RE: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond

2005-04-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
complains that etex is too old? I know it's probably hopeless till Giuseppe comes back, but I'll ask anyway: Is there any way to compile a new aleph with the new eTeX and jonathan kew's bugfix for the extra mem_bot before Giuseppe returns? All the best Idris

Re: [NTG-context] Re: btex-etex

2005-04-02 Thread Jiri Polcar
. My problem is that I have no output also without 'caled 5cm': \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} picture p; p := btex TEST etex; draw p; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext Sorry, I used too complicated example to describe

[NTG-context] btex-etex

2005-04-01 Thread Jiri Polcar
Hallo, my ConTeXt ignore btex-etex command. It works as the btex-etex command is empty. No text on output. Simple example: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} picture p; p := btex TEST etex scaled 5cm; draw p; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test

[NTG-context] Re: btex-etex

2005-04-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Jiri, \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} picture p; p := btex TEST etex scaled 5cm; draw p; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext The file works fine here. Except that only some part of the T is visible (large scale factor). Do you

Re: [NTG-context] Re: btex-etex

2005-04-01 Thread Jiri Polcar
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:24:37AM +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: The file works fine here. Except that only some part of the T is visible (large scale factor). Do you have write18 enabled? (http://contextgarden.net/Texmf.cnf) I set shell_escape = t in

Re: [NTG-context] OT: looking for metapost/fun examples

2005-03-26 Thread David Arnold
'=g(x,y) %1. Plots the graphs of x(t) and y(t) %2. Plots the graph of (x(t),y(t)) in the phase plane. %verbatimtex %\input mtplain %etex %Generate standard eps prologues:=2; beginfig(0); %Place RHS of x'=f(t,x,y) here def fxy(expr t, x, y)= (0.4-0.01*y)*x enddef; %Place RHS of y'=g(t,x,y) here

Re: [NTG-context] OT: looking for metapost/fun examples

2005-03-26 Thread David Arnold
} %etex %Input Context macros input mp-tool %define ytick vardef ytick(expr pos)= path p; p:=(-2,0)--(2,0); draw p shifted pos; enddef; %define xtick vardef xtick(expr pos)= path p; p:=(0,-2)--(0,2); draw p shifted pos; enddef; %define pi pi:=3.14159; %define cosine in radians vardef

Re: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)

2005-03-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
to introduce some very basic imitations of Omega's bidi support, prompted by XeTeX's Unicode capabilities. Unfortunately, it rests on an eTeX check--not a problem with Omega, but with Aleph, it means we clobber the \pardir primitives! Oops, indeed. Sounds like supp-dir needs a no-Omega check, as well

Re: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)

2005-03-23 Thread Hans Hagen
and I were trying to introduce some very basic imitations of Omega's bidi support, prompted by XeTeX's Unicode capabilities. Unfortunately, it rests on an eTeX check--not a problem with Omega, but with Aleph, it means we clobber the \pardir primitives! Oops, indeed. Sounds like supp-dir needs

[NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeX

2005-03-22 Thread ishamid
gives an error: === This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force entering extended mode (test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.21 int: english mes: english systems : eTeX

Re: [NTG-context] imposition for a pdf file

2005-03-17 Thread luigi.scarso
:) ) texbytopic.pdf, cseq.html, The Advanced TEXBook (seem good; maybe i will buy it) etex-man.pdf Again, if you have some others... luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] imposition for a pdf file

2005-03-17 Thread Hans Hagen
book as well; (david gave a nice few days course for the ntg long ago so i also have the preprint somewhere) etex-man.pdf Again, if you have some others... Beginner's Book of TEX Seroul, Raymond, Levy, Silvio 1st ed. 1991. Corr. 3rd printing, 1995, XII, 284 pp., Softcover ISBN: 0-387-97562-4

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Palatino? - bitmap fonts???

