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capitals in heads
by Jörg Hagmann 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

I hope (I am sure) the meeting was a success. And I hope that you are still willing to answer a simple question: How can I get capitals in a head? The following didn't work: \setuphead[subsection][style=cap] %aborts compilation. (But "slanted" works) I also unsuccessfully tried "style=\cap" (or \kap etc.), "command= \cap" etc. (But style=\sc works. I don't want small caps, though). I also tried concocting my own \def, again without success. Thanks for your help, Jörg

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background example
by Patrick Gundlach 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hi, just if you are interested in a very old example on using backgrounds: http://dl.contextgarden.net/examples/page.pdf http://dl.contextgarden.net/examples/page.tex Please tell me if I'm using old syntax, so I can update the example. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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warning: XeTeX & broken typescripts (please wait with upgrading)
by Mojca Miklavec 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hello, While waiting for the train in Köln (just back from one of the best ConTeXt meetings ever ;), I decided to post this warning/explanation to the mailing list (before Hans gets back and blocks my account ;) For those who rely on (complex) XeTeX typescripts, please don't upgrade ConTeXt as long as you have a working version (if not, you can download and extract an older zip from https://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=14) Hans is currently working on a high-level user interface for typescripts in luatex, and the old behaviour has been slightly broken, mostly due to the fact that if one wants to support fonts that are not installed, the bracket notation has to be used, which doesn't fit well into the model (one would need to specify fonts in constructs such as [{{'[fontname]'}}]). Without rewriting some basic routins, the font definition would look really strange that way. Currently the format builds OK (it was completely broken for some time, but now you can at least work with it again), you can still select fonts with constructs like \font\a='TestFont/BI:mapping=tex-text' \a and you can also define synonyms like (I hope that I got it right this time) \definefontsynonym[MyFont][name:RealFontName][encoding=uc] % encoding will go (has gone?) away but typescripts don't really work the way that worked once. XeTeX typescripts have been relatively primitive so far: the syntax like \definefontsynonym [DidotItalic] ['Didot/I:mapping=tex-text:+dliga'] [encoding=uc] is not the best possible ansd will most probably not be supported any more. Instead, one would probably write something similar to \definefontsynonym [DidotItalic] [name:Didot] [features=dliga] % mapping=tex-text might be default but that's not the final word about it yet. Sadly Adam Lindsay (who created the whole machinery) doesn't have much time to work with ConTeXt, and I'm not really a TeXacker (if anyone else is willing to help, any help would be more than wellcome). I don't want to force too much the fix (it's better to have it implemented properly and to wait some more), although I hope that it won't take too much time to have it finished. I was silently hoping that Hans will finish the luatex OpenType support before the whole machinery could be backported to XeTeX, but sadly it was (unintentionally) broken before a good replacement could be provided. I would like to ask the ConTeXt-XeTeX users for understanding. I cross-posted that message, but in case that you would need to reply for some reason, please do so on the ConTeXt mailing list, not on the XeTeX one, since XeTeX itself has really nothing to do with the subject (apart from the slightly unfortunate syntax for selecting uninstalled OpenType font). Mojca

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test
by John R. Culleton 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

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HelvNeue
by luigi scarso 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

I'm a bit pressed by a work with HelveticaNeueLTStd . Is there anyone that has made a type script file for this family ? Thanks in advance luigi

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Indexing problem---not
by JOHN CULLETON 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

I think the curious string of numbers mentioned earlier are actually related to footnotes. The author for whatever reason prefers endnotes instead of true footnotes, and specified them in a block after all the chapters. So I defined footnotes thus: \setupfootnotes[location=none] so that I could generate the endnote numbers thus \footnote{} at the correct places in the text. Apparently Context stores these blank footnotes up and puts them at the end, even though [location=none] is specified. {location=high] doesn't seem to help either. So I will force them onto a blank page and strip off that page. This problem arose when I added an index to the end so I fell into the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Sorry about that. The problem with page ranges in an index remains however. So I have come up with a kludge so that I can use my old reliable makeindex: \newwrite\ind \immediate\openout\ind=book.idx \input idx.tex \def\sidx#1{\write\ind{\\indexentry{#1}{\the\pageno}}} No one seems to be able to make eplain.tex work with Context so this is the best I can do in a hurry. John Culleton _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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header labels
by Thomas A. Schmitz 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Hi all, I've just hit some rather interesting interaction. I wanted my sections numbered A. Title, B. Title etc. This works, unless I choose language [deo]. Here's a short test document that demonstrates the behavior: \mainlanguage[de] \setupsection[section][conversion=A] \setuplabeltext[section={{},{.~}}] \starttext \section{Number One} dummy \section{Number Two} dummy \section{Number Three} dummy \stoptext If you replace language[deo] with language[de], things work as expected. Any explanation for this behavior? Best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] ! Unable to make mpx file.
by Steve MC Han 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

I was wondering if you could give me some direction. I'm having this error message in doing metapost. ! Unable to make mpx file. l.78 label.bot(btex $\hbox{\sf Rectangle}$ etex, (0,-.6u)); I looked through internet and found this site, http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2002/000272.html which describes exactly the same error messages. Is there any solution for this? I didn't have any problem with exactly the same file before installed TexLive 2007. If you have some solution to give, I would appreciate it very much. --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. --------------------------------- Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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ConTeXt release 2007.03.19
by Taco Hoekwater 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip The current release has version 2007.03.19 As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Highlights: * Aditya's 'mathsets' modules in included in cont-ext.zip * The use of \setuphead[][numberwidth=...] * Named font styles can now also be 'sans' or 'sansbold' * The old marvosym metric file is included, fixing the 'MarvoSym' symbols and '\texteuro' bugs * Quoting of font files is changed so that hopefully XeTeX bare fontfiles are OK now. * For some other small changes, see the wiki page Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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figure bases (2nd)
by Peter Rolf 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

hi, i'm tired of fixing \dogetfigurefilename in every new version. i have already shown that there is something wrong with it in my mail from 17.01.2007 http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070117.153030.344c6989.en.html i don't say, that i understand the complex code for figure inclusion, but it is obvious that the following code is at least questionable. (taken from x-fig-00.tex and x-res-04.tex) \def\dogetfigurefilename#1% {\ifx\figurefilename\empty \bgroup \xdef\figurefilebasepath{#1}% \assignfullfilename{#1}\figurefilebase\to\filename \expanded{\processXMLfilegrouped{\filename.xml}}% \ifx\figurefilename\empty\else % ^^^^^^ % is already tested in the prior \ifx test; if it's not changed % in the meantime...(\filename?) % \globallet\figurefilebase\figurefilebase % ^^^^^^ % does *nothing* (\filename works for me) \fi \egroup \fi} i have worked with a patched version for the last two month and had no (more) problems with figure inclusion. without it the pdf figure base is not found, although the corresponding xml file (which is found) is in the same directory. any comments are welcome. greetings, peter

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