$ cat /home/sanjoy/bin/texmfstart
#!/bin/bash
ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` $@
$ cat /home/sanjoy/bin/texexec
#!/bin/sh
texmfstart texexec.rb $@
Thanks, I'm using them too, but I remember there was some confusion
about $@ versus $@ in this command.
$@
[I'm testing the 2006.09.27 beta on Linux]
Thanks for the new \sometxt in staticMPfigures. I'm just testing its
operation, and find that the text is not set in the document's bodyfont
size. For example,
\setupbodyfont[20pt]
\starttext
\startstaticMPfigure{fig}
label(\sometxt{in
Unless I'm doing something very silly, the following should and I am
almost certain did work, but it fails with the 2006.09.28 beta:
btex.tex ===
\starttext
\startreusableMPgraphic{fig}
label(btex in b/e tex etex, origin);
\stopreusableMPgraphic
outside
Hans Hagen wrote:
this is runtime tex into passed to the graphic ... imagine that we
flush this to the mp file ... it can contain info that is not known in
that session (like overlay info) which willbreak the mp run
the issue here is that a static graphic is processed in another,
I'm not sure what's going on here, but this file fails (2006.09.28
beta): [well I have a better idea now after writing out the whole email,
see the end...]
=== 3.tex =
\starttext
\startMPenvironment
\def\2{hello}
\stopMPenvironment
\startreusableMPgraphic{fig}
This test file (beta 2006.09.28):
1.tex
\starttext
\startMPenvironment
\def\2#1#2{\vbox{\halign{\hfil##\hfil\cr #1\cr #2\cr}}}
\stopMPenvironment
\startreusableMPgraphic{fig}
label(btex sun etex, origin);
\stopreusableMPgraphic
\reuseMPgraphic{fig}
Hans Hagen wrote:
btex.tex ===
\starttext
\startreusableMPgraphic{fig}
label(btex in b/e tex etex, origin);
\stopreusableMPgraphic
outside btex..etex\quad
\reuseMPgraphic{fig}
\stoptext
works here
I did an installation with last weeks unstable release and found the
wiki infos not really helpful, if not outright misleading.
That's too vague to be helpful. Having written some of the Debian
installation materials, I would find it useful to know what places
were wrong or misleading so that
Search for the stale cont-en.fmt and delete it.
Right -- most likely produced by fmtutil before you commented out the
automatic regeneration of context formats. Same problem happens with
other Unix installations, e.g. I got bit a few times on Debian and
Ubuntu. Here's one way to find the
btex.tex ===
\starttext
\startreusableMPgraphic{fig}
label(btex in b/e tex etex, origin);
\stopreusableMPgraphic
outside btex..etex\quad
\reuseMPgraphic{fig}
\stoptext
works here
never try to do tricky stuff like definitions inside MPenvironement,
because it is parsed and changed slightly.
I'm learning that lesson too. Another one: don't use btex..etex
instead use \sometxt. So I now try to use the MPenvironment only for
font and size switching (e.g. if I want the
works ok ; maybe i should add that command to the core but anyhow
you can wikify it
Using btex..etex is becoming complex with all the interactions, so
instead I wikified an example of converting from btex..etex to
\sometxt -- preaching what I am trying to practice.
Instead I'll use the
Now that \sometxt works with static figures (thanks!), I'm converting
from using btex..etex to using \sometxt, to avoid MPenvironments
(instead put it in the general .tex environment).
But I ran into an error with macro arguments and static figures. Let me
know if it's not worth fixing in view
So I simply copied /root/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/* /var/lib/texmf/web2c/
texexec new.tex seems to run OK now, without error.
I'll investigate further.
You run texexec as root, I'm guessing, so that the formats will be
visible to all users. However, that means they go into root's
This file produces just a boldface 'a' via metafun:
= bf.tex ==
\setuppagenumbering[location=]
\starttext
\startreusableMPgraphic{fig}
label (\sometxt{\bf a}, (0,0));
\stopreusableMPgraphic
\reuseMPgraphic{fig}
\stoptext
= bf.tex ==
'xpdf bf.pdf'
I'd seen a similar problem but didn't manage to catch it before it
slithered away. But I'm pretty sure it used to work (perhaps with an
August 06 release).
