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\doifmode{mkiv}
by Johan Sandblom 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Is there a test for whether mkiv or mkii is being run? Something like \doifmodeelse{mkiv}{whatever} Johan -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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Re: [NTG-context] how to change 'figure 1.1' to '?? 1.1'
by Jeong Dalyoung 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Dear Mojca and Wolfgang, I am sorry to give you a unclear question. We usually write the chapter title "(a character) (chapter no) (a character) (chapter title)" and I know how to set chapter title as above form using setuplabel or setuphead. Your methods give me more choices. Then the \completecontent and \completeindex follows the above setup of chapters. My question was how to make the head title setup of contents and of indices free from the chapter setup? Now, I find that the prefix{"(a character) (chapter no) (a character)"} can be suppressed using "prefix=no" parameter in \setupcombinedlist for contents and indices. It seems to me that we may define a new format for contents and indices by using "command" in \setupcombinedlist. I'll test it soon. If there is a sample file for this, please let me know. It is really hard for me to follow ConTeXt's power. Thank you for the replies. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Re: [NTG-context] how to change 'figure 1.1' to '?? 1.1' (Mojca Miklavec)
by Dalyoung Jeong 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Dear Mojca, On Dec 8, 2007, at 3:35 AM, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: >> Yesterday, after I reinstalled TeXlive and updated ConTeXt, I got >> "kpathsea: >> Running mktextfm lmtypewriter10-regular " message. As a temporary >> method, I >> renamed mktextfm. > > Just change > MKTEXTFM = 0 > in texmf.cnf I am sorry that now I remembered what you said before about "mktextfm=0". I found it in the mail from you. After setting it, no error messages again. Thank you. lang-kor.tex is modified more by the help of people in KTUG. To make it more usable, I'd like to know a few things more. After defining \chapter in lang-kor, completecontent and completeindex follow the setup of chapter as following: "제 장 contents" or "제 no 장 index" (of course, contents and index are in korean) because \chpater{ch- title} produces in such a way, i.e., "제 ch-no 장 ch-title". But I'd like to write contents and indices in differently. I looked up \setupcombinedlist but I don't know how to make it happen. Is there any sample for this? Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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TeX ligatures in XeTeX/LuaTeX: ``who needs them''?
by Mojca Miklavec 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Hello, just wondering: how many ConTeXt-ers depend on ligatures such as: '' (double quote) and '' (two single quotes) -> right double quote `` -> left double quote ,, -> DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK or even more weird ones: !` -> inverted exclam ?` -> inverted question << -> LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET (never heard of that ligature) >> -> RIGHT POINTING GUILLEMET Some ligatures are handy indeed: -- -> endash --- -> emdash ' -> right single quote (I'm, isn't etc.) I'm posting that question to get some feedback about which ones are expected to work/are fundamental for XeTeX & LuaTeX, so that others might be dropped from default additional font features (for third-party fonts). (I'm thinking about replacing tex-text in XeTeX with something: - more minimalistic - compatible with mkiv. Of course, users are still free to provide "tex-text" mapping explicitely as it's probably going to hang aound forever, together with XeTeX itself.) Mojca

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showfont with xetex (syntax changed?)
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Dec '07

10 Dec '07

Hi, when in february 2006 I asked for an alternative to fontspec that could show me opentype features, Adam wrote: I find that the lcdf typetools are a tremendous help: otfinfo -f ~/Library/Fonts/WarnockPro-Regular.otf and I can test the features with: \showfont["Warnock Pro: +smcp"] Today this showfont-line doesn't work anymore: \definetypeface[oneliner][rm][Xserif][Warnock Pro][default] \starttext \oneliner Test WQG 0196 \showfont["Warnock Pro: +smcp"] \stoptext Someone knows what to do? Thanks, Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] "Semi-verbatim" - preserve whitespace - don't escape character
by dexterclarke＠Safe-mail.net 09 Dec '07

09 Dec '07

> Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > \startlines > verbatin text > \stoplines Thanks! That's almost perfect. I've noticed that space is still inserted after punctuation characters such as '.', ':' and '!'. Is it possible to disable this as well? I've read a little about category codes but I'm not entirely sure if that's what I should be using (perhaps ConTeXt provides a higher level macro for it?). __ dc

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gobbling previous space
by Idris Samawi Hamid 09 Dec '07

09 Dec '07

Dear gang, For some macro writing, I need a low-level command that will gobble the space before it so that ========= Here is some text.% \mycommand ========= is equivalent to ========= Here is some text. \mycommand ========= without the %. I'm sure there's a context command for this hidden somewhere... 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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"Semi-verbatim" - preserve whitespace - don't escape characters
by dexterclarke＠Safe-mail.net 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

