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Re: [NTG-context] Index entries messing up page breaks
by Duncan Hothersall 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hans wrote: > can you try (test extensively): > > \def\dodoregister[#1]#2#3% > {\dogotopar{\dontleavehmode\doprocesspageregister[#1]{#2}{#3}}} Well, it has some problems, introducing vertical space in certain circumstances. Will try to work up a minimal, but two observations: 1. The extra vertical space tends to happen immediately before headings, which is probably immediately after a \par, suggesting that if we're already in vertical mode there is something creating a horizontal mode object here. 2. If I use \dontleavehmode\index{blah} in material that immediately follows a heading, and just \index{blah} everywhere else, everything appears to work well with no white-space issues and no headings at the bottom of the page. (I can only do 2. easily because I'm generating my code from XML, not writing directly in ConTeXt, so it's easy to put in a rule that makes the <index> tag behave differently in different contexts. It's probably not a solution for anyone else.) Duncan

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Index entries messing up page breaks
by Duncan Hothersall 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

The manual suggests that you can put index calls between a \section heading and its first paragraph without worry, but for me it breaks the page-breaking mechanism, allowing the section title to end up at the bottom of a page like this: \starttext \section{Tufte} \dorecurse{4}{\input tufte \par} \section{Knuth} \index{Knuth} \input knuth \par \stoptext Is there any workaround/fix? Thanks very much, Duncan

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Re: [NTG-context] Index entries messing up page breaks
by Duncan Hothersall 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

I said: > Is there any workaround/fix? I find that the addition of \dontleavehmode fixes it. Is this safe to use in general? \starttext \section{Tufte} \dorecurse{4}{\input tufte \par} \section{Knuth} \dontleavehmode\index{knuth} \input knuth \par \stoptext Thanks, Duncan

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typescript problem (hw variants)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hi wizards! I'm reworking my setup of Apostrophe's huge "Republika" font clan and reckognized that handwriting (hw) doesn't accept style switches; the following doesn't work: \starttypescript [handwriting] [republika1-cond] [name] \definefontsynonym [Handwriting] [RepublikaCnd-Sketch] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingItalic] [RepublikaCnd- Sktech-Italic] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingBold] [RepublikaCnd-Haze] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingBoldItalic] [RepublikaCnd- Haze-Italic] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingRegularBlack][RepublikaCnd- Shatter] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingItalicBlack] [RepublikaCnd- Shatter-Italic] \definefontvariant [Handwriting] [black] [Black] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingSlanted] [HandwritingItalic] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingBoldSlanted] [HandwritingBoldItalic] \stoptypescript I always get only the "plain" font (Handwriting). I need rm, ss and tt for other purposes. Could the font mechanism get enhanced? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Re: Chinese
by Duncan Hothersall 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hans wrote: > chinese is not yet defined in utf so if you want that, we need to do it ... > assuming this, how about making a set of tfm,enc,map files that match > the unicode positions (volunteers ...) I'm very willing to help, especially if there is some drudge work involved in constructing the files. I don't know enough (yet) about the logic of it all to help with setting up the system, but if someone can supply skeleton files and/or a method for constructing the necessary files, I'm happy to do any leg-work. Duncan

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linux installations
by Thomas A. Schmitz 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all (and especially the linux heads...), I have been playing with my linux partition lately and looking at the linux installation section in the wiki. I see there are two approaches: - take the minimal linux distribution that Hans prepares, - start from TexLive I see why these approaches have their advantages. Nevertheless, I would want to add a further point: shouldn't we provide some hints for those who have a working TeX installation on linux and want to keep it because they are not (yet) exclusive ConTeXt users and want to be able to upgrade with their distribution's system? I have played around with several distros and think some general points could go into the wiki: 1. look at texmf.cnf; find out where TEXMFLOCAL is on your system. In most distros, the directory doesn't exist yet, create it. 2. In the definitions of texmf.cnf, make sure that TEXMFLOCAL comes before the other TEXMF trees. 3. unzip cont-tmf.zip into this directory, run mktexlsr or texhash 4. run texexec --make --al This last step gave and still gives me some headaches (my last attempt was with Opensuse 10.1 alpha 4), and that's where I ask for some elucidation: texexec does not rely on kpsewhich to locate the directory where it dumps the formats. So what I've seen happening is that I have brandnew formats in one place, yet texexec --version will still display the old versions (or say somehting like "cont-en.fmt unknown"). I have often just found out where kpsewhich searches for the formats and then replaced these old formats with symlinks to the new ones, but I'm not quite sure if this is a good approach. Does anyone have more insights on this? What's with this proliferation of TEXMF-trees in recent versions of teTeX: which ones do we actually need? Which ones can be deleted safely? Thanks Thomas

