Re: [NTG-context] Hiding PDF-Layer

2007-10-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Wolfgang, Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: Hi, I want to include PDF layers in document and the should be hidden by default, the current behaviour is to show all layers I defined in my document and this should be later by the user and not when I open the file. The following shortened

Re: [NTG-context] standardmakeup, frontmatter, bodymatter page numbering

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec schrieb: Hello, I have a document consisting of title page, some introduction which should have pages numbered with roman numerals, and finally the real content \setuphead[subject][page=odd,style=\ss\bfb] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \starttext \startstandardmakeup

Re: [NTG-context] standardmakeup, frontmatter, bodymatter page numbering

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec schrieb: On 10/3/07, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca Miklavec schrieb: Hello, I have a document consisting of title page, some introduction which should have pages numbered with roman numerals, and finally the real content \setuphead[subject][page=odd,style=\ss

Re: [NTG-context] Completelistoffigures, help needed!

2007-09-28 Thread Peter Rolf
G.C.H.M. Verhaag schrieb: Dear ConTeXt Users, Thanks to those that contributed to this thread! The code \setupcaption[figure][distance=\zeropoint] \defineconversion[gobble][\gobbleoneargument] \setupnumber[figure][conversion=gobble] \setuplabeltext[figure=] just did the trick, but I

Re: [NTG-context] Interactive slides---hidden field on every page

2007-09-17 Thread Peter Rolf
Michal Kvasnička schrieb: Good morning or whatever you have now in Europe. It seems that my mail have come to the list, so I dare to repost it: sometimes the only way to get an answer :) I'm preparing my slides. Every slide is divided to three parts (backgrounds): text, header, and

Re: [NTG-context] visualization problem

2007-09-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Andrea Valle schrieb: Dear all, I've created this. http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/photoBook.pdf (it's 5 mB) The cover and the separators in the pages are generated stretching on layers the same image (a pdf generated by Metapost) % cover \setlayer [mybg]

[NTG-context] color expansion (not colo-new related)

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi all, I tried to seperate some style specific code to external variables. Most things work so far, but the expansion of color causes me problems. I must emphasize that this is no colo-new problem, as my code fails with the old colo-ini too. I have tried several things, but still no luck. What

Re: [NTG-context] color expansion (not colo-new related)

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Hi all, I tried to seperate some style specific code to external variables. Most things work so far, but the expansion of color causes me problems. I must emphasize that this is no colo-new problem, as my code fails with the old colo-ini too. I have

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv update

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Hans, Hans Hagen schrieb: Hi, I uploaded a new version (no minimals yet). There are also new binaries (or will be later today) that fix a couple of font issues. Later this week I will enable new color handling code. the definition of \faststartcolor in core-spa.tex is missing here.

Re: [NTG-context] MetaFun and different body font size

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Rolf
Oliver Buerschaper schrieb: Dear folks, I'm wondering how to communicate a different default bodyfont size to MetaFun ... consider this: --- \setupbodyfont[32pt] \starttext \input ward \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw unitsquare scaled BodyFontSize; draw

Re: [NTG-context] the stolen comma

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, is this a known exception, or is it a nasty little bug? \starttext |ROTFL|, Rolling on the Floor, laughing. |ROTFL|; Rolling on the Floor, laughing. \stoptext hm, has to do with special comma treatment, hav eto look into it Hi

Re: [NTG-context] Mysterious clipping for shaded MetaFun page background

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Rolf
Oliver Buerschaper schrieb: Dear folks, can anyone reproduce this? (Live ConTeXt on the garden seems to run into this \faststartcolor thing ... with pdfTeX.) Uncomment the page background overlay and the top bit of the frames' titles will be chipped off ... doesn't happen for the plain

Re: [NTG-context] PDF TrimBox

2007-08-14 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Thomas, Thomas Telkamp schrieb: Hi, I'm trying to set the PDF TrimBox for every page in the document. \setupinteractionscreen[trimbox={[81.6378 96.9449 513.6378 744.9449]}] This indeed sets the TrimBox for every page, but it ignores my dimensions, and sets them to the page size.

