Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10-5-2012 19:47, Peter Münster wrote: On Thu, May 10 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: so what is a robust check ... Perhaps just the exit code of the inkscape call? that's unpredictable (inkscape is just one of the programs that can be called)

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10-5-2012 18:50, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10-5-2012 16:59, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012, Ian Lawrence wrote: I read on the wiki that now svg is natively supported. Hmm. No. You need to have inkscape installed (and in your PATH) for

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-11 Thread Ian Lawrence
Aha, Well, my contribution will be to adjust the wiki for simple minded people like me…as I think my solution will be (if I decide for svg) to batch convert these before launching the context build process. Thanks to all On 11 May 2012 08:57, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 10-5-2012 18:50,

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-11 Thread Marco
On 2012-05-11 Ian Lawrence physics.roo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, my contribution will be to adjust the wiki If you think the wiki needs to be updated, just go for it. I don't know if it's the best place, but the inkscape dependency is mentioned on the installation page:

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11-5-2012 11:31, Marco wrote: On 2012-05-11 Ian Lawrencephysics.roo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, my contribution will be to adjust the wiki If you think the wiki needs to be updated, just go for it. I don't know if it's the best place, but the inkscape dependency is mentioned on the

[NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-10 Thread Ian Lawrence
I read on the wiki that now svg is natively supported. Hmm. I am missing a trick here: I try ___ \starttext Hello world \externalfigure[ChangingField_ILUC.pdf \stoptext __ And all goes as expected: I get output with the expected graphic in place But if I try ___ \starttext Hello world

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 10 May 2012, Ian Lawrence wrote: I read on the wiki that now svg is natively supported. Hmm. No. You need to have inkscape installed (and in your PATH) for svg to pdf conversion to work. FWIW, I cannot find the intermediate file 'm_k_i_v_ChangingField_ILUC.pdf' on my disk

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-10 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10-5-2012 16:59, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012, Ian Lawrence wrote: I read on the wiki that now svg is natively supported. Hmm. No. You need to have inkscape installed (and in your PATH) for svg to pdf conversion to work. FWIW, I cannot find the intermediate file

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-10 Thread Marco
On 2012-05-10 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: @Hans, could we change the conversion so that it checks for inkscape and gives a more sensible warning if inkscape is absent? so what is a robust check ... I don't know about robustness, but “which inkscape” seems to be the candidate from my

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:59:41AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012, Ian Lawrence wrote: I read on the wiki that now svg is natively supported. Hmm. No. You need to have inkscape installed (and in your PATH) for svg to pdf conversion to work. FWIW, I cannot find the

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 10 May 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10-5-2012 16:59, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012, Ian Lawrence wrote: I read on the wiki that now svg is natively supported. Hmm. No. You need to have inkscape installed (and in your PATH) for svg to pdf conversion to work. FWIW, I

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-10 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, May 10 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: so what is a robust check ... Perhaps just the exit code of the inkscape call? -- Peter ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry