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graphics "styles"
by Yury G. Kudryashov 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hi! In tikz I can say \draw[help lines] (0, 0) circle (1cm); and setup what does "help lines" mean (color, linewidth etc.) in the environment file with \tikzset{help lines/.style={...}}. Is there any way to do something similar with ConTeXt+MetaPost? Should I add drawoptions(\MPvar{another-style-name}) before each draw/fill command, and drawoptions() after it?

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text looseness-tightness
by Horacio Suarez 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

hello all I have a 2 column A4 document, each 71,5mm wide. text is CMR 9pt. there is a paragraph 12 lines long. the 12th are the 3 last letters from the word "procesos", or "sos". I really need that 3 letters go up. I need 11 lines. they are just 3 characters in 11 lines. a single syllable. \looseness=-1 is not enough. I also tried inserting discretional hyphens where they can be more usefull, some times helps me but not now. How can I FORCE spacing bettween characters, words (or both). I don't care if it looks too tight. I know that this can seems sacrilegious, but nobody will notice it! thankyou in advance for you generous people. --------------------Horacio Suarez

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Summary of user wishes for streams
by Salil Sayed 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, We have rather few suggestions and they are not coming anymore. So I am summarizing what we have so far. Since my typesetting vocabulary is meager I choose to present it graphically. Then again my apologies for poor graphics as I did not attempt it in metapost. Below is the collection of the posts and attached is a pdf of a drawing generated in inkscape. I can send the original svg if needed. Best regards, Salil______________________________________________________________ Salil:Being able to flow multiple texts in parallel. A simple case is a translation of the same text running on opposite page while the original runs on left/right page. In my thesis these are not translations, but correlated texts written for different audiences. (think of levels in a CG game) So the texts need to be designed differently. To extrapolate this facility, if columns on one page can run such parallel texts then we can have multiple translations running together. Khaled:Old Arabic book, essentially all early Bulaq Press books used to typesettwo books in one, one is the main book running on the body of the page,while the other is a loosely related book running in the margins of thepage, the second book can be a commentary on the main book, but oftenthey just discuss the same subject with no direct correlation (not acritical edition). I'd like to be able to reproduce such layout. Taco:I would like to do something slightly more general: it would be nice ifcolumnset blocks could take their input from streams, even if the blockis not a full column (or multiple columns). Philipp:three items I'd like to add: * horizontal split page layout (upper and lower parts instead of columns), * asymmetric stream combinations (e.g. two streams on the left page, another stream on the facing page), and * easy reprinting (i.e. a photographic reproduction as one stream on the left and a text stream on the right page).I've seen all of this in printed books so it would be a pity to live ina world where the best typesetting system can't do that. Some of this Ialready mentioned to Hans a while ago, maybe he remembers. Kevin:I second the request to support horizontally split page layouts with one stream typeset above another on each page. Hans:it would help to see mockups for such requests Salil:I think this is good example of this function. http://books.google.com/books?id=qdltz8N9qSEC&lpg=PP1&dq=the%20body%20multi… Philipp:I got a less complex example from the library, in contrast to Salil'sexample this one is a translation: http://bayimg.com/oaoPpaaChhttp://bayimg.com/PAOpAAaChhttp://bayimg.com/pAo… Shows clearly that the streams are synced at every section (and thattranslation to English is a good compression for German…).

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Fwd: Troubles with indentation in ConTeXt
by Taco Hoekwater 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, Forwarded to the context mailing list. Best wishes, Taco > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Troubles with indentation in ConTeXt > Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:17:55 +0200 > From: Ogam Géry <maggyero(a)gmail.com> > To: info(a)bittext.nl > > Dear Mr Hoekwater, > > I'm a French ConTeXt user and I've found an issue with the ConTeXt command > “\setupindenting[yes,medium]” which removes usual spacing between formulas. > Mr Mahajan reported the same problem on a post from 2007 > (http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg20692.html) so I'm > wondering if it has been solved now in 2010 (it doesn't seem so, but > maybe there's a trick or something). > > Yours faithfully. > > Géry Ogam

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current head title and current number
by Peter Schorsch 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, I need to get the current *section/chapter title and number. I figured out that \fullstructureheadnumber gives the current number. But I can not figure out what gives the current head title. In strc-sec.mkiv I found this comment: \def\currentheadtext {obsolete, use marks} Is this a hint to use getmarking? I tried \getmarking[current] \getmarking[currentsection] \getmarking[currenthead] without success. Does anyone know how to access the current title?

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Ubuntu and Context MKIV
by Xan 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, I have installed context package [http://packages.ubuntu.com/hu/lucid/context] in ubuntu. In theory it's the MKIV package. But when I run context I get: MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' How can I fix it? I have 10.04. Regards, Xan.

