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using 1 layout on several documents
by Boris Pedrofiets 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hi, I made a layout that I want to use for several documents. What is the best way to handle this, without placing a copy of the layout description in every file? Thanks for helping! Boris _________________________________________________________________ Vind alles terug op je PC: MSN Search Toolbar http://toolbar.msn.nl/

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Re: [metapost] MPtoPDF problem
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

2005/9/30, Mau <mvs1952(a)yahoo.it> wrote: > Hi! > > I have been using MPtoPDF (included in the MikTeX distribution, under > Win2K) to convert mp output to pdf. Everything went smoothly until > the end of July. Now it seems that MPtoPDF cannot produce any output. > I suspect some problems with a newer version installed automatically > from MiKTex distribution (MPtoPDF 1.3?) > > My command line is: > > C:\texmf\miktex\bin\mptopdf.exe %n > > where %n is a parameter for the name of the mp file I am working on. > > Does anyone have the same problem? > > Thanks, > Maurizio Problems confirmed. I used mptopdf in August and it worked at that time. I last updated ConTeXt (the package containing mptopdf) on 5th September (version 2005-07-27). This is the whole output when mptopdf is run for a simple mp file: ------------------------------------------------------- E:\Temp>mptopdf filename -fmt=mptopdf: unknown option MPtoPDF 1.3 : filename.* is converted to filename-1.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- The last statement doesn't hold (no file created at all). "filename.1" is OK and mptopdf also works perfectly with the standalone ConTeXt distribution, but not under MikTeX. The funny part is also this one (from mptopdf.pl): if ($miktex) { $command = "pdfetex -fmt=mptopdf" } -fmt doesn't seem to exist in MikTeX (any more?). I tried pdfetex --help, but didn't find any useful switches to compensate for "-progname=context" except "-alias", but I didn't know how to use it. I'm a bit lost. I noticed that the MikTeX package repository was updated in the last days, so I tried to update the system (for the first time in my life I've chosen to update only the context.cab since I'm working on modem), but now the most crucial parts keep crashing (initexmf, kpsewhich, ...), so I that I can't even work any further and thus can't check yet if the new package brings any changes or not. Mojca

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Foxit pdf tools
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Dear gang, FYI: I just came across this alternative to Adobe Reader for Windows. Maybe it has features useful to some of us (e.g., it's very small)... http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php They have some other pdf products too: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products.htm Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Q: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Thumb_index
by Alexander Lazic 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hi, please can anybody help me about the following error, sorry i don't know what the error can be :-( I have used the code fro: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Thumb_index --- TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : thumb_index output : pdftex interface : en options : color current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./thumb_index.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.8.2 int: english mes: english language : language en is active . . layout : calculating backgrounds ! Undefined control sequence. \@@suthumbs ->\definemeasure [thumbheight][\dimexpr \paperheight /\NOfChapte... \executedefinedoverlay ...x {\the \everyoverlay #2 }}\dimen 0\wd \scratchbox ... \dodobackgroundbox ...4}{\dimen 6}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} }}}\wd \extraframebox \zer... \rawprocesscommaitem ...commalevel \endcsname {#1} \expandafter \rawprocessco... \rawprocesscommalist ... \rawprocesscommaitem #1,] ,\global \advance \commale... \dobackgroundbox ...st [#2]\noexpand \docommando } \box #1\hss }} ... l.45 \chapter{second} \dorecurse{10}{\input davis } ? No pages of output. --- Greetings al ;-)

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Beta bib module release
by Taco Hoekwater 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Hi, I have prepared a beta release of the bibliography module, and uploaded it as http://tex.aanhet.net/bib/m-bib-beta-20050927.zip Because it is only a beta, I have not fixed the documentation yet. The differences between this version and the one in the ConTeXt distribution are outlined below. I know that the wishlist is quite long, and there are even still bugs I have not looked into, but I have to release *something* otherwise nothing will ever happen. Somehow I never seem to get around to working on the module. :-( Comments (and testfiles) are welcome, and feel free to update the wishlist on the wiki : http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Taco/Bib Happy TeXing, Taco ============================================== Bugfixes: * The extra spaces in the output of authors and editors inside the publication list should be gone. * \newbibfield now works as advertised * It is possible to use context commands with the same name as a bib fieldname inside the arguments of the fields. This now compiles correctly: \startpublication[k=garden,t=misc,a={Wiki people}] \thekey{Wiki people} \title{The \type{\ConTeXt} garden} \note{See also \useurl[pedia]{http://wikipedia.com}\url[pedia]} \url{http://wiki.contextgarden.net} \stoppublication New features: * Two new styles are now part of the distribution: bibl-apa-de.tex and bibl-ssa.tex * \cite now accepts \setupcite arguments in the optional argument, so you can do stuff like \cite[right={, chapter 5)}][key] The commands \cite[alternative=author][key] and \cite[author][key] are equivalent * The bibtex fields URL and LASTCHECKED have been added to the bst files. * Two new \setupcite arguments 'andtext' and 'otherstext' have been added, and the language-dependancy of the bst files has been removed. * There is a new type of \citation: \cite[url][key] It does not do any kind of interaction, if you want that you have to wrap the \cite in another command. Internally, this uses the new 'u=' argument to \startpublication. * Also, \cite[doi][key] now actually does generate the doi in the text (this uses the 'o=' argument to \startpublication) * Finally, you can get selected data bits from a publication by using \getcitedata [url] [garden] to \gardenlink (in this case, \gardenlink will be \def-ed to the value of the \url{..} field in the bib item with label 'garden'). Discontinued: * I have removed t-bibltx.tex. All it did was define the \newcommand command, and you are better off using the new latex emulation module for that. * I dropped support for the INSTITUTE field in bibtex (it was never actually used anyway)

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Problems with \setupindenting in the new ConTeXt version
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

I downloaded today the ConTeXt version, and updated it, but the command \setupindenting stopped to function... Marcus Vinicius __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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\setupfootnotes (double-spacing)
by Alan Bowen 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Is there a general way to double-space the text of footnotes using \setupfootnotes or some other ConTeXt command? I have checked the manuals, core-not.text, and the wiki but have not seen one yet. \baselineskip=2/bodyfontsize works well with the body text, but does not affect the footnotes; and I have not been able to figure out how to adapt it for \setupfootnotes. Thanks for any help. Cheers, Alan

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Re: [NTG-context] DOC/RTF to ConTeXt via XML
by Duncan Hothersall 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

> No need for rtf. That would loose lots of information anyway, wouldn't it? RTF can capture everything that .doc can (MS update it every time they rev the .doc format), and it has the advantage that it is defined in a spec with a grammar, which means that importing routines (like the one in OO.o) tend to be better than for the binary .doc format. So I would usually use .rtf as the Save As... from Word, rather than relying on OO.o's reverse engineering of the .doc format. Others' experiences may vary, of course, and perhaps I do an injustice to OO.o's Word imports, which have certainly improved. But RTF is a fairly safe bet, and additionally it is 'human readable' so that helps debugging. >>\startHans >>converting open office xml is not always easy; stay away from tab's and use >>high level constructs as much as possible >>\stopHans I would add to this - make sure you use either OO.o 1.1.5 or a 2.0 Beta, since earlier versions used a file format which was a lot trickier to post-process (problems with conflating styles into paragraph formats). >>Once I get a sane xml file (this seems to be the biggest problem) what is the >>best tool to convert this to ConTeXt? Well you might not need to - remember that ConTeXt can process XML natively now, which is why I suggested you look at the DocBook-in-ConTeXt project, which uses this feature. You wouldn't necessarily have to use the DocBook standard, but you could use the principles of that project to define a nice output from your own (simple) brand of XML. Duncan

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t-rsteps and starttyping
by Peter Münster 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Hello, could somebody help me with the following problem please? With the following test file, I get the error "ERROR: Illegal parameter number in definition of \verbatimline." \usemodule[rsteps] \starttext \StartSteps \starttyping hallo \stoptyping \NextStep hallo \StopSteps \stoptext Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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RE: [NTG-context] DOC/RTF to ConTeXt via XML
by Idris Samawi Hamid 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Hi Christopher, Duncan, Hans, and Adam, Thank you so much for your detailed comments and suggestions. Again, I'm completely new to xml and feel like a fish out of water. OTOH I use sooo much time just manually extracting text (with innumerable transliteration diacritics) and then copying-pasting to WinEDT that I am willing to explore the xml approach if it can be made sane enough... >===== Original Message From Christopher Creutzig <christopher(a)creutzig.de> ===== >Duncan Hothersall wrote: >> Well, XSLT seems to have been designed, and certainly tends to be >> implemented, as a tool for simple transformations of small XML chunks. > > No, xslt is a tool for arbitrary xml -> xml conversions (and a little >more than that). Ok, you guys have lost me now-) Maybe the best thing to do is try something practical: take an average word article and see what's involved in converting it to ConTeXt. From what I gather so far the process goes something like doc => rtf rtf => OO.o OO.o => xml But here things get dicey because \startHans converting open office xml is not always easy; stay away from tab's and use high level constructs as much as possible \stopHans Question: Will a proper doc (or OO.o) template solve this problem or is this a post-OO.o-processing problem no matter what I do beforehand? >From this discussion it seems that I (as an xml ignoramous) would be better off converting to ConTeXt code rather than processing pure xml blocks (but maybe I'm wrong). Once I get a sane xml file (this seems to be the biggest problem) what is the best tool to convert this to ConTeXt? We are all extremely busy, of course, but if anyone finds this interesting I can send a sample doc article from my journal. Maybe we can do a MyWay or something to document this process for ourselves and others, as well as find the most practical approach to creating a sane workflow. Besides, this kind of project seems to be exactly the kind of thing to illustrate the full power of ConTeXt. This is a mid-term project so no urgency (I'll keep copying and pasting for now->) Thanks again you all for your advice. Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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