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hyphenation mess
by Hans Hagen 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi, When generating new minimal trees, i found out that the us patterns are now again in hyphen.tex and the uk patterns also got a new name. It is a that the naming of pattern files is a mess, and that some pattern files are not in the right spot, and things are not improving. The fact that this is solved with the fuzzy aliasses mechanism in web2c does not help, since this is implementation dependent and makes the texmf tree not sharable. I'll try to catch the new names in the next version, and in the meantime start wondering if it makes sense to add consistently names and structured hyphenation files to the context distribution. [similar things are happening with fonts and related enc files; the next release of context [alpha first] will be pure latin modern based and my guess is that it will take a while till lm support migrates into distributions, so i will put a zip with the font files needed alongside the context zip] 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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Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 8, Issue 4
by Fei He 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Taco, Thanks so much for the help. Seems MikTex hasnot updated the context package yet. So, I just download the m-bib.zip from your web again with 08/30/04 version. It works again..wow... it is great! Cheers, Fei > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:48:24 -0500 > From: Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] some bib module questions > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: <4200DA28.1090700(a)elvenkind.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Fei He wrote: > > Hello Taco, > > > > Thanks for the help. The instructions you gave worked briefly for a > > few days. Some weird things happened after I re-installed my miktex > > and updated the context to the newest version (01/20/05). > > You should fetch the latest version, again. The context versions from > januari until 2005.01.31 had a major bug in \placepublications so > that it only worked with if there is precisely one \cite command. > > > Context seems more complicated than Latex. > > Perhaps true. But please remember that bibliographies are new to > ConTeXt, whereas they have been in LaTeX from the early beginnings > (and that we use a LaTeX-specific database processor bibTeX doesn't > help either). > > Greetings, Taco >

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texsync
by Matthew Huggett 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi, A question about the texsync script: running ruby -S texsync.rb --force --list gives me TeXSync | TeXSync | fetching list of trees from 'www.pragma-ade.com' rsync: failed to connect to www.pragma-ade.com: Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/clientserver.c(94) TeXSync | available trees: TeXSync | TeXSync | I've read the texsync manual but I'm not sure what else I have to do with rsync to get a connection to Pragma-ade. I'm running rsync under Cygwin on WinXP. I'd be grateful for any pointers. regards, Matt

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consequences of recent update
by mickle＠panix.com 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

I recently upgraded my ConTeXt, which is calling for an updated pdftex as well: % texexec test-4.tex Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 344. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 348. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 348. TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : test-4 output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./test-4.tex{/usr/freeware/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.26 fmt: 2005.1.30 int: english mes: english systems : pdfTeX version 110 -> please update systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) I downloaded pdftex 1.20b and tried to build from source, but no matter what syntax I try, whether as root or as an ordinary user, I fail to get pdftex to recognize the main texmf tree: I'm doing % ./Build --datadir=/usr/freeware/share and I get configure: warning: The main texmf tree was not found at /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf. ***************************************************************** * Error: The main texmf tree was not found. * * Use the --datadir option to specify its parent directory. * * If you do not have the files, you should be able to them from * * the same place you got these sources from, or from one of the * * CTAN hosts. * ***************************************************************** Winging it by pretending /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf is correct. so pdftex is configured --without-[pretty much everything] I posted to the pdftex ml a few days ago, but, I guess, not being a subscriber, messages are not posted to the list, so I thought to ask here. My ConTeXt is in my ~/texmf tree, and if it's possible not to install an entirely new tex system, that would be preferable. Also, the are the "Use of unitialized string value..." messages related to this problem?. I had difficulties when trying to update ConTeXt about a month ago because of the old perl that was on my system, so I've recently updated to 5.8. Thanks very much for any suggestions, Peter --

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Context 2005.01.31 & Vietnamese UTF-8: lossing characters
by VnPenguin 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi Hans & all, Just update to 2005.01.31 for my tetex-2.99.11. I do step by step following minstall.pdf. A simple test with vietnamese utf-8 encoding shows me that a lot of characters were missing: \ahook \abrevehook \acircumflexhook \ocircumflexhook .... See the comparing page : http://nguyendai.org/pub/compare.html Pdflatex + Unicode package give me all characters correctly. The sources, PDF are available at http://nguyendai.org/pub/ I don't know if I'm wrong some things when updating context ? Thank you, Quy NGUYEN DAI

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Displayed math--vertical space
by David Antos 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello, I started to typeset real math in ConTeXt :-) and the following issue occurred in vertical positioning. I know about start/stopformula, nevertheless I suppose that good old $$ should work, too. \starttext A short line followed by a formula $$\bigcup_{1\le n}$$ a text follows in the same paragraph. The big cup is too close to the text. If a displayed formula has enough text above $$\bigcup_{1\le n}$$ the problem does not appear at all. The vertical space around the formula is very nice here. The only difference is whether the line above the formula goes more to the right than the beginning the formula. \stoptext Thanks, D.A. -- Jim Hacker: "Would you be surprised, for instance, if a British aircraft carrier turned up in the Central African Republic?" Sir Humphrey: "Well, I for one, Minister, would be very surprised; it's a 1,000 miles inland." -- Yes, Minister (The Whisky Priest)

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ConTeXt 31 jan 2005
by Taco Hoekwater 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi, There are (new (new (new))) context release note pages at the wiki, For this: Context 2005.01.31: * Unicode support for Cyrillic and Greek updates * Hebrew support * a few bugfixes Context 2005.01.26 * lots of extra functionality added to CtxTools (v 1.2.0 now): --purgefiles, --documentation, --filterpages (all from texutil originally); and better commandline help * a few bugfixes Context 2005.01.24 * TeXExec version 5.2.4 supports --pdftrim * Per-description setting of variables * Switch to latin modern fonts instead of cmr + various local versions * Support for the qx encoding * The base35 postscript fonts are now avialable by default * An extension for symbols that allows fetching one symbol in a collection directly. * A hook in the list setups to make use of that change * bugfixes Further details at the wiki: http://contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Greetings, Taco

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texshow problem after update
by Peter Münster 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello, texshow is no more working on my system after update. Here is the output: TeXShow-XML 0.2 beta / Taco Hoekwater 2004 interface : cont-en status : searching for setup files error : setup files not found error : no setup files found Versions of the other programs: TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.20c-beta-20050121-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.01.13 cont-en : ver: 2005.01.13 fmt: 2005.1.25 mes: english TIA for any help! Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Russia (cyrillic letters)
by Mikael Persson 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hello everybody. I am looking for a way of writing some home exercises in my Russian course in ConTeXt. However, so far I have not succeed with it. Should it work out of the box without installing any new fonts (I am having the fonts from a full install of TeXLive2003 now)? I have looked a bit in the source files for context, but with no luck. I guess there are different ways to achieve this, however, since I also want some swedish text in the same documents, the best would probably be if one of the following options worked: 1) Typing everything in utf8, and get the different languages automatically when compiling. 2) Typing everything with western letters, having some kind of \startrussia Boris \stoprussia and get Boris typeset with Cyrillic letters. Any tips/hints are welcome, Best regards, Micke P

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TeX control sequence inside XML param
by Vit Zyka 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Hallo, it is possible to use TeX control sequence inside XML param? How? Example: <figure file="file.pdf" width=".45\textwidth" /> ^^^^^^^^^^ \defineXMLenvironment[figure][file=,width=] {} {\externalfigure[\XMLop{file}][width=\XMLop{width}]} Thank you Vit Zyka ---------------------------------------------- Error message (from a bit complex source): ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \texescape \XML:ent:tex-backslash ...kslash \else \texescape \fi \param:1 ->width=.45\getXMLentity {tex-backslash} textwidth \getvalue #1->\csname #1 \endcsname \calculateexternalfigure ...guresvg #1[#4][#5][#6] \doifsomething \@@efmaxwid... <argument> ...dummy ][\filewithpath ][\param ][][] \calculateexternalscreenfi...

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