Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.01.23)

2012-01-24 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 00:11 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: This is already fixed. mtx-context | current version: 2012.01.24 18:49 Thanks. I'll let you know if the new package works. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-23 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:54 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: no, because not all users use svg (just an not all users use fonts defined in type-* files) and also because inkscape is close to impossible to install without x present which would render context 'unuseable due to a depency not being

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-23 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:55 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: maybe a wiki page is a good start for that Strongly agree. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-23 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 00:31 -0300, Wagner Macedo wrote: On Debian Packages, at least, we can declare, basically, 3 levels of dependencies, according to http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps 1) Depends - absolute dependency. Or else, packages that is

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 09:55 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: You can also try the reverse way with ipe http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/ and then convert the pdf in svg with inkscape or iperender Thanks Luigi. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 10:08 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: There is no such depedency .. actually, i found it rather impossible to get an inkscape running on a headless linux box as there is some depedency on X (last time I tried). In a similar fashion there is no dependency on GhostScript or

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:22 +0100, Marco wrote: On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote: So what does ConTeXt do when it typesets an \externalfigure? Does it always use inkscape, or only sometimes? If the image type is supported by the TeX engine (jpeg, png, pdf, mps) it

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:42 +0100, Marco wrote: On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:22 +0100, Marco wrote: On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote: So what does ConTeXt do when it typesets an \externalfigure? Does it always

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 08:56 +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: If original svg image is 7 KB, the PDF should not be any bigger apart from the header and maybe embded fonts. However if you are using some smooth shading, it might be that the program which does the conversion is performing a poor job

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 09:23 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: ConTeXt uses inkscape, iirc. So try to see what inkscape says about your file. Are you sure about that? ConTeXt doesn't seem to list inkscape as a dependency on my distro: apt-cache show context* | grep -i inkscape (gives nothing) -- Kip

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 11:58 +0100, Peter Rolf wrote: Probably because the exported PDF contains a raster image (at least the blured part). If you use Inkscape to save your SVG logo as PDF, you will see a dialog box with an option for this (rasterize filter effects). Remove the hook and you'll

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 13:07 +1300, Pontus Lurcock wrote: What happens if you convert it directly using inkscape --export-pdf? Still only 78 KB. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 21:13 -0300, Wagner Macedo wrote: It would be good if you attach the svg file. Could you do this? Hey Wagner. No problem. http://www.thevertigo.com/temp/Pic.svg Try typesetting it with an \externalfigure and check the file size of the intermediate that's generated. --

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 21:49 -0300, Wagner Macedo wrote: Well, as I can see, the problem is inkscape switch --export-dpi which in grph-inc.lua has the value 600. I get same file size using inkscape -A --export-dpi=600. But exporting this file (Pic.svg) without a great dpi (minimum 300) I get

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 21:59 -0300, Wagner Macedo wrote: Because filters. According to http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.47#PDF.2C_PostScript.2C_and_EPS_export, sent by Pontus Lurcock. Thanks Wagner. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 01:51 +0100, Marco wrote: Blame the distributor. I just forwarded your observation to the package maintainer. Should be straightforward to solve with a line in debian/control. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 01:21 +0100, Marco wrote: I had similar issues some weeks ago. A workaround was to use \pdfcompresslevel9 You can also try \maximumpdfcompression, which is apparently preferred (see some recent thread on the list). Marco Thanks Marco. It went from 9.9 MB

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 01:14 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: When you look into graph-inc.lua you can see that context use inkscape oldname --export-dpi=600 -A newname to convert the svg to pdf. Hey Wolfgang. Why does a vector image need to be rasterized in a PDF, I guess is what I'm

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 01:45 +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Does it come out the way you expect it to? If yes, use that. Visually, yes, it's fine. In terms of size, no its not the way I expect. None of my tools are able to export this into an usable PDF (I didn't try to install Inkscape though).

