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Presentations with Metapost
by Eduardo Cassiraga 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Hi: I am trying to generate presentations using the six styles describing in art-pres.pdf doc by Hans Hagen. I had not problems with the original style but yes with the others styles. I suspect that something about metapost configuration is failing. In the section called Running METAPOST of the cited doc I can read something about two documents: 1) cont-sys.tex: I have not this file. I believe that I have that rename the cont-sys.rme file as cont-sys.tex, but in which directory I must to copy cont-sys.tex file? 2) textmf.cnf: I had not be able to find it. What can I do in order to enable \write18? 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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Referencing another document
by Nigel King 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Guys, I have been searching for how to specify another document (.pdf) to open from the source document. The only method I have found is using \useURL etc. which bring up the web browser as an intermediate step. Please con somebody direct me to the correct method. TIA -- Nigel

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A pretty good day
by David Arnold 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

All, Well today I made some progress with texfont.pl. After getting my Lucida fonts to work I decided to tackle: http://www.pragma-ade.com:8080/context/Members/willi/My%20Way/NaturalTables. tex Got my Palatino fonts installed and working, even the slanted ones! :-) Found that I need pixfonts, which I updated using the Miktex package manager. Then I set texfont to work on these pixfonts. I am just about there, but hung up on the last little bit. In trying to compile NaturalTables.tex with: texexec --pdf --mode=MyWay NaturalTables.tex I get this warning at the end of my log file. Warning: PDFETEX (file rpxmi): Font rpxmi at 600 not found Warning: PDFETEX (file pxsy): Font pxsy at 600 not found {8r.enc}<uplr8a.pfb><uplb8a.pfb> <f:\localtexmf\fonts\pk\ljfour\jknappen\ec\dpi 645\ectt1000.pk><uplr8a.pfb> Output written on NaturalTables.pdf (10 pages, 138726 bytes). Opening the PDF file leads to problems. The first page loads OK, but paging down I get: 1. There was an error processing a page. There was a problem reading this document(14). 2. Could not find a font in the Resources directory--using Helvetica instead. 3. There was a problem reading the document. Examining the fonts in the pdf file shows: URWPalladioL-Roma F104 URWPalladioL-Bold Helvetica So, some sort of font substitution seems to have occurred. Any help or suggestions coming my would be appreciated.

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texfont and type-tmf.dat
by Matthew Huggett 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Hi: When I run texfont as follows: texfont --en=texnansi --fontroot=/usr/share/texmf/fonts /usr/share/context/data/type-tmf.dat texfont reports "unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/[font name]" for each font listed in type-tmf.dat. Where should the fonts be found? Thanks, Matt

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beginner's hazzles with backgrounds and definitions.
by Matthias Weber 03 Aug '03

03 Aug '03

Hi, I am new to context, migrating from latex for the purpose of writing an online book. I would like to set up a few definitions in the environment file that would replace latex's \begin{definition} ... \end{definition} environments. I realize that this can be done conveniently with \defineenumeration, but I want of course a few more features in it then in latex's setup. For example, I'd like to have the definition typeset in some color against some background. I tried the following in the environment file: \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground [defbackground] [backgroundcolor=blue, backgroundoffset=.25cm, offset=.25cm, frame=off, location=paragraph, color=green] \defineenumeration [definition] [text=Definition, location=left, before={\starttextbackground[defbackground]}, after={\stoptextbackground}, letter=it] Then, in the text, when I use \startdefinition This is my definition. \stopdefinition the text comes out green all right, but the blue background is smeared all over two pages. I have tried a few modifications to no avail, so I fear I am doing it all wrong. Curiously, when I typeset the above th first time, I only get the green text (no blue), and the mess shows only up when typesetting the second time. Any help? Thanks, Matthias

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Lucida, some progress
by David Arnold 03 Aug '03

03 Aug '03

All, I am running Miktex on Windows. I took my YandY lucida fonts (pfb and afm files) and put them in a temporary directory, f:\temp\fonts\lucida on my system. I then ran: texfont --fontroot=f:\localtexmf --sourcepath=f:\temp\fonts\lucida --vendor=yandy --collection=lucida --makepath --install I then added the following line to pdftex.cfg. map +texnansi-yandy-lucida.map The following file now compiles. However, feelings are bittersweet. I've got something working, but I have no idea why. Nor am I assured that I've found the proper solution. More difficulties could loom on the horizon. Have I done this the correct way? \setupoutput[pdf] \usetypescript[berry][texnansi] \usetypescript[lbr] \setupbodyfont[lbr] \starttext Hello. This is a {\em test} of what the {\it Lucida} {\sl Fonts} can do at 6 {\sc am}. \placeformula \startformula f(x)=\int_0^x f(t)\, dt \stopformula \stoptext

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Lucida again
by David Arnold 02 Aug '03

02 Aug '03

Hello, I am using the latest version of Miktex. This compiles just fine using pdflatex. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{lucidabr} \begin{document} Now is the time. \begin{equation} \label{eq:1} f(x)=x^2-2x-3. \end{equation} \end{document} But I don't understand how to use my Lucida YandY fonts in Context. I read and reread mfonts.pdf and it makes no sense to me. I tried: \setupoutput[pdf] \usetypescript[lbr] \setupbodyfont[lbr] \starttext Hello. \stoptext But I got this when I tried to compile. ) (F:\miktex\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex) (F:\miktex\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex))makemf --verbose ec-lbr cannot find ec-lbr source file. hbf2gf -q -g ec-lbr 300 MAKETFM: don't know how to make ec-lbr ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ec-lbr at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.4 \setupbodyfont[lbr] Can someone tell me how to proceed?

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Problem with math item in table of contents
by Tobias Burnus 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

Hi, I would like to use this: \completecontent \chapter{$a|b$} \bye the problem is that the bar "|" causes problems in the table of contents. Any ideas how I can still have it in the table? Tobias

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YandY fonts
by David Arnold 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

All, Are there any Miktex users that can show me how to use my YandY fonts with Context? I have both lucida and mathtimes I'd like to use.

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delays
by Hans Hagen 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Hi, due to a switch to adsl there will be a delay in my answering mail 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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