[NTG-context] No header line on chapter page + potential columnset problem?

2006-05-16 Thread Ehrt, Michael
Hi there, I'm having problems with removing the header background from a chapter start page. I'm using \setupbackgrounds[header][text][bottomframe=on] \setupheadertexts[part][chapter] for a header line and part/chapter texts, and \setupheader[state=empty] to remove the header texts on the

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-16 Thread Hans Hagen
frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:23:21AM +0200, Hans Hagen said that (btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?) i think i missed why you need to become root. is this for regular runs of context in the future? no, i need it

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Dalyoung Jeong wrote: Dear Hans, Thank you for your answer. Since it worked perfectly before, I created XeTeX-ConTeXt format using texexec --make --xtx en for a test and run texexec --xtx file.tex. It run OK and I got a pdf output. I think that it is not only the font problem

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography and whitespace

2006-05-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
nico wrote: Hello, When I use \placebublications the white space I've set is no more taken into account. Besides, in the example below the space between the heading (Biblio) and the publication is also too small. Will fix. Meanwhile, use {\placepublications} Cheers, taco

Re: [NTG-context] Several publication lists

2006-05-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
nico wrote: Hello, I wonder if it is possible to display several publication lists. Can we achieve this with the bib module? What I would like to do is to split the publication list into different sections, like this: You cannot do this, sorry. Cheers, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] narrower

2006-05-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
frantisek holop wrote: but the default narrowness is not good for me. but setupnarrower doesn't seem to work for me. here's a minimal example: The use of narrower is a bit abnormal. Either use: \setupnarrower[left=3cm, right=3cm] \startnarrower[left,right] or

Re: [NTG-context] No header line on chapter page + potential columnset problem?

2006-05-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Ehrt, Michael wrote: Hi there, I'm having problems with removing the header background from a chapter start page. you should do it without using backgrounds, like this: \setupheader[text][after=\hrule] Now \setupheader[state=empty] will make the line disappear, without shifting

Re: [NTG-context] narrower

2006-05-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:45:32AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater said that The use of narrower is a bit abnormal. Either use: \setupnarrower[left=3cm, right=3cm] \startnarrower[left,right] or \setupnarrower[middle=3cm] \startnarrower % [middle] is default thanks a lot. is

Re: [NTG-context] No header line on chapter page + potential columnset problem?

2006-05-16 Thread Ehrt, Michael
Ehrt, Michael wrote: Hi there, I'm having problems with removing the header background from a chapter start page. you should do it without using backgrounds, like this: \setupheader[text][after=\hrule] Now \setupheader[state=empty] will make the line disappear,

Re: [NTG-context] No header line on chapter page + potential columnset problem?

2006-05-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Ehrt, Michael wrote: Do you know if the column text overrunning the footer when using state=high is a general problem or just me? If it's just me I'll probably try installing a plain context distribution without miktex on a separate machine... I expect it to be a general problem. Taco

Re: [NTG-context] narrower

2006-05-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
frantisek holop wrote: thanks a lot. is there a reason this was solved abnormally? \startnarrower (\startsmaller in dutch) is one of the oldest commands in ConTeXt. It predates the now-normal conventions by a few years. are there plans to make this more context-ish? Don't expect any

[NTG-context] XeTeX/linux and mpgraphics

2006-05-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, With the latest ConTeXt (05.14) and XeTeX (0.992), I can successfully run this file (xetexmp.tex): \setupcolors[state=start] \runMPgraphicstrue \starttext \startMPcode for i = 1 upto 100: j := 200-(2*i); fill fullcircle scaled (j*pt) withcolor (0.5+i/200)*green;

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-16 Thread Dalyoung
for xetex you really need to update because the backend driver haschanged to xpdfmxHansDear Hans,Thank you for the reply.I'll upgrade to the latest version soon. By the way, I noticed one thing in the process of XeTeX-ConTeXt.In the previous version before may, "texexec --xtx file.tex" run and

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:06:26AM +0200, frantisek holop said that your texmf.cnf file should contain: TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$progname,pdftex,dvips,}//;$TEXMF/{$progname,pdftex,dvips}/{config,}// as long as we have no uniform map file syntax, progs needs to be

Re: [NTG-context] Several publication lists

2006-05-16 Thread nico
On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:38:18 +0200, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nico wrote: Hello, I wonder if it is possible to display several publication lists. Can we achieve this with the bib module? What I would like to do is to split the publication list into different sections,

Re: [NTG-context] some patches (clever ConTeXt installation)

2006-05-16 Thread Maurice Diamantini
Le 16 mai 06 à 01:14, Hans Hagen a écrit : Maurice Diamantini wrote:nment. Usually, one can build dynamicaly (default) variable environment at the start of a programm (i.e. in the same process and sub-process), then let the original environment untouch while ending the programm. this

Re: [NTG-context] Possible users meeting?

