Re: [NTG-context] texnansi encoding.

2013-09-14 Thread john Culleton
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:41:33 +0200 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 9/12/2013 10:05 PM, john Culleton wrote: Using mkiv to what degree can one depend on the encoding of a font to be in texnansi form? 1. typescript fonts? 2. otf fonts? 3. type 1 fonts? 4. ttf fonts? 5

Re: [NTG-context] texnansi encoding.

2013-09-14 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:42:42 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 14.09.2013 um 15:34 schrieb john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com: Excellent! Now in MKIV how would I encode an opening quote mark American style? In previous TeX programs it was always ``. The MKIV

[NTG-context] texnansi encoding.

2013-09-12 Thread john Culleton
Using mkiv to what degree can one depend on the encoding of a font to be in texnansi form? 1. typescript fonts? 2. otf fonts? 3. type 1 fonts? 4. ttf fonts? 5. No guarantees? And does it make a difference if one uses \simplefonts versus typescripts? -- John Culleton

Re: [NTG-context] How to redefine \section temporaly?

2013-09-03 Thread john Culleton
: :% s/\\section/\\subsection/ Then I would save the tex file under a different name. If there are already subsections I would convert them to subsubsections first, then convert the sections to subsections. Eqch step is just a singl command in gvim. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-09-03 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:12:28 -0400 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:40:57 -0400 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Just found a zip file which may contain the full context distro for windows. Stay tuned for success/failure notice. Failure

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-09-03 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 23:44:30 +0200 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 8/31/2013 5:40 PM, john Culleton wrote: If there were a way to download minimals or the full context suite for windows as an iso image I would be home free. But fate is not so kind to me. installing the garden via

[NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-08-31 Thread john Culleton
Windows. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-08-31 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 16:26:48 +0300 Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 3:43 PM, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: when a user downloads Context Minimals on a Windows partition what must they do to run the programs such as context and mtxrun? Go to a text

Re: [NTG-context] texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows

2013-08-31 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 11:40:57 -0400 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: Just found a zip file which may contain the full context distro for windows. Stay tuned for success/failure notice. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Continuous preview

2013-08-29 Thread john Culleton
for editing and one for viewing. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

[NTG-context] font name with underline.

2013-08-17 Thread john Culleton
How does one use a font name that contains an underline? -- John Culleton ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps from otf in luatex.

2013-08-11 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:24:17 +0200 Philipp Gesang philipp.ges...@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: Hi John! ···date: 2013-08-10, Saturday···from: john Culleton··· I have asked everywhere else to no avail. In (plain) luatex how do I specify the small cap version of an otf font? I use

[NTG-context] Small caps from otf in luatex.

2013-08-10 Thread john Culleton
I have asked everywhere else to no avail. In (plain) luatex how do I specify the small cap version of an otf font? I use context for non-fiction but pdftex and now luatex for fiction. -- John Culleton ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Inserting verbatim text in a figure and framed.

2013-07-31 Thread john Culleton
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:03:32 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 30.07.2013 um 21:30 schrieb Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr: On Tue, Jul 30 2013, john Culleton wrote: Here is my code so far. I want to show a file in verbatim form. It compiles but here

[NTG-context] Inserting verbatim text in a figure and framed.

2013-07-30 Thread john Culleton
=.75\textwidth]} -- I am following the example at the foot of page 303 in the manual. Any suggestions? John Culleton ___ If your question is of interest to others

[NTG-context] Using backslash in chapter title.

2013-07-28 Thread john Culleton
but nothing changes. the \backslash command seems invulnerable to change. Is there a way in MKIV to express a backslash in another way (bigger and bolder)? John Culleton ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.

2013-07-28 Thread john Culleton
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:59:28 -0400 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:38:10 +0200 Philipp Gesang philipp.ges...@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: Hi John! ···date: 2013-07-26, Friday···from: john Culleton··· I am tryihg to follow the wiki on Fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Opening quotes problem with context.

2013-07-27 Thread john Culleton
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:13:18 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 24.07.2013 um 16:58 schrieb David Rogers davidandrewrog...@gmail.com: john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com writes: Did a fresh install of context etc. from the context site. I used this test

Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.

