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Need more documentation on tables
by Giuseppe Bilotta 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Ok, even with the wiki and all the manuals around (which are getting obsolete, too) there is definitely too little documentation on the various tabulation formats. The biggest problem is that each table type has its ability, but there is nothing that can do everything. Simplest example, I'm currently having a problem using a start/stoptabulate (which I need because \RC & friends don't work in start/stoptable) but I don't know how to span multiple columns (which can be done in start/stoptable with \use, which doesn't work in start/stoptabulate) What am I supposed to do? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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lilypond inclusion
by Christopher Creutzig 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Dear list, especially Hraban, who had asked for sth like this, I had tried sending this yesterday, but with the pdf output included, it was too big for the list. In any case, please find enclosed a tentative lilypond inclusion file and a sample file. The whole thing basically works (though support for non-pdf versions is currently absent, but should be relatively easy to implement), but I'm sure I've taken a non-ConTeXt-way at more than one place and I have a few problems, most of them lilypond-related. The first three are strictly ConTeXt-related, though: - I can't include blank lines in \startlilypond...\stoplilypond, because in the buffer I will get a \par for that. There is probably some easy way around this, but I haven't found the idiom yet. - Currently, the whole generation only works with shell_escape=t. Is there a way to use the automp mechanism for other external programs, such as lilypond, as well? It would also save quite some time to only typeset each piece of music only once. - How can I detect whether a pdf file contains multiple pages? - I have only tested the system on my Tiger installation. I'd like to know if it works for others, too. - When typesetting a longer block, I'd like to tell lilypond how much space there is left on the first page, to have music break across pages smoothly with the text. - When typesetting a fragment, I'd like to somehow get a proper baseline from lilypond. I have neither found out how to ask if there is more than one line typeset, nor for the baseline (let's say the bottom line of the staff), which obviously depends on the music actually set. The sample file uses an explicit \lower command with a trial-&-error value. I assume that the lilypond TeX backend gives me something that could be useful here, but I haven't analyzed it in detail. regards, Christopher

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ruby
by Hans Hagen 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Hi, when pondering about some ruby to bin for unix and googling a bit, i ran into: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/ruby.html amazing stuff, not only rubyscript2exe (cross platform)! Hans (ps. until now i used exerb for making a texmfstart bin) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Top-aligned startcombination?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

I have \start/\stopcombinations where the elements in a row have different heights, and the combinations bottom-align them. Is there a way to top-align them? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Complex layout question
by Giuseppe Bilotta 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Hi all, I have a LARGE (we're talking about the hundred scale) number of floats I would like to distribute across a document. These are paired (a table and a figure). The layout that results from coupling them side by side doesn't satisfy me, so I was looking for a different approach. I would like them to be distributed across the pages by placing the tables at the top left and the figure at the bottom right, text flowing around them. Since there is a very large number of floats, I would like this placement to be automatic: "From now on, do this until you run out of text/floats" I already did something like the following \newcount\curvenum \global\curvenum=1 \def\newpar{ \oldpar \glet\par\oldpar \input tests/curves-\the\curvenum.tex \global\advance\curvenum1 \ifnum\curvenum<8\let\par\newpar\fi } \let\oldpar\par \let\par\newpar to "delay-load" floats, since loading them all at once fills up the main memory. But how to achieve the layout? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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startlines space width
by Stuart Jansen 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

I am having problems with startlines. I'm using space=yes to preserve space characters. This works fine with default ConTeXt lm/cm font. When I use a font I've imported, however, the spaces aren't quite wide enough. I can fix that with \def\normalspace{\char32}, but then I have problems with embedded floats. What do I need to fix so that the default \def\normalspace{ } has the correct width for the current font? Below is an example file that renders fine with lm/cm, but not my font. %\usetypescript [gurulabs] \starttext \setuplines[space=yes] \bgroup\tt\startlines 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 \stoplines\egroup \stoptext -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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Re: Small matrices
by David Arnold 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Cobby, In amsmath, there is \begin{smallmatrix} \end{smallmatrix} Don't know how in Context. I'll find out. Does anyone on the context list know how to do this? On Sep 17, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Jacob Miles-Prystowsky wrote: > Dave, > > Quick TeX question for you: > > How do I produce a small inline matrix like that seen on page 50 of > Strang, below the blue box? > > Thanks, > > Cobby

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Re: [NTG-context] lilypond inclusion + pdf crop (getting off-topic)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

>wait till you see what a lua enhancec context can do (playing with it >now) -) Oh no, not another language! TeX and MetaPost and PostScript, Perl and Ruby for ConTeXt, Guile for LilyPond, Perl, Python, PHP, Slang, VB and Shell for work, and now Lua - who will learn that lot? Your personal-bandwidth-restricted Hraban

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Switching to smaller font more thoroughly
by Giuseppe Bilotta 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

For a particular table, I need to switch to a smaller body font. Currently I'm using {\tfxx \placetable etc \par} but this way the math in the table doesn't get switched. Is there a way to make a more thorough switch? I tried \switchtobodyfont but it didn't work ... -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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No math font???
by Giuseppe Bilotta 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Strange ... this simple document \starttext \startformula a^2+b^2 = 1 \stopformula \stoptext says the formula had to be deleted for lack of symbol fonts ... do I have a flaky installation? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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context and circ
by Alexander Lazic 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi, i want to change to context but i need the circ package. Is there a similar package for context? I have try the following search in google: http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=context+tex+circuit+diag… Have i oversee anything? Thanx for your help ;-) al ;-)

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[MathML] other seperator then '+'
by Alexander Lazic 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

Hi, how can i change the '+' into '*'? What i mean is when i write this: --- \enableregime[il1]% choose input encoding: il1 is "ISO Latin 1" (ISO 8859-1), same as "win" \mainlanguage[de] % language mode: changes typesetting rules, quote signs etc. \setuppapersize [A4][A4] \setupcolors[state=start] \usemodule[newmat] \usemodule[mathml] \setupMMLappearance[sign][reduction=no] \setupMMLappearance[function][reduction=no] \setupMMLappearance[power][reduction=no] %%\setupMMLappearance[relation][aligen=first] \starttext \startXMLdata <math> <apply> <in/> <cn type="complex"> 2 <sep/> 5 </cn> <complexes/> </apply> </math> \stopXMLdata \stoptext --- I get: 2 + 5i C but what i need is: j * omega || with '<times/>' I'am very new with context sorry i this is a 'trivial' question. Greetings al ;-)

