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Path searches (good news!)
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear cartel, I've been trying to control the search paths with C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf, but I just realized that setuptex.bat overrides texmf.cnf. The way I found out is interesting: Upon running mktexlsr I get the line mktexlsr: c:/CONTEXT/tex/texmf-project is not a directory. Skipping... But in \texmf-local\web2c texmf.cnf has, not `texmf-project', but rather `texmf-projects' (with plural). And setuptex.bat is the only file that mentions `texmf-project';-) So now I have configured setuptex.bat to search TeXLive. The only hassle is that I must remember to back up my copy the next time ConTeXt updates. In case anyone else needs to do this (until Hans provides a better way;->) =========================== set TEXMFMAIN=%TEXPATH%texmf set TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXPATH%texmf-local set TEXMFFONTS=%TEXPATH%texmf-fonts set TEXMFEXTRA=%TEXPATH%texmf-extra REM set TEXMFPROJECT=%TEXPATH%texmf-project set TEXMFOS=%TEXPATH%texmf-mswin set VARTEXMF=%TMP%\texmf-var set HOMETEXMF=c:/TEXLIVE/texmf set HOMETEXMFVAR=c:/TEXLIVE/texmf-var <snip> REM set TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN ,$HOMETEXMF} set TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,$TEXMFMAIN,$HOMETEXMFVAR,$ HOMETEXMF} =========================== If I'm missing something or if there is a better/saner way please let me know. Now on to those other 3 problems in my previous email;-> Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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dvipdfmx/dvips and a summary
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear folks, The dvips/dvipdfmx problem is not limited to aleph in the latest ConTeXt: ===========test-3========== \setupoutput[dvi] \starttext abc \stoptext =========================== gives =========================== $>dvipdfmx test3 test3.dvi -> test3.pdf [1** Fatal error: Could not locate a virtual or a physical font file for 'ec-lmr 12'. ** ERROR ** $>dvips test3 This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro =========================== I suppose that the transition to lmr is at the root of this. Anyway, I think my own problems have been reduced to the following 4: 1. supp-dir needs to be modified or made into an optional module (e.g. m-xetex) (so I don't have to modify it every time I update ConTeXt); 2. aleph needs to be taught;-) to look for its format in its own subdirectory (related: an aleph.ini should be included so that the plain aleph.fmt can be compiled. I also think the minimal context should support plain.fmt, which helps in testing etc. right now manfnt is missing); 3. dvips/dvipdfmx need to be taught how to find lmr (and perhaps other fonts? a complete font torture test before every release and for users to do their own testing is desperately needed I think. ); 4. In order to use Gamma, either i. the basic omega files (with aleph replacing omega.exe) should be included in mswincontext.zip; or ii. I need to know how to get the \ConTeXt tree to properly search the \TeXLive tree for the omega files (and for other fonts like cmr, etc). Strangely, I was able to get \TeXLive\...\texmf.cnf configured to read the \ConTeXt tree, but I was not able to get \ConTeXt\...\texmf.cnf to be able to read the \TeXLive tree. Any idea why? Many many thnx to Hans for all his hard work; I look forward to a reliable ConTeXt:-))) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >ishamid wrote: > >> lines all over the place in my work that compiled fine with the old ConTeX, >> and I suspect that XeTeX may be responsible. Is there a way to completely >> isolate the new stuff because I'm going to lose a lot of time trying to track >> down every situation where my previously well-behaved stuff now gives errors >> because of this. > >just put \endinput atthe topmost lin eof supp-dir.tex and remake the format Those problems I told you about in a private email are still being caused by supp-dir, even after \endinput. I played around with supp-dir and thise following works;-) ========================================================== \unprotect \chardef\inlinedirection\zerocount % 0==notset 1==LR 2==RL \beginETEX \beginL % \def\pardir#1#2#3% messages end up in a higher level command % {\global\TeXXeTstate\plusone % \if#2L\chardef\inlinedirection\plusone\else % \if#2R\chardef\inlinedirection\plustwo\fi\fi % \checkinlinedirection} % needed / added %\appendtoks \checkinlinedirection \to \everypar % see core-ini.tex \def\checkinlinedirection {\ifcase\inlinedirection\or\beginL\or\beginR\fi} \endETEX \protect \endinput ========================================================== It seems that the \checkinlinedirection is still needed or I get other errors. I hope that you and Adam can up with something that won't kill me next time:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > BTW: > > > > Is there also a command to translate TFM (and VF) files to AFM or > > another human readable format and back again? > > There exist the Knuthian programs tftopl (for tfm only) and > vftovp (for virtual fonts) that convert to 'property list' > format. The format is an ASCCI representation, but Whether or > not you think this is human readable depends on what kind of > human you are ;-) > > Anyway, the commands should be part of your installation already. > > Taco The idea was to translate TFM (and VF?) in a readable format, and back again, in order to be able of making little kerning adjustments: When the font is already Tex-installed and in use, but finally there is one kerning pair that doesn't look good enough, I wanted to be able to make this particular adjustment in the kerning table without starting from AFM and going the whole conversion and installation way again. Steffen

