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Re: [NTG-context] Russia (cyrillic letters) Arabic]
by Rob Ermers 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

> Rob Ermers wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would be interested in a solution for Arabic... Presently \<Mu.hammad> works, but otherwise support for Arabic (\startarabic) is not optimal. If one of you could make a set-up for that too ... > > > > arabic a bit more tricky since it has those ligatures, so that needs aleph or arabtex > > (of course we can make an encoding with named glyphs) > > Hans > That would be great! The number of ligatures is limited, however. Arabtex in fact has more than strictly necessary. However, I never got omega running, in spite of my attempts. By the way, be aware that Hebrew may not have ligatures, but it does have some characters whose shape changes when they appear at the word ending, so, e.g., -n is not the same character code as n- or -n-. You should also take in account that people will want to use dotted consonants, i.e. the dots that distinguish b from v, and s from sh, etc. Robert

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Using LateX packages
by Holger Peters 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Hi, I want to use a LaTeX Package (clrscode), or at least I want to port it to Context. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/clrscode/ Is there some way to use LaTex Packages (I guess not). Is there documentation about writing ConTeXt modules? (I didn't find any). -- Holger

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bib module problem
by David Munger 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

The bib module won't complete the publications list when there is more than one cite command. Try the following: ------------------------------------------------ \usemodule[bib] \startpublication[k=biskamp2003,t=inbook, a={Biskamp},y=2003,n=1,s=Bis03] \author[]{Dieter}[D.]{}{Biskamp} \pubyear{2003} \title{Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence} \pubname{Cambridge University Press} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=sneyd1994,t=article, a={Sneyd and Wang},y=1994,n=2,s=SW94] \artauthor[]{A.~D.}[A.~D.]{}{Sneyd} \artauthor[]{A.}[A.]{}{Wang} \pubyear{1994} \arttitle{Interfacial instability due to {MHD} mode coupling in aluminium reduction cells} \journal{J. Fluid Mech.} \volume{263} \pages{343-359} \stoppublication \starttext See \cite[authoryear][biskamp2003] and \cite[authoryear][sneyd1994]. \placepublications \stoptext ------------------------------------------------ You'll get no publication list. Then comment out either of the \cite commands and you'll get the single-publication list. Thanks for any help. Regards, David

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cz support
by Vit Zyka 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Hallo Hans and other ConTeXters, I have started to collect and clean up Czech ConTeXt localization. And I have discovered that Tomas Hudec includeded Czech (non-trivial) sorting rules into texutils.pl (calling czsort.pl from Jan Pazdziora). Unfortunately it was not incorporated into official ConTeXt disribution. Hans, what is your prefereble solution in case of local sorting rules? I know, there is \definesortkey, but this mechanism is insufficient for Czech. I think that calling external Perl sorting routine is a suitable solution. If so, it can be incorporated into current version? Files are attached. Thanks Vit Zyka

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finishing a module
by Thomas A.Schmitz 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

I spent some (too much) time today improving my Greek module. For the time being, two questions remain; I'm confident that they're not too difficult for the experts; any help would be appreciated. I've succesfully defined my fonts and scale like so: \def\setupgreek#1[#2]{% \getparameters[GG][Scale=,Font=,#2] \edef\MyScale{\GGScale}% \processaction[\GGFont] [ SomeFont1=>\def\MyFont{somefont }, SomeFont2=>\def\MyFont{someotherfont }]% } \protect (The space after "somefont" looks ugly, but I haven't figured out how to get rid of it; TeX will always complain if I delete it.) 1. After this definition, this will work: \definebodyfont[4pt,5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt,9pt,10pt,10.5pt,11pt,12pt,14pt,14.4p t,16pt,18pt,20pt,22pt][rm][Gf=\MyFont sa \MyScale] This, however, will not work: \definefont[Gf][\MyFont sa \MyScale] and I don't see why. Can anybody explain? I see that the \definefont... takes care of the annoying problem with font sizes, so I would prefer that way. 2. In my module, I define some special symbols: \define\koppa{\getglyph{\MyFont}{\char37}} Is there a way to give the same scaling factor here as in the definition of \Gf? I tried \define\koppa{\getglyph{\MyFont scaled XXXX}{\char37}} as a first attempt which kind of works but gives me the letters "at" in the pdf in front of the symbol. Best Thomas