2005-03-16 Thread Matthias Weber
/teTeX/ share/texmf.t etex/fonts/type1/public/pxfonts/pxsy.pfb/usr/local/teTeX/share/ texmf.tetex/fo nts/type1/public/pxfonts/rpxr.pfb/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/ fonts/typ e1/urw/palatino/uplri8a.pfb /var/tmp/texfonts/pk/modeless/adobe/palatino/pplr 8r.86pk Output written on Untitled-2.pdf

[NTG-context] consequences of recent update

2005-02-01 Thread mickle
: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) I downloaded pdftex 1.20b and tried to build from source, but no matter what syntax I try, whether as root or as an ordinary user, I fail to get pdftex to recognize the main texmf tree: I'm doing % ./Build --datadir=/usr/freeware/share and I get configure

Re: [NTG-context] cz support

2005-01-26 Thread h h extern
to drop the non etex code] named glyphs are not so much a problem, but we need to clean up the fallback encoding defs a bit in order to prevent funny expansion \def\literateencodedtokens {% \let\dohandleaccent \keephandleaccent % \let\dohandlecommand \keephandlecommand \let\dohandlecharacter

Re: [NTG-context] cz support

2005-01-26 Thread Vit Zyka
the sort/index code to become aware of named glyphs and languages, and we can then plug in language specific sorting rules [taking care of xml at teh same time] Great. [it's worth considering to drop the non etex code] All right. etex can be everywhere now. named glyphs are not so much a problem

Re: [NTG-context] New ConTeXt cz interface - apologize

2005-01-21 Thread h h extern
/ etex / scripts and other subpath, while others were not reorganized due to whatever historic reason [dvips vs pdftex vs generic], or not implemented because it was too difficult to implement [web2c engine subpath] or because the author was not willing to participate (czech stuff), or because

[NTG-context] No bonds visibel with ppchtex

2004-12-20 Thread Kai Straube
,}// % e-TeX. This form of the input paths is borrowed from teTeX. A certain % variant of TDS is assumed here, unaffected by the build variables. TEXINPUTS.elatex = .;$TEXMF/{etex,tex}/{latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.etex = .;$TEXMF/{etex,tex}/{plain,generic,}// % pdfTeX. This form of the input

Re: [NTG-context] Division bug in \doMPconcat (supp-pdf.tex)

2004-12-15 Thread Hans Hagen
that i can merge it one thing you can consider playing with is an etex variant; i attach a local experimental file (it build on the old code, but keeping the calculations within a \dimexpr may give even more accuracy because internally double precission is used thanks for taking the time to look

[NTG-context] pdfetex can't find map files

2004-12-07 Thread Matt Gushee
,}// TEXINPUTS.pdfetex = \ .;$TEXMF/{pdfetex,pdftex,etex,tex}/{plain,generic,context,}// TEXINPUTS.context = \ .;$TEXMF/{pdftex,etex,tex}/{context,plain,generic,}// ... and so on. So, anyone have an idea what I might have missed? -- Matt Gushee Englewood, CO, USA

Re: [NTG-context] error messages after installation

2004-11-20 Thread Ciro A. Soto
} ConTeXt ver: 2004.11.06 fmt: 2004.11.19 int: english mes: english systems : pdfTeX version 110 - please update systems : eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) ! Undefined control sequence. \c!gebied ={/home/ciro/} \xprocesscommaitem #1,#2-\if ,#1 ,[EMAIL PROTECTED] \xprocesscommaitem \else

Re: [NTG-context] \mathstrut in \underbrace and nath

2004-11-19 Thread Christopher Creutzig
Hans Hagen wrote: first of all, \protected is not what you think it is; i had a \protected before etex was around; the context name is \unexpanded Ok, then what's \protected? Is it performing an \unprotect/\protect pair around the definition? But then, why did it work? \let

Re: [NTG-context] \mathstrut in \underbrace and nath

2004-11-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Christopher Creutzig wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: first of all, \protected is not what you think it is; i had a \protected before etex was around; the context name is \unexpanded Ok, then what's \protected? Is it performing an \unprotect/\protect pair around the definition? But then, why did

[NTG-context] error messages after installation

2004-11-19 Thread ciro
) entering extended mode (./novel.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2004.11.06 fmt: 2004.11.19 int: english mes: english systems: pdfTeX version 110 - please update systems: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) language : language en is active

Re: [NTG-context] error messages after installation

2004-11-19 Thread Willi Egger
fmt: 2004.11.19 int: english mes: english systems: pdfTeX version 110 - please update systems: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) ! Undefined control sequence. argument \c!gebied ={/home/ciro/} \xprocesscommaitem #1,#2-\if ,#1

[NTG-context] Tex or Context Editors.