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RE: [NTG-context] New List: SemiTeX (*Tex for the Semitic Languages)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi Fred, This is very interesting and, certainly, I'd like to join (though your email address in hidden in this particular posting->) Also consider merging this with the aleph list, because the aleph list was also intended to discuss most of the same issues, even multilingual TeX issues that do not pertain to aleph directly. I hope that the XeTeX people (Hi Adam!) will post their bidi developments to the aleph list as well, so we can all be in better sync in the future:-) The aleph list is low volume and can certainly easily handle the issues you mention without boring anyone;-) I'm also working on an advanced replacement to ArabTeX, scheduled for release later this year. I can send you some samples (just send me your email address) Eventually I'd like to see the aleph capabilities merged into pdfetex, which will make my ConTeXt life much easier (Hi Hans;->) We live pretty close to one another; I'd be happy to stay in touch, talk, or even meet sometime. Take care Idris >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Hi, > >(My apologies for cross-postings) > >I would like to announce a new mailing list that I have created called >"SemiTeX." > >This is intended to be a forum for people concerned with typesetting >Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Amharic, and any other Semitic and/or >right-to-left languages using the various flavors of *TeX (LaTeX, >XeTeX, ConTeXt, etc). ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi Hans, >===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >at the moment the best way of dealing with is is to use texexec's engine handler; > >locate texexec.ini (or rme) and set > >set UseEnginePath to true > >after that pdfetex, aleph, xetex, mpost etc will end up on their own path. I have done that previously and, yes, I do get the subdirectories. But that's not the problem. The problem is that aleph is searching for its format in pdfetex's subdirectory: This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force ---! c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex How do we make aleph search its own subdirectory? Just to be sure, texexec --verbose gives setting : 'UseEnginePath' to 'true' for 'all' Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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New List: SemiTeX (*Tex for the Semitic Languages)
by Frederick Hoyt 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi, (My apologies for cross-postings) I would like to announce a new mailing list that I have created called "SemiTeX." This is intended to be a forum for people concerned with typesetting Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Amharic, and any other Semitic and/or right-to-left languages using the various flavors of *TeX (LaTeX, XeTeX, ConTeXt, etc). Issues that I foresee being relevant include (but are not limited to): - Font issues related to the Semitic languages - Formatting issues related to formatting right-to-left text - Issues related to editors useful for right-to-left languages I have created the list because I thought it would be useful to have a forum in which people can feel free to ask detailed questions specific to typesetting Semitic without having to worry about boring others, and in the hope that having a forum like this might help create some critical mass of interest for creating an coherent approach to using the Semitic languages in TeX. The list is currently configured as "closed" (the list owner - myself - adds subscribers, in order to eliminate spam as much as possible), "unmoderated" (postings go straight out to subscribers), "digested" (you can get messages in daily digest form if you choose), and "archived" (the archives are currently available only to subscribers). If you wish to join, please send me an email including the email address you wish to be subscribed under, as well as the name you wish to have used. Thanks, Fred Hoyt Frederick M. Hoyt Linguistics Department University of Texas at Austin

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

BTW: Is there also a command to translate TFM (and VF) files to AFM or another human readable format and back again? Steffen

