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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 2003 miseries.
by George N. White III 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Culleton wrote: > I installed the latest version of TeXLive 2003 (the so-called demo > version) and did the fmtutil and texhash bit. When I ran a job for a > customer, texexec hung up at the point where a graphic was being > loaded. So I went back to last year's texlive in a terrible hurry. > That worked fine. What platform? I tried to install various rc's on Win98 and ran into numerous problems: 1. the perl scripts were confused by the embedded spaces in the default "c:\Program Files\.." install path. In general, ConTeXt does not play well for paths that have embedded spaces. 2. the perl scripts search the PATH directories and supply a the full pathname of programs (e.g., /texLive/bin/Win32/kpsewhich.exe) to perl's backtick. This failed when running texexec.exe in a command.com window, Replaceing the "/" with "\" helps, but there were too many places to fix in the time available, and meanwhile the disk on the system I was borrowing died (due, I am quite sure, to overextertion caused by the direct searching of the texmf trees for texexec.ini when kpsewhich failed to run). On Mandrake linux 9.0 and SGI Irix 6.5 TeXLive 2003 (full install) works fine (using the current cont-tmf.zip which is a few days newer than the version in TeXLive 2003). The perl scripts have not changed. > Earlier, when TeXLive 2003 was still in beta they left out texexec > altogether. On unix they just forgot to make some symlinks, the perl scripts were there. On Win32, I used Active State perl.exe to run the scripts. > Has anyone else tried Context using graphics on TeXLive 2003? I hate > to report a bug to Tug if my experience is unique. OTOH if the iso > image is defective in some way I do need to let someone know pronto. I'm not sure about the demo image. If you are using Win32, does texexec.exe find texexec.ini using kpsewhich? -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca>

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\but command for referring to index.
by John Culleton 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

The useful d-en-all.tex example shows buttons used for accessing Acrobat Reader functions and also for jumping to the Contents page. I would like to create a button that would jump to the back-of-book index. The info in the manual is a bit terse and I don't quite follow it. also, I read posts referring to a \button command. How does this differ from the \but command? Thanks for any help! -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Typo in d-en-all.tex
by John Culleton 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

I uncovered an ancient typo. Here is a text fragment from the above document: \ShowSample {001} {A simple document} \ShowSample {002} {Setting up the page} \ShowSample {003} {Using the margin} \ShowSample {004} {Adaptive headers and footers} \ShowSample {004} {Some bookmarks} The 004 file is called twice, and the 005 file is omitted. Sounds like a case for 007 :-) John Culleton

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again inmargin problems
by Willi Egger 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Dear gang, Thanks Bill for your reply on my previous mail concerning struggles with the inmargin texts. As you can see I explicitely set the width of the margins. In order to make things easier to see I attach a minimal test file. Does anybody see the clue, how to tell Context to use the full marginwidth? Cheers Willi

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Odp: Re: [NTG-context] Visual creators for ConTeXt
by ^Nitram^ 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Hi, [cut seggestion] Ok - I wait for any comments and I will work for improving functionality - but of course I have limited time for working on it. ;( But after weekend I think there will be much more ;) > Is is it posible that the popu-window for changing the shape and [cut] Hmm... For now the 'window' is calling 'in reference' to changing element - for elements near side of document this menu is hidding and scrolling is needed - I will try do it automatically ;) And also scrolling to actual choiced element type in that long list of types ;) > The table creator looks promising. Nice to read polish helptexts :-) It is a mistake, of course ;) Have someone a little time to writing texts in english ? ;) My knolwedge of English is a little poor, so sometimes I have a problems ;( > Nice overview of the commands. Is there a "copy to clipboard" > intended? Of course ;) > I hope you will further invest into this project. I hope so, too ;) I will try implement also setups for \setupTABLE (especially odd, even columns and rows), so the question is: is somewhere examples how use xml commands instead setupTABLE ? I would like make alternative choice to generating code - for bTABLE-eTABLE environment and <table>-</table> also. -- Best regards Martin

