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splitting tables
by Hans Hagen 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi, I will upload an alpha release with a cleaned up table (float) split mechanism. The splitter works for all three table types, either or not in floats with repeated head (and tail) sections, optionally with automatic (may become default) caption height detection etc. It works ok on some simple test files, but I have no time to test more obscure situations. I'm not that sure if everything is downward compatible, but splitting is always tricky (and demanded some intervention) anyway. So, if you are using this kind of functionality, go ahead, download and test .. \setupTABLE[split=repeat] \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=11] {\placetable{\dorecurse{10}{test\recurselevel\endgraf}}} {\bTABLE\dorecurse{100}{\bTR \bTD test \eTD \eTR}\eTABLE} \input tufte \page \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=0] {} {\bTABLE\dorecurse{100}{\bTR \bTD test \eTD \eTR}\eTABLE} \input tufte \endgraf \page \input tufte \endgraf \bTABLE\dorecurse{100}{\bTR \bTD test \eTD \eTR}\eTABLE \input tufte \page \setuptabulate[split=yes] \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=11] {\placetable{\dorecurse{10}{test\recurselevel\endgraf}}} {\starttabulate\dorecurse{200}{\NC test \NC test \NC \NR}\stoptabulate} \input tufte \page \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=0] {} {\starttabulate\dorecurse{200}{\NC test \NC test \NC \NR}\stoptabulate} \input tufte \page \input tufte \endgraf \starttabulate\dorecurse{200}{\NC test \NC test \NC \NR}\stoptabulate \input tufte \page \setuptables[split=yes] \newtoks\TestToks \TestToks\emptytoks \appendtoks\starttablehead\to\TestToks \dorecurse{3}{\appendtoks\VL head \VL head \VL \SR\to\TestToks} \appendtoks\stoptablehead\to\TestToks \appendtoks\starttabletail\to\TestToks \dorecurse{3}{\appendtoks\VL tail \VL tail \VL \SR\to\TestToks} \appendtoks\stoptabletail\to\TestToks \appendtoks\starttables[|c|c|]\to\TestToks \dorecurse{100}{\appendtoks\VL test \VL test \VL \SR\to\TestToks} \appendtoks\stoptables\to\TestToks \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=auto] % [lines=11] {\placetable{\dorecurse{10}{test\recurselevel\endgraf}}} {\the\TestToks} \input tufte \page \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=0] {} {\the\TestToks} \input tufte \page \input tufte \endgraf \the\TestToks \input tufte \page Watch the lines=auto option! Mechanisms like this will never be perfect, but I think that the cleanup is not that bad. Especially the \startable bits and pieces needs some more testing, but then, i need to cleanup up that code anyway (write a cleaner version of that whole table mechanism). 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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How to make this section header in ConTeXt?
by Jeroen Heijmans 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi, I'm new to ConTeXt, but so far most things I wanted to do turned out to be quite easy. However, now I'm trying to make a particular section heading, but I can't get it right: |---------------------------------------------| | SECTION HEADING Key 1 Value 1 | | Key 2 Value 2 | | Key 3 Value 3 | | Key 4 Value 4 | | Text Key 5 Value 5 | |---------------------------------------------| Or in text, a box containing a section heading in the left top, some additional text in the left bottom, and a table with pairs of values on the right side of the box. Getting a box with a section heading and some text was easy enough, but I couldn't get the table where and how I wanted it. I also tried to do all of it in a table, but I got errors when trying to put a \section in the table. Any suggestion on how to do this will be highly appreciated. thanks, Jeroen Heijmans

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Undefined control sequence.
by Bernd Militzer 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi, for a large project I defined names for a lot of persons like \global\def\PIDacht{Militzer, Hermann Paul (8)} \global\def\PIDeinsacht{Militzer, Johann Wilhelm Hermann (16)} \global\def\PIDdreidrei{Militzer, Henriette (33)} \global\def\PIDachtviervieracht{Militzer, Adam (8448)} \starttext \PIDachtviervieracht is ok but \section[UkPID8A]{\PIDacht\ -- Allgemein} does not work! \stoptext I get: (./FamMilitzerUrkunden.tuo) (./FamMilitzerUrkunden.tuo ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \PIDacht \ -- Allgemein \sanitizePDFdocencoding ...docencoding \edef #2{#1 } \doPDFinsertbookmark ...oding #3\to \bookmarktext \stripstring \bookmarktext... <argument> \flushbookmark \dodoputbookmarkelement {\v! section }{3}{2}{\PIDei... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 l.14 ...sacht \ -- Geburt}{1::0:0:2:0:0:0:0::1}{7} ? ! Emergency stop. What is wrong? thanks, Bernd Militzer

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Beta Bibliography module
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Hi all, I've just released a beta of the bibliography module for testing. It can be downloaded from http://modules.contextgarden.net/bib as usual, and the version is now 2006.06.16 News, compared to the previous (April 11) version that is in the core distribution: * Better support for per-chapter bibliographic lists (citations now repeat in each chapter) * The \lang (LANGUAGE) database field is now honoured (if the content is a valid ConTeXt language, that is) * \biburl fields are now typeset using \hyphenatedurl * \month field conversion can now be controlled through \setuppublication[monthconversion=] * The module now uses \undefinedreference for undefined references * \usemodule[bibltx] provides \newcommand for legacy databases * Documentation updated (\nocite is documented now) Have fun, Taco

