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different behavior between context versions
by Yue Wang 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi, Hans: issue 1: Using context 2005.01.30, \indenting[yes] doesn't indent the first paragraph. however, the latest version do. I think this is a bug issue 2: Using context 2008.09.xx, the space factor after period = 1 by default (frechspacing is enabled by default). however, it is not enabled by default now. (I think enable that is better). bug or feature? issue 3: when \setupbodyfont[ss], the equation number and braces are still in roman. I think it is better to change them according to main text font. issue 4: i think key-vals like \setupinteraction[focus=standard] and \setupformulae[indentnext=auto] should be documented in quick reference or something. Yue Wang

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Re: [NTG-context] Serious bug?
by Fengnan Gao 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

>it looks like luatex crashes so maybe some mismatch; can you try again >after deleting the cache? > >mtxrun --script cache --erase > >Hans sorry Hans, not working. Fengnan Gao fnsteed(a)hotmail.com

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moinmoin ... to ConTeXt
by Mohamed Bana 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

hey guys, just stumbled across this; http://moinmo.in/ (wiki): click on 'more actions'->'render as docbook', then use http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ to convert to ConTeXt.

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Greek module problem
by Alan Bowen 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

I recently updated to Thomas’ latest Greek module and to the system software (Mac OS 10.5.6), and am now am getting errors indicating that the .enc files are not being found. I checked cont-sys.tex and see that \autoloadmapfilestrue is set. But running “texhash” gets a “command not found” message. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am using the most recent ConTeXt minimals and Mark II on a Mac. The minimals themselves are in /Applications. Alan

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web version of texworks?
by Yue Wang 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Hi, all I notice that when I push the view link of a pdf attachment in Gmail, it can show me images of my pdf document. It also render the fonts in my document correctly even I do not have these fonts installed in the operating system. here is a screen shot: http://yulewang.googlepages.com/Untitled.png wouldn't it be great if we add this feature to live.contextgarden.net? Yue Wang

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Bib module and prefix=+
by Robin Kirkham 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hi, How can the bib module and \setuphead[chapter][prefix=+] be made to coexist? The following example works, but if you uncomment the \setuphead, the citations are broken and the reference list vanishes: \setupoutput[pdftex] % uncomment this line and it breaks %\setuphead[chapter][prefix=+] \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database={xampl.bib}] \setuppublications[refcommand=num] % makes no real difference %\setuppublicationlist[title=\chapter] \version[temporary] \starttext \chapter[chapt]{A Chapter} Some citations: \cite[article-full] \cite[inbook-full] \cite[manual- full]. This is chapter~\in[chapt]. \completepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext Any help much appreciated! PS: The following old mailing list article appears to describe the same problem, but the symptoms are different (citations disappear, but reference list does not) http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20010516.173217.113e3787.en.html Robin

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Attachment sizes
by Taco Hoekwater 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi all, A quick note from your mailing list moderator. The maximum message size for this list is 64KB. Because pdf documents tend to be base64 encoded during email transport, this means that you cannot attach PDFs larger than approximately 40KB in file size. Please, will you keep that in mind while sending mails to ntg-context? Having to go through the moderation list and manually forwarding messages people is tedious and error prone. We will not change the size limit because there are quite a few people here on slow links. Besides, it will never be large enough anyway. When you do have a large file, please email it directly to the target persion (offlist), or, if it is meant for everybody, put it on a web or ftp site (if you have one) or upload it to the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:Upload Thanks in advance, Taco

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Reset linenumbers on each page
by Wolfgang Schuster 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi, How can I reset the linenumber on each new page. \starttext \startlinenumbering \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth\par} \stoplinenumbering \stoptext Wolfgang

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Unescaped $ and & in texts
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and & in text without escaping them with a backslash, & is not needed to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used. In text only documents I want also the % as normal character where I don't need comments. What do you think, with \nonknuthmode we have already a command to write '_' in text mode. \appendtoks \catcode`\$=12 \catcode`\&=12 \catcode`\%=12 \to \everystarttext \starttext Procter & Gamble’s stock climbed to $2, a 10% gain. \stoptext Wolfgang

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starting headings at top of column
by Lars Huttar 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hello, I've started talking to people in charge about contributing some money to this mailing list, or the wiki, or something ... we're certainly getting a lot of help from it. Is there an org or project to contribute to? Anyway, my current challenge is this. We have a two-column layout using columnsets. Fairly often, we start a new section (within a column... this does not interrupt the flow of columns). Some constraints we want to fulfill are: - Normally we want a little space before each new section heading - Except at the top of a column; can I check whether we're at the top of a column and do a conditional \vskip based on that?(*) - Avoid orphans: when starting a new section, if there's not enough room left in the current column, do a column break before outputting the section heading. I've tried \testcolumn[n], but it doesn't seem to work right. What are the units of the argument to \testcolumn? We also do manual column balancing using \definecolumnset, \setupcolumnset, and \setupcolumnsetlines. My concern is, does this apply after other layout is performed, so that any test performed above (*) regarding position within the column would fail to reflect these column balancing adjustments and therefore could give wrong results? That could explain why \testcolumn has been behaving in unexpected ways... Thanks, Lars

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setupdelimitedtext: linespacing in final quoted paragraph
by Sanjoy Mahajan 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

What's the right way to workaround the following interaction between \setupdelimitedtext and TeX's paragraph building rules? In the example below, the last paragraph from knuth.tex has the linespacing of the regular text set in 12pt, rather than the intended, narrower linespacing of 8pt text. Uncommenting the negligible vertical space (\vskip1sp) fixes the discrepancy. Is it the best workaround? I also tried setting after={\vskip1sp} in the \setupdelimitedtext, but it had no effect. I'm using 2008.10.31, MkII. Thanks for any suggestions, which I'll wikify if the solution is interesting to more than just me. \setupdelimitedtext[blockquote][style={\switchtobodyfont[8pt]}] \starttext \startblockquote \input knuth %\vskip1sp \stopblockquote \input tufte \stoptext -Sanjoy

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mpost manual
by Hans van der Meer 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

