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Arabic-utf-8 (plus a sample)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Hi gang, For Arabic we use a Latin transcription in Aleph/(e-)Omega (or even ArabTeX) unless one of the encoding filters like utf-8 is used. Even for utf-8 files, however, it would be very useful to be able to convert a utf-8 file to Latin transcription for further processing by Aleph/(e-)Omega. For example, adding diacritics is much easier to do in Latin than in an Arabic script editor because Latin transcription is one-dimensional and adding diacritics to Arabic is a 2-dimen affair. The best thing would be a perl script but I don't know perl at all (except to run some some precreated scripts). If someone out of the kindness of their heart could write a short and simple script for just seven characters I could do the rest myself and present it back here. Now all of the Arabic charachters in utf-8 can be represented by extended ascii. I need something like this, that converts every extended ascii representation of Arabic utf-8 into a Latin transcription: Ø§ => A Ø¨ => b Ø¬ => j Ø¯ => d Ù‡ => h Ùˆ => w Ø² => z If someone could write a perl script that can accomplish the above conversion, I can manually fill in the rest of the script. Basically I use a modified version of the ArabTeX transcription. Here is a "gift" in return: a sample utf-8 Arabic file that can be processed by Aleph/(e-)Omega in ConTeXt (you will probably need to dvips this, though some dvi-viewers can do the postscript/16-bit thing): ============================================== \hoffset=0pt % for Omega bug: has this been fixed? \def\ArabicUTF{\ocp\UTFArUni=inutf8 %% in88596 %\ocp\UTFArUni=in88596 \ocp\UniCUni=uni2cuni \ocp\CUniArab=cuni2oar \ocplist\UTFArOCP= \addbeforeocplist 1 \UTFArUni \addbeforeocplist 1 \UniCUni \addbeforeocplist 1 \CUniArab \nullocplist \pushocplist\UTFArOCP} \input m-gamma.tex \input type-omg.tex \switchtobodyfont[omarb,12pt] % \textdir TRT% \pardir TRT% \ArabicUTF \starttext ØŒ Ø› ØŸ Ø¡ Ø¢ Ø£ Ø¤ Ø¥ Ø¦ Ø§ Ø¨ Ø© Øª Ø« Ø¬ Ø Ø® Ø¯ Ø° Ø± Ø² Ø³ Ø´ Øµ Ø¶ Ø· Ø¸ Ø¹ Øº Ù€ Ù Ù‚ Ùƒ Ù„ Ù… Ù† Ù‡ Ùˆ Ù‰ ÙŠ \blank[big] %Ù‹ ÙŒ Ù ÙŽ Ù Ù Ù‘ Ù’ Ù Ù¡ Ù¢ Ù£ Ù¤ Ù¥ Ù¦ Ù§ Ù¨ Ù© Ùª Ù« Ù¬ Ù° Ù± Ù² Ù³ Ù´ Ùµ Ù¶ Ù· Ù¸ Ù¹ Ùº Ù» Ù¼ Ù½ Ù¾ Ù¿ Ú€ Ú Ú‚ Úƒ Ú„ Ú… Ú† Ú‡ Úˆ Ú‰ ÚŠ Ú‹ ÚŒ Ú ÚŽ Ú Ú Ú‘ Ú’ Ú“ Ú” Ú• Ú– Ú— Ú˜ Ú™ Úš Ú› Úœ Ú Úž ÚŸ Ú¢ Ú¡ Ú¢ Ú£ Ú¤ Ú¥ Ú¦ Ú§ Ú¨ Ú© Úª Ú« Ú¬ Ú Ú® Ú¯ Ú° Ú± Ú² Ú³ Ú´ Úµ Ú¶ Ú· Úº Ú» Ú¼ Ú¾ Û€ Û Ûƒ Û„ Û… Û† Û‡ Ûˆ Û‰ ÛŠ Û‹ ÛŒ Û Û‘ Û’ Û“ Û” Û• Û° Û± Û² Û³ Û´ Ûµ Û¶ Û· Û¸ Û¹ \blank[big] Ù€Ù‹ Ù€ÙŒ Ù€Ù Ù€ÙŽ Ù€Ù Ù€Ù Ù€Ù‘ Ù€Ù’ Ù€Ù° Ø§ Ø¨ Ø¬ Ø¯ Ù‡ Ùˆ Ø² \stoptext ============================================== Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Arabic utf 2 transcription
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Hi cohorts, Thank you to everyone who helped me with this. I now have a working script for converting Arabic utf-8 to transcription. This is still pretty xperimental but I've tried it on some rather large files. I added a couple of small features to make some things like the definite article more readable. This experiment has also led to some useful improvements in my own transcription scheme (based on Lagally's ArabTeX). For example, Lagally's system incorporates some Arabic orthography rules for hamzah; these are moot when dealing with utf-8 for the most part, so I added a direct transcription for each hamzah-carrier. Of course u will have to adjust what follows to fit your own pet transcription. For some of the small features to work (like for making the definite article more explicit) one should move the entire file being processed over by at least one space (so every word beginning with the definite article is affected but middle-word occurrences are ignored). Persian has not been extensively tested, and urdu, etc is completely missing. Hope this is useful in any case. U can download some real-life unicode arabic samples here: http://www.alabrar.info/ar/booklist.aspx Usage: perl utf2tex.pl <your utf file> creates file "new.tex" Thanks again to everyone, especially Thomas A. Schmitz who got the ball rolling. Best Idris ======================================================== #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; open(NEW,">new.tex"); #opens file to print out the result while (<>) { #this opens the file for reading # Allah $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x84\xD9\x87/al-llaah/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x84\xD9\x91\xD9\x87/al-llaah/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x84\xD9\x91\xD9\xB0\xD9\x87/al-llaah/g; #$_ =~ s/\xD9\x84\xD9\x84\xD9\x87/li-llaah/g; #$_ =~ s/\xD9\x84\xD9\x84\xD9\x91\xD9\x87/li-llaah/g; #$_ =~ s/\xD9\x84\xD9\x84\xD9\x87/la-llaah/g; #$_ =~ s/\xD9\x84\xD9\x84\xD9\x91\xD9\x87/la-llaah/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x84\xD9\x84\xD9\x87/l-llaah/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x84\xD9\x84\xD9\x91\xD9\x87/l-llaah/g; # # begin exceptions # $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x8A\x20/\x20 'ilY/g; $_ =~ s/\x20Ø§Ù„ÙŠ\x20/\x20'ilY\x20/g; $_ =~ s/\x20Ø§Ù„ÙŠ/\x20'ily/g; $_ =~ s/\x20Ùˆ\x20/\x20wa\x20/g; # $_ =~ s/\x20\x/\x20wa\x20/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA7\xD9\x8B/aN/g; # end exceptions # definite article $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xAA\xD9\x91/\x20al-tt/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xAB\xD9\x91/\x20al-_t_t/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xAF\xD9\x91/\x20al-dd/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB0\xD9\x91/\x20al-_d_d/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB1\xD9\x91/\x20al-rr/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB2\xD9\x91/\x20al-zz/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB3\xD9\x91/\x20al-ss/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB4\xD9\x91/\x20al-^s^s/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB5\xD9\x91/\x20al-.s.s/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB6\xD9\x91/\x20al-.d.d/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB7\xD9\x91/\x20al-.t.t/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB8\xD9\x91/\x20al-.z.z/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x84\xD9\x91/\x20al-ll/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x86\xD9\x91/\x20al-nn/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xA7/\x20al-A/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xA8/\x20al-b/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xAA/\x20al-t/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xAB/\x20al-_t/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xAC/\x20al-j/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xAD/\x20al-.h/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xAE/\x20al-_h/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xAF/\x20al-d/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB0/\x20al-_d/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB1/\x20al-r/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB2/\x20al-z/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB3/\x20al-s/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB4/\x20al-^s/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB5/\x20al-.s/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB6/\x20al-.d/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB7/\x20al-.t/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB8/\x20al-.z/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xB9/\x20al-`/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD8\xBA/\x20al-.g/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x81/\x20al-f/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x82/\x20al-q/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x83/\x20al-k/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x84/\x20al-l/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x85/\x20al-m/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x86/\x20al-n/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x87/\x20al-h/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x88/\x20al-w/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA7\xD9\x84\xD9\x8A/\x20al-y/g; # 0601--060F $_ =~ s/\xD8\x8C/,/g; # 0610--061F $_ =~ s/\xD8\x9B/;/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\x9F/?