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new release
by Hans Hagen 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, Today i'll upload a new release. Highlights: - some fixes/extensions discussed the last few weeks - xetex support adapted to using xdvipdfmx - ctxtools --update which will update your local context - an update feature in scite (can be used a example for other editors) - an integrated mpto (more robust that the binary approach) (btw, use textext instead of btex .. etex when possible) Taco will undoubtely give mnore details later. Keep in mind that you need to change the stubs: - preferable use texmfstart to launch scripts - texmfstart itself can be stubbed if needed - there is a ../scripts/context/stubs path in the zip 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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Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX "hangs"
by Hans Hagen 27 May '06

27 May '06

Otared Kavian wrote: > > As told above, ConTeXt is called from within TeXShop, but doing > texexec eth-hans-2.tex --pdf > in a Terminal window gives the same result (I apologize for not being > still up dto date with texmfstart... :-) ) > > I wanted to let you know that I am gathering a number of issues or > ConTeXt things which do not work properly when ConTeXt is used > together with XeTeX. Should I send them directly to you and Taco or > post each problem separately on the list? > > > ok, what you see happen in 'non xetex context' is ok, \catcode`Ã°=\active \defÃ°{^^F0} will fail because pdftex is *not* utf and only sees 8 bit characters, so you can only set the catcodes 0-255 \catcode `<number>=<number> and in your case `Ã will become a number ° but ° not \bgroup \let\unicodechar\unicodenumber \catcodeÃ°=\active \defÃ°{^^F0} \egroup could work (watch out: no `) but again, \catcode<16 bit number> is not accepted by regular 8 bit tex so, a the moment, what you observe is ok; at the end of this year, in a 32 bit pdftex, things may work different 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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TABLE wishlist
by Johannes Graumann 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hello, I have finished my thesis using ConTeXt (with an XML only source - yeah ...). I found ConTeXt very usable, much more consistent in syntax than LaTeX (once one gets used to it) and up to the job ... the only thing that was not fixable is multipage table support with TABLEs. As pointed out earlier, there are issues with page breaking associated with it (see http://www.idyll.org:8081/JohSite/context/page-overflow-preceeding-a-split-…) - despite a patch by Hans. If, at one point, one of the developers is going to put some work into TABLEs, I have two requests aside from a reliable splitting algorithm: 1) A clearer numbering scheme ("Table 25a" and "Table 25b" rather than "Table 25a" and "Table 26b") for split tables. 2) an option that allows to repeat the table header, but replaces the caption after the first part of the split table with a configurable string as "Continued from page xyz". Having these 2(3) additions would be a great boon to ConTeXt (I believe). When I find the time in the next couple of days I'll start to return some of the insights gotten from the newsgroup during the thesis writing process to the community via the wiki. Thanks for your help guys! And thanks for this great package! Joh P.S.: I'd still be able to sneak in a last minute page breaking fix till Tuesday ;0) JG

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format generation -- again!
by Thomas A. Schmitz 26 May '06

26 May '06

All, I just hit a snag in generating formats with --make --all. It works flawlessly on my computers running Mac OS X or linux, but ALan Bowen has a problem where .pat files with Unicode characters aren't recognized: (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/lang-us.hyp) language : patterns agr for agr loaded (n=24,e=agr,m=agr) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/lang-agr.pat ! Nonletter. \rawcharacter ...r\or \or \or \or \or \or \or \or \or \or \or \... l.37 α2Ϊ 1 ? I compared the cont-en.log of our computers; the only real difference is the beginning: My log: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213 (Web2C 7.5.5) (INITEX) 26 MAY 2006 19:42 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) ***cont-en (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/context.tex (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex Alan's log: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (INITEX) 24 MAY 2006 06:40 entering extended mode ***cont-en.ini (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/config/cont-en.ini (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/context.tex (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex Both have the latest release. So the only difference that really could matter: 1. older version of pdf(e)tex; 2. natural.tcx is not called. Can anybody help? I'm unable to reproduce the problem here; I can generate formats both with texmfstart texexec --make --all and with fmtutil-sys --byfmt cont-en. Best Thomas

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XeTeX "hangs"
by Mojca Miklavec 26 May '06

26 May '06

If I try to compile the folllowing code with XeTeX, it "hangs" (as if it was waiting for further input): \catcode`ð=\active \defð{^^f0} % only hangs for "F0", other numbers are OK \starttext ð \stoptext I didn't manage to test the same example with "plain" XeTeX (tetex is a bit misconfigured since the standalone ConTeXt is installed), but Jonathan says that it runs OK on his computer. Is my system broken again or are some other black forces working anywhere? Thanks, Mojca

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Stuck in texmfstart
by Neal Lester 26 May '06

26 May '06

This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the loop at line 262. It seems that in my thrashing around yesterday I made some transient change to the environment (I shut this system down at night). Any idea what that is? I also applied a kernel patch, so I suppose that could also be the problem. Neal

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What about Lua in pdftex ?
by luigi scarso 26 May '06

26 May '06

What about Lua in pdftex ?

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'Dot' after Float label Howto?
by Johannes Graumann 26 May '06

26 May '06

Hello, My proofreader wants the float labels ("Figure 2.5") to end with a dot as well (as in "Figure 2.5."). Can somebody please point me at how to achieve that? Thanks, Joh

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Dropped caps and line length
by jeffdod＠netzero.net 26 May '06

26 May '06

I am using dropped caps in my document, and I have noticed an occasional problem related to them. The problem is that in paragraphs that have dropped caps, an occasional line will run off into the right-hand margin instead of being hyphenated or wrapped around to the next line. I have to confess that I modified the DroppedString in supp-fun.tex (where \DroppedCaps is defined) to add the digits 0 through 9 so that I could have numbers as dropped caps. I thought at first that this might have caused the problem. However, I switched back to an original installation of ConTeXt and found that the problem occurred there too. This is especially pronounced with certain fonts. I also tried using the lettrine module to perform the dropped caps, but saw the same effect there. I will add also that I am using the t-ancientgreek module, and the text in question is polytonic Greek. Thanks in advance for any help offered. I am new to ConTeXt so if my questions are trivial, please pardon! 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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Footnote Formatting
by jeffdod＠netzero.net 26 May '06

26 May '06

I am new to ConTeXt and have two questions about footnote formatting. I have noticed that there is always a space between the footnote number and the actual text of the footnote. My first question is: How can I eliminate this space or at the very least replace the space with a non-breaking space. On my system, the footnote numbers sometimes appear at the end of a line while the footnote text wraps around to the next line. Also, I am formatting my footnotes with \setupfootnotes[n=0,...] so that they appear at the bottom of the page in paragraph form (i.e., not one footnote per line). Due to a section change in the document, I may restart footnote numbering at "1" in the middle of a page. When this happens, I would like to indent footnote #1 just like you would indent a paragraph. My second question is: Can this be done? Any help offered will be greatly appreciated! 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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