[NTG-context] TABLE not splitting across page boundary

2012-04-01 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I am having difficulty getting my table to split across page boundaries. It doesn't have, nor need, headers, but just individual unrelated rows. Here is a minimal illustrating the problem I am having: \starttext Here is some text. \placetable[force,nonumber,right]{} {

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt in the Cloud?

2012-03-29 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 13:20 -0400, Matthias Weber wrote: Dear All, as the proud owner of one of these tablet thingies I am trying to make it as TeX-friendly as possible. Because the chances of running TeX on it are slim, I've been looking at alternatives. The major goal would be to be

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-22 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 11:38 +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: - Maybe it could be more explicit, but if you ever take a look at documentation Sorry, but which documentation should one obviously be looking at? The half a dozen PDFs, the several versions of the wiki, the mailing list, one of the

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-22 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 12:21 +0100, Philipp Gesang wrote: You’re right, it can cause confusion to people migrating from Latex where package options, afair, allows mixed key-value/list syntax (like e.g. Lua does as well). Random example from the KOMA-Script manual:

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-22 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 12:58 +0100, Philipp Gesang wrote: Fyi I just added a couple words to the article: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt#Optional_Arguments_and_Setups please expand as needed! Thank you. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail

Re: [NTG-context] [luatex] Itemize without page break

2012-03-21 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 22:41 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: As I said earlier, I get a segmentation fault if I leave it to run, but I always have to kill it before it takes down the entire operating system with it (apparently this is normal). I don't get the TeX capacity exceeded error message,

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-21 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:22 -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Anything else will leave to undersirable behaviour (or segfaults :) ) As I had said in one of my earlier emails, this is the case for ALL context macros that take both options and assignments. Fair enough. I got it to work now with,

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 09:17 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: which is not really a crash of my operating system; there is not much I can do about this issue I fear. Totally up to you. I just wanted to bring it to your attention. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail

Re: [NTG-context] [luatex] Itemize without page break

2012-03-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 16:57 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: Older TeX engines had hard memory limit, so in case of such syntactical errors the engine would consume all its allocated memory and die (with a misleading error message), LuaTeX dynamically allocates memory (for good reasons) so it won't

Re: [NTG-context] [luatex] Itemize without page break

2012-03-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 20:26 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: well you can try what happens if you run stock lua: local t = { } while true do t[#t+1] = just a bogus string: .. (#t+1) end at some point your system will run out of (virtual) memory or lua will run out of whatever its limits

Re: [NTG-context] [luatex] Itemize without page break

2012-03-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 21:39 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: When TeX says ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [token memory size=...] it is its graceful way to exit from an irreversible situation. It can be caused by luatex or ConTeXt mkiv but it's *not* a segmentation fault, as you said early:

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Digital Signatures

2012-03-20 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le mardi 20 mars 2012 à 20:23 +0100, Mojca Miklavec a écrit : On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 23:12, Hans Hagen wrote: On 19-3-2012 22:08, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Out of curiosity: is inability to create password-protected PDF files with pdfTeX/LuaTeX due to legal issues or due to nobody caring

Re: [NTG-context] [luatex] Itemize without page break

2012-03-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 21:44 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: sure, but mu experience is that browsers of email clients are way more demanding than tex when it comes to memory usage I've never had either take down the entire operating system. There is a different from intended memory usage and

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 06:46 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can’t have a assignment in both parameters because this would lead to the same problem as before, combine both settings in one argument and it works. I must not be doing it right because the item numbers are gone now and replaced

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Digital Signatures

2012-03-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 10:27 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote: Under this part was a signature field I could click which made Adobe Reader prompt for a digital certificate. Great idea. It would be great if one could use any OpenPGP key. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 22:49 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 19-3-2012 00:29, Kip Warner wrote: I've cc'd the luatex user mailing list since this is probably, I suppose, a luatex issue more than a ConTeXt one. not that probable Actually highly probably, since the seg fault is raised in

