[NTG-context] Re: page arranging

2003-10-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Alex Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to place 2 A5 pages on a A4 landscape page. I tried with \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[doublesided] \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2SIDE] \starttext \showframe \dorecurse{7}{\input tufte \par}

[NTG-context] Re: Pagebreak after section followed itemize

2003-10-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Good morning. ?? it is almost afternoon... ;-) How can I suppress the page break between section and itemize, i.e. in a following case: see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/12640 Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! ___

[NTG-context] things I do when I get bored...

2003-10-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello out there, ... are not what I am going to announce here. But, you can -- if you are brave -- try out the new-on-the-www port of texshow, the ConTeXt command browser. As a bonus, comments can be added to the commands (as in etexshow), but since you are not alone on the www, you can

[NTG-context] Re: texfont and type-tmf.dat

2003-10-15 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, The last time I tried to run texfont (from the final TeX Live 2003 inst iso), it tried to use a lower-cased version of the install path, e.g., /opt/texline instead of /opt/texLive. which should be unnecessary on MacOS X (when using hfs as a filesystem) Patrick -- You are your own

[NTG-context] Re: Visual creators for ConTeXt

2003-10-15 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Giuseppe Bilotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There already is (was) a ConTeXt-documentation project on SourceForge, with a mailing list and all. I searched for context and documentation on sf.net, but did not get any results. Patrick -- You are your own rainbow!

[NTG-context] Re: Overfull boxes using m-cweb

2003-10-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I am running into overfull boxes when including a weaved cweb file into a context document. I don't really understand your question. You have overfull boxes in your TeX run. That is a normal TeX feature. They can usually be avoided. But in your case I guess that it is something which you

[NTG-context] Re: Visual creators for ConTeXt

2003-10-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, (btw, do you use the xml alternative of the command reference?) (why alternative? ;-)) This is a very good question! I'd like to know, too :) We could establish a cont-??.xml working group. Or a technical committee. Patrick -- You are your own rainbow!

[NTG-context] Re: uncompatibility?

2003-10-12 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I should describe it more precisely. I use installations (2 at the moment) based on TL distributions. With the supplied ConTeXt versions? Anyway, I'm aware, that ConTeXt is developing quite fast and I probably shouldn't expect, that 2002.524 and 2003.10.5 versions gives the same

[NTG-context] Re: uncompatibility?

2003-10-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, are quite different... There are some warnings in newer one (about doubled map entries) but shouldn't play a role here. Thanks for any hints! right. You might want to clean up the map files, but that is not important. tl7: ConTeXt ver: 2002.5.24 fmt: 2003.10.6 int: english mes:

[NTG-context] Re: texfont and type-tmf.dat

2003-10-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, George White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hans has demonstated that even the Adobe fonts don't have the same metrics. Which fonts, which characters and which metrics. Please be more specific, since it might not even touch the way TeX handles fonts. I am not sure what is taken to create the

[NTG-context] Re: first attempt to run mp (system error)

2003-10-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, \starttext The simplest metapost code \startMPgraphic fill unitsquare scaled 123 withcolor (.2,.3,.4); \stopMPgraphic \stoptext there is also \startMPcode\stopMPcode After running 'texexec --automprun --pdf sample.tex' MetaPost

[NTG-context] Re: texfont and type-tmf.dat

2003-10-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Nigel King [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been away on holiday. So I have lost the result of this thread. Have you or Hans solved this problem. If so, do I need to upgrade i-tetex or ConTeXt or both. I would really like to solve this problem and get back to standard ConTeXt fonts. What are

[NTG-context] Re: texfont and type-tmf.dat

2003-10-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Nigel, What are you trying to achieve? I use Gerbens distribution of tetex and friends on Mac OSX. In Feb/Mar the distribution was altered which broke texfont. I had to resort to using adobekb.tex which works very well. I was hoping however at some point to be able to use the fonts in a

[NTG-context] schema/dtd for x-contml.tex

2003-10-07 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dear ConTeXt users, is there a DTD or a RELAX NG schema for x-contml available? Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Re: RME and INI

2003-10-06 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Files looks to be identical but and the second location has a priority. But which location is more convenient for texexec config file? I put mine in a path that never gets touched by an update of ConTeXt. So I don't have to worry about it. The second question is WHY I have to copy

[NTG-context] bodyfont plr

2003-10-06 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Pawel Jackowski na Onet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] The reason I'm so persistant to solve that (probably not crucial) problem is that I'm still spying another problem -- generating format with proper default font information (as described in details in other threads). I thought that

[NTG-context] keywords

2003-10-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] - always surprised by the amount of unexpected keywords... you know about the reference (setup-en.pdf..) and (e)texshow? Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL

[NTG-context] Re: keywords

2003-10-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, What's etexshow? (I know about texshow) texshow for my favorite os (emacs) url:http://levana.de/emacs/ Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Re: Additional text in chapter titles.

