[NTG-context] Re: How to read syntax descriptions

2004-07-15 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Salman, (second attempt for this mail...) \startitemize[..,..,..][..,..=..,..] ... \stopitemize 1) The \startitemize is optionally followed by a comma separated list of parameters enclosed in brackets. right. 2) Then a set of key-value pairs enclosed in brackets follows. Again

[NTG-context] Re: \setupURL issues

2004-07-05 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Nikolai, \setupurl [color=blue] Does setupurl take color as an argument? Where is this documented? Patrick BTW: \setupinteraction[color=blue] works; perhaps this is enough for a workaround. -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062

[NTG-context] Re: listings.sty

2004-06-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Peter, I suggested to the author of the very feature rich LaTeX-Listings package, Carsten Heinz, to port this package to ConTeXt, and it seems, that he is interested. But before doing it, there are some questions: * What do Hans and other people thing about that? Hmm, I never use

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-Wiki

2004-06-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, the idea of the keywords is very nice... in http://wiki.tcl.tk you can search for a specific page using the url http://wiki.tcl.tk/file even more, you can search all pages containing a word like in: http://wiki.tcl.tk/menu* But this is not a pure keyword serach. This is just a

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-Wiki

2004-06-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Also, this could be the url for hight level FAQ (this forum it not realy a hight level forum!) Go ahead and put it in the wiki! Its up to us all to put content in there. - how about ConTeXt future (why it is not open source?) It is open source, even free software. You can go ahead and

[NTG-context] Re: High level user macro (howto?)

2004-06-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Bonjour Maurice, One thing is missing in context (or not documented in reference manual?) is a standard and easy way to build arbitrary parametrised high level macros. what about: \def\myCommand{\dosingleempty\doMyCommand} \def\doMyCommand[#1]{% \getparameters[XYZ][#1]% define your own

[NTG-context] compile problems

2004-06-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Idris, Remove the -translate-file option from texexec.ini and try again. There are no *.ini files in the latest beta, but 2 *.rme files; which one of them should be modified (or both)? diff ./texmf/context/config/texexec.rme ./texmf/scripts/context/perl/texexec.rme - no difference ;-)

[NTG-context] Re: Installation problem

2004-06-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Matt Gushee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: texexec --make en de nl Yes, I knew about that, and had already created the en and nl formats (since I don't work with German documents at all, I don't need de, do I?). No, you don't need de. Even when you want to typeset german documents, you don't

[NTG-context] Re: updating context in cygwin by hand

2004-06-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] pdfetex: unrecognized option `-fmt=cont-en' Try `pdfetex --help' for more information. known bug... see a message from me in thread installation problem http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/15443 Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki:

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-Wiki

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, the idea of the keywords is very nice... in http://wiki.tcl.tk you can search for a specific page using the url http://wiki.tcl.tk/file even more, you can search all pages containing a word like in: http://wiki.tcl.tk/menu* But this is not a pure keyword serach. This is just a

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-Wiki

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Also, this could be the url for hight level FAQ (this forum it not realy a hight level forum!) Go ahead and put it in the wiki! Its up to us all to put content in there. - how about ConTeXt future (why it is not open source?) It is open source, even free software. You can go ahead and

[NTG-context] Re: when trying to setup Arial fonts...

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] because then you would ask how to turn off all those messages, add \tracetypescriptstrue to cont-sys.tex and you'll have tons of messages -) you should have warned me before, I have no space on my harddisk left anymore ;-) Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt

[NTG-context] Re: Wrapping \type{}

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Nikolai Weibull [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] \startBNF regex: branch ; branch, |, regex. \stopBNF [...] It actually worked! Thank you so much for the example. I'll probably rewrite my module a bit to work more like your example above actually, [...] So, did you complete your

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-Wiki

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Maurice, texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062 Not accessible! Perhaps because I'm behind a firewall? I should try at home. I just double checked that the services both run ok. If there is any problem that could be on my side, please tell me.