Hi. I'm working on a document processor that has multiple backends for different output formats (XHTML, nroff, plain text, ConTeXt). The processor uses s-expression syntax with commands such as: (para "this is a paragraph") The various backends then convert this statement in their own way (using <p></p> tags in XHTML, for example). There is one command that allows rendering of external files based on whatever backend is selected: (render "file") The XHTML backend includes "file", escaping all 'illegal' characters such as <, >, & etc. The ConTeXt backend reads the file and also escapes characters, placing their TeX equivalent in the output - $\}$, $\backslash$ etc. Both backends place the contents of "file" directly in the output, they don't, for example, use the <object> tags in XHTML, or any ConTeXt file inclusion directives. This is desirable for many reasons that are out of scope for this post... The problem I am having is that one may do this: (para-verbatim (render "file")) The para-verbatim tag is meant to preserve whitespace in the output. For example, this becomes: <pre>contents of file</pre> in the XHTML output. Unfortunately, I've hit a wall when it comes to the ConTeXt equivalent: The ConTeXt backend reads in "file" and prints it to the output, escaping all reserved TeX characters, as mentioned earlier, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be the equivalent of: \preservewhitespace contents of file \stoppreservingwhitespace "\starttyping" is too heavy handed in that it also escapes characters rather than just preserving whitespace (they've already been escaped by my document processor, as mentioned earlier). What I need is a directive that says "preserve whitespace" but does not escape reserved TeX characters. Does any such thing exist in ConTeXt? Unfortunately, I'm inexperienced with TeX so I don't know how feasible this is. -- dc

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Howard Wilner - 1994 Ford Bronco
by Allison Wallock 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

Howard Wilner,The Ford Bronco is in the same category as Chevrolet's big Blazer and the GMC Yukon-somewhat aged but still selling to fans of the big, brawny V8powered four-wheelers. It's our impression that Ford has done a little more upgrading on the Bronco than either Chevrolet or GMC has done with its offerings. We tested an Eddie Bauer Edition and felt as though we just put on an old favorite pair of hunting boots. A word of caution: If you're looking for a 4WD sport utility to complement your suburban gentility, this probably isn't your vehicle. Bronco is a big, powerful off-roader that you have to clamber into. Although its road manners are tame enough, this vehicle is built for more than an occasional trip off the pavement. It also looks good. Like the Chevy K Blazer, the Bronco is a bit of a dinosaur. It's big, bulky, hard to climb into and somewhat outdated in looks and off-road chic. But the vehicle also has a staunch following who love its brawn, bulk and impressive power. Even on the most rugged trails of our test drive, the Bronco exhibited little body roll or choppiness. Add to this an interior that is comfortable, functional and pretty darn good-looking, and the package becomes even more attractive. http://automax-howardwilner.com/

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bug in new context/luatex?
by zs 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

Hi all. This simple code causes context/luatex to freeze on my linux box. Could anyone reproduce it to make sure the problem is not on my side. \starttext \starttable[|c|c|] \NC \NC \NC\AR \DC\DL\DR \NC \NC \NC\AR \stoptable \stoptext This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.0-2007120712 (Web2C 7.5.6) ConTeXt ver: 2007.12.06 22:52 MKIV fmt: 2007.12.7 int: english/english

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problem with \setupcombinedlist[content][alternative=c]
by Peter Münster 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hello, With luatex-0.20.0 and ConTeXt-2007.12.6 the \completecontent is messed up and the first paragraphs are supressed: % engine=luatex \setupcombinedlist[content][alternative=c] \starttext \completecontent \dorecurse{10}{ \section{sec} \input tufte \subsection{subsec} \input tufte \subsection{subsec} \input tufte \subsection{subsec} \input tufte } \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] how to change 'figure 1.1' to '?? 1.1'
by Dalyoung Jeong 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Dear Mojca and Wolfgang, Thank you for the comments on lang-kor.tex. > I didn't test, but I would say: forget the dirty hacks and simply > write > \setuplabeltext [\s!ko] [\v!figure=??] > It might not work in pdfTeX, but for XeTeX and LuaTeX it should do > the job. Once you do those changes, feel free to ask again if you > have problems (and don't forget to ask Hans to include the > translations). I modify the files following your advice. It removes the middle variable "\koencoding" and make the file simpler. And I don't need to use "\koencoding{\enableencoding[cjk- uni]}". It worked fine, also. But I'd like to use \setuphead for chapter, section, etc because our writing style of head is different from that of english. I uploaded it in KTUG board to be checked by them, since it may be need more corrections. Thank you again. By the way, do you completely resolve the "lmtypewriter10-regular" problem? which was discussed before in the list? Yesterday, after I reinstalled TeXlive and updated ConTeXt, I got "kpathsea: Running mktextfm lmtypewriter10-regular " message. As a temporary method, I renamed mktextfm. I confirmed that such font file is in texlive opentype font folder and lm*.map files in map/dvipdfm folder. Is there anything that I have to do more? I couldn't see the solution in the list. Thank you for reading. Best regards, Dalyoung

