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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

> > >This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C > >7.3.7x) > > > >fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes). > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Should I really increase memory to run an one-word job? > > > >There must be an other error. > > > > > > this is an OS problem, if you run some old windows (95/98), make sure > >that > > > there is enough non fragemented disk space left on your c drive (or the > > > disk where the virtual mem file resides); it may help to increase your > > > virtual mem; tex needs some 16-32 M per job (kind of fixed) > > > > > > Hans > > > >I run tetex on linux (debian). > >I have compared the memory settings in the context section of both TeX Live > >6 and 7, they are identical. > >Do you have any ideas? > > the message is not a tex one (say: too less font mem, or hash exceeded) but > an operating system one; this may happen when you rmem settings in the > texmf.cnf file don't match the values stored in the format file; did you > regenerate the format? > > i also wonder where the 60 meg of mem request comes from > > Hans I made the following little experiments with 'simple.tex': ------------------simple.tex---------------- \starttext Test. \stoptext ------------------------------------------------- I hope, that the following command ist �quivalent to 'texexec simple' > pdfetex --efmt cont-en simple This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./simple.tex Error: pdfetex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file (The former xmalloc-error is not reported, but 'pdftex.cfg' could not opened!?) > pdfetex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) **\relax entering extended mode {/usr/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} *\end No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. (Here, 'pdftex.cfg' is found and opened!! ) I created an further pdftedx.cfg in my user-tree and I get: > pdfetex --efmt cont-en simple This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./simple.tex Error: pdfetex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file > pdfetex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) **\relax entering extended mode {/home/wwl/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} *\end No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. Is this ok or wrong? Is this the same error as bevor or a second error? Obviously this is format dependend. The format is newly made with: texexec --make en The new format is written to /usr/TeX/texmf-var/web2c/cont-en.efmt Timestamp looks ok! Wolfgang

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placing an accent
by Idris S Hamid 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

Dear gang, A bug or feature? \t oo does not work in ConTeXt! `\t' is undefined. Anyway, I need something else. I want to place an accent midway over two letters. I looked at page 356 of the TeXBook for ideas but I can't seem to get things right. I want to place an extended tilda (\textfont3\accent"65 in Plain TeX) over the character pair `al'. I need a macro like \t{al} that places this character exactly midway over the `al', or any other pair of characters. The procedure analogous to the one Knuth uses for \t \def\t#1{{\edef\next{\the\font}\the\textfont3\accent"65\next#1}} does not work here. Aside: Can TeX be tricked into reading the ahead two characters so I can write \t al ? I realize that Knuth's \t does not really do this but takes a character from an italic font to give the illusion that it does. Thnx 4 your help Idris

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Missing PageNumber in s-pre-03
by David Antos 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

Hello, I've used the s-pre-03 style and I encountered a problem with the generated graphics. The graphics depends on the page number and reads the page number from the PageNumber variable. Nevertheless, the variable does not get updated, it is initialized to 1 in the beginning of mpgraph.mp. It can be solved by putting PageNumber := \realfolio ; into the code, but this is a really ugly hack. Can you please track down where the PageNumber in Start/StopPage MP environment has been eaten? I expect this problem affects any generated graphics that depends on page numbers. Thank you, D.A. -- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein

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a metapost problem
by Severin Obertuefer 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

hi I have again another metapost problem: I made the following picture: \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \startMPpage path p; p := fullsquare xysized(2cm,2cm); fill p scaled 2 withcolor blue; path a,b,c; for i=0 step 1 until 9: a:= p enlarged (5mm-10mm*i/9,5mm-10mm*i/9); b:= a enlarged (-10mm/9,-10mm/9); c:= a --reverse b--cycle; fill c withcolor transparent(1,i/9,white); endfor; \stopMPpage \stoptext when I compile it an look at the result then the stripes are overlapping a little bit. how can I do this so that one stripe is next to the other without overlapping,but without a spece between them. greetings severin

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Re: [NTG-context] Metapost problems
by emmanuel.rialland＠sgib.com 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

I am happy to report some progress thanks to your help. reinstalled the context package; \protectbufferstrue is full of black magic; noticed that there shouldn't be any white space between with and color; Making more changes on the logo definition. Not quite there yet, but on the way. All in all getting better. Even the chart has gone back where it should be (I have no idea what the problem is/was). The draft still doesn't appear. Another question: - how to change the font of the logo text? Thanks, Emmanuel ************************************************************************** Have you checked our new corporate website at http://www.sgib.com ? The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). It shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Any unauthorized access, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination is prohibited. Neither SGIB nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall assume any legal liability or responsibility for any incorrect, misleading or altered information contained herein. **************************************************************************