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-Wiki

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, But as Open Source, I also (by mistake) mean a SourceForge projet from which: - an **unique** starting URL. www.pragma-ade.com - dated version would be available, http://www.pragma-ade.com/download.htm - current official documentation (I didn't mean documentationsss)

[NTG-context] Re: metafun

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, try texexec --alone --make metafun and your texexec is (as far as I can judge) far out of date. TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 is current Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062

[NTG-context] Re: metafun

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, but I don't understand...I downloaded cont-tmf.zip yesterday from pragma-ade downloading page... is it not the right place/version? that is the only authorative(spelling?) place to download... There are mirrors, but I don't know how uptodate they are. The output you have sent me

[NTG-context] Re: metafun

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Jose, do I have to invoke texexec --make --alone in a specific directory to perform correct installation of ConTeXt ? texexec --make --alone bypasses your distribution's way of installing format files (fmtutil in your case I guess). Put the resulting format files (*.fmt, *efmt, *mem) in

[NTG-context] Re: filename

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans, there is also \currentfile \starttext \currentfile \stoptext - undefined cs \currentfile Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062 ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: Installation problem

2004-06-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans and Matt, here is my solution: in texexec.ini change set TeXFormatFlag to into: set TeXFormatFlag to (empty) and run texexec like: texexec --tex=pdfetex file.tex this is because texexec checks if ( $TeXFormatFlag eq ) { if ($TeXProgram =~

[NTG-context] Re: when trying to setup Arial fonts...

2004-06-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Jose, I am trying to setup Arial fonts...I am quite a newbie to this ConTeXt thing... I have just done \setupbodyfont[helvetica,ss,12pt] cause \usetypescript apparently is not recognised in my ConTeXt (previous version to the latest update of these days) \usetypescript is an old

[NTG-context] Re: when trying to setup Arial fonts...

2004-06-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, thanks for your reply... hmmm, I tried your code but I get a funny message. The thing is that I suspect I am lacking some files... Try \usetypescript [adobekb][ec] \usetypescript [postscript][ec] \setupbodyfont[pos,ss,12pt] \starttext foo \stoptext How old is your ConTeXt? What

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-Wiki

2004-06-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Holger, [starting ConTeXt wiki at] http://members.ping.de:8062/ What kind of example documents do you think of? I guess that you know that the magazines on the main ConTeXt site have their source code included? I was thinking of all kinds of day-to-day documents, like the letter

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-Wiki

2004-06-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Matt, b) It is hard to classify the documents. Two possibilities: Yes, it is hard to classify them (and many other things) if you insist on forcing them into a single, canonical hierarchy. Oh, I don't insist on anything; I just don't have clue how to start... But what if you classified

[NTG-context] Re: Installation problem

2004-06-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, Well, I've deleted all the old ConTeXt directories, reinstalled the new version, copied the *.rme files to *.ini (or whatever they are supposed to be ... I think), regenerated the 'en', 'nl', and 'metafun' formats, and run texhash ... I'm still getting the same error. did you update

[NTG-context] Re: Installation problem

2004-06-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Matt, I just came across the same error. I don't know why I didn't notice before, but texexec seems to be 'broken'. Well, I don't know if it is really broken, but it just does not to the same thing it used to. It gives me same error as you get. Using an old texexec works fine for me. I didn't

[NTG-context] Re: filename

2004-06-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Thomas, I'm looking for a comand to insert the current filename and or path like inserting the current date with \currentdate. Any help? Well, I don't think you can do this. You can only get the name of the main TeX file by using \jobname, but thats all. (Hopefully I didn't miss some

[NTG-context] Re: itemize

2004-06-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Willi, Of course Patrick's answer works. Another aproach is to use the \setupitemize command. This gives you more control over the spacing between the symbol and the text. I keep forgetting about right, left. \setupitemize [1] %level of itemization [broad,atnmargin] The atnmargin

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-Wiki

2004-06-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Holger and everybody, [starting ConTeXt wiki at] http://members.ping.de:8062/ Finde ich eine gute Idee! Was mir (neben der Hilfe auf auf der Liste für neue Probleme) am meisten bringt, und ich bisher etwas vermisse, sind Beispiel-Dokumente (genauer: deren Quellcode). [missing

[NTG-context] Re: update

2004-06-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans, I synced the website. Apart from a few new magazines a few? I can see mag #6 as the newest one, 5 were already there some time ago. there is a preliminary manual 'xmldir' and there are manuals for xmltools and textools. any chance that you update the context.www or the list of

[NTG-context] Re: Two level declaration using vardef.

