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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on MikTeX
by Richard Stephens 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

>> As I cannot use rsynch to update ConTeXt, I was wondering if the >> MikTeX distribution might provide an alternative route to getting >> updates. > > Is it a firewall problem or something else? Firewall. I am protected by two company firewalls (so I'm told). There is no prospect of opening ports that are currently blocked and 'tunnelling' or whatever it's called would be seen as a contavention of company rules! >> 3) How often will the MikTeX distribution be updated with a new >> ConTeXt? I guess I only need updating a couple of times a year, now >> that MKIV is looking pretty good. > > You need to ask Christian Schenk about that. ConTeXt is tightly bound > to a specific LuaTeX version. So until version of LuaTeX is updated in > MikTeX, there is no way to update ConTeXt there (unless somebody does > a heavy patching or backporting of features; which won't happen). It > is quite possible that LuaTeX will only be updated with MikTeX 2.10. > The history of MikTeX says that there have usually been major version > releases in intervals from 8 months up to 3 years, so maybe you won't > see any ConTeXt update in MikTeX during the next year or two. > I guess I'll carry on using my own update method then: I download cont-tmf.zip (from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-2.htm) then hunt for new binaries in the directory tree at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/. It's a pain but it seems to work at the moment. It would be nice if there were a .zip file that contained the latest binaries to go into texmf-mswin/bin. But perhaps that would open up another can of worms!? Perhaps now that MKIV has most features working I could just update with the stable releases rather than the betas. Thanks for your help. Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. http://www.converteam.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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Re: [NTG-context] New Release Winedt WORKS with MKIV!!
by "\"Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد\"" 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:03:33 -0700, barney schwartz <barndog1946(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> New build of WinEdt 6.0 (Build: 20101121) has been uploaded to > >>> www.winedt.com > >>> This build contains macros that work with the latest ConTeXt Mark >>> IV (previous versions were designed for older version of ConTeXt). >>> If you are upgrading from older version of WinEdt make sure that >>> the executable for ConTeXt in WinEdt's Execution Modes is set >>> context.exe (instead of old texexec.exe)... I used winedt for years, and turning it into a full-fledged dedicated ConTeXt editor would not be hard ... I had to leave it because there was no utf-8 or bidi support. limited utf-8 is now available -- so interesting that Aleks made MkIV default --, don't know when/if-ever bidi support will be there ... otherwise the best dedicated tex editor I've ever used... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shiʿi Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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ConTeXt on MikTeX
by Richard Stephens 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Hello all, As I cannot use rsynch to update ConTeXt, I was wondering if the MikTeX distribution might provide an alternative route to getting updates. There are questions: 1) The Wiki page on MikTeX (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/MikTeX) still says it's broken. I presume this is out of date? 2) Does MKIV work in MikTeX? 3) How often will the MikTeX distribution be updated with a new ConTeXt? I guess I only need updating a couple of times a year, now that MKIV is looking pretty good. 4) Does TeXworks (which is part of MikTeX distribution) work with ConTeXt? 5) Any opinions or advice? Thanks, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. http://www.converteam.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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New Release Winedt WORKS with MKIV!!
by barney schwartz 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

>> New build of WinEdt 6.0 (Build: 20101121) has been uploaded to >> www.winedt.com >> This build contains macros that work with the latest ConTeXt Mark >> IV (previous versions were designed for older version of ConTeXt). >> If you are upgrading from older version of WinEdt make sure that >> the executable for ConTeXt in WinEdt's Execution Modes is set >>context.exe (instead of old texexec.exe)... >>If you (really!?) want to use old ConTeXt Mark II you will have >>modify the menu item for ConTeXt to call: >>ConTeXt_old.edt >> instead of >> ConTeXt.edt >> News.txt gives the details (read it!) >> In the meantime another build 20101111 had been available (but >> never announced on the list). Since then WinEdt takes care of >> environment variables MIKTEX_EDITOR and TEXEDIT that define the >> editor response for "e" in MiKTeX and TeX Live. >> You can install the latest build over the old version of WinEdt 6.0 and >> then read What's new in the Help menu (if you want to take >> advantage of certain changes such as new items in the Maintenance >> Menu designed to load customized scripts etc...). >> Best regards, >> alex Just thought I would post this here for other Winedt users. barney

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TEI - conTeXt - pdf
by Jon Crump 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

