Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: It works perfect except in a single case: \title{\molecule{SF_6}} I had seen that, but not yet bothered to fix it. Still, it is fairly easy to change the macro, try the version below. Sorry, I thought you were talking about the spacing between F and 6. Didn't work in

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with columnsets and \startbackground \stopbackground

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Olaf Mersmann wrote: Hi list, The second \subject{} causes a page break instead of wrapping into the second column. Is this a bug, or am I missing something when using \start- / \stopbackground? It is probably a bug, but it is not likely that it will get fixed soon. \startbackground is an

Re: [NTG-context] Extend the fraction bar

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: All, How can I extend the main fraction bar in the following expression, making it a tad longer? Just add a bit of whitespace to the right and left: \dfrac{\,\dfrac{9+3x-2x^2}{x^2-16}\,} {\,\dfrac{4x^3-9x}{2x^2+5x-12}\,} You may want to add a \vphantom

Re: [NTG-context] minor console file queries

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: I processed a file using texmfstart texexec. In the console file, I see the lines (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (/Users/acbowen/Library/texmf/tex/context/type-alanmodern.tex)

Re: [NTG-context] Extend the fraction bar

2006-07-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/2/06, David Arnold wrote: All, How can I extend the main fraction bar in the following expression, making it a tad longer? \placeformula \startformula \dfrac{\dfrac{9+3x-2x^2}{x^2-16}}{\dfrac{4x^3-9x}{2x^2+5x-12}}. \stopformula I don't know what \dfrac should be (I assumed

Re: [NTG-context] minor console file queries

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: The problem does not appear to be in my source file or in my environment file. grep for 'location' probably related to a background, so double-check those as well. Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: All, Came across this again. \placeformula[-] \startformula [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} \stopformula Got it to compile with: \placeformula[-] \startformula\relax [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} \stopformula indeed, that's the price to pay for optional arguments

Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-07-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/2/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: It works perfect except in a single case: \title{\molecule{SF_6}} I had seen that, but not yet bothered to fix it. Still, it is fairly easy to change the macro, try the version below. Sorry, I thought you were talking about the

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] man page for mptopdf

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi Werner can you provide a man page (which I favour) or any other documentation for mptopdf in TeXLive? hm, i occasionally use manpages (but more often print manuals) of progs; i must admit that i don't even know how to make man pages the problem is that once i start writing man pages

Re: [NTG-context] Difficulties using the r module

2006-07-02 Thread Johan Sandblom
2006/7/2, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Johan Sandblom wrote: I can't really think why it wouldn't work then. Perhaps it is to do with \write18 and the right of TeX to run external programs? Or maybe R on the mac does not take the same command-line options? In that case the output of the

Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Seems like understanding \expandafter would solve 90% of my problems. I tried to understand that part in TeX book, but it's so cryptic (too short) ... I understand the concept, but I'm not able to write the code for it yet :( The trick to \expandafter is that you

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: David Arnold wrote: \startformula\relax [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} \stopformula indeed, that's the price to pay for optional arguments Really? Isn't it rather the price for optional space before the [? Cheers, Peter --

[NTG-context] \bTABLE[distance= or columndistance= ??]

2006-07-02 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, this is a repost, because I've the feeling, that this question got perhaps unread: What is the difference between distance and columndistance? I thought the one was just a synonym for the other, but now I see, that you treat them differently in your patch. Cheers, Peter --

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Münster wrote: On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: David Arnold wrote: \startformula\relax [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} \stopformula indeed, that's the price to pay for optional arguments Really? Isn't it rather the price for optional space before the [? Same thing, because there

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: David Arnold wrote: \startformula\relax [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} \stopformula indeed, that's the price to pay for optional arguments Really? Isn't it rather the price for optional space before the [? for tex:

Re: [NTG-context] Difficulties using the r module

2006-07-02 Thread Olaf Mersmann
Hi Hans, * Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060702 13:25]: one problem could be that R has this piping; i wonder why a program that takes a 50 meg installation does not support something --output or i must have missed something R does support redirecting output to a file. Use R CMD BATCH

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] man page for mptopdf

2006-07-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Here's the one for mptopdf. Very nice! It contains a lot of typographical buglets -- and a main one, namely that `mptopdf' isn't mentioned at all. I'll fix these and send it to this list so that it can be included in TeXLive, ConTeXt, and Debian. Werner

Re: [NTG-context] \bTABLE[distance= or columndistance= ??]

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: Hello, this is a repost, because I've the feeling, that this question got perhaps unread: What is the difference between distance and columndistance? I thought the one was just a synonym for the other, but now I see, that you treat them differently in your patch. i forgot -)

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: for tex: \bla[ and \bla [ are the same, i.e. the \cs ends at a non-letter and the space is gobbled Ah, I see... Then, the #1 in \def\MyZigzag#1[#2]{% % the #1 makes sure we allow a space before the bracket on page

Re: [NTG-context] Difficulties using the r module

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Olaf Mersmann wrote: Hi Hans, * Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060702 13:25]: one problem could be that R has this piping; i wonder why a program that takes a 50 meg installation does not support something --output or i must have missed something R does support redirecting

Re: [NTG-context] Difficulties using the r module

2006-07-02 Thread Johan Sandblom
\def\runR {\executesystemcommand{texmfstart --ifchanged=\Rfile\space --direct R CMD BATCH -q --save --restore \Rfile\space \Rfile.out}} or some such, I do not really understand the quoting. The invocation should change, options should not and redirectors should go away. Not sure if this is better

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] man page for mptopdf

2006-07-02 Thread Frank Küster
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i happily leave that to users; technically it should be possible to process a manual source (to say mptopdf) so that it produces a man page but not all manuals have the same structure (which means that i'd have to write additional styles); maybe

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] man page for mptopdf

2006-07-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Very nice! It contains a lot of typographical buglets -- and a main one, namely that `mptopdf' isn't mentioned at all. Uh, oh, this man page doesn't handle mptopdf at all... Do you have something better? I'll fix these and send it to this list so that it can be included in TeXLive,

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread David Arnold
Can someone give me an example where this happens in either latex or tex? On Jul 2, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: � wrote: On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: David Arnold wrote: \startformula\relax [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} \stopformula indeed, that's the price to pay

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
are the same, i.e. the \cs ends at a non-letter and the space is gobbled Can someone give me an example where this happens in either latex or tex? Not sure if this example is what you're looking for, but a typical case in TeX or LaTeX is: \TeX has a programming language that only a

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread David Arnold
Sanjoy, Of course. Thanks. But how about an example in latex or tex where a function eats a brace and crashes, as what happens with this context code: \placeformula[-] \startformula [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} \stopformula I know I've seen this in Latex before, but I can't remember

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, David Arnold wrote: Sanjoy, Of course. Thanks. But how about an example in latex or tex where a function eats a brace and crashes, as what happens with this context code: \placeformula[-] \startformula [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} \stopformula I know I've seen