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some minor problems (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 17 May '08

17 May '08

hi, i'm still trying to make my code run with mkiv. here are two minor problems. the first one is easy to deal with, but the second one currently breaks my testbed. % engine=luatex \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startMPcode label("no color",origin) withcolor red; % always black \stopMPcode \string{\{} \stoptext greetings, peter

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getting inside xhtml / mkii
by Jelle Huisman 16 May '08

16 May '08

Hello, I want to process have a rather complicated xhtml file with dictionary data containing lots of entries like: papa Eng daddy I tried to write some code to get the individual data elements into my ConTeXt-module, but I didn't succeed. This: \defineXMLargument [span class="word"]{\Mywordstyle{\XMLvar{class="word"}{}}} for example fails, it gives all the data within all the different span's, whereas I want to select the different data items using the <span class-attributes (and typeset the different items in different ways afterwards). Maybe I miss something obvious, but I would appreciate some help to solve this. (BTW: I use MKII for this project) Thanks, Jelle

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Removing inbreakable whitespace at pagebreaks
by Wolfgang Schuster 16 May '08

16 May '08

Hi, I try to take care in my letter module to keep at least the last sentence in the text the signature together on the same page, this did work but I introduced another problem. To get no linebreak between my two sections I used a nonbreakable whitespace between both but my implementation has the side effect to keep the whitespace also if there is no signature after the text even if it the last vertical skip before the page break. You can see in the following example what I mean. \setuplayout[lines=10]\showgrid \starttext \blank[force,9*line] text \par\nobreak\blank[line] \stoptext The last line of text is moved to the second although it would fit on the first page, I could use twopassdata in my module to get the information if the \nobreak is needed on this place but I hope there is also a solution to remove the skip in the first run, maybe for MkIV only. I looked yesterday in the sources and saw \vspacing in core-spa.mkiv, I dont't know what this should do and was unable to get it working but I'm interested to know how it did work and what it should do. Greetings Wolfgang

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Keeping a block of text together, without breaking footnotes, etc.
by Daniel Pittman 16 May '08

16 May '08

G'day. As part of a document I am laying out I have a number of blocks of text that I want to keep together on a single page -- either all before a page break or all after it. I can achieve this using a \vbox, but that has the fairly undesirable property of also preventing footnotes and, presumably, other ConTeXt layout from working as expected. What is the most effective way to achieve this? A good example of what I want follows; in this I want the entire contact form there kept as a single block, not split over pages. The same sort of situation comes up with some explanatory paragraphs and a yes/no question section of the form. \starttext \dorecurse{10} {\bf Contact Details} \starttabulate[|l|p|] \NC Name: \NC \thinrule \NC \AR \NC Address: \NC \thinrules[n=3] \NC \AR \NC Postcode: \NC \thinrule \NC \AR \NC Email: \NC \thinrule \NC \AR \NC Alternate Email: \NC \thinrule \NC \AR \NC Phone (BH): \NC \thinrule \NC \AR \NC Phone (AH): \NC \thinrule \NC \AR \NC Mobile: \NC \thinrule \NC \AR \stoptabulate \starttabulate[|p|l|] \NC Can this contact authorise work? \NC YES / NO \NC \AR \NC Can this contact authorise changes to this agreement? \NC YES / NO \NC \AR \NC Can we contact this person in an emergency? \NC YES / NO \NC \AR \stoptabulate \par} \stoptext I would rather have under-full pages than split the blocks of text -- and I definitely want to preserve the ability to insert footnotes into the running text, to clarify some of the terms or options. Regards, Daniel

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figure not found box (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 16 May '08

16 May '08

Hi, one problem fixed, the next one is knocking on the door. This must be the definition of a lucky man ;) Can anybody try the following code? Mhh, no problems on 'context live' (luatex 0.25.2). % engine=luatex \starttext \externalfigure[notfound.png] \stoptext results here in [..] ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \relax \BeforeGroup ...medparameter \c!backgroundscreen } \bgroup \aftergroup \After... <argument> ...amedparameter \c!backgroundscreen ]{ \dofilledbox } \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \next1 ...d {\??ov \currentbackground }\donothing }}}\wd \extraframebox \zer... \rawprocesscommaitem ...commalevel \endcsname {#1} \expandafter \rawprocessco... ... l.9 Regards, Peter

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Mkiv and braces
by Aditya Mahajan 16 May '08

16 May '08

Hi, I am using ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.13, and in mkiv braces seem to gobble the next digit. They work fine with mkii. Minimal example \starttext The digits $\{0,1,2,3,4\}0,1,2,3,4$ The letters $\{a,b,c,d\}a,b,c,d$ \stoptext Aditya

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hierarchical modes
by Janko Hauser 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hello, I need to prepare a document for different audiences. The question here is, how to encapsulate the different parts of the document. There are paragraphs which are "public", some more which are "internal" and some which are "private". People who are in the private group should see everything, the group internal only the public parts and the internal ones. As far as I see, modes are not additive. What would be the best way to structure such a document and to style the different paragraphs, so that the different audiences see, who can read what? Thanks in advance, __Janko Hauser