Starting from your example, the following was the smallest file I
could find showing the same problem (using the latest beta):
Thanks, that's very helpful. I didn't understand everything that
happened in your installation notes, but for what I did understand
(most of it) I agree with what you say. I'll go through it again,
figure out what I'm still confused about, and then ask you on the
list.
PPS: No, still no idea
# mkdir /usr/local/share/texmf
# cd /usr/local/share/texmf
# unzip /path/to/fresh/cont-tmf.zip
# chmod 755 scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb
# texexec --make
# mv conte-en.fmt cont-nl.fmt metafun.mem mptopdf.fmt web2c/
# texhash
I don't understand
Warning: pdfetex (file /home/myuser/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfm/
context/original-base.map): invalid entry for `fmvr8x': font
file missing
Some time ago it was a hot topic on the mailing list. See:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Error_Recovery
and fix it if possible
This file now produces a blank page except for the page number, perhaps
due to me messing up one of the upgrades (was trying an automatic
install to a TEXMFLOCAL directory but eventually gave up and went back
to ~/texmf/):
\starttext
\startstaticMPfigure{fig}
draw fullcircle scaled 1in;
i already patched ctxtool to unzip everything
I think this is the right solution (or using -o to unzip). The unzip
time is low compared with the time to download cont-tmf.zip (disks are
faster than almost all network connections), so optimizing unzip time
is not worth the chance of
This test file doesn't produce the frames around the margins (2006.10.04
beta):
\starttext
\showlayout
\input tufte
\stoptext
I can't test it on the live context (the missing cont-new.mkii) to make
sure it's not something silly on my part. But I reverted to the
2006.09.28 beta and it had the
Something wrong with \showframe
\showframe
\starttext
test
\stoptext
I added this to the contexttest repository.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
Maybe even extract everything with --beta to TEXMFBETA folder so
that maintaining beta and stable in parallel is seamless.
I like that. But how do you deal with the format files (made by
texexec --make)? texexec puts them in ~/.texmf-config or ~/.texmf-var
(first element of TEXFORMATS from
I have at the moment no ConTeXt where I can test your example file
but you should try to change the first line of your float from
\placetable[here]...
to
\placetable[here,split]...
I hope it works for you and I also try to run your file till tomorrow.
I ran it here (ver:
Here is an example that I put on the wiki (because I kept forgetting
how to do it and wanted one place to find it again, but I never can
find it quickly there anyway, so now it's in the list archives at
least):
\setupcolors[state=start]
\setupinteraction[state=start,color=middlered]
\useURL
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Debian_installation
Are some of the people around who wrote this?
I wrote some of it (hangs head in shame) by typing in all the steps I
had to use on my Debian stable/testing system to get a newer ConTeXt
to work with tetex 3.0 as the basis. I agree, it is
I know that the tilde is causing problems, but I do not know how to
prevent that.
Maybe make the tilde's catcode unactive in a \bgroup \egroup around
the url typesetting? Though if it were that easy, I'm sure the
problem would be fixed long ago...
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of
Another of those 'not sure if I'm confused' examples:
\setuphead[title][header=none]
\starttext
\title{Hello}
\dorecurse{15}{\input tufte}
\stoptext
With header=empty, it worked as I expected: The first page had no page
number in the header and the other pages had a page number. Then I
tried
2) The paragraph after the figure is indented, even if it comes right
after a \section.
wild speculation
Thinking about how I prevented such parindents in my plain TeX days,
by using \ignorespaces\noindent in the definition of \section. If
that's what ConTeXt does, perhaps the \placefigure
\setuphead[title][header=high]
Magic! Thanks a lot.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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Note that ./png-images seems to look for
current_shell_directory/png-images.
what is tex_file_directory?
I'm guessing the directory in which the tex source file lives, what
I often wished TeX used as its search path for relative paths -- the
way some (all?) C compilers will when
Your demimed ConTeXt source:
==
\starttext
\useURL[imara-web-page][http://imara.csail.mit.edu][http://imara.csail.mit.edu]
An interesting project can be found at \url[imara-web-page].
