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textbackground and midaligned
by Aditya Mahajan 19 May '06

19 May '06

I encountered a very strange problem. The very presence of \definetextbackground changed the meaning of \midaligned (and \rightaligned). Attached are the minimal example that illustrate the problem. The first file, nobackground.tex has no background and works as expected. The second file background.tex has a textbackground and \midaligned is no longer middle aligned. Any insight into this strange behaviour? Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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Weird texexec hang
by nico 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hello, I took me quite some time to extract the following sequence from a 300p book, that makes the compilation hang. It looks like if it's in an infinite loop, but I don't know what happens. It seems related to the interaction of float, verbatim, and background stuff. I thought it was a local resource problem (few memory on my machine) but trying the code in live context never gave something either (i hope it is not still running!). What's wrong in my definitions/setups to have such a behaviour? \setuplayout[middle] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] \definefloat[dbsidebar] \setupfloat [dbsidebar] [criterium=0.7\textwidth, leftmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, rightmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, default={outer,middle}] \setupcaption[dbsidebar][location=bottom,number=no] \defineframedtext [framesidebar] [width=.9\textwidth,bodyfont=small, corner=round,background=screen,backgroundscreen=.95] \setupbackground [background=screen, frame=on, strut=yes, topoffset=2mm, width=broad, before=\blank, after={\blank[small]}, align=right] % Verbatim environment for programlisting \definetyping[code] \setuptyping[code] [bodyfont=small, before={\startbackground}, after={\stopbackground}] \starttext \input tufte \input tufte \placedbsidebar{joke} {\startframesidebar \startcode some code \stopcode \stopframesidebar} \input tufte \input tufte \placedbsidebar{joke} {\startframesidebar \startcode some code \stopcode \stopframesidebar} \stoptext Regards, BG

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definitions local to a component
by Sanjoy Mahajan 19 May '06

19 May '06

What's the safe way to make \def's local to a component? I could wrap each component in a \begingroup..\endgroup but that might do bad things to the output routine. -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.

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error with new release
by Thomas A. Schmitz 19 May '06

19 May '06

When I regenerate the formats on my linux box with the latest release, I get this error: language : patterns pl for pl loaded (n=13,e=pl0,m=pl0) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/plhyph.tex !Improper alphabetic constant. <to be read again> \else \utffouruniglph ...tf@c *(#1-\utf@f )+\utf@b *(`#2 -\utf@g )+\utf@a *(`#3-\ut... l.189 ./sr/o 2d5 Since nobody else complains, I guess this must be a misconfiguration on my side, but what could it be? Best Thomas

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Wrong image size evaluation
by nico 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hello, I have some troubles with a PNG image, that is not correctly rendered by context (too small). The difference I've found with another correctly displayed image is that the file does not contain any resolution unit (but a pixels/inch default seems reasonable). Is there a workaround or specific setup to make this work (without explicit width setting)? Here is the test file I use. If you wish I can send the images, or find the troublesome PNG image at: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/trac/browser/trunk/src/en/book/images/ch01dia1.… Thanks for your help. \starttext \startyping identify -verbose images/ch02dia1.png images/ch02dia1.png PNG 146x168 146x168+0+0 PseudoClass 135c 2kb 0.008u 0:01 Image: images/ch02dia1.png Format: PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Geometry: 146x168 Resolution: 28.34x28.34 Units: PixelsPerCentimeter \stoptyping \externalfigure[images/ch02dia1.png] \startyping identify -verbose images/ch01dia1.png images/ch01dia1.png PNG 511x585 511x585+0+0 DirectClass 54kb 0.094u 0:01 Image: images/ch01dia1.png Format: PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Geometry: 511x585 Resolution: 72x72 Units: Undefined \stoptyping \externalfigure[images/ch01dia1.png] \stoptext Regards, BG

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Dense encoding, part II ???
by Mojca Miklavec 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hello, on the [tex-fonts] mailing list there was a recent discussion of people putting effort into enabling proper encoding to support typesetting of Lithuanian (in LaTeX). Before they start creating and using yet another encoding (incompatible with others and not shipped with any standard TeX distribution): is there any chance to finish the companion encoding in some reasonable time? Even if they keep using LaTeX, I think that the same mechanism can be used in LaTeX as the one which combined EC (T1) with TS1. There is probably not that much left to be done. The letter part of the encoding is finished (and the Polish fonts already ship with those metric files) and quite some ideas for the companion font are already there. The major part left is to create ConTeXt support for combining two encodings, but from the past experiance with Hans that is probably a matter of not even a couple of hours. Or should we wait for Oriental TeX first? Mojca

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vertically centered aligment of different sized texts
by frantisek holop 18 May '06

18 May '06

hi there, another question to which shamefully i cannot find the answer. perhaps it's just too late... consider the following example: \definefont[BigFont][Regular sa 3] \starttext {\tfc The {\BigFont 7}\high{th} Seal} \stoptext how can i make that line vertically centered, like --, the /th seal / :) is \startalignment used for this? -f -- every great journey begins with a single step.

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More Feature Requests for math
by Aditya Mahajan 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi Hans, Can you provide some more features to \definematrix and \definemathcases. 1. Allow \definematrix and \definemathcases to have a parameter displaystyle or textstyle. Right now, everything is in textstyle. Consider \startformula a = \startcases \NC E = mc^2 \NC nothing interesting to see here \NR \NC \int_0^1 x - 3 d\,x \NC Integral is in text mode \NR \stopcases \stopformula \startformula \startmatrix[n=2] \NC x \NC y \NR \NC \int_0^1 x - 3 d\,x \NC 20 \NR \stopmatrix \stopformula Both integrals are in textstyle. It will be nice if one had a configuration like \definemathcases[displaycases][displaystyle] and \definemathmatrix[displaymatrix][displaystyle] so that \startdisplaymatrix \NC a \NC b \NR \NC d \NC e \NR \stopdisplaymatrix is equivalent to \startmatrix \NC \displaystyle a \NC \displaystyle b \NR \NC \displaystyle d \NC \displaystyle e \NR \stopmatrix and similar for startdisplaycases. I don't know which syntax is better displaystyle=on|off (yes|no) or [mathstyle=display|text]. 2. Allow location=top|center|bottom for \definemathmatrix. Right now, inside \dostartmathmatrix there is a \vcenter. Can this be changed to \vtop or \vbottom depending on the value of location. With these features, it will be straightforward to emulate the behaviour of aligned and gathered environments of amsmath. 3. Can pagebreak inside \startalign be restored. This used to work, but broke while ensuring compatibility with \setupformulas[align=??] \placeformula \startformula \startalign \dorecurse{50} { \NC a \EQ b \NR[+] } \stopalign \stopformula Thanks, Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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First hack at new ruby-aware texexec script for linux/unix
by gnwiii＠gmail.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

