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About newtexexec.rb
by François Fasoli 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

I found in the folder ...\scripts\ConteXt\ruby a file newtexexec.rb . I try it on some file and I obtain a good result. But I have two problems : 1)after having write the resulting pdf file (after the first run) the hard disk seems to write or to read many seconds and then the program seems to run again 2)the following file : ********************************** \startuseMPgraphic{fig} draw unitsquare scaled 3cm ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \useMPgraphic{fig} \stoptext ********************************** gives a pdf but without the expected square (the file gives a good result with texexec) I am very curious about newtexexec.rb : I begin to learn Ruby some weeks ago. Thanks

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Re: [NTG-context] <mtext> UTF further problems
by Duncan Hothersall 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

> Duncan> I'm still having trouble with UTF contents in <mtext> tags in > Duncan> MathML content. > > For whatever it is worth, I just tried that. A double-acute u (U+0171) > came through w/o problem. I'm using a gentoo box w/ tetex 3.0. Thanks very much for trying it out. > I tried both dvi and pdf output. Both worked. > > Are you sure your file is in utf-8 and not, eg, utf-16? I was, but I'm no longer sure of anything. :-) Is there a foolproof way of finding out? It seems that lots of editors try to 'help' by doing automatic guessing and automatic translations into other encodings, making it very difficult to tie things down. (And web browsers do that same when submitting things over the web, so I can't do what I usually do and test on Live.) I tend to use emacs, which I thought was a pretty safe bet, but maybe I should try something else? > What platform are you on? I'm testing on both Windows and (Redhat) linux, both with the current minimal ConTeXt installations (i.e. mswintex.zip and linuxtex.zip). They exhibit the same behaviour. Thanks for any advice you can give. Duncan

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columnset layout distortion
by Vit Zyka 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Hallo, I am working on our 40-anniversary scout group bulletin with a complex layout (twocolumn, footnotes, photos, pictures, flowing text in margin). I noticed weird behaviour. It is expressed by vertical shift of columns, please see the page 2 of http://typokvitek.com/tmp/layoutdistort.pdf source: http://typokvitek.com/tmp/layoutdistort.tex It seems that the problem is caused by switch to \ss font family continueing to a place of the page break. Any explanation/suggestion? Thanks vit ======================================================= \setuplayout[ height=fit,topspace=10mm, width=fit,backspace=20mm, margin=0pt,columndistance=5mm, lines=40,grid=yes, ] \showframe \startbuffer[A] \input thuan % {\input hawking }% {\ss\input hawking }% \input bryson \stopbuffer \definecolumnset[col][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[col] \dorecurse{10}{\getbuffer[A]}% \stopcolumnset \stoptext =============================================================

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startMPgraphics in texshow?
by Christopher Creutzig 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

Salvete, it seems that the whole family of MPgraphics commands is missing in texshow – looking for “graphics” turns up no matches. Are they generated by some magical macro or missing because of their capital letters? regards, Christopher Creutzig

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<mtext> UTF further problems
by Duncan Hothersall 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

I'm still having trouble with UTF contents in <mtext> tags in MathML content. It's difficult to send a sample because UTF isn't preserved well either by email or when sending files to the ConTeXt Live server, but I'd really appreciate it if somebody could help. When I replace 'HERE' in the following snippet with any UTF encoded accented character, it comes out wrong: \useXMLfilter[utf]\usemodule[mathml] \starttext\startXMLdata <formula><math><mtext>HERE</mtext></math></formula> \stopXMLdata\stoptext Can anyone help? Thanks a million. Duncan

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I need some advices/guidelines before start writing my PhD thesis
by Alexandra Ribeiro 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi, I need some advices/guidelines before start writing my PhD thesis. I'm completely new to TeX and of course to Context but I'm convinced that Microsoft Word is far away from being the right tool for writing a long document. Well, in the past I had some big big headaches. At this moment I've to make a choice: continue using Word or start learning a new tool, which will probably consume much of my time. So, I'm in a dilemma. That's why I'm asking for help. Is it really worth learning Context? I mean, does this package deal efficiently with some important things like TOC, cross-references, bibliography, figures, math, .? Is it too hard to learn (for a mere mortal, of course)? What about support for different languages, in particular for Portuguese? If I choose Context, can some somebody give me some guidelines/advices? I've already downloaded mswincontext.zip and I'll start studying/testing Context. Thank you. Alex alex.r(a)netcabo.pt