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hack in type-siz
by luigi scarso 15 May '08

15 May '08

\starttext \definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath] [latin-modern] [modern] [encoding=texnansi] $a \times b$ $a \boldsymbol{\times} b$ \stoptext (from core-mat.tex) gives <<? blobpath asked: cmbx7 .otf>> <<? blobpath do: /opt/luatex/tex/texmf-linux (cmbx7 .otf)>> <<? blobpath do: /opt/luatex/tex/texmf-fonts (cmbx7 .otf)>> <<? blobpath do: /opt/luatex/tex/texmf-local (cmbx7 .otf)>> <<? .. rror >> define font: font with name cmbx7 is not found error >> define font: name: cmbx7 , loading aborted ! Font \*boldmath7ptmmmrmm*:=cmbx7 not loadable: metric data not found or bad. In type-size \starttypescript [boldmath] [modern,computer-modern,latin-modern] [size] % hack to prevent mapping of filenames, watch the space! \definefontsynonym[xcmb12][cmbx12 ] \definefontsynonym[xcmb10][cmbx10 ] \definefontsynonym[xcmb9] [cmbx9 ] \definefontsynonym[xcmb8] [cmbx8 ] \definefontsynonym[xcmb7] [cmbx7 ] \definefontsynonym[xcmb6] [cmbx6 ] \definefontsynonym[xcmb5] [cmbx5 ] ... Maybe is just the space the problem. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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a question about ConTeXt + AUCTeX
by Dalyoung Jeong 15 May '08

15 May '08

Dear all, Recently I installed Aquamacs Emacs which is nicely working. And I also found AUCTeX macros in the wiki. Since I am a newbie to AUCTeX, I don't know how to apply such codes to Aquamacs. Would someone tell me how to do that? When I choose PDFConTeXt-en>command > ConTeXt, it runs with the command "texexec --once --pdf ...". Is there any way to change it to "texmfstart texexec ..."? Thank you. Dalyoung Jeong

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Uppercase ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX
by Wolfgang Schuster 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hi, is there a solution for ssharp with XeTeX and LuaTeX, I have a word with a ß in it which I convert into uppercase letters and the ß remains a lowercase characters. This was no problem in the past with pdfTeX because it contained a SS character for this problem and the output is what I want but I have no solution for the other two engines. \starttext \WORD{Grußwort} \stoptext Greetings Wolfgang

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Alignment of Itemize
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 15 May '08

15 May '08

I have put this in my source file: \startitemize[R][4*broad,stopper=---] And in the output the m rule (---) was overlapped by the roman numeral. By the way I would like to align the roman numeral to the right more or less like this (it is difficult to do in text format) I --- blablablablablablabla II --- blablablablablablabla III --- blablablablablablabla IV --- blablablablablablabla VIII --- blablablablablablabla Thank you very much for your help Armando

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Arabic transliteration
by Alan Bowen 15 May '08

15 May '08

Greetings! I am trying to typeset some transliterated Arabic and one of the diacritical marks is giving me a problem. How does one put what looks like a breve accent (a cup or concave arc) under an letter in ConTeXT? Cheers, Alan

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Re: [NTG-context] Math equation with indentation
by 302302 14 May '08

14 May '08

>On Tue, 13 May 2008, 302302 wrote: > >> Hi, >> I need to use a multieqaution in this form ( http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2372/eqsx3.png ). I am mostly interested in the right brace and >the indentation after the "subject to". I tried to use mathmatrix but without success. Can you help me with it?> > >I am using nested matrices, but this is one case which will be best solved >by something equivalent for gathered and aligned. It has been on my todo >list for a long time. > >Here is a solution using nested matrices, where I use \noalign to fake >correct spacing after the first line (and changed the \cdots in the last >condition to \dots). > >\definemathmatrix[rightbrace][left={\left.},right={\,\right\}},n=1,align=left] > >\starttext > >\placeformula[+] \startformula >\startrightbrace > \NC \min \{c_1 x_1 + c_2 x_2 + \cdots + c_n x_n \} \NR > \noalign{\vskip 0.2em} > \NC \text{subject to} \NR > \NC \quad > \startmathmatrix[n=9,align={middle,middle,middle, > middle,middle,middle,right,middle,middle}, > distance=0.3em] > \NC a_{11} x_1 \NC + \NC a_{12} x_2 \NC + > \NC \cdots \NC + \NC a_{1n} x_n \NC = \NC b_1 \NR > \NC a_{21} x_1 \NC + \NC a_{22} x_2 \NC + > \NC \cdots \NC + \NC a_{2n} x_n \NC = \NC b_2 \NR > \NC \NC \NC \vdots \NC > \NC \NC \NC \NC \NC \vdots \NR > \NC a_{m1} x_1 \NC + \NC a_{m2} x_2 \NC + > \NC \cdots \NC + \NC a_{mn} x_n \NC = \NC b_m \NR > \NC \NC \NC \NC > \NC \NC > \NC \llap{x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n} \NC \ge \NC 0. > \stopmathmatrix \NR > \stoprightbrace >\stopformula > >\stoptext > > >Aditya Great, thanks a lot! And is there any way how to get in the first line \min_{x \in X} with the parameter exactly below the "min"? Because in this solution the parameter {x \in X} is on the right bottom, like in a line. Czenek

