[NTG-context] Listing part in TOC

2007-02-07 Thread JOHN CULLETON
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

[NTG-context] Which version is best for MSWindows users.?

2005-02-19 Thread John Culleton
newbie to e.g., Context and pdfetex? Where would you point them for their first download? -- John Culleton ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Navigation of pragma-ade.nl site.

2005-02-19 Thread John Culleton
of security reasons. And of course many present/potential Context users may have Linux or OS X as their base systems. If a change is made in this direction I would be happy to run my various browsers against the Pragma site to make sure everything works as expected. -- John Culleton

Re: [NTG-context] Navigation of pragma-ade.nl site.

2005-02-19 Thread John Culleton
to.) Thanks, John Culleton ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Navigation of pragma-ade.nl site.

2005-02-19 Thread John Culleton
On Saturday 19 February 2005 14:23, John Culleton wrote: On Saturday 19 February 2005 09:52, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi John, Please do this: 1. goto http://www.pragma-ade.com (html page) 2. click on 'about' link (top menu, opens new html page) 3. Now you can navigate using 'previous

[NTG-context] URL to d-en-all.pdf

2005-02-17 Thread John Culleton
? -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book packagers/coaches/consultants: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf Printers who are SPAN sponsors: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/printers.pdf ___ ntg

Re: [NTG-context] URL to d-en-all.pdf

2005-02-17 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday 17 February 2005 11:52, Hans Hagen wrote: John Culleton wrote: I want to point people to the d-en-all.pdf example on the pragma-ade.nl site. Unfortunately the navigation of the site is now all pdf based and my browsers don't handle that well. Can someone either give me the URI

[NTG-context] Using capsule versoion of TeX from Pragma.

2005-01-30 Thread John Culleton
message /usr/bin/env: ruby: No such file or directory at this point I thought I had best stop stumbling around and ask for help. My base system is Slackware LInux 10.0. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book packagers/coaches

Re: [NTG-context] Using capsule versoion of TeX from Pragma.

2005-01-30 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:24, Peter Münster wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, John Culleton wrote: /usr/bin/env: ruby: No such file or directory at this point I thought I had best stop stumbling around and ask for help. My base system is Slackware LInux 10.0. There should be a package

Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenation peculiarity.

2004-12-30 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday 30 December 2004 04:30, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi John, John Culleton wrote: texexec --make en nl Should I download Context from Pragma and reinstall from scratch? Or just find an older version on a cdr somewhere? Other suggestions? Check if you see these lines during

Re: [NTG-context] Context index and sorting question

2004-12-29 Thread John Culleton
. It is specifically designed to address the situations you described, i.e. non-Western European sort rules. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http

[NTG-context] Hyphenation peculiarity.

2004-12-29 Thread John Culleton
Context will use it. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenation peculiarity.

2004-12-29 Thread John Culleton
: no hyphenations en for en (n=1) language : no patterns uk for uk (n=2) (lang-uk.pat,ukhyph.tex language : no hyphenations uk for uk (n=2) John Culleton wrote: I noted that context seems to be most reluctant to hyphenate. So I ran a test file through plain tex, pdftex

Re: [NTG-context] Sidebars and versals Oh my!

2004-12-27 Thread John Culleton
) are going to be worried about in a batch-based system. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Extending metapost

2004-12-27 Thread John Culleton
that output PostScript instead of bitmapped fonts. It seems that the bulk of the necessary labor was done in the creation of Metapost. All that is needed is the production of a pfb file and an afm file instead of individual graphics files. Does anyone else dream of such a project? -- John

Re: [NTG-context] Sidebars and versals Oh my!

2004-12-27 Thread John Culleton
. A low bow in the direction of my mentors, Hans and Adam. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg

Re: [NTG-context] \FrameTitle not recognized.

2004-12-26 Thread John Culleton
On Sunday 26 December 2004 15:16, h h extern wrote: John Culleton wrote: Please note the following file: \starttext \FrameTitle{Zapf (1)} \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} beginfig(1); endfig; \stopuseMPgraphic{dummy} \useMPgraphic{dummy

[NTG-context] \FrameTitle not recognized.