2004-06-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello everybody, One small query (:-} No answer, but you might think of posting your questions on the appropriate list: http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/metapost Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: itemize

2004-06-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Thomas A.Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are two very basic questions, but I couldn't find basic answers. Am quite willing to RTFM, but would be grateful for pointing to specific sections. So here comes: 1) Is it possible to have something in front of the number in numbered

[NTG-context] Re: pdfTeX questions

2004-06-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi out there, It seems, that there is no key named keywords ? it's 'keyword' (e.g. keyword={a,b,c}) for patrick (added to setupb/setupinteraction): \variable[\c!trefwoord][\c!text!][] Thanks. I have added this in texshow-web[1] now. Anybody can change the definition now by editing

[NTG-context] Re: MPost: how to pass variables from mpost to TeX.

2004-06-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, My mpost doesn’t have “textext” macro. So, what are the other ways of doing it? Sorry, I thought you were using metafun (since you asked on the ConTeXt mailing list I didn't think of using plain mp) You have to do something like that is described at:

[NTG-context] Re: MPOST: How to pass variables from mpost to TeX

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, perhaps http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/15153 can help you? Patrick PS: Please don't post HTML mails ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Re: \AtBeginDocument

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Peter, is there something in ConTeXt like the \AtBeginDocument in LaTeX ? does \appendtoks{Hello} \to \everystarttext do what you need? Patrick -- Es wird kein Wunder geschehen ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: \AtBeginDocument

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans, beware: in your example grouple is applied as well as a space added after the } Oh, thanks. I should be more careful with my examples. Patrick -- Es wird kein Wunder geschehen ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: \startlinenumbering and \starttyping

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Nikolai Weibull [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope I'm missing something, because these commands don't seem to interact flawlessly. What I do now is \startlinenumbering ! Undefined control sequence. recently read \startfiletyping l.3 \startfiletyping

[NTG-context] Re: \startlinenumbering and \starttyping

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Nikolai, Argh, should have sticked to the original example - copy and pasted... Anyway, it is equivalent to [...] Sorry, your file works fine here, except that there is no \starttext...\stoptext pair. No error/overfull box/... ... systems: begin file test at line 1

[NTG-context] Re: flushbottom

2004-05-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how could I get stretchable space between paragraphs, tables and figures, so that the last line of a page flushes always to the bottom? \setupwhitespace[0pt plus 1pt] does not seem to work... try \setupwhitespace[0pt plus 1fil] But this might be too

[NTG-context] Re: pdfTeX questions

2004-05-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, why don't you use \setupinteraction for this? \pdfinfo{ /Title (\Ubung) /Author (Münster) } % neither \U nor ü work \setupinteraction[title=Übung,Author=Münster] \pdfcatalog{ /PageMode /FullScreen } % this works well \setupinteraction[option=max] \pdfdest num 1 fitbh % I would like

[NTG-context] Re: pdfTeX questions

2004-05-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello again, \externalfigure[example][width=5cm] some text, jpeg-figure is shifted down and to the left. I don't see that it is shifted to the left, but slightly down (I wonder where this is aligned?). And \externalfigure eats up the whitespace after 5cm]. This is sligthly confusing. This is

[NTG-context] Re: pdfTeX questions

2004-05-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
correction: \pdfcatalog{ /PageMode /FullScreen } % this works well \setupinteraction[option=max] \setupinteractionscreen[option=max] (...screen) Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: pdfTeX questions

2004-05-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: \setupinteraction[title=Übung,Author=Münster] Thanks, I missed those keys in the manual. Ü is still not working, perhaps I should update to ConTeXt-2004.4.9 ? a quick test shows that /Author (M¸nster) is put in the pdf file, where the Character after

[NTG-context] Re: Overwritten metapost files

2004-05-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, still go in the same directory as myfile, such as metapost files a .tmp and the .tui file. I guess it's not that bad, but I like keeping things as clean as possible. You know about texutil --purgeall ? Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] Re: Grid, section, grid=top

2004-05-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dear ConTeXt hackers, did you look at the options described in details.pdf? maybe grid=page will help; OK, yesterday I have played with my problem a bit and here is a testfile. I need grid=top for the extra distance between the previous paragraph and the sectionheading. So grid=page can only

[NTG-context] Re: Getting { in the input.

