[NTG-context] movie in pdf example in wiki

2009-04-14 Thread Bill Long
I try the example to embedded video in wiki, but it doesn't work. \starttext \externalfigure[./file_server.mov][label=demo,width=4cm,height=4cm,preview=yes] \stoptext when i execute texexec test.tex it said TeXUtil | running texmfstart rlxtools --identify

[NTG-context] How to update Context on Windows (with Texlive 2008)

2009-04-14 Thread abhseth2107
I have TeXLive 2008 installed on Windows (on a path with no spaces). I wanted to update ConTexT, so ran the following commands (using cygwin), following instructions from wiki rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/context/current/ /cygdrive/c/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/ which

Re: [NTG-context] movie in pdf example in wiki

2009-04-14 Thread Bill Long
Sorry, I should read the mail list first, now it work. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:29:56PM +0800, Bill Long wrote: I try the example to embedded video in wiki, but it doesn't work. \starttext \externalfigure[./file_server.mov][label=demo,width=4cm,height=4cm,preview=yes] \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] colored backgrounds in displayed math

2009-04-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Sanjoy Mahajan san...@mit.edu wrote: Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Sanjoy, welcome back Thanks! It's absurdly enjoyable but exhausting raising a small child (22 months old)...and we have only one so I don't know how people

Re: [NTG-context] How to update Context on Windows (with Texlive 2008)

2009-04-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 09:38, abhseth2...@live.in wrote: I have TeXLive 2008 installed on Windows (on a path with no spaces). I wanted to update ConTexT, so ran the following commands (using cygwin), following instructions from wiki rsync -av

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Table placement with forced width

2009-04-14 Thread Bill Long
I think the natural table works fine with your requirements. http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/enattab.pdf On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 01:31:09PM -0600, Design Department wrote: Hi all, I need a table that is 2/3 \pagewidth and placed against the right page margin.

[NTG-context] how to use attachment file as a script argument

2009-04-14 Thread Bill Long
based on the example of use mplayer play the movie, I write down sthing like \defineprogram[sample.data][sample.data.sh] \goto{\externalfigure[sample.data][width=0.48\textwidth]}[program(sample.data{})] and the content of sample.data.sh is #!/bin/bash FILE=$(basename $0); gnome-terminal -e

Re: [NTG-context] context mkiv nomenclature problem (bug)

2009-04-14 Thread Thomas Prochaska
Am Samstag, 11. April 2009 08:28:33 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 10.04.2009 um 10:28 schrieb Thomas Prochaska: Hi! this simple example works with texexec but not with context. %- \definesynonyms[nomenclature][nomenclatures][\infull]

Re: [NTG-context] context mkiv nomenclature problem (bug)

2009-04-14 Thread Thomas Prochaska
Am Dienstag, 14. April 2009 13:47:44 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 14.04.2009 um 13:28 schrieb Thomas Prochaska: hm, with the latest context minimal i get this: structure : chapter @ level 2 : (0.4) . - \headtext {abbreviations} [5] ! LuaTeX error

Re: [NTG-context] context mkiv nomenclature problem (bug)

2009-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas Prochaska wrote: Am Samstag, 11. April 2009 08:28:33 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 10.04.2009 um 10:28 schrieb Thomas Prochaska: Hi! this simple example works with texexec but not with context. %- \definesynonyms[nomenclature][nomenclatures][\infull]

Re: [NTG-context] new structure code

2009-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 3. \\ generates a backslash but was a space before \starttext text\\text \stoptext actually, \\ depends on the context; in the main text stream \\ being \ makes more sense(as \$ \# etc) -

Re: [NTG-context] context mkiv nomenclature problem (bug)

2009-04-14 Thread Thomas Prochaska
Am Dienstag, 14. April 2009 14:07:14 schrieb Hans Hagen: Thomas Prochaska wrote: Am Samstag, 11. April 2009 08:28:33 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 10.04.2009 um 10:28 schrieb Thomas Prochaska: Hi! this simple example works with texexec but not with context. %-

Re: [NTG-context] inaccessible control sequence

2009-04-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: luigi scarso wrote: \def\@@FOO{FOO} \starttext \@@FOO \stoptext works in mkiv minimals , but not in an old mkii context of mine (inaccessible control sequence) . I suppose that it's ok . no, it means that we have a

Re: [NTG-context] inaccessible control sequence

2009-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 14.04.2009 um 14:47 schrieb luigi scarso: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: luigi scarso wrote: \def\@@FOO{FOO} \starttext \@@FOO \stoptext works in mkiv minimals , but not in an old mkii context of mine (inaccessible control sequence) . I suppose that

