[NTG-context] Opposite Blocks or Spread Based Layouts

Hi ConTeXt ComRaDes, Trying to design a travelogue book with photos on the left page, and text on the right. Tried \startopposite to get an opposite block, and turned it on with \setupoppositeplacing[state=start], to no discernable effect. Am I doing something wrong, or is there another way

Re: [NTG-context] Opposite Blocks or Spread Based Layouts

Am 16.03.2009 um 07:00 schrieb Corin Royal Drummond: Hi ConTeXt ComRaDes, Trying to design a travelogue book with photos on the left page, and text on the right. Tried \startopposite to get an opposite block, and turned it on with \setupoppositeplacing[state=start], to no discernable

Re: [NTG-context] \FlushStep in module s-pre-50 adds too much space

Curious Learn wrote: Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl writes: in mkii it's injecting nodes, so you need to keep the \FlushStep attached to the previous paragraph if possible like here\FlushStep in mkiv it should not matter Thank you Hans. I will try to install Context Minimals in a couple of

Re: [NTG-context] horoffset singlesided/doublesided

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Alan Stone software.list.1e...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, \showframe \setuplayout[width=.65\paperwidth,hoffset=1cm,margin=0cm] \setuphead[chapter][page=right] typo: horoffset, instead of hoffset Alan

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: I do feel that for user modules, there should be an error when the module is not found. If you do not want the above behaviour as a default, it could be a configurable option. i'm thinking of something \enableoptions[...]

Re: [NTG-context] math problems

fairly recently as in, say, 2 months ago, i could typeset that file without changing anything, that is, it worked with luatex and pdftex from the minimals and pdtex from texlive 2008. is this because of the recent addition of the math stuff? Mohamed Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar

Re: [NTG-context] Opposite Blocks or Spread Based Layouts

Oops, I did forget to mention I'm using a recent ConTeXt minimal and texexec --lua. Corin Royal Drummond wrote: Hi ConTeXt ComRaDes, Trying to design a travelogue book with photos on the left page, and text on the right. Tried \startopposite to get an opposite block, and turned it on with

Re: [NTG-context] Opposite Blocks or Spread Based Layouts

Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \definestartstop [leftpage] [before={\page[yes,left]}] \definestartstop [rightpage] [before={\page[yes,right]}] \starttext \startleftpage ... \stopleftpage \startrightpage ... \stoprightpage \stoptext Wolfgang Wolfgang, Thanks for the solution. That

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: I do feel that for user modules, there should be an error when the module is not found. If you do not want the above behaviour as a default, it could be a configurable option. i'm thinking of something

[NTG-context] Problem of transfering bib to bbl in Chinese.

Hi everyone, I asked the question days ago. I find something new, so I submit it here and hope it can provide some useful information and, hopefully, can solve the problem. t-bib can transfer the following bib entry correct. @ARTICLE{c-article-full, author = {??}, title =

Re: [NTG-context] Problem of transfering bib to bbl in Chinese.

Wei-Wei Guo wrote: but the following bib entry will be rubbish. @ARTICLE{c-article-full, author = {?? and ??}, You can try author = {{??} and {??}}, but internationalization support in bibtex is almost nonexisting, so don't be too surprised if it fails.

Re: [NTG-context] Problem of transfering bib to bbl in Chinese.

Thanks for answering. Taco Hoekwater : Wei-Wei Guo wrote: but the following bib entry will be rubbish. @ARTICLE{c-article-full, author = {?? and ??}, You can try author = {{??} and {??}}, but internationalization support in bibtex is almost

Re: [NTG-context] Opposite Blocks or Spread Based Layouts

Am 16.03.2009 um 14:17 schrieb Corin Royal Drummond: Still wondering what's up with opposite blocks though, if any one knows. \startopposite \setupoppositeplacing et al. I think the can be called broken and Hans hadn't needed them in the past so no one noticed it. In this case it shoudn't

Re: [NTG-context] Problem of transfering bib to bbl in Chinese.

Wei-Wei Guo wrote: It doesn't work. I checked the .bbl file generated by LaTeX from the same .bib file. There is no rubbish. Why can LaTeX do the thing right with the same bibtex? I guess you are using a latex bibtex style that doesn't support 'short' keys. The t-bib module does, and, what

[NTG-context] Logos of Context (context-free-design github repo)

Hi all of you, After aproving of Taco and Mojca, I announce that I start a repository of ConTeXt logos: http://github.com/somenxavi/context-free-designs/ Now it has only the Taco logo that reproduce the contextgarden logo, but it's open to anyone who wants to put in any logo. Just send

Re: [NTG-context] Problem of transfering bib to bbl in Chinese.

Taco Hoekwater 写道: You can't turn the bib module's 's' handling off in a nice way, sorry. You have to either hack the cont-XX.bst files by deleting the line that says clabel write$ It's great to have the problem solved. Thank you very much! I meet another two problems. 1. I'm using

Re: [NTG-context] pinyin in context

The pinyin has 5 kind of tone for one pronunciation. As it's hard to input, and in CJK 1,2,3,4 are use to represent the tone, (the fifth is no special tone mark). In the book for children, the pinyin always show above the Chinese like the picture I upload. To make it show correctly is an good

Re: [NTG-context] pinyin in context

To make it show correctly is an good start, but if there are some tools to automatic add PinYin , it will be more attractive. It is definitely possible to do that in Lua, given the appropriate data. The Unihan database could be a start. We also need to find a way to report if a character

Re: [NTG-context] epstopdf oddity?

Dear Luigi, At Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:06:56 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Marko Schütz markoschu...@web.de wrote: Dear All, I have some small diagrams I created with MetaPost in 2005. Just recently I wanted to re-run the build of the PDF. It produced a PDF

Re: [NTG-context] epstopdf oddity?