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free keycaps font
by Stuart Jansen 18 Sep '05

18 Sep '05

As far as I can tell, ConTeXt doesn't include a keycaps font. I recently created my own and would like to share it with anyone else that might find it useful. I've included a sample document with it. If you're on a *nix system with a working copy of ConTeXt and make, just type "make" to build it. http://blogs.gurulabs.com/stuart/archives/2005/09/free_keycaps_fo.html I'm not sure what it would take, but I think this can be include with a future version of ConTeXt if you're interested, Hans. -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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A side by side float that takes advantage of the margin
by Giuseppe Bilotta 17 Sep '05

17 Sep '05

I have a situation when I have to put side by side two floats (a table and figure). My current code is \placetable[here][label]{caption}% {\\placesidebyside {table code}{figure code} } The problem is that sometimes the combined width of table and figure is bigger than the textwidth. I would like the combo to be centered across the page, not starting from the left margin of the text and invading the right margin only. How can I achieve this? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Sync with ConTeXt
by Steffen Wolfrum 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hi, using TeXShop 2.03 I was very glad that syncing seems to work even with ConTeXt's project structure. But unfortunately it "only" works from source to pdf (well, already quite useful): Clicking in the pdf has no effect (although my component file starts with %!TEX TS-program = context %!TEX root = ../main.tex Is syncing with ConTeXt not yet fully supported - or is there a work-around for the pdf->source jump that I don't know? Thanks, Steffen

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Including images in included files in subdirectory
by Giuseppe Bilotta 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Situation: Tree structure: main.tex subdir/inc.tex subdir/fig.1 in main .tex " \include subdir/inc.tex " in subdir/inc.tex " \externalfigure[fig.1] " texexecing main.tex doesn't find the figure fig.1 subdir/inc.tex must use " \externalfigure[subdir/fig.1] " for the figure to be found. IMO this is a bug. Image should be checked for existence using as base the directory of the current input file *first*, then in the others. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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mail delay
by Wolfgang Zillig 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hello, when I sent messages to the list it takes about 1.5 hours until I get them back. It is not really a problem for me, I'm just wondering about. Wolfgang

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czech food
by Vit Zyka 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

Hello mostly Czech ConTeXters, I have noticed in the modules.pdf that there are some Czech slot empty in the lang-sla.tex. Most of them are filled up now. All changes are marked by 'new' comment. Main changes: - redefinition of 'dashes' (pomlcek) \c!leftsentence=\thickglue--\thickglue\penalty-20, \c!rightsentence=\thickglue--\thickglue\penalty-20, \c!leftsubsentence=~---~\penalty-20, \c!rightsubsentence=~---~\penalty-20, (intends were: endash size preferable, short stretchable/shrinkable spaces around, line break possible after dash but not before; it conforms Czech typographical rules) It needs some new definitions to core-spa.tex (Hans ??): \unexpanded\def\textormathglue#1#2#3{% {\dimen0=#1\hspaceamount\empty{#3}% \skip0=0pt plus.5\dimen0 minus.3\dimen0 \ifmmode\mskip#1#2% \else\kern#1\hspaceamount\empty{#3}\hskip\skip0\fi\relax}% } \def\thinglue {\textormathglue+\thinmuskip 1} \def\medglue {\textormathglue+\medmuskip 2} \def\thickglue {\textormathglue+\thickmuskip3} - definition of day names - most of empty slot added (Zkratky, Sekce, Subsekce, viz, ...) The file is attached. Suggestions are welcomed. Vit ======================================================= Ing. Vít Zýka, Ph.D. TYPOkvítek database publishing databazove publikovani data maintaining and typesetting in typographic quality priprava dat a jejich sazba v typograficke kvalite tel.: (+420) 777 198 189 www: http://typokvitek.com =======================================================

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\limitatefirstline and the new beta
by Peter Rolf 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

Hi Hans, I just installed the latest beta (14.09.2005) and realised, that \limitatefirstline is still unchanged. Just read my last mail from the 12th for the details. Sorry for stealing your time. So I have either to change the description on the wiki, or you have to change the macro :) Greetings, Peter P.S.: This is the version I'am currently using (but with 6ex instead of 2ex tolerance). Using a variable value for the tolerance would make it even more flexible and user friendly. \def\limitatefirstline#1#2#3% {\hbox\bgroup\strut\dontcomplain \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{\begstrut#1\endstrut}% \ifdim\wd\scratchbox>#2\relax \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#3}% \hsize#2\relax \advance\hsize-\wd\scratchbox \setbox\scratchbox\vbox{\forgetall\veryraggedright#1}% \setbox\scratchbox\vsplit\scratchbox to \lineheight \vbox {\unvbox\scratchbox \global\setbox\plusone\lastbox \global\setbox\plusone\hbox{\strut\unhbox\plusone}% \hbox % to #2 {\ifx\clip\undefined \box\plusone \else\ifdim\wd\plusone>\hsize \lower\strutdepth\hbox{\clip[\c!width=\hsize,\c!height=\lineheight]{\hbox{\raise\strutdepth\box\plusone}}}% \else\ifdim\wd\plusone<\dimexpr\hsize-6ex\relax \lower\strutdepth\hbox{\clip[\c!width=\hsize,\c!height=\lineheight]{\hbox{\raise\strutdepth\hbox{\begstrut#1\endstrut}}}}% \else \box\plusone \fi\fi\fi \removeunwantedspaces#3}}% \removeunwantedspaces\hss#3}}% \else #1% \fi \egroup}

