Re: [NTG-context] Zig-Zag lines in FLOWcharts

2006-07-25 Thread batela
Hi to all, Did anyone know a way to trace some zig-zag lines/arrows in FLOWcharts? My intention is to make some genograms. Thanks a lot Jam ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Hitting 'e' for error in Scite?

2006-07-25 Thread dwarnold45
Hans et all, How do I set up scite that comes with context so that when I hit 'e' in the console window, I am taken to the line of the error in Scite? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] updating context on Ubuntu 6.06

2006-07-25 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Here's what I had to do to update to the latest Context (2006.07.14) on Ubuntu 6.06 (i.e. 2006.06) distribution of Linux. It comes with tetex 3.0. The commands below assume a working Context already installed in your ~/texmf, and the commands use bash syntax, which is almost like 'sh' but has

Re: [NTG-context] definesynonyms

2006-07-25 Thread Bernd Militzer
Thanks a Taco! with PID[268]% ^ [Fam=Rudolph, Nam=Rudluffen, Vor=Adam] all is ok. Bernd ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] XY and papersize

2006-07-25 Thread Matt Claus
To summarize, Taco kindly solved this problem after exchanging some messages with me off list - thank you Taco. The key is, when using a papersize other than the A4 default with XY, it is necessary to first explicitly set the appropriate papersize. This enables the XY calculations to expand

Re: [NTG-context] definesynonyms

2006-07-25 Thread Bernd Militzer
Am 24.07.2006 um 11:11 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: But it is probably easier to write a small database interface layer. Somewhat like this (note that I had to change \doGeTPID as well). \def\PID[#1][#2]{\getparameters[PID#1][#2]} \def\doGetPID#1#2{\getvalue{PID#2#1}}

Re: [NTG-context] Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt

2006-07-25 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
David Wooten wrote: Thus I'm curious as to what others use... is R an efficient method to produce elegant charts? Yes! R (especially using the new grid and lattice framework) produces excellent charts and graphs, with very sensible default options (much of it based on Cleveland’s research).

[NTG-context] spell checking in scite

2006-07-25 Thread dwarnold45
Hans et al, How do I set up spell checking in the Scite that comes with my context distribution? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] modes with Scite

2006-07-25 Thread dwarnold45
Hans, I thought Shift+F8, paramters, would have something to do with adding options at the command line, but it did not work with --mode=short. Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I am using the Scite editor provided by one of the Context

Re: [NTG-context] modes with Scite

2006-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans, I thought Shift+F8, paramters, would have something to do with adding options at the command line, but it did not work with --mode=short. in your user scite props you need to say: name.context.texexec=texmfstart texexec $(name.texexec.flag.pdfopen) $(1)

[NTG-context] Index design

2006-07-25 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, in a index is it possible not to have bold letters as separators (a, w) in a dedicated line, but instead only the first letter of the first entry with a or w bold? See this minimal example: \starttext \chapter{First Chapter} Some text...\index{word} \section {First Section} Some

[NTG-context] Indentation bug ?

2006-07-25 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi all, Considering the following example: %%% \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setupformulas[indentnext=yes] \setupheads[indentnext=yes] \setupfloats[indentnext=yes] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{mympgraph} numeric u; u:=2cm; draw (-u,-u)--(u,u); draw

Re: [NTG-context] Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt

2006-07-25 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
http://www.nieuwarchief.nl/serie5/index.php Thanks, lots of elegant layouts there, and enjoyable mathematics! -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.

[NTG-context] underbar and hyphenation

2006-07-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, is there any way to make hyphenation work when using \underbar? Thanks, Mojca ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] scaling reusableMPgraphic some ConTeXt programming

2006-07-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/24/06, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, the answers to these three questions are most probably one-liners, but I don't know which ones ;) 1. How can I scale (an already defined) reusableMPgraphic? Simplified example of what I currently (want to) have: % how

[NTG-context] Index design

2006-07-25 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
[apologies for re-posting but the ntg-server seemed to be down?] Hi, in a index is it possible not to have bold letters as separators (a, w) in a dedicated line, but instead only the first letter of the first entry with a or w bold? See this minimal example: \starttext \chapter{First

Re: [NTG-context] U3D (embedded 3D objects)

2006-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hans Hagen a écrit : my guess is that trying to reverse engineer latex code will cost me more time that doing it directly the context way; the only thing that i need is the relevant annotation specs (someplace in the pdf manual) (in context such code ends up in the

[NTG-context] How to place figures captions to some non-standard places?

2006-07-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, Is it possible to do the following with ConTeXt? 1. Figure is \textwidth wide, the caption is placed in the margin right or left to the figure (depending on left/right page) 2. Figure is less than \textwidth wide, it's placed on the inner side of text, caption is on the outer side

Re: [NTG-context] underbar and hyphenation

2006-07-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, is there any way to make hyphenation work when using \underbar? Mojca, sorry I do not know the answer to that. But I was testing a few things with \underbar and now have questions of my own. Something seem to be broken with \underbar and ||.

