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problem with layer: corner doesn't work
by Uwe Koloska 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Hello, still working on the CD Design, I tried to understand the layer mechanism. After some reading and trying I have found a problem with the parameter 'corner'. The following setting doesn't work with the corner parameter but only with numeric placement of the reference point: --------------------------------------------------------------- % engine=luatex \setuppapersize[CD][A4] \setuppagenumbering [location=,state=stop] \showframe[edge] \setuplayout[location=middle] \definelayer [layer1] [width=\paperheight,heigth=\paperheight] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=layer1] \starttext \startstandardmakeup \setlayerframed [layer1] [corner={left,bottom}, %x=0cm,y=\paperheight, location={right,top}] [width=.5\paperwidth, height=.5\paperheight, background=screen] {BLOCK 1} \setlayerframed [layer1] [corner={right,top}, location={left,bottom}] [width=.5\paperwidth, height=.5\paperheight, background=screen] {BLOCK 2} \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext --------------------------------------------------------------- I use a current context-minimal and have made an update today. The luatex version is: > luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.3-2008052302 ... This is build 0, created on 20080410T143312Z Context is: ConTeXt ver: 2008.06.11 22:25 MKIV fmt: 2008.6.15 int: english/english What is wrong here? Uwe Koloska

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man page(s) for context
by Mojca Miklavec 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

(from a conversation from dev-context) On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > While at it, I would like to place a vote for having as few > command names as is feasible. In the current situation I find > I often forget whether I need ctxtools or xmltools or textools > or ... While at it: any volunteers to write/update man pages for ConTeXt? Mojca

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Problem with Xetex
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Probably I am the most troubled, unsuccessful beginner in this list (it's my <i>fado</i>), anyway: I have two installations of context: one in ~/texmf; another in ~/context to which I switch typing . ~/context/tex/setuptex ~/context/tex. The first one has a problem with 8bit output (\enableregiem[utf8]: it says in the log file: possible problem with 8bit output. Xetex hangs on with: kpathsea mktextfm lmroman... The second installation has another problem with xetex: "could not open config file dvipdfmx.cfg"

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fontscript for delicious?
by Uwe Koloska 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hello, does someone have a typescript (or what's now needed) for using the wonderful delicious font with context? http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/delicious.html It's available in opentype format. Thank you Uwe Koloska

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How could a typesetting system be today?
by Maurício 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

Hi, Just because I'm curious: how could a typesetting system like TeX be if it was created today? I've tried google and wikipedia, and all I found different from TeX is a system called 'Lout', but it seems dead. Does anyone knows about novel or interesting ideas that could be used if we would write a new typesetting system from scratch? Thanks for your thoughts, Maurício

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Fwd: (scientific) poster
by Andrea Valle 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

(originally bounced) -a- Begin forwarded message: > From: Andrea Valle <valle(a)di.unito.it> > Date: 13 June 2008 14:59:19 GMT+02:00 > To: vim.unix(a)gmail.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg- > context(a)ntg.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] (scientific) poster > > > Hi Pau, > I have made a couple of posters with ConTeXt. > Here they are: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Andrea > > Code attached: > > > I have to say that for poster stuff where you have to control > visually the layout a GUI is not that bad. > So now I'm using ConTeXt for text-based projects (documents, books) > and Nodebox for visual related things (posters, presentations). > > Best > > -a- >

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Roll-Your-Own Stand-Alone (Was re. ConTeXt ultraminimals)
by Joel C. Salomon 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

I'm working on ConTeXt+SciTE-on-a-USB-Stick. A downloadable program is still far off, as is a version that can be put on PortableApps.com, but I've gotten to the point of mapping out the basic parameters: • We need to have a start-up program, which will set up the environment and start SciTE and/or a command prompt. • Legacy-free is nice, but if ConTeXt+XeTeX (which I'll call "mkiii" whether that's an official name or no) requires texexec then we need to include Ruby anyway, so we may as well keep PDFTeX (mkii), BUT: • Since my Windows machine already has Perl, Python, & Ruby, I'm going to defer working on that last point. • In fact, I'm going to defer including SciTE also, until I have a working stand-alone ConTeXt… I've put my rsync invocations on the wiki. (Since the calls are so closely tied to the directory structure of the Minimals, I added them to <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/Structure> as an example of how to use & customize them, but I'll move it if folks think it belongs elsewhere.) Also, the commands I'm using to generate my formats are on that page. Could someone please check them for sanity? --Joel

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Format does not match the base files
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

After updating my system with rsync to get the latest binaries of context I got this message: adsm@adsm:~> texexec --xtx greek_exp.tex system : cont-new loaded (/home/adsm/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex FatalError : Your format does not match the base files! FormatVersion : 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII FilesVersion : 2008.05.21 15:21 I have done texhash texexec --make --all --xtx texexec --make --all --pdftex Armando

