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Draw grid
by David Arnold 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hans, This sample code will give you an idea of my last feature request for mp-tool. Often, I will design my schematic on graph paper, then start to code. But there are times when I like to work interactively, write a little code, test to see what I get, adjust, ... When I am in that mode, a grid is "very" helpful. Once I am through with adjustments, I simply comment out the line " drawgrid(0,0,20,10,1u,1u);". My drawgrid routine was stolen from the schema.mp file and adjusted for a quick fix (I am writing for a deadline again), but it works. But it would be nice if something like this were in mp-tool. Turn on your numbered grid, work interactively, turn it off when done. Very nice. Happy New Year! input mp-tool def drawgrid(expr xo,yo,nx,ny,sx,sy)= begingroup save cpen,result; pen cpen; picture result; cpen:=pencircle scaled 1pt; result:=nullpicture; for x=0 upto nx: for y=0 upto ny: addto result doublepath (x*sx,y*sy) withpen cpen; endfor endfor defaultfont:="cmr7"; defaultscale:=7pt/fontsize defaultfont; for x=0 upto nx: addto result also thelabel.bot(decimal(x),(x*sx,0)) withpen cpen; endfor for y=0 upto ny: addto result also thelabel.lft(decimal(y),(0,y*sy)) withpen cpen; endfor; draw result; endgroup enddef; beginfig(6); %initialize scale numeric u; 1u=0.25in; drawgrid(0,0,20,10,1u,1u); %draw line for measurement later draw (0,0)--(10u,0); %draw base for pivot path base; base:=unitsquare xyscaled (4u,1u); base:=base shifted (8u,-2u); stripe_path_a(withcolor black)(draw) base withcolor white; draw (8u,-1u)--(12u,-1u); %draw pivot path tri; tri:=(-1,-1)--(0,1)--(1,-1)--cycle; tri:=tri scaled u; tri:=tri shifted (10u,0); fill tri withcolor 0.85white; %initialize pendulum path pend; pend:=(9.5,-0.5)--(10.5,-0.5)--(10.5,10.5)--(9.5,10.5)--cycle; pend:=pend scaled u; draw pend; %draw pivot point drawdot(10u,0) withpen pencircle scaled 6pt; %draw spring block left path left; left:=(2,9)--(3,9)--(3,11)--(2,11)--cycle; left:=left scaled u; stripe_path_a(withcolor black)(draw) left withcolor white; draw (3u,9u)--(3u,11u); %draw spring block right path right; right:=(17,9)--(18,9)--(18,11)--(17,11)--cycle; right:=right scaled u; stripe_path_a(withcolor black)(draw) right withcolor white; draw (17u,9u)--(17u,11u); %spring path spring, link; link:=(0,0)--(0.25,0.5)--(0.75,-0.5)--(1,0); spring:=link; for k=1 upto 2: spring:=spring--(link shifted (k,0)); endfor spring:=spring scaled u; %left spring draw (3u,10u)--(5u,10u); draw spring shifted (5u,10u); draw (8u,10u)--(10u,10u); %right spring draw (10u,10u)--(12u,10u); draw spring shifted (12u,10u); draw (15u,10u)--(17u,10u); %draw spring contact point drawdot(10u,10u) withpen pencircle scaled 6pt; %label springs label(btex $k$ etex, (6.5u,11u)); label(btex $k$ etex, (13.5u,11u)); %label some measurement lengths pair A, B, C, D, E; A:=(1u,0); B:=(1u,10u); C:=(5u,0); D:=(5u,5u); E:=(10u,5u); drawdblarrow A--B; label.lft(btex $L$ etex, 0.5[A,B]); drawdblarrow C--D; draw (0,10u)--(2u,10u); label.lft(btex $L/2$ etex, 0.5[C,D]); draw (4u,5u)--(6u,5u); drawdot(E) withpen pencircle scaled 6pt; label.top(btex cm etex,E shifted (0,5)); endfig;