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >> Sounds like supp-dir needs a no-Omega check, as well. Hans? > >attached for testing, i dunny what the pardir equivalents are for \beginL and >\beginR -) Ok, the new supp-dir.tex helps. But there is another problem. Now my following macros are messed up (used in our private ar-cont.tex) \let\beginRL=\leavevmode\startarabictext \let\endRL=\stoparabictext \catcode`\<=\active \catcode`\>=\active \defineactivecharacter < {\enclosedarabic} \def\enclosedarabic#1>{\struttedbox{\beginRL#1\endRL}} Aleph complains that (\end occurred inside a group at level 2) ### semi simple group (level 2) entered at line 102 (\begingroup) ### simple group (level 1) entered at line 102 ({) ### bottom level Can you fix the XeTeX macros so that this is no longer affected? I also have some otp's that use the \beginRL\endRL syntax; I'm afraid that's all going to be negatively affected now... Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] 5 major problems with mswincontext.zip
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >ishamid wrote: > >> 2. aleph is still searching its format in the wrong directory; its format is >> properly installed in >> \texmf-mswin/web2c/aleph/ > >can you try what happens when you add the following lines to your texmf.cnf file > >(you can edit the file with: texmfstart --direct scite kpse:texmf.cnf) > >TEXFORMATS.xetex = $TEXFORMATS/{xetex,}// >TEXFORMATS.aleph = $TEXFORMATS/{aleph,}// >TEXFORMATS.pdftex = $TEXFORMATS/{pdftex,}// >TEXFORMATS.pdfetex = $TEXFORMATS/{pdfetex,}// Regenerated the formats after editing \texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf Unfortunately it still gives the same error. Please advise;-> Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >> Sounds like supp-dir needs a no-Omega check, as well. Hans? > >attached for testing, i dunny what the pardir equivalents are for \beginL and >\beginR -) Not to belabor this, but I'm getting ### simple group (level 1) entered at line lines all over the place in my work that compiled fine with the old ConTeX, and I suspect that XeTeX may be responsible. Is there a way to completely isolate the new stuff because I'm going to lose a lot of time trying to track down every situation where my previously well-behaved stuff now gives errors because of this. This has been a really frustrating week... Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Translations of "Context: an excursion"
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hello, I asked Hans at EuroTeX 2005 in Pont-à-Mousson the permission to translate _Context: an excursion_ into French on behalf of GUTenberg, the French user group, and a German person (sorry, I forgot your name :-( ) did the same for the German language. Hans kindly agreed and prefers to have translations on a more recent document so here is a wiki page*: http://contextgarden.net/Revision_and_translations_of_“ConTeXt%2C_an_excurs… created on the ConTeXt wiki (thanks Patrick!). The goal of this page is to outline sections that need to be updated or erased or added. Please participate! :-) Gilles. * If the link doesn't work in your mailer, go to http://contextgarden.net/Typos_in_beginners_manual and follow the link to >>Revision and translations of "ConTeXt, an excursion"<<.

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RE: [NTG-context] 5 major problems with mswincontext.zip
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >> 1. Zapf Chancery has disappeared (the other free fonts in showfonts.pdf still >> work): >strange indeed, it looks like the files are corrupted (very small tfm/vf files); > you can regenerate the metrics with: > >texmfstart texfont.pl type-tmf.dat --en=texnansi --ven=urw -col=zapfchan ok, it works now:-) Thnx Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Chapter numbers in the right margin
by Randall Skelton 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi all, Does anyone have a setuphead snipit and definition to place a large chapter number in the right margin of the page on the first page of each chapter? I believe this should be similar (but simplier) than what is done in 'ConTeXt an Excursion' but I wasn't able to find a definition for that. I'd be quite willing to put this up on the wiki when I figure it out... What I have so far doesn't really lead to much flexibility in terms of positioning. I'd like to be able to set both the horizontal and vertical position of the chapter number. I'd also like to have the number shift vertically downwards for each new chapter. \def\MyChapterText#1{#1 \inright{ \switchtobodyfont[MyTitling, 72pt] \rm \headnumber[chapter] } } \setuphead [Topic, chapter] [textcommand=\MyChapterText, style={\switchtobodyfont[MyTitling, 16pt]\sc}, color=black, number=no, page=right, continue=no, header=empty, before=\vbox to 4cm\bgroup, after=\vss\egroup] Many thanks, Randall

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5 major problems with mswincontext.zip
by ishamid 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Dear conglomerate, Ok, I've installed mswincontext.zip, dated 3-16, refreshed fndb, set UseEnginePath to true and so forth. 4 Problems: 1. Zapf Chancery has disappeared (the other free fonts in showfonts.pdf still work): ========================== \definetypeface [zapf] [cg] [calligraphy] [chancery] \switchtotypeface [zapf] [12pt,cg] Zapf Chancery \input tufte.tex ========================== Log file: =========================== This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) (format=cont-en 2005.3.21) 21 MAR 2005 17:38 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) **&pdfetex/cont-en typescripts2.tex (./typescripts2.tex <snip> (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-buy.tex) Missing character: There is no Z in font texnansi-uzcmi8a! Missing character: There is no a in font texnansi-uzcmi8a! <snip> Missing character: There is no . in font texnansi-uzcmi8a! ) fonts : using map file: texnansi-base fonts : using map file: texnansi-urw-zapfchan [1.1 Warning: pdfetex.exe (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file <snip> =========================== 2. aleph is still searching its format in the wrong directory; its format is properly installed in \texmf-mswin/web2c/aleph/ =========================== This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force ---! c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex =========================== 3. If I replace the pdfetex format with aleph.fmt, the latter works. It copiles fine on the following file, but neither dvips, odvips, or dvipdfm can find the fonts: =========================== % output=aleph interface=en \starttext Latin Modern \input tufte \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [times] [12pt,rm] Times \input tufte.tex \stoptext =========================== Also, aleph displays the strange "HASH" message: =========================== TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 Opt=HASH(0x1c44160) executable : aleph =========================== 4. That trick with the footnotes and endnotes is interesting, but the endnotes still 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 =========================== 5. I'm still concerned about getting ConTeXt to search my old \TeXLive tree secondarily. changing C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf does not seem to do anything (sigh ) == I really hope I can get everything working soon, because I've lost about a week's worth of deadlined writing fooling around with configuring ConTeXt (which is exactly what I was afraid would happen):-( Thnx in advance, and forgive my frustration-) Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Bold item separator?
by dw＠trichotomic.net 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Greetings, I can't seem to get an itemize list to have bold item separators, namely the "R" — UC Roman Numeral series. I bet it's really obvious *grinding teeth*. Anyone give me a clue? Regards, David

