[NTG-context] scite line endings

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, I know where the line endings choice is on the menu in scite. Seems to default to cr+lf in windows regardless of the file it is reading, or am i mistaken? Is there way to have it interpret the line endings and keep whatever form is used when the file is opened?

Re: [NTG-context] index (again)

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I need to know if the following is possible in ConTeXt. If it's not, please don't hesitate to tell me, so I can think of a work-around. It it is possible, it would be great to tell me how! Is this is inside a register or keyed directly into your document?

[NTG-context] Sample test files (Re: fullpage graphic)

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Wolfgang (and everyone else that needs help), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo! I can not find a solution for the following problem: Can you try to create a minimal file to play with? Inventing test documents from scratch takes a lot of time, time that is often not available (like today).

Re: [NTG-context] index (again)

2006-08-02 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 02.08.2006 um 10:01 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I need to know if the following is possible in ConTeXt. If it's not, please don't hesitate to tell me, so I can think of a work-around. It it is possible, it would be great to tell me how! Is this is inside a

Re: [NTG-context] scite line endings

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: All, I know where the line endings choice is on the menu in scite. Seems to default to cr+lf in windows regardless of the file it is reading, or am i mistaken? Is there way to have it interpret the line endings and keep whatever form is used when the file is

Re: [NTG-context] column overflow at times --- any thoughts?

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: Hans et al, Any thoughts on this? We are using: \setupcolumns [tolerance=stretch, balance=yes, blank=flexible, rule=off, distance=2.5em] However, once in a while we get column overflow. See page 55 on:

[NTG-context] Floats Method

2006-08-02 Thread wwl
Hallo! In \setupfloats[] what exactly is the difference between textmethod and sidemethod? Compared with the gridsize, why does a 1 point window (method=2) help when typesetting on grids? Isn't 1% (method=1) much more in the most cases than 1 point? Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] problems with \lcommaaccent

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I've been trying to use \lcommaaccent, but with no success until I commented out the following line in enco-cas: % \defineULcharacter Lcommaaccent lcommaaccent Any ideas how to solve that problem (otherwise the temporary workaround will disappear as soon as I

Re: [NTG-context] A bug in character alignment?

2006-08-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nicolas Grilly wrote: Sorry, I can't see it. The column are right-aligned, which is normal, since there is no alignment-character. No, it is not normal. ConTeXt Wiki says if there's no alignmentcharacter in the cell, the content will be aligned in the following way

[NTG-context] Indentation bug ? Sample

2006-08-02 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi all, Here is a test document with french indentation (placefigure and placetable are tested with bottom, here, top and auto options): \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setupformulas[indentnext=yes] \setupheads[indentnext=yes] \setupfloats[indentnext=yes] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummygraph}

[NTG-context] couple of metafun questions

2006-08-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I'm experimenting with some metafun code and positional graphics to produce a nice illustration for an article. There's some basic questions I haven't been able to solve (and I remember that I couldn't solve them before but found workarounds, but this time it looks like I'm

Re: [NTG-context] scite line endings

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: All, I know where the line endings choice is on the menu in scite. Seems to default to cr+lf in windows regardless of the file it is reading, or am i mistaken? Is there way to have it interpret the line endings and keep whatever form is used when the file is

Re: [NTG-context] A bug in character alignment?

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Münster wrote: On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nicolas Grilly wrote: Sorry, I can't see it. The column are right-aligned, which is normal, since there is no alignment-character. No, it is not normal. ConTeXt Wiki says if there's no alignmentcharacter in the cell, the content will be aligned in the

[NTG-context] Context alternative for Latex's \overset \underset

2006-08-02 Thread WN
Hi, In doing my Latex to Context conversion, I stumbled on two Latex math commands : \overset and \underset as in \mathcal{T} = \overset{\infty}{ \underset{r,s = 0}{\cup} } \: \mathcal{T}^{r}_s The page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math_with_amsl mentions the commands stackrel and underset

Re: [NTG-context] Context alternative for Latex's \overset \underset

2006-08-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, WN wrote: Hi, In doing my Latex to Context conversion, I stumbled on two Latex math commands : \overset and \underset as in \mathcal{T} = \overset{\infty}{ \underset{r,s = 0}{\cup} } \: \mathcal{T}^{r}_s Why not simply use \mathcal{T} = \bigcup_{r,s=0}^{\infty}

