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updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
by Robert Blackstone 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Thank you, Mojca and Aditya, for your comments and advice. It will take me, being no virtuoso with Terminal, a while to figure out what exactly I have to do. It is in my script that I will again run into problems and then I will beg you to help me out again. Thank you, Hraban, for suggesting an easy way out: Use ConTeXt-Minimals, but also there I manage to run into problems, mainly with files and scripts that I can see in the finder but that are not found in Terminal, not even from their parent directory. Robert Blackstone

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request for testing linux binaries
by Mojca Miklavec 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hello, I would like to ask someone on any (ancient or not) linux distribution to test if the pdftex binary for linux works OK, just to let me know if I may continue using that machine to compile binaries for minimals. (I did not update luatex, metapost or xetex, so only pdftex binary should be affected.) OS X 10.4 issues will hopefully be resolved soon. (I need a few iterations to figure out which compiler switches are needed to make the binaries work on Tiger. I'll worry about Snow Leopard when first user starts complaining.) Mojca

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recurse bug?
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Dear gang, The following, using the latest beta, moves the last recurse to the next page: \setuplayout [lines=12] \starttext \pardir TRT \dorecurse{12}{This is a recursive line. \crlf} \stoptext so we get only 11 lines on page 1. Is this a bug? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Colors
by Lutz Haseloff 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi all, with the latest ConTeXt ver: 2009.03.29 13:28 MKIV and LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.37.0-2009032922 I can't get colored text: \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \starttext {\red red} {\green this is typeset in green} {\middlemagenta this is typeset in dark middlemagenta} \stoptext Greetings Lutz

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Re: [NTG-context] Making sure figures are placed within articles
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Thank you, Mike. Your advice is a bomb! I've only added \blank: before={\placefloats\blank} Regards, Vyatcheslav > I had that problem as well. You can use the command \placefloats to > force any floats that exist to be placed immediately. So to force the > floats to be placed within the section or subsection that they are > defined, I use the command: > > \setuphead[section] > [before={\placefloats}] > \setuphead[subsection] > [before={\placefloats}] > > Mike > >

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Alternating left and right margins
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hello How to setup the layout where each even page has right and left margins swapped (for booklet-like printing) E.g. if I have 1 cm right margin and 2cm left, second, forth and so on pages should have 2 cm right margin and 1cm left. My current layout is \setuppapersize [A5][A5] \setuplayout[topspace=1.5cm, header=0cm, footer=0.7cm, bottomspace=0.7cm, height=fit, leftmargin=1.5cm, rightmargin=1.5cm, backspace=1.5cm, width=fit] \showframe Best, Vyatcheslav

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Cannot turn big letters to small
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hello, I have heads typed in capital letters, but I want first letters of each word to be capitalized and the rest small. For example, I have \faculty{ФАКУЛЬТЕТ АЕРОКОСМІЧНИХ СИСТЕМ УПРАВЛІННЯ} but actually I need the result that would be produced by \faculty{Факультет Аерокосмічних Систем Управління } I have played a lot with \Word, \Words, \Cap, etc, but they don't work. Current \word command turns all letters to small, but this is not acceptable. \definehead[faculty][chapter] \setuphead [faculty][ incrementnumber=list, page=yes, number=no, align=right, style={\switchtobodyfont[impact]\bfb\word}] Best, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] Cannot turn big letters to small
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

> > > I have heads typed in capital letters, but I want first letters of each > > word to be capitalized and the rest small. > > > > For example, I have > > > > \faculty{BIG HEAD} > > > > but actually I need the result that would be produced by > > > > \faculty{Big Head} > > > > > > I have played a lot with \Word, \Words, \Cap, etc, but they don't work. > > Current \word command turns all letters to small, but this is not > > acceptable. > > > > \definehead[faculty][chapter] > > \setuphead [faculty][ > > incrementnumber=list, page=yes, number=no, align=right, > > style={\switchtobodyfont[impact]\bfb\word}] > > > mkii or mkiv? > Sure, mkiv. This is the only engine I use :) Vyatcheslav

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Making sure figures are placed within articles
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

Hello, I usually place figures in the end of the subsection, using the code: \placefigure [middle]{none}{\externalfigure[filyashkin-1.png][width=0.87\textwidth]} Quite often the figure does not fit the page, and is moved to the next one. Ocassionally, another subsection may start at the beginning of next page, so that my figure is placed inside wrong article. Can I setup \placefigure to move non-fitting figures not only forth, but also back within the subsection? In another words, to can I set up the criterium: place the figure no matter where, but inside the current subsection? Otherwise, it needs many manual corrections and re-compilations to get all figures within corresponding articles. I'd doing my first serious work with ConTeXt, so help me please. Best, Vyatcheslav

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updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)
by Robert Blackstone 30 Mar '09

30 Mar '09

In order to be able to use MkIV and Luatex I started, as a MacTeX-user, by updating ConTeXt (*MacTeX*<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=MacTeX&action=edit&redlink=1>: You need to update<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV#Updating_ConTeXt>ConTeXt first.), following instructions on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV#Updating_ConTeXt The command as given (copied and pasted in terminal) does not work: everything fails: Operation not permitted. Redoing it as Sudo does the job. But then: “luatools --generate” gives: -bash: /usr/texbin/luatools: Permission denied, “sudo luatools --generate” gives “luatools: command not found”. So I cd-ed to /usr/texbin, gave the command “sudo chmod 755 luatools” and then “luatools --generate” and got: LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.002 seconds But worst of all is that after all this I could not use MkII any more: Older files that before updating had been nicely typeset couldn’t be processed anymore: permission denied. I tried “sudo chmod 755” on texexec and on texmfstart but that did not help. So in the end I reinstalled MacTeX 2008 and I was back at where I started. The least one can say is that the updating instructions on contextgarden do not work in all circumstances. In all fairness, everybody is warned: “Note that this is a quick-and-dirty way to upgrade TL. Use at your own risk. One should be able to update in a more elegant way.” But now what? Lots of MacTeX-users must have successfully updated ConTeXt. Can anybody disclose a more elegant way that worked for them? Especially one that does not render the existing ConTeXt useless by meddling with permissions. Just for the sake of completeness, I use an Intel iMac under OSX 10.5.6. Thanks in advance, Robert Blackstone

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