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tex4ht and utf-8
by Piotr Kopszak 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Hello, It seems tex4ht's ConTeXt support is in the very early infancy, but I was able to convert a simple ConTeXt file into acceptable html using "htcontext" command. The only problem is encoding. Is there any way to get the same utf-8 encoding as in the source file? Piotr

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texmfstart trouble
by Hans van der Meer 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Recently I reported 2 problems related to metapost usage: 1. the loss of transparent color handling 2. textext not being able to handle %'s as in textext("15\%") The source of both problems can be nailed down to the one change in supp-mps.tex: \ifx\TEXEXECcommand \undefined \def\TEXEXECcommand{texmfstart texexec} \fi If I understand correctly, this effectuates a change from the perl to the ruby scripts. Removing the texmfstart solves the problem. I compared two runs for the transparency problem in order to see if there is some clue: 1. Both mp-files turn out being the same (except for the random seed). 2. The mpgraph.1 files differ only slightly, except for a few roundoff differences: new format extra lines: (but not a problem, I would guess) %%MetaPostSpecials: 2.0 123 1000 %%HiResBoundingBox: -5.66927 -5.66927 359.9991 119.05481 %%MetaPostSpecial: 7 1 1 1 1 0.94118 1 3 I had in my .bashrc: CONTEXT_RUBYSCRIPTS=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/scripts/ context/ruby/ export CONTEXT_RUBYSCRIPTS and had CONTEXT_RUBYSCRIPTS in my path. Carefully had the executable and read-allowance bits set on all the ruby scripts. I guess it must have something to do with the ruby scripts, probably MacOSX unique, I fear. Something done differently with regard to the perl scripts perhaps? Taco already hinted at the possibility of some end-of-line problem. Alas, my knowledge of ruby is nonexistent, so I have no idea what and where to look for. I tried hard to find a solution, but I really have no firm idea what could cause these problems. Hans van der Meer

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color names
by andrea valle 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hi to all, Is it possible to show a list of the predefined names for colors? Thanks -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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Re: [NTG-context] Using metapost figures in context (offlist)
by Hans Hagen 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> >> > n lines deleted >> >> I added to texexec: >> >> texexec --mpgraphic somefile.mp >> >> which will run mp and make a pdf file. > > Something is wrong with the new beta. I downloaded the zip and > regenerated the formats, but only metafun format is created. I am > attaching the output of > > texmfstart --verbose texexec --verbose --make --all actually, the problem is that the latest pdfetex is not called pdftex; can you remove all traces or pdftex[.exe] in your bin path and see what happens then? 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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extra white in framedtext
by Hans van der Meer 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

I did want to typeset material within framedtext with some white before and after each line. Appropriate for this seems to me: \null\quad material \quad\null\crlf etc.; the preceding \null preventing disappearence of the first \quad. The strange thing is that the \null in the first line induces an extra vertical whitespace between the top of the frame and the first line inside the frame. An impression of the result: ----------------------- | | with \null in first line | first line | | second line | ----------------------- ----------------------- | first line | without \null in first line | second line | ----------------------- It seems counterintuitive to withhold the \null in the first line in order to have the framing correct. A minimal example on which I encountered this follows: \setupbodyfont[cmr] % gives extra vertical white \startframedtext[middle][width=fit] \null\quad\type{extra vertical space}\quad\null\crlf \null\quad\type{normal vertical space}\quad\null \stopframedtext % normal vertical white \startframedtext[middle][width=fit] \quad\type{normal vertical space}\quad\null\crlf \null\quad\type{normal vertical space}\quad\null \stopframedtext \stoptext Does this occur elsewhere too? Is it normal behaviour of framedtext? Hans van der Meer

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error? in ConTeXt+XeTeXt
by "박내엽(NY Park)" 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Hi I using ConTeXt+XeTeX for utf-8 After XeTeX new version installed texexec -xtx below \starttext 1122 $times$ 121 \stoptext and error times symbol with message *** fontmap psfonts.map not found; texmf.cnf may be broken *** font ec-lmr12 not found in psfonts.map or host system; will substitute Helvetica glyphs *** fontmap psfonts.map not found; texmf.cnf may be broken *** font cmsy10 not found in psfonts.map or host system; will substitute Helvetica glyphs But if without -xtx complile (only ConTeXt ) ,OK Thank you

