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RE: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.11 Released
by Idris Samawi Hamid 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hi Taco, Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>: >New features compared to the 2005.10.27 version: > > * Additional dvips map files for Latin Modern > * context-base.map removed > * support for Waldi's Symbols added > * support for intercolumn spaces in natural tables > * support for extension of definitions inside assignments > >Bugs fixed since the 2005.10.27: Once again: Have the ctxtools for dvipdfmx been fixed yet? :-)) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Context 2005.11.11 Released
by Taco Hoekwater 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '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://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip If you have not updated your Latin Modern fonts in the past month, then you will need to fetch the latest redistribution of the LM fonts as well: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-lmt.zip In the course of the following days, both files will also become available from the regular CTAN nodes. New features compared to the 2005.10.27 version: * Additional dvips map files for Latin Modern * context-base.map removed * support for Waldi's Symbols added * support for intercolumn spaces in natural tables * support for extension of definitions inside assignments Bugs fixed since the 2005.10.27: * mptopdf sometimes had trouble starting the pdfetex executable * sometimes externalimage-s in metafun disappeared * EC encoded text in math mode should now be ok (\ccaron c.s.) * lots of small register (index) fixes to newtexutil * a bug in \type that prevented the compilation of the pdftex manual. * some other (minor) bugs The current release has version 2005.11.11. As usual, there is a page with much more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.11.11 Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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Bug in footnote mechanism when compiling per chapter?
by Gerben Wierda 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

I had in my project file \definenote[endnote][location=none] \setupfootnotes[conversion=set 2,way=bypage] which I moved to my environment file. But wherever I have it, when I compile per chapter, the footnote mechanism fails because it runs out of symbols to use. When I compile the entire book. no such problem occurs. Is this a ConTeXt bug? G

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accents inside text mode inside math
by Mojca Miklavec 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hello, thera were some problems concerning accented characters in math (mathml) a while ago (as far as I remember they were solved). But some tiny bugs apparently remained there. Minimal example: $\cases{&\ccaron}$ Mojca

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font havoc
by Hans van der Meer 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Suddenly it seems, I am getting bad messages for quite normal math fonts: Warning: pdfetex (file cmsy8): kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / -- bdpi 72 --mag 1+7/72 --dpi 79 cmmi10 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. (<<<< Why is this?) Font cmsy8 at 72 not found Warning: pdfetex (file cmmi10): Font cmmi10 at 79 not found {/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/psnfss/8r.enc}</ usr/local/te TeX/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/helvetic/uhvr8a.pfb></usr/local/ teTeX/shar e/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/helvetic/uhvb8a.pfb></usr/local/teTeX/ share/texmf- dist/fonts/type1/urw/courier/ucrr8a.pfb> I am not aware having changed to resolution 72 for ljfzzz or doing something different from previous installations of new context versions. The mode for ljfzzz was set with texconfig. I was running the 2005-10-27 context version, but reverting tot 2005-08-31 did not solve the problem. What has happened to my fonts? Has it something to do with the fact that tetex and context seem to use directories .texmf-config and .texmf-var differently? Why does something that ran without a hitch suddenly is broken? Does someone know how to restore things to normal? Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] cont 2005.10.27 & t5-lmtt10 font problem (solved with 2005-11-09 release)
by VnPenguin 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

On 11/9/05, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > > there has been a bit of a mess in the last few month with regards to the > enc/map files for latin modern: new names, as well as a slightly > different naming scheme; unfortunately context paid the price because of > early adapting; by now (i'll upload a new distribution today) things > should work ok); Hi Hans & all, My problem (subject of this thread) was solved with release 2005-11-09 :-) Thank you, Regards, -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

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Index
by Olivier 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Hi, is there a mechanism so that on is able to say \index[start from here]{great+topic} % we are on p3 blabla much material \index[stop there]{great+topic} % we are on p7 and the index will advertise the topic as great topic 3-7 Of course I don't want to put an \index at every page (I don't even know the page break when looking at the source file ;) This feature is especially nice when defining a concept in a manual. Many thanks in advance, Olivier

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fix for verbatim
by Hans Hagen 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

The following patch \unprotect \let\protectedfirsttype\string \bgroup \catcode`\[=\@@begingroup \catcode`\]=\@@endgroup \catcode`\{=\@@active \catcode`\}=\@@active \gdef\initializetypegrouping% [\catcode`\{=\@@active \catcode`\}=\@@active \let\normalactivebgroup{% \let\normalactiveegroup}% \def\activeleftargument% [\bgroup \let}\activerightargument \normalactivebgroup ]% \def\activerightargument% [\normalactiveegroup \egroup]% \let{=\activeleftargument \let}=\egroup ] \egroup \protect works ok for \setupcolors[state=start] \setuptype[option=color] \setuptyping[option=color] \setupwhitespace[big] \starttext \starttyping x\pdfoutput{xx} {nn} \pdfoutput{xx} {nn} \stoptyping \type{x\pdfoutput {xx} {nn}} \type{x\pdfoutput{xx} {nn}} \type{x\pdfoutput{xx} {nn}} \stoptext but no coloring here: \starttabulate[|l|] \NC \type{\pdfoutput {xx}{,,}} \NC\NR \NC \type{\pdfoutput{xx}{,,}} \NC\NR \NC \type{{xx}{,,}} \NC\NR \stoptabulate beware: since in tabulate args are passed, the { } in \type are seen as grouping tokens and disappear. i'll try to make up a solution (no way around space after \cs then, unless taco fixes tex -) Hans