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Context update
by R. Ermers 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Dear friends, First of all, I would like to wish all of you a happy new year! The update of the most recent Context package (04.2.1.) + subsequent installation with Miktex (MiKTeX 2.1) does not work out on my system (Win 98). Miktex does not complete the installation of the context en and nl formats. The error messages follow below. Could anyone help me out? Thanks in advance! Kind regards, Robert Ermers ++++++++++++ Installation with Miktex, error messages in log file: system (E-TEX) : [line 473] \ifcsname ! Undefined control sequence. \@@su:*reset ->\widowpenalties \minusone \clubpenalties \minusone \in... \dosetups ...\csname \??su :#1\endcsname } \relax \next2 #1,->\dosetups {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...bbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \c... \@@su:*default ...msetupsprefix \s!reset ] \widowpenalty \defaultwidow... \dosetups ...\csname \??su :#1\endcsname } \relax ... l.2084 \setdefaultpenalties % will happen later in \setuplayout No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. INITEXMF: pdfetex.exe failed on cont-en.tex ++++++++++++ Installation with the command: texexec --make --alone en nl or texexec --make -- alone en results in this error message: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=470502]. \setvalue ...er \def \csname #1\endcsname \@@expanded ...nded \setvalue {17.3pttttf} {\xxdododefinefont {1}{17.3... \dododododefinebodyfont ...scratchtoks }}} \else \global \letbeundefin... \next4 ...odefinebodyfont {tt}{17.3pt}{#1} \doprocesscommaitem <argument> \relax tf=cmtt12 sa 1, sl=cmsltt10 sa 1, it=cmitt10 sa 1 \doprocesscommalist ...obbleoneargument #1 ,]\relax \global \advance \... ... l.405 ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=470502]. \setvalue ...er \def \csname #1\endcsname \@@expanded ...nded \setvalue {17.3pttttf} {\xxdododefinefont {1}{17.3... \dododododefinebodyfont ...scratchtoks }}} \else \global \letbeundefin... \next4 ...odefinebodyfont {tt}{17.3pt}{#1} \doprocesscommaitem <argument> \relax tf=cmtt12 sa 1, sl=cmsltt10 sa 1, it=cmitt10 sa 1 \doprocesscommalist ...obbleoneargument #1 ,]\relax \global \advance \... ... l.405

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update succeeded
by R. Ermers 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Dear Friends, In the mean time I have also updated miktex. Now everything seems to work fine. Sorry for bothering you. Robert Ermers

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Install again
by John Culleton 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

I installed a fresh TeX installation form the TeXLive installation disk. I did the usual things, like convert Texexec.rme to texexec.ini, move texexec.pl to /usr/TeX/bin/ i386-linux/texexec, run fmtutil and texexex -make --all en nl metafun and the rest. I ran fmtutil --all and texhash. Bottom line programs that compile clean and operate properly under my old installation (still available) don't do so under the new installation. For example the sample program d-en-all will compile without errors but the interaction is kaput and nothing shows up in the TOC. The exact same files in the exact same directory will however work when I boot up my old partition. I did a diff on the two log files and here is what it shows: 1c1 < This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2) (format=cont-en 2003.12.30) 30 DEC 2003 15:31 --- > This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2) (format=cont-en 2003.10.15) 30 DEC 2003 14:34 3a4 > (/usr/TeX/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx) 7c8 < ConTeXt ver: 2003.12.18 fmt: 2003.12.30 int: english mes: english --- > ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.25 fmt: 2003.10.15 int: english mes: english 14,17d14 < system (E-TEX) : [line 58] < system (E-TEX) : [line 64] \lastnodetype < system (E-TEX) : [line 110] < system (E-TEX) : [line 196] \lastnodetype 82d78 < pdftex : needs map file: 8r-urw-ncntrsbk.map 125a122,125 > (./d-en-all.tuo) (./d-en-all.tuo) (./d-en-all.tuo) (./ d-en-all.tuo) > (./d-en-all.tuo) (./d-en-all.tuo) (./d-en-all.tuo) (./ d-en-all.tuo) > (./d-en-all.tuo) (./d-en-all.tuo) (./d-en-all.tuo) (./ d-en-all.tuo) > (./d-en-all.tuo) (./d-en-all.tuo) 165c165 < references : unknown reference [][content] --- > (./d-en-all.tuo) 166a167 > layout : calculating backgrounds 168c169,171 < [1.1{/usr/TeX/texmf-var/dvips/config/pdftex.map}] --- > [1.1{/usr/TeX/texmf-var/dvips/config/pdftex.map} > Warning: pdfetex (file 8a-agaramond.map): cannot open font map file > ] 170,171c173,174 < system : part,chapter,section,subsection,subsubsection,subsubsubsection < ,subsubsubsubsection not found/processed --- > (./d-en-all.tuo) > layout : calculating backgrounds 191,194c194,197 < 1735 strings out of 67026 < 28492 string characters out of 734989 < 4443010 words of memory out of 5542917 < 32394 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 --- > 1764 strings out of 67444 > 28700 string characters out of 742226 > 4435369 words of memory out of 5540853 > 31993 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 197,198c200,201 < 58i,22n,94p,282b,905s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,40000s < 149 PDF objects out of 300000 --- > 59i,22n,94p,283b,907s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,40000s > 174 PDF objects out of 300000 201,203c204,206 < {/usr/TeX/texmf/dvips/psnfss/8r.enc}</usr/TeX/texmf/fonts/ type1/bitstrea/char < ter/bchr8a.pfb></usr/TeX/texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter/ bchb8a.pfb> < Output written on d-en-all.pdf (19 pages, 491577 bytes). --- > {/usr/TeX/texmf/dvips/base/8r.enc}</usr/TeX/texmf/fonts/type1/ bitstrea/charte > r/bchr8a.pfb></usr/TeX/texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter/ bchb8a.pfb> > Output written on d-en-all.pdf (19 pages, 496334 bytes). I can of course change the path and use my elderly installation but I would really prefer to correct my new one. Hints? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ____________________________________________________________ Free 20 MB Bannerless Domain Hosting, 1000 MB Data Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and more. Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/