Re: [NTG-context] inaccessible control sequence

2009-04-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 14.04.2009 um 14:47 schrieb luigi scarso: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: luigi scarso wrote: \def\@@FOO{FOO} \starttext \@@FOO \stoptext works in mkiv

[NTG-context] button alignment question

2009-04-14 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, How do you keep the footer buttons between the footer's top and bottom ? \showframe \def\myHeaderButton{\interactionbuttons[width=2cm,height=\headerheight][OK]} \def\myFooterButton{\interactionbuttons[width=2cm,height=\footerheight][OK]} \setupinteraction[state=start]

Re: [NTG-context] inaccessible control sequence

2009-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 10.04.2009 um 12:56 schrieb Hans Hagen: luigi scarso wrote: \def\@@FOO{FOO} \starttext \@@FOO \stoptext works in mkiv minimals , but not in an old mkii context of mine (inaccessible control sequence) . I suppose that it's ok . no, it means that we have a missing \protect .. upto you to

Re: [NTG-context] inaccessible control sequence

2009-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 10.04.2009 um 12:56 schrieb Hans Hagen: luigi scarso wrote: \def\@@FOO{FOO} \starttext \@@FOO \stoptext works in mkiv minimals , but not in an old mkii context of mine (inaccessible control sequence) . I suppose that it's ok . no, it means that we have a

Re: [NTG-context] inaccessible control sequence

2009-04-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 10.04.2009 um 12:56 schrieb Hans Hagen: luigi scarso wrote: \def\@@FOO{FOO} \starttext \@@FOO \stoptext works in mkiv minimals , but not in an old mkii context of mine (inaccessible control

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Table placement with forced width

2009-04-14 Thread Design Department
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Bill Long longwei...@sohu.com wrote: I think the natural table works fine with your requirements. Repeating table footers? I understood this was not possible with natural tables. -- david

[NTG-context] TeXLive 2008 + ConTeXt problems (on Gentoo Linux)

2009-04-14 Thread Matija Šuklje
Hullo, it's been a while since I used ConTeXt (I simply didn't have to write any documents), but now that I upgraded to TeXLive 2008 I noticed that ConTeXt is giving me gripes. 'context test.tex' produces: MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file

Re: [NTG-context] Table placement with forced width

2009-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 13.04.2009 um 21:31 schrieb Design Department: The table flows into, and off the right margin area. What am I doing wrong? Also, \SetTableToWidth{.67\pagewidth} produces an error. Is there a way to specify a fraction of \pagewidth? No, because ConTeXt has no dimension with the name

[NTG-context] Table macro alternatives

2009-04-14 Thread Design Department
Is alignmentcharacter available in table macros other than natural tables? I would prefer to use natural tables but absolutely require a footer at the bottom of the table on every page. The footer doesn't need to contain columns - it can be a box the width of the table. Any suggestions on

Re: [NTG-context] Table macro alternatives

2009-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 14.04.2009 um 18:53 schrieb Design Department: Is alignmentcharacter available in table macros other than natural tables? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview Wolfgang ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Table macro alternatives

2009-04-14 Thread Design Department
Is alignmentcharacter available in table macros other than natural tables? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview Wolfgang There is no mention of alignmentcharacter anywhere other than for natural tables, but the wiki is hardly comprehensive. That's why I'm asking here. -- david

Re: [NTG-context] Table placement with forced width

2009-04-14 Thread Design Department
No, because ConTeXt has no dimension with the name \pagewidth, you couls use \textwidth for the width of the textblock. Even then your setup is useless because your table is wider than 2/3 of the textwidth (it is even wider than the complete textblock). Thks. I must have been lost in space - I

Re: [NTG-context] Table macro alternatives

2009-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 14.04.2009 um 19:17 schrieb Design Department: Is alignmentcharacter available in table macros other than natural tables? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview Wolfgang There is no mention of alignmentcharacter anywhere other than for natural tables, but the wiki is hardly

Re: [NTG-context] TeXLive 2008 + ConTeXt problems (on Gentoo Linux)

2009-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Matija Šuklje wrote: Hullo, it's been a while since I used ConTeXt (I simply didn't have to write any documents), but now that I upgraded to TeXLive 2008 I noticed that ConTeXt is giving me gripes. 'context test.tex' produces: MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | error unable

