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Handy font install script.
by John R. Culleton 29 May '05

29 May '05

The good news is that texfonts works as advertised, and the fonts can be used for any flavor of TeX except LaTeX which usually wants an .fd file. Even LaTeX users can use it if they are willing to use the old fashioned \font statement. I downloaded the sharefont and freefont collections for use with Gimp, but then had a need to use some of them with Context. Now there are dozens of fonts in each collection. So I wrote a wrapper script for texfonts to save time and errors. Here is my procedure (Slackware Linux computer, TeX installation taken from Slackware-current): 1. Create a subdirectory for each font or font family, and move all the files for the font/family to that subdirectory. 2. Run Ghostscript utility pf2afm on each font to create needed afm files (they don't come with.) 3. Modify updmap.cfg to accept a file called plus.map. 4.Move to the subdirectory, then run the following script makefonts, making up a foundry and family name appropriate to the font(s). The command is: "makefonts foundry family" ------------------------------------------------------- mkdir /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1 mkdir /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1/$2 cp * /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1/$2/ texfont --en=8r --ve=$1 --co=$2 --ma --in cd /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ cat *map >plus.map cp plus.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap updmap texhash ------------------------------------------------------ 5. Modify the tex test file produced by texfonts to include near the end a \font statement and "The quick brown fox..." text in all caps and then in lower case. (Some of these fonts have no lower case.) 6. compile and inspect the test program. As always the script will have to be adapted to your particular installation. And I haven't bothered to figure out how to make it work in MSWin. The change I made in step 6 above might be worth doing in texfonts. Some donated fonts have problems with spacing between words, or even with the characters themselves. The generated afm files are also suspect in this regard. I hope this saves someone some time. John Culleton

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new version
by Hans Hagen 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi, I posted a new version of context. There are a few new things, like pattern snow being part of the zip, and runtime graphic conversions (more about that when i have more time); the next (main) release will probably have a new texexec (ruby version, smoother, faster, more clever, no ini file etc) btw, i need a miktex user who wants to test the ruby texexec version it's upto taco to write the usual announcement -) 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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Re: Accents in MathML
by Duncan Hothersall 28 May '05

28 May '05

I said: > Interestingly, if I forget about unicode and use é instead of é, > then no matter what I put in the preamble I get the e with a guillemot > superimposed. So whatever is mapping é incorrectly seems also to be > mapping é incorrectly. Further testing suggests that my problem is this: Between \startXMLdata and \stopXMLdata, where MathML is being parsed directly by ConTeXt, I get the wrong results for accented characters within <mtext> elements. For example, I get an e character with a guillemot superimposed on top when I want an e with an acute accent. It doesn't seem to matter whether the markup is unicode é, the entity é, or the command \eacute. Similar problems happen with other accents I have tried. In the case of ñ the accent is almost right but comes out too big (looks like the maths version of the accent?). The following is my local test file, using unicode and comparing running text to <mtext> in MathML: -- \mainlanguage[es]\enableregime[utf]\useencoding[uc] \usemodule[mathml]\setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext Situación niños volúmenes sí interés: \startXMLdata <formula><math><mfrac><mrow><mtext>Situación niños volúmenes</mtext></mrow><mrow><mtext>sí interés</mtext></mrow></mfrac></math></formula>\stopXMLdata \stoptext -- The following is a non-unicode test file that will process on Live and exhibits the same errors in the MathML accent rendering. It uses entity references instead of unicode in the MathML, but because they map to the same thing the output is the same: -- \mainlanguage[es]\enableregime[utf]\useencoding[uc] \usemodule[mathml]\setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \startXMLdata <formula><math><mfrac><mrow><mtext>Situación niños volúmenes</mtext></mrow><mrow><mtext>sí interés</mtext></mrow></mfrac></math></formula>\stopXMLdata \stoptext -- I have a feeling I have made this more complex than it needed to be, but can anyone shed light on how to fix it? Thanks, Duncan PS Apologies for the nonsense Spanish content - it's just random words with accents.

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dvi support in latest version
by Peter Münster 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hello, thanks to Hans, I can use now the latest version to produce PDFs. This is what I do: texmfstart newtexexec --make --all mkdir /opt/teTeX/texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex mv cont-* mptopdf.* /opt/teTeX/texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex mktexlsr Now, "texmfstart newtexexec testfile" is producing a pdf and "texmfstart newtexexec --dvi testfile" is producing a dvi. But dvips has difficulties with this dvi-file: This is dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2005.05.28:1404' -> testfile.ps kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfzzz --bdpi 1200 --mag 1+0/1200 --dpi 1200 ec-lmr12 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr12. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. dvips: Font ec-lmr12 not found, characters will be left blank. <tex.pro><special.pro>. [1 dvips: Unknown keyword (object) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (@FDF::docuextgstates) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (<<) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (>>) in \special will be ignored dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Unknown keyword (put) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (@catalog) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (<<>>) in \special will be ignored dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Unknown keyword (docinfo) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (<</Trapped) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (/False>>) in \special will be ignored dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Unknown keyword (docinfo) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (<</ConTeXt.Version) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword ((2005.05.25)>>) in \special will be ignored dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Unknown keyword (docinfo) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (<</Title) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword ((testfile)) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (/Subject) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (()) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (/Author) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (()) in \special will be ignored dvips: more errors in special, being ignored . . . dvips: (perhaps dvips doesn't support your macro package?) dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing ] There must be at least some problem with the Latin-Modern setup... testfile.tex ist just: \starttext hallo \stoptext Thanks in advance for any help! Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: ConTeXt tool for enabling comments in PDF ?
by Joachim Schlosser 28 May '05

