Yes, I see that would be a non-trivial problem. Maybe as a stop-gap some
ConTeXt files could be provided which at least roughly emulate a few
standard LaTeX styles?
-Alasdair
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
Am 2011-03-14 um 07:33 schrieb Alasdair McAndrew:
Yes, I see that would be a non-trivial problem. Maybe as a stop-gap
some ConTeXt files could be provided which at least roughly emulate
a few standard LaTeX styles?
Again:
We senior ConTeXt users won’t look thoroughly at a few standard
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 22:35, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
even if simply because setuptex is too slow for every
new Terminal window
You can just as well use
export PATH=/path/to/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin:$PATH
which should be much faster.
Setuptex doesn't do anything else.
Mojca
Hi,
On 03/13/2011 12:04 AM, Pontus Lurcock wrote:
On Sat 12 Mar 2011, C. wrote:
2) why they my be reluctant to install the minimals?
Because they already have it in miktex, texlive. What they don't know is
that these versions are outdated and due to the heavy development pretty
far behind.
Dear Tom,
I am sorry that my experience is not help for you.
I am usning Mac OS X.
I just downloaded first-setup.sh and run it. Then it installs minimal and makes
formats well.
Minimal's current version: 2011.02.25 22:03
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.65.0-2010121316
However, I believe that
2011/3/14 Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu:
The hard part is figuring out the values (font size, spaces after sections,
etc) from the LaTeX code. It is difficult to look at
http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.cls and
figure out what is the title size for a 10pt
I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2 times as
slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this possible, or should there be
something else that is responsible for this?
--
Cecil Westerhof
___
On 2011-03-13 23:12:36, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
Speaking as a raw ConTeXt beginner, I would find it very helpful to have a
library of different styles: LaTeX, journal, conference and book styles.
Although all the information is probably there, it
2011/3/8 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com
2011/3/8 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com
\define[2]\epigraph
{\blank
\startframedtext[middle][frame=off,offset=none,width=fit,align=middle]%
\color[darkgreen]{#2}\endgraf
\rightaligned{\it #1}%
FWIW, specifications of standard LaTeX styles can be found
herehttp://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/classes.pdf.
It's a closely written 66 page document.
-Alasdair
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote:
2011/3/14 Aditya Mahajan
2011/3/3 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com
I use:
\placebookmarks[chapter,section][chapter]
\setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
As I understand it there should be bookmarks generated for chapters and
sections. When opening the document only the bookmarks for chapters should
be
I am using:
\placebookmarks[part,chapter,section][part,chapter]
\setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
When I have the PDF file displayed fill window width and I click on a
section. The page where this section is on, is displayed in full page. I
would prefer the zoom level would stay the same
Hi Hans VdM and Wolfgang,
It is true that naming a variable PYR, even in plain TeX, as shown below, gives
rise to an ugly mathematical symbol since there is a certain distance between
the « Y » and the « R » with math italic:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4316076/spacing-plain.pdf
The
I would like to do something like:
\setuphead[section][before={\blank[1.5*big] \testpage[12]}]
This does not work. I get:
to be read again
*
argument 1.5*
big
\addaskedblankskip ...nce \blankskip #1\dimexpr #2
Am 14.03.2011 um 12:29 schrieb Cecil Westerhof:
I would like to do something like:
\setuphead[section][before={\blank[1.5*big] \testpage[12]}]
This does not work. I get:
to be read again
*
argument 1.5*
big
\addaskedblankskip ...nce \blankskip
2011/3/14 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com
Am 14.03.2011 um 12:29 schrieb Cecil Westerhof:
I would like to do something like:
\setuphead[section][before={\blank[1.5*big] \testpage[12]}]
This does not work. I get:
to be read again
*
argument
Am 14.03.2011 um 12:14 schrieb Otared Kavian:
Hi Hans VdM and Wolfgang,
It is true that naming a variable PYR, even in plain TeX, as shown below,
gives rise to an ugly mathematical symbol since there is a certain distance
between the « Y » and the « R » with math italic:
When using texexec I used the parameter --timeout. With context this
parameter does not generate an error, but it does not have the expected
result. Does context not have this parameter?
--
Cecil Westerhof
___
If
Am 14.03.2011 um 12:37 schrieb Cecil Westerhof:
Okay, thanks. I will use 2*big then.
1.5 * big = big + medium = \blank[big,medium]
Wolfgang
___
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an
At the moment I use for my ebook:
\usetypescript[palatino][texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt]
Does not look to bad, but layout is not my forte. So if people have tips
about the fonts to use, I like to hear them.
