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Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart?
by Hans van der Meer 31 May '06

31 May '06

On May 23, 2006, at 11:05, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 5/21/06, Hans van der Meer <hansm(a)science.uva.nl> wrote: >> >> Since installing the last ConTeXt update I am aware of the message >> from >> texexec: >> warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead >> >> Good, I call: >> "texmfstart texexec --version" instead of "texexec --version" >> >> Result: >> -bash: texmfstart: command not found >> >> Is my system suddenly incomplete? >> I am using Mac OS X 10.4.6, the most recent development I would >> think. >> What happened and how can I get to the level of system support >> ConTeXt seems >> to expect of me? > > I don't know how it is on Mac. Under windows I have a binary (cont-win > on pragma download site), under Linux I create a file "texmfstart" > with > ruby /path-to-tex/texmfstart.rb $* > (or something similar) > > see also the new scripts/context/stubs/mac folder (I didn't check, I > only suppose that it's there) if anything there can help you. > > Mojca Putting the ruby script in the right path and giving it executing permissions solved most of the problem. However there is a warning message left: TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 metapost : test-mpgraph format : metafun This is MetaPost, Version 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.3) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) total run time : 0 seconds warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.1) (./test.tuo) Since this message results from the internals of "texmfstart texexec" it might be a leftover lonely "texexec" in the scripts. I tried to find it, but could not find my way around the ruby scripts. Hans van der Meer

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Learning
by Johan Blixt-Dackhammar 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi, I'm trying to learn ConTeXt and has so far read parts of the manuals available on the website (http://www.pragma-ade.com) However, I feel that these manuals only give me a quite limited knowledge. Therefore I wonder if there are any chance that the source code for some advanced documents are available on the internet. Some of the really well designed manuals (eg. "XML in ConTeXt", "Charts in ConTeXt" and "ConTeXt - an excursion") or other documents with a high level of design. On to another subject, I'm having trouble using the chart module. I get no errors while typesetting, but the flowcharts doesn't show up. The only command that showed anything among the ones I tried was \FLOWchart[grid]. Has the commands changed since the chart manual("Charts uncovered") was written? -Johan

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xetex with i-installed tetex stymied
by Ulf Martin 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hi all! When trying out XeTeX following http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XeTeX I got this (I have a full teTeX installation + ConTeXt, etc. with i-installer on a Mac OS X 10.3.9 is from yesterday.): -- Command with output -- UMac:~/Projekte/ConTeXt/ uma$ texexec --xtx main.tex TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : xetex executable : xetex format : cont-en inputfile : main output : xetex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.99b (Web2C 7.5.3) (WARNING: translate-file "natural.tcx" ignored) ---! /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) return code : 256 run time : 1 seconds total run time : 4 seconds warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead -- Running XeTeX on the input file in TeXShop yields: -- This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.99b (Web2C 7.5.3) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xetex.fmt fmtutil: no info for format `xetex'. I can't find the format file `xetex.fmt'! -- The input file was: -- \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[en] \starttext \title{The Main Title} Bla, {\bf bla}, blah!\footnote[fn01]{\language[de] Beispielfußnote} And some formula: $$ \int^\infty_0 e^{-x^2} dx.$$ \stoptext -- End -- Hope somebody has any idea on this. Bye and thanks to all for help! -- Ulf Martin

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Re: [NTG-context] t-greek module and Latin Modern
by Alan Bowen 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hans— Here is another error message that appeared in compiling a file that re-installs Latin Modern and uses Thomas’ module for ancient Greek. references : unknown reference [][fnt:t:1] references : unknown reference [][fnt:f:1] ! Font \nullfont has only 7 fontdimen parameters. <to be read again> \advance \dohighlow ...#2\textfont 2\else #3ex\fi \advance \scratchdimen #4ex \kern .... <argument> ...ednote \v!nextpage \v!previouspage } } \doifreferencefoundelse ...ferencefound #2\else #3 \fi \egroup \doresetgotowh... \gotobox ...2]} {\hbox {\unknownreference {#2}#1}} \referentieinfo {<} {#2}\eg... <argument> ...[\s!fnt :f:\internalfootreference ]} \fi \doifelse {\noteparame... ... l.39 \footnote{ \grk{>'alfa ka`i b~hta}.} ? The source file (below) was the same as before. The only change is that I am now using ConTeXt ver: 2006.05.28 13:28 fmt: 2006.5.30 Alan Source file: \enableregime[mac] \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono,mm][hanging][normal] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \setupfootnotes[align={hz,hanging}] \setupencoding[default=ec] \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic] \starttypescript[serif][default][size] \definebodyfont[10.5pt,9.5pt][rm][default] \definebodyfont[10.5pt,9.5pt][mm][default] \stoptypescript \setupfontsynonym[Serif][handling=normal] \setupbodyfont[modern,10.5pt] \setupfootnotes[conversion=numbers, way=bytext,location=page,rule=on,bodyfont=9.5pt,style=normal] \usemodule[ancientgreek] [font=Alkaios,scale=0.9,altfont=GreekOxoniensis,altscale=0.9] \setupfontsynonym[Alkaios][handling=grkpure] \setupfontsynonym[GreekOxoniensis][handling=grkpure] \def\grk{\localgreek} \def\altgrk{\localaltgreek} \starttext \grk{>'alfa ka`i b~hta}. The cow flew over the Moon.% % \footnote{\grk{>'alfa ka`i b~hta}.} \stoptext

