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Re: [NTG-context] Datenumber
by Bart Wise 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

On Thursday November 29 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Nov 27, 2007 5:49 PM, Bart Wise wrote: > > LaTeX has a package called datenumber. It basically allows you to > > several things: > > > > 1) convert a date into a number, > > What number? What's the input and what's the output? First you set the date: \setdatenumber{year}{month}{day} Example: \setdatenumber{2007}{1}{5} Internally, this sets a counter called datenumber. You print the date with \datedate. Then, to increment by a week, you would add 7 to the datenumber and set the date as follows: \addtocounter{datenumber}{7} \setdatebynumber{\thedatenumber} I made a function that increments the date: \def\IncDate{% \addtocounter{datenumber}{7}% \setdatebynumber{\thedatenumber}% }% Then, I created a table with the first column entries as follows: \datedate\IncDate \datedate\IncDate \datedate\IncDate \datedate\IncDate \datedate\IncDate ... The output would be: Friday, 5 January, 2007 Friday, 12 January, 2007 Friday, 19 January, 2007 Friday, 26 January, 2007 Friday, 2 February, 2007 This way I do not have to put in anything except the first date and dates for the whole year are calculated and printed for me. > > > 2) add and subtract from that > > number, in essence adding and subtracting days, and > > > > 3) converting a date number into a date string. > > The manual mentions this example > \date[d=17,m=11,y=2007][weekday,month,day,{, },year] > > or simply > \date[y=2007,m=11,d=27] > or > \currentdate As best as I can tell, this only sets the date. I can see of no way to add a given number of days to calculate a new date. > > > I use this package to create a yearly lesson > > schedule and various other similiar things. However, I have spent a > > considerable amount of time trying to find the same functionality in > > ConTeXt with no avail. Is there a solution for this? > > There are quite some macros in tex/context/base/core-con.tex (& > core-con.mkii) devoted to that. I didn't play with substraction yet, > but I bet there is some simple way to do it. I looked through the source code of core-con.mkii, core-con.mkiv and core-con.tex. I don't see the functionality I need already constructed. I was hoping that an existing solution existed without the need for creating new code. > > Mojca Thanks for you help. If I overlooked something, let me know. Bart

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switching to Context
by Roger Mason 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

Hello, I'm thinking of making the switch from latex to context, indeed I'm working on my first non-trivial document as a trial. I have some questions. (1) Is it possible to do conditional compilation? I wish to use context to write lecture notes with embedded pictures. I'd like to compile the document into one form to hand out to the class (or make available on the web) and another to be used as a presentation, much like latex-beamer, with just the pictures. (2) Is it possible to convert context into plain text (i.e. strip out the formatting instructions)? This may seem eccentric but it might, with some programming, offer a means to put document content into a relational database, perhaps in paragraph chunks. Thanks, Roger

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Visually replace one character by another one automatically
by Jeff Smith 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

Hi again everyone! I have a weird question. I sort of want to use ConTeXt to solve some of my typing laziness. :-) I explain. When typing a document, I use the normal single-quote style apostrophe ' (UTF U+0027) - the "straight" apostrophe. When typesetting the document, I want the apostrophe to appear like a comma instead. The character is the single comma quotation mark (UTF U+2019). (As both characters exist with different UTF definition , this is not a font issue.) On my computer (it's a laptop), with my keyboard language settings and all (under Ubuntu), the only apostrophe I can manage to type is the first one. From what I can understand, my French Canadian keyboard layout actually replaces the single quote key with something else more important to us -- the acute accent (no, we don't use the French azerty layout). So right now all I can do is copy-paste the right character from the Character Map... it's a bit impractical and unwieldy in the long run, so this is not a good solution. Furthermore, typing an apostrophe is second nature anyway when you've been typing since childhood -- changing such typing habit is very offputting AND it can create many mistakes. I don't want to think about it. :-) Therefore, I was wondering if there was a way to automatically replace one character with another through some TeX magic! Changing all my apostrophes in the input for single comma quotation mark when the document is compiled. Is this possible? Thanks! Jeff

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Datenumber
by Bart Wise 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

LaTeX has a package called datenumber. It basically allows you to several things: 1) convert a date into a number, 2) add and subtract from that number, in essence adding and subtracting days, and 3) converting a date number into a date string. I use this package to create a yearly lesson schedule and various other similiar things. However, I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to find the same functionality in ConTeXt with no avail. Is there a solution for this?

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Preventing page break in a paragraph
by Maurício 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hi, How do I prevent a paragraph to be broken between pages (or columns)? Thanks, Maurício

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line breaking hints?
by Santy, Michael 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hello, I'm looking for a way to give ConTeXt's line breaking algorithm a hint on where it is allowed to break a line. For example, I want ConTeXt to break lines, if necessary, when it encounters '//' in a string. I don't want to force a line break there, but if context needs to break the line, I want it to be after a "//". A contrived example of some input text is: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG//NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY. When this text is rendered by ConTeXt, and it is too big to fit on a single line, I would like it to break like this: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG// NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY. I can preprocess the source to change spaces into non-breaking spaces and can replace '//' with anything else that I need to, but don't know how to suggest where to break the line. Also note that I do not want any words to be hyphenated nor broken on hyphens. Does anyone have any ideas on how I might accomplish this? Cheers, Mike

