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strange stretching with \blank[...]
by Peter Münster 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Hello, please consider the following example file: \setupalign[line] \starttext \input knuth \blank[big] \input knuth \blank[2*big] % 2*big is much smaller than simple big ! \input knuth \placetable{bla}{\vbox to 18cm{bla}} \stoptext But \blank[big,big] is working right. It seems, that we should replace all "2*big" by "big,big" in core-sec.tex Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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mode dependend character handling
by Henning Hraban Ramm 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

(This mail was rejected as spam in my first try, and the reject message was catched by my spam filter...) A happy new year! I'd like to typeset a text in both German and Swiss German orthography, i.e. I'd like to expand "s (or the like) to ß in German and ss in Swiss German mode, or even better, automagically change ß to ss in Swiss mode. This is what I have: \startmode[swiss] \def\S#1{ss\relax} \stopmode \startnotmode[swiss] \def\S#1{\sz\relax} \stopnotmode That forces me to use \S{} in the middle of words, very ugly. I know this is possible in a more sophisticated way! Please? (My favorite solution would be to make ß expand to ss in Swiss mode.) Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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linenumbering
by Thomas A. Schmitz 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

All, I have a document with several sections and would like to have lines numbered consecutively across all sections. However, when the \startlinenumbering ... stoplinenumbering spans a \section command, it doesn't work any longer; lines are not numbered. Is there a solution or a workaround? Thanks, and best Thomas

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Reg. fonts and math
by Kumar Appaiah 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I have been using ConTeXt for a short time now, after I switched from LaTeX. I find it quite great, but I have two queries regarding it. I am using teTeX in Debian (unstable). 1. Are the Lucida Bright fonts used in the documentation part of the complete teTeX documentation or are they fonts which need to be obtained separately? I have read a thread about this on the archive of this list, and tried all possible combinations suggested there in vain. 2. The tutorial tells us to refer to other sources (The TeX Book) for more on Math typesetting. Is there any online resource which would explain TeX (as opposed to LaTeX) math? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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MPgraphic question
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I find it difficult to see the difference -- and therefore when to use the one or the other -- between useMPgraphic and uniqueMPgraphic. Is there someone who will enlighten me? Because I hate not knowing what I am doing. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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texexec and missing file
by David Arnold 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

All, If the file doesn't exist, here is what happens: figures $ texexec --pdf --use=fig-make --mode=letter figlibSection3.xml TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex total run time : 1 seconds figures $ Would it not be better if texexec reported "$filename not found" or some such thing?

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Keep framed on the baseline
by David Arnold 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

All, I have: \placeformula[-] \startformula \eqalign{ &\text{Divisors of 12}: \framed{1},\ \framed{2},\ \framed{3},\ 4,\ \framed{6},\ 12\cr &\text{Divisors of 18}: \framed{1},\ \framed{2},\ \framed{3},\ \framed{6},\ 9,\ 18} \stopformula But I'd like to keep the numbers on the same baseline and let the frame dip below the baseline.

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Canceling common primes with strikeout
by David Arnold 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

All, Anyone have a nice technique to "strike out" the common primes using the color red? \placeformula[-] \startformula \frac{12}{18}=\frac{2\cdot2\cdot3}{2\cdot3\cdot3}=\frac23 \stopformula

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Re: [NTG-context] some small questions
by Peter Münster 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Just a question: how is the symbol that you get if you compile > \starttext > \texteuro > \stoptext > on live.contextgarden.net? Hello Mojca, the symbol is "sans". Here a better example, to show what I want: \usemodule[symb-eur] \def\SomeEuros{\blank[small] normal \texteuro, {\sl slanted \texteuro}, {\bf bold \texteuro}, {\bs bold slanted \texteuro} {\tt tt \texteuro}, {\bf\tt bold tt \texteuro}} \starttext \ss here some sans euros: \SomeEuros \blank[big] \rm and here I want the same (sans, but they are serif): \SomeEuros \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Factor Trees
by David Arnold 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi, Looking for an idea to set some simple factor trees. I.e., suppose that I want to prime factor 36 = 2x2x3x3. Can I get this using Metapost in a form of a binary tree with 36 at the top and the prime factors at the bottom as leaves? Any ideas? Thanks.

