December 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Chinese in current ConTeXt
by Tobias Burnus 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Hello, some remarks/errors of the current UTF-8 Chinese support in ConTeXt 2005.12.19: (For (a) to (c) see also attached file.) a) unic-chi.tex: This contains the unicode vectors for which a Chinese font will be used; currently it only covers \dostepwiserecurse{40}{159}{1}{\defineunicodecommand #1 {\uchar}} but this it misses the U+FFxx characters (fullwidth latin characters, e.g. '?' which is as wide as a Chinese character) => solution: Add \defineunicodecommand 255 {\uchar} b) Labels: lang-chi.tex contains: \setuplabeltext [\s!cn] [\v!figure={\cnencoding\cnencodedfigure}] \startencoding[uni-c] \definecommand cnencodedfigure {\uchar{86}{254}} but if I use (with UTF-8) \placefigure{}{} the figure character is not shown; however if I setup this directly, i.e. \setuplabeltext[cn][figure={\uchar{86}{254}}] , the character is shown just fine. c) Doing font switching using \SimKaiTi seems to convert back to GBK, can we have Unicode by default (at least when UTF-8 encoding is used)? Examples for (a) to (c) see attachment (UTF-8 encoded). * * * Wish for the native speakers: Please translate - Graphics/Illustration and Intermezzo(s) Question to native speakers: - \c!date={\v!month,\ ,\v!day,{,\ },\v!year}, Is this really the default? Or should this be year年month月day日? * * * Another questions: a) How to typset from top-to-bottom right-to-left using column(sets)? b) How to change the numberformat used? Tobias

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Answer blocks potential
by David Arnold 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

Hans, Taco, et al, I've looked at the question-answer block suggestion and it has good potential for what I want to do. What I need now is a way of typesetting the blocks as follows. 1. Question 2. Question 3. Question 4. Question Then, later in the document, I'll unhide the answer blocks. Is it worth my while to try to use question-answer blocks in an itemized environment? should I pursue that or try a different tack?

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followup metapost textext?
by Hans van der Meer 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Followup to my previous post (see below) I executed the code on the "live tex site" and, mirabile dictu, there it works. The difference I can see is a much older pdfetex (Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)) on the live site, whereas I have a newer one (Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)). Could that be the problem or must I dig deeper? =============== Panic using metapost in context. This used to work. I did a file that previously (\thisisutilityversion {1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere for textext calls! \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{one} draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0); label (textext("label"), (10,25)); \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{one} \stoptext But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"! What happened. This is disastrous. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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How to setup this type of header?
by R S Ananda Murthy 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hello, I need to setup header as shown below: pagenumber booktitle chaptertitle pagenumber ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- left page | right page | How to setup this type of header? I do not want dashed line below the header. Header should not be printed on a page where a chapter is starting. My body text should be in postscript Times Roman font. Thanks for your help. Anand

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metapost textext?
by Hans van der Meer 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Panic using metapost in context. This used to work. I did a file that previously (\thisisutilityversion {1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere for textext calls! \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{one} draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0); label (textext("label"), (10,25)); \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{one} \stoptext But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"! What happened. This is disastrous. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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Some things I don't understand about typescripts...
by Thomas A. Schmitz 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Christmas is approaching, and I hate to be a pest this time of the year, but there's this problem that really bothers me: I'm still working hard to release version 2 of my Greek module on the unsuspecting masses. It will define all fonts in a typescript instead of as single fonts to allow switches like {\em } etc. It appears that the typescript mechanism creates some problems. The most serious one for me is that it seems to demand a full list of sizes that can be used in this form: \definebodyfont [30pt,25pt,20pt,18pt,17.3pt,14.4pt,14pt,12pt,11pt,11.5pt,10pt,9pt,8pt, 7pt,6pt,5pt,4pt] [rm] [default] If I specify a bodyfont with a size that's not in this list \setupbodyfont[somebodyfont,19.7pt] I get no errors, but no output either :-( If I add 19.7pt to the list, everything works again. Is there an explanation for this behavior? It also looks like I should define a math font for these Greek fonts. It looks like ConTeXt will try to get certain symbols from math if they're not defined in the bodyfont. Is there a syntax for creating a default math font for an entire set of typescripts? I tried this \starttypescript \definetypeface [all] [mm] [math] [times] [default] [encoding=default] \starttypescript but it doesn't seem to work, if a symbol like \textdoublebracketleft is used, compilation will fail with this error: ! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts. \mathematics #1->\relax \ifmmode #1\else $#1$ \fi \doutfunihashglyph ...#1\endcsname {#2}\endcsname \else \strippedcsname \uni... Any suggestions would be welcome; apart from these problems, I'm basically done with the work. All best Thomas

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2005/2006
by Hans Hagen 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hi, After a series of MP ones, this years our New Years card is a texie one: http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/2005.pdf This version uses Palatino Nova (the real thing that we send around uses Optima Nova with hz optimization). Hans

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About paragraph columns in table environment
by Radhelorn 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hello all! I've tried to fit wide table (with paragraphs and vertical lines) into page width. Following example don't work as expected: \SetTableToWidth{\textwidth} \starttable[|p|p|] \HL \VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR \HL \stoptable Text in columns formatted as if table was not widened. What did I miss here? BTW, how to fit text into a small box if I don't care about where word breaks? Thanks. -- Radhelorn <radhelorn(a)mail.ru>

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How can I use postscript Times Roman font for entire document?
by R S Ananda Murthy 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hello, I want to use postscript Times Roman font for body text. How to do this in ConTeXt? Thanks for your help. Anand

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Re: Small Chinese translation
by Richard Gabriel 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

Hello Hans, Tobias and others, with help of Xiao Jianfeng, I've added the missing Chinese localizations into lang-chi.tex (as Tobias reported). I also attach a simple test file. Could you please review it and add it to the distribution it it's all OK? I only had a small problem - I was unable to recode the glyphs into BIG5 (using iconv). Does anybody guess why or could anybody try it with another tool? Below is the original message from Xiao for reference that the glyphs are encoded OK. I've also tried to format the date correctly (see my previous message). -Richard ---- > Graphics 图 > Intermezzo (singular) 插曲 (this is a figurative use of "插曲", but I think it's not proper, I will try to consult some people who is good at TeXing) > Intermezzos (plural) 插曲 > Illustration 插图 > Line (singular) 行 > Lines (plural) 行 ---- (from another email) > If there's no Chinese equivalent for "intermezzo", I'd suggest to let > the label empty... I think it would be OK if you leave intermezzo unchanged without translation or just use "插曲".

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