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placefigure inmargin; inmargin justification
by David Wooten 11 May '05

11 May '05

Greetings all, I've been experimenting a little with margin-notes, and am wondering if there is support for running the inmargin text around a figure, e.g. \inmargin{\placefigure[left]{none}{\externalfigure[Figgy][width=4em]} Interesting words.} The above places the figure and the text on top of each other. It also appears that there is no option in an inmargin text to have both-sides-justified. Is this a general stylistic assumption? In this instance, my margins are to be unusually large. And finally, if it's simply the case here, is there a nice way to achieve a similar result (as margin notes) on multiple pages, two- sided, where the main text width runs normally from page to page? I'm thinking of perhaps pseudo-columns. Thanks, David Wooten

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greek characters
by Jörg Hagmann 11 May '05

11 May '05

Dear list members, I left the font questions until last, but I now need to replace my alpha ("alpha-ketoglurate") etc to greek letters. The only way I could achieve this was by using $\alpha$, but there must be a better way? Thank you very much, Jörg. PD Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics DKBW, University of Basel Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 6953049

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MetaPost 0.901 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 11 May '05

11 May '05

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 0.901 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources, as well as binary packages for both fptex and miktex installations can be downloaded immediately from http://sarovar.org/projects/metapost/ * The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. * The web2c-win32 package is intended for fptex or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2003. * The miktex package contains macros and binaries for miktex 2.4, kindly provided by Christian Schenk himself. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of this message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.901: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * A corrected bugfix for the degerate path bug (the old fix made metapost fail the trap test) * Included mpost.mp for mem generation * Updated trap test * The mpost executable is now version 0.901 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Sarovar, http://www.sarovar.org/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. (Please do not send bug reports or feature requests directly to Dr. Hobby any more) Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, May 11, 2005

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RE: [NTG-context] more on margin kerning
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 May '05

10 May '05

Dear gang, I just got home, installed the pdfetex binary from xemtex and, presto! problem solved:-))) Thank you everyone for coming to my rescue in my latest crisis, especially Hartmut and Taco for pointing me in the right direction;-) and thank you Ulrich, Fabrice and Hans. It's interesting that this issue in my work came up the same day that Fabrice set up the stuff on the xemtex site. My (very agnostic/atheist) logic professor*** from grad school would call this "almost a proof for the existence of God";-) Best to all and THNX!! Idris ***John Corcoran, an associate/editor of Tarski and one of the world's very top logicians >> The latest mswincontext.zip has an older pdfetex, 1.20; this seems to be >> the problem. I will get the XemTeX version and test it when I get home >> this evening. > >that version should kern as expected ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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more on margin kerning
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 May '05

10 May '05

Dear syndicate, Hartmut may be right that this is a pdfetex problem***, but the following example makes me think there is more to it. Indeed, the following is actually more to the point of my own problem: Consider the following typescript type-test.tex and and example file hanging.tex. When TeX hyphenates the word, the dash is kerned into the margin, but when a dash is manually inserted, no kerning occurs. Note: in this example neither `-' nor \hyphen works, whereas in the previous posted problem \hyphen did work. This makes me think that this is a macro, not an engine, issue. Please help! Best to all and thnx Idris *** I am using ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.16, the full mswincontext.zip. If there is a compatible up-to-date pdfetex binary out there please point me to it (or send it to me)! =============type-test.tex============== %% font mapping \starttypescript [serif] [test] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym [LMRSerif] [texnansi-lmbx12][encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript %% general names \starttypescript [serif] [test] [name] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [LMRSerif] \stoptypescript %% font sizes \starttypescript [serif] [test] [size] \definebodyfont [4pt,5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt,9pt,10pt,11pt,12pt,14.4pt,17.3pt] [rm] [tf=Serif sa 1] \stoptypescript %% hanging \starttypescript [serif] [hanging][test] \setupfontsynonym [Serif] [handling=normal] \setupfontsynonym [SerifCapt] [handling=normal] \stoptypescript %% final typeface \starttypescript[LMRTest] \definebodyfontenvironment [LMRTest] [default] [interlinespace=2.8ex] \definetypeface [lmrtest] [rm] [serif] [test] [test] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript =================================== =============hanging.tex=============== \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuplayout[width=4in] \usetypescriptfile[type-test] \usetypescript[serif] [hanging] [test] \usetypescript[LMRTest] \setupbodyfont[lmrtest,10pt] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{40}{lots of hy\-phen\-a\-tion\hyphen\ } \blank \dorecurse{40}{lots of hy\-phen\-a\-tion- } \hyphen\ - \stoptext =================================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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hook TABLE
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi, I have tried to use Hans' recent tip concerning hooks for TABLE entries in oder to increase the horizontal separation of cells. Here is what I currently have: \newdimen\TabCol\Sep \TabColSep6pt \def\TBLcharalign#1#2{% \hskip\TabColSep\relax \framed[align=right,frame=off,rulethickness=0mm,offset=0mm,strut=yes]{#2}% \hbox to\TabColSep{\hss}% } This works - kind of, at least the horizontal cell separation is increased. Unfortunately, vertical spacing between rows is also affected. I had to introduce the \framed in order to treat multi-line entries, and the strut in order to ensure correct vertical alignment in the row. Now, my call for help: Does anybody have an idea how to control horizontal spacing without changing the inter-row space? Thanks, -- Eckhart