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Math equation with indentation
by 302302 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hi, I need to use a multieqaution in this form ( http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2372/eqsx3.png ). I am mostly interested in the right brace and the indentation after the "subject to". I tried to use mathmatrix but without success. Can you help me with it? Thanks Czenek

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mlib - unwanted concatenation
by Peter Rolf 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hi, last mail for today. i run into this while testing one of my gfx. % engine=luatex \starttext \startMPcode begingroup boolean t; t:= false; if t: fill fullsquare xyscaled(2cm,2cm); else: fill fullcircle scaled 2cm; fi% some close comment endgroup; \stopMPcode \stoptext [..] report >> mp terminal: >> fiendgroup ! Isolated expression. <to be read again> ; <*> ...se: fill fullcircle scaled 2cm; fiendgroup; ; report >> mp error: unknown, no error, terminal or log messages mh, bug or feature? is this still metapost and not tex? maybe a side effect of the merge ;) Peter

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mlib broken
by Peter Rolf 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hi, just tested the newest context release. Sadly mlib seems to be broken (no output). Same result on 'context live' with % engine=luatex \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \null \startMPcode fill unitsquare xyscaled(10cm,1cm) withcolor red; \stopMPcode \stoptext Peter

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avoid resetting of partnumber in appendix
by Suno Ano 13 May '08

13 May '08

How can I avoid that resetting of the partnumber within the appendices? For example, I have ,----[ Example ] | \starttext | \part{My First Part within Text} | \part{My Second Part within Text} | | \startappendices | \part{My First Part within the Appendix} | | \stopappendices | \stoptext `---- Since I used `resetnumber=no' with `\setuphead[part][...]' \part{My First Part within Text} becomes part 1 and \part{My Second Part within Text} becomes part 2 in the table of contents ... just what I want. Now, I would like to become \part{My First Part within the Appendix} part 3 in the Table of Contents instead of being reset to number 1 again. How do I do this?

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Trouble with index
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 13 May '08

13 May '08

In the fileOn Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:00 PM, <cidadaum at sapo.pt> wrote: > > So far I have not succeded to make an index in a book I am typesetting. > I write something like: > \starttext > \defineregister[index][indices] Prdefined, can be omitted. > \index[Tantrum]Tantrums can be normal for \index{Tantrum} > \index[tantrum][tantrum+toddlers]toddlers. Young children have them for \index{tantrum+toodlers} > many reasons like being tired, feeling out of control, over-stimulated, > or wanting something they can't have. > General hints: Toddlers and preschoolers cannot regulate themselves > because they don't yet know their own limits. > \completeindex > \stoptext Wolfgang I have made a file with this post and I have managed to do an index. But with another file I got this message: system : index not found/processed ! Extra \endgroup. \doplaceregister ...packed \stopcolumns \endgroup \fi \docompleteregister ...ter [\currentregister ][#2] \page [\v!yes ]\endgroup \fi <to be read again> \par l.2984 ? [42.42] ! Extra \endgroup. \docompleteregister ...2]\page [\v!yes ]\endgroup \fi <to be read again> \par Is there something wrong I am doing. At the beginning I put this: \defineregister[index][indices] and \completeindex at the end. Thanks. Armando

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modules at the garden
by Thomas A. Schmitz 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hi all, hi gardeners, there seems to be a problem with the "modules" section; when I try to open the page, I get the message "Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later." All best Thomas

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enableregime in mkiv
by Hans van der Meer 12 May '08

12 May '08

I am using MacOSX and up till now my files have a Western(Mac OS Roman) encoding, not UTF8. That works fime in ConTeXt-mkii by using \enableregime[mac]. But in ConTeXt-mkiv through luatex I get an error despite that same \enableregime[mac]: For an accented character like é the error is "! Text line contains an invalid utf-8 sequence." How can I solve that other than changing all my files to UTF8 encoding? Hans van der Meer

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hyphenation problem
by Hans van der Meer 12 May '08

12 May '08

In dutch hyphenated accented characters loose there accent when hyphenated: oö becomes o-o instead of o-ö. But the latter happens when I process the code below. It happens both in mkii and mkiv. The number of a's must be chosen so as to generate hyphenation between the two o's. I tried this also with another font than lmodern, but got the same result. What happened to (dutch) hyphenation? ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.18 14:17 MKII fmt: 2008.4.19 int: english/ english \enableregime[mac] \language[nl] \setupbodyfont[lmodern,10pt] \starttext hyphen test: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa coördinaat. \par hyphen test: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa co\"ordinaat. \par \stoptext Hans van der Meer

