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Descriptions and buffers.
by John R. Culleton 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

I used the description facility (both definition and use} within a buffer and it did not work. But I removed the passage from the buffer and it worked fine. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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figuretext environmnet
by Willi Egger 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Hi Hans, I ran into the following problem. \startfiguretext ... \stopfiguretext generates an error about undefined controlsequence \stopfiguretext ->\dostoptextfloat. ConTeXt ver: 2007.03.19 11:20 MKII fmt: 2007.3.29 int: english/ english Willi Egger w.egger(a)boede.nl

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Hanging definition
by John R. Culleton 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

I want to create a definition that is set up similar to an itemize, or more particularly like page 180 in the Context Manual, third example from the top of the page. Here is what I have: ------------------------------------------------------ \definedescription[Stars] [width=broad,location=hanging,hang=broad,sample={***}] \Stars{*} Rounded to nearest \$100 \Stars{**} Provided by RBC Asset Management Inc. Actual fund return plus an additional 4.0\% annually \Stars{***} Back-tested return reduced by 4.0\% annually\par} --------------------------------------------------------- ... but each item is packed to the left and not blocked like an \item in a list. I want something like * foofoo ** foofoo *** foofoo..... foobar ...but I get * foofoo ** foofoo *** foofoo foobar -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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Trouble with \usemodule[tikz]
by M.guravage 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

I recently experienced problems with TikZ after upgrading from ConTeXt - 2007.01.23 to 2007.03.19. Instead of looking at the differences between the two releases, I moved my original minimal ConTeXt distribution out of the way and re-installed the latest justtext.zip and linuxtex.zip. To this I added my own texmf-project tree which contains TikZ, and remade the formats. TeX stops at the first TikZ command complaining that it cannot find the tikz module: system : module tikz not found ! Undefined control sequence. l.6 \starttikzpicture I have checked the obvious like the TEXMFPROJECT environment variable and the ls-R files, but everything appears correct. Indeed, everything did run correctly with ConTeXt - 2007.01.23 and pdfTeX-1.40.1. I would be grateful if someone could suggest how I can track down this problem? Cheers, Michael PS: Here is a minimal example. % interface=en output=pdftex \usemodule [tikz] \starttext \input tufte \starttikzpicture \draw (-1.5,0) -- (1.5,0); \draw (0,-1.5) -- (0,1.5); \stoptikzpicture \stoptext % finis

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using Make for documents
by Sanjoy Mahajan 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

At the recent User Meeting, a few people were interested in how to use make to maintain complex documents. Here is version 0 of a step-by-step explanation: <http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/teaching/tex/> Comments welcome! The URL may change. I'll eventually put it on the wiki, or (since I prefer the GPL to the GFDL) put a link to it from the wiki once it's stable. -Sanjoy `A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.' (Gibbon)

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Does \Level2Command work?
by Steffen Wolfrum 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hi, in one of Luigi's "Grid-keeping table"-mail I saw the term "\setbox100". I didn't try that code, don't know what it means. But it gave me the idea: is it actually possible to use numbers in defining command's names? Something like this ... \setuphead[Level2] [header=empty,page=yes,numbercommand=\Level2Command,align=middle,alternative=paragraph,style=\Level2Style,before={\strut\blank[42pt]},after={\blank[12pt]}] \setuphead[Level3] [header=empty,page=yes,numbercommand=\Level3Command,align=middle,alternative=paragraph,style=\Level3Style,before={\strut\blank[42pt]},after={\blank[12pt]}] ... looks much clearer than using the numbers written out in letters. Steffen

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HZ and DVI
by Peter Münster 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hello, now I see, that my problem with HZ is only in DVI mode, PDFs are ok. Here my test file: \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][handling][highquality] \setupalign[hanging,hz] \usetypescript[modern-base][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[modern] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext And here the errors: This is dvips(k) 5.96 Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2007.01.08:1425' -> test.ps kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfzzz --bdpi 1200 --mag 1+240/1200 --dpi 1440 ec-lmr10+15 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr10+15. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. dvips: Font ec-lmr10+15 not found, characters will be left blank. dvips: Can't open font metric file ec-lmr10+15.tfm dvips: I will use cmr10.tfm instead, so expect bad output. dvips: Checksum mismatch in ec-lmr10+15 kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfzzz --bdpi 1200 --mag 1+240/1200 --dpi 1440 ec-lmr10+20 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr10+20. dvips: Font ec-lmr10+20 not found, characters will be left blank. dvips: Can't open font metric file ec-lmr10+20.tfm dvips: I will use cmr10.tfm instead, so expect bad output. dvips: Checksum mismatch in ec-lmr10+20 kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfzzz --bdpi 1200 --mag 1+240/1200 --dpi 1440 ec-lmr10-10 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr10-10. dvips: Font ec-lmr10-10 not found, characters will be left blank. dvips: Can't open font metric file ec-lmr10-10.tfm dvips: I will use cmr10.tfm instead, so expect bad output. dvips: Checksum mismatch in ec-lmr10-10 kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfzzz --bdpi 1200 --mag 1+240/1200 --dpi 1440 ec-lmr10-15 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr10-15. dvips: Font ec-lmr10-15 not found, characters will be left blank. dvips: Can't open font metric file ec-lmr10-15.tfm dvips: I will use cmr10.tfm instead, so expect bad output. dvips: Checksum mismatch in ec-lmr10-15 kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfzzz --bdpi 1200 --mag 1+240/1200 --dpi 1440 ec-lmr10-20 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr10-20. dvips: Font ec-lmr10-20 not found, characters will be left blank. dvips: Can't open font metric file ec-lmr10-20.tfm dvips: I will use cmr10.tfm instead, so expect bad output. dvips: Checksum mismatch in ec-lmr10-20 <tex.pro><lm-ec.enc><texps.pro>. <lmr10.pfb>[1] TeXExec | runtime: 11.250944 Can anybody help please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Semi-verbatim
by John R. Culleton 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

I have a situation where I wish to import a file and have the line endings and the spaces honored as in \typefile. But I want any font changes (e.g. \it) honored as well. I tried the plain TeX commands \obeylines and \obeyspaces. The line endings and typeface changes were honored but the spaces were not. Is there a convenient way to do this? I can preprocess the file through e.g. sed to patch in \crlf and hard spaces but this seems a bit clumsy. BTW this is text in columns. The length of every line is limited to 45 characters. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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gray scale conversion of colored text
by Peter Rolf 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi, I currently have a problem with the conversion of some mp graphics into gray scale. The mp graphics themself look great, but *text is always converted to black*, regardless of its real color. Is there a way to fix this? Peter

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Long heading alignment
by Paul Schalck 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hello! First, I want to thank you all. It's my first post here, but I've read many of your emails before, and I've already found a lot of solutions for my problems in there. I'm using Context intensely since several months (before, I was Latex) and at the moment, I'm setting my first big document (400 pages, very boring) with it. My issue: I have a little problem with headings I can't solve by my own. It's rather simple: I would like to align headings that span across multiple lines on the left margin, like this: a) This is (not really) a very, very, very loooooooooooooooong title and not that way: a) This is (not really) a very, very, very loooooooooooooooong title The use of (\setuphead[section][command=\MySectionCommand] disables the standard alignment mechanism. I wonder if there is a simpler way to achieve this. Any ideas? Thank you very much! Scheeni Grieß (it's Alsatian German) Paul _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192

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