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\setupdescription
by Peter Münster 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Hello, how could I define a list, that looks like this: titel 1 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text long titel 2 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text I tried with parameters distance and width of \setupdescription, but no success. TIA for any hint, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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The last line
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Hi, as far as I know TeX has some internal rules (and penalties) for judging where to hyphenate words or not in order to keep a paragraph not too densed and not too loose. Some rules can be modified by commands like tolerance, spaceskip, emergencystretch et al. Now, I want to have control over the last line. I would like to avoid syllables smaller than (for example) 4 letters being the only element in a paragraphs last line. Like this: xxxx xx xxxxx xxxx xx xxx xxxxxxx xx- xxx. Is there a way to make a kind of global definition for this for the entire document? Thanks for any hints, Steffen

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Input path with spaces
by Giuseppe Bilotta 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hello, I just found out that I cannot compile ConTeXt documents using TeXexec 4.3 when the input path of the original document contains spaces, at least on MiKTeX 2.4 with pdf-e-TeX 1.20a-rc4. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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updates
by Hans Hagen 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hi, Later this week i will post an update. Among the things to keep an eye on are: - if you use the new (web2c) beta binaries be aware of the suffixes of formats now all being 'fmt'; conforming to the new tds structure, this should go in sync with a so called $engine subpath under webc, but this wil lnot be supported by tetex (i'm not sure about texlive); this can be rather annoying when you use pdfetex as well as aleph; in that case you may want to try texexec --make --alone --all --engine (i always use --all to get all patterns in the format) - with new binaries you should also be aware of changes in enc and map paths; texfont is already adapted to that and textools can be used to adapt your trees - however, the main reason for writing this mail is that i recently found out that there has been a change in the us hyphenation files; on your system this may be obscured by the fact that sometimes there is an alias file somewhere in the tree mapping old names on new names [fyi: i finally found out that this alias file is also the reason why sometimes fonts like dingbats get messed up]. I have adapted context to look for new and old files; unfortunately important changes like this are not announced and just happen (i wonder how many us-english users are aware of this change); i have been bitten by this (unannounced changes in filenames, and i cross my fingers that the content is the same) too often now; when it happens again, i'll start distributing patterns as in the first versions of context (lang-*.pat/hyp files) - 8 bit in/output: it looks like tex live will not be 8 bit (the last version was 8 bit except chars<32, the previous version was 8 bit) and the next version will be yet another mix; since i want context to be 8 in/8 out the formats will be built with the natural.tcx vector (in a few years, when i can be sure that suers are in sync, i will use the -8bit switch). I will not bore you with teh arguments that are used to let tex not be 8 but by default, but it has to do with unix and terminal output and locales and such. (interestingly this is no real problem for context since the control characters (<32) are mostly used for file io, verbatim, pdf, metapost, javascript, xml etc). 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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MikTeX 2.4 and Fonts
by DieterJakob＠t-online.de 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Dear Hans, Silly Questions: I use MikTeX 2.4 and there are some ConTeXt Demos underneath texmf/doc/context/demos. If I try to process the File: "d-en-005.tex" the Statement \setupbodyfont[pos] makes trouble; for PDF-Output. The Fonts in your Documentation looks so nice; I'm looking for a nice Serif Font e.g. Palationo. Unfortunately the documentation about Fonts, I can't put into practice. Can you help me to get the Adobe Fonts for PDF up and running? Best Regards Dieter

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rectangle-words (like in details.pdf)
by Steffen Wolfrum 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hi, maybe it's a trivial question: How do I get these black rectangle-words as they are used in Hans' "details.pdf" for example (see page 16 or 25)? Is this a special font - or is there a certain context command used? Thank you, Steffen

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Converting math from LaTeX to ConTeXt
by Brooks Moses 07 Aug '04

