,framecolor=green,rulethickness=.25pt,offset=overlay]{}} \scratchdimen\dimexpr3cm\relax \newdimen\MYscratchdimA \MYscratchdimA\dimexpr3cm\relax A dummy placeholder to skip \Space\scratchdimen{1ex} some space. A dummy placeholder to skip \Space\MYscratchdimA{1ex} some space. \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] specific document layout with ConTeXt
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Aditya wrote: > > If others are interested, I can also release it on ConTeXt garden and > provide some documentation. > > Aditya > Please, please, please can you (or someone) post on the wiki? I was looking for a two-column layout for and IFAC conference which is very similar to IEEE and I ended-up writing my own. I'm not a ConTeXt programmer so it was all done in the document itself rather than setting environments etc, so the source code looked awful. You example, and Wolfgang's, look much much nicer and I cannot wait to try one of them out. Thanks, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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pdf-Forms
by Holzminister 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Hi! I wanted to test pdf-forms with the latest minimals from contextgarden and ran into some interesting errors. The following code compiles, but I cannot change the fieldvalue: >> \starttext Field \fillinfield[test]{Fieldtext} \stoptext >> When I add \setupinteraction[state=start], the compilation breaks with an error: >> ! Undefined control sequence. var :j:fields_1 -> visible_field = new Array() ; var visible_fields = 0... \docommand ...code {\getvalue {\r!java \r!java #1} }\ifoneJSpreamble \@EA \se... \next2 #1,->\docommand {#1} \doprocesscommaitem <argument> \relax fields_1, Do_Check_Answer \doprocesscommalist ...aitem \gobbleoneargument #1 ,]\relax \global \advance ... \presetJSpreamble ...[\allJSpreambles ]\docommand \ifoneJSpreamble \gdef \al... ... l.6 \stoptext >> Neither pdfcontext nor luatex wanted to compile. Can anyone help? Best regards, Eyke

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Translate module and active chars
by Wolfgang Schuster 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Hi Hans, you're experimental translate module for MkIV is very nice and makes it for german users very easy to avoid ligatures in certain words. What I don't like is to that I have to escape the bar in the replacement text, can't you take care of this in the \translateinput macro itself and save the text without expansion. \usemodule[translate] \translateinput[Auflage][Auf\string|*\string|lage] \starttext Auflage \enableinputtranslation Auflage \stoptext Thanks and regards, Wolfgang

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footnote and linenumbering
by Thomas Engel 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Hello, I have problems with footnote in an area with \startlinenumbering -- \stoplinenumbering. No footnote will be generated. Is this an error? Or it is not possible to use footnote within linenumbering? I'm working with Context 2008.05.21 Thanks Thomas

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question about MPpositiongraphic
by Thomas A. Schmitz 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Hi all, first, best wishes for the New Year to all of you - may 2009 bring peace and fortune and world domination for ConTeXt! And my little question - trivial for the resident experts, I guess, but I can't find a solution: I want to write a little macro that will allow me to place a thin curved line under letters (metrical symbol for synizesis). Now that metafun is so fast in mkiv, I thought I'd use a MPpositiongraphic for that purpose, but my problem is that I can't make the graphic really local - when it is used more than once in a document, Metafin uses the last values for all occurrences. I tried grouping and the "save" command, but to no avail. Here's an example that shows the problem: \startMPpositiongraphic{placesynizesis} StartPage ; begingroup ; save a ; initialize_box(\MPpos{\MPvar{self}}) ; numeric a ; a = ExHeight/6 ; z1 = llxy ; z2 = lrxy ; z3 = 1/2[z1,z2] ; z4 = ((x1 + 2a),(y1 - 2a)) ; z5 = (x3, (y3 - 4a)) ; z6 = ((x2 - 2a),(y2 - 2a)) ; path syn ; syn := z4 .. z5 .. z6 ; pickup pencircle scaled a ; draw syn ; anchor_box(\MPanchor{\MPvar{self}}) ; endgroup ; StopPage ; \stopMPpositiongraphic% \setMPpositiongraphic{POS}{placesynizesis} \define[1]\synizesis {\hpos{POS}{#1}} \starttext \switchtobodyfont[25pt] test: \synizesis{au} and \synizesis{aeiou} \stoptext Any solution to this conundrum? All best Thomas

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New luatex mailing list announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 04 Jan '09

04 Jan '09

Hello everybody, The dev-luatex(a)ntg.nl list has seem more and more messages per day over the past months. We are of course very pleased with the growing interest in Luatex, and we believe the time has come to create a general usage mailing list. Karl Berry at TUG has set up a brand new mailing list for us that can be subscribed to via this URL: http://lists.tug.org/luatex or by sending an email message to luatex-subscribe(a)tug.org Of course questions about building and patching the Luatex engine should stay on dev-luatex, and questions regarding ConTeXt mkiv should stay on ntg-context. But the new list will be the best location for all general Luatex discussion and usage questions. A request for the people currently on the dev-luatex list: if you have an interest in Luatex but are not planning on becoming an active developer, please switch to the new list. Doing so will make life a bit easier for the active developers and packagers, not all of which are necessarily luatex users and interested in discussions. Have fun, Taco Hoekwater For the Luatex team

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colon in caption
by alkauffm＠uni-potsdam.de 03 Jan '09

03 Jan '09

Hi all, I have the question how to put a (pure) colon into a figure or table caption. \let\floatcaptionsuffix=: \placefigure[fig:cow]{cow}{\externalfigure[cow]} produces: Figure 1.: cow What I want is: Figure 1: cow i.e. the colon without the additionally dot. Does somebody know a solution for this simple problem? With many thanks for any hint, Albrecht

