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A surprising interaction
by Nigel King 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

Dear ConTeXtnicians, I have found a problem constructing my front and back cover for a user manual. In the program below I use the setupexternalfigures line below setting the maximum horizontal and vertical size in in order to simplify the inclusion of figures. It has the undesired side effect of reducing the size of the front and back cover. In the program below the first page of the document is smaller than the subsequent page. \showframe \setupexternalfigures [maxwidth=\textwidth,maxheight=0.8\textheight] \starttext \startMPpage StartPage; fill Page withcolor 0.5white; StopPage; \stopMPpage \input tufte \stoptext Clearly I can set this line after the first page. Presumably I need to set the line to \pagewidth and \pageheight before the back cover. A further surprise is that the body page background does not seem to be effected. \startuseMPgraphic{bg} StartPage; fill Page withcolor 0.5white; StopPage; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[page][\useMPgraphic{bg}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=page] regards -- Nigel

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\frac, \eqalign and \usemodule[newmat]
by Emil Hedevang Lohse 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

I have encountered a problem when using \fac, \eqalign and \usemodule[newmat] at the same time. I like the newmat module since it gives me the \QED command, but when using \frac inside \eqalign I get an error I cannot understand. \usemodule[newmat] % This works fine. \starttext \startformula \frac12=\frac24 \stopformula % Uncomment to get error. %\startformula %\eqalign{\frac12={}&\frac24\cr} %\stopformula % This works fine. \startformula \eqalign{{1\over2}={}&{2\over4}\cr} \stopformula \stoptext The log file is attached. -- Emil Hedevang Lohse <http://home.imf.au.dk/emil/> Alle spørgsmål er lige dumme. Og spørgsmålet "Kan ænder flyve?" er ikke dumt.

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

> run > > kpsewhich texmf.cnf > > locate the context section > > decrease some mem values (main mem for instance) > > regenerate formats with texexec --make (optionally --alone) > > see if there's a change in the malloc message > > Hans ok! If I decrease main_memory from 1500000 to 1000000 then pdfetex needs only 56000008 Bytes (60000008 bevor) this is a factor 8! Why 8? If main_memory is given in words (longwords) I would expect a factor 2 (4), but not 8! ok, let it be quadwords! Then I decreased further mem_bot from 4000000 to 3000000 pdfetex now needs 48000008 Bytes this is a factor 8 too! The remaining 48000008 Bytes divided by 8 means 6000000 words? I have to set everything to zero then!? It looks as if there is no memory at all! In what units are all the memory entrys given? ??? Wolfgang

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Definition of new fonts
by Christoph Bachmann 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

Hi, I try to use a font, which is not packaged with TeX or ConText. I already used the texfont script to install it (successfully). But I can't make the system USE the font. Below is the snippet. The commands do (in the end) have no influence at all. The text is typeset in Computer Modern. If I activate the (now commented) "\starttypescript [xxx]" command, I get an "unknown variant - xxx" error in the log. Does anybody have an idea? Unfortunately, the mfonts.pdf didn't help me much. Thanks a lot and happy easter holidays, Chris. \starttypescript [map] [ec] \loadmapfile [ec-adobe-lucidaserif] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[serif][adobelucida][name] \definefontsynonym[Serif][Lucida] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold][Lucida-Bold] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][Lucida-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [Lucida-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[sans][adobelucida][name] \definefontsynonym[Sans][LucidaSans] \definefontsynonym[SansBold][LucidaSans-Bold] \definefontsynonym[SansBoldItalic][LucidaSans-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym[SansItalic][Lucida-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[mono][adobelucida][name] \definefontsynonym[Mono][LucidaSansTypewriter] \definefontsynonym[MonoBold][LucidaSansTypewriter-Bd] \definefontsynonym[MonoBoldItalic][LucidaSansTypewriter-BdObl] \definefontsynonym[MonoItalic][LucidaSansTypewriter-Obl] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[alb] \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][adobelucida][name] \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][default][size] \usetypescript [map] [ec] \stoptypescript %\starttypescript [xxx] \definetypeface [xxx] [rm] [serif] [alb] [default] \definetypeface [xxx] [ss] [sans] [alb] [default] [rscale=.9] \definetypeface [xxx] [tt] [mono] [alb][default][rscale=.9] \definetypeface [xxx] [mm] [math] [alb] [default] [encoding=ec] %\stoptypescript \setupencoding[default=ec] % or EC, if you prefer \usetypescript[xxx] \setupbodyfont[xxx] \setupalign [hanging] \starttext \input tufte {\sc Tufte}\footnote{abcdefgh {\sc Tufte}} \placeformula $$E=mc^2$$ \placeformula $$\Delta E=\Delta mc^2$$ \ss \input tufte \tt \input tufte \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

