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Error under Ubuntu Lnux
by Alain Delmotte 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hi! I installed Ubuntu 9.10 (in a VMWare Player under Windows) I also installed the minimals and TeXworks (in the ConTeXt tree). I run setuptex, TeXworks but then I get an error. Here information: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.50.0-2009122419 \write18 enabled. (/home/alain/Documents/context/premier.tex ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.30 18:56 MKIV fmt: 2010.4.1 int: english/english .../... For a simple source (created under Linux), here the source and the error: % a comment \starttext This is some text! \stoptext ------------------ .../... fonts : preloading latin modern fonts {/home/alain/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/home/alain/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map} bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active {/home/alain/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} systems : begin file untitled-1.tex at line 3 error: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spac-ver.lua:610: attempt to index field 'spec' (a nil value) . l.6 ? Process interrupted by user ------------------------------------ For a longer source (from Windows): fonts : preloading latin modern fonts {/home/alain/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/home/alain/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map} bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active {/home/alain/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} systems : begin file premier.tex at line 1 error: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spac-ver.lua:848: attempt to index local 'ps' (a nil value) . \dosomelistelement ...\relax \fi }\hss }}\endgraf \nointerlineskip \endgraf ... \dodolistelement ...ement {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue \processlistofstructure ...\fi \fi \fi \endcsname \ctxlua {structure.lists.p... l.1 \processlistofstructure{section}{section}{1} \placestructurelist ...ts.process("#1","#2","#3")} \doplacecombinedlist ...dlistparameter \c!number } \doendoflist \stoplistrefe... ... l.4 ? ---------------------------------- Any advice to solve this? Thanks, Alain

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The ConTeXt book
by Arthur Reutenauer 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hello, This is to inform you that's I've been commissioned by Hans and Taco to work on a manual for ConTeXt, under their supervision, during the next 12 months. After the recent discussions about documentation on this list, they have agreed that the lack of a complete manual was getting more and more serious, and they have decided to fix this by delegating this task. The project will be financed full-time by Pragma and Bittext, their respective companies, and we're seeking other sources that would allow us to pay another writer. Anyone volunteering on behalf of her / his company, or of her / his own initiative, please contact us! Over the next weeks I will collect opinions from users about their respective priorities, and what they (you!) think the book should look like. Cheers, Hans (pragma at wxs do nl) Taco (taco at elvenkind dot com) Arthur (arthur dot reutenauer at normalesup dot org)

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The ConTeXt book
by Michael Saunders 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Taco: >> Some feedback on the quality other than 'it sucks' would have helped >> enormously. ... > Over the past four years, it has been next to impossible to get people > interested in the reference manual project, not even for something as > simple as reading the rewritten chapters and telling me what they think > about it. ... > The near total lack of feedback had led me to believe that most > complainers are in it just for the complaining. I've been trying to be more constructive than saying 'it sucks'. I'm not complaining just to complain---I want to get the most I can out of the software. Please point me to a rewritten chapter you would like me to look at and I will give it a try.

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Metapost inclusion does not work
by Marco 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hi, the following example just prints »Hello World!«, without the square. What's wrong? \startuseMPgraphic{test} fill fullsquare scaled 5cm; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext Hello World! \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.20 22:59 MKIV this is luatex, version beta-0.50.0-2009122419 BTW: The same with luatex 0.52 Thanks in advance. marco

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Bibtex: how to make autohang work?
by Hubertus 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hello again, I'm using this setup for my bibliography: \setuppublications[alternative=apa, refcommand=short, autohang=yes, numbering=short, sorttype=bbl, criterium=cited] So the keys are sometimes 7 characters long and thus overwrite the actual bibliography. That's way I thought I should use "autohang=yes". Yet, there's not any change. Did I miss anything? Thanks for advice Hubertus

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footnote and hyphens splitting between pages
by Michael Saunders 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

>> Is there any way to prevent footnotes splitting between pages? ?I >> thought the undocumented key, 'split' might control this (who knows?), >> but it has no effect on anything. >> >> Also, is there any way to prevent hyphenation between pages? luigi scarso: > I'm completely ignorant about this subject. > Do you have a pathological example to test ? Consider a page of "Lorem ipsum dolor..." containing within its first half, a half-page long footnote of "Lorem ipsum dolor...". Context is likely to start the footnote on page one and continue it on page two. I want to forbid this. In the second case, imagine a very long book of "Lorem ipsum dolor...". There are likely to be occasions where a word is hyphenated at the very end of the page, splitting a word between two pages. I want to forbid this too.

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footnote and hyphens splitting between pages
by Michael Saunders 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Is there any way to prevent footnotes splitting between pages? I thought the undocumented key, 'split' might control this (who knows?), but it has no effect on anything. Also, is there any way to prevent hyphenation between pages?

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setuptex.bat
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hallo, I don't know if the maintainer of the minimals or Hans is the person I have to ask. Is it possible to change the line set PATH=%TEXMFOS%\bin;%PATH% to set PATH=%TEXMFLOCAL%\bin;%TEXMFOS%\bin;%PATH% or set PATH=%TEXMFPROJECT%\bin;%TEXMFOS%\bin;%PATH% in 'setuptex.bat'? Wolfgang

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standardmakeup environment didn't work in MKIV
by Hongwen Qiu 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hi all, standardmakeup didn't work in MKIV. When I used this environment, It complains: error: Invalid field id writable for node type glue_spec (0) . \stopmakeup ...ter \c!color }{\stopcolor }\egroup \flushmarks \doflushmakeup... l.3 \stopstandardmakeup So, is this something deprecated or just some unexpected things happened? And what I supposed to do if I want to get the same results?

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Multiple bibliographies (bib-module, mkiv)
by marfin 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Hello, I need two bibliographies for my document, »Primary sources« and »Secondary sources«. Two bibliographies was created and loaded with \setupbibtex[database={prim,sec}]. But for the last step in my intention I’m looking for something to the effect that \placepublications[database=prim] or in a similar manner to \nocite{*} for every bib-database. Is there any solution or workaround? Thanks Markus

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