Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
Am Freitag, den 04.11.2005, 15:49 +0100 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: What do you do with ConTeXT? Two years ago -- I switched from LaTeX to ConTeXt. I typeset examinations and test for my wife's students at school. For that task I wrote based on exam.cls (LaTeX) a ConTexT-modul. All private und business letters are typeset with my special DIN-Brief-Modul, based on akletter.cls (LaTeX) and DIN-letter (ConTeXt) from Holger Schöner. I typeset different articles for my father. I typeset a book (350 page) with lots of tables, german and many czech words my next project is a book about my family from 1600 to now. Bernd - Bernd Militzer Dipl. oec. Dipl.-Hdl. OStR a.D. Hubertusstr. 34 47906 Kempen ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] maximum of \externalfigure in MP
andrea valle wrote: If I comment out some of the lines requesting \externalfigure, (remaining) pdfs are again displayed. No such luck here, I get empty rectangles whatever I comment out (randomly). I you can produce a file for me that *does* work, perhaps I can look for differences. Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Debian Installation (was: [NTG-context] cont 2005.10.27 t5-lmtt10 font problem)
Hi guys, A request for action: I've split off the Debian instructions from the generic teTeX 3.0 installation page to avoid the confusion that was (apparently) created by the intermixed comments. While doing that, it became obvious that there are severe holes in those instructions. Someone with Debian knowledge really should fix the page ... http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Debian_installion Cheers, Taco Tobias Wolf wrote: This package was installed on my teTeX system. Do you also use the lmodern Debian package from unstable? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] maximum of \externalfigure in MP
(Thanks Taco) Could you try with this? www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi3-.tex It's the same file but I commented out a part of the section dedicated to importing and drawing little notes attached to arrowlines between music fragments. Everything not commented is now displayed: on my machine it seems to be deterministic. -a- PS. I'm on macosx 10.3.9 using context via texshop On 7 Nov 2005, at 09:24, Taco Hoekwater wrote: andrea valle wrote: If I comment out some of the lines requesting \externalfigure, (remaining) pdfs are again displayed. No such luck here, I get empty rectangles whatever I comment out (randomly). I you can produce a file for me that *does* work, perhaps I can look for differences. Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] ConTeXt update for teTeX
Just a small helper script: http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/updateConTeXt.sh Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] maximum of \externalfigure in MP
andrea valle wrote:
It's the same file but I commented out a part of the section dedicated
to importing and drawing little notes attached to arrowlines between
music fragments.
Everything not commented is now displayed: on my machine it seems to be
deterministic.
Ok, got it. There is a bug in mp-spec.mp (inside metafun). Because
of a wrapping number, it fails to recognize the fact that there are
embedded specials at all. Attached is an updated version of
mp-spec.mp.
The corrected definition of add_special_signal is:
vardef add_special_signal = % write the version number
if (length _global_specials_0) or (length _local_specials_ 0) :
special (%%MetaPostSpecials: 1.0 decimal _special_signal_ ) ;
fi ;
enddef ;
It now tests for not equal to zero instead of larger than zero:
because of all the included files, the string _local_specials_ becomes
longer than the maximum number 'length' can return, so it returns
-32768 instead, and that is of course less than zero.
Don't forget that you have to re-create the metafun format as well!
Cheers, Taco
%D \module
%D [ file=mp-spec.mp,
%Dversion=1999.6.26,
%D title=\CONTEXT\ \METAPOST\ graphics,
%D subtitle=special extensions,
%D author=Hans Hagen,
%D date=\currentdate,
%D copyright={PRAGMA / Hans Hagen \ Ton Otten}]
%C
%C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is
%C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See licen-en.pdf for
%C details.
% Spot colors are not handled by mptopdf !
