Re: [NTG-context] Disappearing figures

2005-09-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Hello people, I think I spotted a bug either in ConTeXt or in my capability comprehension. Take the following simple code: \placefigure[here][testfigs]{Test cases}{ \startcombination[3*3] ... It works --- on the first texexec run. On subsequent runs, ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Switching to smaller font more thoroughly

2005-09-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: For a particular table, I need to switch to a smaller body font. Currently I'm using {\tfxx \placetable etc \par} but this way the math in the table doesn't get switched. Is there a way to make a more thorough switch? I tried \switchtobodyfont but it didn't work ...

Re: [NTG-context] Linux and Context on 64 bit

2005-09-12 Thread luigi.scarso
I build/install and run teTeX 3.0 on RHEL 3 IA64 SUSE 9.0 AMD64 without any problem. And of course ConTeXt (standard with teTeX or updated for latest release) works very well too. FYI Thanks to all. With a bit of lucky, I will able to setup my new baby this week. luigi

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Switching to smaller font more thoroughly

2005-09-12 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, September 12, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: For a particular table, I need to switch to a smaller body font. Currently I'm using {\tfxx \placetable etc \par} but this way the math in the table doesn't get switched. Is there a way to make a more thorough

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Disappearing figures

2005-09-12 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, September 12, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: Same problem here, even with only this: \starttext \externalfigure[curves.1] \stoptext I've copied curves.1 from the tests dir to its parent, and I still get a 'not found' on the second run. Makes no sense. Interestingly, it's

Re[2]: [NTG-context] No parindent?

2005-09-12 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, September 12, 2005 Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: This is a known bug-) Try declaring indentation twice, \setupindenting[medium,next] \setupindenting[medium,next] It worked 4 me-) Bingo! (And keep your hopes up, I'm steadly heading towards the end of my PhD :)) -- Giuseppe Oblomov

Re: [NTG-context] Switching to smaller font more thoroughly

2005-09-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: \placetable[here][tables]{Caption}{ \switchtobodyfont[5pt] etc. } It doesn't work either way. Do you have an example? Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Switching to smaller font more thoroughly

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: For a particular table, I need to switch to a smaller body font. Currently I'm using {\tfxx \placetable etc \par} but this way the math in the table doesn't get switched. Is there a way to make a more thorough switch? I tried \switchtobodyfont

[NTG-context] Matrices LaTeX - ContTeXt

2005-09-12 Thread Jilani Khaldi
Hi All, how tow write these matrices in Context? % [] \begin{bmatrix} 12\\ 34 \end{bmatrix} % {} \begin{Bmatrix} 12\\ 34 \end{Bmatrix} Thanks! jk ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] No parindent?

2005-09-12 Thread luigi.scarso
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: (And keep your hopes up, I'm steadly heading towards the end of my PhD :)) shine on, you crazy diamond !!! luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] No parindent?

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Even thought I have \setupindenting[medium,nex] in the preamble of my document, no paragraph is indented C:\Documents and Settings\Giuseppe Bilottatexexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 unknown file type: texmfscripts texexec

Re: [NTG-context] \limitatefirstline (or slave to the wiki)

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi all, Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: another one \def\limitatefirstline#1#2#3% {\hbox\bgroup\strut \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{\begstrut#1\endstrut}% \ifdim\wd\scratchbox#2\relax \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#3}% \hsize#2\relax \advance\hsize-\wd\scratchbox

Re: [NTG-context] Disappearing figures

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Hello people, I think I spotted a bug either in ConTeXt or in my capability comprehension. Take the following simple code: \placefigure[here][testfigs]{Test cases}{ \startcombination[3*3] ... It works --- on the first texexec run. On

Re: [NTG-context] Need more documentation on tables

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Ok, even with the wiki and all the manuals around (which are getting obsolete, too) there is definitely too little documentation on the various tabulation formats. The biggest problem is that each table type has its ability, but there is nothing that can do everything.

Re: [NTG-context] Some Footnote Questions (from the Wiki)

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Brooks Moses wrote: At 10:40 AM 9/9/2005, Christopher Creutzig wrote: Brooks Moses wrote: Not quite, as it doesn't generate a number I can reference. What I'm thinking of is something that does what \nomarkfootnote does in the following example: A sentence\footnote{With a

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Fonts

2005-09-12 Thread Richard Gabriel
Hello Hans and others, excuse me such a stupid question, but: It there any clear (step by step) description how to add a new font into context? I've already done many googling and "tryfails" but the success was minimal. The typescript definitions in type-enc.tex and type-pre.tex are almost a

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Need more documentation on tables

2005-09-12 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, September 12, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Ok, even with the wiki and all the manuals around (which are getting obsolete, too) there is definitely too little documentation on the various tabulation formats. The biggest problem is that each table type has its ability,

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Switching to smaller font more thoroughly

2005-09-12 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, September 12, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: \placetable[here][tables]{Caption}{ \switchtobodyfont[5pt] etc. } It doesn't work either way. Do you have an example? See the example I just posted in the Need more documentation on tables

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Fonts

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Rolf
Richard Gabriel wrote: Hello Hans and others, excuse me such a stupid question, but: It there any clear (step by step) description how to add a new font into context? I've already done many googling and tryfails but the success was minimal. The typescript definitions in type-enc.tex and

[NTG-context] No small caps?

