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Blocks in a macro?
by Michal Kvasnicka 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Good evening. How can I include \begin<block> ... \end<block> into a macro? I have defined: \defineblock[question] \defineblock[answer] \defineenumeration[question][location=serried, coupling=answer] \defineenumeration[answer][location=serried, coupling=answer] \hideblocks[answer] I'd like to simplify my code from \beginquestion \startquestion question ... \stopquestion \endquestion \beginanswer \answer answer ... \par \endanswer to \q{question ...}{answer ...} \q begin something like this: \def\q{% \beginquestion \question #1\par \endquestion \beginanswer \answer #2\par \endanswer } But no question/anwer is written into .tub file (only the beginning/end of those blocks). Any hint? Many thanks. Your sincerely Michal Kvasnicka

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Cross-reference to PDF via web
by Michal Kvasnicka 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Good evening. Is it possible to acces a inter-file cross-reference via web? I have some documents for my students, all created with ConTeXt. Each chapter in each document has a cross-reference. I can access one document from another via web like this: \goto{here}[URL(http://www.econ.muni.cz/\~qasar/vyuka/barro/barrografy.pdf)] Is it possible to go to some specific chapter? I tried \goto{here}[URL(http://www.econ.muni.cz/\~qasar/vyuka/barro/barrografy.pdf)::chap:somechpater] but it didn't worked. Is it possible to do it somehow? Many thanks for your answers. M.K.

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Re: [NTG-context] title, subject & table of contents
by VnPenguin 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:44:11 +0000, cormullion <cormullion(a)mac.com> wrote: > VnPenguin <vnpenguin(a)gmail.com> said on 2005-02-13, 1:02 (+0100 GMT): > > > ---------------------------- > > \setuphead > > [chapter] > > [number=no] > > ------------------------------------ > > and use \chapter instead of \title. So I can obtain the TOC. But I > > dont why there is no clickable link in the TOC at all :( > > \setuplist[chapter,section][interaction=all] ? Great! works well ;) Thank you so much, Q.

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title, subject & table of contents
by VnPenguin 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

Hi all, When I use: ----------------------------------------------------------- \setuplist [chapter] [before=\blank, after=\blank, style=bold] \setuplist [section] [alternative=c] \starttext \placelist[chapter,section][alternative=c] \chapter{One} \section{One A} Blahblah \section{One B} Blahblah \chapter{Two} \section{Two A} Blahblah \section{Two B} Blahblah \stoptext -------------------------------------------------------------------- I got TOC perfectly. But if I replace \chapter by \title; \section by \subject, I can not have a TOC at all. This is the code: ------------------------------------------------------------------ \setuplist [title] [before=\blank, after=\blank, style=bold] \setuplist [subject] [alternative=c] \starttext \placelist[title,subject][alternative=c] \title{One} \subject{One A} Blahblah \subject{One B} Blahblah \title{Two} \subject{Two A} Blahblah \subject{Two B} Blahblah \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Any ideas for help me ? Thank you in advance, Quy NGUYEN-DAI

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Re: [NTG-context] server down ?
by VnPenguin 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:25:08 +0100, Steffen Wolfrum <context(a)st.estfiles.de> wrote: > > Hi Hans, > > > I am trying to download > > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip > > > but there is no connection to pragma-ade.com or .nl at all. > > > Are you working on the server, when is it up again? > Me too I can't access to pragma-ade.com :( It's the time to think about several mirrors around the world ? Q.

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Re: [NTG-context] Thumb indexes
by cormullion 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban(a)fiee.net> said on 2005-02-12, 21:19 (+0100 GMT): > Perhaps describe a bit more exactly what you'd like to achieve. > As far as I understood: You want a black rectangle at the margin > that has no text in it, always same size, but moving position per > chapter? Yes. More precisely, chapter 1 - 5 would have a black box in the margin at the top right of each right page, then chapters 6 to whatever have the next box below, and so on. I usually do this ‘manually’ in a DTP app (by defining a set of master pages and applying them selectively to a group of ‘chapters’) but ConTeXt is clearly capable of doing it automatically. And I bet ConTeXt could also be persuaded to place white text on the box as well... I’ve read through the MetaFun manual. It’s amazing technology, but a bit too advanced for me at present.

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Russia (cyrillic letters)
by Rob Ermers 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

Dear Contexers, I am still struggling with a Russian text in koi8. The sample below, which I partially copied (from Mikael Persson's site) does not work. Can anyone help me out? Kind regards Robert Ermers ----------- \enableregime[koi8-r] \useencoding[cyr] \definetypeface [russian] [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] \definetypeface [swedish] [rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[russian] \starttext Some swedish text: {\switchtobodyfont[swedish]Jag tycker att Katja studerar d\aring ligt.} Some russian text: ÂÌÁÇÏÓÌÏ×ÉÔ áÌÌÁÈ ÅÇÏ É ÅÇÏ ÂÌÉÖÎÉÈ ÂÌÁÇÏÒÏÄÎÅÊÛÅÇÏ ÐÒÏÉÓÈÏÖÄÅÎÉÑ É ÄÁÒÕÅÔ ÉÍ ÍÉÒ %this sample works, but it's not koi8: Ìèå êàæåòñÿ, ÷òî Êàòÿ ïëîõî ó÷èòñÿ. \stoptext

