Re: [NTG-context] Example -- Solution Pair

2005-12-20 Thread Sytse Knypstra
Maybe the following works? \defineenumeration[example][text=Example,coupling=solution] \defineenumeration[solution][text=Solution,after={\hfill{$\Box$}\blank},coupling=example] Sytse Knypstra David Arnold wrote: All, Anyone have an environment something along the lines of: \startexample

Re: [NTG-context] Degrading TABLE column

2005-12-20 Thread Taco Hoekwater
It sounds like an accumulation of (spurious) spaces, but that is doesn't help. A (minimal-ish) example will be needed. Taco Duncan Hothersall wrote: I'm trying to solve a problem with a TABLE in a large-ish (600 page) book. The table occurs in an appendix, and the contents of one column are

[NTG-context] blank chapter last page

2005-12-20 Thread M.guravage
Hi, ConTeXt's default behavior is to insert a page, when necessary, to force a new chapter to begin on a right hand page. One consequence when using running headers is that they appear on these extra pages too. I use the following code to control a chapter's opening page. % Define heads for

[NTG-context] Context 2005.12.19 released

2005-12-20 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip

[NTG-context] Re: blank chapter last page

2005-12-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Michael, ConTeXt's default behavior is to insert a page, when necessary, to force a new chapter to begin on a right hand page. One consequence when using running headers is that they appear on these extra pages too. I use the following code to control a chapter's opening page. %

[NTG-context] About paragraph columns in table environment

2005-12-20 Thread Radhelorn
Hello all! I've tried to fit wide table (with paragraphs and vertical lines) into page width. Following example don't work as expected: \SetTableToWidth{\textwidth} \starttable[|p|p|] \HL \VL foo foo foo foo foo foo \VL bar bar bar bar bar bar \VL\AR \HL \stoptable Text in columns formatted

[NTG-context] Looking for old ConTeXt stuff

2005-12-20 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Some of you may know that we are working on a project whose goal is to have all releases of the ConTeXt distribution in an on-line source repository. For that project, we are looking for old versions of the ConTeXt distribution. Hans Hagen, Patrick Gundlach and me had quite a few of them

[NTG-context] underbar and overbar

2005-12-20 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi all, I don't understand differences between \underbar and \overbar Someone can explain ? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt

2005-12-20 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, some remarks/errors of the current UTF-8 Chinese support in ConTeXt 2005.12.19: (For (a) to (c) see also attached file.) a) unic-chi.tex: This contains the unicode vectors for which a Chinese font will be used; currently it only covers

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt

2005-12-20 Thread Richard Gabriel
b) Labels: lang-chi.tex contains: \setuplabeltext [\s!cn] [\v!figure={\cnencoding\cnencodedfigure}] \startencoding[uni-c] \definecommand cnencodedfigure {\uchar{86}{254}} but if I use (with UTF-8) \placefigure{}{} the figure character is not shown; however if I setup this directly, i.e.

Re: [NTG-context] Looking for old ConTeXt stuff

2005-12-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Oh Taco, if you had only posted this a few days earlier: I just deleted all my old collections from a couple of years ago (including 2003)! (But I will check another computer as well) -) or rather -( Best Idris On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:13:23 +0100, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt

2005-12-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hello, some remarks/errors of the current UTF-8 Chinese support in ConTeXt 2005.12.19: (For (a) to (c) see also attached file.) a) unic-chi.tex: This contains the unicode vectors for which a Chinese font will be used; currently it only covers

[NTG-context] newbie questions: footer and header?

2005-12-20 Thread Leon
Hi all, Could anybody provide an example with the usage of footer and header? Many thanks. Cheers, Leon ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] newbie questions: footer and header?

