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Re: [NTG-context] specific document layout with ConTeXt
by Brecht Machiels 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

Hello, A big thanks to both Aditya and Wolfgang for their example styles/documents. This will help me (and perhaps also others) get familiar with ConTeXt much faster than any manual could. Aditya, could you also post a document that uses the IEEE module? It is not clear to me how I should specify the title, for example. Wolfgang's module looks very clean and is even somewhat similar to the way Lout's report class can be configured by means of the parameters. This, I like alot and is basically what I was looking for in ConTeXt. Unfortunately there is no small caps included in URW Times. I have tried installing the Gyre fonts, but that was not very successful. What is the easiest way to end up with a SC Times font? Or should I just fake it using a construct simular to what is described in http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/020929.html? This will not allow me to specify it as a style to \setuphead however, I assume? Kind regards, Brecht PS. Sorry for not properly replying to the thread. But I only subscribed just now and Mailman does not support retrieving old messages...

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forcing chapter pagenumber
by Hans van der Meer 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

On pages starting a chapter the pagenumbering is suppressed. However I want to tur it on. The sensible choice on \setuphead[chapter] seems page=yes but that doesn't change a thing. I see no other options of this sort. How do I accomplish pagenumbering on chapter pages? (ConTeXt ver: 2008.10.31) Hans van der Meer

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manual metapost
by Hans van der Meer 29 Dec '08

29 Dec '08

MISSING TARGET Makeing in the metapost/manual directory (metapost-1.102) after a distclean reports missing target: make: *** No rule to make target `grdemo.pdf', needed by `pdf'. Stop. This is strange because I have an older manual set with the same Makefile that typesets ok. MISSING [pdftex] Makeing other manual parts like mpboxes.pdf have their figures missing allthough the .mps files are generated. In mpboxes I had to add [pdftex] to \usepackage{graphics} because \usepackage[pdftex]{graphics} was needed. Can this be fixed in all files of the distribution? DISAPPERARED FILE I noticed that with respect to the earlier distribution the followings file has disappeared in the metapost-1.102 distribution: mpintro.tex But adding it didn't change a thing. met vriendelijke groet Hans van der Meer

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specific document layout with ConTeXt
by Brecht Machiels 28 Dec '08

