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How to do math in ConTeXt?
by Mikael Persson 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi everyone! I appologise if this question is answered before. I was trying to do some math in ConTeXt today, but failed. What I wanted to do was something similar to the \begin{cases}\end{cases} thing in LaTeX (amsmath?). For the non-LaTeX-math-users, its something like this: f(x)= \begin{cases} 0 & \text{if}\ x<0\\ 1 & \text{if}\ x\geq 0 \end{cases} and one gets something like this: / 0 if x<0 f(x) = < \ 1 if x>=0 I didn't find any commands that did this so I searched alittle in the maillist archive and didn't find any solution to it. Are the amsmath commands available in one or another way or are the implemented somehow? I found newmat and m-math but I didn't find a solution in either of them. Are there any docs about how to type math in ConTeXt? I am also interested in things that looks like eqnarray and other environments in LaTeX's amsmath... Thanks in advance, Micke P

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metapost/context
by Hans Hagen 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi From now on (also in the coming tetex) the metafun macros will be in /metapost/context/base (so, ther eis now a base oath) When updating, remove the files first else you get funny side effects) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Footnote numbering
by cohsb＠gmx.de 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi, is there a possibility to restart the numbering of footnotes? (i.e. i, ii, iii,... in the front matter, and then 1,2,3... in the body). I could switch to the roman numerals quite easily but I could not manage to let the new numbering start at 1. I also tried to use parts for that, which just led to funny page numbers but did not have any influence on the footnote numbering at all. Perhaps somebody knows a simple solution? Many thanks and cheers, Chris. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!

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problem with tabulate environment
by Willi Egger 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi Hans, Sorry for bothering you again. There seems to be a problem with the tabulate environment. When running the compilation stops with the following error> ! Misplaced \noalign. \TABLEnoalign ->\noalign \bgroup \let \noalign \relax \let \next = \HL ->\TABLEnoalign {\ifnum \noftabulatelines =\zerocount \@EA \FL \else \if... \tabulatecontent ->\HL \NC Klasse \NC Gruppe \NC Art \NC \NR \NC Verzierungs... \fulltabulatecontent ...respaces \tabulatecontent \ifx \tabulatetailcontent ... \processtabulate ...sa \crcr \fulltabulatecontent \crcr }\prevdepth \dp \str... l.41 \stoptabulate } Could you please hava a look into this? Kind regards Willi

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texutil purge
by Hans van der Meer 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi Hans, Recently I became aware of a file "tmpgraph.bck" as the result of a context run that is not removed by the command "texutil --purge". I cannot remember after which ConTeXt-beta change this started. Is the texutil-script in need of updating? It is of course not a problem to remove this file by hand, but if texutil removes the rest it might is well remove this one. Hans van der Meer

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supp-box.tex generates an error...
by Patrick Gundlach 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

Hello out there, I just wanted to have a look at supp-box.tex, but texexecing it gives me: (./texexec-texexec.tmp) . [13.11] . . . . . . . . . [14.12] . . . . [15.13] . ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. \stopdocumentation ->\par \egroup \complexitem ...pitem []\ignorespaces \begstrut #2 \unskip \endstrut \par \st... l.982 (latest beta) Patrick

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piechartMP and context
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

Hi all, (especially Jens-Uwe) I just started to use the piechartMP package. I have succeeded in producing some quite nice charts using standalone metapost. But I am unable to convert these graphics to pdf via mptopdf, nor can I integrate them into context files. As soon as I try to switch to typesetting the labels using some TeX format, I get errors like 'Unable to make mpx file', or all labels simply show the same text, or... I have experimented with various setups, but I can't really locate the problem, sorry for this imprecise problem description. Can anybody provide me with some setup tips or a working setup? It would of course be best to have the labels typeset by context, respecting the MP environment of the document, but for the moment, a simply working setup would be a good start. Thanks, Eckhart

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math support for lbr
by Guy Worthington 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

After reading the mfonts manual, I still don't know how to install lbr math tfms. So far, I've: 1. Dumped all 41 of the lucida fonts (both .pfb and .afm files) in the directory c:\temp. A listing of the .pfb file follows: lbc.pfb lbd.pfb lbdi.pfb lbdsc.pfb lbh.pfb lbi.pfb lbki.pfb lbkr.pfb lbl.pfb lbma.pfb lbmad.pfb lbmd.pfb lbmdi.pfb lbmdo.pfb lbme.pfb lbmi.pfb lbmo.pfb lbmr.pfb lbms.pfb lbmsd.pfb lbr.pfb lbrsc.pfb lbsl.pfb lbtb.pfb lbtbo.pfb lbto.pfb lbtr.pfb lfd.pfb lfdi.pfb lfi.pfb lfr.pfb lsb.pfb lsbi.pfb lsd.pfb lsdi.pfb lsi.pfb lsr.pfb lstb.pfb lstbo.pfb lsto.pfb lstr.pfb 41 File(s) 1,473,502 bytes 0 Dir(s) 22,042,120,192 bytes free 2. Ran the command from c:\temp texfont type-buy.dat --fontroot=c:\Local\TeX\texmf-local --en=texnansi --ve=bh --co=lucida --expert 3. Ran the generated testfile. 4. Finally I ran the following file: %%-------------------------------------------------- \autoloadmapfilestrue \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[lbr] \starttext ,,German`` ``English'' << French >> >>Swedish<< \stoptext %%-------------------------------------------------- This generated the following log file: This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.14159-1.10a-RC3-2.1 (Web2c 7.4.1) (format=cont-en 2002.12.27) 27 JAN 2003 21:29 entering extended mode %&-line parsing enabled. **&cont-en Java_XML.ctx (./Java_XML.ctx{c:/Local/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2002.12.20 fmt: 2002.12.27 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `Java_XML.tui'. system : Java_XML.top loaded (./Java_XML.top) \openout0 = `Java_XML-mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `Java_XML-mprun.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex typescript : [serif,sans,mono,math,handwriting] [lucida] [name,special,texn ansi] (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/math-lbr.tex)) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [serif,sans,mono,math,handwriting] [default] [size] (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [map] [texnansi] [] (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex)) ! Font \*7ptmmmi*=lbmo at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosetmathfamilyA ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontbody ... \dosetmathfamily ...athfamily \scriptscriptfont #1 \let \fontbody #3\dodosetm... <inserted text> ...\scriptscriptface \c!mi \empty \dosetskewchar \defaultske... \synchronizemath ...athfonts \the \mathstrategies \fam \mrfam \fi ... l.3 \setupbodyfont[lbr] ? x Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 657 strings out of 33848 10198 string characters out of 754309 4394604 words of memory out of 5512357 30170 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 11469 words of font info for 37 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 56 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 45i,1n,54p,283b,53s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,5000p,200000b,40000s 0 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 0 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 No pages of output. Please help!

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acronyms and xml?
by Bruce D'Arcus 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

I want to author documents in XML so I can reuse the content. How should I deal with acronyms, such that if I output to HTML I get all-caps, but if I typeset using ConTeXt (maybe using Simon's DocBook thing) I'd get small caps? Is there an element for this in DocBook, for example? Bruce

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texexec --pages
by Willi Egger 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

Hi Hans, Today I decided to do some experiments with pdf. I tried the following command: texexec --pages=1:3,20 myfile.pdf texexec --pdfselect=1:3,20 myfile.pdf Both commands have identical failure: After starting the command, the 'myfile.pdf' is immediately renamed in texexec.pdf. Hereafter one should again type the input filename, which of course is not there anymore. - So texexec renames the input file while it still should load it with the original input-file name. Could you please have a look at this? Thanks and kind regards Willi

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