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Flow Charts
by Alfredo Catalina 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

I find the chart module great, it provides good results when typesetting flow charts in many cases. However, sometimes when defining connection lines the automatic routing feature is not able to find an optimal route and lines intersect. I was wondering if there is an alternate way to define a particular path for a specific connection. Instead of letting the module doing that connection I would rather let it undefined and use some metapost commands to do it. Is there an easy way to do it keeping the lines and arrows setup?. Thanks!

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Bug with "Adobe Arabic" font kerning
by Khaled Hosny 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

The font seems to have a buggy (too big) GPOS kerning table (it does cause fontforge to hang writing the font). If 'kern' is set to 'yes', I get this error: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-inj.lua:62: attempt to index local 'kb' (a nil value) I had to put if..then around that line to suppress the error, may be some checks are needed for such broken fonts. P.S. The font is freely available as adobe reader font pack http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrasianfontpack.html Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?
by Yanrui Li 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

These days I have been reading "co-fonts.pdf" because I plan to write a document about ConTeXt MkIV for our Chinese users. When I reached the part of "Defining body fonts", for testing bodyfont model, I made an example as following: %%%% \definefontsynonym[Song][AdobeSongStd-Light] \definefontsynonym[Hei][AdobeHeitiStd-Regular] \definefontsynonym[FangSong][AdobeFangsongStd-Regular] \definefontsynonym[Kai][AdobeKaitiStd-Regular] \definebodyfont[12pt][rm] [tf=Song, bf=Hei sa 1, it=Kai sa 1, sl=FangSong sa 1] \setscript[hanzi] \setupbodyfont[rm,12pt] \starttext 今时之人不然也，以酒为浆，以妄为常， {\bf 醉以入房，以欲竭其精，以耗散其真}， {\it 不知持满，不时御神}， {\sl 务快其心，逆于生乐，起居无节，故半百而衰也}。 \stoptext %%%% I found that "rmtf" font is not "AdobeSongStd-Light", which is always "LMRoman12-Regular". However, "bf", "it" and "sl" fonts all are right. I looked over the log file and saw some messages as following: fonts : preloading latin modern fonts bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded I want to know why I can not override the preloading rm font. Thanks. -- Best wishes, Li Yanrui * Gentoo Linux (~x86) * ConTeXt Minimals Beta (2009.03.30 18:28)

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ConTeXt & color=red!40!yellow
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Hello, I might be dreaming already, but on last Tuesday (I don't know which version though) this code kept generating orange balls in ConTeXt MKII: \shade[ball color=red!40!yellow] (0,0) circle (.15cm); Now I get a black one. Has anything with respect to color handling mechanisms changed in ConTeXt MKII or TikZ recently? ConTeXt MKIV properly generates an orange ball (usually only mkiv fails, so I'm a bit confused now :). I'm using ConTeXt 2009.03.30 18:28 and TikZ 2009-04-03. Thanks, Mojca ------- \usemodule[tikz] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \tikz\shade[ball color=red!40!yellow] (0,0) circle (.15cm); \stoptext

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New module simpleslides
by Thomas A. Schmitz 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Dear list members, We're happy to announce the initial release of the simpleslides module. It has taken us somewhat longer than we anticipated, but now it's there! simpleslides is a module that facilitates the creation of presentations in ConTeXt. It provides a few macros to position titles, text, and images on slides, some typescripts to make use of LatinModern and the TeXGyre fonts, and a few pre-defined styles that should make your presentations visually appealing. We guarantee that this release is absolutely bug-free; whoever finds a bug has the inalienable right to buy us a beer at the next ConTeXt meeting! Seriously: we are aware that some things are not working as expected. Our biggest and most embarrassing problem for the time being is that the module refuses to work with XeTeX. Neither of us uses XeTeX on a regular basis, and we're not familiar with its innards, so we're at a loss here. If you can offer help, you will be most welcome! We would of course welcome feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions, etc., so download the module at http://modules.contextgarden.net/module/detail?name=simpleslides and give it a whirl! Aditya and Thomas

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Michael Wigston is out of the office. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Michael Wigston 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

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Perfect Mac OS X Installation?
by Markus Hubig 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Hi @all, i've done a fresh install of ConTeXt Minimals on my Mac OS X box. Now I like to put my setup steps into a small script so my brother can use it. It wold be nice if someone can give me some comments ... maybe I missed something, maybe I did something stupid! - Markus -------8<-------schnipp-- # Create the application folder mkdir /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/ # Download & Install the 'ConTeXt Minimals' distro cd /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/ curl -o first-setup.sh http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh sh ./first-setup.sh # Fix some path values inside setuptex cd /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex cp setuptex setuptex.orig sed -e 's#^export HOMETEXMF .*$#export HOMETEXMF = ~/texmf#g' \ -e 's#^export TEXMF .*$#export TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}#g' \ setuptex.orig > setuptex # Fix some path values inside texmf.cnf cd /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex mkdir -p texmf-local/web2c cp texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf texmf-local/web2c/texmf.orig cd texmf-local/web2c sed -e 's#^HOMETEXMF .*$#HOMETEXMF = ~/texmf#g' \ -e 's#^TEXMF .*$#TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}#g' \ texmf.orig > texmf.cnf # customize bash settings cd echo "source /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex" >> ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bash_profile # do some stuff ... ctxtools --update texexec --make --all --pdftex texexec --make --all --xetex luatools --generate luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-de luatools lmr12.afm context --generate -------8<-------schnapp-- -- -------------------"it's like this"------ even samurai have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk

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Arabic shaping
by Khaled Hosny 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Currently 'font-ota.lua' hard codes the Arabic shaping properties,and it doesn't seem to be complete (e.g. the ڤ as in أڤاست is not joined), I think such information belong to 'char-def.lua' and should be derived from UCD, which provide 'ArabicShaping.txt[1]', covering Arabic, Syriac and N'Ko scripts which all need the same shaping as Arabic. [1]http://unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/ArabicShaping.txt Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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\framed (and others) don't honor directional switches
by Khaled Hosny 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

framed, framedtext, TEXpage (and may be others), no longer honor directional switches. I'm sure TEXpage at least was OK a month ago. \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT\pardir TRT\textdir TRT \starttext \startTEXpage \input tufte \stopTEXpage \framed{Hello world} \startframedtext \input tufte \stopframedtext \startbackground \input tufte \stopbackground \stoptext Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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scratch commands, getparameters, blank, doattributes
by afsmith 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Can anyone please explain what is going on in... http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Document_Titles#In_ConTeXt:_A_more_advanced_s… (in case your browser does not redirect you to it as intended, I specifically mean the "A more advanced solution" section) If I know what's going on I'll gladly expand on the wiki's explanations to to make it more newbie-friendly

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