28 Dec '08

Hello, I have some experience using LaTeX as I have used it to typeset two master theses. Having started a PhD a year ago, the need to write some publications arises. However, while IEEE conferences/journals used to offer LaTeX templates in the past (as far as I know), it seems that recently LaTeX support is being dropped and only MS Word templates are offered. Take for example the RFIC 2009 conference: http://www.rfic2009.org/rfic2009/authorguide.html Considering my more-or-less good experiences with LaTeX in the past, I still prefer to write a publication using LaTeX, and not Word. This would require me to copy the MS Word template in LaTeX. However, I do remember that fine-tuning things to look just the way I want in LaTeX can result in quite the headache. That's why I started looking for alternatives. Initially discarding TeX and all it's descendents because they are 'not very modern', I ended up with Lout (http://lout.wiki.sourceforge.net/) This looked quite promising, as I managed to closely approximate the Word template by means of adjusting the options to the "report" document class Lout offers (not considering images and tabled for the moment): http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/rfic2009f By extending the reportf class definition, I also managed to add an "index terms" section: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/rfic2009f This was all surprisingly painless. The document lout source and pdf are at: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/template.lout http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/template_lout.pdf However, trying to learn more about Lout -- for example to change subsection numbering -- it seems that the programming language that Lout offers confuses me almost as much as TeX macros do. Perhaps my mind is accustomed too much to nice object-oriented languages like Python and I simply cannot be bothered by this complex stuff anymore. (a Python-based typesetting system; now that would be heaven... maybe) Some other things bother me about Lout: * Much smaller userbase than (La)TeX. Will I find the help I need? * No means of "inheriting" the report class and changing it. I have to physically copy the class definition and change the code. I recall it is possible to do some kind of redefinition in TeX, right? In looking for an alternative to this alternative, I found that the TeX community is very much alive. Even though TeX's 'not very modern'-ness, these new developments might offer something interesting. I remembered that ConTeXt, unlike LaTeX, allows much finer control over the layout of a document. Hence, it would probably be the next candidate for this little typesetting adventure of mine. Today, I finally got my hands dirty and tried to recreate the RFIC2009 template using ConTeXt. Unfortunately, due to a lack of a good document class to start with, it is proving to be much more difficult to create something that resembles the Word template. As I have also read on this mailing list, the documentation, while there is plently to be found, is a bit messy. Appareantly the documentation is not up to date with ConTeXt? Perhaps it would be good to remove outdated documentation and clearly present only one reference manual (the most up to date) to the new user. I did find some samples on the wiki, but the first two that I tried to compile apparently required some extra packages. Also, while I always thought it was a good idea to seperate content and layout, some of the examples on the wiki seem to suggest to mix them. Or is this the philosophy behind ConTeXt? May I suggest some work is put into creating some basic (plain) document templates (well-commented) which can be used by ConTeXt newbies, but can also be used as starting points for creating new templates? On to the template then. http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/rfic2009.tex This is a first attempt at creating an environment to describe the layout of the template. As you can see, I have not yet gotten far. I copied the title code from the contextgarden wiki. The TeX code makes me shiver however. I will have to catch up on that. http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~bmachiel/rfic/template.tex This is the template itself. I basically want this file to contain as little layout stuff as possible. I would like to define the title, author, abstract and index terms before \starttext. If possible, the environment should place those parts automatically without having to specify \placetitle after \starttext. I was hoping that the friendly people on this mailing list might help me get started in creating this template. Let's start with the following: * title, author, abstract and index terms as explained above * the fact that there are 2 columns should be specified in the environment * define title, author, abstract and index terms fonts clearly, similar as in the Lout rfic2009 file and use this information to format the title stuff. Looking at the countless documents that show off ConTeXt, it is obvious that it is very much possible of creating custom layouts. However, I wonder, how much TeX hacking is required? Kind regards, Brecht

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Re: [NTG-context] Does ConTeXt really support russian language?
by Andrey Riabushenko 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

So far I have tried using pdfetex: Sample 1: \enableregime[utf] \usemodule[lang-cyr] \mainlanguage[ru] \usetypescript[postscript][t2a] \setupbodyfont[postscript, 12pt] This one doesn't work on any of three systems described earlier. Latin transliteration instead of Cyrillic letters. Sample 2: \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[ru] \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][t2a] \setupbodyfont[antykwa, 12pt] Works on ConTeXt Minimals, but does not work on TeX Live 2008 and teTeX 3.0. Latin transliteration instead of Cyrillic letters. Sample 3: \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[ru] \definetypeface [russian] [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont [russian] This one doesn't work on any of three systems described earlier. Latin transliteration instead of Cyrillic letters. In there a solution that will work on every of three distributions?

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Serious bug?
by Fengnan Gao 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

I just installed ConTeXtMinimal using first-setup.bat. But it seems it has some serious bug that context even couldn't deal with such a easy document: \starttext Hello world! \stoptext What's the problem? Anybody can help me? Thanks. Fengnan Gao fnsteed(a)hotmail.com

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Minimal installation help on windows
by Mehdi Omidali 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

