Dear all,
I am trying to us \useURL and \from with mixed success to access a
local file so that it will be
opened by a helper program. Both the program and the file to be
opened by it
reside in my local file system. Here is a small example:
\setupcolors[state=start]
\setupinteraction
I don't know either what the goal is, when I want to place a figure
left to the text
I use \startfiguretext etc.
Matthias
On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
--- On Mar 21, David Arnold wrote ---
All,
Both this:
%output=pdf
\starttext
We use the notation $(2,4)$ to
This will work. I have also tons of \eqalign groups, some of them
nested, and all
seems fine now.
Matthias
On Feb 4, 2006, at 11:08 PM, David Arnold wrote:
Taco, Hans, et al,
I'm hesitant to upgrade as I have several hundred eqalign groups in
my work. Can you tell me if this now works in
After downloading the release from yesterday,
simple \eqalign's seem to work, but I run into problems with
\starttext
\placeformula[-]
\startformula
\eqalign{
c:[-1,1] \to R^2
\cr
t\mapsto
\left\{
\eqalign{
-(t^2,0) \qquad\text{if $t\in[-1,0]$}
\cr
(0,t^2) \qquad\text{if $t\in[0,1]$}
}
\right.
}
As afollow-up, I tried moving the font files some place else.
I first hat the font directory in
~/Library/texmf/
and then put them into
~/Library/texmf//texmf/
where they are apparently found, this time the log file says the font
metrics can't be found.
See below. Do I have to generate
Can you expand? Doesn't it TeX, open, crash?
I don't think it runs on Linux yet, but OS X and Windows should be
supported.
Matthias
On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:27 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
The files I played around with
http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib
Using the iinstaller CoNtExt version of today which contains the
newest (?)
core-mat.tex with the fixed \eqalign,
I still run into a problem with a standard \eqalign like
\starttext
\placeformula[-]
\startformula
\eqalign{
c:[0,2\pi] \to R^2
\cr
t \mapsto (a\cos(t), b\sin(t))
}
\stopformula
/base/greek/genagr.enc}
Error: pdfetex (file GentiumAlt.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file
for readin
g
== Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!
return code : 65280
On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
As afollow-up, I tried
On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
Can you expand? Doesn't it TeX, open, crash?
well, i compiled my last latex doc somewhere in the mid 90's so i just
took the pdf;
(1) one instance stalled and made quicktime (latest version) segfault
(2) another instance
Great, this works now!
That was definitely the easiest fix of the day.
Thanks a lot.
Matthias
On Jan 31, 2006, at 12:54 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Matthias Weber wrote:
(see the transcript file for additional information){/Users/
matthias/Library/te
xmf
On Jan 30, 2006, at 7:02 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
Hello,
is there support for .u3d files in ConTeXt available or planned? This
would take advantage of Acrobat 7 support
for these 3D data files. There is a LaTeX package (http://
www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex
, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
I can say that it does work, even on a Mac, I tried a LaTeX example.
I don't know whether it works via a plug-in
or is coded directly in Acrobat, I only know it works with Acrobat 7
without installing anything else.
then it's probably
Hello,
I'd like to include a short quote in classical greek with all
diacritics in a ConTeXt document
which is otherwise plain english. What is a good way of doing this?
Do I need to change the encoding?
Thanks,
Matthias
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Matthias
On Jan 29, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:
Matthias—
I would recommend using Thomas Schmitz’ Greek module (http://
modules.contextgarden.net/t-greek). It works very well for me.
Alan
On Jan 29, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Matthias Weber wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to include a short quote
Hello,
is there support for .u3d files in ConTeXt available or planned? This
would take advantage of Acrobat 7 support
for these 3D data files. There is a LaTeX package (http://
www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/movie15/)
that does that, and it even works on my Mac.
