Re: [NTG-context] Strange t-bib behavior

2006-04-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I attach an example file which produces strange citation behavior: while the single citations ('\cite[authoryears][cordingley:90]' or '\cite[authoryears][walker:94]') work perfectly allright, the dual citation ('\cite[authoryears][cordingley:90,walker:94]')

Re: [NTG-context] Different pagebreaks for component and whole document

2006-04-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 4/3/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: But, since you are not really supposed to compile the project file in the first place Why not / What's [so] wrong with that? It is like putting the entire life's work of an author into a single bound volume. I (mis)use that

[NTG-context] Attachment sizes

2006-04-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, I have just approved two files with rather large attachments by mistake. My apologies to everyone who is on a slow link. To the original posters: in the future, please make large examples available on the internet somewhere. Some of the people on this list are on rather slow

Re: [NTG-context] How to get the chapter title page shown?

2006-04-08 Thread Peter Münster
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, R S Ananda Murthy wrote: I am new to ConTeXt. I need to get the chapter title layout as shown in the attached pdf file. How to get this? Hello, I've tried to find a solution with \framed but I don't know how to align the bottom of the CHAPTER with the bottom of the 2...

Re: [NTG-context] latest stable release

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: The latest stable (ConTeXt ver: 2006.04.06 23:00 fmt: 2006.4.7 int: english mes: english) release fails to compile a file that worked previously and returns the error message: ! Missing number, treated as

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hans and all, there are two unpleasant things in the lates releases which may be bugs: 1. newtexexec --module --pdf does not work, it just doesn't process the modules (works with old texexec) 2. not sure if this is a misconfiguration on my system, but when I

Re: [NTG-context] feature request: clipping option for externalfigure

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: Hello, I would like to clip an external eps-figure as LaTeX does with the clip option. Please consider the attachment as an example for en eps with white border and the following LaTeX and ConTeXt code: \starttext % no clipping possible here bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

Re: [NTG-context] Units and XML

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Johannes Graumann wrote: physapplyunit/cn4/cncsymbolDegrees/Celsius//csymbol/apply/phys works with physml, but not with newmmu. newmmu is now newpml and works with newmml (the old and new methods cannot be used mixed because they use completely different internals [direct xml handling

Re: [NTG-context] version dates confuse me after upgrade

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: I'll have to try it -- although first I want to understand all the corner cases with texexec. Context folks develop software faster than I can even read about it! By the way, where is newtexexec? I see the newtexexec.rb in the .zip file, and could presumably run it

Re: [NTG-context] Different pagebreaks for component and whole document

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 4/3/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: But, since you are not really supposed to compile the project file in the first place Why not / What's [so] wrong with that? a project mentions products and environments you run a product and/or components (of products);

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2006-04-08 Thread Vit Zyka
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 4/4/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, - for mojca: take a look at regi-syn and let me know what vectors need to be be added to the distribution Mojca, it would be nice if you could give a go/nogo signal quickly. I am slowly getting drowned with

Re: [NTG-context] feature request: clipping option for externalfigure

2006-04-08 Thread Vit Zyka
Hans Hagen wrote: � wrote: Hello, I would like to clip an external eps-figure as LaTeX does with the clip option. Please consider the attachment as an example for en eps with white border and the following LaTeX and ConTeXt code: \starttext % no clipping possible here bla bla bla bla bla bla

Re: [NTG-context] about the default bullets of itemized lists

2006-04-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Dalyoung Jeong wrote: Dear all, It is not a big problem, but I don't know why this curious thing happened. A few days ago, I updated ConTeXt and made a format file for XeConTeXt. I run a file which was compiled well before and got a strange results: at this time. all the bullets

Re: [NTG-context] Table Esthetics (and XML)

2006-04-08 Thread nico
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:38:17 -0700, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm a big fan of the LaTeX booktabs package - I find tables created using it with it's 'toprule', 'bottomrule' and clippable 'cmidrule' commands the most satisfying solution I have come across (see

Re: [NTG-context] Attachment sizes

2006-04-08 Thread R S Ananda Murthy
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, I have just approved two files with rather large attachments by mistake. My apologies to everyone who is on a slow link. To the original posters: in the future, please make large examples available on the internet somewhere. Some of the people on this list are