% (r,g,b) = cmyk : r=123 g= 1 b=hash
% = spot : r=123 g= 2 b=hash
% = transparent rgb : r=123 g= 3 b=hash
% = transparent cmyk : r=123 g= 4 b=hash
% = transparent spot : r=123 g= 5 b=hash
% = rest : r=123 g=n10 b=whatever
%D This module is rather preliminary and subjected to
%D changes. Here we closely cooperates with the \METAPOST\
%D to \PDF\ converter module built in \CONTEXT\ and provides
%D for instance shading. More information can be found in
%D type {supp-mpe.tex}.
if unknown context_tool :input mp-tool ; fi ;
if known context_spec : endinput ; fi ;
boolean context_spec ; context_spec := true ;
numeric _special_counter_ ; _special_counter_ := 0 ;
numeric _color_counter_ ; _color_counter_ := 11 ; % 10 reserved
numeric _special_signal_ ; _special_signal_ := 123 ;
%D When set to \type {true}, shading will be supported. Some
%D day I will also write an additional directive.
boolean _inline_specials_ ; _inline_specials_ := false ;
%D Because we want to output only those specials that are
%D actually used in a figure, we need a bit complicated
%D bookkeeping and collection of specials. At the cost of some
%D obscurity, we now have rather efficient resources.
string _global_specials_ ; _global_specials_ := ;
string _local_specials_ ; _local_specials_ := ;
vardef add_special_signal = % write the version number
if (length _global_specials_0) or (length _local_specials_ 0) :
special (%%MetaPostSpecials: 1.0 decimal _special_signal_ ) ;
fi ;
enddef ;
vardef add_extra_specials =
scantokens _global_specials_ ;
scantokens _local_specials_ ;
enddef ;
vardef reset_extra_specials =
% only local ones
_local_specials_ := ;
enddef ;
boolean insidefigure ; insidefigure := false ;
% todo: alleen als special gebruikt flush
extra_beginfig :=
insidefigure := true ;
reset_extra_specials ;
extra_beginfig ;
extra_endfig :=
add_special_signal ;
extra_endfig
add_extra_specials ;
reset_extra_specials ;
insidefigure := false ; ;
def set_extra_special (expr s) =
if insidefigure :
_local_specials_ := _local_specials_ s ;
else :
_global_specials_ := _global_specials_ s ;
fi
enddef ;
def flush_special (expr typ, siz, dat) =
_special_counter_ := _special_counter_ + 1 ;
if _inline_specials_ :
set_extra_special
( special
( ditto
dat
decimal _special_counter_
decimal typ
decimal siz
special
ditto ); ) ;
else :
set_extra_special
( special
( ditto
%%MetaPostSpecial:
decimal siz
dat
decimal _special_counter_
decimal typ
ditto ); ) ;
fi ;
enddef ;
%D The next hack is needed in case you use a version of
%D \METAPOST\ that does not provide you the means to configure
%D the buffer size. Patrick Gundlach suggested to use arrays
%D in this case.
boolean bufferhack ; bufferhack := false ; % true ;
if bufferhack :
string _global_specials_[] ; numeric _nof_global_specials_ ;
string _local_specials_[] ; numeric _nof_local_specials_ ;
_nof_global_specials_ := _nof_local_specials_ := 0 ;
vardef add_special_signal = % write the version number
if (_nof_global_specials_0) or (_nof_local_specials_0) :
special (%%MetaPostSpecials: 1.0 decimal
Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
After using LaTeX I use ConTeXt in my work environment (MS office based) for: - Letters, Quotes and Faxes - Reports (with floats and references) - Pricelists using perl based conversion of a database export But I must admit that I now increasingly use Apple Pages to write letters, faxes and the like as it just works faster (copy/paste graphic for example). For large documents ConTeXt stays the preferred option. What I miss is: - A layer on top of ConTeXt for common documents like Letters, Invoices, etc.. I had to build my own templates, which are not nearly as robust as the LaTeX classes I used before. - An IDE like LyX as it is easy to forget the macro's and getting in to a compile/error/correct cycle. Especially as the TeX error messages are not very clear to me. - A large user base. Regards, Frank On 04 Nov 2005, at 15:49, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question: What do you do with ConTeXT? We think it would be nice to see all the various ways in which people experience ConTeXt. We are not looking for articles, in fact we really want just a small amount of text per user, nothing longer then you would normally type in an email message. One, perhaps two paragraphs that simply tell about your personal experience using (or playing with) (or fighting with) (or yelling at) (or staring at in bewilderment) (or revelling in) (or running away from) ConTeXt. If you like this idea, just reply to this message. I will then collect and merge the responses, and finally put a pdf on-line somewhere. Don't be shy! Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] xml, context and hyphenation
Hello,
sory for the late reply but I checked it again and I created an example
document please look at:
http://www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~s0167070/env.pdf : now one word
Vollständigkeit ist
not hyphenated but übernehmen is hyphenated. As I process from a XML
file I can not do something like \hyphenation{Voll-stän-dig-keit}. What
can I do?
