Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt minimal on chromebook

2014-02-18 Thread Bill Meahan
. Google intends everything to be written in HTML5/Javascript. I won't even mention how Google reads almost everything to serve you better ads. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean -- and wrong. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt with Emacs

2014-01-10 Thread Bill Meahan
like to know which lines to add to the end of files. Thank you. Set ConTeXt as your default TeX flavor in the AUCTEX settings. AUCTEX - Tex Default Mode - Check Other then type in context-en-mode or, if English is not your language, modify appropriately -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt with Emacs

2014-01-10 Thread Bill Meahan
Files (x86)/SumatraPDF/SumatraPDF.exe\ -reuse-instance (mode-io-correlate -forward-search %b %n) %o) '(TeX-view-program-selection (quote (((paper-letter style-pstricks) dvips and start) (output-dvi Yap) (output-pdf Sumatra PDF) (output-html start -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-20 Thread Bill Meahan
the visual discordance of reading something like /Jane Eyre/ with double-spaced Comic Sans but if the e-reader allows it I'll crawl back under my rock, now. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan ___ If your

[NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-16 Thread Bill Meahan
or doing something wrong but I cannot see what. Context Standalone from a couple of days ago. Windows 7-64 (Home Premium) but I got the same results several months ago on a Linux system so I do not think it is OS-related. Sign me, Frustrated! -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan “Writing

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Textile

2013-11-16 Thread Bill Meahan
to Textile as well such as local styling (CSS or \begin{environment}... or \startenvironment ...) I know a lot of computer languages now and I really don't want to learn Lua or Haskell -- I'm retired! :) -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan “Writing is like getting married. One should never

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-16 Thread Bill Meahan
why it is not producing a valid EPUB. Once I've got that sorted out, I can try applying the lessons learned to my own documents. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan “Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-16 Thread Bill Meahan
On 11/16/2013 12:37 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, Bill Meahan wrote: I would /expect/ to get a valid EPUB file, or so I'm lead to believe. 1. Wait until the EPUB readers catch up. It took almost 10-15 years for the browsers to catch up with the HTML standards, and I don't

[NTG-context] Win64 Version of ConTeXt Standalone?

2013-11-15 Thread Bill Meahan
. This seems particularly odd given most laptops/desktops the last few years have been 64-bit with a 64-bit OS even the cheap consumer-grade laptop I bought my wife. Is there a technical reason or simply lack of a maintainer? -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan “Writing is like getting married. One

Re: [NTG-context] Using *fleurons*

2013-11-11 Thread Bill Meahan
little symbol I want. YMMV -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan “Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.” —Iris Murdoch This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove it is from

[NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

2013-06-26 Thread Bill Meahan
. Can't speak to OSX as I've never used it but I'd bet a coffee Acrobat Reader is (or can be) there, too. I have searched through the source and tried editing l-pdf.lua but that doesn't seem to fix the problem. I shouldn't have to edit system source in any event. Mark me frustrated. -- Bill

Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

2013-06-26 Thread Bill Meahan
On 6/26/2013 10:20 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net mailto:subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote: How does one override the default pdf viewer for MKIV Standalone on Windows 7-64 so --autopdf starts Acrobat Reader instead

Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

2013-06-26 Thread Bill Meahan
On 6/26/2013 3:29 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: [snip]... - on none of my window boxes acrobat was preinstalled - there is no robust way to start acrobat - pdfopen has to be adapted to major updates of acrobat - there is (at least on my machine) a potential clash between

Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

2013-06-26 Thread Bill Meahan
the topic closed. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan The nice thing about standards is there are so many of them. -- Henry Spencer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] orphans and widows in poems

2013-06-17 Thread Bill Meahan
On 6/17/2013 1:39 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Verse page. You don’t need any tricks to prevent page breaks in a lines environment because \setuplines[option=packed] already does it. Wolfgang You still need to make each stanza an individual lines environment, don't you? -- Bill Meahan

Re: [NTG-context] orphans and widows in poems

2013-06-16 Thread Bill Meahan
. -- Bill Meahan Westland Michigan ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] UWIN?

