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problem with \usemodule[chart]
by schwertner＠t-online.de 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hello, I'd like to draw up a simple chart (\usemodule[chart]), but I get only the "text" (not really a document) and no "shape" on the PDF. I use a current version of Miktex total (Win) and the newest ConTeXt. What can I do? Thanks for any help, greetings, Helmut **********sample**********************************************++ \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts [nx=3, ny=3, dx=2\bodyfontsize, dy=2\bodyfontsize, width=12\bodyfontsize, height=7\bodyfontsize, maxwidth=\textwidth] \starttext \startFLOWchart[cells] \startFLOWcell \name {first} \location {1,2} \shape {singledocument} \text {not really a document} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \FLOWchart[cells] \stoptext ********************************************************* Helmut Schwertner Schülperbaum 4 24103 K i e l phone: 0431 58 78 502 eMail: schwertner(a)t-online.de

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a typographic discover
by Pablo Rodriguez 17 May '03

17 May '03

Dear ConTeXticians, I had heard of http://www.apostrophiclab.com/, but yesterday I'd visited it and I'd downloaded about 60Mb of truetype fonts (in zip files). As far as I can remember almost all the fonts were also offered in type1 format. I can only recommend the visit. I hope you enjoy it (sorry if you already know it), Pablo

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Re: [NTG-context] problem with \usemodule[chart]
by Helmut Schwertner 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hallo Eckhart, vielen Dank für Deine Antwort. Ich habe mir daraufhin einige Installationshinweise (u.a. von fiee http://www.ramm.ch/fiee/texnique/) angesehen und insbesondere die sogenannten "Aufrufe" von MetaPost angesehen und diese in die entsprechenden Konfigurationsdateien auf enable gestellt bzw. hinzugefügt. Leider gehen die meisten Text nicht von Miktex (Win) aus (was ich ja gut verstehen kann), was aber dazu führt, dass bestimmte, genannte, Dateien so unter Miktex gar existieren. Das erleichtert mir als Sozialwissenschaftler, der noch nicht mal versteht, wie ein Kühlschrank funktioniert, aber dennoch schon jahrelang recht ordentliche Text mit latex bzw. pdflatex produziert, die Sache nicht gerade. Ergo: Trotz \write18 (miktex.ini) auf enable und weiteren Modifikationen leider kein Metapost. Ich erhalte folgende Hinweise beim Aufruf: texexec --pdf flowtest initexmf: don't know how to dump metafun cannot make metafun.mem I can't find the default mem file! Hast Du vielleicht noch eine Idee, der ich nachgehen könnte? Vielen Dank nochmal und herzliche Grüße, helmut > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:32:18PM +0200, schwertner(a)t-online.de wrote: >> I'd like to draw up a simple chart (\usemodule[chart]), but I get only >> the "text" (not really >> a document) and no "shape" on the PDF. I use a current version of Miktex >> total (Win) >> and the newest ConTeXt. What can I do? > Did you enable the \write18 feature? This allows tex to run external > programs, needed for inline metapost graphics like flow shapes. I don't > remember how to do this for miktex, but it is described in the > context installation manual, together with some more hints for a > context friendly setup. > -- > Eckhart

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Installing mf-font
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hallo! In order to learn understand fontinstallation, typescripts and so, I tried to install a Font (Metafont-source). Please have a look at the following fragment: ---------------------type-bunt.tex---------------------------- \starttypescript [handwriting] [bunt] [ec] \definefontsynonym [???] [???] [???] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [handwriting] [bunt] [name] \definefontsynonym [???] [???] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [handwriting] [default] [size] \definebodyfont [5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt,9pt,10pt,10.95pt,12pt,14.4pt,17.28pt,20.74pt,24.88pt] [hw] [default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [Bunt] \definetypeface [Bunt] [hw] [handwriting] [bunt] [default] [encoding=\typescripttwo] \stoptypescript ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I have the following questions: 1. What is the differenz between hw and cg resp. handwriting and calligraphy? 2. Is the typescript for [handwriting], defined in 'type-siz.tex', the default, if the above typescript for size would be deletet? 3. Is there a good reason to use typescripts for such a one member family of fonts? 4. What is the 3. parameter in \definebodyfont for? 5. In 'type-siz.tex' the sizes are given with maximal 1/10 pr�zission. In a LaTeX fd-file I have used 1/100 pr�zission (10.95, not 11; 17.28, not 17.3), so I have used the same in the above typescript, just to be konsistent. Is this ok? 6. The namingshema of the source-files is 'bunt0900.mf, bunt1000.mf, bunt1095.mf ... What has to be written in the above [name] typescript to build these names? 7. What should I write for the 6. parameter of \definetypeface? The encoding [ec]? What means \typescripttwo? What with the encoding-typescript? Wolfgang

