Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt

2010-11-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-11-2010 6:52, Alan Raúl wrote: Name: Alan Caruanambo Muñoz City: Cajamarca - Peru Hello: ConText was using for a while, then stop, now that I've tried to reuse write my thesis is that I can not compile successfully though and followed all the steps in

[NTG-context] linewidth in a tabular cell

2010-11-16 Thread Herbert Voss
\starttext \starttabulate[|p|p|] \NC \the\hsize \NC \the\hsize \NC\NR \stoptabulate \the\hsize \stoptext is always the same value. How can I get the width inside a tabular cell? Herbert ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] tabulate

2010-11-16 Thread Herbert Voss
is this known, that I need at least one space between the last digit and a followng \NC? \starttext \starttabulate[|g{,}|] %\NG 100.000,00\NC\NR % error \NG 100.000,00 \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext Herbert ___ If

Re: [NTG-context] tabulate

2010-11-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-11-2010 11:07, Herbert Voss wrote: is this known, that I need at least one space between the last digit and a followng \NC? \starttext \starttabulate[|g{,}|] %\NG 100.000,00\NC\NR % error \NG 100.000,00 \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext yes, think of \def\NG#1 {...} so the space is a

[NTG-context] Numbering chapters from an arbitrary number

2010-11-16 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
Hello, I'd need to start numbering chapters from number 3. (The previous chapters 1 and 2 were prepared otherwise, I'm to continue.) Is any parameter mentioned on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/setuphead supposed for this? Or how? Cheers, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka

Re: [NTG-context] Numbering chapters from an arbitrary number

2010-11-16 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
... I encountered partial success: --- \starttext \setuphead[chapter][ownnumber=yes] \chapter{3}{AAA} % Gives 3. AAA, that's OK \setuphead[chapter][ownnumber=no] \chapter{BBB} % Gives 2. BBB - this is unwanted - I'd need to get 3. BBB... \stoptext --- So it seems I'd need to reset an

Re: [NTG-context] Numbering chapters from an arbitrary number

2010-11-16 Thread Herbert Voss
Am 16.11.2010 11:48, schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.: \starttext \setuphead[chapter][ownnumber=yes] \chapter{3}{AAA} % Gives 3. AAA, that's OK \setuphead[chapter][ownnumber=no] \chapter{BBB} % Gives 2. BBB - this is unwanted - I'd need to get 3. BBB... \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] Numbering chapters from an arbitrary number

2010-11-16 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
... How easy! Thanks. Lukas \setupheadnumber[chapter][2] \chapter{foo} bar \chapter{bar} baz \stoptext Herbert ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

[NTG-context] luatex hangs at 100% cpu

2010-11-16 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, the current MkIV (ConTeXt ver: 2010.11.12) seems to have problems with start/stopitemize and start/stopcolumns: mostly it hangs at 100% cpu, sometimes it gives this error massage: ! Attempt to double-free penalty node 78778, ignored. \actualshipout ...t \fi \box \shipoutscratchbox }}

[NTG-context] tabulate with a header

2010-11-16 Thread Herbert Voss
\starttext \startcolumns \setuptabulate[header=repeat] \starttabulatehead \HL \NC\em SPALTE 1 \NC\em SPALTE 2\NC\NR\HL \stoptabulatehead \starttabulate[|c|c|] \dorecurse{100}{\NC Die erste Spalte \NC Und die zweite\NC\NR} \stoptabulate \stopcolumns \stoptext is it possible to get identical

[NTG-context] \typefile without breaking long lines

2010-11-16 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
Hello, is it possible to \setuptyping in the manner that long lines won't be broken? So to get: -\textwidth - a instead of: aAA AA Thank you in advance. Regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:l...@pontex.cz] Pontex s.

[NTG-context] context ltcontrib luatex

2010-11-16 Thread Martin Schröder
Hi, it seems the recent context from TL doesn't work with the latest luatex from TLcontrib: -- tlmgr update --all cannot contact mirror.ctan.org, returning a backbone server! tlmgr: package repository http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet tlmgr: saving backups

Re: [NTG-context] The visual counter module

2010-11-16 Thread Mathieu Boespflug
Awesome! I'm sure this will come in handy one day. -- Mathieu On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: Hi, This is to announce an alpha release of the visual counter module. See http://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/visualcounter-module/ for

[NTG-context] Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

2010-11-16 Thread Andrew Starks
At Aditya's suggestion, I'm cross-posting this from tex.stackexchange.com [Executive Summary: I might be missing something really simple and I might be overcomplicating something really easy. In short: 1: I installed MacTeX 2010. 2: I updated all packages using the normal trees. 3: I changed my

[NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Davis
Is there a way to place a box at some specified x and y position on the page, and then typeset one or more paragraphs of text into the box? I guess I'm thinking of something like LaTeX's minipage, but with the ability to specify absolute coordinates, rather than just position relative to the

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 16.11.2010 um 21:06 schrieb Peter Davis: Is there a way to place a box at some specified x and y position on the page, and then typeset one or more paragraphs of text into the box? I guess I'm thinking of something like LaTeX's minipage, but with the ability to specify absolute

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Davis
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 16.11.2010 um 21:06 schrieb Peter Davis: Is there a way to place a box at some specified x and y position on the page, and then typeset one or more paragraphs of text into the box? I guess I'm