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 22:50 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Packaging itemizes are on a todo list as I sometimes need it myself, but it has a low priority Ok, but I thought they were already packaged with context? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 09:17 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Make a example because this works: \starttext %\dorecurse{2}{\input tufte\par} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \startitemize[before={\startlinecorrection[blank]},after= \stoplinecorrection] \dorecurse{4}{\startitem \input

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 06:22 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The problem is the empty second argument. \startitemize[before=\startlinecorrection,after=\stoplinecorrection][] When you pass two arguments with \startitemize the first argument os for keywords (e.g. packed or fit) and second

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 06:46 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: TeX has it’s problem with certain errors, accept it. It is not a problem with the program raising an error, it was how it went about doing it. It should not have to take down the entire operating system to indicate to the user that

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-18 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 11:21 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 17.03.2012 um 10:21 schrieb luigi scarso: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote: Hey list, Is there any way to hint to ConTeXt that the contents of a \startitemize \stopitemize pair should

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-18 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 16:25 -0700, Kip Warner wrote: On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 11:21 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 17.03.2012 um 10:21 schrieb luigi scarso: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote: Hey list, Is there any way to hint to ConTeXt that

Re: [NTG-context] more indenting

2012-03-16 Thread Peter Wüsten
Am Freitag, den 16.03.2012, 17:01 +0100 schrieb Alan Braslau: % Minimal example: \setupindenting [big,yes] \setupquotation [before=\noindent] % no effect \setupquotation [indenting=next] % noindent only at beginning of quotation \starttext \input tufte \startquotation \input tufte

Re: [NTG-context] Integration of all the information around ConTeXt

2012-03-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 13:24 +0100, Jan Heinen wrote: I think the best what I can do for ConTeXt is helping to structure, organize and integrating the huge amount of existing information. Hear, hear! -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

[NTG-context] Itemize without page break

2012-03-16 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, Is there any way to hint to ConTeXt that the contents of a \startitemize \stopitemize pair should try to be all on the same page? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [NTG-context] Referencing a definition

2012-03-15 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 18:04 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4-3-2012 23:52, Kip Warner wrote: Hey list, I have a definition, like so... \startdefinition[definition:Foo]{Foo} Definition of foo here... \stopdefinition I'd like to reference it in the same way I would a section like

Re: [NTG-context] \definedescription wrapping

2012-03-11 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 09:27 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Add width=fit to \definedescription. Thanks a lot Wolfgang. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [NTG-context] \placefigure padding

2012-03-11 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 10:01 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \setupfloats [spacebefore=, spaceafter=] you can control the space before and after the float, accepted are all values for \blank (dimensions and keywords). That's probably the command I need, but I can't find any useful

[NTG-context] Broken Nightly 2012.03.10

2012-03-10 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, The following minimal compiles, but I don't believe it is correct. The footnote ordinal does not appear properly in the body text and the footnote text itself is not correct either. \definedescription[definition] [location=top, alternative=top, command=\hskip-1cm,

[NTG-context] \definedescription wrapping

2012-03-10 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I'd like the description title to not wrap part way through its title. I'm using the following definition: \definedescription[definition] [location=top, alternative=top, headcolor=colour_head, headstyle=boldslanted] But if I use it with something like...

[NTG-context] \placefigure padding

2012-03-10 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, The following minimal typesets a dummy figure. Note how there is about two lines of empty space below the figure. How do I control the amount of padding that surrounds the figure, such as the bottom? \setupexternalfigures [frame=off, corner=rectangular, rulethickness=0.5pt]

Re: [NTG-context] Referring to items

2012-03-09 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 09:28 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Works here, the only thing to complain is that the number conversion is missing. \starttext \startitemize[R,3*broad][start=11,left=(,right=),stopper=] \item[item:first] another item \item another item \item[item:last] another

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes gone

2012-03-06 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 09:50 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: you forgot to include the minimal example \definecolor[colour_page][r=0,g=0,b=0] \definecolor[colour_text][r=0.754,g=0.516,b=0.324] \definecolor[colour_footnote_background][colour_page] \definecolor[colour_footnote_text][colour_text]

