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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 22 Dec '05

22 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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\startstandardmakeup aligned top-left
by Jilani Khaldi 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi All, I have the first page of a document set this way: ... \startstandardmakeup *Document info* \stopstandardmakeup ... The result is *Document info* is placed in the center of the page. How to put it (*Document info*) at the top-left of the page? Thank you. jk -- Jilani KHALDI http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com

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About repeated formatting keys in table.
by Radhelorn 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello! Acording to WIKI this should work: \starttable[*{3}{|c|}] \HL \NC column1 \NC column2 \NC column3 \NC\NR \HL \stoptable \starttabulate[*{3}{|c|}] \HL \NC column1 \NC column2 \NC column3 \NC\NR \HL \stoptabulate Tabulate works as expected, but table gives errors about missing columns. It seems that |'s is not always multiplied by *{}{} command. -- Radhelorn <radhelorn(a)mail.ru>

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using postscript times roman fonts
by piskala upendran 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

hi, this is the minimal example. ------------------------------ \usetypescript [adobekb] [\defaultencoding] \usetypescript [times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext hope this helps __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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usage of module pstricks?
by Wolfgang Zillig 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello, can anybody give me a minimal example how to use the module m-pstric.tex? I tried following minimal example: \usemodule[pstric] \starttext \startPSTRICKS \pspicture(0,0)(10,10) \dorecurse{10}{\psline(0,0)(\recurselevel,10)} \dorecurse{10}{\psline(0,0)(10,\recurselevel)} \endpspicture \stopPSTRICKS \stoptext But this results into a gray shaded box with the following content: "name:dummy, file: texweb-texapp.eps, state: unknown" Thanks Wolfgang

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ownnumber=yes
by David Arnold 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

All, This: %output=pdf \definehead[david][section] \setuphead[david][ownnumber=yes] \starttext \chapter{One} \input tufte \section{Two} \input tufte \david{Three} \input tufte \section{Four} \input tufte \stoptext Causes this: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000]. <argument> \s!section -3 \previoussection #1->\csname \??se #1 \c!before \endcsname \countervalue #1->\csname #1 \endcsname \@@longsectionnumber ...?se \previoussection {#1}} >\zerocount \csname \previ... \finalsectionnumber ...alue {\@@sectie \c!number } \fi \fi \@@shortsectionnumber ...1\c!ownnumber \endcsname \fi ... l.14 \david{Three} Any ideas?

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fonts
by Hans Hagen 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, This one could be a nice testcase / installation exercise http://www.fontshop.com/features/free.cfm?utm_source=ff37&utm_medium=email Hans

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Small Chinese translation
by Richard Gabriel 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello Xiao, could you please translate these few words into Chinese so they could be added into the Chinese ConTeXt module? Graphics Intermezzo (singular) Intermezzos (plural) Illustration Line (singular) Lines (plural) Many thanks, Richard

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