Gerben,
do you have a minimal source file to let us try out?
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Hello Paul,
And I see that part of my question has been answered before. It is a
matter if \definelayout[odd], \definelayout[even] and alike. I was
confused because Hans mentioned in this thread:
\setuplayout[odd|even|pagenumber|yourownid]
Which I can't get to work here.
This should
Hi Paul,
there should be some cont-en.fmt somewhere on your disk. Like
/usr/local/texmf/web2c/context/cont-en.fmt, but this is just a wild
guess. So you could copy your newly generated cont-en.fmt over the old
one.
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Hi,
I will try to create one. How do I again put in a series of tufte?
\dorecurse{20}{\input tufte \par}
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Hello Paul,
[...]
So everything works fine now.
Good to hear.
I assume that future versions of ConTeXt will install this file
correctly?
That should have been the case anyway. Can't tell you what went wrong.
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http://mail.rna.nl/~gerben/problem-test.tar.gz
I get only a blank page.
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Hello,
[...]
TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002
your ConTeXt is way too old. It doesn't have type-akb included. Either
update your ConTeXt or get type-akb from http://levana.de/context/ .
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Hello Idris,
Is there a list of prepackaged fonts/typescripts that comes with
(fp/MiK/gw/te)TeX/ConTeXt?
Not that I know of. The distributions should supply a list of
available fonts.
I think it is important for that info to be made very public.
I agree completely.
I always wanted to
Hello Idris,
\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[pos]
\usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[times,12pt]
\starttext
\input knuth
\bigskip
\stoptext
On my system, using the above, the following happens (why??):
You don't have psnfss installed. (Wild
[...]
I also wonder why the pdf made at ConTeXtgarden opens in Acrobat with
font substitution --
I wonder why. Which fonts are substituted? What is your input file?
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Hello Steffen,
But using Helvetica (from OSX system fonts) just won't work:
using? With ConTeXt? With LaTeX? With TeX? Is this a ConTeXt related
problem? Or is the problem with your font?
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Hello Paul,
Is there a way to upload images (png) to the wiki?
Yes. You need to log in first, then select Upload file in the
toolbox on the left hand side. Then choose a file and give it a
sensible descripton. [General Disclaimer: Please only upload images
to which you have sufficient rights
Hello Stefano,
on live.contextgarden.net, this works:
\setupencoding[default=ec]
\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[times,12pt]
\starttext
\showfontstrip
\showbodyfont[times]
Roman \bf bold \it italics
\stoptext
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Hello Paul,
ConTeXt has not \flushbottom command. The \flushbottom gives the heigh
flexibility.
what about looking in the wiki for \flushbottom?
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Hello Paul,
\clubpenalty=-600
\widowpenalty=-600
But this had no effect.
try inserting things like these after \starttext. There was a problem
on the mailinglist like this some time ago.
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Hello Hans,
my browser says: file does not begin with %pdf ...
this is strange. I just checked with my browser (safari, firefox) and
they downloaded the file well. And 'file' gives me:
$ file GreekInContext.pdf
GreekInContext.pdf: PDF document, version 1.5
Anybody else having trouble?
Hello Matthias,
I have no time right now to check what server you are running,
debian/apache 2
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
Hello again,
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.
you put me on the right track. It looks as if there is some bug with
acrobat (reader)
Hi Eckhart,
- There are rules of different thickness for top, bottom, and middle
rules.
[...]
One day I hacked my own code around some tabulate material to get this
(rulethickness) done. I whish this feature would be in the kernel.
I sometimes do heavy tabulate typesetting. This is one
Hello Hans,
[LaTeX tables]
what exactly are you missing?
There is a good file that pretty much describes what I am missing
(perhaps haven't found in a manual - I never looked that close):
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/booktabs.pdf
There are commands like
Hello,
this is slightly off-topic:
when using supp-vis in a plain-tex document, it runs ok with normal
TeX, but not with pdfetex:
\input supp-vis
Hello \TeX!
\bye
--
Running `PDFTeX' on `test' with ``pdftex \nonstopmode\input test.tex''
This is
Hello Hans,
can you test this?
