[NTG-context] Prefixed reference mechanism broken (again) in latest current luatex
Hello!
I know I'm about the only person in the world using the prefixed
reference mechanism, but it really makes my life a lot easier when
handling largish user manuals with tons of references. However, the
system seems to be broken again, at least in LuaTeX in the newest
current (ConTeXt ver: 2011.05.18 18:04 MKIV fmt: 2011.8.23 as of
today).
Good news is that ConTeXt doesn't crash on this and references inside
each chapter (i.e. without calling for the prefixing mechanism) work
fine. Bad news is that while the project at hand is so small I can
keep track of unique reference names and thus bypass the problem, by
next week I'll probably have to compile one of the larger projects and
I *really* do not fancy going through every reference there to change
them to non-prefixed...
My minimal example worked on the Online ConTeXt in the Garden (pdftex
and xetex), but when I'm running ConTeXt default, i.e. MkIV + LuaTeX,
on my Windows7, this example fails exactly the same way that the real
thing does (resulting pdf attached).
\setuphead[chapter][prefix=+]
\starttext
\chapter[one]{Chapter One}
\section[bla]{Blablabla}
\chapter[two]{Chapter Two}
See \in{Section}[one:bla]
\stoptext
=
I don't mind updating to a slightly newer version of ConTeXt, but at
this stage it'll have to be something fairly safe, deadlines are
looming too close for any extensive experimenting.
Oh well, at least the current doesn't crash on the references, so I
can continue the editing job and sort out the double question marks
later.
Regards,
Mari
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[NTG-context] ConTeXt in SciTe in Windows, non-working commands in Tools menu
Hello! While struggling with the prefixed referencing system, I found two commands in the Tools menu that fail miserably. As the commands I normally use (Ctrl+1/Process TeX file, Process and Arrange, Generate Formats (luaTeX) work fine, the problem is fairly local and neither is critical. If I remember it correctly, the command Tools | Update ConTeXt has never worked for me, but the error message has been different. What I get now is mtxrun --autogenerate texshow --update --force mtxrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context' initialized in 0.03 secondsExit code: 1 Updating per se works, because when I did it on the command line, i.e. ran first-setup.bat --context=current something definitely came in and there are changes in for example directory texmf-modules (and yes, I did remember to generate formats and that command really worked). The other command that fails is Tools | Open Logfile (or Ctrl+E) and I'm fairly sure this one worked on the W7 laptop that I installed in August 2011 with the then up-to-date versions of SciTe and ConTeXt. The error message is pretty interesting, too: Lua: error checking global scope for command I can of course open the log file in SciTe via the File menu, so this isn't a major problem, just an annoyance. I used to like my Ctrl+E quite a bit... The SciTe+ConTeXt combo I'm using now is on a 64-bit Windows7 laptop and I installed it about 10 weeks ago onto a brand new computer. My SciTe says it's version 2.26 of May 25, 2011. It is quite possible I'm running a different version from what's in the ConTeXt package as I fetch my SciTe separately from Scintilla so I get a civilised Windows installer that sets Windows context menus and other goodies all at one click. (Yes, I'm da lazy Windows user who doesn't want to bother her brain with any tweaking if that can be avoided.) From the world of Windows, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] slides proceedings from ConTeXt Meeting
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 09:44, Steffen Wolfrum cont...@st.estfiles.de wrote: ... apropos all the fun: could someone also upload some of the images that were taken? I don't want to sound greedy, but there are a few people to whom I'd like to show what our den and dining room looked like as it was quite a bit different from what my workmates think of when you say user meeting... I also admit having personal interest in photos of Thursday evening (and the part of the excursion I didn't attend to, i.e. the fortress). Pleaaaseee, anyone have any photos online yet? Mari (who very smartly packed the charger for the camera, but not the camera itself, hence no photos whatsoever of CM5 :-( ) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Any (other) ConTeXt users in Finland?
Hello All! Inspired by the recent ConTeXt meeting where I again enjoyed meeting other users as well as the developers, I'm wondering if there are any other ConTeXt users in Finland? And if so, would you be interested in a mini-meeting for an afternoon or evening, possibly at my work in Vantaa? If nothing else, we could tell each other what we do with ConTeXt and get ideas and with luck even be able to sort out some problems. I'm far from the nerdiest person in the world, but I could probably manage a short introduction to ConTeXt, if you are interested but haven't gotten started or if you know people who'd like to try but don't want to do it by themselves. BTW, if any ConTeXt users (Finnish or others) pass by Helsinki airport or the Greater Helsinki area, you are welcome to informally pop into our office and I'll give you coffee/tea and cookies (if we have any) and any ConTeXt help I can give. Just check on this in advance as I'm not always there, but often can arrange things if notified a few days earlier. Terveisin/Best Regards, Mari Voipio K-Patents Oy (in Vantaanportti, just 5 minutes from the airport) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] latest Context Minimals Installer for Windows
Hello! On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 16:08, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskov...@gmail.com wrote: To whom it may concern - here is the latest version of Context Minimals Installer for Windows, now working under Windows 7. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=484PR9UL I tried this one on a 32-bit Windows XP this morning. It didn't get everything done, but the ConTeXt download went pretty well and got almost done before it hung. Unfortunately I had to leave for work, so I didn't have time to check if the installer put the ConTeXt path where it should be (probably, at least for me, although I asked it to do it for all users), but at least the directories got created and seemed to had the correct contents. I took a screen capture of the error message, but it is on that computer and can't be accessed until this evening. However, if I recall it correctly, the error message was Generating formats failed. Error code 2. Sounds like an error message from ConTeXt itself. And I'm not sure format generation is needed any more; when I updated my laptop manually (with first-setup.bat), I never did them as Hans said it isn't needed. It looks like the Windows part of the installer works fine, all directories are created ok etc. etc, so the problems in the installer may be surprisingly easy to fix. BTW, although the --extras command is now replaced by --modules, the old command seemed to work as I did get some content into my texmf-modules directory. But of course it'd be smart to fix that at the same time as the rest of the problems. NB. My user id on that Win XP computer has admin privileges by default, so the installation itself didn't need any extra credentials (which was a bit of a problem in my Win7). Regards, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Any (other) ConTeXt users in Finland?
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 15:20, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote: I just checked the nordic TUGS: - Nordic TeX (http://folk.uio.no/dag/ntug/) seems to be long dead - Danish TUG (http://www.tug.dk/) is active - CyrTUG (http://www.cemi.rssi.ru/cyrtug/) gives a page not found - ÍsTeX (http://www3.hi.is/pub/istex/) seems to be dormant So there is room for a Finnish TUG :-) Well, this far I'm up to *4* ConTeXt users resident in Finland - me, my brother Ville, Salil and Otso. Which doubles the amount of users I know, but still... (Alan is in France and Martin, AFAIK, in Germany, so they don't count even though they replied to this thread.) While by Finnish law 3 can make an official society/organization, I think we'll stick to informal meetings this far. At least we four are all in the same area so getting together is somewhat possible, especially as I have a meeting space at my disposal. BUT: Nobody else in Finland??? Best Regards/Terveisin, Mari Voipio Vantaa, Finland ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Lucida hangs (?) on latest beta
Hello!
Encouraged by the recent User Meeting, I'm experimenting with sans
serif fonts, trying to find something that I could use all over our
documents (European languages) and that would be acceptable to the
design people.
One of the possibilities would be Lucida, but I'm not having much
success with it...
First I tried with the wiki, http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Lucida.
The lucida.zip downloads and extracts nicely, but does not contain any
.pfb files, so so much for that.
Then I took a leap of faith and just put
\setupbodyfont[lucida]
in the setup area of my file and something is definitely happening,
but then the process hangs. I retried with just
==
\setupbodyfont[lucida]
\starttext
\chapter{Testing Lucida}
\input knuth
\stoptext
==
Same result... The whole log is in the end of this message, but I
suspect this is the essential part (which SciTe also marks with red):
fontsdefining font with asked name 'lbl' is not found
using lookup 'file'
fontsvirtual math loading font lucidamath subfont 12
with name file:lbl.afm at 458752 is skipped, not found
! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/math-vfu.lua:476:
bad argument #1 to '(for generator)' (table expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
[C]: in function '(for generator)'
...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/math-vfu.lua:476: in
function ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/math-vfu.lua:397
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:406: in
function 'read'
...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-ctx.lua:767: in
function 'definefont_two'
main ctx instance:1: in main chunk.
system tex error on line 1 in file 20111012_Lucida1.tex:
LuaTeX error ...
I'm running the newest beta, ConTeXt ver: 2011.10.08 11:42 MKIV, and
ConTeXt with SciTe in Win7. I compile the pdf with Ctrl+F12 and I get
palatino and dejavu to work to an extent (if I switch the font name in
the test file from lucida to dejavu, everything works perfectly,
so I guess either I'm missing something essential or there's a problem
somewhere in the beta.
In the font jungle once again,
Mari
The full log:
(20111012_Lucida1.tex
ConTeXt ver: 2011.10.08 11:42 MKIV fmt: 2011.10.11 int: english/english
system cont-new.mkiv loaded
(C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv
system beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv
)
system 20111012_Lucida1.top loaded
system options start used options
used options % runtime options files (command line driven)
used options \unprotect
used options % feedback and basic job control
used options % handy for special styles
used options \startluacode
used options document = document or { }
used options document.arguments={
used options [autopdf]=true,
used options }
used options document.files={
used options 20111012_Lucida1.tex,
used options }
used options \stopluacode
used options % process info
used options \setupsystem[inputfile=20111012_Lucida1.tex]
used options \setupsystem[\c!n=1,\c!m=1]
used options % modes
used options % options (not that important)
used options \startsetups *runtime:options
used options \stopsetups
used options % styles and modules
used options \startsetups *runtime:modules
used options \stopsetups
used options % done
used options \protect \endinput
system options stop used options
(20111012_Lucida1.top)
fontslatin modern fonts are not preloaded
languageslanguage en is active
(C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)
(C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv)
filesreadfile asked name: 'loc', not found
{C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}{C:/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map}
fontsdefining font with asked name 'LucidaBright' is
not found using lookup 'name'
fontsdefining unknown font LucidaBright, loading aborted
fontsdefining unable to define LucidaBright as
\*lucida12ptrmtfrm*
fontsdefining forced type afm of lbr not found
fontsdefining font with asked name 'lbr' is not found
using lookup 'file'
fontsvirtual math loading font lucidamath subfont 1
with name file:lbr.afm*virtualmath at 458752 is skipped, not found
fontsdefining forced type tfm of hlcrim not found
fontsdefining font with asked name 'hlcrim' is not
found using lookup 'file'
fontsvirtual math loading font lucidamath subfont 2
with name hlcrim.tfm at 458752 is skipped, not found
fontsdefining forced type tfm of hlcrim not found
fontsdefining font with asked name 'hlcrim' is not
Re: [NTG-context] Lucida hangs (?) on latest beta
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:11, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: The lucidabr and lucida packages on CTAN are free, but the Lucida fonts are not: you must order them from TUG or another source to actually typeset anything in Lucida. The TUG Lucida web pages explain the details -- see http://tug.org/lucida. ... Ummm Sounds like a line I want to add to that wiki page, I'll do it later today. However, my Windows 7 has Lucida Bright, Lucida Console and Lucida Sans, so I kind of have those fonts already, as ttfs. Apparently they came with my Acrobat Pro. Oh well, I can simulate with the ttfs and figure out about buying when the otf:s are around. The 2-user licence isn't that expensive and I doubt I'll ever need more than that in the ConTeXt world. OK, thank you everybody - I knew things had changed, but what I heard at CM5 hadn't quite parsed. :-) Back to the test bench, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Lucida hangs (?) on latest beta
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:37, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: When the fonts are in your Windows font directory you can try this: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Lucida Bright] It works! And I learned something new and useful today, now I finally understand why it is called simplefonts (thankfully I already learned this module thing last year, so I had it already...). Not only did I get Lucida to work, this seems to work as well: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Calibri] Now I'm one happy ConTeXter, this'll stop most of the fights with the Word users... NB. I'll wikify some of this stuff once I've got a bit of leftover energy. In the meanwhile, is there a way of finding out what fonts are included in the simplefonts module now? A quick wiki search on simplefonts didn't seem terribly useful, but might just be my inability to concentrate on the task... Wolfgang, you are my hero today. :-D Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] For Windows users: ConTeXt + SciTe installation instructions updated
Hello! At the recent ConTeXt meeting Hans helped me update my ConTeXt installation and explained about a new way of getting ConTeXt to work with SciTe, it now uses external lexers and even spell-checking is now possible for some languages. The SciTe tips and tricks page will have to wait, but I made a new wiki page for the installation instructions. This one isn't linked anywhere yet and the page title should probably be changed before that, but I leave that to wiki admins. My old Simple Windows installation page should probably be unlinked or even deleted after this new and better one has found its proper spot. For now, the new Windows+SciTe page is at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows:_ConTeXt_Suite_with_editor_%28SciTe%29 I checked the instructions by installing the combo on a blank new Win64-laptop (of the cheap and sleazy type, this keyboard drives me nuts!) and it works. It is not exactly out-of-the-box, but nothing a seasoned Windows user or a half-good admin couldn't manage. I assume small .bat scripts could be written to automatize it even further, but I'm no programmer, it is faster for me to do a bit of manual work instead. Hope this helps, Mari (who'll now proceed onwards to write a ConTeXt 101 suite for Windows/Word dummies) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] For Windows users: ConTeXt + SciTe installation instructions updated
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:50, Lutz Haseloff lutz.hasel...@googlemail.com wrote: if i install SciTe and the the ConTeXt files for SciTe on my Win 7 64 bit, i can no longer scroll the text in the editor. Windows quits SciTe because of an unknown error :-( Has someone else the same error? Do you have special mouse/scroll software installed? If, which one and whose? Did you try reinstalling it after you installed SciTe? I did notice a scrolling problem, but it is not that bad: I'm using a marble mouse that doesn't have a scroll wheel at all, so I had to install Logitech's software to turn a scroller on and of with the fourth mouse button. That works everywhere else, but not in SciTe - the scroll bar moves, but nothing happens... [Not having scroll wheel drives me nuts, but that was the only pointing device we had of this type that fitted for left hand; a new 'marble' of different brand, with a scroll wheel, has been ordered!] When I first installed the documented combo at ConTeXt User Meeting, I was successfully using a Logitech Bluetooth Travel mouse, but I did *not* have the Logitech software in the laptop. I cannot recall having problems with the right-handed cordless marble mouse, either, not even after installing Logitech Setpoint, it scrolled fine with the scroll wheel - I was quite happy with everything until my elbow forced me to switch to left-handed mousing for now. NB. These experiences were like two beta versions ago, don't know if that makes any difference... I didn't put any external mouse on my test bench computer I used to check the wiki instructions, so I can't say anything about it. If the computer is still on my desk when I'm back at the office on Monday, I can test it a bit, we've got plenty of 'normal' mice floating around. Hans also uses a scroll mouse with his Windows+SciTe combo, so usually these work. My first guess would be some kind of conflict between mouse software and SciTe, but I might be wrong. BTW, if you remove SciTe with the lexers and stuf and reinstall it, but don't put lexers and ConTeXt modifications in the SciTe directory, what happens then? Just my 5 cents, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] For Windows users: ConTeXt + SciTe installation instructions updated
Lähetetty kännystäni / Sent from my iPhone On 20.10.2011, at 13.06, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 20-10-2011 10:50, Lutz Haseloff wrote: if i install SciTe and the the ConTeXt files for SciTe on my Win 7 64 bit, i can no longer scroll the text in the editor. Windows quits SciTe because of an unknown error :-( Has someone else the same error? I assume that you installed the lexer lua libs too. I don't know if that one is 64 bit (I'm on a by now pretty old 32 bit machine). Hans I'm running 32-bit SciTe, because that's what I got by using Troy Simpson's Windows installer for SciTe; both my work laptop and the Win 7 Home I used to test my wiki text are 64-bit computers. The stuff on the wiki worked on those two computers, can't vouch for anything else... Or, rather: SciTe got installed into the (x86) directory, so I just *assumed* that it is a 32-bit version. Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Learning layers: setlayer vs. setlayerframed
Hello!
