[NTG-context] Number formatting in \unit

2011-12-11 Thread Robin.Kirkham
All, I have put together some suggestions to extend the number formatting capability in \unit, particularly for scientific and engineering purposes, including basic support for tolerances and uncertainties. It is a bit long, so source is attached and a PDF is at

Re: [NTG-context] Number formatting in \unit

2011-12-11 Thread Xenia
Am 11.12.2011 11:25, schrieb robin.kirk...@csiro.au: All, I have put together some suggestions to extend the number formatting capability in \unit, particularly for scientific and engineering purposes, including basic support for tolerances and uncertainties. It is a bit long, so source

Re: [NTG-context] ∫ and $\intop$ is not displayed correctly compared to $\int$.

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
[My former message was not delivered and awaits moderator approval because it is bigger than 64 KB. I removed the PDF output using XITS.] Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2011, 23:52 +0200 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 15:06, Paul Menzel wrote: ConTeXt ver: 2011.05.18 22:26 MKIV fmt:

Re: [NTG-context] ∫ and $\intop$ is not displayed correctly compared to $\int$.

2011-12-11 Thread Philipp A.
apart from this IMHO very useful change (mapping to \int), maybe we should create a unicode-math module which replaces some commands with symbols. i find myself always using this for chemical and mathematical documents: \catcode`→=\active \def→{\xrightarrow} \catcode`↔=\active

Re: [NTG-context] ∫ and $\intop$ is not displayed correctly compared to $\int$.

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Sonntag, den 11.12.2011, 13:28 +0100 schrieb Philipp A.: apart from this IMHO very useful change (mapping to \int), maybe we should create a unicode-math module which replaces some commands with symbols. Do you mean symbols by commands? i find myself always using this for chemical and

[NTG-context] Arabic transliteration—ayn and alif (MKII)

2011-12-11 Thread Alan Bowen
What is the best way to produce ayn and alif in transliterated Arabic using MKII (Latin Modern)? ACB ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] ∫ and $\intop$ is not displayed correctly compared to $\int$.

2011-12-11 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Philipp A. wrote: apart from this IMHO very useful change (mapping to \int), maybe we should create a unicode-math module which replaces some commands with symbols. i find myself always using this for chemical and mathematical documents: \catcode`→=\active

Re: [NTG-context] Number formatting in \unit

2011-12-11 Thread Marco
On 2011-12-11 robin.kirk...@csiro.au wrote: Automatic thousands grouping (again with some style variants) My main objection is that one seems to have to insert thousands separators into the input oneself, which is rather unnatural; Context could and should do this itself.

Re: [NTG-context] ∫ and $\intop$ is not displayed correctly compared to $\int$.

2011-12-11 Thread Philipp A.
wow, there is really much magic going on in context. one reason why i love it. i once wrote a script that showed some nice little gui for a similar file (i.e. xkb/symbols/??) that displayed the characters on a grid similar to the keyboard layout and allowed displaying of the different layers. i

Re: [NTG-context] bug with \setuplayout[setups=*strict]?

2011-12-11 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 12/09/2011 05:27 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 8-12-2011 13:40, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: [...] Is there no other way to avoid orphan and widow lines? I need it urgently. \startsetups [*lessstrict] \setup[*\s!reset] \widowpenalty =1000 \clubpenaltie =1000

Re: [NTG-context] orphan and widow lines

2011-12-11 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 12/09/2011 06:05 PM, Stefan Müller wrote: Hi, you can try (and experiment with) \clubpenalty=1 \widowpenalty=1 after \starttext. Thanks, Stefan. I didn't know that this only worked in the document itself (and not in the preamble). Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

[NTG-context] wider right margin when it shouldn't be

2011-12-11 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Hi there, compiling this document: \setuppapersize[A4] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=singlesided,location=middle] \starttext \showsetups \dorecurse{4}{\input dawkins \par \input knuth \par} \stoptext I should get the exact same length for left and right margin (defining margin as the total

Re: [NTG-context] wider right margin when it shouldn't be

2011-12-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 11.12.2011 um 17:57 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez: Hi there, compiling this document: \setuppapersize[A4] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=singlesided,location=middle] \starttext \showsetups \dorecurse{4}{\input dawkins \par \input knuth \par} \stoptext I should get the exact same

