[NTG-context] learning about the grid

Hi everyone, being a newbie I just discovered how different setups for the grid may affect my (very simple) document. In the Details manual (which of course I don't understand because of my unexperience) I read that many people don't use the grid, but when I configure grid=no the whole lines of a

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On 2/20/2018 5:08 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Thomas, Many thanks for your insight. Indeed as Alan and you explain, it is straightforward to define one's own specification. I have not done that yet, but already I could change some of the renderings by modifying a few of the definitions in the

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

Hi Thomas, Many thanks for your insight. Indeed as Alan and you explain, it is straightforward to define one's own specification. I have not done that yet, but already I could change some of the renderings by modifying a few of the definitions in the file publ-imp-default.mkvi in my test file.

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

Hi Otared, > > So my first question is: how can one define one's own « specification », when > modifying built-in specifications is not satisfactory for one's needs, or > does not give the expected result? I work with lots of bibliographies and want my very own styles, and I have indeed

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

Hi Alan, and all the Gurus on the list, Many thanks for your help and comments. I am sending again this message which, by mistake, was sent only to Alan, in order to get some help. The manual mkiv-publications.pdf contains indeed many explanations, but probably the informations there are too

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On 2018-02-18 16:05, Rik Kabel wrote: On 2018-02-18 15:25, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Rik Kabel 18. Februar 2018 um 21:06 On 2018-02-18 14:33, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: It does not matter how many fonts support both (LM does, and Libertine). One feature of a

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On 2018-02-18 15:25, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Rik Kabel 18. Februar 2018 um 21:06 On 2018-02-18 14:33, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: It does not matter how many fonts support both (LM does, and Libertine). One feature of a BibTeX file is reusability for many

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

Rik Kabel 18. Februar 2018 um 21:06 On 2018-02-18 14:33, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: It does not matter how many fonts support both (LM does, and Libertine). One feature of a BibTeX file is reusability for many documents, and when the file is created you do

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On 2018-02-18 14:33, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Rik Kabel 18. Februar 2018 um 20:22 On 2018-02-18 12:07, Alan Braslau wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:58:40 -0500 Rik Kabel wrote: Indeed, it is hard to imagine a BibTeX file

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:33:37 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Rik Kabel > > 18. Februar 2018 um 20:22 > > On 2018-02-18 12:07, Alan Braslau wrote: > >> On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:58:40 -0500 > >> Rik

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

Rik Kabel 18. Februar 2018 um 20:22 On 2018-02-18 12:07, Alan Braslau wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:58:40 -0500 Rik Kabel wrote: Indeed, it is hard to imagine a BibTeX file devoid of such markup. How would one indicate the

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On 2018-02-18 12:07, Alan Braslau wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:58:40 -0500 Rik Kabel wrote: Indeed, it is hard to imagine a BibTeX file devoid of such markup. How would one indicate the (reverse) emphasis of a quoted book title, as in /The Cambridge Companion to

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 19:23:25 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 2/18/2018 7:07 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: > > On 2018-02-18 12:23, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > >> On 02/18/2018 06:07 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: > >>> title={The Cambridge Companion to {\em Ulysses}}, > >> > >> Alan, I think this was

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On 2/18/2018 7:07 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: On 2018-02-18 12:23, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On 02/18/2018 06:07 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: title={The Cambridge Companion to {\em Ulysses}}, Alan, I think this was Rik Kabel's point: for some scenarios, you cannot avoid to have some sort of context

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On 2018-02-18 12:23, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On 02/18/2018 06:07 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: title={The Cambridge Companion to {\em Ulysses}}, Alan, I think this was Rik Kabel's point: for some scenarios, you cannot avoid to have some sort of context commands in your bibtex file. For a while,

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On 02/18/2018 06:07 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: title={The Cambridge Companion to {\em Ulysses}}, Alan, I think this was Rik Kabel's point: for some scenarios, you cannot avoid to have some sort of context commands in your bibtex file. For a while, I also used biblatex from time to time, so I

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:58:40 -0500 Rik Kabel wrote: > Indeed, it is hard to imagine a BibTeX file devoid of such markup. > How would one indicate the (reverse) emphasis of a quoted book title, > as in /The Cambridge Companion to /Ulysses, except by indicating the >

