Re: [NTG-context] placed tabulations broken when ended with \HL in MkIV

Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> writes: > > John Devereux > 26. September 2016 um 13:20 > > Hi, > > I updated my context (IV) installation recently and most of my > tabulations are not working when th

[NTG-context] placed tabulations broken when ended with \HL in MkIV

it to ending with a \HL. It can be made to work if I add an extra \AR after the final \HL Thanks, John -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

[NTG-context] Chinese footnotes too wide

Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com writes: Am 29.10.2012 um 20:20 schrieb John Devereux j...@devereux.me.uk: Hi, There do not seem to be translations for the labels for Chinese, is that correct? Is zh the correct language code? No, you need “cn” for chinese. Oh yes that works

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese footnotes too wide

Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com writes: Am 30.10.2012 um 10:12 schrieb John Devereux j...@devereux.me.uk: Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com writes: Am 29.10.2012 um 20:20 schrieb John Devereux j...@devereux.me.uk: Hi, There do not seem to be translations

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese footnotes too wide

Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com writes: Am 30.10.2012 um 13:25 schrieb John Devereux j...@devereux.me.uk: Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com writes: Am 30.10.2012 um 10:12 schrieb John Devereux j...@devereux.me.uk: Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com

[NTG-context] Search path for .tex files (mkiv)

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Re: [NTG-context] Search path for .tex files (mkiv)

Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com writes: Am 30.10.2012 um 15:31 schrieb John Devereux j...@devereux.me.uk: Hi, What is the correct way to set or modify the search path for tex files? I want to make it mode-dependent. For example, for figures I have something like

Re: [NTG-context] Search path for .tex files (mkiv)

Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com writes: 2012-10-30 John Devereux: What is the correct way to set or modify the search path for tex files? I want to make it mode-dependent. For example, for figures I have something like \doifmode{en} {\def\FigDirLanguage{fig/lang_en}\def

Re: [NTG-context] Search path for .tex files (mkiv)

Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com writes: 2012-10-30 John Devereux: It looks like \usepath is the key to what I want, thank you. Yes, combine \usepath with the \startmodeset syntax that Wolfgang suggested and you should have a clean solution. I don't quite understand your overall structure

[NTG-context] Chinese setuplabeltext

mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2012.09.16 23:18 Thanks, John -- John Devereux

[NTG-context] setuphead broken?

`}' was spurious, just type `2' and it will go away. == -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] setuphead broken?

Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com writes: Am 13.09.2012 um 12:14 schrieb John Devereux j...@devereux.me.uk: Hi, \setuphead seems to be broken for me in recent context (following upgrade of a ~year-old system). Problem happens when use the command= key. An example from

Re: [NTG-context] Including font with document source

messy) For me it doesn't sound like a problem or a serious limitation if some project simply declares in which directory ConTeXt has to look for fonts and specifies the font with filename. Yes I think this would be very useful too. -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ configuration

, besides that I think the interface and its tools are terrible. Also, is there anyother noteworthy editor that works nicely with standalone context? Preferably with spell-check and auto-completion. There is also texworks. -- John Devereux

[NTG-context] Chinese hyphenation / line splitting

洋期間神秘失蹤。至今为止她的生活、生涯和消失一直使人神往。阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特在她生前就已经是一名国际名人了。她腼腆感人的外貌、独立性、持久性、在压力下保持安静、勇气、有目标的生涯以及年轻时就失踪使得她在流行文化中成为一个持久的名人。关于她的生平出版过数百文章和许多书，这些书往往作为尤其是对女孩子的勉励的读物。 \stoptext == Thanks, John -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot not working

? Wolfgang suggested to replace \setcounter with \newcounter. Hi Mojca, That seems to work for me - thanks! -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki

[NTG-context] gnuplot not working

argument ...}\writeandprocessGNUPLOTscript {sin} \doifelse {\@@GNUPLOTtermi... \firstoftwoarguments #1#2-#1 ... * ./test.tex \stoptext ? -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot not working

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:00, John Devereux wrote: Hi all, Is there a problem with gnuplot? I get an error with the minimal example on the wiki. I think the generated .plt file has an error; it works if I manually delete the fontscale

Re: [NTG-context] compilation broken in latest beta

money back! -- John Devereux ___ 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] Table of contents

