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brace in TABLE
by Henning Hraban Ramm 31 May '07

31 May '07

How do I get a combining brace over the first 5 table rows in this example before "je +8": \bTABLE[split=no] \bTR\bTD Sehen \eTD\bTD[nr=5, align=lohi] je +8 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Hören \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Riechen \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Schmecken \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Tasten \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Sechster Sinn \eTD\bTD Zt/25 \eTD\eTR \eTABLE Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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multipars?
by David Arnold 31 May '07

31 May '07

All, I see an example of the use of multipars in a background developed in "It's in the Details," but I can't find any explanation of what multipars represents (or multilocs or friends). Can someone steer me to an explanation of what these things represent and how to use them? Thanks. David.

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externalfigure not finding figures in other directories?
by Sanjoy Mahajan 31 May '07

31 May '07

externalfigure is not finding figures in other directories, and I'm not sure if it's something I've messed up while compiling and testing new Ubuntu edgy backport packages. If I have fig.1 (a metapost eps file) in the current directory, then this test file works fine \starttext \externalfigure[fig.1] \stoptext But context won't find 1/fig.1 even if fig.1 is in the 1/ directory. This test file \starttext \externalfigure[1/fig.1] \stoptext produces this error in the log file systems : begin file test at line 1 figures : figure 1/fig.1 can not be found and a dummy figure. ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.30 (on Ubuntu/i386) If you have any thoughts or have seen this behavior, let me know. -Sanjoy

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capacity exceeded
by Henning Hraban Ramm 31 May '07

31 May '07

Compilation of a document with some big tables (partly floats) fails, see below. Is it really a capacity problem, or must I search for some recursion error or the like? What does the "emergencyend" at the beginning of the logfile mean? --- logfile --- This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=cont-en 2007.5.30) 31 MAY 2007 00:30 entering extended mode (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) **prd_geburt.tex emergencyend (./prd_geburt.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.02 13:44 MK II fmt: 2007.5.30 int: --- ... --- ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=60000]. \setvalue ...xpandafter \def \csname #1\endcsname \settbltxt ...ong \setvalue {\@@tblprefix #1:#2:t} {\doifdefined {\@@tblprefi... <argument> ...\handleTBLcell \celltag []{\strut }} \fi \firstofoneargument #1->#1 \redorecurse ->\expandrecursecontent \dodorecurse <to be read again> { ... l.233 \eTABLE If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 20315 strings out of 57405 236675 string characters out of 540060 4906676 words of memory out of 6334956 60000 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 149413 words of font info for 116 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000 192 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000 53i,21n,63p,538b,16975s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p, 200000b,50000s ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! --- Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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TABLE split
by Henning Hraban Ramm 31 May '07

31 May '07

I've a long TABLE in a 2-columns environment. Is it possible to split the table (if needed) at discrete rows? At the moment the left columns contains some text, about the half of the following table would fit in, but starts on top of the right column and is broken onto the next page. Further it contains some inbetween sub-headers (sections), and I'd like it to break before one of them. page 1: text table text table t-sect table t-sect page 2: table text table text text text text text text text should become: text t-sect text table t-sect table table table table Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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A Muse tag for pgf/tikz graphics
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 30 May '07

30 May '07

Hi all, For those who could be interested by using of Emacs-Muse: I have written a file to create a "tikz" tag for Muse, allowing you to insert tikz code in a muse file, ang obtain the corresponding graphic when publishing documents with LaTeX, ConText, html/xhtml or xml-based styles. You can get the file with a README and an example at: http://jm.bornier.free.fr/contex/ttp/ A good procedure to see how it works would be to read the README (how strange) and run e.g. the pdf and html style on the example provided. The choice of pgf may seem arbitrary, but it seemed easier to implement than pstricks or metapost (I wanted the tag to work as well with muse-contex as with muse-latex, which is not quite effective by now, so my investigations are not quite over). Cheers, -- Jean

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EuroBachoTeX2007
by luigi scarso 30 May '07

30 May '07

Are there any pdf/slides about EuroBachoTeX2007? The only thing that i have found is program, see http://www.gust.org.pl/BachoTeX/EuroBachoTeX2007/prog.html thanks in advance -- luigi ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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math font definitions in XeConTeXt
by Dalyoung Jeong 30 May '07

