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is it possible to produce PDF with version < 1.3
by Yvon Henel 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

hello all the pdf I've produced declares to be PDF v1.5 which seems to be unreadable if the acrobat version is not 8 Is it possible to demand an older version of PDF for the result of a compilation with texexec or does it depend on the ConTeXt features used? As always, any hint would be greatly appreciated. -- Yvon Henel

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luatex and context for Debian
by Norbert Preining 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Dear all, I have updated luatex and context so currently I can even run MkIV documents ;-) Debian/sid users should have them already. Debian/etch users should get luatex 0.20.2-1 from deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex/ Currently I have only i386 packages, but will build amd64 for etch soon. And maybe powerpc builds can be organized. For context 2007.12.18-1 please add deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/ Just for completeness, it is good to have: texlive: deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ tl2007/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ src/ latin modern: deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ lmodern/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ lmodern/ For Ubuntu users of the development version (i.e., that tracking sid more or less) luatex can be found at deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex-sid/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex-sid/ Please comment if you find something missing. Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HASSOP (n.) The pocket down the back of an armchair used for storing two-shilling bits and pieces of Lego. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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math too big when in small "contexts"
by Jesse Alama 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Consider an example like the following: \definestartstop [extract] [style=small] \starttext \startextract As you can see, the $M$ Math is too big. \stopextract \stoptext When typeset, the math M is bigger than the capital M in "Math" following it. What might be going on? Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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\useURL problem.
by John Culleton 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

If I use e.g.: \useURL[a][http://www.creativemindspress.com]\from[a] it works but if I use \useURL[a][http://www.creativemindspress.com/bkpckg.htm ]\from[a] I get an error message. Yet the second form is a valid url. Any suggestions? -- John Culleton

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\useURL third parameter
by John Culleton 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

I find in the wiki examples of \useURL. The third parameter is however a mystery to me. What is it used for? -- 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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non-typographic apostrophe
by Santy, Michael 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

How do I include a non-typographic apostrophe in ConTeXt? If I type ' (U+0027), it is automatically converted to a typographic (directional) apostrophe. Cheers, Mike

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register
by Steffen Wolfrum 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hi, for fine-tuning the TOC I use e.g. ... \writebetweenlist [section] {\def\TOCstyle{\switchtobodyfont[9pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=11.15pt]}} ... for adjusting the vertical space and thus the page breaks. Is is possible to do something similar to the register? Steffen

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to obtain glyphs in marvosym.pfb
by Yvon Henel 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

hello all <summary of previous episodes> I begin to be able to use utopia-expert fonts thanks to the fourier tricks located in the different type-*.enc. My previous work with TeXfont has not been entirely useless for it has helped me to understand what I needed to use the available material which gives access to utopia-expert. I would seize the opportunity to thank all the people who made available the howtos on ConTeXt, the wiki and so on. And also those who answered my first questions on this list, even if I choose not to follow all their recommendations ;-) To say the truth I've already devoted the last three days in learning how to use ConTeXt and cannot envisage to swap to LuaTeX before some time. </summary of previous episodes> But alas I've got a new problem which I state hereafter: I've tried this: \definesymbol [Telefon][\getglyph{umvs}{\char84}] because umvs.tfm is in the marvosym directory but it doesn't work. I've also tried marvosym (because there is a marvosym.pfb) instead of umvs but to no avail. I've succeeded nonetheless in obtaining the glyphs of fourier-orns with \definefontsynonym [Fourier-Ornements] [fourier-orns] [encoding=ec] \definesymbol [lefthand][\getglyph{Fourier-Ornements}{\char116}] Is it because I need to load a map or something? Any hint would be greatly appreciated Many thanks to all -- Yvon Henel