2004-11-08 Thread Dirar BOUGATEF
Hi, Am using eclipse as my editor (eTex) but it is really too heavy, anyone knows of an editor that works fine within tex and windows. What about TexWork. Many thanks. Dirar. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download

[NTG-context] Re: Tex or Context Editors.

2004-11-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dirar BOUGATEF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Am using eclipse as my editor (eTex) but it is really too heavy, anyone knows of an editor that works fine within tex and windows. See: http://contextgarden.net/Text_editor especially emacs... Please share your experience on the wiki

Re: [NTG-context] Tex or Context Editors.

2004-11-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Am using eclipse as my editor (eTex) but it is really too heavy, anyone knows of an editor that works fine within tex and windows. i use scite Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA

[NTG-context] m-bib problem

2004-11-08 Thread Bernd Militzer
: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) --- snip --- system : macros of module bib loaded (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/bib/t-bib.tex system : macros of module list loaded (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/bib/t-list.tex) publications : loading formatting style from bibl

Re: [NTG-context] Tex or Context Editors.

2004-11-08 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Dirar, I would suggest that you try Scite. This editor integrates very nicely with Context and Hans has done a great job providing this integration. Willi Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Hi, Am using eclipse as my editor (eTex) but it is really too heavy, anyone knows of an editor that works fine

Re: [NTG-context] Tex or Context Editors.

2004-11-08 Thread David Arnold
that Scite will do alignment of tables and other nice automatic formatting? At 03:20 PM 11/8/04 +0100, you wrote: Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Am using eclipse as my editor (eTex) but it is really too heavy, anyone knows of an editor that works fine within tex and windows. i use scite Hans

Re: [NTG-context] FunnyText

2004-11-07 Thread Peter Mnster
in the background? Not really an answer to your question, but I know about this possibility: \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} draw btex \bf COPYRIGHT etex rotated 60 withcolor .8white; currentpicture := currentpicture ysized (\overlaywidth-0.5cm); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay

[NTG-context] Compiling questions

2004-11-06 Thread David Arnold
background. Suggestions? The file junk2.tex: \setupoutput[pdf] \setupwhitespace[medium] \startuniqueMPgraphic{concept} draw btex \bf CONCEPT etex rotated 60 withcolor .8white; currentpicture:=currentpicture ysized (\overlayheight-0.5cm); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[concept

Re: [NTG-context] Compiling questions

2004-11-06 Thread David Arnold
[pdf] \setupwhitespace[medium] \startuniqueMPgraphic{concept} draw btex \bf CONCEPT etex rotated 60 withcolor .8white; currentpicture:=currentpicture ysized (\overlayheight-0.5cm); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[concept][\uniqueMPgraphic{concept}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background

[NTG-context] Re: Failing on Mac OS X

2004-11-02 Thread Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
ystems: eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) language : language en is active protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems: beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! color : pale

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Failing on Mac OS X

2004-11-02 Thread Matthias Weber
ish systems: pdfTeX version 111 -> please update systems: eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) language : language en is active protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems:

[NTG-context] Failing on Mac OS X

2004-11-01 Thread Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
update systems: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) But I do seem to have the latest pdfTeX and eTeX versions: gimli:~ shiv$ pdftex -v pdfTeX (Web2C 7.5.2) 3.141592-1.11a kpathsea version 3.5.2 gimli:~ shiv$ etex -v e-TeX (Web2C 7.5.2) 3.141592-2.1 kpathsea version 3.5.2 Any idea where my

[NTG-context] Re: Failing on Mac OS X

2004-11-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) This is not critical (for most stuff?) Any idea where my problem could be? Thanks, Please post the complete output of a simple texexec run. And perhaps you might want to have a look at the macosxtex mailinglist. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http

Re: [NTG-context] Installing a new font.