Re: [NTG-context] Table macro alternatives

2009-04-14 Thread Design Department
Found it. Thanks again. I had read it some time ago, but it didn't fully register then - I think I was hoping to use natural tables at the time. -- david ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

Re: [NTG-context] TeXLive 2008 + ConTeXt problems (on Gentoo Linux)

2009-04-14 Thread Matija Šuklje
Dne torek 14. aprila 2009 je Hans Hagen napisal(a): just use the version the context garden as it is more uptodate (and also provides the latest binaries) I have nothing against TeXLive and I don't really want to mess with the bleeding edge. I just want it to work ;) Cheers, Matija -- gsm:

Re: [NTG-context] TeXLive 2008 + ConTeXt problems (on Gentoo Linux)

2009-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Matija Šuklje wrote: Dne torek 14. aprila 2009 je Hans Hagen napisal(a): just use the version the context garden as it is more uptodate (and also provides the latest binaries) I have nothing against TeXLive and I don't really want to mess with the neither have i -) bleeding edge. I just

Re: [NTG-context] new structure code

2009-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi, i found a few bugs in the new structure code for mkiv. i fixed a few things concerning prefixes and such, keep in mind that we do things a bit differently now, as in: \definestructureprefixset [mine][section-1,section-2] \definestructureseparatorset[mine][:]

[NTG-context] mkiv document size shrinks (nice)

2009-04-14 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, Files produced by the latest beta have smaller size then those compiled at the beginning of the year. For example, typical lyrics documents shrinked from ~20Kb to ~14Kb each. It's nice. I just wonder -- is it connected with font subsets embedding ? Best, Vyatcheslav

Re: [NTG-context] TeXLive 2008 + ConTeXt problems (on Gentoo Linux)

2009-04-14 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
Hi Matija, You need to set TEXMFCNF, TEXMFCACHE, and OSFONTDIR in your system environment, for example in /etc/env.d/98texlive. Best wishes, Wei-Wei Matija Šuklje 写道: Hullo, it's been a while since I used ConTeXt (I simply didn't have to write any documents), but now that I upgraded to

[NTG-context] problem with module pre-05 (fuzzy): Missing number

2009-04-14 Thread Héctor Palacios
Hi context users ! I want to test the presentations modules of context, because are very nice. I am testing module pre-05 (fuzzy), i am using the code at the end of the archive: %% code example.tex -- \usemodule[pre-05] \starttext \TitlePage{Title Page\\pre-fuzzy} \Topics{Some

[NTG-context] TOCS: part number, custom alternative and margins

2009-04-14 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi all! A while ago I asked how to achieve a particular layout I wanted for part titles in my table of contents. I was given this solution: \definelistplacement[partlist][none]#1#2#3% {\sc\inframed[width=broad,align=right,bottomframe=on,topframe=off,rightframe=off,leftframe=off]{{#2}}}

[NTG-context] Keep text elements together

2009-04-14 Thread Uriel Avalos
Hi all. I'm writing a Multiple Choice test set in two-columns. I would like to keep the multiple-choice items together with the question both on the same page AND on the same column. Question 1 Question 3 choice 1choice 1 choice 2choice 2 choice 3choice 3

Re: [NTG-context] problem with module pre-05 (fuzzy): Missing number

2009-04-14 Thread Bill Long
check bellow, maybe doesn't define subject in the module. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:32:18PM -0500, Héctor Palacios wrote: Hi context users ! I want to test the presentations modules of context, because are very nice. I am testing module pre-05 (fuzzy), i am using the code at the end

Re: [NTG-context] TeXLive 2008 + ConTeXt problems (on Gentoo Linux)

2009-04-14 Thread Matija Šuklje
Dne sreda 15. aprila 2009 je Wei-Wei Guo napisal(a): You need to set TEXMFCNF, TEXMFCACHE, and OSFONTDIR in your system environment, for example in /etc/env.d/98texlive. Thanks. :) E.g. what are appropriate values for these variables? I'll try to change them to my system's right paths, but

Re: [NTG-context] TeXLive 2008 + ConTeXt problems (on Gentoo Linux)

2009-04-14 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
Hi, - TEXMFCNF value should be /etc/texmf/web2c. - TEXMFCACHE value is the directory chosen by yourself. - OSFONTDIR value should be the paths of your system fonts. Best wishes, Wei-Wei Matija Šuklje 写道: Dne sreda 15. aprila 2009 je Wei-Wei Guo napisal(a): You need to set TEXMFCNF,