\stoptext
==
(by the way, I find it easiest if
I meant drawing the normal horizontal and vertical rules that
separate rows and columns dashed or dotted instead of continuous,
but using TeX itself
Check in the TeXbook (I'm far O(10^4) km from my copy right now) about
leaders and \hrulefill, that might do it.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate
I was trying out line breaks for long titles (at least, long when set in
36 or 48pt text), as well as have pdf bookmarks, so I defined a \1
shorthand local to the chapter heading:
==
\setupinteraction[state=start]
Thanks Aditya and Wolfgang for the information. I've added it all to
the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_Bookmarks_and_Headers so
let me know if you find any problems there. I noticed two possible
bugs when trying out a few examples -- see below.
If I inline the \1, as in
The bookmark text is A very long chapter about splines. But adding
a letter or word to the chapter body fixes that:
indeed, bookmarks are flushed at the next paragraph, otherwise they
would end up at undefined places
Good point. Does the \bookmark then belong before the \chapter
Does the job, thanks. AucTeX assumes
--passon=-interaction=nonstopmode, which doesn't work.
It worked with the perl (=older) texexec, but the ruby version doesn't
have a --passon switch.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell,
Is there someone here who wants to check (roughly) the context related
man pages that ship with tex live? I have a tgz file.
Sure.
Are they to be checked against a reasonably current mkii?
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand
in my opinion the print command option is --print=2up
It shouldn't matter (2up vs up). The tex.rb script has this:
case getvariable('printformat')
when '' then arrangement \\v!normal
when /.*up/oi then arrangement [2UP,\\v!rotated]
texexec --pdfarrange --paper=A5A4 --print=up live.pdf
It needs to be given as '--paperformat'. I'm pretty sure '--paper'
gets disambiguated as --paperoffset, so ConTeXt looks for a dimension
but gets A5A4, and then complains about a missing number.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of
I'll experiment, especially if I can figure out a set of magic
kpathsea paths to keep mkii and mkiv in parallel.
no need for that ; it is made to run in parallel, just an extra zip
with mkiv and lua files ending up in base, and luatools.lua ending
up in the script path; also, mkiv does not
Nup, doesn't work:
kpathsea: Running mktextfm texnansi-uplr8a
Is this a context problem or do I have some fonts missing?
Probably a case of fonts missing. Those fonts are in cont-fnt.zip that
is not in TeXLive (nor will it be added anytime soon). But FWIW, this
means the bits you do
Here it does work after installation of cont-fnt.zip. Or the current
Debian context package.
Hmm, I think the mess of tex configuration files in Unix has finally
defeated me, and I will switch to using the debian context package and
will retry Aditya's assignment document. That will also
Latexstualists may disagree but I think the essence is that Context
gives more control and makes it easier to create new layouts.
Also the ConTeXt parts are more integrated than the LaTeX packages are
-- think of the discussions/comments about what order LaTeX packages
must be loaded. For
Here is Aditya's writeup with a few edits by this Mahajan. The part
that might have been unclear to someone reading it for the first time
is how ConTeXt can be modular yet monolithic:
It was designed with the same general-purpose aims as LaTeX, but
being younger reflects much more recent
Idris (and all),
Thanks, that's a very helpful contrast between LaTeX and ConTeXt. So
how about:
==
ConTeXt is a document-production system based, like LaTeX, on the TeX
typesetting system. Whereas LaTeX insulates the writer from
typographical
From the formulation used here, people could get the impression that
ConTeXt is an extremely instable product and for that reason refrain
from using it.
Good point. How about simply:
ConText is developed rapidly, often in response to requests from the
friendly user community.
-Sanjoy
I just noticed this test file failing:
\starttext
$f'(x)$
\startformula
f^\prime(x)\quad f'(x)
\stopformula
\stoptext
It gives:
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4 f^\prime(x)\quad f'
(x)
As you can see from lack of complaint about $f'(x)$, the ' still works
in inline math
Aditya This is a typo in math-pln.tex. The end of the file should be
Hans this trickery is related to a change in the catcode management of
Hans context (which interferes with some plain tex left-overs)
Taco Hans has uploaded a new version, with fix (context 2006.12.27).
Just tested on my test
Norbert,
Here's the latest description, for the debian/control file (sorry I
should have explicitly CC'ed you on the list emails revising it):
ConTeXt is a document-production system based, like LaTeX, on the TeX
typesetting system. Whereas LaTeX insulates the writer from
typographical
Isn't there --nobackends (or something similar) which will then not
run any dvips (or dvipdfm)?