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\useattachment: Embedding files in PDFs
by Tobias Burnus 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hi all, I can use \useattachment to embed/attach files in a PDF file. I can use: \useattachment[whatever][title][newname][test.tex] \attachment[whatever] This creates an attachment with the description "title" and the name "test.tex". However, how can I set the author/subject? (Shown in tool tip of the annotation symbol; it is shown above the description; actually subject is enough for me.) Additionally, I miss the file size and possibly the modification date for the attachments; they are often handy to have. Is is possible to associate an embedded file stream with the document itself without creating an annotation symbol as with \attachment in ConTeXt? (The PDF spec allows this; cf. e.g. 3.10.3 in the PDF spec and http://www.microtype.com/showcase/EmbedFiles.pdf for an example PDF file.) Tobias

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installing expert font, pb with texfont
by Yvon Henel 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

hello all I try to follow "My Way" of April 2005 "Installing Expert Fonts" by Idris Samawi Hamid, which is really clear, to install my own version of utopia-expert. I am now at the TeXfont stage and I've got two strange errors 1/ TeXfont complain about a missing texteuro 2/ hungarumlaut is in fact a right curly brace "}" which would give curious results in hungarian :) I've followed the guide step by step and the only difference I can spot is that the author refers to a "texnansi-lm.enc" which does not exist in my TeXlive 2007 and that I have used a "lm-texnansi.enc" as base file. Any hint would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks to all -- Yvon Henel

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cheatsheet for metafun?
by Maurício 04 Jan '08

04 Jan '08

Hi, Does anyone know of a nice 1 or 2 page cheatsheet for metafun or metapost? I've just started learning it and something like that would be usefull. Thanks, Maurício

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nested tables?
by Yvon Henel 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hello again, I would like to nest a table inside a table, something like this: \starttable[|c|c|] \NC {\bf ATout Choeur} \NC {\starttable[|c|] \NC Number 2008--1\FR \NC january 2008\LR \stoptable}\MR \NC {\tfa Something} \NC \LR \stoptable but 1/ I would like the top of the first cell of the first row to be aligned with the top of the second one (which contains the nested table); 2/ it seems that it does not work when the layout is set up with "grid=yes" If the answer to the second question is "Effectively, it can't work in such a layout", what could be a way of obtaining what I want? As always, any hint would be greatly appreciated Many thanks to all -- Yvon Henel

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escaping filenames with externalfigure
by Santy, Michael 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Is there a way to escape special characters in filenames passed to externalfigure. I'm encountering the situation where users are choosing images that may contain brackets or curly braces (e.g., flower[1].jpg or flower{1}.jpg). If I pass filename containing these characters directly to externalfigure, the closing bracket is mistaken for the end of the filename. \externalfigure[flower{1}.jpg] % works \externalfigure[flower[1].jpg] % doesn't work I then tried to define a variable that holds the filename and pass that variable to externalfigure, but it ran into problems with curly braces. \def\myimagefilename{flower[1].jpg} \externalfigure[\myimagefilename] % works \def\myimagefilename{flower{1}.jpg} \externalfigure[\myimagefilename] % doesn't work Does anyone have any idea how I could handle arbitrary filename inputs that contain brackets and curly braces? Cheers, Mike

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ConTeXt-ifying Kile
by Matija Šuklje 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hullo, I've already mentioned that Kate/Kwrite and with that also Kile have a working ConTeXt syntax highlighting file available on kde-files.org What I'm trying to do now is including ConTeXt commands autocompletion in Kile. What I would need for that is a list of the commands (see attachment for more info). I seem to recall someone mentioned a texexec command to list all of these. This would be of great help to me and all the (future) Kile users. I can then edit the .cwl file myself and bug the Kile devs to include it — all I need is (how to get) the list of the ConTeXt commands. Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje

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bug in \setfontfeature
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Dear consortium, check this out: ============================================== % engine=luatex \definefontfeature [oldstyle] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=latn,onum=yes,tnum=yes] \setfontfeature{oldstyle} \starttext 1234567890 \startitemize \item test \stopitemize \stoptext ============================================== log: ============ error: ...onTeXt/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1890: attempt to index local 'shared' (a nil value) . \dolistitem ...tyle \c!color {\listitem }\fi \fi } \ifconditional \fittinglis... \complexdoitemgroupitem ...obreak \fi \dolistitem \relax \ifconditional \pac... <to be read again> t l.13 \item t est ============ 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 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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old style nums
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Dear gang, What is the official way to get old style numerals in 11pt in mkiv? I'm just using lm. Thnx in advance! Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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How to use utopia font?
by Yvon Henel 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

hello all, I'm new with ConTeXt even if I know some TeX and LaTeX already. Here is my question: I would like to use utopia (with expert fonts) as my default rm. I've got all the files required for a LaTeX usage (with fourier.sty) and it works ok. I have found some fourier.map and fourier-utopia-expert.map in my TeXlive under /texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context and /texmf-dist/fonts/map/fourier/. I've tried what I've understood of the manuals but I can't figure out how to call correctly the font. Any hint will be appreciated. Thanks to all -- Yvon Henel

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ppchtex german language compiling problems
by Martin Scholz 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hi there, I'm new to ConTeXt and found out how nice it is to construct coverpages. So it would be nice to have an opportunity to include the whole procedure into an LaTeXe environment. As far as I already read up to now there is now possibility. But today I think I found a bug in the german version of ppchtex. I used the following little script to set an example formula. The used code is the following: \verwendemodule[pictex,chemie] \starttext \stellechemieein[breite=passend,oben=1500,unten=3500] \startchemie \chemie[ONE,Z0,DB1,SB3,SB7,Z3,Z7,MOV1,Z0,SB1,SB3,Z3,MOV1,Z0,DB1,SB3,Z3,MO V1,Z0,SB3,SB7,Z3,Z7][C,H,H,C,H,C,H,C,H,H] \textunter{1,3-Butadieen} \stopchemie \stoptext with the following commands I got the same errormessages. texexec --dvi --mainlanguage=de chemie.tex texexec --ps --mainlanguage=de chemie.tex texexec --pdf --mainlanguage=de chemie.tex texexec --mainlanguage=de chemie.tex The resulting errormessage is the following: TeXExec | processing document 'chemie.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file chemie.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1016 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-de This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./chemie.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2007.12.29 int: german/german Sprache : Sprache de ist aktiv system : cont-new geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii)) system : cont-old geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) Fliesstext : 12pt rm ist geladen Sprache : Trennmuster en->ec:ec->1->2:2 uk->ec:ec->2->2:2 de->texnansi: texnansi->3->2:2 de->ec:ec->4->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:2 fr->ec:ec->6-> 2:2 es->ec:ec->7->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:2 nl->ec:ec->9->2:2 it->texna nsi:texnansi->10->2:2 it->ec:ec->11->2:2 deo->ec:ec->12->2:2 geladen spezielles : tex,postscript,rokicki geladen system : chemie.top geladen (./chemie.top check : Fehlendes '=' nach 'de' in Zeile 8 (@@lade) spezielles : lade Definitionsdatei dvi (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-dvi.tex) spezielles : tex geladen spezielles : lade Definitionsdatei ps (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-ps.tex) spezielles : tex,postscript geladen spezielles : lade Definitionsdatei tr (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-tr.tex) spezielles : tex,postscript,rokicki geladen ) systems : system commands are disabled system : Modul pictex geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/m-pictex.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/thrd-pic.tex)) system : Modul chemic geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/m-chemic.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/ppchtex.tex ppchtex : using PiCTeX and MetaPost )) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/sort-def.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) systems : begin file chemie at line 4 [MP as EPS ./chemie-mpgraph.4000] [MP color conversion ./chemie-mpgraph.4000 ! Argument of \dodohandleMPcolor has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \includeMPasEPS ...\the \!!heightb }\doinsertfile }\wd \scratchbox \!!widthb... \loadMPgraphic ...Pgraphics \insertMPfile {#1}{#2} \fi } \doloadcurrentMPgraphic ...\currentMPgraphic }{#1} \deallocateMPslot \current... \getMPdrawing ...Pgraphic \loadcurrentMPgraphic {} \deallocateMPslot \current... ... l.10 \stopchemie Would be nice if somebody has an idea how to solve the problem or where something went wrong in the code. Another question is how I could get ppchtex to work in a LaTeXe-environment. Would be nice if there also would be the possibility to load the german version. Thanks to all for there help and have a happy new year everybody. Martin