Re: [NTG-context] Difference between MKIV and MKII

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Aditya, Aditya Mahajan schrieb: Quoting Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, I get significantly different white spaces (and hence page breaks) while using mkiv and mkii. Is this expected, or should I try to create minimal example exhibiting such problems? indeed

Re: [NTG-context] Difference between MKIV and MKII

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf schrieb: Hi Aditya, Aditya Mahajan schrieb: Quoting Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, I get significantly different white spaces (and hence page breaks) while using mkiv and mkii. Is this expected, or should I try to create minimal example exhibiting

Re: [NTG-context] Difference between MKIV and MKII

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Peter Rolf schrieb: Hi Aditya, Aditya Mahajan schrieb: Quoting Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, I get significantly different white spaces (and hence page breaks) while using mkiv and mkii. Is this expected, or should I try

Re: [NTG-context] Difference between MKIV and MKII

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Peter Rolf schrieb: Hi Aditya, Aditya Mahajan schrieb: Quoting Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, I get significantly different white spaces (and hence page breaks) while using mkiv

Re: [NTG-context] installing MKIV

2007-08-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Joel C. Salomon schrieb: On 8/8/07, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you don't even need lua anymore. i see. but on windows you waste more than 7mb disk space this way. installing the lua binaries costs only 288kb. so where is the benefit? - no need to install anything else (no huge

Re: [NTG-context] luatex and defaultscale

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Taco Hoekwater schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Only to make Taco happy ;) You mean this, right? yes (reproducable errors are the easy ones :) (test-peterrolf-mpgraph.mp ! Font lmroman10-regular*default not usable: TFM file not found. thelabel-...ture(EXPR3):infont.defaultfont.scaled

Re: [NTG-context] installing MKIV

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky schrieb: Hello Taco, I'm installing luatex according to 'This Way'. On the last step, when generating format files, I get the following: C:\TeXLive2007\bin\win32luatools --generate log 'texluac' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable

Re: [NTG-context] installing MKIV

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Arthur Reutenauer schrieb: luac5.1.exe [TO] luac.exe etc. Alternatively, you can use LuaTeX itself as the lua interpreter and compiler. That is, the same binary will act as: LuaTeX proper when called luatex(.exe) lua when called texlua(.exe) (equivalent to luatex --luaonly)

Re: [NTG-context] installing MKIV

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Arthur Reutenauer schrieb: luac5.1.exe [TO] luac.exe etc. Alternatively, you can use LuaTeX itself as the lua interpreter and compiler. That is, the same binary will act as: LuaTeX proper when called luatex(.exe) lua when called texlua(.exe

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv goes beta

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: Hi, ConTeXt MKiV goes beta. no big problems on windows. only - texmfstart.exe is missing in the binaries i noticed this, somehow there is/was a problem with the ruby to exe conversion - pdftex should be updated to 1.40.5

[NTG-context] luatex and defaultscale

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Only to make Taco happy ;) donno if this an already known problem. Peter % - - - - - - - - - - \startuniqueMPgraphic{foo} % defaultfont:=\truefontname{Sans}; defaultscale:=1.1; label(?,origin); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \starttext \null \uniqueMPgraphic{foo} \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv goes beta

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Arthur Reutenauer schrieb: 283-–288 (September 1993) \NC \NR ^ for luatex. it is encoded in iso-latin-1 (emacs says so). What's in the file is byte 0x96 (vim is smarter than Emacs!). I was ignoring any other encoding than iso-latin-9 'til yesterday. So I guess it's more my fault than

[NTG-context] luatex and interaction

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
hi, every peace of code with interactive elements gives me this error message systems : begin file walkfield at line 5 (./walkfield.tuo) javascript : loading script set fld (r:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/java-fld.tex) ! Undefined control sequence. \dopresetfieldsymbol

Re: [NTG-context] luatex and interaction

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: hi, every peace of code with interactive elements gives me this error message systems : begin file walkfield at line 5 (./walkfield.tuo) javascript : loading script set fld (r:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/java-fld.tex) ! Undefined

Re: [NTG-context] luatex and interaction

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: hi, every peace of code with interactive elements gives me this error message systems : begin file walkfield at line 5 (./walkfield.tuo) javascript : loading script set fld (r:/tex/texmf-local/tex

Re: [NTG-context] Background image

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Pascal, I spend more than one hour on this, to find a clean solution. So please add this to the wiki. And if you can, send my a copy of the nice background image (never mind if not). I felt in love with this, while testing your example. Anyhow, the cut markings are still lying under the