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followtokens
by Alexandre Billon 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Dear all, I am quite new to context (but love it) and i am trying tind a way to typeset texts "properly kerned" in such a way that the characters be all rotated with tiny randomized angle (strange project indeed). I tried to do it by writing a macro inspired by \followtokens. I have two questions : 1. It works but just for text within a single line : I have no clue how to manage the line breaking, and I have to admit that I don't know eanough TeX ConTeXt to find out. 2. In playing with the macro followtoken I happened to write two files with no apparent significant difference (I mean for me) but which give quite different results : one properly kerned, and another that is not. Could someone explain me what's happening here ? (files attached) Thanks a lot, Alexandre Billon

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cyrillic font
by Junod Antoine 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hello list, I'm trying to write down some Russian-French vocabulary without any success. I've read the page about Russian in the wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian) The examples are not working for me and that's certainly a font problem (acroread say that to me). How to know if the cm-super fonts are installed on my computer? I'm using a tetex distribution (2.0.2). For information, I'm able to output cyrillic with latex. Thanks a lot for your help. -AJ

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bibmod
by Hans van der Meer 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

I want to use a bibtex database but get from \cite[key] only some reference like "(Xxxxxxxxxxx, 0000)". I gues I am doing something wrong. My setup comes from the instructions in the document bibmod-doc and there are both a syllabus.bib and a syllabus.bbl file present (and syllabus.aux is made by tex'ing): \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database=syllabus] \setuppublications[numbering=yes] What details am I missing? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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stretched title text
by M.guravage 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi, Something has changed in the past couple months that causes my stretched title code to fail with the message: ! You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode. <recently read> \normalend I've attatched a small example. Has anyone a suggestion how I can adapt my code accordingly? Cheers, Michael

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Updated RawSteps module
by David Munger 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hi all, There have been many requests in the last few months regarding the RawSteps module, but I had not much time to spend on it before the holidays. Until Patrick updates the garden, you can grab the updated module on my website: http://mhd.selfip.info/tex/ The documentation is also updated on the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/RawSteps New features since 2005-04-11: * New macro: \OnSteps (thanks to Taco Hoekwater) * New macro: \StepsRegisterNumber as a numbering helper * Bug fixes: section numbering, table of contents, and step > 10. Since I'm rather loosely monitoring the list, please CC me when reporting bugs, or at least put "RawSteps" or "rsteps" as the first word of the subject, so my email client doesn't hide it. Best regards, David

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Spacing problem (mixing Chinese with Latin characters)
by Tobias Burnus 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hello, if I type "[<chinese>]" the output is "[<chinese><space>]". (Example attached.) I addition I observed that "<chinese>;" will have a line break like "<chinese><new line>;" which looks quite ugly. (The ";" and "[]" are half-width Characters, i.e. the normal Latin characters and not those which are as wide as a Chinese character. Question: In the transliterization of Chinese the characters \definecharacter acaron {\buildtextaccent\textcaron a} % U+01CE \definecharacter icaron {\buildtextaccent\textcaron \dotlessi} % Unicode U+01D0 \definecharacter ocaron {\buildtextaccent\textcaron o} % U+01D2 \definecharacter ucaron {\buildtextaccent\textcaron u} % U+01D4 appear which are in the unicode block "Latin Extended B". Should/Could they be added? http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf Tobias

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mframed setup
by Aditya Mahajan 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

What is the \setup... command that can be used to configure the frames typeset by \mframed? Thanks, Aditya

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Context 2006.01.12 released
by Taco Hoekwater 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip The current release has version 2006.01.12. A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes New features since 2006.01.09: * ConTeXt now does a runtime vs. format version check. If they do not match, the run is aborted. * The ConTeXt version now includes a time stamp (2006.01.12 10:38) Bug fixes since 2006.01.09: * Corrected definitions for the vietnamese postscript fonts * Encoding fixes (mostly for EC encoding) * Small changes to the gnuplot module Happy TeXing, Taco

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manuals
by Hans Hagen 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi, In the process of testing the new mathml implementation, I committed the mathml manuals to the ctx svn repository. Hans

