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Hi all,
Have been looking around in doc, but could not catch a simple way to insert
an image into my doc.
What is the simplest way to do this ?
My image name is paris.bmp, and i don't have any info about the size (lets
assume it is a 4cmx4cm).
Thanks for any help.
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Hi all,
Am using \vbox{\hsize8cm text} to typeset my document with blocks of text.
This makes a left and right justification of the text, but most of the time
it does work alright and i get a ragged right text.
What do i have to do in order to avoid this and get my text justified at
both sides
Hi all,
Following Hans instructions from a previous mail, am trying to setup context
on a new machine without installing any distribution. I would like to use
the minimal context tree.
Here is the instructions from a previous post:
an option is (assuming that you have rsync running):
c:
cd \
mkd
Hi Nikolai,
Thanks. Am really looking forward to have the invitation for GMail, cause
actually, i was looking for one ...
My problem is not with spam .. Well not for the moment ..
I just don't want the robots to grab all the things i write, etc. and put it
on their search engine ..
Thanks anywa
Thanks, good example indeed ..
Just few questions :
1. What is \starttable for ? I had to take it off to make the example work
..
2. The first page i get is empty .. Is it normal ?
3. The first page of columns i get is setup with the right columns settings
(which is red, yellow, magenta for colum
Hi Hans and thanks :=)
Does Context come with latin modern installed ?
How can i find the typescript to use then ?
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Hi,
Because of my mails on the archive, the search engine robots got my email
adress, blablabla ...
I have contacted google and this is their answer:
Thank you for your note. In order to remove content from Google's index,
the webmaster must either change the content of the page itself or use a
r
French quotes look like this : << my text >>, where english ones look like
this: "my text".
Of course, am using the \mainlanguage[fr] option in my document.
Hello,
if \mainlanguage[fr] is set, \quotation{my quoted text} should typeset
the strange French quotes.
Many thanks,
My bizarre quotations
Hi,
Just wandering how to configure Context to display french quotes instead of
english ones.
French quotes look like this : << my text >>, where english ones look like
this: "my text".
Of course, am using the \mainlanguage[fr] option in my document.
Many thanks.
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Hi all,
I think that Hans is more concerned by this one ...
Having looked at all the tables ways to make tables within context, i think, that learning the last one (linetable) to do things is more appropriate because it summarises the functionnalities of all the others (hence, less headaches an
Hi,
I would like to use multipage tables. I had a look on the wiki and there are
2 ways of doing that.
What is the advantage of using \startlinetable ?
One of these seems to be that we can repeat columns ..
Is Context going keep going with \startlinetable or not ? (As no doc exists
and its devel
Hi,
Am trying to control my text in order to appear right aligned. This is how
my text looks like after being typeset by context:
From King's Officer to Consul, had he been born a year earlier, a certain
Napo-
leone Buonaparte (1769-1821) would not have been French, since his native
isle of Cor
Wha
Thanks a lot to you all.
Hans,
I have tried:
\startnarrower[4*right] \placecontent \stopnarrower \blank[4*big]
This is exactly what i meant.
Unfortunately, there is a problem, which is in my opinion not related to
TOC, but to Tex (or Context, you'll be able to tell).
i get a result li
Hi Patrick,
This is how my toc appears:
Part 1 first part 11
(1) Chapter one 12 (2) Chapter two 13 (3) Chapter three 14
(4) Chapter four 15 (5) Chapter five 16
Part 2 second part 21
(1) Chapter one 22 (2) Chapter two 23 (3) Chapter three 24
(4) Chapter four 25 (5) Chapter five 26
Part 3
Hi all,
Great idea, i now have a working sample (What i want is to control the right
margin distance for both parts and chapters - Here i can control only the
left margin distance which is 1.7cm for chapters)
\setupoutput[pdftex]
\setuphead [part]
[align=left,page=right,placehead=yes,before={
From the whole batch of answers i have received i could assume that there is
no solution to this problem.
Am trying to produce the same table of contents as the one for the "Context
the manual".
Hans, have you used your own alternative for that ?
Thanks in advance.
Dirar.
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Thanks to you all,
\par solves the problem as i said. A blank line does obviously the same
thing.
