[NTG-context] Arabic/English typesetter needed.

. -- John Culleton http://wexfordpress.com http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf _ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

Re: [NTG-context] Pesky list problem

=subsubsubject,criterium=local] \setupcombinedlist[foo] \starttext \title{Annotated Booklist} ... \placelist[foo] \subject{Top Choices} \subsubject{General Publishing} This set of commands stops with errors. What stupid thing did I do this time? -- John Culleton Gave up

[NTG-context] Turn off interaction in some TOC levels?

} \advance\marknumber by 1} . \bookmark{0}{Index} \placecontent ... The explanation of the format of the \pdfoutline command in the manual wasn't clear to me but the above macro clears it up. -- John Culleton http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

[NTG-context] Compatiblity option in pdf

problems. A friend ftom the InDesign/Distiller world suggests that I recreate the pdf with the compatibility option turned on. Does this suggestion have any meaning in the Context/pdftex world? Can interested readers read the above url OK? -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think

Re: [NTG-context] Compatiblity option in pdf

On Monday 22 October 2007 12:53:21 pm Peter Rolf wrote: Hi John, John Culleton schrieb: I created a short document http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf using Context and with a clickable TOC and one thumbnail. The thumbnail was created with the Han The Thanh pdftex macro code I

Re: [NTG-context] luatex

doesn't? -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] luatex

On Thursday 25 October 2007 12:10:24 pm Hans Hagen wrote: John Culleton wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:49:44 am Hans Hagen wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi, at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected

[NTG-context] Semi-transparent banners for a cover.

. It is a layer cake, a photo, with semi-transparent rectangles laid across it, and type within the rectangles. This is a job more easily done in Gimp etc. but my question is, can it be done in Context at all? How do I create the semi-transparent elements? -- John Culleton Want to know what I

Re: [NTG-context] Which ConTeXt editor do you use?

of the whole book. Kpdf automatically updates witout losing its place. Acrobat Reader won't do that. In other words I have WYSIWYG more or less when I need it. I find this to be an efficient setup. -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog

[NTG-context] JUstificarion of \inleft

in \leftline or whatever but I am hoping there is a more general solution. -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ colour settings

automatic sensing by suffix but you can manually select one too. It even has one for Context. You can modify the syntax files if you like or create new ones but either task looks like an all-day project to me. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex

Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ colour settings

On Saturday 03 November 2007 01:54:56 am Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, John Culleton wrote: On Friday 02 November 2007 08:12:31 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have downloaded the latest Notepad++ and ConTeXt settings as suggested by Professor Hamid and I'm enjoying

[NTG-context] Test message, different mail server.

My isp doesn't like ntg.nl for some reason. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

[NTG-context] Test message---different mail server.

-- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ 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] Some update woes on Linux

-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6) -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

[NTG-context] \useURL third parameter

I find in the wiki examples of \useURL. The third parameter is however a mystery to me. What is it used for? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com

[NTG-context] \useURL problem.

If I use e.g.: \useURL[a][http://www.creativemindspress.com]\from[a] it works but if I use \useURL[a][http://www.creativemindspress.com/bkpckg.htm ]\from[a] I get an error message. Yet the second form is a valid url. Any suggestions? -- John Culleton

Re: [NTG-context] \useURL problem.

On Saturday 05 January 2008 01:46:53 pm John Culleton wrote: If I use e.g.: \useURL[a][http://www.creativemindspress.com]\from[a] it works but if I use \useURL[a][http://www.creativemindspress.com/bkpckg.htm ]\from[a] I get an error message. Yet the second form is a valid url. Any

[NTG-context] Sumary of current versions of Context

--version): /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/texmfstart:1838: /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/base/system.rb:16: TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

[NTG-context] Spacing on TOC using alternative a

[subsubsection][alternative=a,interaction=all] -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

[NTG-context] Minimum file length.

