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Rif: Re: [NTG-context] dotted line for \framed ?
by Luigi Scarso 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

With Metapost you can put in background almost anything you want, so it's not complex make a dotted line for frame; Metafun is a great tutorial for these things. A nice solution should be dotted line for \framed WITHOUT use metapost, something like \framed[rulestyle={dot},...] [OT] Can XYpic be used under Context ? I will try . luigi

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MetaPost 0.9 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 0.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from http://sarovar.org/projects/metapost/ The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. The win32 package is intended for fptex or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2003. These executables will *not* work for miktex, sorry. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of this message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. For those of you who have noted the large gap between 0.641 and 0.9: We have deliberately chosen to step over some minor version numbers, such that the first major release by the current team (this release is planned for the autumn of 2005) can become version 1.0 without causing additional confusion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 0.9: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There is a new internal quantity called mpversion that reports the current metapost version, and the version information is also written to the PostScript file. 2. The LaTeX sources of the mpman, mpintro, and mpgraph manuals have become part of the distribution package. 3. TEX.mp now has TeX format support through a pair of macros called TEXPRE() and TEXPOST(). This llows you to process the contents of the TEX() macro with, for example, LaTeX (instead of plain TeX). An example is given in the manual. 4. metapost now writes a %%HiReSBoundingBox comment 5. The EPS output no longer contains actual spaces within PostScript strings as for example output by label("a space"), but their octal escape (\040) instead. 6. The EPS output now also has a %%BeginProlog DSC comment as well as %%EndProlog 7. The comments in the Web source have been changed to point out that on modern machines, acquiring the random seed has actually become a system-dependant operation (a granularity of whole seconds is not small enough on new machines). 8. The 'newer' command now accepts more than 2 arguments, testing each of the files in turn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfixes in version 0.9: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Documentation improvements: all known errata and typos have been removed, better explanations of e.g. dash patterns and dotlabel have been provided, and a number of omissions has been rectified. 2. The BoundingBox was not computed correctly when a filldraw command with a noticeable pen size was used at the edge of the picture. 3. Paths starting with degenerate constructions like (0,0)--(0,0)--(0,0) could overflow memory. 4. The PostScript output could accidentally contain 8-bit characters within PostScript strings in previous versions because a test was shared between terminal printing and PostScript printing. 5. A bug has been found in the assignment of serial numbers to independant variables in metafont 2.71828. This bug affected MP as well, and the same patch has been applied. 6. The turningnumber was sometimes wrong in unexpected ways. The new implementation is still sometimes wrong (when there are strange path segments involved), but in a much more predictable way: the new code always draws straight lines between the actual points, and calculates the turningnumber based on that path instead of the actual path. The effect is that cusps and loops within segments are now completely ignored. A more thorough fix of turningnumber is planned for the next release. 7. There was an 'off by one' error in dvitomp wrt. the interpretation of virtual fonts. 8. mpto uses a new TeX macro for the generation of labels, making it more robust wrt. strange user code within the actual label text. 9. A missing colon in boxes.mp has been added 10. A missing save in mfplain.mp has been added 11. The generisize in boxes.mp has been fixed so that it now accepts [[ as a valid variable name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Sarovar, http://www.sarovar.org/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. (Please do not send bug reports or feature requests directly to Dr. Hobby any more) Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, April 28, 2005

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widow and orphan control
by Paul Tremblay 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