This might be considered a little off topic but I take the liberty to draw your attention to a problem with the mpost distribution. If there is really a problem with that distribution, I think it is in our interest to remedy it. I made mpost from the mpost-1.101 distribution (sh build.sh), then updated mpost.mem and finally called make in the manual directory of this distribution. Surprisingly a faulty cmr10.tfm was flagged. The output being: 122 ~/TeX/metapost/metapost-1.101/manual: make mpost -tex=tex mpman This is MetaPost, version 1.101 (kpathsea version 3.5.7) (./mpman.mp (/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) ; As can be seen, I am using the texlive/2008 distribution (on Macintosh MACOSX 10.5.6). Searching for cmr10.tfm delivers: 120 ~/TeX/metapost/metapost-1.101/manual: kpsewhich cmr10.tfm /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmr10.tfm Which should be fine in my opinion. The question: Are there people out there who would be willing try the same and report the result? This is the first step to locate the problem: is this is local or does it occur elsewhere and on different systems too? Hans van der Meer

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interactionbuttons question
by Alan STONE 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi, Is it possible to make a column (a vertical alignment) of buttons with the interactionbuttons command ? If so, how to proceed ? button 1 button 2 ... button x -- Best, Alan * TeX engine = LuaTeX *ConTeXt minimals ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.11.21 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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tiny reshuffle of ConTeXt versions on the Minimals
by Mojca Miklavec 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hello, Just a short notice before it causes confusion. Since Hans is preparing some really big changes in mkiv (basically rewriting almost the whole ConTeXt core if I understood correctly), he is still waiting to update ConTeXt on his website until the changes are finished or at least "working again". Since neither current nor beta are compatible with the latest LuaTeX, I have applied some patches that he sent me to official beta and now both current and beta are pointing to the same patched version of beta. (Maybe I should finally modify the timestamp ...) Else "current" on minimals would be broken, or we would be unable to upload luatex for quite a while. In theory everything should still work normally, beta has also been around for quite a while now, but before anyone asks me "why are the versions on minimals different from the ones that Hans provides" or "it works with context beta/context current on my machine, why doesn't it work on yours", here you have some short explanation. This deviation from the official version will be dropped as soon as ConTeXt gets "stable" again. Mojca

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markiv, "output written on..."
by Patrick Gundlach 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi, when I run a markiv file I don't get any message of the resulting pdf file. Is this done on purpose? I'd like to have a message that I can parse from textmate (to create a hyperlink to the resulting pdf). Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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Some ligatures cannot be copied and pasted
by Yue Wang 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi, see the attachment Yue Wang

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about "LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file"
by Dalyoung Jeong 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Dear Mojca, > "texmfstart texexec --make (--xtx) --all" run smoothly, but luatools > still has a cnf error. Did you update the scripts in binaries as well? (Unless you updated ConTeXt from TL repository, it will keep the old mtxrun in binaries, and that one doesn't work at all.) Mojca I upgraded MacTeX using "tlmgr updarw --all" first. And then, texhash texmfstart texexec --make --all texmfstart texexec --make --xtx --all It's working good. But, I try "luatools --generate", then error messages are appreared. luatools --generate LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.002 seconds Should I run .luatex(containing "export $texmf= ... ", etc) as before to set environment? Thank you for your help. Best regards, Dalyoung

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PDF page numbers
by Derek CORDEIRO 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

In latex + book/memoir + hyperref, if \frontmatter \mainmatter are used, the pdf files generated use the roman numbers in the pdf itself. It appears as ii (2 of 500) in the pdfviewer. Is it possible to do the same with ConTeXt? Is there any introduction to using fonts(typefaces) in ConTeXt? I find myself stumbling on simple things(I'm a beginner). For example, the following works fine. \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,11pt] but the following does not work. \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] \usetypescript[schoolbook][ec] \setupbodyfont[schoolbook,11pt] I have tried with and older distribution of ConTeXt which comes along with Fedora 10 as well as with ConTeXt minimals. Incidentally if I use \definetypeface[schola][rm][serif][schola][default][encoding=t5] it works fine. What am I doing wrong? Regards, Derek

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Re: [NTG-context] about "LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file"
by Dalyoung Jeong 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Dear Diego, Yes, in ConTeXt Minimals, LuaTeX is working well. Now, I am testing LuaTeX in TL2008. I hope that LuaTeX works in both environments. Too greedy? However, I couldn't solve cnf problem yet. I may leave it for a while. Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Re: [NTG-context] Dynamic frame height
by Bart C. Wise 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Thanks Wolfgang! Bart On Monday 15 December 2008 04:48:03 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 16.12.2008 um 00:29 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > I'm trying to create a section at the bottom of a page that has a > > number of > > blank lines for writing notes. However, I want the frame and the > > lines to be > > automatically generated from the remaining space on the page. How do I > > control the number of lines and the frame height to achieve the > > desired > > results? > > > > \starttext > > \input tufte > > \blank > > \framed[ > > corner=00 > > ]{ > > \vbox{ > > Notes:\crlf > > \dorecurse{4}{\crlf\thinrule} > > }} > > \stoptext > > Thanks, > > Bart > > %\showframe > > \starttext > > \input tufte > > \blank > > \framed[corner=00,align=right,width=\textwidth] > {\getnoflines{\dimexpr\pagegoal-\pagetotal-2\lineheight\relax}% > Notes:\crlf > \thinrules[n=\noflines]} > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang

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Dynamic frame height
by Bart C. Wise 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

I'm trying to create a section at the bottom of a page that has a number of blank lines for writing notes. However, I want the frame and the lines to be automatically generated from the remaining space on the page. How do I control the number of lines and the frame height to achieve the desired results? \starttext \input tufte \blank \framed[ corner=00 ]{ \vbox{ Notes:\crlf \dorecurse{4}{\crlf\thinrule} }} \stoptext Thanks, Bart