30 May '07

Dear all, For korean sentences, I am using XeConTeXt with korean otf font as the bodyfont. In that case, greek capital letters in math mode are not displayed wit the warning message "** WARNING ** Glyph for CID 18168 missing in font "YoonMyungjoM/H". YoonMyungjoM is the name of the korean font. If I set english font as the bodyfont, they are displayed well. I think that korean font override the greek capital letters. Hence, I'd like to know the followings: (1) Is there a math font which can be used in XeConTeXt? (2) Is there a way to not to override greek capital letters in math mode? Thank you. Regards, Dalyoung

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[OT] dblatex
by luigi scarso 30 May '07

30 May '07

http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ DocBook to LaTeX/ConTeXt Publishing Does anyone know something about it ? -- luigi ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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Re: [NTG-context] incorrect hyphenation
by Hans Hagen 29 May '07

29 May '07

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Dear Hans, Taco, > > I'm getting bad English hyphenation all over the place with the recent > ConTeXt that comes with luatex: > > In the sample, look at the hyphenation of `near'. Did not send this to > the list because I don't know if this is an > official context release I'm dealing with. However, I'm using pdftex > mode, not luatex. \def\sethyphenationvariables {\lefthyphenmin 0\languageparameter\s!lefthyphenmin \relax \righthyphenmin0\languageparameter\s!righthyphenmin\relax \lefthyphenmin \numexpr\lefthyphenmin +\hyphenminoffset\relax \righthyphenmin\numexpr\righthyphenmin+\hyphenminoffset\relax} wrong in the beta 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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lilypond snippet in the wiki
by Piotr Kopszak 29 May '07

29 May '07

Hello all the lilyponders on the list, When I run the snippet from the wiki in a slightly modified form: \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext There are some notes\lilypond[clef=no, time=no, staffsize=6]{ \relative{bes a c b} } embedded in this line. \stoptext I'm getting desired result except for the fact that the staff starts in the new line. Is it possible to obtain the staff in the same line as the words "There are some notes" followed immediately by "embedded in this line"? Piotr

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lilypond newbie
by Steffen Wolfrum 29 May '07

29 May '07

Hi, just out of curiosity I wanted to check whether my context could typeset music. I found lilypond mentioned on the list, downloaded lilypond-2.10.23-1.darwin-x86.tar.bz2 from lilypond.org, t-lilypond.pdf from ctan and t-lilypond.tex posted by Henning here. When I typeset texexec test.test this test file ... \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext \startlilypond % Telemann, TWV 40:11 \version "2.6.3" \relative c’ { \set Staff.instrument = flute \key fis \minor \time 3/4 \partial 4 r8 fis’8 | fis4. cis8 a cis | fis, a cis fis a fis | b, d fis b d b | eis,, gis cis eis gis b, | a fis’ gis, fis’ cis eis | fis,4 r8 a’ gis fis | e gis, a e’ fis cis | d fis, gis b e d | cis4 \trill r8 cis b a | b dis e gis cis, b | a e’ dis fis b, a | gis4 \trill r8 } \stoplilypond \stoptext ... the result is ... name: dummy file: lilypond_2-lilypond-1 state: unknown What is missing? Steffen [OSX 10.4.9, Intel; ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12, TeX-Live2007]

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Forcing a TABLE page break
by T.W. Burton 29 May '07

29 May '07

Is there a way to force a page break in a natural table? I tried the sample in the source code and it doesn't seem to work under MikTeX or under the standalone windows distribution. \starttext \bTABLE[split=yes] \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \bTR[after=\page] \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext T.W. Burton

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testing for broken links to external documents
by Matthias Weber 29 May '07

29 May '07

Dear all, is there a simple TeX/ConTeXt way to test in a TeX file whether a link to an external document is broken so that I get an error message if not? I am using numerous links to external files (on my hard drive) and I'd like to make sure that none of the links are broken without going manually trough them. Though not an issue at this point, and probably more complicated: Can one also check for broken links to web pages? I don't even know whether that's possible in Acrobat or whether there are tools out there that do that. Thanks, Matthias

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Ruby version requirements
by Oliver Buerschaper 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hi all, I'm in the middle of putting together a native Mac OS X edition of ConTeXt Minimal ... for this I need to know which version of Ruby is minimally required by the latest ConTeXt release. (It wouldn't hurt though to know this for older ConTeXt versions, too ;-) Any help appreciated. Thanks, Oliver

