Re: [NTG-context] New Installation under miktex, not working

2006-01-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Todd DeVries wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to install context under miktex 2.4. I've updated the format files and followed other instructions as per the contextgarden discussions. I'm probably missing something really obvious and would appreciate any help offered. I receive this output when

Re: [NTG-context] Notes for Scite

2006-01-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
David Arnold wrote: Will it be required to install Ruby and/or Lua on the windows platform? If so, is this the binary I should download and install? http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/1148/lua5_1b1_Win32_bin.tar.gz Anything else required besides perl? Not always required, but I would

Re: [NTG-context] Alignments side by side

2006-01-16 Thread Willi Egger
Hi David, you can play with placing floats in a combination: \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupformulae[location=left,margin=no] \startbuffer[1] \framed[frame=on,width=fit] {\startformula \eqalign{ f(x)=x2-2x-3\cr f(x)=x^02x+1-1-3\cr f(x)=(x-1)2-4} \stopformula} \stopbuffer \startbuffer[2]

Re: [NTG-context] Notes for Scite

2006-01-16 Thread Willi Egger
Hi David, you might have a look on the PRAGMA site. If I remember correctly, there should be a manual dealing with Scite. Willi David Arnold wrote: All, I already have a few colleagues who have set up perl, ghostscript, gsview, miktex, context, and windedt on their XP machines. Does

Re: [NTG-context] last natural table column longer

2006-01-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Vit, Vit Zyka wrote: Hello Wizards, my multi page (and multicolumn) table exceeds the last page by 2 rows. Is there a way to make last column a bit longer? Here is a minimal example: The underlying problem is that you have to enlarge the height of page 2. I don't know how that is

Re: [NTG-context] Figure libraries

2006-01-16 Thread Willi Egger
Hi David, yes you can. In your doc you can refer to the library's content either by symbolic names as given in the library or by reference to a page in the library \usemodule[fig-base] \usefigurebase[mylibrary] . {\externalfigure[mynicepicture][...]} .

Re: [NTG-context] Notes for Scite

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Will it be required to install Ruby and/or Lua on the windows platform? If so, is this the binary I should download and install? http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/1148/lua5_1b1_Win32_bin.tar.gz Anything else required besides perl? also reacting to anouther mail ...

Re: [NTG-context] columns issues

2006-01-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hello wizards! The \startcolumns ... \column ... \stopcolumns block handling seems somewhat broken. That's a bit of an understatement. I've added a collector item Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] How to \bf for math?

2006-01-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: taco is the math expert ... At the moment, I don't understand this math vs. typescript stuff any better than the next person, I'm afraid. There are a number of (perhaps conflicting?) ways of getting 'bold math' in your text, and I have not the faintest clue which one is

Re: [NTG-context] indenting in XML environment

2006-01-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Christopher G D Tipper wrote: Hi Taco, I've found the miscreant. In my stylesheet I have \def\eDroppedCaps {\DroppedCaps {} {ptmr8r} {2.2\baselineskip} {2pt} {\baselineskip} {2}} and in my XML I have: \defineXMLcommand [dropped-caps] \eDroppedCaps

[NTG-context] Resolution of the images

2006-01-16 Thread Andreas Wapf
Hello How does texexec --pdf file.tex includes the images into the target pdf file? Does texexec process modify the images? What is the target resolution of the pdf? How should I optimize the process for digital or offset printing? Or is there somewhere a good introduction into this topic?

Re: [NTG-context] last natural table column longer

2006-01-16 Thread Vit Zyka
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Vit, Vit Zyka wrote: Hello Wizards, my multi page (and multicolumn) table exceeds the last page by 2 rows. Is there a way to make last column a bit longer? Here is a minimal example: The underlying problem is that you have to enlarge the height of page 2. I

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: And where should we put this module temporarily? Put it in the local directory and do \input math-ext at the top of your test files. attached is a next version with 'definable' aligns \definemathalign[myalign][...] \startmyalign ...

[NTG-context] Newbie question ConText

2006-01-16 Thread Wim Neimeijer
Title: Newbie question ConText Hi, I am a Latex (MikTex 2.4, WindowsXP Pro) user and I want to learn more about ConText. I installed ConText via the MikTex 2.4 package manager, and read some of the ConText manuals. I also compiled successfully some of the ConText tex samples, but I

Re: [NTG-context] New Installation under miktex, not working

2006-01-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Jan 16, Mojca Miklavec wrote --- Todd DeVries wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to install context under miktex 2.4. I've updated the format files and followed other instructions as per the contextgarden discussions. I'm probably missing something really obvious and would appreciate any help

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
I might have missed it by not reading careful enough: is it possible to left/right/middle align certain columns inside \startalign? Thanks a lot for these definitions, Hans! Mojca ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Resolution of the images

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-16 um 12:22 schrieb Andreas Wapf: How does texexec --pdf file.tex includes the images into the target pdf file? Does texexec process modify the images? What is the target resolution of the pdf? - texexec, i.e. pdftex, just embeds images (also pdf) without changing them, besides

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I might have missed it by not reading careful enough: is it possible to left/right/middle align certain columns inside \startalign? some day (try to convince me/taco, bribe us, write detailed specs, send us so many mails that we give in, etc) Hans

[NTG-context] typo in core-ntb.tex

2006-01-16 Thread Vit Zyka
Hi, there is typo in core-ntb.tex: \def\splittblboxb#1% \pagina - \page Vit ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] How to \bf for math?