Thanks,
When I read emails from Hans like this one, I get very suspicious
that he has
a time machine to go backward a few months in time and add a feature
so that it is already
there when it is being requested ---
Matthias
On Oct 24, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Hans Hagen Test wrote:
Randall Skelton wrote:
looking at the console to see what's happening but don't know what
to I should check
My s-pre files are in /sw/share/texmf/tex/context/base
I was looking forward to make my presentations... :-(
Thanks!
-a-
On 4 Aug 2005, at 22:32, Matthias Weber wrote:
I have the same setup (TeX installation via
Hi Jessica et al too,
I can only support what Upendran wrote. A while ago I asked about
presentation styles on this list,
and got the hints to look at the source of them. You do not even to
write your own style in the beginning,
you can just overwrite the definitions to change the settings.
I
It does work here. Make sure that your file begins like
\usemodule[s-pre-22]
\starttext
\TitlePage{Indeed}{The Title Page}
\StartSummary{Alpha}{Title}
A simple and not too long text just to show the topic.
A simple and not too long text just to show the topic.
A simple and not too long
In presentations, when the answer for a question always appears on the
next page,
and the next question appears two pages further down?
Matthias
On Jul 28, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Elena Fraboschi wrote:
Dear All:
This is like going to school: every evening I study a very narrow
topic in ConTeXt,
You can comment out the line
\doifnotmode{demo}{\endinput}
There is probably also an invocation of TeX with a command line option
which sets the mode.
Matthias
On Jul 19, 2005, at 7:36 PM, David Wooten wrote:
Hmm, I'm not sure how to try out this 'preliminary module' --- looks
like there
Hi Stuart,
I think what you get when you type ~ depends on the font you use. For
instance, you can try
the plain TeX character access in Palatino:
\usetypescript [adobekb] [ec]
\loadmapfile [context-base]
\usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt]
Hello,
if I'm not mistaken as usual,
the number=no option of \ defineenumeration is broken in ConTeXt ver:
2005.06.08 fmt: 2005.6.13:
\mainlanguage [en]
\defineenumeration
[test]
[text=Test,
number=no,
location=hanging]
\starttext
\starttest
What's that?
\stoptext
produces
Thanks Taco,
this works fine.
Matthias
On Jun 13, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi,
There is a missing \noexpand in core-des.tex. Attached is a
fixed version of the affected macro.
Taco
Matthias Weber wrote:
Hello,
if I'm not mistaken as usual,
the number=no option
Try for instance
\placefigure
[] % 1st [] argument is for placing options like: here, force
[anapler] % 2nd [] argument is the label
{caption} %1st {} argument is caption
{\externalfigure[path-tofigurefile][width=3in]}
Then
\in{Abb.}[anapler]
will (hopefully) work.
Matthias
On Apr 29, 2005, at
Hello,
when using modes, the names of all used modes are printed on the first
page
of the document like
[screen]
[print]
etc.
What's the purpose, and how can I get rid of this?
I could see this being useful if the disabled modes were stricken out.
Thanks,
Matthias
Matthias Weber wrote:
Hello,
when using modes, the names of all used modes are printed on the
first page
of the document like
[screen]
[print]
etc.
What's the purpose, and how can I get rid of this?
I could see this being useful if the disabled modes were stricken out.
Thanks,
Matthias
it is not possible to
give you a meaningful answer if there is no detailed information.
Could you provide a minimal example which is producing the mentioned
bahviour?
Willi
Matthias Weber wrote:
Hello,
when using modes, the names of all used modes are printed on the
first page
of the document like
[screen
Use
\pagereference[name] or \textreference[name]{text}
to place a label, and \at{page}[name] to refer to the page number.
Details are in core-ref.tex
Matthias
On Apr 13, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
I have tried figuring out how to define a reference point at any given
location in a
\starttext
\startcombination[2]
\framed{here}{}
\framed{there}{}
\stopcombination
\stoptext
Matthias
On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hello Thomas,
there is a working example of startcombination in
http://texshow.contextgarden.net/cmd=placefloat.
Patrick
--
ConTeXt wiki:
I have no time right now to check what server you are running,
but I had this type of problem on my Suse/Apache server with some
MS/Acrobat combinations.
