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mswincontext.zip
by Coydell Rivers 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Let me gladly, and openly report that the latest release of mswincontext.zip, had no files detected as a virus from AVG Free. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.9/62 - Release Date: 8/2/2005

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Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] Presentation
by Jessica Holle 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Thanks, this looks good :-) I try to build my own presentation. When someone has more detailed dokumentations, please let me know. I've found only the show-pre.pdf but when there are more dokus let me know Greetings Jessica

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new symbol font
by Hans Hagen 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

In a few hours i will upload a new zip, this one has a new symbol definition file: %D \module %D [ file=symb-jmn, ... %D This file defines a few navigational symbol vectors. The font used %D here is designed by Janusz M.~Nowacki, one of the Polish Font %D Gurus who made this font specially for me, hence the name. If you %D you want to meet its designer, come to Bachotek! In case you're %D not familiar with his work, take a look at the Antikwa, Iwona and %D Kurier fonts! %D %D \usesymbols[jmn] %D %D \showsymbolset[navigation 1] %D \showsymbolset[navigation 3] %D \showsymbolset[navigation 2] %D \showsymbolset[navigation 4] %D %D \page %D \showfont[NavigationNormal] %D \page %D \showfont[NavigationShadowed] %D \page The font is also in the zip (they are called hans.* and hans-sh.*). Many thanks to Janusz! Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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\obeyspaces
by Peter Rolf 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi all, I need to pass a short text as parameter to a defintion. My problem is, that the significant spaces are removed in this process. Hmm.....no clue. % interface=en output=pdftex \starttext \def\TextWithSpaces#1{\framed{\obeyspaces#1}}% % output is ok \framed{\obeyspaces{A gap from here to here!}} % no big gap between 'here' and 'to' \TextWithSpaces{A gap from here to here!} \stoptext Any help is welcome. Greetings, Peter

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Re: [NTG-context] Getting ToC to match page numbering
by Duncan Hothersall 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hans said: >>wikiable: And I said: > Will do; would be great to fix (or at least understand) the alignment > before I do though, for completeness. :-) I've added this to the wiki now, since having tested it out I don't think my alignment problems were anything to do with the issue at hand. To fix the alignment, I have now defined: \def\GenPagecommand#1{\hfill\llap{#1}} and said: pagecommand=\GenPagecommand for every setuplist except those which require prefixes. This allows me to have very large page numbers and long prefixes without seeing the page number alignment go all squiggly. The appendices now have: \def\AppPrefix#1{\GenPagecommand{A#1}} and: pagecommand=\AppPrefix in the setuplist, and the backmatter is done similarly. Possibly this leaves me exposed if a very long title runs over into the llap, but I'm hoping not to run into that. Is this the only solution here? Thanks again. Duncan

