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ConTeXt an excursion — now in the CTK library
by Matija Šuklje 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hullo, I'm happy to announce that I took a printed copy of "ConTeXt an excursion" to the CTK [Central Technical Library] library in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The librarian was at first shocked that someone donated a book to them, but then handled the case pretty well. It turned out she was quite familiar with LaTeX already and all its faults, so she found interest in reading the given book right after she processes it and adds it to the shelf. I hope the book catches on in the library and ConTeXt gains a bit of recognition that way as well... Cheers, Matija Šuklje -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje GPG/PGP fingerprint: FB64 FFAF B8DA 5AB5 B18A 98B8 2B68 0B51 0549 D278

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mswintex.zip versus mswincontext.zip
by David Arnold 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hans et al, For our students, I need to have Miktex and at least one of these distributions (mswintex.zip or mswincontext.zip) coexisting side by side. I've got Miktex installed and working with the Texniccener IDE for student use. Now, I need to get context and metapost working properly (no longer any mptopdf in the Miktex distro). Students don't deal well with DOS boxes and terminals at first (they can grow into them), so what I need is a scite icon on the desktop, that when clicked, will open and work (for context and metapost). I had already loaded mswintex.zip on each machine in our lab, run first-setup.bat. I also installed Scite by downloading from the scintilla site. I finally figured out that you need to import context in the Globals, though (the http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ mscite-p.pdf said it should work in user as well, which I could not get to work. So, as I understand it now, the difference is the mswincontext.zip comes with perl and ruby, but we already have perl and ruby installed. If I get rid of the gems (how?) then I should be able to make progress? What I need is students to have both scite and texniccenter running at the same time. What are my best options? Thanks. D.

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disturbing the hyphenation mechanism
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hi, please have a look at the following – the "wondering" doesn't brake anymore thanks to the "kern": \starttext \showframe \enableregime[utf] blablabla blablabla blablabla blablabla blablabla blablabla blabla blablabla „{\kern-0.025em}wondering \stoptext I have read an e-mail by Hans from 2003 when he said "well, it's just like that". But time has passed. Is there a solution today in MkIV or even in MkII ? Thank you, Steffen

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no star in itemize with luatex
by Mikael Persson 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hello, running the file %%% \starttext \startitemize[3] \item Hello world! \stopitemize \stoptext %%% in luatex, I did expect to get a star and then Hello world! However, I got something like \perp instead of the star. It works with pdftex. I also tried with some other fonts with same failing result. I run the latest minimal context and also tried this at the contextgarden with the same result. Any solutions around? Best wishes, Mikael

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ConTeXt Minimals on Mac
by Alan Bowen 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

I have installed the Context Minimals following the newbie instructions on the wiki at contextgarden for Mac users. The instructions themselves are clear but should perhaps be updated: • the file originally downloaded is first-setup.sh not first-setup.tsh • to execute this file run ./first-setup.sh not first-setup.sh (at least, the former worked and did not return a “command not found” message). I also configured TeXShop as instructed. But now when I try to typeset a file, I get the error message: Users/alancbowen/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine does not have the executable bit set. How can I fix this? Alan Note: I am running Mac OS X 10.5.4.

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\reference, \goto(box)
by Alan Stone 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hi, Win XP - ConTeXt minimal: ConTeXt ver: 2008.08.18 14:00 MKIV fmt: 2008.8.22 int: english/english What has changed with the \reference and/or \goto(box) commands ? I'm getting fatal compile errors related to these while there weren't none previously ( that was under Linux, but shouldn't make any difference ). Thanks, Alan

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mtxrun question
by Patrick Gundlach 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hi, I tried to find a tfm file, so I typed in ~$ mtxrun --locate texnansi-demofont.tfm and I got ...k/TeX/context/minimal/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/mtxrun:6898: attempt to index local 'files' (a nil value) what does that mean? Is the syntax I've used correct? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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feature request: \setuptyping[ignorefirstspace=yes]
by Peter Münster 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Hello, Something like \setuptyping[ignorefirstspace=yes] would be nice, to be able to format the source text with indentation but let the typing environment ignore this indentation. Example: \setupcolors[state=start] \setuptyping[margin=3em, ignorefirstspace=yes] \starttext This: \starttyping some typing \stoptyping should be same as this: \starttyping some typing \stoptyping This: \startcolor[blue] \starttyping some typing \stoptyping \stopcolor should be same as this: \startcolor[blue] \starttyping some typing \stoptyping \stopcolor some text \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Typesetting chess boards
by Maurício 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Hi, What is the easiest way to include chess boards in a Context document? Thanks, Maurício

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Package for Notepad++ v. 5.0.3
by abbg770＠city.ac.uk 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

Alan Stone <software.list.1es9s <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi Idris, > > Thanks a lot. > > One question though... > > I installed Npp, downloaded the context support package for Npp and > extracted the zip file. > > What/where are the setup instructions please ? > > Best, > Alan > Seems like Idris forgot to include the readme, incase it hasn't been attached check out the 1 November 2007 rev from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Image:Npp_ConTeXt.zip your sure to find it there. Put everything in ConTeXt.zip in the same folder you extracted mswincontext.zip (182 mb) then run NPP.bat. Make sure you adjust acrobat.lnk appriopriately as the path is hard-coded. And what OS are you using? Mohamed

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