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 02:03 +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Yes, but this is only true as long as your graphic can be represented reliably in the target format. And yours cannot. Hey Mojca. Yes, that makes sense now. I had assumed incorrectly that PDF implemented everything SVG does. -- Kip

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on \definition

2012-01-18 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 09:26 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 18.01.2012 um 02:47 schrieb Kip Warner: Ah, so \setupdescriptions inherits the default values of \definedescription? WIth \definedescription you create a new command (e.g. \definition) and environment (e.g. \startdefinition

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on \definition

2012-01-18 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 11:44 +0900, Vladimir Lomov wrote: Actually Vladimir, Vlad is usually used as short for Vladislav. Except in the case of my buddy Vlad(imir) here in Vancouver ;) (not an expert, just read command reference) (1) What is the difference between \definedescription and

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on \definition

2012-01-18 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 23:58 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: When you define a new command with \definedescription, e.g. \definedescription[definition] you get the commands \definition and \startdefinition Both are only shortcuts for \dodescription[definition] and

Re: [NTG-context] Referencing a \startdefinition

2012-01-18 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 08:36 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \startdefinition[des:some]{Some Definition} \stopdefinition \in{Definition}[des:some] Wolfgang Hey Wolfgang. That works, but in the text I would just see linkable text Definition which is fine for online viewing, but for print,

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on \definition

2012-01-18 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 00:12 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: When there would be a predefined description command I would prefer \description and \startdescription but not \definition but it’s hard to say which command should be available by default everyone has a different opinion. Thanks

[NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-18 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I have a number of \externalfigure commands to typeset some svg images. This is often handy to have them vectorized because it allows for the user to zoom in on diagrams of great detail. In other situations, I find that for images that are not so important, they would benefit from

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on \definition

2012-01-17 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 13:38 +0900, Vladimir Lomov wrote: Hey Vlad. (not an expert, just read command reference) (1) What is the difference between \definedescription and \setupdescriptions? the first should define new description, the second change style of already defined description.

[NTG-context] Referencing a \startdefinition

2012-01-17 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, When I wish to reference some section, I can inline typeset with \in{section}[Some Reference]. In the case of a definition defined with a \startdefinition{Some Definition}, how can I reference it inline? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

[NTG-context] Questions on \definition

2012-01-16 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, A couple of questions concerning \definition: (1) What is the difference between \definedescription and \setupdescriptions? (2) What is the difference between \definition and \description? (3) How do I change the colour of the definition header? I tried the following, but it did not

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Rotation in Nightly

2012-01-15 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:12 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: \color is no longer a switch; it must be used as \color[red]{...}. Thanks. It compiles now. Or should I say typeset? What is the proper term anyways? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

[NTG-context] Lucida lVert rVert - no glyph printed

2012-01-14 Thread Daniel Edwards
Hello everybody, Problem 1: I just notices that (at least for me) the $\lVert$ / $\rVert$ commands print no glyph with Lucida New Math. I search in the source files a bit, and found that in char-def.lua the lVert character is defined as U+02016 but in lucida-math.lfg it is mapped as U+02225. I

Re: [NTG-context] Error Line Number

2012-01-13 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 10:08 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: Usually the strategy is to isolate the culprit by including progressively lengthy chunks of tex from the begin to end and then narrowing the selection until you find a macro or paragraph. Then surround it with \tracingall ...

[NTG-context] Broken Rotation in Nightly

2012-01-13 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, I've noticed the latest nightly I ran (2012.01.12) chokes on \rotate in the following context: \midaligned{\rotate[rotation=42]{\color[red] \bft Some text!}} I get the following error if I don't comment out that line. resolversmodules loaded: 'simplefonts'

Re: [NTG-context] Error Line Number

2012-01-12 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 11:13 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: such a message comes from stored macros so there is no such information So when you have a book of hundreds of pages in length split up over dozens of tex files and ConTeXt emits an error, how do you know what file / line number to examine?