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Re: columnsetspan - alternative needed
by Hans Hagen 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer - but obviously my example was bad: columnsetareas don't do what I need. > > Maybe this is a better explanation: > > Given you have two articles in a book set in two columns. > The second article doesn't start on a new page - it just begins where the first one ends. > > But the first article (aaa...) ends with two balanced columns, > then comes the heading (bbb) for the second article, > and then comes begins the second article (ccc...). > > > That's what I mean by > > aaa aaa > aaa aaa > > bbbb > > ccc ccc > ccc ccc > > Do you have a trick how to do a page like this with columnsets? well, it involves some manual tweaking (numbers and such) and is not yet 100% ok the next code shows a bit of balancing and columnstart/height manipulations \starttext \showgrid \definecolumnset [two] [n=2,balance=top] \definecolumnset [three] [n=3,balance=top] \setupcolumnsetlines[two][1][1][15] \setupcolumnsetlines[two][1][2][15] \setupcolumnsetstart[three][1][1][15] \setupcolumnsetstart[three][1][2][18] \setupcolumnsetstart[three][1][3][20] \setupcolumnsetlines[three][1][1][40] \setupcolumnsetlines[three][1][2][40] \setupcolumnsetlines[three][1][3][40] \definecolumnsetspan[two] % \starttext % \startcolumnset [two] \dorecurse {1}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset % \startcolumnset [three] \dorecurse {2}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset % \stoptext \starttext \startcolumnset [two] \startcolumnsetspan[two] \input ward \stopcolumnsetspan \dorecurse {1}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \startcolumnset [three] \startcolumnsetspan[two] \input ward \stopcolumnsetspan \dorecurse {2}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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ConTeXt error when updating to tetex-2.99.10
by VnPenguin 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Hi, Just updated my FC3 box to teTeX-2.99.10 (ConTeXt 2005.01.13). Now I tried to compile my ConTeXt doc (Vietnamese UTF-8, which was compiled without any error with old version of ConTeXt - tetex-2.99.8). Unfortunately there is error: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... bodyfont : bodyfont 12.8pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 9.6pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 9.6pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 19.1pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 19.1pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 16pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 16pt is defined (can better be done global) section : 2.2 Các công việc trước khi cài đặt bodyfont : bodyfont 9.7pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 9.7pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 11.2pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 11.2pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 8.4pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 8.4pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 16.7pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 16.7pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 14pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 14pt is defined (can better be done global) references : unknown reference [][fnt:t:16] references : unknown reference [][fnt:f:16] subsection : 2.2.1 Kiểm kê\footnote {Inventory} máy tính của bạn references : unknown reference [][fnt:t:17] references : unknown reference [][fnt:f:17] references : unknown reference [][fnt:t:18] references : unknown reference [][fnt:f:18] [MP main-mpgraph.3993] [8.7] ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \@@tblprefix \c!each \v!each \getvalue #1->\csname #1 \endcsname \setupTBLcell ...e {\@@tblprefix \c!each \v!each } \getvalue {\@@tblprefix \c... \handleTBLcell ...ox \hbox {\setupTBLcell {#1}{#2} \localframed [\@@tbl \@@tb... <inserted text> ...bl \begintblrow \makeTBL {1}{1} \nexttblcol \makeTBL {1}{2... \endTBL ...x {\trialtypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktb... ... l.70 \eTABLE } ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm wrong some things ? Thank you in advance for any help, Quy NGUYEN-DAI

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[Fwd: Re: [pracjourn-prod] how to article]
by Hans Hagen 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

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fundamental problem with headings
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Hi, there seems to be a fundamental problem with headings - or at least I have :( Each kind of "emphasizing" - like \it \bf \cap \sc etc. - lets the respective phrase fall back to the documents bodyfont (see example below). How can I avoid this bug? Do I use wrong code? Thank you, Steffen \starttext \def\Textit{\groupedcommand\it\/} \definefont[SectionFont][Serif at 20pt] \def\SectionStyle{\SectionFont\setupinterlinespace[line=30pt]} \setuphead[section] [alternative=paragraph,style=\SectionStyle] text \section{heading \Textit{italic} heading} text \stoptext

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pragma-ade.com down?
by Vit Zyka 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

www.pragma-ade.com is down today? I wanted to load new distributon. Vit Zyka

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