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columns and pictures
by Brian P.Templeton 16 May '03

16 May '03

(Warning: I'm a ConTeXt newbie. I started using ConTeXt specifically because this is quite difficult to do in LaTeX, along with some other DTP-ish things.) I'm trying to place pictures at a specific position on a page in a multicolumn document, something like this (T: text, P: picture): TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTT PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTT PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTT PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTTTTTT How can I do this in ConTeXt (if it's currently possible)? -- Brian P. Templeton <bpt(a)tunes.org> <http://bpt.tunes.org/> "The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!" -- Max Stirner

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units and decimal separators
by Sebastian Rooks 15 May '03

15 May '03

Hi ConTeXters, How can I get ConteXt to typeset numbers as it should be done in french in which we use a comma and not a point to separate units and decimals ? That is when I write \mathematics{5,3} I want to have 5,3 and not 5, 3 (with a small space between the comma and the 3), as it is when I use the english separator, a point. Cheers, Seb.

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Balancing error
by Nagy Bence 14 May '03

14 May '03

Hi all, I got the following error in \startcolumns...\stopcolumns environment: columns : balancing aborted after 100 steps I tried to insert pictures just with \externalfigure in columns (I made tests with \placefigure, but it made some misplaced graphics, the \startcolumnset...\stopcolumnset environment too). By this error I got a picture hanging out from the page. The command \column[preference] before all pictures helped not. How can I avoid this error message and force an automatical pagebreak in column mode? I'm using the latest beta. Greetings Bence

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: predefined fonts on TeXLive
by Patrick Gundlach 14 May '03

14 May '03

Good evening, > After downloading your typescript and putting it into local tree, > running test file > > \usetypescriptfile [adobekb] > \setupencoding [default=ec] > \usetypescript [adobekb] [\defaultencoding] > \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] > \setupbodyfont [palatino] > \starttext > > hello world. > > \stoptext This looks good. > gives following error: hmm, it works fine here (texlive 7, almost current ConTeXt, MacOS X) > > <snip> the beginning would be interesting. What ConTeXt version? What TeX-system? > )kpathsea: Running mktextfm pxr hmm strange, why does ConTeXt need math fonts here? And why is ConTeXt using pxr? Isn't this outdated? And now replaced with mathpazo? > What's wrong? IMO ConTeXt :) workaround: install px fonts. Patrick

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OT Best font for online viewing.
by John Culleton 14 May '03

14 May '03

built a document using the encoding for Palatino thus: \usetypescript[berry][ec] \usetypescript[palatino][ec] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] The good news is I got the Palladio version of Palatino according to Acrobat Reader 5.05. The bad news is that the characters are distorted. When I blow them up 400% then they look OK. In particular the capital T looks like someone trimmed part of the top bar with a router. But lc letters look funky as well. I know Lucida Bright is the favorite font for on-line use in pragma-nl. But is there a regular (like, free) Adobe Font that looks OK when used with Acrobat Reader? Or is there some other setup improvement I need to make? In GV the glyphs look a bit ragged but the artifacts like the chopped up capital T are not present. So it is an Acrobat weakness. But Acrobat Reader is the name of the game for e-books. ____________________________________________________________ Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/

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Re: [NTG-context] EC-Fonts
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 May '03

13 May '03

Hallo! >>>\usetypescript[aer] (top of file) >> >>I have not tested this, but if it does what it sounds like, it switchtes >>to cmr in an ec-like encoding, not to the ec-fonts by Jörg Knappen. > >hm, better wait for the new lm fonts (on ctan in a couple of weeks), real >ec non virtual type ones > >Hans Does this mean, that in the moment there is no way to access the ec-fonts in context? :-( Wolfgang

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