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maximum of \externalfigure in MP
by andrea valle 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Hi to all, I'm including many externalfigures in pdf in a MPgraphic (300 pdfs, more or less). The MPgraphic draws some arrows connecting the pdf fragments. (it is the musical project using lilypond we discussed some time ago). Till now, everything has always gone very well. Now I'm getting a little crazy. in fact, I'm having a strange behaviour I cannot explain. When I render the context file, as output I have the MP drawing, but all the (many) pdfs are replaced with blank spaces. I noticed that it seems that pdfs are not loaded (the console doesn't print their names in any way). I also checked the utility files (.mp, etc) but I'm not able to extract any useful info. If I comment out some of the lines requesting \externalfigure, (remaining) pdfs are again displayed. So, I'm guessing that is should be something related with a maximum of \externalfigure. I'm surprised because I generated examples containing many more pdf fragments than the present one, and I have never had any problem. Here's the zipped directory I'm working with: www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi3-.zip Any hint/help is much appreciated Best -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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French spacing before punctuation
by Peter Münster 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, what do I need to do, to get the new automatic spacing before punctuation with recent pdfetex? - What version of pdfetex? - What version of ConTeXt? - And what commands to configure this? TIA for any hint! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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wasy symbol set
by Henning Hraban Ramm 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi ho! I needed some symbols from the wasy fonts (known from the LaTeX package wasysym), and here's the whole set for you. ;-) The ZIP contains the module symb-was.tex, the font map original- wasy.map and a test tex file. (The wasy fonts live in http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/fonts/wasy2/, but they're part of most TeX installations.) I left out the mathematical operators and integrals for I don't know nothing about math and I guess that the stuff is already part of core math. symb-was.tex addresses only wasy10 (see below), but there are also wasy5-9 and wasyb10 (bold?) - how can I use these? (Don't know if that makes any sense.) \definefontsynonym [WaSy] [wasy10] \def\WaldiSymbol#1{\getglyph{WaSy}{\char#1}} If someone can tell if the math stuff is needed and if the font design size issue is fixed, I'd be happy if this module would make it into the core distribution. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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long quotation problem
by Alan Bowen 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

I have been adapting some of my old Plain TeX macros to ConTeXt, using hints and suggestions from the ConTeXt wiki. What I have thus far works exactly as desired in the body text, but fails in the footnotes. I have appended some encoded text that shows the problem. Note the poor line-spacing and (unwanted) indentation in the first line of the quotation in the footnote: this quotation should look the same as the one in the body text. I realize that I could fix this simply by inserting a \noindent in the footnote, for instance. But I am trying to reduce the amount of thinking an coder has to do, and so would really like to define the startextract..\stopextract environment more effectively. Any pointers or suggestions for fixing this will be gratefully received. Cheers, Alan **************************** % Paragraph setup \indenting[big,yes] \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupparagraphs[tolerance=verystrict] %Footnote setup \setupfootnotes[conversion=numbers, way=bytext,location=page,rule=on,bodyfont=10.1pt,style=normal] \setupfootnotes[indenting=yes] \setupfootnotes[interaction=yes] \setupnotedefinition[footnote][indenting={big,yes}] % Extract setup \definestartstop[extract][ before={\godown[0.10pc] \indenting[next] \setupnarrower[left=1.5pc,right=1.5pc] \startnarrower[left,right]}, after={\stopnarrower \godown[0.25pc] \indenting[yes]}] \starttext Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim. Suspendisse id velit vitae ligula volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. \startextract Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim. Suspendisse id velit vitae ligula volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. \stopextract \noindent Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor. Maecenas vitae nulla consequat libero cursus venenatis. Nam magna enim, accumsan eu, blandit sed, blandit a, eros.% \footnote{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim.% \startextract Suspendisse id velit vitae ligula volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor. \stopextract \noindent Maecenas vitae nulla consequat libero cursus venenatis. Nam magna enim, accumsan eu, blandit sed, blandit a, eros.}\ % Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor. Maecenas vitae nulla consequat libero cursus venenatis. Nam magna enim, accumsan eu, blandit sed, blandit a, eros. \stoptext

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Header design
by Alexander Lazic 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, i have now try to setup the CD pagedesign. Please can anyone help me to find a solution for this setup ;-) What i need is: Title_of_the_document | section on the left hand side in the header. I have found a solution for the headerrule but for the text ... I have added my solution on the bottom of this mail what i have also tryed: \setupheadertexts[text][{Title | \getmarking[chapter]}] from: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2003/003438.html which don't work because i get the following error: --- ! Argument of \next has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \doattributes ...name #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4} \dostopattributes \dosingletexts ...atetexts {#1#2#5}{#6{}{}{}}}}}}} \egroup <argument> ...?tk \v!header \v!text \c!righttext } \@@nmpos {\getvalue {\??tk... \dododoplacelayouttextline ...#2 #3}\hbox to #1{#4 }\stoplayoutcomponent \get... ... l.74 \section {sec2} ? --- Here know my texfile: --- \setuppapersize [A4][A4] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,right}] \setupheadertexts[][section] % Solution from http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20050515.201803.67299570.html \setupthinrules[color=red,height=1mm] \setupheader[text][after=\thinrule] \starttext \section{sec1} \page \section{sec2} \stoptext --- Thanks in advaned for our help ;-) Greetings al ;-)