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Right aligned caption text.
by Nikolai Weibull 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

I would like two different methods of typesetting the captions of figures. Short captions should be aligned in the middle, while longer ones (spanning more than one line) should be aligned to the right (well, ragged right...). What I did to achieve this was to \definefloat[describedfigure][describedfigures][figure] \setupcaption [describedfigure] [align=right] \placedescribedfigure [] [figure:...] {A long description of the figure...} {...} and this works fine (is there a simpler way?). What I would like now is to have the caption of describedfigure to have a small margin, so it doesn't quite fill the width of the described figure. I couldn't find this described in details.pdf (http://www.pragma-ade.com/ is down at the moment so I couldn't check for any other doc's either). Any suggestions?, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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Fonts in ConTeXt!
by G.C.H.M. Verhaag 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Beste ConTeXt gebruikers, Ik worstel al enige tijd met fonts in ConTeXt, en moet tot de conclusie komen dat ik er niets van begrijp, sorry! Heb ook geprobeerd diverse handleidingen m.b.t. fonts, zoals `Fonts in ConTeXt' door te spitten, maar ben hierin eveneens hopeloos vast gelopen. Afm-, tfm- en mapfiles voor mij ondoorgrondelijk! Ben er nog nooit in geslaagd een ander font te gebruiken dan het standaard font! Ik pas momenteel TeXLive 2003 toe. Is er iemand die op een simpele manier kan aangeven hoe ik dat werkend kan krijgen, zonder direct in jargon te vervallen? Ik krijg het Palatino font zoals bijvoorbeeld beschreven op pag. 91 van MAPS (najaar 2004) domweg niet werkend. Het boekje met al die mooie font voorbeelden is erg fraai, maar mij is het nog nooit gelukt een letter hiervan te produceren! En dit alles moet toch met de standaard TeXLive distributie makkelijk kunnen, zo begrijp ik. Ik ben onder de indruk van de kwaliteit van TeX, en dat is precies de reden waarom ik het gebruik! Maar dat gedoe met fonts maakt mij radeloos! Mijn laatste hoop is gevestigd op dit discussie-medium, om er achter te komen of ik de enige ben die dit probleem niet onder de knie weet te krijgen! Kan iemand mij op weg helpen, om dit probleem te begrijpen, en uiteindelijk op te lossen? Bij voorbaat dank! M.vr.gr., Geert -- Geert C.H.M. Verhaag St. Jorisstraat 29 5954 AN Beesel NETHERLANDS Tel.: (+31)-774742493, E-mail: verhaaggchm(a)ision.nl

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Setting up header text
by cormullion 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

I’m trying to use \setupheadertexts to set up the headers to a specification. Is it possible to insert text between the various ‘chapter/section’ keys? What I want is something like this: | section “Chapter “ chapternumber “-” chapter | | “Chapter “ chapternumber “-” chapter section | where the “|” is a page edge, on a double-sided layout, and the “Chapter”s are literal strings, rather than the keys. I’m not clear from the command description whether this is possible. If not, might a clever macro do it? thanks

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PDF bounding box problem?
by cormullion 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

I’m trying to place a PDF created by Adobe Illustrator 10 using \externalfigure. But it’s coming in with loads of white space around it. Although I’m new to ConTeXt, this reminds me of the old problem where there are different types of ‘box’ specified in the PDF file: one possibly specifying a paper size, others specifying perhaps the extent of the marks described within. The PDF file contains these ‘box’ lines: > /MediaBox [ 0.5 -0.5 612.5 791.5 ] > /ArtBox [ 206.97998 316.0459 402.12988 477.66016 ] > %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 > %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 > %AI3_TemplateBox: 306.5 395.5 306.5 395.5 > %AI3_TileBox: 30 35 582 761 > %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 > %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 > %%BoundingBox: 206 316 403 478 > %%HiResBoundingBox: 206.98 316.0459 402.1299 477.6602 > %AI3_TemplateBox: 306.5 395.5 306.5 395.5 > %AI3_TileBox: 30 35 582 761 > /FontBBox [ -167 -250 1006 939 ] > /FontBBox [ -222 -250 1006 922 ] To my untutored eye it looks like the MediaBox is being used - at least, the graphic takes up an area about Letter size. Is there some setting I’ve missed that lets me get the bounds of the graphics rather than the file? thanks!