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Re: [NTG-context] \hspace variations
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Thank you, Wolfgang, for your solution. Seems like \hspace cannot take numeric values at the moment, only predefined constants like "big". Maybe it is reasonable to include your code below into context core files? Meanwhile, I used "\hskip 2cm", it worked fine. >> >> I have some problems with \hspace. I try to insert it between two >> images, and this is what I get >> 1) \hspace{1cm} or \hspace<1cm> gives space but writes "1cm" betwen >> images; >> 2) \hspace[1cm] does not work at all >> 3) \hspace[big] works fine, but \hspace[2*big] does not >> >> I want to get space twice as big, but how? > Hello, > > \unprotect > > \def\dodohspace[#1][#2]% > {\def\dododohspace##1{\dodododohspace{#1}{##1}}% > \ifhmode > \removeunwantedspaces > \dorepeatwithcommand[#2]\dododohspace > \expandafter\ignorespaces > \fi} > > \def\dodododohspace#1#2% > {\hskip\hspaceamount{#1}{#2}} > > \def\hspaceamount#1#2% > {\executeifdefined{\??hs#1:#2}{\executeifdefined{\??hs:#2}{#2\relax}}} > > \protect > > \starttext > > text \hspace[big] text > > text \hspace[2*big] text > > text \hspace[3*big] text > > text \hspace[1cm] text > > text \hspace[2cm] text > > text \hspace[3cm] text > > \stoptext > Best, Vyatcheslav

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[OT] context mascot
by luigi scarso 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Have we a mascot ? http://chl.be/mascots/ -- luigi

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Re: [NTG-context] on imposition and local or external files
by Pablo Rodríguez 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Thanks, Taco, Luigi, Hans and Mojca. Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> Is there any way to load a local file (or even an URL) with ConTeXt? How >> should I rewrite the following command to load a local file or an URL in >> ConteXt live? > > Live doesn't allow you to load local files. People could upload all > kinds of junk. Actually I wanted to get proper imposition for “The Future of The Internet — And How to Stop It” on a computer that doesn't have ConTeXt installed and on which I couldn't install ConTeXt even if I had administrator rights. Sorry, but I don't understand the problem here. If people upload all kinds of junk, why is this an issue? Or does ConteXt live show or store data for other users than the uploader? I thought that it was not a hosting or publishing service. Thanks for your help, Pablo

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looking for equivalence to LaTeX algorithm package
by Zhaopeng Xing 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hi, Does anyone know how to describe algorithm procedures in similar way as LaTeX algorithmic and algorithm packages? I tried to search it on wiki but found nothing. Thanks. -- Zhaopeng XING Tinbergen Institute

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Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV
by Aditya Mahajan 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hi everyone, I finished my thesis, writing both my thesis and my presentation using ConTeXt. Thesis: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam/publications/thesis/thesis.pdf Source: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam/publications/thesis/thesis.tar.gz Presentation: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam/publications/thesis/thesis-presentation.… Overall it was a pleasant experience, but there were some difficulties. I am summarizing my experience here. Hopefully, others will find it useful. * Layout and Formatting: It was extremely simple to set up the layout and formatting according to the thesis specifications. Due to the ease of changing formatting, I experimented quite a bit with the formatting before settling down to what is in the thesis (The school wanted "nothing fancy"). * Organizing large projects: The product-component structure made it easy to work on single chapters. However, I could not get correct numbering for the components (If I compiled chapter-02, it got numbered 1). In the end, I was just compiling the whole thesis at the time, since it was pretty fast (~10 sec). * Fonts: Using different fonts with MKIV was really easy. For the presentation, I did have some trouble in getting Euler to work with the minimals. Hopefully, this will be corrected soon. * Math: The math alignments worked very nicely, but I had to do a lot of manual tweaking at a lot of places. Also, equations seem to like to have a tendency of starting on a new page. I tried changing penalties for predisplay and postdisplay (which are set to zero), but it invariably led to bad page breaks at other places. At some places, the equation overlapped with the previous material. I am not sure what was causing this (medium interline spacing, wrong calculation of the width of the previous line, or something else). In the end, I simply put a few manual \break[small] here and there. Being able to write unicode math made simplified reading math markup. * Metapost: TeX-MP interaction is fast and easy. However, debugging metapost errors is difficult because context does not stop compiling on encountering a metapost error. * Bibliography. For a large part, the bib module was very easy. In the end, there were a few glitches with the formatting of the bibliography (too title space between entries) which I had to manually correct. (Look for \help inside the bbl file). The bbl file sorted authors with multiple entries incorrectly. If I had authors with four publications in a year, say 2000, the came out as 2000d, 2000c, 2000b, 2000a. I wanted 2000a, 2000b, 2000c, and 2000d, so in the end I just edited the bbl file by hand. There was also problem with maybe year. If I had 2000a and 2000b in the bib file, but only referred to 2000b in the thesis, the year came out as 2000b rather than 2000. For this also, I edited the bbl file by hand. Overall, ConTeXt made writing the thesis fairly easy. I mean the typesetting part of it. For those who are wondering, ConTeXt does not help with the content of the thesis :-) I would like to thank Hans and Taco for providing ConTeXt and everyone on the mailing list for answering my various questions. Aditya

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Template from latex to context
by Xan 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hi, I'm new in context. By now I don't start typing ConTeXt long texts, but now I want to start with one post-graduate work.... Sorry for the oversimplification, but I see ConTexT like LaTeX but with coherence (no conflict among modules) and more customization. I would like to know if there is a "template" for having the same results in context than in latex. I refer for example in style of page (margins, etc), style of chapters (for example "\setuphead[chapter][style=\tfd]"), etc. It could be useful for migration from latex to context having such file that specifies the styles normally use in latex. So latex user simply have to learn new syntax. I want to clear that I don't want to make ConTeXt like LaTeX (these are different, I know) else define the styles in ConTeXt than LaTeX users usually find. Thanks a lot, Xan.

