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Pb compiling s-pre-61.tex
by olibou＠free.fr 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hello ! Sorry, I'm a bit new to context ... but I try it for presentation slides... And up to now, I like it very much ... I tried to compile different examples included in the base distribution ... but some, I fail to compile ... And I do not know where I'm wrong ... For example, I tried s-pre-61.tex to compile and it fails ... here is the output of the compile process ... # cp /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-pre-61.tex . oli@olinux:~/E/Context # texexec --pdf --mode=demo s-pre-61.tex TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : s-pre-61 output : pdftex interface : en current mode : demo TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./s-pre-61.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.1.21 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! system (E-TEX) : [line 726] \ifcsname ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : s-pre-61.top loaded (./s-pre-61.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1815] \ifcsname <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map system : macros of module pre-60 loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-pre-60.tex javascript : loading script set stp (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/java-stp.tex) ! Undefined control sequence. l.38 \defineproperty [step:busy][layer][state=start] ? -- Oli Laetius est, quoties magno sibi constat honestum. Lucain, Pharsale, IX, 404.

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font encodings
by Thomas A.Schmitz 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hi all, I want to use a custom font encoding (in my case, enco-agr for ancient Greek). I can't set it up for the entire document because it breaks, e.g., the output of accented letters. But when I try to use it for certain parts of the document only, it will insert a line break whenever it is used. So my question: is it possible to switch font encoding in mid-paragraph? Best Thomas

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Mails of this mailing list
by Patrick Gundlach 05 May '05

05 May '05

Dear ConTeXters, I am still looking for the first emails of this list. The archive on http://archive.contextgarden.net is missing the first half year. If there is anybody out there (Tobias? Slavek?) who has them, please email me off list. Your help is *greatly* appreciated. Patrick (I can't sleep well without having all mails :-)

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pdf bookmarks
by David Waller 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hello, I am trying to produce bookmarks in the PDF file produced with context. I can produce bookmarks but I am unable to get any hierarchy of bookmarks such that chapters can just be displayed initially and then the sections open up. I am able to do this in latex, with hyperref, and am looking for a list of commands, or guidance, which would allow me to do the same in context. Thanks David Waller

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RE: [NTG-context] Two hyphens do not give en dash
by Ville Voipio 05 May '05

05 May '05

> Try adding the --afmpl switch to your texfont command. It switches over > to the afmpl utility, which does better with preserving ligatures and > kerns. Thank you! Now it works. I added this onto the Wiki page, as well. I did a few other changes there, as well (mostly according to your suggestions). - Ville

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Problem with figure placing
by Richard Gabriel 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hello ConTeXters, I have the following problem with placing figures into the document: Sometimes, when there are more larger images and fewer text, TeX lets some of the images run out of the page (see the attached screenshot). This hapens in very, very seldom cases - e.g. whole the document contains more than 200 images and this issue occurs on one or two places... For placing images, I'm using the following commands: \page[bigpreference] \placefigure[here][fig-xyz]{Figure caption}{\externalfigure[xyz.png][scale=3000,maxwidth=\textwidth]} The \page[bigpreference] command handles this situation quite well except certain cases (like it's shown in the attachment). I really don't understand how TeX can typeset anything outside the given page area... Here is my page setup: \definepapersize[MAN][width=17.5cm,height=22cm] \setuppapersize[MAN][A4] \setuplayout[location=middle, marking=on, topspace=1cm, backspace=1.5cm, height=middle, width=middle, header=1cm, footer=1cm] Does anybody guess? Many thanks, Richard

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\lowerleftdoubleninequote (German quotes)
by Frank Grieshaber 04 May '05

04 May '05

Dear all, I want to use German double quotes for my text but noticed that the beginning double quotation sign/glyph is somewhat corrupt: there is a bigger distance between the two signs than is with the ending double quote (which are typographically correct). To make this a bit clearer, I have appended to this email an examle. If you look very carfully you can see this effect already in the Context Manual, chapter 10.8 page 198 (\lowerleftdoubleninequote). The Code of the appended pdf is the following: \mainlanguage [de] rules, quote signs etc. \starttext Dies ist ein \quotation{Test}. \stoptext Has anybody noticed this error, or does anybody know a solution? Thanks, Frank