There are two classes of users: 1) most error messages are ignored up to and including the ones that promise global thermonuclear war if you click on "Yes", or 2) minor warnings bring all work to a halt until explained. In honor of the latter class, who ask about the suggestion to use "texstart texexec.rb ..." when running context, the following script may be helpful. TeX Live on linux runs texexec, etc. via a shell script that is linked to the names of various perl utilities. Here is my first cut at a version that tries to use the ruby scripts: ------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # use ruby and texmfstart.rb or perl # to use: link to the names of ConTeXt scripts what=`echo $0 | sed 's@.*/@@'` case $what in texmfstart|texexec|pstopdf|textools|texutil) p=`kpsewhich -format=texmfscripts $what.rb` { test -n "$p" && test -f "$p"; } \ || { echo "\`$what.rb' not found."; exit 1; } RUBYLIB="${RUBYLIB:-${p%/*}}" export RUBYLIB exec ruby "$p" ${1+"$@"} ;; *) p=`kpsewhich -format=texmfscripts $what.pl` { test -n "$p" && test -f "$p"; } \ || { echo "\`$what.pl' not found."; exit 1; } exec perl "$p" ${1+"$@"} ;; esac ------------------------------------------------------- This version runs the ruby scripts directly, rather than the suggested form, e.g., "texfmstart pstopdf.rb file.ps". I have no idea if that is intended to work -- it did in my very simple tests . I'm not sure the RUBYLIB line is needed. -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

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Missing <space> in gs.rb from recent con-tmf.zip
by gnwiii＠gmail.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

The line in scripts/context/ruby/graphics/gs.rb with -dSAFER needs a <space> before the closing quote. The corrected line is: arguments << "-q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -dBATCH -dSAFER " -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

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[Fwd: PracTeX Journal 2006-2 released]
by Hans Hagen 18 May '06

18 May '06

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customized itemize
by Na Li 18 May '06

18 May '06

I need use repeatedly a list like this, with the same set of words (five or six of them), 'icon', 'coni', etc, \startitemize[width=3em,symstyle=bold] \sym{icon} blah \sym{coni} llla \stopitemize How to define a customized list so I can do: \startmylist \item blah \item llla \stopmylist to get the same result? Thanks, Michael

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Trouble with new update
by Aditya Mahajan 18 May '06

18 May '06

I just now did a fresh install of 2006.05.11 10:30 (i.e. removed my old installation, downloaded mswincontext, did ctxtools --update) and now I get error messages systems : begin file test at line 1 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: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler fonts : using map file: original-public-lm (e:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) [1.1 Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-empty.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-public-lm.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-ams-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-ams-euler.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-public-lm.map): cannot open font map file ] systems : end file test at line 5 ) The files are present in the system, have permission 755, I do not know what is going wrong. I have tried, but of no avail. Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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right way to get type1 ccr fonts?
by Sanjoy Mahajan 17 May '06

17 May '06

After a bit of experimenting and reading the mfonts manual, I got the following to include the type1 font for ccr10 (otherwise pdfetex was including /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/concrete/ccr10.720pk): \definetypeface[ceul][rm][serif][concrete][default][encoding=default] \definetypeface[ceul][tt][mono] [modern] [default][encoding=texnansi, rscale=1.05] \definetypeface[ceul][mm][math] [euler] [euler] [rscale=1] \setupbodyfont [ceul] \loadmapfile[my.map] \starttext a $abc + \int_0^\infty$. \stoptext my.map contains: ccr5 ccr5 < sform5.pfb ccr6 ccr6 < sform6.pfb ccr7 ccr7 < sform7.pfb ccr8 ccr8 < sform8.pfb ccr9 ccr9 < sform9.pfb ccr10 ccr10 < sform10.pfb The sfo*.pfb fonts are part of the cm-super debian package. Its README said sfo*.pfb were the Concrete Roman fonts, so I just went ahead and guessed the above my.map. Is this the right way to get the type1 inclusion to work? And if it's basically okay, then 1. Do I need some re-encoding magic? 2. Is there a pre-built version of this file lying around? 3. When I generate dvi, then I do 'dvips -u +my file.dvi' in order for dvips to use the map file. Should I instead have put the contents of my.map in one of the canonical map files that both context/pdftex and dvips find? But I'm not sure I can get pdftex and dvips to agree on the set of map files. I'll wikify the results if they seem of general use. -Sanjoy

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Several publication lists
by nico 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hello, I wonder if it is possible to display several publication lists. Can we achieve this with the bib module? What I would like to do is to split the publication list into different sections, like this: \section{Bibliography} \subsection{Specifications} ... Here are the list of publications that are specifications ... \subsection{Manuals} ... Here some manuals ... Regards, BG

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Columns again
by Ehrt, Michael 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi everyone, Is there a way to nest two \startcolumns environments, or to define a columnsetspan that "wraps"? What I'd like to do is produce a two column text which is unbalanced on the last page, and then place another two-column text in the last column. I haven't yet found a way to do it in ConTeXt since nesting \startcolumns doesn't seem to work... Cheers Michael

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project files searched for using TEXINPUTS
by Sanjoy Mahajan 17 May '06

