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metapost textext?
by Hans van der Meer 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Panic using metapost in context. This used to work. I did a file that previously (\thisisutilityversion {1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere for textext calls! \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{one} draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0); label (textext("label"), (10,25)); \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{one} \stoptext But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"! What happened. This is disastrous. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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Some things I don't understand about typescripts...
by Thomas A. Schmitz 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Christmas is approaching, and I hate to be a pest this time of the year, but there's this problem that really bothers me: I'm still working hard to release version 2 of my Greek module on the unsuspecting masses. It will define all fonts in a typescript instead of as single fonts to allow switches like {\em } etc. It appears that the typescript mechanism creates some problems. The most serious one for me is that it seems to demand a full list of sizes that can be used in this form: \definebodyfont [30pt,25pt,20pt,18pt,17.3pt,14.4pt,14pt,12pt,11pt,11.5pt,10pt,9pt,8pt, 7pt,6pt,5pt,4pt] [rm] [default] If I specify a bodyfont with a size that's not in this list \setupbodyfont[somebodyfont,19.7pt] I get no errors, but no output either :-( If I add 19.7pt to the list, everything works again. Is there an explanation for this behavior? It also looks like I should define a math font for these Greek fonts. It looks like ConTeXt will try to get certain symbols from math if they're not defined in the bodyfont. Is there a syntax for creating a default math font for an entire set of typescripts? I tried this \starttypescript \definetypeface [all] [mm] [math] [times] [default] [encoding=default] \starttypescript but it doesn't seem to work, if a symbol like \textdoublebracketleft is used, compilation will fail with this error: ! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts. \mathematics #1->\relax \ifmmode #1\else $#1$ \fi \doutfunihashglyph ...#1\endcsname {#2}\endcsname \else \strippedcsname \uni... Any suggestions would be welcome; apart from these problems, I'm basically done with the work. All best Thomas

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2005/2006
by Hans Hagen 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hi, After a series of MP ones, this years our New Years card is a texie one: http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/2005.pdf This version uses Palatino Nova (the real thing that we send around uses Optima Nova with hz optimization). Hans

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About paragraph columns in table environment
by Radhelorn 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hello all! I've tried to fit wide table (with paragraphs and vertical lines) into page width. Following example don't work as expected: \SetTableToWidth{\textwidth} \starttable[|p|p|] \HL \VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR \HL \stoptable Text in columns formatted as if table was not widened. What did I miss here? BTW, how to fit text into a small box if I don't care about where word breaks? Thanks. -- Radhelorn <radhelorn(a)mail.ru>

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How can I use postscript Times Roman font for entire document?
by R S Ananda Murthy 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hello, I want to use postscript Times Roman font for body text. How to do this in ConTeXt? Thanks for your help. Anand

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Re: Small Chinese translation
by Richard Gabriel 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hello Hans, Tobias and others, with help of Xiao Jianfeng, I've added the missing Chinese localizations into lang-chi.tex (as Tobias reported). I also attach a simple test file. Could you please review it and add it to the distribution it it's all OK? I only had a small problem - I was unable to recode the glyphs into BIG5 (using iconv). Does anybody guess why or could anybody try it with another tool? Below is the original message from Xiao for reference that the glyphs are encoded OK. I've also tried to format the date correctly (see my previous message). -Richard ---- > Graphics 图 > Intermezzo (singular) 插曲 (this is a figurative use of "插曲", but I think it's not proper, I will try to consult some people who is good at TeXing) > Intermezzos (plural) 插曲 > Illustration 插图 > Line (singular) 行 > Lines (plural) 行 ---- (from another email) > If there's no Chinese equivalent for "intermezzo", I'd suggest to let > the label empty... I think it would be OK if you leave intermezzo unchanged without translation or just use "插曲".

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setupheadnumber loses table of contents
by David Arnold 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