[NTG-context] definition and separation of colors

2010-11-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
I stumpled upon a ambiguous color definition in my automatically generated documents: \definecolor[Custom][c=0,m=1,y=0,k=0,r=0,g=0,b=0,] I.e. the color is defined in CMYK mode as 100% magenta and in RGB as 0/0/0 black. In the PDF the color is shown as black, according to Acrobat's

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, Nov 16 2010, Peter Davis wrote: Is there a way to place a box at some specified x and y position on the page, and then typeset one or more paragraphs of text into the box? I guess I'm thinking of something like LaTeX's minipage, but with the ability to specify absolute coordinates,

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 16.11.2010 um 21:32 schrieb Peter Davis: Thanks, Worfgang! I just tried this. I don't see any errors, but I don't see any PDF either. Force ConTeXt to produce a page with „\page[empty]“ or „\dontleavehmode\page“ when you have enough material for one page or when you’re at the end of

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Davis
Thanks again! Now I get output, But text isn't getting composed inside these boxes. It's just all output on one line. I tried a couple of paragraphs, and just saw the the end of one and the beginning of the next one one line. Sorry if there's some obvious remedy for this. I'm still new to

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Davis
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote: On Tue, Nov 16 2010, Peter Davis wrote: Is there a way to place a box at some specified x and y position on the page, and then typeset one or more paragraphs of text into the box? I guess I'm thinking of something

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 16.11.2010 um 22:12 schrieb Peter Davis: Thanks again! Now I get output, But text isn't getting composed inside these boxes. It's just all output on one line. I tried a couple of paragraphs, and just saw the the end of one and the beginning of the next one one line. Sorry if

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Davis
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 16.11.2010 um 22:12 schrieb Peter Davis: Thanks again! Now I get output, But text isn't getting composed inside these boxes. It's just all output on one line. I tried a couple of paragraphs,

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-11-2010 9:41, Peter Münster wrote: On Tue, Nov 16 2010, Peter Davis wrote: Is there a way to place a box at some specified x and y position on the page, and then typeset one or more paragraphs of text into the box? I guess I'm thinking of something like LaTeX's minipage, but with the

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, Nov 16 2010, Peter Davis wrote: Layers or overlays are certainly the right method. But there is also the \position macro: Thanks! I didn't find much in the ConTeXt reference manual on this. Is there more info somewhere? Not much. A bit is in mp-cb-en.pdf Cheers, Peter --

Re: [NTG-context] definition and separation of colors

2010-11-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-11-2010 9:37, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: I stumpled upon a ambiguous color definition in my automatically generated documents: \definecolor[Custom][c=0,m=1,y=0,k=0,r=0,g=0,b=0,] you should not mix definitions (so, either cmyk or rgb or g of h of hsv keys) It seems that in ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] cjk texts in the pdf file which MkIV output sometimes can not be copy rightly

2010-11-16 Thread 李延瑞
2010/9/20 Li Yanrui (李延瑞) liyanrui...@gmail.com: 2010/9/10 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com: On 09/10/2010 02:32 PM, Li Yanrui (李延瑞) wrote: 2010/9/10 Li Yanrui (李延瑞)liyanrui...@gmail.com: Hi all, For the pdf file which is generated frome the following example, two Chinese characters can

[NTG-context] outdated tiptrick.pdf in TL

2010-11-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hans, after reading Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX and http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5405/switching-to-context-minimals-missing-last-step-for-mactex-2010 I have realized that there is almost a sigle file under ConTeXt documentation in TeX Live:

Re: [NTG-context] Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

2010-11-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear Andrew, Sorry for top-posting, just a few remarks: - I don't see anything basically wrong with your procedure. - I didn't try it yet, but after Taco released luatex 0.64.0 somebody already pointed out that the current version of ConTeXt is not compatible with the latest version of LuaTeX.

[NTG-context] Zooming in to a specific part of the page

2010-11-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, Is it possible to zoom into a specific part of the page? I am thinking of the following scenario. Suppose I have the following document \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \starttext \placefigure[right,none]{\externalfigure[dummy][width=0.3\textwidth]} \input knuth \page \input tufte \stoptext I

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-16 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/11/17, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 16-11-2010 9:41, Peter Münster wrote: Layers or overlays are certainly the right method. But there is also the \position macro: So that is still used? (If so, I should look into optimizing and cleanup as it's real old code). Seems like a feature

Re: [NTG-context] Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

2010-11-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: - Does it help if you replace ~ with /Users/yourname in texmfcnf.lua? During the ConTeXt conference (and that was more recent than the current version of ConTeXt) the tilde didn't expand properly in some cases and I'm still not sure if it works

Re: [NTG-context] Zooming in to a specific part of the page

2010-11-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:52, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, Is it possible to zoom into a specific part of the page? I am thinking of the following scenario. Suppose I have the following document \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] Zooming in to a specific part of the page

2010-11-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:52, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, Is it possible to zoom into a specific part of the page? I am thinking of the following scenario. Suppose I have the following document \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \starttext

[NTG-context] Stepping mechanism in MkIV

2010-11-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Hans, The current stepping mechanism (s-pre-60) is not too convinient because you have to click the screen to go to next screen. It will be nice if one could go to next screen using page down (and to previous screen using page up). Another annoyance is that it only works with acroread and

Re: [NTG-context] Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

2010-11-16 Thread Andrew Starks
First off, let me say that you all are the nicest set of developers and project team members I have ever seen! If I had asked our developers about an issue in an alpha build, they would have told me where to go while raising a particular finger in an effort to say what, I think, is something like,