2013-06-15 Thread Bill Meahan
out three lines of code that notify about the change? (Did you just find those lines annoying or did they actually fail to work?) Just curious: what does uname -s uname -m return on cygwin or what is the best way to detect windows in shell? (I believe that should be easy enough.) [Bill

Re: [NTG-context] UWIN?

2013-06-14 Thread Bill Meahan
don't know about. [Bill Meahan] ___ 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] Typefaces ... how does this work?

2013-06-13 Thread Bill Meahan
This approach works well for me, no modules required: (this is NOT a complete working example!) ... \setupbodyfont[mainface,12pt] ... \definefont[alt][fontname sa 1.0] \starttext Blah blah blah Blah blah {\alt boo hoo hoo} Blah blah blah \stoptext The sa 1.0is

[NTG-context] Problems with SciTE 3.31 and context package

2013-05-17 Thread Bill Meahan
try compiling from source if you think it will help. Ideas appreciated. Thanks -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with SciTE 3.31 and context package

2013-05-17 Thread Bill Meahan
On 05/17/2013 02:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: you can try to comment lexer.fold= context.fold That works! Thanks for the fast response. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] upto current

2013-03-22 Thread Bill Meahan
tools exclusively. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] reStructuredText module

2013-03-12 Thread Bill Meahan
Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi Bill. ···date: 2013-03-11, Monday···from: Bill Meahan··· Am I correct in thinking the rst module does not process the class and container directives? When I wrote the module I was working with the reST spec [0] and the syntax reference [1]. It’s been a while

[NTG-context] reStructuredText module

2013-03-11 Thread Bill Meahan
document from common rst source. Thanks! All information and suggestions welcome. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] A trouble with setupbodyfontenvironment

2013-03-01 Thread Bill Meahan
mostly use the standalone version. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ 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] HTML output

2013-02-19 Thread Bill Meahan
with these formats in mind or put up with how your document is rendered. As a not-very-good fallback, you can always convert your document to PNG/JPEG images and use HTML to simply display them in the proper order. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

Re: [NTG-context] Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

2013-02-10 Thread Bill Meahan
situation(s). Since pandoc can use either one, ReText can be set to use rst instead of markdown and the fact markdown rst are quite similar, I'm expecting to use that instead of markdown /per se/. Pandoc 1.10 supports EPUB3 directly. Nice! -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

Re: [NTG-context] Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

2013-02-10 Thread Bill Meahan
there even was a command line so command lines are not scary for /me/. Yes, I'm that old./ Once in a while/ Linux is easier to use than Windows. ;-) Glad you found something that works well. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

[NTG-context] Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

2013-02-09 Thread Bill Meahan
installed as well. Thanks again! -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] block with different formatting per line?

2013-02-06 Thread Bill Meahan
the tufte quote formatted according to my stylesheet and knuth in whatever the global style is. The style parameter in the start/stop paragraph would, of course, be /optional/ so existing documents would be unchanged from current behavior but allow the introduction of paragraph styles. -- Bill

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-31 Thread Bill Meahan
newsletter. I use Scribus for that. Thanks for the input. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http

[NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Bill Meahan
for /my/ work but I am sure others who do need it would like to follow the same route to great PDFs. Any solutions? -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Bill Meahan
. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ 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] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Bill Meahan
On 01/30/2013 04:21 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: ConTeXt is able to read from zip files. Hans posted a simple example to process odt files a few years ago. Wolfgang Hmm. Didn't show up when I used the list search. Perhaps I simply missed it, I'll look again. Thanks. -- Bill Meahan Westland

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Bill Meahan
the conversions to mobi, epub, fb2 and pdf themselves even if I can do a better job. Plus, most of my writer friends work in word processors which means that it is far easier to exchange manuscripts for proofing feedback is via the (ugh) .doc file. Best wishes Idris -- Bill Meahan Westland

Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 103, Issue 43

2013-01-15 Thread Bill Meahan
of a different typeface, though, no problems are seen. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl

[NTG-context] SciTE integration FYI

2013-01-08 Thread Bill Meahan
A quick FYI: the URL given in the manual for the LPeg lexers package you need is no longer valid. That project is not hosted on code.google.com any more. Use this one instead: http://foicica.com/scintillua/ -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

[NTG-context] Lettrines MKIV

2012-12-10 Thread Bill Meahan
, 9 though about it a bit and decided he needed a drink. In the bar -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

Re: [NTG-context] Including movies in pdf files

2012-12-02 Thread Bill Meahan
On 12/02/2012 03:43 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Thanks for checking. This means that it is a viewer issue on Linux :-( Aditya FWIW, Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0 installs and runs on Xubuntu 12.04 i386 (at least the normal functions run, haven't tried any of the oddball stuff). -- Bill Meahan

Re: [NTG-context] 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature

2012-11-30 Thread Bill Meahan
of the E-reader and the particular typeface (font) chosen by the user. The EPUB3 spec alleviates this somewhat as it allows font embedding. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest

[NTG-context] Standalone current

2012-11-29 Thread Bill Meahan
What, if anything, is the difference between the version of ConTeXt in the TeXLive distribution and the version one gets when running first-setup.sh --context=current --modules=all ? -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

Re: [NTG-context] Standalone current

2012-11-29 Thread Bill Meahan
On 11/29/2012 01:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/29/2012 7:09 PM, Bill Meahan wrote: What, if anything, is the difference between the version of ConTeXt in the TeXLive distribution and the version one gets when running first-setup.sh --context=current --modules=all the texmfcnf.lua file

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2012-11-22 Thread Bill Meahan
they are since I don't typeset math but I noticed them while visiting the Arkandis site and thought I'd pass the information along. More info: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/tugfonts.htm -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

[NTG-context] inright with location=hanging does not do what is expected.

2012-11-20 Thread Bill Meahan
it is alongside the ward quote. I would have expected it to be aligned downward alongside the knuth quote. Am I missing something? -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] \inright[][location=hanging]{} does not do what is expected.

2012-11-19 Thread Bill Meahan
,location=hanging]{Shoulder Text} \input knuth \stoptext The Shoulder Text is aligned upward from the end of ward so it is alongside the ward quote. I would have expected it to be aligned downward alongside the knuth quote. Am I missing something? -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

[NTG-context] Suddenly can't run context

2012-11-18 Thread Bill Meahan
file 'mtx-t-contexts.lua' resolvers | resolving | remembered file 'mtx-t-context.lua' resolvers | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua' resolvers | resolving | remembering file 'context.lua' mtxrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' -- Bill Meahan

Re: [NTG-context] Suddenly can't run context

2012-11-18 Thread Bill Meahan
On 11/18/2012 07:53 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: 1. Run mtxrun --generate as normal user followed by context --make; otherwise: Won't run as me - same error messages. Ran as another normal user but it didn't do anything for me. Same running via sudo 2. Something is messed up in $HOME/texmf or

Re: [NTG-context] Epub woes

2012-11-17 Thread Bill Meahan
that defines the epub standard. Some day I'm goint to learn how to tpye. ;) -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] Epub woes

2012-11-16 Thread Bill Meahan
formats as well. Aditya I'm installing pandoc now. Looks pretty interesting. I suppose it's time I learned (extended) Markdown anyway. Thank goodness emacs has a mode for that. :) Thanks for the info! -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

Re: [NTG-context] Epub woes

2012-11-16 Thread Bill Meahan
get Readium from the Google Web Store. It's the IPDF's reference implementation of the epub3 standard including MathML -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

[NTG-context] Epub woes

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Meahan
21:32:50 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux What am I doing wrong? -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

