March 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Euler math again (virtually)
by Adam Lindsay 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone else was interested in the Euler math font. I was a bit frustrated in its incomplete coverage of certain symbols (e.g. delimiters, radicals), but then I discovered the Virtual Euler Math fonts/eulervm for LaTeX. It yields a set of virtual fonts (zeu*.vf) that make the glyph set look a lot like the default computer-modern math fonts. <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ eulervm.html?action=/tex-archive/fonts/> I've come up with a math collection (math-zeu) and a combined typescript file (type-zeu) that seem to give good enough results. Does anyone do enough math typesetting to want to test "zeuler" out? I've gotten good enough results this evening, but I don't have a lot of sophisticated formulae lying around to do a full test. Does anyone have some semi- demanding (non-AMS-territory) math for me to try? Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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floats
by kopszak＠mnw.art.pl 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hello, I am having problems with defining my own textfloats. Would anyone be so kind and post a working example how one can change floats characteristics, e.g. width or height? Thanks Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/

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Re: bugs (remailed)
by Hans Hagen 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

At 10:33 AM 3/31/2003 +0200, you wrote: >This was originally posted to ntg-context. I'm attaching the >C++ pretty typing environment and an example of bugs. > >I'm typesetting an algorithms course in C++ and I came around to few bugs >and personal wishes :) > >1. I've "written" a verb-cpp.tex which knows C++ keywords. However, as you'll > see from the attached example, it needs a few fixes: > - the missing word if it ends with & (the bar& x argument) > - & coloured in green alongside y (it should be grey since it's an > operator) > - &, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=, >>=, <<=, ->*, .* should be coloured like > operators > and must be considered as single tokens > - I'd like the whole comment in a single color (not red start/end and > black text). dark green would be ideal :) > >Since I know nothing about verbatim mechanism (I just took java environment >and stuffed it with C++ keywords) how hard would it be to make those changes? >I put '\input verb-cpp' into verb-ini.tex to make it work in my local >installation. \installprettytype [CPP] [CPP] \definetyping [CPP][option=CPP] >2. As you can see from the example, I want to typeset text next to code. > However, the footnotes within are not working. (context ver. 2002.10.23) > >3. Multi-column paragraphs are not automatically broken across pages. If > the paragraph doesn't fit on the current page, it will be moved to the > next page leaving an ugly empty box at the bottom of the previous page. > How can I achieve an effect similar to the attached example, but that will > automatically break across pages not leaving empty boxes at the bottom? \appendtoks\optimizeverbatimfalse\to\everytabulate \definetabulate [CodeExample] [|p|p|] \definebuffer[Snippet] \startSnippet \startCPP void f(bar& x, bar &y, struct foo *z) { x += z->y; x.*ptr(); z->*ptr(); /* comment */ y = 3; y += x; } \stopCPP \stopSnippet \startCodeExample \NC This is an example\footnote{of non-working} footnote. \NC \typebuffer[Snippet] \NC \NR \stopCodeExample >4. Some time ago I reported \pseudoencodedDJ macros not working in itemize > environment and you posted a fix to the list. Did you integrate the > fix in the latest release? think so, but probably changed a bit; this is what i have now \def\pseudoencodeddj % like in babel, but safer {\leavevmode\hbox\bgroup \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{d}% \scratchdimen\ht\scratchbox \advance\scratchdimen 1ex \scratchdimen.45\scratchdimen \dimen2\expandafter\withoutpt\the\fontdimen1\font\dimen0 \advance\dimen2 .5ex \hbox to \wd\scratchbox {\box\scratchbox\hss \raise\scratchdimen\hbox{\kern\dimen2\vbox{\hrule\!!height0.1ex\!!width0.3em}}}% \egroup} \def\pseudoencodedDJ % like in babel, but safer {\leavevmode \hbox\bgroup \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{D}% \scratchdimen.55\ht\scratchbox \dimen2\expandafter\withoutpt\the\fontdimen1\font\scratchdimen \advance\dimen2 .15ex \advance\dimen2 -.15\fontdimen7\font \hbox to \wd\scratchbox {\box\scratchbox\hss \raise\scratchdimen\hbox{\kern\dimen2\vbox{\hrule\!!height0.1ex\!!width0.3em}}}% \egroup} 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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Strange \placeformula
by Michal Kvasnicka 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Good morning! I' have probably made a strange bug in my document layout. In adfadfasdfasdf \placeformula[eq:one] $$a=b,$$\noindentation adfasdfadsf the \placeformula macro doesn't produce a formula number -- the formula has no number and \in{equation}[eq:one] doesn't work as well. Sometimes there is also no space before the formula and after it. Extremely strange is that asdfasdfasdf \placeformula[eq:one] \startformula a=b \stopformula\noindentation adsfasdfasdf works well. The bug is definitely in my macros for document layout since another document works well. Can some of you hint where to find the bug? I'm nearly desperate. Well, I didn't redefined $ nor changed its catcode (at least not voluntaryly). Many thanks for any hint. With many greetings Michal Kvasnicka

