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[OT] Web based LaTeX editor for Google Docs
by Mojca Miklavec 08 May '10

08 May '10

http://code.google.com/p/latex-lab/ (someone needs to post some OT post every now and then when Luigi is busy)

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mp clippath broken (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hi, the latest version (06-05-2010) has problems with mp clippath. Example is attached. Best wishes, Peter ps: Believe it or not, but all leftovers of cuts are recycled/reused here for other graphics. I hate squandering ;)

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sort-lan.lua nitpicks and sorting
by Philipp Gesang 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hi again, 1. In sort-lan.lua, line 101 should read «['r'] = "r"», and line 144 «['r'] = 26, -- r». 2. Although I read the disclaimer about said file being “preliminary and incomplete” -- is there some rationale behind the range of integers for each language mapping? The mapping for English goes from 1 to 51, interleaving 2 integers for each letter (which is odd because it should start from index 3 with “a”, shouldn't it?), while the Czech one goes from 1 to 40 without skipping, Finnish and Austrian from 1 to 58. What about mapping them onto a larger but common scale that would alleviate multilingual sorting so that the alphabetical representation of the phoneme /a/ maps to the same value over different languages?† E.g. ["a"] = 3, -- in a Latin mapping, ["α"] = 3, -- in Greek mapping, ["а"] = 3, -- in a Russian mapping. 3. Is it intended that the digraph “ch” resolves (temporarily) to http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff01/index.htm according to line 72? Feel free to state more general opinions on the sorting topic as I am playing with different ways of sorting my bibliography. I will be glad about any advice, Philipp † I know this is impractical for many writing systems and even within the set of Latin or Greek based alphabets it largely depends on a given purpose how much precision you need in sorting. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Running standalone metapost file omits spaces between btex and etex
by Hongwen Qiu 07 May '10

07 May '10

I found that the following example \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw btex some text with space etex; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext can generate the text between "btex" and "etex" correct no matter I use MKII or MKIV. But, when I running the following example beginfig(0); draw btex some text with space etex; endfig; end with the command line: $ mpost --mem=metafun test.mp or $ texexec --mptex test.mp It dose generate output. But the output omits all the spaces between btex and etex, with the resulting string to be "sometextwithspace". So, the question is how to get the correct results when running standalong metapost file with btex-etex strings. Thanks.

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register confusion
by Michael Saunders 07 May '10

07 May '10

Finding simple \at[] statements inadequate for glossaries (where there might be zero, one, or several page references per entry), I'm experimenting with registers, but I'm not getting the expected results: \defineregister[glind][glinds] \setupregister[glind][style=\it] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext double\glind[double]{} \page single\glind[single]{} \page double\glind[double]{} \page single should read, '2': (p.\placeglind[single]) double should read, '1, 3': (pp.\placeglind[double]) zero should be blank: (\placeglind[zero]) \stoptext Note the problems: 1. \placeglind[label] doesn't point to the label, it points to any label. 2. Context forces a linebreak before and after the numbers. 3. The numbers aren't italic. Also, it would be nice to set 'p.', 'pp.', or nothing automatically, depending on whether there was one, several or zero instances of the label in the text. Is register not the mechanism to do this? If not, I don't know what is.

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PPCHTEX with PSTricks option
by Helge Kruse 07 May '10

07 May '10

The minimal example shows diagonal lines. Since the line output of pictex is limited, I would choose PSTricks as output driver for better quality. When I enable the pstricks option, these diagonal lines collide with the radical atoms. You can easily reproduce this by removing the % comment symbol. How can we improve the postscript output. Any hints are appreciated. Best regards, Helge Kruse \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage%[pstricks] {m-ch-en} \begin{document} \setupchemical[scale=small,width=fit,frame=off] \setupchemical[top=1200,bottom=1200] \[ \startchemical[right=2500] \chemical[ONE,SB258,Z05][CH,CH_3] \chemical[PB:Z2,Z0,SB1,Z1,PE][ O,C_2H_5] \chemical[PB:Z8,Z0,SB1,Z1,PE][ O,C_2H_5] \stopchemical \] \end{document} PS: I wrote this to ntg-ppchtes(a)ntg.nl as sussgested at http://www.pragma-ade.com/link-1.htm, but that list appears as dead.

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\installlanguage questions
by Tomáš Pustelník 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hello, I have few questions about command \installlanguage. First, in file lang-ini is command \setuplanguage for default language. It has parameters lefthyphen, righthyphen and hyphen. I would like to ask if these parameters can be used in command \installlanguage or not and what is their funcionality becouse I have tried use command: \setuplanguage[cz][lefthyphen=@,righthyphen=@,hyphen=€] and I didn't see any changes. I thought it's used to setup hyphen mark when the word is spilt at the end of line but I still get symbol - Also I would like to know whats the difference in \date and parameter date in \installlanguage? In parameter date in \installlanguage are curly backets, it's just some mask for command \date? Or those two are entirely different? Thank you answers. Tomas Pustelnik

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Article titles not capitalized in bibliography
by Tom 06 May '10

06 May '10

Book titles retain proper capitalization from the .bib file but articles from periodicals do not. Only the first word of an article title is capitalized in the .bbl file. Even proper names in titles lose their capitalization. Is there an option that needs to be set to cause article titles to retain proper capitalization? MKII Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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new issue with page break
by Peter Münster 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hello, IMHO there should never be a page break right *after* a section header, but here it is: \starttext \dorecurse{660}{text } \section{bla} % \par\page[no] % does not help \startTEX bla bla \stopTEX \stoptext My actual work-around: \page before \section{} Is there a better solution? TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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4th ConTeXt Meeting, registration & call for submissions
by Taco Hoekwater 06 May '10

06 May '10

Early-bird registration (till May 31, 2010) for the 4th ConTeXt Meeting is now open. The 4th ConTeXt Meeting will take place in Brejlov, Czech Republic on September 13-18, 2010. For more information visit: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2010/ *Call for submissions* As in previous years, anything at all related to ConTeXt and LuaTeX that you would like to share is an acceptable subject for a presentation, tutorial, discussion, Q&A session, demonstration, workshop, recital, sketch, or sermon. The informal theme is: ConTeXt typesetting documentation, teach as we preach It follows that if you have something to say on educating users on how to best use ConTeXt or to developers on how to best document ConTeXt (and who doesn't have an opinion on those topics!) your submission will be all the more appreciated. The program committee is Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater, feel free to email them with hints and ideas. Because we want something interesting on the website, abstracts should be sent in before May 31, 2010. Hans, Jano, Pavel & Taco The organizing committee

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