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CoNTeXt on Mac OS X with iinstaller still broken
by Matthias Weber 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Dear Mac-ConTeXt users (and other experts), I typically upgrade my least used Mac (my laptop) to the newest ConTeXt release first, and only go ahead with the desktop when my projects compile fine. Otherwise, I usually wait until the more proficient users have sorted things out. Now, for a while, the iinstaller ConTeXt version has been broken. While there have been numerous reports and workaround and fixes on this list, it would be most convenient to have iinstaller working again (or another foolproof solution). For reference, I attach the log file for \starttext ffi \stoptext which shows that ligatures aren't shown. Thanks in advance! Matthias This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=cont-en 2006.6.13) 13 JUN 2006 11:26 entering extended mode (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) **&cont-en test.tex (./test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2006.06.07 23:34 fmt: 2006.6.13 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex color : palette rollover is available ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:3 uk->ec:ec->2->2:3 de- >texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:3 de->ec:ec->4->2:3 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 fr- >ec:ec->6->2:3 es->ec:ec->7->2:3 pt->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:3 pt->ec:ec->9->2:3 it- >texnansi :texnansi->10->2:3 it->ec:ec->11->2:3 nl->texnansi:texnansi->12->2:3 nl->ec:ec- >13->2:3 cz->il2:il2->14->2:3 cz->ec:ec->15->2:3 sk->il2:il2->16- >2:3 sk->ec:ec ->17->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->18->2:3 pl->ec:ec->19->2:3 pl->qx:qx->20->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `test.tui'. system : test.top loaded (./test.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) \openout0 = `test-mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. systems : system commands are disabled (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./ test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/sort-def.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex) (./ test.tuo) (./test.tuo) systems : begin file test at line 3 fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using map file: ec-public-lm fonts : using map file: ec-base fonts : using map file: 8r-base fonts : using map file: t5-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler fonts : using map file: original-public-lm (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) [1.1 {/usr/loc al/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/original- empty.map}{/usr/l ocal/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/original-base.map Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-base.map): invalid entry for `fmvr8x': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-base.map): invalid entry for `xycmat11': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-base.map): invalid entry for `xycmbt11': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-base.map): invalid entry for `xyeuat11': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-base.map): invalid entry for `xyeubt11': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-base.map): invalid entry for `xycmat12': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-base.map): invalid entry for `xycmbt12': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-base.map): invalid entry for `xyeuat12': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-base.map): invalid entry for `xyeubt12': font file missing }{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/ec- public-lm.map }{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/ec- base.map}{/us r/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/8r-base.map} {/usr/loc al/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/t5-base.map}{/ usr/local/te TeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/original-ams-base.map Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-ams-base.map): invalid entry for `lcircle10': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-ams-base.map): invalid entry for `lcirclew10': font file missing }{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/ original-ams-eul er.map}{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/ original-p ublic-lm.map Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-public-lm.map): invalid entry for `cmbsy6': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-public-lm.map): invalid entry for `cmbsy8': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-public-lm.map): invalid entry for `cmbsy9': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-public-lm.map): invalid entry for `cmex7': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-public-lm.map): invalid entry for `cmex8': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-public-lm.map): invalid entry for `cmex9': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-public-lm.map): invalid entry for `cmmib6': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-public-lm.map): invalid entry for `cmmib8': font file missing Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/ dvipdfm/con text/original-public-lm.map): invalid entry for `cmmib9': font file missing }] systems : end file test at line 7 ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1180 strings out of 58706 21440 string characters out of 560421 4585310 words of memory out of 6028852 39819 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 75018 words of font info for 37 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000 192 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000 51i,18n,51p,228b,528s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b, 40000s PDF statistics: 7 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 5 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 2483 bytes).

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Re: [NTG-context] metafun color broken?
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

After posting this problem I did probe a lot further in this and a similar problem. As I reported shortly, the problem goes away when solely replacing in supp-mps.tex the line \ifx\TEXEXECcommand \undefined \def\TEXEXECcommand{texmfstart texexec} \fi by \ifx\TEXEXECcommand \undefined \def\TEXEXECcommand{texexec} \fi This gives me the impression it might not be in context itself, especially since to my (inexperienced) eye there are no or few changes between the working and nonworking versions that might explain the problem. It might be the change from the perl to the ruby scripts with a problem in one of the latter. I expect Hans or Taco to react soon with there usual speed and will await for their comments first. Hans van der Meer On Jun 15, 2006, at 17:52, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Replying off-list since I have no place to test anything and no > time righ now: > > I know that Hans has played with transparency at the beginning of May > in order to enable it in XeTeX (but that should happen/break already > earlier then), but I can't help you any further. Normar "with color > transparent" worked a couple of days ago as far as I can remember, but > I might have had an older version installed (from May). > > > However: I would like to ask you to commit such examples (you have > much more bug reports everywhere) to "contexttest" suite, see I usually do this when in doubt if my code is right. But in this case formerly perfectly working code is suddenly broken. And of course I need to run my production and development runs on my own machine, so I have to solve it for that one. > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Test. > > Mojca > > > On 6/13/06, Hans van der Meer wrote: >> >> I used to draw in transparent color in MetaFun with: >> >> newinternal tfill_mode; tfill_mode := 1; % transparency mode >> for inside >> newinternal tfill_fact; tfill_fact := 1; % transparency factor >> for inside >> def withFillColor = withcolor transparent(tfill_mode, tfill_fact, >> fillcolor_) enddef; >> fill somepath withFillColor; >> >> Suddenly (since the june update I guess) this fails. >> Because >> >> fill somepath withcolor fillcolor_; >> >> is still working I wonder if something has done to this transparency >> business. >> If there was a change, why? It brings me trouble. >> >> >> Hans van der Meer

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mathsize
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

