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Vanishing footnotes inside \startpagenumbering ... \stoppagenumbering
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de Sousa 29 May '05

29 May '05

Hi ConTeXters! If you put a footnote inside \startpagenumbering \stoppagenumbering it will not appear. Any ideas? Minimal example below: ************************************ \setupoutput[pdf] \setuplinenumbering[start=1,step=5,style=\tfx] \starttext \startlinenumbering We to those beasts, that rapid strode along, Drew near, when Chiron took an arrow forth, And with the notch push'd back his shaggy beard To the cheek-bone, then his great mouth to view Exposing, to his fellows thus exclaim'd: ``Are ye aware, that he who comes behind Moves what he touches? The feet of the dead Are not so wont.�� My trusty guide, who now Stood near his breast, where the two natures join, Thus made reply: ``He is indeed alive, And solitary so must needs by me Be shown the gloomy vale, thereto induc'd By strict necessity, not by delight. She left her joyful harpings in the sky, Who this new office to my care consign'd. He is no robber, no dark spirit I. But by that virtue, which empowers my step To treat so wild a path, grant us, I pray, One of thy band, whom we may trust secure, Who to the ford may lead us, and convey Across, him mounted on his back; for he Is not a spirit that may walk the air.�� \footnote{Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto XII, Divina Comedia} \stoplinenumbering \stoptext __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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new release
by Adam Lindsay 29 May '05

29 May '05

Thanks from me, too, to Taco for the change summary... I notice this: >new typescript: optima (uses optima-nova & palatino & lmtt) Which is cool, but there's a free URW Optima clone available ("URW- Classico"), that potentially makes Optima available to everyone. It's slightly "buggy" as a font, but perfectly workable if you're not as demanding as Walter A. Schmidt. (No offense to him--he has to be demanding, given his role!) I can do a release of these fonts, once we figure out a few things: 1) what to call this family (optima? optima-nova? classico?), 2) how to package this up for people, and 3) where to put it. If you want an early play, you can download the fonts from <http:// www.artifex.com/downloads/>, with the urwfonts_t1-1.40 package. The following lines are from a batchfile for texfont. # urw optima --en=? --ve=urw --co=optima --ro=TEXMFLOCAL --pat=o004* --en=? --ve=urw --co=optima --ro=TEXMFLOCAL --pat=o00400[34]t --ca=* -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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dvi paper-size
by Peter Münster 29 May '05

29 May '05

Hello, here comes a feature request: Could ConTeXt add to the dvi-file information about paper-size, so that one does not need the -t option of dvips? This is done in LaTeX (+hyperref) by using something like \special{papersize=...} but I didn't get it working in ConTeXt... TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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\textellipsis definition wrong
by Nikolai Weibull 29 May '05

29 May '05

I’m using 2005.01.31 and \textellipsis expands to \cdots, which isn’t what it’s supposed to do. It should be \ldots, or preferably just \dots. Or, if that’s not what you want to do, at least don’t use \textellipsis for U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS in unic-032.tex. Thanks, nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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Handy font install script.
by John R. Culleton 29 May '05

29 May '05

The good news is that texfonts works as advertised, and the fonts can be used for any flavor of TeX except LaTeX which usually wants an .fd file. Even LaTeX users can use it if they are willing to use the old fashioned \font statement. I downloaded the sharefont and freefont collections for use with Gimp, but then had a need to use some of them with Context. Now there are dozens of fonts in each collection. So I wrote a wrapper script for texfonts to save time and errors. Here is my procedure (Slackware Linux computer, TeX installation taken from Slackware-current): 1. Create a subdirectory for each font or font family, and move all the files for the font/family to that subdirectory. 2. Run Ghostscript utility pf2afm on each font to create needed afm files (they don't come with.) 3. Modify updmap.cfg to accept a file called plus.map. 4.Move to the subdirectory, then run the following script makefonts, making up a foundry and family name appropriate to the font(s). The command is: "makefonts foundry family" ------------------------------------------------------- mkdir /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1 mkdir /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1/$2 cp * /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/source/$1/$2/ texfont --en=8r --ve=$1 --co=$2 --ma --in cd /usr/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ cat *map >plus.map cp plus.map /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap updmap texhash ------------------------------------------------------ 5. Modify the tex test file produced by texfonts to include near the end a \font statement and "The quick brown fox..." text in all caps and then in lower case. (Some of these fonts have no lower case.) 6. compile and inspect the test program. As always the script will have to be adapted to your particular installation. And I haven't bothered to figure out how to make it work in MSWin. The change I made in step 6 above might be worth doing in texfonts. Some donated fonts have problems with spacing between words, or even with the characters themselves. The generated afm files are also suspect in this regard. I hope this saves someone some time. John Culleton