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(scientific) poster
by Pau 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi, I have googled, looked in the pragma site etc for a template (style) of an a0 poster. Doing this with latex is a bit of a nightmare and the result is not very appealing. I am looking for something in the size of a0 with embedded boxes with plots, equations etc. If such a file existed and was to be found somewhere I'd be grateful if you gave me a link. thanks

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Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)
by Alan Stone 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

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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caption in TSV tables
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi All ConTeXt lovers! I am studying physics at Örebro University in Sweden and often produce documents report from experiments. For Me it naturally fells in to use Context typesetting together with tools like octave and Gnuplot. The issue until now, has been when you need to transer data from octave output textfiles to a representable table in a context document. Hardwriting all \NC and \HL stuff together with cut and paste method is time consuming. But thanks to Hans, Wolfgang, Taco and Mojca I successfully manage to import experiment values from a textfile (that also Gnuplot can read and do graphic) to a nice table with caption so you can refer to it in the textflow. So I decided to contribute my successfull result in attached examplefiles. Thanks and all wishes! Jan-Erik Hägglöf

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Minimals and FreeBSD
by Dominique Dutoit 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

> MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf-local/web2c from > /home/diego/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/d80510d450a3fa2a64df4d3741825f1d > MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf/web2c from > /home/diego/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/3113242409ded67a0ad7bd508bd26609 > MtxRun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.luareport >> state: loaded > report >> update: start > ./bin/mtx-update.lua:181: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, > got nil) For some reasons, os.currentplatform() returns "generic" under FreeBSD (tested on 7.0), which is not defined in the platforms table and creates this error. The workaround is to pass the platform name to first-setup.sh: ./first-setup.sh --platform=freebsd But near the end of the installation process, MtxRun fails to execute the binaries because it tries to find them in tex/texmf-generic. At this stage, I have used the source command to setup the environment and executed texexec --make --all to finish up the installation. So good so far, it seems to work, but I have no idea what's happening there. Bye, Dominique

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context command and the bbl file
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hi all, I have a file with citations. Using: "context myfile" does not create the bbl file when needed (but reads it when it exists). "texexec --lua myfile" does the expected job. Is there a reason for that? -- Jean

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Where is the fonts Directory of OpenSuse?
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Can someone tell me please where the fonts directory of OpensSuse 10.3 (Kde) lies, so I can add my fonts to my bash profile? Thanks for your help. Armando

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color in drawoptions (mplib)
by Peter Rolf 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

hi, just encountered an expansion problem with color inside drawoptions... % engine=luatex \starttext \startuniqueMPgraphic{foo} begingroup save c ; color c[] ; c0:= red; drawoptions(withcolor c0); fill OverlayBox; endgroup; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[foo][\uniqueMPgraphic{foo}] \framed[width=10cm,background=foo]{} \stoptext regards, peter

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Rendering of ZWNJ and ZWJ
by Khaled Hosny 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Using Luatex engine, ZWNJ and ZWJ chars are rendered incorrectly. If the font has a glyph for it, it does the expected behaviour (force non-joining or joining respectively) but the glyph get rendered while it shouldn't. But if the font has no glyphs for it, it has no effect at all. See the attached example. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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TeXCalc
by Alan Stone 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

I downloaded Taco's TeXCalc script at http://tex.aanhet.net/utils/texcalc and installed the required perlTk thingie. Newbie question... How do you run this "silly script" (*) ? Using ActivePerl and sciTE. Thanks, Alan (*) No, no it's not me who said it first... Taco wrote it himself ! ;O)

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bibl-apa.tex wrong?
by Matej Barič 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hello, This (http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm) and just about any other site I look at specifies publisher info as "<city, state>: <publisher name>", whereas bibl-apa.tex specifies it as "<publisher name>, <city, state>". Why is the file called bibl-apa.tex if it doesn't follow APA rules? Am I missing something thanks, Matej

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zero padding with itemize
by Peter Münster 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hello, Is it already possible to get 0 padding with \startitemize: 01 02 03 and so on ? If yes, how? And if no, where is the magic point, where I could apply a patch (if it's not too difficult ;) Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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clipping bug [or the return of the long cat]
by Peter Rolf 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

hi, this time fully 'context live' approved, only with natural ingredients and even more tasty. yummy yum :D % engine=luatex \starttext \definelayer[stack] \setlayer[stack][x=0pt,y=0pt]{% \clip[hoffset=0pt,voffset=0pt,width=20cm,height=1cm]% {Clipping some layer text}} %\flushlayer[stack] \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{The cat was too long to fit in this small sentence.} \framed[offset=overlay]{\clip[hoffset=0pt,voffset=0pt,width=110pt,height=15pt]{\box\scratchbox}} \stoptext the second clip uses the width value of the prior clip (20cm). but if the layer is flushed, the second clip works nearly as expected (only frame is missing). interesting. there also seems to be some mess (or only a side effect?) with the setting of \setupsystem[\c!n=2,\c!m=2] sometimes the number one is used, sometimes the number two. must break, it's supper time. regards, peter