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\hspace variations
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hello, I have some problems with \hspace. I try to insert it between two images, and this is what I get 1) \hspace{1cm} or \hspace<1cm> gives space but writes "1cm" betwen images; 2) \hspace[1cm] does not work at all 3) \hspace[big] works fine, but \hspace[2*big] does not I want to get space twice as big, but how? Best, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] math detail
by Steffen Wolfrum 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Am 13.12.2008 um 16:11 schrieb Yue Wang: >> there is *no* conflict with the line above. > > It is common scene that a paragraph should not be set solid (like > 10pt/10pt leading). of course not! >> ["conflict" means the given interlinespace gets bigger in this line] >> >> >> Thus, two questions: >> >> 1) Why does it has to be like this? > > > Cannot reproduce your problem. > see the attachment the problem occurs in footnotes only, see attachment >> 2) As it is not possible to choose a bigger interlinespace, >> is it possible to adjust the high/depth of the superset math >> element "^0" ? >> > > Yes, see "It's in the details" document. > Maybe you also need grid typesetting. the problem is grid independent. >> \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] \def\setnotebodyfont {\let\setnotebodyfont\relax \restoreglobalbodyfont \switchtobodyfont[rm,9pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=9.8pt,height=. 79,depth=.21]\setupalign[block,hanging,hz]\parskip2pt}% FN-Text \starttext right\footnote{\input zapf V\high{0} \input zapf\par} wrong\footnote{\input zapf $V^0$ \input zapf\par} \stoptext

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Broken output with xetex
by Diego Depaoli 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

What goes wrong with this code using xetex engine? No issues with pdftex and luatex. \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[a][yellow] \definecolor[b][s=.4] \definecolor[c][darkyellow] \definecolor[d][green] \definecolor[e][s=.4] \definecolor[f][darkgreen] \defineoverlay[my shade][\uniqueMPgraphic{MyShade}] \defineoverlay[circular shade][\uniqueMPgraphic{CircularShade}] \defineoverlay[linear shade] [\uniqueMPgraphic{LinearShade}] \startuniqueMPgraphic{LinearShade} path p ; p := unitsquare xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight ; linear_shade(p,0,\MPcolor{a},\MPcolor{b}); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \startuniqueMPgraphic{CircularShade} path p ; p := unitsquare xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight ; circular_shade(p,2,\MPcolor{a},\MPcolor{b}) ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \startuniqueMPgraphic{MyShade} path p ; p := unitsquare xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight ; circular_shade(p,3,\MPcolor{f},\MPcolor{e}) ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \starttext \framed[background=circular shade] {frame 1} \framed[background=linear shade] {frame 2} \framed[background=my shade] {frame 3} \stoptext Cheers -- Diego Depaoli

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math detail
by Steffen Wolfrum 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

Hi, in this example $V^0$ the 0 is too high (conflict with the line above). On the other hand, without math V\high{0} there is *no* conflict with the line above. ["conflict" means the given interlinespace gets bigger in this line] Thus, two questions: 1) Why does it has to be like this? 2) As it is not possible to choose a bigger interlinespace, is it possible to adjust the high/depth of the superset math element "^0" ? Steffen

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UPdating context fails
by David Arnold 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

All, Running textlive2008 on mac (MacTex). The command: sudo CtxTools --updatecontext Fails with: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \??cv :\c!n :\v!one \setvalue #1->\expandafter \def \csname #1 \endcsname l.618 \setvalue{\??cv:\c!n:\v!one } {1} ? Any suggestions? D.

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processing a file of figures
by Alan Bowen 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

I am working on a book in which the figures are to appear in a separate section at the end. Is there a good way to do this? Right now I have a file which is a sequence of commands, e.g., \useexternalfigure[Graphic][... \placefigure[... \useexternalfigure[Graphic][... \placefigure[... where each figure is assigned its own page. The problem is that, while I can process this file by itself, when it is part of product file (this file and others are components), strange things occur. (Basically it seems that ConTeXt has problems with the running heads used throughout the book, and with finishing the file.) But before going into this, I was wondering if perchance there is a better way to get ConText to process a file that is no more than sequence of figures. I am using the latest ConTeXt and MkII. Alan

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help with a latex -> context conversion
by Zoho Vignochi 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hello: I am intending to write my masters thesis using context. My university publishes a style guide in addition to a latex cls file. I am trying to reproduce the titlepage. I have been using the wiki (specifically http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Document_Titles#In_ConTeXt:_A_more_ advanced_solution). But I have not been able to add addition fields beyond the present title, author, date. Here is the relevant portion on the latex file. %%---------------------define command in the titlepage-------------------- \newcommand{\submittext}{A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT% OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF} \newcommand{\thesisnote}{by} \newcommand{\gaunote}{In the Graduate Academic Unit of } \newcommand{\acceptnote}{This thesis is accepted} \newcommand{\dean}{Dean of Graduate Studies} \newcommand{\school}{THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK} % % % DECLARATIONS % % These macros are used to declare arguments needed for the % construction of the title page and other preamble. % % candidate's previous degree \def\predegree#1{\gdef\@predegree{#1}} % % The full (unabbreviated) name of the degree \def\degree#1{\gdef\@degree{#1}} % % The name of your Graduate Academic Unit(eg. Computer Science, Maths, Physics) \def\gau#1{\gdef\@gau{#1}} % %your supervisor including name, degree department or field \def\supervisor#1{\gdef\@supervisor{#1}} % %examining board including name, degree department or field starting from Chair \def\examboard#1{\gdef\@examboard{#1}} % %external examiner including name, degree, department or field and Institution \def\externalexam#1{\gdef\@externalexam{#1}} % %copyright including name of candiate and year of graduation \def\copyrightyear#1{\gdef\@copyrightyear{#1}} %define title page layout % \newcommand{\unbtitlepage}{% \thispagestyle{empty}% \begin{center} \normalfont\Large\bfseries\@title\\ \vskip 1em \normalfont\normalsize\thesisnote\\ \vskip 1em \normalfont\normalsize\@author\\ \vskip 1em \normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\@predegree\\ \vskip 2em \normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\submittext\\ \vskip 2em \normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\@degree\\ \vskip 1em \normalfont\normalsize\gaunote \@gau \vskip 1em \end{center} \begin{table}[!h] \begin{tabular}{l l} Supervisor(s): & \@supervisor \\ Examining Board: & \@examboard \\ External Examiner: & \@externalexam %\@externalexam \end{tabular} \end{table} \begin{center} \normalfont\normalsize\acceptnote\\ \vskip 2em \normalfont\normalsize\dean\\ \vskip 1em \normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\school\\ \vskip 0.5em \normalfont\normalsize\bfseries\@date\\ \vskip 0.5em \normalfont\normalsize\copyright \@author, \@copyrightyear \end{center}} %-----------end of Title page-------------------- Any hints? Thank you for your time, Brent