Based on a discussion with Hans at the ConTeXt meeting I'm starting to
migrate my book covers from CorelDraw to ConTeXt using layers.
After a bit of experimenting I managed to achieve my first layer, but
looking at the examples on the wiki page, I'm wondering: what's the
difference between \setlayer and \setlayerframed.
Is the latter a subset of the first and possibly equal to
\setlayer [name] % name of the layer
{\framed[...=...,...=...]{LAYER}} % the actual contents of the layer
or something else?
And which one should I use, anyway? I need to put a bit of text and a
bit of graphics onto the pages, but nothing complicated, just boxes.
But as I'm starting from zero, it would be nice to know what's the
smartest way of doing it (on the moment).
I'm running the newest or at least almost newest beta of ConTeXt and
can update if needed.
Thanks,
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] For Windows users: ConTeXt + SciTe installation instructions updated
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:06, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: I did notice a scrolling problem, but it is not that bad: I'm using a marble mouse that doesn't have a scroll wheel at all, so I had to install Logitech's software to turn a scroller on and of with the fourth mouse button. That works everywhere else, but not in SciTe - the scroll bar moves, but nothing happens... So, the Kensington Trackball with Scroll Ring turned up. I just plugged out the Logitech scroll-less marble and plugged in the new Kensington trackboll - and everything works like a charm, including scrolling in SciTe (and the marble moves a lot better, too, I definitely prefer this one). However, most of my files are small as the books I work on are split into chapters. The real test won't come until I tackle the 150-page manual later this week... But so far so good! Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Rearranging existing A5 = A4
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:37, Markus Finke mar...@gmx.at wrote: I have a ready document in A5 and want to rearrange selected pages next to each other on A4 (homeprinter, proofreading). This works for me (and I'd better go and revise that bit of the Imposition page on the wiki...): \setuppapersize[A5][A4] %individual page A5 size, print size A4 \setuparranging[2SIDE,rotated] %2 pages side by side, rotated to landscape to fit portrait A4 \setuplayout [backspace=0pt, topspace=0pt, width=middle, height=middle, location=middle, header=0pt, footer=0pt] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext % \insertpages \filterpages [pr-33-gp.pdf][2,5,16:19][width=0pt] \stoptext ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Layers + simplefonts: Using different font in layers?
Hi! After a wee bit of struggle I've managed to get as far as to (re)creating front and back covers of a booklet as layers. They worked fine in separate files, but now I have to incorporate the layers into my main file and that turned out to be too complicated for my little brain. Thus I'd appreciate a bit of help... I'm using Windows 7 and SciTe and I just updated my ConTeXt to newest beta (and it works). Problem one: The text on the covers needs to be in Arial, but the contents should be in Candara. I can get this done in totally separate files with \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[arial] \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[candara] However, when I put the front cover before the main contents, I don't seem to be able to reset the font. The same goes for \setupinterlinespace, it is 1.8em on the cover and default in the contents. I'm not very familiar with the layers nor the font switching and this together makes it very difficult for me to figure out in what order my commands should be (and what they should be; doing a search on the wiki pages on setmainfont gives *no* results). So, can somebody provide me with a minimal example of a file that has a layer with text in one font (preferably using simplefonts) and a few pages of text in another font and then another layer as backcover in cover font? Problem two: Whatever I do, I can't get the final number of pages to be divisible by for (and in a way that the back cover ends up on the last page). I used to use the hack given at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Imposition#Getting_to_the_Back_Cover_of_a_Booklet, but it doesn't work any more (hangs on \fi} / line 18); I think it still worked in June 2011, but not any more in August. So, how do I get my back cover to pop up on the last page of my booklet? (Problem three: Having stuff under back matter causes a few extra empty pages that I don't seem to be able to suppress with any combination of \page commands (last one I tried seems to be \page[right,quadruple]). However, this problem may go away if 1 2 get solved.) Thankful for any help, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Layers + simplefonts: Using different font in layers?
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:10, Willi Egger cont...@boede.nl wrote:
Here is what I interpreted from your mail. May be it answers the first
question. Using setups does normally help in these cases.
It does sort out the font problem - turns out I was almost there,
except that my TOC insisted on being in Arial (and *really* ugly as it
is set up for Candara). Your alternative sorts out that problem, I
tested with
\placecontent
\chapter{This is chapter 1}
\dorecurse{3}
{\input tufte \page}
\chapter{This is chapter 2}
\dorecurse{3}
{\input tufte \page}
Even on yours the back cover ends up on the next-to-last page (the
last page being empty), so problem 2 persists. In a real pinch I can
probably fiddle with it in Acrobat (or pdfarrange or something).
Thank you,
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] Layers + simplefonts: Using different font in layers?
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 13:04, Willi Egger cont...@boede.nl wrote: When i use the attached test-file, the TOC is in palatino. May be you have to check, where the \setups is called. Before calling the setups there must be a page break. It works for me, too, once I managed to fix a stupid typo... Mostly your version works pretty well, correct fonts at correct places (I'd actually prefer Candara at cover, too, but it is not for me to decide...) and at correct size, too. On the other hand, of some reason my cover page now thinks that righttop is located at the right top of the text area, but the wiki says it should always refer to paper edge. Is this because of the command \placelayer or have I just piled things up in the wrong order? ...almost there... Mari (and now out to the darkness and horizontal sleet, could we get some real snow, please?) maoutput_cover_mari.tex Description: TeX document maoutput_cover_test_willi.tex Description: TeX document ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Pagemakeup? Was Re: Layers + simplefonts: Using different font in layers?
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 16:52, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: \placelayer use the area of the current block (in this case the text are), one way out of this is to use the “pagemakeup” environment where all margins are set to 0pt. There were no results matching the query. Create the page pagemakeup on this wiki! i.e. the Garden can't help here - anybody have time to give me a quick pagemakeup for dummies? I should be fairly content with couple of minimal examples, mostlyI manage to elaborate from there once I get the first thing working. Thanks, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] context instal
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 21:36, Marek Jirkovský mara.jirkov...@gmail.com wrote: I just wonder to have some easy installing package, cause these things - i never liked them. it's evil. There was, but unfortunately it has been broken for a while, it just couldn't keep up with the software. It is both an advantage and a disadvantage to ConTeXt that it is a rapidly developing system. That gives it a lot of flexibility and we users can have close contact with the developers, so if you wish for something, you may actually get it, too. On the other hand this means that things are continuously on the move and sometimes you have to readjust your coding or your installation to fit the bill. It also seems that somewhere there's still a link to that old wiki page on Windows installation, I thought I'd killed them all... Here are the instructions that worked in September-October 2011, when I installed a few Windows 7 machines. Unfortunately it still involves fiddling a bit with file paths, but you only need to do this once; after that updating is pretty smooth (if the beta isn't broken in some other way...). http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation:_ConTeXt_Suite_with_SciTe As the only TeX system I use is ConTeXt, I've been running ConTeXt + SciTe combo almost from the moment it became available, and I've been reasonably happy with it most of the time. I admit that when I migrated my work stuff from Word to ConTeXt, the learning curve was very steep - and again this week I've spent several hours cursing non-existent documentation and trying to figure out in what order to do things. BUT once I get things to work in the way they should, upkeep is usually easy and I don't risk getting my graphics heavy files broken like what used to happen with Word. [Just had to go through another round of fighting over my right to use ConTeXt for what I do, but it seems that I won this round. Money talks, too, installing ConTeXt + SciTe on five computers is a lot cheaper than doing the same with InDesign...] Hope this helps, Mari Voipio ConTeXting in Windows since around 2003 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Problem with \insertpages
Hello! After I got my layers (i.e. covers) organize, I ran into some postprocessing problems. This used to work, I've last used it just a month ago. \setuppapersize[A5][A4] %individual page A5 size, print size A4 \setuparranging[2UP,rotated] %makes a single booklet when folded (duplex printing!) \setupoutput[pdf] \setuplayout [backspace=0pt, topspace=0pt, width=middle, height=middle, location=middle, header=0pt, footer=0pt] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext \insertpages [pr-33-gp.pdf][width=0pt] \stoptext [see also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Including_pages_from_PDF_document] It no longer works, I just get a pdf with blank pages, even though the input pdf is fine. If I remember to tell my SciTe to Process and Arrange, it definitely tries to arrange the pages, but something just goes wrong (the whole log is attached). First it goes pr-33-gp.pdf pagesflushing realpage 51, userpage 51 pr-33-gp.pdf pagesflushing realpage 52, userpage 52 pr-33-gp.pdf pagesflushing realpage 53, userpage 53 pr-33-gp.pdf pagesflushing realpage 54, userpage 54 ) Then it does system 48.48 arranged at 48 system 49.49 arranged at 49 system 50.50 arranged at 50 system 51.51 arranged at 51 system 52.52 arranged at 52 system 53.53 arranged at 53 system 54.54 arranged at 54 system 55.55 arranged at 55 system 56.56 arranged at 56 And then: just blank pdf, 28 A4 portrait pages of nothing. It's quite possible it's my code that sucks and it shouldn't have worked in the first place, but I'd love to find out how to fix it. :-) It is not critical per se as I can do some stuff in Acrobat, but in the long run I'd better get this to work. Thanks, Mari pr-33-gp_booklet.log Description: Binary data ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?
So, I went and updated my ConTeXt today as I've got nothing really critical going on. I'm running ConTeXt on Windows 7 (64-bit) and I used firstsetup.bat --modules=all to update it. Everything works fine otherwise, but during the installation process both mpost.exe and pdftex.exe complain that The program can't start because kpathsea60.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. I've never seen that complaint before, but now I get it consistently, also after rebooting and updating directly after restart. Both eventually stop complaining after I'd clicked on OK multiple times (yes,yes, just go on, will ya). It doesn't seem critical (I don't use MetaPost and I run MKIV anyway) - or at least the first test file compiled without complaints, but now I'm wondering whether my Windows has a problem (MS update related, maybe?) or whether the Suite has a problem in Windows. And my ConTeXt is the newest available, because I'm now running version ConTeXt ver: 2011.12.23 09:52 MKIV and that's more recent than my most recent working day before this. :-) Thanks, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:20, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just a tiny bit confused since I'm not sure if any other binary still needs the old kpathsea. I think that both should be present at the moment, but I didn't properly fix everything yet. Can you please try if it at least works? Running plain MKIV works as well as can be expected (I think I just found a bug elsewhere...), but unfortunately I do not have a clue about MetaPost, so can't check that. And I seem to have forgotten how to force ConTeXt to run MkII (pdftex) instead of MkIV (LuaTeX)! So I'm good for now, for me that's just on the annoyance level as the update won't stick to running in the background. But other than that, I'm not bothered on the moment. :-) Regards, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] 2UP broken or changed?