/g; # 0620--062F $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA1\xD9\x91/''/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA1/'/g; $_ =~ s/\x20\xD8\xA2/ 'aa/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA2/~A/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA3\xD9\x91/xx/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA3/x/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA4\xD9\x91/oo/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA4/o/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA5\xD9\x91/cc/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA5/c/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA6\xD9\x91/CC/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA6/C/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA7/A/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA8\xD9\x91/bb/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA8/b/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA9/T/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAA\xD9\x91/tt/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAA/t/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAB\xD9\x91/_t_t/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAB/_t/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAC\xD9\x91/jj/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAC/j/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAD\xD9\x91/.h.h/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAD/.h/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAE\xD9\x91/_h_h/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAE/_h/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAF\xD9\x91/dd/g; $_ =~ s/dÙ‘/dd/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xAF/d/g; # 0630--063F $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB0\xD9\x91/_d_d/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB0/_d/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB1\xD9\x91/rr/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB1/r/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB2\xD9\x91/zz/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB2/z/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB3\xD9\x91/ss/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB3/s/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB4\xD9\x91/^s^s/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB4/^s/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB5\xD9\x91/.s.s/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB5/.s/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB6\xD9\x91/.d.d/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB6/.d/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB7\xD9\x91/.t.t/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB7/.t/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB8\xD9\x91/.z.z/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB8/.z/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB9\xD9\x91/``/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xB9/`/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xBA\xD9\x91/.g.g/g; $_ =~ s/\xD8\xBA/.g/g; # 0640--064F $_ =~ s/\xD9\x80/--/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x81\xD9\x91/ff/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x81/f/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x82\xD9\x91/qq/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x82/q/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x83\xD9\x91/kk/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x83/k/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x84\xD9\x91/ll/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x84/l/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x85\xD9\x91/mm/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x85/m/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x86\xD9\x91/nn/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x86/n/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x87\xD9\x91/hh/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x87/h/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x88\xD9\x91/ww/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x88/w/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x89\xD9\x91/YY/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x89/Y/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x8A\xD9\x91/yy/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x8A/y/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x8B/aN/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x8C/uN/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x8D/iN/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x8E/a/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x8F/u/g; # 0650--065F $_ =~ s/\xD9\x90/i/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x92//g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\x92/~/g; # 0660--066F $_ =~ s/\xD9\xA0/0/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xA1/1/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xA2/2/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xA3/3/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xA4/4/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xA5/5/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xA6/6/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xA7/7/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xA8/8/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xA9/9/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xAA/%/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xAB/./g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xAC/,/g; # 0670--067F $_ =~ s/\xD9\xB0/aa/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xB1/WA/g; $_ =~ s/\xD9\xBE/p/g; # 0680--068F $_ =~ s/\xDA\x86/^c/g; # 0690--069F $_ =~ s/\xDA\x98/^z/g; # 06A0--06AF $_ =~ s/\xDA\xA4/v/g; $_ =~ s/\xDA\xAF/g/g; # 06B0--06BF $_ =~ s/\xDA\xBE/h/g; # 06C0--06CF $_ =~ s/\xDB\x80/e/g; $_ =~ s/\xDB\x81/h/g; $_ =~ s/\xDB\x82/e/g; $_ =~ s/\xDB\x83/T/g; $_ =~ s/\xDB\xAA/ii/g; # 06D0--06DF $_ =~ s/\xDB\x93/E/g; $_ =~ s/\xDB\x92/c/g; # 06E0--06EF # $_ =~ s/\xD8\xA7\xDB\xA4/~A/g; $_ =~ s/\xDB\xA4/~/g; # weird $_ =~ s/\xE2\x80\x8C/@/g; # temporary tag because this 0-width non joiner space creates an ambiguity print NEW "$_"; #and this writes the result into file "new.tex" } close(NEW); ======================================================== -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Strange bug with ffr and \in[]
by Peter Münster 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

