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Re: [NTG-context] Index
by Duncan Hothersall 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hans, many thanks for the recent fixes on index sorting in the new ruby scripts. Can I offer another test file in which some errors still show up, in the hope that these too can be ironed out? The following shows two problems, culled from a much bigger project. It should be clear from the output what the problems are, but basically 1. there are three separate spans (\startregister...\stopregister pairs) with the same term content ("these three separate spans coalesce") which get coalesced into one strange a-b-c-d span, despite having been given different sort keys (I added numbers to the end of the sort keys to differentiate them). 2. there are three refs and a span all with the same term content ("these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order"), and they get sorted into the wrong order in the output (the span comes before the refs, despite coming after in page order). So in my output, my index page at the back has the following content: these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order 1/12–1/13, 1/2, 1/10, 1/14 these three separate spans coalesce 1/1–1/2–1/5–1/7 whereas what I'd hope to see is: these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order 1/2, 1/10, 1/12–1/13, 1/14 these three separate spans coalesce 1/1–1/2, 1/3–1/5, 1/6–1/7 Really hope you can hammer out these two bugs, it would really help me! Thanks, Duncan ---- \defineregister[Index][Indices] \setupregister[Index][2,balance=no,distance=1em,partnumber=no,chapternumber=yes,pagestyle=,separator=/,indicator=no] \starttext \startbodymatter \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, location=bottom,way=bychapter,partnumber=no, chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] \chapter{Economic Concepts, Issues and Tools} \input knuth\par {\bf ttssc span 1 starts} \startregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce1]{these three separate spans coalesce}% \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\par} {\bf ttssc span 1 stops} \stopregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce1]% \input knuth {\bf tmrasaitwo ref 1} \Index[these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order1]{these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order}% \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\par} {\bf ttssc span 2 starts} \startregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce2]{these three separate spans coalesce}% \dorecurse{8}{\input knuth\par} {\bf ttssc span 2 stops} \stopregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce2]% \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\par} {\bf ttssc span 3 starts} \startregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce3]{these three separate spans coalesce}% \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth\par} {\bf ttssc span 3 stops} \stopregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce3]% \dorecurse{8}{\input knuth\par} \input knuth {\bf tmrasaitwo ref 2} \Index[these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order2]{these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order}% \dorecurse{8}{\input knuth\par} {\bf tmrasaitwo span 1 starts} \startregister[Index][these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order3]{these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order}% \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\par} {\bf tmrasaitwo span 1 stops} \stopregister[Index][these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order3]% \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\par} \input knuth {\bf tmrasaitwo ref 3} \Index[these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order4]{these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order}% \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth\par} \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \chapter{Index} \setuppagenumbering[numberseparator=/]\placeIndex\page[yes] \stopbackmatter \stoptext ----

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Literate programming & ConTeXt
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi folks! Is it possible to use ConTeXt for literate programming? Marcus Vinicius __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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TeXexec and MikTeX
by Leon Di Stefano 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Greetings I have been trying to set up ConTeXt in Windows XP using MikTeX. I have been running LaTeX2e through TeXnic center fine. On the basis of the TeXexec manual, I ran "texexec --make en" I attempted to build a small file test.tex by running "texexec --pdf test" from the directory in which the file is located. It said that the default format file could not be found. I tried increasing the 'pattern memory ops' in the miktex.ini config file as you suggested to another TeXer; nothing happened. The following message occurs in the log: ... (C:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\symb-mis.tex) symbols : loading symbolset mvs (C:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\symb-mvs.tex) symbols : loading symbolset glm (C:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\symb-glm.tex ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000]. \definefontsynonym ...?ff \fontclass #1\endcsname \@@fontfile \doifnextchare... l.39 ...nonym [GuilSerifBold] [cork-lmbx10] [encoding=ec] If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 35451 strings out of 98461 549342 string characters out of 1219912 469342 words of memory out of 1048577 35000 multiletter control sequences out of 35000 7 words of font info for 0 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 0 hyphenation exceptions out of 607 23i,2n,28p,276b,536s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,32768s 0 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 300000 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 No pages of output. ... Thanks, Leon

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from an other adress, getting old ConTeXt Version
by jessica Holle 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi, I write from an other e-mail adress, hope it works. I want to install at home the same ConTeXt as at work, but there I've the version from 2005-08-31. Can I get the old version? Where can I find this? Hope his will work and somebody knows something about this. Nice weekend Jessica Holle

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missing enc file
by Hans Hagen 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi, Karl Berry and I just found out that on the coming tex live the cm*.enc files are missing (but lm-rep-cm* files are present); this can result in missing characters in math mode. Since it's too late to fix that ... I'll upload a release that has a map file referering to the lm-rep files (replicated files) so i assume that one has a recent lm installation; i have no idea to what extent those missing enc files will influence user's systems. I can add them to the context zip if needed. [cm mapping is needed for (1) math fonts and (2) including files that already have cm files; the context distribution has a file original-public-lm.map that -i hope- does an efficient inclusion -- has to do with pdftex being able to determins shared fonts] In any case, keep an eye on it when you install the coming tex live and miss chars. Hans

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Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 16, Issue 60
by olivier Turlier 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