Re: [NTG-context] \definedescription usage

2012-03-06 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 08:35 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 06.03.2012 um 03:05 schrieb Kip Warner: Hey list, I'd like the contents of my \startdefinition \stopdefinition pairs to have their title above them on a line of their own, but am having problems with the usage:

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes gone

2012-03-06 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 10:47 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The style, color etc. of the footnote text can be changed with the \setupnotation (in older versions \setupnotedefinition) command, the \setupnote (or \setupfootnotes) command controls only general settings like the rule or the

Re: [NTG-context] \definedescription usage

2012-03-06 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 00:40 +0100, Marco wrote: Looks like this bug: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context.devel/1974 Marco I don't know why, but I always seem to be the one to step on every ConTeXt landmine. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail

[NTG-context] Footnotes gone

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, For the first time in several months, today's nightly build actually managed to digest my book without crashing or bailing. I'm using 2012.03.05. There is one thing I noticed though and that is all of my footnotes are now invisible. The number next to them is visible, but the text

Re: [NTG-context] Including command output

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 23:20 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: If you want to use the automagic way, you can define \BazaarRevision to redefined \BazaarRevision, for example: \def\BazaarRevision {\ctxlua{context.setevalue( BazaarRevision, os.resultofbzr

Re: [NTG-context] Referencing a definition

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 18:04 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: \definedescription[test] \starttext \starttest[ward] {one} \input ward \stoptest bla bla \at{page}[ward] we define \about[ward] \stoptext Hey Hans. I think that might be a good workaround until I'm confident that that's the best

[NTG-context] \definedescription usage

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I'd like the contents of my \startdefinition \stopdefinition pairs to have their title above them on a line of their own, but am having problems with the usage: \definedescription[definition] [location=top, hang=20, headcolor=colour_head, headstyle=boldslanted,

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize Prefixes

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 23:26 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Kip Warner wrote: Hey list, I'd like an itemized list using the following format... Article I ... Article II ... Article III ... ...and so on. I've tried defining the behaviour with...

Re: [NTG-context] Including command output

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 22:05 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: The attached file works at my end. It works at my end as well, but just not as part of my book. No. It is defining \BazaarVersion once and then reusing the result. Add \loggingall to your file to see what is happening. It still bails.

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize Prefixes

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 22:10 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Thanks Aditya. A couple questions for you. \defineitemgroup[article] \setupitemgroup [article] [ left={Article }, stopper=, symbol=R, before=\blank, after=\blank, distance=0.5em, ]

Re: [NTG-context] Including command output

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 22:15 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Use {\loggingall \BazaarRevision } I added the above to my environment, but this is all I see. I think this is the same as last time: + /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.lua) {vertical mode: \tracingstats}

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize Prefixes

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 22:10 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: \starttext \startarticle \item First article \item Second article \stoparticle Again Another thing I just noticed is that using \startarticle[start=20] before an item block doesn't always begin counting at that. On some

Re: [NTG-context] Including command output

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 22:38 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Can you attach your complete log file? Attached. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com resolversresolving loading configuration file

Re: [NTG-context] Including command output

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 22:50 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: The error is not due to the macro \BazaarRevision. The log file shows that the group (for {\loggingall \BazaarRevison}) is closed properly; the error is displayed after that. So, something else in your setup is causing the error. It

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize Prefixes

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 22:44 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Thats how itemgroup are configured. You cannot mix assignments (key=value) with options. I don't follow. What is the difference between this, \setupitemgroup [article] [ left={Article }, stopper=, symbol=R,

[NTG-context] Referring to items

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I am following the instructions here but they do not seem to be working: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Enumerations#Referring_to_items I have an item block typeset with the following: \startitemize[R,2*broad][start=11] \setupitemize[left=(, right=)] \item[first_item]

Re: [NTG-context] Including command output

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 00:04 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Why don't you use the first version (\initializebazaarversion and \usebazaarversion)? \def\initializeBazaar {\ctxlua{context(\\global\\edef\\BazaarRevision{\%s}, os.resultofbzr revno | tr -d '\\n')}}

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize Prefixes

2012-03-05 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 00:22 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: ConTeXt checks if the argument of \setupitemgroup has an assignment (key=value), then it calls a version of \setparameters; otherwise it calls a version of \processcommalist. So, if you use assignments and options in the same command,

