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Help: Context update problem
by Fei He 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Hello folks, I ran into this strange problem today. First, I was trying to use Chinese in Context. After I generated those font files, it occurred to me that I might want to run: texexec --make. However, I got the following error message: C:\localtexmf\tex\context\base\font-uni.tex loading: context font macros / UNICODE Support system (E-TEX): [line 423] \protected ! Undefined control sequence. Naturally, I thought it might help by updating context again. But no luck. Still run into the same problem. The font-uni.tex file is untouched whatsoever. Does it have something to do with the Chinese font? Thanks a lot in advance!! Best, Fei

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runaway argument context(mswintex)
by Julian Haworth 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Hi I have downloaded the minimal mswin distribution of context and set it up. I get a runaway argument once \tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex has been loaded, see below. Is this normal? Previously I had been trying to set up the current version of MiKTeX to work with context, this since the end of November. I had it working before but it ran out of capacity when imposing an 11000 word document -- not very impressive. Trying to improve things just broke it. I used MiKTeX because WinEdt answered my needs, however if I can get the pragma-ade minimal tex distribution working correctly is it possible to integrate WinEdt. Thanks for your interest, please save me from Pagemaker 7.0. This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) (format=cont-en 2005.1.29) 29 JAN 2005 17:24 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. (f:\tex\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) **&cont-en hello.tex (./hello.tex ConTeXt ver: 2004.12.06 fmt: 2005.1.29 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! color : palette rollover is available system (E-TEX) : [line 1083] system (E-TEX) : [line 1138] ) system : cont-old loaded (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->default:default->1->2:2 uk->default:default->2->2 :2 de->texnansi:texnansi->3->2:2 de->ec:ec->4->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2: 2 fr->ec:ec->6->2:2 es->default:default->7->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:2 i t->ec:ec->9->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->10->2:2 nl->ec:ec->11->2:2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `hello.tui'. system : hello.top loaded (./hello.top specials : loading definition file tpd (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (f:\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 2255] \ifcsname <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) Runaway argument? \c!directory ={\setupsystem [\c!n =1] \setupsystem [inputfile=hello.t\ETC. ! File ended while scanning use of \dosetupsystem. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> \relax \dodoreadfile ...normalinput \readfilename \relax \the \everyafterreadfile <everyjob> ...file \openutilities \loadoptionfile \checknotes \initializeMPg... l.1 \starttext ? -- yours Julian Haworth portfolio site http://www.julianhaworth.net WIRE | Mental Health News on the Web http://www.machineanswering.me.uk/wire

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pdfeTeX crashes
by Mojca Miklavec 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

I have MikTeX still installed and I downloaded context/install/mswincontext.zip (6.12.04) as well (I compile ConTeXt sources with "F7" within scite). The latter started to behave strange just "in the middle of the black". I have a document with 30 sites and about 3MB (some high resolution images) which worked just fine until some point. After 10 minutes pdfeTeX started crashing (and asking if the problem should be reported to Microsoft). If I compile the same document under MikTeX, it works just fine (except that I can't use \setupbodyfont[phv,ss,14.4pt] command). If I compile the document in some other directory (with no images) it works as well. Even more strange: after removing font definitions (both \setupbodyfont[phv,ss,14.4pt] and \usetypescript[adobekb][texnansi] \usetypescript[times][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[times,ss] cause problems) I get some strange error reports (see below), which I have to skip with some unusual combinations of Ctrl-C and quit, but the file compiles without a crash. The problem was most probably caused by PNG images, exported from MS PowerPoint slides, an example is on http://pub.mojca.org/mailinglists/context/alpha.png. They look just fine in any viewer, but as soon as I remove them, everything works perfect again. It looks like a very strange bug. Any ideas? Mojca ***************************************************************** Error report: ./img/eij-d1qksa2-ms.jpg ./img/pathway.png ./img/betacontacts.png libpng warning: Ignoring bad row filter type ... (n times) ibpng warning: Ignoring bad row filter type libpng warning: Ignoring bad row fil Error: pdfetex.exe: libpng: internal error ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! ter type libpng warning: Ignoring bad row filter type ... (n times) ibpng warning: Ignoring bad row filter type ibpng warning: Ignoring bad row filter type libpng error: incorrect data check This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. (c:\PROGRA~1\context\tex\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) **Please type the name of your input file. **

