Mike Cooper writes:
Thanks David!
I don't think I've ever been quite so frustrated at trying to
learn anything else in my life! If it wasn't required by my
job, I wouldn't have made it past the first day or two (3 months
ago). But I'm slogging away and it's gradually coming together
(I
Mike Cooper writes:
Thanks Tomáš!
1. Where can this solution be found?
Mike, I know how you feel. The reasons that the documentation is
so sparse and difficult to find are the same reasons behind a lot
of things: time, money, and ability. Good documentation requires
all three of those
On June 3, 2020 7:01:57 a.m. PDT, Mike Cooper
wrote:
>The logic in that approach is obvious. Thanks Aditya.
>
>But then, what is "stopper"? What's it for? What happens if you just
>leave it out?
When you leave it out, it's simply not used. In broad general terms, ConTeXt is
set up to allow
john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com writes:
Did a fresh install of context etc. from the context site. I used this
test file:
---
\starttext
``Hello world.'' And ``Goodbye world.''
\stoptext
%\bye
-
The resulting pdf
Russell Urquhart russurquha...@verizon.net writes:
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:19:27PM -0700, David Rogers wrote:
To summarize: A page header with page number and guide word (the guide
word showing which chapter of which book of the Bible begins on this
page), two columns of regular text
Russell Urquhart russurquha...@verizon.net writes:
Hi,
I have a jpg of an image of an oldish Zondervan NIV Bible page. I love
the layout of this and would love to do similar layouts. Can the
Context experts look at this and tell me if this sort of layout is
reasonable, in Context?
To
Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de writes:
On 07/10/2013 11:24 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I would gladly help, but I don't know how zhs works and I didn't find
any hints during a quick search.
My suggestion would be to put
export PATH=$HOME/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:$PATH
Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de writes:
Hi All,
I would agree that the users default should be respected.
I will have to contradict my last post them.
My suggestion them is to use a system variable such as
ConTeXtViewer. This variable would contain the program to be called.
If it
Christian Prim christian.p...@gmx.ch writes:
I wonder if I can typeset a cloze text using context. The gaps (__)
must have a given length (say in cm or the length of a given word, given
sentence) and must break at the end of a line.
\hl[4] is nice but won't do the trick since it
* Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com [2011-03-14 12:44]:
At the moment I use for my ebook:
\usetypescript[palatino][texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt]
Does not look to bad, but layout is not my forte. So if people have tips
about the fonts to use, I like to hear them.
Do you use
* John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com [2011-01-28 16:39]:
Is there a short, simple guide somewhere that shows how to use TTF and
OTF fonts in Context? I downloaded the new Fonts chapter but it goes
deep into the weeds on typescripts etc. I am looking for a method
that allows me to do in
* R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar chyav...@gmail.com [2010-10-05 22:33]:
Dear Folks,
When I compiled a trivial file called first.tex using
texexec first
I got in the output, inter alia,
---
ConTeXt ver: 2010.07.30 11:35 MKII fmt: 2010.10.5 int:
english/english
---
Why am I not seeing Mk-IV yet?
* Tom Maynard t...@maynard.com [2010-10-02 17:25]:
Hello,
I have pretty recent installations of TeXLive 2010 (for Cygwin) and
ConTeXt Minimals (for Windows). In both installations, running
TeXexec reports it is ConTeXt MkII ... but running ConTeXt directly
reports itself as MkIV.
I would
* Charles Doherty charles.dohe...@upcmail.ie [2010-09-18 09:29]:
Dear Mojca,
Here is the sequence that I used:
cd context
curl -o first-setup.sh http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh
sh ./first-setup.sh
source ./tex/setuptex
cd
echo '. ~/context/tex/setuptex'
* Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com [2010-08-23 20:22]:
On 08/23/2010 06:37 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
[the following is just some brainstorming]
For fonts, agreed with Luigi, it would be nice to see some lua code that
a) takes a bunch of fonts as input (like:
* Fabrice Larribe fabrice.al...@gmail.com [2010-08-19 06:17]:
Hello,
I have a problem to use the calendar from the Tikz/Pgf module; here
is a minimal example:
%---
\usemodule[tikz]
\usetikzlibrary[calendar]
\starttext
This should works:
* Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl [2010-07-27 16:15]:
On 27-7-2010 4:10, David Rogers wrote:
In academic writing especially, it's necessary to weigh the effect of
this distraction before using anything other than standard
constructions. Sometimes this kind of focus on the writer's personality
* Marcin Borkowski mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl [2010-07-28 00:57]:
Dnia Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:06:27PM +, John Haltiwanger napisa#322;(a):
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Marcin Borkowski
mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl wrote:
Hi,
what an interesting discussion!
My personal point of view
* John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com [2010-07-27 13:06]:
'Political correctness' can be onerous, and often contradictory to my
anti-authoritarian nature, but in the end it is not the Man who
issues requests for language changes so much as the marginalized
groups that take issue with
* Matija Šuklje mat...@suklje.name [2010-07-25 23:33]:
-.-.-
P.S. Is there a nicer wording then (s)he for referencing persona in unisex
gender (other then one)?
