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[OT] Interview with Donald Knuth
by luigi scarso 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Re: [NTG-context] letter
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hallo Wolfgang, it seems to me that referenzline, subject, foldmarks, etc, are about 4mm or 5mm to big (A4 paper). The foldmark for example should be 105mm from papertop. It is 110mm from top. The horizontal offset (3.5mm) of foldmarks ist to small. A laserprinter often is not able to print 5mm or more from paperedge. So the foldmarks are invisibel. Grusz, Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Tables in headers
by Stefan Larsson 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Thank you very much for your explicit hints Wolfgang. I've learnt a lot from these few lines of code. /Stefan

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chapter setup / table of contents
by Henning Hraban Ramm 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Ahoi! In a volume of proceedings, each chapter has an author and title and sometimes a subtitle. The ToC entry should look like: Author: Title \hfill Page (no indents!) At the moment I've this setup: --- \def\Titel#1#2#3{% author, title, subtitle \page% {\writebetweenlist[chapter]{\placeongrid{\noindent #1:}} \switchtobodyfont[12pt]\noindent #1% \chapter{\noindent #2}% {\ss\bf #3}% \blank[2*big]}% } \setuphead[chapter][page=no, number=no, align= {flushleft,nothyphenated,verytolerant}, style={\ss\bfa}, before={}, after={\blank}] \definecombinedlist[toc][chapter][level=chapter, placehead=no, criterium=all, alternative=b, offset=none] \setupcombinedlist [toc] [partnumber=no] --- Please don't cry, I know it's ugly... ;-) What it does is close, but nood good enough. - Is there a way to use the normal chapter (or any head) mechanism with such "feathered" titles? - How do I get my special ToC? 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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Re: [NTG-context] Tables in headers
by Stefan Larsson 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Hi Stefan, On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Stefan Larsson <lastsys(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> First post on this list... >> >> I have been using LaTeX for several large projects during the last 10 years >> and just recently tried to switch to ConTeXt due to the claim of easier >> handling of custom page layout. So far it is an enjoyable experience... >> >> I would need to customize my page headers with a custom table (like LaTeX's >> tabular environment) instead of just changing the text in the left and right >> corners. From the quick browsing I have been doing of documentation and >> articles at contextgarden this feature called "layers" might be what I am >> looking for. But before trying to grasp this feature I would like to ask any >> experienced ConTeXt user for the recommended approach to achieve what I am >> trying to do... >> >> So, to conclude: "How do I customize my page header to contain a table >> instead of the predefined style?" > can you give us a example of the header do you want to get, tables are not > best solution and they will couse troubles in a few cases. We could try to > find a better solution if possible. I'll try to illustrate using a monospaced font: +------+ Company Name | | | Logo | | | +------+ ------------------------------------------------+------------ Type of document | Page Report of something | 2 (10) -----------------------------------+------------+------------ Name of document | Issue | Date My document name | 1 | 2008-04-22 -----------------------------------+------------+------------ Issuer (dept, name, email) | Appendix dept, name, email | Appendix ------------------------------------------------+------------ This is the full header. A reduced header is used on the rest of the pages where the last row is excluded. (I am trying to convert a MS-Word template...) Thanks, /Stefan

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Bridge between Lua and Ruby
by Diamantini Maurice 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Bonjour à tous ! I just see that there is a bridge between the Ruby language (used by context tools) and Lua (soon to be part of the next TeX compiler, via LuaTeX) http://rubyluabridge.rubyforge.org/ I thought this would be interesting for somebody on this list ;-) -- Maurice Diamantini

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Re: [NTG-context] question on the luaTeX installation
by Dalyoung Jeong 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Dear Thomas and Aditya, Thank you for the reply. TEXMFLOCAL, TEXMFDIST is the order in texmf.cnf. So the order in .luatex is OK. 1. I changed '/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local' in the .luatex file to '/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local' %%%%%%% echo $TEXMF {/Users/dalyoung/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/ dalyoung/.texlive2007/texmf-var,/Users/dalyoung/Library/texmf,/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/ texlive/2007/texmf-dist} %%%%%%%%%% 2. 'luatools --generate'. 3. Then it locate the files in right positions. $ luatools cont-new.tex /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex And I succeeded to create the format file and a very simple test file worked very well. I don't know what is the difference between '/texlive/2007/../texmf- local/' and '/texlive/texmf-local/'. Thank you for your concern again. Best regards, Dalyoung Jeong

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Tables in headers
by Stefan Larsson 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

First post on this list... I have been using LaTeX for several large projects during the last 10 years and just recently tried to switch to ConTeXt due to the claim of easier handling of custom page layout. So far it is an enjoyable experience... I would need to customize my page headers with a custom table (like LaTeX's tabular environment) instead of just changing the text in the left and right corners. From the quick browsing I have been doing of documentation and articles at contextgarden this feature called "layers" might be what I am looking for. But before trying to grasp this feature I would like to ask any experienced ConTeXt user for the recommended approach to achieve what I am trying to do... So, to conclude: "How do I customize my page header to contain a table instead of the predefined style?" Thanks, Stefan Larsson

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metapsot vs. graphviz
by Gour 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Hi! While writing some written assignments I have a need to draw some simple diagrams. Tried with Dia, but it's not superb. That's why I'm thinking about learning some graphic programming language... Anyone familiar with metapost & graphviz can write few words how the two compare? Any other suggestion? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D ----------------------------------------------------------------

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question on the luaTeX installation
by Dalyoung Jeong 27 Apr '08

27 Apr '08

Dear all, With a fresh mind, I tried to install luaTeX in my Mac G5(OSX 10.5) as follows: (based on Thomas's instruction) - updating the ConTeXt - making formats - preparing some files like texlua, texluac, luatools, mtxrun. - made a environment variable in .luatex export TEXMFCACHE="/tmp" export TEXMFCNF="/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c" export TEXMF="{/Users/dalyoung/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/ dalyoung/.texlive2007/texmf-var,/Users/dalyoung/Library/texmf,/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local,/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist }" export LUAINPUTS="{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base,/ usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/sc ripts/context/lua,/Users/dalyoung/ texmf/scripts}" - run "source .luatex" - run "luatools --generate" it showed a long list without any error message. So far, it looks fine. After the generation, I check the file "cont- new.tex", then it pointed the file in the folder texmf-dist not in the folder texmf-local. I updated the ConTeXt file in the folder texmf-local, but I don't know why it is looking for files under texmf-dist folder not under texmf- local. $ luatools cont-new.tex /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex I tried to create a format. But "luatools --ini --verbose --compile cont-en" stops with an error message. LuaTools | version 1.1.1 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT LuaTools | loading configuration for /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/ web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/5b25423ad16f5b11dc34abcf44e70ed1/ trees/6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374 LuaTools | locating list of /Users/dalyoung/.texlive2007/texmf-config LuaTools | locating list of /Users/dalyoung/.texlive2007/texmf-var LuaTools | locating list of /Users/dalyoung/Library/texmf LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist ... LuaTools | using compiled initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \\dump This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.3-2008041819 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/syst-prm.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/luat-env.tex ! LuaTeX error [string "luas[0]"]:1: attempt to call field 'luafilechunk' (a ni l value). \ctxluabyteload ...nvironment.luafilechunk("#1") } \ ...fproductionrun \else \ctxluabyteload {#1}{#2} \fi \global \everyloadluac... l.168 \registerctxluafile{luat-env}{1.001} ? Since I updated the ConTeXt file in the folder texmf-local, but I don'tknow why it is looking for files under texmf-dist. Is there anything wrong in my setup? Thank you for reading. best regards, Dalyoung Jeong

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