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My mtx-fonts.lua script is broken?
by Zhichu Chen 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

It may have happened a long time ago. I just updated my context and could not compile my document with \setupbodyfont[lucida], something like: =========================================== define fonts > forced type afm of stmary10 not found define fonts > font with name stmary10 is not found load otf > loading: d:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroma n8-bold.otf (hash: lmroman8-bold) load otf > font loaded okay load otf > file size: 112404 load otf > enhancing ... load otf > saving in cache: d:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/l m/lmroman8-bold.otf report | lua: compiling d:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/04a4119 fb83ff6c1c1b215f165317af6/fonts/otf/lmroman8-bold.tma into d:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf -cache/luatex-cache/context/04a4119fb83ff6c1c1b215f165317af6/fonts/otf/lmroman8 -bold.tmc virtual math > font LMMath8-Regular, no parameters set ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=60]. \xdodefinebodyfont [#1][#2][#3]-> \checkrelativefontsize {#2}\ifcsname #2\end... \dododododefinedefaultbodyfont ...csname {4pt}{rm} \fi \next7 #1,->\dododododefinedefaultbodyfont {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... \next6 #1,->\dodododefinedefaultbodyfont {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... ... l.22 \setupbodyfont[lucida] ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MTXrun | fatal error: return code: 1 =========================================== Last time I saw this message, I was preparing a document in a hurry so I just download an old cont-tmf.zip and it's okay again. I got a font AdobeSongStd-Light.otf and after ========================================== mtxrun --script fonts --reload ========================================== I still could not find it: ========================================== Zhichu@ZHICHU-PC /context/tex $ mtxrun --locate AdobeSongStd-Light.otf tree:///d:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts/opentype/public/Adobe/AdobeSongStd-Light.otf Zhichu@ZHICHU-PC /context/tex $ mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern=Adobe* Zhichu@ZHICHU-PC /context/tex $ ========================================== Well, can you give me a hint what's wrong here? -- Best Regards Chen

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Issues with MetaPost boxes
by Andreas Schneider 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Since some weeks I have strange problems with MetaPost in MKIV (beta). The attached example should (and did in the past) output a central box ("Fakt") surrounded by five boxes named "Dimension". However some of them (in that particular example one) is drawn wrong: the box is on the right spot, but the label seems to be at 0,0. It seems to happen whenever the boxes are drawn from within a loop - at least all of my problems with boxes show similar symptoms and only occur within loops. Any ideas what goes wrong here?

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Typeface - simple example
by Peter Schorsch 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi, I reactivated my interest in Context. A lot changed since then... so I am became a beginner again. E.g. I don't know / understand how to use that Typescript-Framework. I tried to build a simple example, but I do not get it to work. I crosschecked successfully with simplefonts that the fonts itself are working (via \simplefont[..]). In this example I wanted to put the Nimbus Sans fonts on the rm-Definitions (just to see that it is working). I like what I was reading in the wiki, examples, posts and manuels about the Typescript-framework - but can anyone help me to understand it really / help me to get this simple example to work? Thanks ------ simple example environment --- Nimbus fonts are stored under /usr/share/fonts OSFONTDIR is correct, fonts via mtxrun imported mtxrun --script fonts --list --all pattern=nimbuss* shows all the nimbus fonts I used in the example ------ simple example ---------- \enableregime[utf] \setupencoding[default=uc] \setupcapitals[sc=yes] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-Regular] [nimbussanlregu] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-Bold] [nimbussanlbold] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-Italic] [nimbussanlreguital] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-Slanted] [nimbussanlreguital] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-BoldItalic] [nimbussanlboldital] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-BoldSlanted] [nimbussanlboldital] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-Caps] [nimbussanlregu] \starttypescript [Nimbus] \definetypeface [Nimbus-whatIsThisFor] [rm] [whatIsThis] [Nimbus-Sans-Regular] \definetypeface [Nimbus-whatIsThisFor] [rm] [whatIsThis] [Nimbus-Sans-Bold] %here: how to access / define rm,bf? \definetypeface [Nimbus-whatIsThisFor] [tt] [whatIsThis] [Nimbus-Sans-Italic] \definetypeface [Nimbus-whatIsThisFor] [ss] [whatIsThis] [Nimbus-Sans-Bold] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[Nimbus] \setupbodyfont[Nimbus-whatIsThisFor,rm,12pt] \starttext Regular {\it Italic} {\bf Bold} {\bi Bold-Italic} \showbodyfont \stoptext

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Adding supplemental information to entry in list of figures
by Elias Oltmanns 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi all, \nolist{}, I understand, is used in headings and presumably in captions as well to exclude parts of the heading / caption from the automatically generated list of contents or floats. Now, my question is what the canonical way would be to add information to an entry in a list of figures that doesn't appear in the caption to that figure; indeed, it might be desirable sometimes to specify the entry in the list of figures independently of the caption, very much like the LaTeX command \caption[entry text]{caption text} does. Thanks for your help, Elias

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