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texfont and font mechanism
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Aug '03

19 Aug '03

Digging deep... ;-) While playing with some freeware fonts by apostrophic labs, shy fonts et al., I recognized some limitations of ConTeXt's (or TeX's?) font mechanism. I know this was discussed earlier, but I can't remember/find and answer. I've an overcomplete font family like: \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Covington] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Covington-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifSlanted] [Covington-Rev-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [CovingtonSC] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Covington-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Covington-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldSlanted] [Covington-Rev-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldCaps] [CovingtonSC-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalicCaps] [CovingtonSC-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalicCaps] [CovingtonSC-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldSlantedCaps] [CovingtonSC-Rev-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SerifSlantedCaps] [CovingtonSC-Rev-Italic] You can see, there's SC for every normal font (okay, they're no real small caps, but the like). But I can't access them. There's not even a possibility to access bold caps, is it? Further, why there's only [OldStyle] instead [SerifOldStyle], [SerifBoldOldStyle] etc.? And why don't work these family options (Italics, Bold etc.) with handwriting style? (Some hand fonts have more than one style!) Next question: What does texfont's --expert switch do? Is there already any docs how to write VFs to use expert fonts? (Even for LaTeX, maybe I'd understand it anyway?) If I'd like to setup CE, Greek or Cyrillic fonts, what must I provide? Only an encoding? Is it possible with texfont? Regarding OpenType I'll first read Adam's MyWay. (More questions are in the queue...) Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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Newbie wants to make long tables
by Thomas Schrader 19 Aug '03

19 Aug '03

Hi everybody, I'm wondering how to break up long tables over several pages, automatically placing continuing headers and footers. Thanks much for any help Thomas Schrader -- mailto laborator at web de

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TeXLive 8 and Context
by John Culleton 19 Aug '03

19 Aug '03

I downloaded the latest (well yesterday's) version of the install iso for TeXlive 8. It is still beta. Unlike TeXlive 7 Context did not work after install. The missing piece was the little script: /usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/texexec So I copied that piece of code over from TeXlive 7 and waved my apprentice's wand over the system a few times, per the instructions in texexec.rme: cp ../texexec.rme texexec.ini texexec --verbose texexec --make fmtutil --all texhash (The last two just for a security blanket) ...and I now have Context up and presumably running correctly. So perhaps before TeXlive 8 becomes final final, someone should insert that little script where it belongs in the distro. To find the address for the beta google (groups ) under John Culleton and TeXlive. Someone was kind enough to give it to me. Unfortunately my internet connection is almost kaput thanks to that stupid Microsoft virus. I am connected but when I ping three packets I only get back one. This message may get there someday. Or maybe not. John Culleton John Culleton

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Hyphenate long URLs
by Tobias Burnus 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

Hi, I want to hyphenate an long URL, I currentlty use: \def\gotoURL#1{\useURL[foo][#1]\goto{\url[foo]}[url(foo)]} For one URL there is unfortunally no '.' or '/' near by, and I get: | | http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CylindricalCoordinates | .html | | margin starts --->| page border ->| What I would like to see: | | http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cylin | | dricalCoordinates.html | margin starts --->| page border ->| Note that there should _no_ hyphen be shown. How can I do so? Tobias

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Presentations
by Eduardo Cassiraga 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

%your log says: % % MP prueba-mpgraph.1] (./prueba.tuo) % system(mpost --alias=mpost --undump=metafun prueba-mpgraph)...disabled. % %which means that you should enable write18 in your local texmf.cnf file %(kpsewhich texmf.cnf will tell you where this file resides) % %Hans Hi; Thanks Hans. Unfortunately my system have not a file called texmf.cnf. Is this a MikTeX file or a ConTeXt file? Could I download it from some place? In which directory I must copy the file? Thank you very much. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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Re: Newbie Questions Okay
by Hans Hagen 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

