Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-29 Thread cormullion
OK, I think vim works OK here, so this is what I tried: ... \setupcolors[state=start] \usemodule[vimsyntax] \definetypeVIMfile [typeRUBY] [syntax=ruby] \typeRUBY[typeRUBY]{fibo.rb} \defineVIMtyping[RUBY][syntax=ruby] \startRUBY # This is a ruby program puts Hello World \stopRUBY ... Error

Re: [NTG-context] Elevated text blocks

2006-12-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:34:03 +0100 Gerhard Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gerhard, On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:58:02PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: you can keep text togehther by putting them into a vbox and it will move to the next page if it will not fit on the current page.

Re: [NTG-context] Font for enumeration

2006-12-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: consider the following setup: \startitemize[m] \item this \item that \item the other \stopitemize this should give enumeration using oldstyle numbers. now, I have created my own typescript file that sets everything to Sabon, except the oldstyle

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I think vim works OK here, so this is what I tried: ... \setupcolors[state=start] \usemodule[vimsyntax] \definetypeVIMfile [typeRUBY] [syntax=ruby] \typeRUBY[typeRUBY]{fibo.rb} \defineVIMtyping[RUBY][syntax=ruby] \startRUBY # This is a ruby

Re: [NTG-context] Font for enumeration

2006-12-29 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
On 29. des. 2006, at 10:39, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Untested, but should work: \def\varosfnumbers#1{{\Var[osf] #1}} \defineconversion[varosf][\varosfnumbers] \startitemize[varosf] \item this \item that \item the other \stopitemize alas, no: --

Re: [NTG-context] Font for enumeration

2006-12-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: On 29. des. 2006, at 10:39, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Untested, but should work: \def\varosfnumbers#1{{\Var[osf] #1}} \defineconversion[varosf][\varosfnumbers] \startitemize[varosf] \item this \item that \item the other \stopitemize

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 12/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I think vim works OK here, so this is what I tried: ... \setupcolors[state=start] \usemodule[vimsyntax] \definetypeVIMfile [typeRUBY] [syntax=ruby] \typeRUBY[typeRUBY]{fibo.rb}

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-12-29, at 13:09.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Which version of TeX/ConTeXt are you using? (Perhaps Hans has changed something in the meantime, to make that work again.) Are you using Gerben's i-Installer? In that case and if you have a

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 28, at 7:43 PM, Mojca Miklavec indited: Well, the ConTeXt manual is one of the most stable components of ConTeXt indeed ;) :-) But consider it from the bright side: yes, it's still fully usable (after two years of using ConTeXt it's still hard to do anything without using it),

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 28, at 5:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan indited: On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). That is the most up to date manual and should get you started for most of the basic features. The features that are not in the

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: font sizes (Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky)

2006-12-29 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello Elliot, I'm a newbie too but I change font sizes as follows. {\tfa Big text} {\tfa\bf Big and bold} ... Font size selectors from the smallest to the biggest are \tfxx \tfx \tfa \tfb \tfc \tfd You told about a manual, but there are a lot of manuals around. -- With best regards

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread plink
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Well, the ConTeXt manual is one of the most stable components of ConTeXt indeed ;) ;-) should be wikified ... (IIRC, Hans is also a core team member of LuaTeX, so perhaps I should just suck it up with LaTeX until LuaTeX is viable?) No reason for, as Aditya already

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-29 Thread cormullion
On 2006-12-29, at 15:59.0, Aditya Mahajan wrote: This is the perl version of texexec I do everything from TeXShop (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop) and BBEdit so I have no idea where anything TeX-y is... I spent half an hour finding out how to 'enable write 18'... ;-) Poking around

Re: [NTG-context] Font for enumeration

2006-12-29 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Rolf, Here I tested two situations and they work, though with a small adaptation: I bought once the Lino-Type Palatino, which includes also oldstyle figures in one of the fonts. This font-collection works correctly also with Taco's definition \def\varosfnumbers#1{{\Var[osf] #1}} On the

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-12-29, at 13:09.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Which version of TeX/ConTeXt are you using? (Perhaps Hans has changed something in the meantime, to make that work again.) Are you using Gerben's i-Installer? In that case and if you have a chance, can

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread andrea valle
Well, maybe I'm missing something. But if you need to use ConTeXt on a mac you can use Gerben's distro, which also set up a crontab for you, and when you update it simply does all the boring stuff for you (I hate TeX tree structure ...) http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html Best -a-

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-29 Thread cormullion
On 2006-12-29, at 13:09.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Which version of TeX/ConTeXt are you using? (Perhaps Hans has changed something in the meantime, to make that work again.) Are you using Gerben's i-Installer? In that case and if you have a chance, can you please test the new TeXLive-based

[NTG-context] Why Is It So

2006-12-29 Thread geoff . moyle
Gday I know there must be a fundamental answer, but I cannot fathom why everything is shifted left on the page. TIA Geoff Moyle Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse? onpaget.tex Description: TeX document onpaget.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: [NTG-context] Font for enumeration

2006-12-29 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
On 29. des. 2006, at 3:44, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: On 29. des. 2006, at 10:39, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Untested, but should work: \def\varosfnumbers#1{{\Var[osf] #1}} \defineconversion[varosf][\varosfnumbers] \startitemize[varosf] \item this

Re: [NTG-context] Why Is It So

2006-12-29 Thread luigi scarso
On 12/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gday I know there must be a fundamental answer, but I cannot fathom why everything is shifted left on the page. hmm, I don't see anything wrong;this is the standard setup. You can play with 5 \setuppapersize[A4][A3]

Re: [NTG-context] PSTricks

2006-12-29 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Isn't there --nobackends (or something similar) which will then not run any dvips (or dvipdfm)? It's --nobackend Here's the revised (ruby) texexec man page (as PDF) -- see p.3. It's in the Debian packages and will go into the 2006 TeXLive. -Sanjoy `Not all those who wander are lost.'

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/29/06, Douglas Philips wrote: On 2006 Dec 28, at 5:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan indited: On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). That is the most up to date manual and should get you started for most of the basic

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: font sizes

2006-12-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/28/06, Elliot Clifton wrote: Hello, I've read the fonts manual, but I don't understand how to change sizes. How can I change the sizes referred to by the sizes selectors \tfx etc... I'm not sure if this is the proper way, but take a look into font-map.tex (I just figured out that that

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
So, I've been contemplating whether I should move up the abstraction ladder to ConTeXt or down to plain TeX and really learn to build the world from boxes and glue. :-) I wrote my dissertation using plain TeX plus eplain, and spent several days learning about insertions so that I could float