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Error messages with first attempts to use ConTeXt
by David Wooten 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Greetings all, I'm a LaTeXer who is intrigued by ConTeXt. I'm running Mac OS 10.3, using Gerben Wierda's i-Installer, and have been receiving some error messages with my first attempts that a little searching-around haven't been clarified. Without the latest ConTeXt update from the i-Installer, for a file like: \starttext Hello there. \stoptext when run with texexec = texexec Condy.tex TeXExec 5.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : Condy output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt fmtutil: no info for format `cont-en'. Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.fmt'; will try `context.fmt'. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt fmtutil: no info for format `context'. I can't find the format file `context.fmt'! return code : 256 run time : 3 seconds total run time : 3 seconds With the update, I get = texexec Condy.tex TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : Condy output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) output format initialized to DVI entering extended mode (./Condy.tex ConTeXt ver: 2001.11.13 fmt: 2005.2.5 int: english mes: english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/Users/wooten/Library/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! system (E-TEX) : [line 473] \ifcsname ) system : cont-old loaded (/Users/wooten/Library/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/Users/wooten/Library/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2-en-2 2-uk-2 2-de-2 2-fr-2 2-es-2 2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : Condy.top loaded (./Condy.top ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!directory ={/Users/wooten/} \xprocesscommaitem #1,#2->\if ]#1 \expandafter \gobbleoneargument \else \p!do... \xdogetparameters #1]->\xprocesscommaitem #1,] ,\@relax@ \dosetupsystem [#1]->\getparameters [\??sv ][#1] \setuprandomize [\@@svwillek... l.3 \setupsystem[\c!directory={/Users/wooten/}] ————— I'd appreciate any advice you can give, and perhaps I won't even have to eat crow ;) David Wooten

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Some observations about the URW-Garamond
by Thomas A.Schmitz 06 Feb '05

06 Feb '05

I played around a bit with the new URW-Garamond that URW donated to the TeX community; as you may have seen on the list, the font files can be downloaded via CTAN at CTAN/fonts/urw/garamond/ If you fetch the entire directory, you'll find 1. the font in .afm, .pfb and .pfm format, 2. support files for LaTeX written by Walter Schmidt, with instructions for installation. After installation, the font worked in LaTeX, but wouldn't work in ConTeXt "out of the box." I didn't spend time to figure out why because creating the necessary files with texfont is a snap. For beginners, a very brief how-to: 1. copy the afm- and pfb-files into a working directory, cd to this directory; 2. run the command for f in ugm*.afm do texfont --fontroot=~/texmf --ve=urw --co=garamond --ma --in (adjusting ~/texmf to wherever you want the font installed) (Of course, you can add other encodings if you wish.) Then I hit a problem. texfont creates map entries in this format: texnansi-raw-ugmm8a GaramondNo8-Med 4 < ugmm8a.pfb texnansi.enc texnansi-raw-ugmmi8a GaramondNo8-MedIta 4 < ugmmi8a.pfb texnansi.enc texnansi-raw-ugmr8a GaramondNo8-Reg 4 < ugmr8a.pfb texnansi.enc texnansi-raw-ugmri8a GaramondNo8-Ita 4 < ugmri8a.pfb texnansi.enc My version of pdfetex (3.141592-1.20b-rc5-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)) refused to read these entries (problems with backward compoatibility?). After I rewrote to the format I found in the map that comes with the font texnansi-raw-ugmr8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <ugmr8a.pfb texnansi-raw-ugmri8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <ugmri8a.pfb texnansi-raw-ugmm8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <ugmm8a.pfb texnansi-raw-ugmmi8a GaramondNo8-Reg " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <ugmmi8a.pfb everything was golden. You now have a version of Garamond for those who are too poor or too cheap to buy the real McCoy. The font looks nice to me (I'm not an expert), especially in its italic version. You get regular, italic, semi-bold and semi-bold italics, no expert ligatures, no old-style numerals. I wrote a very basic typescript file: \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \starttypescript [serif] [urwgaramond] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Roman] [texnansi-ugmr8a] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Bold] [texnansi-ugmm8a] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Italic] [texnansi-ugmri8a] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [URWGaramond-Bold-Italic] [texnansi-ugmmi8a] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [urwgaramond] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [URWGaramond-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [URWGaramond-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [URWGaramond-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [URWGaramond-Bold-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [URWGaramond] \definetypeface [MyURWGaramond] [rm] [serif] [urwgaramond] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript You can then typeset in the new font: \usetypescriptfile [type-urwgaramond] \usetypescript[URWGaramond] \setupbodyfont[MyURWGaramond,11pt] \starttext Hello world! \stoptext HTH Thomas