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\chapter{$D$} and D being not italic
by Tobias Burnus 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Hello, is this my strange setup or is this a general problem? If I TeX this \subsection{Derivation of $n_\sigma$ and $D_\sigma$} \bye both n and D are \rm instead of italic. I know that it worked once. Tobias

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new tex toy
by Hans Hagen 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Hi, One of the problems with the texmf tree is to get the right scripts/documents launched. On linux, runperl/runruby are used for that, on windows there was runperl.exe which is now irun.exe. Those scripts/apps work ok under most circumstances but not all (especially not when one has multiple trees and multiple instances of the tools). So ... a few weeks ago I made a small tool: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/texmfstart.rb : for those who have ruby in their path http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/texmfstart.exe : for those who don't have ruby installed and are on windows http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexmfstart.pdf : for those who are interested This tool permits things like (on windows): "texmfstart --browser examplap.pdf" but also calls like: "texmfstart texexec.pl optional arguments" and alike. Several search strategies are applied (see manual). The few of you who have seen the integrated context environment (around scite) already may have used this tool indirectly. I didn't yet test this new gimmick on linux but will do that asap. The next thing that will be posted is 'texsync' which will synchronize your local minimal tex and/or context tree (or part of it, or (part) of the documentation) with the current distribution. (i'm playing with that right now). Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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new manual
by Hans Hagen 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hi, http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexsync-p.pdf.pdf http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexsync-s.pdf.pdf Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] Synchronization (.tex <-> .pdf)
by Hans Hagen 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

At 19:49 22/12/2003, you wrote: >On Dec 22, 2003, at 10:32 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>How is the position file that texshop wants formatted? > >don't understand the question. when you process a file, using the latex style file, how does the extra fiel with porisions looks like? i suppose that a file is used to communicate the locations, so there should be a file names jobname.whatever that has the info Hans

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Re: Synchronization (.tex <-> .pdf)
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 16:56 22/12/2003, you wrote: > >Now that would be a Christmas present! I didn't dare ask. > > hm, that gives me two days for a 5 minute module, should be doable -) (... and a new pair of placefigure keywords maybe ??) Steffen

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Synchronization (.tex <-> .pdf)
by Steffen Wolfrum 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

