Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure[cow.pdf][scale=0.8]

2005-10-24 Thread Christopher Creutzig
Steve Peter wrote: The scaling factor is in units of 1000. To get 80% size, use [scale=800]. Thanks. Added comment to texshow-web. Christopher ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] alignment of figures

2005-10-24 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Dear list members, Sorry to insist. I have figures extending the width of the text (which is 14cm). I want them to be aligned with the the textblock at the inside, sticking out into the outer margin (which is 2.5cm). I tried all the commands I could find or think of, but nothing worked

Re: [NTG-context] alignment of figures

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
� wrote: Dear list members, Sorry to insist. I have figures extending the width of the text (which is 14cm). I want them to be aligned with the the textblock at the inside, sticking out into the outer margin (which is 2.5cm). I tried all the commands I could find or think of, but nothing

Re: [NTG-context] processing of setvariables/getvariables again

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Taco, thanks so much! With a slight modification, your solution seems to work! I will have to test it a bit, but for the moment, it looks very good. Is the \appendtoks expensive in terms of TeX memory, cpu cycles, etc., or is it a good solution for the time being? All best, and many

Re: [NTG-context] alignment of figures

2005-10-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Jörg Hagmann wrote: I would appreciate an answer by somebody who knows, even if it is to tell me that it can't be done. Thanks a lot, Jörg. Perhaps you could post what you have so far. It is definately possible. Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] processing of setvariables/getvariables again

2005-10-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Is the \appendtoks expensive in terms of TeX memory, cpu cycles, etc., or is it a good solution for the time being? This solution is perfectly OK. If there was a way to pass arguments through \usemodule, that would be nicer, but if that never happens, this will

Re: [NTG-context] alignment of figures

2005-10-24 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Dear Hans and Taco,Thanks for the answers. I'll read "details.pdf" again...I placed the pdf file of one unfinished chapter on www.ogbasel.ch/book.html (3.5 MB). Note that Fig. 3.12 happens to be the way I want it. Why this particular figure chose to behave I don't know, putting nothing after

[NTG-context] presentation styles empty front page

2005-10-24 Thread Hans van der Meer
I have a problem with the presentation styles s-pre-xx. Since I used them previously (about 2-3 years ago) now an EXTRA blank page appears up at the front of the series of sheets. I am positive this did not occur in the past, since I did not change my files. Because I tried some different

Re: [NTG-context] alignment of figures

2005-10-24 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Answering one of my own questions:The subsection heads should be capitals. Setting textstyle=cap doesn't do anything. Setting style=cap gives an error (see end of message). style=slanted works, commands (\cap, \kap) don't work. \cap{some text} used in the text works.style=\sc works.Cheers,

Re: [NTG-context] xml and context

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
Wolfgang Zillig wrote: Hello, I'am starting with a PhD and I'm thinking about using xml/mathml and context. I'm a bit confused with all the different ways to combine xml and context, native xml, fo, xslt, texml, docbook, ... What is the most promising way to do this? i'd go fo rnative xml

Re: [NTG-context] interaction between header texts and typing environments

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
Marko � wrote: I'm trying to have header texts on every page. There are also some long typing environments in the document. It seems that when the page breaks within the typing environment processing the header texts leads to an error. weird indeed has to do with catcodes and verbatim; for

Re: [NTG-context] interaction between header texts and typing environments

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
Marko � wrote: I'm trying to have header texts on every page. There are also some long typing environments in the document. It seems that when the page breaks within the typing environment processing the header texts leads to an error. If I put a \ifprocessingverbatim\else \fi around the

Re: [NTG-context] strange (?) exporting from pdf

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: I'm not a XML guru (never tried XML with ConTeXt), but I guess if you use a XML format like DocBook (or even OpenOffice's) there'd be a ready-to-use way for RTF. Thanks a lot, I was in fact investigating OO. If you make up something useful from

Re: [NTG-context] Getting icelandic letters (eth and thorn) to work.

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
Olivier wrote: There are not in the official distrib yet, but the TeXlive based packages available at http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ are very great and up to date. In particular they provide This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.2-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] Continuous chapter numbering

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
Randall Skelton wrote: Is there a way to have the chapter numbers be continuous rather than resetting at the beginning of each product? I have already disabled product numbers in a setupheader command but I'm stumped at how to make the chapter numbers continuous. I've tried playing with

Re: [NTG-context] Interactive things and exact placement of graphics

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
Jessica Holle wrote: Hi, I have some questions again. :-) I want to draw a figure with metafun and place this on an exact place like x=3cm,y=4cm. This figure will be build of some figures which I draw with Metafun. In which way I do this? Whith layers? How should it looks like? Get some small

Re: [NTG-context] font scaling in typescripts

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: This may be a bug, or I may be missing something... I have defined a typescript for my Adobe Garamond, and I want Courier as the monotype font accompanying it. Since Courier is a bit too big compared to Garamond, I want to scale it down, so I have this line in my

Re: [NTG-context] MathML: Please ignore mo#x02061;/mo

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
Christopher Creutzig wrote: Salvete, I just started to think about using ConTeXt on XML input files, so I've got a question which should be easy to answer: My MathML source generates presentation code which includes mo#x02061;/mo between a function symbol and its arguments. I get a black

Re: [NTG-context] saving cell content in macro

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
� wrote: Hello, how could I save the cell of a table in a macro? I tried the following, but it does not work: \starttext \def\StartScanning#1\StopScanning{\def\MyValue{#1}} \starttable[|b{\StartScanning}la{\StopScanning}|l|] \NC 123 \NC 456 \NC\AR \stoptable Test: \MyValue \stoptext TIA

Re: [NTG-context] spreadsheet

2005-10-24 Thread Hans Hagen Test
� wrote: Hello, I would like to do some spreadsheet like calculations with ConTeXt. Before using the same package, I've used once upon a time with LaTeX (realcalc), I would like to know, if there are already some macros for calculations in ConTeXt, or if you could recommend some method, how to

Re: [NTG-context] Continuous chapter numbering

2005-10-24 Thread Matthias Weber
When I read emails from Hans like this one, I get very suspicious that he has a time machine to go backward a few months in time and add a feature so that it is already there when it is being requested --- Matthias On Oct 24, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Hans Hagen Test wrote: Randall Skelton wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] spreadsheet

2005-10-24 Thread VnPenguin
For me, I do all in Excel/OOoCalc then export it into ConTeXt format :-) Q. On 10/13/05, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to do some spreadsheet like calculations with ConTeXt. Before using the same package, I've used once upon a time with LaTeX (realcalc), I would