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Re: [XeTeX] vertical spacing
by Hans Hagen 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Adam Lindsay wrote: (to another list on the topic of fonts and grids) > Okay, it's clearly font dependent, and I chose two typical ones: American > Typewriter and Optima Regular. Going through some typical fonts available > on my system, it becomes clear that Hoefler Text is the best case. here are a few secrets: \showminimalbaseline and \setupinterlinespace [height=.72, depth=.28] you may want to change the inlinespace settings depending on the max height/depth values of a font Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Installing Bitstream fonts
by cormullion 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

I found a font package called bitstream-vera4context on a website and downloaded it. Unfortunately I can’t work out how to install them on my MacOS X system. Anyone care to give me the necessary mystic incantation? thanks

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alpha release / latin modern
by Hans Hagen 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Hi, I posted an alpha release. Main differences: - some efficiency changes in language parts needed for || extension - latin modern fonts instead of cmr/plr/csr/aer/vnr: fetch the cont-lmt.zip file if needed - david antos' wish, test for this: \unprotected \setuplanguage [cz] [\c!compoundhyphen=-, \c!leftcompoundhyphen=-, \c!rightcompoundhyphen=-] % \protect \starttext \def\test{|<|test|>| \dorecurse{100}{test||}test} \en \test \endgraf \nl \test \endgraf \de \test \endgraf \deo \test \endgraf \cz \test \endgraf \stoptext cz setting not yet in language files, test first Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Fourier Expert Fonts
by Randall Skelton 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Hi all, Can someone explain how I go about adding the Adobe Utopia Expert fonts so that ConTeXt is aware of them? I have the postscript fonts from Adobe but cannot figure out what to do with them. Is there a document that I've missed somewhere? Poking around in type-enc.tex suggests that much of the hard work has already been done... The type one fonts (Mac) were exported using FontLab and renamed to ls *.afm *.pfb futb8t.afm futbi9d.afm futr8t.afm futri8t.afm futs9e.afm futsc9wt.afm futb8t.pfb futbi9d.pfb futr8t.pfb futri8t.pfb futs9e.pfb futsc9wt.pfb futb9d.afm futbi9e.afm futr9e.afm futri9d.afm futsc9d.afm futsi9d.afm futb9d.pfb futbi9e.pfb futr9e.pfb futri9d.pfb futsc9d.pfb futsi9d.pfb futb9e.afm futc9d.afm futr9p.afm futri9e.afm futsc9dd.afm futsi9e.afm futb9e.pfb futc9d.pfb futr9p.pfb futri9e.pfb futsc9dd.pfb futsi9e.pfb futbi8t.afm futc9e.afm futrc9d.afm futs9d.afm futsc9hd.afm futbi8t.pfb futc9e.pfb futrc9d.pfb futs9d.pfb futsc9hd.pfb and tried to run a trivial fontinst script: \input fontinst.sty \needsfontinstversion{1.926} \recordtransforms{fut-rec.tex} \latinfamily{fut}{} \endrecordtransforms \bye but I don't get any propery list or virtual property list files? Apologies if this is trivial... it has been a while since I tinkered with fonts in TeX. Thanks, Randall

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Active page numbers in contents?
by cormullion 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

In the index I create, the page numbers are active (marked green as defined in \setupinteraction). In contents entries, only the chapter numbers are active. Can I make the page numbers active in contents? thanks

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Tex-Live bittorrent sites?
by karl＠freefriends.org 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Is there a bittorrent site for downloading the current version of texlive? Not that I am aware of. If you find one or can set one up, please email tex-live(a)tug.org with the info. For those who may not know -- Hans just asked me :) -- BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer system that lets big files be downloaded in small pieces from many different machines. The client reassembles the pieces. I haven't used it myself, although I've heard some good things about it. http://bittorrent.com/ karl

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Fonts, Fonts, Fonts
by Nikolai Weibull 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Always with the fonts on this list... Anyway, I am running some recent beta of tetex and am still having problems getting fonts loaded in ConTeXt. \starttext \showbodyfont[cmr,12pt] \showbodyfont[lbr,12pt] \stoptext seems innocent enough, but produces two identical tables. pdfetex is complaining about an all-base.map: Warning: pdfetex (file all-base.map): cannot open font map file and there is no such file anywhere (and a grep through /usr/share/texmf, /etc/texmf, and /var/lib/texmf turns up nothing). Could someone provide me with a simple rundown on what I should do. I would really like to try typesetting my master's thesis in another font than cmr before I hand it in. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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Tex-Live bittorrent sites?
by K. David Prince 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Is there a bittorrent site for downloading the current version of texlive? Dave

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permissions in texmf/scripts/context/*
by Thomas A.Schmitz 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

I'm wondering if this is a bug: I tried to play around with the texmfstart script, but couldn't get it to work. I think the latest cont-tmf.zip installs those files with wrong permissions. Here's what I got: -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 15k Jan 6 13:41 concheck.rb -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 25k Jan 28 09:28 ctxtools.rb drwxr-xr-x 3 tas 102 Feb 6 21:00 exa -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 21k Dec 20 21:31 texmfstart.rb -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 6.5k Jun 14 2004 texsync.rb -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 23k Oct 15 19:15 textools.rb -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 13k Oct 27 18:27 xmltools.rb drwxr-xr-x 3 tas 102 Feb 6 21:00 xmpl same is true for scripts/perl/ Shouldn't they all have permission 755? Best Thomas

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List of special characters
by cormullion 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

I can’t find a definitive list of the special characters that I need to ‘escape’ when used in a ConTeXt document. I’m writing a short script that converts documents, and I need to catch some characters. Some of the TeX ones I tried didn’t work. Couldn’t see it in the manuals. I’ve done the obvious ones - \%, \#, \&, \$ - but wondering about some of the others (eg ! \" # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~ • º). thanks!