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Font selection in LuaTeX
by Marcel Korpel 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Dear all, As a heavy Plain TeX user I wish to experiment with LuaTeX. I know this is slightly off-topic to this list, but I see several questions related to LuaTeX user problems here. In message http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/026365.html Hans Hagen stated that one could also define fonts using a more XeTeX-like syntax like: \font=\test=name:ACaslonPro-Regular:liga=yes; or \font=\test=name:ACaslonPro-Regular*default As I don't use ConTeXt I wanted to give this approach a try (and I assume the =-signs after "\font" are Hans's mistakes, I guess). So I put ACaslonPro-Regular.otf in my /opt/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/opentype directory, did a rehash so the font could be found and tried a test file. Unfortunately, LuaTeX complained it could not find the font metrics. Maybe I need to make an entry in a map file somewhere? I looked through this list, Google, etc., but couldn't find where. Also, the syntax file:ACaslonPro-Regular.otf didn't work. pdfTeX etc. can find font files there, so that should not be the problem. By the way, I tried this using LuaTeX beta-0.11.2 on a Linux system and TeXLive 2007. I know I can use XeTeX, but XeTeX doesn't support character protrusion and several pdfTeX-specific commands, which I really like to use. I hope someone can clarify this to me. Thank you in advance! Kind regards, Marcel Korpel

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Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Korean
by Dalyoung Jeong 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Dear Saji, You contact the right person, Dohyun Kim. He is one of the expert in KTUG and who write kor-00 module for ConTeXt. Another way for Korean is to use XeTeX+ ConTeXt, then you can use some korean fonts in the system. I think that using the module kor-00 is easier. If there are someone who want to use korean go www.ktug.or.kr and download the font files and module. Just untar the files in the texmf- local directory. It is easy to use. Thank you. Best wishes, Dalyoung

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Typesetting Korean
by Saji Njarackalazhikam Hameed 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

Hi Dalyoung, Sorry this question is not related to your original mail. We are typesetting some of our reports in ConTeXt - the material is mostly English, but at places there are summaries in "Hangul". Any suggestions on how to input hangul in ConTeXt. Best wishes, saji * Dalyoung Jeong <haksan(a)mac.com> [2007-11-26 13:48:47 +0900]: > Dear Idris, Aditya, and Wolfgang, > > Thank you for the replies. > > Removing \start-stop formula and using \vcenter worked well. > However, adding $\displaystyle ...$ gave the strange output. The > location of the captions are not under the matrix. It looks like that > there are four columns, "matrix cap matrix cap". > > I have one more question. > > Is it possible to display three figures in a triangular shape as > following? > > < figure 1 > > > < figure 2> <figure 3> > > I tried to use \srartcombination[3*2] ... using a dummy blank figure. > But because of the figure 1, there is a wide blank spaces between two > figures. > > Thank you so much. > > Best regards, > > Dalyoung > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ -- 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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font modification in \inright
by Boris Dagaev 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hello ConTeXt Experts! I am looking for a proper ConTeXt of solving a problem I've solved through a hack (my solution is right after the need and problem are stated below). Preface: I am learning ConTeXt as I go. I do apologize if mine is a rookie question. I'd appreciate your help very much. Need: number every paragraph and place its number on the right margin in a smaller (6pt) font. Problem: when I try to switch to a smaller font directly in an \inright: \inright{\vi\hfill\bf\the\parCount} that outputs the count in the main paragraph font (14pt) until I prefix every paragraph with a hack {\vi\ \setbox0=\hbox{\ }\kern-\wd0} then \inright outputs the number correctly in a 6pt font (if I add the hack to \everypar, the inright font is still 14pt) Question: is there a way to switch to a smaller font directly in \inright{}? My solution: \setupoutput[pdftex] \definepapersize[MYBOOK][width=10.5cm,height=18.5cm] \setuppapersize[MYBOOK][letter] \setuplayout[width=fit, height=fit, topspace=0cm, header=1cm, footer=0.2cm, location=middle, marking=on, leftmargin=0cm, leftmargindistance=0cm, rightmargin=0.5cm, rightmargindistance=0cm, leftdistance=0cm, rightdistance=0cm, backspace=0cm] \setupbodyfont[14pt] \setupwhitespace[big] \setupinmargin[align=right] \newcount\parCount \parCount=1 \def\inRightParCount{% %% ADDING THE HACK HERE DOES NOT HELP {\vi\ \setbox0=\hbox{\ }\kern-\wd0} \inright{\hfill\bf\the\parCount} \global\advance\parCount by 1 } \appendtoks \inRightParCount \to \everypar \starttext {\vi\ \setbox0=\hbox{\ }\kern-\wd0}Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. In arcu justo, iaculis eu, adipiscing nec, lacinia a, eros. Proin consequat, nisl eu commodo dignissim, dolor sapien facilisis turpis, vitae mattis felis sapien ac enim. Donec nisi. Pellentesque nec enim. Vestibulum dignissim tincidunt eros. Proin pretium elit sed mi. Aenean eu magna. Integer elementum mollis nibh. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Nam nisi. Praesent feugiat est. Duis pharetra cursus orci. Fusce pede. Donec vitae nunc eget mauris condimentum sagittis. % WITHOUT THE HACK THE PARCOUNT IS IN 14pt % {\vi\ \setbox0=\hbox{\ }\kern-\wd0} Nunc vel ipsum. Fusce posuere. Praesent id sem in mi gravida molestie. Proin ultrices leo eget enim. Pellentesque faucibus, massa in aliquet mollis, turpis neque sollicitudin tortor, sed bibendum velit est id risus. Duis at massa. Curabitur euismod cursus libero. Integer pharetra, nisl eu laoreet sodales, sem lorem fermentum enim, in euismod odio velit at pede. Sed eget dui. Curabitur vitae turpis ut velit sollicitudin venenatis. Phasellus vel lectus. Nullam mi sapien, varius congue, imperdiet vitae, aliquet eget, orci. Donec purus. {\vi\ \setbox0=\hbox{\ }\kern-\wd0}Vivamus ut metus. Mauris ac. Aenean urna sem, interdum id, pellentesque ut, tincidunt vitae, magna. Morbi facilisis purus sit amet nisi. Quisque eleifend egestas ante. Vivamus eleifend sollicitudin ipsum. Praesent et tortor vestibulum dui aliquet accumsan. Vestibulum massa mauris, tristique sit amet, hendrerit vitae, euismod a, magna. Nulla erat. Maecenas tincidunt. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur sit amet pede. Phasellus pretium sagittis metus. \stoptext Thank you, Boris