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Unicode and simplifiedcommands in bookmarks
by Daniel Wallin 30 May '06

30 May '06

How do I get both unicode characters and simplifiedcommands in PDF bookmarks? The code below produces an error: ! Improper alphabetic constant. <to be read again> \groupedcommand <argument> \ifnum `\groupedcommand =255 32\else `\groupedcommand \fi \utfdiv #1->\the \numexpr \ifcase \numexpr #1 \relax 0\else (#1-\utf@g )/\utf... \PDFunicodechar ...bers \@EA {\number \utfdiv {#1} }\@EA \lchexnumbers \@EA {... \nodoPDFuni ...ar {\ifnum `#1=255 32\else `#1\fi } \doPDFuni \bookmarktext ...nicodechar {246}ݧroupedcommand {\tt }{}{\unicodechar {229... ... l.18 \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[sv] \usetypescript[modern][ec] \setupbodyfont[10pt,rm] \setupinteraction[state=start] \appendtoks \let\groupedcommand\thirdofthreearguments \to \simplifiedcommands \unprotected \definealternativestyle [\v!mono] [\tt] [] \input spec-tst.tex \placebookmarks \starttext \chapter{åäö \mono{åäö} \bold{åäö}} \stoptext -- Daniel Wallin

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Index sorting for other languages that English
by Richard Gabriel 30 May '06

30 May '06

Hello Hans, after an upgrade I noticed thar the index sorting works even worse than before (tested on Czech, Chinese and Japanese, but probably related to non-ASCII characters in common). With TeXExec 5.4.3, all words beginning with national (accented) characters were put into a separate ("symbols") group and placed before "A". This was not good but more or less acceptable. With TeXExec 6.2.0, words beginning with accented characters are placed under certain unaccented letter. My colleague found out that these words are sorted according the first unaccented letter. This is unacceptable and unusable. We do a "work-around" so we try to avoid indexing words beginning with accented charaters. But it's impossible in many cases. I'd like to ask you to improve the index sorting. Could I help or contribute in some way? Attached is a testing file, which creates 2 indexes from various Czech words (covering the Czech alphabet). The index should be sorted exactly that way as the terms are written in the file. Thanks, Richard

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Re: [NTG-context] Space between footnote number and text
by jeffdod＠netzero.net 30 May '06