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ConTeXt manual question
by Alan Stone 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

I intend to print the http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-enp.pdf manual ( dated 2001.11.12 ). However, before proceeding... Is there's an updated version available ? Thanks, Alan

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unicode feature request
by Peter Münster 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hello, Just as the signs <, >, + and −, it would be nice if also other signs such as ≤ (less-than or equal to, 2264) or ⇒ (rightwards double arrow, 21D2) worked in text mode and not only in math mode. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Howto fit text into a box
by Uwe Koloska 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hello, for a CD-Cover I have to fit a given text into a fixed box. I have tried to achieve this with the help of mag-0010 "Good looking shapes" but was not successful :-( Can you help me with this? The conditions: - the text is of fixed length - the area is of given size (has a given ratio) - the text has to fit completely inside this area - the last line must be justified, too - the fontsize of the text is the variable that can be changed - I have the current minimal context installation and as an addition: - if possible the words should not be hyphenated at all or hyphenated at an arbitrary character without a hyphenation mark (the text consists of names) A possible algorithm (similar to the one from mag-0010) 1 start with a small box with the given ratio 2 fill the text into the box 3 if all text fits in with a small penalty we are ready 4 make the box a bit larger 5 goto 2 Unfortunately, I'm not able to understand the code from the mag nor can I code the algorithm in context ... I would appreciate any input on this problem! Thank you Uwe Koloska

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staticMPfigure
by bbvogel＠home.nl 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hi, When I run the example below (current beta, pdftex, live.contextgarden.net) the generated pdf does not contain any pictures. Any suggestion how to solve this? Or is the command obsolete? Thanks, B. Vogel %test.tex \startstaticMPfigure{center} draw fullcircle scaled 2cm ; dotlabel.bot(textext("(0,0)"),origin) ; \stopstaticMPfigure \startstaticMPfigure{radius} draw fullcircle scaled 2cm ; drawarrow (0,0)--(1cm,0) ; label.bot(textext("$r$"),(5mm,0)) ; \stopstaticMPfigure \starttext Circle centered \usestaticMPfigure[center][width=1cm] at origin with radius \usestaticMPfigure[radius][width=1cm] $r=1\,\text{cm}$. \stoptext

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experimental feature
by Hans Hagen 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hi, I uploaded a beta with an experimental mkiv feature: fallback fonts. \starttext \definefontfallback [whatever] [Slanted] [0x0060-0x007F] \definefontfallback [whatever] [Bold] [0x0080-0x00FF,0x00A0-0x00AF] \definefontfallback [whatever] [BoldSlanted] [0x00C0-0x00C7] \definefontsynonym[SerifPlus][Serif][fallbacks=whatever] \definefont[MySerif][SerifPlus] \MySerif \dostepwiserecurse{0}{255}{1}{% {\tttf\uchexnumbers\recurselevel:}\char\recurselevel\hskip10pt plus 5pt\relax } \stoptext specifications like [Bold sa 1.2] also work Future versions will provide multiple fallbacks, conditional fallbacks etc. For insiders ... no virtual fonts are used which means that that in principle features still work ok. BTW, In this beta OSFONTDIR is set automatically when unset, on windows (tested by me) and on macosx (tested by mojca); other platforms can be dealt with when we know what to set. 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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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with TSV tables
by Mojca Miklavec 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Jan-Erik Hägglöf wrote: > Hi! > > Life is much easier if everything is there, thanks it worked better. > Unfortunally it seems that the "heading" part not work as expected. Only > the first "values" line get the grey bg and bold font. You can see > attached files. You mean that you don't get this line? Time; Decay per second; Errorlimits To be honest - I do not understand a single line in the database module. A really dirty future-incompatible workaround is to duplicate the line. The first one will be swallowed and the lecond one will be typeset, but that's a bug in the module. Hans? Taco? Why is the first line ignored? It worked OK some time ago, and nothing has changed in the module itself, so it's a complete mystery. > Thanks for helping me! > > By the way... you did for a month ago send a working gnuplot module that > is working with Luatex. After a computercrash I lost it. Can you send > that once again?? I guess this is the file I have sent you some time ago, but it doesn't work any more. I suspect that this portion of code is "broken" (LuaTeX doesn't create a new file any more), but I need to test before saying anything; it might be some completely reason: \doifmode{*\v!first}{ \immediate\openout\scratchwrite=\GNUPLOTfile.plt \immediate\write\scratchwrite{set terminal \@@GNUPLOToutput\space\@@GNUPLOToptions}% \immediate\write\scratchwrite{load '\GNUPLOTfile.tmp'}% \immediate\closeout\scratchwrite } I wanted to say: "a dirty workaround is to run texexec with mkii before" since it does generate the file (mkiv doesn't) and then luaTeX would use that file, but even that seems to be broken now. Just in case that Hans can spot the reason of error, here it is, but I will try to find some minimal example to reproduce it. ! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-log.lua:74: invalid option '%C' to 'format'. \processMPgraphic ... \MPuserinclusions ;\!!es ) } \global \settrue \METAFUNi... \handlereusableMPgraphic ...\processMPgraphic {#3} }\setxvalue {\@@MPG #1}{\n... \douseMPgraphic ... [#1][#2]}\getvalue {\@@MPG #1} \empty \elabelgroup <to be read again> } \redoloop ->\expandrecursecontent \endofloop <to be read again> { ... l.11 \stoptext ? Mojca

