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MetaTricks?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Hello, I was wondering if anybody (say, for example, Hans ;>) has ever thought about developing a (Con)TeX(t)+Meta(Post|Fun) counterpart of PSTricks? PSTricks is widely used, but has the disadvantage of not being usable for direct PDF creation; a purely "texmf"ish way to handle the stuff would be rather nice. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Announce: Auctex and ConTeXt
by Patrick Gundlach 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Hello ConTeXt hackers and emacs users, the current cvs version of auctex is now ConTeXt aware. There is no support for *any* fancy feature yet, but at least you are able to distinguish the LaTeX and the ConTeXt commands/modes. It is aimed at people that already use auctex and think that it is annoying to have LaTeX commands in your ConTeXt buffer. I am currently adding some new features. They will make it into the cvs in the next few days and weeks. If you want real ConTeXt support for emacs, you might want to use Berend's context.el. Please contact me if you have any further questions. Patrick

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aligment of captions
by Henning Hraban Ramm 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

Hello again! I defined my captions as follows: \setupcaptions [number=no, align=right, before={\blank[3pt]}, after={\blank[small]}, style={\ss\tfx}] If the caption is only one line, everything's ok. But from two lines up, it's always centered! Why? (I fixed it temporarily with an \raggedright in these captions, but that's no contexty way...) Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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Hypenation problem again
by Nagy Bence 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

Hi all, it's just my problem again with hyphenation and encoding and hungarumlauts. I have installed Adobe Sabon with both texnansi and ec encoding by the way described by Bill McClain. The texnansi installation has all the hungarumlaut characters (ohungarumlaut, Ohungarumlaut, uhungarumlaut, Uhungarumlaut) as composite chars, in the ec installation are these characters missing. I tried to get the correct hungarian hyphenation of the word 'kilométeróraőrzőkészülék' (kilom\'eter\'ora\H orz\H ok\'esz\"ul\'ek), and I became the following results with \showhyphenations (I'm using the il2 regime, the hyphenation pattern has ec encoding): Adobe Sabon ----------- language : hu(code:3) font : texnansi-sar encoding : texnansi mapping : texnansi sample : ki-lo-mé-te-ró-raőrzőkészülék = no hyphenation after ohungarumlaut Computer Modern --------------- language : hu(code:10) font : cmr10 encoding : default mapping : default sample : kilométeróraőrzőkészülék = no hyphenation Computer Modern with il2 encoding --------------------------------- language : hu(code:10) font : csr10 encoding : il2 mapping : il2 sample : kilo-mé-terórarz-kés-z-ülék = wrong hyphenations Computer Modern with ec encoding -------------------------------- language : hu(code:2) font : aer10 encoding : ec mapping : ec sample : ki-lo-mé-te-ró-raőrző-ké-szü-lék = no hyphenation at the ohungarumlauts neighborhood It seems there is none correct result. Any idea? Greetings Bence

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Re: Font size switching problem
by Hans Hagen 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

