December 2002 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

startappendices creates an extra empty page
by Rob van Swol 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

Hi, When is use \startappendices \stopappendices to create appendices, I get an extra empty page. Is there a way to solve this? If I put another chapter after the \stopappendices statement, then there is no empty page. See the following test: \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \chapter[]{Chapter} This a chapter \section[]{Section} This a section \startappendices \chapter[]{Appendix} This the appendix \stopappendices % \chapter[]{extra} % This extra \stoptext Any suggestions? Regards, Rob -- _____________________________________________________________ Rob W. van Swol National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Tel. +31 527 248252 P.O. Box 153 Fax +31 527 248210 8300 AD Emmeloord E-Mail vanswol(a)nlr.nl The Netherlands http://www.neonet.nl/

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Re: bigger font families
by Hans Hagen 31 May '03

31 May '03

At 02:19 PM 4/1/2002 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >Ahoi! > >Is there a way for other type classes than roman, sans, math and mono? >E.g. I need sometimes an additional casual/script/handwriting font family >(think of Lucida...) and would like to address it as style=\hd or like that. > >I tried to define it with usual typescripts and "hand" instead of "sans" etc. >but had no success. If such *should* work, then I'll review it and look for >mistakes, but if it *can't* work I must abuse one of serif/sans/mono. > >An other way would be mapping the script font to an "exotic" style like >\sc\it -- what do you think? there is \hw and \cg for handwritten and calligraphy, and you can define more if you want (peek into font-ini.tex); also, in some type-* files you will find casuals; in principle you can create your own names (we do that for things like semi fonts), so we do things like: \definetypeface [mainfont] [rm] [serif] ... \definetypeface [semifont] [rm] [semi-serif] /... that's the nice thing of typefaces/scripts, that you can cook up your own names. the rm, ss, tt cg, hw entries are predefined which means that they will be recognized and have associated commands, if you want more (with as restiction that they should have two char names) you can define them with \definefontstyle; in a similar fashion you can define \tfp|q|r if you want or even map names onto families (math) etc etc Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-ade.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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URL
by Michał Morawski 30 May '03

30 May '03

Hi, I want to see active URL in my pdf document in similar way that is used by <a....>....</a> tag in html So I have written \setupinteraction[state=start] then \useexternaldocument [doc:Molik] [http://zskl.zsk.p.lodz.pl/~morawski/local/Praca dyplomowa p. Molika.pdf] [Metody routingu unikastowego] then I try to use \from, \goto; \url and even if I see the link, it is not active then I try: \useURL [Molik] [http://zskl.zsk.p.lodz.pl/~morawski/local/Praca dyplomowa p. Molika.pdf] and \from, \goto; \url result is less or more the same. Where is the problem? What I have missed in documentation? Michal Morawski

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Wrong bookmarking, please help
by varheit＠gmx.de 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Dear all, Below I have included a document source which causes a lot of trouble. It includes a split table, which seems to corrupt the bookmarking. If you click on the links in the bookmark tab in acrobat reader, it takes you to the wrong pages. I noticed the ext4 warning produced by pdftex (see log excerpt below), but I have no idea how to fix this. In addition, I would like to make the table float. Could somebody tell me how to set this up with \splitfloat? I tried nearly every setup I could think of, but without any succes so far. Any hint would be greatly appreciated. Best regards Vik \setupinteraction [state=start] \setupcolors [state=start] \setupTABLE [split=repeat] \placebookmarks [chapter] \starttext \completecontent \chapter{First chapter} \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTH Name \eTH \bTH Favorite color \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{80}{\bTR \bTD Marvin \eTD \bTD yellow \eTD \eTR} \eTABLEbody \eTABLE \chapter{Second chapter} some text \stoptext -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2c 7.3.7x) (format=cont-en 2002.9.9) 20 DEC 2002 23:24 entering extended mode **&cont-en longtab.tex (./longtab.tex{f:/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2002.8.23 fmt: 2002.9.9 int: english mes: english ... chapter : 1 First chapter ! pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{page:0}) ha s been already used, duplicate ignored <recently read> fit <to be read again> \egroup \fakePDFpagedestination ...e:\realfolio }}\egroup \fi \fi \fi \actualshipout ...chbox \hbox {\the \everyshipout \ifnum \realpageno =\lastp... \myshipout ...pout {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \fi \gotonextrealpage \nap... \dofinaloutput ...pagebody #1#2\setpagecounters }} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... ... l.25 \eTABLE [1.2] [2.3] [3.4] chapter : 2 Second chapter