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Is contextgarden.net down?
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hello, Is contextgarden.net down? I cannot access it. Vyatcheslav

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logos in luatex
by Idris Samawi Hamid 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Dear consortium, Logos blow up in luatex (example below). Is there a workaround, or another method that I should use? Best wishes Idris ========================= % engine=luatex \setuphead[title][after={\placelogos[ijss]}] \definelogo[ijss][footer][left][command=$\aleph$] \starttext \title{Test} \stoptext ========================= layout : calculating logospace ! LuaTeX error ...onTeXt/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/attr-ini.lua:262: stack overflow. \finalizeobjectbox ...s_page(tex.box[\number #1])} \finalizeshipoutbox ...ctbox \finalizedshipoutbox \hbox {\ctxlua {states.flu... \actualshipout ...0\hbox {\finalizeshipoutbox {#1} }\setbox \scratchbox \hbox... \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.9 \stoptext -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Scribus 1.3.4 and hz
by luigi scarso 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

I just discovered this old pages http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Better_Justification_in_1.3.4 I was not able to install scribus 1.3.4 (it's a devel version, ) but it seems that 1.3.5 is arriving. -- luigi ... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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What's the ps_name of AdobeMingStd-Light?
by Zhichu Chen 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Hi, I searched the mail list for a while and I got that if I didn't specify the font file, it will not be embeded and Acrobat Reader will just use its own fonts to show the characters. I want to make some Chinese documents and I think if I don't embed any fonts, it will be much smaller than it used to be. And there is a cool font AdobeMingStd-Light.otf coming along with Acrobat Reader so I wish I can use it. I converted it to ttf and then tfm files (I don't know whether it is legal) and write the map file like: ================================ uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-00 "Adobe Ming Std" " Unicode00Encoding ReEncodeFont " <uni-00.enc ================================ I think the first column is for the tfm files, and I do get the uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-00.tfm to uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-ff.tfm files. And the second column is for the PS name of the font. I really don't know how to write it because it has spaces in it, and when I replaced it with another PS name that has no spaces or other special characters in it, say SimSun as a common Simplified Chinese font in Windows, it worked fine. So, any suggestions? -- 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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Happy New Year!!!
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Dear ConTeXters, Happy New Year! Be healthy and wealthy! ;) Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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[important] ConTeXt Meeting: call for talks & participants
by Mojca Miklavec 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Hello, I will send a more elaborate mail shortly (with a longer explanation), but to put it into a few words, I need to know: a) a rough estimate of the number of people who are planning to come to Bohinj from 20th-25th August b) [REALLY IMPORTANT] some preliminary talks held by people with any kind of academic references For a), I will put a web form online within a few days (so no hurry until then) For b), I would like to ask people (apart from Hans and Taco, who will get another mail) who have any kind of academic references (being a professor, having some reasonable citation index, obtaining any kind of grants (Idris?), being editor of any journals, being a Nobel laureate :) or whatever else) and are planning to come, to drop me a private mail. I will try to apply for funding (for organisation of scientific meeting) to lower the fee. The chances to get that funding is low, but still worth trying, and the number & quality of foreign speakers is one of criteria to be able to get the funding. The meeting will last for 5 days (4 full days, 5 times sleeping there), the fee most probably won't exceed 200 EUR (including accomodation, food, conference materials and at least one half-day or full-day excursion), and there are 4 low-cost airports around (*Ljubljana - Easyjet & Wizzair, Maribor, Trieste, Klagenfurt). Thanks a lot, Mojca

