Re: [NTG-context] problem with \setuptyping[option=LUA, escape=//]

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Aug 25 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: \definetyping[LUA] \setuptyping[LUA][option=LUA,escape={/btex,/etex}] Hopefully you wikify this Hello Hans, I don't know what to wikify, because I don't understand what is supposed to work and what is not. Here another example with strange behaviour:

Re: [NTG-context] hoffset and voffset have no effect

2010-08-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 26-8-2010 3:50, Michael Goerz wrote: Hi everyone, I cannot see any effect when using voffset and hoffset as a parameter for \startstandardmakeup. For example: \startstandardmakeup[headerstate=none, footerstate=none, hoffset=1in, hoffset=1in, width=4in,

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] How to break lines with \type{}?

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, How can I teach \type{} to break lines just as \hyphenatedurl{} does? \starttext \hsize1pt \type{C:bla/blub/foo/bar} \hyphenatedurl{C:bla/blub/foo/bar} \stoptext TIA for any help! Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] How to break lines with \type{}?

2010-08-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 26-8-2010 11:02, Peter Münster wrote: Hello, How can I teach \type{} to break lines just as \hyphenatedurl{} does? \starttext \hsize1pt \type{C:bla/blub/foo/bar} \hyphenatedurl{C:bla/blub/foo/bar} \stoptext not, but there is \typ for normal text Hans

[NTG-context] mtx-context.lua:1161: attempt to call field 'join' (a nil value)

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, context --purgeall gives this error: ...ex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua:1161: attempt to call field 'join' (a nil value) Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] How to break lines with \type{}?

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Aug 26 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: On 26-8-2010 11:02, Peter Münster wrote: Hello, How can I teach \type{} to break lines just as \hyphenatedurl{} does? \starttext \hsize1pt \type{C:bla/blub/foo/bar} \hyphenatedurl{C:bla/blub/foo/bar} \stoptext not, but there is \typ for normal

Re: [NTG-context] table row span question

2010-08-26 Thread Martin Althoff
As far as I know, this should be written as \DC \DL[3] \DR OK, maybe syntactically better -- actually changes the appearance too. Now the the columns that I do not want with lines have them and vice versa. Kind of the negative of what I need. The use of DC DL DR kind of eludes me. How

[NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP :-(

2010-08-26 Thread Florian Baudach
Hi, after solving my problems with the minimals with Linux, I have now a problem with the Windows version. :-( My boss allowed me to use ConTeXt for a book project :-), unfortunately we work here with WinXP and the first-setup.bat fails with the following error: mtxrun.exe – Komponente

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP :-(

2010-08-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 15:15, Florian Baudach wrote: we work here with WinXP and the first-setup.bat fails with the following error: mtxrun.exe – Komponente nicht gefunden (mtxrun.exe – component not found) Die Anwendung konnte nicht gestartet werden, weil kpathsea60071.dll nicht gefunden

Re: [NTG-context] Porting from MkII to MkIV

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Schorsch
I used the context from the ubuntu repository. So I switched to context- minimals current-version and viola it works here too Thanks Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 25.08.10 00:23, schrieb Peter Schorsch: Thanks Wolfgang! Your source code looks a lot different than mine... there are some

Re: [NTG-context] table row span question

2010-08-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.08.10 15:07, schrieb Martin Althoff: As far as I know, this should be written as \DC \DL[3] \DR OK, maybe syntactically better -- actually changes the appearance too. Now the the columns that I do not want with lines have them and vice versa. Kind of the negative of what I need. The

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP :-(

2010-08-26 Thread Peter van Hoeflaken
I had the same problem trying to update Context with 'first-setup.bat'. I saw that there was a file kpathsea60071.dll in context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin. So then I copied it to context/bin and it worked again. Peter van Hoeflaken 2010/8/26 Florian Baudach florian.baud...@googlemail.com Hi,

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP :-(

2010-08-26 Thread Florian Baudach
I solved it, but I think in a very ugly way: 1. I downloaded the kpathsea60071.dll via http and copied the file to /context/bin 2. I downloaded also curl.exe (Don't know if it was necessary :-( ) 3. The I got the errors: MSVCP71.DLL and MSVCR71.DLL not found 4. I searched for this files and found

[NTG-context] align header in table

2010-08-26 Thread Jerónimo Alaminos Prats
Hi all, I've been following the examples in the garden to write the following table \chardef\characteralignmentmode=1 \startTABLE \setupTABLE[column][alignmentcharacter={,},aligncharacter=yes,align=middle] \setupTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[row][first][bottomframe=on] \NC \alpha \NC \beta \NC

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals and TEXMFCACHE

2010-08-26 Thread Nicola
Hi, according to the wiki “ConTeXt minimals does not touch anything outside its installation folder”, but if TEXMFCACHE is not set by setuptex, actually many files may be written outside the ConTeXt minimals folder, and (as in my case) they may conflict with the files written by ConTeXt from

[NTG-context] impostion

2010-08-26 Thread Jan Pohanka
Hello, is it possible to create following impostion, please? \setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4] \setuparranging[???] | 2nd page| | bottom up | | | | | | 1 st page | | normal | |

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals and TEXMFCACHE

2010-08-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 26-8-2010 9:03, Nicola wrote: Hi, according to the wiki “ConTeXt minimals does not touch anything outside its installation folder”, but if TEXMFCACHE is not set by setuptex, actually many files may be written outside the ConTeXt minimals folder, and (as in my case) they may conflict with the

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP

2010-08-26 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hi! Why not to use my Win installer? ;) @Mojca or someone at the server: I see that http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInstall.exe contains quite old version of the installer. Can you please update it if I send you the files? -- Best Regards,

[NTG-context] show u; from TeX

2010-08-26 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Hi! Is it possible to get the value of a MetaPost variable from TeX? It can, e.g., add show u; to MetaPost input, then parse output. I want to pretty- print the values of some MetaPost variables. Another question: is it possible to query the expansion of a macro from inside \directlua, if I

Re: [NTG-context] table row span question

2010-08-26 Thread Martin Althoff
Use natural tables, they provide better control about the cell size and layout. Wolfgang, thanks! I wasn't aware of them. They don't seem to have found their way into contextref.pdf I could do what I want and more! Below is the solution for my situation. Gleened from