[NTG-context] Re: Metapost docs
I have files in my installation like 'mp-form.mkiv, mp-chem.mkiv' and so on. -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: Status of Asymptote
Thanks for all the help. I have decided to use Metapost as it is tightly integrated with Asymptote and I find it fun. -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: regular online meet-up
Reminder: this is tonight! I’m looking forward to hear more details about the latest changes. CU HR Am 06.01.24 um 18:25 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: A happy & healthy new year! You’re invited to the first online meet-up of the year, this upcoming Wednesday, January 10th, 19:00 CET (UTC+1) at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke (same, but shorter: https://u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg) ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome! Looking forward to seeing you, Hraban (Same blurb as every time:) [Howto] * No special software installation required; most modern browsers should work (WebRTC required). * Open the above URL, accept the privacy statement, * enter your name, * click "join" (or "start" if you’re the first), * click "with microphone", allow your browser to access it, check the audio. * Your microphone is muted if you join. Activate microphone and/or camera with the buttons at the bottom. * Minimize the default presentation with the "screen" button, bottom right. * If you’d like to share your screen or upload a file, you can make yourself the presenter: Click on your user name, change the setting, then you’ll see the "screen sharing" button beside the camera button; also there’s now "manage presentations" behind the "plus" button. Beware there is only one presenter at a time, so don’t kill someone else’s presentation. [Technical hints] * Sound is usually better if you use a headset (less noise for everyone). * Connection problems are mostly due to low bandwidth or high latency on your side, e.g. with mobile connections. * Sometimes leaving and re-entering helps. * If audio/video doesn’t work for you, you can still use the text chat. * Screen sharing needs a lot of bandwidth. * BigBlueButton documentation applies: https://bigbluebutton.org/teachers/tutorials/ [Netiquette] * Please use a name that we recognize from here. Some feel uncomfortable with anonymous lurkers. * Mute your microphone while you’re not talking. * It’s nice to show your face at least when you join. * If there are connection problems, stop camera sharing. * The room is set to “everyone’s a moderator“, I trust you... ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster
Am 10.01.24 um 08:00 schrieb juh via ntg-context: Am Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 09:59:14AM +0100 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I’d like to have a poster that shows off ConTeXt/MetaFun features. Do you have suggestions or (even better) would you like to create it? It would be nice to have for further events (last year I presented ConTeXt at FrOSCon and CCCamp and lacked a poster). I just submitted a talk about how we use Markdown, Pandoc and ConTeXt at Hostsharing eG, so maybe we'll meet in Chemnitz. Great! Then I can leave out this workflow and refer to your talk. A poster would be nice. ConTeXt/MetaFun are overwhelmingly flexible and powerful. It is hard to come up with a good idea. Who is targeted? At an open source fair or hacker meeting, the target groups seem to be – IT people who use TeX to create PDFs of software documentation – students/academics who use TeX for scientific work – people who look for open source solutions to all kind of tasks (e.g. at FrOSCon I had a long conversation about creating genealogy trees, since GRAMPS’ are ugly) There are also authors/selfpublishers/micropublishers, but these I meet at book fairs, not at open source conferences. For people who don’t know they might be happy with a “programming system” we’d need a different poster. (The LaTeX-based SPBuchsatz targets this clientele.) I want to show a few interesting things that are possible with ConTeXt/MetaPost and a few basics how it works. I guess I’ll use the “christmas card memory” patterns as a background (thanks, Hans!). I tried to sketch the relationship of Lua/TeX/MetaPost in LuaMetaTeX and ConTeXt LMTX around it, with different inputs and PDF/XML output – don’t know yet how to make this easily understandable… ConTeXt is interesting for people that want to integrate a typesetting system in a publishing environment, because ConTeXt does not stand in your way as LaTeX often do and has many programming features (lua, xml ...) or typeset very customized layouts. These two target groups are very different. Integratable building blocks for a complex publishing system or programmable layout machine – sorry, I am just brainstorming, but I like the idea of a poster. Well, I’m using ConTeXt to produce PDFs for very different books, magazines, invoices/letters, presentations, jam labels, t-shirt designs… Not any more for interactive forms or shipping documents, because the projects have run out. And my online crossword puzzle generator (with ConTeXt and LaTeX output) doesn’t work anymore… We know ConTeXt/MetaPost is used for stock reports (hi Ramkumar), calendars (hi Willi), more books and magazines, textbooks and other educational material (e.g. math4all), energy reports (French power plants and Hans’ heating), planning model railways & typesetting stitching patterns (hi Taco), art (e.g. Eçir Baff), … In short: There aren’t only two groups, I guess. Hraban ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster
On 1/10/2024 8:00 AM, juh via ntg-context wrote: Dear Hraban, Am Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 09:59:14AM +0100 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I’d like to have a poster that shows off ConTeXt/MetaFun features. Do you have suggestions or (even better) would you like to create it? It would be nice to have for further events (last year I presented ConTeXt at FrOSCon and CCCamp and lacked a poster). I just submitted a talk about how we use Markdown, Pandoc and ConTeXt at Hostsharing eG, so maybe we'll meet in Chemnitz. A poster would be nice. ConTeXt/MetaFun are overwhelmingly flexible and powerful. It is hard to come up with a good idea. Who is targeted? ConTeXt is interesting for people that want to integrate a typesetting system in a publishing environment, because ConTeXt does not stand in your way as LaTeX often do and has many programming features (lua, xml ...) or typeset very customized layouts. These two target groups are very different. Integratable building blocks for a complex publishing system or programmable layout machine – sorry, I am just brainstorming, but I like the idea of a poster. maybe what you could do is collect statements like these (users saying how they use / percieve it) and put that on a poster Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___