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Visualization module and mkiv
by Wolfgang Schuster 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Hi, the visualization module did at the moment not work in mkiv, the fault is the unbalanced \start/stopcolor command in the definition of \fakerule. The current definition is: \def\fakerule#1% {\strut % \startcolor[fakerulecolor]% \iffakebaseline \vrule\!!height1.25ex\!!depth-.05ex\!!width#1% \kern-#1% \vrule\!!height-.05ex\!!depth .25ex\!!width#1% \else \vrule\!!height1.25ex\!!depth .25ex\!!width#1% \fi \stopcolor \allowbreak} Wolfgang

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bug in \doattributed[box|copy]
by Peter Rolf 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hi, compilation still breaks in case of a vbox. Minimal example attached. Best wishes and a happy new year, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------- Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall there was this one: "Matters of great concern should be treated lightly." Master Ittei commented, "Matters of small concern should be treated seriously." [..] (Hagakure) % engine=luatex \starttext \enableattributeinheritance \setbox\scratchbox\vbox{foo} \attributedbox\scratchbox \stoptext

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default engine for texexec
by Peter Münster 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hello, What methods do exist, to change the default engine for texexec (for example luatex instead of pdftex)? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Luatex startup difficulties
by Willi Egger 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

Hi, It has taken quite some time. ... now I would like to get started with Luatex. I have installed justtex, upgraded context to the latest version, upgraded the binaries to the latest version (Version snapshot-0.20.2-2007121720 (Web2C 7.5.6)). luatools --generate texexec --lua --make --all texexec --make --all My testfile is: \enableregime[utf] \starttext There is text. \stoptext ConTeXt ver: 2007.12.26 20:00 MKIV fmt: 2007.12.26 int: english/ english ... This went wrong: ...luatex/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/font- otf.lua:1759: table index is nil . <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.1 Humble, my stupid question is: what is wrong here? Willi

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migrating to ConTeXt
by Gour 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

Hi! Recently I switched to emacs editor and at considered to leave lyx. At the same time, I'm again considering ConTeXt (was playing with it some years ago when it was receiving utf-8 support) - after reading about luaTeX & MkIV development. Have several questions, so before firing them up, I'd like to ask about general etiquette on the list: should I throw them all in one email or divide as one_question/email ? Sincerely, Gour

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strutted pars?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Dear gang, We can use \struttedbox to force an eg, large expression to obey the surrounding interlinespace: ======================= {blah blah \struttedbox{\tfc blah blah}} blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah \struttedbox{\tfc blah blah}} blah blah blah blah blah blah ======================= but this has the drawback that the box cannot be broken across lines. Is there a way to force the interlinespace to remain constant and ignore the size of grouped insertions with big font sizes? 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 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Permission Policy
by Hans van der Meer 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I ran into trouble with "luatools --generate" which does not seem to work with "sudo luatools --generate" The seem applies to texmfstart and friends. Why this manco? I want to keep my system as safe as possible especially regarding applications and stuff that takes a lot of time installing (like the texlive system). Therefore I have this in an administrator account (root:wheel). Cannot ConTeXt cope with such a scheme? All it has to do is honor sudo, apparently. Hans van der Meer

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Luatex installation
by Hans van der Meer 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

I have read the instructions for installing luatex on MacOSX so clearly spelt out by Thomas Schmitz, but they leave a question open. Thomas advises to set TEXMFCACHE=/tmp with the argument that it then is cleared each time the computer is restarted. What is unclear to me if this means that on each restart some explicit reinitialzation has to be done or are the data in TEXMFCACHE suitable candidates for thrashing at all times? Hans van der Meer

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quotation/blockquote bug
by Idris Samawi Hamid 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