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something new, user-interfacing to context
by Hans Hagen 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Hi, I uploaded a first version of the lightweight eXaMpLe framework. Think of a user interface to: - interactive page imposition (more extensive than texexec, including test bed; more documentation will follow) - an interface to pstopdf, a script on top of ghostscript, which provides a couple of goodies. Processes like these are driven bij xml-data streams and handled by a service on localhost (more extensive distributed processing is under construction). The example things are distributed in a separate zip: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-tmf.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-exa.zip you can unzip both in your local tree and generate formats as usual. If you launch .../context/examplap/gui/examplap.pdf and browse a bit around, you'll get an idea what is happening. In order for it to really work, a couple of things are needed: (1) you need to install ruby and have ruby in your bin path (2) you need to launch exampler.rb --continue more can be found in http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ex-gui.pdf There will be a lot more, for instance interfaces to the figure library, correspondence, etc. The low level things are under construction, so don't start building on it yourself before eximple.pdf and example.pdf go public (manuals). I tested in with fptex/windows; later i will make it miktex ready (waiting for input from mr bigfoot); linux works here, but probably also needs some work. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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syllabus module
by Bruce D'Arcus 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Has anyone come up with a good syllabus module for ConTeXt? Bruce -- http://fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow

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a recent change in double-sided pagination?
by Bill McClain 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

It seems that the behaviour of \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] has changed in the last couple of months. Jobs that once correctly produced an even count of pages now produce an odd count. In viewing a two-page spread in Acrobat, the first page is correctly a right-hand page, but the last page is a bogus one, also a right-hand page. The document should end on the left. I'm using ConTeXt ver: 2002.12.20 from the beta download page. -Bill -- Sattre Press Curiosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/ by Garrett Serviss info(a)sattre-press.com http://csky.sattre-press.com/

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Midaligned text above columns
by Willi Egger 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hi Hans, I tried to use columns. I wanted to have a headerline midaligned above the columns. Whatever I try the headerline is only partially centered.... If I compile the test file without using columns, then the headerline is nicely centered above the text. Do I make a mistake? Best regards Willi

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typescripts, bodyfonts, hanging puncuation
by Bill McClain 27 Dec '02

27 Dec '02

I need a clue, please. I don't understand the relation between typescripts for font definitions and bodyfonts or bodyfontenvironments. I began with typescripts when I started using Context and never learned much about the underlying mechanism. I've studied "Fonts in Context" (mfonts.pdf), but I still don't get it. I define typescripts for my fonts. They have no size specification. I understand that when I declare something like: \definetypeface [Sabon] [rm] [serif] [sabon] [default] [encoding=texnansi] that typescript "[serif] [default] [size]" in type-siz.tex will be used for the size info, but I don't know what that gets me. That typescript has: \definebodyfont [4pt,5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt,9pt,10pt,11pt,12pt,14.4pt,17.3pt] [rm] [default] I don't know what that list of sizes means. I can use \setupbodyfont and \switchtobodyfont to specify any arbitary full or fractional point size and all works well. But: now and then I hit a problem which is caused by missing definitions of some sort. For example, the hanging punctuation in this job: \usetypescriptfile[type-sabon] \usetypescript [serif] [hanging] [sabon] \usetypescript[Sabon] \setupbodyfont[Sabon,9pt] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth \input tufte } \par \stoptext Note that I have the typescript "[serif] [hanging] [sabon]" and it declares the hanging parameters. With 9pt: no hanging. But it does work if I specify 12pt, 10pt, 8pt, or even 9.1pt. What is special about 9pt? I presume I should be specifying size info somewhere, but I don't what or where. -Bill -- Sattre Press The King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers info(a)sattre-press.com http://kiy.sattre-press.com/

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\boldmath
by Sytse Knypstra 27 Dec '02

