Ciro A. Soto wrote:
I have a pdf file with 660 letter-size pages.
I would like to save toner in my printer by
printing 2 or 4 pages in one single sheet of paper.
Is it possible to do this with context?
or any other alternative?
Remember, I don't have the source file, only the pdf
file.
Dear font experts!
For some weeks I try very hard to generate minimal PDF documents using
the PDF base 14 fonts. Now the following problem popped up:
The Helvitica, Times, and Courier fonts have 8a as their default
encoding. Unfortunately, the 8a encoding is somewhat incomplete because
it
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
I want to use a custom font encoding (in my case, enco-agr for ancient
Greek). I can't set it up for the entire document because it breaks,
e.g., the output of accented letters. But when I try to use it for
certain parts of the document only, it will insert a line break
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
Thanks Hans, but it's primarily edmac that I'm interested in, not
arabtex. Could the edmac macros just be part of a Context module?
not so much edmac, but similar functionality; as idris suggests: just provide a
request for functionality + examples; think about what you
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
Sorry, hit the send button by accident.
OK, I feel guilty resurrecting this stale thread, but I can't resist
asking again.
I found this in m-arabtex.tex:
%\pushmacro\edmacloaded \let \edmacloaded \undefined
and later
%\popmacro\edmacloaded
Both lines are
Vit Zyka wrote:
But I get error: !Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts.
Where is the problem?
it means that your font is not a proper math font, taco may know how to deal
with this
? - \starttypescript [*] [fallback] is generaly useful. Is a good idea
replaced by a (faster) setup)
to
Johannes Werner wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
Johannes Werner wrote:
hi everyone,
i want to use PPCHTEX. when i process my .tex-file with texexec i get
the message:
.
specials : fdf loaded
)
specials : fdf,tpd loaded
\openout6 = `chemie-mpgraph.mp'.
Randomizer initialized to
Gerben Wierda wrote:
I just installed the latest LM fonts from TL Master on top of a teTeX
3.0 + recent ConTeXt and tried to re-run my project. This fails. I
reinstalled the old LM and it works, Is this known?
ah .. that's because you're a developer; latin modern now ships with ec-lm*
instead
ishamid wrote:
I must be making this way too complicated, anyway...
I placed C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\bin ahead of TeXLive in my NT PATH (Windows
2000) so those binaries get called first. I tried to make the aleph format:
===
luigi.scarso wrote:
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
I have a pdf file with 660 letter-size pages.
I would like to save toner in my printer by
printing 2 or 4 pages in one single sheet of paper.
Is it possible to do this with context?
or any other alternative?
Remember, I don't have the source file, only the
Hi,
[module t-utfgre.tex]
So what about that CTAN directory? Would be a good idea, right?
What about a section modules on contextgarden.net that can serve as
a place for downloading third party modules as well as syncing with
CTAN?
Patrick
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I think something link
texexec --pdfarra --noduplex --paper=A5A4 --print=2SIDE yourdocument.pdf
should work. There is more information about in the the manual for texexec
www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexexec.pdf
Wolfgang
luigi.scarso schrieb:
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
I have a pdf file with
Gerben Wierda wrote:
I just installed the latest LM fonts from TL Master on top of a teTeX
3.0 + recent ConTeXt and tried to re-run my project. This fails. I
reinstalled the old LM and it works, Is this known?
ah .. that's because you're a developer; latin modern now ships with
ec-lm*
Excellent suggestion, will get in touch with you off-list!
Best
Thomas
On Mar 16, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hi,
[module t-utfgre.tex]
So what about that CTAN directory? Would be a good idea, right?
What about a section modules on contextgarden.net that can serve as
a place for
Thank you. This should work.
Ciro
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luigi.scarso wrote:
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
I have a pdf file with 660 letter-size pages.
I would like to save toner in my printer by
printing 2 or 4 pages in one single sheet of
paper.
Is it possible to do this
Sorry ciro, but i like write tex code.
save following code as test.tex
%%
%% save it as test.tex
%%
\setupcolors[state=start]
\starttext
\dorecurse{660}%
{\startTEXpage[width=3cm,height=2cm]
\vbox to \vsize{\vss
\hbox
to\hsize{\hss\framed[width=2cm,align={middle,lohi},background=""
= Original Message From Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
===
C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\web2caleph --ini *plain \dump
This is Alephk, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) (INIALEPH)
%-line parsing enabled.
this is a plain tex
[I know that all of us and Hans in particular is quite busy but if anyone can
give me some guidance on this, before I get into trouble with my editor...]
Dear consortium,
I'm having trouble preparing times new roman for ConTeXt. I'm trying to follow
the instructions in mag-0009.pdf, but TeXfont
I do not know much about the font installation process, but I did
notice that your TeXFont banner indicates that you use a really old
version. My TeXFont says:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] TED]$ texfont --help
TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004
--fontroot=path : texmf destination
A few comments/hints:
On 16 Mar 2005, at 14:40, ishamid wrote:
TeXFont 1.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2001 (STILL BETA)
The TeXfont I'm running is 2.2.1! (I know I added a little bit of .ttf
processing code after 2.1)
I tried things manually without the --pattern option and got a
Hi,
your file works fine here. Can you post your log file?
Or try \setupencoding[default=ec]. But this shouldn't make any
differences.
Patrick
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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
= Original Message From Adam Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
A few comments/hints:
Thank you!