2004-05-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Nikolai, Again I'm having some problems generating my ASCII table, this time it's { and } that are the culprits. try one of these: \starttext \textbraceleft \type-{- \stoptext Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Sebastian (sorry for sending twice; this time to the list), \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw textext($\frac{a}{b}$); draw textext($\root a \of b$); \stopuseMPgraphic any reason you use textext here? Do you need changing labels? If not, you should use

[NTG-context] Grid, section, grid=top

2004-05-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dear ConTeXt hackers, on a new project I'd like to use grid snapping. One section level should have grid=top to get some distance between the text preceding the section heading and the heading itself. This works fine. But when the section starts at a new page I don't want any extra line inserted

[NTG-context] Re: page selection with context magnifies

2004-05-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Karl, I'm using context (from TL 2003) to select pages. It's apparently actually changing the content, that is, enlarging it! Consider page 2 of the attached covers.pdf. I try to extract it with: texexec --mode=letter --pdfselect --selection=2 --result=bad2.pdf covers.pdf try:

[NTG-context] Re: Metapost font size

2004-05-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, if I remember correctly: Besides the answer from Willi, you can also use \startMPenvironment[+] ... \stopMPenvironment and the result will be used for MP and text. Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: Announcement: texutil.c

2004-03-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Taco, Not sure if any of you consider this useful, but: I have created a C port of the perl script texutil from the ConTeXt distribution. may I ask you a question: why did you port it to c? Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL

[NTG-context] Re: Again: hanging for a lot of paragraphs?

2004-02-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Very quick hack: \starttext \def\hangover{\hangafter=1\hangindent=1em }% sorry for the stupid macro name \definestartstop[hangingarea] [before={\bgroup\appendtoks\hangover\to\everypar}, after=\egroup] \starthangingarea \input tufte \input tufte \stophangingarea \input tufte

[NTG-context] Re: Editor questions: SciTE and Emacs

2004-01-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Gary Pajer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how to figure out how up to date my auctex is. C-h v AUCTeX-version RET I checked it out of CVS a while ago, and I haven't been able to update it ... the connection times out. Did you follow the new instruction on svannah.gnu.org?

[NTG-context] Re: textbar

2004-01-26 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, i'm not sure if \textbar is/should be in the encoding vectors ... since | is made active, we have to have some way to work around it. Or we should be able to use \| to get char 124. It does not have to be \textbar. \chardef\|=124 would be ok, wouldn't it? Patrick -- Morgen gibts kein

[NTG-context] Re: textbar

2004-01-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Thomas A.Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was under the (mistaken?) impression that textbar (for |) was predefined somewhere in the distribution, but couldn't find anyhting. It is defined in enco-cyr.tex, but should also be defined in (at least) enco-tbo.tex enco-ans.tex enco-ec.tex So

[NTG-context] Re: columnset error

2004-01-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, If I put a \ before stoptext it works fine here. (Texlive latest version and no upgrade of context) I think that is a feature of a recent ConTeXt. I did wonder why I had a b/e error, too... Now I know. Patrick -- Morgen gibts kein ABC mehr...

[NTG-context] columnset error

2004-01-12 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi out there, what is wrong with the following code? \starttext \definecolumnset[twocol][n=2] \startcolumnset[twocol] \dorecurse{10}{\section{hello} \dorecurse{8}{\input tufte \par}} \stopcolumnset stoptext it gives me: !: Missing number, treated as zero. --- TeX said --- to be read again

[NTG-context] Re: midaligned tabulate?