[NTG-context] Broken Nightly

2012-01-11 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, Broken nightly with 2012.01.09 10:08. Compiling my book, I get: ! Undefined control sequence. \@@md:simplefonts:style -\c!rm argument ...leparameter \v!simplefonts \c!style , \c!features =\v! default

[NTG-context] Error Line Number

2012-01-11 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, I get the following error message when attempting to compile my book, but it doesn't appear to say what file / line number is responsible. Is there a way to turn on file / line error messages, akin to what one sees with gcc? $ context Source/Handbook.tex --result=Handbook.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Italicized text trailing space too small

2012-01-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 00:32 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Kip Warner wrote: Text that I {\it have italicized} trails too tight with the first non-italicized word that is typeset next. I'm sure there is some ConTeXt command that adjusts this that I am unfamiliar with.

[NTG-context] Italicized text trailing space too small

2012-01-04 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, Text that I {\it have italicized} trails too tight with the first non-italicized word that is typeset next. I'm sure there is some ConTeXt command that adjusts this that I am unfamiliar with. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

Re: [NTG-context] Dec 30 Broken Nightly

2011-12-31 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 17:27 -0800, Kip Warner wrote: ! Too many }'s. \framed_text_stop_depth_correction ...rut \egroup \forgetall \vskip -\linehe... \framed_text_stop ...d_text_stop_depth_correction

Re: [NTG-context] Dec 30 Broken Nightly

2011-12-31 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 12:51 +0100, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Kip, Where do you find the version ConTeXt ver: 2011.12.30 17:38 MKIV ? When I update with first-setup.sh I get ConTeXt ver: 2011.12.23 09:52 MKIV Thanks in advance: OK Hey Otared. I run context --version. --

Re: [NTG-context] Page Size to Figure Size

2011-12-31 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 23:57 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Kip Warner wrote: Hey list, I have a lot of fairly large diagrams in my book that don't always match the aspect ratio of the page in landscape mode, though they usually are closer to landscape than a

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly Chokes on \rotate

2011-12-30 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 12:16 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: it is indeed an issue as those temp vars are gone ... i redid the rotate last night and will update later today You know, sometimes I feel guilty pointing out how this or that is broken, but I suppose its constructive since the book I am

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly Chokes on \rotate

2011-12-30 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 23:13 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: don't feel too guilty .. we need testing in order to get things right .. currently I'm cleaning up, changing namespaces, getting rid of old code, trying to make code more readable and do an occasional speedup and therefore bugs can creep

[NTG-context] Nightly Ubuntu ConTeXt / LuaTeX Packages

2011-12-30 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, It might be useful to put on the wiki a link to Adam Reviczky's PPA (personal package archive) which contains precompiled Ubuntu packages for ConTeXt and LuaTeX nightlies. I've been using them for several months now. He was very generous to prepare them. ConTeXt:

[NTG-context] Dec 30 Broken Nightly

2011-12-30 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, well, probably Hans, today's nightly chokes on my book again. Yesterday's worked fine. $ context Source/Handbook.tex --purgeresult resolvers | resolving | loading configuration file 'selfautodir:/share/texmf/web2c/contextcnf.lua' resolvers | resolving | loading

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly Still

2011-12-29 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 09:49 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 29-12-2011 04:09, Kip Warner wrote: Hey folks, Since I upgraded from the Nov 29th nightly to today's Dec 28th, my ! Undefined control sequence. argument \@cmstyle must be something older ... in chem-str.mkiv replace this:

[NTG-context] Page Size to Figure Size

2011-12-29 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I have a lot of fairly large diagrams in my book that don't always match the aspect ratio of the page in landscape mode, though they usually are closer to landscape than a portrait layout for the page dimension. How can I insert a figure so that it is of a given size, with the page

[NTG-context] Broken Nightly Chokes on \rotate

2011-12-29 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, The nightly for Dec 29th seems to choke on \rotate. I have a statement: \midaligned{\rotate[rotation=42]{\color[red] \bft THIS IS A DRAFT!}} ConTeXt emits the following: ! Undefined control sequence. \dodorotatenextbox ... \@@rorotation \@@layerxpos