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feature request: TABLEs in columns
by Peter Münster 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hello, It would be very nice, if one could put splitted TABLEs in columns (or column-sets) without restrictions: text before columns \startcolumns[n=X] some text spanning 1 or more columns, 1 or more pages \bTABLE[split=repeat] \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTH Head \eTH \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody some table lines spanning 1 or more columns, 1 or more pages \eTABLEbody \eTABLE some text spanning 1 or more columns, 1 or more pages perhaps some more TABLEs and text... \stopcolumns text after columns Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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incorrect/absent PostScript names for some greek characters
by Michail Vidiassov 12 May '08

12 May '08

Dear Hans and All, in char-def.lua there are no "adobename" for "greekDelta" AKA "GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA" "greekOmega" AKA "GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA" "greekmu" AKA "GREEK SMALL LETTER MU" because adobenames Delta, Omega and mu are used for "INCREMENT", "OHM SIGN", "textmu" AKA "MICRO SIGN". While the issue is of infinitesimal and only potential significance, may be it is worth a fix. The problem likely comes from Adobe Glyph List http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/glyphlist.txt The sub-optimal mapping was fixed in the latest version of Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/aglfn.txt but not in the main Adobe Glyph List. Both lists are referenced from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/archives/glyph.html BTW, the Adobe Glyph List also has "increment", "Ohm" and "mu1" that look like better candidates for "INCREMENT", "OHM SIGN", "textmu" AKA "MICRO SIGN". Sincerely, Michail

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ConTeXt meeting: call for abstracts & papers
by Mojca Miklavec 11 May '08

11 May '08

Dear participants of the ConTeXt meeting (and those that are still hiding the desire to come), It's about the time to start preparing the program of the talks and workshops. So - the ones who would like to share your experience with others (either beginners or advanced topics), you may start submitting abstracts of the talks. It would be nice to have a rough program in the first half of June and complete papers for proceedings in the first week of July, so that we can process them without the last-week-hurry. One of the participants has expressed a desire to have a "beginners talk/workshop" - how to prepare a complete document and/or presentation: setting up headers & footers, appearance of sections, itemization lists, TOC, bibliography, ... Anyone ready to take that over? It would also be nice to have a workshop about Lua programming. I hope that we will have a video camera at the meeting with all the talks landing on http://www.river-valley.tv/ soon after the conference. Also, let's hope for a nice weather. At least 2-4 people are coming to Bohinj only to have some rest & fun while their husbands or wives will be discussing some TeXnical stuff. If anyone would like to stay a day or two longer, we can informally extend the meeting to go to mountains for example and stay in the hut in the mountains over night. Hopefully, the mountaineering guide (participant) will have time to join us :) Bohinj also offers many sport activities (paragliding, rafting, canyoning, hydrospeed, kayak, canoe, mountain biking, high ropes course, ...). Probably not for everyone (that's why it makes no sense to include it in the programme), but let me know if anyone would be interested, so that we can go somewhere together in the afternoon (rafting?), while the rest can still walk around or discuss topics in the meantime. Do not forget your health insurance :) :) :) Here are some preliminary plans talks, waiting for you to extend it: TBC = to be confirmed that participant is going to come Hans & Taco: lots of talks (to fill all the available space :) in particular: XML workshop, LuaTeX & MK IV, MPlib, Type3 fonts, future plans, ... Installers & editors: Mojca Miklavec: ConTeXt Minimals Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Windows Installer TBC: Oliver Buerschaper: Mac Installer TBC: Jean Magnan de Bornier, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard: ConTeXt & emacs TBC: Norbert Preining: [something about packaging in TL or Debian] ConTeXt: TBC: Aditya Mahajan: Math in ConTeXt Patrick Gundlach, Mojca Miklavec: TeXShow Different talks: Karel Piška: [something about fonts] TBC: Andrea Valle: Algorithmic musical notation Patrick Gundlach: Rivers TBC: Idris: applying for funding Arthur Reutenauer: Unicode compliance of TeX The fee will be max. 200 EUR, hopefully less. The final deadline for registration and early payment will be 10th July. After that date I will cancel the reservation of empty slots in the hostel, which means that you can still register after that date, but if the beds will be taken by someone else in the meantime, you may need to stay in the hotel 300m away from us. The location is not going to be a 5-star hotel, but if anyone would like to be in one ... let me know :) Looking forward to meet you all in Bohinj, Mojca

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Greek Module
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 11 May '08

