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Perl scripts almost unusable under Win32 MiKTeX
by Giuseppe Bilotta 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Recent ConTeXt updates have rendered some Perl scripts (texshow.pl & modules) unusable under MiKTeX because they heavily rely on web2c methods to find binaries and complementary files. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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m-BibTeX problems
by Tobias Burnus 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hi, I have some strange bibTeX problems. a) I try to show DOI references in the publication list, therefore I created the macro \gotoDOI{} and modified \setuppublicationlayout[article]. As long as I don't use \setupinteraction[state=start], the DOI is hyphenated. Using \setupinteraction[state=start], the DOI is no longer hyphenated. Calling \gotoDOI directly, works (both cases), but with interaction enabled the DOI is printed in bold and with wide spacing after the possible line break points ("10. 1103" instead of "10.1103"). See attached files. Run them (with m-bib installed) as: texexec --once --pdf test; bibtex test; texexec --pdf test b) I'd like to see that I can click on the number in [4] and jump to the entry in the publicationlist: It is much more fun to read an article, thesis, etc. when one can click on the reference instead of searching for the reference list (going back is less important; after all, 'Go to previous view' exists). c) Someone should write a texutil plugin which automatically runs bibtex if necessary. I tend to forget this. (I will look into this as soon as I have time, i.e. probably in March.) Tobias

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VTeX
by Peter Münster 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hello, is it possible to get work ConTeXt and VTeX together? It's interesting because of free EC fonts in type 1 format in the VTeX-Linux distribution. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ------------------------------------ Film Search site: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Here's a strange one for Metapost gurus
by David Arnold 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

All, I've run across an interesting bug that I haven't seen before. In the attached Metpost file, if I delete the last figure (beginfig(8)...endfig), the file compiles. However, with beginfig(8)...endfig, the file gives this error: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] >> path >> pen ! Not implemented: penoffset(path)of(pen). <to be read again> ; pen_pickup_->...part.penoffset.left.of.currentpen; pen_bot:=ypart.penoffset.r... <to be read again> ; l.499 pickup pencircle scaled 2pt; ? As the code in beginfig(8)...endfig is a simple copy and paste of the code in beginfig(1)...endfig, this is perplexing to say the least. If in beginfig(8)...endfig, I replace the lines %draw pendulum length pickup pencircle scaled 2pt; draw A--E; pickup defaultpen; with: %draw pendulum length draw A--E withpen pencircle scaled 2pt; Now the file will compile. This is strange indeed! Any ideas?

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extensie pl
by Wilfried Van Hirtum 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Als ik aan de dos-prompt typ: texexec voorbeeld dan krijg ik de foutmelding "texexec wordt niet herkend als een interne of externe opdracht, programma of batchbestand" met texexec.pl voorbeeld lukt het wel. Ik ben overigens een absolute beginner in context. Ik vind op het net echter nergens een echte beginnershandleiding die alles van naaldje tot draadje uitlegt. Het lijkt een wereldje waar je zelf alles moet uitzoeken. Is dit zo? Wilfried Van Hirtum --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003

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style questions
by Janko Hauser 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hello everybody, Over the last days I started to write a "Requirement" document. I started from the example documents provided at the fiee-site, which are a big help. I use this as an exercise to see, what markup is actually needed in the content, to transform from XML documents later on. First some things I already solved, but want to ask, if it was in the right way. 1. I want to mark some words consistently and used the \definesynonyms command for this, although I only use the second form. \definesynonyms[glossar][explanation][\infull] \glossar [ZOPE] {\em Zope} {Web Applikationsserver} Is there a better way to style words consistently? I find it difficult to distinguish between \ZOPE\ and \ZOPE, especially for the possible later translation from XML. 2. In the example there is an indirection for the section definitions. \definehead [Topic] [chapter] \definehead [Nopic] [title] Later on the newly defined headers are styled. But they are used as the only headers throughout the document. So why not style the original ones? 3. I have defined colored header bars in the following ways. \setuphead [subject, Subject,section] [command=\mysec, page=no, continue=no, style={\ss\bs}, color=black] \def\mysec#1#2{\framed[width=\textwidth, corner=round, radius=0.05em, background=color, backgroundcolor=HKS5, framecolor=HKS5]{\startnarrower[1*left,1*right] #2 \hfill #1 \stopnarrower}} They are spanning the complete textwidth. What I now want is to have a smaller textwidth, but the bars should remain broader, as broad as the header and footer lines. Any hints? 4. How to deal with metadata, like author, version, last modified and so. Would you recommend to use buffers for this? This information is probably used on the title page and the footer of each page. Ok, now a real question. I want to style the actual requirements in form of a papercard, whith their actual status at the top. This would be an new definition with 2 or 3 arguments. But the requirements should also be enumerated. How can one build such an environment? Derive somehow from \defineenumeration? --------------------------------------------------------------- |ReqNbr | Title | status | date| --------------------------------------------------------------- | longer text .... with paragraphs and pagebreaks | --------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry for the ascii-art (cough :-). These cards should be able to span more than one page. In the light of this a table with running heads would also be an option, right? Thanks for this great package, it is a lot of fun and full of gems. TIA, __Janko

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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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