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no line break after quotation possible
by Patrick Gundlach 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

Hello out there, after a \quotation no line break is possible. For what reason? Is this a bug or a feature? (I'd consider this as a bug). -------------------------------------------------- \starttext \tracingparagraphs=1 \tracingonline=1 \pretolerance -1 \tolerance 10000 \quotation{Foo bar baz Foo bar baz Foo bar baz Foo bar baz Foo bar baz Foo bar baz Foo} Hello world! \stoptext -------------------------------------------------- yields [...] @ via @@17 b=10000 p=0 d=100000000 @@18: line 1.0 t=23689 -> @@0 Foo [] '' Hel- @\discretionary via @@0 b=48 p=50 d=5864 [...] Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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Possible bug in verbatim
by Idris Samawi Hamid 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

Dear cartel, There is an apparent bug in the verbatim mechanism. In the following example, the `A' is typed but the curly brackets are not typed after \head. \type works as expected in the other two instances. I tried \relax (and a couple of other hacks) but that does not help. Please advise. Thnx in advance Idris ========================= % output=pdf interface=en \type{ {A} } \startitemize \head\relax \type{ {A} } \type{ {A} } \stopitemize \bye ========================= ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Page number in interaction menu
by David Munger 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

Hello, Is there a way to remove the page number from the interaction menu? I might be doing something wrong. Thanks for any clue. Minimal example: \setuppapersize [S6][S6] \setuplayout [height=300pt, bottom=24pt] \setupbodyfont [20pt] \setupinteraction [state=start, menu=on] \startinteractionmenu [bottom] Menu: \placelist[chapter] [alternative=bottom,criterium=all,pagenumber=no] \stopinteractionmenu \starttext \chapter{First} \page hello \chapter{Second} \stoptext Regards, David

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Figures insertion.
by Dirar BOUGATEF 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

Hi all, Have been looking around in doc, but could not catch a simple way to insert an image into my doc. What is the simplest way to do this ? My image name is paris.bmp, and i don't have any info about the size (lets assume it is a 4cmx4cm). Thanks for any help.

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the right way to do \ref?
by Paul Tremblay 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

I want to create cross references and just wanted to make sure I am doing it correctly: see \ref[r][mark1] \par \page \reference[mark1]{} foo \par Since my original file will be in XML, I don't need any of ConTeXt's other more advanced features. I will use the above code to generate a TOC, a list of tables, indices, etc. I also saw \pagereference in the manual, but I think this is if you use ConTeXt's other features, such as \section[mark1]{Title} Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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Incidental report: ConTeXt i-Package update
by Gerben Wierda 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

The ConTeXT updater has changed (automatically) to include the latest ConTeXT beta (Apr 14). This is a completely automatic update, as soon as a new ConTeXt (stable or beta) is released, the i-Package will be updated automatically and uploaded to all reporsitories. Unless I build in reporting to these lists in my automatic update procedures in the future, these ConTeXt updates will not be reported to the list. G

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RE: [NTG-context] bi-lingual book
by Idris Samawi Hamid 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

Hi, Ciro, >===== Original Message From ciro(a)kavyata.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >well, it seems there is nobody willing to give me any tip on this... >FYI, I am thinking in several bi-lingual books: one novel, one book of >poems (which is >very dificult, but easier for layout as I want since poems are generally short) I am also very interested in this problem. I have a number of bilingual projects in the pipeline, and I'm going to have to start worrying about it soon... best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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confused on font size
by Paul Tremblay 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

The main manual on ConTeXt give a number of different ways to change font sizes (if I understand it correctly): 1. {\switchtobodyfont[18pt] text} 2. {\tfx font size ??} 3. {\xii some font} What are the advantages of each? I would think that option (1) would be the simplest and clearest to use. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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bib: getting a complete listing of the database, sorted by author
by Patrick Gundlach 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Hello (Taco?), I'd like to get the list in the bibliography sorted by author. \setuppublications [alternative=apa, sorttype=bbl, criterium=all, ] \setupbibtex [database=umbruchlit, sorttype=author] does not do what I'd like. It lists the entries in the order of \cite. And how do I get a complete list of publication? The criterium = all should do what I need, but it doesn't. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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Re: [NTG-context] new beta
by Johan Sandblom 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

