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showframe - showgrid = 2pt ??
by Steffen Wolfrum 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hans, I know I've asked you this before ... I just can't find the answer anymore ;o( Look at line 43: \newdimen\XVertikal \XVertikal=12pt \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=\XVertikal] \setuplayout [width=113mm,height=\the\dimexpr48\XVertikal-2pt\relax, backspace=20mm,topspace=15mm, header=\XVertikal,headerdistance=0.5\XVertikal, footer=3.5\XVertikal,footerdistance=0pt, location=middle,marking=on,grid=yes] \showframe \showgrid \starttext bla \stoptext ... when "height" is made 2pt smaller then it fits: \newdimen\XVertikal \XVertikal=12pt \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=\XVertikal] \setuplayout [width=113mm,height=\the\dimexpr48\XVertikal-2pt\relax, backspace=20mm,topspace=15mm, header=\XVertikal,headerdistance=0.5\XVertikal, footer=3.5\XVertikal,footerdistance=0pt, location=middle,marking=on,grid=yes] \showframe \showgrid \starttext bla \stoptext Does this difference has a specific purpose? Would you recommend *not* to use the second? Steffen

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active strings in luatex?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Dear Hans and Taco, This may be of general interest to the Europeans (and indirectly relates to the \sh@ft email): I need the following: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH TILDE;004C 0303 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH TILDE;006C 0303 The proposal is still under consideration for lithuanian and not yet in unicode. In luatex can I make a definition such that such that the string U004C U0303 (l ̃) is always treated as l with tilde above, taking into account italics and without using \~l (which does not work in, eg, footnote)? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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typesetting underscore
by Gour 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi! Yesterday I played a bit with emacs' muse mode which has option to 'publish' to ConTeXt, but its output was wailing when texeexec-ing due to use of \textunderscore (option in muse). Today I discussed the issue on muse mailing list, got help and the following remark: '...Context gurus don't seem to imagine you can use "_" elsewhere than in math mode btw'. I looked at ConTeXt docs (excursion and manual), as well as wiki on contextgarden, but was not able to find more about what is the status of underscore '_' char in ConTeXt and is the above remark true? My usage of '_' in muse document was for preparing tables of some library functions and, as it is often the case in software, there is usually some prefix for all library functions as eg. gtk_xxxxx for GTK+ toolkit. Sincerely, Gour