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic transliteration—ayn and alif (MKII)

2011-12-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Alan, On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:21:31 -0700, Alan Bowen bowenala...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best way to produce ayn and alif in transliterated Arabic using MKII (Latin Modern)? Why MkII? MkIV is much better for this. Anyway, the old approaches are obsolete, since LM now has the

[NTG-context] MetaFun: MetaPost example works with `mpost` but not embedded in ConTeXt: `! Redundant equation.`

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear ConTeXt folks, looking for graphics example and therefore searching the list I found the answer from David Arnold in the ntg-context list thread »OT: looking for metapost/fun examples« [1]. It is for plain MetaPost and works fine with `mpost` after making sure to remove the line breaks

[NTG-context] MnSymbol (math) support in ConTeXt

2011-12-11 Thread Peter Park Nelson
Hello, I have been developing a new layout environment using Adobe Minion Pro for the main body font. My document will include a significant number of math formulas. I found a thread from earlier this year on the possibility of adding support for the LaTeX MnSymbol font package in ConTeXt, and

[NTG-context] gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mojca and ConTeXt folks, I compiled gnuplot 4.5 from source (master) and got everything running. Mojca, thank you so much! Trying the example from the gnuplot page in the Wiki [1] \usemodule[gnuplot] \setupGNUPLOT[terminal=mp,option=color] %

Re: [NTG-context] MetaFun: MetaPost example works with `mpost` but not embedded in ConTeXt: `! Redundant equation.`

2011-12-11 Thread Marco
On 2011-12-11 Paul Menzel paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: […] I then copied it into `\{start,stop}useMPgraphic`, removed the `end ;` and `{begin,end}fig` and replaced `{e,b}tex` by `textext()` but still get the following error. I didn't check you code (try to make a

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %

2011-12-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 00:51, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Mojca and ConTeXt folks, I compiled gnuplot 4.5 from source (master) and got everything running. Mojca, thank you so much! Trying the example from the gnuplot page in the Wiki [1]        \usemodule[gnuplot]        

[NTG-context] mptopdf and btex ... etex (was: gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %)

2011-12-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:02, Mojca Miklavec wrote: ... however I still have some problems. For some reason ConTeXt only generates dvi files from metapost code which has never been the case before. I need to figure out what is going on. Ouch. mtxrun mptopdf gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.mp MPtoPDF

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %

2011-12-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 00:51, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear Mojca and ConTeXt folks, I compiled gnuplot 4.5 from source (master) and got everything running. Mojca, thank you so much! Trying the example from the gnuplot page in the Wiki [1]        \usemodule[gnuplot]        

Re: [NTG-context] Number formatting in \unit

2011-12-11 Thread Robin Kirkham
On 11 December 2011, Xenia yor...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 11.12.2011 11:25, schrieb robin.kirk...@csiro.au: All, I have put together some suggestions to extend the number formatting capability in \unit, particularly for scientific and engineering purposes, including basic support for

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 01:02 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 00:51, Paul Menzel wrote: I compiled gnuplot 4.5 from source (master) and got everything running. Mojca, thank you so much! Trying the example from the gnuplot page in the Wiki [1]

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %

2011-12-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:20, Paul Menzel wrote: Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 01:02 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: ... however I still have some problems. For some reason ConTeXt only generates dvi files from metapost code which has never been the case before. I need to figure out what is going

[NTG-context] [solved] gnuplot: mpost: Not writing to .log (openout_any = p). (was: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %)

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 01:20 +0100 schrieb Paul Menzel: […] I am also getting other errors now and even moving the ConTeXt file to a new directory I keep getting this error from `mpost`. fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1]

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 01:13 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 00:51, Paul Menzel wrote: I compiled gnuplot 4.5 from source (master) and got everything running. Mojca, thank you so much! Trying the example from the gnuplot page in the Wiki [1]

[NTG-context] gnuplot module

2011-12-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
(was: gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %) (sorry, but it was too long to keep it all in title :) On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:30, Paul Menzel wrote: Thank you for the follow up. I just blindly copied the example from the Wiki and did not pay any attention. In my

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot module

2011-12-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 12.12.2011, 01:40 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: (was: gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %) (sorry, but it was too long to keep it all in title :) On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:30, Paul Menzel wrote: Thank you for the follow up. I just blindly