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texexec --arrange and texexec --noarrange
by Willi Egger 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi Contexters, Recently I tried to arrange pages of a document with texexec --arrange jobname In my environment file I setup the following: \setuppapersize[A5,portrait][A4,landscape] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location={footer}] % Arranging: \setuparranging[2UP] Of course I can comment the line of the arranging and just uncomment it for a single run hereafter to produce a PDF-file with arranged pages. When using texexec --arrange this should happen automatically. I realize, that the system is halted after systems: end file jobname at line 47 textblocks: writing textblocks to jobname.tub It looks like texexec is waiting for an input.... An identical situation occurs when issueing texexec --noarrange jobname Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug in texexec? Kind regards Willi texexec --noarrange

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Classroom templates?
by Tyler Eaves 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Does anyone have any templates useful for typesetting class notes or homework (For tuning in, not handing out). I'm a Comp Sci student, and last semester I used LaTeX for this with a couple of templates I found. Wondering if anyone had anything similar for ConTeXt. I'd be happy to share the LaTeX files if anyone's interested.

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page arrangement
by Vit Zyka 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hallo ConTeXt list members, I'd like to arrange A5 landscape pages to A4 in this order ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- | 1 | | 2 | | 5 | | 6 | | 9 | | 10 | ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- | 3 | | 4 | | 7 | | 8 | | 11 | | 12 | ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- for doublesided printing. I'd tried to set \setuparranging[2DOWN] or \setuparranging[2TOP] but it is not desired arrangement. I also experimented with \pusharrangedpage... \poparrangedpages... \handlearrangedpage... macros but I wasn't succsessful. Please, can somebody help me? Send answer also to my private address vit.zyka(a)seznam.cz since my dial up connection due to long time traveling does not enable to be member of the lively conference. Thanks, Vit Zyka

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Text Editor for ConTeXt
by Gary Hoffman 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

I am looking for a text editor for use with ConTeXt that is comparable with those available for Latex (e.g. Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net/) and TeXnicCenter(http://www.texniccenter.org/front_content.php)) The archives refer to ConTEXT, SciTE and Emacs. Only Emacs with the context.el plug-in appears to compare with Latex editors. However, context.el conflicts with my installation of Emacs (which includes the Auctex package) and will not load. Are there any other editors that are recommended? Any other suggestions? Thank you. Gary Hoffman -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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Perl scripts almost unusable under Win32 MiKTeX
by Giuseppe Bilotta 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Recent ConTeXt updates have rendered some Perl scripts (texshow.pl & modules) unusable under MiKTeX because they heavily rely on web2c methods to find binaries and complementary files. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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m-BibTeX problems
by Tobias Burnus 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hi, I have some strange bibTeX problems. a) I try to show DOI references in the publication list, therefore I created the macro \gotoDOI{} and modified \setuppublicationlayout[article]. As long as I don't use \setupinteraction[state=start], the DOI is hyphenated. Using \setupinteraction[state=start], the DOI is no longer hyphenated. Calling \gotoDOI directly, works (both cases), but with interaction enabled the DOI is printed in bold and with wide spacing after the possible line break points ("10. 1103" instead of "10.1103"). See attached files. Run them (with m-bib installed) as: texexec --once --pdf test; bibtex test; texexec --pdf test b) I'd like to see that I can click on the number in [4] and jump to the entry in the publicationlist: It is much more fun to read an article, thesis, etc. when one can click on the reference instead of searching for the reference list (going back is less important; after all, 'Go to previous view' exists). c) Someone should write a texutil plugin which automatically runs bibtex if necessary. I tend to forget this. (I will look into this as soon as I have time, i.e. probably in March.) Tobias

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VTeX
by Peter Münster 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hello, is it possible to get work ConTeXt and VTeX together? It's interesting because of free EC fonts in type 1 format in the VTeX-Linux distribution. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ------------------------------------ Film Search site: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Here's a strange one for Metapost gurus
by David Arnold 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

All, I've run across an interesting bug that I haven't seen before. In the attached Metpost file, if I delete the last figure (beginfig(8)...endfig), the file compiles. However, with beginfig(8)...endfig, the file gives this error: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] >> path >> pen ! Not implemented: penoffset(path)of(pen). <to be read again> ; pen_pickup_->...part.penoffset.left.of.currentpen; pen_bot:=ypart.penoffset.r... <to be read again> ; l.499 pickup pencircle scaled 2pt; ? As the code in beginfig(8)...endfig is a simple copy and paste of the code in beginfig(1)...endfig, this is perplexing to say the least. If in beginfig(8)...endfig, I replace the lines %draw pendulum length pickup pencircle scaled 2pt; draw A--E; pickup defaultpen; with: %draw pendulum length draw A--E withpen pencircle scaled 2pt; Now the file will compile. This is strange indeed! Any ideas?

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extensie pl
by Wilfried Van Hirtum 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Als ik aan de dos-prompt typ: texexec voorbeeld dan krijg ik de foutmelding "texexec wordt niet herkend als een interne of externe opdracht, programma of batchbestand" met texexec.pl voorbeeld lukt het wel. Ik ben overigens een absolute beginner in context. Ik vind op het net echter nergens een echte beginnershandleiding die alles van naaldje tot draadje uitlegt. Het lijkt een wereldje waar je zelf alles moet uitzoeken. Is dit zo? Wilfried Van Hirtum --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003

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style questions
by Janko Hauser 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hello everybody, Over the last days I started to write a "Requirement" document. I started from the example documents provided at the fiee-site, which are a big help. I use this as an exercise to see, what markup is actually needed in the content, to transform from XML documents later on. First some things I already solved, but want to ask, if it was in the right way. 1. I want to mark some words consistently and used the \definesynonyms command for this, although I only use the second form. \definesynonyms[glossar][explanation][\infull] \glossar [ZOPE] {\em Zope} {Web Applikationsserver} Is there a better way to style words consistently? I find it difficult to distinguish between \ZOPE\ and \ZOPE, especially for the possible later translation from XML. 2. In the example there is an indirection for the section definitions. \definehead [Topic] [chapter] \definehead [Nopic] [title] Later on the newly defined headers are styled. But they are used as the only headers throughout the document. So why not style the original ones? 3. I have defined colored header bars in the following ways. \setuphead [subject, Subject,section] [command=\mysec, page=no, continue=no, style={\ss\bs}, color=black] \def\mysec#1#2{\framed[width=\textwidth, corner=round, radius=0.05em, background=color, backgroundcolor=HKS5, framecolor=HKS5]{\startnarrower[1*left,1*right] #2 \hfill #1 \stopnarrower}} They are spanning the complete textwidth. What I now want is to have a smaller textwidth, but the bars should remain broader, as broad as the header and footer lines. Any hints? 4. How to deal with metadata, like author, version, last modified and so. Would you recommend to use buffers for this? This information is probably used on the title page and the footer of each page. Ok, now a real question. I want to style the actual requirements in form of a papercard, whith their actual status at the top. This would be an new definition with 2 or 3 arguments. But the requirements should also be enumerated. How can one build such an environment? Derive somehow from \defineenumeration? --------------------------------------------------------------- |ReqNbr | Title | status | date| --------------------------------------------------------------- | longer text .... with paragraphs and pagebreaks | --------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry for the ascii-art (cough :-). These cards should be able to span more than one page. In the light of this a table with running heads would also be an option, right? Thanks for this great package, it is a lot of fun and full of gems. TIA, __Janko

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