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booklet set up
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hello, I'm creating a textbook as a booklet (two A5 per A4), and have difficulties. 1) If I use imposition command \setuparranging, then Luatex doesn't process references. I know, there are workarounds, but I prefer to create A5 pages and then impose them using nice Acrobat plugin. However, I don't know how to make Luatex to process left and right pages differently (for future imposing). If I set "left margin", then it is really left through the document, but I need it to be on the right every second page, and vice versa. How to achieve it? (I tried 'mirrored' option in \setuppapersize, and got funny result) ;) 2) I was always scared by explanation of \showlayout on texshow: "Horizontal: (if singleside then outside is at right and inside is at left) =========== width => width of text area middle: automatic calculation consider A) params fit: automatic calculation consider A)+B) params dimension: cutspace should be 0 and is calculated according to backspace A) params: (\paperwidth=\backspace+\makeupwidth+\cutspace) backspace => width of inner margin cutspace => width of outer margin (if 0 then = backspace!) "... and so on. It looks like a program, not manual, and I never understood it, despite it explains very important concept, missed on Wiki -- 'fit' and 'middle' options. Can someone throw a light on these? Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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forbidden filenames in context?
by Roger Mason 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hello, I have two identical files, one named main.ctx.tex and the other tmp.ctx.tmp. The latter was made by copying the former. Both files contain just this: \starttext \stoptext %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: context %%% TeX-master: t %%% End: tmp.ctx.tex compiles fine, but main.ctx.tex fails with this error: system : main.ctx.top loaded (./main.ctx.top) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo) (./main.ctx.tuo ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \let \noshowargumenterror ->\let \expectedarguments \noexpectedarguments \dotripleempty #1->\noshowargumenterror \doifnextcharelse [{\dotripletestemp... <argument> ...oss \fileprefix fig:\externalfigure [dummy \ifundefined #1->\unless \ifcsname #1 \endcsname \mainreference ...ined {\r!cross \fileprefix #1#2} \ifcase \autocrossfilerefe... l.11 ...re [dummy}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::2}{2}{{1}{]}} ? x No pages of output. Are some filenames forbidden in Context? Puzzled, Roger

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Re: [NTG-context] backward compatibility [URGENT]
by Hans Hagen 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > Am 07.12.2007 um 10:06 schrieb Hans Hagen: > >> can you check the fonts being used? maybe older docs use ec and newer >> texnansi and kerning as well as ligs may differ > > > checking with acrobat the fonts actually used in the two pdfs gives both > the same result, no change: > > NimbusRomNo9L-Medi (embedded Subset) > Type: Type 1 > Encoding: Custom > NimbusRomNo9L-Regu (embedded Subset) > Type: Type 1 > Encoding: Custom > NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal (embedded Subset) > Type: Type 1 > Encoding: Custom > rtxmi (embedded Subset) > Type: Type 1 > Encoding: Built-in > > > > nevertheless the two logs also have differences regarding fonts: > > with version 2007.08.09: > > fonts : using map file: lm-texnansi > {/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-texnansi.map} > fonts : using map file: original-base > {/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base. > > map} > > > now: > > fonts : using map file: original-base > {/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base. > > map} > > > > Any idea? switch to ec encoding and see what happens ... in the past there were no texnansi cmr files (only pseudo ec == aer) 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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hyphen with \useURL
by Peter Münster 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hello, With luatex-0.20.0 and ConTeXt-2007.12.6 a hyphen is introduced in the following URL: % engine=luatex \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \useURL[ref][http://gaston/]\from[ref] \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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backward compatibility [URGENT]
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hi, re-typesetting a book (that was last set with ConTeXt ver: 2007.08.09) I had to see that several pages now have a different line- break (and so the page-break and the TOC and the index register are changed) ... quite a mess. I guess is not so easy to find out what changes in the ConTeXt source result in these changes now. So to continue work it will be probably better to downgrade again my ConTeXt. Is there an easy way to do this, like using sudo ctxtools -- updatecontext and use the respective files from the museum? Thanks, Steffen

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Unicode characters by number
by Maurício 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hi, Is it possible to enter an Unicode character in a Context file using the character Unicode number? How can I do that? Thanks, Maurício

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Hair space and non-breaking hyphen
by Maurício 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hi, I've seen two interesting Unicode characters that I would like to use: Hair space: U+200A (it's supposed to be a space that's small, used around emdashes sometimes). Non-breaking hyphen: U+2011 (an hyphen where the word is not supposed to be broken by hyphenation). I would like to know if I can use them in Context. Is Context going to respect non-breaking hyphens in hyphenation algorithms? Is hair space going to be what it is supposed to, no matter which font I use? Thanks, Maurício

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Verses
by Maurício 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

Hi, Do you guys have tips on how to typeset verses? There's an item for that on the wiki: wiki.contextgarden.net/Visuals but nobody filled it yet. If we collect a nice bunch of tips I can put them in the wiki. Thanks for your help, Maurício

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Re: [NTG-context] Verses
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hello, I have used these settings (it prevents verses from splitting, and makes an indent for chorus): \setupinterlinespace[line=1.5em] %(optional, but looks better) \definestartstop [verse] [before=\vbox\bgroup\startlines, after=\stoplines\egroup] \definestartstop [chorus] [before=\startnarrower\startlines, after=\stoplines\stopnarrower] but later (don't remember why) I used the following: \definestartstop [verse] [before=\blank\startlinecorrection\ruledvbox\bgroup\startlines, after=\stoplines\egroup\stoplinecorrection\blank] \definestartstop [chorus] [before=\blank\startnarrower\startlines, after=\stoplines\stopnarrower\blank] \setuplines[before=\nowhitespace,after=\nowhitespace] Usage example: \startverse I see ya blowin' me a kiss It doesn't take a scientist To understand what's going on baby If you see something in my eye Let's not over analyze Don't go too deep with it baby \stopverse \startverse So let it be what it'll be Don't make a fuss and get crazy over you and me Here's what I'll do I'll play loose Run like we have a day with destiny \stopverse I also vote for publishing verse setup (maybe not this exactly) at Wiki. I think that good setup should protect from breaking verses, emphasize choruses (if any), and don't introduce excessive vertical spacing. -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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bugged mkiv
by Hans Hagen 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

hi, there is a bug in the feature processer of the latest current mkiv (I added a verbose resolved but forgot something) so ... update ... (only if you're using mkiv) mkiv now also no longerloads the unic-* files (no need for that) i bet that some more bugs will show up -) 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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new release
by Thomas A. Schmitz 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Oops, I was too fast upgrading... luatex fails to produce format files on my system: luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.0-2007120515 luatools --ini --compile cont-en LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-en LuaTools | using library path : /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/ context/base LuaTools | using lua libraries: l-string.lua l-table.lua l-boolean.lua l-number.lua l-unicode.lua l-md5.lua l-os.lua l-io.lua l-file.lua l- dir.lua l-utils.lua l-tex.lua luat-lib.lua luat-inp.lua luat-tmp.lua luat-zip.lua luat-tex.lua LuaTools | using compiled initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "/usr/ local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \dump Error in lua file loading: ?:0: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.37 seconds Taco, Hans? All best Thomas

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synonyms with MKIV
by Peter Münster 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hello, I get unexpected output with this test-file: % engine=luatex \definesynonyms[test][tests] \test{testOne}{first test} \test{testTwo}{second test} \starttext \testOne \placelistoftests \stoptext I would expect: testOne testOne first test but I get: testOne test testOne (Perhaps a problem with parameter numbers #1, #2 etc. ?) Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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gettimeofday under XP
by Peter Rolf 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hi, I run into the following error with the new version: 'luatools --generate' results in Error in lua file loading: r:\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\luatools.lua:1402: attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value) There seems to be no 'os.gettimeofday' under Windows XP. This patch of luatools.lua works here (better check twice) :D if os.gettimeofday then os.clock = os.gettimeofday local startuptime = os.gettimeofday() function os.runtime() return os.gettimeofday() - startuptime end end -- if os.gettimeofday then -- os.clock = os.gettimeofday -- end -- do -- local startuptime = os.gettimeofday() -- function os.runtime() -- return os.gettimeofday() - startuptime -- end -- end Best wishes, Peter

