Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-11 Thread Otared Kavian
On 3 avr. 2010, at 19:00, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: News flash: it's already there! See attached. Hi Idriss, That's wonderful! Could you please tell us what font you have used and give us the font features turned on to get that kind of coloring and « kashide »? Can you send

[NTG-context] itemize with columns in \startcolumns enviroment

2010-04-11 Thread Xan
Hi, I have \startcolumns [...] \startexercici Amb el mateix experiment aleatori de l'activitat anterior, calcula els esdeveniments següents: \startitemize[a,packed,columns] \item $(A^c)^c$ \item $(A \cap B)^c$ \item $(A \cup B)^c$ \item $A^c \cup B$ \item $A^c \cap B$ \item $A \cup B^c$ \item

Re: [NTG-context] itemize with columns in \startcolumns enviroment

2010-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 11.04.10 12:47, schrieb Xan: Hi, I have \startcolumns [...] \startexercici Amb el mateix experiment aleatori de l'activitat anterior, calcula els esdeveniments següents: \startitemize[a,packed,columns] \item $(A^c)^c$ \item $(A \cap B)^c$ \item $(A \cup B)^c$ \item $A^c \cup B$ \item $A^c

Re: [NTG-context] itemize with columns in \startcolumns enviroment

2010-04-11 Thread Xan
En/na Wolfgang Schuster ha escrit: Columns can't be nested but you can use \start/\stopsimplecolumns for the itemize. Wolfgang Thanks Wolfgang. Perfect solution! For the other hand, can't columns be nested? Why not put in \startitemize code one if: if there is _in_ a column environment,use

Re: [NTG-context] itemize with columns in \startcolumns enviroment

2010-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 11.04.10 13:01, schrieb Xan: For the other hand, can't columns be nested? No. Why not put in \startitemize code one if: if there is _in_ a column environment,use \startsimplecolumns, Is it technically possible? Possible but not so simple as you think. Wolfgang

[NTG-context] How to define your own math character (MK-IV)

2010-04-11 Thread gummybears
Hi, How to use definemathcommand to setup some of the missing math symbols ? Some of these symbols are defined in char-def.lua but missing in math-vfu.lua. Thanks ___ If your question is of interest to others as

[NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi all, In a book on construction engineering I found two kind of tables that presumably could be set very nicely in ConTeXt (see attachments). Set with MetaPost within natural tables? 1) Curly braces that span over cells: Their height should be depending to the cell's height (nr=2 oder

[NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference

2010-04-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi all, the garden maintainers have moved the command reference from texshow-web (http://texshow.contextgarde.net) to the wiki, below the page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Reference/en This means, everybody can update the command reference now! Hooray! The contents has been

[NTG-context] stopcolumns causes new page!!!?

2010-04-11 Thread Xan
Hi, I attach a file. In page 7, when I put \stopcolumns, then automatically context create one new page. When I comment that, all is fine. See the mark %here is the problem for the exact position. Please, CCme. Thanks a lot, Xan. % interface=en output=pdftex % texexec --mode=solucions

Re: [NTG-context] itemize with columns in \startcolumns enviroment

2010-04-11 Thread Xan
En/na Wolfgang Schuster ha escrit: Am 11.04.10 13:01, schrieb Xan: For the other hand, can't columns be nested? No. Why not put in \startitemize code one if: if there is _in_ a column environment,use \startsimplecolumns, Is it technically possible? Possible but not so simple as you

Re: [NTG-context] New package for typesetting bibliographies

2010-04-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:43:43 -0600, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: Just saw this on CTAN announce. http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/librarian.html It says that it works with ConTeXt. The manual was done in LuaTeX! OTOH, from the link Creating references

Re: [NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference

2010-04-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Thanks for your help! A great big thank you! to you! Best wishes, Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11-4-2010 3:25, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi all, In a book on construction engineering I found two kind of tables that presumably could be set very nicely in ConTeXt (see attachments). Set with MetaPost within natural tables? 1) Curly braces that span over cells: Their height should be

Re: [NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference

2010-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11-4-2010 3:45, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi all, the garden maintainers have moved the command reference from texshow-web (http://texshow.contextgarde.net) to the wiki, below the page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Reference/en This means, everybody can update the command reference

Re: [NTG-context] How to define your own math character (MK-IV)

2010-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11-4-2010 2:45, gummybears wrote: Hi, How to use definemathcommand to setup some of the missing math symbols ? Some of these symbols are defined in char-def.lua but missing in math-vfu.lua. if they are in the regular tex fonts, then we need to extend the vfu ... keep in mind that the vfu

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 11.04.2010 um 17:51 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 11-4-2010 3:25, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi all, In a book on construction engineering I found two kind of tables that presumably could be set very nicely in ConTeXt (see attachments). Set with MetaPost within natural tables? 1) Curly

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11-4-2010 6:10, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Thank you Hans! I can imagine that this fits on the first example. Do you also have an idea on the second case, the arrows from one table cell to another? (Does it has to be so complex as in metafun manual, page 140: 5.2 Anchors and layers??)

