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textext() doesn't work on my MikTeX distr.
by Mojca Miklavec 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

The following example works on live@contextgarden, but on my computer it only writes "unknown" at the place of "x". btex etex also doesn't work in ConTeXt (metaplay) on my computer, although it does without any problems in metapost/mptopdf. \starttext \startMPpage draw textext.origin("x"); draw fullcircle scaled 2cm; \stopMPpage \stoptext I use the latest MikTeX distribution (although ConTeXt may not be really up-to-date, but that shouldn't be a problem, I suppose). It's probably just a matter of a single setting or so (it should be corrected in MikTeX as well if that's the case), but I don't know where to start looking. Thanks for help, Mojca Miklavec

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Re: [NTG-context] Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!gebied
by Thomas A.Schmitz 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Dear Hans and all, again, thanks for your help! Everything is working as it should now. After asking on the TeX on OSX mailing-list, I found out that there was an experimental installation that already contains pdftex 1.20a, so I upgraded. I changed texmf.cnf as you suggested to Christopher Creutzig yesterday, regenerated mapfiles, and everything's bright again. But I was sweating and cursing... If it hadn't been for a complete backup of my old TeX installation on my second hard drive and your wonderful help, I would have had a lot of serious troubles. I guess that's a general problem with TeX installations: originally, they were made for UNIX mainframes maintained by knowledgeable sys admins who would likely know how to cope with such a situation. Nowadays, I assume that the majority of TeX users sit in front of their own box, and even though I can do some things on the command line and have by now acquired a reasonabel amount of TeXpertise, I would have been absolutely helpless without you and Gerben's great installer. So you're absolutely right: downward compatibility is broken; it is difficult to make local changes without wiping the entire installation. That's what you get from being impatient... All best, and thanks Thomas On Oct 11, 2004, at 10:03 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > i'll try to keep texmfstart as compatibile as possible; there has been > a change in tds with regards to scripts (interestingly context was the > first to come with such scripts and the rule was to use /context/...); > when more package came with scripts tds was changed and now it's > /scripts/... ; the problem is that there is no strong urge to be > downward compatible (i tried to convince them in change but in vain) > and since kpsewhich now uses another --format directive for such > scripts, downward compatibility in my opinion is broken (all scripts > that somehow use kpse to determine what to run will fail from now on, > unless changed); so, this is why i cooked up texmfstart: it tries to > be clever in determining what to call. (You cannot imagine how much of > my local and project trees and scripts i had to adapt; a lot of wasted > time)

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Update to Pdfetex 1.20a
by Lutz Haseloff 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Hi Hans, Hi all, i tried to update pdfetex to 1.20a. I used the standalone version by Fabrice Popineau from: http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/ctan/systems/win32/fptex/standalone/ If pdfetex tries to insert a ttf-font i get an error-message: Windows complains: ... systems : end file test at line 6 )<c:\tex\texmf-local/fonts/truetype/chinese/htsong.ttf return code : 65280 run time : 2 seconds total run time : 2 seconds I run the latest stuff from pragma (binaries, context) under Win XP. The fonts are from ctex.org. My input file is: \loadmapfile[gbk] \usemodule[chinese] \usemodule[chi-simplified] \starttext \section{test} \stoptext Is this a bug in pdfetex? Greetings Lutz

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Re: [NTG-context] website
by Dirar BOUGATEF 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Thanks guys. I have updated it and it works. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Willi Egger <w.egger(a)boede.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] website Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:12:59 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([131.211.172.88]) by mc11-f35.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:16:14 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F8F512784;Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:14:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10810-01; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:14:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9477E1278F;Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C611278Bfor <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1])by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)with LMTP id 10458-09-3 for <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>;Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (unknown [194.109.24.32])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430E212784for <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (a80-126-172-1.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.126.172.1])by smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9BKD0K7074740for <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:01 +0200 (CEST)(envelope-from w.egger(a)boede.nl) X-Message-Info: EoYTbT2lH2OAcrXvajLQGnTfNQkERqUk X-Original-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Delivered-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Message-ID: <416AE94B.9020003(a)boede.nl> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <BAY12-F8GbFqTnrrXj700004788(a)hotmail.com> <416AE7A9.4030109(a)wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <416AE7A9.4030109(a)wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context.ntg.nl> List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>,<mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context> List-Post: <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl> List-Help: <mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>,<mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Return-Path: ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Oct 2004 20:16:15.0234 (UTC) FILETIME=[28E40620:01C4AFCF] Hi, Just because I fall in this trap myself. It is normally not enough to point with the browser to the given link. Because of caching you need to reload the web-site ... Willi Hans Hagen wrote: >Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Any one can tell me how to acess the new site. > > >just www.pragma-ade.com: watch the next/prev buttons > > >(in a few weeks some more features will go live) > >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 >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context <html><DIV>Dirar</DIV></html> _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.com/

