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How to "\processcommalist"?
by Mojca Miklavec 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

I would like to define a command, which would be called in the following way: \TheBossWantsTheWorkToBeDoneOn[monday,wednesday,thursday]{tidy up} so that it would be equivalent to: \WeHaveToDo[monday]{tidy up} \WeHaveToDo[wednesday]{tidy up} \WeHaveToDo[thursday]{tidy up} I played a bit with different variants of \processcommalist, but I can't figure out how to use it in this particular case. Is there also a possibility to define a command like \IHaveToDoTheTasks[1-4,7,9-11]{until tomorrow} which would expand into \IHaveToDoTheTask[1]{until tomorrow} \IHaveToDoTheTask[2]{until tomorrow} \IHaveToDoTheTask[3]{until tomorrow} \IHaveToDoTheTask[4]{until tomorrow} \IHaveToDoTheTask[7]{until tomorrow} \IHaveToDoTheTask[9]{until tomorrow} \IHaveToDoTheTask[10]{until tomorrow} \IHaveToDoTheTask[11]{until tomorrow} ? Thanks for any suggestions, Mojca

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Some gardening
by Mojca Miklavec 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hello, Here's some more work for you Patrick, in case you get bored. (I guess I'll soon be removed from the list as a spammer/abuser if I continue writing mails such as this one :) What do the others think about it? # Source browser Can you "escape" control characters when searching through the source in ConTeXtgarden? For example, \def\somecommand now has to be written as\\def\\somecommand. And the search field is slightly small (only 20 characters). Well, I admit, these limitations can all be overcome by asking Mr. Google for "\def\someveryveryverylongcommand site:contextgarden.net" or by "grep"-ing on my hard disk. Also, after the search the right window is empty and sometimes 20 hits are found on the left. What about adding some context around the search term? For example one line before and one line after each hit (like Google does)? Once you have that, the same could be done for single files (if a specific word appears in one file more than once than you can select a file and see only the hits found + some lines before and after). If you also add <a name="linenumber"> to the web pages with sources, than you can click on a hit and go directly to the line number where the search term occurs. # texshow-web I've just noticed that there's no possibility to describe single options for the commands. Take \setuplayout for example. Describing such huge collection of parameters in plain text is not clear, synoptic any more. It would be great if there would be a possibility to add descriptions for: - the command as such (already there) - every pair of braces (only one for \setuplayout), has to be visible if it is optional or not - every parameter inside a single brace - every single option for that parameter (for example: width=middle means that ...), default has to be marked Some classification/hierarchy/labeling of the commands could also be added, but this has to be thought of well before starting to implement it. For example "page layout", "floats", "mathematics", "colors", "metapost", "language", "core functions", ... The top-level classification could probably be taken from prefixes of the source files. Enabling the Wiki functionality (bold, italic, tables ... <texcode> and <context>) and linking it to the source browser (to the place where \def\thisspecificcommand is) would also add another dimensionality. It would probably not be 100% compatible with the pretty-much-textbased texshow program, but ... I could imagine that one day something similar as modules.pdf (texshow.pdf) could be made from that page with pretty good documentation of (all ?) ConTeXt commands. The ability to add commands is already there I think (I have never tried it out yet). What about adding commands for (official and third-party) modules? It should be separated from the main page, but still offering the same functionality. I was also thinking about making some interface for translations of commands (for example: when a new third-party module is there, someone could translate it without much effort, some more exotic languages could be translated step-by-step, and new commands in ConTeXt could be found quickly and translated - the dutch interface is probably up-to-date, but I doubt that other translators are constantly checking if anything new appeared). But these things are much more conservative (commands may not change once they are translated) and probably not worth the effort yet. Finally a "five-minute-work" request after all that philosophizing: can you add link to the .po files under "special" in texshow-web and a "submit new .po version" button next to it? Mojca

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Confusion with font instructions
by David Rogers 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Hi all I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal. There are now several sets of instructions on the net, some of them very long essays, about how to enable different fonts for ConTeXt. Before I dive in: Which set of instructions should I follow, in order to allow use of Palatino or Times, on Mac OS X, Gerben Wierda's TeX distribution, latest ConTeXt installed? I know the information is already out there, just don't know which pages to trust my afternoon/weekend/summer to. :-) Thanks David