It works well with Linux/OS-X.
I had to change the mime settings of pdf files to xpdf for Apache
to make things work.
Matthias
On Mar 30,
x-pdf should work fine. I am still clueless about this problem, too.
In my class of 30, only some Windows users had exactly this problem.
I could never reproduce it on our Campus machines, and never on a Mac
either.
I only know that changing the mime type has fixed it since. Maybe Hans
or
When using metapost (like when doing backgrounds), the directory in
which my
project file resides is being littered by a few dozed files all named
...-mpgraph.
Is there a way to have these files written in some directory ./junk so
that I can keep my working directory
tidy?
Thanks,
The following should work with the stable ConTeXt from January:
\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[pos]
\usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[times,12pt]
\starttext
\input knuth
\bigskip
\stoptext
If not, please post the error message together with version
The best I can get is
\starttext
\useexternalfigure[myfigure][filename][width=1in]
\placetable[here][tab:2figures]{none}
\starttable[|c|c|]
\NC
\placefigure[here]{My Caption 1}{\externalfigure[myfigure]}
\NC
\placefigure[here]{My Caption 1}{\externalfigure[myfigure]}
\NC
\FR
\stoptable
\stoptext
Sunday, 20 Mar 2005, Matthias Weber wrote:
The following should work with the stable ConTeXt from January:
\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[pos]
\usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[times,12pt]
\starttext
\input knuth
\bigskip
\stoptext
If not, please post
On Mar 17, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Adam Lindsay wrote:
Seeing this thread, I wonder now if there's any more interest in
helping ship a cont-sys.tex and a texexec.ini (before it goes away)
that is tuned to gwTeX?
adam
On 16 Mar 2005, at 19:08, Matthias Weber wrote:
Patrick tracked this down do
Hello,
I recently reported a performance degrading on with gwTeX/ConTeXt under
MacOS X
after upgrading to the most recent gwTeX. I upgraded two other machines
and did some further
tests. For each run, I renamed the TeX source file, and performed 3
runs:
i) old TeX
ii) new TeX, 1st run
iii) new
Hi Patrick,
thanks for looking into this.
Log file follows,
\setupencoding[default=ec] has no effect.
Matthias
TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
executable : pdfetex
format : cont-en
inputfile : Untitled-2
output : pdftex
My cont-sys.rme is in
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme
and has the two lines you mention (I attach the file below, it looks
kind of old (1995).
Also, if I add
\loadmapfile[ec-base.map]
nothing changes ---
I tried to locate ec-base.map, but couldn't find it. Is
[...]
kpsewhich ec-base.map
returns
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ec-base.map
and there it is indeed -- I had used locate beforfe.
I am using Gerben's TeX installation via iinstaller, without any own
changes.
Matthias
On Mar 16, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Patrick Gundlach
Hi,
I replaced my cont-sys.rme with the one at
www.pragma-ade.com/system/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme
Everything appears to be ok now -- the difference between the two files
seems to be the following if-statement in the OLD file:
\donefalse \ifx\pdftexversion\undefined \else
Hello,
could those of you who use Gerben's TeX installation under OS X check
whether
the following file produces nice postscript Palatino or ugly bitmap
Palatino?
%% testing-fonts.tex
\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[pos]
\usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding]
On Mar 16, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Willi Egger wrote:
Hi Mathias,
your example runs smoothly here, using:
pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2
ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.26 fmt: 2005.1.26
Thanks for looking at this, but :)
pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
ConTeXt ver:
Relative paths work fine for me as long as they point to subdirectories.
However, I could never get something like ../figures to work on Mac Os
X,
but that might be my ignorance.
