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> I don't want the header to appear on the first page, I tried various
> solutions but failed so far.
I use:
\noheaderandfooterlines
\setupheadertexts[text][XX][YY]
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document with one example of each construct you use. I took Lamport's
sample2e.tex, added a figure and a table, and then made a context version
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I don't see this on my linux machines with older versions of ConTeXt and
pdftex.
Simple LaTeX documents and ConTeXt documents that don't use the bib module
don't give the error, so it looks like the bib module reveals a bug in
pdftex-1.40.n,
for some n larger than 3.
rved for the next user. In practice, people just dump
selected refs to a bib file, make the .bbl file, and fix problems
there, so fixes rarely make it back to the master database.
If they did, we would still have accents and quote marks
being switched b
it is running on the local machine -- it can be very slow
over a network), or Emacs DocView just makes a png image of each
page -- often enough to make sure some TeX fragment is working
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ve complained.)
Don't complain, just switch to a platform/distro where ConTeXt works
and use mpm (since few others provide updates with the speed and
convenience of MiKTeX).
I think MiKTeX should remain focusing on the packages and binaries,
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> > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Mojca Miklavec
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> > > some time ago some
all that you will need to do to stay up to
> date is fetching:
> - luatex
> - context itself
> - maybe luatool & mtxrun
>
>> Once I copy thse binaries to my TeXLive binary
>> directory, what's the next step?
lls for the
same TL version. The solution is to make sure you use the
-sys versions to put configs and formats into the system
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The environment modules system makes it easy to
have multiple TeX systems installed.
The current luatex version (from <http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex>)
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.27 int: english/english
[...]
mkiv lua stats : runtime - 8.756 seconds, 3
processed pages, 3 shipped pages, 0.343 pages/second
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So the solution lies some
fTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7)
[MP to PDF] (example.1{C:/windows/profiles/gwhite/Local Settings/Application Da
ta/MiKTeX/2.7/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}) [1]
Output written on example.pdf (1 page, 32785 bytes).
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community, there are
more and better tools for PDF than for DVI).
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efully in a way that will
survive updates) and file a bug report with SuSE. Distributions are
can only be as "TeX friendly" as their users -- otherwise you get
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nk ;-)
>
> Is there a simple thing I should change to make it work on the mac as
> well?
works for me with 10.5.5 safari, although there are so many manuals that
I can't tell which is which. Time to get a bigger office so I can fit
-try.pdf
Title: cont-try
Subject:
Keywords:
Author:
Creator:ConTeXt - 2006.08.08 21:51
Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.1
CreationDate: Sat Jan 20 15:29:21 2007
ModDate:20070120
Tagged: no
Pages: 1
Encrypted: no
Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (
7
> should be handled by pdftex's pdf inclusion.
When I try to embed <http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/cis/DesignData3.pdf>
I get a document that is much smaller than the original and lacks the
3d views of the original.
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ersion of TeX Live 2007 in a virtual machine, and very likely will
work in native Win32, but I haven't tried it. Note that maths still
uses the conventional math fonts (e.g., Type 1).
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ge of xetex is that it supports system fonts directly.
It is, however, new, so there could be glitches.
<http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=latex> has lots of
useful information
The xetex web site has examples and a FAQ.
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On 4/15/07, Sanjoy Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you set prologues := 1 in the mp file, that should help.
>
> That still gave Courier fonts after including fig.1 in test.ps.
>
> > In a new metapost (texlive2007) you can even generate an
> > image with the font included by using prologu
27;t show up correctly in the
> pdf file, but only when using non-cmr fonts.
I think that was fixed long ago, but I rarely use .dvi anymore.
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graph.pdf (or .ps) that works. Since pstoedit
mucks with ghostscript's SYSTEMDICT it isn't surprising that problems
arise for newer gs versions. Maybe it is time for ghostscript to get
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GS version as well.
>
> Here some infinite loop occurs when I call
> pstoedit -ssp -dt -f mpost mpy-bla-mpgraph.pdf mpy-bla-mpgraph.tmp
> (which is what ConTeXt does in line 328 of makempy.pl)
Older GS exits:
ESP Ghostscript 815.04: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Newer GS (8.60) loops
opping up many times -- it will be a few years before all linux
distros have updated to the new version, and some will make backports
of the patch. The next people who encounter this will benefit from seeing
the explanation so they can make the fix in somewhat different versions
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There is a problem with the size of math fonts: X$X$X or x$x$x.
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10, the fonts agree.
A convenient
way to check is \showfontstrip.
So, how do I get 12pt body font using MKiV?
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tail, for example the parameters of command
> > \setuplayout on the page 24 of cont-enp.pdf. Or am I careless? How shall
> > I start to learn? And how shall I go on learning?
> >
> > Best regards,
was that I
> wanted to use some amstex macro's. Is it possible to use amstex in context
> as well?
What part of amstex?The math-ams module defines characters, but
I'm not sure
about some of the advanced layout stuff.