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Problem Passing \starttabulate into Lua
by Tad Ashlock 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

I'm trying to create a ConTeXt macro (mkiv) that will manipulate the macro argument's text with Lua and then feed it back into ConTeXt with tex.print(). My approach worked correctly until I called the macro with \starttabulate ... \stoptabulate in the macro's argument. So I started reducing the problem down to a minimum example which surprisingly turned out to have nothing to do with the manipulations I was performing. Here is the working example (without \starttabulate): \long\def\testmacro#1{\directlua0{d='\luaescapestring{#1}'}} \starttext Hello, world! \testmacro{% testing} \stoptext Here is the broken example: \long\def\testmacro#1{\directlua0{d='\luaescapestring{#1}'}} \starttext Hello, world! \testmacro{% testing \starttabulate \NC 0 \NC testing tabulate. \NC \NR \stoptabulate} \stoptext Here's the output: ===================================== MtxRun | loading configuration for C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c from C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/trees/53ad5f8b88994bdd02baa17501789699 MtxRun | run 1: luatex --fmt="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/formats/cont-en" --lua="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/formats/cont-en.lua" "./test.tex" (test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.10.31 13:58 MKIV fmt: 2008.12.24 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv) (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-fil loaded (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded specials : pdftex loaded system : test.top loaded (test.top) (test.tuo) (test.tuo) systems : begin file test at line 2 ! Argument of \dodoubletestempty has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \doifnextcharelse ...token =#1\def \!!stringa {#2} \def \!!stringb {#3}\futur... <argument> testing \starttabulate \NC 0 \NC testing tabulate. \NC \NR \stopt... \testmacro ...\directlua 0{d='\luaescapestring {#1 }'} l.8 \stoptabulate} ? ===================================== I've tried all sorts of variations on the above example including using \ctxlua, \startlua, \startluacode, etc. I tried using '[[...]]' and '[===[...]===]' instead of \luaescapestring. I tried \def with and without \long. I tried other \start* ... \stop* commands (different errors, but still broken). Plus many more variations. At this point I'm convinced that there's something fundamental that I'm not understanding. What is the general method for taking any chunk of ConTeXt code and passing it into Lua so that it can be written back out with tex.print()? Info: running on Windows XP, SP3 -- ConTeXt: 2008.10.31 -- LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.31.2-2008121200, build 1659 (The older versions of ConTeXt and LuaTeX are necessary because of the problem the latest Windows versions are having. See the "Serious Bug?" thread.) Thank you, Tad Ashlock

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embedding 3d pdf
by Michail Vidiassov 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Dear All, since ConTeXt lacks support for embedding 3D models (U3D or PRC) into PDF (btw, is pdf annotations support in context/luatex combination fit for end-user or is "in transition"?) I have tried to embed some 3D PDFs from http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/gallery/3D%20graphs/ and http://www.iaas.msu.ru/tmp/u3d/pdf/ using \externalfigure[3dpf.pdf] \startpagefigure[3dpdf.pdf]\stoppagefigure \copypages[3dpdf.pdf][n=1] but only the preview (flat) images show up, not the 3D model, that must appear after clicking on it in Adobe Reader. File size shows that the 3D annotation data was not taken from the 3D PDF file into ConTeXt output. Any advice on possible workarounds? Any hope for ConTeXt fixes? Or making a link to an external PDF file is the only option for now? Sincerely, Michail PS. I have seen the code from Renaud AUBIN in the "U3D (embedded 3D objects)" thread, http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/020220.html but it is too ugly and old a hack to start any work from.

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PDF bookmarks appear twice
by Andrey Riabushenko 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

I have found similar issue was discussed in this list, but it doesn't contain a suitable solution for me These command work just fine to add bookmark for every part, chapter and etc. \setupinteraction [state=start] \setupinteractionscreen [option=bookmark] \placebookmarks [part,chapter,section,subsection] [chapter] But I want to add three additional bookmarks (without adding them to the contents): title page, resume(second page), contents. I have defined it the following way: \definemakeup[Titlepage][pagestate=start, page=right] \definemakeup[Resume][pagestate=start, page=right] \definestartstop[Abstract][before={\page[blank,right] \midaligned{\bf Abstract}\startnarrower[2*middle]}, after={\stopnarrower\blank[big] }] \starttext \startTitlepagemakeup \bookmark[chapter]{Title page} \tfd Title page \\ \stopTitlepagemakeup \startResumemakeup \bookmark[chapter]{Resume} \startAbstract Abstract paragraph full of text \stopAbstract Author name \stopResumemakeup \title{Contents} \bookmark[chapter]{Contents} \placecontent[interaction=all] \stoptext In this case bookmarks appear twice in the bookmark menu. If I use \bookmark{} without [chapter] the bookmarks do not appear at all. I have tried to put bookmarks out of start/stop environments but it didn't help. How to work around this issue?