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[Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.30.0]
by Taco Hoekwater 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [pdftex] pdftex 1.30.0 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:54:55 +0200 From: Martin Schröder <martin(a)oneiros.de> To: PDF-TeX mailing list <pdftex(a)tug.org> [http://sarovar.org/download.php/673/pdftex-1.30.0.zip] The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.30.0 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.30.0 an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.30.0 =========================================================================== - pdfxtex (introduced with 1.20a) is gone; all extensions are now in pdf(e)tex. - Some primitives have been renamed; the old names will still work, but are deprecated and some give a warning that they are obsolete: \pdfoptionpdfminorversion -> \pdfminorversion \pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpagebox -> \pdfforcepagebox \pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel -> \pdfinclusionerrorlevel - pdftex knows two new units: - new Didot (1nd=0.375mm) - new Cicero (1nc=12nd) - New primitives: - Inclusion of pngs has been greatly improved: It now does - alpha channel and transparency (only if %!PDF >=1.4) - 16-bit colour (only if %!PDF >=1.5); this must be enabled by setting \pdfimagehicolor to 1. - gamma correction; this must be enabled by setting \pdfimageapplygamma to 1. The device gamma is taken from \pdfgamma. If no embedded value can be found in the png image, then the value of \pdfimagegamma is used instead. - fast direct embedding of png streams, if their structure allows this; the automatic fall-back is to decompress and re-compress as before. - pdfTeX now has an interface to the precise system time (if available) as an aid in benchmarking TeX macro code. - \pdfelapsedtime is a read-only integer that (initially) returns the amount of time passed since the start of this run. This amount is given in `scaled seconds': the value 65536 counts as one second. If more time has passed than 32767 seconds, (2^31)-1 will be returned. - \pdfresettimer updates the internal timer, such that subsequent calls to \pdfelapsedtime will restart from 0. - pdfTeX can now generate random numbers. - \pdfuniformdeviate <count> generates a uniformly distributed random integer value between 0 (inclusive) and <count> (exclusive). - \pdfnormaldeviate expands to a random integer value with a mean of 0 and a unit of 65536. - \pdfrandomseed allows access to the current seed value. - \pdfsetrandomseed <count> sets the random seed to a specific value. - \pdfnoligatures\f disables ligatures for the loaded font \f. - \pdfstrcmp{<a>}{} compares two strings and returns the strings "0" if <a> equals , "-1" if <a> is less than , "1" if <a> is greater than - \pdfretval is an integer that is either <0, 0, or >0; currently it's used by \pdfstrcmp. - Escaping strings: - \pdfescapestring{<a>} escapes the string <a> so that it can be used as PDF string. - \pdfescapename{<a>} escapes the string <a> so that it can be used as PDF name. - \pdfescapehex{<a>} converts the string <a> to uppercase hexadecimal representation. - \pdfunescapehex{} reverses the effect of \pdfescapehex - \pdfcreationdate expands to the date string that pdfTeX uses in the info dict as default. - \pdffilemoddate{<file>} expands to the modification date of <file> in the same format as \pdfcreationdate (PDF date format). - \pdffilesize{<file>} expands to the size of <file> as string. - \pdfmdfivesum{<abc>} or \pdfmdfivesum file {<file>} calculates the md5 sum (of a string or a file) and converts it to uppercase hexadecimal format (same as \pdfescapehex). - \pdfshellescape is a read-only integer that is 1 if \write18 is enabled, 0 otherwise. - \pdfxformname <object number>, which expands to the number in the corresponding form XObject name. - \leftmarginkern <box number> and \rightmarginkern <box number> tell the margin kern at the left and right side of the horizontal list stored in box <box number>. - \pdfpkmode is a token register that sets the MF mode for pixel font generation. The contents of this register is dumped into the format, so one can (optionally) preset it e.g. in part of pdftexconfig.tex. - \pdftracingfonts: An integer variable controlling the tracing of font expansion. It is zero by default; then we get a log (with fontexpansion) like this ...\tenrm t ...\tenrm (+20) e Without font expansion, this default should be compatible with TeX's original log output. If \pdftracingfonts is set to 1 (or greater), we get a more verbose log: ...\xivtt (cmtt10(a)14.0pt) t ...\xivtt (cmtt10+20(a)14.0pt) e See also bug 304. - \pdffiledump [offset <int>] [length <int>] <general text> Returns a hex dump of file, given in <general text>, starting at given offset or 0 with given length. - New experimental primitives: - \pdfmatch [icase] [subcount <number>}] {<pattern>}{<string>} Implements pattern matching using the POSIX regex. It returns the same values as \pdfstrcmp, but with the following semantics: -1: error case (invalid pattern, ...) 0: no match 1: match found Options: * icase: case insensitive matching * subcount: it sets the table size for found subpatterns. A number "-1" resets the table size to the start default. - \pdflastmatch <number> The result of \pdfmatch is stored in an array. The entry "0" contains the match, the following entries submatches. The positions of the matches are also available. They are encoded: <position> "->" <match string> The position "-1" with an empty string indicates that this entry is not set. - The primitive \pdfmovechar has been removed (bug 294) - Numerous bugfixes - pdfTeX uses zlib 1.2.3 For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2005 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tug.org/tetex/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, August 2005 -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de _______________________________________________ pdftex mailing list pdftex(a)tug.org http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex

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Re: [NTG-context] Getting ToC to match page numbering
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

> \start > \setuppagenumbering[numberseparator=/] > \placecombinedlist[Xontents] > \stop Ah, I see, \placecombinedlist uses the value of numberseparator active at the time it is called! Thanks. > indeed, since left/right is cosmetics an dit's easier to add that than > to remov eit when you dont wan it, so: > > \setuplist[Appchapter][pagecommand=A] > > % or cleaner: pagecommand=\AppPrefix and \def\AppPrefix#1{A\enspace#1} I had experimented with that, and it certainly works (I chose the second option, but dropped the \enspace), BUT... the page numbers column in the table of contents is now mis-aligned. I've pasted my revised minimal test file below, and if you run that you can see that things have gone squiggly. The frontmatter and appendices are aligned further to the right than the chapters and backmatter. Weird. I looked at the source and as far as I can tell the default pagecommand is just \strut#1, so I don't understand how alignment has been changed by redefining it, but it certainly seems to have. > wikiable: Will do; would be great to fix (or at least understand) the alignment before I do though, for completeness. :-) Thanks, Duncan Minimal test, now mostly working thanks to Hans: ---- %% Tested on live.contextgarden \setupoutput[pdftex] %% change appendix numbering from Character to numbers \setupsection[section-2][appendixconversion=numbers] %% define new chapter-like heads for different sections \definehead[Frontchapter][chapter] \definehead[Appchapter][chapter] \definehead[Backchapter][chapter] %% set up individual content lists and labels \setuplist[Frontchapter][pagenumber=yes] \setuplabeltext[en][chapter={Module }] \setuplist[chapter][pagenumber=yes,chapternumber=yes,label=yes] \setuplabeltext[en][Appchapter={Appendix }] \def\AppPrefix#1{A#1} \setuplist[Appchapter][pagenumber=yes,chapternumber=yes,label=yes,pagecommand=\AppPrefix] \def\BackPrefix#1{I/#1} \setuplist[Backchapter][pagenumber=yes,pagecommand=\BackPrefix] %% set up the combined list \definecombinedlist[Xontents] [part,Frontchapter,chapter,Appchapter,Backchapter,section] [level=section,criterium=local] \setupcombinedlist[Xontents][alternative=b,aligntitle=yes,distance=4em] %% page numbering is output using the explicit \completepagenumber %% command in the footer because the final output has rather %% complicated footers which incorporate the page number. \setupfootertexts[text] [][{\inframed{\kern.3em\completepagenumber\kern.3em}}] [][{\inframed{\kern.3em\completepagenumber\kern.3em}\hfill}] \starttext \startfrontmatter %% page numbering is set up for each section \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, location=,chapternumber=no,partnumber=no,conversion=romannumerals] \title{Contents} \setuppagenumbering[numberseparator=/] \placecombinedlist[Xontents] \Frontchapter{Test Intro} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter %% for the body and appendices we prefix the chapternumber and a '/' \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided},location=, way=bychapter,partnumber=no,chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] \chapter{Test Chapter} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \chapter{Another Test Chapter} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided},location=, way=bychapter,partnumber=no,left=A,chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] \Appchapter{Test Appendix} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopappendices \startbackmatter %% for the backmatter we just prefix I/ (it's going to be the index) \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, location=,way=bychapter,left={I/}] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \Backchapter{Index} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopbackmatter \stoptext ----

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Re: [NTG-context] Getting ToC to match page numbering
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