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[Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] Problems with Natural Tables]
by Vit Zyka 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello Hans, (I guess you are the only person who can specify your previous answer), so please, is the file 'core-ntb-new.tex' somewhere available? Actually what I want. I have plenty of natural tables. If I want to make closer interline space between table lines the only way I know is to make smaller value of offset param. But after that, columns are too close together (framed object as a core of natural table does not distinguish between vertical and horizontal offsets). So bellow mentioned \setupTABLE[c][1][distance=2em] would be nice solution. So ones more, is the new code available? Thank you in advance for the answer. Vit Hans Hagen wrote: > Adam Duck wrote: > >> Eckhart Guthöhrlein <eckhart.guthoehrlein(a)uni-bielefeld.de> writes: >> >> >> >>> Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2005, 17:17 +0200 schrieb Adam Duck: >>> >>> >>> >>>> - how do I set the spacing between a vertical line (between two >>>> columns) and the text inside that columns? I already used >>>> "framedoffest=-3pt", but the output is unacceptable. >>>> >>> >>> Spacing is a weak point of natural tables. Afaik, there is no good way >>> to tune spacing. I would try using dummy colums like >>> \bTD[width=1em]\eTD. >>> >> >> OK, That sounds reasonable. I'll try that. On the other hand this >> means many \bTD<something>\eTD ... but one can write a macro for that, >> I think. >> >> > a next release will support: > \input core-ntb-new.tex > > \starttext > > \showframe > > \setupTABLE[c][1][distance=2em] > \setupTABLE[c][2][distance=3em] I was looking for core-ntb-new.tex or 'distance' in current beta core-ntb.tex but have not been successful. Please, where I can find it? Thanks Vit > \bTABLE > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \eTR > \eTABLE > > > \bTABLE[option=stretch] > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \eTR > \eTABLE > > \stoptext

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RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds) 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi All, I'm currently working in a team which is building a system for the automatic production of office stationery (business cards, letterheads and compliment slips) with ConTeXt at its heart. The system provides a web-application front end for selected users to create stationery orders. These orders are then processed to produce .tex files, which are processed by ConTeXt to produce press-ready PDFs. The PDFs are sent with order details straight to our in-house printing department. I was tasked with creating the PDF engine and chose ConTeXt because (a) I have a lot of experience with LaTeX and hence a great deal of respect for TeX's capabilities but (b) knew that controlling the layouts in LaTeX would be a pain. The following features of ConTeXt are used in this project: * Native support for OpenType fonts * Support for creation of high quality press-ready PDFs * Fine control over document layout, page design etc. * Support for embedding JPG, TIFF, PNG amd PDF images * Support for the use of named (PANTONE) spot colours The choice of ConTeXt was not an easy one having never used it before but my gut feeling was that it is a very powerful and flexible piece of software. It has met all my requirements so far but not without a fight, as the documentation can be very sparse! I will certainly contribute what documentation I can when I have more time. Mark ********************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may be subject to legal privilege, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error or think you may have done so, you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. Please notify the sender immediately and delete the original e-mail from your system. Computer viruses can be transmitted by e-mail. Recipients should check this e-mail for the presence of viruses. The Capita Group and its subsidiaries accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. ***********************************************************************************

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font-switching oddities
by Thomas A. Schmitz 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi all, I'm having some trouble with bodyfont switching. It involves two fonts that I adapted myself, so it's difficult to make a minimal example. Both fonts are defined in typescripts (these are just examples, it works the same for every typescript I tried). First one is Adobe Caslon: \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \starttypescript [serif] [caslon] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Regularnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Bold] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Boldnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Italic] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Italicnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Bold-Italic] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-BoldItalicnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman-SmallCaps][texnansi-KERN-SMCP- LNUM-ACaslonPro-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman-OSF] [texnansi-KERN-SMCP- LNUM-ACaslonPro-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [caslon] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Caslon-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Caslon-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Caslon-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Caslon-Bold-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Caslon-Roman-SmallCaps] \definefontsynonym [OldStyle] [Caslon-Roman-OSF] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [Caslon] \definetypeface [MyCaslon] [rm] [serif] [caslon] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript Second one is one of my Greek fonts (doesn't matter which one): \starttypescript [serif] [greekgentium] [agr] \definefontsynonym [Greekgentium-Roman] [genagr-GentiumAlt] [encoding=agr] \definefontsynonym [Greekgentium-Italic][genagr-GentiumAItI] [encoding=agr] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [greekgentium] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Greekgentium-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Greekgentium-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Serif] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Serif] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[GreekGentium] \definetypeface [MyGreekGentium] [rm] [serif] [greekgentium] [default] [rscale=\getvariable{Greek}{scale},encoding=agr] \stoptypescript The fonts are used thus: \setupbodyfont[MyCaslon,12pt] \switchtobodyfont[MyGreekGentium] Switching works when I set the bodyfont size to 9,10,11,12pt, but not if it is set to any other value. In that case, I get these messages in the log file Missing character: There is no a in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no > in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no u in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no t in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no o in font nullfont! etc. I must be missing something obvious about typefiles, but can't see what? Any help will be appreciated. All best Thomas

