[NTG-context] Non-square roots?

2005-07-31 Thread Brooks Moses
LaTeX offers the following way to write a cube root: $\sqrt[3]{x}$. Is there a way to do this in ConTeXt other than the TeX way of $\root 3\of x$? Also, Hans, if there isn't a direct way to do this, the following code is pretty much how LaTeX implements it, with an extra line at the top to

[NTG-context] A couple more suggestions for m-newmat.

2005-07-31 Thread Brooks Moses
While I'm thinking about it, here are a couple more things from LaTeX's math stuff that might be useful to include in m-newmat: The \stackrel command is listed as a disguise for plain TeX's \buildrel, much like \frac is a disguise for \over:

[NTG-context] Scite spelling support

2005-07-31 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans, Yesterday I installed the support files you provided on the website. Interesetingly it worked with the version 1.62 of Scite. But not with version !.64 which I downloaded today. Though there are the CTX menue lines in the tools menue I can't get the spellchecker working. Anlike in

Re: [NTG-context] Scite spelling support

2005-07-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: Yesterday I installed the support files you provided on the website. Interesetingly it worked with the version 1.62 of Scite. But not with version !.64 which I downloaded today. Though there are the CTX menue lines in the tools menue I can't get the spellchecker working.

Re: [NTG-context] Scite spelling support

2005-07-31 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans, Thanks for your reply. Still no success after placeing import scite-ctx into the Scite user file. Hans Hagen wrote: Willi Egger wrote: Yesterday I installed the support files you provided on the website. Interesetingly it worked with the version 1.62 of Scite. But not with

Re: [NTG-context] Scite spelling support

2005-07-31 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans, After reinstalling the Scite 1.64 and putting the support files in place again, I get the following error: attempt to call a string value Lua: error occurred while loading startup script Does this mean something to you? Willi Hans Hagen wrote: Willi Egger wrote: Yesterday I

Re: [NTG-context] Scite spelling support

2005-07-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: Yesterday I installed the support files you provided on the website. Interesetingly it worked with the version 1.62 of Scite. But not with version !.64 which I downloaded today. Though there are the CTX menue lines in the tools menue I can't get the spellchecker working.

Re: [NTG-context] Scite spelling support

2005-07-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: Hi Hans, After reinstalling the Scite 1.64 and putting the support files in place again, I get the following error: attempt to call a string value Lua: error occurred while loading startup script normally it means that there is some error in the script (lua has rather

Re: [NTG-context] Non-square roots?

2005-07-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Brooks Moses wrote: LaTeX offers the following way to write a cube root: $\sqrt[3]{x}$. Is there a way to do this in ConTeXt other than the TeX way of $\root 3\of x$? Also, Hans, if there isn't a direct way to do this, the following code is pretty much how LaTeX implements it, with an

[NTG-context] Sparklines to be in ConTeXt?

2005-07-31 Thread Tobias Wolf
Hey, what do you people actually think about E. Tufte's Sparklines?² They are a great and innovative thing in my mind; both in the information mediating and the typographic sense. There's a bare-bones LaTeX package on CTAN, but when I think about it, this technique could find a perfect place in

Re: [NTG-context] Non-square roots?

2005-07-31 Thread Brooks Moses
At 01:25 PM 7/31/2005, Hans Hagen wrote: \let\normalsqrt\sqrt % \dohandlemathtoken {sqrt} \def\sqrt{\doifnextcharelse[\notsosqrt\normalsqrt} \def\notsosqrt[#1]{\root#1\of} $\sqrt[3]{10}$ Do you want this in the kernel? I'd like to have it there, yes. Thanks! - Brooks

Re: [NTG-context] \type ,\meaning eror check

2005-07-31 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi.scarso wrote: I have this problem: i have no clue what you're tryng to do -) - provide a zipped file (so that i get the right chars) - don't use box 101 ungrouped (it's probably in use) - get the meaning with: \convertcommand\ARTICLEdescription\to\ascii\ascii Hans