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On 2018-02-17 14:29, Alan Braslau wrote: First of all, don't put any such formatting in the BibTeX file: that is a LaTeX-style hack, and we have designed the ConTeXt system to avoid any such need. The dataset should contain only data, and hacks should be avoided. There is some limitation to

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

On 2/17/2018 8:29 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: HANS: there is one specific comment for you, below. well, up to you to decide if it's auser overload (at some point we need to stop and users should copy/patch setups ... that's the idea concerning a title with commands ... no way around math in

Re: [NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

HANS: there is one specific comment for you, below. On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 15:27:03 +0100 Otared Kavian wrote: > Dear all, > > I am in the process of learning how to use the bibliography mechanism > in mkiv, and I would lik eto understand the meanings of the various > parameters

[NTG-context] Learning how to use \setupbtxrendering

Dear all, I am in the process of learning how to use the bibliography mechanism in mkiv, and I would lik eto understand the meanings of the various parameters in the command: \setupbtxrendering [...,1,...] [..,..2=..,..] 1 NAME 2 textstate = start stop pagestate = start stop

Re: [NTG-context] Learning about Kerning

Hi, The appearance of a gap before the letter T has nothing to do with kerning per se, but with my use of smallcaps and kerning. I solved my problem by defining a font feature and applying it with the \setff command as described on the wiki. \setuplayout[header=0pt, footer=0pt]

[NTG-context] Learning about Kerning

Hi, I am trying to use kerning in subject titles. \kernchracters works pretty good, but as you can see in the attached example, there is a gap before the Ts in Properties, and again in Praefatio and Praefationis. The \stretched command yields similar results, vis-à-vis the gaps. If somebody can

Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt from the Ground Up

To gather information about ConTeXt I have - read the ConTeXt Reference Manual (http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf) - bought a couple of the published books by Hans Hagen - started reading the TeX book by Donald Knuth In addition to the TeX book you might be interested in TeX for the

Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt from the Ground Up

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Malte Stien ma...@stien.de wrote: To gather information about ConTeXt I have - read the ConTeXt Reference Manual (http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf) - bought a couple of the published books by Hans Hagen - started reading the TeX book by Donald Knuth I

Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt from the Ground Up

Hello, On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:19:44 +0200, Malte Stien ma...@stien.de wrote: Hello Everyone, I have been using ConTeXt for over a year now and worked out how to do most things I need to do. Every now and then, though, I need to do something that I cannot find any information about and in

Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt from the Ground Up

On 6/14/2013 9:17 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Malte Stien ma...@stien.de mailto:ma...@stien.de wrote: To gather information about ConTeXt I have - read the ConTeXt Reference Manual (http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf) - bought a couple of the

[NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt from the Ground Up

Hello Everyone, I have been using ConTeXt for over a year now and worked out how to do most things I need to do. Every now and then, though, I need to do something that I cannot find any information about and in most cases I post a question here on the forum. I have received great help here

[NTG-context] Learning layers: setlayer vs. setlayerframed

Hello! Based on a discussion with Hans at the ConTeXt meeting I'm starting to migrate my book covers from CorelDraw to ConTeXt using layers. After a bit of experimenting I managed to achieve my first layer, but looking at the examples on the wiki page, I'm wondering: what's the difference

Re: [NTG-context] Learning layers: setlayer vs. setlayerframed

Am 26.10.2011 um 09:42 schrieb Mari Voipio: Hello! Based on a discussion with Hans at the ConTeXt meeting I'm starting to migrate my book covers from CorelDraw to ConTeXt using layers. After a bit of experimenting I managed to achieve my first layer, but looking at the examples on the

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 2011-02-20 um 21:20 schrieb Philipp Gesang: Anyways, looking forward to see your invoice code Here you are: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Calculations_in_Lua It’s just in a works for me state, and the page can go away as soon as the spreadsheet module goes live. Greetlings from Lake

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote: Am 2011-02-20 um 21:20 schrieb Philipp Gesang: Anyways, looking forward to see your invoice code Here you are: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Calculations_in_Lua It’s just in a works for me state, and the page can