2004-10-27 Thread Dirar BOUGATEF
/web2c/cp8bit.tcx) **cont-en TypescriptTest.tex (./TypescriptTest.tex{c:/TeXLive/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.19 fmt: 2004.10.24 int: english mes: english systems: pdfTeX version 111 - please update systems: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) language

RE: [NTG-context] Re: Installing a new font.

2004-10-27 Thread Dirar BOUGATEF
/cp8bit.tcx)**cont-en TypescriptTest.tex(./TypescriptTest.tex{c:/TeXLive/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.19 fmt: 2004.10.24 int: english mes: english systems : pdfTeX version 111 - please update systems : eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) language : language en

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost + metaObjet connector label on arcs

2004-10-26 Thread Maurice Diamantini
Metapost page) from a public directory; The MetaObj package could be as important as Metapost itself for the ex-pstricks users; so it should be easy to get the last version 4 - about ConTeXt and Metapost: What should I put in the verbatimtex ... etex header to be able to use ConTexT

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost + metaObjet connector label on arcs

2004-10-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Maurice Diamantini wrote: 4 - about ConTeXt and Metapost: What should I put in the verbatimtex ... etex header to be able to use ConTexT in btex..etex instead of LaTex? (I don't want use (for now ) the inside ConTeXt document method for the sake of environnement robustness

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost + metaObjet connector label on arcs

2004-10-26 Thread Maurice Diamantini
Le 26 oct. 04, à 13:53, Hans Hagen a écrit : Maurice Diamantini wrote: 4 - about ConTeXt and Metapost: What should I put in the verbatimtex ... etex header to be able to use ConTexT in btex..etex instead of LaTex? (I don't want use (for now ) the inside ConTeXt document method

[NTG-context] Installing a new font.

2004-10-26 Thread Dirar BOUGATEF
: english mes: english systems: pdfTeX version 111 - please update systems: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) language : language en is active protectionstate 0 system : cont-new loaded (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems: beware: some patches

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost + metaObjet connector label on arcs

2004-10-24 Thread Maurice Diamantini
. Thank you very much. -- Maurice Diamantini, verbatimtex % -*-latex-*- %latex \documentclass{article} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \begin{document} \sffamily etex input mp-tool ; % some initializations and auxiliary macros input mp-spec ; % macros that support special features

[NTG-context] Metapost + metaObjet connector label on arcs

2004-10-22 Thread Maurice Diamantini
); % ... % I'll have to create my one metaObj (later) % newCircle.a1() circmargin(0.3u); % label(btex $x^2$ etex, z1); newCircle.a0(btex 0 etex) circmargin(0.1u); newCircle.a1(btex 1 etex) circmargin(0.1u); newCircle.a2(btex 2 etex) circmargin(0.1u); a0.c = z0; a1.c = z1; a2.c = z2

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost + metaObjet connector label on arcs

2004-10-22 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
paths to objects and then labels these. Here is my first try, seems to work: \startMPinclusions input metaobj; \stopMPinclusions \startreusableMPgraphic{labeltest} newCircle.a(btex A etex); newCircle.b(btex B etex); a.c=origin

[NTG-context] semicolon in \useMPgraphic btex ... etex

2004-10-16 Thread Laurent Chéno
(* Please excuse my poor english *) Semicolon usage in btex ... etex seems weird to me. Can you help me ? The following source don't produce the expected result : % WRONG \startuseMPgraphic{test} dotlabel.top(btex 2;3 etex, (0,0)) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] semicolon in \useMPgraphic btex ... etex

2004-10-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
... etex seems weird to me. Can you help me ? ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re:[NTG-context] Installation Problem

2004-10-16 Thread Larry Stamm
-1.10b-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.3) entering extended mode (junk.tex{pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.07 fmt: 2004.10.15 int: english mes: english systems : pdfTeX version 110 - please update systems : eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) language : language en is active

[NTG-context] Installation Problem

2004-10-15 Thread David Arnold
} ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.07 fmt: 2004.10.15 int: english mes: english systems: pdfTeX version 110 - please update systems: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) language : language en is active protectionstate 0 system : cont-new loaded (F:\miktex\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex

[NTG-context] Re: textext() doesn't work on my MikTeX distr.