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Copy & Paste chinese in PDF files
by Yu Yi 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

hi, I'm thinking now whether change from latex to context. As I know, both latex and context support the chinese language, but like in Latex, there is a problem with generated PDF, that is, the chinese words can not be copied and pasted correctly as the english words, how about this function in context? Anyway, this does not work in the provided manuals and examples! appreciate for any tips! Yu Yi

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Typography
by Diego Depaoli 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Dear helpful list, for the first time my work goes at typography and I'm a little worried. There is something I should know/make? Regards -- Diego Depaoli

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Re: [NTG-context] how to get thick and thin borders working in tables (ConTeXt)
by Lars Huttar 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

On 12/11/2008 3:24 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 11.12.2008 um 18:05 schrieb Lars Huttar: > >> We center borders between the cells by using "enlarged" values -0.2 +/- >> k, i.e. center around -0.2. I'm not sure why -0.2 works better than >> zero, but it does... Doing this makes coincident border lines from >> adjacent cells look like ordinary single lines instead of being extra >> thick. We settled on k = 0.6 to get the desired distance between our >> double lines. Incidentally, I wish I knew how to put -0.2, 0.2-k, and >> -0.2+k into variables or something so that they could all be changed in >> one place, instead of hard-coded in many places. Maybe somebody can help >> me there. > > \startMPinitializations > numeric InnerFrame, MiddleFrame, OuterFrame ; > InnerFrame := 0.2 ; > MiddleFrame := 0.4 ; > OuterFrame := 0.8 ; > \stopMPinitializations Makes sense. Thanks... this will make the code clearer and more maintainable. > % 1 double side > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:Lrtb} % left double > draw OverlayBox leftenlarged MiddleFrame topenlarged -InnerFrame > bottomenlarged -InnerFrame rightenlarged -InnerFrame ; > draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -OuterFrame topenlarged -InnerFrame > bottomenlarged -InnerFrame rightenlarged -InnerFrame ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > >> An unexpected and potentially large benefit of this approach is that for >> each cell, we only generate one MPgraphic (apparently because we only >> use one overlay per cell), which should make the TeX run much faster, >> and avoid running over the maxnumMPgraphics limit. With the >> multiple-overlay-per-cell approach, we ended up using about 13,000 >> MPgraphics for our document, far beyond the default limit of 4000, and >> taking 15 minutes to run compared to 37 seconds for a similar document >> without the tables. > > Use the 'nomprun' switch for texexec > > texexec --nomprun --xtx file > > ConTeXt collects now all graphics and process them after the TeX run. Hmm... we tried this, but it doesn't seem to make any obvious difference. Is this supposed to give a speed improvement? or get around the maxnumMPgraphics limit? Thanks again for your help. Lars

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Re: [NTG-context] how to get thick and thin borders working in tables (ConTeXt)
by Lars Huttar 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

