Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry

2006-10-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Frank Küster wrote: Can you point me to the place where it is documented which calls are needed to be called I was going to say: on the wiki, but that clearly wouldn't work this time. To actually update ConTeXt, assuming you already have a relatively modern context installed, you say

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry

2006-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Frank � wrote: Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: A system-wide installation, if done cleanly, would be much easier (as plink pointed out). If you (or 'texexec --make' to generate the formats) ask kpathsea where to put the format files, it'll give you a

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry

2006-10-24 Thread Frank Küster
Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster wrote: Can you point me to the place where it is documented which calls are needed to be called I was going to say: on the wiki, but that clearly wouldn't work this time. To actually update ConTeXt, assuming you already have a

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry

2006-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Frank � wrote: After a succesful update, you have to run # texexec --make --all [--xetex | --aleph | --pdftex] formats Where formats are the desired formats to run. The accepted list at the moment is: the eight ConTeXt formats, in both long (cont-en etc.) and short from

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry

2006-10-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Frank Küster wrote: After a succesful update, you have to run # texexec --make --all [--xetex | --aleph | --pdftex] formats .. So I guess this is the call that would also be needed if the update itself goes via a package management, i.e. if one installs a new version of the Debian

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry

2006-10-24 Thread Frank Küster
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: concerning fmtutil: there was a time that texexec could call fmtutil, but the lack of engine support (as taco explained, it was a trade off for simplifying the fmt suffix but part of the bargain was nog kept) as well as all kind of messy 'aliasing' going on

[NTG-context] figure captions in the margin

2006-10-24 Thread Alex Lubberts
Hi, Does somebody know whether it is possible and how it is possible to place the caption of a figure in the margin? Thanks, Alex Lubberts ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] how to define a new math symbol

2006-10-24 Thread MJK
Hi, I would like to use of the product integral (a curly \prod-like symbol which is to \prod what \int is to \sum) in Context. There is a LaTeX package (not official) available from Richard Gill's website (http://www.math.uu.nl/people/gill/, all the way at the bottom), which supplies a .sty

[NTG-context] character width

2006-10-24 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, for fine-adjusting I need to have a variable horizontal space sometimes the width of 999 sometimes of 1, for example. Is there a command that reads the width of a character so it can be used in some kind of horizontal space? Steffen ___

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry

2006-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Frank � wrote: Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: concerning fmtutil: there was a time that texexec could call fmtutil, but the lack of engine support (as taco explained, it was a trade off for simplifying the fmt suffix but part of the bargain was nog kept) as well as all kind of messy

[NTG-context] bib and bibltx problems

2006-10-24 Thread Matthias Wächter
Hi Taco, I ran into the following problems: 1. see attached files. Three bib entries with different authors, but the resulting references are the same for two of them (!). Appearantly, without sorting the bib entries, the extra label numbering does not work correctly. Changing \setupbibtex to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt installtion and Debian

2006-10-24 Thread Frank Küster
Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * TEXFONTMAPS is also wrong: it makes pdftex (and dvipdfmx as well, I guess) find the mapfiles for dvips before their own mapfiles (those are shipped with ConTeXt). I have: TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfm = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}//

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt installtion and Debian

2006-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Frank � wrote: Debian currently has: TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/{fonts/,}map//;$TEXMF/dvips// What about this? I am not completely convinced about it since with updmap we generate input file for all the different programs. one may assume that by now indeed most trees are tds compliant

[NTG-context] ConTeXt installtion and Debian

2006-10-24 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Taco, hi all! (I am sending personal copies since I don't know whether I can mail to the ntg list). First of all thanks for the explanations! You wrote: To actually update ConTeXt, assuming you already have a relatively modern context installed, you say # ctxtools --update

Re: [NTG-context] character width

2006-10-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, for fine-adjusting I need to have a variable horizontal space sometimes the width of 999 sometimes of 1, for example. Is there a command that reads the width of a character so it can be used in some kind of horizontal space? There is a \fontcharwd primitive

Re: [NTG-context] bib and bibltx problems

2006-10-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Matthias, I goofed somewhere, that's for sure. Are you in a real hurry, or can I take a day or two staring at it? Taco Matthias Wächter wrote: Hi Taco, I ran into the following problems: 1. see attached files. Three bib entries with different authors, but the resulting references

Re: [NTG-context] bib and bibltx problems

2006-10-24 Thread Matthias Wächter
On 24.10.2006 15:13, Taco Hoekwater wrote: I goofed somewhere, that's for sure. Are you in a real hurry, or can I take a day or two staring at it? No hurry, please. :) Thanks for taking care. - Matthias ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry

2006-10-24 Thread Frank Küster
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ horror story snipped ] anyhow, by now, no alias file should be present in any tex root any more; it was a bad idea anyway I always thought that the purpose of the aliases file was that a non-existent (no, nay, never, nowhere ever) filename was aliased to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry

2006-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Frank � wrote: Ah, I didn't know that. pdftex 1.40 doesn't have this already, has it? not that i know, but the latest mp may do it already (esp mp is tricky because binary and pool have different names) Karl (or was it Olaf?) once said there are plans for a complete replacement of

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting a url from variabless

2006-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2006/10/24, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi,What is the best way of typesetting a url from a variable. Forexample, if I have\setvariables[test][website= http://www.xyz.com/~abc/first_index.html]how can I print the url. I

Re: [NTG-context] how to define a new math symbol

2006-10-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
MJK wrote: Hi, I would like to use of the product integral (a curly \prod-like symbol which is to \prod what \int is to \sum) in Context. There is a LaTeX package (not official) available from Richard Gill's website (http://www.math.uu.nl/people/gill/, all the way at the bottom), which

Re: [NTG-context] character width

2006-10-24 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Yes, that's it. Thank you! But can it also be defined in a more handy \MySpace[999] ? Sorry, I tried some \def ... but didn't succeed. Steffen Am 24.10.2006 um 14:55 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, for fine-adjusting I need to have a variable horizontal space

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting a url from variabless

2006-10-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2006/10/24, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, What is the best way of typesetting a url from a variable. For example, if I have \setvariables[test][website=http://www.xyz.com/~abc/first_index.html] how can I print the url. I tried

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting a url from variabless

2006-10-24 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I know that the tilde is causing problems, but I do not know how to prevent that. Maybe make the tilde's catcode unactive in a \bgroup \egroup around the url typesetting? Though if it were that easy, I'm sure the problem would be fixed long ago... -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of

Re: [NTG-context] resource libraries

2006-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Is it possible somehow to extract all the images covered in an image database without lose of quality? eh ... normally there should beno loss at all, pdftex just copies the resources Sorry, I see my question was'nt clear enough. Is there a way to restore all the images included in

Re: [NTG-context] resource libraries

2006-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:31:14 +0200 Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible somehow to extract all the images covered in an image database without lose of quality? eh ... normally there should beno loss at all, pdftex just copies the resources

Re: [NTG-context] character width

2006-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:39:22 +0200 Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's it. Thank you! But can it also be defined in a more handy \MySpace[999] ? Sorry, I tried some \def ... but didn't succeed. Steffen Am 24.10.2006 um 14:55 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:

[NTG-context] doubleminus verbatim

2006-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! \type{--mode} results in '-mode' (one minus eaten). Wolfgang ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] character width

2006-10-24 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \def\MySpace {\dosingleempty\doMySpace} \def\doMySpace[#1]% {\setbox\scratchbox=\hbox{#1}% \unskip\hskip \the\wd \scratchbox} Or perhaps just: \starttext Text\hphantom{999}Text \stoptext ? Cheers, Peter --

Re: [NTG-context] character width

2006-10-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:31:29 +0200 (CEST) Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \def\MySpace {\dosingleempty\doMySpace} \def\doMySpace[#1]% {\setbox\scratchbox=\hbox{#1}% \unskip\hskip \the\wd \scratchbox} Or perhaps just:

[NTG-context] global layout change from header=none in \setuphead

2006-10-24 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Another of those 'not sure if I'm confused' examples: \setuphead[title][header=none] \starttext \title{Hello} \dorecurse{15}{\input tufte} \stoptext With header=empty, it worked as I expected: The first page had no page number in the header and the other pages had a page number. Then I tried

[NTG-context] In-line syntax highlighting for type

2006-10-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, How can I define a command that is the inline version of \startTEX ... \stopTEX. (I need to show inline commands in color). There had been a discussion on this in the past, and Taco had suggested a solution http://archive.contextgarden.net/thread/20050907.093522.baf795f5.en.html which is

[NTG-context] Two misfeatures in placefigure

2006-10-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I found two misfeatures in placefigure. 1) with \placefigure[top] the figure can float to the top of the page, even if the page starts a title or a chapter. 2) The paragraph after the figure is indented, even if it comes right after a \section. For example, \setupindenting[medium,yes]

[NTG-context] url compared to hyperref

2006-10-24 Thread Marko Schütz
When using hyperref and displaying the resulting PDF in xpdf, I see links that are active. I tried achieving the same with useURL, url and goto, but the resulting links aren't active in xpdf. I have to use acroread to have active links. Is there a compelling reason for this behavior? Thanks,