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

> >This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) > >fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes). > >--------------------------------------------------------------- > >Should I really increase memory to run an one-word job? > >There must be an other error. > > this is an OS problem, if you run some old windows (95/98), make sure that > there is enough non fragemented disk space left on your c drive (or the > disk where the virtual mem file resides); it may help to increase your > virtual mem; tex needs some 16-32 M per job (kind of fixed) > > Hans I run tetex on linux (debian). I have compared the memory settings in the context section of both TeX Live 6 and 7, they are identical. Do you have any ideas? Wolfgang

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Metapost problems
by emmanuel.rialland＠sgib.com 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

Hi, I am trying to insert the same picture in a text at different places and in different sizes. The logo looks like a bicolor square with white text on top of it. After many errands, I wrote the following so that I can size as needed: \def\Logo#1% {\startMPgraphic % Top rectangle drawfill (0,0)--(2cm,0)--(2cm,1cm)--(0,1cm)--cycle with color blue ; % Bottom black rectangle drawfill (0,0)--(2cm,0)--(2cm,-1cm)--(0,-1cm)--cycle with color black ; % White Text draw btex \bf AB etex withcolor white ; % resize to size currentpicture := currentpicture scaled #1 ; \stopMPgraphic \loadcurrentMPgraphic \placeMPgraphic} All I get is a frame with "undefined" written in it. Any clues? I also try to have draft written in the right margin. I copied the text showed p156 of the Metafun manual (the second example from the top). Never had any success. Is there anything I am missing? Now weirder (to me at least). A bit further in my doc, I have a chart created with the chart module. I had to comment out the chart code. If I don't, all the logos and all the right margins (where I would like to see DRAFT) are replaced by the chart. And at the location where the chart is included, there is no chart (more precisely, there is no boxes and arrows but the labels are still there, scattered around over the text as an overlay). I am using teXExec 3.1 that comes with Cygwin. Any help is welcome. Thanks in advance, Emmanuel ************************************************************************** Have you checked our new corporate website at http://www.sgib.com ? The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). It shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Any unauthorized access, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination is prohibited. Neither SGIB nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall assume any legal liability or responsibility for any incorrect, misleading or altered information contained herein. **************************************************************************

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hyphenation: DIC / Composed Words
by Michael Wiedmann 16 Apr '03

16 Apr '03

Twon questions concerning hyphenation: - I read the section 'composed words' in 'cont-en' and believe I understand it, *but* how do I handle this if my source file is DocBook XML which is typeset using 'DocBook In ConTeXt'? I cannot edit the composed words using the suggested '|' characters (at least not if my source file is processed by some other tool for another output format). - DIC maps the content of the 'url' attribute of <ulink> tags to ConTeXt's '\useURL' and '\goto' which works fine so far. But URLs tend sometimes to be very long and don't wrap at the end of lines automatically. I tried to add '\hyphenation{}' exceptions for every URL but get an error message like '.... is not a character'. Is there a solution for this? Michael -- mw(a)miwie.in-berlin.de http://www.miwie.org mw(a)miwie.org

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meta post problem
by Severin Obertuefer 16 Apr '03

16 Apr '03

hi all I have another metapost probelem: I would like to have a shade effect like this: circular_shade(p,0,transparent(1,.25,white),transparent(1,.75,white)) ; but it seems that this doesn'n work wiht transparent colors. both of the transparent colors get black in the picture. Is there another simple solution to reach this effect? greez severin

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descriptions and enumerations
by Guy Worthington 16 Apr '03

16 Apr '03

I'm having trouble developing a coupling. In the code below, you'll see a skeleton example, after which follows a discussion, and then a bit more code. I'm trying to show a that each code snippet is coupled to the first example by using an \exampleContinued macro. ----- \defineenumeration [example] [location=serried, text=Example, before=\blank, after=\blank, way=bychapter, style=italic] \definedescription [exampleContinued] [location=serried, width=fit, distance=1em, text={Example~\headnumber[chapter].\nummer[example] (continued)}, before=\blank, after=\blank, style=italic] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \chapter{Introduction} \input tufte \example[ex:simpleExample] A Simple Example \startJV // A very simple applet import java.applet.Applet; import java.awt.Graphics; /** This applet just says "Hello World"! */ public class HelloWorld extends Applet { ... } \stopJV \input tufte \exampleContinued[ex:simpleExample:1] The paint() method \startJV /** Just says "Hello World * @param g */ public void paint (Graphics g) { g.drawString("Hello World", 25, 10); } \stopJV \stoptext ----- You'll see that the example (continue) line is all garbled, with the first word (in this case "The") set in wrong type and also in the wrong place. I'm hoping someone can unravel the mess.