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly 2012.03.02

2012-03-04 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 09:52 +0100, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: Hello Kip. I do not know whether it will be something, but try increasing the memory in some parts of texmf.cnf file. I once enlarged in ConTeXt in TeXlive pool_size.context = 200 Good Luck. Jaroslav Thanks Jaroslav. It sounds

[NTG-context] Referencing a definition

2012-03-04 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I have a definition, like so... \startdefinition[definition:Foo]{Foo} Definition of foo here... \stopdefinition I'd like to reference it in the same way I would a section like \in{section}[Node]. How can I do the same with a definition such that it will typeset a clickable section

[NTG-context] Including command output

2012-03-04 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I'd like to include the output of a command. I am using the following to define the command, \def\BazaarRevision{\cldcontext{os.resultofbzr revno | tr -d '\\n'}} and the following to use the output of the command, \BazaarRevision A concern I have is whether this command is executed

[NTG-context] Itemize Prefixes

2012-03-04 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I'd like an itemized list using the following format... Article I ... Article II ... Article III ... ...and so on. I've tried defining the behaviour with... \defineenumeration[article] [location=top, text=Article, between=\blank, before=\blank, after=\blank]

[NTG-context] Broken Nightly 2012.03.02

2012-03-03 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, While attempting to compile my book, I get the following error: $ context Source/Handbook.tex --purgeresult ... graphics invalid region for 'tbg:1' ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=1]. argument \next \doifmeaningelse ...\edef \!!stringa

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly 2012.02.29

2012-03-02 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 10:34 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: hm, weird bug, maybe some argument pickup issue ... text backgrounds are completely redone so maybe some interference (no example so hard to check) My book always seems to bring out the very worst of ConTeXt. ;) This is to be expected

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly 2012.02.29

2012-03-02 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 10:55 +0100, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi Kip, the latest (working) version I have is 2012.01.25. I don't know the differences ... but hopefully these are improvements ;o) Could you send me your 27th version in a zipped folder? Best wishes, Steffen You know, come to

[NTG-context] Broken Nightly 2012.02.29

2012-03-01 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, Another broken nightly to report. I got this error while compiling my book: ... structuresectioning subsubsubject @ level 5 : 0.7.1.0.0 - \bf 44 Aquarius, 48 B.R. structuresectioning subsubsubject @ level 5 : 0.7.1.0.0 - \bf 48 Aries, 15 B.R. structure

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le mercredi 29 février 2012 à 18:41 +0100, Marco Pessotto a écrit : William Adams will.ad...@frycomm.com writes: With a graphical tool, one is limited to the automation which the developers are willing to build into the tool and sentenced to handling manually _everything_ else, _every_

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-29 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 11:29 -0500, William Adams wrote: With a graphical tool, one is limited to the automation which the developers are willing to build into the tool and sentenced to handling manually _everything_ else, _every_ time that there's a change, e.g., if you have a keyword block

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-29 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 11:29 -0500, William Adams wrote: With a graphical tool, one is limited to the automation which the developers are willing to build into the tool and sentenced to handling manually _everything_ else, _every_ time that there's a change, e.g., if you have a keyword block

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-29 Thread Kip Warner
One other thing too that I don't know if anyone has ever raised anywhere is that other typesetting applications that store their project files in some kind of proprietary or binary format will probably not be very diff friendly. A big advantage to anything TeXish is that it makes collaboration on

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-29 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 20:40 +0100, Marco Pessotto wrote: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Comparison_between_ConTeXt_and_other_typesetting_programs (But it's not linked from anywhere) Thanks Marco. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-29 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 21:25 +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 29. Februar 2012 21:10 schrieb Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com: One other thing too that I don't know if anyone has ever raised anywhere is that other typesetting applications that store their project files in some kind of

[NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-28 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, I was wondering if someone could offer a meaningful comparison in a nutshell to a layperson of the pros and cons of using Scribus versus ConTeXt. I actually just discovered the former today. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.02.18)

