Re: [NTG-context] math symbol: blacktriangle

2012-07-18 Thread Andreas Mang
Hi Hans, On 17-7-2012 20:41, Andreas Mang wrote: mathname=blacktriangle, to [0x25B4]={ adobename=blackuppointingsmalltriangle, category=so, description=BLACK UP-POINTING SMALL TRIANGLE, direction=on, linebreak=al, unicodeslot=0x25B4, }, why not 25B2 (the bigger

Re: [NTG-context] write my own text in the header

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Dalyoung, On 07/17/2012 06:25 PM, dalyoung wrote: Dear all, I have two questions. 1. I'd like to write various text in the header differently at every page. It is like SlideTitle{} used in the simpleslide module. I tried \setupheadertexts[text] at the beginning of every page. But only the

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides help needed

2012-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-7-2012 02:41, Pavneet Arora wrote: also doesn't seem to work at all. I get what I believe to be Latin Modern Sans across the board. I have resorted to using one of the default fonts via the module switch for now, but would like to customize the font selection to my taste. Just using

[NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-18 Thread MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ
Hey. First, thanks to Andreas for his solution to the bibliographies. Second, a question: is there a module to produce critical editions with ConTeXt? In critical editions usually have several groups of footnotes and reference is usually made by line number. With LaTeX can be done using ledmac,

Re: [NTG-context] math symbol: blacktriangle

2012-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, I uploaded a new beta .. still not ok I guess: \setuplayout[header=0pt,footer=0pt,height=middle,width=middle] \setupbodyfont[dejavu,10pt] \startbuffer \starttabulate[|||pT|] \HL \NC \type{\blacktriangle } \NC \blacktriangle \NC \meaning\blacktriangle \NC \NR \NC

Re: [NTG-context] math symbol: blacktriangle

2012-07-18 Thread Andreas Mang
Hi, Thanks Hans. It works for me :) Relating the output (\blacktriangleright and \blacktriangle) to some figure I have created with latex + tikz I do not see any difference. Cheers, Andreas Am Jul 18, 2012 um 10:37 AM schrieb Hans Hagen: Hi, I uploaded a new beta .. still not ok I

[NTG-context] A Lorem ipsum module?

2012-07-18 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Hi all, in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called lipsum, for typesetting varioud amounts of Lorem ipsum stuff. Is there anything like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc., but that is not exactly what I have in mind, especially when giving a sample of some

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 7/18/12 10:10 AM, MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ wrote: Hey. First, thanks to Andreas for his solution to the bibliographies. Second, a question: is there a module to produce critical editions with ConTeXt? In critical editions usually have several groups of footnotes and reference is usually made by

Re: [NTG-context] A Lorem ipsum module?

2012-07-18 Thread Marco
On 2012-07-18 Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl wrote: in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called lipsum, for typesetting varioud amounts of Lorem ipsum stuff. Is there anything like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc., but that is not exactly what I

Re: [NTG-context] Is startalign broken in mkiv?

2012-07-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:48:31PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote: It was never a problem in TeX to modify the control characters used according to your own pleasure. Except that is not the kind of thing ConTeXt users are supposed to mess with, I feel guilty every time I mess with catcodes in my

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides help needed

2012-07-18 Thread Pavneet Arora
Hans and Wolfgang, Thanks, as always, for the prompt replies. Does this mean that I need to focus on the typescript mechanism rather than simplefonts? Wolfgang, that was also the point I wanted to clarify since from my earlier reading of the manual's section on Choosing on your own fonts,

Re: [NTG-context] math symbol: blacktriangle

2012-07-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:29:52AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 17-7-2012 22:36, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:40:15PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 17-7-2012 19:39, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Andreas Mang wrote: Dear all, The \blacktriangle and

Re: [NTG-context] A Lorem ipsum module?

2012-07-18 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hey Marcin, ···date: 2012-07-18, Wednesday···from: Marcin Borkowski··· If not (as I suspect), what should I do to write such a module? I expect this shouldn't be too difficult, and I could learn a few things (like using key-value syntax in ConTeXt, for instance); are there any

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides help needed

2012-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-7-2012 13:23, Pavneet Arora wrote: Hans and Wolfgang, Thanks, as always, for the prompt replies. Does this mean that I need to focus on the typescript mechanism rather than simplefonts? Wolfgang, that was also the point I wanted to clarify since from my earlier reading of the manual's

[NTG-context] Need help

2012-07-18 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
Hi, Mu current chapter setup is as below: \def\HeadTitle#1#2% {\hbox to \hsize \bgroup \hfill \setupframed[offset=.5em,frame=off] \tbox{\framed[width=3cm,align=left]{#1}}% \tbox{\framed[width=4cm,align=right,leftframe=on]{#2}}% \egroup} \setuphead [chapter] [color=green1, textstyle=,

