Re: [NTG-context] something like \setnumber[chapter]{0}

2007-06-06 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Duncan, thanks for help! On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:07:43 +0100, Duncan Hothersall wrote: Hi Steffen: Hi, I am looking for a number-reset-command for sections, comparable to \setnumber[footnote]{0} \setupheadnumber[chapter][0] Jesus ... this combination would never ever come to my

Re: [NTG-context] something like \setnumber[chapter]{0}

2007-06-06 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:26:20 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2007/6/6, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Duncan, thanks for help! On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:07:43 +0100, Duncan Hothersall wrote: Hi Steffen: Hi, I am looking for a number-reset-command for sections, comparable

[NTG-context] something like \setnumber[chapter]{0}

2007-06-05 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I am looking for a number-reset-command for sections, comparable to \setnumber[footnote]{0} Someone knows the right syntax? ¡Muchas gracias! Steffen ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

[NTG-context] How to format the line Table of Contents ?

2007-06-05 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, maybe just a detail, but it never was really clear to me: To change the actual text of TOC's heading I use ... \setupheadtext [de] [content=Inhaltsverzeichnis] But how do I manually change the formatting (font, spaces etc.) for this line? Steffen

Re: [NTG-context] page break handle in TOC

2007-06-04 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:59:24 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: BTW: Do you have some news for TOC fine-tuning? (see below) i know that it's needed -) thanks for the feedback sorry for not being faster sorry for asking ;o) Steffen

[NTG-context] preset for max spacewidth ?

2007-06-04 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, in some projects the regular (empty space) becomes quite wide, in some justified paragraphs. I guess there is a preset somewhere describing the range how far the space can be shrinked/stretched. So, in these projects I'd like to have the maximum spacewidth set a bit narrower. Just,

Re: [NTG-context] page break handle in TOC

2007-06-02 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
BTW: Do you have some news for TOC fine-tuning? (see below) Steffen On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:28:51 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:06:07 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi Hans, fine-tuning a TOC is horrible when you have a lot

[NTG-context] Multiple Search/Replace in one script?

2007-05-26 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I am looking for a way to automate (and also archive) my most common ten or twenty search/replace runs. I have to admit, I have no idea about scripting. But I guess there should be a way in Applecript/Perl/Rupy/Whatever to write down several entries with... ... what should be the search

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt release 2007.04.17

2007-05-17 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Taco, I was just re-reding your release notes 2007.04.17. What do you mean by ... texexec (once again) support the handling of LaTeX files ? Does it mean I can envelope latex files/snippets in regular context files and then process? Checking this, it didn't work, So I googled and found:

Re: [NTG-context] lilypond newbie

2007-05-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
So, after extensive testing (with support from Arthur) using the lilypond-module (as described) just doesn't work at all. What to do now? As it seems to be a question of several parts working / not working together, who feels responsible? Steffen On Fri, 11 May 2007 18:31:10 +0200,

Re: [NTG-context] lilypond newbie

2007-05-10 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Wed, 9 May 2007 23:31:00 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2007-05-09 um 13:47 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: \enableregime[utf] \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext \startlilypond % Telemann, TWV 40:11 \version 2.6.3 far tool old! use the latest LilyPond 2.10.x! (the module works only

[NTG-context] short last line

2007-05-09 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
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 this last line should consist of

[NTG-context] lilypond newbie

2007-05-09 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, just out of curiosity I wanted to check whether my context could typeset music. I found lilypond mentioned on the list, downloaded lilypond-2.10.23-1.darwin-x86.tar.bz2 from lilypond.org, t-lilypond.pdf from ctan and t-lilypond.tex posted by Henning here. When I typeset texexec test.test

Re: [NTG-context] short last line

2007-05-09 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
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 a command that only cares

Re: [NTG-context] lilypond newbie

2007-05-09 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Wed, 9 May 2007 09:19:19 -0400 (EDT), Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 9 May 2007, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, just out of curiosity I wanted to check whether my context could typeset music. I found lilypond mentioned on the list, downloaded lilypond-2.10.23-1.darwin-x86.tar.bz2 from

Re: [NTG-context] xetext-pdftex differences

2007-04-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:22:39 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: luatex itself has still the pdftex machinery around, so you can use map files to handle things when you use for instance type one fonts. Does this mean for document with different fonts I will be able to use my good old mapfiles like

Re: [NTG-context] xetext-pdftex differences

2007-04-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:44:18 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: You should try to get uc working if possible, but you need to add some definitions from my previous mail. If you want to stick with texnansi, you should better use pdfTeX. I have a document with German as the main language, defined ...

