[NTG-context] New minimal distributions released

2007-01-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, For those of you that use the minimal distributions from Pragma ADE, it may be interesting to know that Hans has uploaded new versions yesterday. The new files are linked from the web pages: http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm But because of their size, please consider using one

Re: [NTG-context] stopping texexec

2007-01-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: I have a fairly hefty tex run, with many intervening metapost figures being made. Running texmfstart texexec main-file from a unix shell. When an error occurs, e.g. in the metapost processing, one gives an X to quit that part of tex-processing. However the

[NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Dear list members, I noticed the following problem: text doesn't float around an image, when the paragraph starts with {\bf or \em etc} instead of unchanged font. (The text is placed on top of the image). A minimal example: \placefigure[inner]{A

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Could you make a complete minimal example? (http://www.latex- einfuehrung.de/mini.html) I don't see what your problem is. Thomas On Jan 25, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Jörg Hagmann wrote: Dear list members, I noticed the following problem: text doesn't float around an image, when the paragraph

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt textext fails

2007-01-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/24/07, Hans van der Meer wrote: I did the update to ConTeXt 2006-01-18 but almost regret that decision as an old problem seems to surface again. Typesetting a file that has not failed me with an august2006 version now crashes. ... \startuseMPgraphic{taalengels}{width,height,gap}

Re: [NTG-context] error message text (bug)

2007-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 1/24/07, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Perhaps a solution would be to issue an error or warning in the case of \switchtobodyfont[unkownsize] But I still don't understand: why does \switchtobodyfont[33pt] sometimes work and sometimes not? You already told me once

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Jörg Hagmann
\starttext \placefigure[inner]{A figure}{\framed[width=5cm,height=5cm]{Image}} {\em This will mess up the rest.} \input tufte \starttext Does this complete the subminimal example? You can download and inspect the output (72KB): www.ogbasel.ch/ jhtest.pdf If the first sentence is not

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
OK, I see. I had a similar problem a while ago. My workaround: type \dontleavehmode in front of the {\em part, and it will typeset correctly. But this seems to be a real bug, most commands will mess up the vertical spacing in a similar way. Hans, Taco??? Best Thomas On Jan 25, 2007, at

Re: [NTG-context] header styles

2007-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:55:00 +0100 Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've sort of looked around, I believe, but not found a simple way to change the size of headings. \setuphead[subject][style={\switchtobodyfont[14pt,sans]},textstyle=\bf] or

[NTG-context] Math symbols like \reals atomic?

2007-01-25 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Hi all, simple question ... hopefully simple answer ;-) Why can't I use \math{\langle v_i, v_j \rangle_\complexes} but have to enclose the command \complexes in curly brackets? Shouldn't these set symbols be atomic? Oliver, puzzled. ___

[NTG-context] \useURL query

2007-01-25 Thread Alan Bowen
I am having a problem introducing discretionary hyphens into URLs using the latest ConTeXT and \useURL. For example, [DigRes] [{http://www.arthist.net/Link\-ERes.html}] [] [{http://www.arthist.net/LinkERes.html}] does break the URL on the printed page as I need,

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, dunno, but it seems, that there is really something wrong. Here using: ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.18 12:57 MKII fmt: 2007.1.19 int: english/english \starttext \input tufte % \placefigure[here,left]{A figure}{\framed[width=3cm,height=4cm]{Image}} \placefigure[here,left]{A

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I don't know whether it's only my version of context, because in context [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get: (return code : 25 run time : 0 seconds total run time : 0 seconds warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead but no pdf (I get this with

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, I see. I had a similar problem a while ago. My workaround: type \dontleavehmode in front of the {\em part, and it will typeset correctly. But this seems to be a real bug, most commands will mess up the vertical spacing in a similar way. Hans, Taco??? bug

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: \starttext \placefigure[inner]{A figure}{\framed[width=5cm,height=5cm]{Image}}{\em This will mess up the rest.} \input tufte \starttext Does this complete the subminimal example? You can download and inspect the output (72KB): www.ogbasel.ch/jhtest.pdf If the first sentence is

[NTG-context] Serried itemized list with long items.

2007-01-25 Thread John R. Culleton
I used \setupitemize[serried] for a numbered list. The items were each wider than the text block so they wrapped around to a second line. As a result Context left a blank line between items. I got 1. x 2.

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
I guess this is due to the fact that contextgarden still uses pdftex 1.2.x and current ConTeXt requires(??) 1.4 - right? and live should be up again soon. Sorry for the delay. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net ___

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 25, 2007, at 8:07 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: bug ... dunno, more a side effect; resolving this will break other things; side floats are real nasty: force into otr mode and go back and ...you don't wanna know) Hans OK, I can see that. I had a similar problem with a tabulate

Re: [NTG-context] Can't create more than about 240 footnotes

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I may be off the mark, but I would guess that the two errors are, in fact, unrelated. I have seen the error about not enough room left with some fonts that have very large kerning tables (such as Garamdon Premier Pro). The solution was to locate your texmf.cnf and augment the value of

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi, I don't know whether it's only my version of context, because in context [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get: (return code : 25 run time : 0 seconds total run time : 0 seconds warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead but

[NTG-context] Alternating screen/noscreen rows on table

2007-01-25 Thread John R. Culleton
I am required by my customer to alternate between white and screen backgrounds for each row of a table for all tables, and there are lots of tables. I am considering adding code to each row of the table or else doing the thing in metafun/metapost. Advice, anyone? Just to mess things up

Re: [NTG-context] float next to \bf

2007-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: Hi, dunno, but it seems, that there is really something wrong. Here using: ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.18 12:57 MKII fmt: 2007.1.19 int: english/english \starttext \input tufte % \placefigure[here,left]{A figure}{\framed[width=3cm,height=4cm]{Image}}

Re: [NTG-context] \useURL query

2007-01-25 Thread Alan Bowen
On Jan 25, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: I am having a problem introducing discretionary hyphens into URLs using the latest ConTeXT and \useURL. For example, [DigRes] [{http://www.arthist.net/Link\-ERes.html}] [] [{http://www.arthist.net/LinkERes.html}]

[NTG-context] How to create a standard text block

2007-01-25 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello everybody, Could someone tell me what is the best way to create a standard text block that would consist of a line frames around the text and include some lettering? Such a text block is a State standard in Russia and Ukraine and I want to design it good and possibly include in the Wiki,

Re: [NTG-context] Serried itemized list with long items.

2007-01-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, John R. Culleton wrote: I used \setupitemize[serried] for a numbered list. The items were each wider than the text block so they wrapped around to a second line. As a result Context left a blank line between items. I got 1.

Re: [NTG-context] Alternating screen/noscreen rows on table

2007-01-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/25/07, John R. Culleton wrote: I am required by my customer to alternate between white and screen backgrounds for each row of a table for all tables, and there are lots of tables. Like this you mean? \def\line{\bTR\bTD something \eTD\bTD nice \eTD\eTR}

Re: [NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-25 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi, Hans I've been reading page-str and m-streams these days, but I'm so unfamiliar with ConTeXt's output routine. So one thing leads to another, I have to read more files to look for the definitions of some low-level macros used in these files. And I get confused. Maybe this kind of extension

Re: [NTG-context] How to create a standard text block

2007-01-25 Thread luigi scarso
On 1/26/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, Could someone tell me what is the best way to create a standard text block that would consist of a line frames around the text and include some lettering? Such a text block is a State standard in Russia and