2004-01-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Willi, I would try to place this in the \placefloat environment hmm, but I don't want it to float nor do I need a caption. \placetable[here,middle][] {centered table} {\starttabulate your actual table ... \stoptabulate} Patrick -- Es wird kein Wunder geschehen

[NTG-context] Re: midaligned tabulate?

2004-01-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans, \definefloat[centered][table] \setupfloat[centered][default={none}] would this ever float (I don't want it to). rest looks fine. Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] midaligned tabulate?

2004-01-07 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I just wonder how to center a table -- \starttext \startalignment[middle] this is centered? \stopalignment \startalignment[middle] \starttabulate[|l|l|] \FL \NC Platz 1--12 \NC Block A\NC\NR \NC Platz 7--18 \NC Block B\NC\NR \NC Platz

[NTG-context] Re: page setup

2004-01-06 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I still wonder why there is an empty page... This is slightly annoying. Try this: -- \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2SIDE] \starttext \showframe \dorecurse{7}{\input tufte \par} \stoptext \endinput

[NTG-context] Re: Text Editor for ConTeXt

2004-01-05 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] Only Emacs with the context.el plug-in appears to compare with Latex editors. However, context.el conflicts with my installation of Emacs (which includes the Auctex package) and will not load. Are there any other editors that are recommended? Any other suggestions? Emacs with the

[NTG-context] Re: VTeX

2004-01-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Peter, is it possible to get work ConTeXt and VTeX together? It's interesting because of free EC fonts in type 1 format in the VTeX-Linux distribution. Last time I checked, VTeX did not support ConTeXt. I doubt that it changed. Patrick -- Es wird kein Wunder geschehen

[NTG-context] Re: extended ascii characters

2004-01-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Gonçalo Morais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for your help... I am aware of \char167 isntruction but in the next example nothing seems to happen!! It surely depends on the fonts you use. Default is cmr, which has, as far as I know, only 7bit encoding. So \char167 will lead to nothing.

[NTG-context] Re: texexec changes drives

2003-12-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
David, That was probably me, but I never got an answer. Oh sorry. So I did remember something, but missed the end of the discussion. I am of no help here. Patrick -- mon transistor j'adore ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: texexec changes drives

2003-12-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi David, Has anyone else experienced this strange behavior of changing drives? iirc this was on the list two months ago. Patrick -- mon transistor j'adore ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] vertical spacing in tabulate

2003-12-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dear ConTeXt users, I'd like to reduce the vertical spacing in the following tabulation. How do I do this? I couldn't find an answer in the up-to-date (4). \starttext \tfxx \starttabulate[|r|l|r|] \NC 1\NC Testbild (Mittagspause)\NC 2:42\NC \NR \NC 2\NC Innenstadtfront (Mittagspause)\NC 1:11\NC

[NTG-context] Re: psfrag

2003-12-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi David, So, is there any ConTeXt equivalent to LaTeX's \psfrag command? No. It would be very useful to process PostScript output from vector graphics drawing programs. How does psfrag from LaTeX work internally? Perhaps we are able to make something similar. Patrick -- mon trainsistor

[NTG-context] Re: Re : MetaPost with etex/btex

2003-12-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi David, Sorry for being that vague. You are still very vague. Your posted example works fine here. Please report what ConTeXt/texexec version you have. You might think of posting your logfile. Do you have \protectbufferstrue in cont-sys.tex? Patrick -- mon trainsistor j'adore

[NTG-context] Re: texexec page selection changes output?