The correct unisex pronoun is he. This whole question is an invented
problem where no real problem exists.
They is usually
* Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl [2010-02-11 18:17]:
are you sure that that's the convention for english? it's easy to
change it ...
I've never seen an ordinary English index that was sorted by case.
English indexes should definitely default to case-insensitive.
(Has anyone here ever been asked
* Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskov...@gmail.com [2010-02-11 21:30]:
Hello,
Maybe it's wrong place to ask, but does anybody know how to typeset
guitar tabulatures in Lilypond?
\new TabStaff { \clef tab c d e f g }
And is ConTeXt Lilypond module is up to date?
Not sure about that. Last
* Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com [2010-02-08 12:25]:
Hi all,
ConTeXt has many features but sometimes there is something missing,
what feature or package do you miss which is already available in
another TeX system or unavailable in any TeX system?
Five hundred pages of
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 16:55, Črt Gorupcrt.go...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I am trying to replace ('in' instead of 'and') a separator between the last
two authors for every article, but I am facing a semi success. My approach
was to set the variable finalnamesep in \setuppublicationlist. At the
Hello all
I'm going to do a clean re-install of my machine (Tiger on PPC)
soon, and I'd like guidance on methods of installing ConTeXt. I
assume that (a) TeX Live 2008 with its tlmgr utility, or (b)
ConTeXt minimals, are the two realistic possibilities - is this correct?
What I'd like:
- A
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For I had some problems with my installation I tried to start from
scratch. But I'm stuck with an error in mtxrun:
Welcome to Darwin!
user$ cd /usr/local/ConTeXt/
/usr/local/ConTeXt user$ rsync -ptv
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:02 PM, David Rogers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all (but especially Wolfgang Schuster):
I'd like to use Wolfgang's t-letter module to set up a very basic
American-style letter. I see
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:53:49 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Francis Derive wrote:
Bonjour Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, et Messieurs,
That means I need your help.
I feel quite an idiot, but I don't know what to do with - say the
cont-tmf folder I downloaded for ma Mac Os X Tiger : looking inside,
The very simple example code given on Page 11 does not fail on my machine,
though I don't know where to place my information.
David
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:04:26 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:50:07 -0700, David Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:30:27 +0100, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote:
On 31. jan. 2007, at 9:08, David Rogers wrote:
The very simple example code given
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:30:27 +0100, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote:
On 31. jan. 2007, at 9:08, David Rogers wrote:
The very simple example code given on Page 11 does not fail on my
machine, though I don't know where to place my information.
yes, that's one of the issues I have
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Hello,
I' trying to figure out why
\setupindenting[first,medium,yes]
does not indents the FIRST paragraph of a section or subsection.
An example follows.
Thanks in advance.
It is normal to not indent the first paragraph, only second and later
paragraphs -
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:45:56 +0100, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Several other members said they were interested too. So could you
give us a hint how this can be achieved? Could we start from
something very simple and then move on to more advanced features? For
the time being, I don't need
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:37:47 +0100, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
3. Would it be possible to have two sets of footnotes, one for the
text, one for the translation?
Just a few messages ago on the list was an answer to Multiple Footnote
Threads - I think that one might solve this item.
David
Otared Kavian wrote:
Following David's experience, I tried this and now eveything works
fine
%% times-good.tex
\usetypescript [adobekb] [ec]
\loadmapfile [context-base]
\usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[times,12pt]
This works for me. It also works if I change every
Adam Lindsay wrote:
David Rogers said this at Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:18:45 -0700:
But if I change every times to lucida, typesetting reverts to cm (or
lm
or whatever it is) and no lucida appears. What am I missing?
Have you bought the lucida fonts for TeX?
Ah. That would explain it. I made too
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Patrick Gundlach said this at Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:54:06 +0200:
Hello David,
I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal.
This questions can also come from more experienced users :)
Which set of instructions should I follow, in order to allow use of
Palatino or
Hans Hagen wrote:
David Rogers wrote:
OK, I tried this setup, and ConTeXt ran without stopping to complain,
but (as Otared described, I guess) the font actually produced is very
jaggy, both on screen and in print. My nostalgia for dot matrix
printers
is not as great as one might suppose
Radhelorn wrote:
\loadmapfile [context-base] % !!!
On my machine, this was the missing piece. Thank you for your
persistence!
(makes a deep bow) :-)
David
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Hi all
I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal.
There are now several sets of instructions on the net, some of them very
long essays, about how to enable different fonts for ConTeXt. Before I
dive in:
Which set of instructions should I follow, in order to allow use of
Palatino or
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
Dear musketeers,
How can I download all of the manuals and magazines from
http://www.pragma-ade.com/overview.htm
in batch, say, as a single zip file, or otherwise all at once? (I use
Windows for now). Is there an ftp site? Some
other way (perhaps using wget.txt)?
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