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bold \tt and pdf-output
by Peter Münster 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hello, with bold typewriter font I have more success, but one problem remains: pdf-output. There is the same problem as with bold small caps: kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+14/72 --dpi 86 cmbtt10 mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfzzz and resolution 72; ignoring mode. mktexpk: Can't guess mode for 72 dpi devices. mktexpk: Use a config file, or update me. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. This is my test-file: \definebodyfont [12pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt10 at 12pt] \definebodyfont [11pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt10 at 11pt] \definebodyfont [10pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt10] \definebodyfont [9pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt9] \definebodyfont [8pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt8] \starttext {\tt Normal and \bf bold Typewriter.} \stoptext Could there be support for bold typewriter in the distribution? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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focus=minwidth,minheight
by Peter Münster 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hello, this does not work: \setupoutput[pdf] \setupinteraction[state=start,focus=minwidth] \starttext bla \stoptext Solution seems to be in mult-con.tex in a \startvariables section: minwidth: minbreedte minwidth minbreite minsirka ampiezzamin latimeminima % TB TH minheight: minhoogte minheight minhoehe minvyska altezzamin inaltimeminima Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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footnote disappeared when used in background text
by Xiao Jianfeng 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hello, I found that \footnote cannot work correctly as I expected. Here is my source file: %-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %\loadmapfile[gbk] %\usemodule[chinese] \setuppagenumbering[location=inright] \setupbodyfont[lbr,12pt] \setupindenting[big,yes] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackground[state=start,background=screen,cornor=round] \setupinterlinespace[line=20pt] \starttext \startbackground some words \footnote{ some words some words some words some words some words some words some words some words some words} \stopbackground \stoptex %-------------------------------------------------------------------------- This file can compile successfully and produce a pdf file, but if you try to compile this file on your system you will find that the footnote disappeared. I'm using the latest version(2005.12.01). Is this a bug ? Regrads, xiajf

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Is conTeXt good for book writing?
by leon 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi all, I'm completely new to conTeXt though I've heard enough good thing about it. Now I have a chance to write a book. I'm wondering is it more effective to write in conTeXt than LaTeX given I'm new to both. Can you point out some help document that can start me off? Thank you for your help. -- .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. . * . . /.\ Merry Christmas . . /..'\ . . /'.'\ -- Leon . . /.''.'\ . . /.'.'.\ . . /'.''.'.\ . . ^^^[_]^^^ . .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:.

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float over both text and margin
by Vit Zyka 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi. 1) I am unsuccessfully solving the problem of making float spanning both text and margin. More over, it is inside columnset... Example follows. Is there some solution? ----------------------------------------- \showframe \setupcolors[state=start] \setuplayout[margin=0pt,rightmargin=1.5cm,width=middle] \starttext \startcolumnset \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth \endgraf\blank} \placefloat[page]{none} {\framed [width=\dimexpr\makeupwidth+\rightmarginwidth+ \rightmargindistance\relax, height=\textheight] {Here I would like to be a float over both text and margin. How?} } \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth \endgraf\blank} \stopcolumnset \stoptext ----------------------------------------- 2) As a side effect I discover that in the following example the float is over the text (so some text is disappeared). ----------------------------------------- \showframe \setupcolors[state=start] \setuplayout[margin=0pt,rightmargin=1.5cm,width=middle] \starttext \startcolumnset \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth \endgraf} \placefloat[page]{none} {\framed [width=\makeupwidth,height=\textheight,background=screen] {Here I would like to be a float over both text and margin. How?} } \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth \endgraf} \stopcolumnset \stoptext ------------------------------------------- Vit

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fonts
by Alan Bowen 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hraban— > I'm finally updating my typescripts and font packages for ConTeXt, see > http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4&lang=en Should the apostrophe-steinem and the bitstream-vera files include map files (apostrophe-steinem.map, bitstream-vera.map) too? I get Warning: pdfetex (file qx-bitstream-vera.map): cannot open font map file and then complaints about not being able to create a long list of bitmap fonts, when I try to compile your vera-test.tex. Alan

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problem with font variants in setupTABLE
by Henning Hraban Ramm 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi wizards! In my typescript I define a condensed variant: \definefontvariant [Serif] [cond] [Cond] That works fine if I call \Var[cond] where I need it. But if I try to setup a TABLE column like this: \setupTABLE[c][3][width=10em, distance=2em, style={\Var[cond]}] I get: ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 136. <inserted text> \fi <*> &cont-en test.tex What's wrong? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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\setupinteraction[state=start,focus=...]
by Peter Münster 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello, it seems, that the focus-option is only for links in the pdf. How could one get the right focus even on startup of acroread? TIA for any hint! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Font Question
by Henry Blodgiitt 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

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Tex drawing tool
by Boris Pedrofiets 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

