Re: [NTG-context] Design for Translation

2009-03-12 Thread Mari Voipio
Mari Voipio wrote: (BTW, if you'd like my editing instructions, I have them somewhere in rtf format.) It turns out I was actually smart enough to add these into the version control when I revised the file some time ago. I checked the file and there's nothing that couldn't be published, so

Re: [NTG-context] Command show in Metapost/Metafun

2009-03-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Curious Learn wrote: Hi, I am trying to learn Metapost using Context. I tried a few examples for drawing things and they worked well. But the show command does not seem to work. For example, the code \startuseMPgraphic{GridDots} u=1cm;

[NTG-context] matrices with horizontal and vertical delimeters

2009-03-12 Thread Jiří Cigler
Hello, I have problems with typesetting of matrices with delimiters. I need the same functionality like in the following LaTeX example: \begin{displaymath} \left(\begin{array}{c|c} 1 2 \\ \hline 3 4 \end{array}\right) \end{displaymath} but in ConTeXt I can't find method how to do that. My

Re: [NTG-context] Design for Translation

2009-03-12 Thread Mari Voipio
John Devereux wrote: First thing to remember is that I started the ConTeXt project many years (5???) ago and the program *and* its documentation have evolved a lot since then. Is there anything in particular new that you think might help? Compared with the situation a few years back,

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Thank you for the two new table syntaxes! I wikified them: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/wikitable http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TABLE#TABLEs_with_old_table_syntax Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm

Re: [NTG-context] Design for Translation

2009-03-12 Thread John Devereux
Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi writes: John Devereux wrote: But I would really appreciate any insights anyone may have. I've got some experience on this. I'm sure my way is not optimal, but at least it is an experience. Hi Mari, thank you very much for such a long and detailed answer! Your

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

2009-03-12 Thread Michael Bynum
This has burned me too. It would be nice if the errors were more prominent, perhaps repeated at the end of the output? Mike On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Jesse Alama al...@stanford.edu wrote: I was recently debugging some presentation that I was working on in ConTeXt and found, to my

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

2009-03-12 Thread John Devereux
Michael Bynum mdby...@gmail.com writes: This has burned me too. It would be nice if the errors were more prominent, perhaps repeated at the end of the output? Mike While we are on the subject, is it possible to make it die when incorrect (non-existent) options are passed to a context

Re: [NTG-context] lists in mkiv

2009-03-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2009-02-23 um 11:57 schrieb Hans Hagen: Further investigation shows that I also cannot produce an index with indeed, this is broken in mkiv but should work in cont-xp context --make xp context --interface xp ... (we're in transition to new structure support and sorting is part of that)

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb John Devereux: Michael Bynum mdby...@gmail.com writes: This has burned me too. It would be nice if the errors were more prominent, perhaps repeated at the end of the output? Mike While we are on the subject, is it possible to make it die when incorrect

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 14:59 schrieb Michael Bynum: This has burned me too. It would be nice if the errors were more prominent, perhaps repeated at the end of the output? This would be indeed nice, a list at the end with all loaded modules and their current version number. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] lists in mkiv

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 15:07 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I need an index, too. But the xp interface seems to lack a lot of commands. Is there any working solution with MkIV at the moment? Go back to the last stable release. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] lists in mkiv

2009-03-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2009-03-12 um 15:22 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: I need an index, too. But the xp interface seems to lack a lot of commands. Is there any working solution with MkIV at the moment? Go back to the last stable release. Thank you, it works now! First I just removed --context=beta from

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

2009-03-12 Thread John Devereux
Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 12.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb John Devereux: Michael Bynum mdby...@gmail.com writes: This has burned me too. It would be nice if the errors were more prominent, perhaps repeated at the end of the output? Mike While we are on

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

2009-03-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, John Devereux wrote: Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 12.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb John Devereux: Michael Bynum mdby...@gmail.com writes: This has burned me too. It would be nice if the errors were more prominent, perhaps repeated at the

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 16:20 schrieb John Devereux: Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 12.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb John Devereux: Michael Bynum mdby...@gmail.com writes: This has burned me too. It would be nice if the errors were more prominent, perhaps repeated at

Re: [NTG-context] Command show in Metapost/Metafun

2009-03-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: \ctxlua{metapost.showlog = true} Can you make this default? Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] Official diary of countries, EU, regions, etc.

2009-03-12 Thread Xan
En/na Taco Hoekwater ha escrit: Xan wrote: Hi, I have to use BIBTEX for putting official diary entries (for example the official diary of EU: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOIndex.do?ihmlang=en). Typically it has Title, Day, Month, Year, Number of Entry, Type of diary (Official diary of EU,

[NTG-context] problem with two columns on a page

2009-03-12 Thread Jelle Huisman
Hi, I'm typesetting a dictionary using \startcolumns[n=2,balance=yes] to get balanced columns. I have 26 balanced columns with simple headers in between and a lot of situations with two columns on one page. (see example). As long as the number of lines of the first columns (AA) is fewer than

Re: [NTG-context] How to use my own BibTeX style (bst)?