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awful vertical spacing with MKIV
by Peter Münster 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hello, When comparing the vertical spacing (around section-heads) of the following test file, you'll see that it's not very beautiful with MKIV: \starttext \dorecurse{5}{ \section{sec} \subsection{subsec} \input tufte \subsection{subsec} \starttabulate[|l|l|] \NC bla \NC bla \NC\AR \NC bla \NC bla \NC\AR \stoptabulate \subsection{subsec} \startitemize \item bla \item bla \item bla \item bla \item bla \stopitemize \subsection{subsec} \setupTABLE[split=yes] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD bla \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD bla \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD bla \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD bla \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD bla \eTD\eTR \eTABLE} \stoptext Versions used: luaTeX-0.11.2 and ConTeXt-2007.09.28 Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hello, I have noticed that ConTeXt uses "gr" for Greek, but the ISO code seems to be "el". Less problematic: should agr be grc instead? (OpenType uses PGR, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.) What do the Greek experts say? Well, English is a story on its own. "us" and "uk" don't have their own codes as a separate language, and even worse: uk should stand for Ukrainian!!! "Norwegian" (which is not a language at all) should be patched (according to an old user request) once. A similar problem exists with: - Chinese (cn instead of zn) - Czech (cz instead of cs) - Vietnamese (vn instead of vi) - Ukrainian (ua instead of uk!!!) A case where I have no opinion: - deo Some languages have already changed their codes in the past: - Spanish: sp -> es - German: du -> de - Slovenian: si -> sl (no trace left, I hope :) My proposal would be to change: - gr -> el - agr -> grc - cz -> cs - vn -> vi - deo -> ? (if at all) gmh - German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500) goh - German, Old High (ca.750-1050) - cn -> zn (with *lots of care*) And to keep all the needed synonyms. (Besides that: to issue a warning if possible.) I have no idea what to do with Ukrainian and UK though. ------------- Another issue: some languages need some little modifications or alternatives: 1.) In German, Slovenian, Croatian, (maybe in other languages as well) ... one can use two types of quotes: - „" U+201E/U+201C & ‚' U+201A/U+2018 (sorry, a bug in gmail reencodes them) - »« U+00BB/U+00AB & ›‹ U+203A/U+2039 It might make sense to be able to say something similar to \mainlanguage [german] [quotes | quotationmarks | quotationstyle = guillemots | guillemets or comma | ninesix] 2.) I could imagine a Serbian user to request being able to typeset in two scritpts (Latin or Cyrillic). That means: - different labels - loading different hyphenation patterns (even though transcription in either direction can be made on the fly - I can confirm that a user has already asked me if I know how to input text in cyrillic and get output in latin - as he wasn't fluent in reading Cyrillic, he wanted to misuse ConTeXt to help him read texts from web) So I could imagine making Cyrillic the default script, but still letting one to use \mainlanguage [serbian] [script=latin, % or even (if any user would be enthusiastic enough to provide code) transliteration=on] and get latin labels and hyphenation patterns. 3.) Solve the problem with English in a more elegant way: \mainlanguage [english] [alternative=us] or \mainlanguage[en][US] % as in "en_US.UTF-8" \mainlanguage[en][GB] \mainlanguage[en][AU] \mainlanguage[de][AT] % if one ever figures out that "German from Germany" isn't good enough Then, [us] should be kept as a synonym for \mainlanguage[en][US]. (The examples above could also be called via \mainlanguage[de][alternative=guillemets] or \mainlanguage[sr][alternative=latin].) 4.) deo \mainlanguage[de][alternative=old] ??? (no idea what that is about) Note that 1.) could be combined (should be "combinable") with this one. Any thoughts? Mojca

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\BL and \CL with MKIV
by Peter Münster 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hello, there are 2 problems with the example from the wiki: \BL gives a black box and \CL gives the following error: ! Missing \endgroup inserted. <inserted text> \endgroup <to be read again> \endtemplate <template> \endtemplate \normalTABLEmultirule #1->& \use {#1}\normalTABLElongrule & \dodocomplexTableGL ...LEmultirule {#3}}\fi \next \doPostTableGL #2 \TABLEgrayline ->\complexTableCOLOR [2,green] \SR ... l.13 \NC \tex{AR} \NC automatic row\NC\SR Here the test file: % engine=luatex \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \starttable[|l|l|] \HL \BL[1]\SR \NC Command \NC Meaning \NC\SR \HL \NC \tex{NC} \NC next column \NC\FR \NC \tex{NR} \NC next row \NC\LR \HL %\CL[green]\SR \NC \tex{AR} \NC automatic row\NC\SR \HL \stoptable \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Newbie Question about Installing on Mac OS X
by Ole Schmidt 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Dear List, I failed to install ConTeXt. I have no experience with ...-Tex. Is there a description somewhere how to install ConteXt on Mac OS X? Do I really need that very big (~ 1.2 Gb) LaTex (MacTex) to install? And if yes how do I concatenate them? (I've took a look at the unix- script from the minimal Mac OS X Installation Download but did not understand if there have to be a folder called tex in the /usr/local/ directory or if the script do create one?) I do know very few about these things so I'am very greatful for some more detailed hints. thank you very much ole

