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new to ConTeXt
by Pablo Rodríguez 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Hi there, after more than five years using LaTeX (Lambda and XeLaTeX, this one for the last months), I have decided to give ConTeXt a try. LaTeX is fine for me: I have typeset my own dissertation in Philosophy (with ancient Greek and Unicode) and a couple of books. But the modular design makes things tricky at the end, and I would like to give ConTeXt (with XeTeX and LuaTeX when it comes) a try. At the same time, I would like to switch from TeX to XML. TeX is fine, but XML is better for other than typographical purposes. Coming from the humanities, I guess the right choice is TEI (P5 is expected to be released before middle of the following year). I had some experience with XML and Docbook some years ago, but that was before I switched to Linux and Docbook aims to technical documentation (and I'm not a technical guy). I guess I can mix ConTeXt and XML with the eXaMpLe framework (I have just read about it at wiki.contextgarden.net) In order to understand TEI and ConTeXt, I would like to be able to create the files that will be able to compile an TEI XML document with ConTeXt without having to convert it to ConTeXt. I would like to avoid XSL and XSL-FO. I guess it should be something similar DocbookInConTeXt, but I don't know whether it uses the eXaMplE framework (I don't even know whether . Could anyone comment on this topic? I mean, whether the described task could be achieved with ConTeXt, which issues may arise, whether this is the best approach to the issue, whether I miss something, and so on. Thanks for your help, Pablo

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Columns and backgrounds problem
by Matthias Weber 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hello, I am trying to use backgrounds in columns. Typically, the background runs into the other column as the following example. Is this a limitation, or am I doing something wrong? Any help is appreciated. Matthias \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \setupbodyfont[12pt] \definecolor[myframecolor][r=.0,g=.5,b=.6] \definecolor[myheadcolor][r=.0,g=.5,b=.0] \definecolor[myemcolor][r=.6,g=.1,b=.5] \definecolor[textcolor][r=.2,g=.02,b=.3] \definecolor[thmcolor] [r=.94,g=.94,b=.9] \definetextbackground [thmbackground] [backgroundcolor=thmcolor, %corner=round, before=\blank, after=\blank, leftoffset=5pt, rightoffset=5pt, topoffset=5pt, bottomoffset=5pt, frame=on, framecolor=darkblue, location=paragraph, color=darkblue] \defineenumeration [theorem] [before={\starttextbackground[thmbackground]}, after={\stoptextbackground}, text=Theorem, way=bysection, location=hanging, letter=rm] \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] \input tufte \starttheorem $1+1=2$ \stoptheorem \input tufte \starttheorem $1+1=2$ \stoptheorem \input tufte \stopcolumns \stoptext

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postoned text and headers
by Paul Jones 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hello everyone, I have a tex document where I postpone (\startpostponing) certain pages until later in the document. On those pages I would like the headers/footers turned off. I have tried \noheaderandfooterlines, and setting the header to high, but neither seem to work. Have I done something wrong or is there another way to do this? Here is an example of what I tried to describe. %output=pdf \setuppagenumbering[conversion=numbers, location=] \setupheadertexts[pagenumber][][][pagenumber] \starttext \startpostponing[+2] \page \noheaderandfooterlines %this will generally be a fullbleed picture or set of pictures on a page by themselves \framed[frame=on, width=\textwidth, height=\textheight] {\dorecurse{1}{\input zapf}} \page \stoppostponing \dorecurse{20}{\input davis } \stoptext Thanks in advance for any help, paul

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Specifying BibTeX engine
by Philipp Reichmuth 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hi, texexec has been doing the necessary BibTeX calls for some time now, but is there a way to configure which BibTeX engine is being called? I am using BibTeX 8 (because of Unicode in my bibliography) and have been renaming the executable so far, but it seems there should be a better way. (Incidentally, I've been using a Python script to convert BibTeX files between Unicode and {\=a}-style accent notation and am currently thinking of putting in ConTeXt {\adiaeresis}-style accents as well; would this be of interest to anyone?) Philipp

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Debian/texlive/context: Segfault in mpost
by Johan Sandblom 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