Hi, I don't now how many ConTeXt user are aware of the idea of synchronization. In the LaTeX area of TeX it has a kind of tradition (Textures, srcltx, ...) for dvi output. For PDF output Jérôme Laurens has now written a package (for use with iTeXMac and TeXShop) that makes the advantages from source-output synchronization also available for the todays standard PDF. But as so many things in the TeX world it is written as a "plug-in" for LaTeX. Does anybody has an idea how to use this great achievement also with ConTeXt? For those who would like to have a look at Jérôme's great work, I insert his code at the end of this email. Thank you very much, Steffen Wolfrum %%%% This is pdfsync.sty %%%% 2003-12-08: %%%% There is a bug in using everyvbox... novbox is now the default %%%% bug fixed: $0$ was no visible %%%% 2003-11-28: %%%% comment characters added to fix an error. Don't know exactly the cause... %%%% Default option is all... %%%% Could not use \everydisplay... (bug in eqnarray) %%%% 2003-11-19 %%%% first version %%%% usage: \usepackage[display,cr,vbox]{PDFSYNC} %%%% appends reference points before each \par and at each \hbox, inline math; %%%% optionally also at every displayed math, with the option [display] %%%% optionally also at every \cr, with the option [cr] %%%% optionally also at every \vbox, with the option [vbox] %%%% %%%% If you want additional files to be parsed, please use the command %%%% \include (which is redefined below) %%%% This file is due to Piero D'Ancona and jlaurens(a)users.sourceforge.net %%%% iTeXMac is supporting pdfsync %%%% Copy this file to ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex or ~/Library/TeX/texmf/tex/latex if available %%%% This file is distributed under the GPL and the "smart licence": please make things better if you can %%%% © 2003, jlaurens(a)users.sourceforge.net % \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}% \ProvidesPackage{pdfsync}[2003/12/08 v0.3]% \newif\ifPDFSYNCOK% \newif\ifPDFSYNCStar% \newif\ifPDFSYNCPar \PDFSYNCPartrue% \newif\ifPDFSYNCMath \PDFSYNCMathtrue% \newif\ifPDFSYNCCr \PDFSYNCCrtrue% \newif\ifPDFSYNCHBox \PDFSYNCHBoxtrue% \newif\ifPDFSYNCVBox \PDFSYNCVBoxfalse% \newif\ifPDFSYNCExtra \PDFSYNCExtratrue% \newwrite\PDFPOS% \newcount\PDFSYNC@folio\PDFSYNC@folio=0% \newcount\PDFSYNC@rder\PDFSYNC@rder=0% \DeclareOption{nopar}{\PDFSYNCParfalse}% \DeclareOption{nomath}{\PDFSYNCMathfalse}% \DeclareOption{nocr}{\PDFSYNCCrfalse}% \DeclareOption{nohbox}{\PDFSYNCHBoxfalse}% \DeclareOption{novbox}{\PDFSYNCVBoxfalse}% \DeclareOption{vbox}{\PDFSYNCVBoxtrue}% \DeclareOption{noextra}{\PDFSYNCExtrafalse}% \DeclareOption{nothing}{\let\pdfsyncstart\pdfsyncstop}% \ProcessOptions\relax% \RequirePackage{everyshi}% \ifx\pdfsavepos\undefined% \wlog{Synchronization is only available with pdf. Use a dvi viewer instead.}% \let\pdfsyncstart\relax% \let\pdfsyncstop\relax% \let\pdfsync\relax% \let\@PDFSYNC\relax% \else% \def\pdfsyncstart{\global\PDFSYNCOKtrue}% \def\pdfsyncstop{\global\PDFSYNCOKfalse}% \EveryShipout{\@PDFSYNC\global\advance\PDFSYNC@folio by 1\immediate\write\PDFPOS{s\space\the\PDFSYNC@folio}}% \immediate\openout\PDFPOS\jobname.pdfsync% \immediate\write\PDFPOS{\jobname}% control info \immediate\write\PDFPOS{version 0}% control info \let\PDFSYNC@include\include% \def\PDFSYNC@@include#1{% \immediate\write\PDFPOS{(#1}% \PDFSYNC@include{#1}\immediate\write\PDFPOS{)}}% \let\include\PDFSYNC@@include% \def\@PDFSYNC{% \ifPDFSYNCOK% \pdfsavepos% \immediate\write\PDFPOS{l\space\the\PDFSYNC@rder\space\the\inputlineno}% \def\position{\the\pdflastxpos\space\the\pdflastypos}% \ifPDFSYNCStar% \edef\argument{{p*\space\the\PDFSYNC@rder\space\noexpand\position}}% \else% \edef\argument{{p\space\the\PDFSYNC@rder\space\noexpand\position}}% \fi% \expandafter\write\expandafter\PDFPOS\argument% \global\advance\PDFSYNC@rder by 1% \fi}% \def\pdfsync{\global\PDFSYNCStartrue\@PDFSYNC\global\PDFSYNCStarfalse}% \def\PDFSYNC@Extra{% % \let\PDFSYNC@maketitle\maketitle\def\maketitle{\pdfsyncstop\PDFSYNC@maketitle\pdfsyncstart} \let\PDFSYNC@newline\\\def\\{{\@PDFSYNC}\PDFSYNC@newline}% \global\let\PDFSYNC@verse\verse \global\def\verse{\PDFSYNC@verse\let\PDFSYNC@newline\\\def\\{{\@PDFSYNC}\PDFSYNC@newline}}% }% \AtBeginDocument{% \pdfsyncstart% \ifPDFSYNCPar\global\let\p@@r\par\gdef\par{{\@PDFSYNC}\p@@r}\fi% \ifPDFSYNCMath\everymath{{\@PDFSYNC}}\fi% \ifPDFSYNCCr\everycr {{\@PDFSYNC}}\fi% \ifPDFSYNCHBox\everyhbox {{\@PDFSYNC}}\fi% \ifPDFSYNCVBox\everyvbox {{\@PDFSYNC}}\fi%there is a bug here \ifPDFSYNCExtra\PDFSYNC@Extra\fi% }% \fi% \endinput

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