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Problem with TSV tables
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hi! Followed the "MyWay" creating tables using CSV..in order to create tables from datafiles in tab separated columns. A weird message "\line= ..." stop appears Can someone figure it out? Thanks in advance Jan-Erik Hägglöf

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hi, There is a new beta; apart from a few fixes (mostly mkiv) the mathml interpreter now also mathml 3 (for as much as I could deduce it from the draft which is definitely a draft and not yet a reference). Provisional openmath is also part of the game but not that well tested. Something that we call 'calcmath' is available by default when the module is loaded. At the context conference Aditya has to plug some of the holes in my math knowledge in order to reach perfection. I also uploaded a new mmlprime.pdf document. Although I need to do a major cleanup x-mathml shows a bit how to deal with xml in mkiv. 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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Problem with '\ ' in math commands in current minimals
by Morgan Brassel 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hi everyone, In the following example: \define[1]\com{com\ #1} \starttext \com{1} $\com{1}$ \stoptext the second call to \com (the one in math mode) seems to stop the compilation of the file. Is it a bug? It wasn't happening before. I'm using the latest minimals. Best regards, Morgan

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Updating minimals
by Mojca Miklavec 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Morgan Brassel wrote: > > Thank you for this fast correction, Hans. By the way, I have a small > question about updating the minimals tree: which command must be used > preferably? > > * ctxtools --contextupdate > > or > > * first-setup.sh another time as suggested on > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals I still use first-setup.sh at the moment. In theory mtxtools --script update [options] should work and it might make sense to provide something like context --update in future. (where options need to be at least --update --force, but --make and --delete is also suggested) But there's a little problem - luatex cannot be updated if you use mtxtools --script update. At least on windows, that definitely reports an error. Mojca

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How to implement this document's navigational system ?
by Alan Stone 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hi, Having discovered LaTeX a few weeks ago, I'm considering switching to ConTeXt instead. :O) Hence, while playing with ConTeXt, I'd like to know... How to implement this type of document navigational system/panel: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf ? Thanks, Alan

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Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX
by Otared Kavian 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Dear all, I just read the thread started by Burak Emir about "Typesetting Arabic today", and tried to typeset the sample sent by Idris Samawi Hamid. One of the Arabic or Persian fonts that I have and LuaTeX can find is Nadeem (working on Mac OS X 10.5.3), but what I get after typesetting is the following attached PDF: all the characters are typeset with their isolated form. However typestting the same text with XeConTeXt or XeTeX gives a nice result. So my question is, what should I add or subtract from the font features parameters to get a correct result? The source file is as follows: % engine=luatex \starttext \definefontfeature [test] [analyze=yes, mode=node, language=dflt, script=arab, aalt=yes, init=yes, medi=yes, fina=yes, isol=yes, liga=yes, mset=yes] \font\TradArabic = Nadeem*test at 18pt \startbuffer[paragraph] الحمدلله حمد معترف بحمده، مغترف من بحار مجده، بلسان الثناۤء شاكرا، ولحسن الاۤئه ناشرا؛ الذي خلق الموت والحيوة، والخير والشر، والنفع والضر، والسكون والحركة، والأرواح والأجسام، والذكر والنسيان. \blank اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ حَمْدَ مُعْتَرِفٍ بِحَمْدِهٖ، مُغْتَرِفٌ مِنْ بِحَارِ مَجْدِهٖ، بِلِسَانِ الثَّنَاۤءِ شَاكِرًا، وَلِحُسْنِ اٰلاۤئِهٖ نَاشِرًا؛ اَلَّذِيْ خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيٰوةَ، وَالْخَيْرَ وَالشَّرَّ، وَالنَّفْعَ وَالضَّرَّ، وَالسُّكُوْنَ وَالْحَرَكَةَ، وَالْأَرْوَاحَ وَالْأَجْسَامَ، وَالذِّكْرَ وَالنِّسْيَانَ. \stopbuffer \start \TradArabic \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \getbuffer[paragraph] \stop \stoptext

