Re: [NTG-context] TTF fonts and MKIV

2011-01-29 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 28 January 2011 16:52:57 Marco Pessotto wrote: John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com writes: Is there a short, simple guide somewhere that shows how to use TTF and OTF fonts in Context? I downloaded the new Fonts chapter but it goes deep into the weeds on typescripts etc. I am

[NTG-context] TTF fonts and MKIV

2011-01-28 Thread John Culleton
: simply designate for use a font or font family that exists in /usr/share/fonts without typescripts, complex and confusing aliasing schemes or tfm files. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com

[NTG-context] Comment on new Page Design Chapter for new manual.

2011-01-27 Thread John Culleton
in. --- The terminology may need some refinement but you get the idea. Think of the Man from Mars encountering Context and even TeX for the first time. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/p/books/4055.html Typesetting and indexing http

Re: [NTG-context] Commutative Diagrams

2010-11-14 Thread John Culleton
. But the eplain package has a conflict with Context macros. Perhaps you could build the diagrams in eplain as individual eps or pdf files and then place them in a Context document. -- John Culleton, Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free

[NTG-context] Centering framed text.

2010-11-13 Thread John Culleton
\stoptext -- John Culleton, Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free eps format barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland

Re: [NTG-context] Centering framed text.

2010-11-13 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 13 November 2010 21:11:50 Li Yanrui (李延瑞) wrote: 2010/11/14 John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com: Given the following, how do I center the framed text box on the page? \setupframedtexts[background=screen,width=.6\hsize, align=middle

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts

2010-09-22 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 18:37:48 Khaled Hosny wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 06:17:41PM -0400, John Culleton wrote: Well I have been typesetting books in plain tex and pdftex for a decade or more. Supposedly luatex is a superset of pdftex that makes finding fonts easier and eliminates

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts

2010-09-22 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 09:27:52 Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2010 15:25:26 John Culleton wrote: You mentioned building a database, and yes that took some time. Is there a way to have it scan fonts in /usr/share/fonts as well? export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts Alan

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts

2010-09-21 Thread John Culleton
' ... --- Any hints? At the moment I am looking to use just plain Luatex. I can only handle one set of confusing things at a time :) -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts

2010-09-21 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 17:43:15 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2010-09-21 um 23:27 schrieb John Culleton: On Friday 10 September 2010 15:54:00 Peter Schorsch wrote: You can list all local availble fonts with: mtxrun --script fonts --list --all More details under: http

Re: [NTG-context] Wiki: Tables Overview: What table macros are deprecated?

2010-09-02 Thread John Culleton
syntax). linetable is experimental (don't know if it's supported on MkIV). Greetlings from Lake Constance! I use the table macros that come with TeXsis instead. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055

[NTG-context] protcode again

2010-05-21 Thread John Culleton
) but not mkiv (context). I'll proceed with mkii for the current project but long term I expect difficulties. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Re: [NTG-context] protcode again

2010-05-21 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 21 May 2010 08:46:37 luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:40 PM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: The following code works with mkii but not with mkiv: \usetypescript[times][texnansi] \usetypescript[serif,sans][hanging][pure] \setupalign[hanging

[NTG-context] mkiv typescript and map files

2010-05-20 Thread John Culleton
Recently started working with context minimal and mkiv. I don't know how much of the traditional structure still is in play. Where do I find the typescript files and the map files applicable to mkiv? I mounted the context minimal distro on /opt on my Slackware Linux system. -- John Culleton

[NTG-context] Protcode for context

2010-05-20 Thread John Culleton
} \edef \fontstyle {#1}\ifmmode \... l.8 \pdffontexpand\rm 20 20 5 autoexpand - It does not matter whether I use minimals or texlive. -- John Culleton Wexford Press

Re: [NTG-context] Protcode for context

2010-05-20 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday 20 May 2010 11:37:15 Taco Hoekwater wrote: John Culleton wrote: The following works for pdftex -- \rm \pdfadjustspacing=2 \input protcode.tex \pdfprotrudechars=2 \setprotcode\font \pdffontexpand\rm 20 20 5 autoexpand \rm

Re: [NTG-context] Protcode for context

2010-05-20 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday 20 May 2010 19:56:00 John Culleton wrote: On Thursday 20 May 2010 11:37:15 Taco Hoekwater wrote: John Culleton wrote: The following works for pdftex -- \rm \pdfadjustspacing=2 \input protcode.tex \pdfprotrudechars=2

[NTG-context] MKIV guide or tutorial.

