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MKIV doesn't support units module?
by Zhichu Chen 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Well, I shouldn't say the module units is not fully supported, but it won't give me what I want in MKIV. Those units it made are in italic shape but I really need them to be upright. I think I don't need to provide a test file, 'cause any files don't work for me. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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TOC with simpleslides
by Mohamed Bana 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hi all, is it possible to get a TOC with this module? my attempts so far just produce an empty 'Content' heading. thanks

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Axel
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hi all, Fontshop offers a new font made for Spreadsheet tables and offers it with a advertising price of 10€ (outside Germany 20€) till the end of June -> http://beta.fontshop.de/fontfamilylisting.htm?font.qsearch.fontname=Axel%20… To get a first glance at the font take a look at the attached example or test it only: http://www.typoberlin.de/blog/archives/1625 Wolfgang

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Put PDF viewer into "Single page layout mode"
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello, How to put PDF viewer into "Single page layout mode"? The information in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_startview is not sufficient. Best, Vyatcheslav

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t-lilypond.tex calls invalid lilypond command-line option
by Richard Chonak 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Greetings from a new user! When trying out lilypond from context for the first time yesterday, I found that t-lilypond.tex invokes lilypond with a command-line option "-b", which is not valid in lilypond 2.12. \def\LP{texmfstart --ifchanged=\lily!filename.tmp --exec bin:lilypond -b eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts \lily!filename.tmp} To illustrate the problem: I was using the "Starlight" sample on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond . Well, I wrapped the sample code in \starttext ... \stoptext . When I changed "-b eps" to "-dbackend=eps", lilypond executed successfully and I started getting proper results. (Though, please note, I had to delete the various temporary files produced in the unsuccessful attempts first.) Is this a known problem? Best wishes-- --Richard Chonak

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Re: [NTG-context] Lilypond module problem
by Henning Hraban Ramm 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Am 2009-06-02 um 16:01 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: >> MTXrun | file './lilytemp/lily1-lilypond-1.eps' is unchanged > > So you now create a subfolder called lilytemp? The name is even configurable. And I create another subfolder for the completed pictures. > I like the idea and > would be really glad to have a global feature to create some "context" > or "context-tmp" folder (or whatever) and put all the junk there ... > The same wheel needs to be reinvented in every single module. (I have > dozens of files lying in every single folder as well.) That's why I asked before, if there was some "tempdir" feature already in LuaTeX or ConTeXt. (I know there's io.tmpfile, but that's not useful here.) This "wheel" is really simple, and I guess it's better anyway to be able to use a different directory for each module, so I don't mind if it's re-implemented. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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nice link
by Hans Hagen 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

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asymptote support
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello, Just to let you know - thanks to John Bowman (Michail Vidiassov is also working on it) these are some latest posts from asymptote developers on their forum - if anyone would like to play with asymptote, feel free to test. I didn't take a look, but John Bowman says that he needed null.tex to get context into interactive mode for some reason. Any clue about that? Mojca PS: I really really have to avoid the temptation to get distracted in the next few days/weeks unless I find an excuse that I need to make 3D/movies for my reports (which is not so unlikely to happen after all :) I have converted asycolors.sty; if anyone wants to take a look at asymptote.sty feel free to take it over. I might come back to it, but not right now. My quick first impression is that it does something similar to t-gnuplot, t-r, t-vim, t-lilypond, etc., that is: it defines some high-level commands, writes a file, lets asymptote process it and then includes the resulting graphic back. PPS: Recent Asymptote logs say "Updates to facilitate TeXLive builds." Sounds promissing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Good news: After digesting the advice /.../, I have been able to implement full support for a context tex engine in 2D. First of all, with TeXLive 2008 it is necessary to configure both lua and context: luatools --generate context --make We also rely on the empty tex file misc/null.tex. Hopefully everyone has that. We use this to get into context interactive mode, for the tex pipe (phase 1 of Asymptote's 2-phase typesetting system): context misc/null This was a crucial trick that I did not see documented anywhere. I didn't like the need for the \hbox but I too could not find a way around this; it seems that context takes liberties with the vertical spacing (glue?) otherwise, in a seemingly unpredictable manner. I was able to work around the one problem that I could forsee, with \eject (newpage() in asy, for multipage output). Everything appears to be working: label clipping, minipage, and even functionshading. This was the benefit of using specials; once the high-level code was in place, all of the low-level support was ready to go. The only thing that I haven't tested is inlinetex mode with the context tex engine. Could someone please test this for me? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I checked that -inlinetex -tex context appears to be generating the right files. Now all that needs to be done is for someone familiar with context to port asymptote.sty to a context module. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I forgot to mention that context support is committed to svn and will be in 1.74 release (likely tomorrow). Regarding fonts, one can either use the low-level TeX \font way using fontcommand or, as the following contextfonts.asy example illustrates, the high-level way (see the definition of font in plain_pens.asy): settings.tex="context"; texpreamble("\usetypescript[iwona][ec]"); texpreamble("\usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][t5]"); label("$A$",0,N,font("iwona")); label("$A$",0,S,font("antykwa")+red); ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Cannot run Lilypond
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello, I gave a try to LiliPond today, but it doesn't work for me. 1) I've installed LilyPond 2.12.2 on Windows 2) Ran a simple example \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext There are some notes \lilypond{ \relative{bes a c b} } embedded in this line. \stoptext 3) And got dummy image What's wrong? Details are attached. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] Installation problem (was Updates without rsync)
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

>> All I've got to do now is get Scite working again :-( > Why not Emacs :) It's also quite nice for ConTeXt. > > P. I used Emacs when I was young and idealistic, but over the years all those keyboard commands have been beaten out of me and it's beyond me now ;-) I did try it again recently in a flood of nostalgia, but I just couldn't get to grips with it again. Scite is okay, and hitting F7 to build a document is handy. It's missing a few features, though, which would make it great e.g. a user-configurable toolbar, so that we could add toolbar icons for ConTeXt commands (I'm always forgetting the order of options and a button which inserted a \placefigure command with reminders would be fantastic). Anyway, that's a bit off topic. Regards, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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