Thanks
Wolfgang
Hans Hagen schrieb:
Wolfgang Zillig wrote:
Hello,
I have problems with hyphenation when german ��� are in these words.
I'm processing xml files which are in unicode. The font encoding for
the pdf is EC (as I was told there are problems with OT1 encoded fonts).
normally ec enoding should work ok; the context log mentions what
patterns are loaded under which encodings.
Hans
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Re: [NTG-context] maximum of \externalfigure in MP
andrea valle wrote: Thanks a lot Taco, I'm very happy not to have wasted sunday on an obvious mistake of mine. At least I found a bug. You can think of finding your first conTeXt bug as a kind of initiation, you are now officially anm advanced user :-) I think I've located the file where to cut and paste the updated version (there so many ...tex postfixed files on my mac in different distribution, I don't know why. And two version of context. Who knows.). I'm not really the right person to answer this, being a linux user myself, but I can explain the general idea. There is a file named mp-spec.mp on your harddisk somewhere (and possibly more than one). That file is indirectly used for each metapost graphic in context, because it is one of the parts needed to create 'metafun.mem', that is then itself used by mpost while creating your graphic. You need to replace the mp-spec.mp file on your disc with the one from my e-mail message, then you have to re-generate the metafun.mem file (a user on unix would execute texexec --make metafun for that, while being root), and finally you have to re-compile your document with it's included graphic. I cannot give you the precise steps, sorry. I hope someone else can help you if my description is not adequate, esp. on how to decide which is the right mp-spec.mp , and how to re-create metafun.mem, making sure it ends up in the right place on your disk. Greetings, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] xml, context and hyphenation
Wolfgang Zillig wrote:
Hello,
when I add \hyphenation{Voll-stön-dig-keit} into my tex file I get the
following error:
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\xtag-utf.tex
loading : Context XML Macros (UTF-8)
)
! Not a letter.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@adiaeresis -\char 228
\utfunihashglyph ...r \utfdiv
{#1}}{#1}\endcsname
\fi
inserted text Voll-stä
n-dig-keit
\hyphenation ...malhyphenation {\the \scratchtoks
}\endgroup
l.118 \hyphenation{Voll-stän-dig-keit}
?
Any ideas?
Perhaps your input is latin1, only pretending to be utf-8.
In a latin-1 text editor, it should look like this:
\hyphenation{Voll-stän-dig-keit}
But this sort of stuff is tricky to get right in e-mail,
and I am just guessing. What I tried is attached, and that
worked for me.
Cheers, Taco
vols-utf.tex
Description: TeX document
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[NTG-context] [Fwd: [dev-context] custom page number format]
Original Message
Subject: [dev-context] custom page number format
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:50:15 -0600
From: Stuart Jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Guru Labs, L.C.
To: ConTeXt Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've scoured the list archive and the wiki trying to figure out how to
create an interactive table of contents that includes the chapter number
as part of the page number.
I'm looking for a solution that given something like:
=
\starttext
Table of Contents
\placelist[...] % full TOC
\chapter{One}
\placelist[...] % local TOC
\section{a}
\section{b}
\section{c}
\chapter{Two}
\placelist[...] % local TOC
\section{c}
\section{d}
\starttext
=
produces something like:
=
Table of Contents
One 1-1 Two 2-1
a 1-2 d 2-2
b 1-3 e 2-4
c 1-7
One% page 1-1
a 1-2
b 1-3
c 1-7
a% page 1-2
b% page 1-3
c% page 1-7
Two% page 2-1
d 2-2
e 2-4
d% page 2-2
e% page 2-4
=
I've found solutions to print the page number on individual pages using
the chapter-pagenumber format. I can get \placelist to produce the
format I want. It's easy to produce interactive lists using the
pre-defined formats. But I haven't been able to produce an interactive
custom formatted list. And at any rate, my solutions are kind of ugly
leading me to believe there's probably an easier way I've missed.