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modes in newtexexec
by Johan Sandblom 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello. Doing texmfstart texexec now appears to call newtexexec. However, newtexexec does not seem to handle --mode at all. Is it coming? Should I set it up so I can call texexec directly in order to use modes? Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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Re: mfonts.tex from manuals
by Mojca Miklavec 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

piskala upendran wrote: > hi, Mojca > > The complain about the fonts is 8t encoding. use 8r > encoding. it should work ok. > > I got the palatino font using 8r encoding using the > following. > > \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] > \usetypescript [palatino][\defaultencoding] > \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] > > it should compile ok. Thank you very much. I replaced \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] with \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] which finally worked. Installing cont-fnt as Hans suggested didn't have any influence at all. However, now some really strange bug(?) appeared. \type{\whatevercommand} doesn't work inside \starttabulate ... \stoptabulate. This is only true for MikTeX, everywhere else it works OK. \starttabulate and \type{\whatevercommand} both work when they are used separately, but fail when \type comes inside \starttabulate. It may be that MikTeX is a bit "old" (27.10.), but there is no newer version available yet, so I hope that the problem will go away with the next version. Mojca ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> \atop \tabulatecontent ->\NC \type {\atop } \NC \NR \fulltabulatecontent ...dcontent \tabulatecontent \tabulatetailcontent \remo... \processtabulate ...sa \crcr \fulltabulatecontent \crcr }}\ifnum \nofautotab... l.4 \stoptabulate ?

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Fwd: Former Y&Y Lucida fonts available from TUG
by Brooks Moses 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello! The following message was posted to comp.text.tex yesterday; I thought some of you who don't read the newsgroup regularly would like to hear about it, and so I'm passing it along. For those who haven't been following the story: Since the demise of Y&Y, there hasn't been a place to obtain a legal copy of their Lucida font distribution, which was the only place to get the Lucida New Math fonts needed for doing TeX math properly in Lucida. TUG has been in negotiations with the relevant copyright holders for a while in order to be able to distribute the fonts; this has finally come to fruition, and the fonts are now available again -- for prices considerably lower than what I gather Y&Y charged, and with a license that allows embedding the fonts in PDF files. - Brooks ======================================================================== Subject: Lucida fonts available from TUG Date: 10 Dec 2005 15:26:44 -0800 From: Karl Berry <karl(a)tug.org> Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Hi everyone, The Lucida fonts are now available through TUG; visit http://tug.org/lucida if you're interested. In short, the "complete set" offered by TUG is exactly the same 41 Lucida fonts which Y&Y sold. (The pfb's are completely unchanged.) There is also a "basic set" with 22 fonts -- all the math fonts and the essential text fonts. Both individual and site licenses are available. There is a substantial discount for TUG members. Due to legal and overhead considerations, we aren't currently planning to offer the fonts one at a time, or in any other bundles. Hopefully the price is low enough that this will not be a significant problem. The Lucida TeX support metrics and lucidabr (psnfssx) macros have been (slightly) updated. They have been uploaded to CTAN and should appear there in due course. Of course all the support files are included in the downloads from tug; they're on CTAN primarily for the benefit of Y&Y users who already have the fonts. We have also established a mailing list lucida(a)tug.org for user questions, suggestions, bug reports, etc. Please feel free to post and/or join. http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/lucida A separate address, lucida-admin(a)tug.org, should be used for licensing, billing, and other such admin questions. Font samples, documentation, and more are available on the web site. Although we still expect to offer a license upgrade for Y&Y users, this has proven legally complicated, so it's not online quite yet. I'll post again when it is ready; it might be a few more weeks, given the holidays (and lawyers' usual working pace, anyway :). I didn't want this to delay making the fonts available, so decided to go ahead. Major thanks to Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes for generously allowing TUG to offer this to the TeX community - and especially for designing this remarkable typeface in the first place. Also thanks to Walter Schmidt for creating and updating the TeX font support files, PCTeX for sponsoring him and allowing his work to be redistributed, and to Morten Hoegholm for working on the samples and other TeXnical help. Happy Lucida holidays, Karl (R) Lucida is a trademark of Bigelow & Holmes Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and other jurisdictions.

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An idea
by Zeljko Vrba 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

A motivation and idea that came to mind while writing a post to comp.text.tex: == Then again, most (all?) of publishers require Latex source, if my document ever makes it that far.. And Latex has nicer source code formatting than Context. so I'm really split between Latex and Context.. None of them individually fit all (I admit, vague) requirements.. Context being able to chew up Latex .cls files and still allowing for its advanced formatting directives, long tables, and other goodies would be a perfect match. == Basically, rewrite standard Latex environments and commands (\chapter, \section, itemize, enumerate, etc..) present in article.cls and report.cls to expand to Context commands that give an equivalent layout.. How much work would it be? Either a Latex emulation environment or a new implementation of "Latex classes" for Context? I have to admit that I don't have time to start implementing either. I'm just interested in some feasibility opinions.. 80% of Latex<>Context transition can be done with a few simple regexes. Other 20% have to be translated by hand, and it is very painful, esp. if tables are in question..