Do you use other fonts when using a printed book?
--
Cecil Westerhof
Am 14.03.2011 um 11:23 schrieb Cecil Westerhof:
I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2 times as
slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this possible,
Yes, MkIV is slower.
or should there be something else that is responsible for this?
No, for simple document
2011/3/14 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com
I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2 times
as slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this possible,
Yes, MkIV is slower.
Okay, thanks. I also updated my system. So that was the other possibility.
2011/3/14 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com
Am 14.03.2011 um 12:37 schrieb Cecil Westerhof:
Okay, thanks. I will use 2*big then.
1.5 * big = big + medium = \blank[big,medium]
Works, but I did not find it satisfactory, so I am back to 2*big. But it is
good to know for
Dear Wolfgang,
Thank you very much. It works a treat!
Best wishes,
Charlie
On 11 Mar 2011, at 18:30, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 11.03.2011 um 13:28 schrieb Charles Doherty:
Dear Wolfgang,
I sent an e-mail about problems with my simplefonts. I got no reply since my
example had fonts
Hi,
I'd like to ask an early question again in a different way: I need to count
every word in a document but lang-wrd.lua counts only words with 4+ letters.
So I tried to set words.threshold = 4 in context/base/lang-wrd.lua to smaller
values but this does not change anything.
I don't know
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
2011/3/14 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com
I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2 times
as slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this possible,
Yes, MkIV is slower.
Okay, thanks. I also updated my
Dalyoung,
To the contrary, You have been most helpful. Installing the latest version
of Minimals worked fine but I wonder why they even advertise that there is a
stable version to be downloaded. I guess they mean a stable version of MKII.
I had the same experience that you had with the
On Monday 14 March 2011 14:02:18 Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
2011/3/14 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com
I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2
times
as slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this
2011/3/14 Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr
On Monday 14 March 2011 14:02:18 Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
2011/3/14 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com
I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2
times
2011/3/12 Florian Wobbe florian.wo...@awi.de
Maybe we should start a discussion in a new thread to find out:
5) how to better promote context to new/latex users?
I think is needed a installation guide for non-technical. A guide not only
for programmers but a simple guide for dummies. Like
Dear Tom,
good to hear that minimal is working fine.
I had the same experience that you had with the Introduction not showing up
in the TOC. Do you know how to report a bug?
I think that completecontent doesn't recognize the user defined intro. It is
all what I can tell you.
If you have no
Hi Wolfgang,On 14 mars 2011, at 12:39, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:[…]Wasn’t this what i showed in my example?Yes indeed your examples showed exactly this: sorry for not mentioning your point.[…]\setupmathematics[autopunctuation=no]Unfortunately this does not help at all, at least on my installation
Hi,
in December we had 4000 pages limit, now I only reach 700 pages limit:
pagesflushing realpage 615, userpage 619
pagesflushing realpage 616, userpage 620
PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of stack
space))
mtx-context | fatal error:
On 03/14/2011 05:08 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Hi,
in December we had 4000 pages limit, now I only reach 700 pages limit:
pages flushing realpage 615, userpage 619
pages flushing realpage 616, userpage 620
PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of stack
space))
Am 14.03.2011 um 17:22 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
On 03/14/2011 05:08 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Hi,
in December we had 4000 pages limit, now I only reach 700 pages limit:
pages flushing realpage 615, userpage 619
pages flushing realpage 616, userpage 620
PANIC: unprotected error in
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote:
On 03/14/2011 05:08 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Hi,
in December we had 4000 pages limit, now I only reach 700 pages limit:
pages flushing realpage 615, userpage 619
pages flushing realpage 616, userpage 620
PANIC:
When installing minimals you have MKII, XeTeX and MKIV. I understand that
you should normally use MKIV, but when are the other two used?
--
Cecil Westerhof
___
If your question is of interest to others as well,
On 2011-03-14 11:23:55, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2 times as
slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this possible, or should there be
something else that is responsible for this?
Hi Cecil,
regarding luatex/mkiv performance there
On 2011-03-14 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com wrote:
When installing minimals you have MKII, XeTeX and MKIV. I understand that
you should normally use MKIV, but when are the other two used?
MKII can be used either with pdftex or xetex (as you wish, compare
advantages/disadvantages).
2011/3/14 Marco net...@lavabit.com
On 2011-03-14 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com wrote:
When installing minimals you have MKII, XeTeX and MKIV. I understand that
you should normally use MKIV, but when are the other two used?
