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Beginner's font flop fixed: fantastic!
by Paul R Martin 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Dear ConTeXters, This message is to record my thanks to Thomas A.Schmitz for the solution to my font flop, and to Otared Kavian and Hans Hagen for helpful comments. I've planted the solution in the context garden at <http://contextgarden.net/Talk:My_Way>. If I hear voices of encouragement I could write up the solution as a My Way. Would this sort of problem be common enough to make such a document useful for beginners, or should I just get back to more important things such as finding out what a_foekepot_ looks like? Yours, PRM

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scaling symbols
by Janko Hauser 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hello I followed Adams nice way, to include unicode symbols. Now I want to ask, how these can be scaled, so that they can be used more like small figures. Any hints? TIA, __Janko Hauser

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\newbibfield[help!] : Very quick question.
by David Wooten 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Greetings all, In working with the bib module, I've been trying to understand the addition of a field. There is a "\newbibfield" command, but it is not entirely clear where to declare it. E.g., I want to have a field called "yearnote". If I place this in the list of commands in the t-bib.tex file, and call for it with "\insertyearnote" in the \setuppublicationlayout, it works perfectly. But declaring \newbibfield[yearnote] yields me an "undefined control sequence". Is there a special place to declare the latter? — I've tried in my current file, before and after \starttext, in the .bbl file, before and after \setuppublicationlist… no luck! Regards, David

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Antykwa torunska en oldstyle figures
by Willi Egger 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi, In the latest versions of the Antykwa Torunska fonts there are also oldstyle figures. Though I have no problem to get \os{3} typeset I am not able to have the date tpeset with oldstyle figures. How can I achieve that? \currentdate[dd,{.~},mm,{.~},year] KR Willi

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Re : My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by GEERT＠telefonica.net 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I had exactly the same problem today after updating from an older tetex/context to the latest version of tetex. Problem seems to be some modifications in pdftex. After moving my type1 fonts (that previously worked fine) with their tfm, afm and type1 files to the new $HOME/.texmf-var/fonts folder, putting the map files in $HOME/.texmf-var/fonts/map folder and including those mapfiles with updmap, texexec generated the pdf file with pk bitmap fonts. Although I believed that tex could find all necessary font files and mapfiles, it was only after explicitly adding \loadmapfile[myownfonts.map] in the tex file, that everything suddenly worked fine (this was not necessary in my old tetex/context setup). Don't know if this will work with your chinese fonts, but you could give it a try.... geert

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RE: [NTG-context] My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by Idris Samawi Hamid 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Recently I installed the latest stable version of ConTeXt under MiKTeX >(b20050215). >To use Chinese characters in ConTeXt, I installed some Chinese Type1 fonts >and related map/enc files. >However, I found "texexec --pdf foo.tex" cannot read Type1 Chinese fonts. >In this case, ConTeXt uses pk fonts (generated from ttf fonts), and finally >I got pdf files with very low quality. I use fpTeX, so I may be missing something... Question: Do you have both ttf and pfb versions of the same font? If so, try removing the ttf version (and refresh fndb). I think that it is much better to have separate map files for your add-on fonts, instead of adding them to psfonts.map (of course you will have to edit your dvips and dvipdfm configuration files as well if you do this). Make a dedicated map file for your font and place it in your local \fonts\map\pdftex\context. See, e.g., texnansi-urw-times.map for syntax. Refresh the fndb, and try again. If things still don't work, compile a very simple file that uses that font and send a copy of your log file to the list. Then somebody will be in a better position to determine what's wrong. A final possibility (but I'm not sure if this will work for Chinese or other non-Latin fonts): remove all reference to your font from your ConTeXt system (tfm's, map's, ttf's, pfb's, etc). See if texfont can install your font. Place the pfb's in a temporary directory and run texfont --ma --in --ve=<maker of your font> --co=<your typeface name> This should install the font for you, with proper map files, tfm's, etc. My only worry is that texfont may need some additional encoding information for Chinese. Don't give up! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Problem with the bib module (yeah, so what else is new)
by Nikolai Weibull 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