On Debian testing/unstable with texlive-metapost/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-2 texlive-base/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-3 texlive-common/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-3 texlive-base-bin/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-2 and the new context package from www.tug.org/texlive/Debian version 2006.08.08 the following text file processes without error but has no graphic \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw (0,0)..(1,0)..(1,1)..(1,0)..cycle scaled 5cm withcolor black ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext Further investigation revealed that johans@smoke:~$ mpost -progname=metafun -mem=metafun mptest-mpgraph.mp This is MetaPost, Version 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.5) (mptest-mpgraph.mpSegmentation fault Mpost segfaulted, which I have never seen and have no idea how to pursue. More details: johans@smoke:~$ mpost --version MetaPost 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.5) kpathsea version 3.5.5 Copyright 2005 AT&T Bell Laboratories. Kpathsea is copyright 2005 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the MetaPost copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the MetaPost source. Primary author of MetaPost: John Hobby. Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others. johans@smoke:~$ locate metafun.mem /etc/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem -- 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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Font installation
by Antoine Junod 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hello list, I'm trying to install new fonts in my texmf tree but at each try I stop at the same point, when compiling my test file: (./type-doulos.tex) ! Font \*doulos12ptrmtfrm*:=DoulosSil at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. I've got this problem not only with doulos but with gfs fonts too, and others. Font installation in the texmf tree with texfont works well. I can compile without any problem the texnansi-sil-doulos.tex file (idem with other files). What am I doing wrong? Here is my minimal type-doulos.tex: % type-doulos.tex \starttypescript [map] [texnansi] \loadmapfile[texnansi-sil-doulos] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [doulos] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym[DoulosSIL][texnansi-DoulosSILR][encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [doulos] [name] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [DoulosSil] \stoptypescript And here is my minimal test file: \usetypescriptfile[type-doulos] \definetypeface[doulos][rm][serif][doulos][default][encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[doulos,rm,10pt] \starttext This is the end, gggggnnnnnn \stoptext Thanks a lot for your reply. -AJ

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French spacing with pdfTeX-1.40 and ConTeXt-beta
by Peter Münster 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hello, my attempt to get correct French spacing before punctuation does no more work with the latest ConTeXt-beta. Is there now a new method with pdfTeX-1.40 to get automatically the good spacing? Today I try it like this (without success): %%% module t-french.tex %%% \def\activateSomeCharacters{% \defineactivecharacter « {\leftguillemot\,}% does not work \defineactivecharacter » {\,\rightguillemot}% with utf-encoding % % \defineactivecharacter ; {\,\lettersemicolon}% does not work % \defineactivecharacter ? {\,\letterquestionmark}% does not work with \defineactivecharacter : {\,\lettercolon}% project/product \defineactivecharacter ! {\,\letterexclamationmark}}% structure \startlanguagespecifics[fr] \activateSomeCharacters \setupitemize[symbol=2] \lccode`\'=`\' \stoplanguagespecifics \mainlanguage[fr] \appendtoks\activateSomeCharacters\to\everystarttext Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Some questions about lua && context
by Aleksandar Lazic 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, today I have looked into luatex and read the FAQ http://www.luatex.org/faq.html Just for my curiosity, have you looked into neko?! http://www.nekovm.org/ I don't know when you have decide to go to lua and if then neko was out. Thanks to satisfied my curiosity ;- ) Regards Aleks

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Some questions about luatex
by luigi scarso 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

hi some questions about luatex (www.luatex.org) 1) will be possible some code like \luatry{% ...tex code} \luaexcept{ ..tex code} 2) will be possible to embedding some other language ie Python (of course, reading the C source) ? Thanks in advance luigi

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character redefinition environment
by Enzo Cordes 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hi list, I want to assign Metapost graphics to single letters (in a newly defined evironment, that take care of these assignments). The purpose is being able to rapidly build huge tables containing lots of these symbols. Everything works fine if I assign these graphics to non-letters, e.g. "|", but somehow it doesn't work with normal letters. Here is what I tried (with a simple Foo instead of Metapost graphics): \definesymbol[foosymbol][{\tt Foo}] \def\startmychars{% \bgroup\catcode`\|=\active\def|{\symbol[foosymbol]}} \def\stopmychars{\egroup} This works with | as reassigned character without any problems. But, we want to have normal characters in the table, no punctuation marks, etc. Does anyone know what to do to reassign a special definition for a letter e.g. like uppercase B or else? I got this error: (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) ! Undefined control sequence. \startmychars ...up \catcode `\B=\active \defB {\symbol[foosymbol]} l.24 \startmychars which seems to indicate that B is not recognized as active character in the "\defB"? Any hints very welcome, Enzo.

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