September 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Euler in mkiv
by Mohamed Bana 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi, Ditto. Are there any instructions for setting this up for the minimals or texlive 2008?

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Verbatim with color background
by B. Tommy Jensen 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi, I have a short question about verbatim areas (\starttyping): I have been trying to define a background color to verbatim areas in a document. My method so far is to define a textbackground named "verbatim" and refer to this in the setuptyping method: \setuptyping[typing][margin=0.5cm,bodyfont=8.0pt, before={\starttextbackground[verbatim]}, after={\stoptextbackground}] This works only partly. For example, when using long verbatim texts that spans over more than one page, the background color disappears on the last page. Is there any other easy way of controlling the background color on verbatim areas? Best regards, Tommy Jensen

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sometxt in mkiv
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

I think this message mysteriously disappeared yesterday (at least I didn;t see it); if you've seen it before, please excuse the double post! Hi all, I was just wondering if this is a bug or if it's something that still needs to be implemented: the example on p. 10 of Mojca's sometxt MyWay works in mkii, yet in mkiv, it doesn't: \starttext \startTeXtexts \dorecurse{12}{\TeXtext{\recurselevel}{\recurselevel}} \stopTeXtexts \startMPcode numeric r; r = 1.5cm; draw fullcircle scaled 2r; for i=1 upto 12: draw (origin--down) scaled 4pt shifted (0,r) rotated -30i; label(sometxt(i), up scaled .75r rotated -30i); endfor; \stopMPcode \stoptext in mkiv, I get no labels and the somewhat cryptic sentence "[do we need TeXtexts in MkIV]" on my pdf. Anybody able to answer this or my question? All best Thomas

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Greek letters in math with XeTeX
by Flavien Lambert 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Dear all, I try to use Open Type fonts with ConTeXt and XeTeX (I recently did the same with LaTeX using fontspec and mathspec packages). From the web site, I managed to use them for standard text as well as roman alphabet in math. Unfortunately, greek letters stay printed with the Latin Modern font. >From examples of the web site, I tried the following lines but without success. In a preceding post, there was a similar question but with the luatex engine. Thanks for your help ! \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][GFS Didot] \definetypeface[myface][mm][math][GFS Didot] \starttext Normal text. \startformula \alpha + \beta = 10 \stopformula \stoptext -- Flavien. ---------------------------- "Quantum objects are completely crazy but, at least, they are all crazy in the same way." R.P. Feynman.

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minimal update problem
by Zhaopeng Xing 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Hi, I am using context minimal on a linux box. After I created a directory named "texmf-local" under $TEXMFROOT and run command: ctxtools --updatecontext All downloaded files went to texmf-local and no update to the folder texmf-context. I do not like this way of updating, because I keep personal data/file in texmf-local. Can anybody tell me how to avoid such problem? -- Zhaopeng XING Tinbergen Institute

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symb-uni.tex
by Alan Stone 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

Hi, re: http://source.contextgarden.net/symb-uni.tex What does, for example, "0x2000: Requires UnicodeRegular20" mean in \startsymbolset[Unicode Additional Punctuation] % 0x2000: Requires UnicodeRegular20 in the context of \usesymbols[uni] \def\mySymbol{\symbol[Unicode Additional Punctuation][*symbolname*]} Thanks, Alan

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frameoffset in textbackground
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Hallo, what is 'frameoffset' for? There seems to be no difference with and without this key. ---------------------------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[strong] [backgroundcolor=lightgray, location=paragraph, frame=on, frameoffset=5mm] \starttext bla \starttextbackground[strong] zack \stoptextbackground blub \stoptext ------------------------------------ Wolfgang

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MKIV textext problem.
by Yue Wang 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Hi, Hans, the code works for MKII but not for MKIV. known issue or bug? Yue Wang On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Yue Wang <yuleopen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > some weird error >

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error message query
by Alan Bowen 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

It appears that the problem is my definition \def\ {|~|} Though this definition works in a simple test file, it apparently conflicts with something in my environment file and produces the error message reported previously. So, is there a “safer” way to define \<space> as {|~|}? Alan

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synctex support for ConTeXt fixed
by Mojca Miklavec 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

(from the thread "Installing ConTeXt Minimals on a Mac") On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> (c) establishing synchronization between PDF output and its ConTeXt source. >> Currently, it does not seem to work (with TeXShop at least) >> Note, in the latest TeXShop there is >> Added support for SyncTeX. SyncTeX is new synchronization technology by >> Jerome Laurens which is included in TeX Live 2008 (but not earlier TeX >> distributions). The technology is built directly into pdfTeX and XeTeX. In >> modern TeX distributions, most typesetting actually calls pdfetex (even if >> using latex to output a dvi file), and thus the technology is available for >> such typesetting. To use the technology, add the flag --synctex=1 >> Any advice on how to do (a), (b), and (c) will be much appreciated. > > You can try > texexec --passon="-synctex=1" filename > but I didn't manage to make it work - it always pointed back to > \stoptext or \page, just as it pointed to the end of minipage in > LaTeX. Apart from the fact that I wasn't sure which tool to use to > make rsync work (when I was testing, TeXShop didn't support synctex > yet, TeXWorks behaved weird, and one would need to write support for > TextMate first, but when Patrick tried it, he have up after > discovering that it didn't work anyway). > > While answering you I just got a reply from Jérôme: > >> The problem comes from the synctex parser. >> I made different experiments and forgot to test the latest one with context. >> I will upload the new versions soon but I am afraid the various viewers must be updated. >> You will have to wait a little longer... Today a new package has been uploaded to CTAN: (http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/synctex-parser/README) History: -------- 1.2: Tue Sep 2 10:28:32 UTC 2008 - Correction for ConTeXt support in the edit query. The previous method was assuming that TeX boxes do not overlap, which is reasonable for LaTeX but not for ConTeXt. This assumption is no longer considered. Once Martin and Jonathan fix pdfTeX & XeTeX sources, you'll have a chance to experiment further :) :) :) Mojca

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