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Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro
by Carsten Fechtmann 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Hello everyone, first off: I am new to ConTeXt (even if not so new to LaTeX) and would like to transfer some of my old macros to ConTeXt... I am well aware, that this means re-programming (most) of them. So be it. Furthermore, I am not sure if this is really the right way (read ConTeXt Way) to do it. It just looked like a good idea at the time ... However, I just hit a snuff with the following: If one places \NewIssue[Some Time] somewhere in the text, it should result in a new (issue / timestamp) to be generated, which can then placed in a list of issues / changes. I also want to be able to make use of the last value Issue to be placed in the header, same goes for the last timestamp Now this is how I went out to do this in ConTeXt (maybe wrongly so?) following the manual and some examples on contextwiki %--------------- code below ----------------------- \definesynonyms[Issue][issues][\IssueText][\IssueDate] \setupsynonyms[Issue][criterium=all] \newcounter\IssueCounter \definenumber[IssueNumber] \def\TempIssueText{% %% This was the (seemingly) only way to get any value beside 0 %% from \getnumber within doAddIssue %% Original place for \incrementnumber[IssueNumber] Issue~\getnumber[IssueNumber]: } \def\NewIssue{\dosingleargument\doNewIssue} \def\doNewIssue[#1]{% \increment\IssueCounter % This one works correctly. %% Alternative place for %\incrementnumber[IssueNumber] %% if placed here instead of in \TempIssueText %% a DIFFERENT, but still wrong result comes out %% that is: Debug shows the right progression, %% but ALL "Issue x" Numbers are set to the last one Debug: \IssueCounter / \getnumber[IssueNumber]% %% but alas I can't seem to make this work with the following lines :-( \doifempty{#1}{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{\TempIssueText}{\currentdate}} \doifnotempty{#1}{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{\TempIssueText}{#1}} %% Note: Using \dofiemptyelse gives the same result, %% I just wanted to make sure here that I am /really/ not calling it twice, %% somehow, by being able to disable each case, separately and definitely. -- \IssueCounter / \getnumber[IssueNumber] \crlf } % -- -- -- -- -- -- \starttext \NewIssue[January 9, 2008] \NewIssue[January 10, 2008] \NewIssue % January 11, 2008 List of issue \# and dates: \placelistofissues \blank \IssueDate{\IssueCounter} % produces correct result in either case \stoptext %--------------- code above ----------------------- Result as printed out by original version ---------------------------------------------- Debug: 1/ 0 – 1/ 0 Debug: 2/ 0 – 2/ 0 Debug: 3/ 0 – 3/ 0 List of issue # and dates: Issue 2: January 9, 2008 Issue 4: January 10, 2008 Issue 6: January 11, 2008 January 11, 2008 ------------------------------ So while \IssueCounter is updated correctly and used with the right values, \getnumber[IssueNumber] always sees / reports the original value However, the value in \placelistofissues are twice what they should be?! This is changed if one places \incrementnumber[IssueNumber] INSIDE of \doAddIssue Here, \getnumber[IssueNumber] does report the right value (same as IssueCounter) However, in that case the result looks like this: Result as printed out by alternative version ---------------------------------------------- Debug: 1/ 1 – 1/ 1 Debug: 2/ 2 – 2/ 2 Debug: 3/ 3 – 3/ 3 List of issue # and dates: Issue 3: January 9, 2008 Issue 3: January 10, 2008 Issue 3: January 11, 2008 January 11, 2008 ------------------------ In short, while now the value of \getnumber[IssueNumber] is correct before and after, its value in \placelistofissues is always the last value, i.e. equal to the total number of issues. And this does NOT even change, when one replaces Issue~\getnumber[IssueNumber]: Issue~\IssueCounter: in \TempIssueText So for some reason, \TempIssueText is called twice ? How? Where? Unfortunately, my ConTeXt.foo is not yet good enough to make it over the TeX.bar here as I haven't found a way to make this work (preferably with \IssueCounter as all this \XXXnumber stuff does not seem to work the way I think it should, anyway...) And yes, ANY help with this is very welcome by now Sincerely Carsten P.S: Context version is 2007.01.12 15:56 / TeXlive / OS X

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Unicode.otf
by luigi scarso 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

>There is a better font if you need only symbols, choose the "Unicode > Symbols" link on the following page. > > http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ > I'm trying to use Unicode.otf from http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d I just copied it into texmf/fonts/opentype/unicodesymbols/Unicode.otf run luatools --generate and test %%%test0012.tex \definefont[WhatEver][Unicode] \starttext \WhatEver Hello \stoptext with texmfstart texexec --luatex test0012.tex Result: !luaTeX error (file /opt/texlive/ContextMKiv/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/unicodesymbols/Unicode.otf): can't find table `CFF ' ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! (I'm using This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.2-2007121721 (Web2C 7.5.6) ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.02 14:18 MKIV fmt: 2008.1.10 int: english/english ) Hence, I saved Unicode.otf as UnicodeSymbols.otf with fontforge (saved as Opentype CFF) %%%test0012.tex \definefont[WhatEver][UnicodeSymbol at 100pt] \starttext \WhatEver Hello \stoptext now works . Do I have make some mistake ? And How can I quicky access symbols like U+25c9 ? -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Installing Type 1 fonts into ConTeXt
by Pascal de Bruijn 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi, I'm trying to install Type 1 fonts into ConTeXt, I'm using texfont, and all but one font properly generate: Good: \starttyping \definefontsynonym[Humanist777BT-BoldB][texnansi-hum777b][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[Humanist777BT-BoldItalicB][texnansi-hum777bi][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[Humanist777BT-ItalicB][texnansi-hum777i][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[Humanist777BT-RomanB][texnansi-hum777n][encoding=texnansi] \stoptyping Bad: \starttyping \definefontsynonym[][texnansi-zhu601bi][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[ZapfHumanist601BT-Bold][texnansi-zhum601b][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[ZapfHumanist601BT-Italic][texnansi-zhum601i][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[ZapfHumanist601BT-Roman][texnansi-zhum601n][encoding=texnansi] \stoptyping (Complete file attached) Does anybody have a clue why the first define went sour? Which tool is used to extract the metadata from the .pfb files? Also, I'm currently installing in ~/texmf, however, say I'd want to make these fonts available system-wide, what would be the correct place to move them? And texfont creates a series of .tex files (containing the above text), what is the properly location to put them? I don't want to copy these files into each project directory. Regards, Pascal de Bruijn