17 May '06

In experimenting with projects, products, and components, I was tracing file searches (using Linux, teTeX 3.0 and kpathsea). >From the cont-eni.pdf manual (p. 26 of the PDF file), explaining more about components and project structure: > Many TEX implementations look for a file in all directories and > subdirectories when a requested file is not in the current > directory. This is not only time--consuming but may lead to errors when > the wrong file (a file with the same name) is loaded. > For this reason ConTEXt works somewhat differently. A file that is not > available on the working directory is searched for on the parent > directories. I agree with this reasoning. But as implemented, if the current and parent directories fail, ConTeXT will look in the TEXINPUTS search path. Is that the intended behavior when looking for project files? Probably not ideal for the project file, though maybe it is useful for the resulting environment file? For finding figures, the behavior is clear: look in the local (.) and then the global directories, and that's it. For finding files specified by \input, the behavior is also clear (use TEXINPUTS). So I wondered whether the intention for finding project files was also equally clear: look in . and in (grand)parent directories (I've increased the number of levels to three). Here's the test.tex file I used: \startcomponent blah \product null \project abcd \stopcomponent $ texexec -passon="-kpathsea-debug 32" --once test >& log $ grep abcd log | grep kpse_find kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ./abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../../../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ./abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../../../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) The last search, for 'abcd', runs through the entire TEXINPUTS path. The other searches have directories specified, so they will look only in those directories. -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal

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xetex
by Hans Hagen 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi, this is what texexec (latest version that i will upload) does with xetex: --xetex --xtx : run xetex and process xdv file afterwards using xdvipdfmx --xdv : run xetex and process xdv file afterwards using xdv2pdf when using dvipdfmx, graphics are analyzed using rlxtools --identify filename.suffix which assumes imagemagick's 'identify' to be present (i can integrate that in the resource log mechanism later); it will be run at runtime when needed, otherwise users need to manually create the associated rli files (i.e. whatever.jpg gets a whatever.jpg.rli file) later i will look into a combination of specials 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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A few columnset questions
by Ehrt, Michael 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi there, I've been experimenting a bit with columnset (thats THE one feature which will make me convert from LaTeX), and a few questions I have I couldn't find explained in the manuals... 1) Is it possible to put a rule between two columns with columnsets? (I know \startcolumns[n=2,distance=15pt,rule=on] does this, but I need certain columnset features). The only thing I came up with so far is \definecolumnset[example][n=3,distance=0pt] %n=3 instead n=2 \setupcolumnset[example][2][width=15pt] and then put the rule in an area defined for column 2. 2) Is there a way to set ny "dynamically" for a columnsetarea, for example, if the text/image/whatever put in the area runs over six lines, tell it to just use six lines automatically? 3) When using columnsetareas, is there a way to link them to a specific columnset? Like, I've got \definecolumnset[set1]... \definecolumnset[set2]... \definecolumnsetarea[one][both][x=2,y=1,nx=1,ny=10] This area pops up in both column sets, and the only way I got it from not showing up in set2 was doing \setupcolumnsetarea[one][both][state=start] \startcolumnset[set1] {...} \stopcolumnset \setupcolumnsetarea[one][both][state=stop] \startcolumnset[set2] {...} \stopcolumnset I would have expected a columnsetarea to be linked to a specific columnset, is this the case? Like in \definecolumnset[set1]... \definecolumnset[set2]... \definecolumnsetarea[set1][one][both][x=2,y=1,nx=1,ny=10] %area for set1 only \definecolumnsetarea[set2][one][both][x=3,y=5,nx=2,ny=5] %area for set2 only Maybe there's a parameter in definecolumnsetarea that does it, but I didn't find anything. And in the columns manual there's just one set being used... Cheers Michael

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spurious space before section heading but only in pdf mode
by Sanjoy Mahajan 17 May '06

17 May '06

This file \starttext \section{a} hi \section{b} hi again \stoptext is fine in dvi mode (texexec a.tex). But 'texexec --pdf a.tex' is a bit off, with the "1 a" section heading indented about one character. Is it a pdfetex bug? $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 cont-en : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 fmt: 2006.4.8 mes: english The only change from the distributed context version is Taco's suggestion of \def\maxreadlevel{4} in supp-fil.tex. -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal

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\startlines and whitespace
by frantisek holop 17 May '06

17 May '06

hi there, i am puzzled about the following issue. there's extra whitespace between the centered line and startlines, while when using \crlf, there is not. \startlines is an environment i guess (i come from latex) and some environments sometimes add extra whitespace in latex, if i recall correctly. when i use \nowhitespace between midaligned and startlines, the whitespace is smaller, but still there, depending on where the actual text is on the page. how can i get rid of the whitespace entirely? \starttext \startnarrower[3cm] \midaligned{test} \startlines There snores -- I mean sleeps -- my wife so frail. There snores -- I mean sleeps -- my wife so frail. \stoplines \stopnarrower \startnarrower[3cm] \midaligned{test} There snores -- I mean sleeps -- my wife so frail.\crlf There snores -- I mean sleeps -- my wife so frail. \stopnarrower \stoptext -f -- a kind word and gun gets you more than a kind word alone.

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Reference for the \but command
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hello, Where can I find the list of all keywords recognized by the \but command to set up interaction? (Honest, I searched the manual!) thx -- Jean

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ConTeXt, XeTeX for Linux and xdvipdfmx
by Ricard Roca 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi, It seems that some things doesn't work well with ConTeXt and XeTeX for Linux. For example image inclusion (jpg, png, pdf) with \externalfigure or \useexternalfigure doesn't work, but does with xdvipdfmx \special's (\special{pdf: image ...}). Also, \setuppapersize doesn't work (e. g. \setuppapersize[A5][A5] does the same as \setuppapersize[A5][A4], being A4 the default). But \color seems to work well. Are these ConTeXt bugs (related to \special's) or Linux XeTeX-xdvipdfmx bugs? Thanks in advance, Ricard

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Re: [NTG-context] some patches
by Dalyoung 16 May '06