Looks fine with several different visualizations. Thanks.
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Hello Jiri,
\starttext
\startuseMPgraphic{test}
picture p; p := btex TEST etex scaled 5cm;
draw p;
\stopuseMPgraphic
\useMPgraphic{test}
\stoptext
The file works fine here. Except that only some part of the T is
visible (large scale factor).
Do you
Hello Paul,
This message is to record my thanks to Thomas A.Schmitz for the
solution to my font flop, and to Otared Kavian and Hans Hagen for
helpful comments. I've planted the solution in the context garden at
http://contextgarden.net/Talk:My_Way.
Well, the font-problem is not related to
Hello Paul,
In a similar matter, I had originally started this documentation on the
wikki. Can I now remove those pages? (I realize I probably don't need
permisssion, but I don't want to remove a page and then have the wikki
administrator put it back up.)
You can delete any contents and if
Hello again,
for those who don't know supp-vis but know what glue and penalties
are:
try \showmakeup and you get an idea where penalties, glue etc. are
inserted. This is a very cool debugging tool, because it (amazingly)
does not interfere (as far as I can see) with the actual layout.
Patrick
Dear ConTeXters,
I have planted a small bush in the garden, which is called 'modules'.
I collect third party modules and put them in one place. One of the
things the authors (and of course all ConTeXt users) will hopefully
get soon is an automatic synchronization with CTAN. I am in contact
with
Hello Hans,
\starttable[|||]
\HL[2]
\NC test \NC test \NC \FR
\HL[5]
\NC test \NC test \NC \MR
\HL[8]
\NC test \NC test \NC \LR
\HL[2]
\stoptable
These [n] are multiplies of a default dimension? I'd like to say \TR
for a default (predefined, thicker) top rule or \TR[30pt] for a very
Hello Paul,
okay, your workflow really makes putting the document on the wiki
impractical, thanks for answering.
[...]
However, that doesn't stop me from creating a myway. (I assume a myway
is a ConText document coupled with a PDF file.) I'll try to do this as
soon as I have time.
Your
Hello,
while we are at it, I played around (a bit) with \setupfootnotes but
didn't get what I wanted to achieve:
|text text text text text
|
|- (a shorter rule)
| 1 hello
| 2 footnote
| 10 tenth footnote that
| wraps like this
Hello Jiri,
TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002
with that ancient version you can try your luck with
\protectbufferstrue in cont-sys.tex (copy it from cont-sys.rme if it
doesn't exist yet).
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Hello Anad,
I have Slackware 10.1 system with full tetex installation. How to
install the latest version of ConTeXt on this system? Where can I find
installation instructions?
what tetex version comes with slackware 10.1?
There is some information on the wiki on installing context, but these
Hello,
what tetex version comes with slackware 10.1?
Slackware 10.1 ships tetex 2.0.2 which is completly out-of-date.
It's better to get tetex 3.0 from src and build yourself.
Oh, yes, absolutely. And I felt bad that it took me so long to install
tetex 3 at contextgarden.net.
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Hello Paul,
Here's what I just figured out literally 10 minutes ago. It works, but
it seems a bit of a hack. Is there a better way?
a bit? a very huge bit. Assume that you have 200 footnotes in your
text. Then change from 12pt fontsize to 10pt Bang!
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[most evil footnote hackery]
Of course, that begs the question. Is there a better way?
Sorry to say, but in this case, no solution would be much better than
this solution. There is nothing(!) worse than mixing visual markup with
logical markup this way. We are in a fully programmable
Hello David,
Any advice please?
Read the fine documentation carefully. Everything is written there.
If you don't have it at hand:
\starttext
Some text to start it all off
\splitfloat
{\placefigure{foobar}}
{\FLOWcharts[place-st-low]}
Now we want some text so that it looks like their is
[...]
We are in a fully programmable environment,
and it is extremely unConTeXtish to hack the visual appearance.
I am an XML author, so am pretty amazed to hear that one should not mix
appearance and content in ConTeXt. Most of a ConTeXt document involves
visual appearance. What is one
Hello Thomas,
there is a working example of startcombination in
http://texshow.contextgarden.net/cmd=placefloat.