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bidi
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Dear gang, All interested in this matter shold read the first three links on http://www.yudit.org/bidi/ We should not slavishly imitate the bidi algorithm; we need a tailor-made model. 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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fix of Kurier typefaces
by Vit Zyka 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hi, there is a miscorrespondence between names of Kurier fonts (in type-one.tex and type-syn.tex) - missing 'Regular' or '-'. I propose to fix type-syn.tex as follows. Vit ----------------------------------------------- \starttypescript [sans] [kurier-light] [name] \setups[font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [Kurier-Light-Regular] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [Kurier-Light-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [Kurier-Medium-Regular] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [Kurier-Medium-Italic] %<- \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [kurier] [name] \setups[font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [Kurier-Regular] \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [Kurier-Regular-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [Kurier-Bold-Regular] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [Kurier-Bold-Italic] %<- \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [kurier-medium] [name] \setups[font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [Kurier-Medium-Regular] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [Kurier-Medium-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [Kurier-Heavy-Regular] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [Kurier-Heavy-Italic] %<- \stoptypescript \starttypescript [math] [kurier-light] [name] \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Light] \definefontsynonym [MathItalic] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Light-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [MathSymbol] [Kurier-Math-Symbols-Light] \definefontsynonym [MathExtension] [Kurier-Math-Extension-Light] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [math] [kurier] [name] \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Regular] \definefontsynonym [MathItalic] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Regular-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [MathSymbol] [Kurier-Math-Symbols-Regular] \definefontsynonym [MathExtension] [Kurier-Math-Extension-Regular] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [math] [kurier-medium] [name] \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Medium] \definefontsynonym [MathItalic] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Medium-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [MathSymbol] [Kurier-Math-Symbols-Medium] \definefontsynonym [MathExtension] [Kurier-Math-Extension-Medium] \stoptypescript ----------------------------------------------

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How to make caption for nature table?
by Zhaopeng Xing 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hi, I have a multi-page nature table and tried to give a caption by \placetable[here][tab:sample]{sample table}{ A nature table here } But it will run wrong. It seems multipage stuff can not be float. Is there any suggestion? Thanks. -- Zhaopeng XING Tinbergen Institute

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Bitstream Charter vs. Charis SIL
by Mojca Miklavec 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

>> (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex) >> ! Font \*map7ptrmscss*:=CharterBT-SmallCap at 6.64998pt not loadable: >> Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. > > That's because of > > \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman [name:CharterBT-Roman] % or: [bchr8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-Italic] [name:CharterBT-Italic] % or: [bchri8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-Bold] [name:CharterBT-Bold] % or: [bchb8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldItalic] [name:CharterBT-BoldItalic] % or: [bchbi8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-Slanted] [name:CharterBT-Italic] % or: [bchri8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldSlanted] [name:CharterBT-BoldItalic] % or: [bchbi8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman-Caps] [name:CharterBT-SmallCap] % or: [bchrc8a] > > The fonts are on > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/charter/ > and I can add them, but there is still one problem. > > Since fonts are defined this way, you would need to configure > fc-config to look for fonts in that directory in order to find the > font. Or one would need to change the definition. > > Hans - what would be the implications for LuaTeX if > name:CharterBT-Roman > was changed into > file:bchr8a > ? Not suggesting that yet, only asking. Now that I'm looking at it again at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Charter: > This has resulted in derivatives of Bitstream Charter becoming available, including Charis SIL. What about adding http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont to the distribution, possibly including TeX Live, and replacing the definitions to use CharisSIL in XeTeX/LuaTeX instead of Bitstream Charter? The same move that has happened with TeX Gyre? Any comments? Suggestions? Mojca