Re: [NTG-context] xml table reading problem

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, Derived from the 'figure' and 'table' examples in the XML example document, I came up with the following set of mapping rules for formating XML tables with ConTeXt. \defineXMLenvironment \defineXMLnested [table] { \bgroup

Re: [NTG-context] Installation problem

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Pavel Stupin wrote: Dear ConTeXt developers and users, This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.4) (format=cont-en 2006.4.8) 8 APR 2006 10:50 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) **cont-en test.tex

Re: [NTG-context] version dates confuse me after upgrade

2006-04-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
From:Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] i remember from long ago that there's also some path trickery involved (btw, i'm not sure where the binaries live) Hmm, tell me more about that if you remember. well, tetex adding tex related bin paths to the (user) profile files which

Re: [NTG-context] latest stable release

2006-04-08 Thread Alan Bowen
Hans— I attach a very short sample source file that will produce the failure not only using the latest stable ConTeXt (ver: 2006.04.06 23:00), but also the latest beta version (ver: 2006.04.06 15:27,). Thanks for looking at this. Alan 2006.04.06_TEST.tex Description: Binary data On

Re: [NTG-context] version dates confuse me after upgrade

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: From:Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] i remember from long ago that there's also some path trickery involved (btw, i'm not sure where the binaries live) Hmm, tell me more about that if you remember. well, tetex adding tex related bin

Re: [NTG-context] latest stable release

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: Hans� I attach a very short sample source file that will produce the failure not only using the latest stable ConTeXt (ver: 2006.04.06 23:00), but also the latest beta version (ver: 2006.04.06 15:27,). ok, fixed, i'll upload another alpha release for testing Hans

Re: [NTG-context] itemize

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi all, Up to now, I used: \startnarrower[left] \startitemize[2,packed,joinedup] \item 4 liaisons pivot (1 degré de liberté en rotation) soit 4 couples cinématiques de classe V, \item 1 liaison pivot glissant (2 degrés de liberté dont 1 en rotation et 1 en

Re: [NTG-context] about the default bullets of itemized lists

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Dalyoung Jeong wrote: Dear all, It is not a big problem, but I don't know why this curious thing happened. A few days ago, I updated ConTeXt and made a format file for XeConTeXt. I run a file which was compiled well before and got a strange results: at this time. all the bullets of

[NTG-context] sorting, again

2006-04-08 Thread Johan Sandblom
When the following test snippet \mainlanguage[sv] \starttext a\index{a} z\index{z}z\index{z+ä} å\index{å}å\index{å+b} ä\index{ä} ö\index{ö} A\index{A} Z\index{Z} Å\index{Å} Ä\index{Ä} Ö\index{Ö} \placeindex \stoptext is processed with cont-tmf.zip from 2006-04-07 12.29 and justtex.zip and

[NTG-context] finding project files in parent dirs automatically

2006-04-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I'm learning how to use projects/products/components, and have got reasonably far. However, I'm confused about far upwards context searches for the configuration files (product/project/environment files). Here's a directory structure that worked fine: double/chap/1/c_ch1.tex double/prd_oom.tex

[NTG-context] Column cell number in natural tables

2006-04-08 Thread nico
Hello, Is it possible to explicitely set the column of the cell defined by a \bTD ... \eTD? I mean that, within a row, it is the number of previous defined cells that determine the current column cell position. What I would like is to be able to omit intermediate empty cells by explicitely

Re: [NTG-context] finding project files in parent dirs automatically

2006-04-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: So the project and environment files got read in. By the way, why isn't the product file loaded? Is it not needed when making just one component? But it could modify the environment. It could modify the environment, but it shouldnt. So I guess Hans never considered

[NTG-context] How to use Helvetica font only for the headings?

2006-04-08 Thread R S Ananda Murthy
Hello, I want to use sans serif font like Helvetica only for the headings like chapter title, section headings etc. I want the body text in Times Roman font. How to do this in ConTeXt? Thanks for your help, Anand ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] How to use Helvetica font only for the headings?

