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Total number of figures/tables, etc.
by Oleg Kolosov 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Hi! Is there are an easy way to get total number of pages/tables/figures etc.? \getnumber[table] of \getnumber[figure] returns 0, \getnumber[page] gives some irrelevant number. I've found command \totalnumberofpages, is there are something similar for others? It would be great to also automatically change the following word as in: 1 figure, but 2 figures Is there support for that in ConTeXt? -- Best Regards, Oleg Kolosov

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Re: [NTG-context] pdf bizareness...
by Alan Stone 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Jonathan Kew's response... --- You can't use \pdfminorversion in XeTeX, that's a pdfTeX-specific command. I think you need to pass the -V command-line option to xdvipdfmx (I expect this can be done somewhere in the ConTeXt scripts, but don't know any details), or else set it in the dvipdfmx.cfg configuration file. AFAIK, the usual default is 4, but you can set it higher if you need to embed other PDFs that use a higher version. JK --- >you need to pass the -V command-line option to >xdvipdfmx (I expect this can be done somewhere in the ConTeXt >scripts, but don't know any details), Somebody knows the details ? Alan At Saturday 28/06/2008 13:45, you wrote: >On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Alan Stone ><software.list.1es9s(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Yep Hans, that one. Ok I won't bother about it any longer. > > > > Any clues regarding the other issues, i.e. > > > > (1) the scrambled PDF headers ? > > > > (2) the inability to lower the \pdfminorversion setting ? > >For XeTeX it's set in tex.rb: > @@runoptions['xetex'] = ['--8bit','-output-driver="xdvipdfmx >-E -d 4 -V 5"'] >you can modify that one, but it will be replaced next time when you >update ConTeXt. > >Can you please ask on the XeTeX mailing list if there is some command >to specify PDF version with a command? Then, "-V 5" could go out of >tex.rb into the format. But I'm not sure if that functionality has >already been implemented (though it should probably be trivial to do). > >Mojca

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context manuals sources
by Alan Stone 29 Jun '08

29 Jun '08

Hi, I'm trying to figure out the meaning and use of the c! and v! prefixes in commands in, for example, the layo-xx.tex source files at http://context.aanhet.net/svn/manuals/context/ aka... \setupcolors [\c!state=\v!start] \setupsystem [\c!random=\v!big] \setuplayout [\c!location=\v!middle, \c!style=\ss, \c!backspace=2.5cm, \c!topspace=1.5cm, \c!width=16cm, \c!margindistance=.25cm, \c!margin=2.5cm, \c!height=\v!middle] :Oo ? Alan

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Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] Unicode in \pdfinfo
by Khaled Hosny 29 Jun '08

29 Jun '08

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:15:38PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> Thanks for the clarification, I'm trying to understand how stuff works >> and this helps definitely. >> So, could we've this support at context level, and every one will be >> happy :) > > you can try the beta ... (best move the discussion to the context list > since it's not related that much to luatex) > Now I can get pdfinfo correctly, but bookmarks are now just long strings starting with "feff0", see the attached example. > i wonder what bidi does in bookmarks and so ... maybe more is needed > I don't think it'll need any special treatment since it'll rendered by the viewer UI widget, may be we need to strip formating commands if not done already. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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searchable cyrillic in PDF files
by Oleg Kolosov 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hans Hagen wrote: > Oleg Kolosov wrote: > >> Hans Hagen wrote: >> >>> Oleg Kolosov wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hello! >>>> >>>> I'm trying to generate searchable pdf with cyrrillic glyphs with the >>>> following: >>>> >>>> \enableregime[utf] >>>> \mainlanguage[ru] >>>> \setupencoding[default=t2a] >>>> \useencoding[pfr] >>>> \usepdffontresource t2a >>>> \usetypescript[pscyr][\defaultencoding] % type-pscyr is my own >>>> typescript file >>>> \setupbodyfont[pscyr,14pt] >>>> >>>> also tried with: >>>> >>>> \startencoding[t2a] >>>> \usepdffontresource t2a >>>> \stopencoding >>>> >>>> It seems that \usepdffontresource does nothing. I see pdfr-def loaded >>>> in log, but not pdfr-t2a. \input pdfr-t2a (or pdfr-ec) says that >>>> \startpdffontresource is undefined command. I've created pdfr-t2a.tex >>>> by replacing definitions in pdfr-ec with ones from cmap latex package >>>> (found in file t2a.cmap). I'm using ConTeXt mkII since mkIV is in >>>> active development. Tried also with ec as default encoding with the >>>> same result (pdfr-ec.tex is not loaded). >>>> >>>> Please help me create header for minimal file which will generate >>>> searchable PDF. >>>> >>>> >>> pdftex does it itself (i.e. create the vectors) using pdfr-def.tex >>> (unless i did something wrong) >>> >>> Hans >>> >>> >>> >> It's unlikely. I've tested it with minimal file and english text is >> indeed searchable, but cyrillic is not, with copy-paste I get some >> strange symbols. I'm using type1 fonts from PSCyr package with my own >> typescript, does this matter? I've attached typescript file just in >> case (it's still incomplete but works fine for me). Maybe I miss some >> definition or option? BTW cyrillic in PDF TOC works fine (with inclusion >> of spec-tst.tex). >> > > can you check if the file has the right entris for your font? > > pdfr-def.tex > > the old mechanism is obsolete so pdfr-t2a will not do anything > > Hans > > Codes seem to be in place but doesn't match actual font in T2A encoding. For ex. I have cyrillic capital a in font on 00C1 where in pdfr-def this is Aacute. According to enco-utf my 00C1 in font should map to 0410 position (I hope this is understandable description). Maybe there is some switch to enable such mapping? I don't understand these encoding/mapping issues enough to create necessary table myself. Maybe you can provide some example, so I will be able to help? P. S. Sorry for late response. -- Best Regards, Oleg Kolosov