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 22.02.2011 um 10:51 schrieb luigi scarso: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote: Am 2011-02-20 um 21:20 schrieb Philipp Gesang: Anyways, looking forward to see your invoice code Here you are: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Calculations_in_Lua

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 22.02.2011 um 10:51 schrieb luigi scarso: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote: Am 2011-02-20 um 21:20 schrieb Philipp Gesang: Anyways, looking forward to

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 2011-02-22 um 11:14 schrieb luigi scarso: Can you add a small example ? The spreadsheet module has a example at the end of the file and Hennings code has also a example at the end. Yes I've seen ... But it' s better \startluacode -- functions \stopluacode %% \starttext \startluacode

[NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Maybe similar to the spreadsheet question: I'm trying to use Wolfgang's letter module for my invoices and would like to use Lua for the sums. But I fail already at the beginning: \startluacode userdata = userdata or {} userdata.invoice = userdata.invoice or { sum = 0 } -- global table for

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 2011-02-20 um 12:55 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: But I fail already at the beginning: \startluacode Sorry for the noise, the error was in the call, not in the definition. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 20.02.2011 um 12:55 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Maybe similar to the spreadsheet question: I'm trying to use Wolfgang's letter module for my invoices and would like to use Lua for the sums. But I fail already at the beginning: \startluacode userdata = userdata or {}

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 2011-02-20 um 13:08 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: local amount = hours * perhour Thank you - I guess you meant that local. I tried that, but since my error was in the call... anyway. Please consider the following nearly-minimal example: \starttext \startluacode userdata =

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 20.02.2011 um 13:58 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: \starttabulate[|lw(8cm)|rg(,)w(2cm)|rg(,)w(2cm)|rg(,)w(3cm)|] %\ctxlua{userdata.InvoiceLine(Play with \\LUATEX, 2.5)} \ctxlua{userdata.InvoiceLine(Do some \\CONTEXT, 0.5)} \ctxlua{userdata.InvoiceSumLine(Sum)} \stoptabulate \startluacode

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 2011-02-20 um 13:58 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: That seems to work so far, but invoice.hours and invoice.sum are always doubled! In my letter setup, it’s even quadrupled! I guess my functions gets called several times, but how can I avoid that? I found a better approach, but with the

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 20.02.2011 um 14:29 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I found a better approach, but with the letter module involved, my RegisterItem is called twice! The letter modules does trialtypesetting of the content to get the content of the \cc, \encl and \ps commands. To prevent that certain commands

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 2011-02-20 um 14:41 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 20.02.2011 um 14:29 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I found a better approach, but with the letter module involved, my RegisterItem is called twice! The letter modules does trialtypesetting of the content to get the content of the \cc,

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

On 20-2-2011 2:41, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 20.02.2011 um 14:29 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I found a better approach, but with the letter module involved, my RegisterItem is called twice! The letter modules does trialtypesetting of the content to get the content of the \cc, \encl and

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

On 20-2-2011 3:49, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: trialtypesetting in the LuaTeX manual. things like this are not part of luatex but of context so you need the cld manual (or wait till more documentation shows up, or ask ..) context.iftrialtypesetting() do return end context.fi() can't work,

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 2011-02-20 um 16:09 schrieb Hans Hagen: it's a system mode, so \startnotmode[*trialtypesetting] ... and in lua if tex.systemmodes.trialtypesetting then ... but, you need to use \settrialtypesetting (see syst-aux.mkiv) as there is more than the \if now (too late to get rid of the if)

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Hi Hraban! On 2011-02-20 20:16:03, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: … / I'll wikify my invoice sample soon. LuaTeX docs in the wiki are a bit scattered ATM... (e.g. Lua, LuaTeX, CLD and MkIV all explain LuaTeX basics) “Lua” is intended to be some kind of portal for all topics related to Lua

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

Am 20.02.2011 um 21:20 schrieb Philipp Gesang: Anyways, looking forward to see your invoice code It would be more interesting to have something like luacalc [1] available in context. As it is only another kind of table one could insert the data with a syntax like this \startspreadsheet

