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bug in chart module
by Hans Hagen 28 Oct '02

28 Oct '02

Hi, for chart users: i found a bug in mp-chrt.mp (must be a quite old one): for i=1 upto max_x : for j=1 upto max_y : % was bug: xfrom,yto if not ( ( (i,j)=(xfrom,yfrom) ) or ( (i,j)=(xto,yto) ) ) : it results in the wrong conclusion about lines crossing shapes, so if you encounter that situation, patch and regenerate metafun 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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MP Graph and texnum.mpx
by Adam Lindsay 28 Oct '02

28 Oct '02

Hi ConTeXters, I've been using the MPGraph part of MetaPost and its corresponding m- graph ConTeXt module this week. I've been getting very attractive results that I will encourage my partner to use in her PhD. I was baffled for a while why I could get graphing to work beautifully in one directory, but in no others. I finally tracked it down to the system requiring texnum.mpx in the current working directory. I believe this file contains the MP-ified numbers that MPGraph puts on the axes. My question is: why should this be? I *think* I have done everything else necessary to get MP working in ConTeXt. How can I automatically generate texnum.mpx in a way that 1) another user doesn't have to worry about it or 2) it sits in the path permanently? Some system details: I'm running a fresh TeXLive 7 install, with the latest ConTeXt from the website. I have \write18 enabled, \runMPfraphicstrue, \runMPTEXgraphicstrue, and MPXCOMMAND = texexec -- mptex. On the slightly unusual side, I have \forceMPTEXgraphictrue, which seemed necessary at one point, and no \recycleMPslotstrue, which seemed unnecessary. I'm thrilled with the integration of MetaPost's Graph capabilities, beyond this strange behaviour that took a long time to track down. It was very easy to get very attractive results from simple data files. As a side question, would I have to fiddle with texmf/metapost/base/ texnum.mp to affect the font of the x- and y-axis numbers on an MPGraph plot? They seem to stick to CMR no matter what I do to defaultfont in MetaPost. Thanks, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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source files and ConTeXt style
by Adam Lindsay 28 Oct '02

28 Oct '02

Hi. I'm just starting to look at detailed TeX stuff. I'd like to write some ConTeXt-style macros to support a user. I've already wrapped some MPGraph functions in some old-fashioned TeX-style multiple-argument macros, but I would like to offer my user something more modern and ConTeXt-like. Does anyone have any hints on looking at the ConTeXt code for writing modules? Any hints on achieving Hans-like \dodododo zen? Ik heb een beetje nederlands, but finding mappings between nl-commando's and en- commands is still elusive when trying to decode some multilingual sources. So I know it's too much to ask to get inside Hans's brilliant mind, but I was wondering if some power-users can offer some hints in terms of starting to understand the style of the sources. Thanks, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Autosplitting tables: preventing a split
by Giuseppe Bilotta 28 Oct '02

28 Oct '02

A simple question: is there a way to prevent a table split at a certain place? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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cell padding-- Natural Tables
by Matthew Huggett 27 Oct '02

27 Oct '02

Hi : With Natural Tables, how do you set the padding or internal margins of table cells? Thanks Matthew

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Natural tables
by Giuseppe Bilotta 27 Oct '02

27 Oct '02

Where's the Natural Tables manual? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Showing parts of PDF files or splitting PDF files
by Matthias Heidbrink 27 Oct '02

27 Oct '02

Hi, I need to include a PDF picture in a ConTeXt document that is much too detailed to be scaled down onto a single page. So I need to distribute it across two ore more pages. - Is there a way to display only a part of a PDF file in ConTeXt, like it could be done with manipulation of the bounding box of a PostScript picture in LaTeX? - Does anyone know an application that will split a PDF file into user-defined parts (not just printing pages)? - Any other ideas? Ciao, Matthias

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new beginner's material
by Henning Hraban Ramm 26 Oct '02

26 Oct '02

Ahoi! I just uploaded a new edition of my presentations about ConTeXt and about Acrobat/PDF. The ConTeXt one finally has handouts, too. Source code is also available (but without pictures). BTW: I'm on holidays in Italy and read no mail for a week now. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://www.ramm.ch/context/ ---

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Gamma support in TeXExec?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 26 Oct '02

