Re: [NTG-context] MyWay doesn't agree

2006-05-05 Thread David Arnold
Aditya, I updated my Context and all is well. Thank goodness for the Mac and Gerben. So easy. On May 4, 2006, at 5:37 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi David, This code: \starttext \startformula \startalign[m=2,distance=5em] \NC a_1 x + b_1 y \NC = c_1 \NC d_1 u + e_1 v \NC = f_1 \NR \NC

[NTG-context] MyWay doesn't agree

2006-05-05 Thread David Arnold
Aditya, This code: \starttext \startformula \startalign[m=2,distance=5em] \NC a_1 x + b_1 y \NC = c_1 \NC d_1 u + e_1 v \NC = f_1 \NR \NC a_2 x + b_2 y \NC = c_2 \NC d_2 u + e_2 v \NC = f_2 \NR \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext Doesn't produce the result advertised in your MyWay. David

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-05 Thread luigi scarso
On 5/5/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? OK ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] mp file not compiling

2006-05-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: To check this, I created a texexec.bat file in my current directory so that it calls texmfstart texexec.pl and everything works fine now. Thus, for the time being, I have changed my texexec.bat to call texexec.pl. To use newtexexec, makempx should be changed to call

Re: [NTG-context] Float caption feature request

2006-05-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, In LaTeX (don't remember whether this is generic or specific to one of the packages I used to use), the 'caption' command for floats came along this way: \caption[optional short version]{Caption} If one uses the 'optional short version' bit, the Table of

Re: [NTG-context] installation problem

2006-05-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Karsten Heymann wrote: Does someone have an idea what causes the problem? I believe this a bug that was present for a few days in one of the earlier releases in april (and fixed). Cheers, taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] installation problem

2006-05-05 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi Taco, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Karsten Heymann wrote: Does someone have an idea what causes the problem? I believe this a bug that was present for a few days in one of the earlier releases in april (and fixed). okay, I'll ask them to download again. Thanks, Karsten -- | ~ Karsten

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize head symbol

2006-05-05 Thread nico
On Fri, 5 May 2006 01:37:45 -0400 (EDT), Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's it. I wondered if it was possible a to specify a different symbol for a head, something like this: \startitemize[n][headstyle=bold] \head Default head symbol (here a number)\par Body \head Default

[NTG-context] Description nesting

2006-05-05 Thread nico
Hello, Is there a way to nest some descriptions, where the nested descriptions respect the enclosing indentation? Funnily the wiki speaks about the subject (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Description) but doesn't give any solution (btw, the given solution to have several paragraphs in a

Re: [NTG-context] installation problem

2006-05-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Karsten Heymann wrote: Hello, my customer has tried to install the current context minimal installation (following my instructions :-/) and is running into the following problem (I currently don't have more information but can ask for): a more recent version will work better Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Float caption feature request

2006-05-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, In LaTeX (don't remember whether this is generic or specific to one of the packages I used to use), the 'caption' command for floats came along this way: \caption[optional short version]{Caption} we use [] for references, and once users want one

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-05 Thread Steve Grathwohl
On 5/4/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there anystrong objections to this?Also, i'd like the stubs to run texmfstart as launcher. For that purpose i'll add a /scripts/context/stubs/[mswin|unix] path with the default stubs

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-05 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Nice, I don't have to use texmfstart newtexexec.rb my_doc anymore (and don't have to think to make a stub !!! ;) ) What about the perl script for the future ? Hans Hagen a écrit : Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Also, i'd

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-05 Thread Steve Peter
On May 4, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? I think Ruby is now installed on enough machines out there. At this point, I have no objection to the switchover. Steve

[NTG-context] Advance in columnsets/columns?