Re: [NTG-context] xetext-pdftex differences

2007-04-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:46:51 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:44:18 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: You should try to get uc working if possible, but you need to add some definitions from my previous mail. If you want to stick with texnansi, you should

Re: [NTG-context] xetext-pdftex differences

2007-04-11 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Moica, thanks for your detailed support! On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:27:47 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Where do I go when I experience differences between context/pdftext and context/xetex? What do you mean? these: For example with context/xetex I get ... ! Undefined control sequence.

[NTG-context] xetext-pdftex differences

2007-04-08 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, as there are some on this list working/playing with xetex/context: Where do I go when I experience differences between context/pdftext and context/xetex? For example with context/xetex I get ... ! Undefined control sequence. \stopframedtext -\dostopframedtext ... and I do get SS instead

[NTG-context] What happened to \usetypescript[postscript] ?

2007-04-06 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, yesterday me too switched from a working 2006 TeX installation to a more recent TeXLive2007 (all with OSX). In general it works. Only using \usetypescript[postscript] (for using the Nimbus/Times) fails: %context \starttext \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding]

Re: [NTG-context] What happened to \usetypescript[postscript] ?

2007-04-06 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Zitat von luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ! Font \*postscript12ptrmtfrm*:=texnansi-utmr8a at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. This line say that you don't have installed the font required; maybe the font is in your system, but you didn't said to TeX to install it (no

[NTG-context] XML in ConTeXt (TeX - XML)

2007-04-01 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, in the XML manual example .pdf the chapter basic workflows talks about TeX - style - XML : we simply typeset XML. The typeset document (with lots of angle brackets) is then converted into raw text. That sounds like ... texmfstart texexec --xml --foo.tex ... but this also calls pdfetex

Re: [NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph

2007-03-30 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi List Mail, On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:06:57 +0800, List Mail wrote: I know this is a newbie question. However I have read the fine manual (see below), and I still don't know how to indent a paragraph under ConTeXt. The following code does NOT produce an indented paragraph. Can somebody tell

[NTG-context] Does \Level2Command work?

2007-03-29 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, in one of Luigi's Grid-keeping table-mail I saw the term \setbox100. I didn't try that code, don't know what it means. But it gave me the idea: is it actually possible to use numbers in defining command's names? Something like this ... \setuphead[Level2]

Re: [NTG-context] HZ and DVI

2007-03-29 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Arthur and Patrick, On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:56:49 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi Arthur, (old question, but may be of interest to others) That's probably the biggest pain with most PDF viewers, not watching files; at any rate it's what I miss the most now I'm using XeTeX as my

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-27 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Patrick, very nice, thank you! Just some questions that came to my head: 1) The snipped feature uses the tab key for triggering *further* information, right? (If I remember correctly) I knew a similar feature (was it in AlphaX/Tk?) where the tab helped me to *complete* the command. For

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-27 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Patrick, On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:26:10 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Enter \sub and press the escape key (several times). Then you can use the tab key for further information. Ahh! The escape-key!! On my machine (up to now) this was already assigned to enter snippet for Butler (by

Re: [NTG-context] broken: noligature AND hyphenation

2007-03-19 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Just for the records: One has to be careful with this kind of avoiding ligatures. In most cases it works perfect, but when the word moves towards the end of the line and should be broken then the hyphen misses! But I guess there is no solution that fits *both* situations: regularly on a line