It's --nobackend
Here's the revised (ruby) texexec man page (as PDF) -- see p.3. It's
in the Debian packages and will go into the 2006 TeXLive.
-Sanjoy
`Not all those who wander are lost.'
with the decision to leap.
Here is a hello-world template that I just wrote. It contains many of
the ConTeXt commands that I use most frequently. Maybe it should go
on the wiki?
-Sanjoy
% Hello world! document for the ConTeXt typesetting system
%
% === History ===
% 2006-12-29 Sanjoy Mahajan
Rolf Lindgren writes:
\setupindenting[medium, yes]
ConTeXt seems to choke on the yes here.
Hmm, texshow says lists 'yes' and 'medium' as valid keywords. What
ConTeXt version are you using? Can you post the error log? I had no
problems running the whole hello-world file through the
grep -r ifforwardreference .
That finds only the \newif and uses of the new if. To find the
algorithm, you want
egrep -r 'forwardreference(false|true)' .
because the assignments are done by \forwardreferencetrue and
\forwardreferencefalse (a property of the TeX macro language, so not
I'm using Ubuntu 6.10, so context_2006.12.27-1_all.deb wouldn't
install without a --force-conflicts,overwrite,depends given to dpkg
(Ubuntu still uses tetex 3.0). With that caveat, which may explain
the buglet I saw, it mostly worked fine.
The buglet: The context formats that the package
From the texexec man page:
--fast
Typeset the document(s) as fast as possible without causing
problems.
--final
Perform a final run without skipping anything. This option is
typically used with --fast.
So --fast --final could be the pair of switches to add. But I tried
an
Isn't texlive in ubuntu? Maybe not in 6.10.
It is there, but if you've upgraded from 6.06, you start and remain with
tetex. But I've just managed to get rid of the tetex packages and
replace them with the texlive ones. I installed the 7.04 tex-common
package (0.42) by hand , and could then
texexec --make --all puts the formats in the subdirectory
pdfetex but I think it should be pdftex now.
If 'now' means with pdftex 1.40.0, I think you're right. But that
would break context with earlier pdftex's. I've made a symlink from
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex to pdfetex and all is okay
which makes be believe that it will not work for normal cases.
However, how about adding a switch to texexec, say --draft, which
will run the document in draftmode until no more runs are needed, and
will then run a final typesetting run without the draftmode. This may
speed up the
Not sure if the following are new behaviors or are the correct ones but
I'm just misunderstanding. The following jjj.tex file doesn't correctly
generate and include the static metapost figure unless I set
\runMPgraphicstrue and \runMPTEXgraphicstrue in cont-sys.rme and set
shell_escape = t.
If
Taco writes:
Hans always runs with all three switches true, so he never has any
problems, but Mojca and I also regularly have issues like this. The
last of those was the incorrect scaling of sometxt() in
\runmpgraphicsfalse reported two or three weeks back.
Good to know that it isn't
env variable worked (without the %
line):
TEX=latex mptopdf yourfile.mp
-Sanjoy
===
Date:03 Jan 2007 16:47:11 GMT
From:Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problems using mptopdf
To: comp.text.tex
I tried to add
static graphics were never meant to be used otherwise so they force
runMPgraphicstrue
Hmm, deja vu a bit -- you may have explained that point to me once
before.
I made an untested patch an dwill upload a beta later
Thanks, I'll be happy to test. Will it require shell_escape = t ?
-Sanjoy
you can test the beta
I used the same test file:
\starttext
\startstaticMPfigure{fig:ellipse}
path p;
p := fullcircle scaled 2in yscaled 0.5;
label(btex hello etex, origin);
draw p;
\stopstaticMPfigure
\placefigure[right,none]{}{\usestaticMPfigure[fig:ellipse]}
\input tufte
But this should be enough to reproduce it:
\starttext
\input \string|echo -n bla
\stoptext
Breaks here too, using pdftex 1.40.0, context 2006.12.27, Ubuntu i386:
*** glibc detected *** pdfetex: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x082d42f0 ***
Running texexec with --verbose says what the
2) As hz is sometimes not obvious when viewed, I check the fonts in
the resulting PDF to see if any are extended. Most PDF viewers list
the fonts under File/Properties or similar
They might not be used with pdftex 1.40, which (from what I gathered
reading the NEWS file) can adjust the local
To stress-test things and because xdvi renders crisper text than any pdf
viewer, I just tried 'texexec --dvi --nobackend notes'. It failed with:
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex) (./notes.tuo
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
to be read again
-
I updated the Linux installation pages on the wiki, mostly the Debian
one, but also the tetex 3.0 page and I added a short entry for Ubuntu
6.10 (edgy).