2003-12-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello out there I recently used texexec to select a given page from a file (attached) of three pages: texexec --pdfselect --selection=2 --result=cover2-tx.pdf covers.pdf When I try to do the above, ConTeXt looks for a font aicmti10. What is going on here? Something misconfigured? This is

[NTG-context] Re: Converting Latex style files for use in Context

2003-12-12 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Like all TeX related things you can find it in CTAN, exactly in well, not *all* TeX relatet stuff is on CTAN... http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/misc/ebnf.sty The file is old (1991) and incorrect (the last Cat is missing its backslash). And even with this

[NTG-context] Re: Converting Latex style files for use in Context

2003-12-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Adam, I have an ebnf grammar which I need to put in a context doc and have a specific style file (ebnf.sty). Is there an easy way to convert it for use in context. How should we know? I don't have ebnf.sty on my system so this is probably not a well known package. If you provide some

[NTG-context] Re: Context-mode for Emacs 21.3

2003-12-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there already some comparison between these 2 modes somewhere (advantages/disadvantages)? None that I know of. I have compared these two at the DANTE Meeting in April this year. But nothing written down. I guess that if you use AUCTeX with LaTeX

[NTG-context] Re: pdf problem

2003-12-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED](Walter Harms) writes: Hi willi, i run on a linux only box with a vanilla SuSE 9.0 texexec --version [...] since your pdf file was fine (included the 1), there are no problems generating the pdf. It is only a problem viewing it. What viewer are you using? Patrick --

[NTG-context] Re: installing context with tetex

2003-12-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Walter, thats it :) i was unaware of the \starttext \stoptext :( You should alway start with a simple document and then extend it. Hallo hans ? can you please adjust the typesetting.. document ? So at least at start it should have a full example. Which document are you talking

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt and emacs

2003-11-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Thomas, sorry, I'm too dumb for CVS. I succeeded in finding your file context.el and dlding it, but how do I make it work in auctex? Is it sufficient to just copy it into site-lisp/auctex/ ? Oh, no. context.el only works with the cvs version of the other files that come with AUCTeX.

[NTG-context] Re: german hyphenation patterns

2003-11-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I activate german hyphenation patterns? I have used \mainlanguage[de] in my document and it was OK some time ago. Meanwhile I have updated ConTeXt and my TeX (current texlive). Somehow the format file did not load any hyphenation patterns

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt and emacs

2003-11-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Thomas [...] as run texexec on the file I'm editing). A while ago, Patrick mentioned that new versions of auctex will be context-aware, but the stable version I dlded knew nothing about ConTeXt. It is in the cvs-version of AUCTeX. Has anybody succeeded in installing a new version

[NTG-context] Re: german hyphenation patterns

2003-11-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --language={en,de} I tried this one but no different results. I guess I should come up with a minimal example. i wonder why those patterns are not loaded, (do you use cont-en ?) good question. This is the head of the output: ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.26

[NTG-context] german hyphenation patterns

2003-11-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi out there, I'am not sure if this is a ConTeXt problem (I doubt it slightly) but I am a bit confused: How can I activate german hyphenation patterns? I have used \mainlanguage[de] in my document and it was OK some time ago. Meanwhile I have updated ConTeXt and my TeX (current texlive). Where

[NTG-context] Re: page backgrounds

2003-11-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Thomas A.Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me provide an answer myself: the btex ... etex doesn't seem to work. This code: make sure \protectbufferstrue is set in cont-sys.tex Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] Re: page backgrounds

2003-11-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, Thanks, Patrick. \protectbufferstrue is uncommented (I guess that's the default, isn't it?). Right, I just checked. It was a common error in the past. Does the btex...etex work on your box? Could anyone running Mac OS X (10.2 for the time being) verify if it works on their

[NTG-context] Re: Problems with superscripts and macros

2003-11-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Frank, it took me a while to find the error, because it is really hidden: However if I put the same sequence in a macro \def\celcius{$^\circ$C} -20\celsius\ Dewpoint -20\celsius Dewpoint What is going on, you defined \celcius but used \celsius (s/c). \celsius is a predefined macro

[NTG-context] Re: page backgrounds

2003-11-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] (I changed the lines) The third example does not produce what is expected. what did you expect? \startuseMPgraphic{brouillon} draw btex brouillon etex ; currentpicture := currentpicture ysized (\overlayheight-3cm) ; this command scales

[NTG-context] Re: page backgrounds

2003-11-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Thomas, These are my first forays into the unknown territories of Metapost. You'll enjoy your journey once you get MP working. The following code is copied verbatim from the matafun-manual: [...] But I don't see anything. The log shows that metapost calculated a background, but I