[NTG-context] Local TOC after each chapter title (was: Re: Need help)

2012-07-18 Thread Marco
On 2012-07-18 Shiv Shankar Dayal shivshankar.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shiv! For your next posts please ∙ Provide a meaningful subject, not just “Need help”. E.g. “Local TOC after each chapter title” ∙ Provide a MWE, a minimal *working* example. A small code snippet that compiles and

Re: [NTG-context] Local TOC after each chapter title (was: Re: Need help)

2012-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.07.2012 um 16:15 schrieb Marco: How about this: \setuphead [chapter] [after=\placecontent] When you use the start/stop-commands you can use “insidesection=…” which comes after the “after” key. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] Local TOC after each chapter title (was: Re: Need help)

2012-07-18 Thread Marco
On 2012-07-18 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: When you use the start/stop-commands you can use “insidesection=…” which comes after the “after” key. Nice, I didn't know that one, yet. Wikified under \setupheads. Marco

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides help needed

2012-07-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Pavneet Arora wrote: Thanks, as always, for the prompt replies. Does this mean that I need to focus on the typescript mechanism rather than simplefonts? In principle both should work with simpleslides module though I never tested it with simplefonts. Wolfgang, that

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides help needed

2012-07-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Pavneet Arora wrote: Hello all, I am here at TUG 2012 updating the presentation that I am to give in the morning. I have had a couple of lingering questions regarding simpleslides that I thought I would put out there. They are not show stoppers, and I have lived with

Re: [NTG-context] math symbol: blacktriangle

2012-07-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I uploaded a new beta .. still not ok I guess: I haven't checked the new beta, but FWIW, these are the slots that unicode-math package uses (I usually treat that as a reference): \UnicodeMathSymbol{025B2}{\bigblacktriangleup }{\mathord}{black

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-18 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 18/07/12 12:09, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On 7/18/12 10:10 AM, MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ wrote: Hey. First, thanks to Andreas for his solution to the bibliographies. Second, a question: is there a module to produce critical editions with ConTeXt? In critical editions usually have several

Re: [NTG-context] glyph outlines

2012-07-18 Thread Jan Kula
Hello to everybody, On 07/09/2012 10:00 AM, Jan Kula wrote: how to draw character outlines for plotter to cut the letters out of the plate in mkiv? mmakempy.pdf is over 10 years old, so the situation could change since then. Anyway, even if I stick to the above method, the minimal example

[NTG-context] Width of text in startcolumns environment (MkIV)

2012-07-18 Thread Martin Bruchanov
Hello, I found following problem in version: 2012.07.17 16:42. The frame width goes over both columns (with texexec the width is only over one column, I used \makeupwidth but it is same). \setuppapersize[A5] \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] \title{Test page}

Re: [NTG-context] glyph outlines

2012-07-18 Thread Marco
On 2012-07-18 Jan Kula jano.k...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the mkiv answer: % define the spot color for the plotter \definecolor[CutContour][c=0,m=1,y=0,k=0] \definespotcolor[Contour][CutContour][p=1] % here is the outline feature

Re: [NTG-context] Width of text in startcolumns environment (MkIV)

2012-07-18 Thread Marco
On 2012-07-18 Martin Bruchanov br...@regnet.cz wrote: Hi Martin, The frame width goes over both columns (with texexec the width is only over one column, I used \makeupwidth but it is same). It should work with columnsets: \setuppapersize [A5] \definecolumnset [TwoColumns] [n=2]

Re: [NTG-context] A Lorem ipsum module?

2012-07-18 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On 2012-07-18 Marcin Borkowski mbork@??? wrote: in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called lipsum, for typesetting varioud amounts of Lorem ipsum stuff. Is there anything like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc., but that is not exactly what I have in mind,

Re: [NTG-context] Is startalign broken in mkiv?

2012-07-18 Thread Matthias Weber
Thanks. Now I have my own little sacrilege in the environment file. Matthias On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:13 PM, Rogers, Michael K mrog...@emory.edu wrote: Here's a backward-compatibility hack that works on your minimal example. Maybe it will save the dozens of files without changing all the s:

Re: [NTG-context] write my own text in the header

2012-07-18 Thread dalyoung
Dear Hans and Thomas, Thank you for the reply. First, I tried \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=yellow-spring, state=repeat] but, there is no change. After the change page to text, my figure appears but it covers slide title. I couldn't test \setupbackgrounds [page]

Re: [NTG-context] A Lorem ipsum module?

2012-07-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-07-19 um 03:27 schrieb Rogers, Michael K: On 2012-07-18 Marcin Borkowski mbork@??? wrote: in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called lipsum, for typesetting varioud amounts of Lorem ipsum stuff. Is there anything like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input