26 Oct '02

Hello, I noticed that TeXExec has no "native" support for Gamma, in the sense that it doesn't change the "cont-" prefix to "gamma-" when the TeX executable is set to Omega. I did a patch to make this possible, but of course since there are no gamma-<language>.tex files, it doesn't work that simply. I therefore did a more extensive patch (it has to dump the format as cont-en and then rename it) but this is sub-optimal. It would be very easy to do if (recent) fpTeX and teTeX supported the --job-name option ... is this the case? If so, the patch can be done very easily. Anybody using fpTeX or teTeX know about this? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Fwd: Xindy and Context
by John Culleton 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

Apologies for the empty message, subject as above. I have found a set of macros that allow either makeindex or Xindy (in makeindex emulation) to run with Context. This allows for more functionality than the present register commands available from Context proper. They generate a makeindex type output file, which can either be processed by makeindex directly or by Xindy via the makeindex4 script and tex2xindy program called by it. Here are the requirements: Complete Xindy package (or complete makeindex package) index.tex from TeXsis site. A simple input statement starts things off: \input index.tex The indexing commands are \index{--- and \idx{--- \idx causes whatever is between { and } to be printed as well as added to the index. The usual conventions found in the LaTeX \index.sty package obtain. Here are some valid statements: \idx{foo} \index{foo!bar} %subitem \index{fable@foo!babble@bar} %subitem with alternate sorting on both %levels \index{Jose|(} %start range \index{Jose|)} %stop range \index{italicized|ital} %italicized page number. ...and so on. ` If the \idx statement form is used, and \markindextrue is present then the indexed terms will be printed in the document with a box around them indicating that they are indexed. This is a two pass system. The command to import the finished index is \input filename.ind ...where filename is the name of the tex file being indexed. In between the two passes one of these two commands must be run: makeindex filename.idx or for the Xindy alternative: makeindex4 filename.idx Here is a sample document: ---------------- \input index.tex \starttext \index{foo!bar} ... \index{France@{\it France}} \page[yes] \input filename.ind \stoptext --------------- The full power of Xindy in Context is not yet unleashed. But the above items plant the seed... -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters, Rowse Reviews, Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com

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Xindy and Context
by John Culleton 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

-- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters, Rowse Reviews, Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com

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Context manuals
by John Culleton 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

As Context continues to expand the number of manuals etc. needed to keep up also continues to expand. Is it perhaps time to either consolidate the manuals into a super manual or, more practically, provide a command/subject index that covers all the manuals? I offer as an example the \useURL statement which I figured out from a recent post. However I have no idea where it is described in a manual. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters, Rowse Reviews, Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com

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Re: [Fwd: [NTG-context] \page[blank] not working]
by Hans Hagen 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

At 10:10 AM 10/23/2002 +0200, Rob van Swol wrote: >Hans, >Ik zag een andere discussie over "This page intentionally left blank"; >Ik was daar ook mee bezig maar ik zat nog met het volgende probleem >(\page[yes,blank] doet het ook niet; \page[yes,empty] wel maar dan hou >ik mijn headers): >Groet, >Rob > > >Hi, > >I tried hard but \page[blank] does nothing. \page[empty] works fine, but >in that case the headers are printed, which is not what I want. What to >do? you're right, seems that blank does not do its job (has to to with added grouping in the page handler), i'll fix it 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: [Fwd: [NTG-context] Table of content questions]
by Hans Hagen 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

At 10:11 AM 10/23/2002 +0200, Rob van Swol wrote: >Hi, > >I have used \setuplabeltext[en][appendix={Appendix~}] to create a header >like 'Appendix A blabla' above my appendix. However, in the table of >content I get 'A blabla'. Using \setuplist[appendix][label=yes] does not >work and \setuplist[chapter][label=yes] works only in combination with >\setuplabeltext[en][chapter={Chapter~}]. How to solve this for >appendices? \setuplabeltext[en][chapter={Chapter~}] \setuplabeltext[en][appendix={Appendix~}] \definehead[appendix][chapter] \setuplist[appendix][label=yes] \setuplist[chapter] [label=yes] \starttext \placelist[chapter,appendix] \startfrontmatter \chapter{test} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{test} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \appendix{test} \stopappendices \stoptext [this is something that should go into rhaban's faq database] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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DocbookInContext: new version uploaded
by Simon Pepping 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

I have uploaded a new version of DocbookInContext. This version contains an Italian translation of the literal strings, contributed by Giuseppe Bilotta. You can find DocbookInContext at http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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This page intentionally left blank
by Giuseppe Bilotta 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

