Re: [NTG-context] texfont fails for font Cataneo BoldSwash

2008-06-30 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Andreas Schneider wrote: B expected: ! syntax error C 83 ; WX 495 ; N S ; B-78 -137 458 637 ; What causes the error? How can I correct it? The AFM file of the font is invalid. There should be a space between the B and the -78. thanks a lot, I corrected

Re: [NTG-context] texfont fails for font Cataneo BoldSwash

2008-06-30 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, Am Montag, 30. Juni 2008 17:25:32 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Andreas Schneider wrote: Is this another error in the AFM file? Yes. The Format is KPX leftchar rightchar kerning with spaces inbetween. I suspect it needs a space between A and T. thanks again. Inserting a space

[NTG-context] Validate (cross)references

2011-05-27 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, if I use \in, \about, \at or anything else that generates a cross-reference, and that reference happens to be invalid (typo or whatever), it just prints out nothing. Is there a way to have context throw an error if a reference is invalid? (That probably would only

Re: [NTG-context] Validate (cross)references

2011-05-27 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Friday, May 27, 2011 17:09 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 27.05.2011 um 17:04 schrieb Andreas Schneider: Hello, if I use \in, \about, \at or anything else that generates a cross-reference, and that reference happens to be invalid (typo or whatever), it just prints out

[NTG-context] Modules inside project structure

2011-06-13 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, I'm currently trying to split our ConTeXt project into smaller parts, utilizing the ConTeXt project structure. I thought it might be a good idea to also extract reusable parts into private modules. Now I face the problem, that I can't find an optimal spot to place these modules.

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography is not working

2011-06-25 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Friday, June 24, 2011 20:16 yoraxe wrote: I got the following error message: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2011) The top-level auxiliary file: bibtest.aux I couldn't open style file cont-no.bst ---line 2 of file bibtest.aux : \bibstyle{cont-no : } I'm

Re: [NTG-context] bib module (again)

2011-07-07 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Thursday, July 7, 2011 22:41 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi Stefan, thanks for the note. Unfortunately Andreas' module doesn't work anymore. I had a correspondence with him on that in April this year: he could reproduce the error, but had no idea what the reason might be, resp. what changes

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-15 Thread Andreas Schneider
At Friday, 15.07.2011 on 10:17 Cecil Westerhof wrote: Properly that anybody that knows how to write a document in Microsoft Office can change the document. So standard software, with a low learning curve. I had some problems getting them to accept to use Adobe. And now that turns out to be not

Re: [NTG-context] resolvers.findctxfile broken

2011-07-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:22 Hans Hagen wrote: On 19-7-2011 11:06, Andreas Schneider wrote: Hi, since one of the latest beta, resolvers.findctxfiles is broken. The attached example used to work (see test3.working.log) while the new beta fails (see test3.failed.log). fixed in next

Re: [NTG-context] minimals: How to prevent that core and modules become incompatible?

2011-07-25 Thread Andreas Schneider
At Monday, 25.07.2011 on 12:31 Paul Menzel wrote: Thanks, but I think this was not the problem at my end. `~/.first-setup.sh` is still the one from January, so `extras` worked for me. The parameters (and the actual update process) are handled by bin/mtx-update.lua which is one of the first

[NTG-context] filter and/or vim module in current beta

2011-08-26 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, it seems the filter module doesn't currently work (in MkIV at least). It may be a problem with the vim module though, I'm not quite sure. The following example doesn't produce any output: -8--- \usemodule[vim]

Re: [NTG-context] filter and/or vim module in current beta

2011-08-26 Thread Andreas Schneider
On 26.08.2011 21:33, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Are you using the latest version (2011.08.23) of the filter module? The empty filter is due to a change in the how the context namespacing macros work and I fixed this a couple of days ago. I updated via first-setup/minimals, so I hope so. But I'll

Re: [NTG-context] filter and/or vim module in current beta

2011-08-28 Thread Andreas Schneider
On 27.08.2011 09:02, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Fixed. Download t-vim and t-syntax-highlight from the dev branch at github. https://github.com/adityam/filter/tree/dev I'll upload a new version later. Thanks! The vimout file is now created and seems to be correct. There are still some problems,

Re: [NTG-context] filter and/or vim module in current beta

2011-08-28 Thread Andreas Schneider
On 27.08.2011 15:52, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Andreas Schneider wrote: ... Currently, pscolor doesn't seem to work as color scheme which renders a default vimtyping environment (like my initial example) unhighlighted. Using blackandwhite works. Fixed. Again, was due

