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Looking for old ConTeXt stuff
by Taco Hoekwater 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, Some of you may know that we are working on a project whose goal is to have all releases of the ConTeXt distribution in an on-line source repository. For that project, we are looking for old versions of the ConTeXt distribution. Hans Hagen, Patrick Gundlach and me had quite a few of them among us, but we are still missing a number of releases (we only have a complete set for 2004 and 2005). At the end of this message is a list of all the distributions before the year 2004 that we could find on our harddisks and on old tex-live and 4TeX disks. So, I have a question to all of you who have ever upgraded or downloaded your ConTeXt distribution from the Pragma website. Could you please have a look if there is still a zip on your harddisk or backup somewhere? A bit of search help: really old context-s used the filename "context.zip" and contained a directory of MS-Dos files with uppercase names, newer ones (since 1999) are named "cont-tmf.zip" and contain an embedded texmf structure with lowercase names. I'll wait until after christmas before I start filling the repository, so there is some time yet. Don't forget: if you can help out and want to me send files, then e-mail me directly, do not reply to this message on the list(s)! Thanks in advance, Taco ---------------------------------------------------------------- Distributions we have: (For 1999-2003, the filename refers to the date used by \contextversion in context.tex. For 1997 and 1998, there was no \contextversion yet, so the modification date of the newest file in the distribution is used instead) 1997: total 648 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 662581 Dec 20 12:18 cont-tmf-19971028.zip 1998: total 1320 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 673171 Dec 20 12:27 cont-tmf-19980327.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 674836 Dec 19 15:23 cont-tmf-19980415.zip 1999: total 2804 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1030228 Dec 20 12:28 cont-tmf-19990217.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 744357 Dec 20 12:28 cont-tmf-19990331.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1089733 Dec 20 14:25 cont-tmf-19991230.zip 2000: total 2048 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 873111 Dec 20 13:36 cont-tmf-20000518.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1220484 Dec 20 14:26 cont-tmf-20001022.zip 2001: total 6952 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1313450 Dec 20 14:26 cont-tmf-20010409.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1361637 Dec 20 11:54 cont-tmf-20010423.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1367195 Dec 20 14:27 cont-tmf-20010430.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1515384 Dec 20 11:55 cont-tmf-20010704.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1554823 Dec 20 11:37 cont-tmf-20010711.zip 2002: total 8548 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1713611 Dec 20 11:38 cont-tmf-20020124.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1730030 Dec 20 11:38 cont-tmf-20020304.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1715671 Dec 20 13:15 cont-tmf-20020417.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1741888 Dec 20 13:16 cont-tmf-20020515.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1841991 Dec 20 13:18 cont-tmf-20021220.zip 2003: total 28484 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1857813 Dec 20 13:19 cont-tmf-20030110.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1882161 Dec 20 13:20 cont-tmf-20030128.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1882471 Dec 20 13:21 cont-tmf-20030131.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1889112 Dec 20 13:21 cont-tmf-20030211.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1896212 Dec 20 13:22 cont-tmf-20030303.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1900056 Dec 20 13:23 cont-tmf-20030304.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1905791 Dec 20 13:23 cont-tmf-20030309.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1913789 Dec 20 13:25 cont-tmf-20030317.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1984791 Dec 20 13:25 cont-tmf-20030422.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1985317 Dec 20 13:26 cont-tmf-20030429.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1998077 Dec 20 13:27 cont-tmf-20030721.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 2006682 Dec 20 13:27 cont-tmf-20030808.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 2012646 Dec 20 13:28 cont-tmf-20030821.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 2015217 Dec 20 11:48 cont-tmf-20030925.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 2013910 Dec 20 11:49 cont-tmf-20030926.zip

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Request for some sample technical document layouts.
by R S Ananda Murthy 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello, I am required to typeset a technical book having several chapters with lot of figures, equations etc. I have set this type of document using Komascript-book class earlier. Now I want to try ConTeXt. I am new to ConTeXt. Can I get some sample document layouts suitable for technical books? This will be very helpful for me to learn ConTeXt. Thanks for your help, Anand

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Enumerated list numbering across
by David Arnold 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

All, How do I get: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Instead of: 1. 4. 2. 5. 3. 6. With: \startitemized \item ... \stopitemized

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Context 2005.12.19 released
by Taco Hoekwater 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip The current release has version 2005.12.19. As usual, there is a page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.12.19 This version will be uploaded to CTAN shortly New features since 2005.12.18: * Support for the latin-9 regime (latin-1 + euro) Bug fixes: * loading of pdf font resources is more robust now. * the 2005.121.8 version broke unicode character support Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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betex -etex block parsing bug
by Willi Egger 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, It seems that there is a problem with parsing betex - etex blocks in the following situation: I can not say with which version this has been introduced. (I messed up my old TeX, so I have only new ones) I tested this with the version of 19-12-2005 an 30-11-2005. \setMPtext{1}{CENTER} \startuseMPgraphic{TEST} picture Text; Text := \MPbetex{1}; draw Text; \stopuseMPgraphic the betex-etex block will look like 'tex CENTERetex' of course the etex should be separated by a space. For testing I attach the minimal file. Willi % TEST betex etex block: BUG parsing ... % Context file % filename test.tex % Willi Egger % 20-12-2005 \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[txt] \setMPtext{1}{CENTER} % remove the space before the right brace, erase the temporary files % then compile and the run will fale! \startuseMPgraphic{TEST} picture Text; Text := \MPbetex{1}; draw Text ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \startTEXpage \useMPgraphic{TEST} \stopTEXpage \stoptext

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About \defineshortcut
by Radhelorn 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello All! There is intresting macros in cont-new -- shortcuts. It works pretty well, but I have one question: how to undefine them back? For example after command: \defineshortcut [//] [] [style=\em] I can get slash only by \textslash (which is expected) and it breaks things like: \typefile {some/dir/file} So how to revert to previous meaning of '/'? It is possible to do it only temporarily? -- Radhelorn <radhelorn(a)mail.ru>

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newbie questions: footer and header?
by Leon 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi all, Could anybody provide an example with the usage of footer and header? Many thanks. Cheers, Leon

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interesting font
by Thomas A. Schmitz 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Dear all, quite by coincidence, I discovered a nice font for download. It is called GFSDidot and can be downloaded at http://greekfontsociety.org/ typefaces.html I became interested because it has a full set of polytoniko Greek characters, but the Latin typeface (which resembles Palatino) is very nice, too; it has (for the Regular variant) a full set of small caps, oldstyle figures, and full f-ligatures, so it's almost an expert font. The font is free; the readme says: "You may use these fonts for personal and commercial use. These fonts may be freely redistributed, provided that you do not alter them in any way and that you credit GFS for this. These fonts are distributed free and may not be sold or resold for any purposes." The font comes in the usual four variants as an OpenType font. However, texfont and the lcdf-tools choked on the bold and bold italic with this message: ../include/lcdf/vector.hh:52: failed assertion `i>=0 && i<_n' After converting them to pfb/afm (via cfftot1), installation was easy. If anyone (Adam??) can figure out what this message means, I'd be grateful nevertheless. Have a look and enjoy! Best Thomas

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[Fwd: Re: Need a little help on sample file]
by Hans Hagen 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

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Example -- Solution Pair
by David Arnold 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

All, Anyone have an environment something along the lines of: \startexample blah, blah, ... \stopexample \startsolution blah, blah, ... \stopsolution With maybe a little square indicating the end of the solution?

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