Re: [NTG-context] formula in itemlist

2006-01-25 Thread Nikolai Weibull
\def\setdisplaydimensions {\displayindent\leftdisplayskip \advance\displayindent\leftdisplaymargin \displaywidth\hsize \ifdim\hangindent\zeropoint \advance\displayindent\hangindent \else \advance\displaywidth\hangindent \fi

Re: [NTG-context] formula in itemlist

2006-01-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Nikolai Weibull wrote: i'll also add an option to center at the page level and not locally Will this solve item 60 [1] in the collector? Yes. Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] \dot lucida

2006-01-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi all, My solution to this issue is: 1 - texexec ec-bh-lucida 2 - search the hex code 05 as in math-lbr.tex - it's a 3 - search the correct symbol (dot) and the hex code (it is 0A) 4 - replace 05 by 0A (line 390 of math-lbr.tex) Now, it works for me but I'm not

[NTG-context] request about combinations

2006-01-25 Thread Hans van der Meer
A modest request, that is probably in principle not too difficult to fulfil. With many commands (\framed for example) I can do a setup for general behaviour and do something special at the actual call. Like this: \setupframed[options...] \framed[individual options ...] It

[NTG-context] getting characters

2006-01-25 Thread Hans van der Meer
While fiddling with character strings I found the \getfirstcharacter macro which is very handy. However, I am consuming a character string character by character. Although I have a macro for that, I think it is a good policy to stay as much as possible within the ConTexT framework when

Re: [NTG-context] getting characters

2006-01-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Hans, I do not think it is available already, but it is very simple to patch the \getfirstcharacter macro: \def\dogetfirstcharacter#1#2\\% {\def\firstcharacter{#1}\def\remainingcharacters{#2}} (I like 'remaining' better than 'last') Cheers, taco

[NTG-context] ConTeXt and Colors

2006-01-25 Thread Petra Broschwitz
Hi, I’m new in this forum and I need a little help about colors and overstocking (trapping?)! In German it means Überfüllung! Did anybody knows how colors and overstocking works? Best regards! Petra Broschwitz ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] getting characters

2006-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Hans, I do not think it is available already, but it is very simple to patch the \getfirstcharacter macro: \def\dogetfirstcharacter#1#2\\% {\def\firstcharacter{#1}\def\remainingcharacters{#2}} (I like 'remaining' better than 'last') ok, patched Hans

[NTG-context] strange \v!on

2006-01-25 Thread Hans van der Meer
Encountered something strange setting up the parameters of framed. This runs normal: \setupframed[frame=off,strut=\v!no, ... This gives an error:\setupframed[frame=\v!off,strut=\v!no, ... The same happens with \v!on as parameter. The difference is off vs. \v!off (of course running

Re: [NTG-context] strange \v!on

2006-01-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: Encountered something strange setting up the parameters of framed. This runs normal: \setupframed[frame=off,strut=\v!no, ... This gives an error: \setupframed[frame=\v!off,strut=\v!no, ... The same happens with \v!on as parameter. In both cases the use of

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and Colors

2006-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: On 1/25/06, Petra Broschwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new in this forum and I need a little help about colors and overstocking (trapping?)! In German it means Überfüllung! Did anybody knows how colors and overstocking works? For colors activation:

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX array equivalence with multiline \lbrace

2006-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: --- On Jan 24, Renaud AUBIN wrote --- With LaTeX, I have $$ \left\lbrace \begin{array}{l} \dot{q}_i = 1 \quad\text{ if } i=k \\ \dot{q}_i = 0 \quad\text{ else} \end{array} \right $$ Well the ConTeXt way (rather the TeX way) of doing this is to use \cases.

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions about eating spaces in macros

2006-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with German quotes and kerning

2006-01-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/23/06, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, this seems to be a general TeX-problem, not ConTeXt specific, but I'm not sure I understand the details. Here's the problem: when I use mainlanguage[de], I can type ` to get German opening quotes, \quotedblbase „. However, this characters needs

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX array equivalence with multiline \lbrace

2006-01-25 Thread Renaud AUBIN
maybe we should add a left|right option to the new align mechanism so that one can define such constructs .. does that make sense? Hans It sounds good to me... Renaud ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] formula in itemlist

2006-01-25 Thread Nikolai Weibull
On 1/25/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolai Weibull wrote: i'll also add an option to center at the page level and not locally Will this solve item 60 [1] in the collector? Yes. Awesome. nikolai ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] embedding multipage pdf

2006-01-25 Thread andrea valle
Hi to all, I'm preparing a (standard) musical score. I've scored the music with lilypond and I have as output an A3 pdf of many pages. My idea was to create the cover and the other information pages surrounding the music with Context. In fact, I happily prepared my A3 context pages and I was

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX array equivalence with multiline \lbrace

2006-01-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: --- On Jan 24, Renaud AUBIN wrote --- With LaTeX, I have $$ \left\lbrace \begin{array}{l} \dot{q}_i = 1 \quad\text{ if } i=k \\ \dot{q}_i = 0 \quad\text{ else} \end{array} \right $$ Well the ConTeXt way (rather the

