Re: [NTG-context] CritTeXt

2010-02-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-2-2010 8:22, Daniel Stender wrote: I've tried to get into contact with Idris Hamid but got no reply so far. he's on this list Can anybody tell what's the status of the CritTeXt packet? Is there already anything to play around with? it's no so much a package as functionality will

Re: [NTG-context] Magazine imposition.

2010-02-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hi John, I do not have the complete answer to your question. The problem lies in the fact that one should have the second document in a rotated form. Once you have one document upright and the second rotated, you could use the mechanisms described in page-imp.mkII/mkiv to create a single

[NTG-context] LuaTeX error main ctx instance:1: 'name' expected near '\'.

2010-02-18 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, With the latest version, I get the following error: MTXrun | executing: vim -u NONE -e -C -n -c set tabstop=4 -c syntax on -c set syntax=c -c let contextstartline=1 -c let contextstopline=0 -c source /opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/third/vim/2context.vim -c wqa

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX error main ctx instance:1: 'name' expected near '\'.

2010-02-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-2-2010 13:05, Peter Münster wrote: Hello, With the latest version, I get the following error: MTXrun | executing: vim -u NONE -e -C -n -c set tabstop=4 -c syntax on -c set syntax=c -c let contextstartline=1 -c let contextstopline=0 -c source

Re: [NTG-context] Magazine imposition.

2010-02-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-2-2010 10:29, Willi Egger wrote: Hi John, I do not have the complete answer to your question. The problem lies in the fact that one should have the second document in a rotated form. Once you have one document upright and the second rotated, you could use the mechanisms described in

Re: [NTG-context] combiation trickery again now with attachement - sorry

2010-02-18 Thread Bernhard Rosensteiner
Am 16.02.2010 um 21:12 schrieb Peter Rolf: Am 16.02.2010 19:40, schrieb Bernhard Rosensteiner: Hi, in the attachment is an example file which describes best what i want do. The method with \offset and \clip to place the figures where i want is really brutal force i think. Especially

Re: [NTG-context] CritTeXt

2010-02-18 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/2/18 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 18-2-2010 8:22, Daniel Stender wrote: I've tried to get into contact with Idris Hamid but got no reply so far. he's on this list And he'll come to DANTE2010 in Dortmund (as will Hans and Taco): http://www.dante.de/events/dante2010/programm.html Best

Re: [NTG-context] Magazine imposition.

2010-02-18 Thread Willi Egger
So, that is a short cut! I did not know weather the magazine was in context or not. Anyway is there a possibility to rotate pages in a already typeset pdf? Kind regards Willi On Feb 18, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 18-2-2010 10:29, Willi Egger wrote: Hi John, I do not have the

Re: [NTG-context] combiation trickery again now with attachement - sorry

2010-02-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, that is indeed trickery. Though I did not try it, possibly using a layer where the pictures and the captions are arranged could also be used. The advantage of a layer would be, that it contains all the pics and one would be able to move it as a hole to the spot intended. Willi On Feb

Re: [NTG-context] Magazine imposition.

2010-02-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-2-2010 14:35, Willi Egger wrote: So, that is a short cut! I did not know weather the magazine was in context or not. Anyway is there a possibility to rotate pages in a already typeset pdf? externalfigure has no rotation key, and this does not work out well

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] ASCII text output

2010-02-18 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Aditya, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu writes: If you are willing to add more markup, then TeX can do the parsing for you. \startquestion[title={Ruby coloured by}, points=1, difficulty=1] A ruby is a gem of corundum colored \startoptions \option Rutile \option Calcium

Re: [NTG-context] Magazine imposition.

2010-02-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:35:00 Willi Egger wrote: So, that is a short cut! I did not know weather the magazine was in context or not. Anyway is there a possibility to rotate pages in a already typeset pdf? Kind regards Willi pdftk is a pretty powerful tool:

Re: [NTG-context] Magazine imposition.