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new version
by Hans Hagen 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi, I posted a new version of context. There are a few new things, like pattern snow being part of the zip, and runtime graphic conversions (more about that when i have more time); the next (main) release will probably have a new texexec (ruby version, smoother, faster, more clever, no ini file etc) btw, i need a miktex user who wants to test the ruby texexec version it's upto taco to write the usual announcement -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Accents in MathML
by Duncan Hothersall 28 May '05

28 May '05

I said: > Interestingly, if I forget about unicode and use é instead of é, > then no matter what I put in the preamble I get the e with a guillemot > superimposed. So whatever is mapping é incorrectly seems also to be > mapping é incorrectly. Further testing suggests that my problem is this: Between \startXMLdata and \stopXMLdata, where MathML is being parsed directly by ConTeXt, I get the wrong results for accented characters within <mtext> elements. For example, I get an e character with a guillemot superimposed on top when I want an e with an acute accent. It doesn't seem to matter whether the markup is unicode é, the entity é, or the command \eacute. Similar problems happen with other accents I have tried. In the case of ñ the accent is almost right but comes out too big (looks like the maths version of the accent?). The following is my local test file, using unicode and comparing running text to <mtext> in MathML: -- \mainlanguage[es]\enableregime[utf]\useencoding[uc] \usemodule[mathml]\setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext Situación niños volúmenes sí interés: \startXMLdata <formula><math><mfrac><mrow><mtext>Situación niños volúmenes</mtext></mrow><mrow><mtext>sí interés</mtext></mrow></mfrac></math></formula>\stopXMLdata \stoptext -- The following is a non-unicode test file that will process on Live and exhibits the same errors in the MathML accent rendering. It uses entity references instead of unicode in the MathML, but because they map to the same thing the output is the same: -- \mainlanguage[es]\enableregime[utf]\useencoding[uc] \usemodule[mathml]\setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \startXMLdata <formula><math><mfrac><mrow><mtext>Situación niños volúmenes</mtext></mrow><mrow><mtext>sí interés</mtext></mrow></mfrac></math></formula>\stopXMLdata \stoptext -- I have a feeling I have made this more complex than it needed to be, but can anyone shed light on how to fix it? Thanks, Duncan PS Apologies for the nonsense Spanish content - it's just random words with accents.

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dvi support in latest version
by Peter Münster 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hello, thanks to Hans, I can use now the latest version to produce PDFs. This is what I do: texmfstart newtexexec --make --all mkdir /opt/teTeX/texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex mv cont-* mptopdf.* /opt/teTeX/texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex mktexlsr Now, "texmfstart newtexexec testfile" is producing a pdf and "texmfstart newtexexec --dvi testfile" is producing a dvi. But dvips has difficulties with this dvi-file: This is dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2005.05.28:1404' -> testfile.ps kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfzzz --bdpi 1200 --mag 1+0/1200 --dpi 1200 ec-lmr12 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr12. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. dvips: Font ec-lmr12 not found, characters will be left blank. <tex.pro><special.pro>. [1 dvips: Unknown keyword (object) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (@FDF::docuextgstates) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (<<) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (>>) in \special will be ignored dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Unknown keyword (put) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (@catalog) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (<<>>) in \special will be ignored dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Unknown keyword (docinfo) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (<</Trapped) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (/False>>) in \special will be ignored dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Unknown keyword (docinfo) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (<</ConTeXt.Version) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword ((2005.05.25)>>) in \special will be ignored dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Unknown keyword (docinfo) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (<</Title) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword ((testfile)) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (/Subject) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (()) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (/Author) in \special will be ignored dvips: Unknown keyword (()) in \special will be ignored dvips: more errors in special, being ignored . . . dvips: (perhaps dvips doesn't support your macro package?) dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing dvips: Could not find figure file pdf:; continuing ] There must be at least some problem with the Latin-Modern setup... testfile.tex ist just: \starttext hallo \stoptext Thanks in advance for any help! Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: ConTeXt tool for enabling comments in PDF ?
by Joachim Schlosser 28 May '05

28 May '05

> Vit Zyka wrote (long long ago in January): >> how is that one calculated, imagine that in the %! fields you fill in >> placeholders like hereshouldgosomemagiccode, then one can run a script >> over the pdf, calculate that magic, and replace the string; maybe this >> can be hooked into xpdflib > Yes, I agree, postprocessing is possible. But I did not find any digest > computing alg in the range of C/C++ or Perl. Also do not known links to > xpdflib. > > Vit Zyka One can sign PDFs with iText (http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/) Perhaps this helps a little bit further. I experimented a little bit, but my knowledge on PDF internas is not yet in a state that allows me to be quite creative here :-) Joachim -- Joachim Schlosser (The e-mail address is fully repliable.) http://schlosser.info

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clip bug?
by Vit Zyka 28 May '05

28 May '05

Dear Hans, it seems to me that \clip was extended by the useful params left|right|top|bottomoffset. But they do not work: \starttext \clip [leftoffset=1cm,rightoffset=1cm,topoffset=2cm,bottomoffset=.5cm] {\externalfigure[cow]} \stoptext Thanks Vit

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