2006-01-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Taco, thanks for the answer. I managed to change the whole math family into bold, but I can't get the following example working: \switchtobodyfont[iwona-light,ss] $$normal {\bf bold}{\bfm bold}{\bfmath bold}$$ \bf and \bfmath result in cm fonts, \bfm has no influence, no matter what I tried to

Re: [NTG-context] New Installation under miktex, not working

2006-01-16 Thread Todd DeVries
Thanks to all who responded to my question yesterday. Not sure why, but documents are compiling and formats are found. Perhaps I'll do a stand-alone install to make updates easier in the future. Todd On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:35:29 -0500 (EST), you wrote: --- On Jan 16, Mojca Miklavec wrote ---

Fwd: [NTG-context] Pagenumbers and labels

2006-01-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear cabal, Got no answer yet, resending-) Best Idris --- Forwarded message --- From: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Cc: Subject: [NTG-context] Pagenumbers and labels Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:58:48 -0700 Dear syndicate, Three questions (test file

Re: [NTG-context] typo in core-ntb.tex

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: Hi, there is typo in core-ntb.tex: \def\splittblboxb#1% \pagina - \page you mean, in your ancient version? not here ... Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] How to \bf for math?

2006-01-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm also able to get the complete formula typeset in bold iwona, but I don't know how to get something like $-{\bf\nabla}\phi={\bi E}$, where \phi would be typeset in iwona-light and the rest in iwona-heavy for example. maybe a way out is something

Re: [NTG-context] How to \bf for math?

2006-01-16 Thread David Munger
Hi Mojca, I must say I understand about nothing about fonts in ConTeXt. But I've somehow managed do define a bold vector command, working in my environment. I hope it helps. \definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath] [latin-modern] [default] % boldsymbol work-around

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread David Arnold
Taco, Hans, et al, That worked by putting it in the same directory as my little test file. However, with this directory structure: ../book.tex ../bookenv.tex ../math-ext.tex ../chapter6/chapter6.tex ../chapter6/section5.tex Bookenv.tex is our environment file. I tried: \input math-ext and

Re: Fwd: [NTG-context] Pagenumbers and labels

2006-01-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear cabal, Got no answer yet, resending-) It sounds to me like you only need the 'appearance' of Parts to be present, instead of the 'actual' divisions. If so, you could consider defining your own '\part' macro that does a \writetolist. You can do that with

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Taco, Hans, et al, That worked by putting it in the same directory as my little test file. However, with this directory structure: ../book.tex ../bookenv.tex ../math-ext.tex ../chapter6/chapter6.tex ../chapter6/section5.tex Bookenv.tex is our environment file. I tried:

Re: [NTG-context] How to \bf for math?

2006-01-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: . I grep-ed for bfmath and boldmath and tried to replace them, but no success at all. See the attached file for my attempts. Yeah, that's what got me confused as well. I'll try to sort all this bold/not bold/fake bold/wrong bold math out (unless someone else

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread David Arnold
Yikes,Cont-new.tex is huge. Where do I put this line? Between \unprotect ... \protect? Or at the very end?On Jan 16, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:  \ifx\startalign\undefined \input math-ext.tex \fi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] New Installation under miktex, not working

2006-01-16 Thread Ralph Roberts
Thanks! That worked for me. --Ralph If you want to make formats, go to MikTeX options - TeX formats - choose cont-en - Edit ... Here are the values that I have (it may be that I changed any of them manually, I don't remember): Format Name: cont-en Compiler: pdfe-TeX (Extended Mode) Input File

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Willi, et al, I was thinking there are pros and cons to each solution, Hans' and Willi's. So I tried: Here are some simple examples of adding fractions already having common denominators. %output=pdf \input math-ext \starttext \placeformula[-] \startformula

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: In this situation, will I have to put it into the base context tree? Yes, you would, but we are only testing now. I assume (based on the name) that Hans has a new core file in mind instead of a module. Taco ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Resolution of the images

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Münster
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: - prepare your pictures for the right resolution; if you need two versions (say web and print) you'd need to prepare both; you should name highres and lowres the same, only put them in different directories, so you could use mode sections

Re: [NTG-context] multiple backgrounds

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Now I must only find a way to *subtract* a layer, but I guess I can manage that with some doifmodes Hello TeX-experts, I tried to do the layer-subtraction, but it seems that I need more experience with expansion in TeX. Here is the error: !