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context minimal install problem? luatex bug?
by Burak Emir 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hi all, Can you help me getting set up. My first half-successful run produced encouraging messages like * This can't happen (ext4). * I'm broken. Please show this to someone who can fix can fix Full log is below. I am using context minimals to try mkiv. My system is MacOS X. I am using the file test.tex I am using is the % engine=luatex \starttext Text \stoptext I expected `texexec test.tex' and `context test.tex' to produce a file test.pdf with PDF-Producer texlua or similar in its info. Instead I got a dvi, which has only a blank page. Thanks in advance for helping. Burak ----- ----- This is what I did: ----- cd /usr/local sudo mkdir context sudo chown buraq context cd context sync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/linux/first-setup.sh . sh first-setup.sh # have coffee export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/context/bin:/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin # ruby uses PATH to locate its scripts export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby # educated guess on how to setup environment for all things TeX export TEXMF=/usr/local/context/tex/texmf export TEXMFMAIN=$TEXMF cd /tmp/testlua.1 texexec test.tex cd /tmp/testlua.2 context test.tex ----- ----- This is what I got: a file test.dvi and a suspicious log. Here is the log (same for `context' and `texexec') ----- (test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.06.03 19:55 MKIV fmt: 2008.6.7 int: english/english language : language en is active bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded specials : tex loaded system : test.top loaded (test.top specials : loaded ) (test.tuo) (test.tuo) systems : begin file test at line 2 fonts : needs map file: original-base fonts : needs map file: lm-math fonts : needs map file: lm-rm [1.1 ! This can't happen (ext4). \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...gebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}}} \else \the \pageboundsetti... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... \sidefloatoutput ...e \else \finalsidefloatoutput \global \sidefloatvsize \n... <argument> ...\fi \else \the \defaultstreamoutput \fi ... l.4 \stoptext I'm broken. Please show this to someone who can fix can fix mkiv lua stats : used config path - /usr/local/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf mkiv lua stats : used cache path - /Users/buraq mkiv lua stats : modules/dumps/instances - 87/21/1 mkiv lua stats : input load time - 0.021 seconds mkiv lua stats : fonts load time - 0.799 seconds mkiv lua stats : xml load time - 0.000 seconds, lpath calls: 0, cached calls: 0 mkiv lua stats : lxml load time - 0.000 seconds preparation, backreferences: 0 mkiv lua stats : mps conversion time - 0.000 seconds mkiv lua stats : node processing time - 0.000 seconds including kernel mkiv lua stats : kernel processing time - 0.000 seconds mkiv lua stats : attribute processing time - 0.001 seconds mkiv lua stats : language load time - 0.005 seconds, n=2 mkiv lua stats : graphics processing time - 0.000 seconds including tex, n=0 mkiv lua stats : metapost processing time - 0.000 seconds, loading: 0.000 seconds, execution: 0.000 seconds, n: 0 mkiv lua stats : current memory usage - 43835128 bytes mkiv lua stats : cleaned up reserved nodes - 17 nodes, 8 lists of 100 mkiv lua stats : node memory usage - 68 hlist, 33 vlist, 3 rule, 130 glue, 6 kern, 10 penalty, 5 glyph, 135 attribute, 84 glue _spec, 66 attribute_list, 1 temp, 7 if_stack, 9 local_par, 7 dir, 2 pdf_literal mkiv lua stats : loaded patterns - en:en:pat:exc:2 mkiv lua stats : loaded fonts - file:lmroman10-bolditalic*default:otf file:lmroman10-italic*default:otf file:lmroman12-bo ld*default:otf file:lmroman12-italic*default:otf file:lmroman12-regular*default:otf file:lmroman7-bold*default:otf file:lmroman7-regul ar*default:otf file:lmroman9-bold*default:otf file:lmroman9-italic*default:otf file:lmroman9-regular*default:otf file:lmromancaps10-re gular*default:otf file:lmromanslant10-bold*default:otf file:lmromanslant10-regular*default:otf file:lmromanslant12-regular*default:otf file:lmromanslant9-regular*default:otf lmex10:tfm lmmi12:tfm lmmi7:tfm lmmi9:tfm lmsy10:tfm lmsy7:tfm lmsy9:tfm msam10:tfm msam7:tfm msbm10:tfm msbm7:tfm rm-lmr12:tfm rm-lmr7:tfm rm-lmr9:tfm mkiv lua stats : runtime - 1.143 seconds, 0 processed pages, 0 shipped pages, 0.000 pages/second -- Burak Emir -- http://burak.emir.googlepages.com

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Garden unresponsive
by Oliver Buerschaper 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hi, it seems like a few areas of the garden are somewhat unresponsive. These include texshow source browser modules articles and perhaps others, too. Any idea what's going on? Oliver

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typesetting Arabic today
by Burak Emir 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hi, First of all, I'd wish to express my thanks to the makers of and contributors to ConTeXt - it is quite a pleasure to use so far. Now for my concern: I want to typeset Arabic. What would I use? I am aware of ArabTex, I haven't yet tried Omega... however, I followed some presentations for LuaTeX and typesetting Arabic was mentioned there as motivation. This is how I got to ConTeXt in the first place. Trying the documentation, I ended up on the following page which says "TODO" http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew I also searched mail archives, but the mails I found on this subject were from 2003, so I thought it is worth probing for an update. Any news or hints appreciated. Thanks, Burak -- Burak Emir -- http://burak.emir.googlepages.com

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Re: [NTG-context] typesetting Arabic today
by Burak Emir 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Selaam, On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid(a)colostate.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:45:20 -0600, Burak Emir <burak.emir(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > Here is what I did, in detail > >> >> export OSFONTSDIR=/Users/buraq/Library/Fonts >>> ls $OSFONTSDIR/arabtype.ttf >>> >> /Users/buraq/Library/Fonts/arabtype.ttf >> >>> luatools --generate >>> mtxrun --script font --reload >>> texexec --luatex traditional_arabic-test.tex >>> >> ... >> define font | font with name arabtype is not found >> define font | unknown font arabtype, loading aborted >> ! Font \TradArabic=arabtype*test2 at 28pt not loadable: metric data not >> found or bad. >> > > I'm curious, does it work if you put the font in the current directory? > Yes, this worked! : D What a pleasure to see the fruits of debugging. Shukran : ) Can one tell "luatools --generate" to see which path it picks up from OSFONTSDIR? There are some nice arabic fonts that come with Mac systems (or maybe, they came with the KeyNote or Pages, I don't know) Burak -- Burak Emir -- http://burak.emir.googlepages.com