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typing buffers doesn't obey spaces
by Zeljko Vrba 16 Apr '03

16 Apr '03

This is related to Hans' suggestion for typing code next to text in tabulate environment. The following fragment has a slight problem: \definebuffer[CodeSnippet] \startCodeSnippet \starttyping first line second line \stoptyping \stopCodeSnippet When I do a \getbuffer[CodeSnippet] inside tabulate, the empty line is suppressed :( How to fix it (empty lines really do improve readability of the source)? BTW, why it is not possible to have \starttyping/\stoptyping inside 'p' column in tabulate?

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Re: referencing line numbers of a typing environment
by Guy Worthington 16 Apr '03

16 Apr '03

Marko Schuetz <MarkoSchuetz(a)web.de> writes: > I usually present C/C++ code in a typing environment. If I need to > frequently reference statements I put a line number environment around > that. Now I would like to use line numbers and experimented a bit with > \setuptyping[option=commands,escape=/], but did not yet get the > desired results. > > Any hint is welcome > Marko, I can't even get the documented example to work: ----- \startbuffer \starttyping test//test test/BTEX \footnote{test test test}/ETEX test test//test test/BTEX \footnote{test test test}/ETEX test test test test/BTEX \bf(nota bene)/ETEX test test test test /BTEX \bf(nota bene)/ETEX test \stoptyping \stopbuffer \starttext \bgroup\setuptyping[option=commands]\getbuffer\egroup \stoptext ----- If you can't either, then either you or I are going to have to learn how to submit a bug report.

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 16 Apr '03

16 Apr '03

Hallo! > >After changing my outofthebox debian-TeX to TeX Live 7 I have the following > >problem: > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > > > TeXExec 2.8 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 > > > (1) download the latest version from our site (show-fil.pdf->archive) ok! > > (2) if texexec 3.2 is not found, make sure that you have it in your path > (copy if needed) ok! > > (3) if you still have mem problems, locate texmf.cnf (kpsewhich ...) and > increase the context mem values > > Hans I still have the problem with the following: -----------------simple.tex--------------------------------- \starttext Test. \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------ TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : simple output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes). run time : 1 seconds total run time : 4 seconds --------------------------------------------------------------- Should I really increase memory to run an one-word job? There must be an other error. Wolfgang

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notes on TeXLive and Truetype fonts
by Bill McClain 16 Apr '03

16 Apr '03

I've added new material to my help page: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html (1) I've switched to TeXLive and adjusted the installation section accordingly. (2) I've added a section on installing Truetype fonts using ttf2tfm. -Bill -- Sattre Press Curiosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/ by Garrett Serviss info(a)sattre-press.com http://csky.sattre-press.com/

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Creating List with separate numbering
by Nigel King 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Dear Contextnicians, I would like a separate numbered list in this case called Problems. I have created a small test file below. Unfortunately I cannot see how to get this to number separately from section numbering. (I was not having any success before using \definehead[Problems][section] \definelist [Problems] \definehead [Problems] [section] \setuphead [Problems] [style=\ss\bf,color=red,before={\blank {\ss\bf\red Problem }},after={\qquad}] \def\problem#1#2{{\par\Problems{#1}{\red #2}\par}} \starttext List of Problems\par\blank[big] \placelist [Problems] [alternative=c,criterium=all,width=2em,interaction=all] \blank[big] \section{Tufte} \input tufte \problem{a first problem}{the first problem description} \input tufte \problem{a second problem}{second problem description} \section{Another Tufte} \stoptext TIA -- Nigel

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RandomSeed
by Fermin Otalora 14 Apr '03

14 Apr '03

Hello everybody. I'm trying to get some special effects using Metafun. The idea is to get slightly different letterheads from run to run of texexec. I tried randomseed and randomized() but, once the value value of randomseed is fix in the source, all further graphics are equally distorted. In other programming languages this is achieved by assigning to the random seed a value related to the current time and date. I suppose that something similar (or even simpler) should be available in TeX/Context, but my expertise seems not enough for this (may be trivial challenge). Could someone help? Many thanks Fermin -- Fermin Otalora <otalora(a)ugr.es> Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalograficos

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combining start/stop environments
by Guy Worthington 14 Apr '03

14 Apr '03

Hello, I'd like to introduce new code by highlighting it with a background. For instance the following snippet of code does what I want: ----- \starttext \input tufte \setupcolors[state=start] \startbackground \startJV import java.io.IOException ; import org.xml.sax.SAXException ; \stopJV \stopbackground \input tufte \stoptext ----- I'd like to get the two nested environments startbackground/startJV, grouped together under a single concept, in this case the single concept startNewCode. I thought I'd just slurp up the argument nested between the keywords \startNewCode and \stopNewCode into memory and then process the argument. This is my attempt: ----- \definetype [typeJV] [option=JV,palet=graypretty] \def\startNewCode{\blank[medium] \begingroup \catcode`\\=12 \STARTNewCode} { \catcode`\|=0 \catcode`\\=12 |long|gdef|STARTNewCode#1\stopNewCode{% |startbackground |typeJV{#1} |stopbackground |blank[medium] |endgroup}} \starttext \input tufte \startNewCode import java.io.IOException ; import org.xml.sax.SAXException ; \stopNewCode \input tufte \stoptext ----- This unfortunately doesn't work. It gets rid of blank lines and doesn't pretty-print. I realize my attempt is naive, but I've run out of ideas of how to combine a background with a verbatim argument.

