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problem with columns and TABLE
by Peter Münster 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hello, In the following example, the bottom of the table is outside the page. How could this be solved? \starttext \input tufte \startcolumns[2] \bTABLE[split=yes] \dorecurse{50}{\bTR\bTD bla\eTD\eTR} \eTABLE \stopcolumns \stoptext TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Arranging into Signatures?
by Michael.Urban＠jpl.nasa.gov 07 May '08

07 May '08

(I am still using mkii, which I suspect may matter in this case) I am able to produce rather nice booklets on US Letter paper, printing double-sided two-up pages that fold into a booklet and using texexec --arrange to make it work properly. For documents longer than about 32 pages, it isn't really practical to fold in half. What would y'all recommend if I want to arrange the pages into signatures, each containing about 32 pages, that can then be somehow bound together? An external PDF rearranger might be an option, I suppose.

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TOC columns
by Paul Gideon Dann 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi there, I've got a table of contents for a document that's split into two large sections. I'm trying to display a centered heading for each section, and subsections listed in two columns underneath each section heading. Hopefully this illustrates something of what I'm trying to achieve: \midaligned{Section1} \startcolumns[n=2] Subsection1 ... \stopcolumns \midaligned{Section2} \startcolumns[n=2] Subsection1 ... \stopcolumns Does anyone know how to automate this for a table of contents? Thanks for any help :) Paul

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processing xml
by Roger Mason 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello, I have a document converted from rtf to xml that I'd like to attempt to typeset using Context. As a starting point I tried to follow the procedure in a document from the wiki: mag-0008-1.pdf "Dealing with XML". Having copied the first example document and stylesheet from that article and generated sample-1.fx, I run: texexec --pdf --use=fx --xml sample-1.fx but it ends with: (/usr/local/context_minimal/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (/usr/local/context_minimal/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii)) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded system : module fx not found ) systems : system commands are enabled ) * I installed the minimal today from the wiki to be up to date before posting. Probably something has changed in the four years since mag-0008-1.pdf was written. If some kind soul would point me in the right direction I'll be very grateful. Roger

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How to define my own list entry?
by Zhichu Chen 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi everybody, I'm just writing a module to typeset the traditional Chinese books. Here is the thing: I use page-arrangement to put like 15 pages on one page or actually 30 pages on one page in a double-sided mode (I mean page 1 and page 2---which contain 15 mini-pages each---are on the same page), and yes I want to make a table of contents and some PDF bookmarks. But having searched the list, I find that I should use texexec --arrange file.tex to compile the file and get the real page number. That's not what I want. Because if I get one chapter on the second page, the page number is 31 rather than 2 which I really want it to be. And so do the bookmarks behave. If I click the bookmark of the first chapter, it will go to the 31st page of the PDF file if it has page 31. I don't really like the mess. I know it's normal, but I would like to know if there's any way to write the page counters I defined to the .tui or .tuo file so that I can totally handle them and display them on the contents and make the bookmarks not crazy any more. -- 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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bachotex
by Hans Hagen 07 May '08

07 May '08

for mac and windows users ... http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/bachotex2008/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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ConTeXt on MikTeX broken
by Mojca Miklavec 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hello, some time ago some MikTeX users have complained that ConTeXt doesn't work on MikTeX. It seems to be a problem with MikTeX itself since this workaround seems to solve the problem, at least temporary: ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" texexec (But apparently there are not many MikTeX users on the list anyway. Else more would have complained.) Mojca

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MetaPost 1.004 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 06 May '08

06 May '08

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ This release will also be available from CTAN soon, and it will be included in the next TeXLive. The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. The win32 package is intended for texlive or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2007. These executables will *not* work for miktex, sorry. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of the message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 1.004: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * The picture color component commands misbehaved in 1.003: the current (default) colormodel was not taken into consideration, so all colors had to be explicit for "redpart" etc. to work. (this bug is the one broke the graph.mp package) In 1.004 for "defaulted" colors, the suitable value in the current (default) colormodel is returned without any errors. This change also reverts to silently defaulting a 'black' color when asking for the redpart etc. of an object that cannot be colored at all. * The picture color component commands misbehaved in 1.003 in a different manner also: the defaults for uninitialized CMYK color picture parts were still assuming 'black' was defined as (1,1,1,1) instead of as (0,0,0,1). * The macro Gwithpc_ in the graph.mp package did not work properly with non-rgb colormodel objects. * plain.mp has a new macro, 'colorpart', that returns the color parts of a graphical object within a picture in a form suitable for feeding it back to 'withcolor'. * The latest kpathsea library from TeXLive is included. * There is now a separate manual for the boxes package (mpboxes.pdf). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, May 1, 2008.

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Font features not always working
by Wolfgang Schuster 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi, the features from OpenType fonts are not accesable for all fonts, I tried to use my old test case for Microsofts Cambria fonts and none of the features did work, also kerning is disabled. I put the files with the result from last year and the latest stable online. http://schuster.wolfgang.googlepages.com/files I saw this effect also in a few other fonts where I was unable to select features in the font like oldstyle or smallcaps. Wolfgang

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ConTeXt Minimals & NixoS
by Gour 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hello! Soon I plan to move to NixOS (http://nixos.org/) distro which uses purely functional package manager (Nix) and does not allow 'destructive' updates which happen with e.g. ConTeXt Minimals and rsync. I'd like to use Luatex and due to its rapid development I am interested to know whether it would be feasible to do rsync locally and then provide Minimals 'snapshot' ? (the question is how to deploy luatex via Minimals'distro'?) Anything what can be done to help with Minimals? Sincerely, Gour

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