How does one prevent orphans (the first line nof a paragraph on the last line of a page) and widows (the last line of a paragraph on a new page)? If I have the title of a new section that must not be the last line of a page, how can I do this? Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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Old-style figures throughout the document
by varheit＠gmx.de 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hello, I am experimenting with old-style figures (or text figures, as they are also called). Basically, I would like every number in my source document to be typeset in old-style figures (OSF) by default unless stated otherwise. This means: I want to reverse the mechanism so that I can explicitly say where NOT to use OSF. As a work-around I found the following on the list: \defineconversion[number][\os] \defineconversion[numbers][\os] This does not work for plain digits in the text, but it works for generated numbers like page numbers, and, to some degree, for the generated numbers of floats. \starttext \chapter[sample]{Sample} \placefigure[here][a]{cap}{test} Reference: \in{figure}[a] \section[test]{Test} \stoptext In this setup, chapter numbers do not use OSF, and the numbers of figures (as well as references to them) use a mixed form, which looks rather odd. I can add \setuphead[chapter,section][numberstyle=\os] which makes heading numbers use OSF, but then again, references like \in[sample] do not work. Also, the numbering of the section changes from 1.1 to 1>1 (where > is a right pointing triangle). To see the results, you can process this: ------------------------ cut here --------------------- \defineconversion[number][\os] \defineconversion[numbers][\os] \setuphead[chapter,section][numberstyle=\os] \starttext \chapter[sample]{Sample} This is chapter \in[sample]. Below is \in{section}[test]. Here is \in{figure}[a] on \at{page}[a] \placefigure[here][a]{Caption}{FIGURE} \section[test]{Test} \stoptext ------------------------ cut here --------------------- Is there any way, to change the numbering style globally? Thanks, Viktor -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More +++ 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail

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bachotex
by Hans Hagen 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hi, I'm away for a week to the polish bachotex conference; given mail access, i'll try to keep up with my mails. 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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texexec does not Rotate right on pdfarrange
by Thomas Schrader 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hi everybody, I've got a PDF saying /MediaBox [ 0 0 842 595 ] /Rotate 270 but on concatenating it via texexec to a second PDF saying /MediaBox [0 0 595 842] the first one is displayed landscape and cut to half. How can I prevent this. Does texexec ignore the rotation commands? Need I parse odd PDFs myself? Thanks much for any hints

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new beta (again)
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hi all, inline metapost generation was broken aftre upgrading context. I have seen the recent thread with several patches to texexec, so I updated to yesterday evening's beta in the hope that this would fix the problems. Unfortunately not. When trying to generate the mp graphic I get this error: sh: metafun: not found After that, mpost fails with: ! End of file on the terminal... why? Already when generating the metafun format with texexec --make, I get two errors: Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /homes/eguthoeh/bin/texexec line 2291, <DATA> line 184. Use of uninitialized value in scalar assignment at /homes/eguthoeh/bin/texexec line 2292, <DATA> line 184. I'm currently using TeX (Web2C 7.4.3) 3.14159 from the bash shell under solaris. Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working? Thanks, -- Eckhart

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paragraph enumeration
by piskala upendran 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

The paragraph enumeration is useful for only for particular section and restart the number. can this be modified to use for the whole book consisting of different chapters and sections? It should not number the chapter and sections as paragraph thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Right way to load hyphenation patterns
by Ville Voipio 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

I want to use a non-standard hyphenation pattern (Finnish) in some of my documents. I have been able to make it work by: editing cont-usr.tex (removing a % from the \installlanguage) remaking formats (texexec --make) copying the format wile to the .../web2c directory This works. However, I read in the Wiki that "It is generally better to add local settings to a run-time included file like cont-sys.tex instead, so unless your stuff does absolutely have to become part of the format file, you are better off leaving this file well alone." So, where should I put the \installlanguage directive for it to be in the right place? Is it something that really has to be there when the formats are being built, or could it be loaded afterwards (i.e. at run-time)? Could it be put in the cont-sys.tex? TIA, - Ville

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RE: [NTG-context] Postscript fonts (was: gwTeX and missing PS fonts)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi Ville, >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > I want to make documents with Times/Helvetica/Courier > combination (as was done with "pos"). I do not have the > commercial fonts, but I do have the TeX Live (or teTeX) > distribution. What is the right way to get to use the > fonts? The following works for me in the latest official Context (3-16-05): ============================================================ \starttext \definetypeface [helvetica] [ss] [sans] [helvetica] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [helvetica] [12pt,ss] Helvetica \input tufte.tex \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [times] [14.4pt,rm] Times \input tufte.tex \stoptext ============================================================ Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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