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last bookmark is wrong
by Peter Münster 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

Hello, The last bookmark is s3 instead of b3 (MKII and MKIV): \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[section] \starttext \section{s1}\bookmark{b1} \section{s2}\bookmark{b2} \section{s3}\bookmark{b3} \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] modules maps fails
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Diego Depaoli wrote: > >> I have added map files, but I doubt that that is enough. Please try >> and report whether it works. > > now, with --xtx switch, I get this error > > (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex) > ! Font \*map7ptrmscss*:=CharterBT-SmallCap at 6.64998pt not loadable: > Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. That's because of ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman] [name:CharterBT-Roman] % or: [bchr8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-Italic] [name:CharterBT-Italic] % or: [bchri8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-Bold] [name:CharterBT-Bold] % or: [bchb8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldItalic] [name:CharterBT-BoldItalic] % or: [bchbi8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-Slanted] [name:CharterBT-Italic] % or: [bchri8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldSlanted] [name:CharterBT-BoldItalic] % or: [bchbi8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman-Caps] [name:CharterBT-SmallCap] % or: [bchrc8a] The fonts are on http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/charter/ and I can add them, but there is still one problem. Since fonts are defined this way, you would need to configure fc-config to look for fonts in that directory in order to find the font. Or one would need to change the definition. Hans - what would be the implications for LuaTeX if name:CharterBT-Roman was changed into file:bchr8a ? Not suggesting that yet, only asking. > and without --xtx switch this one > > (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-gyr.tex) > ! Font \*map7ptrmtfss*:=texnansi-bchr8a at 6.64998pt not loadable: > Metric (TFM) file not found. The files are under http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-fnt.zip Many of the files included there are obsolete now, that's why I didn't include them at the first place. But this one is not. Quick fix: unzip those files into texmf-local for example (or texmf, but you need to be careful not to use the --delete switch then). Proper fix - Hans, Taco, should I filter the useful files out of that zip and add them to the minimals? Which ones? Mojca

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Installed ConTeXt minimal... what's next ?
by Alain PIERRE 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

Hi, I installed - ConTeXt minimal http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip ( I first tried ContextMinimalInstall.exe but it hanged: texlua.exe application error ) After searching through wiki's, pdf's, (xetex and context) list archives, etc... I still have no clue whatsoever on - how to start *using* ConTeXt, ConTexT with XeTeX, and - with SciTE editor ( the "SciTE in ConTeXt" mscite-p.pdf manual seems a bit outdated: it mentions a SciTEUser.properties file which is nowhere to find ) Some advice on where to look and/or how to proceed would be utmost welcome. I'm missing some pieces of the puzzle. :O) Many thanks, Alan

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modules maps fails
by Diego Depaoli 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

Hi all, trying build the example at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules/Maps I get the following cryptic error (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-one.tex) (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-gyr.tex) ! Font \*map7ptmmmrss*:=zeurm10 at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosetmathfamilyB ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontclass... \dosetmathfamily ...athfamily \scriptscriptfont #1 \let \fontbody #3\dodosetm... <inserted text> ...ptscriptface \c!mr \mrfallback \dosetmathfamily \mifam \t... \synchronizemath ...athfonts \the \mathstrategies \fi ... l.118 \setupbodyfont [map,10pt] ? ! Emergency stop. Something similar happens in live too. What I'm wrong? Regards -- Diego Depaoli

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Schedule in Bohinj
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Gour wrote: >>>>>> "Mojca" == Mojca Miklavec writes: > > Mojca> But you can always consult about details in Bohinj :) > > Hey, what is this: > > Sunday (24.08.) Hard work all day (& night) long > > Not even a free Sunday? > > That's heretic ;) Sorry, I fogot to mention on the webpage that we start with a holly mess at 7am on Sunday. Participation obligatory. http://tinyurl.com/5qpf6n (I wanted to organise the even in a monastery at first, but the location was not so attractive.) Protestants will have a chance to celebrate 500 years from birth of the first Slovenian book writer Primoz Trubar (born on 9th June 1508, yesterday was a big celebration in Tübingen, Germany), but sorry - the rest of the world can only enjoy a "free saturday". Mojca

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ConTeXt ultraminimals (was re: Perl/Ruby dependency)
by Joel C. Salomon 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > luatex + context mkiv is indeed independent [of Ruby] > > - index sorting takes place in mkiv > - job control is done with mtxrun/mtx-context Now that I've been told the idea is at least possible, I've been thinking about how to generate a micro-minimal mkiv distribution: no fonts except the LM set, no engines except luaTeX, no kpathsea, & preferably no external dependencies (perl, ruby, &c.). So how to best go about this? I'm downloading the current minimals (or should I use the .zips at <http://www.pragma-ade.nl/download-1.htm>?); what can I cut out? --Joel

