Re: [NTG-context] Here's a strange one for Metapost gurus
Hi David, it happens already in figure 6! By writing path left; ... path right; you have redefined internal things left and right. With e. g. %draw spring block left path xleft; xleft:=(2,9)--(3,9)--(3,11)--(2,11)--cycle; xleft:=xleft scaled u; stripe_path_a(withcolor black)(draw) xleft withcolor white; draw (3u,9u)--(3u,11u); %draw spring block right path xright; xright:=(17,9)--(18,9)--(18,11)--(17,11)--cycle; xright:=xright scaled u; stripe_path_a(withcolor black)(draw) xright withcolor white; draw (17u,9u)--(17u,11u); it works. Regards, Hartmut Hartmut Henkel, Oftersheim, Germany ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] VTeX
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[NTG-context] typearea
Hello, I'm just switching from LaTeX to ConTeXt. Is there already a module with similar functionalities as the typearea¹ package that comes with LaTeX? ¹ typearea comes with KOMA-Script and permits to automatically calculate the right margins with respect to some typographic rules. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ Film Search site: http://f-s.sf.net/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Re: extended ascii characters
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Adam Lindsay wrote:
like this, you might find it easier to use this at the beginning of your
document:
\enableregime[il1] %...or...
\enableregime[windows] % as appropriate.
Hello,
since I didn't find any documentation about this command, here 2 questions:
* What should I do to use the latin9 encoding?
I copied regi-il1.tex with the appropriate changes to regi-il9.tex but it
does not work. Anyway: when I get a working il9-file in my private ConTeXt
directory, how should I name it?
* How do you get hyphenation with accented characters?
In LaTeX I used to switch to the EC fonts by issuing \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
I tried the following, but it didn't work:
\fr
\useencoding[ec]
\enableregime[il1]
\starttext
évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution évolution
évolution évolution
evolution evolution evolution evolution evolution evolution evolution
evolution evolution
\stoptext
Thanks in advance for any help!
Happy new year, Peter
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Re: [NTG-context] Here's a strange one for Metapost gurus
Hartmut, Good eyes! Exactly right, or should I say xright? Thanks. At 05:08 PM 1/4/04 +0100, you wrote: Hi David, it happens already in figure 6! By writing path left; ... path right; you have redefined internal things left and right. With e. g. %draw spring block left path xleft; xleft:=(2,9)--(3,9)--(3,11)--(2,11)--cycle; xleft:=xleft scaled u; stripe_path_a(withcolor black)(draw) xleft withcolor white; draw (3u,9u)--(3u,11u); %draw spring block right path xright; xright:=(17,9)--(18,9)--(18,11)--(17,11)--cycle; xright:=xright scaled u; stripe_path_a(withcolor black)(draw) xright withcolor white; draw (17u,9u)--(17u,11u); it works. Regards, Hartmut Hartmut Henkel, Oftersheim, Germany ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] Re: VTeX
Hello Peter, is it possible to get work ConTeXt and VTeX together? It's interesting because of free EC fonts in type 1 format in the VTeX-Linux distribution. Last time I checked, VTeX did not support ConTeXt. I doubt that it changed. Patrick -- Es wird kein Wunder geschehen ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Re: extended ascii characters
Peter Münster said this at Sun, 4 Jan 2004 19:09:38 +0100: * What should I do to use the latin9 encoding? I copied regi-il1.tex with the appropriate changes to regi-il9.tex but it does not work. Anyway: when I get a working il9-file in my private ConTeXt directory, how should I name it? Peter, off the top of my head, I think you would do: \input regi-il9 % read the file in \useregime [il9]% make sure the regime is loaded \enableregime [il9] % activate it. I'm pretty clueless about hyphenation, though. adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Context update
At 11:26 03/01/2004, you wrote:
Dear friends,
First of all, I would like to wish all of you a happy new year!