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:16, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: After I got my layers (i.e. covers) organize, I ran into some postprocessing problems. OK, back to work and I could dig deeper into the problem. It turns out that inserting and filtering pages from a pdf file works fine and most of imposition works out, too, and I even managed to create some fancy folding booklets with 1*8 (thanks, Willi, for the lecture you gave at CM4 on this stuff!), but my 2UP refuses to work. This works: \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] %individual page A5 size, print size A4 \setuparranging[2SIDE] \setuplayout [backspace=0pt, topspace=0pt, width=middle, height=middle, location=middle, header=0pt, footer=0pt] \starttext \filterpages [maoutput.pdf][1,3,5:22][width=0pt] \stoptext This works, too: \setuppapersize[A5][A3] \setuparranging[2DOWN] \setuplayout [backspace=0pt, topspace=0pt, width=middle, height=middle, location=middle, header=0pt, footer=0pt, marking=on] \starttext \insertpages [maoutput.pdf][width=0pt] \stoptext However, if I switch to 2UP on either (2SIDE or 2DOWN), I get ten pages of nothing. Or rather, on the latter I get 10 pages of cut marks as marking is on. I'm running the newest beta, from December 23. The problem is not critical (at least not yet), although if I get the A5 - A4 booklet to work on ConTeXt, it'll speed up a few processes (and shorten our printing queues...). Thanks, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Newest ConTeXt in Windows7: kpathsea60.dll is missing ?
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 19:37, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: just add a first line to the file: % engine=pdftex I think clueless me missed a space there... MkII fails miserably due to pdftex missing that .dll file: mtxrun --autogenerate --script context --autopdf hello.tex TeXExec | processing document 'hello.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file hello.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1134 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en.mkii TeXExec | runtime: 7.997 Exit code: 1 ...and I tried something as complicated as % engine=pdftex \starttext Hello world! \stoptext thank goodness we've already decided to migrate everything over to MkIV... Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] SciTE configuration to use mkiv instead of mkii
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 05:52, Peter Park Nelson peter.park.nel...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I installed and configured SciTE today to try it out. How did you do the configuration part? I.e. did you follow the (AFAIK) up-to-date instructions at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation:_ConTeXt_Suite_with_SciTe or some other version? At least when I do a clean install in Win according to those instructions, my system automatically uses MkIV, I have to force it to use MKII if I really need that. I do have a few files still that try to use MKII, but that's because I have % engine=pdftex on the very first line of the file. Once I delete that, LuaTeX steps in. Note. If you had an old SciTe installation, your user directory may have stuff that confuses SciTe, now you should only have configuration files in the SciTe program file. BTW, Hans advised me to use Ctrl+F12 to compile in my Win7+Ctx+SciTe combo, so I've been using that since this summer - don't know how much difference it makes, but you can always try it, too... Hope this helps, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] current beta
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:18, Hans van der Meer havdm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Downloading and installing the current beta fails with: Maybe an OS related problem? I updated my Win7 this morning and at least all the basic stuff seems to work, no major failures this far. Mari (yes, the dummy Windows user) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] beta
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 19:40, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
I uploaded a new beta. Apart from some fixes the core font/type modules have
been cleaned up so there might be temporary font side effects.
Looks like \showsetups got broken...
! Undefined control sequence.
system tex error on line 6 in file fico_booklet.tex:
Undefined control sequence ...
1
2 \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] %write on A5, put two onto A4 sheet
3 % \setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided] %booklet arranging
4 \setuparranging[2UP] %booklet arranging
5
6 \showsetups
7
7
8 \setuplayout
9 [backspace=0pt,
10 topspace=0pt,
11width=middle,
12 height=middle,
13 location=middle,
14 header=0pt,
15 footer=0pt]
16 \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
\font_helpers_low_level_define ...mexpr \textface
\relax \else \d_font_scale...
\font_basics_define_font_without_parameters ...ic
\csname \v_font_identifier...
\font_basics_defined_font_yes ...edefinedfont}{#1}
\thedefinedfont \the \ever...
argument ...artreadingfile \startnointerference
\cleanupfeatures \readfile...
\firstofoneargument #1-#1
\dofetchruntimecommand ...\doglobal \setflag {#2}}
\ifx #1\undefined \writest...
l.6 \showsetups
?
Process failed to respond; forcing abrupt termination...
Exit code: 1
I double-checked with a file that definitely compiled today: as soon
as I uncomment \showsetups in the setup area (=beg of file), it
fails...
Mari
I don't use it often, but I'm pretty sure it worked in the Dec 23
version and it doesn't on the ConTeXt I installed this morning.
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Re: [NTG-context] beta
Also, now 2UP fails totally:
system tex error on line 1 in file fico_booklet.tex:
Undefined control sequence ...
1 \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] %write on A5, put two onto A4 sheet
2 % \setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided] %booklet arranging
3 \setuparranging[2UP] %booklet arranging
4
5 % \showsetups
6
7 \setuplayout
8 [backspace=0pt,
9 topspace=0pt,
10width=middle,
11 height=middle,
\meta_grab_clip_path ...ght \ifcsname \??mpmpclip
#1\endcsname \meta_start_c...
\dostartclipping ... \width \height l 0 \height l}
\pdfliteral {q 0 w \MPclip...
\grph_clip_yes_finish ...cpmp \!!dimena \!!dimenb
\box \nextbox \dostopclipp...
\page_boxes_apply_clip_print_indeed ... ]{\box #2}
}}\wd #2\scratchwidth \ht ...
\handlearrangedpage ..._print_left \arrangedpageB
\box \arrangedpageB \page_...
\@@ar@@1 #1#2-\handlearrangedpage
\bgroup \paperwidth \arrangedpageX \paper...
...
l.27 \stoptext
?
(That \setuppapersize works alone, but if I try adding 2UP to it, no hope...)
Mari
(who thankfully doesn't need it that badly - yet)
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Re: [NTG-context] beta
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 13:05, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote:
Also, now 2UP fails totally:
This morning I updated my ConTeXt to assumably newest version (ver:
2012.01.11 14:58 MKIV fmt: 2012.1.12) and it is back to square 1 with
2UP: it doesn't hang, but the resulting A4 landscape sheet file only
contains blank sheets.
I also found, that e.g. the following works if I force MKII, but MKIV
crashes on it, and it did not do that on Tuesday:
\setuppapersize[A6][A3,landscape] %individual page A6 size, print size A3
\setuparranging[1*8] %makes an 8 page gathering when folded (duplex printing!)
\setuplayout
[backspace=0pt,
topspace=0pt,
width=middle,
height=middle,
location=middle,
header=0pt,
footer=0pt]
\starttext
\insertpages
[file.pdf][width=0pt]
\stoptext
Log message:
system 4.4 arranged at 4
! Missing { inserted.
system tex error on line 16 in file
seremoniakirja_booklet.tex: Missing { inserted ...
6width=middle,
7 height=middle,
8 location=middle,
9 header=0pt,
10 footer=0pt]
11
12 \starttext
13
14 \insertpages
15 [Aarni_seremoniakirja.pdf][width=0pt]
16
17 \stoptext
to be read again
\hbox
\grph_rotate_finish_indeed -\hbox
\bgroup \ifx \p_rotation_rotation \empty ...
\syst_boxes_with_next_box ...rotate_finish_indeed
\egroup \egroup
\handlearrangedpageXandY ...80\fi }\hbox {\box #1}
\vfill }\wd \scratchbox \z...
\pusharrangedpage ...eXandY {#1}131\arrangedpageA
\or \handlearrangedpageXan...
\page_shipouts_arrange ...rrangedpage \scratchbox
\deadcycles \zerocount \en...
...
l.16
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Good news is that I obviously can rely on MKII to postprocess pdf:s
(2UP works there, too), so my somewhat urgent current project just
became unstuck. :-)
Regards,
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] Surprising changes in vers. 2012.01.11
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 14:22, Steffen Wolfrum cont...@st.estfiles.de wrote:
testing the current beta gave me several errors and Undefined control
sequence,
Yep. This is my newest find (and this code worked last week...):
:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}{C:/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map}
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
system tex error on line 212 in file fico.tex: Illegal
unit of measure (pt inserted) ...
202 % paragraph formatted right for the specification itself
203 \definetabulate[specstable][|il|p|]
204 \setuptabulate[bodyfont=8pt]
205
206
207
208 % -- COVERS, generic settings -
209
210
211 \definelayer[etukansi]
212 [x=0mm,y=0mm,width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]
213
214 \definelayer[takakansi]
215 [x=0mm,y=0mm,width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]
216
217 \useexternalfigure[kplogo][kplogo][width=4cm]
218 \useexternalfigure[fico_cover][fico_cover_graphic]%[width=4cm]
219
220
221
222
to be read again
h
l.212 [x=0mm,y=0mm,width=\paperwidth,h
eight=\paperheight]
?
Regards,
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] new beta
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 19:47, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: I uploaded a new beta. This time a couple of fixes + some reorganization of font related code. More to follow. There's something fishy somewhere in the fonts or the simplefonts module, because a file that worked last week now gets . c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttfc:/windows/fonts/ariali.ttfC:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmmath-regular.otf !LuaTeX error (file C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmmath-regular.otf): Parsing CFF DICT failed. (error=-1) == Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! It's a complicated history with layers and stuff and I couldn't straight out isolate the cause of the problem, but I've never seen this CFF DICT complaint before. :-) Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] What’s your favorite command?
I'm with Mikael in that natural tables is one of the things that has made a real difference to my ConTeXting, and I no longer hesitate with adding tables to the my documents. My current favourite is probably \usemodule, especially \usemodule[simplefonts]. Being a Windows dummy and working mostly in a standard (M$) Office environment, the Simplefonts module has taken a lot of sweat out of coding. In my non-working life as a half-professional craftster and budding publisher I'm learning to enjoy playing around with \setuplayout; the learning curve is sometimes pretty steep, but it still beats fiddling with Word because once you get something right, it stays right. :-) Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Getting changing/random graphics?
Hello all,
I'm trying to do something that should be possible and I think
variables is the answer, I just can't figure out how.
I have a pile of photos (jpg) in a directory and the assumption is
that they are all the same size and there's a spot for the photo on a
layer at the top of the page. I already found out how I can get
ConTeXt to draw the layer separately for each page (at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/layers#Use_dynamic_content), but I think
I need a variables for dummies page...
This time I'm not too picky, the images can be used randomly or in the
order they are in the directory and then cycled, I'd just like to use
more than one (and I'm so not doing every page by hand).
So, if I have
photo1.jpg
photo2.jpg
photo3.jpg
photo4.jpg
and \dorecurse{10}{insert random photo here}, how do I do it?
Thank you,
Mari
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[NTG-context] Dynamic content on layers - wiki example not working
Hello!
I'm trying to place dynamic content on a layer and now it turns out
that while getting a different pic every time is easy, getting the
layers redrawn wasn't that simple. The wiki has this code:
\definelayer
[pagenumber]
[width=\paperwidth,
height=\paperheight,
preset=middle,
state=repeat]
\setlayer[pagenumber]{Page \pagenumber}
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=pagenumber]
\starttext
\dorecurse{4}{\page[empty]}
\stoptext
AFAIK, that should be a complete minimal sample. Unfortunately it
doesn't seem to work, at least my ConTeXt MkIV of February 8 only
gives Page 1 on every one of those 4 pages...
How to fix this? Preferably on the Dummies level, I'd prefer not to
see the bowels of my ConTeXt, if I can avoid it.
Thanks,
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] Dynamic content on layers - wiki example not working
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 13:06, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: This is an example of how it's *not* going to work: Doh! Either I can't read or I can't copy Sorry for the waste of bandwidth! The correct example works fine - however, I tried something similar in my file and it didn't work; but there are so many things that can have gone wrong as my understanding of layers in ConTeXt is still pretty shaky. (I understand layers as concept as I've done my share of vector drawing, I just can't translate that knowledge into ConTeXt, at least not yet.) Which is why I needed to backtrack a bit and start from something simple that works. I added comments to the examples on the wiki so the next person doing a careless copy-paste won't fall into the same pit. :-D Slightly red-eared, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Dynamic content on layers - wiki example not working
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 13:53, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Here is a slightly different version which is better when you need more dynamic layers. Hey, I can get it to work. Will take more than a bit of effort to understanding it, but at least I got it wikified (hopefully correctly) so I can find it later... (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layers#Use_dynamic_content) Thank you, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Getting changing/random graphics?
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:53, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote:
On 2012-02-16 Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote:
So, if I have
photo1.jpg
photo2.jpg
photo3.jpg
photo4.jpg
and \dorecurse{10}{insert random photo here}, how do I do it?
\dorecurse{4}{\externalfigure[photo\recurselevel]}
Beware, \recurselevel counts go like this 1 2 3 4 5 …. If your
photos are not numbered according to this scheme, the 10th picture
will bite you.
Beautiful, it works - and I even understand it. :-) And I managed to
figure out by myself that I can do a nested \dorecurse to multiply
this:
\dorecurse{3}{\dorecurse{6}{\externalfigure[pikkukuva\recurselevel][height=25mm,frame=on]}}
My not be the most elegant (or fastest compiling!) solution, but this
one I can definitely get to work and it'll suit my purpose well
enough.
Thank you,
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] Getting changing/random graphics?