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lgrind...
by Andre van der Vlies 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Hi, I use 'lgrind' to format my 'source code' (C, python, sricpts, etc.). I like the 'layout' (highlighting, line numbering...). Is there something equivalent (or better :) in/for ConTeXt? -- Andre van der Vlies <andre(a)vandervlies.xs4all.nl> Certifiable UNIX engineer Homepage: http://vandervlies.xs4all.nl/~andre Key fingerprint = 397C 7479 67DB 9306 23DC B423 7B58 CD5A 6EFF 5CF8 -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments ^[^#] --

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towards some more consistency in regimes & unicode support
by Mojca Miklavec 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Hello, Sorry for a slightly longer mail. I wanted to send it to context-dev, but probably there's someone else besides Adam out there who could contribute (for example to re-chech Greek or Cyrillic section of Unicode or even add some missing Hebrew definitions for example). If someone thinks that it's more appropriate, please feel free to continue the discussion on context-dev. I. in regi-utf it would be fine to add: \defineregimesynonym[utf-8][utf] \defineregimesynonym[utf8][utf] II. After a long time I finally decided to write my first ruby script. I took UnicodeData.txt, adobe glyph list, enco-uc.tex, collected averything together, removed characters >FFFF (in case someone needs them they can trivially be added again, but I don't think that anyone is planning to name them shortly), did some manual corrections ... and here are the results: http://pub.mojca.org/tex/enco/contextlist/ http://pub.mojca.org/tex/enco/contextbase/regi-temp.tex The idea behind is that there is no "definite refence" to the ConTeXt glyph names, which means that every new regime that should be supported needs a lot of manual work and leads to many inconsistencies. The file contextnames.txt contains the Unicode hexadecimal number, pdf name (from Adobe Glyph List), ConTeXt name and the Unicode name. This could then be a source of information when adding new regimes, writing unicode vectors (unic-*), mapping to font encodings, uppercasing/lowercasing information for font encoding and other files can now be derived directly from unicode and this list (unicode already contains information about upper/lowercase variants of the letters) ... There is some more info missing, which should be either packed within the same file or in separate files: - ConTeXt synonyms (like \Dcroat -> \Dstroke, ...) - pdf synonyms (dbar -> dcroat), to help recognize the glyphs in .enc or .afm and automate support for it - faking the characters (\ccaron -> \buildtextaccent\textcaron{C}) - unaccented version of the characters (\Aacute -> A, ...) - other characters not present in unicode (Caron, Acute - these are accents for uppercase letters, ...) - (I'm sure that I wanted to add some more points, but I don't remember any other right now) When I wanted to add the names from unic-34.tex, I realized that we don't really need to have a command for "every single unicode character" (we certainly don't need to map math characters into that region), but if someone already has a file with unicode integrals, it costs nothing to give him those characters in output. (Shortly: 0x2211, "N-ARY SUMMATION" should expand into $\sum$, but not the other way round) I have to slightly change the syntax in the context glyph names file to note this difference and to be able to define math (and other) signs properly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ III. Now I need some help - someone should help me revise the file contextname.txt (I prepared a HTML version of it): correct mistakes (if any are spotted), add new definitions, help to prepare a list of synonyms, a list of expansions (\buildtextaccent), ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here are some points which I spotted, but can't fix them alone 1. Characters missing (needed by some regimes): 0020-007F section 037A GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI 0384 GREEK TONOS 0385 GREEK DIALYTIKA TONOS 2015 HORIZONTAL BAR 2017 DOUBLE LOW LINE 20AA NEW SHEQEL SIGN 20AB DONG SIGN 20AF DRACHMA SIGN 2116 NUMERO SIGN 200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK 200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK 1Exx section 2. Greek - there are some name inconsistencies when compared to the unic-031 vector, but I don't know anything about old greek. I didn't check Cyrillic at all. 3. Punctuation and accents - mostly names for quotes and language dependency (lowerleftuppersixquote in comparison to lftdblquote ... or whatever they are called) (+ tricks, I already asked about quotes & hyphenation approximately a week ago). I have problems understanding the difference between letter modifiers (U+02Cx) and usual accents (U+00Bx), "Combining Diacritical Marks" (U+03xx) should be supported somehow as well. I have no idea how to make U+0065 U+0301 (e + combining acute accent) into eacute. 4. should hungarumlaut be doubleacute and hungarumlaut only its synonym or the other way round? 5. tbar vs. tstroke: compare 0166 and 023E 6. cedilla/commaaccent dilema: there's a huge problem with "t with cedilla" (0162): "t with comma below" (021A) sould be used instead (at least this is stated in Unicode reference), but most regimes map a character to "t with cedilla" (0162), which seems stupid to me. Adobe glyph list therefore uses tcommaaccent for "t with cedilla", which looks like "t with comma accent", but is on the wrong place. lmr have both tcommaaccent and tcedilla. \tcedilla should be "t with cedilla" in my opinion and \tcommaaccent "t with comma accent". That currently isn't the case in ConTeXt unless something has changed recently. There are many other letter wrongly named in Unicode ("with cedilla"), although they have a comma. I would suggest to name them \[gklnr]commaaccent and use \[gklnr]cedilla as a synonym (if needed at all for backward compatibility, otherwise it would be better to leave them out; there is no such letter with cedilla in unicode, if someone needs one, he can construct one trivially with \buildtextaccent) 7. there's "a-kind-of-bug-but-not-really-one" in enco-ans.tex. textcedilla maps to 184, which isn't defined in Antykwa for example (it's on place 24). It's more a "bug" in texnansi encoding, which has cedilla on two places, which is pretty stupid. But anyway: \definecharacter textcedilla 24 would solve some problems (and hopefully not introduce new ones). 8. most letters are named "c with cedilla" -> ccedilla what about the names for "open o", "turned e", "long s", "turned r with hook"? \openo or \oopen? \rturnedhook or \turnedrhook? 9. can latin letters and numbers be accessed somehow by name? 10. Adam prepared some dingbats support I think, this could be added here. 11. There's a showunicode pdf document on pragma-ade.com (at least I saw it once), but it's not listed on the overview.htm. 12. I don't know if anyone would ever need to switch from viscii regime to some other, but what would happen to the characters under 128 (some of them are redefined in viscii)? I'm affraid that there would remain Vietnamese leftovers in the lower part of the table. 13. If there are any other comments on the table and/or the script(s), please let me know. IV. With the help of the prepared names list I processed definitions for regimes (taken from Unicode webpage) for ISO-8859-* and cp125* (others should be trivial). They are only preliminary, some (Hebrew, Thai, Arabic) probably don't make any sense yet, but could the rest be added to ConTeXt after someone checks if everything is OK? (iso88595, cp1251, il1, il2, il9, windows and viscii regimes already exist and should be compared for differences) If possible in such a way that it wouldn't be necessary to include the regime definition file manually, but similarly as \usemodule[pre-polish] finds and processes the proper file, the \enableregime[xxx] should find the proper file and load it. (And for those who made it till here - sorry again for that gigantic mail.) Mojca