Hello, with the following example and the latest beta-ConTeXt, I get the following error: unknown reference [][bla] file proj.tex: \startproject proj \environment env \product prod \stopproject file env.tex: \startenvironment env \useencoding[ffr] \stopenvironment file prod.tex: \startproduct prod \project proj \section[bla]{bla} \in[bla] \stopproduct Strange, because there is no such problem without the project/product structure. Using \starttext and \stoptext everything is fine. Could you help please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ________________________________________________________________ FilmSearch engine with a lot of new features: http://f-s.sf.net/

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m-bib and \setupinteraction
by Peter Münster 06 Jun '04

06 Jun '04

Not so important, but strange behaviour: \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[bib] % no problem if this line comes after \setupinteraction \setupinteraction[author=Jan,title=Titel] % strange: title ok, but not author \starttext bla \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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TIPA in Context
by sjoerdsiebinga＠zonnet.nl 05 Jun '04

05 Jun '04

I am currently converting my Old Frisian Etymological dictionary from LaTeX to Context and I have run into two problems. The first problem is that I am using the TIPA package to typeset phonological fonts and diactitica. Is there a way to use the TIPA font in Context? The second problem is that the dictionary has 142 seperate language indexes with over 32000 index markers in the standard latex index format \index[language_abbreviation]{...}. Is there an easy way to write one new (TeX) definition which interprets these markers in such a way that Context accepts. Sjoerd -- _____________________________________________________________________ Zon Gratis ADSL. De voordelen van gratis internet met de snelheid van ADSL. Zonder abonnementskosten en zonder vast contract. Je betaalt alleen voor de tijd online. Nu zonder aansluitkosten en met gratis modem. Bestel snel op zonnet.nl.

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for idris
by Hans Hagen 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

This one is better: % add to cont-new.tex \unprotect \definesystemvariable{sx} \def\definestylecollection {\dosingleargument\dodefinestylecollection} \def\dodefinestylecollection[#1]% {\iffirstargument \unexpanded\setvalue{#1}{\styleinstance[#1]}% \def\docommand##1{\letbeundefined{\??sx##1:\commalistelement}}% \processcommacommand[\stylelist,\s!default]\docommand \fi} \def\definestyleinstance {\dotripleargument\dodefinestyleinstance} \def\dodefinestyleinstance[#1][#2][#3]% {\ifsecondargument \doifundefined{#1}{\definestylecollection[#1]}% \setvalue{\??sx#1:#2}{#3}% \fi} \unexpanded\def\styleinstance[#1]% {\executeifdefined{\??sx#1:\fontalternative}{\getvalue{\??sx#1:\s!default}}} \protect % so far \definestylecollection[mine] \definestyleinstance[mine][default][sorry] \definestyleinstance[mine][bf][\sl] \definestyleinstance[mine][sl][\tt] {\bf test \mine test \sl test \mine test \bs oeps \mine oeps} (of course you now have to write a MyWay to explain it) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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\bTABLE[split=yes]
by Nigel King 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

All, I thought the following long table would split but it doesn't seem to using the current beta. Am I missing something? \starttext This is a test of the \type{\TABLE} environment. \bTABLE[split=yes] \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTH Head 1 \eTH \bTH Head 2 \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEfoot \bTR \bTH Foot 1 \eTH \bTH Foot 2 \eTH \eTR \eTABLEfoot \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{30}{\bTR \bTD[nr=3] left \eTD\bTD right \eTD \eTR \bTR\bTD right \eTD \eTR \bTR[after={\page[yes]}]\bTD right \eTD \eTR} \eTABLEbody \eTABLE \stoptext TIA -- Nigel