2003-10-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
^Nitram^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How I can do somethink like that: Chapter 1 Chapter title (but in the \completecontent should be only Chapter title) Does mag-0001.pdf help you (ConTeXt magazine #1 about hiding parts in section titles.) If not, please provide a minimal testfile.

[NTG-context] Re: inserting other pdf's

2003-10-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I tried it it looks to me as these pages were placed like figures - sure, externalfigure o) But is there also a command to *add* other pdfs? Given that they are the same size. all the figures are the same size or the figures the same

[NTG-context] Re: lines in tabulate tables

2003-10-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Ed L Cashin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I have two questions, really. I know that I can get a horizontal line with \ML in a tabulate table. \HL doesn't seem to work for me, though. your ConTeXt version is either too old or too new. Depends on how you look at it. \HL was deactivated

[NTG-context] Re: inserting other pdf's

2003-10-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, \startpagefigure[...][...] \stoppagefigure what is the meaning of the [...] \startpagefigure[.#1.][.#2.] \stoppagefigure \externalfigure[#1][#2] Patrick -- use the source, Luke ;-) ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: inserting other pdf's

2003-10-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, So in order to insert a whole PDF do I have to use something like \startpagefigure[appleblossom][page=1]\stoppagefigure \startpagefigure[appleblossom][page=2]\stoppagefigure \startpagefigure[appleblossom][page=3]\stoppagefigure

[NTG-context] Re: inserting other pdf's

2003-10-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- evil code: \dorecurse{4}{\startpagefigure[..][page=\recurselevel]\stopp...} Perhaps not that evil, it seems to work :) \starttext \getfiguredimensions[ward] \dorecurse{\noffigurepages}{\startpagefigure[ward][page=\recurselevel] \stoppagefigure

[NTG-context] Re: one page only in doublesided document?

2003-09-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Anybody any idea? Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext test \stoptext How do I get *one* page only? Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL

[NTG-context] Re: scite

2003-09-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Has anyone looked into an emacs mode? I am slightly confused: This is a thread about scite and you ask about emacs mode. Do you mean emacs related to scite (I wonder what this could be) or emacs and ConTeXt? If you mean emacs - ConTeXt there are two

[NTG-context] Re: TeX capacity exceeded in MikTeX

2003-09-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
walter kehowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The likely problem is an error on your part: a mismatched parenthesis or some other difficult to find mistake that Hello Walter, a hash size of 35000 does not seem to be sufficient for ConTeXt. I doubt that that is really a mismatched paenthesis or

[NTG-context] Re: Again: How to make empty pages by default empty?

2003-09-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This \setupsectionblock[...part][page=no] is a good idea, but the pagebreak definition was wrong. See this: \definepagebreak [chapter] [yes,header,right] I can't see any difference here. Now it's fine. good to know. Patrick -- You

[NTG-context] Re: Again: How to make empty pages by default empty?

2003-09-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: may I also ask you for an idea or a statement on this old problem? It is about numbered empty pages that are generated when using a front-, body-, backmatter project structure. Have you tried the suggestions from willi? What is the current state

[NTG-context] Re: Do typescripts slow down ConTeXt?

2003-09-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, So it's 12 seconds compared to 5 seconds (or just 1 with LaTeX). Is this normal? I have to say that this is normal. I haven't found any magic switch yet to make ConTeXt faster. Do I have a good chance that my typescript (see below) could be

[NTG-context] one page only in doublesided document?

2003-09-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, while looking at Steffen's problem I came across this: \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext test \stoptext How do I get *one* page only? Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: Pagebreaks

2003-09-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Thomas A.Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks! This command alleviated the problem without eliminating all the shorter pages. \setuplayout[grid=yes] actually made it a lot worse; almost every page was several lines short. I suspect it might have something to with itemizations (of which

[NTG-context] Re: substitute for hangafter

2003-09-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, i can add to this: {\hangafter=-2\hangindent=5em \noindent\input tufte\relax} will not work, but {\hangafter=-2\hangindent=5em \noindent\input tufte\relax\par} will But that is not strictly ConTeXt related, is it? It is more a matter of

[NTG-context] Which Beta Version ?

