January 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

typescripts and environments
by Bruce D'Arcus 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

A familiar issue, but I'm still a bit confused about how to set up a proper typescript, and how to access it in a document. Can someone please look at the enclosed? What I don't understand is how to name these files and typescripts, where to put them, and how to access them in a document. This is the beginnings of a typescript to handle some OpenType fonts which have been converted to type 1. What I will want to be able to do is to say: base font = minionpro-osf footnote text font = minionpro-caption-osf title font = minionpro-display-osf section heading font = minionpro-subhead-osf Am I on the right track with the enclosed file? The environment file is at the bottom, but I'm not sure how to access it correctly. I've tried \environment[minionpro-osf], but it doesn't seem to work (though there might be other reasons I'm getting Computer Modern!). Thanks, Bruce

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: de quoteing
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hallo! > > I have set: \mainlanguage[de] > > But Apostroph is still 6 not 9. How can I change this? Grrr! This was homemade. Some character 0x91 in my inputfile. > Here is an example file. Note that you need a font that has these > characters available (cmr does not). For the < and > see leftquote What about cmsy \ll ? In LaTeX this is used to build \flqq. > and rightquotation. These are the possibilities for the "french" > quotation marks. By texexecing this file, the font utmr8r could' nt be found?! Should this be available in a standard debian-distribution? > ================================================== > \usetypescript[berry][8r] > \setupencoding[default=8r] > > \setupbodyfont[pos] > > \mainlanguage[de] > \starttext > > such' doch > > %latest beta version for this (german example file): > \input aesop-de > > \blank[big] > > %your context version should not be too old... > \setuplanguage[de][leftquotation=\rightguillemot, > rightquotation=\leftguillemot] > > \input aesop-de > \stoptext > ================================================== Wolfgang

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changing tt only
by Patrick Gundlach 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hello out there, I currently use: \usetypescript[berry][8r] \setupbodyfont[pos] and wish to change the monospace only, let's say to cmtt10. How do I accomplish this? Patrick

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Any updated manuals?
by John Culleton 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

I have downloaded most (all?) of the Context manuals. Meanwhile the development of the system continues at a rapid pace. As in most programming efforts the documentation is left to later. There is a possibliity that some of the manuals may have been updated without a general notice to that effect. So: does anyone know of any manuals that have been updated in the past six months or so? -- John Culleton Subscribe to the Self_Publisher's Newsletter! Just send an email to selfpub(a)wexfordpress.com

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fixedspaces sometimes flawed
by Hans van der Meer 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Hi Hans, In the manual it is claimed for the command \fixedspaces that (4.6 Word spacing) "After this command the ~ (tilde) generates a tight space with the width of a number." This turns out to be not true for -at least- the lucida font, cmr gives no trouble (my problem is: I like lbr most): % the code below gives spaces that are too small \setupbodyfont[lbr] {\tt\fixedspaces 0~1~~2~~~3~~~~4~~~~~5\crlf \fixedspaces 0~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~5} % this code gives spaces that are correctly sized \setupbodyfont[cmr] {\tt\fixedspaces 0~1~~2~~~3~~~~4~~~~~5\crlf \fixedspaces 0~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~5} Could it be that there is something missing in the font definitions for [lbr] ? Hans van der Meer

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Bug in \setupinteraction?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Hello, after a couple of hours of debugging I found out why I couldn't anymore set my PDF to maintain the zoom level; apparently, the command \dosetuppageview{standard} command was ignored/overruled. I finally traced it down to \setupinteraction: this command seems to reset the pageview to "fit". Why? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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New version is old
by Robert F. Beeger 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Hi! Some time passed since I used ConTeXt the last time. I've got 2002.7.12 installed here. So because I now again have something to write and with this use ConTeXt again, I went to http://www.pragma-ade.com/ to get the newest version. The downloading page says it's from today, but the file that is linked here is from August 2002. The right file seems to be in the beta/-folder. So is the current stable version also the current beta version? Somehow confused. - Greets, Robert F. Beeger ____________________________________ | | | Robert F. Beeger | | e-mail : robert(a)beeger.net | | web-site : http://beeger.net | |____________________________________|

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transparent figures
by kopszak＠mnw.art.pl 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

I wonder if anything changed on the "transparency front" since last year's discussion concerning transparent PNGs on colour background. Is it possible to use any transparent figures now, or not yet? All Best Piotr

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Postscript fonts: missing pfb files
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

Hello, everybody! My fight with the fonts continues, I think I managed to debug most of my problems. However, I found out that my TeXLive installation seems to lack some of the very basic postscript font files (i.e they do not exist on my computer) and thus I still cannot install all the fonts mentioned in the type-tmf.bat file (of which I now have a version that really works with latest TeXLive+Windows, if somebody is interested). The TeXfont manual says (p. 4, under "Generating metrics") "Installation here comes down to copying the afm and pfb files, as well as generating the tfm and vf files." This sentence leads me to believe that I cannot generate the missing pfb files myself out of something else, so where can I find them? I lack the following: urw/helvetic: uhvb8an.pfb, uhvbi8a.pfb, uhvr8an.pfb, uhvri8a.pfb, uhvri8an.pfb (No wonder Helvetica has been giving me gray hairs all the way through!) bit/charter (NOT bitstrea/charter on TeXLive): bchb8a.pfb, bchbi8a.pfb, bchr8a.pfb, bchri8a.pfb urw/bookman: ubkb8a.pfb, ubkbi8a.pfb, ubkr8a.pfb, ubkri8a.pfb I seem to have all the .afm files for these fonts, just the .pfb:s are totally missing - any ideas of where I could get them and how? For the record: the combination I use just now is WinXP+TeXLive 7+(newest) ConTeXt, but I think the problem originates from TeXLive 7 full installation and is not system dependent. Thank you for any help, Mari from Finland

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PDF problem in newest context
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

Hello! I'd messed up with my computer so I removed my old ConTeXt and installed the newest zip file instead (January 26 version). Unfortunately it declines to make pdf files, not even out of the example files from the web page. This compiles: --- \starttext Hello world \stoptext --- This doesn't: --- %output=pdf \starttext Hello world \stoptext --- The complaint I get is --- <clipeticlip> system : hello.top loaded (./hello.top specials : loading definition file tpd (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \@@FDFflag \v!geencontrole \letvalue #1->\expandafter \let \csname #1 \endcsname l.912 \letvalue {\@@FDFflag\v!geencontrole} =\FDFflagDoNotSpellCheck ? --- With this speed I'll never get as far as to debugging my fonts. :-( Mari from Finland

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