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xml problem
by Bernd Militzer 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hi Hans, first thanks for your help at Epen, but reading the different documents I could not find out how to define a macro to get the value of a specific element of an xml-file. Running your example I get all elements. For example: I wont to get the value of the first name for <person pid="66"> \def\getFirstName#1{{\enableXML\getvalue{person:#1}}} % what is here to change? Thanks for help again Bernd

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Re: [NTG-context] page numbering in words?
by Robin Kirkham 16 Apr '07

16 Apr '07

Hi all, There are still a few problems with \numstr when you get beyond the hundreds. Perhaps this is unlikely when it is a page number, but I was interested in using this macro for contracts, where an amount of money is often written out in words. \input numstr.tex \starttext \numstr{-1}\par \numstr{0}\par \numstr{101}\par \numstr{1001}\par \numstr{1000001}\par \numstr{1200021} \stoptext This produces output: null null one hundred and one one thousand one one millionone one million two hundred thousand twenty-one which should be: minus one zero one hundred and one one thousand and one one million and one one million, two hundred thousand and twenty-one In English, the tens/units (if not zero) should be preceded by "and" if the number exceeds 100 (so 101 is correct in the above output). This applies whether the tens/units is truly tens/units, or is a thousands or millions multiplier (120000 = "one hundred and twenty thousand"). The use of a comma after millions and sometimes thousands is helpful but not essential, and it only appears in certain cases. I'll have to think a bit more about a rule for that! The use of a hyphen between tens and units ("twenty-one") is not incorrect but is nowadays probably regarded as a little old-fashioned (but personally, I like it). Best, Robin > Date: 2007-03-29 17:38 +1000 > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] page numbering in words? > cormullion.at.remove.this.mac.com wrote: > > On 2007-03-28, at 16:49.0, Zhichu Chen wrote: > > > >> I modified Wolfgang's macro as the attached file. But I'm really > >> not a native American, so there must be some special rules that > >> I've ignored. Wish you good luck. > > > > Yes - this works great now. Thank you for sorting out the TeX code, > > which is like no other language I know ;-). I've changed only one > > spelling (fourty -> forty) and the rest looks perfect. > > It would be nice if someone (one of the module tutorial attendants :-) > could wrap this command in a module for the contextgarden page. > > Cheers, > Taco >

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Hanging punctuation is impressive
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello, I've just read a about hanging punctuation in Hans' Typographic Programming manual. It is very impressive; now I understand one more cause why Word documents look so ugly. :) Unfortunatelly, I cannot try those examples by myself, since I run TeXLive2007 that don't have Palatino font preinstalled and I'm confident only with MiKTeX in font installing issues. Is it possible to use this feature with XeTeX? Or should I impatiently wait for LuaTeX? -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Re: [NTG-context] No way to use XeTeX
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello Oliver, Thank you very much. You encouraged me to do some more tests and finally I discovered something useful. The cow.pdf from context examples runs smoothly. My .pdf was saved in Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro and this turns out the main cause. Saving with older versions compatibility and adjusting other settings don't help also. Anything created in this Acrobat fails in XeTeX. And good news: pdf created in Inkscape seems to be valid input for XeTeX! -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky > Well, first try inserting the sample PDF file "cow.pdf" supplied with > ConTeXt via > \placefigure{Test}{\externalfigure[cow]} > Contrary to including the familiar text snippets (like tufte, ward > etc.) you can't use cow.pdf directly from its original place in the > ConTeXt tree but you'll need to copy it into your working directory. > (You may have to download cont-img.zip from www.pragma-ade.com first > in order to find the sample images at all). > With ImageMagick installed (and write18 activated) XeTeX should now > generate an auxiliary file cow.pdf.rli when processing your TeX > source and include the figure flawlessly. > Let me know if this works. > Oliver > P.S. Dealing with your own PDF files would be the next step but I'm > currently trying to track down a nasty distortion issue and I haven't > quite figured out yet whether this is caused by a malformed PDF image > or by ConTeXt. However, the file cow.pdf appears to be harmless in > this respect, hence my advice to try this out first.