OK, another one of those "hey, the bib module has an issue"-kind of mails. The problem is that \bibdoif and its relatives don't work. They always evaluate to true. I have tried to figure out why this is so, but I'm just not good enough at reading TeX macros (yet). The main problem is that I want to do something like this for my \setuppublicationlist: \doglobal\newif\ifBIBLoutputbeforesurname \global\BIBLoutputbeforesurnamefalse \def\BIBLwholename#1#2#3#4#5% {\bibdoif{#1}{#1\unskip\bibalternative\c!firstnamesep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}% \bibdoif{#4}{#4\unskip\bibalternative\c!firstnamesep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}% \bibdoif{#2}{#2\unskip\bibalternative\c!vonsep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}% \ifBIBLoutputbeforesurname \else \unskip% \BIBLoutputbeforesurnamefalse% \fi #3\bibalternative\c!surnamesep% \bibdoif{#5}{#5\unskip}} The problem is that one can't have \author[]{}[]{}{Organization} without extra spaces appearing before the Organization. Another issue is that extra spaces occur between the first and last name in the \normalauthor style, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: minimalistic.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by 李树钧 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi all, I am a Chinese beginner of ConTeXt. Recently I installed the latest stable version of ConTeXt under MiKTeX (b20050215). To use Chinese characters in ConTeXt, I installed some Chinese Type1 fonts and related map/enc files. However, I found "texexec --pdf foo.tex" cannot read Type1 Chinese fonts. In this case, ConTeXt uses pk fonts (generated from ttf fonts), and finally I got pdf files with very low quality. As a comparison, "texexec foo.tex" + dvipdfm (or dvips+ps2pdf) works well to produce good pdf files. As we know, now pdftex.cfg cannot be used to load font map files. So I added the map file of Chinese Type1 fonts into miktex\config\updmap.cfg and run initexmf --mkmaps to insert the fonts to psfonts.map. This works well for pdftex, but doesn't work for ConTeXt. I don't know why and cannot go further. Can any one offer some help to solve this problem? Thanks in advance. best regards, Shujun Li http://www.hooklee.com/tex.html _________________________________________________________________ 免费下载 MSN Explorer: http://explorer.msn.com/lccn/

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Beginnner's question: fumbling with font finding failures.
by Paul R Martin 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Dear ConTeXters, I'm a newcomer to ConTeXt and to this congenial and obviously active list: please bear with me and read my story. I'll be much more succinct in future. Last week, I installed TeTex and ConTeXt [Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther"]. I'm working my way through the "Excursion" and "This Way/ My Way" documents. They are great documents, ConTeXt is a great package, and I've had some timely tips from Hans Hagen (Hail thee, Hans!). I've made some good progress. I have learned the difference between a _Hasselter juffer_ and a _Hasselter bitter_, but I'm still not sure what one does with a _foekepot_. I suspect that it's a percussion instrument, but that's beside the point. I have a history of user-level LaTeX formatting in my distant past. I've mostly been stuck in the dark, ragged, dreary, world of MS Office for the past decade, so you can understand my joy to see beautiful, colourful .pdf pages rolling up my screen, as a result of typing straightforward, comprehensible formatting commands in a plain text ascii file. As my fellow Australians would say: ** You little ripper! ** Now, I've managed to side-step some menacing signs of absent fonts as I progressed. My goals are straightforward (technical documentation and scientific writing), so I've been happy to accept the font fallback/replacement routines. Further, my glimpses into the pages and pages of information about font handling make me think that it's a kind of bad neighbourhood for a person like me to enter, just as it was when TeX and I were young. But now I've struck the following blockade in my quest to produce a 'My Way' document, which I did by simply 1) cutting and pasting the source code from the page 3 of My Way #0 [mag-0000.pdf] 2) changing the author name, and 3) saving the resultant text as [mwy-000-Test.tex], then 4) running the perl "texexec" script on it. OK, don't snicker, it may not be such a silly thing to try. I'm sure there are other people who might try this kind of approach. Here is the gist of the result -- ellipses mark my deletions. ------------------------------START--------------------------- [nvri-hayden:~/Documents/ConTEXt/MyWay] paulm% texexec --color --pdf mwy-000-Test TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 ... system : macros of module mag-01 loaded ... (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type- akb.tex)kpathsea: Running mktextfm uplr8t mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.3) kpathsea: Running mktexmf uplr8t ! I can't find file `uplr8t'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: uplr8t.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t' failed to make uplr8t.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ... ! Font \*palatino12ptrmtf*:=uplr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file no t found. ... ---------------------------------------------FINISH------------------- [etc etc, I think that 'nonstopmode' might have been why this loop continued for the next 120 seconds. BTW I typed 'Q' in response to the input file name request above]. Now, it's obvious from the ContextGarden that I've probably missed some step in font configuration. But when I start to look in the numerous sources of advice, I strike the usual frustration. There are lots of statements (lots and lots of 'em!) about checking and un-commenting and configuring, but I can find no list of *prioritised* things for beginners to try, in the order which they should be tried, in order to solve what looks to be a simple and typical problem. Without such a set of instructions, I'm loath to change anything in my configuration, for fear that the cure might be worse than the disease. I'd love to try to understand the source of the error, and how to handle fonts professionally, and lots of other things as well. But I'm a busy scientist with many other commitments. As long as ConText is working I'm happy, but I can't devote much time to delving into errors. So I may not be a typical participant in this list. But if you help me, you will help to make ConTeXt more accessible to others like me, and this will be good for the cause, _nes pas?_ I'd be happy to write a my way document or contribute a Wiki page on this topic to encapsulate any good advice for myself and other neophytes. Yours, P. Paul R Martin National Vision Research Institute of Australia Tel: +613 9349 7481 prmartin(a)unimelb.edu.au

