[NTG-context] highlighting chars on a path

2009-10-19 Thread Aurelien Giraud
Hello, I am new to ConTeXt and I have looked on the internet for a way to do something special. Unfortunately I have not found any solution. I hope this is the right place for such a question. I apologise otherwise. I would like to highlight (e.g. put in bold, or change the color...) any

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
Hi Thomas, I did take a look at simple slides, and in their documentation, there is no plain background. All the backgrounds have some shape/color to it. That may be possible, but I couldn't tell just by spending 3-4 min skimming the documentation. As it is something very natural to want (a plain

[NTG-context] references to footnotes are broken in mkiv

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, the following example produces the correct reference in mkii but no reference in mkiv. Has anything changed, or is this a bug? Thanks Thomas \starttext A text\footnote[fnt:1]{A footnote} with a reference\footnote[fnt:2] {Another one} to a \in[fnt:2] footnote. \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
In case I wasn't clear That may be possible refers to Having a blank background may be possible. And I really don't want to sound ungrateful for all the great software available out there for free (by the way, I pay for software that helps me), but it is maybe the 4th time I decide to try to

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Guilherme P. de Freitas wrote: Thanks everybody, but I still have to find my simple template: title, author, lists, pictures and plain background. I guess I could just go and write down a large centered text for title, etc. but I was hoping there would be something already done for very simple

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
It just occurred to me that a style was not a necessary thing, but an optional parameter, and that without it, the style would end up being plain. That was the case, and therefore my problem is essentially solved. Thanks everybody, especially Thomas. Question: how do I get white text on black

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
you can also roll out your own style ... the s-pre-*.tex files have some examples (some styles can be run with --mode=demo) Hans Hi Hans, thanks for the help. What are the s-re-*.tex files? Where are they? By the way, I couldn't find any useful source code following the link given in the

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Guilherme P. de Freitas wrote: you can also roll out your own style ... the s-pre-*.tex files have some examples (some styles can be run with --mode=demo) Hans Hi Hans, thanks for the help. What are the s-re-*.tex files? Where are they? tex/context/base/s-pre-*.tex

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Guilherme P. de Freitas guilhe...@gpfreitas.com wrote: In case I wasn't clear That may be possible refers to Having a blank background may be possible. And I really don't want to sound ungrateful for all the great software available out there for free (by

Re: [NTG-context] highlighting chars on a path

2009-10-19 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Aurelien Giraud aureliengir...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I am new to ConTeXt and I have looked on the internet for a way to do something special. Unfortunately I have not found any solution. I hope this is the right place for such a question. I apologise

Re: [NTG-context] references to footnotes are broken in mkiv

2009-10-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, the following example produces the correct reference in mkii but no reference in mkiv. Has anything changed, or is this a bug? Thanks Thomas \starttext A text\footnote[fnt:1]{A footnote} with a reference\footnote[fnt:2]{Another one} to a \in[fnt:2]

Re: [NTG-context] references to footnotes are broken in mkiv

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 19, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: fixed in next version; i'll send you a patch Excellent, your patch works! Thanks, and all best Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] Combining \sc and \em

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Wraight
Under the latest beta (2009.10.02 13:14), it doesn't seem possible to access \SerifCapsSlanted by combining the \em and \sc font switches. The following test case demonstrates this: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2003/002453.html Thanks Wolfgang. I will investigate further. Tim

Re: [NTG-context] highlighting chars on a path

2009-10-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 21:11, Aurelien Giraud wrote: Hello, I am new to ConTeXt and I have looked on the internet for a way to do something special. Unfortunately I have not found any solution. I hope this is the right place for such a question. I apologise otherwise. I would like to

Re: [NTG-context] first-setup mtxrun error on Intel Mac

2009-10-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:13, Michail Vidiassov wrote: Dear All, I run Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel) running first-setup.sh (in empty dir, if that matters) results in /Users/master/context.new/bin/mtxrun:5416: attempt to index global 'tex' (a nil value) Any ideas? The same thing happens here on

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 19.10.2009 um 10:17 schrieb luigi scarso: Not in order of importance *)simple slides *) s-pre-*.tex *) build your slide with layers *) write your own module ;) Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] Context emacs-muse [possibly OT]

2009-10-19 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Jean, Jean Magnan de Bornier jm.born...@free.fr writes: The math tag is indeed part of the official muse. A muse file containig only this: math\sum type = nMn/math works OK here. Are you sure you did'nt insert spaces like in math , which ought to give a result like yours? Yes,

Re: [NTG-context] [MP] labels of points on a circle

2009-10-19 Thread Boštjan Vesnicer
Hi Dalyoung, You can try to adapt the following snippet: numeric i; pickup pencircle scaled 4pt; for i = 1 upto 10: z[i] = dir(uniformdeviate 360); drawdot z[i] scaled 4cm; label(decimal(i), z[i] scaled 4.3cm); endfor; Best regards, Bostjan On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:48

Re: [NTG-context] highlighting chars on a path

2009-10-19 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, a possible approach could be positional graphisc please refer to the METAFUN manual p 139... Willi On Oct 19, 2009, at 10:33 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Aurelien Giraud aureliengir...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I am new to ConTeXt and I have looked