On 12/10/2008 4:05 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Lars Huttar <lars_huttar(a)sil.org> wrote: ... >> However, when I try to mix double frames with single frames, I'm having >> trouble. Here is what I tried, in order to get a cell with double frame >> on the left, and single frame everywhere else: >> >> \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:Lrtb} % left border is double >> draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged \the\dimexpr\linewidth*1\relax ; % >> outer frame >> draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth*2\relax ; >> % inner frame >> draw rightboundary OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; >> draw topboundary OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; >> draw bottomboundary OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; >> setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; >> \stopuseMPgraphic >> >> Now the graphic has double line on the left and a single line elsewhere. >> However, the lines are thicker than in the previous one... about twice >> as thick, too heavy for our requirements. And I can't tell why. This is >> true on all four sides. >> See http://www.huttar.net/lars-kathy/tmp/test-mp-tableframe.pdf, second >> table. >> >> Also, on the side that has double lines, the double lines don't go all >> the way to the top and bottom (see same pdf, second table), so that the >> double line is not continuous across multiple rows. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> The above graphic is used as follows... >> \start >> \setupTABLE[c][first][background={table:frame:Lrtb}] >> \getbuffer >> \stop > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:all} > draw OverlayBox enlarged -0.2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:leftdouble} > draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 > rightenlarged -0.2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \defineoverlay[table:frame:all][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:all}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:leftdouble][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:leftdouble}] > > \starttext > > \startbuffer > \bTABLE[frame=off,offset=2ex] > \bTR > \bTD One \eTD > \bTD Two \eTD > \bTD Three \eTD > \eTR > \bTR > \bTD Four \eTD > \bTD Five \eTD > \bTD Six \eTD > \eTR > \bTR > \bTD Seven \eTD > \bTD Eight \eTD > \bTD Nine \eTD > \eTR > \eTABLE > \stopbuffer > > \start > \setupTABLE[background={table:frame:all}] > \setupTABLE[c][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:leftdouble}] > \getbuffer > \stop > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang > This fixes the problems I mentioned in my previous email. Thanks again for that! Unfortunately, when I generalize it, it takes us back to producing triple borders between adjacent cells. I think this is inevitable when overlaying a double frame (for certain sides) on top of a single frame for all sides, because a double side overlaid on a single side cannot be centered (or else the single line shows through separately from the double line). So my fix... which I'm posting here in hopes that someone may refine it, and for the benefit of others who may attempt similar things... is to center the double frames between the cells and avoid overlaying a double frame side over a single frame side. We center borders between the cells by using "enlarged" values -0.2 +/- k, i.e. center around -0.2. I'm not sure why -0.2 works better than zero, but it does... Doing this makes coincident border lines from adjacent cells look like ordinary single lines instead of being extra thick. We settled on k = 0.6 to get the desired distance between our double lines. Incidentally, I wish I knew how to put -0.2, 0.2-k, and -0.2+k into variables or something so that they could all be changed in one place, instead of hard-coded in many places. Maybe somebody can help me there. A cost of this single-overlay-per-cell approach is that we have to specify individually the 16 possible overlays (combinations of single and double edges) for any possible cell. But that's not too bad, as we only have to define them once. (In practice, we also had to define a couple of special cases where we needed some cells with open edges for a "faked rowspan". We haven't completely got those working yet.) An unexpected and potentially large benefit of this approach is that for each cell, we only generate one MPgraphic (apparently because we only use one overlay per cell), which should make the TeX run much faster, and avoid running over the maxnumMPgraphics limit. With the multiple-overlay-per-cell approach, we ended up using about 13,000 MPgraphics for our document, far beyond the default limit of 4000, and taking 15 minutes to run compared to 37 seconds for a similar document without the tables. Here is our working system... hope it's helpful to somebody: %%%% define MPgraphics for double-ruled tables % Lars Huttar, 2008-12-09 % Thanks to Wolfgang Schuster on NTG-list % Each MPgraph (and overlay) is named lrtb, with capitalized letters indicating which sides are double-ruled. % Adjacent cells must not define their common side differently, e.g. one cell define it single and one side % define it double; if that happens, it will appear triple (or a triple-thick line). % 0 double sides \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtb} % all single draw OverlayBox enlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % 1 double side \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:Lrtb} % left double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lRtb} % right double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lrTb} % top double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtB} % bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % 2 double sides: adjacent \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LrTb} % left, top double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lRTb} % right, top double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LrtB} % left, bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lRtB} % right, bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % 2 double sides: opposite \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LRtb} % left, right double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lrTB} % top, bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % 3 double sides \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTb} % left, top, right double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LRtB} % left, bottom, right double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LrTB} % left, top, bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lRTB} % right, top, bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % 4 double sides \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTB} % all double draw OverlayBox enlarged 0.4 ; draw OverlayBox enlarged -0.8 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % Special cases for 'fake' rowspans: three double sides and one open side % Note that these do not look quite right: the borders are too thick \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTO} % left, right, top double; bottom open % draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged 0.0 rightenlarged -0.8 ; % draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged 0.0 rightenlarged 0.4 ; draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4; draw rightboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4 ; draw topboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4; draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8; draw rightboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8 ; draw topboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LROB} % left, right, bottom double; top open % draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged 0.0 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.8 ; % draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged 0.0 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged 0.4 ; draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4; draw rightboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4 ; draw bottomboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4; draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8; draw rightboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8 ; draw bottomboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic %%%%% define overlays %%%%% % 0 double sides \defineoverlay[lrtb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtb}] % 1 double side \defineoverlay[Lrtb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:Lrtb}] \defineoverlay[lRtb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lRtb}] \defineoverlay[lrTb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lrTb}] \defineoverlay[lrtB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtB}] % 2 double sides: adjacent \defineoverlay[LrTb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LrTb}] \defineoverlay[lRTb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lRTb}] \defineoverlay[LrtB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LrtB}] \defineoverlay[lRtB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lRtB}] % 2 double sides: opposite \defineoverlay[LRtb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LRtb}] \defineoverlay[lrTB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lrTB}] % 3 double sides \defineoverlay[LRTb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTb}] \defineoverlay[LRtB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LRtB}] \defineoverlay[lRTB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lRTB}] \defineoverlay[LrTB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LrTB}] % 4 double sides \defineoverlay[LRTB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTB}] % Special cases for 'fake' rowspans \defineoverlay[LRTO][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTO}] \defineoverlay[LROB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LROB}]

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! Extra \else error
by Bart C. Wise 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

When I run the code below (via minimals), I get the following error, why? enter loop ! Extra \else. \@@plniterate ...\expandafter \@@plniterate \else \fi \myloop ...by 1 \ifnum \tempcnta >#1\else \repeat \fi \message {exit} l.16 \myloop{2008} Code: \newcount\startcnt \newcount\tempcnta \def\myloop#1{% \message{enter} \tempcnta=\the\startcnt% \loop \message{loop} \advance \tempcnta by 1 \ifnum\tempcnta>#1\else \repeat\fi \message{exit} } \starttext \startcnt=1800 \myloop{2008} \stoptext Thanks, Bart

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inconsistent TABLE and figure top-placement
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi, I just go mad with a grid based document that contains several naturalTABLEs and figures. When I want to place those at the top of the page, their top edge is sometimes higher, sometimes lower than expected. Experimenting with different figure height (and different heights of the first row of the tables) showed that these values move the float up or down!! The result looks very bad (jumping up, jumping down) ... Thus, two urgent questions: 1) How can I force that the top edge is always exactly (!) at the same vertical position, same for ALL tables and figures? 2) If 1) is impossible: How can I manually move a textwidth table/figure the should be placed "top" a little bit vertically (like +/- 2pt)? Thanks, Steffen

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trick
by Hans Hagen 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

The next trick is dedicated to Aditya ... % engine=luatex \unprotect \def\Hack#1#2% {\pdfliteral{/Span << /ActualText <\ctxlua{pdf.hexify(\!!bs\detokenize{#1}\!!es)}> >> BDC}#2\pdfliteral{EMC}} \protect \def\Formula#1{\Hack{#1}{$#1$}} \startTEXpage[offset=3pt] test \Formula{e + a = mc^2 + \alpha} test \blank[2*big] \Formula{e + a = mc^2 + \alpha} \blank[2*big] $e + a = mc^2 + \alpha$ \stopTEXpage \stoptext try to cut and paste the math ... (only acrobat and actually acrobat is a bit bugged in this respect but the idea is there) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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startconstants broken
by Hans van der Meer 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Upgrading seems to have broken \startconstants (and probably also \startvariables). The code below worked in cont-tmf version 2008-08-05 but no longer in 2008-10-31: \startconstants all spine: spine % etcetera \stopconstants \startvariables all % etcetera \stopvariables The error is: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!spine =\v!none \xprocesscommaitem #1,#2->\if ,#1 ,\@EA \xprocesscommaitem \else \if ]#1\@EAE... <argument> ...=\v!cd ,\c!spine =\v!none ,\c!state =\v!draft ,\c! output =\v!p... \xdogetparameters #1]->\xprocesscommaitem #1 ,],\@relax@ l.162 ] Addition of "\def\c!spine{}" makes the error go away. So definitely something is broken in the latter release for the start- macro(s). Could there be given a quick fix sothat I can avoid reverting back to the earlier version or adding changes all ver the place? Hans van der Meer