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Re: [NTG-context] Scite folding
by Zhichu Chen 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hi instanton, I think the following commands should be added: 1, \startXXX...\stopXXX pair 2, \ifYYY ... \else ... \fi structure 3, \chapter, \section, \subsection, \title and \subject, \topic, etc. IMHO, I'd like to folder \def\XXX#1% {...} and some \setupZZZ, \defineZZZ's. I hope you can provide some mysterious folding symbols, like %%--{{ something i like to be folded. %%--}} On 5/28/07, soft_share <soft_share(a)126.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't know much about lua so I'm afraid that I cannot do much about the > code-folding via lua script. However there are some built-in pseudo-TeX > commands like %\StartFolding %\EndFolding in NotePad++ and the unofficial > SciTE I'm using which can be used to manually control where text fold should > apply. At present I can only add a minimum scope of ConTeXt commands in the > souce code which controls TeX folding. Which commands would you suggest to > add? > > > soft_share(a)126.com > 2007-05-28 > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From: *Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen(a)gmail.com> > *To: *soft_share <soft_share(a)126.com> > *Sent: *2007-05-28, 06:49:23 > *Subject: *Re: [NTG-context] Scite folding > > Hi, instanton > > Is there any possibility that you can make an addon lua script to do the > folding function that we can add syntax by ourselves? Because I wanna keep > the official SciTE. > > > On 5/28/07, soft_share <soft_share(a)126.com> wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > Just come across this thread. The TeX folding feature in NotePad++ was > > adapted by me and originally the adaptations was made in SciTE. As I am not > > a ConTeXt user, I am not aware of the structure of sectioning commands in > > ConTeXt. Could anyone of you let me know of a minimum list of sectioning > > commands in ConTeXt so that I can modify the source code to make the TeX > > folding in SciTE and NotePad++ work also for ConTeXt documents? > > > > Bests > > > > > > instanton(a)ctex.org <+instanton(a)ctex.org> > > 2007-05-28 > > > > > > > > -- > Best Regards > Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility > No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China > tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com > | www.sinap.ac.cn > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Problem with setuphead and textstyle or numberstyle
by Tim Stone 28 May '07

28 May '07

I'm trying out the chapter heading method used in "In the Details" in chapter 7. I'm using exactly (I think) the code from the booklet (except that instead of \BigText and \BigNumber I'm using {\definedfont[Sans sa x]}. The style parameter to \setuphead works but neither textstyle nor numberstyle has any effect on the result. I've included the code I'm using below and would be most grateful to know what daft error I've made and can't spot. Many thanks, Tim Stone =====Code snippet below ============ \setuphead [chapter] [placehead=empty, header=chapter, style={\definedfont[SansText sa 3]}, %% This is the only one that is working - if removed, reverts to normal sized Serif textstyle={\definedfont[SansText sa 4]}, %% This isn't working - FIX ME numberstyle={\definedfont[SansText sa 5]}] %% This isn't working - FIX ME \definetext [chapter] [header] [\setups{chapter}] [] \startsetups chapter \setups[chapter:title] \setups[chapter:number] \setups[chapter:finish] \stopsetups \definelayer [chapter] [width=\dimexpr(\makeupwidth+\cutspace), height=\headerheight] \startsetups chapter:title \setlayerframed [chapter] [x=\dimexpr(\makeupwidth+\cutspace), location={left,bottom}] [height=\headerheight, foregroundcolor=white, background=color, backgroundcolor=darkblue, frame=off, offset=none, align={right,lohi}] {\hbox spread 0.5\cutspace {\hss \doiftextelse{\placeheadtext[chapter]}% {\placeheadtext[chapter]}% {\placeheadtext[title]}% \hss} \space \vskip .5cm} \stopsetups \startsetups chapter:number \setlayerframed [chapter] [x=\dimexpr(\makeupwidth+\cutspace), y=\vsize, location={left,bottom}] [width=\dimexpr(\cutspace-\rightmargindistance), height=\dimexpr(\cutspace-\rightmargindistance), foregroundcolor=blue, background=color, backgroundcolor=yellow, frame=off, offset=none, align={middle,lohi}] {\hbox to \hsize {\hss \doifmode{*bodypart}{ \placeheadnumber[chapter] }% \hss} } \stopsetups \startsetups chapter:finish \framed [width=\makeupwidth, height=\headerheight, background=chapter, frame=off] {} \stopsetups