30 May '06

I felt a little bad about asking everyone else to do my work for me, so I did take a stab at solving my footnote line-break issue :). I came up with something that seems to work, but I'm not sure it is the simplest or best way to do it. Basically, I used something from your last post (the \specialcommand) to turn off the default footnote number completely and instead include the footnote number as part of the footnote text: % Create a counter that will act as our footnote labels \newcounter\MyFootnoteLabel % Create a special command to turn off the default footnote number \def\TurnOffDefFootNum#1{} % Set up footnoting in paragraph form (n=0) with no default footnote number \setupfootnotes[n=0,way=bypage,numbercommand=\TurnOffDefFootNum] % Create macro to replace standard footnote macro. This macro will include % the footnote number as part of the footnote text so that we can keep it from % getting split onto a different line from the footnote text \def\fnote#1{\footnote[\MyFootnoteLabel]{\note[\MyFootnoteLabel]~#1}\increment\MyFootnoteLabel} % Test with some output \starttext Now\fnote{Footnote number one} % is\fnote{Footnote number two} % the\fnote{Footnote number three} % time\fnote{Footnote number four} % for\fnote{Footnote number five} % all\fnote{Footnote number six} % good\fnote{Footnote number seven} % men\fnote{Footnote number eight} % to\fnote{Footnote number nine} % come\fnote{Footnote number ten} % to\fnote{Footnote number eleven} % the\fnote{Footnote number twelve} % aid\fnote{Footnote number thirteen} % of\fnote{Footnote number fourteen} % their\fnote{Footnote number fifteen} % country.\fnote{Footnote number sixteen} % \stoptext I put a non-breaking space in this example, but it seems to work with no space there as well. It is hard to get a number to split on purpose anyway, but I found that by successively adding "i" characters to any footnote text, I could eventually cause the next footnote to leave its number on one line and its text on the next. However, after the above, the first word of the footnote text seems to stay with the footnote number regardless, which is what I wanted. I would be interested in knowing though if there is a simpler solution. Also, any idea what might be causing some whole footnotes to appear on, say, page 11, when the text that references the footnote is on page 10? Is this something I just have to fix by tweaking my main text? Jeff Dodson _____________________________________________________________________ Call Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere in the World - FREE! Free Internet calling from NetZero Voice Visit http://www.netzerovoice.com today!

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eqno not in math
by Hans van der Meer 29 May '06

29 May '06

Something strange occurs in math, doing: \placeformula\startformula H(K|M,C) = H(K|C) - H(M|C)\eqno{\hbox{(\in{}[eq:keyapp])}} \stopformula produces the following error: ------------------------------------ ! You can't use `\eqno' in math mode. <argument> \normalreqno {\doformulanumber [][][]{}} \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dostopformula ->\doplaceformulanumber \getvalue {\e!stop \formulaparameter ... l.20 \stopformula ------------------------------------ Why cannot \eqno be used in math mode? It is its raison d'etre! Plain TeX typesets the following input without problems: $$ a = b + c\eqno{(12)} $$ \end Strange enough the following does work as expected: \placeformula\startformula \eqalignno{ H(K|M,C) &= H(K|C) - H(M|C)&\eqno{\hbox{(\in{}[eq:keyapp])}}\cr } \stopformula Is this a little bug perhaps? Hans van der Meer

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Another texmfstart question
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 29 May '06

29 May '06

Hi all, I just made on my linux-gentoo box a fresh install using (exactly) this howto: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation But using "texmfstart texexec toto" gives "texmfstart not found"; I tried with the full path of texmfstart.rb and get "permission denied"; so I go into the directory /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby and see that many scripts are not executable for others (regular users); so I say "chmod +x *" in that directory and then "texmfstart texexec toto" still doesn't work but it actually works with the full path; however my path is correctly set for context afaik. I tried to set $RUBYLIB to this directory but it doesn't change anything. TIA for any advice -- Jean

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Re: [NTG-context] Space between footnote number and text
by jeffdod＠netzero.net 29 May '06

29 May '06

Thank you for the response! Here is what I found. The code you suggested... \def\specialcommand#1{\high{#1}~~~} \setupfootnotes[n=0,numbercommand=\specialcommand] \setupfootnotedefinition[distance=0pt] ...actually produced *more* space between the footnote number and the text of the footnote. However, I removed the three tilde (~~~) characters and I got *no* space between the footnote number and text, which is what I wanted to achieve. A couple of other questions though: 1) My footnotes sometimes still "break" in that the footnote number will be at the end of a line and the footnote text at the beginning of the next line. I tried putting one of the non-breaking space (~) tilde characters back in, just to see if that would prevent the break. However, it *does not* prevent the break...the footnote number and text are still separated. Is there any way to force footnote numbers to be on the same line as the first word of the footnote? 2) Sometimes the last few footnote numbers in the body of my main text appear with a small arrow next to them. These footnotes end up on the next page of text rather than on the page where they are referenced. What is the best solution to this type of thing? 3) Is there a way to turn off hyphenation in the main body of my text, such as with "\nohyphens", but turn *on* hyphenation in the text of the footnotes. My main text is ancient Greek, while my footnotes are mostly English. The Greek is hard to read if it is hyphenated, but I get much better formatting in the footnotes if hyphenation is turned on. Thanks for the help. I am much closer to what I want now. Jeff Dodson _____________________________________________________________________ Call Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere in the World - FREE! Free Internet calling from NetZero Voice Visit http://www.netzerovoice.com today!

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