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Wiki page about emacs-muse updated
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 31 May '08

31 May '08

Hi all, The page on the wiki about emacs-muse and ConTeXt has been updated to show how you can use Thomas Schmitz's presentation module within muse: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_and_emacs-muse enjoy! -- Jean

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pdf forms
by Bernhard Boser 30 May '08

30 May '08

I wrote a simple context file for pdf form filling. Translates fine, but the resulting pdf simply shows text but no fillable forms. What's needed to actually get forms? Here's the tex code: % interface=en tex=pdfetex output=pdftex \starttext Field 1: \fillinfield[name]{text that defines field length} \definefield [Email] [line] [ShortLine] [] [pragma(a)wxs.nl] Field 2: \field [Email] [your email] \stoptext Thanks! Bernhard

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[Fwd: problem with context]
by Hans Hagen 29 May '08

29 May '08

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Out of office: ntg-context Digest, Vol 47, Issue 62
by rordorf＠mdpi.org 29 May '08

29 May '08

I am out of office and will return on Thursday, 29 May 2008. Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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American-style letters with t-letter?
by David Rogers 29 May '08

29 May '08

Hi all (but especially Wolfgang Schuster): I'd like to use Wolfgang's t-letter module to set up a very basic American-style letter. I see (by looking into t-letter.tex) that there are at least plans for this to be possible. Is there a little example anywhere of how to get started? (Really, for my purposes, the basic DIN example as given in lm.pdf is pretty good - just wondering what the other possibility looks like.) Thanks David

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mplib/metafun broken in latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi Hans and Taco, it looks like mplib is broken in the latest beta. Simple file: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw fullcircle scaled 5cm ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext produces no output. I tested on several different computers, so it doesn't look like a misconfiguration. My Macbook compiled the file fine with a context version from last week; after updating, a get an empty pdf. All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex
by Michael.Urban＠jpl.nasa.gov 28 May '08

28 May '08

text and non text and such > > If he use \retype the table works. > Thanks; and so does \asciistr I cannot find documentation on \retype, \asciistr, nor \simplifytype ; in which situations should these be used?

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Re: [NTG-context] InDesign
by Charles P. Schaum 28 May '08

28 May '08

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 08:24 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > how do they deal with non compatible new features; for instance, at > bachotek i learned that some otf features that are not supported in > older versions are supported in new ones (or are supported > differently); > is there some compatibility mode (i.e. is the old behavior still > present > and the ID/IC version number stored in the document?) > I asked those wiser than I and this is what professional expectations tend to be: 1. Versioning within a document (track changes) basically becomes a non-entity by production; that is local and removed within a production cycle and tends to be wholly separated from version issues. Also, product cycles are generally tagged to a version of a program and therefore multiple versions need to be able to coexist in the case where the new version may not be backward-compatible with the old. With Quark, one could only count on backward compatibility over one version bump. After that, compatibility would diminish so that Quark 4.0 would not open Quark 1.0 docs. Makes Microsoft's format versioning seem positively user-friendly by comparison. The firm I work for has only started with the current InDesign/CS3 suite and relies on the quark plugin to do the work. Especially in Quark, third-party plugins were the most fragile. We expect, however, that Indesign will probably follow Quark in failing to be too bacwardly-compatible, opening well only the prior version docs and then saving them as current. That's one of the things that drove my personal computing away from Windows to Linux/FreeBSD. I was using an English firm's Creative Suite knock-off product (Serif) and realized that their business plan called for making shoddy products and substituting version bumps for bugfixes. I can only bleed so much to sate someone's greed and I found OSS to be far friendlier regarding version compatibility, bugfixes and robustness. AFAIK no real pressure for a compatibility mode exists in the commercial DTP sector. senecadesign.com has good InCopy resources and archives. Charles

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mapper and xml
by luigi scarso 28 May '08

28 May '08

hi, from mail "Greek in luatex" (Date: 2007-09-13 19:24:15 GMT ) following snippet works good, but I'm not able to make it work under xml processing with \startxmlsetups mynode .... \stopxmlsetups In particulary, I have \u2022 unicode char utf-8 encoding which I would like to map to \item. Replacing \u2022 with \item in xml source cause a literal \item to appear in text node, and hence in pdf output. Using mapper above produce only a literal \stopbabelgreek with no text at all. Thanks in advance \defineremapper[babelgreek] \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`a]{\alpha} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`b]{\beta} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`c]{\gamma} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`d]{OEPS} \starttext [\startbabelgreek a b c some stuff here \blank[big] oeps b d \stopbabelgreek] [\babelgreek{some stuff here}] \stoptext -- luigi

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Out of office: ntg-context Digest, Vol 47, Issue 59
by rordorf＠mdpi.org 28 May '08

28 May '08

I am out of office and will return on Thursday, 29 May 2008. Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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