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How to use layers or other methods for precise positioning of items
by Kári Hreinsson 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, I have been trying to use ConTeXt for setting up a book with a list of students in my school, with pictures of them, phone numbers, emails and such. I thought I could use ConTeXt for the job since LaTeX gave me much trouble in trying to alter the layout and look of the page. I found the "layer" feature in ConTeXt which I found very interesting and thought I could use it to position items (such as text info, images and the layout) within these layers since they offer very precise positioning with a x-y grid like system. When I was trying to use this feature for multipage document it cut of all of the pages except the first. I found out that the layers weren't thought to be part of the content of the file but more like a background and I can't figure out how to use them on many pages without placing something like a dot on every page. Is there any way to do this? I discovered that the layers were "inserted" into the document via "\setupbackgrounds[page]" so I understand why it acts like this but I am asking if there is some way of getting layers working like I want? Maybe I am going in completely wrong way? Is there any other good way to do this, that is positioning items with x-y coordinates or something totally different that I am missing? Another thing I was wondering about is how to make items like images bleed (that is to go over the edge of the paper, to avoid white lines at the margin). Can I use negative values for positioning to achive that? All help is greatly appreciated since I am not understanding this and I haven't found much help on the internet regarding this subject (contextgarden had only one example page that had layers). I hope you understand my question, it's a bit complicated to explain. :/ Thanks in advance, Kári Hreinsson

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currentvalue
by Hans Hagen 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, The \currentvalue module functionality written by Taco will be included in the kernel. However, instead of expanding (always) all assignments, Taco and I opt for using the less destructive \expanded: %D \startbuffer %D \getparameters[a][b=d] %D \expanded{\getparameters[a][b=c\currentvalue]} %D \framed{\ab} %D \stopbuffer %D \typebuffer %D %D Gives: \getbuffer Hans

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hoffset and voffset in \setupTABLE
by Peter Münster 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, here comes another feature request: independant horizontal and vertical offsets in TABLE-cells. Or even topoffset, bottomoffset, leftoffset and rightoffset. Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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extra page in presentation styles
by Hans van der Meer 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Context presentation style problem: I didn't use the (green-)presentation style for quite some time. Now I suddenly get an EXTRA PAGE before the first \TitlePage. See below for a minimal example and the output produced. Does somebody happen to what is wrong or where I am wrong? By the way, the upgrade of 27-10-2005 context did not change this. I do not include the pdf-output, because it makes this posting too big to post without special moderator approval. But in my system it gives a blank first page and then the TitlePage as sheet numbered 2. Thanks. Hans van der Meer % =============================================================== % % This example shows an extra blank page before the first real one. \usemodule[pre-green] % =============================================================== % \starttext % =============================================================== % \TitlePage{\vfill\vfill\bf Titlepage\blank \color[red]{Is SECOND instead of\crlf FIRST page!}\blank \tfxx\tfx This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.0-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) \blank ConTeXt ver: 2005.08.31 fmt: 2005.10.19 \vfill\vfill\vfill\bfxx \color[blue]{\currentdate}\hfill\null} % =============================================================== % \Subject{First subject} \vfill This is the first subject page. \vfill % =============================================================== % \stoptext % =============================================================== %

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xml, context and hyphenation
by Wolfgang Zillig 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, I have problems with hyphenation when german öäü are in these words. I'm processing xml files which are in unicode. The font encoding for the pdf is EC (as I was told there are problems with OT1 encoded fonts). Any suggestions? Wolfgang

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cont 2005.10.27 & t5-lmtt10 font problem
by VnPenguin 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi all, Just updated cont-2005.10.27 on teTeX 3.0 (build from tarball). I updated package "cont-lmt.zip" from http://www.pragma-ade.com. I follow step by step at page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation. Now I have: $ 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: 2005.10.27 cont-en : ver: 2005.10.27 fmt: 2005.11.1 mes: english total run time : 1 seconds I do a small test with vietnamese utf-8: ----------- begin test ---------------------------------- \language[vn] \mainlanguage[vn] \setuptyping [style={\switchtobodyfont[10pt]\tt}] \enableregime[utf] \setupencoding[default=t5] \setupbodyfont[reset] \usetypescript[berry][t5] \usetypescript[palatino][t5] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] \starttext Giả sử bạn có một loạt khá nhiều \setuptyping[option=PERL] \starttyping use OpenOffice::OODoc; # Giả sử bạn có một loạt khá nhiều if ((@ARGV <1) or (@ARGV > 2)){ print << "EOF"; Usage: blahblah EOF \stoptyping \stoptext ------------- end of test ------------------------------ On screen I see: ... systems : begin file test at line 18 (/work/apps/tetex/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/verb-pl.tex loading : Context Support Macros / Pretty PERL Verbatim ) (/work/apps/tetex/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) fonts : needs map file: original-base fonts : needs map file: ec-public-lm fonts : needs map file: ec-base fonts : needs map file: t5-base fonts : needs map file: t5-urw-palatino fonts : needs map file: original-youngryu-px fonts : needs map file: t5-public-lm [1.1{/home/quy/.texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] systems : end file test at line 32 kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+5/72 --dpi 77 t5-lmtt10 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for t5-lmtt10. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ) Warning: pdfetex (file t5-lmtt10): Font t5-lmtt10 at 77 not found kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+5/72 --dpi 77 t5-lmtto10 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for t5-lmtto10. Warning: pdfetex (file t5-lmtto10): Font t5-lmtto10 at 77 not found {/work/apps/tetex/share/texmf-local/fonts/enc/dvips/vntex/t5.enc}</work/apps/te tex/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/urwvn/uplr8v.pfb> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 17698 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. ... PDF output is very strange: all font in typing mode are lossed ! (see screenshot: http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/shots/cont-font-problem.png) PDF of the test is : http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/test.pdf I missed some thing when updating ? Thank you in advance, Quy NGUYEN-DAI -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

