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beta
by Hans Hagen 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi, I've uploaded a beta. Hans -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Avoiding page breaks in self-defined Note environment
by Martin Becker 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Dear all, I'm having a problem with unwanted page breaks using ConTeXt. Imagine a note environment that is separated from normal text by horizontal rules: -------------------------- Note - Notice that this text is embedded in... -------------------------- The problem however is that ConTeXt sometimes breaks the page after the first rule or just before the second, which, as you can image, is pretty ugly. I have defined a command to avoid this: \def\MyHR{nobreak\hairline\nobreak } The tex file looks like this: \MyHR{} {\bf{Note --}} Notice that this text is embedded in... \MyHR{} However, this does not work. The background is that I am using a parser to translate MediaWiki markup to PDF using ConTeXt. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Martin Becker

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combining multiple accents
by Mojca Miklavec 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hello, I always thought that "any accent can be placed on any character" in TeX. However, probably due to some boxes, this fails to work sometimes. So how can I create "a with cedilla and ring above" for example: \r{\c a}? (Yes, I know that I can switch the order: \c{\r a} works as expected, but I need to create more complicated cases in general and I don't want to depend on whether the accent will be placed properly or not.) Is there any simple cure for that? Thanks a lot, Mojca

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typesetting proofs
by Dalyoung Jeong 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Dear all, Searching the lists, I found one and I got the output what I want as following image. But, as you noticed, there is a lot spaces between "Theorem" and the start of the text. Also there is the same space between "Proof" and the start of the text. Is it normal? or Is there any method to reduce the spaces? Thank you for reading. Dalyoung %Here is the definition following Mr. Taco's method \defineenumeration[Theorem] [location=serried, headstyle=bold, text=Theorem, number=yes, after=] \definestartstop[theorem] [before=\startTheorem, after=\stopTheorem] \defineenumeration[Proof] [location=serried, headstyle=slanted, text=Proof, number=no, after=] \definestartstop[proof] [before=\startProof, after=\hfil \stopProof] ...... \startTheorem $P(n, r) = C(n,r).... \stopTheorem \startProof An ordered arrangement... \stopProof ......... %output

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Shapes spanning multiple grid cells in flowchart
by Martijn Martijn 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hello, I've just started to use Context because of its great flowcharting module. However, I'd like to use shapes that span multiple grid cells. This is what I would like to accomplish: |-------| |-------| |-------| | |<-->| box 2 |<-->| box 3 | | | |-------| |-------| | box 1 | | | |-------| |-------| | |<-->| box 4 |<-->| box 5 | | | |-------| |-------| | | | | | | |-------| I could not find a way to do this in the manual. Every shape in the manual has the same size. Thanks for the help! Martijn