16 May '06

> for xetex you really need to update because the backend driver has changed to xpdfmx Hans Dear Hans, Thank you for the reply. I'll upgrade to the latest version soon. By the way, I noticed one thing in the process of XeTeX-ConTeXt. In the previous version before may, "texexec --xtx file.tex" run and made file.xdv, and then finally produced file.pdf. But in the current version "texmfstart texexec --xetex file.tex" run and file.tuo - file.dvi - file.pdf are produced in the log file but file.pdf is not produced in the folder. "texexec --xtx file.tex" also produced pdf via *.tuo - *.dvi - *.pdf but figures in pdf format are appeared as blank space. Doesn't ConTeXt-XeTeX use *.xdv anymore? I'd like to upgrade from the beginning, TeX+ConTeXt update + XeTeX and test the same file. It makes me a little bit nervous. Thank you again. Dalyoung

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Re: [NTG-context] some patches (clever ConTeXt installation)
by Maurice Diamantini 16 May '06

16 May '06

Le 16 mai 06 à 01:14, Hans Hagen a écrit : > Maurice Diamantini wrote:nment. >> >> Usually, one can build dynamicaly (default) variable environment >> at the start of a programm >> (i.e. in the same process and sub-process), then let the original >> environment untouch >> while ending the programm. > this is what > > texmfstart --tree=.... texexec .... > > does; it sets env vars specified in either setuptex.tmf in the path > mentioned as tree, or some specific tmf file; those tmf files are > platform independent. this is how i run multiple (different trees) > on one machine (say a web server); Thank you very much. So I can do a little "texexec" script, add its path in front of the global path (so that it will be found before any standard old ConTeXt distrib) and use the new "texexec" shell script as the main context executable as usualy. The main avantage over my previous proposal is that it doesn't even require adding a new path in the PATH environment variable (which already is quite accectable!). >> I don't know much about context, but if you use some texmfstart >> laucher, it could have >> the responsability of that job). >> In fact, I'd like to only have to add some PATH for using a >> personnal full ConTeXt >> distribution near another standard LaTeX (containing obolate Context) > this is what in regular distributions texmf-local is for Yes, but the texmf-local is part of a particular directory from a particular network or host. And I like to separate my own (full, independant, robust, ...) ConTeXt environmement from the several LaTeX distrib I use (e.g. my unix/osX account is mirror via rsync between hom, work, and another network. >> LaTeX will probably become again my main xTeX environment, but I'd >> like to be able >> to switch ponctualy to a recent ConTeXt distro, without hacking >> and breaking >> my main TeX environment. > in that case, just put the latest context in your main tree (unzip > cont-tmf in > texmf-local or so); that should work as always No, because of recent font (lm) probleme, I decided to keep a full context distrib (linuxtex.zip + macosxtex.zip + justtex.zip) in my personnal home directory. I positionned this environment with some "setuptex" variante before using context program (with all previous problems when comming back to LaTeX) >> Because the Makefile should work on all plateform (and in a year >> or two also if possible!) >> I use only the standard texexec (instead of texmfstart and path >> argument). >> But if you say texmfstart become the standard way: I'd switch to! > well, you can still use texexec.rb instead of texexec.pl and avoid > texmfstart; > it's just that then you need to keep an eye on when texexec changes Do you mean that "texexec.rb" is clever enought to guess its ows directory tree ? Great, that what I asked for ;-) (and if "texexec.rb"" becomme the standard texexec tool the problem is solved (no more need to do a small texexec" shell script) but... ... for context programme only, but what about other tools (metapost, mp2pdf...) >> Just a remark in that case: texmfstart seems a bad name, bacause >> not related to "ConTeXt" >> Why not simply "context" or "ctx" as the main ConTeXt tool?) > because i use it to run anything organized in a tree (e.g. > xsltproc); running context > progies i just part of the game Ok, I can always make an alias "ctx" for "texmfstart --tree=..." alias ctx=texmfstart --tree=/home/myHome/myLocl/fullcontext perhaps it solves all problem at a time! I'll try that in the next two week. Thank you very much, Maurice

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Re: [NTG-context] new release
by nico 16 May '06

16 May '06

On Mon, 08 May 2006 13:04:58 +0200, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > Today i'll upload a new release. Got big problems with the fonts that are no more found when using the ruby stuff. Since the unix stubs are crappy, I do this: ruby /usr/local/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb texexec.rb --pdf typefile.tex What's wrong? Here is the log: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (format=cont-en 2006.5.8) 8 MAY 2006 19:55 entering extended mode (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) **typefile.tex emergencyend (./typefile.tex ConTeXt ver: 2006.05.08 12:59 fmt: 2006.5.8 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/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/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns nl->texnansi:texnansi->1->2:3 nl->ec:ec->2->2:3 fr-> texnansi:texnansi->3->2:3 fr->ec:ec->4->2:3 de->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 de->e c:ec->6->2:3 it->texnansi:texnansi->7->2:3 it->ec:ec->8->2:3 pt->texnansi:texna nsi->9->2:3 pt->ec:ec->10->2:3 hr->ec:ec->11->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->12->2:3 pl->ec:e c->13->2:3 pl->qx:qx->14->2:3 cz->il2:il2->15->2:3 cz->ec:ec->16->2:3 sk->il2:i l2->17->2:3 sk->ec:ec->18->2:3 sl->ec:ec->19->2:3 en->ec:ec->21->2:3 uk->ec:ec- > 22->2:3 us->ec:ec->23->2:3 agr->agr:agr->24->2:3 da->ec:ec->25->2:3 > sv->ec:ec- > 26->2:3 af->ec:ec->27->2:3 no->ec:ec->28->2:3 deo->ec:ec->29->2:3 > es->ec:ec->3 0->2:3 ca->ec:ec->31->2:3 la->ec:ec->32->2:3 ro->ec:ec->33->2:3 tr->ec:ec->34-> 2:3 fi->ec:ec->36->2:3 hu->ec:ec->37->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `typefile.tui'. system : typefile.top loaded (./typefile.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) \openout0 = `typefile-mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) (./typefile.tuo) systems : begin file typefile at line 146 (/usr/local/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) verbatim : file ./test-001.tex does not exist verbatim : file joke does not exist 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 [1.1 Warning: pdfetex (file original-empty.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex (file original-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex (file ec-public-lm.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex (file ec-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex (file 8r-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex (file t5-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex (file original-ams-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex (file original-ams-euler.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex (file original-public-lm.map): cannot open font map file ] [2.2] systems : end file typefile at line 167 ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1168 strings out of 58787 21094 string characters out of 563686 4585586 words of memory out of 5529308 39652 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+100000 75349 words of font info for 38 fonts, out of 500000 for 2000 232 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 47i,18n,54p,252b,773s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,5000s PDF statistics: 10 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 5 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 Warning: pdfetex (file ec-lmtt12): Font ec-lmtt12 at 600 not found Warning: pdfetex (file ec-lmr12): Font ec-lmr12 at 600 not found Output written on typefile.pdf (2 pages, 3101 bytes). Regards, BG