I used RedHat five years ago but quickly got fed up having to chase down dependencies and got Debian. Only trouble I have had since then was when I started using recent ConTeXts and couldn't go with the default tetex, but texlive is easy enough to install. I started using gentoo about a year ago on another system and found it largely excellent but being a source distribution it trades small performance gains for sometimes *very* long install (or rather build) times. Also, there were some package/version inconsistencies causing install failures, but these were resolved within a few weeks. I have used modem and adsl with debian, and adsl with gentoo without problem. ReiserFS on both for a long time. Well, back to work, thesis refuses to write itself ... -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" -- Bertrand Russell ----- Original Message ----- From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> Date: Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:32 pm Subject: Re: [NTG-context] new beta > Johan Sandblom wrote: > > >... > > Comparing the two, the debian testing distribution has never been > less> than stable while gentoo testing is updated faster, but has > given me trouble > > at some points. > > > > Sorry for the noise if this is inappropriate information for this > list, > no problem; here i have been using suse for years; i am considering > gentoo, but > i'm not sure about it yet; suse only ships stable releases which is > why updating > pieces of the system is tricky; the problem is (as always) in the > gui part; > somehow the interfaces to the libs change (too) often. > > (one of the reasons for choosing suse is that it is very well > equiped for > european situations (modems, adsl, etc) and shipped with state of > the art > journaling filesystems like reiser as well as raid support; that > time our > webserver came with redhat ... well, that was a real pain, esp > secutity updating > (unless one paid); suse's updating is automatic and ok) > > 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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Re: [NTG-context] new beta
by Johan Sandblom 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Sorry for going off topic, but since it is a concern ... Using a linux distribution with an intelligent package/dependencies handling system such as Gentoo or Debian would end your updating woes for all time. In debian testing apt-get install inkscape downloads and installs inkscape 0.41 and updates all dependencies automatically and in Gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -ua inkscape downloads the source of inkscape 0.41 and all required dependencies and compiles them (taking a lot of time of course). Without going to the testing distribution ("~x86") you get 0.37 Comparing the two, the debian testing distribution has never been less than stable while gentoo testing is updated faster, but has given me trouble at some points. Sorry for the noise if this is inappropriate information for this list, Johan -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" -- Bertrand Russell ----- Original Message ----- From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> Date: Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:33 am Subject: Re: [NTG-context] new beta > Paul Tremblay wrote: > > > Is inkscape the beast that gave you so much trouble with the glib > > library? I know I tried to install it and gave up after I couldn't > > install glib. > > indeed, but since i use windows as production platform i can wait > till i've > updated the linux machines; i have no idea how well inkscape > installs on the mac > > > Why did you choose inskscape? I thought inkscape is supposed to > be a > > great gui svg-editor, but I wonder if you need all of its power just > > to do a conversion. I use batik for my conversions, which is > part of > > the apache project. Of course, it is written in java, which raises > > other problems. > > indeed, i find installing java programs (sometimes bigger than tex > collections) > with this classpath stuff often troublesome (unless there is an > installer, which > is often true for gui based programs); > > concerning the alternatives: batik and imagemagick are not good > enough (hardly > maintained too); i ran a sample set of some 9000 svg graphics > trough the > converter tools and it worked ok with inkscape; it was also fast; > btw, some > versions give problems (0.41 is ok, 0.40 was bugged, 0.39 ok if i > remember right) > > (the only drawback of inkscape is the clumsy command line print > feature, kind of > piping, while just writing to a file would have been nicer) > > 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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border widths with TABLE
by Paul Tremblay 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

How does one create different border widths in TABLE? For example, say you want to create an extra thick border between the head and the body? % this sets up the thickness for *all the borders % need just the bottom border \setupTABLE[r][first][rulethickness=1pt] Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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Defining references points
by Nikolai Weibull 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

I have tried figuring out how to define a reference point at any given location in a document, but haven't been able to come to a solution, so...how do I do it? What I'd really like to do would be to write: \placerefpoint[name][description] and then be able to write see \about[name], \atpage[name]. with the obvious semantics. Thanks, nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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section head unnumbered but with dots in TOC ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Hi, I am lost in ConTeXt's setup-jungle: I have a section set is unnumbered: \setuphead[LevelThree] [number=no, ...| But in the TOC I would like to have a dot (or another symbol) before the head/title, like this: o Section's Title 17 Is this a matter of \setuphead or \setuplist? Or none of them? How can it be achieved? Steffen

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paragraph numbering
by piskala upendran 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

