July 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Fixing/Updating ConTeXt
by Alex K 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

This must sound stupid, but how do you update ConTeXt via the command line on Mac OSX? I'm using the MacTeX distribution and Mac OS 10.4.10. I tried (foolishly) to install the newest version of ConTeXt using i-installer, but that screwed up my current installation, so I was wondering if I could overwrite it with a new version. Step-by-step instructions would be very much appreciated! Thanks in advance for your patience and help! -Alex ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC

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Re: [NTG-context] itemize with zero start
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hallo, has nobody tested this with ConTeXt version <= 2007.07.03 19:38 MKII? Wolfgang > Here is an other example! > Remove the three-line-comment, and the error is gone! > Strange what? > > Wolfgang > --------------------------------------------- > \setupbodyfont[sansserif,11pt] > \setuphead[section][style=ssb] > \setupsection[section][conversion=Romannumerals] > > \setupitemize[each][a][stopper=:] > > \definestartstop[Beweis][ > before={{\bf Beweis:}\endgraf\blank}, > after={\rightaligned{{\bf q.e.d.}}} > ] > > \starttext > > \section{Zofff} > > \startBeweis > \startitemize > \item zack > \item zong > \stopitemize > \stopBeweis > % > %================================================================== > % > \section{Bamm} > > \startitemize > \item bla > \item blub > \item bautz > \stopitemize > > \stoptext > ---------------------------------------------

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Fwd: Re: [publishingdesign] Arabic typesetting anyone?
by John R. Culleton 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

I think someone on the Context list (not me) could fulfill this requirement ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [publishingdesign] Arabic typesetting anyone? Date: Tuesday 31 July 2007 From: "Barry T. Kerrigan" <btklists(a)desktopmiracles.com> To: publishingdesign(a)yahoogroups.com Just got this inquiry. Feel free to respond to them. Hello: I represent WorldView Media, a new publishing firm of international literature. We are now working on bringing out a bilingual, Arabic/English edition of poetry by a contemporary Egyptian poet. The translation has been finished, and we are currently looking for a company or freelancer with proven experience in Arabic typesetting and interior book design work. Does your company undertake this kind of work? If a bilingual literary project of this kind if within your area of expertise, then we would be eager to speak with you in the very near future and see examples of past projects. Alternatively, if you have any colleagues in the book production field that might be interested in this project, please feel free to pass this email on to them. Thank you, and we look forward to your reply. Best regards, Andrew Vlcek AVL Books/WorldView Media 800 Lomax Street, Suite 120 Jacksonville, Florida 32204 Tel: 904-354-0752 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BARRY T. KERRIGAN http://www.desktopmiracles.com Desktop Miracles, Inc 112 South Main Street #294 Book Design & Production Stowe, Vermont 05672 Interiors * Jackets * Covers ph: 802-253-7900 fx:1900 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/publishingdesign/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/publishingdesign/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:publishingdesign-digest@yahoogroups.com mailto:publishingdesign-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: publishingdesign-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------------------------------------- -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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Weird frontmatter behaviour
by Jeff Smith 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hi all! I have a well-defined project with its products, components and environment file. The structure works and all that, so my problem that I am going to describe below is not there. In my document structure, each product corresponds to one Part. My environment file defines no header whatsoever for the very first page of a Part section (header=high). When a Part is in the frontmatter, the header does not disappear. When the same part is in the bodymatter, it works -- the header is not there. Here is my main project file when I attempt to test exactly that, with only two parts (no need for more at the moment): \startproject These \environment env_these \startfrontmatter \product prod_liminaire \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \product prod_liminaire \product prod_p1 \stopbodymatter \stopproject The product called "prod_liminaire" currently contains my title page only. I do know that doing exactly the above makes no sense, but like I said I did that only to test out the problem. So, when I compile this, prod_liminaire has a header in the frontmatter, but it has NO header in the bodymatter. It's the very same file to the very last byte, only in a different sectionblock. And it behaves differently. What's wrong? I'm really at loss over this. I obviously want no header in the frontmatter Parts, that's where my product prod_liminaire normally goes. Thanks in advance! Any help is appreciated, as always! Jeff Smith

