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column woes
by Idris S Hamid 09 Feb '03

09 Feb '03

Dear cell, Here is a table that works in pdfetex mode, but not Plain mode (I hope it survives transmission!). Again, the problem appears to be non-fatal, but very irritating: ===================== \bgroup \tfx\setupinterlinespace %\switchtobodyfont[10pt] \placetable [here][tab:cognition]{The three types of cognition.} \starttable[|l|l|l|l|] \HL \VL \emph{mode of} \VL \emph{locus of} \VL \emph{objects of} \VL \emph{ontological} \VL\FR \VL \emph{cognition} \VL \emph{cognition} \VL \emph{cognition} \VL \emph{rank of} \VL\NR \VL \VL \VL \VL \emph{objects of} \VL\NR \VL \VL \VL \VL \emph{cognition} \VL\LR \HL \VL knowledge \VL bosom \VL forms or \VL the universal \VL\FR \VL \VL \VL images \VL soul \VL\LR \HL \VL certainty \VL heart \VL meanings/ \VL the universal \VL\FR \VL \VL \VL intelligibles \VL nous \VL\LR \HL \VL cognizance \VL heart-flux \VL light of \VL existence \emph{qua} \VL\FR \VL \VL \VL cognizance \VL negatively \VL\NR \VL \VL \VL \VL conditioned \VL\LR \HL \stoptable \egroup ===================== and the error: ===================== ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \convertedargument. <to be read again> \tabskip <argument> ##\tabskip \LeftTabskip & \hfil \startglobalTABLEcolor \vrule \!t... \convertargument ...ng \def \convertedargument {#1 }\dodoglobal \edef #2{\con... \getTABLEnofcolumns ...nvertargument #1\to \ascii \@EA \doglobal \@EA \count... \!ttDoHalign ...LEnofcolumns {\the \!taPreamble }} \halign \the \!taTableSpre... \restartTABLE ...pareTABLEsplitting \restartTABLE \TABLEhead l.10 \starttable[|l|l|l|l|] ? ===================== Idris

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columns in floats
by Hans Hagen 09 Feb '03

09 Feb '03

Hi Chris, >Is there any way to use double-column itemization inside the >figure? I have tried to put it first inside a \vbox but it >doesn't work. Neither enclosing in startcolums..stopcolumns >does. The itemize columns use the multi column otr. There is a not advertized escape: \starttext \startsimplecolumns[n=4] \startitemize \item test \item test \item test \item test \stopitemize \stopsimplecolumns \stoptext No guarantees -) 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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Lost in the murky detail of designing a page layout
by Guy Worthington 09 Feb '03

09 Feb '03

I'm out of my depth, I've looked at the s-*.tex layouts, and have read chapter 3 of the manual, but am not confident in designing a page layout. For instance, I'm not sure how I ensure that vsize comes out as a multiple of baselineskips, or how to ensure that double sided pages are printed correctly. My initial design parameters (for a double sided page) are: 1) paper size = A4 2) hsize = 2.5 times the length of the lowercase alphabet in the default font -- lucida-bright at 12pt. i.e. \setbox0={abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz} \hsize=2.5\wd0 3) vsize = golden-ratio times hsize (rounded to integer baselineskips) = 1.62\hsize 4) backspace margin = hsize divided by seven 5) topspace margin = backspace margin. How do I translate these into my \setuplayout parameters?

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Getting the PDF postscript fonts to work
by Berend de Boer 09 Feb '03

09 Feb '03

Hello Anyone, Has anyone been able to use the standard PDF postscript fonts with context? I recently upgraded to tetex 2.0, latest context, so had to restart with the font stuff. 1. After tinkering I could get the URW stuff working, but I want the Adobe. 2. After even more tinkering I got something that seems to load the Adobe fonts, but when I look with Acrobat Reader it talks about Times New Roman and Arial fonts. Perhaps somebody has the right combination of .map files, pdftex.cfg, typefaces, typescripts, fontfaces/defines/whatever (get crazy of it), so I can just use the standard 15 PDF fonts. -- Live long and prosper, Berend de Boer

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Error running metapost
by Johannes Hüsing 09 Feb '03

09 Feb '03

Dear all, after installing the latest beta I tried to compile my old sources, but the metapost pass called from within a pdfetex run stopped with the error message: ! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean). <to be read again> ; l.24 spotcolors := true ; Looking at the mpgraph file I see the following line: if unknown context_spec : input mp-spec ; fi ; and in my version of mp-spec spotcolors is declared to be boolean. Indeed, when I run 'mpost filename-mpgraph' I get no error message and all mp-* files are included. Any hint on where context_spec et al are set? Groet Johannes -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes(a)ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain

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reference problem
by Albrecht Kauffmann 09 Feb '03

09 Feb '03

Hi all, I have a problem with references to equationnumbers. Let \the\equationnumber be 1. If I type \reference[a]{(\the\equationnumber)}$$ (a formula) $$ \advance\equationnumber by 1 \reference[b]{(\the\equationnumber)}$$ (another formula) $$ ... \in[a],\in[b] ... I expect to get "... (1),(2) ...". With an older version of Context (2000.12.14) this works fine. But with the new version (2002.10.23), I get for both equation a and b the same number (namely the last, 2): "... (2),(2) ...". Is this a bug, or has somewhat changed? With many thanks in advance Albrecht

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tip
by Hans Hagen 08 Feb '03