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% kpsewhich t-nath.tex
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/maths/t-nath.tex
Um, that might be unique to your own system. I don't have t-nath on a
pretty up-to-date install.
that is interesting, it is in tetex 3.0, but not in the distribution. So
we should handle it as a
Hello Hraban and others,
I have planted a small bush in the garden, which is called 'modules'.
I collect third party modules and put them in one place. One of the
Good idea.
I wonder why bib and math modules are missing? Are they already gone
to the core?
Do you think that it would make
[...]
remove indentation from a paragraph by saying \noindent. So every
paragraph had a \noindent before the paragraph (instead of doing it
right by saying \noindent0pt). And it was a long
talking about teaching:
a) it is \parindent=0pt, not \noindent=0pt
b) the ConTeXt way is using
Hello Idris,
How do I get url hyperlinks? The following does not work, so I am missing
something:
I have not tried your example, but have a look at texshow-web:
http://texshow.contextgarden.net/cmd=useURL
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Hi Idris,
The following outputs the url but I don't get a hyperlink:
I get a 'half working' hyperlink. Try to replace '\url' by '\from'.
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[Adobe]
[http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design_MM_Fonts.pdf]
Am using \vbox{\hsize8cm text} to typeset my document with blocks of
text. This makes a left and right justification of the text, but most
of the time it does work alright and i get a ragged right text.
What do i have to do in order to avoid this and get my text justified
at both sides ?
I get a 'half working' hyperlink. Try to replace '\url' by '\from'.
Actually, for me, both work in acroread (7),
I think that there is some magic in acroread 7. it parses the text and
if it sees a http://someth.ing it will make that active.
When looking at the pdf file from the code below,
Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:19:18PM +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
- left/right trimming of horizontal lines
What do you mean by left/right trimming?
a line that goes to the border of the cell but not further, i.e. it
does not extend into the
Hello Vit,
I filally prepared first version of Storm fonts support. For now next
10 families are included:
Lido, Aichel, Dynamo RE, Biblon, Libcziowes, Preissig (text+antikva),
Preissig1918, Solpera, Serapion, Tyfa (text).
Great! The pdf is pretty impressive. Thank you very much.
I would
[...]
However, this brings up a more general issue (for Hans, especially).
The symbol is called a guillemet, a diminutive of Guillaume (Le Be),
the typographer. It has nothing to do with the French word for word,
mot. :-)
I guess you are right, but the Postscript Name for this glyph is
eg.
Hello,
Could one of you please recommend a document that tells me what to
download and how to install and run a Tex application such as
Context and how to compose and compile a document such as a
booklet or more? I like to learn and use Tex and have absolutely no
experience with it. Thank
I am currently working in a Windows (XP) environment but if it makes
a difference and Linux is more suitable for a Tex environment I move
to a Unix based one then. Thanks for the reply.
No problem, there are several windows users on this list. But I don't
know which distribution is currently
Hello,
I tried to find \def\type in ConTeXt source, but I couldn't and I'm
also not advanced enough to interpret the error message below. Any
ideas?
http://source.contextgarden.net/core-mis.tex#simplifycommands
see also recent thread:
1. Why do the left and right margin areas bleed off the page?
Design decision, I'd guess.
2. Why are the margins offset a little from the main text block?
So that numbers in margin (from \section for example) have some
distance to the text body.
These aspects seem to be related.
I am
Hello Taco,
Patching your local bibl-apa.tex file is the current 'solution',
(because there actually is no solution yet)
Thanks, works fine. I'll publish my file somewhere some day as
bibl-gapa.tex or whatever.
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Hi Taco,
Patching your local bibl-apa.tex file is the current 'solution',
(because there actually is no solution yet)
I also had to patch cont-au.bst. I wonder what naming I should use now
for the translated files.
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Have been looking around in doc, but could not catch a simple way to
insert an image into my doc.
http://texshow.contextgarden.net/cmd=externalfigure
\externalfigure[paris]
but beware, pdftex does not include bmp graphics. Only
png/jpeg/pdf/metapost.