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Problem following "OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt" article
by Gavin Sinclair 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Greetings (first post), Adam Lindsay's recent article "OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt" in The PracTeX Journal (http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/lindsay) is very well written. Unfortunately, I was unable to perform the first step. As the article specified, I ran the command: $ texfont --ma --in --ve=public --co=torunska --lcdf --pre --va=liga,kern It started off OK, but failed to properly create the map file. Selected output follows: extending map file : E:/MiKTeX/local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.map font identifier : AntykwaTorunska-Bold -> text -> tfm processing files : otf -> tfm + enc otftotfm: './AntykwaTorunska-Bold.otf': No such file or directory no mapfile from otftotfm : texfont.map font identifier : AntykwaTorunska-BoldItalic -> text -> tfm processing files : otf -> tfm + enc otftotfm: './AntykwaTorunska-BoldItalic.otf': No such file or directory no mapfile from otftotfm : texfont.map [and so on for each .otf file] So, otftotfm is claiming that the files don't exist, but they absolutely 100% do. Perhaps it's looking for them somewhere else? Does anyone have any suggestions? Regards, Gavin

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\setupbodyfont[10dd]
by Mojca Miklavec 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Hello, This question doesn't come from me, but as I wasn't able to answer, I'm posting it here: Consider the following text: \setupbodyfont[20pt] \starttext \input tufte \switchtobodyfont[10pt]\setupinterlinespace\page \input tufte \switchtobodyfont[10dd]\setupinterlinespace\page \input tufte \switchtobodyfont[10.6574803pt]\setupinterlinespace\page % = 10dd \input tufte \stoptext How are the interline distances determined? The last two pages give different results. The line breaking could be influenced by minimal rounding mistakes, but I don't understand why the distances between lines differ substantially. Thank you, Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] lgrind (An intro to LaTeX package conversion)
by Brooks Moses 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

(Andre: I'm sending this reply back to the ConTeXt list, because I think a fair bit of my reply might be generally useful to other people who want to try to convert LaTeX packages to ConTeXt. I hope that's ok!) At 01:58 PM 9/13/2005, Andre van der Vlies wrote: >Brooks Moses said: > > Meanwhile, though, after looking through the code, I don't think there's > > actually much need to modify the executable. Lgrind mostly doesn't write > > LaTeX (which is why Andre found it so obscure) -- it writes TeXcode that > > uses its own simple commands, which are then defined in lgrind.sty. To > > use > > Lgrind in ConTeXt, one needs to translate the style file into a > > t-lgrind.tex, at which point the same Lgrind output files can be used in > > both systems. > >Hmmm, that sure sounds promising. I've just recently using ConTeXt, this >week actually. I am trying to rebuild a, few paged, LaTeX document which >is typical for me... > >I think that renaming the 'sty' file will not be enough :-/ Not really, no. Though it's potentially a start. What you'll need to do then is to translate all of the LaTeX bits in it to ConTeXt bits. (Also, it may be easier to start with the lgrind.dtx file, since that has all the comments that explain what's going on.) >Thus, I produce a t-lgrind.tex, which I can \input and henceforth use >something like \plasterthis{fine.grind}? I should perhaps have explained that more thoroughly. ConTeXt has "modules", which are roughly equivalent to LaTeX's packages; the filename "t-lgrind.tex" indicates a module. (Specifically, the "t-" prefix indicates that it's a "third-party module", which is everything other than the modules that are actually part of ConTeXt itself.) Thus, you'd use it with \usemodule[lgrind] rather than \input. It amounts to pretty much the same thing, except ConTeXt does keep track of things so as not to load it twice, and things like that. One big difference is that LaTeX puts all package code in a \makeatletter / \makeatother block. ConTeXt doesn't do this, so you need to put those in manually -- the ConTeXt equivalent is \unprotect / \protect (which also allow ! and ? in macro names, along with @). >Or, am I on the wrong track??? > >I sure need to to a lot of reading... Feel free to ask questions, too! Some information to get you started: ===== An introduction to translating packages to modules ===== (As exemplified by a detailed discussion of lgrind.dtx) First, copy everything in lgrind.dtx from about line 609 ("Implementation of Lgrind") to the end of the file into t-lgrind.tex. Put a \unprotect command at the beginning, and a \protect command at the end, so that you can use @ in macro names. \newcommand and \renewcommand are LaTeX-specific. The easiest way to deal with this is to simply replace it with TeX \def macros, though that loses the error messages that come from checking whether the command exists or not. \DeclareOption is LaTeX's way of handling package options. For a first pass, it's probably easiest to just delete these. (Or, if you usually use the option, then include the option's code directly.) All of the \sffamily, \rmfamily, \itshape, and other font formatting commands on lines 727-736 are LaTeX-specific; you can replace them with the ConTeXt equivalents, which are on a Wiki page on "Basic Text Formatting". I'm not sure whether \normalfont (lines 893, 901, and so forth) is LaTeX-specific or not. You might have to replace that with the ConTeXt equivalent. At line 818, the "lgrind" environment is defined. The \newenvironment command is definitely a LaTeXism; you'll want to replace that with definitions for \startlgrind and \stoplgrind. The use of the minipage and figure environments in lines 1060 or so and later are going to require a bit of looking at to figure out how to best replace them with ConTeXt equivalents. Luckily, it looks like these are some of the "advanced" bits, so you could just not worry about this until you've got the basic lgrind environment working. And I think that should do it. There may be a few other LaTeXisms in the file that I missed, but a bit of testing should find those.... ===== end ===== Probably by the time you've done that, you'll have had quite a thorough introduction to ConTeXt! :) - Brooks