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Chemical structure formula flows out
by Zhichu Chen 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hello I've been studying PPCHTEX these days, it's very powerful, and I cannot control it well. I just wrote a chemical struture like: ================================ \startchemical [size=small,scale=small,width=fit,height=fit,frame=on] \chemical[SIX,SB13456,DB2,Z] [C,C,C,C,C,C] \chemical[PB:Z1,ONE,Z0,SB18,Z8,MOV1,ONE,DB1,SB7,Z07,MOV1,ONE,SB13,Z03,MOV1,ONE,SB1,DB7,Z017,PE] [C,H,C,H,C,H,C,CH_3,O] \chemical[PB:Z2,ONE,Z0,SB1,Z1,PE] [C,CH_3] \chemical[PB:Z3,ONE,Z0,SB3,Z3,PE] [C,H] \chemical[PB:Z4,ONE,Z0,SB45,Z45,PE] [C,H,H] \chemical[PB:Z5,ONE,Z0,SB56,Z56,PE] [C,CH_3,H] \chemical[PB:Z6,SIX,Z3,SB23,Z24,PE] [C,CH_3,CH_3] \stopchemical ================================ only the carbon-ring is in the frame, I think maybe PB:..,PE pair does not change the size of the picture. I know I can use like ================================ \startchemical [size=small,scale=small,width=9000,height=5000,left=3000] ================================ to specify the size, but I need to try several times to get a correct version. Is there any parameter that do this staff automatically? Thanks -- 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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Meeting NTG saturday 18 november 2006
by Willi Egger 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Dear list user, The Dutch TeX users group organizes a meeting on saturday 18 november. Location: Highschool Helicon, Zeist, The Netherlands. Theme: "The next generation TeX - a glance on the future" At the this moment active development takes place for the successor of pdfTeX. During next year this engine will be dirstributed. Next to this, steps are undertaken to improve the integration of the graphical possibilities of Metapost.in TeX. A bunch of new fonts are in the pipeline which can replace existing (free) font-collections: extended, improved, OTF versions. There are different initiatives for enhancing TeX and related programs e.g. giving them a more modern, up-to-date interface. Further one can see, that TeX is moving form the front-end into the background, so that users do not even know that the final work is performed with TeX. The mentioned aspects will be discussed and presented during the upcoming NTG-meeting. The NTG would like to invite you to join us. Global programme: 09 :30 arrival 10:00 opening, presentations/discussion 11:15 coffee break 11:45 presentations/discussion 12:45-13.30 lunch 13:30 presentations/discussion 15:00 Thea break 15:30 presentations/discussion 16:30 closing 17:30 Diner in one of the restaurants in Zeist Issues to be presented: luatex: development of the next generation pdfTeX opentype: the first three delivered replacement fonts from the polish "foundry" metapost: on its way to full integration into TeX epspdfgui: Good-bye to obscure commandline programs processing in the background ...: how Tex moves behind the scene pgf: replacement of macros containing graphics TeXlive: the in's en out's of preparing a distribution Description of the location and how to get there: http://www.hhelicon.nl/index2.html If you would like to join in, please send an e-mail to the NTG secretary: ntg-secretaris(a)ntg.nl Kind regards Willi Egger Secretary NTG

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underbar in MP text
by Peter Rolf 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Hi all, if \underbar is used inside a MP text, it always uses a fixed rule thickness, regardless of the settings in ConTeXt. How can I change this? TIA, Peter \setupoutput[pdftex] \setMPtext{testtext} {} \startusableMPgraphic{mptext} draw textext.rt(\MPstring{testtext}) ; \stopusableMPgraphic \starttext \setupunderbar[rulethickness=2pt] \underbar{Thick line} \setMPtext{testtext}{\underbar{Thick line}} \useMPgraphic{mptext} \setupunderbar[rulethickness=.15pt] \underbar{Thin line} \setMPtext{testtext}{\underbar{Thin line}} \useMPgraphic{mptext} \stoptext

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texfont create map file
by Johan Sandblom 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

I am now using the Debian context package with Debian texlive. It works very well but some fonts need tweaking. For instance, Zapf Chancery is in ~$ find /usr/share/texmf-texlive -name '*uzcmi8a*' /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/urw/zapfchan/uzcmi8a.afm /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan/uzcmi8a.pfb /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan/uzcmi8a.pfm but there are no .tfm or .vf and no map file, so my typescripts do not work. I assume I might use texfont to fix this but with what invocation? Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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XeTeX, ConTeXt and PDF
by Pablo Rodríguez 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Hi there, I'm using xdvipdfmx 0.3 and ConTeXt ver: 2006.11.06 09:10 MK II fmt: 2006.11.11 int: english/english. Papersize doesn't seem to work in \setuppapersize[A4,landscape]. Even if I use \pdfpageheight=21cm and \pdfpagewidth=29.7cm, I get a 29.7×29.7cm square as papersize. I think that the issues with XeTeX and papersize have been already solved. When producing bookmarks with XeConTeXt, for some strange reason destinations change the page view to /Fit. Is there any way to avoid this? Bookmarks are generated fine in UTF-8, but surprisingly (at least for me) the file info is wrong generated. Here you have an example: \enableregime[utf] \definetypeface[myfont][rm][Xserif][Junicode] \setupbodyfont[myfont,12pt] \setupinteraction[state=start,title={χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά}] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] \placebookmarks[chapter,section,subsection] \starttext \chapter{χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά} \stoptext By the way, could not "texmfstart texexec --xtx" invoke xdvipdfmx with the -E option enabled by default? Many fonts include the embedding restriction not forbid embedding, but to avoid font modification. Thanks for your help, Pablo

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