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Miktex-Context Installation
by David Arnold 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

All, I just installed Miktex 2.2 and got this error message when trying to build Context format. Anyone else get this? What is the workaround? Creating cont-en.efmt... pdfetex.exe --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias cont-en *F:/miktex/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex \dump ! You have to increase POOLSIZE. INITEXMF: pdfetex.exe failed on cont-en.tex I checked miktex.ini and found: ;; Maximum number of characters in strings, including all ;; error messages and help texts, and the names of all fonts and ;; control sequences; must exceed string_vacancies by the total ;; length of TeX's own strings, which is currently about 23000. pool_size=500000 Is this what I should increase? Or is there some other sinister thing that needs taking care of?

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Re: How to add your own modules?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

Friday, October 18, 2002 Matt Gushee wrote: MG> I have browsed through several manuals trying to find out how to do MG> this, but haven't found any answers. Is there some documentation that MG> explains how to customize the system? User modules go to <path-to-context>/user and should be called t-<name>.tex where name is the name of the module (t- stands for "third party"). You may want to consider using "environments", though, rather than modules, if all you want to do is "tweak" a pre-exisiting module. (I don't know where environment files go, though; I keep them in the root of my ConTeXt document tree, since ConTeXt looks up to two levels up to find environments.) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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advice for a beginner
by Matthew Huggett 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

Hi Everyone: I'm a real beginner with TeX and ConTeXt. I have had some success with English documents, but what I really want to do is create Chinese and Japanese docs. What do I need to understand about TeX and ConTeXt in general in order to do this? There seem to be so many things to learn, I'm not sure where to start. One big question for me is whether or not I need to look at using Omega. I'm not asking for a tutorial on how to do asian languages in TeX, just for advice on what areas of the system I need to know about. Thanks Matthew

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A math question
by Giuseppe Bilotta 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hello, does ConTeXt provide extensible arrows with super and subscript? An extensible arrow is something like \leftarrow, \rightarrow, \Leftarrow, \Rightarrow, except that it accepts super/subscripts which gets typeset over or under the arrow body, which extends to accomdate the length of the super and subscripts (with a minimum guaranteed legth). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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New ConTeXt website mirror
by Taco Hoekwater 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hi all, I just created a new mirror of www.pragma-ade.com. It is part of my brand new website on ConTeXt. The mirror is updated every night at 3am CET. URL: http://tex.aanhet.net/context -- groeten, Taco

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Fully object-oriented section
by Giuseppe Bilotta 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hello, I'd like to restart the thread about "object-orienting" section commands. Availability of \startpart ... \stoppart, \startchapter ...\stopchapter (alongside the faster \part, \chapter ... alternatives) becomes more and more a need for me. Having the mechanism standardized in ConTeXt would be a great thing. This is the way I'm implementing it by hand: %D New structured sectioning \newtoks\everybeforestartpart \newtoks\everyafterstartpart \newtoks\everystoppart \def\startpart{\dosingleempty\dostartpart} \def\dostartpart[#1]#2{% \bgroup\bgroup \the\everybeforestartpart \iffirstargument \part[#1]{#2}% \else \part{#2}% \fi \egroup \the\everyafterstartpart } \def\stoppart{\the\everystoppart\egroup} Using this snippet as the kernel and simply changing "part" to whatever other sectioning level is needed is enough to allow full customization of the sectioning levels. Can this be put in ConTeXt? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Tooltips
by Giuseppe Bilotta 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hello, I notice that the "active area" that triggers tooltips is a little misplaced to the bottom right. Is this a "wanted" effect? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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problem with texfont
by Henning Hraban Ramm 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Ahoi! I discovered a little problem while installing fonts: Actual Linotype AFMs contain overlong lines (copyright information), about 450 characters. That confuses texfont, so that the following lines are not recognized. It helps to delete these lines manually, but would it be possible to enhance texfont to handle such nasties? Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.angerweit.de http://www.fiee.net http://www.ramm.ch ---