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Can't compile the whole project
by Roman Schechtel 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Hello from a new ConTeXt user! I've read the wiki-page on how to separate input files into a project structure (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Project_structure) and now I have the problem that: - I can "compile" an individual component (resulting in a PDF) - I also can compile a product - But I can't compile the whole __project__! Everytime I try to compile the project, I get the "No pages of output" message in the log. My setup is the following: ----------------File: /environment.tex------------------------- \startenvironment environment \stopenvironment ----------------File: /project.tex----------------------------- \startproject project \environment environment \product ./product/product \stopproject ----------------File: /product/product.tex--------------------- \startproduct product \project project \component ./component/component \stopproduct ----------------File: /product/component/component.tex--------- \startcomponent component \product product \project project \dorecurse{10}{Component 1} \stopcomponent %________________________________________________________________ %I've put up those files in http://schechtel.de/pub/context/proj.zip Now.. I get a PDF when I compile component.tex individually, the same with product.tex -- but the PDF is not build when I compile project.tex The Logfile http://schechtel.de/pub/context/project.log.html ...shows something very interesting (marked red, scroll down). What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help, Roman Schechtel

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[BIB] Extra space before surname
by Giuseppe Bilotta 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Hello, I just noticed that there is an extra space before the surname if there is no "von" part. My setup: \def\bracketed#1{[#1]} \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database={mrabbrev,bezier}] \setuppublications[numbering=yes, sorttype=cite, criterium=all, numbercommand=\bracketed, refcommand=num] \setupcite[num][left={\start\bf[},right={]\stop}]

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puzzling metafun graphics
by Thomas A. Schmitz 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

This one hast just cost me two hours, and I'm still baffled. The story (in shorthand): was trying to integrate a positional metafun graphic into a presentation. I got no output. I tried making a minimal example file to reproduce the problem, and sure enough, everything went fine. I rebuilt the entire file, by pasting one paragraph of the original file at a time, and I got exactly the output I wanted. [Drumroll] I deleted the original file and everything associated with it [i.e. all those .tui and .tuo etc.], saved the new file from my /tmp directory to my working directory, and -- I got no output again. diff shows that both files are identical. Looking at the logs, there's only one difference I can spot: < \openout5 = `test-mpgraph.mp'. --- > \openout5 = `05.11.08-mpgraph.mp'. 205,206c206,207 < [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.1) [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.2) < [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.3) --- > [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.1] [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.2] > [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.3] 211c212 < systems : end file test at line 426 --- > systems : end file 05.11.08 at line 426 213c214 < [flush and process test-mpgraph.mp afterwards] ) --- > [flush and process 05.11.08-mpgraph.mp afterwards] ) The "MP to PDF" part is missing from the file 05.11.08, which might explain why I don't see anything in the resulting pdf. But why? Can anybody enlighten me why the same file can behave differently? And how I can coax ConTeXt into running this MP to PDF thingy? Thanks Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] help at layout
by Boris Pedrofiets 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Thank you Taco. This is exactly what i needed! btw. I think I need to do layouts more often. What is good litterature about this subject? Boris From: Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] help at layout Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:22:21 +0200 > > >Boris Pedrofiets wrote: >>Hello, >>I want to make a layout where a vertical line is putted at the rigth of >>the left margin. Capters and paragraphs must indent in the left margin, >>and be boxed. >>Someting like: > >The important trick is to define a special command that does the >typesetting of the chapter number + text, I hope you're not too >scared of low-level TeX, because in the actual example below I've >added some low-level stuff to fiddle with the outdent. > >This is the basic setup for the chapter command: > > > \setupcolors[state=start] > > \def\Boxedchapter#1#2% > {\framed[background=color, > backgroundcolor=white]{#1.~#2}} > > \setuphead[chapter][command=\Boxedchapter] > > >The color commands are needed so that the background of the >chapter head overwrites the line in the margin. That line >is a single command, btw: > > \setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][state=start,rightframe=on] > > >Also, I've added a \blank in the example below so that a bit >of the line sticks out above the framed text, that looks >better, I think. > > >You can look up other options for \setupbackgrounds, \framed and >\setuphead in http://texshow.contextgarden.net, or use your local 'texshow' >command. > > >Greetings, Taco > > >% start >\setupcolors[state=start] > >\setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][state=start,rightframe=on] > >\newdimen\outdentchapter > >\outdentchapter=1cm % change this for more or less outdent > >\def\Boxedchapter#1#2% > {\advance\hsize\outdentchapter > \vbox > {\moveleft\outdentchapter > \vbox > {\blank[2*line] > \framed[background=color, > backgroundcolor=white]{#1.~#2}}}} > >\setuphead[chapter][command=\Boxedchapter] > >\starttext > >\chapter{The first chapter} > >\input knuth > >\stoptext >% end > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context _________________________________________________________________ Stuur een voiceclip met MSN Messenger 7.5 http://www1.imagine-msn.com/Messenger/Video.aspx

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Section level of system supplied section?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

I found myself in the need to manually specify the section level at which things like e.g. the table of contents, bibliography etc were to appear. I did this with \let\systemsuppliedtitle\subject, but it looks like an (undocumented) hack. Is there some more correct way? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Bold BibTeX refs in text?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

This is my bibliography set up \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database={mrabbrev,bezier}] \setuppublications[numbering=yes, sorttype=cite, numbercommand=\bracketed, refcommand=num] I would have liked the in-text bibtex refs to come out in bold, so I tried: \setupcite[num][before={\start\bf},after={\stop}] but this isn't working. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious here ... While we're at it, the reference compression method is a little too aggressive: I have a \cite[onething,another] and it gives me [1--2] in text ... in this case [1,2] would be better, IMO. Compression is good if you have three or more consecutive refs. BTW, how do I add the whole database to the reference list? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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No small caps?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

