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texfont / typescripts
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Ahoi! Hans, texfont seems to have a little bug: If one installs TrueType fonts, it complains about missing pfb (I can ignore that), but the map file maps only to pfb, not ttf. My install-font script fixes that, but I suppose it's no problem to fix that in texfont. I didn't try OpenType yet, but guess the same problem. And I'd suggest to let texfont write a sample typescript, as my script does. (Then I could drop it.) BTW: There's now a typescript for Microsoft's standard TT fonts in my collection. (http://www.ramm.ch/fiee/texnique/material/typescripts.zip) Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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Re: [NTG-context] 2 basic questions on placefigure options
by Steffen Wolfrum 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hallo Hans, did you already have some time to have a look in question number 2? I am asking because next week I could typeset a book that has about 80 smaller figures which need to be included in the text - textpages with one image top/left and another bottom/right (with text flowing around both). And since your answer I have hope again that it is possible to be done in ConTeXt. (Otherwise I'd have to use another program like FrameMaker which I try to avoid.) Thank you very much, Steffen At 14:17 03/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >After reading the different manuals two questions still stay unanswered: > >1. Is it true that a figure with text flowing around it (placefigure >option left/right) has always to start with a beginning of a paragraph, so >that it is not possible to place it in the middle of a text when it is >mentioned there? > >2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure >options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text >floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big >landscape formats would be with the top option)? > >I hope I just missed something... 1. indeed 2. should not be too difficult, i'll look into it Hans Great, thank you. Then (2) could be a bit of a practical alternative to the missing of (1). Steffen

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box, strut
by Patrick Gundlach 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hello, could someone please explain the following result? \starttext \setbox0=\hbox{fg}\showbox0 \setbox0=\hbox{\strut fg}\showbox0 \stoptext gives > \box0= \hbox(8.33331+2.33331)x9.46518 ./cmr12/f ./cmr12/g ! OK. l.3 \setbox0=\hbox{fg}\showbox0 > \box0= \hbox(10.41603+4.05064)x9.46518 .\hbox(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 ..\rule(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 ..\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil minus 1.0fil ./cmr12/f ./cmr12/g ! OK. l.4 \setbox0=\hbox{\strut fg}\showbox0 OK, the first box is easy. The second one gives me a slight headache: why is the rule 10.4 + 4.1 pt? (14.46667 total) the definition of strut(box) is \setbox\strutbox=\hbox{\vrule height8.5pt depth3.5pt width\z@} so where do the other 2.46667 point come from? Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

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\setupheadertexts
by John Culleton 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

I want to have chapter names in the header text and I want them in boldface. This works: \setupheadertexts[text][{\bf My book}][chapter] but this: \setupheadertexts[text][{\bf my book}][\bf chapter] just shows the literal word "chapter". So how do I do this? John Culleton

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spacing in heads
by Patrick Gundlach 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hello ConTeXt-hackers, why is there so much space above the word hello? Anybody know how to get rid of it? \starttext \setuphead[section][textcommand=\framed,before=] \hbox{\framed[width=5cm,height=5cm,align={middle,high}]{\section{Hello} why is there so much space above the word hello??}} \stoptext Patrick

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ConTeXt project structure?
by Gerben Wierda 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

It is probably my lack of brain cells, but I do not understand chapter 2 of the ConTeXt manual at all. Suppose I have a manual-like document and I want to produce different PDF-files out of it: 1. The book 2. The book in another layout 3. The book in screen format with navigation 4. A simple presentation with bullet points, one or more pages per chapter As I understand it I will need 4 environments: .../foo/bookenv.tex .../foo/book2env.tex .../foo/bookscreenenv.tex .../foo/presentation.tex and I can put each chapter in a component file, i.e. chapter1.tex, chapter2.tex etc. .../foo/chapter1.tex .../foo/chapter2.tex But here my understanding stops. - Should I create a project file for each of the 4 modes above? And put these in different subdirectories as in: .../foo/book/book.tex .../foo/book2/book2.tex etc.? Or do I use multiple environments in one project and I can get 4 PDF's as a result? Or are these multiple products (I would guess this, but how then to set it up)? Should my chapter files contain \startcomponent \stopcomponent and does that mean they are independently compilable? I have been reading and re-reading this, but the relation between project, environment, component and product keeps escaping me. Is there a good example somewhere?

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strange itemize
by Patrick Gundlach 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Dear ConTeXt hackers, I try such a simple itemize, but I do get a warning: check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'serried' in line 6 (@@opitemiz but the documentation says: \startitemgroup[...][...,...,...][...,...=...,...] ... \stopitemgroup [...] <name> [...,...,...] a A KA n N m r R KR <number> continue standard broad serried packed stopper joinedup atmargin inmargin intro columns [...,...=...,...] see \setupitemgroup (1) And this is what I try: -------------------- \starttext \defineconversion[patrick][\numbers] \startitemize[patrick][serried] \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \stopitemize \stoptext -------------------- Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

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naming and distribution of typescripts
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hi, Walter Schmidt has made the font DayRoman from Apostrophic Labs available to TeX. Currently the support package doesn't contain any ConTeXt support, i.e. typescripts. I've made for me a typescript for these fonts and now Walter is interested in including ConTeXt support in his package. His package is distributed as zip-file that can be directly unpacked in a texmf-tree. Thus, where should the typescript-file be located? In my private texmf-tree i use TEXMF/tex/context/user/typescripts/ and the file names start with "cts-" (i.e. cts-dayroman.tex). Is there some standard how to name typescripts and locate them in a texmf-tree, so that distribution of typescripts is possible in a controled way? BTW, i would prefer that \usetypescriptfile[dayroman] first tries to load dayroman.cts and if it is not available it tries dayroman.tex. Then we can use the extension "cts" for ConTeXt TypeScripts in the future. Best, Jens

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\digits
by Patrick Gundlach 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hello, while browsing the source, I came across the very nice \digits macro. But I have some comments: In my opinion some characters don't look right \starttext \digits 123.222,= % short, OK \digits 123.222,== % should be em dash (?) \digits +123.222,22 % OK \digits -123.222,33 % too small \stoptext The + and - should be the same size. Any comments? Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

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MetaPost error
by ^Nitram^ 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hello I'm very newbie in ConTeXt and I can't generate any document with MetaPost... For example: \startFLOWchart etc. I generate: makemem metafun I did texexec --make --alone metafun and I still have error: initexmf: don't know to dump metafun I can't find default mem file! Where I can set it or something else do to fix this ?... Best regards martin

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