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non-integer bodyfont size
by Sanjoy Mahajan 14 May '07

14 May '07

I'm a bit confused about font sizes. I had a bunch of missing \Delta symbols in inline math (e.g. $\Delta x$), which I tracked down to \setupbodyfont[10.5pt] The non-integral point size works for text but not for math (the \Delta turned into a backquote). How to fix that? type-siz.tex has several sections to which I could add \definebodyfontenvironment or \definebodyfont lines. Which sections would I add to? Or can I put the additions outside of that file? And, most crucially, what are the magic lines :-) Thanks for suggestions, which I'll wikify. -Sanjoy

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39e NTG bijeenkomst
by Willi Egger 14 May '07

14 May '07

Beste leden, De NTG bijeenkomst op 8 juni in de Faculteit Diergeneeskunde in Utrecht komt dichter bij. We zullen de dag besteden aan aspecten rond fonts en taal. Onderwerpen zullen zijn: - Fonts/ taal -- XeTeX - Fonts -- TeXlive - Fonts -- LuaTeX - Font features in OTF - Inventarisatie van problemen in connectie met fonts en taal De volgende bijeenkomst is de gelegenheid bij uitstek, om informatie op te doen maar ook om ter plekke ervaringen met elkaar te delen. Bijv. welke fonts gebruik je, wat zou je verbeterd willen zien, wat zijn je verwachtingen. Dit is een kans om wensen kenbaar te maken. Een korte presentatie, waarin jou probleem uiteengezet wordt kan een uitstekende ophanger zijn, om de inventarisatie van verbeter punten te illustreren. Voor vragen en aanmeldingen: meld je bij de secretaris! Willi Egger Secretaris NTG w.egger(a)boede.nl

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live broken & partially fixed (was: Can't get header repetition with multipage table)
by Mojca Miklavec 14 May '07

14 May '07

On 5/14/07, Jean-Philippe Rey wrote: > > 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". Thanks for report (and many special thanks to those who read all the messages on the list and come up with ideas how to fix it - they know who they are ;) Next time simply CC to one of the gardeners. Live is fixed now, but I figured out that wiki is broken as well ... but since nobody submits anything to it anyway, there is really no need to hurry ;) Mojca

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Add a headrule to the header and reduzie interlinespacing in narrower
by Bert Trüger 13 May '07

13 May '07

Hi, I have two problems. Firstly, I'd like to insert a headrule in textwidht under the headertext and secondly I am using the narrower-environement for citation, but instead of big interlinespace I'd prefer medium interlinespace for the citation. Probably it is the wrong way to use narrower for citations, what would be better? Further it would be fine, if I could disable indenting in the citations. Kind regards and thanks in advance Bert

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hotkey definitions again
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 May '07

13 May '07

Hello, I have following two definitions for hotkeys \def\hotkey#1{\inframed[corner=00, offset=0pt]{\ #1\ }} \def\hotkey#1{\inframed[corner=00, offset=0pt]{\enspace#1\enspace}} The first is my favorite since it looks compact, but one-letter hotkeys look odd (the frame's height is more then width). \hotkey{Ctrl} - nice \hotkey{T} - not nice The second definition works better for one-letter hotkeys. \hotkey{Ctrl} - not nice \hotkey{T} - nice My question is: can I set the MINIMUM width of a box to have boxes not less then, say, squared. -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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linking to txt files
by Andrea Valle 11 May '07

11 May '07

Dear all, I've written an introduction to SuperCollider with ConTeXt. http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/sw/sc/prd_tSCIRMA.pdf I'm really happy of the result. Now, it has been suggested to have the included code accessible in some "cleaner" way (i.e. the supercollider source code as it is). My idea would be to add a link on something (e.g. a title of the code fragment) so that clicking on it in the pdf would open via a txt editor (or a browser, that's the same) the related sc source file. Something like opening movies or audio files, but with a text file. I guess it's simple but until now I found no way, Thanks a lot 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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in text enumeration?
by Michael 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi, I'd like to define a 'enumeration' so I can type \doc, \doc, which expands to 'Document A', 'Document B' (so I don't have to keep track of the A/B/C. A defineenumeration does almost what I want except I want the 'Document A' to be part of a sentence rather than a special heading. (There is no 'intext' option in the 'location' parameter.). Plus, how can I have the A/B/C instead of 1/2/3? [conversion=Character] doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions are welcome. Cheers, Michael

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embedded fonts
by Jörg Hagmann 09 May '07

09 May '07

Dear list members, I have a possibly off-topic and certainly naive question. But unfortunately it's urgent, and a systematic search would take too long: I just finished a 84 page document and sent it to the printer. They say the fonts are not embedded. Is there a switch that allows me to do that? If not, what else can I do? Thanks a lot, Jörg