Hello, I just read a post on comp.text.tex asking how to make "This page intentionally left blank" in LaTeX. There, it's a matter of redefining the \cleardoublepage comman; I assumed that ConTeXt had some kind of built-in hook to do that, but I found that it is not so; the command that ejects a blank page when needed is \ejectdummypage, but there is no way to configure it to put something on that page. Could the page ejecting mechanism be slightly improved, with a \setupdummypage[...] command that defines what has to be done with the dummy pages? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Re: On importing the old NTG ConTeXt list archive into Gmane
by Hans Hagen 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

Hi, Is there someone with a complete clean context archive that can be used as an import in Gmane (mine is messed up bu maintainers messages and bounced stuff)? If you have such a copy, can you discuss this with Hannu? 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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\page[blank] not working
by Rob van Swol 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

Hi, I tried hard but \page[blank] does nothing. \page[empty] works fine, but in that case the headers are printed, which is not what I want. What to do? 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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tooltips
by Hans Hagen 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

Hi, i come back to the tooltips later, first i have to catch a few deadlines 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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Frames (collection of)
by Giuseppe Bilotta 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

Hello, I'm working on an extension of tooltips (see attached file) whose primary goal is for use "instead of" footnotes in interactive documents. While I managed to write the core of the stuff in a rather short time, I need some changes in the core to make sure they work fully as designed. In particular, I need two things: (1) a way to disable counter increments during trial typesetting (2) a way to define "classes" of frames, with specific options to be set (once and for all, but configurable by the user) independently of the frame settings. (Just like for itemgroups). Could these be implemented in the ConTeXt core? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta P.S. A short notice on how I use them: \usemodule[xtips] \long\def\footnote#1{% \long\def\fncontent{% \tf\switchtobodyfont[xx]\setupinterlinespace#1\par}% \xtooltip{\blue\high{*}}{\fncontent}% } Suggestions for improvements are more than welcome

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DocbookInContext: new version uploaded
by Simon Pepping 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

I have uploaded a new version of DocbookInContext. This version features improved support for tables. It handles align, colsep and rowsep attributes, multiple tgroups and tfoot elements. While writing this mapping for tables required some careful programming, the task was relatively easy due to Context's natural tables. They provide an excellent basis because they are powerful and flexible, and their design is close to that of the CALS table model. You can find DocbookInContext at http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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itemize indent
by Bruce D'Arcus 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

This might be a dumb question, but I can't figure it out from the manual: How do I do a \setupitemize so that they -- the items, as well as the bullet that precedes it -- are indented? Bruce

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No fraktur?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

Hello, I tried using \fraktur, but it doesn't change font ... any ideas? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Table of content questions
by Rob van Swol 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

Hi, I have used \setuplabeltext[en][appendix={Appendix~}] to create a header like 'Appendix A blabla' above my appendix. However, in the table of content I get 'A blabla'. Using \setuplist[appendix][label=yes] does not work and \setuplist[chapter][label=yes] works only in combination with \setuplabeltext[en][chapter={Chapter~}]. How to solve this for appendices? 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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Miktex-Context Installation
by David Arnold 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

All, I just installed Miktex 2.2 and got this error message when trying to build Context format. Anyone else get this? What is the workaround? Creating cont-en.efmt... pdfetex.exe --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias cont-en *F:/miktex/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex \dump ! You have to increase POOLSIZE. INITEXMF: pdfetex.exe failed on cont-en.tex I checked miktex.ini and found: ;; Maximum number of characters in strings, including all ;; error messages and help texts, and the names of all fonts and ;; control sequences; must exceed string_vacancies by the total ;; length of TeX's own strings, which is currently about 23000. pool_size=500000 Is this what I should increase? Or is there some other sinister thing that needs taking care of?