2013-07-27 Thread john Culleton
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:15:58 +0200 Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote: On 26/07/13 21:08, john Culleton wrote: I am trying to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the following statement for Linux systems: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts;$HOME/.fonts But I store

[NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.

2013-07-26 Thread john Culleton
for a more general solution. Slackware 14 64 bit and texlive 2013 As always, thanks in advance to those who reply: John Culleton ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki

Re: [NTG-context] OSFONTDIR kills gui fonts.

2013-07-26 Thread john Culleton
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:38:10 +0200 Philipp Gesang philipp.ges...@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: Hi John! ···date: 2013-07-26, Friday···from: john Culleton··· I am tryihg to follow the wiki on Fonts in Luatex. It suggests the following statement for Linux systems: export OSFONTDIR

[NTG-context] Opening quotes problem with context.

2013-07-22 Thread john Culleton
in texlive 2012 and texlive 2013. What is the proper code for opening quotes in context? I use slackware linux 14, the 64 bit version. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available

Re: [NTG-context] INstalling the context version of TeX distro.

2013-07-19 Thread john Culleton
instead? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

[NTG-context] INstalling the context version of TeX distro.

2013-07-17 Thread john Culleton
file to my Windows partition (currently XP but I can up it to Win 7 if desirable for Context. I have both XP and Win 7 install disks.) Again I need install directions. If there is an up-to-date guide to this process just give me its name. Thanks in advance. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free

Re: [NTG-context] Woe is me :( mkiv misbehaving.

2013-06-10 Thread john Culleton
On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 14:41:50 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 09.06.2013 um 14:24 schrieb john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com: I solved the wierd messages by a brute force method. I created a fresh slackware partition and whatever I did wrong was eliminated

Re: [NTG-context] Woe is me :( mkiv misbehaving.

2013-06-09 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013 22:02:35 +0200 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 8:45 PM, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: After fiddling with some unrelated issues involving a python program called makehuman my well behaved context mkiv job is acting up

[NTG-context] Woe is me :( mkiv misbehaving.

2013-06-08 Thread john Culleton
--- I have added some python things. Does MKIV use python in any way? Slackware Linux 14. Texlive 2012. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http

[NTG-context] PDF X-3 format.

2013-06-03 Thread john Culleton
are imported. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

[NTG-context] Faux font

2013-05-22 Thread john Culleton
In some Context manuals (can't remember which ones) there is a faux font that just consists of little rectangles of two different sizes. What is the name of that font? Is it included in e.g. TeXLive? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net

[NTG-context] Referring to a numbered figure in text.

2013-05-22 Thread john Culleton
Using MKIV and the \placefigure command how do I a. define a reference term in \placefigure command b. refer to that term in my text. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus

[NTG-context] Rotating vector graphics.

2013-05-13 Thread john Culleton
In context can I use a pdf graphic but rotate it 90 degrees? It is easy to convert it to bitmap and rotate it in Gimp or with ImageMagick but I would like to retain the vector format. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html

[NTG-context] Blank page when using natural table.

2013-05-04 Thread john Culleton
[frame=on] \bTR \bTD foo \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext -- I tried it with [doublesided=yes] and no parameter at all. Same results. First a blank page numbered 1, then the table on the second page. -- John

[NTG-context] A simpler way to make a bibliography

2013-04-23 Thread john Culleton
. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Can't make ISBN print in bibliography

2013-04-19 Thread john Culleton
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:38:18 +0200 Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On 04/19/2013 01:03 AM, john Culleton wrote: Any suggestions? Using MKIV currently. Use \setuppublicationlayout[book] (explained in the bib manual). Thomas Thanks for trying. I tried modfying one

Re: [NTG-context] Two Bibliography questions

2013-04-18 Thread john Culleton
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:38:07 -0400 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:08:34 +0200 Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr wrote: [refcommand=authoryears,criterium=cite] A further question: I want to include the ISBN in the biblio entry. I find reference