The update of the most recent Context package (04.2.1.) + subsequent
installation with Miktex (MiKTeX 2.1) does not work out on my system (Win
98). Miktex does not complete the installation of the context en and nl
formats.
The error messages follow below.
Could anyone help me out? Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Robert Ermers
Installation with Miktex, error messages in log file:
system (E-TEX) : [line 473] \ifcsname
! Undefined control sequence.
\@@su:*reset -\widowpenalties
ah, you don't use etex ... in core-spa.tex, patch the following setup:
\startsetups [\systemsetupsprefix\v!reset]
\resetpenalties\widowpenalties
\resetpenalties\clubpenalties
\resetpenalties\interlinepenalties
\stopsetups
as well as the teo definitions:
\def\resetpenalties#1%
{\ifx#1\undefined\else
#1\minusone
\fi}
\def\setpenalties#1#2#3%
{\ifx#1\undefined\else
#1\numexpr(#2+1)\space\doexpandedrecurse{\numexpr(#2)}{#3}\zerocount\relax
\fi}
Hans
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Re: [NTG-context] style questions
At 20:49 01/01/2004, you wrote:
1. I want to mark some words consistently and used the \definesynonyms
command for this, although I only use the second form.
\definesynonyms[glossar][explanation][\infull]
\glossar [ZOPE] {\em Zope} {Web Applikationsserver}
Is there a better way to style words consistently? I find it
difficult to distinguish between \ZOPE\ and \ZOPE, especially for
the possible later translation from XML.
you can try: {\ZOPE} for both, so between {\ZOPE} and {\ZOPE},
technically a lookahead for space is possible but there are border cases ...
in XML, when you use
between meaning label=ZOPE/ and meaning label=ZOPE/, with:
\defineXMLsingular [meaning] [label=] {\infull{\XMLop{label}}}
there is no space problem (the \ is needed to prevent eating up the space,
which is a result from the way tex parses \COMMANDS.
2. In the example there is an indirection for the section definitions.
\definehead [Topic] [chapter]
\definehead [Nopic] [title]
Later on the newly defined headers are styled. But they are used as
the only headers throughout the document. So why not style the
original ones?
hm, a matter of taste, a topic is not a chapter; imagine a quality
assurance manual:
\Procedure \WorkInstruction \Process
is then more meaningfull than chapter section subsection (also, the
indirectness enables you to reassign levels)
3. I have defined colored header bars in the following ways.
\setuphead
[subject, Subject,section]
[command=\mysec,
page=no,
continue=no,
style={\ss\bs},
color=black]
\def\mysec#1#2{\framed[width=\textwidth,
corner=round,
radius=0.05em,
background=color,
backgroundcolor=HKS5,
framecolor=HKS5]{\startnarrower[1*left,1*right] #2 \hfill #1
\stopnarrower}}
They are spanning the complete textwidth. What I now want is to
have a smaller textwidth, but the bars should remain broader, as
broad as the header and footer lines. Any hints?
I don't understand what you want, maybe:
\def\mysec#1#2%
{\framed
[width=\textwidth,
corner=round,
radius=0.05em,
background=color,
backgroundcolor=HKS5,
align=normal,
strut=no,
framecolor=HKS5]
{\setuptabulate[before=,after=]
\starttabulate[|p(5cm)|r|]\NC#2\NC#1\NC\NR\stoptabulate}}
or
\def\mysec#1#2%
{\bTABLE
\bTR \bTD #2 \eTD \bTD #1 \eTD \eTR
\eTABLE}
4. How to deal with metadata, like author, version, last modified and
so. Would you recommend to use buffers for this? This information
is probably used on the title page and the footer of each page.
\setvariables
[category]
[something=whatever]
and then
\getvariable{category}{something}
Ok, now a real question. I want to style the actual requirements in
form of a papercard, whith their actual status at the top. This would
be an new definition with 2 or 3 arguments. But the requirements
should also be enumerated. How can one build such an environment?
Derive somehow from \defineenumeration?