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Index bug
by Richard Gabriel 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hello ConTeXters, I've noticed the following strange behavior of the index: If an indexterm occurs twice (or more times) on the same page in different section levels, it will be also linked twice from the index. Try the following minimal example: --- \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \chapter{First Chapter} Some text...\index{word} \section {First Section} Some text...\index{word} Some text...\index{another word} Some text...\index{another word} \page[yes] \completeindex \stoptext --- In the Index, you will get: a another word 1 w word 1,1 Does anybody guess? Or is it really a bug? Thanks, Richard

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[NTG-context] completecontent, completelistoffigures and headertexts
by Renaud AUBIN 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Hi all, Assume that I have a document with more than one page for \completecontent and \completelistoffigures. My frontmatter is: \startfrontmatter \completecontent[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \completelistoffigures[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \component src/chapters/c_intro \stopfrontmatter I want chapter mark within the header: \startfrontmatter \completecontent[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \completelistoffigures[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \setupheadertexts[][{\sl \getmarking[chapter]}] \component src/chapters/c_intro \stopfrontmatter After that, I would obtain a "title" within my completecontent and completelof headers : \startfrontmatter \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \setupheadertexts[][{\sl Table des matières}] \completecontent[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \setupheadertexts[][{\sl Table des matières}] \completelistoffigures[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \setupheadertexts[][{\sl \getmarking[chapter]}] \component src/chapters/c_intro \stopfrontmatter I doesn't work as I want since I have: completecontent page>1 header : Figures completelof page>1 header : none introduction page>1 header: Introduction Is there any proper solution I don't know ? Sure, but which ? Cheers,

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Any changes to context preventing this from compiling?
by David Arnold 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

All, A month ago the attach file compiled. Is there any change to context since then that would prevent it from compiling? figures $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) context : ver: 2005.12.19 cont-en : ver: 2005.12.19 fmt: 2005.12.21 mes: english cont-nl : ver: 2005.12.19 fmt: 2005.12.21 mes: dutch total run time : 2 seconds figures $

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framed texts
by Hans van der Meer 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I want to put to some paragraphs, each as framed text, on one line. Such as: \startframedtext[width=...] para 1 \startitemize ....etc \stopframedtext \startframedtext[width=...] para 2 \startitemize ....etc \stopframedtext I tried some things but the two frames will not come out on one line. How to do this? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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Right-to-left typesetting in Farsi for Context.
by John R. Culleton 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

First I ask the question: is Context the right tool for rtl typesetting of e.g, Farsi? Second I would like a reference to the pertinent Context manual or module for such typesetting. Finally I would like to know if there is a typescript extant for Farsi (Persian) wich I believe uses the Arabic alphabet with some modifications. -- 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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[NTG-context] completecontent, completelistoffigures and headertexts
by Renaud AUBIN 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hi all, Assume that I have a document with more than one page for \completecontent and \completelistoffigures. My frontmatter is: \startfrontmatter \completecontent[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \completelistoffigures[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \component src/chapters/c_intro \stopfrontmatter I want chapter mark within the header: \startfrontmatter \completecontent[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \completelistoffigures[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \setupheadertexts[][{\sl \getmarking[chapter]}] \component src/chapters/c_intro \stopfrontmatter After that, I would obtain a "title" within my completecontent and completelof headers : \startfrontmatter \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \setupheadertexts[][{\sl Table des matières}] \completecontent[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \setupheadertexts[][{\sl Table des matières}] \completelistoffigures[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all] \setupheadertexts[][{\sl \getmarking[chapter]}] \component src/chapters/c_intro \stopfrontmatter I doesn't work as I want since I have: completecontent page>1 header : Figures completelof page>1 header : none introduction page>1 header: Introduction Is there any proper solution I don't know ? Sure, but which ? Cheers,

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\inmargin footnotes
by Charles Doherty 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Dear all, When I put a footnote reference within \inmargin \setupinmargin[style=\tfxx\setupinterlinespace] he sent one of his followers to the man of God to put out his rekindled fire \inmargin{This is a reference to the \italic{tellach} \footnote{Cf.\ Fergus Kelly, \slanted{A Guide to Early Irish Law}, 68.} procedure for laying claim to land.} and ordered him to be expelled from the territory. When the footnote is typeset the footnote number is placed beneath the first line of the footnote text. What can I do to have the footnote number in its normal position? Thanks, Charlie