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presentation in ConTeXt
by 정 달영 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi all, It is my first mail to this list. I am using XeTeX and XeTeX + ConTeXt environment for my most files for sometime. It worked fine and the output is really great. I'd like to use it to create a presentation instead of using LaTeX + beamer. I have seen many output samples of the presentation styles like s-pre-#.tex. But I didn't find how to use it in the ConTeXt manual. Recently, I googled and found some files for presentation including Hraban's source, but I didn't succeed. I try to compile it in the pure ConTeXt environment, texexec --pdf project_pdf-info.tex and got some error messages. ..... bodyfont : bodyfont 16pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 16pt is defined (can better be done global) system : macros of module chart loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/m-chart.tex XML : loading flowchart support )) systems : end file env_pdf-info at line 3 systems : begin file prd_grundlagen at line 46 (./prd_grundlagen.tex ! Undefined control sequence. \StartTitlePage ...lign [right] \stelinterliniein \vfil \let \\=\vfil l.4 \StartTitlePage ? x No pages of output. ..... Now I am using OS X 10.3.8 and Gerben's installation. What should I do to remove this error? Is there any place or samples to show "how to create presentation"? I am sorry if it is too well known subject. Regards, Dalyoung

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figures move in newly installed contex/tetex
by GEERT＠telefonica.net 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi, Up to now, I have been using a rather old version of context (2003, the one that comes with FC3 linux for instance). I decided to download the latest version of tetex (3.0) which also comes with pdftex 1.21a and texexec 5.2.4 After realizing the changes in pdftex and struggling for about a day to get my type1 fonts working again (I knew this would happen, it's simply part of the game.....) I saw another problem, and I'm rather clueless on this one : I have a 140 pages document with about 60 pictures in it. The whole document is in landscape and in 3 columns. I did place all the figures with the same command : \plaatsfiguur[forceer][reffiguur1]{}{\externfiguur[figuur1.jpg][breedte=6cm]} In my previous tetex/context version, all figures appeared exactly where I defined them. Since the upgrade, figures appear sometimes spread over two columns, sometimes the text in the column adjacent to the figure starts below the figure (but on the next column) instead of besides the figure..... Is there something new with the figures placing mechanism in this newer context version that I am not aware of ? Geert

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bibmodule requests
by Stefano 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I have been using the bibmodule for a couple of weeks now, and it works great! ... but, I have run into some situations that are not considered. (1) It would be nice to visually distinguish the cited author using a different font or style in the text. I was able to add \c!authorstyle to \setupcite and make changes to the appropriate areas in the t-bib.tex module. I suppose I could also add a \c!yearstyle as well to allow for old style figures. In my case, I set \c!authorstyle={\em} (2) Another situation arises when dealing with multiple references from the same author in the same year. The years have a lower case letter added, such as 1995a, 1995b, 1995c, etc. For example, let's say I have three entries: article1 ... 1995a article2 ... 1995b article3 ... 1995c These entries are labelled a,b,c when using BibTeX to process the .bib file to the .bbl file. Unfortunately, the .bbl file contains all entries, since the .aux file contains the line \citation{*}. If I cite article2 and article3 in my document, the publication list uses 1995b and 1995c and my citations use the same years, and doesn't start with 'a'. The only way I have found to remedy this situation is to create a .bbl file that only contains the BibTeX entries which I have cited. These cited entries are listed in the .tui file that texexec creates. Unfortunately, the .tui file requires the entire .bbl file in order to list the entries cited ... so I have devised the following process ... step 1) run BibTeX using an .aux file that contains the line \citation{*} step 2) run texexec document --once (this creates .tui with the list of cited entries) step 3) rename the .aux to ._au file step 4) use the ._au and .tui files to create a new .aux which only lists the entries cited instead of \citation{*} ... for example ... \citation{Smith2001} \citation{Jones1995} \citation{Smith1999} ... etc. step 5) run BibTeX again ... this will create a .bbl which only contains the cited entries, ensuring that the years are labelled correctly i.e. 1995a, 1995b, etc. step 6) run texexec document to create the final document Is there any consideration to having .aux file created by texexec based on the entries cited in the document? I ended up creating a batch file to do this so it's not really an issue for me. Is there a better way to do this? (3) Another issue I found is when using the \cite[year][label1,label2,label3,etc.] and I have years such as 1995a, 1995b, 1995c, etc. only one of those years is listed, while if I use \cite[author] or \cite[authoryear] or \cite[authoryears], all the required years are listed. Unfortunately, the grouped years are not in order i.e. 1995b before 1995a, but it looks like this depends on the ordering of the labels. (4) Another issue is with regards to the author names in the publication list. The first author is typically inverted (last name before first name), but all subsequent authors are normal (first name before last name) ... for example ... Smith, A.B, C.D. Jones, E.J. Doe, and J.T. Morgan ... The use of author styles such as \normalauthor \invertedshortauthor, etc. applies to the entire list of authors. Is there any way to specify one style for the first author and a different style for the second and subsequent authors? (5) Is it possible to have additional annotations with a citation? For example, if I want to refer to page 27 from Smith et al., I would have (Smith et al., 1995a, p. 27). Another possibility is to have (e.g. Smith et al., 1995a, p.27). I suppose I could blank out the brackets in \setupcite and do the following ... (e.g. \cite[smith1995], p.27) or create a custom \def such as \def\Cite[#1][#2][#3]{(#1 \cite[#2], #3)} and use it as such ... \Cite[e.g.][smith1995][p. 27] Any information is appreciated. Sincerely, Stefano