Re: [NTG-context] Epub woes

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Meahan
headings, mucked up metadata c? I am using \startchapter..\stopchapter already. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] Epub woes

2012-11-15 Thread Bill Meahan
for some other documents, though. Thanks for the lead. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ 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] \chapter{} vs \startchapter..\stopchapter

2012-11-09 Thread Bill Meahan
On 11/09/2012 03:05 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net mailto:subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote: I note there are two different ways of handling a chapter: The traditional \chapter{mytitle} \startchapter[title

Re: [NTG-context] \chapter{} vs \startchapter..\stopchapter

2012-11-09 Thread Bill Meahan
On 11/09/2012 01:25 PM, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net mailto:subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote: I don't quite understand the difference between tagged pdf and what you get when you use a TOC. I get the expected

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Spacing research

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Meahan
On 11/08/2012 02:58 AM, Nicola wrote: Hi, people in this list may be interested in reading this: http://aldusleaf.org/rhea.php Nicola It was very interesting. Everything that makes my stuff look better is most welcome. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

[NTG-context] \chapter{} vs \startchapter..\stopchapter

2012-11-08 Thread Bill Meahan
that lists the keys for \startchapter somewhere? It's not documented in even the most recent command reference. Many thanks! -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

Re: [NTG-context] scripts

2012-10-30 Thread Bill Meahan
no occurences but first-setup.sh has two 's in it that might need fixing. Hans -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

Re: [NTG-context] scripts

2012-10-30 Thread Bill Meahan
could count on was the official ATT Bourne shell syntax. I use ksh93 (the ATT distribution) as my login shell. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] scripts

2012-10-30 Thread Bill Meahan
shell will run as expected. Not quite sure what PDKSH does. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl

[NTG-context] PDF security settings

2012-10-13 Thread Bill Meahan
Setting author, title, keywords metadata is rather simple. Is there a corresponding way to set PDF security properties, e.g. allow/disallow comments, allow/disallow printing c. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

Re: [NTG-context] PDF security settings

2012-10-13 Thread Bill Meahan
On 10/13/2012 02:32 PM, luigi scarso wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net mailto:subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote: Setting author, title, keywords metadata is rather simple. Is there a corresponding way to set PDF security properties, e.g

[NTG-context] Multi-paragraph quotations according to AP

2012-09-24 Thread Bill Meahan
. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ 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] Multi-paragraph quotations according to AP

2012-09-24 Thread Bill Meahan
word of the other paragraphs. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] Multi-paragraph quotations according to AP

2012-09-24 Thread Bill Meahan
use the TexLive 2012 version but I tested with today's ConTeXt standalone and got the same results. Thanks! -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] No cmyk support in MKIV (TexLive 2012 version)?

2012-09-10 Thread Bill Meahan
. Thanks, as always. If anyone wants to see what I'm using ConTeXt for, visit http://escherton.meahan.net (PDF output of ConTeXt is converted to jpeg for the web externally). -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

Re: [NTG-context] No cmyk support in MKIV (TexLive 2012 version)?

2012-09-10 Thread Bill Meahan
On 09/10/2012 10:59 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Just curious. Why don't you enable hanging punctuation? Aditya I thought I did! From my environment file: \definefontfeature [default] [default] [protrusion=quality,expansion=quality] \setupalign[hz,hanging] -- Bill Meahan Westland

Re: [NTG-context] No cmyk support in MKIV (TexLive 2012 version)?

2012-09-10 Thread Bill Meahan
punctuation is indeed enabled (the hyphen in the 3rd last para of Page 69, and all those commas and period on page 1 [2]). Aditya Hope you enjoy the story! :) -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question

[NTG-context] No cmyk support in MKIV (TexLive 2012 version)?