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layer documentation?
by Patrick Gundlach 14 Apr '03

14 Apr '03

Hello Hans and others, is there any layer documentation out there that I have missed? I found some fragments in the metafun manual, the details.pdf and (well, of course!) the source. Where should the layers be hooked in? If I say \setupbackgrounds[text][text][background=relpos], the layer relpos gets repeated; if I use \setupbackgrounds[page][..], the layer won't be repeated, even if I say \setupbackgrounds[page][background=..,state=repeat]. (Yes, I know that I can use \setuplayer[...][state=repeat]; I try to understand what is going on.) So should I always use the [page] background to anchor the layer? Patrick

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A Request from TUG: Sharing Your Corners of the Field [ ConTeXt List ]
by Wendy McKay 14 Apr '03

14 Apr '03

Sunday April 13, 2003 Dear ConTeXt Users. The 24th Annual Meeting and Conference of the TueX Users Group, TUG 2003: the Silver Anniversary -- 25 Years! -- of TeX will be held on July 20-24, 2003 on the Big Island, Hawaii, USA. Hans Hagen will be giving two presentations at the meeting and there will be a one-day free Post-Conference Workshop "Getting to know all about ConTeXt" on July 25, from 9:00 to 3:30 pm http://www.tug.org/tug2003/talks/ Apple Computers Inc. is co-sponsoring TUG 2003 with the loan of several iBooks with wireless cards and a base station to allow particpants to have a hands-on experience of installing TeXshop and teTeX and running programs such as ConTeXt. If you are interested in attending the conference please check the webpages at http://www.tug.org/tug2003/ We hope that some you will be able to attend. The letter attached is a grass rooots appeal to help support the participation of volunteer speakers and developers, who share their work freely with the TeX community. Thank you for any support you can provide. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DATE: Friday, April 11, 2003 TO: All TeX Users Worldwide --- Academics, Publishers, Prepress, Commercial Vendors, Open Source Supporters, Members of Mailing Lists, Local User Groups RE: Grass Roots Appeal to help sponsor the TUG 2003 speakers and developers and further TeX Development. A Request from TUG: Sharing Your Corners of the Field Dear Friends of TeX, If you believe in squeezing every last bit of value from your resources, then you might be interested in TeX and its future development. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AHEAD OF ITS TIME ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You may already know about TeX and some of its offspring, such as LaTeX, pdfTeX, ConTeXt, and even Lollipop. 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Font switch and memory
by Adam Lindsay 14 Apr '03

14 Apr '03

Hi folks, When I get an error message like the following, what exactly am I running out of, and can I make sure there's more of it? I am indeed doing a lot of switching of very large fonts, but the error doesn't show up at some font sizes and appears at others. ! Font \*9ptrctf*=texnansiOSFSC-WarnockPro-Regular at 9.0pt not loaded: Not eno ugh room left. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... \complexswitchstyleonly ...lue {\@shortstyle@ #1}} \the \everybodyfont l.24 {\rm text {\switchstyleonly\rc text \it text} text}\crlf -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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MikTeX hash size limit ?
by Sebastian Rooks 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Hello ConTeXters, First of all I would like to thank you Hans for ConTeXt. It is a great pleasure to use it to write my PhD thesis. I have just upgraded to the lastest versions of ConTeXt and MikTeX and my draft doesn't compile any more: pdfeTeX complains that it runs out of "multiletter control sequences" (see part of the log file below). I did not found what it is nor how to increase it. Maybe someone on this list can give me some advice ? Yours, Seb. This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.10b-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.2) (preloaded format=cont-en 2003.3.31) 1 APR 2003 01:01 entering extended mode **these.tex (these.tex{pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.11 fmt: 2003.3.31 int: english mes: english [...] ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000]. [...] Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 6285 strings out of 67835 96036 string characters out of 755177 566094 words of memory out of 1205208 35000 multiletter control sequences out of 35000 68410 words of font info for 185 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 56 hyphenation exceptions out of 607 61i,21n,101p,2577b,1356s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,32768s 1215 PDF objects out of 65536 223 named destinations out of 20000 673 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 ! ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!