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Re: [NTG-context] Visual creators for ConTeXt
by ^Nitram^ 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Hi, > (btw, do you use the xml alternative of the command reference?) I'm sorry - could you explain this question?... ;) Parameters for commands I get from manual - I had a short script in php which made a code in javascript - that is a cause of many errors in these 'creators'... But the code is preparing to making help on each parameter and each value, but where can I find so detailed description ;) I'm realy new user in ConTeXt - about 2 months (no experience in any TeX system before) so you must forgive my inexperience ;) -- Best regards Martin

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: texfont and type-tmf.dat
by George N. White III 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Nigel King wrote: > > Why do you whish to reinstall all the supplied fonts? Or do you just > > want to learn how to use texfont? > I simply wish to use the fonts as most others do (I think) and I am unable > to because of this bug. The normal context fonts do not exist on Gerben's > version. Before Gerben's reorganisation they were made by texfont, this now > does not work because of what I believe to be a simple (I do not understand > Perl otherwise I would have a go at fixing it) bug in texfont. Maybe I am > wrong but I am beginning to find this extremely frustrating (7 months). Once > I realised that somebody was working on texfont 1.8 I had hoped for a fix. On all the systems I use, (linux, SGI Irix, Win32 with texLive) you have to run texfont to generate tfm's, vf's and map files for fonts other than CM. The last time I tried to run texfont (from the final TeX Live 2003 inst iso), it tried to use a lower-cased version of the install path, e.g., /opt/texline instead of /opt/texLive. > If no developer/Perl expert has Gerbens version of tetex perhaps I could > help debug if a version was supplied to me that printed out the full path > that texfont was looking for files in. The --fontroot option or kpsewhich > lookup appears to be at fault but I have no debugging facilities. > > Any suggestions (other than giving up) gratefully received. You will have to learn a tiny bit of perl (which is easier than learning TeX). -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca>

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Re: [NTG-context] texfont and type-tmf.dat
by Nigel King 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Hi, I am posting this message I posted to the 'OS X TeX' group earlier this year relating to the same issue that Mathew is raising. I had no luck then but am hoping for more success now there are two of us. Hans says 'this is under discussion now with thomas/staszek/etc: has to do with urw metrics not being in tetex by default (they are on tex live)' However, Gerben's i-Installer installs them here in a different location than normal. (I think these are the only pair of files that are necessary for utmb8a to work.) /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/times/utmb8a.afm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmb8a.pfb I believe that the problem is merely with texroot as I state below. Further evidence for this is that it nearly all worked before Gerben rearranged the directories. Earlier message....... Hi, Some of my previous font problems here were due to not enabling all of the font map file in the final configuration of the install. I think someone else had the same problem. Adobekb.tex is now helping me well, however I am finding it necessary still to run with the Context font system for some documents for the moment, and for this texfont has to run to create the various font files. Running the single command texfont --en=8r --ve=urw --co=courier --so=auto Should work but returns processing aborted : unknown tex root /sw/share/texmf/ Clearly texroot is set incorrectly so forcing that texfont --en=8r --ve=urw --co=courier --so=auto --fontroot=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/ Should work but returns processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/courier And yet /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrb8a.afm Exists This process worked in the v2 version of the i-installer indeed still works when reinstalled. I am presuming that the new problem is because of the texmf.tetex that the texfont perl script is now not able to understand. Perl is beyond my small brain! Any help much appreciated -- Nigel

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uncompatibility?
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

Hi all! I've installed TeX based on tl8 which is used paralely with based on tl7. Attached ZIP contains TeX code and two outputs with logs; tl7 and 8, which are quite different... There are some warnings in newer one (about doubled map entries) but shouldn't play a role here. Thanks for any hints! Regards, Pawe/l

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Re: font mystery
by Thomas A.Schmitz 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

Maybe one further element that would suggest Context is using a cached copy of the tfm-file instead of the newly created file: when I move the file Myfont.tfm out of the $home/texmf/fonts/tfm directory, pdftex gives me the expected error "! I can't find file `Myfont'." However, Context will still happily produce output--with an outdated copy of the tfm! So context must be caching it somewhere, and I need to flush that cache. Anyone an idea how this can be done? Thanks Thomas

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