2004-10-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Mojca Miklavec, The following example works on [EMAIL PROTECTED], but on my computer it only writes unknown at the place of x. btex etex also doesn't work in ConTeXt (metaplay) on my computer, although it does without any problems in metapost/mptopdf. do you have \protectbufferstrue

[NTG-context] Re: a crash in pdftext with protruding again...

2004-10-13 Thread Hans Hagen
i ran into toks problems like that, and after some heavy debugging with taco, we found out that there was an etex bug; this is fixed now (registers 255 were not properly allocated by etex) you run into that problem because the 'updated protruding/hz support' allocates registers and due

Re: [NTG-context] pdftex 1.20a and map files

2004-10-12 Thread Hans Hagen
will fix the tree (map files are now under /fonts/map) and you need to change the texmf.cnf file accordingly TEXPSHEADERS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/{enc,map,type1,truetype},dvips,pdftex,tex}//;$TEXMF/{etex,tex,pdftex,dvips,fonts/type1}// TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/map//,fontname};$TEXMF/{pdftex,dvips

[NTG-context] textext() doesn't work on my MikTeX distr.

2004-10-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
The following example works on [EMAIL PROTECTED], but on my computer it only writes unknown at the place of x. btex etex also doesn't work in ConTeXt (metaplay) on my computer, although it does without any problems in metapost/mptopdf. \starttext \startMPpage draw textext.origin(x); draw

[NTG-context] supp-mps

2004-10-08 Thread Vit Zyka
Hi, there is an additional space in the end of the line 653 in supp-mps.tex (latest alpha): \immediate\write\MPwrite{verbatimtex \MPinputtranslation etex ;} It causes e.g. wrong left bbox border in - \startuseMPgraphic{c} draw fullsquare scaled 2cm; \stopuseMPgraphic

Re: [NTG-context] first element in radio field

2004-10-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Moin! First of all thanx to Hans and Willi for testing. It seems that I have to update my (pdf)etex to a newer version. No bug: lucky Hans, unlucky me ;) Willi Egger wrote: Hi Peter I tried your example wit the alpha version: This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2c 7.5.2) ... ConTeXt

[NTG-context] Nightmare after upgrading

2004-10-07 Thread Sun Minchao
3.141592-1.20a-rc4-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.4)output format initialized to DVIentering extended mode(test.run ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.07 fmt: 2004.10.7 int: english mes: english systems : eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) language : language en is activeprotectionstate 0system : cont-new

Re: [NTG-context] Re: website

2004-10-06 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
OK, this is not a real error, but the latest version keeps nagging for updates: ConTeXt ver: 2004.06.10 fmt: 2004.10.6 int: english mes: english systems: pdfTeX version 111 - please update systems: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) This looks more serious: (/usr/local/teTeX

[NTG-context] first element in radio field

2004-10-05 Thread Peter Rolf
ver: 2004.10.1 fmt: 2004.10.3 int: english mes: german systems: pdfTeX version 111 - please update systems: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) Greetings, Peter % interface=en output=pdftex \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \showmakeup \def

Re: [NTG-context] first element in radio field

2004-10-05 Thread Hans Hagen
example... ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.1 fmt: 2004.10.3 int: english mes: german systems: pdfTeX version 111 - please update systems: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) it looks ok here, do others have the same problem? (\showmakeup may not be that handy in such cases) \noindent \vbox

Re: [NTG-context] first element in radio field

2004-10-05 Thread Willi Egger
111 - please update systems: eTeX version 201 - too old (bugs) it looks ok here, do others have the same problem? (\showmakeup may not be that handy in such cases) \noindent \vbox{% \field[Button1] \field[Button2] \field[Button3] } may better be: \noindent \vbox{\forgetall

AW: [NTG-context] PPCHTeX Bug?