How should I be doing this?
--
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Guru Labs, L.C.
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Re: [NTG-context] xml, context and hyphenation
Hello Taco,
when I try to compile your example file:
\language[de]
\useencoding[utf]
\hyphenation{Voll-stän-dig-keit}
\starttext
\showhyphens{Vollständigkeit}
\stoptext
Then I get no output! The logfile is at the end of the message! It
complains about that the coding utf is unknown!
You are right, selecting the right encoding is not always easy. I'm
quite sure that my xml input is utf but I'm not always sure what scite
is doing whatever I select. Perhaps I should change the text editor.
Here the log file:
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded
format=cont-en 2005.10.23) 7 NOV 2005 18:44
entering extended mode
**vols-utf-1.tex
(vols-utf-1.tex
ConTeXt ver: 2005.08.31 fmt: 2005.10.23 int: english mes: english
language: language en is active
protectionstate 0
system : cont-new loaded
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex
systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex
color : palette rollover is available
)
system : cont-old loaded
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\cont-old.tex
loading : Context Old Macros
)
system : cont-fil loaded
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\cont-fil.tex
loading : Context File Synonyms
)
system : cont-sys.rme loaded
(C:\texmf\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-exa.tex)
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-syn.tex)
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-enc.tex)
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-dis.tex)
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-siz.tex)
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-map.tex)
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-spe.tex)
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\./type-akb.tex))
bodyfont: 12pt rm is loaded
language: patterns en-ec:ec-1-2:2 uk-ec:ec-2-2:2
de-texnansi:tex
nansi-3-2:2 de-ec:ec-4-2:2 fr-texnansi:texnansi-5-2:2
fr-ec:ec-6-2:2
es-ec:ec-7-2:2 pt-texnansi:texnansi-8-2:2 pt-ec:ec-9-2:2
it-texnansi
:texnansi-10-2:2 it-ec:ec-11-2:2 nl-texnansi:texnansi-12-2:2
nl-ec:ec-
13-2:2 cz-il2:il2-14-2:2 cz-ec:ec-15-2:2 sk-il2:il2-16-2:2
sk-ec:ec
-17-2:2 pl-pl0:pl0-18-2:2 pl-ec:ec-19-2:2 loaded
specials: tex,postscript,rokicki loaded
system : vols-utf-1.top loaded
(./vols-utf-1.top
specials: loading definition file tpd
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\spec-tpd.tex
specials: loading definition file fdf
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\spec-fdf.tex)
specials: fdf loaded
)
specials: fdf,tpd loaded
)
encoding: unknown coding utf8
(./vols-utf-1.tuo) (./vols-utf-1.tuo) (./vols-utf-1.tuo) (./vols-utf-1.tuo)
(./vols-utf-1.tuo) (./vols-utf-1.tuo) (./vols-utf-1.tuo) (./vols-utf-1.tuo)
(./vols-utf-1.tuo) (./vols-utf-1.tuo) (./vols-utf-1.tuo) (./vols-utf-1.tuo)
(./vols-utf-1.tuo)
systems : begin file vols-utf-1 at line 4
Underfull \hbox (badness 1) in paragraph at lines 5--5
[] \*10ptrmtf* Voll-stän-dig-keit
\hbox(8.86499+1.94443)x16383.8, glue set 9784.75977 []
systems : end file vols-utf-1 at line 6
)
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
1312 strings out of 61144
19912 string characters out of 647756
514394 words of memory out of 1076582
37078 multiletter control sequences out of 6
78048 words of font info for 38 fonts, out of 100 for 2000
183 hyphenation exceptions out of 4999
31i,2n,28p,405b,479s stack positions out of
5000i,500n,1p,20b,32768s
PDF statistics:
0 PDF objects out of 30
0 named destinations out of 30
1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536
No pages of output.