The documentation has only 2 explicit examples and no \par is used within (I
assume a blank line was used instead). The box where the command is defined
specifies the \par argument which isn't obvi
Hi Patrick,
cont-eni.pdf chapter 10.2
texexec --version
TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
texexec : TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004
tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (W
Hi all,
Am using the alternative d for my table of contents, i know how to align my
elements left (from the left margin) but can't manage to do that at the
right side (from the right margin).
This is how i configure things:
\definelist[part]
\setuplist[part][before={\blank[big]},after=\blank]
%
Hi Adam,
This is an example:
\starttext
\definition{HMV} blablabla
\definition{TTV} blablabla
%I also have items sometime afterwards:
\startitemize[r]
%
\head My head \par
\startitemize[triangle]
\item First Item
\item Second Item
\item Third Item
\stopitemize
%
\stopitemize
\stoptext
At this point
Hi all,
I have 2 definitions in my document and every thing compiles until i add a
third one, i get the following error:
! Undefined control sequence.
... \twopassentry {\s!list }{\currentlist
}{\currentlist
:\noflistel...
}\endwr
Hi all,
Are there any dictionnaries for automatic correction that work within
Context. If not does this exist for other Tex macro packages ?
Thanks.
Dirar.
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Thanks Christopher, i have tried what you asked me but this didn't solve the
problem. To me it was the right thing to do, but it looks like it is because
my font is defined as a typeface collection that it does not work.
I have tried \switchtotypeface instead as Willie said and this works fine.
Hi Willy,
What i need is to have a synonym for the font Dirar you defined, how do i
have to proceed? I have tried the following: (Am gonna use my fonts names as
i started the subject with)
\starttypescript [karat]
\definetypeface [karat] [ss] [sans] [karat] [default] [encoding=texnansi]
\stopty
i have tried this, and leads to:
bodyfont : unknown variant MyFont
\usetypescriptfile[karat-type]
\usetypescript[karat]
\usetypescriptfile[opulent-type]
\usetypescript[opulent]
\usetypescript [sans][karat][map,name]
\definefont[MyFont][karat]
\starttext
\switchtobodyfont[karat]
Madame, Monsie
I have tried style={\switchtobodyfont[karat]} and it works. Now how to
switch to a different size without going through:
\setupbodyfont[karat]
\definefont[MyPartFont][SansBold at 24pt]
\setuphead[part][style=\MyPartFont]
The problem i see here is that i have to go through \setupbodyfont[karat]
a
Looks great to me. Thanks Hans.
Dirar.
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Hi all,
I am working to setup styles in heads with the typeface karat, that i define
as follows:
\starttypescript [karat]
\definetypeface [karat] [ss] [sans] [karat] [default] [encoding=texnansi]
\stoptypescript
Here is my head definition:
\setuphead[part]
[align=left,
Thanks all.
Would be nice to know how to switch the left and right keywords to do the
opposite of what it does now.
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You will have to use the same macros you have created. This is one of
Context magic. You can use all tex and plain tex macros (Well not exactly
all of them says the docs, am not sure wether a list exists)
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I was pretty sure it wasn't a bug, at least not the big ones you see when
you have holidays in Africa ;)
Anyway, it would be great to be able to switch that to proper behaviour.
Could anyone answer my second question which is :
Is there any place to report bugs ..
and are there release notes for
Have a look at this (Well its about XP) .. But who knows, it could help :=)
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20041115.161341.884a23e7.html
In fact it is a kind of complete distribution that handles Context ..
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Hi,
Is there a special place to report bugs ?
I have noticed that align=right aligns text on the left edge of a frame
where it should align left as it says (and left aligns right).
Is this normal ?
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I was doing exactly what you did with sabon, but i was using
\pdfmapfile{+texnansi-rubicon-opulent.map} which does not work now (with
mytex) !
I have changed that to \loadmapfile[texnansi-rubicon-opulent.map] and this
works fine.
Great, i now have my system setup and running and my project com
Great. I have installed my fonts another time, i get my tfm + vfs at the
right place. Have updated pdftex.cfg in C:\mytex\texmf-local\pdftex\config
too with +map filename. Have updated my files databases with mktexlsr. But
my font fles are not found.
This is the error message i get:
Warning: pd
Looks like rsync does not like firewalls (could be the opposite ;) )
Now that i have the right context plateform setup and working, the question
is: where is it best to install my fonts as the local tree is the one that
handles context updates etc. just in case i have to reinstall every thing
fr
I have installed Texlive8 (Not sure wether it is the latest one. I have used
TeXSetup.exe).