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RE: [NTG-context] placing headings (solution on wiki)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi gang, Ok, I figured out a solution and have posted it here (bottom of page): http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Headers_and_Footers I have never edited the wiki before so I hope the maintainer will check to make sure I did not do something wrong-) If there is a way to improve my solution please let me know! I think this is a nice sample file... Best Idris ================================================ Dear gang, I am having difficulties with heading placement. Consider the following sample file: =================headings.tex================== % output=pdf interface=en \setuppapersize [A5][A4] \setuplayout[width=middle, height=middle, footer=3\bodyfontsize, header=0pt, headerdistance=\bodyfontsize, bottom=3\bodyfontsize, location={middle,doublesided}, marking=on] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer,middle}] \setupbottomtexts[pagenumber] \setupbottom[style=\tf,state=high] \setupfootertexts% [][section][chapter][] \setupfooter[style=\tf, state=high] \setuptexttexts% [margin][][section][chapter][] \setuptext[style=\tf, state=high] \setupinmargin[align=inner, style=\tfx\setupinterlinespace] \showframe \starttext \chapter{Ch. Knuth Knuth} \section{Sec. Knuth Knuth} \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth\par\ } \stoptext =============================================== This file should compile fine. Problem 1: I would like the headings in the footer to be flush with the top of the footer space instead of at the bottom; Problem 2: After making the footer headings flush with the top of the footer space, I would now like to mid-align the headings so each is just above the page number in the footer space (I thought this would be trivial but it's apparently not); Problem 3: I would like to have marginal headings: how do I i) keep the headings boxed within the margin width; ii) raise (or lower) the box containing the margin headings? Thnx in advance for helping me solve these problems! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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conTeXt distros on MACOSX
by andrea valle 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

(This derives form the thread about metafun.mem) As I have used till now only texshop, I was going to try the distro form pragma-ade. I downloaded it but I do not know what to do. As they are binaries I supposed I have not to compile anything. Should I simply put the folder in the right place? The Readme is quite vague. I put it in usr/local, tried to run from terminal the texexec bin but obtained: apples-Computer:/ apple$ /usr/local/tex/texmf-macosx/bin/texexec --h /usr/local/tex/texmf-macosx/bin/texexec: line 2: texmfstart: command not found What have I to do to use the most recent distro from pragma? More, I really cannot understand what's going on when I invoke "typeset context" form inside TeXShop. Luckily, something happens and I have my nice pdfs. This is default engine as stated by TeXShop. /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current If I go there, I find many binaries, and there's a texexec. If I invoke it directly form terminal I obtain: apples-Computer:/ apple$ /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/texexec -h `texexec.pl' not found. If I invoke texexec from terminal, default is located in sw/bin. It's 3.1 version: apples-Computer:/ apple$ which texexec /sw/bin/texexec apples-Computer:/ apple$ texexec -h TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 (I know virtually nothing of bash, I grabbed some commands here and there) I'm getting a bit depressed... -a-

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Interaction background
by Olivier 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, is there any way to disable the reverse color highlighting when using interaction mode? I'd like to access a next page button without the background being video reversed. Does anybody know how to achieve this? Thanks in advance, Olivier

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[Fwd: [Fwd: MetaPost to SVG Converter]]
by Tobias Burnus 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MetaPost to SVG Converter Datum: 7 Nov 2005 22:00:00 -0800 Von: tlhiv <thenders(a)gmail.com> Organisation: http://groups.google.com Newsgruppen: comp.text.tex For all that are interested, I've setup a page which described (in detail) the process of converting MetaPost output files to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). This page has a particular example as well as a *WEB TOOL* for doing the conversion. Please let me know if there are any issues with it. http://www.tlhiv.com/MetaPost/tools/mptosvg/ Thanks, Troy Henderson