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Unicode and BibTeX
by Khaled Hosny 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

I'm trying to typeset an Arabic book with Arabic bibliography, I'm using bib module, but bibtex doesn't support unicode. Any workaround or another alternative? Regards, -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Looks like a bug in \typefile[option=LANG]
by Andrey Riabushenko 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

I have defined a new float environment for source file listings. \definefloat [listing] [listings] \definetyping[listing][numbering=file] \placelisting[lst:set]{Example of set tree} { \typefile[listing][option=C]{set.cpp} } It works just as expected. Then I have tried to change standard color palet with my own palet. \definepalet[corp-pretty][prettyone=corp-color-darkblue, prettytwo=corp-color-blue, prettythree=corp-color-lightblue, prettytwoone=corp-color-grey, prettyfour=corp-color-green, prettyfourone=corp-color-green, prettyfourtwo=corp-color-green, prettyfourthree=corp-color-green, prettyfourfour=corp-color-orange, prettysixone=corp-color-orange, prettysixtwo=corp-color-orange prettyeight=corp-color-orange, prettynine=corp-color-orange] \definefloat [listing] [listings] \definetyping[listing][numbering=file, palet=corp-pretty] \placelisting[lst:set]{Example of set tree} { \typefile[listing][option=C]{set.cpp} } The colors did not appear, in the texexec output I got lots of errors like color : TEXcorp-pretty:prettythree is not defined color : TEXcorp-pretty:prettythree is not defined color : TEXcorp-pretty:prettyone is not defined color : TEXcorp-pretty:prettytwo is not defined color : TEXcorp-pretty:prettythree is not defined color : TEXcorp-pretty:prettyfour is not defined NOTICE \typefile LOOKS FOR PALET "TEXcorp-pretty" and not "corp-pretty" as I have defined. There is some bug or "feature" that makes an implicit assumption of the palet prefix name - TEX. I have managed to make it work by definition a palet with name TEXcorp-pretty and still passing as palet option of \definetyping the name corp-pretty, but it is a ugly hack.

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kurier font?
by Yue Wang 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Hi, \usetypescript[iwona][ec] \setupbodyfont[iwona,ss,12pt] works fine. however, if i change iwona to kurier, it will give me lmodern. why? Yue Wang

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create and grade multiple choice exams with MUCH an ConTeXT
by batela 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Dear Sirs, For create and grade my MCQ (multiple choice quiz) I use the MUCH command that in had found at http://fourier.math.uoc.gr/~mk/much/. this is a very useful command for create and grade quizzes. Actually my main propose is use MUCH with context (or luatext). I prepare my exams in this way: Each question = one file Question example: """"" Today is: . 31 December --- the true question is the first . 25 December . 13 Mars . """"""""""""""""" In the test-description I include my specifications. And them I do: much create test-description A mc-outfile.tex is created. Now I do: pdflatex exam.tex for making the pdf file with all exams. If you can help I would use ConTeXT to prepare the pdf file. The migration should be very easy. I think there is necessary to define in context several commands like: \newcommand{\mcglobalheader} \newcommand{\mcpaperheader} \newcommand{\mcpaperfooter} \newcommand{\mcquestionheader}{\noindent{\bf Question \mcquestionnumber}: } \newcommand{\mcquestionfooter}{} In the file questions (mc-output.tex). """""""" mc-output.tex """""""""""" \mcglobalheader \def\mcserialnumber{500} \mcpaperheader \def\mcquestionnumber{1} \mcquestionheader How many circular orderings of the numbers $0,1,\ldots,10$ are there? (Two circular orderings which differ only by a rotation are not considered different.) \\ {$A$}: $10!$ \ \ {$B$}: $3^{11}$ \ \ {$C$}: $11!$ \ \ {$D$}: $9!$ \ \ \mcquestionfooter \mcpaperfooter %%%%% another exam \def\mcserialnumber{501} \mcpaperheader \def\mcquestionnumber{1} \mcquestionheader In how many ways can we select, from a set of 20 people, a committee of 3 different persons with a chair, secretary and member? \\ {$A$}: $20\cdot19\cdot18$ \ \ {$B$}: $\frac{20!}{3!}$ \ \ {$C$}: $20^3$ \ \ {$D$}: $3^{20}$ \ \ \mcquestionfooter \mcpaperfooter %%%%%%%%%%% Thanks a lot for your support. Happy New Year to all Jorge

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Newcomer bibliography question
by Andrey Riabushenko 31 Dec '08