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%%BoundingBox: (atend)
by Peter Münster 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hello, ConTeXt does not find the EPS-BoundingBox in EPS files generated by xmgrace. Such a file begins like this: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 %%BoundingBox: (atend) and it ends like this: %%Trailer %%BoundingBox: 64 72 709 527 %%DocumentNeededResources: font Times-Roman %%EOF When using \externalfigure, one gets the following error: ERROR: Missing number, treated as zero. --- TeX said --- <to be read again> ( \EPSllx ->( atend) \dogetEPSboundingbox ...m \EPSfound >0 #2=\EPSllx bp#4=\EPSurx bp#3=\EPSlly ... Would it be possible, to enable ConTeXt to read such a file? If not, I'm going to write a script, that converts the file. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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\=i
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Dear partners in crime, I mentioned this some time ago, can't find the answer right now... I need a \=i where the bar over the <i> is the width of the box. In computer modern the bar over the <i> is much too large and looks ugly and buts into other letters when used frequently. In good quality typesetting the bar in the \=i is always smaller than for, say, \=a and \=u. (Of course, ConTeXt already incorporates the \i in its def. of \=i and I don't want to lose that feature;->) Also, Hoenig helped me make a complete old style computer modern virtual font. Where can I upload this package (with all Context-related typescripts) for people to look at and maybe improve? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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new windows iso versions
by Hans Hagen 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hi, I uploaded new bzips, these are my minimal context trees: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex.zip.bz2 http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/macosxtex.zip.bz2 http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex.zip.bz2 and this is for windows users, i.e. a subset of fptex: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/tex.iso.bz2 http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/tex.tar.bz2 These two are some 144 Meg. There is also the texsyncable tree. A few remarks: (1) the cd has an autorun file (2) and also start.bat and demo.bat files (3) whatever you choose, it will also start the example framework (4) which means that you have some goodies (recently added: font tester; interface is accessible from tools menu) (5) the demo files at least can prove that tex/metapost/xml work (6) afaik it works all right on spacy install paths (7) as well as (when running from cdrom) on the local (often spacy) user temp path (8) more example interfaced stuff will follow and the interface macros itself will be documented later i'll try to get this working for linux as well (alas, ruby is not yet standard on unix and i need to get rid of hard coded scite paths) as well as macosx (dunno how to make a texshop-using-small-context-tree-run-from-cd version yet; no scite on mac yet) I can add support for more editors later; the idea is that this provides a kind of standard. The example framework is now multi-threaded. The more extended client-server alternative will follow later. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Colours in tables
by techw＠siritech.com 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hi All ! Is there a way in which I can color only the first row (tablehead) of the table gray? I am using \starttables[|p(\ucolf)|p(\ucols)|]. Thanks and Regards, -priya

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Getting { in the input.
by Nikolai Weibull 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Again I'm having some problems generating my ASCII table, this time it's { and } that are the culprits. I'm currently using $\{$ and $\}$ for them, but it would be great if there was a way to get them rendered like the other characters that have \type{...} surrounding them. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this...is there perhaps a hard one? 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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Overwritten metapost files
by Nikolai Weibull 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

How was it one avoided getting metapost overwritten? I have two metapost graphics in a .tex file defined by \startreusableMPgraphic and the first one gets overwritten by the second when running texexec --path=.. masters-project.tex 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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flushbottom
by Peter Münster 31 May '04

31 May '04

Hello, how could I get stretchable space between paragraphs, tables and figures, so that the last line of a page flushes always to the bottom? \setupwhitespace[0pt plus 1pt] does not seem to work... Here is my test-file: \def\Par{bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla} \setuplayout[height=24cm] \setupwhitespace[0pt plus 1pt] % value of parskip in LaTeX \starttext \dorecurse{20}{\section{Section}\Par\par\Par\par\Par\par\Par\par} \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Grid, section, grid=top
by Patrick Gundlach 28 May '04

28 May '04

Dear ConTeXt hackers, on a new project I'd like to use grid snapping. One section level should have grid=top to get some distance between the text preceding the section heading and the heading itself. This works fine. But when the section starts at a new page I don't want any extra line inserted at the top. Patrick excerpt: \setuphead [Abschnitt] [head=nomarking,style=\tfa, alternative=inmargin, distance=1em, grid=top, % <----- works fine but unwanted on page start. ]

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amsl: startcases/stopcases
by David Munger 28 May '04

28 May '04

Hello Giuseppe, I'm having a little trouble with the cases in amsl. Compiling this: \[ f(x) = \startcases 0 & \text{if $x < -\epsilon$} \\ \frac12 & \text{if $x > \epsilon$} \stopcases \] results in an error around the \frac. Changing it to \dfrac makes the input compile ok, but typesets the cases in an ugly manner with really narrow spacing. Is there some way of telling startcases/stopcases to behave in display mode? Thanks in advance, David

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miktex searching
by Hans Hagen 28 May '04

28 May '04

Hi, Because i frequently use texmfstart to locate/launch/etc binaries, scripts and other things in the textree, i need to make sure that it also works with miktex. Do miktex users have kpsewhich on their system (or is this an option), or should i use a miktex specific search tool? Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Underscore in tables
by Nikolai Weibull 28 May '04