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and removing all the old .fmt files?
On my system, fmtuil-sys puts the cont-en.fmt formats in
texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/ and texmf-var/web2c/xetex/,
but the context tools put them under texmf-config, so it
is all easy to end up with multiple versions of the .fmt files.
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> Le 27 août à 17:29:24 "George N. White III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit
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>
> | Did you do the step of finding and removing all the old .fmt files?
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> | On my system, fmtuil-sy
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> necessary...
I'd try the latest version first. Normally I have my systems
configured with a separate
texmf-cont tree that I link to cont-tmf- so I can very quickly
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TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
This is luaTeX, Version 3.141592-beta-0.11.2-2007092410 (Web2C 7.5.6)
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ConTeXt ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKIV fmt: 2007.10.12 int: english/english
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{/Data/opt/tex/texlive/svn/Master/texmf-cont/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-
youngryu-tx.map} [1.1]
systems : end file test at line 10
){/Data/opt/tex/texlive/svn/Master/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc}
Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 13169 bytes).
'PATH'] =~
/(.*?)miktex[\\\/]bin/i) then
! @@distribution = 'miktex' unless $1 =~
/(texmf\-mswin[\/\\]bin|bin[\/\\]win32)/i
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ave a chance to test your patch today.
Currently, texexec.pl tries a brute force search if kpathsea fails to find
texexec.ini or texexec.rme. On the Win98 PC I'm using, this search takes
much longer than I'm willing to wait. Would it be better to exit with a
suggestion that the user invest
or the gebied entry in, e.g.,
test.tmp?
Are you using irun generated .exe files for texexec, etc.?
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ill require the same
change, and they are only to be used for "$dosish" systems.
It is past my bedtime, so I'll have to cut this short. Weather
permitting, I'll be out of the office until October, but I'll try to post
some reasonabl
.pm is a perl module. It was missing on SGI Irix too. Perl has a
tools to automate the installation of modules, but you may need some
libraries as well (Tk/Tcl, compression, etc.) which can either be
installed under Perl or for use with other applications. You will
need the developer tools if you bu
27;texexec --verbose', I can see that settings are still taken from
> 'texexec.rme'. Could You tell me what is the point in copying RME to INI and
> when INI file is used instead RME?
Did you run mktexlsr? What do you get from: 'kpsewhich -progname=context
-format=&qu
some way I do need to let someone know pronto.
I'm not sure about the demo image. If you are using Win32, does
texexec.exe find texexec.ini using kpsewhich?
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ied to me that printed out the full path
> that texfont was looking for files in. The --fontroot option or kpsewhich
> lookup appears to be at fault but I have no debugging facilities.
>
> Any suggestions (other than giving up) gratefully received.
You will have to learn a tiny bi
.3] [4.4] [5.5] [6.6] [7.7]
systems : end file context-align at line 82
){/opt/texLive/texmf/dvips/tetex/f7b6d320.enc}
Output written on context-align.pdf (7 pages, 14051 bytes).
Transcript written on context-align.log.
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ll TeX that will
play nicely with that (I did suggest that our users would be better
off running linux in vmware).
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ybe cheap PC clones can't tolerate ls-R too many times in a
short time period.
btw -- before the machine died I did notice that the new version of fpTeX
has a 1.11b pdftex.
I've been asked to put TL2003 on a ThinkPad running XP -- hope it sur
will
want to edit the properties for Maintenance/Add packages to change the
command line to use you favorite CTAN mirror, e.g.,:
C:\texLive\bin\Win32\TeXSetup.exe --add-package --remote-source-directory
ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/0.7/.
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texexec.ini:
$ mv ./context/config/texexec.rme ./context/config/texexec.ini
$ texhash .
texhash: Updating /user/gwhite/texmf/./ls-R...
texhash: Done.
The next step would be to compare "texexec --verbose" for the two
configurations, and also the contents of
t doesn't scale) is a poor choice for figures that
consist of lines and text.
There are many good tools to do the conversions you mention, starting
with a pdf file. It is easy to find these tools on the internet and
they are discussed in books such as "The LaTeX Graphics Companion"
R UID.GID /home/TEXUSER
fi
mkdir /mnt/NFS_SERVER && mount /mnt/NFS_SERVER
The usual config.tbz file will provide modified fstab, group, passwd, etc.
files. The TEXUSER.tgz file can provide scripts to add TeX to the
user's PATH, etc. Use &quo
You need the printed manual for the TaBlE package, which will
suggest something alone the lines:
\starttable[|l|lp(120pt)|]
\NC Something \NC Long description ... \input tufte \NC\AR
\stoptable
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> * George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Mar 01, 2004 18:30]:
> > You need the printed manual for the TaBlE package, which will
> > suggest something alone the lines:
>
> Hm, and this manual has to be ordered? No do
e
core-tab.tex.
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tment) than
you can get using pdftex, and you can use different settings for each
image rather than rely on some global "default" setting.
