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ConTeXt XSLT plugin for MultiMarkdown> anyone know XSLT?
by Roland 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

Hi, I have been experimenting with using standard text formats like Markdown and Multimarkdown to produce texts for multiple outputs (HTML, RTF, ConTeXt etc) The basic Markdown syntax is quite limiting; but unfortunately, the more advanced MultiMarkdown syntax does not yet have an XSLT translator available for ConTeXt. It seems that creating one is simple, but that the author needs people with more understanding of ConTeXt syntax than he has. See my request on the MultiMarkdown website http://fletcherpenney.net/Comments_on_Feature_Requests[copied below]. Anyone on the mailing list have enough understanding of XSLT and ConTeXt to help out with creating such a translator? Like the Pandoc converter, it would help to promote ConTeXt towards a broader audience... Thanks Roland Would it be difficult to also create an XSLT file for output to ConTeXt? I know it's not used as much as LaTeX but given the focus on highly customisable ouput, I find it more suitable to writing and publishing needs than LaTeX. Also, the syntax seems more consistent, therefore an XSLT file might not be all that hard to produce? There is some more info on http://tex.loria.fr/formats/context/LaTeX2ConTeXt.pdf and on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt Pandoc (an alternative for converting Markdown documents into various formats) already has ConTeXt support built in but unfortunately it does not allow multimarkdown syntax… – siros 2008-02-24 15:57 An XSLT setup can be made for any TeX derivative, since they all rely on a plain text document format. I am not too familiar with the ConTeX syntax, but I suspect most of it would be quite similar to LaTeX, and that the preamble stuff would be the biggest changes. – Fletcher Penney 2008-02-25 22:55

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Trouble with + as a reference
by Aditya Mahajan 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Hi, Something has changed in the reference mechanism, and + is no longer ignored as a reference. For example, \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \placeformula[+] \startformula E = mc^2 \stopformula \placeformula[+] \startformula E = mc^2 \stopformula \stoptext gives [1.1pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{+}) has been already used, duplicate ignored \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...agebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... \sidefloatoutput ...e \else \finalsidefloatoutput \global \sidefloatvsize \n... <argument> ...\fi \else \the \defaultstreamoutput \fi ... l.12 \stoptext Aditya

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Fill-in-the-blanks forms.
by John Culleton 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

I understand these can be created in LaTeX with Hyperref and some other packages plus some java script code. Is there a Context method available? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

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old-style numerals and .
by Jesse Alama 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

I tried switching to nice old-style numerals for a table of contents, and found to my chagrin that the periods in the numbers, such as the "." in "2.3", get typeset as triangles. You can see the result (verified on the live context in the garden) with \starttext {\os 2.3} \stoptext What's going on? How can I get periods rather than triangles? Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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[OT] Metapost wiki
by luigi scarso 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Just to propagate informations. From http://tug.org/pipermail/metapost/2008-February/001215.html """ Well the wiki is now setup. http://metapost.tlhiv.org Anonymous users can't edit pages, but anyone (for now) can create an account. I've themed it so that it doesn't look like everyone else's wiki. Anyone that would like to start adding content is free (and encouraged) to do so. I too plan on adding some stuff soon myself. Troy http://metapost.tlhiv.org """ -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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bib module and pdftex 1.40.7: Virtual memory exhausted using MiKTeX-2.7
by George N. White III 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Consider the trivial test file: ------------------------------------- % example from: <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography> % Format using: % $ texexec --once t-cont % $ bibtex t-cont % $ texexec t-cont \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=xampl] \starttext As \cite[article-full] already indicated, bibtex is a \LaTeX-centric program. \completepublications \stoptext ------------------------------------- Following instructions: ------------------------------------- > texexec --once bibdemo TeXExec | processing document 'bibdemo' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | writing option file bibdemo.top TeXExec | using randomseed 595 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.7 (MiKTeX 2.7) entering extended mode (bibdemo.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.28 21:28 MKII fmt: 2008.2.18 int: english/english [....] Output written on bibdemo.pdf (2 pages, 42919 bytes). Transcript written on bibdemo.log. pdftex: Virtual memory exhausted while trying to reserve 8 bytes for table ???. TeXExec | runtime: 2.828 ------------------------------------------- I don't see this on my linux machines with older versions of ConTeXt and pdftex. Simple LaTeX documents and ConTeXt documents that don't use the bib module don't give the error, so it looks like the bib module reveals a bug in pdftex-1.40.n, for some n larger than 3. -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

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Bug in core-spa.tex
by Aditya Mahajan 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hi Hans, Currently \setupindenting[reset] gives an error. This is because of a typo in core-spa.tex. This is the corrected definition. \defineindentingmethod [\v!reset] {\indentfirstparagraphtrue \parindent\zeropoint%AM was \zerocount \chardef\indentingtoggle\zerocount} Aditya

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MKII font-chi.tex bug fix
by Yue Wang 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hi, there I am still using MKII to do Chinese typesetting. As I mentioned before, User should use this in their source files to produce correct spaces between the chinese characters and english words 中文English\ 中文 instead of 中文 English 中文 or 中文English中文 which is quite annoying. In order to remove this constraint, here is what I have found out: Uncomment line 248 and line 267 of font-chi.tex will do. --- font-chi.tex.orig 2008-02-23 11:32:55.000000000 +0800 +++ font-chi.tex 2008-02-23 11:30:48.000000000 +0800 @@ -245,7 +245,6 @@ \insertchineseglyph \ifcase\chineseAstatus\relax \hskip\chineseinterglyphskip % unknown - \hskip\chinesesurroundskip \ifcase\chineseSstatus \hskip\chineseSsignal \or @@ -264,7 +263,6 @@ \hskip\chineseRsignal \or \hskip\chineseinterglyphskip % space - \hskip\chinesesurroundskip \hskip\chineseSsignal \fi \or % left This patch works pretty good on most of the cases if you use 中文 English 中文. however, 中文English中文 makes no space between chinese and English. and changing the \chinesesurroundskip will only affect the space after English. But it works now. I hope this information helpful. Maybe ConTeXt experts can make more improvements in the future and test from ConTeXt users are helpful. Yue Wang

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bug in typeset table in Chinese
by Yue Wang 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hi, I find that ConTeXt fails to typeset Chinese table right. Here is the TeX source: \enableregime[utf] \usemodule[units] \usemodule[chinese] \starttext \placetable[here][]{通風模式} \starttable[|c|c|c|] \NC 時間 \NC 通風模式 \NC 室內源 \NC\SR \HL \NC 0:00-8:00 \NC 自然通風 $a=0.5 \Per\Hour$ \NC 無 \NC\FR \NC 8:00-18:00 \NC 機械通風 $n=5 \Per\Hour$ \NC 打印機每小時的起始十分鐘工作\NC\MR \NC 18:00-24:00 \NC 自然通風 $a=0.5 \Per\Hour$ \NC 無 \NC\LR \stoptable \stoptext If everything in the table is English then ConTeXt typeset it right. but in this table all the chinese are aligned left, not centered. Yue Wang

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c-code
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hallo, some times ago, I tried to use the module 'verb-c' but something like the following didn't work: \usemodule[verb-c] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startC "*\0" \stopC \stoptext Wolfgang Schuster told me, not to use 'verb-c' and to use for example: \setupcolors[state=start] \definetyping[C][option=C] \starttext \startC "*\0" \stopC \stoptext The problematic C-code is typeset ok here, but the colorscheme used, doesn't fit to C-code rather to TeX-Code. How can this be changed? Wolfgang

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