2006-04-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Anand, R S Ananda Murthy wrote: Hello, I want to use sans serif font like Helvetica only for the headings like chapter title, section headings etc. \setuphead[chapter][style=\ss] I want the body text in Times Roman font. \usetypescript[postscript][ec] \setupbodyfont[postscript]

[NTG-context] \bTABLE[split=repeat] and doubling of horizontal lines

2006-04-08 Thread Johan Sandblom
The snippet below makes a table with horizontal gaps between cells that shows up as doubling of lines (and gaps in the vertical lines). It only happens if fontsize is 6pt or less and split=repeat. I realize the bodyfontsize is rather small but I have a document where I want it. Antykwa

Re: [NTG-context] How to use Helvetica font only for the headings?

2006-04-08 Thread R S Ananda Murthy
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Anand, R S Ananda Murthy wrote: Hello, I want to use sans serif font like Helvetica only for the headings like chapter title, section headings etc. \setuphead[chapter][style=\ss] I want the body text in Times Roman font.

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2006-04-08 Thread Mojca Miklavec
cyrillic is indeed a bit messy can you check the alpha zips that i just uploaded? (I wonder is we still need to preload regimes, maybe the ones mostly used ... which ones) I'll check iso-8858-1 and iso-8859-7 (I think that I remember some differences from the auto-generated files), but I

[NTG-context] spurious space before section heading but only in pdf mode

2006-04-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
This file \starttext \section{a} hi \section{b} hi again \stoptext is fine in dvi mode (texexec a.tex). But 'texexec --pdf a.tex' is a bit off, with the 1 a section heading indented about one character. Is it a pdfetex bug? $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

Re: [NTG-context] finding project files in parent dirs automatically

2006-04-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
From:Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a hardcoded limit on how far up context searches? Like you just discovered, it searches three levels (current, parent, grandparent). The max level is defined in this macro: \def\maxreadlevel{3} You can simply redefine the macro if

Re: [NTG-context] spurious space before section heading but only in pdf mode

2006-04-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Hmm, I just tried that example on the live context and it came out fine. It also uses pdfetex 1.21, but has a more recent (2006-04-07) context. -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.

[NTG-context] Variable Caption Locations

2006-04-08 Thread tbrowder
I need to have captions ABOVE tables but below all other float types. The default is below, and I know I can do something like { setupcaptions[location=top] \placetable... } for each table. But is there a more elegant way to do it globally? Could ConTeXt have a separate global setup for each

Re: [NTG-context] spurious space before section heading but only in pdf mode

2006-04-08 Thread nico
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 14:26:11 -0400, Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This file \starttext \section{a} hi \section{b} hi again \stoptext is fine in dvi mode (texexec a.tex). But 'texexec --pdf a.tex' is a bit off, with the 1 a section heading indented about one character. Is

Re: [NTG-context] sorting, again

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Johan Sandblom wrote: When the following test snippet \mainlanguage[sv] \starttext a\index{a} z\index{z}z\index{z+�} �\index{�}�\index{�+b} �\index{�} �\index{�} A\index{A} Z\index{Z} �\index{�} �\index{�} �\index{�} \placeindex \stoptext There's a typo in the texutil.rb

Re: [NTG-context] Variable Caption Locations

2006-04-08 Thread Hans Hagen
tbrowder wrote: I need to have captions ABOVE tables but below all other float types. The default is below, and I know I can do something like { setupcaptions[location=top] \placetable... } for each table. But is there a more elegant way to do it globally? Could ConTeXt have a

Re: [NTG-context] sorting, again

2006-04-08 Thread Johan Sandblom
2006/4/8, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johan Sandblom wrote: When the following test snippet \mainlanguage[sv] \starttext a\index{a} z\index{z}z\index{z+�} �\index{�}�\index{�+b} �\index{�} �\index{�} A\index{A} Z\index{Z} �\index{�} �\index{�} �\index{�}

Re: [NTG-context] spurious space before section heading but only in pdf mode

2006-04-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I've the same pdfetex version, and it looks like the problem I encountered (http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060406.001743.3f9ecc2b.en.html). Thanks, those two space removals in enco-pfr.tex fix it. I guess when I upgrade to pdftex 1.30 I'll unchange it. -Sanjoy `Never