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eps to pdf images
by techw＠siritech.com 07 May '04

07 May '04

Hello all! Thank you all so much for your guidelines in the conversion of eps images to pdf! I will try and answer the queries of Mr.Tobias Burnus: -Please check, whether DataVisualization.pdf exists. Can you open it in acroread/gv? The DataVisualization.pdf does exist, but is blank. Even when I open it in acrobat reader or gv it is totally blank If it doesn't exist, does ghostscript show DataVisualization.eps flawlessly? -What is shown in the TeX-produced PDF file? An empty frame, ...? When I use \placefigure[here,force] {Project Hierarchy Window} {\externalfigure[DataVisualization][type=pdf,height=11cm,width=13cm,preset=yes]} there is a blank space with no frame at all,only the caption is there at the bottom. The original eps image is about 893KB and the PDF shows only 1KB size, so obviously the conversion is not happening, I guess.Any other pointers? Thanks and regards, -priya

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Notes and questions on 432 page book.
by John Culleton 06 May '04

06 May '04

My latest project is almost finished. I have a few comments and questions. The book consists of one part with five unnumbered chapters followed by a second part of 101 numbered chapters, and some endmatter. I was unable to make the Context version of the TOC to single space these 110 or so chapter entries which made the whole TOC longer (more pages) than desired. So I threw Eplain into the mix and typeset the TOC only using the Eplain macros. If there is a way to single space the TOC using the regular Context macros I will be happy to eliminate the Eplain, which may solve some of the other problems. The last six pages consist of an order form, a page of text, and another order form, all backed up by blank pages for six pages total. The order form is created with some \framedtext and \starttable trickery. It compiles fine by itself but gives errors in the \starttable etc. when combined with the main body of the book. It will also coexist with the front matter, so eplain is probably not the culprit. In any case at the moment I have two correct pdfs which I will try to knit together with psmerge or something similar. I used a conventional construction of the job, with a main file which calls subordinate files. In this mode I ended up with two unwanted blank pages after the index. If however I put the \stoptext statement at the end of the main subordinate file the unwanted blank pages disappear. Here is the construction of the main file: ------------------------------ \input fonts.tex \input macros.tex \input part.tex \starttext \startfrontmatter \input half.tex \input title.tex {\tfx \input copy.tex } \noheaderandfooterlines \leftline{\tfb\bf\ss Table of Contents} \blank[big] \readtocfile\rm \page[yes] \noheaderandfooterlines \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \setupwhitespace[medium] \noheaderandfooterlines \input body.tex %\input order.tex %the last six pages start here %\input flyer.tex %\input order.tex \stopbodymatter \stoptext ----------------------------- If I insert a \stoptext statement at the end of the body.tex file then I lose the unwanted blank pages. Are they a byproduct of the \stopbodymatter statement? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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eps to pdf images
by techw＠siritech.com 06 May '04

06 May '04

Hi all! Thanks a lot for the prompt reply, specially to Mr.Hans Hagen and Mr.Tobias Burnus. I don't know anything about Ruby, so I tried using texutil - -epstopdf, but when the ghostscript window comes up it is blank and nothing happens after that. What do I need to do? I am attaching the commands that I gave to generate the pdf files .(See attached file: epstopdf.txt) Thanks in advance! Regards, -priya.

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Internal documentation of Context modules.
by John Culleton 06 May '04

06 May '04

I have figured out that there is a way to print out the internal documentation of the various Context modules in a manner that makes some sense. I first use grep to extract all the %D lines of a module into a separate file e.g., foo.tex. Then I eliminate the %D tag from all lines using Vim. I add \starttext and \stoptext statements. Then I run texexec --pdf foo.tex. The result is imperfect but more or less intelligible. It seems to me that there might be a script buried somewhare in the system that does this better. If so, what is it called? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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eps images
by techw＠siritech.com 05 May '04

05 May '04

Hello all! I have been using Context only recently. I need to import eps images into the documents(a lot of them). Despite running texutil and setting the path for Ghost Script, I am getting only blank eps images or gray boxes in the pdf. Is there a driver that I need to do the conversion from eps to pdf ? I am able to import jpg images. Do I have to convert the eps images to pdf externally and then import them using context tags? I have been stuck on this problem for amonth now.Help please! Thanks and regards, -priya.