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Context 2006.01.09 released
by Taco Hoekwater 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip The current release has version 2006.01.09. A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes New features since 2005.12.19: * A completely new context interface: cont-fr (french) * A support module for GNUplot graphics * French and Dpanish punctuation discretionaries (like |?|) * Mptopdf now supports multiple arguments on the command line. * Typeface definitions can now be inherited from other typescripts Bug fixes since 2005.12.19: * The predefined postscript font families should work out-of-the-box now. * newtexexec has reverted back to the old names for the PDF processing switches * Chinese labels and encoding fixes * A number of minor bugfixes Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?
by David Wooten 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Greetings all, By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer. Perhaps it would vary too much between users to say definitively? In any case, Thanks very much David

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Struggling with ttf on Windows XP
by Frederic Donckels 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hello, I recently upgraded my 3-year old installation of MikTex to the latest version. I had a document which contained glyphs from the windings.tff font. Once I upgraded, this didn't work anymore. So I tried to read around to find out how it works, and so on, but couldn't find anything... I have generated an afm and tfm files from the ttf font. I created a map file which references this. My tex file apparently loads the map file without problem (at least pdftex doesn't complain). But, when I call \showfont, the generated table is empty, it doesn't contain any symbol. (I'm at work right now, so I can't post any code snippet) Does anyone have any clue or could anyone point me to any resource to guide me? Thanks, Best regards, Frederic

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Problem with \placefigure
by FrancoisFasoli 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

The following test file gives a good result with old ConteXt but gives an error with new ConteXt It seems that new ConteXt does not accept [center] What is the problem ? Thanks \starttext \placefigure[center]{}{} \stoptext error message : (c:/MesPGM/TeXLive/texmf-local/tex/ConteXt/base/spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) systems : begin file test at line 1 floatblocks : no block given floatblocks : 1 placed ! Undefined control sequence. \OTRONEsomeherefloat ...\dorechecknextindentation <argument> ...placesomeherefloat [\v!here ,center] \else \dosavefloat \fi \fi \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dogetfloatbox ... \floatmethod \floatmethod }[#1] \fi \docompletefloat ...#5}{\preparednumber }}{#6}{#1} \fi \fi \global \insideflo... <argument> ...}{figure}{center}{figure}{}\nextbox \else \docompletefloat {fi... ... l.3 \placefigure[center]{}{}

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page breaks broken?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Dear gang, Having serious trouble with pagebreaks: ==================================================== % output=pdf interface=en \starttext \input knuth \page[blank,right] \page[yes,blank,yes] \page \input knuth \stoptext ==================================================== I can't get a blank page; what's wrong here? ConTeXt ver: 2006.01.09 Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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columnsets and footnotes (minimal example)
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

... and here is an example that shows the problem: \definecolumnset[example][n=2] \setupfootnotes[n=3] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte\footnote{\input ward \relax}} \stopcolumnset \stoptext >Hi, > >is there a way to have both: > >a main text set in \definecolumnset[example][n=2] >and footnotes on bottom of page with \setupfootnotes[n=3]? > >Thank you, Steffen

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columnsets and footnotes (better explained)
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hi Hans, maybe my problem was not clear enough. So please let me try it once more. The following example has main text in 2 columns and footnote text in 3 columns: \setupfootnotes[n=3] \starttext \startcolumns \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte\footnote{\input ward \relax}} \stopcolumns \stoptext But as I also have to use section titles that span the columns (without causing pagebreaks) I need to use columnsets (like they are used in the following example): \definecolumnset[two][n=2] \definecolumnsetspan[two][n=2] \setupfootnotes[n=1,width=\hsize] \starttext \startcolumnset[two] \input tufte\footnote{\input ward \relax} \startcolumnsetspan[two] \subsubsection{Spanning all columns without page break} \stopcolumnsetspan \dorecurse{10}{\input ward\footnote{\input tufte \relax}} \stopcolumnset \stoptext But I don't want the footnotes to be placed at the bottom of each column, I want them to be set in 3 columns at the bottom of the page (as shown in the columns example above). How can this be done? Steffen

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Monospace Fonts for Verbatim
by Louis Springer 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