28 May '04

How do I get underscores (_) into a table? I'm producing an ASCII chart, and as character 95 is _ I would like it to show up as such. Right now I get a high dot. I'm using \starttable. 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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Fwd: strange problem [adam@ajtee.uklinux.net]
by Adam Tee 26 May '04

26 May '04

On 05/25/04 19:04:36, Adam Tee wrote: Hi all, I have a small problem with a document I am processing. When I include a certain file , using \component productions, and process it I get the following error. ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup l.56 \stopappendices However, if I run the file on its own it processes fine no errors. Does anyone know the solution to this as it is causing problems with some references. Also, is there a way to easily adjust the distance between abbreviations and their infull versions on the Abbreviations page as I have some overlap ?? Thanks Adam

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Cell padding in natural tables
by David Munger 26 May '04

26 May '04

Hello, There was that question to which I could not find an answer: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2002/000140.html So, is there a way to set the cell padding in natural tables? And by the way, is there a way to lock the total width of the table without setting the width of individual cells? Regards, David

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m-bib sorting, etc.
by Bruce D'Arcus 26 May '04

26 May '04

Another question on m-bib: Is it possible to get the bib list alphabetized? Or is the only way this can work if the bib file itself is so, and I use the bbl sort option? Also, I am getting some weird vertical spacing in the list (like extra blank space between a couple of entries). Is there any suggested workaround for this? Bruce

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(Mathe)Problem with $\tilde x$ and $\bar x$
by Helmut Schwertner 26 May '04

26 May '04

Hello, the example further down works fine with the latex standard fonts and e.g. eulervm, but not with fourier. Could somebody help me? Thank you very much in advance, Helmut % ----------example------------- \setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescript[fourier][ec] \setupbodyfont[fourier,12pt] \starttext $\tilde x$ ~~=~~ Median, Zentralwert \crlf $\bar x$ ~~=~~ Arithmetischer Mittelwert \stoptext

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RE: Two questions on Context
by Roelof Langman 25 May '04

25 May '04

Hi Willy, Thanks! Using \setupbodyfont solves my first problem. Unfortunately, using \plaatsinhoud[criterium=onderwerp] does not solve my second problem. No table of contents is generated. Cheers! Roelof

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lucida bright on mac os x (gwtex)
by Jacob Duijnhouwer 24 May '04

24 May '04

Dear context users, Does anyone have experience in setting up Gerben Wierda's gwTex for Mac OS X to use ConTeXt and lucida bright fonts? Could you advice me where to buy the fontset for Mac OS X? And can anyone offer me a pointer to good step-by-step recipe to convert and install the fontset? I know I ask a lot in just a few lines, but my guess is that people have figured out how to do this before. Regards, Jacob

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\title in the table of contents
by Michal Kvasnicka 24 May '04

24 May '04

Good evening. I'm sorry to post one more rahter simple question, but I'm desperate because I can't solve it myself. In my document I use numbered chapters (\chapter) and non-numbered chapters (\title). I want both to be in the table of content. How can I do it? I tried two solutions, but none worked. First I tried: \definehead[title][chapter] \setuphead[title][number=no, command=\MyTitleCommand] This puts the title to the table of content, but it increases the chapter number, so \title{Foreword} \title{Introduction} \chapter{First chapter} makes that the First chapter has number 3. Then I tried \definehead[title][chapter] \setuphead[title][number=no, incrementnumber=no, command=\MyTitleCommand] which has the same effect as only \setuphead[title][number=no, command=\MyTitleCommand] without the \definehead line -- titles are not placed into the table of contents. So, how can I have not-numbered chapters which don't increment the chapter number placed in the table of contents? Many thanks M.K.

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Two questions on ConText
by Roelof Langman 23 May '04

23 May '04

Hi, I'm using Context to typeset a book. As I use the Lucida fonts, I have \usetypescript[lucida][texnansi] \switchtobodyfont[lucida, 10pt] \stelhoofdstekstenin[onderwerp][paginanummer][book title] Unfortunately, if the "onderwerp" contains extended characters, they are not shown in the header text. Can this be done, and if so, how can I do it? In my file ,,boek.tex'', I have line saying ,,\plaatsinhoud'' (I use \onderwerp for my chapters, and \subonderwerp for my subchapters). The command \plaatsinhoud doesn't result in a table of contents being produced (my silent hope). Can I get a table of contents? How? Thanks! Roelof Langman

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small articles in columns?
by Janko Hauser 22 May '04

22 May '04

Hello, I want to tyeset some smaller text parts in columns on one page. I would like to place each text into it's own set of columns. Is it possible to have each text spread equally over some columns, so that the next text starts on the leftmost column again? Haven't found any parameter for this in the documentation. TIA, __Janko

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LaTeX linespacing
by J Bos 22 May '04

22 May '04

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The name of the current section?
by Michal Kvasnicka 21 May '04

21 May '04

Good evening. Is there some command simmilar to \headnumber[section] that would tell me the name of the current chapter/section/...? I want to have the headertext on the left like this: [pagenumber] [chapter title] (chap. [chapter number]) and on the right side like this: [section title] (sec. [section number]) [pagenumber] where [x] is value of x, e.g. [pagenumber] is the number of the current page. How can I do it? Many thanks Michal Kvasnicka

