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alpha release
by Hans Hagen 19 Jul '09

19 Jul '09

Hi I've put an alpha release on the website - no beta as mkiv needs the trunk version of luatex - a close to complete split in mkii/mkiv - cleaned up mkiv code - cleaned up mkiv backend (some pending issues) - some speedups in mkiv - a few fixes in mkii - updated mkiv typescripts (more to come) - fixes in mkiv structure this version is not replicated on the context garden as we run older luatex binaries there (0.45 release by the end of this month) you can unzip this file on your locla tree but best first rename the tex/context/base directory and make a fresh one as otherwise you end up with a weird mixture (due to the definitive split in .mkii/.mkiv there are not that many shared .tex files any more) on the upcoming tex live there will be an updated mkii (either this one or the current beta which is basically a current for mkii) and an old mkiv (maybe the beta) or a new one but that one will not run then with the luatex on texlive as it is too old; this is no big deal as you can either use the minimals or use the new updater in the upcoming tex live to fetch newer binaries (norbert and mojca showed that trickery at bachotek 2009) next on the mkiv agenda is an upgrade/rework of everything related to page building but it might as well be postponed till we have a bit more access (which will happen sometime after eurotex); the first priority is to get the new structure related code right but as idris is already publising books made by mkiv it's not that bad as it sounds. 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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figure can not be found error
by Tom 19 Jul '09

19 Jul '09

I am attempting for the first time to import a figure into a ConTeXt document and am getting "figure 0481c can not be found." I am using TexLive on a Windows Vista system. I thought I was following the manual but apparently am doing something wrong. Here is the relevant code: %file 0481c.tif is located in c:\BookLayouts\Wisconsin\photos \setupexternalfigures[directory={c:/BookLayouts/Wisconsin/photos}] \useexternalfigure[ladies][0481c][width=3.127in] %after \starttext \placefigure[left]{none}{\externalfigure[ladies]} Tom Benjey Tuxedo Press 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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context mkiv bug + related feature request + related question
by Yue Wang 19 Jul '09

19 Jul '09

Hi, Hans: bug report : here is the test file. (old version of mkiv produce right result. current mkii result is also right) It is a bug introduced in this/last month. The code is a stripped down version of http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Horizontal_Table_of_Contents (altough it doesn't show toc horizontally) \newcount\chapcounter \chapcounter=0 \def\tocchap#1#2#3{\advance\chapcounter by 1 #1 #2% \placelist[section][criterium=chapter,number=\chapcounter]} \starttext \placelist[chapter][alternative=command,command=\tocchap] \chapter{hello} \section{hello} \section{hello} \chapter{good} \section{good} \section{good} \chapter{bad} \section{bad} \section{bad} \stoptext feature request: btw, Hans, context should give an option to iterate through all the chapters/sections to do something tricky. using \chaptercounter is a really bad idea (the materials should follow strict rules, like cannot jump from chap 1 to chap 3). I think with mkiv it is able to achieve that. question: I want to show toc before each chapter, and the toc only shows the following chapter name in red. How can I do that? e.g. show the following before chapter 3 % A Page Chap1 sec 1 sec 2 sec 3 Chap2 sec 1 sec 2 sec 3 Chap 3 %in red sec 1 sec 2 sec 3 %in Red Chap4 sec 1 sec 2 sec 3 % Next Page Chapter 3 % title a lot of materials Yue Wang

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new current version
by Hans Hagen 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

Hi, I've uploaded a current release (so for a moment no beta and alpha). Last years current was dedicated to Mojca but as she's too busy to use the latest greatest shw probably won't even notice that there is a current apart from the fact that her garden will have problems. So, this years current (and there probably will be a few in succesion) is dedicated to Wolfgang who by now knows the source code better than I do. Also, his prompt and detailed answering of questions on the list saved me quite some mails gave me more time to work on MkIV. The MkIV code needs a luatex 0.42 which is released today (a next step towards 0.50 which will be released at eurotex) so you need to fetch a binary from the gforce repository, or hope that new binaries will blossom on the garden. Going current also gives Patrick the opportunity to see if the new git repository structure and synchronization works ok. 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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Re: [NTG-context] empty page - how?
by Aditya Mahajan 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Ciro Soto wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Aditya Mahajan<adityam(a)umich.edu> wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Ciro Soto wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I want each chapter to start on an odd number page, and the preceding >>> page to be totally empty (no header, >>> no footer). >>> >>> Before the \chapter command, I tried: >>> >>> \page[odd,blank] ... didn't work. I get the header and footer >>> \page[odd,empty] ... didn't work. I get an extra page (empty) >>> \page[odd,makeup] ... didn't work. I get the same as in the first case >>> >>> what is the combination I need to use? >> >> See >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Titles#Truly_empty_pagebreak_before_chapters > > it didn't work. I get the same "blank" page with header and footer. Please reply to the list so that others might also help... The following example works for me: \definepagebreak [mychapterpagebreak] [yes,header,footer,right] \setuphead [chapter] [page=mychapterpagebreak] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location={header,margin}] \setupheadertexts[{My special headertext}] \setupfootertexts[This is a text in the footer] \starttext \chapter{testA} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter{testB} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter{testC} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stoptext > I'll insert a blank page with pdftk. You should never have to resort to that. Aditya

