Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12-12-2010 7:43, Alan BRASLAU wrote: I do not like/use forums, as they require going to some web site and choosing a category, often badly structured, and thus opaque. Would a ConTeXt forum present any advantages over the mailing list? Not for me as I have no time to keep eyes on forums

Re: [NTG-context] How to us hvdm-exm.tex

2010-12-13 Thread Hans van der Meer
Jason, If it is not found, then one can only conclude it is not on your TeX-path. Try first to put the modules in the directory where also your primary source is. Hans van der Meer On 12 dec 2010, at 16:44, Jason Stein wrote: Hello everyone. I am new to ConTeXt, but a frequent LaTeX

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 12/13/2010 09:27 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 12-12-2010 7:43, Alan BRASLAU wrote: I do not like/use forums, as they require going to some web site and choosing a category, often badly structured, and thus opaque. Would a ConTeXt forum present any advantages over the mailing list? Not for me

Re: [NTG-context] How to us hvdm-exm.tex

2010-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12-12-2010 4:44, Jason Stein wrote: Hello everyone. I am new to ConTeXt, but a frequent LaTeX user. I have got ConTeXt to compile simple text documents, and want to try to use the hvdm-exm.tex package (or module?) from http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/ When I try to load it with \usemodule I get

Re: [NTG-context] winter cleanup in the wiki

2010-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-12-2010 1:50, Jonas Stein wrote: Hi, there are (were) many duplicate installation pages in the wiki. I merged some and deleted a lot duplicate stuff. The work is not finished yet. i created a new category in the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:deleteme These articles are

[NTG-context] Minimal ConTeXt and texfont!

2010-12-13 Thread Verhaag, G.C.H.M.
Hi, I've removed my old TeXLive installation from my Linux box, an decided to start using ConTeXt only! So, I installed the ConTeXt minimals (from contextgarden) and everything seems to work just fine, but.. I want to try to install some new fonts and it is common practice to use texfont

Re: [NTG-context] writebetweenlist regression (mkiv)

2010-12-13 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 08.11.2010 um 23:03 schrieb Marco: Hello there. Currently \writebetweenlist doesn't work as advised. It inserts the argument before the last entry of the list. The minimal example is provided by the reference itself. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/writebetweenlist

Re: [NTG-context] Minimal ConTeXt and texfont!

2010-12-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2010-12-13 um 10:27 schrieb Verhaag, G.C.H.M.: I've removed my old TeXLive installation from my Linux box, an decided to start using ConTeXt only! Congratulations! I want to try to install some new fonts and it is common practice to use texfont for that. ConTeXt comes with its own

Re: [NTG-context] bold small caps

2010-12-13 Thread Marco
On 2010-12-12 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Maybe it is possible that the \sc macro can check if the font contains the small caps as a feature. Is there a switch like \doiffontfeatureexists{smcp}{...}? \startluacode function

[NTG-context] Help Using \placetable and TABLE

2010-12-13 Thread barndog1946
I got the recodes for splitting loong tables and that works but: How can I get (continued) in the footer and get the table number within the caption to understand that the table is continued and NOT a NEW table? barney

[NTG-context] buffers and expansion order

2010-12-13 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Hi! Why the following doesn't work? \def\mybuf{\startbuffer[a]b\stopbuffer} \mybuf Actually, I need slightly more advanced command, but this is the minimal example. ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] buffers and expansion order

2010-12-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 13.12.2010 um 12:04 schrieb Yury G. Kudryashov: Hi! Why the following doesn't work? \def\mybuf{\startbuffer[a]b\stopbuffer} \def\mybuf{\setbuffer[a]b\endbuffer} Wolfgang ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Minimal ConTeXt and texfont!

2010-12-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:27, Verhaag, G.C.H.M. wrote: I want to try to install some new fonts and it is common practice to use texfont for that. ConTeXt comes with its own texfont, but when I type texfont at my linux-prompt, no texfont can be found? Do I need to install additional tools to

Re: [NTG-context] How to us hvdm-exm.tex

2010-12-13 Thread Jason Stein
After a little more digging, I found that the permissions of the hvdm files downloaded by TeX Live Utility were set to 700 (I don't know if this is the default for http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/ or just an oversight). I chmod them to 644 and everything works fine. Thanks for your responses. Jason

Re: [NTG-context] How to us hvdm-exm.tex

2010-12-13 Thread Hans van der Meer
My fault, they were indeed somewhat restricted -rwx- and that is unnecessary. Just too artless copied from their develop location to the distribution directory. Sorry for the hassles. Hans van der Meer On 13 dec 2010, at 14:06, Jason Stein wrote: After a little more digging, I found

Re: [NTG-context] Proposal for math mappings

2010-12-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Procházka Lukáš wrote: Hello, thanks for the deeper explanation - On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:28:55 +0100, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: I agree that digits, upper and lower case latin and greek does not capture all mathematic characters for which such mappings are

Re: [NTG-context] Minimal ConTeXt and texfont!