I have a typescript I am using for a custom font, but the custom font has no monospace variant appropriate for verbatim text. I'm attempting to use Courier or some other monospace font for verbatim and maintain my custom font for normally typeset serf text. My broken typescript is as follows: \starttypescript [map][sunsans,sunserif][texnansi] \loadmapfile[texnansi-sun-sunsans.map] \loadmapfile[texnansi-sun-sunserif.map] \stoptypescript % sans serif \starttypescript [sans] [sunsans] [name] \definefontsynonym[Sans] [SunSans-Regular] \definefontsynonym[SansItalic] [SunSans-Italic] \definefontsynonym[SansBold] [SunSans-RegularDemi] \definefontsynonym[SansBoldItalic] [SunSans-Regular-BoldOblique] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [sunsans] [texnansi] \usetypescript[sans][fallback] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-Heavy][texnansi-SunSans-Heavy] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-Italic][texnansi-SunSans-Italic] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-Regular-Bold][texnansi-SunSans-Regular- Bold][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-Regular-BoldOblique][texnansi-SunSans- Regular-BoldOblique][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-Regular][texnansi-SunSans-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-RegularDemi][texnansi-SunSans-RegularDemi] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript %serif \starttypescript [serif] [sunserif] [name] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [SunSerif-Regular] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [SunSerif-Italic] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [SunSerif-Regular-Bold] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic] [SunSerif-Regular-Bold-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [sunserif] [texnansi] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym[SunSerif-Italic][texnansi-SunSerif-Italic] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSerif-Regular-Bold-Italic][texnansi-SunSerif- Regular-Bold-Italic][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSerif-Regular-Bold][texnansi-SunSerif-Regular- Bold][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSerif-Regular][texnansi-SunSerif-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript %monospace \starttypescript [mono] [sunserif] [name] \usetypescript[mono][fallback] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [Mono] \stoptypescript The last bit (around the comment "monospace") is my apparently futile attempt to get the verbatim to use the default monospace font. I get the desired results with a kludge if I replace \definefontsynonym[Serif] [SunSerif-Regular] with \definefontsynonym[Serif] [Mono] but this affects "normally" typeset serif. Ideally, I would like to have in the SunSerif-Regular typeface for non-verbatim serif text. Lou

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ConTeXt updater i-Package blocked
by Gerben Wierda 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

I blocked the ConTeXt-updater i-Package until the problems discussed on the ConTeXt list are solved. Normally I would not do that because unstable stuff is mostly done via beta releases, but this release does not have a beta and if I read the list I understand there are font problems. So I have blocked it to prevent an accidental update by users. G

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How to break laws in physics?
by Mojca Miklavec 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hello, I thought it was because it was too late for learning that Maxwell equations failed to work: \definetypeface [maxwell] [mm] [math] [euler] [default] \setupbodyfont[maxwell] \starttext $$\vec{\nabla}\vec{D}=\rho$$ \stoptext But apparently it was something else, see math-eul.tex and please fix this: \definemathcharacter [D] [nothing] [mr] ["44] OK, Euler didn't work, so I tried to use Iwona. \definetypeface [iwona] [mm] [math] [iwona] [default] \setupbodyfont[iwona] ${\partial\rho\over\partial t}+\vec{\nabla}\vec{\jmath}=0$ (If I fail on the exam, I'll try to explain to professor that I found a few mistakes in the Maxwell equations and lost the whole time trying to fix them before I was able to learn further :) I've found three "kind-of-bugs" in font itself (\jmath and \imath were missing, \partial is mirrored, vectors placed strangely - the latter may not be connected with the font itself). So I tried to redefine \jmath to use dotlessj from italic version of font and found another "bug" in ConTeXt. dotlessj is commented out in enco-ec.tex. Well, I understand that it may not be present in every font, but it's worse: it's already defined in the default encoding, so \dotlessj results in double quotes, which is worse than no char at all. enco-ec has some other faults present, I tried to fix a few of them ([t|s]cedilla should be [t|s]commaaccent, \Eth and \eth were commented out, while they are OK, one glyph is present twice, I redefined it to map to the first slot, since usually the second one is empty, upper/lower casing may still need some revision). Is there any chance that any numerical definitions of characters disappear from enco-def slowly? If anyone is using any other encoding than the standard one, the characters map to something completely weird then. Some fixes for enco-def: % DELETE THIS ONE: IT'S WORSE THAN NOTHING \definecharacter eth {\dstroke} % wrong but better that nothing % and replace by: \definecharacter eth {\unknownchar} \definecharacter scommaaccent {\buildtextbottomcomma s} \definecharacter Scommaaccent {\buildtextbottomcomma S} \definecharacter tcommaaccent {\buildtextbottomcomma t} \definecharacter Tcommaaccent {\buildtextbottomcomma T} \definecharacter Ohorndotbelow {\buildtextbottomdot\Ohorn} \definecharacter ohorndotbelow {\buildtextbottomdot\ohorn} \definecharacter Uhorndotbelow {\buildtextbottomdot\Uhorn} \definecharacter uhorndotbelow {\buildtextbottomdot\uhorn} enco-ini: Any chances to add something like: \definecharacter bottomcomma {,} % comma, lowered a bit \def\buildtextbottomcomma{\bottomaccent{.25ex}{0}{5}{\textbottomcomma}} I have no idea what \textbottomcomma should be, but probably just a comma, lowered a bit. The current definition with ' is a bit strange. Mojca

