Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2008-04-17 um 17:08 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: You need a closing (Sincerely,) and signature, and don't forget enough topspace to accommodate a company logo/letterhead :-) You set closing and signature also

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-18 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, Apr 18 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Then, for some reason that I forgot, I switched to scrlttr2.cls. And I patched it to get the same minimum-50%-feature. Unfortunately, this patch is no more working with recent versions of scrlttr2... (-

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 18 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Then, for some reason that I forgot, I switched to scrlttr2.cls. And I patched it to get the same minimum-50%-feature. Unfortunately, this patch is no more working

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Manual Source

2008-04-18 Thread Browder, Tom
Are the sources for the ConTeXt manuals publicly available? If not, are you willing to show how the beautiful contents and section headings are defined for ConTeXt: the manual? Thanks. -Tom ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2008-04-17 um 16:32 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: I normally use InDesign for my business letters and invoices. Dou you use a template for your letters. Not an InDesign template file (.idt), but a single document

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Wolfgang, First of all thanks for this initiative! - Until now I composed a letter based on a template I build one day. Nothing special though. - Still a module which would allow for writing letters and quotes consistently would make live easier. As I am living in the Netherlands, we

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-18 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, Apr 18 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I don't know, if lettre.lco is readable for you, so here the idea in clear-text: I will try it later today on my system, can you send me a example letter before I had to take a look into scrguide.pdf. I'm sorry, it would be too much work for

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Manual Source

2008-04-18 Thread Zhichu Chen
This? http://context.aanhet.net/svn/ On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Browder, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are the sources for the ConTeXt manuals publicly available? If not, are you willing to show how the beautiful contents and section headings are defined for ConTeXt: the manual?

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographic Databases

2008-04-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Robin Kirkham wrote: Does anyone have any experience or advice to offer in using such things, and hooking them up to ConTeXt? Most of these systems will of course emit a .bib file which will obviously work, but will any Please have a look at the biblographic module. It comes with its

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wolfgang, First of all thanks for this initiative! - Until now I composed a letter based on a template I build one day. Nothing special though. I started also with mayn hard coded values and only a few parameters and

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographic Databases

2008-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Kirkham wrote: Does anyone have any experience or advice to offer in using such things, and hooking them up to ConTeXt? Most of these systems will of course emit a .bib file which will obviously work, but

Re: [NTG-context] Roll-Your-Own Stand-Alone (Was re. ConTeXt ultraminimals)

2008-04-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: I'm going to defer working on [Perl Ruby]. we dont't need full perl and ruby; perl only when you want to use mptopdf, which is not needed because texexec can do the same;

Re: [NTG-context] Roll-Your-Own Stand-Alone (Was re. ConTeXt ultraminimals)

2008-04-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: I'm going to defer working on [Perl Ruby]. we dont't need full perl and ruby; perl only when you want to use mptopdf, which is not needed because

Re: [NTG-context] Roll-Your-Own Stand-Alone (Was re. ConTeXt ultraminimals)

2008-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: I'm going to defer working on [Perl Ruby]. we dont't need full perl and ruby; perl only when you want to use mptopdf, which is not needed because

[NTG-context] Deleted files (Was re. Windows tools in XeTeX)

2008-04-18 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Akira Kakuto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some new executables in w32tex's XeTeX. I'll remove them. How does the Minimals distribution deal with files deleted from the server? Does rsync know enough to remove files as well? --Joel

[NTG-context] New context release

2008-04-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Hot on the heels of the luatex 0.25.3 release Hans has released (yet another) new context current (the sixth or seventh this week). There are a few bugfixes for the mkiv bugs reported yesterday, but that's about it. If you are curious anyway: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes

Re: [NTG-context] Deleted files (Was re. Windows tools in XeTeX)

2008-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Akira Kakuto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some new executables in w32tex's XeTeX. I'll remove them. How does the Minimals distribution deal with files deleted from the server? Does rsync know enough to remove files as well?

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Manual Source

2008-04-18 Thread Browder, Tom
Are the sources for the ConTeXt manuals publicly available? If not, are you willing to show how the beautiful title page, contents, and section headings are defined for ConTeXt: the manual? Thanks. -Tom ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Deleted files (Was re. Windows tools in XeTeX)

2008-04-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Akira Kakuto wrote: There are some new executables in w32tex's XeTeX. I'll remove them. How does the Minimals distribution deal with files deleted from the server? Does rsync know enough to

[NTG-context] Debian luatex and context

2008-04-18 Thread Norbert Preining
On Fr, 18 Apr 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote: I have just uploaded the archives for luatex 0.25.3, yet On Fr, 18 Apr 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hot on the heels of the luatex 0.25.3 release Hans has released (yet another) new context current (the sixth or seventh this week). Debian packages:

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographic Databases

2008-04-18 Thread Andreas Wagner
Hello Taco, hello list, * Taco Hoekwater wrote on Apr/18/2008: if you want to be ready for the future, find a reference manager that can export to MODS: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/ Just out of curiosity: What are your reasons for preferring this over TEI:

Re: [NTG-context] Lost in columnset

2008-04-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realize that in \definecolumnsetarea[one][right][x=1,y=25,nx=2,ny=18,page=19,state=start] page=19 is relative to \startcolumnset[AAA] ...\stopcolumnset not to \realfolio . So, what about [right] ? Is related to

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographic Databases

2008-04-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Andreas Wagner wrote: Just out of curiosity: What are your reasons for preferring this over TEI: MODS was a logical choice mostly my background (scientific publishers = MARC databases = MODS), and that BruceD'Arcus liked it. Btw, his blog is full of bibliographic articles, if you are

[NTG-context] thanks for context-stub

2008-04-18 Thread Peter Münster
Hello Hans, Thanks for the context-stub! Now it's possible to say context file and using MKIV without % engine=luatex in the file. One small bug-fix for spaces in filename: $@ - $@ And one small feature request: it would be nice to get the ConTeXt-version with context --version. Cheers, Peter

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 18 Apr 2008 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Wolfgang, I still wait for comments about the user interface to set the values before I will release my module to the public although my last stable version is only available. I still use the LaTeX class scrlttr2 for my letters. I use

Re: [NTG-context] Font problem

2008-04-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, David Arnold wrote: All, I did a fresh install on a new Macbook: MacTeX-2007 I am using Aditya's package: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/mahajan/ I believe I have a font problem, as in trying to compile my file I come up against what is shown below. Using my

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Taco, Everything I read below says there should be a 'plain.mem' in the folder where you ran theat file in. If there really really isn't, then my only advise to you is to buy a less thieving operating system, as it seems this one steals your files before you can even have an

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Wolfgang, I will try to provide you with something. The difficulty is, that I do not have LaTeX running. So please some patience. Kind regards Willi On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Can you show me a few example letters with values for all fields, I saw a few in

Re: [NTG-context] Font problem

2008-04-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, David Arnold wrote: All, I did a fresh install on a new Macbook: MacTeX-2007 I am using Aditya's package: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/mahajan/ I believe I have a font problem, as in trying

Re: [NTG-context] problems with minimal/pdftex

2008-04-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I've just downloaded a minimal for mac os x/power-pc and experience the following problem: [...] additional info: $ pdftex --version pdfTeX 3.141592-1.50.0-alpha-20071218-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea version 3.5.6dev $ which pdftex /opt/context/tex/texmf-osx-ppc/bin/pdftex Patrick --