Re: [NTG-context] simple document layout setup

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.03.10 00:51, schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Hello, Is there a simple command to setup narrower document margins, without resorting to \setuplayout with numerical values? I think of MS Word 2007 settings. http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/037090.html Wolfgang

[NTG-context] weird error: no return code

2010-03-25 Thread Philipp A.
hi, the following document \usemodule[tikz] \starttext \stoptext yields the following error: * * ConTeXt output: * cd /home/flyingsheep/Dokumente/LaTeX/ConTeXt/oma * context --nonstopmode 'a4.tex' * This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.50.0-2010010505 \write18

[NTG-context] Microtype in ConTeXt

2010-03-25 Thread Yan Zhou
Dear all, I am thinking about moving from LaTeX to ConTeXt. But there is one thing make this particularly difficult. That is the microtype LaTeX package. More specifically I have the following questions (assuming I will use MKIV and luatex) 1. I understand that ConTeXt can do margin kerning

Re: [NTG-context] weird error: no return code

2010-03-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Philipp A. wrote: MTXrun | fatal error: no return code, message: luatex: execution interrupted I am using TexLive 2009 full and therefore mkIV Can somebody help me? This is a hard crash. You appear to be running the latest context and luatex 0.50 (not the ones on texlive) so you could try

[NTG-context] margin text

2010-03-25 Thread Robert Blackstone
Hi all, This is a reaction to a post in another thread, setupinmargin failing, but it does not seem to directly concern the problem raised there (by Hans van der Meer). So I raise it as a new problem. I tried the code supplied by Luigi Scarso in ntg-context Digest, Vol 69, Issue 127, Message 1:

Re: [NTG-context] margin text

2010-03-25 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Robert Blackstone blackstone.rob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, This is a reaction to a post in another thread, setupinmargin failing, but it does not seem to directly concern the problem raised there (by Hans van der Meer). So I raise it as a new problem. I

Re: [NTG-context] margin text

2010-03-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Robert Blackstone wrote: 2, \setupinmargin[left][align=left,.. ] actually right-aligns the left margin note and vice versa. To left-align it I had to give \setupinmargin[right]. Seems odd to me. Is this normal? Yes, it is even a FAQ item. See here for why:

Re: [NTG-context] margin text

2010-03-25 Thread Robert Blackstone
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM, luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: ( Is this normal?) yes . I have  these line \setuppapersize[A4][A3] \setuplayout[location=middle] right to show that default layout --- and it's the default layout from 10years at least --- perhaps is  not adeguate to your

Re: [NTG-context] letter module not working

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Wolfgang, I have problems compiling this with ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.20 22:59 MKIV [...] I can't reproduce this. Can you take a look at the end of the log for this information: correspondence : t-correspondence.tex: 2010.02.28 correspondence : t-letter.tex: 2009.10.10

Re: [NTG-context] margin text

2010-03-25 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Robert Blackstone blackstone.rob...@gmail.com wrote: What should I do to get the page in the middle of the paper so to speak, instead of shifted to the left, which happens with \setuplayout[location=middle]?? I tried specifying leftedgewidth but that does not

Re: [NTG-context] Microtype in ConTeXt

2010-03-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 25-3-2010 2:55, Yan Zhou wrote: Dear all, I am thinking about moving from LaTeX to ConTeXt. But there is one thing make this particularly difficult. That is the microtype LaTeX package. More specifically I have the following questions (assuming I will use MKIV and luatex) 1. I understand

[NTG-context] PDF annotations problems - was: status of node.write

2010-03-25 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: when given examples of something that does not work i can repair it in lpdf-ini.lua one can find the following utility function for setting a boolean config parameter: local function pdfboolean(b,default) if ((type(b) == boolean) and

Re: [NTG-context] Microtype in ConTeXt

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.03.10 15:09, schrieb Hans Hagen: 1. I understand that ConTeXt can do margin kerning and font expansion, but is there a way to setup a configuration file for each font set. Like the mt-foo.cfg file for font family foo when using microtype in latex. you can define additional sets indeed