> 1. Re: learning path (Mojca Miklavec) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:31:33 +0200 > From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] learning path > To: ntg <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: <6faad9f00510281531u4c9884ees(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > olivier Turlier wrote: > >>>>Hi everybody, >>>> >>>>I wish to set up kind of a "learning path" (= "pedagogic" progression >>>>bar, like in http://www.dokeos.com/scorm_compliant_course_content.php) > > > /.../ > > >>Sorry for not being clear enough. >> >>"learning path" is an acronym I've found while using Dokeos elearning >>platform, as an equivalent to a course i guess. For creating a >>course/learning path you assemble differents documents in a l.p.. When >>the alumni/trainee reads this course, he will be able what he have to >>read next after the fisrt doc, and so on. I've made a graphic capture of >>the webpage for showing what elements are making a learning path in the >>Dokeos vision : list of doc allready readen, docs to read, progression >>bar, plus the breadcrumb trail; > > > for lists of already learnt documents: you can make a list of > chapters/sections/subsections somewhere on the page if you have enough > place. If you would like to get the chapter/section/subsection name, > you can get them with something like > \getmarking[chapter] $>$ \getmarking[section] $>$ \getmarking[subsection] > Perhaps some "if"s are missing to check if a section/subsection is > defined, but someone else has to help you with it. > > >>i don't want to put so much stuff in the pdfs made wit Context(apart >>putting an A4 text on an A3 page!) because i keep a printable A4 format >>for my courses, even i there interaction in it, for screen usage. > > > I'm not sure if I understood it properly, but if you need two > different versions of your documents with the same content, but > different layout, you can use modes > (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes) > > >>So i wish to have only vertical progression bars + percentage in the >>inner margin. s-pre-01 "original" style show a bottom interaction bar >>filled with pagenumbers drawn as little rectangles. Maybe it's possible >>to draw a continuous bar with metapost, but for percentage ? >> >>Ideally, i wish to have 2 progression bars : one for project progression >>and second for product prog. > > > How would you calculate the project progression? The example below > calculates the percentage out of the number of pages in the current > document. > > Here's an example how to make an extremely simple and ugly progression > bar at the bottom of the page. Take a look into the .mp file produced. > You'll find many other variables thay you may use to position your > progression bar properly. > > \defineoverlay > [ProgressBar A] > [\useMPgraphic{ProgressBarA}] > \setupbackgrounds > [text] > [background={ProgressBar A}] > > \startuseMPgraphic{ProgressBarA} > barW = 5cm; > barH = .7cm; > > StartPage; > fill unitsquare xyscaled(barW*(PageNumber/NOfPages),barH) > withcolor .625red; > draw unitsquare xyscaled(barW,barH); > label.rt(textext("$" & decimal(round(100*PageNumber/NOfPages)) & > "\,\%$"), (barW,.5barH)); > currentpicture := currentpicture shifted > (LeftMarginWidth+LeftMarginDistance,2cm); > StopPage; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \starttext > > first page\page > second page\page > third page > > \stoptext > > > I would suggest you to get familiar with metapost/metafun ("learning > metapost by doing", "the metapost manual", "metafun manual", ...) if > you aren't yet. It's a simple and great programming/drawing language > and you can do amazing things with it. > > Mojca > > > PS: just a note. Trying to execute the code written above under MikTeX > (on the "old" ;) ConTeXt version, 2005.08.31) leads to distrous > results and nothing worked as expected. It claims > \loadfontfileoncetrue to be undefined command, it complains about file > endings (it doesn't create .mpx files, so the label(textext ...) > doesn't work) ... and so on. It may be that something is wrongly > configured here, but I'm glad that I'm able to use the minimal ConTeXt > distr. as an alternative when something fails under MikTeX. Hi Mojca, Thanks a lot for your mp code, I got what i want but rightnow, I don't know how to use it exactly, maybe as follows attached (try to display a general progression thru advancement of each courses, and show on the same "pane" (inner margin)), list of each chapters. I'll try to cook a minimal but working example, as I got -- in a messy way -- almost everything for bring this new layout to life. -- Olivier TURLIER

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Warning Trojan.Agent.EZ in texmfstart
by Willi Egger 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, I know this has been asked before, only that I did not experience the problem ... Since months I use Bitdefender antivirus software. I never experienced any problem running texmfstart. However since three days Bitdefender thinks, that the executable texmfstart from 27-07- 2005 contains a Trojan. I checked the size of texmfstart.exe. I got an older version which is 580kB the one which gives problems has 596kB. Copying the older version into the tex-tree works fine and Bitdefender does not complain. First question is: which is the actual version and size of texmfstart.exe? Provided that there is nothing wrong with texmfstart.exe with the size of 596kB should I contact the Bitdefender developpers? Kind regards Willi

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new feature
by Hans Hagen 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, A next release will support the setupalign options in align keys (as in \framed): hanging nothanging hz nohz spacing nospacing hyphenated nothyphenated tolerant verytolerant stretch \framed[width=5cm,align={normal,stretch,verytolerant}]{\input tufte } this also fulfils a request in the collectors with regards to a tolerance key Hans

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manuals under svn
by Hans Hagen 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, I'm (stepwise) going to put manuals under svn with read access for users. svn export svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals consider it experimental (could be off line occasionally because it's an internal machine) Hans

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New PracTeX Journal issue
by Steve Peter 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

A new issue of the PracTeX Journal is now live, featuring two ConTeXt topics: 1. Michael Guravage uses ConTeXt to typeset a brochure 2. I explore a bit of MetaPost in my \starttext column http://tug.org/pracjourn/ Comments welcome. Steve

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