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hi Adam, Adam Lindsay <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote: > Okay, it was trickier than I thought. > But I used the .afm obtained from FontForge conversion, and discarded > the .pfb. > > afm2pl -p `kpsewhich texnansi.enc` HelveticaNeue.afm > pltotf HelveticaNeue > > Because I'm impatient, and wanted a quick test: > \loadmapline[+HelveticaNeue HelveticaNeue " TeXnANSIEncoding > ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <HelveticaNeue.ttf] > \starttext > \definedfont[HelveticaNeue] > TAVAT.Po > T{}A{}V{}A{}T{}.{}P{}o > \stoptext Your result looks promising - but duplicating your way showed me my command line limits: $ afm2pl -p `kpsewhich texnansi.enc` HelveticaNeue.afm afm2pl: fatal: default.lig not found. $ pltotf HelveticaNeue pltotf: HelveticaNeue.pl: No such file or directory As I have never used afm2pl or pltotf the usage above is praobably wrong. Or was my Fontforge export bad? (When I open the AFM exported by FontForge there are no entries for KerningPairs ...) And looking at your test file: where are your ttf and other files in this situation? Steffen

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bug in latest ConTeX
by ishamid 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Dear gang, There is a bug in the latest ConTeXt that affects aleph, particularly \pardir TRT. Needless to say this is an absolute showstopper... Try this: =========================== \pardir TLT test \bye =========================== $>aleph test works fine, but $>texexec --tex=aleph test gives an error: =========================== This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force entering extended mode (test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.21 int: english mes: english systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex color : palette rollover is available ) system : cont-old loaded (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:2 uk->ec:ec->2->2:2 de->texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:2 de->ec:ec->4->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:2 fr->ec:ec->6->2:2 es->ec:ec->7->2:2 pt->ec:ec->8->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->9->2:2 it->ec:ec->1 0->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->11->2:2 nl->ec:ec->12->2:2 cz->il2:il2->13->2:2 c z->ec:ec->14->2:2 sk->il2:il2->15->2:2 sk->ec:ec->16->2:2 pl->pl0:pl0->17->2:2 pl->ec:ec->18->2:2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : test.top loaded (./test.top) ! Undefined control sequence. \pardir #1#2#3->\global \TeXXeTstate \plusone \if #2L\chardef \inlinedirecti... l.1 \pardir TLT =========================== Two more notes: 1. There is a complaint that : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) 2. There is no aleph.ini file in mswincontext so I had to import it from \TeXLive to make the format. Also manfnt is missing in mswincontext; should not the minimal context installation also support the plain format? Thnx as always Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Adam Lindsay <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote: > It means that there's no \omacron in texnansi (or the other major > western encodings used for TeX fonts), and you're asking ConTeXt to > synthesise it from an 'o' and a 'textmacron'. It wouldn't surprise me > one bit to hear that the Mac handles combining accents differently from > TeX, and so the converted font's metrics is going to result in mistakes > in building text accents. > > Interpretation: you're using artificial test cases to verify the font > installation. Stick to what you need and know, and you'll probably end > up with a character in the encoding. No! I do need \omacron as I am typesetting the German translation of a Indian Yoga book ... with lots of Sanskrit (in latin alphabet plus all those diacritical accents)! > If you do need \omacron and the like, then you could hand-tune macros > that accommodate the specific font--see Idris's recent thread on > accents, or you could cook up an "expert" encoding (since MacOSX's > Helvetica does include that character) like Vit, and switch to that > encoding when you need the character, or you could even go with a big > unicode font install. I'll be documenting that process sometime. That would be quite interesting. (But for now I leave this workshop and use the HelveticaNeue to go on.) Thank you, Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Adam Lindsay <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote: > Hum. I haven't tried to replicate that here, but that looks like it > might be an encoding problem: ConTeXt doesn't know that you're using a > texnansi encoding, so it synthesises the characters using the > definitions in enco-def. Is the above file the only way you tested it? No, also with other conversion and in other files it is the same. > Does this help? > > \loadmapline[+Helvetica Helvetica " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " > <texnansi.enc <Helvetica.pfb] > \definefontsynonym[texnansi-Helvetica][Helvetica][encoding=texnansi] > > \starttext > \definedfont[texnansi-Helvetica] > R\d{o} R{\=o} R\~o > \stoptext Well, then the tilde moves in its right position. But the macron stays left. A font wizard knows what that means?! Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hallo Adam, Adam Lindsay <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote: > ...which I copied to the working directory. It should be included in > gwTeX. > > Running the command above should do it. > > > $ pltotf HelveticaNeue > > pltotf: HelveticaNeue.pl: No such file or directory > > The fatal error above didn't generate a .pl file, so the next command > wasn't able to use it. > > > As I have never used afm2pl or pltotf the usage above is praobably > > wrong. > > Or was my Fontforge export bad? > > > > And looking at your test file: where are your ttf and other files in > > this situation? > > > All in the working directory. I could then rename, put them in the > tex/fonts/ tree, and rehash, but that's it down to the essence. > > Here's another goodie: > ... Now it works. Very nice and clear ways to get it. But both goodies don't work with OSX's Helvetica.dfont If you try it with the .ttf you'll get: Error: pdfetex (file Helvetica.ttf): can't find table `OS/2' ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! And if instead you use the .pfb then you'll get the misplaced macrons and tildes that I've reported. Just try this: \loadmapline[+Helvetica Helvetica " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <Helvetica.pfb] \starttext \definedfont[Helvetica] TAVAT.Po T{}A{}V{}A{}T{}.{}P{}o \showfont[Helvetica] R\d{o} R{\=o} R\~o \page\showcharacters \stoptext I know the HelveticaNeue is more beautiful ... but nevertheless it would be interesting why there is the above error (and how it can be solved). Thanks for your help and support! Steffen

