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Reference Manual Project
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi all, Following the discussion with Gerben over the past week, I have initialized a project for the creation of a new Context Reference Manual. The goal is to create a complete manual documenting all of context's user-level commands with the focus on creating a reference manual, but not so much on providing a learner's manual. Anybody who is willing and able to help out in any way is very much invited to join in. The manual is to be distributed under the GNU Free Document License so that it can borrow text from the wiki, and also so that it can be included in free TeX distributions (like TeX Live). I have merged and checked in tex sources of a few base manuals just to get started. The sources are part of the contextman project at supelec: http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextman . There are no released files yet (that would be premature), but you can browse the repository via the SCM tab at supelec's project page. Alternatively, if you have a subversion client, check out the source tree to a local folder. There is also a mailing list, see http://lists.foundry.supelec.fr/mailman/listinfo/contextman-reference for details The current source tree in the repository is basically the english version of the 'Context Manual' plus * Fonts (mfonts.tex) * Columns sets (columns.tex) * Processing modes (mmodes.tex) * Texmfstart (mtexmfstart.tex) * Hyphenation patterns (mpattern.tex) but minus the images and using a simplified layout design. The project needs volunteers for just about everything: * merging existing manuals and wiki pages * copy-editing * writers for new chapters * proofreaders * it could also do with a nicer design so if you want to help out in any way, please subscribe to the mailing list via the link above (I don't want to overburden ntg-context with messages on this subject). Best wishes, Taco

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no linebreak before footnote after vertical line
by Steffen Wolfrum 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, to prevent long abbreviations from being hyphenated I use the vertical line. That's fine in most cases. Only, bad luck if there is a footnote following and this at the end of the line: \starttext bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla |WikiPOBia|\footnote{note}. \stoptext ... on my machine the second line starts with the footnote marker 1. Is there a general solution to avoid this bad coincidence? Thanks, Steffen

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presentations
by Hans Hagen 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, some presentations from tug 2008 are at http://www.luatex.org/talks/screen-luatex-tug-2008.pdf http://www.luatex.org/talks/print-luatex-tug-2008.pdf http://www.luatex.org/talks/screen-mplib-tug-2008.pdf http://www.luatex.org/talks/print-mplib-tug-2008.pdf http://www.luatex.org/talks/screen-punk-tug-2008.pdf http://www.luatex.org/talks/print-punk-tug-2008.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Scope of BodyFontSize etc.
by Oliver Buerschaper 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Dear wizards of ConTeXt, I'm wondering why ConTeXt doesn't seem to know about "BodyFontSize" in the "MPinclusions" block … try: --- \startMPinclusions DefaultRuleThickness := 0.47998pt*BodyFontSize/12pt; pickup pencircle scaled DefaultRuleThickness; defaultpen := savepen; \stopMPinclusions \startuseMPgraphic{localRule1a} draw fullsquare scaled BodyFontSize; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \startformula \Phi(\useMPgraphic{localRule1a}) \stopformula \stoptext --- As soon as I move the content of "MPinclusions" over to the beginning of my "useMPgraphic" code everything works as expected … Where's the best location to put this sort of definitions then? Is it the "MPenvironment" block? Oliver

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\setuplayout question
by Alan Stone 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, Some/oftentimes, the more I read the scattered documentation, the more I'm confused... and wasting my valuable time testing and trying to figure out how things work. Here is, for example, why... (1) From \showlayout topspace \topspace top \topheight (2) From "ConTeXt An Excursion", page 74 page 71, \setuplayout command parameters topspace dimension top (not referenced) topheight (not referenced) page 74, table 33.2 parameters for page design. topspace \topspace top (not referenced) topheight \topheight (3) From "ConTeXt main manual" page 24, \setuplayout command parameters topspace dimension top dimension topheight (not referenced) (4) From http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout topspace \topspace top \topheight topheight (not referenced) (5) From http://texshow.contextgarden.net/command/detail/221 topspace dimension top dimension topheight (not referenced) What is - topspace ? - top ? - topheight ? Please and thank you, Alan

