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installing context with tetex
by WHarms＠bfs.de 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi list, i was impressed with the charts style and have installed comtext. i downloaded the cont-tmf.zip und installed into a (working) tetex. i did a texhash but i still cant find texexec. any hints want went wrong ? regards, walter

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beta / pdftex
by Hans Hagen 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

The latest version assumes the most recent pdftex, i'll fix this; if you run into troubles, add this to cont-new.tex: \ifx\pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel\undefined \newcount\pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel \fi \pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel=0 \ifx\pdfoptionpdfminorversion\undefined \newcount\pdfoptionpdfminorversion \fi \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4 Or patch this in spec-tpd.tex (there is an \else in that file that shoul dnot be there) The mentioned v!synchroniseer problem has to do with a new cont-new.tex being used with an old context; texexec --make --alone may help here. 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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Colors changing when applying "transparent"
by Willi Egger 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

Hi, I would like to use transparnt colors in one of the documents. However the resulting color is different with transparent color. Could anyone try the following code twice setting the %-sign in front of the fill-statement: \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{tBG} path p ; p := unitsquare xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight ; fill p withcolor \MPcolor{white}; % With normal colors, everything is fine (blue is really RGB(0,0,1) % fill p withcolor transparent("normal",.5,\MPcolor{white}); % This however results in fading of ALL of the colors... \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[textBG][\useMPgraphic{tBG}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] \setupbackgrounds[text][background=textBG] \input tufte \stoptext I would expect that the optical appearance of blue shoud not change after application of the transparent color to the gray areq. Regards Willi

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Re: Strange offset
by Tobias Burnus 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

Hi, I get this stange result: The second page (p.3-4) of each embedded file have the wrong offset, for the other pages (p. 6-\infty) they are ok. Any ideas? This is with pdfeTeXk, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=cont-en 2003.10.6 and the TeX code from below. Tobias ------------------------------------------------------------------------- % format=english \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setuppapersize [A4,landscape] [A4,landscape] \setuplayout [height=210mm,width=297mm, header=0pt,footer=0pt, topspace=0.2cm, cutspace=0cm,backspace=1cm] \newcounter\DirtyTrickCounter \startsetups[verydirtytrick] \doglobal\increment\DirtyTrickCounter \ifodd\realpageno \ifodd\DirtyTrickCounter \hbox to \overlaywidth{{\hskip0mm}\foregroundbox} \else \hbox to \overlaywidth{{\hskip-1.3cm}\foregroundbox} \fi \else \ifodd\DirtyTrickCounter \hbox to \overlaywidth{{\hskip10mm}\foregroundbox} \else \hbox to \overlaywidth{{\hskip-0.3cm}\foregroundbox} \fi \fi \stopsetups \defineoverlay [verydirtytrick] [\setups{verydirtytrick}] \starttext \combinepages [main.pdf] [nx=2,ny=1, background=verydirtytrick, frame=off] \combinepages [out.pdf] [nx=2,ny=1, background=verydirtytrick, frame=off] \stoptext

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bold math
by Sytse Knypstra 23 Nov '03

23 Nov '03

Ahoj, On November 11 I asked the list how I could generate bold greek math symbols (I have the lucida family installed). Until now I didn't get a response, so maybe I should be more specific. Let me put it this way: On page 12 of the `Fonts in ConTeXt' manual I find the footnote: `Bold math is already prepared in the core modules, so normally one can do with less code.' Can anybody tell me what code I have to add and where? I would like to get the following line $\theta = {\bfmath \alpha' x}$ with \theta in normal math and \alpha and x in math boldface? Sytse Knypstra

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Examples for letters, articles, books?
by Ralph Pöllath 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Please forgive me if this is a FAQ, but since I just subscribed and the archives aren't searchable, I thought I'd ask. I've been a casual LaTeX user for a couple of years, and now I'd like to give ConTeXt a try. The one thing I'm missing in the docs is a set of examples for common documents, such as letters, articles, books and so on. Could anyone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, -Ralph.

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Re: [NTG-context] Permission denied
by George N. White III 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Idris S Hamid wrote: > Thnx Ed and Giuseppe 4 your help & direction. > > Question: When backing up to cd is there any way to maintain > write-permission upon retransfer to hard disk? I use Nero for back-up. > This is getting off-topic I know... I assume you use Win32. Create an archive (.zip) or use a backup utility. I use Norton/Symantec ghost, which can make an image of a disk partition onto a set of CD's, a different drive/partition, or via network on another machine's local disk. There is a utility like windows explorer to view the contents of an image fileset and copy out individual files. -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Permission denied
by Idris S Hamid 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Hi guys, just reinstalled things, and eomega plus gamma gives me the following: This is e-Omegak, Version 3.14159--1.15--2.1 (Web2c 7.4.5) %&-line parsing enabled. Copyright (c) 2002 the e-Omega task force eomega.exe: context.fls: Permission denied Any idea what I'm missing? best Idris

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Problems with table and Division Line
by Bernd Militzer 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

Hi all, using \DL[2] only once in a row, the function works well, but using \DL[2] twice in a row, I get a error-message: +---------- ! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr. <template> \endtemplate \!ttLongHrule ->\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule \normalTABLEmultirule ...{#1}\normalTABLElongrule & \complexTableDL ...handleTABLEerror \fi \fi \next \fi l.31 \DL[2] \DC \DC \DL[2] \DR ? ! Emergency stop. <template> \endtemplate \!ttLongHrule ->\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule \normalTABLEmultirule ...{#1}\normalTABLElongrule & \complexTableDL ...handleTABLEerror \fi \fi \next \fi l.31 \DL[2] \DC \DC \DL[2] \DR End of file on the terminal! +---------- \starttext \starttable[|c|c|c|c|c|c|] %\starttables[|c|c|c|c|c|c|] % \HL \NC one \NC two \NC three \NC four \NC five \NC six \NC\AR % \DL[2] \DC \DC \DC \DC \DR \VL \TWO{one + two} \VL three \NC four \NC five \NC six \NC\AR % \DC \DC \DC \DL[3] \DR \NC one \NC two \NC three \VL \THREE{four + five + six} \VL\AR % the next line does not work!! \DL[2] \DC \DC \DL[2] \DR % \VL \TWO{one + two} \VL three \NC four \VL \TWO{five + six}\VL\AR \stoptable \stoptext What ist here to do? Any hints will be welcome! Bernd

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ANN: updated bib-module
by Taco Hoekwater 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

Hi all, I just uploaded a new version of my bibliograhic module to http://tex.aanhet.net/bib/ New in this (update)release: Support for APS-style citations, DOI's, Oxford comma's and "et.al.". Of course, there are some bugfixes as well, so everybody who uses my m-bib module is urged to update ASAP. Happy TeXing, Taco

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