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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Hi again... >===== Original Message From ciro(a)kavyata.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Idris, >thank you for your interest. I don't have setuptex in my linux >system... maybe this is >a windows utility. there is setuptex.sh for Linux, I believe. > >Concerning Garamond, <snip> > I'll keep trying >and let you >know if find how to activate them... Thnx, please do;-) I scanned my TeXLive installation (from last July; I installed all font packages I think) and could not find any reference to Garamond at all. I even checked the TeXLive setup files. Anyway, Even if you have the afm files, I suspect you have to buy Garamond: http://semantics-online.org/geek/2003/09/how_to_install_adobe_garamond_for_… Adam Lndsay has some comments there; maybe he knows something about this? But if you find another way let me know! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Bug: \placefigure in \endnote
by Gerben Wierda 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

A \placefigure in \endnote results in a figure in the main text, not the end notes. G

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RE: My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by 李树钧 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hi, Thank Idris Samawi Hamid and Geert for their help on clarifying this problem. Today I saw a solution from a Chinese TeXer, and now I understand why the Type1 fonts cannot be recognized. To make ConTeXt support Chinese, I maintain a file named tex\contex\user\cont-sys.tex, which is a modifed copy of texmf\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme. In this file, there are the following codes: ....... \resetmapfiles \donefalse \ifx\pdftexversion\undefined \else \ifnum\number\pdftexversion>119 \donetrue \fi \fi \ifdone \loadmapfile[original-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-ams-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-public-lm.map] \else \loadmapfile[original-base.map] \loadmapfile[texnansi-base.map] \loadmapfile[ec-base.map] \loadmapfile[qx-base.map] \loadmapfile[t5-base.map] %loadmapfile[il2-base.map] %loadmapfile[pl0-base.map] \loadmapfile[8r-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-ams-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-ams-euler.map] \loadmapfile[original-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[texnansi-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[ec-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[qx-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[t5-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[pl0-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[il2-public-lm.map] \fi ....... These codes let ConTeXt load the map files for pdftex, so psfonts.map is omitted by ConTeXt. As a result, we have two solutions to overcome this problem: 1. comment all the above codes, and let ConTeXt to read font maps via pdftex; 2. add a line "\loadmapfile[xxx.map]" to explicitly load the required map, just as we should do in the beginning of a tex file (Geert's solution). Hope the above information is useful for other ConTeXters. Shujun _________________________________________________________________ 与联机的朋友进行交流，请使用 MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn

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Beginner's font flop fixed: fantastic!
by Paul R Martin 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Dear ConTeXters, This message is to record my thanks to Thomas A.Schmitz for the solution to my font flop, and to Otared Kavian and Hans Hagen for helpful comments. I've planted the solution in the context garden at <http://contextgarden.net/Talk:My_Way>. If I hear voices of encouragement I could write up the solution as a My Way. Would this sort of problem be common enough to make such a document useful for beginners, or should I just get back to more important things such as finding out what a_foekepot_ looks like? Yours, PRM

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scaling symbols
by Janko Hauser 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hello I followed Adams nice way, to include unicode symbols. Now I want to ask, how these can be scaled, so that they can be used more like small figures. Any hints? TIA, __Janko Hauser

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\newbibfield[help!] : Very quick question.
by David Wooten 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Greetings all, In working with the bib module, I've been trying to understand the addition of a field. There is a "\newbibfield" command, but it is not entirely clear where to declare it. E.g., I want to have a field called "yearnote". If I place this in the list of commands in the t-bib.tex file, and call for it with "\insertyearnote" in the \setuppublicationlayout, it works perfectly. But declaring \newbibfield[yearnote] yields me an "undefined control sequence". Is there a special place to declare the latter? — I've tried in my current file, before and after \starttext, in the .bbl file, before and after \setuppublicationlist… no luck! Regards, David

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Antykwa torunska en oldstyle figures
by Willi Egger 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi, In the latest versions of the Antykwa Torunska fonts there are also oldstyle figures. Though I have no problem to get \os{3} typeset I am not able to have the date tpeset with oldstyle figures. How can I achieve that? \currentdate[dd,{.~},mm,{.~},year] KR Willi

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Re : My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by GEERT＠telefonica.net 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I had exactly the same problem today after updating from an older tetex/context to the latest version of tetex. Problem seems to be some modifications in pdftex. After moving my type1 fonts (that previously worked fine) with their tfm, afm and type1 files to the new $HOME/.texmf-var/fonts folder, putting the map files in $HOME/.texmf-var/fonts/map folder and including those mapfiles with updmap, texexec generated the pdf file with pk bitmap fonts. Although I believed that tex could find all necessary font files and mapfiles, it was only after explicitly adding \loadmapfile[myownfonts.map] in the tex file, that everything suddenly worked fine (this was not necessary in my old tetex/context setup). Don't know if this will work with your chinese fonts, but you could give it a try.... geert

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RE: [NTG-context] My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by Idris Samawi Hamid 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Recently I installed the latest stable version of ConTeXt under MiKTeX >(b20050215). >To use Chinese characters in ConTeXt, I installed some Chinese Type1 fonts >and related map/enc files. >However, I found "texexec --pdf foo.tex" cannot read Type1 Chinese fonts. >In this case, ConTeXt uses pk fonts (generated from ttf fonts), and finally >I got pdf files with very low quality. I use fpTeX, so I may be missing something... Question: Do you have both ttf and pfb versions of the same font? If so, try removing the ttf version (and refresh fndb). I think that it is much better to have separate map files for your add-on fonts, instead of adding them to psfonts.map (of course you will have to edit your dvips and dvipdfm configuration files as well if you do this). Make a dedicated map file for your font and place it in your local \fonts\map\pdftex\context. See, e.g., texnansi-urw-times.map for syntax. Refresh the fndb, and try again. If things still don't work, compile a very simple file that uses that font and send a copy of your log file to the list. Then somebody will be in a better position to determine what's wrong. A final possibility (but I'm not sure if this will work for Chinese or other non-Latin fonts): remove all reference to your font from your ConTeXt system (tfm's, map's, ttf's, pfb's, etc). See if texfont can install your font. Place the pfb's in a temporary directory and run texfont --ma --in --ve=<maker of your font> --co=<your typeface name> This should install the font for you, with proper map files, tfm's, etc. My only worry is that texfont may need some additional encoding information for Chinese. Don't give up! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Problem with the bib module (yeah, so what else is new)
by Nikolai Weibull 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

OK, another one of those "hey, the bib module has an issue"-kind of mails. The problem is that \bibdoif and its relatives don't work. They always evaluate to true. I have tried to figure out why this is so, but I'm just not good enough at reading TeX macros (yet). The main problem is that I want to do something like this for my \setuppublicationlist: \doglobal\newif\ifBIBLoutputbeforesurname \global\BIBLoutputbeforesurnamefalse \def\BIBLwholename#1#2#3#4#5% {\bibdoif{#1}{#1\unskip\bibalternative\c!firstnamesep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}% \bibdoif{#4}{#4\unskip\bibalternative\c!firstnamesep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}% \bibdoif{#2}{#2\unskip\bibalternative\c!vonsep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}% \ifBIBLoutputbeforesurname \else \unskip% \BIBLoutputbeforesurnamefalse% \fi #3\bibalternative\c!surnamesep% \bibdoif{#5}{#5\unskip}} The problem is that one can't have \author[]{}[]{}{Organization} without extra spaces appearing before the Organization. Another issue is that extra spaces occur between the first and last name in the \normalauthor style, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: minimalistic.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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