2010-05-12 Thread John Culleton
The MKIV reference guide runs over 300 pages. I am looking for something briefer that gives the basics of using MKIV, how to call it, how to use fonts and so on. Is there such a document? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http

Re: [NTG-context] Run context from Perl script

2010-05-12 Thread John Culleton
/setuptex; context -- silent --batch myfile.tex}; I have texlive 2009 installed. I get the same error messages: bash-3.1$ context book.tex MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' Do I have to install context-minimals to use mkiv or is this just a path problem? -- John

[NTG-context] problem with def

2010-05-12 Thread John Culleton
In plain pdftex I can define a string thus: \def\booktitle{My Book Title} and then reuse it later as \rightline{\bf\booktitle} But in Context when I use \rightaligned{\bf\booktitle} it errors on the tag \booktitle I tried \the\booktitle but that didn't work either. -- John Culleton Wexford

Re: [NTG-context] problem with def

2010-05-12 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 10:52:03 Taco Hoekwater wrote: John Culleton wrote: In plain pdftex I can define a string thus: \def\booktitle{My Book Title} and then reuse it later as \rightline{\bf\booktitle} But in Context when I use \rightaligned{\bf\booktitle} it errors

[NTG-context] Fonts in context minimals

2010-05-12 Thread John Culleton
AFAICT. do I need to copy them over (pfb afm and tfm) from my texlive distro? Or have the names been changed in some esoteric way? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055

[NTG-context] Times Roman

2010-05-08 Thread John Culleton
. Is there a more up to date guide than Fonts in Context? -- John Culleton ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo

Re: [NTG-context] Times Roman

2010-05-08 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 08 May 2010 14:10:13 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2010-05-08 um 17:15 schrieb John Culleton: I want to set up Times-Roman at 12pt as my body font. Following (but not understanding) the advice in Fonts in Context I set up the following: \definebodyfont[12pt][rm][tf=Serif

[NTG-context] Importing program text.

2010-03-26 Thread John Culleton
Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com --- -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ If your question

[NTG-context] Magazine imposition.

2010-02-17 Thread John Culleton
assume that the page counts of each magazine are equal. I know that Context has an extensive imposition capability but I don't think this particular problem has been addressed. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055

Re: [NTG-context] Symbols for copyright and registered

2010-01-29 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday 28 January 2010 17:59:07 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 28.01.10 23:43, schrieb John Culleton: In the past I have used defs like \def\reg{\char174} Is there a more universal way to get these symbols? ® and © or \registered and \copyright :) Wolfgang Thnks a bunch. Where

[NTG-context] Symbols for copyright and registered

2010-01-28 Thread John Culleton
In the past I have used defs like \def\reg{\char174} Is there a more universal way to get these symbols? -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Re: [NTG-context] Producing PDF x/1-a:2001 output.

2009-11-17 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 02 November 2009 08:36:41 Hans Hagen wrote: John Culleton wrote: The documentation for pdfx goes through the source section by section and discusses what each does. it's easier for me to preflight a file and see what acrobat reports btw, things like color and fonts are easy

Re: [NTG-context] Producing PDF x/1-a:2001 output.

2009-11-02 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 30 October 2009 14:24:10 Hans Hagen wrote: John Culleton wrote: The needed files and the documentation for pdfx.sty are located here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfx/ The files in the package include: README glyphtounicode-cmr.tex

[NTG-context] Producing PDF x/1-a:2001 output.