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Figure-database
by Willi Egger 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Hi all, i prepared today a figure database. Within the comment fields there are words containeng accented letters. <figure> <file></file> <label>Beispiel</label> <copyright>WE</copyright> <comment>Oberfläche</comment> </figure> When saying <\figurelibrary language="en"> at the beginning I get the given example word as Oberfl""ache The same is valid for the language="nl". If i use the <\figurelibrary language="de"> then I get the example word as Oberfl"äche. I am puzzled ... What am I doing wrong? For testing in your environment I attach a minimal file. Thanks Willi

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pdf printing
by Idris S Hamid 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Dear gang, Ok; this is a post-context problem but I desperately need your help. I created a book cover using ConTeXt/Gamma/eomega in three parts; front, back, and spine. ps2pdf got the colors wrong so I had to use distiller to convert each part to pdf. Per my instructions, in Acrobat, a colleague overlaid the three components and created a final single cover pdf. She sent it to the printer and everything came out fine except the fonts "came out all pixilated and blurry". The fonts are all Type1 and dvips is definitely getting the Type1's I think The printer suggested that Distiller was screen-optimized, not print-optimized. I'll check that when I get home but before I get there I need your advice and wisdom: What things in ConTeXt/dvips/distiller should I optimize to make sure the printer is able to print this thing properly? Are there any questions I can ask the printer? As I get more info I'll try to make things more precise. Aside: Maybe there is way to make a single cover in ConTeXt instead of combining three pdfs in Acrobat (which is a pain). I'd be happy to learn:-) Best wishes Idris

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clipping a MetaPost graphic
by Severin Obertuefer 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

hi all I made a MetaPost graphic and I want to use this graphic for a background. The graphic is too large and I want to clip it to the size of 84mm width and 54mm height. With "clip currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled (86mm,54mm)" I get the size I wanted but the clipped field should be placed in the center of the currenpicture. I tried: "clip currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled (86mm,54mm) shifted center boundingbox currentpicture" but that became not the effect I wanted.How can I shift the clipping area to the center of the currenpicture? thx for help severin

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PPCHTEX Mailing List
by Paulo Ney de Souza 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Does any one here knows what is going on with the PPCHTEX Mailing List ? I have sent request to subscribe, reports of errors in documentation, etc ... there and never got a reply back! Nothing has even gone into the archieves since Dec last year. Letters to the owners of the list have also gone unanwered. Does any one here know what is goin on? Paulo Ney de Souza

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Nath, and problems smashing
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Hello, as I might have mentioned before, I'm working on a ConTeXt module that would give part of the functionality available in the LaTeX package Nath; as I'm not really an expert in either of the topics involved, I'm going at it slowly, starting with the simple things; the first thing I implemented was a natural way to write extensible arrows. It came up pretty fine and works quite good, but there seems to be a sizing problem. First of all, please find attached t-nath.tex (the module) and nathtest.tex (a test file). As you may notice if you compile the nathtest document, sub and superscripts to the single-line arrows are much to high or low; browsing about I noticed that in AMS-LaTeX the minus that extends the single-line arrows is "smashed", to prevent this problem; I did try to smash it (replacing \mathop- with \mathop{\smash-}), but it didn't seem to help. What do the experts here think? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Metapost error with flowchart module
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Hello together! With at least the last few betas my flowcharts don't run anymore, I get always the following metapost error: > >> local_multi_par_area > >> false > ! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean). > <to be read again> > ; > l.99 local_multi_par_area:=false; Is it a bug or my mistake? (But I didn't change anything, and it worked with older versions) Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/

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Re: metafun id
by Hans Hagen 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

At 10:37 11/04/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> writes: > >Hello Hans, > > >>It would be great if metapost could be verbose of format version and > >>date created. Hans? > > > > the metapost pool files has an 'everyjob" entry but i dunno how to use > > that so i hooked it into end > >Your new metafun.mp just writes out the date where the format is >created (or the job is run?); it would be much more helpful to >identify the metafun version as in context: > >ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.17 fmt: 2003.3.18 int: english mes: english > >metafun ver: ..... fmt: .... > >So it would be much easier to solve problems like John had: up to >date format but generated with old metafun-files. that's for later, since i first need to patch some script for that also, mp needs to be fixed for the date/time (not current today) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl 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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Floating error
by Nagy Bence 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

I have a small problem with ConTeXt's floating meachnism. There are two wide pictures and other narrow pictures in columns, ConTeXt breaks the first page after the first wide picture. \midaligned{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[p1_7.pdf][factor=fit]}} \midaligned{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[p2_1.pdf][factor=fit]}} \startcolumns[n=3,distance=4mm,balance=no] \midaligned{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[p2_2.pdf]}} \midaligned{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[p2_3.pdf]}} \midaligned{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[p2_4.pdf]}} \stopcolumns In this situation the first wide picture goes to the first page, the second to the second page and the rest to the third page (th second picture is just 2cm tall, the columns 10cm on an A4 page). When I inserted the \page command after the first picture, the second picture and the columns are placed well on the second page. If I use the \placefigure[here,force,none] statement, the second picture goes to the third page. It seems to be a ConTeXt-error(?) Greetings Bence

