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stack overflow
by Michael Saunders 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Thank you, Taco. I'm still going over the font docs. Today: \starttext test \stoptext results in: mtxrun.lua:2167: stack overflow It worked yesterday.

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Dezimalkomma
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hallo, if I write $0,8$ the distance between the ',' and the '8' is too big. I can write $0,\!8$ or an other kern, but I don't see how I can write a macro to avoid the extra effort. Shouldn't be this gap in german (\mainlanguage[deo]) as big as $0.8$ in US? Is there a switch I have overseen? ------------------------------------------- \mainlanguage[deo] \starttext $0,8$ $0.8$ $0,\!8$ \stoptext ------------------------------------------- Thank you Wolfgang

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underbar/underbars interchanged?
by Hans van der Meer 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

In the (old) ConTeXT manual one finds for \underbar{} an example giving underlining of its whole argument. In contrast \underbars{} should not underline the spaces, as demonstrated by the example given. However, the actual behaviour seems just the opposite. Or has the role of these macros changed in the meantime? The wording (singular versus plural) indicates to me the opposite of the behaviour shown. By the way, quoting breaks the underline flow! A minimal example: \starttext \underbar{These words are done with \quote{underbar}}\crlf \underbars{These words are done with \quote{underbars}}\crlf \stoptext result: ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.02 12:34 MKIV fmt: 2010.3.8 int: english/english Hans van der Meer

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Math setups
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hello Wolfgand and other ConTeXties, You are welcome to watch and expand new wiki page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math_setups Vyatcheslav > \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=yes]

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About Thomas Schmitz My Way
by Otared Kavian 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Dear Thomas, Many thanks for your My Way about « Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source »: first of all I must say that you are « un grand pédagogue »! Thanks to you, I dared to begin to learn how to use the same file on the web and as a ConTeXt source, and had a look to the manual written by Hans, xml-mkiv.pdf, which is indeed great, like all other manuals written by him. (By the way, without participating to the thread on ConTeXt documentation, when I was reading Hans' manual on xml-mkiv, I noticed that only on my computer there are more than 80 different manuals, ranging from manuals for beginners to high level documentation for experts... For all everyday matters these manuals contain what I, or an ordinary user, may need). Regarding the tutorial you have written, although the typo may be corrected by any cautious reader, I think that, on page 2, lines 5 and 6 of your My Way it should be </body> </html> I don't know whether the following observation is correct or not: I had to add at the beginning of the file « ourenvironment.tex » which must contain the xml setups, the command \startenvironment ourenvironment and at the end of that file: \stopenvironment before being able to get what you describe. The curious thing is that even when I didn't add \startenvironment ourenvironment but I did add \stopenvironment the xml file was processed by ConTeXt. For beginners like me, I think this should be said clearly somewhere. Also, in order to have a better PDF in your examples, at some point I understood that in order to have appropriate white space between paragraphs and tables one could, or should, add the tag for preformatted text: <pre> </pre> and transform it into \blank by ConTeXt. To this end one has to add the tag pre to \xmlsetup: \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{html|body|h1|h2|p|em|q|b|table|tr|th|td|pre}{xml:*} and then \startxmlsetups xml:pre \xmlflush{#1}\blank[big] \stopxmlsetups to the environment. Finally a qusetion: is there a way to obtain an xml file from a rather simple TeX source, written with ConTeXt commands? Here by simple I mean something which contains text and math formulas, such as a list of problems and exercises. Best regards: OK

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problem with mp-form.mp while updating minimals
by Jelle Huisman 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi all, I'm updating my ConTeXt (minimals) installation (on Linux-64) and get this error: (/home/jelle/context/tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mp-form.mp ! I can't find file `string'. l.81 input string Please type another input file name: Eventually I did Ctrl-C, but both ConTeXt and MetaPost seem to work, so... (I also installed the minimals from scratch, but get the same error.) Jelle

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bibtex problems
by Tom 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

I am now trying to create a bibliography database and have, I think, followed the documentation but to no good result. Myfile.tex contains the following: \setupbibtex[database=myfile] \starttex \startpublication ... \stoppublication \stoptext texexec --once myfile processes myfile then returns "no ctx file found" and ends with "nothing to process" What am I missing? Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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smaller-bigger fontsize
by Hans van der Meer 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

ConTeXt fontsizing has \tx to make the current font style one step smaller, then another \txx does that again. For makeing the size bigger I cannot see anything other than the series \tfa \tfb \tfc \tfd. It would however be nice to also have a similar cumulative effect here. Can there be something like "\tsmall" available to reduce the font size one step (to a certain minimum, not just \tx\tx = \txx)? And similar \tbig to enlarge the font size one step? It will make the equivalent of HTML's <small> and <big> tags easy to implement for typesetting my xml data. Or are there already such things? Hans van der Meer

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Problem with „kpathsearch510.dll“
by Helmut Schwertner 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hello, I'm using contextminimals with win7 64bit. Since a few days i get the following two messages when I try to update or to do a new install of contextminimals. The message (error report) for two times is: pdftex.exe – Einsprungpunkt nicht gefunden Der Prozedureinsprungpunkt „sfseek64“ wurde in der DLL „kpathsearch510.dll“ nicht gefunden. Sorry, I'm not able to translate this. Context (mkiv) is working ; texexec (mkii) is broken. What can I do? Thanks, Helmut helmut.schwertner(at)gmx.de

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xml content and tweaked pdf output
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi, very carefully I am trying to make first steps towards XML and ConTeXt (with MkIV). Thus, I have enjoyed reading Thomas' MyWay "Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source": I only kept wondering, how to keep control over the pdf-Output in terms of fine-tuning the actual typesetting? A quick search in the archive gave me the answer that is attached below: by using XMLentities. But coming back to Thomas' issue "Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source": What about the other branch, getting web content? Doesn't the XML source gets "spoiled" by these inserted XMLentities that only make sense when following the pdf-Output branch? Or will these XMLentities be silently ignored when feeding the XML source in a CMS system or processing further to web content? Apologies for asking such basic questions... Any help or tips to deal with this hybrid will be greatly appreciated Steffen Am 13.04.2008 um 11:54 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: >> Hi gang, >> >> speaking of xml... I have two easy questions, but can't find an >> answer. It's about tweaking the pdf-output I get: >> >> 1. How do you add an additional hyphenation to a word? How would I >> enter the equivalent of super\-duper in an xml-file? I tried >> super&addhyphen;duper with this definition: >> \defineXMLentity[addhyphen]{\-} >> >> in my environment, but this doesn't seem to work. > > Needs an example file, because > > \defineXMLentity[addhyphen]{\-} > \starttext > \hsize 1in > \startXMLdata > I tried super&addhyphen;duper > \stopXMLdata > \stoptext > > works in both mkii and mkiv. > > >> 2. Similar question: how to prevent an unwanted ligature, esp. in >> German? In TeX, I write Kauf{}laden. What would be a good way to do >> this in xml? I was thinking of Kauf&nolig;laden and >> \defineXMLentity[nolig]{\kern0pt} > > That should work, but probably better is: > \defineXMLentity[nolig]{\prewordbreak\kern0pt\postwordbreak} > because the \kern will disable hyphenation, otherwise. > > In mkii, just > \defineXMLentity[nolig]{{}} > also works (but not in mkiv, and that is a feature). > > Best wishes, > Taco > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________

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