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv goes beta

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Hi, ConTeXt MKiV goes beta. Now, why today, 06/08/07? It happens to be the birthday of one of the most demanding users on this list and when at bachotek 2007 we discussed the moment of going beta Arthur suggested that this would be the perfect day. I could not

Re: [NTG-context] Background image

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Pascal de Bruijn schrieb: Hi, On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:02 +0200, Peter Rolf wrote: Hi Pascal, I spend more than one hour on this, to find a clean solution. So please add this to the wiki. I will when I'm more comfortable with ConTeXt. ok. any help is welcome. And if you can, send my

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Metadata / Attachments

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Pascal de Bruijn schrieb: Hi, With LaTeX I was able to set my own PDF metadata, is this possible with ConTeXt? I mean things like: Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, Creator, Producer? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_Bookmarks_and_Headers#PDF_Headers producer is set by pdftex, subject

Re: [NTG-context] Background image

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Pascal de Bruijn schrieb: On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 19:47 +0200, Peter Rolf wrote: Pascal de Bruijn schrieb: Hi, On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:02 +0200, Peter Rolf wrote: BTW: do you set a bleed|crop-box? No clue? How do I do that? What does it do? It simply defines the size and position

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv goes beta

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Hi, ConTeXt MKiV goes beta. no big problems on windows. only - texmfstart.exe is missing in the binaries - pdftex should be updated to 1.40.5 - luatools.lua: (e)shell output needs a crlf after the last line (prompt is printed directly after the runtime output) - the

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Metadata / Attachments

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Münster schrieb: On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Peter Rolf wrote: subject isn't supported yet (feature request needed!?) Feature request perhaps not needed: \setupinteraction[subtitle=my subject] you are right. no feature request needed :) Cheers, Peter

Re: [NTG-context] placefigure

2007-07-27 Thread Peter Rolf
way? Liesbeth 2007/7/26, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Peter Rolf schrieb: Hi Liesbeth, There is a problem with the bounding box (bb) of the eps file. Although gs shows it correctly (Info), it uses the media size (default A4

Re: [NTG-context] placefigure

2007-07-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf schrieb: Hi Liesbeth, There is a problem with the bounding box (bb) of the eps file. Although gs shows it correctly (Info), it uses the media size (default A4) as border for the pdf. You can change the media size by hand (set it to bb), but it's less error prone to use extract

Re: [NTG-context] placefigure

2007-07-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Liesbeth, There is a problem with the bounding box (bb) of the eps file. Although gs shows it correctly (Info), it uses the media size (default A4) as border for the pdf. You can change the media size by hand (set it to bb), but it's less error prone to use extract... or ps to eps from the

Re: [NTG-context] Nested comma list processing problems

2007-07-24 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Giuseppe, Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: Hello all, I'm trying to get a comma list element from within a processaction from within a processcommacommand. Just guessing.. If your list contains comma-separated-lists, you should use \processallactionsinset (s. syst-gen.tex). ...but it's

Re: [NTG-context] problem with mp clip

2007-07-23 Thread Peter Rolf
Patrick Gundlach schrieb: Is there a way to add the test pictures (cont-img.zip) to 'live context'? They are already installed, but not in a local path. I have changed 'live context' so now the sample figures are in the search path. Patrick Thanks Patrick! This makes life easier :)

Re: [NTG-context] problem with mp clip

2007-07-23 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, it seems, that clipping with a MetaPost path is broken (at least on my machine). I couldn't test it on Contextgarden, as the standard example pictures are not installed (or the !!path is not searched). Anyhow, if someone can test this please

[NTG-context] problem with mp clip

2007-07-22 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, it seems, that clipping with a MetaPost path is broken (at least on my machine). I couldn't test it on Contextgarden, as the standard example pictures are not installed (or the !!path is not searched). Anyhow, if someone can test this please. I work with the latest minimal distribution

Re: [NTG-context] Layers in ConTeXt

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Guiseppe, welcome back ;) Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: Hello all, I have a couple of questions concerning the use of layers in ConTeXt. I'm working with Luigi Scarso on a layout which is characterized by some fixed-position elements surrounding the actual main body of text. For the