How can I number the paragraphs in ConTeXt similar to the latex parano.sty.? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Feature Request [was RE: [NTG-context] footnote reference ...
by Idris Samawi Hamid 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Dear gang, >\setupfootnotes[style=italic,textcommand=,command=,textstyle=boldslanted] Feature request: I think that using textcommand=,command= to override high figures is too cryptic for regular users. It would be better to have two options e.g. for marker1 (pre-note) \setupfootnotes[textmarklocation=high] % low, or none for marker2 (in-note) \setupfootnotes[notemarklocation=high] % low, or none with "high" as the default. This would be much more convenient. 2. Also, could we get the synonyms `notemarkstyle' (for `style') and `textmarkstyle' (for `textstyle'). Much clearer.:-)) Best to the best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] footnote reference mark font switch
by Idris Samawi Hamid 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Hi Adam and all... >===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> ===== >\setupfootnotes[style=italic,textcommand=,command=,textstyle=boldslanted] Ok, now we're getting somewhere... The setup you presented was overkill-) but very instructive: 1. \setupfootnotes[style=italic,textcommand=,command=,textstyle=boldslanted] i. This changes the footnote marker in the main text (marker1), but also makes it a regular numeral aligned with the pre-footnote text. b. The footnote marker in the note (marker2) also becomes aligned with the text of the note. c. Marker1 is boldit and marker2 is italic. d. Running text is normal; 2. \setupfootnotes[style=italic,command=,textstyle=boldslanted] Marker1 is now super, marker2 is text-aligned, marker1 is boldit and marker2 is italic. 3. \setupfootnotes[command=,textstyle=boldslanted] Marker1 is super, marker2 is text-aligned, marker1 is bold, and marker 2 is normal; 4. \setupfootnotes[textstyle=boldslanted] Marker1 is super, marker2 is super, marker1 is bold, marker2 is normal; 5. \setupfootnotes[style=italic,textstyle=boldslanted] Both markers are super, marker2 is italic and marker1 is boldit. ======== This last is the one I was looking for. \setupfootnotes[style=\it,textstyle=\bs] also works. This is interesting, because I thought that all options involving control sequences had to be surrounded by curly brackets. With curly brackets it does not work. Thank you for your help! And that trick is forthcoming... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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footnote reference mark font switch
by Idris Samawi Hamid 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Dear cartel, I need to switch to a different font for the footnote reference markers. First attempt failed: ======================= % output=pdf interface=en \setupfootnotes[before=\ss,after=\sc] \starttext This is a test.\footnote{This is a test} \stoptext ======================= The idea is to print the reference marker, in this case `1', in a different font from both the main text and from the footnote text. That is, \setupfootnotes should let me transparently distinguish between 1. main text font; 2. reference marker font 3. footnote text font. Please advise, and I have a nice trick to show you once this is done:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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\definetype[...][option=...] problems
by Nikolai Weibull 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Try running \setupcolors[state=start] \definetype[JS][option=JS] \starttext \JS{function}\par \JS{function }\par \JS{ function}\par \JS{ function } \stoptext The first paragraph will only be the first character, f, the reason is made clear from the following two paragraphs. In the second paragraph, function comes out, but it isn't highlighted as a keyword, as the initial f has been consumed and thus the "unction" part doesn't match any keywords. I guess this is due to the type-handling checking for double characters, like in \type<< ... >>? In the third paragraph, only the initial space is output. The rest will never be output, as \PLsequence never gets a chance to be printed. Only in the fourth paragraph is "function" output correctly, although it is now surrounded by two spaces. Any suggestions on possible solutions, other than removing the option=JS?, nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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confused on which table
by Paul Tremblay 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

I'm looking over the table overview at the wiki garden: http://contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview It states that: "ConTeXt has a whole bunch of possibilities to typeset tables. Not each provides everything you may need, and the older ones are deprecated." Yet on looking at all of the different types of tables, I can't exactly see which ones are deprecated. Are any deprecated? I also see that there are three different types of tables for spanning across pages ("\starttablehead", "\bTABLE", and "\startlinetable"). Do each of these have strengths and weaknesses? Perhaps I could make a table for each type of tables, if someone could guide me: name tabulate TaBlE etable ETC =================================== Use short table Notes does not have vertical lines ETC. Thanks for whoever did this wiki page, since it is helping me get started. Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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page number in \cite
by Robert Ullrey 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I apologize because I swear I just saw the answer to this, but I can not find it in my achieves. Is there a way, or work around, to place pagenumbers in a \cite? For example, see (T. Hoekwater, 1994, pp 12-14). I have use (I think) \cite[pp 127-129]{key} in Latex, what I would love though is in ConTeXt to use \cite[hoekwater94{pp 123-129}] to get {T.Hoekwater, 1994, pp 123-129). I have a paper I am trying to meet the these guidelines on <http://journal.philsci.org/Guidelines/> Thanks, Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQlv9WvFTYcwurb3FEQLGyQCgxo0FCBAob3CkNWHlg1wxdtphyigAn1ny luOol3vLSlaH72hy/h7jCi5W =ri1O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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bib translation
by Patrick Gundlach 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Hello out there, in a bibliography created by Tacos' module I have something like this: Knuth, D. E. and Plass, M. F. (1999). Breaking paragraphs into lines. In Digital Typography, pages 67–155. CSLI Publications. Ursrpünglich publiziert in Software – Practice and Experience 11 (1981), 1119–1184. But now I'd like to have 'und' instead of 'and', 'Seiten' instead of 'pages' etc. What is the suggested way to do this? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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formatted pagenumbers in registers
by sjoerd siebinga 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

I have noticed a strange irregularity in the formatting of pagenumbers in one of my registers. Somehow not every pagenumber that should be bold has been rendered bold. I have defined this register as follows. <cite> \defineregister[indexri][Dialect of Riustring 1] % \setupregister[indexri][lemma][pagestyle=bold] </cited> Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Sjoerd

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MetaPost 0.893 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