2005-12-20 Thread VnPenguin
On 12/20/05, Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Could anybody provide an example with the usage of footer and header? Many thanks. Good page here: http://getfo.sourceforge.net/context_xml/page3.html -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

Re: [NTG-context] Example -- Solution Pair

2005-12-20 Thread David Arnold
What does the coupling do? On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:17 AM, Sytse Knypstra wrote: Maybe the following works? \defineenumeration[example][text=Example,coupling=solution] \defineenumeration[solution][text=Solution,after={\hfill{$\Box$} \blank},coupling=example] Sytse Knypstra David Arnold

[NTG-context] betex -etex block parsing bug

2005-12-20 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, It seems that there is a problem with parsing betex - etex blocks in the following situation: I can not say with which version this has been introduced. (I messed up my old TeX, so I have only new ones) I tested this with the version of 19-12-2005 an 30-11-2005. \setMPtext{1}{CENTER}

Re: [NTG-context] Example -- Solution Pair

2005-12-20 Thread Willi Egger
Hi David, The coupling is used for screendocs, where interaction has to take place. You can read this in the cont-enp.pdf ;-) Willi David Arnold wrote: What does the coupling do? On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:17 AM, Sytse Knypstra wrote: Maybe the following works?

[NTG-context] MikTeX and font problems (again)

2005-12-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, The following code works both under MikTeX and stand-alone ConTeXt (however not under live.contextgarden.net), but I don't know how to enable ec encoding (\ccaron and \Ccaron - č and Č - don't work). \starttypescript [antykwa-poltawskiego] [ec] \definetypeface [antykwa-poltawskiego]

Re: [NTG-context] betex -etex block parsing bug

2005-12-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: Hi, It seems that there is a problem with parsing betex - etex blocks in the following situation: I can not say with which version this has been introduced. (I messed up my old TeX, so I have only new ones) I tested this with the version of 19-12-2005 an 30-11-2005.

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt

2005-12-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hi Hans, Hans Hagen wrote: b) Labels: lang-chi.tex contains: was this du eto the uni-c c-uni mixup? Yes, it now works (thanks, Richard!) Another questions: a) How to typset from top-to-bottom right-to-left using column(sets)? hm, columnsets ... just make them

Re: [NTG-context] Re: interesting font

2005-12-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2005-12-17 um 18:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach: Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot Great! As you know there are some font packages at my site: http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4 And I will make much

Re: [NTG-context] MikTeX and font problems (again)

2005-12-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm completely lost regarding font problems and would appreciate any help. this ec-* versus *-ec was one of the last minute changes for tex live (lm, iwona, kurier, antykwa) so tere can be a mismatch between context and the rest ... welcome to the font mess (you can

Re: [NTG-context] betex -etex block parsing bug

2005-12-20 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans, thanks for your immediate reply. Indeed it is strange that it runs ok in your environment. But where to put this altered definition? Cheers Willi Hans Hagen wrote: Willi Egger wrote: Hi, It seems that there is a problem with parsing betex - etex blocks in the following

Re: [NTG-context] Re: interesting font

2005-12-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2005-12-17 um 18:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach: Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot Great! As you know there are some font packages at my site:

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt

2005-12-20 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, Hans Hagen wrote: b) How to change the numberformat used? eh ... wang lei should know ... i have to look into it (chinese supports multiple number formats) I think I found it (it is a bit burried in font-chi.tex): \startitemize[c] (or cn) gives the normal Chinese number, cc the

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2005-12-19 um 09:06 schrieb Joachim Trinkwitz: What about Apostrophic Labs' very nice Hard Talk (http:// www.dafont.com/en/font.php?file=hard_talk) and Maskalin (http:// www.dafont.com/en/font.php?file=maskalin), Font Environment's 20 Faces (http://www.dafont.com/en/font.php?file=20faces)

Re: [NTG-context] About \defineshortcut

2005-12-20 Thread Radhelorn
Taco Hoekwater wrote: For example after command: \defineshortcut [//] [] [style=\em] I can get slash only by \textslash (which is expected) and it breaks things like: \typefile {some/dir/file} So how to revert to previous meaning of '/'? It is possible to do it only temporarily?

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: I'm thinking about utilizing border fonts and how to make automatic frames for use with \framed (I guess that's still too hard for me, but let's see...) think backgrounds and leaders: \def\Border#1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8% {\vbox to \overlayheight \bgroup

Re: [NTG-context] betex -etex block parsing bug

2005-12-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: Hi Hans, thanks for your immediate reply. Indeed it is strange that it runs ok in your environment. But where to put this altered definition? cont-new.tex or so (it runs ok because this btex/etex stuff is also parsed and cleaned up by texexec) Hans

Re: [NTG-context] About \defineshortcut

2005-12-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Radhelorn wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: For example after command: \defineshortcut [//] [] [style=\em] I can get slash only by \textslash (which is expected) and it breaks things like: \typefile {some/dir/file} So how to revert to previous meaning of '/'? It is possible to do it only