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Setting up layout - basic questions
by cormullion 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Hi there. I’m a newcomer to ConTeXt, and I’m so far really impressed with the power and flexibility I now have access to. I’d be grateful for a few tips - I’ve been reading the documentation over the last few days, and my head’s getting full. Please excuse me if these questions are obvious. I want to make headings in a sans serif font, such as Helvetica, and keep the body text in serif font (such as Times). (I use these font names loosely, I have no idea which fonts I can actually use, since I can’t get XeTeX working yet.) I know that I should do something like this: \setuphead [chapter] [number=yes, style=\ss] \setuphead [section] [number=no, style=\ss] but the sizes of the different levels of heading are lost... So something like 16pt for chapter, 14pt for section, 12 point for subsection? Also, is it generally possible to make all the headings start at the left margin, with everything else (eg paragraphs, lists, etc) indented? Eg: Chapter X Paragraph Section X Paragraph Subsection y Paragraph Thanks for any pointers. I’m more of a FrameMaker user up to now, so I may not yet be thinking the ConTeXt way. :-)

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grid
by Vit Zyka 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Hallo, I wanted use two-column typesetting, so set grid on. But even this simple minimal example does not fit me to the grid. Am I doing something wrong? ------------------ \setuplayout[lines=40,grid=on] \setuphead[chapter][grid=low,before=\blank,after=\blank] \setuphead[section][grid=low,before=\blank,after=\blank] \showgrid \starttext \chapter{Examples} See this two paragraph examples. \section{Knuth}\input knuth \section{Zapf}\input zapf \stoptext ----------------------

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! Undefined control sequence.
by K. David Prince 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

0. I'm using Debian/Testing. 1. Downloaded: context/current/cont-tmf.zip \ the main CONTEXT distribution \ 2005-02-03 15:19 2356473 from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm 2. Installed according to: http://levana.de/context/ kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt$ ./texversion.pl TeXVersion 0.1 / Taco Hoekwater 2004 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) context : ver: 2005.01.31 cont-en : ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.1.28 mes: english kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt$ 3. Created hello.tex: \starttext Hello World \stoptext 4. "texexec --pdf hello.tex" generates errors: kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt/Play$ texexec --pdf hello.tex Use of uninitialized value in string eq at -\ /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 344. | I fixed this Use of uninitialized value in string eq at | in the previous /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. > version, but I Use of uninitialized value in string eq at | didn't do it because /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. / of the error below. TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : hello output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./hello.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.1.28 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/opt/context/2005.01.31/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ! Undefined control sequence. \@@toks ->\everymathematics \dodoappendtoks ->\dodoglobal \@@toks \@EAEAEA {\@EA \the \@EA \@@toks \the ... l.299 \to \everymathematics ? x <==I just bailed out here. "hello.tex" runs fine under the old version. No pages of output. Transcript written on hello.log. return code : 256 run time : 2 seconds total run time : 3 seconds kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt/Play$ Additional info on my setup: kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt/Play$ echo $PATH /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt/Play$ %%% %%% KDP texmf.cnf Edits for ConTeXt upgrade %%% TEXMFCONTEXT = /opt/context/2005.01.31/texmf TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFMAIN} %%% %%% End KDP ConTeXt Edits. %%%

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alpha + magazine
by Hans Hagen 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Hi, I uploaded a new alpha, in addition to previous changes: - default latin modern in ec encoding instead of default encoding - substantial speedup of typescript loading (when configured as such) - a couple of small fixes related to switching to latin modern there is also a new mag-0009.pdf file, discribing how to use platform fonts etc etc, Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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limit the scope of Chinese
by Fei He 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Hello, I have been working on a document that mixes a little Chinese and more of the rest English. How do I limit the scope of the Chinese module? For example, I want Chinese to show up in the title, which is done by loading the Chinese module. But the date of the document changed to Chinese too, which I do not want. Can I just use one or two Chines character at some certain place while all the rest of the document remains not affected? Thanks a lot.

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Error messages with first attempts to use ConTeXt
by David Wooten 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Greetings all, I'm a LaTeXer who is intrigued by ConTeXt. I'm running Mac OS 10.3, using Gerben Wierda's i-Installer, and have been receiving some error messages with my first attempts that a little searching-around haven't been clarified. Without the latest ConTeXt update from the i-Installer, for a file like: \starttext Hello there. \stoptext when run with texexec = texexec Condy.tex TeXExec 5.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : Condy output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt fmtutil: no info for format `cont-en'. Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.fmt'; will try `context.fmt'. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt fmtutil: no info for format `context'. I can't find the format file `context.fmt'! return code : 256 run time : 3 seconds total run time : 3 seconds With the update, I get = texexec Condy.tex TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : Condy output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) output format initialized to DVI entering extended mode (./Condy.tex ConTeXt ver: 2001.11.13 fmt: 2005.2.5 int: english mes: english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/Users/wooten/Library/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! system (E-TEX) : [line 473] \ifcsname ) system : cont-old loaded (/Users/wooten/Library/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/Users/wooten/Library/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2-en-2 2-uk-2 2-de-2 2-fr-2 2-es-2 2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : Condy.top loaded (./Condy.top ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!directory ={/Users/wooten/} \xprocesscommaitem #1,#2->\if ]#1 \expandafter \gobbleoneargument \else \p!do... \xdogetparameters #1]->\xprocesscommaitem #1,] ,\@relax@ \dosetupsystem [#1]->\getparameters [\??sv ][#1] \setuprandomize [\@@svwillek... l.3 \setupsystem[\c!directory={/Users/wooten/}] ————— I'd appreciate any advice you can give, and perhaps I won't even have to eat crow ;) David Wooten

