Re: [NTG-context] Semi-verbatim - preserve whitespace - don't escape characters

2007-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/12/7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I'm working on a document processor that has multiple backends for different output formats (XHTML, nroff, plain text, ConTeXt). The processor uses s-expression syntax with commands such as: (para this is a paragraph) The various

[NTG-context] Semi-verbatim - preserve whitespace - don't escape characters

2007-12-08 Thread dexterclarke
Hi. I'm working on a document processor that has multiple backends for different output formats (XHTML, nroff, plain text, ConTeXt). The processor uses s-expression syntax with commands such as: (para this is a paragraph) The various backends then convert this statement in their own way

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/12/8, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am 2007-12-07 um 19:17 schrieb Hans Hagen: As a prelude to an independent language mechanism for mkiv (the tex part) I removes a few thingies. I was wondering ... is anyone using language specifics? Active quote stuff? Does that still make

Re: [NTG-context] standardmakeup, frontmatter, bodymatter page numbering

2007-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:29:36 +0100 Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/29/07, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 01:36:54 +0200 Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a document consisting of title page, some introduction which

[NTG-context] absolute positioning?

2007-12-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello! What is the current most contextish way for absolute positioning of text (still using MK II)? I have to create a title page for a document where several frameless boxes of text have to be placed on the page. Is this still the layer mechanism? I mean, ConTeXt evolves so quickly, being

Re: [NTG-context] Semi-verbatim - preserve whitespace - don't escape characters

2007-12-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2007/12/7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I'm working on a document processor that has multiple backends for different output formats (XHTML, nroff, plain text, ConTeXt). The processor uses s-expression syntax with commands such as:

Re: [NTG-context] Semi-verbatim - preserve whitespace - don't escape characters

2007-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:44:52 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2007/12/7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I'm working on a document processor that has multiple backends for different output formats (XHTML, nroff,

Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning?

2007-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:22:50 +0100 Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! What is the current most contextish way for absolute positioning of text (still using MK II)? I have to create a title page for a document where several frameless boxes of text have to be placed on the page.

Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning?

2007-12-08 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
BTW: LuaTeX on the wiki is broken Fixed. Thanks for the heads up! could be related to a outdated luatex because the error mesage is Error in lua file loading: /opt/context/current/bin/luatools.lua:1402: attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value)

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-08 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Dec 7, 2007 7:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, As a prelude to an independent language mechanism for mkiv (the tex part) I removes a few thingies. I was wondering ... is anyone using language specifics? Active quote stuff? Does that still make sense for mkiv? After all we can have more

Re: [NTG-context] SVG support

2007-12-08 Thread Zeus Gómez Marmolejo
I have version: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ inkscape --version Inkscape 0.45.1 (Jul 26 2007) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ You should consider doing it that way if it works. The PDF final size for the conversion is the same but the quality is much better. Now all my final year project documentation is all

[NTG-context] Howard Wilner - 1994 Ford Bronco

2007-12-08 Thread Allison Wallock
Howard Wilner,The Ford Bronco is in the same category as Chevrolet's big Blazer and the GMC Yukon-somewhat aged but still selling to fans of the big, brawny V8powered four-wheelers. It's our impression that Ford has done a little more upgrading on the Bronco than either Chevrolet or GMC has done

[NTG-context] TeX ligatures in XeTeX/LuaTeX: ``who needs them''?

2007-12-08 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, just wondering: how many ConTeXt-ers depend on ligatures such as: '' (double quote) and '' (two single quotes) - right double quote `` - left double quote ,, - DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK or even more weird ones: !` - inverted exclam ?` - inverted question - LEFT POINTING

Re: [NTG-context] TeX ligatures in XeTeX/LuaTeX: ``who needs them''?

2007-12-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: just wondering: how many ConTeXt-ers depend on ligatures such as: '' (double quote) and '' (two single quotes) - right double quote `` - left double quote In some old documents. In newer documents I use \quote and \quotation. Then there are

Re: [NTG-context] Semi-verbatim - preserve whitespace - don't escape characters

2007-12-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:44:52 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \startlines verbatin text \stoplines Note that everything between start-stop lines is normal tex code. you mean start/stoplines need style and color keys. That

Re: [NTG-context] Howard Wilner - 1994 Ford Bronco

2007-12-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, I allowed this 'person' on the list, but it is obviously a spam account. Hans, can you log in as list administrator and delete the [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address? (I can't) done -

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2007-12-07 um 19:17 schrieb Hans Hagen: As a prelude to an independent language mechanism for mkiv (the tex part) I removes a few thingies. I was wondering ... is anyone using language specifics? Active quote stuff? Does that still make sense for mkiv? After

Re: [NTG-context] absolute positioning?

2007-12-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hello! What is the current most contextish way for absolute positioning of text (still using MK II)? I have to create a title page for a document where several frameless boxes of text have to be placed on the page. Is this still the layer mechanism? I mean, ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] TeX ligatures in XeTeX/LuaTeX: ``who needs them''?

2007-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 17:26:48 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: just wondering: how many ConTeXt-ers depend on ligatures such as: '' (double quote) and '' (two single quotes) - right double quote `` - left double quote In

Re: [NTG-context] TeX ligatures in XeTeX/LuaTeX: ``who needs them''?

2007-12-08 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello Aditya, thanks a lot for your opinion :) On Dec 8, 2007 11:26 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: In some old documents. In newer documents I use \quote and \quotation. Then there are documents that need to move back and forth between latex and context

[NTG-context] gobbling previous space

2007-12-08 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, For some macro writing, I need a low-level command that will gobble the space before it so that = Here is some text.% \mycommand = is equivalent to = Here is some text. \mycommand = without the %. I'm sure there's a context command for this hidden

Re: [NTG-context] Semi-verbatim - preserve whitespace - don't escape characters

2007-12-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 17:30:38 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:44:52 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \startlines verbatin text \stoplines Note that everything between