Hi, Two months ago I was able to install context minimal on windows XP and Ubuntu but now I can not do that. After a fresh installation on windows by the GUI installer I faced the following halt while compiling a sample, here is the log file %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% (sample.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.12.25 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-fil loaded (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded specials : pdftex loaded language : language en is active system : sample.top loaded (sample.top) (sample.tuo) (sample.tuo) systems : begin file sample at line 27 fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix otf fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix OTF fontnames | 161 tree files identified, 222 hash entries added, runtime 0.203 seconds fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix ttf fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix TTF fontnames | 5 tree files identified, 7 hash entries added, runtime 0.125 seconds fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix ttc fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix TTC fontnames | 0 tree files identified, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.125 seconds fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix afm fontnames | identifying tree font files with suffix AFM fontnames | 76 tree files identified, 65 hash entries added, runtime 0.219 seconds fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix otf fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.otf fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix OTF fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.OTF fontnames | 0 system files identified, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.063 seconds fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix ttf fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.ttf fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix TTF fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.TTF fontnames | 380 system files identified, 608 hash entries added, runtime 0.313 seconds fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix ttc fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.ttc fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix TTC fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.TTC fontnames | 1 system files identified, 4 hash entries added, runtime 0.063 seconds fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix afm fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.afm fontnames | identifying system font files with suffix AFM fontnames | globbing path C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/**.AFM fontnames | 0 system files identified, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.063 seconds) * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% and at this point I just terminated the process. Any idea? The source file is %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \definefontfeature [persian] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes, liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes, mark=yes,mkmk=yes,kern=yes,curs=yes] \starttypescript [serif] [persian] \definefontsynonym [Farsi-Light][name:XB Zar.ttf][features=persian] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif][persian][name] \usetypescript[serif][persian] \definefontsynonym [Serif][Farsi-Light][features=persian] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [Farsi] \definetypeface[Farsi][rm][serif][persian][default] \stoptypescript \def\FarsiGlobalDir {\pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT\pardir TRT\textdir TRT} \definestartstop [farsidocument] [commands={\usetypescript[Farsi]% \setupbodyfont[Farsi,12pt]% \FarsiGlobalDir}] \starttext \startfarsidocument ایضاً این هم همین طور است. ۰۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹ \stopfarsidocument

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Using dsrom with MKIV
by Aditya Mahajan 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

Hi, The dsrom math font only works partially with MKIV, and I do not understand what is happening. Consider the following example from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Doublestroke (which I wrote, after suggestions on the mailing list). One needs the fonts, which are part of TL and are also available at http://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/doublestroke/ %======================================================================= \loadmapfile[dstroke.map] \starttypescript [math] [modern,computer-modern,latin-modern,ams] [size] \definebodyfont [17.3pt,14.4pt,12pt][mm] [mb=dsrom12 sa 1] \definebodyfont [11pt,10pt,9pt] [mm] [mb=dsrom10 sa 1] \definebodyfont [8pt,7pt,6pt,5pt,4pt] [mm] [mb=dsrom8 sa 1] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [modern] [mm] [math] [modern] [ams] [encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[reset,modern,10pt] \definefamilysynonym [default] [doublestroke] [mb] \def\dstroke {\fam\purefamily {doublestroke}} \def\doublestroke#1{{\dstroke#1}} \starttext $\doublestroke{E} \doublestroke{1}$ \stoptext %======================================================================= This works correctly in MKII (Both E and 1 are shown in dsrom font). However, in MKIV the 1 is shown in LM Roman rather than dsrom. Is this a bug in context font handling, or a bug in the typescript? I am using: context version: 2008.12.01 10:25 This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.30.3-2008112812 Aditya

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\input behaves different
by Hans van der Meer 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

MKii and MKiv differ in their behaviour of \input with respect to the .tex suffix. Consider the following program: \starttext reading file1.tex: \input file1\par reading file1a: \input file1a\par \stoptext Processing with mkii reads both files, but mkiv chokes on the second \input: ! I can't find file `file1a'. <to be read again> \par l.3 reading file1a: \input file1a\par This seems a very nasty difference to me, because it will necessitate me to rename a great many files. Is this behaviour intended? Hans van der Meer

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PDF Attachments
by Henning Hraban Ramm 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

Answering to a question on TeX-D-L I reckognized that "\attachment" and friends are only mentioned at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_text#Embedding_the_source_code It's not in texshow and I couldn't find any documentation, also. It's defined in http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/core-int.tex and didn't get any source comments, too. 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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