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I have solved my problem
by Michał Morawski 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

I have reported the problem with generating format I have uncommented the wrong line in the cont-usr file. Sorry ############################################ ## Michał Morawski ## 95-200 Pabianice, Sempołowskiej 5 m 13 ## tel/fax ++48 42 2262228 ############################################ crede, quod habes, et habes - wierz, że masz, a będziesz miał.

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Chinese - font utilities
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Nov '02

01 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. 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they are proving very difficult to track down in the locations pointed to by the manual, which presumably are now out of date.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! Many thanks. Duncan

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Line break?
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

This is probably "the dumbest question of the year", but I cannot find an answer in the manuals (beginner's and the real big one) and the mailing archives don't want to play with me today [Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/search.cgi on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.]. I badly need a working line break (comparable to the HTML tag <br>). In a side note in one of the manuals I found that \\ should work as line break, but it doesn't work for me, for example --- Example: To change 4-20 mA = 15 - 25 CONC\% to 4-20 mA = 10 - 30 CONC\%, key in the sequence\\ Calibrate/Parameters/Output signals/Current output\\ and then enter Zero = 10 and Span = 20. --- results in --- Example: To change 4-20 mA = 15 - 25 CONC% to 4-20 mA = 10 - 30 CONC%, key in the sequence Calibrate/Parameters/Output signals/Current output and then enter Zero = 10 and Span = 20. --- and that's not what I want. I'm open to other solutions as well, but I think I'd really prefer to have line breaks there (not least because I want to keep the code simple - other people will need to understand this too). Mari from Finland PS. Any hope with the mailing archive search?

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Re: [NTG-context] Line break?
by Hans Hagen 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

At 05:07 PM 10/31/2002 +0200, mari.voipio(a)iki.fi wrote: >On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Matthias Heidbrink wrote: > > > Try "\crlf". This and more is on page 37 in the manual > > "Context - an excursion". > >Nope, on *page* 37 there's some obscure chemistry (says the dummy). But >now that you all have shown me what to look for, I found it in *chapter* >37, Miscellaneous, on _page_90_ (under subsection 37.10 carriage return). > >Which explains why I couldn't find it - I'm almost too young to know what >a "carriage return and line feed" is and so I only used "line break" and >"linebreak" as search words and that doesn't help. And then I looked for >the line break under "paragraph formatting", not miscellaneous. > >Now I only feel somewhat dumb because I didn't find it myself (because >I've tried pretty hard), this was a Windows generation problem. :-) > > >If \break really works, I'll prefer using that because it will be more >transparent to other users, but I thank everybody for speedy replies - at >least the mailing list works even if the archives don't. \crlf also adds a strut and is less sentitive to those underful messages, 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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Polish language
by Michał Morawski 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi, As I have read in the file minstall.pdf I have tried to generate polish format by: texexec --make --language=pl,uk --bodyfont=plr en However in the log file I see: language : language en is active ("en" instead of "pl") What do I do wrong? Thanks in advance Michał Morawski ############################################ ## Michał Morawski ## 95-200 Pabianice, Sempołowskiej 5 m 13 ## tel/fax ++48 42 2262228 ############################################ Wszystko, co idzie źle sprawia wrażenie, że idzie dobrze.

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Termn "C++" in index
by Matthias Heidbrink 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi, possibly a trivial question, but can't find it anywhere: How do I get the term "C++" into an index? Unfortunately ConTeXT interprets the "+" as a separator for indexed terms and I did not find a way to escape it that did not confuse the index mechanism. Another remark: In my view "texutil --purge" should also delete the ...tuo file because otherwise ConTeXt does not recover from a defective index entry. Ciao, Matthias -- Matthias Heidbrink E-Mail: Bundesratufer 12 mh(a)cs.tu-berlin.de 10555 Berlin, Germany Tel. +49-30-8536361 Mobil +49-179-3981150

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XML mapping
by Martin Kolařík 29 Oct '02

29 Oct '02

Hi all, is there any way to map some XML tag into another one? Something like \mapXMLvalue, but for elements? Thank you, Martin

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bug in chart module
by Hans Hagen 28 Oct '02

28 Oct '02

Hi, for chart users: i found a bug in mp-chrt.mp (must be a quite old one): for i=1 upto max_x : for j=1 upto max_y : % was bug: xfrom,yto if not ( ( (i,j)=(xfrom,yfrom) ) or ( (i,j)=(xto,yto) ) ) : it results in the wrong conclusion about lines crossing shapes, so if you encounter that situation, patch and regenerate metafun 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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MP Graph and texnum.mpx
by Adam Lindsay 28 Oct '02

28 Oct '02

Hi ConTeXters, I've been using the MPGraph part of MetaPost and its corresponding m- graph ConTeXt module this week. I've been getting very attractive results that I will encourage my partner to use in her PhD. I was baffled for a while why I could get graphing to work beautifully in one directory, but in no others. I finally tracked it down to the system requiring texnum.mpx in the current working directory. I believe this file contains the MP-ified numbers that MPGraph puts on the axes. My question is: why should this be? I *think* I have done everything else necessary to get MP working in ConTeXt. How can I automatically generate texnum.mpx in a way that 1) another user doesn't have to worry about it or 2) it sits in the path permanently? Some system details: I'm running a fresh TeXLive 7 install, with the latest ConTeXt from the website. I have \write18 enabled, \runMPfraphicstrue, \runMPTEXgraphicstrue, and MPXCOMMAND = texexec -- mptex. On the slightly unusual side, I have \forceMPTEXgraphictrue, which seemed necessary at one point, and no \recycleMPslotstrue, which seemed unnecessary. I'm thrilled with the integration of MetaPost's Graph capabilities, beyond this strange behaviour that took a long time to track down. It was very easy to get very attractive results from simple data files. As a side question, would I have to fiddle with texmf/metapost/base/ texnum.mp to affect the font of the x- and y-axis numbers on an MPGraph plot? They seem to stick to CMR no matter what I do to defaultfont in MetaPost. Thanks, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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source files and ConTeXt style
by Adam Lindsay 28 Oct '02

28 Oct '02

Hi. I'm just starting to look at detailed TeX stuff. I'd like to write some ConTeXt-style macros to support a user. I've already wrapped some MPGraph functions in some old-fashioned TeX-style multiple-argument macros, but I would like to offer my user something more modern and ConTeXt-like. Does anyone have any hints on looking at the ConTeXt code for writing modules? Any hints on achieving Hans-like \dodododo zen? Ik heb een beetje nederlands, but finding mappings between nl-commando's and en- commands is still elusive when trying to decode some multilingual sources. So I know it's too much to ask to get inside Hans's brilliant mind, but I was wondering if some power-users can offer some hints in terms of starting to understand the style of the sources. Thanks, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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