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Generating smallest possible format file
by Willi Egger 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hello gurus! I want to use context as a backend-typesetting engine in a server-ennvironment. In order to minimize compilation time I want to make the format files as small as possible. E.g. I would like to remove all pattern files which are unnecessary for the purpose of the application. How do I achieve this? Cheers Willi

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columnsets and footnotes ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi, is there a way to have both: a main text set in \definecolumnset[example][n=2] and footnotes on bottom of page with \setupfootnotes[n=3]? Thank you, Steffen

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followtokens & font color
by Renaud AUBIN 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi all, I use \followtokens and I would colorize the text. I've try some drawoptions or ConTeXt command to switch font color (i.e. {\red red text}) and nothing works. Is it possible to switch color during \definefont[RotFont][] ? Any idea on how to do this ? PS: Please, is there anyone who can answer to my thread [NTG-context] headers of multiple pages toc ? Thanks

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vertical stretch problem
by Peter Münster 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hello, please consider the following example: \setupalign[line]% because I want something like "flush-bottom" \starttext \chapter{Anhang} \section{Sec1} \input tufte \placetable{bla}{\vbox to 18cm{bla}} \section{Sec2} \input tufte \stoptext Of course, vertical stretch is good, but not *after* the section titles, better would be *before*. How could I better distribute the stretch? Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Marith.mp
by David Arnold 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

All, Has anyone done any coding with the marith.mp package of Metapost? Any code that you can share? My specific task is to draw the polynomial x^3-7*x^2+7*x+15 on the domain [-50,50]. Thanks.

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some small questions
by Peter Münster 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hello, here comes a repost of some still unsolved (at least for me) questions: - What is the best way, to get never the serif version of the euro, only the sans? Test file: \usemodule[symb-eur] \useregime[il9] \enableregime[il9] \starttext bla € bla \stoptext - What is the right syntax to get "hz,normal" ? I tried \setupfonthandling[highquality] and \setupalign[hanging,hz] but these two commands don't seem to change anything. Test file: \starttext \input tufte \setupfonthandling[highquality] \setupalign[hanging,hz] \input tufte \stoptext TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Bibliography problems
by David Antos 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hello, I have several problems with the bibliography module in last stable (2005.12.19). You can find a minimal (well, as minimal as I was able to prepare ;) example at http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xantos/biblio-example.tgz . First, starting with the second page of bibliography, the beginnings of lines are not aligned to the left. Moreover, some entries produce an empty line after them. It seems probable that some unwanted spaces appear in the macros. In "misc" entries, only authors and titles are typeset. See the very first entry cited in the document (Ha\v{z}muk): it contains howpublished and month and they are ignored. BTW, is the \cite inside the bibliography entry likely to work? Can I correct my setups somehow to override those problems? Thanks a lot, D.A. -- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain

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paragraph indenting
by Christopher G D Tipper 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I hope this is not a bug, and that the reference manual is just incorrect. In This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=cont-en 2005.12.24) 6 JAN 2006 20:07 ConTeXt ver: 2005.12.19 fmt: 2005.12.24 int: english mes: english The following produces no indenting at all. I expect all paragraphs to be indented except for the very first. \starttext \setupindenting[small] \noindenting\input knuth \input knuth \stoptext Some of my very old stylesheets stopped working when I moved to a new machine. What is the new syntax, please? Christopher --------------------------------o00o-------------------------------- “Since light travels faster than sound, isn’t that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak” — Steve Wright