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placing headings
by Idris Samawi Hamid 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Dear gang, I am having difficulties with heading placement. Consider the following sample file: =================headings.tex================== % output=pdf interface=en \setuppapersize [A5][A4] \setuplayout[width=middle, height=middle, footer=3\bodyfontsize, header=0pt, headerdistance=\bodyfontsize, bottom=3\bodyfontsize, location={middle,doublesided}, marking=on] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer,middle}] \setupbottomtexts[pagenumber] \setupbottom[style=\tf,state=high] \setupfootertexts% [][section][chapter][] \setupfooter[style=\tf, state=high] \setuptexttexts% [margin][][section][chapter][] \setuptext[style=\tf, state=high] \setupinmargin[align=inner, style=\tfx\setupinterlinespace] \showframe \starttext \chapter{Ch. Knuth Knuth} \section{Sec. Knuth Knuth} \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth\par\ } \stoptext =============================================== This file should compile fine. Problem 1: I would like the headings in the footer to be flush with the top of the footer space instead of at the bottom; Problem 2: After making the footer headings flush with the top of the footer space, I would now like to mid-align the headings so each is just above the page number in the footer space (I thought this would be trivial but it's apparently not); Problem 3: I would like to have marginal headings: how do I i) keep the headings boxed within the margin width; ii) raise (or lower) the box containing the margin headings? Thnx in advance for helping me solve these problems! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Trying to use Avant Garde - output font in very low resolution
by Kári Hreinsson 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

Hello, I was trying to use a new font (not Computer Modern) in my tex file and all I get is the font in a very low resolution (see http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp4.pdf) This output was the result of the following files: type-garde.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/type-garde.tex flipp4.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp4.tex I created the typescript file according to the information in "ConTeXt and pdfTeX Beginners help file" (http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#selectfont) The interesting thing is that I can get the fonts with good quality if I only use TeX. The output of running the file flipp3.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp3.tex * with pdftex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp3.pdf * with texexec --pdf: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp5.pdf So it seems that texexec is doing things a bit differently then pdftex but I can't figure out where or how to fix it. I also tried having the font inclusion in the same tex file and not in a typescript file with the same results: * http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp6.tex * http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp6.pdf Then there came one strange thing. When I tried the same thing with the Bitstream Charter Bold font as he did in the beginners help file I got a low resolution font when the inclusion was inside the same but that worked fine with the online texexec program (live.contextgarden.net) However, when I used the typescript file as he did in the help file I got good quality on the bistream font. I am quite lost now so any help is very appreciated! Output of 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, 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) context : ver: 2005.08.31 cont-en : ver: 2005.08.31 fmt: 2005.10.16 mes: english Thanks in advance, Kári Hreinsson

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[Fwd: [dev-context] custom page number format]
by Taco Hoekwater 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [dev-context] custom page number format Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:50:15 -0600 From: Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Organization: Guru Labs, L.C. To: ConTeXt Development Mailing List <dev-context(a)ntg.nl> I've scoured the list archive and the wiki trying to figure out how to create an interactive table of contents that includes the chapter number as part of the page number. I'm looking for a solution that given something like: ===== \starttext Table of Contents \placelist[...] % full TOC \chapter{One} \placelist[...] % local TOC \section{a} \section{b} \section{c} \chapter{Two} \placelist[...] % local TOC \section{c} \section{d} \starttext ===== produces something like: ===== Table of Contents One 1-1 Two 2-1 a 1-2 d 2-2 b 1-3 e 2-4 c 1-7 One % page 1-1 a 1-2 b 1-3 c 1-7 a % page 1-2 b % page 1-3 c % page 1-7 Two % page 2-1 d 2-2 e 2-4 d % page 2-2 e % page 2-4 ===== I've found solutions to print the page number on individual pages using the chapter-pagenumber format. I can get \placelist to produce the format I want. It's easy to produce interactive lists using the pre-defined formats. But I haven't been able to produce an interactive custom formatted list. And at any rate, my solutions are kind of ugly leading me to believe there's probably an easier way I've missed. How should I be doing this? -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C. _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list dev-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context

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Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by olivier Turlier 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

> What do you do with ConTeXT? I started informatic at 33 when coming back to studies : 2 years later i've done my thesis with latex (took me 2.5 years!). Now i try to teach buiding technics and design, with the help of paper and electronic courses made with Context. Hopefully, my boss doesn't know that it took me sometimes 2 days for writing a one morning course! I must recognise that sometimes I think of having a good dtp software, but after some test, I come back to Context. In the next decades, I'll try to succeed in quizz making and/or nice looking book. I wish to meet people using Context one day. Thanks Hans and all others on the list . -- Olivier TURLIER

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ConTeXt update for teTeX
by Peter Münster 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Just a small helper script: http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/updateConTeXt.sh Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

>===== Original Message From ciro(a)kavyata.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >I wrote my novel using ConTeXt. Inside figures with metapost, >the cover layout with Scribus. I downloaded the first chapter; it is beautiful-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Hans van der Meer 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

I use ConTeXt for the presentations in my lectures on Cryptography at the University of Amsterdam. I am considering changing my lecture notes (some 300 pages) from LaTeX into ConTeXt, especially because the ease of incorporating MetaFont pictures into the text. Also for small documents as for example cd-covers. Hans van der Meer

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RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