Re: [NTG-context] Microtype in ConTeXt

2010-03-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 25-3-2010 15:28, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 25.03.10 15:09, schrieb Hans Hagen: 1. I understand that ConTeXt can do margin kerning and font expansion, but is there a way to setup a configuration file for each font set. Like the mt-foo.cfg file for font family foo when using microtype in

Re: [NTG-context] Microtype in ConTeXt

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.03.10 16:21, schrieb Hans Hagen: looks ok, apart from the name ... we don't space letters but characters (or glyphs) so maybe \kerncharacters or so Is it also possible to use this with fontfeatures? \definefontfeature[kerning][kern=.125] \starttext {\definedfont[SerifCaps*kerning]kerned

Re: [NTG-context] status of node.write

2010-03-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 24-3-2010 17:46, Michail Vidiassov wrote: Dear Hans, when given examples of something that does not work i can repair it take a look at http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/047898.html - it is about problem with movies, but movies and u3d are both done via annotations, thus there

Re: [NTG-context] Microtype in ConTeXt

2010-03-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 25-3-2010 16:34, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 25.03.10 16:21, schrieb Hans Hagen: looks ok, apart from the name ... we don't space letters but characters (or glyphs) so maybe \kerncharacters or so Is it also possible to use this with fontfeatures? \definefontfeature[kerning][kern=.125]

Re: [NTG-context] Microtype in ConTeXt

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.03.10 16:21, schrieb Hans Hagen: Who about something like (pseudocode) \definecharacterkerning[letterspace] \def\letterspace {\bgroup \dosingleempty\doletterspace} \def\doletterspace[#1]#2% use \groupedcommand? {\iffirstargument

[NTG-context] CMap in MkII

2010-03-25 Thread Vedran Miletić
Can anyone confirm that CMap is still automatically included in MkII? Because copying of Croatian letters (čćđ) isn't quite working here. I'm more than willing to provide a minimal example if necessary. -- Vedran Miletić

[NTG-context] 3D annotations - was: status of node.write

2010-03-25 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: there is u3d support presen tbut nobody tested it thank you for your latest effort to put u3d support in a working state, but as of now even the most basic test from back-u3d.mkiv does not work and is not supposed to: grph-u3d.lua needs

[NTG-context] Compiling under Windows (Visual Studio 2008)

2010-03-25 Thread Graham Douglas
Hi I hope this message is not too off topic but I thought I would ask here first. I would very much like to (try...) to compile LuaTeX using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. But I'm not sure if this is likely to be enormously complex and maybe too difficult (for me, anyway). Does the list know

Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations - was: status of node.write

2010-03-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 25-3-2010 20:12, Michail Vidiassov wrote: to at least make code run without throwing error messages. new beta Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH

Re: [NTG-context] Microtype in ConTeXt

2010-03-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 25-3-2010 19:14, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \setupcharacterkerning[kerncharacters][factor=\ctxlua{tex.write(#1/1000)}]% i'll add it but simply with \setupcharacterkerning[kerncharacters][factor=#1]% there is no reason to use a different model than we have now (also, these 1000 based

Re: [NTG-context] Bibtex change short key

2010-03-25 Thread Hubertus
Dear Taco, I use the excellent BibTex module with this setup: \setupbibtex[database=biblio,sort=author] \setuppublications[alternative=apa,refcommand=short,sorttype=bbl,criterium=cited] So if I have something like this @ARTICLE{Akimoto2005, author = {R. Akimoto and B. S. Li and K.

[NTG-context] marginal note problems

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Saunders
Thank you for the help with headers---it worked. My marginal note problems continue: If I have a two-column text with margins on either side, is there a way for \inmargin{} or something like it to place text in the margin next to the column where it occurs? I haven't been able to avoid it

Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations

2010-03-25 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Hans, On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Michail Vidiassov wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: there is u3d support presen tbut nobody tested it thank you for your latest effort to put u3d support in a working state, but now that Adobe has fallen in love with a new 3D format, PRC, the