. test defaulted to pdf 1.2, the other two to pdf 1.4. I don't doubt that with more text the counts would be more similar. Still the fourfold increase between the second test and the third is a stunner. The e-book must be limited to 2 megs per the publisher. Just fyi -- John Culleton Resources

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ultraminimals

you to pick and choose which software you install. And a CDR variant, Slax, will run from a mini-cdr. There are other diminutive Linuxes. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

proposed the distro I'm using (Mandriva). It chose Gentoo (too much for me) and Slackware (been using it more than ten years.) -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

a terminal window on the GUI (KDE in my case.) -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: (scientific) poster

. -a- Agree in part. I like to use Scribus for graphics-intensive work but the file sizes can get out of sight. But it's great for book covers. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http

[NTG-context] How to set up bookman font.

After all these years font handling in Context still eludes me. I want to use Bookman font and all its variants. Here is what I have: \usetypescriptfile[type-syn] \usetypescript[bookman] \setupbodyfont[bookman,12bp] But I still get a default font. Be gentle :) -- John Culleton Resources

Re: [NTG-context] Word-to-LaTex on linux?

a good text save function. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

[NTG-context] chapter page on right.

. It should be blank. I can kludge this up with a wrapper macro containing \ifodd\pageno etc. but it seems there should be a more Contextish way to handle it. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex

[NTG-context] Running heads peculiarity

or will this be fixed? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

[NTG-context] Fwd: chapter page on right.

This message seems not to have gone through. Therefore I am resending it. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: chapter page on right. Date: Tuesday 08 July 2008 From: John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailing list for ConTeXt users ntg-context@ntg.nl I have set up the \chapter

Re: [NTG-context] chapter page on right.

On Tuesday 08 July 2008 06:58:32 pm Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, John Culleton wrote: I have set up the \chapter command thus; \setuphead[chapter][page=right,style={\nimbua},header=high] where nimbua is a font. The chapter head appears on a recto (odd numbered) page

[NTG-context] Part dividers, American style.

. It isn't needed on the page itself. If the part title is short then the third parameter is simply left blank. \nimbux has a simple font defintition. A typesectipt would have been too much effort for this single use: \font\nimbux texnansi-n019044t at 33bp %Nimbus bold sans condensed -- John

[NTG-context] \setuphheadertexts for titles.

chapter,title. Somehow there must be a way to change the current chapter marking but I can't figure it out. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com

Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

and reliable. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

[NTG-context] Indexing problem solved. Makeindex works with Context!

PROTECTED] item''} %prints index item in quotes ... \input book.ind %prints index I haven't checked out all the other extra features, such as putting proof marks in the margin, but the above is sufficient for starters. -- John Culleton

Re: [NTG-context] Indexing problem solved. Makeindex works with Context!

On Saturday 19 July 2008 12:13:25 pm John Culleton wrote: I discovered an old file in the texsis distribution called index.tex. Unlike eplain.tex it doesn't cause problems when used with Context. It creates the book.idx file required by makeindex. Now the full range of features of makeindex

Re: [NTG-context] cont-enp.pdf on lulu

all the bits and pieces and writing somthing myself. But then I lie down until the fit passes. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http

[NTG-context] all about \about

they serve? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

Re: [NTG-context] all about \about

On Tuesday 22 July 2008 04:12:48 pm Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, John Culleton wrote: The \about cross reference command woks ok if I use \about[aa] It delivers the title (or part of it in this case) of the section marked aa. but when I try to give it some text

Re: [NTG-context] \index versus makeindex.

On Monday 21 July 2008 02:16:04 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:38 PM, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usually I use makeindex for indexing but for my current job I thought the Context \index command would be convenient. However I discovered that the \index

Re: [NTG-context] greek again

are catching up. Best Martin I use texlive on Slackware. It also allows you to pick and choose what you install. My files end up in /usr/local/texlive/2007 Slackware has the tetex package in the Slackware distro but I always eliminate that one. It is quite obsolete. -- John Culleton

[NTG-context] Flaky pdf file.