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Arranging problem / texexec--arrange
by Willi Egger 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi Hans, While trying the possibilities to arrange pages I detected, that using the predefined European standardsizes of the pagesize and the sheets arranging works well. However if I try to use a custom size paper on a standard sized sheet, then I see, that the different pages do not seem to be positioned correctly. When using the option --arrange with texexec, Context halts after loading the basics. You can show this problem with the testfile I attach to this mail. Would you be so kind to have a look at this. I need to prepare a booklet, where I have to use a custom size pagesize. For the demonstration of the problems I attach a test file. Kind regards Willi

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funny letters in (type)buffer
by Patrick Gundlach 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Good evening, \enableregime [il1] \starttext \startbuffer funny letters: Ä ü ß \stopbuffer \typebuffer \stoptext gives me in test-test.tmp buffer: funny letters: ^^c4 ^^fc ^^df and this is also typeset like above. Is it possible to get the real letters back without manually editing the written buffer? Patrick

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puzzled
by Marko Schuetz 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I'm trying to put a right brace to the right of a framed box and thought I could do this: \starttext $\left. \framed[width=7cm,align=right,height=fit]{ something here \hairline \vphantom{something here} \hairline \vphantom{something here} } \right\} \text{entries for something}$ \stoptext but the brace is almost exactly twice as tall as the framed box. All help is appreciated! Thanks Marko

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Texfont on i-Installer for Mac OSX
by Nigel King 29 Mar '03

29 Mar '03

Guys, Gerben Wierda has done an excellent job producing i-Installer for the Mac OSX which works with LaTeX etc very well. It is clear that many people are being introduced to TeX on the Mac now using this installer. Unfortunately there appears to be one problem with ConTeXt which is texfont. The tetex structure that Gerben has chosen is for the main fonts to be in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts Texfont will not recognise this location and the fonts in it and I suspect it is because of the full stop in texmf.tetex Evidence for this is in the following Running the single command texfont --en=8r --ve=urw --co=courier --so=auto Should work but returns processing aborted : unknown tex root /sw/share/texmf/ Clearly texroot is set incorrectly so forcing that texfont --en=8r --ve=urw --co=courier --so=auto --fontroot=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/ Should work but returns processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/courier And yet /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrb8a.afm Exists Are there any other possible reasons for this problem I have had some success now with fonts using adobekb.tex but the situation is not wholly satisfactory and I think I would really like texfont to work. -- Nigel

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Two line head
by Nagy Bence 29 Mar '03

29 Mar '03

Hi all, I want to make a twoline header in a framed box: \setupheads[sectionnumber=no] \define[1]\Sectioncommand{\framed[frame=off,bottomframe=on]{#1}} \definehead[Section][section] \setuphead[Section][textcommand=\Sectioncommand] \Section{first line\crlf second line} I want to get something of the kind first line second line ------------- but my result is first linesecond line ----------------------- The contents seems to be good, the two lines appear. Greetings Bence

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hyphenation in \type{....}?
by Patrick Gundlach 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

Dear ConTeXt hackers, I am a bit confused: as stated in the manual, \type{...} does not hyphenate (in contrast to \typ{...}), but in the following example, it does: \enableregime [il1] \starttext ist zwar nur einem ist zwar nur einem \type{averylongword averylongword averylongword averylongword} \stoptext How do I get garanteed-non-hypenated-typing? Patrick

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