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collecting user wishes for streams related functionalities
by Salil Sayed 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi All, Hans will starting looking into the development of 'streams' for mkvi soon. So let us gather our wishes for these functions so that the interface can be well thought of beforehand. Please respond to this thread with your wishes and I might compile them later in one place if doing so makes sense. To begin with here is my first wish: 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. Best regards, Salil

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Re: [NTG-context] Numbering in Table of Content
by Martin Althoff 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

> and it doesn't work. The title and subject parts never get > into the generated TOC. Any idea why? Thanks very much! Not sure, seems to work for me. Though I do get two TOCs, one for front matter, one for body matter -- the limit of my knowledge is reached here. Are you all current and updated? Martin

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Problems with the minimals
by Florian Baudach 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi, I have installed the minimals for Linux. If I am using texexec now I am getting the following error: /usr/bin/mktexfmt: 926: /home/florian/context/tex/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr: not found fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'! I am a little bit confused, becaus the minimals worked just fine for me :-(. How can I fixed it? Greetings Florian

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\lowerbox
by Wolfgang Schuster 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi, the \lowerbox macro from supp-box.tex use \raise instead of \lower in it’s definition: \def\lowerbox{\doraiselowerbox\raise} Wolfgang

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Does Makempy still work?
by Cedric Mauclair 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi everybody, I tried to make a Metapost outline by following the mmakempy manual but it didn't work. As I saw that "makempy" and "makempy.bat" files were removed in 2010 (I don't remember the date), my question is: is it still usable/valid feature? I processed the example from the manual, both from a standalone mp file and a tex file (which follows): \starttext \startMPcode input mp-grph ; beginfig(1) ; graphictext "$e=mc^2$" scaled 10 dashed evenly withdrawcolor .7blue withfillcolor .7white withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; endfig ; \stopMPcode \stoptext It sucessfully created the test-mpgraph.pdf with the text processed by TeX but the result page is blank, though it seems the "graphic" is on a line by itself (seen from another document where all the lines go down). When the mp file is processed with "mtxrun --script mptopdf", it warns of a width and height of less than 1in when it tries to convert from ps to pdf. When the tex file is processed with "mtxrun --script context", it complains that metapost had a problem flushing a literal and that it couldn't find pstoedit. Of course, this could be the problem, but I have no idea of how I could get around this. By the way, I use the TeXlive 2010 pretest. Thanks. -- Cédric

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Inserting non-standard TeX macro parameters to Lua variables
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hello all, I'm looking for a way to insert any character (CSV separator) into a variable. Manually insert a double (or single) quote is not a problem, but how to use the universal way to not have to change the macro definitions? Is there another possibility to insert a macro parameter into a Lua variable than the use double or single quote? Any "universal" alternative is unfortunately impossible: For example: \def\setseparatorC#1{\directlua{Sep=#1 }} ??? Thanx Jaroslav Here is my minimal example: \def\setseparatorA#1{\directlua{Sep="#1"}} \def\setseparatorB#1{\directlua{Sep='#1'}} \starttext \setseparatorA{'} % OK \directlua{tex.sprint(Sep)} \setseparatorB{"} % OK \directlua{tex.sprint(Sep)} % BUT \setseparatorA{"} % Error \setseparatorB{'} % Error \stoptext

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Minimals & Windows PowerShell
by luigi scarso 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

With cmd.exe call C:\luatex\minimals-beta\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\luatex\minimals-beta\context\tex does it's job correctly. I would like to know the same for Windows PowerShell: . C:\luatex\minimals-beta\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\luatex\minimals-beta\context\tex & C:\luatex\minimals-beta\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\luatex\minimals-beta\context\tex don't work and call doesn't exist in PowerShell. -- luigi

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\startinterface and module documentation
by Wolfgang Schuster 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi Hans, there is a clash between \startinterface from mult-ini to set constants and variables and module documentation. The file s-mod-02.tex defines a paragraphe environment with the same name and as a result of this it's not possible to use a module in it's docu for examples. Run this example with 'context --ctx=s-mod foo.tex' to reproduce it: <foo.tex> %M \usemodule[foo] \unprotect \startinterface all \setinterfacevariable {foo} {foo} \stopinterface \v!foo % should give 'foo' but '\v!foo' is undefined \protect \endinput </foo.tex> Wolfgang

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new beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi all, I just ran the latest beta and saw a new way of indicating errors, indicating and quoting line numbers. Is this all new and improved? I hadn't seen this before. Maybe I'm making a complete ass of myself, but I just wanted to mention that this looks incredibly helpful and informative. Kudos! All best Thomas

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Fwd: Minimal example (was Re: Footnote text like layer?)
by Xan 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

-------- Missatge original -------- Assumpte: Minimal example (was Re: [NTG-context] Footnote text like layer?) Data: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:16:03 +0200 De: Xan <dxpublica(a)telefonica.net> A: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Sorry, but the reply does not work for me 8-| The minimal example, Wolfgang, % interface=en output=pdftex % Regime %\enableregime[utf] %\input arxiv-header.context %\setupheadertexts[\midaligned{Títol de l'article}][][\midaligned{Xavier Bordoy}][] \definedelimitedtext [abstract] [leftmargin=yes, spacebefore=line, before=\smallbodyfont] % Start the text \starttext %\version[concept] %\startbodymatter % Title \startalignment[center] \blank[force,2*big] {\bfb Títol de l'article} \blank[3*medium] {\tfa Xavier Bordoy} % \blank[2*medium] % {\tfa \currentdate} \blank[3*medium] \stopalignment % Abstract \startabstract {\midaligned{\bf Abstract}} We examine the geometry of the word problem of two different types {\bf groups}: those satisfying weak almost-convexity conditions and those admitting geodesic combings whose width satisfy minimally restrictive, non-vacuous constraints. In both cases we obtain an n! isoperimetric function and $n2$ upper bounds on the minimal isodiametric function and the filling length function. \stopabstract \footnotetext[-]{Date: } Posar caixeta tipus footnote amb: \startitemize \item date (mirar nathanson) \item keywords \item llicència (CC-By-sa) \item al típic comentari de què l'autor ha rebut suport de X i X, posar que es basa en el la memòria de final de màster (i posar el link). \item math subject classification 2010: 20F65, 20F10 primary, 20F05 20F06 secondary \item E-mail (llevar del final amb l'adreça) \stopitemize \section{Resultats principals} En aquest capítol es detallarà la meva contribució al camp de la Teoria Geomètrica de Grups i, en concret, al problema de la paraula. De forma general, aquesta contribució consisteix en la millora de l'ordre de la funció de Dehn per als grups que admetin una secció geodèsica $\sigma$ tal que $\varphi_{\sigma}(n) < n-1$, per a $n$ suficientment gran, i en diverses generalitzacions de l'amplada d'una secció. \stoptext I receive: ! You can't use `\unskip' in vertical mode. \dosetnote [#1][#2][#3]->\unskip \def \currentnote {#2}\dochecknote \ifcase ... l.39 \footnotetext[-] {Date: } ? x Regards, Xan.

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