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[Fwd: Texexec bug]
by Gregory D. Collins 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hello ntg-context, I have a copy of texexec.pl dated 2002/05/04 which has a bug in it. I use tetex under cygwin in Windows, and was having a lot of trouble getting texexec working. The problem is as follows. There is a line in texexec.pl: my $dosish = ($Config{'osname'} =~ /^(ms)?dos|^os\/2|^(ms|cyg)win/i); The purpose of this is to find out if we are in a "dosish" environment. This is used later: unless ($dosish) ~ { if ($TeXFormatFlag == "&") { $TeXFormatFlag = "\\&" } ~ if ($MpFormatFlag == "&") { $MpFormatFlag = "\\&" } } This breaks badly (and very confusingly) later when we do system() calls if $SHELL=bash. I don't know if the rest of cygwin's environment qualifies as "dosish" or not for the rest of the program, although mine works fine if it's turned off. Is this a known bug? G. - -- Gregory D. Collins <gcollins(a)cs.yale.edu> GPG key available at pgp.mit.edu keyserver, id 0xD2EECA60

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Fwd: ConTeXt FAQ format, XML with DTD
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hello again! JM's proposal of FAQ format is only for one FAQ entry. The following one may contain the whole thing: several "recipes" (FAQ entries), each in more than one language. I tried to convert it with ConTeXt, but it doesn't like attributes (I will make a minimal failing example later). <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE context_cookbook SYSTEM "context_cookbook.dtd"> <cookbook date="2002-10-28" label="jum-000"> <recipe id="test" section="first" subsection="subfirst"> <version xml:lang="de" original="yes"> <question> Wie kann ich dies und jenes erreichen? </question> <keyword sort-as="tech">&TeX;</keyword> <keyword>Test</keyword> <answer> So vielleicht. <code type="tex">blabla</code> Oder so. <code type="shell">cat > test.txt</code> Oder anders. </answer> <author id="hraban" date="2002-10-20" /> <editor id="nobody" date="2003-10-11" /> </version> <version xml:lang="en" original="no"> <question> How can I achieve that or this? </question> <keyword sort-as="tech">&TeX;</keyword> <keyword>test</keyword> <answer> Perhaps this way. <code type="xml"> <macro>clip</macro> <sqbracket>nx=3,ny=2,x=2,y=1</sqbracket> <braces> <macro>externalfigure</macro> <sqbracket>yourfigure</sqbracket> </braces> </code> Or maybe that way. Or somehow else. </answer> <author id="john" date="2002-10-20" /> <editor id="hraban" date="2002-10-21" /> </version> </recipe> </cookbook> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- context_cookbook.dtd: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <!ENTITY % sortas "sort-as CDATA #IMPLIED"> <!ENTITY % date "date CDATA #REQUIRED"> <!ENTITY % person "id IDREF #REQUIRED %date;"> <!ELEMENT cookbook (recipe+)> <!ATTLIST cookbook %date;> <!ATTLIST cookbook label CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ELEMENT recipe (version+)> <!ATTLIST recipe id ID #REQUIRED> <!ATTLIST recipe section IDREF #REQUIRED> <!ATTLIST recipe subsection IDREF "none"> <!ATTLIST recipe subsubsection IDREF "none"> <!ELEMENT version (question, keyword*, answer, author, editor*)> <!ATTLIST version xml:lang IDREF "en"> <!ATTLIST version original (yes|no) "yes"> <!ELEMENT question ANY> <!ELEMENT keyword ANY> <!ATTLIST keyword %sortas;> <!ELEMENT answer ANY> <!ELEMENT author EMPTY> <!ATTLIST author %person;> <!ELEMENT editor EMPTY> <!ATTLIST editor %person;> <!ELEMENT code (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST code type (tex|shell|dos|xml) "tex"> <!ELEMENT index (#PCDATA)> <!ATTLIST index %sortas;> <!ELEMENT emph (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT p ANY> <!ENTITY TeX "tech"> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net http://www.ramm.ch ---

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Math accents in subscripts
by Leif Albers 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hello out there, when I use math accents (like \tilde) above italic characters in subscripts, they appear displaced. A trivial example is e.g. -------------------- SNIPP -------------------- \starttext $ E_{\tilde s} $ \stoptext -------------------- SNIPP -------------------- Compare the output to the plain TeX output of "$ E_{\tilde s} $ \end", and you will see the difference - watch the position of the accent. Is this a bug? BTW: I used different ConTeXt versions on tetex, including the last beta I found on the pragma-ade server: > ConTeXt ver: 2002.10.23 fmt: 2002.11.5 Leif Albers

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Chinese - font utilities
by Lei Wang 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

> [While the mailing list archive is down I can't search for previous answers > to this, so apologies if this is asked and answered already.] > > I'd like to use the Chinese setting facility in ConTeXt, and am going > through the instructions given in the "Chinese in ConTeXt" manual. I'm > finding it very tough to locate the utilites needed to prepare the fonts. the fontutil can be download from http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn/homepage/015450/prog.html there are windows/linux/solaris version and the name is gbkfonts now. I think you can read this chinese web page. > In particular, I've been looking for 'chpfb' or 'gbpfb', which will enable > me to convert a TrueType font into several Type 1 fonts and corresponding > tfms, or the 'gbenc' shellscript which will enable me to create the > necessary tfms and encodings to use the ttf directly. > > Unfortunately they are proving very difficult to track down in the locations > pointed to by the manual, which presumably are now out of date. > > I have access to both Windows and Linux platforms to run these on, so if > anyone can point me at a place where I can now get them I'd be very > grateful. Even better, if someone actually has a working Chinese set-up, a > few pointers as to how you got there would be brilliant! there are a simple setup for chinese in context here: http://bbs.ctex.org/cgi-bin/topic.cgi?forum=8&topic=28&show=90 also a chinese page. Wang