Zitat von Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Wolfgang Zillig wrote:
Hello,
when I add \hyphenation{Voll-stön-dig-keit} into my tex file I get
the
following error:
(C:\texmf\tex\context\base\xtag-utf.tex
loading : Context XML Macros (UTF-8)
)
! Not a letter.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@adiaeresis -\char 228
\utfunihashglyph ...r \utfdiv
{#1}}{#1}\endcsname
\fi
inserted text Voll-stä
n-dig-keit
\hyphenation ...malhyphenation {\the \scratchtoks
}\endgroup
l.118 \hyphenation{Voll-stän-dig-keit}
?
Any ideas?
Perhaps your input is latin1, only pretending to be utf-8.
In a latin-1 text editor, it should look like this:
\hyphenation{Voll-stän-dig-keit}
But this sort of stuff is tricky to get right in e-mail,
and I am just guessing. What I tried is attached, and that
worked for me.
Cheers, Taco
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Re: [NTG-context] Bug / feature request tracking
Taco,
great to have your bug collector, and let's hope it'll be a bug
squasher before long...
I had submitted a couple of bugs and feature requests for the index
command that don't seem to be resolved and which didn't make it to
your list. I'd say they are fairly critical because they will really
mess up index generation:
1. index ranges inserted via \startregister[index] will gobble all
other entries for the term;
2. \seeindex gives an error and will foul up the .tui file when
processed with newtexexec;
3. again with newtexexec: capital letters at the beginning of terms
are disregarded for the index, thus Taco will be sorted under a.
4. and a feature request: it would be good to have some formatting
options like LaTeX makeidx offers: \index{keyword|textit} will
produce a page-number in italics in the register. That would be
immensely useful to produce a structured index.
All best
Thomas
On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you may be aware of the fact that there is a bug /
feature request tracker for ConTeXt. The URL is:
http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector
I have to do a call-to-arms for the people that have made
feature requests and / or found bugs in the past few months,
especially if the extension /solution has not been included
in the latest distribution (2005.10.27).
Will you all please have a look at the current list, and see
if I have added your item(s) already?
I have a rather large archive of context-related email (because
I let it slip for a while), and I fear that may have missed
some extant bugs. This is quite important, because if it is not
in the list, it is much less likely to get fixed.
Greetings,
Taco
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Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
A las 15:49 del vie 04 nov, Taco Hoekwater tuvo a bien escribir: What do you do with ConTeXT? Hi all, I started some years ago to study ConTeXT out of my interest for typesetting. I just choose it over LaTeX for his integrated model seemed better to me, and never regretted. It have been a rough step learning curve, though. Til now I used to typeset/illustrate books with DSP tools and my aim is use ConTeXT/MetaFun to do it. Right now I'm converting html based documentation through the xml toolchain (texml), but most of the time I fight with some obscure parameter trying to put things where I want. Integrating MetaPost is definitely a plus for a designer. Thanks for the tools - (and the mental gym :) Jose -- José Antonio Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'El Fuego vive en los corazones de quienes aman el futuro' (Agni Yoga) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Bug / feature request tracking
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Taco, great to have your bug collector, and let's hope it'll be a bug squasher before long... I've added your register items, thanks. I forgot to point out in my original post that the software for the collector is kindly provided and hosted by Michael Guravage and his company (http://www.literatesolutions.com). I am only the person (tries) to manages the list of issues. Greetings, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
Op vrijdag 4 november 2005 15:49, schreef Taco Hoekwater: What do you do with ConTeXT? I use Context for making the church-magazine of the parish of which I am the minister. With Metafun I constructed headers, page-numbers and all sorts of symbols - forming a style that connects all sorts of input from members and bodies within the community. It's great fun to see each monthly edition grow, from (sometimes) scraps of paper into an well-organized and good looking magazine, complete with photos and other illustrations. I learned using Context while writing papers for my training as a contextual therapist. And since I started a practice as contextual therapist I use it for flyers, correspondence, bills. There is still a lot to learn. I haven't studied yet the project management facilities which might be helpful for my monthly editors job. I would like to explore the chart flow module to see if it would be useful in creating genograms which are used in contextual therapy. I am very interested in using Context for texts with mixed left to right and right to left texts (i.e. dutch (or english) and hebrew). With so much still to explore in this great project, I am far from being able to contribute to it. I owe so much to Hans and all the others who really build this wonderful 'thing'. May be some day tom --- Tom Fossen e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey -- Community