2005-09-12 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
I have Palatino as main font set up with \usetypescript[adobekb][8r] \loadmapfile[context-base] \usetypescript[palatino][8r] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] \switchtobodyfont[12pt] Plus I have \setupcapitals[sc=yes] \definestartstop[abstract] [before={\sc Abstract.\hskip1em}] But \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Fonts

2005-09-12 Thread Bill McClain
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:53:04 +0200 Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts There is a bunch of links on this page. I've learned it with help from Bill McLain's page (includes a step by step font installation), but some things have changed in the meantime

Re: [NTG-context] Switching to smaller font more thoroughly

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Monday, September 12, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: \setuptables[bodyfont=small] \setuptabulate[bodyfont=small] the reason is that spacing depends on the bodyfont size so it need to be controlled somehow What if want it for only some of the tables?

[NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
This one hast just cost me two hours, and I'm still baffled. The story (in shorthand): was trying to integrate a positional metafun graphic into a presentation. I got no output. I tried making a minimal example file to reproduce the problem, and sure enough, everything went fine. I

RE: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Fonts

2005-09-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
= Original Message From Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts This link is missing from that page; it contains step-by-step instructions for installing expert fonts, from preinstallation to writing typescripts:

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
OK, I'm answering my own post. The plot thickens. It looks like this has something to do with file names. It only happens when I have a name with a period in it. Thusly, file 05.11.08.tex will not run MP to PDF, when I copy the exact same file to 05_11_08.tex, everything works as it

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: working directory, and -- I got no output again. diff shows that both files are identical. Looking at the logs, there's only one difference I can spot: Perhaps it can be that something decides that your file has the interesting filename extension '11.08-mpgraph.mp'

Re: [NTG-context] Matrices LaTeX - ContTeXt

2005-09-12 Thread Brooks Moses
At 01:40 AM 9/12/2005, Jilani Khaldi wrote: Hi All, how tow write these matrices in Context? % [] \begin{bmatrix} 12\\ 34 \end{bmatrix} ConTeXt uses Plain TeX syntax for math, mostly. Thus, you use Plain TeX's \matrix command to create the matrices: \left[\matrix{ 12 \cr 24 \cr

Re: [NTG-context] No small caps?

2005-09-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: I have Palatino as main font set up with \usetypescript[adobekb][8r] \loadmapfile[context-base] \usetypescript[palatino][8r] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] \switchtobodyfont[12pt] There are two problems. One is yours: you should use [ec] instead of [8r] to get a

Re: [NTG-context] t-rsteps and starttyping

2005-09-12 Thread Peter Münster
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, David Munger wrote: I'm currently not at home. I'll be back next week and then I'll try to figure out what happens. Hi David, have you already found something? Regards, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, I'm answering my own post. The plot thickens. It looks like this has something to do with file names. It only happens when I have a name with a period in it. Thusly, file 05.11.08.tex will not run MP to PDF, when I copy the exact same file to 05_11_08.tex,

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: This one hast just cost me two hours, and I'm still baffled. The story (in shorthand): was trying to integrate a positional metafun graphic into a presentation. I got no output. I tried making a minimal example file to reproduce the problem, and sure enough,

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Well, at least the old texexec processes the file. However, the problem with metafun graphics I described occurs in the old texexec (I'm not at all sure if the two problems are related). Thomas On Sep 12, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: bug; but does this mean that the old texexec

[NTG-context] free keycaps font

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Jansen
As far as I can tell, ConTeXt doesn't include a keycaps font. I recently created my own and would like to share it with anyone else that might find it useful. I've included a sample document with it. If you're on a *nix system with a working copy of ConTeXt and make, just type make to build it.