Re: [NTG-context] Layers in ConTeXt

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Rolf
Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: Friday, July 13, 2007 Peter Rolf wrote: Hi Guiseppe, welcome back ;) Thanks :) (btw, it's gIUseppe :D) Sorry for that. Too much GUI (graphical user interface) stuff in my work... :) Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: The first one is very simple: is there a way

Re: [NTG-context] \definestartstop with arguments

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Vyatcheslav, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky schrieb: Hello, Pleeease, I need a help. I might formulate my previous question badly, so let me restate it. How to handle optional arguments (one or two) with \definestartstop? More specifically, how to replace hard-coded Logging-On string so

Re: [NTG-context] frames in ConTeXt and metafun

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Thomas, Thomas A. Schmitz schrieb: This is a very small cosmetic problem, but it bugs me: I'm preparing a background for a presentation, and I want a frame with a transparent color to appear on every slide, so I define an overlay and use metapost. I also want to frame some text

Re: [NTG-context] pragma?

2007-07-04 Thread Peter Rolf
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini schrieb: Hallo! I can not get pragma ade website any longer: (pragma-ade.com expired on 06/28/2007 and is pending renewal or deletion) Is there an other place to download a current beta? http://context.aanhet.net/download-2.htm Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] acrobat reader does not open a pdf

2007-07-03 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Olivier, Olivier TURLIER schrieb: Hi everybody, Acrobat reader 7 (linux) cannot open doc-test-gobck.pdf I usually include external documentation (catalogs, etc.) as a clickable link which open another doc. (parent-doc-test.{tex,pdf} -- doc-test-gobck.{tex,pdf}) On those external

Re: [NTG-context] chapter names in header

2007-06-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Patrick, Patrick Gundlach schrieb: Hi, what is wrong with -- \setuppagenumbering[location=] \starttext \setupheadertexts[text][section][chapter] \dorecurse{8}{\chapter{chapter - \recurselevel} \expanded{\chapter } look

Re: [NTG-context] Tables localfootnote alignment

2007-06-15 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Dave, I don't know enough about it, to give you a clean solution. Just ignore the rest, if someone gives a better (more general) solution. Peter Dave schrieb: Hi all, I am trying to add footnotes to a table but need for them to be aligned on the left (flush) edge of the table. I've

Re: [NTG-context] externalfigure not finding figures in other directories?

2007-05-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Sanjoy, Sanjoy Mahajan schrieb: externalfigure is not finding figures in other directories, and I'm not sure if it's something I've messed up while compiling and testing new Ubuntu edgy backport packages. If I have fig.1 (a metapost eps file) in the current directory, then this test file

Re: [NTG-context] Test whether variable has been set

2007-05-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Elliot, Elliot Clifton schrieb: Hi, How can test whether a variable has been set? I couldn't find any reference to this in the wiki? What do you mean by set? I use \doifnothing{\getvariable{foo}{bar}} {foo:bar contains nothing.\par}% \doifsomething{\getvariable{foo}{bar}} {foo:bar

Re: [NTG-context] Test whether variable has been set

2007-05-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Elliot Clifton schrieb: Hi Peter, Thanks for your reply. I think I may have misunderstood the variable section on the wiki. I been using \setvariable to both declare and assign variables from my component files. When I should have been declaring them in the environment file first, right?

Re: [NTG-context] short last line

2007-05-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, looking for a solution to avoid short snippets in a paragraph's last line I found lefthyphenmin/righthyphenmin. But as this affects all hyphenations it is not useful. Is there also a command that only cares for the last line of a paragraph, controlling that

Re: [NTG-context] short last line

2007-05-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:55:41 +0200, Peter Rolf wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, looking for a solution to avoid short snippets in a paragraph's last line I found lefthyphenmin/righthyphenmin. But as this affects all hyphenations it is not useful. Is there also

Re: [NTG-context] [metapost] shading text

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Stephan Hennig wrote: Peter Rolf schrieb: I have tested this some years ago and it worked without problems. A fast run with the old code ended in the nirvana for pstoedit (3.44) :( When I manually run the following commands pdftops mpy-outline1.pdf pstoedit -v -ssp -dt -f mpost mpy

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong SRA3 papersize ?