27 Dec '02

How do I get boldface greek symbols in math mode (and especially with lucida bright)? The following does not work: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usetypescript [lucida] [texnansi] \switchtotypeface [lucida] [9pt] \starttext $\alpha {\boldmath \alpha } \alpha$ \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Siep Kroonenberg supplied me with the following partial solution: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usetypescript [all] [lucida] [name] \usetypescript [lucida] [texnansi] \definetypeface [boldmath] [rm] [serif] [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [boldmath] [tt] [mono] [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [boldmath] [ss] [sans] [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath] [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \switchtotypeface [lucida] [9pt] \def\pmb{\switchtotypeface [boldmath]} \starttext $\alpha {\pmb \alpha } \alpha$ {\pmb $\alpha$} $\alpha$ {\pmb $\alpha$} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% But here in the first line \pmb appears not to be working within math mode. Sytse Knypstra S.Knypstra(a)eco.rug.nl

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DocbookInContext: new version uploaded
by Simon Pepping 23 Dec '02

23 Dec '02

Hi, I have uploaded a new version of DocbookInContext. This version has an implementation of blockquote, epigraph and attribution. After the long thread on customization on this list, I dived into Context's customization API. I have succeeded to use it and enable customization for blockquote, epigraph and attribution. See the file Customization.xml for details. This does not include the type of customization for attribute values, that was also discussed on this list. That would require much more work, so I put it on some stack. :-) You can find DocbookInContext at http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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University of Twente mirror down
by Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen 23 Dec '02

23 Dec '02

Hi ConTeXt fans, Due to maintainance, the University of Twente mirror was brought down. The whole machine will be upgraded to apache 2.0.43 and the latest linux stuff. All hardware will be upgraded, and the new machine setup will be more fault-tolerant, since it is a clustered linux solution. I will try to bring it up before christmas, and since my boss encouraged me not to make any more hours this year for the University, I am pretty confident it will work.... Greetings, Gilbert. --- A TeX a day keeps word perfect away

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update swedish in lang-ger.tex?
by Mikael Persson 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

Hi there! I had a look at lang-ger.tex and it seems to need a update for the swedish language in the setuphead names. \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!tabellen=Tabellen] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!tabellen=Tabeller] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!figuren=Figuren] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!figuren=Figurer] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!grafieken=Grafiskt] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!grafieken=Grafik] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!intermezzos=Intermezzot] should be (I think) \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!intermezzos=Intermezzon] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!index=Index] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!index=Sakregister] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!afkortingen=F\oumlaut rkortningen] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!afkortingen=F\oumlaut rkortningar] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!logos=Logo] should be (I think) \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!logos=Loggor] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!eenheden=Enheten] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!eenheden=Enheter] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!grafiek=Grafisk ] should be \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!grafiek=Grafik ] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!regels=raden ] should be \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!regels=rader ] Then there were also some things that didn't have any swedish parts: \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!pagina=Sida ] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!oppagina=p\aring\ sida ] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!hierboven=se ovan] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!hieronder=se nedan] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!zie=se ] That was all I guess. I hope this makes sense, so I'm not looking in an obsolete file or something like that (I started learn ConTeXt just a week ago...). I also have some questions: 1) When I want to load swedish (so I get Innehållsförteckning instead of Contents and so on), how do I do? I read the manaual, but I didn't really understood how to do. I have tried this: * run texexec --lang sv en and then * \language[sv] in the file * \installlanguage[sv] But no luck. 2) Is there a way to make multiple pdf files output from one file. Say, I want to get one pdf for every page I have. (The reason I want this, is that I want to typeset some pictures in ConTeXt and then include them in my LaTeX project. I don't want to "convert" my LaTeX project (about 200 pages) into ConTeXt) So, what I want is something like: \starttext \startpdfpage[picture1] Stuff that will appear in picture1.pdf \stoppdfpage \startpdfpage[picture2] Stuff that will appear in picture2.pdf \stoppdfpage . . . \stoptext =========== Since this is my first post, I would also like to thank you for making ConTeXt available for free. If I could help with some swedish tranlations or similar I would be glad to. Regards, Mikael Persson

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Problem with figuretext in recent betas
by Michael Guravage 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

I have encountered a problem while compiling a document with figuretext; I have attached a small example that demonstrates the problem, and its accompanying log file. The problem occurs in the current beta: 2002.12.17, and the beta from 2002.12.01. The problem does not occur in the beta from 2002.10.23. Though it's only a minor annoyance, any advice would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Michael

