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From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: TEI - conTeXt - pdf
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:23:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9C374782-D375-440D-9706-4315F378C44D@uni-bonn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikgWpWrf-z=Fmvg2y4GZarshbN8AcEqj+-AD5on@mail.gmail.com>


On Nov 24, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Jon Crump wrote:

> All,
> 
> Having abandoned apache's FOP, I've now been trying to get my arms
> around XML typesetting with conTeXt with the help of Thomas's
> excellent tutorial at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TEI_xml. With some
> difficulty I got the philostratus.xml/lorem ipsum example to work,
> save for errors like this from the \definemargins command:
> 
> ! You can't use `\dimexpr' in restricted horizontal mode.
> 
> (The marginal notations are typeset, but so are the distance arguments)
> 

What version of ConTeXt are you using? I don't get this error with the latest beta. Updating your MacTeX (which really is a slightly modified TeXLive) might be difficult, so I would recommend trying the minimals. 

Arabic: others will be able to help you; there is a number of Arabic users on this list some of whom are regulars.

Good luck

Thomas
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2010-11-24 22:47 Jon Crump
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