At 07:25 AM 2/11/2003 +0300, you wrote: >Hello, Hans! > >It seems that font size switching mechanizm in ConTeXt has a bug. > >Here are simple test and its results (as comments): > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >\setupoutput[pdftex] >\setuplayout[middle] \noheaderandfooterlines > >\title{Font sizes test} % Shown using CMR12 font at 20.6 pt > >\rm \subject{Serif font} % Shown using CMR12 font at 14.3 pt >\tfx Serif --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMR10 font at 9.96 pt >\tfxx Serif --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMR8 font at 7.97 pt >\tfa Serif --- size tfa\par % Shown using CMR8 font at 9.96 pt > % (swithing to CMR 12 is missing?) >\tfb Serif --- size tfb\par % Shown using CMR8 font at 11.4 pt >\tfc Serif --- size tfc\par % Shown using CMR8 font at 13.7 pt >\tfx Serif --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMR10 font at 17.2 pt > % (font scale switch is missing???) >\tfxx Serif --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMR8 font at 13.7 pt > >\ss \subject{SansSerif font} % Shown using CMSS8 font at 9.56 pt >\tfx SansSerif --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMSS10 font at 17.2 pt >\tfxx SansSerif --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMSS8 font at 13.7 pt >\tfa SansSerif --- size tfa\par % Shown using CMSS8 font at 9.56 pt >\tfb SansSerif --- size tfb\par % Shown using CMSS8 font at 11.4 pt >\tfc SansSerif --- size tfc\par % Shown using CMSS8 font at 13.7 pt >\tfx SansSerif --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMSS10 font at 17.2 pt >\tfxx SansSerif --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMSS8 font at 13.7 pt > >\tt \subject{Typewriter font} % Shown using CMTT8 font at 9.56 pt >\tfx Typewriter --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMTT10 font at 17.2 pt >\tfxx Typewriter --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMTT8 font at 13.7 pt >\tfa Typewriter --- size tfa\par % Shown using CMTT8 font at 9.56 pt >\tfb Typewriter --- size tfb\par % Shown using CMTT8 font at 11.4 pt >\tfc Typewriter --- size tfc\par % Shown using CMTT8 font at 13.7 pt >\tfx Typewriter --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMTT10 font at 17.2 pt >\tfxx Typewriter --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMTT8 font at 13.7 pt > >\stoptext >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >So it is hard to predict the results of consecutive font size swithing >commands. :-( > >(Yes I know that grouping like {\tf... } cures the problem) Took me a while to figure out what was going on, but the problem with ungrouped usage is that you reach a state where context cannot longer keep track of what the intention is (unless i extend the font handler with some sort of group-insensitive stack which would slow down things quite a lot); think of x inside c inside x inside xx inside d and so on. When used as intended, i.e. grouped, x/xx scaling works ok. I made a couple of test tables to demo this effect. A small patch is possible that at least prevents the funny big scale, but it's still sub optimal. Hans ===================================================== \let\normaltx \tx \let\normaltxx\txx \def\checknestedxfontsize {\ifcase\currentxfontsize\else\ifx\fontsize\empty\else \chardef\currentxfontsize\zeropoint \let\fontsize\empty \let\tx\normaltx \let\txx\normaltxx \fi\fi} \def\setcurrentfontxalternative#1% {\checknestedxfontsize \dosetcurrentfontxxxalternative{#1}1\c!x\scriptstyle \let\tx\txx} \def\setcurrentfontxxalternative#1% {\checknestedxfontsize \dosetcurrentfontxxxalternative{#1}2\c!xx\scriptscriptstyle \let\tx\empty \let\txx\empty} \def\setcurrentfontxstylealternative #1{\csname#1\endcsname\tx} \def\setcurrentfontxxstylealternative#1{\csname#1\endcsname\txx} \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuplayout[middle] \noheaderandfooterlines \def\fontstate{\setstrut\ruledhbox{\strut Hello}} \starttabulate[|||||] \HL \NC \rlap{\quad\bf grouped} \NC \NC \type {\tx} \NC \type {\txx} \NC \NR \HL \NC \type{\tfx} \NC \tfx \fontstate \NC \tfx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfxx} \NC \tfxx \fontstate \NC \tfxx\tx \fontstate \NC \tfxx\txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tf} \NC \tf \fontstate \NC \tf \tx \fontstate \NC \tf \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfa} \NC \tfa \fontstate \NC \tfa \tx \fontstate \NC \tfa \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfb} \NC \tfb \fontstate \NC \tfb \tx \fontstate \NC \tfb \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfc} \NC \tfc \fontstate \NC \tfc \tx \fontstate \NC \tfc \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfd} \NC \tfd \fontstate \NC \tfd \tx \fontstate \NC \tfd \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfx} \NC \tfx \fontstate \NC \tfx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfxx} \NC \tfxx \fontstate \NC \tfxx\tx \fontstate \NC \tfxx\txx \fontstate \NC \NR \HL \stoptabulate \blank \starttabulate[|||||] \HL \NC \rlap{\quad\bf stacked} \NC \NC \type {\tx} \NC \type {\txx} \NC \NR \HL \NC \type{\tfx} \NC \tfx \fontstate \NC \tfx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfxx} \NC \tfx\tfxx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tf} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfa} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfb} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfc} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfd} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfd \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfd \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfd \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfx} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfxx} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx\tfxx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx\tfxx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx\tfxx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \HL \stoptabulate \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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new beta/details
by Hans Hagen 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