31 Dec '08

Happy New Year, I am trying to create style skeleton for my reports in ConTeXt. Aw test case I decided to add my bibliography from previous articles written in LaTeX. I have tried this bibliography with plain bibtex, natbib, biblatex with no problems. With ConTeXt bib module I get bunch of errors. I am using latest ConTeXt minimals on FreeBSD. I am adding the bibliography like this: \usemodule[bib] \setuppublications[alternative=apa, refcommand=authoryears, numbering=yes, criterium=all] \setupbibtex[database=report, sort=author] \completepublications[criterium=all] I can't figure out on my own what is wrong with my bibliography (attached). title : - References ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup <argument> ...typesetapublication {garch}\strut }} \egroup \ifdim \wd 4=\zero... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dosomelistelement ...hss \dostoplistattributes }} \endgraf \nointerlineskip ... \dodolistelement ...ement {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue ... l.86 \completepublications[criterium=all] ? ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup <argument> ...pesetapublication {calvet2}\strut }} \egroup \ifdim \wd 4=\zero... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dosomelistelement ...hss \dostoplistattributes }} \endgraf \nointerlineskip ... \dodolistelement ...ement {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue ... l.86 \completepublications[criterium=all] ? ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup <argument> ...pesetapublication {calvet3}\strut }} \egroup \ifdim \wd 4=\zero... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dosomelistelement ...hss \dostoplistattributes }} \endgraf \nointerlineskip ... \dodolistelement ...ement {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue ... l.86 \completepublications[criterium=all] ? ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup <argument> ...otypesetapublication {arch}\strut }} \egroup \ifdim \wd 4=\zero... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dosomelistelement ...hss \dostoplistattributes }} \endgraf \nointerlineskip ... \dodolistelement ...ement {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue ... l.86 \completepublications[criterium=all] ? ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup <argument> ...setapublication {mad-optim}\strut }} \egroup \ifdim \wd 4=\zero... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dosomelistelement ...hss \dostoplistattributes }} \endgraf \nointerlineskip ... \dodolistelement ...ement {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue ... l.86 \completepublications[criterium=all] ? ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup <argument> ...esetapublication {accuracy}\strut }} \egroup \ifdim \wd 4=\zero... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dosomelistelement ...hss \dostoplistattributes }} \endgraf \nointerlineskip ... \dodolistelement ...ement {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue ... l.86 \completepublications[criterium=all] ? P.S. By the way. Is it possible to supply multiple sorting criteria? Possible like this, \setupbibtex[database=report, sort={author,year,title}] ^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Re: [NTG-context] specific document layout with ConTeXt
by Brecht Machiels 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hello, A big thanks to both Aditya and Wolfgang for their example styles/documents. This will help me (and perhaps also others) get familiar with ConTeXt much faster than any manual could. Aditya, could you also post a document that uses the IEEE module? It is not clear to me how I should specify the title, for example. Wolfgang's module looks very clean and is even somewhat similar to the way Lout's report class can be configured by means of the parameters. This, I like alot and is basically what I was looking for in ConTeXt. Unfortunately there is no small caps included in URW Times. I have tried installing the Gyre fonts, but that was not very successful. What is the easiest way to end up with a SC Times font? Or should I just fake it using a construct simular to what is described in http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/020929.html? This will not allow me to specify it as a style to \setuphead however, I assume? Kind regards, Brecht PS. Sorry for not properly replying to the thread. But I only subscribed just now and Mailman does not support retrieving old messages...

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forcing chapter pagenumber
by Hans van der Meer 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

On pages starting a chapter the pagenumbering is suppressed. However I want to tur it on. The sensible choice on \setuphead[chapter] seems page=yes but that doesn't change a thing. I see no other options of this sort. How do I accomplish pagenumbering on chapter pages? (ConTeXt ver: 2008.10.31) Hans van der Meer

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manual metapost
by Hans van der Meer 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

MISSING TARGET Makeing in the metapost/manual directory (metapost-1.102) after a distclean reports missing target: make: *** No rule to make target `grdemo.pdf', needed by `pdf'. Stop. This is strange because I have an older manual set with the same Makefile that typesets ok. MISSING [pdftex] Makeing other manual parts like mpboxes.pdf have their figures missing allthough the .mps files are generated. In mpboxes I had to add [pdftex] to \usepackage{graphics} because \usepackage[pdftex]{graphics} was needed. Can this be fixed in all files of the distribution? DISAPPERARED FILE I noticed that with respect to the earlier distribution the followings file has disappeared in the metapost-1.102 distribution: mpintro.tex But adding it didn't change a thing. met vriendelijke groet Hans van der Meer

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specific document layout with ConTeXt
by Brecht Machiels 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Hello, I have some experience using LaTeX as I have used it to typeset two master theses. Having started a PhD a year ago, the need to write some publications arises. However, while IEEE conferences/journals used to offer LaTeX templates in the past (as far as I know), it seems that recently LaTeX support is being dropped and only MS Word templates are offered. Take for example the RFIC 2009 conference: http://www.rfic2009.org/rfic2009/authorguide.html Considering my more-or-less good experiences with LaTeX in the past, I still prefer to write a publication using LaTeX, and not Word. This would require me to copy the MS Word template in LaTeX. However, I do remember that fine-tuning things to look just the way I want in LaTeX can result in quite the headache. That's why I started looking for alternatives. Initially discarding TeX and all it's descendents because they are 'not very modern', I ended up with Lout (http://lout.wiki.sourceforge.net/) This looked quite promising, as I managed to closely approximate the Word template by means of adjusting the options to the "report" document class Lout offers (not considering images and tabled for the moment): http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/rfic2009f By extending the reportf class definition, I also managed to add an "index terms" section: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/rfic2009f This was all surprisingly painless. The document lout source and pdf are at: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/template.lout http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/template_lout.pdf However, trying to learn more about Lout -- for example to change subsection numbering -- it seems that the programming language that Lout offers confuses me almost as much as TeX macros do. Perhaps my mind is accustomed too much to nice object-oriented languages like Python and I simply cannot be bothered by this complex stuff anymore. (a Python-based typesetting system; now that would be heaven... maybe) Some other things bother me about Lout: * Much smaller userbase than (La)TeX. Will I find the help I need? * No means of "inheriting" the report class and changing it. I have to physically copy the class definition and change the code. I recall it is possible to do some kind of redefinition in TeX, right? In looking for an alternative to this alternative, I found that the TeX community is very much alive. Even though TeX's 'not very modern'-ness, these new developments might offer something interesting. I remembered that ConTeXt, unlike LaTeX, allows much finer control over the layout of a document. Hence, it would probably be the next candidate for this little typesetting adventure of mine. Today, I finally got my hands dirty and tried to recreate the RFIC2009 template using ConTeXt. Unfortunately, due to a lack of a good document class to start with, it is proving to be much more difficult to create something that resembles the Word template. As I have also read on this mailing list, the documentation, while there is plently to be found, is a bit messy. Appareantly the documentation is not up to date with ConTeXt? Perhaps it would be good to remove outdated documentation and clearly present only one reference manual (the most up to date) to the new user. I did find some samples on the wiki, but the first two that I tried to compile apparently required some extra packages. Also, while I always thought it was a good idea to seperate content and layout, some of the examples on the wiki seem to suggest to mix them. Or is this the philosophy behind ConTeXt? May I suggest some work is put into creating some basic (plain) document templates (well-commented) which can be used by ConTeXt newbies, but can also be used as starting points for creating new templates? On to the template then. http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/rfic2009.tex This is a first attempt at creating an environment to describe the layout of the template. As you can see, I have not yet gotten far. I copied the title code from the contextgarden wiki. The TeX code makes me shiver however. I will have to catch up on that. http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/template.tex This is the template itself. I basically want this file to contain as little layout stuff as possible. I would like to define the title, author, abstract and index terms before \starttext. If possible, the environment should place those parts automatically without having to specify \placetitle after \starttext. I was hoping that the friendly people on this mailing list might help me get started in creating this template. Let's start with the following: * title, author, abstract and index terms as explained above * the fact that there are 2 columns should be specified in the environment * define title, author, abstract and index terms fonts clearly, similar as in the Lout rfic2009 file and use this information to format the title stuff. Looking at the countless documents that show off ConTeXt, it is obvious that it is very much possible of creating custom layouts. However, I wonder, how much TeX hacking is required? Kind regards, Brecht