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Some observations about the URW-Garamond
by Thomas A.Schmitz 06 Feb '05

06 Feb '05

I played around a bit with the new URW-Garamond that URW donated to the TeX community; as you may have seen on the list, the font files can be downloaded via CTAN at CTAN/fonts/urw/garamond/ If you fetch the entire directory, you'll find 1. the font in .afm, .pfb and .pfm format, 2. support files for LaTeX written by Walter Schmidt, with instructions for installation. After installation, the font worked in LaTeX, but wouldn't work in ConTeXt "out of the box." I didn't spend time to figure out why because creating the necessary files with texfont is a snap. For beginners, a very brief how-to: 1. copy the afm- and pfb-files into a working directory, cd to this directory; 2. run the command for f in ugm*.afm do texfont --fontroot=~/texmf --ve=urw --co=garamond --ma --in (adjusting ~/texmf to wherever you want the font installed) (Of course, you can add other encodings if you wish.) Then I hit a problem. texfont creates map entries in this format: texnansi-raw-ugmm8a GaramondNo8-Med 4 < ugmm8a.pfb texnansi.enc texnansi-raw-ugmmi8a GaramondNo8-MedIta 4 < ugmmi8a.pfb texnansi.enc texnansi-raw-ugmr8a GaramondNo8-Reg 4 < ugmr8a.pfb texnansi.enc texnansi-raw-ugmri8a GaramondNo8-Ita 4 < ugmri8a.pfb texnansi.enc My version of pdfetex (3.141592-1.20b-rc5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)) refused to read these entries (problems with backward compoatibility?). After I rewrote to the format I found in the map that comes with the font texnansi-raw-ugmr8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <ugmr8a.pfb texnansi-raw-ugmri8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <ugmri8a.pfb texnansi-raw-ugmm8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <ugmm8a.pfb texnansi-raw-ugmmi8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <ugmmi8a.pfb everything was golden. You now have a version of Garamond for those who are too poor or too cheap to buy the real McCoy. The font looks nice to me (I'm not an expert), especially in its italic version. You get regular, italic, semi-bold and semi-bold italics, no expert ligatures, no old-style numerals. I wrote a very basic typescript file: \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \starttypescript [serif] [urwgaramond] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Roman] [texnansi-ugmr8a] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Bold] [texnansi-ugmm8a] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Italic] [texnansi-ugmri8a] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Bold-Italic] [texnansi-ugmmi8a] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [urwgaramond] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [URWGaramond-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [URWGaramond-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [URWGaramond-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [URWGaramond-Bold-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [URWGaramond] \definetypeface [MyURWGaramond] [rm] [serif] [urwgaramond] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript You can then typeset in the new font: \usetypescriptfile [type-urwgaramond] \usetypescript[URWGaramond] \setupbodyfont[MyURWGaramond,11pt] \starttext Hello world! \stoptext HTH Thomas

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Dimensions of a picture
by François Fasoli 05 Feb '05

05 Feb '05

I have a problem with the following fie : \useexternalfigure[fig1][Mouette1]%1600x1200 \useexternalfigure[fig2][Mouette2]%1024x768 \starttext %the following line gives an error : %Error: pdfetex.exe (file ./Mouette1.jpg): reading JPEG image failed %\externalfigure[fig1] %the following lines runs very well \page \externalfigure[fig2] \stoptext Is there a limitation of the dimensions of a picture ? Or another problem ? Thank you

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URW Garamond No8 under LPPL
by Tobias Burnus 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

Hello, Walter Schmidt has uploaded to CTAN | (1) the PostScript font family Garamond No8, which URW | has made available for free under the Aladdin Free Public | License, see <http://www.artifex.com/downloads/>. | | (2) font metrics, macros etc. to use the fonts with LaTeX; | this is material which I have added; it is released under | LPPL. The font presentation can be found at http://www.urwpp.de/ Search for "Garamond". Garamond No8 consists of regular, medium, italic and medium italic. It is an OpenType Level 1 font and contains the character sets West, East, Turkish, Baltic and Romanian CTAN: nonfree/fonts/urw/garamond e.g. ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/nonfree/fonts/urw/garamond/ Regards, Tobias PS: Information taken from CTAN announce.

