Re: [NTG-context] Forward of moderated message (Why It Is So)

2006-12-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Geoff, (Your messsage was too large, I dropped the attachments) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks This problem has been with my version of Contex which is running on windows XP since I first started maybe 2 years ago and has never bothered me as I was doing simple jobs. The version is

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 29, at 12:38 PM, plink indited: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Well, the ConTeXt manual is one of the most stable components of ConTeXt indeed ;) ;-) should be wikified ... Probably, but it'd be sad to lose the ability to download and print it for offline reading (I may be in a

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 29, at 2:22 PM, andrea valle indited: Well, maybe I'm missing something. But if you need to use ConTeXt on a mac you can use Gerben's distro, which also set up a crontab for you, and when you update it simply does all the boring stuff for you (I hate TeX tree structure ...)

[NTG-context] macro \verticalchineseunicodeglyph may not satisfy the vertical Chinese typeset

2006-12-30 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi, ConTeXters I'm playing some Chinese vertical typesetting. Mr. Wolfgang Shuster helps me a lot about it. In vertical typesetting, the top of each leading Chinese characters at each column are aligned horizontally. But if we changed the size of the bodyfont of some characters and they could

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 29, at 10:04 PM, Mojca Miklavec indited: On 12/29/06, Douglas Philips wrote: The undocumented features are documented in My Ways? :-) Esp. the two MyWay's written by the author who mentioned that ;) :-) I see you also have one... all of which are next up on my Sunday afternoon

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 30, at 12:47 AM, Sanjoy Mahajan indited: So, I've been contemplating whether I should move up the abstraction ladder to ConTeXt or down to plain TeX and really learn to build the world from boxes and glue. :-) I wrote my dissertation using plain TeX plus eplain, ... I got tired

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-30 Thread Jarimatti Valkonen
Aditya Mahajan kirjoitti 28.12.2006 kello 19.09: [About ConTeXt and Vim module for syntax highlighting.] Let us know if you come across any problems. Works fine here. System: Mac OS 10.4.8, using default Vim (6.2: yikes, thats old!). ConTeXt ver: 2006.08.08 21:51 fmt: 2006.11.1 --

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
On 30. des. 2006, at 6:47, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: \setupindenting[medium, yes] ConTeXt seems to choke on the yes here. -- Rolf Lindgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Week number

2006-12-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, I just posted this (the result of a rainy morning in Dordrecht, NL) to comp.text.tex. Someone here might be interested as well. Best, Taco - Mads Munch Hansen wrote: Hi all, and merry Christmas :) Is there a way to have LaTeX print the current week number, like the

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-30 Thread cormullion
On 2006-12-30, at 09:22.0, Jarimatti Valkonen wrote: Aditya Mahajan kirjoitti 28.12.2006 kello 19.09: [About ConTeXt and Vim module for syntax highlighting.] Let us know if you come across any problems. Works fine here. System: Mac OS 10.4.8, using default Vim (6.2: yikes, thats old!).

[NTG-context] store counter or variable and reread again

2006-12-30 Thread Thomas Engel
Hello, i just playing a little bit with macros. For adding points to a total sum i use this macros \global\newcount\summeP \summeP=0 % ad the points of each question \def\getPunkte[#1]{\global\advance\summeP by \number#1} % show the points on the right side \def\showP[#1]{\inright{\hskip

Re: [NTG-context] store counter or variable and reread again

2006-12-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Thomas Engel wrote: Hello, i just playing a little bit with macros. For adding points to a total sum i use this macros \global\newcount\summeP \summeP=0 % ad the points of each question \def\getPunkte[#1]{\global\advance\summeP by \number#1} % show the points

[NTG-context] texfont doesn't refresh MiKTeX database

2006-12-30 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, I use MikTeX. When I run texfont script, it always fails to do FNDB refresh at the end, saying generating : ls-r databases initexmf: This utility does not accept non-option arguments. It seems like a bug in the script. -- Best regards Vyatcheslav

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Rolf Lindgren writes: \setupindenting[medium, yes] ConTeXt seems to choke on the yes here. Hmm, texshow says lists 'yes' and 'medium' as valid keywords. What ConTeXt version are you using? Can you post the error log? I had no problems running the whole hello-world file through the

Re: [NTG-context] store counter or variable and reread again

2006-12-30 Thread Peter Münster
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: % Now the rest of the magic to take care of the two pass run % Basically this says that rerun if \nofPoints != % \countervalue{Points}. In the next run we set \nofPoints to the % previous value of \countervalue{Points} (the \checkPoints macro in %

Re: [NTG-context] store counter or variable and reread again

2006-12-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Peter Münster wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: % Now the rest of the magic to take care of the two pass run % Basically this says that rerun if \nofPoints != % \countervalue{Points}. In the next run we set \nofPoints to the % previous value of

Re: [NTG-context] Week number

2006-12-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, I just posted this (the result of a rainy morning in Dordrecht, NL) to comp.text.tex. Someone here might be interested as well. [...] I was feeling a bit bored today, so I came up with this. It is a plain e-TeX input file instead of

Re: [NTG-context] Week number

2006-12-30 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, I just posted this (the result of a rainy morning in Dordrecht, NL) to comp.text.tex. Someone here might be interested as well. [...] I was feeling a bit bored today, so I came up with this. It is a plain

[NTG-context] ConTeXt upgrade blues

2006-12-30 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
OK, so the ConTeXt that comes with the TeX distribution I use (until eariler today, MacPorts, and as from later today, fink) is ancient. now, with good old LaTeX that's not much of a problem - just put the most recent release in the few relevant places in texmf-local, rebuild the formats,

Re: [NTG-context] store counter or variable and reread again

2006-12-30 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Peter M�nster wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: % Now the rest of the magic to take care of the two pass run % Basically this says that rerun if \nofPoints != % \countervalue{Points}. In the next run we set \nofPoints to

Re: [NTG-context] store counter or variable and reread again

2006-12-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Peter M???nster wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: % Now the rest of the magic to take care of the two pass run % Basically this says that rerun if \nofPoints != %

Re: [NTG-context] store counter or variable and reread again

2006-12-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: how about \savecurrentvalue\SomeVar{someval} I was just copying the way it is done with other macros \lastpage, etc. I will look at \savecurrentvalue also. Ahh, \lastpage uses \savecurrentvalue. I

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt upgrade blues

2006-12-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/30/06, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: now, according to several web pages, ec-lmr12 can be found on pragma's web, but it's not there. It's not there any more since it was considered that they should either be present on the system already or that it would make sense to update the system

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt upgrade blues

2006-12-30 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
On 30. des. 2006, at 11:27, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: OK, so the ConTeXt that comes with the TeX distribution I use (until eariler today, MacPorts, and as from later today, fink) is ancient. now, with good old LaTeX that's not much of a problem - just put the most recent release in