2012-02-28 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 13:20 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: apart from a funny corner at least it helps if the colors are defined \definecolor[colour_page][red] \definecolor[colour_text][green] Actually it doesn't. Even with the corner and colour variables removed, or the latter defined, it makes

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-28 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 21:20 +0100, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: Hello, I work quite often with Scribus (but I am not expert). I use it mainly to leaflets, posters (great tools for posters for me) and other similar things that contain a lot of graphics, overlays, etc. I can imagine writing a

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-28 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 21:43 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: With Scribus you get an nice GUI, with ConTeXt you get every thing else that really matters for a typesetting job. Regards, Khaled Hey Khaled. That is kind of a given, but thanks anyways. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.02.18)

2012-02-26 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 05:34 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You should make a minimal example with \starttextbackground which produces the same error as your document. As a minimal, it seems to work. But as part of my book, it bails with the following: graphics invalid region for

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.02.18)

2012-02-22 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 22:08 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Check text backgrounds in your document, Hans made a few changes in the code to make it faster. Any suggestions on what I should look for? Thanks. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.02.18)

2012-02-21 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 05:32 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The same problem was reported a few days ago and fixed in the beta. If you cant wait use \startdefintion[reference=,title=] which does work. Wolfgang Hey Wolfgang. I see Adam's PPA has been updated. I'll pull his package later and

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.02.18)

2012-02-21 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 05:32 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The same problem was reported a few days ago and fixed in the beta. If you cant wait use \startdefintion[reference=,title=] which does work. Wolfgang Hey Wolfgang, This is what I observed with ConTeXt 2012.02.20 01:42. Perhaps it

[NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.02.18)

2012-02-20 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, My book was compiling fine with the Jan 27th nightly, but kicks the bucket with the Feb 18th build: ! Undefined control sequence. \strc_descriptions_start_yes_reference ...e_state \expandafter \strc_descrip...

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on Table of Contents

2012-02-08 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 06:38 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.02.2012 um 03:15 schrieb Kip Warner: On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 19:35 +1300, Pontus Lurcock wrote: \placelist[chapter] should do it (untested). One other thing, Pont. How do I add a title such as Contents at a Glance

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on Table of Contents

2012-02-08 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 11:18 +0100, Marco wrote: Since they are all implemented using the lists mechanism, all parameters of the lists apply. See the manual (http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf), chapter 12.1 or the wiki. But you're right, neither pagecolor nor numbercolor are mentioned.

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on Table of Contents

2012-02-07 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 08:36 +0100, Marco wrote: \setuplist [chapter] [color=yellow, pagecolor=green] \setuplist [section] [color=blue, numbercolor=red] Thanks Marco. Where can I find a list of the parameters relevant to chapter, section, and subsection for \setuplist? -- Kip Warner --

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on Table of Contents

2012-02-07 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 19:35 +1300, Pontus Lurcock wrote: \placelist[chapter] should do it (untested). Thanks Pont. =) -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on Table of Contents

2012-02-07 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 19:35 +1300, Pontus Lurcock wrote: \placelist[chapter] should do it (untested). One other thing, Pont. How do I add a title such as Contents at a Glance without the actual table of contents including that in the list it generates? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer

[NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.02.05)

2012-02-06 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, My book was compiling fine with the Jan 27th nightly, but kicks the bucket with the Feb 5th build: ! Undefined control sequence. argument \strc_descriptions_yes_reference \secondoftwoarguments #1#2-#2

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.02.05)

2012-02-06 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 11:01 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: hm, probably because the garden pick up from our local copy of the website ... (i didn't upload that beta to the main site) I'll translate that as Hans probably magically fixed it already while I was still downloading and installing the

[NTG-context] Questions on Table of Contents

2012-02-06 Thread Kip Warner
Hey folks, I am familiar with the \completecontent command, but was wondering if there is a way to also typeset just a summary of the table of contents (e.g. just chapters and no sections, sub sections, etc.)? I've also noticed that all of the colours in my table of contents appear to be the