All, Having abandoned apache's FOP, I've now been trying to get my arms around XML typesetting with conTeXt with the help of Thomas's excellent tutorial at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TEI_xml. With some difficulty I got the philostratus.xml/lorem ipsum example to work, save for errors like this from the \definemargins command: ! You can't use `\dimexpr' in restricted horizontal mode. (The marginal notations are typeset, but so are the distance arguments) What I really need help with, however, is Arabic. Can anyone point me to a 'hello world' example of how to typeset TEIxml in Arabic using conTeXt? My TeX skills are very out of date and were never much to begin with, and I'm having a devil of a time getting my head around the welter of available documentation. I haven't even yet worked out how to point context at suitable fonts, or how to invoke them in the --environment .tex file. [I'm using the MacTeX-2010 Distribution on OSX 10.5.8. It took me some time do discover that I had to do: $ luatools --generate before I could run context at the command line thus: $ context --environment=tei-style philostratus.xml] Any hints, examples, or pointers to the relevant documentation would be gratefully received. Thanks, Jon

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How to get \iint?
by Vladimir Lomov 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Hi. The command \iint is defined in context (mkiv) but it doesn't produce the desired sign. What I should do to make it appear? (in log file I see that LMMath font desn't contain such symbol but I don't know much about font mechanism of context, btw in latex I could easily get that symbol so I think it should be in 'standard' math font). Minimal example: <example file="ex1.tex"> %%% By default context minimal doesn't give easy access to \iint — double integral sign \starttext This is ordinary integral (sign): \startformula \int_{a}^{b}f(x) \text{d}x = F(x)+C \stopformula Though the command \type{\iint} is defined it doesn't give proper sign (in MkIV). Example: \startformula \iint_{D}f(x,y)\text{d}x\text{d}y \stopformula \stoptext </example> --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov -- We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours! -- Adapted from Pat Paulsen by Joe Sloan

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\starttable ... \stoptable
by Herbert Voss 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

what is wrong with the \em? With \bf or {\em ...} it is fine ! Misplaced \omit. <recently read> \omit \normalTABLEquote ->\unskip \!ttRightGlue &\omit \tablepos & l.5 \NC \em Spalte 1 \NC \em Spalte 2 \NC \FR \HL % didn't work ? \starttext \starttable[|l|r|]\HL \NC \bf Spalte 1 \NC \bf Spalte 2 \NC \FR \HL % works %\NC \em Spalte 1 \NC \em Spalte 2 \NC \FR \HL % didn't work \NC $alfa$ \NC $beta$ \NC \MR \NC Links \NC Rechts \NC \LR \HL \stoptable \stoptext Herbert

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ConTeXt mkiv and Drupal
by Otared Kavian 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Dear Contextators, Has anyone tried to process TeX files written for ConTeXt mkiv in Drupal (http://drupal.org/)? To be more precise, there exists a so-called filter DruTeX (http://drupal.org/project/drutex) which can process LaTeX files for viewing them in a web page, but since my TeX files are written for ConTeXt, I wonder if there is a simple way to do the same in Drupal with ConTeXt. Or maybe I am going the wrong direction? Should I export through mkiv my TeX files to some other format than TeX for being understood by Drupal? Actually my documents are essentially one page each, without any complicated layout or graphics: there is only some text, and items within two or three sets of \startitemize, \stopitemize. But they do contain maths and I would like to have them on the web pages. Thanks in advance for any insight. Best regards: OK

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SciTE & ConTeXt
by S Barmeier 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hello, I tried to follow the PRAGMA document for setting up SciTE to run with ConTeXt. The "Tools" menu seems to recognize that I am trying to process a ConTeXt file and the syntax highlighting seems to fit as well. However, when trying to Compile or Build, SciTE tells me >mtxrun --autogenerate --script context --autopdf --pdf myfile.tex sh: mtxrun: not found >Exit code: 127 When running mtxrun from the terminal or from the shell (by entering sh in the terminal) it works fine. My $PATH variable is set to find mtxrun (and context). How come SciTE can't find it? Many thanks. Severin P.S.: Does the --autopdf option try to automatically open the output? If so, how can I change the default to evince?

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sorting bibliography
by Yury G. Kudryashov 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

Hi! Could you please tell me how to sort bibliogrpahy in ConTeXt Mark IV? I've tried \setuppublications[sorttype=author,sort=yes] but this doesn't work. It seems that bibl-tra.lua contains two compare() functions. Which one is used (my Lua knowledge is far from perfect)? P.S.: I'm ready to convert my bibtex db to another format if this will help.

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