---
|ReqNbr | Title | status | date|
---
| longer text with paragraphs and pagebreaks |
---
Sorry for the ascii-art (cough :-). These cards should be able to span
more than one page. In the light of this a table with running heads
would also be an option, right?
Thanks for this great package, it is a lot of fun and full of gems.
something
\long\def\StartMyCard#1#2#3#4#5\StopMyCard
{\bTABLE
\bTR \bTD #1 \eTD \bTD #2 \eTD \bTD #3 \eTD \bTD #4 \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD[nc=4] #5 \eTD \eTR
\eTABLE}
\StartMyCard{Req}{Title}{status}{date} text \StopMyCard
or:
\long\def\StartMyCard[#1]#2\StopMyCard
{\getvariables[card][nr=,title=,status=,date=,#2]
\bTABLE
\bTR \bTD \getvariable{card}{nr} \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD[nc=4] #2 \eTD \eTR
\eTABLE}
\StartMyCard[nr=10,title=whatever]
some text
\StopMyCard
etc etc
Hans
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Re: [NTG-context] extensie pl
At 11:21 30/12/2003, you wrote: Als ik aan de dos-prompt typ: texexec voorbeeld dan krijg ik de foutmelding texexec wordt niet herkend als een interne of externe opdracht, programma of batchbestand met texexec.pl voorbeeld lukt het wel. Ik ben overigens een absolute beginner in context. Ik vind op het net echter nergens een echte beginnershandleiding die alles van naaldje tot draadje uitlegt. Het lijkt een wereldje waar je zelf alles moet uitzoeken. Is dit zo? you can download fptex or tex live which has everything up and running for you if you're on xp (or 2000) you can do things like: FTYPE PerlScript=d:\perl\bin\perl.exe %%1 %%* ASSOC .pl=PerlScript SET PATHEXT=.pl;%PATHEXT% or use the file type menu to associate the pl extension to perl scripts Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] unicode and out-of-box usability
At 18:59 02/01/2004, you wrote:
I've been struggling through, trying to learn Unicode in ConTeXt. It's
been instructive, at least. (Hope to make a MyWay about it...)
good
There are a few weird things that made it difficult to learn, and I was
wondering if someone could help explain why things are the way they are.
In unic-ini:
\chardef\utfunihashmode=0 % 1 = enabled
Actually, if I understand things correctly, '1' means disabled, which
is what I preferred, having not yet created any unicode vectors. So the
internal documentation there seems wrong, and I would argue the default
case (0) makes it harder for beginners.
hm, did you look at the unic-001 etc files? the trick is in fast and efficient
expansion without the need to define lots of named glyphs
More confusingly, in font-uni:
forget about that one, although it's called unicode, it's actually a
mechanism for
the many vectors derived from unicode / related to unicode but not entirely
i.e. cjk fonts
\def\enableunicodefont#1%
{\definefontsynonym[\s!Unicode][\getvalue{\??uc#1\c!file}]%
\def\unicodescale {\getvalue{\??uc#1\c!schaal}}%
\def\unicodeheight{\getvalue{\??uc#1\c!hoogte}}%
\def\unicodedepth {\getvalue{\??uc#1\c!diepte}}%
\def\unicodedigits{\getvalue{\??uc#1\c!conversie}}%
\def\handleunicodeglyph {\getvalue{\??uc#1\c!commando}}%
%%% NEXT LINE
\enableregime[unicode]% the following \relax's are realy needed
\doifvalue{\??uc#1\c!interlinie}\v!ja\setupinterlinespace\relax
\getvalue{\??uc#1\c!commandos}\relax}
The \enableregime[unicode] runs in direct opposition with the
\enableregime[utf] that normally goes at the start of (some of my)
documents. As it stands, with the regime hard-coded, users have to put an
\enableregime[utf] *after* the font declaration. That's awkward.
so, don't use that mechanism, stick to the utf mechanism
The last proposed change/complaint is back in unic-ini, and came from my
attempts to match the main body font with the unicode font.