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Q: indenting a table of contents
by Marko Schuetz 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

I would like a table of contents to be indented as: 1.1 First Section 1.1.1 First Subsection of First Section 1.1.1.2 .... 1.1.2 hjfhkdsf For a first approximation I used \setuplist [section] [width=2em,distance=1em] \setuplist [subsection] [margin=3em,width=3em,distance=1em] \setuplist [subsubsection] [margin=7em,width=3em,distance=1em] This is not satisfactory, since the distance between the numbers and the title varies for different levels. If I use width=fit, can I access the computed width for the previous level to set up a list? Or is there already an option to achieve this? Thanks in advance Marko

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Re: a switch in texexec
by Hans Hagen 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

At 17:55 07/04/2003 +0200, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >I wonder whether it wouldn't be extremly useful to have a switch in >texexec, such as -clean, which erases all generated files other than the >dvi or pdf output. texexec --purge ... other switches ... will do that Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl 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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Fit Width View
by Michael Wiedmann 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

How do I tell ConTeXt to write the PDF file with the necessary information that acroread opens the PDF in 'Fit Width View'? I tried: % try setting "Fit Width" \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined\else \ifnum\pdfoutput>0 \pdfcatalog { /View /FitB } \fi\fi but can't find the correct value for '/View'. Michael -- mw(a)miwie.in-berlin.de http://www.miwie.org mw(a)miwie.org

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Error using \starttextbackground.
by Hans Hagen 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

> >It would be great if metapost could be verbose of format version and >date created. Hans? the metapost pool files has an 'everyjob" entry but i dunno how to use that so i hooked it into end Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl 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] Re: Error using \starttextbackground.
by Hans Hagen 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

At 14:20 10/04/2003 +0200, you wrote: >John Culleton <john(a)wexfordpress.com> writes: > >Hi, > > > OK downloaded cont-tmf.zip on Apr 5 and cont-mpd.zip today. > >What is this cont-mpd.zip? it contains only the mp to pdf converter things; you don't need it since its content is in cont-tmf.zip; context users only need the tmf and exa file Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl 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] TeX Live 7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Hallo! After changing my outofthebox debian-TeX to TeX Live 7 I have the following problem: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TeXExec 2.8 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : tst_005 output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes). run time : 1 seconds total run time : 3 seconds ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is the Problem here? Is this an aktuell pdfetex version? Wolfgang

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Error using \starttextbackground.
by John Culleton 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

I want a gray background in a particular column. Here is some pertinent code (copied from details.pdf) \definetextbackground[bar] [backgroundcolor=textgray, backgroundoffset=.25cm, offset=.5cm, frame=off, location=paragraph, color=black] ...and here is where I want the background: \column \starttextbackground[bar] This is column three text with background and all kinds of other stuff. \stoptextbackground ...and here is the compile error: ----------------------------------------------- generating graphics : metaposting mpgraph.mp TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 metapost : mpgraph format : metafun This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.7x) (mpgraph.mp >> spotcolors >> true ! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean). <to be read again> ; l.23 spotcolors := true ; --------------------------------------------- If I use \startbackground(etc) in the same spot I get no error but I don't like the quality. Hints? John Culleton

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(Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma
by Giuseppe Bilotta 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Hello, I don't know if Idris is following the group (I hope he is), but anyway I have a couple of questions on the support for Greek in ConTeXt, Omega and thus also Gamma. The need is that of typesetting classical greek snippets in a latin (Italian, but could be English) context. I thought that ConTeXt+(e-)Omega would be the best thing in town, so I prepared a small test file: \usemodule[gamma] \mainlanguage[italian] \starttext Possiamo scrivere tranquillamente in italiano; questo non ci priva per\`o della possibilit\`a di scrivere in greco: vediamo subito l'alfabeto minuscolo e maiuscolo (notare come j dia \greek{j} e c dia il sigma di fine parola \greek{c}): \startgreek a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z \stopgreek \`E ovviamente possibile usare segni diacritici come gli accenti (\greek{`a, 'a, =a}) o gli spiriti (\greek{<r, >w}); osserviamo come questi assumano automaticamente la posizione corretta nel caso di lettere maiuscole (\greek{`A, 'A, =A, <A, >A, Ai}) \stoptext While it seems to work pretty well most of the time, there seem to be some problems; I'd like to know where they arise from and if and how they can be fixed. The problems: Combination Doesn't give <r rho with spirit =A capital alpha with circumflex <A capital alpha with spirit Moreover, I don't know how to write the subscribed iota. My system is a MiKTeX 2.2 with (e-)Omega 1.15. Does anybody have an idea? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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\setupheads bug?
by Slawek Zak 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