The MetaPost team is happy to announce the release of a new beta: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 0.893 (beta for 0.9) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a public beta release for the upcoming version 0.9. The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from http://sarovar.org/projects/metapost/ The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. The win32 package is intended for fptex or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2003. The executables will *not* work for miktex, sorry. After beta testing, this version will hopefully become the next official release of MetaPost, at the end of April 2005. That is roughly two weeks from today, so test reports are very welcome. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of this message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. For those of you who have noted the large gap between 0.641 and 0.9: We have deliberately chosen to step over some minor version numbers, such that the first major release by the current team (this release is planned for the autumn of 2005) can become version 1.0 without causing additional confusion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 0.9: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There is a new internal quantity called mpversion that reports the current metapost version, and the version information is also written to the PostScript file. 2. The LaTeX sources of the mpman, mpintro, and mpgraph manuals have become part of the distribution package. 3. TEX.mp now has TeX format support through a pair of macros called TEXPRE() and TEXPOST(). This llows you to process the contents of the TEX() macro with, for example, LaTeX (instead of plain TeX). An example is given in the manual. 4. metapost now writes a %%HiReSBoundingBox comment 5. The EPS output no longer contains actual spaces within PostScript strings as for example output by label("a space"), but their octal escape (\040) instead. 6. The EPS output now also has a %%BeginProlog DSC comment as well as %%EndProlog 7. The comments in the Web source have been changed to point out that on modern machines, acquiring the random seed has actually become a system-dependant operation (a granularity of whole seconds is not small enough on new machines). 8. The 'newer' command now accepts more than 2 arguments, testing each of the files in turn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfixes in version 0.9: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Documentation improvements: all known errata and typos have been removed, better explanations of e.g. dash patterns and dotlabel have been provided, and a number of omissions has been rectified. 2. The BoundingBox was not computed correctly when a filldraw command with a noticeable pen size was used at the edge of the picture. 3. Paths starting with degenerate constructions like (0,0)--(0,0)--(0,0) could overflow memory. 4. The PostScript output could accidentally contain 8-bit characters within PostScript strings in previous versions because a test was shared between terminal printing and PostScript printing. 5. A bug has been found in the assignment of serial numbers to independant variables in metafont 2.71828. This bug affected MP as well, and the same patch has been applied. 6. The turningnumber was sometimes wrong in unexpected ways. The new implementation is still sometimes wrong (when there are strange path segments involved), but in a much more predictable way: the new code always draws straight lines between the actual points, and calculates the turningnumber based on that path instead of the actual path. The effect is that cusps and loops within segments are now completely ignored. A more thorough fix of turningnumber is planned for the next release. 7. There was an 'off by one' error in dvitomp wrt. the interpretation of virtual fonts. 8. mpto uses a new TeX macro for the generation of labels, making it more robust wrt. strange user code within the actual label text. 9. A missing colon in boxes.mp has been added 10. A missing save in mfplain.mp has been added 11. The generisize in boxes.mp has been fixed so that it now accepts [[ as a valid variable name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Sarovar, http://www.sarovar.org/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. (Please do not send bug reports or feature requests directly to Dr. Hobby any more) Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, April 12, 2005 _______________________________________________ metapost mailing list http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/metapost

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Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 10, Issue 21
by Kai Straube 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 09:55 schrobst Du: > Kai Straube wrote: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > > l.15 \startfontclass > > [modern] > > > > Whats wrong? > > different version than mine -) Thank you, this does it! But (sorry, the questions never ending) how can I get the sansserif-font in formulas in bold letters? Kai

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RE: [NTG-context] Encoding and mapping glyphs from an expert font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Hi Thomas, Adam, and all... >===== Original Message From "Thomas A.Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz(a)uni-bonn.de> >So there is no simple answer to your question. TeX knows to pick up >zerooldstyle instead of zero either >1. because you have a virtual font that says MAPFONT 1, so it knows it >will have to use a different pfb than for the rest, or >2. because the encoding file points to character zerooldstyle within >the ttf. You are right. I just realized that I misunderstood what Hans meant by avoiding virtual fonts: I was assuming all this time that the \usetypescript[map][latin-modern-os][texnansi] setup was mapping latin modern to cmmi10, etc. I looked at the log of a test file for latin-modern-os: no mention of cmmi10, etc. I looked at the pdf, listed all fonts, and boom, only one font, lmr12.pfb. I opened lmr12 in FontLab and, lo and behold, it contains a palette of old style numerals! So what Hans meant was that there is no need for a virtual font to remap lmr itself, not that you could actually map the numerals of lmr to cmmibi without a virtual font. The OldStyle to MathItalic mappings are apparently useful for local switches like \os, but not for global setups. Oh well, I certainly learned a lot about fonts and ConTeXt this past day-and-a-half, so I guess it was not a total waste of time. Now I guess I have to make some virtual fonts (sigh), so it's now on to Thomas' how-to. Thnx to all Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Tutorial
by Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Partick, I am currently working in a Windows (XP) environment but if it makes a difference and Linux is more suitable for a Tex environment I move to a Unix based one then. Thanks for the reply. Patrick Gundlach <patrick(a)gundla.ch> wrote: Hello, > Could one of you please recommend a document that tells me what to > download and how to install and run a Tex application such as > "Context" and how to compose and compile a document such as a > booklet or more? I like to learn and use Tex and have absolutely no > experience with it. Thank you all. You can take a look at the ConTeXt wiki (see below for address). If you have a current TeX distribution, you are probably ready to go. If not, get one, such as teTeX for Unix or MikTeX for Windows. Tell us more about your environment. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context Regards, Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad

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footnote placement
by Idris Samawi Hamid 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Dear gang, I think this may have been missed, so I'm sending it again. Best Idris ===================================================== ============Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:24:43 -0700========== Dear syndicate, 1. When I place footnotes as endnotes, they overflow the page, like an oversize \vbox. 2. E.g. \input tufte does not work from inside \footnote{} Here is a test file. Best Idris ==================test-notes=================== \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupfootnotes[location=text] \starttext \dorecurse{14} {\input tufte\footnote{Here is a footnote.\par Here is a footnote.\par Here is a footnote.} \par \input knuth\footnote{Here is a footnote.\par Here is a footnote.\par Here is a footnote.} \par} %\dorecurse{14} % THIS DOES NOT WORK!!! %{\input tufte\footnote{\input tufte} %\par %\input knuth\footnote{\input knuth} %\par} \section{notes} \placefootnotes[location=text,split=tolerant] % the split option does not help:-( \stoptext =============================================== -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Bib in project
by Robert Ullrey 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Quick question. Using Hans' project script, I want to add a bibliography. Should I add the \setuppublications[database={mybib}] in the environment (env_myproject), or in the project header (project_myproject)? Thanks Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQlrHwvFTYcwurb3FEQJbDQCgxZ2cDuxbFq5FkiG7+ONA92gInmcAoJY2 JPkAUbihg3QfFdyToX84uGmE =rBsp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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undefined guillemots
by Henning Hraban Ramm 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Hi there! AFAIK this should work: \setuplanguage[de][ leftquote=\guilsinglleft, rightquote=\guilsinglright, leftquotation=\guillemotleft, rightquotation=\guillemotright ] %\mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \setupencoding [default=ec] \quotation{Doppelte Anführungszeichen} \quote{Einfache Anführungszeichen} But none of the guillemots seems to be defined: ! Undefined control sequence. \@@ladeleftquotation ->\guillemotleft \leftboundarycharacter #1#2->\languageparameter #1 \nobreak \hskip \hspaceamo... \dodosymbol ...bol \csname \??ss :#1:#2\endcsname \relax }\relax \dosymbol ...fnosymbol \redosymbol \currentsymbol \fi \fi <to be read again> \penalty \dohandlequotation ...\strut \symbol [#1]\penalty \!!tenthousand \hskip \quo... ... l.12 \quotation {Doppelte Anführungszeichen} ? ! Emergency stop. What can I do? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net

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\type{a_b} inside \bTABLE ... \eTABLE
by Mojca Miklavec 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Hello, there's a very comical behavior of \type{sometextfollowedby_underscore} inside \bTABLE and \eTABLE. For example: \starttext \bTABLE \bTR\bTD \type{a_b} \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext \type{_} or \type{_b} work OK, \type{a_b} outside the table works OK as well. --- I tried to find \def\type in ConTeXt source, but I couldn't and I'm also not advanced enough to interpret the error message below. Any ideas? (I would use the shorter form, \_, but the results are not quite the same. I solved my problem temporary by using \type{a}\type{_b} with quite some (unnecessary ?) "\type"-ing, but I'm still curious about the reason for the strange behavior.) Thank you, Mojca ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> _ <argument> \type {a_ b} \handleTBLcell ...{\bTBLCELL \TBLcharalign {#2}{#4 }\eTBLCELL \inTBLcell {#1}... <inserted text> ...bl \begintblrow \makeTBL {1}{1} \nexttblcol \endtblrow \en... \endTBL ...x {\trialtypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktb... ... l.4 \eTABLE ? ! Emergency stop. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> _ <argument> \type {a_ b} \handleTBLcell ...{\bTBLCELL \TBLcharalign {#2}{#4 }\eTBLCELL \inTBLcell {#1}... <inserted text> ...bl \begintblrow \makeTBL {1}{1} \nexttblcol \endtblrow \en... \endTBL ...x {\trialtypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktb... ... l.4 \eTABLE

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Why do margins bleed?
by John R. Culleton 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

I have been playing with the very interesting t-layout module written by Patrick Gundalach. When looking at the visualization thus presented I have these questions: 1. Why do the left and right margin areas bleed off the page? 2. Why are the margins offset a little from the main text block? These offsets are defined as leftmargindistance and rightmargindistance. These aspects seem to be related. . -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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\stretched fails with accents
by David Munger 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hello, Both of these fail (the second one is assumed to be unicode). \hbox to \textwidth {\stretched{pr\'edoctoral}} \hbox to \textwidth {\stretched{prédoctoral}} Regards, David

