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narrow space in "\ldots."
by Ryo Furue 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hello ConTeXt folks, I'm quite new to ConTeXt. I like it. It's way more systematic than LaTeX. Here's my first question. When omitting the last part of a sentence, I want four periods: This is a long sentence which\ldots. LaTeX produces equally-spaced four periods, but with ConTeXt, the last space is narrower than the preceding two. (See examples below.) I guess that LaTeX specifically designed its \ldots with this use (sentence-ending four dots) in mind. How can one fix it in ConTeXt? I use the "context" package version 2008.05.21-1 on Debian testing. The LaTeX is from the texlive-latex packages. Cheers, Ryo ================================ %--- ConTeXt version ---------- \starttext Hello\ldots. World.\ldots \stoptext %--- LaTeX version ------ \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hello\ldots. World.\ldots \end{document}

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beta (11.05.2009): js interaction
by Peter Rolf 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, some problems with js interaction stuff. I get ! Undefined control sequence. \dopresetfieldsymbol #1->\checkobjectreferences for nearly all interaction fields in mkiv. Mkii compiles, but the pop-up tooltip is only a black box (not the text 'tooltip'). I also had some problems with PDF layer in mkiv (corrupt pdf with older betas; will investigate after this one is fixed). *Not urgent at all.* Minimal example: ---------------- \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext Just a \tooltip{test}{tooltip}. \stoptext Time for some good news. There is nearly nothing left, that I have not tested (well, most is MP related). No further problems here (luatex0.40.1, mpost1.2). And hex colors in mkii work again :) Best wishes, Peter

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Two issues related to xetex
by Yue Wang 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, Hans and Mojca: first, (to Mojca) the first-setup.sh script still deletes fontconfig cache when updating on windows. second, (to Hans) unicode-letters.tex is read when we dump plain TeX or LaTeX format in TeXLive. This file is wrote by Jonathan Kew in order to initialize XeTeX. It defines many important unicode properties into XeTeX. However, ConTeXt do not load that file when dumping the xetex format. The file is not even in ConTeXt distribution. I suggest that the file should be loaded. You can find the file in http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/TRUNK/texmf/tex/generic/xetex/unico… XeTeX's plain TeX ini file can be find in http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/TRUNK/texmf/tex/xetex/config/xetex.… If the file is not loaded, thousands of lines should be copied to third party modules (like the module I announce on the mailing list today) in order to support some language correctly. This method is quite messy, not to say inefficient for loading. Yue Wang

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MKIV: Problem with localfootnotes
by jm 11 May '09

11 May '09

good day to all! i have been using MKIV to typeset a scientific article. however, while typesetting the table below, i notice that only the second footnote would appear in the pdf file. can anyone help me figure out what i did wrong? for what it's worth, i am typesetting this table with linenumbering in the background. \setupcaptions[location=top] \startlocalfootnotes \placetable[here]{Segregation pattern for pollen fertility restoration involving IR73328A and IR73330-83-1-2R.} \placelegend {\starttable[|c|c|c|c|c|] \HL \NC \Lower(0.5\lineheight){\bf{CROSS}} \NC \Use{2}[c]{\bf{NUMBER OF PLANTS}} \NC \Lower(0.5\lineheight){ \bf{\chi{\lohi{calc}{2}}}} \NC \bf{PROBABILITY} \NC \AR \DC \DL[2] \DC \DC \DR \NC \NC \bf{Sterile}\footnote[1]{Sterile = <5\% pollen fertility} \NC \bf{Fertile}\footnote[2]{Fertile = >5\% pollen fertility} \NC \NC \bf{(Expected Ratio)} \NC \AR \HL \stoptable} {\placelocalfootnotes} \stoplocalfootnotes Thanks so much! joel mendoza

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New module t-zhspacing
by Yue Wang 11 May '09