All, in the following example, if I uncomment %\setupheadnumber[chapter][2] then I lose my table of contents. Should that be happening? % output=pdf \setupcaptions [location=bottom,width=fit,align=right,headstyle=bold,style=slanted] \setupcaption [figure] [way=bysection] %\setupheadnumber[chapter][2] \setuphead[section][number=no] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{david} draw unitsquare scaled 2cm withpen pencircle scaled 5mm withcolor red; \stopuseMPgraphic \startbuffer[table] \starttable[|c|c|] \HL \VL This \VL is \VL\FR \VL a \VL table \VL\LR \HL \stoptable \stopbuffer \completecontent \chapter{The Process of\crlf Growing Wheat} \input tufte \startbuffer \startcombination[2*1] {\useMPgraphic{david}}{First caption} {\useMPgraphic{david}}{Second caption} \stopcombination \stopbuffer \placefigure[][fig:11] {This is the caption of the figure.} {\getbuffer} \section{First Section} \input tufte \placefigure[][fig:1] {This is an example of an extended caption.} {\useMPgraphic{david}} \input tufte \placetable[][tab:4] {A very simple example of a table.} {\getbuffer[table]} \input tufte \placefigure[][fig:2] {This is an example of an extended caption.} {\useMPgraphic{david}} \input tufte \section{Second Section} \input tufte \placetable[][tab:1] {A very simple example of a table.} {\getbuffer[table]} \input tufte \placefigure[][fig:3] {This is an example of an extended caption.} {\useMPgraphic{david}} \input tufte \placetable[][tab:2] {A very simple example of a table.} {\getbuffer[table]} In \in{Figure}[fig:1], we on page \at[fig:1] what the figure is \about [fig:1]. \chapter{The Process of Baling Hay} \input tufte \section{First Section} \input tufte \placefigure[][fig:1] {This is an example of an extended caption.} {\useMPgraphic{david}} \input tufte \placetable[][tab:5] {A very simple example of a table.} {\getbuffer[table]} \input tufte \placefigure[][fig:2] {This is an example of an extended caption.} {\useMPgraphic{david}} \input tufte \section{Second Section} \input tufte \placetable[][tab:1] {A very simple example of a table.} {\getbuffer[table]} \input tufte \placefigure[][fig:3] {This is an example of an extended caption.} {\useMPgraphic{david}} \input tufte \placetable[][tab:2] {A very simple example of a table.} {\getbuffer[table]} \stoptext

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\useblocks in section
by David Arnold 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

All, This doesn't seem to work as expected. Replacing the \useblocks with \selectblocks also produces an unexpected result. What am I doing wrong? I am trying to have only the answers from the chapter show up. %output=pdf \defineenumeration[question][location=serried,text=Question] \defineenumeration[answer][location=serried,text=Answer] \defineblock[question,answer] \hideblocks[answer] \starttext \chapter{First Chapter} \input tufte \beginquestion \startquestion What is the square root of 4? \stopquestion \endquestion \beginanswer \startanswer 2 \stopanswer \endanswer \section{Answers} \useblocks[answer][criterium=chapter] \chapter{Second Chapter} \input tufte \beginquestion \startquestion What is the square root of 9? \stopquestion \endquestion \beginanswer \startanswer 3 \stopanswer \endanswer \section{Answers} \useblocks[answer][criterium=chapter] \stoptext

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For Metafont junkies
by Idris Samawi Hamid 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Dearest gang, As TeX moves into the 21'st century (pdfetex, ConTeXt, etc.) what about Metafont? Erik van Blokland and Co. have come up with the foundation of what could be a new and better "MetaFont", using Python: http://letterror.com/code/robofab/index.html The font development model looks very familiar: http://erik.letterror.com/typemedia/draw/drawingForInterpolation.pdf -) And it works with the latest FontLab (which uses python for extensions), so there's your gui-) built on RoboFab is Superpolator: http://letterror.com/code/superpolator/index.html The last is not free, but takes things to a whole other level. In any case, I think Erik has charted out a path that TeX should consider with respect to realizing the other half of Knuth's dream. Happy Holidays Idris -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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texexec --mptex text?
by Hans van der Meer 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

I did some small examples, motivated by the article of Wesseling in NTG's "Voorjaar 2005" MAPS. Latest context and fonts installed (2005-12-19). I do not understand the results. (call) texexec --mptex test-1.mp: beginfig(1); draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0); label.urt(btex \ss\tfxx coorner etex rotated 45, (50,50)) withcolor blue; endfig; end. Why are the o's colliding? font shown to be Courier Truetype (Macintosh OSX). And why is the fount Courier instead of the expected ComputerModern SansSerif? Contents of test.mpx is: % Written by DVItoMP, Version 0.9/color (Web2C 7.5.3) begingroup save _p,_r,_s,_n; picture _p; _p=nullpicture; string _n[]; vardef _s(expr _t,_f,_m,_x,_y)(text _c)= addto _p also _t infont _f scaled _m shifted (_x,_y) _c; enddef; _n0="ec-lmss12"; _s("co",_n0,1.00000,0.0000,-5.3134,); _s("o",_n0,1.00000,11.3806,-5.3134,); _s("rner",_n0,1.00000,16.9085,-5.3134,); setbounds _p to (0,-5.3134)--(36.0726,-5.3134)-- (36.0726,0.0000)--(0,0.0000)--cycle; _p endgroup mpxbreak File tmpgraph.bck has: \long\def\mpxshipout#1{\shipout\hbox{% \setbox0=\hbox{#1}% \dimen0=\ht0 \advance\dimen0\dp0 \dimen1=\ht0 \dimen2=\dp0 \ht0=0pt \dp0=0pt \box0 \ifnum\dimen0>0 \vrule width1sp height\dimen1 depth\dimen2 \else \vrule width1sp height1sp depth0sp\relax \fi}} \mpxshipout{% line 3 test.mp \ss coorner} \end{document} \end{document} File tmpgraph.log shows context loading ec fonts (why not lm now)? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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