[NTG-context] Can't make ISBN print in bibliography

2013-04-18 Thread john Culleton
[]{Tavmjong}[T.]{}{Bah} \pubyear{2011} \title{Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program} \isbn{978-0-13-27641-8} \city{Upper Saddle River, NJ} \pubname{Prentice-Hall} \stoppublication Any suggestions? Using MKIV currently. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http

[NTG-context] Two Bibliography questions

2013-04-16 Thread john Culleton
the printed bibilography to only those publications actually cited in the text with the \cite command or the \nocite command what do I need to change? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus

Re: [NTG-context] Two Bibliography questions

2013-04-16 Thread john Culleton
authoryear command not authoryears in this particular document. But with your help I got it right at last. And now, back to writing the document! -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers

[NTG-context] literal tilde glyph in ordinary text.

2013-04-11 Thread john Culleton
In a non-math situation where I just wish to print a literal tilde to indicate the user's directory in Linux what do I use? such as: ~/.config -- John Culleton Wexford Press ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] Running heads, American style.

2013-04-08 Thread john Culleton
On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 15:41:46 -0700 Mica Semrick paperdig...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Perhaps http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupheadertexts will be of some help? Though, the wiki page does not list the [text] argument in your second command. I'm not sure that ConTeXt sees recto and

[NTG-context] Running heads, American style.

2013-04-05 Thread john Culleton
) is mandatory for this kind of header setup. And just putting [] won't work. You have to specify a location. Now old hands will have memorized all these peculiarities long ago. I write this for beginners at the context game, like me. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers

Re: [NTG-context] single spacing TOC

2013-04-04 Thread john Culleton
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 06:36:55 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 03.04.2013 um 21:28 schrieb john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com: Working with TOC layout and the new manual. The default layout leaves a blank line between section entries. I want to reduce

[NTG-context] single spacing TOC

2013-04-03 Thread john Culleton
Working with TOC layout and the new manual. The default layout leaves a blank line between section entries. I want to reduce this to zero. I tried this: \setuplist[section] [alternative=a,before=,after=,distance=1pt] \completecontent but this didn't remove the extra space. Hints? -- John

[NTG-context] start page numbering in MKIV

2013-04-01 Thread john Culleton
page 3 and there is one blank page in between. -- John Culleton Wexford Press -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

[NTG-context] eliminate blank page.

2013-03-30 Thread john Culleton
\citystatezip } \stopstandardmakeup --- I have tried \inputting the files and calling the files with \component. Can't get the blank page in between to disappear. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net

Re: [NTG-context] eliminate blank page.

2013-03-30 Thread john Culleton
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:09:39 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 30.03.2013 um 19:02 schrieb john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com: OK I am trying to be a good boy and use \component instead of \input in MKIV but my problem persists. I have a file called

Re: [NTG-context] TOC: Chapters with and without page-numbers

2013-03-15 Thread john Culleton
) 91 Introduction (a section) 91 -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Re: [NTG-context] About Chapter head definition and FunnyFrame

2013-03-03 Thread john Culleton
for creating an epigraph after a chapter head? The Memoir class in LaTeX has such a command. I'll look up \definheadalternative. Maybe it covers it, maybe not. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book

Re: [NTG-context] default parameter in \definefont

2013-02-26 Thread john Culleton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:18:25 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: Am 26.02.2013 um 00:00 schrieb john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com: Some time back Wolfgang advised me to use statements like this: \definefont [titlefont][MyriadPro-Bold*default at 70bp] I

Re: [NTG-context] default parameter in \definefont

2013-02-26 Thread john Culleton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:04:38 -0500 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:18:25 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: Am 26.02.2013 um 00:00 schrieb john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com: And the error messages indicate that MKIV cannot

Re: [NTG-context] default parameter in \definefont

2013-02-26 Thread john Culleton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:55:07 +0100 Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com wrote: On 2013___02___26 john Culleton wrote: files but they exist in /usr/share/fonts/OTF. The run completes but other fonts and sizes are used for the title page. Solved my problem the ugly way. I moved the fonts

[NTG-context] Apparent error in wiki example

2013-02-26 Thread john Culleton
I copied verbatim the example found here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Typescript_Example This line caused an error: \setupencoding[default=uc] When I commented it out the doc ran fine. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net