11 May '09

Dear list: Chinese TeX Society is proud to announce the t-zhspacing module to the ConTeXt society. The module is developed by Yue Wang based on Yin Dian's zhspacing.sty macro package and Jonathan Kew's unicode-letters.tex + xetex interchartoks mechanism. It is designed for the audience who interested perfect Chinese typesetting using ConTeXt and XeTeX. It handles Chinese font loading, switching, line breaking, and punctuation compression rules quite well. Moreover, since the freetype's performance is much better than fontforge's on large cjk fonts, so the document compilation can be much faster. Users are free to visit http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit/, and the code is in svn (the trunk/zhspacing directory) now. Last but not least, we should thank Hans and Wolfgang since they help us a lot to make the module possible :) Yue Wang

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\newcommand ala ConTeXt
by Xan 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, In latex is wonderful be able to make abreviatures like: \newcommand{\dist}[1]{d(\sigma_g(#1), \sigma_h(#1))} and use like $\dist{t}$, ... for not typing all the text. What is the ConTeXt version of that? Please CC mail me. Thanks a lot, Xan.

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Font switching question
by Yue Wang 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, Hans: I am working on Chinese support on XeTeX/ConTeXt and I almost finished that. I will later upload a module called t-zhspacing to the garden (or CTAN?). But there is one last problem. Let me explain like this. Suppost I have two typescripts (typeA and typeB) and both with complete typeface defined (rm/ss/tt, bf/it/bfit/smcp....) Now I want to do something like this: \usetypescript[typeA] \usetypescript[typeB] \setupbodyfont[typeA] This should be typeA/rm/normal \it and this should be typeA/rm/it \ss and this should be typeA/ss/it %here everything is ok in context \typeB this should be typeB/ss/it %(but context gives me typeB/rm/normal. How can I automatically get what I want?) Yue Wang

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beta (11.05.2009): hex colors in mkii
by Peter Rolf 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, hex colors don't work anymore in mkii (no problems in mkiv). All I get is black (reminds me of a song by the Rolling Stones)... I see a red door and I want it painted black No colors anymore I want them to turn black ... Minimal example: ---------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \setupcolor[hex] % load hex color module \definecolor[hextest][h=00FF00] \starttext \startMPcode fill unitsquare xyscaled(5cm,5cm) withcolor \MPcolor{hextest}; \stopMPcode \stoptext Dammit, now that song is in my head... ;) Best wishes, Peter

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Chapter number in right margin?
by Corsair 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi all, I'm typesetting a double-sided document. And I want the chapter numbers to be in the right margin, while the chapter titles remain in the main text area. So I write \def\MyChapter#1#2 {\inright{#1} #2} \setuphead [chapter] [command=\MyChapter] But it renders such that all the chapter numbers disappear while chapter titles seem normal. Any idea? Corsair Sun -- There is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no death; there is the Force.

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beta (2009-05-11)
by Peter Rolf 11 May '09

11 May '09

Hi, there are still some problems with footnotes and overprinting. I have reactivated the old (sorry, non minimal) example for that. But for three problems it is pretty short :) 1. the footnote uses '1' instead of the chosen '*' (set 1) 2. the footnote marker is not bound to the footnote text (only the text is moved right) 3. the problem with the undefined \PDFobjectreferenceB occurs again, if overprinting is used (see different versions of \NoteNumber and \MyFootnote) One additional note to 3.) I have to enable overprinting for both the marker and the text to get the desired result (all should be overprinted). Is this intended? Peter %\def\NoteNumber#1{\hbox to 15pt{\hfill\black \dostartoverprint#1\dostopoverprint}} \def\NoteNumber#1{\hbox to 15pt{\hfill\black #1}} \setupfootnotes [bodyfont=6pt, textcolor=black, before=,after=, rule=off, conversion={set 1}, % distance=-2em, margindistance=-2em, numbercommand=\NoteNumber] %\def\MyFootnote#1{\footnote{\hskip3em \dostartoverprint#1\dostopoverprint}} \def\MyFootnote#1{\footnote{\hskip3em #1}} \starttext \startlocalfootnotes \vbox\bgroup\hsize=78mm\dontcomplain \startitemize[4] \item die Ausgabe erfolgt als PDF/X-4p\MyFootnote{ISO 15930-7:2008} \stopitemize \egroup \stoplocalfootnotes \moveright70mm\hbox{\placelocalfootnotes} \stoptext

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