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Problem on making mptopdf format file
by Zhenchuan Yang 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Dear all, I am using ConTeXt under MikTeX 2.2 , but when I used "texexec --make" to make format file, I got the following error message. Could anyone give me some advice to fix it? Thanks in advance. --------------------- loading : Context Support Macros / PDF ) (C:\CTeX\texmf\tex\context\base\supp-mpe.tex loading : MetaPost Special Extensions ! Undefined control sequence. l.537 \appendtoks ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.541 \appendtoks ? ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> \to l.546 \to \MPstopresources ? ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \par l.547 ? ) Runaway text? \par \def \invokeMPshadespecial {\doifdefined {mps:Sh:\currentMPspec ! File ended while scanning text of \MPstopresources. <inserted text> } l.87 \input supp-mpe \MPcmykcolorstrue \MPspotcolorstrue .... --------------------------------------------------- Regards, Zhenchuan Yang,Mr. Instiute of Microelectronics Peking University Email:zcyang@vmails.net ___________________ 22:51:51 2003-01-21 -------------------

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ConTeXt and spell checkers?
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

(Happy New Year 2003!) What are my options when I want to spell check my ConTeXt file? I only need American English (or "technical English" or "computer English") and the main idea is to check that I really use the American spelling for all words. I'm mainly using WindowsNT+GNUEmacs (from the TeXLive CD)+TeXLive 7, I also have access to the combination WinNT+WinEdt+TeXLive, but I prefer Emacs. I cannot be creative when writing scripts (=no programming skills), but I can follow a pattern for example when adding things to my .emacs file. And I will be installing all the systems with the English spell checker, so easy installation is not necessary as long as the instructions actually work. If there are free or cheap programs that spellcheck postscript or pdf files, that would work as well - i.e. I just need to check my file at *some* stage of the project, before it is finalized and copied. Regards, Mari Voipio

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Re: Re: IRC ConTeXt Channel
by Lazycode 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

> >Hans Hagen, > > As a main author of ConTeXt, can you give/get us the right > > to use the channel name "#context", or would you prefer us > > to create it under something else? > > go ahead and use the name #context #context has been registered on irc.freenode.net For those new to IRC Windows users: mIRC Linux users: irssi, xchat --tk

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Release naming
by Marko Schütz 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

I suggest to name releases differently: currently the most recent release is named cont-tfm.zip. Since I plan to make a NetBSD package for ConTeXt, I would very much like to have some release information in the name of the .zip-file: the release date or some other release numbers would be fine. This would also make it much more convenient to automatically check whether an installed version is the most recent version. Marko

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Interaction used in FLOWchart which is typeset with the \placefigure mechanism
by Willi Egger 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Hi Hans, I got a couple of FLOWcharts, which are typeset with the \placefigure mechanism. The charts as such come out nicely as expected. However the charts also contain links to other parts of the document (\goto{text}[ref.]). - After placement of the charts there are still interactive spots, but these hot spots do not correspond with the text they belong to. Is it that I ask the impossible i.e. that there can't be interaction once the \placefigure mechanism is used or is there a similar problem as with the \placeformula (beforeyesterdays thread)? Thanks for looking into it. Willli

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Re: IRC ConTeXt Channel
by Lazycode 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Hello, Berend de Boer, irc.freenode.net sounds good. Being able to "register" the channel is also a bonus. Last I checked (10:48 AM at -7 GMT time), the channel #context has _not_ been registered yet. :-) My main concern (and thus my hesistation), is whether it would be a violation of trademark to use "context" as the channel name. Perhaps we should use something like "context-unofficial" other suggestions/opinions? Or am I just being paranoid here since it's just a channel name, and it's running on a non-profit server. Hans Hagen, As a main author of ConTeXt, can you give/get us the right to use the channel name "#context", or would you prefer us to create it under something else? Thanks in advance, --tk

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Re: Conference Fee Sponsorship
by Hans Hagen 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