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Tutorial
by Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hi Everyone, Could one of you please recommend a document that tells me what to download and how to install and run a Tex application such as "Context" and how to compose and compile a document such as a booklet or more? I like to learn and use Tex and have absolutely no experience with it. Thank you all. Regards, Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad

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numbering paragraph in ConTeXt document
by piskala upendran 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

how to number the beginning of a paragraph in context document like this. 1. this is first paragraph. 2. this is another paragraph. 3. this is another paragraph __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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symbol parameter of \setuplist
by David Munger 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hello, I fear I cannot figure out what is the meaning of the `symbol' parameter of \setuplist. From all the documentation or mailing list archives, the only use I can find is "symbol=1". Is there a way to use it to draw bullets, say, before each list item, like those in the itemize environment? If not, what would be the best way of achieving this? With \placelist[command=...] maybe? Regards, David

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Re: [dev-context] [Fwd: [NTG-context] Re: storm font]
by Adam Lindsay 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:21:09 +0200: >t-type-xxx.txx > >of course we can set up some mechanism for assigning names, but for the >moment >the additional t- prefix sounds ok to me Without extra support, won't that run into name length problems with module loading? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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iso latin 2
by Hans Hagen 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

I wonder, \definecharacter Aring {\ilencodedrA} \definecharacter Lstroke {\ilencodedL} \definecharacter lstroke {\ilencodedl} where do these come from? is that because csr does not provide those glyphs? (which makes il2 like aer (almoet ec) something almost il2 -) 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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Another font problem
by Thomas A.Schmitz 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

I just ran into a smallish yet annoying font problem. After getting the Adobe Type Classics for Learning CD, I prepared a couple of fonts for work with ConTeXt. I was mostly successful. I wanted to have a Garamond with oldstyle figures as default, so I used a custom encoding vector; the only difference to texnansi was zerooldstyle etc instead of zero etc. This works well, but: in German, (mainlanguage[de]), I can't get the baseline double quotes to work. In the "normal" Garamond, "` in the source produces the desired result. In the oldstyle Garamond, I don't get the ligature (character 132 in texnansi), but instead what appears to be two commas juxtapposed. I assume this is some fallback defined somewhere. So the question is: what feature defines this ligature? It is language-specific and works only wihtin German text. And, more importantly: why doesn't this work with my modified texnansi-variant? Best Thomas

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Font encoding: \uppercased
by David Wooten 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Greetings all, Taco mentioned the command \uppercased{to get all uppercase letters}, and it works just fine…until I try to use my self-installed fonts. The quirks come up with diacritics, and this leads me to believe that there is an [encoding] or [regime] issue here, as I had similar issues earlier with the font in general. For example, with \uppercased{Krübel} I receive: KRüBEL. Do I need to "make a statement of my intent" in a typescript file or somewhere else to resolve this? Kind regards, David

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table won't break across page
by Paul Tremblay 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

I am trying to create a table that breaks across pages. I used the example from the wiki. The table repeated its headers like it should have, but it did not break across a page; it stuck the table on one page. Here is an excerpt from the file: \placetable[here][tab:insurance]{Percentage of People without health insurance in US}{\start \starttablehead \HL \VL State \VL 3-year average(2001-2003) \VL 2-year average(2001-2002) \VL\SR \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL[4] \stoptabletail \starttables[|l w(30mm)|l|l|] \VL Alabama \VL 13.3 \VL 13.5 \VL\FR \HL \VL Alaska \VL 17.8 \VL 18.8 \VL\MR \HL ... \stoptables \stop} Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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RE: [NTG-context] Open Type trickery [was Re: Encoding and mapping glyphs from an expert font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> ===== >Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:27:21 -0600: >>While we will still need huge fonts, the processing of complicated accents >>should be much faster with the approach I have in mind (smaller otp's and >>ovf's). >It sounds a bit tricky with the eTeX line, because of the 256-character- >per-TeX-font limit. Aleph gives us 64,000-characters/font plus etex so that's not a problem. But with some font/otp creativity we can still get some rather small fonts (compared to the 10,000-character ovfs I'm using now...) >Not necessarily impossible, but certainly >contortionate. I'm led to think about XeTeX--a fair number of people on >the list are happy with the AAT/OpenType support they get with some very >sophisticated Arabic fonts. If you can have one of your friends send me some pdf samples, that would be nice. I am especially interested in accent handling over ligatures. OTOH, I have yet to see a normal Arabic-script font with a full accent palette plus a very complete set of ligatures (except mine of course->) Yes, there are certainly some (outrageously expensive) Mac programs that come with really beautiful and complete calligraphy Arabic fonts; I'll have to have a look at those one day... >And when you consider the educational price >of a Mac mini, you're still way below the price of some software >packages... :) I'll look into it (Hans made a similar suggestion to me a few days ago), though my own goal with my Arabic-script package is platform independence. OTOH, aleph has much better bidi/large font/transcription support than pdfetex. Maybe I will come to a TeX conference and lobby for integration of these two. Then all will be well in the world... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] Encoding and mapping glyphs from an expert font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