Re: [NTG-context] Apparent error in wiki example

2013-02-26 Thread john Culleton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:33:03 +0100 Philipp Gesang philipp.ges...@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: Hi John! ···date: 2013-02-26, Tuesday···from: john Culleton··· I copied verbatim the example found here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Typescript_Example This line caused

Re: [NTG-context] Apparent error in wiki example

2013-02-26 Thread john Culleton
Oes the code in the wiki article referred to earlier: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:28:22 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: Am 26.02.2013 um 21:28 schrieb john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com: Thanks for your help. I just spotted another somewhat comic error. The typescript

[NTG-context] Importing frontmatter

2013-02-25 Thread john Culleton
What is the difference between \environment foo.tex and \input foo.tex? John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers with Scribus available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

[NTG-context] default parameter in \definefont

2013-02-25 Thread john Culleton
Some time back Wolfgang advised me to use statements like this: \definefont [titlefont][MyriadPro-Bold*default at 70bp] I cannot find what the *default parameter does. Can someone educate me? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net

Re: [NTG-context] Defining a title font.

2012-10-04 Thread john Culleton
\titlefont \centerline{Book Covers} \subtitle \vfil \centerline{Free Publishing Software Series} \vfil \rm \stopstandardmakeup -- -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: Create Book Covers

[NTG-context] Defining a title font.

2012-10-02 Thread john Culleton
' fontsdefining unknown font MyriadPro-Bold, loading aborted fontsdefining unable to define MyriadPro-Bold as [titlefont--0] ) --- Clearly I don't know what I am doing. Can someone help? -- John Culleton

[NTG-context] Code in contextref-env.tex

2012-08-22 Thread john Culleton
the sequences like \v!and \c! etc. mean. Are they references to modes? -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: Death Wore Black Create Book Covers with Scribus http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Re: [NTG-context] How to know in which page I'm?

2012-08-20 Thread john Culleton
} \else { This page is odd } How can I do that in ConTeXt? http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2012/067632.html Wolfgang Will the plain text way still work? \ifodd\pageno foo \else bar \fi -- John Culleton

[NTG-context] Pointer to manual.

2012-08-16 Thread john Culleton
Still looking for a pointer to the latest revision of Context Reference Manual even if incomplete. Or is there a separate MKIV manual? -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: Death Wore Black Create Book Covers

Re: [NTG-context] Pointer to manual.

2012-08-16 Thread john Culleton
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:25:45 +0200 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: On 08/16/2012 04:06 PM, john Culleton wrote: Still looking for a pointer to the latest revision of Context Reference Manual even if incomplete. Or is there a separate MKIV manual? http://wiki.contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] running context mcommon.tex

2012-08-15 Thread john Culleton
and that processed ok. Do I need some special parameter for mcommmon.tex? I tried some --mode parameters but none seemed to help. I also have a texlive install but I thought setuptex took care of that. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police

[NTG-context] Latest version of Reference Manual

2012-08-14 Thread john Culleton
I want to keep up iwth the latest revision of the reference manual. Is there a cvs or svn feed? My latest download is dated June 9, 2011. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: Death Wore Black Create Book

Re: [NTG-context] Figured bass symbols in a text.

2012-08-13 Thread john Culleton
. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: Death Wore Black Create Book Covers with Scribus http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

[NTG-context] Changing page number location for chapters

2012-08-10 Thread john Culleton
, and centered. This is a common convention. What parameter should I use in the \setuphead command to accomplish this? -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: Death Wore Black Create Book Covers with Scribus http

Re: [NTG-context] Changing page number location for chapters

2012-08-10 Thread john Culleton
=empty but it still works. Couldn't find the exact manual reference on page 81 but your code worked fine. -- John Culleton ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki

Re: [NTG-context] A series of articles about text-editors for the MAPS

2012-08-08 Thread john Culleton
this string: context book.tex This is a bit of a bear to set up in .vimrc, but a single keystroke is much faster in production. I also have an F key for pdftex, one for acroread and one for justifying all the paragraphs ragged right. Set once, use forever. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self

Re: [NTG-context] Italic page number.

