Hi,
Can I use \setuparranging (with, say, [2*4]), but asking for a
specific margin between pages? Like asking for 4 A5 pages / sheet,
but with always 2 cm between pages edges?
Thanks,
Maurício
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Hi,
I don't know if this is an usual problem...
I'm printing a book on size A5. The person who is going to build
the book said he needs 0.5cm extra around all borders. I'm
printing 4 pages at each paper sheet (\setuparranging[2*4]).
However, printing will be done in A3; this means the resulting
Is there a command that prints all math macros
available in ConTeXt?
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math/basic#List_of_All_Math_macros
I think \showmathcharacters is not supposed to
work anymore.
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Is there a command that prints all math macros
available in ConTeXt?
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What is the proper way in english printing to show
that some text has been removed from a quote? In
(brazilian) Portuguese, we use [...], for instance:
Depois de mencionadas outras questões, comentou-se
o ocorrido.
can quoted as
[...] comentou-se o ocorrido.
Is there a name for that?
T
This seems to be a small bug. This works well:
>> (...)
\starttypescript [serif] [default] [size]
\definebodyfont [22pt] [rm] [default]
\stoptypescript
\usetypescript[pagella]
\usetypescript[chorus]
\setupbodyfont[pagella,22pt]
\starttext
Text on body font.
{
\switchtobodyfont[chorus]
Text on s
This seems to be a small bug. This works well:
\usetypescript[pagella]
\usetypescript[chorus]
\setupbodyfont[pagella,22pt]
\starttext
Text on body font.
{
\switchtobodyfont[chorus,21pt]
Text on special typeface.
}
\stoptext
However, if I either remove '21pt' from
\switchtobodyfont or
In the example below, all text printed on body font
is okay. However, the text inside braces disapears.
Problem seems not to be with specific typeface, as
'chorus' shows properly when used as body font. Also,
changing chorus for others (palatino, chermes, schola,
pagella etc.) do not solve the pro
I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. If
possible, I would like to be able to write my own program to
at least draw glyphs, even if I have to resort to other tools
to describe hinting, kerning and ligatures.
My current knowledge is this. I read that OpenType fonts are
actu
I would like to use this package for
drawing circuits:
http://home.dei.polimi.it/mredaelli/circuitikz/index.html
The examples are in Latex, but I imagine it
could be used in ConTeXt since it's written
using Tikz.
How can I do that? The recomended instalation
procedure at the website is to just
Can I switch fonts like this?
concrete roman? mkiv does not support bitmap fonts out of the box
I got the 'concrete' name from table 1.11 of 'typography.pdf',
"The predefined body font identifiers for free OpenType fons".
(...)
the LuaTeX part the old files are removed because we don't ha
Can I switch fonts like this?
{
\switchtobodyfont[concrete]
More text.
}
concrete roman? mkiv does not support bitmap fonts out of the box
I got the 'concrete' name from table 1.11 of 'typography.pdf',
"The predefined body font identifiers for free OpenType fons".
This probably means
Can I switch fonts like this? I know something is wrong
because it doesn't work ('concrete' typeface is not used),
but I would like to know if I'm in the right direction.
Thanks,
Maurício
%%%
\usetypescriptfile[type-gentium]
\usetypescriptfile[type-otf]
\usetypescript[gentium]
\usetypescript[co
still something missing (the fonts script), and the cnf file
Any advice?
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals
Best,
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It's counter-intuitive, but I'm afraid that "stable" might be a bi
broken at the moment.
I didn't find discussion on that on the list, so I think it
is not bad to ask: has context considered these "new fashion"
version control systems?
I've been using these for a few months (darcs and, recently
\usetypescriptfile[type-xtx]
\usetypescriptfile[type-gentium]
Thanks! How did you know that (or, better, where
should I have looked for)? I had used what I read
in table 1.11 of typography pdf from main context
wiki page.
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I'm trying this small test:
%
\enableregime[utf]
\usetypescriptfile[type-xtx]
\usetypescript[gentium]
\setupbodyfont[gentium]
\starttext
\showbodyfont
\stoptext
%
It's supposed to select 'gentium' as typeface,
but the chart shown by 'showbodyfont' says I'm
using 'modern'.
Am I missing
I'm trying this small test:
%
\enableregime[utf]
\usetypescriptfile[type-xtx]
\usetypescript[gentium]
\setupbodyfont[gentium]
\starttext
\showbodyfont
\stoptext
%
It's supposed to select 'gentium' as typeface,
but the chart shown by 'showbodyfont' says I'm
using 'modern'.