On 16 Mar 2005, at 14:40, ishamid wrote:
TeXFont 1.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2001 (STILL BETA)
The TeXfont I'm running is 2.2.1! (I know I added a little bit of .ttf
processing code after
= Original Message From Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
I do not know much about the font installation process, but I did
notice that your TeXFont banner indicates that you use a really old
version.
Ok, I've worked around this (still having upgrade troubles...) but there is
still a
Hi,
ok, you are already using ec encoding as default,
\setupencoding[default=ec] has of course no effect then.
[...]
pxex.pfb
rpxmi.pfb
uplr8a.pfb
pxsy.pfb
rpxr.pfb
uplri8a.pfb
These look ok.
/var/tmp/texfonts/pk/modeless/adobe/palatino/pplr
8r.86pk
There it is. There must be
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
Matthias Weber wrote:
/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-public- lm.map}
Warning: pdfetex (file ec-urw-courier.map): cannot open font map file
Warning: pdfetex (file ec-urw-helvetica.map): cannot open font map file
Warning: pdfetex (file ec-urw-times.map): cannot open font
[...]
I tried to locate ec-base.map, but couldn't find it. Is this a regular
file somewhere in the TeX tree?
It should be in texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ec-base.map
ConTeXt ships this file. kpsewhich ec-base.map does not give you any
result?
What distribution are you using?
Patrick
Hello,
in order to get correct output of pdfinfo, I need to redefine
\doprepareidentity :
\let\doprepareidentity\relax % try with and without this line
\setupoutput[pdf]
\enableregime[il1]
\setupinteraction[state=start,author=ä,title=ä,subtitle=ä,keyword=ä]
\starttext
test
\stoptext
Cheers,
Gerben Wierda wrote:
So, the conclusion is that I canot use/redistribute the new LM? And
you can because my guess is that not so many people use them yet
also, the lm fonts now come with open type variants, which is good for the mac
(since xetex needs them and user should test that); keep in mind
[...]
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
Just a shot in the dark: I've been using texfont a lot these last weeks
and have experienced that it will give you the error message no afm
files found when, in fact, the error is somewhere else (in my case,
there was a typo in the encoding used). I would suggest you run texfont
on one font
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
= Original Message From Adam Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
I hope you can translate from unix-like pseudo-commands into DOS:
make a new, clean temp directory.
copy times*.ttf into that directory.
from that directory, run:
texfont --ma --in --ve=microsoft --co=timesnewroman --show
What
= Original Message From Thomas A.Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moreover, are you sure that your system is finding texnansi.enc?
What does
kpsewhich texnansi.enc
produce?
Ok I realize that my texfont problems are almost certainly related to my
upgrade problems:
a. From C:\TeXLive (old
Hello Matthias,
Everything appears to be ok now --
Good News! Now I can go out and celebrate St. Patrick's Day tomorrow
:-))
So I guess this file should have been updated but wasn't for some
reason.
Perhaps other GWTEX users should check that as well?
Patrick
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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]
Just installed the new beta. Now every run of texexec dies with lots of
messages like this:
kpathsea: Running mktexmf ec-lmcsc10
! I can't find file `ec-lmcsc10'.
* ...four; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
* ...four; mag:=1;
= Original Message From Thomas A.Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=
hmm, I have zero experience with Windows and wouldn't get near a
computer running Windows if you payed me for it,
I certainly agree with this sentiment, and will make yet another attempt to
switch to Linux this year; kde3.4 is
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
1. Which version of ContTeXt do you run? A new version requires the
map-files to be placed in ...\fonts\map.
2. Niew versions of pdftex do nomore use
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:
Hi all,
I used \digits and this is the result:
=
! Missing $ inserted.
inserted text
$
to be read again
_
\next ...savedigit \collecteddigits @\else \if #1_
\savedigit
\collecteddigit...
\doCurrency
Hi!
I have problems creating a multi-line caption for a floating table.
If the caption is too long it will extend the text width. The following
example shows this problem on http://live.contextgarden.net/.
I was able to find out, that this problem only appears if one of the
variables width or
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:03:50AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
Paul Tremblay wrote:
I've noticed that hypenation is not working in my test ConTeXt
documents. I have looked repeatedly at the manual and searched the wiki.
It seems that hyphenations should be automatic?
I am testing simple files
Greetings,
After a number of attempts (somewhat indistinguishable in my memory at
this point) I've been able to run ConTeXt with XeTeX support (if that's
the right nomenclature;). It works! But I do receive this error
message:
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Dear gang,
How do I automate initialization of the separate context tree (from
mswintex.zip)? A simple batch file such as
setuptex c:\context
texexec foo
does not work; the batch file always turns itself off
Dear knights of the round table,
I've been using a very old bib module up to now, with lots of personal tweaks,
workarounds etc. (mission-critical issues--no time 2 deal with painful
upgrades); now I'm starting fresh with the latest. Here is one issue:
The \startpublication[a= ] option seems
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
I tried Hans' approach. It works fine, but
My approach shows a (my) way to manipulate pages
from a source pdf; Hans gives you the exact solutions for your problem.
I hope you have found both useful.
somehow the pdf file with the 2*2 pages
is corrupted since it does not print
Paul Tremblay wrote:
I've noticed that hypenation is not working in my test ConTeXt
documents. I have looked repeatedly at the manual and searched the wiki.
It seems that hyphenations should be automatic?
I am testing simple files with the language as English. Does one have to
turn hyphenation on?
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