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LucidaBright fonts...I'm stumped
by Henk Koster 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

I've been using teTeX - LaTeX - LucidaBright fonts for many years, but am unable to make these fonts work in ConTeXt. My present setup after installing teTeX (a Debian or Ubuntu package): 1. Make a directory /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/type1/yandy 2. Copy the LB .pfb files to subdirectories lubright, lucida, lucidfax, lucsans and lumath 3. Run texhash and everything works fine in LaTeX -- I only have to specify \usepackage{lucidbry} in the preamble of my documents. Couldn't be easier. I've read through some of the archived messages on this newsgroup for clues for making LB fonts work with ConTeXt, I have even tried following the suggested steps, but no dice. Could someone here please list the precise steps required to get from my above teTeX setup to one that works in ConTeXt? -- H.A.J. Koster "Behavioral axioms are right, but agents make mistakes..." (attributed to L.J. Savage)

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Placing a scaled symbol within the flow of text
by Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds) 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi all, I am attempting to insert a symbol at a reduced size within the text flow but I'm not sure how to achieve this. I've included my test script below. \starttext \definefontsynonym[Dingbats][uzdr] \definesymbol[filledSq][\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char110}] \def\FilledSq{\symbol[filledSq]} \def\FilledSquare{\scale[height=0.5ex]{\symbol[filledSq]}} \switchtobodyfont[20pt] \startlines \FilledSq Here is a line This is one line and this should be another \FilledSq Hello again \FilledSquare and again!! and here are some more lines this is the last one \stoplines \stoptext When a \FilledSq is inserted, the text which follows appears on the same line but when a \FilledSquare is inserted the text which follows appears on the line below. I'm probably using \scale in an inappropriate way and I'm sure don't know my \vbox's from my \hbox's! Any examples of how to reduce the size of a glyph whilst still being able to insert it as a normal character in the text flow would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mark Pearson ********************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may be subject to legal privilege, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error or think you may have done so, you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. Please notify the sender immediately and delete the original e-mail from your system. Computer viruses can be transmitted by e-mail. Recipients should check this e-mail for the presence of viruses. The Capita Group and its subsidiaries accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. ***********************************************************************************

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GNU Emacs/ AucTeX configuration for ConTeXt
by Renaud AUBIN 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi all, Is there someone using GNU Emacs with ConTeXt. After some googlelyzing, I've learnt : 1. ConTeXt mode from Berend de Boer is now included in AucTeX 2. Some people use Emacs with ConTeXt and METAPOST, but with special .el files that seems not really up-to-date I didn't found usefull information to configure properly AucTeX in order to work well with ConTeXt and METAPOST, even in the auctex mailing list. It's ok for the menu (apparently managed by site) but I don't have syntax highlighting except for comment and indenting doesn't work well. So, my questions are: 1. Since there is a ConTeXt mode, I suppose there is some advanced features like syntax highlighting and indentation rules. Am I right ? 2. If I'm right, how to configure it ? 3. I will use METAPOST in my .tex files, how to manage this within Emacs ? 4. You know advanded features I must know ? ;-) I'm sorry but I'm addicted to Emacs and don't want to use Scite even if it seems ConTeXt-friendly. I'm aware of the fact that this mail is more Emacs/AucTeX related but since I didn't succeed in finding answers yet I submit this issue to the ConTeXt community. Best regards,

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fontvariants
by Hans van der Meer 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

I was probing into the font variant mechanism. This did not work, th Light font could not be made to typeset: \starttypescript [calligraphy] [mathtimeyy] [name] \definefontsynonym [CalligraphyRegular] [Calligraphy] \definefontsynonym [Calligraphy] [MathTimes-Calligraphy] \definefontsynonym [CalligraphyBold] [MathTimes-CalligraphyBold] \definefontvariant [Calligraphy] [light] [-Light] \definefontsynonym [CalligraphyRegular-Light] [MathTimes- CalligraphyLight] \definefontsynonym [CalligraphyBold-Light] [MathTimes- CalligraphyLightBold] \stoptypescript But changing Calligraphy into Serif in the last three lines \definefontvariant [Serif] [light] [-Light] \definefontsynonym [SerifRegular-Light] [MathTimes- CalligraphyLight] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold-Light] [MathTimes- CalligraphyLightBold] it seems to work. QUESTION: Is the variant mechanism exclusively tied to the series Serif (\rm) and Sans (\ss)? If otherwise, what am I doing wrong then? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space?
by Daniel Pittman 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

G'day. One of the things I (ab)use ConTeXt for is printing little text labels to Avery stock. This works quite well, and I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to get working with some hints from Hans in the archives of this list. The labels, over time, have varying lengths of text on them, and to get that to fit on a single label sometimes requires that I vary the font size to avoid the text spilling over outside the bounding box. Is there any reasonable way that I could automate the process of adjusting the font size so that I got the biggest possible size while keeping the text fully fitted to the label? I don't mind automating this outside of TeX/ConTeXt, by using a script to try the font sizes and examine the TeX output for overflow messages, but I don't know quite what to look for. Hints about that, or a native TeX method[1], would be very much appreciated. At the moment it is a relatively slow process of manual trial and error. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] I don't care if it takes ten minutes to run, since this isn't a performance critical job.

