April 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

beta
by Hans Hagen 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Hi, later taco will give more details about changes/additions in his change-log for the moment: - for index users: you can test utf 8, sort order (swedish) etc - for cp1250 users: it's there and you only need to give \enableregime since the vector will be loaded at runtime - for mojca: take a look at regi-syn and let me know what vectors need to be be added to the distribution - for taco: thanks for your patience but textext seems to work ok now 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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latest stable release
by Alan Bowen 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

The latest stable (ConTeXt ver: 2006.04.06 23:00 fmt: 2006.4.7 int: english mes: english) release fails to compile a file that worked previously and returns the error message: ____________________________________________________________ ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \relax \dododefineprotrudefactor ...pcode \handledfont #1 \dimexpr #2 \lproddimen \if... <argument> ...ndash\endcsname }{0}{.3}}\donothing \let \char \normalchar \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dosetpairhandling ...ng \let \char \normalchar }} \fi <inserted text> ...fineprotrudefactor endash 0 .3 \dosetpairhandling \dodode... ... l.97 \setupbodyfont[fourier,10.5pt] ____________________________________________________________ I do not know if this is a problem with the new release—or whether I should make changes at my end to get it to work again. Any suggestions? Alan

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again: new module mechanism
by Thomas A. Schmitz 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

All, and esp. Hans, Taco, I'm still experimenting with the new moduleparameter mechanism. One thing I can't get to work is using it in a \definefont. Here's my minimal example: \startmodule[mymod] \unprotect \setupmodule[font=Times] \definefontsynonym[Times][ec-TimesNewRoman] % valid name \definefont[myfont][\currentmoduleparameter{font}] \message{The myfont is \currentmoduleparameter{font}} \protect \stopmodule \endinput \usemodule[mymod][font=Times] \starttext Hello world! \myfont and hello again \purefontname\font \stoptext In the log file, I get: (./t-mymod.tex The myfont is Times) So the definefont should work (if I define \definefont[myfont] [Times], I get the expected output), but the file fails to compile, with this error: ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \@@md:unknown:font \truefontname #1->\ifcsname \??ff \fontclass #1 \endcsname \@EA \truefontname... \donoparsefontspec ...\truefontname \somefontname }\ifx \fontfile \s! unknown... \dododefinefont ...e \fontbody \parsefontspec {#2} \rawfontidentifier \let \l... \redodefinefont #1#2#3->\dododefinefont {#1}{#2} \doifsetupselse {#3} {\setup... l.7 \myfont and hello again ? Process aborted What am I missing? Best Thomas

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sorting, again
by Johan Sandblom 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

When the following test snippet \mainlanguage[sv] \starttext a\index{a} z\index{z}z\index{z+ä} å\index{å}å\index{å+b} ä\index{ä} ö\index{ö} A\index{A} Z\index{Z} Å\index{Å} Ä\index{Ä} Ö\index{Ö} \placeindex \stoptext is processed with cont-tmf.zip from 2006-04-07 12.29 and justtex.zip and mswintex.zip from 13.23 a bad index is produced.The Swedish letters are listed as ... and the sublevel entries are just listed as they are in the input. It worked in the beta. What am I doing wrong? Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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metapost background
by Johan Sandblom 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

If the following is run with newtexexec, the text background on the first page is black. On live.contextgarden.net it works ok. Another candidate for the test suite? \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[red][r=1] \definecolor[trwhite][s=1, t=.5, a=1] \setupbackgrounds[state=repeat] \defineoverlay[pagebg][\useMPgraphic{pagebg}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=pagebg] \startuseMPgraphic{pagebg} StartPage ; fill Page withcolor \MPcolor{red} ; fill Field[Text][Text] withcolor \MPcolor{trwhite} ; StopPage ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte} \stoptext -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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Solved - Re: about the default bullets of itemized lists
by Dalyoung Jeong 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

Dear Taco and Hans, After updating ConTeXt again, bullets appeared correctly although there is no change in my file. I guess, I might make some mistake during the previous installation. I am sorry to give you a false alarm. Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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finding project files in parent dirs automatically
by Sanjoy Mahajan 10 Apr '06