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patch to bibl-ams.tex
by Peter I. Hansen 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hi I'm typesetting a document using the context bib/bibltx modules and the 'ams' style. In the printed bibliography, entries with many authors are converted into: "Hansen et al." as they should, but printed as: "Hansenet al." which looks bad. My output looks much better using the following very simple tweak of the file 'bibl-ams.tex' 99c99 < \c!artauthoretaltext={ {\it et al.\/}}] --- > \c!artauthoretaltext={ {\it\ et al.\/}}] Just wanted to post is in case someone finds this handy. -Peter

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Options file for context
by Maurício 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hi, Is there some kind of file where I can list default options for texexec? For instance, I usually use --purgeall, and would like it to be default in my user environment. Thanks, Maurício

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extending the value of a key
by Peter Münster 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello, I remember, that there is a new mechanism to extend the value of a key, but I forgot how it works. Example to show what I'm searching for: Instead of writing "\setuptyping[style=\doresetattribute{spacing}\tt]" I would prefer something like "\setuptyping[style+=\doresetattribute{spacing}]" Could someone help please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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error with \setcharacterspacing[reset]
by Peter Münster 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello, With \setcharacterspacing[reset] I get the following error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \relax l.5 \setcharacterspacing[reset] But no problem with \doresetattribute{spacing}. Test file: % engine=luatex \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] \starttext bla: bla\blank \setcharacterspacing[reset] %\doresetattribute{spacing} bla: bla \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Long s in ConTeXt
by Andreas Hauser 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hoi, how can I produce a ſ (long s) in ConTeXt? Please CC me, as i'm not subscribed. -- Andy

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Re: [NTG-context] SVG support
by Zeus Gómez Marmolejo 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

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Ligatures in ConTeXt minimals distribution
by Mike Santy 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello, Ligatures seem to be missing when using the ConTeXt minimals distribution (8/8/2007) with the times font (see below example). Note that ligatures are rendered correctly using live.contextgarden.net, so I assume that something needs to be configured on my end. Could someone please be kind enough to tell me what I should configure to get proper ligatures for the times font in the minimals distribution? Cheers, Mike \usetypescript[times][ec] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \blank And this is some maths with PostScript fonts. \startformula {a \over b} = {c \over d} \iff ad - bc = 0, \qquad \int_0^{2\pi}\!\!\! \sin^2(x)dx =\pi, \qquad {\rm e}^{{\rm i}\pi} + 1 = 0, \qquad \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}{1 \over k^2} = {\pi^2 \over 6}. \stopformula Some ligatures: ffi, ffl. \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] how to change 'figure 1.1' to '그림 1.1'
by Dalyoung Jeong 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Dear all, Last september, I asked about how to change the label text of figures and of tables in my own language. At that time, Wolfgang suggested me to make lang-kor.tex like lang- chi.tex. Yesterday, I made lang-kor.tex and test it. But it is not working. I got the following error message for a simple test file. ......... ......... (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/sort-lan.mkii)) (./test- label.tuo ) (./test-label.tuo) systems : begin file test-label at line 3 ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \koreanencoding \doenableencoding ...\edef \characterencoding {@#1 @}\fi \edef \nocharacteren... <to be read again> \koencodedintro \dogetupsometextprefix ...csname #2#1#3\endcsname \else \ifcsname #2#3\endcs... \labeltexts #1#2->\leftlabeltext {#1} #2\rightlabeltext {#1} \sectionblocklabel ...sectionblock \c!label }}{#2} \fi ... l.9 \section{figures} ? %%%%%%%%%%%% Would you please check what is wrong in here? I test it using XeTeX+ ConTeXt in gwTeX(mac OSX 10.5). Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Examples of MathML in Context
by Maurício 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hi, I've just looked at three documents from Hans ('mmlexamp.pdf', 'mmlprime.pdf', 'mmoexamp.pdf'), and they all show nice examples of MathML and what you can accomplish using it. However, I wasn't able to find an example of how to actually insert MathML in a Context document. I imagine it's probably something like that: \starttext (...) \startMathML (...) \stopMathML (...) \stoptext Does anyone knows of an example on how to do that properly? Thanks, Maurício