Re: [NTG-context] Problem Citing a Definition

2012-01-31 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 15:18 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: For enumerations, floats etc. you can use the section number as prefix for the objects own counter but there is no way AFAIK to get way you described. I tried using \in{page \at{definition:foo}}[definition:foo], but it would look

Re: [NTG-context] Still Problems With TextBackground bottomoffset / topoffset

2012-01-31 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 09:50 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: well but sometimes others beat me in knowledge about the internals -) Great, but can either of you help with the question? =) -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

Re: [NTG-context] Still Problems With TextBackground bottomoffset / topoffset

2012-01-31 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 19:25 -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Do you have to use textbackground (assuming, of course, that you are using MkIV)? I think so. I can't remember why, but someone on the list probably made a compelling argument for its use. The main advantage of textbackground is that

Re: [NTG-context] Still Problems With TextBackground bottomoffset / topoffset

2012-01-31 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 01:15 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: Do you have a small complete example ? Sure: \definetextbackground[GeneralDocument][ location=paragraph, topoffset=1.0cm, bottomoffset=1.0cm, leftoffset=1.0cm, rightoffset=1.0cm, before={

[NTG-context] Still Problems With TextBackground bottomoffset / topoffset

2012-01-30 Thread Kip Warner
Hey Hans, Aditya, and Wolfgang, You gentlemen seem to be very knowledgeable with ConTeXt, so I will run a question by you that has been plaguing me for months. I am using the following to typeset a text box containing text. \definetextbackground[GeneralDocument][ location=paragraph,

[NTG-context] Problem Citing a Definition

2012-01-30 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I am trying to cite a definition typeset with a \startdefinition[definition:foo] and \stopdefinition pair. I am doing this by using a \in{definition}[definition:foo]. That works, but in the text I just see linkable text definition. I'd like it to be more descriptive of the physical

[NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.01.23)

2012-01-24 Thread Kip Warner
Hey Hans et al., Using ConTeXt ver: 2012.01.23 19:45 MKIV fmt: 2012.1.24 int: english/english and LuaTeX, Version beta-0.71.0-2012012215 (rev 4358), I get the following error while typesetting my book: ! Undefined control sequence. argument \doconvertedstructurecounter

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-24 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 12:14 +0100, Marco wrote: A more user friendly error message would be: !LuaTeX error: cannot find inkscape to convert image file 'pic.svg' == Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! Agreed. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-24 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:07 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: no, png, jpg and pdf are supported directly (as is mp) but fo rother formats it will either try to find a replacement (there is a whole chain of lookups) or it will try to run one of the configured converters ... with

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.01.23)

2012-01-24 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 00:11 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: This is already fixed. mtx-context | current version: 2012.01.24 18:49 Thanks. I'll let you know if the new package works. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-23 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:54 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: no, because not all users use svg (just an not all users use fonts defined in type-* files) and also because inkscape is close to impossible to install without x present which would render context 'unuseable due to a depency not being

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-23 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:55 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: maybe a wiki page is a good start for that Strongly agree. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-23 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 00:31 -0300, Wagner Macedo wrote: On Debian Packages, at least, we can declare, basically, 3 levels of dependencies, according to http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps 1) Depends - absolute dependency. Or else, packages that is

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 09:55 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: You can also try the reverse way with ipe http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/ and then convert the pdf in svg with inkscape or iperender Thanks Luigi. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 10:08 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: There is no such depedency .. actually, i found it rather impossible to get an inkscape running on a headless linux box as there is some depedency on X (last time I tried). In a similar fashion there is no dependency on GhostScript or

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:22 +0100, Marco wrote: On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote: So what does ConTeXt do when it typesets an \externalfigure? Does it always use inkscape, or only sometimes? If the image type is supported by the TeX engine (jpeg, png, pdf, mps) it

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-20 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:42 +0100, Marco wrote: On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 01:22 +0100, Marco wrote: On 2012-01-20 Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote: So what does ConTeXt do when it typesets an \externalfigure? Does it always

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Kip Warner
On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 08:56 +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: If original svg image is 7 KB, the PDF should not be any bigger apart from the header and maybe embded fonts. However if you are using some smooth shading, it might be that the program which does the conversion is performing a poor job

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