When doing inline math I see that the mathsize does adapt when \tfa, \tfb, etc are used, but not for \tfx and \tfxx. That seems strange to me, because in the manual in the font table \tfx \tfxx \tfa etc. are advertised as equivalent operations. It also accounts for a lot more typing (and mistakes). Why is the behaviour different? And if it is not on purpose, can it be remedied then? A minimal example: \starttext {\tfc tfc 123 and \$ tfc: $123$ \$}\crlf {\tfb tfb 123 and \$ tfb: $123$ \$}\crlf {\tfa tfa 123 and \$ tfa: $123$ \$}\crlf {normal 123 en \$ normal: $123$ \$}\crlf {\tfx tfx 123 and \$ not tfx: $123$ \$}\crlf % math does not adapt size {\tfx tfx 123 and \$ again tfx: $\tfx 123$ \$}\crlf {\tfxx tfxx 123 and \$ not tfxx: $123$ \$}\crlf % math does not adapt size {\tfxx tfxx 123 and \$ again tfxx: $123$ \$}\crlf % the next does work as expected: \def\smallsize{\switchtobodyfont[9pt]} {\smallsize smallsize 123 and \$ smallsize: $123$ \$}\crlf Hans van der Meer

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Math: Matrix question
by Tobias Burnus 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hello, maybe someone has an idea how to typeset the following c d a [E F] b [G H] Where EFGH is a matrix surrounded by "( )" and with "a b c d" I want to label the columns and rows. I especially struggle with aligning c and d and having the parenteses. Any ideas are highly welcome. Tobias

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Specifying maximum width of a frame
by Aditya Mahajan 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hi, I want to specify the maximum width of a frame. If the size of the box is smaller than the maximum width, I want a tight box. Something like \frame[maxwidth=5cm,align=middle]{Small} should give +-----+ |small| +-----+ while \frame[maxwidth=5cm,align=middle]{A very very long line that is split at 5cm} should give +----------------------+ | A very very long | | line that is split | | at 5cm | +----------------------+ Is there something builtin that does this, or do I need to play with scratchbox cum suis. Aditya

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Another 2 index bugs
by Richard Gabriel 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Hello Hans, I've just noticed another two bugs in index sorting. 1. Numbers are sorted under A 2. Symbols are sorted under the first letter which follows. See the attached test file. Both these issues are independent on language and on the expansion type. Proposed solution: 1. Sort numbers into separate divisions 2. Sort symbols to a special division called "Symbols" Thanks, Richard

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keeping output
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

This question must have been asked before, but I cannot find it. Running texexec a number of messages flash by: error in metapost run : syllabus-s-mpgraph.mp:397 Alas, al the intermediate results disappear, especially the mpgraph files. And of the metapost logs also one only survives. How does one preserve all these for debugging purposes? Hans van der Meer

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textext error
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

I am afraid a serious error has been introduced into textext in the last update(s). This used to work in metapost for typesetting text with a %-sign: label(textext("66\%"), origin); Now the % somewhere ends a line prematurely because the job aborts with: ! mpx file ended unexpectedly. Can Hans please repair this, suddenly a lot of my typesetting is broken. Hans van der Meer

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International ConTeXt User Meeting 2007
by Taco Hoekwater 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

On March 24 and March 25 2007, the first international ConTeXt user meeting will take place in Epen, The Netherlands. For those of you who are already familiar with ConTeXt, this meeting is an excellent opportunity to learn some new tricks, meet fellow users from the ConTeXt mailing list, talk to developers and hackers, and promote your feature request list. If you are not already using ConTeXt, this is the ideal place to acquaint yourself with our beautiful macro package and meet your potential new friends. More information is available on the web site: http://context.aanhet.net/epen2007/index.htm Hope to see you there! Taco Hoekwater & Hans Hagen

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[Fwd: Re: Using metapost figures in context]
by Hans Hagen 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

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Using metapost figures in context
by Aditya Mahajan 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi, Does there exist a startstop command (say startMPfigure) for managing figures drawn using MP such that 1. I can use \startMPfigure{label} ...... \stopMPfigure and then use \useexternalMPfigure{label} to include the figure. 2. The figures are converted into pdf once. If the code inside \startstop MPfigures changes, the pdf for each figure is recreated. Basically, I want MPfigures to be converted into pdf for faster inclusion in the main document, the figure should be recompiled if necessary and I should be able to include the figure using a label (so that I can separate the figures from the main document). uniqueMPgraphic provides the first functionality, but the figure is converted into pdf on runtime (thereby increasing the processing time of the document). I can use a separate document with each figure inside a \startMPpage ... \stopMPpage, but (i) I need to remember figure numbers manually, (ii) after making change in one figure, the whole file needs to be recompiled. Another possibility is to use one tex file for each figure, compile them separately and then then use figure library to get a "label" for each figure. But this becomes difficult to manage, as soon as I get large number of files. Is their something basic that I am missing here? How do others manage mpfigures? To Hans: is it possible to have a \startMPfigure command such that 1. \startMPfigure[label] figure code \stopMPfigure creates a \jobname-figure-\nofMPfigurefile file with current MP environment current MP inclusion figure code (from inside \startstop MPfigure) Convert this into \jobname-figure-\nofMPfigurefile.pdf only if something changes (similar to what is done in m-r module). 2. The resultant pdf can be included using \useMPfigure{label}. Would such a feature make sense? Aditya

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metafun color broken?
by Hans van der Meer 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

I used to draw in transparent color in MetaFun with: newinternal tfill_mode; tfill_mode := 1; % transparency mode for inside newinternal tfill_fact; tfill_fact := 1; % transparency factor for inside def withFillColor = withcolor transparent(tfill_mode, tfill_fact, fillcolor_) enddef; fill somepath withFillColor; Suddenly (since the june update I guess) this fails. Because fill somepath withcolor fillcolor_; is still working I wonder if something has done to this transparency business. If there was a change, why? It brings me trouble. Hans van der Meer

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Open Type fonts and Context
by John R. Culleton 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Is there a guide for installing Open Type fonts for use in Context? -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

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# in MPinclusions
by Aditya Mahajan 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hi, How can I make MPinclusions consider # as a normal character. \startMPinclusions input metaobj; vardef block@#(text name) text options= newRBox@#(textext(name)) options; enddef; \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startMPpage block.source("Source") ; source.c = origin ; drawObj(source) ; \stopMPpage \stoptext gives ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \theMPinclusions. <to be read again> ( <argument> ...ic {input metaobj; vardef block@##( text name) text options= n... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 l.7 \stopMPinclusions Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] [XeTeX] XeTeX, ConTeXt, and utf-8 hyphenation patterns. / GREEK
by Hans Hagen 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Peter Heslin wrote: > Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> writes: > > >> ctxtools --pat [en nl agr ...] >> ctxtools --pat --utf [en nl agr ...] >> >> the greek conversions were done with the help of a greek language users >> on the context list, so in case of troubles, so i cc there; bugs need to >> be fixed indeed >> > > Thanks for the tips. I have taken a closer look at the Greek patterns, > and it seems as though they have not only small problems, but also major > problems. (They will fail to find most hyphenation points before > accented vowels.) I will try to come up with a patch, but I don't know > any Ruby, so it will be an interesting challenge -- the changes required > go beyond tweaking the existing code. > > The characters in the file lang-agr.pat are precomposed, Unicode > normalization form D. But I'd like to support both normalization forms > C and D, if possible, in the same pattern file. Is that goal compatible > with Context? > > this is more related to (xe)tex than to context; i leave that to the greek experts on the context list 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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Re: [NTG-context] [XeTeX] XeTeX, ConTeXt, and utf-8 hyphenation patterns.
by Hans Hagen 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Peter Heslin wrote: > A little while ago, I said that I hoped to convert Dimitrios Filippou's > ancient Greek hyphenation patterns (the elhyphen package) to utf-8, in > order to use them with xetex. Before thinking about starting this work, > I decided to look to see if anyone else had done it, and I came across > something interesting in ConTeXt, which is not a package I normally use. > > There appears to be a whole subdirectory in the ConTeXt distribution > that is full of utf-8 hyphenation patterns, including Filippou's ancient > Greek ones, but also including German, French, etc. They are in the > file: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip, in the > tex/context/patterns directory. > > Can anyone who knows about ConTeXt explain about where these patterns > come from and how it is that context manages to use these patterns? (I > thought that non-xetex TeX could only use single-byte encoded patterns.) > some time ago i decided to ship patterns with context because (1) there is no sound infrastructure in the tex world for managin gpatterns (2) i need encoding neutral patterns [most patterns are ec only] (3) i want control over what gets loaded in context (4) i wanted to get rid of every year's disappearing, renamed, changed patterns (5) apart from the fact that i wanted patterns that were not in a sense hard wired latex patterns > If there is a script that was used to convert these from the source to > utf-8, is it available? A quick glance at the ancient greek patterns > (in the file lang-agr.pat) shows that there is a bug in the conversion > that I'd like to report and fix. > ctxtools --pat [en nl agr ...] ctxtools --pat --utf [en nl agr ...] the greek conversions were done with the help of a greek language users on the context list, so in case of troubles, so i cc there; bugs need to be fixed indeed in ctxtools.rb you can grep for 'agr' and see what conversions takes place for greek more info can be found in: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mpattern.pdf (also published in tugboat) there is a file lang-all.xml in the context distribution > On a more general level, if both ConTeXt and XeTeX are engaged in > converting legacy TeX hyphenation patterns to utf-8, should they be > coordinated in order to avoid duplication of effort? > > anyone can use the patterns; of course bugs need to be sorted out, but given my experiences with pattern maintainance i will not drop them from context; too much has gone wrong in the past; but you can consider them to be generic so indeed we can avoid duplication of work. 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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Re: [NTG-context] how to let context suppose chinese via utf-8 ?
by 盛劲松 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hi,Hans Hagen ======= 2006-06-12 18:32:00 您在来信中写道：======= >Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> your ConTeXt is older than a month don't even try to ask questions >> about why something doesn't work ;) >> >hey, that's not fair .. not everyone uses tha latest trickery and not >everyone messes up his tex system on a daily basis like you do -) > >Hans Thank you for your tolerance to a newbie like me :) I have fixed the problem aready. the problem is due to the changed cont-sys.tex file in C:\CTeX\texmf\tex\context\user which was introduced to support chinese via encoding GBK before. When I turned to UTF-8. I forgot to delete it. Now I have deleted it .And everything goes well again:) Special thanks were given to Lutz Haseloff <Lutz.Haseloff(a)blb.brandenburg.de> who offered me a package file utf.zip containing .map ,.enc and .tfm files. > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 　　　　　　　　致礼！　　　　　　　　盛劲松　　　　　　　　shengjins(a)mail.semi.ac.cn 　　　　　　　　　　2006-06-13

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Bad Split TABLEs
by Johannes Graumann 13 Jun '06

13 Jun '06

Hello, LONG tables form a significant part of my thesis. I put the thesis together entirely in XML and have a "stylesheet" matching that XML into ConTeXt. While ConTeXt is doing a great job with the rest, split TABLEs are not working - despite Hans' repeatedly answering my pleas with patches. I concluded that I might have a problem of my XML-to-ConTeXt matching rather than ConTeXt itself at hand and pulled a part of my thesis flanking and including the most unwieldy multipage table into ConTeXt proper (see attachment). The problems persist and I'd like to poll the accumulated ConTeXtitians on hints towards a solution of them, specifically: - split tables without body content - textbody text and tables "overflowing" the pages. - multiple splits per page I'd be very happy about any hints on how to remedy this document-spoiler ... Thanks, Joh

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\mathpunctuationtrue
by Peter Münster 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hello, what is the new command, that replaces \mathpunctuationtrue ? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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horizontal space
by Matthias Schleiff 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hello, I'm a newbe to ConTeXt but have allready done some documents in LaTeX. Want to switch to ConTeXt. There's something that I neither find in the manuals nor at contextgarden. Maybe you could help?! To realize my micro-typographic needs I'm using LaTeX-commands for defined, possibly non-breakable, horizontal spaces. Those are \, \enspace \quad and \hspace{0.25em} or \hspace*{0.125em}. Now when testing with contextlive @ contextgarden the commands \, \enspace \quad seem to work. Are they plainTeX? But what about \hspace ? It would be cool to have something like \hspace*{0.125em} in ConTeXt. Is there something like it or a way to make it work or to define it on my own? Any suggestions might be helpfull Best regards, Matthias -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer

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backgroundcolor broken in 2006-06-07
by Hans van der Meer 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

In the latest context version of 2006-06-7 coloring the background seems broken. Reverting to the version 2006-05-28 remedied this, but I have no intention of course, to freeze my system at that point. Here is a minimal example that colors the background in 2006-05-28 and does not in 2006-06-07: \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[showbkg][frame=off,location=text, background=color,backgroundcolor=orange,backgroundoffset=0pt] \starttext tekst \startshowbkg background \stopshowbkg{} tekst. \stoptext Can someone look into this? I am relying on this coloring! Hans van der Meer

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how to let context suppose chinese via utf-8 ?
by 盛劲松 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi, evergyone I found a instruction in context wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Chinese) in this page , it says: If you have Context 2005.12.19, you only have to get the fonts. 1.You need some Chinese (TrueType) fonts; you may want to get FangSong, HeiTi, KaiTi and SongTi. Put those e.g. into $TEXMF/fonts/truetype/chinese/. -----------finished 2.Use Hans Hagen's experimental ttf2uni.rb script to create .map, .tfm and .enc files. You can then put the files e.g. to $TEXMF/fonts/tfm/chinese/ (*.tmf files), $TEXMF/fonts/enc/chinese/ (*.enc files, they are basically the same for all fonts) and to $TEXMF/fonts/map/chinese/. -----------wondering!!!! I have downloaded the file ttf2uni.rb to my local machine. But how can I creat such .map ,.tfm and .enc files via it? 3.You may now need to update the hash TeX uses to find the files; using teTeX this is done by running texhash. 4.How you can run your Hello World program: could anyone be kindly to offer me a list of detail instructions about how to do? thank you!

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Re: [NTG-context] Angle braces?
by Steven Robertson 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hi Mojca, It is more than two months old; the tetex i'm using is version 2.0.2 or somesuch. So an upgrade is definitely due. On the dvi v pdf question, I'm a bit confused, because I didn't mention my actual output format. I have actually been outputting things as dvi for reading on my computer, but printing pdfs. The same problems have been occurring in both formats, but I might be missing the point of your question here. Using \char60 and \char62 gives the same results as using the characters "<" and ">" in the text, which is are upside down question mark and explanation mark (which I can't easily type into this email to demonstrate). I will have a try at updating the fonts, and failing that, the whole tetex system. Thanks for the tip on the mirrors, and the help. -Steven ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: >>The angle braces I'm after are the ones that go around URLs in >>citations, as in >> >>[12] Smith, `Article on Things', available at <www.smith.com>. >> >>It's been suggested to me elsewhere that I upgrade my ConTeXt version, >>so hopefully that will help. > > > Well ... if it's more than two months old, it might already be ancient ;) > Also consider updating the fonts. > > Why are you using dvi instead of PDF? > > >>I'll have a look around and see if there >>are particular angle braces that should be used for the above purpose >>(i.e. not greater-than/less-than or guillemots--they are `double', but >>Ithe suggestion is appreciated). > > > The example works OK here. Which font are you using? Most probably > either the font is old/broken or the two characters are active. > > What do you get if you type: > foo \char60 bar\char62 foo? > (You may never type like that, but just for debugging puposes.) > > Mojca > > Btw: there are two mirrors of Pragma website (see links on > wiki.contextgarden.net)

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Question regarding context's module defintion
by Aditya Mahajan 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Are users supposed to use %D kind of remarks to comment their own environment files? I am finding it a bit strange to work with. Does one have to leave a blank line after a %D line for that line to appear? Consider the test file %D \module %D [file=test.tex, %D version=0.0, %D title=Test File, %D subtitle=Blah blah, %D author=Aditya Mahajan, %D date=\currentdate] %D Explaination for the next macro does not work \def\test{test} %D \macros{test} %D Neither does this. \def\test{test} %D Leaving a blank space also works \def\test{test} ----------------------- and look at the output of texmfstart texexec --modules test.tex. Why are the first two macro definitions not in the pdf? Aditya

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Angle braces?
by Steven Robertson 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Hi, Annoyingly simple question -- apologies -- but I'm having no luck from the web. The ConTeXt wiki isn't turning up anything, and the pragma site seems to be broken, so I can't access the ConTeXt manual. So: What are the commands in ConTeXt to get angled braces, i.e. `<' and '>'? I've got is \langle and \rangle respectively, but these aren't resulting in output -- the dvi has nothing where they should be - "foo bar foo" instead of "foo <bar> foo". Using the braces themselves, eg \starttext foo <bar> foo \stoptext gives me upside-down exclamation and question marks, for left and right braces respectively. Thanks for any help. -Steven

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A question about the build-in module s-pre-06(The Polish style)
by 盛劲松 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Hi,evergyone when I compile my .tex file in which the polish style module was been used, It doesn't work. the pop-up window tells me that " maketfm: no creation rule for the font "sy-anttrz". " i have known that the module pre-polish use a special font "the Antikwa Torunska". this prolem may be to some extent related to this font so my questions are: 1. how can i install and use the font? 2. how to fix the problem? any suggestion from you is highly appreciated! P.S.: I use the newst miKTex in windows xp sp2. 　　　　　 best wishes! =================================================================== Jinsong Sheng, State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures Institute of Semiconductors Chinese Academy of Sciences P.O.Box 912 Beijing 100083, China Tel：86-10-82305123 cell phone: 86-13811302830 electronic address: shengjins(a)mail.semi.ac.cn 2006-06-09 ====================================================================

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ec encoding and tcaron
by Michal Kvasnicka 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Dear friends, I apologize that I ask the same question that had been asked a year ago but I can't find in the archive the definite solution. I want to use new fonts in the ConTeXt to typeset the Czech documents. TeXFont seems to be the best way to prepare metrics. EC encoding seems to be the standard ConTeXt encoding. But it doesn't include tcaron (well, this is true at least for EC.enc on my teTeX 3.0 under the SuSE Linux 10.0 with the latest ConTeXt from May 28). (In the Czech the lower case of Tcaron looks like tqouteright but nowadays most AFM files call it tcaron). Other glyphs may miss as well (I might not notice since I suspect that ConTeXt replaces missing letter with composites, e.g. Ecaron with \v{E}). So, what is the standard way I should use? I can use ec-lm.enc but is it the right way? (Moreover, it seems there is no information for ligatures.) I could try to use il2, but is the right way? And I had some problems with xl2.enc used formerly for il2-encoded fonts. So, what was decided to be the right encoding for the ConTeXt? (Is the answer the same for the Czech typesetters?) And one more question: Does anybody have the enc file that would make the TeXFont to generate metrics for il2-encoded fonts for the use with csplain (the Czech version of plainTeX)? Sincerely yours Michal Kvasnicka

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Doublesided, with header text centered.
by John R. Culleton 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Here is a common situation. I need a doublesided layout so I can adjust the backspace. I want the header text on evens and odds centered over the text block. To simplify the issue let's say I want "left" on the evens and "right" on the odds. If I specify (per the manual) \setupheadertexts[text][left][right] then I get both words on both pages. If I use two extra sets of [] then I can get "left" on the left and "right" on the right but I cannot get them centered. I am missing something obvious I am sure. Anyone have a firm grasp of the obvious? I don't. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

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texmfstart texutil
by Hans van der Meer 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

In order to purge the temporary context files I did (throught an alias) texutil --purge This worked fine. Since the introduction of the ruby scripts this call now tells me: remark: 'texutil' is now part of 'texexec' warning: use 'texmfstart texutil' instead So I obediently call: texmfstart.rb texutil --purge This silently does nothing. Neither does work "texmfstart texexec --version" the same as did "texexec --version". The former giving the TeXExec version, the latter gave the installed ConTeXt formats. It is not "texmfstart texexec --purge" because I tried that too. On the other hand, replacing "texexec --silent --pdf --autopdf file.tex" by the same preceded with "texmfstart" does work as expected. What happened? Hans van der Meer

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\MetaFun
by andrea valle 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

As I made a presentation concerning typesetting I used the "magic symbols" \TeX, \LaTex, \ConTeXt, \MetaFont, \MetaPost. I also used \MetaFun: no error (so it's a recognized command, I guess), but not special output, \MetaFun = MetaFun. I was hoping to have the nice MetaFun "shaked" logo... What am I missing? Thanks -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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itemize and interlinespace
by Olivier 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hi, I am fighting to change the interlinespace in item text. For instance: \startitemize \item This is the text % here the interline space is very small of the first item \stopitemize By the way, is there a way to change the font depending on the item level? Olivier

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Context user meeting: 25-26 March 2007
by Taco Hoekwater 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

This link should not need much introduction anymore: http://context.aanhet.net/epen2007/index.htm In a week or so, I will also forward this annoucement to a few other TeX-related lists and newsgroups. Cheers, Taco

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hyphenatedurl
by Ralf Schmitt 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Hi, is there a way to specify additional characters (e.g. &) to be used for hyphenation of urls using \hyphenatedurl{...}? TIA, - Ralf

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texsync trees
by Peter Münster 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Hello Hans, what tree am I supposed to take, to get the current unzipped ConTeXt distribution? I had a look at --tree=tex/texmf-local but the version is from 2006.05.18... Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] Proposal for collection reorganization
by Hans Hagen 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Hans! > > On Don, 08 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>> Concerning context: I am still hoping that someone is packaing context >>> independently from tetex and texlive, so that one package can be used >>> >>> >> which means that tetex/texlive will become mainly a latex installation? >> > > No, which means that Debian users could call > > aptitude install context > > and get a working context system. It would automatically install the > texlive binaries necessary (texlive-base-bin or tetex-bin) and run the > necessary scripts for format generation. > i see, i happily leave that to an expert in packaging (so i cc this mail to the context list) 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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Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] Proposal for collection reorganization
by Hans Hagen 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Norbert Preining wrote: > On Don, 08 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> context only needs fonts (things under /fonts, no tex files or so), >> which i assume are in some kind of base font package >> > > So this means we could actually kill the collection-pdfetex and move the > packages to the respecitve places (partly latex-recommended, partly > latex-extra). > > This is IMHO a good move if we all agree on this. > > Concerning context: I am still hoping that someone is packaing context > independently from tetex and texlive, so that one package can be used > which means that tetex/texlive will become mainly a latex installation? > for both texlive and tetex IN DEBIAN. (hints hints hints for the lurkers > on these list, one of you want to take over this job!?!? ;-) > it depends what packaging is; on the context list are some users who made/discuss an rpm; i myself provide so called minimal context installations i always understood that tex live could/did handle such things; for context users need (1) the base collection of fonts and (2) the content of the main context zip; in the so called minimals i use a different set of font metrics so that would mean that with regards to fonts only type1 and ttf is needed, but that's another story ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Bug in index references (or feature?)
by Richard Gabriel 08 Jun '06

08 Jun '06

Hello Hans and others, I've found a strange behavior of the index references. If there are two (or more) references to the same term on one page, each one in another chapter, there will be two (or more) references to the same page number in the index. The attached sample demonstates it clearly: - If the same term is referred in different chapter ("Term" or "Another term"), then there are multiple references to the same page in the index. - It the term is referred more times within the same chapter ("Yet another term"), then there's only one reference in the Index. I consider this behavior a bit confusing. Maybe it has it's meaning when interaction is used (but it's inconsistent anyway), but it definitely look like an error in printed documents. What do you guess think this? Thanks, Richard

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Context user meeting: 25-26 March 2007
by Taco Hoekwater 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

This link should not need much introduction anymore: http://context.aanhet.net/epen2007/index.htm In a week or so, I will also forward this annoucement to a few other TeX-related lists and newsgroups. Cheers, Taco

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Trailing spaces in descriptions
by Daniel Wallin 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

I want to have a description with a trailing ':' after the description term, so I have this: \def\FieldTitle#1{#1:} \definedescription [ReSTfield] [headstyle=bold, location=hanging, width=broad, distance=1em, command=\FieldTitle] But this leaves me with: Field : text ^^^ How do I get rid of the whitespace? -- Daniel Wallin

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Writing a ConTeXt module for R
by Johan Sandblom 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Since I sometimes use the open-source statistics environment R (http://www.r-project.org) as well as ConTeXt, I thought a module that could typeset R code as well as evaluate it on the fly would be useful. Borrowing largely without understanding but lots of trial and eror from m-gnustep.tex, I came up with the attached. Limited testing indicates it works, but at least one problem is apparent: the R code snippets have one unnecessary line break to start them and two after the end. How can I fix that? Of course, any other suggestions are also welcome. A recent R needs to be in the path, but given that, it seems to work on Windows XP as well as Linux. Regards, Johan PS Emacs users may appreciate the following to get r-mode where appropriate: (require 'mmm-mode) (setq mmm-global-mode 'maybe) (setq mmm-submode-decoration-level 2) (mmm-add-group 'context-plus '((context-MP :submode metapost-mode :face mmm-code-submode-face :front ".*\\\\start\\w*MP\\w*\${\\w*}\\|\\[\\w*\\]\\|\$\\W" :back ".*\\\\stop\\w*MP") (context-R :submode r-mode :face mmm-comment-submode-face :front ".*\\\\startR.*\\W" :back ".*\\\\stopR.*"))) (add-to-list 'mmm-mode-ext-classes-alist '(context-mode nil context-plus)) -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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