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texlive-context problem on Ubuntu
by Majukatur 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

I'm having problems running ConTeXt on my Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty). I have installed the texlive and texlive-context packages from the ubuntu repository with apt-get. $ sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-context Everything fine up to this point. Then I tested the principal programs: $ tex --verbose $ latex --verbose $ texexec --verbose I've made page-tests with TeX and LaTeX without problems, but with ConTeXt the "thing" is different. texexec is installed on the system, but when I try to build a test-page (a very simple one) texexec fails. The code of my test file is the same I have found on the ConTeXt Wiki: hello.tex: \starttext Hello World \stoptext That's all. The resulting screen is too long to post it here, but the last lines show this: . . . ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.1 \starttext ? As you can see, texexec have problems finding the \starttext definition, I supose that this is related with the system paths, I've expended some time (several hours indeed) trying to figure out what the problem is and trying to fix it. I modify the texexec.ini with my system's texlive paths, and I've followed the instructions I've found on the ConTeXt Wiki but all was in vain. I get suscribed to this mailing list with the hope that somebody could tell me what's wrong and how can I fix this problem. thank you very much

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Tables & localfootnote alignment
by Dave 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

Hi all, I am trying to add footnotes to a table but need for them to be aligned on the left (flush) edge of the table. I've tried everything I can think of but I'm stuck (with deadlines looming). Below is a quick example.... Many thanks, Dave %%% % TeXExec | context source date: 2007.04.17 12:51 %%% setupcaption[table][location=top] \starttext % Portrait \startlocalfootnotes[n=0] \placetable [page] [table1] {Caption goes here} \placelegend { % Rules \setupTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[column][first][leftframe=off] \setupTABLE[column][last][rightframe=off] \setupTABLE[row][first][topframe=on,bottomframe=on] \setupTABLE[row][last][bottomframe=on] % Alignment \setupTABLE[column][1][align=right] \setupTABLE[column][2][align=right] \setupTABLE[column][3][align=right] % Width \setupTABLE[option=stretch] % Table \bTABLE % Heading \bTR\bTH Column 1\footnote{footnote for column 1} \eTH\bTH Column 2\footnote{fn 4 col 2} \eTH\bTH Description \eTH\eTR % Body \bTR\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\eTR \eTABLE } {\framed{% {\placelocalfootnotes} } \stoplocalfootnotes % Landscape \startlocalfootnotes[n=0] \placetable [90] [table2] {Caption goes here} \placelegend { % Rules \setupTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[column][first][leftframe=off] \setupTABLE[column][last][rightframe=off] \setupTABLE[row][first][topframe=on,bottomframe=on] \setupTABLE[row][last][bottomframe=on] % Alignment \setupTABLE[column][1][align=right,width=6cm] \setupTABLE[column][2][align=right,width=5cm] \setupTABLE[column][3][align=right,width=11cm] % Width \setupTABLE[option=stretch,textwidth=22cm] % Table \bTABLE % Heading \bTR\bTH Column 1\footnote{footnote for column 1} \eTH\bTH Column 2\footnote{fn 4 col 2} \eTH\bTH Description \eTH\eTR % Body \bTR\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\bTD test \eTD\eTR \eTABLE } {\framed{% {\placelocalfootnotes} } \stoplocalfootnotes \stoptext

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drawoptions in \startMPinclusions
by nicola 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Hi, the following code \startMPinclusions drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled 1mm); u := 1cm; \stopMPinclusions \startreusableMPgraphic{foo} draw origin--(u,u); \stopreusableMPgraphic \starttext \midaligned{\reuseMPgraphic{foo}} \stoptext produces a line with default thickness, not 1mm wide. Is this a bug? Or do I misunderstand the purpose of \startMPinclusions (I have assumed that it inserts the text verbatim inside each figure definition)? I am using ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2007.6.8 int: english/english Nicola

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s-pre-61/63
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Hi all, I'm trying to make use of the two last official presentation modules, but with my (up-to-date with all fonts) TeXlive installation I obtain lots of font errors (I will of course send the log if asked). Is there some easy way to use this module? tia, -- Jean

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z0---z1---z2---z3---cycle strange effect
by David Arnold 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