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French quotes
by David Munger 21 May '04

21 May '04

Hello, Processing this source: \enableregime [utf] \mainlanguage [french] \starttext Let's quote \quote{something}. \stoptext with ConTeXt ver: 2004.4.9 fmt: 2004.5.20 int: english mes: english results in pdf with strange symbols instead of french quotation marks. It used to work fine with: ConTeXt ver: 2004.1.13 fmt: 2004.5.1 int: english mes: english Has something changed in font processing since then? David

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draft stamp
by Idris Samawi Hamid 21 May '04

21 May '04

Dear gang, What is the simplest way to add a grey watermark to a draft document that says "DRAFT" on each and every page. I will be using eomega so I will have etex but not pdftex (in case that makes a difference. The <DRAFT> should be enlarged (bigger than \tfd perhaps) and run diagonal across the textblock (say, lower left to upper right corner). (There is actually an example of this in the LaTeX Graphics Companion using some dvips trick but I'd rather not go that route...) More funky: Maybe we can have a series of \tfd <Draft>'s across and down the textblock, say, 3 x 6 matrix. I've been away 4 a long time, finally getting back into circulation. I'm sure I have a lot of catching up 2 do... Best greetings 2 all Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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pdf 1.5 pb
by olivier Turlier 20 May '04

20 May '04

Hi Contexers, I've used Acrobat 6 to import and create .pdfs for inclusion as images, not thinking about compatibility mode (set by default on acrobat 6 I suppose). When I try to texexec a .tex doc with such pdf inclusions, i get this output : Error: pdfetex (file ./pieces-graphiques-l.pdf): pdf inclusion: found pdf version <1.5>, but at most version <1.4> allowed ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! My actual system (tetex+last context beta --thanks to Patrick Gundlach for his installcontext.sh script): pdfetex --version pdfeTeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 texexec --version TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 texutil --version TeXUtil 8.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 Thanks for your answer -- Olivier TURLIER F&M-CRP La Rouguière 101 Bd des libérateurs 13367 MARSEILLE cedex11 0(33)04 91 18 56 00 +0(33)04 91 45 14 48 crp.tbeb(a)wanadoo.fr

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bijeenkomst
by Hans Hagen 20 May '04

20 May '04

Hi, Next week (27/5) the ntg is meeting again in Arnhem. As usual, anybody is welcome. Fore more information, see www.ntg.nl or ask our secretary, Willi Egger <w.egger(a)boede.nl>. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: ntg-context digest, Vol 1 #752 - 5 msgs
by olivier Turlier 19 May '04

19 May '04

On Wed, 19 May 2004 12:00:16 +0200 ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > perl -npi.bak -e 's/%PDF-1.5/%PDF-1.4/;' *.pdf Yes it works. Thanks a lot! -- Olivier TURLIER F&M-CRP La Rouguière 101 Bd des libérateurs 13367 MARSEILLE cedex11 0(33)04 91 18 56 00 +0(33)04 91 45 14 48 crp.tbeb(a)wanadoo.fr

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old charts bug
by Henning Hraban Ramm 18 May '04

18 May '04

Hi Hans et al! As I changed some older charts today and installed the latest beta I recognized that an old bug isn't fixed yet: Any \connection[bb]{something} leads to an error. Could you please look into it? Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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\externalfigure and dvi-output
by Peter Münster 17 May '04

17 May '04

Hello, when using \externalfigure, the figure is shifted to the right in dvi-output. How could I fix this? TIA for any help, Peter Here an example: %\setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext X\externalfigure[example][width=3cm,frame=on]X \stoptext The eps-file is in the attachment. ConTeXt Version: 2004.3.16 pdfeTeX Version: 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ________________________________________________________________ FilmSearch engine with a lot of new features: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX linespacing
by glhoffman＠cox.net 16 May '04

16 May '04

I don't speak Dutch, so I am partly guessing at what you are asking for. Look at the LaTeX package "setspace," which may be found at ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/setspace. The package is described at pages 106-08 of The LaTeX Companion (2nd ed. 2004). The package adjusts interline spacing either globally with a spacing command in the preamble (e.g., \usepackage{setspace} \doublespacing) or locally using a spacing environment (e.g., with the command \usepackage{setspace} in the preamble, \begin{spacing}{2.0}text\end{spacing}). Hope this is helpful. Gary Hoffman > > From: "J Bos" <jj_bos(a)hotmail.com> > Date: 2004/05/12 Wed AM 05:05:49 EDT > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > Subject: [NTG-context] LaTeX linespacing > >

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Another Metafun issue
by SebastianSturm＠t-online.de 16 May '04

16 May '04

Hi, when trying to set fractions or non-square roots in Metapost figures using the Metafun macro textext (textext("\frac{a}{b}") or textext("\root a \of b")), I get the error message !Undefined control sequence $\setbox \rootbox \hbox {$\mathsurround \z @ \scriptscriptstyle {a }$}\m... in case of the root and !Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> \mathchoice l.11 $\relax ${{\mathchoice {\displaystyle a}{\textstyle a}{\scriptstyle a}{... in case of the fraction. I probably made some stupid error, but I can't seem to find it. Best regards, Sebastian