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\setupbodyfont[handwritten]
by Maurício 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi, When I use \setupbodyfont[handwritten] or \setupbodyfont[calligraphic], I get fonts which do not look like handwritten or calligraphic. Other options give consistent results (sans, type, serif etc.). What should I check in order to get those to work? I use a standard Ubuntu 7.10 installation, and never changed anything. Thanks, Maurício

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defining and expanding in xml
by Thomas A. Schmitz 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi gurus, sorry for this long mail, but this is too difficult for me, and I have to apologize that I can't provide a minimal example. Here's what I want: I have one big xml-file which is my lecture course for the semester. Every single lecture is one section. This xml-file is processed (needless to say!) with ConTeXt. Every lecture is accompanied by a presentation, written in and processed by ConTeXt. The TeX files and the resulting pdfs are named by their dates, such as 07_11_23.pdf for today's lecture. I have defined a simple counter that will typeset a number in red at every place in the lecture where I show a new slide (and then increment the counter); here are the relevant definitions: \definelabel[SlideNumber][headstyle=normal,way=bytext] \define\SLN{\color[red]{[\nextSlideNumber]}} \defineXMLcommand[sln]{\sln} What I want: I would like to produce a "handout" of the lecture course which would include the slides at the relevant places. My idea was that everything is basically in place. I would simply need to define a "handout" mode which would redefine this \sln command and use the SlideNumber counter to insert the relevant pages from the presentation pdf. But I can't get it to work. Here's what I've tried: 1. the value of the \SlideNumber counter should be \currentSlideNumber, so basically I would like something along these lines: \define\sln {\externalfigure[presentations/07_11_23.pdf][page= \currentSlideNumber]\incrementSlideNumber} But this throws an error: ! Argument of \pp!doifinstringelse has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \doif #1#2->\edef \!!stringa {#1} \edef \!!stringb {#2}\ifx \!!stringa \!!str... \checkfigureusersettings ...ntedfigurepage \empty {\let \wantedfigurepage \!... \calculateexternalfigure ...eckfigureusersettings \checkfigurecolorsettings ... <argument> ...lideNumber },width=.75\textwidth ][] \calculateexternalscreenfi... ... l.71 <SLN/> I assume it is an expansion problem. I tried page= \expanded{\currentSlideNumber]}, but that doesn't work either. So this is my first problem: how can I pass the value of SlideNumber on to the externalfigure command? 2. Next step: I would like to have the name of the corresponding presentation pdf in another macro so I can include this in the command definition as well. In TeX, I would simply write someting like \let\CurrentPresentation=07_11_23.pdf into my file and then refer to \CurrentPresentation. But how do I do this in XML? I was thinking something along the lines <section Current="07_11_23.pdf"> but am at a loss as to how to pick up this value later. Sorry for the long post; I'd be very happy if someone could provide some insights. Thomas

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Quickie about Line Numbering
by Matthias Wächter 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Hi! Just wondering how I can manage to number all the lines of my document. Thought that this would work but it actually doesn't. \starttext \startlinenumbering \chapter{First} A paragraph Another paragraph. \chapter{Second} Wait and see---nothing. \stoplinenumbering \stoptext Is there a better/smarter way for doing this than typing a lot of \(start|stop)linenumbering around paragraphs of text? We need line numbers as part of our document review process for clearly referencing error spots. - Matthias

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Re: [NTG-context] typesetting a formula as a figure
by Dalyoung Jeong 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Dear Idris, Aditya, and Wolfgang, Thank you for the replies. Removing \start-stop formula and using \vcenter worked well. However, adding $\displaystyle ...$ gave the strange output. The location of the captions are not under the matrix. It looks like that there are four columns, "matrix cap matrix cap". I have one more question. Is it possible to display three figures in a triangular shape as following? < figure 1 > < figure 2> <figure 3> I tried to use \srartcombination[3*2] ... using a dummy blank figure. But because of the figure 1, there is a wide blank spaces between two figures. Thank you so much. Best regards, Dalyoung

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getting output in ConTeXt
by gururaj 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

Sir,     I have Protext installed on my machine with WinXp as OS. I have problems in getting the output. When I try I get the error message "The file doesn't exist". I am using MeWa as tex editor. Please help me.

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Gentium Basic/Book
by Joel C. Salomon 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

How difficult would it be to adapt the typescript for Gentium (at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TypeScripts) to use the new Gentium Basic for headings & Gentium Book Basic for text weights (both have Roman, Bold Roman, Italic, & Bold Italic) -- but with reverting to Gentium for characters that aren't in the Basic fonts? --Joel

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metafun's "smoothed"
by Mojca Miklavec 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hello Hans, What exactly is the intended function of "smooothed"? I thought that the following should work and make round corners, but it only takes the bounding box. (I didn't play with it yet, but I assume that "punked" behaves in a similar way to what I would expect - it modifies the whole curve.) \starttext \startMPcode path p; % return p := ((0,0)--(1,0)--(1,2)--(-0.5,2)--(-0.5,1)--(0,1)--cycle) scaled 1cm; draw p; draw p smoothed 1mm shifted (3cm,0); \stopMPcode \stoptext Thanks, Mojca