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Vianney le Clément
use textbackgrounds ... instead of drawing lines you then do a textext that does a \left{ in math alongside a vbox that has the height of the lefgt boundary etc etc That would be really interesting for a project I'm working on (a songbook). I thought textbackgrounds could only put a color

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost in TABLEs ?

2010-04-11 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 11.04.2010 um 18:31 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 11-4-2010 6:10, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Thank you Hans! I can imagine that this fits on the first example. Do you also have an idea on the second case, the arrows from one table cell to another? (Does it has to be so complex as in metafun

Re: [NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference

2010-04-11 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Help needed: texshow-web/command referenc Gladly started with this, but two questions arose: 1) What is the standard? What formatting errors too look for? Should they be evident or subtle? 2) Should the description be added before removing Reference_Cleanup? Foe example, \but wiki page

[NTG-context] Where to put MP macro?

2010-04-11 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, Thanks to Taco, I have some progress in developing guitar chord command. My current trouble is how to develop the mark MP macro and where to put it? Inside startuseMPgraphic? \startuseMPgraphic{chordgrid}{e,B,G,D,A,E} drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled 0.4pt withcolor black) ; draw

Re: [NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference

2010-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 11.04.10 19:13, schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: 2) Should the description be added before removing Reference_Cleanup? Foe example, \but wiki page looks meaningless without the descrption. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/but ConTeXt has no \but command although i think there was

[NTG-context] Why any substring is not find inside string?

2010-04-11 Thread Jaroslav Hajtmar
Hello, Sorry for my beginners question. I am experimenting with CSV parsing and I have miscellaneous delimiters. Finding any delimiters is OK, but with any delimiters are problem - there are not to find inside string. Here is my minimal example: \starttext \startluacode

Re: [NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference

2010-04-11 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hi Willi and all NTG members, I recently asked about if I can work off my annual NTG membership fee. Now I see great possibility for this. I can take an obligation to clean up *all* http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Reference_Cleanup concerning

Re: [NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference

2010-04-11 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Thank you for answer, Wolfgang. ConTeXt has no \but command although i think there was one in the past. I'm afraid you are wrong. See updated wiki page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/but P.S. What about to wikify \show command itself? Or it is not ConTeXt command? Regards,

Re: [NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference

2010-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 11.04.10 20:16, schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Thank you for answer, Wolfgang. ConTeXt has no \but command although i think there was one in the past. I'm afraid you are wrong. See updated wiki page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/but It's also available for itemize:

Re: [NTG-context] Why any substring is not find inside string?

2010-04-11 Thread Jaroslav Hajtmar
Sorry ... I see it now.. When I created mimimal example I make mistake. J.Hajtmar Dne 11.4.2010 19:30, Jaroslav Hajtmar napsal(a): Hello, Sorry for my beginners question. I am experimenting with CSV parsing and I have miscellaneous delimiters. Finding any delimiters is OK, but with any

Re: [NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference

2010-04-11 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
On 11.04.2010 22:34, ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl wrote: Thank you for answer, Wolfgang. ConTeXt has no \but command although i think there was one in the past. I'm afraid you are wrong. See updated wiki page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/but It's also available for itemize:

Re: [NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference

2010-04-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2010-04-11 um 21:37 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Don't understand how to use it. Without \definerreference there is no difference form ordinary \item, but \definerreference gives an error. \setupinteraction [state=start] %\definerreference[content][] %gives error \starttext

[NTG-context] marginrule does not work properly in wiki

2010-04-11 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, The following example does not work properly in wiki (the rule is missed), while in mkIV it's OK. \starttext \startmarginrule The sound of a duck is a good demonstration of how different people listen to a sound. Everywhere in Europe the sound is equal. But in every country it is

[NTG-context] difference between a and b alternatives in \blackrule

2010-04-11 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, What is the difference between a and b alternatives in \blackrule? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/setupblackrules#Description Regards, Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] marginrule does not work properly in wiki

2010-04-11 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Looks like I understood the reason. It's not visible because it's inside the margin, and wiki does margins. :) Am I right? Hello, The following example does not work properly in wiki (the rule is missed), while in mkIV it's OK. \starttext \startmarginrule The sound of a duck is a good

[NTG-context] Aligning text to bottom of page

2010-04-11 Thread Tom
Is there a command that will align the text that follows to the bottom of the page? Copyright pages are often oriented this way. Another example of this is the end of chapter page in The TeXbook by Knuth. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

Re: [NTG-context] difference between a and b alternatives in \blackrule

2010-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.04.10 00:07, schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Hello, What is the difference between a and b alternatives in \blackrule? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/setupblackrules#Description Can you see it? \setupblackrules[width=2cm] \starttext text \blackrules[alternative=a] tex\par

Re: [NTG-context] Aligning text to bottom of page

2010-04-11 Thread Mikael Persson
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Tom t...@tuxedo-press.com wrote: Is there a command that will align the text that follows to the bottom of the page? Copyright pages are often oriented this way. Another example of this is the end of chapter page in The TeXbook by Knuth. Hi Tom, I usually do