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I might have missed it by not reading careful enough: is it possible to left/right/middle align certain columns inside \startalign? some day (try to convince me/taco, Please, please, please :-) bribe us, Not possible, I am a

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Yikes, Cont-new.tex is huge. Where do I put this line? Between \unprotect ... \protect? Or at the very end? On Jan 16, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: at the top, before \unprotect (not that critical btw) Hans ___

Re: [NTG-context] multiple backgrounds

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Now I must only find a way to *subtract* a layer, but I guess I can manage that with some doifmodes Hello TeX-experts, I tried to do the layer-subtraction, but it seems that I need more experience with expansion in TeX. Here

Re: [NTG-context] multiple backgrounds

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Now I must only find a way to *subtract* a layer, but I guess I can manage that with some doifmodes Hello TeX-experts, I tried to do the layer-subtraction, but it seems that I need more experience with expansion in TeX. Here

Re: [NTG-context] typo in core-ntb.tex

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Vit Zyka wrote: Hi, there is typo in core-ntb.tex: \def\splittblboxb#1% \pagina - \page you mean, in your ancient version? not here ... Hans Sorry, in this case. Yes, my version is pretty deluvial. Big project tends to be finnished, after that I

Re: [NTG-context] New Installation under miktex, not working

2006-01-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Make a tree called pragma-texmf. Download cont-tmf.zip and cont-fnt.zip and unzip them in pragma-texmf. Go to MikTex options and add pragma-texmf as a tree. Move it up so that it is the first tree. /.../ This makes me feel whether it is a good idea to have miktex and

[NTG-context] [Fwd: after=\page in natural tables]

2006-01-16 Thread Vit Zyka
Hello, this example from core-ntb.tex \startbuffer[table3] \bTABLE[split=yes] \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \bTR[after=\page] \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, Willi, et al, I was thinking there are pros and cons to each solution, Hans' and Willi's. So I tried: Here are some simple examples of adding fractions already having common denominators. %output=pdf \input math-ext \starttext \placeformula[-] \startformula

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: after=\page in natural tables]

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: Hello, this example from core-ntb.tex \startbuffer[table3] \bTABLE[split=yes] \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \bTR[after=\page] \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \eTABLE

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Maybe some way of doing this for all columns in a align, say \startformula \startalign[align={2,right}] %This is ugly syntax, can't % think of something good right away \NC a \NC= -1 \NR \NC b \NC= 1 \NR \stopalign \stopformula since we hav

Re: Fwd: [NTG-context] Pagenumbers and labels

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear cabal, Got no answer yet, resending-) Best Idris --- Forwarded message --- From: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Cc: Subject: [NTG-context] Pagenumbers and labels Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:58:48 -0700 Dear syndicate, Three

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Taco, et al, If I do something like this: \placeformula[-] \startformula \startalign[m=2,distance=7em] \frac5{21}-\frac3{21}=\frac{5-3}{21} \frac{2}{x+2}-\frac{x-3}{x+2}=\frac{2-(x-3)}{x+2}\\ =\frac2{21} =\frac{2-x+3}{x+2}\\ =\frac{5-x}{x+2} \stopalign \stopformula

Re: [NTG-context] texversion

2006-01-16 Thread Gerben Wierda
In cases like these I generally do something like this: change the obsolete command to display a warning (or in this release a warning and the exec texexec --version, then a year later only the warning, then later the command disappears altogether.) G On 15 Jan 2006, at 22:05, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Jan 16, Hans Hagen wrote --- Aditya Mahajan wrote: Maybe some way of doing this for all columns in a align, say \startformula \startalign[align={2,right}] %This is ugly syntax, can't % think of something good right away \NC a \NC= -1 \NR \NC b \NC= 1 \NR

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ?

2006-01-16 Thread David Wooten
Most Patient ConTeXters, I've rested a couple of days and found that, in fact, Gerben's distribution generates the new fmt files in ~/Library/texmf/web2c. Still, none of my attempts have produced changes in the allocated memory. Has anyone successfully increased the memory (e.g.

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread David Arnold
Hans, This is pretty good! But yes, I know that I can get some separation with: \definecombination[twoformulas][location=top,align=middle,distance=1cm] But, as you noted in another post, is there a way to use the full spread of the page where each of these maths are centered in their

Re: Fwd: [NTG-context] Pagenumbers and labels

2006-01-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:14:20 -0700, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear cabal, Got no answer yet, resending-) It sounds to me like you only need the 'appearance' of Parts to be present, instead of the 'actual' divisions. If so, you could consider

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, Taco, et al, If I do something like this: \placeformula[-] \startformula \startalign[m=2,distance=7em] \frac5{21}-\frac3{21}=\frac{5-3}{21} \frac{2}{x+2}-\frac{x-3}{x+2}=\frac{2-(x-3)}{x+2}\\ =\frac2{21} =\frac{2-x+3}{x+2}\\ =\frac{5-x}{x+2}

Re: [NTG-context] math align

2006-01-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Jan 16, Hans Hagen wrote --- Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: And where should we put this module temporarily? Put it in the local directory and do \input math-ext at the top of your test files. attached is a next version with 'definable' aligns

Re: [NTG-context] New Installation under miktex, not working

2006-01-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Jan 16, Mojca Miklavec wrote --- Aditya Mahajan wrote: Make a tree called pragma-texmf. Download cont-tmf.zip and cont-fnt.zip and unzip them in pragma-texmf. Go to MikTex options and add pragma-texmf as a tree. Move it up so that it is the first tree. /.../ This makes me feel