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[OT] gnupdf.org
by luigi scarso 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Just discovered: http://gnupdf.org/Main_Page -- luigi ... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Re: [NTG-context] typesetting a formula as a figure
by Jeong Dalyoung 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Dear Idris, I have used buffers and \plcadefigures to display formula and figure together. Here is my short sample file. \startbuffer[one] \startformula \startmatrix \NC \NC e_1 \NC e_2 \NC e_3 \NC e_5 \NC e_5 \NR \NC u \NC 0 \NC 1 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NR \NC v \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 0 \NR \NC w \NC 1 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NR \NC x \NC 0 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NR \NC y \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NR \stopmatrix \stopformula \stopbuffer \starttext \placefigure[here][fig:test]{Test of buffers} {\startcombination[2*2] {\externalfigure[7starmagic1][width=.25\makeupwidth]}{G} {\externalfigure[one.tmp]}{AA} {\externalfigure[one.tmp]}{BB} {\externalfigure[one.tmp]}{CC} \stopcombination} \stoptext Then, I got a strange output(fig 1: wide blank spaces between columns). If I use \getbuffer instead of \externalfigure, I got somewhat proper output(fig 2), but the figure is located much higher than the matrix(horizontal alignment is bad). What is wrong in my sample? Is there any option for \startcombination? Thank you. Best wishes, Dalyoung fig 1: figure matrix 1 figure matrix 1 figure matrix 1 figure matrix 1 <....... wide ........... blank ......... space..........> matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3 fig 2: figure figure figure figure matrix 1 figure matrix 1 matrix 1 matrix 1 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3

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sorting bug in mkiv
by Wolfgang Schuster 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hi, I found a bug in the mkiv code with the \definsorting macros. When I try to output the sorted list with \placelistofsorts ConTeXt give me only the name of the sort list but not the list entries. \definesorting[test][tests] \starttext \test[One]{one} \test[Two]{Two} \test[Three]{3} text \One\ text \Two\ text \Three\ text \placelistoftests \stoptext This bug did also appear with the synonym mechanism. The old mkii code works as expected but I found a interestins side effect of the old mechanism. ConTeXt writes the whole list entries in galley files and one can misuse this to output the list of synonyms before the commands are definied;-) \definesynonyms[test][tests][\testtext] \starttext %\placelistoftests \test[One]{one}{number one} \test{Two}{Two} \test{Three}{Three} text \One\ text \Two\ text \Three\ text \testtext{One} text \placelistoftests \stoptext Wolfgang

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kpse.rb bad guess for distribution (web2c vs miktex)
by George N. White III 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

I use MiKTeX's package manager to install updates on linux TeXLive. I put mpm in /opt/miktex/bin, which causes kpse.rb to deduce that distribution=miktex (rather than web2c). Here is a trivial patch that adds a test for mswin: $ diff -C 3 kpse.rb.orig kpse.rb *** kpse.rb.orig 2007-01-11 11:52:06.000000000 -0400 --- kpse.rb 2007-11-23 12:59:11.000000000 -0400 *************** *** 64,71 **** # @@distribution = 'miktex' if ENV['PATH'] =~ /miktex[\\\/]bin/o ! if ENV['PATH'] =~ /(.*?)miktex[\\\/]bin/i then ! @@distribution = 'miktex' unless $1 =~ /(texmf\-mswin[\/\\]bin|bin[\/\\]win32)/i end @@re_true = /yes|on|true|1/i --- 64,71 ---- # @@distribution = 'miktex' if ENV['PATH'] =~ /miktex[\\\/]bin/o ! if (Config::CONFIG['host_os'] =~ /mswin/) && (ENV['PATH'] =~ /(.*?)miktex[\\\/]bin/i) then ! @@distribution = 'miktex' unless $1 =~ /(texmf\-mswin[\/\\]bin|bin[\/\\]win32)/i end @@re_true = /yes|on|true|1/i -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

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backward compatibility
by Peter Münster 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Dear ConTeXt developers, With the new generation of ConTeXt, MKIV, would it be possible to drop backward compatibility at some places, where it was the only reason to keep some undesired behaviour? Examples: align=left|right or insertion of \dontleavehmode before \externalfigure and \framed Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Images centered on page : Solved
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hello, Thank you all very much. I'm pleased with number and quality of solutions to my problem. The winner solution is provided by Wolfgang Schuster. Simple \centeredbox{} makes all the magic I need. I was also amazed with quick porting of my Lua code for batch image processing to native TeX script. I'm an imperative programmer to the marrow and never will be able to do such things. Luckily, now we have embedded Lua! Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Images centered on page
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hello, How can I center the image on a page? I want images to cover the page completely, and since they have proper size (roughly A4), I only need them to be centered. Now they are stuck to the top, leaving a gap on bottom (and same for left-right). I have the following script (note my Lua trick to process images in a batch). Image names are "Image00001.png" and so on. %engine=luatex \setuplayout [footer=0mm, header=0mm, topspace=0mm, backspace=0mm, leftmargin=0mm, rightmargin=0mm, location=middle, height=fit, width=fit] \starttext \startluacode for n = 1, 9 do tex.print(string.format("\\externalfigure[Image%05d.png]", n)); end \stopluacode \stoptext Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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where is my installer? :)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hello, Sorry for the question, but where people can find my installer? I've uploaded it to svn, but cannot find it at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ and have no idea where it also might appear. If no one can find it, it is useless, isn't it? ;) Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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combination with an additional line centered in a placefigure?
by Peter Schorsch 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi, as soon I enter the cbox-line the combination is not longer centered. I tried to embed the combination in a cbox, but that had no effect. Has anyone a hint how to center the combination successfullly? \starttext \placefigure [force][fig:xy] {captiontext} {\startcombination[2*1] {\externalfigure[xxx][]}{} {\externalfigure[yyy][]}{} \stopcombination \cbox{\tfx Quelle: XY} } \stoptext Thanks, P.