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colors in MPgraphic
by Hans van der Meer 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

In MPgrapic I do want my own colors for drawing lines etc. These are set up in plain.mf's ("_op_" and "background"). In \startMPinclusions I just do that in order to get the drawing color I want. But then \startMPgraphic appears to reset colors (both "_op_" and "background" I suspect). Can this be changed? In plain.mf there is already a setup, so there seems no reason for \startMPgraphic to interfere. It would be nice if the color setup done in \startMPinclusions would be honored. It is a nuisance to have them set up in a special initalization file and then being forced to repeat this at the start of every graphic. Question: what tinkering with metapost parameters is done in \startMPgraphic exactly? (I could not find out readily from the ConTeXt sources) Which of these can be removed without danger for its operation, leaving settings in \startMPinclusions unchanged -- and will that be done? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] serial definition
by Henning Hraban Ramm 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

(This mail was rejected as spam in my first try, and the reject message was catched by my spam filter...) Am 2006-01-03 um 11:51 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > You need to expand the \Set commands in that first loop, > otherwise you store the literal token \recursevelel inside > the definitions of the Key and Val macros (\setvalue{}{} > autoexpands its first argument, but not its second argument). > > When not inside a recursion, \recurselevel expands to the number > 0 (zero) in the "manual bit", and you are actually re-evaluating > the macro using the then current \recurselevel definition > when inside the "looping" bit. The magic expansion hit me again, I should've known it. > So you need: > > \dostepwiserecurse{1}{9}{1}{ > \expanded{\Set{\recurselevel}{K\recurselevel}{V\recurselevel}} > } > > I hope this is clear enough? Thank you very much! Actually, in the real environment I needed the \expanded at another place: \def\Sender#1#2#3{\setvalue{SenderKey#1}{#2}\setvalue{SenderVal#1}{#3}} \def\GetSenderLine#1{\bTR\bTD\doiftextelse{\getvalue{SenderKey#1}} {\getvalue{SenderKey#1}:}{}\eTD\bTD\getvalue{SenderVal#1}\eTD\eTR} % initialize values (not even needed) \dostepwiserecurse{1}{9}{1}{ \Sender{\recurselevel}{}{} } \startsetups sendertablesetup \setupTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[x][1][width=\senderkeywidth, align=left, style={\keystyle \strut}] \setupTABLE[x][2][width=\sendervalwidth, align=right, style= {\valstyle\strut}] \bTABLE \dostepwiserecurse{1}{9}{1}{% count from 1 to 9, step 1 \expanded{\GetSenderLine{\recurselevel}} } \eTABLE \stopsetups I collect this (and more) at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ Talk:Letter_style Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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problem with \startlanguagespecifics
by Peter Münster 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hello, I get: ERROR: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=1500]. --- TeX said --- \@@la@ec@-en@@la ->\@@la@ec@-en@@la \def \Fuco {fff} and so on... with the following input file: \mainlanguage[de] \def\Fuco{FFF} \startlanguagespecifics[en] \def\Fuco{fff} \stoplanguagespecifics \starttext \Fuco {\language[en] \Fuco} \Fuco \stoptext but very strange: when I exchange "de" and "en" (en <-> de), then it works well. Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Bibliography module +BibteX with \cite inside buffer
by Alexandre Billon 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

When I put a \cite inside buffer and that I \getbuffer inside the text, the reference displys correctly BUT the list of reference isn't anymore displayed.(I use Bibtex) I have the latest bibmodule (11.23.2005) Is that a bug ? Hos to avoid this behaviour ? (I'm a beginner). Thanks

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gnuplot for Mojca
by Peter Münster 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hi Mojca, if you're still looking for a gnuplot module, here is one: http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/t-gnuplot.tex Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Arithmetic Overflow
by David Arnold 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