[NTG-context] Broken Nightly Still

2011-12-28 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, Since I upgraded from the Nov 29th nightly to today's Dec 28th, my ConTeXt source does not compile. I do not understand the error message. $ context Source/Handbook.tex --purgeresult resolvers | resolving | loading configuration file

[NTG-context] TextBackground bottomoffset / topoffset

2011-12-25 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I am using the following to typeset a text box containing text. \definetextbackground[GeneralDocument][ location=paragraph, color=color_text, background=color, backgroundcolor=colour_page, framecolor=colour_text, topoffset=1.0cm,

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote Problem

2011-12-23 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 12:08 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Methods 0-3 treat inserts (graphics and footnotes) differently, so best just try all these alternatives with your example file and see if it works out ok. Well, it works, so thanks anyways. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote Problem

2011-12-22 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 09:24 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: use just \kindofpagetextareas\plusone as the constant is already defined. Thanks Hans. It works. Because I don't like to just copy and paste code without understanding it, could you try to run an explanation by me? -- Kip Warner --

[NTG-context] Broken Nightly

2011-12-22 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, Since I upgraded from the Nov 29th nightly to today's Dec 22nd, my ConTeXt source does not compile. I do not understand the error message either. I would post the source, but there are over a 180 pages worth. $ context Source/Handbook.tex --purgeresult resolvers | resolving |

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote Problem

2011-12-21 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 09:39 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: you can play with \setconstant\kindofpagetextareas\plusone (some day there will be a proper setting) Thanks Hans, but I get the following error: ! Undefined control sequence. l.19 \setconstant

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote Problem

2011-12-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 00:09 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 15.11.2011 um 20:41 schrieb Kip Warner: On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 09:42 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 15.11.2011 um 06:57 schrieb Kip Warner: Hey folks, The second \footnote doesn't show in the generated PDF. The

[NTG-context] fatal error: return code: 1

2011-12-19 Thread Kip Warner
Hey Wolfgang, This morning's daily appears broken as well. I've noticed that ConTeXt 2011.11.29 was the last working build for me. The error message changes from day to day, and today it gives the most mysterious: $ context Source/Handbook.tex --purgeresult --batchmodendbook.pdf --purgeresult --

Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts broken?

2011-12-18 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 15:24 +0100, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: Hi there, after upgrading TL2011 today and having installed a new version of simplefonts, I cannot get this sample working: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[TeX Gyre Pagella] \starttext \TeX \stoptext The error I get

Re: [NTG-context] Undefined control sequence

2011-12-18 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 06:27 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I uploaded a new revision of the module which should be in the minimals in a few hours. It still bails, but now for apparently a different reason. I find it very hard to read the error messages ConTeXt throws. I'm accustomed to gcc

Re: [NTG-context] Undefined control sequence

2011-12-18 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 11:56 +0900, Vladimir Lomov wrote: system cont-new.mkiv loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv system beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv ) but this and other paths are odd, this is not context-suite (aka context

[NTG-context] Undefined control sequence

2011-12-16 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, As of today's nightly build, my typesetting won't compile anymore. The following is the console output: $ context Source/Handbook.tex --result=Avaneya Project Crew Handbook.pdf --purgeresult resolvers | resolving | loading configuration file

Re: [NTG-context] Undefined control sequence

2011-12-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 06:27 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I uploaded a new revision of the module which should be in the minimals in a few hours. Thanks Wolfgang. =) -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com signature.asc

[NTG-context] KOMA-srcartcl Type Area: How to count header and footer to text area?

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, having heard nice things about the KOMA script type area I wanted to use it too and tried out the example in the Wiki [1]. % Set binding correction value (mode=BCOR turns it on). \doifmodeelse{BCOR}{\def\bindingcorr{3mm}}{\def\bindingcorr{0pt}}

[NTG-context] How to create horizontal line for signature?