Am I missing
Hi,
I know I can input an emdash with:
\emdash
Is there an alternative when I want an
horizontal bar? See this, where I found
they can be different:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark,_non-English_usage#Quotation_dash
They have different unicode numbers, U+2014
and U+2015.
(Is there
However, a few unicode characters desapear or cause small
problems, like these (unicodes between 2012 and 2015):
They work here both in mkii and mkiv (...)
Does it make any difference if you replace the font in TeX tree
with the font downloaded straight from SIL (and maybe regenerate font
cache
Hi,
I'm using the lines below in the start of a book '.tex' file. It
selects the 'gentium' pre-defined typeface, and the file itself
was done using utf8.
However, a few unicode characters desapear or cause small
problems, like these (unicodes between 2012 and 2015):
― (before spoken text)
- (hy
Hi,
Right in the main wiki page I read the current 'fonts' chapter
pdf of the new revision of user's manual. It says at item 1.5.1:
Remember how in the previous chapter there were the tables
that listed all the predefined combinations? It was said
(...)
Where can I find such pre
Hi,
The minimal Context distributions comes with
many fonts. Are there predefined (using mfonts.pdf
terminology) simple, body or typeface definitions
available for those fonts, or a subset of them?
Thanks,
Maurício
Hi,
I setup this test:
%%%
\starttext
\startlines
\input test.tex
\stoplines
\stoptext
%%%
File 'test.tex' contains just a 'Hello world!'
line. This test goes okay when I use 'texexec'
from default Ubuntu package. When I use 'context'
from minimals, I get a message that
Hi,
I'm trying this small test on unicode characters, and
the result I get is this:
http://173.45.227.76/test3.pdf
I did check the font in 'gucharmap' and it does contain
all codes I'm using (U+2019, U+2610, U+226b, U+2115). But
the result is a blank (U+2610 and U+2115) or wrong
(U+226b) charac
try to rename TITUSCBZ.TTF to TITUSCBZ.ttf
If that doesn't work, then I would like a
small test file and a pointer to the font, please.
Here are the sites where I finded about this font and
then downloaded it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TITUS_Cyberbit_Basic
http://titus.fkidg1.uni
Hi,
I get this error with a font I just downloaded. It's
my first attempt at using a font not provided with
context minimals:
%%
!luaTeX error (file /home/mauricio/fontes/TITUSCBZ.TTF): can't find table `CFF '
==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
%%
I found a thread on the ma
Hi,
I'm using ConTeXt to create a small table of
unicode characters. Below is my current test. The
codes are:
U+2019 is a single quotation mark
U+2610 should be a ballot box
U+226b should be a "much greater than" (>>)
U+2115 should be the N as used to represent the natural numbers
I get 2019 ri
Hi,
Is information on this page
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals
still valid? After following instructions and
successfull (I think) rsync sessions I try:
source ~/context/tex/setuptex ~/context/tex
and I'm told ~/context/tex is not a valid TeX
directory.
I also tried downloadi
Hi,
Are information on this page
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals
still valid? After following instructions and
successfull (I think) rsync sessions I try:
source ~/context/tex/setuptex ~/context/tex
and I'm told ~/context/tex is not a valid TeX
directory.
I also tried download
Hi,
This is probably a really basic question
already asked many times, but I wasn't able
to find an answer.
How to type an unicode character using its
number? Searching for messages, I found
things like:
"2019
\char"2019
\char{"2019}
\utfchar{"2019}
but I wasn't able to get any of them to
work
> >>> (...)
> >> You can also have a look at ant http://ant.berlios.de/. (...)
>
> IIRC, earlier versions of ant were actually written in haskell.
>
> Regarding stuff to read: the typeset version of the (pdf)tex source
> ((pdf)tex.web+(pdf)tex.ch after processing by weave) i
Hi,
I would like to ask you some advice on what
should I learn.
Context was the first typography program I
used. Then I tried Tex and a little bit of
latex.
Context is where I get the best results, but
what I really would like is something that
allows me to do things in my own way, not
something
Hi,
What is the easiest way to
include chess boards in a
Context document? (...)
> Nobody has written a package for that yet, but
> if you are patient, it's easy enough that people
> will be ready to help you. (...)
>
> (...) Maybe it's easy enough to make a gene
Hi,
What is the easiest way to
include chess boards in a
Context document?