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Re: [NTG-context] Does ConTeXt really support russian language?
by Andrey Riabushenko 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

So far I have tried using pdfetex: Sample 1: \enableregime[utf] \usemodule[lang-cyr] \mainlanguage[ru] \usetypescript[postscript][t2a] \setupbodyfont[postscript, 12pt] This one doesn't work on any of three systems described earlier. Latin transliteration instead of Cyrillic letters. Sample 2: \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[ru] \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][t2a] \setupbodyfont[antykwa, 12pt] Works on ConTeXt Minimals, but does not work on TeX Live 2008 and teTeX 3.0. Latin transliteration instead of Cyrillic letters. Sample 3: \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[ru] \definetypeface [russian] [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont [russian] This one doesn't work on any of three systems described earlier. Latin transliteration instead of Cyrillic letters. In there a solution that will work on every of three distributions?

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Serious bug?
by Fengnan Gao 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

I just installed ConTeXtMinimal using first-setup.bat. But it seems it has some serious bug that context even couldn't deal with such a easy document: \starttext Hello world! \stoptext What's the problem? Anybody can help me? Thanks. Fengnan Gao fnsteed(a)hotmail.com

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Minimal installation help on windows
by Mehdi Omidali 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

Hi, Two months ago I was able to install context minimal on windows XP and Ubuntu but now I can not do that. After a fresh installation on windows by the GUI installer I faced the following halt while compiling a sample, here is the log file %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% (sample.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.12.25 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-fil loaded (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded specials : pdftex loaded language : language en is active system : sample.top loaded (sample.top) (sample.tuo) (sample.tuo) systems : begin file sample at line 27 fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix otf fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix OTF fontnames | 161 tree files identified, 222 hash entries added, runtime 0.203 seconds fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix ttf fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix TTF fontnames | 5 tree files identified, 7 hash entries added, runtime 0.125 seconds fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix ttc fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix TTC fontnames | 0 tree files identified, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.125 seconds fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix afm fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix AFM fontnames | 76 tree files identified, 65 hash entries added, runtime 0.219 seconds fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix otf fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.otf fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix OTF fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.OTF fontnames | 0 system files identified, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.063 seconds fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix ttf fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.ttf fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix TTF fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.TTF fontnames | 380 system files identified, 608 hash entries added, runtime 0.313 seconds fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix ttc fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.ttc fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix TTC fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.TTC fontnames | 1 system files identified, 4 hash entries added, runtime 0.063 seconds fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix afm fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.afm fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix AFM fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.AFM fontnames | 0 system files identified, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.063 seconds) * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% and at this point I just terminated the process. Any idea? The source file is %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \definefontfeature [persian] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes, liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes, mark=yes,mkmk=yes,kern=yes,curs=yes] \starttypescript [serif] [persian] \definefontsynonym [Farsi-Light][name:XB Zar.ttf][features=persian] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif][persian][name] \usetypescript[serif][persian] \definefontsynonym [Serif][Farsi-Light][features=persian] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [Farsi] \definetypeface[Farsi][rm][serif][persian][default] \stoptypescript \def\FarsiGlobalDir {\pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT\pardir TRT\textdir TRT} \definestartstop [farsidocument] [commands={\usetypescript[Farsi]% \setupbodyfont[Farsi,12pt]% \FarsiGlobalDir}] \starttext \startfarsidocument ایضاً این هم همین طور است. ۰۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹ \stopfarsidocument

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Using dsrom with MKIV
by Aditya Mahajan 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