See also \placefigure
How can I number the paragraphs in ConTeXt similar to
the latex parano.sty.?
what does the LaTex parano do? You should not assume too much LaTeX
knowledge on this list.
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Hello Lutz,
is your text editor set to utf-16? If yes, set it to utf8 or something
else.
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Hello out there,
after a \quotation no line break is possible. For what reason?
Is this a bug or a feature? (I'd consider this as a bug).
--
\starttext
\tracingparagraphs=1
\tracingonline=1
\pretolerance -1
\tolerance 1
\quotation{Foo bar baz
is your text editor set to utf-16? If yes, set it to utf8 or something
else.
I think, my SciTe 1.63 editor puts these characters into every new file.
Is this a known problem?
Has anybody the same effect?
I use SciTe 1.63 for Windows + ConTeXt .properties files.
are you sure that your scite
Hello (Taco?),
I'd like to get the list in the bibliography sorted by author.
\setuppublications
[alternative=apa,
sorttype=bbl,
criterium=all,
]
\setupbibtex
[database=umbruchlit,
sorttype=author]
does not do what I'd like. It lists the entries in the order of \cite.
And
---BeginMessage---
How can i add paragraph number in context. some thing
like this.
Example
1. This is test.
2. This is another paragraph. This is another
paragraph. this is another paragraph.
end of example
can you help me out. a package parano.sty exits for
latex.
thanks
[...]
Patrick, can we mirror the context articles in the wiki?
We would need the OK from the authors because of copyright.
(concerning the xml ... peters flyns article has a nice screen shot)
:-))
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Hello ConTeXters,
Idris Samawi Hamid has allowed me to store his interesting new MyWay
titled 'Installing Expert Fonts: Minion Pro' on garden and post this
announcement.
You can find it at http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/ as well as the
source file.
Enjoy it and big thanks to Idris for this
Hello,
Patrick, can we mirror the context articles in the wiki?
Thanks to the authors for their permission to mirror the nice
articles. I have added a link to
http://dl.contextgarden.net/practexjournal/ to the
wiki:Web_resources.
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Hi,
Am 06.04.2005 um 21:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
Do you think that it would make sense to list/describe the ones in the
distribution as well?
Yes, they go unnoticed otherwise.
OK, I have updated the modules section on garden.
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[...]
beginning double quotation sign/glyph is somewhat corrupt: there is a
bigger distance between the two signs than is with the ending double
quote (which are typographically correct).
This is a known issue. CMR doesn't have real quotation marks and
ConTeXt doesn't work around this by
i wrote some time ago:
I am still looking for the first emails of this list. The archive on
http://archive.contextgarden.net is missing the first half year.
Not anymore! Something to celebrate: the archive looks complete now -
thanks Hans!
(not that it is of any practical use - it just feels
Hello Thomas,
[...]
following the TeXFont manual for ConTeXt, do I have to reinstall
them from scratch for ConTeXt starting with the pfb- and afm-files from
texmf-local/fonts/source, or can I use the already distributed pfb- and
afm-files?
Yes, as I already answered on the german
Hello Thomas,
Tobias, sorry. It is too late for me...
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In general HH writes new manuals on specific topics rather than
updating existing ones. I am not familiar with cont-emp. What
is the title?
cont-enp.pdf: context - the manual
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see http://modules.contextgarden.net/amsl
Patrick
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Hello Alain,
C:\contextfirst-setup
'ruby' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne
ou externe, un programme exécutable ou un fichier de commandes.
looks like you're missing ruby.
You need to install Ruby first (if you want to use pdfTeX or XeTeX).
Fetching files anyway.
rsync: failed
Hello,
I would like to make a ConTeXt Live server in LAN for testing
purposes, but I can not found any document for setup this kind of
server.
What are requirements ? Anyone could give me some help please ?
You can find the sourcecode of live.contextgarden.net at github:
Hi Mikael,
Do they appear automatically in texshow or does someone have to update
by hand? How long does it typically take? Is there something one can
do?