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Blasphemy-)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

Dear gang, I am now on WinXP now (up from W2000) and only use mswincontext.zip for my TeX'ing needs. However, I need to install LaTeX for legacy purposes (mainly Lambda/Aleph critical edition stuff). fpTeX is gone, I can't find XemTeX (broken link https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/downloads/xemtex-0.5-rc0.msi ) so I guess that leaves MiKTeX. Any advice on choosing/installing a minimal LaTeX distribution? Updated links? Sorry for the sacrilege-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Chinese
by Duncan Hothersall 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Tobias Burnus asks: > What would be needed to get UTF-8 input running with Chinese? If there is a recipe, I would like to help cook it. Getting UTF-8 input running with Chinese would be a godsend to me too. Duncan

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mail delays
by Hans Hagen 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Hi, I'm away for a few days so there may be delays in answering mails Hans

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Output PDF version
by Mikael Persson 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi all, I just came across a situation where I must produce a pdf that has version 1.3 (or in worst case 1.4). I did not find anything on contextgarden or in the archives. Is there any ConTeXt command for this? I tried with \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=3 in the beginning of the file (as suggested on comp.text.tex), but still, acroread says it is a pdf version 1.5... /Micke P

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Re: (No subject header)
by Hans Hagen 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Shankar Ramaswamy wrote: > Dear Sir, > This is shankar, one of your many admirers. I beg your pardon for > disturbing you with my problem. > > I am a user of METAPOST. Lately I've started using your METAFUN. I > thank you, for it is more fun working with METAFUN. > > The problem is, the macro "drawpointlabels" works well and produced > the output as shown in metafun-p.pdf only in RedHat 9. But the labels > will not appear when the same program is run either in Fedora or > Slackware. I compared the macros present in RedHat 9 with those in > Fedora and Slackware. There seems no difference. > > Please suggest a solution to overcome this problem with porting the > program. > metafun assume at some points a cooperation between mp and tex, so maybe that piece is failing does texexec --automp --pdf yourfile work? (if this is time-critical, you can try the minimal linus distribution on the website) btw, best post this to the context mailing list since there may be fedora users out there Hans

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NTG bijeenkomst in Eindhoven
by Willi Egger 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Beste lezer, Op 16 decembar a.s. houdt de NTG de tweede bijeenkomst van 2005. Ook niet leden zijn van harte welkom. We ontmoeten elkaar op het volgende adres: Philips High Tech Campus Prof. Holstlaan 100 Building HTC 5656 AA Eindhoven Routebeschrijving: http://www.hightechcampus.nl/contact/ Programma: 10:00 Opening 10:05 Ledenvergadering 11:00 Hans Hagen: LuaTeX 11:30 Piet v. Oostrum: Nieuwe woordenlijst/samenwerking met Taalunie/OSOS/derden 12:00 Lunch 13:30 Taco Hoekwater: Condensed Latin Modern Monospaced 14:00 Maarten Sneep: TeX op de Mac, Mac-kelijker kan het niet 14:30 Ronald Rietman: TeX Point: PowerPointpresentaties met LaTeX 15:15 Theepauze 15:30 Ruimte voor vragen over TeX, verhalen van reislustige NTG-leden over de ontwikkelingen in de TeX-wereld en voor het uitwisselen van tips en gegevens. Dus laptop en memory-stick niet vergeten 16:30 Sluiting van de dag Ook wordt voor de inwendige mens gezorgd met koffie, thee en een lunch. Na afloop van de bijeenkomst nemen we een borrel. Voor wie zich heeft opgegeven volgt een gezamenlijk diner. Geef je op door een mailtje naar de secretaris (ntg-secretaris(a)ntg.nl) met opgave van de etensvoorkeur. Tot 16 december in Eindhoven, vriendelijke groeten Willi Egger Secretaris NTG

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Font Question
by Aditya Mahajan 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