Re: [NTG-context] Umlaut causes footnotline to jump

2007-03-16 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Peter that's it, that is exactly the kind of adjustment what I was looking for. Thank you very, very much! Steffen On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:50:21 +0100, Peter Rolf wrote: you can try to lower the baseline for the footnotes by changing the relation of height and depth. this way you get a

[NTG-context] Umlaut causes footnotline to jump

2007-03-15 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, again, unfortunately close to the printing, we have found an insoluble ugly detail in the footnotes. There is a very strange thing with german umlaut (actually it took me 2 hours to see this point). Have a look at the example below: When you change the \O to O the interlinespace snaps back

Re: [NTG-context] Umlaut causes footnotline to jump

2007-03-15 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Sorry, I don't understand this. Please take a look at this more realistic, extended example: \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[mac] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]

Re: [NTG-context] Umlaut causes footnotline to jump

2007-03-15 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:05:41 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[mac] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] \definepapersize[MyPage][width=15.7cm,height=23.2cm]

Re: [NTG-context] Umlaut causes footnotline to jump

2007-03-15 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:05:41 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[mac] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] \definepapersize[MyPage][width=15.7cm,height=23.2cm]

Re: [NTG-context] quotation

2007-03-06 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Do you mean a result like this? ›Zitat‹ »Zitation« Using gwTeX too, I would't change cont-sys.tex or lang-ger.tex. If needed I would do it like this: \setuplanguage[de] [leftquote=\guilsingleright,rightquote=\guilsingleleft, leftquotation=\rightguillemot,rightquotation=\leftguillemot]

[NTG-context] additional footnote (quite late)

2007-03-02 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, sometimes – just before the printer heats up his machine – there is something important too add, but yet the footnote-numbering can't be changed anymore (see example below please): \starttext First sentence.\footnote{First footnote} Something added\footnote[-]{In-between footnote}.

[NTG-context] split footnote bug

2007-02-26 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, it seems this thread got lost. For it describes a quite ugly phenomenon I dare to post it again again. Please, have a look at this 3-page example: \newdimen\XVertikal \XVertikal=12pt \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=\XVertikal] \setuplayout

Re: [NTG-context] split footnote bug

2007-02-26 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
-slipping stays.) On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:24:12 +0100, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, it seems this thread got lost. For it describes a quite ugly phenomenon I dare to post it again again. Please, have a look at this 3-page example: \newdimen\XVertikal \XVertikal=12pt \setupbodyfont

Re: [NTG-context] split footnote bug

2007-02-26 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
As there was no reply at all on this thread I got in fear that the slipping last line of a split footnote is a basic TeX bug, well known and maybe inevitable?! So I tried to reproduce the same situation in LaTeX (as I don't know the plain TeX equivalent): \documentclass[11pt]{article}

Re: [NTG-context] grid vs. frame (+minimal example)

2007-02-19 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:05:40 +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote: While looking at it, I fiddled a bit with a \setuplayout like this: ..., height=\the\dimexpr48\XVertikal+1pt\relax, This allows you to visually align the frame and the grid. Hm, to visually align the frame and the grid

Re: [NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-15 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:48:41 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: On 2/14/07, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luigi, thanks for the offer. On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:45:46 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: I usually give my best with a complete working example 'I-have-this--I-want-that'.tex

[NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I understood that … \bTABLE[option=stretch] … gives a horizontal stretch, so that a TABLE snaps left and right to the frame (\showframe text edges). When along table is split over several pages with \bTABLE[split=yes] it is very unlikely that the bottom-line of the bottom most row sits

Re: [NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Luigi, thanks for the offer. On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:45:46 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: I usually give my best with a complete working example 'I-have-this--I-want-that'.tex or 'this-doesn't-work-as-expected'.tex or 'i-don't-understand-this'.tex Can you made an example ? See attached

[NTG-context] TOC (was: register) fine tuning

2007-02-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
] That would give me back several hours to life! Thank you, Steffen On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:17:01 +0200, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Am 26.10.2006 um 10:32 schrieb Hans Hagen: hm, you really want to do that now? Yes, please: the printing house is wating for the book today... i'll make

[NTG-context] Gap above \placefigure[top] ?