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Re: [NTG-context] update swedish in lang-ger.tex?
by Hans Hagen 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

At 02:17 PM 12/20/2002 +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote: > > 2) Is there a way to make multiple pdf files output from one file. Say, > > I want to get one pdf for every page I have. (The reason I want this, is > > that I want to typeset some pictures in ConTeXt and then include them in > > my LaTeX project. I don't want to "convert" my LaTeX project (about 200 > > pages) into ConTeXt). > >Hmm. Maybe something like > >gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite >-sOutputFile="pdffile-%d.pdf" -c save pop -f pdffile.pdf > >is the fastest possibility. if you use pdftex, you can include any page from a pdf file, so there is no need to split the file, i'm sure that latex has something similar to \externalfigure[whatever.pdf][page=34] Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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UTF8 problems with Hangul Syllables
by Cho, Jin-Hwan 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

Here is my comment and question on the new feature of ConTeXt supporting the UTF8 encoding. Actually I tried to test the following short ConTeXt document containing two Korean characters. At the second line I used the Bitstream Cyberbit font and the corresponding TFM files were generated by ttf2tfm with Unicode.sfd (the same way as the UTF8 support in CJK-LaTeX). \enableregime [utf] \definefontsynonym [UnicodeRegular] [cyberb] \chardef\utfunihashmode=1 \starttext ^^eb^^bf^^a1 ^^ec^^80^^80 \stoptext Here, ^^eb^^bf^^a1 = U+BFE1 and ^^ec^^80^^80 = U+C000. 1. Without the third line (\chardef\utfunihashmode=1), I could not see any characters. Why? 2. After enabling \utfunihashmode, I could see the first character. But not the second character. The difference was that the value of \unidiv were 191 for the first character and 192 for the second character. In fact, all characters with \unidiv >= 192 and \unidiv <= 223 (from U+C000 to U+DFFF; half of Hangul Syllables) were not shown correctly. Why? Anyway, it is now possible to get a PDF file containing several different languages with ConTeXt + dvipdfmx. Furthermore, the texts in the PDF file can be searched and extracted. Bookmarks and text annotations too! I used the following map entry (usually in cid-x.map) for dvipdfmx. cyberb@Unicode@ Identity-H :0:cyberbit.ttf Best, ChoF. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** | Cho, Jin-Hwan == ChoF | ^ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o | Research Fellow | ~~~ | School of Mathematics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Korea Institute for Advanced Study | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | chofchof(a)ktug.or.kr | | http://free.kaist.ac.kr/ChoF/ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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DocBookInConTeXt customization?
by Gour 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Hi! I'm interested how one can customize output when using DocBookInConTeXt module? With XSL DocBook stylesheets, one can pass certain parameters or build his own customization layer on the stylesheets, and thereby customize output. In README file it is stated: "The mapping translates the XML file internally to a context ..", so I'm interested (pls. excuse me if it's a stupid question) is it possible to just convert DocBook input file into ConTeXt format or/and how isone supposed to tailor output according to his/her preferences? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Total sectioning number
by scarso luigi 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Is there any mode to get the total number of chapters (or sections inside a chapter etc) as a counter, ie \newcount\TotalChapterCount \TotalChapterCount=..... ? (I need this to make some operations with \textwidth and other dimensions) thanks

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Bib bug
by Nigel King 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

The citations in my latest document show [56] for the number of the reference. This happens to be the number of documents in my bib file. The relevant commands in my various sources are:- \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database=/Users/nigelk/Library/texmf/tex/context/Nigel] \setuppublications [alternative=apa] \def\refwithbrackets#1{[#1]\quad} \setuppublications [numbering=yes,% refcommand=num,% numbercommand=\refwithbrackets,% sorttype=cite,% criterium=used,% autohang=yes,% align=right] \setuppublicationlist [after={\blank[medium]},% strut=yes,% offset=0pt] And in the document \cite[abc:01] And \placepublications The bib file is a standard old style bib file generated by bibdesk Is there something that I have done wrong? TIA -- Nigel

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Reference + footnote = bug
by Giuseppe Bilotta 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