2007-05-03 Thread Peter Rolf
luigi scarso wrote: In page-lay.tex \definepapersize [SRA3] [\c!width=320mm,\c!height=450mm] maybe is wrong. It should be \definepapersize [SRA3] [\c!width=450mm,\c!height=320mm] See http://www.theearthpaper.net/paper-sizes.html but need a confirm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_217

Re: [NTG-context] CtxTools problem

2007-05-03 Thread Peter Rolf
Keith McKay wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem when I run texmfstart ctxtools --update The output is given below. texmfstart ctxtools --update CtxTools | updating F:/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local CtxTools | fetching cont-tmf.zip CtxTools | extracting cont-tmf.zip

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of framed text

2007-04-19 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Vyatcheslav, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello, Thank you Wolfgang, but \defineframed [hotkey][offset=4pt,corner=00,location=low] produces too big frames, while \defineframed [hotkey][height=\lineheight,offset=4pt,corner=00,location=low] produces nice

Re: [NTG-context] interlinespace and accented capital

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Peter, Peter van Kranenburg wrote: Hi list, I have an accented E (É) somewhere in my text. The height of this character changes the interlinespace, probably to avoid collision of the accent and the line above it. Unfortunately it is visually very disturbing to have a larger

Re: [NTG-context] using Make for documents

2007-03-29 Thread Peter Rolf
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: At the recent User Meeting, a few people were interested in how to use make to maintain complex documents. Here is version 0 of a step-by-step explanation: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/teaching/tex/ Comments welcome! The URL may change. I'll

Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping table

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Johannes, Johannes Kuester wrote: Dear Luigi, dear Rolf, thank you for your help. Below is a (hopefully) better example of what I try to do and where it fails. The last line in tabulate (starting with 22C6) loses the grid, and I can't see why. as I see it, the problem is caused by

Re: [NTG-context] gray scale conversion of colored text

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: Something like \setupcolors[conversion=always] Is there is a reason why you can not use \setupcolors[state=start] as well? Mh, you mean beside from my too little brain? No. ;) This works with the simple example, but sadly not with my more

Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping table

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Johannes, Johannes Kuester wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to typeset a rather simple list or table where each line should keep the overall grid of my page design. For this I tried tabulate, table, and TABLE, but all failed. One way to reach this, is to set the row height of every single

[NTG-context] gray scale conversion of colored text

2007-03-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, I currently have a problem with the conversion of some mp graphics into gray scale. The mp graphics themself look great, but *text is always converted to black*, regardless of its real color. Is there a way to fix this? Peter ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] gray scale conversion of colored text

2007-03-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, I currently have a problem with the conversion of some mp graphics into gray scale. The mp graphics themself look great, but *text is always converted to black*, regardless of its real color. Is there a way to fix this? Sorry, I made a mistake. The text that is used

Re: [NTG-context] figure bases (2nd)

2007-03-22 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: hi, i'm tired of fixing \dogetfigurefilename in every new version. i have already shown that there is something wrong with it in my mail from 17.01.2007 http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070117.153030.344c6989.en.html i don't say, that i

Re: [NTG-context] Bibtex: empty reference and reference-title / -data

2007-03-01 Thread Peter Rolf
Henning Haeske wrote: Hi, maybe this is a stupid question, but I am deadlocked in this case. In the text I always getting an empty reference «()» and the listOfReferences has no title and looks also a little bit discontenting: 3 (2001). Leseverhalten in Deutschland im neuen

Re: [NTG-context] Natural table header limitation.

2007-02-25 Thread Peter Rolf
JOHN CULLETON wrote: The fancy tricks one can to with Natural Tables seem to work within the body of the table where I don't need them but fail in the header area where I do need them. This example, takein from the wiki, works (of course.)

Re: [NTG-context] Natural table header mystery.