2007-02-10 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, sorry, the next looks so simple, it's probably an often answered thing (I just could not find the answer anywhere…) Why is there a little gap above the figure, though it should be top. How to avoid it? \starttext \showframe \placefigure[top]{}{\externalfigure[../Figures/Test][frame=off]}

[NTG-context] Footnote numbering broken ?

2007-02-08 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, shouldn't the following work? \starttext \setnumber[footnote]{3} test\footnote{x} \stoptext Steffen This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) \write18 enabled. (/usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.pkgs/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./table_test.tex ConTeXt ver:

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes lost in Natural Tables

2007-02-08 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:35:40 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: an addition: footnotes within blocks are lost too. Numbering goes on, but the note does not appear. has to do with inserts not possible and disappearing in boxes \postponefootnotes something tabular \flushfootnotes But this

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes lost in Natural Tables (solved)

2007-02-08 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:33:06 +0100, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:35:40 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: an addition: footnotes within blocks are lost too. Numbering goes on, but the note does not appear. has to do with inserts not possible and disappearing in boxes

[NTG-context] Footnotes lost in Natural Tables

2007-02-04 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, once again I ran into a dead-end where I never dreamt it could be a problem: using footnotes in tables. For my current project I have to use 16 tables, spread over the whole text (about 400 pages). Some of these tables also need footnotes (sometimes quite large). But they should be

[NTG-context] grid versus whitespace

2007-01-18 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, please have a look at following example: \starttext \setupwhitespace[5pt] \setuplayout[grid=no] \showstruts \showgrid \showgridboxes \setuphead[section][grid=fit] \section{Heading One} \input tufte \input knuth \stoptext For the section is too high, I set grid=yes which gives the

[NTG-context] footnotes and footnote markers on SPREAD

2007-01-18 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, there seems to be a rule that footnotes and footnote markers have to be kept on the same page -- even if there stays a lot of white space at the bottom. Is there also a kind of penalties to modify the rule like this: Keeping on the same page would be best, but on the same SPREAD is

Re: [NTG-context] small smaller and vertical stretch

2006-12-13 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 12.12.2006 um 19:58 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Am 12.12.2006 um 18:18 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, using small and medium rather than 8pt or 10pt gives some vertical stretch. Very useful in some situations: \setupinterlinespace[small] \setupwhitespace[medium

Re: [NTG-context] small smaller and vertical stretch

2006-12-13 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 12.12.2006 um 18:18 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, using small and medium rather than 8pt or 10pt gives some vertical stretch. Very useful in some situations: \setupinterlinespace[small] \setupwhitespace[medium] But what to do if small is still too big? And yet

[NTG-context] small smaller and vertical stretch

2006-12-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, using small and medium rather than 8pt or 10pt gives some vertical stretch. Very useful in some situations: \setupinterlinespace[small] \setupwhitespace[medium] But what to do if small is still too big? And yet the stretch is needed? While I can say ... \blank[.75*medium] ... this

Re: [NTG-context] small smaller and vertical stretch

2006-12-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 12.12.2006 um 18:18 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, using small and medium rather than 8pt or 10pt gives some vertical stretch. Very useful in some situations: \setupinterlinespace[small] \setupwhitespace[medium] But what to do if small is still too big? And yet

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt update deletes user files?

2006-12-11 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 11.12.2006 um 10:11 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: I am afraid you should ask this question on the Mac Os TeX mailing list (i know there is one, just don't know the address). Subscribe at Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ (List Archive:

[NTG-context] broken: noligature AND hyphenation

2006-11-29 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, just by chance I experienced that there seems to be a problem with ligatures and hyphenation in ConTeXt. This is the example: \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[mac] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] broken: noligature AND hyphenation

2006-11-29 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, just by chance I experienced that there seems to be a problem with ligatures and hyphenation in ConTeXt. This is the example: \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[mac

Re: [NTG-context] broken: noligature AND hyphenation

2006-11-29 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Yes, that's it!! Thank you Taco! (Great as always ...) Steffen Am 29.11.2006 um 15:01 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Hans Hagen wrote: In TeX (or only LaTeX?) Auf-lagen or Auf|lagen would do this. But what is the equivalent in ConTeXt? \- To be precise, make that Auf|\-|lagen. Taco