Dear syndicate, There is a bug in \quotation and/or \blockquote (pdf attached): there is a spurious dbl-quote mark at the end of the par that only occurs when \quotation is invoked. Please advise, workarounds welcome :-) Best wishes Idris ============================ % engine=luatex \starttext \startblockquote The now also must be indivisible: that is, the now in the essential and primary sense in which the now is inherent in all time; not, indeed, the now in the derived sense of a period of time…This now, which functions as the border between both past and future, must, indeed, be identical….If the now were separate limits [of both the past and the future], there would be a time between them, since every [real] continuum must have something of the same kind between its limits; and the time between them would be divisible, since we have proved that all time is divisible. Accordingly, the now would be divisible [and it would not, then, be the now we are talking about]….Thus, it is clear that time includes something indivisible, which we call a \quotation{now.} Obviously, too, nothing can be moving during a now. \stopblockquote \stoptext ============================ -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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lost colors (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Hi, can anyone with an actual *luatex* test, if this fails (live ConTeXt is broken). My binaries are from the minimals at contextgarden (pragma tree), ConTeXt is the latest beta. \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \newbox\TESTbox \setbox\TESTbox\hbox{Silence is sexy.} \hbox{{\color[red]Silence is sexy.}{\color[blue]Silence is sexy.}} \hbox{{\color[red]\copy\TESTbox}{\color[blue]\box\TESTbox}}% no colors with mkiv \stoptext Best wishes, Peter

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Re: [NTG-context] \sh@ft in luatex
by Hans Hagen 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Two things: > > 1. The \sh@ft macro (from TeXBook, p.~356) does not work in luatex (see > test file, pdftex works); > > 2. In any case: Is there a better way to do this (see test file)? as taco mentioned ... most open type fonts have no italic correction automatically figuring it out is not always an option, compare (in pdftex): \sl \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A \bs \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A \it \the\fontdimen1\font\the\dimexpr1em\relax \`A \'A i can imagine that we start building a database with additional font parameters 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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Update mk.pdf
by luigi scarso 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Hans has updated mk.pdf > (btw, this phenomena is mentioned in mk.pdf, of which there is an > updated version) > > Hans Among others things, XML section, even if under construction . -- luigi http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/Merry_Christmas_2007 .... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Keeping up-to-date under TeXLive
by Joel C. Salomon 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

My new Ubuntu installation includes TeXLive version 2007-10. Is there a way for me to keep the ConTeXt part of this up-to-date with current (stable) versions? Considering that I have XeTeX 0.996, do I want to, or should I stick with what currently works? --Joel

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luatex not compiling
by Hans van der Meer 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

There appears to be a problem with the compilation of luatex on MacOSX 10.5.x, but I might have found (at least one of) the cause. On my system (MacOSX10.5.1) complation halted with: luatexextra.c:408 error: storage size of 'sigstk' isn't known. Further exploring showed the cause of this: SIGSTKSZ is not defined. As it turns out SIGSTKSZ is defined in signal.h and in luatexextra.c read with #include <signal.h>, assuming signal.h resides in /usr/include/signal.h. That however, is not the case on this version of MacOSX: it sits in / usr/include/sys/signal.h. Probably changing the code into: #include <signal.h> #ifndef _SIGNAL_H_ #include <sys/signal.h> #endif might help, but I have not tested this (some of the pie should be left for Taco c.s. ;-) Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] lost colors (mkiv)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 25 Dec '07

25 Dec '07

Hi, Your test example works well. I have a few days old binaries from pragma folder too, downloaded and set up with my Windows installer http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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xetex/luatex & AUCTeX
by Gour 25 Dec '07

25 Dec '07

Hi! Is it possible to 'teach' AUCTeX to use xetex and/or luatex as TeX engine for ConTeXt? I see entry for Omega, but all the attempts for luatex/xetex do not work :-( Sincerely, Gour

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conditionals and font switches
by Idris Samawi Hamid 25 Dec '07