[NTG-context] Re: Indenting all lines in a paragraph, first line excluded

2003-11-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] And there is a lesson for me to be learned here: I shouldn't depend on all the higher-level ConTeXt commands that much! Well, it is not always a bad idea to look for a high level command first. If you use low level ones you should know what you're doing. In case you want the second and

[NTG-context] Re: backgrounds

2003-11-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, Could You give me some hint how to setup different backgrounds for even and odd pages? Lets say I would like to have something like I don't know about backgrounds, but see s-mag-01.tex for odd/even page graphics. Patrick ___ ntg-context

[NTG-context] Re: reset \use[sub]path

2003-11-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello again, I did so. I've noticed that 'reset' option works for \usepath only but I still get the solution. Please consider the following example (attached). OK, I had a close look at it and digged into deeper mechanisms of path handling in ConTeXt. ConTeXt stores the exact location of a

[NTG-context] Re: interaction with radio buttons

2003-11-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, What version of the reader are you using? 4.0 x86 linux stout0124 the JavaScript implementation differs from version to version. I don't have AR 4 here, so I can't test it. Hans has a good overview about JS and AR. I don't know what openactions are default, but try these two:

[NTG-context] Re: another itemize question

2003-10-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Gary, Now back to our regularly scheduled thread... I'm reaching the conclusion that the behaviour I reported at the top of the thread is a bug. Is it? If so, is a workaround or fix possible? We had almost the same thread in May(?) this year. I came to the conclusion that I don't know

[NTG-context] Re: Integrating Metapost

2003-10-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Andres Loeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Andres, This seems to be a very common problem. Isn't it possible to integrate a check into the metafun code so that a more helpful error message is produced in case of a format version mismatch? That would be good. Just as an example, one can do

[NTG-context] Re: inmargin text problems remain

2003-10-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Willi and others, Does anybody see the clue, how to tell Context to use the full marginwidth? I strongly believe that this is a bug. left/right should change to inner/outer on doublesided layout. But it does not (really): \showframe

[NTG-context] Re: another itemize question

2003-10-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Willi, Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TeXshow, but unfortunately the \setupitemize command is not listed there. - In the english manual I could find the use of this command, it is listed as \setupitemgroup Patrick -- You are your own rainbow!

[NTG-context] Re: Shutting down Acrobat Reader.

2003-10-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Thanks for your hint. There is an anomaly if I call Acrobat Reader from within Gvim session but if I just call Acrobat reader from a button or a command line everything works perfectly. what version of the Acrobat Reader are you using and what OS? I can't make it work here. Perhaps the

[NTG-context] Re: Shutting down Acrobat Reader.

2003-10-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello John, And another question: Some of the pdf examples on the Context site automatically open in full screen mode. How is this accomplished? \doPDFaddtocatalog{/PageMode\space/FullScreen} I wonder if there is a high level command for it (\setupinteraction...) Patrick -- You are

[NTG-context] Re: Shutting down Acrobat Reader.

2003-10-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, I wonder if there is a high level command for it (\setupinteraction...) \setupinteractionscreen [option=max] should work. I was looking at it for a few times this afternoon. But I wonder why I didn't think of this solution? Thanks. Patrick -- You are your own rainbow!

[NTG-context] Re: Figure reuse

2003-10-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I believe that pdfs can make multiple use of pictures (and other objects). right. I have a fairly large picture which I want to include a number of times, once as the full picture and several other times concentrating on a portion of it. Are there any commands for cropping other than

[NTG-context] Re: Simple but frustrating cross reference problem

2003-10-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I have a very simple challenge: I want to insert a reference point in a document, so that I can later refer to the page number at that point, but I'm not outputting a sectioning or start... command at the point in question. besides your approach: \starttext See page \ref[p][myref 1] and

[NTG-context] Re: Pagebreak after section followed itemize

2003-10-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Ooops. I could find it myself, couldn't I? I'm sorry to bother you all. no problem. Since I remember this being on the list a while ago, I did a quick search. And many thanks for your answer. I wonder how the \testpage works. If you know a bit of TeX, you might want to look at

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