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XeTeX/linux and mpgraphics
by Taco Hoekwater 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi, With the latest ConTeXt (05.14) and XeTeX (0.992), I can successfully run this file (xetexmp.tex): \setupcolors[state=start] \runMPgraphicstrue \starttext \startMPcode for i = 1 upto 100: j := 200-(2*i); fill fullcircle scaled (j*pt) withcolor (0.5+i/200)*green; endfor \stopMPcode \stoptext using this command: texexec --xtx --nobackend xetexmp Greetings, Taco

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narrower
by frantisek holop 16 May '06

16 May '06

hi there, i am trying to make a document in the form of a movie script ACTOR hi there ACTRESS and hi over there i thought this would work nicely: \startnarrower \midaligned{\sc actor} hi there \stopnarrower but the default narrowness is not good for me. but setupnarrower doesn't seem to work for me. here's a minimal example: \setupnarrower [left=3cm, right=3cm] \starttext not narrower \startnarrower this is narrower \stopnarrower \stoptext also, i put the actor line inside the narrower to get rid of the whitespace between \midaligned and \startnarrower, is there a better way? -f -- today is a fine day for firm decisions. or is it?

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Re: [NTG-context] No header line on chapter page + potential columnset problem?
by Ehrt, Michael 16 May '06

16 May '06

> Ehrt, Michael wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I'm having problems with removing the header background > > from a chapter start page. > > > you should do it without using backgrounds, like this: > > \setupheader[text][after=\hrule] > > Now > > \setupheader[state=empty] > > will make the line disappear, without shifting everything. > > Cheers, Taco Great, thanks. Works like magic, with a little adapting even for footers ;-) Do you know if the column text overrunning the footer when using state=high is a general problem or "just me"? If it's just me I'll probably try installing a plain context distribution without miktex on a separate machine... Cheers Michael

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No header line on chapter page + potential columnset problem?
by Ehrt, Michael 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi there, I'm having problems with removing the header background from a chapter start page. I'm using \setupbackgrounds[header][text][bottomframe=on] \setupheadertexts[part][chapter] for a header line and part/chapter texts, and \setupheader[state=empty] to remove the header texts on the first chapter page. But this doesn't remove the header line. And if I'm using \setupheader[state=high] the line goes away, but A) the position of the chapter title moves which I don't like and B) the columnset I'm using runs into the footer on all subsequent pages that do have the header. It seems as if the columnset uses the increased textheight from the first page on all subsequent pages. This is also the case if I use \startcolumns \stopcolumns. Without columns the text doesn't run into the footer. If anyone is interested to look into this, I've got a 25 line minimal example. I'm using Miktex 2.4.1461 on Windows XP SP2 and have updated the context package this morning to ver: 2006.04.24 23:37 fmt: 2006.5.16, but since I'm not a wizard in diagnostics it may still be a problem with my installation. But I would really prefer to be able to remove the header background on the first chapter page anyhow. I don't like to use the state=high option because I'd like the chapter title to stay where it is... Cheers Michael

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Bibliography and whitespace
by nico 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hello, When I use \placebublications the white space I've set is no more taken into account. Besides, in the example below the space between the heading (Biblio) and the publication is also too small. Regards, BG \usemodule[bib] \setupwhitespace[big] \setuppublications[criterium=all] \startpublication[k=TDG,t=book] \title{The Definitive Guide} \author[]{Norman}[]{Norman}{Walsh} \author[]{Leonard}[]{Leonard}{Muellner} \isbn{156592-{}580-{}7} \pubname{O'Reilly} \stoppublication \starttext \section{Biblio} \placepublications \section{Para} this is a paragraph. this is a paragraph. this is a paragraph. this is a paragraph. this is a paragraph. \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] some patches
by Dalyoung Jeong 16 May '06

16 May '06

Dear Hans, Thank you for your answer. Since it worked perfectly before, I created XeTeX-ConTeXt format using texexec --make --xtx en for a test and run "texexec --xtx file.tex". It run OK and I got a pdf output. I think that it is not only the font problem unless texmfstart uses fonts differently. So my wonder is what cause the difference between texmfstart texexec --xetex file.tex and texexec --xtx file.tex.(no output with errors and good output). I am sorry to list this which is the problem for me only. Since my TeX-knowledge is very short, I couldn't do anyting but testing. I'll upgrade to the latest version soon and see how it runs, although I am afraid of upgrading the current ConTeXt(05-11) to the latest one. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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some patches
by Hans Hagen 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi, I played a bit with texmfstart on the (so so slooooow Q3) mac and i think that i managed to get texmfstart working with less problems. I now also ship a texmfstart with all the used (context/ruby/base) libraries merged in (new undocumented feature) so that there is no longer a need to set the ruby lib path and/or move base files. The new version is uploaded. A next step is to get the stubs done in the right way (just texmfstart scriptname args) (btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?) 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 create texmfstart.exe?
by Christian Schenk 16 May '06

16 May '06

I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe (Makefile) I can start with?