2012-08-07 Thread john Culleton
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:39:24 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: Am 05.08.2012 um 02:37 schrieb john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com: IMO the following code should result in an italic iii on the contents page. Instead I get a roman 1

Re: [NTG-context] A series of articles about text-editors for the MAPS

2012-08-07 Thread john Culleton
right, are common for all. I even assign F keys for running pdftex or context on a file named book.tex (every book I work on is in a separate directory so all of them are called book.tex.) I have an F key for acroread book.pdf Just FYI. I doubt if I am the only one. -- John Culleton

[NTG-context] \product tag

2012-08-07 Thread john Culleton
not exist. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: Death Wore Black Create Book Covers with Scribus http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

[NTG-context] Italic page number.

2012-08-04 Thread john Culleton
-- I have tried variations such as a single \setupagenumber with two parameters, using \page[iii] instead and so on. This ought to be a smple task: start page numbering on the contents page with iii. But I haven't mastered it yet. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self

[NTG-context] TRying to download manual sources

2012-08-02 Thread john Culleton
Tryng to download manual sources. This command doesn't work: svn co svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals context from directory /usr/local/src, and signed on as root. I keep getting connection timed out Is there something wrong with the above command? -- John Culleton Free list of books for self

[NTG-context] \input filename causes error.

2012-07-24 Thread john Culleton
on slackware Linux. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] Returning...need advice on manuals for MKIV

2012-07-16 Thread john Culleton
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:23:00 +0200 Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote: Am 2012-07-15 um 22:04 schrieb john Culleton: I use TexLive 2011 on a Slackware Linux platform. If you___re serious about MkIV, install TeX Live 2012 or use Standalone. (If you don___t need LaTeX, the latter

[NTG-context] Returning...need advice on manuals for MKIV

2012-07-15 Thread john Culleton
platform. -- John Culleton ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http

Re: [NTG-context] New chapters of Manual--Yay!

2012-01-30 Thread john Culleton
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:38:06 -0500 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: I note with some joy that there are draft replacement chapters for the MANUAL. The site shows three such: Fonts, typography and page design. Are there more that I missed? I am printing them out with great haste

Re: [NTG-context] Finding Minion and Myriad

2011-10-03 Thread john Culleton
/context/tex/setuptex /home/safe/context/tex source /home/safe/context/tex/setuptex context $1 -- -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Create Book Covers with Scribus http

Re: [NTG-context] Finding Minion and Myriad

2011-10-03 Thread john Culleton
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 22:11:36 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 03.10.2011 um 22:04 schrieb john Culleton: For future reference, how do I get MKIV to find fonts that are in /usr/share/fonts? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTeX

[NTG-context] Finding Minion and Myriad

2011-09-29 Thread john Culleton
: - mtx-context.lua:675: attempt to call field 'locate_format' (a nil value) Any suggestions? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Create Book Covers with Scribus http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Re: [NTG-context] Finding Minion and Myriad

2011-09-29 Thread john Culleton
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:12:07 +0200 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:10 PM, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: These two fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/OTF. In that directory they are listed in fonts.dir. I want to use simplefonts to use Minion

Re: [NTG-context] Finding Minion and Myriad

2011-09-29 Thread john Culleton
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:27 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 29.09.2011 um 17:10 schrieb john Culleton: These two fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/OTF. In that directory they are listed in fonts.dir. I want to use simplefonts to use Minion as the base

Re: [NTG-context] Finding Minion and Myriad

2011-09-29 Thread john Culleton
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:13:12 +0200 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:38 PM, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:12:07 +0200 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:10 PM, john Culleton j

Re: [NTG-context] Finding Minion and Myriad

2011-09-29 Thread john Culleton
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:22:17 +0200 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:19 PM, john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:19:27 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 29.09.2011 um 17:10 schrieb john

Re: [NTG-context] Finding Minion and Myriad

2011-09-29 Thread john Culleton
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:07:08 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 29.09.2011 um 21:07 schrieb john Culleton: OK. Can you give me the url that points to the latest Context suite? The offerings I see are dated 2010 etc. I run Slackware Linux 13.37. http