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xmgracefile.ps > xmgracefile.ps.bb"
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# findbb -- write PostScript BoundingBox to stdout
# Notes:
# 0. The '-b' flag can be used with .pdf files.
# 1. (e)ps files may contain bin
8 and several TeX encodings.
From the manual: "It is easy for a programmer to add a new charset to
`recode'. All it requires is making a few functions kept in a single `.c'
file, adjusting `Makefile.am' and remaking `recode'."
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ns. All that pdftex should do is
support inclusion of pdf. The limited support for including png images
is a convenience, but if you are being careful you would want to make
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Mats Broberg wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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As a general principle, it makes no sense for pdftex to
provide image manipulation capabilities. Such capabilities
are useful to a much wider
audience than the users of
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ugh detail (host OS, commands used to format
the document) and a minimal example so someone can reproduce your
problem. Have you tried viewing the output with other viewers and/or
platforms?
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c.pdf
that is identical to the one available from the above URL.
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a TeXCharTool that does BabelMap stuff but
provides annotations describing appropriate TeX usages and can be
searched using legacy TeX markup (e.g., to assist with
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try to the
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Not near my Mac system, but I seem to recall there was a change in the name
of the directory for the programs from "texmf-osx-intel" to
"texmf-osx-64" so you
would need to adjust the PATH setting fro
image to pdf tools that all do
the easy cases
adequately but don't give the level of control needed for the difficult cases.
SVG is different because much of it is based on a graphics model that resembles
PDF. Some SVG documents translate directly to PDF, but others, e.g., markers,
may &qu
is: does anyone have any good ideas what to put there?
I used to send people who wanted to find out what ConTeXt can do
to <http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf>, but it doesn't work
for me on linux, only windows (the Mac here isn't on the network).
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ause printers understandably don't like
dealing with unknown software. It takes some time to train the
printers to trust ConTeXt or LaTeX produced documents, and then the
company goes under or is bought out by a bigger company and you have
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/modules.sourceforge.net/>), to switch between TeX
distros. This adjusts the
environment in the current shell.
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t likely you are missing some of the "build" tools. Look
for a package called "build-essential". You may need to add
some -dev packages for various libraries needed by gnuplot.
You might check the dependencies for debian gnuplot and
make sure you have the -
express a concept that could be more accurately
conveyed by a simple equation.
I suppose it is time to start collecting examples of epub docs with
maths and filing bugs against readers that don't handle them properly.
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rd equivalent that many will be used to.
Many of my tables are results from some numerical computation, I usually
write a short program to print the data in the required ConTeXt/LaTeX
format. The others I try to find some similar existing table and update
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graphics) it isn't appropriate to provide all the
background in a TeX documentation, so what is needed is a some
pointers to the required background material. I do expect a reader
who comes without the required background to find things they don't
understand, but the way to handle that
ment,
called "environment modules":
<http://modules.sourceforge.net/>
<http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/resources/software/os/modules.html>
This was standard kit on SGI Irix -- now that we are replacing the SGI
workstations with
MacOSX at
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If your
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Xan wrote:
> Al 19/08/10 12:52, En/na George N. White III ha escrit:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Xan wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have installed context package
>>> [http://packa
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Xan wrote:
> Al 19/08/10 15:48, En/na George N. White III ha escrit:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Xan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Al 19/08/10 12:52, En/na George N. White III ha escrit:
>>>
&
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Xan wrote:
>
>> Al 19/08/10 12:52, En/na George N. White III ha escrit:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Xan wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> > > I
etc/texmf/web2c/pdftex on my system. On debian/ubuntu
/etc/texmf/web2c is for configuration files, but perhaps some program
tried to put formats and logs there instead of the proper /var/lib/texmf:
$ locate texmf/web2c/pdftex
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/amstex.fmt
/var/lib/t
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Xan wrote:
> Al 21/08/10 00:30, En/na George N. White III ha escrit:
>>
>> O
>> When I run luatools --generate (as normal user) there are no errors.
>>
>> I don't have /etc/texmf/web2c/pdftex on my system. On de
gt; desktop. Is it possible to change that directory into a hidden directory
> e.g. ~/.luatex-cache?
Yes -- see "/usr/share/doc/context/README.MarkIV"
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be too much to expect luatools to recover when things are not where they
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ing:
1. document the current status:
run (as normal user) "luatools --variables", then use the value of
TEXMFCACHE for:
"ls -lR " (e.g., paste in the value shown for
TEXMFCACHE)
2. check that the luatex caches have suitable permissions, or just
delete them and
unknown}%
\secondoftwoarguments}}
--- 1183,1189
\def\doifbibreferencefoundelse#1%
{\preloadbiblist
\doifdefinedelse{pbdk-#1}
! {\firstoftwoarguments}
{\showmessage\m!publications{5}{#1 is unknown}%
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ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use artix linux (a fork of arch with systemd alternative init systems).
>
I get the same error for TL2023 in Windows, with additional output:
Please don't say '\def cs{...}', say '\def\cs{...}'. I
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