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special characters and \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}
by Helmut Schwertner 03 May '04

03 May '04

Hello, the following example does not work if the text in the \FrameTitle{Blockflötenspielen} contains special characters like öäßé etc. Has someone a solution for this problem? Thanks a lot, Helmut *********************************************************** \mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \enableregime[windows] \setuppapersize[a4][a4] \setupoutput[pdftex] \pdfcompresslevel=0 \runMPgraphicstrue \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame} picture p; numeric w, h, o; p:=textext.rt(\MPstring{FunnyFrame}); w:=OverlayWidth; h:=OverlayHeight; o:=BodyFontSize; p:=p shifted (2o,h-ypart center p); draw p; drawoptions (withpen pencircle scaled 1pt withcolor .625blue); draw (2o,h)--(0,h)--(0,0)--(w,0)--(w,h)--(xpart urcorner p, h) ; draw boundingbox p; setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled (w,h); \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[FunnyFrame][\useMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}] \defineframedtext[FunnyText][frame=off,background=FunnyFrame] \def\StartFrame{\startFunnyText} \def\StopFrame{\stopFunnyText} \def\FrameTitle#1% {\setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{\hbox spread 2em {\hss\strut#1\hss}}} \setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{} \starttext \FrameTitle{Blockflötenspielen} \StartFrame These: Blockflötenspielen macht Spaß! \StopFrame \stoptext

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Re:: \filbreak OK--TOC again--dupes in index.
by John Culleton 01 May '04

01 May '04

Taking the last question first, when I switched over to eplain and makeindex the error of my ways became apparent--- a spurious space in an \index statement which in makeindex sorts that item ahead of the letter "A". The Context reaction to the error was different. But it was clearly user error. Since I have a job to get out the door this week, and tomorrow is Friday, I will continue with makeindex. I will also use the eplain macro for the TOC. An answer to my earlier question in re. spacing in the TOC would be welcomed however for future reference. I will try \filbreak and see if anything breaks. To make the eplain macros coexist with Context requires commenting out one line in eplain.tex: %\def^^L{\par}% What this line does I have no idea. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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\filbreak OK--TOC again--dupes in index.
by John Culleton 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

1. Is it OK to use the plain tex command \filbreak in a Context run? If not OK is there a Context command that has the same effect (preventing a section of text from being split between pages)? 2. Also, I have tried several changes to my TOC code but it still yields a blank line between items. Yet the TOC of some manuals are single spaced. I cannot spot the anomaly. 3. Finally, I notice an anomaly in the indexing capability of Context. For many years I have relied on makeindex, which among other things prevents dupicative entries (the same page number printed twice on the same entry.) However Context seems to allow that. I can of course revert to the eplain indexing macros and makeindex, but it seems to me that Context should not print the same page number twice in the index. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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verbatim problem
by Severin Obertüfer 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

hello i have a little verbatim problem i used the \startEIFFEL \stopEIFFEL verbatim environment in a verry simple way like this: \startEIFFEL class DEQUE [G] inherit DOUBLE_LINKED_LIST[G] rename extend as insertRight, prepend as insertLeft end create make, make_empty feature -- Access -- and so on \stopEIFFEL now i wanted to make this things a bit more useful and flexible. i thougt of something like this \startEIFFEL \input deque \stopEIFFEL but of corse the keyword input is normal text in verbatim mode... :) is there a simple solution for that, for example like this \startEIFFEL \specialcommand{\input deque} \stopEIFFEL ??? by the way : can i give as to the inputcommand a argument like this: \input D:\Files\ETH\Eiffel\deque.e where "deque.e" is a normal eiffel source file.... thanks for an answer mfg severin

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marking, headers and 2 columns
by Tobias Hilbricht 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

Dear readers of this list, I would like to typeset a bible-text with ConTeXt. The header should print the first and the last verse on that particular page. I used the commands \marking to mark the verses and \getmarking to setup the headers as shown in the excerpt below. This works correctly with a single column layout, but not in a two column layout. The last verse printed in the headers is not the correct one, the first or the second on the following page is given. Is there a work around for this problem? Many thanks in advance for helpful hints Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht ---------------- % Kopie von nova-vulgata_vt_genesis.html % zur Weiterbearbeitung mit ConTeXt \mainlanguage[la] \language[la] \setupencoding[default=ec] \usetypescript[berry][ec] \setupheadertexts[{\getmarking[vers][first]} -- {\getmarking[vers][last]}][1. Mose] \definemarking[vers][] \setupcolumns[2] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,right}] \setupheadertexts[{\getmarking[vers][first]} -- {\getmarking[vers][last]}][Liber Genesis] \starttext \startcolumns LIBER GENESIS 1 \marking[vers]{1, 1} 1 In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram. \marking[vers]{1, 2} 2 Terra autem erat inanis et vacua, et tenebrae super faciem abyssi, et spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas. \marking[vers]{1, 3} 3 Dixitque Deus: "Fiat lux". Et facta est lux. . ... many more verses (12 pages) . \stopcolumns \stoptext

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