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How to check the version ConTEXt that is installed on my system?
by R S Ananda Murthy 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hello, Please tell me how to check the version of ConTEXt that is installed on my system. I am running Slackware 10.1. Thanks, Anand

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Multiple image directories
by Gerben Wierda 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

I tried to use two image directories, but that does not work. Can I do something like that? E.g. \setupexternalfigures[directory=../images,directory=../ mp,maxwidth=\textwidth] G

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\= in tables
by Idris Samawi Hamid 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Just in case this was missed-) On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:05:19 -0700, <ishamid(a)lamar.colostate.edu> wrote: Dear cartel, \= does not work in tables (I think that the TABLE macros define \= differently; why on earth would someone do that?!?). Is there a workaround? Idris =========================== % output=pdf interface=en \starttext \setupinterlinespace \setupfloats[location=center] \placetable [here][tab:test]{Test.} \starttable{|c|c|} \HL \VL macron ({\=a}) \VL accents ({\=a}) \VL\FR \HL \VL do not ({\=a}) \VL work ({\=a})\VL\NR \HL \VL in ({\=a}) \VL tables ({\=a}) \VL\LR \HL \stoptable \stoptext =========================== log: =========================== systems : begin file test4 at line 3 ! Misplaced \omit. \!ttLongHrule ->\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule l.11 \VL macron ({\= a}) \VL accents ({\=i}) \VL\FR =========================== -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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\typebuffer with typing name
by Vit Zyka 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Hi everybody, please consider: ----------------------------------- \definetyping[TEX] \setuptyping[TEX][option=TEX] \starttext \startbuffer[A] \somemacro[bla][obla=vbla] \stopbuffer \typebuffer[A] \stoptext ----------------------------------- It works perfectly. I would like to type buffer with options for typing, e.g. \typebuffer[A][TEX] but the second param is ignored. It seems to me, the definition of \typebuffer is preprepared for that, but not finnished. Or is there some solution that I omitted? (It is not crutial since I solved it by calling \typefile[TEX][]{\jobname-A.tmp} ) Thanks vit

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bibmodule: two small questions
by Thomas A.Schmitz 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

I've been playing with Taco's bibmodule, and I'm absolutely thrilled how easy it is to customize things. Once you've groked how things work, you can simply copy code from bibl-apa.tex and modify, it's just wonderful (OT: what does "apa" stand for in this abbreviation? For me, it's the American Philological Association, but I guess that's not meant here.) I even managed to typeset the numbers of my bibliography flushright in a \hbox and was very proud of myself. Two small questions remain: 1. Is there a general option to have the publicationlist typeset in a smaller font size? The default seems to be the general bodyfont, but I couldn't see where this could be modified. 2. The space between the items does not follow the normal interlinespace, but is fixed to a somewhat smaller value, which looks a bit bizarre. Is there any way to modify this behavior. But these are just cosmetic flaws, overall, the module works wonderfully. Very impressive! Best Thomas

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Greek in ConTeXt
by Thomas A.Schmitz 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Gang, during the last weeks, I've been working on two modules to support ancient (polytonic) Greek. THey are finished now and will be ready for download at Patrick's site soon. They require the latest ConTeXt beta 2005.03.16 (actually, some parts from these modules have been integrated into the main distribution). Moreover, I've written a MyWay about the process. Even if you're not particularly interested in Ancient Greek (rumor has it that some people might not be), this may be useful for you as it explains how I enabled support for Unicode TrueType fonts and utf-input, so this should be valid for other Unicode vectors as well. Patrick has agreed to host this MyWay at his site: http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/GreekInContext.pdf Hope this will be useful to some of you! Best wishes Thomas

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Problem with \type in captions
by Nikolai Weibull 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

\starttext \placefigure {\type{0|}} {} \stoptext gives me ! Argument of \next has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } <argument> ...p {\strutdepth }\begstrut \type {0|} \endstrut \endgraf \doattributes ...sname #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4 }\dostopattributes \putcompletecaption ...trut #3\endstrut \endgraf } \fi \dostopattributes \docheckcaptioncontent ...ecaption {#4}{#2}{#3}{0} }\ifdim \wd \tempcaptionbo... ... l.4 {} Remove the 0 and it works fine. Is there a quick fix?, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: minimalistic.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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RE: [NTG-context] footnote placement
by Idris Samawi Hamid 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

