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Testing TeX Live 2012
by Mojca Miklavec 17 May '12

17 May '12

Dear ConTeXt users, TeX Live 2012 is going to be released soon. After the first successful year of ConTeXt in TeX Live, it would be great to get enough testers before the release (to make sure that it works flawlessly) and to get rid of as many bugs as possible. See http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html for links and instructions. You could try wget http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest/install-tl-unx.tar.gz tar xvzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz cd install-tl-<every-day-a-different-name> ./install-tl -gui -repository http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/tlpretest and install a ConTeXt scheme for example. (Alternatively you can first fetch all the packages to local disk.) Then just add the binary path to your PATH and feel free to play. Mac users can also try MacTeX 2012 from tlpretest (with some extra care), but you first need to update to get the latest ConTeXt. Mojca (The version of ConTeXt is the same as latest beta, so any bugs fixed in beta can just as well proliferate to TeX Live.)

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Re: [NTG-context] thinrules
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 May '12

17 May '12

Am 17.05.2012 um 18:09 schrieb Meer, H. van der: > Thanks, > > From your answer I understand that collapsing the preceding vertical space is impossible with \thinrules. \thinrule adds \strut at the begin of the rule which results in vertical space above and below. Wolfgang

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Local modules not found
by Rogers, Michael K 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hi, I upgraded to the latest beta from the 2011 stable version for the first time. Now my local modules are not found. Having searched the wiki and the mailing list, I can find no help. Any ideas? Error messages: \usemodule[homework-fmt] --> resolvers > modules > not found: 'homework-fmt' \input homework-fmt --> ! I can't find file `homework-fmt'. Here is a snippet from "context --generate" that might indicate the problem (/Users/mike/Library/texmf contains my tex modules : resolvers | methods | resolver: method=generators, how=uri, scheme=file, argument=/Users/mike/Library/texmf resolvers | expansions | scanning path '/Users/mike/Library/texmf', branch '/Users/mike/Library/texmf' resolvers | expansions | 266 files found on 20 directories with 58 uppercase remappings resolvers | resolving | resolvers | resolving | not saving runtime tree '/Users/mike/Library/texmf' Thanks! Michael [Background: I started learning ConTeXt last winter using the 2011 TeXLive version and TeXShop (I've a Mac). Now the semester is over, I'm trying to update to a more recent ConTeXt. First I got TeXLive 2012 pre-release, but TeXShop still used last year's ConTeXt. So I followed the wiki instructions for getting the latest beta. Eventually I found a directory name was different and now TeXShop uses the latest beta. The latest beta is in a separate directory tree from TeXLive, which I set up 6 months ago or so from instructions on the wiki for running Mark IV.] ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments).

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thinrules
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

Macro \thinrules places vertical whitespace before the first of its lines. I would like to get rid of that one, but have no success in doint that. Usage is: \par\thinrules[..]\par Howto? H van der Meer

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Adjust the tracking
by Marco 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hi everybody, how does one adjust the tracking of a font? The command \definecharacterkerning does almost what I need. However, it breaks the ligatures. \definecharacterkerning [track] [factor=.01] \starttext \showboxes \switchtobodyfont [72pt] final suffocating flange % all ligatures lost \setcharacterkerning [track] final suffocating flange \stoptext Marco

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\setupbodyfont restricted to pt as unit
by Marco 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hi! Is it by design, that \setupbodyfont only accepts “pt” as unit? %\setupbodyfont [18pt] % pt works \setupbodyfont [18bp] % bp fails \definefont [testbp] [Serif at 18bp] % bp works \setupinterlinespace [line=24bp] % bp works \starttext Foo\testbp Bar \stoptext Not that I see any difference between “pt” and “bp” with these small sizes, but usually all commands accepting a length unit can be fed with all TeX units. Marco

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xtable cell centering?
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

Sorry for the previous post, but accidentely the mail flew away far too soon! Hans van der Meer

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xtable cellcentering?
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

Why does this one centers the contents in the cells? \startxtable[offset=1cm] % By the way: coloring does nothing here. why? \startxrow \startxcell one \stopxcell \startxcell two \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[foregroundcolor="blue"] alpha \stopxcell \startxcell beta \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable But the other example: <table> <tr> <td> One </td> <td> Two </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <b>Three</b> </td> <td> Four </td> </tr> </table> with Hans van der Meer

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xtable spaceinbetweent?
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

\startxtable[spaceinbetween=0cm] \startxrow \startxcell one \stopxcell \startxcell two \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell alpha \stopxcell \startxcell beta \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable I cannot follow the behaviour of spaceinbetween. When absent the rows are put neatly against each other. But with spaceinbetween=0cm there is a gap, that does not seem to change with either changing the dimension or replacing it by small, medium, big, or even none. Could there be an error in the code for xtables? Hans van der Meer

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xtable question
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

I have the following xmlsetup for a tablecell in xtable (plus other appropiate definitions): \startxmlsetups xmlcommon:td \startxcell[\doifnot{\xmlatt{#1}{width}}{\empty}{width={\xmlatt{#1}{width}}},] \xmlflush{#1} \stopxcell \stopxmlsetups and the following table: <table> <tr> <td> One </td> <td width="8cm"> Two </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <b>Three</b> </td> <td width="8cm"> Four </td> </tr> </table> Why isn't the width setting on the cells not honoured and is the following message appearing in the log: check > missing or ungrouped '=' after '\doifnot {8cm}{}{width={8cm}}' Also I tried \expanded{startxcell..} but it made no difference. Neither does width={\xmlatt{#1}{width}} because the a broad setting results instead of a cell 8cm wide. How can I then accomplish the following parameter scheme? on <td width="dimension"> the \startcellx[ takes width=dimension, on <td> the \startcellx does not take a width-paarameter. Hans van der Meer

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