Am using rsync as you mentioned, but seems like it does not work, this is
what i get:
C:\>rsync2.5.1-dev -r -v www.pragma-pod.com::mswin mytex
receiving file list ...
Do i need a user account to do this
I am wiling to do so, but i see that Texlive hasn't changed since 2003, and
this is already the version i have installed 2 months ago.
Is there a fresher version and does anyone knows the date where Texlive
structure changed.
Many thanks.
Dirar.
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Thanks for the rsync stuff, i have started looking at it.
I first need to know how things work in their basic way. I don't understand
why my update didn't work as i did everything the way i was asked.
And now, Pdftex doesn't find my fonts anymore :)
It is turning to a nightmare.
Is all of this be
Hi Hans,
Looks like am never going to get out of my installation problems without
getting the write way to do it.
Back to Bill's mc clain method, i have done the equivalent of this in XP:
mv cont-tmf.zip /usr/TeX/texmf
cd /usr/TeX/texmf
rm tex/context/base/*# safer to clean out old files
Hi all,
I have tried the document project on the cont-enp.pdf and am getting this
error:
texexec --pdf documents
executable : pdfetex
format : cont-en
inputfile : documents
output : pdftex
interface : en
current mode : none
Thanks all,
Unfortunately, for the moment i wouldn't use emacs but i have tried scite.
The first problem i can see is that it does not handle multiple files
opening, color setup isn't straight forward (Have to deal with hexa values)
..
Apart from this, looks fine. It seems like WinEdt is a lot
Hi Idriss,
I had a look at WinEdt and it is very tex oriented, but i have seen any
reference to Context. Do you see some advantages for Context use (I have
seen support for tex tables, project (Don't know which kind ..)) ?
Thanks.
Dirar.
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Hi,
Am using eclipse as my editor (eTex) but it is really too heavy, anyone
knows of an editor that works fine within tex and windows.
What about TexWork.
Many thanks.
Dirar.
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Hi all,
Every time i make a search i get a result page (which is good), but when i
try to access the following pages with the arrow button on top of the page i
get an error page with the following message:
Lurker - failed to render page:
Bad request (20040414.184748.afa41a8e%20%20editor.html):
T
Thanks Hans. I see my error now. I was using a typescript name where a
fontsynonym name was needed.
I still have a question about \small and \big. i tried the
\showbodyfontenvironment to see the sizes then tried this:
{\big Hello world}Hello world{\small Hello world}
I get the first and the sec
Hi Hans,
This is what i have done but it simply does not work.
When i try the following with \setupbodyfont[karat], it works, but when i
use \setupbodyfont[TitleFont], it does not work, despite of the
\definefont[TitleFont][karat]. I kant see why !!
\usetypescriptfile[Karat.tex]
\usetypescript[k
Hi all,
Am trying to define a synonym of my font at 24pt where am not sure at which
size my font is installed -should be 12pt- (The ttf includes all the
following sizes 12, 18, 24,36, 48, 60, .. but as i've done the install from
the pfb + afm that comes with it, i don't really know what size i h
Got it by the end. I had to uncomment the line that includes the use of
Type-buy which includes the fallback typescript.
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Great, this works.
It's a bit more clear now. There is still one problem. I use the sans
fallback in my typescript as follows, so that every alternative such as
italic etc .. is mapped to my regular font (I have only one font file for
the moment). Why do i get cmr italic instead of regular karat
I have tried the three of your propositions:
First : keeping sans:
1. using \ss works
2. \definebodyfont[ss,Karat] does not.
Second : changing from sans
3. Changed all refs to "sans" into "serif" in my typescript file karat.tex.
This works too.
Now, my font is a sans. What is the best way to conf
Hi Patrick,
I don't see any pdf log file. What's it's it extension ?
The only file i can think about is the log file:
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11b-2.1 (Web2c 7.5.2) (format=cont-en 2004.10.24) 27 OCT 2004 16:13entering extended mode %&-line parsing enabled. (c:/TeXLive/texmf/web2c/cp
Hi Hans,
I took off the reference to Type-buy and corrected the other problem. I have
also checked case sensitivity. Now i get less errors but still can't see my
font !!