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Re: I need some advices/guidelines before start writing my PhD thesis
by Alexandra Ribeiro 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Hi to all, Thank you to all of you. I really appreciated your opinions/advices. I'll give Context a try. I've already installed the minimal distribution (for MS Windows XP) from the Pragma site and printed the beginners' manual. At the beginning, I'm sure that I'll post some silly questions. Be patient please! I've another question. What is the best way to deal with a big document in Context, to save each chapter in a single file and at the end include them in a "main document", or is there a better way? Best regards, Alexandra

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startlines bug(s)
by Stuart Jansen 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Below is a simple test case that illustrates what I suspect are bugs with \startlines. I suspect that fixing them will be tricky, so I'm wondering if anyone can think of work arounds. \starttext \bgroup\tt \ConTeXt\ is A\bgroup\ttsl maz\egroup ing \setuplines[space=yes] \startlines \ConTeXt\ is A\bgroup\ttsl maz\egroup ing I didn't expect spaces around "maz" \stoplines \setuplines[space=on] \startlines \ConTeXt\ is A\bgroup\ttsl maz\egroup ing I expected a space marker before "is" \stoplines\egroup \stoptext -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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s-pre-19: page numbers?
by Christopher Creutzig 20 Jun '05

20 Jun '05

Salvete, with gwTeX, TeXlive 2005 beta, using cont-en : ver: 2005.06.08 fmt: 2005.6.15 mes: english I've got a problem with s-pre-19 I can't get rid of: The menu on the right contains page numbers, set in black \tf, at the lower left corners of the buttons. I have tried getting rid of these by using things like \placelist[Topic][alternative=right,pagenumber=no] or \def\gobble#1{} \placelist[Topic][alternative=right,pagecommand=\gobble] but to no avail. Do others have the same problem or is it just me? Christopher

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Defining symbols and symb-*.tex files
by Keith McKay 19 Jun '05

19 Jun '05

Dear All I have been using fleurons in a couple of documents I have been producing by using the context commands \loadmapfile and \definesymbols of the fleurons I want to use, in each document. This is becoming a bit laborious so I though I could create a symb-*.tex file with all my fleurons defined in it which I could use in future documents. I had a look through 'Fonts in Context', and Section 12 Symbols and Glyphs described how to define the euro symbol which looked pretty straight forward. I also looked on the Wiki and reread Adam Lindsay email in reply to my earlier fleuron problem. So, suitably educated I wrote the following symbol-fle.tex file with a few fleurons defined and saved it in F:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local\tex\context\base where other symb-*.tex filed are stored. % %symb-fle.tex % % \loadmapfile [texnansi-web-fleurons.map] \definefontsynonym [Fleurons] [texnansi-fleurons] \startsymbolset[Fleuron Beings] \definesymbol[Frog] [\getglyph{Fleurons}{\char44}] \definesymbol[SmallAngel] [\getglyph{Fleurons}{\char101}] \definesymbol[BigAngel] [\getglyph{Fleurons}{\char108}] \definesymbol[Mouse] [\getglyph{Fleurons}{\char129}] \stopsymbolset \input % % I then wrote a short test to show these fleurons but no success % % %symbolTest.tex % % \loadmapfile[texnansi-web-fleurons.map] \usesymbols[fle] \starttext \symbol[Fleurons] [Frog]%%%%%%%%%%%%%Result - No Frog fleuron only Frog \symbol[Fleurons] [SmallAngel]%%%%%%%Result - No SmallAngel fleuron only SmallAngel \symbol[Fleurons] [BigAngel]%%%%%%%%%Result - No BigAngel fleuron only BigAngel \symbol[Fleurons] [Mouse]%%%%%%%%%%%%Result - No Mouse fleuron only Mouse \stoptext % % The result is the text identifier of the fleurons. I must be missing something fundamental in these definitions. Any suggestions? Thanks Keith McKay Hamilton, Scotland -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005

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