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Tex-Live bittorrent sites?
by karl＠freefriends.org 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Is there a bittorrent site for downloading the current version of texlive? Not that I am aware of. If you find one or can set one up, please email tex-live(a)tug.org with the info. For those who may not know -- Hans just asked me :) -- BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer system that lets big files be downloaded in small pieces from many different machines. The client reassembles the pieces. I haven't used it myself, although I've heard some good things about it. http://bittorrent.com/ karl

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Fonts, Fonts, Fonts
by Nikolai Weibull 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Always with the fonts on this list... Anyway, I am running some recent beta of tetex and am still having problems getting fonts loaded in ConTeXt. \starttext \showbodyfont[cmr,12pt] \showbodyfont[lbr,12pt] \stoptext seems innocent enough, but produces two identical tables. pdfetex is complaining about an all-base.map: Warning: pdfetex (file all-base.map): cannot open font map file and there is no such file anywhere (and a grep through /usr/share/texmf, /etc/texmf, and /var/lib/texmf turns up nothing). Could someone provide me with a simple rundown on what I should do. I would really like to try typesetting my master's thesis in another font than cmr before I hand it in. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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Tex-Live bittorrent sites?
by K. David Prince 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Is there a bittorrent site for downloading the current version of texlive? Dave

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permissions in texmf/scripts/context/*
by Thomas A.Schmitz 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

I'm wondering if this is a bug: I tried to play around with the texmfstart script, but couldn't get it to work. I think the latest cont-tmf.zip installs those files with wrong permissions. Here's what I got: -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 15k Jan 6 13:41 concheck.rb -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 25k Jan 28 09:28 ctxtools.rb drwxr-xr-x 3 tas 102 Feb 6 21:00 exa -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 21k Dec 20 21:31 texmfstart.rb -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 6.5k Jun 14 2004 texsync.rb -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 23k Oct 15 19:15 textools.rb -rw-r--r-- 1 tas 13k Oct 27 18:27 xmltools.rb drwxr-xr-x 3 tas 102 Feb 6 21:00 xmpl same is true for scripts/perl/ Shouldn't they all have permission 755? Best Thomas

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List of special characters
by cormullion 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

I can’t find a definitive list of the special characters that I need to ‘escape’ when used in a ConTeXt document. I’m writing a short script that converts documents, and I need to catch some characters. Some of the TeX ones I tried didn’t work. Couldn’t see it in the manuals. I’ve done the obvious ones - \%, \#, \&, \$ - but wondering about some of the others (eg ! \" # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~ • º). thanks!

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Setting up layout - basic questions
by cormullion 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Hi there. I’m a newcomer to ConTeXt, and I’m so far really impressed with the power and flexibility I now have access to. I’d be grateful for a few tips - I’ve been reading the documentation over the last few days, and my head’s getting full. Please excuse me if these questions are obvious. I want to make headings in a sans serif font, such as Helvetica, and keep the body text in serif font (such as Times). (I use these font names loosely, I have no idea which fonts I can actually use, since I can’t get XeTeX working yet.) I know that I should do something like this: \setuphead [chapter] [number=yes, style=\ss] \setuphead [section] [number=no, style=\ss] but the sizes of the different levels of heading are lost... So something like 16pt for chapter, 14pt for section, 12 point for subsection? Also, is it generally possible to make all the headings start at the left margin, with everything else (eg paragraphs, lists, etc) indented? Eg: Chapter X Paragraph Section X Paragraph Subsection y Paragraph Thanks for any pointers. I’m more of a FrameMaker user up to now, so I may not yet be thinking the ConTeXt way. :-)

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grid
by Vit Zyka 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Hallo, I wanted use two-column typesetting, so set grid on. But even this simple minimal example does not fit me to the grid. Am I doing something wrong? ------------------ \setuplayout[lines=40,grid=on] \setuphead[chapter][grid=low,before=\blank,after=\blank] \setuphead[section][grid=low,before=\blank,after=\blank] \showgrid \starttext \chapter{Examples} See this two paragraph examples. \section{Knuth}\input knuth \section{Zapf}\input zapf \stoptext ----------------------

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! Undefined control sequence.
by K. David Prince 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

0. I'm using Debian/Testing. 1. Downloaded: context/current/cont-tmf.zip \ the main CONTEXT distribution \ 2005-02-03 15:19 2356473 from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm 2. Installed according to: http://levana.de/context/ kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt$ ./texversion.pl TeXVersion 0.1 / Taco Hoekwater 2004 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) context : ver: 2005.01.31 cont-en : ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.1.28 mes: english kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt$ 3. Created hello.tex: \starttext Hello World \stoptext 4. "texexec --pdf hello.tex" generates errors: kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt/Play$ texexec --pdf hello.tex Use of uninitialized value in string eq at -\ /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 344. | I fixed this Use of uninitialized value in string eq at | in the previous /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. > version, but I Use of uninitialized value in string eq at | didn't do it because /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. / of the error below. TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : hello output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./hello.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.1.28 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/opt/context/2005.01.31/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ! Undefined control sequence. \@@toks ->\everymathematics \dodoappendtoks ->\dodoglobal \@@toks \@EAEAEA {\@EA \the \@EA \@@toks \the ... l.299 \to \everymathematics ? x <==I just bailed out here. "hello.tex" runs fine under the old version. No pages of output. Transcript written on hello.log. return code : 256 run time : 2 seconds total run time : 3 seconds kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt/Play$ Additional info on my setup: kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt/Play$ echo $PATH /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt/Play$ %%% %%% KDP texmf.cnf Edits for ConTeXt upgrade %%% TEXMFCONTEXT = /opt/context/2005.01.31/texmf TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFMAIN} %%% %%% End KDP ConTeXt Edits. %%%

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alpha + magazine
by Hans Hagen 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Hi, I uploaded a new alpha, in addition to previous changes: - default latin modern in ec encoding instead of default encoding - substantial speedup of typescript loading (when configured as such) - a couple of small fixes related to switching to latin modern there is also a new mag-0009.pdf file, discribing how to use platform fonts etc etc, 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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limit the scope of Chinese
by Fei He 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Hello, I have been working on a document that mixes a little Chinese and more of the rest English. How do I limit the scope of the Chinese module? For example, I want Chinese to show up in the title, which is done by loading the Chinese module. But the date of the document changed to Chinese too, which I do not want. Can I just use one or two Chines character at some certain place while all the rest of the document remains not affected? Thanks a lot.

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