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Presentation that use metafun
by Eduardo Cassiraga 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Hi: I have generated all formats with: texexec --make --alone Now, I am trying to compile the presentation that Hans include in context distribution. The results with original style are perfect but those style that include metafun graphics didn't work. I uncomment the line \runMPgraphicstrue in the cong-sys.tex file (as indicate in the presentation user's guide) but the results are not good. ¿Which is the rigth site of conf-sys.tex file? ¿c:\textmf\context\config\? Thanks a lot. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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how to use system fonts?
by Michael Na Li 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

I've read the relevant docs (mfonts.pdf, etc) but still can't figure out how to switch fonts in context. In LaTeX, I just use \usepackage{times} or \usepackage{utopia} to switch fonts (just the basic ones came with tetex). I expect something similar in ConTeXt but that is not the case. This compiles but doesn't have any effect on fonts, (unknown variant times and utopia). \setupbodyfont[times] \starttext This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \switchtobodyfont[utopia] This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \stoptext If I follow the instruction on http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html and I can create some type-x.tex file for the fonts, like \usetypescriptfile[type-charter] \usetypescriptfile[type-utopia] \usetypescript[Charter] \usetypescript[Utopia] \setupbodyfont[MyCharter] \starttext This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \switchtobodyfont[MyUtopia] This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \stoptext But shouldn't those typescripts be already set up? I'm not installing new fonts here. I can see the names 'times', 'helvet', 'palatino' etc in the system type-*.tex file and those files are read during the compilation. How can I use them? I have \usetypescript [map] [default,\defaultencoding] \usetypescript [berry] [\defaultencoding] in my $TEXMF/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex file. Thanks, Michael -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Na Li Email: lina(a)u.washington.edu Department of Biostatistics, Box 357232 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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texexec
by Matthew Huggett 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Hi: I just re-installed TeX (fpTeX) and I have a question about running texexec. I've followed the instructions in the texexec manual--i.e., customized and copied texexec.rme to texexec.ini-- but I still get the following error when I run texexec: locating ini file : not found by kpsewhich locating ini file : not found by searching locating ini file : no environment variable set locating ini file : not found in own path warning : texexec.ini not found, did you read 'texexec.rme'? the context/perltk directory is in my path. Any ideas as to what I'm missing? thanks in advance Matt

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Latest beta killed cross-referencing?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Hello, I just downloaded the latest beta --and it seems it won't generate cross refs anymore. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Emulating AMS stuff in ConTeXt
by Giuseppe Bilotta 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hello, while trying to build an AMS emulation layer on top of ConTeXt math macros, I defined (among the other) the following macros: \def\startalign{% \startformula \let\\\cr \grabuntil{stopalign}\doeqalign } \def\doeqalign#1{\eqalign{#1\cr}\stopformula} \let\stopalign\relax These allow me to write: \startalign a & = b = \\ & = c \stopalign and everything is fine. Yet I cannot do \placeformula[hook] \startalign a & = b = \\ & = c \stopalign because of expansion problems. Why? How can I define the stuff? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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FontSite 500 CD support
by Bill McClain 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

I've had some email with Christopher League, the author of the Latex support package for the FontSite 500 CD. He is going to work on ConTeXt support in early 2003. When this is ready it will mostly supercede the procedures on my web page. Again, the urls are: http://contrapunctus.net/fs500tex/ http://www.fontsite.com/ -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany info(a)sattre-press.com http://tow.sattre-press.com/

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non western scripts and utf
by Hans Hagen 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hi, http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/test.pdf shows how sanskrit like code will show up in context docs; i still need to get comment working (has to be utf-16) but hyperlinks and alike already work ok what would help testing this kind of things is real example text, so maybe we should start building a collection of test files (like tufte, but then in utf code) 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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utf-8
by Simon Pepping 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