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:50, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 16-2-2012 07:43, Mari Voipio wrote: I'm trying to do something that should be possible and I think variables is the answer, I just can't figure out how. attached .. (will be in test suite) It works. :-) However, this one apparently uses each pic only once and after that I just get dummies. Nesting this \dorecurse didn't work (not that I expected it to, but had to try anyway) - how to tell this code either when you've used up all the photos, start over or add any random graphic in this directory? It looks like I'm going to have 50-100 pages, so if there are 10-15 graphics and they are added completely at random, the likelihood of each one to appear at least once is pretty high (at least according to what I remember of my probability math). Thus I won't need any complicated checkups, any old randomizer in the take a card out of a bag and put it bag sense should do the trick; I'm just not used to doing this type of stuff, so I cannot even fathom where to start! Hmm... I'd like to include besides png and jpg also vector graphics in pdf format, but obviously I need to exclude any pdf documents in the same directory. Of course one solution is to put the graphics into a separate directory, but if I only want to included .png, .jpg and .pdf with a certain name (like 33s-sensor.jpg, 33s-cutthrough.pdf, etc.), how should the lua code then look like? The name can be written into the code, as long as I put decent comments in, I should be able to adjust it as needed. (File size shouldn't be a concern, the graphics are going to be 2-2.5 cm tall and once I've collected the appropriate graphics, I'll make sure the bitmaps are fit for this use. Besides, I'll be using a print shop and they get a lot worse than anything I can produce with ConTeXt...) In a need-to-know mode, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Integration of the ConTeXt-Wiki and the ConTeXt-Mailinglist
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 15:33, Jan Heinen jahei...@gmx.de wrote: It's not perfekt jet - but it helps to get more information to each command and to integrate the wiki and the mailinglist. What do you think about this and could it be improved? I really like it! However, having just used it to trawl through everything looking for a solution (...didn't find it yet...), I do have a little wish concerning the mailing list part - could it be possible to easily sort the results by date or even filter them? Because of the fast pace ConTeXt develops in and because the mailing list existed when MkIV wasn't there yet, I've learned to skim through the newest messages first and then going backwards if it seems needful. Being able to sort the search results newest first or show only the last three years would make my life easier. But in general this is already a great improvement, thank you! Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] lucida ot
Hello! On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 22:50, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: It's now possible to order the new lucida open type (+math) fonts. If I ask nicely, could somebody who understands these things update the following wiki page accordingly? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Lucida (I think my problem is that I can't figure out how to update the TeXShop combo on my Mac. But it is also possible I'm being a clueless idiot, so I'd really appreciate some extra hints.) Giving up for tonight, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] ConTeXt User Meeting / EuroTeX 2012?
Hello! I know I shouldn't be asking until after BachoTeX, but unfortunately my calendar for autumn is starting to fill up and there are things that should be settled pretty soon. (And I can't go to BachoTeX to sort things out there.) The page http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2012/ says that 6CM will be held in The Netherlands in connection with EuroTeX on October 8-12. The page also says that the arrangers can be contacted at euro...@ntg.nl, but that address bounces so I had to resort to the list. Are the dates and the place correct and so settled that I can rely on them while planning the autumn program (both work and otherwise)? And whom should I contact about the conference program and such things? I've got a few suggestions for them... nitpicking The page title for http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2012/ is ConTeXt User Meeting 2009. This is mildly annoying as that is the text that Firefox shows as tab name and I always go oops, wrong page even though it isn't. Could somebody change that year to 2012, please? /nitpicking Thanks, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] lucida ot
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 00:25, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Just copy the *.otf files to for instance a directory yourtexroot/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts/opentype/data/lucidaot and then run mtxrun --generate after that \setupbodyfont[lucidaot] should work. It does! I had a prolonged fight with my Mac about using an up-to-date version of ConTeXt, but once I got that far, the rest wasn't that bad. So the next for dummies question is: If I do \ss or 'sans' in setupbodyfont, I get Lucida Sans - but how do I access Blackletter, Calligraphy and Handwriting? A quick excursion into \cg and \hw didn't work out, I think I'm missing something here... I'd have a real use for all of the three like about right now, recreating something from 15th and 17th century with 21st century technology, with output in both period style and in various more modern forms - ConTeXt should be the perfect tool for the job, if I can learn enough to make it work :-) Thank you, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] lucida ot
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 20:40, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: I attached a modified version of the typescript file where I added calligraphic and handwriting, That was quick! And working, of course. :-) Not sure I like the word spacing of the handwriting font and the kerning on the calligraphy version, but that's why we have ConTeXt, for a bit of tweaking. Now I can at least get started, and figure out about the Blackletter a bit later - especially as it probably isn't appropriate style for this project anyway, wrong time and place (and probably least legible of these, too). Thank you! Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Project structure, (simple)font woes
Hello all, I'm trying to teach myself to use the project structure. After a few rounds of trial and error (...and stupid naming schemes...) I'm almost there, but got stuck at my font setups. If I do this as a single file, it works fine (Win7 and newest ConTeXt, updated it this morning): % FONT related setups \usemodule[simplefonts] % to get access to Calibri Cambria, win ttf fonts \starttypescript[Manuals] \definetypeface[Manuals] [rm] [serif] [cambria] [default] [rscale=0.95] \definetypeface[Manuals] [ss] [sans] [calibri] [default] [rscale=0.9] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[Manuals] \setupbodyfont[Manuals,10pt,sans] % end of font setups \starttext \input knuth \stoptext However, if I make a really simple project structure and try to put the above in an environment file, compiling fails. What am I missing here? proj-test.tex: \startproject proj-test \environment env-fonts-simplefonts \product prd-test1 \stopproject prd-test1.tex: \startproduct prd-test1 \project proj-test \input knuth \stopproduct env-fonts-simplefonts: \startenvironment env-fonts-simplefonts % FONT related setups \usemodule[simplefonts] % to get access to Calibri Cambria, win ttf fonts \starttypescript[Manuals] \definetypeface[Manuals] [rm] [serif] [cambria] [default] [rscale=0.95] \definetypeface[Manuals] [ss] [sans] [calibri] [default] [rscale=0.9] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[Manuals] \setupbodyfont[Manuals,10pt,sans] % end of font setups \stopenvironment If I look at proj-test.log (the whole thing attached), I think the problem is here: loading ConTeXt User Module / Simplefonts + C:/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.lua) (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-imp-cambria.mkiv) (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-imp-cleartype.mkiv) fontsdefining font with asked name 'LMMathRoman-Regular' is not found using lookup 'file' fontsdefining unknown font LMMathRoman-Regular, loading aborted fontsdefining unable to define LMMathRoman-Regular as [Manuals-10pt-mm-mr--3] fontsdefining font with asked name 'LMMathRoman-Regular' is not found using lookup 'file' fontsdefining unknown font LMMathRoman-Regular, loading aborted fontsdefining unable to define LMMathRoman-Regular as [Manuals-10pt-mm-mr--2] fontsdefining font with asked name 'LMMathRoman-Regular' is not found using lookup 'file' fontsdefining unknown font LMMathRoman-Regular, loading aborted fontsdefining unable to define LMMathRoman-Regular as [Manuals-10pt-mm-mr--1] But why? What is it I should do differently? ...I wouldn't even need any math fonts... Regards, Mari prd-test1.log Description: Binary data proj-test.log Description: Binary data prd-test1.tex Description: TeX document proj-test.tex Description: TeX document env-fonts-simplefonts.tex Description: TeX document test_simplefonts_Manuals.tex Description: TeX document test_simplefonts_Manuals.log Description: Binary data ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Project structure, (simple)font woes
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 14:19, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: You load the simplefonts module but you don’t use it, instead you try to define a typescript the old. See, I *was* being stupid. Now it works perfectly. And I found all the additional info I'll need now in the new Font manual/chapter, book page 34-35. Just hadn't thought to look for it... Thank you! Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] lucida ot
Hello, more font dummy questions about using Lucida OT... On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 21:06, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: Now I can at least get started, and figure out about the Blackletter a bit later It turns out that I need it rather sooner than later as it is used in my source of inspiration. But I just can't figure out how to use it! (Otherwise this is good news because gothic hand is my least bad calligraphy font, so the handwritten copy of the book might be somewhat representable, although I trust ConTeXt to make the nicely typeset versions.) I know that I've managed to use a Gothic or Fraktur font once upon a time (long, long ago in texexec), but don't have a clue how. The font chapter of the manual mentions macros \goth and \frak, can they be used somehow? I'd call the Lucida Blackletter Gothic, but I'm not picky... The file is called LucidaBlackletterOT.otf and the font name (I assume) is Lucida Blackletter OT - and there's only a Regular available (which is correct as the Gothic lettering should always stand straight, without any slant). All the other fonts in the family work, I just need to find out how to load the Blackletter for one product in my project. Thanks in advance, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] lucida ot
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 14:37, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: Now I can at least get started, and figure out about the Blackletter a bit later It turns out that I need it rather sooner than later ARGH, I give up! ConTeXt finds the Lucida Blackletter OT font on my system (Mac OS X), because: mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=Lucida* says (among others) lucidablackletterot lucidablackletterot /Users/Mari/Library/Fonts/LucidaBlackletterOT.otf lucidablackletterotnormal lucidablackletterot /Users/Mari/Library/Fonts/LucidaBlackletterOT.otf lucidablackletterotregular lucidablackletterot /Users/Mari/Library/Fonts/LucidaBlackletterOT.otf But whatever versions of font synonyms and typescripts and all other commands I try, I always get something like typescripts unknown: library 'blackletter I'm sure I'm missing something really elementary here, but what? This is one of my more recent attempts at calling for the font: \starttypescript [rm] [blackletter] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [file:LucidaBlackletterOT.otf] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [blackletter] [rm][serif] [blackletter] \setupbodyfont[blackletter] Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong? TIA, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] lucida ot
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:36, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
\definetypeface[lucidablackletter][rm][specserif][Lucida Blackletter OT]
\setupbodyfont[lucidaot]
\starttext
Lucida Bright {\lucidablackletter Lucida Blackletter} Lucida Bright
\stoptext
...and of course it works... :-)
Thanks a million,
Mari
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[NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?
Hello all, any graphic experts around who can bump me past a stupid hinder on my way to understanding MPgraphics? I'm trying to create a system of describing certain type of braiding patterns (fingerloop braiding), based on what has been used in the field before me - but they did it all manually either by pen or computer, and I just do not fancy doing 40+ patterns by hand in Inkscape, especially as my pattern recipe book keeps expanding and I'm planning on that, too. I think Metapost could be the solution, because I need simple shapes and sometimes complicated but well-regulated paths/arrows to go between them; I'm just being a clueless newbie, too much in the WYSIWYG vector graphics mode to really know what to do. Mostly with the examples in the Metafun manual I've managed to get as far as to my basic building block, two circles joined by a curve: \startMPpage path p, q, r ; p := fullcircle scaled 8mm ; q := p shifted (0cm,24mm) ; r := center p .. (12mm,12mm) .. center q ; pair pr, qr ; pr := p intersectionpoint r ; qr := q intersectionpoint r ; r := r cutbefore pr cutafter qr ; r := r cutends 0.2mm ; draw r withpen pencircle scaled 0.2mm withcolor black ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 0.2mm withcolor black ; fill p withcolor white; draw q withpen pencircle scaled 0.2mm withcolor black ; fill q withcolor black; \stopMPpage However, I don't seem to be able to find the answers to the next questions: a) I need to be able to stack four of these on top of each other and then four mirrored ones next to them (all-in-all a 2 x 4 grid/block), and probably a 1-block space between the two columns. I realize I can do that with shift, but should I make my single 'building block' a group, a buffer or overlay or something else? Keeping in mind that I will have to be able to draw a path/arrow on top, so I need to know where they are. (At some point I need to expand to more columns, but the number of rows is still 4 as we have humans have just four aligned fingers per hand - thumbs aren't counted - but one can add hands i.e. people to work wider braids.) b) The circles p and q can be filled with the same colour or two different colours, and each of the blocks in a pattern can have different fill colour (e.g. two totally black, two totally white, two half-and-half with either black or white on top). The pen/outline colour should stay as black, which means that I can't implement the symbol example in the Metafun manual (the smiley that is totally switched from black to red). I don't mind having different blocks for monocoloured and bicoloured versions, but it would be nice to be able to say something like \usesloop[lh,blue] for 'take a single-coloured left-hand loop in blue' instead of having to dig deeper into the MP code every time. I assume the answer is use variables, but how? I used millimeters here because it just feels more natural to me, that's what textile crafts does (when not based on inches like quilting and scrapbooking...). The measurements won't be shown anywhere - these are graphs or pictograms, not real pictures - so I can still switch to using something else. Besides, if the building block approach works, there isn't that much to be changed, get the first block right and the rest can be calculated from there. Any ideas on how I can achieve the ease that surely exists somewhere there? I'll take plain Metapost or a combination of Metapost and Metafun + ConTeXt as I'll use ConTeXt anyway to achieve multi-format output with a minimum of fuss. Help thankfully received, as always, Mari PS. Today's craft related metaphor: I feel just like I was staring at a messed up skein of yarn: I know that I'm now holding one of the ends, I thus can start to untangle the knot - and the more I pry loose, the less there's left to sort out. However, in the beginning the process tends to be very slow and awkward... ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Reducing inter-character spacing?
Hello,
here comes yet another I could do this in Word but can't figure it
out how ConTeXt does it font-related question:
How can I reduces inter-character spacing in a font?
I've found out that the spacing can be temporarily expanded by
\stretched{}, but what's the opposite and how to control it? And I
want to do it all over one product in my project, but on the other
hand I don't need to reset it for any individual words or anything.
(I assume that if the overall inter-character spacing is reduced,
inter-word spacing will follow, but if not, I need to be able to
reduce that, too.)
I guess it isn't easily available because I'm not really supposed to
be cramping the nicely designed fonts, especially not my nice new
shiny Lucida OT - but I'm trying to create something in the style of
past centuries when the style and requirements were different from
today's.