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, sometimes you need to insert a line for signature. I could not find anything usefull especially `\underbar{\hspace[10*\big]}` [2] did not work. I ended up abusing `\framed` [3]. \starttext \startstandardmakeup[align=right] Alles rechtens. Everything

Re: [NTG-context] [solved] How to create horizontal line for signature?

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Dienstag, den 13.12.2011, 13:49 +0100 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 13.12.2011 um 13:36 schrieb Paul Menzel: sometimes you need to insert a line for signature. I could not find anything usefull especially `\underbar{\hspace[10*\big]}` [2] did not work. I ended up abusing `\framed` [3].

[NTG-context] Bibliography: `\setupheadtext[de][pubs=Quellen]` does not update the table of contents.

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, the following minimal example changes the default text for the title for the publication list [1]. In the table of content there is still the default name though. \mainlanguage[de] \setupbibtex[database=sample, sort=author]

Re: [NTG-context] KOMA-srcartcl Type Area: How to count header and footer to text area?

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Dienstag, den 13.12.2011, 08:24 -0500 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: On Dec 13, 2011, at 6:33 AM, Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: having heard nice things about the KOMA script type area I wanted to use it too and tried out the example in the Wiki [1]. % Set

[NTG-context] gnuplot module: `option=monochrome` does not work.

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, I want to create monochrome plots, but `option=monochrome` is ignored. \usemodule[gnuplot] \setupGNUPLOT[terminal=context,option=monochrome] \startGNUPLOTscript[pi] plot pi t '$π = \ctxlua{context(math.pi)}$'

Re: [NTG-context] Preserving Output Files

2011-12-13 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 10:15 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: it seems to run anyway maybe the file-line-error is doing something Hans I tried it already without --file-line-error and its the same console output. =( -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

Re: [NTG-context] Preserving Output Files

2011-12-13 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 23:51 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: I can run the direct command here, not that I ever do it as the context command does some housekeeping and passes commandline info via the top file. There is hardly any gain in running luatex directly. Hey Hans. I understand, but I need to

[NTG-context] OT: How to reference the ConTeXt project?

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Hans and ConTeXt folks, how do you want me to reference ConTeXt? Is there an article you prefer or should I just use the reference manual or the Wiki? Hans Hagen and others (2011), http://contextgarden.net/ Thanks, Paul signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

[NTG-context] Lua and module gnuplot: Manipulate Gnuplot script with Lua

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, I have two coefficients saved in a text file -0.157737135681261 -0.211443105668896 and I want to use them to plot a line with gnuplot. Having several of those files I want to use Lua to create the formula for the line for me. I have not yet figured out how

Re: [NTG-context] Lua and module gnuplot: Manipulate Gnuplot script with Lua

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 23:07 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 22:39, Paul Menzel wrote: I have two coefficients saved in a text file -0.157737135681261 -0.211443105668896 and I want to use them to plot a line with gnuplot. Having several of

Re: [NTG-context] Lua and module gnuplot: Manipulate Gnuplot script with Lua

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 23:13 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: […] One more example. One thing that would most probably work (I didn't try it) would be the following: \startGNUPLOTscript[name] plot sin(x) t '$\pi = \ctxlua{math.pi()}$' \stopGNUPLOTscript It has some syntax errors, but

Re: [NTG-context] Preserving Output Files

2011-12-12 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 20:26 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: I only see cont-en.fmt : format file, sits in the cache and stays there cont-en.lui : lua startup stub, idem handbook.tex : your file, is kept where it is Hans Then I am not sure what file it is missing then since all of those

Re: [NTG-context] ∫ and $\intop$ is not displayed correctly compared to $\int$.

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
[My former message was not delivered and awaits moderator approval because it is bigger than 64 KB. I removed the PDF output using XITS.] Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2011, 23:52 +0200 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 15:06, Paul Menzel wrote: ConTeXt ver: 2011.05.18 22:26 MKIV fmt:

Re: [NTG-context] ∫ and $\intop$ is not displayed correctly compared to $\int$.