Thanks,
Maurício
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>> I need to write ' in a text. However,
>> (...) I really need it to be 5 times U0027,
>> not ””’ (U201C and U2018). (...)
>>
>> > (...)
>> Both also didn't work. (...)
> Indeed, I am using mkiv... But you should be able to use \char etc. to get
> the same effect.
>
> pdf
I need to write ' in a text. However,
(...) I really need it to be 5 times U0027,
not ””’ (U201C and U2018). (...)
> \starttext
> \dorecurse5'{}
> % or \dorecurse{5}{'{}}
> \stoptext
> Even better:
>
> \starttext
> \defineactivecharacter ' {\otfchar{quoteright}}
>
>> I need to write ' in a text. However, since
>> it's a special tag in wiki language, I really
>> need it to be 5 times U0027, not ””’ (U201C and
>> U2018). How can I do that?
> \starttext
> With 0-kern: '\kern0pt'\kern0pt'\kern0pt'\kern0pt'
>
> The easy way: \dorecurse5'
> \stoptext
>
> C
Hi,
I need to write ' in a text. However, since
it's a special tag in wiki language, I really
need it to be 5 times U0027, not ””’ (U201C and
U2018). How can I do that?
Thanks,
Maurício
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What is wrong with my attempt to
create a bibliography and a reference
to it? (...)
>> What does 'k=1' does?
>
> It defines the key for crossreferencing via \cite.
>
Interesting, I was using 'n' when I should
actually use 'k'. Is there a limit on that
key? Can I use, for in
What does 'k=1' does?
Maurício
>> What is wrong with my attempt to
>> create a bibliography and a reference
>> to it? (...)
>> %-
>> \enableregime[utf]
>> \mainlanguage[pt]
>> \usemodule[bib]
>>
>> \setuppublicationlist[]
>>
> \startpublication[k=1,t=manual, a=Fung, y=199
Hi,
What is wrong with my attempt to
create a bibliography and a reference
to it? All I get is a (X,)
where I use \cite, and no list of
references at \placepublications.
%-
\enableregime[utf]
\mainlanguage[pt]
\usemodule[bib]
\setuppublicationlist[]
\startpublica
Hi,
How can avoid a word to be hyphenated? I
know that it is a basic question, but
all I was able to find was a tip about
using \hbox{}, which didn't work.
Thanks,
Maurício
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Aditya Mahajan a écrit :
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Maur�cio wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've read about \usemodule[bib], and I learned
>> how to create .bbl file. However, I would like
>> to insert my bibliographic references inside my
>> .tex file, not in an external file. Is it
>> possible to do that?
>
Hi,
I've read about \usemodule[bib], and I learned
how to create .bbl file. However, I would like
to insert my bibliographic references inside my
.tex file, not in an external file. Is it
possible to do that?
Thanks,
Maurício
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Hi,
I'm typesetting a book where prose and verse alternate in
chapters, i.e., you have one chapter of prose, one of verse, one
of prose etc.
I would like to generate a TOC for that book, but chapters have no
name or numbers. I was told by the author that the usual thing to
do is to take the first
>> The reason for a standard tag language is that the main engine
>> should be able to do some operations on data, like breaking it
>> in pieces like words, paragraphs or staffs on music scores,
>> sometimes without fully understanding what exactly those are.
>>
>> Possible outcomes: with a p
Aditya Mahajan a écrit :
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> Maurício wrote:
>>
>>> used ‘ϕ’ in a math formula for one of his papers and Context
>>
>> it showing up depends on what you use (mkii or mkiv), if the character
>> is defin
Thanks, Idris, for your interest. I don’t understand enough
about typesetting and computer math to make an informed sugestion,
but I’ll try my best.
What about a Metapost-like main engine to define the general
layout of pages? That engine would know about borders, floating
spaces for pictures or t
> Do you mean like Scrivener on the Mac?
I don’t know. I tried Context, then TeX, than went back to
Context. Now also Metapost. Sorry for beeing biased, but I really
like the programer approach to computers.
> What, in any case, constitutes a universal layout approach? Does
> one exist? (...)
Sorry to insist, but I would be really interested in approaches
that are not just great things we could add to TeX.
For instance: would it be possible to have some kind of “layout
engine” to which text processing would be just one among other
plug-ins? I wonder what kind of information that engine
Hi,
Just because I'm curious: how could a typesetting system like TeX
be if it was created today? I've tried google and wikipedia, and
all I found different from TeX is a system called 'Lout', but it
seems dead.
