Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-28 Thread Janne Junnila
Indeed it seems like the alignment is good with \dfrac, but this does not solve my problem, since I wish to also use fractions with script-size or scriptscript-size (\xfrac, \xxfrac). The specific formula I have is \startformula f_{B_t | B_s = S, B_u = U}(x) = \frac{e^{-\frac{(u-s)x^2 - 2x(S(u-t)

[NTG-context] Finding documentation for ConTeXt

2013-01-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everybody, I am becoming more and more interested in ConTeXt. I am gradually grasping the potential of ConTeXt and its advantages over Lua(La)TeX. My problem is finding decent documentation for ConTeXt. Yes, there is ConTeXt Garden. But, let us be honest it is a big mess. It mixes the old,

Re: [NTG-context] Finding documentation for ConTeXt

2013-01-28 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de wrote: Hi Everybody, I am becoming more and more interested in ConTeXt. I am gradually grasping the potential of ConTeXt and its advantages over Lua(La)TeX. My problem is finding decent documentation for ConTeXt. have

Re: [NTG-context] Finding documentation for ConTeXt

2013-01-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Luigi, I have serval books and seen these, yet I am not sure, yet If I want to put my money down, yet! What is more I do not know if they are necessarily what I need. Then there is the question, if they are up to date enough with the fast advancing MKIV. regards Keith. Am

Re: [NTG-context] Coming back to ConTeXt

2013-01-28 Thread Alain Delmotte
Hi ! Le 28/01/2013 00:39, Mojca Miklavec a écrit : On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Alain Delmotte wrote: Set the repository to http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2012 and make sure that you don't have ConTeXt distribution in PATH*** when calling tlmgr. Ok I did and it seemed to work, at

Re: [NTG-context] Finding documentation for ConTeXt

2013-01-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Keith J. Schultz wrote: My problem is finding decent documentation for ConTeXt. Yes, there is ConTeXt Garden. But, let us be honest it is a big mess. It mixes the old, the bad and the good. I will admit the information there has improved greatly, and YET finding the good

Re: [NTG-context] Finding documentation for ConTeXt

2013-01-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Aditya, Thanx for the link. I have already can across several of the the links on this page/NAV-box(!!), and bookmark them. I had notice such boxes before, but considered them to contain database information and not further links! Learn new things everyday. One thing is for such I can not

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-28 Thread Roland Thiers
Le 28 janv. 13 à 10:11, Janne Junnila a écrit : Indeed it seems like the alignment is good with \dfrac, but this does not solve my problem, since I wish to also use fractions with script-size or scriptscript-size (\xfrac, \xxfrac). The specific formula I have is \startformula f_{B_t | B_s =

Re: [NTG-context] Finding documentation for ConTeXt

2013-01-28 Thread Mari Voipio
I think that one of the problems is that ConTeXt can do almost anything, if you know how to ask it to do that. What I do is different what most people use it for, but it works (http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-pagedesign.pdf and

[NTG-context] arranging vs. \page[last]

2013-01-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
latest beta of ConTeXt MkIv standalone If I use \page[last] with arranging, ConTeXt inserts additional pages and the page that’s meant to be last is not: \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2UP] \starttext \chapter{One} \input tufte \chapter{Two} \input tufte \page[last]

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Roland Thiers wrote: Le 28 janv. 13 à 10:11, Janne Junnila a écrit : Indeed it seems like the alignment is good with \dfrac, but this does not solve my problem, since I wish to also use fractions with script-size or scriptscript-size (\xfrac, \xxfrac). The specific

Re: [NTG-context] arranging vs. \page[last]

2013-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 28.01.2013 um 20:39 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net: latest beta of ConTeXt MkIv standalone If I use \page[last] with arranging, ConTeXt inserts additional pages and the page that’s meant to be last is not: \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2UP]

Re: [NTG-context] arranging vs. \page[last]

2013-01-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2013-01-28 um 21:01 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: With \page[last] can fill your document with empty pages to fill the missing pages which are needed for a certain imposition method but you have to use it at the *end* of the document in *not in* the document. I understood it as forward to

Re: [NTG-context] arranging vs. \page[last]

2013-01-28 Thread Mari Voipio
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote: What would you suggest to put something onto the last (i.e. back) page? The wiki has a trick, but I think it stopped working at some stage - maybe somebody can fix it (if it is broken):

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 28.01.2013 um 20:41 schrieb Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Roland Thiers wrote: Le 28 janv. 13 à 10:11, Janne Junnila a écrit : Indeed it seems like the alignment is good with \dfrac, but this does not solve my problem, since I wish to also use fractions with

Re: [NTG-context] Finding documentation for ConTeXt

2013-01-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mari, I thank you for you post. Basically, what I want to do is not in ConTeXt. So will have to develop it myself. One such need I have is the use of Nassi-Schneidermann Diagrams. I also, what to develop something along the line of literate programming. For that I will create Data structures

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I'll look into fractions later this week. All the fraction macros of ConTeXt were based on \genfrac macro from AMSTeX so, in principle, they should behave in the same manner. The \frac command uses \vcenter for the content while \dfrac and

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-28 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Janne, Personnally I prefer to use the Plain TeX alternative \over (which works fine in ConTeXt), that is ${a \over b}$ instead of $\frac{a}{b}$ Compare the following two outputs in the example you want to typeset: I think the second is more or less what you want \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 28.01.2013 um 21:48 schrieb Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I'll look into fractions later this week. All the fraction macros of ConTeXt were based on \genfrac macro from AMSTeX so, in principle, they should behave in the same manner.

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Janne, Personnally I prefer to use the Plain TeX alternative \over (which works fine in ConTeXt), that is ${a \over b}$ instead of $\frac{a}{b}$ Compare the following two outputs in the example you want to typeset: I think the

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:33:52PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The \frac command uses \vcenter for the content while \dfrac and \tfrac only set the mathstyle before placing the content with the \over primitive. The use of \vcenter seems odd here as it means the fraction rule will no

Re: [NTG-context] arranging vs. \page[last]

2013-01-28 Thread Marco Pessotto
Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi writes: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote: What would you suggest to put something onto the last (i.e. back) page? The wiki has a trick, but I think it stopped working at some stage - maybe somebody can fix it (if it