Re: [NTG-context] cont-sys.mkiv in texlive 2011

2011-07-12 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:58:18 am Eythan Weg wrote: Hi, I have installed tl-2011 a few days ago. Context mkiv runs ok. Where did you find TL-2011? All I find is TL-2010 -- John Culleton Death Wore Black Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ Create Book Covers

Re: [NTG-context] First baby steps with MKIV

2011-07-12 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday, July 02, 2011 10:47:20 am yoraxe wrote: Am 02.07.2011 16:45, schrieb John Culleton: Followed this wiki, http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals installed in my personal directory. Now for the most elementary quetsion: Given the file foo.tex how do I actually

[NTG-context] Interesing error message in MKIV:

2011-07-12 Thread John Culleton
\stopbodymatter 17 \startbackmatter 18 \completeindex 19 \stopbackmatter 20 \stoptext --- -- John Culleton Death Wore Black Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ Create Book Covers with Scribus http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Re: [NTG-context] 'Rainbow' header/footer

2011-07-11 Thread John Culleton
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Re: [NTG-context] 'Rainbow' header/footer

2011-07-11 Thread John Culleton
On Monday, July 11, 2011 12:08:25 pm John Culleton wrote: On Monday, July 11, 2011 10:25:55 am Cecil Westerhof wrote: I am using ConTeXt to make documentation for a webbased application. (100+ document) Last week they showed me another document with used a kind of rainbow

[NTG-context] First baby steps with MKIV

2011-07-02 Thread John Culleton
near '\' template.tex is an outline of a Context file: --- -- John Culleton Death Wore Black Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ Create Book Covers with Scribus http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Re: [NTG-context] First baby steps with MKIV

2011-07-02 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday, July 02, 2011 10:45:24 am John Culleton wrote: Followed this wiki, http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals installed in my personal directory. Now for the most elementary quetsion: Given the file foo.tex how do I actually run mkiv context on it? I tried mtxrun

Re: [NTG-context] Using Luatex.

2011-06-30 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 05:01:29 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 29.06.2011 um 22:50 schrieb John Culleton: Been away for a while. Currently using luatex for lightly formatted documents. But I want to use Context for my next job (lots of formatting). How do I incorporate luatex

[NTG-context] Using Luatex.

2011-06-29 Thread John Culleton
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[NTG-context] PDF X/1-a:2001

2011-06-09 Thread John Culleton
It has been suggested that Context can create this format, which is required by some printers for color work. Any info on X/1-a:2001? -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus www.lybrary.com/create-book-covers-with-scribus-p-74177.html

Re: [NTG-context] structuring Context code using \input statements.

2011-02-08 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 07 February 2011 18:07:29 Hans Hagen wrote: On 7-2-2011 10:39, John Culleton wrote: In all forms of TeX it is my custom to start with a brief main file and call the various components of the document into the input stream with \input statements. The termination of the document

[NTG-context] structuring Context code using \input statements.

2011-02-07 Thread John Culleton
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Re: [NTG-context] Curly quotes was TTF fonts and MKIV

2011-01-31 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday 30 January 2011 16:52:55 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 30.01.2011 um 17:29 schrieb John Culleton: Thanks for your reply. Are you telling me that \input foo no longer works the way it used to? \input works but \environment is the “ConTeXt Way” to load your personal settings

Re: [NTG-context] Curly quotes was TTF fonts and MKIV

2011-01-30 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 29 January 2011 11:53:20 John Culleton wrote: On Friday 28 January 2011 16:52:57 Marco Pessotto wrote: John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com writes: Is there a short, simple guide somewhere that shows how to use TTF and OTF fonts in Context? I downloaded the new Fonts chapter

Re: [NTG-context] Curly quotes was TTF fonts and MKIV

2011-01-30 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday 30 January 2011 10:52:10 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 30.01.2011 um 16:34 schrieb John Culleton: I have tried various fonts, including charterbt, calibri (ttf) and so on. I get the called-for font but the sequences for curly double quotes, in use since Ramses II, give me either two

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