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mptopdf
by David Arnold 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

All, I sent this to OS X TeX list, but perhaps I can get some guidance here? All, After installing MacTeX (textlve2008), mptopdf fails: pstricks $ mptopdf bruce This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. [MP to PDF] (./bruce.0{/Users/darnold/Library/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/ updmap/pdf tex.map}) [1] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 rm-lmr12 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for rm-lmr12. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file rm-lmr12): Font rm-lmr12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. [MP to PDF] (./bruce.1{/Users/darnold/Library/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/ updmap/pdf tex.map}) [1] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 rm-lmr12 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for rm-lmr12. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file rm-lmr12): Font rm-lmr12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MPtoPDF 1.3.3 : bruce.* is converted to bruce-0.pdf + bruce-1.pdf I tried: tlmgr update context No good. Same error as above after update. Any suggestions? david

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\framed question
by Alan STONE 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi, How do you get a frame's topframe overlap with the layout header "topframe" ? topspace -------------------------------------------- <--- frame's topframe = layout header "topframe" | header | -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- | | | text | -- Best, Alan * TeX engine = LuaTeX *ConTeXt minimals ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.11.21 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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texexec (and context) stops when using \externalocp
by Khaled Hosny 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Trying to get some sort of 'implicit' bidi with luatex, I though of using an (extenal) OCP filter as it is much easier than messing with luatex nodes, and it respects TeX grouping. The attached example loads the do_bidi.py script as an \externalocp, it works fine with plain luatex, but not with 'texexec', using 'context' I get: MtxRun | fatal error, message: luatex: execution interrupted Any ideas? Is there a lua equivalent to \externalocp ? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Context doesn't work
by Michael Talbot-Wilson 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

I've installed Context and attempted $ texexec fig3_2.tex The response is: the file 'texexec.rb' is not found setuptex was run and TEXROOT is correctly set. texexec is: #!/bin/sh texmfstart texexec.rb "$@" There seems to be nothing there which would enable the script to be located. Does texexec have to be changed to state the full path to the script? Does that have to be done with anything else?

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Re: [NTG-context] how to get thick and thin borders working in tables (ConTeXt)
by Lars Huttar 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

On 12/9/2008 12:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 09.12.2008 um 17:48 schrieb Lars Huttar: > >> Hello, >> >> We are using ConTeXt (with XeTeX engine) to typeset some tables that >> have borders (rules) between cells. >> >> In the previous edition of the book (which was not done in TeX), some of >> the lines between table cells were double, others single. This was done >> to show grouping of columns and rows. We have been told that in TeX, or >> at least in ConTeXt, you can't do double rules (we'd be happy to be >> corrected on that point), so we have been trying to use thick and thin >> lines to show grouping. >> >> Thick or thin lines work fine if applied to whole tables or whole cells, >> but when there are cells with thick rules on some sides and thin rules >> on other sides, it gets confused. >> >> For example, we tried >> (a) \setupTABLE[c][4][leftframe=on,rulethickness=0.5mm] >> to set the left border of the fourth column to be thick. This worked. >> But then if we use >> (b) \setupTABLE[c][4][rightframe=on,rulethickness=0.25mm] >> to set the right border of the same column to be thin, it overrides the >> thickness of both left and right borders, so setting (a) is lost. >> >> In other words, we can't seem to get a given cell to have a thick border >> on one side and a thin border on the other side. (Well, we could fake it >> in some cases by setting rulethickness for an adjacent cell, but that >> adjacent cell would then have to have thick borders on all sides.) >> >> Does anybody know if it's possible to do this in ConTeXt? or in TeX? >> >> Thanks for any ideas, >> Lars >> >> P.S. >> Incidentally, if you set the bottom border of row 1 and the top border >> of row 2 each to be thick, the result is additive: you get a >> doubly-thick border. > > I can provide a patch for ConTeXt to draw rules with different > thickness on each side but I can't assure it will work in the future. > > With metapost you can nearly all types of borders you want. > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:double} > draw OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; % outer frame > draw OverlayBox enlarged -2pt ; % inner frame > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:all} > draw OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:left} > linecap := squared ; > draw leftboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:right} > linecap := squared ; > draw rightboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:top} > linecap := squared ; > draw topboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:bottom} > linecap := squared ; > draw bottomboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \defineoverlay[table:frame:double][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:double}] > > \defineoverlay[table:frame:all] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:all}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:left] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:left}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:right] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:right}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:top] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:top}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:bottom][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:bottom}] > > \starttext > > \startbuffer > \bTABLE[frame=off,offset=2ex] > \bTR > \bTD One \eTD > \bTD Two \eTD > \bTD Three \eTD > \eTR > \bTR > \bTD Four \eTD > \bTD Five \eTD > \bTD Six \eTD > \eTR > \bTR > \bTD Seven \eTD > \bTD Eight \eTD > \bTD Nine \eTD > \eTR > \eTABLE > \stopbuffer > > \start > \setupTABLE[background={table:frame:double}] > \getbuffer > \stop > \blank > > \start > \setupTABLE[background={table:frame:all}] > \setupTABLE[c][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:left}] > \setupTABLE[c][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:right}] > \setupTABLE[r][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:top}] > \setupTABLE[r][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:bottom}] > \setupTABLE[first][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:left,table:frame:top}] > > \setupTABLE[last][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:right,table:frame:top}] > > \setupTABLE[first][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:left,table:frame:bottom}] > > \setupTABLE[last][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:right,table:frame:bottom}] > > \getbuffer > \stop > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang > > > Thanks for the very detailed example! We should be able to apply this to our document. I'm copying it to the list because I think it would be valuable for posterity. Thanks to Aditya too for the reply. Regards, Lars -- Lars Huttar