2006-05-05 Thread Michal Kvasnicka
Good evening. I've been very busy in the last year or so, so I haven't been able to follow up change in the ConTeXt. So I dare to ask: Was there some advance in columnsets and columns in the last year? (I haven't found any mail in the mail archive on this topic.) I typeset our church bulletin

[NTG-context] Minion/Myriad

2006-05-05 Thread Michal Kvasnicka
Good evening. I've found there are some nice Minion/Myriad fonts included in the Acrobat Reader 7.x for Linux, and that they include glyphs needed for the typesetting Czech. But I don't know how to handle .otf fonts. I know there are some huge manuals on this topic, but I'm really short of

Re: [NTG-context] MyWay doesn't agree

2006-05-05 Thread David Arnold
Aditya, I updated my Context and all is now well. Thanks. On May 4, 2006, at 5:31 PM, David Arnold wrote: Aditya, This code: \starttext \startformula \startalign[m=2,distance=5em] \NC a_1 x + b_1 y \NC = c_1 \NC d_1 u + e_1 v \NC = f_1 \NR \NC a_2 x + b_2 y \NC = c_2 \NC d_2 u + e_2

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Nice, I don't have to use texmfstart newtexexec.rb my_doc anymore (and don't have to think to make a stub !!! ;) ) What about the perl script for the future ? Hans it will stay around for a while Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Float caption feature request

2006-05-05 Thread Johannes Graumann
The 'selector' feature sounds truly wonderfull! The code below doesn't compile yet for me though ... 1) '\protect' needs to be called after '{\executeifdefined{\??sx#1\c!n 1}}', no? 2) Even after changing that I run into the following error when compiling the example below: ! Missing {

[NTG-context] typing midaligned

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, such things are really easy and straightforward with LaTeX (parbox and minipage), but with ConTeXt I have still a lot of difficulties. This is what I do to align some typing in the middle: \starttext \input tufte \setuptyping[before=\vskip-\lineheight,after=\vskip-0.13\lineheight]

[NTG-context] Footnotes lost in description terms

2006-05-05 Thread nico
Hello, When some footnotes are put in description terms, their number appears in the terms but their text don't appear at the bottom of the page. Is it a known limitation? Here is an example: \definedescription[descr][ headstyle=bold,style=normal,align=left,location=hanging,

[NTG-context] Error message in texexec --make --all

2006-05-05 Thread Stefan Lagotzki
Hi, I'd like to use the stand-alone-version of ConTeXt with Win2k, but it doesn't work: F:\isoimage\usr\local\context\demotexexec --make --all f:/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/newtexexec.rb:8:in `require': No such file to load -- base/switch (LoadError) from

Re: [NTG-context] Error message in texexec --make --all

2006-05-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Stefan Lagotzki wrote: What's wrong with my installation or batch-file? Like I told Karsten Heymann earlier today: I believe this a bug that was present for a few days in one of the earlier releases in april (and fixed). Cheers, taco ___

Re: [NTG-context] Float caption feature request

2006-05-05 Thread Johannes Graumann
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Perhaps \nomarking works in captions as well (have not checked). Sadly no. Joh ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Error message in texexec --make --all

2006-05-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Stefan Lagotzki wrote: Hi, I'd like to use the stand-alone-version of ConTeXt with Win2k, but it doesn't work: F:\isoimage\usr\local\context\demotexexec --make --all f:/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/newtexexec.rb:8:in `require': No

Re: [NTG-context] Description nesting

2006-05-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 5 May 2006, nico wrote: Hello, Is there a way to nest some descriptions, where the nested descriptions respect the enclosing indentation? Funnily the wiki speaks about the subject (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Description) but doesn't give any solution (btw, the given solution to

Re: [NTG-context] Float caption feature request

2006-05-05 Thread Johannes Graumann
Just disregard this post and have mercy on the deadline panicked ... Joh Johannes Graumann wrote: The 'selector' feature sounds truly wonderfull! The code below doesn't compile yet for me though ... 1) '\protect' needs to be called after '{\executeifdefined{\??sx#1\c!n 1}}', no? 2) Even

Re: [NTG-context] Error message in texexec --make --all

2006-05-05 Thread Stefan Lagotzki
Aditya Mahajan said: Which ruby do you have (one-click installer or from cygwin)? Try setting RUBYLIB path variable to F:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local\scripts\context\ruby set RUBYLIB=/cygdrive/f/[my-texmf-tree]/scripts/context/ruby Thanks ;-) Stefan .

[NTG-context] More on split TABLES: Numbering Scheme and other things

2006-05-05 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm using the split-TABLE patch below (send - how can it be different - by Hans) along with the also appended table definition (to read out XML code). I have two problems here: 1) as posted earlier, the page just before a split TABLE overflows on the bottom (see