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Problems using new beta
by Ivo Solnický 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi all! I am just new to ConTeXt, I have played with it for one week. I have installed standard ConTeXt minimals installation and no other TeX distro is installed on my MS Vista computer. I use also TeXworks editor. On Sunday, after I installed new package, I realized, that my workflow is broken. I received next message in my TeXworks editor, the same for command line: MTXrun | run 1: luatex --fmt="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/formats/cont-en" --lua="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend=pdf "./dopis.tex" This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.1-2010060523 (Web2C 2010) (rev 3685) \write18 enabled. ! I can't find file `./dopis.tex'. <*> ./dopis.tex Please type another input file name: I have my documents in "C:\Users\Ivo\TeX" directory and ConTeXt worked fine until the new sync. When I tried to find what is wrong, I realized strange thing. When I move my document somewhere inside my TEXMF tree (C:\context\tex), it works. For example I copied dopis.tex into c:\context\tex\texmf-project and everything was ok. Maybe it is my mistake, but I am not experienced enough to find it. But it worked before. Maybe this is related to another problem I have. When I compile ConTeXt documents from my user directory, MTXrun said: MTXrun | warning: source mismatch (luv: 768743af5acbbfb6f306763f3da964ca <> bin: a6c26bf5f4881a58ccc3eed80ae65790), forcing remake MTXrun | fileio: loading configuration file 'C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' MTXrun | fileio: loading configuration file C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf MTXrun | fileio: preparing 'configuration' for 'C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c' MTXrun | fileio: 'configuration' saved in 'C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/trees/53ad5f8b88994bdd02baa17501789699.lua' MTXrun | fileio: 'configuration' compiled to 'C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/trees/53ad5f8b88994bdd02baa17501789699.luc' MTXrun | fileio: locating list of '/texmf' .... and recompiled format every time I run Context. This is very time consuming. But this is not true when I compile documents inside my TEXMF tree, for example in c:\context\tex\texmf-project directory. Any help? I still have some questions about the ConTeXt itself, but first I would like to solve these problems. If you need any additional information I am ready to send it. Thanks. Ivo Solnicky

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presence of xml-attribute
by H. van der Meer 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

In order to differentiate between the case of an absent or an empty attribute on an xml-element I now use the following macro to set a TeX- \if: % #1=node #2=attribute #3 defaultvalue: execute \attributetrue/false \def\setFlagToAttribute#1#2#3{% \doifnot{\xmlattdef{#1}{#2}{NOTPRESENT}}{NOTPRESENT}% {\doifelse{\xmlatt{#1}{#2}}{\empty}% {\xmlvalue{choice}{#3}{\iftrue}}% {\xmlvalue{choice}{\xmlatt{#1}{#2}}{\iftrue}}% \csname#2true\endcsname\else\csname#2false\endcsname\fi }% } I find the use of the NOTPRESENT not very elegant. Is there a path expression and function that can tell the presence or absence of an attribute, just as its value can be filtered with a/b[@option==value]? Hans van der Meer

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xml path expression
by H. van der Meer 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

I would like to combine the xml path search of two different levels. An example, the xml can be either case #1: <main> <a> <b><c/></b> <b><c/></b> </a> </main> or case #2: <main> <b><c/></b> <b><c/></b> </main> Now I want to process the <c> elements from the <main> level and loop through them with the position function: \xmlfilter{#1}{/(a/b|b)/name/position(\the\scratchcounter)} This however does not work, I tried various path expressions, for example with * but to no avail. Is there a path expression that can select either /a/b or /b ? Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] Removing Introduction section number
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

+1 for \section [number=no] {Introduction} This was my first guess to try, and it is so convinient! :) -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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\definetextbackground - problem with footnotes
by Alan BRASLAU 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi, I use \definetextbackground to create an environment that is set-off from the main text. This (now) works correctly, except in the particular case when the backgrounded text wraps to a second page and the first page contains a footnote. In this particular case, the footnote also gets the background, which is not the desired behavior. Is this a bug or am I not using \definetextbackground correctly? Alan Minimal example (see also attached pdf): \definetextbackground [example] [location=paragraph, background=color,backgroundscreen=middlegray, leftoffset=0.5cm,rightoffset=0.5cm, topoffset=.25ex,bottomoffset=.25ex, before={\blank[small]\switchtobodyfont[script]}, after={\blank[small]}, frame=off] \starttext \input tufte\footnote{Do we ever get tired of this text?}\par \dorecurse{3} {\input tufte\par} \startexample \input knuth \stopexample \input tufte \stoptext

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Clipping of text (or something equivalent)
by Erik Margraf 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi all, I'd like to achieve in context something like I did in the attachment (context.pdf). My idea was (and that's the way how I did this in Inkscape): - Create Text - Double the text - Clip one for the upper half, clip the other for the lower half - Connect the two halves. My (probably naive) approach to clipping text in context was: ----- \starttext \startuniqueMPgraphic{context} draw btex \bf Context etex xyscaled (4.0, 4.0) withcolor .8white ; clip currentpicture to unitsquare; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \null\dontcomplain \uniqueMPgraphic{context} ----- (Without the "clip" - line, the string "Context" is displayed. With clipping, nothing is displayed.) Any hint in the right direction towards clipping or maybe a better way to achieve this is appreciated. Thanks Erik

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referenceformat MkIV
by Yury G. Kudryashov 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi! I try the following: \definereferenceformat[ineq][left=(,right=),text=Equation] \starttext \placeformula[first] \startformula 2=2 \stopformula In \in[first] ineq \ineq[first] in \in[first]. \stoptext The result is: 2 = 2 (1) In 1 ineq (1) in (1). It seems that \ineq doesn't clear some variables, and the next \in uses the previous format.

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Script to automatically generate typescripts
by Michael Murphy 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi all, after spending many hours on a typescript only to accidentally delete it, I thought that there should be a better way to write them. Hence I wrote a python script to do just that. It started out as a private project, but I thought that since it might be useful to others, I'd make it available publicly. You can get hold of it here: http://github.com/murphy-md/otftsmrk Note that it currently only works on Adobe .otf fonts (and this likely won't change), and that you need to be using LuaTeX with MkIV, since I don't do any of the encoding stuff. Please send me bug reports / feature requests if you use it! -- Michael Murphy

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git repo is not updated?
by Marius 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hello, I see that context minimals is at 2010-06-05 version, hovewer git repo [1] is last updated on 2010-05-29. http://contextgarden.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/news-from-the-git-repository/ Marius

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Cyrillic in Mark IV
by Yury G. Kudryashov 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi! How can I typeset Russian in Mark IV? None of the examples from wiki work. I found "TeXGyre and (no) Cyrillic" thread, but there are no instructions, just "Cyrillic doesn't work with TeXGyre anymore".

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