Re: [NTG-context] register fine tuning

2006-10-26 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
I have to start a new file with a kind of \input command? Steffen Am 25.10.2006 um 22:45 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I am not sure how a ConTeXt index register is generated and what role the tui and tuo files play. But could it be possible to manually fine tune

Re: [NTG-context] register fine tuning

2006-10-26 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 26.10.2006 um 10:32 schrieb Hans Hagen: hm, you really want to do that now? Yes, please: the printing house is wating for the book today... i'll make a beta that can do: \placeregister[index] \placeregister[index][file=testtest] so, you can copy test.tuo to testtest.tuo and them

Re: [NTG-context] character width

2006-10-25 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
\hphantom ! What a promising word for exactly what I needed! Again and again I am surprised how many (strange) commands there exist. Where does \hphantom come frome? Where is it documented? Thank you for your replies! But it could be even better: As I need, finally, a construct like ...

[NTG-context] register fine tuning

2006-10-25 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I am not sure how a ConTeXt index register is generated and what role the tui and tuo files play. But could it be possible to manually fine tune the generated register? Something like from ... Keywords -- secret 35 -- popular 25, 26, 27, 88, 89 ... to ... Keywords see also Commands --

[NTG-context] index bug ?

2006-10-25 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, hopefully just my system is corrupted. Please have a look at the following strange register entry under g Gesetzesvorbehalt: Arbeitsanweisungen durch Bun- desminister 2, 1, 2 Below you may try the original minimal example (it's not small, but otherwise the problem doesn't show up). If

Re: [NTG-context] index bug ? [urgent]

2006-10-25 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
: The example below is authentic. Am 25.10.2006 um 13:26 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Hi, hopefully just my system is corrupted. Please have a look at the following strange register entry under g Gesetzesvorbehalt: Arbeitsanweisungen durch Bun- desminister 2, 1, 2 Below you may try the original

[NTG-context] character width

2006-10-24 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, for fine-adjusting I need to have a variable horizontal space sometimes the width of 999 sometimes of 1, for example. Is there a command that reads the width of a character so it can be used in some kind of horizontal space? Steffen ___

Re: [NTG-context] character width

2006-10-24 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Yes, that's it. Thank you! But can it also be defined in a more handy \MySpace[999] ? Sorry, I tried some \def ... but didn't succeed. Steffen Am 24.10.2006 um 14:55 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, for fine-adjusting I need to have a variable horizontal space

[NTG-context] German hyphenation broken ?

2006-10-23 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, could someone please have a look at the minimal example below: On my system it seems that the old germ hyphenation doesn't work anymore. Line 7 and line 9 are for sure hyphenated according to the new rules Einbu-ßen and Sy-stem Do others experience the same or is only my installation

[NTG-context] Fundamental change in index mechanism ?

2006-10-22 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, because of a second edition I had to typeset a project from august 2006 a second time (with very, very little text changes). Then, I experienced that the register had changed (a simple \index [keyword] and \placeregister[index]). And with a closer look I saw that in the first edition the

Re: [NTG-context] Fundamental change in index mechanism ?

2006-10-22 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
A minimal example is again not so easily written (as I don't know where the problem is). But if you don't mind I could send you the actual files privately. Steffen Am 22.10.2006 um 13:53 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, because of a second edition I had to typeset

Re: [NTG-context] Fundamental change in index mechanism ?