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pdf bizareness...
by Alan Stone 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hi, - ConTeXt ver: 2008.06.22 17:38 MKII fmt: 2008.6.23 ( ctx minimal) - XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.1 (Web2C 7.5.6) When using (1) \setupinteraction[state=start, title={éèçàù}, subtitle={éèçàù}, author={éèçàù}, keyword={éèçàù}] the accented characters get al scrambled up in the pdf document properties fields while in the document itself all is ok. Qué passa ? (2) \pdfminorversion=5 (or whatever) gives ! Undefined control sequence. l.31 \pdfminorversion =5 ? ! Emergency stop. l.31 \pdfminorversion =5 What's the alternative ? Thanks, Alan

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Web links
by Charles P. Schaum 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

If anyone is interested in a list of web links that I update roughly quarterly and use both professionally and personally, s/he is welcome to visit http://yoel.info/links.htm The links have lots of computing and humanities resources, among others. Charles

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texshow-web questions
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

As an eternal optimist, I often refer to texshow-web in the hope that I will find a function to help me, or a quick description of one that I already know. In most cases I end up reverting to searching the manuals and source code. I like the idea of texshow-web and I sometimes add notes to entries if I find our something interesting. I would be quite happy to add lots more, but I have some questions and suggestions for improvements which I think would help. 1) Is there a way of adding a function to the list? or can it be updated to include all the functions from the many macro packages included with the context distribution. For example, in recent discussion group threads I have found out about the \digits command and the \filename and \hyphenatedfilename commands, none of which is in texshow-web. I would have been happy to add notes on them if I could. 2) If I'm adding notes to a command, is it possible to add a URL link to a particular page in one of the manuals? This would great for looking up a command and going straight to the relevant entry in the relevant manual. Regards, Richard Stephens

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how to prevent document resize in acrobat reader when click on an ref object
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

HI! I'm often use \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupcolor[state=start] \starttext \placesomething[somewhere][ref]{caption} ... ... So in the text I refer to \in{something}[ref] so I can click on it in the resulting pdf so I get there. \stoptext The question is how to change the default behavior so acrobat not resizes the document on the screen when I'm clicking on the ref object. I think it is annoying changing back to the reading size I had before. Many thanks! Janneman

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Off-Topic: Down With Helvetica
by Idris Samawi Hamid 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Dear gang, Many of you -- Hello luigi ;-) -- may be interested in this mainstream media article on font design: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/technology/personaltech/26basics.html?em&… Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Setting up minimals (saw: Re: distro info)
by Andrea Valle 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