Matthias
but I might be wrong
On Mar 11, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
On 11 Mar 2005, at 18:02, Henning
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Adam Lindsay wrote:
Matthias Weber said this at Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:13:50 -0500:
Old version:
ConTeXt ver: 2004.11.23 fmt: 2004.12.16
TeXExec 5.2.3
total run time : 324 seconds
New version:
ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.02 fmt: 2005.3.4
total run time : 416 seconds
And I
On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
Hello,
after the recent discussion of ConTeXt processing (some) files 4
times as often under OS X
than elsewhere, I decided to upgrade to the most recent beta and run
a speed comparison
on notes I am writing. To my dismay, here
Hello,
when using text background colors in enumerations, I run into a problem
whenever the enumeration appears on the beginning of a page: Then,
the background extends over some part (sometimes all) of the previous
page.
I can manually correct this by putting a \break just before the
Thanks, Hans, this fixes it most of the time. But the problem still
occurs with one new line
less. (Example again at the bottom) :(
Matthias
On Jan 10, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
[before={\starttextbackground[exbackground]},
try:
[before={\testpage[2
Thanks, that brings it down to two problematic cases in a 400 page
document,
and I can live with that.
Matthias
On Jan 10, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
Thanks, Hans, this fixes it most of the time. But the problem still
occurs with one new line
less. (Example
I am afraid your question is to vague to be answerable.
Hence here are two pieces of information that might or might not be
useful:
i) Mathematica 5.1 can convert TeX to MathML, at least
to some extent. So it should at least in principle be possible to
convert carefully crafted TeX files to
They are in your ConTeXt distribution, ready to use, overload, modify.
They are called s-pre-01.tex etc and reside in my TeX-tree at
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/
I hope that was what you asked for?
Matthias
On Dec 11, 2004, at 2:32 PM, VnPenguin wrote:
Hi all,
Anyone could
Put a blank line between your \definitions helps here.
Matthias
On Nov 28, 2004, at 1:00 PM, Dirar BOUGATEF wrote:
Hi Patrick,
cont-eni.pdf chapter 10.2
texexec --version
TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
texexec : TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
Hello all,
'upgrading' to the 2004 TeXLive distribution (via GW's i-Installer)
broke the following (which is
a distilled version of a much larger file)
\startproject test
\startbodymatter
\section{Why is $1+1=2$?}
Let us first discuss {\em addition\index{addition}}.
\stopbodymatter
and
configure ConTeXt again.
Matthias
On Nov 22, 2004, at 5:15 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
Hello all,
'upgrading' to the 2004 TeXLive distribution (via GW's i-Installer)
broke the following (which is
you mean that it loops ...
\def\doplaceregister[#1][#2]%
{\iffirstargument
Hello all,
I might be the only one, but I wanted the index before the
bibliography, so
my backmatter looks like:
\startbackmatter
\completeindex
\completepublications
\stopbackmatter
which results in the log (excerpt)
title : - \headtext {pubs}
(./cxmf.tuo)
system : pubs not
\startformula
\relax
[\partial,B] =0.
\stopformula
\stoptext
Matthias
On Nov 17, 2004, at 5:35 AM, Otared Kavian wrote:
At 15:29 -0500 16/11/04, Matthias Weber wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to typeset
[\partial,B]=0
Hi Matthias,
Despite Hans' suggestion of putting \relax in front of [, in my
installation
Hello,
I'd like to typeset
[\partial,B]=0
but
\starttext
\placeformula
\startformula
0= [ A ,B ] = 0
\stopformula
gives just =0
(see below)
while
\stoptext
\starttext
\placeformula
\startformula
0= [ A ,B ]
\stopformula
\stoptext
works. What is the meaning of [ at the beginning of a formula,
Thanks!
Matthias
On Nov 16, 2004, at 4:26 PM, h h extern wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to typeset
[\partial,B]=0
but
\starttext
\placeformula
\startformula
0= [ A ,B ] = 0
\stopformula
gives just =0
(see below)
while
\stoptext
\starttext
\placeformula
\startformula
0= [ A ,B
Put your text between \startproduct ... \stopproduct
Matthias
On Nov 4, 2004, at 12:07 PM, David Arnold wrote:
All,
Can anyone tell me why I am not getting any color (red and yellow)?
