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minimals x86_64 texlua binary
by Martin Pokorny 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

I just tried using the first_setup.sh script from http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-linux-64.zip and ran into a small problem with the texlua binary. Here's what happened when I ran the script: $ sudo ./first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done sent 95 bytes received 178 bytes 78.00 bytes/sec total size is 3594531 speedup is 13166.78 MtxRun | version 1.0.2 - 2007+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf-local/web2c from ///home/martin/luatex-cache/context/trees/d80510d450a3fa2a64df4d3741825f1d MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf/web2c from ///home/martin/luatex-cache/context/trees/3113242409ded67a0ad7bd508bd26609 MtxRun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.luareport >> update: start Error in lua file loading: /usr/local/share/texmf/context/bin/mtxrun:1398: 'popen' not supported To solve the problem I had to download the 32-bit linux texlua binary, and then changed first_setup.sh to copy the 32-bit binary into the bin sub-directory after the rsync call that fetches the 64-bit binary from the minimals web site. It seems that the installation went OK after that. I suspect that the 64-bit linux texlua binary on the web site is old, which also seems to be the case in comparing the timestamps on the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Thanks for making the minimals web site available. -- Martin

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Problems with using PPCHTEX in LaTeX
by Erik Stempel 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Dear Mr. Hagen, I have a problem with using PPCHTEX with LaTeX (MikTeX 2.6). After reporting this problem at GoogleGroups I get a message to report the problem directly to you. The problem is, that only the including of \usepackage{m-pictex, m-ch-de} makes six errors (pdflatex). The minimal example: \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{m-ch-de} \begin{document} Test \end{document} The errors: ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \def l.659 \unexpanded\def \complexstartchemical[#1]% ... ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of \unexpanded. <inserted text> } l.840 ... ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \edef l.1768 \definecomplexorsimple\chemical ... \edef \chemical {\noexpand \docomplexorsimple \@EA \noexpand \csname \ETC. ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of \unexpanded. <inserted text> } l.1867 ... ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \def l.1868 \unexpanded\def \chemicaloxidation#1#2#3% ... ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning text of \unexpanded. <inserted text> } l.2026 I tried to use etex.sty, m-pictex and pstricks instead of pictex, but without success. The running with latex and pstricks makes even 19 errors. What can I do? I hope you can help me and send you many thanks in advance. Sincerely Erik PS: Sorry because of my English. I know, it's not the best. If you can understand german, you can have a look at http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/8d675ad… where you can see the post at GoogleGroups.

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MKIV: µ in math-mode
by Peter Münster 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Hello, It would be nice, if $µ$ gave the same result as $\mu$. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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\version[temporary]
by Steffen Wolfrum 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Hi, I don't know how many of you know/use this command above. It is quite useful for finding over-full lines and for controlling index/register marks. Unfortunately sometime the info printed for "Registers" is really hard to read (see example below). \definepapersize[steffen][width=15.7cm,height=23.2cm] \setuppapersize[steffen][steffen] \setuplayout [width=113mm,height=576pt, backspace=20mm,topspace=15mm, header=12pt,headerdistance=6pt, footer=42pt,footerdistance=0pt, location=middle,marking=off,grid=no] \version[temporary] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{10}{text\footnote{note\index{keyword}}\par} \stoptext Thus, I'd like to ask: How can I 1) kill the "References" footnote (do't need it) 2) move the "Registers" info 2cm to the right in the margin? Thank you, Steffen

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SVG support
by Zeus Gómez Marmolejo 20 Dec '07

20 Dec '07

Hi all, I'm working with Inkscape and I would like to embed some figures directly in vector format. How do I do that?? I'm trying this: \externalfigure[system][type=svg][scale=1000] But a "dummy" image appears. Is there any svg support in context?! Regards, Zeus.

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stable new-minimals distribution?
by Santy, Michael 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

I see on the wiki that there are plans to create a "stable", "beta", and "broken" branches of the new minimals distribution on minimals.contextgarden.net. Is the eventual goal of this to replace the current mechanism for obtaining minimals and cont-tmf as zip files from Pragma? If so, when is this change over set to happen? Cheers, Mike

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About the indent after a displayed formula
by Longmin Wang 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Dear all, I found that if a paragraph is ended by a displayed formula, the first line of the next paragraph will not indent. It is a feature or bug? And how do I enable this indent? The following is a very simple example. Please note the second paragraph. \setupindenting[medium, yes] \starttext This is a test file. \startformula x^2+y^2=1. \stopformula This is a test file. This is a test file. \stoptext -- Longmin Wang <longminwang(a)gmail.com> Math. Dept., Nankai Univ., China http://math.nankai.edu.cn/~wanglm/ GnuPG-Key ID: 1024D/2A5CFA5C Fingerprint: 8587 1246 3AAD C185 D419 ADF1 B620 D8B8 2A5C FA5C

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Placing meaningful footnotes
by Zhichu Chen 19 Dec '07

19 Dec '07

Hi everybody, Right now I'm writing an article and in the title's block I wanna thank somebody and in the authors' block I wanna display the email addresses. And I want them done with footnotes with "set 2" conversion. When I use =========================================== \definenote[thanks][conversion=set 2] \definenote[email] [conversion=set 2, textstyle=type] =========================================== The footnotes are shown with two areas, one for the \thanks and another for the \email, and they all started with "*" symbol, I mean there're two footnotes noted by star-symbol. I know I can just use \setupfootnotes[conversion=set 2] and do all my job by only using \footnote macro, but it's just of curiosity, can I use those meaningful macros to do continuously numbered footnotes and displayed only one area at the bottom of the page. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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new mkiv
by Hans Hagen 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

I uploaded a new zip, only a few patches (transparency fix, multiple cnf file support, cid fix) 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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texexec completion script for zsh
by Aditya Mahajan 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

Hi, I just put together a simple completion script for texexec in zsh. Zsh can do some fancy completions with tab. I have written a completion script that gives some command line switches of texexec as part of tab completion in zsh. Here is what the output looks like http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Image:Screenshot-Terminal.png One can go between the different options by pressing tab. The script is at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Adityam#Zsh_completion This is my first attempt to write a zsh completion script. Any feedback is welcome. Aditya

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