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large greek (math) font?
by Michael 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi, I'm trying to make slides in ConTeXt and needs larger font size. However, in this example, the Phi is not showing up (works with 12/14pt) \setupbodyfont[20pt] \starttext This is a greek letter $\Phi$ \stoptext How can I get around that? I also wanted to use sans font and found that modules amsl apparently resets the font to rm. Thanks, Michael

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What module does this document use ?
by Lingyun Yang 09 May '07

09 May '07

Can anyone help me with this kind of document ? http://www.pragma-ade.com/present/talks/pre-mml.pdf Which module does it use ? Is there anyway I can find its example tex code ? I tried google, but didn't find much information. Thanks. best regards, May.

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Helvetica - 50th Birthday
by Keith McKay 09 May '07

09 May '07

I saw this on the BBC News Website and thought it may be of interest http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6638423.stm Keith McKay Hamilton, Scotland, UK. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.6/794 - Release Date: 08/05/2007 14:23

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short last line
by Steffen Wolfrum 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi, looking for a solution to avoid short snippets in a paragraph's last line I found lefthyphenmin/righthyphenmin. But as this affects all hyphenations it is not useful. Is there also a command that only cares for the last line of a paragraph, controlling that this last line should consist of e.g. at least 5 characters (all in all, or at least righthyphenmin 4 characters)? Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] hotkey and strut again
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hello, I've found the following solution some time ago and I'm quietly satisfied with it: \def\hotkey#1{\inframed[corner=00, offset=0pt]{\ #1\ }} -- Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Re: [NTG-context] [metapost] shading text
by Mojca Miklavec 08 May '07

08 May '07

The ConTeXt mailing list is probably more suitable for this discussion, so I'm redirecting your question there (if anyone responds to it). On 5/2/07, Stephan Hennig wrote: > Hi, > > my attempt to shade a piece of text with MetaFun fails (see below). Is > this a restriction of MetFun/MetaPost or of the PDF format? > > While there is an explicit example for transparent text in metafun-p.pdf > on p. 185 I didn't find one for shaded text. Is shading text possible? > > Best regards, > Stephan Hennig > > input metafun > beginfig(1); > sh_sqr := define_linear_shade(origin, (100bp,0), white, blue); > sh_txt := define_linear_shade(origin, (100bp,0), white, red); > fill unitsquare scaled 100bp withshade sh_sqr; > label("Not shaded!", (50,50)) withshade sh_txt; > endfig; > end > > Compile with > > mpost shad > mptopdf shad ---------- On 5/6/07, Stephan Hennig wrote: > Mojca Miklavec schrieb: > > It should be possible to do it inside PDF, but it's not implemented (yet?). > > Thanks. Would be a nice feature for, e.g., invitation cards. PDF uses 8 different kinds of text: filled, stroked (already implemented with \starteffect[outline]...\stopeffect), ... and some others. See Chapter 5.2 of PDF reference manual. You probably need Text rendering type 4. Extending support for it would be a nice excercise in metafun programming, but I'm too slow to figure it out in a reasonable time. I *really* need to finish extending smooth shading patterns to a more generic model, and I will keep your problem in mind in case it remains unsolved, but don't count on me if you need it now. There are some people on the ConTeXt mailing list (apart from Hans of course) who might be able to help. Mojca

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[texhax] Announcing CrossTeX a a powerful drop-in replacement for BibTeX. (fwd)
by Aditya Mahajan 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hi, I am forwarding the announcement from texhax list. The tool looks interesting, though I have not checked if it can be used easily with Taco's bib module or not. Aditya ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Burgess <burgess(a)systems.cs.cornell.edu> To: texhax(a)tug.org Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 12:34:15 -0400 Subject: [texhax] Announcing CrossTeX, a powerful drop-in replacement for BibTeX. CrossTeX is a new bibliography management tool that aims to render bibliographies less error-prone, databases easier to maintain, and documents easier to cite. It is based on an object-oriented data model that minimizes redundant information in bibliographic databases. It enables works to be cited not only through syntactic object keys but through semantic information that uniquely identifies the work. It also supports customization and automation to a much greater extent in order to avoid errors, typos, and inconsistencies in bibliographies, while providing users with fine-grained control over the typesetting of references and citations. Other features include support for new object types, such as URLs and patents, that have become common in citations; direct generation of HTML documents; easy programmability using a well-known language; and extensive databases of published works. It is backwards-compatible with existing BibTeX databases, and, overall, builds on BibTeX's strengths while fundamentally fixing the problems that lead to errors in BibTeX-formatted documents. Downloads, a tutorial, and more extensive information are available at http://crosstex.sourceforge.net/. Robert Burgess Emin Gün Sirer _______________________________________________ TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq Mailing list archives: http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/ More links: http://tug.org/begin.html Automated subscription management: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax Human mailing list managers: postmaster(a)tug.org