2006-10-22 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 22.10.2006 um 13:32 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, because of a second edition I had to typeset a project from august 2006 a second time (with very, very little text changes). Then, I experienced that the register had changed (a simple \index [keyword

Re: [NTG-context] index formatting

2006-09-13 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
I also downloaded the current beta but the problem related to collapsing page numbers is still there. Just comment / uncomment the marked line and watch the change in the third register (the one that uses the compress=yes key): \starttext \placelist[section][criterium=all] \blank[5*big]

Re: [NTG-context] beta (31.08.2006)

2006-09-07 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 06.09.2006 um 23:35 schrieb Hans Hagen: can you test the version i just uploaded and when it fails send me a test file? Hans Does this beta also provide a fix for the index bug (see below)? Steffen If I change your testfile by one line \page test text the output becomes really

Re: [NTG-context] vertical kerning for TwoThird needed

2006-09-01 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Ahh! \raise and \lower ... these I've missed. Look like plain TeX commands, right? Thank you Peter, (immediately I go and get a copy of that TeXbook) Steffen Am 31.08.2006 um 22:44 schrieb Peter Rolf: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, comparable to the pre-defined \threequarter I want

Re: [NTG-context] index (again)

2006-08-31 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Does the current beta also provide a fix for the index bug (see below)? Steffen Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: If I change your testfile by one line \page test text the output becomes really strange: test index 2, 2, 2 Is this a sign that I don't have the latest beta with the

[NTG-context] vertical kerning for TwoThird needed

2006-08-31 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, comparable to the pre-defined \threequarter I want to write a \TwoThird. The following looks quite good (with my respective font settings) ... \def\TwoThird{{\tx\high{\txx 2}}\kern-0.1em/\kern-0.1em{\txx 3}} ... but still the 2 is a bit to high. How can I adjust vertikal kerning?

Re: [NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-08-15 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 13.08.2006 um 15:29 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: And what would be the opposite? For example \startquote ... \stopquote to something like {MyQuote ... } Steffen \def\MyQuote#1{\startquote#1\stopquote} \MyQuote{something to be quoted} ... should work OK, right? Steffen

Re: [NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-08-13 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 10.08.2006 um 22:47 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: You can always define your own startstop. \definestartstop[italic][before={\bgroup \it},after={\egroup}] and then do \startitalic This is italic \stopitalic When a command takes an optional agrument, you can do use something like

[NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-08-10 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, in XML and alike there is a concept of dedicated start/stop in formatting: begin heading ... end heading begin footnote ... end footnote begin italic ... end italic But in ConTeXt/TeX we have always the same closing syntax }. That makes reading the code not easier. Is there a

Re: [NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-08-10 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Thank you. \footnote \index \chapter\section ... \it \bf \sc \mr \cap \language[...] That would be quite a good start. Steffen Am 10.08.2006 um 22:44 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, in XML and alike there is a concept of dedicated start/stop

[NTG-context] times bolditalic in chapter

2006-08-06 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, probably very basic question. I need the chapter set in bold (and if necessary - see below - in bolditalic). How can this be done when using Times via \usetypescript[postscript] [\defaultencoding] ? \starttext \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt]

[NTG-context] hyphenation by default off in lists ?

2006-08-06 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, is hyphenation by default off in lists? If so, why doesn't align={hyphenated,right} start the hyphening? \starttext %\setuplist[section][align={hyphenated,right}] \completecontent \section{\input tufte} \stoptext Steffen ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] index (again)

2006-08-04 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
not 37, 38, 39 but 37-39, for example. This is what I need, and what I need help for. Steffen Am 03.08.2006 um 00:08 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hans, what about you? i'm not sure what you want, what is real document Hans Steffen Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail

Re: [NTG-context] index (again)

2006-08-04 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 04.08.2006 um 14:17 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, today evening is the deadline and I need to know a solution to the following request. If there is *NO* solution possible in ConTeXt please tell me today (!) so I can think of a complete different workaround

Re: [NTG-context] index (again)

2006-08-02 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 02.08.2006 um 10:01 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I need to know if the following is possible in ConTeXt. If it's not, please don't hesitate to tell me, so I can think of a work-around. It it is possible, it would be great to tell me how! Is this is inside

Re: [NTG-context] setuphead, setuplist

2006-07-31 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
to avoid the sectionnumber for my chapter in the TOC? Steffen Am 31.07.2006 um 07:31 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: That's it. Now the corresponding entry in the TOC should be without sectionnumber, but setuplist[...][sectionnumber=no] doesn't work. And looking in the manual I saw

[NTG-context] How to achieve: (a) sectiontitle

2006-07-30 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I am confused about the ) and setupsection or setuphead: What I need is a section that looks like this a) text b) text and a section like this (aa) text (bb) text The conversion is clear but what about ), resp. ( before and ) after the sectionnumber. How and where is this called?