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Re: How to add your own modules?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

Friday, October 18, 2002 Matt Gushee wrote: MG> I have browsed through several manuals trying to find out how to do MG> this, but haven't found any answers. Is there some documentation that MG> explains how to customize the system? User modules go to <path-to-context>/user and should be called t-<name>.tex where name is the name of the module (t- stands for "third party"). You may want to consider using "environments", though, rather than modules, if all you want to do is "tweak" a pre-exisiting module. (I don't know where environment files go, though; I keep them in the root of my ConTeXt document tree, since ConTeXt looks up to two levels up to find environments.) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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advice for a beginner
by Matthew Huggett 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

Hi Everyone: I'm a real beginner with TeX and ConTeXt. I have had some success with English documents, but what I really want to do is create Chinese and Japanese docs. What do I need to understand about TeX and ConTeXt in general in order to do this? There seem to be so many things to learn, I'm not sure where to start. One big question for me is whether or not I need to look at using Omega. I'm not asking for a tutorial on how to do asian languages in TeX, just for advice on what areas of the system I need to know about. Thanks Matthew

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A math question
by Giuseppe Bilotta 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hello, does ConTeXt provide extensible arrows with super and subscript? An extensible arrow is something like \leftarrow, \rightarrow, \Leftarrow, \Rightarrow, except that it accepts super/subscripts which gets typeset over or under the arrow body, which extends to accomdate the length of the super and subscripts (with a minimum guaranteed legth). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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New ConTeXt website mirror
by Taco Hoekwater 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hi all, I just created a new mirror of www.pragma-ade.com. It is part of my brand new website on ConTeXt. The mirror is updated every night at 3am CET. URL: http://tex.aanhet.net/context -- groeten, Taco

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Fully object-oriented section
by Giuseppe Bilotta 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hello, I'd like to restart the thread about "object-orienting" section commands. Availability of \startpart ... \stoppart, \startchapter ...\stopchapter (alongside the faster \part, \chapter ... alternatives) becomes more and more a need for me. Having the mechanism standardized in ConTeXt would be a great thing. This is the way I'm implementing it by hand: %D New structured sectioning \newtoks\everybeforestartpart \newtoks\everyafterstartpart \newtoks\everystoppart \def\startpart{\dosingleempty\dostartpart} \def\dostartpart[#1]#2{% \bgroup\bgroup \the\everybeforestartpart \iffirstargument \part[#1]{#2}% \else \part{#2}% \fi \egroup \the\everyafterstartpart } \def\stoppart{\the\everystoppart\egroup} Using this snippet as the kernel and simply changing "part" to whatever other sectioning level is needed is enough to allow full customization of the sectioning levels. Can this be put in ConTeXt? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Tooltips
by Giuseppe Bilotta 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hello, I notice that the "active area" that triggers tooltips is a little misplaced to the bottom right. Is this a "wanted" effect? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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problem with texfont
by Henning Hraban Ramm 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Ahoi! I discovered a little problem while installing fonts: Actual Linotype AFMs contain overlong lines (copyright information), about 450 characters. That confuses texfont, so that the following lines are not recognized. It helps to delete these lines manually, but would it be possible to enhance texfont to handle such nasties? Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.angerweit.de http://www.fiee.net http://www.ramm.ch ---

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Re: [NTG-context] Bug in supp-pdf.tex/supp-mis.tex (?)
by Hans Hagen 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

