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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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Using capsule versoion of TeX from Pragma.
by John Culleton 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

To help solve some other problems I disabled the path to my existing TeXLive distro, downloaded the minimal Linux-tex from Pragma, and unzipped it in /usr/local. Following TeXLive conventions I established a path to /usr/local/tex/texmf-linux/bin in /etc/profile and rebooted. The executables at the end of that path were not executable so I made them executable. (chmod 777 *) I also made the setuptex script in /usr/local/tex executable. Per the instructions in setuptex I ran the following: ./setuptex . #note period mktexlsr texexec --make --alone ----and got the following error message /usr/bin/env: ruby: No such file or directory at this point I thought I had best stop stumbling around and ask for help. My base system is Slackware LInux 10.0. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book packagers/coaches/consultants: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf Printers who are SPAN sponsors: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/printers.pdf

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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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