Re: [NTG-context] embedding multipage pdf

2006-01-25 Thread Mikael Persson
Hello Andrea, the page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Including_pages_from_PDF_document has been very helpful for me when inserting pdf pages. Best regards, Mikael Persson On 1/25/06, andrea valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, I'm preparing a (standard) musical score. I've scored the

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX array equivalence with multiline \lbrace

2006-01-25 Thread Renaud AUBIN
I've read the post [NTG-context] Math Cases and I'm interested to have the possibility to do this kind of numbering: { b , if whatever (1a) a ={ { c, otherwise (1b) Aditya Mahajan a écrit : If I understand you correctly, then something like this

Re: [NTG-context] embedding multipage pdf

2006-01-25 Thread andrea valle
Thanks Mikael, sorry, I didn't think about wiki. So I solved using copypages. The only thing is that it seems to me that even if I use scale=1000 (or if I leave it untouched) the copied pdf seems to be scled the same (it's smaller than original). Why? -a- On 25 Jan 2006, at 17:35, Mikael

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and Colors

2006-01-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-25 um 09:29 schrieb Petra Broschwitz: I’m new in this forum and I need a little help about colors and overstocking (trapping?)! In German it means Überfüllung! Did anybody knows how colors and overstocking works? Additionally to the other hints, have a look at:

Re: [NTG-context] embedding multipage pdf

2006-01-25 Thread Mikael Persson
Hi again Andrea, Could the reason be that you have margins/similar things? With the following I see no differences of the files pauli.pdf, dirac.pdf and the resulting file. \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setuplayout[ width=210mm, height=297mm, margin=0cm, header=0cm, footer=0cm, topspace=0cm,

Re: [NTG-context] embedding multipage pdf

2006-01-25 Thread VnPenguin
On 1/25/06, andrea valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mikael, sorry, I didn't think about wiki. So I solved using copypages. The only thing is that it seems to me that even if I use scale=1000 (or if I leave it untouched) the copied pdf seems to be scled the same (it's smaller than

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with German quotes and kerning

2006-01-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-25 um 13:45 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: It might be a personal decision which ones one uses, but I would say that using ` vs. \quotation is approximately the same as using \{a} vs ä. All of them work, but the second variant is somewhat cleaner. No, it's more like a decision between \em

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with German quotes and kerning

2006-01-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Mojca, thanks a lot for you reply! On Jan 25, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On the transferred page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Wishes_for_Latin_Modern there are already kerning issues listed. If the problem on that page is not expressed clearly enough (and if the

[NTG-context] color in before=

2006-01-25 Thread Hans van der Meer
I want to put a color command in a before command, that command being inserted in a macro. Something like \setupxyz[before=\color[green]{whatever}] The problem is that the argument parser gets confused when []- expressions are found within the setup. It is not an option to reprogram everything

Re: [NTG-context] color in before=

2006-01-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: I suspect there is no way of sneaking in these []'s inside the command? That is the general solution. \setupxyz[before={\color[green]{whatever}}] Cheers, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Dropped caps, \startlines\stoplines, and indentation question

2006-01-25 Thread Radhelorn
Adrian Drury wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble using dropped caps within \startlines\stoplines. I'm trying to typeset some poetry and I'm using \setuplines[space=yes]. I'd like to use dropped caps and have the indented lines be additionally indented by any space at the beginning of the

Re: [NTG-context] strange \v!on

2006-01-25 Thread Hans van der Meer
Well, obviously I interpreted the use of \V!-macros wrong. I understood it being the ConTeXt way of making command strings language independent, as in for example. \c!corner=\v!rectangular Using code like this in a setup-getparameters combination. The article Context System macros

Re: [NTG-context] strange \v!on

2006-01-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: Well, obviously I interpreted the use of \V!-macros wrong. I understood it being the ConTeXt way of making command strings language independent, as in for example. \c!corner=\v!rectangular Ah, now it is clear to me (I was not paying attention close

Re: [NTG-context] color in before=

2006-01-25 Thread Hans van der Meer
Thanks, that worked. But it leads to my next question, I am afraid. When I define: \definecolor [brightred][r=0.7, g=.1, b=.1] then I can use this in \startcolor[brightred]...\stopcolor according to \meaning brightred being \protected macro \switchtocolor [brightred] Now I am fond of

Re: [NTG-context] strange \v!on

2006-01-25 Thread Hans van der Meer
On Jan 25, 2006, at 22:02, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: Well, obviously I interpreted the use of \V!-macros wrong. I understood it being the ConTeXt way of making command strings language independent, as in for example. \c!corner=\v!rectangular Ah, now it is

Re: [NTG-context] embedding multipage pdf

2006-01-25 Thread andrea valle
(ah, I understand). Thanks as usual to all for extra-fast responses. Best -a- On 25 Jan 2006, at 18:36, VnPenguin wrote: On 1/25/06, andrea valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mikael, sorry, I didn't think about wiki. So I solved using copypages. The only thing is that it seems to