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13 Jun '08

Hi, I have googled, looked in the pragma site etc for a template (style) of an a0 poster. Doing this with latex is a bit of a nightmare and the result is not very appealing. I am looking for something in the size of a0 with embedded boxes with plots, equations etc. If such a file existed and was to be found somewhere I'd be grateful if you gave me a link. thanks

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Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)
by Alan Stone 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi, Yesterday WXP crashed and it took me a whole day to repair the thing and get it up and running again. Ha

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caption in TSV tables
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi All ConTeXt lovers! I am studying physics at Örebro University in Sweden and often produce documents report from experiments. For Me it naturally fells in to use Context typesetting together with tools like octave and Gnuplot. The issue until now, has been when you need to transer data from octave output textfiles to a representable table in a context document. Hardwriting all \NC and \HL stuff together with cut and paste method is time consuming. But thanks to Hans, Wolfgang, Taco and Mojca I successfully manage to import experiment values from a textfile (that also Gnuplot can read and do graphic) to a nice table with caption so you can refer to it in the textflow. So I decided to contribute my successfull result in attached examplefiles. Thanks and all wishes! Jan-Erik Hägglöf

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Minimals and FreeBSD
by Dominique Dutoit 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

> MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf-local/web2c from > /home/diego/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/d80510d450a3fa2a64df4d3741825f1d > MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf/web2c from > /home/diego/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/3113242409ded67a0ad7bd508bd26609 > MtxRun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.luareport >> state: loaded > report >> update: start > ./bin/mtx-update.lua:181: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, > got nil) For some reasons, os.currentplatform() returns "generic" under FreeBSD (tested on 7.0), which is not defined in the platforms table and creates this error. The workaround is to pass the platform name to first-setup.sh: ./first-setup.sh --platform=freebsd But near the end of the installation process, MtxRun fails to execute the binaries because it tries to find them in tex/texmf-generic. At this stage, I have used the source command to setup the environment and executed texexec --make --all to finish up the installation. So good so far, it seems to work, but I have no idea what's happening there. Bye, Dominique

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context command and the bbl file
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hi all, I have a file with citations. Using: "context myfile" does not create the bbl file when needed (but reads it when it exists). "texexec --lua myfile" does the expected job. Is there a reason for that? -- Jean

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Where is the fonts Directory of OpenSuse?
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Can someone tell me please where the fonts directory of OpensSuse 10.3 (Kde) lies, so I can add my fonts to my bash profile? Thanks for your help. Armando

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color in drawoptions (mplib)
by Peter Rolf 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

hi, just encountered an expansion problem with color inside drawoptions... % engine=luatex \starttext \startuniqueMPgraphic{foo} begingroup save c ; color c[] ; c0:= red; drawoptions(withcolor c0); fill OverlayBox; endgroup; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[foo][\uniqueMPgraphic{foo}] \framed[width=10cm,background=foo]{} \stoptext regards, peter

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Rendering of ZWNJ and ZWJ
by Khaled Hosny 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Using Luatex engine, ZWNJ and ZWJ chars are rendered incorrectly. If the font has a glyph for it, it does the expected behaviour (force non-joining or joining respectively) but the glyph get rendered while it shouldn't. But if the font has no glyphs for it, it has no effect at all. See the attached example. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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TeXCalc
by Alan Stone 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

I downloaded Taco's TeXCalc script at http://tex.aanhet.net/utils/texcalc and installed the required perlTk thingie. Newbie question... How do you run this "silly script" (*) ? Using ActivePerl and sciTE. Thanks, Alan (*) No, no it's not me who said it first... Taco wrote it himself ! ;O)

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bibl-apa.tex wrong?
by Matej Barič 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hello, This (http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm) and just about any other site I look at specifies publisher info as "<city, state>: <publisher name>", whereas bibl-apa.tex specifies it as "<publisher name>, <city, state>". Why is the file called bibl-apa.tex if it doesn't follow APA rules? Am I missing something thanks, Matej

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