Hi to all, Ok, I'm going for minimals (hurray!) > > cd /path/to/some/folder > rsync -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . > ./first-setup.sh Perfect. Under Applications now I have a ConTeXtMinimals folder containg relevant stuff (tex+bin folders, a .lua and the .sh file). > > Alternatively, you may use > > cd /path/to/some/folder > . setuptex I'd prefer to go with this, locally. So in terminal I did: cd /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/ . setuptex ahem, - what have I to do now? andrea:/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals andreavalle$ context -bash: context: command not found - If I have understood, "context" calls luatex, am I right? - I can call texexec but I'm not sure I'm calling the minimal one. > System fonts on Mac should work by default since a few days ago. - This means I can use something like this if I call the xtx switch?: \definetypeface[Optima][rm][Xserif][Optima] \definetypeface[Optima][tt][Xmono][LM Typewriter Regular] \definetypeface[Garamond][rm][Xserif][Garamond] \setupbodyfont[Optima] - How does font selection work under luatex? - What have I to do to use bibtex? Many thanks > > Mojca > ______________________________________________________________________ > _____________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an > entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ > ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ______________________________________________________________________ > _____________ -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong) -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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hyphenation question
by Alan Stone 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

In a document where \mainlanguage[fr] some words weren't hyphenated correctly so I've put them in a hyphenation pattern \hyphenation{ ap-pa-ren-ce at-ten-dai-ent com-men-cent d'am-bi-tion d'in-flu-en-ce l'ap-pa-ren-ce } The only ones who still don't get hyphenated corresponding to the above pattern are those with d'..., l'... Porqué ? Alan

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Type-setting filenames
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Hello, Can anyone suggest a good way of type-setting filenames in ConTeXt? They are usually long with few spaces and so often overhang the right-hand margin and even fall off the edge of the page. They also often include backslashes and underscores which I have to manually change - very tedious. Is there, for example, a command which handles some or all of my problems? Thanks Richard

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table of contents strangeness...
by Alan Stone 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

this works... \setuplist[chapter][ style=bold, aligntitle=yes, after=\blank] <--- that's too much vertical blank space this doesn't... \setuplist[chapter][ style=bold, aligntitle=yes, after=\blank[small]] strange ( see log in attachement ), or not ? alan

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page header and footer question
by Alan Stone 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

With... \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] how do you prevent the - page header, and/or - page footer to be displayed on an occasional even blank page between a previous chapter last page and the next chapter page ? Alan

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NTG bijeenkomst in Purmeend
by Willi Egger 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Beste TeX-gebruikers, de NTG organiseert a.s. donderdag 26 juni een bijeenkomst. Iedereen, die interesse heeft is hartelijk uitgenodigd om na de ledenvergadering aan te schuiven en mee te luisteren. Het programma ziet er uit als volgt: 09:30 Ontvangst met koffie en thee 10:00 Ledenvergadering met bestuursverkiezingen 10:45 Pauze 11:00 Hans Hagen: MATHml 11:30 Taco Hoekwater: MPlib: het project, de library en de toekomst 12:15 Siep Kroonenberg: TeX-Live installatie 12:45 Lunch 14:00 Hans Hagen; Actuele stand van ontwikkeling op LuaTeX 14:30 Frans Goddijn: Zelf je boek uitgeven 15:00 Pauze 15:30 Willi Egger: Brieven in internationale context 16:00 Einde van de bijeenkomst De bijeenkomst vindt plaats in het Partycentrum Concordia, Koemarkt 45, 1441 DB Purmerend Vriendelijke groeten Willi Egger Secretaris NTG

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\setupitemize[afterhead=...] not working
by Peter Münster 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Hello, The parameter "afterhead" seems to be ignored (MKII and MKIV): \setupitemize[afterhead=:] \starttext \startitemize \txt{bla} bla \stopitemize \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] context minimals installation
by Mojca Miklavec 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Alan Stone wrote: > > Checked again... after invoking "Build" in sciTE, still getting > > ConTeXt ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKII fmt: 2008.6.18 int: english/english > > in the output window. > > Some naughty setting in sciTE maybe ? OK, this explains it. SciTE is not reading your ~/.bashrc, only terminal is. You either need to run SciTE from terminal or find some other way to pass some environmental variables (at least PATH) to SciTE. Mojca