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Re: [NTG-context] Bug in supp-pdf.tex/supp-mis.tex (?)
by Hans Hagen 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

At 02:30 PM 10/18/2002 +0200, Andreas Fieger wrote: search in supp-pdf for you name, and patch: \def\dodo##1% Andreas Fieger's bug: (\304...) {\edef\!!stringa{##1}% and another one: ( 11) -> \ifx 11 \ifx\!!stringa\MPspacechar\MPspacechar\else\expandafter##1\fi}% please test this with previous files as well >Hello, > >though this is only partly a context question, I think this is the >best place to ask. I am creating MetaPost figures containing text. >When these are included in a TeX document processed by pdfLaTeX, >context's supp-pdf.tex is loaded to perform the conversion. > >Consider the simple MP file (the space is essential) >-------------------------------------- >defaultfont:="ptmr8r"; >beginfig(1); > label(" 11", origin); >endfig; >-------------------------------------- > >This will result in a file like >%%Page: 1 1 >-6.25003 -3.38997 moveto >( 11) ptmr8r 10.00005 fshow >showpage >%%EOF > >If this MP file is included in a context document, >everything is fine. >-------------------------------------- >\starttext >\placefigure[][]{}{\externalfigure[minimal.mps]} >\stoptext >-------------------------------------- > >If it is included in a LaTeX document >-------------------------------------- >\documentclass{article} >\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} >\begin{document} >\includegraphics{minimal.mps} >\end{document} >-------------------------------------- >converted to ps with dvips, still everything >is fine. > >When using >-------------------------------------- >\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} >-------------------------------------- >and pdfLaTeX to compile the file (this is >when supp-pdf.tex is used), the " 11" disappears. > >I found this problem with every number from 11, 22, >to 99 with a leading space -- even in the middle of >a string: "Text: 118" would come out as "Text: 8". > >I don't have any clue what's going wrong. >Any ideas? > >PS: Hans was so kind to provide a new supp-pdf.tex > after a similar problem with labels > startimg with an umlaut? > > file=supp-pdf.tex version=2001.07.27 > file=supp-mis.tex version=1997.01.04 > are used. > > >Thanks, >Andreas >-- >Dr. Andreas Fieger >ServiceBarometer AG >Tel (089) 896669-17 >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ref.ntg.nl >http://ref.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Bug in supp-pdf.tex/supp-mis.tex (?)
by Andreas Fieger 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hello, though this is only partly a context question, I think this is the best place to ask. I am creating MetaPost figures containing text. When these are included in a TeX document processed by pdfLaTeX, context's supp-pdf.tex is loaded to perform the conversion. Consider the simple MP file (the space is essential) -------------------------------------- defaultfont:="ptmr8r"; beginfig(1); label(" 11", origin); endfig; -------------------------------------- This will result in a file like %%Page: 1 1 -6.25003 -3.38997 moveto ( 11) ptmr8r 10.00005 fshow showpage %%EOF If this MP file is included in a context document, everything is fine. -------------------------------------- \starttext \placefigure[][]{}{\externalfigure[minimal.mps]} \stoptext -------------------------------------- If it is included in a LaTeX document -------------------------------------- \documentclass{article} \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} \begin{document} \includegraphics{minimal.mps} \end{document} -------------------------------------- converted to ps with dvips, still everything is fine. When using -------------------------------------- \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} -------------------------------------- and pdfLaTeX to compile the file (this is when supp-pdf.tex is used), the " 11" disappears. I found this problem with every number from 11, 22, to 99 with a leading space -- even in the middle of a string: "Text: 118" would come out as "Text: 8". I don't have any clue what's going wrong. Any ideas? PS: Hans was so kind to provide a new supp-pdf.tex after a similar problem with labels startimg with an umlaut? file=supp-pdf.tex version=2001.07.27 file=supp-mis.tex version=1997.01.04 are used. Thanks, Andreas -- Dr. Andreas Fieger ServiceBarometer AG Tel (089) 896669-17

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