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dvipdfmx
by Idris Samawi Hamid 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Dear Hans, Taco, Chof, and all, Just installed 051130, and I am happy to report that, so far anyway, dvipdfmx map files work fine-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log
by olivier Turlier 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi everybody, Starting to try installing correctly tetex3 on ubuntu, I wanted to ask tons of questions. While formatting this mail, I've succeed in installing tetex3. Maybe what follows can be worth fore somebody more noooobie than me (is that possible?), or for a pre-beginner doc. Following http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation and beginning of http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-src/QuickInstall, i've : dwld * tetex-src.tar.gz & tetex-texmf.tar.gz sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist SHIT HAPPENS HERE : it's like i'm missing some basic commands, because if I type what next, term conplains : gzip -dc tetex-texmf.tar.gz \| (umask 0; cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist; tar xvf -) My guess is cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist sudo tar xvf /home/olivier/dl/tetex-texmf.tar.gz sudo tar xvf /home/olivier/dl/tetex-src.tar.gz cd tetex-src-3.0/ sudo bash (if not, term complains about configure.log) ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/teTeX >& configure.log make world >& world.log (quite long) exit (from root) cd ~ sudo vim .bash_profile add to it : PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:$PATH; export PATH texexec --version : not working, so PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:$PATH; export PATH texexec --version TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.01.31 cont-en : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.12.2 mes: english total run time : 1 seconds texconfig conf =========================== version information ========================== teTeX-src release: 3.0 teTeX-texmf release: 3.0 ==================== binaries found by searching $PATH =================== PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games kpsewhich: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/kpsewhich updmap: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/updmap fmtutil: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/fmtutil texconfig: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/texconfig tex: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/tex pdfetex: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/pdfetex mktexpk: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/mktexpk dvips: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/dvips dvipdfm: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/dvipdfm =========================== active config files ========================== /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/dvipdfm/config/config /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/dvips/config/config.ps /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/web2c/mktex.cnf /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf XDvi: not found ============================= font map files ============================= psfonts.map: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.mappdftex.map: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map ps2pk.map: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/ps2pk.map dvipdfm.map: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvipdfm/updmap/dvipdfm.map =========================== kpathsea variables =========================== TEXMFMAIN=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf TEXMFDIST=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local TEXMFSYSVAR=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var TEXMFSYSCONFIG=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config TEXMFVAR=/home/olivier/.texmf-var TEXMFCONFIG=/home/olivier/.texmf-config TEXMFHOME=/home/olivier/texmf VARTEXFONTS=/var/tmp/texfonts TEXMF={!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist} SYSTEXMF=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist TEXMFDBS={!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}:/var/tmp/texfonts WEB2C={!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/web2c TEXPSHEADERS=.:{!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/{dvips,fonts/{enc,type1,type3}}// TEXCONFIG={!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/dvips// ENCFONTS=.:{!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/fonts/enc// TEXFONTMAPS=.:{!!/home/olivier/.texmf-config,!!/home/olivier/.texmf-var,/home/olivier/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/fonts/map// ==== kpathsea variables (from environment only; ok if no output here) ==== kpsewhich texmf.cnf /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf Thanks for reading -- olivier TURLIER CRP La Rouguière 101 Bd des Libérateurs - BP 21 13367 MARSEILLE Cedex 11 FRANCE tel : 04 91 66 58 10 fax : 04 91 45 14 48

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tetex3 ubuntu install (was : installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log)
by olivier Turlier 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi everybody, I still have pbs for this (begin to be) hard to achieve task (compared of unziping mswincontext.zip on a :\C drive...) 1) I can't succed in adding executables to the path, with my various tryies, here is my .bash_profile : if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc fi export PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games 2) emacs+ auctex nor scite (installed before : maybe a reinstall ?) are not context aware, so I can only texexec via the terminal 2) is texmfstart working on linux ? PS : when everything will be fine, (tetex3 install, same .pdf results between mswincontext and tetex3, scite linux integration (hard to change editor now), i'll add this to ubuntu wiki section TIA, olivier

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ConTeXt logo
by Thomas A. Schmitz 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

All (and especially Hans...), where is \CONTEXT (the logo) defined? Looking at the output I get, I wonder if it doesn't need a bit of kerning between Con and the following T; there's quite a gap between these two letters (at least in the font I'm using). Thanks and all best Thomas

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page numbering
by toto＠tots-ns.net 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hello list, How could I reset the page number counter? I can't find that information neither on the wiki nor in the manual. I would like to have a title page without a page number and that the page that follow has the number one. I can say to context not to print the page number on the page title but not reset that counter (and the page that follow begin with the number two...) Thanks alot for your help -AJ

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