25 Dec '07

Dear gang, Consider a control sequence \MyCS. It has three possible definitions: \def\MyCS{<def1>}, \def\MyCS{<def2>}, \def\MyCS{<def3>} What I would like is to define \MyCS once such that <def1> takes effect when \tf is invoked <def2> takes effect when \it is invoked <def3> takes effect when \bf is invoked something like (incorrect syntax but you'll get the point) \def\MyCS{% \if\it<def1> \else \if\bf<def2> \else <def3>} How can I do this> Any tips greatly appreciated! Happy Holidays! Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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luatex on x86_64
by Gour 25 Dec '07

25 Dec '07

Hi! I'm sold to luatex and plan to use it exclusively for all ConTeXt typesetting in order to help somewhat with testing it. However, I've some old lyx/latex stuff which needs to be migrated, so I'd prefer to keep my texlive installation for such stuff and having minimal ConTeXt installation to be able to typeset with luatex. There is pretty new PKGBUILd script for Arch Linux and I modified it a bit (see http://tinyurl.com/3yk6vw) in order to built luatex on x86_64. However, I see that build.sh.linux (for i386) and build.sh script differs, and the PKGBUILD created just /opt/texlive/bin/luatex executable. Not having access to i686 (i386) machine, I wonder what else is required to have working luatex installation? The content of /opt/texlive/bin/luatools script is: #!/bin/sh texmfstart luatools.lua "$@" Running "Hello world" example gives: gour@gaura-nitai ~/tmp> texexec --lua test.tex TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file test.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1079 TeXExec | tex engine: luatex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en the file 'luatools' is not found TeXExec | runtime: 0.308419 Here is the build() function from PKGBUILD: build() { cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver if [ "${CARCH}" = "i686" ]; then cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/build.sh.linux $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/build.sh fi ./build.sh --datadir=/opt/texlive || return 1 # Overwrite old files # make $PREFIX=$startdir/pkg/$pkgname-$pkgver install || return 1 install -d $startdir/pkg/opt/texlive/bin if [ "${CARCH}" = "i686" ]; then install -m 755 linux/texk/web2c/luatex $startdir/pkg/opt/texlive/bin else install -m 755 build/texk/web2c/luatex $startdir/pkg/opt/texlive/bin fi } Here are outputs from texexec & luatex: gour@gaura-nitai ~/tmp> texexec --lua test.tex TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file test.top TeXExec | using randomseed 152 TeXExec | tex engine: luatex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en the file 'luatools' is not found TeXExec | runtime: 0.257507 gour@gaura-nitai ~/tmp> luatex test.tex This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.2-2007122417 (Web2C 7.5.6) I can't find the format file `luatex.fmt'! So, something is missing...any pointer for up-to-date doc (url) for installing/updating of minimal ConTeXt/luatex on x86_64 ? Sincerely, Gour

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Header unwanted on first page
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 25 Dec '07

25 Dec '07

Hi all, I can't seem to see something which is certainly obvious! I have this in my setups: \setupheadertexts [section] \setupheader [style=\ss\xii] \setuphead[section][style=bold] I don't want the header to appear on the first page, I tried various solutions but failed so far. Thanks for any good hint! -- Jean

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PDF table of contents
by Matija Šuklje 25 Dec '07

25 Dec '07

Hullo, I wonder how to generate a PDF with the built-in table of contents. I'm thinking in the same line as what 'hyperref' package did in LaTeX. Season's greetings, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje

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page numbers in Table of Contents, mismatch
by Saji N Hameed 25 Dec '07

