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strange behaviour of \definedfont['Some Name'] in XeTeX
by Mojca Miklavec 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hello, I'm probaby misusing the feature (most robably because I just didn't take time to study how to do it properly), but it behaves really strange. In XeTeX I first did \font\f='Some Name' \f which worked OK. But when I tried the same with \definedfont['Some Name'] it resulted in strange behaviour. For some fonts, metapost has been invoked and complained, but the resulting document had the proper font plus "scaled 1000" written on the first page where the font has been selected. For other fonts it failed completely. What's actually the most clean way of including an "uc-encoded" font at a specific font size, but without the need of bold or any other "typefaces" (just for a title for example)? (Which basically means: I only want the same behaviour as the plain TeX expression above + uc encoding.) Thanks, Mojca

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[OT] extex and xetex
by luigi scarso 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

I'm a little bit confused about extex (www.extex.org) and xetex (scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=xetex) How do they relate with Context ? luigi

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ConTeXt 2006.12.12
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Dec '06

13 Dec '06

Hi, There is a new release: 2006.12.12. This release should fix both the active punctuation and the non-hyphenating \quotation endings. Best, Taco

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International Profit Associates
by overstock＠gmail.com 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

International Profit Associates and Integrated Business Analysis (IPA-IBA) is a full-service business development group and general management consulting firm focused on small and medium-size privately-held companies in North America. http://www.ipa-iba.com/ IPA-IBA has helped more than 100,000 small and medium-size businesses maintain positive cash flow, control costs and accelerate profitable growth, allowing entrepreneurs and managers to make the most of their work and their lives. We have 1,800 full-time employees and are regarded as the fastest growing management consulting company serving our market segment in the history of American business. As the largest management consulting company in our market, we have more experience in providing consulting services to the owners of small and medium-size businesses than any other company. We have analyzed more than 100,000 businesses and provided services to more than 45,000 business owners. It is widely held that we are the only management consulting firm in the world that delivers such a broad array of professional services to the small and medium-size business marketplace. The IPA-IBA Credo . . . International Profit Associates, Inc. and Integrated Business Analysis, Inc. (IPA-IBA) hold the belief that our companies will provide business development and management consulting services of the highest professional standard. Our companies are committed to the proposition that every business is unique. As such, we seek to apply individualized creative solutions specially tailored to address the needs and concerns of our clients. No other company enjoys our reputation for accuracy, knowledge and expertise. It is our mission to offer our clients a significant return on their investment, and establish long and fruitful relationships.

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texmfstart problem (long time spend somewhere)
by Denis Pinsard 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Hello, For near two years I use ConTeXt under the MiTeX distribution. Last weekend I installed the last version of ConTeXt (2006-07-21) available on MikTeX. Since this installation, the program texmfstart don't work correctly. After the command : "texmfstart texexec first.tex" nothing happen for a long time before texexec is actualy executed. After the command : "texmfstart --verbose texexec first.tex", I can see : texmfstart version 2.0.0 expanding 'texexec' to 'texexec.rb' locating 'texexec.rb' in current path '.' locating 'texexec.rb' in caller path 'C:/documents/proxima/tmp' <LONG TIME (about 1 min)> kpse : direct (forced) using 'kpsewhich' to locate 'texexec' in suffix space 'rb' (1) registering 'texexec' as 'C:/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb' registering 'THREAD' as 'C:/texmf/scripts/context/ruby' starting texexec using 'system' call: ruby C:/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb first.tex TeXExec | processing document 'first.tex' <ETC> If I execute "texmfstart.rb" instead of "texmfstart.exe" the behaviour is the same but I see that the time is spent in the "KpseRemote::start_client" method. I have installed on the same computer a stand-alone version of ConTexT and the behaviour is the same. The have installed a new version of ruby (version 1.8.4) and the behaviour is the same. Any help on this problem is wellcome. Thank you. Denis Pinsard (dpinsard1(a)free.fr)

