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customized itemize
by Na Li 17 May '06

17 May '06

I need use repeatedly a list like this, with the same set of words (five or six of them), 'icon', 'coni', etc, \startitemize[width=3em,symstyle=bold] \sym{icon} blah \sym{coni} llla \stopitemize How to define a customized list so I can do: \startmylist \item blah \item llla \stopmylist to get the same result? Thanks, Michael

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Trouble with new update
by Aditya Mahajan 17 May '06

17 May '06

I just now did a fresh install of 2006.05.11 10:30 (i.e. removed my old installation, downloaded mswincontext, did ctxtools --update) and now I get error messages systems : begin file test at line 1 fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using map file: ec-public-lm fonts : using map file: ec-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler fonts : using map file: original-public-lm (e:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) [1.1 Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-empty.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-public-lm.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-ams-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-ams-euler.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-public-lm.map): cannot open font map file ] systems : end file test at line 5 ) The files are present in the system, have permission 755, I do not know what is going wrong. I have tried, but of no avail. Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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right way to get type1 ccr fonts?
by Sanjoy Mahajan 17 May '06

17 May '06

After a bit of experimenting and reading the mfonts manual, I got the following to include the type1 font for ccr10 (otherwise pdfetex was including /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/concrete/ccr10.720pk): \definetypeface[ceul][rm][serif][concrete][default][encoding=default] \definetypeface[ceul][tt][mono] [modern] [default][encoding=texnansi, rscale=1.05] \definetypeface[ceul][mm][math] [euler] [euler] [rscale=1] \setupbodyfont [ceul] \loadmapfile[my.map] \starttext a $abc + \int_0^\infty$. \stoptext my.map contains: ccr5 ccr5 < sform5.pfb ccr6 ccr6 < sform6.pfb ccr7 ccr7 < sform7.pfb ccr8 ccr8 < sform8.pfb ccr9 ccr9 < sform9.pfb ccr10 ccr10 < sform10.pfb The sfo*.pfb fonts are part of the cm-super debian package. Its README said sfo*.pfb were the Concrete Roman fonts, so I just went ahead and guessed the above my.map. Is this the right way to get the type1 inclusion to work? And if it's basically okay, then 1. Do I need some re-encoding magic? 2. Is there a pre-built version of this file lying around? 3. When I generate dvi, then I do 'dvips -u +my file.dvi' in order for dvips to use the map file. Should I instead have put the contents of my.map in one of the canonical map files that both context/pdftex and dvips find? But I'm not sure I can get pdftex and dvips to agree on the set of map files. I'll wikify the results if they seem of general use. -Sanjoy

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Several publication lists
by nico 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hello, I wonder if it is possible to display several publication lists. Can we achieve this with the bib module? What I would like to do is to split the publication list into different sections, like this: \section{Bibliography} \subsection{Specifications} ... Here are the list of publications that are specifications ... \subsection{Manuals} ... Here some manuals ... Regards, BG

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Columns again
by Ehrt, Michael 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi everyone, Is there a way to nest two \startcolumns environments, or to define a columnsetspan that "wraps"? What I'd like to do is produce a two column text which is unbalanced on the last page, and then place another two-column text in the last column. I haven't yet found a way to do it in ConTeXt since nesting \startcolumns doesn't seem to work... Cheers Michael

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project files searched for using TEXINPUTS
by Sanjoy Mahajan 17 May '06

17 May '06

In experimenting with projects, products, and components, I was tracing file searches (using Linux, teTeX 3.0 and kpathsea). >From the cont-eni.pdf manual (p. 26 of the PDF file), explaining more about components and project structure: > Many TEX implementations look for a file in all directories and > subdirectories when a requested file is not in the current > directory. This is not only time--consuming but may lead to errors when > the wrong file (a file with the same name) is loaded. > For this reason ConTEXt works somewhat differently. A file that is not > available on the working directory is searched for on the parent > directories. I agree with this reasoning. But as implemented, if the current and parent directories fail, ConTeXT will look in the TEXINPUTS search path. Is that the intended behavior when looking for project files? Probably not ideal for the project file, though maybe it is useful for the resulting environment file? For finding figures, the behavior is clear: look in the local (.) and then the global directories, and that's it. For finding files specified by \input, the behavior is also clear (use TEXINPUTS). So I wondered whether the intention for finding project files was also equally clear: look in . and in (grand)parent directories (I've increased the number of levels to three). Here's the test.tex file I used: \startcomponent blah \product null \project abcd \stopcomponent $ texexec -passon="-kpathsea-debug 32" --once test >& log $ grep abcd log | grep kpse_find kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ./abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../../../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ./abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for ../../../abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) kdebug:kpse_find_file: searching for abcd of type tex (from TEXINPUTS environment variable) The last search, for 'abcd', runs through the entire TEXINPUTS path. The other searches have directories specified, so they will look only in those directories. -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal

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xetex
by Hans Hagen 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi, this is what texexec (latest version that i will upload) does with xetex: --xetex --xtx : run xetex and process xdv file afterwards using xdvipdfmx --xdv : run xetex and process xdv file afterwards using xdv2pdf when using dvipdfmx, graphics are analyzed using rlxtools --identify filename.suffix which assumes imagemagick's 'identify' to be present (i can integrate that in the resource log mechanism later); it will be run at runtime when needed, otherwise users need to manually create the associated rli files (i.e. whatever.jpg gets a whatever.jpg.rli file) later i will look into a combination of specials 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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A few columnset questions
by Ehrt, Michael 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi there, I've been experimenting a bit with columnset (thats THE one feature which will make me convert from LaTeX), and a few questions I have I couldn't find explained in the manuals... 1) Is it possible to put a rule between two columns with columnsets? (I know \startcolumns[n=2,distance=15pt,rule=on] does this, but I need certain columnset features). The only thing I came up with so far is \definecolumnset[example][n=3,distance=0pt] %n=3 instead n=2 \setupcolumnset[example][2][width=15pt] and then put the rule in an area defined for column 2. 2) Is there a way to set ny "dynamically" for a columnsetarea, for example, if the text/image/whatever put in the area runs over six lines, tell it to just use six lines automatically? 3) When using columnsetareas, is there a way to link them to a specific columnset? Like, I've got \definecolumnset[set1]... \definecolumnset[set2]... \definecolumnsetarea[one][both][x=2,y=1,nx=1,ny=10] This area pops up in both column sets, and the only way I got it from not showing up in set2 was doing \setupcolumnsetarea[one][both][state=start] \startcolumnset[set1] {...} \stopcolumnset \setupcolumnsetarea[one][both][state=stop] \startcolumnset[set2] {...} \stopcolumnset I would have expected a columnsetarea to be linked to a specific columnset, is this the case? Like in \definecolumnset[set1]... \definecolumnset[set2]... \definecolumnsetarea[set1][one][both][x=2,y=1,nx=1,ny=10] %area for set1 only \definecolumnsetarea[set2][one][both][x=3,y=5,nx=2,ny=5] %area for set2 only Maybe there's a parameter in definecolumnsetarea that does it, but I didn't find anything. And in the columns manual there's just one set being used... Cheers Michael

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spurious space before section heading but only in pdf mode
by Sanjoy Mahajan 16 May '06

16 May '06

This file \starttext \section{a} hi \section{b} hi again \stoptext is fine in dvi mode (texexec a.tex). But 'texexec --pdf a.tex' is a bit off, with the "1 a" section heading indented about one character. Is it a pdfetex bug? $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 cont-en : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 fmt: 2006.4.8 mes: english The only change from the distributed context version is Taco's suggestion of \def\maxreadlevel{4} in supp-fil.tex. -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal

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\startlines and whitespace
by frantisek holop 16 May '06

16 May '06

hi there, i am puzzled about the following issue. there's extra whitespace between the centered line and startlines, while when using \crlf, there is not. \startlines is an environment i guess (i come from latex) and some environments sometimes add extra whitespace in latex, if i recall correctly. when i use \nowhitespace between midaligned and startlines, the whitespace is smaller, but still there, depending on where the actual text is on the page. how can i get rid of the whitespace entirely? \starttext \startnarrower[3cm] \midaligned{test} \startlines There snores -- I mean sleeps -- my wife so frail. There snores -- I mean sleeps -- my wife so frail. \stoplines \stopnarrower \startnarrower[3cm] \midaligned{test} There snores -- I mean sleeps -- my wife so frail.\crlf There snores -- I mean sleeps -- my wife so frail. \stopnarrower \stoptext -f -- a kind word and gun gets you more than a kind word alone.

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