December 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

new debian context and debian-nonfree 2006.12.21-1
by Norbert Preining 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi all! Again, after all the helpful comments from Taco, Hans, Mojca, Aditya, I have redone all the packaging: context: everything but the cow fonts and the tipsandtricks.pdf context-nonfree: cow fonts a long list of pdfs from the web site: aleph.pdf mfonts.pdf mtexfont.pdf show-dem.pdf show-pap.pdf cont-eni.pdf minstall.pdf mtexutil.pdf show-exa.pdf show-pre.pdf cont-enp.pdf mmakempy.pdf mtexwork.pdf showfont.pdf showunic.pdf eppchtex.pdf mp-cb-en.pdf roadmap.pdf show-gra.pdf tiptrick.pdf example.pdf mp-ch-en.pdf setup-en.pdf show-mag.pdf metafun-p.pdf ms-cb-en.pdf show-art.pdf show-man.pdf metafun-s.pdf mtexexec.pdf showcase.pdf show-not.pdf So I hope this should give a quite complete and useful base for context. I also extended the copyright file to include the statements by Taco, and some more remarks. Still I hope that one of the next releases of ConTeXt will contain some sort of MANIFEST.foobar as I suggested. The wording is also improved I hope, so now for all the Debian guys: Can you please take a look at the package, what you think, as I plan (as you see from the version number) to upload it soon. Usual location. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Università di Siena Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rome wasn't burned in a day. --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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new debian context and debian-nonfree 2006.12.21-0.1
by Norbert Preining 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi all! I re-repacked the stuff and now there are 2 packages: context context-nonfree the content is quite easy: Everything from cont-tmf, cont-fnt, cont-ext, cont-img is in context, BUT the list of files attached in MANIFEST.nonfree which are in context-nonfree. context suggests context-nonfree I plan to add a lot of documentation files from the website to context-nonfree. Files can be moved around at will, let me know. Description of context a bit shortened and less commercial. Otherwise no changes. Same location as usual. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Università di Siena Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARTHUR It probably seems a terrible thing to say, but you know what I sometimes think would be useful in these situations? LINT. What? ARTHUR A gun of some sort. LINT.2 Will this help? ARTHUR What is it? LINT.2 A gun of some sort. ARTHUR Oh, that'll help. Can you make it fire? LINT. Er... F/X DEAFENING ROAR LINT. Yes. --- Arthur and the Lintillas gaining the upper hand, Fit the --- Twelfth. --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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Question \completepublications
by Wim Neimeijer 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hello All, My project looks like this and all looks well. \usemodule[bib] \startproject cart \mainlanguage[nl] \input cartbiblio % contains \start..\stoppublication \startbodymatter \component cart8 % contains main text *\completepublications % this works* \stopbodymatter \startappendices \completeindex \stopappendices \stopproject However when I move the \complepublications to the \start..\stopappendices like this \usemodule[bib] \startproject cart \mainlanguage[nl] \input cartbiblio % contains \start..\stoppublication \startbodymatter \component cart8 % contains main text \stopbodymatter \startappendices *\completepublications % this does not work* \completeindex \stopappendices \stopproject * *all the references made by \cite are empty ? The log of this run indicates that cart.bbl is not found but in the working example it does not need a cart.bbl file ? Kind regards Wim

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\placeformula and $$ doesn't work anymore
by Hubertus Schmidt 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi all, for some weeks I need to tex formulas again and tried the way I used to do it: \placeformula $$ f(t)={1\over2\pi}\int_0^\infty e^{i(\omega t-kx)} dx $$ It didn't work anymore?!? It doesn't place a number nor does it do the spacing properly. It does work the "context" way using \placeformula \startformula f(t)={1\over2\pi}\int_0^\infty e^{i(\omega t-kx)} dx \stopformula but to be honest that's quit a lot to type. "$$" is just nice and short and all the old documents I wrote wont work anymore... I run This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=cont-en 2006. 12.4) 4 DEC 2006 21:46 ... ConTeXt ver: 2006.11.29 09:55 MK II fmt: 2006.12.4 int: english/english I would be very glad for some hints. Many thanks in advance. Hubertus

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Context style macros for metapost
by Aditya Mahajan 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi, There are certain things that I do not like about metapost (it is not possible to specify drawoptions and filloptions separately, it lacks some of the features of tikz, etc.) and I was playing around trying to implement them. Being used to the ConTeXt way of things, I wanted to write macros in metapost the same way (define.... setup.... etc.) This is my first attempt --- a replacement for dashpattern macro. delimiters [[ ]] ; def definedash suffix @# = dodefinedash.@# enddef ; vardef dodefinedash@#[[text t]] = save on, off, w ; let on = _on_ ; let off = _off_ ; w = 0 ; picture @# ; @# := nullpicture t enddef ; definedash [[myeven]] [[on 3 off 3]] ; beginfig(1) draw (0,0)--(100,100) dashed myeven ; endfig ; end; Is there a better way to do this in metapost? Aditya

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ConTeXt 2006.12.20
by Taco Hoekwater 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi, There is a new ConTeXt release: 2006.12.20. This release fixes a few of the most recently reported problems: * Another \quotation patch, should be OK now * A few redefined accents in unicode encoding * Empty lines in pdf font resources are now ignored * Two-line TABLE tables had spacing problems * Make \placeformula $$ .. $$ work again Best, Taco

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\hairline in the header and column rule
by Dalyoung Jeong 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Dear all, I'd like to ask about drawing a line in the header and a line between columns. 1)I'd like to add hairlines in the header using before and after in \setupheader, but the lines was drawn from the leftend of the leftmargin with the textwidth only. So, there is no line at the right end of the header. How to make the lines start from the left end of the text area? 2) I setup [rule=on] in column setup, but the length of the line depends on the length of the text. How to draw the separation line from the top to bottom? Thank you for reading. Regards Dalyoung Here is the code and output. ******************************* \setupheader[][before=\hairline, after=\hairline] \setupheadertexts[][text for the header] \setuppagenumbering[location=footer] \starttext \startcolumns[rule=on, n=2]

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Something about vertical Chinese typesetting
by Zhichu Chen 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Dear Texers, I am typesetting some traditional Chinese articles. They are typesetted in vertical, and the reading order is from right to left. This can be done by Hans' \startvertical . . . \stopvertical pair. But as shown in the attached file, there are some famous notes, descriptions and explanations to these articles. The traditional way, in Chinese, to typeset these notes is rather to insert them in some small fonts (say, half size of the \bodyfontsize) right below the word to be explained, than to use footnotes which is common in English. I've tried some ways, e.g., use \startcolumnsetspan . . . \stopcolumnsetspan to put the body text across the note text, but all failed. Can anyone give me some clue? -- Sincerely yours, Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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EUROTEX2006 - hartmut-talk.pdf -
by luigi scarso 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Very good to me hartmut-talk.pdf, so I've made www.logosrl.it/context/pdftex/hartmut-talk.html luigi

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Context -> Tex
by Paul Jones 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Hello, Is there some way that I can convert my context file into tex? I am just pondering how much faster running straight tex through pdftex would be than using context. Is there some way to run it through texexec and get tex out of it instead of a pdf/dvi? Or are there stats about this kind of thing somewhere that I can lookup? Thanks, paul

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