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how to use Times Roman font
by Xue Ruini 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hello everyone, I am a newbie to ConTeXt. I have no idea how to use the Times Roman font in ConTeXt. (in Latex, just \usepackage{times}) I found something like this: (http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html) % Times font \usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r] \setupbodyfont[pos] \starttext hellow, world \stoptext but an error occours: --------------------------------------------- kpathsea: Running mktexmf utmr8t ! I can't find file `utmr8t'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input utmr8t Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input utmr8t Transcript written on mfput.log. mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input utmr8t' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=utmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.2 \setupbodyfont[pos] ? ---------------------------------------------- I want to know what I can do with it. Thanks! Leo

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

> (When I open the AFM exported by FontForge there are no entries for >KerningPairs ...) Nonsense! I opened the wrong file (as I said: going crazy...) Sorry, Steffen

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images on wiki?
by Paul Tremblay 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Is there a way to upload images (png) to the wiki? Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi Adam, Adam Lindsay <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote: > I'd also ask why, if you have the superior Helvetica Neue working, > you're trying to get the plain, no-oblique Helvetica going as well. I > see it like the difference between LM and the original CM conversion... > the later interpretation is far superior, and much more subtly drawn. Yes it is, of course! But by using HelveticaNeue as is, there is no kerning information included. The result is quite poor, as you can imagine. And as I don't know how to set a proper kerning (in reasonable time) AND how to get it available in ConTeXt I see no other alternative than using Helvetica and use the kerning information that is included in Adobes afm/tfm/vf files (being part of tetex). But if someone want to show me the path to proper TeX kerning I'd also prefer HelveticaNeue, no doubt! Steffen

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How do I create a table like this in ConTeXt?
by Gerben Wierda 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

In LaTeX, a tabular environment produces a box which then can be part of another tabular. I tried to do the same with ConTeXt, but failed. Can someone tell me how to produce http://mail.rna.nl/~gerben/latex-table.pdf with ConTeXt? Thanks, G

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Available fonts
by ishamid 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Dear crew, Is there a list of prepackaged fonts/typescripts that comes with (fp/MiK/gw/te)TeX/ConTeXt? I think it is important for that info to be made very public. showfonts.pdf has at least some of them (plus a couple of non-free ones) but I don't know if this is an exhaustive set. A new ConTeXt user (especially one from a non-TeX background) should be able to easily find a list of the fonts/typescripts available in a full (fp/MiK/gw/te)TeX/ConTeXt system. If I am totally clueless and missed this info, then I apologize:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] 5 major problems with mswincontext.zip
by ishamid 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