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metafun not working
by piskala upendran 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Hi, i did as suggested. The Mp.tex is rendering grpahics perfectly. but the pstoedit 3.40 seems to be having problems. it crashes while doing the convertion. However when I change the text "MP" to "MPOOOOL", it crashes with the same error. but the pdf output contains only "MPOOOO" with the last 'o'totally filled with gray circle and 'L' is missing. I did another example of the mmakempy manual of '\input zapf' for outline paragraph. It stops after converting the word 'coming' and nothing at all. what could be the problem. I am using gsview4.7 and gs8.51 with pstoedit3.4 in winXP. The old version 3.31 tried, but failed. I am able to get pstoedit3.33 on serach. Can you help. best wishes upendran Thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Small logo ConTeXt
by VnPenguin 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Hi, Just made (modif from another one in fact) a small logo "Powered by ConTeXt" for our Weekly News homepage at http://vnoss.net/bantin/. Logo: http://vnoss.net/bantin/img/powered-by-context.png -- Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

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Request for manual sources
by Theodosios CHIMONIDIS 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Dear all, Would anyone know, where can I find the manual (http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-man-1.htm)-sources, I've read these are available. I would like to study them as examples. Thanks in advance. Theo.

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Fonts in Metapost
by Wolfgang Zillig 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Hello, I have problems with changeing the font in Metapost. I defined my own typescripts somewhere and I also have a mapfile for that fonts. In normal text it workes fine (even math). Now I want to change the font in MP as well (my text is included as label("test",(200,200));): %normal stups: \loadmapfile[cmbright.map] %it seems that the mapfile is loaded only once \usetypescriptfile[type-cmbr] \usetypescript[Cmbr] \setupbodyfont[12pt] \startMPenvironment \loadmapfile[cmbright.map] %it seems that the mapfile is loaded only once \usetypescriptfile[type-cmbr] \usetypescript[Cmbr] \setupbodyfont[12pt] \stopMPenvironment But I always get the standard CMR output. Did I miss a step somewhere? Has anyone an idea what's going wrong? Thanks for any help! Wolfgang

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Chart module problem.
by John R. Culleton 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

I copied the first example in the "Charts" manual as follows: ------------------------------------------------------- \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[chart] \starttext \setupFLOWcharts [option=test, nx=4, ny=3, dx=2\bodyfontsize, dy=2\bodyfontsize, width=12\bodyfontsize, height=7\bodyfontsize, maxwidth=\textwidth] \startFLOWchart[grid] \stopflowchart \FLOWchart[grid] \stoptext ----------------------------------------- I get the following error messages; --------------------------------------------------- systems : begin file ped at line 3 <ped-flw-1.tmp>) Runaway argument? ! File ended while scanning use of \copyblockline. <inserted text> \par <*> &cont-en ped.tex ? ---------------------------------------- If I have made a silly mistake would someone please point it out? -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

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strange behaviour with \scale
by Peter Münster 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Hello, could anybody explain, why the "DRAFT" is bigger on the last two pages please? \defineoverlay[Draft][{\scale[factor=max]{\rotate[rotation=60]{~DRAFT~}}}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=Draft] \starttext \starttables[|l|] \dorecurse{200}{\NC hallo \NC\AR} \stoptables \stoptext Cheers and TIA, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Strange ... can't find mp.pool
by Willi Egger 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hi all Hm, I updated my minimal ConTeXt: TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) ConTeXt ver: 2005.06.27 fmt: 2005.6.27 int: english mes: english When running texmfstart texexec.pl --make --alone metafun I end up with the following screen: TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 TeX hash binary : mktexlsr comment : hashing may take a while ... mktexlsr: Updating C:/NEWCON~1/tex/texmf-mswin/ls-R... mktexlsr: c:/NEWCON~1/tex/texmf-project is not a directory. Skipping... mktexlsr: Updating C:/NEWCON~1/tex/texmf-fonts/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating C:/NEWCON~1/tex/texmf-local/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating C:/NEWCON~1/tex/texmf-extra/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating C:/NEWCON~1/tex/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. assuming engine : mpost ! I can't read mp.pool; bad path? used formatpath : C:/NEWCON~1/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/ TeX binary : pdfetex format(s) : metafun I am also stumied, not knowing where to look... Willi

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