Hi, The dsrom math font only works partially with MKIV, and I do not understand what is happening. Consider the following example from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Doublestroke (which I wrote, after suggestions on the mailing list). One needs the fonts, which are part of TL and are also available at http://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/doublestroke/ %======================================================================= \loadmapfile[dstroke.map] \starttypescript [math] [modern,computer-modern,latin-modern,ams] [size] \definebodyfont [17.3pt,14.4pt,12pt][mm] [mb=dsrom12 sa 1] \definebodyfont [11pt,10pt,9pt] [mm] [mb=dsrom10 sa 1] \definebodyfont [8pt,7pt,6pt,5pt,4pt] [mm] [mb=dsrom8 sa 1] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [modern] [mm] [math] [modern] [ams] [encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[reset,modern,10pt] \definefamilysynonym [default] [doublestroke] [mb] \def\dstroke {\fam\purefamily {doublestroke}} \def\doublestroke#1{{\dstroke#1}} \starttext $\doublestroke{E} \doublestroke{1}$ \stoptext %======================================================================= This works correctly in MKII (Both E and 1 are shown in dsrom font). However, in MKIV the 1 is shown in LM Roman rather than dsrom. Is this a bug in context font handling, or a bug in the typescript? I am using: context version: 2008.12.01 10:25 This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.30.3-2008112812 Aditya

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\input behaves different
by Hans van der Meer 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

MKii and MKiv differ in their behaviour of \input with respect to the .tex suffix. Consider the following program: \starttext reading file1.tex: \input file1\par reading file1a: \input file1a\par \stoptext Processing with mkii reads both files, but mkiv chokes on the second \input: ! I can't find file `file1a'. <to be read again> \par l.3 reading file1a: \input file1a\par This seems a very nasty difference to me, because it will necessitate me to rename a great many files. Is this behaviour intended? Hans van der Meer

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PDF Attachments
by Henning Hraban Ramm 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

Answering to a question on TeX-D-L I reckognized that "\attachment" and friends are only mentioned at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_text#Embedding_the_source_code It's not in texshow and I couldn't find any documentation, also. It's defined in http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/core-int.tex and didn't get any source comments, too. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Re: [NTG-context] Does ConTeXt really support russian language
by Andrey Riabushenko 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Pdftex Preferably utf8 encoding >pdfTeX, XeTeX or LuaTeX? >Wolfgang >> I have spend three days trying to make ConTeXt show Cyrillic letters >> with zero >> success. >> I have tried to follow http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian >> precisely still >> I see only latin transliteration instead of Cyrillic letters. >> The funny thing that http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Vietnamese gives >> absolutely >> different set of commands for internationalization. I have tried >> them as well >> with no luck. >> >> I have tried about 10 variants that I have found on >> wiki.contextgarden.net and >> ntg-context(a)ntg.nl maillist NONE of them produce russian letters >> just latin >> transliteration and empty text. >> >> I have tried so far: >> Fresh install of TeX Live 2008 on Windows XP >> Fresh install of TeTeX 3 on FreeBSD 7 >> Fresh install of Latest Context Minimals on FreeBSD 7 (installed on >> 22-12-2008) >> >> >> LaTeX, from the same installations of TeXlive 2008 and teTeX, works >> out box, >> just as simple as: >> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} >> \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} >> >> Does any can give me a working example of cyrillic text in conTeXt?

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Does ConTeXt really support russian language?
by Andrey Riabushenko 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

I have spend three days trying to make ConTeXt show Cyrillic letters with zero success. I have tried to follow http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian precisely still I see only latin transliteration instead of Cyrillic letters. The funny thing that http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Vietnamese gives absolutely different set of commands for internationalization. I have tried them as well with no luck. I have tried about 10 variants that I have found on wiki.contextgarden.net and ntg-context(a)ntg.nl maillist NONE of them produce russian letters just latin transliteration and empty text. I have tried so far: Fresh install of TeX Live 2008 on Windows XP Fresh install of TeTeX 3 on FreeBSD 7 Fresh install of Latest Context Minimals on FreeBSD 7 (installed on 22-12-2008) LaTeX, from the same installations of TeXlive 2008 and teTeX, works out box, just as simple as: \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} Does any can give me a working example of cyrillic text in conTeXt?

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Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?
by Fengnan Gao 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

> > I'm clueless then. If version mismatch doesn't explain it and if there > are no error messages, then I'm running out of ideas. > > What happens if you run first-setup.bat again, delete the contents of > D:/context/tex/texmf-cache, open cmd, go to the folder with your > document, and then type: > >> D:/context/tex/setuptex >> luatools --generate >> context --make >> context test.tex > > Mojca > > Sorry Mojca, it's not working. Fengnan Gao

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2008-2009
by Hans Hagen 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Hi, Since we near the end of the year, here is our card/wish: http://www.pragma-ade.com/2008.pdf 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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FunnyFrame in an enumeration.
by Fabrice 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

Hi, Playing with metafun, I saw the FunnyFrame example (page 239 MetaFun screen manual), where a framed is put around some paragraph and this frame has a small framed title inserted at the top of the framed paragraph. I would like to do a similar output but in the context of an enumeration. I am able to obtain the main frame by a proper definition of the \definenumeration, but not the title ! For clarity, a sample test file is provided below. I have tried to look in the mailing list for some examples that can help me, but no luck ! Do you think this is something feasible ? I wouldl take any hint ! Thanks, Fabrice. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %[ The main code of this example came actullay from a thread in 2000 by Hans.] % http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20000929.130642.dc591d10.en.html \setupcolors[state=start] \def\FrameText#1% {\startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame} picture p ; numeric w, h, o ; p := btex \strut#1 etex ; w := \overlaywidth ; h := \overlayheight ; o := \the\bodyfontsize/2 ; p := p shifted (4o,h-ypart center p) ; draw p ; drawoptions (withpen pencircle scaled 1pt withcolor red) ; draw (3o,h)--(0,h)--(0,0)--(w,0)--(w,h)--(xpart urcorner p+o,h) ; draw boundingbox p enlarged(o,0) withcolor red ; setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled(w,h) ; \stopuseMPgraphic} \defineoverlay[FunnyFrame][\useMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}] \defineframedtext[FunnyText][frame=off,background=FunnyFrame,width= \hsize] \def\StartFrame#1{\FrameText{#1}\startFunnyText} \def\StopFrame {\stopFunnyText } \starttext \StartFrame{A nice place for a title} The value of variables inside this fence are isolated from the values outside. \StopFrame \defineenumeration[Definition] [width=fit, before=\StartFrame{}, after=\StopFrame, text={Definition} ] \startDefinition The text of the definition. The sentence "{\bf Definition 1}" should be in the above small box. \stopDefinition \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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fullpage and XeTeX typescript
by Mohamed Bana 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

