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pdfetex 1.40.1 + ghosscript problem?
by Michal Kvasnicka 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Good evening. Excuse me this off-topic, I don't know where should I ask. I've installed pdfetex 1.40.1 to be able to use hz-algorithm with truetype fonts. Both my AdobeReader 7.x, and xpdf under SuSE Linux 10.1 view the output pdf file all right. But my gv viewer based on ghostscript (version 8.15 (2006-04-19)) dies if I try to view the output file with it. When I convert the pdf file to postscript using AdobeReader, it doesn't die but view the document incorrectly (strange letters appears where they are not supposed to be). Can anybody tell me what's wrong, and if there is a ghostscript version capable to view the output of pdftex 1.40.1? Without it it is useless for me. :-( Many thanks for your kind help. Michal Kvasnicka

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Imposition struggles
by Willi Egger 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Help! I need to get a book on paper... Using: ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.18 12:57 MKII fmt: 2007.1.19 int: english/english Problem: By means of veroffset and horoffset the arranged pages should be placed in the center of the sheet. However, depending on the number of pages, the last sheets get typeset wronlgy (shifted unexpectedly to the left). Please try the attached sample file. Willi % TEST imposition % Problems: % option "cutspace" in \setuplayout is not honored % option ver/horoffset do unexpected shifts of the pages on the sheet % % By means of ver/horoffset the pages should be put centered on the sheet, in order % to be able to fold and cut the sheets. % Context file % filename: imposition-test.tex % Willi Egger % 20-01-2007 \mainlanguage[nl] \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino, rm, 11pt] % Data for the setup of the layout % Relation between height and width of the PAGE 3 : 2 % Kanon 12 % Paper height (A - D) 200 mm % Paper length (A - B) 267 mm % Inner margin 11 mm % Top margin 17 mm % Outer margin 22 mm % Lower margin 33 mm % Height typesetting area 150 mm % Width typesetting area 100 mm \definepapersize[Test][height=200mm, width=137.5mm] %incl. 4 mm bindingcorection \setuppapersize[Test][A4,landscape] \setuplayout [% % cutspace=5mm, veroffset=5mm, horoffset=-11mm, topspace=17mm, backspace=15mm, %incl. 4 mm bindingcorrection leftmargin=10mm, margindistance=1mm, width=100mm, header=0pt, headerdistance=0pt, footer=1.5\bodyfontsize, footerdistance= 3\bodyfontsize, height=167mm, marking=on] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,right},alternative=doublesided] \setuparranging[2*2*4] \setupitemgroup[itemize] [1] [symbol=2, before={\blank[small]}, inbetween={\blank[small]}, after={\blank[small]}] \starttext % \dorecurse {30}{% This works as expected! \dorecurse {35}{% \subject{A text by Ward} \input ward \subject{A text by Louis Couperus} Overglanzende mooi was Emeralda, schitterend schoon als geen vrouw in het rijk, geen prinses in andere rijken. Zij was heel groot en vorstelijk van gestalte; zij liep heel recht en fier en trotsch; zij wàs heel trotsch, want na den dood van den koning zoû zij heerschen op den troon van het Rijk van het Verleden. IJverzuchtig op al de macht, die haar deel zoû zijn, wees zij af alle de prinsen, die dongen om hare hand. Zij sprak nooit anders dan om te bevelen, en alleen voor haar vader boog zij het hoofd. Zij droeg altijd zwaar brokaat, zilver- of goud-, en bezaaid met gesteente, en lange mantels van ruischend sindaal met breed hermelijn omzoomd; een diadeem van de eêlste juweelen flonkerde steeds in haar rossiggoud haar, en ook haar oogen waren juweel: twee prachtige groene smaragden, waarin een zwarte karbonkel was de pupil; en men fluisterde geheimzinnig, dat haar hart was geslepen uit én enkelen reuzerobijn \unknown \startitemize \item First item \item Second item \item Third item \stopitemize} \stoptext

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cont-tmf.zip
by Willi Egger 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Hi, Is there anybody who is willing to provide me with the last version of cont-tmf.zip of 2006? - Attach it please to an offline mail. Thanks! Willi

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Are before=command parameters expanded?
by Mike Bird 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

I noticed some strange behavior which resulted from the fact that the before value is expanded in \setupfootnotes. For example, the following test case will break if \noexpand is removed: \setupfootnotes[before=\noexpand\undefined] \starttext \stoptext Is this the intended behavior or is this a bug? Thanks, --Mike Bird