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referencing footnotes in another place
by Andrea Valle 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi to all, the only thing I don't like in -TeX packages approach while writing is that I have to attach the footnotes to their indices. ConTeXt is so clever. Isn't there a way to store the footnotes in another place of the file (or in another file, that's the same) and referring to the in the text. When I have many footnotes in the source I get crazy to follow the body text. I mean, with an exemplum fictum This is my footnote\fn{myfn}, even if it's just my imagination so that there's a way to a have myfn = just a note Maybe with buffers? I'm an ignorant on the matter Thanks -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong) -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)

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updatecontext woes
by Joel C. Salomon 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

I just tried running ctxtools --updatecontext on my minimal installation. It successfully downloads & extracts cont-tmf.zip, mktexlsr remakes all formats, then LuaTools and MtxRun start doing some configuration magic: LuaTools | old script C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/luatools.lua LuaTools | new script C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua LuaTools | old script content replaced by new content LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 1.627 seconds MtxRun | old script C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/mtxrun.lua MtxRun | new script C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua MtxRun | old script content replaced by new content LuaTools | loading C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf LuaTools | loading C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf LuaTools | preparing configuration in C:/Users/chesky/AppData/Local/Temp/luatex-cache/context/b208f38697f78de9cef2c42fc3caa621/trees/d885c87af9510561ed13a9578d2d9af5.tma ... (a few hundred more lines, until finally) (C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/enco-mis.tex) (C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/enco-ini.mkiv encoding : coding 032 is loaded (C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/enco-032.tex) encoding : unknown coding 033 encoding : coding 037 is loaded (C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/enco-037.tex))) (C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/filt-ini.tex loading : Context Filter Macros (ini) ) (C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/hand-ini.tex loading : Context Handling Macros (ini) handling : font handling def is loaded (C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/hand-def.tex)) (C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/regi-syn.tex loading : Context Regime Macros (synonyms) ) (C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/lang-ini.tex loading : Context Language Macros / Initialization (C:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/lang-ini.mkiv ! LuaTeX error ...ontext/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/lang-ini.lua:9: attempt to index global 'lang' (a nil value). \ctxluabytecode ...ode " .. "#1" .. str) end end } \registerctxluafile ...{\the \luabytecodecounter } \fi \fi l.16 \registerctxluafile{lang-ini}{1.001} ? Evidently something's gone wrong, and I have no idea what. I hope this is enough info to diagnose the problem. --Joel

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Last mkii ?
by luigi scarso 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

From http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Context 2007.08.07 The Mark IV release a few small bugfixes Context 2007.07.25 improved support for math over- ander underarrows a few small bugfixes Should we consider Context 2007.07.25 as last mkii ? Better, should we consider Context 2007.07.25 + pdftex 1.40.5 to be fronzen sooner or later , given that we already/will have mkiv + luatex ? -- luigi

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--updatecontext (downgrade)
by Steffen Wolfrum 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, I really enjoy writing sudo ctxtools --updatecontext in my Mac-terminal and without any hassle getting a clean updated ConTeXt! But what if I want to install an older version (either from ConTeXt- museum or a local repository). Is there a path option that I can add to the command above? Steffen

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Fwd: [XeTeX] Redefining the footnotes in XeTeX
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

BTW: are the benefit's of David's work also available for ConTeXters? (While writing this I guess it is probably planned for luatex, thus reliably usable from 2010 on, right?) Steffen Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: Will Robertson <wspr81(a)gmail.com> > Datum: 21. November 2007 01:50:01 MEZ > An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex(a)tug.org> > Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] Redefining the footnotes in XeTeX > Antwort an: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms > <xetex(a)tug.org> > > On 21/11/2007, at 1:02 AM, Brian Anderson wrote: > >> I'd like to find a way to have XeTeX determine whether there is >> enough >> space on the line for 2 or more footnotes, or whether there should >> only be one. > > Check out David Kastrup's bigfoot package. It's pretty amazing. > > Will

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[OT] \internalfigure
by luigi scarso 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

We all know that exists \externalfigure[...][...] Now, suppose I'm able to make a buffer with raw data, something like \Raw{<89>PNG^M ^Z ^@^@^@^MIHDR^@^@^@ ^@^@^@ ^H^B^@^@^@^BPXê^@^@^@^AsRGB^@(R)Î^\é^@^@^@ pHYs^@^@^K^S^@^@^K^S^A^@<9a><9c>^X^@^@^@^GtIME^G×^K^T^V^W ^O°<94>^^^@^@^@^YtEXtComment^@Created with GIMPW<81>^N^W^@^@^@^MIDAT^XÓc`^X^E¤^C^@^A6^@^A^ZÕ<8d>^W^@^@^@^@IEND(R)B`<82>} (it's a black png 10x10 pixel, in attach.) How can I use it with, let's say \internalfigure[\Raw][...] ? Of course, write it down to a temp file and then use \externalfigure[temp][..], but I would like to avoid this way . -- luigi

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typesetting a formula as a figure
by Peter I. Hansen 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi I would like to typeset a formula as a figure, so that the formula enters the numbering scheme of figures and that I gain the possibility of adding a figure caption. An example were this would be practical is when using ppchtex. I've been googling but having trouble finding hints on how to make such a construction. Is it possible at all? Thanks, Peter

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Parallel texts
by Steffen Wolfrum 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi, I am looking for a way to typeset bilingual text as parallel text, keeping each paragraph opposite the corresponding paragraph (left/ right page). The ledpar package from the ledmac bundle does this (I was told). How can this be done with ConTeXt? Thanks, Steffen

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TABLE splitting on entry spanning multiple rows
by Santy, Michael 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello, I'm using ConTeXt as part of an XML->PDF workflow that is heavy on tables. The XML table model allows cells to span rows and columns. While ConTeXt has handled row/column spanning perfectly up to this point, I believe I have found an issue. When an entry that spans multiple rows is on the split point between pages, you get ragged entries on the page boundaries. The code below demonstrates this on live.contextgarden.net (PDFTex): \starttext \setupTABLE[row][odd][background=color,backgroundcolor=red, width=.2\textwidth] \bTABLE[split=yes] \dorecurse{31}{\bTR \bTD[nc=4] filler \eTD \eTR} \bTR \bTD[nr=3] 1 \eTD \bTD[nc=2] 2/3 \eTD \bTD[nr=3] 4 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD 2 \eTD \bTD 3 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD 2 \eTD \bTD 3 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nc=3] 1/2/3 \eTD \bTD 4 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD 1 \eTD \bTD 2 \eTD \bTD 3 \eTD \bTD 4 \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Does anyone have any suggestions for visually cleaning this up? Cheers, Mike