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Linetable height (actually, depth) bug
by Giuseppe Bilotta 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hello all, as I mentioned in the 'framing a linetable' thread, there is a bug in the stable (march '07) version of ConTeXt concerning the linetable *depth*. Example file: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \setuplinetable[r][2][height=30pt,background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] \startlinetable \BR \BC one \EC \BC two \EC \ER \BR \BC three \EC \BC four \EC \ER \stoplinetable more text \stoptext "more text" will appear in the blue area of the second line, instead of after the linetable, because the depth of the table lines are smashed to be one strutdepth in \flushlinetableparts -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Re: [NTG-context] dont't indent after custom start-stopnarrower
by Karsten Heymann 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hi Steffen, 2007/7/31, Steffen Wolfrum <steffen(a)st.estfiles.de>: > Am 31.07.2007 um 10:18 schrieb Karsten Heymann: > > I try to prevent indention after a custom enviroment used for > > quotations which uses \startnarrower ... \stopnarrower: > Here you are: > after={\stopnarrower\setupindenting[none]}] Thanks a lot! Yours, Karsten

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dont't indent after custom start-stopnarrower
by Karsten Heymann 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hello, I try to prevent indention after a custom enviroment used for quotations which uses \startnarrower ... \stopnarrower: \setupindenting [0.5cm] \indenting[yes,next] \definestartstop[Zitat] [before={\startnarrower[2*left]}, after=\stopnarrower\noindent] \starttext \input knuth \startZitat% \noindent \input zapf \stopZitat \input tufte \stoptext Any hints would be greatly appreciated! Yours Karsten

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Re: [NTG-context] makempy (pstoedit <-> gs) hangs
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

Hallo! > I think I've identified the problem: in the PostScript prologue > file for > pstoedit you find the following bit of code (slightly simplified): > > /getorigfont > { > dup /OrigFont known > { > /OrigFont get getorigfont > } > if > } > def > > > I guess anyone, even not familiar with PostScript, can spot the > error here: > getorigfont is called recursively ad infinitum! I have no idea why > this is so, > but this mistake is easy to correct, by simply commenting out the > innermost > ?getorigfont?; and it indeed fixes the problem with Wolfgang's > code. > > Why the error wouldn't happen with older versions of gs isn't > clear to me and > I haven't tested it (for debugging I used pstoedit 3.44 and gs > 8.56 > throughout); on the other hand, it's quite clear why the bug > wouldn't show up > on code that uses only outlines and no font, like in the last > example of > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User-Defined_Enumerations as George > pointed out: > the spurious piece of code is only used for font redefinitions and > is therefore > not called in the case of the fuzzy itemize style, because the > symbols are not > taken from a font. > > For people wanting to compile an amended version of pstoedit, the > attached > patch should do the trick, although hand-editing the relevant file > (src/pstoedit.ph) should be just as easy (this is really a 2-byte > patch ? and > you can even turn it into a 2-bit patch ;-). Thank you Arthur! I have patched 'pstoedit.dll' version 3.44 (0x6B674: 0x20 --> 0x25) and so it works with gs 8.57 for me! Wolfgang

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New context release ?
by luigi scarso 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Hi, I'm a bit confused about new releases -- 2007.07.24/25 or 29 ? :) -- luigi ---------------------------------------------------------------- If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net

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Re: [NTG-context] makempy (pstoedit <-> gs) hangs
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 30 Jul '07

30 Jul '07

Hallo! Downgrading to gs version 8.11 does NOT help, but downgrading to 8.11 AND changing the makempy methode from pdf to ps helps! gs 8.57 hangs with ps too. If an ps guru can interpret the gs error message, I will send this of list!? Wolfgang > > the following code let ghostscript fail. > > What is wrong her? > > > > Wolfgang > > > > \setupcolors [state=start] > > \starttext > > \useMPlibrary[txt] > > \startlinecorrection > > \TightText{\ss\bf 123}{0cm}{3cm}{red} > > \stoplinecorrection > > \stoptext > > % > > %ConTeXt ver: 2007.07.03 19:38 MKII > > %pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL interface 108 > > %GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)

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