Re: [NTG-context] filter and/or vim module in current beta

2011-08-29 Thread Andreas Schneider
On 28.08.2011 21:58, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Andreas Schneider wrote: Shouldn't it detect changes to the buffer through the md5 sum? What I meant was: I modify the buffer (add a line, or change lines) but that change doesn't cause vim to be run again. From what I can see

[NTG-context] Custom parameters/options for t-vim

2011-08-30 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, I worked with t-vim a bit more and encountered a small problem with the way vim handles syntax definitions. Some of them have several modes that get activated by setting a variable first. For example the syntax sh (shell scripts) can be enhanced for bash, ksh, etc. Example: let

Re: [NTG-context] Custom parameters/options for t-vim

2011-08-31 Thread Andreas Schneider
On 29.08.2011 23:35, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Andreas Schneider wrote: I worked with t-vim a bit more and encountered a small problem with the way vim handles syntax definitions. Some of them have several modes that get activated by setting a variable first. For example

Re: [NTG-context] Custom parameters/options for t-vim

2011-09-06 Thread Andreas Schneider
On 03.09.2011 08:58, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Andreas Schneider wrote: However I also like the idea of the optional vimrc via buffer. I think it might be a nice-to-have feature for the ToDo list :-) In the end, adding a vimrc

Re: [NTG-context] externalfigure vs. draw externalfigure in metafun

2011-09-16 Thread Andreas Schneider
On 16.09.2011 16:00, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Dear Hans, I have problems with externalfigure inside metapost. In MKII, only externalfigure something.png; works, while in MKIV only draw externalfigure something.png; is accepted. Is there any chance to accept one of the syntaxes in both

[NTG-context] SimpleFonts: no italic and bold

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Schneider
| tlig all all mtx-fonts | trep all all What would be the preferred way to setup the font in this scenario? Thanks in advance! -- Best Regards, Andreas Schneider ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] SimpleFonts: no italic and bold

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Schneider
would expect to do better than that ... but well, it's an old font and maybe it was done in a hurry :D -- Best Regards, Andreas Schneider ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] SimpleFonts: no italic and bold

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Schneider
/enabled? ConTeXt can fake the slanted and bold style but they are not the same as a real italic and bold font. AFAICS there is no italic style. Only regular, bold and semi-bold. What is needed to get simplefonts to fake italic (and slanted for that matter)? -- Best Regards, Andreas Schneider

Re: [NTG-context] SimpleFonts: no italic and bold

2011-10-18 Thread Andreas Schneider
On 17.10.2011 16:49, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \usemodule[simplefonts] \definefontfeature[fakeitalic][default][slant=.25] % for fake bold use “stretch=number” \setmainfont [telegrotesk] [regularfont=* nor, italicfont=* nor, boldfont=* fett, bolditalicfont=* fett,

Re: [NTG-context] beta: Huge log files

2011-10-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
On 14.10.2011 23:26, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, A new beta has been uploaded. Nothing new apart from some experimental code and a few bugfixes. I also uploaded http://www.pragma-ade.com/preliminaries/hybrid-italics.pdf Files in that path will come and go. Hans Hi, in the current beta I noticed

Re: [NTG-context] beta: Huge log files

2011-10-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
On 19.10.2011 12:35, Hans Hagen wrote: On 19-10-2011 12:31, Meer, H. van der wrote: syst-ini.mkiv line 626: \tracingstats\plusone The only one I find, but I skipped yhe mkii files. yes but that the command itself Hans It seems the VIM module is the culprit here. In t-syntax-groups.tex on

Re: [NTG-context] feature request

2011-11-13 Thread Andreas Schneider
comments too; just add a comment and continue after the line break with the content/sentence/paragraph: -8 This is %some comment an example. -8 ... will end up as: This is an example. -- Best Regards, Andreas Schneider

[NTG-context] xtables: stretch a single column

2012-01-27 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, xtables offers option=stretch to stretch the whole table evenly. Is there also a way (without manually calculating the width) to stretch the whole table using a given column? Short use case: I have a table with three columns. Column 1 has an external figure, column 3 a variable

[NTG-context] PDF Digital Signatures

2012-03-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, since ConTeXt supports form fields in PDFs, I wonder whether the fields for digital signatures are available as well. If not, please consider this a feature request/wish :-) I received an internal document some time ago that represented a form and was separated into three