2004-12-25 Thread John Culleton
an error no matter where I place it. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] algorithms style : need \starttyping with TeX and math feature

2004-12-25 Thread John Culleton
the troublemaker. Delete it and eplain works fine with Context. Latest versions of eplain may already have the fix, haven't tested them. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ ntg-context

[NTG-context] Sidebars and versals Oh my!

2004-12-24 Thread John Culleton
. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Phonetic Symbols

2004-12-01 Thread John Culleton
any feedback on how it wants to be used. Bernd, I'll forward the thing I've come up with off-list. It builds on the TIPA fonts in the LaTeX package. adam This is a bit heretical I know but couldn't one just use a \font\foo=nameoffont at 12pt type statement? -- John Culleton Short list

[NTG-context] Docbook and Context

2004-11-15 Thread John Culleton
to the base file of the document? I have no interest in becoming an XML guru---I just want to bid on this job if that makes sense or give the customer a no-bid if I am about to step in a swamp. -- John Culleton ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

[NTG-context] Vector or bitmapped?

2004-11-13 Thread John Culleton
After generating a graphic via Metapost and Metafun, is the result a vector graphic or a bitmapped graphic? -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL

[NTG-context] Imposition features/limitations.

2004-09-21 Thread John Culleton
of what could be done? This came up on another list while discussing pamphlet making. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Notes and questions on 432 page book.

2004-05-06 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 07:12 pm, Matthew Huggett wrote: John Culleton wrote: ... I use a master file and call components into it with \input statements Is there any advantage to using a master file with \input statements compared to using ConTeXt project and component files

[NTG-context] Notes and questions on 432 page book.

2004-05-05 Thread John Culleton
file then I lose the unwanted blank pages. Are they a byproduct of the \stopbodymatter statement? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg

Re: [NTG-context] Notes and questions on 432 page book.

2004-05-05 Thread John Culleton
for assembling multiple pdf pages into a single document. The glue sizes are of course document dependent. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo

Re: [NTG-context] Notes and questions on 432 page book.

2004-05-05 Thread John Culleton
. If however I demote the \stoptext statement to the end of the last file included the spurious page disappears. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Re:: \filbreak OK--TOC again--dupes in index.

2004-05-01 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday 29 April 2004 10:10 pm, John Culleton wrote: To make the eplain macros coexist with Context requires commenting out one line in eplain.tex: %\def^^L{\par}% What this line does I have no idea. Now I am told that It converts end of page characters (^L) to \par statements

Re: [NTG-context] verbatim problem

2004-04-27 Thread John Culleton
. This is a terrible solution but the best I could come up with in a hurry. No doubt someone will suggest a better one. BTW whre is \startEIFFEL documented? I don't recall seeing it before. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

[NTG-context] Table of Contents spacing.

2004-04-27 Thread John Culleton
] \setupcombinedlist[content][alternative=a] Probably I have one statement too many, or one parameter too many. Often with Context I get lost in the variations and cannot see the simple solution. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

[NTG-context] Pragma-ade site down?

2004-04-14 Thread John Culleton
I can no longer access the www.pragma-ade.nl site. What has happened? I recommended it to others and they were blocked also. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [NTG-context] vim syntax file for ConTeXt

2004-04-14 Thread John Culleton
is changed without losing the page location. this combination gives me semi-wsywig without ever leaving Gvim. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman

[NTG-context] Page number in outer margin?

2004-04-12 Thread John Culleton
for this feature. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Gray bars on Windows 98se

2004-02-23 Thread John Culleton
,FitHeight} state=start, style=, color=blue, contrastcolor=, menu=on, title=Free Authoring Software: From Premise to PDF, author=John Culleton] \setupinteractionscreen[option=max] \definecolor [DarkGray] [s=.6] \definecolor [MediumGray] [s=.8] \definecolor [LightGray] [s=.9

Re: [NTG-context] Install again

2003-12-31 Thread John Culleton
installed http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/cont-tmf.zip and rebuilt the formats: I downloaded, reinstalled, made the usual incantations, and added the command you suggested: texexec --make --alone en nl Now things work. Only the spirits know why. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers

[NTG-context] Installing Garamond

2003-11-17 Thread John Culleton
. The tfm, vf etc files all exist. Any hints? any debugging tricks? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Interrupted framebox around text.