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Re: texshow and kpsewhich
by Peter Münster 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Thomas Esser wrote: > > to get texshow working with teTeX-2.99.10.20050123-beta, I needed to add > > CONTEXTINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/tex/context// > > to texmf.cnf > > No, that sounds like texshow is using the wrong search path > --format='other ... files' --progname=context > where it should better have been > --format=.tex --progname=context > > Please, report this to Hans Hagen. It would be great to see a fix in > one of the next days. Since texshow is looking for xml-files, wouldn't it be better to say --format=.xml ? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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\starttables and \footnote
by Peter Münster 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

Hello, could someone help me with placing a footnote in a multipage-table? Here an example, where the table overwrite the footnote: \starttext \starttablehead \HL \NC command \NC meaning \NC\SR \HL \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL \stoptabletail \starttables[|l|l|] \NC \tex{NC} \NC next column\footnote{a footnote}\NC\FR \dorecurse{50}{\NC \tex{MR} \NC middle row \NC\MR} \NC \tex{LR} \NC last row \NC\LR \stoptables \stoptext Used versions: 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 Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Setting up a sombined list ...
by Willi Egger 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

Hi, I am trying to setup a special TOC which should show the version instead of a pagenumber. My approach was to setup newheads with \definehead[][] and defining a new combined list. The struggle is that I can't manage to get the list entries numbered and the lower level listentries are not indented as intended. Could some one give me a clue where I am missing the proper options. Please try the attached minimal file. Tanks and kind regards Willi %test \def\Version{20-01-2005} \definehead[Mypart][part] \setuphead[Mypart][number=yes,placehead=no] \definehead[Mychapter][chapter] \definehead[Mysection][section] \definecombinedlist[Mycontent][Mypart,Mychapter,Mysection] \setuplist[Mycontent] [level=Mypart,pagenumber=no] \setuplist[Mycontent] [level=Mychapter,distance=4em] \setuplist[Mychapter][pagenumber=no] \setuplist[Mysection][pagenumber=no] \starttext \completeMycontent[criterium=all] \expanded{\writetolist[Mypart]{Test Part 1}{}} \dorecurse{3}{% \chapter[Ch-Test]{Test} \expanded{\writetolist[Mychapter]{Test \recurselevel}{\hfill Version:~ \Version}} \input ward } \section{Problems seen:} \startitemize[2,packed] \item With the configuration above, the Mypart has still a pagenumber in the TOC. \item In the \type{\completeMycontent} the chapters are not indented. \item I would expect that the TOC entries would be numbered. \stopitemize \stoptext

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Duplex question ...
by Stefano 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

All, I used the example shown in section 3.5 of the ConTeXt manual to enable duplex printing. I would like to shift the page as demonstrated in the first right/left pages in Figure 3.9. The following, however, does not work, as the right and left pages both remain in the top left corner. I'm using the MiKTeX distribution and WinEdt (TeXExec 5.2.3). Any info is appreciated ... Stefano \setuppapersize[A5][A4] \setuplayout[location=duplex] \showframe \starttext Page 1 \page Page 2 \page Page 3 \page \stoptext

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garden down
by Patrick Gundlach 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

Hi all, my server is currently down; I see what I can do to get it working as soon as possible. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

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Re: [NTG-context] Russia (cyrillic letters) Arabic]
by Rob Ermers 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

> Rob Ermers wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would be interested in a solution for Arabic... Presently \<Mu.hammad> works, but otherwise support for Arabic (\startarabic) is not optimal. If one of you could make a set-up for that too ... > > > > arabic a bit more tricky since it has those ligatures, so that needs aleph or arabtex > > (of course we can make an encoding with named glyphs) > > Hans > That would be great! The number of ligatures is limited, however. Arabtex in fact has more than strictly necessary. However, I never got omega running, in spite of my attempts. By the way, be aware that Hebrew may not have ligatures, but it does have some characters whose shape changes when they appear at the word ending, so, e.g., -n is not the same character code as n- or -n-. You should also take in account that people will want to use dotted consonants, i.e. the dots that distinguish b from v, and s from sh, etc. Robert

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Using LateX packages
by Holger Peters 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Hi, I want to use a LaTeX Package (clrscode), or at least I want to port it to Context. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/clrscode/ Is there some way to use LaTex Packages (I guess not). Is there documentation about writing ConTeXt modules? (I didn't find any). -- Holger

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