>\setupnote[endnote][location=none] > >\starttext > >\dorecurse{100}{test \endnote{eee}\endgraf} > >\page > >\placenotes[endnote] > >\stoptext For the record, this also works:-) %\setupnote[endnote][location=none] \setupfootnotes[location=none] \starttext \dorecurse{14}{\ReadFile{tufte}\footnote{\ReadFile{tufte}}\par} \page %\placenotes[endnote] \placefootnotes[location=none] \stoptext It seems that \endnote is also new; nice-) Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] footnote placement
by Idris Samawi Hamid 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== > \starttext >> \startbuffer[tufte] >> \input tufte >> \stopbuffer >> \startbuffer[knuth] >> \input knuth >> \stopbuffer >> \dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{\typebuffer[knuth]} \endnote{eee}\endgraf} > >it's \getbuffer else you indeed get a verbatim buffer (which is what type does); > >\dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{\input knuth } \endnote{eee}\endgraf} So \endgraf (or \par) is needed here; I should have guessed-) >also works; put a space or \relax after \input, else tex keeps scanning; >alternatively use \ReadFile{knuth} or \readfile{knuth}{}{} I definitely prefer the \ReadFile option. I could not find it (or \readfile{}{}{}) in ConTeXt Commands or texshow; must be new... What's the difference between these two commands? Also: given the ConTeXt philosophy, shouldn't there be a non-cryptic replacement for \par or \endgraf, something like \paragraph or \endparagraph? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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how to place figures next to each other
by Peter 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Dear list, How can I place two figures next to each other without using a \startcombination ... \stopcombination group? I now have this, but it is not what I want: \gebruikexternfiguur[kortoctaaf][cekort][type=eps,hoogte=30mm] \gebruikexternfiguur[gebrokenoctaaf][gebroken][type=eps,hoogte=30mm] \plaatsfiguur [hier] [fig:klavieren] {Enkele varianten van het groot octaaf} {\startcombinatie[2*1] {\kortoctaaf}{kort octaaf} {\gebrokenoctaaf}{gebroken octaaf} \stopcombinatie} I want to have the two figures numbered as seperate, independent figures, but when using a combination, the whole combination is treated as one figure and gets only one number and one label. XXXX XXXX X X X X XXXX XXXX fig.n fig.n+1 I've consulted the manuals and searched the list archives, but I have not found a solution. tnx in advance, Peter van Kranenburg

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Re: [NTG-context] Urgent index problem
by Duncan Hothersall 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

I wrote: > -- > \starttext > \startregister[index]{this term+in+particular} This term is discussed > from the start of this page.\page[yes] > Some more text about the term, and another page.\page[yes] > And the end of the info about that term. \stopregister[index]{this > term+in+particular}\page[yes] > A page unrelated to that term.\page[yes] > \index{this term+in+particular} And then another page on exactly the > same term.\page[yes] > \placeindex\page[yes] > Disaster! The entry on page 5 has been eaten! > \stoptext > -- I realise that there is a workaround for the sample above, using the literal ASCII string in [] which makes this specific example work. Unfortunately this doesn't make everything work correctly in a larger document. I'm now seeing two other specific behaviours as well: 1. When there is a range and a single entry, the range is sometimes listed first in the index, even if the single entry is many pages before it - i.e. 282-283, 170 2. On other occasions where a range and a single entry exist, I end up having a strange three-way range in the index - like 282-283-349. The last reference should be just a single one on its own. It's really difficult to post a minimal file for these because they only occur when the whole text is processed (several hundred pages). I have just synchronised my tree this morning and no difference is made. Any help, especially today, VERY gratefully received. Duncan

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line wrap marker
by Stuart Jansen 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

We have lines of text that shouldn't be wrapped. If one line must be wrapped onto the next, we'd like to insert a visual mark at the end of the line and (hopefully) indent the next line slightly. Obviously, there's the potential for wrapping over multiple lines. I've dug around TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt, and none appear to support this yet. So far, ConTeXt has been the most enjoyable to work with, so I'm okay with a ConTeXt only answer. How hard will this be to implement? Where should I start looking to figure out how to do this? I'm hoping for an answer along the lines of "this set of macros will probably be helpful". -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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PDF Forms
by Bob Kerstetter 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hi, Is there some way to create PDF docs (as forms maybe?) so end users can add their own contact information and logos just by using Adobe Reader, not Acrobat? These are one to four page documents. Right now I can do this by supplying them with Word docs. Thanks.

