Re: [NTG-context] win64 : luatex is not recognize as an internal command

2016-05-25 Thread L.S.-Soc
Thanks a lot for clarifying this. Well I think it's great to keep CTX open for devs or experimental purposes. Imho the point is that the download section could use a slight tune up. In fact, to make the installation as easy as possible for new users, the main structure might be divided by

Re: [NTG-context] Buffered metapost function freezes random numbers

2016-05-25 Thread DesdeChaves
I found this solution in a old Hans post ( http://ntg-context.ntg.narkive.com/g0lT1D2A/scaling-mpgraphics) 2016-05-25 18:30 GMT+01:00 Wolfgang Schuster : > DesdeChaves > 25. Mai 2016 um 19:09 > For educational purposes I try to simulate a

Re: [NTG-context] Buffered metapost function freezes random numbers

2016-05-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
DesdeChaves 25. Mai 2016 um 19:09 For educational purposes I try to simulate a ammeter for reading practice. I would like create six or more ammeter with different readings, but i'm not able to do that because metapost create the same random number every time I

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Mac OS X installation

2016-05-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
There are a few subtleties to manage in order to install ConTeXt on Mac OS X. The 'setuptex' config is not the same as a Linux one. But documentation does exist on the Net. Just for information, the 'context --make' command process is as follow : system | total runtime: 7.429 seconds

[NTG-context] Buffered metapost function freezes random numbers

2016-05-25 Thread DesdeChaves
For educational purposes I try to simulate a ammeter for reading practice. I would like create six or more ammeter with different readings, but i'm not able to do that because metapost create the same random number every time I call the buffer that defines my ammeter. How can I fix that? Thanks

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Mac OS X installation

2016-05-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
I answer to myself, looking to 2008 mail-post here (it seems to be a recurring issue) : https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg32419.html - Mail original - De: "Jean-Pierre Delange" À: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Envoyé:

Re: [NTG-context] Underbar offset

2016-05-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hans Hagen 24. Mai 2016 um 14:19 On 5/24/2016 1:54 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hi, I would like to add a continuous underbar under a paragraph or a title as in: \setupbar [color=red,offset=10pt] \starttext \underbar{Test this \high{\tfxx ®}} \stoptext ... but I'm

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on Mac OS X installation

2016-05-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
Hi dear fellows, Trying to install ConTeXt on a virtual OS X Mavericks (with VMWare Workstation 12 Pro on Windows 10). 1. Downloading and install ConteXt Minimals simply in /Documents/context 2. In a Terminal : chmod +x first-setup.sh 3. Then : . first-setup.sh 4. After a while, downloading and

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting Kerning/Spacing between Letter

2016-05-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Meer, Hans van der 25. Mai 2016 um 09:44 I implemented it by redefining \tt: \definecharacterkerning[tight][factor=-.075] \let\oldtt=\tt \def\tt{\setcharacterkerning[tight]\oldtt} However, I find this a bit of a kludge. But opinions may differ, of course. Can this

Re: [NTG-context] win64 : luatex is not recognize as an internal command

2016-05-25 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
Hi Seba, 1) On Windows, I unzip context-setup-win64 in C:\[Users]/MyName/Documents/ConTeXt (or something alike, anywhere in C: or D:); 2) cd context/tex; then : context-setup.bat 3) There is no need to get Admin rights to launch context commands, but one has to be carefull before launching the

Re: [NTG-context] win64 : luatex is not recognize as an internal command

2016-05-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/25/2016 10:46 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Long time ago Hans asked me if we could switch to rsync from the MinGW project rather than the one based on cygwin's dll. (Then we probably both forgot about this.) it's more that we never decided on a moment of switching ... the updater should

Re: [NTG-context] win64 : luatex is not recognize as an internal command

2016-05-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 25 May 2016 at 00:48, L.S.-Soc wrote: > > There are three things which I don't fully understand either: > > 1. Why are there three files on " http://standalone.contextgarden.net/setup/ > " which is reachable via the " Download ConTeXt " link? > There are > > context-setup-mswin.zip 2016-05-23

Re: [NTG-context] index-register automatic sorting

2016-05-25 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Manuel Conzelmann wrote: > hi everybody, > > if i place a register at the end of my document its sorted by page numbers > and not alphabetically. someone has an idea how to achieve this (from A to > Z)? > > if it would be sorted alphabetically

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting Kerning/Spacing between Letter

2016-05-25 Thread Meer, Hans van der
> On 02 Jan 2015, at 11:42, Hans Hagen wrote: > > On 1/2/2015 12:56 AM, Malte Stien wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to typeset some strings in {\tt ...}, but they turn out to be >> pretty wide. So, I would like to compress those bits of text a little. Any >> hints on how I

[NTG-context] index-register automatic sorting

2016-05-25 Thread Manuel Conzelmann
hi everybody, if i place a register at the end of my document its sorted by page numbers and not alphabetically. someone has an idea how to achieve this (from A to Z)? if it would be sorted alphabetically there would be only one indicator per letter: A B C D E F G at the moment it

[NTG-context] register sorting

2016-05-25 Thread Manuel Conzelmann
hi everybody, if i place a register at the end of my document its sorted by page numbers and not alphabetically. someone has an idea how to achieve this (from A to Z)? if it would be sorted alphabetically there would be only one indicator per letter: A B C D E F G at the moment it