2009-10-30 Thread John Culleton
The Thanh. This in turn uses some other files such as xmpincl.sty. I wonder if this setup could be incorporated into some flavor of Context? Or even pdftex? I prefer not to live within the strictures of pdflatex. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus http://www.booklocker.com

[NTG-context] Incorporating svg images in Context.

2009-10-30 Thread John Culleton
SVG drawings in Context? John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

Re: [NTG-context] Producing PDF x/1-a:2001 output.

2009-10-30 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 30 October 2009 12:03:33 luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:48 PM, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: At least two commercial printers that I use prefer or insist on the format PDF X/1-a:2001 output. The only way I have found to produce such in TeX without

Re: [NTG-context] Intro to Luatex

2009-09-04 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 29 August 2009 18:01:41 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:35:33 -0600, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is the best place to start learning about it? Category mistake: luatex

Re: [NTG-context] Intro to Luatex

2009-09-02 Thread John Culleton
that there are significant changes to the font handling in Luatex. There may be other changes. I am looking for any comprehensive guidance that would supplement or even supplant the 2001 Context documentation for users. -- John Culleton

[NTG-context] Intro to Luatex

2009-08-29 Thread John Culleton
Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is the best place to start learning about it? -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] PDF x1a:2001 and Context

2009-08-27 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 17:29:20 Hans Hagen wrote: John Culleton wrote: PDF X/1a:2001 is an old pdf standard still required by some important American printers. Han The Thanh et al. has created a package for pdfLatex. I wonder if there is a route to this output using Context

[NTG-context] PDF x1a:2001 and Context

2009-08-26 Thread John Culleton
PDF X/1a:2001 is an old pdf standard still required by some important American printers. Han The Thanh et al. has created a package for pdfLatex. I wonder if there is a route to this output using Context? -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters

[NTG-context] Context-minimal installation problem.

2009-08-18 Thread John Culleton
2008 installation. The set command shows: TEXMFCACHE=/home/safer/context/tex/texmf-cache TEXMFOS=/home/safer/context/tex/texmf-linux TEXROOT=/home/safer/context/tex so that part is OK. Any hints? -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055

Re: [NTG-context] Context-minimal installation problem.

2009-08-18 Thread John Culleton
-cache TEXMFOS=/home/safer/context/tex/texmf-linux TEXROOT=/home/safer/context/tex Without that line I just default to my texlive installation. There is no pdftex.fmt file in my context-minimal install, anywhere. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http

Re: [NTG-context] Context-minimal installation problem.

2009-08-18 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 01:48:09 pm Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Aug 18, 2009, at 6:15 PM, John Culleton wrote: Tried to install context minimals including the steps mktexlsr texexec --make --all No errors at this point. But when I tried to run pdftex I get the error message I can't

Re: [NTG-context] Context-minimal installation problem.

2009-08-18 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 03:02:20 pm Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 20:04, John Culleton wrote: On Tuesday 18 August 2009 01:48:09 pm Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: You are using ConTeXt minimals. You are using texexec to generate the ConTeXt formats (cont-en.fmt etc.). Why would

Re: [NTG-context] Context-minimal installation problem.

2009-08-18 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 18 August 2009 03:30:36 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 18.08.2009 um 21:29 schrieb John Culleton: Also I find font handling easier in pdftex. Just a single statement is needed. Can you a bit more specific what do you mean with this sentence. Wolfgang Well if I want bitstream

[NTG-context] Can I use pdftex and texexec with latest download.

2009-08-17 Thread John Culleton
, which I don't need/don't want to fool with. Is this download OK for my purposes or must I use another download method? -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

[NTG-context] XML one more time.

2009-07-14 Thread John Culleton
Gimp script. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

[NTG-context] Latest XML advice.

2009-06-20 Thread John Culleton
string but none of the content of the subdocs referenced. So I added near the top \defineXMLenvironment [gimp] {(} {)} \enableXML and got more or less the same results. Hints? -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

[NTG-context] Thumbtabs on edge of pages.

2009-03-17 Thread John Culleton
that someone has already done the cobbling. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

[NTG-context] Flaky pdf file.