I want to use palatino text with euler math in my document. This is how I proceed. 1. I downloaded latest mswincontext environment from pragma website. 2. To test if palatino works correctly, I tested the simple document. %--------- \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \switchtobodyfont[palatino,11pt] \starttext This is a test . \stoptext %--------------- Everything works fine, and the text is in pallatino (the urw clone). However, when I look at fonts included in the document, Latin Modern is also there. I am just curious as how LM got into the document, and can I get rid of it. 3. I am not sure on how to include euler. I looked at Euler in ConTeXt (using Euler math font) by Adam Lindsay. I already have eulervm vf and tfm directories in $TEXMF/fonts/tfm/public/eulervm and $TEXMF/fonts/vf/public/eulervm There is a math-eul.tex at $TEXMFLOCAL/tex/context/base. The My Way by Adam says that I also need type-eul.tex, but I do not know where to get it from. I tried %----------------- \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \switchtobodyfont[palatino,11pt] \usetypescriptfile[type-eul] \usetypescript[eul] \switchtobodyfont[eul] \starttext This is a test and $a = b$. \stoptext %--------------------- I do not get any errors while compiling, but the math is not euler. The output is same if I comment the three lines containing eul. The log is at the end of the email. I do not really understand how fonts in Context work. Can someone please explain what is going wrong and how can I get pallatino+euler working. Thanks Aditya %------------log---------------- This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.5) (format=cont-en 2005.11.30) 7 DEC 2005 17:43 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. **test.tex \emergencyend (./test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.11.30 fmt: 2005.11.30 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (e:\context\tex\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 (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns nl->texnansi:texnansi->1->2:2 nl->ec:ec->2->2:2 fr-> texnansi:texnansi->3->2:2 fr->ec:ec->4->2:2 de->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:2 de->e c:ec->6->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->7->2:2 it->ec:ec->8->2:2 pt->texnansi:texna nsi->9->2:2 pt->ec:ec->10->2:2 hr->ec:ec->11->2:2 pl->pl0:pl0->12->2:2 pl->ec:e c->13->2:2 pl->qx:qx->14->2:2 cz->il2:il2->15->2:2 cz->ec:ec->16->2:2 sk->il2:i l2->17->2:2 sk->ec:ec->18->2:2 sl->il2:il2->19->2:2 sl->ec:ec->20->2:2 en->ec:e c->22->2:2 da->ec:ec->23->2:2 sv->ec:ec->24->2:2 af->ec:ec->25->2:2 no->ec:ec-> 26->2:2 deo->ec:ec->27->2:2 uk->ec:ec->28->2:2 us->ec:ec->29->2:2 es->ec:ec->30 ->2:2 ca->ec:ec->31->2:2 la->ec:ec->32->2:2 ro->ec:ec->33->2:2 tr->ec:ec->34->2 :2 fi->ec:ec->36->2:2 hu->ec:ec->37->2:2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `test.tui'. system : test.top loaded (./test.top specials : loading definition file tpd (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) \openout0 = `test-mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-buy.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) 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\totalnumberofpages & texexec --pages=1:2
by Tobias Burnus 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hi, I use 'texexec --batch --pages=1:2' and "Page \pagenumber\ of \totalnumberofpages". What I get is: "Page 1 of 1" and "Page 2 of 2". I of cause like to see: "Page 1 of 2". Any ideas how to get this? Tobias

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IPA/TIPA support in Context?
by Jason Knight 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

What support is there for IPA/TIPA in Context at this point? I've had a look through the mailing list archive and the last comment I saw about it was from the first half of 2004. Has anyone done more hacking on this? Jason -- Jason Knight Systems-Analyst-at-large "They fix 'em, I break 'em. Thus, analysis."

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The whole (sub)section on a single page
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hello, I would like to have the whole (sub)section on a single page unless it doesn't fit on one page (in this case I don't mind if it starts on a new page or simply continues on the old one, but it should break somewhere, that's why putting the content into a \vbox doesn't solve the problem). This is perhaps already described somewhere in the documentation, but I don't know where to look for it (well, I could start reading the source code for split=yes; perhaps \vsplit could help, but don't know how exactly to apply it). I can solve the problem temporary by manually placing page breaks, but I guess that there exists some really short, simple & elegant solutions for it. It doesn't need to automatically determine the subsection boundaries automatically (although this would be great), so I can write something like this: \startmaterialforonepage \subsection{split only if too long for one page} \dorecurse{10}{whatever comes here \dots } \stopmaterialforonepage Thank you, Mojca

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Back to sidebars.
by John R. Culleton 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Some time back (maybe three years ago) Hans showed me a way to create a sidebar, with optional background and hanging out half way into the margin. Now I would like to encapsulate the commands into a simple \start \stop sequence. But I don't know how to do it. Hans started off with some definitions: \setupfloat [intermezzo] [leftmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, rightmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, default={outer,high}] \setupcaption[intermezzo][location=none] \defineframedtext [myohmy] [width=6cm,bodyfont=small, frame=off, backgroundcorner=round, backgroundradius=16pt,background=screen,backgroundscreen=.7] Then he called these two definitions with a sequence like: (some text) \placeintermezzo{}{\startmyohmy\input dawkins \relax\stopmyohmy} (some text) What I would like to do is boil down the last mentioned command sequence into \startsidebar (some text) \stopsidebar But I am stumped by the task. If there were a \startintermezzo and \stopintermezzo pairing then the task would be simpler. John Culleton

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PhD Style for ConTeXt
by Renaud AUBIN 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi all, I'm starting writting my phd thesis with ConTeXt in french. According to the fact that I'll write it in french, I need to design a specific style and consequently, I'll surely submit style-related questions soon. Some advices ? Best regards,

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lot of newbie questions
by toto＠tots-ns.net 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hello list, I've got a lot of newbie questions. I'm writing a technical document with context for the first time to try it. I come from a TeX/LaTeX world. -> How to print a tilda? I'm trying to write an URL with a tilda in it with the font \tt. \widetilda, \tilda do not output any character. Even \~{} do not print anything. And it does not seem to appear somewhere in the wiki or in the "special characters" section of the "ConTeXt an excursion" excellent document. -> How could I do french guillemets (<< and >>)? Is it possible? -> I would like to make a glossary, ie an index with a definition for each entry. Many parts of the manual could help me but i don't really now in which direction to dig: is it a list of definition? Should I use registers? -> I'm trying to put a metapost graphic in the margin like te example in the manual reference (page 47) using the following command: \definestartstop[important][command={\inmarge{\useMPgraphic{bang}[width=\marginwidth]}}] But (of course :) it does not work at all and put some blank pages. Any idea? Thanks a lot for your help. And thanks a lot to all the developpers od ConTeXt: it is thought in a really smart way! -AJ