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ConTeXt utf support on apple mac
by Alex Mikhalev 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hello all, I am struggling to get a utf support for Context on mac working with cyrrilic (Russian). I am using this example: \enableregime[utf] \useencoding[cyr] \definetypeface [russian] [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont[russian] \starttext Мама и Папа % Some Russian characters \stoptext taken from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian And it produces pdf with words: 1 Mama i Papa I was following hints from wiki above - aft2tfm conversion for cm-super but with no luck. I understand there is an option to encode into 8bit format somewhere, but I wasn't able to find it. I am using tetex & contex installation from http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html. context output: TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : 2 output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./2.tex ConTeXt ver: 2006.04.27 15:59 fmt: 2006.5.8 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 system : 2.top loaded (./2.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 ) systems : system commands are disabled (/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) (/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) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) (./2.tuo) systems : begin file 2 at line 8 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 fonts : using map file: subset-cmsuper-t2a fonts : using map file: cm-super-t2a [1.1{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-e mpty .map}{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original- base .map}{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ec-public -lm. map}{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ec-base.ma p}{/ usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/8r-base.map}{/us r/lo cal/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/t5-base.map}{/usr/loca l/te TeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base.map}{/usr/ loca l/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-euler.map}{ /usr /local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-public-lm. map} Warning: pdfetex (file subset-cmsuper-t2a.map): cannot open font map file {/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t2a.m ap}] systems : end file 2 at line 10 system : cont-err loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex > User file 'cont-sys.tex' not found, 'cont-sys.rme' has been used instead. < ) ){/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-ec.enc}</usr/loc al /teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmr10.pfb> Output written on 2.pdf (1 page, 24123 bytes). Transcript written on 2.log. return code : 0 run time : 2 seconds sorting and checking : running texutil TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006 action : processing commands, lists and registers option : sorting IJ under Y option : converting high ASCII values input file : 2.tui output file : 2.tuo passed commands : 20 remapped keys : 0 register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references synonym entries : 0 -> 0 entries embedded files : 1 total run time : 3 seconds File /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/dvips/cm-super/cm-super-t2a.ma p exists and can be open and processed. latex example: \documentclass[12pt,oneside]{book} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} \usepackage[unicode]{hyperref} \usepackage{makeidx} \usepackage{xspace} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{verbatim} \usepackage[UKenglish]{babel} \usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \parskip0.5\baselineskip \begin{document} тестируем юникод \end{document} produce expected results, so I do not think that cm-super fonts installed incorrectly. I reinstalled cm-super package from ctan by hands but it didn't change anything. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Alex

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Ruby and Context
by John R. Culleton 15 May '06

15 May '06

Until a few minutes ago my Linux Slackware system dd not have a Ruby interpreter. Yet Context runs fine. I seem to remember something about some components of Context existing as Ruby scripts. Am I dreaming or are there such beasties? -- 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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Table nesting
by nico 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hello, I try to nest some tables, but the following case crashes, telling about some tex capacity exceeded. But i don't really believe in some capacity problem since it works fine when removing the enclosing of \bTABLEbody \eTABLEbody. BTW, is there some method/option to change the space size between the cell rules and the cell content? Regards, BG \starttext \startbuffer[2] \bTABLE[align=lohi,width=.5\hsize] \bTR\bTD c \eTD\bTD d\eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD c \eTD\bTD d\eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer \startbuffer \bTABLE[align=lohi,width=.5\hsize] \bTR\bTD \getbuffer[2] \eTD\bTD d\eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer \bTABLE[frame=on,split=repeat,width=.3\textwidth] \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTD a foo \eTD \bTD a bar \eTD \bTD a baz \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD b foo \eTD \bTD \getbuffer \eTD \bTD b baz \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD c foo \eTD \bTD c bar \eTD \bTD c baz \eTD \eTR \eTABLEbody \eTABLE \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Bib-module: crossreferences
by Sanjoy Mahajan 15 May '06

15 May '06

>From Taco (Fri Oct 7 16:18:28 CEST 2005): >> Are crossreferences supposed to work in the new bib module? According to the > No, this doesn't work, but I believe there is a workaround by putting > \setbox\scratchbox={\hbox{\placepublications}} > just before the normal \placepublications or \completepublications. I had to do use a \vbox to get it to compile. With \hbox I get: ! A <box> was supposed to be here. <to be read again> { l.9 \setbox\scratchbox={ \hbox{\placepublications}} ? (./bibdemo.tuo ! You can't use `\prevdepth' in restricted horizontal mode. \nointerlineskip ->\prevdepth -\thousandpoint \dosomelistelement ...}}\endgraf \nointerlineskip \endgraf \allowbreak \list... \dodolistelement ...ement {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue l.15 ...om-note-crossref}}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1} ? So I ended up with the code below. Although it compiles, no bibliography is produced (there's only a page 1 which has the text). What silliness did I do?! \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=xampl] \starttext Tricky: \cite[random-note-crossref] \newbox\scratchbox \setbox\scratchbox=\vbox{\placepublications} \completepublications \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] some patches
by Dalyoung 15 May '06

15 May '06

Dear Hans, Thank you for your work to make everything works fine, and I am sorry to ask you so many things. I made texmfstart working and created the format files using the commands texmfstart texexec --make en texmfstart texexec --make --xetex en It runs OK. I tested some files using "texmfstart texexec --pdf(or --xetex) "file.tex" and following results. 1. It runs OK for standard text using ConTeXt. 2. There are some warnings and errors for xetex files using XeConTeXt and there is no pdf output. (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex > User file 'cont-sys.tex' not found, 'cont-sys.rme' has been used instead. < ) ) WARNING: Type1 font data returned by OFAStreamPSDownload isn't in the correct format required by the Adobe Type 1 Font Format specification. WARNING: Type1 font data returned by OFAStreamPSDownload isn't in the correct format required by the Adobe Type 1 Font Format specification. Output written on test.pdf (1 page). Transcript written on test.log. TeXUtil | parsing file test.tui TeXUtil | shortcuts : 0 TeXUtil | expansions: 0 TeXUtil | reductions: 0 TeXUtil | divisions : 0 TeXUtil | loaded files: 1 TeXUtil | commands: 23 TeXUtil | programs: 0 TeXUtil | tuo file saved test.dvi -> test.pdf ** ERROR ** Could not open specified DVI file: test.dvi Output file removed. TeXExec | runtime: 12.030969 The only thing I did to make texmfstart working is to enable the line containg "../texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby" in texmfstart.rb. since I installed teTeX via i-installer. Is there anything that I should do? Is the latest version cure for this problem too? Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Repeating tabulate head/tail on every page
by Tobias Burnus 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hello, I have a long tabulate which spans several pages. I use: \starttabulatehead \HL \NC Energy \NC Temp. \NC Magn. \NC Wavenumb. \NC Wavelength \NC Freq. \NC Energy \NC Energy \NC\NR \HL \stoptabulatehead \starttabulatetail \HL \stoptabulatetail but this only shows the head/tail of the table at the very beginning and very end of the table. (Every row spans only a single line.) Tobias

