Re: [NTG-context] problem with setupwhitespace

2010-12-19 Thread Achim Jander
Hi Wolfgang, many thanks, thats what I was looking for. Am 18.12.2010 19:32, schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 18.12.2010 um 16:10 schrieb Achim Jander: Hello, I am trying to setup a layout for a book. Its very simple, consisting only of paragraphs. Regularly, there should be no space

Re: [NTG-context] running headers on postponed makeup

2010-12-19 Thread Philipp Gesang
On 2010-12-18 21:06:11, Hans Hagen wrote: On 18-12-2010 6:12, Philipp Gesang wrote: after discovering postponed insertions I encountered a problem when combining it with the makeup mechanism I am so fond of. The next beta will have changes mark behaviour: no reset in everyforget cases,

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Thomas Schmitz
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:35:53 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 18.12.2010 um 17:52 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: I am not sure what you want to do, and why you want to use buffers. Wont a simple token list work? I can only agree with this, token lists are the

[NTG-context] startcolumns: text runs into footer

2010-12-19 Thread Achim Jander
Hi at all, now I've run into the next problem: Trying to set text in 2 columns. Even in the simples case: \showframe \starttext \startcolumns \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth} \stopcolumns \stoptext The text goes ca 1 line into the footer-region. I played around with various settings

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Dec 19 2010, Thomas Schmitz wrote: and this doesn't: \newtoks\mytoks \def\TestMacro#1#2#3% {\item[#1] #2\par \appendtoks \in[#1]: {#3} \to\mytoks} \doglobal \appendtoks \in[#1]: {#3} \to\mytoks} Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Thomas Schmitz
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:21:26 +0100 Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote: On Sun, Dec 19 2010, Thomas Schmitz wrote: and this doesn't: \newtoks\mytoks \def\TestMacro#1#2#3% {\item[#1] #2\par \appendtoks \in[#1]: {#3} \to\mytoks} \doglobal \appendtoks \in[#1]: {#3} \to\mytoks}

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Thomas Schmitz
Hooray, not it works!!! s/not/now/ Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Minimal spacing between sentences

2010-12-19 Thread Florian Wobbe
Hi, how can I increase the minimal spacing between sentences? \setfrenchspacing seems to work only in a justified line: \starttext \setfrenchspacing{15000} This is a short sentence. It is not followed by a big space. Here are some justified lines which have big spaces: \input tufte \stoptext

[NTG-context] mkii bug in lucida, again.

2010-12-19 Thread Yue Wang
This bug only exist in mkii. it appeared some time ago, but was fixed later, and reappeared again sometime later this year. Hans, I will zip my lucida font and send to you in a private mail. Yue Wang a.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document a.tex Description: TeX document

Re: [NTG-context] mkii bug in lucida, again.

2010-12-19 Thread Yue Wang
BTW, there is also something strange with lucida support in context recently. if I use \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \usetypescript[lucida][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[lucida,14pt] I suppose it should load texnansi-xxx.tfm but it reports ! Font \*lucida12ptrmtfrm*:=hlhr8y at 12.0pt not loadable:

Re: [NTG-context] startcolumns: text runs into footer

2010-12-19 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi Achim! On 2010-12-19 13:09:51, Achim Jander wrote: Hi at all, now I've run into the next problem: Trying to set text in 2 columns. Even in the simples case: \showframe \starttext \startcolumns \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth} \stopcolumns \stoptext The text goes ca 1 line

[NTG-context] error with m-database example

2010-12-19 Thread Florian Wobbe
Hi, The example from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/m-database gives me an error. ! LuaTeX error ...t-beta/texmf-context/tex/context/base/m-database.lua:74: bad argument #2 to 'lpegmatch' (string expected, got nil) stack traceback: [C]: in function 'lpegmatch'

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
On 19-12-2010 12:28, Thomas Schmitz wrote: So: I have been trying to write a macro that will retrieve problems from the database (successful, with help by Hans), pack them in an itemize list (successful), and store the solution somewhere so it can be typeset Why do you store the solutions if

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: append to buffer

2010-12-19 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Dec 19 2010, Thomas Schmitz wrote: easy, yet my knowledge of TeX wasn't advanced enough to see this. Is it because I'm inside a group and TeX empties the tokenlist once I get out of the group? In this case yes, because the list was empty before the group. In general you get the value,