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Greek module problem
by Alan Bowen 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

I recently updated to Thomas’ latest Greek module and to the system software (Mac OS 10.5.6), and am now am getting errors indicating that the .enc files are not being found. I checked cont-sys.tex and see that \autoloadmapfilestrue is set. But running “texhash” gets a “command not found” message. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am using the most recent ConTeXt minimals and Mark II on a Mac. The minimals themselves are in /Applications. Alan

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web version of texworks?
by Yue Wang 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Hi, all I notice that when I push the view link of a pdf attachment in Gmail, it can show me images of my pdf document. It also render the fonts in my document correctly even I do not have these fonts installed in the operating system. here is a screen shot: http://yulewang.googlepages.com/Untitled.png wouldn't it be great if we add this feature to live.contextgarden.net? Yue Wang

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Bib module and prefix=+
by Robin Kirkham 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hi, How can the bib module and \setuphead[chapter][prefix=+] be made to coexist? The following example works, but if you uncomment the \setuphead, the citations are broken and the reference list vanishes: \setupoutput[pdftex] % uncomment this line and it breaks %\setuphead[chapter][prefix=+] \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database={xampl.bib}] \setuppublications[refcommand=num] % makes no real difference %\setuppublicationlist[title=\chapter] \version[temporary] \starttext \chapter[chapt]{A Chapter} Some citations: \cite[article-full] \cite[inbook-full] \cite[manual- full]. This is chapter~\in[chapt]. \completepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext Any help much appreciated! PS: The following old mailing list article appears to describe the same problem, but the symptoms are different (citations disappear, but reference list does not) http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20010516.173217.113e3787.en.html Robin

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Attachment sizes
by Taco Hoekwater 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi all, A quick note from your mailing list moderator. The maximum message size for this list is 64KB. Because pdf documents tend to be base64 encoded during email transport, this means that you cannot attach PDFs larger than approximately 40KB in file size. Please, will you keep that in mind while sending mails to ntg-context? Having to go through the moderation list and manually forwarding messages people is tedious and error prone. We will not change the size limit because there are quite a few people here on slow links. Besides, it will never be large enough anyway. When you do have a large file, please email it directly to the target persion (offlist), or, if it is meant for everybody, put it on a web or ftp site (if you have one) or upload it to the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:Upload Thanks in advance, Taco

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Reset linenumbers on each page
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi, How can I reset the linenumber on each new page. \starttext \startlinenumbering \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth\par} \stoplinenumbering \stoptext Wolfgang

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Unescaped $ and & in texts
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and & in text without escaping them with a backslash, & is not needed to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used. In text only documents I want also the % as normal character where I don't need comments. What do you think, with \nonknuthmode we have already a command to write '_' in text mode. \appendtoks \catcode`\$=12 \catcode`\&=12 \catcode`\%=12 \to \everystarttext \starttext Procter & Gamble’s stock climbed to $2, a 10% gain. \stoptext Wolfgang

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starting headings at top of column
by Lars Huttar 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hello, I've started talking to people in charge about contributing some money to this mailing list, or the wiki, or something ... we're certainly getting a lot of help from it. Is there an org or project to contribute to? Anyway, my current challenge is this. We have a two-column layout using columnsets. Fairly often, we start a new section (within a column... this does not interrupt the flow of columns). Some constraints we want to fulfill are: - Normally we want a little space before each new section heading - Except at the top of a column; can I check whether we're at the top of a column and do a conditional \vskip based on that?(*) - Avoid orphans: when starting a new section, if there's not enough room left in the current column, do a column break before outputting the section heading. I've tried \testcolumn[n], but it doesn't seem to work right. What are the units of the argument to \testcolumn? We also do manual column balancing using \definecolumnset, \setupcolumnset, and \setupcolumnsetlines. My concern is, does this apply after other layout is performed, so that any test performed above (*) regarding position within the column would fail to reflect these column balancing adjustments and therefore could give wrong results? That could explain why \testcolumn has been behaving in unexpected ways... Thanks, Lars

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setupdelimitedtext: linespacing in final quoted paragraph
by Sanjoy Mahajan 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

What's the right way to workaround the following interaction between \setupdelimitedtext and TeX's paragraph building rules? In the example below, the last paragraph from knuth.tex has the linespacing of the regular text set in 12pt, rather than the intended, narrower linespacing of 8pt text. Uncommenting the negligible vertical space (\vskip1sp) fixes the discrepancy. Is it the best workaround? I also tried setting after={\vskip1sp} in the \setupdelimitedtext, but it had no effect. I'm using 2008.10.31, MkII. Thanks for any suggestions, which I'll wikify if the solution is interesting to more than just me. \setupdelimitedtext[blockquote][style={\switchtobodyfont[8pt]}] \starttext \startblockquote \input knuth %\vskip1sp \stopblockquote \input tufte \stoptext -Sanjoy

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mpost manual
by Hans van der Meer 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

This might be considered a little off topic but I take the liberty to draw your attention to a problem with the mpost distribution. If there is really a problem with that distribution, I think it is in our interest to remedy it. I made mpost from the mpost-1.101 distribution (sh build.sh), then updated mpost.mem and finally called make in the manual directory of this distribution. Surprisingly a faulty cmr10.tfm was flagged. The output being: 122 ~/TeX/metapost/metapost-1.101/manual: make mpost -tex=tex mpman This is MetaPost, version 1.101 (kpathsea version 3.5.7) (./mpman.mp (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/metapost/base/boxes.mp) ! Font cmr10 not usable: TFM file is bad. _s->...oup.addto._p.also(EXPR2)infont(EXPR3)scaled (EXPR4)shifted((EXPR5),(EX... <argument> ..._n0="cmr10";_s("Figures",_n0,1,0,0,) ;_s ("in",_n0,1,35.3674,0,)... beginbox_->...UFFIX2):=nullpicture;for._p_=(TEXT3) :pic_ (SUFFIX2):=if.picture... boxit->..."boxpath_","sizebox_",(SUFFIX2),(TEXT3)) ;generic_declare (pair)_n.s... l.26 ....aa(btex \place{Figures in MetaPost} etex) ; As can be seen, I am using the texlive/2008 distribution (on Macintosh MACOSX 10.5.6). Searching for cmr10.tfm delivers: 120 ~/TeX/metapost/metapost-1.101/manual: kpsewhich cmr10.tfm /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmr10.tfm Which should be fine in my opinion. The question: Are there people out there who would be willing try the same and report the result? This is the first step to locate the problem: is this is local or does it occur elsewhere and on different systems too? Hans van der Meer

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interactionbuttons question
by Alan STONE 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi, Is it possible to make a column (a vertical alignment) of buttons with the interactionbuttons command ? If so, how to proceed ? button 1 button 2 ... button x -- Best, Alan * TeX engine = LuaTeX *ConTeXt minimals ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.11.21 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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