At 06:14 PM 1/20/2003 -0800, you wrote: >the money pays for the facilities. They don't make money on these >classes. hm, 20 * 400 = quite some money for a room that tug got for free -) >hm... this is the kind of p... news I don't know much about. >Everyone wants to make a fast buck/euro it seems. >Why they are so greedy is beyond me. Shall I write to the Lithuanian >group and ask them to make a donation? waste of energy, better go for the publishers who sell books; since so many tex users use / combine tex with things like perl and so ... do you know someone inside O'Reilly ? > > no, it's in the intermediate hands (mac millan and so; don't know them > that > > good, but they seem to be real large) > > really.... can't we get a website up to name names of >those able to donate? don't over estimate me, i have no contacts over there, (small company, few customers), you need people from the beginning of tex and/or publishing houses (they know where they go to) [maybe nelson know, since he knows everything related to tex] >The western and indian clocks don't seem to synchronize very well. ha, a few month ago i saw something on television: indian companies acting for usa companies, things like phoning people who don't pay their bills, they are masters in pretending to phone from texas (they also showed how they got classes in english, local history, texan accent, etc); so: they can sync -) serve the community better. I just can't seem to get anyone interested >in doing the sponsorhsip and website work. :-( Patricia promissed to do it, didn't she? Actually, the office should do it. 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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IRC ConTeXt Channel
by Lazycode 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Greetings! Is there an IRC (Internatl Relay Channel) for ConTeXt? If so, which server and channel name? If not, is one allowed to form an unofficial one? Thanks, --tk

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Re: Typeface Dolly installed on Linux system, but...
by Roef Ragas 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Hi Patrick, Thanks for your help, although I'm sorry to say it's still not working. When I run texexec --pdf on your file, I'm getting the next error messages, using your type-dolly.tex. On the other hand: texnansi-uw-dolly.tex still turns out every nice letter of my Dolly font. --- kpathsea: Running mktextfm Dolly-Roman /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation D for Dolly-Roman. /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texmf/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Dolly-Roman This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1) kpathsea: Running mktexmf Dolly-Roman ! I can't find file `Dolly-Roman'. <*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Dolly-Roman --- Op zo 19-01-2003, om 23:31 schreef Patrick Gundlach: > Hi, > > this is 'dolly.tex' - the testfile > > \setupcolors[state=start] > \usetypescriptfile[type-dolly] > \mainlanguage[de] > \definetypeface [Dolly][rm][serif][dolly][default] [encoding=ec] > \definetypeface [Dolly][ss][sans][helvetica][default] [rscale=.9, encoding=ec] > \definetypeface [Dolly][tt][mono][computer-modern][computer-modern][rscale=1.1,encoding=ec] > \starttext > \setupbodyfont[Dolly] > %\showcharacters > %\showbodyfont > > some text > > \stoptext > > > > Attached is my type-dolly.tex. You need to change the filenames and > the encoding. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > Patrick -- Roef Ragas <info(a)roefragas.com> theJAYWALKCentre

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interactive content in header
by Patrick Gundlach 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Dear ConTeXt users, I'd like to have an interactive table of content in the header (at least somewhere at the top of the page). It should have the current section highlighted. First I have defined an overlay and used it with \setupbackgrounds: \defineoverlay[toc][{\coloredcontent}] \setupbackgrounds[header][text][background=toc,frame=on,state=repeat] But the \coloredcontent behaves weired. \def\coloredcontent{A\par BB} gets typeset as ABB, \currentheadnumber always displays the same number (even with \determineheadnumber[section] before \getcurrentheadnumber) and \placecontent is completely ignored. It should look like this: -------------- section1 | section 2 | section 3 section 4 ------------- ---------------------------- the current page holds some paragraphs of section 2. Now you click on "section 4" and the display changes to: ------------- section1 section 2 section 3 | section 4 | ---------------------------------------- -- I hope it is clear what I'd like to get. How could this be done? Patrick

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