? -- 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://www.pragma

Re: [NTG-context] Flaky pdf file.

version of Context I have also fails this test: ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2007.9.26 int: english/english My test file at the moment is: \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext foo \stoptext I am testing on LInux Slackware 12. Perhaps Hans or Thanh would care to comment. -- John

Re: [NTG-context] Flaky pdf file.

On Friday 26 September 2008 05:53:59 pm Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi John, John Culleton wrote: Therefore the problem lies in the recent Context I have been using, and not in ghostscript nor in my code. I am fairly certain the bug will also go away if you start your new context documents

Re: [NTG-context] Flaky pdf file.

On Friday 26 September 2008 07:10:17 pm John Culleton wrote: On Friday 26 September 2008 05:53:59 pm Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi John, John Culleton wrote: Therefore the problem lies in the recent Context I have been using, and not in ghostscript nor in my code. I am fairly certain

[NTG-context] PDF X/1-a:2001

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

[NTG-context] Using Luatex.

\font\it pplri7t at 10bp \font\bf pplb7t at 10bp -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters Cover design, Indexing, Interior Layout ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] Using Luatex.

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] First baby steps with MKIV

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

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] 'Rainbow' header/footer

://www.tankedup-imaging.com/gradient.html -- John Culleton Death Wore Black Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ Create Book Covers with Scribus http://booklocker.com/books/4055.html ___ If your question

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

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

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

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

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:

\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

[NTG-context] Finding Minion and Myriad

: - 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

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

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

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

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

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] Finding Minion and Myriad

/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

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

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

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

[NTG-context] Listing part in TOC

not use the \part statement at all and just do a \writebetweenlist[chapter]{Part 1 foo \hfil \pageno} but there should be a more legitimate way. -- John Culleton _ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy

Re: [NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

. are fonts and \zc etc. are macros using soul.sty. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _ Need personalized email and website? Look

[NTG-context] \writetolist vs \writebetweenlist

I can use \writebetweenlist to add a line to my TOC. I have to put the page number in manually. Here is the statement: \writebetweenlist[part]{\nimbus\zy{Part 1 Prerequisite for Success}\hfil 22\rm } It would seem more sensible to use \writetolist and let Context determine the page number. But

Re: [NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

I am having difficulty sending email to the list. The correct file name is http://wexfordpress.com/tex/headtest.pdf Sorry about that. John C. _ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web

[NTG-context] packing table of contents.

I want the chapter citations to be single spaced. For an itemized list the parameter is packed, What is it for the chapter list within a TOC? Thanks, John Culleton _ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy

[NTG-context] Natural table header limitation.

] 2/3 \eTH \bTH [nr=3] 4 \eTH \eTR \ETC. ! File ended while scanning use of \doTABLEhead. inserted text \par * tabletest.tex emergencyend ? - -- John

[NTG-context] Test message

test ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Headers for natural tables.

by others. Natural Tables have been around for a while. It is unfortunate that no one has come up with a real manual for these tables. All that exists are learn by example documents, which do not describe limitations such as the one I worked around in the above code. John Culleton

[NTG-context] Indexing problem---not

\immediate\openout\ind=book.idx \input idx.tex \def\sidx#1{\write\ind{\\indexentry{#1}{\the\pageno}}} No one seems to be able to make eplain.tex work with Context so this is the best I can do in a hurry. John Culleton _ Need

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

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] Returning...need advice on manuals for MKIV

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] \input filename causes error.

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

[NTG-context] TRying to download manual sources

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] Italic page number.

-- 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

Re: [NTG-context] Italic page number.

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

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

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

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

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

[NTG-context] Changing page number location for chapters

, 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

=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] Figured bass symbols in a text.

. -- 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] Latest version of Reference Manual

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

[NTG-context] running context mcommon.tex

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] Pointer to manual.

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.

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

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

} \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] Code in contextref-env.tex

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

[NTG-context] Defining a title font.

' 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

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

\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] Importing frontmatter

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

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] default parameter in \definefont

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

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

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

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

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

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