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Digital Signatures

2012-03-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Monday, March 19, 2012, at 16:41 Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm replying off-list. I think that this might be on the list of forbidden features (one would have to pay to adobe to be able to allow signing document with TeX). Mojca On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:27, Andreas Schneider wrote: Hello

[NTG-context] TABLE with split=repeat and headings

2012-03-22 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, I have several natural tables with the split=repeat option set. Those tables are directly after a subsubsubject. Every now and then it happens, that the heading stays on the previous page (as last line) and the table slips to the next page. Without split=repeat it correctly

Re: [NTG-context] TABLE with split=repeat and headings

2012-03-27 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Thursday, March 22, 2012, at 16:56 Andreas Schneider wrote: Hello, I have several natural tables with the split=repeat option set. Those tables are directly after a subsubsubject. Every now and then it happens, that the heading stays on the previous page (as last line

Re: [NTG-context] Non-Printing PDFs with ConTeXt

2012-05-04 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Friday, May 4, 2012, at 12:37 Malte Stien wrote: Hi all, Is there a way I can get ConTeXt to produce PDFs that are not-printable? Just as a background to my question: This is not about copyright. Rather, I am using ConTeXt to produce quality process documents. The quality management

Re: [NTG-context] TABLE with split=repeat and headings

2012-05-25 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Thursday, March 22, 2012, at 15:56 Andreas Schneider wrote: Hello, I have several natural tables with the split=repeat option set. Those tables are directly after a subsubsubject. Every now and then it happens, that the heading stays on the previous page (as last line

[NTG-context] texfont produces faked ligatures with ec encoding

2006-08-06 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, with the ec encoding, texfont produces faked ligatures, although the font has real fi and fl ligatures. With the texnansi encoding and the same commands, the ligatures are ok. (I checked this by compiling a simple sample file, just changing \setupencoding[default=ec] to

Re: [NTG-context] texfont produces faked ligatures with ec encoding

2006-08-06 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Sorry, I haven't followed this thread closely (so I have no idea if this has already been solved), but I had a similar symptom a while ago. It turned out that it was something with the default EC.enc that ships with tetex. Can you try to do the

Re: [NTG-context] texfont produces faked ligatures with ec encoding

2006-08-07 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: No, I never had problems with Umlauts. Now I've found lm-ec.enc in another texmf tree. When I copy lm-ec.enc to the directory where I run texfont, it works fine. What you can also try is this: if you open EC.enc, you'll find a couple of LIGKERN

Re: [NTG-context] texfont produces faked ligatures with ec encoding

2006-08-07 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Andreas Schneider wrote: Now I've found lm-ec.enc in another texmf tree. When I copy lm-ec.enc to the directory where I run texfont, it works fine. Unfortunately it only works with pdftex, i.e. texexec --pdf and pdflatex. With texexec or latex it does not work. For example

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-07 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Andreas Schneider wrote: but xdvi gives error messages like [...] My guess is that you have to copy the final ec.enc file you used to the folder where dvips (and xdvi, which looks in the same place normally) looks for encoding files. I created

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: since you're typesetting german ... why not using the texnansi encoding instead of the flawed ec encoding? The problem is that it doesn't work with the texnansi encoding either. See my last mails. Andreas ___

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Somehow you yourself (and not texfont!) have created a font map file called bgj.map for dvips, and that file is wrong. Hmm, I have created it just for LaTeX. Since it contains only entries for ec-bgj* (without 'raw') it should not interfere with the

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-11 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: This process works in a similar fashion for all programs like pdftex, dvipdfmx, dvips, and xdvi, but texfont only creates a map file for pdftex. Unf, the pdftex map file cannot be used by dvips, so for dvips you have to create your own (like you did).