MKII can be used either with pdftex or xetex (as you
On 2011-03-14 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/3/14 Marco net...@lavabit.com
On 2011-03-14 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com wrote:
When installing minimals you have MKII, XeTeX and MKIV. I understand
that you should normally use MKIV, but when are the other
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 18:02, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote:
On 03/14/2011 05:08 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Hi,
in December we had 4000 pages limit, now I only reach 700 pages limit:
pages flushing
On 14-3-2011 7:26, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
2011/3/14 Marconet...@lavabit.com
On 2011-03-14 Cecil Westerhofcldwester...@gmail.com wrote:
When installing minimals you have MKII, XeTeX and MKIV. I understand that
you should normally use MKIV, but when are the other two used?
MKII can be used
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 14:22, Tom wrote:
Dalyoung,
To the contrary, You have been most helpful. Installing the latest version
of Minimals worked fine but I wonder why they even advertise that there is a
stable version to be downloaded.
When minimals were created, a new stable version was
On 14-3-2011 12:40, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
When using texexec I used the parameter --timeout. With context this
parameter does not generate an error, but it does not have the expected
result. Does context not have this parameter?
no
So I tried to set words.threshold = 4 in context/base/lang-wrd.lua to
smaller values but this does not change anything.
You have to regenerate the formats too, after you changed the value.
Otherwise you could use directly in your document:
\ctxlua{languages.words.threshold=1}
Adam
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 19:44, Marco wrote:
On 2011-03-14 Cecil Westerhof wrote:
2011/3/14 Marco wrote:
On 2011-03-14 Cecil Westerhof wrote:
When installing minimals you have MKII, XeTeX and MKIV. I understand
that you should normally use MKIV, but when are the other two used?
They
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 14:47, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
Both did not work for me. But removing --purgeall from my script reduced the
time from 30 seconds to 10.
When you don't use --purgeall, ConTeXt calculates different things
(for example table of contents, cross-references etc.) and stores
Installing minimals is sometimes a problem. Because of this I wrote a BASH
script to automate it. Attached is the script I wrote to easily install the
minimals.
It installs in ${HOME}/ConTeXt but because I work with DRY it is easily
changed.
It generate almost no output:
20:47:01: fetch
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 20:56, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
Installing minimals is sometimes a problem. Because of this I wrote a BASH
script to automate it. Attached is the script I wrote to easily install the
minimals.
Hmmm ... maybe we should add a --silent switch to installer.
Thank for the
So I tried to set words.threshold = 4 in context/base/lang-wrd.lua to
smaller values but this does not change anything.
You have to regenerate the formats too, after you changed the value.
I thought I did but obviously something went wrong. Now it works...
Otherwise you could use directly
Thank you for explaining this, Mojca. Knowing that it will be fixed sometime
before September gives me hope. In the meantime, I think I have a workaround
that, although awkward, will create a correct PDF. What I will do is create a
PDF that is correct except for the TOC that Context generates,
I removed my distributions texlive from my system. This gave back 660 MB.
Installing minimals took 223 MB. But I understood that minimals is more then
texlive. So why is it a lot smaller?
--
Cecil Westerhof
___
If
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 21:10, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
I removed my distributions texlive from my system. This gave back 660 MB.
Installing minimals took 223 MB. But I understood that minimals is more then
texlive. So why is it a lot smaller?
Minimals don't contain *any* latex-related stuff (in
Am 14.03.2011 um 17:53 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum:
Am 14.03.2011 um 17:22 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
On 03/14/2011 05:08 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Hi,
in December we had 4000 pages limit, now I only reach 700 pages limit:
pages flushing realpage 615, userpage 619
pages flushing
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 20:43, Tom wrote:
Thank you for explaining this, Mojca. Knowing that it will be fixed sometime
before September gives me hope. In the meantime, I think I have a workaround
that, although awkward, will create a correct PDF.
If you really want to get the current version
You can't have it Good, Cheap, and Fast all at once ;)
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Mojca Miklavec
mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 14:47, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
Both did not work for me. But removing --purgeall from my script reduced
the
time from 30
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 08:46, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Mojca, this does not need
much more initial work than fixing the wiki pages, right?
Except that wiki pages are in a really horrible shape when it comes to
Installation pages.
I bet that 90% of pages are outdated with wrong information about
2011/3/14 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com
Installing minimals is sometimes a problem. Because of this I wrote a BASH
script to automate it. Attached is the script I wrote to easily install the
minimals.
It installs in ${HOME}/ConTeXt but because I work with DRY it is easily
changed.
