Re: [NTG-context] Getting width of text to be typeset

2020-05-22 Thread Rik Kabel
On 5/22/2020 18:18, Hans Hagen wrote: On 5/23/2020 12:03 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 5/22/2020 11:22 AM, cont...@vivaldi.net wrote: Hello, is it possible to get somehow the width of the "material" (box?) of the current line which is "ready" to be typeset? See the case: \starttext   

Re: [NTG-context] Wiki - Proposal to update the Welcome page

2020-05-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 22 May 2020, Garulfo wrote: Hi all, thanks for your encouraging feedbacks. 1/ Concerning the Manuals Page - As proposed, "obsolete banners" are added to thumbnails of the oldest manuals. Looks good. A few minor comments: I haven't tested it, but the natural tables in

Re: [NTG-context] Getting width of text to be typeset

2020-05-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/23/2020 12:03 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 5/22/2020 11:22 AM, cont...@vivaldi.net wrote: Hello, is it possible to get somehow the width of the "material" (box?) of the current line which is "ready" to be typeset? See the case: \starttext    some text    pqrs % Here I need to get

Re: [NTG-context] Wiki - Proposal to update the Welcome page

2020-05-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/22/2020 11:42 PM, Garulfo wrote: Hi all, thanks for your encouraging feedbacks. 1/ Concerning the Manuals Page    - As proposed, "obsolete banners" are added to thumbnails  of the oldest manuals.    - About providing zips of manuals per topics: maybe we could just add a

Re: [NTG-context] Getting width of text to be typeset

2020-05-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/22/2020 11:22 AM, cont...@vivaldi.net wrote: Hello, is it possible to get somehow the width of the "material" (box?) of the current line which is "ready" to be typeset? See the case: \starttext   some text   pqrs % Here I need to get width (or content) of the text from the

[NTG-context] Wiki - Proposal to update the Welcome page

2020-05-22 Thread Garulfo
Hi all, thanks for your encouraging feedbacks. 1/ Concerning the Manuals Page - As proposed, "obsolete banners" are added to thumbnails of the oldest manuals. - About providing zips of manuals per topics: maybe we could just add a index.html in the distribution structure, to

[NTG-context] List of language-specific hyphenation commands

2020-05-22 Thread Jairo A. del Rio
Hi everybody! I've read about some commands which allow hyphenation according to an specific language in ConTeXt, e.g. \french{word} for French hyphenation in a text the main language of which is Spanish, English, etc. Unlike \language[code], I couldn't find any extensive list of those commands,

Re: [NTG-context] output file name query

2020-05-22 Thread Rik Kabel
On 5/22/2020 11:39, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 22.05.2020 um 15:09 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster : Alan Bowen schrieb am 22.05.2020 um 14:33: In my project, I process a single product file by enabling various modes. What I would like to do is to vary the name of the output PDF file in each

[NTG-context] Columns: rule=on not working?

2020-05-22 Thread context
Hello, the following code doesn't produce vertical rule between columns: \starttext \startsimplecolumns[n=2,rule=on] \input knuth \stopsimplecolumns \blank \startcolumns[rule=on] \input knuth \column \input knuth \stopcolumns \stoptext My fault? Bug? Best

Re: [NTG-context] output file name query

2020-05-22 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
> Am 22.05.2020 um 15:09 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster > : > > Alan Bowen schrieb am 22.05.2020 um 14:33: >> In my project, I process a single product file by enabling various modes. >> What I would like to do is to vary the name of the output PDF file in each >> instance. >> So, in processing a

Re: [NTG-context] Text to be placed into the free space after columns and end of the page

2020-05-22 Thread context
Hello Aditya, thanks for all your answers. You were right - my minimalist sample was not very suitable, and my real sample can be successfuly handled with \startnarrower. Thanks again for your time. Best regards, Lukas On 2020-05-21 10:52, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2020,

[NTG-context] Getting width of text to be typeset

2020-05-22 Thread context
Hello, is it possible to get somehow the width of the "material" (box?) of the current line which is "ready" to be typeset? See the case: \starttext some text pqrs % Here I need to get width (or content) of the text from the begin of the current line, % i.e. width of the

Re: [NTG-context] Columns: rule=on not working?

2020-05-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
cont...@vivaldi.net schrieb am 22.05.2020 um 14:54: Hello, the following code doesn't produce vertical rule between columns: \starttext   \startsimplecolumns[n=2,rule=on]     \input knuth   \stopsimplecolumns   \blank   \startcolumns[rule=on]     \input knuth     \column    

Re: [NTG-context] output file name query

2020-05-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Alan Bowen schrieb am 22.05.2020 um 14:33: In my project, I process a single product file by enabling various modes. What I would like to do is to vary the name of the output PDF file in each instance. So, in processing a file, how does one go directly from prd_filename.tex to myfilename.pdf

[NTG-context] output file name query

2020-05-22 Thread Alan Bowen
In my project, I process a single product file by enabling various modes. What I would like to do is to vary the name of the output PDF file in each instance. So, in processing a file, how does one go directly from prd_filename.tex to myfilename.pdf rather than to prd_filename.pdf—assuming that

Re: [NTG-context] Proposal to update the "Manuals" wiki page

2020-05-22 Thread Jan Willem Flamma
This is great work. Many thanks! Kind regards,Jan Willem Flamma From: GarulfoSent: Tuesday, 19 May 2020 15:23To: ntg-context@ntg.nlSubject: [NTG-context] Proposal to update the "Manuals" wiki page Hi, I hope you're all doing well. Please, you will find a proposal to update the Manuals page on the