I have three issues where page number formatting in the table of contents is wrong compared to the pages themselves: 1. The separator character in the actual pagenumbers is "/". In the ToC it displays as a "-". 2. I used "left=A" on the pagenumbering command in the appendices because appendices are numbered A1, A2 etc. This gives the required output for the actual pagenumbers, but there is no 'A' prefix in the ToC. 3. Similarly in the backmatter I have added a 'I/' prefix to the pagenumber ("left={I/}"), which works on the pages but is not reflected in the ToC. The overall question is how to get each of these page numbering features repeated in the table of contents? Thanks. Minimal file follows. Duncan ---- %% Tested on live.contextgarden \setupoutput[pdftex] %% change appendix numbering from Character to numbers \setupsection[section-2][appendixconversion=numbers] %% define new chapter-like heads for different sections \definehead[Frontchapter][chapter] \definehead[Appchapter][chapter] \definehead[Backchapter][chapter] %% set up individual content lists and labels \setuplist[Frontchapter][pagenumber=yes] \setuplabeltext[en][chapter={Module }] \setuplist[chapter][pagenumber=yes,chapternumber=yes,label=yes] \setuplabeltext[en][Appchapter={Appendix }] \setuplist[Appchapter][pagenumber=yes,chapternumber=yes,label=yes] \setuplist[Backchapter][pagenumber=yes] %% set up the combined list \definecombinedlist[Xontents] [part,Frontchapter,chapter,Appchapter,Backchapter,section] [level=section,criterium=local] \setupcombinedlist[Xontents][alternative=b,aligntitle=yes,distance=4em] %% page numbering is output using the explicit \completepagenumber %% command in the footer because the final output has rather %% complicated footers which incorporate the page number. \setupfootertexts[text] [][{\inframed{\kern.3em\completepagenumber\kern.3em}}] [][{\inframed{\kern.3em\completepagenumber\kern.3em}\hfill}] \starttext \startfrontmatter %% page numbering is set up for each section \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, location=,chapternumber=no,partnumber=no,conversion=romannumerals] \title{Contents} \placecombinedlist[Xontents] \Frontchapter{Test Intro} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter %% for the body and appendices we prefix the chapternumber and a '/' \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided},location=, way=bychapter,partnumber=no,chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] \chapter{Test Chapter} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \chapter{Another Test Chapter} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided},location=, way=bychapter,partnumber=no,left=A,chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] \Appchapter{Test Appendix} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopappendices \startbackmatter %% for the backmatter we just prefix I/ (it's going to be the index) \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, location=,way=bychapter,left={I/}] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \Backchapter{Index} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopbackmatter \stoptext ----

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Sparklines to be in ConTeXt?
by Tobias Wolf 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hey, what do you people actually think about E. Tufte's Sparklines?² They are a great and innovative thing in my mind; both in the information mediating and the typographic sense. There's a bare-bones LaTeX package on CTAN, but when I think about it, this technique could find a perfect place in ConTeXt's framework (say MetaPost, XML, Scripting and so on. There's even some kind of Ruby implementation³). - Tobias ² http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1 ³ http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/sparklinesForMinimalists.html

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\placelist is influensed by \completeregister ??
by Vit Zyka 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Dear Hans, Taco, ... I noticed strange behaviour. When I use \completeregister lists I have defined are ignored: ------------------------------ \defineregister[letter][letters] \definelist[somelist] \starttext Hello! \letter{Letter S} \writetolist[somelist]{List entry, part A}{List entry, part B} %\placeregister[letter] \completeregister[letter] \placelist[somelist] \stoptext --------------------------------- I discovered that the source of the bug is probably \headtext the line \expanded{\systemsuppliedchapter[\currentregister]{\noexpand\headtext{\currentregister}}}% in the \completeregister definition. Please can somebody have a look on it? vit ---------------------------------- \unprotect \def\docompleteregister[#1][#2]% {\iffirstargument \begingroup \edef\currentregister{#1}% % the expansion is needed because we don't want \v!'s in the tuo file (french) % \expanded{\systemsuppliedchapter[\currentregister]{\noexpand\headtext{\currentregister}}}% \placeregister[\currentregister][#2]% \page[\v!yes]% \endgroup \fi} \protect -- ======================================================= Ing. Vít Zýka, Ph.D. TYPOkvítek database publishing databazove publikovani data maintaining and typesetting in typographic quality priprava dat a jejich sazba v typograficke kvalite tel.: (+420) 777 198 189 www: http://typokvitek.com =======================================================

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