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mpost update in minimal windows
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hallo, I tried to update my metapost executable in the Windows ConTeXt minimal. In the bin dir I found both mpost.exe (Version 1.000-rc1) and a mpost.dll In the archive 'metapost-1.002-windows.zip' there is mpost.exe (Version 1.002 (Web2C 7.5.5)) and no dll So I downloaded 'mplib-alpha-0.20-win32.zip' but there is an other exe newpost.exe (Version 1.002 (Cweb version 0.20)) and no dll So I wonder where I can find the matching dll and which exe above is the right one. There is an other strange thing: In the aktuell 'cont-win.zip' is a 'texmfstart.exe' dated 2007-08-07 with about 700 KB. But the 'texmfstart.exe' in my bin dir, which is installed 7 or 8 months ago ist dated 2007-08-08 and much bigger (~900KB). The next thing I wanted to do ist to update LuaTeX. Ohjeohje?! Wolfgang Musensturm-Verlag -- Postfach 1249 -- 36126 Gersfeld >>> http://www.musensturm.de

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Footnote in section: Compilation stops on TUO file
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

I don't understand this error: (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tst.tex) interaction : active(./prd_05.tuo) (./prd_05.tuo! Improper alphabetic constant.<to be read again> \footnote <argument> \ifnum `\footnote =255 32 \else `\footnote \fi \utfdiv #1->\the \numexpr \ifcase \numexpr #1 \relax 0\else (#1- \utf@g )/\utf... \PDFunicodechar ...bers \@EA {\number \utfdiv {#1} }\@EA \lchexnumbers \@EA {... \nodoPDFuni ...ar {\ifnum `#1=255 32\else `#1 \fi } \doPDFuni \bookmarktext ...-?und?Erziehungsauftrag \footnote {H.?P.,? Humanist?R......l.176 ...ion for Europe}{2--0-7-0-0-0-0-0--49} {50} %? eNo pages of output. It seems to be caused by this line, i.e. by the footnote: \section{Bildungs- und Erziehungsauftrag\footnote{H. P., Humanist Road to European Citizenship, Zitate aus Verfassungen, 15.\,12.\,2007}} And in the TUO file there's: \mainreference{}{fnt:t:5}{2--0-6-5-0-0-0-0--45}{46}{}%\pospxywhd{text: 47}{47}{42.67912pt}{62.59607pt}{327.20668pt}{489.38742pt}{0.0pt}% \listentry{subsection}{76}{}{Baden-Württemberg}{2--0-6-6-16-0-0-0--46} {47}%\listentry{subsection}{77}{}{Bayern}{2--0-6-6-17-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{subsection}{78}{}{Brandenburg}{2--0-6-6-18-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{subsection}{79}{}{Berlin}{2--0-6-6-19-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{subsection}{80}{}{Bremen}{2--0-6-6-20-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{section}{81}{}{Bildungs- und Erziehungsauftrag\footnote {H. P., Humanist Road to European Citizenship, Zitate aus Verfassungen, 15.\,12.\,2007}}{2--0-6-7-0-0-0-0--46}{47}% \mainreference{}{fnt:f:6}{2--0-6-7-0-0-0-0--46}{47}{}%\listentry {subsection}{115}{}{Hessen}{2--0-6-7-34-0-0-0--46}{47}%\listentry {subsection}{116}{}{Mecklenburg-Vorpommern}{2--0-6-7-35-0-0-0--46} {47}%\listentry{subsection}{117}{}{Niedersachsen} {2--0-6-7-36-0-0-0--46}{47}% What's wrong? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Streams in two columns
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

I'm trying to typeset English and German texts in two columns. With the following example every bilingual section goes on a new page. How can I avoid that? (Using only "columns" instead of "columnsets" I get single-section pages with alternating languages.) %% setup \definecolumnset[twocol][n=2] \setuphead[chapter][page=no, number=no, align=right] \usemodule[streams] % example from the streams module % only enhanced by columnset \def\StartCouple{\page\startcolumnset[twocol]\SwitchToNormal} \def\StopCouple {\SwitchToNormal \SynchronizeLeftAndRight \FlushLeftAndRight\stopcolumnset} \def\Original {\SwitchToNormal\SynchronizeLeftAndRight\SwitchToLeft} \def\Translation{\SwitchToRight} %% text snippet \StartCouple \Original\de \chapter{Ein säkulares Europa -- der Weg zur europäischen Staatsbürgerlichkeit} \Translation\en \chapter{A Secular Europe -- the Road to European Citizenship} \Original\de Zum 50. Jahrestag der Unterzeichnung der Römischen Verträge der Europäischen Union hat die European Humanist Federation am 25. März 2007 die Brüsseler Erklärung veröffentlicht. Hierin wird nochmals bekräftigt, dass Europa auf einer Vielzahl von Kulturen und Traditionen beruht, und seine Bürger der Geschichtsklitterung vom christlichen Abendland entgegenwirken müssen. \Translation\en At the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Rome treaties which established the European Union the European Humanist Federation published the Brussels declaration. It affirms once more Europe’s foundation to consist of many cultures and traditions and reminds its citizens to work against the biased historical account of the Christian occident. \StopCouple Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Overlay caption placement
by Dave 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hi all, I have a few pdf figures that I'm including in a large report that are essentially full page (portrait) diagrams. However, they each have blank space in the lower right corner and I was thinking that it would be nice to put the caption in this spot. Is there a way to overlay a caption on top of a floating figure? Ideally, I'd like to be able to provide an x,y offset location for these captions in cm. Is there something I'm missing in setupcaption? Cheers, Dave