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Context and Lilypond on Miketex with TeXnicCenter
by u-wrede＠t-online.de 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hallo I use MikeTex TeXnicCenter for writing Context with Lilypond. When I try this: \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext There are some notes \lilypond{\relative{bes a c b}} embedded in this line. \stoptext then I get this: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5) (preloaded format=cont-en 2007.11.11) 14 NOV 2007 08:28 entering extended mode **C:/LaTeX1.tex \emergencyend (C:\LaTeX1.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKII fmt: 2007.11.11 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex" systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\cont-new.mkii") ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\cont-mtx.tex")) system : cont-old loaded ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\cont-old.tex" loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\cont-fil.tex" loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme" ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\type-tmf.tex") ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex") ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\type-one.tex") ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\type-akb.tex")) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:3 uk->ec:ec->2->2:3 de->texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:3 de->ec:ec->4->2:3 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 fr->ec:ec->6->2:3 es->ec:ec->7->2:3 pt->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:3 pt->ec:ec->9->2:3 it->texnansi :texnansi->10->2:3 it->ec:ec->11->2:3 nl->texnansi:texnansi->12->2:3 nl->ec:ec- >13->2:3 cz->il2:il2->14->2:3 cz->ec:ec->15->2:3 sk->il2:il2->16->2:3 sk->ec:ec ->17->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->18->2:3 pl->ec:ec->19->2:3 pl->qx:qx->20->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : LaTeX1.top loaded (C:\LaTeX1.top specials : loading definition file tpd ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\spec-tpd.tex" specials : loading definition file fdf ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\spec-fdf.tex" ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\spec-fdf.mkii")) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) systems : system commands are disabled system : module lilypond loaded ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\lilypond\t-lilypond.tex" loading : LilyPond module ) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\sort-lan.tex" loading : Context Sorting Macros (languages) ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\base\sort-lan.mkii")) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) (C:\LaTeX1.tuo) systems : begin file LaTeX1 at line 3 ! Bad number (18). \dodostartlilypond ...lily!figures ]\fi \ifeof 18 \expanded {\installprogram... l.4 ... some notes \lilypond{\relative{bes a c b}} embedded in this line. ? I would be nice, to get some help Thank You Ulrich -- This message was sent on behalf of u-wrede(a)t-online.de at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/ntg-context@ntg.nl/topic.html

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help about the EXAMPLE framework
by Fabrice Gaudier - CEA/DEN/SFME 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hello, I'ld like using the tex client/server (called in the past exampler ) described in the wiki page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cont-exa.zip. But the document http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ex-gui.pdf is not uptodate because I don't find the "exampler" ruby script. I find the script wwwserver, I miss a step to install this tool properly. Have you an uptodate document which explained how to install and use these application. Best regards, Fabrice gaudier

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Re: [NTG-context] Context and Lilypond on Miketex with TeXnicCenter
by Mojca Miklavec 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On 11/19/07, Ulrich Wrede wrote: > I use file=t-lilypond version=2007.09.02. I think this is the > latest one. > > From the log file: > ------------------------------------------------------------ > system : module lilypond loaded > ("C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.5\tex\context\lilypond\t-lilypond.tex" > loading : LilyPond module > ----------------------------------------------------------- > LilyPond is found and loaded I think. > But this error message is still there > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ! Bad number (18). > \dodostartlilypond ...lily!figures ]\fi \ifeof 18 > \expanded > {\installprogram... > l.32 \stoplilypond > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Perhaps it has something to do with \write 18 Yes, it indeed seems so. > This comment is written in t-lypond.tex > > %D If \type{\ifeof18} creates an error for you, your pdfetex is too old. > %D just change it to \iftrue then. (\type{\ifeof18} checks whether > \type{\write18} > %D is disabled.) > %D > The last changes of my pdfetex 16. November 2007, 11:02:39 pdfeTeX has been replaced by pdfTeX (pdfeTeX is only a symlink). It's not the file date which matters, but the version (pdfTeX --version). Wiki claims that some things have changed in pdfTeX 1.30, and MikTeX site claims that MikTeX 2.5 uses 1.30.6, so theoretically it should work, but who knows. Also: "The availability of MiKTeX 2.5 ends some time in the not so distant future: as of a fixed date it will not be possible to install packages from the remote package repository." > If I right, metapost is using the same mechanism as lilypond. Metapost/metafun uses some workarounds (i.e.: metapost works even when write18 is disabled). There are multiple ways to check if write18 is disabled (some functionality to check that has only beed added recently to pdfTeX, so it's quite possible that you have an old pdfTeX, or, it's quite possible that MikTeX behaves slightly differently - http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/gnuplottex/ has some \ifmiktex switches in the source code, although I'm not sure if they make any sense apart from checking if one should use "touch" or "echo" to write into file). So I would suggest you to try two things: - try to follow the instructions to enable write18: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation#write18 http://wiki.contextgarden.net/write18 - try to do what the file says: change all occurencies of \ifeof18 to \iftrue (or \iffalse - depending on whether write18 is enabled or not), since it might be that your pdfTeX doesn't support the current syntax, or it might be that something else weird is happening. I have no MikTeX here at the moment, so I cannot try, but on a completely unrelated subject: I remember that while I was stil trying to enable that module on windows (at the time when it came to existance), lilypond didn't run properly unless called with full path (i.e.: one had to call C:\programs\lilypond\bin\lilypond.exe, since calling only "lilypond" didn't work). Lilypond developers said that they didn't know how to fix that, but I hope that it has been resolved in the meantime. Mojca