2008-09-26 Thread John Culleton
? -- John Culleton ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma

Re: [NTG-context] Flaky pdf file.

2008-09-26 Thread John Culleton
version of Context I have also fails this test: ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2007.9.26 int: english/english My test file at the moment is: \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext foo \stoptext I am testing on LInux Slackware 12. Perhaps Hans or Thanh would care to comment. -- John

Re: [NTG-context] Flaky pdf file.

2008-09-26 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 26 September 2008 05:53:59 pm Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi John, John Culleton wrote: Therefore the problem lies in the recent Context I have been using, and not in ghostscript nor in my code. I am fairly certain the bug will also go away if you start your new context documents

Re: [NTG-context] Flaky pdf file.

2008-09-26 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 26 September 2008 07:10:17 pm John Culleton wrote: On Friday 26 September 2008 05:53:59 pm Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi John, John Culleton wrote: Therefore the problem lies in the recent Context I have been using, and not in ghostscript nor in my code. I am fairly certain

Re: [NTG-context] greek again

2008-07-31 Thread John Culleton
are catching up. Best Martin I use texlive on Slackware. It also allows you to pick and choose what you install. My files end up in /usr/local/texlive/2007 Slackware has the tetex package in the Slackware distro but I always eliminate that one. It is quite obsolete. -- John Culleton

Re: [NTG-context] \index versus makeindex.

2008-07-23 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 21 July 2008 02:16:04 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:38 PM, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usually I use makeindex for indexing but for my current job I thought the Context \index command would be convenient. However I discovered that the \index

[NTG-context] all about \about

2008-07-22 Thread John Culleton
they serve? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Re: [NTG-context] all about \about

2008-07-22 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 04:12:48 pm Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, John Culleton wrote: The \about cross reference command woks ok if I use \about[aa] It delivers the title (or part of it in this case) of the section marked aa. but when I try to give it some text

Re: [NTG-context] cont-enp.pdf on lulu

2008-07-21 Thread John Culleton
all the bits and pieces and writing somthing myself. But then I lie down until the fit passes. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http

Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

2008-07-19 Thread John Culleton
and reliable. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

[NTG-context] Indexing problem solved. Makeindex works with Context!

2008-07-19 Thread John Culleton
PROTECTED] item''} %prints index item in quotes ... \input book.ind %prints index I haven't checked out all the other extra features, such as putting proof marks in the margin, but the above is sufficient for starters. -- John Culleton

Re: [NTG-context] Indexing problem solved. Makeindex works with Context!

2008-07-19 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 19 July 2008 12:13:25 pm John Culleton wrote: I discovered an old file in the texsis distribution called index.tex. Unlike eplain.tex it doesn't cause problems when used with Context. It creates the book.idx file required by makeindex. Now the full range of features of makeindex

[NTG-context] \setuphheadertexts for titles.

2008-07-17 Thread John Culleton
chapter,title. Somehow there must be a way to change the current chapter marking but I can't figure it out. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com

[NTG-context] Part dividers, American style.

2008-07-16 Thread John Culleton
. It isn't needed on the page itself. If the part title is short then the third parameter is simply left blank. \nimbux has a simple font defintition. A typesectipt would have been too much effort for this single use: \font\nimbux texnansi-n019044t at 33bp %Nimbus bold sans condensed -- John

Re: [NTG-context] chapter page on right.

2008-07-09 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 08 July 2008 06:58:32 pm Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, John Culleton wrote: I have set up the \chapter command thus; \setuphead[chapter][page=right,style={\nimbua},header=high] where nimbua is a font. The chapter head appears on a recto (odd numbered) page

[NTG-context] chapter page on right.

2008-07-08 Thread John Culleton
. It should be blank. I can kludge this up with a wrapper macro containing \ifodd\pageno etc. but it seems there should be a more Contextish way to handle it. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex

[NTG-context] Running heads peculiarity

2008-07-08 Thread John Culleton
or will this be fixed? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

[NTG-context] Fwd: chapter page on right.

