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RE: [NTG-context] 5 major problems with mswincontext.zip
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >> 1. Zapf Chancery has disappeared (the other free fonts in showfonts.pdf still >> work): >strange indeed, it looks like the files are corrupted (very small tfm/vf files); > you can regenerate the metrics with: > >texmfstart texfont.pl type-tmf.dat --en=texnansi --ven=urw -col=zapfchan ok, it works now:-) Thnx Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Chapter numbers in the right margin
by Randall Skelton 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi all, Does anyone have a setuphead snipit and definition to place a large chapter number in the right margin of the page on the first page of each chapter? I believe this should be similar (but simplier) than what is done in 'ConTeXt an Excursion' but I wasn't able to find a definition for that. I'd be quite willing to put this up on the wiki when I figure it out... What I have so far doesn't really lead to much flexibility in terms of positioning. I'd like to be able to set both the horizontal and vertical position of the chapter number. I'd also like to have the number shift vertically downwards for each new chapter. \def\MyChapterText#1{#1 \inright{ \switchtobodyfont[MyTitling, 72pt] \rm \headnumber[chapter] } } \setuphead [Topic, chapter] [textcommand=\MyChapterText, style={\switchtobodyfont[MyTitling, 16pt]\sc}, color=black, number=no, page=right, continue=no, header=empty, before=\vbox to 4cm\bgroup, after=\vss\egroup] Many thanks, Randall

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5 major problems with mswincontext.zip
by ishamid 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Dear conglomerate, Ok, I've installed mswincontext.zip, dated 3-16, refreshed fndb, set UseEnginePath to true and so forth. 4 Problems: 1. Zapf Chancery has disappeared (the other free fonts in showfonts.pdf still work): ========================== \definetypeface [zapf] [cg] [calligraphy] [chancery] \switchtotypeface [zapf] [12pt,cg] Zapf Chancery \input tufte.tex ========================== Log file: =========================== This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) (format=cont-en 2005.3.21) 21 MAR 2005 17:38 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) **&pdfetex/cont-en typescripts2.tex (./typescripts2.tex <snip> (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-buy.tex) Missing character: There is no Z in font texnansi-uzcmi8a! Missing character: There is no a in font texnansi-uzcmi8a! <snip> Missing character: There is no . in font texnansi-uzcmi8a! ) fonts : using map file: texnansi-base fonts : using map file: texnansi-urw-zapfchan [1.1 Warning: pdfetex.exe (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file <snip> =========================== 2. aleph is still searching its format in the wrong directory; its format is properly installed in \texmf-mswin/web2c/aleph/ =========================== This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force ---! c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex =========================== 3. If I replace the pdfetex format with aleph.fmt, the latter works. It copiles fine on the following file, but neither dvips, odvips, or dvipdfm can find the fonts: =========================== % output=aleph interface=en \starttext Latin Modern \input tufte \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [times] [12pt,rm] Times \input tufte.tex \stoptext =========================== Also, aleph displays the strange "HASH" message: =========================== TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 Opt=HASH(0x1c44160) executable : aleph =========================== 4. That trick with the footnotes and endnotes is interesting, but the endnotes still spill over the page (I double-checked that core-not was replaced and the format regenerated): =========================== % output=pdftex interface=en \starttext \dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{test} \endnote{eee}\endgraf} \page \placenotes[endnote] \stoptext =========================== 5. I'm still concerned about getting ConTeXt to search my old \TeXLive tree secondarily. changing C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf does not seem to do anything (sigh ) == I really hope I can get everything working soon, because I've lost about a week's worth of deadlined writing fooling around with configuring ConTeXt (which is exactly what I was afraid would happen):-( Thnx in advance, and forgive my frustration-) Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Bold item separator?
by dw＠trichotomic.net 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Greetings, I can't seem to get an itemize list to have bold item separators, namely the "R" — UC Roman Numeral series. I bet it's really obvious *grinding teeth*. Anyone give me a clue? Regards, David

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hi Adam, Adam Lindsay <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote: > Okay, it was trickier than I thought. > But I used the .afm obtained from FontForge conversion, and discarded > the .pfb. > > afm2pl -p `kpsewhich texnansi.enc` HelveticaNeue.afm > pltotf HelveticaNeue > > Because I'm impatient, and wanted a quick test: > \loadmapline[+HelveticaNeue HelveticaNeue " TeXnANSIEncoding > ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <HelveticaNeue.ttf] > \starttext > \definedfont[HelveticaNeue] > TAVAT.Po > T{}A{}V{}A{}T{}.{}P{}o > \stoptext Your result looks promising - but duplicating your way showed me my command line limits: $ afm2pl -p `kpsewhich texnansi.enc` HelveticaNeue.afm afm2pl: fatal: default.lig not found. $ pltotf HelveticaNeue pltotf: HelveticaNeue.pl: No such file or directory As I have never used afm2pl or pltotf the usage above is praobably wrong. Or was my Fontforge export bad? (When I open the AFM exported by FontForge there are no entries for KerningPairs ...) And looking at your test file: where are your ttf and other files in this situation? Steffen