2004-09-25 Thread Thomas Meyer
list for ConTeXt users Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] PPCHTeX Bug? Am Di, den 14.09.2004 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm um 14:44: some PPCHTeX code wouldn't work Dear readers, the code in question was the following: -- \documentclass{article} \usepackage{etex} %\usepackage

AW: [NTG-context] PPCHTeX Bug?

2004-09-18 Thread Thomas Meyer
-context] PPCHTeX Bug? Am Di, den 14.09.2004 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm um 14:44: some PPCHTeX code wouldn't work Dear readers, the code in question was the following: -- \documentclass{article} \usepackage{etex} %\usepackage{pstricks,pstcol,pst-plot} \usepackage{m

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt and Aleph

2004-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
=~ /etex|eetex|pdfetex|pdfeetex|pdfxtex|xpdfetex|eomega|aleph/io ) { $TeXPrefix = *; } - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt and Aleph

2004-09-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:33:19 +0200: if ( $TeXExecutable =~ /etex| eetex|pdfetex|pdfeetex|pdfxtex|xpdfetex|eomega|aleph/io ) { $TeXPrefix = *; } Mind adding xetex to that list on your next release

Re: [NTG-context] btex ... etex in .mp

2004-08-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:07:23 +0200, Nikolai wrote: Hi! I remember reading somewhere that you can't use btex ... etex in input .mp files, as there is no possibility for them to be processed at that time. That is somewhat incorrect information. You can not use btex ... etex in a normal way

[NTG-context] Re: btex ... etex in .mp

2004-08-27 Thread Nikolai Weibull
* Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Aug 27, 2004 11:28]: I remember reading somewhere that you can't use btex ... etex in input .mp files, as there is no possibility for them to be processed at that time. That is somewhat incorrect information. You can not use btex ... etex in a normal

Re: [NTG-context] Re: btex ... etex in .mp

2004-08-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:32:31 +0200, Nikolai wrote: * Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Aug 27, 2004 11:28]: If you need run-time TeX labels, you can use the textext() macro from metafun, or John Hobby's TEX() macro (available after input tex;) Hm, I tried textext(). Can it be used in

[NTG-context] Re: Re: btex ... etex in .mp

2004-08-27 Thread Nikolai Weibull
() stuff or other generated btex ... etex stuff, but no btex ... etex in the picture itself, the extra run for the labels is not performed. This needs fixing and should probably not be impossible to fix, but I guess it's yet another one of my pushing the limits of ConTeXt/MetaPost-problems. I cannot

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Re: btex ... etex in .mp

2004-08-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
as well, will check. Anyway, the real problem was that texexec doesn't run with --mptex when it actually needs to. If there are textext() stuff or other generated btex ... etex stuff, but no btex ... etex in the picture itself, the extra run for the labels is not performed. Perhaps

[NTG-context] btex ... etex in .mp

2004-08-26 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Hi! I remember reading somewhere that you can't use btex ... etex in input .mp files, as there is no possibility for them to be processed at that time. I've hit a snag, though, and this would really be a good thing for me to have. Is there any way to get similar behavior? Basically, I want

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Brooks Moses
file, consisting of any header commands specified in the Metapost file, and whatever is between btex and etex tags. It also puts in stuff so that what's between each pair of tags gets put on its own page. (This is actually done with the mpto command, rather than in Metapost itself; if you just run

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
the next etex, and it will run the external command makempx with the current filename as argument. * makempx's goal is to create a file with the same name as it's argument, but with the extension replaced with .mpx. That file will contain a series of low-level MetaPost commands for each

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Hans Hagen
dumps out a TeX file, consisting of any header commands specified in the Metapost file, and whatever is between btex and etex tags. It also puts in stuff so that what's between each pair of tags gets put on its own page. (This is actually done with the mpto command, rather than in Metapost itself

