Re: [NTG-context] ruby

2005-05-12 Thread luigi.scarso
Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, when pondering about some ruby to bin for unix and googling a bit, A little off-topic: why ruby and not python ? i ran into: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/ruby.html amazing stuff, not only rubyscript2exe (cross platform)! bookmarked luigi

Re: [NTG-context] ruby

2005-05-12 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi.scarso wrote: A little off-topic: why ruby and not python ? - i didn't like those tabs/indentation - ruby's reminded me of modula which i used a (real) lot in the past - ruby has a small footprint - i just like it Hans -

[NTG-context] Fill pdf forms

2005-05-12 Thread luigi.scarso
Looking for some stuff do manage pdf forms,I found this http://search.cpan.org/~clotho/CAM-PDF-0.99/ From http://search.cpan.org/src/CLOTHO/CAM-PDF-0.99/index.html CAM::PDF is optimized for reading and manipulating existing PDF documents. We use CAM::PDF in production Linux environments to

[NTG-context] Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ?

2005-05-12 Thread redox
hi all, I am a newbie of ConTeXt, i'm sorry if my question is foolish. I have two questions: 1. Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ? There seems no ConTeXt manual focused on mathematica. Or I just need to find a mathematica manual for LaTeX ? 2. I'm running TeTeX 2.0.2 on

[NTG-context] font mapfiles

2005-05-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I just had to reinstall my TeX installation (upgrade to OS X 10.4). After mucking around with my old TeX, I decided to reinstall, and I hit a problem: even though I ran updmap, ConTeXt doesn't seem to work with the fonts I installed myself unless I include the \loadmapfile [foo] either in

Re: [NTG-context] Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ?

2005-05-12 Thread Hans Hagen
redox wrote: hi all, I am a newbie of ConTeXt, i'm sorry if my question is foolish. I have two questions: 1. Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ? There seems no ConTeXt manual focused on mathematica. Or I just need to find a mathematica manual for LaTeX ? 2. I'm

Re: [NTG-context] Context, LaTeX, or an XML for academic writing?

2005-05-12 Thread Ville Voipio
Actually your comment here might suggest how far we have to go then, as I'd consider my wishlist a very roughly stated but really quite minimal set of requirements for academic writing. Well, if you drop the RTF part, then your wishlist is not that difficult. However, there are some

Re: [NTG-context] presentation style

2005-05-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Fei, If possible, prepare a minimal file or set of generally compilable files (i.e., with just the latest official context distribution) that illustrates the problem. If it's too big for the mailing list, feel free to send it to me and I'll try (but do not promise success-). Best Idris On

Re: [NTG-context] Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ?

2005-05-12 Thread Mikael Persson
On 5/12/05, redox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I am a newbie of ConTeXt, i'm sorry if my question is foolish. I have two questions: 1. Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ? There seems no ConTeXt manual focused on mathematica. Or I just need to find a mathematica

[NTG-context] Re: try compiling Tex showcase source : program_sample.tex

2005-05-12 Thread olivier Turlier
Christopher Creutzig wrote: olivier Turlier wrote: I've tryed to compile whithout success. The files are deliberately incomplete. ...generate the output, is more than a simple texexec. :-) Regards, Christopher Hi Christopher, I was trying to compile Program-sample.tex because

Re: [NTG-context] Re: try compiling Tex showcase source : program_sample.tex

2005-05-12 Thread Hans Hagen
olivier Turlier wrote: Christopher Creutzig wrote: olivier Turlier wrote: I've tryed to compile whithout success. The files are deliberately incomplete. ...generate the output, is more than a simple texexec. :-) Regards, Christopher Hi Christopher, I was trying to

Re: [NTG-context] Context, LaTeX, or an XML for academic writing?

2005-05-12 Thread CB
Ville Voipio wrote: I am not saying HTML is bad and PDF good. HTML is extremely good for many purposes. Wiki is a good example of this, and so are many web pages. But as HTML is not necessarily a good form for a book, concentrating on PDF is probably a better idea. I hadn't thought of half

Re: [NTG-context] Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ?

2005-05-12 Thread redox
Hi, Mikael, Thanks for your kindness, and sorry for my bad English ^_^ I mean I want to type some math formulas with ConTeXt. Since i don't know too much about ConTeXt/TeX, i want to find a manual about this subject and to learn by myself. In the ConTeXt an excursion(page 15), it says, We