[NTG-context] showcase on mac?

2008-09-28 Thread Frans Goddijn
Willi Egger helped me get a minimal install working on my mac and I'm working on a collection of columns illustrated with pictures. It's been a while since I used Context so I want to download some basic manuals to refresh my memory and learn new things. On my Windows machine I can

Re: [NTG-context] showcase on mac?

2008-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 28.09.2008 um 13:40 schrieb Frans Goddijn: Willi Egger helped me get a minimal install working on my mac and I'm working on a collection of columns illustrated with pictures. It's been a while since I used Context so I want to download some basic manuals to refresh my memory and learn new

Re: [NTG-context] showcase on mac?

2008-09-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Frans Goddijn wrote: Willi Egger helped me get a minimal install working on my mac and I'm working on a collection of columns illustrated with pictures. It's been a while since I used Context so I want to download some basic manuals to refresh my memory and learn new things. On my

Re: [NTG-context] showcase on mac?

2008-09-28 Thread Frans Goddijn
I noticed that manuals are available from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page as well so I won't worry too much about my Mac browsers' hesitations Frans On 28 sep 2008, at 14:08, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 28.09.2008 um 13:40 schrieb Frans Goddijn: Willi Egger helped me get a minimal

Re: [NTG-context] Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV

2008-09-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi everyone, I finished my thesis, writing both my thesis and my presentation using ConTeXt. congratulations! Thesis: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam/publications/thesis/thesis.pdf impressive and it also looks nice (the large interline spacing even looks ok -)

Re: [NTG-context] showcase on mac?

2008-09-28 Thread Frans Goddijn
When I click on the showcase link, my Firefox 3.0.3 _downloads_ de PDF, doesn't show it in the browser. I then double click the downloaded file, Adobe Reader 8.1.2 starts up and if I click a link, it says There was an error opening this document. This file cannot be found. I deleted the

Re: [NTG-context] Has anybody used asymptote without LaTeX?

2008-09-28 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On 2008-09-28 04:35 Zhichu Chen wrote: It is said that Asymptote has supported PRC format 3D file: http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/gallery/3D%20graphs/ I really wanna give it a try, but once I was building from the svn source, I was told that I don't have LaTeX in my $PATH. I haven't

Re: [NTG-context] showcase on mac?

2008-09-28 Thread Stanley Hudson
I had the same problem with Safari. I am not a fan of Adobe installations and all the extra stuff that goes on with them, but installing Reader did fix it. Stan . On Sep 28, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Frans Goddijn wrote: When I click on the showcase link, my Firefox 3.0.3 _downloads_ de PDF,

Re: [NTG-context] Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV

2008-09-28 Thread Mikael Persson
Wow, that looks very nice! I hope you do not feel I am stealing your thread now (I do not mean to). I did also finish my thesis (in mathematics) recently, written in ConTeXt. For this I had a lot of help with your doc Using \startalign and friends, thank you. The thesis is available at

Re: [NTG-context] Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV

2008-09-28 Thread Mohamed Bana
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi everyone, I finished my thesis, writing both my thesis and my presentation using ConTeXt. Aditya :). But there's a still something missing that I need before I even thinking of typesetting an msc thesis in ConTeXt. I'd like to have something equivelant to

[NTG-context] Listings (was: Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV)

2008-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 28.09.2008 um 19:34 schrieb Mohamed Bana: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi everyone, I finished my thesis, writing both my thesis and my presentation using ConTeXt. Aditya :). But there's a still something missing that I need before I even thinking of typesetting an msc thesis in

Re: [NTG-context] Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV

2008-09-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Mikael Persson wrote: The thesis is available at maybe we should collect such links on a wiki page http://www.math.chalmers.se/~mickep/mp-thesis-final.pdf and a short presentation of the third paper http://www.math.chalmers.se/~mickep/pres.pdf Some comments: * At our university the

Re: [NTG-context] index in swedish doc (mkiv)

2008-09-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Mikael Persson wrote: Hi all, I want to have an index in a swedish document, but when I add it I get unknown instead of the letter heads. Minimal file: \mainlanguage[sv] \starttext Test\index{test} \placeindex \stoptext Just uncomment the \mainlanguage[sv] and you will get

Re: [NTG-context] index in swedish doc (mkiv)

2008-09-28 Thread Mikael Persson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikael Persson wrote: Hi all, I want to have an index in a swedish document, but when I add it I get unknown instead of the letter heads. Minimal file: \mainlanguage[sv] \starttext Test\index{test} \placeindex

Re: [NTG-context] Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV

2008-09-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Mikael Persson wrote: On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikael Persson wrote: The thesis is available at maybe we should collect such links on a wiki page good idea These could also be useful for the regression test suite for

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie Problem With ConTeXt/MacTeX-2008 Distribution

2008-09-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:42 PM, George N. White III wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Stanley Hudson wrote: Trying out ConTeXt on a Macbook with the MacTeX -2008 Distribution. The following compiles on ConTeXt live at the Garden, but does not work locally. \usemodule[pre-05]

Re: [NTG-context] Listings

2008-09-28 Thread Mohamed Bana
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 28.09.2008 um 19:34 schrieb Mohamed Bana: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi everyone, I finished my thesis, writing both my thesis and my presentation using ConTeXt. Aditya :). But there's a still something missing that I need before I even thinking of

Re: [NTG-context] Listings

2008-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 28.09.2008 um 22:42 schrieb Mohamed Bana: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 28.09.2008 um 19:34 schrieb Mohamed Bana: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi everyone, I finished my thesis, writing both my thesis and my presentation using ConTeXt. Aditya :). But there's a still something missing that

Re: [NTG-context] Formatting TOC

2008-09-28 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/9/27 Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: \setuplabeltext[en][chapter=Chapter~] \setuplist[chapter][numbercommand=\groupedcommand{\labeltext{chapter}} {},width=2.5cm] Simply perfect!!! A lot of thanks -- Diego Depaoli

[NTG-context] urgent index error

2008-09-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, in my document I use utf-input. So do the index-marks: \enableregime[utf] \starttext START\startregister[index][umlautä]{Umlaute– ä} \input knuth END\stopregister[index][umlautä] \placeregister[index][compress=yes] \stoptext Just, this can't be typset: ! Missing \endcsname

Re: [NTG-context] urgent index error

2008-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.09.2008 um 00:00 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Hi, in my document I use utf-input. So do the index-marks: \enableregime[utf] \starttext START\startregister[index][umlautä]{Umlaute– ä} \input knuth END\stopregister[index][umlautä] \placeregister[index][compress=yes] \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] Listings

2008-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 28.09.2008 um 23:23 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 28.09.2008 um 22:42 schrieb Mohamed Bana: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 28.09.2008 um 19:34 schrieb Mohamed Bana: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi everyone, I finished my thesis, writing both my thesis and my presentation using ConTeXt.

Re: [NTG-context] Has anybody used asymptote without LaTeX?

2008-09-28 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi, Alan Thank you for your attention, but I don't need the psedu-3D effect. Asymptote could create real 3D file which pdf has supported since, maybe, version 1.5. On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Alan BRASLAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-09-28 04:35 Zhichu Chen wrote: It is said that

Re: [NTG-context] Has anybody used asymptote without LaTeX?

2008-09-28 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, Zhichu: $n$ years ago ($n\geq 2$), some user had successfully embed a u3d format file into pdf using ConTeXt with the instruction from Hans. I think the module is still there. Maybe you can have a look. In fact u3d and prc are similar, maybe you can try the same way. But I have no idea how to