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Changing directories
by David Arnold 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

OK, I'm set up and my simple file is compiling, but: c:\temp> texexec junk Runs, but then leaves me here at the end of the run. f:\temp What is it in texexec.pl that is changing drives on me like this?

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Visiting Context Again --- Math
by David Arnold 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

All, I'd like to pick up Context again. I have some colleagues at work who are getting new MacIntoshes and I'd like to form a group to do some articles and activities for our students. Two questions: 1. Has anyone experience with TeXShop and Context? Any special things I need to know to set it up? Any things to watch out for? 2. I understand there are some new math modules, nath and something Hans called newmat. Where can I find the documentation for these modules? Any pointers and links will be appreciated. Thanks.

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semicolon in \useMPgraphic btex ... etex
by Laurent Chéno 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

(* Please excuse my poor english *) Semicolon usage in btex ... etex seems weird to me. Can you help me ? The following source don't produce the expected result : %------------ WRONG \startuseMPgraphic{test} dotlabel.top(btex 2;3 etex, (0,0)) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \midaligned{\useMPgraphic{test}} \stoptext \end %------------- But the following is ok : %-------------- OK \startuseMPgraphic{test} dotlabel.top(btex 2,3 etex, (0,0)) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \midaligned{\useMPgraphic{test}} \stoptext \end %------------- I have the same problem with btex $2;3$ etex Thank you for any help, best regards, Laurent Chéno

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Re: textext() doesn't work on my MikTeX distr.
by Patrick Gundlach 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Hello Mojca, > > do you have > > > > \protectbufferstrue > > > > in cont-sys.tex? > > I renamed the file once for some reason (I don't remember why, but > I've probably read something about removing the file; my apologises if > I accused MikTeX for that). > > Now I renamed the file back, (\protectbufferstrue was already there), > executed texexec --make -all, but now I get an empty PDF file instead > of at least a circle. And even if I delete this line, it makes no > change. Hmm, strange. Please post the complete log to the list(!). And perhaps you can post the relevant lines of cont-sys.tex. Do you have shell-escape (=write18) enabled in MikTeX? I don't know where to look (I don't use MikTeX). Patrick

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Chinese ConTeXt
by Lutz Haseloff 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Hi Hans, hi all, it seems, that the commands: \usemodule[chi-simplified] \usemodule[chi-traditional] do nothing. They are pointing to files s-chi-01.tex and s-chi-02.tex which are not present. How can i have access to the traditional chinese characters? Greetings Lutz

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problems with indented columnized itemization
by Stefan Wachter 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Hi all, I try to generate the following output: Some Label * item 1 * item 2 * item 3 * item 4 * item 4 * item 5 i.e. I want to have a label followed by an itemization that is set in columns. I tried several things but did not succeede 1. Variant - a tabulate environment \starttabulate[|l|p|] \NC \inframed[width=\LabelWidth,align=left]{Teilnehmer}\hskip\SepWidth \NC \startitemize[columns,three] \item Bauherr \item Architekt \item Bauleiter \stopitemize \NC\NR \stoptabulate There the following problems: a) the itemization introduces an additional empty line and b) the [columns,three] parameter is not considered. 2. Variant - using a narrower \startnarrower[left] \startitemize[columns,three] \item Bauherr \item Architekt \item Bauleiter \stopitemize \stopnarrower The problem with this variant is that the coluns do not respect the right margin, i.e. the items reach beyond the paper. Has anyone a solution for this problem? Thanks for your attention, --Stefan

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content list wihout chapter number
by ciro 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

I was using \title to create my chapter titles without the chapter number. THen I used \definelist, \setuplist and \placelist to print the content, but I couldn't find the combination of parameters to do this. I simply want a content list with the chapter name, and the page number where the chapter appears. Can anybody help me? thank you Ciro

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Re: a crash in pdftext with protruding again...
by Hans Hagen 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Martin Kolařík wrote: > Hi Hans, > > I tried to isolate pdftex problem described below and the result is surprising :-) The code (I have it in single file prot.tex): > > \expandafter\newtoks\csname Something\endcsname > > \startfonthandling[private] > \defineprotrudefactor ! 0 .2 > \stopfonthandling some time ago i ran into toks problems like that, and after some heavy debugging with taco, we found out that there was an etex bug; this is fixed now (registers > 255 were not properly allocated by etex) you run into that problem because the 'updated protruding/hz support' allocates registers and due to the amount of toks used these end up in the >255 range; here i ran into some problems with a new par attachment mechanism a temp solution is to make the following number in syst-etc smaller (say 24) \chardef\@@insallocation=32 after that you need to recompile the format 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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pdftex 1.20a and map files
by Christopher Creutzig 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Salvete, I tried upgrading to pdfTeX 1.20a on my powerbook. I built the binaries successfully and placed them and their pool files into some temporary location and I was able to build ConTeXt formats. Unfortunately, pdftex.map was not found, generated files have just lots of empty pages. I did try "sudo texmfstart textools --fixtexmftrees", but that did not move pdftex.map from its place in dvips/config. I tried to follow the NEWS file in the pdftex distribution, but that only lists two non-existant URLs at tug.org to find information. The list archive of tex-live seems to have moved and to be inaccessible to non-subscribers. Not wanting yet another mailing list, I just don't have access to this vital piece of information, which imho should be listed right in the NEWS file. Where is pdftex.map and the likes supposed to be for 1.20a? regards, Christopher Creutzig

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textext() doesn't work on my MikTeX distr.
by Mojca Miklavec 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

The following example works on live@contextgarden, but on my computer it only writes "unknown" at the place of "x". btex etex also doesn't work in ConTeXt (metaplay) on my computer, although it does without any problems in metapost/mptopdf. \starttext \startMPpage draw textext.origin("x"); draw fullcircle scaled 2cm; \stopMPpage \stoptext I use the latest MikTeX distribution (although ConTeXt may not be really up-to-date, but that shouldn't be a problem, I suppose). It's probably just a matter of a single setting or so (it should be corrected in MikTeX as well if that's the case), but I don't know where to start looking. Thanks for help, Mojca Miklavec

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