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Howto float text around an image on layer (in a frame, inside standardmakeup)?
by Uwe Koloska 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Hello, hopefully this is the last dumb question, cause the CD is nearing it's end an will be prepared for printing soon ;-) How can I float text around a picture if I place them on a layer? What I want to achieve is something like this: ppp........ ppp........ ........... but typeset onto a layer to position it at my will ... But I can't get the text flow around the graphic. Here is a minimal example: ------------------------------------------------------------- \definelayer[test] \startbuffer[text] \placefigure[left,none]{}{\framed[height=1cm]{graphic}} \input tufte \stopbuffer \setlayerframed[test] [x=.5\paperwidth,y=2em,location=bottom] [width=0.8\textwidth,height=0.3\textheight,align=normal] {\getbuffer[text]} \setupbackgrounds[page][background=test] \starttext \startstandardmakeup \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------- and the result can be seen in the attached PDF. The same happens inside a standardmakeup ------------------------------------------------------------- \startbuffer[text] \placefigure[left,none]{}{\framed[height=1cm]{graphic}} \input tufte \stopbuffer \starttext \startstandardmakeup \getbuffer[text] \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------- and inside a framedtext ------------------------------------------------------------- \startbuffer[text] \placefigure[left,none]{}{\framed[height=1cm]{graphic}} \input tufte \stopbuffer \starttext \startframedtext[width=0.8\textwidth] \getbuffer[text] \stopframedtext \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------- Neither the mailinglist, nor the wiki or the documentation have given me any clue, what to change or where to look further ... Is there another way to flow text around an image? The image has a fixed position (top left corner of the text) so it don't has to be a float at all. Thank you for all your help Uwe

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Booklet hint
by Diego Depaoli 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

I'm trying to produce my first booklet (two A5 on A4 paper) and first results look fine (but how much effort). What kind and size of font you suggest to maximize readability saving paper? Thanks -- Diego Depaoli P.S. Why Scite's interface doesn't contain a direct call to 'context'?

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context minimals installation
by Alan Stone 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

- Ubuntu 8.04 According to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals I installed the context minimals in /opt/context then ( after some research about its definition and use ) created a .bash_profile file (using gedit) to which were added the following instructions #!/bin/bash source /opt/context/tex/setuptex /opt/context/tex saved it in /home/alan then logged in again and... bash doesn't seem to execute ~/.bash_profile because when launching texexec on a test file, I'm still receiving as output ConTeXt ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKII fmt: 2008.6.18 int: english/english which, as far as I remember, corresponds to the ubuntu context installation. What's missing ? Alan

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Problem with miktex
by TeXWorld 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hi, Context doesn't work with miktex for several days. Could you please tell me what happened and when texexec/context will work again. Thank you. Jack

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error: Attempt to node.insert_before() a non-existing node
by Khaled Hosny 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

I get this error when I attempt to generate this file with \setcharactermirroring[1], and text directionality gets broken. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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lang-ara.tex (beta)
by Peter Rolf 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

hi, just tested the latest beta. [..] ) (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lang-ura.tex loading : Uralic Languages ) (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lang-vn.tex loading : Vietnamese Language ) ! I can't find file `lang-ara.tex'. <to be read again> \relax l.330 \loadcorefile{lang-ara.tex} (Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit) Please type another input file name: best wishes, peter

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pdfobj runtime question
by Peter Rolf 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

hi, i'm currently struggling with some basic runtime problems in luatex. are there any rules for directly writing a pdf object? in context this is only done in the tex part. especially what pitfalls are there, if you do it in the lua part of the code ( tex.sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,"\\immediate\\pdfobj{}")) ) and use "\the\pdflastobj" (tex or lua) to reference that object? and what must be done to make sure that things are done immediatly (in lua), so that one ore more switches between lua<-->tex always uses the right obj number? i already noticed that you have to use separated lua code for 'creation' and 'reference' (different chunks). any help welcome. regards, peter

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placing image on layer is sketchy
by Uwe Koloska 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hello, still working on the CD booklet ;-) While trying to include the pictures I have some problems with placing a picture onto a layer: The following code should place the picture into the lower right corner of the upper part and then goes to the left. The part that goes over the page border is for the bleeding. But the result (as seen in the attached pdf) is a sketchy position of the right, bottom corner it looks like the same offset in x and -y direction. Two more observations: - with the "offset=-1mm" in the layerframe configuration there is only an offset in -y direction left (offset=0mm is not enough) - without the frame it works as expected (and so my problem is solved) \setuppapersize[CD][CD,oversized] \setuppagenumbering[location=,state=stop] \setuplayout [location=middle] \showframe[edge] \useexternalfigure[page12][dummy] \definelayer [p12] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \setlayerframed [p12] [x=\paperwidth,y=74mm, location={left,top}] [width=124mm,height=77mm, %offset=-1mm, frame=on] {\externalfigure[page12][width=126mm,height=77mm]} %\setlayer [p12] % [x=\paperwidth,y=74mm, % location={left,top}] % {\externalfigure[page12][width=124mm,height=77mm]} \starttext \setupbackgrounds[page][background=p12] \startstandardmakeup \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext