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headstyle for synonyms
by Matthias Wächter 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Folks, Just wanted to send the following patch, requesting inclusion to ConTeXt. It adds support for headstyle option in \setupsynonyms by passing it to \definedescription. Maybe the \style option of \definedescription could be set by an additional option for \setupsynonyms as well, but as I am currently satisfied with the result in my document, I didn’t care yet. Thanks for considering, - Matthias --- core-syn-old.tex 2008-08-12 15:35:08.593750000 +0200 +++ core-syn.tex 2008-08-12 14:55:03.843750000 +0200 @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ \c!inbetween=\synonymparameter\c!inbetween, \c!after=\synonymparameter\c!after, \c!indentnext=\synonymparameter\c!indentnext, - \c!headstyle=, + \c!headstyle=\synonymparameter\c!headstyle, \c!style=]% \setupwhitespace[\v!none]% %doutilities{#1}\jobname{#2}\relax\par % no longer \par @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ \fi \dosetupsynonyms [#1]% - [\c!synonymstyle=,\c!textstyle=, + [\c!synonymstyle=,\c!textstyle=,\c!headstyle=, \c!state=\v!start,\c!criterium=, \c!location=\v!left,\c!width=5em,\c!distance=0pt, \c!sample=,\c!hang=,\c!align=, @@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ [\v!abbreviation] [\c!textstyle=\v!capital, \c!synonymstyle=, + \c!headstyle=, \c!textcolor=, \c!synonymcolor=, \c!location=\v!left,

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mtxrun:1741: attempt to index a nil value
by Henning Hraban Ramm 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

For I had some problems with my installation I tried to start from scratch. But I'm stuck with an error in mtxrun: Welcome to Darwin! user$ cd /usr/local/ConTeXt/ /usr/local/ConTeXt user$ rsync -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . first-setup.sh sent 115 bytes received 1757 bytes 1248.00 bytes/sec total size is 1638 speedup is 0.88 /usr/local/ConTeXt user$ ./first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done bin/ bin/mtx-update-old.lua bin/mtx-update.lua bin/mtxrun bin/texlua sent 186 bytes received 6127742 bytes 331239.35 bytes/sec total size is 6126659 speedup is 1.00 MtxRun | version 1.1.0 - 2007+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT MtxRun | variable SELFAUTOLOC set to /usr/local/ConTeXt/bin MtxRun | variable SELFAUTODIR set to /usr/local/ConTeXt MtxRun | variable SELFAUTOPARENT set to /usr/local MtxRun | variable TEXMFCNF set to {$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c} MtxRun | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MtxRun | using script: bin/mtx-update.lua state | loaded update | start /usr/local/ConTeXt/bin/mtxrun:1741: attempt to index a nil value And that's it. Line 1741 of mtxrun contains a popen command to execute a system command; but even if I change that (e.g. printing the accessed variable before), the error stays at that line, so the message is probably wrong. Please help? Greetlings, Hraban

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Box can't be reshaped
by Wolfgang Schuster 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi, Rotated text in \framed dproduce the following error message: ! Incompatible list can't be unboxed. \doreshapeframedbox ...hapebox \unvcopy \framebox \endofshapebox \global \@@... I run into this problem with a natural table. \starttext \setupTABLE[orientation=180] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD \input knuth \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext This happens only in MkII (the MkIV reshape code works) and i know I have to use a width for the each to let it work but is there no better solution for this. Wolfgang

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greek
by Jörg Hagmann 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Two questions concerning greek modules: 1. I switched to the new minimal installation (on a Mac and an ubuntu system) and noticed that I had to install the cb-fonts (for \usemodule[greek]) myself. Will the fonts be included in the future? (Just a question; I think they should be). 2. I wanted to try the t-greek-2008.05.11 module and unzipped in texmf-local (where I keep my fonts). The "Greek in proper context" etc. articles seem to be outdated, but from the sources I gathered that \usemodule[ancientgreek] or \usemodule[oldgreek] may be used, the latter only if the former doesn't work. I have the following problems/questions: A. \usemodule[ancientgreek] doesn't work (mark ii or mark iv). It gives me, e.g.: ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \penalty \CCC:4:126 ->\penalty \plustenthousand \space \defineactivecharacter ... {\string #1#2}\empty #1 #2\else \uccode \activehac... \@@su:enablegreek ...vecharacter ~ {\lettertilde } \defineactivecharacter | {... \localgreek #1->\bgroup \directsetup {enablegreek} {#1}\egroup l.6 \localgreek{mo~usa,} ? B. \usemodule[oldgreek] works with the default font or with Teubner (mark ii and mark iv). But not with Gentium, although the TrueType fonts are installed in texmf-local>fonts>truetype>greek>gentium: !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file gentium): Font gentium at 720 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! There is no pdf file in the "doc" directory. Maybe a new version is under construction? Why is it better to use the module "ancientgreek"? Thanks, Jörg

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Flow chart, XeTeX and transparent colors
by Wolfgang Schuster 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hi, the background for the cells in flow charts are moved to the left when you use transparent colors in a document and XeTeX as engine. \usemodule[chart] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[tred][r=1,t=0.5,a=1] \setuphead[section][color=tred] \starttext \section{Section} \setupFLOWcharts [background=color, %backgroundcolor=tred, %backgroundcolor=red, ] \startFLOWchart \startFLOWcell \location{1,1} \text{project} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \FLOWchart \stoptext Wolfgang

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