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OT: metapost question
by Gerben Wierda 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Is it ok in a .mp file to do something like for k=1 step 1 until N: beginfig(k); % some stuff endfig; endfor; Thanks, G

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Using metapost stuff in ConTeXt
by Gerben Wierda 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Suppose I have a .mp file foo.mp, which contains some shared definitions and two images: beginfig(1); % some stuff endfig; beginfig(0); % some other stuff endfig; If I run mptopdf on this file I get foo-0.pdf and foo-1.pdf. And that works fine. But can I somehow interface directly from within ConTeXt to these images without doing the mptopdf myself in a way that the ConTeXt tools maintain the mp->image process, that these images are only recreated when the .mp file has changed and not on every run? Thanks, G

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protruding in the margin
by Steffen Wolfrum 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi, if I have a text with footnotes in the margin - see below. How do I also define those footnotes to use protruding? Steffen P.S. I know we had this already - but I forgot it. Sorry. \usetypescript [adobekb][ec] \usetypescript[serif] [hanging] [normal] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupalign [hanging] \setupbodyfont[times,10pt] \definenote[mynote][way=bypage,location=text,width=4cm,rule=,before=,factor=1] \setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape] \setuplayout[backspace=6cm,leftmargin=4cm,rightmargin=0cm,margindistance=.5cm,width=middle] \showframe \startbuffer[sometext] \input zapf \stopbuffer[sometext] \startbuffer[moretext] \input ward \stopbuffer[moretext] \setuptexttexts [margin] [\setups{flushmynotes}] [] \startsetups flushmynotes \vbox to \textheight{\placenotes[mynote]\vfill} \stopsetups \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \mynote{\getbuffer[sometext]} \input tufte \mynote{\getbuffer[moretext]}} \stoptext

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Urgent index problem
by Duncan Hothersall 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

I am one night from a deadline and I have just noticed that my index is silently ignoring some entries... Help!! The following demonstrates the problem (tested on live.contextgarden.net) -- \starttext \startregister[index]{this term+in+particular} This term is discussed from the start of this page.\page[yes] Some more text about the term, and another page.\page[yes] And the end of the info about that term. \stopregister[index]{this term+in+particular}\page[yes] A page unrelated to that term.\page[yes] \index{this term+in+particular} And then another page on exactly the same term.\page[yes] \placeindex\page[yes] Disaster! The entry on page 5 has been eaten! \stoptext -- So we have the same terms referenced as a span over pages 1 to 3, and as a single entry on page 5. But only the span appears, not the second entry! The .tuo file contains: \registerentry{index}{t} \registerentrya{index}{this term} \registerentryb{index}{in} \registerentryc{index}{particular} \registerfrom{index}{,}{1}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1} \registerpage{index}{,}{3}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::5}{5} \registerto{index}{,}{2}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::3}{3} so it looks like the sorting of these by page numbers has broken, and ConTeXt thinks that page 5 is between pages 1 and 3. I hope someone can help... Duncan

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my new page on layout
by Paul Tremblay 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

I've authored a new page on laying out pages in ConText. This page will be just one in a number of pages on using ConTeXt with XML. The new page can be found at http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html I would appreciate any feedback. I hope the page will be useful in helping others overcome some of the difficulty I had in trying to understand layout in ConTeXt. I believe it is very thorough. I hope it is clear (it contains many illustrations) and accurate. I put this page up on yahoo because it had so many graphics, and because trying to cut and paste the entire page to the wiki would have been too difficult. The yahoo location is just temporary. Probably I will create a sourceforge project to host the page. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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lmr (texnansi vs ec)
by ishamid 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Dear gang, Why does lmr in ConTeXt use the ec instead of the texnansi encoding? I just noticed that all of my macros that use, e.g., \char'25 are now bringing up the wrong symbols. Shouldn't ConTeXt default to the encoding most consistent with cmr (surely I am not the only one who depended on the old TeX encoding->) Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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lmr / latest beta
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi all, since I haven't used it for a long time (in ConTeXt terms), I decided to update my context before starting a major project. As usual, I grabbed the latest beta from pragma and installed it. The first thing I noticed was that context defaults to latin modern now - great. Unfortunately, it complained a lot about missing fonts like "ec-lmr12". The list archive helped to correct this by installing the contents of the cont-lmt zip. However, the fonts still are not found by pdftex. The resulting pdf is very small (1,5k), and acrobat reader complains about missing fonts. I tried adding the contents of ec-public-lm.map to pdftex.map. This resulted in a larger pdf (4,5k), with the font embedded according to acrobat, but showing as a blank page. I am rather confused by now - I always tried to avoid that font stuff whenever possible. What am I missing? Greetings, Eckhart

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Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout
by Duncan Hothersall 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

I appreciate the effort you've put into this, Paul, but > "This primary audience for this page is XML authors who want to use > ConTeXt to format an XML document." is still not enough of a disclaimer. I use ConTeXt as part of a large XML-based workflow, but don't use TeXML (nor do I use much of the built-in parser, except for MathML processing). There are very many ways to integrate ConTeXt into XML work, and it needs to be clear that this is just one of them. It is entirely worthwhile documenting it though, and thanks for doing that. [In case anyone is interested, we use a (commercial) programming language called OmniMark to process DocBook-based XML into pure ConTeXt + MathML, and then let ConTeXt produce pages from it. We also use OmniMark directly to produce HTML and databases from the same XML sources.] Duncan