At 02:30 PM 10/18/2002 +0200, Andreas Fieger wrote: search in supp-pdf for you name, and patch: \def\dodo##1% Andreas Fieger's bug: (\304...) {\edef\!!stringa{##1}% and another one: ( 11) -> \ifx 11 \ifx\!!stringa\MPspacechar\MPspacechar\else\expandafter##1\fi}% please test this with previous files as well >Hello, > >though this is only partly a context question, I think this is the >best place to ask. I am creating MetaPost figures containing text. >When these are included in a TeX document processed by pdfLaTeX, >context's supp-pdf.tex is loaded to perform the conversion. > >Consider the simple MP file (the space is essential) >-------------------------------------- >defaultfont:="ptmr8r"; >beginfig(1); > label(" 11", origin); >endfig; >-------------------------------------- > >This will result in a file like >%%Page: 1 1 >-6.25003 -3.38997 moveto >( 11) ptmr8r 10.00005 fshow >showpage >%%EOF > >If this MP file is included in a context document, >everything is fine. >-------------------------------------- >\starttext >\placefigure[][]{}{\externalfigure[minimal.mps]} >\stoptext >-------------------------------------- > >If it is included in a LaTeX document >-------------------------------------- >\documentclass{article} >\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} >\begin{document} >\includegraphics{minimal.mps} >\end{document} >-------------------------------------- >converted to ps with dvips, still everything >is fine. > >When using >-------------------------------------- >\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} >-------------------------------------- >and pdfLaTeX to compile the file (this is >when supp-pdf.tex is used), the " 11" disappears. > >I found this problem with every number from 11, 22, >to 99 with a leading space -- even in the middle of >a string: "Text: 118" would come out as "Text: 8". > >I don't have any clue what's going wrong. >Any ideas? > >PS: Hans was so kind to provide a new supp-pdf.tex > after a similar problem with labels > startimg with an umlaut? > > file=supp-pdf.tex version=2001.07.27 > file=supp-mis.tex version=1997.01.04 > are used. > > >Thanks, >Andreas >-- >Dr. Andreas Fieger >ServiceBarometer AG >Tel (089) 896669-17 >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ref.ntg.nl >http://ref.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | 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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Bug in supp-pdf.tex/supp-mis.tex (?)
by Andreas Fieger 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hello, though this is only partly a context question, I think this is the best place to ask. I am creating MetaPost figures containing text. When these are included in a TeX document processed by pdfLaTeX, context's supp-pdf.tex is loaded to perform the conversion. Consider the simple MP file (the space is essential) -------------------------------------- defaultfont:="ptmr8r"; beginfig(1); label(" 11", origin); endfig; -------------------------------------- This will result in a file like %%Page: 1 1 -6.25003 -3.38997 moveto ( 11) ptmr8r 10.00005 fshow showpage %%EOF If this MP file is included in a context document, everything is fine. -------------------------------------- \starttext \placefigure[][]{}{\externalfigure[minimal.mps]} \stoptext -------------------------------------- If it is included in a LaTeX document -------------------------------------- \documentclass{article} \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} \begin{document} \includegraphics{minimal.mps} \end{document} -------------------------------------- converted to ps with dvips, still everything is fine. When using -------------------------------------- \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} -------------------------------------- and pdfLaTeX to compile the file (this is when supp-pdf.tex is used), the " 11" disappears. I found this problem with every number from 11, 22, to 99 with a leading space -- even in the middle of a string: "Text: 118" would come out as "Text: 8". I don't have any clue what's going wrong. Any ideas? PS: Hans was so kind to provide a new supp-pdf.tex after a similar problem with labels startimg with an umlaut? file=supp-pdf.tex version=2001.07.27 file=supp-mis.tex version=1997.01.04 are used. Thanks, Andreas -- Dr. Andreas Fieger ServiceBarometer AG Tel (089) 896669-17

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MP keyval interface
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Ahoi MP experts, i've tried to implement a keyval-interface in MP. Currently it looks like def keyvalFunc (text t) = begingroup; save status, col ; numeric status; string col ; t ; show status; show col ; endgroup; enddef; keyvalFunc(status=1.0; col="Hallo" ) ; This works, of course, but i would prefer if i could use a comma instead of the ";" to separate the keyval-pairs. Any ideas, how i can make "," be locally like ";"? Thanks in advance. Jens

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Re: Yet Another Bug
by Hans Hagen 17 Oct '02

17 Oct '02

At 08:48 PM 10/16/2002 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >Hi, > >I found a bug in the core-fld stuff, the tooltip definition; there >is a missing = for \ifdim in the line that reads > > \dimen0=\ifdim\wd0\zeropoint 3em\else\wd0\fi > >(missing = between \wd0 and \zeropoint) thanks, this comes from occasional clean ups (i do that kind of automatically when i look into files: nice side efect is that the fmt file occasionaaly becomes smaller and context a bit faster) keep testing -) 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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heads and headers
by Matthew Huggett 17 Oct '02

17 Oct '02

Hi: Two questions: 1. How do I get section numbers in roman numerals instead of the default? 2. How do I get header texts to appear on every page AFTER the first page? The answers must be in the documentation but I haven't been able to them. I probably need new glasses :-) Thanks Matthew

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Itemgroups settings
by Giuseppe Bilotta 17 Oct '02

17 Oct '02

Hello, I tried the following code: \defineitemgroup[numbers] \setupnumbers[each][intro,broad,packed,joinedup][left=$(,stopper=)$,symbol=n,margin=standard] \defineitemgroup[bullets] \setupbullets[each][intro,broad,packed,joinedup][symbol=1,margin=standard] \starttext Some text first \startnumbers \item One \startbullets \item Two \stopbullets \stopnumbers \stoptext Using the 2002.10.11 version of ConTeXt, the inner itemization (bullets) does not "use" the joinedup setting. The same happens if startbullets is the external and startnumbers is the internal. It doesn't happen if both itemgroups are of the same time, nor at the first level. Any ideas? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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figure libs
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 16 Oct '02

