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startup script stubs (for unix)
by frantisek holop 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

hello gang, after almost a year of traveling i am back. anybody missed me? :] thought so. i have made the openbsd installation of context on top of texexec3 wiki page on the context wiki because i frequently reinstall my notebook and start from scratch with all my software. i realize by now texlive is the new thing but before i make context minimal work on openbsd i still prefer to bring up to date context on the much less bloated base of tetex3. my biggest gripe at the moment always at the end the ruby scripts... but this is something that could be easily changed. i personally find the following instructions the most helpful: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation#Ruby_scripts at the moment, the directory /usr/local/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/stubs/unix/ contains a bunch of scripts that are nice but unusable because 1. they dont have the x bit set 2. most of them contain something like texmfstart somescript "$@" while texmfstart itself is not defined anywhere it would be really nice if these stubs could be just dropped as replacements for any current scripts and work out of the box. i am not sure my proposed solution is a good one, because frankly, except texexec i have never used any of the other scripts.. but looking at the afore-quoted wikipage it seems to me that the author favoured the approach of calling all the other sripts using texexec. the beauty of this is that no other scripts need to be installed. so what do you people think about the following approach: stub for texmfstart to be put under /usr/local/bin/texmfstart: #!/bin/sh ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` "$@" stub for texexe to be put under /usr/local/bin/texexec: #!/bin/sh SCRIPTNAME=`basename $0` if [ X"$SCRIPTNAME" = X"texexec" ]; then exec texmfstart texexec.rb "$@" else exec texmfstart $SCRIPTNAME "$@" fi and all the other script stubs could be removed i guess... -f -- good words cost no more than bad.

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Problem of space in font names
by Mehdi Omidali 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hi, I have noticed that luatex can not handle fonts with space in their names. I haven't had this problem in the past but now it happens in the latest context minimal both on windows and linux.

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centering & fit question
by Alan Stone 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Hello, In the underneath example, the only way I found to have everything horizontally and vertically centered in the text and margin header, as well as fit into the margin header, is as follows: \setuplayout[margin=3cm] \showframe \def\myText{% % \hfill some text \hfill} %\starthiding \framed[% width=\textwidth, height=\headerheight, align=middle, top=\vss, bottom=\vss, frame=off] {some text}} %\stophiding \def\myMarginText{% % \hfill this is some margin text \hfill} %\starthiding \framed[% width=\marginwidth, height=\headerheight, align=middle, top=\vss, bottom=\vss, frame=off] {this is some longer margin text}} %\stophiding \setuppagenumbering[location=footer] %\setupheader[% % before=\vss, % after=\vss] \setupheadertexts[text] [\myText] [\myText] \setupheadertexts[margin] [\myMarginText] [\myMarginText] \starttext test \stoptext What's the way to get the same result without using \framed and without making the margin wider ? Uncommenting what's commented in the code above centers everything ok, but the margin text doesn't fit. Thanks. -- Best, Alan * TeX engine = LuaTeX * ConTeXt minimals ver: 2009.01.18 14:39 MKIV fmt: 2009.1.22 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, Windows XP SP3 Home

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launchpad
by frantisek holop 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

hi there, i am just having my first look at launchpad for context and the external link has a typo in it right on the first page. it says http://minimals.contextgarde.net/ instead of http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ -f -- there are no esc keys on prison pcs.

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What is wrong with this flowchart
by Cecil Westerhof 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Based on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Flow_Charts I made a tex file and processed it. (See attachments.) But I do not get what I expect. I only get text, not the flowchart itself. What is going wrong here? The version of ConTeXt that I use is: ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2009.1.10 int: english/english The one delivered with openSUSE 11.1. -- Cecil Westerhof

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error on
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

HI! After updating I did(according to the wiki at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals ) After Installing section > ctxtools --update & > luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-uk cont-en Above commands failed with following error(the last lines in output): loading : Context Synchronization ) (/home/djsameman/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/math-pln.tex) (/home/djsameman/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/math-ini.mkiv ! LuaTeX error ...ontext/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/math-noa.lua:161: table index is nil stack traceback: ...ontext/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/math-noa.lua:161: in main chunk <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \ctxluabytecode ...de[#1] = nil end else end end } \registerctxluafile ...{\the \luabytecodecounter } \fi l.43 \registerctxluafile{math-noa}{1.001} ? What seems to be wrong? Running version MtxRun | current version: 2009.02.09 21:24 Thanks in Advance //Janneman

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Different luatex binary
by Mehdi Omidali 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

Hi, I have installed the context minimal on windows and have seen a strange thing. The luatex binay in the minimal directory is only 2.5 kb but the one in the foundry.supelec.fr is 2.64 Mb zipped. Also I am not able to compile my files which I could compile them 2 month ago. The end of my log file is ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ !luaTeX error (file C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/XB Kayhan.ttf): can't find table `CFF ' ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The source file is huge but I can send it if it is necessary. Thanks

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new experimental
by Hans Hagen 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Hi, the experimental branch of the garden distribution has a prelude to the new math font subsystem - less definitions, so faster (but some things might not yet work) - unicode math (but mojca, aditya, taco and i are in the process of checking and completing the definitions) - faster startup time of mkiv as well as less memory usage - using runtime virtual fonts which permits more math alphabets (as un unicode) but not all are defined now (not all make sense) since this is evolving, if you use experimental, you need to update on a regular basis (mkiv as well as the luatex bin) but mojca keeps things nicely in sync so that should be done automatically for lin/win/osx 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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Ouput of compile
by Mohamed Bana 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

hi, is it possible to forward the output a compile to a specific directory to avoid cluttering the current dir? also do you guys know that --purgeall still leaves some output - such as bibtex - to the current dir. it would also be great if texexec could also accept which dir to get the temp files from to avoid generating them again. i know i can forward the PDF output to a specific place, but that's not the point.

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left page / right page layout
by Antoine Junod 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Dear list, One more (last) problem regarding layout I can't resolve by myself: I've got a little booklet (2 A5 pages on one A4 sheet). The outside margins are colored in blue. I would like to color the left outside margin in yellow and keep the right outside margin in blue. I've read and tried to adapt the 'Alternative backgrounds' example on the wiki without any success. When I try to use leftpage (or rightpage) in \setupbackgrounds, the background of the whole left page is colored. Here is what I have right now: Thanks a lot for your reply, -AJ \definepapersize[pca4][width=212mm,height=299mm] \definepapersize[pca5][width=149.5mm, height=212mm] \setuppapersize[pca5][pca4] \setuparranging[2UP,rotated] \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided] \definelayout [default] [leftmargin=0mm,rightmargin=25.5mm, topspace=0mm,backspace=10mm, width=115mm,height=middle] \setuplayout[location=middle] \setuplayout[default] \setupbodyfont[sansserif,10pt] \enableregime[utf] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackgrounds [text,header,footer] % with leftpage here, doesn't work [rightmargin] [background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] \starttext Hop \page[yes] foo \page[yes] bar \stoptext

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