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-11 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi! On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Andreas Schneider wrote: Thanks a lot, with that it works now (with the texnansi encoding)! These facts should be mentioned in the docs. The next version of texfont will create a dvips and dvipdfmx map file as well as a pdftex one, making life

[NTG-context] Strange page breaks

2012-06-18 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, the attached example causes very strange page breaks. 1. The subsubsubject is the last line on the first page. That doesn't look very nice. 2. The xtable is broken although the whole table fits on that page. Is there anything I (or you? :-)) can do about these two problems? #This is

Re: [NTG-context] Strange page breaks

2012-06-18 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Monday, June 18, 2012, at 11:54 Hans Hagen wrote: On 18-6-2012 09:43, Andreas Schneider wrote: Hello, the attached example causes very strange page breaks. 1. The subsubsubject is the last line on the first page. That doesn't look very nice. 2. The xtable is broken although the whole

Re: [NTG-context] Strange page breaks

2012-06-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Monday, June 18, 2012, at 12:48 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can tell context to force a page break when there isn’t enough space for the heading. \setuphead[subsubsubject][before={\testpage[6]\blank[big]}] Wolfgang Nice, that does the trick! Thank you! -- Best Regards, Andreas

[NTG-context] setupinteraction and macroexpansion

2012-06-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, I'm a bit lost with macro expansion here. I try to use some macros to set the title (and subject) of the PDF document. The attached minimal example shows what I want to achieve. I tried def, edef, gdef, define, explicit expand, expandoneafter, etc. etc. without any success. Whatever

Re: [NTG-context] setupinteraction and macroexpansion

2012-06-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at 10:42 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 19.06.2012 um 10:39 schrieb Andreas Schneider: Hello, I'm a bit lost with macro expansion here. I try to use some macros to set the title (and subject) of the PDF document. The attached minimal example shows what I want

[NTG-context] GLIBC 2.7 requirement for Standalone ConTeXt

2013-05-23 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, I'm running a build server on an older box with CentOS 5. I didn't update ConTeXt Standalone in quite some time. Now I did since I had some problems with the dated version in use, and now I face the following problem: texlua: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found

Re: [NTG-context] GLIBC 2.7 requirement for Standalone ConTeXt

2013-05-23 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Thursday, May 23, 2013, at 14:43 Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Andreas Schneider wrote: Hello, I'm running a build server on an older box with CentOS 5. I didn't update ConTeXt Standalone in quite some time. Now I did since I had some problems

[NTG-context] Custom refcommand for bibtex

2009-05-13 Thread Andreas Schneider
a footnote with certain informations about the citation ... at least author(s), year(s), title and if specified the references page. Is there maybe some (easy) way to define a custom refcommand? Then the footnote could be inserted by doing the \cite within a \footnote. Thanks in advance! Andreas Schneider

[NTG-context] Conditional commands

2009-06-29 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, I'm currently trying to make a command that outputs different text depending on the situation it has been called, but I'm absolutely stuck there (I'm not very familiar with TeX, so it's probably obvious to most of you :-/). It currently looks like this: \doassign[mycite][last=]

Re: [NTG-context] Conditional commands

2009-06-30 Thread Andreas Schneider
not yielding any result, I don't believe, that it is intended for stuff like this. So if someone knows a way to handle that last case (page break) too, I would be glad to hear about it. Regards, Andreas. On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:41:49 +0200 Andreas Schneider ak...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying

[NTG-context] Page Break Events

2009-07-01 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, since that question has probably gone by unnoticed in my other posting, I'll ask more directly here: How can I react on page breaks (in MkII)? More specifcally: I need to reset a variable whenever a pagebreak occurs (atleast when automatic page breaks occur ... but it would be nice, if it

Re: [NTG-context] Page Break Events

2009-07-01 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:14:13 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: \appendtoks \resetcounter{mycounter}% %\global\mycount=0 \to\everyaftershipout Wolfgang Fantastic! That is exactly, what I was looking for. Thank you very much! Andreas.

[NTG-context] PDF Keywords in current beta

2009-07-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, in the current beta the usage of the Keyword argument in the \setupinteraction command causes lua to fail in line 136 of lpdf-mis.lua: code snippet local keywords = specification.keywords or if keywords ~= then keywords = string.gsub([%s,]+, )

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals Beta on Windows 64bit

2010-07-29 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:07:24 +0200, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that I'm not able to reproduce the problem you are reporting. Did anyone else experience the same problem? Mojca It seems to have been fixed in the meantime. I just tried it again and

[NTG-context] Issues with MetaPost boxes

2010-08-14 Thread Andreas Schneider
Since some weeks I have strange problems with MetaPost in MKIV (beta). The attached example should (and did in the past) output a central box (Fakt) surrounded by five boxes named Dimension. However some of them (in that particular example one) is drawn wrong: the box is on the right spot, but the

Re: [NTG-context] Issues with MetaPost boxes

2010-08-15 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:34:25 +0200, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: There were actually two metapost bugs from that single example. Next week's luatex beta will have a fix for both. Thanks for investigating and fixing it so fast! (well, I hope; we will see ;-)) Best Regards, Andreas.