28 May '05

> Vit Zyka wrote (long long ago in January): >> how is that one calculated, imagine that in the %! fields you fill in >> placeholders like hereshouldgosomemagiccode, then one can run a script >> over the pdf, calculate that magic, and replace the string; maybe this >> can be hooked into xpdflib > Yes, I agree, postprocessing is possible. But I did not find any digest > computing alg in the range of C/C++ or Perl. Also do not known links to > xpdflib. > > Vit Zyka One can sign PDFs with iText (http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/) Perhaps this helps a little bit further. I experimented a little bit, but my knowledge on PDF internas is not yet in a state that allows me to be quite creative here :-) Joachim -- Joachim Schlosser (The e-mail address is fully repliable.) http://schlosser.info

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clip bug?
by Vit Zyka 28 May '05

28 May '05

Dear Hans, it seems to me that \clip was extended by the useful params left|right|top|bottomoffset. But they do not work: \starttext \clip [leftoffset=1cm,rightoffset=1cm,topoffset=2cm,bottomoffset=.5cm] {\externalfigure[cow]} \stoptext Thanks Vit

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Any PPCHTeX users out there?
by Rodolfo Medina 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi. Since the PPCHTeX mailing list (ntg-ppchtex(a)ntg.nl) seems to be inactive, I'm posting to the present list my PPCHTeX question. Suppose I have the following PPCHTeX code: \startchemical \chemical[SIX,ROT2,B,R36,RZ6][CH_3] \chemical[PB:RZ3,ONE,Z05,SB5,EP37,PE][O,H] \stopchemical . Now, if I want `size' to be `big' but `scale' to be `small', I just type: \startchemical[size=big,scale=small] et cetera, but then I have a problem: the two couples of electrons that are above and under the oxygen atom come much too close the oxygen atom, they come onto it. Is there any PPCHTeX user that knows if it's possible to avoid that, and how? Thanks indeed, Rodolfo

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[Q] Combining
by olibou＠free.fr 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hello, I initially was looking for having several multilign text box in a metapost. But I do not know how to it. I finally take the technic of "register" as explain in the "complex text in graphic" paragraph of the metafun manual. But then, I was to animate it in a presentation. I learn to animate with the "growing graphic" chapter. But I do not know how to combine register and animate. Does somebody has an example of doing so ... I will try to reverse engineer his source ;-) so he or she will not lose his time with me ? In case you like to reverse my source, I give it as a small example. In this example, I wish I could exchange "Bonjour" for a better and more complex text ;-) -- Oli

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Re: [NTG-context] Any PPCHTeX users out there? [solved]
by Rodolfo Medina 28 May '05

28 May '05

Rodolfo wrote: > Since the PPCHTeX mailing list (ntg-ppchtex(a)ntg.nl) > seems to be inactive, I'm posting to the > present list my PPCHTeX question. > > Suppose I have the following PPCHTeX code: > > \startchemical > \chemical[SIX,ROT2,B,R36,RZ6][CH_3] > \chemical[PB:RZ3,ONE,Z05,SB5,EP37,PE][O,H] > \stopchemical > > . Now, if I want `size' to be `big' but `scale' to be `small', >I just type: > \startchemical[size=big,scale=small] > > et cetera, but then I have a problem: the two couples of electrons that are > above and under the oxygen atom come much too close the oxygen atom, > they come onto it. Is there any PPCHTeX user that knows if it's > possible to avoid that, and how? The solution came from Hans Hagen, the author of PPCHTeX, who kindly provided himself some additional code. So, if anybody has the same problem, just write to me (or to Hans Hagen) and I will sent it to him/her. Thanks, Rodolfo

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finding cont-en.fmt
by Alan Bowen 27 May '05

27 May '05

I just updated to the latest versions of teTeX and ConTeXt via Gerben’s i-installer and now, when I run a file through ConTeXt, I get the following report: ________________________________ TeXExec 5.3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing texformat path : .:{/Users/acbowen/Library/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local,!! /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/ texmf.tetex,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf}/web2c/{$ENGINE,}/{,}// 0 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : grktest output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt fmtutil: format directory `/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c' is not writable. Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.fmt'; will try `context.fmt'. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt fmtutil: format directory `/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c' is not writable. I can't find the format file `context.fmt'! return code : 256 run time : 3 seconds total run time : 4 seconds ___________________________________ According to the installer log, both cont-en.fmt and context.fmt were installed. I checked the list archive and see that two others had this problem about a month ago, but could not find any subsequent solutions. So, I would be most grateful for any pointers now. Cheers, Alan

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