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Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout
by Duncan Hothersall 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

I appreciate the effort you've put into this, Paul, but > "This primary audience for this page is XML authors who want to use > ConTeXt to format an XML document." is still not enough of a disclaimer. I use ConTeXt as part of a large XML-based workflow, but don't use TeXML (nor do I use much of the built-in parser, except for MathML processing). There are very many ways to integrate ConTeXt into XML work, and it needs to be clear that this is just one of them. It is entirely worthwhile documenting it though, and thanks for doing that. [In case anyone is interested, we use a (commercial) programming language called OmniMark to process DocBook-based XML into pure ConTeXt + MathML, and then let ConTeXt produce pages from it. We also use OmniMark directly to produce HTML and databases from the same XML sources.] Duncan

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How to use Times Roman font for body text.
by R S Ananda Murthy 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Hello, How to use Times Roman font for body text? Thanks for your help, Anand

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OT: looking for metapost/fun examples
by Gerben Wierda 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

I am trying to learn metapost/fun, inline in ConTeXt source. Some basic things are clear, but now the issue is metapost itself. For instance, I would like to plot a Fourier approximation of a block function. For instance, I would like to plot a gaussian spread. I am looking for examples on how to do this. I need to do a bit of programming here and these are my initial projects. Thanks in advance, G

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RE: [NTG-context] meaning of HASH?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> ===== >ishamid wrote: >> Dear crew, >> >> Sometimes a line like >> >> Opt=HASH(0x1c43ab4) executable : pdfetex > > > > is appended before a texexec job; what does this mean? > >It looks like a perl debug print statement, because >something like > > print STDERR "Opt=$Opt" ; # check value of $Opt > >would give this effect. Thnx 4 the explanation Does the appearance of this indicate some misconfiguration that I should be concerned about, or is it completely benign? Thnx Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] extra_mem_bot.context
by ishamid 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> ===== >>This is a note for aleph users. In _both_ texmf.cnf files that come with the >>full ConTeXt distribution, you must comment the line >> >>%extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000 >>[\texmf\web2c, line 503] >> >>%extra_mem_bot.context = 2000000 >>[\texmf-local\web2c, line140] >> >>otherwise aleph will crash upon over/underfull >>boxes. >> >>This has actually been noted before; I don't know/remember if a solution was >>ever found. > >Now that's interesting. > >That same bug was plaguing XeTeX versions through 0.88. Jonathan Kew >tracked it down and quashed it. It's a little surprising that the same >thing appeared in e-Omega, as well. Perhaps Jonathan can help you track >it down. (And perhaps kill the bug at a common source?) This is wonderful news! Although, unless someone else can dive into the aleph code we will have to wait for Giuseppe to return from the purgatory of writing his doctoral dissertation (soon I hope->)... Any ideas for a workaround in the meantime? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] lmr (texnansi vs ec)
by ishamid 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Vit Zyka <vit.zyka(a)seznam.cz> ===== >ishamid wrote: >> Dear gang, >> >> Why does lmr in ConTeXt use the ec instead of the texnansi encoding? I just >> noticed that all of my macros that use, e.g., >> >> \char'25 > >lmr is defined for both ec and texnansi encodings (and even for qx). But >ec is default. Use > \usetypescript[latin-modern][texnansi] > \setupbodyfont[latin-modern] Ok; it just seems strange that texnansi is not the default, since that's closer to Knuth's original. Maybe its because I (like Knuth) am in America where we don't have accents-) >Ishamid, \char is wrong approach since it is encoding-dependent >definition. Use glyph name instead, like \endash, \Aacute. Are those names defined in Plain TeX? But that's a good idea anyway; I'll just depend on the ConTeXt framework. >But ... your glyph number 25 is not defined in the texnansi. So what it is? TeXBook, page 427, character '025 (in ec, \char'10 or \textbreve) Best and Thnx! Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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meaning of HASH?
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear crew, Sometimes a line like Opt=HASH(0x1c43ab4) executable : pdfetex is appended before a texexec job; what does this mean? Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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extra_mem_bot.context
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear musketeers, This is a note for aleph users. In _both_ texmf.cnf files that come with the full ConTeXt distribution, you must comment the line %extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000 [\texmf\web2c, line 503] %extra_mem_bot.context = 2000000 [\texmf-local\web2c, line140] otherwise aleph will crash upon over/underfull boxes. This has actually been noted before; I don't know/remember if a solution was ever found. Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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\= in tables
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear cartel, \= does not work in tables (I think that the TABLE macros define \= differently; why on earth would someone do that?!?). Is there a workaround? Idris =========================== % output=pdf interface=en \starttext \setupinterlinespace \setupfloats[location=center] \placetable [here][tab:test]{Test.} \starttable{|c|c|} \HL \VL macron ({\=a}) \VL accents ({\=a}) \VL\FR \HL \VL do not ({\=a}) \VL work ({\=a})\VL\NR \HL \VL in ({\=a}) \VL tables ({\=a}) \VL\LR \HL \stoptable \stoptext =========================== log: =========================== systems : begin file test4 at line 3 ! Misplaced \omit. \!ttLongHrule ->\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule l.11 \VL macron ({\= a}) \VL accents ({\=i}) \VL\FR =========================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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hyper interactions
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear syndicate, Are hyper interactions now restricted to pdfetex's pdf engine? Hyperlinks do not work in pdf produced by dvipdfmx, for either aleph of pdfetex dvi output. Idris =========================== % output=dvi interface=en \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=darkgreen] \starttext \chapter[ch-test]{Test} \in[sc-test]\input tufte \page \section[sc-test]{Test} \in[ch-test]\input tufte \stoptext =========================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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