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' doesn't make a prime in math mode
by Ricard Roca 07 May '07

07 May '07

Hi, In the lastest conTeXt, typing a ' in math mode typesets nothing and gives an error (undefined control sequence). You have to use ^\prime, instead. Thanks, Ricard Roca

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differences of perl/ruby texexec
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 May '07

05 May '07

Ahoi! While processing my LilyPond/ConTeXt songbook, I experience still the same behaviour as in 2006-10: The checking, if a LilyPond buffer/temp file has changed, works only with the old Perl texexec, the recent Ruby version creates/processes the files only if they're missing completely and then still uncomplete: after 20-some songs, some buffers get dropped, so that LilyPond score and ConTeXt lyrics don't match. But I can't simply use the Perl texexec, because that doesn't create table of contents and references. Besides being much slower. Looks like the workaround of first Perl, then Ruby gives the expected result, but it's an annoyance. Maybe it's only a problem of the LilyPond module, but I guess the filechange check is somehow broken in the Ruby version. What details should I provide to track the problem down? 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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MetaPost question
by Tobias Burnus 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi, I want to define a macro in MetaPost which does: def myfunc (expr x,y)(text t) = draw thelabel.rt (btex You passed \quotation{t} etex, (x,y)); where t in btex ... text is replaced by the argument. How to do so? Tobias

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hotkey and strut again
by Peter Münster 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hello, I'm using the following command for typesetting "hotkeys": \def\hotkey#1{\inframed[background=screen,offset=overlay, height=\lineheight,corner=00]{~#1~}} Now I realize, that with an argument without depth (\hotkey{Alt} for example), the text is not aligned. Same result with strut=no,yes,global. With strut=local the text without depth is well aligned, but no more the text *with* depth ("Space" for example). Here my test-file: \setupcolors[state=start] \def\Test#1{ \def\hotkey##1{\inframed[background=screen,offset=overlay, height=\lineheight,corner=00,strut=#1]{~##1~}} strut=#1: bla \hotkey{Alt} bla \hotkey{Space} bla\blank} \starttext \Test{no} \Test{yes} \Test{global} \Test{local} \stoptext Any hint is appreciated! Cheers, Peter P.S.: My workaround: \def\hotkey#1{\inframed[background=screen,offset=overlay, height=\lineheight,corner=00]{~\vphantom{Sp}#1~}} -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Typesetting musical scores
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hello, Is there a way to typeset (simple) musical scores with ConTeXt/XeTeX? I found Lilypond, but whether it is supported now is obscure. -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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ConTeXt in Russian?
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hello, Is it possible to have Russian version of ConTeXt? Some people who I know could already start using the ConTeXt (instead of Word) for typesetting a scientific journal, but they are deterred by not knowing English.

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unsetting textstyle for one synonym
by Peter Münster 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hello, how could I cancel the textstyle=cap for just one synonym? Here an example to show what I want: \definesynonyms[Test][Tests][\Full] \setupsynonyms[Test][textstyle=cap] \Test{BLA}{This is B.L.A.} %\Test[CONTEXT]{{\nocap{\ConTeXt}}}{This is \ConTeXt}% does not work %\Test[CONTEXT]{{\tf\ConTeXt}}{This is \ConTeXt}% does not work \starttext \BLA\ and \CONTEXT. \stoptext Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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mactex
by Andrea Valle 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi, I was taking a look at the wiki. Personally I was not satisfied by the infos on context for macosx. Having a mactel everything worked in a breeeze with mactex http://www.tug.org/mactex/ So I was starting to put it on the top of the page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mac_Installation as the actual simplest way to have ConTeXt, just before GW (which is, helas, unmantained). Database being locked, I thought it was more fruitful to ask the macosx users opinion on the subject Am I missing something? 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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Latin Modern vs Ancient Greek module
by Alan Bowen 03 May '07

