[NTG-context] Trash in messages

2010-04-10 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
I read this mailing list on a Linux VT (virtual terminal), and I think it is an unintelligent intrusion for there now to appear at the bottom of every message, between lines of dashes more than 80 characters wide when a VT only supports a width of 80 characters, a request for the contents of

Re: [NTG-context] Building a guitar chord using MP

2010-04-10 Thread R. Bastian
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:05:06 +0300 Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskov...@gmail.com scribit: Hello, I have interesting task. I want to build a picture of a guitar chord using metapost. For now, I only knew how to make a chord grid: \startreusableMPgraphic{chordgrid} drawoptions(withpen

[NTG-context] character spacing

2010-04-10 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi, I'm looking for a non-bureaucratic way to add some space to parentheses. typo-spa.mkiv looked most promising, so I did ---8-- \definecharacterspacing[parens] \setupcharacterspacing[parens] [0040]

Re: [NTG-context] character spacing

2010-04-10 Thread Philipp Gesang
On 2010-04-10 11:39:14, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a non-bureaucratic way to add some space to parentheses. typo-spa.mkiv looked most promising, so I did Sorry, it came to me a second after sending the mail: the character codes are in hex, with 0028/0029 it works. Sorry!

Re: [NTG-context] Building a guitar chord using MP

2010-04-10 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
I usually tackle this sort of thing by first drawing the entire image in metapost code alone. Then, when that works, write a tex command that fills in bits and pieces of the metapost image. I understand your idea. Indeed, MP code draws underlying grid. How to overlay circles on it using TeX?

Re: [NTG-context] character spacing

2010-04-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10-4-2010 11:43, Philipp Gesang wrote: On 2010-04-1011:39:14, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a non-bureaucratic way to add some space to parentheses. typo-spa.mkiv looked most promising, so I did Sorry, it came to me a second after sending the mail: the character codes are in

Re: [NTG-context] Building a guitar chord using MP

2010-04-10 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hi Hraban I wouldn't use MetaPost at all (because I can't) but use LilyPond's great possibilities... (Never tried fret diagrams with the LilyPond module, but it should work.) I thought about it, and i have two objections (maybe, false ones) against using Lily: 1) Recently we concluded that

[NTG-context] Shaped paragraps (and overlays) again

2010-04-10 Thread Erik Margraf
Dear ConTeXters, sorry for posting this again. Maybe the first time I asked the wrong way, the wrong question or at the wrong time. I'd like to use the shapetext facility and have some problems with it. My example tex file and two results are attached. The file both.pdf shows the result with two

Re: [NTG-context] Shaped paragraps (and overlays) again

2010-04-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10-4-2010 12:35, Erik Margraf wrote: Dear ConTeXters, sorry for posting this again. Maybe the first time I asked the wrong way, the wrong question or at the wrong time. I'd like to use the shapetext facility and have some problems with it. My example tex file and two results are attached. The

Re: [NTG-context] Building a guitar chord using MP

2010-04-10 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: I usually tackle this sort of thing by first drawing the entire image in metapost code alone. Then, when that works, write a tex command that fills in bits and pieces of the metapost image. I understand your idea. Indeed, MP code draws underlying grid. How to

Re: [NTG-context] Trash in messages

2010-04-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 08:30, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: I read this mailing list on a Linux VT (virtual terminal), and I think it is an unintelligent intrusion for there now to appear at the bottom of every message, between lines of dashes more than 80 characters wide when a VT only

[NTG-context] moving section heads

2010-04-10 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi all, in MkII times I used to move big headings down a bit by using the following grid settings (see example below). In MkIV there is also a way to do so (by using offset): But only for headings set in one line (see below)?! Does anybody know what to do?

Re: [NTG-context] Building a guitar chord using MP

2010-04-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2010-04-10 um 12:01 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: 1) Recently we concluded that on-the-fly insertion of Lilypond images does not work. It should work again since a while. If you need the fret diagrams above lyrics, I'd use LilyPond without a Staff context. If you need fret diagrams