The new beta works fine. \unknownchar must be enclosed in braces, to prevent error messages when the unknown char is the only char in a superior or inferior. Many math symbols (unicode range 0x2200) are still missing. Would they be added like this: \definecharacter textSum {\mathematics{\Sum}} ? I will experiment somewhat with this later. Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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Using Fraktur (and Gothic and Calligraphic) fonts in ConTeXt
by Giuseppe Bilotta 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hello, I just wanted to report the conclusions I reached after the hoop-jumping I had to go through to be able to use Fraktur in ConTeXt, especially in math environments: it seems that the \frak, \goth, \cal font switches are ignored in math mode (which is somewhat ridiculous, considering that this is where they are used more often). A workaround (stolen from the old math module) is to define \def\fraktur #1{\ifmmode\@EA\text\fi{{\frak#1}}} \def\gothic #1{\ifmmode\@EA\text\fi{{\goth#1}}} \def\caligraphic#1{\ifmmode\@EA\text\fi{{\cal #1}}} and use \fraktur{a} instead of {\frak a}. This has the disadvantage that you cannot set Fraktur as the (math) font for a complex math construct. Can this be fixed, please? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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BUG in spec-fdf
by Giuseppe Bilotta 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hello, I just found (rather by chance) a bug in the fdf output definitions: at the end of the file there are the lines \definespecial\dostartgraphicgroup{\pdfliteral{q}} \definespecial\dostopgraphicgroup {\pdfliteral{Q}} Since fdf specials are also used in non-PDF production mode (e.g. by dvipdfm specials) there lines should be changed into \definespecial\dostartgraphicgroup{\PDFcode{q}} \definespecial\dostopgraphicgroup {\PDFcode{Q}} -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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DocBookInContext & multi-languages (newbie)
by Gour 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Hello list! I'm a new in ConTeXt. After few boks done in LyX (LaTeX) I decided to enhance my "publishing". Since I need to write in DocBook, I was thrilled to find DocBookInContext package which enables to map from DocBook to ConTeXt. I prepared a small article in DocBook and converted it to PDF by: texexec --pdf file (I'm running SuSE 8.0 & teTeX). The problem is that I wanted to include some Croatian national characters in the DocBook file, but they are not shown in generated file. What should I do to be able to have both English & Croatian language in ConTeXt? (In LyX, I would simply use latin-2 encoding and write English & Croatian.) Usually documents in DocBook have Unicode encoding (UTF-8). What encoding has to be defined so that conversion DocBook -> ConTeXt will work properly? I also run texexec --make --language=hr,en hr Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Re: [NTG-context] Swedish in lang-ger.tex
by Hans Hagen 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

At 09:52 PM 12/5/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Well, in the generated text is should be "--" with a space before and >after. In >my _opinion_ the spaces should be unbreakable. i changed the --- into the german --'s 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] Swedish in lang-ger.tex
by Hans Hagen 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

At 08:57 PM 12/4/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Hi Hans, > >Some weeks ago, before I found this discussion forum, I sent you a mail about >Swedish conventions in ConTeXt. Simce I see that no changes have been made >in "lang-ger.tex" I repeat my comments here: actually, i did change it a while ago; but it probably went unnoticed because the beta link was wrong http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-tmf.zip >As you can see "leftquote", "leftquotation" and "datum" ought to be changed. >Also, in the Swedish language the symbol represented by "---" doesn't exist; >we only use "-" and "--". So I guess "leftsentence", "rightsentence", etc. >should be changed too. think so, what should we do? 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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utf (8)
by Hans Hagen 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

Hi, I slightly adapted utf 8 support and uploaded a newer version to http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-tmf.zip Also, there is some test material at http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/unitest.zip 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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utf 8
by Hans Hagen 05 Dec '02

05 Dec '02

Hi, I'm uploading a new beta. This one has utf8 as a regime: \enableregime[utf] the xml alternative \useXMLfilter[utf] also works. Some pending issues: how to deal with the utility files and so. I'll look into that as soon as i have to deal with utf cq. hav eproper test files. You should be able to process non western scripts, but the fonts/glyphs are not yet defind (see unic-0*.tex for how we're going to deal with that). Unknown glyphs will show up as a small rule, unless you say: \chardef\utfunicodetracer=1, 2 or 3 There is also a file: http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/unitest.pdf just to get an idea of this kind of mapping. 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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Swedish in lang-ger.tex
by Stefan Karlsson 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