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Fwd: how to change 'figure 1.1' to '그림 1.1'
by Wolfgang Schuster 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> Date: 04.12.2007 11:11 Subject: Re: [NTG-context] how to change 'figure 1.1' to '그림 1.1' To: Dalyoung Jeong <haksan(a)mac.com> 2007/12/4, Dalyoung Jeong <haksan(a)mac.com>: > Dear all, > > Last september, I asked about how to change the label text of figures > and of tables in my own language. > At that time, Wolfgang suggested me to make lang-kor.tex like lang- > chi.tex. > > Yesterday, I made lang-kor.tex and test it. But it is not working. > I got the following error message for a simple test file. > > ......... > ......... > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/sort-lan.mkii)) (./test- > label.tuo > ) (./test-label.tuo) > systems : begin file test-label at line 3 > ! Undefined control sequence. > <argument> \koreanencoding > > \doenableencoding ...\edef \characterencoding {@#1 > @}\fi \edef > \nocharacteren... > <to be read again> > \koencodedintro > \dogetupsometextprefix ...csname #2#1#3\endcsname > \else \ifcsname > #2#3\endcs... > > \labeltexts #1#2->\leftlabeltext {#1} > #2\rightlabeltext {#1} > \sectionblocklabel ...sectionblock \c!label }}{#2} > \fi > ... > l.9 \section{figures} > > ? > %%%%%%%%%%%% > > Would you please check what is wrong in here? > I test it using XeTeX+ ConTeXt in gwTeX(mac OSX 10.5). > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > > Dalyoung Hi, it is hard to reproduce your problem, I have no fonts on my system to test it and a test file is also missing but you can try the following method. Replace \unexpanded\def\koencoding{\enableencoding[\koreanencoding]} with \unexpanded\def\koencoding{\enableencoding[cjk-uni]} You use a undefined command \koreanecnoding and this will always fail, you should also remove the commented lines at the end of the files and change the file information, subtitle should Korean and not Chinese and you should also change the date. Wolfgang

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Automatic breaking of display math equations
by Aditya Mahajan 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hi, There is a new release of breqn package (http://tug.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/mh/breqn.pdf) now maintained by Morten Hoegholm. For the impatient, just look at the examples on page 12. Need to start thinking about porting this to Context, but no time right now :-( Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] Kannada
by Mojca Miklavec 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello, Please post such questions to the list, not to me personally. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: gururaj <ms.gururaj(a)rediffmail.com> Date: 3 Dec 2007 16:12:42 -0000 Subject: context I couldn't configure TexnicCenter for ConTeXt. I am using SciTe instead which works fine. I have another problem. When I had Miktex installed on my machine I could use the macro package "kanlel" which gives the output in Kannada, my native language. But with ConTeXt I am unable to use the macro package. How can I make this package work with ConTeXt? %%%% I would suggest you to use XeTeX or LuaTeX for Kannada, I don't see any advantage in supporting pdfTeX to do that. You need: - the proper font - perhaps hyphenation patterns (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/hyphenation/sanhyph/) Hans would need to add support to ConTeXt somehow, but *if and only if* you: - are ready to test (to change files and regenerate formats) - provide enough feedback (if you ask a question about TeXnicCenter and people answer it on the list, it's polite to answer that it either didn't work and what went wrong or that you managed to compile successfully) - provide enough information (what exactly doesn't work, where does it fail, what's the error message) - specify what you need (figure captions probably need to be translated into semething as well) This is a sample (which should be simplified): % engine=xetex % this ugly portion of code could be shorter, perhaps reduced to % \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Devanagari MT] % \setupbodyfont[myface] \definefontfeature[devanagari][script=deva] \starttypescript[serif][devanagari] % replace "Devanagari MT" in "name:Devanagari MT" with the font you have installed \definefontsynonym[DevanagariMTRegular] [name:Devanagari MT] [features=devanagari] \definefontsynonym[DevanagariMTBold] [name:Devanagari MT/B] [features=devanagari] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[serif][devanagari][name] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [DevanagariMTRegular] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [DevanagariMTBold] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [Serif] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic] [SerifBold] \definefontsynonym[SerifSlanted] [Serif] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldSlanted][SerifBold] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[devanagari] \definetypeface [devanagari] [rm] [serif] [devanagari] [default] \stoptypescript % the ugly code ends here \usetypescript[devanagari] \setupbodyfont[devanagari,15pt] \starttext % no idea what this means, but it looks non-latin at least नेपाल चार जात छत्तिस वर्णको साझा फूलवारी हो । \stoptext Mojca

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Itemize starting at zero
by Zeus Gómez Marmolejo 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

I've searched the documentation and emails, but I didn't find the answer... It sounds really simple: How can I make the numbers in startitemize[n,...] start from 0 instead of 1? Thanks, Zeus.