03 May '07

The problem is that I no longer seem to be able to produce footnotes when the bodyfont is Latin Modern and I am using the Thomas Schmitz’ ancientgreek module. The following works but only when the two lines installing the ancientgreek module are commented out. \usetypescript[lmodern][\defaultencoding] \starttypescript[serif][default][size] \definebodyfont[9.5pt,10.5pt][rm][default] \definebodyfont[9.5pt,10.5pt][mm][default] \stoptypescript \setupbodyfont[lmodern,rm,10.5pt] %\usemodule[ancientgreek][font=GreekOxoniensis,scale=1.15,% % altfont=GreekDioxipe,altscale=1.15] \setupfootnotes[split=verystrict] \setupfootnotes[conversion=numbers, way=bytext,location=page,rule=on,bodyfont=9.5pt,style=normal] \setupfootnotes[interaction=yes] \setupnotedefinition[footnote][indenting={big,yes}] \setupfootnotes[indenting=yes] \starttext Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Aliquam erat volutpat.% % \footnote{Vivamus luctus elit sit amet mi.} % \stoptext If these lines are not commented out, the error message is ! Font \nullfont has only 7 fontdimen parameters. <to be read again> \advance \dohighlow ...#2\textfont 2\else #3ex\fi \advance \scratchdimen #4ex \kern .... \dogotofixed ...c!color {#1\presetgoto }}}\else #1 \fi } \doifreferencefoundelse ...ce \ifreferencefound #2 \else #3\fi \egroup \dores... \gotobox ...2]} {\hbox {\unknownreference {#2}#1}} \referenceinfo {<} {#2}\egr... <argument> ...[\s!fnt :f:\internalfootreference ]} \fi \doifelse {\noteparame... ... l.29 \footnote{ Vivamus luctus elit sit amet mi.} I am running ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.4.24 int: english/english. This is a new problem: it started wuite recently. And there is no problem if I use some font other than Latin Modern. Any suggestions will be gratefully received.

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CtxTools update problem solved
by Keith McKay 03 May '07

03 May '07

Thanks Peter, Zhichu and Syste I tried Peter's suggestion of renamining the gunzip file to unzip but got the output below. It didn't extract the cont-tmf.zip due to an invalid option but did continue on. So I tried Zhichu and Syste's suggestion and that worked great. Thank you all for your helpful suggestions. Best Wishes Keith McKay Hamilton, Scotland, UK. >texmfstart ctxtools --update CtxTools | updating F:/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local CtxTools | fetching cont-tmf.zip CtxTools | extracting cont-tmf.zip unzip: invalid option -- o unzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93) usage: unzip [-acdfhlLnNtvV19] [-S suffix] [file ...] -a --ascii ascii text; convert end-of-lines using local conventions -c --stdout write on standard output, keep original files unchanged -d --decompress decompress -f --force force overwrite of output file and compress links -h --help give this help -l --list list compressed file contents -L --license display software license -n --no-name do not save or restore the original name and time stamp -N --name save or restore the original name and time stamp -q --quiet suppress all warnings -S .suf --suffix .suf use suffix .suf on compressed files -t --test test compressed file integrity -v --verbose verbose mode -V --version display version number -1 --fast compress faster -9 --best compress better file... files to (de)compress. If none given, use standard input. CtxTools | remaking formats TeXExec | using search method 'kpsefast' TeXExec | updating file database TeXExec | using tex engine pdftex TeXExec | using tex format path F:/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdftex TeXExec | generating tex format cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213 (Web2c 7.5.5) (INITEX) \write18 enabled. <Very big snip of output> No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/785 - Release Date: 02/05/2007 14:16

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CtxTools problem
by Keith McKay 03 May '07

03 May '07

I'm having a bit of a problem when I run texmfstart ctxtools --update The output is given below. >texmfstart ctxtools --update CtxTools | updating F:/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local CtxTools | fetching cont-tmf.zip CtxTools | extracting cont-tmf.zip CtxTools | fatal error, make sure that you have 'unzip' in your path CtxTools | unable to extract cont-tmf.zip >Exit code: 0 I'm using the standalone version on WindowsXP. I use 7-Zip as my zip file tool and have that in my path. I set this through windows control panel>System>Advanced>Environment variables. I'm beginning to wonder if "make sure that you have 'unzip' in your path" means something else? Any tips? Thanks Keith McKay Hamilton, Scotland, UK. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.2/785 - Release Date: 02/05/2007 14:16

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Traditional Chinese Typesetting (almost complete)
by Zhichu Chen 03 May '07

03 May '07

Hi, everybody Based on the core codes of ConTeXt and all helps from you guys, I've almost finished a module that can typeset traditional Chinese books. I put an example on http://zhichu.chen.googlepages.com/chinesevertical I also made a first five chapters of a famous novel---Stone Legend---which locates at: http://zhichu.chen.googlepages.com/SL.pdf I hope somebody who is interested in Chinese could help me to release my module. -- 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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Which manual for basic drawing?
by James Buchanan 03 May '07