[NTG-context] Bib Module: \cite can kill spaces

2010-08-15 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, I don't know how exactly it happens, but in the attached example the last footnote is missing a space before the inserted \cite. In my real document that happens a lot and kills the layout. Anything I can do to fix that? Best Regards, Andreas.\mainlanguage[de] \usemodule[bib]

Re: [NTG-context] Bib Module: \cite can kill spaces

2010-08-15 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:09:07 +0200, taco t...@elvenkind.com wrote: Thomas Schmitz wrote: Ugly workaround: \def\prefix{Vgl. \strut} % or \null But I have no idea what's happening here, maybe Hans or Taco can come up with a real solution. \cite[alternative=data] seems to eat any

[NTG-context] Error in minimals beta

2010-08-18 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, I sent this mail before, but it seems to have been lost on it's way to the mailing list ... (I hope so, otherwise this might be a double post). When I compile my current project, luatex fails with the following error:

Re: [NTG-context] Error in minimals beta

2010-08-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hans Hagen wrote: On 18-8-2010 10:20, Andreas Schneider wrote: Hi, I sent this mail before, but it seems to have been lost on it's way to the mailing list ... (I hope so, otherwise this might be a double post). When I compile my current project, luatex fails with the following error

Re: [NTG-context] Error in minimals beta

2010-08-19 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hans Hagen wrote: On 19-8-2010 1:34, Andreas Schneider wrote: then I'm afraid it's not fixed yet. At least I still get the same error. test file needed then Dammit, it was my fault :-/ I was refering to structure.counters in one of my components, which apparently changed

Re: [NTG-context] Issues with MetaPost boxes

2010-08-22 Thread Andreas Schneider
Taco Hoekwater wrote: There were actually two metapost bugs from that single example. Next week's luatex beta will have a fix for both. Since I need this fix pretty soon, I thought a svn checkout and build might be a good idea. Getting luatex 0.62 beta compiled and running wasn't a problem,

[NTG-context] \type and linebreak (again)

2011-05-23 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, I stumbled across the same problem that was discussed earlier this month: \type doesn't break, even if there are opportunities. I tried to follow the suggestions given in that thread, but with no success: \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \starttext \setuptype[space=stretch]

Re: [NTG-context] \type and linebreak (again)

2011-05-23 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Monday, May 23, 2011 12:11 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \filename{cp \$SOMEVAR/some/very/very/very/long/directory/WITHFILE \$SOMEVAR/other/long/directory} Wolfgang It's kinda depressing how easy some solutions are, that one could have found themselves if one just looked beyond the own walls.

[NTG-context] Letter Module: Foldmarks

2009-10-07 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, for some time now, I try to figure out, how to enable fold marks in the letter module. I tried: \setupletterstyle [option] [marking=on, foldmark=yes, cutmark=yes] All three of them didn't seem to do anything. How are fold marks supposed to be set? Or is this currently not

Re: [NTG-context] Letter Module: Foldmarks

2009-10-07 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:19:13 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Fold marks are enabled by default but there was a bug in the code, I uploaded a new release. Wow, thank you for that very quick fix! It works fine now. Also thanks for these great explanations and

[NTG-context] Bib: Cite with alternative=data fails

2009-10-31 Thread Andreas Schneider
] Is that still supposed to work and/or is there another alternative to display the full citation info? Btw. the current beta minimals don't contain the bib documentation (at least there is no PDF regarding bib in my whole context tree). Thanks in advance, Andreas Schneider

Re: [NTG-context] Bib: Cite with alternative=data fails

2009-10-31 Thread Andreas Schneider
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Did this work earlier? It wouldn't surprise me if it was broken in older versions as well. Sorry, I didn't want to imply that the problem was introduced in the latest version - it might as well be there for some time now. The last time I compiled the document in question

Re: [NTG-context] Bib: Cite with alternative=data fails

2009-11-01 Thread Andreas Schneider
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Looks like a conversion error in the core module. The token list ... If you wrap these two definitions in \unprotect ... \protect, you can add them to your document preamble until the change appears in the next update. Thank you for fixing this so fast :) The support

[NTG-context] Some math symbols fail in MetaPost in MKIV

2009-11-02 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, as it seems, some symbols in math mode seem to fail when put inside MetaPost. In the example I tried, both ~ and | were causing processing errors when used inside MetaPost (I tried both btex...etex as well as \sometxt). It works fine in MKII however. The minimal example is attached to

[NTG-context] definelayout and setuplayout not possible in current beta?

