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Context style macros for metapost
by Aditya Mahajan 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi, There are certain things that I do not like about metapost (it is not possible to specify drawoptions and filloptions separately, it lacks some of the features of tikz, etc.) and I was playing around trying to implement them. Being used to the ConTeXt way of things, I wanted to write macros in metapost the same way (define.... setup.... etc.) This is my first attempt --- a replacement for dashpattern macro. delimiters [[ ]] ; def definedash suffix @# = dodefinedash.@# enddef ; vardef dodefinedash@#[[text t]] = save on, off, w ; let on = _on_ ; let off = _off_ ; w = 0 ; picture @# ; @# := nullpicture t enddef ; definedash [[myeven]] [[on 3 off 3]] ; beginfig(1) draw (0,0)--(100,100) dashed myeven ; endfig ; end; Is there a better way to do this in metapost? Aditya

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ConTeXt 2006.12.20
by Taco Hoekwater 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi, There is a new ConTeXt release: 2006.12.20. This release fixes a few of the most recently reported problems: * Another \quotation patch, should be OK now * A few redefined accents in unicode encoding * Empty lines in pdf font resources are now ignored * Two-line TABLE tables had spacing problems * Make \placeformula $$ .. $$ work again Best, Taco

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\hairline in the header and column rule
by Dalyoung Jeong 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Dear all, I'd like to ask about drawing a line in the header and a line between columns. 1)I'd like to add hairlines in the header using before and after in \setupheader, but the lines was drawn from the leftend of the leftmargin with the textwidth only. So, there is no line at the right end of the header. How to make the lines start from the left end of the text area? 2) I setup [rule=on] in column setup, but the length of the line depends on the length of the text. How to draw the separation line from the top to bottom? Thank you for reading. Regards Dalyoung Here is the code and output. ******************************* \setupheader[][before=\hairline, after=\hairline] \setupheadertexts[][text for the header] \setuppagenumbering[location=footer] \starttext \startcolumns[rule=on, n=2]

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Something about vertical Chinese typesetting
by Zhichu Chen 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Dear Texers, I am typesetting some traditional Chinese articles. They are typesetted in vertical, and the reading order is from right to left. This can be done by Hans' \startvertical . . . \stopvertical pair. But as shown in the attached file, there are some famous notes, descriptions and explanations to these articles. The traditional way, in Chinese, to typeset these notes is rather to insert them in some small fonts (say, half size of the \bodyfontsize) right below the word to be explained, than to use footnotes which is common in English. I've tried some ways, e.g., use \startcolumnsetspan . . . \stopcolumnsetspan to put the body text across the note text, but all failed. Can anyone give me some clue? -- Sincerely yours, 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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EUROTEX2006 - hartmut-talk.pdf -
by luigi scarso 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Very good to me hartmut-talk.pdf, so I've made www.logosrl.it/context/pdftex/hartmut-talk.html luigi

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Context -> Tex
by Paul Jones 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Hello, Is there some way that I can convert my context file into tex? I am just pondering how much faster running straight tex through pdftex would be than using context. Is there some way to run it through texexec and get tex out of it instead of a pdf/dvi? Or are there stats about this kind of thing somewhere that I can lookup? Thanks, paul

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cannot install Times (Cyr) ptb font using TexFont script under MiKTeX 2.5
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Hello there, I cannot install Times (Cyr) ptb font using TexFont script under MiKTeX 2.5. I run the following command (from the folder where font collection sits) texfont --sourcepath=. --vendor=adobe --collection=timescyr --makepath --install It does copy the font source into "E:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\MiKTeX\2.5\fonts\tfm\adobe" (I have Windows on E:) but says "need at most two non-option arguments" and create no tfm and vf metrics. The problem resembles "[NTG-context] TeXFont Problem" issue that was reselved by reistalling TeX to a non-space path like C:/tex, but it is not a kind of thing I want to do with MikTeX 2.5. (I tried also a trick with fake fontroot timescyr>texfont --fontroot=e:\tex --sourcepath=. --vendor=adobe --collection=timescyr --makepath --install but was defeated as follows TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 processing aborted : unknown tex root e:\tex ) -- With best regards Vyatcheslav mailto:yatskovsky@gmail.com

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Re: [NTG-context] typesetting in Cyrillic with Times
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Hello, Ok, now I've started playing with Cyrillic fonts seriously. 1. Antiqua-torunska is really Cyrillic but its typeface far from Times Roman. \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][t2a] \definetypeface[antw][rm][serif][antykwa-torunska][default][rscale=1,encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont[antw,12pt] Unfortunatelly, it seems that it is only t2a-ready typescript. Using the same trick with iwona fails. Looking through type-enc I found that corresponding typescript misses t2a encoding. Why? 2. Did anyone consider the following font package? http://freshmeat.net/projects/urw-fonts-cyrillic -- With best regards, Vyatcheslav mailto:yatskovsky@gmail.com

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Re: [NTG-context] typesetting in Cyrillic with Times
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Hello, Ok, I've started playing with Cyrillic fonts seriously :) -- С наилучшими пожеланиями, Vyatcheslav mailto:yatskovsky@gmail.com

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Figure library -- figures not found but they are there
by David Arnold 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Hans et al, Running: figures $ texmfstart texexec --version TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD I have a figure library figlibLogic.xml, the first few lines of which are: <?xml version='1.0'?> <?context-directive job module fig-make ?> <?context-directive job mode letter ?> <figurelibrary language="en"> <description> <organization>College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department</ organization> <project>Intermediate Algebra Text</project> <product>Preliminaries</product> <comment>Figures for Logic Section</comment> </description> <figure> <file>LogicFigs-mpgraph.1</file> <label>realline1</label> <copyright>College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department</copyright> <comment></comment> </figure> In attempting to compile this file with texmfstart texexec figlibLogic.xml, the log reports that it cannot find the figures. For example, figures : figure LogicFigs-mpgraph.3 can not be found [3.1] figures : figure LogicFigs-mpgraph.4 can not be found [4.1] figures : figure LogicFigs-mpgraph.5 can not be found However, they are there: figures $ ls LogicFigs-mpgraph.* LogicFigs-mpgraph.1 LogicFigs-mpgraph.26 LogicFigs-mpgraph.10 LogicFigs-mpgraph.27 LogicFigs-mpgraph.11 LogicFigs-mpgraph.28 LogicFigs-mpgraph.12 LogicFigs-mpgraph.29 LogicFigs-mpgraph.13 LogicFigs-mpgraph.3 LogicFigs-mpgraph.14 LogicFigs-mpgraph.30 LogicFigs-mpgraph.15 LogicFigs-mpgraph.4 LogicFigs-mpgraph.16 LogicFigs-mpgraph.5 LogicFigs-mpgraph.17 LogicFigs-mpgraph.6 LogicFigs-mpgraph.18 LogicFigs-mpgraph.7 LogicFigs-mpgraph.19 LogicFigs-mpgraph.8 LogicFigs-mpgraph.2 LogicFigs-mpgraph.9 LogicFigs-mpgraph.20 LogicFigs-mpgraph.log LogicFigs-mpgraph.21 LogicFigs-mpgraph.mp LogicFigs-mpgraph.22 LogicFigs-mpgraph.mp.keep LogicFigs-mpgraph.23 LogicFigs-mpgraph.mpb LogicFigs-mpgraph.24 LogicFigs-mpgraph.mpo LogicFigs-mpgraph.25 LogicFigs-mpgraph.mpx Any ideas? David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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