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Sonntag, den 11.12.2011, 13:28 +0100 schrieb Philipp A.: apart from this IMHO very useful change (mapping to \int), maybe we should create a unicode-math module which replaces some commands with symbols. Do you mean symbols by commands? i find myself always using this for chemical and

[NTG-context] MetaFun: MetaPost example works with `mpost` but not embedded in ConTeXt: `! Redundant equation.`

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, looking for graphics example and therefore searching the list I found the answer from David Arnold in the ntg-context list thread »OT: looking for metapost/fun examples« [1]. It is for plain MetaPost and works fine with `mpost` after making sure to remove the line breaks

[NTG-context] gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mojca and ConTeXt folks, I compiled gnuplot 4.5 from source (master) and got everything running. Mojca, thank you so much! Trying the example from the gnuplot page in the Wiki [1] \usemodule[gnuplot] \setupGNUPLOT[terminal=mp,option=color] %

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 01:02 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 00:51, Paul Menzel wrote: I compiled gnuplot 4.5 from source (master) and got everything running. Mojca, thank you so much! Trying the example from the gnuplot page in the Wiki [1]

[NTG-context] [solved] gnuplot: mpost: Not writing to .log (openout_any = p). (was: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %)

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 01:20 +0100 schrieb Paul Menzel: […] I am also getting other errors now and even moving the ConTeXt file to a new directory I keep getting this error from `mpost`. fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1]

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 01:13 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 00:51, Paul Menzel wrote: I compiled gnuplot 4.5 from source (master) and got everything running. Mojca, thank you so much! Trying the example from the gnuplot page in the Wiki [1]

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot module

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 01:40 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: (was: gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %) (sorry, but it was too long to keep it all in title :) On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:30, Paul Menzel wrote: Thank you for the follow up. I just blindly

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography: @ELECTRONIC entries not shown in references section

2011-12-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Mittwoch, den 25.05.2011, 16:36 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 25-5-2011 3:56, Paul Menzel wrote: On So, 2011-05-22 at 19:12 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 22-5-2011 6:57, Paul Menzel wrote: The question still remains if `@ELECTRONIC` are not allowed or if this is an error. it's more

[NTG-context] bibmod-doc.pdf: Typo: s/isnb/isbn/

2011-12-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, there is a typo in the Bibliography module documentation [1]. s/isnb/isbn/ Thanks, Paul [1] http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/bibmod-doc/doc/context/bib/bibmod-doc.pdf signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[NTG-context] Bibliography: Setting `alternative=` without `criterium=all` displays nothing (ConTeXt: 2011.11.25)

2011-12-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, using ConTeXt ver: 2011.11.25 21:29 MKIV fmt: 2011.11.25 int: english/english and the following minimal example (attached too) \setupbibtex[database=sample, sort=author] \setuppublications[alternative=ada] % Show reference numbers in the

[NTG-context] Bibliography: Any styles including URL?

2011-12-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, type setting my thesis with ConTeXt I still use BibTeX to manage my references. Since a lot of references are available online I want to include the URL if they are available. I read the ConTeXt publication module documentation [1] and as far as I can see, there are some

[NTG-context] Bibliography: How to get `\completepublications` to use different title?

2011-12-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, reading the Wiki page [1] and the documentation [2] I could not find a way to change the default used `\chapter` [3] to `\subject` which I need, because the references have to be set without a number and my “highest” level is `\section` otherwise. Is there something similar

Re: [NTG-context] Preserving Output Files

2011-12-09 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 18:39 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6-12-2011 04:27, Kip Warner wrote: Hey list, I've searched the list, but couldn't seem to dig up anything that I thought was relevant. How do I get ConTeXt to preserve all files necessary to run the same invocation of LuaTeX it

Re: [NTG-context] Keep struggling with old style numerals!