2009-11-11 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, as it seems, setuplayout fails with a predefined layout in both MkIV and MkII. The attached example produces the following error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. to be read again

Re: [NTG-context] definelayout and setuplayout not possible in current beta?

2009-11-11 Thread Andreas Schneider
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 11.11.2009 um 17:29 schrieb Andreas Schneider: Hi, as it seems, setuplayout fails with a predefined layout in both MkIV and MkII. The attached example produces the following error: \definelayout[index][ header=0cm, footer=0cm, height=fit

Re: [NTG-context] Chicago citations in endnotes; short titles in bibliographies

2009-11-24 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi Peter, a similar question was asked not long ago ... and as it happens, some time before that even by me. My solution for ibid footnote citations can be found here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/54129 It's surely not the Chicago Manual of Style-style but probably the

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2009-11-28 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I just came back. I guess that I should start fixing the (already broken?) windows installation :) no need for fixing, it's just stubs .. just make sure that you copy the dll and exe files from the stub paths (and get rid of cmd/bat files when an

[NTG-context] \everyaftershipout isn't called for every pagebreak

2010-01-16 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, I'm using \appendtoks...\to\everyaftershipout to reset a variable on every pagebreak. This doesn't work as I expect(ed) it, since it seems to only trigger after a paragraph. The following example shows the problem. On every new page, the first footnote should be New, which is not the case

Re: [NTG-context] \everyaftershipout isn't called for every pagebreak

2010-01-16 Thread Andreas Schneider
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: This can't work because TeX collects mote material than it needs for the current page and the same happens with the footnotes, the only thing you can do is to use two pass data Wolfgang Is there not even some event in Lua that could be used to handle this case? I

Re: [NTG-context] \everyaftershipout isn't called for every pagebreak

2010-01-17 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hans Hagen wrote: It depends on your document. We have workflows where we can do with one pass in which case we run with --once (--runs=2 or so) Future versions of context mkiv might need one run less (in some cases) or one perceived run (which saves startup cycles) but as Wolgangs

Re: [NTG-context] \everyaftershipout isn't called for every pagebreak

2010-01-17 Thread Andreas Schneider
dealing with multipass data in mkiv is completely different from mkii and at some point there will be a proper api for users (makes no sense now as i might as well change internals along with luatex developments) in mkiv we store info in tables and much is available during a document run

Re: [NTG-context] \everyaftershipout isn't called for every pagebreak

2010-01-18 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hans Hagen wrote: as it takes less time wrting a helper than explaining how to do it i just added it as feature (a few years from probably only wolfgang remembers that it's there) i'll upload a beta to the website that provides ... \starttext \dorecurse {100} { test

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography -- complete inline citations in footnotes

2010-01-21 Thread Andreas Schneider
Piotr Lesnicki wrote: Hi, I'm new to ConTeXt and I'm greatly appreciating the rejuvenation it brings me in typesetting after several years using LaTeX. I'm confronted to a few little problems though, the main one being that I'd need to have references both in the footnotes and at the end

[NTG-context] bib: no booktitle for @inbook

2010-01-27 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, when I insert a citation of type @inbook, it only shows the title, not however the booktitle. I tried ams, num, apa and apa-de. Example entry: @inbook{Coles2007, address = {Berkeley, CA}, author = {Coles, Michael}, booktitle = {Pro T-SQL 2005 Programmer’s Guide}, doi =

Re: [NTG-context] bib: no booktitle for @inbook

2010-01-27 Thread Andreas Schneider
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Andreas Schneider wrote: AFAIU, booktitle is not part of @inbook. You need @inbook{ chapter={...}, title={}, } See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX Aditya You are right, the difference between inbook and incollection

Re: [NTG-context] Error using Minimal with TeXworks

2010-02-05 Thread Andreas Schneider
Alain Delmotte wrote: Hi! installation: I downloaded: context-setup-mswin.zip unzipped it in C:\Programmes; this created c:\Programmes\Context\... then in Context I used: first-setup.bat (as I am not going to use MkII, I didn't install Ruby); the installation went OK Then I added in