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beta & math
by Hans Hagen 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi, I uploaded a beta. (1) feature inheritance, example: \definefontfeature[default-a][tlig=yes] \definefontfeature[default-b][liga=yes] \definefontfeature[default-c][default-a,default-b][mode=node] \starttext \definedfont[Serif*default-c at 60pt]fiets -- \stoptext (2) unicode math this is work in progress and i need a few volunteers for building definition lists; all info goes in char-def.lua and math mappings are generated automatically; there will still be math vectors (like math-tex.tex) but using lua tables; an example is in math-ini.lua; for math stuff not in unicode we will use private unicodes in char-def; just a dumb test ... \starttext [[[\utfchar{8194}]]][[[\utfchar{8195}]]] \par $[[[\utfchar{8194}]]][[[\utfchar{8195}]]]$\par $\alpha\char945 \utfchar{945} abc 123$ \startXMLdata <oeps>((( )))</oeps> \stopXMLdata \stoptext Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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last version of context 2007
by Hans Hagen 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi, At 31/12/2007 we uploaded an end-of-year release .. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2007.12.31 we could not update the wiki in time, so here is a delayed happy new year Taco & Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Opportunity to include ConTeXt code into a LaTeXe environment
by cyberplaque 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi @ all, I'm glad about the opportunities ConTeXt gives me to create Coverpages. Now that I have a working example of a coverpage my question is, if it is possible to include that ConTeXt-code into Latex to create a book. If yes, how is the procedure to do so. Kind regards Martin

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Tables and misplaced \noalign
by Jürgen Strass 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi, when I'm trying to use tables (\starttables ... \stoptables), I'm often getting the following error: --- ! Misplaced \noalign. \TABLEnoalign ->\noalign \bgroup \let \noalign \relax \let \next = \insertTABLEtail ->\TABLEnoalign {\global \settrue \preventTABLEbreak \globa... \stoptables ...erepeattail \else \insertTABLEtail \fi \finishTABLE \egroup \... l.148 \stoptables --- On the mailing list archives, I already found some code posted by Hans Hagen that solves the issue in case of the "\starttable ... \stoptable" command. I had to insert the following code in my cont-new.tex file: \def\stoptable {\chuckTABLEautorow % before the tail \insertTABLEtail \TABLEnoalign{\globalletempty\@@TABLEhead}% \TABLEnoalign{\globalletempty\@@TABLEtail}% \finishTABLE \doifelsenothing\@@tiframe {\ifinsidefloat\else \stopbaselinecorrection \goodbreak % compensates all the nobreaks \fi} \stopframedcontent \egroup} For the "tables" commands it doesn't work though, even not after changing "\def\stoptable" to "\def\stoptables". Does anyone have an idea what to do about it? ctxtools gives the following details about my context version under WinXP: CtxTools | context version: 2007.01.12 15:56 (c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/tex/cont ext/base/context.tex) CtxTools | context version: 2007.01.12 15:56 (c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/tex/cont ext/base/cont-new.tex) Thanks in advance for any help, Jürgen

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