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.12.19 released

2005-12-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Taco Hoekwater wrote: New features since 2005.12.18: * Support for the latin-9 regime (latin-1 + euro) There are some more (automatically generated) regime definitions at http://pub.mojca.org/tex/enco/contextbase/ (only from the glyph names that I was able to extract from the existing files,

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt

2005-12-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hello, Hans Hagen wrote: b) How to change the numberformat used? eh ... wang lei should know ... i have to look into it (chinese supports multiple number formats) I think I found it (it is a bit burried in font-chi.tex): \startitemize[c] (or cn) gives the normal

[NTG-context] Re: interesting font

2005-12-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Henning, Am 2005-12-17 um 18:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach: Thomas was quick and the fonts together with context stuff are now available at http://modules.contextgarden.net/gfsdidot Great! As you know there are some font packages at my site: http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4

[NTG-context] [Fwd: Re: Need a little help on sample file]

2005-12-20 Thread Hans Hagen
---BeginMessage--- David Arnold wrote: 1. I need to number consecutive exercises. 2. I need a way of coding the exercise questions and keeping the solution together with the exercise source, but hidden for later use in another part of the document. I'm not sure how to plan for this

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt

2005-12-20 Thread Xiao Jianfeng
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hello, some remarks/errors of the current UTF-8 Chinese support in ConTeXt 2005.12.19: (For (a) to (c) see also attached file.) a) unic-chi.tex: This contains the unicode vectors for which a Chinese font will be used; currently it only covers

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt

2005-12-20 Thread Xiao Jianfeng
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hello, some remarks/errors of the current UTF-8 Chinese support in ConTeXt 2005.12.19: (For (a) to (c) see also attached file.) a) unic-chi.tex: This contains the unicode vectors for which a Chinese font will be used; currently it only covers

[NTG-context] Re: newbie questions: footer and header?

2005-12-20 Thread leon
Excellent link. Thanks. VnPenguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 12/20/05, Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi all, | | Could anybody provide an example with the usage of footer and header? | Many thanks. | | | Good page here: http://getfo.sourceforge.net/context_xml/page3.html |

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in current ConTeXt

2005-12-20 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, Xiao Jianfeng wrote: It should be year年month月day日. I somehow failed to to get the following working; I'm actually too tired (3 a.m) to follow the macro expansion in - \c!date={\v!month,\ ,\v!day,{,\ },\v!year}, +

[NTG-context] \reset deprecated?

2005-12-20 Thread David Arnold
All, I can't get \reset to work as in the manual. Is it deprecated? Replaced with something? %output=pdf \defineenumeration[question][location=serried,text=Question] \defineenumeration[answer][location=serried,text=Answer] \defineblock[question,answer] \hideblocks[answer] \starttext

[NTG-context] \useblocks in section

2005-12-20 Thread David Arnold
All, This doesn't seem to work as expected. Replacing the \useblocks with \selectblocks also produces an unexpected result. What am I doing wrong? I am trying to have only the answers from the chapter show up. %output=pdf \defineenumeration[question][location=serried,text=Question]

[NTG-context] Enumerated list numbering across

2005-12-20 Thread David Arnold
All, How do I get: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Instead of: 1. 4. 2. 5. 3. 6. With: \startitemized \item ... \stopitemized ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] ownnumber=yes

2005-12-20 Thread David Arnold
All, This: %output=pdf \definehead[david][section] \setuphead[david][ownnumber=yes] \starttext \chapter{One} \input tufte \section{Two} \input tufte \david{Three} \input tufte \section{Four} \input tufte \stoptext Causes this: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].

Re: [NTG-context] \reset deprecated?

2005-12-20 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: All, I can't get \reset to work as in the manual. Is it deprecated? Replaced with something? Broken, I think ;-) Meanhile, you can use \resetnumber[answer] directly, but I do not believe you have to (not in this example at least). Cheers, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] About \defineshortcut

2005-12-20 Thread Radhelorn
Hans Hagen wrote: Radhelorn wrote: I think that \defineshortcut commands are most useful inside some environment (start/stop pair). So it is possible to have such environment that restores back all catcode changes (or other variable changes) made inside it (like local variables in some