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Metapost font size
by SebastianSturm＠t-online.de 16 May '04

16 May '04

Hi, is it possible to change the font size of TeX labels in Metapost figures (using the textext command) to be the same as the bodyfont size in the surrounding document? Best regards, Sebastian Sturm

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bug in alignbox
by Vit Zyka 15 May '04

15 May '04

Hallo Hans, I have played with positioning text in layers. I noticed that parameter "location=t" \setlayer[MyLayer][...,location=t,...]{...} behaves the same way as "location=c". It seems to me it is the bug in optimized definition of \alignedbox. If I use commented version of \alignedbox from source file core-box.tex it is OK. Can you look at it, please? Test file: ------------------------------------------------------------------ \definelayer[PositionText][position=no,corner=buttom,height=\textheight,option=test] \def\PosText(#1,#2)[#3]#4{% \setlayer[PositionText][x=#1,y=#2,location=#3]{#4}% \ignorespaces} \setupbackgrounds[text][background={PositionText}] \switchtobodyfont[20pt] \starttext \PosText(.3\textwidth,.3\textheight)[c]{Center} \PosText(.3\textwidth,.3\textheight)[t]{Top} \PosText(.3\textwidth,.3\textheight)[b]{Bottom} \PosText(.3\textwidth,.5\textheight)[l]{Left} \PosText(.3\textwidth,.5\textheight)[r]{Right} \PosText(.7\textwidth,.5\textheight)[tl]{TopLeft} \PosText(.7\textwidth,.5\textheight)[tr]{TopRight} \PosText(.7\textwidth,.5\textheight)[bl]{BottomLeft} \PosText(.7\textwidth,.5\textheight)[br]{BottomRight} Ap\hskip1.5em \alignedbox[b]\hbox{ApB}\hskip1.5em \alignedbox[c]\hbox{ApC}\hskip1.5em \alignedbox[t]\hbox{ApT} \stoptext

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Fwd: Context and bibtex
by Hans Hagen 14 May '04

14 May '04

>X-Original-To: hagen-mail(a)localhost.pragma-net.nl >Delivered-To: hagen-mail(a)localhost.pragma-net.nl >Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:26:16 +0100 >From: Pedro Mendonça <p.mendonca(a)iol.pt> >Subject: Context and bibtex >To: pragma(a)wxs.nl >X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003) >X-Accept-Language: pt >Priority: normal >Original-recipient: rfc822;pragma(a)wxs.nl >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=7.5 > tests=BAYES_20 > version=2.55 >X-Spam-Level: >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) > >Hi. > >1) What's the best way to refer bibliography in context? > >2) How can I use bibtex in ConTEXt (like in latex)? Do I have to download >extra packages for that? Someone has refered \usemodule[bib] and others >\usemodule[m-bib]. What files do context read to process these modules? I >downloaded the Context manual by Hans Hagen (november 12, 2001) and found >nothing related to this... > >Thanks. > Pedro Mendonca. > > >___________________________________________________________________________________________ >IOL Flash. A net normal em versao acelerada. >Promocao: Ligue-se a Internet pelo IOL Flash e ganhe um Vale de 10 >da Galp! >Saiba como: http://www.iol.pt/central_utilizador/iol_flash/promocao.php > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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bold typewriter cm-font
by Peter Münster 14 May '04

14 May '04

Hello, I'm quite lucky, that I've finally got a bold typewriter font. Could you just tell me please, if this is the right ConTeXt-way to do it? \usetypescript[modern][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[modern] \definebodyfont [12pt] [tt] [bf=cmttb10 at 12pt] \definebodyfont [11pt] [tt] [bf=cmttb10 at 11pt] \definebodyfont [10pt] [tt] [bf=cmttb10] \definebodyfont [9pt] [tt] [bf=cmttb10 at 9pt] \definebodyfont [8pt] [tt] [bf=cmttb10 at 8pt] %\definebodyfont [12pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt10 at 12pt] %\definebodyfont [11pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt10 at 11pt] %\definebodyfont [10pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt10] %\definebodyfont [9pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt9] %\definebodyfont [8pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt8] \starttext \tt hugo \bf hugo \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ________________________________________________________________ FilmSearch engine with a lot of new features: http://f-s.sf.net/

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French, ? : ; !, and spacing, \setuppapersize problem
by Tobias Burnus 14 May '04

14 May '04

Hello, (Passing on a question.) Is there a simple methode to automatically add a thinspace before "?", "!", ":" and ";" as it is done commonly in French? This would make typing easier and would allow to change a thinspace into a normal space etc. In addition, I have the following problem. I downloaded the latest (?) ConTeXt - 2004.4.9 -, installed it in my $HOMETEXMF tree, added two symlinks to make it work with an old TDS tree texmf.cnf configuration, run texhash and fmtutil. TeX works rather nicely, except \setuppagersize. Using \setuppapersize[a5][a4] or a5 a5 I get always one A4 page on a A4 sheet of paper. Using [a5][a4,landscape] I get a A4 paper on a sheet of paper which is as wide and high as the height of an A4 paper. Can anyone reproduce this? Or is this due to my configuration (e.g. a file present in the system TEXMF tree which is not in $HOMETEXMF and gets included)? Regards, Tobias

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Strange MP problem
by Tobias Burnus 14 May '04

14 May '04

Hello, I have a really strange problem. After changing a label in ghostscript (mpost terminal), I fail to mpost the output since the TeX file looks like \switchtobodyfont[7.5pt] % [...] \shipout\hbox{\smash{\hbox{\hbox{% line 402 gnuplot0001.mp xtls ($1+2885.878040):($3/1.6637149187); $\Gamma_{\rm L}=1.5$, $\Gamma_{\rm G}=0 .2$}\vrule width1sp}}} \end{document} Of cause it fails at the "\end{document}", but why is it there at all? In the metapost file are only the normal put_text(btex ... etx) statements (plus my verbertim "\switchtobodyfont[7.5pt]"). Any ideas? Tobias PS: Thanks Patrick for a5 vs. A5 help.