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi John, John R. Culleton wrote: The table runs ok with the headers omitted. There are 8 columns. But when I add these headers it gives me an error. Here are the headers: - \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTD \eTD \bTD

Re: [NTG-context] MPtoPDF error

2007-02-14 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: this is a bug in the current metapost beta (which is already fixed by Taco). Simply use the stable version (0.901) instead. A new beta will (hopefully) be released this week. It won't happen today anymore, I am afraid. But 'real soon

Re: [NTG-context] MPtoPDF error

2007-02-11 Thread Peter Rolf
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: this is a bug in the current metapost beta (which is already fixed by Taco). Simply use the stable version (0.901) instead. A new beta will (hopefully) be released this week. It won't happen today anymore, I am afraid. But 'real soon now'. I know

Re: [NTG-context] twocolumn document has trouble with colors

2007-02-11 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Chen, Zhichu Chen wrote: Hi everybody, Does this only happen to me? No, same problem here. The left column is black, the right one has the desired color. But I have no solution for it (so there was no reply from me earlier). Peter On 2/9/07, *Zhichu Chen* [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] MPtoPDF error

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Willi, Willi Egger wrote: Hi, I wanted to compile a file which used to work without problems. Now I get a fatal error in MPtoPDF. This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.1 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=cont-en 2007.2.8) 8 FEB 2007 22:46 entering extended mode \write18 enabled.

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and CMYK

2007-02-05 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 2/4/07, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 2/4/07, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: But to my surprise ConTeXt automatically converts my RGB colors (even the MP defined ones), except that the final colors

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and CMYK

2007-02-04 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: luigi scarso wrote: On 2/2/07, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have some questions about cmyk in combination with Metapost. Just by using \setupcolors[state=start, cmyk=yes, mpcmyk=yes, rgb=no, ] I get cmy(k=0

Re: [NTG-context] postscript problem

2007-02-03 Thread Peter Rolf
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: looks like a problem in the metapost beta (context depends on metapost not generating empty lines). Thanks for the info. I have wasted five hours on this, but I couldn't find the place, where the line is inserted. I'll look this up in the weekend

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and CMYK

2007-02-03 Thread Peter Rolf
luigi scarso wrote: On 2/2/07, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have some questions about cmyk in combination with Metapost. Just by using \setupcolors[state=start, cmyk=yes, mpcmyk=yes, rgb=no, ] I get cmy(k=0) graphics, although all used colors are still defined

[NTG-context] Metapost and CMYK

2007-02-02 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi all, I have some questions about cmyk in combination with Metapost. Just by using \setupcolors[state=start, cmyk=yes, mpcmyk=yes, rgb=no, ] I get cmy(k=0) graphics, although all used colors are still defined in the rgb color space. This is really a nice feature and the automatic color

Re: [NTG-context] postscript problem

2007-02-02 Thread Peter Rolf
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: I've tested it on context live, but the versions of pdftex and metapost are too old (but work without errors) for any comparison. Used versions: pdftex 1.40.1, metapost 0.933, context 18.01.2007 Any hints

Re: [NTG-context] How to make a natural table float.

2007-02-02 Thread Peter Rolf
John R. Culleton wrote: On Wednesday 31 January 2007 19:31, John R. Culleton wrote: OK I solved that problem by enclosing the table in {} and now the table floats. But now I have a wierder one. The \setupcaptions[location=high] command puts the caption alongside the table instead of over

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Claudia, Claudia Lanzl wrote: Hello, I have a question on (absolute) positionning of figures/images. I try to position my images in that way shown in the layout in this attachment (hope I can post images this way?). I try to do it with the following lines:

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Rolf
luigi scarso wrote: My 2 cents: Why not use a table ? maybe also an option, but how will you set the different widths for pic01 and pic04 (2,3 and 5) in the same column? i know that you can span columns, but can you set the width of every column at row level? i must say, that i haven't tried

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Rolf
vertical spanning (first two rows). feel free to try it (i think TABLE is good for this). see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TABLE#Designing_complex_TABLEs for the details or better: ask luigi ;) greetings, peter Greetings, Claudia Peter Rolf wrote: luigi scarso wrote: My 2 cents

Re: [NTG-context] Imposition struggles

2007-01-21 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Willi, Willi Egger wrote: Help! I need to get a book on paper... Using: ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.18 12:57 MKII fmt: 2007.1.19 int: english/english Problem: By means of veroffset and horoffset the arranged pages should be placed in the center of the sheet. However, depending on

[NTG-context] postscript problem

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, I have a problem with the postscript output of a MP graphic. The (attached) ps file contains a single blank line, which breaks the conversion by mptopdf. [..] [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.1 Runaway argument? ! Paragraph ended before \handleMPsequence was complete. to be read again