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: - The location pointer in the .mpx file is saved for subsequent labels. a small addition: - since we are dealing with parsing, btex .. etex cannot be changed dynamically, which is one of the reasons why metafun has the textext macro which provides an alternative for btex

Re: [NTG-context] Ancient Greek

2004-08-22 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
working on XeTeX drivers for ConTeXt that should get to a 90% solution soonish... the question will then be what weird ConTeXt features will you need? For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that hooks into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses

Re: [NTG-context] Ancient Greek

2004-08-21 Thread Adam Lindsay
that should get to a 90% solution soonish... the question will then be what weird ConTeXt features will you need? For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that hooks into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y conversion

[NTG-context] XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

2004-08-21 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 21.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb Adam Lindsay: For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that hooks into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y conversion necessary. It supports Apple's AAT features as well as OTF

Re: [NTG-context] XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

2004-08-21 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:37:18 +0200: Am 21.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb Adam Lindsay: For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that hooks into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y

[NTG-context] metafun question

2004-08-16 Thread Floris van Manen
\cr#2\cr}}$} etex circleit.aa(btex\strut Start etex); aa.dx=aa.dy; circleit.bb(btex \stk B{(a|b)^*a} etex); circleit.cc(btex \stk C{b^*} etex); circleit.dd(btex \stk D{(a|b)^*ab} etex); circleit.ee(btex\strut Stop etex); ee.dx=ee.dy; numeric hsep; bb.c-aa.c = dd.c-bb.c = ee.c-dd.c = (hsep,0); cc.c

Re: [NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-08-02 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
] \startreusableMPgraphic{test} input metaobj; color t; t:=\MPcolor{Transparent}; setObjectDefaultOption(Box)(fillcolor)(t); newBox.test(btex Transparent? etex) filled(true); Obj(test).c=origin; drawObj(test); \stopreusableMPgraphic \starttext \reuseMPgraphic{test} \stoptext

[NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-23 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
[global] \definecolor[Durchsichtig][r=1.0,g=1.0,b=1.0,t=0.0,a=normal] \stopMPenvironment \startreusableMPgraphic{test} input metaobj; setObjectDefaultOption(Box)(fillcolor)(\MPcolor{Durchsichtig}); newBox.test(btex Transparent? etex) filled(true); Obj(test).c=origin

Re: [NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-23 Thread Vit Zyka
} input metaobj; setObjectDefaultOption(Box)(fillcolor)(\MPcolor{Durchsichtig}); newBox.test(btex Transparent? etex) filled(true); Obj(test).c=origin; drawObj(test); \stopreusableMPgraphic \starttext \reuseMPgraphic{test} \stoptext If I use the fillcolor

Re: [NTG-context] Re: listings.sty

2004-06-28 Thread Hans Hagen
. There are also some spacing issues when used in combination with other macro package features. Another complication is that active characters are used for other features as well. I had put it on my todo list to reimplement some of the context verbatim features using etex (more robust and faster

[NTG-context] Re: Installation problem

2004-06-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans and Matt, here is my solution: in texexec.ini change set TeXFormatFlag to into: set TeXFormatFlag to (empty) and run texexec like: texexec --tex=pdfetex file.tex this is because texexec checks if ( $TeXFormatFlag eq ) { if ($TeXProgram =~ /(etex

[NTG-context] MPOST: How to pass variables from mpost to TeX

2004-06-11 Thread vinuth madinur
Hello all, Please see the following code: GbLabelName="Gubbi";. . . label.bot(btex $GbLabelName$ etex, (0,0) ); .Here I get "GbLabelName" itself in the output instead of "Gubbi". I tried using "\GbLabelName" and also "\scantokens\GbLabelName&q

[NTG-context] draft stamp

2004-05-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, What is the simplest way to add a grey watermark to a draft document that says DRAFT on each and every page. I will be using eomega so I will have etex but not pdftex (in case that makes a difference. The DRAFT should be enlarged (bigger than \tfd perhaps) and run diagonal across

[NTG-context] Re: Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
-- \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw btex $\frac{a}{b}$ etex; draw btex $\root a \of b$ etex shifted (10,10) \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} -- as a workaround. But this still looks like an unwanted behaviour to me. Patrick