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Fwd: Chinese support of ConTeXt
by Hans Hagen 13 May '04

13 May '04

For chinese experts: >Hello, I'm a new Chinese user (would-be at least) of ConTeXt. In your >site, you have a PDF about Chinese support in ConTeXt. The information >within that PDF utilizes some of the seemingly outdated tools. I'm not >very experienced with teTeX (on my Debian system) administration, so I got >nearly completed lost. Can you help me setup Chinese for ConTeXt? I'd like >to summarize my experience into a Chinese document if I can get it up and >run. I will contribute the document back to the community to pay back help >I would get from you. Anyway, here's my questions: > >1. Can I use tools from the freetype1-tools package of Debian to generate >all the Chinese fonts stuff from my truetype fonts from my Windows system? > >The current document about Chinese in ConTeXt in your site concentrate on >(seemingly outdated) Turbolinux information. > >2. How can I install the fonts stuff generated to local texmf without >being a teTeX administrator? In your current document, there is no >information about this. As reading various TeX command logs, I suppose it >should have something to do with running mktexlsr etc.? > >Thank you very much for your time and the many charming PDFs out there >which makes ConTeXt really desirable! > >ZHAO Wei > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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page selection with context magnifies
by karl＠freefriends.org 13 May '04

13 May '04

(I believe this is the same bug I reported on December 6, with additional information.) I'm using context (from TL 2003) to select pages. It's apparently actually changing the content, that is, enlarging it! Consider page 2 of the attached covers.pdf. I try to extract it with: texexec --mode=letter --pdfselect --selection=2 --result=bad2.pdf covers.pdf The result is the attached bad2.pdf. If you view at, say, 100% ("fit to page" will eradicate the difference) and compare to the original page 2, the fonts appear larger and everything is moved to the right a bit, as if the page was magnified by some small proportion. The same thing happens with page 4 and with other files I have tried. I tried removing the --mode=letter, it made no difference. Any help appreciated. Although gs can extract pages correctly, it loses the searchable text, while context preserves it, so I'd rather use the latter. :). Thanks, k

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reuse of LaTeX code
by Viktor Tron 12 May '04

12 May '04

Dear List users, I just heard about ConTeXt on the lingtex list. I am a rather old and experienced Latex user, and, although rather unsatisfied, I have tons of latex sources for constant reuse. My first questions are Is there any hope that I can painlessly reuse my Latex code in Context? Is there any hope that I can ever use Latex styles (some more complicated macro defs) in Context? Thanks for help. Viktor +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Viktor Tron v.tron(a)ed.ac.uk| |3fl Rm8 2 Buccleuch Pl EH8 9LW Edinburgh Tel +44 131 650 4414| |European Postgraduate College www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk| |School of Informatics www.informatics.ed.ac.uk| |Theoretical and Applied Linguistics www.ling.ed.ac.uk| | @ University of Edinburgh, UK www.ed.ac.uk| |Dept of Computational Linguistics www.coli.uni-sb.de| | @ Saarland University (Saarbruecken, Germany) www.uni-saarland.de| |use LINUX and FREE Software www.linux.org| +------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Images
by techw＠siritech.com 12 May '04

12 May '04

Hello all! Thanks for all your suggestions. I am capturing screenshots and saving them as .eps images using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8. I then convert the eps images to PDF using "convertall2pdf"(on the command line) which is the batch file that Ghostscript uses. When I then use context tags \placefigure {test} {\externalfigure[Image1-4][type=pdf,preset=yes]} \blank I still get blank gray boxes in the output. Why does this happen? How do I solve this problem? Does it have anything to do with the bounding box? How do I fix the bounding box? Thanks and regards, -priya

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Images
by techw＠siritech.com 12 May '04

12 May '04

Hello all! Thanks for all your suggestions. I am capturing screenshots and saving them as .eps images using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8. I then convert the eps images to PDF using "convertall2pdf"(on the command line) which is the batch file that Ghostscript uses. I am sending through the script of "Convertall2pdf". @echo off PATH=%PATH%;c:\gs\gs8.13\lib;c:\gs\gs8.13\bin; for /F %%i in ('dir /b *.eps') do ps2pdf %%i %%i.pdf When I then use context tags \placefigure {test} {\externalfigure[Image1-4][type=pdf,preset=yes]} \blank I still get blank gray boxes in the output. Why does this happen? How do I solve this problem? Does it have anything to do with the bounding box? How do I fix the bounding box? Thanks and regards, -priya

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[very OT] test, don't read
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 May '04

11 May '04

Sorry. Just a test (account dead?). Steffen

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