2011-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Gerard, Am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2011, 10:56 +0100 schrieb Verhaag, G.C.H.M.: A few days ago I installed the latest ConTeXt version but now my oldstyle settings don't seem to work any more! what version did you use before? I use the following settings in my preamble:

[NTG-context] MetaFun: Is the maximum of `vloggrid` limited to 10?

2011-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, the `vloggrid` command is described in section 9 of the MetaFun manual [1]. vloggrid (Min, Max, Step, Length, Height) Can somebody confirm that `Max` can be at most 10? \starttext \type{draw vloggrid(0, 11, 10, 15cm, 5cm);}

Re: [NTG-context] MetaFun: Is the maximum of `vloggrid` limited to 10?

2011-12-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2011, 16:40 +0100 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 8-12-2011 14:54, Paul Menzel wrote: To create grid like the log-log grid in [2] I guess I need to compose the bigger grid from these “basic” grids then? at some point it runs off your page i guess But the width parameter

Re: [NTG-context] Math align in mkiv

2011-12-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Otared, Am Mittwoch, den 07.12.2011, 05:11 +0100 schrieb Otared Kavian: Thank you having tested the file I sent. did the example work for you with MKIV in the past? As I suspected, your testing confirms that the change or the bug has been introduced in a recent version of ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Migrating from prosper to simpleslides in creating presentations

2011-12-07 Thread Pavneet Arora
Thanks Hans. Will do. Steps sounds perfect for this and my other applications. Regards. -- Sent from my Nokia N900. Please excuse my brevity. - Original message - On 7-12-2011 12:44, Pavneet Arora wrote: Dear Thomas, Nauseating is an apt description ;). In general, I too

[NTG-context] `\{start, stop}MPpage`: MetaPost figure does not fit canvas(?) in resulting PDF file

2011-12-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, using the following example \starttext \startMPpage draw (0,0)--(10,10)--(15,5)--(20,10); draw (0,0)--(0,10)--(10,10)--(10,5)--(15,5)--(15,10)--(20,10) withcolor blue; \stopMPpage \stoptext it looks like the bottom is not

[NTG-context] math: root sign an square brackets set too closely

2011-12-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, using the root sign √ `\sqrt` and the square brackets [] the distance does not seem to be optimal. \starttext \type{$\left[ \sqrt{x} \right]$}: $\left[ \sqrt{x} \right]$ Without \type{\left} and \type{\right}: $[\sqrt{x}]$

[NTG-context] naming of labels: Is »()« allowed?

2011-12-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, in ConTeXt I like how I can choose arbitrary names for label and reference them. I think some time ago it was possible to also use »()«. This does not work anymore with ConTeXt ver: 2011.11.25 21:29 MKIV fmt: 2011.11.25 int: english/english and the following

Re: [NTG-context] naming of labels: Is »()« allowed?

2011-12-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, Am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2011, 02:18 +0100 schrieb Paul Menzel: in ConTeXt I like how I can choose arbitrary names for label and reference them. I think some time ago it was possible to also use »()«. This does not work anymore with ConTeXt ver: 2011.11.25

[NTG-context] Preserving Output Files

2011-12-05 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I've searched the list, but couldn't seem to dig up anything that I thought was relevant. How do I get ConTeXt to preserve all files necessary to run the same invocation of LuaTeX it executed when it was run. As an example, when I run the following... $ context Source/Handbook.tex

Re: [NTG-context] [solved] Parse error when using `\define`

2011-12-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Samstag, den 03.12.2011, 20:09 +0100 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 03.12.2011 um 20:06 schrieb Paul Menzel: could some please try to parse the following minimal example and report back if a parse problem occurs. Please find the protocols attached. \define[1]\abs{\lvert #1

Re: [NTG-context] [solved] Fractions and binomial inlined in text ($n \choose \frac{n}2$): Parentheses not scaled

2011-12-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Sonntag, den 04.12.2011, 09:52 +0100 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 03.12.2011 um 19:56 schrieb Paul Menzel: using the following minimal example \starttext Using \type{\choose} in text $n \choose \frac{n}2$. \startformula n \choose \frac{n}2

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