Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \defintion.

2004-11-28 Thread Adam Lindsay
Dirar BOUGATEF said this at Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:09:45 +: I have 2 definitions in my document and every thing compiles until i add a third one, i get the following error: Dirar, I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Can you send a minimal, complete example that illustrates the

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \defintion.

2004-11-28 Thread Dirar BOUGATEF
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

[NTG-context] Table of contents, alternative d

2004-11-28 Thread Dirar BOUGATEF
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] %

[NTG-context] Re: pagenumbers in margin

2004-11-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Beste Geert, [...] This also works more or less, but (see if I can explain this in plain english without using figures !!.) : You should post a complete but minimal example that shows what you do and then a few words what is wrong with it. That way we can imagine better what your

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Problem with \defintion.

2004-11-28 Thread Matthias Weber
Put a blank line between your \definitions helps here. Matthias On Nov 28, 2004, at 1:00 PM, Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: 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

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with \defintion.

2004-11-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Dirar, This is an example: [this is what I mean with complete, but minimal example. The itemize environment has nothing to do with the problem] \definedescription [definition] \starttext \definition{HMV} blablabla \definition{TTV} blablabla % uncomment this to see the error %

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Problem with \defintion.

2004-11-28 Thread Dirar BOUGATEF
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

[NTG-context] Recommended Books on Typesetting

2004-11-28 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Hi! I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on. Personally, I can recommend Donald E. Knuth's The TeXbook and also his book on MetaFont. I am thinking of getting The Complete Manual of Typography by James Felici,

RE: [NTG-context] Recommended Books on Typesetting

2004-11-28 Thread ishamid
Here is a start: http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-typography.html http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-free-type.html If you only get one get The Elements of Typographic Style. Bringhurst, Robert. Best Idris = Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] Recommended Books on Typesetting

2004-11-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 28.11.2004 um 20:24 schrieb Nikolai Weibull: I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on. If you can read german you should have a look at Lesetypographie by Hans Peter Willberg Friedrich Forssman, Verlag

Re: [NTG-context] start with XeTeX

2004-11-28 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:24:37 +0100: Hello Adam et al! I just tried to use XeTeX (installed with Gerben's i-Installer, after that updated ConTeXt) and followed your instructions in the wiki (http://contextgarden.net/XeTeX), but I get always this error: This is

[NTG-context] website pod

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Hi, I restarted the webservlet and it seems to respond ok now. Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax:

Re: [NTG-context] Recommended Books on Typesetting

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Nikolai Weibull wrote: I have also been looking for books by Hermann Zapf, but most seem to be out of print and very, very expensive where available; anyone know if they are worth their steep prices? nikolai His books (and fonts) are real great! I wish i had them all. Keep in mind that typography

Re: [NTG-context] Recommended Books on Typesetting

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Nikolai Weibull wrote: Hi! I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on. i have a bunch but i have to admit that i'm more a browser than a reader; it's on my to do list to make a list of them maybe we can compile a

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Problem with \defintion.

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Still don't know why it worked with 2 \definitions but anyway, i know my error now :) \something bla bla \something bla bla empty line will work in many cases because \something also triggers a \par, but don't depend on it too much Hans

Re: [NTG-context] columnset BUG - (urgent!)

2004-11-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
thanks, that works now. but do you also know the answer to the second bug: When you uncomment the lines (testfile below) the columnset gets 2 lines shorter! I experienced this when I added before the literature component a catalogue component that uses a structure like the commented lines do.

Re: Re: [NTG-context] pagenumbers in margin

2004-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, As I told before, I want the grey box as defined in the page numbering (see below) to appear with its outer border aligned to the outer border of the outer margin. Right now, it aligns with its inner border to the inner border of the outer margin. I tried with uitlijnen=buiten but