Hi Adam, Thank you so much for your help... >===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> ===== >Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Sat, 9 Apr 2005 15:02:51 -0600: > >>By the way, I still don't understand how placing, e.g., /zerooldstyle in the >>respective /zero position in an encoding file will instruct LatinModern to >>pick up the glyph from cmmi10. In, for example, >> >>==================================================== >>texnansi-lmb10 LMRomanDemi10-Regular <texnansi-os-lm.enc <lmb10.pfb >>==================================================== >> >>How does ConTeXt know that /zerooldstyle is to be mapped to cmmbi10? >>I must be missing something.... > >I think I'm missing something from your description. What markup are you >using in your source in order to ascribe these magical properties to OldStyle? >Are you aware of the default mapping of OldStyle to MathItalic? Well, Hans claimed this could be done without virtual fonts, and I was trying to follow his implementation. Could you tell me where the default mapping of OldStyle to MathItalic is documented/implemented in the sources? Maybe I could make a similar mechanism for my normal-expert dyad. Best and thnx a million Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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good-looking tables in context
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

Hi all, I have to present a lot of numerical data in tables. However, I don't know how to achieve aesthetically pleasing results in context. (Ex)-Latex users may know the booktabs package which is a great help in this respect. I would like to achieve the same in context now. I have attached a small example file (source and pdf). Let me draw your attention to the most important points: - There are rules of different thickness for top, bottom, and middle rules. - The spacing between rows before / after / around the rules is nicely adjusted automatically. - Rules not spanning all columns, like the one in the header, can be trimmed at the left and the right so that they do not extend entirely to the start/end oft the first/last column. I think all three features are essential for convenient typesetting of tables with acceptable output. How can I produce this in context? I am aware of the different table mechanisms. As far as I have seen in the available documentation, none of them is currently suited for what I want. Or am I wrong? I hope so, and I am grateful for your hints and comments. Regards, Eckhart

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can't get table to work
by Paul Tremblay 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

I am trying to create a table with the middle cell merged vertically. I am trying to draw bottom lines for the left and right columns: Alabama 13.3 13.5 ------- ----- Alaska 17.8 18.8 Here is my table: \placetable[here][tab:insurance]{Percentage of People without health insurance in US} \starttable[|l w(30mm)|l|l|] \HL \VL State \VL 3-year average(2001-2003) \VL 2-year average(2001-2002) \VL\SR \HL[4] \VL Alabama \VL 13.3 \VL 13.5 \VL\FR \DL \DC \DL \DR \VL Alaska \VL 17.8 \VL 18.8 \VL\MR \HL \VL Arizona \VL 17.3 \VL 16.9 \VL\LR \HL \stoptable \stoptext I am getting the following error message: ! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr. <template> \endtemplate \!ttLongHrule ->\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule \next ->&\normalTABLElongrule & \complexTableDL ...handleTABLEerror \fi \fi \next \fi \complexorsimpleTable ...fi \c!Table #1\endcsname #2 l.14 \DL \DC \DL \DR What am I doing wrong? Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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RE: [NTG-context] Encoding and mapping glyphs from an expert font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

Thank you very much for responding, Thomas. >===== Original Message From "Thomas A.Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz(a)uni-bonn.de> ===== >I am not sure I have understood everything you write, but here's a very >brief outline of what I think you need to do. There are two cases you >need to consider: I am in case 1: pfb-normal + pfb-expert >1. You have more than one font (this seems to be your case), normally >these will be postscript type1 fonts (extensions .pfb or .pfa). If you >want to mix characters from two fonts (say, normal letters from font A, >oldstyle numerals and maybe small caps from font B), you can most >easily do this via a virtual font. It's not too hard; I wrote a small >how-to which you can find on CTAN >(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/virtualfontshowto/?action=/tex- >archive/info/) <snip> >So there is no simple answer to your question. TeX knows to pick up >zerooldstyle instead of zero either >1. because you have a virtual font that says MAPFONT 1, so it knows it >will have to use a different pfb than for the rest, or >2. because the encoding file points to character zerooldstyle within >the ttf. Ok, but Hans explicitly claimed to have done this for Latin Modern without virtual fonts, only encoding trickery (I'll c if I can find that message). Actually, I was really surprised when Hans said he could do this without virtual fonts, and have always been eager to learn the trick;-> With Alan Hoenig's help almost 2 years ago I contructed a complete virtual font for old style cmr using virtual fonts; I guess I can do that again (though with a non-TeX font I'm scared;-> I'll read your how-to). On the other hand, how will TeXFont handle virtual fonts? What does TeXfont need to do this correctly? Or do we just forget about TeXFont? Thanks again! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Encoding and mapping glyphs from an expert font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 09 Apr '05