03 May '07

Hello, I'm writing some simple workbooks for kids in grades 1 to 10 to help them with their math. I've worked with TeX and LaTeX for a while, until I was attracted to ConTeXt for is nice colors and things like that. I need to know how to: * Draw simple number lines, color if possible, label the cm dots or vertical lines, label the number line, fill in the numbers (or miss some out), place it where I want it, and perhaps have the label in a different color * Draw plane shapes like squares, rectangles, triangles and so on, just 2-D plane shapes. Outline in some color, inside with another color. Label them. Place them where I a want them. Sometimes I would like to extend the lines to show that all exterior angles add up to 360 degrees, things like that, and add in the arc and shade it in a different color. When doing basic material like: Solve: 6 + 7 + 4 = [box] Have the equals signs and boxes lined up (or not), two sets of simple add these numbers (or whatever) per column. The answer box could be filled with a light color. Is there a manual I should start with to learn how to do these things, and develop my own macros? First I would just like to learn how to do them, then gradually write my own macros. The material in my TeX Book and my Guide to LaTeX series gives instruction in drawing but it quickly progresses beyond my ability into 2-D shapes and so on. I understand basic things like \move{} and lineto{} and \lvec{} but that's where I get confused. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good ConTeXt series of readings to come to grips to switching from TeX/LaTeX to ConTeXt and then onto drawing basics and fonts and colors. Thank you for your time, James Buchanan

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\title and \subject parameters.
by John R. Culleton 02 May '07

02 May '07

I want the above cited entities to be done in sans serif and bold. The manual shows \setuphead choices such as "textstyle=boldslanted" but not my particular selection. What is the preferred way to designate my choice? -- 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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AMS extensions and Context.
by John R. Culleton 02 May '07

02 May '07

The folks over at Scribus (a Quarkish Open Source page layout program) are considering using some form of TeX for math typesetting. I mentioned plain pdftex and Context as forms of TeX to be considered as well as LaTeX. The question came up: how does Context comport with AMS extensions? What should I say in reply? -- 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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Rotating multiple-page spanning tabulate
by Tobias Burnus 01 May '07

01 May '07

Hi, I have a tabulate which spans multiple pages and is broader than \textwidth, but slightly smaller than \textheight. I therefore want to print it 90 degrees rotated, but it still should span several pages and the headertexts should remain at the old place. Any idea how to do this? If this is not possible, what is the best way to temporarily switch to landscape? Tobias

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Re: [NTG-context] [metapost] MetaPost 1.000 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Stephan Hennig wrote: > Taco Hoekwater schrieb: > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> What is new in version 1.000: >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > * The output file naming scheme is configurable. Right. I overlooked it (because it was already in 'CHANGES' for 0.920) > (If this hasn't been removed as a last minute change. :) No,no. Best wishes, Taco (and sorry about that typo in the supelec URL)

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 34, Issue 66
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hello, It seems like \setuparranging[2SIDE] prevents the contents to be created. In the example below, only 'Contents' word is displayed and the rest is lost. Removing this very command helps, but how can else I have two A5 pages imposed on A4 sheet? \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2SIDE] \starttext \completecontent \section{First section} \subsection{First subsection} \subsubsection{First subsubsection} \subsubsubsection{First subsubsubsection} \section{Second section} \subsection{Second subsection} \subsubsection{Second subsubsection} \subsubsubsection{Second subsubsubsection} \stoptext -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Syntax highlighted output
by Chris Rawnsley 30 Apr '07

