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Re: [NTG-context] Best source of ConTeXt documentation?
by skhilji＠tampabay.rr.com 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

I'd like to see the sources of all the PDF files available at pragma-ade. Its much easier to look at examples and learn from it than to ask for complete documentation. Salman

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Best source of ConTeXt documentation?
by Brooks Moses 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

In my efforts to learn ConTeXt, I'm continually getting stuck by a lack of having complete documentation. For example, consider the \definestartstop command, which I was recently looking at. * In the cont-enp.pdf manual, it's not mentioned. * In the mp-cp-en.pdf manual, there's an example of it, but it's not really very clear what the difference is between what the "commands=" and "before=" options do. In addition, there's no indication whether these are all the possible options or not, or whether there's any way to define a start/stop pair that takes an argument. * In the source, I can find the definitions, but for that particular one there seems to be very little commentary, and I also suspect I'd need to be rather familiar with the ConTeXt core before I could understand it -- I certainly can't see where the "before=" goes in, for instance. And that's about all I know about, other than doing a Google search on the mailing-list archives, which rarely addresses the general stuff. Is this all due to an actual lack of documentation for ConTeXt itself, or is there something large and important that I'm missing? Thanks, - Brooks

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Define new flow chart cell shape
by Pedro Mendonça 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

Hi Hans! I'm using the flow chart module and I want to know how to create a new cell shape using MetaPost and assign that new shape to a shape number. Could you give me an example? Thanks. Pedro Mendonca. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Maisfutebol - a paixão do futebol actualizada ao minuto. Saiba tudo sobre o Euro 2004 e vibre com as emoções do futebol. http://www.maisfutebol.iol.pt/

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[Fwd: Please forward]
by Hans Hagen 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

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Metapost: minus sign as "unknown"
by Christopher Creutzig 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

Dear list, please find attached a small ConTeXt file using metapost and mp-format.mp. When compiled directly (with \write18 enabled), the minus sign of the first MPgraphic is rendered (by metapost) as "unknown". The very same code in the second example works. When compiling with texexec --automp, the problem does not exist. Versions: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) ConTeXt ver: 2004.6.26 fmt: 2004.7.17 int: english mes: english This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) metafun 2004-7-17 22:18 TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 TeXUtil 7.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2003 regards, Christopher Creutzig

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PDFTeX Homepage
by Salman Khilji 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

If I google for pdfTeX homepage, then I get the following link: http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/ However, this must not be the official homepage as it seems to not have been updated in a long time and also does not mention anything about the available 1.20 version. Also I cannot find the file named pdftexlib.zip as mentioned in the user manual on the above site. Where I can find the latest and greatest versions and documentatio on PDFTeX? Salman

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on posters, again
by Eros Albertazzi 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

Still struggling to get a poster with Context. Somehow I am puzzling why almost all my collegue who are accustumed to write with latex+revtex for chem-math-phys journals then turn to powerpoint to produce poster and/or presentation, although "ConTeXt is the layout oriented alternative to the well known LaTeX." and switching tex macro should be easy. I feel there is a lacking in information and/or guide that preclude its use within this comunity. Anyhow my question: Can I have text within a (settable) margin in \setlayerframe? Probably not since margin are defined in \setuplayout and having a page layout atop of another one may not make sense.... Hereis a latex example of what should be easier (and more durable and flexible) to accomplish with contex http://andreas.welcomes-you.com/projects/a0poster/ http://andreas.welcomes-you.com/projects/a0poster/demo/poster.pdf

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PDFTeX sources
by Salman Khilji 30 Jul '04

30 Jul '04

1) I want to know the simplest way (and the minimal way) to compile PDFTeX on Windows. From the manual, I see that you have to download web-7.3.tar.gz web2c-7.3.tar.gz pdftex.tar.gz However, this assumes that you have ./configure available (means UNIX or Cygwin). While I have been using Linux for the past two years, I'm afraid, I am too incompetent, dumb, lazy, stupid, and stubborn to learn autoconf and autotools---I want to know exactly what steps are performed while compiling the program and it would be best understood if I had a simple Visual C++ project file to work with. I want to be able to compile pdfTeX from sources using an already available DSP (MS Visual C++ project file)---this means it should somehow use an already existing config.h file. I downloaded the MikTeX sources, but it comes with 65535 other files and directories that I do not need and also mandates the download of Cygwin. 2) Basically, I want to learn a little about the internals of pdfTeX to investigate if I can take the PDF specific C source code out of it and somehow use then in the TeX++ project (which is a reincarnation of CommonTeX, which was an implementation of TeX written in C from scratch by Pat Monardo). I must admit that TeX++ is a piece of cake to install and compile simply because there is no autoconf and autotools to convolute the project. I have been reading TeX, the program these days from cover to cover and comparing the source code to the TeX++ sources and the two are as close as it can get. So I suppose, one could take PDFTeX, strip it out of the web2c files, massage the rest to fit TeX++, and have an easy to compile, and extend version of TeX that produces PDF files directly. Any inputs on this matter? Salman

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RE: [NTG-context] more footnotes:-)
by ishamid 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

>% program=aleph output=dvipdfmx > >% the next texexec will automatically generate pdf which is handy for >scit eusers -) Does the latest fpTeX carry dvipdfmx (r u still using fpTeX)? I must confess I'm still using odvips-ps2pdf for all of my output... Best Idris

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Question starttables ... stoptables and pagebrake
by Bernd Militzer 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Hi Hans, using tables for a long documentation it wold be fine, if I could force a page brake after specific rows. The command \page does not work. Thanks for any help Bernd

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