\startuseMPgraphic{layout 1}
pickup pencircle scaled 1mm;
fill unitsquare xyscaled (7cm,8cm) withcolor 0.85white;
On Nov 4, 2004, at 1:07 PM, David Arnold wrote:
All,
This file:
\setupoutput[pdf]
\startreusableMPgraphic{layout 1}
pickup pencircle scaled 1mm;
fill unitsquare xyscaled (7cm,8cm) withcolor 0.85white;
fill unitsquare xyscaled (5cm,5cm) shifted (1cm,1.5cm) withcolor
0.625yellow;
fill unitsquare
I had the same problem. Here is my (possibly incorrect) interpretation, and how to fix it:
You have updated to the most recent context without updating texexec (and pssoibly related packages). To do so,
uninstall your entire TeX tree (grin) by either doing this in i-Installerm or by removing the
\def\vec#1{{\bf #1}}
Matthias
On Oct 31, 2004, at 2:49 PM, David Arnold wrote:
All,
This is fine.
\starttext
\startformula
\left(\matrix{y_1\cr y_2\cr \vdots\cr y_n}\right)=
\left(\matrix{x_1^2\cr x_2^2\cr \vdots\cr x_n^2}\right)
-2\left(\matrix{x_1\cr x_2\cr \vdots\cr x_n}\right)
) the green style blue
and with smaller buttons,
are there setups for this? If yes, do I learn about these by looking at
the source, or, if no,
do I copy the source and try my best to mess around with it?
Matthias
On Oct 7, 2004, at 2:29 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Matthias Weber wrote:
Hello,
I was trying
Hello,
I was trying to use \startfiguretext to place a second graphics within
the figuretext. This makes the main graphics disappear:
\starttext
\startfiguretext
[left]
{none}
{\externalfigure[graph1][width=2.8in]}
text text more text
\placefigure
[here]
{none}
Matthias
On Sep 29, 2004, at 3:07 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 29.09.2004 um 20:53 schrieb Matthias Weber:
I need to typeset a few (simple) diagrams in ConTeXt,
like the ones mathematicians use, with arrows. In LaTeX, one can use
pictex or DCpic. The latter claims also to work with ConTeXt, but I
This is not exactly an answer to your question, but it might
solve your problem.
You can use overlays with any figure, see cont-eni.pdf page 150ff.
The mechanism is not so much the tex-engine TeX but one of the many
little
add-ons that come with ConText and exploit features of PDF.
In
Thanks to everybody for looking into this,
the solution to the riddle was that I has actually
\setupbibtex[database = minbib, sort = author]
with extra blanks. After removing them, things work.
Beginner's problems...
Matthias
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Hello,
my little project has made good progress, and I must say that reading
the mailings
in this list have become one of the more pleasurable parts of the time
I spend in front of the computer. Thanks!
I have reached the stage that I would like to include citations into my
book,
and I found
Hello Gerben,
I am a beginner myself, and working on a book project too. Below I send
you my complete directory setup with sample files. I am happy with the
set-up and
it might also be useful for you.
Matthias
Directory structure:
sas.tex % main project file
layout.tex % main layout file
On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 08:09 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
Start i-Installer, open the ConTeXt updater i-Package from Known
Packages. Hit configure.
Thanks!!!
You made my day - all problems have disappeared.
Now off to rounded corners ...
Matthias
On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 04:44 PM, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
Gerben, that would be wonderful. I always shy away from upgrading
because it might break things and takes time. If your i-installer does
the job, that would be a major advance. So please, go for it!
Thomas
I can only agree -
Hello again, this is presumably only for the the Mac people on the list.
Below is what I tried to update Gerden's i-installed teTex with the most
recent context:
(I remove all directories that occur in the context distribution, and
then copy them. There is most likely a one liner for all of
Hi,
I am new to context, migrating from latex for the purpose of writing an
online book. I would like to set up a few definitions in the
environment file
that would replace latex's \begin{definition} ... \end{definition}
environments. I realize that this can be done conveniently with
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