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beta
by Hans Hagen 14 Dec '07

14 Dec '07

Hi, I uploaded a new (mkiv) beta. The biggest change is that there are some optimizations in the cached mkiv font tables which should lead to (1) faster loading and (2) a smaller memory footprint. I may have messed some things in the process, so testing is appreciated. 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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hanging with \bTD[nc=3]
by Peter Münster 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

Hello, With the latest ConTeXt-versions (current and beta), the compilation of the following test-files hangs with 100% cpu-usage: % engine=luatex \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD[nc=3] x\eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext No problem with nc=2. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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LaTeX float pages in ConTeXt
by Santy, Michael 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

I've been playing around with the float placement options in ConTeXt, but I could find no way to enable "float pages". If you're not familiar with float pages, here's a quick blurb: "If there are too many floats to fit on a page, LaTeX pushes them on to the next page, and the next; eventually, floats may end up at the end of the document. If the [p] option has been provided to individual figures and tables, they may be pushed together onto a float page that has no text." - http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/bibliog/latex/floats.html I'm not interested in using \setupfloat[figure][default=page]. It forces all figures to a float page with one picture per page. In latex, the behavior that I desire can be specified with: \begin{figure}[htbp] \includegraphics[width=5.0in, height=3.0in]{myfile.jpg} \caption{Blah} \end{figure} Cheers, Mike

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Combining eps figures into a single document
by Dave 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

Hi all, I am not sure if there is an easy way to do this with a generic ConTeXt document but I thought I'd ask anyways. I have a folder full of identically sized data plots saved as eps/pdf files and I was wondering if there was a quick way to shrink and tile them into a multi-page document so that I get 15 plots per page (5 rows x 3 colums)? I have scripts that generate these plots and I literally have hundreds of them that I need to combine and print. Any ideas? Many thanks, Dave

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mkiv
by Hans Hagen 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

Hi, As a prelude to an independent language mechanism for mkiv (the tex part) I removes a few thingies. I was wondering ... is anyone using language specifics? Active quote stuff? Does that still make sense for mkiv? After all we can have more advanced exceptions and we have utf ... 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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[OT] Merry_Christmas_2007
by luigi scarso 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

ok, until the end of this year I will be a bit.. ahem, ..well , hard to say, busy around the world expecially in between 24 and 25 dec., It's a temporary job, only for this year, and I have no experience at all because it's my first time; so any comments and suggestions to improve the service would be appreciate. Please mail (not email, sorry) to Christmas_2007 Exactly_in_the_centre_of_North_Pole North_Pole http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/Merry_Christmas_2007 -- luigi ... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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extended dictionary / hyphenation patterns
by Steffen Wolfrum 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Hi, I guess German is famous for its monstrous compound words ;o( So I have a manually collected lists of hyphenation patterns (like "\hyphenation{Selbst-kon-troll-ein-rich-tung}"). This I'd like to keep as a two separate files: on for usage with the body-text set in \mainlanguage[deo] and one for \mainlanguage[de]. Is there a handy way to automatically assign and include one of these files (HyPold and HyPnew) to the usage of the respective \mainlanguage [deo] and [de] ? Steffen

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FLOWchart clipping or offset
by Johan Sandblom 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Consider this example. As it stands, the cells in the flow chart are clipped on the horizontal extremes. On the other hand if the offset is uncommented, a vertical offset is introduced which makes the bottom of the chart depart from the page (or at least it does in the real world use from which this is drawn). I remember horoffset from some context but it does not work here. Is there a solution I am missing? Johan \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \usemodule[chart] \starttext \setupFLOWcharts[dx=-17mm, dy=2mm, width=60mm, height=16mm, %% offset=17mm, % <-------Uncomment this ] \startFLOWchart[pa-er-cycle] \startFLOWcell \name {omgivning} \location {3,1} \shape {action} \text {Omgivning} \connection[lt]{sinnen} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {sinnen} \location {1,2} \shape {action} \text {Sinnesintryck} \connection[blp]{informationsbearbetning} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {informationsbearbetning} \location {3,3} \shape {action} \text {Informationsbearbetning} \connection[prb]{motor} \connection[nrt]{inkodning} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \framed{\FLOWchart[pa-er-cycle]} \stoptext -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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installing latest beta
by Alan Bowen 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

I have been unable to install the latest ConTeXt beta—both sudo texhash sudo fail (stall) when updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/ls-R... The last beta worked as expected and, so far as I know, there have been no changes in my installation. Any suggestions? Alan

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Unwanted information in PDF files
by Maurício 12 Dec '07

12 Dec '07

Hi, After generating a PDF from a .tex file, I changed the name of the resulting PDF to something else. But when I open that file in 'evince', it still shows the old file name. I opened that file in emacs in saw that I lot of info is stored in the PDF file: original file name, creation date, "generated by Context" etc. That can be a problem sometimes. For instance, someone wouldn't want to write a file like 'I_hate_my_job.tex' and then change the result to 'report_to_boss.pdf', just to see his manager opening the file and reading the first name. Or, in my situation, write a file with special Unicode characters and see evince show the file name as bogus characters. How can I instruct Context not to write anything inside the PDF file that I have not asked for? Thanks, Maurício

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