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context live @ contextgarden.net doesn't support Chinese
by Xiao Jianfeng 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hello, When I tried to create PDF on the fly in the wiki, I found that context live @ contextgarden.net doesn't support Chinese -_- Is it possible that context live @ contextgarden.net is reconfigured with Chinese support ? Regards, xiaojf

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mfonts.tex from manuals
by David Arnold 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

All, I was able to texfont the demofont and texfont the palatino and compiled test files for each. But when I try to compile mfonts.tex, I get the stuff below. I obviously need help. I have no uplr8t anything on my system. 011-101:~/Desktop/SVNContextManuals/manuals/fonts davidarnold$ texexec mfonts.tex TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : mfonts 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 (./mfonts.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.11.16 fmt: 2005.11.20 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-dis.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->2:2 uk->ec:ec->2->2:2 de- >texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:2 de->ec:ec->4->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:2 fr- >ec:ec->6->2:2 es->ec:ec->7->2:2 pt->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:2 pt->ec:ec->9->2:2 it- >texnansi :texnansi->10->2:2 it->ec:ec->11->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->12->2:2 nl->ec:ec- >13->2:2 cz->il2:il2->14->2:2 cz->ec:ec->15->2:2 sk->il2:il2->16- >2:2 sk->ec:ec ->17->2:2 pl->pl0:pl0->18->2:2 pl->ec:ec->19->2:2 pl->qx:qx->20->2:2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : mfonts.top loaded (./mfonts.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 : begin file ../allkind/mcommon.tex at line 5 (./../allkind/mcommon.tex system : module abr-02 loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/s-abr-02.tex system : module abr-01 loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/s-abr-01.tex check : logo AMSTEX replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo CONTEXT replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo ETEX replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo LAMSTEX replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo LATEX replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo MATHML replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo METAFONT replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo METAPOST replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo PDFETEX replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo PDFTEX replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo PICTEX replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo PPCHTEX replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo PRAGMA replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo TABLE replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo TEXADRES replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo TEXEDIT replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo TEXEXEC replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo TEXFORM replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo TEXSPELL replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo TEXUTIL replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo TEX replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo XML replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo XETEX replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! check : logo METAFUN replaces a macro, use CAPITALS! )) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-exa.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-dis.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-dis.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-dis.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-dis.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-dis.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-dis.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)) kpathsea: Running mktextfm uplr8t mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.5) kpathsea: Running mktexmf uplr8t ! I can't find file `uplr8t'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: uplr8t.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t' failed to make uplr8t.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*palatino12ptrmtf*:=uplr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file no t found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.43 \stopMPenvironment ? David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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columnset & layers
by Vit Zyka 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hello, there is some collision between columnset and layer. See following example: ----------------------------------------------------- \newdimen\tgrX \newdimen\tgrY \tgrX=3cm \tgrY=2cm \starttext \startcolumnset \definelayer[tgr-cow][position=no,corner=top] \setlayer[tgr-cow][x=.0\tgrX,y=.0\tgrY,location=middle]{O}% \framed [width=fit,height=fit,offset=none, background={foreground,tgr-cow},frame=off] {\externalfigure[cow][width=\tgrX,height=\tgrY]}% \stopcolumnset \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------- I got the error: ! Bad character code (361). <recently read> \@@layerboxtgr-cow I am a bit puzzled by strange error message. If the columnset is commented, the code is proceeded as expected. Vit

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Weird godown, dorecurse, colors and page-fitting interaction
by Adam Lindsay 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi all, What's happening here? \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startTEXpage \dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]} \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage \startcolor[yellow] \dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]} \stopcolor \stopTEXpage \stoptext -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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[Newbie] Fonts!
by Fabio Mancinelli 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hello all. Maybe this is a trivial question but I cannot understand what's going on. I've read the mfonts.pdf and I tried to compile the following file: \usetypescript[palatino] \switchtobodyfont[palatino,11pt] \starttext Hello world \stoptext It works. Changing palatino to whatever other font name (even non-existant ones like hfdjfh!) produces the same output. I used also the \setupbodyfont but same result. texexec always says bodyfont: 12pt rm is loaded no matter what I specify. So the question is: how do I actually change the font my document is typeset in? Thank you. Fabio