Re: [NTG-context] Learning LuaTeX : Invoice

On 20-2-2011 9:28, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 20.02.2011 um 21:20 schrieb Philipp Gesang: Anyways, looking forward to see your invoice code It would be more interesting to have something like luacalc [1] available in context. As it is only another kind of table one could insert the data

Re: [NTG-context] learning LuaTeX (was: Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT])

Hello Patrick who said... Besides the gdb part, this is pretty much how I learned LuaTeX (still on my path). I suggest you stay with plain, then add features as you go along: * write your own font handler (see the bluewiki page) - LuaTeX supports many different kinds of fonts * write

[NTG-context] learning LuaTeX (was: Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT])

Hello Graham, Thank you for your commnts. Oh, for sure, tinkering with plain is just an interim step along the (long...) road. A very minimal harness setup to write minimal code --- to play with the various LuaTeX API functions via GNU's gdb debugger. By building a small test

[NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt

Hi Everybody, I want to learn ConTeXt, but 'cont-enp.pdf' and 'mp-cb-en.pdf' do not explain many things in detail, for example the parameters of command \setuplayout on the page 24 of cont-enp.pdf. Or am I careless? How shall I start to learn? And how shall I go on learning? Best regards,

Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt

I included an example context file from Sanjoy Mahajan. Best regards, Liesbeth van der Plas 2007/8/20, Istvan Hollerbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Everybody, I want to learn ConTeXt, but 'cont-enp.pdf' and 'mp-cb-en.pdf' do not explain many things in detail, for example the parameters of

Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt

Hi Istvan, For somebody used to LaTeX, it may be useful to check up http://www.berenddeboer.net/tex/ there is an article about doing similar things in LaTeX and ConTeXt. The options relevant to all ConTeXt commands are provided towards the end of cont-en?.pdf Perhaps mp-cb-en.pdf should be

Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt

On 8/20/07, Saji Njarackalazhikam Hameed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] And then there is the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net Highly recommended. I think the best way to learn is by trying to make the document you want in ConTeXt and asking questions to the mailing list when you

Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Istvan Hollerbach wrote: Hi Everybody, I want to learn ConTeXt, but 'cont-enp.pdf' and 'mp-cb-en.pdf' do not explain many things in detail, for example the parameters of command \setuplayout on the page 24 of cont-enp.pdf. Or am I careless? How shall I start to learn?

Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt

Dear Aditya, I found that page yesterday and saved all the document. Istvan ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

[NTG-context] Learning

Hi, I'm trying to learn ConTeXt and has so far read parts of the manuals available on the website (http://www.pragma-ade.com). However, I feel that these manuals only give me a quite limited knowledge. Therefore I wonder if there are any chance that the source code for some advanced documents

Re: [NTG-context] Learning

On 5/30/06, Johan Blixt-Dackhammar wrote: Therefore I wonder if there are any chance that the source code for some advanced documents are available on the internet. Some of the really well designed manuals (eg. XML in ConTeXt, Charts in ConTeXt and ConTeXt - an excursion) or other documents

[NTG-context] Learning

Hi, I'm trying to learn ConTeXt and has so far read parts of the manuals available on the website (http://www.pragma-ade.com). However, I feel that these manuals only give me a quite limited knowledge. Therefore I wonder if there are any chance that the source code for some advanced documents

Re: [NTG-context] Learning

Hi Johan, Johan Blixt-Dackhammar wrote: Hi, I'm trying to learn ConTeXt and has so far read parts of the manuals available on the website (http://www.pragma-ade.com). However, I feel that these manuals only give me a quite limited knowledge. Therefore I wonder if there are any chance that

Re: [NTG-context] learning path

olivier Turlier wrote: Hi everybody, I wish to set up kind of a learning path (= pedagogic progression bar, like in http://www.dokeos.com/scorm_compliant_course_content.php) /.../ Sorry for not being clear enough. learning path is an acronym I've found while using Dokeos elearning

[NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt, typical hurdle

Maybe I should start a blog somewhere... Anyway, I have started my conversion to ConTeXT project. So, I used the fiee perl script to set up my project. Then I started to fill things in. Everything is still in one directory (I do not understand directory searching in ConTeXt yet and I haven't