> > >This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C > >7.3.7x) > > > >fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes). > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Should I really increase memory to run an one-word job? > > > >There must be an other error. > > > > > > this is an OS problem, if you run some old windows (95/98), make sure > >that > > > there is enough non fragemented disk space left on your c drive (or the > > > disk where the virtual mem file resides); it may help to increase your > > > virtual mem; tex needs some 16-32 M per job (kind of fixed) > > > > > > Hans > > > >I run tetex on linux (debian). > >I have compared the memory settings in the context section of both TeX Live > >6 and 7, they are identical. > >Do you have any ideas? > > the message is not a tex one (say: too less font mem, or hash exceeded) but > an operating system one; this may happen when you rmem settings in the > texmf.cnf file don't match the values stored in the format file; did you > regenerate the format? > > i also wonder where the 60 meg of mem request comes from > > Hans I made the following little experiments with 'simple.tex': ------------------simple.tex---------------- \starttext Test. \stoptext ------------------------------------------------- I hope, that the following command ist �quivalent to 'texexec simple' > pdfetex --efmt cont-en simple This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./simple.tex Error: pdfetex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file (The former xmalloc-error is not reported, but 'pdftex.cfg' could not opened!?) > pdfetex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) **\relax entering extended mode {/usr/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} *\end No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. (Here, 'pdftex.cfg' is found and opened!! ) I created an further pdftedx.cfg in my user-tree and I get: > pdfetex --efmt cont-en simple This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./simple.tex Error: pdfetex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file > pdfetex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) **\relax entering extended mode {/home/wwl/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} *\end No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. Is this ok or wrong? Is this the same error as bevor or a second error? Obviously this is format dependend. The format is newly made with: texexec --make en The new format is written to /usr/TeX/texmf-var/web2c/cont-en.efmt Timestamp looks ok! Wolfgang

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placing an accent
by Idris S Hamid 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

Dear gang, A bug or feature? \t oo does not work in ConTeXt! `\t' is undefined. Anyway, I need something else. I want to place an accent midway over two letters. I looked at page 356 of the TeXBook for ideas but I can't seem to get things right. I want to place an extended tilda (\textfont3\accent"65 in Plain TeX) over the character pair `al'. I need a macro like \t{al} that places this character exactly midway over the `al', or any other pair of characters. The procedure analogous to the one Knuth uses for \t \def\t#1{{\edef\next{\the\font}\the\textfont3\accent"65\next#1}} does not work here. Aside: Can TeX be tricked into reading the ahead two characters so I can write \t al ? I realize that Knuth's \t does not really do this but takes a character from an italic font to give the illusion that it does. Thnx 4 your help Idris

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Missing PageNumber in s-pre-03
by David Antos 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

Hello, I've used the s-pre-03 style and I encountered a problem with the generated graphics. The graphics depends on the page number and reads the page number from the PageNumber variable. Nevertheless, the variable does not get updated, it is initialized to 1 in the beginning of mpgraph.mp. It can be solved by putting PageNumber := \realfolio ; into the code, but this is a really ugly hack. Can you please track down where the PageNumber in Start/StopPage MP environment has been eaten? I expect this problem affects any generated graphics that depends on page numbers. Thank you, D.A. -- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein

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a metapost problem
by Severin Obertuefer 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

hi I have again another metapost problem: I made the following picture: \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \startMPpage path p; p := fullsquare xysized(2cm,2cm); fill p scaled 2 withcolor blue; path a,b,c; for i=0 step 1 until 9: a:= p enlarged (5mm-10mm*i/9,5mm-10mm*i/9); b:= a enlarged (-10mm/9,-10mm/9); c:= a --reverse b--cycle; fill c withcolor transparent(1,i/9,white); endfor; \stopMPpage \stoptext when I compile it an look at the result then the stripes are overlapping a little bit. how can I do this so that one stripe is next to the other without overlapping,but without a spece between them. greetings severin

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Re: [NTG-context] Metapost problems
by emmanuel.rialland＠sgib.com 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

I am happy to report some progress thanks to your help. reinstalled the context package; \protectbufferstrue is full of black magic; noticed that there shouldn't be any white space between with and color; Making more changes on the logo definition. Not quite there yet, but on the way. All in all getting better. Even the chart has gone back where it should be (I have no idea what the problem is/was). The draft still doesn't appear. Another question: - how to change the font of the logo text? Thanks, Emmanuel ************************************************************************** Have you checked our new corporate website at http://www.sgib.com ? The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). It shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Any unauthorized access, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination is prohibited. Neither SGIB nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall assume any legal liability or responsibility for any incorrect, misleading or altered information contained herein. **************************************************************************

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

> >This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) > >fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes). > >--------------------------------------------------------------- > >Should I really increase memory to run an one-word job? > >There must be an other error. > > this is an OS problem, if you run some old windows (95/98), make sure that > there is enough non fragemented disk space left on your c drive (or the > disk where the virtual mem file resides); it may help to increase your > virtual mem; tex needs some 16-32 M per job (kind of fixed) > > Hans I run tetex on linux (debian). I have compared the memory settings in the context section of both TeX Live 6 and 7, they are identical. Do you have any ideas? Wolfgang

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