... and a rather odd bug, too! \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext Some text \goto{text with footnote\footnote{here it is} showing the bug}[hook] \page[yes] Some text \reference[hook] referenced from before. \stoptext See how the word "footnote" is superscripted ... it's an odd bug indeed, and it almost seems the footnote can detect the previous word ... -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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\placecontent
by Willi Egger 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hi everybody, I am struggling.... Previously it was possible to place a toc with the command \placecontent within a block. Currently I am using: ConTeXt ver: 2002.12.2 fmt: 2002.12.9 int: english mes: english With the above mentioned version there is only a toc if placed outside the block. - Is there something changed or broken? Please see attachment. Kind regards Willi

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ConTeXt & poster
by Serge Stinckwich 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hi all, i would like to make a research poster (A1) with ConTeXt. Maybe someone here has already done it and got some examples ? Thanks! -- Serge Stinckwich -< ) multiagent.com Université de Caen>CNRS UMR 6072>GREYC>MAD /~\ squeak.org http://www.iutc3.unicaen.fr/serge/ (/ | zope.org Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] _|_/ debian.org

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Re: shadowed frame in ConTeXt
by Hans Hagen 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

At 03:36 PM 12/17/2002 +0800, you wrote: >Is there any options to set shadowed frame (like the \usepackage{shadow} in > >(the \shadowbox in latex sets the shadow under the bottom and to right side >of the frame, sometimes we need to set the shadow in another place, >for example, right side and under the bottom, or over the top and right >side.) Take your choice \starttext \startbuffer \framed[background=shadow,frame=off]{Does it work} \vskip1cm \framed[background=shadow,frame=off,align=right]{Does\\it\\work} \vskip1cm \stopbuffer \defineoverlay[shadow][\uniqueMPgraphic{shadow}] \startuniqueMPgraphic{xshadow} linejoin := butt ; fill OverlayBox shifted (2pt,-2pt) withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .7white ; fill OverlayBox withcolor white ; draw OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .3white ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox enlarged 4pt ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \getbuffer \startuniqueMPgraphic{xshadow} linejoin := butt ; draw (urcorner OverlayBox -- lrcorner OverlayBox -- llcorner Overlaybox) shifted (2pt,-2pt) withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .9white ; draw OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .3white ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox enlarged 4pt ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \getbuffer \startuniqueMPgraphic{shadow} linejoin := butt ; linecap := squared ; draw (bottomboundary OverlayBox & rightboundary OverlayBox) shifted (2pt,-2pt) withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .9white ; draw OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .3white ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox enlarged 4pt ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \getbuffer \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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chinese font setup
by Matthew Huggett 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

A few weeks back, there was a short exchange on this list regarding utilities for preparing chinese fonts for ConTeXt. One of the postings provided a link to some new utilities. I've since downloaded the file there (gbkfonts-linux-0.2.tar.gz) but am unsure as to how to proceed. If anyone with experience in this area could provide some advice, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Matt -- ------------------------------------ Matthew Huggett Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken Japan mhuggett(a)zam.att.ne.jp

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context on solaris
by Tomasz Kosinski 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

Hope this is the right place to ask...I have used, very gratefully, ConTeXt for the past few years on my Debian GNU/Linux system, and sometimes, when possible, I have installed it on client's/employer's Windows computers, using MikTeX. Maybe I have to change my OS from Debian to Solaris, on an Intelx86 machine, and so I would like to know if anyone has been using ConTeXt in that environment, or, if there is any reason to expect that it might or might not work. I noticed in the teTeX download page: http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/tetex.html that pre-compiled binaries are available for Solaris running on Sparc computers, but it doesn't say anything about x86 machines. Any thoughts would be very much appreciated - non-programmer, end-user writing. By the way, my occupation is architect (buildings) and I use ConTeXt for all kinds of document preparation - office work, correspondence, presentations, etc. I recently received a reply to a proposal which I submitted, which included the following: > Thanks, I'll be back in touch. > Robin > PS most beautiful proposal ever! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Maybe the enthusiasm is a bit exaggerated, but, to the extent that there is truth in the sentiment, credit is largely due to ConTeXt, ConTeXt's author, and to the many on this list who have helped out over the years. Regards, rb

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