07 Aug '04

First, by way of introduction: I've been using LaTeX for about five years now, but am quite new to ConTeXt. I'm a grad student in mechanical engineering, so my primary uses of ConTeXt in the near future are likely to be for my thesis and associated presentations, all of which will likely have lots of complicated equations in them. After looking at what documentation is available for this, I think I have a fair handle on the basics of including math in ConTeXt. However, I do have some questions about things beyond the basics that I use rather frequently, and I haven't been able to find useful answers in the documentation or the list archives. To begin with, I have the following sets of definitions in my standard LaTeX preamble. I know that \newcommand and \renewcommand are LaTeX-specific; what's the appropriate ConTeXt equivalent? Also, do \hat, \vec, and \overline work as I would expect? And is there a direct equivalent to \boldsymbol from the amsmath package? (I need something that will handle both roman and greek letters.) \renewcommand{\vec}[1]{{\boldsymbol{#1}}} \renewcommand{\hatn}{\hat{\vec{n}}} \newcommand{\filter}[1]{\overline{#1}} Also, many of these equations run over multiple lines using the macros from the amsmath package (the "split" environment in particular, but also the "align" environment), and I haven't been able to find much documentation on how to do this in ConTeXt. For an example of the sorts of things I end up doing: \begin{equation} \begin{split} \lefteqn{ \frac{\partial (\rho (\phi u)_j)}{\partial t} + \nabla_k (\rho (\phi u)_k u_j) }\quad\quad \\ = &\; -\nabla_j (\phi p) + \nabla_j (\lambda \nabla_k (\phi u_k)) + \nabla_k \left[\mu \left( \nabla_k (\phi u)_j + (\nabla_j (\phi u)_k) \right) \right] \\&\; {} - \lambda (\nabla_j u_k) \nabla_k \phi - \mu (\nabla_k \phi) \nabla_k u_j - \mu (\nabla_k u_k) \nabla \phi_j - \tau_{\text{surface, $jk$}} \nabla_k \phi \end{split} \end{equation} Looking at that reminds me that I also rather heavily use the \text command from amsmath as well, and rely on its ability to properly size things in subscripts and such. Does this (or an analogue) exist in ConTeXt? Any suggestions? I'd like to be able to simply cut and paste the equations like this one from my LaTeX documents into my ConTeXt documents with as little editing as possible (so that I can maintain consistency between documents in each format), but anything that produces the same output would be good to know about. Thanks much! - Brooks

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Re: [OS X TeX] trim pdf figures
by Nigel King 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

>> (I wish there was a way to command the epstopdf bit from within >> Mathematica to automate the process further.) >> > > I don't know anything about ConTeXt, but does \usepackage{epstopdf} > work? (Or something similar?) You then don't need to worry about > explicitly converting all the eps files, it's automated within the TeX > process. Alan, thanks for this-I didn't know. Unfortunately I don't think ConTeXt includes this feature. But I will cross post to the ConTeXt list to see. Nigel

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How to change the page size for single pages within a document
by Stefan Wachter 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hi all, is there a possibility to change the page size of single pages in a document. Reason: I have a document that contains some large tables that do not fit on normal pages. Therefore I would like to output such tables on a page of their own having the neccessary size. (Of course the documents are not ment to be printed. They are to be viewed with Acrobat.) Thanks for your attention, --Stefan

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EPS/PDF import and \underbrace in metaplay
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

I have two questions cencerning metapost/metaplay: 1.) EPS/PDF import How do I make an existing EPS or PDF image a part of some other meta[post/play] graphic? 2.) \underbrace I wrote the following two macros for drawing braces in graphics: \def\underbracedescription#1#2{$\underbrace{\hbox{\vrule width#1 height 0bp}}_{\hbox{\strut #2}}$} \def\rightbracedescription#1#2{$\displaystyle{\left.\vphantom{\hbox{\vrule width0bp height#1 depth#1}}\right\}\hbox{\strut #2}}$} However, the width has to be given manually - it doesn't care about the actual size of the object it has to be applied to. How is it possible to give the command some more flexibility? (say, to be able to simply use \underbracedescription{pict}{description}, perhaps even without the need of specifying the coordinates explicitly, but) Thanks a lot, Mojca Miklavec

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