30 Apr '07

Hello All, I am writing a project report for a PHP project I have completed and I need to include the code I have written. I would like to have code that is highlighted similar to the editor I use (it's Notepad2 but I'm sure most of you know what I mean), has line numbers and is in a monospaced font. Now I know that ConTeXt itself doesn't have support for PHP highlighting but I have found something in the third party modules that is able to use ViM to do what I want. Unfortuantely, I can't get it to work, hence why I am here! I'm on Windows XP and I am using the standalone ConTeXt distribution from the 22nd March 2007. When I came to install the module, I found that it was already included in the distribution. I have installed the distribution under C:\ConTeXt\ along with Perl (C:\perl\) and Ruby (C:\ruby\). What is non-standard in my setup is my own custom built batch file: set file=c_Implementation call C:\ConTeXt\usr\local\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\ConTeXt\usr\local\context\tex call texmfstart texexec --pdf %file% rem Clears up the log files and puts them in separete directory. if exist %file%.log move %file%.log Log\%file%.log if exist %file%-mpgraph.mp move %file%-mpgraph.mp Log\%file%-mpgraph.mp if exist %file%.tmp move %file%.tmp Log\%file%.tmp if exist %file%.tui move %file%.tui Log\%file%.tui if exist %file%.tuo move %file%.tuo Log\%file%.tuo if exist mpgraph.mp move mpgraph.mp Log\mpgraph.mp if exist %file%-mpgraph-temp-mpgraph.mp move %file%-mpgraph-temp-mpgraph.mp Log\%file%-mpgraph-temp-mpgraph.mp if exist %file%-mpgraph-temp.dvi move %file%-mpgraph-temp.dvi Log\%file%-mpgraph-temp.dvi if exist %file%-mpgraph.log move %file%-mpgraph.log Log\%file%-mpgraph.log if exist %file%-mpgraph.mp.keep move %file%-mpgraph.mp.keep Log\%file%-mpgraph.mp.keep if exist %file%-mpgraph.1 move %file%-mpgraph.1 Log\%file%-mpgraph.1 if exist %file%-mpgraph.mpb move %file%-mpgraph.mpb Log\%file%-mpgraph.mpb if exist %file%-mpgraph.mpo move %file%-mpgraph.mpo Log\%file%-mpgraph.mpo if exist %file%-mpgraph.mpx move %file%-mpgraph.mpx Log\%file%-mpgraph.mpx rem Runs whatever is associated with PDF files if exist %file%.pdf start %file%.pdf I'll put that in the directory of the .tex file I want to run it on. In this case it is "c_Implementation.tex". My implementation file looks like this: \startcomponent c_Implementation \product ../prd_TennisClubBookingSystem \project ../../prj_School %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Setup Figures % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setupexternalfigures[directory={Implementation/Figures,Figures}] %%%%%%%%%%% % Content % %%%%%%%%%%% \chapter[cha:Implementation]{Implementation} \setupcolors[state=start] \definevimtyping [RUBY] [syntax=ruby] \startRUBY #! /usr/bin/ruby # This is my first ruby program puts "Hello World" \stopRUBY And when I run my batch file on it, TeXexec returns the error: ! Undefined control sequence. l.36 \definevimtyping [RUBY] [syntax=ruby] I think where I am falling down is that ViM doesn't seem integrated to me. I have it placed under C:\Programs\ViM\ and I used the installer which has all the different types GUI and command line version as well. Do I need the set something up in the module to make it know where ViM is or do I need to somehow directly use ViM itself? Thank you for reading and thank you in advance for any help! Chris

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Re: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of framed text
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Apr '07

29 Apr '07

Hello, Please, don't take me as too much exacting man, but Mojca's (partial) solution \def\hotkey#1{\inframed[corner=00]{\ #1\ }} is more suitable for me than the Wolfgangs's (complete) one: \defineframed [dohotkey] [strut=yes,corner=00,frameoffset=-0.2em,location=low] \definehspace[hotkey][0.6em] \def\hotkey#1{\dohotkey{\hspace[hotkey]#1\hspace[hotkey]}} The latter add space between surrounding words proportionally to the in-frame space. The ideal solution would be \def\hotkey#1{\inframed[corner=00, location=low, height=\lineheight]{\ #1\ }} but it doesn't work. Maybe it is a bug, ideed? Best, Vyatcheslav

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Dummy question about \externalfigure
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hello, Sorry for dummy question, but why there is always no blank line BEFORE, but there exists a blank line AFTER the \externalfigure? Even leaving a blank paragraph before and omitting it after the figure doesn't change anything. :( What is I want the opposite -- a blank line before and tight spacing after? Best, Vyatcheslav

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Boxed text on the same line as a figure
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hello, Please, help me with following. I have a figure included as \externalfigure[lily02.png] spanning an half of the text width. I want place some additional text in a box RIGHT to it. This box will not overlap with the figure. The rest of text flows as usual, that is before and after the image. Thanks in advance. Best, Vyatcheslav

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iint, iiint, etc. for math mode
by Aditya Mahajan 28 Apr '07