I have Palatino as main font set up with \usetypescript[adobekb][8r] \loadmapfile[context-base] \usetypescript[palatino][8r] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] \switchtobodyfont[12pt] Plus I have \setupcapitals[sc=yes] \definestartstop[abstract] [before={\sc Abstract.\hskip1em}] But \starttext \startabstract In this article we will analyze a few techniques that can be used to approximate, by means of Bézier cubics, envelopes of circles centered on Bézier cubics. Such an approximation is useful, if not necessary, in several applications in many branches of computer graphics, ranging from CAD to outline font conversions. \stopabstract \stoptext does not give me Abstract in small caps. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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help at layout
by Boris Pedrofiets 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

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Using Adobe built-in fonts with latest context + texlive 204
by Berend de Boer 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I just upgraded my entire TeX system. There are no traces of old files anymore, everything is brandnew. I installed texlive 2004 (because I had it on a DVD, thanks NTG!). I got the latest ConText (Aug 31). The first thing I had to do was to setup the proper encoding. For example I had to specify this: \setupencoding[\s!default=8r] % or "ec", if you prefer \usetypescript[berry][\defaultencoding] or ec encoding, works as well. It didn't work out of the box unfortunately. But this seems to get me the URW fonts, not the greatest fonts. It seems the latest tex has something like updmap, whatever that is. Using "updmap --edit" I changed the LW35 setting to ADOBEkb and now I get the built-in fonts I believe. Is that correct? But I still got complaints about this one: Warning: pdfetex (file ptmbi8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading Warning: pdfetex (file ptmri8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading Warning: pdfetex (file ptmr8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading Warning: pdfetex (file ptmb8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading But document displays fine BTW. I fixed that by changing another setting: setting pdftexDownloadBase14 to false. But I'm a bit confused here. I thought Adobe had made those fonts freely available, so shouldn't they be in my tex installation? Or is this still an encoding issue, and should I use a different encoding in order for pdfetex to find these four missing font files?? - -- Live long and prosper, Berend de Boer (PGP public key: http://www.pobox.com/~berend/berend-public-key.txt) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFDJhUNIyuuaiRyjTYRAqHNAKDDNtQ8BqyXrpUAix0Dr1it7YBMTgCdGmHX /IgEDy4JJta6dO/v/y7z/vo= =5l6+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Disappearing figures
by Giuseppe Bilotta 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello people, I think I spotted a bug either in ConTeXt or in my capability comprehension. Take the following simple code: \placefigure[here][testfigs]{Test cases}{ \startcombination[3*3] {\externalfigure[tests/curves.1]}{Testcase~1} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.2]}{Testcase~2} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.3]}{Testcase~3} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.4]}{Testcase~4} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.5]}{Testcase~5} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.6]}{Testcase~6} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.7]}{Testcase~7} {}{} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.8]}{Testcase~8} \stopcombination } It works --- on the first texexec run. On subsequent runs, ConTeXt complains that figure tests/curves can not be found The problem is that I have a file curves (no extension in tests/ ... but why is ConTeXt looking for it, if I *did* specify an extension? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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RE: [NTG-context] ConTeXt & Fonts
by Idris Samawi Hamid 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

>===== Original Message From Peter Rolf <indiego(a)gmx.net> ===== >http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts This link is missing from that page; it contains step-by-step instructions for installing expert fonts, from preinstallation to writing typescripts: http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/expertfonts.pdf But for basic system fonts Hans MyWay on installing Verdana should suffice. See also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/URW_Garamond (mostly by yours truly; I never knew till today that that how-to made it into the garden->) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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ConTeXt & Fonts
by Richard Gabriel 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello Hans and others, excuse me such a stupid question, but: It there any clear (step by step) description how to add a new font into context? I've already done many googling and "try&fails" but the success was minimal. The typescript definitions in type-enc.tex and type-pre.tex are almost a mystery for me... I hope that there at least a little bit of description on adding fonts... Thanks in advance... -Richard

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Some Footnote Questions (from the Wiki)
by Brooks Moses 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

I've been updating the Footnotes page on the Wiki, and have a few questions as a result: 1.) Footnotes in footnotes in footnotes. Are these possible? When I do something like \footnote{A note\footnote{With a note\footnote{With a third footnote.}.}.}, only the first two notes are included in the footnote block, though the number for the third footnote is generated. 2.) Footnotes as marginals. There was text on the Wiki saying that it's possible to typeset footnotes as marginals, but I can't find any references to this in the ConTeXt manual. Am I missing something? I know it's possible to do marginal notes, but those don't get footnote numbers, and so aren't the same thing.... 3.) Footnotes placed without line breaks. If one does a number of short footnotes, they get set like so: 1. One 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four Is it possible to have them set without line breaks, like this? If so, how? 1. One 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four 4.) Footnote alignment. Currently, footnotes are set so that the left end of the text of the footnote is aligned with the left edge of the text, and the footnote number hangs out into the margin. Is it possible to change this? (For instance, suppose I would like the number aligned to the text-edge, and then a fixed-width space, and then the text?) 5.) In LaTeX, there's a means to place a footnote (and generate a number and reference for the footnote) without typesetting the number in the text, in order to handle cases where the "real" footnote mechanism breaks down. Is it possible to do this in ConTeXt? 6. When I reference a footnote's number using \note[ref], I get the number typeset as a superscript. This looks a little odd to me in sentences such as "See footnote \note[ref] on the previous page" -- it would look better if the number (or symbol) were typeset in the normal font. Is there another way to reference it so as to do that? 7. What does the "location=high" in \setupfootnotes do? Thanks! - Brooks

