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Degree sign
by Marcin Borkowski 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, is there a "canonical" way to obtain a degree sign? I'd best like it to work in both text and math mode, and not use UTF-8 but some TeX-y \command (like \degree or so). Best -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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beta
by Hans Hagen 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi, As Mojca is moving the distribution to another server we have a few days of potential instability which gives us the change to experiment a bit. I've changed the defaults for the math fonts so that now we use the 'real thing'. However, as there can be issues, one can still say at the top of a document (of in cont-syst.tex): \enablemode[txmath] \enablemode[pxmath] \enablemode[lmmath] The design sized latin modern text font is still the default but one could already change that by \setupbodyfont[modern] There is currently some renaming going on for those math fonts but that should not affect us as context can handle older names too. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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mtxrun server help broken
by Thomas A. Schmitz 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, with current minimals, the help server appears to be broken. Running mtxrun --script server --start --auto the server starts up, but when I click on "help," I get a page with the helpful hint ConTeXt Help Information no definition some error There is no error message on the terminal. Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt
by "H. Özoguz" 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Am 21.11.2012 23:41, schrieb ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl: > What you are looking for is text streams. They are not yet fully > functional in mkiv. But as long as you need the streams to appear > as columns on the same page, as seems to be the case, there is a > cheap workaround using the*tabulate* environment (see below). > > The great thing about \{start,stop}tabulate is that it allows for > page breaks inside paragraphs of arbitrary length. > > Regards > Philipp > > > ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > > \newcount\progresscounter \progresscounter0 > \def\placeprogresscounter{% > %% caution when using dynamic content: check > %% for first pass to avoid multiple executions > \iftrialtypesetting42\else > \advance\progresscounter\plusone > \the\progresscounter > \fi > } > > \starttext > > \starttabulate[|r|p|p|] > \NC \placeprogresscounter > \NC \language[deo] Hallo, Welt! > \NC \language[en] \input knuth > \NC\NR > \HL % ????????????????????????% > \NC \placeprogresscounter > \NC \language[deo] N?chster Abschnitt! > \NC \language[en] \input ward > \NC\NR > \stoptabulate > > \stoptext Thank you. Why not simply a table without any workaround? \starttabulate[|p|p|] \NC \language[deo] Hallo, Welt! \NC \language[en] \input knuth \NC\NR \NC \language[deo] Nächster Abschnitt! \NC \language[en] \input ward \NC\NR \stoptabulate Huseyin

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\startitemize[columns] once again...
by Marcin Borkowski 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

This minimal example behaves in a strange way: \starttext Some text \startitemize[columns,two,joinedup] \item abc% $\frac{x^2-x+3}{x^2+x-3}$; \item xyz% $\frac{x^5-3}{x^3+x-2}$. \stopitemize \stoptext If we remove the percentage signs in the items, an additional vertical skip appears. Is it a feature or a bug? (Also, I encountered a *very* weird error where in some cases a whole page disappears in the pdf; I could not distil it into a minimal example, but I'll try and I'll post it here. I have a very vague suspicion that \startitemize[columns] is again the culprit.) TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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Dash equivalent of $BASH_SOURCE (for setuptex)
by Mojca Miklavec 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi everyone, Hans wrote me the following, but I'm unable to figure it out myself. The script "setuptex" (which is in fact not urgently needed as one can just as well export the right path, but it comes in handy) can be used in two ways: (a) . /path/to/context/tex/setuptex (b) . /path/to/context/tex/setuptex /path/to/context/tex The first approach only works if the shell interpreting setuptex knows where the sourced script is located. Currently the script uses the following code and works in Bash, KSH (and maybe some other shells as well, but I'm not sure which ones). if [ z"$BASH_SOURCE" != z ]; then SCRIPTPATH="$BASH_SOURCE" elif [ z"$KSH_VERSION" != z ]; then SCRIPTPATH="${.sh.file}" else SCRIPTPATH="$0" fi Hans had problems with Dash, however, I have no clue how to enable (a) in Dash. The (b) approach always works though, so in the worst case the answer to Hans would be "provide the path to your tex root, or write your own script with hardcoded path ;)", but if anyone has any clue if finding path to the executed script is possible in Dash or in any other POSIX-compatible way, please let me know. Mojca On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > One of the things you need to look into is the first-setup and setup tex > scripts (just look at the dash issues thread) .. i have the impression that > the setuptex script doesn't find its root (own) under dash because it has > different $0 handling (dash is the debian variant of bash, so we're talking > of debian installations) > > Hans

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rsync
by Hans Hagen 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi, rsync rsync://10.100.1.2/all -r work's here (internal ip) .. do you use more than -r ? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] Indented footnotes in ConTeXt
by Adam Khan 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Thank you for your solutions, Huseyin, Wolfgang, but this still does not fix my problem with passing \setupnotation. Why does Mark IV keep throwing the error “undefined control sequence”? I have reinstalled ConTeXt and run both luatools --generate and mtxrun --generate. Sincerely yours, Adam Khan

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Re: [NTG-context] Section alone on the page
by "H. Özoguz" 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Am 20.11.2012 12:00, schrieb ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl: > It?s a problem with \blank which ignore the ?samepage? keyword in grid mode. > > When you process this example in normal mode ?line 40? is moved to the second page but in grid mode it stays on the first page. Is theat easy to fix or a long-term-todo? (Layouting books, I need gridding, indeed, at first that was my reason to start with context) Huseyin

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Arabic with ConTeXt
by "H. Özoguz" 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hello, many books I layout have arabic words or complete paragraphs in it - where the main language is german. For example there is a book, which is completely in arabic with german translation. My present method to write in Arabic is, for sure, not the best, f.e. I have problems with arabic numbers (which are printed mirrored), problems with brackets and so on. I have two questions, hopefully there is an expert for questions concerning Arabic or similar quests: First: How to divide the page into a left part and a right part, two wright german on the left side and arabic on the right. Is \paragraph the best way for it? Second: Which is your recommended way to type arabic with ConTeXt? I add mine in this Mail, please give me advises to improve it. Thank you. Huseyin P.S.: If gridsetting with arabic is possible, then I would prefer that. But if not (see my non-gridsetting solution with \placeongrid), it's ok for me. Here an example of Arabic on the right, with german left under it (should be side-by-side, did not implemend the paragraph yet) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++\setuplayout[grid=yes]\setuplayout[grid=yes] \definefont[Sheh][name:Scheherazade*arabic at 17pt] % or file:amiri-regular.ttf*... file:alq.ttf \def\Arab[#1][#2]{ \placeongrid[top]{ \blank[0.2cm] \setupalign[r2l]\Sheh #1 \blank[0.3cm] } {\sl #2} \blank[big] } \starttext \Arab[فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ][Welche der Wohltaten eures Herrn wollt ihr beide verleugnen?] \stoptext ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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