11 May '08

On May 1, 2008, at 4:26 AM, cidadaum at sapo.pt wrote: > I have unzipped the folder to my texmf tree so it looks like this: > > adsm at adsm:~> cd /usr/share/texmf > adsm at adsm:/usr/share/texmf> ls > bibtex context dvips ls-R mft tex t- greek-2008.04.30 > bin doc fmtutil makeindex scripts texconfig web2c > chktex dvipdfm fonts metafont teTeX texmf xdvi > adsm at adsm:/usr/share/texmf> > > Then I ran texhash. > I am using Linux OpenSuse 10.3 KDE. > > armando martins OK, there's nothing inherently wrong with what you did. I would advise, however, to install additional packages either to the local texmf tree or to you personal tree. These are defined in the file /etc/ texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf as TEXMFLOCAL = /usr/local/share/texmf and TEXMFHOME = $HOME/TEXMF You have unzipped into the main tree, so it should work as well. I would ask you to make sure that the important files are in the right position, so run ls /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/third and that the files are seen by TeX, so run kpsewhere t-ancientgreek.tex Post the output of these commands. Thomas I think I have managed to do the installation: adsm@adsm:~> kpsewhere t-ancientgreek.tex /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/third/t-ancientgreek.tex Still I am missing something else because texexec doesn't go through. texexec greek_try.tex hangs on with this message: Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: GFSPorson.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input GFSPorson' failed to make GFSPorson.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*greek12ptrmtfrm*:=GFSPorson at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. And: ? kpathsea: Running mktextfm GFSPorson /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation G for GFSPorson. /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input GFSPorson This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea: Running mktexmf GFSPorson ! I can't find file `GFSPorson'. <*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input GFSPorson Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input GFSPorson Thanks Armando

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bibmod question
by Peter I. Hansen 10 May '08

10 May '08

Hi I'm using the bibmod module with the 'ams' style (bibl-ams.tex). If I have two (or more) references by the same author, from the same year, in my bibtex database. The years are printed in the reference list as eg. 2000a, 2000b, etc., even if I only quote one of the. Since the 'ams' style is citing by number, there is no use for these additional letters. Is there a way to turn those off? Thanks, Peter

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New context release
by Taco Hoekwater 10 May '08

10 May '08

Hi, FYI: Hans has uploaded a new current yesterday. I am sorry but there will not be any release notes until tuesday or wednesday at the earliest. Best wishes, Taco

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Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] State of OpenType support
by Khaled Hosny 09 May '08

09 May '08

(Moved from lautex mailing list, more bellow) On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:11:38PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:53:56PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > > Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:22:16PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>> Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>>> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:10:23AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >>>>> Hans Hagen wrote: > >>>>>> Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> I also tried "Nafees Nastaliq" font > >>>>>>> http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/Fonts/nafeesNastaleeq.html > >>>>>>> with also broken result. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> See also the arabic chapter (XIII) in mk.pdf: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mk.pdf > >>>>>>> I was actually testing the fonts under its guidance :) > >>>>>> Can you two team up on this issue? the problem is that esp the > >>>>>> scripting part of OT is not really defined, only has de facto > >>>>>> specs i.e. reversed engineered uniscribe. > >>>>> I had a quick look at the font with fontforge. It could that > >>>>> (part of the) problems are related to the fact that most of the > >>>>> glyph encodings > >>>>> in the font do not follow unicode, even though the font claims to be a > >>>>> UnicodeBMP encoded font. It is quite possible that that confuses the > >>>>> contextual analyser in MkIV. > >>>> I'm relaying solely on OpenType here, i.e. the actual glyphs aren't > >>>> encoded and using isol, init, etc features to map characters to the > >>>> appropriate glyphs. > >>>> > >>>> I tested it with two other OpenType implementations, and I got the > >>>> expected result. > >>> this mkmk feature ... > >>> > >>> (1) is it directionally sensitive? some features are marked as r2l, some not > >> > >> No its not, I think r2l is applicable for cursive anchors and should > >> mean nothing here (I was trying some thing but forget to remove it > >> after). > >> I removed r2l marl from all tables (except curs), but this changed > >> nothing. > >> > >>> (2) do you use proper mark -> basemark? or just mark to mark? > > > > keep in mind that when you update your font, you have to remove the > > cached version > > I removed the enteries in fonts/otf of the cache dir, is this enough? > Uploaded Pango output of the same string for comparison, http://khaled.djihed.com/context/ (Note: the dots are marks, not part of the base glyph; the dot is basemark and the haraka is mark). Thanks, Khaled > Khaled > > > > > 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Khaled Hosny > Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Problem with presentation module(s)
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 09 May '08

09 May '08

Hi all, I wanted to use a presentation module today, but it failed with my up-to-date minimals install (mkiv). I ended up on live-context trying: \usemodule[pre-14] \starttext Salut Nivers! \stoptext Also tried pre-01. Both fail with pdftex, xetex and luatex on the web + at home. Anything I miss? -- Jean