> What do you do with ConTeXT? We may divide this into present activities, planned activities, useful, and needed features: Present activities: I use ConTeXt to a) typeset an academic journal b) typeset my own books Planned or in-progress activities: I am striving for a) advanced critical edition support b) advanced Arabic-script support, including complicated scripts like Nastaliq: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00xcallig/coloniallate/nastali… I already have a working Arabic module; though experimental, it produces some of the best classical Naskh Arabic script one can find in digital typography-) c) related to b) I would like to see an integration of aleph and pdfetex (for full left-to-right and right-to-left typesetting) Useful present or needed features: The best feature over LaTeX is its predictability and integratedness (no 1001 packages to sift through). NEEDED: a) A COMPLETE CONTEXT IDE, maybe even a lyx-like application b) More streamlined way to setup fonts c) Complete independence from the TeX distributions (almost there-)) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Taco Hoekwater 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hi all, For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question: What do you do with ConTeXT? We think it would be nice to see all the various ways in which people experience ConTeXt. We are not looking for articles, in fact we really want just a small amount of text per user, nothing longer then you would normally type in an email message. One, perhaps two paragraphs that simply tell about your personal experience using (or playing with) (or fighting with) (or yelling at) (or staring at in bewilderment) (or revelling in) (or running away from) ConTeXt. If you like this idea, just reply to this message. I will then collect and merge the responses, and finally put a pdf on-line somewhere. Don't be shy! Taco

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Re: Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Duncan Hothersall 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

> What do you do with ConTeXT? I have a repository of learning materials which are marked up in (DocBook-based) XML. They are in a few different languages (majority English, with Spanish, Dutch and recently Chinese) and belong to several different universities/training organisations on whose behalf we maintain them. I convert the XML into ConTeX code in a batch process using a text processing language, and then use ConTeXt to typeset the result into books and booklets of different styles. We also produce web versions of a lot of the materials, and I use ConTeXt (plus ImageMagick) to create equation GIFs for maths that can't be rendered in pure HTML. We probably have about 30 million words and 10,000 figures under management, all held in the same XML structure, and need to run several releases a day. As a result, all of the processes involved in publishing, including the ConTeXt parts, are part of a batch workflow on a server, and I rarely see the ConTeXt code itself (cos it usually just works). Thanks Hans! Duncan

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adding value to key
by Peter Münster 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hello, again a feature request: sometimes it's useful to add a value to key, without replacing it. Example: \setupexternalfigures[directory={\figurepathlist,another/dir}] -> \setupexternalfigures[adddirectory=another/dir] Or, if there is already some background (from an environment-file for example), and you want to add another: \setupbackgrounds[page][addbackground=Draft] Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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(Re)installing mswintex
by Sytse Knypstra 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Dear ConTeXt users, Yesterday I reinstalled the minimal ConTeXt under Windows XP. I carried out the following steps: 1. Rename the old directory C:\tex into C:\old_tex 2. Download mswintex.zip from Pragma 3. Unzip into C:\ (all files and directories are now under C:\tex) 4. Start a CMD shell and run the commands: > cd c:\tex > setuptex.bat > mktexlsr > texexec --make --alone nl en metafun Then I tried a minimal example and it gave me the following warnings: [1.1 Warning: pdfetex.exe (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file ] and, in the end: Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-lmr12): Font ec-lmr12 at 72 not found What did I do wrong? Sytse Knypstra

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TeX & chemistry (was: alignment of figures)
by Mojca Miklavec 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Jörg Hagmann wrote: > I use "Chemdraw", save as .pict and finish it in Illustrator. I will > eventually look into PPCHTEX, but at the moment struggling with > ConTEXt is all I can do. There is a problem with my method: the > formula saved as .pict look awful (bonds shifted, atoms not aligned > etc.) and I have to correct everything by hand in Illustrator. I am > sure PPCHTEX would do a better job. On the other hand, if I switch > the formulae should look the same (bondlength, thickness, font etc.) > as the ones I already did (and don't want to do again). I suppose > that's feasable? I may be wrong, but I doubt that PPCHTEX would satisfy your needs. It's a complicated notation which is not flexible enough (I gave up since there were quite some cases for which I wasn't able to draw what I wanted to.) XymTeX is more powerful, but not supported by ConTeXt (although you can still draw single formulas in LaTeX and import them into ConTeXt as pictures) and still with very complex notation. (I would say that all you need is a better export from Chemdraw, but as this is a proprietary software I doubt that there are any specifications how to write an exporting module. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I wish I were.) I'm playing a bit with drawing formulas in metafun, but my question is: are there any guidelines about how a nice formula should look like? (Yes, I have problems to decide how thick the lines have to be, how to draw a triple or a steric bond properly, which size of letters to use). Knuth did a marvellous job with drawing math formulae in TeX, there are many books about typography, but I've never seen anything about chemistry and I haven't found anyone who could answer me this question. Mojca

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strange (?) exporting from pdf
by andrea valle 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hi to all, I was trying to convert form pdf to rtf in order to share docs with non-conTeXt people. Acrobat 7.0 allows with "save as" to export to many formats. When I convert a pdf created with MSword (or something like: I tried also with some on-line pdfs) I have substantially no problems. But when I convert pdfs created with context or latex I have no blank spaces in the output rtf. Also, accents became autonomous ' (like in source). This seems to be systematic: same behavior with conversion to doc or html, same behavior if I use Trapeze converter instead of Acrobat. E.g.: pdf in --> out (rtf, doc, ...): questo è un test --> questo`euntest I suppose it depends on pedf source generation. Any hints? Thanks a lot -a- Andrea Valle Laboratorio multimediale "G. Quazza" Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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Hans: requested reminder on texutil extension
by Christopher Creutzig 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Salve Hans, you asked me to remind you of the following proposal: I'd like to have a way of making texexec/texutil run a program *after* the *last* TeX run. \doifmode{*last}{\installprogram{...}} does not work, because \installprogram is only honored between two runs. regards, Christopher

