Re: [NTG-context] State of documentation of ConTeXt?

2014-07-16 Thread Gour
Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: (and the context mailing list is one of the more active tex related lists and not the smallest either) I believe this is part of the problem as well of the solution - there is so much knowledge scattered in different posts here and if it could be put into

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: criterium=all

2014-07-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/16/2014 2:20 AM, Flavien Lambert wrote: Thanks Hans, I am really sorry but I still do not get any entry printed (I followed your explanation as well as p. 25 of mkiv-publications.pdf) \usebtxdataset[example][./mkiv-publications.bib] \definebtxrendering[dataset=example,method=dataset]

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: criterium=all

2014-07-16 Thread Flavien Lambert
Great! Thanks a lot! And concerning sorting by date? On 16 July 2014 15:33, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 7/16/2014 2:20 AM, Flavien Lambert wrote: Thanks Hans, I am really sorry but I still do not get any entry printed (I followed your explanation as well as p. 25 of

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: criterium=all

2014-07-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/16/2014 10:10 AM, Flavien Lambert wrote: Great! Thanks a lot! And concerning sorting by date? sorttype=author sorts by author,year,journal,title,page so what do you mean with 'by year' Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: criterium=all

2014-07-16 Thread Flavien Lambert
The sort by author is perfect. Thanks, F. On 16 Jul 2014 17:16, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 7/16/2014 10:10 AM, Flavien Lambert wrote: Great! Thanks a lot! And concerning sorting by date? sorttype=author sorts by author,year,journal,title,page so what do you mean with 'by year'

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: criterium=all

2014-07-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/16/2014 11:31 AM, Flavien Lambert wrote: The sort by author is perfect. fyi, sorting authors is kind of complex as we need to take all name elements into account (initials, firstnames, surnames, vons, juniors); of course there can be multiple authors; add to the extra axes year

[NTG-context] \head: broken?

2014-07-16 Thread Rob Heusdens
Hello All, Still having problem with \head in \setupitemize. - When I set the headstyle in \setupitemize, the numbering disappears and the symbol appear (like when I used '1' instead of 'n'). (ex. 1: MNWE) - If I comment the headstyle out, numbers do appear. (ex. 2: MWE). Why is that?

Re: [NTG-context] State of documentation of ConTeXt?

2014-07-16 Thread Rob Heusdens
I agree that it would be awesome if there was complete documentation available + maybe three manuals/tutorials from beginner to master, but you cannot expect it from Hans to do all the work on his own. Mojca I think that part of the work has to be done by other volunteers (users), who have

[NTG-context] interaction (mailto) query

2014-07-16 Thread Alan Bowen
To open a new email message in the user’s email client, I have \useURL [xxx] [mailto:x...@yyy.org] [] [{xxx}] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=blue] \starttext send email to \from[xxx] \stoptext This sets the address to which the message is to be sent. Is there a way to set the subject of

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: criterium=all

2014-07-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hans, Sorting simply by year (or, rather, year then author then title ...) could be useful. Take, for example, a pluriannual report having many references. One might wish to display a list of publications by year. Should this be selected using sorttype=year? Another possible syntax could be

Re: [NTG-context] interaction (mailto) query

2014-07-16 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Alan, Am 16.07.2014 13:27, schrieb Alan Bowen: To open a new email message in the user’s email client, I have \useURL [xxx] [mailto:x...@yyy.org mailto:x...@yyy.org] [mailto:x...@yyy.org?subject=foo] There are also 'body=' for the mail text and 'cc=' / 'bcc='. All worked well in a quick

Re: [NTG-context] State of documentation of ConTeXt?