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selectively turn off captions
by Roger Mason 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hello, I'm making progress in using modes - thanks again for the help so far that was given in the "switching to Context" thread. I have followed Thomas Schmitz' practex article and have set up modes for presentation and manuscript. I am using external figures on most of the slides. In presentation mode there is no need for figure captions (the slide heading and my waffling will suffice). In manuscript mode I'd like to have captions to the figures. I know I can disable captions with {none} for each individual figure, but can I do this _just_ for the presentation? I have looked up \setupcaptions but there does not seem to be a "none" option that could be used for this purpose. Thanks, Roger

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Default latex font
by Xavier J. B. L. 02 Dec '07

02 Dec '07

Hi, I know that Context uses Latin Modern instead of Computer Modern that use Latex. I want to know how to change it. Thank you very much, Xan.

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MetaPost 1.002 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ 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 1.002: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Version 1.001 introduced a memory allocation error in mpto that could result in the program looping endlessly ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 1.001: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * The default cmyk 'black' color now uses only black, not all four ink colors (after a discussion on the mailing list). * Some issues were reported with the new turningnumber algorithm, all known problems are now fixed. * Gábor Braun discovered that mpost did not always download the font encodings into all the created output files. * Akira Kakuto and Hartmut Henkel found some small issues in mpto regarding trailing and leading whitespace. * A fix for the 'Helvetica' entries in trfonts.map was provided by Werner Lemberg, and Michail Vidiassov supplied two extra font entries for troff.map (Symbol and ZapfDingbats). Karl Berry provided the new file troff-updmap.map, to be used by the updmap tool in texlive. * Mpost now supports web2c's --output-directory option. * Any warnings about missing fonts and characters are now always written to the terminal as well as to the log. * Now that makempx is a C program, it needed a different install line in build.sh. Also, Olaf Mersmann contributed a patch to recognize 'gmake' in build.sh * Luigi Scarso found some typing errors in the web source that prevented clean weaving of the source. * Stephan Hennig fixed a number of problems in the manual (mpman.tex) and the introduction paper (mpintro.tex). He also wrote new sections on how to preview metapost graphics and on how to use metapost graphics inside other documents. On top of that, the manual is now hypertext-aware, and fixes for a whole series of small problems have been applied. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, November 26, 2007

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TeXnicCenter
by Mojca Miklavec 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hello, Is there any TeXnicCenter user on the list? Wiki page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Configure_TeXnicCenter_for_ConTeXt only has anonymous edits, and I have no windows here at the moment o test. I have no idea how that program works. Mojca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Sir, I have Protext installed on my machine with WinXp as OS. I have problems in getting the output. I have tried to configure TexnicCenter for Context. But whenever I try to compile my context document, I get the error message "cannot execute the command [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")]". Where have I gone wrong?

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Whitespace significance without verbatim
by Mike Santy 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Is there an environment that preserves whitespace (like "typing"), but still processes \bf \it and other text formatting commands (unlike "typing"). Any thoughts? Cheers, Mike

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Re: [NTG-context] TOC: page headers
by Jeff Smith 30 Nov '07

30 Nov '07

Hi again, Thank you again everyone for your help. The list is very helpful. I got one last question and then I promise I'll stop spamming the list for a bit. ;-) Oddly enough, the archives are very unclear on this one, and anyway what I try with the little I find doesn't work -- or I don't know how to implement it. But anyway, my problem is the following. When my TOC goes on more than one page, the page header doesn't follow. It becomes what I use much later in my document (namely, chapter number and title, pagenumber, and a thin line across the width of the page), but I don't want that. In fact, I don't want *any* page header for my TOC, but this works only on the first page. No amount of \noheaderandfooterlines, \setuphead[header=nomarking] or \setupbackgrounds[state=stop] can make the header disappear on subsequent TOC pages... :-( What do I have to do? Thanks a zillion times again! Jeff

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\externalfigure advanced parameters
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hello, Could someone please explain me advanced parameters of \externalfigure, listed in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Using_Graphics ? What is max, and broad in Factor? And what is Preset, Preview, Repeat, and Object? Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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inline-graphics and unwanted line-break
by Peter Schorsch 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hi, I have a small metapost graphic I like to use inline. But the arragement behaves a little bit "unpractically". As soon there is no character in front of the graphic context will break the line after the graphic - but as soon there is a character in front of the graphic, context does not adding a linebreak after the graphic. Does anyone know how to prevent the line-break after the graphic if the graphic is the first inline? Thanks, P. example-file: \startuseMPgraphic{zo} color schwarz ; schwarz := (.0,.0,.0) ; draw (0pt,0pt)--(0pt,8pt)--(5pt,12pt)--(10pt,8pt)--(10pt,0pt)--(0pt,0pt)--cycle withcolor schwarz ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \hbox{\useMPgraphic{zo}} test text - why a line-break? How to prevent this? a \hbox{\useMPgraphic{zo}} test text - this is fine: no line-break! \stoptext

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