25 Dec '07

Dear ConText gurus, I am faced with a new problem with the page numbering in the Table of Contents. In the appendices, I use: \setuppagenumbering [way=bychapter, chapternumber=yes, numberseparator=-] to get page numbers like A-15, B-24 ... etc However, the page numbers associated with Appendix 1 in the Table of Contents is like 1 Introduction 11 1.1 Goals of Research 11 1.2 Necessity of Research 11 A Real-time Monitoring of Intraseasonal Variations 15 B Drought Monitoring Based on Standardized Precipitation Index 24 I am wondering if there is a way to get ConText to write my TOC as: A Real-time Monitoring of Intraseasonal Variations A-15 B Drought Monitoring Based on Standardized Precipitation Index B-24 My document is structured as follows: \input layout \starttext \startfrontmatter \input HomePage \stopfrontmatter \placelist[chapter,section] \startbodymatter \input Chapter1 \input Chapter2 \stopbodymatter \startappendices \input Appendix1 \input Appendix2 \stopappendices \stoptext Thanks as always, saji -- Saji N. Hameed APEC Climate Center +82 51 668 7470 National Pension Corporation Busan Building 12F Yeonsan 2-dong, Yeonje-gu, BUSAN 611705 saji(a)apcc21.net KOREA

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preview-context
by Gour 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hi! I've asked on auctex ml about the prospects of getting preview-context, similar to preview-latex and here is the reply: "There are no ConTeXt users among the active developers (actually, there is not even much activity in the LaTeX area, but the status quo is rather more advanced). As long as that does not change, I don't see much of a point to talk vapour." (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auctex.general/2387) Since I plan to move to ConTeXt using AUCTeX, I'm interested to hear if there is some interest here (amongst emacs users) to have preview-context withing AUCTeX package? otoh, I'm interested if there is newer version of etexshow (Browser for ConTeXt commands) ? Sincerely, Gour

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Chemistry in lists
by Shen Chen 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hi all, I have some chemical formulae in chapter heading and figure captions, typeset with the chemic module. The chemic module always uses roman font as desired. When I include them in table of contents and list of figures, the chemical formulae appears in math italic font instead of roman font. See the following code for example. Chemic Manual mentioned using \rm but it doesn't seem to be the case. $\rm H_2O$ works fine in the list, but not \chemical{H_2O}. Any suggestions? Thank you. \usemodule[chemic] \starttext \writetolist[chapter]{}{ABC} \writetolist[chapter]{}{$H_2O$} \writetolist[chapter]{}{$\rm H_2O$} \writetolist[chapter]{}{\chemical{H_2O}} \completecontent \stoptext Regards, shenchen

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MKIV and XML documentation
by Johannes Graumann 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Dear all, What is currently the best source for documentation on mark iv's xml capabilities? Thanks, Joh

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Setting up a project
by Joel C. Salomon 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

I'm trying a fairly ambitious project to teach myself practical ConTeXt -- typesetting a book I'm writing. As per <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Project_structure>, I've created files for the project, environment, product, and component. The component file (preface.tex) is the only one with (dummy) content right now. Side questions: Does a project with a single product really require the full hierarchy? Is there a dummy layout I can put into the environment file to test the set-up? Now I want to set up the layout. An example of what I'm trying to achieve is at <http://typophile.com/files/Layout.pdf>, currently done in OpenOffice. I'm not yet asking about fonts; I just want to put the text in the correct places. It doesn't seem that 6×9 (inches) is a built-in size, so my environment file (env_firefly.tex) needs to look something like: \startenvironment env_firefly \definepapersize[sixbynine][ width=6in,height=9in, offset=???,scale=???] \setuppapersize[sixbynine][sixbynine] \setuplayout[... ...] \stopenvironment Do I need to define & name the paper size, or is putting it in the \setuplayout sufficient? What are the "offset" & "scale" in the paper size? I want to have 6″×9″ trim, inner margin of 48pt, outer margin 96pt, top margin 72pt, bottom margin 144pt for starters. Headers and footers, when they exist, are allocated 12 points height and are 12pt away from the text. (See the linked-to example.) I have read several of the manuals, I'm just having trouble putting it all together. Also, I'm not looking for a recipe but guides on developing the layout myself so I can understand it. Thanks, --Joel

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Announcement - Windows Installer 1.1
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hello, ANNOUNCEMENT Mojca and I have updated the Windows installer for context. http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalSet… It downloads latest distributive files, makes formats, and sets global OS vars. Tested with all engines. Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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