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\limitatefirstline (or slave to the wiki)
by Peter Rolf 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hi all, I've tested the latest version of \limitatefirstline and it still doesn't work as expected. This is really a complex story (problem). - the clip mechanism cuts off the lowest part of some special chars (clipping graphics is easy, but I don't understand what happens here) - text is sometimes cropped at word boundaries (example 110pt), instead of beeing clipped The example file is appended and I use the latest beta. There is no timeline, so fixing is not that urgent. And yes, I've cancelled my hollidays and will live for the wiki only from now on :) wiki, wiki, wiki,.... Greetings, Peter % interface=en output=pdftex % Time-stamp: <Freitag, 09 September 2005 11:40:17; crop.tex> % \setupcolors[state=start] \unprotect \def\limitatefirstline#1#2#3% {\hbox\bgroup\strut \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#1}% \ifdim\wd\scratchbox>#2\relax \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#3}% \hsize#2\relax \advance\hsize-\wd\scratchbox \setbox\scratchbox\vbox{\forgetall\veryraggedright#1}% \setbox\scratchbox\vsplit\scratchbox to \lineheight \vbox {\unvbox\scratchbox \global\setbox\plusone\lastbox \global\setbox\plusone\hbox{\unhbox\plusone}% \hbox to #2 {\ifx\clip\undefined \box\plusone \else\ifdim\wd\plusone>\hsize \clip[\c!width=\hsize,\c!height=\lineheight,\c!voffset=-4pt]{\box\plusone}% \else \box\plusone \fi\fi \removeunwantedspaces\hss#3}}% \else #1% \fi \egroup} \protect \def\CropSymbol{\red...}% \starttext % blue for the limitatetext case \setupframed[offset=overlay, framecolor=lightgray] \framed[width=8ex,height=\struttotal,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 8ex} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\underbar{WqTextdummy}}{8ex}{\CropSymbol}} \framed{\limitatetext{\blue\underbar{WqTextdummy}}{8ex}{\CropSymbol}} \blank \framed[width=120pt,height=\struttotal,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 120 pt} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\textbar \_\textcircumflex\texttilde \%\$\#\textbraceleft \textbraceright \textpm \copyright \registered \pi \textdegree <>\&}{120pt}{\CropSymbol}} \framed{\limitatetext{\blue\textbar \_\textcircumflex\texttilde \%\$\#\textbraceleft \textbraceright \textpm \copyright \registered \pi \textdegree <>\&}{120pt}{\CropSymbol}} \blank \framed[width=110pt,height=\struttotal,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 110 pt} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\textbar \_\textcircumflex\texttilde \%\$\#\textbraceleft \textbraceright \textpm \copyright \registered \pi \textdegree <>\&}{110pt}{\CropSymbol}} \framed{\limitatefirstline{This text is definitely too long to fit this frame.}{110pt}{\CropSymbol}} \framed{\limitatetext{\blue This text is definitely too long to fit this frame.}{110pt}{\CropSymbol}} \blank \framed[width=100pt,height=\struttotal,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 100 pt} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\textbar \_\textcircumflex\texttilde \%\$\#\textbraceleft \textbraceright \textpm \copyright \registered\space \pi \textdegree <>\&}{100pt}{\CropSymbol}} \stoptext %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: context %%% TeX-master: "" %%% End:

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No parindent?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Even thought I have \setupindenting[medium,nex] in the preamble of my document, no paragraph is indented C:\Documents and Settings\Giuseppe Bilotta>texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 unknown file type: texmfscripts texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded format=cont-en 2005.9.10) 11 SEP 2005 18:27 context : ver: 2005.08.31 cont-en : ver: 2005.08.31 fmt: 2005.9.10 mes: english What's up? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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RE: [NTG-context] No parindent?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hi Giuseppe, This is a known bug-) Try declaring indentation twice, \setupindenting[medium,next] \setupindenting[medium,next] It worked 4 me-) Best Idris >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Even thought I have > >\setupindenting[medium,nex] > >in the preamble of my document, no paragraph is indented > >C:\Documents and Settings\Giuseppe Bilotta>texexec --version > > TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 > >unknown file type: texmfscripts > texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 > texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 > tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded format=cont-en 2005.9.10) 11 SEP 2005 18:27 > context : ver: 2005.08.31 > cont-en : ver: 2005.08.31 fmt: 2005.9.10 mes: english > > >What's up? > >-- >Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Using newly defined sections
by Elliot Clifton 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Hi, I'm a ConTeXt newbie. I've read the read the chapter of the manual on sectioning. I understand that it is possible to create a new type of section using \definesection and setup section but how do I insert an instance of my new section into my documents? With predefined sections I can use commands such as \section, \chapter, etc.. The reason I want to define and use a new section is so that I may use it as a substitute for LaTeX's \author. I'm publishing an academic journal for which I need to be able to include author's' names in the header and in the TOC. Defining a new section seemed to be the obvious solution, but I don't know how to put it into practice. If create a new section how do I put it to use in my documents? Any suggestions? Elliot

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Start of application within a context document
by Stephen A. Tjemkes 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi, If you excuse my ignorance, but I am looking for a simple example how to launch an executable (a tcl/tk script in my case) from within a pdf document prepared by context. During a presentation i would like to show some graphics which are generated through the execution of a tcl/tk script. One could close the pdf file and open the tcl/tk script, but it would be nice if one could symbolically link the script within the pdf file. Because I prepare the pdf file using context, I searched the context manuals, but didnot find a solution to this problem. Therefore if somebody has solved this already and is willing to share his/her experience I would be grateful Thanks Stephen

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cropping with \limitatefirstline
by Peter Rolf 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Sorry to bother you Hans, but the macro is not working as expected... I can see the cropped text (\underbar + special symbols) and there is an hyphen symbol in the text only example. I've added the example code I used for tests with \limitatetext and \doboundtext. Peter % interface=en output=pdftex % Time-stamp: <Mittwoch, 07 September 2005 16:25:40; crop.tex> % \setupcolors[state=start] \def\limitatefirstline#1#2#3% {\hbox\bgroup\strut \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#1}% \ifdim\wd\scratchbox>#2\relax \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#3}% \hsize#2\relax \advance\hsize-\wd\scratchbox \setbox\scratchbox\vbox{\forgetall#1}% \setbox\scratchbox\vsplit\scratchbox to \lineheight \vbox{\unvbox\scratchbox}% #3% \else #1% \fi \egroup} \def\CropSymbol{\red...}% \starttext \setupframed[offset=overlay, height=\struttotal, framecolor=lightgray] \framed[width=8ex,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 8ex} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\underbar{Text dummy}}{8ex}{\CropSymbol}} \framed{\limitatetext{\underbar{Text dummy}}{8ex}{\CropSymbol}} \blank \framed[width=120pt,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 120 pt} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\textbar \_\textcircumflex\texttilde \%\$\#\textbraceleft \textbraceright \textpm \copyright \registered \pi \textdegree <>\&}{120pt}{\CropSymbol}} \blank \framed[width=110pt,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 110 pt} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\textbar \_\textcircumflex\texttilde \%\$\#\textbraceleft \textbraceright \textpm \copyright \registered \pi \textdegree <>\&}{110pt}{\CropSymbol}} \framed{\limitatefirstline{This text is definitely too long to fit this frame.}{110pt}{\CropSymbol}} \blank \framed[width=100pt,background=color,backgroundcolor=black]{\white 100 pt} \framed{\limitatefirstline{\textbar \_\textcircumflex\texttilde \%\$\#\textbraceleft \textbraceright \textpm \copyright \registered\space \pi \textdegree <>\&}{100pt}{\CropSymbol}} \stoptext %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: context %%% TeX-master: "" %%% End:

