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Help : pdf figure is black !
by Maurice Diamantini 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

Bonjour à tous, I'm trying to switch from Latex + pstrick to latex3 and Metapost (alias context :-) For now, I'm trying to reproduice a Latex + Seminar + pstricks slides. Before to switch to Metapost, I'd like to include the pstricks figure as pdf external file (from eps file) The figure is OK and I can see it with xpdf or acroreqad. But when I use it in ConText, the background is all black. I've been unable to play whith the various option : 2 \externalfigure [01-problematique.pst.pdf] [width=0.4\textwidth, % bfactor=0.9, % raster=0.9, background=screen, % background=color, backgroundscreen=1.0, backgroundcolor=yellow, ] 3 Any idea ? P.S. I think that the "Context" name is a bad choice, because it's difficult to find on the web (to much pages are found) It would be better to name it "ConTeX" ! Maurice. -- Maurice.Diamantini(a)ensta.fr - ENSTA/LMA École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées http://www.ensta.fr/~diam

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new version + magazine
by Hans Hagen 04 Mar '03

04 Mar '03

Hi, I uploaded a new beta, which included the magazine style (s-mag-01). Two column formats will follow when i have the need for that. I want to promite this beta to the normal version later this week, unless problems show up. I also uploaded show-mag.pdf, which points to a few (currently 3) mags (uncorrected, so probably full of typos). 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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help! how to get a part title?
by Bruce D'Arcus 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

What I get from the manual is that part titles are not there by default. How do I get them?? I just want a page with the part title centered more-or-less on the page. Bruce

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presentation failure
by Maarten Sneep 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

Hi, I tried to begin a presentation, and tried to learn from the best (Hans Hagen in this case ;-) However, I get a failure with the minimal test case below. Some (I think relevant) fragments of the logs are included (sorry for the long mail). I'm using TeXLive with a recent version of context (see dates in the log). Is this a symptom of updating only part of the setup? If so: what parts should I update to get things to work? Some of you may recall that I had trouble with the pos fonts on teTeX a while ago. I switched to TeXLive and there it works. Will try to find out if the problem is related to Mac OS X or teTeX. Kind regards, Maarten Sneep %% With file \setupencoding[default=ec] \useencoding[ec] \usetypescript[berry][ec] \setupcolors[status=start] \setupbodyfont[pos] \usemodule[pre-04] \starttext \StartTitlePage Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy on Atmospheric Species \StopTitlePage \Topic{Introduction: Atmospheric Measurements} \Subject{Sciamachy, OMI, GOME} \stoptext %% I get a few errors, the metapost/metafun graphics do not compile %% (see error at the end of the following log) Some relevant pieces of the log (total log is rather long). TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : talk output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./talk.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2003.2.25 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! [lots of lines deleted] TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 metapost : mpgraph format : metafun This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.7x) (mpgraph.mp >> spotcolors >> true ! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean). <to be read again> ; l.23 spotcolors := true ; ? [I type x, because I do not know what to do] TeXUtil 7.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2002 action : processing commands, lists and registers option : sorting IJ under Y option : converting high ASCII values input file : talk.tui output file : talk.tuo passed commands : 24 remapped keys : 0 register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references synonym entries : 0 -> 0 entries embedded files : 1 utility file analysis : another run needed TeX run : 2

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Background color
by "Hüsing, Johannes" 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

In the example I've just sent, I couldn't yet figure out why different regions do not have different bg colors. But that's a minor optica problem. Greetings Johannes

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Umlaute etc.
by Raimund.Kohl＠freenet.de 23 Feb '03

23 Feb '03

Hello there, I am absolutely new to this ConTeXt typesetting system. So I think my problems are boring to most of you ... anyway, they are bothering me :-( I've found in the manual how to produce ä, ö etc ... the german Umlaute. but I wasn't succesfull with the sharp s (ß) ... can anyone help? Second ... I am also using gvim as an editor; is there a package supporting ConTeXt with gvim? Thanks in advance, Raimund

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more beginner's problems
by Raimund.Kohl＠freenet.de 23 Feb '03

23 Feb '03

Hi, ok, here some more problems which I couldn't find a solution in the manual. First the space between two paragraphs. For example \enableregime[il1] \starttext paragraph 1\par paragraph 2\par \stoptext Should come out like two lines with one empty line in between. but it comes out like two lines with no empty line in between. I tried \paragraph, I tried \par and even nothing but an empty line, processing the file with texexec always "glues" the two paragraphs together like paragraph 1 paragraph 2 What is my fault here? Next problem are the high commatas "blah". In german language the first one has to come on the bottom of the line ... but this way the are typesetted like in english ... above. I tried "`blah"', but this doesn't work either. Also adding \language[de] at the beginning doesn't change that behaviour. Can anybody help? Thank you in advance Raimund PS: I use a Linux machine with SuSE 8.0

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Chinese text failed to flow around pictures
by Guo Yang 22 Feb '03

22 Feb '03

when I tried: \placefigure [right] {Some picture} {\externalfigure[temp][type=jpg,width=5cm]} Blah blah ... % These should be pure Chinese characters. In the generated Chinese PDF file, the paragraph right after the figure just runs over the picture like it were not there. But if I append some English words before Chinese, everything would be fine. And \startfiguretext[left] works as expected. Any ideas? Guo

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Re: [pdftex] mathpple-a-like for ConTeXt?
by Hans Hagen 21 Feb '03

21 Feb '03

At 06:07 PM 2/21/2003 +1100, you wrote: >Hans > >> >>>\usetypescript[berry][ec] >>>\usetypescript[palatino][ec] >>>\setupbodyfont[palatino] >> >>I guess I'm just too green with ConTeXt, but I can't get this to >>work... Must i call \usetypescriptfile[somethingorother] first? >>(Actually, I get "undefined control sequence"...) > >This doesn't work for me either. (Though I don't get the "undefined >control sequence" error) > >I would like to be able to use my installed postscript fonts, that I use >with latex, in context. Could you point me in the direction of a manual. > >(Sorry to trouble you but my old URLs for ConText no longer work.) palatino and times math should work ok with the installed fonts so there is no real need to write typescripts yourself. Do you get an error message? What can happen is: - undefined control sequence : old context - cannot find tfm file: (context filename mapping problem or font not installed) - cannot find pfb file: (probably map file problem of font not installed) - missing glyphs (in log): wrong encoding vector Hans

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Switching form portrait to landscape and back to portrait
by Willi Egger 20 Feb '03

20 Feb '03

Dear list, I am struggling with a document, where from time to time a landscape page is inserted. \chapter{One} running tex A4 \chapter{Two} landscape table A4 \chapter{Three} running text A4 It sounds maybe stupid, but I tried different variations and I do not get what I need ... How do I setup a correct switching? Thanks for advice! Willi

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