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style.pdf
by mickle＠panix.com 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

In updating my context documentation today, I managed to overwrite my copy of ".../general/manuals/style.pdf", which I was studying. Is this document still available, perhaps renamed - it don't find it in the list of files in http://www.pragma-ade.nl/wget.txt. Thank-you --

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"uninitialized value"
by K. David Prince 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

I'm following the "Install ConTeXt" instructions on <http://levana.de/context/>. I'm installing this on a Debian Testing machine. I've downloaded and installed version 2005.01.31. I just ran "texversion.pl" and get: kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt$ ./texversion.pl Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 344. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. TeXVersion 0.1 / Taco Hoekwater 2004 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 344. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. tex : pdfeTeX, 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) context : ver: 2005.01.31 cont-en : ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.1.28 mes: english kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt$ What am I missing? Dave P.S. kdp@yaz:~/$ echo $PATH /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games kdp@yaz:~/$ kdp@yaz:/etc/texmf$ grep CONTEXT texmf.cnf TEXMFCONTEXT = /opt/context/2005.01.31/texmf TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFMAIN} kdp@yaz:/etc/texmf$ kdp

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texshow-web
by Vit Zyka 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Hallo Patrick, I added one third (only one third but most important one since analogy;-) of \setuplayout command to tewshow-web. To be more descriptive I snaffled table of page areas from wiki. Unfortunately comment field seems not to be html sensitive (see http://texshow.contextgarden.net/ts.rb?lang=en&what=desc&if=en&cmd=setuplay…) ... Is there some chance to display the table here or it is better to refer to the wiki page (http://contextgarden.net/Layout)? Vit Zyka

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ConTeXt and TeX output Macro
by Tom Browder 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Can one redefine the TeX output macro as one can within TeX? If so, how? Thanks. A wannabe ConTeXt user. Tom Browder

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TeXUtil reports errors
by Peter Münster 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hello, TeXUtil reports errors: TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 action : processing commands, lists and registers option : sorting IJ under Y option : converting high ASCII values input file : svn-utilisation.tui output file : svn-utilisation.tuo passed commands : 41 remapped keys : 0 register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references synonym entries : 15 -> 15 entries embedded files : 7 b/e error in : e-svn b/e error in : e-note b/e error in : e-dd b/e error in : svn-utilisation b/e error in : svn utility file analysis : another run needed and at the end of the tuo-file: % TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 / Status % % embedded files : 7 (5 errors) % synonym entries : 15 (0 errors) % register entries : 0 (0 errors) % metapost graphics : 1 % position commands : 0 (not used) But I don't find these errors! Where should I seek for more information on those errors? TIA for any help. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Czech compound word handling
by David Antos 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hello, would it be possible to define || for compound words to act as \discretionary{-}{-}{-}? In Czech, the hyphen for compound words should be repeated in the following line. Thanks, D.A. -- Try to remove the color-problem by restarting your computer several times. -- Microsoft-Internet Explorer README.TXT

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How to use and not embed the PdfBase14 fonts?
by Stefan Wachter 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi all! I want to generate PDF documents that use the standard PDF fonts (Helvetica, Times-Roman, and Courier) and not to embed these fonts. With my former installation (TexLive-2003 and a ConText distribution of last autumn) this was possible by using the following lines in the praeambel: \usetypescript[adobekb][texnansi] \usetypescript[postscript][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[postscript,ss,13pt] (In addition, I had to configure pdfTeX by "updmap --setoption pdftexDownloadBase14 false"). After I upgraded to TexLive-2004 this does no longer work! I found that the typescript "adobekb" was replaced by "type-akb". Yet, the encoding "texnansi" seems no longer to be available (Metafont complains that it can not find: texnansi-utmr8a). Changing the encoding to "ec" that still is available yields: \usetypescript[type-akb][ec] \usetypescript[postscript][ec] \setupbodyfont[postscript,ss,13pt] Yet, using these lines in the praeambel results in a document that uses the NimbusSanL-Regu font, that clearly has to be embedded. Does anyone know how the standard PDF fonts can be used while not being embedded? Thanks for your attention, Stefan

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hyphenation mess
by Hans Hagen 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi, When generating new minimal trees, i found out that the us patterns are now again in hyphen.tex and the uk patterns also got a new name. It is a that the naming of pattern files is a mess, and that some pattern files are not in the right spot, and things are not improving. The fact that this is solved with the fuzzy aliasses mechanism in web2c does not help, since this is implementation dependent and makes the texmf tree not sharable. I'll try to catch the new names in the next version, and in the meantime start wondering if it makes sense to add consistently names and structured hyphenation files to the context distribution. [similar things are happening with fonts and related enc files; the next release of context [alpha first] will be pure latin modern based and my guess is that it will take a while till lm support migrates into distributions, so i will put a zip with the font files needed alongside the context zip] Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 8, Issue 4
by Fei He 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Taco, Thanks so much for the help. Seems MikTex hasnot updated the context package yet. So, I just download the m-bib.zip from your web again with 08/30/04 version. It works again..wow... it is great! Cheers, Fei > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:48:24 -0500 > From: Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] some bib module questions > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: <4200DA28.1090700(a)elvenkind.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Fei He wrote: > > Hello Taco, > > > > Thanks for the help. The instructions you gave worked briefly for a > > few days. Some weird things happened after I re-installed my miktex > > and updated the context to the newest version (01/20/05). > > You should fetch the latest version, again. The context versions from > januari until 2005.01.31 had a major bug in \placepublications so > that it only worked with if there is precisely one \cite command. > > > Context seems more complicated than Latex. > > Perhaps true. But please remember that bibliographies are new to > ConTeXt, whereas they have been in LaTeX from the early beginnings > (and that we use a LaTeX-specific database processor bibTeX doesn't > help either). > > Greetings, Taco >