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bug in latest ConTeX
by ishamid 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Dear gang, There is a bug in the latest ConTeXt that affects aleph, particularly \pardir TRT. Needless to say this is an absolute showstopper... Try this: =========================== \pardir TLT test \bye =========================== $>aleph test works fine, but $>texexec --tex=aleph test gives an error: =========================== This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force entering extended mode (test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.21 int: english mes: english systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex color : palette rollover is available ) system : cont-old loaded (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:2 uk->ec:ec->2->2:2 de->texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:2 de->ec:ec->4->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:2 fr->ec:ec->6->2:2 es->ec:ec->7->2:2 pt->ec:ec->8->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->9->2:2 it->ec:ec->1 0->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->11->2:2 nl->ec:ec->12->2:2 cz->il2:il2->13->2:2 c z->ec:ec->14->2:2 sk->il2:il2->15->2:2 sk->ec:ec->16->2:2 pl->pl0:pl0->17->2:2 pl->ec:ec->18->2:2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : test.top loaded (./test.top) ! Undefined control sequence. \pardir #1#2#3->\global \TeXXeTstate \plusone \if #2L\chardef \inlinedirecti... l.1 \pardir TLT =========================== Two more notes: 1. There is a complaint that : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) 2. There is no aleph.ini file in mswincontext so I had to import it from \TeXLive to make the format. Also manfnt is missing in mswincontext; should not the minimal context installation also support the plain format? Thnx as always Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Adam Lindsay <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote: > It means that there's no \omacron in texnansi (or the other major > western encodings used for TeX fonts), and you're asking ConTeXt to > synthesise it from an 'o' and a 'textmacron'. It wouldn't surprise me > one bit to hear that the Mac handles combining accents differently from > TeX, and so the converted font's metrics is going to result in mistakes > in building text accents. > > Interpretation: you're using artificial test cases to verify the font > installation. Stick to what you need and know, and you'll probably end > up with a character in the encoding. No! I do need \omacron as I am typesetting the German translation of a Indian Yoga book ... with lots of Sanskrit (in latin alphabet plus all those diacritical accents)! > If you do need \omacron and the like, then you could hand-tune macros > that accommodate the specific font--see Idris's recent thread on > accents, or you could cook up an "expert" encoding (since MacOSX's > Helvetica does include that character) like Vit, and switch to that > encoding when you need the character, or you could even go with a big > unicode font install. I'll be documenting that process sometime. That would be quite interesting. (But for now I leave this workshop and use the HelveticaNeue to go on.) Thank you, Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Adam Lindsay <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote: > Hum. I haven't tried to replicate that here, but that looks like it > might be an encoding problem: ConTeXt doesn't know that you're using a > texnansi encoding, so it synthesises the characters using the > definitions in enco-def. Is the above file the only way you tested it? No, also with other conversion and in other files it is the same. > Does this help? > > \loadmapline[+Helvetica Helvetica " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " > <texnansi.enc <Helvetica.pfb] > \definefontsynonym[texnansi-Helvetica][Helvetica][encoding=texnansi] > > \starttext > \definedfont[texnansi-Helvetica] > R\d{o} R{\=o} R\~o > \stoptext Well, then the tilde moves in its right position. But the macron stays left. A font wizard knows what that means?! Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hallo Adam, Adam Lindsay <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote: > ...which I copied to the working directory. It should be included in > gwTeX. > > Running the command above should do it. > > > $ pltotf HelveticaNeue > > pltotf: HelveticaNeue.pl: No such file or directory > > The fatal error above didn't generate a .pl file, so the next command > wasn't able to use it. > > > As I have never used afm2pl or pltotf the usage above is praobably > > wrong. > > Or was my Fontforge export bad? > > > > And looking at your test file: where are your ttf and other files in > > this situation? > > > All in the working directory. I could then rename, put them in the > tex/fonts/ tree, and rehash, but that's it down to the essence. > > Here's another goodie: > ... Now it works. Very nice and clear ways to get it. But both goodies don't work with OSX's Helvetica.dfont If you try it with the .ttf you'll get: Error: pdfetex (file Helvetica.ttf): can't find table `OS/2' ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! And if instead you use the .pfb then you'll get the misplaced macrons and tildes that I've reported. Just try this: \loadmapline[+Helvetica Helvetica " TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont " <texnansi.enc <Helvetica.pfb] \starttext \definedfont[Helvetica] TAVAT.Po T{}A{}V{}A{}T{}.{}P{}o \showfont[Helvetica] R\d{o} R{\=o} R\~o \page\showcharacters \stoptext I know the HelveticaNeue is more beautiful ... but nevertheless it would be interesting why there is the above error (and how it can be solved). Thanks for your help and support! Steffen

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how to use Times Roman font
by Xue Ruini 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hello everyone, I am a newbie to ConTeXt. I have no idea how to use the Times Roman font in ConTeXt. (in Latex, just \usepackage{times}) I found something like this: (http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html) % Times font \usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r] \setupbodyfont[pos] \starttext hellow, world \stoptext but an error occours: --------------------------------------------- kpathsea: Running mktexmf utmr8t ! I can't find file `utmr8t'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input utmr8t Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input utmr8t Transcript written on mfput.log. mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input utmr8t' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=utmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.2 \setupbodyfont[pos] ? ---------------------------------------------- I want to know what I can do with it. Thanks! Leo

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