hi, 1. what's the equivalent of the \usepackage{fullpage} for ConTeXt? 2. it would be convenient if LuaTeX supported typescripts like XeTeX does instead of having to define font synonyms, e.g., \definetypeface[mainface][rm][Xserif][Warnock Pro] \definetypeface[mainface][ss][Xsans][Cronos Pro] \definetypeface[mainface][tt][Xmono][Inconsolata][default]%[rscale=0.9] % use only for Monaco %\definetypeface[mainface][mm][Xmath][palatino] \definetypeface[mainface][mm][math][palatino][default]%[encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[mainface, 13pt]

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mpost finds BAD TFM
by Hans van der Meer 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

NASTY PROBLEM WITH READING TFM FILES IN LATEST METAPOST A nasty problem has surfaced that Taco Hoekwater cannot solve, because it does not occur on his system. My system is Apple Macintosh 10.5.6 and I am using the command "sh build.sh" to compile metapost-1.101. After compiling and generating with "mpost --ini mpost" the error message below result when calling "make" in the manual-directory of the distribution. It signals a bad tfm file, I guess because the wrong number of bytes is read. Some 16/32/64 bit issue perhaps? Taco has not found it and as his compile now runs "lint-free" it is difficult to imagine what can be wrong. Are there people in this group (preferably on Macintosh) who find the same thing happening? And then are far more apt with debuggers than I am? Many thanks in advance. Hans van der Meer This says the logfile of the mpost run, the programcode involved is from source file tfmin.w: This is MetaPost, version 1.101 (kpathsea version 3.5.7) (mem=mpost 2008.12.22) 22 DEC 2008 17:53 **mpman (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/metapost/base/boxes.mp) ! Font cmr10 not usable: TFM file is bad. _s->...oup.addto._p.also(EXPR2)infont(EXPR3)scaled (EXPR4)shifted((EXPR5),(EX... <argument> ..._n0="cmr10";_s("Figures",_n0,1,0,0,) ;_s ("in",_n0,1,35.3674,0,)... beginbox_->...UFFIX2):=nullpicture;for._p_=(TEXT3) :pic_ (SUFFIX2):=if.picture... boxit->..."boxpath_","sizebox_",(SUFFIX2),(TEXT3)) ;generic_declare (pair)_n.s... l.26 ....aa(btex \place{Figures in MetaPost} etex) ;

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different behavior between xetex and luatex
by Yue Wang 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hi, all. I expect different output in xetex and luatex using context. and I think the problem is quite serious although I do not speak Turkish. in turkish, fi can not be treat as ligatures and I can see luatex handle that quite well. however, in xetex, fi are treated as ligatures. I attach the files and output here. I don't know it is a bug in xetex, context or dvipdfmx:( Yue Wang

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 54, Issue 69
by Fengnan Gao 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

> Does it behave any differently if you try to replace the luatex binary > inside tex/texmf-mswin/bin with the extracted luatex from > <http://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/download.php/707/luatex-beta-0.31.2-win32-min…>? > > Mojca (with zero ideas left) > Nope, Mojca, not working too. Just one more question: why I cannot receive emails from the mail-list, what I get only is the digest? Fengnan Gao <fnsteed(a)hotmail.com>

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distributed / parallel TeX?
by Lars Huttar 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hello, We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple passes... about 8 on average). It takes us anywhere from 80 minutes on our fastest machine, to 9 hours on our slowest laptop. So the question comes up, can TeX runs take advantage of parallelized or distributed processing? As many in the computer industries are aware, processor speed (clock rate) has plateaued; it is not going to continue rising at the rate it had been. Hence the common move to dual-core, quad-core, etc. machines. But applications in general cannot take advantage of multiple cores to speed their work unless they are architected to take advantage of them. We googled around a bit but were surprised not to find any real references to efforts at running TeX in parallel or on distributed networks or clusters. Wouldn't this be something that a lot of people would find useful? Or does everyone only use TeX for typesetting short papers? Sure, you can use manual tricks to speed up TeX processing. You can "comment out" sections of a document, or select them via modes. But then you have to remember where you did the commenting out, so you can reverse it. And you have no guarantees as to whether the inclusion/exclusion of section B will affect the layout of section C or not. Wouldn't it be nice if TeX (or a TeX wrapper, or macro package, or "typesetting system") could take care of this for you? What if you had a language -- or a few extensions to existing languages -- to give your typesetting engine hints or commands about where to split up your long document into fairly-independent chunks? What if you designed your document specifically to be typeset in independent, parallel pieces so that you could guarantee that you would get the same result for section B whether or not you were typesetting the whole book at the same time? What if the typesetting system automated the stitching-back-together process of the chunks, gathering page reference info from each chunk to inform the next iteration of typesetting the other chunks? Has anyone been working on this already? It seems like it must have been discussed, but I don't know where to go to look for that discussion. Thanks, Lars