I just checked: Not only aleph, but pdftex does not work with (o)dvips/dvipdfmx: =========================== \starttext Latin Modern \input tufte.tex \stoptext =========================== If I run (o)dvips from TeXLive, I get =========================== This is dvips(k) 5.94a Copyright 2003 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2005.03.21:1943' -> lm.ps kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000 --dpi 8000 ec-lmr12 mktexmf: empty or non-existent rootfile! mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr12.kpathsea: Appending f ont creation commands to missfont.log. dvips.exe: Font ec-lmr12 not found, characters will be left blank. =========================== If I run it from C:\ConTeXt I get =========================== This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro =========================== Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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hyphenation not working
by Paul Tremblay 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Has anyone else had problems with hyphenation? I have a brand new version of ConTeXt, and cannot get one of its main features, hyphenation, to work. I looked at the documentation, specifically the file called hypenation patterns. According to this, I should be able to invoke a took called ctxtools, or at least a tool called texmfstart ctxtools. Neither tool exists with my distribution. I do have a file called hyphen.tex. On Hans' suggestion, I copied this to ushyph1.tex and ushyph2.tex. That didn't help. I also changed my cont-usr.tex file, changing all lines that had ushyp* to hyphen. This also didn't work. I am at a loss, and I consider hyphenation pretty important. How do I proceed from here? Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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kerning and TFM problems
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi, I want to use OSX HelveticaNeue font. So I open it in FontForge and - because I'd like to use the kerning information - generate the Font with its PFB, AFM and TFM files. According to Bill's help page it should work by (renaming and) placing the phnr8r.tfm in its tfm folder, the phnr8a.afm and phnr8a.pfb in its respective folders (within my texfm-font tree). Then I need a mapfile texnansi-helveticaneue.map with the line: phnr8r HelveticaNeue 4 < phnr8a.pfb texnansi.enc And my test file looks like this: \loadmapfile[texnansi-adobe-helveticaneue.map] \definefontsynonym[HelveticaNeue][phnr8r][encoding=texnansi] \definefont[MySecondFont][HelveticaNeue] \starttext \MySecondFont I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew. \stoptext But it results in problems with the TFM file. Why? ! Font \**MySecondFont**=phnr8r at 12.0pt not loadable: Bad metric (TFM) file. <to be read again> \relax \dododefinefont ...ontspec {#2}\rawfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \redodefinefont #1#2#3->\dododefinefont {#1}{#2} \doifsetupselse {#3} {\setup... l.7 \MySecondFont I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold th... ? Steffen

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Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi, using HelveticaNeue (came with OSX) was fine. But using Helvetica (from OSX system fonts) just won't work: - when I have converted the .dfont to .pfb with FontLab the diaeresis of the german Umlaute (äöü) are too far to the right. - when I have converted the .dfont to .pfb with FontForge the diaeresis of the german Umlaute (äöü) are OK, but all other elements like Macron, Cedilla or Ogonek are too far to the left (!). Anybody knows this strange behaviour? And even better what to do to avoid this mess?? Steffen

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RE: Configuring 2 trees [was RE: [NTG-context] Times New Roman]
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >> 1. Remember that I need both aleph and pdfetex formats; can you do that? > >--engine could you give me an example of its use in building a format? >or in texexec.ini (rme): > >set UseEnginePath to true Ok, now I have \texmf-mswin\web2c\aleph \texmf-mswin\web2c\pdfetex but aleph is looking in the wrong directory: This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force ---! c:\CONTEXT\texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) Is there a configuration option I'm missing? Best Idris Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Export from Excel/Openoffice Calc to ConTeXt natural tables ??
by Michael Fuchs 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi! Does anybody have an idea how I can get a Openoffice Calc table in such a way exported, that I can directly use it in ConTeXt? Does anybody had a similar problem earlier? Thanks for your help in advance Michael

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Re: [NTG-context] Temporarily turning off hyphenation?
by Duncan Hothersall 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Gerben Wierda wrote: > \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} > \ClearChapterQuote > \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% > \startalignment[left]% > \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\nohyphens\em #1}% > \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} > \setuphead[chapter] > [page=left, > before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% > \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, > after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% > \noheaderandfooterlines] You should definitely not have the \starttext / \stoptext pair in there. There should only be one of those in an entire run - they come at the start of your content and the end. The following, tested on Live, produces something which looks like it might be what you're after: -- \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{% \startalignment[{left,nothyphenated}]% \startnarrower[4*left]\em #1% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] \starttext \def\ChapterQuote{Something quite long so that we can tell whether or not hyphenation has occurred, hopefully this will do.} \chapter{test} Some text \stoptext -- Duncan