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Context Minimal for Windows installer
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hello, I appreciate your efforts of creating "context-setup-mswin", but I always had my own way of setting up Context. Today I created full-weight InnoSetup installer. My installer is native Windows application. It fetches files from contextgarden using rsync, then sets variables directly in registry, making Context binaries Windows-wide functional. (Call texexec from any application without need of setuptex.bat file). http://rapidshare.com/files/70450795/ContextMinimalSetup.exe I have tested it only with Luatex engine, but other may work as well. Hope it will facilitate Context usage on Windows. Fell free to ask questions and make suggestions. Best regards, Vaytcheslav Yatskovsky

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Re: [NTG-context] Context Minimal for Windows installer
by Mojca Miklavec 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On 11/18/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > Hello Mojca, > > Thank you for svn account. Where do you think I should place my installer? I'll drop you a note on a privite mail. > > A wishlist for Vyatcheslav (although I cannot test): > > - it would be nice if the installer would first ask the user for the > > location of minimals > > It's easy, I'll start with it. Thanks. > > - then, you need to download (or include in the zip) the rsync > > binaries and put them into PATH, that path might be a separate one > > (distinct from ConTeXt bin in any case) > > Now rsync is bundled with installer. (I think it changes rarely, so if it will, I'll better update the installer.) if user selects default folder (c:\contextminimal), he gets the following structure: > > Directory of C:\contextminimal > > 11.11.2007 04:36 <DIR> mswin > 31.01.2007 11:33 1 873 811 cygwin1.dll > 07.11.2006 09:26 283 136 rsync.exe > 30.05.2006 16:18 118 784 SetEnv.exe > 18.11.2007 01:12 691 481 unins000.exe > 18.11.2007 01:12 6 452 unins000.dat > > So, installer-related binaries are located in root installations folder, while Contexts sits in mswin subfolder. OK, rsync should come with it, and true: it doesn't change so often. > > - can you please take a look into > > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/mswin/ and try to reproduce > > the behaviour of first-setup.bat. You might need some binaries already > > present, but it would be nice to get rid of the need for > > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/minimals/ (even though I will > > probably keep providing them) - so, it would be nice if you could call > > mtx-update instead of syncing the whole folder > > - if you use mtx-update.lua, you can ask the user to select the > > desired engines,, the desired modules (probably not implemented yet), > > and the user is also able to choose ConTeXt distribution (to roll back > > if the latest one causes problems), and choose wheather to clean old > > files or not; the functionality provided in mtx-update might improve > > and/or change, but it might be a good idea to keep you informed, it's > > only that the minimals are still in development phase, so they're not > > quite stable yet and paths might still change > > Hmm.. I never used mtx-update, and, moreover, my experiments with mixing installer scripts with lua scripts failed so far (I cound't make format files from it). Can you try it once more? http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/mswin/ is really minimalistic,so you can probably figure out what's going on (or ask in case you have problems) and try to reproduce it (you can first call rsync to fetch the needed binaries and scripts, and then call mtx-update properly). mtx-update should now be able to create formats when called with "--make" (depending on the engins you select to download). > If mtx-update is so powerful, let it be the base of your installer, but I'd rather keep my simple and "pop", satisfying needs of non-advanced users (like me). It might not be *so powerful* yet, but it would then be equivalent with the "plain way" of setting things up, and it would be easier for you later to add a checkbox into your installer if some functionality in mtx-update is extended. > BTW, InnoSetup allows to write very flexible scripts using build-in Pascal, so I can always duplicate most needed functionality on it, and I will be 100% confident that it will work on 100% of machines. :) I believe that. But mtx-update should work on all machines as well (if it doesn't, it should better be fixed). But it would really make sense not to depend on precompiled "full minimals" since you loose most control of what should be included and what not. If you > Rsyncing the whole folder will not be necessary when I implement selection of "components". Then the user can select what to download and what to not (fonts, etc.) I'd be very thankful if you point me out some obvious components that user might exclude from set up. > > > - it would be nice to have "enable minimals/disable minimals" switch, > > so that one can theoretically run MikTeX in parallel (when the > > distribution is enabled, it shadows MikTeX, when it's disabled, MikTeX > > will run normally) > > Yeah, but know very well that making Contest work in global way requires not only enabling its settings, but disabling MikTeX settings... OK, I didn't know that. What exactly do you need to do (which MikTeX components/settings do you need to disable) if you want to enable "minimal ConTeXt"? > So it would be troublesome, and I believe that person having both packages should better use conventional installer, like yours. But in that case any "comfortable windows user" would still be greatuf for an "installer", even if its sole reason is to ask the user for the destination of the distribution, and to download the necessary files. So, everything can remain the same, but you don't need to set eny environmental variables, you only create a batch file called "enablecontext.bat" or similar somewhere in PATH (or in some place that you place into PATH), with the contens: C:\Programs\context\setuptex.bat C:\Programs\context depending on where the user decided to install ConTeXt. So, when someone is in console and types in enablecontext, the environment will be set up properly. That was the approach I've been using when working on windows. (When I think about it, setuptex could (or should?) be adapted in such a way that one wouldn't need to provide any arguments to it, but that's a completely unrelated subject.) Some *really low priority* tasks for the future of the installer might also be: - check if ruby is installed and ask the user to install it if needed (well, Hans is planning to rewrite most of his ruby scripts to lua, so that miht not even be necessary :) - check if perl is installed and ask the user to install it if needed - [for me] once the rest is done, I would like to reproduce "mswincontext.zip" (add the missing bits and pieces to the repository), but that's also lower priority than the rest > > - you might need to provide alternative servers in the future/ask the > > user which server to choose for downloading (in case of too much > > traffic, another server could possibly mirror the contents from the > > garden) > > Sure. Just point me them. Well ... only as a remainder for the future :) According to Patrick we didn't reach the bandwidth limit yet :) > P.S. If you cannot run the installer, you may found useful see my screenshots attached. Great! Thanks a lot for it. It really looks proffessional. There's only a slightly misleading information (you need at least 2.9 MB space :) :) :) :) (Miktex -> MikTeX, Context -> ConTeXt) Thanks a lot for the great job :) Such an installed has been waited for for wuite some time :) Mojca