Hi Hans, Some weeks ago, before I found this discussion forum, I sent you a mail about Swedish conventions in ConTeXt. Simce I see that no changes have been made in "lang-ger.tex" I repeat my comments here: \installlanguage [\s!sv] [\c!spatiering=\v!opelkaar, \c!leftsentence=---, \c!rightsentence=---, \c!leftsubsentence=---, \c!rightsubsentence=---, % \c!leftquote=\upperleftsinglesixquote, \c!leftquote=\upperrightsingleninequote, \c!rightquote=\upperrightsingleninequote, % \c!leftquotation=\upperleftdoublesixquote, \c!leftquotation=\upperrightdoubleninequote, \c!rightquotation=\upperrightdoubleninequote, % \c!datum={\v!jaar,\ ,\v!maand,\ ,\v!dag}, \c!datum={\v!dag,\ ,\v!maand,\ ,\v!jaar}, \c!status=\v!stop] As you can see "leftquote", "leftquotation" and "datum" ought to be changed. Also, in the Swedish language the symbol represented by "---" doesn't exist; we only use "-" and "--". So I guess "leftsentence", "rightsentence", etc. should be changed too. Regards /Stefan Karlsson

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Indexing macros
by John Culleton 04 Dec '02

04 Dec '02

The "register" macros in Context only provide for a single level index AFAIK so I have been looking at the use of either makeindex or Xindy in a Context project. I have slightly modified the index.tex file from the Texsis distribution and renamed it indexx.tex. Instructions for use are included in the file. The command sequence is: texexec test.tex makeindex test.idx -o test.ind texexec test.tex. The test.tex file is as follows: \input indexx.tex \markindextrue \starttext Hello \page[yes] \idx{Frisbee} \idx{Saucer} \indexx{foo} \indexx{foo!bar} \page[yes] \input test.ind \stoptext The indexx.tex file can be found at: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/indexx.tex Most parties seem to prefer the more capable Xindy to the old standby makeindex. However The Xindy distribution has a program for translating makeindex raw index files to Xindy raw index files. So the indexx.tex macros can be used as a stopgap method now. I will work on another version that will emit Xindy raw files natively. Questions, comments, suggestions welcome :-) -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters Rowse Reviews Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com

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Generating formats.
by Eduardo Cassiraga 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

Hi: I am trying to install ConTexT system on my PC. My TeX system is MikTeX and I use Windows 2000. However it's imposible to me generate the formats. When I type the command for that the system answer to me as follow: C:\tmp>texexec --make en TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 ! You have to increase POOLSIZE. TeX binary : pdfetex format(s) : en total run time : 0 seconds Can anybody to help me, please? Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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In-paragraph display
by Giuseppe Bilotta 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

Hello, I'm going to bring the discussion back to a sore point that really needs to be cleared. When dealing with displayed material (equations, itemizations, quotations etc) the following four cases are (or rather should be) different: ============================== Case 1: some text before \startdisplay displayed material \stopdisplay some text after ============================== Case 2: some text before \startdisplay displayed material \stopdisplay some text after ============================== Case 3: some text before \startdisplay displayed material \stopdisplay some text after ============================== Case 4: some text before \startdisplay displayed material \stopdisplay some text after ============================== The reason why they should be different is that (1) in case 1 the display is part of the paragraph which includes both the text before, the displayed material, and the text after (2) in case 2 the display is part of a the paragraph which begins with the displayed material and includes the text after, but not the text before (3) in case 3 the display is part of a the paragraph which begins with the displayed material and includes the text before, but not the text after (4) in case 4 the display forms a paragraph on its own Why is this important? Assume for example that the paragraphs are set to have an indent (\setupindenting[medium], for example) and that the indentnext option is set to true. In this case "some text after" would only be indented in cases (3) and (4), but not in cases (1) and (2), since in cases (3) and (4) it starts a new paragraph while in cases (1) and (2) it is part of the previous paragraph. Is it just an impression of mine, or is it true that this is not the case in ConTeXt? The behaviour in all three cases seems to be the same ... -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Split floating table
by varheit＠gmx.de 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

Hi, i try to typeset a very large table using the Natural Table macros. I would like to place the table as a floating object so it will get numbered and show up in the list of tables. In a recent post, the command \splitfloat was mentioned, but unfortunately, I could not find any documentation that would help me out. I tried the document below, which results in a split table, but all the rows of the table are split on their own. I am using the current beta. Any suggestions? \starttext \chapter{A big table} \splitfloat{\placetable{A big table}} { \bTABLE[split=repeat] \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTH Head1\eTH\bTH Head2\eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{80}{\bTR\bTD Column1\eTD\bTD Column2\eTD\eTR} \eTABLEbody \eTABLE } \stoptext -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!

