Re: [NTG-context] Here's a strange one for Metapost gurus

2004-01-04 Thread Hartmut Henkel
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)

[NTG-context] VTeX

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Mnster
Hello, 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. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ Film Search site: http://f-s.sf.net/

[NTG-context] typearea

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Mnster
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

Re: [NTG-context] Re: extended ascii characters

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Mnster
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

Re: [NTG-context] Here's a strange one for Metapost gurus

2004-01-04 Thread David Arnold
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;

[NTG-context] Re: VTeX

2004-01-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
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

Re: [NTG-context] Re: extended ascii characters

2004-01-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
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,

Re: [NTG-context] Context update

2004-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
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

Re: [NTG-context] style questions

2004-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
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

Re: [NTG-context] extensie pl

2004-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
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

Re: [NTG-context] unicode and out-of-box usability

2004-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
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

Re: [NTG-context] texexec --arrange and texexec --noarrange

2004-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
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

Re: [NTG-context] Perl scripts almost unusable under Win32 MiKTeX

2004-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
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

Re: [NTG-context] Perl scripts almost unusable under Win32 MiKTeX

2004-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
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:

Re: [NTG-context] page arrangement

2004-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
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

Re: [NTG-context] m-BibTeX problems

2004-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
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

Re: [NTG-context] Classroom templates?

2004-01-04 Thread Hans Hagen
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

[NTG-context] Re: extended ascii characters

2004-01-04 Thread Gonçalo Morais
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

[NTG-context] Text Editor for ConTeXt

2004-01-04 Thread Gary Hoffman
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

Re: [NTG-context] Classroom templates?

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Eaves
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.