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RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Matthias Weber <matweber(a)indiana.edu> ===== >The following should work with the stable ConTeXt from January: > >\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] >\setupbodyfont[pos] > >\usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] >\setupbodyfont[times,12pt] > >\starttext >\input knuth >\bigskip > >\stoptext On my system, using the above, the following happens (why??): ============================================ This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) (format=cont-en 2005.3.18) 20 MAR 2005 16:52 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. (c:\CONTEXT\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) **&pdfetex/cont-en times.tex (./times.tex <snip> (c:\CONTEXT\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ptmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.4 \setupbodyfont[pos] ? ============================================ But if I comment the first two lines, it works: ============================================ %\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] %\setupbodyfont[pos] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext ============================================ Another way: ============================================ \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [times] [12pt,rm] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext =========================================== BTW, what are the lines \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[pos] for? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Temporarily turning off hyphenation?
by Gerben Wierda 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I haven't been able to find information about temporarily turning off hyphenation. Can it be done? (This is for a non-justified quote at the start of a chapter) G

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RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > >Unfortunately, error again: Yes, an error here as well. Did you try the two other ways I mentioned in my other reply: ============================================ %\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] %\setupbodyfont[pos] % note the comments \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext ============================================ Another way: ============================================ \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [times] [12pt,rm] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext =========================================== If neither of these two work then something is really wrong... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Repost: Two problems with my chapter quote setup (Modified by Gerben Wierda)
by Gerben Wierda 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I forgot one part at the end. Here it is again. I've got this in my environment file: \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% \startalignment[left]% \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\hyphenpenalty 10000\em #1}% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] I've got two problems with this setup: First, even with the \hyphenpenalty I get this line breaking: For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isa- iah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday (Interestingly, when I copy/paste this from Apple's Preview.app I get For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isaiah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday) no -, no line break, etc. Anyway: this line breaking is really ugly. I can fix this by hand, but I'd rather have this working automatically. My second problem is that I get two empty numbered pages between chapters. As in page 13: last text of chapter 1 page 14: empty page with page number page 15: empty page with page number page 16: page with quote and no page number page 17: first page of chapter 2 no page number I'd like to get rid of pages 14 and 15. I think I need to only do a page=left when I am on a right page at that time (page=even has the same result) I even tried: \setuphead[chapter] [page=disable, before={\page[even]\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] Thanks, G

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Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons
by dw＠trichotomic.net 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Greetings, hopefully this is a real quickie. I'm using XeConTeXt, regime UTF, language en, hoefler encoding uc & receiving a barred l for any instance of this: l/ Which makes it tough to have pairs like centripetal/centrifugal. :) Any clues? Kind regards, David

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Two problems with my chapter quote setup
by Gerben Wierda 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I've got this in my environment file: \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% \startalignment[left]% \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\hyphenpenalty 10000\em #1}% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] I've got two problems with this setup: First, even with the \hyphenpenalty I get this line breaking: For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isa- iah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday (Interestingly, when I copy/paste this from Apple's Preview.app I get For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isaiah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday) no -, no line break, etc. Anyway: this line breaking is really ugly. I can fix this by hand, but I'd rather have this working automatically. My second problem is that I get two empty numbered pages between chapters. As in page 13: last text of chapter 1 page 14: empty page with page number page 15: empty page with page number page 16: page with quote and no page number page 17: first page of chapter 2 no page number I'd like to get rid of pages 14 and 15. I think I need to only do a page=left when I am on a right page at that time (page=even has the same result) Thanks, G