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Gregg Steinberg
by overstock＠gmail.com 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Gregg Steinberg Gregg Steinberg, President, International Profit Associates Gregg Steinberg is President of 10 operating companies which combined form the largest consulting company in the world delivering a broad spectrum of management consulting and other professional services to the small and medium-size business marketplace. These various entities are International Profit Associates (IPA), IPA Advisory and Intermediary Services (A&I), Integrated Business Analysis (USA & Canada), International Tax Advisors (ITA), Creative Tax Strategies, IPA Professional Development Services, Accountancy Associates, LLC (AAL), ITA Implementation Services, IPA Med Services and IPA Travel Services. Gregg M Steinberg’s responsibilities include direct daily oversight of all the operating entities, as well as management of the combined operations to ensure all companies are meeting short-term financial targets. In addition, Gregg M Steinberg is responsible for developing long-term strategic operational, financial and growth objectives. The companies have 1,800 employees throughout the United States and Canada. In June of 2005, Consultants News ranked IPA as the 38th largest consultancy in North America. Crain’s Chicago Business ranked IPA as one of city’s 6th largest consulting companies in 2004. Gregg M Steinberg joined IPA in 1992 (company revenues $5 million), became its CFO in 1995 (company revenues $24 million) and took over as President in 1997 (company revenues $54 million). 2004 annual revenue was $195,000,000. Gregg M Steinberg’s affiliations and memberships include, Young President’s Organization (YPO), American Management Association (AMA), Turnaround Management Association (TMA), Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), Association of Management Consulting Firms (AMCF formerly ACME), National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA), Center for Entrepreneurial Management (CEM) and Birthing of Giants ‘99 (Entrepreneurial forum sponsored by MIT and Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO). Civic responsibilities include past board member for Jewish Community Centers of Chicago, past board member and chairman for various committees such as, Jewish Council for Youth Services, current member of The Mankind Project and current leadership roles with the Weizmann Institute for Science, International Policy Committee and the Suburban Human Rights Commission. Gregg M Steinberg sat on the Board of The Quantum Group, Inc., a public company trading on the Bulletin Board under the ticker QTUM and is currently a member of the US Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council. Prior to joining IPA, Gregg M Steinberg held various positions including hotel management company vice president, financial advisory firm president, assistant director of mergers & acquisitions for a national investment banking firm and director of corporate finance for a Chicago public accounting firm. Gregg M Steinberg is a Graduate of the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He also has a Masters in International Management and Business Administration, with an emphasis in finance, from The Garvin School of International Management (Thunderbird) International Profit Associates, Inc. and Integrated Business Analysis, Inc. (IPA-IBA) hold the belief that our companies will provide business development and management consulting services of the highest professional standard. Our companies are committed to the proposition that every business is unique. As such, we seek to apply individualized creative solutions specially tailored to address the needs and concerns of our clients. No other company enjoys our reputation for accuracy, knowledge and expertise. It is our mission to offer our clients a significant return on their investment, and establish long and fruitful relationships. Gregg Steinberg

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mkii-mkiv
by Hans van der Meer 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Scanning the recent issue of the MAPS (Dutch NTG user group magazine) I encountered the interesting article about experiences with the development of luatex and friends. Especially the possibility of having protocols http:// and file:// as input source seems promising. Allow me to suggest another opportunity here: the inclusion of svn:// as a source. I myself store my important tex and metapost sources in a svn repository in order to keep track of versions and branches in an efficient manner. Others might want to do the same. It therefore would be nice if tex typesetting could directly access those repositories through the svn:// protocol too. Maybe Taco and Hans feel challenged.... dr. H. van der Meer

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New Debian context package based on context release 061207
by Norbert Preining 12 Dec '06

