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[OT] Is Indesign CS 2 better than ConTeXt ?
by luigi scarso 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

OK, it is a big OFF TOPIC. Some notes * the Elements of Typographic Style was made with Indesign (true or false?) and the only words about TeX is an url (true or false ?) * indesign eat xml * there is an indesign server; maybe actually too much complex, but in the future? * I don't know if IDCS2 has some programming capabilities like ConTeXt Ofcourse : *IDCS2 come from Adobe, so it has the feature of latest pdf spec.; *IDCS2 is WYSIWYG * (...possibly many others...) But there is one important point: Can IDCS2 be view as candidate for automatic typesetting (xml->IDCS2->pdf) ? luigi

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Index sorting again
by Richard Gabriel 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Hello Hans, I'd like to remind the 2 persisting problems with the index sorting. 1. Numbers are sorted under A 2. Symbols are sorted under the first letter which follows. See the attached test file. Both these issues are independent on language and on the expansion type. Proposed solution: 1. Sort numbers into separate divisions 2. Sort symbols to a special division called "Symbols" Could you please look into it? May I help you any further (except the attached test file)? Many thanx, Richard

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\bTABLE[distance= or columndistance= ??]
by Peter Münster 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Hello, this is a repost, because I've the feeling, that this question got perhaps unread: What is the difference between distance and columndistance? I thought the one was just a synonym for the other, but now I see, that you treat them differently in your patch. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] man page for mptopdf
by Hans Hagen 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Hi Werner > can you provide a man page (which I favour) or any other documentation > for mptopdf in TeXLive? > hm, i occasionally use manpages (but more often print manuals) of progs; i must admit that i don't even know how to make man pages the problem is that once i start writing man pages (that i don;t use myself) others will ask for windows or mac help files ... i'd rather spend time on the manuals themselves > In general, I would like to see man pages for *all* binaries included > into TeXLive... > > i happily leave that to users; technically it should be possible to process a manual source (to say mptopdf) so that it produces a man page but not all manuals have the same structure (which means that i'd have to write additional styles); maybe pdftotext somemanual.pdf somemanual.man is enough. As said, i happily leave creating man pages to users so I cc to the context list. 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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Problems with columnsets and \startbackground \stopbackground
by Olaf Mersmann 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Hi list, I have some wierd interactions between a columnset and \start- / \stopbackground. ---- cut here ---- \setuppapersize [A4, landscape] [A4, landscape] \setupcolors [state=start] \setupbackground [background=screen, frame=on, frameoffset=2pt, backgroundoffset=2pt] \setuphead [section] [style={\ss\bf}, before={\startbackground}, after={\stopbackground}] \definecolumnset [foo] [n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[foo] \subject{ABC} \input tufte \input knuth One more line and {\em BOOM} - it's broken.\crlf Here we go. 3 2 1 -- page break! \subject{DEF} \input knuth \stopcolumnset \stoptext ---- cut here ---- The second \subject{} causes a page break instead of wrapping into the second column. Is this a bug, or am I missing something when using \start- / \stopbackground? Would this go away if I where to use a MP graphic for the background? Thanks for any help. -- Olaf

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Updating jitters
by Idris Samawi Hamid 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Dear consortium, I am using an ConTeXt from Jan-28-06 (ancient) and wish to upgrade. Now things have changed (perl=>ruby, no more texexec.ini etc.), I still use both the pdftex and aleph engines, and I want to do this as cleanly as possible. I am using mswincontext.zip with the xemtex latex tree dumped on top. Whatever advice you can give me on upgrading will be most greatly appreciated! 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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framed parameter
by Hans van der Meer 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Just curious, because the last of the three examples solves the problem. Why is it that this is allowed in the parameter list of \framed: \framed[frame=on,\iftrue width=3cm\fi]{abc} But this gives an error: \framed[frame=on,\iftrue background=color,backgroundcolor=green\fi]{abc} ! Incomplete \if; all text was ignored after line 42. <inserted text> \fi <*> test.tex emergencyend ? Allthough this works and solves the problem I had: \framed[frame=on,background=\iftrue color\else none \fi,backgroundcolor=green]{abc} Is this somewhat inconsistent behaviour intrinsic to some parameters? I thought all parameters are picked up by a macro and then stashed away. Hans van der Meer

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t-bib-2006.06.23 problem
by Johannes Graumann 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Hello, The current t-bib beta (t-bib-2006.06.23) available at http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/t-bib-2006.06.23.zip has a problem: % Use Taco's bib module for the citations \usemodule[t-bib] % Cite the bibliography lists according to the entry order in the *.bib file \setuppublications[sorttype=bbl] % Bibliography information is here: \setupbibtex[database={../Bibliography/bibliography.bib}] Results in bibliography lists where the entries are (uncalled-for) numbered and the numbers collide with the author names (see http://shortlink.co.uk/9n6) Joh

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Greek hyphenation patterns
by Peter Heslin 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

A few weeks ago, I looked at Context, because I wanted utf-8 hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek, but then I saw that the patterns shipped with Context have serious bugs. I had hoped to patch ctxtools, but the required changes went beyond my knowledge of Ruby. I recently posted a Perl script to the xetex mailing list that should perform the conversion to utf-8 correctly. I would be happy to modify the script to make the output more useful to Context users, but I don't use Context myself. Feedback is welcome. The essential problem with the patterns shipped with Context is that it is the result of a simple conversion, but the hyphenation rules in Greek are based on the definition of vowels and consonants, which changes in utf-8. The original 8-bit patterns of Dimitrios Filippou depend on the fact that in the Babel encoding accents come before the vowel (except for iota subscript), whereas in Unicode they are either combined with the vowel or come after it, depending on whether you use precomposed characters or not. -- Peter Heslin (http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin)

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m-database and UTF
by Mojca Miklavec 30 Jun '06

30 Jun '06

Hello Hans & Taco, Some problems appeared (that weren't present in the first version) with UTF character handling in the database module. cp1250 works OK. See the attached file. Mojca

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