At 08:15 15/08/2003 -0500, you wrote: >At TUG 2003 you showed us how to use use a color filled fullcircle as a >background. Is there a roundedrectangle. I've looked in the METAFun >documentation and can find nothing. I would like to make something like >the attached pdf and figured MetaFun can do that. \setupoutput[pdftex] \startuniqueMPgraphic{rounded} path p ; p := OverlayBox smoothed 2pt ; fill p withcolor OverlayColor ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled OverlayLineWidth withcolor OverlayLineColor ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[rounded][\uniqueMPgraphic{rounded}] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \framed [background=rounded, frame=off, framecolor=green, rulethickness=1pt, backgroundcolor=red] {test me} \stoptext >Is it okay to ask newbie questions on the mailing list. I have been >reading the list for about 10 days and see almost no newbies. Everyone >seems to be very expert. just go ahead and ask! 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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Presentation styles.
by Eduardo Cassiraga 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

Hi, I can't to generate correctly the presentations that include metapost graphics. Could somebody tell me where is the error, please? I send a zip file with the test file using the pre-02 style. Thanks a lot. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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Sieve of Eratosthenes
by David Arnold 17 Aug '03

17 Aug '03

All, I thought this might be a cool little programming challenge that might even make the metafun manual, as technique employed might be unique. I'd like to talk about the Sieve of Eratosthenes in class next week, specifically to find the primes between 1 and 100. This involves listing the integers from 1 to 100 in a 10 by 10 array. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ... ... 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 1 is not prime and can be deleted from the discussion. They way the "sieve" works is to note that 2 is prime, but 4, 6, 8, etc, are not, because they are multiples of 2. The student now goes through the "sieve" crossing out all multiples of 2 (every other number). Then, 3 is a prime, and the student goes through the "sieve" crossing out every multiple of 3 (6, 9, 12, etc). Continue in this process, and the "sieve," when finished, will contain the primes from 1 to 100. Now, for my graphic requirements. 1. Make a grid 10 by 10 with gridlines. This will form 100 boxes to contain the numbers from 1 to 100. 2. Make the entire grid take up as much space as possible on us letter or a4 paper (for an overhead transparency). 3. Put the numbers centered in each "box" formed by the grid. Big numbers of course. Things to learn. 1. This might be a good example for outline fonts for Context users to study. So, setting up the fonts would be a cool example. 2. Would this be an array of boxes? 1 or 2-dimensional? 3. A nice loop for inserting the numbers automatically? 4. Thicker line styles and use of color? I'd love to see different approaches. A good opportunity to learn new technique and ideas for attacking this problem.

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typescripts
by Henning Hraban Ramm 16 Aug '03

16 Aug '03

Hello together! My typescripts are now online: http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-3&lang=en or directly: http://www.ramm.ch/fiee/texnique/material/typescripts.zip The archive contains only typescript files, no AFMs, PFBs, TFMs, VFs, MAPs or the like. Put them in texmf(-var|-local|...)/tex/context/user or in your project directory. Install the fonts with texfont (or with my also contained install-font.pl that calls texfont and does some other nasty work, but it's not very sophisticated, and you must edit the hardcoded TeXRoot yourself -- I know I should use kpsewhich, but...). All file names are supposed lowercase! (I had much problems with uppercase font names.) The archive contains typescripts for the huge (but not so beautiful) font families of URW with their spread from extra narrow to extra wide, and some other for ITC, Adobe and Linotype fonts. I tried to map all fonts to something reachable, e.g. if a family contained no italics, I mapped the next bolder font onto italics. Enjoy! Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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typescripts for free ;-)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Hello! I hope not to get into your spam filter with a "for free" message! ;-) I thought after all that begging and getting help I should do a bit for the community... I made a lot of typescript for URW and Lino fonts. If anyone is interested, I'll put them on my homepage (not the fonts, only the typescripts). BTW: I'll drop my "ConTeXt cookbook" project. I've never enough time to care about it like it was needed. Sorry and and big thanks to all who helped until now! Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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