Re: [NTG-context] Linux and Context on 64 bit

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 18:41 +0200, luigi.scarso wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Those executabless are now part of the minimal distribution: http://context.aanhet.net/context/install/linux64tex.zip downloaded (many thanks taco!!) The last thing: what linux distro (SUSE, Mandriva , RH,

Re: [NTG-context] free keycaps font

2005-09-12 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Stuart Jansen wrote: As far as I can tell, ConTeXt doesn't include a keycaps font. I recently created my own and would like to share it with anyone else that might find it useful. I've included a sample document with it. If you're on a *nix system with a working copy of ConTeXt and make, just

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Well, at least the old texexec processes the file. However, the problem with metafun graphics I described occurs in the old texexec (I'm not at all sure if the two problems are related). can you make me a smal test file? Hans

[NTG-context] help at layout

2005-09-12 Thread Boris Pedrofiets
Hello, I want to make a layout where a vertical line is putted at the rigth of the left margin. Capters and paragraphs must indent in the left margin, and be boxed. Someting like: | | [ 2. Chapter ] -- | I'm new on this, so please help me out. Boris Vind alles

Re: [NTG-context] free keycaps font

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:08 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: Stuart Jansen wrote: As far as I can tell, ConTeXt doesn't include a keycaps font. I recently created my own and would like to share it with anyone else that might find it useful. I've included a sample document with it. If you're

Re: [NTG-context] t-rsteps and starttyping

2005-09-12 Thread David Munger
Hi Peter, I am very sorry, I had completely forgotten about that issue. It boils down to the following: \long\def\StartLong#1\StopLong{#1} \starttext \StartLong \starttyping hallo \stoptyping \StopLong \stoptext This will produce no error, but no output as well. Maybe we could use some

Re: [NTG-context] free keycaps font

2005-09-12 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Stuart Jansen wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:08 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: Stuart Jansen wrote: As far as I can tell, ConTeXt doesn't include a keycaps font. I recently created my own and would like to share it with anyone else that might find it useful. I've included a sample

Re: [NTG-context] free keycaps font

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Nikolai Weibull wrote: Stuart Jansen wrote: As far as I can tell, ConTeXt doesn't include a keycaps font. I recently created my own and would like to share it with anyone else that might find it useful. I've included a sample document with it. If you're on a *nix system with a working copy

Re: [NTG-context] free keycaps font

2005-09-12 Thread Brooks Moses
At 02:16 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by lay closer to a standard baseline. The baseline of the glyph inside the key is aligned with text outside the key. I waffled back and forth trying to find the most attractive position while building the font. The majority of keycaps

Re: [NTG-context] free keycaps font

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Stuart Jansen wrote: As far as I can tell, ConTeXt doesn't include a keycaps font. I recently created my own and would like to share it with anyone else that might find it useful. I've included a sample document with it. If you're on a *nix system with a working copy of ConTeXt and make, just

[NTG-context] \begin{cases} .. \end{cases} in ConTeXt

2005-09-12 Thread Jilani Khaldi
Hi, I have tried with: \startcases .. \stopcases and many others variations but I have got only errors. Any hint? Thanks. jk ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] free keycaps font

2005-09-12 Thread Brooks Moses
At 02:16 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:08 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote: Very nice! I would like them to lay closer to a standard baseline, though, I'm not sure what you mean by lay closer to a standard baseline. The baseline of the glyph inside the key is aligned with

[NTG-context] Using Adobe built-in fonts with latest context + texlive 204

2005-09-12 Thread Berend de Boer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I just upgraded my entire TeX system. There are no traces of old files anymore, everything is brandnew. I installed texlive 2004 (because I had it on a DVD, thanks NTG!). I got the latest ConText (Aug 31). The first thing I had to do was

Re: [NTG-context] \begin{cases} .. \end{cases} in ConTeXt

2005-09-12 Thread Brooks Moses
At 04:42 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote: I have tried with: \startcases .. \stopcases and many others variations but I have got only errors. Any hint? Much like the bmatrix environment, the cases environment is an AMSmath package feature, and ConTeXt at present has very few of the direct

Re: [NTG-context] \begin{cases} .. \end{cases} in ConTeXt

2005-09-12 Thread Brooks Moses
At 04:58 PM 9/12/2005, Brooks Moses wrote: At 04:42 PM 9/12/2005, Jilani Khaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried with: \startcases .. \stopcases and many others variations but I have got only errors. Any hint? Much like the bmatrix environment, the cases environment is an AMSmath

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Switching to smaller font more thoroughly

2005-09-12 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, September 12, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Monday, September 12, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: \setuptables[bodyfont=small] \setuptabulate[bodyfont=small] the reason is that spacing depends on the bodyfont size so it need to be controlled somehow What if want it for only

Re: [NTG-context] free keycaps font

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 01:02 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: is that really texnansi? these Function-1 keys etc are not in texnansi ... All I know for sure is that it Works For Me(tm). Unfortunately, my ConTeXt skills don't yet rise above that. so, an option is to make a special encoding vector, say