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RE: [NTG-context] Capitalized headings
by Ville Voipio 03 May '05

03 May '05

> The bad news is that now I have a lot more questions concerning the It really seems that I do... I played around with the capitalization commands and got some interesting results. My test file is (works in live.contextgarden.net if required): --- \enableregime[il1] \starttext abcABCåäöÅÄÖ \cap{abcABCåäöÅÄÖ} \uppercased{abcABCåäöÅÄÖ} \WORD{abcABCåäöÅÄÖ} \uppercase{abcABCåäöÅÄÖ} \stoptext --- So, the test string is: abcABC\aumlaut\aring\oumlaut\Aumlaut\Aring\Oumlaut (just in case it does not display correctly). It gives: \cap -> ABCABCÅÄÖÅÄÖ (in \tfx size), just as expected \uppercased -> ABCABCåäöÅÄÖ (ABC's in \tfx, rest untouched) \WORD -> ABCABCÅÄÖxxx (where xxx's are gibberish) \uppercase -> ABCABCÅÄÖxxx The plain TeX \uppercase seems to be known for its nasty behaviour with anything else than US characters. \WORD seems to be a thin wrapper around it, so similar behaviour is to be expected. \uppercased makes interesting things, as it does uppercase the abc's well but does not touch the accented characters in any way. Only \cap seems to do exactly what it should. --- Things become even stranger, when the regime is switched to UTF-8. Then \WORD and \uppercase give some errors and refuse to compile. \uppercased and \cap work as described above. --- As \uppercase is a plain TeX macro, fixing it is not a good choice, especially because it is known to be bad. However, if \WORD could be built on \cap but without the font size changing, it would work fine. The odd behaviour of \uppercased (and the reasons to use it instead of the other choices) remains unclear to me. - Ville

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RE: [NTG-context] Capitalized headings
by Ville Voipio 03 May '05

03 May '05

> However, this is a workaround, another way of attacking it (it can be > better, too, stylistically, as you can change the font independently): > \setuphead [title] [textcommand=\uppercase] And that works, thanks! --- The bad news is that now I have a lot more questions concerning the heading formatting. There are several parameters which can be used: style textstyle textcommand numberstyle numbercommand This is how I understand those (please, correct me when I am wrong). Let us assume we have a chapter heading saying "Chapter 1. Title" in the following examples: style=\bf -> {\bf Chapter 1.}{\bf Title} textstyle=\bf -> {Chapter 1.}{\bf Title} numberstyle=\bf -> {\bf Chapter 1.}{\bf Title} If I got it right this far, then I think I get these. The relevant parts of the heading are prepended with the given commands (whatever they then may be). But this mechanism does work only with the commands which change the style from that point onwards (e.g., \it, \tfx). What about the commands which take the text as a parameter (such as \cap{text})? And what are textcommand and numbercommand? I tried playing a bit with them. For example, \it or \bf can be put either as textstyle=\it or textcommand=\it. On the other hand, the \uppercase can be used only with textstyle. So, there is a difference as the name suggests (my initial guess was that the difference is exactly what I ask above, but doesn't seem to be so). Where on Earth is \uppercase explained? I tried looking for it in the manual -- in vain. I found some references to \uppercased which seems to be another beast. Thank you for your patience. If the stuff is not explained in other places, I can Wiki it once I understand it. - Ville

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Supress chapter number in sections
by Randall Skelton 03 May '05

03 May '05

I've fiddled with almost every parameter in sethead but cannot seem to find the correct one. I'd like to suppress the chapter numbers in a relatively large document such that numbering of sections, tables, figures and equations begins at 1 instead of 1.1. Is there a simple way to do this? Here are how my chapters and sections are currently defined: \def\MyChapterText#1{\leftaligned{#1}} \setuphead[Topic,chapter] [textcommand=\MyChapterText, textstyle={\switchtobodyfont[Titling,20pt]\sc}, color=black, number=no, page=right, continue=no, header=empty, distance=0pt, before=\vbox to 3cm\bgroup, after=\vss\egroup] \def\MySectionText#1{\switchtobodyfont[12pt]\sc\lowercase{#1}} \setuphead[Subject, section] [textcommand=\MySectionText, style={\sc}, color=black, before={\blank[2*big]}, after={\blank[2*big]}] Many thanks, Randall

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