28 Apr '07

Hi, Here is ConTeXt version of iint, iiint, etc from amsmath. Basically, just combine the intop symbols with appropriate kern between them. And in case of \iint\limits, provides a visually centered subscript. Aditya \unprotect \def\dointkern {\mkern-6mu\mathchoice{\mkern-3mu}{}{}{}} \definemathcommand [iint] {\repeatintegral{1}} \definemathcommand [iiint] {\repeatintegral{2}} \definemathcommand [iiiint] {\repeatintegral{3}} \def\repeatintegral#1% {\scratchtoks\emptytoks \let\dointlimits\nolimits \dorecurse{#1}{\appendtoks \intop \dointkern \to \scratchtoks} \appendtoks \intop \dointlimits \to \scratchtoks \edef\dodorepeatintegral{\the\scratchtoks} \futurelet\next\dorepeatintegral} %D If the \type{\limits} option is used after \type{\iint}, use %D \type{\mathop} and fudge the left hand space a bit to make the %D subscript visually centered. \def\dorepeatintegral {\ifx\limits\next \dointlimitcorrection \else \ifx \displaylimits\next \dointlimitcorrection \fi\fi \dodorepeatintegral} \def\dointlimitcorrection {\mkern-7mu\mathchoice{\mkern-2mu}{}{}{}% \mathop\bgroup \mkern7mu\mathchoice{\mkern2mu}{}{}{}% \let\dointlimits\egroup} \protect \starttext \tracingmacros=2 $$ \iint_a f(x) dx \iint\limits_a f(x) dx $$ $$ \iiint_a f(x) dx $$ \stoptext

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creating and placing floats with both text and graphics
by Hamid Kamrani 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Is it possible to create and place a float in ConTeXt containing both text and graphics? In the following sample code a framedtext is created containing a figuretext but when placing the framedtext as a float on a doublesided page layout the placement at bottom of the odd page has extra white spaces below the box and is completely off on the even page (does not obey the "location=inner" directive. Please advise. \showframe \showgrid \setupcolors[state=start] \enableregime[mac] \setuplayout[height=10.25in,width=4.75in,margin=2.625in,backspace=.5in,topspace=.75in,header=.25in,footer=.25in,location=middle] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,align=broad,location=] \setuppapersize[US Letter][US Letter] \setupbodyfont[rm,10pt] \starttext \startbuffer[MyFloat] \startframedtext[][margin=yes,background=screen,backgroundscreen=.8,width=\dimexpr(\makeupwidth+\marginwidth+\rightmargindistance)] {\definedfont[Regular sa 3] \framed[frame=off,bottomframe=on,strut=no]{Knuth}} \startfiguretext [right] [] {none} {\framed[width=5cm,height=3cm]{!}} \blank[big] \par \input knuth \par \stopfiguretext \input knuth \par \stopframedtext \stopbuffer \placefigure[bottom,location=inner,nonumber][]{none}{\externalfigure[MyFloat.tmp][]} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte \par \input knuth \par} \placefigure[bottom,location=inner,nonumber][]{none}{\externalfigure[MyFloat.tmp][]} \stoptext

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Xypic
by Dirard Mikdad 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '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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cannot set "et al." to italic
by Roy Zuo 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi all, When using the bibltx module, I want to make the otherstext "et al." italic. I have tried \setupcite[authoryears][otherstext={\it et al.}] but no luck. After looking in to the mailing list archive, I find that the italic style seems have been made default for most recent bibliography modules(am I right?). I just want to do that in my setup, can I? Or, do I have to update my bibliography modules? Thanks, Roy

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How to assign \MPstring before creating page?
by Zhichu Chen 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi, everybody I want to use my titles as water marks. I've tried this small test file: ================================= \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \setMPtext{titleentry}{xxx} \setuphead [title] [textcommand=\TITLE, page=right, before=, after=\blank, inbetween=, header=, textstyle=, style=] \def\TITLE#1% {#1\setMPtext{titleentry}{#1}} \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=page] \defineoverlay[page] [\useMPgraphic{page}] \startuseMPgraphic{page} StartPage; save r; picture r; r := textext.rt(\MPstring{titleentry}); r := r shifted (.5Hsize[Text],.5Vsize[Text]); draw r withcolor darkred; StopPage; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \title{Some Title} Some texts. \page[yes] Some texts. \stoptext ================================= It seems it did not get the correct parameter. So I guess the \setMPtext inside \TITLE was not executed when the page was created. I also want to get chapter titles as water marks as well. What can I do? Thank you. -- 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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MetaPost 1.000 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1.000: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * The use of DSC (document structuring) comments has been been cleaned up, thanks to comments by Michail Vidiassov. * By setting prologues to 2 or 3, you can ask MetaPost to reencode and include the used labels fonts in the output, thus creating proper Encapsulated PostScript files even if labels are present. * Support for greyscale and cmykcolor models is added. * The new drawing options "withprescript" and withpostscript" allow the user to attach PostSCript special text to a specific drawing object. * Setting the new internal "mpprocset" to 1 will make MetaPost create a somewhat extended preamble that defines shortcuts for the postscript commands (e..g "l" instead of "lineto"). For big images, this can help shrink the output a bit. * The pool file is now integrated in the executable, so there is not separate 'mp.pool' anymore, except at build time. * Groff support is redone, and dmp now uses kpathsea searching. Groff related changes are thanks to the efforts of Werner Lemberg and Michail Vidiassov * makempx is now a compiled executable on all systems, thank you Akira Kakuto * The error for 'special's longer then 255 characters is removed, so specials can now be of any length. * There is new turningnumber implementation that attempts to find the mathematically correct "turningnumber" of a path. The formulae are derived from a mailinglist discussion between (especially) Dan Luecking and Giuseppe Bilotta. * The manual is updated and modernized. It is currently maintained by Stephan Hennig and Troy Henderson. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, April 26, 2007