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button for Fullscreen
by Héctor Palacios 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi context'users Please, i need a button for FullScreen mode. \but [FullScreen] Pantalla-completa but this not works. Thanks in avance. -- Héctor

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Re: [NTG-context] Test whether variable has been set
by Elliot Clifton 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi Peter, Thanks for your reply. I think I may have misunderstood the variable section on the wiki. I been using \setvariable to both declare and assign variables from my component files. When I should have been declaring them in the environment file first, right? \setvariable[namespace][key=DefaultValue], right? So how do I test for a (Default)Value? Sorry, I'm just beginning TeX programming I don't understand how to do this. Elliot

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Scite folding
by soft_share 27 May '07

27 May '07

Dear all, Just come across this thread. The TeX folding feature in NotePad++ was adapted by me and originally the adaptations was made in SciTE. As I am not a ConTeXt user, I am not aware of the structure of sectioning commands in ConTeXt. Could anyone of you let me know of a minimum list of sectioning commands in ConTeXt so that I can modify the source code to make the TeX folding in SciTE and NotePad++ work also for ConTeXt documents? Bests instanton(a)ctex.org 2007-05-28

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Reverse itemize
by Aditya Mahajan 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi, Is it possible to have a reverse key for itemize, so that \startitemize[n,reverse] \item one \item two \item three \stopitemize gives 3. one 2. two 1. three I thought that this should be easier than random items, but I can not figure how random key works. Aditya

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Test whether variable has been set
by Elliot Clifton 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi, How can test whether a variable has been set? I couldn't find any reference to this in the wiki? TIA, Elliot

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Multiple Search/Replace in one script?
by Steffen Wolfrum 26 May '07

26 May '07

Hi, I am looking for a way to automate (and also archive) my most common ten or twenty search/replace runs. I have to admit, I have no idea about scripting. But I guess there should be a way in Applecript/Perl/Rupy/Whatever to write down several entries with... ... what should be the search string ... what should be the replace string ... what kind of search should be opeated (regulr expression, case sensitive, etc.) Any recommendations? Steffen

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Ubuntu edgy/feisty: texlive and context packages
by Sanjoy Mahajan 26 May '07

26 May '07

I made texlive and context packages for Ubuntu edgy (6.10) and feisty (7.04). They are compiled on edgy (in a clean chroot) and should work on both. I haven't tested them on an edgy system, but I use them on my feisty laptop with no problems so far. Let me know of any problems. Here are the two lines for /etc/apt/sources.list (which supercede the ones in my last email): deb http://web.mit.edu/download/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ edgy/ deb-src http://web.mit.edu/download/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ edgy/ Then apt-get install context or apt-get install context context-doc-nonfree context-nonfree Would many users would like packages for Ubuntu dapper (6.06)? I'm not optimistic whether the backport from gutsy will work that far back, since library versions get farther apart. But if there's interest, I'll try it. -Sanjoy

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Header height & multipage Text.
by iscope GmbH // Oliver Siegemund 25 May '07

25 May '07

hi, we have a dokument with a multipage Text. For this dokument we set a firstpage Header and a header for all following Pages. This Headers had different heights. The problem is, the height off the text. It is at all pages the same, so on the second Page and all following the Text is placed higher but it does not fill the Page till footerheight. We've tried setting the textheight in the second Header bigger but without effects. An Example ist attached. Can someone help us? Thanks Oliver -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ::iscope gmbh osnabrück, berlin, lingen ::oliver siegemund, servertechnik / php - programmierung ::kollegienwall 17 ::49074 osnabrück ::tel 0541 350286-0 fax -5 ::osiegemund@iscope.de ::http://www.iscope.de || http://produkte.iscope.de

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Draw chess board
by Zhichu Chen 25 May '07

25 May '07

Hi I love chess games, especially one kind of them which is generally called Go. I know there is some file can store each details in one game: http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/ AFAIK, there is no module available to draw chess in ConTeXt now. I wanna do this by using MetaPost and fieldstack. But I don't know how to tell metapost the details of the sgf file. Can anyone give me a suggestion? BTW, I don't like the name. It's invented by acient Chinese and it's called Weiqi. I think we can call it Siege Chess in English. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] Manual hyphenation
by Elliot Clifton 24 May '07