I will transfer the old texshow-web into the wiki, so the new commands
can be added there easily. Jelle Huisman has suggested this and I
While it would be nice to have an updated ConTeXt the Manual, in my humble
opinion the biggest hole
in the documentation is a reference for each command. Texshow-web should fill
this gap and this is
where the community CAN contribute, and where the mechanism already exists.
And because
Can you also add the module to the module section [1] on the wiki,
We urgently need to have some git server or something similar on the
garden for modules. Maybe SVN would also do for a while. The current
approach is very clumsy to use.
I don't think that the users should learn git, that
Hi Phillip,
My wiki account is now almost two days old but I still can't login at
the modules section. I tried almost all possible permutations of login
name, full name, upper-/lowercase to no avail. How does it really work?
Sorry for that. Can you contact me off-list? Then we will debug
Hi all,
before everyone votes for a different software, what about a forum that is
hosted by another company but reached from a contextgarden subdomain? There
should be services on the net that support that?!?
And I would (probably) only use software that can be installed with ubuntu
package
Hi,
I have a problem with the nameservers for contextgarden.net. I am working on
the problem.
Thanks Taco for the notification.
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Hello Hans,
Did I miss some change in the ConTeXt beta location? Or a server blackout?
a server blackout, better: a nameserver blackout.
I am currently moving the domain contextgarden.net (not the machine, just the
name) to a different provider, because of the bad support of the old one. In
Hi,
Hans van der Meer reported a broken minimals update. This was due to changes in
the nameserver handling. Now the move to the new domain hoster is complete and
everything should be back to normal.
Thanks for your patience,
Patrick
As of right now, Patrick has overstepped his self-imposed deadline
for merging the texshow-web data into the wiki by 38 hours and 23
minutes. :)
:-) Actually my load average goes down from 2.3 to 1.0 currently and probably
down to 0.5 next week, so I hope not to push my deadline by more then
Hi Michael,
based on Luatex, but that would depend on Hans explaining how Luatex
works
LuaTeX is documented very thoroughly. The manual is 180 pages and as far as I
can see it mentions and describes every aspect of the API. I am not saying that
from the reference manual alone I understand
Hello Graham,
Thank you for your commnts. Oh, for sure, tinkering with
plain is just an interim step along the (long...) road. A very minimal
harness setup to write minimal code --- to play with the various LuaTeX API
functions via GNU's gdb debugger. By building a small test
Hi all,
the garden maintainers have moved the command reference from texshow-web
(http://texshow.contextgarde.net) to the wiki, below the page
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Reference/en
This means, everybody can update the command reference now! Hooray!
The contents has been
This is fantastic news, and it looks great! Thanks Patrick.
You're welcome! Lots of people have encouraged me to do so, so any input is
welcome!
If the 'volunteers' are REALLY keen they could also change examples so that
they have the following form:
context source=yes text=yields
Hi Scott,
that's a good idea, we should rename it to 'latex 3'. That name is still free
and it would fill the expectations of almost all TeX users out there.
Patrick
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Hi Jano,
is contexgarden.net down for some maintenance, or just by an accident?
Thanks for the notice, I have asked the provider to restart the server,
hopefully this helps...
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Hi,
I see that context minimals is at 2010-06-05 version, hovewer git repo
[1] is last updated on 2010-05-29.
So, experimental means no more updates :) It's now passed more then 24
ours from my first email and still the git repository is not updated.
OK, I'l have a look into it and I
Hi,
2. After installing all the packages there is a t-layout directory
(instead of layout) in texmf-context\tex\context\third and
texmf-context\doc\context\third. Probably mistake?
Up to the author to fix it. Patrick?
Should this be layout instead or just without that directory (so the
Just removing the t- prefix.
done.
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Hello Hraban,
the menu column appears below instead left of the content area.
logo position is ok, x positions of the areas seem also ok, just the y
position of the menu area is wrong.
I get the same results in Firefox and in Safari 5. So I cannot see the problem.
Perhaps you can send me
Thank you Luigi and all others for the development!
A quick note: if you like a git(hub) style interface, I try to keep
https://github.com/pgundlach/LuaTeX
up to date
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