What does the following mean ?
systems: possible problem with 8 bit output
When i rename my typescript to something el
Hi,
I have just finished from installing a new font. It works in the Tex way as
follows:
\pdfmapfile{+texnansi-rubicon-karatmedium.map}
\font\Karat=texnansi-raw-KAMN.
\Karat something to type ..
but when i try to use typescripts, it does not work(I have used Bill McClain
instructions).
Any help
Indeed texutil wasn't running. I have copied it manually to my bin folder and now i get the TOC.
Yahoo !
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Hi,
Am using \placecontent to generate my TOC, but this does not produce anything.
I had a look at the manuals and it does not mention any special settings.
Any help would be welcome.
This is my version:
ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.19 fmt: 2004.10.24 int: english mes: english
Cheers.
Dir
Thanks to you all for your answers.
I have just finished from reinsatalling Context as i kept a backup of my Texlive tree before my first installation.
This time i avoided to do things manually and i have unzipped my files directly to the texmf folder as it is supposed to be done.
Everything works
texexec --make en solves the problem. But now my fonts are not embeded to my PDF document as it was with the previous version.
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OK. I'll try another time. Please don't take it on me, this macrosoft magic ;=)
This is what i get :
TeXExec 5.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : TEST output : standard interface : e
Hi,I have just updated context from the : http://www.pragma-ade.nl/context/current, and seems like there is a bug :I get this : TeXExec 5.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : BusinessPlan2 output :
Hi Hans,
Am using Hotmail directly from my browser cause i can't get my emails to any
email client (Outlook express has a problem working on an xp user account
with restricted privileges).
I'll be more careful in the future. I promise ;=)
My question was :
How can i change the keyword "part" whe
How can i change the keyword "part" when it appears in the text ?Original Message Follows---- From: "Dirar BOUGATEF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NTG-context] \part center
amavisd-new at ntg.nl Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Oct 2004 13:22:47.0124 (UTC) FILETIME=[E3D29940:01C4B6A7] Dirar Bougatef wrote: >I have setup my parts in the following w
ay: > >\def\MyPart#1#2 >{\hbox to \hsize \bgroup >\hfill >\setupframed[height=.7
Hi guys,
I have setup my parts in the following way:
\def\MyPart#1#2
{\hbox to \hsize \bgroup
\hfill
\setupframed[height=.7cm,offset=.5em,frame=off]
\framed[align=left]{#1}%
\framed[align=right,leftframe=on]{#2}%
\egroup}
\setuphead[part][before={\vfill},after={\vfill},command=\MyPart]
But this doe
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Hi,
Just because I fall in this trap myself. It is normally not enough to point
with the b
Hi,
I have 2 questions:
1. When you say something like :
\definebodyfont[10pt][rm][tfe=lbr at 36pt]
Do i have to provide the 36pts font files at first and install them or
does context adapt a font file with another size to the 36pt size ?
2. I have installed a font which i got with a .pfb and a .
Hi,
Any one can tell me how to acess the new site.
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Hans Hagen wrote:
Dirar Bougatef wrote:
Does anyone have informations about tex macro packages and their
advantages over XSL (previously known as XSL-FO) ?
I have read somewhere that tex is a good implementation of the XSL
standard !
I think this is in regard that tex thinks in matter of boxes
Hi,
Does anyone have informations about tex macro packages and their
advantages over XSL (previously known as XSL-FO) ?
I have read somewhere that tex is a good implementation of the XSL
standard !
I think this is in regard that tex thinks in matter of boxes (Which is
the equivalent of XSL
Thanx for your answer Parick.
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:21:48 +0200
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Hi,
I have 2 questions:
1. Is there anyway to answer the messages on this archive without
replying to the corresponding received mail? I would like to update a
previous post but can't manage to do it.
2. I would like to define a new layout that does not contain left and
right margins.
This layout
Hi,
Am using the \startstandardmakeup ... \stopstandardmakeup and i get my
text centered vertically.
Is that the normal way context works in ?
This is how i proceed:
\starttext
\startstandardmakeup
..
\stopstandardmakeup
\stoptext
Thanks.
Dirar.
P.S. Is there anyway to answer the messa
Hi,
I've just downoaded a new font from with
afm and .pfb files. I have started installing it but have some
problems.
This is the message i
get:
Context>texfont --ve=Rubicon
--co=OpulentDemo-Normal --ma --inKpathsea released!
TeXFont 1.8 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE
2000-2003
mktexlsr:
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