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French typesetting?
by Oliv 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, I'm new with ConTeXt. However, during my University years, I frequently used LaTeX. As I'm mostly writing in French, I'd like to know how to configure ConTeXt for the French typesetting. I've already tried the \mainlanguage [fr] switch but this doesn't seem to be enough. For example, it does not insert automatically a small space before the !?: punctuation symbols. So I'm looking for something more complete, like the Babel French or French LE packages worked with LaTeX. Thanks in advance for your help! Oliv

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[OT] discover
by luigi scarso 08 May '08

08 May '08

http://www.megite.com/discover/ Try metapost... -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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some bugs in tracker can be closed
by Peter Münster 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hello, Perhaps these bugs can be closed now: 53, 56, 60, 61, 65, 82 and 84 Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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withshade (mlib)
by Peter Rolf 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, there are some problems in combination with the 'withshade' operator in mlib. this must be patched in mp-mlib.mp (':=' instead of '='; too much lua ;) vardef define_circular_shade (expr a, b, ra, rb, ca, cb) = _defined_cs_ := _defined_cs_ + 1 ; _defined_cs_pre_ [_defined_cs_] := "cs" ; _defined_cs_post_[_defined_cs_] := "0 1 " & decimal shadefactor & " " & colordecimals ca & " " & ddecimal (a shifted shadeoffset) & " " & decimal ra & " " & colordecimals cb & " " & ddecimal (b shifted shadeoffset) & " " & decimal rb ; _defined_cs_ enddef ; vardef define_linear_shade (expr a, b, ca, cb) = _defined_cs_ := _defined_cs_ + 1 ; _defined_cs_pre_ [_defined_cs_] := "ls" ; _defined_cs_post_[_defined_cs_] := "0 1 " & decimal shadefactor & " " & colordecimals ca & " " & ddecimal (a shifted shadeoffset) & " " colordecimals cb & " " & ddecimal (b shifted shadeoffset) ; _defined_cs_ enddef ; i still get an error after this patch, because '_defined_cs_' is not increased somehow (donno why, not my day; cleared mem, remade formats). _defined_cs_pre_0 is of course undefined. [..] report >> mp terminal: ! Missing argument to withshade. <to be read again> define_linear_shade <*> ...,1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade (p,1,red,blue); ; >> unknown string _defined_cs_pre_0 ! Improper type. <to be read again> withpostscript withshade->...fined_cs_pre_[(EXPR0)]withpostscript ._defined_cs_post_[(EXPR0)] <to be read again> define_linear_shade <*> ...,1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade (p,1,red,blue); ; >> _defined_cs_post_0define_linear_shade ! Improper type. <to be read again> ( <*> ...1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade( p,1,red,blue); ; ! Extra tokens will be flushed. <to be read again> ( <*> ...1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade( p,1,red,blue); ; report >> mp error: unknown, no error, terminal or log messages [..] here the test code: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \null \startMPcode path p; p:= unitsquare xyscaled(10cm,1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade(p,1,red,blue); \stopMPcode \stoptext

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problem with columns and TABLE
by Peter Münster 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hello, In the following example, the bottom of the table is outside the page. How could this be solved? \starttext \input tufte \startcolumns[2] \bTABLE[split=yes] \dorecurse{50}{\bTR\bTD bla\eTD\eTR} \eTABLE \stopcolumns \stoptext TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Arranging into Signatures?
by Michael.Urban＠jpl.nasa.gov 07 May '08

07 May '08

(I am still using mkii, which I suspect may matter in this case) I am able to produce rather nice booklets on US Letter paper, printing double-sided two-up pages that fold into a booklet and using texexec --arrange to make it work properly. For documents longer than about 32 pages, it isn't really practical to fold in half. What would y'all recommend if I want to arrange the pages into signatures, each containing about 32 pages, that can then be somehow bound together? An external PDF rearranger might be an option, I suppose.

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TOC columns
by Paul Gideon Dann 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi there, I've got a table of contents for a document that's split into two large sections. I'm trying to display a centered heading for each section, and subsections listed in two columns underneath each section heading. Hopefully this illustrates something of what I'm trying to achieve: \midaligned{Section1} \startcolumns[n=2] Subsection1 ... \stopcolumns \midaligned{Section2} \startcolumns[n=2] Subsection1 ... \stopcolumns Does anyone know how to automate this for a table of contents? Thanks for any help :) Paul

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processing xml
by Roger Mason 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello, I have a document converted from rtf to xml that I'd like to attempt to typeset using Context. As a starting point I tried to follow the procedure in a document from the wiki: mag-0008-1.pdf "Dealing with XML". Having copied the first example document and stylesheet from that article and generated sample-1.fx, I run: texexec --pdf --use=fx --xml sample-1.fx but it ends with: (/usr/local/context_minimal/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (/usr/local/context_minimal/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii)) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded system : module fx not found ) systems : system commands are enabled ) * I installed the minimal today from the wiki to be up to date before posting. Probably something has changed in the four years since mag-0008-1.pdf was written. If some kind soul would point me in the right direction I'll be very grateful. Roger