Re: [NTG-context] setuphead

2006-07-30 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Well, looks good, BUT if the chapter's name is quite long and needs a break then the break command used there (\crlf \break \\) can't work anymore Steffen Am 29.07.2006 um 09:11 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: You mean like this? \setuphead[chapter][command

Re: [NTG-context] setuphead, setuplist

2006-07-30 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Well, looks good, BUT if the chapter's name is quite long and needs a break then the break command used there (\crlf \break \\) can't work anymore \setuphead[chapter] [command=\Sectioncommand, style=, textstyle

[NTG-context] regexp for matching entire footnotes

2006-07-29 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I have to find (highlight) footnotes with the entire footnote being marked/highlighted. Constructing a regexp for this is far beyond what I can write, that's why I frankly ask for help here: The problems are the (potentially) nested pairs of curled brackets (like for \index, \emphasize

[NTG-context] title of combinedlist

2006-07-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, how do I define the title of a combined list? - completecontent has a predefined title (Content or Inhalt): how to change this? - my own defined combined lists don't show any title: where to define and how to show up? Steffen ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] title of combinedlist

2006-07-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 28.07.2006 um 11:52 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, how do I define the title of a combined list? - completecontent has a predefined title (Content or Inhalt): how to change this? Yes, found this in lang-* : \setupheadtext [de] [content=Inhaltsverzeichnis

Re: [NTG-context] title of combinedlist (solved)

2006-07-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
=Inhaltsübersicht] \completeMyContent \chapter{chapter} \section{section} \stoptext Steffen Am 28.07.2006 um 13:40 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Am 28.07.2006 um 11:52 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, how do I define the title of a combined list? - completecontent has a predefined title

Re: [NTG-context] setuphead

2006-07-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
You mean like this? \setuphead[chapter][command=\midaligned,numbercommand=\it,inbetween= \crlf,textcommand=\bf] But what should inbetween be to force a linebreak? Steffen On 27.07.2006, at 15:25, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I was sure it should be quite standard

Re: [NTG-context] setuphead

2006-07-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
No, I don't mean header I mean heading, title, name of a section! Steffen On 27.07.2006, at 17:23, Hans Hagen wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I was sure it should be quite standard, but I couldn't figure our how to set a heading like this: Chapter label/number (centered,small,italic

Re: [NTG-context] setupitemize confusion

2006-07-27 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 27.07.2006 um 08:05 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Am 27.07.2006 um 07:32 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, both paragraph should be indented 12 pt. But there are different: \starttext \startitemize[width

Re: [NTG-context] setupitemize confusion

2006-07-27 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
or three typical entries + wrap with \start/stopitemize) ? Is your bibliography big ? I assume your this work is urgent and you can't make a .bib, right ? Renaud Steffen Wolfrum a écrit : Am 27.07.2006 um 08:05 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Am 27.07.2006

[NTG-context] setuplabeltext bug ?

2006-07-27 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, the label is killed when changing new (de) german to old (deo) german: \mainlanguage[de]%de=new, deo=old \starttext \setuplabeltext[de][chapter=Chapter] \chapter{Text} \stoptext Right? Steffen ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] setupitemize confusion

2006-07-27 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Very nice! Thank you Taco. Steffen Am 27.07.2006 um 10:36 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi Renaud, sure, here it is: \starttext \def\Textit{\groupedcommand\it\/} \def\hangover{\hangafter=1\hangindent=16pt } Try this: \def\dashauthor {\leavevmode

[NTG-context] setuphead

2006-07-27 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I was sure it should be quite standard, but I couldn't figure our how to set a heading like this: Chapter label/number (centered,small,italic) (linebreak) Chapter titel (centered,bigger,bold) Is there a command=... to be written, or could it be achieved by combining the various options

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