2008-07-08 Thread John Culleton
This message seems not to have gone through. Therefore I am resending it. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: chapter page on right. Date: Tuesday 08 July 2008 From: John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailing list for ConTeXt users ntg-context@ntg.nl I have set up the \chapter

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

2008-07-07 Thread John Culleton
a good text save function. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

[NTG-context] How to set up bookman font.

2008-07-01 Thread John Culleton
After all these years font handling in Context still eludes me. I want to use Bookman font and all its variants. Here is what I have: \usetypescriptfile[type-syn] \usetypescript[bookman] \setupbodyfont[bookman,12bp] But I still get a default font. Be gentle :) -- John Culleton Resources

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-14 Thread John Culleton
proposed the distro I'm using (Mandriva). It chose Gentoo (too much for me) and Slackware (been using it more than ten years.) -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

2008-06-14 Thread John Culleton
a terminal window on the GUI (KDE in my case.) -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: (scientific) poster

2008-06-14 Thread John Culleton
. -a- Agree in part. I like to use Scribus for graphics-intensive work but the file sizes can get out of sight. But it's great for book covers. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ultraminimals

2008-06-04 Thread John Culleton
you to pick and choose which software you install. And a CDR variant, Slax, will run from a mini-cdr. There are other diminutive Linuxes. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http

[NTG-context] Minimum file length.

2008-05-03 Thread John Culleton
. test defaulted to pdf 1.2, the other two to pdf 1.4. I don't doubt that with more text the counts would be more similar. Still the fourfold increase between the second test and the third is a stunner. The e-book must be limited to 2 megs per the publisher. Just fyi -- John Culleton Resources

[NTG-context] Spacing on TOC using alternative a

2008-03-07 Thread John Culleton
[subsubsection][alternative=a,interaction=all] -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

[NTG-context] Sumary of current versions of Context

2008-02-04 Thread John Culleton
--version): /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/texmfstart:1838: /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/base/system.rb:16: TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

[NTG-context] \useURL third parameter

2008-01-05 Thread John Culleton
I find in the wiki examples of \useURL. The third parameter is however a mystery to me. What is it used for? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com

[NTG-context] \useURL problem.

2008-01-05 Thread John Culleton
If I use e.g.: \useURL[a][http://www.creativemindspress.com]\from[a] it works but if I use \useURL[a][http://www.creativemindspress.com/bkpckg.htm ]\from[a] I get an error message. Yet the second form is a valid url. Any suggestions? -- John Culleton

Re: [NTG-context] \useURL problem.

2008-01-05 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 05 January 2008 01:46:53 pm John Culleton wrote: If I use e.g.: \useURL[a][http://www.creativemindspress.com]\from[a] it works but if I use \useURL[a][http://www.creativemindspress.com/bkpckg.htm ]\from[a] I get an error message. Yet the second form is a valid url. Any

Re: [NTG-context] Some update woes on Linux

2007-11-10 Thread John Culleton
-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6) -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

[NTG-context] Test message, different mail server.

2007-11-06 Thread John Culleton
My isp doesn't like ntg.nl for some reason. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

[NTG-context] Test message---different mail server.

2007-11-06 Thread John Culleton
-- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ colour settings

2007-11-03 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 03 November 2007 01:54:56 am Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, John Culleton wrote: On Friday 02 November 2007 08:12:31 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have downloaded the latest Notepad++ and ConTeXt settings as suggested by Professor Hamid and I'm enjoying

Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ colour settings

2007-11-02 Thread John Culleton
automatic sensing by suffix but you can manually select one too. It even has one for Context. You can modify the syntax files if you like or create new ones but either task looks like an all-day project to me. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex

[NTG-context] JUstificarion of \inleft

2007-10-31 Thread John Culleton
in \leftline or whatever but I am hoping there is a more general solution. -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Which ConTeXt editor do you use?

2007-10-30 Thread John Culleton
of the whole book. Kpdf automatically updates witout losing its place. Acrobat Reader won't do that. In other words I have WYSIWYG more or less when I need it. I find this to be an efficient setup. -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog

[NTG-context] Semi-transparent banners for a cover.