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Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic
by Khaled Hosny 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

How do I translate things like "Contents, Index, List of tables, etc.." to Arabic. If this is documented somewhere, please tell me since I failed to find such documentation. Regards, -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Unicode PDF bookmarks and headers
by Khaled Hosny 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

I can't get Unicode (Arabic) PDF bookmarks or headers (see the attached file), even after including "\input spec-tst" after the wiki page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_Bookmarks_and_Headers But I get miss-encoded text instead, am I missing some thing? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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protruding with luatex mkiv?
by Uwe Koloska 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

Hello, how can I use protruding with mkiv and luatex? I tried different examples from the different manuals and the garden and found the following piece that works OK with pdftex and mkiv (?): ---------------------------------------------------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \setupfontsynonym [Serif] [handling=normal] \definetypeface[palatino][rm][serif][palatino][default] \setupbodyfont[palatino] \starttext \startframedtext[width=.5\textwidth,background=screen, offset=none,frame=off,align=hanging] \input tufte \stopframedtext \stoptext ---------------------------------------------------------- Is this the right way to use protruding with mkiv and luatex? And if it works, how do I use it with the otf version of delicious which typescript was presented some days ago on this list? And how can I use hz? (if I understand it right, hz makes some distances between characters mor beautifully) Thank you Uwe

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Bigger interline space and grid
by Aditya Mahajan 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

Hi, I cannot figure out how to increase the interline space with grid snapping. The following does not work \setuplayout[grid=yes] \setupinterlinespace[auto,big] \setupwhitespace [medium] \setupindenting [medium,yes] \showgrid \starttext \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth \endgraf} \stoptext What am I missing? Aditya

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bug in context/luatex
by Yue Wang 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

Hi, Hans: pdftex and LuaTeX produce different results with the following source file. Please check. I dont know whether it is a bug in ConTeXt or LuaTeX. \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \usetypescript[lucida][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[lucida,12pt] \starttext `hello' \stoptext I use the tfms/map zip you attached in the mailing list together with the font bought from TUG. If there is something wrong with my installtion, let me know. Yue Wang

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garden's vs. pragma's minimals
by Mojca Miklavec 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Alan Stone wrote: > Thanks for your extensive comments Aditya. It's (finally) *much* clearer > now. > >> Now you have two options: Either isolate minimal context from the one >> provided by the distribution, or make them co-exist. Isolating them is >> easy, the minimals even come with a script "setuptex" which does that. So, >> you just source setuptex before running context. If you want minimals and >> distribution tex to coexits, things are a bit tricky. You need to >> understand how the tex distribution works, which is an intangled (for the >> want of a better word) mess. > > I'll take the isolation option then. > > A question about the minimals... > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals mentions "The Minimals are an > attempt to provide the same functionality as the current Pragma's minimal > ConTeXt distributions in the zip files." > > What's the difference (in provided functionalities) between the > contextgarden minimals and the pragma ones ? The binaries at PRAGMA haven't been updated since August, and you can only update ConTeXt using "download, unzip" approach, which makes you download the whole zip (independent of how much has changed), and doesn't update binaries. With minimals on the garden, only a single file will be updated in case that a single file has changed (rsync rules!!!). Minimals might have some files (fonts, binaries) missing (but feel free to request them) + standalone environment missing as well. Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)
by Alan Stone 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

( Oops, pushed inadvertedly some key on my keyboard and the message was away while in GMail - here's the sequel... ) Having heard Linux is, amongst other things, far more stable I might be tempted to play with it and progressively build some experience with it, master the beast and then switch some applications, amongst which ConTeXt, to it. As I presently don't know a thing about Linux, which distribution do you recommend ? Many thanks, Alan At Friday 13/06/2008 12:28, you wrote: >Hi, > >Yesterday WXP crashed and it took me a whole day to >repair the thing and get it up and running again. > >Ha