Re: [NTG-context] Context alternative for Latex's \overset \underset

2006-08-02 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
[where is the amsl module] $ kpsewhere t-amsl /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/context/maths/t-amsl.tex and that's the only one ('locate amsl.tex' confirms it). The /usr/share context tree is the ancient version that comes with tetex 3.0 (Context 2005.01.31 I think). My ~/texmf tree has the newer

[NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] units: \spacedimensionstrue fails when using unit powers

2006-08-02 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I'm considering switching from my units macros to the units module. In doing that I'm trying \spaceddimensionstrue (found in the m-units.tex source), which is the most common convention in physics tables and books, rather than using \Times to separate quantities with a dot. But it seems not to

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: All, Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? No, it doesn't work. Command.com is not smart enough to process setuptex.bat Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: All, Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? dunno, but win98 is a bit outdated anyway .. Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
Taco, Is this also true about: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? No, it doesn't work. Command.com is not smart enough to process

Re: [NTG-context] Indentation bug ? Sample

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Bowen
On Aug 2, 2006, at 5:07 AM, Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi all, Here is a test document with french indentation (placefigure and placetable are tested with bottom, here, top and auto options): \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setupformulas[indentnext=yes] \setupheads[indentnext=yes]

[NTG-context] Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today. If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise. Thanks.

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: Taco, Is this also true about: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip Same batch file, so yes. It would be possible to convert the batch file into a perl or ruby scripts plus a one-line batch that starts the interpreter + script, but not being on

Re: [NTG-context] Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

2006-08-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote: All, Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today. If anyone knows how on the Mac,

Re: [NTG-context] Indentation bug ? Sample

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: Renaud�no bug. The problem (I am guessing) lies in the peculiarities of my source file, specifically, in the fact that I was trying to place a figure at the bottom of a page in a text that has lengthy footnotes before and after the figure, with \setupfootnotes

Re: [NTG-context] fullpage graphic

2006-08-02 Thread wwl
Hallo! Can you try to create a minimal file to play with? Inventing test documents from scratch takes a lot of time, time that is often not available (like today). Having a small but full document will greatly improve your chances of getting a quick response. Cheers, Taco Sorry

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: Taco, Is this also true about: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip Same batch file, so yes. It would be possible to convert the batch file into a perl or ruby scripts plus a one-line batch that starts the

Re: [NTG-context] Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Bowen
On Aug 2, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote: All, Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/2/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: Taco, Is this also true about: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip Same batch file, so yes. It would be possible to convert the batch file into a perl or ruby scripts plus a one-line batch that starts the

Re: [NTG-context] units: \spacedimensionstrue fails when using unit powers

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: I'm considering switching from my units macros to the units module. In doing that I'm trying \spaceddimensionstrue (found in the m-units.tex source), which is the most common convention in physics tables and books, rather than using \Times to separate quantities with a

Re: [NTG-context] couple of metafun questions

2006-08-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/2/06, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: 3. Is it possible to get a line/arrow dashed in two different colors, like red and blue? Just out of curiosity I tried the following: picture dp; draw dashpattern(on 2 off 6) scaled 5pt withcolor blue; draw dashpattern(off 4 on 2 off 2) scaled 5pt withcolor

Re: [NTG-context] Figures disappear with subtextblocks

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
Hans, What does generate formats under tools mean? I have to do something more than: texmfstart texexec --make all ? I'm afraid I don't know what tools are yet. On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: David Arnold wrote: Hans, Gerben, Thanks. However, this raises another issue.

Re: [NTG-context] Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote: All, Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today. If

[NTG-context] texmfstart texexec --make all on the Mac

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, Looks like: texmfstart texexec --make all Put the format files in: ~/Library/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/ I'll have to remember to delete these when I update using Gerben's Context updater. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] fullpage graphic

2006-08-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo! Can you try to create a minimal file to play with? Inventing test documents from scratch takes a lot of time, time that is often not available (like today). Having a small but full document will greatly improve your chances of getting a