09 Apr '05

[To all the font experts out there: I really need your help!! I have spent at least 12 hours (!) trying to make this work but to no avail.] Dear gang, I have two fonts (actually, lots more but let's keep it simple), one normal and one expert. I did the following: 1. installed the regular font with texnansi encoding. It works fine. It uses, say, texnansi-myfont.map, texnansi-lm.enc with lines like ==================================================== texnansi-raw-myfont MyFont 4 <texnansi-lm.enc <myfont.pfb ==================================================== 2. also installed the expert font with a private encoding. Basically the same as texnansi where they share characters in common. It uses, say, myfontx.map, myencoding.enc with lines like ==================================================== myencoding-raw-myfontx MyFontX 4 < myfont.pfb myencoding.enc ==================================================== 3. With a view to getting characters from my expert font, I carefully studied as best as I could the implementation of old style figures in lmr, which involves mappings to cmmi10. This is what I could figure out: Activating old style is done by ==================================================== \usetypescript [modern][texnansi] \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [texnansi] \usetypescript[latin-modern][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[latin-modern] ==================================================== There appear to be two main things going on (but I think I'm missing something): a. loading a map file: ==================================================== \starttypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [ec,texnansi,qx,t5,pl0,il2] \loadmapfile[\typescriptthree-os-public-lm.map] \stoptypescript ==================================================== Since I'm using texnansi, I looked at texnansi-os-public-lm.map . It contains lines like ==================================================== texnansi-lmb10 LMRomanDemi10-Regular <texnansi-os-lm.enc <lmb10.pfb ==================================================== So I designed an encoding file myfont-plus.enc almost identical to texnansi-os-lm.enc, containing, e.g., old style numerals from my expert font. I edited the myfont map files to exactly match the syntax of both texnansi-os-public-lm.map and texnansi-public-lm.map So for my fonts I have a total of three map files: \loadmapfile[texnansi-myfont.map] % for regular font \loadmapfile[myencoding-myfontx.map] % for expert font \loadmapfile[texnansi-x-myfont.map] % for mapping minion reg to minion ex >From this point I am lost. I set up my type-myfont.tex to load these maps. I can get myfont to work alone, and myfontx to work alone, but I cannot map characters from myfontx to myfont. By the way, I still don't understand how placing, e.g., /zerooldstyle in the respective /zero position in an encoding file will instruct LatinModern to pick up the glyph from cmmi10. In, for example, ==================================================== texnansi-lmb10 LMRomanDemi10-Regular <texnansi-os-lm.enc <lmb10.pfb ==================================================== How does ConTeXt know that /zerooldstyle is to be mapped to cmmbi10? I must be missing something.... Thnx in advance for your help Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] Activating urls
by Idris Samawi Hamid 09 Apr '05

09 Apr '05

Thank you Nikolai (and Patrick too!) The following outputs the url but I don't get a hyperlink: ================================================= % output=pdf interface=en \useURL [Adobe] [http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design_MM_Fonts.pdf] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \url[Adobe]. \stoptext ================================================= Am I missing yet something else? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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space between tabulate
by Paul Tremblay 09 Apr '05

09 Apr '05

Is there a way to put space between cells in a tabluate table? \starttabulate[|p(6cm) |p(6cm)|] \NC American Community Survey \NC Current Population Survey \NC\NR \HL \NC All dollar values for income are adjusted to latest calendar year of estimates using the Consumer Price Index for the date collected versus the average for the year. \NC None \NC\NR \stoptabulate Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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RE: [NTG-context] Defining new font switches (solved?)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 09 Apr '05

09 Apr '05

Hi Adam, Thank you very much for explaining this. After some more research, I actually finally figured it out a few hours ago (including the examination of type-ini), but felt embarrased at bothering the list yet again about it;-) At least I'm "back in business" once again:-) Hopefully my hours of struggling with things like this will pay off in the end... Thnx again, Adam and my best to all Idris >===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> ===== >Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Fri, 8 Apr 2005 15:43:49 -0600: > >> \definetypeface [mytest] [rm] [serif] [mystyle] >> %[mystyle] [encoding=default] > >>Consider the \definetypeface line. If we leave the comment in place, >>then the >>\tf switch will work (and give us small caps) while the \mv switch will give >>an undefined control sequence. If we uncomment the last two options in >>\definetypeface, then \mv will also work. > >this is absolutely consistent! >The second mystyle argument, the one that you commented out, is the >argument for the "size" typescripts. As you only define the mv >alternative in [serif] [mystyle] [size], that makes perfect sense. > >For further details, look at the definition in type-ini, which reduces >down to: >\def\definetypeface[#1][#2][#3][#4][#5][#6] > {\usetypescript[#3,map][#4][name,default,\typefaceencoding,special] > \usetypescript[#3][#5][size]} > >In the commented out version, there's no #5, so it defaults to the >[serif] [default] [size] typescript. There's no \mv definition there, so >ConTeXt complains. When you correctly tell ConTeXt where to look, all is >right with the world. ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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