The command= option for \setupheads doesn't seem to work. Check the following document with the latest beta: \setupheads[command=\hcmd] \def\hcmd#1#2{#1 -- #2} \starttext \chapter{Chap 1} \stoptext A bug or I don't use it properly? /S

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Framed paragraph
by Guy Worthington 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Hello, I think I'm using the wrong tool. I want a description environment, slightly narrower than the main text, and separated from the main text by a hairlines. If you compile the example below, you'll see that my attempt (apart from looking not quite balanced) will allow a page break between a hairline and the information contained in my description. This rules off the bottom of the page, rather than separating the description from the main text. What I would like is that the description be compelled to have at least a couple of orphan lines of the paragraph before a page break. Is it better to use something like a framedtext to achieve this result? ----- \definedescription [Note] [headstyle=\sc, style=small, width=fit, distance=10pt, hang=20, before={\hbox to \hsize{\hairline}\startnarrower}, after={\stopnarrower\vskip -1 ex \noindent\thinrule}] \starttext \Note{important} \input tufte\par \blank[medium] \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte } \blank[big] A line of text \Note{warning} \input tufte\par \blank[medium] \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte} \stoptext -----

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Introduction to columnsets
by Erik George Hetzner 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hello, I am working on typesetting a newsletter in ConTeXt. I have been very pleased with ConTeXt so far; I was previously using plain TeX, as I couldn't get the control I wanted with LaTeX. I have been able to do almost everything I wanted with ConTeXt. However, I have been having some trouble with trying to use floats and figures with my two-column layout. Since joining the list, I have heard a bit about columnsets, and they seem that they may provide what I am looking for. I have been able to set some figures, and a masthead, and double columns. However, I was wondering if there was anywhere a collection of information, however incomplete, that could help me figure out how this stuff works, or do I have to look through the source? Besides a few examples in the list archive, there seems to be little. And I don't want to have to ask on the list each time I need to figure out how to do something. I understand that the feature is experimental & that a manual is in progress, but it seems that this is what I want to use. On the other hand, if somebody else has a better grasp of advantages and disadvantages of columnsets vis a vis traditional columns, and could tell me whether or not I am on the right path, I would apprecate that too. Anyhow, thanks for any help. -Erik Hetzner

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TeX Live 7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hallo! After changing my outofthebox debian-TeX to TeX Live 7 I have th following problems: Neither man-pages mor info-pages are installed. How can I do this? Texexec'ing different testfiles results in: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- TeXExec 2.8 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : tst_005 output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes). run time : 1 seconds total run time : 3 seconds ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- What is the Problem here? Wolfgang

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auto sizing an intermezzo?
by Mark A. Lilly 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

hi, I'm a new convert to ConTeXt from Latex, and i have setup an intermezzo. As i am trying to link everything to my DocBook files, i want to be able to move <quotes> over to ConTeXt and place them in an intermezzo and have the intermezzo automatically size itself. So far i have this: \placeintermezzo [right]{none}{ \framed [height=3.8cm, width=5cm, background=color, offset=5pt, backgroundcolor=quoteBox, framecolor=quoteBox, corner=round, radius=4pt] {\rbox{here is the quote}}} But this has hardcoded width and height. How can i set the width and let the intermezzo size the height to fit. I tried changing height to 'fit' but that didn't work. Any thoughts? Thanks, mark

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text symbols
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hi, often PS and TTF fonts include some common symbols like "registered", "trademark"... Currently i try to build an interface to access them independent from the current font encoding. The following test file (using the attached typescripts): %%% % output=pdftex interface=en \enableregime[il1] \mainlanguage[de] \usetypescriptfile[cts-at-test] \usetypescriptfile[cts-textsymbols] \usetypescript[textsymbols][all,ec,8r] \definetypeface[BodyFontT][rm][serif][AdobeTimes][default][encoding=ec] \definetypeface[BodyFontR][rm][serif][AdobeTimes][default][encoding=8r] \setupbodyfont[BodyFontT,rm,10pt] \starttext Das ist das Copyright-Symbol: \symbol[textcopyright]. \stoptext %%% gives the error: kpathsea: Running mktextfm TextSymbols /opt/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation T for TextSymbols. /opt/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /opt/TeXLive/texmf/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input TextSymbols This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.7x) kpathsea: Running mktexmf TextSymbols ! I can't find file `TextSymbols'. Why is there a problem? Why tries \getglyph{TextSymbols}{...} the font 'TextSymbols' directly instead of going to 'TextSymbolsSerif'. The symbols are defined according to the setup of the Adobe Euro fonts (symb-eur.tex). Thus it should work. Jens

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combine rows
by Severin Obertuefer 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

hi I shortly started to use Context. I wantet to create a table with combinated rows, something like this: _______________________ |______________________| | | | | | |________| | | | | | |_______|________|______| It was no problem to combine the columns on the top, with the \TREE command. Is there e similar command for the rows? thx for help severin

