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m-cweb.tex tolerances and penalties
by Edwin Wisse 13 Oct '03

13 Oct '03

Hello, I've used the m-cweb module to put a weaved program source in a document. I noticed that this results in an awful lot of overful boxes. Anyone with similar experiences? What can I do about it? Regards, Edwin

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\inmargin{} problems with typsetting inmargin texts
by Willi Egger 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

Hi all, I got a text, where the left i.e. the inner margin is small (.8cm) and the right margin is larger (1.7cm). This layout is intended for a doublesided print. On different places I have to insert a \inmargin{\bf Let op!} (i.e. pay attention). The strange thing is, that on lefthandpages the inmargin text is typset in the left (outer) margin but it is typeset on two lines, indicating that the measures of the leftmargin of the righthandpage is used. - Is this a normal behaviour or otherwise how can I instruct ConTeXt to use the whole width of the left i.e. outer margin? Thanks for advising Willi

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\usepath[...] \usesubpath[...] ???
by Bernd Militzer 12 Oct '03

12 Oct '03

Hi Hans, thanks for Your help, but I am sorry \usepath[...] \usesubpath[...] do not work in that way I thought. I start in /home/bmi/import/TestConTeXt/blocks/ with four files: demo.tex = the project-file eniro.tex = the enviroment student.tex = a data-file with two text-blocks test.tex = a work-file, which will use text-blocks from student.tex all things are pretty good -- in test.tex I can use the text-blocks from student.tex (student.tub). When I separate the dat-file = student.tex and the work-file work-file = test.text in different subdirs it ist not possible to use the text-blocks form student.tex in test.tex ~/import/TestConTeXt/blocks/data/student.tex with all help-files -- all things are ok ~/import/TestConTeXt/blocks/work/test.tex running texexec test.tex, no text-block from student.tex In file test.tmp: % test.top \unprotect \setupsystem[\c!gebied={/home/bmi/}] \setupsystem[\c!n=1] \setupsystem[inputfile=test.tex] \protect How have I to set up the path? \usepath[/import/TestConTeXt/blocks/] or \usepath[/home/bmi/import/TestConTeXt/blocks/] ??? \usesubpath[dat, work] or \usesubpath[dat/, work/] ??? I have no idea -- please give me a hint to stop my frustation! thanks Bernd

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: texfont and type-tmf.dat
by George White 10 Oct '03

10 Oct '03

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > [...] > According to to the statements from Walter Schmidt, a TeX font expert > (perhaps I should say *the* TeX font expert?) in > http://tug.daimi.au.dk/archives/tex-fonts/msg01328.html > > \quote{% .... > Note, however, that embedding of URW's fonts, while using the > (PSNFSS) Adobe Base35 metrics, will _not_ lead to any bugs! > The character metrics are matching! Differences in the > "character bounding boxes" are irrelevant for the advance widths! > The only drawback is, that you cannot access those glyphs that > are in the URW fonts, but not in the Adobe fonts. Indeed, this > could be overcome by providing particular metrics and VFs for > the URW fonts -- see below. } Hans has demonstated that even the Adobe fonts don't have the same metrics. It should also be noted that in practice, if you don't embed fonts, you will often get font substitutions in the PS rasterizer (e.g., ghostscript defaults will use URW fonts where the file requests a Base35 font, current acrobat reader will use Arial where the file requests Helvetica, some printers with clone interpreters (many recent HP models) use "clone" fonts. There are several versions of the URW fonts in use now: two ghostscript versions, and a number of versions with additional glyphs distributed with linux (and I am told that the software used to create the recent versions may have tampered with the metrics for glyphs that were not changed). If you embed the URW fonts using the original URW names it is clear which fonts are to be used. This discourages people from "optimizing" your files by stripping out the fonts. For archival EPS figures it makes sense to go further and replace fonts with outline paths. In this way the figures should remain useful even after the fonts are no longer supported by the available rasterizers. -- George White <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> <gnw3(a)acm.org> 189 Parklea Dr., Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia B3Z 2G6

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combination figures
by Ed L Cashin 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

Hi. I have the following code in my source, to try to get a combination of two figures in one: \placefigure {10,000 random|-|value pixels added} \startcombination[2] {\externalfigure[noise1][height=.4\textwidth]}{image 1} {\externalfigure[noise2][height=.4\textwidth]}{image 2} \stopcombination ... but I get an error, so I am probably doing something wrong. The whole log is below. My context version is pretty new, as the transcript shows. Thanks for any advice! <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 7:2-it-2 2-nl-2 l oaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : p.top loaded (./p.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex systems : please update your pdfTeX binaries specials : loading definition file fdf (/opt/teTeX-1.0.7/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1907] \ifcsname <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) (./p.tuo) systems : begin file p at line 6 section : 1 Image Conditioning subsection : 1.1 Noise addition ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \let \noshowargumenterror ->\let \expectedarguments \noexpectedarguments \dodoubleempty #1->\noshowargumenterror \doifnextcharelse [{\dodoubletestemp... l.27 \startcombination [2] ? ! Emergency stop. <to be read again> \let \noshowargumenterror ->\let \expectedarguments \noexpectedarguments \dodoubleempty #1->\noshowargumenterror \doifnextcharelse [{\dodoubletestemp... l.27 \startcombination [2] ! ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file not finished! Transcript written on p.log. return code : 256 run time : 1 seconds total run time : 1 seconds make: *** [p.pdf] Error 1 Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Thu Oct 9 11:19:52 -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin(a)uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/