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mac install & page layout & numbered margin notes
by Joachim Kreimer-de Fries 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hello context-helpers for newbie: in the documents planned (in and over the Westphalian language) I wish to use many margin notes (word translations, exlanations etc.). The margin notes should be numbered with reference number (or other indication) in the text body. And I should be able to input utf-8 (because of umlaute and phonetical notations, IPA etc.). Therefore I installed some week ago => MacTeX on my MacBook Pro with OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and would like to use => ConTeXt, possibly within => TexShop (or elsewise, if better). But I need a lot of start-up help. Therefore I put the main questions of the moment here hoping, that some take pity with me and answer the one or the other of the following questions: 1. Installation of ConTeXt complete and actual? Has MacTeX braught me with it the main components of the ConTeXt system or should I update/complete it and how? texexec --version TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD 2. How to switch to the German commands in ConTeXt? (Perheps that might help me a little to learn and remember commands. Therefore I want to switch if possible now at the beginning.) 3. How to setup page/layout dimensions? Because of the work with margin notes as a form of ever present accompanying, helping side text for the reader and learner, I need say ==> the third width of the right page for the margin notes. I read the applying chapters and passages in Hans Hagen's "ConTEXt the manual" (November 12, 2001) several times, but I couldn't get it yet. 4. How to set up => numbered margin notes and, thereover, => prevent, that they are printed one over the other, when there is not enough space between the referenced words/phrases in the text body? 5. How to find and learn the possible options to the commands? The few commands and options I found yet were token from the manuals, but this was rather trial and error. I attach the (abbreviated) Example of my first Text with ConTeXt, so that you can better see, what my most needed help could be (fo to come to an output with bride (right) margin and automatically numbered margin notes). The attached TeX file gave the pdf output, but nevertheless texexec (or what ever) gives me a FAILED message in the TexShop Console: ### /usr/texbin/dvips -R -Poutline -o /tmp/altpdflatex. 1646-1211465898/LyraV-TShop-source-u.ps LyraV-TShop-source-u.dvi This is dvips(k) 5.96 Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) /usr/texbin/dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened. ### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdflatex.1646-1211465898/LyraV-TShop- source-u.ps () Any help suggestions also for that? Thank you for reading my cry fore help, best wishes, "Met echt-westfälsken Gröiten" joachim -- Kreimer-de Fries, Berlin

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xml question
by Wolfgang Schuster 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hi, I played with a little bit with the docbook syntax and came to a problem with headers. The text for chapter headers is written between the title elements, to get the text I use the \xmlfirst command but this did not prevent the text in the element to appear again in the normal document text. As a workaround I introduced the \ifheading to flush the content only in chapter headers, is there a better way to do this? It is also possible to place the title elements outside of the chapter group where it is used as a header by itself, I did this now by another test \ifchapter where I test if it called within a chapter or not but a better solution is welcome. My last question is what I the preferef method to define entities in MkIV, \defineXMLentity is a MkII command and did not fit in the MkIV xmlsetup commands. \startbuffer[test] <?xml version='1.0'?> <book> <title>Document with &ConTeXt;</title> <chapter id="first"><title>The first Chapter</title> <para>Normal Text.</para> <para>Normal Text.</para> </chapter> <chapter id="second"><title>Another Chapter</title> <para>Normal Text.</para> <para>Normal Text.</para> </chapter> </book> \stopbuffer \unprotect \startxmlsetups setup \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{title}{*} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{chapter}{*} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{para}{*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{setup} \newif\ifheading \newif\ifchapter \startxmlsetups title \ifchapter \ifheading\xmlflush{#1}\fi \else \title{\xmlflush{#1}} \fi \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups chapter \headingtrue \chaptertrue \chapter[\xmlatt{#1}{id}]{\xmlfirst{#1}{title}} \headingfalse \xmlflush{#1} \chapterfalse \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups para \xmlflush{#1}\par \stopxmlsetups \defineXMLentity [ConTeXt] \ConTeXt \protect \starttext \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{test}{} \stoptext Wolfgang

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markup format ---> ConTeXt
by Gour 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hi! At the moment I use Emacs Muse for writing my study notes which I then have to submit as *.doc file (muse --> html -> OO --> doc). I like it 'cause it enables me to combine all the notes and convert into ConTeXt later. However, the only disadvantage of it is that Muse markup is tied to Emacs editor and not so popular for those using other editors. Therefore I am considering some other 'easy' markup with the ConTeXt back-end. Some of the more popular markup-formats are AsciiDoc (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/index.html) and reStructuredText (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) but according to what I see both are missing ConTeXt back-end (latex only) :-( Any suggestion for 'popular' markup with ConTexT back-end? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Footer issue
by Diego Depaoli 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all, why \setupheader[text][after=\thinrule] and \setupfooter[text][before=\textrule] both work, but \setupfooter[text][before=\thinrule] doesn't work? Cheers -- Diego Depaoli

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