2003-09-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Can I be sure now to have the current version? http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-tmf.zip is 2003.9.26 at this time: Sat Sep 27 14:02:40 CEST 2003 Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: Support ...

2003-09-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I asked some friends, and we discussed on this topic, trying to find a suitable way, to get the message transferred, did they suggest to write english on an english mailinglist? Btw.: Why didn't you quote that second sentence? I was in a

[NTG-context] Re: Which Beta Version ?

2003-09-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Steffen, Wow, where do you see these numbers? in my install-log. Since I have a strong urge to up to date with Hans' development, I have just downloaded and installed the version. Which takes just a few keystrokes... I have been at pragma-ade.com

[NTG-context] Re: minimal button width

2003-09-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want some small empty buttons with exact dimensions. Is there a way to do this with \button or must I use fields (ughh) instead? Hello Peter, with your code + \button[width=2.5mm, height=2.5mm]{Please, print me!}[test] \button[width=2.5mm,

[NTG-context] Re: Pagebreaks

2003-09-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Thomas A.Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, feeling a bit grumpy this morning, are we? ;-) No. Not really. Do I make such an impression? ;-) Perhaps it is my 'smart-ass-day'... Well, it is kind of difficult to provide a minmal example because, as the nature of the problem involves,

[NTG-context] Re: Support bei Einstieg in ConText

2003-09-26 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Jörg, Nach langem Winword-Leiden habe ich mich nun entschlossen für längere Texte auf ConTeXt umzusteigen. (winword suffering - switch to ConTeXt) this is very sensible. Welcome to ConTeXt. But you have to realize that this mailinglist is read by many people

[NTG-context] Re: substitute for hangafter

2003-09-26 Thread Patrick Gundlach
John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a classic \hangafter situation in a bibliography. However this TeX primitive seems to be crippled in Context. What should I use instead? what is wrong with: \starttext \hangafter=-2\hangindent=5em \noindent\input tufte \stoptext ??? Patrick

[NTG-context] Re: Support bei Einstieg in ConText

2003-09-26 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello out there, Please excuse me, Patrick. It's my first time in a mailing-list ... and I made another mistake: I've send my question twice. So, please be patient with me. I promise less mistakes :-) Let me quote my favorite super ellipse: The road to wisdom? Well it's plain simple to

[NTG-context] Re: strange tabulate

2003-09-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, \starttabulate[|l|p|] \HL \NC small \NC They say, small is beautiful. \NC \NR \HL \NC medium \NC It seems that the medium is the message. \NC \NR \HL \NC large \NC Large T||shirts are always sold out. \NC \NR \HL \stoptabulate \stoptext

[NTG-context] Re: block question

2003-09-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Bernd Militzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, run first texexec hello.tex then texecex test.tex that works for me! that does not sound to me that this is the way one is supposed to use blocks (files). Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! ___

[NTG-context] Re: Again: \indenting[*hang*] ?!

2003-09-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, so ... write a one page YourWay doc with experiences (using the portal) and post it -) you mean that I should actually *use* ConTeXt? Not just playing with it? Hmm, sounds ok to me. Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

[NTG-context] Re: Odp: ntg-context digest, Vol 1 #484 - 13 msgs

2003-09-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, It works but if I use \startnitram \getbuffer \stopnitram I have as result: \getbuffer ;) right, that is verbatim mode :) I would like to define some code in buffer and use it as example (typing this code) and show how it works (use this code). I can use \getbuffer and

[NTG-context] Re: Aligment?

2003-09-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
^Nitram^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Martin, When I trying with new commands I noticed that: \framed[align=left,width=broad]{left} \framed[align=right,width=broad]{right} produced: |---| | left| |---| |---| |right

[NTG-context] Re: Typing in new command problems

2003-09-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
^Nitram^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I try to define new command with typing in this way: \def\Command#1% { \framed[options] { \starttyping #1 \stoptyping } } Don't mess with verbatim stuff in commands. Don't ask why, just don't do it ;-) And: TeX != C. Don't write C-like

[NTG-context] Re: Typing in new command problems

2003-09-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans, \unprotect \def\beginmacro{\catcode`\^^M=\@@ignore} \def\endmacro {\catcode`\^^M=\@@endofline} \protect \beginmacro \def\patrickneedsatexchallengeeachday#1 {Does he? (#1) Why's That?} \endmacro without trying it, I

[NTG-context] Re: italic correction

2003-09-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Idris S Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Sometimes I make a definition like \def\TR{\it} for certain purposes (structural consistency, etc.). How do I modify this to automatically do an italic correction the way \em is set up to do in \ConTeXt? I'd do it like this:

[NTG-context] *-nnt, *-lnt, c!, v! and multi-lingual interface

2003-09-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I also tried it on page-nnt, core-nnt and core-lnt from todays answer on your critical edition thread (see below). But although I have ConTeXt's latest beta installed there was nothing grep could find. They are not in the distribution. P.S. When reading source:what does \c! or \v!

[NTG-context] Re: alignment of numbered lists

2003-09-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, In Latex, the numbers in a numbered lists are aligned right by default. In Context, the default behavior seems to be left-aligned, which looks pretty ugly when item 9 is directly followed by 10. I can't seem to find how to change this. Any hints? Thanks, Thomas. did you find any solution

[NTG-context] Re: Again: \indenting[*hang*] ?!

2003-09-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is always another surprise in ConTexT. I mean: How should I know? I didn't know either. :-) My sources are Hans's manuals + the list-archiv. Neither in the manuals nor in the archive \setuphanging or \starthanging is mentioned... Use the

[NTG-context] Re: sorry ... I forgot the title .... \setupitemize

2003-09-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I'm trying to configure my itemization environment so that second level switches to a smaller font. Sorry I cannot help you here. I imagine I'm doing something wrong but could not figure what ... (setupitemize[1][before=\tx] is works well) the before= after= and between= seem to be

[NTG-context] Re: Soul Package in ConTeXt

2003-09-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Would it break anything to remove the LaTeX check? no, apart from being less polite to ths confused user ; btw, why does it need to be removed? Well, it does not really have to be removed. The only thing that I think is unnecessary is that ConTeXt defines \documentclass. IMO it is not a

[NTG-context] Re: beginner question re: counters

2003-09-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Matthew Huggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I apologize for asking such a basic question. What is the correct way to increment a counter such that each time a macro is used, the counter is augmented by 1. Pawel Jackowski na Onet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmmm... It can happens for

[NTG-context] Re: Endnotes and pagenumbering

2003-09-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Larry Stamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have fixed this by using \setuphead[page=yes] . The use of the variable yes in that setting confused me a bit, so I didn't think to try it at first. You know it now, but anyway: the page=yes tells ConTeXt please begin on a new page, page=right

[NTG-context] Re: Expert version: How to make empty pages by default empty?

2003-09-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Holger Schöner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, For some reason the example you provided does not work at all for me (there is no page break before chapters; perhaps my ConTeXt is too old), so I'm sorry, I could not test this suggestion. how old is your ConTeXt Version? It must be more than one

[NTG-context] Re: latin-modern font

2003-09-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Jean-Pierre, What should I do for using this font under Context ? Do I need to write typescript files or is it possible to use it in a very simple manner ? see http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=uselmfonts for general installation intstruction. You should use a recent

[NTG-context] Re: Probelm with \defineenumeration

2003-09-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Willi, Is this something I do in a wrong way or is there a bug? I did not look into it yet, but I can confirm that I get the same error with the latest ConTeXt version. So I think that there must be some bug. Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in

[NTG-context] Re: Soul Package in ConTeXt

2003-09-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this is because in core-mis.tex, ConTeXt defines \documentclass. I wonder why. Actually, I still wonder why. Could anyone enlighten me? Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl ___ ntg-context

[NTG-context] Re: Soul Package in ConTeXt

2003-09-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, this is because in core-mis.tex, ConTeXt defines \documentclass. I wonder why. Actually, I still wonder why. Could anyone enlighten me? as a trigger point for a message You mean the system : try LaTeX message? Would it break anything to remove the LaTeX check? Patrick --

[NTG-context] Re: Expert version: How to make empty pages by default empty?

2003-09-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Hans, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: \definepagebreak [chapter] [empty,header,right] could you explain in a few words what these keywords mean and how they should be used? I can imagine what right is doing. Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

[NTG-context] Re: Expert version: How to make empty pages by default empty?

