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Problems creating tfms for an Unicode font
by Richard Gabriel 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Hello ConTeXters, in consequence to the Hans' prompt, I've tried to create enc and tfm files for some Japanese fonts. Namely, I've tried the Mona (http://monafont.sourceforge.net/index-e.html) and MS Mincho (distributed with Windows XP). I've done these steps: 1) Created a TTX representation of the font with the ttx utility (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/) ttx -t cmap -t name msmincho.ttf 2) Created the enc files using the Adam Lindsay's XSL stylesheet (http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/30_10.pdf) I've googled out that Japanse "Katakana" and "Hiragana" characters are located at Unicode offsets 0x30, 0x32, 0x33 and 0xff. So I've created four enc files the following way java -jar saxon8.jar msmincho.ttx ttx2enc.xsl "vector=30" >msmincho30.enc The files are created without errors, but I cannot judge if they are correct... 3) Tried to create the appropriate tfm files with the ttf2tfm utility. ttf2tfm msmincho.ttf -T msmincho30.enc msmincho30.tfm I got a lot of warnings of style: --- cut --- ttf2tfm: WARNING: Cannot find character `uni3064' specified in input encoding. ttf2tfm: WARNING: Cannot find character `uni3065' specified in input encoding. --- cut --- and finally this error: --- cut --- Using msmincho30.enc as input encoding. ttf2tfm: ERROR: No TTF characters. --- cut --- No tfm file was created. Could somebody advise/help me? I really haven't any experience with font conversion and cannot realize what's goings wrong... If somebody is willing to help, I'll send him the appropriate files (I can't post them here - it's over 5MB zipped...). Thanks, Richard

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chinese etc
by Hans Hagen 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Hi, if someone wants japanese and korean etc utf-8 support, he/she should deliver the fonts, test files and samples in utf-8 Hans

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bibmodule + project
by Thomas A. Schmitz 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hi all, a question for the many happy users of Taco's bibmodule: I'm in the process of splitting a larger project into several components. What I have is: transl.tex --> main project file environment.tex --> environment for all components products.tex --> list of components component1.tex component2.tex . . . Index, TOC etc. seem to be working very well, but I can't get the bibliographic references right when compiling. Where should the call to bibmodule reside, and how can I run bibtex on such a project? Thanks Thomas

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strange behavior of startbackground
by Xiao Jianfeng 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hello, I came across a problem when I was trying to compile my tex file. The attached file is an example. I have to process Chinese, so "\loadmapfile[gbk]" and "\usemodule[chinese]" are essential. I'm using the lastest release of ConTeXt. ConText ver:2005.12.01, texExec 5.4.3, to be exact. And I use "texmfstart texexec.pl --autopdf --pdf test2.tex" to compile my source file. The problem is there is enough space in page 2 for the words between \startbackground and \stopbackground, but the background block was put on page 3 with most of the page 2 was left blank. And there is another small problem, the command \setupindenting[medium] didn't work. Thanks a lot. xiaojf %interface=en output=pdftex \loadmapfile[gbk] \usemodule[chinese] \setuppagenumbering[location=inright] \setupbodyfont[lbr,12pt] \setupindenting[medium] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackground[state=start,background=screen,cornor=round] \setupinterlinespace[medium] %--------------------------------------------------------------------- \starttext \input knuth \input knuth %--------------------------------------------------------------------- \subject{Introduction} word word word word word word word word word word word word. \startitemize[n] \item word, word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word. \item word, word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word-word word word word word word word word word word word word. \stopitemize Water along with small polar molecules and lipophilic drugs are konwn to corss the barrier. Larger polar molecules and hydrophilic(?hydrophyllic) organic molecules, including plasma preoteins(Ñªœ¬µ°°×), do not penetrate well. \startbackground word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word word \stopbackground \stoptext

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extra nattab split in columns
by Vit Zyka 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hi, there occurs extra page break when natural tables is in the columns: ------------------------------------ \showframe \starttext \startcolumns Text. \bTABLE[split=yes] \dorecurse{100}{\bTR\bTD line\eTD\eTR} \eTABLE \stopcolumns \stoptext ------------------------------------ I do not know why there is extra \page \bgroup\page\egroup inside of \splittblboxa (core-ntb). Box breaking should be implicit here (we are not inside a float here since \splittblbox forks this), should not? Commenting mentioned line(s) solves this special problem. Not understanding all background I do not know if it causes some unwanted side-effect. Vit

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A very little error in texmf.cnf
by Nicolas Grilly 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

There is a very little error in file "/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf". This file is contained in archive "justtex.zip" downloaded from Pragma web site. It lacks a "S" after TEXMFPROJECT in definition of TEXMF : TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFPROJECTS,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN} Sincerely, Nicolas -- Nicolas Grilly Garden - Conseil et Etudes CRM Marketing relationnel - Connaissance clients - Bases de données marketing Tel +33 1 45 72 48 78 - Mob +33 6 03 00 25 34 - <http://www.garden-paris.com> www.garden-paris.com

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Tex drawing tool
by Boris Pedrofiets 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hi guys, I run into a drawing tool, capable of generating metapost. It's on http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ . It looks great to me, soo I like to share this with you all! Has anyone got any experiance with it? B. _________________________________________________________________ Een audiogesprek? Pak Messenger, niet de telefoon http://www1.imagine-msn.com/Messenger/Video.aspx

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Some localizations
by Richard Gabriel 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hello Hans, quite incidentally I've found out that some of the localization files (lang-*.tex) are incomplete. I've filled in missing phrases in lang-ger.tex and lang-sla.tex for the languages I speak, i.e. English, German, Czech and Slovak. Please look at the attached files and if you consider them OK (they really should be! :-) ), please add them to the distribution. Thank you! Richard

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Re: [NTG-context] Index entries messing up page breaks
by Duncan Hothersall 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hans wrote: > can you try (test extensively): > > \def\dodoregister[#1]#2#3% > {\dogotopar{\dontleavehmode\doprocesspageregister[#1]{#2}{#3}}} Well, it has some problems, introducing vertical space in certain circumstances. Will try to work up a minimal, but two observations: 1. The extra vertical space tends to happen immediately before headings, which is probably immediately after a \par, suggesting that if we're already in vertical mode there is something creating a horizontal mode object here. 2. If I use \dontleavehmode\index{blah} in material that immediately follows a heading, and just \index{blah} everywhere else, everything appears to work well with no white-space issues and no headings at the bottom of the page. (I can only do 2. easily because I'm generating my code from XML, not writing directly in ConTeXt, so it's easy to put in a rule that makes the <index> tag behave differently in different contexts. It's probably not a solution for anyone else.) Duncan

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Index entries messing up page breaks
by Duncan Hothersall 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

The manual suggests that you can put index calls between a \section heading and its first paragraph without worry, but for me it breaks the page-breaking mechanism, allowing the section title to end up at the bottom of a page like this: \starttext \section{Tufte} \dorecurse{4}{\input tufte \par} \section{Knuth} \index{Knuth} \input knuth \par \stoptext Is there any workaround/fix? Thanks very much, Duncan

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