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texsync
by Matthew Huggett 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi, A question about the texsync script: running ruby -S texsync.rb --force --list gives me TeXSync | TeXSync | fetching list of trees from 'www.pragma-ade.com' rsync: failed to connect to www.pragma-ade.com: Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/clientserver.c(94) TeXSync | available trees: TeXSync | TeXSync | I've read the texsync manual but I'm not sure what else I have to do with rsync to get a connection to Pragma-ade. I'm running rsync under Cygwin on WinXP. I'd be grateful for any pointers. regards, Matt

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consequences of recent update
by mickle＠panix.com 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

I recently upgraded my ConTeXt, which is calling for an updated pdftex as well: % texexec test-4.tex Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 344. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 348. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 348. TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : test-4 output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./test-4.tex{/usr/freeware/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.26 fmt: 2005.1.30 int: english mes: english systems : pdfTeX version 110 -> please update systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) I downloaded pdftex 1.20b and tried to build from source, but no matter what syntax I try, whether as root or as an ordinary user, I fail to get pdftex to recognize the main texmf tree: I'm doing % ./Build --datadir=/usr/freeware/share and I get configure: warning: The main texmf tree was not found at /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf. ***************************************************************** * Error: The main texmf tree was not found. * * Use the --datadir option to specify its parent directory. * * If you do not have the files, you should be able to them from * * the same place you got these sources from, or from one of the * * CTAN hosts. * ***************************************************************** Winging it by pretending /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf is correct. so pdftex is configured --without-[pretty much everything] I posted to the pdftex ml a few days ago, but, I guess, not being a subscriber, messages are not posted to the list, so I thought to ask here. My ConTeXt is in my ~/texmf tree, and if it's possible not to install an entirely new tex system, that would be preferable. Also, the are the "Use of unitialized string value..." messages related to this problem?. I had difficulties when trying to update ConTeXt about a month ago because of the old perl that was on my system, so I've recently updated to 5.8. Thanks very much for any suggestions, Peter --

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Context 2005.01.31 & Vietnamese UTF-8: lossing characters
by VnPenguin 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi Hans & all, Just update to 2005.01.31 for my tetex-2.99.11. I do step by step following minstall.pdf. A simple test with vietnamese utf-8 encoding shows me that a lot of characters were missing: \ahook \abrevehook \acircumflexhook \ocircumflexhook .... See the comparing page : http://nguyendai.org/pub/compare.html Pdflatex + Unicode package give me all characters correctly. The sources, PDF are available at http://nguyendai.org/pub/ I don't know if I'm wrong some things when updating context ? Thank you, Quy NGUYEN DAI

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Displayed math--vertical space
by David Antos 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello, I started to typeset real math in ConTeXt :-) and the following issue occurred in vertical positioning. I know about start/stopformula, nevertheless I suppose that good old $$ should work, too. \starttext A short line followed by a formula $$\bigcup_{1\le n}$$ a text follows in the same paragraph. The big cup is too close to the text. If a displayed formula has enough text above $$\bigcup_{1\le n}$$ the problem does not appear at all. The vertical space around the formula is very nice here. The only difference is whether the line above the formula goes more to the right than the beginning the formula. \stoptext Thanks, D.A. -- Jim Hacker: "Would you be surprised, for instance, if a British aircraft carrier turned up in the Central African Republic?" Sir Humphrey: "Well, I for one, Minister, would be very surprised; it's a 1,000 miles inland." -- Yes, Minister (The Whisky Priest)

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ConTeXt 31 jan 2005
by Taco Hoekwater 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi, There are (new (new (new))) context release note pages at the wiki, For this: Context 2005.01.31: * Unicode support for Cyrillic and Greek updates * Hebrew support * a few bugfixes Context 2005.01.26 * lots of extra functionality added to CtxTools (v 1.2.0 now): --purgefiles, --documentation, --filterpages (all from texutil originally); and better commandline help * a few bugfixes Context 2005.01.24 * TeXExec version 5.2.4 supports --pdftrim * Per-description setting of variables * Switch to latin modern fonts instead of cmr + various local versions * Support for the qx encoding * The base35 postscript fonts are now avialable by default * An extension for symbols that allows fetching one symbol in a collection directly. * A hook in the list setups to make use of that change * bugfixes Further details at the wiki: http://contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Greetings, Taco