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How to preserve a TeX token list across passes (the ConTeXt way)?
by Jyrki Ruuskanen 15 May '06

15 May '06

Ok, the module is read in cont-sys.rme with \usemodule[jtex]. It initializes the lists inside protect / unprotect pair with \newtoks \usedAbbreviations and \newtoks\usedReferences along with macro definitions. Abbreviations are introduced with \setAbbreviation[<key>]{<abbr>} {<meaning>}{<description>} which defines macros \<key> \<key>@meaning and \<key>@description. Each call to \<key> calls \writeutilitycommand {\addToList[\string\usedAbbreviations]{<key>}, so after the first run the .tui file has a number of "c \addToList[\usedAbbreviations] {something}" lines in it. Functionality is similar for the bibliography. The \cite command writes \addToList[\usedReferences]{<cite>} into .tui. So, the .tuo file should populate used* lists and I could typeset the list of used abbreviations in initialization order with \executeListIntersection[\abbreviations][\usedAbbreviations] {\printAbbreviation}. Same for used bib references. But well, lists remain empty. I'll attach the module and the .tui file. And excuse me, I have never ever used a mailing list. How am I supposed to answer to a certain message in the chain? Thanks guys. Jyrki

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Problems with ConTeXt version 2006.05.11
by Otared KAVIAN 15 May '06

15 May '06

Dear all, I installed the latest version of ConTeXt (that is version 2006.05.11) and although some problems have disappeared, some other are still there. Indeed I thank Hans H. and all the wizards working with him for having fixed some of the issues reported previously. For your information, I am using Gerben Wierda's ConTeXt updater, and running MacOS X 10.4.6. I list below three problems I can observe with some of my test files: 1) PostScript fonts declarations are not anymore working. For instance this \starttext \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] Here we are using the font \fontname\font. \blank \input knuth.tex \stoptext is typeset with lmr. The same is true with times. 2) Generating a format with XeTeX, that is creating XeConTeXt, is now possible but still MetaPost code is ignored in the resulting PDF file. For instance this \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startMPcode fill fullcircle scaled 3cm withcolor red; fill fullcircle scaled 3cm shifted (2cm,1cm) withcolor transparent(1,0.5,green); \stopMPcode \stoptext works fine in ConTeXt, but gives nothing with XeConTeXt. 3) Even though typesetting a file with ConTeXt from within TeXShop works fine, still there is the warning warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead which means that some day those (like me...) who have not well understood how to switch to texmfstart (and in particular how to make it work...) are going to have big problems with the next releases of ConTeXt... Best regards: OK

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mailing lists
by Hans Hagen 14 May '06

14 May '06

Hoi, We hebben het er niet meer over gehad .. de mailinglijst - afscherming (is nu ok denk ik) - archief (is er wel maar misschien niet wat we willen) - leden van de bestuurslijst Wat betreft het laatste, ik heb er geen bezwaar tegen als er op de bestuurslijst ook mensen staan waarvan we als bestuur vinden dat ze kunnen/mogen meedenken. (bv frans) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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New release and XeTeX - XeConTeXt
by Otared KAVIAN 14 May '06

14 May '06

Dear all, After upgrading to the latest release (that is TeXExec 5.4.3, and ConTeXt ver: 2006.05.08 12:59 fmt: 2006.5.9 int: english mes: english), when I tried to generate the format with XeTeX (that is to generate XeConTeXt), with the command sudo texexec --make --xtx en I get the folllowing error message: language : patterns de for de loaded (n=3,e=texnansi,m=texnansi) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/lang-de.pat ! Bad \patterns. \unknownchar ->{ \hbox {\vrule \!!width .5em\!!height 1ex\!!depth \zeropoint }} l.114 .ge s6 ? Has anyone encountered this error? Is there a solution? Many thanks for your help: Otared K.

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\startbackmatter requires \chapter to get bibliography?
by Sanjoy Mahajan 14 May '06

14 May '06

I just noticed the following behavior of \startbackmatter: A \placepublications needs a \chapter{...} before it, otherwise no bibliography is generated (i.e. p.2 is empty). Consistent with that behavior, \completepublications works fine without needing a \chapter beforehand. Here's the minimal file: \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database=book] \starttext See \cite[van-Dyke:82] \startbackmatter %\chapter{References} \placepublications \stopbackmatter \stoptext With this .bbl file: \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={vD82},totalnumber=1] \startpublication[k=van-Dyke:82,t=book, a={{van Dyke}},y=1982, n=1,s=vD82] \author[]{Milton}[M.]{van}{Dyke} \pubyear{1982} \title{An Album of Fluid Motion} \city{Stanford, Calif.} \pubname{Parabolic Press} \stoppublication

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bibdemo.tex example needs a few defs
by Sanjoy Mahajan 14 May '06