2009-03-12 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
Thank you, Mojca and Taco. I finally get my t-bib working. Now I can continue working on my bibl style. Taco Hoekwater 写道: I don't know those styles get adapted automatically when language is changed. Taco should answer (I should take a closer look, but no time now). They do not. You have to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Xan
En/na Taco Hoekwater ha escrit: Hi Xan, Most of these questions should be answered by Mojca, I guess, but: Xan wrote: 2) Another related question is what is the license of the ConTeXt official logo and what is it. Is it the logo that appears in the wiki

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 17:33 schrieb Xan: * The blue traffic sign from the wiki. I have an mp file for that, which is attached. It does not work for me too. When I run texexec or mpost (following the first page of metafun manual) I get the following error: I have the same problem with the

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
For Xan: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: % You are free to use this code any way you can ^ license ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Xan
En/na Wolfgang Schuster ha escrit: Am 12.03.2009 um 17:33 schrieb Xan: * The blue traffic sign from the wiki. I have an mp file for that, which is attached. It does not work for me too. When I run texexec or mpost (following the first page of metafun manual) I get the following error:

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Xan
En/na Taco Hoekwater ha escrit: For Xan: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: % You are free to use this code any way you can ^ license So public domain. But % Copyright 2008 Taco Hoekwater so, it's really CC Atribution 3.0 unported

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello Hraban, Simplified table syntax is much appreciated! Thank you for http://wiki.contextgarden.net/wikitable. However, I cannot understand how to use it. :) Best, Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 18:01 schrieb Xan: Thanks, Wolfgang. Now it works, but whith tiny letters (see attachments) New version (the old worked only under MkIV). % logo.mp: creates a blue traffic sign-style context logo % Copyright 2008 Taco Hoekwater % You are free to use this code any way you

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Xan wrote: En/na Taco Hoekwater ha escrit: For Xan: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: % You are free to use this code any way you can ^ license So public domain. But % Copyright 2008 Taco Hoekwater so, it's really CC Atribution

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 18:14 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Hello Hraban, Simplified table syntax is much appreciated! Thank you for http://wiki.contextgarden.net/wikitable . However, I cannot understand how to use it. :) In the same way as Hans wrote them in his exmple. \startluacode

Re: [NTG-context] problem with t-bib module

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin D. Robbins
Great. Thanks, Kevin On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: Kevin D. Robbins wrote: Hi Taco, You say that the current bib module will likely never work with cont-xp. Are you planning to release the new bib module in the same time frame as Hans

Re: [NTG-context] How to use my own BibTeX style (bst)?

2009-03-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Wei-Wei Guo wrote: I'm still confused. Is it possible to use different bibl based on the value of \lang. I am not sure what \lang is now, but you cannot get a different bibl file based on the current \language or \mainlanguage in the document. I was talking about influencing one (or more)

Re: [NTG-context] Official diary of countries, EU, regions, etc.

2009-03-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Xan wrote: For the other hand is there any manual for \publicationlayout style?. I want to learn i n my own first, and then ask others, if I can do that. There is a little bit of documentation in the bib module manual, see e.g. http://modules.contextgarden.net/bib not a lot though,

Re: [NTG-context] Official diary of countries, EU, regions, etc.

2009-03-12 Thread Xan
En/na Taco Hoekwater ha escrit: Xan wrote: For the other hand is there any manual for \publicationlayout style?. I want to learn i n my own first, and then ask others, if I can do that. There is a little bit of documentation in the bib module manual, see e.g.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Xan
En/na Wolfgang Schuster ha escrit: Am 12.03.2009 um 18:01 schrieb Xan: Thanks, Wolfgang. Now it works, but whith tiny letters (see attachments) New version (the old worked only under MkIV). % logo.mp: creates a blue traffic sign-style context logo % Copyright 2008 Taco Hoekwater % You are

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Xan
En/na Wolfgang Schuster ha escrit: Am 12.03.2009 um 18:01 schrieb Xan: Thanks, Wolfgang. Now it works, but whith tiny letters (see attachments) New version (the old worked only under MkIV). % logo.mp: creates a blue traffic sign-style context logo % Copyright 2008 Taco Hoekwater % You are

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
In the same way as Hans wrote them in his exmple. Cool, but will it be included in context source? Or it is too early? Best, Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 12.03.2009 um 18:01 schrieb Xan: Thanks, Wolfgang. Now it works, but whith tiny letters (see attachments) New version (the old worked only under MkIV). % logo.mp: creates a blue traffic sign-style context logo % Copyright 2008 Taco

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 20:56 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Ha, there is a trick that I know but Wolfgang does not ;) What do you expect, I don't use ConTeXt as long as you do ;-) \startMPenvironment You can use \startMPenvironment[global] \usetypescript[postscript][ec]

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: In the same way as Hans wrote them in his exmple. Cool, but will it be included in context source? Or it is too early? I think that such solutions are too fragile. A robust way will be to use a complete mediawiki (or any other markup)

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.03.2009 um 21:06 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Cool, but will it be included in context source? Or it is too early? I think that such solutions are too fragile. A robust way will be to use a complete mediawiki (or any other markup) parser. It one in lua is available, integrating it to

[NTG-context] Thanks. Two new questions: rotate and scale

2009-03-12 Thread Curious Learn
Aditya and Hans, Thanks very much for your replies. I suppose I should install minimals afterall. Still using the TexLive version. I have two new questions: (1) In the following code the triangle outline (obtained with the draw command) does not rotate, i.e., I get the same triangle as without

Re: [NTG-context] How to use my own BibTeX style (bst)?

2009-03-12 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
Taco Hoekwater 写道: Wei-Wei Guo wrote: I'm still confused. Is it possible to use different bibl based on the value of \lang. I am not sure what \lang is now, but you cannot get a different bibl file based on the current \language or \mainlanguage in the document. The \lang that I said