24 May '07

On 2007-05-23 17:28 -400 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: >\document\-ation I've tried that. Unfortunately it only seems to work if hyphenation turned on. Elliot

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Re: [NTG-context] Latin Modern bug in lm-texnansi-os.enc
by bop＠bop.com.pl 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hi, > On the ConTeXT mailing list, Idris posted some messages because he was > trying to use oldstyle numerals in the latest Latin Modern release, > and was experiencing two pretty big problems: > > * really bad kerning around the oldstyle numerals We would be grateful if we could get more details (which font, which tfm, which encoding, pdftex or tex/dvips, on the screen or on the paper, etc.) My first guess is that proportional figures were used with tabular metrics... > * pdftex generated errors for the typewriter fonts, complaining > "glyph `one.oldstyle' undefined" etc. Yeah... This is the result of our decision to comply with the currently obeying naming conventions (better to say: fashion). The oldstyle figures that appear in ts1 (text companion) encoding are actually *.taboldstyle; the names *.oldstyle are reserved for proportional glyphs. We included also proportional oldstyle figures in LMs (and in the TeX Gyre fonts). > The implementation of 'automatic' oldstyle numbers in ConTeXt uses a > set of encoding files that used to ship with LM (lm-xxxxxx-os.enc). > By way of a map file fragment, this allows to switch the fonts > 'en masse' from lining to oldstyle (and back) without the need for > special metric files, which is a pretty nice feature. Don't understand -- the vertical oldstyle digits, in general, have different metric data (tabular digits differ only with respect to vertical dimensions). So, the replacement of the encoding implies the replacement of TFMs. Or I misundersood something. > Those encoding files now apparently obsolete: they still refer to > glyphs named e.g. `one.oldstyle', whereas in the current release of > the LM fonts it really should be `one.taboldstyle'. Yes, as I explained above. > While writing a bug report, I noticed that these encoding files are no > longer in the font distribution No. We have a lot enough of TFMs and I'd be reluctant to add more. The only resort I can see is to use OTFs... > Is this trick to get oldstyle now officially unsupported? Rather not, I've just learned about it. ;-) > because there are no oldstyle-using TFM files in the LM > distribution either ... There are. As I mentioned, ts1 encoding contains oldstyle tabular figures. Perhaps accessing them needs other tricks, but as long as 256-glyph fonts are to be used, some glyphs must be accessed clumsily. e.g., proportional digits (normal and oldstyle). Cheers -- Jacko

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Text following columns sometimes pushed into next page
by Elliot Clifton 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hi, I'm typesetting a journal in two columns. I want the correspondence address to come at the bottom of the last page outside of the columns. As in: ---------------------------- ####### ####### ####### ####### ####### ####### Addresss ---------------------------- But even when there is room the address is often put on the next page. If possible (i.e. if there's space) I need ConTeXt to keep the address on the same page. Is it possible to do that? Here's an example: \setuptolerance [verystrict] \showframe %\setuppagenumbering [location=inleft, alternative=doublesided] \definelayout[test][% backspace=1in, cutspace=0.8in, width=middle, header=5mm, headerdistance=10mm, topspace=20mm, footer=5mm, footerdistance=10mm, bottomspace=15mm, height=middle, ] \setuplayout[test] \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth} \stopcolumns %following line outside of columns often (but not always) pushed into the next page, even when there's room for it. \blank Address for correspondence: address ... \stoptext This has been annoying me for a while so your help is appreciated. TIA, Elliot

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Re: [NTG-context] Creating PDF files which are editable in Adobe Reader
by Elliot Clifton 24 May '07

24 May '07

Alas, as has already been said, the LiveCycle feature is proprietary and not free. So you won't be able to use it from ConTeXt. One alternative on Windows maybe Foxit PDF Reader which is available for free, and can do some of what you want with low-cost add-ons. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php The 'pro-pack' allows annotation: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/addons.htm#advanced And there is also a Foxit PDF editor as well, but that is more expensive. You might also look at PDFill http://www.pdfill.com/ Of course neither solutions is as convenient or as effective as being able to send annotatable and fill-able files to anyone with Adobe Reader. But this software may still be of interest. Elliot