2003-09-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi again, \definepagebreak [chapter] [empty,header,right] I don't get it: == \definepagebreak [chapter] [empty,header,right] \setuphead [chapter] [page=chapter, ] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]

[NTG-context] Re: \setuptyping

2003-09-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Jean-Pierre Le Narzul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Thanks for your explanation. I understand the problem now ! But unfortunately, the example you provide is not working for me. The pdf file displays the wrong characters for both \starttyping \stoptyping ... Perhaps you don't have

[NTG-context] Re: Soul Package in ConTeXt

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, But how? \input soul.sty gives me in ConTeXt: (/Users/steffen/Library/texmf/tex/latex/misc/soul.sty ! Undefined control sequence. l.49 \NeedsTeXFormat {LaTeX2e} ? this is because in core-mis.tex, ConTeXt

[NTG-context] Re: How to make empty pages by default empty?

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, somehow this message got lost (??), Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When a new sectionblock or a chapter (page=right) is starting and ConTeXt is forced to add before that a left empty page then this empty page has naked pagenumber. try: \definepagebreak [chapter]

[NTG-context] Re: \setuptyping

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Jean-Pierre Le Narzul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any idea ? Yes: don't use computer-modern fonts. They don't have { } and _ except for typewriter. Use any other font encoded in ec or texnansi or whatever encoding. See for example latin-modern:

[NTG-context] Re: height and width of a figure

2003-09-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, i included an external figure in a document with \useexernalfigure[fig] how can i get the width and the height of this picture so that i can make a frame that has exactly the same size as the externalfigure[fig]. See the reference manual, especially frame=on. You can also define a

[NTG-context] Re: \type doen't type -- with latin-modern fonts.

2003-09-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Daniel Flipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] \starttyping ... \stoptyping works fine, but \type{} typsets a single dash instead of two dashes. The single dash is also different (lower and shorter) than the two dashes. You should make a bug report and send it to Hans. IMO the \type

[NTG-context] Re: \type doen't type -- with latin-modern fonts.

2003-09-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, since this effect does not show op with cmtt, it looks like the lmtt fonts indeed have a ligature, which makes them somehow incompatible; right. See for example cork-lmtt10.tfm (LIGTABLE (LABEL O 41)1 (LIG O 140 O 275) (STOP)

[NTG-context] Re: Two questions on \setupinterlinespace

2003-09-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. If I define \setupinterlinespace at the beginning of my document then all elements (like bodytext,foonotes, chapter, section etc.) are affected. How can I define the interlinespaces for each individually? Does chapter 6 of Fonts in

[NTG-context] Re: clubpenalty/widowpenalty ignored - a bug?

2003-09-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Steffen, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this wrong - or is it a bug in ConTeXt? this looks fine. Play with \brokenpenalty=0 and if this does not work, please post a small example showing your problem. Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

[NTG-context] Re: Question on \setupencoding[default=ec]

2003-09-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Steffen, I have re-read the mailings in the archive concerning proper hyphenation and I saw that it is a known problem to have hyphenation in words containing cedilla, accent or umlaut. Right. As it is solved in LaTeX with the [T1]{fontenc} package some people wrote that in ConTeXt

[NTG-context] Re: Answer too obvious?

2003-09-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Höppner, Dierk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, after some more experimenting I still dont't get what I want. Could someone please answer with at least an RTFM _and_ a page number? could you provide a minimal file? Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

[NTG-context] Re: spacing in heads

2003-09-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Peter, thanks for the answer, I was actually using the visual debugger, but I wasn't able to tell what the small sqare was for. So one other question: %% \showmakeup \starttext

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt project structure?

