Re: [NTG-context] Change the dots of the macro \periods[n]

2015-03-07 Thread Fabrice
Hi Hans and Wolfgang, Thank you for your suggestions. It meets my expectations, but I'll try to understand the codes later! Fabrice ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-07 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/7/2015 1:08 PM, Jörg Weger wrote: Metapost’s learnig curve seems to be a lot steeper to me. It is really a pity that ConTeXt mkiv does not save the node coordinates correctly as Wolfgang found out. Is that really an mkiv issue? If I understood well tikz has its own way of keeping track

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-07 Thread Jörg Weger
Is that really an mkiv issue? If I understood well tikz has its own way of keeping track of positions independent of context. Normally yes. But there is TikZ’ “remember picture” mode. You can produce several independent TikZ pictures on a ConTeXt/LaTeX/plain text page. TikZ tells ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 07.03.2015 um 18:30 schrieb Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com: Is that really an mkiv issue? If I understood well tikz has its own way of keeping track of positions independent of context. Normally yes. But there is TikZ’ “remember picture” mode. You can produce several

[NTG-context] Update text variables inside metapost

2015-03-07 Thread DesdeChaves
Why the metapost not updated the value of text variables that are generated inside luacode environment? In the code below, If I have \startitemize[columns,two] then metapost draw: 1. \Bolha[size=6cm]{text1}{text2}{text3}, 2. and four \Bolha[size=4cm]{text1}{text2}{text3}, but text1, text2 and

Re: [NTG-context] page breaks before titles

2015-03-07 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 03/07/2015 12:46 AM, mf wrote: Hello, I'm trying to typeset a book made of letters with ConTeXt. Every letter has a title a subtitle and a date, before it starts with Dear ... Like this: - Title subtitle where, when

Re: [NTG-context] page breaks before titles

2015-03-07 Thread mf
You can use the \testpage command where you can set how many lines should remain on the page before a page breaks happens. \setuphead[LetterTitle][before={\testpage[8]\blank[2*line]}] If this doesn’t help you should make a *working* minimal example. Wolfgang Thanks Wolfgang (and

Re: [NTG-context] page breaks before titles

2015-03-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 07.03.2015 um 00:46 schrieb mf mass...@fastwebnet.it: Hello, I'm trying to typeset a book made of letters with ConTeXt. Every letter has a title a subtitle and a date, before it starts with Dear ... Like this: - Title subtitle

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-07 Thread Jörg Weger
Thank you very much Hans and Aditya for your efforts and sorry for only replying now — momentarily I am writing a paper (of course typeset with ConTeXt :-) ) that has to get finished. For now I have dropped the idea of using that certain type of illustration in the paper as your METAPOST

Re: [NTG-context] paragraph footnotes line height

2015-03-07 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 03/07/2015 10:59 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 07.03.2015 um 00:08 schrieb mf: I'd like to know how I can set the line height of paragraph footnotes. [...] \startsetups[footnote:interlinespace] \setupinterlinespace[line=10pt] \stopsetups

Re: [NTG-context] paragraph footnotes line height

2015-03-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 07.03.2015 um 00:08 schrieb mf mass...@fastwebnet.it: Hello, I'd like to know how I can set the line height of paragraph footnotes. They get the line height set with \setupinterlinespace, whether I use the grid or not. Here's my configuration: \setupnotation[footnote][

Re: [NTG-context] paragraph footnotes line height

2015-03-07 Thread mf
Am 07.03.2015 um 00:08 schrieb mf mass...@fastwebnet.it: Hello, I'd like to know how I can set the line height of paragraph footnotes. They get the line height set with \setupinterlinespace, whether I use the grid or not. Here's my configuration: \setupnotation[footnote][

Re: [NTG-context] Update text variables inside metapost

2015-03-07 Thread DesdeChaves
Aditaya, thanks for the clarification. Now it works perfectly. Jorge 2015-03-07 23:57 GMT+00:00 Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, DesdeChaves wrote: Why the metapost not updated the value of text variables that are generated inside luacode environment? In the code

Re: [NTG-context] Update text variables inside metapost

2015-03-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, DesdeChaves wrote: Why the metapost not updated the value of text variables that are generated inside luacode environment? In the code below, If I have \startitemize[columns,two] then metapost draw: 1. \Bolha[size=6cm]{text1}{text2}{text3}, 2. and four