14 May '06

The bibdemo.tex example on the Wiki <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography> fails with complaints about \newcommand being undefined. The problem is that xampl.bib (which here is /usr/share/texmf-tetex/bibtex/bib/base/xampl.bib on this teTeX 3.0 distribution) has this: @preamble{ "\newcommand{\noopsort}[1]{} " # "\newcommand{\printfirst}[2]{#1} " # "\newcommand{\singleletter}[1]{#1} " # "\newcommand{\switchargs}[2]{#2#1} " } So bibtex puts those LaTeX commands at the top of the .bbl file, and ConTeXt doesn't know about \newcommand. A temporary workaround is to define those commands by hand (see below). A better workaround is to define \newcommand. latex.ltx has a long and involved one, but maybe there's a nicer ConTeXt way? Meanwhile, the following example works (context version 2006.04.17 23:14): \usemodule[bib] \def\newcommand#1[#2]#3{} \newcommand{\noopsort}[1]{} \def\noopsort#1{} \def\printfirst#1#2{#1} \def\singleletter#1{#1} \def\switchargs#1#2{#2#1} \setupbibtex[database=xampl] \starttext As \cite[article-full] already indicated, bibtex is a \LaTeX-centric program. \completepublications \stoptext I'll put this version on the wiki, if there's no clean solution (unless I've missed an easy fix to the \newcommand problem). -Sanjoy

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brace error after a \placefigure
by Sanjoy Mahajan 14 May '06

14 May '06

I can't figure out what causes the brace error with this test.tex example file: \starttext \placefigure[margin]{A caption}{\externalfigure[]} {test}. \stoptext $ texexec test [...] ! Too many }'s. l.4 {test} . ? H You've closed more groups than you opened. Such booboos are generally harmless, so keep going. If I change {test}. to The {test}. then it compiles fine. $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2006.04.17 23:14 cont-en : ver: 2006.04.17 23:14 fmt: 2006.5.10 mes: english -Sanjoy

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Custom \unknownreference and \dummyreference; plus custom unknownreference in m-bib
by Tobias Burnus 14 May '06

14 May '06

Hi hans, hi Taco, hello all, I used the following in my thesis (2 years ago) to make sure I won't miss a unresolved reference: --------------------------------------------------- \def\unknownreference{~~~~~\clap{\blackrule[width=1.5ex,height=1.5ex,depth=0.3ex]% \kern-0.3ex$\blacktriangleright$~~~~}% \normalunknownreference} \def\dummyreference{$\blacksquare$} --------------------------------------------------- which produced for unresolvable references: "#>myRef#" or "#>#". This does not work anymore. I only get "#myRef". How should one do it nowadays? * * * In m-bib, actually not \unknownreference (or \dummyreference) but a simple '??' is used (not even bold. It would be great if this could be changed. (search for "{??}" and ' ??\else'.) Tobias

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Re: [NTG-context] about texmfstart
by Dalyoung 14 May '06

14 May '06

Dear Aditya, I did what you told me, set RUBYLIB=..../texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby export $RUBYLIB But there is no change in the output of "texmfstart --verbose texexec". I copied texexec.rb in the home directory, then I got ~ mac$ texmfstart --verbose texexec texmfstart version 1.8.6 expanding 'texexec' to 'texexec.rb' locating 'texexec.rb' in current path '.' registering 'texexec' as '/Users/mac/texexec.rb' 'texexec.rb' located in current path registering 'THREAD' as '/Users/mac' starting texexec using 'system' call: ruby /Users/mac/texexec.rb /Users/mac/texexec.rb:10:in `require': No such file to load -- base/ switch (LoadError) from /Users/mac/texexec.rb:10 According to this message, it locate texexec.rb. However, the commnad texmfstart texexec --make en did nothing but only a message like this. /Users/mac/texexec.rb:10:in `require': No such file to load -- base/ switch (LoadError) from /Users/mac/texexec.rb:10 Would you please tell me what I have to do more? Thank you for reading. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Linux: ConTeXt in local texmf-tree and Ruby scripts - HOWTO?
by Johannes Graumann 14 May '06

14 May '06

Hello, I'm on Debian unstable and have the latest context sitting in my home directory's 'texmf'. The new ruby scripts confuse me to no end - I just don't understand how to make it works. Here is what works and what doesn't: 1) 'ruby ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb document.tex' works. 2) Made ~/texmf/scripts executable (recursively). 3) I have linked '~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb' to '~/bin/texmfstart' (~/bin being in my path) and now calling 'texmfstart' gives me this: version : 1.8.6 - 2003/2006 - www.pragma-ade.com usage : texmfstart [switches] filename [optional arguments] switches : --verbose --report --browser --direct --execute --locate --iftouched --program --file --page --arguments --batch --edit --report --clear --make --lmake --wmake --path --stubpath --indirect --before --after --tree --autotree --environment --showenv example : texmfstart pstopdf.rb cow.eps texmfstart --locate examplex.rb texmfstart --execute examplex.rb texmfstart --browser examplap.pdf texmfstart showcase.pdf texmfstart --page=2 --file=showcase.pdf texmfstart --program=yourtex yourscript.rb arg-1 arg-2 texmfstart --direct xsltproc kpse:somefile.xsl somefile.xml texmfstart bin:xsltproc env:somepreset path:somefile.xsl somefile.xml texmfstart --iftouched=normal,lowres downsample.rb normal lowres texmfstart texmfstart bin:scite kpse:texmf.cnf texmfstart --exec bin:scite *.tex texmfstart --edit texmf.cnf texmfstart --serve texmfstart --stubpath=/usr/local/bin [--make --remove] --verbose all texmfstart --stubpath=auto [--make --remove] all Seems to work to a first approximation. 4) I have also added '~/texmf/scripts/context/stubs/unix' to my path to make the stubs residing therein accessible on the command line. 'which texexec' now returns ~/texmf/scripts/context/stubs/unix/texexec Which seems right. Also added to the path '~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby'. 'which texexec.rb' now returns ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb However, just calling 'texexec document.tex' does not work - NOTHING happens, new prompt, no errors. Same thing with 'texmfstart texexec.rb document.tex' - which is the command the 'texexec'-stub actually calls. I'm at the end of my knowledge and intuition. Can anybody help circumventing the need for the monster 'ruby ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb document.tex'? Thanks, Joh

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