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RE: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt and Aleph
by ishamid 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Hi >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> >Then I tried the steps Idris recommend once: > >> eomega --ini *plain \dump >> eomega --ini *cont-en >> texexec --make en -tex=eomega >> >> are the relevant commands. eomega _is_ aleph. I'm sure of course that you replaced `eomega' with `aleph';-) There should be no need to add aleph.exe to your path if you just refresh the fndb, which I'm sure u did also;-)) (I don't know about MacOSX but TeXLive contains a shortcut to that command in Programs=>TeXLive=>Maintanence). I (or Hans) will send you the stuff Hans sent me if all else fails: that will work for sure. Best Idris

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RE: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt and Aleph
by ishamid 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

>There should be no need to add aleph.exe to your path if you just refresh the >fndb, Assuming of course that u put aleph.exe in TeXLive/bin or somewhere similar Idris

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt and Aleph
by Giuseppe Bilotta 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Thursday, September 16, 2004 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Der Befehl "aleph" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder > konnte nicht gefunden werden. > [the command "aleph" is either misspelled or could not be found] > Der Befehl "cont-en" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder > konnte nicht gefunden werden. > [the command "cont-en" is either misspelled or could not be found] It just seems that aleph.exe is not in a folder accessed by your PATH. Since you're using WinXP, right-click on My Computer, select Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables; add the path to aleph into the PATH settings. Reboot to make sure the changes stick, and try again. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Re: ConTeXt and Aleph
by Steffen Wolfrum 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Hi, in order to use Aleph in ConTeXt I switched from MacOSX to WinXP. I installed fptex from the latest TeXLive CD (Sept.2003) installed the recent ConTeXt beta in my local tree, installed also the latest (?) Aleph version from CTAN ("bin-aleph-1.15--2.2--RC2-win32-static.zip") in the main tree and followed the steps Hans once wrote here: > texexec --make --alone --tex=aleph > > texexec yourfile --tex=aleph --output=dpx > > (or first line of file: % tex=aleph output=dvipdfmx) > > > Hans The result was not working: *** TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : aleph format : cont-en inputfile : alephtest1 output : dvipdfmx interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 Der Befehl "aleph" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden. [the command "aleph" is either misspelled or could not be found] Der Befehl "cont-en" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder konnte nicht gefunden werden. [the command "cont-en" is either misspelled or could not be found] return code : 256 run time : 0 seconds total run time : 0 seconds *** Then I tried the steps Idris recommend once: > eomega --ini *plain \dump > eomega --ini *cont-en > texexec --make en -tex=eomega > > are the relevant commands. eomega _is_ aleph. > > ... > > Idris The result was the same error output as above. Could someone who has Aleph successfully running tell me his/her secret, please? Thank you, Steffen

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what fonts I have in my systems?
by ciro 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Is there a set of commands to know what fonts I have in my installation of context? and How do I show them all together without going one by one in the subdirectories... thank you Ciro

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Installatie ConTeXt hapert
by Mike Boldy 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Beste ConTeXt-ers, Ik ben bezig met de installatie van ConTeXt. Ik maak gebruik van MiKTeX op een windows machine. De zip-bestanden zijn uitgepakt, PERL is geinstalleerd, texexec.ini is aangepast op MiKTeX. Nu ben ik zover dat ik formats moet maken met "texexec --make en nl", maar dat lukt niet. De log-file eindigt als volgt: ... ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=470502]. @if ...pandafter if@ string #1#2endcsname newif ...er expandafter edef @if #1{false} {let noexpand #1noexpand if... l.1164 \newif\ifXMLsimpleentities % last resort If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. Weet iemand wat er mis gaat? Overigens, als ik "texexec --make" doe wordt er wel een format aangemaakt, maar dan alleen "mptopdf.efmt". Mike Boldy _________________________________________________________________ Ontvang Hotmail & Messenger op je mobiele telefoon http://mobile.msn.com/?lc=nl-nl