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Re: MP Graph
by Hans Hagen 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

At 09:09 PM 10/28/2002 +0000, you wrote: >The attached file (which uses one of the standard mp-graph data files) >fails (see pdf) in a directory without texnum.mpx, but succeeds when that >file is present. I'm sorting (doing a diff) through the logs generated on >each run to see which is the best to report on. Maybe something has changed to graph.mp (esp the trigger for reloading it), in mp-form add a line at the top: boolean mant_font ; mant_font := true ; this will prevent loading form.mp (which is replaced by a sligthly extended version mp-form) and therefore loading of texnum Also in your graphic: use the simpler \startMPcode ... \stopMPcode and not the low level macros; also saves keying. if you have the *.d files and m-graph.tex on the same path, you can run texexec --mode=demo --pdf m-graph to get a test file 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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FAQ format
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Hi, please find below a proposal for a XML-FAQ format. I hope it covers all suggestions Hans and Henning have made in the last discussions. More suggestions are welcome. notes: - the label= in <contextfaq> can be used for cross-references - the id= in <author> is a reference to the author database as requested by Henning - the modified= in <revision> should be used to highlight updated FAQs in a new ConTeXt-FAQ issue - there is only one key for sectioning, since IMO the "application" should know where this section (specified by id=) is in the document tree. This should allow easy reordering of the FAQ - and a question: what is the better solution for different types of parenthesis in TeX code; the 1st or the 2nd <texcode> block? Tschö Jens. <contextfaq label="jum-0001"> <head> <author id="jum"/> <revision published="2002-10-27" modified="2002-10-27"/> <keywords> <entry key="clipping">clipping</entry> <entry key="clip"> <tex>clip</tex> </entry> <entry key="externalfigure"> <tex>externalfigure</tex> </entry> <entry key="figure">figure</entry> </keywords> <section id="graphics-manipulation"/> </head> <body> <question> Is it possible to show only a part of an external figure? </question> <answer> The command <tex>clip</tex> allows to show only a part of a figure. You can either split the figure in rows and columns in order to show one of the resulting segments or you can specify a viewport directly. The following code tiles the figure in 3 columns and 2 rows and shows the segment in row 1 and column 2: <texcode> <macro>clip</macro> <sqbracket>nx=3,ny=2,x=2,y=1</sqbracket> <braces> <macro>externalfigure</macro> <sqbracket>yourfigure</sqbracket> </braces> </texcode> In order to specify the visible part directly you can use: <texcode> <macro>clip</macro> [hoffset=3cm,voffset=2cm,width=4cm,height=3cm] {<macro>externalfigure</macro>[yourfigure]} </texcode> </answer> </body> </contextfaq>

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combinations
by Hans Hagen 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Hi, The next release will provide more control over combinations: \setupcombinations[align=right,location={top,left}] i.e. location (top,bottom,middle,left,right) concerns the top thing, the alignment (left,right,middle with right being raggedright) the caption also new: \placefloat[leftmargin]{}{} and \placefloat[leftmargin,2*-line]{}{} (there is more new, but that's experimental) 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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Widow control
by Michał Morawski 03 Nov '02

03 Nov '02

Hi, In my (two column) document I have discovered many problems with ophran/widow paragraphs. The line: \clubpenalty=9000 has removed the problem with ophran paragraphs, but similar \widowpenalty=9999 does not remove widow paragraphs at all. Could you give me any advice? And more After command \clubpenalty=xxxx the columns have different height (columns are "ragged"). What command can make wider the interparagraphs gaps to adjust column heights? Thank you Michal ############################################ ## Michał Morawski ## 95-200 Pabianice, Sempołowskiej 5 m 13 ## tel/fax ++48 42 2262228 ############################################ ab ovo <od jaja> - od początku.

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new mail program
by Hans Hagen 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

Hi, The ntg changed to mailman mail programs. There may be some hickups while doing so, sorry for this inconvenience. 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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Strange error...
by Willi Egger 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

Hi Hans, while busy to develop more FLOWcharts, I get the following error, which does not lead to fatal exit. The resulting pdf-file is according to my oppinion o.k. Do you have an idea what is wrong? ... systems : end file cenj at line 244 ! pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{page:15}) h as been already used, duplicate ignored <recently read> fit <to be read again> \egroup \fakePDFpagedestination ...e:\realfolio }}\egroup \fi \fi \fi \actualshipout ...chbox \hbox {\the \everyshipout \ifnum \realpageno =\lastp... \myshipout ...pout {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \fi \gotonextrealpage \nap... \dofinaloutput ...pagebody #1#2\setpagecounters }} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... ... l.244 \stoptext [16.15] ) Groet Willi

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