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Dimensions of a picture
by François Fasoli 05 Feb '05

05 Feb '05

I have a problem with the following fie : \useexternalfigure[fig1][Mouette1]%1600x1200 \useexternalfigure[fig2][Mouette2]%1024x768 \starttext %the following line gives an error : %Error: pdfetex.exe (file ./Mouette1.jpg): reading JPEG image failed %\externalfigure[fig1] %the following lines runs very well \page \externalfigure[fig2] \stoptext Is there a limitation of the dimensions of a picture ? Or another problem ? Thank you

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URW Garamond No8 under LPPL
by Tobias Burnus 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

Hello, Walter Schmidt has uploaded to CTAN | (1) the PostScript font family Garamond No8, which URW | has made available for free under the Aladdin Free Public | License, see <http://www.artifex.com/downloads/>. | | (2) font metrics, macros etc. to use the fonts with LaTeX; | this is material which I have added; it is released under | LPPL. The font presentation can be found at http://www.urwpp.de/ Search for "Garamond". Garamond No8 consists of regular, medium, italic and medium italic. It is an OpenType Level 1 font and contains the character sets West, East, Turkish, Baltic and Romanian CTAN: nonfree/fonts/urw/garamond e.g. ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/nonfree/fonts/urw/garamond/ Regards, Tobias PS: Information taken from CTAN announce.

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style.pdf
by mickle＠panix.com 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

In updating my context documentation today, I managed to overwrite my copy of ".../general/manuals/style.pdf", which I was studying. Is this document still available, perhaps renamed - it don't find it in the list of files in http://www.pragma-ade.nl/wget.txt. Thank-you --

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"uninitialized value"
by K. David Prince 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

I'm following the "Install ConTeXt" instructions on <http://levana.de/context/>. I'm installing this on a Debian Testing machine. I've downloaded and installed version 2005.01.31. I just ran "texversion.pl" and get: kdp@yaz:~/Projects/ConTeXt$ ./texversion.pl Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 344. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. 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 Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 344. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin/texexec line 348. 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$ What am I missing? Dave P.S. kdp@yaz:~/$ echo $PATH /opt/context/2005.01.31/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games kdp@yaz:~/$ kdp@yaz:/etc/texmf$ grep CONTEXT texmf.cnf TEXMFCONTEXT = /opt/context/2005.01.31/texmf TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFCONTEXT,!!$TEXMFMAIN} kdp@yaz:/etc/texmf$ kdp

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texshow-web
by Vit Zyka 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Hallo Patrick, I added one third (only one third but most important one since analogy;-) of \setuplayout command to tewshow-web. To be more descriptive I snaffled table of page areas from wiki. Unfortunately comment field seems not to be html sensitive (see http://texshow.contextgarden.net/ts.rb?lang=en&what=desc&if=en&cmd=setuplay…) ... Is there some chance to display the table here or it is better to refer to the wiki page (http://contextgarden.net/Layout)? Vit Zyka

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ConTeXt and TeX output Macro
by Tom Browder 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Can one redefine the TeX output macro as one can within TeX? If so, how? Thanks. A wannabe ConTeXt user. Tom Browder

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TeXUtil reports errors
by Peter Münster 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hello, TeXUtil reports errors: TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 action : processing commands, lists and registers option : sorting IJ under Y option : converting high ASCII values input file : svn-utilisation.tui output file : svn-utilisation.tuo passed commands : 41 remapped keys : 0 register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references synonym entries : 15 -> 15 entries embedded files : 7 b/e error in : e-svn b/e error in : e-note b/e error in : e-dd b/e error in : svn-utilisation b/e error in : svn utility file analysis : another run needed and at the end of the tuo-file: % TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 / Status % % embedded files : 7 (5 errors) % synonym entries : 15 (0 errors) % register entries : 0 (0 errors) % metapost graphics : 1 % position commands : 0 (not used) But I don't find these errors! Where should I seek for more information on those errors? TIA for any help. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Czech compound word handling
by David Antos 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hello, would it be possible to define || for compound words to act as \discretionary{-}{-}{-}? In Czech, the hyphen for compound words should be repeated in the following line. Thanks, D.A. -- Try to remove the color-problem by restarting your computer several times. -- Microsoft-Internet Explorer README.TXT

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