16 Oct '02

Ahoi, i have some questions about figure libs: 1) i can only access figures from a figure-lib if the file is in the same directory as the document that should embed the figures. For documents in different variants (screen, print) i would prefer that i can have the figure lib in the parent directory. 2) is the XML-file that describes the figure-lib really required to access the figures in the figure-lib: Suppose the following entry: <figure> <file>Figures.1</file> <label>fig-one</label> <copyright>Jens-Uwe Morawski</copyright> <comment>first firgure</comment> </figure> that can be accessed with \externalfigure[fig-one] The page of this figure can be found via: a) looking for the object that declares the destination "about: fig-one": 6 0 obj << /Type /Annot /Subtype /Link /Border [0 0 0] /A <</S /GoTo /D (about: fig-one)>> /Rect [0 0 333.797 108.797] >> endobj b) looking for the /Page object that uses this object in /Annots: 8 0 obj << /Type /Page /Contents 9 0 R /Resources 7 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 333.797 108.797] /TrimBox [0.0 0.0 333.79617 108.7967]/CropBox [0.0 0.0 333.79617 108.7967] /Parent 12 0 R /Annots [ 6 0 R ] c) find out at which position this page is declared in the /Pages dictionary: 12 0 obj << /Type /Pages /Count 5 /Kids [8 0 R 17 0 R 29 0 R 56 0 R 68 0 R] >> endobj Maybe this could be done once for all "about:" destinations for every \usefigurebase[...]. Thus only the figure-lib-pdf is required. Btw, while looking in the PDF-file i found: 86 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Pages 12 0 R /Names 85 0 R /OpenAction <</S /GoTo /D (page:2)>>/PageMode /UseNone\relax /PTEX.Fullbanner (This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211) >> endobj The \relax after the page-mode looks very TeXish. Is this correct? Thanks, Jens

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New version solves one problem, creates another
by Rob van Swol 16 Oct '02

16 Oct '02

Hi, The new version of Context (ver: 2002.10.11) solves my \tfx problem. However I get another problem instead: The following produces an error message (was working before). \definedescription [definit] [location=hanging, margin=standard, headstyle=bold] \starttext \definit{definitie1} this is one. \par \definit{definitie2} this is two. \par \stoptext Tis is the produced error: ! Undefined control sequence. \@@definitiehanging ...\leftskipadaption \relax \8 ifdim\leftskipadaption =\z... \dodowithpar ...rdefinitie {definit}[]{definitie1} #1\@@stopdefinitie {definit} l.17 this is one. \par ? ! Emergency stop. \@@definitiehanging ...\leftskipadaption \relax \8 ifdim\leftskipadaption =\z... \dodowithpar ...rdefinitie {definit}[]{definitie1} #1\@@stopdefinitie {definit} l.17 this is one. \par End of file on the terminal! 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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Ophran/Widow
by Michal Morawski 16 Oct '02

16 Oct '02

Hi, I have changed the chapter style by: \def\Numer#1{\color[middleblue]{#1}} \def\Nazwa#1{\color[middlegreen]{#1}} \setuplist[chapter][before=\blank,after=\blank,style=bold] \setuphead[chapter][ numbercommand=\Numer, % before=\hairline\blank, % after=\hairline\blank, textcommand=\Nazwa, page=no, ] But after this, the text of chapter ends the page; and in the case where after/begin option is \hairline, the "before" line ends one page, but text and "after" line starts a new page. This is ugly, of course. I know I have missed something important, but I don't know what. Have you any idea? Michal Morawski

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Re: lokale
by Hans Hagen 16 Oct '02

16 Oct '02

At 03:59 PM 10/15/2002 +0200, Hans van der Meer wrote: >Hans, > >Misschien een niet zo belangrijke en vooral perfectionistische issue; ik >waag het toch maar om het te vragen. In nederlandse teksten heb ik graag >GGD i.p.v. het engelse GCD. Dat lukt me wel als ik herdefinieer: > \definemathcommand [gcd] [limop] {\mfunction{ggd}} >Maar zou het na > \language[nl] % hyphenation > \mainlanguage[nl] % label texts >voor nederlandse tekst niet ook automatisch kunnen? Of zit het er al in en >zie ik het over het hoofd? \ggd kent context in ieder geval niet. you can make it into a label (see lang-* files, and lang-lab) or use the quick and dirty: \definemathcommand [gcd] [limop] {\mfunction{\translate[nl=GGD,en=GCD]}} this will adapt itself to the language 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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background color problem
by Manfred Lotz 15 Oct '02