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How to use the minimal Context distribution?
by Stefan Wachter 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Hi all, I tried to use the new minimal Context distribution under Windows. 1. I unpacked the file mswintex.zip.bz2. 2. I added the folder tex/texmf-mswin/bin to the path. 3. I tried to execute texexec. I got the the error message that the DLL tl80kpse.dll is not available. Does anyone know what I have to do? Thanks for your attention, --Stefan

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RE: [NTG-context] website
by Dirar BOUGATEF 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Hi, Any one can tell me how to acess the new site. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: [NTG-context] website Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:02:34 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([131.211.172.88]) by mc5-f14.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:03:11 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1164712789;Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:02:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04589-01; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:02:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3EFC1277B;Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:02:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20FD1277Afor <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:02:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1])by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)with LMTP id 04492-03-2 for <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>;Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:02:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B8F12777for <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:02:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl[212.84.128.85])by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP idi96F2VXI018737for <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:02:31 +0200 Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534)id E68A330D87; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:02:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191])by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15EA2EB3Bfor <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:02:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Message-Info: EoYTbT2lH2NG2UTl5wgY3TvaxcH8YffF X-Original-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Delivered-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Message-ID: <4164090A.30907(a)wxs.nl> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <20041005133913.GA7944(a)mnw.art.pl> <4163DCA6.7050203@wxs.nl><20041006125943.GA14442@mnw.art.pl> In-Reply-To: <20041006125943.GA14442(a)mnw.art.pl> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80rc3/509/Wed Sep 29 11:09:42 2004clamav-milter version 0.80c on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context.ntg.nl> List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>,<mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context> List-Post: <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl> List-Help: <mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>,<mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Return-Path: ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Oct 2004 15:03:11.0604 (UTC) FILETIME=[98E8CB40:01C4ABB5] Hi, I uploaded the new pragma website. There are still some flaws but .. later thi smonth (when i've installed the new web servers) i will enable remot eprocessing options (the example framework now provides html forms as well as pdf forms). 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context <html><DIV>Dirar</DIV></html> _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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[OT] compiling pdfTeX 1.2 on MacOS X
by Henning Hraban Ramm 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Hello together! I know, this is a bit OT, but... The latest beta of ConTeXt needs pdfTeX 1.20, and I'd like to use it but the latest pdfTeX doesn't compile completely on my Panther, I always get the following last words after some making and compiling: /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile "gcc -no-cpp-precomp" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../src/texk/kpathsea -I.. -I../../../src/texk/kpathsea/.. -g -O2 -DMAKE_KPSE_DLL -c ../../../src/texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c "gcc -no-cpp-precomp" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../src/texk/kpathsea -I.. -I../../../src/texk/kpathsea/.. -g -O2 -DMAKE_KPSE_DLL -c ../../../src/texk/kpathsea/tex-file.c -o tex-file.o ../libtool: line 1: gcc -no-cpp-precomp: command not found make[1]: *** [tex-file.lo] Error 1 make: *** [../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la] Error 2 I don't speak C, so I don't understand if it tells that "gcc -no-cpp-precomp" is wrong (can't be, it works anywhere) or that libtool is wrong or what? BTW: Is there any reason why sarovar.org is not reachable so often? Now I got 1.20a from http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdftex/ Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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Font sizes.
by Dirar Bougatef 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Hi, I have 2 questions: 1. When you say something like : \definebodyfont[10pt][rm][tfe=lbr at 36pt] Do i have to provide the 36pts font files at first and install them or does context adapt a font file with another size to the 36pt size ? 2. I have installed a font which i got with a .pfb and a .afm file. When i make the following calls: \pdfmapfile{+texnansi-rubicon-karatmedium.map} \font\Myfont=texnansi-raw-KAMN \setupbodyfont[Myfont] \starttext This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \stoptext Which size is going to be displayed ? Thanks. Dirar.

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Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!gebied
by Thomas A.Schmitz 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

OK, I tried several things to fix the error "Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!gebied," but it persists. I wiped out my entire texmf.local tree and started from scratch because I thought the c!gebied was residing in some older file that ha dnot been overwritten. But even starting from scratch wouldn't amend the situation; after regenerating the format, I get the same error. However, grepping for "c!gebied" in the newly created tree gives only this result: grep -r 'c!gebied' ./* ./tex/context/base/cont-sys.ori:% \setupexternalfigures [\c!gebied={e:/fig/eps,t:/mine/figs}] ./tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme:% \setupexternalfigures [\c!gebied={e:/fig/eps,t:/mine/figs}] So this shouldn't be the problem since these two lines in cont-sys.rme are commented out. Does anybody have an idea where the error is coming from? There must be some old config file re-introducing it into the format file, but I can't seem to find it. Baffled Thomas

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cygwin/tetex or miktex?
by rb 11 Oct '04

11 Oct '04

Is one of these two preferable when running ConTeXt on windows? Thank you --

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