Re: [NTG-context] on block quotes

2007-11-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear Wolfgang, Thank you for your improvements and corrections. I always appreciate your lessons! Best wishes Idris I think this is a goog idea but your definition is a little bit to long. \definedelimitedtext [blockquote][quote] \startvariables

Re: [NTG-context] doc at minimals

2007-11-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/8/07, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Just discovered http://minimals.contextgarden.net/doc Those man pages are taken from TeX Live. Sanjoy has updated them for TeX Live 2007, so that's not anything new. (But manpages are still missing, at least for

Re: [NTG-context] Easy way to start working with cyrillic?

2007-11-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Nov 8, 2007 8:28 AM, Klaus Gena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using the manuals. I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was

Re: [NTG-context] Easy way to start working with cyrillic?

2007-11-09 Thread Lutz Haseloff
Hi Klaus, try this: --- % engine=xetex \definetypeface[MyFace][rm][Xserif][TeX Gyre Pagella] \setupbodyfont[MyFace,10pt] \starttext \midaligned{\tfb\bf Arkadi und Boris Strugazki} \blank \midaligned{\tfb\bf Аркадий и Борис Стругацкие} \blank[7*big] \midaligned{\tfc\bf Milliarden Jahre

Re: [NTG-context] Easy way to start working with cyrillic?

2007-11-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Klaus Gena wrote: Hi, I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using the manuals. I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there exists a painless, 'out of

[NTG-context] Fwd: Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-09 Thread Willi Egger
I tried to send the files off line to Aditya, I could not get the message through, so it comes to the list ... Wili Begin forwarded message: From: Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 8, 2007 8:28:01 PM GMT+01:00 To: Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Flow

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/11/7, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/7/07, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works and how good it works if at all, but I would

Re: [NTG-context] Easy way to start working with cyrillic? (Hans Hagen)

2007-11-09 Thread Klaus Gena
Thanks a lot for your help ! I managed to get xetex talking with the help of the Texlive DVD and Lutz's tips. I'm a happy ConText user now. Klaus Klaus Gena wrote: Hi, I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin context distro and manage to typeset Dutch

[NTG-context] [OT]UK TeX FAQ, v3.17, released

2007-11-09 Thread luigi scarso
From http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes What is ConTeXt? ConTeXt is a macro package developed by Hans Hagen of Pragma-Ade. ConTeXt is a document-production system based, like LaTeX, on the TeX typesetting system. Whereas LaTeX insulates the writer from typographical

[NTG-context] rotate bug?

2007-11-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, This morning I used \rotate to correct some slightly sloped graphics and noticed a weird behavior. In case of the rotation angle interval (-1,0) the negative sign is simply ignored, so the rotation goes to the opposite direction. Donno if negative values for the rotation angle are allowed

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/11/7, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: Hi Peter, your solution would be really a option but I hope the real bugs will be fixed, I see :) So things could be worse. You have - a workaround (?) - a complete minimal description/example of the problem

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Wolfgang, nice patch. I just looked at the comparison of the table type (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview). There it says: tabulate problems: very limited Add some more stuff and we can change this to 'limited' ;) Best wishes, Peter Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: 2007/11/7,

Re: [NTG-context] [OT]UK TeX FAQ, v3.17, released

2007-11-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, luigi scarso wrote: From http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes What is ConTeXt? ConTeXt is a macro package developed by Hans Hagen of Pragma-Ade. ConTeXt is a document-production system based, like LaTeX, on the TeX typesetting system. Whereas

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Willi, I did receive your message. I am travelling so am not able to check mail frequently. Hans and you do get X_t when the flowchart is reused. I do not get it on my machine. Since I have moved to a new computer recently, there can be a configuration problem. I will try to test it and see

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Nov 9, 2007 10:50 AM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/11/7, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: What about this ? tabulate spec \def\PRETABRULE{% %\vrule width1pt height \strutht depth \strutdp% \ifnum\tabulatecolumn=0%

[NTG-context] Columnsets and footnote placement

2007-11-09 Thread Elliot Clifton
Hi, Is there a way to place footnotes when using columnsets, so that they [the footnotes] span across the bottom of the page, like they do when using \startcolumn? TIA, Elliot ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] [OT]UK TeX FAQ, v3.17, released

2007-11-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Nov 9, 2007 4:18 PM, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had sent this updated writeup on ConTeXt to Robin, I think, almost a year ago when there was a discussion on the mailing list about the writeup for Debian. IIRC, most of it was written by Idrid and Sanjoy. Aditya * ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Some update woes on Linux

2007-11-09 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi again, Sorry for the delay, I was taken with real life worries for a bit. So, I realized I did have some leftovers from an earlier installation attempt. I cleaned everything and reinstalled TeXLive from the CD, from scratch. I will wait a bit before updating ConTeXt again, because right now I

Re: [NTG-context] [OT]UK TeX FAQ, v3.17, released

2007-11-09 Thread luigi scarso
I had sent this updated writeup on ConTeXt to Robin, I think, almost a year ago when there was a discussion on the mailing list about the writeup for Debian. IIRC, most of it was written by Idrid and Sanjoy. Aditya * ConTeXt doesn't yet have quite such a large developer community

Re: [NTG-context] Doc to ConTeXt [was Re: HTML to ConTeXt]

2007-11-09 Thread Andrea Valle
Hi to all (Idris, in particular, as we are always dealing with the same problems... ), I just want to share some thoughts about the ol' damn' problem of converting to ConTeXt from Word et al. As I told Andrea: For relatively simple documents (like the kind we use in academic journals)

Re: [NTG-context] Doc to ConTeXt [was Re: HTML to ConTeXt]

2007-11-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Andrea, On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:30:36 -0700, Andrea Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all (Idris, in particular, as we are always dealing with the same problems... ), I just want to share some thoughts about the ol' damn' problem of converting to ConTeXt from Word et al. As I told

Re: [NTG-context] Doc to ConTeXt [was Re: HTML to ConTeXt]

2007-11-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:30:36 -0700, Andrea Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After wasting my time with an awful pdf to html converter by Acrobat, I discovered this, you may all know: http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ Looks impressive... The html conversion is very very good in resulting

Re: [NTG-context] Doc to ConTeXt [was Re: HTML to ConTeXt]

2007-11-09 Thread Saji Njarackalazhikam Hameed
Hi Andrea, I face a similar issue while organizing large-scale documents prepared by members of my group (many folks are not conversant with TeX here and write documents with WORD). My solution was to take their input through a wiki and convert the HTML to context markup using filters written