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How to use Times Roman font for body text.
by R S Ananda Murthy 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Hello, How to use Times Roman font for body text? Thanks for your help, Anand

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OT: looking for metapost/fun examples
by Gerben Wierda 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

I am trying to learn metapost/fun, inline in ConTeXt source. Some basic things are clear, but now the issue is metapost itself. For instance, I would like to plot a Fourier approximation of a block function. For instance, I would like to plot a gaussian spread. I am looking for examples on how to do this. I need to do a bit of programming here and these are my initial projects. Thanks in advance, G

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RE: [NTG-context] meaning of HASH?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> ===== >ishamid wrote: >> Dear crew, >> >> Sometimes a line like >> >> Opt=HASH(0x1c43ab4) executable : pdfetex > > > > is appended before a texexec job; what does this mean? > >It looks like a perl debug print statement, because >something like > > print STDERR "Opt=$Opt" ; # check value of $Opt > >would give this effect. Thnx 4 the explanation Does the appearance of this indicate some misconfiguration that I should be concerned about, or is it completely benign? Thnx Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] extra_mem_bot.context
by ishamid 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> ===== >>This is a note for aleph users. In _both_ texmf.cnf files that come with the >>full ConTeXt distribution, you must comment the line >> >>%extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000 >>[\texmf\web2c, line 503] >> >>%extra_mem_bot.context = 2000000 >>[\texmf-local\web2c, line140] >> >>otherwise aleph will crash upon over/underfull >>boxes. >> >>This has actually been noted before; I don't know/remember if a solution was >>ever found. > >Now that's interesting. > >That same bug was plaguing XeTeX versions through 0.88. Jonathan Kew >tracked it down and quashed it. It's a little surprising that the same >thing appeared in e-Omega, as well. Perhaps Jonathan can help you track >it down. (And perhaps kill the bug at a common source?) This is wonderful news! Although, unless someone else can dive into the aleph code we will have to wait for Giuseppe to return from the purgatory of writing his doctoral dissertation (soon I hope->)... Any ideas for a workaround in the meantime? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] lmr (texnansi vs ec)
by ishamid 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Vit Zyka <vit.zyka(a)seznam.cz> ===== >ishamid wrote: >> Dear gang, >> >> Why does lmr in ConTeXt use the ec instead of the texnansi encoding? I just >> noticed that all of my macros that use, e.g., >> >> \char'25 > >lmr is defined for both ec and texnansi encodings (and even for qx). But >ec is default. Use > \usetypescript[latin-modern][texnansi] > \setupbodyfont[latin-modern] Ok; it just seems strange that texnansi is not the default, since that's closer to Knuth's original. Maybe its because I (like Knuth) am in America where we don't have accents-) >Ishamid, \char is wrong approach since it is encoding-dependent >definition. Use glyph name instead, like \endash, \Aacute. Are those names defined in Plain TeX? But that's a good idea anyway; I'll just depend on the ConTeXt framework. >But ... your glyph number 25 is not defined in the texnansi. So what it is? TeXBook, page 427, character '025 (in ec, \char'10 or \textbreve) Best and Thnx! Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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meaning of HASH?
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear crew, Sometimes a line like Opt=HASH(0x1c43ab4) executable : pdfetex is appended before a texexec job; what does this mean? Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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extra_mem_bot.context
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear musketeers, This is a note for aleph users. In _both_ texmf.cnf files that come with the full ConTeXt distribution, you must comment the line %extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000 [\texmf\web2c, line 503] %extra_mem_bot.context = 2000000 [\texmf-local\web2c, line140] otherwise aleph will crash upon over/underfull boxes. This has actually been noted before; I don't know/remember if a solution was ever found. Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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\= in tables
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear cartel, \= does not work in tables (I think that the TABLE macros define \= differently; why on earth would someone do that?!?). Is there a workaround? Idris =========================== % output=pdf interface=en \starttext \setupinterlinespace \setupfloats[location=center] \placetable [here][tab:test]{Test.} \starttable{|c|c|} \HL \VL macron ({\=a}) \VL accents ({\=a}) \VL\FR \HL \VL do not ({\=a}) \VL work ({\=a})\VL\NR \HL \VL in ({\=a}) \VL tables ({\=a}) \VL\LR \HL \stoptable \stoptext =========================== log: =========================== systems : begin file test4 at line 3 ! Misplaced \omit. \!ttLongHrule ->\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule l.11 \VL macron ({\= a}) \VL accents ({\=i}) \VL\FR =========================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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hyper interactions
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear syndicate, Are hyper interactions now restricted to pdfetex's pdf engine? Hyperlinks do not work in pdf produced by dvipdfmx, for either aleph of pdfetex dvi output. Idris =========================== % output=dvi interface=en \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=darkgreen] \starttext \chapter[ch-test]{Test} \in[sc-test]\input tufte \page \section[sc-test]{Test} \in[ch-test]\input tufte \stoptext =========================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Columnsets problems
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, Following Hans's presentation on ConTeXt in EuroTeX 2005, I started to use columnsets. I'm really really impressed. Columnsets are easy to set up and wonderfully powerful. Nevertheless, I have some problems with columnsets... On the page: http://typo.free.fr/context/ you'll find the source file (Bogues.tex) and the output (Bogues.pdf) or a zip file of them. Some info on my config: texexec : TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.03.16 cont-en : ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.19 mes: english cont-nl : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.3.19 mes: dutch Pages on the Bogues.pdf Description ---------- -------------------------------- 1 When a title (here: \Article{Le titre}) is inside a columnsetspan, header=empty doesn't work. 6 The right column continues in the footer. 10 Same problem. 17 a line from the left column is reported on the right column even if there is room for it on the left column. By the way, always in a columnsets context, is there a way to completely forbid floats on certain pages? I didn't find a way to tell placefigure not to allow figures to be renumbered during the placement. In other words, is there a possibility the follow the order in which I declare the figure, even if a page is less optimal like this... Thanks for your time! Gilles.