I've decided to use ConTeXt just because it should allow me to produce
both the period-looking-but-illegible and
nicely-typeset-modern-but-actually-usable versions of the same
project. :-)
TIA,
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] Reducing inter-character spacing?
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 18:20, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: \definecharacterkerning [narrow] [factor=-.1] \starttext \setcharacterkerning [narrow] \input knuth \stoptext This did the trick - and -.1 was just enough to dense the text up but not into total mess (-.2 was definitely Far Too Much). Watch out, this mechanism breaks ligatures. Doesn't matter in this case, I'm not that good at them when doing this by hand (involves ink, steel nib and too many splotches). My kerning still sucks big time in hand calligraphy, ConTeXt does it better. :-D Besides, if I ever want to do this really properly, I'll have to define my own ligatures anyway, they had all kinds of weird abbreviations which depend on whether you write English, Latin or Swedish... Won't happen this round, the contents won't be in fully period style either, just in the inspired by range. Maybe for September. Thank you, this admirably solved that little problem! Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] lucida ot
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:36, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
You need \starttypescript[serif][blackletter] but there is a shorter method:
\definetypeface[lucidablackletter][rm][specserif][Lucida Blackletter OT]
\setupbodyfont[lucidaot]
\starttext
Lucida Bright {\lucidablackletter Lucida Blackletter} Lucida Bright
\stoptext
OK, so I went and got stuck again...
I want to use blackletter as my bodyfont (text and headings, no
footers or headers or captions or anything else), BUT I'd prefer to
use Lucida Calligraphy OT (\cg) as the font in emphasis both for the
sake of legibility and because that is at least close to correct for
the period I'm doing.
If I do
{\lucidablackletter
component 5-loops-broad
}
that is a) not neat and b) overrides any definition in my environment file like
\definebodyfontenvironment[lucidablackletter][em=cg]
or
\definebodyfontenvironment[default][em=cg]
I can get either or, but not both - I think I'm being a clueless
again, operating outside of the standard five font switches definitely
is uncharted waters for me... So what's the neatest way of ensuring
that when I compile this particular version of my product (with the
appropriate environment file), bodyfont is blackletter and emphasis is
calligraphy?
All the other versions will use ConTeXt defaults (or at least close),
it's just this one that needs a bit of expert help...
Thank you for your patience,
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] lucida ot
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 20:53, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
\definetypeface[mainface][rm][specserif] [Lucida Blackletter
OT][default][features=default]
\definetypeface[mainface][cg][calligraphy][lucidaot]
[default][features=default]
\setupbodyfont[mainface]
\definebodyfontenvironment[default][em=cg]
\starttext
\input knuth
roman {\cg calligraphic} roman {\em emphasized} roman
\stoptext
Works fine in a single file, but as soon as I try using it in a
project environment, it hangs..
A minimal environment test file:
\startenvironment env_ms_blackletter
\definetypeface[mainface][rm][specserif] [Lucida Blackletter
OT][default][features=default]
\setupbodyfont[mainface]
\stopenvironment
And this is what it hangs onto:
\3mainface-12pt-mm-mr--3
\font_helpers_preset_math_family_indeed ...csname
\scriptfont #1\csname \??f...
\font_helpers_set_math_family ...amily_indeed #1#2
\else \font_helpers_set_ma...
\font_helpers_bidirectional_mathstrategy_nop ...r
\textfont \c_font_fam_mr_r...
inserted text ...bidirectional_mathstrategy_nop
\fi \font_helpers_apply_co...
\font_helpers_synchronize_math ...math_strategies
\fi
...
(Not going to give in yet - but maybe, just maybe, I'll migrate couple
of centuries for now...)
Thank you again for your patience,
Mari
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[NTG-context] FLOWcharts - connector line length?
Hi, I've just fallen in love with the chart module, my first flowchart is almost done. I'll never draw these by hand again... Besides, it seems that the chart module forces me to do flowcharts right, that should help with consistency and legibility. Now I just have to read a bit on how to do charts properly! I've figured out about text font and box sizes and making connections and all that, but there's one important question that I just can't seem to find the answer for: how do I adjust the connector line length? My labels just don't fit between the boxes and I'd have a whole A4 for a ny=5 flowchart, so I'd have space... (Oh, the other question is: is there a way to span a cell across several slots on the grid? If not, I can deal with *that*, the line is a lot more of a problem.) Thank you in advance, Mari (apparently in the expand your ConTeXt skills mode this week) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] FLOWcharts - connector line length?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:30, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: I've figured out about text font and box sizes and making connections and all that, but there's one important question that I just can't seem to find the answer for: how do I adjust the connector line length? Answering to myself - DOH. If I put my flowcells e.g. on rows 1, 3, 5 and 7, the lines are automatically extended to reach past the unused rows - longer distances between the flowcells. The fact that there is a grid does not mean one has to fill the whole thing, wider spacing is sometimes quite ok. Now I really do feel stupid. :-D On the other hand, the flowchart looks good, so no complaints about the module, once again the bug was definitely between the chair and the screen... Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 20:34, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: a) I need to be able to stack four of these on top of each other and then four mirrored ones next to them OK, I really was being stupid - I had already managed to do a shift inside a single 'block', somehow I just didn't see that I could do the same to the blocks: \startMPpage picture ll ; % left-hand loop ll := image ( path p, q, r ; p := fullcircle scaled 4mm ; q := p shifted (0mm,10mm) ; r := center p .. (5mm,5mm) .. center q ; pair pr, qr ; pr := p intersectionpoint r ; qr := q intersectionpoint r ; r := r cutbefore pr cutafter qr ; r := r cutends 0.2mm ; draw r withpen pencircle scaled 0.2mm withcolor black ; % the connecting curve draw p withpen pencircle scaled 0.2mm withcolor black ; fill p withcolor black ; % upper shank draw q withpen pencircle scaled 0.2mm withcolor black ; fill q withcolor black ; % lower shank ); draw ll ; draw ll shifted (0mm,20mm) ; draw ll shifted (0mm,40mm) ; draw ll shifted (0mm,60mm) ; \stopMPpage Keeping in mind that I will have to be able to draw a path/arrow on top, so I need to know where they are. My little brain got an overflow from all this abstract thinking, but then it dawned on me that I could use the millimeter grid recipe in the MetaFun manual (p. 214) to draw a grid behind my pattern drawing. Now placing the arrows should be a walk in the park... b) The circles p and q can be filled with the same colour or two different colours, and each of the blocks in a pattern can have different fill colour I assume the answer is use variables, but how? Gaah, I still cannot figure it out! A real example: one of my own patterns has white up and down on first loop, black up white down on second, white up and down on third and blue up and down on fourth. So I'd need draw ll ; % and fill both circles with white draw ll shifted (0mm,20mm) ; % and fill lower circle with white, shifted/upper circle with black draw ll shifted (0mm,40mm) ; % fill both circles with white draw ll shifted (0mm,60mm) ; % fill both circles with blue What is the shortest way of doing this? I don't mind writing definitions earlier in the file, but I'd rather keep this part as short as possible to be able to see the pattern at one glance. The main problem comes from the bicoloured loops as I can't just apply the same fill on both. And on the whole I'd prefer to make sure I apply the fill only locally per each half-loop and not all over the place... Getting closer, Mari PS. I don't have any photos of the above braid, but here's a typical fingerloop braid that I did and need to document: http://www.lucet.fi/2012/04/sydamellista-hearty/ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: beware, metapost is addictive once you get better in it, It is. :-) This one is to both you and Peter, because your snippets together helped me adjust from WYSIWYG vector graphics to MetaPost - not that I'm that far yet, but I understand a lot more than I did. http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ The fingerloop braiding patterns are still under construction, but I think I now know a lot better what I need to do there. And my fingerloop braiding suite idea was well received, so it looks like ConTeXt will be present at Braids 2012 in August (http://www.braidsociety.com/confer.htm); not as a talk, but as finished materials, in poster form and, obviously, on my computer. (btw, a talk about this will fit nicely in the upcoming eurotex theme) I think I already happened to promise that to Taco... I guess the title of my talk is now TeXtile craft or TeXtiles or something like that. You still time to make a wish or two. :-) Definitely hooked on MetaPost, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?
PS. I got this link from a friend who'd struggled with an event registration system, but it SO applies to my MetaPost project: http://www.howtogeek.com/102420/geeks-versus-non-geeks-when-doing-repetitive-tasks-funny-chart/ (Scary, I seem to count as geeknow...) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ Best change that in: ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document Engineering, is open source software and avaliable as stand alone distribution (www.contextgarden.net) and is also part of regular tex distributions (like texlive). OK, done. And I added some more stuff that I forgot originally. Don't know if I should split the page into smaller units - but somehow I feel that those who'll be interested in it, are capable of reading more than one screenful. We'll see what this turns into. Today I used my new skills with frames and the Lucida OT Handwriting to create insides for a Mother's Day card as I needed something that is exactly the right size. :-D Thank you, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: You have seen this one, haven't you? Posted by Don Knuth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVuggGxeBVk So that's your next challenge. Yes, I've seen it, had to watch the whole thing, it is so fascinating. If I ever decide to invest in such a machine, it'll be an expensive one that allows me to digitize my own graphics (not just ready-made sets), preferably as vectors. In which case doing *that* isn't so much of a challenge any more. I've coveted one of those for a while, but currently cannot justifty getting one, neither for fun nor for my tiny craft business as that one is concentrated on the pre-steam era. However, I'm planning to use MetaPost to create blackwork charts, I've got the feeling that it'll give me neater results than any existing software. And I won't be stuck with one OS, either. :-) Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] FLOWcharts - connector line length?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Willi Egger cont...@boede.nl wrote: It is not possible to make cells spanning more than one column. This is related to the fact that the cells are on a grid. It is also not possible to have cells on e.g. half way down/left/right. Oh well, I can live with that. Besides, the result is probably better, when the flowchart is governed by fairly strict rules. The advantage of this module is that you can number the cell relatively. Only the first cell has an explicit position. So if you have to insert new cells you have to look only for cells which could be outside of the grid, but that is easier than to walk through the whole chart and renumber the cells. Thank you! I already got stuck on this one, so this is a very useful tip (to be exact, got stuck on both: first had a cell outside of the original grid, then had to move almost half of the chart one spot to the right...). On the moment I'm dealing with processes that have existed for a long time but never been documented, so the flowcharts are bit of a work in progress and even with a first sketch on paper changes are unavoidable. Now, to implementing all this new knowledge in Chart 2. Gratefully yours, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] FLOWcharts - connector line length?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: You can adjust the distance indirectly with changing the distance between the cells: \setupFLOWcharts [dx=8ex, dy=4em] Ah, that naming does make sense, now that I think of it. It seems that I'm still (re)learning to think of things as coordinates, it's been a while since school when I last needed that stuff... (apparently in the expand your ConTeXt skills mode this week) Procrastination? Sounds like if you have important stuff to do ;) Nope. Two deadlines within the same week, for two totally different projects; one for my real work and one for my craft hobby/business. So my ConTeXt learning curve, based on need to know, suddenly went upwards in a pretty steep angle, that'll probably level out soonish while I assimilate everything gained recently. And if I haven't remembered to say this before, I'm very thankful for all the tips and offers for help that I've gotten, they are very much appreciated! Mari (...back in the FLOWchart land...) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] figures and footnotes
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Horacio Suarez wrote: Files are 1 bit Potoshop tif, or 8 bit photoshop tif or 8 bit gimp tif. According to ConTeXt wiki (wiki.contextgarden.net), tif(f) is NOT a generally accepted file format in ConTeXt, some systems process it, but most don't. As I process ConTeXt straight into pdf (in Windows, using the wincontext distribution), I used jpg and png as bitmap file formats and that has been successful this far - so you may want to try another figure file format. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/File_Formats for up-to-date information about what formats work with what configurations, the information in at least my version of the big manual (chapter 13) is partly obsolete. Mari (who's gotten her share of grey squares while working with ConTeXt...) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Making context produce dvi file.