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Interesting interview
by Thomas A. Schmitz 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi all, thought this might be of interest to some of you: the tug website has just published an interview with Will Robertson ( http://www.tug.org/ interviews/interview-files/will-robertson.html ), whom some of you may know from his work on XeLaTeX. Will is the author of the fontspec package which offers lots of very advanced options for choosing and switching fonts in XeTeX. There was one passage that I found quite interesting: > This leads me into a few words about where I think the big problems > of LaTeX lie. Because it's obvious that it is much harder to learn > than it could be. And the crux of the problem, the long and the > short of it, is that the LaTeX kernel has been intentionally > restricted to the functionality originally designed for it. Now, > this is a good thing, by and large. Standards need to be frozen in > order for them to be adhered to. But it's past time to move on and > create a new standard. There are fast approaching competitors that > will eventually overtake LaTeX if we continue to stagnate. (Not to > mention ConTeXt, which has surpassed LaTeX in essentially every > area. Maybe the solution is just for everyone to switch to that.) I mean, we all know that this is true, but it's great that a fairly well-known member of the LaTeX crowd says so as well. All best Thomas

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\AA cannot be uesed in math mode?
by fdu.xiaojf＠gmail.com 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hi, I want to get a sign of angstrom in an math formula, here is my example: %-------------------- \starttext $\AA$ \stoptext %-------------------- and the error message: %-------------------- systems : begin file d at line 1 ! Please use \mathaccent for accents in math mode. \dochar #1->\char #1\relax \dobuildtextaccent ...{\let \char \normalaccent #1 \let \char \normalchar #2} l.2 $\AA $ %-------------------- I can use \AA successfully in text mode. Is there anything wrong with my tex file? Thanks.

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Adjust spacing before and after figures
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Hello, How to adjust spacing before and after all figures placed by \externalfigure? I don't need captions, just figures. Now I use two commands in pair, like \blank[4ex] \externalfigure[lily03.png][scale=1000] -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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crop pdf page via \externalfigure options
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hello, I have pdfs containing small musical pieces, created with lilypond. To include them in my document, I must crop each pdf manually each time it is recreated. Is there a way to crop pdf page via \externalfigure options? (All the switches listed at TeXshow seem to scale an image, not to crop.) Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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XeTeX image dimensioning bug
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hello, I've found a bug in XeTeX image handling. Once it has created a .rli file for an image, it doesn't recalculate dimensions after the image is changed. I tested it with .png image, 1-bit (black-and-white). When I crop the image, both its size and datetime attribs are updated. Nevertheless, running xetex again produces distorted image, stretched to the old dimensions. I can only make xetex to rebuild .rlis by deleting them manually each time. Generally, I don't understand why XeTeX is so stupid that it relays upon the external tool (ImageMagic) to calculate image dimensions. ConTeX performs much better at this point. (How I'm longing for it supporting system fonts!). Best, Vaycheslav Yatskovsky

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beginner's question: interlinespace and definetyping
by Patrick Gundlach 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi, it seems that I keep asking the beginner's questions... How do I combine \setupinterlinespace with \definetyping? I'd like to have a verbatim envrionment with less interlinespace then the rest of the document. \definetyping [befehl] [before={\startframedtext[width=.8\makeupwidth, before={\setupinterlinespace[line=10pt]}, background=screen, backgroundscreen=.9]}, after={\stopframedtext}] does not seem to have any effect. Putting the setupinterlinespace to the first 'before=' has no effect either. Patrick (I am pretty sure that I could have answered these kind of questions myself a few years ago - that's embarrassing)

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definetypeface confusion
by Patrick Gundlach 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

Hi there, I am a bit confused about \definetypeface. I try to mix some self-installed otf-fonts. Serif works fine, but I can't get the sans variant to work: \definetypeface [chaparral][rm][serif] [chaparral][default][encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [myriad] [ss][sans] [myriad] [default][encoding=texnansi] \ss does not switch to myriad (instead, ConTeXt uses lmss), but \myriad does! So I think that the font is installed correctly and the typescript is not completely broken. How should the \setupbodyfont look like? My current setup is: \setupbodyfont[chaparral,14pt] What other information do you need? Patrick

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