\def\utfunifontglyph#1%
{\xdef\unidiv{\number\utfdiv{#1}}%
\xdef\unimod{\number\utfmod{#1}}%
\ifnum#1[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\unicodeasciicharacter\unimod
\char\unimod % \unicodeascii\unimod
\else\ifcsname\@@univector\unidiv\endcsname
\csname\doutfunihash{\unidiv}{#1}\endcsname
\else % so, these can be different fonts !
\unicodeglyph\unidiv\unimod % no \uchar (yet)
\fi\fi}
Basically, I'd like to use the \unicodeasciicharacter hook with this
definition:
\def\unicodeasciicharacter{\uchar{0}}
(I'm not certain the above is release-quality code, but I've been testing
it with a stripped down \utfunifontglyph that should be functionally
equivalent.)
play with it and we'll see
Working with the unicode code makes me appreciate that it's really
powerful part of ConTeXt. Thanks, Hans!
how about the following:
there are many font encodings around but none is really complete enough to
deal with basic unicode (0/1/2 range)
why not define a new font encoding with characters only so that we can have
as many chars as needed in a 0-255 vector, all those
special characters (registered, and so) are (1) used seldom, (2) not
related to hyphenation and kerning; it is also a way to get
rid of some 'ligatures' like --- becoming an emdash (in context and xml we
can conformtably directly call symbols, and these may
come from a different instance of the font
Hans
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Re: [NTG-context] texexec --arrange and texexec --noarrange
At 19:49 23/12/2003, you wrote: systems: end file jobname at line 47 textblocks: writing textblocks to jobname.tub It looks like texexec is waiting for an input dunno, did it write the tub file? Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Perl scripts almost unusable under Win32 MiKTeX
Hi George, Fptex caches the kpathsea lists in shared memory, which is a big performance boost for slower machines on fat32 (but also comes with some caveates -- RTFM). The recent (Dec. 18th??) updates to fptex seem at long one caveat being that you cannot run two tex jobs at the same time, each using a different texmf tree; but not that many users will encounter that situation Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Perl scripts almost unusable under Win32 MiKTeX
At 10:12 23/12/2003, you wrote: Recent ConTeXt updates have rendered some Perl scripts (texshow.pl modules) unusable under MiKTeX because they heavily rely on web2c methods to find binaries and complementary files. it would help if there was a counterpart of kpsewhich for miktex; something: miktexwhich 'somefile' reporting the location of that file would be ok Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] page arrangement
At 09:01 25/12/2003, you wrote:
Here is testing code:
---
\setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4]
\setuparranging[4SIDE]
%\setuppagenumbering[alternative=singlesided]
\newcount\N
\starttext
\switchtobodyfont[20pt]
\loop
\advance\N by1
\vfill
\cbox{Page \the\N}
\vfill\eject
\ifnum\N8\repeat
\stoptext
fyi: in context:
\starttext
\dorecurse {8} {\startstandardmakeup \cbox{Page \recurselevel}
\stopstandardmakeup}
\stoptext
actually 4SIDE is not the right name (compared to 2SIDE), maybe 4SEQUENCE
is better
\def\poparrangedpagesTWOTOPSIDE
{\ifnum\arrangedpageN\zerocount
\bgroup
\gdef\arrangedpageN{2}\poparrangedpagesTWO
\let\arrangedpageA\arrangedpageC
\let\arrangedpageB\arrangedpageD
\gdef\arrangedpageN{2}\poparrangedpagesTWO
\doglobal\newcounter\arrangedpageN
\egroup
\fi}
\def\pusharrangedpageTWOTOPSIDE#1%
{\doglobal\increment\arrangedpageN
\reportarrangedpage\arrangedpageN
\ifcase\arrangedpageN
\or \handlearrangedpageXandY{#1}000\arrangedpageA % 1
\or \handlearrangedpageXandY{#1}000\arrangedpageC % 2
\or \handlearrangedpageXandY{#1}000\arrangedpageB % 1
\or \handlearrangedpageXandY{#1}000\arrangedpageD % 2
\poparrangedpages
\fi}
\installpagearrangement 2TOPSIDE
{\dosetuparrangement{1}{2}{4}{2}{3}%
\pusharrangedpageTWOTOPSIDE\poparrangedpagesTWOTOPSIDE\handlearrangedpageTOP}
works ok with :
\setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4] \setuparranging[2TOPSIDE]
\starttext
\dorecurse{8}{Page \recurselevel\page}
\stoptext
Hans
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Re: [NTG-context] m-BibTeX problems
At 17:20 29/12/2003, you wrote: c) Someone should write a texutil plugin which automatically runs bibtex if necessary. I tend to forget this. (I will look into this as soon as I have time, i.e. probably in March.) as soon as i have time i'll look into mlbibtex (esp the xml part of it) Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Classroom templates?