2014-07-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Ah, the great documentation project! The problem concerning writing documentation is that it must be done by someone who knows ConTeXt well enough to know what to say or else know where to look or ask about subjects that are less well known to him or her. Many attempts at improving the

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: criterium=all

2014-07-16 Thread Rob Heusdens
Hello, This is more a 'side-comment', but anytime I see an application that wants in fact to query data from some dataresource, I ask myself: why is that not implemented as a real relational database? BibTex is some weird implementation for a problem that in facts requests a real relational

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: criterium=all

2014-07-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/16/2014 2:24 PM, Rob Heusdens wrote: Hello, This is more a 'side-comment', but anytime I see an application that wants in fact to query data from some dataresource, I ask myself: why is that not implemented as a real relational database? BibTex is some weird implementation for a problem

Re: [NTG-context] \head: broken?

2014-07-16 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 16.07.2014 um 13:07 schrieb Rob Heusdens robh...@xs4all.nl: Hello All, Still having problem with \head in \setupitemize. - When I set the headstyle in \setupitemize, the numbering disappears and the symbol appear (like when I used '1' instead of 'n'). (ex. 1: MNWE) - If I comment

Re: [NTG-context] interaction (mailto) query

2014-07-16 Thread Alan Bowen
Many thanks, Peter. This works well but only if I do not have spaces in the fields for “body=” etc. How did you get around this limitation? (I am running ConTeXt ver: 2014.07.11 12:20 MKIV beta.) All best, Alan On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote: On Wed, Jul

Re: [NTG-context] State of documentation of ConTeXt?

2014-07-16 Thread Russ Urquhart
I have been a tech writer for more than 25 years. I have been using and learning Context for the last few years. I would agree with everyone in thanking Hans and everyone else for this great product and it's support. It's been mentioned that the source is available to view. Is it possible that,

Re: [NTG-context] interaction (mailto) query

2014-07-16 Thread Werner Hintze
Just put \%20 for for a space: »A\%20subject\%20with\%20spaces« On 16 Jul 2014, at 16:55, Alan Bowen wrote: Many thanks, Peter. This works well but only if I do not have spaces in the fields for “body=” etc. How did you get around this limitation? (I am running ConTeXt ver: 2014.07.11

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: criterium=all

2014-07-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
BibTeX was one approach that is somewhat a standard. There are other bibliography database file formats such as EndNote, RIS, and many others. From an academic researcher's point of view, one practical point is the accessibility of bibliographical data. Many websites, both public as well as paying

Re: [NTG-context] State of documentation of ConTeXt?

2014-07-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/16/2014 5:08 PM, Russ Urquhart wrote: I have been a tech writer for more than 25 years. I have been using and learning Context for the last few years. I would agree with everyone in thanking Hans and everyone else for this great product and it's support. It's been mentioned that the

[NTG-context] macros names

2014-07-16 Thread Herbert Voss
There are \fillinline \fillinrules but \setupfillinlines \setupfillinrules Is it intended?? Herbert ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] State of documentation of ConTeXt?

2014-07-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 7/16/2014 5:08 PM, Russ Urquhart wrote: I have been a tech writer for more than 25 years. I have been using and learning Context for the last few years. I would agree with everyone in thanking Hans and everyone else for this

Re: [NTG-context] interaction (mailto) query

2014-07-16 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, Werner. That works perfectly. On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Werner Hintze w.hin...@posteo.eu wrote: Just put \%20 for for a space: »A\%20subject\%20with\%20spaces« On 16 Jul 2014, at 16:55, Alan Bowen wrote: Many thanks, Peter. This works well but only if I do not have spaces

Re: [NTG-context] macros names

2014-07-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/16/2014 5:22 PM, Herbert Voss wrote: There are \fillinline \fillinrules but \setupfillinlines \setupfillinrules Is it intended?? it's more historically (very old commands) ; we can add an alias if needed -

[NTG-context] For the Mac users: AppleScript to launch ConTeXt in a flexile way

2014-07-16 Thread Thomas Floeren
Hello, Some months ago I wrote a little AppleScript script with one purpose: It should be a flexible script to launch ConTeXt typesetting, independently of the text editor I’m using and it should be capable to typeset the Product file even if I’m currently editing any component file belonging