All, Is there a switch I can set to get rid of the arithmetic overflow in the following example? %output=pdf \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[gridlines][s=0.7] \startMPinclusions color gridlines; gridlines:=\MPcolor{gridlines}; vardef create_grid (expr l,r,h,b,t,v,wid,ht)= save ux, uy; numeric ux, uy; (r-l)*ux=wid; (t-b)*uy=ht; for k=b step v until t: draw (l*ux,k*uy)--(r*ux,k*uy) withcolor \MPcolor{gridlines}; endfor; for k=l step h until r: draw (k*ux,b*uy)--(k*ux,t*uy) withcolor \MPcolor{gridlines}; endfor; enddef; vardef create_axes (expr l,r,b,t,wid,ht,blbl) (text xlbl,ylbl) = save ux, uy; numeric ux, uy; (r-l)*ux=wid; (t-b)*uy=ht; textextoffset:=3pt; drawdblarrow (1.05*l*ux,0)--(1.05*r*ux,0); draw textext.rt(xlbl) shifted (1.05*r*ux,0); if blbl:draw textext.bot(decimal r) shifted (r*ux,0); fi; drawdblarrow (0,1.05*b*uy)--(0,1.05*t*uy); draw textext.top(ylbl) shifted (0,1.05*t*uy); if blbl: draw textext.lft(decimal t) shifted (0,t*uy); fi; enddef; vardef drawfcn (expr ind,dep,l,r,b,t,wid,ht,n) text txt = save x, dx, ux, uy; numeric x, dx, ux, uy; dx:=(r-l)/n; (r-l)*ux=wid; (t-b)*uy=ht; save cpath; path cpath; cpath:=(l,b)--(r,b)--(r,t)--(l,t)--cycle; save p; path p; hide (x:=l;) p:=(scantokens(ind),scantokens(dep)); for xx:=l step dx until r: hide (x:=xx;) p:=p--(scantokens(ind),scantokens(dep)); endfor; hide(x:=r;) p:=p--(scantokens(ind),scantokens(dep)); p:=p cutbefore cpath; p:=reverse p; p:=p cutbefore cpath; p:=p xyscaled (ux,uy); drawdblarrow p txt; enddef; \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startMPpage %figure library name: x2 %initialize window parameters numeric xmin, xmax, xscl, ymin, ymax, yscl; xmin:=-10; xmax:=10; xscl:=1; ymin:=-10; ymax:=10; yscl:=1; %initialize number of points numeric num_points; num_points:=100; %initialize dimensions of image numeric width, height; width=1.5in; height=1.5in; %create the grid create_grid(xmin,xmax,xscl,ymin,ymax,yscl,width,height); boolean lbl_scl; lbl_scl:=true; %create the axes create_axes(xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax,width,height,lbl_scl)("$x$")("$y$"); %draw the function drawfcn("x","x*x",xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax,width,height,100) withcolor blue ; \stopMPpage \startMPpage %figure library name: x4 %initialize window parameters numeric xmin, xmax, xscl, ymin, ymax, yscl; xmin:=-10; xmax:=10; xscl:=1; ymin:=-10; ymax:=10; yscl:=1; %initialize number of points numeric num_points; num_points:=100; %initialize dimensions of image numeric width, height; width=1.5in; height=1.5in; %create the grid create_grid(xmin,xmax,xscl,ymin,ymax,yscl,width,height); boolean lbl_scl; lbl_scl:=true; %create the axes create_axes(xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax,width,height,lbl_scl)("$x$")("$y$"); %draw the function drawfcn("x","x**4",xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax,width,height,100) withcolor blue ; \stopMPpage \startMPpage %figure library name: x6 %initialize window parameters numeric xmin, xmax, xscl, ymin, ymax, yscl; xmin:=-10; xmax:=10; xscl:=1; ymin:=-10; ymax:=10; yscl:=1; %initialize number of points numeric num_points; num_points:=100; %initialize dimensions of image numeric width, height; width=1.5in; height=1.5in; %create the grid create_grid(xmin,xmax,xscl,ymin,ymax,yscl,width,height); boolean lbl_scl; lbl_scl:=true; %create the axes create_axes(xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax,width,height,lbl_scl)("$x$")("$y$"); %draw the function drawfcn("x","x**6",xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax,width,height,100) withcolor blue ; \stopMPpage \stoptext %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: conTeXt-en %%% End:

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