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: But how do I get Context to produce a dvi file? If I recall correctly from my time with TeXLive, dvi is the 'native' format of ConTeXt, which was less than handy with Windows i.e. you normally get dvi by *not* telling ConTeXt to make ps/pdf. (See beginner manual p. 6, second paragraph.) However, the systems have changed over the last couple of years and for example I now run the stand-alone WinConText that pdfs everything, whether I want it or not (I do, so it doesn't bother me), so this is not so self-evident any more. From http://wiki.contextgarden.net/First_Document I understand that most ConTeXt configurations now produce pdfs by default. On Linux you might be able to find the place where your \setupoutput[pdf] or texexec --pdf sits, if it's in a configuration file. On the other hand, I dug a bit into my stand-alone Windows distribution and didn't get any smarter by that. Now I know why my pdf opens automatically into Acrobat, but not how *not* to produce pdf (or ps). That was a very good question. :-) Mari (...three years with ConTeXt and I sound like a dinosaur...) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] Update ConTeXt + standalone distr (Windows)
With my new work computer I finally gave up on my old but working ConTeXt in TeXLive2004 and upgraded for good to the standalone distribution, run on hard disk. One of the new things I found in the Tools menu was the 'Update ConTeXt' command, so today, when I'm *not* in the middle of a urgent project, I decided to try it out. Good news: for the first time in my ConTeXting career, I managed to update my system without reinstalling the whole thing. And the very new ConTeXt version (today's?!) compiles my ever-important manuals without complaints. Somewhat bad news: without fiddling, the updating gets stuck at unzipping after downloading, because 'unzip' is not in the path and that's it then. So it is not quite on 'Windows dummy' level yet, although real close. Note, though, that the standalone distribution I use is about four weeks old, I might be complaining about something that's already fixed! How I solved it: just today, I dug out an old tool and learned that it ain't gonna work without cygwin. Installed Cygwin, dumped the tool in the bin directory - and realized, that my cygwin/bin also contained a file called 'unzip.exe'. Putting it (cygwin/bin) into my Windows path didn't help (not a recommendable operation for standard users anyway), but then I realized that 'standalone' really is standalone and copied 'unzip.exe' to where my ctxtools.bat lives, i.e. \ConText\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin - and presto, the update went through. It seems to me that it even generates formats on the fly, so with one mouse-click I can get the most up-to-date ConTeXt. How I think this might be solved: In the texmf-mswin\bin directory, there is a 'gunzip.exe'. If I remember correctly, gunzip is fairly simple to use, so this might just mean a change somewhere in the stand-alone package so update would use gunzip to unpack the update files. Or, as it seems to me that different types of 'unzip.exe's are public domain stuff, just include that in the standalone distribution and everything works (no other changes were needed, just bringing 'unzip.exe' into the correct directory. I really like the standalone distribution. Of the many ConTeXt variations I've used until today's date, this year's standalone has been the most Windows-minded and most Windows-friendly in many ways. It works out-of-the-box (has less options to uncheck than Word), seems to live happily even under C:\Program Files and has a logic that I as a non-programming Windows power user find easy to follow. I no longer need to refer to the manual to get as far as to compile a test pdf with standard postscript fonts, now I can concentrate on the layout, not the innards of TeX. So, even though there are slight blemishes and wrinkles to be ironed out like this update thing, ConTeXt in Windows is definitely becoming a nice package for those of us who find that Word just doesn't do what we want. :-) Mari ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Update ConTeXt + standalone distr (Windows)
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: ...\usr\local\context\goodies\bin has unzip Not in my Windows standalone distros. :-( The one at work is about a month old, the one at home just a week old, my older CD version is from April, but it's the same with all of them: in ../usr/local/context/ the folders goodies, gs, perl, ruby and xmlib are empty. Ergo, the stand-alone for Windows doesn't seem to contain unzip.exe and thus the excellent context update feature won't work without fiddling. [I know, I know, I'm being a pain in the *. But the standalone is so close to being accessible to the fairly average Windows user and still so far in these little things...] Mari (who *has* to stick with Windows at work anyway) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] Natural table + interlinespacing
I'd love natural tables except for one aspect that drives me crazy: How do I diminish the interlinespacing in my table? That is, I want the lines in the multiline cells to be closer together. The overall interlinespacing is default, i.e. I haven't used \setupinterlinespace in the setup of my document. Mari (with a #¤#¤ table that doesn't want to fit on its page) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Directories of pictures
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Jörg Hagmann wrote:
Use:
\setupexternalfigures[directory={path_to_your_figures,another_path}]
And you can even use relative paths and go 'down' in the directory tree:
\setupexternalfigures[directory={../pdf-images,../png-images}]
See also: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Using_Graphics
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] Listing of typical beginner-questions
Luuk Beurskens wrote: Q: Installing the minimal context distribution on a Windows 98 machine gives problems when copying on harddisk E:. Running the batch-file cscite.bat results in the following message: cscite root, e.g. cscite d:\copyofcdrom (more info: C: exists but D: is a non-writable linux partition). This maybe a feature in your Windows installation and may occasionally turn up with installation from CD and such. I've stumbled on this problem several times with earlier versions of Windows (95, 98, NT) - the common nominator for all was that Windows had been installed from CD to unpartitioned hard disk and thus the CD drive letter became D. After another hard drive was added or the existing one partitioned in two, the CD drive or similar moved to become drive E. Unfortunately, this kind of changes didn't always make it to Windows registry and thus programs still attempt to use D when they mean E. Once upon a time I knew how to fix this in a Windows-only computer, but don't unfortunately remember very well any more how to do it. I think it involved time and some careful searching in the registry editor to get rid of all the obsolete D letters. This is the main reason why I still change my drive letters in a new Windows to R for read (for CD reader) and W for write (for CD/DVD writer), so additional hard drives don't 'push' them. Nowadays I just go crazy with a multitude of external USB devices trying to use each other's drive letters or network drive letters and not showing up as result; I'm seriously running out of alphabets on my work XP! Good Luck, Mari the Windows user ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph
List Mail wrote: Also, could somebody point me to where I can download the latest version of the ConTeXt manual. The best I could find using Google's filetype:pdf site:pragma-ade.com is a document named cont-eni.pdf. That's the interactive English full manual. The Pragma website IS sometimes a bit tricky to navigate, so I use this handy wiki listing instead whenever I need to download a manual either for screen or paper use: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Official_ConTeXt_Documentation For print use I'd suggest taking the beginner's manual and then probably cont-enp.pdf, assuming English is your preferred language. These are the two I've shread to threads, although nowadays I usually check the wiki first, it often gives an answer faster. Hope this helps, Mari ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph
List Mail wrote: \setupindenting[medium] Sanjoy's nifty 'helloworld' document at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Hello_world has this: \setupindenting[medium, yes] It might be the missing 'yes' that's your problem. At least in the Live ConTeXt at http://live.contextgarden.net/ it makes all the difference; without 'yes', no indentation. With 'yes', first line gets indented. (Hmm... I should probably also take a good look at this longer Hello world, I could definitely learn a thing or two there...) Mari (who can't do much without manuals and the wiki...) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph
List Mail wrote: Well, yes, this works. However, this isn't documented in *the manual*. This is why there's an Errata page in the wiki for both the full manual and the Excursion. All input there is very valuable; it seems that the problem you found isn't entered yet... The Errata page for Manual: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXtEN_Errata The Errata page for Excursion: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Typos_in_beginners_manual An up-to-date cheat sheet containing all commands and options or arguments would be fine. I frankly don't know if it exists with all distributions and you don't state what you use, but I recently found out that my WinConTeXt includes a stand-alone version of TeXShow, which is very hand for this kind of use - and I think the program is more up to date than any paper manuals; the developers will be able to tell, if they make a new one for a new distribution of ConTeXt or just occasionally. Searching for file texshow might find yours (no luck on my Mac...); the online version is at http://texshow.contextgarden.net/ TeXShow was also discussed at the recent ConTeXt meeting and the people present promised to help adding explanations in there, so it should get better and better. If you happen to use Emacs (any OS will do), the creator of TexShow, Patrick, also has a texshow browser for it, called etexshow, so you can easily check stuff while you write. I found it quite handy as long as I used Emacs for editor and I actually somewhat miss it now that I've gone over to WinConTeXt and SciTe. The etexshow can be downloaded at http://levana.de/emacs/ - however, I don't know how up to date it is, Patrick will be able to answer that question better. THIS might be what you were asking for: There's a quick reference file that can be handy as augmentation to other manuals: http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-man-10.htm or, if your preferred language is English, directly here: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/qrcs/setup-en.pdf - at least the English version is *very* new, dated on March 19, 2007, so it should be quite up to date [probably too up-to-date for my old ConTeXt distribution...]. Mari (Who's found her share of problems now in errata; it IS sometimes frustrating!) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Microsoft Word - Context
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
What can community say about the sensibility of my idea?And did
anyone attempt to implement some conversion tool?
As has been mentioned (and as you can find out by searching the mailing
list archives), this pops up once in a while and has been discussed.
However, as former Word teacher and currently IT support and power user
I must say that making a really working converter that would
save a substantial amount of time is very hard.
Why? Because at least 70% of Word users don't seem to know how to make a
clearly structured document. And even if they'd once known that, all
Word versions newer than 97 make it very hard to keep the consistency,
at least with the default settings (which most users never change) that
involve umpteen different yucky automatic features. I just got back a
Word document that left with nice clean consistent styles and came back
twice the size and a complete mess, thanks to Word2003...
For example if the user has formatted the titles by hand, the human eye
sees easily that that's top level heading and this is second level
heading, but Word thinks they are just specially formatted normal text.
Consequentely, if your converter recognizes only the built-in Heading 1
style as top-level heading, you lose that in conversion anyway (even
when converting to HTML, for example). Or, even worse, you can
half-accidentally make new styles that count to the same level in the
table of contents without looking like a heading... Ergo, everything has
to be fixed by hand anyway.
If the journal you are doing is not very complicated but the problem is
getting a consistent quality, I'd do something like this:
1) Make a separate environment file with all the layout information
(this is the bit that will take a chunk of your time in the first go if
you don't have a huge amoung of experience from before.)
2) Mark the Word files (journal articles) with simple typesetting codes
while in Word document format; i.e. add \chapter{} around the main
title, \section{} around first level headings etc. And remember to add
\starttext-\stoptext tags into the very beginning and end of the file;
as environment is in a separate file, nothing is needed above \starttext.
If you write a cheat sheet with examples, almost anyone can deal with
this, if they have any idea of how document structure works out (and
your lady has to have it as she's done it in Word). The human eye is a
lot better at discerning what is a heading than an automatic system.
I can even write that cheat sheet for you with references to the English
version of Word, if that'll help.
Now, if you have a lot of mathematics in the stuff, this may be
trickier. Although so is the use of MS Equation Editor, a reasonable
number of examples on 'if it looks like this, typeset like this' could
work out.
BTW, you could probably make a VBA macro to do some of the markup job -
but it'll still only work if the original writer uses heading styles
properly! At least in business environment this seems to be rather an
exception than a rule, especially with the newer Words that make all
kinds of deduction of their own and mess up with styles and heading
levels and *everything* (frustated? me? never...) But Word's replace
function is actually quite good, you can look for formats and do
wildcards etc, so in theory you can do a macro that looks for 14 pt
Arial bold and puts \section{ in front of it and } after it. [I've done
some html conversion this way, because Word's own html is totally
useless mess as it doesn't do css...]
Note! If your files contain graphics, for ConTeXt you have to ask
people to send them in separately as pdf, png or jpg (instead of putting
them inline in the Word file). I have found *this* hard to achieve once
in a while and I still often spend substantial time chasing down
originals of graphics I get in Word files.
3) When the basic markup is done in the Word doc where you can see how
the writer uses styles, save the file in text format.
4) Either make sure your typist's computer has a fully functioning
WinConTeXt (you'll have to install and adjust a bit) with Cyrillic fonts
and everything else, or just have her do the basic markup and then
compile on your computer.
But a lot depends on how your journal looks and how complicated stuff it
contains and whether your typist is willing to live with having to type
in some strange tags, i.e. if she'll want to learn anything new.
[I've found that generally my fellow office workers don't want to deal
with *anything* like this, but professional translators have no problems
with ConTeXt code; and anybody with html-by-hand experience usually gets
the drift very fast.]
Having switched a very long structured file from Word to ConTeXt, I can
say that doing to layout and the basic markup takes some time. But in
the long run I have saved that time many times over. For example, when I
have to do a new manual, I can use my
Re: [NTG-context] Section title font define
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Roy Zuo wrote:
I do not want to use \switchtobodyfont every time I type a chapter
title, but I have no idea how to make it a style in the setup area.
Good news is that this is fairly easily done.
The Hello World document on ConTextwiki (ConTeXtGarden) has one
solution where the common nominators are given in one go and then more
stuff is added separately; see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Hello_world
and the stuff starting with \setuphead
Now, my solution has been to define each heading level separately:
% This sets the look of the first level headings
\setuphead
[chapter]
[style=\sstfc,
prefix=+]
% This sets the look of the second level headings
\setuphead
[section]
[style=\sstfb,
before={\blank[2*big]}]
\setuphead
[subject]
[style=\sstfb,
before={\blank[2*big]}]
% Third level headings
\setuphead
[subsection]
[style=\ssbf]
Note: section and subject are of same level, but section is numbered
(1.2 etc.) while subject is not.
You can find this information and more
1) In the wiki on page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Titles
2) In the beginner's manual (Excursion) at
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ms-cb-en.pdf under 5 Headers
(!)
3) In the big manual at
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf (this is the
interactive on-screen version) under 8 Text Elements
Now, interestingly, I cannot find any direct examples how to give point
size to chapter heading, I'm used to doing just \tfa, \tfb and \tfc
(somewhat bigger than standard, quite a bit bigger, huge).
However, judging from the Hello World document, this might work out:
\setuphead
[chapter]
[style={\switchtobodyfont[18pt]}] %is {} needed here?
If the text should also be sans serif (Arial etc), this might be the way:
\setuphead
[chapter]
[style={\ss\switchtobodyfont[18pt]}]
Yep, both of the above work at least in my ConTeXt. So I learned something
new today! (Mostly thanks to Sanjoy's wonderful Hello World...)
This should give you a reasonable starting point, the rest you can
probably figure out with the documentation and some testing (been there,
done that, got it right in the end)
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] mirrored pages
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Horacio Suarez wrote:
Is there a way to obtain a mirrored pdf?
Mirrored in what way? (I use Acrobat when necessary, but I'm not familiar
with the plug-ins, which is why I have to ask...)
Do you mean mirror margins, i.e. inside and outside margins instead of
left and right? For double-sided printing? Are you doing your pdf from
ConTeXt source or do you just want to rearrange an existing pdf for mirror
margin layout?
Mirror margins can be done in ConTeXt code. This wiki page gives the first
hint on margins: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout
Note that you always layout the 'odd' page, i.e the right-hand page and
then define a double-sided layout (nb. even though the command
\showlayout will give you several pages of layout, it will *only* show
the right-hand layout - look at the text itself to make sure you got the
mirror margins right).