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Re: [NTG-context] DocBookInContext & multi-languages (newbie)
by Hans Hagen 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

At 09:30 PM 12/2/2002 +0100, you wrote: >The problem is that that file doesn't contain all > 50000 characters but >only a few (basically latin1 accented characters) right, and for a start we only need to build the second vector, which i didn't -) By the way, I'm looking for a nice looking serif font, which I can use as >math font and which contains at least all MES-1, better also the MES-2 >characters (http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf) >and the default ligatures used by TeX. >So far I mainly found either WGL4 compatible fonts >(http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/opentype/appendices/wgl4.html) or >fonts which can be used for math in TeX, but not both. (At least not >within a amount of money which I can spend ;-) did you try palatino? \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] 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] DocBookInContext & multi-languages (newbie)
by Hans Hagen 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

At 01:48 PM 12/3/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, > >On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Hans Hagen wrote: > > did you try palatino? >You mean http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/pamath/pamain.htm + Palatino? >Otherwise I haven't found anything related to math and Palatino. > >Additionally, Palatino (and/or PAMath) seem to have only the basic letters >from TeX and only little more. Ah, take a look at tex live! search for tx/px fonts; they should work out of the box with the current context [concerning utf-8: i now have rather good converter running] 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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Some \definelayout troubles
by Rob van Swol 03 Dec '02

03 Dec '02

Hi, I want to set a different layout for even and odd pages; so I use something like: \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \definelayout[odd][backspace=4.0cm] \definelayout[even][backspace=2.5cm] This works fine, except I get these extra pages again after \stopstandardmakeup, \stopfrontmatter, and \stopappendices [Note: I applied the following patch to cont-new.tex, Context ver: 2002.10.23 \appendtoks \gdef\shipout{\dowithnextbox{\deadcycles\zerocount}}% \to \everylastshipout ] Any suggestions? Regards, Rob -- Rob W. van Swol National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Tel. +31 527 248252 P.O. Box 153 Fax +31 527 248210 8300 AD Emmeloord E-Mail vanswol(a)nlr.nl The Netherlands http://www.neonet.nl/

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Sanskrit (Devanagari) in ConTeXt
by Gour 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi! I saw a PDF describing Chinese support in ConTeXt. It looks beautiful. Anyone has attempted to write Sanskrit (both western transliteration as well as Devanagari script) in ConTeXt? What is required to provide such support? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Re: conversie
by Hans Hagen 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

At 02:31 PM 11/29/2002 +0100, you wrote: >beste hans, >bestaat er (toevallig) een tool/script voor conversie van een latex >document naar context? >dank niet dat ik weet, misschien iemand op de context lijst 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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new manual
by Hans Hagen 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi, I uploaded the (preliminary) manual on color separation (+ a few ntk's): http://www.pragma-ade.com/manuals/general/msplit.pdf this morning i also uploaded a beta version that does these kind of things (although for the moment i keep some possibly dangerous optimizations in my local extension 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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quotations
by Hans Hagen 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi, Since quotations keep coming up on this list, and since i had a couple of new cd's to help me through the process of cooking up macros, i made an definable quotation macros, or more precise, something: \definedelimitedtext [quotation] [left={\symbol[leftquotation]}, right={\symbol[rightquotation]}, leftmargin=standard] \definedelimitedtext [quote][quotation] \setupdelimitedtext [quotation] [location=text, left={\symbol[leftquote]}, right={\symbol[rightquote]}] and for Mr. BigFoot: \definedelimitedtext [speech][quotation] \setupdelimitedtext [\v!spraak] [repeat=yes, left={\symbol[leftspeech]}, middle={\symbol[middlespeech]}, right={\symbol[rightspeech]}] Now, how do we call an tight quotation that those heavy quoting users want? \definedelimitedtext [xquotation][quotation] \setupdelimitedtext [xquotation] [indentnext=no, spacebefore=nowhite] (there are a couple of more switches) this mechanism will be available in the next beta, but the re-definitions not yet (first i want to make sure that it worsk ok) one can also use this feature for things like [whatever you want to be delimited] Hans I'll look into the epigraph (module) later (never needed them so far) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] CT mirror university operational
by Hans Hagen 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

At 02:50 PM 12/2/2002 +0100, you wrote: >For thos of you who didn't know: > > http://context.ct.utwente.nl > >is a mirror of context, and though we had a fire and our NOC totaly burnt >down, it is operational again. Hans could you change my entry on the >mirroring page. done. thanks! 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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CT mirror university operational
by Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

For thos of you who didn't know: http://context.ct.utwente.nl is a mirror of context, and though we had a fire and our NOC totaly burnt down, it is operational again. Hans could you change my entry on the mirroring page. Greetings Gilbert.