Re: [NTG-context] postscript problem

2007-01-19 Thread Peter Rolf
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: I've tested it on context live, but the versions of pdftex and metapost are too old (but work without errors) for any comparison. Used versions: pdftex 1.40.1, metapost 0.933, context 18.01.2007 Any hints welcome. looks like a problem

[NTG-context] bug in figure database

2007-01-17 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Hans, I'm currently building up a new tree, based on your minimal system. Everything works fine, except figure inclusion from data bases. I finally traced it down to the following typo(s) (x-fig-00.tex | x-fig-04.tex) : \def\dogetfigurefilename#1% {\ifx\figurefilename\empty \bgroup

[NTG-context] problem with undefined control sequence

2007-01-16 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, this used to work. % - - - - - - - - \setupoutput[pdftex] \def\startTODO{% \inleft{\bf TODO:}\setupitemize[before={\blank[small]}]% \startitemize[4,packed,inmargin,joinedup]} \let\stopTODO\stopitemize \starttext \startTODO \item foo \item bar \item 2000 \stopTODO \stoptext % - - - -

Re: [NTG-context] problem with undefined control sequence

2007-01-16 Thread Peter Rolf
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: With the current ConTeXt (12.01.07) and pdftex 1.40.1 I get this error message: That version is so last week! Please update again Thanks Taco! Seems I have missed the tree update. It's running without problems on the big tree (justtex+mswintex

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a TABLE

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Gerhard, Gerhard Kugler wrote: On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:02:43PM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: What's wrong with \rotate{your table} ? Thanks Henning. But now I still have a problem. The TABLE covers a whole page. This page should habe a colored background (grey). I get the

Re: [NTG-context] rightframe=on

2007-01-13 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Wolfgang, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: Hallo! % a lot of weird corners in core-rul ... Hallo! I played a little with this and found some artefacts in the arc with rulethickness=2pt or 4pt (3pt is ok). \framed[corner=14, I haven't tested it, but if the

Re: [NTG-context] rightframe=on

2007-01-13 Thread Peter Rolf
Many thanks, Sanjoy! Greetings, Peter Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: I haven't tested it, but if the interface hasn't changed, only corner=round|rectangular are allowed. So what is the meaning of this magic number 14? It says which of the many possible combinations of rounded/rectangular corners,

Re: [NTG-context] Lost in METAPOST

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Rolf
luigi scarso wrote: Almost for sure (99.9%) I have made some dp mess with last context distro. Now, I would like to discover where I have corrupted my installation. %% \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext %%\global\runMPgraphicstrue \startuseMPgraphic{hans}

Re: [NTG-context] Lost in METAPOST

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Rolf
luigi scarso wrote: On 1/12/07, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: Almost for sure (99.9%) I have made some dp mess with last context distro. Now, I would like to discover where I have corrupted my installation. %% \setupcolors[state

Re: [NTG-context] Lost in METAPOST

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf wrote: [..] \openout0 = `b-mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. systems : system commands are enabled color : mpcmyk color space is supported color : mpspot color space is supported color : system rgb is global activated (./b.tuo

Re: [NTG-context] Page numbering

2007-01-01 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Elliot, Elliot Clifton wrote: Hi, I need to set the start number for the pages in my journal so that the numbering continues from the previous issue in the volume. After reading p77 of the manual I understand that I can use \setuppagenumber[number] to set the start number.

Re: [NTG-context] shading with stitching functions

2006-12-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Mojca, this is also on my wishlist (and christmas is over). Currently I use several color gradients in a row, to simulate the same effect. But sadly this way is too viewer dependent (rendering is a matter of luck with every new version), not to mention the big size. So if there would be a

[NTG-context] spurious space in figurebase graphics

2006-12-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi all, even with the today's version I get a spurious space in front of every figurebase graphic. Can someone please confirm this. I have made a small test file (7zip,38k), but it's still too big for the list. So if you are interested, please mail me off list and I send you the file. Or you can

Re: [NTG-context] shading with stitching functions

2006-12-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 12/27/06, Peter Rolf wrote: Hi Mojca, this is also on my wishlist (and christmas is over). Currently I use several color gradients in a row, to simulate the same effect. But sadly this way is too viewer dependent (rendering is a matter of luck with every new version

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