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Flow charts and comments
by Aditya Mahajan 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi, Something seems to be wrong with placements of comments in flowcharts. For exmaple, consider a short version of an example from the wiki. \usemodule[chart] \startFLOWchart \startFLOWcell \name{1} \location{1,1} \shape{44} \connection[rl] {2} \comment[t]{top} \comment[b]{bottom} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {2} \location {2,1} \text {Test} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \starttext \FLOWchart \stoptext Top and bottom captions are not placed at all, both in mkiv and mkii. Aditya

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Context on Miktex
by David Arnold 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

All, On http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx I read that Miktex version of Context is broken. I also read Mojca's workaround, pasted below. Has anyone tried this and does it work? Any conflicts or difficulties? Second question: Can I get mptopdf to work in the Miktex tree without installing Context? Mojca's workaround: May 31. 2008 00:37 If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 \miktex\bin with the content: @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" "%*" and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C: \Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate formats, and everything should work again. Mojca Mojca David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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Typesetters for Hire wiki page
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hello everyone, I want to make something real using ConTeXt, e.g., typeset a book, but I have no orders yet. Tonight I was surfing Internet and found an open source framework for Web, Django. (It is the name of famous gipsy jazz guitarist, btw). The interesting point is that the site has the list of developers seeking enployment. Please look at **http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DevelopersForHire I feel we can create similar wiki section, Typesetters for Hire, and promote it in some way. Don't we? Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Reading modules from zip files
by Wolfgang Schuster 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi, I tried to load a module from the zip archive without placing it in my tex folder, this work fine but I'm unable to include files from my global tex tree because none of them is found by luatex. The following works \usezipfile[t-letter.zip] \usemodule[letter] \starttext \startletter letter text \stopletter \stoptext but this fails \usezipfile[t-letter.zip] \usemodule[letter] \starttext \startletter[opening=hi,closing=bye] \input knuth \stopletter \stoptext The file knuth.tex and all the map files are not found. Wolfgang

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Pyramiding \defs
by Holzminister 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi! Can perhaps anyone explain to me why the example works in one case, but not in the other? >>> \enableregime[utf-8] \mainlanguage [de] % \def\werte#1{\em [#1]} % +++ works \def\werte#1{{\em [#1]}} % --- doesn't work \def\moretest{} \def\test% { Testtext \def\moretest% { More Testtext } } \starttext \werte{\test} \moretest \stoptext >>> Thanks in advance, Eyke

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mkii colour problem
by Mohamed Bana 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hi everbody, 1. Blank links source; http://pastebin.com/m4dd31559, Doesn't work, but strangely enough "color=urlcolour" (the one below) does. Log; http://pastebin.com/m1034c274 2. Colour links source; http://pastebin.com/m70fa91b6. Log; http://pastebin.com/m16be2374 Just compile the and you'll see for yourself. So if I do use "ucolour", the links are shown in black. I can't compile the file with mkiv, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/44025. pdf using urlcolour; pdf using ucolour; % This results in black hyperlinks. \definecolor[ucolour] [c=0,m=0.83,y=1,k=0.7] \definecolor[urlcolour] [c=0,m=0.51,y=1,k=0] \setupinteraction[ state=start, color=ucolour, option=bookmark] Mohamed

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Interaction and accented letters
by Flavien Lambert 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Dear all, is there a way to put accented letters in the interaction command ? I tried \setupinteraction[state=start, author={Flavien Lambert}, title={Optique géométrique}, date={Septembre 2008}] and \setupinteraction[state=start, author={Flavien Lambert}, title={Optique g\'eom\'etrique}, date={Septembre 2008}] but both trials led to strange things in Acrobat Reader and Evince. -- Flavien. ---------------------------- "Quantum objects are completely crazy but, at least, they are all crazy in the same way." R.P. Feynman.

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Additional blank methods
by Wolfgang Schuster 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hi Hans, can you add \defineblankmethod [endgraf] {\endgraf} \defineblankmethod [nobreak] {\penalty\plustenthousand} to core-spa.tex Can you also add \def\previousnumber#1{\number\numexpr#1-1\relax} \defineconversion [previousnumber] [\previousnumber] to core-con.tex Wolfgang

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problem finding files (cygwin-related?)
by Jelle Huisman 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Hi all, I try to help a colleague who has successfully installed ConTeXt using the Windows installer and has started typesetting some documents. His installation has problems finding files. Using something like "\input ./path/to/file.tex" works OK, but this doesn't: \externalfigure[./path/to/file.pdf] He gets a "figure ./path/to/file.pdf can not be found"-error, while the same code works OK with my local Windows in a VMware virtual machine. He happens to have cygwin installed (I don't have it) and I was wondering whether that is the course of his problems? How does cygwin interfere with finding the /path/to/the picture file? Can I solve this by escaping the path in some special way? Or would moving the picture to the current directory help? Thanks for any suggestions, Jelle

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Arabic numbers (in MkIV) should be left to right
by Khaled Hosny 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Arabic numbers (characters with bidi property "an") should be left to right, just as European numbers ((characters with bidi property "en"). Currently Arabic numbers are made right to left: \setupdirections[bidi=global] \starttext 12345\par ١٢٣٤٥ \stoptext Both line should have the same digits order. I think "d == "an"" in core-spa.lua line 1075 should be moved to line 1071 (I tested it and it does fix this issue for me). -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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