At 22:02 04/01/2004, you wrote: Does anyone have any templates useful for typesetting class notes or homework (For tuning in, not handing out). I'm a Comp Sci student, and last semester I used LaTeX for this with a couple of templates I found. Wondering if anyone had anything similar for ConTeXt. I'd be happy to share the LaTeX files if anyone's interested. so what exactly is needed for typesetting class notes? Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] Re: extended ascii characters
I will, thank you all for your support.
Gonçalo
Hans Hagen writes:
At 01:29 03/01/2004, you wrote:
I would like to know how I may use extended ascii characters in context,
for example character number 167.
Thanks in advance
normally this is handled by font encoding and input regimes
if you want to directly access a char, how about:
\definesymbol[whatever][\getglyph{...}{167}]
see symb-*.tex for examples
Hans
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[NTG-context] Text Editor for ConTeXt
I am looking for a text editor for use with ConTeXt that is comparable with those available for Latex (e.g. Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net/) and TeXnicCenter(http://www.texniccenter.org/front_content.php)). The archives refer to ConTEXT, SciTE and Emacs. Only Emacs with the context.el plug-in appears to compare with Latex editors. However, context.el conflicts with my installation of Emacs (which includes the Auctex package) and will not load. Are there any other editors that are recommended? Any other suggestions? Thank you. Gary Hoffman -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Classroom templates?
On Jan 4, 2004, at 5:49 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
At 22:02 04/01/2004, you wrote:
Does anyone have any templates useful for typesetting class notes or
homework (For tuning in, not handing out). I'm a Comp Sci student,
and last semester I used LaTeX for this with a couple of templates I
found. Wondering if anyone had anything similar for ConTeXt. I'd be
happy to share the LaTeX files if anyone's interested.
so what exactly is needed for typesetting class notes?
Hans
No special requirements, I guess. Mainly a basic setup with readable
fonts, sane titling setup, that kind of thing. I've tried setting up my
own, but am not espeically pleased by the results. It's a hard thing to
quantify, I'll admit. A part of the problem is that I'm still learning
CoNTexT so am unfamiliar with (some) of the capabilies available.
My ideas for layout/semantics go something like this.
Pointers on how to acheive this would be most welcome.
One file to act with all the layout commands.
One file for each class periods notes
(I'll write a little ruby or python scribt to geneate the appropriate
\inputs in the main file)
In the main file:
Table of Contents (Chapters *only*, clickable links)
In each chapter TOC: for the chapter
At end: An index of all terms that are \index'ed.
All references should be hotlinkable.
I also plan to write wrappers around things, so I can write something
like:
\formula{Fibonacci sequence}{$f(1) = 1$, $f(2) = 1$, $f(n) = f(n-1) +
f(n-2)$}
and have that generate a figure and index entry. A list of formulas as
an appendix would be REALLY slick.
I basically want have about the highest possible text/TeX ratio, since
I'm typing these notes up in class on my iBook, so the more that's
automated the better.
Actually, if I had the setup for something like the ConTeXt manual,
that would be a very good start.
Thanks!
Tyler Eaves
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