Re: [NTG-context] Making a template, defining a macro

2008-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Demián Gutierrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have to prepare a template to typeset a document that will have a lot of tables of similar kinds repeated across the document. I want to put that tables in some kind of templates, so I can use those templates

Re: [NTG-context] cont-enp.pdf on lulu

2008-07-31 Thread Fabrice Popineau
i simply can not use a program that i know will be replaced within 5 years And there are not so many stable tools. TeX and Lisp. :-) Fabrice ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-31 Thread Otared Kavian
On 30 juil. 08, at 23:53, Andrea Valle wrote: Thanks Taco for your efforts. BTW, I will try to contribute to the new doc project. (well, I have svn from a while, but this is the occasion to understand how to use it :) Hi Andrea, If you are on MacOS X, you can use SvnX, a free

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: \definetypeface [busted] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default] \setupbodyfont [busted] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of

[NTG-context] Error when calling \placecontent from product

2008-07-31 Thread Elliot Clifton
Hi, I'd appreciated some help with the following problem. How can I stop the following code generating an error on calling \placecontent from a product? In the test case I have files: env-test, prd-test, cmp-test. \startenvironment [env-test] \def\dostartArticle[#1]% generate article

Re: [NTG-context] Error when calling \placecontent from product

2008-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Elliot Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd appreciated some help with the following problem. How can I stop the following code generating an error on calling \placecontent from a product? In the test case I have files: env-test, prd-test, cmp-test.

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-31 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I suspect what the error could be (harmless, though it makes sense to fix it), but I only think that error reporting got more verbose since it works here despite many warnings. Outside of TL (probably some branch of xetex trunk + latest context) I don't get that warning.

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Taco: ... does it actually work, and can you explain why? I don't get the error any more with that fix (and it's not an error anyway). The problem is that if there is no file: prefix in font synonyms, then ConTeXt asks for \font\whatever=texgyre-whatever:options and XeTeX first asks

Re: [NTG-context] problem with \appendtoks \to\everypar

2008-07-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, There is no hangover for italics. Please have a look: \starttext \def\hangover{\hangafter=1\hangindent=1em} \definestartstop[hangingarea] [before={\bgroup\appendtoks\hangover\to\everypar}, after=\egroup] \starthangingarea \input tufte

Re: [NTG-context] Making a template, defining a macro

2008-07-31 Thread Demián Gutierrez
Thanks a million! Works perfect :-) Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Demián Gutierrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have to prepare a template to typeset a document that will have a lot of tables of similar kinds repeated across the document. I want to put that

Re: [NTG-context] cont-enp.pdf on lulu

2008-07-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Fabrice Popineau wrote: i simply can not use a program that i know will be replaced within 5 years And there are not so many stable tools. TeX and Lisp. :-) and hopefully lua -) Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Error when calling \placecontent from product

2008-07-31 Thread Elliot Clifton
Thanks Wolfgang, On 2008-07-31 11:38 +100 Wolfgang Schuster \def\dostartArticle[#1]% {\getparameters[my][title=,#1]% \expanded{\chapter{\mytitle}}} I have tried wrapping the call to \chapter in \expanded. Hans, also suggested that here: www.ntg.nl/maps/20/12.pdf Unfortunately doesn't seem to

Re: [NTG-context] trouble with math arrows

2008-07-31 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Jesse Alama wrote: Something goes wrong with this simple example: \definematharrow needs three arguments, the second is bunch of digits representing distance corrections. See the My Way on arrows and math-ext.tex. \definemathoverarrow [overrightarrow]

[NTG-context] system modes

2008-07-31 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, There are *some* system modes listed in the modes manual and main manual. Are *all* system modes listed somewhere ? Alan ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] greek again

2008-07-31 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 26 July 2008 09:05:01 am Martin Schröder wrote: 2008/7/25 Charles P. Schaum [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, I can only say this: My best experiences for out of the box functionality are from Ubuntu. Like Debian, they have taken TeXlive and broken it up into a number of packages to

[NTG-context] A BibTeX problem ?

2008-07-31 Thread Thomas Bottini
Hello, I would like to use BibTeX files with ConTeXt, but I encounter a strange problem. Here is my main tex file (test.tex) : \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \mainlanguage[fr] \enableregime[utf] \setuppublications[alternative=apa-fr,criterium=all] \setupbibtex[database=xampl] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] xml mapping on the fly - revisit

2008-07-31 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I have been trying to extend the example sent by Hans as shown below and run into trouble. Can I please have another nudge? On a side note - \xmlprocess{main}{zip::\env{odt}::content.xml}{} used to work in this context (;0) but doesn't anymore. What's currently accepted? Thanks, Joh

[NTG-context] font eatures with fallback fonts

2008-07-31 Thread Khaled Hosny
Font features doesn't seem to work with fallback fonts (or I didn't get it right). See the attached file (has some comments) -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team %% \definefontfeature [fea] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab,