July 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

active characters in mkiv (and mkii)
by Thomas A. Schmitz 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Hi all, I would like to make the exclamation mark active within my Greek environment; it should remain a normal letter outside of these commands and environments. (Why? Exclamation marks aren't used in Greek, and in mkii, I had mapped it to the sublinear dot which is used for epigraphical and papyrological texts.) In pdf(e)tex, Hans wrote this macro for me: \long\def\rescanwithsetup#1#2% {{\directsetup{#1}\scantokens{#2\ignorespaces}}} but I'm not sure how to have a similar thing for mkiv (and ! is special anyway, so I'm running into trouble here...). Any pointers? Or is this a bad idea, and I should look for other solutions? Thanks Thomas

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Word-to-LaTex on linux?
by Piotr Kopszak 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Dear list, Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks. Piotr -- -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/ http://www.magnatune.com/artists/altri_stromenti

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Re: [NTG-context] Fedora 9 (Linux) Installation
by abbg770＠city.ac.uk 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Ok the test document (first.tex) compiles, great! But I can't seem to install fonts. $ texfont --ve=microsoft --co=consolas --makepath --install TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 processing aborted : unknown tex root --help : show some more info > Does (or rather "did") this even work in the old minimal distribution? > I think that I had to CD to $HOME/tex and source setuptex from there. I don't quiet understand what you mean. Could someone please just update that wiki page, running into issues like these really does eat up ones time. Thanks alot On Jul 7 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > abbg770(a)city.ac.uk wrote: > >> > >> a. source ~/.context_env $PWD/tex => results in nothing. > > > > What happens if you run the following command manually? > > > > $ source $(HOME)/tex/setuptex $(HOME)/tex > > > > (assuming you unpacked directly in your home) > > Does (or rather "did") this even work in the old minimal distribution? > I think that I had to CD to $HOME/tex and source setuptex from there. > > Mojca > > PS: these big zips are (or at least used to be) a bit outdated. A > slightly newer (unofficial) version is here: > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/ > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- Thanks Mohamed Bana

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mplib problems
by Peter Rolf 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

hi, does this error message ring a bell? same problem with luatex 0.27 and 0.28 using the latest beta. mkii works ok. [..] ! LuaTeX error r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mlib-pdf.lua:92: bad argument #-1 to 'pen_info' (MPlib.gr expected, got table) stack traceback: [C]: in function 'pen_info' r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mlib-pdf.lua:92: in function 'pen_characteristics' r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mlib-pdf.lua:296: in function 'flush' r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mlib-pdf.lua:45: in function 'convert' r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mlib-run.lua:255: in function 'process' r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mlib-pps.lua:719: in function 'graphic_base_pass' r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mlib-ctx.lua:19: in function 'graphic' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \processMPgraphic ...alizations ;#1;\!!es , "" ) } \else \ctxlua { metapost.g... \handleuniqueMPgraphic ... {\processMPgraphic {#3} }\setxvalue {\@@MPG \overl... \douniqueMPgraphic ...#1][#2]\getvalue {\@@MPG #1} \empty \elabelgroup \executedefinedoverlay ...x {\the \everyoverlay #2 }}\setbox \scratchbox \hbo... \next4 ...d {\??ov \currentbackground }\donothing }}}\wd \extraframebox \zer... \rawprocesscommaitem ...commalevel \endcsname {#1} \expandafter \rawprocessco... ... [..] i also have some problems with endless loops here. luatex (>=0.27) runs wild, comsuming one cpu and memory; no error messages or logging. as i have currently no time, i simply switched back to an older version. 0.25.3 works ok, but has a problem with drawing small line widths (seems to be fixed in 0.28). sorry, no time for digging any deeper. regards, peter

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modules for TeX Live 2008
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Hello, Which modules are needed for TeX Live 2008? Here's some list (that Hans sent me some time ago): http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/modules/ (t-tikz should not be included, and ) while all the modules are listed here: http://modules.contextgarden.net/ I guess that at least taspresentation and t-letter should be added to the list? Maybe rsteps as well? Mojca

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table of contents and bookmarks issue
by Alan Stone 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Hi, When compiling the same source but with different compiler options... (1) compiled with texmfstart texexec --autopdf --pdf test.tex (2) compiled with texmfstart texexec --xtx test.tex or texmfstart texexec --xetex test.tex All hyperlinks ( table of contents and bookmarks ) jump to the correct position for (1). For (2), in all other view modes, single or a combined, other than "single page view", like for ex. "single page continuous + fit width" mode, the hyperlinks jump to the incorrect position, mostly the page before or after the one whereto it should jump to. Any idea how to prevent this behavior when compiling with xetex ? Thanks, Alan

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and type1 fonts: help
by Hans Hagen 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Vladimiro Sassone wrote: > On 7 Jul 2008, at 09:57, Hans Hagen wrote: >> you need to load map files, for instance >> >> \loadmapfile[original-youngryu-tx.map] >> \loadmapfile[original-youngryu-px.map] >> >> and some >> >> \loadmapfile [....-bh-lucida.map] > > In the tex file? Or in some configuration file? in your style ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and type1 fonts: help
by Hans Hagen 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Vladimiro Sassone wrote: > http://www.eatcs.org/bulletin.. nice showcase ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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trouble with typing in luatex
by Jesse Alama 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

The following example doesn't work: <-[snip]---------------------> \setuptyping[numbering=line] \starttext \starttyping hello \stoptyping \stoptext <-[snip]---------------------- The problem: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \number \linenumber \setxtypingparameter ...lass \currenttyping #1}{#2 } \nododowithbuffer ...yping_")}\endofverbatimlines \getvalue {\strippedcsname... l.5 \stoptyping ? What might be going on? Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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Custom letter head
by Oliver Buerschaper 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Dear Wolfgang, I was wondering how I could place a simple MetaPost graphic into the head area of a letter, next to the address data. I know the manual says you're going to write this and similar things up soon … could you still give me a sneak peek as where to look at and what to modify? All I need is a quick adaption that works for now … Many thanks, Oliver

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