08 Feb '03

Hi \def\bTN#1\eTN{\bTD\digits#1\relax\eTD} % will be in next release will give you digit alignment \bTABLE \bTR\bTD one \eTD\bTN ~25,== \eTN\bTN ~~0,00 \eTN\eTR \bTR\bTD two \eTD\bTN 125,-- \eTN\bTN `00,00 \eTN\eTR \eTABLE see supp-num.tex %D \starttabulatie[|l|l|l|] %D \NC \type{.} \NC , . \NC comma or period \NC \NR %D \NC \type{,} \NC , . \NC comma or period \NC \NR %D \NC \type{@} \NC \NC invisible space \NC \NR %D \NC \type{_} \NC \NC invisible space \NC \NR %D \NC \type{/} \NC \NC invisible sign \NC \NR %D \NC \type{-} \NC $-$ \NC minus sign \NC \NR %D \NC \type{+} \NC $+$ \NC plus sign \NC \NR %D \NC \type{s} \NC \NC invisible high sign \NC \NR %D \NC \type{p} \NC $\positive$ \NC high plus sign \NC \NR %D \NC \type{m} \NC $\negative$ \NC high minus sign \NC \NR %D \NC \type{n} \NC $\negative$ \NC high minus (negative) sign \NC \NR %D \NC \type{=} \NC $\zeroamount$ \NC zero padding \NC \NR %D \stoptabulatie other alignments are discussed there 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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Using variables in relation to the TOC
by Willi Egger 08 Feb '03

08 Feb '03

Hi all, While developing a manual I encounter the following problem. Each document of the manual carries a header, where a version number is placed. In this case the version number is a date. The manual table of contents requires, that the name of the document (chapter name) is placed followed by the version number which Ii mentioned above. I spent some hours to try to tweak things to get the desired result. - Unfortunately unsuccesfully. May be that I want to achieve something which is impossible due to the way TeX is generating the table of contents. - If you compile hte attached file you get a table of contents which looks in first instance as it is required. The 'only' problem is, that all documents get the version number defined in the setuparea (Compare the presentation of the version number to the versionnumbers as they appear in the header) Any suggestions? Thanks Willi

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two questions
by Tasos Drosopoulos 08 Feb '03

08 Feb '03

Hello All, After a number of years working with "classical" TeX/LaTeX I have been trying out ConTeXt. I like the structured approach and the control it gives the user and I have been trying it out on some of my working documents. Two questions: 1. On writing tables in LaTeX, there is an option p{ some length } that enables paragraph mode for one or more of the table's column entries. Is there something equivalent in ConTeXt? I don't seem to be able to find it in the manual. 2. My native language is Greek and I would like to have the capability to write documents in this language. There does not seem to be support for it in ConTeXt. Are there any directions, notes, how-to's, etc. around, for how to add support for an additional language in ConTeXt? I'd like to give it a try. TIA Tasos

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re:[ntg-context] two questions
by Tasos Drosopoulos 08 Feb '03

08 Feb '03

First of all thanks guys for the p( ) pointer. Hans, re your questions: (1) what fonts (2) what encoding (3) what labels 1. I use the cbgreek fonts. A complete package was submitted to ctan on Dec 2002. Size is ~ 65-70 MB with full support for type1 and tfm that results in nicely looking pdf docs. They are the work of A. Syropoulos, one of the main contributors to greek babel and omega projects. 2. The encoding I use is the iso-8859-7. The iso-8859-7.def file is again written by A. Syropoulos. This works nicely in both my Win2k and Linux environments. A simple Left-Alt/Shift changes keyboard layout and I can use both greek and english in my documents. 3. Re labels I don't know what they are. A brief sample of a test tex doc follows: %-------------------- \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[greek]{babel} \usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc} \begin{document} Κανονικά ελληνικά, \textbf{έντονα ελληνικά}, \textit{πλάγια καλλιγραφικά}, \textsl{απλά πλάγια}. {\LARGE Κανονικά ελληνικά, \textbf{έντονα ελληνικά}, \textit{πλάγια καλλιγραφικά}, \textsl{απλά πλάγια}.} \thispagestyle{empty} \end{document} %-------------------- You should get through dvips a test.ps file with size ~ 158 kb. The corresponding file through pdflatex is ~ 84 kb. If desired, I can post them to the group or mail them to you. The iso-8859-7.def file you can get through ctan. I find I get the best possible results with the least hassle by using the newly released teTeX 2.0. The how-to for my setup is: After installation of tetex-2.0 (see instructions on the tetex src tarball) 1. install iso-8859-7.def -> ../texmf/tex/latex/base/ 2. expand somewhere the cb.tar.gz fonts tarball and from it: a) copy drivers/*.mf -> ../texmf/fonts/source/public/cbgreek/ b) copy dvips/cbgreek.map -> ../texmf/dvips/config/ c) copy mf/*.mf -> ../texmf/fonts/source/public/cbgreek/ d) copy tfm/*.tfm -> ../texmf/fonts/tfm/public/cbgreek/ e) copy type1/*.pfb -> ../texmf/fonts/type1/public/cbgreek/ 3. add the following line to the appropriate place in your texmf/dvips/config/config.ps file p +cbgreek.map 4. add the following line to the appropriate place in your texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg file map +cbgreek.map 5. texhash your system In this way I have full support for modern greek in my LaTeX system. Any other questions you may have feel free to drop them to me. Tasos

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