[NTG-context] SciTE under Windows and Metapost
Good morning (or whatever you have in Europe now). Two or three week ago I've installed the minimal ConTeXt distribution under Windows. My first use of TeX under Windows, many thanks for the distribution, it's great! However, when I try to compile a metapost/metafun source from the SciTE editor, it fails. It tries to run mpost directly, and it's not found. I can run texmfstart texexec --mptex ... in the SciTE's command promt, and it works, but it's annoying. Can I somehow reconfigure the SciTE to run the metapost properly (I mean to run texexec --mptex)? Many thanks. Michal Kvasnicka P.S. Hans, would it be possible to add the Metafont into the minimal distribution? I like it so much I'd like to make it my major distribution even in Linux, but I need the Metafont since from time to time I still use some bitmapped font (like Concrete Math). Many thanks. ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] luatex "success story"
On 9/28/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Let me share my luatex "success story". I teach computer science, and
> current topics I deliver are Numbering Systems and Data Representation.
> Yesterday, I needed to prepare about twenty test papers with 10 questions per
> a paper. Examples: "1. convert Dec 36 into Hex", "2. convert Bin 10010101
> into Dec", etc. The wording of every question has not to be changed through
> papers, only numbers had.
Nice :)
> Then I copied my finished test text and pasted it many-many times. (It was
> probably not very wise approach, but I'm not familiar with looping TeX
> commands at the moment.) Luatex did the rest of the job perfectly, and in
> minute I had test papers with identical questions but all different figures!
> I only had to cut papers apart and hand out to my students.
\dorecurse{30}{\page
... problems ...
}
Mojca
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[NTG-context] luatex "success story"
Hello all,
Let me share my luatex "success story". I teach computer science, and current
topics I deliver are Numbering Systems and Data Representation. Yesterday, I
needed to prepare about twenty test papers with 10 questions per a paper.
Examples: "1. convert Dec 36 into Hex", "2. convert Bin 10010101 into Dec",
etc. The wording of every question has not to be changed through papers, only
numbers had.
Instead of filling in numbers manually, I took more intelligent approach and
(with Hans' help) wrote simple lua scripts to generate random numbers right
inside my document:
% question involving random decimal number
Convert \ctxlua{n=math.random(30,60) ; tex.print(n) ;}\low{10} into Bin.
% question involving random binary number
Convert
\startluacode
for c = 1, 16 do
n = math.random(0,1)
tex.sprint(n)
end
\stopluacode\low{2} into Hex.
and so on... I specified the lower and upper limits as two arguments of random
function, and that was very easy indeed.
Then I copied my finished test text and pasted it many-many times. (It was
probably not very wise approach, but I'm not familiar with looping TeX commands
at the moment.) Luatex did the rest of the job perfectly, and in minute I had
test papers with identical questions but all different figures! I only had to
cut papers apart and hand out to my students.
Best regards,
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
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Re: [NTG-context] Completelistoffigures, help needed!
G.C.H.M. Verhaag schrieb: > Dear ConTeXt Users, > > Thanks to those that contributed to this thread! The code > > \setupcaption[figure][distance=\zeropoint] > \defineconversion[gobble][\gobbleoneargument] > \setupnumber[figure][conversion=gobble] > \setuplabeltext[figure=] > > just did the trick, but I don't understand why! Maybe I shouldn't bother > at the moment! By the way, am I right in saying that the interaction > feature of the list doesn't work when using this trick? > > Well, I've one more question related to the list of figures. > Is there a way to truncate a long caption to a maximum of just no more > than a fraction of the length of a textline and indicate the truncation > by for example a few dots (...)? > Something like: > > A very long figure caption truncated just here... > pagenumber > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cropping_text Best wishes, Peter > Regards, > Gerard > ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Completelistoffigures, help needed!
Dear ConTeXt Users, Thanks to those that contributed to this thread! The code \setupcaption[figure][distance=\zeropoint] \defineconversion[gobble][\gobbleoneargument] \setupnumber[figure][conversion=gobble] \setuplabeltext[figure=] just did the trick, but I don't understand why! Maybe I shouldn't bother at the moment! By the way, am I right in saying that the interaction feature of the list doesn't work when using this trick? Well, I've one more question related to the list of figures. Is there a way to truncate a long caption to a maximum of just no more than a fraction of the length of a textline and indicate the truncation by for example a few dots (...)? Something like: A very long figure caption truncated just here... pagenumber Regards, Gerard -- Geert C.H.M. Verhaag St. Jorisstraat 29 5954 AN Beesel NETHERLANDS Tel.: +31-(0)774742493, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] Arabic/English typesetter needed.
Hello, I think I qualify: I have been studying Arabic during 5 years as a third language (although I've never had the opportunity to use it, so sadly enough, I can't really speak it). In the past few months I have used ConTeXt to typeset a lot of things (and before that, LaTeX for many years), but no book yet. Anyway, this is to say I'm interested in the project. Yours, Arthur ___ 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] Arabic/English typesetter needed.
A poster on the self-publishing list is looking for a typesetter who can handle a dual language book, Arabic and English. I don't qualify :<) This list with its international membership seemed a good place to inquire. If interested please drop me a line and I will forward to the other poster. -- John Culleton http://wexfordpress.com http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf _ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com ___ 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] How to include animation into pdf
Hello All, I made a little animation with Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net) which is self contained in a single pdf. The reason of using Asymptote is, that it produces a single pdf without having to combine the resulting pdf's files myself. I now want to include this animation into my main document with the help of \externalfigure[animation.pdf] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \externalfigure[animation.pdf] \stoptext Alas I don't see my animation, to be honest I did not expect it to work, but I thought I give it a try. Thanks Wim ___ 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 ___