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unknown reference fnt:f:50
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hi! I have compiled my file but it stopped on page 14 with the log file (bottom of the message) saying "unknown reference" I remarked that hyphenation patterns for portuguese do this hypenation li-gar-am instead of li-ga-ram. How can I correct that? I remarked that hyphenation for pronominal verbs in portuguese is also incorrect (though wordprocessors do that as well) because when, say, this verb "amo-te" is broken across two lines it should be hyphenated this way amo- -te A fix will be very welcomed. armando i.t., there should be two hyphens sbreaks this ver) adsm@adsm:~/Documents> texexec --xtx augusto_eduardo_nunes31mart.tex TeXExec | processing document 'augusto_eduardo_nunes31mart.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file augusto_eduardo_nunes31mart.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1411 TeXExec | tex engine: xetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) (WARNING: translate-file "natural.tcx" ignored) entering extended mode (./augusto_eduardo_nunes31mart.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2007.9.22 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded 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Various ConTeXt Questions
by Edd Barrett 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hi there, I am taking a look at conTeXt as a means of typesetting documents with more advanced page layouts which otherwise would be produced with desktop publishing suites. I am very new to conTeXt, so I know very little about it. The only documentation I have been able to find on the internet is: ConTeXt Garden ConTeXt an excursion ConTeXt : The manual I have been sifting through these for a while, and whilst the documentation is good, I still have questions. I must apologise if I missed the answers in the docs or if the questions are just plain dumb. 1) Is there a way to make ConTeXt stricter? It seem that ConTeXt will not complain if you misspell the names of colours, layers, overlays etc. I would rather it did. 2) Is there a way to overlay many layers/overlays at one place. It seems using background= can only take 1 layer/overlay. Even better if I could offset the layer/overlay from an origin. 3) I have had difficulty pushing the whole layout including the margin to the right about 2cm. I have tried using setuplayout to alter leftedge, leftedgedistance and backspace. Is that not the way to do it? 3a) Similarly I would like to make the textheight longer so that the footer is about 1cm from the bottom of the page. I have had no luck in setting textheight using setuplayout. 4) Is there a module to parse CVS tags, like the RCS package for laTeX? 5) Can I use OpenType and TrueType fonts in ConTeXt? Ideally via fontspec. 6) Is there a book on ConTeXt for beginners aside from what I have already listed above? 7) Can I specify RGB colours in th 0 <= x <= 255 format? So far I have had to write a script to help me convert them. 8) Is anyone proficient with ConTeXt going to the Cork TeX User Group meeting? Thanks. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

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How to make an epigragh?
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hello! I want to do an epigraph (a small quotation with an identationation of, say, 6 or more cm) the beginning of a chapter: How I can I do it? (sorry but didn't understand it from the manuals. Thanks Armando

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how to NOT reset subsection ONLY ??
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hi, please have a look a this: \setupsection[section-2][conversion=numbers] \setupsection[section-3][conversion=numbers,previousnumber=no] \setupsection[section-4][conversion=numbers,previousnumber=no] \setupsection[section-5][conversion=numbers,previousnumber=no] \setuphead[section][resetnumber=no] \starttext \chapter{aa} \section{bbb} \subsection{ccc} \section{bbb} \subsection{ccc} \subsubsection{sss} \chapter{aa} \section{bbb} \subsection{(<-should be 3) ccc} \section{bbb} \subsection{(<-should be 4) ccc} \subsubsection{ddd} \stoptext trying to avoid resetting subsection by \setuphead[section] [resetnumber=no] fails: chapter resets everything! but chapter should only reset section and not subsection too!! any idea how to solve this problem (without fiddling with every appearance of subsection individually)?? Thank you, Steffen

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placecontent and arranging
by Andrea Valle 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

(Sorry, always me) I have such a structure \startproduct prd_tSCIRMA \project project_scMaterials \component licence \component prima {\switchtobodyfont[20pt] Sommario}\blank \placecontent \component c_00_introduzione \component c_01_scGrado0 \component c_03_oggetti % etc \stopproduct Everything works perfectly if I arrange one page for sheet, e.g. \setuppapersize[A5][A5] or \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] If have more pages for sheet, \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] \setuparranging[2*2] there's no table of content in the pdf. ? Many thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong) -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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staticMPfigure
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hallo, the following example is a cooked down version of something I found on the net. Compiling this %------------------------------------------------ \setupcolors[state=start] \forceMPTEXcheck{LABEL} \startMPinclusions vardef LABEL@\#(expr s, p)= label@\#(textext("% \framed[width=1.5cm]{" & s & "}"),p) enddef ; \stopMPinclusions \startstaticMPfigure{tst} LABEL.llft("Test", (1,1) ) ; \stopstaticMPfigure \starttext \midaligned{\usestaticMPfigure[tst]} \stoptext %------------------------------------------------ I got the following error: %------------------------------------------------ ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \@MPG@@@. <to be read again> ( <argument> vardef LABEL@##( expr s, p)= label@##(textext("\framed [width=1.5c... \dodostartuseMPgraphic ...useMPgraphic {#1}{#2}{#3 }}\elabelgroup \dodostartMPpage ...aphic {@@}#1\stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic {@@}\dostopf... l.14 endfig; \stopMPpage %------------------------------------------------ What is wrong here? Wolfgang

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