The Debian page now describes how to install using Norbert's context
packages. It describes a system-wide install based on those and the
Maybe it will be good (for low-end/copy-paste minded users like me) to
tell to **update** (and not upgrade) after adding those entries
Whoops, fixed. Thanks.
and how to add gpg key to apt (that it's was retuned after such a
command)
Not sure about this one. I've been ignoring the error
After googling a bit, I've succeed with
$ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 0x09C5B094
$ gpg --export --armor 0x09C5B094 | sudo apt-key add -
0x09C5B094 was found on an Nobert Preining mail signature.
Thanks, that worked. I've added that information to the wiki.
nota : $ sudo
Peter M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The only reason why I still keep asking for dvi, is the good xdvi
viewer.
I agree. xdvi is what prompted me into trying dvi mode again (and
investigating dvipos), because of its excellent anti-aliasing. The
only pdf viewer whose rendering quality might be
Several ! Undefined control sequence.
Several \initializenextposition ...dosetpositionpapersize
Taco There was a new upload at 6pm, but I have not yet tested if that fixes
Taco it.
When I upgraded to 2007.01.12 01:02 via the Debian package, I got the
same error that others have reported. I just
Peter M writes:
I'll try xpdf: I need something fast and that watches the file.
xpdf is fast but it won't watch the file. As far as I know, the only
pdf viewer that watches the file, at least on Linux, is gv
(ghostscript). If you find another, let me know.
As you say, acroread is slow; plus
comparison PDF (or ps).
-Sanjoy
`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Date:Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:16:20 BST
From:Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [contexttest] automatic testing
[I added an actual subject line
on my system, when watching the file, gv issues very often some
errors after modification of the pdf-file and that's annoying.
Peter,
You're right. I guessed it might be reading a half-rewritten PDF file
before the new xref table is written (at the end of the file) and
getting confused.
[call this test file q.tex]
\starttext
\framed[corner=14, frame=on, framecolor=darkred,
rulethickness=2pt]{\tttf TEST MORE~}
\stoptext
I don't see any artefacts, but I see the whole frame in the dvi
file, and only the right frame and the bottom in the pdf file.
Strange...
(context source
I haven't tested it, but if the interface hasn't changed, only
corner=round|rectangular are allowed. So what is the meaning of this
magic number 14?
It says which of the many possible combinations of rounded/rectangular
corners, on/off frame lines to use. Try this magic snippet from
Willi,
The artefacts occur in both versions of Context tested.
I don't see those artifacts. I'm using Ubuntu GNU/Linux and xpdf 3.0
as the viewer. I tried two tests:
1. % pdfTeX Version 3.141592-1.40.0 (Web2C 7.5.6)
% ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII
and I downgraded the pdftex
As I already wrote: kpdf. Check out evince, if you are using gnome.
Ah, just found your msg. What if you still use twm (now almost 20
years)...Old habits die hard. xpdf has the advantage of minimal
screen overhead and is agnostic about the window manager/Desktop.
Actually I'm not sure what a
Are there any specs for PDF 1.7 ?
As of October 2006: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html
-Sanjoy
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Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini writes:
That's what I see with
(Adobe Reader 7.0.8; ConTeXt 2007.01.02 13:44).
Is it on windows? It seems -- unless your tests too are on linux --
that windows is the common denominator for showing the artifacts. The
linux viewers (whether xpdf, gv, or acroread)
I've just installed new ConTeXt (ver: 2006.08.08 21:51) under SuSE 10.1
How did you install it? What was there before? It sounds like the
new one isn't visible, since it's date is 2007.01.12 15:56 (or maybe
later). Is 2006.08.08 the version that came with SuSE?
What does
kpsewhich
What's wrong? Was something changed? Haven't I installed the ConTeXt
properly?
I don't think you have. See my response in the texexec ruby problem
thread.
-Sanjoy
`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)
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=
% Example of per-chapter bibliographies and a per-chapter 'Further
% reading' section.