All, In working through the beginning chapters of the metafun manual, I am getting a very unusual effect when I open the resulting pdf file in Preview on Mac OS X. Here's a snapshot of what I see. http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/context/meta.gif In acrobat, it looks fine. http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/context/meta.pdf Any thoughts? \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \usetypescriptonce [map] [times,helvetica,palatino] [texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [serif] [times] [name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [sans] [helvetica] [name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [palatino] [texnansi] \setupbodyfont [palatino,10pt] \startbuffer[mpenv] \startMPenvironment \usetypescriptonce[map][times,helvetica,palatino][texnansi] \usetypescriptonce[serif][times][name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce[sans][helvetica][name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] \definefont[RotFont][RegularBold] \stopMPenvironment \stopbuffer \definefont[RotFont][RegularBold] \getbuffer[mpenv] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{axis} tickstep := 1cm ; ticklength := 2mm ; drawticks unitsquare xscaled 8cm yscaled 3cm ; tickstep := tickstep/2 ; ticklength := ticklength/2 ; drawticks unitsquare xscaled 8cm yscaled 3cm ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{points} z0 = (0.5cm,1.5cm) ; z1 = (2.5cm,2.5cm) ; z2 = (6.5cm,0.5cm) ; z3 = (2.5cm,1.5cm) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{path} str := "z0---z1---z2---z3---cycle" ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startbuffer \startlinecorrection[blank] \startMPcode string str ; defaultfont := "\truefontname{Mono}" ; \includeMPgraphic{axis} \includeMPgraphic{points} \includeMPgraphic{path} label.lft(str,(14.5cm,2.5cm)) ; drawwholepath scantokens(str) ; \stopMPcode \stoplinecorrection \stopbuffer \getbuffer \stoptext

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question concerning "overprint"
by Thomas Epp 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Hello, my name ist Thomas. I recently did some graphics for a math book using metapost and the context-macros. The context-macros turned out to be a great solution for all the cmyk-problems concerning professional printing. But now another problem occured. When I put some elements (for example fonts) on shaded areas, the color of the shaded areas should go on beneath the fonts to prevent artefacts in printing. But it doesn't, the editor told me. This is called "Ueberdruck" in German, which would be "overprint" literally translated but I don't know if this is the correct word. I hope you understand my problem. If so, it would be nice when you could tell me if there are any options in Context to achieve what I want, it's quite urgent. I'm naturally a mathematician and no specialist in computer graphics, so I know very little about pdf. Thanks Thomas Epp

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ConTeXt Toys' Project
by Zhichu Chen 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Hi all, I've registered a project on: https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contexttoys/ I'm attracted by ConTeXt since I used it. I'm willing to do everything with ConTeXt. If any of you guys have any tricky ConTeXt toys, could you share on the project. I've convinced many people to use ConTeXt, and I'm sure that these little programs won't be the least things that they are interested. -- 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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dosetupidentity problem
by Christopher G D Tipper 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Hi friends, I've been using eXaMpLe for some years and I find that recently dosetupidentity stopped doing anything. (This is a setup for document headers in PDF). I was wondering if this was a bug, as I used to get Acrobat Document Properties and now I don't, simply from updating ConTeXt. I am using latest gwTeX on Mac OS X. (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=cont-en 2007.5.15) Sample code: \defineXMLenvironment [meta] {\bgroup \defineXMLpush[author] \defineXMLpush[subject] \defineXMLpush[head] \defineXMLpush[keywords]} {\dosetupidentity {\XMLpop{head}} {\XMLpop{subject}} {\XMLpop{author}} {TeX with the ConTeXt macro package} {} {\XMLpop{keywords}} \egroup} Many thanks, it's been a long time! Christopher

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prevent new paragraph when changing font
by zs 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Hello, is there any way to prevent ending the paragraph when changing the font? I want to keep this in one paragraph: Some text \switchtobodyfont[def]another text in different font. But when after typesetting I get: Some text<new paragraph> another text in different font. Thanks Zdenek

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Re: [NTG-context] Manual hyphenation
by Elliot Clifton 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Thank you very much Taco. It works very well. It really is useful to be able to select less aggressive hyphenation when necessary. Cheers, Elliot

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