12 Dec '06

Hi all! I have created a new context package 2006.12.07-0.1 for Debian and would like to hear your comments and test. No big changes: * new upstream * suggest fontforge, and let texfont call fontforge instead of pfaedit * add dpatch build-dep and adjust rules As usual available from deb(-src) http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ context/ There seem to be some deep changes in the upstream packaging, as various map files are now missing from the cont-tmf.zip file. The debdiff between the old and the new packages gives me: Files in second .deb but not in first ------------------------------------- /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/context/cmin.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/context/cmit.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/context/cmitt.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/context/cmrm.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/context/cmsc.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/context/cmtt.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/context/teff-trinite.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/jmn/hans.enc /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-blk.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-buf.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-con.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-ctx.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-lme.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-obj.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-pos.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-stg.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-sys.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-trf.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-two.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-two.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-uti.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/core-ver.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/enco-xtx.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/lang-mis.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/lang-sla.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/meta-mis.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/meta-pdf.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/mult-fst.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-1.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-10.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-13.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-15.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-16.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-2.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-3.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-4.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-5.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-7.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-8859-9.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-ini.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-run.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-map-10.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-ptj-01.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-def.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-fil.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-cat.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-cat.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-chr.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-con.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-fnt.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-mtx.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-pdt.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-rtp.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-rtp.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-str.mkii /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/syst-str.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/thrd-pic.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/x-res-12.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/x-res-20.tex /usr/bin/luatools /usr/bin/mtxtools Files in first .deb but not in second ------------------------------------- /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/context/ec-sc.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/context/lm-texnansi-osfsc.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/context/texnansi-sc.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/cmin.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/cmit.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/cmitt.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/cmrm.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/cmsc.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/cmtt.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/csin.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/csrm.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/cssc.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/cstt.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/ec-lm.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/plin.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/plit.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/plitt.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/plrm.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/plsc.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/pltt.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/qx-lm.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/qx-lmtt.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/t5-lm.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/texnansi-lm.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/ts1-lm.enc /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-lm.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/el-lm.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/qx-lm.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/t5-lm.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/texnansi-lm.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ts1-lm.map /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-map.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-iso-8859-1.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-iso-8859-15.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-iso-8859-2.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/regi-iso-8859-7.tex If someone can explain me the big changes? Something like: We don't need the map files anymore or so would be nice. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Università di Siena Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OSBASTON (n.) A point made for the seventh time to somebody who insists that they know exactly what you mean but clearly hasn't got the faintest idea. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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indenting of first paragraph in (sub)section
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Hello, I' trying to figure out why \setupindenting[first,medium,yes] does not indents the FIRST paragraph of a section or subsection. An example follows. Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------- \setupbodyfont[lbr,11pt] \setuppapersize[A4] \setuplayout[width=17cm,height=28cm, topspace=1cm, header=1cm, footer=1cm, location=middle] \setupitemize[n,joinedup] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[first,medium,yes] \showframe \starttext \section{INTRODUCTION} \subsection{Rationale} Anyone who has been around the computer industry for a decade or more is well aware of this phenomenon: machines are getting exponentially more powerful per unit cost, yet users do not perceive this improvement in the applications that they purchase. For example, while word processors are clearly faster today than they were 21 years ago, they aren't 16,384 times faster as Moore's Law would suggest. Part of the problem, of course, is that some of the additional processing power has been employed to support new features (such as a bit-mapped display), but a large part of the reason software users aren't seeing an increase in speed is because many of today's programmers don't take the time to write efficient software, or they simply {\it don't know} how to write fast code. \stoptext -- С наилучшими пожеланиями, Vyatcheslav mailto:yatskovsky@gmail.com

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\head and pagebreak
by Idris Samawi Hamid 11 Dec '06

11 Dec '06

Dear gang, Is there a way to absolutely forbid a pagebreak between \head and its following paragraph? [intro] tries hard but sometimes fails. I tried \setupitemize[each] [inmargin,autointro] \setuptolerance[vertical,stretch] but I still get pagebreaks. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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