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Setting up a project
by Joel C. Salomon 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

I'm trying a fairly ambitious project to teach myself practical ConTeXt -- typesetting a book I'm writing. As per <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Project_structure>, I've created files for the project, environment, product, and component. The component file (preface.tex) is the only one with (dummy) content right now. Side questions: Does a project with a single product really require the full hierarchy? Is there a dummy layout I can put into the environment file to test the set-up? Now I want to set up the layout. An example of what I'm trying to achieve is at <http://typophile.com/files/Layout.pdf>, currently done in OpenOffice. I'm not yet asking about fonts; I just want to put the text in the correct places. It doesn't seem that 6×9 (inches) is a built-in size, so my environment file (env_firefly.tex) needs to look something like: \startenvironment env_firefly \definepapersize[sixbynine][ width=6in,height=9in, offset=???,scale=???] \setuppapersize[sixbynine][sixbynine] \setuplayout[... ...] \stopenvironment Do I need to define & name the paper size, or is putting it in the \setuplayout sufficient? What are the "offset" & "scale" in the paper size? I want to have 6″×9″ trim, inner margin of 48pt, outer margin 96pt, top margin 72pt, bottom margin 144pt for starters. Headers and footers, when they exist, are allocated 12 points height and are 12pt away from the text. (See the linked-to example.) I have read several of the manuals, I'm just having trouble putting it all together. Also, I'm not looking for a recipe but guides on developing the layout myself so I can understand it. Thanks, --Joel

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Announcement - Windows Installer 1.1
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hello, ANNOUNCEMENT Mojca and I have updated the Windows installer for context. http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalSet… It downloads latest distributive files, makes formats, and sets global OS vars. Tested with all engines. Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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unable update context minimal
by raven aloof 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hi everybody... I downloaded 'contex-setup-linux-64.zip minimals' and I have not had any problem to install it; but, when I try to make 'ctxtools --update', it generates.: -------------------- /opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/texmfstart:1755: warning: Insegure world writable dir /tmp/ in PATH, mode 041777 /op/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/base/system.rb:16:warning: Insegure world writable dir /tmp/ in PATH, mode 041777 CtxTools | updating /opt/context/tex/texmf-context:/opt/context/tex/texmf CtxTools | unable to change to /opt/context/tex/texmf-context/:/opt/context/tex/texmf -------------------- I am owner of '/opt/context' and '/tmp dir' are into '/opt/context/tmp' with '1777 permissions'. The configuration files are.: -------------------- TEXMFCACHE=/opt/contex/tmp TEXMFTEMP=$TEXMFCACHE TEXMF_HOME=/opt/context/tex TEXMF_BIN=${TEXMF_HOME}/texmf-linux-64/bin PATH=$TEXMFCACHE:$TEXMFTEMP:$TEXMF_HOME:$TEXMF_BIN:$PATH export TEXMFCACHE TEXMFTEMP TEXMF_HOME TEXMF_BIN PATH -------------------- The 'luatex', 'xetex', ... are correct; i.e.: -------------------- luatex --version | head -1 This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.2-2007121718 xetex --version | head -1 XeTeX 3.141592-2.2-0.997 (Web2C 7.5.6) -------------------- How do I update 'contex', 'luatex', ...? Or do I download a minimum version whenever I want to update, again and again? Huge work guys and thanks for possible help

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(mkii) language-specific options for \placeregister[index] ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi, the following (with mkii) is probably not the most pressuring topic to most of you ... apologies! Although I have set \mainlanguage[de] the register seems to be unaffected. All my cultural heritage (i.e. the Umaut) is ignored!!! o( The problem is the sorting – keywords containing umlauts seem to be sorted after "e": Bestimmung Bühler Bildung Are there language-specific arguments/options for \placeregister[index]? Thanks, Steffen

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\setuplayout with marking but WITHOUT number
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi, see the following example, please: \definepapersize[Small][width=15cm,height=7.5cm] \setuppapersize[Small][A46,landscape] \setuplayout [width=15cm,height=7.5cm,backspace=-0cm, location=middle,marking=on,grid=no] \starttext\setupheadertexts[] \centerline{TEXT} \stoptext How do I get rid of the four little "1" ??? Steffen

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bib module in pdftex and luatex
by Thomas A. Schmitz 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi all (esp. Taco ;-), here's a very fundamental question about the bib-module: my main bib file now has ~ 1,700 entries. When I tried to compile a file which includes bibliographic references in mkii, I got this error: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=60000]. \@@shortsectionnumber ...\c!conversion \endcsname \relax \@EA \ifx \csname \... \@@longsectionnumber ...\@@shortsectionnumber {#1} \fi \finalsectionnumber ...alue {\@@sectie \c!number } \fi \fi \dodododoconstructhead ...er {\someheadconversion }\getvalue {\??ko #1\c!inb... l.162 \section{Textausgaben} ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! The same file compiles without errors in mkiv. So I'm curious: Is it possible that the bib file is just too large for mkii? Or is it more probable that there's some error in it such as missing crossref etc? Does anyone have experience with large bib files and the bib module? Thanks, and best wishes Thomas

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a question about s-pre-61.tex
by Dalyoung Jeong 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Dear all, I tried to compile s-pre-61.tex to see the interaction. At the first time, I got the font error. It had a problem to use Optima-nova font. I changed the bodyfont to pagella in type-gyr.tex file and tried again. It runs without the error, but it didn't make pdf output. I checked the log file and found the following strange message (1),(2), and (3). ... (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-gyr.tex) interaction : active color : mpcmyk color space is supported color : mpspot color space is supported color : system rgb is global activated system : mark Topic defined [chapter] system : mark Topicnumber defined [chapternumber] system : mark Nopic defined [title] system : mark Nopicnumber defined [titlenumber] ) systems : invalid \starttext...\stoptext structure <------------------------------------(1) systems : end file test-pre-61 at line 0 <------------------------------------(2) system : cont-err loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) No pages of output. Transcript written on test-pre-61.log. TeXUtil | parsing file test-pre-61.tui TeXUtil | check loading of file 'test-pre-61', begin/end problem <------------------------(3) TeXUtil | shortcuts : 0 ..... What is wrong in my tries? I am using MacTeX(TeXLive2007) and OSX 10.5. Thank you, Best regards, Dalyoung

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A ruby script to create the font for Chinese fonts
by Zhichu Chen 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi, Although Hans has made the perfect ruby script "ttf2uni.rb" that meets most of our needs, I just found that "sometimes" embedding ttf files is very very slow, so I made some tiny modifications on it. It will convert an oft file to a ttf file if no ttf files are found in the names of the arguments, then use ttf2pt1 to span it into multiple type1 binaries with fontforge. Actually the only thing we need is the uni-??.enc, ????.tfm, ????.pfb, ????.map and ????.afm, I don't know what is the ????.enc files can do but I still kept them in a folder. Anyway, this script only works on Linux, because I'm bad at ruby and have to use some shell command to do what I need, like moving files into a sub-directory, I think maybe use File.foreach can do it but I never succeed. -- 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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minimals x86_64 texlua binary
by Martin Pokorny 21 Dec '07

21 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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