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metafun.mem on texlive
by Andrea Valle 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hi to all, I have to extended the memory used by metafun. On my old PPC macosx with gwtex it was here: The right metafun.mem (the effective one with TeXShop): /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/ Now, I have texlive, but cannot find that file. (I tried a find form bash, but no way) Any help is much appreciated Thanks Best -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)

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Manual hyphenation
by Elliot Clifton 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, I found that my text, which is set in two columns, looks better with auto-hyphenation disabled using: \setupalign[nothyphenated] There are however several over-hanging words that I will need ConTeXt to hyphenate. I've searched the mailing list and manual and have found no information on how to do this. The info I did find was about how to influence the automatic hyphenation. How do I manually indicate to ConTeXt that a word should be hyphenation. For example if I wanted to manually force a page break or column break I would use \page and \column respectively, but what about hyphenation? At the moment I'm using: ... document-\crlf ation ... to manually create a hyphenation. Is there a better way? TIA, Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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Re: [NTG-context] \setuplayout doesn't set bottomspace
by Elliot Clifton 23 May '07

23 May '07

On 2007-05-23 18:08 +100 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >give us next time a example that make it possible for us to reproduce >your problem, I don't know how your setup is defined. > Sorry. >The following setting give me a topspace and a bottomspace with 2cm, >the values a correct in the output. You can try to replace my >dimensions with yours. > >\setuplayout >[topspace=2cm, >bottomspace=2cm, >%header=0cm, >%footer=0cm, >height=fit] Anyway that helps, I can see that I must have forgotten the height declaration. I just didn't see it was missing -- oops! Thanks, for the reminder. Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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Creating PDF files which are editable in Adobe Reader
by Tobias Burnus 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, does anyone know how to enable the editing functionality in PDFs files? Adobe Reader 8.x seems to be able to edit PDFs which have been marked as such. (Editting: Highlighting and adding comment boxes + saving the modified files. See: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/ -> e.g. Feature tour) I actually failed to find a description for this in http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html (It might be hidden in TABLE 3.20, p. 123. I'm not good at reading standards and I'm sure Adobe won't make this feature too obvious.) Tobias, who finds Adobe Reader 8 a slow resource hog

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\setuplayout doesn't set bottomspace
by Elliot Clifton 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, ConTeXt is ignoring my bottomspace dimension, all other dimension are set correctly. What can I do to set the bottom margin? I wanted a dimension of 25mm but it is currently set to 34.1mm. Thanks, Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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Multipage tables - repeating header
by The Wizard 23 May '07

23 May '07

All - I have created a table similar to the example in the wiki \starttext \setuptables[split=repeat] \starttablehead \HL \VL {\bf Head1} \VL {\bf Head2} \VL \AR \HL \stoptablehead \starttables[|l|l|] \dorecurse{50}{% \VL SomeText \VL SomeText \VL \AR \HL} \stoptables Problem: top margin on first page is bigger. \stoptext The header repeats as expected, and the table extends properly across multiple pages. The problem is, the last row on each page is missing the bottom horizontal line, except for the very last row in the table. I have tried numerous variations of "\starttabletail ... \stoptabletail", and none seem to have the desired effect. Is there an easy way to get the bottom "\HL" on the last row of each page to appear? I have tried this both on my system and on the live area of the wiki with the same result; my install is TeXExec | current distribution: web2c TeXExec | context source date: 2007.04.17 12:51 TeXExec | format path: . /home/markea/.texmf-config/web2c /home/markea/.texmf-var/web2c /home/markea/texmf/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/web2c TeXExec | start of analysis TeXExec | processing document 'texexec' TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | writing option file texexec.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1319 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./texexec.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.3 int: english/english Output written on texexec.pdf (1 page, 21611 bytes). Transcript written on texexec.log. TeXExec | runtime: 0.638854 TeXExec | end of analysis TeXExec | TeXExec | TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | TeXUtil | version 9.1.0 - 1997-2005 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | CtxTools | version 1.3.3 - 2004/2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | TeXExec | testing interface en TeXExec | pdfTeX Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.3 int: english/english TeXExec | TeXExec | testing interface nl TeXExec | pdfTeX Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.3 int: dutch/dutch Mark Almeida