2009/3/16 Marko Schütz markoschu...@web.de: Dear Luigi, At Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:06:56 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Marko Schütz markoschu...@web.de wrote: Dear All, I have some small diagrams I created with MetaPost in 2005. Just recently I wanted to

Re: [NTG-context] pinyin in context

Am 16.03.2009 um 17:17 schrieb Bill Long: The pinyin has 5 kind of tone for one pronunciation. As it's hard to input, and in CJK 1,2,3,4 are use to represent the tone, (the fifth is no special tone mark). In the book for children, the pinyin always show above the Chinese like the picture I

[NTG-context] Which revision control system do you use?

Hi all, to start the threat here is what I use(d). On my old Windows machines I used Subversion because it was easy to use with TortoiseSVN but since I'm on my Mac I use Mercurial for my files. Wolfgang ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Which revision control system do you use?

Dnia Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:56:48PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster napisa#322;(a): Hi all, Hi, to start the threat here is what I use(d). On my old Windows machines I used Subversion because it was easy to use with TortoiseSVN but since I'm on my Mac I use Mercurial for my files. I used RCS (it

Re: [NTG-context] Which revision control system do you use?

I started with bazaar, then dropped for git http://git-scm.com/ (ASAP, I will look into hg) -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] pinyin in context

If you can provide such a list Hans can add the information to char-def.lua, As I mentioned, the Unihan database has a very comprehensive list (probably too comprehensive). I made it into a Lua list, but need to polish it (sorry, 500+ Kb, not attaching). It can be downloaded from

Re: [NTG-context] \FlushStep in module s-pre-50 adds too much space

Thanks very much for replying. From your replies, it seems easiest to do what Aditya suggested; use the commands luatools --generate context --make I looked at this message and also went to the link he had in his message. My question is, am I supposed to be in any specific folder when I run

Re: [NTG-context] \FlushStep in module s-pre-50 adds too much space

Am 16.03.2009 um 22:35 schrieb Curious Learn: My question is, am I supposed to be in any specific folder when I run those. I went to terminal (on Mac OS X) and typed luatools --generate but got the following message: LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | error unable to

Re: [NTG-context] Which revision control system do you use?

Hi Wolfgang, Subversion. At work and at home. Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] \FlushStep in module s-pre-50 adds too much space

Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfgang at googlemail.com writes: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals#Usage http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20090121.222035.3c27dbbc.en.html Wolfgang Perhaps I am not getting something which I should. Wolfgang, it seems to me that the links

Re: [NTG-context] \FlushStep in module s-pre-50 adds too much space

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Curious Learn curiousle...@gmail.com wrote: Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfgang at googlemail.com writes: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals#Usage http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20090121.222035.3c27dbbc.en.html Wolfgang Perhaps I am

Re: [NTG-context] \FlushStep in module s-pre-50 adds too much space

Am 16.03.2009 um 23:17 schrieb Curious Learn: Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfgang at googlemail.com writes: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals#Usage http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20090121.222035.3c27dbbc.en.html Perhaps I am not getting something which I should.

Re: [NTG-context] Opposite Blocks or Spread Based Layouts

Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 16.03.2009 um 14:17 schrieb Corin Royal Drummond: Still wondering what's up with opposite blocks though, if any one knows. \startopposite \setupoppositeplacing et al. I think the can be called broken and Hans hadn't needed them in the past so no one noticed it.

Re: [NTG-context] Which revision control system do you use?

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi all, to start the threat here is what I use(d). On my old Windows machines I used Subversion because it was easy to use with TortoiseSVN but since I'm on my Mac I use Mercurial for my files. svn for old stuff, git, and darcs. Aditya

[NTG-context] switching layouts for a float

Hi Friends, Still working on having a travelogue with a text column on one side, and then a plate of color photos on the opposite page. Floats are working well for this with \startcombination[2*2]. My problem is that the text pages, have a wide margin to accommodate marginal graphics, and I

Re: [NTG-context] switching layouts for a float

Am 17.03.2009 um 00:53 schrieb Corin Royal Drummond: Hi Friends, Still working on having a travelogue with a text column on one side, and then a plate of color photos on the opposite page. Floats are working well for this with \startcombination[2*2]. My problem is that the text pages,

Re: [NTG-context] \FlushStep in module s-pre-50 adds too much space

Okay, I have installed the minimals. It works with a file I tried without tikz. The examples on the wiki also work well. It does not work with a file that has tikz code in it. It stops compiling with ! Undefined control sequence. l.13 \starttikzpicture Does Tikz not work with mkiv? Thanks.

[NTG-context] Is there anything like developer's manual for ConTeXt?

Hi everyone, After fighting with ConTeXt one month, I find it's too difficult. I have two years experience of LaTeX. I never thought ConTeXt could be so difficult. Using ConTeXt is like climbing a steep mountain, every step need extensive searching, reading, and asking. Sorry for the useless

Re: [NTG-context] Is there anything like developer's manual for ConTeXt?

Wei-Wei Guo wrote: Hi everyone, After fighting with ConTeXt one month, I find it's too difficult. I have two years experience of LaTeX. I never thought ConTeXt could be so difficult. Using ConTeXt is like climbing a steep mountain, every step need extensive searching, reading, and asking.

Re: [NTG-context] \FlushStep in module s-pre-50 adds too much space

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Curious Learn wrote: Okay, I have installed the minimals. It works with a file I tried without tikz. The examples on the wiki also work well. It does not work with a file that has tikz code in it. It stops compiling with ! Undefined control sequence. l.13 \starttikzpicture