[NTG-context] Dash broken in MKIV

2010-03-01 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, in MKIV, the long dash (--) seems to be broken. Example: \starttext some -- text \stoptext Outputs with literal -- instead of a longer - as it used to do before. It still worked ~2 weeks ago. I tested it with the minimals (beta) under Linux and Windows. Best Regards, Andreas Schneider

Re: [NTG-context] Dash broken in MKIV

2010-03-01 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hans Hagen wrote: fixed in next beta ... Awesome, fast as usual :-) Thanks a lot! Andreas. ___ 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] [OT] Lua sponsors

2010-03-05 Thread Andreas Schneider
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Wow. I first decided that Adobe became the sponsor of LuaTeX. ) Vyatcheslav Beware that Lua LuaTeX ;-) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

[NTG-context] Prettyprinters broken in MkIV

2010-03-11 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hi, since several weeks pretty printers are broken in MkIV (minimals). I posted it already to the bug tracker, but it didn't receive any attention so far, which leads me to believe, that the mailing list is still the prefered spot to report problems. Anyway, a detailed description with minimal

Re: [NTG-context] Prettyprinters broken in MkIV

2010-03-11 Thread Andreas Schneider
Peter Münster wrote: Hello Andreas, There is no pret-pas.lua file. The only languages supported for pretty printing in mkiv are lua, mp, tex and xml. And also C, if you download the pret-c.lua file from http://modules.contextgarden.net/pret-c Cheers, Peter Damn - I tried PAS and SQL

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt forum engine

2010-03-15 Thread Andreas Schneider
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 00:21, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello Why not phpBB?? http://www.phpbb.com/ The question was whether there's also some other solution worth considering. (This one is most likely to be used otherwise.) Mojca I vote for

Re: [NTG-context] Stack overflow

2010-03-20 Thread Andreas Schneider
Alain Delmotte wrote: When I want to compile the file on which I am working, I get: C:\Programmes\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\mtxrun.lua:2161: stack overflow The same happens to me, but only when I invoke context.exe. It works fine with context.cmd. (The same holds true for mtxrun.exe vs.

Re: [NTG-context] letter: backaddress

2010-03-27 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, Speaking of the letter module ... I don't get any backaddress at all in the current minimals. Did something change? The example below used to work. \usemodule[letter][style=dinb] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setupletterstyle [backaddress]

Re: [NTG-context] letter: backaddress

2010-03-27 Thread Andreas Schneider
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \setupletterstyle[backaddress=yes] Ah, that did it! Thank you. ___ 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] Stack overflow

2010-03-29 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hans Hagen wrote: can you add a print in line 2161 and see what path is reported? function file.collapse_path(str) print(str) str = gsub(str,\\,/) if find(str,/) then It seems to happen only when the executables are called with absolute paths:

Re: [NTG-context] The ConTeXt book

2010-04-03 Thread Andreas Schneider
Michael Saunders wrote: Mojca's point, that Context is commercial, may be the key: it can be free in name only but if the means of using it are kept secret, it's only of benefit to Pragma. (Hans himself mentioned earlier that there are many undocumented options for use in-house only that

Re: [NTG-context] Need help with the letter module

2010-04-04 Thread Andreas Schneider
Matija Šuklje wrote: Hullo, I'm trying to write a letter, but it gets all screwy. The first batch of letter settings works OK (opening, closing, signature); but then the from* and to* blocks fail resulting in a PDF that just quotes that code on a separate page. Clearly I'm doing

Re: [NTG-context] pagecounter in mkiv

2010-05-28 Thread Andreas Schneider
Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote: Mae govannen everybody, I just run into a little problem. I have a titlepage and don't want it to be counted in the pagecounter, I already tried \resetcounter[page] and \setcounter[page]{1} where I want the numbering to start, but no result, it allways

[NTG-context] Relative references to floats

2010-06-09 Thread Andreas Schneider
Hello, is there currently (in MkIV) some way to have relative references to floats? I imagine something like ... as you can see \above[fig:somefigure]. which would print ... as you can see above. if the figure is above the current paragraph or ... as you can see below. if it is below. Maybe

Re: [NTG-context] error in first-setup.sh

2010-06-09 Thread Andreas Schneider
luigi scarso wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: At least it seems ok now in a fresh install. I just did one of those, and there is only one thing that I noticed: I had to run 'texexec --make en' by hand. I don't know if that is normal? Everything

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