Re: [NTG-context] how to insert symbols into document?

2015-04-18 Thread Csikos Bela
Wolfgang Schuster írta: Am 13.04.2015 um 01:29 schrieb Csikos Bela: LONG CUT - See previous messages Otared, Wolfgang: Thank you for your suggestions. The symbols in the file symb-imp-mis.mkiv are loaded by default because context uses them for the itemise environment but a few of them have

Re: [NTG-context] imposition not working in latest beta

2015-04-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 04/18/2015 01:39 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/18/2015 12:18 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: [...] It doesn’t work with (.log file attached): contextjit --extra=arrange --printformat=2UP --paperformat=A4*A3,landscape a.pdf unrelated ... this is a forgotten argument in luat-ini.mkiv:

Re: [NTG-context] how to insert symbols into document?

2015-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2015 um 13:51 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/18/2015 1:21 PM, Csikos Bela wrote: Before answering I wanted to find out how to make this fallback: Using a given font and fall back to only one (or a few) specific characters in another font. For example using Tex Gyre

Re: [NTG-context] how to insert symbols into document?

2015-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2015 um 13:21 schrieb Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu: When you need characters like the mentioned losenge you should better look for a font which contains it and create a new typeface for it or set a fallback font which add the characters to the main font of your document.

Re: [NTG-context] how to insert symbols into document?

2015-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/18/2015 4:09 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 18.04.2015 um 13:51 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/18/2015 1:21 PM, Csikos Bela wrote: Before answering I wanted to find out how to make this fallback: Using a given font and fall back to only one (or a few)

Re: [NTG-context] Howto typeset physical half-life

2015-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/18/2015 11:28 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 23:51:56 +0200 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Anyway, I've added a checker so that at least it gets reported (assuming the use of one math collection): mkiv lua stats unknown math characters: ½ (U+000BD) (n=3) This will be

Re: [NTG-context] imposition not working in latest beta

2015-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/18/2015 12:18 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: On 04/17/2015 12:22 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/16/2015 11:21 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Hans, I’m afraid that imposition is not working with latest beta. indeed, also side effect of the mp upgrade .. fixed in next beta Many thanks for your

Re: [NTG-context] Hidden chapter header? ... was: Change counter of chapters

2015-04-18 Thread Jaroslav Hajtmar
Thanks Pablo  for workable solutions. Both solutions are working, as I imagined. Anyway, fortunately I do not work with Word itself, but for example. Colleagues, friends and acquaintances. It is sometimes necessary make something  in ConTeXt when Word is not enough on it. So fortunately there is

Re: [NTG-context] how to insert symbols into document?

2015-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/18/2015 1:21 PM, Csikos Bela wrote: Wolfgang Schuster írta: Am 13.04.2015 um 01:29 schrieb Csikos Bela: LONG CUT - See previous messages Otared, Wolfgang: Thank you for your suggestions. The symbols in the file symb-imp-mis.mkiv are loaded by default because context uses them for

[NTG-context] vertical spacing and makeups

2015-04-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Dear list, I have the following sample: \showgrid \setupinteraction[option=max] \setuppapersize[S6] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \setupbodyfont[100pt] \setupwhitespace[big] \startsetups[setups:slides] \setupwhitespace[big] \stopsetups

Re: [NTG-context] A macro which gives a random name

2015-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2015 um 18:55 schrieb Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com: Hi everyone, In the example below I define a macro which chooses at random a name from a list of names. But I wonder whether this can be done in a more clever way without using a numerical macro created with math.random in

Re: [NTG-context] vertical spacing and makeups

2015-04-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 04/18/2015 07:15 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 18.04.2015 um 18:43 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez: [...] The first page shows that \setupwhitespace[big] affects to a single line in a makeup. Shouldn’t white space be added only between paragraphs? The second page is right vertically centered.

[NTG-context] A macro which gives a random name

2015-04-18 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi everyone, In the example below I define a macro which chooses at random a name from a list of names. But I wonder whether this can be done in a more clever way without using a numerical macro created with math.random in Lua. The shortcoming of the macro below is that before hand I must know

Re: [NTG-context] vertical spacing and makeups

2015-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2015 um 18:43 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez oi...@gmx.es: Dear list, I have the following sample: \showgrid \setupinteraction[option=max] \setuppapersize[S6] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \setupbodyfont[100pt] \setupwhitespace[big]

Re: [NTG-context] Hidden chapter header? ... was: Change counter of chapters

2015-04-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 04/18/2015 12:34 PM, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: Thanks Pablo for workable solutions. Both solutions are working, as I imagined. Anyway, fortunately I do not work with Word itself, but for example. Colleagues, friends and acquaintances. It is sometimes necessary make something in ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] A macro which gives a random name

2015-04-18 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for your attention, but the problem with your solution is that each instance of \RandomFunctionName changes the name chosen, but I need something wihich remains the same name within a given situation (say each problem) but changes from problem to problem. For instance

Re: [NTG-context] A macro which gives a random name

2015-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/18/2015 10:24 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi again Wolfgang, Thanks to your hint, I could solve the problem… In case someone else would encounter a similar problem to solve, below is a macro which chooses an element from a list, it creates a control sequence (CS) containing that element and

Re: [NTG-context] A macro which gives a random name

2015-04-18 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi again Wolfgang, Thanks to your hint, I could solve the problem… In case someone else would encounter a similar problem to solve, below is a macro which chooses an element from a list, it creates a control sequence (CS) containing that element and it keeps the CS until the next time the macro

Re: [NTG-context] Caption location with vertical \startplacefigure

2015-04-18 Thread Rik
On 2015-04-16 23:12, Rik Kabel wrote: How can I get the caption for the vertical figures (figures 2 and 4 in the example) aligned below the figures with the caption width limited to the figure width? Sorry for the noise -- I am sure I am missing something simple, but I cannot find it at this

Re: [NTG-context] Howto typeset physical half-life

2015-04-18 Thread Christian Prim
Hi Hans thanks for the checker, that surely helps. So I could find a solution (perhaps not the best) for my problem: \m{T_{\text{½}}} Thanks again Christian 2015-04-17 23:51 GMT+02:00 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/17/2015 9:41 PM, Christian Prim wrote: Hi a year or so before one could

Re: [NTG-context] Hidden chapter header? ... was: Change counter of chapters

2015-04-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 04/18/2015 07:22 AM, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: Hello ConTeXist My last Subject contribution maybe so misleading that it nobody react. I'll try therefore to bring different view: Exist any possibility of creating some kind of hidden chapters (sections, subsections)? The command would

Re: [NTG-context] Howto typeset physical half-life

2015-04-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 23:51:56 +0200 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Anyway, I've added a checker so that at least it gets reported (assuming the use of one math collection): mkiv lua stats unknown math characters: ½ (U+000BD) (n=3) This will be quite useful. A question in general for the

Re: [NTG-context] imposition not working in latest beta

2015-04-18 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 04/17/2015 12:22 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/16/2015 11:21 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Hans, I’m afraid that imposition is not working with latest beta. indeed, also side effect of the mp upgrade .. fixed in next beta Many thanks for your fix, Hans. I’m afraid that it only works with the