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\godown
by Adam Lindsay 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi all, I've been TeX-doodling with the font shown on the page below: http://www.typography.com/catalog/hoeflertext/ornaments.html Some of the nicer patterns are predicated on having horizontal as well as vertical elements smashed up next to one another. I find myself having to adjust for little gaps with: \godown[-0.029\bodyfontsize] Does this ring a bell with anyone? I would have thought \godown[0pt] was the answer, but not so, here. The font metrics seem to be right, adding up to 1000 in both directions (or a little more, actually, considering overlapping dots). -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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collector: sorting last change
by Peter Münster 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hello, here a feature request for the collector: it would be fine, if one could sort by "last change". Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Filling framed boxes up to the max
by Alexander Klink 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi, I would like to do the timetable of the Chaos Communication Congress in ConTeXt again. Last year, I used a perl script to convert the iCal file to ConTeXt code. This year, I'd like to do it a bit better. One of the problems I have there is that I would like to fill a framed box with text up to the max. If it is full before everything is typeset, the text should end with »...«. The manual solution (cf. http://www.alech.de/tmp/day1.pdf) involved counting the numbers of letters and perl and estimating a cut-off value. But I guess there is a better method in ConTeXt itself. Maybe someone here has an idea. TIA, Greetings, Alex

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TeX i-Package updated, Easy Mac font support for PDFTeX
by Gerben Wierda 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

The TeX i-Package has been updated. It now contains support for several Mac fonts using the gtamacfonts package. Both LaTeX and ConTeXt are supported. Note: only PDFTeX (not TeX+dvips) is supported. PS trickery like font expansion and pstricks is not supported. This is all because of the formats of the fonts (truetype). Apple ships the fonts packed in socalled "font suit cases". PDFTeX can only use the fonts unpacked. To unpack them a tool called fondu can be used. There is an i-Package for fondu. If fondu is installed *before* TeX is installed, the TeX i-Package will automatically unpack the Mac fonts in the right TeX directory. Note that distributing the Apple fonts (packed or unpacked) is a breach of copyright, hence I do not distribute the fonts and nor should you. After installing fondu and TeX, you can us it like this: To use these fonts with LaTeX, put e.g. the following in your file: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{gtamachoefler} Such a style file will make Hoefler Text the serif (roman) text font and Gill Sans the sans serif font. The following basic styles are available: gtamacbaskerville.sty gtamacdidot.sty gtamacgeorgia.sty gtamachoefler.sty There are more. See the manual for details. For the same effect using ConTeXt, enter e.g.: \usetypescriptfile[type-gtamacfonts] \usetypescript[Hoefler][ec] \setupbodyfont[Hoefler,12pt] Support for ConTeXt is better than support for LaTeX for the simple reason that ConTeXt is more powerful. Example documents and a manual can be found in the texmf.gwtex/doc/ fonts/gtamacfonts subdirectory. To get the manual you can type "texdoc gtamacfonts" in a Terminal window. Also check out "texdoc GTAHoeflerSymbols" in a Terminal window. G PS. I expect to do one more update with this with some changes to the manual and such, but nothing fundamental.

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Updating context on Fedora Core 4
by David Arnold 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

All, What's the standard procedure for updating Context on Linux? We have fedora core 4.

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cal & calligraphic
by Hans van der Meer 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

I am confused about the behaviour of \cal and calligraphic. In a font where the calligraphic letters are in MathItalic all goes well. But, in a font where the calligraphic letters come from another font I get: \definefontsynonym [Calligraphic] [FONT_OTHER_THAN_MathSymbol] in text: \calligraphic{ABC} is ok in text: {\cal ABC} is ok in math: $\calligraphic{ABC}$ is ok in text: ${\cal ABC}$ IS NOT OK, SYMBOLS KEEP COMING FROM MATHSYMBOL I would the font redefinition also being obeyed in math {\cal} ? Why is this the only exception? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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problems with bold small caps
by Peter Münster 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Hello, I would like to get bold small caps, here is my test-file: \enableregime[il1] \definebodyfont [12pt] [sc] [bf=ecxc1200] \definebodyfont [11pt] [sc] [bf=ecxc1100] \definebodyfont [10pt] [sc] [bf=ecxc1000] \definebodyfont [9pt] [sc] [bf=ecxc0900] \definebodyfont [8pt] [sc] [bf=ecxc0800] \starttext {\sc Normal and \bf bold Small-Caps. Accents: àÉßöÜ} \stoptext And here are my problems: 1.) I get bold sc font, but the normal \sc is now the normal font. 2.) It works only with dvi-output, with pdf I get: kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 ecxc1200 mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfzzz and resolution 72; ignoring mode. mktexpk: Can't guess mode for 72 dpi devices. mktexpk: Use a config file, or update me. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. Where should I tell pdfetex the right resolution? 3.) Accented characters are not correct. 4.) Could there be native support for bold small caps in the distribution? TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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German hyphenation patterns
by Thomas A. Schmitz 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

All, German orthography is a mess right now, we now have two sets of rules, old and new. New hyphenation is ugly and rules are constantly changing. I see that ConTeXt has lang-deo.pat, so I was hoping that this would produce "old" patterns, but it doesn't seem to work: \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[deo] \starttext \showhyphens{gestorben} \showhyphens{Bierdeckel} \showhyphens{äußerst} \stoptext gives me: Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] \*10ptrmtf* ge-stor-ben Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] \*10ptrmtf* Bier-de-ckel Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 12--12 [] \*10ptrmtf* ‰u-ˇerst which is identical to \mainlanguage[de]. Patterns should be Bierdek- kel and ‰us-serst. Am I missing something, how can I enable "old" patterns? Thanks Thomas