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\normalsize
by Peter Münster 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, is there a command, that switches to the normal font size (body-font)? I tried \tf, but it affects only the shape, not the size. TIA for any hint, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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bib: potential range of bibliography styles?
by dw＠trichotomic.net 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Greetings all, I'm leaning towards experimenting with the bib module to see if I can arrive at a usable "Semiotics Society of America" reference section, which is a historically layered style, along the lines of: --- PEIRCE, Charles S. 1859. "An Essay on the Limits of Religious Thought Written to Prove That We Can Reason Upon the Nature of God", MS 53, in W1:37-40 1982. Writings of Charles S. Peirce: a Chronological Edition, ed. Max Fisch, Peirce Edition Project. Five volumes. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982-98). TEILHARD de Chardin, Pr. P. 1961. (posthumously). Hymn of the Universe (New York: Harper & Row Torchbooks, English Edition, 1965). 1957. (posthumously). The Divine Milieu (New York: Harper & Row Colophon Books Edition, 1968). --- Aside from all the niggling details (which I'm sure could be worked out), is this kind of layout in general possible—all citations going by year underneath a single instance of the author? …or am I doomed to forever make these by hand? ;) Regards, David

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\showlayout curiosity.
by John R. Culleton 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

The following code should, by my calculations, generate two pages. However it generates five, one for \ShowLayout and four for \showlayout. Remove the t-layout module and the \ShowLayout statement and it still generates four. This is an inconvenience and not a deal breaker but I am curious about why the extra pages are created. ------------------------------------------- \setupoutput[pdftex] \definepapersize[bok][width=5.5in,height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[bok][letter] \setuplayout[width=middle,location=middle] \usemodule[t-layout] % \starttext \ShowLayout[units=in] \showlayout \stoptex ------------------------------------------ John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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Are there any ready-to-use book layouts in ConTEXt?
by R S Ananda Murthy 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, Are there any ready-to-use book layouts available in ConTEXt like Komascript-Book Class in LaTeX? Thanks for your help, Anand

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Headers and footers in backmatter
by Duncan Hothersall 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear all, I have noticed that when I set my index as a \chapter within the \startbackmatter...\stopbackmatter structure of a document, my headers and footers, including page numbers, disappear. Even the backgrounds disappear. The only commands I can find which seem to influnce the sectionblock behaviour are \setupsectionblock and \setupsection, but neither of these has a setting for page numbering or headers/footers. Looking through the sources hasn't helped me either. Can anyone shed any light on the mechanism for adjusting this behaviour? Thanks Duncan

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spilling endnotes
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear syndicate, Just a reminder: Even with the latest patch, the endnotes spill over the page (I double-checked that core-not was replaced and the format regenerated): =========================== % output=pdftex interface=en \starttext \dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{test} \endnote{eee}\endgraf} \page \placenotes[endnote] \stoptext =========================== Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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2 questions about texexec.ini
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear musketeers, 1. I just noted that texexec.ini for mswincontext.zip defaults to tetex, not fptex. Is that intentional? 2. Can I configure texexec.ini so that texexec --make generates the aleph format in addition to the pdfetex formats? (Of course this assume we can solve the search-paths-for-formats problem.) Thought: Knowing absolutely nothing about texexec's internals, I was thinking that one possible solution to the aleph format subdirectory problem is make another executable, say TeXExecutable2 and then set TeXExecutable2 to aleph A related possiblility is renaming the formats, say: co-al-en.fmt for aleph co-tx-en.fmt for tex etc. Just a stab in the dark from someone who know virtually nothing; never know when you might hit something... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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