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Re: [dev-context] Re: [NTG-context] new beta
by Mojca Miklavec 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

> \definecharacter numbersign \companionsymbol{35} But please leave a possibility for something like \companionsymbol[1]{35} \companionsymbol[3]{49} ... (Not the exact syntax, only the principle, which should not set the limits to 256 again.) Otherwise we're at the beginning again once the number of "companionsymbols" exceeds 256. Mojca

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some highlighted \type-ing
by Mojca Miklavec 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hello, How can I make highlighted \type-d text? I would like \type{\thisTeXcommand[option=something]} to be highlighted in TEX style. (The question could also be relevant for the wiki, where inline text can only be "highlighted" with <code> or <cmd>, but not with something similar to <texcode> or <xmlcode>.) \startTEX ... \stopTEX makes it's own paragraph and \type can't have any arguments. Temporary workaround would be to make \hbox{\startTEX ... \stopTEX textA}textB but I have to manually determine what to put inside "textA" (so I can forget about line breaking algorithm). And another request for Taco: with option=TEX, the '%' are typeset with yellowish gray, while the actual comments remain black. How can I make the whole comment gray? Btw.: \startTEX \command % comment % every '%' is now gray % althoug only the first one starts the comments \stopTEX (After all those tricks that you Taco provided recently ... the source for code highlighting is still too complex for me to understand and modify.) Thank you, Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Start of application within a context document
by Stephen A. Tjemkes 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Will try this thanks stephen >>> pragma(a)wxs.nl 08/09/05 10:22:06 >>> Stephen A. Tjemkes wrote: >Hi, > >If you excuse my ignorance, but I am looking for a simple example how to launch an executable (a tcl/tk script in my case) from within a pdf document prepared by context. > >During a presentation i would like to show some graphics which are generated through the execution of a tcl/tk script. >One could close the pdf file and open the tcl/tk script, but it would be nice if one could symbolically link the script within the pdf file. >Because I prepare the pdf file using context, I searched the context manuals, but didnot find a solution to this problem. > >Therefore if somebody has solved this already and is willing to share his/her experience I would be grateful > > the best way to do it is to make a cmd file (batch file) and use the \goto{whatever}[program(somename.cmd)] feature; this kind of functionality has never been robust in acrobat and batch files permit you to set up things properly (paths, command line arguments, etc); an alternative is to use http requests and a local http server, but then you end up with acrobat waiting for some response (url or submit methods) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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no graphics inclusion
by Vit Zyka 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hello ConTeCters, please, is there some trick how to suppress external graphics inclusion into PDF, just only show dummy frames instead? I would like to send the underworked doc with plenty of graphics for proof reading. With graphics it has tens of MB. I tried \setupexternalfigures[option=empty] it shows only frames instead of graphics but graphics is also included, so it resulted in no PDF file size reduction. Thanks Vit

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi, I'm uploading a beta. I replaces a few font things, i.e. il2 and pl0 support is now replaced by a combination of regimes and using ec and qx. Also, given that up install the latest latin modern zip, you can have condensed monospaced fonts: \definetypeface [modern] [tt] [mono] [modern-cond] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[modern] \starttext \typefile{test} \stoptext I'd like to see the new dense encoding (discussed on dev list) being supported as well, but we need to generate metrics for that (can be donw with metatype tools) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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cropping text
by Peter Rolf 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi all, I've used \doboundtext so far, to crop my text exactly as I want it. But now I've problems with text, that contains a \underbar token. It seems, that \handletokens can't handle \underbar. The other cropping alternative, \limitatetext, perfectly works with \underbar, but it's useless for me, as it cropps off only at word boundaries. mhh.. Is there an (more or less) easy way to solve my problem? I don't need a full solution; any hints are welcome. Thanks in advice, Peter

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Undefined control sequence \starttypescriptcollection
by Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds) 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Having successfully installed the latest ConTeXt within TeTeX 3.0 I'm having trouble getting a simple file to process. My test file simple.tex contains: \starttext Hello World \stoptext Invoking texexec with 'texexec simple.tex' produces the following: ------------------------- START OUTPUT ------------------------- $ texexec simple.tex TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : simple output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.2-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) \write18 enabled. (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./simple.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.9.6 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 system (E-TEX) : [line 69] color : palette rollover is available system (E-TEX) : [line 1166] system (E-TEX) : [line 1221] ) 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-syn.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.14 \starttypescriptcollection [synonyms] ? -------------------------- END OUTPUT -------------------------- texexec --version gives: ------------------------- START OUTPUT ------------------------- $ 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, 3.141592-1.30.2-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) context : ver: 2005.08.31 cont-en : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.9.6 mes: english cont-nl : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.9.6 mes: dutch total run time : 4 seconds -------------------------- END OUTPUT -------------------------- Any ideas what could be wrong? Thanks in advance, Mark Pearson BSc (hons) MSc DPhil IT Consultant Capita Symonds The Capita Building, Kingmoor Business Park Carlisle. CA6 4SJ. Tel: 01228 673023 Fax: 01228 673111 Web: www.capitasymonds.co.uk ********************************************************************************** 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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