Does anyone knows about novel or interesting ideas that could be
used if we would wri
> Maurício wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In Portuguese, the rule about hyphenating
>> word that contain hyphens themselves is to
>> preserve the hyphen in the next line. (...)
> Because there is no low-level support for this
> in TeX, you will have to input such
Hi,
In Portuguese, the rule about hyphenating
word that contain hyphens themselves is to
preserve the hyphen in the next line. For
instance, the sentence "Seria bom se eu
pudesse tê-lo mantido como amigo, mas por
mais bem-intencionado que eu fosse, não
foi possivel" should be hyphenated like that
Hi,
Does anyone know of a nice 1 or 2 page
cheatsheet for metafun or metapost? I've
just started learning it and something
like that would be usefull.
Thanks,
Maurício
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Hi,
After generating a PDF from a .tex file,
I changed the name of the resulting PDF to
something else. But when I open that file in
'evince', it still shows the old file name.
I opened that file in emacs in saw that I lot
of info is stored in the PDF file: original file
name, creation date, "gen
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > just wondering: how many ConTeXt-ers
>> > depend on ligatures such as:
>> >'' (double quote) and '' (two single quotes) -> right double quote
>> > `` -> left double quote
>> > ,, -> DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
>> > (...)
>>
>> You got replies from ex
> Hello,
>
> just wondering: how many ConTeXt-ers depend on ligatures such as:
>'' (double quote) and '' (two single quotes) -> right double quote
> `` -> left double quote
> ,, -> DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
> (...)
You got replies from experienced users, so I
thought you could use
Hi,
Is it possible to enter an Unicode
character in a Context file using
the character Unicode number? How
can I do that?
Thanks,
Maurício
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Hi,
I've seen two interesting Unicode characters
that I would like to use:
Hair space: U+200A (it's supposed to be a
space that's small, used around emdashes
sometimes).
Non-breaking hyphen: U+2011 (an hyphen where
the word is not supposed to be broken by
hyphenation).
I would like to know if I
Hi,
Do you guys have tips on how to typeset
verses? There's an item for that on the wiki:
wiki.contextgarden.net/Visuals
but nobody filled it yet. If we collect a
nice bunch of tips I can put them in the
wiki.
Thanks for your help,
Maurício
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Hi,
Is there some kind of file where I can
list default options for texexec? For
instance, I usually use --purgeall, and
would like it to be default in my user
environment.
Thanks,
Maurício
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Mike Santy escreveu:
> Below is a complete example:
> (...)
>
> Could you please add this minimal example to the wiki page:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/MathML_code_examples
Done.
Best,
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Hi,
I've just looked at three documents from
Hans ('mmlexamp.pdf', 'mmlprime.pdf',
'mmoexamp.pdf'), and they all show
nice examples of MathML and what you can
accomplish using it. However, I wasn't able
to find an example of how to actually insert
MathML in a Context document. I imagine it's
proba
>>> How do I prevent a paragraph to be broken
>>> between pages (or columns)?
>> Add a \vbox{} around the paragraph. (...)
> a vbox messes up the spacing ...
>
> \starttext
>
> \input tufte \blank \input tufte \blank
>
> \setpenalties\widowpenalties{100}\maxdimen \dorecurse{3}{\inpu
Hi,
When I use \setupbodyfont[handwritten] or
\setupbodyfont[calligraphic], I get fonts
which do not look like handwritten or
calligraphic. Other options give consistent
results (sans, type, serif etc.). What
should I check in order to get those to
work? I use a standard Ubuntu 7.10
installation,
Aditya Mahajan escreveu:
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Maurício wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How do I prevent a paragraph to be broken between
>> pages (or columns)?
>
> Add a \vbox{} around the paragraph. You can also use
> \framed[align=normal], or \start-stop
Hi,
How do I prevent a paragraph to be broken between
pages (or columns)?
Thanks,
Maurício
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Hi,
TeX fonts have the known convention
for -, -- and ---. How would be the
proper way to get those characters
in Context? Should I use Unicode
characters? I know that, at least in
my instalation, -- and --- work as
in TeX, but I would like to know if
Context has a different standard way
to do tha
Hi,
I'm using:
texexec --purgeall my_file.tex
to have temporary files deleted after
processing. However, when I use metafun (using
\startuseMPgraphics etc.) a single file is left,
with extension '.mp.keep'. Is it possible to
ask Context not to leave even that file?