Just a curiosity. Can anyone estimate how many people are using ConTeXt? -a- On 7 Nov 2005, at 19:54, Jose Antonio Rodriguez wrote: A las 15:49 del vie 04 nov, Taco Hoekwater tuvo a bien escribir: What do you do with ConTeXT? Hi all, I started some years ago to study ConTeXT out of my interest for typesetting. I just choose it over LaTeX for his integrated model seemed better to me, and never regretted. It have been a rough step learning curve, though. Til now I used to typeset/illustrate books with DSP tools and my aim is use ConTeXT/MetaFun to do it. Right now I'm converting html based documentation through the xml toolchain (texml), but most of the time I fight with some obscure parameter trying to put things where I want. Integrating MetaPost is definitely a plus for a designer. Thanks for the tools - (and the mental gym :) Jose -- José Antonio Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'El Fuego vive en los corazones de quienes aman el futuro' (Agni Yoga) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] Trying to use Avant Garde - output font in very low resolution
Hello, I was trying to use a new font (not Computer Modern) in my tex file and all I get is the font in a very low resolution (see http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp4.pdf). This output was the result of the following files: type-garde.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/type-garde.tex flipp4.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp4.tex I created the typescript file according to the information in ConTeXt and pdfTeX Beginners help file (http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#selectfont). The interesting thing is that I can get the fonts with good quality if I only use TeX. The output of running the file flipp3.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp3.tex * with pdftex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp3.pdf * with texexec --pdf: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp5.pdf So it seems that texexec is doing things a bit differently then pdftex but I can't figure out where or how to fix it. I also tried having the font inclusion in the same tex file and not in a typescript file with the same results: * http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp6.tex * http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp6.pdf Then there came one strange thing. When I tried the same thing with the Bitstream Charter Bold font as he did in the beginners help file I got a low resolution font when the inclusion was inside the same but that worked fine with the online texexec program (live.contextgarden.net). However, when I used the typescript file as he did in the help file I got good quality on the bistream font. I am quite lost now so any help is very appreciated! Output of texexec --version: TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) context : ver: 2005.08.31 cont-en : ver: 2005.08.31 fmt: 2005.10.16 mes: english Thanks in advance, Kári Hreinsson ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Trying to use Avant Garde - output font in very low resolution
Kári Hreinsson wrote: The interesting thing is that I can get the fonts with good quality if I only use TeX. The output of running the file flipp3.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp3.tex * with pdftex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp3.pdf * with texexec --pdf: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp5.pdf So it seems that texexec is doing things a bit differently then pdftex but I can't figure out where or how to fix it. That's definately a clue. I'll wager you can get the texexec version working by adding \loadmapfile[pdftex.map] to the document. Stand-alone plain pdftex reads that file to find font mappings, but context does not use it (any more). The 'clean' way would be to put your AvantGarde lines in a 'Avant Garde map' file, and load that using \loadmapfile[avantgarde.map], for instance. Cheers, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Creatin metafun.mem on OSX (was: Re: [NTG-context] maximum of \externalfigure in MP)
You can think of finding your first conTeXt bug as a kind of initiation, you are now officially anm advanced user :-) It would be nicer if only I would be able to work it out :-) There is a file named mp-spec.mp on your harddisk somewhere (and possibly more than one). That file is indirectly used for each metapost graphic in context, because it is one of the parts needed to create 'metafun.mem', that is then itself used by mpost while creating your graphic. I think I found the mem file. In fact, I created a .mem file and when I substitute the old with the new one, nothing get printed out anymore. I'm getting really lost with all this unix-filename always repeating in different parts of the directory tree. I never know exactly what's happening. Any hint would be very appreciated -a- ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Bug / feature request tracking
Taco, should I add the metafun bug? -a- On 7 Nov 2005, at 20:14, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Taco, great to have your bug collector, and let's hope it'll be a bug squasher before long... I've added your register items, thanks. I forgot to point out in my original post that the software for the collector is kindly provided and hosted by Michael Guravage and his company (http://www.literatesolutions.com). I am only the person (tries) to manages the list of issues. Greetings, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Bug / feature request tracking
andrea valle wrote: Taco, should I add the metafun bug? No need, I did that one already. Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Bug / feature request tracking
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Taco,
great to have your bug collector, and let's hope it'll be a bug
squasher before long...
