Re: [NTG-context] narrowered columns on background image?

2014-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.02.2014 um 16:50 schrieb Rudolf Bahr qu...@quasi.de: Hi All, in the following two code examples I tried to place text in columns on a background image. The first example, partly achieved by plain TeX commands is ok, even narrowering works. Have a look at the attached .pdf file.

Re: [NTG-context] Appendix Page Numbering

2014-02-13 Thread Troy Henderson
Andreas, Thank you for the reply. I'm afraid that I don't know how to manually manipulate the PDF Catalog. I was able to successfully build the code on this page http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/036947.html but I had to add \placebookmarks[chapter,section][chapter][force=yes]

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Reflections on usability ConTeXt for typesetting of mathematics

2014-02-13 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Keith J. Schultz schul...@uni-trier.dewrote: Hi Mikael, Basically, I see your problem with ConTeXts handling of math as a matter of taste! That is you want LaTeX syntax. It is easy enough to get the results you want. The only place where I see a bug is

[NTG-context] textwidth in (simple)columns

2014-02-13 Thread Hans van der Meer
With \startcolumn[n=2] the \textwidth appears as the columnwidth, but with \startsimplecolumns[n=2] it stays the full breadth of the page. Is there a remedy? Changing to \startcolumns is no option because it does not work inside \startframedtext, and \startboxedcolumns is no option because I

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Reflections on usability ConTeXt for typesetting of mathematics

2014-02-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:40:18PM +0100, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote: I do not agree with you. It is not so important to have the same syntax as in LaTeX (exception: it would be nice to get double bars from \| since it does not make sense to have \| yield a single bar since | does) That is the

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Reflections on usability ConTeXt for typesetting of mathematics

2014-02-13 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:40:18PM +0100, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote: I do not agree with you. It is not so important to have the same syntax as in LaTeX (exception: it would be nice to get double bars from \| since

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Reflections on usability ConTeXt for typesetting of mathematics

2014-02-13 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mikael, as in my first answer use: f''_xx or f''_{xx} if you need both xs' I have tried it at it looks very similar to your LaTeX example. Start another thread about the single prime as bug. Since this one is marked as OT and others more more knowledgeable might not be reading this.

Re: [NTG-context] Appendix Page Numbering

2014-02-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/13/2014 1:39 PM, Troy Henderson wrote: Andreas, Thank you for the reply. I'm afraid that I don't know how to manually manipulate the PDF Catalog. I was able to successfully build the code on this page http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/036947.html but I had to add

Re: [NTG-context] Appendix Page Numbering

2014-02-13 Thread Troy Henderson
Hans, Attached is a screenshot of what your output looks like in Evince. I am trying to get the Page Number listed as A for the Appendix. Troy attachment: screenshot.png___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] Appendix Page Numbering

2014-02-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/13/2014 4:28 PM, Troy Henderson wrote: Hans, Attached is a screenshot of what your output looks like in Evince. I am trying to get the Page Number listed as A for the Appendix. It shows ok in Okular and Sumatrapdf (both on windows) so it's probably a bug in Evince then. Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Appendix Page Numbering

2014-02-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Troy Henderson wrote: Hans, Attached is a screenshot of what your output looks like in Evince. I am trying to get the Page Number listed as A for the Appendix. If I add \placebookmarks[chapter,section][chapter][force=yes] to Hans's example and compile it (using the

Re: [NTG-context] Appendix Page Numbering

2014-02-13 Thread Troy Henderson
I do have an older version of Evince on this machine (v. 2.32.0). I have a new version installed on another machine. I will check it there. Thank you very much. My only question now would be how to remove the 1 and A PRECEDING the chapter names (as indicated in the attached editing of Aditya's

Re: [NTG-context] Divider in grid environment

2014-02-13 Thread Jan Tosovsky
On 2014-02-08 Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2014-02-08 Jan Tosovsky wrote: Additionally, I'd like to keep that divider with the previous content (paragraph). In this case AFAIK \testpage[n] cannot be used directly in the divider definition as it breaks the page at position of this command. I'd

Re: [NTG-context] Appendix Page Numbering

2014-02-13 Thread Troy Henderson
My desired PDF PageLabels are in the attached PNG. I have also attached a ConTeXt source file that attempts attempts this, but clearly I am missing a bit. I would appreciate any help in accomplishing this effect. Troy attachment: screenshot.png foo.tex Description: TeX document

Re: [NTG-context] narrowered columns on background image?

2014-02-13 Thread Rudolf Bahr
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:52:44AM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You have to use boxedcolumns environment because the normal columns environment doesn’t work in a frame. \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}] \starttext