Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

I appreciate the effort you've put into this, Paul, but This primary audience for this page is XML authors who want to use ConTeXt to format an XML document. is still not enough of a disclaimer. I use ConTeXt as part of a large XML-based workflow, but don't use TeXML (nor do I use much of the

[NTG-context] good-looking tables in context

Hi all, I have to present a lot of numerical data in tables. However, I don't know how to achieve aesthetically pleasing results in context. (Ex)-Latex users may know the booktabs package which is a great help in this respect. I would like to achieve the same in context now. I have attached a

Re: [NTG-context] lmr / latest beta

Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: Indeed, that helped, thank you. Again, a lot seems to have happened - don't leave context alone for longer than a week;-) it's not that bad, most changes that influence a working version or not, concern fonts, and there have been some changes in that area recently (tds

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

Paul Tremblay wrote: I've authored a new page on laying out pages in ConText. This page will be just one in a number of pages on using ConTeXt with XML. The new page can be found at http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html I would appreciate any feedback. I hope the page

[NTG-context] Urgent index problem

I am one night from a deadline and I have just noticed that my index is silently ignoring some entries... Help!! The following demonstrates the problem (tested on live.contextgarden.net): -- \starttext \startregister[index]{this term+in+particular} This term is discussed from the start of this

[NTG-context] protruding in the margin

Hi, if I have a text with footnotes in the margin - see below. How do I also define those footnotes to use protruding? Steffen P.S. I know we had this already - but I forgot it. Sorry. \usetypescript [adobekb][ec] \usetypescript[serif] [hanging] [normal] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding]

[NTG-context] Using metapost stuff in ConTeXt

Suppose I have a .mp file foo.mp, which contains some shared definitions and two images: beginfig(1); % some stuff endfig; beginfig(0); % some other stuff endfig; If I run mptopdf on this file I get foo-0.pdf and foo-1.pdf. And that works fine. But can I somehow interface directly from within

[NTG-context] OT: metapost question

Is it ok in a .mp file to do something like for k=1 step 1 until N: beginfig(k); % some stuff endfig; endfor; Thanks, G ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] OT: metapost question

Gerben Wierda wrote: Is it ok in a .mp file to do something like for k=1 step 1 until N: beginfig(k); % some stuff endfig; endfor Sure, why not? Simply try this, which shows that it works fine: N := 100; for k=1 step 1 until N: beginfig(k); drawdot (100,100) withpen pencircle scaled

Re: [NTG-context] OT: metapost question

* Taco Hoekwater (Mar 29, 2005 00:10): N := 100; for k=1 step 1 until N: beginfig(k); drawdot (100,100) withpen pencircle scaled k; endfig; endfor; end. Wow, I never realized that. Man, I really gotta try to remember what can be done with macro processors..., nikolai --

[NTG-context] widow and orphan control

How does one prevent orphans (the first line nof a paragraph on the last line of a page) and widows (the last line of a paragraph on a new page)? If I have the title of a new section that must not be the last line of a page, how can I do this? Thanks Paul -- *Paul

Re: [NTG-context] Urgent index problem

I wrote: -- \starttext \startregister[index]{this term+in+particular} This term is discussed from the start of this page.\page[yes] Some more text about the term, and another page.\page[yes] And the end of the info about that term. \stopregister[index]{this term+in+particular}\page[yes] A page