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RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Don't know if this is related but >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Hi Matthias! > >Unfortunately, error again: >------------------------------------------------------- > > TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 Your TeXecec is very old; I'm using TeXExec 5.2.4 >ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.3.19 int: english mes: english We are apparently using the same version of ConTeXt, minus TeXexec. Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Title-page overlay
by Nikolai Weibull 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I would like to put a rather large and complicated regular expression into the title-page of a document I'm writing. So far, I haven't had much luck defining an overlay that uses \starttyping ... \stoptyping. Basically, what I figured I should do was to write \defineoverlay [TitleGraphic] [{ \starttyping ... \stoptyping }] and then \setupbackgrounds[page][background=TitleGraphic] But that doesn't work: ! Argument of \copyverbatimline has an extra }. Have any suggestions on what I might try? Basically, what I want is a background with some arbitrary text, more or less like the pdfTeX user manual document does it [1], nikolai [1] http://www.pragma-ade.com/pdftex/pdftex-a.pdf -- ::: 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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Layout stuff
by Adam Lindsay 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi all. I've been trying to get layouts working, and wanted to verify some things (as I haven't really worked much in that space before). Is there any way to "inherit" a layout's parameters, such as: \definelayout [preset-1-1] [mypresettomodify] \setuplayout [mypresettomodify][width=65\averagecharwidth] (I finally figured out how to do what I want another way, but the question is still interesting to me.) Is the only way to activate a doublesided page layout though the page numbering mechanism? Thanks, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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RE: Configuring 2 trees [was RE: [NTG-context] Times New Roman]
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From h h extern <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:31:44 +0100, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: >> >>> i'll upload a new minimal (beware, tex live 2005 binaries), as well as >>> the big windows zip (will take a few hours) >> >> >> Any word on that? I saw something dated 3-16-05; I'm assuming that's not >> it (since your email is dated a day later?) > >i let my machine generate the tree while i was watching a movie the day before > i uploaded the lot -) So does that meant the 3-16 upload is the one or no? Also, how do I install it (could find no instructions...) it looks like a unix tree... Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Configuring 2 trees [was RE: [NTG-context] Times New Roman]
by ishamid 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Dear cartel, >===== Original Message From "Thomas A.Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz(a)uni-bonn.de> ===== What does > >kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL >produce? 1.I have 2 trees: C:\Context (from mswintex.zip) and C:\TeXLive (from July04). kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL works for the \Context tree: >C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\bin\kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL c:/ConTeXt/texmf-local >C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\bin\kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFMAIN c:/ConTeXt/texmf 2. What I would like: how do I properly modify texmf.cnf (presumably C:\ConTeXt\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf is the main one) so that a. C:\ConTeXt is given priority over C:\TeXLive; b. C:\TeXLive\texmf-var\web2c formats are searched after C:\ConTeXt\texmf-local\web2c c. C:\ConTeXt utilities like TeXFont install files to C:\ConTeXt\texmf-local\ instead of to C:\TeXLive\texmf-local (for some reason the C:\ConTeXt tree does recognize C:\TeXLive\texmf-local by default) Of course, I may be missing the big picture here, in which case please enlighten me! Part of my problem is that 1. apparently I can make both pdfetex and aleph formats in the TeXLive tree (efmt and fmt respectively), but only one of them in the ConTeXt tree (both are dumped as cont-en.fmt) 2. I can't just dump cont-tmf.zip into TeXLive\texmf-var, because some utilities (like texfont.exe) do not get updated or replaced. So I would have to manually delete e.g., texfont.exe and replace it with the new texfont.bat, making a mess of my TeXLive system. I really wish that updating/upgrading were not always such a pain... Best Idris Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Imposition of A7,landscape on A4
by Wolfgang Zillig 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Hello, I want to print 8 pages of A7, landscape doublesided on A4. I always get the pages connected on the shorter side of the page, but that is wrong. Has anyone an idea how to solve this? Thanks Wolfgang for explanation, the result looks like this: ------------------------- | | | | | ------------------------- | | | | | ------------------------- my testfile: \enableregime[il1] \mainlanguage[en] \setuppapersize[A7,landscape,rotated][A3,landscape]% \setuparranging [2*8,doublesided] \setuplayout [location=middle] \setuppagenumbering[location=,state=stop] \showframe[edge] \starttext Page1 \page Page1 back \page Page2 \page Page2 back \page Page3 \page Page3 back \page Page4 \page Page4 back \page Page5 \page Page 5 back \page Page 6 \page Page6 back \page Page7 \page Page7 back \page Page8 \page Page8 back \stoptext

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module and environment
by Peter Münster 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Hello, what is the difference between a module and an environment? What are the guidelines to decide where to put some code? TIA for any hints, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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\def\sectionseparator{:}
by Peter Münster 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Hello, in core-sec.tex, I read: \def\sectionseparator{:} % was : but is now - I there any inconvenience, to change it to "-" ? I've tried it out, and all my problems to get French spaces before punctuation and project structure and so on, were gone. Could we patch core-sec.tex ? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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lettrine.sty, but not LaTeX
by Gerben Wierda 19 Mar '05

19 Mar '05

Would someone be able to take lettrine.sty as an example and produce a version that works with ConTeXt (and plain TeX)? Thanks, G

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Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)
by Gerben Wierda 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

When I use the Optima font I do not have real small capitals. It seems \sc does not try to emulate them and also the new \lettrine ignores it. Is there a way I can still have my SC? Maybe faked by using a smaller size capitals? Thanks, G

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