Re: [NTG-context] Is fine-grained grid control possible?

2013-04-20 Thread Tom Ellis
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:58:47AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Ellis wrote: I asked a question on tex.stackoverflow, and it was suggested ConTeXt could help and that I should repost my question here.

Re: [NTG-context] Is fine-grained grid control possible?

2013-04-20 Thread Tom Ellis
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 02:13:44PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Ellis wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:58:47AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Tom Ellis wrote: Is ConTeX a good fit for my needs? How could I do it? Here are some examples of

[NTG-context] use plain LuaTeX in ConTeXt standalone

2013-04-20 Thread Tim Li
Hi, many context users are also luatex user, and the context standalone also contains luatex binary (windows). I input the 'luatex' in the cmd, but it can't work. The message is as follows: d:\luatex luatex This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.77.0-2013041621 (rev 4633) \write18 enabled. **\relax I

Re: [NTG-context] use plain LuaTeX in ConTeXt standalone

2013-04-20 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–04–20 Tim Li wrote: Hi, many context users are also luatex user, and the context standalone also contains luatex binary (windows). I input the 'luatex' in the cmd, but it can't work. The message is as follows: d:\luatex luatex This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.77.0-2013041621 (rev

Re: [NTG-context] use plain LuaTeX in ConTeXt standalone

2013-04-20 Thread Tim Li
Marco, many thanks. By the way, how can I load the `luatex-plain.fmt` by default when typing luatex somefile.tex? Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:05:25 +0200 From: home...@lavabit.com To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re: [NTG-context] use plain LuaTeX in ConTeXt standalone On 2013�C04�C20 Tim Li

Re: [NTG-context] use plain LuaTeX in ConTeXt standalone

2013-04-20 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–04–20 Tim Li wrote: Marco, many thanks. By the way, how can I load the `luatex-plain.fmt` by default when typing luatex somefile.tex? TeX checks for a format which is named the same as the binary. You can create a link: ln -s /path/to/binary/luatex luatex-plain and then call

Re: [NTG-context] use plain LuaTeX in ConTeXt standalone

2013-04-20 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/20/2013 12:05 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: On 2013–04–20 Tim Li wrote: Hi, many context users are also luatex user, and the context standalone also contains luatex binary (windows). I input the 'luatex' in the cmd, but it can't work. The message is as follows: d:\luatex luatex This is

Re: [NTG-context] use plain LuaTeX in ConTeXt standalone

2013-04-20 Thread Tim Li
Yeah, I found that just now, so I changed luatex-plain.fmt to luatex.fmt. I try to move the new luatex.fmt to some directory in the ConTeXt standalone, but it seems that the kpathsea can't find my luatex.fmt. Tim Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:37:19 +0200 From: home...@lavabit.com To:

Re: [NTG-context] use plain LuaTeX in ConTeXt standalone

2013-04-20 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–04–20 Hans Hagen wrote: 1) Create a file “luatex-plain.tex” with the following context: \input plain \directlua {tex.enableprimitives('', tex.extraprimitives())} \pdfoutput=1 \everyjob \expandafter {% \the\everyjob \input luatex-basics\relax \input

Re: [NTG-context] use plain LuaTeX in ConTeXt standalone

2013-04-20 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/20/2013 12:43 PM, Tim Li wrote: Yeah, I found that just now, so I changed luatex-plain.fmt to luatex.fmt. I try to move the new luatex.fmt to some directory in the ConTeXt standalone, but it seems that the kpathsea can't find my luatex.fmt. I'll add this mtxrun --script plain --make

[NTG-context] rotated placetable

2013-04-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hello, On October 1, 2010 Mojca asked about inserting a rotated page content (landscape) in an otherwise portrait document, keeping the headers and footers upright. The suggested solution was essentially \rotate [rotation=90] {\startTEXpage [width=\textheight,height=\textwidth]

Re: [NTG-context] rotated placetable

2013-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 20.04.2013 um 13:59 schrieb Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr: Hello, On October 1, 2010 Mojca asked about inserting a rotated page content (landscape) in an otherwise portrait document, keeping the headers and footers upright. The suggested solution was essentially \rotate

Re: [NTG-context] stoppers in section heading without having stoppers in references?

2013-04-20 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Thank you, that worked perfectly -- now wikified on the References page. -Sanjoy ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] rotated placetable

2013-04-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:24:25 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: \startplacetable[location={page,90},title=Table caption] … \stopplacetable Thank you Wolfgang! I find it necessary to do the following: \startplacetable [location={page,90},title=Table caption]

Re: [NTG-context] Kile for ConTeXt

2013-04-20 Thread Prashanth
Being lazy, I'll copy-paste an answer I wrote elsewhere: I use Kile. I found a syntax highlighter at KDE-files.org. I modified it based on the LaTeX highlighting file to (1) allow spell-checking only in text sections and (2) show section* headings in bold. I prefer to use the extensions,

Re: [NTG-context] rotated placetable

2013-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 20.04.2013 um 15:35 schrieb Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr: On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:24:25 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: \startplacetable[location={page,90},title=Table caption] … \stopplacetable Thank you Wolfgang! I find it necessary to do the

Re: [NTG-context] rotated placetable

2013-04-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:09:45 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: This is nonsense because \startTEXpage … \stopTEXpage is supposed to create a standalone page on your document where you can control the width/height of the page. It seemed to me to be a strange use of

[NTG-context] Hyphenation documentation

2013-04-20 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello all, I've just pulled together some questions of mine and their answers, and written them up into a hyphenation QA. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Hyphenation http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definebreakpoint Unfortunately, there are still some holes in the documentation I wrote.