2003-09-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Matthias, My only complaint so far: As far as I understand it, context requires full path names relative to the main directory. But probably I haven't figured it out yet... As far as I can see, there are two ways to include the products: a) as you said with path names

[NTG-context] \c!gebied

2003-09-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dear ConTeXt hackers, what is this \setupsystem[\c!gebied={/Users/pg/}] doing in my .tmp file? What is the purpose of the setting? How can I overwrite this (if it is useful for anything)? Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: Hyperlinks to locations in other documents-repost

2003-09-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I made a small test file \setupoutput[pdftex] \pdfcompresslevel=0 \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \chapter[one]{One} \goto {document} [testtest::] \goto {chapter 2} [testtest::two] \chapter[two]{Two} nothing here \stoptext (and its

[NTG-context] Re: Stumped on Field

2003-09-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In s-mag-01.tex, I am completely baffled by: \startusableMPgraphic{text} StartPage ; for i=Header,Text,Footer: for j=LeftEdge,LeftMargin,Text,RightMargin,RightEdge: draw Field[i][j] withpen pencircle scaled 0.5pt; endfor; endfor; StopPage;

[NTG-context] Re: \setuplayout parameters

2003-09-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello John, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I want to set up a book 5.5 x 8.5 with .5in margins left and right. During the development process I want to be able to print it on US standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. Here is my current prologue (I have tried several):

[NTG-context] Re: searchable mailinglist archive

2003-09-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I search for old articles using the mail to news gateway at http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context Great. That is a good interface to the list. I didn't know it was in gmane. Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: \digits

2003-09-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: \def\scandigits#1% [...] Not that tested -) Looks fine. Is there a way to increase the length of the dash in 123,-- Now it looks like a simple -, I'd like to be able to choose between -, -- and perhaps ---. Patrick

[NTG-context] searchable mailinglist archive

2003-08-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello out there, is there a searchable mailinglist archive anywhere on the internet? Slaveks archive seems to be really outdated (http://ml-archives.mini.pw.edu.pl/). Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL

[NTG-context] \digits

2003-08-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, while browsing the source, I came across the very nice \digits macro. But I have some comments: In my opinion some characters don't look right \starttext \digits 123.222,= % short, OK \digits 123.222,== % should be em dash (?) \digits +123.222,22% OK \digits -123.222,33

[NTG-context] Re: \dosetupsystem ????!

2003-08-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Texexec is not influenced by env vars But TeX is. I once had trouble with 8bit characters; TeX was looking for the locale setting. But that is the only thing I know about. Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

[NTG-context] Re: zoom in presentations

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Piotr Kopszak) writes: Hello Piotr, Is it possible to access Acrobat's zoom function from ConTeXt? What I need is a button, maybe somewhere close to navigation buttons which would give the possibility of zooming without going out of full-screen mode. Don't know, but

[NTG-context] Re: Problem running ConTeXt (cont-en.efmt not found..)

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Jules Colding [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello again, 1) run texexec --make --alone en de dl metafun and copy the resulting efmt and mem files to the appropiate places. (texmf/web2c/) I did just that, but running texexec on test.tex gives: Sorry, I can't find the format

[NTG-context] installation of ConTeXt

2003-08-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello out there, did you (1) run mktexlsr (2) run texexec --make --alone (1) - tells tex where to find files (2) - makes a new format file After doing (2), you (well, not exactly you...) need to copy the resulting format file into tex's searchpath and perhaps you need to run mktexlsr

[NTG-context] Re: Singular--Plural

2003-07-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the basic philosopy behind this singular-plural thingy? For example, if I define a float by \definefloat[tax][taxes], what happens? What becomes available to me? for example: \placetax and \completelistoftaxes Patrick -- Silent is the

[NTG-context] Re: Emacs

2003-07-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Alexander Klink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Alexander, What can people tell me about setting up Emacs to work with Context? I use the AUCTeX from CVS, which can do ConTeXt by now (and has the keybindings I'm used to). Unluckily, it always says Problems after n pages, even though it

[NTG-context] Re: \setuparranging 3SIDE

2003-07-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Nigel, \setuplayout[page] [topspace=5mm,backspace=5mm] well, the command \setuplayout is \setuplayout[...,...=...,...] width dimension fit middle height dimension fit middle backspace dimension topspace dimension margin

[NTG-context] Re: \setupbodyfont[pos] on Mac OSX --- tfm file not found?

2003-06-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Frank(?) Does anyone have a working TeX installation on OSX where the \setupbodyfont[pos] command works? Yes, I do. \usetypescript[berry][8a] and other commands wich were mentioned in the maillist archive, but to no avail. goto http://levana.de/context/

Re: [NTG-context] encodings

2003-06-07 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Matt Not a direct ConTeXt question, but I was wondering if Hans or someone else could suggest a good resource for learning about encodings. Thanks (Hope you mean font/glyph encodings) See the LaTeX Graphics Companion for a chapter on font installation. Or any guide on font installallation.

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