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some warnings about fonts
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hello, While luatex was compiling fonts, I noticed some warnings. I suspect they are harmless, but I'd better report them. ... report >> fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix ttf report >> fontnames: 101 system files identified, 370 hash entries added, runtime 0.812 seconds report >> fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix ttc report >> fontnames: 0 system files identified, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.063000000000002 seconds report >> fontnames: identifying system font files with suffix afm report >> fontnames: 0 system files identified, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.061999999999998 seconds report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg 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is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Bad call to gww_iconv_open, neither arg is UCS4 (Sjis->UTF-8) report >> load otf: warning: Glyph 2 is called ".notdef", a singularly inept choice of name (only glyph 0 may be called .notdef) FontForge will rename it. ... Best, Vyatcheslav

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little coding assistance (please)
by Steffen Wolfrum 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi, I need some help for shorten the TeX code in the following example: My footnotes are defined like this: \def\setnotebodyfont {\let\setnotebodyfont\relax \restoreglobalbodyfont \switchtobodyfont[rm,9pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=9.8pt] \parskip2pt} But sometimes at single pages I need to shrink footnote's setupinterlinespace and parskip a bit. To adjust the percentage of shrinking (setupinterlinespace[line= \dimexpr(9.8\MyFaktor)]\parskip\dimexpr(2\MyFaktor)}) I use the following: \newdimen\MyFaktor \MyFaktor=0.978pt [Normal body-text ...] \def\setnotebodyfont {\let\setnotebodyfont\relax \restoreglobalbodyfont \switchtobodyfont[rm,9pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=\dimexpr(9.8 \MyFaktor)]\parskip\dimexpr(2\MyFaktor)} [...] Text with footnotes [...] \def\setnotebodyfont {\let\setnotebodyfont\relax \restoreglobalbodyfont \switchtobodyfont[rm,9pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=9.8pt] \parskip2pt} [...] This works great, but looks ugly and not clear at all!! Could someone please provide me a definition like \ThightNotes[0.978] and \NormalNotes that I could hook handy and clear in the respective body-text? Thanks in advance, Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Context Minimal for Windows installer
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hello Idris, > Congratulations! Thanks. > What files exactly are downloaded? just mswincontext.zip? Downloaded are all files from http://minimals.contextgarden.net/minimals/mswin They are current beta, I think. > What are the installation options? There is only one option so far -- to do rsync or not to do it. This option must be On for the first time, since you have no files yet; it also be used to update Context by running the installer again. It may be Off if you just want to update environment vars. > It would be a good idea to add pdftex and xetex formats options as well. The installer doesn't make format files itself. (It might be good idea, but I stuck with difficulties here). After setup, the installer prompts the user to build format files manually. User is free to use any engine; I only tested it for Luatex, as the most progressive one. And a thing I must notice -- sorry, it cannot be installed along with Miktex or TeXLive, because environment vars will clash. It's inevitable; if you want to use them in parallel, use Context in old way. This installer is for clean machines only. But there is good news also. Uninstall is possible :) > Thanks for the wonderful contribution Thanks again. -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Context Minimal for Windows installer (cont)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

BTW, I can share sources as well. Waiting only for what community says. And, can it be hosted as alternative installer at minimals.contextgarden.net? Vyatcheslav

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context installer
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Hello, This is what happens when I run new context-setup-mswin installer: " G:\rsync\context-setup-mswin\context>first-setup.bat Should I create the cache path \Documents and Settings\Fine? [yes|no] [no] y Error in lua file loading: G:\rsync\context-setup-mswin\context\bin\mtxrun.lua:5 971: attempt to call field 'mkdirs' (a nil value) When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with: G:\rsync\context-setup-mswin\context\tex\setuptex.bat G:\rsync\context-setup-m swin\context\tex You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt. " Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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rsync command
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Hello, I found that the suggested rsync command for Windows leads nowhere. rsync -rvzctl rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/minimals/win tex We have only mswin and windows folders inside minimals. Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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-, -- and --- in Context
by Maurício 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hi, TeX fonts have the known convention for -, -- and ---. How would be the proper way to get those characters in Context? Should I use Unicode characters? I know that, at least in my instalation, -- and --- work as in TeX, but I would like to know if Context has a different standard way to do that. Thanks, Maurício

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MetaPost 1.001 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.001 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from https://foudnry.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 1.001: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * 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 14, 2007

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\quotation
by Idris Samawi Hamid 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Dear gang, This has bugged me for years but I never said anything since the workaround is so easy. OTOH I am working on something I'd like to share with others and an official solution would be better: \starttext \input knuth \startquotation \input knuth \stopquotation \input knuth \stoptext I. \start-\stopquotation surrounds the block quote in double-quotes marks. I don't know about other European languages but in English this is redundant; I've hardly ever seen block quotes use dbl-quote marks. We at least need a setup option to turn this off. II. There should be some default whitespace between the block quote and the surrounding text, just as \start-stopitemize has. Or at least this should be configurable in the setups. If these two are already there (not in the manual) then please let us know how to set this up. Otherwise could you add configuration options for this? FYI: Here is what I use =========== \definestartstop [quote] [before={\startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\blank[big]\noindenting}, after={\stopnarrower\blank[big]}] =========== 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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page backgrounds
by olivier Turlier 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hi everybody, I try to draw several metapost page backgrounds (code found at http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/poulecl/divers/papiers/ ) for manual sketchs on A4 paper. Obviously, it does'nt work, and I don't know why. TIA for any answers. Not so short examples are attached. -- olivier Turlier CRP La Rouguière 101 Bd des libérateurs 13367 MARSEILLE CEDEX 11 04 91 66 58 10

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