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new beta / mp
by Hans Hagen 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi, I uploaded a new beta release. This one has support for some fresh metapost features (mpprocsets). This means that mp inclusion is slightly faster in mkii (some 5-10%) and that the (not yet public) mkiv converter is now faster than the mkii one (some 10%) due to the cleaner mp output code. Around 20/11 we need to go current because of the tex live code freeze which means that serious bugs need to be fixed before that time. 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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formula, bookmarks and misc
by Sebastian Rooks 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Dear ConTeXters, 1/ I would like to use a named formula with a reference containing several subformulae each with a reference. The closer I can get to is to add an empty namedformula followed by subformulae (see test file below). How can I get rid of the empty line with a number in the pdf ? 2/ I'm using bookmarks but abbreviations in heads do not work properly. I've used a workaround some 3 years ago but I cannot remember which. Any suggestion ? (see test file below) 3/ What should I do to get the bookmarks numbered with their chapter/section/ etc. number ? (see test file below) 4/ How can I redefine the \vec command in my formulae without having a warning "system : command \vec is already defined" 5/ I do like a lot the minimum distribution so easy to install. It would be even better if bibtex can be added. It's only 82.8 KiB Thanks for ConTeXt (special thanks to Hans and Taco of course), it's really a pleasure to work with it. Regards, Seb test.tex %%%%% %>< %>< %>< %%%%% \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter,section,subsection] \abbreviation [UK] {UK} {United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland} \starttext \placelist[formula] \chapter{Math formulae} \placenamedformula [eq:well_known] {Well known equalities} \startformula \stopformula \placesubformula[eq:first]{a} \startformula 1+0=1 \stopformula \placesubformula[eq:second]{b} \startformula 1+1=2 \stopformula \chapter{Weather in the \UK} \dorecurse {2} {\input dawkins \par} \stoptext

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another font in the gyre collection
by Hans Hagen 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi, The third font (bonum) is posted: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/ (btw, this project is substantially sponsored by user groups, but we can use more sponsors, esp since math is also on the agenda) 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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incorrect spacing in mathcases
by M.J. Kallen 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, the following example shows space missing after the inequality sign: \startformula i = \startmathcases \NC i, \NC \text{if} i = j, \NR \NC j, \NC \text{if} i \neq j. \NR \stopmathcases \stopformula An extra '\ ' after \neq solves this, but I think this shouldn't be necessary since $i \neq j$ does not require this fix. Maarten-Jan

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Forcing XeTeX output
by Philipp Reichmuth 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, is there a first-line comment directive or a \setupoutput[] parameter to force usage of XeTeX just like the --xtx commandline switch? Consider the following document: ---------------------- % ??? = xetex??? \starttext This is a piece of text \stoptext ---------------------- I just experimentally tried "engine=xetex", "tex=xetex" and "output=xetex" on the first line. The first two actually launch XeTeX, but they bail out with the comment "you should use pdfetex instad" and a \wait command, and the last one runs pdfetex instead and produces a DVI file. Philipp

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XeTeX and built-in glyph generation
by Philipp Reichmuth 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, I have a question regarding ConTeXt, XeTeX and the use of Unicode fonts with diacritic characters which I use quite a lot. (Note also that I'm a novice user.) Consider the following extreme example (using Gentium <http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=gentium>): ------------------- \definetypeface[lucida][rm][Xserif][Lucida Bright] \definetypeface[gentium][rm][Xserif][Gentium] \setupbodyfont[gentium] \starttext Ṯḥíş ıš ā pìėçẹ ȯf ṭēxt. \stoptext ------------------- If you typeset this with 'texexec --xtx', you get very different results with Gentium vis-a-vis Lucida because of the different glyph repertoires of both fonts. This is a bit unsatisfactory because ConTeXt has all the logic already in place to construct most of these these from base characters plus accents where needed. Of course I can go through my Unicode text manually and change all the missing characters to something like \={e}, but that is not a good solution either; having to sift through your entire document because your publisher demands a different font makes you feel more than a bit stupid :) Is there a way to tell ConTeXt what Unicode characters are available in a font and which ones it has to build using TeX's accent functions? I guess in the above example it would be difficult because no regime gets loaded at all. What would be ideal in my case would be a configurable UTF-8 regime where I could specify the following on a per-typeface basis: - character[ range]s which get passed directly to the underlying engine (useful mainly with XeTeX and possibly with Aleph/Omega) - character[ range]s which get constructed from accents - character[ range]s which get used from a different typescript; for example if I have passages or quotations in a script which isn't available in my typescript, it would be nice to say that "all IPA/Greek/Old Church Slavonic" should come from a substitution typescript where these scripts are available and look good. Is such a thing possible? Philipp

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yesterday's beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Just to let you know that yesterday's beta has the same flaw that I reported a few days ago: something is wring with texutil.rb; the index it generates is incorrect. I get lots of warnings about "duplicate references" and these error messages at the end of the run: TeXUtil | parsing file translation.tui TeXUtil | fatal error in plugin (processing): undefined method `rjust' for 0:Fixnum /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:619:in `build' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:845:in `processor' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:844:in `each_index' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:844:in `processor' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:835:in `each' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:835:in `processor' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:127:in `processors' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:125:in `each' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:125:in `processors' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:1017:in `processed' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1577:in `runtexutil' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1570:in `each' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1570:in `runtexutil' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1854:in `processfile' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1086:in `processtex' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1085:in `timedrun' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1085:in `processtex' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1082:in `each' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1082:in `processtex' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb: 61:in `process' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb: 51:in `main' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb: 759:in `send' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb: 759 Also, texexec processes the file many many times; this didn't use to be the case. Best Thomas

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ConTeXt installation problem using i-installer(v 2.85)
by Dalyoung Jeong 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Dear all, Yesterday, I updated ConTeXt using i-installer(V 2.84). It worked fine with XeTeX too. I am able to make presentation using ConTeXt + XeTeX which was not possible before. Today I tried to update ConTeXt in Mac located in school. At this time, I used the upgraded i-installer(V 2.85). But it didn't ask me the permission(no Authenticate window). So it couldn't have a write permission in the directory /usr/local/teTeX/. I got the warning/ error message, "/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local is not writablle. I cannot change a nonwritable TeX. Bailing out...". Hence I couldn't install ConTeXt. What do I have to do to complete the installation? Thank you. Dalyoung

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A new manual
by John R. Culleton 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a common index. The 2001 manual is great, but many of the features discussed daily here are not in it. One must chase around the wiki and the individual manuals like "details", and that is not satisfactory from the point of view of the new user. Most of us have memorized the locations of key information but newcomers have not. If a consolidated manual set were offered for sale there would be a lot of customers. Or an abridged version, something like the 1999 Excursion manual but expanded and updated, would be a possibility. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format
by Peter Münster 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hello, I try to use the beta versions of ConTeXt and pdfTeX now and I find the following issue (on latest TeX-live): with "TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}" in texmf.cnf and pdfTeX-1.40.XXX, texexec --make writes the formats to texmf-config/web2c/pdfetex but pdftex looks only into texmf-config/web2c A symbolic link from texmf-config/web2c/cont-en.fmt to pdfetex/cont-en.fmt solves the problem. Is this issue already known and is there perhaps a better solution? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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