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mswincontext problems
by Taco Hoekwater 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hi all (esp. windows users), Last night I tried setting up a Win98SE for use with context using mswincontext.zip (I borrowed a laptop for bachotek, so I could not install linux on it ... ). It went terribly wrong. At first I thought it was just the shoddy Win98 install on that machine, but Olivier tells me he also had problems installing the latest mswincontext, so I hope another someone who uses Windows98 can testrun the installation. I got all sort of errors from command.com (syntax error, out of environment space, command not found, permission denied), and the wiki page is definately incomplete so I could not really debug. In the end, I basically gave up. Cheers, taco

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Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext problems
by wwl＠musensturm.de 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

> Hi all (esp. windows users), > > Last night I tried setting up a Win98SE for use with context > using mswincontext.zip (I borrowed a laptop for bachotek, so > I could not install linux on it ... ). > > It went terribly wrong. At first I thought it was just the > shoddy Win98 install on that machine, but Olivier tells me > he also had problems installing the latest mswincontext, so > I hope another someone who uses Windows98 can testrun the > installation. > > I got all sort of errors from command.com (syntax error, > out of environment space, command not found, permission > denied), and the wiki page is definately incomplete so I > could not really debug. In the end, I basically gave up. > I had problems too! First of all 'command.com' is the wrong command prozessor for the used batch-files. You should have 'cmd.exe'. Wolfgang

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bachotek
by Hans Hagen 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi, Tomorrow morning Taco and I will start our 1200 km drive to Bachotek (gust tex conference) so for about a week we will be mostly off line. 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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make array of tables
by Dalyoung Jeong 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Dear all, I'd like to display several tables of the same size in an 3*2 array form. I tried the commands \placetables and \startcombination like in thd dispaly of figures, but it didn't work. My only solution is to use \startcolumns right now. Is it possible to use \startcombination in some way? Or, is there any way to perform such a display? Thank you for reading. Dalyoung

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generating formats with newtexexec
by Thomas A. Schmitz 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

I'm having a slight problem with generating the formats when I use newtexexec. texmfstart newtexexec --make --all I get the expected output without any errors, e.g.: ConTeXt ver: 2006.04.18 22:36 fmt: 2006.4.19 int: english mes: english Beginning to dump on file cont-en.fmt (format=cont-en 2006.4.19) 41222 strings of total length 690675 555192 memory locations dumped; current usage is 255&551843 38558 multiletter control sequences \font\nullfont=nullfont 0 words of font info for 0 preloaded fonts 232 hyphenation exceptions Hyphenation trie of length 98729 has 4367 ops out of 35111 117 for language 37 31 for language 36 13 for language 34 31 for language 33 26 for language 32 21 for language 31 29 for language 30 207 for language 29 220 for language 28 265 for language 27 127 for language 26 60 for language 25 80 for language 24 181 for language 23 224 for language 22 181 for language 21 71 for language 19 248 for language 18 248 for language 17 63 for language 16 63 for language 15 194 for language 14 194 for language 13 194 for language 12 19 for language 11 7 for language 10 7 for language 9 35 for language 8 35 for language 7 235 for language 6 235 for language 5 88 for language 4 88 for language 3 265 for language 2 265 for language 1 No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. But cont-en.fmt is never actually written to the disk. I searched high and low, but the only cont-en.fmt is the "old" one, written on Apr. 17; the same for cont-en.log. Generating the formats with texexec --make --all works. Is there anything I'm missing? Best Thomas

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solved - making array of tables
by Dalyoung 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Sorry again. I copied and pasted the codes in mp-cb-en.pdf and run it. It worked fine. Hence I modified the codes using my data and it also worked fine. I compared the structures of the codes in the documents and mine. The only difference is the blank lines between ............ \stoptable}{talbe 1} \starttable[...... and it was the cause of the trouble. The other day, I had a trouble in using \head because I didn't insert blank line, but today, I made another problem because inserting a blank line. Anyway, it is good to know ConTeXt better. Thanks for reading. Dalyoung

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Cranky booklet layout.
by John R. Culleton 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

First I built a letter-on-tabloid booklet like this: \definepapersize[tabloid][width=11in,height=17in] \setuppapersize[letter][tabloid] \setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided] \setuplayout[width=7in,location=doublesided,backspace=0.73in, topspace=.0in,height=10.3in] This worked pretty well. For the next iteration I wanted to reduce the size by one half, in other words a half letter sheet on a letter sheet. I came up with this: \definepapersize[halff][width 5.5in,height=8.5in] \definepapersize[ful][width 8.5in,height=11in] \setuppapersize[halff][ful] \setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided] Now no amount of fiddling with \setuplayout parameters seems to place the logical pages correctly on the paper. If I use no such parameters whatever the entire physical page image seem to slide toward the bottom of the piece of paper. As a result the bottom logical page slides halfway off the page. Can anyone spot an obvious goof? John Culleton -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

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spurious line break in \switchtobodyfont
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hello, there is a misterious linebreak in the second example: abc\switchtobodyfont[ss]def abc\switchtobodyfont[,,ss]def Is this ConTeXt's fault or mine? Mojca

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\to broken in figure captions
by Sanjoy Mahajan 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

In inline math, \to works fine (produces a right arrow), but in a figure caption all hell breaks loose. The culprit may be this redefinition of \to in enco-ini.tex: $ find texmf -name '*.tex' |xargs egrep -n '\\((e|g|)def|let)\\to\b' texmf/tex/context/base/core-pos.tex:642: %\edef\to {\POSprefix#1}% texmf/tex/context/base/enco-ini.tex:1565: {\appendtoks\let\to\everylowercase texmf/tex/context/base/enco-ini.tex:1570: {\appendtoks\let\to\everyuppercase [context : ver: 2006.04.17 23:14] This test file: \starttext \placefigure[abc]{ABC $n\to1$.}{} \input tufte \stoptext produces lots of errors beginning with ERROR: Missing control sequence inserted. --- TeX said --- <inserted text> \inaccessible <to be read again> 1 \convertargument #1\to #2->\dodoglobal \edef #2 {\detokenize {#1}} <argument> ABC $n\to 1 $. \docompletefloat ... \doglobal \convertargument #6 \to \asciititle \ifnofloat... <argument> ...abc}{figure}{ABC $n\to 1$.}\nextbox \else \docompletefloat {fi... ... l.2 \placefigure[abc]{ABC $n\to1$.}{} \input tufte

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\k in inline math
by Sanjoy Mahajan 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

\starttext $\k T$ \stoptext The above test file, to my surprise, compiled fine. [In Plain TeX I usually define \k as \kappa, but I had forgotten to carry over that definition.] The pdf output showed a T with little hook as a subscript. I can redefine \k as \kappa, but that might overwrite an important definition. However, I can't figure out where \k is defined. With \tracingmacros=1, the log had: \k ->\dohandleaccent {k} but lots of grepping in the context sources only produced: texmf/tex/context/base/mult-ini.tex:71:\def\k!prefix!{k!} \def\l!prefix!{l!} \def\m!prefix!{m!} -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal

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