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How to define my own list entry?
by Zhichu Chen 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi everybody, I'm just writing a module to typeset the traditional Chinese books. Here is the thing: I use page-arrangement to put like 15 pages on one page or actually 30 pages on one page in a double-sided mode (I mean page 1 and page 2---which contain 15 mini-pages each---are on the same page), and yes I want to make a table of contents and some PDF bookmarks. But having searched the list, I find that I should use texexec --arrange file.tex to compile the file and get the real page number. That's not what I want. Because if I get one chapter on the second page, the page number is 31 rather than 2 which I really want it to be. And so do the bookmarks behave. If I click the bookmark of the first chapter, it will go to the 31st page of the PDF file if it has page 31. I don't really like the mess. I know it's normal, but I would like to know if there's any way to write the page counters I defined to the .tui or .tuo file so that I can totally handle them and display them on the contents and make the bookmarks not crazy any more. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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bachotex
by Hans Hagen 07 May '08

07 May '08

for mac and windows users ... http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/bachotex2008/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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ConTeXt on MikTeX broken
by Mojca Miklavec 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hello, some time ago some MikTeX users have complained that ConTeXt doesn't work on MikTeX. It seems to be a problem with MikTeX itself since this workaround seems to solve the problem, at least temporary: ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" texexec (But apparently there are not many MikTeX users on the list anyway. Else more would have complained.) Mojca

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MetaPost 1.004 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 06 May '08

06 May '08

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ This release will also be available from CTAN soon, and it will be included in the next TeXLive. The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. The win32 package is intended for texlive or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2007. These executables will *not* work for miktex, sorry. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of the message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 1.004: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * The picture color component commands misbehaved in 1.003: the current (default) colormodel was not taken into consideration, so all colors had to be explicit for "redpart" etc. to work. (this bug is the one broke the graph.mp package) In 1.004 for "defaulted" colors, the suitable value in the current (default) colormodel is returned without any errors. This change also reverts to silently defaulting a 'black' color when asking for the redpart etc. of an object that cannot be colored at all. * The picture color component commands misbehaved in 1.003 in a different manner also: the defaults for uninitialized CMYK color picture parts were still assuming 'black' was defined as (1,1,1,1) instead of as (0,0,0,1). * The macro Gwithpc_ in the graph.mp package did not work properly with non-rgb colormodel objects. * plain.mp has a new macro, 'colorpart', that returns the color parts of a graphical object within a picture in a form suitable for feeding it back to 'withcolor'. * The latest kpathsea library from TeXLive is included. * There is now a separate manual for the boxes package (mpboxes.pdf). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, May 1, 2008.

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Font features not always working
by Wolfgang Schuster 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi, the features from OpenType fonts are not accesable for all fonts, I tried to use my old test case for Microsofts Cambria fonts and none of the features did work, also kerning is disabled. I put the files with the result from last year and the latest stable online. http://schuster.wolfgang.googlepages.com/files I saw this effect also in a few other fonts where I was unable to select features in the font like oldstyle or smallcaps. Wolfgang

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ConTeXt Minimals & NixoS
by Gour 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hello! Soon I plan to move to NixOS (http://nixos.org/) distro which uses purely functional package manager (Nix) and does not allow 'destructive' updates which happen with e.g. ConTeXt Minimals and rsync. I'd like to use Luatex and due to its rapid development I am interested to know whether it would be feasible to do rsync locally and then provide Minimals 'snapshot' ? (the question is how to deploy luatex via Minimals'distro'?) Anything what can be done to help with Minimals? Sincerely, Gour

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Natural Tables, backgroundcolor, and frames
by Brian R. Landy 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi, I actually posted this last summer, but never got a reply and did not have a chance to follow up. When using natural tables, a cell with backgroundcolor enabled will overwrite the topframe/rightframe from the cell to the left/above. A workaround could be to always use topframe/leftframe. However this workaround is not possible with tables with split=repeat that span multiple pages, since you cannot know which rows on pages beyond the first for which you should set topframe=on. The below code demonstrates the problem for color w/ bottomframe specified for the header -- \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[ice][r=0.867, g=0.945, b=0.973, s=0.9] \starttext \bTABLE[split=repeat,frame=off,background=color] \bTABLEhead \bTR[bottomframe=on] \bTH A \eTH \bTH B \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{25}{\bTR[backgroundcolor=ice] \bTD a \eTD \bTD b \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD a \eTD \bTD b \eTD \eTR} eTABLEbody \eTABLE \stoptext I tested this at http://live.contextgarden.net. Does anyone have a solution? One thought I had was to insert a very thin row (with height set to rulethickness) at the bottom of the header, but with split=repeat it appears that the table forces a minimum height to a row, so it is too tall. Thanks, Brian