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Two newbie questions about Texfont
by Harrie Frericks 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

Now that I finally have Context running I'm trying to install a number of type1 fonts. I've read the Texfont manual, but I couldn't find answers to these questions: 1. Can Texfont recursively process a font tree? I have a directory font tree like this: c:\fonts\type1\font-family1 c:\fonts\type1\font-family2 c:\fonts\type1\font-family3 each font-family subdirectory has a number of .afm files. If I set --sourcepath to c:\fonts\type1 can Texfont recurse all the subdirectories of the font families and locate and process the .afm files? 2. Can Texfont handle .afm files with extensions in uppercase? Most of my type1 font files are in uppercase like: XYZ_____.AFM I can only get Texfont to process these files if I first rename them to lowercase, like XYZ_____.AFM Thanks, Harrie.

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off topic: math symbols for latex
by Patrick Gundlach 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

Hi, this is a nice website where you can draw a symbol with your mouse and the site will tell you how you get the symbol in LaTeX. Again, LaTeX tries to be one step ahead... :) http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html (found on the Mac OS X TeX mailing list) Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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sections in mkiv
by Mojca Miklavec 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

Hello, out of curiosity I have tried the latest current. Is the command \setupheadnumber[section][6] now invalid on purpose or is there a simple way to fix it? One more problem: \setuphead[section][textstyle=\ss\bfc] % combined with numbercommand= \setuphead[subsection][style=\ss\bfb] \starttext \section{abcdef} \subsection{abcdef} \stoptext Subsection gets typeset with \bfc while in mkii it uses \bfb. Mojca

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Math symbols issue with context minimals distribution and
by Andrei Dragomir 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

I am using context minimals, with the simpleslides module to make a presentation. I noticed that when typesetting math formulas, I get missing characters. I finally tracked it down to an issue (stupidity from me?) with the "context" executable. I made a new file, with some example math markup, posted below ---------- \starttext And this is some maths with PostScript fonts. \startformula {a \over b} = {c \over d} \iff ad - bc = 0, \qquad \int_0^{2\pi}\!\!\! \sin^2(x)dx =\pi, \qquad {\rm e}^{{\rm i}\pi} + 1 = 0, \qquad \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}{1 \over k^2} = {\pi^2 \over 6}. \stopformula Some ligatures: ffi, ffl. \stoptext ----------- When running "context test_math.tex", in the output file I don't see the "\iff" symbol. When running "texexec test_math.tex", everything is working fine. Any help would be appreciated, and sorry if this is a stupid question. Thank you, Andrei Dragomir

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alpha: mplib broken?
by Peter Rolf 17 Jul '09

17 Jul '09

Hi, I just finished a first draft version of my adapted mp specials. Sadly no test run is possible, as mplib is broken here. I also tested with the untouched distribution, but every MP graphic (example attached) produces this error message: ----- This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.42.0-2009071600 (Web2C 2009) \write18 enabled. (mp.tex ConTeXt ver: 2009.07.15 21:49 MKIV fmt: 2009.7.16 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv)) system : cont-fil loaded (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) system : mp.top loaded (mp.top) fonts : preloading latin modern fonts (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.mkiv)) (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)) (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active color : system all is global activated systems : begin file mp at line 4 mplib : initializing instance 'metafun' using format 'metafun' mplib : loading 'metafun.mp' from 'r:/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/d0b787cd25b9175dc4eaa276af366360/formats/cont-en-metafun.mem' ! Emergency stop. <inserted text> ...ore.mp ; fi ; ;;;]===], false)} \processMPgraphic ...s ;\!!es , \MPaskedfigure )}} \egroup \global \MPinstanc... l.9 \stopMPcode ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!MTXrun | run 1: luatex --fmt="r:/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/d0b787cd25b9175dc4eaa276af366360/formats/cont-en" --lua="r:/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/d0b787cd25b9175dc4eaa276af366360/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend=pdf "./mp" MTXrun | fatal error, return code: 1 ----- No problems with mkii (tested some big example graphics). Best wishes, Peter \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumber[state=stop] \starttext \null \startMPcode fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red; \stopMPcode \stoptext

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