2012-09-09 Thread Bill Meahan
. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] Promotion of the ConTeXt IRC channel

2012-09-07 Thread Bill Meahan
. IM channels are really helpful when an expert needs to walk someone through something or do interactive problem investigations in real-time, but answers, regardless of how unique they seem at the time, are best kept where others can find them because they *will* be needed again. -- Bill

Re: [NTG-context] \setupdelimitedtext not working in TeXLive 2012

2012-09-03 Thread Bill Meahan
On 09/03/2012 12:31 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.09.2012 um 04:14 schrieb Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net: The syntax changed in MkIV, you need now \setupdelimitedtext[quotation:1][..,..=..,..] etc. Thanks, Wolfgang! Super-helpful as always and much appreciated. -- Bill

[NTG-context] \setupdelimitedtext not working in TeXLive 2012

2012-09-02 Thread Bill Meahan
]}, right={\symbol[rightquotation]}] \setupdelimitedtext [quotation] [2] [left={\symbol[leftquote]}, right={\symbol[rightquote]}] \setupdelimitedtext [quotation] [3] [left={\symbol[leftquotation]}, right={\symbol[rightquotation]}] Did the syntax change or is it a bug? -- Bill

Re: [NTG-context] correspondence: Wrong version string in module?

2012-08-25 Thread Bill Meahan
Probably only the tip of the iceberg of what they are giving us for Christmas. :) -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki

Re: [NTG-context] setuptex on Debian

2012-08-24 Thread Bill Meahan
but the reverse is not always true. Just an FYI from someone who's been using Unix, derivatives and work-alikes since Bell Labs V7 :) -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] setuptex on Debian

2012-08-24 Thread Bill Meahan
for dash, not the POSIX shell although the man page for dash says it is being worked on for POSIX compliance. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] Pointer to manual.

2012-08-16 Thread Bill Meahan
, Taco FYI: The version at the wiki has a Cover Date of June 1, 2011 while the version that comes with Tex Live 2012 has a Cover Date of June 9, 2011 I haven't looked at the SVN version (yet). -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

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

2012-08-08 Thread Bill Meahan
45+ years of doing it but I guess I'm not. Sorry for the rant. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove

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

2012-08-08 Thread Bill Meahan
lookup (and thesaurus-only lookup) via dict, running context with a single key and launching a PDF viewer with a single key This is getting way OT. Let's end it here. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work

Re: [NTG-context] Et tu, Taco?

2012-08-06 Thread Bill Meahan
the Cult of Mac. :) -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove it is from me and has not been altered since

[NTG-context] Layers

2012-08-06 Thread Bill Meahan
in a large and fancy font ala' *The New York Times al. I've already created a nameplate in Inkscape and can simply place the resultant graphic but I'd like to do the whole thing in ConTeXt if I can as I could easily use the technique in other situations. I'll wikify any answers. Thanks. -- Bill

Re: [NTG-context] Layers

2012-08-06 Thread Bill Meahan
On 08/06/2012 02:47 PM, luigi scarso wrote: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20090628.103925.be696f95.en.html I'll add that to the wiki under Layers where it will be a little easier to find. :) Many, many thanks! -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination

Re: [NTG-context] Et tu, Taco?

2012-08-06 Thread Bill Meahan
On 08/06/2012 03:42 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Oh, you mean TECO... Alan Yup. Type in your name on the command line and try to guess what it will do. :) -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Source

2012-08-03 Thread Bill Meahan
important event in the history of electronic fonts and it's wonderful you've made it available to ConTeXt users so quickly. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell This message

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Source

2012-08-03 Thread Bill Meahan
On 08/03/2012 12:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 3-8-2012 18:13, Bill Meahan wrote: if needed we can add the typescript to the distribution I'll raise my glass of unsweetened iced tea in toast to that idea! :) -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible

Re: [NTG-context] SVG?