2010-12-13 Thread Verhaag, G.C.H.M.
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:27, Verhaag, G.C.H.M. wrote: I want to try to install some new fonts and it is common practice to use texfont for that. ConTeXt comes with its own texfont, but when I type texfont at my linux-prompt, no texfont can be found? Do I need to

Re: [NTG-context] Minimal ConTeXt and texfont!

2010-12-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2010-12-13 um 15:21 schrieb Verhaag, G.C.H.M.: I use the latest ConTeXt MkIV version on a Linux (kernel 2.4) based PC; so I use LuaTeX! Good, that's most easy for fonts. I understand that I don't need to use texfont when using ttf-fonts, with this version of ConTeXt. Right. But

[NTG-context] xml: test for attribute

2010-12-13 Thread Thomas Schmitz
Hi all, I thought I had done this and it was easy, but I can't find a solution: I want to test whether a xml tag has an attribute and vary the typeset content accordingly. There used to be \xmldoifelseempty, but that has been commented out (lxml-ini.mkiv). What else could I use? Here's a

Re: [NTG-context] xml: test for attribute

2010-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-12-2010 8:58, Thomas Schmitz wrote: Hi all, I thought I had done this and it was easy, but I can't find a solution: I want to test whether a xml tag has an attribute and vary the typeset content accordingly. There used to be \xmldoifelseempty, but that has been commented out

Re: [NTG-context] xml: test for attribute

2010-12-13 Thread Thomas Schmitz
Hans, thanks a lot! On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:17:23 +0100 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: something like this: \doifelse {\xmlatt{#1}{important}} {} { \color[darkblue]{EMPTY: \xmlflush{#1}} } { \color[darkred]{NOTEMPTY: \xmlatt{#1}{important}} } \par Yes, this works! or (untested):

Re: [NTG-context] writebetweenlist regression (mkiv)

2010-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-12-2010 11:20, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Am 08.11.2010 um 23:03 schrieb Marco: Hello there. Currently \writebetweenlist doesn't work as advised. It inserts the argument before the last entry of the list. The minimal example is provided by the reference itself.

Re: [NTG-context] winter cleanup in the wiki

2010-12-13 Thread Jonas Stein
there are (were) many duplicate installation pages in the wiki. I merged some and deleted a lot duplicate stuff. The work is not finished yet. i created a new category in the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:deleteme These articles are merged to others and no longer needed.

Re: [NTG-context] installation on debian testing

2010-12-13 Thread Jonas Stein
within the time Norbert Preining prepared a new .deb package including context (2010.07.30-1) its status is experimental for now. There will be context 2009 in debian 6.0 stable. So this might be a good solution for most debian users for the next months (or years). i have just testet it on

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-13 Thread Jonas Stein
wondering why there ist no forum for Context. I spend a lot of time getting into new themes, and I always like the functions of forums. What functions do you miss? Have you tried the gmane mirror? You can configure your newsreader to be coloured like a forum. Some even support to exchange

Re: [NTG-context] New ConText Group

2010-12-13 Thread Jonas Stein
We are proud to announce that the ConTeXt community has its own users-organisation. congratulations! -- Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

[NTG-context] how to insert a imagefile like a letter?

2010-12-13 Thread Jonas Stein
bell.pdf provides a small bell in black and white as vectordrawing i'd like to get that bell in height of the current letter f on the position where i type \bell my first test with \externalfigure[bell][width=1em] creates a bell with lentgh of 1em... but

Re: [NTG-context] winter cleanup in the wiki

2010-12-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de wrote: there are (were) many duplicate installation pages in the wiki. I merged some and deleted a lot duplicate stuff. The work is not finished yet. i created a new category in the wiki:

[NTG-context] issue with \usesymbols[mvs]

2010-12-13 Thread views63
Hi all, I use the way from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Symbols, but It is not working. It has the marvosym (type1 fonts) In the context tds. ~ $ luatools marvosym.pfb /opt/context/tex/texmf/fonts/type1/public/marvosym/marvosym.pfb I have to use the marvosym.ttf ? OR How can I do? thanks.

Re: [NTG-context] winter cleanup in the wiki

2010-12-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/pdftex.cfg said: There's no more pdftex.cfg since TDS 2004! I tagged pages like this one with deleteme But what is the best solution for them? Has this Wiki a Merge function to save the history? Should we empty and unlink them? Delete them? Wiki