Re: [NTG-context] Word-to-LaTex on linux?

2008-07-07 Thread David C. Walden
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote: Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks. I have converted from Word to LaTeX a lot! -- book length documents.

[NTG-context] ConTeXt manual question

2008-06-11 Thread David C. Walden
At 07:23 AM 6/11/2008, Hans wrote: hm, more recent manuals tend to use even more color ... And it is useful for people who view the pages on the screen or want to print a given page in color. (When I print a big manual, I use my laser printer which does not have color rather than my inkjet

[NTG-context] page numbering question

2008-04-09 Thread David C. Walden
Hi, I have been searching contextgarden.net and the manuals at the Pragma website for more than an hour now, and I have yet to find a way to have ConTeXt decide in two-sided mode that the last page of a book chapter is a even numbered page without anything on it and therefore will also not have a

Re: [NTG-context] page numbering question

2008-04-09 Thread David C. Walden
I am not sure what you want. Do you want the last page of chapters to be numbered or do you want them to be completely empty? I want even numbered last pages of chapters which have no text or images on them to be completely empty. I tried various versions of the code for Truly empty page breaks

Re: [NTG-context] page numbering question

2008-04-09 Thread David C. Walden
Does this do what you want (at least in this test case) \definepagebreak [mychapterpagebreak] [yes,header,footer,right] \setuphead [chapter] [page=mychapterpagebreak] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location={header,margin}] \setupheadertexts[{My special

[NTG-context] problem using protrusion and hz

2008-04-08 Thread David C. Walden
Hi, Adytia pointed me to some examples at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Protrusion I tried the following code with a couple of page test page, - \definepapersize[specialbook][width=5.5in,height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[specialbook][specialbook]

[NTG-context] quick question

2007-02-21 Thread David C. Walden
Is there an easy way in ConTeXt to do the equivalent of \enlargethispage{1\baselineskip} in LaTeX? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] new user seeks help

2007-02-10 Thread David C. Walden
Hi, I tried ConTeXt for the first time a couple of days ago and successfully created a 4 page letter. Yesterday I converted a 60 page booklet from LaTeX to ConTeXt where is now successfully compiles (but without lots of formatting that I will need to figure out how to apply). My problem has to