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Placing figure inside a table cell, centered
by Eugene Toporov 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Hello, I'm doing a quest. What I intend to do is a table (using Natural Tables) where one of the columns contains a small icon centered within the cell with no other data there. My table looks like this: \bTABLE \bTR \bTH Operation\eTH \bTH[align=middle] Result\eTH \eTR \bTR \bTD HelloWorld! \eTD \bTD[align=middle] \externalfigure[checkbox] \eTD \eTR \eTABLE "align=middle" for TD gives the expected result for the text, but not for the image. I've managed to center the image using \midaligned command, like below. But the table columns width in this case is set to 50% each. And the only way I found is to add [width=50pt] to each cell. \bTABLE \bTR \bTH Operation\eTH \bTH[align=middle][width=50pt] Result\eTH \eTR \bTR \bTD HelloWorld! \eTD \bTD[width=50pt] \midaligned {\externalfigure[checkbox]} \eTD \eTR \eTABLE I'm afraid I make things too complicated. Is there a simpler way to do what I need? Thanks a lot. -- Regards. Eugene Toporov

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externalfigure
by Jan-Mark Batke 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Dear list, using mptopdf externalfigure "nue-logo-1.jpg" scaled 10; results in a figure that doesn't retain the original image ratio. The hints given on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Using_Graphics would be what I want, but don't work in metapost?! Any help would be appreciated Jan-Mark

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patterns
by Hans Hagen Outside 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

Hi, The last few years we have encountered problems with changes in pattern files and names (dutch was dropped, czech was invalid, and us filenames also changed in undocumented ways). To get a bit more control over this can of worms, we need a test file that can be added to the tex live test suite. So, what i need is for each language a couple of words that hyphenate in unique ways (i.e. they must hyphenate differently than related languages) \language[xx] \hyphenatedword{..} can be used to test 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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CMAP and IL2 encoding
by Vit Zyka 15 Sep '04

15 Sep '04

Nice Sunday evening Hans, I played with ToUnicode resource (for correct copy&paste and search opperation in PDF). I noticed a package cmap.sty was done by Mr. Volovich for LaTeX a year ago; I did one (cmap.tex) for plain TeX yesterday and started to be interested in the situation in ConTeXt. No wonder you did it 4 years ago. But I met some minor problems: 1) if you run example file \useencoding[pfr] \setupbodyfont[csr] \starttext test \`z \'z \bf test \sl test \bs quite funny \`z \page test \`z \'z \bf test \sl test \bs quite funny \`z \page \stoptext you obtain /ToUnicode resource ONLY for first roman variant. It is due to a condition in the file enco-pfr.tex \def\doincludepdffontresource {\ifcsname\s!ucmap\fontfile\endcsname\else \dodoincludepdffontresource \fi} The condition is correct but the \fontfile is not changed when \bf, \it, etc. is used (it is still cscsc10 (?)). Might you look at a proper \fontfile definition? 2) Technical note: in ConTeXt the il2 encoding is defined. But the definition is not ISO-8859-2 (Latin 2, IL2) encoding sharp. The definition is CS font encoding (IL2cs or 8z). It is derived from il2 but it differ in 49 positions (!). For usage in Czech or Slovac languages it causes no problem but what if somebody will want to use a proper il2 font? If you want I can prepare both IL2 and (a bit richer) il2cs (8z?) enco-??.tex files. 3) File pdfr-il2.tex with CMAP definition is proper IL2 mapping. So now we combine IL2 CMAP mapping with IL2cs ConTeXt encoding. It is nosence. Suggested solution: use csr fonts with new IL2cs encoding and create new pdfr-il2cs.tex. 4) Definitions of CMAP encodings are stored in pdfr-??.tex files - it means in TeX format. But the common way is to be a stand-alone PS file, see attachement. Now I know about 5 files from Mr. Volovich (Cork, 3 russian, vietnamese) and two from me (IL2, IL2cs). Such file can be easily included by \pdfobj stream file {} mechanism. Question: I can prepare pdfr-il2cs.tex but is it not better to use more standard stand-alone files in ConTeXt? Vit Zyka

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