I had submitted a couple of bugs and feature requests for the index
command that don't seem to be resolved and which didn't make it to your
list. I'd say they are fairly critical because they will really mess up
index generation:
1. index ranges inserted via \startregister[index] will gobble all
other entries for the term;
2. \seeindex gives an error and will foul up the .tui file when
processed with newtexexec;
3. again with newtexexec: capital letters at the beginning of terms are
disregarded for the index, thus Taco will be sorted under a.
Yes, I agree.
4. and a feature request: it would be good to have some formatting
options like LaTeX makeidx offers: \index{keyword|textit} will produce
a page-number in italics in the register. That would be immensely
useful to produce a structured index.
This is already present in the ConTeXt even in more general way then in
the LaTeX is. More info in the manual.
vit
All best
Thomas
On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you may be aware of the fact that there is a bug /
feature request tracker for ConTeXt. The URL is:
http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector
I have to do a call-to-arms for the people that have made
feature requests and / or found bugs in the past few months,
especially if the extension /solution has not been included
in the latest distribution (2005.10.27).
Will you all please have a look at the current list, and see
if I have added your item(s) already?
I have a rather large archive of context-related email (because
I let it slip for a while), and I fear that may have missed
some extant bugs. This is quite important, because if it is not
in the list, it is much less likely to get fixed.
Greetings,
Taco
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Re: [NTG-context] Trying to use Avant Garde - output font in very low resolution
Thanks, this worked. I added the appropriate lines to 8r-base.map found in the local texmf root. That should be clean enough? :) Thanks again, Kári Hreinsson On 11/7/05, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kári Hreinsson wrote: The interesting thing is that I can get the fonts with good quality if I only use TeX. The output of running the file flipp3.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp3.tex * with pdftex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp3.pdf * with texexec --pdf: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp5.pdf So it seems that texexec is doing things a bit differently then pdftex but I can't figure out where or how to fix it. That's definately a clue. I'll wager you can get the texexec version working by adding \loadmapfile[pdftex.map] to the document. Stand-alone plain pdftex reads that file to find font mappings, but context does not use it (any more). The 'clean' way would be to put your AvantGarde lines in a 'Avant Garde map' file, and load that using \loadmapfile[avantgarde.map], for instance. Cheers, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] placing headings
Dear gang,
I am having difficulties with heading placement. Consider the following sample
file:
=headings.tex==
% output=pdf interface=en
\setuppapersize [A5][A4]
\setuplayout[width=middle,
height=middle,
footer=3\bodyfontsize,
header=0pt,
headerdistance=\bodyfontsize,
bottom=3\bodyfontsize,
location={middle,doublesided},
marking=on]
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,
location={footer,middle}]
\setupbottomtexts[pagenumber]
\setupbottom[style=\tf,state=high]
\setupfootertexts%
[][section][chapter][]
\setupfooter[style=\tf,
state=high]
\setuptexttexts%
[margin][][section][chapter][]
\setuptext[style=\tf,
state=high]
\setupinmargin[align=inner,
style=\tfx\setupinterlinespace]
\showframe
\starttext
\chapter{Ch. Knuth Knuth}
\section{Sec. Knuth Knuth}
\dorecurse{20}{\input knuth\par\ }
\stoptext
===
This file should compile fine.
Problem 1:
I would like the headings in the footer to be flush with the top of the footer
space instead of at the bottom;
Problem 2:
After making the footer headings flush with the top of the footer space, I
would now like to mid-align the headings so each is just above the page number
in the footer space (I thought this would be trivial but it's apparently not);
Problem 3:
I would like to have marginal headings: how do I
i) keep the headings boxed within the margin width;
ii) raise (or lower) the box containing the margin headings?
Thnx in advance for helping me solve these problems!
Best
Idris
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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