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reference manual for cont-en.lua
by Peter Münster 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hello, Is there a reference manual for the functions in cont-en.lua? Or just a function index? There are really a lot of nice functions, for example table.serialize(), for the every-day usage! Anyway, even without reference: thanks for these tools! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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defineitemgroup interferes with item reference
by Sanjoy Mahajan 03 May '08

03 May '08

I cannot figure out the error in the following nested itemization with a reference. Is it a bug or am I overlooking something? Here is the smallest example I could make. Strangely, if I change the startproblemlist to startitemize and stopproblemlist to stopitemize, all is well. \defineitemgroup[problemlist] \starttext \startproblemlist \item Drag \startitemize \item[ref] blah \stopitemize \stopproblemlist \stoptext I'm using context 2008.01.28 21:28 (mkii), Debian GNU/Linux 'unstable' for i386, and the 2008.04.27 version on the Garden gives the same error. The error is ! Undefined control sequence. <write> ...realfolio }{\relax \@@opitemizesymbol1 \relax .?} <inserted text> }\endwrite \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...agebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... ... l.14 \stoptext -Sanjoy `Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.' --African Proverb

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headers and pagenumbering
by Henning Hraban Ramm 03 May '08

03 May '08

Hello again, just trying to understand some remaining issues with my latest project. --- startcode --- \starttext % Setups \setuppagenumbering[ alternative=doublesided, location={header,right}, strut=yes, state=stop] % chapter title in the header, % but not on first page of chapter % pagina also in the header, always \setupheader[text][state=stop] \setupheadertexts[text][chapter][pagenumber] \setuphead[chapter][header=high] % Content % some firstmatter stuff left out \setuppagenumbering[state=start] % table of contents % without header, without pagina % but page numbering starts here { \setuppagenumbering[location=] \title{Inhalt} \placecontent \page } %\page % too late! \setupheader[text][state=start] \chapter{10 \times\ Tufte} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte} \stoptext --- stopcode --- (1) % or 0? ;-) I struggled how to leave out the pagina on the ToC page, no setups seemed to work. I just reckognized that I need the \page inside of the braced area. (2) How can I leave out the chapter header on the first page of a chapter, but keep the page number? (Probably simple?) (3) One can "hide" the page number with "location=", but the header on the first page of a chapter with "header=high". Is there any logic behind that? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Greek module
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 03 May '08

03 May '08

I managed to install the greek module. Here is where it is placed: adsm@adsm:/etc/texmf/tex/context/third> ls t-ancientgreek adsm@adsm:/etc/texmf/tex/context/third> cd t-ancientgreek/ adsm@adsm:/etc/texmf/tex/context/third/t-ancientgreek> ls fonts t-ancientgreek.mkiv t-oldgreek.tex type-agr.mkiv t-ancientgreek.mkii t-ancientgreek.tex type-agr.mkii type-agr.tex adsm@adsm:/etc/texmf/tex/context/third/t-ancientgreek> adsm@adsm:~> kpsewhere t-ancientgreek.tex /etc/texmf/tex/context/third/t-ancientgreek/t-ancientgreek.tex The point now is that I need to build the fonts (or build the metric =20 files of the fonts). So need to use texfont, am I right? One mandatory =20 argument is the vendor's name. Which name should I type for GFSDidot, =20 GFSPorson, Ibycus, Gentium? Another issue: Xetex says repeatedly (as you can see on the attached file) ! Undefined control sequence. l.5 \beginOLDTEX I ask if there is no compatibility between Xetex and greekmodule can I =20 use Context with unicode (utf8) input (the manual which I suppose is =20 quite outdated says Context expects pure ASCII input)? Thanks for your help. Armando Martins

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strange effect of "columns"?
by Yvon Henel 03 May '08

03 May '08

hello all I'm using a layout which enables placement on a grid. I have on a page first a figuretext then a columns environment. When I look at the pdf I see clearly (the grid is on) that there are still 13 void lines between the end of the columns and the end of the text area but I can't put anything there and it works as if there were a \page[yes] (which is NOT there, definitely). Just in case, here is the beginning of the log file <from the log> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=cont-en 2007.5.8) 3 MAY 2008 19:30 entering extended mode %&-line parsing enabled. (/TeX/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) **atc06.tex emergencyend (./atc06.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2007.5.8 int: english/english </from the log> Could anybody give some piece of advice? -- Yvon Henel

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Minimum file length.
by John Culleton 03 May '08

03 May '08

I am writing an e-book where pdf file length is an issue. For the minimal "Hello world" file I get the following lengths: tex+dvips+ps2pdf 2820 pdftex 5630 texexec 22,173 The only thing I added to the last test was the \starttext and \stoptext tags. The dvips etc. test defaulted to pdf 1.2, the other two to pdf 1.4. I don't doubt that with more text the counts would be more similar. Still the fourfold increase between the second test and the third is a stunner. The e-book must be limited to 2 megs per the publisher. Just fyi -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

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