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lm bug?
by Yue Wang 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

hi here is a image of 4 pdf file. a.pdf is compiled using lm fonts under mkii b.pdf is compiled using lm fonts under mkiv c.pdf is compiled using cm fonts under mkii d.pdf is compiled using cm fonts under etex+dvipdfmx So I think there is some problem with lm otf fonts (or maybe mkiv do not embed the hinting correctly? Yue Wang

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Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?
by Tad Ashlock 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Fengnan Gao wrote: >>>> >>>> What version of LuaTeX is in Windows distribution? Maybe I forgot to >>>> update it. I'll check tomorrow (you can try to fetch the version from >>>> W32TeX). >>>> >>>> Mojca >>> >>> C:\Users\fnsteed>luatex --credits >>> This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.31.2-2008121200, build 1659 >> ... >>> Hope that'll help. >> >> I'm clueless then. If version mismatch doesn't explain it and if there >> are no error messages, then I'm running out of ideas. >> >> What happens if you run first-setup.bat again, delete the contents of >> D:/context/tex/texmf-cache, open cmd, go to the folder with your >> document, and then type: >> >>> D:\context\tex\setuptex >>> luatools --generate >>> context --make >>> context test.tex > > There's one more thing that you can try. In case that rsync is > problematic, there's a way to circumvent it, but I doubt that it would > do a difference. > > Download > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/justtex.zip > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/mswin.zip > Unzip both of them together, for example into D:\context2, run > > D:\context2\tex\setuptex > > mktexlsr > > luatools --generate > > context make > > context test.tex > > Mojca I'm having the same problem, and I have some more information. First, I have context-minimals installed on Windows XP, SP2, Intel Pentium D (3.2GHz), 2GB of RAM. My current ConTeXt version is "2008.11.10 21:40". I don't have the problem when I run "texexec test.tex", only when I run "texexec --lua text.tex" or "context text.tex". I previously had something like 2008.10.31 installed. That version did not have this problem. I tried both of Mojca's suggested sequences above and neither had any effect on the problem. With a test.tex file of this: \starttext Hello, world! \stoptext the resulting PDF file has two pages. The first has "H e l" spread across the middle of the page, and the second has "l o , w" spread across the page. The characters are of the expected size, just spread out. If I add "\setupbodyfont[lbr,6pt]" at the beginning of test.tex, then I get a single page with "Hello," and "world!" spread out across the page in two lines of small characters. If I add "\showgrid", then the resulting page has only one full-width horizontal grid line where without the --lua option, I get 41 horizontal grid lines. (At the default font size.) I hope this helps, Tad

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Beginner help: horizontal line
by Derek CORDEIRO 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi, I would like to be able to draw a line in the footer of every page. If I try to use setupfooter with before=\thinrule or before=\hrule I get some unexpected results. I want the line to span only the width of the body but thinrule aligns it to the left from the left edge. \hrule spans the entire page. I don't want it spanning accross the margins. Maybe I'm doing something very wrong... please help Regards, Derek -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Blog: http://www.derekcordeiro.com Follow Me: http://twitter.com/derekcordeiro

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About Times!
by Jeff Smith 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi all! Okay, that pun was not that good. Anyways... For the first time ever I'm not using one of my own fonts for a document project. I was wondering about Times. The font itself, installed with ConTeXt. So, I tried using the following in my document: \usetypescript[times] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] It changed to a Times font. Sweet! Now, what sort of Times font is it? :-) Where is it from? Who did it? Has it to do with those Gyre fonts I keep reading about? I need to... well, no, I just like to know these things when it comes to my documents, especially when they are aimed at publication. Thanks! Jeff

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Context minimals and BIBINPUTS
by Aditya Mahajan 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi, Why is BIBINPUTS not set in texmf/texmf.cnf in context minimals? I know that the minimals do not ship with any bib file, but even then, I think that we need BIBINPUTS = .;{$TXRESOURCES}//;{$CTXDEVTXPATH};$TEXMF/bibtex/bib// in texmf.cnf. Comments? Aditya

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new font bug
by Wolfgang Schuster 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi, with the last beta from the minimals ConTeXt fails to load the fonts, the error message is ! LuaTeX error ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua: 244: attempt to call method 'find' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:244: in function 'key' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:289: in function 'do_serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:371: in function 'do_serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:371: in function 'do_serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:331: in function 'do_serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:371: in function 'do_serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:427: in function 'serialize' ...ntext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-table.lua:478: in function 'tofile' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-tmp.lua:169: in function 'savedata' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-tmp.lua:274: in function 'write' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:906: in function 'load' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1845: in function 'otf_to_tfm' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:2066: in function 'read_from_open_type' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:333: in function <...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:315> (tail call): ? ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:260: in function 'read' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:645: in function 'read' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:752: in function 'command_2' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \lowleveldefinefont ...s ", "\@@fontfallbacks " )} \edef \somefontspec {at \s... \xxdododefinefont ...efont {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.4 \setupbodyfont[sabon] TIA Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?
by Fengnan Gao 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

This is the log file. It's very small in size, so I don't thinks I should use some net storage service to upload it. Just see the attachment please. And I also attached the output pdf of the last helloworld test file. Thanks.

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