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi, I uploaded a new beta. Most changes / updates / new features will go unnoticed until documented (column sets, more float placements and control, more clever and efficient text backgrounds -also in tables, and floats); since i use these features in some styles, they finally will be documented -) Of course there are also some fixes. 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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epigraph
by Simon Pepping 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

I am trying to find out how to format a so-called epigraph, a motto at the start of an article or section. I have made this construct: \tabskip=0pt plus 1fill \halign to\hsize{#\hfil\tabskip=0pt\cr ``The sky is blue''\cr ``The sky is very blue''\cr \noalign{\vskip 6pt} \hfill {Simon Pepping}\cr } It is very plain TeX. Is there a higher level Context construct that would be appropriate here? Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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Automating a letter module style
by Nigel King 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

I have been using a letter format and gradually improving the macro format and style each time I use it. It makes a lot of use of backgrounds to set elements on the page. I would like to improve some other elements. The target structure of a letter source would be as follows. \usemodule[lett-01] \setupletter [address=...\\...\\.., signature=Nigel King, thedate=\currentdate, ......] \starttext \opening Further to your ...... %main letter content \closing[Yours ...,] \encl[...] \cc[...] \ps[...] \stoptext A lot of this works quite well using the following typical "macros" in u-lett-01.tex typical parts of which are shown below ---------- \unprotect \def\setupletter{% \dosingleargument\dosetupletter} \def\dosetupletter[#1]{% \getparameters[letter@][#1]} Some other \defs.... \def\opening{ \definelayer [letter@layer@toaddress] \setlayer [letter@layer@toaddress] [x=\backspace,y=50mm] {\framed [height=37.6mm, width=89mm, frame=on, align={right,lohi}, strut=no, offset=overlay] {\getvalue{letter@toaddress}}} \setupbackgrounds [page] [background={letter@layer@toaddress}] }% end of opening \protect ----------- The main problems that I have follow; 1. \usemodule[lett-01] has to be \input u-lett-01 because the definitions are not recognized properly otherwise. "no macros found", I have not found any documentation on macros. I had a look at m-chart.tex but it was too long and complicated to get the simple idea from. Is there another 2. I cannot find a way of defining elements which are effectively in the running text like \openingline=Dear ..., in the setupletter because \getvalue{letter@opening} seems not to pick up the value. A similar problem occurs with closing which has a number of formatting constraints which deosn't want to be seen in the letter source. The only way I have been able to achieve the objective has been to use the following type of construct. In the source letter \signature[Nigel King] In the module \def\signature[#1]{\def\fromsig{#1}} \def\closing[#1]{\par\framed[width=\textwidth,frame=off]{\rbox{ \blank[2*big] #1 \blank[6*big] \fromsig\par}}} Any help would be much appreciated. -- Nigel

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DTD for education
by Gour 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

In the ConTeXt documentation on the web site, I've seen that there is a work in progrees for some DTDs for educational use. I'm interested if there is already something available sicne soon I'll have to start working on some courses and would be glad to take a look at something in regards? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Convert Context to HTML
by viktorvarheit＠gmx.de 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

The manual "XML in ConTeXt" (example.pdf) says: When you want to convert TEX documents into xml (or html) counterparts, it makes sense to use TEX itself, because that way we have the full engine at our fingertips. In ConTEXt we use a strange but charming way to handle this conversion: we simply typeset xml. The typeset document (with lots of angle brackets) is then converted into raw text. A complication is math, but given that you can embed MathML in your document, this can be passed on directly. How can this be done?

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updates to Help Page
by Bill McClain 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

I recently finished a large project and have added new material to my ConTeXt Help Page at http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html. * Marginal notes. See a sample double-page spread at http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/csky-sample.pdf * X-Y positioning of graphics with layers and overlays. Sample jpeg version of a page at: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/csky-cover-large.jpg * Using \definestartstop. Example for blockquotes. * Table of contents with different sections. * Dropped caps. * Little things: \index placement, passing variables on the command line, using line numbering. * How to install the FontSite-500 CD font collection for ConTeXt, with an archive of scripts and sample files. * * * I just uploaded all this; please let me know if you see any errors. -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany info(a)sattre-press.com http://tow.sattre-press.com/

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Re: [NTG-context] setupinteraction breaks moving from 2001.11.13 to 2002.1.28
by Hans Hagen 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