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an ugly bug
by Idris Samawi Hamid 23 May '07

23 May '07

Dear syndicate, This is an ugly bug; The right kerning of the the numeral '1' is really bad: ======================= \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] % a simplified latin-modern typescript \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [texnansi] \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[modern,11pt] \noheaderandfooterlines \starttext 1932 19 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 21 31 41 51 61 71 81 91 01 \stoptext ======================= pdf attached. Uses ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.26 Has anyone else noticed this? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid 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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oldstyle bug
by Idris Samawi Hamid 22 May '07

22 May '07

Dear gang, Using global oldstyle: ================= \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][hz,normal] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] % a simplified latin-modern typescript \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [texnansi] \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[modern,11pt] ================= When I use \type, I get lots of messages like: ================= pdfTeX warning: pdftex.exe (file c:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmt t10.pfb): glyph `eight.oldstyle' undefined ================= This did not used to happen before. Not sure if this is a ConTeXt or Latin~Modern bug. I tried ================= \def\TYPE{% \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern] [texnansi] \switchtobodyfont[modern,11pt]} \setuptyping[style=\TYPE] ================= but this did not work. Please advise! Workarounds welcome-) Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid 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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margins at a cover page
by Gerhard Kugler 22 May '07

22 May '07

Hi, I think it is not appropriate to have a smaller left than right margin at a cover page. But my tries to achieve this are not successful. My relevant expressions: \setuplayout[header=0mm,location=middle] \definelayer[bild][x=0mm, y=0mm, width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \setlayer[bild][]{\externalfigure[cover4a1.pdf][]} \defineoverlay[cover][{\placelayer[bild]}] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \setuppagenumbering[alternative=singlesided] \setupnumbering[place=] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=cover] \startstandardmakeup[doublesided=no] Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut Bensheim (Germany) http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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Ubuntu 7.04 texlive and context packages backported
by Sanjoy Mahajan 20 May '07

20 May '07

Here are not well untested texlive and context packages backported to Ubuntu 7.04: deb http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ feisty/ deb-src http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ feisty/ I use these packages on my laptop with no problems so far (half a day of testing), but let me know if you find anything broken. They are based on the version in Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy), and the context-nonfree and context-doc-nonfree packages are directly from Norbert's repository. Quickstart: Put the above two lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list (replacing the lines for Norbert's repo) then hopefully just these two commands: apt-get update apt-get install context By 'not well tested', I mean that I learnt only yesterday how to turn rebuilt packages into a public repository, so something will go wrong. But I can recompile my textbook after installing those packages, so metapost and pdftex and context are working reasonably well. -Sanjoy

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How to stop \setuppagenumbering forcing chapter to start on right?
by Elliot Clifton 18 May '07

18 May '07

Hi, How can I stop \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] from forcing chapters to start on the right? I don't want any blank pages. Thanks, Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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date format in Chinese environment
by fdu.xiaojf＠gmail.com 18 May '07

18 May '07

When I was trying to typeset date in Chinese environment(\usemodule[chinese]) using the commond \currentdate, the date format was strange: "2007 五月 18"(the month was in Chinese). What I want is 2007.5.18 or 2007-5-18(the month should not be in Chinese). How to achieve this? Thanks !

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Debian repository
by Alex Lubberts 18 May '07

18 May '07

Hi all, Seems like the apt source "deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ context/" stopped working. Does anybody know what's going on? Regards, Alex

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Can't get header repetition with multipage table
by Jean-Philippe Rey 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hello folks, I can't get repeated headers in a multipage table. I tried the following: %------------------------------------------------ \starttext \starttablehead \HL \VL Column 1 \VL Column 2 \VL\SR \HL \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL \VL Column 1 \VL Column 2 \VL\SR \HL \stoptabletail \starttables[|l|l|] \dorecurse{100}{\VL value \VL value \VL\SR} \VL value \VL value \VL\SR \stoptables \stoptext %------------------------------------------------ I get a multipage table, but the header appears only at the beginning of the table and doesn't repeat itself on each page. Same for the tail part. I believe I am using the last ConTeXt version: TeXExec | TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | TeXUtil | version 9.1.0 - 1997-2005 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | CtxTools | version 1.3.3 - 2004/2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.03 13:01 MKII fmt: 2007.4.7 int: english/english This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) I tried first http://live.contextgarden.net/ but ConTeXt live seems to be down at the moment, I always get the message "the file 'texexec' is not found". Any help most welcome. -- Jean-Philippe Rey Professeur informatique - École Centrale Paris jean-philippe.rey(a)ecp.fr 92295 Châtenay-Malabry Cedex - France