Re: [NTG-context] underbar and hyphenation

2006-07-25 Thread Peter Rolf
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, is there any way to make hyphenation work when using \underbar? Mojca, sorry I do not know the answer to that. But I was testing a few things with \underbar and now have questions of my own. Something seem to be

Re: [NTG-context] U3D (embedded 3D objects)

2006-07-25 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hans Hagen a écrit : indeed pdfannot is what we need; however, the first thing is to figure out what kind of control we want (probably best from within _javascript_); in your sampe i see pretty raw pdf code in the key/val pairs, which is something alien to context - what features make

[NTG-context] mails

2006-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, Sorry if i'm a bit slow with answering mails ... it's pretty warm here (and noisy since we need to open the server room door to get rid of the heat) Hans -- - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA

Re: [NTG-context] Indentation bug ?

2006-07-25 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Renaud AUBIN wrote: Paragraphs next to \placefigure calls are not indented when [bottom] is used. They are indented correctly when one use [top] or [here]. Perhaps related to http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector/65 ? Cheers, Peter --

Re: [NTG-context] Indentation bug ?

2006-07-25 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Peter Münster a écrit : On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Renaud AUBIN wrote: Perhaps related to http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector/65 ? Cheers, Peter Maybe, but dunno... These problems are probably due to the same bug... Renaud ___ ntg-context

[NTG-context] Context 2006.07.24 released

2006-07-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip

Re: [NTG-context] scaling reusableMPgraphic some ConTeXt programming

2006-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: And yet another shortstupid question: when does \c!something=\v!value work? I tried to change \setupGNUPLOT[terminal=context] into [\c!terminal=\v!context] (in \unprotect-ed area), but I get a command-undefined error. only predefined key/values (in mult-con) are

Re: [NTG-context] mails

2006-07-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, Sorry if i'm a bit slow with answering mails ... it's pretty warm here (and noisy since we need to open the server room door to get rid of the heat) Over here, my mail server has been offline for most of the day, so I also have a backlog.

Re: [NTG-context] Zig-Zag lines in FLOWcharts

2006-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
batela wrote: Hi to all, Did anyone know a way to trace some zig-zag lines/arrows in FLOWcharts? My intention is to make some genograms. mot implemented; i assume that it is doable to make something like dashed doing that (otherwise one needs to precalculate the line, split it in pieces

[NTG-context] setupnarrower with em or quad

2006-07-25 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I need a \setupnarrower with quad or em distance. But both... \setupnarrower[left=\quad and \setupnarrower[left=\em ... don't work. Someone knows the right syntax? Thank you, Steffen ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] scaling reusableMPgraphic some ConTeXt programming

2006-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 7/24/06, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, the answers to these three questions are most probably one-liners, but I don't know which ones ;) 1. How can I scale (an already defined) reusableMPgraphic? Simplified example of what I currently

Re: [NTG-context] setupnarrower with em or quad

2006-07-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I need a \setupnarrower with quad or em distance. But both... \setupnarrower[left=\quad and \setupnarrower[left=\em ... don't work. Someone knows the right syntax? em is a unit of measurement, so try \setupnarrower[left=1em]

Re: [NTG-context] underbar and hyphenation

2006-07-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Peter Rolf wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, is there any way to make hyphenation work when using \underbar? Mojca, sorry I do not know the answer to that. But I was testing a few things with \underbar and now have

Re: [NTG-context] U3D (embedded 3D objects)

2006-07-25 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hans Hagen a écrit : indeed pdfannot is what we need; however, the first thing is to figure out what kind of control we want (probably best from within _javascript_); in your sampe i see pretty raw pdf code in the key/val pairs, which is something alien to context - what features make

Re: [NTG-context] underbar and hyphenation

2006-07-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, is there any way to make hyphenation work when using \underbar? Perhaps you can try some of the techniques in Chapter 10 of Metafun manual. There is no mention of hypenation, but looking at Fig 10.3 it seems that hypenation is taken care of.

Re: [NTG-context] U3D (embedded 3D objects)

2006-07-25 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Renaud AUBIN a écrit : How to do that in the ConTeXt way ? ;) I have read spec-tpd.tex but didn't know much... Take care of the heart attack (I've done it the rookie way, reversed from movie15) \starttext \xdef\uthreedfilename{pa10} \pdfobj {/Subtype/P/FOV 30/PS/Min}%  

Re: [NTG-context] mails

2006-07-25 Thread David Arnold
How hot? California is roasting. Power grid threatened. Just got back from L.A. and Sacramento at 115 degrees Fahrenheit. On Jul 25, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, Sorry if i'm a bit slow with answering mails ... it's pretty warm here (and noisy since we need to open the server