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referencing line numbers of a typing environment
by Marko Schuetz 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

I usually present C/C++ code in a typing environment. If I need to frequently reference statements I put a line number environment around that. Now I would like to use line numbers and experimented a bit with \setuptyping[option=commands,escape=/], but did not yet get the desired results. Any hint is welcome Thanks Marko

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Patch to get MetaPost-inclusions to work
by Dennis Brakhane 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Hi. I'm running Debian/GNU (unstable) and was trying to get the following file to work: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext Bla \startuseMPgraphic{bla} u := 1cm; z0 = (0,0); z1 = (0,1)*u; z2 = (1,1)*u; z3 = (1,0)*u; draw z0--z1--z2--z3--cycle; z4 = whatever[z0,z2] = whatever[z1,z3]; dotlabel.bot(btex $z_4$ etex,z4); \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{blubb} z0 = (0,0); z1 = (0,1)*u; z2 = (1,1)*u; z3 = (1,0)*u; draw z0--z1--z2--z3--cycle; z4 = whatever[z0,z2] = whatever[z1,z3]; dotlabel.bot(btex $z_{42}$ etex,z4); \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{bla} \useMPgraphic{blubb} Blubb \stoptext When the dotlabel-Lines do not use btex..etex, "texexec --pdf" works just fine, creating mpgraph.{1,2}. But if I use btex, the files are not created. I think I found the reason for this. When texexec calls etex to typeset the labels, the file mpgraph.mp is overwritten with a simple "end." Now, texexec keeps a backup of it but seems to restore it too late. I've moved the specific lines futher ahead. Now everything seems to work fine. Is this a correct patch or am I missing something? Greetings, Dennis Patch follows... (texexec version is 3.2) --- texexec.pl.orig 2003-03-29 15:39:32.000000000 +0100 +++ texexec.pl 2003-03-29 15:42:55.000000000 +0100 @@ -2200,6 +2200,9 @@ rename $MpTex, $MpBck ; unlink $MpDvi } } print " metapost : $MpName\n" ; + if (-e $MpKep) + { unlink ($MpFile) ; + rename ($MpKep, $MpFile) } my $cmd = "$own_quote$MpExecutable$own_quote" ; if ($EnterBatchMode) { $cmd .= " $MpBatchFlag " } @@ -2218,9 +2221,7 @@ { while (/^l\.(\d+)\s/gmois) { print " error in metapost run : $MpName.mp:$1\n" } } unlink "mptrace.tmp" ; rename ($MpFile, "mptrace.tmp") ; - if (-e $MpKep) - { unlink ($MpFile) ; - rename ($MpKep, $MpFile) } } } + } } sub RunMPX { my $MpName = shift ; $MpName =~ s/\..*$//o ;

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Placement of limits in math mode
by Emil Hedevang Lohse 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Hello. When I type $\lim_{k\to\infty} c(k)$ I get lim c(k) k -> oo and not the limit placed as if it were a subscript. How do I change the behaviour so that limits will not be placed below or above "lim" when in inner math mode (between $ and $)? Emil -- Emil Hedevang Lohse <http://home.imf.au.dk/emil/> Alle spørgsmål er lige dumme. Og spørgsmålet "Kan ænder flyve?" er ikke dumt.

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Table breaking over pages
by Willi Egger 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Dear Hans I should typset a set of rather long tables. I tried to use the \starttable environment and the \bTABLE environment. - Both tables will not break over pages. Could you please have a look into this matter? Attachment a test file in the \bTABLE environment Thanks in advance Willi

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On figures and clipping
by Giuseppe Bilotta 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Hello, I have some problems with the way to put clipped images in ConTeXt documents; for what I can see the correct way to do it is via something like: \clip [width=6.3cm,height=10.5cm,hoffset=0.5cm,voffset=1cm] {\externalfigure[ciccione_03.pdf]} Now suppose that I wanted to put the above thing zoomed 200%; and here I have two problems: (a) I can't seem to find the proper number to pass on to scale= or factor= in the \externalfigure options (b) AFAICS I need to scale all the clipping parameters as well. Point (b) is particularly annoying; is there a way to "pre-clip" an image, without touching the original file? It should be possible to specify clipping area at inclusion time (LaTeX's graphicx package can do that ...), and therefore in a scale-independent way (this is especially important when the scale factor is something like "max" or "fit" or "broad"). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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External linked PDF in new window?
by drymartini＠gmx.de 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

I have a showcase-type document in which I have thumbnails of external PDFs which should link to the originals when clicked: \goto{\externalfigure[france][page=2,height=.6\textheight]}[france::] But clicking on this replaces the main document by the new one. I notice that Hans' showcase PDFs (the show-xxx series) don't exhibit this behaviour. There linked documents open in their own window. How's that done?

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