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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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Re: [NTG-context] Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!gebied
by Thomas A.Schmitz 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Dear Hans and all, again, thanks for your help! Everything is working as it should now. After asking on the TeX on OSX mailing-list, I found out that there was an experimental installation that already contains pdftex 1.20a, so I upgraded. I changed texmf.cnf as you suggested to Christopher Creutzig yesterday, regenerated mapfiles, and everything's bright again. But I was sweating and cursing... If it hadn't been for a complete backup of my old TeX installation on my second hard drive and your wonderful help, I would have had a lot of serious troubles. I guess that's a general problem with TeX installations: originally, they were made for UNIX mainframes maintained by knowledgeable sys admins who would likely know how to cope with such a situation. Nowadays, I assume that the majority of TeX users sit in front of their own box, and even though I can do some things on the command line and have by now acquired a reasonabel amount of TeXpertise, I would have been absolutely helpless without you and Gerben's great installer. So you're absolutely right: downward compatibility is broken; it is difficult to make local changes without wiping the entire installation. That's what you get from being impatient... All best, and thanks Thomas On Oct 11, 2004, at 10:03 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > i'll try to keep texmfstart as compatibile as possible; there has been > a change in tds with regards to scripts (interestingly context was the > first to come with such scripts and the rule was to use /context/...); > when more package came with scripts tds was changed and now it's > /scripts/... ; the problem is that there is no strong urge to be > downward compatible (i tried to convince them in change but in vain) > and since kpsewhich now uses another --format directive for such > scripts, downward compatibility in my opinion is broken (all scripts > that somehow use kpse to determine what to run will fail from now on, > unless changed); so, this is why i cooked up texmfstart: it tries to > be clever in determining what to call. (You cannot imagine how much of > my local and project trees and scripts i had to adapt; a lot of wasted > time)

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Update to Pdfetex 1.20a
by Lutz Haseloff 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Hi Hans, Hi all, i tried to update pdfetex to 1.20a. I used the standalone version by Fabrice Popineau from: http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/ctan/systems/win32/fptex/standalone/ If pdfetex tries to insert a ttf-font i get an error-message: Windows complains: ... systems : end file test at line 6 )<c:\tex\texmf-local/fonts/truetype/chinese/htsong.ttf return code : 65280 run time : 2 seconds total run time : 2 seconds I run the latest stuff from pragma (binaries, context) under Win XP. The fonts are from ctex.org. My input file is: \loadmapfile[gbk] \usemodule[chinese] \usemodule[chi-simplified] \starttext \section{test} \stoptext Is this a bug in pdfetex? Greetings Lutz

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Re: [NTG-context] website
by Dirar BOUGATEF 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Thanks guys. I have updated it and it works. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Willi Egger <w.egger(a)boede.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] website Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:12:59 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([131.211.172.88]) by mc11-f35.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:16:14 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F8F512784;Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:14:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10810-01; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:14:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9477E1278F;Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C611278Bfor <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1])by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)with LMTP id 10458-09-3 for <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>;Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (unknown [194.109.24.32])by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430E212784for <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (a80-126-172-1.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.126.172.1])by smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9BKD0K7074740for <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:01 +0200 (CEST)(envelope-from w.egger(a)boede.nl) X-Message-Info: EoYTbT2lH2OAcrXvajLQGnTfNQkERqUk X-Original-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Delivered-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Message-ID: <416AE94B.9020003(a)boede.nl> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <BAY12-F8GbFqTnrrXj700004788(a)hotmail.com> <416AE7A9.4030109(a)wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <416AE7A9.4030109(a)wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context.ntg.nl> List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>,<mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context> List-Post: <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl> List-Help: <mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>,<mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Return-Path: ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Oct 2004 20:16:15.0234 (UTC) FILETIME=[28E40620:01C4AFCF] Hi, Just because I fall in this trap myself. It is normally not enough to point with the browser to the given link. Because of caching you need to reload the web-site ... Willi Hans Hagen wrote: >Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Any one can tell me how to acess the new site. > > >just www.pragma-ade.com: watch the next/prev buttons > > >(in a few weeks some more features will go live) > >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 >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context <html><DIV>Dirar</DIV></html> _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.com/

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