2011/3/14 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com
wrote:Not here:
\starttext
\dorecurse{5000} {\input knuth \page }
\stoptext
pagesflushing realpage 3987, userpage 3987
PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API
2011/3/14 Vedran Miletić riva...@gmail.com
2011/3/14 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com
wrote:Not here:
\starttext
\dorecurse{5000} {\input knuth \page }
\stoptext
pagesflushing realpage 3987, userpage 3987
Consider two .tex files located at
http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/art-pre/ with same content:
context --mode=article art-pre.tex works right,
context --mode=article art+pre.tex fails with
! Undefined control sequence.
system tex error on line 7 in file art+pre.tex: Undefined
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 15:26, Mojca Miklavec
mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote:
Except that wiki pages are in a really horrible shape when it comes to
Installation pages.
[...]
If anyone has the slightest idea where to start, please do it.
FWIW, I updated the Ubuntu pages last week.
The
2011/3/14 Vedran Miletić riva...@gmail.com:
Same here on Linux, 32-bit.
Also here.
[...]
(/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/sample/knuth.tex)
pagesflushing realpage 3987, userpage 3987
PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of
stack space))
Am 14.03.2011 um 18:02 schrieb luigi scarso:
\starttext
\dorecurse{5000} {\input knuth \page }
\stoptext
A little bit faster but with the same error message:
\count0=0
\loop\ifnum\count05000
\advance\count0 by 1
\shipout\vbox{}
\repeat
\end
Wolfgang
Am 14.03.2011 um 19:51 schrieb Vnpenguin:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 18:02, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote:
On 03/14/2011 05:08 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Hi,
in December we had 4000 pages limit, now I
On 2011-03-14 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote:
xetex:
+ system fonts are easily accessible
- no protrusion, no font expansion
I never tried to use them, but I thought that Han The Thanh [please
add the accents] added that to XeTeX semi-recently
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
Am 14.03.2011 um 19:51 schrieb Vnpenguin:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 18:02, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote:
On 03/14/2011 05:08 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
in
Hello,
is there a possibility how to let Ctx run just once, not three times (as
usually), keeping in mind that TOC and/or page numbers may be wrong, just to
check correctness of the document?
- I have a longer document with enough MP code and I'm interested often just
whether there is no
\count0=0
\loop\ifnum\count05000
\advance\count0 by 1
\shipout\vbox{}
\repeat
\end
The same error on WinXP 32:
ConTeXt ver: 2011.01.26 11:02 MKIV fmt: 2011.1.26 int: english/english
...
pagesflushing realpage 3987, userpage 1, subpage 1
PANIC: unprotected error in call to
On Mon 14 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
At the moment I use for my ebook:
\usetypescript[palatino][texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt]
Does not look to bad, but layout is not my forte. So if people have
tips about the fonts to use, I like to hear them.
A discussion about ‘best
Vedran Miletić riva...@gmail.com writes:
Should + not be used? It seems to work ok without modes, but I
haven't tested deeply.
There is now an entry in the FAQ:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/FAQ#Why_should_I_only_use_letters.2C_digits_and_hyphens_in_file.2Fpath_names.3F
--
Peter
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:08:11PM +0100, Procházka Lukáš wrote:
Hello,
is there a possibility how to let Ctx run just once, not three times (as
usually), keeping in mind that TOC and/or page numbers may be wrong, just to
check correctness of the document?
context --once :D
--
Khaled
On 2011-03-15 Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:08:11PM +0100, Procházka Lukáš wrote:
Hello,
is there a possibility how to let Ctx run just once, not three times (as
usually), keeping in mind that TOC and/or page numbers may be wrong, just
to check
'texexec demo-mps.tex' works, but when trying 'context demo-mps.tex ' I
get:
inserted text ...re.mp ; fi ; ]===], false)}
\processMPgraphic ...e ;\!!es , \MPaskedfigure )}}
\egroup \placeMPgraphic
\d...
\dostartMPpage ...??mg
\starttext
\count0=0
\loop\ifnum\count05000
\advance\count0 by 1
\shipout\vbox{}
\repeat
\end
\stoptext
No problems here. Win7 Pro 32bit. PDF contains nothing but 5000 pages :B
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.66.0-2011021923 (rev 4086)
ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.5
* Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com [2011-03-14 12:44]:
At the moment I use for my ebook:
\usetypescript[palatino][texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt]
Does not look to bad, but layout is not my forte. So if people have tips
about the fonts to use, I like to hear them.
Do you use
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