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texshow problem after update
by Peter Münster 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello, texshow is no more working on my system after update. Here is the output: TeXShow-XML 0.2 beta / Taco Hoekwater 2004 interface : cont-en status : searching for setup files error : setup files not found error : no setup files found Versions of the other programs: TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.20c-beta-20050121-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.01.13 cont-en : ver: 2005.01.13 fmt: 2005.1.25 mes: english TIA for any help! Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Russia (cyrillic letters)
by Mikael Persson 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hello everybody. I am looking for a way of writing some home exercises in my Russian course in ConTeXt. However, so far I have not succeed with it. Should it work out of the box without installing any new fonts (I am having the fonts from a full install of TeXLive2003 now)? I have looked a bit in the source files for context, but with no luck. I guess there are different ways to achieve this, however, since I also want some swedish text in the same documents, the best would probably be if one of the following options worked: 1) Typing everything in utf8, and get the different languages automatically when compiling. 2) Typing everything with western letters, having some kind of \startrussia Boris \stoprussia and get Boris typeset with Cyrillic letters. Any tips/hints are welcome, Best regards, Micke P

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TeX control sequence inside XML param
by Vit Zyka 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hallo, it is possible to use TeX control sequence inside XML param? How? Example: <figure file="file.pdf" width=".45\textwidth" /> ^^^^^^^^^^ \defineXMLenvironment[figure][file=,width=] {} {\externalfigure[\XMLop{file}][width=\XMLop{width}]} Thank you Vit Zyka ---------------------------------------------- Error message (from a bit complex source): ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \texescape \XML:ent:tex-backslash ...kslash \else \texescape \fi \param:1 ->width=.45\getXMLentity {tex-backslash} textwidth \getvalue #1->\csname #1 \endcsname \calculateexternalfigure ...guresvg #1[#4][#5][#6] \doifsomething \@@efmaxwid... <argument> ...dummy ][\filewithpath ][\param ][][] \calculateexternalscreenfi...

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Using capsule versoion of TeX from Pragma.
by John Culleton 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

To help solve some other problems I disabled the path to my existing TeXLive distro, downloaded the minimal Linux-tex from Pragma, and unzipped it in /usr/local. Following TeXLive conventions I established a path to /usr/local/tex/texmf-linux/bin in /etc/profile and rebooted. The executables at the end of that path were not executable so I made them executable. (chmod 777 *) I also made the setuptex script in /usr/local/tex executable. Per the instructions in setuptex I ran the following: ./setuptex . #note period mktexlsr texexec --make --alone ----and got the following error message /usr/bin/env: ruby: No such file or directory at this point I thought I had best stop stumbling around and ask for help. My base system is Slackware LInux 10.0. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book packagers/coaches/consultants: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf Printers who are SPAN sponsors: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/printers.pdf

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Help: Context update problem
by Fei He 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Hello folks, I ran into this strange problem today. First, I was trying to use Chinese in Context. After I generated those font files, it occurred to me that I might want to run: texexec --make. However, I got the following error message: C:\localtexmf\tex\context\base\font-uni.tex loading: context font macros / UNICODE Support system (E-TEX): [line 423] \protected ! Undefined control sequence. Naturally, I thought it might help by updating context again. But no luck. Still run into the same problem. The font-uni.tex file is untouched whatsoever. Does it have something to do with the Chinese font? Thanks a lot in advance!! Best, Fei

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runaway argument context(mswintex)
by Julian Haworth 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Hi I have downloaded the minimal mswin distribution of context and set it up. I get a runaway argument once \tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex has been loaded, see below. Is this normal? Previously I had been trying to set up the current version of MiKTeX to work with context, this since the end of November. I had it working before but it ran out of capacity when imposing an 11000 word document -- not very impressive. Trying to improve things just broke it. I used MiKTeX because WinEdt answered my needs, however if I can get the pragma-ade minimal tex distribution working correctly is it possible to integrate WinEdt. Thanks for your interest, please save me from Pagemaker 7.0. This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) (format=cont-en 2005.1.29) 29 JAN 2005 17:24 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. (f:\tex\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) **&cont-en hello.tex (./hello.tex ConTeXt ver: 2004.12.06 fmt: 2005.1.29 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! color : palette rollover is available system (E-TEX) : [line 1083] system (E-TEX) : [line 1138] ) system : cont-old loaded (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->default:default->1->2:2 uk->default:default->2->2 :2 de->texnansi:texnansi->3->2:2 de->ec:ec->4->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2: 2 fr->ec:ec->6->2:2 es->default:default->7->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:2 i t->ec:ec->9->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->10->2:2 nl->ec:ec->11->2:2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `hello.tui'. system : hello.top loaded (./hello.top specials : loading definition file tpd (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 2255] \ifcsname <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) Runaway argument? \c!directory ={\setupsystem [\c!n =1] \setupsystem [inputfile=hello.t\ETC. ! File ended while scanning use of \dosetupsystem. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> \relax \dodoreadfile ...normalinput \readfilename \relax \the \everyafterreadfile <everyjob> ...file \openutilities \loadoptionfile \checknotes \initializeMPg... l.1 \starttext ? -- yours Julian Haworth portfolio site http://www.julianhaworth.net WIRE | Mental Health News on the Web http://www.machineanswering.me.uk/wire

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