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mptopdf problem
by Wolfgang Zillig 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

Hello, I have a miktex installed on xp. Not too long ago I made a update. Yesterday I noticed that mptopdf won't do its job anymore. As I made a copy before upgrading so I could check the behaviour with the old version. The "old" version (which runs) is mptopdf 1.21 The "new" version is 1.3 The errormessage is: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded format=mptopdf 2005.7.5) 6 JUL 2005 08:53 entering extended mode **fuenf.mp (fuenf.mp [MP to PDF] ! I can't find file `beginfig(1).tex'. <to be read again> When I replace the new file by the old one everything works again. Any suggestions? Wolfgang

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\placebookmarks problem
by Nikolai Weibull 06 Jul '05

06 Jul '05

I have a setup like the following: \setupinteraction [state=start, style=normal, color=, page=yes, openaction=firstpage, title=ruby-lisp README, author=Nikolai Weibull] \setupinteractionscreen \placebookmarks [section,subsection] The problem is that I get \doPDFinsertbookmark ...bookmarktext \stripstring \bookmarktext \doPDFbookma... <argument> \flushbookmark \dodoputbookmarkelement {\v!section }{3}{1.2}{Auth... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 l.25 ...}{3}{1.2}{Authors}{2::0:1:2:0:0:0:0::1}{1} ? What am I missing?, nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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texsync
by Stuart Jansen 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Is the newest version available through texsync? I performed: ruby /data/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texsync.rb --force --update --tree=tex --destination=/data/tex/ ruby /data/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texsync.rb --force --update --tree=linux-64 --destination=/data/tex/ ruby /data/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texsync.rb --force --update --tree=doc --destination=/data/tex/doc/ texexec --make --all But /data/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex contains \def\contextversion{2005.03.16} -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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Vacation
by Gerben Wierda 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

From July 7 until August 1 and from August 6 until August 15 I'll be unavailable to answer support requests for my TeX on Mac OS X redistribution or any other communication. I will unsubscribe from the mailing lists for that period. G

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions
by Otared Kavian 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

>On 4 juil. 2005, at 9:54, Patrick Gundlach wrote: >Hello David, > >> >>I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal. >> > >This questions can also come from more experienced users :) > >> >>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? >> > >OK, do you have LaTeX working? Then you can use the standard >postscript fonts for ConTeXt as well. Have a look at the (yet >unfinished page) > >http://contextgarden.net/Psnfss > >Patrick >-- Hi Patrick, David and Adam, It is right that handling fonts is extremely disappointing and instable... For instance, what used to work does not work anymore properly with the new version of ConTeXt I installed two weeks ago... For instance: \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[postscript] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] %or helvetica, or palatino \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] used to work fine, but now it results in ConTeXt creating, the first time, a whole bunch of things regarding fonts, and then the resulting PDF contains some ugly jagging bitmap-looking characters (interestingly this happens only to the text characters, not to the math characters...). Adding \usetypescript[postscript] does not help neither. I wanted to answer David's question on Saturday but when I tried my examples, I was dispappointed and did not answer. Best regards: OK PS: When I added two samples of the PDF files to my previous post, it was blocked due to the fact that the message was over 40 Kb. So I am posting again without the attachments.

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International characters in math
by Radhelorn 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Hello All! I've returned to my experiments with fonts and have a question: is there a way to use international characters in math like with LaTeX mathtext package? Or even as \text{} in AMS LaTeX? Is there some documentation on math in ConTeXt except sources? -- Radhelorn <radhelorn(a)mail.ru>

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[Fwd: LUG-leaders: GuIT (Italian TeX Users Group) meeting 2005]
by Hans Hagen 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

GuIT meeting 2005 The conference will be held the 22nd October 2005 at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. * Registration * Call for papers * The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies * Organizing Committee Registration It is mandatory to submit the registration form to confirm your partecipation to the meeting. Submitting an article automatically confirms your partecipation. Call for Papers To make a presentation at the conference, it is mandatory to submit your article using the application form and follow the guidelines. The deadline is Friday, 16 September 2005. The Scientific Committee will select the papers for talks and printed proceedings. The evaluation of the Scientific Committee is final. The Sant'Anna School The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies is an autonomous, special-statute university that operates in the fields of the applied sciences, i.e. law, medicine, agriculture, engineering, political science, economics and management. Organising Committee * Committee Chair: Maurizio Himmelmann * Scientific Committee Chair: Enrico Gregorio * Public relations manager: Onofrio de Bari * Information Technology: Emiliano Vavassori- Riccardo Brigo * Conference Artworks: Emanuele Vicentini * Proceedings: Rosa Gini Correspondence address: Ufficio Statistica Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Piazza Martiri 33 56122 Pisa tel: +39 050 883382 --- -- Onofrio 'Ninni' de Bari http://www.linux.it/~ondeb -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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How to "\processcommalist"?
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Jul '05

05 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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