2012-07-29 Thread Bill Meahan
On 07/29/2012 04:25 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Bill Meahan wmeaha...@gmail.com mailto:wmeaha...@gmail.com wrote: No, mkiv still uses inkscape. Some time ago I've seen rsvg I've also tried a kind of native support with a lua binding for librsvg, but the rsvg

Re: [NTG-context] Font recognition with command context, but not with command texexec

2012-07-29 Thread Bill Meahan
not to? -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove it is from me and has not been altered since it was sent

[NTG-context] SVG?

2012-07-28 Thread Bill Meahan
but native SVG support would be better if it exists. Thanks. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove it is from me

Re: [NTG-context] define vs setup

2012-07-26 Thread Bill Meahan
expected. Old dogs *can* learn new tricks but it takes a bit more work. :) -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate

Re: [NTG-context] define vs setup

2012-07-26 Thread Bill Meahan
On 07/26/2012 11:34 AM, Marco Patzer wrote: On 2012-07-26 Bill Meahan wmeaha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bill, it's a typo: \stopmakup \stopmakeup Sorry 'bout that. :) I've never been a good typist even though I can dump a lot of text into a file in a short time. It *is* correct in my

[NTG-context] define vs setup

2012-07-25 Thread Bill Meahan
use one OR the other but don't seem to require both. Or am I missing something again. Reading the pages for the individual commands doesn't help since it is often the case the page detailing the \define commands mostly seem to imply \define inherits from \setup. Sigh. -- Bill Meahan, Westland

Re: [NTG-context] setupbars

2012-07-09 Thread Bill Meahan
It proposal has my vote! -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove it is from me and has not been altered since

Re: [NTG-context] TeXlive 2012 released

2012-07-08 Thread Bill Meahan
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 10:59:42 +0200 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: http://tug.org/texlive/ Seems to have made it to several US mirrors. I installed it on both my laptop and my desktop a short while ago. Each used a different mirror for the installation. -- Bill Meahan, Westland

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2012-06-27 Thread Bill Meahan
be moved into it). Which beta will be included in the released version of texlive 2012? Will other updates be included in texlive updates? Just curious about how closely the texlive version (which I use) follows the beta version referred to on the list. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2012-06-27 Thread Bill Meahan
. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove it is from me and has not been altered since it was sent. smime.p7s

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2012-06-27 Thread Bill Meahan
as adroitly. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove it is from me and has not been altered since it was sent

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and SciTE

2012-06-20 Thread Bill Meahan
On 06/20/2012 11:24, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: On 20-6-2012 05:04, Bill Meahan wrote: Anybody got a ctags file for ConTeXt? :-) what are ctags They allow you to jump around to specific locations in a file. SciTE also uses them to generate auto

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and SciTE

2012-06-20 Thread Bill Meahan
On 06/19/2012 17:57, Hans Hagen wrote: On 19-6-2012 23:27, Bill Meahan wrote: On 06/19/2012 16:43, Hans Hagen wrote: and you can give spell checking a try (you can use mtxrun --script --scite to convert a list with words into one suitable for the context lexers) Hans fyi: the context

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and SciTE

2012-06-20 Thread Bill Meahan
]={ [aardvark]=aardvark, [aardvarks]=aardvarks, so in your case the 3 would be a 4 and that value is checked when coloring Hans Cool! Many thanks. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and SciTE

2012-06-20 Thread Bill Meahan
On 06/20/2012 14:02, Hans Hagen wrote: On 20-6-2012 18:37, Bill Meahan wrote: 1. Running the command as shown generates a spell-xx.lua file but complains about a spell-xx.lucluac file not being present. luac compiles the lau file into bytecode (luac comes with lua and needs to match the lua

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and SciTE

2012-06-19 Thread Bill Meahan
On 06/19/2012 04:58, Hans Hagen wrote: On 19-6-2012 06:54, Bill Meahan wrote: (Textadept has no realtime log pane so I cannot use it here without sacrificing too much convenience.) Might be fixable, at least on *nix system. Textadept 5.4 does allow running processes in a subshell. I'll

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