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Sebastian Sturm
Hi, any reason you use textext here? Do you need changing labels? If not, you should use [...] draw btex $\frac{a}{b}$ etex; [...] I thought textext was just a faster version of btex ... etex and supposed that this would be the 'way to go', since it is a part of MetaFun. But I checked out

Re: [NTG-context] Strange MP problem

2004-05-14 Thread Nigel King
I put in my ordinary mp files:- --- input metafun ; verbatimtex ..any required preliminary ConTeXt statements \setupbodyfont etc. \starttext etex .. normal metapost verbatimtex \stoptext etex end --- The assembly script needs a line like export TEX=texexec

Re: [NTG-context] texexec and TEX

2004-04-28 Thread Hans Hagen
: \starttext \startMPpage[offset=4cm] z1=(0,1cm); z2=(3cm,1cm); dotlabel.top(btex $z_1$ etex,z1); dotlabel.top(btex $z_2$ etex,z2); draw textext($\string\underbrace{\hbox to decimal(xpart(z2)-xpart(z1))pt{\hss}}$) shifted .5[z1,z2]; \stopMPpage \stoptext or: \starttext \let

Re: [NTG-context] Possible bug in texexec

2004-04-20 Thread Morten Hgholm
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:31:04 +0200, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the reason for adding newlines after ;'s is that there have been problems with the metapost buffer length i didn't test itm, but maybe s/(btex.*?)\;(.*?etex)/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]/gmois

[NTG-context] mpost called from context

2004-04-04 Thread Laurent Chéno
to typeset this simple source (test.tex) : \startuseMPgraphic{fig-mpost} draw (0,0)--(2cm,2cm) ; label.ulft(btex $x^2+1$ etex, (1cm,1cm)) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext This is my figure. \placefigure[here][fig-example]{My figure}{\useMPgraphic{fig

Re: Re: [NTG-context] Installing 3rd-party metapost macros

2004-03-13 Thread SebastianSturm
maybe adding \forceMPTEXgraphictrue helps Hans No, unfortunately this doesn't work. It still displays ! Unable to make mpx file. l.39 def Eplus_ = btex $+$etex enddef;. Anyway, thanks for your help. Best regards, Sebastian

[NTG-context] Installing 3rd-party metapost macros

2004-03-05 Thread SebastianSturm
circlib.mp circlib.mpx ! Unable to make mpx file. l.39 def Eplus_ = btex $+$etex enddef; Transcript written on mpgraph.log. error in metapost run : mpgraph.mp:39 Enabling \write18 and changing the MPXcommand to texexec --mptex didn't help. I would be very grateful

Re: [NTG-context] \doifnextcharelse problem

2004-02-26 Thread Hans Hagen
At 17:38 26/02/2004, you wrote: which case the first character in the body of the command is checked \doifnextcharelse[... which thus fails but in some manner eats it (even tricky indeed (will think about it) go the etex way: \definecomplexorsimpleempty\startbnfgrammar \long\def

Re: [NTG-context] \doifnextcharelse problem

2004-02-26 Thread Nikolai Weibull
* Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Feb 26, 2004 19:10]: go the etex way: great! thanks, that worked. no % are needed after a \cs: hm, OK. This is a good reason why it would be good to have a tex programming reference, so that one'd know when it's necessary and when it's not. I assume

Re: [NTG-context] numexpr in etex / bug ?

2004-02-14 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, February 12, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, A numexpr either ends with a \relax or is delimited by () So, the following works as expected: \number\numexpr(1) test but ... the following gives an error message: \number\numexpr(1) /test so, the expr parser looks beyond the )

Re: [NTG-context] numexpr in etex / bug ?

2004-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
At 12:59 14/02/2004, you wrote: Observe that this is congruent with the TeX way of scanning for assignments. not entirely since the space is not seen as a delimiter \count0=123 4 \count0=\numexpr(123) 4 So always put a \relax after an expression :) yes, but i'm occasionally surpised when a

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