At 11:37 AM 11/25/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Interactions in a simple document that work under ConTeXt version >2001.11.13 break under 2002.1.28. The simple document and logs for >both ConTeXt versions ("old" and "new") are attached - note the >entry "check : missing '=' after '\let...'" in "new". > >Any suggestions about how to fix this would be most appreciated. see previous mail, use \startinteractionmenu .... (see s-pre-* files) 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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setupinteraction breaks moving from 2001.11.13 to 2002.1.28
by Daniel Graham 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Interactions in a simple document that work under ConTeXt version 2001.11.13 break under 2002.1.28. The simple document and logs for both ConTeXt versions ("old" and "new") are attached - note the entry "check : missing '=' after '\let...'" in "new". Any suggestions about how to fix this would be most appreciated. -Dan

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additional structures, DocBook, etc.
by Bruce D'Arcus 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Another issue that's periodically come up, and would seem all the more relevant with the DocBook project (which will hopefully be incorporated into ConTeXt itself at some point): There are a number of structures that, AFAIK, do not yet exist in ConTeXt, but should. Ones that are a) in DocBook, b) broadly useful, and c) useful to me :-): subtitle author abstract (and other such meta info) epigraph Any plans to add these? It'd certainly make customizing DocBook output, ConTeXt stuff itself, easier as well as... And here's a wild thought (though I don't know if a good one): Why not link the meta info stuff to the forthcoming new bib system? I have a new article I'm working on in ConTeXt: I enter it in the bib database complete with abstract and a status of draft, and the meta information gets imported into the document. Bruce

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more on block quotes
by Bruce D'Arcus 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

This came up a few weeks back, but I quickly lost the conversation. Shouldn't the quotation environment work as it does in LaTeX? If one has a \startquotation after a paragraph break (white space, or \par) and a break after the \stopquotation, then the following paragraph should understood to be new, and hence requiring a first line indent. If, however, there are no breaks, then the quote is understood to be a part of the larger paragraph on either side of it, and hence the text after block quote is not indented. (And might this be default behavior? Relevant, say, if typesetting a DocBook doc with its blockquote element.) Seems to me this is easier and more elegant than specifying some option every time one wants to use the command... Bruce

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Re: [NTG-context] setupinteraction breaks moving from 2001.11.13 to 2002.1.28
by Hans Hagen 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

At 07:38 AM 11/25/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Interactions in a simple document that work under ConTeXt version >2001.11.13 break under 2002.1.28. The simple document and logs for >both ConTeXt versions ("old" and "new") are attached - note the >entry "check : missing '=' after '\let...'" in "new". > >Any suggestions about how to fix this would be most appreciated. the new (more flexible and robust) syntax is: \startinteractionmenu[bottom 1] \but [LastPage] \labeltext{help} \\ \hfill \but [SubmitForm{http://localhost.localdomain/cgi-bin/record}] ... \\ \stopinteractionmenu .... \defineinteractionmenu [bottom 1] [bottom] [state=stop] \setupinteractionmenu [bottom, bottom 1] no need for the bottom 1 in the setup..., since by default it inherits from bottom 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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setupinteraction breaks moving from 2001.11.13 to 2002.1.28
by Daniel Graham 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Interactions in a simple document that work under ConTeXt version 2001.11.13 break under 2002.1.28. The simple document and logs for both ConTeXt versions ("old" and "new") are attached - note the entry "check : missing '=' after '\let...'" in "new". Any suggestions about how to fix this would be most appreciated. -Dan -- Daniel A. Graham 238 Social Sciences TEL: (919) 660-1802 Department of Economics FAX: (919) 684-8974 Duke University daniel.graham(a)duke.edu Durham, NC 27708-0097

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Aligning things within tables
by drymartini＠gmx.de 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

I am trying to typeset tables using natural tables and XML. In the head of the table I want the text typeset flush left, but in the table itself I want the figures aligned on the commas. Can this be done? I see I can set the alignment for each column, but can I have different alignments for each row? -- WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT STELLA ARTOIS HERE.. This is a chemical wheapon against the working class ....

