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Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac
by Alan Bowen 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

What follows are some queries that I will be happy to write up for the wiki. The aim (hope?) is to develop a set of instructions for installing the minimals on a Mac that a Mac user without any real knowledge of unix (such as myself) can follow easily. (There are a number of people scattered around the world who help me in producing various publications; and since they too are not unix savvy, I need such instructions if we are to keep our installations functioning and up to date.) Once the ConTeXt minimals are installed in the Applications folder and the user can run \starttext Hello world! \stoptext which is where the wiki (Installation>section 1.2) currently leaves off, there still remain a few tasks. Specifically, (a) getting this ConTeXt installation to recognize a personal texmf directory (b) running the various binaries (e.g., texmfstart, ctxtools) in / Applications/ConTeXtMinimals from Terminal (c) establishing synchronization between PDF output and its ConTeXt source. Currently, it does not seem to work (with TeXShop at least) Note, in the latest TeXShop there is Added support for SyncTeX. SyncTeX is new synchronization technology by Jerome Laurens which is included in TeX Live 2008 (but not earlier TeX distributions). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and XeTeX. In modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls pdfetex (even if using latex to output a dvi file), and thus the technology is available for such typesetting. To use the technology, add the flag --synctex=1 Any advice on how to do (a), (b), and (c) will be much appreciated. Alan

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error message
by Alan Bowen 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

I am trying to process a file using the ConTeXt minimals and MK II that now complains: . . . {/Users/alancbowen/Library/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/tasgreek.map} ! Argument of \next has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } <argument> ...{,\CCC:4:124 \CCC:4:126 \CCC:4:124 } \hskip \datesignal \def \b... \p!compareprocessaction ...commalistelement {#3}#2 \fi \fi \next2 #1,->\p!doprocessaction {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \processnextcommalist ...odoprocesscommaitem #4#5, ]\relax \global \advance \... ... l.29 F inally, I have supplied extensive footnotes and comments explicating t... I have tried various things to locate the error but without success. Can anyone tell me what this error message means and where I should look to solve the problem? I do have \definetext[ArticleTitlePage][footer] [\tfx\AuthorName\hfill\currentdate\hfill{\tf 1}] in my environment file, but this seems to be OK. Many thanks in advance. Alan

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Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting chess boards
by Mojca Miklavec 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Maurício wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > What is the easiest way to >> > include chess boards in a >> > Context document? >> >> Chessboards or chessboards with figures? > > Chessboards with figures (actually, > chess studies sets). Nobody has written a package for that yet, but if you are patient, it's easy enough that people will be ready to help you. All you need is some basic metapost (or tables) or TikZ + a suitable font. And exact specification how you would like the package to work (the form of input, what options you need, ...). If you are ready to wait and if you are ready to provide enough feedback regularly, it's quite doable. When I think about it, it might make sense to ask on TikZ mailing list as well. Maybe it's easy enough to make a general TikZ module that would then work equally well on all engines and all flavours of TeX (but I don't know TikZ well enough). Mojca

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Formula number in right2left direction
by Mehdi Omidali 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hi, There is a problem in formula numbers in RL direction. I mean in a formula the direction of the number of formula is from left to right. I tried \mathdir TRT and this problem disappeared but two new problems appeared. First, the hole formula typesetted from right to left which shouldn't be. Second, the prantesis arround the formula number get reversed like )a.b(. It would be nice if \mathdir TRT only changes the direction of the formula number (with correct prantesis) not hole the formula. Thanks

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Helping Mac users with the Bourne-again shell
by Charles P. Schaum 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Might it be helpful for the Garden or even Mac TeX to have links like the following for OS X Aqua users and the terminal app / UNIX world? http://www.osxfaq.com/tutorials/LearningCenter/ http://www.google.com/search?q=Unix+tutorials http://www.google.com/search?q=Unix+tutorials+%22os+x%22 Seems that this could be a time saver for all concerned. My problem is keeping straight what idiosyncratically does what on the given *nix I happen to be using. They all differ just enough... Charles

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dot space (english article in german publication)
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hi, an english article set with \mainlanguage[en] gets this additional space after the dot closing a sentence. That's probably right for english, only if all other articles in that publication are german it looks like a mistake. How to keep the english language but turn this english typesetting off? Thanks Steffen

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\framed[backgroundcolor=x] might imply \framed[background=color]
by Johan Sandblom 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

What would be the drawback of allowing backgroundcolor=n imply background=color and backgroundscreen=x imply background=screen in the setup to \framed. Background compatibility should not be an issue and I am failing to imagine cases where it would not be desirable. Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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images as background
by Thomas A. Schmitz 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hi all, for a presentation, I would like to have a series of images as backgrounds for my slides, and I want to use them in a randomized order. The images are named "1.jpg" through "20.jpg." So I was thinking of using this code: \externalfigure[\directlua0{print(math.random(20))}][width=\paperwidth] epecting that this should But that doesn't work, ConTeXt doesn't find my pictures (I get "name: dummy" texts). Any idea what is going wrong? Thomas

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

there's a new beta with a handful of patches / extensions (as mentioned on the list) no fix for arab numbering yet (needs analysis and testing) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [NTG-context] Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac ... and using bibtex
by Michael Green 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Michael Green wrote: >> >> I have the minimals installed in ~/Applications/context/ >> >> Context works great. However, I'm having trouble with bibtex. >> >> [1] I export the following variables before using context. >> >> . ~/Applications/context/tex/setuptex ~/Applications/context/tex >> export TEXMFHOME='$HOME/Library/texmf' >> export TEXMF='{$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFPROJECT,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!! >> $TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}'; >> >> (I added export PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx- >> intel/ >> bin:$PATH but that didn't seem to make a difference in a couple of >> quick trials) >> >> [2] The problem is that the minimal's bibtex can't find the bib file >> that I have stored in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/ >> >> It reports: "I couldn't open database file bib-name.bib" and "I found >> no database files---while reading file file-name.aux" > > You need to add ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib to the variable BIBINPUTS, > either in texmf.cnf or in your .bashrc/calling script. Perfect. Thank you! Michael

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