2007-10-27 Thread John Culleton
. It is a layer cake, a photo, with semi-transparent rectangles laid across it, and type within the rectangles. This is a job more easily done in Gimp etc. but my question is, can it be done in Context at all? How do I create the semi-transparent elements? -- John Culleton Want to know what I

Re: [NTG-context] luatex

2007-10-25 Thread John Culleton
doesn't? -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] luatex

2007-10-25 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:10:24 pm Hans Hagen wrote: John Culleton wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:49:44 am Hans Hagen wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi, at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected

[NTG-context] Compatiblity option in pdf

2007-10-22 Thread John Culleton
problems. A friend ftom the InDesign/Distiller world suggests that I recreate the pdf with the compatibility option turned on. Does this suggestion have any meaning in the Context/pdftex world? Can interested readers read the above url OK? -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think

Re: [NTG-context] Compatiblity option in pdf

2007-10-22 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 22 October 2007 12:53:21 pm Peter Rolf wrote: Hi John, John Culleton schrieb: I created a short document http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf using Context and with a clickable TOC and one thumbnail. The thumbnail was created with the Han The Thanh pdftex macro code I

Re: [NTG-context] Pesky list problem

2007-10-20 Thread John Culleton
=subsubsubject,criterium=local] \setupcombinedlist[foo] \starttext \title{Annotated Booklist} ... \placelist[foo] \subject{Top Choices} \subsubject{General Publishing} This set of commands stops with errors. What stupid thing did I do this time? -- John Culleton Gave up

[NTG-context] Turn off interaction in some TOC levels?

2007-10-20 Thread John Culleton
} \advance\marknumber by 1} . \bookmark{0}{Index} \placecontent ... The explanation of the format of the \pdfoutline command in the manual wasn't clear to me but the above macro clears it up. -- John Culleton http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

[NTG-context] Arabic/English typesetter needed.

2007-09-28 Thread John Culleton
. -- John Culleton http://wexfordpress.com http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf _ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

[NTG-context] Indexing problem---not

2007-03-24 Thread JOHN CULLETON
\immediate\openout\ind=book.idx \input idx.tex \def\sidx#1{\write\ind{\\indexentry{#1}{\the\pageno}}} No one seems to be able to make eplain.tex work with Context so this is the best I can do in a hurry. John Culleton _ Need

[NTG-context] Headers for natural tables.

2007-03-05 Thread JOHN CULLETON
by others. Natural Tables have been around for a while. It is unfortunate that no one has come up with a real manual for these tables. All that exists are learn by example documents, which do not describe limitations such as the one I worked around in the above code. John Culleton

[NTG-context] Test message

2007-03-02 Thread John Culleton
test ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Natural table header limitation.

2007-02-24 Thread JOHN CULLETON
] 2/3 \eTH \bTH [nr=3] 4 \eTH \eTR \ETC. ! File ended while scanning use of \doTABLEhead. inserted text \par * tabletest.tex emergencyend ? - -- John

[NTG-context] packing table of contents.

2007-02-19 Thread JOHN CULLETON
I want the chapter citations to be single spaced. For an itemized list the parameter is packed, What is it for the chapter list within a TOC? Thanks, John Culleton _ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy

Re: [NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

2007-02-15 Thread JOHN CULLETON
I am having difficulty sending email to the list. The correct file name is http://wexfordpress.com/tex/headtest.pdf Sorry about that. John C. _ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web

Re: [NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

2007-02-14 Thread JOHN CULLETON
. are fonts and \zc etc. are macros using soul.sty. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _ Need personalized email and website? Look

[NTG-context] \writetolist vs \writebetweenlist

2007-02-14 Thread JOHN CULLETON
I can use \writebetweenlist to add a line to my TOC. I have to put the page number in manually. Here is the statement: \writebetweenlist[part]{\nimbus\zy{Part 1 Prerequisite for Success}\hfil 22\rm } It would seem more sensible to use \writetolist and let Context determine the page number. But

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