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Module `database' and UTF8?
by Michal Kvasnicka 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Good evening. I apologize that I bother you now so much with my own problems but I have to rewrite some of my macros right now for some reason. I found there is a great `database' module. I tried it with ConTeXt version 2007.01.12 15:56, perl TeXExec 5.4.3, and pdfetex 1.40.1 under SuSE Linux 10.1. I use input encoding regime utf8, and fonts in ec-lm encoding. I set it this way: \defineseparatedlist[CSV] [separator=tab,%{,}, %quotechar={"}, before=\bTABLE, after=\eTABLE, first=\bTR, last=\eTR, left=\bTD, right=\eTD] And call it with \processseparatedfile[CSV][file.csv]. It works well with words without accents. If there is an accented letter in the file.csv, it failes with this error message: ! Argument of \utftwouniglph has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \dodoprocessseplist #1#2 ->\edef \!!stringa {#1} \ifx \edef@relax \!!stringa ... <argument> PŘÍJMY leden únor březen duben květen červen červenec srpe... \doprocessseplist ...elax ->\dodoprocessseplist #1 \relax \relax \relax \end \doprocessseparatedfileline ...plist \line \relax \else \expanded {\processq... ... Can you help me to make it work? Many thanks. Yours Michal Kvasnicka

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setup linecorrection
by David Arnold 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

All, How do you set up: \startlinecorrection[blank] \midaligned{\getbuffer[table]} \stoplinecorrection so ensuing lines are not indented?

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translation question
by Frans Goddijn 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Note: this is not about ConTeXt (I have used ConTeXt but not actively these days) but I'm sending in this question as per suggestion to me by Hans Hagen. Sarah, the daughter of a friend, is studying at Carnegie Mellon University where she's designing games with a group called the Game Creation Society. One of the games produced popped up on a Czech download site with a Czech text and Sarah and her group would like to know what the text means... Any Czech here who'd care to translate or give a general impression in English of what the text says? Hans Hagen said there might me. Thanks for your time, Frans frans(a)goddijn.com www.rijksbinnenhaven.nl /// Sarah writes: This is about one of the GCS games... It's been put up on some free game downloading site, and he found a different foreign website that has it on it. "Power Monkey je novinkou z dílny týmu Game Creation Society. Jejich díla je tøeba brát smrtelnì vážnì už jen proto, že jde o seskupení profesionálních vývojáøù, kteøí se ve volném èase baví tvorbou nezávislých titulù. Konkrétnì tenhle je roztomilou arkádou s opièkou v hlavní roli. Jako každá správná opice, má i tahle velice ráda banány. Nìjaký dobrodinec jí pøitom poházel po dvou na zaèátku dostupných úrovních spoustu kusù lahodného žlutého ovoce. Úkolem hráèe tedy není nic jiného, než se jimi proskákat a všechny banány v èasovém limitu sežrat. Povede-li se dokonèit dva poèáteèní levely, otevøe se ještì bonusový tøetí. Power Monkey se hraje dokonale pohodovì. Èas, který je na jednotlivé levely nasazen, není úplnì benevolentní, napodruhé èi nejpozdìji napotøetí už ale vìtšina hráèù úroveò dokonèí. K ovládání slouží základní kombinace WASD a myši, celkový dobrý dojem pak dotváøí audiovizuální zpracování, možná ne dokonalé, rozhodnì ale roztomilé a zejména v lesním levelu velmi stylové. Power Monkey je zkrátka pìkná 3D arkáda, jež potìší zejména mladší hráèe. "

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Another \setuparranging
by Michal Kvasnicka 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Good evening. Is there any SIMPLE way to add one more arranging scheme to \setuparranging command? I regularly typeset some document on a piece of paper that is 1/3 of A4, and want to print it in such a way that three of them are positioned side to side on one A4 paper. I've been doing it with pstops utility. Isn't there a simple way how make \setuparranging command to do it? And one more related question: Usually the document has just one page, so in the print version there are three same pages side to side to each other. Any hint how to do it? Many thanks for your help. Michal Kvasnicka

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[Fwd: Re: Latest ConTeXt and lmmi7]]
by Hans Hagen 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

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error: the file 'texexec' is not found
by Bob Reynolds 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hi, I just updated my TeX (and ConTeXt) tree, based on the linuxtex.zip file at http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm, at /usr/local/share/tex from about the August version and after a few minor tweaks I've got it working. No other TeX stuff is installed on my Gentoo system. One big problem: all of a sudden, I need to run "source /usr/local/share/tex/setuptex" or else a command like "texmfstart texexec --color 'story.tex'" exits with an error message "the file 'texexec' is not found". This breaks the Kile program that I use to write and compile TeX files. Is there any way to get this or something similar that's not in a bash environment to just work? Thank you very much, Bob ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367

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