I frankly don't know if my solution is the most elegant one, but this
works for me:
\setuplayout
[footer=1cm,
backspace=5.5cm, %inside margin
width=12cm] %textwidth, leaves 3.5cm for outside margin on A4
\setuppagenumbering
[alternative=doublesided, %this is where doublesided comes in
location={header,margin}] %pagenumber location
If you use the above page number location, the page number is placed just
outside of outer margin in the header and you can see very easily if
mirroring is in place.
I'm not sure if rearranging existing pdf works A4-A4, but if you need to
do a book layout or leaflet or something similar, imposition is the term
you want and pdfarrange can be the answer, see
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Imposition for more information and tips.
The other meaning for 'mirrored':
Do you, for some reason, really want to mirror a page like a mirror
would reflect it, i.e. text backwards etc? Like for printing on t-shirt
transfer?
I don't know if this can be done... I'd assume ConTeXt or texexec knows
how to do it, I just haven't needed to find out (yet). :-)
Hope this helps,
Mari
(who found out about mirrored margins with the trial-and-error method
before the wiki existed...)
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Re: [NTG-context] crop pdf page via \externalfigure options
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Is there a way to crop pdf page via \externalfigure options? (All the switches listed at TeXshow seem to scale an image, not to crop.) It doesn't always seem to work for me (with various Windows-created pdfs), but you can try this (example from texshow-web under \externalfigure): \externalfigure[whatever.pdf][size=artbox] If I read contextgarden right, you also have the options trimbox cropbox bleedbox while mediabox is the default. Hope this helps, Mari (still cropping her pdf figures with Adobe Acrobat, yuck) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Sorting index (in Spanish)
Dear Fellow-Contexters,
I have been charged with editing a ConTeXt document in Spanish (of which
I understand preciously little). This far I have gotten over the hurdles
of hyphenation, labeltexts and the upside-down exclamation mark (and as
far as we can tell, the Spanish hyphenation patterns get loaded, too),
but now I have a problem sorting the index: the words 'ángulo' and
'índice' get sorted in the beginning of the index instead of among a and i.
It tried putting something like the example below in a) the setup part
of my document, b) just before the index (a bit like in the example at
http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/008346.html, except that
I use the command \placeindex and not \completeindex) and c) in the
lang-ita.tex file.
% Changes to sorting to fix the sorting of accented letters
\startlanguagespecifics[es]
\definesortkey {\´a}{a}{a}{\´a} % á sorted among 'a'
\definesortkey {\´i}{i}{i}{\´i} % í sorted among 'i'
\stoplanguagespecifics
None of the options a)-c) worked and I'm thinking that this is more of a
stupid user problem, i.e. as I cannot find any description on how
\definesortkey works, I just don't understand how to use it properly.
Any help???
Mari
PS. Tried to find related info in contextgarden.net, but can't find much
- if it isn't there, I can add stuff (*after* I solve this problem) if
somebody tells me where I may start growing this flower of mine.
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Re: [NTG-context] Toward an errata sheet.
John R. Culleton wrote: Perhaps we all should exchange annotations where there is a typo or other error we have uncovered. It would be a kind of group errata sheet. Yes, this would be a very good idea - for example I bumped into the combination 'bug' so long ago that I'd already forgotten about it; but at a time I both knew that it existed and how to fix it, so it's kind of stupid that you had to stumble on the same problem. Here's a stupid one from the big manual in English; doesn't bother me, but would confuse a newcomer (and yes, I checked this one with the online version, it still exists): --- on p. 241 every single example says \exernalfigure[blaa] instead of \externalfigure ^^^ I think contextgarden/wiki seems like an ideal place where to put these (that way we also avoid duplicates). I'm not very familiar with the system and find it somewhat hard to navigate, but if somebody points me to the correct direction, I'll enter anything I find in the manuals... The beginner's manual has some 'interesting' errors, too, and I assume the Dutch versions have their problems too, so maybe a separate entry/page for each manual and language? Sometimes a simple typo causes lots of frustration, so I'm all for this suggestion! mari (...using ConteXt to write manuals, guaranteed to come with typos, sometimes in awkward places...) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Header design
Alexander Lazic wrote:
... what i have also tryed:
\setupheadertexts[text][{Title | \getmarking[chapter]}]
which don't work because i get the following error:
At least on my computer (Mac+TeXshop) the above solution works fine -
once you realize that a pipe character doesn't work if typed straight!
So the code in itself is correct, but you've included a character that
has a special meaning to ConTeXt and that's why it doesn't understand you.
If you really need the pipe, I got this one to work - I don't know if
there's a more elegant solution to the problem:
\setupheadertexts[text][{Title \type{|} \getmarking[section]}]
(BTW, if you don't want any text on the left side of the header, do
\setupheadertexts[][{Title \type{|} \getmarking[section]}]
instead, now it really says 'text' in the left edge of the header...)
Been there, done that - had to learn this pipe thingy the hard way, too.
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
Taco Hoekwater wrote: What do you do with ConTeXT? I first learned ConTeXt because of work: My employer makes measuring instruments for industry and I write and/or compile and layout the end-user manuals for those instruments. Traditionally, those manuals were written and edited in Word, but when the mass of text and the amount of figures grew, it was obvious that I needed a new tool before becoming a total wreck due to corrupted and unruly Word files. A workmate had written his thesis in TeX and started to look for various TeX based solutions, of which I finally chose ConTeXt. I had to stick to Windows because of work. We first tried MikTeX, but that just didn't work out. Then I got TeXLive and it worked - except fonts Hours later and with the help of the email list I finally found the correct combination of magical lines and there it was. And then somebody mentioned that I could get Emacs with Context-mode in Windows and that's it. That's still how I run ConteXt at work, although now there are easier Windows options available (not to talk about the Mac option...). Using Emacs usually gains points from younger nerds we occassionally employ. :-) ConTeXt was the first TeX based system I've ever used, but I was used to using styles and had done HTML (still do it by hand), so I have some idea of what I was getting into. Looking back I realize that I've learned an awful lot of things although I often feel that I don't know any of the things I should. Having to do something new usually results in curses at the beginning, but when it works, it always works. I'll still use Word (and equivalents) for small stuff, but when I need something big and printable, ConTeXt is the tool. My real ConTeXt moment came last summer, when I had to redo the layout on one of our old Word files that had been edited by somebody else in between. It was disgustingly difficult to the degree that I seriously considered cutting and pasting the whole thing into Emacs and ConTeXting it to my liking! Mari ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts
Hooman Javidnia wrote: Should I install Ruby on my machine? Yes, you'll need both Ruby and Perl. Both are scripting languages. You must have missed the discussion about this earlier today, but no problem, it got wikified: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation#Stand-alone_ConTeXt_distribution If you like to use command interface and unix type command line tools, you can install cygwin on your Windows and with Cygwin you get perl and ruby. Cygwin is available at http://www.cygwin.com/ - the Install or update now link is made for us Windows dummies, it'll tell you what to do. So: Either follow the nine-step program given in the wiki (link above) or install cygwin and continue the nine-step program from step 3 (although, judging by your question and my own experience with the same issue, the only things you miss at this point are Ruby and possibly Perl). Whichever way, somehow you need to make sure you have Ruby and Perl on your machine before things start to work. Hope this helps, Mari ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts
It would of course help if I learned to read - I didn't exactly answer your question fully and I'm sorry about that. I cannot quite answer to all parts of your questions, but here's a bit more: Yes, you need to have working installations of Ruby and Perl on your computer. If you can make them tell you their version (see the wiki Windows installation page), you can assume the installations work. Then you also need to find the appropriate *.properties files the mscite.pdf manual explains about. I must admit that I have no idea whether they are included in MikTex, but the Windows search will tell you pretty fast if you have them or not. It may be useful to know that the file SciTEUser.properties doesn't exist until you put something in there, so instruction copy context.properties where your SciTEUser.properties file is doesn't necessarily make make much sense. In the Scite I downloaded today on my Windows 2000, the user properties file went into my C:\Documents and Settings\Username folder, I think it'll do the same in XP - so put the context.properties into equivalent folder on your computer. I get this far. Having copied the properties files and restarted Scite, the menu looks good, I have the build and compile commands and the test file is now recognized as tex/context. But that's it then for tonight, something is still missing either in my Windows path or somewhere else. And it's time for me to go to bed. But yes, I'd like to know, too, how this is done. Will need to reinstall a computer soonish and that means reinstalling (upgrading) context into a brand new XP. It would be nice to try MikTeX for a change... Mari ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] figure as figura
Quoting andrea valle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What have I to do? You'll have to tell ConTeXt to use the Italian glossary instead (and hope it's ok...) so the labeltexts (and hyphenation) gets fixed. This is how I do it for our Spanish manual and how I adjusted the few labeltexts our translator didn't like; these go into the setup section of the file, before \starttext. % Language specific settings for the Spanish version %Uses the Spanish hyphenation module and labeltexts \mainlanguage[es] % Changes the default label Illustraciòn to Figura % as that's the term the translators preferred % Note the space after the text! \setuplabeltext[es][figure=Figura ] \setuplabeltext[es][see=ver ] I don't *know* for sure, but my somewhat educated guess is that \mainlanguage[it] would be the key to success for you. See the big manual (ConTeXt the manual), pages 131-132 for more information. (Hmm... if this isn't in the wiki yet, it should probably go there. I can do a bit later...) Mari This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] Natural tables: how to adjust row height/vertical spacing?
This may almost be a FAQ question, but I just cannot find the answer in the wiki
nor in mailing list archives: How do I adjust row height/vertical spacing in
natural tables?
In my old tables (\starttable etc.) the trick was
\noalign{\vskip-6pt}
but this one doesn't work with my natural tables. In Word I'd just adjust
linespacing and paragraph spacing in the table, but that obviously isn't the
soluction in ConTeXt - or at least I don't seem to understand enough to get it
to work.
Any ideas of what to do?
I like natural tables, but if vertical spacing isn't adjustable, I'll have to
stick to my old alternatives, tables and tabulate. If somebody gives me a
working solution (that's simple enough that I manage to implement it), I
promise to wikify it for future use...
Mari
(with lots of specifications and parts lists to fit into tables in small
print...)
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Re: [NTG-context] 2c considerations about win installer
olivier wrote: Your students can also install Ruby (single click .exe : Rubyinstaller from : http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/9417/ruby184-16_rc1.exe) and Perl (single click .exe : activePerl :http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/) whithout any pb's of adding new executables to the path, since it's done while installation. Except that I found out the very hard way, that at least Ruby installs nicely for a power user, but doesn't change the path unless the installation is done when logged in as Administrator - which may be a problem in a multi-user environment. Other than that, I haven't had any problems with newer versions of the MSWinConTeXt distribution (the one that unzips into 'isoimage' folder). I'm currently running the April 10 version from CD at work and once Perl and Ruby got installed into the path, the system has been really easy to use. [I downloaded the mswincontext.zip, unzipped and burned the *contents* of the isoimage folder onto a CD - and that's it, then.) Yes I agree, it is harder to put a working ConTeXt into Windows than into a Mac where it was *very* easy, but with Administrator rights to Windows2000/XP, the abovementioned Perl and Ruby installation packages are no problem and after that things just work. Mari (multi-OS user, but best in Windows) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Context user meeting: 25-26 March 2007
Ummm... According to my calendar, in *2007*, March 25 is a Sunday and March 26 is a Monday while the meeting program talks about Sat-Sun. Looking at the meeting programme, maybe your intention is to have the meeting from Friday, March 23 to Sunday March 25, 2007? Just checking, it'll be a while before I get as far as to booking flights... Mari from Finland ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] Variables how-to needed
Hello All,
I'm looking for some for dummies information about using variables.
I tried looking for it in the wiki, but only found this Internals
page that's a bit too advantaged to me:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Inside_ConTeXt#Using_variables
I'm obviously missing something important, so I'd love to see a few
more examples of variables and variable input files...
What I want is price tags with the item name in Finnish and
English/Swedish and then the price. These are placed on a small page
and those small pages are then fit onto one A4 by imposition.
Like this:
Pieni nyörihaarukka, koivua %variable 1,v-descr-fi
{\em Small lucet, beech} %variable 2, v-descr-en
6 eur %variable 3, v-price1
Made in xxx %variable 4, v-origin
I can do the imposition, that is not a problem - and it works a lot
better than a table, so no tables this way...
.
My data is in a list that can be converted to csv (although it'll then
have a bunch of quotes to be removed), the list format is just like
above:
Item in Finnish, Item in English, price, country of origin.
So the main problem is database/mailmerge/variablerelated: How do I
(or should I) use variables to fetch this information from a separate
spreadsheet type file, i.e. my price list?
(IF this was MS Word or OpenOffice, it would be called Mail Merge, but
in OO it sucks a bit; and I think the operation itself should be easy
if I just figure out how to do it...
Thank you,
Mari
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[NTG-context] Using MPgraphics as externalfigures?
Hi All,
I'm being a bit clueless about the MPgraphics again...
I've got a pile of instructional graphics that will be used and reused
in a project. My first try is/was an unwieldy buffer construction, but
I'm sure there's a better way than
\placefigure[here]
[fig: 5 loop departed setup]
{The start position for a 5-loop braid with departed loops}
{\framed{\getbuffer[setup 5-loop basic]}}
Come to think of it, is there another way of framing the incoming
graphic? I don't want to include the frames in the MPcode as I may not
always want them, but that \framed{\getbuffer} construction is
downright ugly.
I think the solution to my problem can be found somewhere in the
\startreuseagleMPgraphic and \reuseMPgraphic, but I don't seem to be
able to figure out the last bits...