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OT: PDF word counts?
by Adam Lindsay 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but does anyone here know of good tools for doing a word count directly on existing PDFs? cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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"Smart" \in
by Giuseppe Bilotta 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello all, I have a document which is split into separate \parts. I would like the \in command (& friends) to automatically add the "part" reference when cross-referencing across parts. Example: """ \part[part:one]{Part one} \chapter[ch:one]{Chapter one} \chapter[ch:two]{Chapter two} As seen in \in chapter[ch:one] \part[part:two]{Part two} \chater[ch:2-1]{Chapter two} As seen in \in chapter[ch:one] """ The first \in would say chapter~1, the second chapter~1, part~1. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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graphics paths
by M.guravage 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello, I keep a few pieces of code and pdf graphics in a private TEXMF tree from where I include them in various documents. I reference a graphic by its filename sans the suffix, e.g. \externalfigure[logo]. A glance at the log reveals that the filename resolves to the exhaustive pathname of the graphic in my private TEXMF tree, and the graphic appears in the document - until today that is. I revisited this document today which I last typeset with context version 2005.02.15. Today I used the version from 2005.08.31, and the graphics are missing. The log, not surprisingly, says, 'figures: figure logo can not be found.' A simple work around is to copy the graphic into the same directory as the document, which suggests it is a path problem. Has anyone else experienced this behavior and can suggest a more elegant solution. With kind regards, Michael Guravage

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Request for joing mailing list
by krishan gopal goswami 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Dear Sir, I am impressed with ConTeXt features. I want to join the mailing list to get updated on developments. Kind Regards Krishan Gopal __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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Problem with special first page of chapter setup
by Gerben Wierda 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

I have this setup in my environment file: ================================================= \setuphead [chapter] [page=, before=\setups{chapter:before}, after=\setups{chapter:after}] \startsetups chapter:before \page[left] \noheaderandfooterlines \startalignment[left,nothyphenated] \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent \em \setups[chapter:quote] \stopnarrower \stopalignment \resetsetups[quote:text] \page[right] \noheaderandfooterlines \blank[force,2*big] \stopsetups \startsetups [chapter:after] \blank[3*big] \stopsetups =============================================== But when I call it =============================================== \starttext \startsetups [chapter:quote] Lee Chong's is to the right of the vacant lot (although why it is called vacant when it is piled high with old boilers, with rusting pipes, with great square timbers, and stacks of five-gallon cans, no one can say).\crlf {\tf John Steinbeck} --- Cannery Row\crlf \crlf Doc explained patiently, ``Both players know exactly the same things. The game is played in the mind.''\crlf ``I don't get it.''\crlf ``Well, look! You can't cheat in mathematics or poetry or music because they're based on truth. Untruth or cheating is just foreign, it has no place. You can't cheat in arithmetic.\crlf {\tf John Steinbeck} --- Sweet Thursday \stopsetups \chapter[h:foo]{Foo} =============================================== I get that every word that is in the input file at th eend of a line is glued (no whitespace) to the word that is on the next line of the input line. How can I solve this? Thanks G

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interline space in setupparagraphs
by Gerben Wierda 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

I have: \setupinterlinespace[medium] \defineparagraphs [mypar][n=2,before={\blank[small]},after={\blank[small]}] \setupparagraphs [mypar][1][width=.15\textwidth,style=bold] \setupparagraphs [mypar][2][width=.85\textwidth] But the lines in mypar are closely packed while others have medium inteline spacing. What should I do? G

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a{tokens} and b{tokens} for TABLE
by Peter Münster 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hello, I have a feature request: something like a{tokens} and b{tokens} (in TaBlE) for \bTD...\eTD. Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Par break/justification problem
by Giuseppe Bilotta 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

I have a paragraph that is formed by two parts: these are normally run together, except when the last line of the first part ends at less than a certain amount max_amount from the right margin. In this case, there should a 'seamless line break', i.e. a line break with the text still fully justified to the right margin. Example: First part of the paragraph: second part is run in and then the text continues. Second example: This is still the first part of the pagrah: second part will now be put on the next line but the last line of the first part should be fully justified. What kind of hskip/penalty/whatever combo should I put between the first and last part for this to happen? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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3 problems with framed
by Peter Münster 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hello, I've 3 problems with framed: \starttext \section{Linebreak, when \tex{framed} is the first letter} A\framed{B} % here it's ok \framed{A}B % here is a problem \section{More vertical space with \tex{Numero}} \setupframed[align=flushleft,location=top] \hbox{\framed{% \startlines A \Numero \stoplines }% \framed{% \startlines A N \stoplines }} \section{More vertical space with \tex{startlines}} \framed[align=flushleft, top=\vskip-1.9\lineheight,bottom=\vskip-0.75\lineheight% workaround... ]{% \startlines Ag \stoplines } \stoptext Could anybody help, please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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