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first attempt to run mp
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 09 Oct '03

09 Oct '03

Hi all! I've just made a quick test -- running metapost with ConTeXt. The sample code was just: \starttext The simplest metapost code sample \startMPgraphic fill unitsquare scaled 123 withcolor (.2,.3,.4) ; \stopMPgraphic \stoptext which looks ok, right? And of course mpost creates nice navy square from that code. But running texexec --automprun sample.mp cause a serious system error; ''There is a problem with mpost.exe and bla bla bla''. Smart and clever' windows XP try to report that problem to microsoft. The problem occur just after terminal says This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2c 7.3.7x) (mpgraph.mp and after that system display an error box. As manual says I 've made some changes in texmf.cnf: openout_any = a shell_escape = t allow_multiple_suffixes = f What should I do next to catch 'serious system error' while running metapost code included in tex code? Is the problem comonly known? Thanks, Pawe/l

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persisent default font
by Pawel Jackowski na WP 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Hi all! I came across the same problem twice in different operating systems, so... As I wrote about two weeks ago, I 've generated context format with command texexec --make --language=pl,en,de --bodyfont=plr en expecting to have format 'cont-en.efmt' (with english interface) which includes polish and english hyphenation patterns, with PL as default language and PLR as default font. LOG file created during format creation shows what I would expect: \unprotect \installlanguage[\s!pl][\c!status=\v!start] \installlanguage[\s!en][\c!status=\v!start] \installlanguage[\s!de][\c!status=\v!start] \setupcurrentlanguage[\s!pl] \definetypescriptsynonym[cmr][plr]\definefilesynonym[font-cmr][font-plr] \protect \endinput The thing I can't understand is that when I compile any file (like 'Hello wórld!\end') log file says: language : language en is active and Missing character: There is no ˇ in font cmr12! and so on. Encodings doesn't matter in this case. The point is why cmr12, not plr12 is used and why english language, not polish is active? Oh, by the way; how can I change default TeX machine for ConTeXt? I mean how to change it using still 'texexec' command (not 'any_tex_machine &cont-en.efmt')? And another question; how to generate *.fmt format (for TeX, not for eTeX) with 'texexec --make' command? If one use fmtutil there is fmtutil.cfg file which allows user to map formats with engines. But where can I set it for 'texexec --make'? Thanks for any hints, Pawe/l

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(can be better done global) ???
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Hi, when defining an unusual size for my footnotes \setupfootnotes[bodyfont=8.5pt, ... ] I get an amazing amount of messages bodyfont: bodyfont XXpt is defined (can be better done global) with XX being various sizes. Which makes processing real slow... What is meant by "global defining"? Where should I write a "global" definition and how does it look like? Sorry, but I really have now idea. Thank you, Steffen

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Odp: Re: [NTG-context] The smallest instalation for work with ConTeXt and MetaFun (TeXLive8) ?
by ^Nitram^ 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Hi, [cut] >> What may be wrong ? [cut] > Does it help you ? I'm a little 'confused' in installation of ConTeXt now ;) Yours advices (and texmf.cnf from Hans) didn't works on my mobile machine with previous (recommended) installation. But today I tried install it on other computer and I: - get 'generic basic' type of installation (with pictex(2) and langpolish) - without any changes - works fine, but no polish characters and metapost - make plr fonts and metafun format - fine, but no metapost - uncomment \useMETAFUNformattrue, \reuseMPslotstrue, \runMPgraphicstrue, \runMPTEXgraphicstrue, \runutilityfiletrue in texmf/tex/context/base/cont-sys.ori and copy to cont-sys.tex - everything works fine ;) So, I will check it on my second computer - soon I will be expert in ConTeXt instalation ;))) PS. Thanks to everybody who helps me in my first steps in ConTeXt - tomorrow I send the link to (early beta version ;) visual creators of tables and flowcharts in ConTeXt... -- Best regards Martin

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schema/dtd for x-contml.tex
by Patrick Gundlach 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Dear ConTeXt users, is there a DTD or a RELAX NG schema for x-contml available? Patrick -- You are your own rainbow!

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