On the moment my MPgraphics have
\startbuffer[g1]
\startMPcode
...
\stopMPcode
\stopbuffer
but that's probably an overkill... And I'd really prefer to have the
graphic as just a pic so I can easily use them as external figures.
Of course one option would be to pdf the MPgraphics and then to insert
the pdf, but I'd prefer to skip that step.
Any ideas of how to do this in a smart way? Preferably without having
to go into the bowels of ConTeXt to get it done...
Thank you,
Mari
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Re: [NTG-context] Using MPgraphics as externalfigures?
Hi Marco al,
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com wrote:
Read http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Metapost
I was on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mpgraphic which I actually
found for informative, but not quite enough for my very dummy level.
and 3.3 Integrated Graphics in the MetaFun Manual.
*This* was my missing link (and I was being pretty stupid). I dug the
book out of my pile of ConTeXt papers and found exactly what I needed,
at the end of chapter 3.3, pages 115-117 in my paper copy.
To answer to myself (in case somebody else ever looks for this);
At least in theory the key to the problem is to create a file
somefile.mp, then write the MP code in the file
beginfig{01}
.
.
.
endfig ;
end .
The whole file is used by
\startMPrun
input somefile ;
\stopMPrun
and the individual figure is available in the virtual file mprun.01.
Thus it can be included with
\externalfigure[mprun.01][width=0.5\textwidth] %etcetera
Page 117 even has an example of exactly the type of combination I'm
trying to achieve, so now it's just down to creating the graphic(s)
file(s). As my braiding graphics come in groups (steps and variations,
to be exact), this solution looks like a winner for now.
\defineframed
[graphicframe]
[frame=on,offset=none]
\define[1]\MPframed
{\graphicframe{\useMPgraphic{#1}}}
\startuseMPgraphic{first}
fill fullcircle scaled 2cm withcolor red;
\stopuseMPgraphic
\startreusableMPgraphic{second}
fill fullsquare rotated 45 scaled 2cm withcolor blue;
\stopreusableMPgraphic
\startbuffer [third]
fill fullsquare scaled 1cm withcolor green;
\stopbuffer
\starttext
\useMPgraphic{first}
\reuseMPgraphic{second}
\processMPbuffer [third]
\MPframed{second}
\stoptext
Thank you! I'll have to delve into this bit once the current
almost-past-deadline project is done, looks like this'll take a bit of
processing before it starts to make sense to me (my computer has no
such problems...).
Now, time for some recoding, thanks once more!
Mari
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[NTG-context] Creating a background texture with text/graphic
Hello all! While staring at the pile of ConTeXt instruction book(let)s on my desk, I realized that I should be able to use a logo or a text to create a background texture to use in scrapbooking and cardcraft. The problem is that my skills don't quite stretch that far and I can't remember where I once saw the code for this... The logo I'm thinking of is originally an Inkscape svg file that I've this far used in ConTeXt in pdf format. Other available and compatible vector formats are at least plain svg, ps eps and pdf. Possible solution 1: to insert the logo in MetaPost and use loops, rotate, shft and randomize to create a texture. Loop+shift would make a nice alternating background, randomized with loop and 90degree rotation steps would make a denser texture. The problem: I don't know how to input the logo graphic into Metapost code. This did not work, even though the pdf is in the same directory: externalfigure vaaka-logo.pdf scaled 1cm; Don't know if I'm missing something here, this snippet comes from the MetaFun manual p. 199. Unfortunately I don't have pstoedit on my Mac, so the conversion trick on page 198 doesn't work for me. For text there're more ideas and I think I can handle that based on MetaFun manual p. 92 + randomize, but with the external figure I'm at loss on how to do it. Possible solution 2: ConTeXt. Insert here some code I don't have a clue about. Might be ConTeXt only or ConTeXt and Metapost/Metafun together. Inserting the graphic is no big deal in this case, \externalfigure will do that. (I got almost what I wanted by tweaking an older label/imposition file, but I have some weird margin issues there and the positioning system is not very exact and there are a bit too many things that affect the layout. I'd rather put stuff on a grid than just tweak it with the location and margin settings. That's the Word way, in the long run not the smartest way of doing things. I'm planning to use this feature a lot, so I'd rather code something that stands for longer.) Feel free to point me towards the correct wiki pages, my problem may just be that I cannot come up with the correct search term, background is not a very good one. And of some reason the garden is not very good at scrapbooking terms (yet). ;-) Note. On the moment I have no need to put text on top of those textures, and I'm not worried about that bit anyway, layers usually work nicely there. Now I'm interested into creating a personilized background texture onto which I can e.g. glue a chipboard shape or paper flower or a bit of glitter. It feels stupid to pay for so called digital stamps/textures/backgrounds when I have the tools to create some myself. Running text is easy, but using and reusing one logo would be more fun. :-) Thanks, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Two columns in a frame
Hi All, I'm doing something where the example at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Columns#.28Simple.29Columns_in_a_narrow_frame would be quiet useful. Except that if I copy-paste the example in my ConTeXt, I get two columns typeset almost on top of each other, with non-existent column distance (a lot less than on the graphic in the wiki). Attached is what I get out of my ConTeXt, version 2012.05.30 11:26 MKIV BTW, the columns page doesn't seem to contain information on how to force a column break, at least not under that name I'm attaching a short version of the file where I'd need it. Being clueless again, thankful for any help, Mari simplecolumns.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document simplecolumns.tex Description: TeX document ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Two columns in a frame
I'm really being a clueless idiot again this morning, hit send instead of attach (and they are not even next to each other). Here's my own file that tries to implement the example from the wiki, with limited success. If you don't have Lucida OT, it may look a bit funny, but the pdf should explaien the problem pretty well. BTW, the columns page doesn't seem to contain information on how to force a column break, at least not under that name I'm attaching a short version of the file where I'd need it. Being clueless again, thankful for any help, Mari A6_laput_valmistusaineet_20121102.tex Description: TeX document A6_laput_valmistusaineet_20121102.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] [IN TOPIC] new interview
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:03 AM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.tug.org/interviews/voipio.html http://www.lucet.fi/craftex And here's another one done with MetaPost and ConTeXt that I twiddled with when on a boring 6-hour flight recently: http://www.lucet.fi/2012/12/twpatterns/ (pattern D is the one I used as demo at EuroTeX) I still need to add the how I did it page under CrafTeX, explaining about the MetaPost code, but there were people who wanted to use the patterns, so I did that first. And then there's a simulation system for rigid heddle weaving (band/ribbon weaving, plain weaving) that I coded last weekend. I just need to get around to doing the threading charts for that, too, and then the MP code explained, too. I've also realized that a lot of the traditionally used patterning is binary - background-foreground, white-black, base-groove, base-relief, over-under ... on-off - and can thus be described with a simple monochrome chart on rectangular grid. The range of techniques is wide from weaving to knitting to fingerloop braiding to embroidery to mosaics, but the basic idea is always the same. When I read those charts, my brain does the on-off thing, background colour is 'off', pattern colour/foreground color is 'on'. E.g. in brocaded tabletweaving 'under' (usually 'under 1' is default, so I just remember the sequence of 'overs' and think '3-1-3' when I'm really doing 'over 3, under 1, over 1, under 1, over 3'. [Seems like I have seed to another article here, just don't know where it'll end up...] I'm glad you've enjoyed reading the interview. It's been long time coming, but I didn't get around to finishing it until last week. If my memory serves me right, Hans was the person who started the whole process by suggesting that I'd be interviewed. Don't remember any more what the main reason for this was, it's really been quite a while since then. Greetings from (very) snowy Finland, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] [IN TOPIC] new interview
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com wrote: I liked the bit where Dave asked about the process Mari's company uses, and that Mari also went into the issue of so *we* use it, but how do we deal with others who don't use it? Could you tell that I've had that discussion more than once? Sometimes I really wonder how difficult it is to understand the sentence The original format is *not* a Word (or indeed word processor) document. Remind me again why we use this strange and difficult system is another all-time favourite that pops up regularly. [The answers are given in the interview, in case you are reading just this message without checking out the links.] Yes, short-term it may appear difficult in an average office environment. Long-term, I still think ConTeXt was and is the best alternative out of the available options because of its versatility. The requirements have changed over the years and will change again - I foresee tablet-sized interactivity in the near future - but I have not needed new tools, just to learn new ways of using what I have. And the first ConTeXt files I wrote still mostly work; they may need a little bit of fiddling before compiling on MkIV, but a lot less than what a structured Word2000 file needs on Word2010 (e.g. TOCs have a tendency to go bad between versions, figure placement can also be tricky). A lot of patience, some fighting spirit (and maybe a bit of luck) is required if one plans to go the same way, but it can be done and should be considered as one option among other possibilities. Regards, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Creating a folded meander book - imposition problem
I would love to create a folded meander book, but as far as I can see, that means creating a new imposition scheme and that's beyond my skill. What I want is a cross between 2*16 and x=4, y=4 (I think). Here's an explanation and a nice graphic of a 16-page (4x4) meander book: http://stamphenge.wordpress.com/minibooks/meander-accordion-folded-book/ A 9-page version (3x3) would also be nice to have, to make slightly bigger pages when printed on A4. Thank you, Mari (Slowly brewing: an article on using ConTeXt and MetaPost in papercrafts.) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Creating a folded meander book - imposition problem
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: \setuparranging[MEANDER] It works (of course it does!). Now I can create a funny booklet with my MetaPost twiddlings. :-) A 9-page version (3x3) would also be nice to have, to make slightly bigger pages when printed on A4. How do you plan to fold this? I had to try it out on paper, but it turns out I had understood the text correctly: the same idea, but only two cuts. Top row, left to right: 1,2,3 Middle row, left to right: 6, 5, 4, all upside down Bottom row, left to right: 7, 8, 9 Cuts 1-2/6-5 and 5-4/8-9. The cut paper is like letter S (or a snake or meander, whatever you wish to call it). When folded, the back page remains blank because it is from the underside of the paper due to the odd number of pages - not necessarily a bad thing. I can always slap a copyright sticker or signature on that back cover... For trial I took an A4 and cut off the bottom to make it square that makes quite nice 7x7 cm pages. Not handy for continuous text, but for short poems/thoughts or graphics/art it work out. I need to play around a bit, but then I can post the results in my blog. :-) Thank you, Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Finding documentation for ConTeXt
I think that one of the problems is that ConTeXt can do almost anything, if you know how to ask it to do that. What I do is different what most people use it for, but it works (http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-pagedesign.pdf and http://www.lucet.fi/2013/01/metaposting/ and http://www.lucet.fi/2012/12/twpatterns/). There used to be a project to create a test suite with various types of files, but the links on the wiki refer to something from 2009 and that is, as you say, probably a be obsolete. I remember somebody talking about the test suite at one of the more recent ConTeXt meetings (2011/2012) - anyone with more info on that project? I think it'd help Keith (and many others, me included) to see what can be done. If you do not want to splurge in the books, the revised chapters on typography, fonts and pagedesign are recommended reading and pretty well up-to-date. They are linked to the main page of the garden, but these take you directly to the pdfs: http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography.pdf http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-fonts.pdf http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-pagedesign.pdf Other than that, it'd be helpful to know what you are looking for: are interested in typography, doing layouts for you and others? Is automated workflow what you are looking for? Dealing with maths? XML? What about dealing with colour? Interactivity? I guess I've resigned to the fact that ConTeXt is so huge that I'll never know more than a fraction of it - so I operate on a need-to-know basis. I learn something either because I'm certain it can be done or because I've seen it at a ConTeXt meeting or heard about it (a remark by Hans is to be blamed for my recent MetaPosting excursions). A slightly off-topic thought: there are hundreds of manuals on Microsoft Word. However, once you start going deeper into the program, it is not *that* easy to find a single good manual on the subject. With ConTeXt it is the other way round, finding 'for Dummies' information is hard, but once you want to dive deep, the developers are on this list to answer questions. Just my five cents on the subject, Mari (who still remembers what things were like before the wiki. this is much better.) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] arranging vs. \page[last]
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote: What would you suggest to put something onto the last (i.e. back) page? The wiki has a trick, but I think it stopped working at some stage - maybe somebody can fix it (if it is broken): http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Imposition#Getting_the_last_page_of_a_Booklet (Obviously we aren't the only ones with this problem...) Mari ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] External figures from other folders
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com wrote:
\setupexternalfigures
[directory=images]
The images can also be elsewhere than in a subdirectory:
\setupexternalfigures[directory=../graphics]
You can also tell ConTeXt to look into multiple directories:
\setupexternalfigures[directory={images,drawings}]
The above can of course be combined as needed, one of my recent
ConTeXt files has
\setupexternalfigures[directory={../Classic,../Celtic}]
One more trick: ConTeXt will first look for a pic in current
directory, then proceed to check out the others defined by
\setupexternalfigures.
When I worked with a master file and its translations where some
figures had translated text and others didn't, I dumped the translated
pics in the same directory with my translated tex file, while all the
untouched graphics could be found at the root. So when I compiled e.g.
the Swedish tex file, it would first look for graphics in its own
directory 'swedish', and only if a graphic could not be found, it
followed the paths set by \setupexternalfigures. That is, ConTeXt
doesn't get confused by having several graphics with the same name in
the same tree because it stops looking after the first hit.
I figured this out almost by accident and it turned out to be one of
the smartest workflow choices I've made during my 10 years of
ConTeXting. I could swear I've seen the info on a wiki page, but can't
find that now... Anyway, this is always useful to check out, it
contains a few more nifty trick:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupexternalfigures
Mari
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