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pdfs with boxes instead of letters
by Michael Green 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

When I open the pdfs that I make with ConTeXt (II or IV), I often see x'd out boxes instead of letters. I'm writing in the hopes that someone has some ideas about what I might do. Here is some more specific information about what happens 1. I have posted a jpeg of a representative page: http://carneades.pomona.edu/test/badpdf.jpg 2. The problem comes up when the pdf viewer is either Apple's Preview or Skim (which, as I understand it, uses the same basic code). This happens on machines with both OSX 10.4 PPC and 10.5 Intel. 3. It happens with a wide variety of fonts. 4. When opened with one of Adobe's pdf readers (Adobe Reader, Acrobat Pro), the file always looks fine. 5. Opening and closing the file can make the problem parts change. So, for instance, opening and closing the file can make it so that roman letters show while italic letters are crossed boxes or vice versa. Usually, if I do this enough, I can get to a normal view with all letters looking like letters. 6. It started happening in the spring. (I've been hoping it would go away in the normal course of ConTeXt changes.) One obvious answer is just to use Adobe's software. That won't work for me because those programs cannot successfully send a file to either of the printers I have available here. (They also don't automatically update when a file changes, which is a nuisance.) So I have a dilemma. If I want to print, I have to use the Apple and Apple-derived software. If I want to see letters, I have to use the Adobe software. But I cannot do both. I doubt this is a ConTeXt specific problem, but hope there might be a solution through ConTeXt. More generally, I would be terrifically grateful for any ideas about what to do. Thank you for your time. Michael

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Re: [NTG-context] NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] Luatex 0.44.0 announcement
by Michael Green 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

On Oct 28, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:40:54 +0100 > From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] Luatex 0.44.0 announcement > Message-ID: > <6faad9f00910281440w4077606bk71a0de0d8fc2363a(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have just uploaded the archives for a new luatex release, 0.44.0. > > Is there any Mac Tiger volunteer willing to test if binaries compiled > on Snow Leopard work on Tiger? (No binaries are in minimals yet; I > need some volunteer to test first.) > > (In case there is no volunteer, we'll target the binaries for > Leopard.) > > Mojca > I'm willing. I even think I'm able, assuming the testing isn't very extensive. mjg

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presentation (simple-slides?) master-like feature?
by Bruce 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

I've been gravitating to a presentation system where I author presentations in markdown, and then convert them to an HTML-based system that results in examples like this: http://www.users.muohio.edu/darcusb/s6test/test.html This allows me to focus on content, but very quickly create high-quality slides. So I have a kind of default representation of a slide, but I also have a couple of CSS classes that I attach (via XSLT) to individual slides depending on the content. For example, if I have a title without any other text content, then I attach a "title" class to the slide, which renders the title larger, and vertical-centered on the page. If there's a single image, I attach a "imgbig" class, which floats the image to the background, and enlarges it to fill the slide. I would like to be able to do the same with PDF using ConTeXt, ideally using simple-slides. I know some styles have similar parameter options for things like image placement, but I'm not seeing anything equivalent for titles. Is this possible to add? Bruce

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manuals
by Hans Hagen 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, On the website we now have tagged manuals as: - all -> mkii and mkiv - mkii -> written with mkii in mind, so not always optimal for mkiv - mkiv -> written with mkiv in mind, so mostly not optimal for mkii - obsolete -> (partially) obsolete or in need of an update This is visible in show-man.* and the pages that describe the manuals. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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filter contents of xml elements
by Jelle Huisman 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi all, First of all a big thank you to Hans for MkIV xml support which is so much easier to understand than the MKII based method (or is that just me?) Anyway, I'm processing a rather messy html file and I would like to do some conditional processing based on the actual content of the element. See example below: I have linked <h3> with \subject but I would like to drop this element if the content of the element matches 'Skip title'. Any hints? Thanks! Jelle \startbuffer[test] <html> <h3>Title 1</h3> <p>Hello world.</p> <h3>Skip title</h3> <p>Hello world!</p> <h3>Title 2</h3> <p>Hello world?</p> <h3>Title 3</h3> <p>Hello :-)</p> </html> \stopbuffer \startxmlsetups xml:setups \xmlsetsetup{main}{html|h3|p}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:setups} \startxmlsetups xml:html \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:h3 \subject{\xmlflush{#1}} % but drop this if content of element is 'Skip Title' \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:p \xmlflush{#1}\par \stopxmlsetups \starttext \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{test}{} \stoptext Expected outcome: Title 1 Hello world. Hello world! Title 2 Hello world? Title 3 Hello :-)

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Operator symbols ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, hopefully the four symbols that should come next are still in your email: ¬ ∨ ∧ ≡ I assume they are called conjunction, disjunction, negation and equals (with three lines). Does anybody know how to set them in (con)tex? Thanks Steffen

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New current context
by Taco Hoekwater 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, Some (most?) of you will have noticed this already, but just in case: Hans released a new current context yesterday. This is mostly a bugfix/ catchup release for mkiv functionality, but there are also a few other bugfixes. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2009.10.27 for details. Best wishes, Taco

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figurelibrary broken (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, I just noticed that figurelib is broken again. MTXrun | current version: 2009.10.27 16:35 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.44.0-2009102808 Test file is contexttest/tex/context/base/x-res-00.tex/test-001.tex Best wishes, Peter

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ConTeXt MKIV - vertical titles in bibliography
by dr. joel mendoza y carpio 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

good day! been trying to come up with a modified bibliography style file based on bibl-apa.tex but i just can't seem to make both the article and book titles vertical in the bibliography output of /placepublications. i tried to remove the \it following the \bgroup commands in the bibl- file to no avail. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks. joel mendoza

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ams font symbols
by Martin Scholz 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi List, does anybody of you know if there is context package/module that provides the usability of AMS symbols like \subsetneq or \subsetneqq? or is the only way to define every symbol by hand manually in the form of \mathchardef\subsetneq=#### Thanks for your help Martin

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