2010-02-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Willi Egger w.eg...@boede.nl wrote: So, that is a short cut! I did not know weather the magazine was in context or not. Anyway is there a possibility to rotate pages in a already typeset pdf? like a rolling stone ? %%test-willy \starttext

[NTG-context] Framed text with arrows

2010-02-18 Thread Xan
Hi, I'm a novice yet. I just want to put framed long texts (paragraphs) with arrows connecting these. I want to decorate these frames (background, beaty border, etc.). Like entity-relationship diagrams but more beauty and that I could put long text in each node. Is this possible? Do I must

Re: [NTG-context] Magazine imposition.

2010-02-18 Thread Willi Egger
Great, nicely packed in a joke! - This has not come to my mind as a solution and I am sure that I will need this idea later on! Thanks! Willi On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:52 PM, luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Willi Egger w.eg...@boede.nl wrote: So, that is a short cut! I did

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX error main ctx instance:1: 'name' expected near '\'.

2010-02-18 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Feb 18 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: so, indeed we need a small example Hello Hans, Finally it took me less time. Here is it: \usemodule[pre-stepwise] \def\startC{% \bgroup \whitespace \obeylines \activatespacehandler{yes}% \strut} \def\stopC{\egroup}

Re: [NTG-context] Framed text with arrows

2010-02-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Xan, Did you consider the use of the FLOWchart module? There is a nice manual at the pragma-ade site (Charts). Willi On Feb 18, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Xan wrote: Hi, I'm a novice yet. I just want to put framed long texts (paragraphs) with arrows connecting these. I want to decorate these

Re: [NTG-context] Magazine imposition.

2010-02-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, John Culleton wrote: A person has asked for a solution to this problem: print a dual magazine where the first half is a regular magazine, but the second half is a magazine with the pages upside down with respect to the first half. In other words the back cover is really

Re: [NTG-context] Framed text with arrows

2010-02-18 Thread Xan
Thanks, But is there any possibility of having charts with titles, as in page 138 of Metafun manual (Zapf example)? And choose border form like in page 242 of Metafun manual? Really, I need the title. Putting section in chart is a temporal solution but it's not the same... Xavi. En/na

Re: [NTG-context] Framed text with arrows

2010-02-18 Thread Xan
En/na Willi Egger ha escrit: Hi Xan, Did you consider the use of the FLOWchart module? There is a nice manual at the pragma-ade site (Charts). Willi On Feb 18, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Xan wrote: Is there any way of specifying the width and height of _only one_ chart (not for all charts)

Re: [NTG-context] Framed text with arrows

2010-02-18 Thread Willi Egger
Definitely out of the box there is no possibility to place titles. But since the chart module has the option to use overlays in the shapes, with tweaking the Metapost-graphic as on page 138 in the Metafun manual you might get this in place. Without studying the sources it might be difficult

[NTG-context] Flowchart module-- height proportional to text

2010-02-18 Thread Xan
Hi, I use flowchart module for doing a simple chart (see attach files) but the text is over the node (Fonts). Is there anyway for doing node ocupies all text? And is there any way for align the itemize within to left? Thanks in advance, Xan, PS; I use MKII. And please, CCme.

[NTG-context] Metafun does not change color

2010-02-18 Thread Xan
Hi, I have the following code (see at final). I define SquareText to be darkblue in framecolor, but metafun use darkred. Why? Any ideas? Xan. \page \section{Tectònica de plaques} \subsection{Com es formen els relleus?} \setupFLOWcharts[width=.4\textwidth] \startFLOWchart[fixistes]

[NTG-context] Can not register the callback functions in MkIV

2010-02-18 Thread Yanrui Li
Hi, Now it seems that we have not allowed to register the callback functions since beta 2010.02.18. For example: \startluacode local old_pre_linebreak_filter = callback.find ('pre_linebreak_filter') local function my_pre_linebreak_filter (head, groupcode) if old_pre_linebreak_filter then