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Problem installing ConTeXt Minimals
by Tomi Lindberg 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

I've been trying to install ConTeXt Minimals to my other computer but I just can't get it to work. Installer exits with Error Code 1 and the first-setup.bat from the command line tools doesn't seem to get the required files either (after the script has run the folder is about 6.5Mb). I've installed Ruby, Perl, GhostScript and rsync as required. This might be a firewall issue but I couldn't find any notion of opening ports from installation instructions and with quick Googling I got the impressions that it shouldn't be required to open ports for rsync. So, can I fix this by opening something from my firewall or is the problem somewhere else? What exactly does that Error Code 1 mean? Thanks, Tomi Lindberg

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Arabic index entries
by Khaled Hosny 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

Arabic index entries are all listed under "unknown" instead of its respective Arabic letters. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a misconfiguration from my side. See the attached example. Regards, -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Empty page at the end of document
by Tomi Lindberg 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

After reading Wiki and searching this list I still have problems with the additional empty page appearing at the end of my document. This only happens when that said extra page would make the document to have even number of pages but as my document is meant to be singlesided I see no reason why it would be required to have an even number of pages. Here's my product file (in environment loaded in project there is a line "\setupsectionblock[backpart][page=]": \startproduct book \project atkmom \component images \startfrontmatter \environment fmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \environment body \component intro \component osbasics \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \completeindex[title=Hakemisto] \stopbackmatter \stopproduct So is there any way to get rid off that extra page in documents that would otherwise be odd pages long? -- Thanks, Tomi Lindberg

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Custom starting text of table and figure labels
by Aleksandr 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Hello, Is it possible to define custom starting text of a table of picture label? For example so that figure would have a label like "Picture 1" instead of "Figure 1" or a table would have "Spreadsheet 1" instead of "Table 1". Thank you! Bye!

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SciTE/Linux: how to change font ?
by Alan Stone 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi, Is it possible to use the available True/OpenType fonts ? If so, how ? Thx, Alan PS Ubuntu 8.04, SciTE 1.75

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\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] no more working
by Peter Münster 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hello, In version 2008.06.11, \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] is no more working. Here a test file: % engine=luatex \starttext test: oeps {\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]x: xx \bfd x: xx} oeps: test \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode
by Khaled Hosny 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Luatex does not mirror characters that has a Bidi_Mirrored property when the text direction is set to RTL (TRT in Aleph), according to http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Mirroring, the different types of parenthesis that has Bidi_Mirrored property should be mirreored in RTL mode, but this isn't what I get. Is this a bug, feature, or am I missing some thing? Thanks, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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ConTeXt manual
by TeXWorld 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hello, Where can I find the lastest version of ConTeXt the manual. Mine is november 12, 2001 Maybe there are better manuals today. Can you tell me please where I can find them. Thank you.

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metapost question
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hi all, probably an easy question: for a presentation, I would like to have an area of my slide highlighted by placing a transparent grey layer on top of the slide and having one area of this layer completely transparent, a bit like this screenshot: http://debaday.debian.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/key3.jpg Any suggestions for the easiest way to achieve this effect? Thanks Thomas

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mtxrun
by Hans van der Meer 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Following the article "The luafication of TeX and Context" in the recent issue of the NTG-MAPS I tried the example given: mtxrun --script fonts and this should return the options list for this script. However, I get: 101 ~: mtxrun --script fonts cannot open : No such file or directory While otherwise a bare mtxrun returns info and thus was found as a runnable script: 102 ~: mtxrun MtxRun | version 1.0.2 - 2007+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT MtxRun | --script run an mtx script In my .bashrc I had the lua scripts in the path: 103 ~: echo $PATH ..:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/:.. And I had called luatools --generate to make the database plus I made certain the script has execute permissions: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-fonts.lua - rwxr-xr-x What is wrong or what I am doing wrong? Hans van der Meer