%
% 2007-01-15:
% Written by Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] based on the
% explanation by Thomas Schmitz ('multiple bibliographies',
% ntg-context list, 15 Jan 2007).
%
% Public domain
xpdf -remote your_server_name file.pdf
your_sever_name is whatever you name it
When needed (e.g. *.tex file has chaned) Makefile generates PDF and
calls the server to reload it with
xpdf -reload -remote your_server_name
Thanks, that works! I must have had the syntax wrong before.
Jeff Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I am doing wrong?
The setup looks okay to me too. I use a similar setup with no
problems. I just posted its source code http://web.mit.edu/18.098/.
You might compare the product/project/env files there with what you
have.
But if you send me off-list a
One type of figure is in-line with the text and protrudes into the
wide margin.
I use the following with a single-sided layout, for figures in the
right part of the text, bleeding 0.5 inches into the margin (with no
captions):
\definefloat[bleedfig][figure]
! Arithmetic overflow.
recently read \scaleboxscay
In the external pdf files, is a bounding boxes present and correct
(try pdfinfo -box file.pdf)? It's just my wild guess, but maybe
somewhere the context code is dividing by 0 because a dimension is
missing?
-Sanjoy
`Not all those who wander
The -recorder switch of pdftex/web2c (don't know how to use that
with texexec)
Like so:
texexec --passon=-recorder file.tex
The --passon feature had lapsed in the transition from perl to ruby
texexec, but Hans and Taco fixed it in one of the recent ConTeXt
releases. I now use it all the
Is it possible to sort by the bibliography list by authors? The manual
says that sorttype=cite|bib?
No, because there is no reasonable way to do alphabetic sorting
in TeX.
Perhaps I will reveal my own fundamental confusion about bibtex but:
What about letting bibtex (the C program) do the
Here are the names of the test files that didn't build with the
2007.01.23 ConTeXt:
ERROR [exit code 1] tex/context/base/core-mat.tex/test-001.tex
ERROR [exit code 1] tex/context/base/unic-031.tex/test-001.tex
ERROR [exit code 5] metapost/context/base/mp-text.mp/test-001.tex
ERROR [exit code 5]
See the Hyperlinks, buttons navigation section at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Presentations
-Sanjoy
`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)
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Hmm, what is your test file? Have a look also at the longer
hello-world document at the Wiki
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Hello_world. This example, extracted
from there, works here (using ConTeXt version 2007.01.23):
\setupinteraction[state=start]
\useURL[me][mailto:[EMAIL
Peter,
there is a new texlive rpm on http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/
- easy installation:
rpmbuild --rebuild --force http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/texlive.spm
Here rpm segfaults using that rebuild command (using rpm 4.4.1 on
Ubuntu/i386). I tried to compile the latest version of rpm from source,
rpmbuild --rebuild --force http://pmrb.free.fr/texlive/texlive.nosrc.rpm
With a not too bad connection to the Internet and enough disk space,
this works quite well (no headaches!).
and maybe also with a very recent rpm. Sadly, my rpm (v4.4.1 on
Ubuntu) segfaults with that command. The bug
draw textext(\startformula \sum_{i=0}^N i^2 \stopformula);
I'm always a bit scared of textext, but here's how I do what I think
you are trying to do (get limits underneath) using btex..etex:
label(btex $\displaystyle{\sum_{i=0}^N i^2}$ etex, origin);
Hopefully the same works in textext.
pdfetex is obsolete, it's pdftex now (for quite some time already);
i don't know where knoppix gets its tex from
You could try symlinking
/etc/texmf/web2c/pdfetex to pdftex
or maybe the other way round.
That trick worked for me when I was using pdftex 1.30.
-Sanjoy
`Not all those who
And another question: how to make very big fonts (for example: 60pt) in
text and mathematical mode? I just want to change the font temporally
(and don't touch \setupbodyfont)
I've been wrapping the text in \begingroup..\endgroup and changing the
bodyfont inside it. For example, to make
why not
\setuphead
[title]
[style=\ss\bfd,
before={\switchtobodyfont[14.4pt]},
after={\switchtobodyfont[global]}]
Because I didn't know about the global option :-)
It's cleaner than my method. It's only disadvantage is that the
global setting may not be the one in effect just
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