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verbatim on wiki
by Andrea Valle 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hi, I've added the discussion of the approach I used for the recently posted doc on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_text As it is a bit "heretical" and I don't want to widespread bad practices :) please let me know if it is of some interest or if I have to move it on another place etc Best -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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ConTeXt release 2007.04.17
by Taco Hoekwater 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hi all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip The current release has version 2007.04.17 As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Highlights: * mptopdf and texexec (once again) support the handling of LaTeX files * allow blocking of installed programs for texutil * fix the handling of external graphics in xetex * various low-level fixes and extensiosn for multicolumn handling * bugfix for disappearing footnotes * support for TeX-Gyre Hermes * For some other small changes, see the wiki page Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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ConTeXt on Excursion: translations in the Garden
by Vit Zyka 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi all, there is a new plant in the Garden: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_on_Excursion%2C_translations It gathers translations of the beginner's manual ConTeXt on Excursion (authors Ton Otten and Hans Hagen). Currently there exist Dutch, English, and Czech versions. Czech version is a team work of translators (Ján Buša, Jiří Hrbek, Martina Plachá, Petr Tesařík, and Vít Zýka) supported by Czechoslovac TUG (CSTUG). We use as a model the English version (although the original is the Dutch one). A reader can find several additional sections dealing with localization and information sources. Non Czech readers have also some benefic as a side effect of this project. The English version was slightly actualized and fixed some bugs. All versions are acompanied by actual macro syntax and listed in the command index. Sources of all three versions are stored on the public SVN repository as a part of the ConTeXt manual project (https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextman/) administrated by Taco. There is a makefile for an easy manual generation. It is ready for adding new stuff/actualizing/fixing bugs and even for new language translation. On the Garden page we can find breaf instructions for that. If you have any question, please do not hesitate to ask me. Best reading Vit

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texexec message suppression.
by John R. Culleton 15 May '07

15 May '07

for some time now I have been fussing over the volume of uneccessary (to me) informational messages spewed forth by texexec, in particular the long list of font scripts repeated sometimes 8 or 9 times. Since I don't even use most of these scripts I wonder why they show up on every pass of every compile. The --silent parameter to texexec should suppress some or all of these message, or so the manual says. But it doesn't. I get the same long list of messages, repeated over and over. Ideally I could suppress informational messages but keep the warning messages, per the traditional unix > and 2> output routings for sysout and syserr. But texexec does not appear to make the distinction. Routing all output to /dev/null is a trick that I use sometimes, but if the run errors off then it just hangs with no message. Are there any clever workarounds I have missed? Is there a setting somewhere in my texlive instllation that I can tweak? Should I do surgery on texexec itself? (Never fooled with Ruby, but there is always a first time.) -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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XYPic
by Dirard Mikdad 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hallo, I want to convert my thesis (which I wrote in plain tex) to ConTeXt. Unfortunately the process fails because my documents contain some commutative diagrams made in Xypic. Is it possible to convert xy code to something that ConTeXt can understand? Thanks, Dirard

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Underline the headertext with a thinrule
by Bert Trüger 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi again, luigi, thanks for your tips. I simply want to put a \thinrule underneath the headertext in textwidth. My setup is: \setupheadertexts[chapter][\pagenumber][section][\pagenumber] \setupheader[after=\thinrule] \setuphead[subsubsection][number=no,alternative=text,indenttext=yes,textstyle=bold] \definetext[chapter][footer][pagenumber] \setuphead[chapter][header=high,footer=chapter,page=yes] \setuphead[blank][state=empty] This way I get a \thinrule starting in the left margin in textwidth under an odd page. I would like the headertext with chapter and pagenumber underlined with \thinrule on every odd page, except it is blank or the beginning of a new chapter, and the same with section and pagenumber in the header for every even page, except it is blank or the beginning of a new chapter -- a simple underlined headtext like in many books. Thanks for your help Bert

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