Hi, I uploaded a new beta + details.pdf (in /temp). It demo's some background things and quite some new side float options. 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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\setupitemize does no longer work?
by Berend de Boer 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

Hello All, The following example behaves differently then previously: ============================== \setupitemize [packed] \starttext This is a test: \startitemize \item First line. \item Second line. \item Third line. \stopitemize \stoptext ============================== Adding [packed] to startitemize gives the desired result. It seems packed is no longer inherited. How to achieve this with the latest release? -- Live long and prosper, Berend de Boer

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: lowerleftdoubleninequote
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

> another solution is to make a specific font handler (like the hanging one) where is it hanging? > for a class of fonts like cmr, in that case you can link such a handler to > for instance a cmr10 font (see hand-*) hand-* what? Sorry, I am not at all able to guess, what you will say with the above! Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] \placeformula
by Hans Hagen 11 Feb '03

11 Feb '03

At 10:08 PM 2/10/2003 -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote: >Did you mean for that to be a private email to Albrecht Kauffmann? I >hope not, because I peeked at details.pdf, and I noticed pseudo >columns. I was going to ask about them on the mailing list, but then >I realized that you might not have been joking about not wanting >everyone to see details.pdf. no problem, i'll upload a newer one later (more examples of the extended side float support) >Anyway, the first thing that occurred to me when seeing pseudocolumns >is that this might solve the column balancing problem, where context >could not balance columns that contained vboxes with lots of very >stretchy glue. That is, although the glue could stretch all you want, >the column bottoms would still be uneven. Like this: > > > > +----------------------------------+ > | | > | +-----------+ +-----------+ | > | | | | | | > | | | | | | > | | | | | | > | +-----------+ +-----------+ | > | | > | +------------+ | > | | | | > | | | +-----------+ | > | +------------+ | | | > | | | | > | +------------+ +-----------+ | > | | | | > | | | | > | +------------+ | > | +-----------+ | > | +------------+ | | | > | | | | | | > | | | | | | > | | | | | | > | | | | | | > | +------------+ +-----------+ | > +----------------------------------+ > > >Could the pseudocolumns feature solve that problem? I'm thinking that >maybe they could, because the problem before was that it was too >difficult to get the otr to do it. But I'm also thinking maybe >pseudocolumns won't solve it, since the above example could not be >achieved with the grid feature. i can probably build that into columnsets one day; on the other hand, columnsets provide you a means to position graphics directly \definecolumnset[mine][n=3] \setuppapersize[A3][A3] \setuptolerance[verytolerant] \setuplayout[backspace=1cm,topspace=1cm,width=middle,height=middle] \setuplayout[grid=on] \showgrid \tracecolumnsettrue \starttext \startcolumnset[mine] \placefigure[rltb]{}{} \placefigure[fxtb:2*13]{}{} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext this works ok with the beta i just uploaded 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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Screen background in two columns
by Michal Kvasnicka 10 Feb '03

10 Feb '03

Good afternoon. I'm typesetting a document in two columns. I'd like to typeset examples in it just in the rest of the text but with a screen background. I tried this: \setupcolors[state=start] \setupscreens[screen=0.8] \setupbackground [background=screen, leftoffset=1em, rightoffset=1em, topoffset=1em, bottomoffset=1em] \setupframedtexts [frame=off, background=screen, width=fit] But both \startbackground and \startframedtext does not allow column/page break. I want the background to start e.g. on the bottom of the left column and to go to the top of the right one. How can I get what I want? (Well, maybe a hard task in the TeX. Some time ago I would suppose it to be unpossible---but then I've seen such a wizardry in the ConTeXt that made me to think that everything is possible---at least for Mr. Hagen.) :-) Many greetings to all of you. M.K.

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