Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Meigen, Thomas
Hello Sietse, thank you for your proposal. I guess that there is not a lack of options here. However, my problem may be simpler than I had described in the first place. I am not so much concerned with using a specific slide layout (be it s-pre-05 or some fancy simple- or complexslide layout),

Re: [NTG-context] Installing beta.

2013-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/10/2013 3:03 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Andreas Mang wrote: Hi André Caldas, I suppose this helps: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone fetch first-setup.sh, put it to a folder of your liking (e.g. /usr/local/contextBETA) and do something like

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/10/2013 9:13 AM, Meigen, Thomas wrote: and as life is already complicated enough ;-), my decision has more to do with usability and reliability than with the number of options. I am a software developer for more than 20 years now, so I know very well how easy it is to implement some

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Thomas, In your original post you stated that stated that you have be using LaTeX for your work. That would suggest to me that you are not proficient with TeX proper. ConTeXt runs, in my opinion, along the lines of TeX proper. That is you need intimate knowledge of TeX. Furthermore, you

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, I am kind of confused about the relationship between luatex and ConTeXt. The way I read the wikis and web sites luatex and ConTeXt are basically two different animals. They have a common core, but two different code bases, where the ConTeXt group doing most the work advancing the Lua

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Martin Schröder
2013/1/10 Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de: I am kind of confused about the relationship between luatex and ConTeXt. http://www.tug.org/levels.html ConTeXt MkIV needs LuaTeX. Best Martin ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Hans Hagen wrote: you only need modules for special kind of functionality or rendering (like presentations) although one can make presentations without extra modules (just set the papersize to S6 or so) I created an example to show how to create basic slides from

[NTG-context] Metafun textext()

2013-01-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Metafun textext() has been changed in an attempt to be more efficient. However, this has a side effet that it now handles colors differently, among other things. The following example, intended to cause difficulties for the color blind, no longer works. Is this a bug or a feature? \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun textext()

2013-01-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Metafun textext() has been changed in an attempt to be more efficient. However, this has a side effet that it now handles colors differently, among other things. The following example, intended to cause difficulties for the color blind, no longer

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/10/2013 12:19 PM, Martin Schröder wrote: 2013/1/10 Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de: I am kind of confused about the relationship between luatex and ConTeXt. http://www.tug.org/levels.html ConTeXt MkIV needs LuaTeX. That's a somewhat confusing description. (1) Context is just a

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/10/2013 11:47 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: I am kind of confused about the relationship between luatex and ConTeXt. The way I read the wikis and web sites luatex and ConTeXt are basically two different animals. They have a common core, but two different code bases, where the ConTeXt group

Re: [NTG-context] Node for startbuffer.

2013-01-10 Thread Andre Caldas
How do I identify a specific node? Like... [...] Here is a start. I've added the markers code to the beta so that we have an abstract way to deal with such matters. [...] \hbox \boxmarker{mymarker}{2} Can't the mark be a string? André Caldas.

Re: [NTG-context] hbar (and probably some other symbols) doesn't work in latest beta

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Murphy
Well actually the last remark makes sense: I should have done \let\hbar\hslash On 8 January 2013 19:37, Michael Murphy murphy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, thanks for your responses. @Hans: yes, hbar is extremely common in quantum physics, in fact I'd go as far to say as ubiquitous. It

Re: [NTG-context] Node for startbuffer.

2013-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/10/2013 1:18 PM, Andre Caldas wrote: How do I identify a specific node? Like... [...] Here is a start. I've added the markers code to the beta so that we have an abstract way to deal with such matters. [...] \hbox \boxmarker{mymarker}{2} Can't the mark be a string? currently not (not

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun textext()

2013-01-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:51:50 -0500 Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: Since the beginning of MkIV, colors in metapost labels need to be set at the ConTeXt end (Untested): T := thelabel(textext(\color[blue]{I'm seeing double}), origin); Aditya I don't believe that this is true, but

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Hans Hagen wrote: you only need modules for special kind of functionality or rendering (like presentations) although one can make presentations without extra modules (just set the papersize to S6 or so) I created an example to

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun textext()

2013-01-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:51:50 -0500 Aditya Mahajan wrote: Since the beginning of MkIV, colors in metapost labels need to be set at the ConTeXt end (Untested): T := thelabel(textext(\color[blue]{I'm seeing double}), origin); Aditya I

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun textext()

2013-01-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:51:50 -0500 Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: Since the beginning of MkIV, colors in metapost labels need to be set at the ConTeXt end (Untested): T := thelabel(textext(\color[blue]{I'm seeing double}), origin); Aditya

[NTG-context] [luat-env.lua] typo in function loadluafile()

2013-01-10 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi Hans, this revision introduced a typo in luat-env.lua: http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git/commitdiff/31c8bf0930a6d3e353a552d6bab71f62bc25f34e Patch appended. Regards Philipp --- /tmp/ctx/luat-env.lua 2013-01-10 14:26:37.561102331 +0100 +++ luat-env.lua2013-01-10

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Pavneet Arora
Thanks Aditya! This is tremendously helpful for all of us who use ConTeXt to do our slides. Regards. -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:22:47 -0500 (EST) From: Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu To: mailing list for ConTeXt users ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject:

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Pavneet Arora
Hans, This is a most lucid explanation. I have been waiting for this myself. To quote the great American philosopher, Corporal Radar O'Reilly, from the television show of the 1970s, M*A*S*H: Ah, Bark! [He was instructed to say Ah, Baaah! by Hawkeye Pierce] I apologise in advance for

[NTG-context] Metapost nodes.

2013-01-10 Thread Andre Caldas
Hello! 1. How does a metapost figure (\startMPcode) becomes a node? 2. When does it become a node? 3. What type of node it becomes? 4. Can I change its attributes? 5. Can I change its colors or transparency levels? André Caldas.

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost nodes.

2013-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/10/2013 5:15 PM, Andre Caldas wrote: Hello! 1. How does a metapost figure (\startMPcode) becomes a node? never, that is: it's turned into whatsit nodes with pdf operators and mixed with regular nodes when text is used 2. When does it become a node? sometime in the mp converter 3.

Re: [NTG-context] Place an annotation before it is defined

2013-01-10 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 07.01.2013 um 23:20 schrieb Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com: On 2013–01–07 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Blocks, in contrast to buffers, seem to be able to place content before it is defined. I did not check how they work, but since I didn't see any temporary files, the only possibility is

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun textext()

2013-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/10/2013 2:18 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:51:50 -0500 Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: Since the beginning of MkIV, colors in metapost labels need to be set at the ConTeXt end (Untested): T :=