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[Fwd: [fptex] fptex becomes xemtex]
by Hans Hagen 10 May '05

10 May '05

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inmarge figures and references
by Jörg Hagmann 10 May '05

10 May '05

Dear list members, My happiness about my first pdf-file was a bit premature. It worked fine on my Mac at work (TeX and ConTeXt downloaded with Fink commander). But on the two setups I'm using at home (TeXLive and ConTeXt on Mac OS X; teTeX on Mandrakelinux 10.1 on a Powermac G4) the exactly same two problems occur: 1. \inmarge figures can't be handled. Instead they appear in the text. This is an example from the log file: ! Undefined control sequence. l.35 \inmarge {\externalfigure[8pyruvate_lab]} ? <./FIGURES//8pyruvate_lab.pdf Warning: pdfetex (file ./FIGURES//8pyruvate_lab.pdf): pdf inclusion: Page Group detected which pdfTeX can't handle. Ignoring it. > figures : dimensions of ./FIGURES//8pyruvate_lab.pdf loaded from figuref ile itself 2. The references don't work ("??"). Again, an example: references : unknown reference [][krebsbox] Everything else (chapter numbering, textrule, figures, footnotes, tables etc.) is working. Also, the test suggested in the texexec manual ("\framed") is working. Since the tex file itself has not been changed, I suppose that something is wrong with my setups at home. Thank you for any suggestions. Jörg. PD Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics DKBW, University of Basel Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 6953049

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Re: [NTG-context] INstalling a new version of context
by bb 10 May '05

10 May '05

> The upgrading of Context or even of pdftex is sufficiently > failure prone that I have given up trying. I tend to agree. I follow the meager instructions I have found, as well as some direct help from hh himself and am still not able to get it working right. I think the problem is with hacked engine support. I try disabling the use of engine but I still get the same problem. At this point I am tracking down a weird error in texexec.pl in which kpsewhich returns a null result and TEXFORMATS gets set to '0'. This wreaks havoc and breaks everything. I suspect texlive texmf.cnf settings trigger a bug in texexec. Perhaps everything would work just fine with the limited linux tex distribution from pragma. But I, like many others, prefer to use texlive because it is fairly comprehensive and I can use my normal latex and friends. I think it would be a very useful exercise for hh to install a complete texlive on a stock fedora box. Then write down _every_ step necessary to get beta cont-tmf.zip installed and working. I would think that targeting texlive as the standard platform for distributing context on linux/unix would make the most sense. It should _not_ be necessary to make anything but a trivial change to texmf.cnf. sc

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RE: [NTG-context] margin kerning issues
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi Hartmut, Thnx 4 your reply. >===== Original Message From Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel(a)gmx.de> ===== >> In the following example, margin kerning works for \hyphen and >> \endash, but not for `-' and `--'. I don't think this is an encoding >> problem, because e.g. \hyphen and `-' generate the same output. > >all four text blocks show right protrusion here, with ConTeXt as of >teTeX-3.0 and pdftex-1.21b-beta. Maybe your pdftex or ConTeXt is too >old. Maybe try pdftex-1.21a. This is strange, because I am using the latest official ConTeXt (2005-03-16) with the pdfetex that comes with it: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) ... : ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.4.18 Hans: If this is indeed the problem, and if there is a pdfetex binary compatible with ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.16 on Windows please let me know! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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