Thanks,
Maurício
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Hi,
How do I prevent a page break between two
paragraphs (actually, between a paragraph
and an item list that follows it)? I found
'\page[no]' in the documentation, but I
don't know if that's the standard way to
do that.
Thanks,
Maurício
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to learn how to insert MathML in
>> Context file. I found many examples of how MathML
>> code should look like, formula or presentational,
>> but no example on how to actually insert it
>> in Context. I tried \math{ mathml stuff}
>> and it didn't work. Can you guys po
Hi,
I've been trying to learn how to insert MathML in
Context file. I found many examples of how MathML
code should look like, formula or presentational,
but no example on how to actually insert it
in Context. I tried \math{ mathml stuff}
and it didn't work. Can you guys point me to
an example?
>> Is it possible to use MathML inside
>> a Metapost or Metafun label?
>
> I'm not 100% sure, but \sometxt{... your ConTeXt stuff with mathml
> here ...} could work.
It seems a good idea. But, actually, I should have learned
how to insert MathML in Context in the first place. Do
you know a good d
>>
>> I?m using emacs + auctex.
>>
>> Suerte.
>>
>
> Me, too. Never needed anything else than emacs + auctex + texshow.
> (...)
>
> Piotr
>
Also think auctex is nice. What is texshow? What does it do, and
where can I find it?
Thanks,
Maurício
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Hi,
Is it possible to use MathML inside
a Metapost or Metafun label?
Thanks,
Maurício
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Hi,
Is there an automatic way of typesetting
roman numerals? I imagine something like
a \roman{7} that would result in a nice
VII.
Thanks,
Maurício
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Hi,
How do I type the female sign (ª)
in Context?
Thanks,
Maurício
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to send my resumé to people I know
>> as a PDF file created using Context (the minimal
>> version on Pragma site, running on Ubuntu linux).
>> However, many of them (but no all) say they
>> can't open the file. What are the possible causes
>> for that, except e-mail problems
Hi,
I'm trying to send my resumé to people I know
as a PDF file created using Context (the minimal
version on Pragma site, running on Ubuntu linux).
However, many of them (but no all) say they
can't open the file. What are the possible causes
for that, except e-mail problems?
Thanks,
Maurício
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>>> (...)
>
> Metapost can only handle very basic strings. Don't use Metapost for
> writing text.
>
>>> (...)
> Indeed. Using \sometxt{...} is strongly recommended. btex ... etex
> behaves strange and consumes a considerable amount of extra time to
> compile your document.
>
> Mojca
Interesting
Hi,
This small piece of code gives me a wrong
result:
\startuseMPgraphic{teste}
z7 = (5cm,0);
label.lrt("Pontão",z7);
\stopuseMPgraphic
I just have to change 'btex Pont\~ao etex'
for 'Pontão' and everything goes fine.
Best,
Maurício
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install
>
> I hope that is what you looked for
>
> /Micke P
>
> On 7/19/07, Maurício <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to install the minimal context
>> distribution in a 64 bits machine? I downloaded
>> 'jus
Hi,
Is it possible to install the minimal context
distribution in a 64 bits machine? I downloaded
'justtext' and 'linuxtex' zip files, and I see
that the environment setup script sets TEXFOS
variable to a 64 bits specific directory when it
detects a 64 bits machine. However, tha
Hi,
When using bitmap figures (.png etc.) using \externalfigure, is it
possible to set that I want the picture to have it's original size in
pixels; or, better, that I don't want it to be scaled? I'm using some
pictures that look terrible when converted to a different size, even if
the n
Renaud AUBIN wrote:
> Maurício a écrit :
>
>> I don't have the exact dimenstions. You can check it here (Open
>> Office document):
>>
>> www.pimaco.com.br/files/gabaritos/Gabarito_CDpply_CARTA.sxw
>>
>>
> dead link... but it's ok with
>> Has anyone ever tried to use Context to create music CD labels? Any
>> tips on what should I do, pages I can read or results I can expect?
>>
> I have never tried to create CD labels but from my experience you should
> use overlay... Could you describe the geometry of the labels you use (if
>
>>Has anyone ever tried to use Context to create music CD labels? Any
>> tips on what should I do, pages I can read or results I can expect?
>
> Dou you mean what gets printed on the CD (or a separate label to be
> stuck on the CD)?
> Why not use a page of 12x12cm? Or what's your problem?
>
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