Re: [NTG-context] Issues using publications subsystem for non-bibliographic database

2018-12-08 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 21:11:17 +0100 "Thomas A. Schmitz" wrote: > I find myself in > situations where I want a reference, but this list should not be > included in the document. Example: you distribute a bibliographical list > on your handout and want your slides to display the numeric

Re: [NTG-context] Issues using publications subsystem for non-bibliographic database

2018-12-08 Thread Rik Kabel
On 12/8/2018 14:50, Alan Braslau wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 12:43:34 -0500 Rik Kabel wrote: It is also quite useful in earlier stages of larger projects where it is important to document sources (for circulation copies) but one is not ready to tackle the design and generation of more formal

Re: [NTG-context] Issues using publications subsystem for non-bibliographic database

2018-12-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 08.12.18 20:50, Alan Braslau wrote: In my incremental development, I place a bibliography at the end of a chapter, part, or even section - there is no need for this to be backmatter. Using modes, these then can remain or not be rendered as design advances. I've been following this thread

Re: [NTG-context] Issues using publications subsystem for non-bibliographic database

2018-12-08 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 12:43:34 -0500 Rik Kabel wrote: > It is also quite > useful in earlier stages of larger projects where it is important to > document sources (for circulation copies) but one is not ready to tackle > the design and generation of more formal backmatter. In my incremental

Re: [NTG-context] Issues using publications subsystem for non-bibliographic database

2018-12-08 Thread Rik Kabel
On 12/8/2018 00:03, Alan Braslau wrote: As I wrote, "rendering" to footnotes as elements of a "list" can be done, and your cross-reference *is* the footnote index. We have not written setups that do this already as I have never needed this format myself, although it is rather common in certain

Re: [NTG-context] graphics

2018-12-08 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 09:31:46 +0100 "Mikael P. Sundqvist" wrote: > 3) It would be nice to be able to plot some special functions. I'm > thinking of the usual suspects, Airy, Bessel, Hypergeometric, > Laguerre, Legendre, ... Could it be that one could have support via > some lua library? I use ffi

Re: [NTG-context] graphics

2018-12-08 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 4:15 PM Alan Braslau wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 09:06:03 +0100 > "Mikael P. Sundqvist" wrote: > > > 2) Support for transforming images in a more general way. With the > > zscaled, slanted, ... we are able to transform any object in an affine > > way. It would be nice to