10 Apr '06

I'm learning how to use projects/products/components, and have got reasonably far. However, I'm confused about far upwards context searches for the configuration files (product/project/environment files). Here's a directory structure that worked fine: double/chap/1/c_ch1.tex double/prd_oom.tex double/project_books.tex double/env_books.tex It's called 'double' to signify that the components are two levels below the main project file. I cd to double/chap/1/ and then 'texexec c_ch1', and c_ch1.log tells me: systems : begin file c_ch1 at line 1 systems : begin file project_books at line 3 (../../project_books.tex systems : begin file env_books at line 3 (../../env_books.tex) systems : end file env_books at line 3 ) systems : end file project_books at line 3 So the project and environment files got read in. By the way, why isn't the product file loaded? Is it not needed when making just one component? But it could modify the environment. Leaving that question aside, here is the chap/1/c_ch1.tex file (all the .tex files and the log files are in the small attached .tgz archive): \startcomponent c_ch1 \product prd_oom \project project_books \title{chapter 1} \input tufte \par \stopcomponent The prd_oom.tex: \startproduct prd_oom \project project_books \component chap/1/c_ch1 \stopproduct And project_books.tex: % output=pdf interface=en \startproject project_books \environment env_books \product prd_oom \stopproject So the "\project project_books" in c_ch1.tex is sufficient for context to find ../../project_books.tex But I really want each product to live in its own directory. In this minimal example, the only product is 'oom', for "Order of Magnitude physics". So I tried this directory structure: triple/oom/chap/1/c_ch1.tex triple/oom/chap/1/c_ch1.log triple/oom/prd_oom.tex triple/project_books.tex triple/env_books.tex Now the project_books.tex file is three levels up from the component, and project_books.tex has "\product oom/prd_oom" instead of "\product prd_oom". Now project_books.tex isn't found when compiling c_ch1.tex. >From c_ch1.log: systems : begin file project_books at line 3 systems : end file project_books at line 3 Is there a hardcoded limit on how far up context searches? $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 cont-en : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21 fmt: 2006.4.6 mes: english -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal

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Table Esthetics (and XML)
by Johannes Graumann 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hello, I'm a big fan of the LaTeX booktabs package - I find tables created using it with it's 'toprule', 'bottomrule' and clippable 'cmidrule' commands the most satisfying solution I have come across (see attachments, especially 'table1.jpg'). After consulting the archives of this list, it seems clear, that ConTeXt does not yet have any package of that sophistication, but I'm dead set on writing my thesis in XML and have ConTeXt read it ... therefore I'd like to soclicit your preferences and ideas on how to pleasingly format tables - how do you do it? Thanks for any input, Joh

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[Fwd: [metapost] New version of Metapost]
by Taco Hoekwater 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi guys, Just in case someone here knows ... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [metapost] New version of Metapost Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 18:27:57 +0300 From: Michael Maschler <michael.maschler(a)gmail.com> To: metapost(a)tug.org Hello, I asked this question some time ago and got no answer. I would like to know how to install the new metapost package on Windows WinEdt. Thanks, Michael Maschler -- Note my additional mailing address. _______________________________________________ metapost mailing list http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/metapost

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How to manipulate interlinespace in doubly spaced document?
by Johannes Graumann 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi, My university requires doubly spaced Theses (brrrr ... but hey - it get's a lot thicker ;0), so the preamble has: \setupinterlinespace[line=2\bodyfontsize] I'd like to typeset tables, figure/table captions and footnotes with normal spacing and have experimented with things like \setupcaptions[style=small,width=\textwidth,setuplinespace[small]] and \defineXMLnested [table] { \bgroup \defineXMLsave[caption] \defineXMLsave[content] } { \placetable [\XMLpar{table}{location}{here}] [\XMLpar{table}{label}{unknown}] {\XMLflush{caption}} {\ix\setupinterlinespace[reset,small] \expanded{\bTABLE\XMLflush{content}}\eTABLE \x} \egroup } But can get neither to work. Any insight into the right syntax is highly appreciated. Thanks, Joh

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