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backward-incompatible behavior of Palatino and modern
by Sanjoy Mahajan 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

I texexec'ed a one-page file that I hadn't compiled for almost a year (preparing for the next offering of the course). The font sizes increased, resulting in a two-page PDF file. The one-page result, which is what I expected, came from ConTeXt 2008.01.02 (MkII), for which I had selected font sizes to fit it onto one page. I couldn't find that release in the museum, so it was probably 2007.12.31 with my patches. I downloaded the cont-tmf for 2007.12.31, and it too produced the expected one-page PDF file. Whereas current versions produce a two-page file, either with 2008.10.31 from the Debian packages and with 2008.11.10 on live.contextgarden.net. I'm not sure which behavior (2007 or 2008) is correct. Below is a minimal example testfile.tex producing only a few lines instead of a whole page, but it illustrates the differences. With the 2007.12.31 version, the lines fits within the frame (from \showframe). With the new versions, the "Approximation" extends outside the frame, and the "The Art" gets split onto separate lines. Commenting out the "\setupbodyfont [palatino,11pt]" line makes the two versions identical. But the original example uses Palatino text, so I cannot do that for the long-term solution. I've attached 'good' and 'bad' PDF files. If the new version is correct, I'll retune the font sizes to make it fit, and it's no big deal. But I'm reporting the issue in case the example has exposed an unexpected change in ConTeXt over the last year. -Sanjoy ======= cut here: testfile.tex ==================== \setuppapersize[letter,landscape][letter,landscape] \setuplayout[height=fit,margin=0pt,width=fit, backspace=0.7in,cutspace=0.7in,topspace=0in,bottomspace=-0.2in] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \usetypescript [palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont [palatino,11pt] \showframe \starttext \raggedleft \setupbodyfont[modern,54pt]\ss {\bfa 6.055J/2.038J\hfill The Art of}% \break \baselineskip=19pt% \setupbodyfont[modern,50.7pt]% \bfd Approximation \stoptext ======= cut here: testfile.tex ====================

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how to get thick and thin borders working in tables (ConTeXt)
by Lars Huttar 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hello, We are using ConTeXt (with XeTeX engine) to typeset some tables that have borders (rules) between cells. In the previous edition of the book (which was not done in TeX), some of the lines between table cells were double, others single. This was done to show grouping of columns and rows. We have been told that in TeX, or at least in ConTeXt, you can't do double rules (we'd be happy to be corrected on that point), so we have been trying to use thick and thin lines to show grouping. Thick or thin lines work fine if applied to whole tables or whole cells, but when there are cells with thick rules on some sides and thin rules on other sides, it gets confused. For example, we tried (a) \setupTABLE[c][4][leftframe=on,rulethickness=0.5mm] to set the left border of the fourth column to be thick. This worked. But then if we use (b) \setupTABLE[c][4][rightframe=on,rulethickness=0.25mm] to set the right border of the same column to be thin, it overrides the thickness of both left and right borders, so setting (a) is lost. In other words, we can't seem to get a given cell to have a thick border on one side and a thin border on the other side. (Well, we could fake it in some cases by setting rulethickness for an adjacent cell, but that adjacent cell would then have to have thick borders on all sides.) Does anybody know if it's possible to do this in ConTeXt? or in TeX? Thanks for any ideas, Lars P.S. Incidentally, if you set the bottom border of row 1 and the top border of row 2 each to be thick, the result is additive: you get a doubly-thick border.

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Building tables at runtime via --mode= option
by Bart C. Wise 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

I'm trying to build a table in a project that will be built based on a commandline parameter. Currently, I'd like to use the "--mode=<>" command. However, I've run into a number of snags that I have attempted to solve without any luck. I've included some sample code of what I would like to do. I can do all of what I need using \doifmodeelse, etc. However, I'm looking for a more elegeant solution. Any hints/solutions are welcomed! Problems: 1) \currentmode: I cannot use this variable in my file, but it works in the source code. Question: Is the mode option okay, or is there a better way? 2) CellWidth (below) needs to be a floating point dimension, based the size of the paper. So I need to divide the size of the paper (\textwidth) by a number and make sure it stays as a dimension. 3) I tried to use \getnumber[Rounds] to span a number of columns ( \bTD[nc=\getnumber[Rounds]]) but this would not compile. Here's the error: Runaway argument? Rounds=\plusone \ifnum \tblny =\plusone \ifnum \currentcol >\maximumcol \ETC. ! Paragraph ended before \getnumber was complete. Sample: \definenumber[Rounds] \setnumber[Rounds]{6} % desire: \setupnumber[Rounds]{\currentmode} % and verify that it's a number between a given range. % \currentmode comes back as undefined \definenumber[TotalCol] \setnumber[TotalCol]{\getnumber[Rounds] + 2} \def\CellWidth{0.625in} % desire: based on textwidth: \textwidth / \getnumber[TotalCol] % Needs to be floating point \starttext Rounds: \getnumber[Rounds]\crlf TotalCol: \getnumber[TotalCol]\crlf CellWidth: \CellWidth\crlf \bTABLE[align={middle,lohi},strut=no,width=\CellWidth] % Row 1 \bTR[frame=off] \bTD\eTD \bTD[nc=6] Title\eTD %desire: \bTD[nc=\getnumber[Rounds]] Title\eTD \eTR %Row 2 \bTR \bTD\eTD \dorecurse{\getnumber[Rounds]}{\expanded{\bTD\recurselevel\eTD}} \bTD\eTD \eTR %Row 3 \bTR \dorecurse{\getnumber[TotalCol]}{\expanded{\bTD\recurselevel\eTD}} \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Thanks! Bart

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