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Some progress with XeTeX
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello, I have some progress with XeTeX already (with the version included in TeXLive distribution). 1a) Including external graphics really requires ImageMagic to be installed. 1b) PDF pictures refuse to be inserted for unknown reason but PNGs are handled fine. 2) To use Windows encoding such as cp1251 (for Cyrrilc), two commands in preamble are needed: \enableregime[cp1251] \XeTeXinputencoding[cp1251] Question: what is a application to prepare custom vector graphics? Since pdfs are not included, it should be something more specific. My favourite one, Inkscape, allows export to .tex formatted for LaTex with PSTricks; obvously ConTeXt failes with it. -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Fwd: Re[2]: No way to use XeTeX
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello, Taco and Anita, you are geniuses! shell_escape was set to false, indeed. However, it fails further. My ch6.pdf output file isn't created at all whenever I insert \externalfigure[f01.pdf]. The log says ... systems : begin file ch6 at line 10 \@sl@\@@shortsectionnumber=\count214 section : 1 Random numbers \@sl@\textunderscore=\count215 (././f01.pdf.rli) figures : dimensions of f01.pdf are determined externally \@sg@\crossreferenceobject=\count216 (./ch6.tuo) fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: texnansi-public-lm fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using map file: ec-public-lm fonts : using map file: ec-base fonts : using map file: lm-ec fonts : using map file: 8r-base fonts : using map file: t5-base fonts : using map file: texnansi-base fonts : using map file: qx-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler fonts : using map file: original-public-lm fonts : using map file: qx-public-lm fonts : using map file: t5-public-lm [1.1] [2.2] subsection : 1.1 Uniform distribution subsection : 1.2 Random integers [3.3] subsection : 1.3 Normal distribution [4.4] systems : end file ch6 at line 91 system : cont-err loaded (c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1675 strings out of 58098 29794 string characters out of 548810 4596067 words of memory out of 5529777 41303 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 77322 words of font info for 68 fonts, out of 1200000 for 2000 192 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 47i,22n,60p,526b,1090s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,5000s -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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XeTeX is broken after ConTeXt update
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello, To get rid of dummy boxes instead of figures in XeTeX output, I've decided to update the stuff (I already has installed fresh latest TeXLive). I typed ctxtools --update then texexec --xtx --make en and even recreated format files from TeXLive GUI. After all, I get (c:/TeXLive2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex) ! Font \*myface12ptrmtfrm*:='"mapping=tex-text at 12.0pt"' not loadable: installed font not found. The test file is \enableregime[utf] \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Times New Roman] \setupbodyfont[myface, 12pt] \starttext Hello! \stoptext I can reinstall the TeXLive completely, but I need to know what is wrong to update it succesfully next time. Best, Vatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Updates with older dates
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Sorry, just found a strange thing. A month old distribution of TeXLive contains bib-mod.doc file dated November 4, 2006. And current cont-tmf.zip contains the same file but dated... September 7, 2006. Strange, isn't it? Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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book by hermann zapf
by Hans Hagen 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi, For those who like beautiful books and are not a Dante member ... http://www.linotype.com/26/merchandise.html you can order Hermann Zapfs latest book here, apart from being an interesting and well designed book, it's also also a nice palatino showcase (nova and sans), perfect paper, hard cover and bound, so go for it ... Dante members got this book as gift sponsored by Hermann Zapf. Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now
by Mojca Miklavec 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

I admit it. I admit everything. I'm the guily one for the whole mess about XeTeX! http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes_in_XeTeX Some time ago Hans has decided to ignore \enableregime in XeTeX. I could have written more (and cite things), but I'm in a hurry right now and I will probably be offline for the whole weekend. The wiki pages need a massive adaption! Really. On 4/13/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <yatskovsky(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Mojca, > > And what is more, you have said that other input regimes should work as well, but the following fragment doesn't work. (arbitrary symbols are substituted) I said that it could have worked ... I didn't say that it actually works ;) \enableregime should be adapted in my opinion. I had a patch already, but I don't have time to look for it right now. The following should work though: Either \XeTeXinputencoding "bytes" % uncomment the line which prevents loading of regimes in XeTeX \enableregime[cp1251] or \XeTeXinputencoding "cp1251" > \enableregime[cp1251] > \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Times New Roman] > \setupbodyfont[myface, 12pt] > \starttext > Hello World! > Привет! > \stoptext > > (I really saved the file in that encoding - Windows Cyrillic, 1251) > > It is quite disappointing, because that encoding would cover my English-Russian-Ukrainian typesetting needs fully. UTF is amazing but not as convenient as cp1251. There should really be no problem in adapting the \enableregime to cover those regimes (it's really a simple patch). From the fact that Hans added quite some new files and definitions during transition to luaTeX ... I guess that he might still be willing to adapt that behaviour in XeTeX as well. Mojca

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