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tbook?
by Bruce D'Arcus 21 Nov '02

21 Nov '02

Just wondering if anyone has taken a look at tbook. http://tbookdtd.sourceforge.net/ It's a DTD, along with a collection of XSLT files and shell scripts designed for output to LaTeX, DocBook, and XHTML (complete with support for MathML, as well as xindy). My thought is that it might be an interesting XML authoring tool in conjunction for ConTeXt, though the current LaTeX XSLT files would have to be tweaked obviously. Don't know how much work is involved in that, but at some point I'll take a look. Something like this would be all the more useful, I assume, once we see m-bib v2 (sometime soon Taco?)... Bruce

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vanishing leftarrow
by Hans van der Meer 20 Nov '02

20 Nov '02

I did encounter something strange with leftarrow in metapost math: In normal text: All three arrows appear with $l\leftarrow r\rightarrow lr\leftrightarrow$. In metapost: The leftarrow does not appear, the others do in: \placefigure{}{\startMPgraphic u = 180mm; v = 40mm; label.bot(textext("$l\leftarrow r\rightarrow lr\leftrightarrow$"),(u/2,v)); \stopMPgraphic\loadcurrentMPgraphic{}\placeMPgraphic} How is that possible and how can it be repaired? Hans van der Meer

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suppressing external graphics
by Bill McClain 19 Nov '02

19 Nov '02

I have a book-length document with many hi-res graphics. I would like to omit those graphics in order to make a smaller file to submit to some proof-readers. I have tried both: "\setupexternalfigures[option=empty]" and "texexex --fast". Both give the same result: the graphics are replaced by black rectangles, but the size of the pdf file is the same as the original version which included the graphics. (Very large). Oddly enough, the pdfimages utility will not extract any images from the "black rectangles" version, leading me to think the graphics are not really in the pdf file, but I don't know what would be taking up the same amount of space. Using: ConTeXt ver: 2002.7.26 pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw-2.1 -Bill -- Sattre Press Pagan Papers http://sattre-press.com/ by Kenneth Grahame info(a)sattre-press.com http://pp.sattre-press.com/

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Minipages
by drymartini＠gmx.de 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

Hi there, is there something similar to the LaTeX minipage environment? I have a box which contains text, tables and footnotes, and the whole thing is supposed to become a float with a frame and/or a colour background. Can I just use a block or is there a more sophisticated mechanism? Can a float be inside another float? At present my tables are floats within the text but I can rework this if necessary. -- /Users/robbie 153% ping real-life ping: unknown host real-life

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A Semetic Aporia
by Idris S Hamid 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

Dear Hans, I have a serious problem: In Classical Arabic numerals are pronounced from single digits to tens to hundreds, etc., e.g. 1234== four, thirty, two hundred, and a thousand. This makes transcribing Arabic numerals easy: they run the same as in roman languages. So in my otp's (Omega-Gamma) there is a command to transcribe any left-to-right L-R string numeral into an L-R string in Arabic (so I don't have to type the numeral backwards in the L-R transcription; i.e., typing 1234 in L-R comes out the same in R-L). But there is a complicated scenario: For purposes of sectioning, we get (as in a TOC) for e.g. Section 3.12 in roman it should be (L-R): 3.12-------------------------------------------<page no.> in Arabic it should be (R-L): <page no.>-------------------------------------------12.3 Now my Gamma configuration is such that everything is flipped R-L except for numerals, so I _actually_ get <page no.>-------------------------------------------3.12 in my Arabic sections and TOC. Is there any way to reverse the order of subsections so that subsection 3.12 comes out as 12.3? I assume there is some code that commands ConTeXt to print the section number, followed by the subsection number. Can that be hacked to reverse the sequence for Semetic documents (Arabic and Hebrew)? So we could have an option say, [style=semetic]. I did something similar in EDMAC once for Arabic critical editions. I am finishing up a treatise in Arabic to be submitted later this week so I'm desparate. I guess I could replace all the numerals using the manual mechanism but there must be a better way! Best wishes Idris -- Dr. Idris S Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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PDF zoom
by Zeljko Vrba 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

I have bookmarks and cross-references in my document. When clicking to any of them, the acrobat reader moves me to the right place. However, it changes current zoom to fit to page. How do I make it retain the zoom I manually set up myself?

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where has PI gone?
by Hans van der Meer 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

Since the last ConTeXt beta the typesetting of the greek capital letter PI doesn't work anymore in lucida (lbr). Small pi works though. Anyone knows why? And where to find it back? Hans van der Meer

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Re: Re: [NTG context] Swedish Keyboard
by Stefan Karlsson 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

Thanks Jens, \enableregime[il1] did the trick!

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