2003-10-28 Thread John Culleton
it be done easily in Context (without involving Metapost etc.)? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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

2003-10-28 Thread John Culleton
Windows much!) So I downloaded Acrobat Reader 5.1 for Windows 98 via Linux (!) and moved it over to the Desktop folder on the Win partition. It works fine. (end sidebar) -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg

Re: [NTG-context] conteni style

2003-10-17 Thread John Culleton
. There are examples of Context source code at the http://www.pragma-ade.nl site. But many of the finished examples are available in pdf form only. The two manuals are essential. Others like details.pdf are very informative. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 2003 miseries.

2003-10-15 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 19:11, George N. White III wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Culleton wrote: I installed the latest version of TeXLive 2003 (the so-called demo version) and did the fmtutil and texhash bit. When I ran a job for a customer, texexec hung up at the point where

[NTG-context] \but command for referring to index.

2003-10-15 Thread John Culleton
posts referring to a \button command. How does this differ from the \but command? Thanks for any help! -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo

[NTG-context] TeX Live 2003 miseries.

2003-10-13 Thread John Culleton
. Earlier, when TeXLive 2003 was still in beta they left out texexec altogether. Has anyone else tried Context using graphics on TeXLive 2003? I hate to report a bug to Tug if my experience is unique. OTOH if the iso image is defective in some way I do need to let someone know pronto. -- John

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt updates Gentoo

2003-10-01 Thread John Culleton
to TeX Live instead of teTeX? Sincerely, Gour Gentoo is marvelous but it doesn't keep up with the fast moving targets such as Context and Scribus. You will have to use a separate update the old fashioned way. IMHO of course. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http

[NTG-context] substitute for hangafter

2003-09-26 Thread John Culleton
I have a classic \hangafter situation in a bibliography. However this TeX primitive seems to be crippled in Context. What should I use instead? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] Preventing hyphenation?

2003-09-10 Thread John Culleton
can set \looseness=1 which may eliminate an hyphenation somewhere along the line. HTH -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now

Re: [NTG-context] Editor for ConTeXt ?...

2003-09-09 Thread John Culleton
for TeX/Latex. It is my understanding thast one can add to or modify the syntax files. I find the generic TeX highlighting sufficient for my needs. With some work one can put expanding and collapsing outlines in Vim as well. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts

2003-09-05 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 18 August 2003 18:32, Tobias Burnus wrote: Hi, John Culleton wrote: I want to have chapter names in the header text and I want them in boldface. How about: \setupheader[text][style=bold] \setupheadertexts[text][My book][chapter] or alternatively, \setupheadertexts

Re: [NTG-context] \footnote and \note-FIXED

2003-08-27 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 06:53, John Culleton wrote: I do \footnote[bene]{Here is a footnote} and later, Mumble mumble\note[bene] The \footnote works OK but \note does nothing. What am I doing wrong? The TeXLive 8 beta was again the culprit. I also had problems with TOC that went away

Re: [NTG-context] Index sorting

2003-08-26 Thread John Culleton
for the Czech language. The Xindy program which works with TeX can sort for e.g. Czech. Try googling on that name. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman

[NTG-context] \footnote and \note

2003-08-26 Thread John Culleton
I do \footnote[bene]{Here is a footnote} and later, Mumble mumble\note[bene] The \footnote works OK but \note does nothing. What am I doing wrong? -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] Instructions for m-pstric

2003-08-14 Thread John Culleton
the edge, a certain distance in from the page edges? I know how I would do it in PSTricks but not in Metapost/Metafun. A recent memoir by Norman Mailer has a broad gray border with a thin black border just inside it on the title page. Very spiffy. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers

[NTG-context] \setuplayout parameters

2003-08-08 Thread John Culleton
: the left margin is smaller than the right margin. Using Xpdf instead of Acrobat Reader shows the same anomalies. Changing marginwidth to margin shows the same anomalies. and so on. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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