Re: [NTG-context] section numbers

2009-10-19 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 19.10.2009 um 14:49 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz: Hi all, I could have sworn there was a thread recently about the same question, but can't find it: I want section numbers without the prefixed chapter number. Isn't this supposed to work? \setuphead[section] [previousnumber=no]

Re: [NTG-context] \starbuffer in own macros

2009-10-19 Thread Andreas Harder
Am 19.10.2009 um 00:50 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:Am 18.10.2009 um 12:02 schrieb Andreas Harder:Before I help you provide us with more information, e.g. should the text in the bufferappear also in the complete text or do you it only in the snippet?Sorry, that I did not make myself clear. The real

Re: [NTG-context] section numbers

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \setuphead [section] [sectionsegments=3:100] % show only the numbers for level 3 (=section) till 100 (subsubsub...section) Wolfgang Thank you Wolfgang, that does it! At the risk of sounding like a crybaby: would one of the two

Re: [NTG-context] section numbers

2009-10-19 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: Just imagine what would happen if Hans and Wolfgang were struck by lightning on the same day :-) They will rise again, just like the Phoenix. -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Guilherme P. de Freitas wrote: It just occurred to me that a style was not a necessary thing, but an optional parameter, and that without it, the style would end up being plain. That was the case, and therefore my problem is essentially solved. Thanks everybody, especially

Re: [NTG-context] \starbuffer in own macros

2009-10-19 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 19.10.2009 um 16:13 schrieb Andreas Harder: There is an inherent problem as one can see in the attachment, but since mostly I cite a whole paragraph it's not a real problem. This happens when you start in the middle of a paragraph/line which results in different line breaking. I

Re: [NTG-context] \starbuffer in own macros

2009-10-19 Thread Andreas Harder
Am 19.10.2009 um 17:53 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 19.10.2009 um 16:13 schrieb Andreas Harder: There is an inherent problem as one can see in the attachment, but since mostly I cite a whole paragraph it's not a real problem. This happens when you start in the middle of a paragraph/line

Re: [NTG-context] Context emacs-muse [possibly OT]

2009-10-19 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 19 octobre à 15:03:24 Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca écrit notamment: Hello, | The math tag is indeed part of the official muse. | | A muse file containig only this: | | math\sum type = nMn/math | | works OK here. Are you sure you did'nt insert spaces like in math , | which ought to give

Re: [NTG-context] embed fonts

2009-10-19 Thread Peter Rolf
luigi scarso schrieb: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de mailto:mar...@oneiros.de wrote: 2009/10/17 Andreas Schneider ak...@gmx.de mailto:ak...@gmx.de: As far as I can tell, that seems to demand fully embedded fonts. As It doesn't. Subsets are

Re: [NTG-context] Context emacs-muse [possibly OT]

2009-10-19 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Jean, Jean Magnan de Bornier jm.born...@free.fr writes: All correct then. If I understand correctly you use gentoo's muse package. Maybe the problem is there, but it is hard for me to test that, I have a non-packaged muse installation. Can you show the value of

Re: [NTG-context] Context emacs-muse [possibly OT]

2009-10-19 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 19 octobre à 20:38:18 Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca écrit notamment: Hi Roger, Sorry I'm so slow today!! You have to say (require 'muse-latex2png) This is the file where the math and latex tags are defined. cheers, -- Jean

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
Well, thanks everybody for the invaluable help, these answers seem to be enough for me to do my next slides with ConTeXt. Best, Guilherme -- Guilherme P. de Freitas http://www.gpfreitas.com ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] Context emacs-muse [possibly OT]

2009-10-19 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Jean, Jean Magnan de Bornier jm.born...@free.fr writes: Le 19 octobre à 20:38:18 Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca écrit notamment: Hi Roger, Sorry I'm so slow today!! You have to say (require 'muse-latex2png) This is the file where the math and latex tags are defined. cheers, Bingo! Many

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread R. Bastian
Hello, I downloaded the files generic*** etc and tried to install (following the 'simpleslides.pdf'); it seemed to succeed. But the compilation 'texexec generic ...tex' failed. So I tried same tests: -- r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ texexec

Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, R. Bastian wrote: Hello, I downloaded the files generic*** etc and tried to install (following the 'simpleslides.pdf'); it seemed to succeed. But the compilation 'texexec generic ...tex' failed. So I tried same tests: --

Re: [NTG-context] references to footnotes are broken in mkiv

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: fixed in next version; i'll send you a patch Excellent, your patch works! Thanks, and all best Thomas Sorry to be a PITA, but could you fix references to items as well? They don't work either in mkiv: \starttext \startitemize[n]

[NTG-context] latest beta doesn't process my xml files

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans, more serious: today's beta doesn't process my xml files. Too late today for a minimal example; maybe the error can give a clue: systems : end file vorlesung-mkiv at line 1 systems : begin file historiker at line 1 ! LuaTeX error no string to print stack traceback:

Re: [NTG-context] section numbers

2009-10-19 Thread Joshua Lee
Hi Alan, Try attached example.tex. Best regards, Joshua On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Hello, I did not understand that this be the answer to the question, but, of course, I cannot contradict he who posted the question in the beginning. However, I understood that Thomas still