2006-05-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:55:46PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater said that One of the things we discussed was this: If there is sufficient interest, we could organize a ConTeXt (mini)conference. conferences make the world go around :) as the timeline is quite stretched, i propose to make a wiki

Re: [NTG-context] Several publication lists

2006-05-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
nico wrote: Hm, I think it could be interesting to add such a feature to context, but I understand it cannot be done immediately. Latex already have such things Sure. Can you point me to the documentation of 'bibtopic' and also propose a calling / configuration syntax for the ConTeXt

[NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX for Linux and xdvipdfmx

2006-05-16 Thread Ricard Roca
Hi, It seems that some things doesn't work well with ConTeXt and XeTeX for Linux. For example image inclusion (jpg, png, pdf) with \externalfigure or \useexternalfigure doesn't work, but does with xdvipdfmx \special's (\special{pdf: image ...}). Also, \setuppapersize doesn't work (e. g.

Re: [NTG-context] spurious space before section heading but only in pdf mode

2006-05-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:12:56PM +0100, Sanjoy Mahajan said that Thanks, those two space removals in enco-pfr.tex fix it. I guess when I upgrade to pdftex 1.30 I'll unchange it. it seems that people are more afraid to upgrade their pdftex than context. in my opinion upgrading context

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Dalyoung wrote: for xetex you really need to update because the backend driver has changed to xpdfmx Hans Dear Hans, Thank you for the reply. I'll upgrade to the latest version soon. By the way, I noticed one thing in the process of XeTeX-ConTeXt. In the previous version before

Re: [NTG-context] Reference for the \but command

2006-05-16 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 15 mai à 21:56:56 Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | I suggest you search Hans' presentation styles. e.g. s-pre-04.tex | Willi Thanks; actually this is what I was doing when I decided to ask for some centralized reference. But I admit I have to dig a little more into these

[NTG-context] \startlines and whitespace

2006-05-16 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am puzzled about the following issue. there's extra whitespace between the centered line and startlines, while when using \crlf, there is not. \startlines is an environment i guess (i come from latex) and some environments sometimes add extra whitespace in latex, if i recall

Re: [NTG-context] Several publication lists

2006-05-16 Thread nico
On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:27:46 +0200, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nico wrote: Hm, I think it could be interesting to add such a feature to context, but I understand it cannot be done immediately. Latex already have such things Sure. Can you point me to the documentation of

Re: [NTG-context] project files searched for using TEXINPUTS

2006-05-16 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: The last search, for 'abcd', runs through the entire TEXINPUTS path. The other searches have directories specified, so they will look only in those directories. the reason for the global search is that environments can be in

Re: [NTG-context] \startlines and whitespace

2006-05-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 16 May 2006, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, i am puzzled about the following issue. there's extra whitespace between the centered line and startlines, while when using \crlf, there is not. \startlines is an environment i guess (i come from latex) and some environments sometimes

Re: [NTG-context] \startlines and whitespace

2006-05-16 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 06:27:12PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan said that Use the before and after mechanism. \setuplines[before={\startnarrower[3cm]},after=\stopnarrower] \midaligned{test} \startlines There snores -- I mean sleeps -- my wife so frail. There snores -- I mean sleeps -- my

[NTG-context] vertically centered aligment of different sized texts

2006-05-16 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, another question to which shamefully i cannot find the answer. perhaps it's just too late... consider the following example: \definefont[BigFont][Regular sa 3] \starttext {\tfc The {\BigFont 7}\high{th} Seal} \stoptext how can i make that line vertically centered, like --, the

Re: [NTG-context] vertically centered aligment of different sized texts

2006-05-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 17 May 2006, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, another question to which shamefully i cannot find the answer. perhaps it's just too late... consider the following example: \definefont[BigFont][Regular sa 3] \starttext {\tfc The {\BigFont 7}\high{th} Seal} \stoptext how can

Re: [NTG-context] spurious space before section heading but only in pdf mode

2006-05-16 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
From:frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] hmm, on Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:12:56PM +0100, Sanjoy Mahajan said that Thanks, those two space removals in enco-pfr.tex fix it. I guess when I upgrade to pdftex 1.30 I'll unchange it. it seems that people are more afraid to upgrade their pdftex