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extra space after variant
by Hans van der Meer 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

When I code: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} I find extra space typeset between "abc" and "pqr". This extra space is absent when I code abc {\variant[xyz]pqr} Thus the space in the source between ] and pqr makes a difference in the result. Clearly visible in: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} abc {\variant[xyz]pqr}\crlf abc {\Var[xyz]pqr} abc {\Var[xyz] pqr}\crlf I would think that this should not happen. The whitespace goes away by inserting an \ignorespaces in the variant- definition. \def\variant[#1]% slow {\dosetscaledfont \expanded{\definedfont [\truefontname{\fontstringA\fontstylesuffix\fontvariant \fontstringA{#1}} at \scaledfont]}\ignorespaces} Still using version 2005-11-14, forget this if already corrected in the latest version of the 30th. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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update
by Hans Hagen 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Hi, I'm uploading an update. Apart from a few fixes/new-things, the main change in the minimals is that the <platform>tex.zip files now only contain binaries, and justtex.zip the rest. So, in case you use a windows/linux minimal: you need to download two files now. In the case of macosx, gerbens auto-updater takes care of it, I replaced the iwona/kurier/etc map/enc files with the ones that are now shipped. In the meantime i found out that there is also a change in the ams font tfm structure, so if you copy over old trees, make that you remove old instances of those fonts. I hope that i didn't mess up things too much. The normal cont-*.zip files are updates too, and the map files now refer to the new iwona cum suis scheme uploading now, may take a while Hans

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Context 2005.11.30 Released (bis)
by Taco Hoekwater 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

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 2005.11.30. As usual, there is a page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.11.30 New features since 2005.11.24: * A support module for loading DraTex * Itemgroups now accept a command parameter. This allows \item c.s. to work on bits of the following paragraph, like so: \def\MyItemCommand#1{{\bf#1}\quad} \setupitemgroup[itemize][command=\MyItemCommand] \startitemize \item {test} is this okay? \item {test} is this okay? \item {test} is this okay? \stopitemize * Extension for the use of marks in column sets using a new, three-argument, call to \getmarking : \getmarking[subsection][first][1] % column 1 \getmarking[subsection][first][3] % column 3 * A set of font synonyms to enable easy ligature prevention (esp. useful in XML) \usetypescript[serif][handling][noligs] \definetypeface[mine][rm][serif] [latin-modern][default][encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface[mine][rm][serif] [latin-modern][default][encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[mine,10pt] \starttext asjemenou-het--lijkt---te----werken \stoptext * \setupinterlinespace[auto] makes interline (double) spacing work even across bodyfont switches * new system modes for the current language: {\language[nl] \startmode[*en] english \stopmode \startmode[*nl] dutch \stopmode \language[en] \startmode[*en] english \stopmode \startmode[*nl] dutch \stopmode} Bug fixes: * ConTeXt now allows more MP specials, on user request (through \manyMPspecials). This is sometimes needed when MetaPost is called in-between runs instead of using the shell_escape mechanisms * use TEXMFTE and TEXMFGW in type-tmf.dat. This allows texfont to function correctly under gwtex. * Use the new map file names for the font families/typescripts antt, iwona, and kurier. * Footnote markers no longer appear in headings Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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enco-pfr.tex - support for Adobe Acrobat [2]
by Richard Gabriel 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

My last e-mail has probably get lost so I'm trying once more... Could anybody give me some clue, please? Many thanks, Richard _____ From: Richard Gabriel [mailto:rgabriel@kerio.com] To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:18:56 +0100 Subject: enco-pfr.tex - support for Adobe Acrobat Hello Hans, Taco and others! I would like to know how the "enco-pfr.tex" module works and how to properly use it. Besides of other languages, I also typeset documents in Czech. The search doesn't work (in recent Acrobat 7.0.5) for particular Czech letters (e.g. č,ž etc.). If I try to search for a simple letter (e.g. "č") it stops on every word containing "č", but also "c". If I try to search for a whole word (e.g. "počítač"), nothing is found. :-) I've followed the instructions posted on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes and in the mailing list thread linked from that page. So I tried: \input enco-pfr \useencoding[pfr] \startencoding [ec] \usepdffontresource ec \stopencoding \setupbodyfont[lbr]% I have typescripts for Lucida Bright fonts, the Czech is typeset OK \starttext A testing Czech sentence follows: Příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy. \stoptext Later I've found out that: - \input enco-pfr is already done in context.tex - \startencoding [ec] \usepdffontresource ec \stopencoding is already done at the bottom of enco-pfr.tex - so it seems that the only command I should issue is: \useencoding[pfr] BTW, in the Czech format (cont-cz.tex), I have defined: \setupencoding[default=ec] Doesn't it collide with the \useencoding[pfr] command later in the document? ANY GUESS? Note: The ligatures work OK even if I don't use the \useencoding[pfr] command at all. Thanks to all, Richard

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