15 Oct '02

I try to create some text with background color. The following code snippet doesn't work however. ___________________________________________ \definecolor [darkgreen] [r=.0, g=.5, b=.0] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startbackground \setupbackgrounds [text][text] [background=color, backgroundcolor=darkgreen, backgroundoffset=1.25mm] Background color should be darkgreen \stopbackground \stoptext ___________________________________________ I know that the problem might be sitting in front of the monitor. So, where am I wrong? Manfred

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Another font question...
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

[It seems that my previous message ended up in a queue and got deleted in the end - I hope I have better luck with this one. I'm badly in need of an answer...] Hello, everybody! Sorry to disturb you with my stupid font questions again, but it seems that I still haven't learned some things... I'm running TeXLive+ConTeXt, one system is in WindowXP and the other one is in Windows2000, but they now behave authentically (=have the same problem). After the usual fight with the fonts (some of the afm files are zipped in my TeXLive and need unzipping by hand and charter has wrong vendor name in the batch file, too, but I solved all these) my pos fonts almost work - i.e. they work if I just try to typeset something with very little formatting. However, the annoying part is that when I try to run my "real" file, which works perfectly on my work computer (TeXLive+WinNT), both my home computers complain Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-raw-uhvro8a): Font ec-raw-uhvro8a at 600 not found a) What is wrong? Something with Helvetica, but what and why? As some of the helvetic .afm files were gzipped, I had to run separate texfont installation and that seems to have worked fine, at least as far as I understand from the log: (lots of other uhvr entries removed) --- font identifier : NimbusSanL-ReguItal -> text -> tfm + vf generating raw tfm/vpl : ec-raw-uhvro8a (from uhvro8a) generating new vf : ec-uhvro8a (from ec-raw-uhvro8a) missing pfb file : uhvro8a.pfb --- generating : ls-r databases --- b) How to fix this problem? Any quick fix for the whole helvetica set? Or how to tell texfont that I want to create it exactly at 600? c) Would upgrading ConTeXt possibly help? I burned the TeXLive CD about 6 weeks back, but its contents seem to be from June. And/Or should I upgrade TexFont separately, anyone have any experience about this? d) When I find bugs in the combination TeXLive+ConTeXt+Windows, to whom should I report them? ConTeXt people, TeXLive people, both or nobody? Thank you for any help you can give, Mari Voipio

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mailing list changes
by Erik Frambach 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

Dear subscribers to ntg-xxxxx mailing lists, There have been a few changes in the mailing list software and hardware. The NTG mailing lists are now installed on a new server running "mailman" instead of "majordomo". The most significant change from a user's point of view is the easy web inferface for subscribing, unsubscribing, accessing the archives, changing your preferences, etc. See the web page for details: http://ref.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo The email addresses of the mailing lists have not changed. If there are any problems please report them to one of the NTG mailing lists administrators. Greetings, Erik Frambach, Jules van Weerden NTG mailing lists administrators

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Re: bigger font families
by Hans Hagen 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

At 02:19 PM 4/1/2002 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >Ahoi! > >Is there a way for other type classes than roman, sans, math and mono? >E.g. I need sometimes an additional casual/script/handwriting font family >(think of Lucida...) and would like to address it as style=\hd or like that. > >I tried to define it with usual typescripts and "hand" instead of "sans" etc. >but had no success. If such *should* work, then I'll review it and look for >mistakes, but if it *can't* work I must abuse one of serif/sans/mono. > >An other way would be mapping the script font to an "exotic" style like >\sc\it -- what do you think? there is \hw and \cg for handwritten and calligraphy, and you can define more if you want (peek into font-ini.tex); also, in some type-* files you will find casuals; in principle you can create your own names (we do that for things like semi fonts), so we do things like: \definetypeface [mainfont] [rm] [serif] ... \definetypeface [semifont] [rm] [semi-serif] /... that's the nice thing of typefaces/scripts, that you can cook up your own names. the rm, ss, tt cg, hw entries are predefined which means that they will be recognized and have associated commands, if you want more (with as restiction that they should have two char names) you can define them with \definefontstyle; in a similar fashion you can define \tfp|q|r if you want or even map names onto families (math) etc etc 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-ade.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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