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Customizing layer stepping
by Wolfgang Schuster 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hi, how can I can change the stepper for PDF-Layers, the code from the presentation module 60 use InvokeStepper and makes with every step only the next layer visible but I want to hide also a few layers in certain steps. In my example in the steps one to seven the layer for each step should be shown but in the eight step layer eight should be visible and layer seven should be deactivated at the same time. You could also see what I want also in the PDF file but it use fieldstacks and is very slow for more than 100 fields for each graphic. \usemodule[pre-60] \setupinteraction[state=start,click=on] \def\addstone#1#2#3% {\StartLocalStep \position(#1,#2){#3}% \StopLocalStep \ignorespaces} \starttext \framed [width=3cm, height=3cm, background=invoke, offset=overlay] {\setuppositioning[unit=mm,factor=5,xoffset=-2.5cm,yoffset=-2.5cm] \startpositioning \addstone12X% show layer 1 \addstone42O% show layer 2 \addstone23X% show layer 3 \addstone33O% show layer 4 \addstone21X% show layer 5 \addstone31O% show layer 6 \addstone32X% show layer 7 \addstone22O% show layer 8, hide layer 7 \addstone00X% show layer 9 \stoppositioning} \stoptext Wolfgang

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French discussion about ConTeXt versus LaTeX
by Maurice Diamantini 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hello, There is a discussion about ConTeXt versus LaTeX on the french forum fr.comp.text.tex http://groups.google.com/group/fr.comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/af37f7… If any french ConTeXt user can share its experiment and argumentation... -- Maurice

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Unusual TOC
by Maurício 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hi, I'm typesetting a book where prose and verse alternate in chapters, i.e., you have one chapter of prose, one of verse, one of prose etc. I would like to generate a TOC for that book, but chapters have no name or numbers. I was told by the author that the usual thing to do is to take the first few words of each chapter and use those in the index. I know how to do that using a few small tricks, but I would like to know if there's a standard way to do that. Are you aware of any? Thanks, Maurício

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\startmode[*first]
by Peter Rolf 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

hi, just noticed that \startmode[*first] is ignored, if you use mtxrun. works ok with 'texexec --lua'. best wishes, peter

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TeXLive 2008
by Thomas A. Schmitz 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Hi all, Hans, Taco, this is kind of a continuation of the thread about installers etc. I'm currently test-driving TeXLive 2008 and was wondering if we could make it a bit easier for new users to just try out ConTeXt. The binaries reside in <tl2008-directory>/2008/bin/<arch>; the installer gives the choice to put symlinks in system directories. Would it make sense to place some ConTeXt symlinks into the bin directory? For Unixoid systems, I am thinking of these: mtxrun -> ../../../2008/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua luatools -> ../../../2008/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua and maybe place the stub "context" into this bin directory as well. I don't know how this would work for widnoze. I'm thinking of a potential casual user who has just installed TeXLive and should be able to simply run a "Hello World" document by typing "context myfile." Does that make sense? Thomas

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Hi, for the arabic users ... there is a new beta with improved bidi (it passes idris torture test) idris: also new bin in usual place (fixes bug) 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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Footnotes within "paragraphs in columns" have incorrect width.
by Daniel Pittman 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

G'day. While designing the layout for a cookbook I have used "paragraphs in columns" to place the ingredients and body text next to each other. In order to add some commentary to the body I have been experimenting with footnotes, to place comments at the end of the recipe without getting in the flow of the steps. In any case I seem to have found a bug: when I add a footnote inside the paragraphs environment it retains the enclosing width -- even if placed outside the space where it is defined. The following file demonstrates the issue. I expected to have the footnote full width across the page but, as you will probably see, it is constrained to half the width -- just like the running text. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- % demonstrate footnote width being crunched by paragraphs in columns \defineparagraphs[Para][n=2,rule=off,align=right] % left flush \starttext \startlocalfootnotes \startPara Hello, world. \nextPara This is some running text with a footnote, to demonstrate the way \footnote{This is a nice, long footnote which should spread text all the way across the page ... but doesn't, giving only the width of the enclosing block.} that the environment shrinks the footnote text flow. \stopPara \startPara I use multiple, consecutive paragraph environments ... \nextPara ... to lay out the ingredients for each step, and the steps sequentially, through the document. \stopPara \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I have ConTeXt from Ubuntu/Hardy, Texlive ConTeXt 2007.09.28-1, from the TeXlive 2007-13 packages supplied by the vendor. This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) ConTeXt ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKII fmt: 2007.12.19 int: english/english Is this a behaviour that I am stuck with, or can I get footnotes that expand to full width from within the two column environment? I am not wedded to the "paragraphs" model, and would be happy with a solution that would typeset with the same basic layout as the sample file does. Regards, Daniel

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