John Devereux j...@devereux.me.uk writes: Hi all, Feeling stupid... I updated my context MKIV to the latest version, was working with one ~1y old. I can't get a table of contents to work at all for some strange reason, am I misunderstanding something basic? I have tried all sorts

Re: [NTG-context] Table of contents

Willi Egger cont...@boede.nl writes: Hi, I was unsuccessful using \completecontent to my wishes in the recent past. The correct result I achieved with \placelist[section]. But now indeed even this fails with your example. Willi On 5 Apr 2012, at 09:14, John Devereux wrote: \starttext

[NTG-context] Table of contents

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[NTG-context] Image compression/resizing in PDFs

to do) 2) In 5 years time we might want the images to be higher resolution and not be as concerned about PDF size. But the information will be lost (or be elsewhere). So a command line or document setting would be ideal, is there such a thing? \setpdfimageresolution[300dpi]. Thanks, -- John

[NTG-context] Installing Context Minimals on Windows

the command line method I get a message about a vtable error when I try to run context. (It looked like the one mentioned in earlier postings, sorry I don't have the exact message now). I want just MKIV + extras (and intend to try TexWorks). Any hints appreciated. Thanks, -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Context Minimals on Windows

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:52, John Devereux wrote: Using the command line method I get a message about a vtable error when I try to run context. (It looked like the one mentioned in earlier postings, sorry I don't have the exact message

[NTG-context] nomarking function in MKIV

{Short Title \nomarking{Rest Of Title}} so that Short Title Rest Of Title appears as the chapter title, but just Short Title appears in the TOC, PDF bookmarks and footers. Thanks, -- John Devereux ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] nomarking function in MKIV

Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr writes: On Tue, Jun 29 2010, John Devereux wrote: so that Short Title Rest Of Title appears as the chapter title, but just Short Title appears in the TOC, PDF bookmarks and footers. \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[all] \setupfootertexts

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

just one component. it's not that hard to build something like that I would think that would be an extremely useful feature in technical environment, where all document changes need to be reviewed and precisely recorded. It certainly would be for me. -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

not flag incorrect parameters, I seem to recall the answer was that it would slow things down too much. But a command line switch to do this would be very useful. And as always, better (more complete) documentation on the commands available and what they and their parameters actually *do*. -- John

Re: [NTG-context] tracking changes (was: Re: What do you miss in ConTeXt?)

Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr writes: On Sat, Feb 13 2010, John Devereux wrote: I would think that would be an extremely useful feature in technical environment, where all document changes need to be reviewed Hello John, Perhaps this can help: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 13.02.10 13:24, schrieb John Devereux: I asked before why ConTeXt does not flag incorrect parameters, I seem to recall the answer was that it would slow things down too much. But a command line switch to do this would be very

[NTG-context] Define tex macro on the context command line

Hi, Is it possible to define a tex macro on the context command line (MkII)? For example: texexec manual.tex --define Title X99 Operators Manual so that \Title would expand to the appropriate text? (I know about modes I think) -- John Devereux

[NTG-context] Windows PDF viewer with refresh?

(for someone else). Any suggestions in general for setting up a decent workflow would also be very welcome. Thanks, -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] Page background color. Does not cover the entire page.

the edges Or -- get them to print it on light green paper? :) -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] adobe_reader_91_for_linux

if the debian package is reasonably well behaved, with respect to stomping all over my system? I have been burned so many times by such things on windows, I am reluctant to go anywhere near it... -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] Which revision control system do you use?

directories were moved around within a project. - Git has a some nice graphical history visualisation and diff tools. -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] off topic: page numbering question

(or go to a page number when viewing), the page numbers match those in the software dialog. Having said that it may well be that PDF viewers are clever enough to know the logical page number rather than the physical one, does anyone know about this? [...] -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] off topic: page numbering question

Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 14.03.2009 um 12:43 schrieb John Devereux: Having said that it may well be that PDF viewers are clever enough to know the logical page number rather than the physical one, does anyone know about this? http

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: John Devereux wrote: Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 12.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb John Devereux: Michael Bynum mdby...@gmail.com writes: This has burned me too. It would be nice if the errors were more prominent, perhaps

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: John Devereux wrote: I really don't want to create work if you think it is not worthwhile. But - as a non-texpert - I do think it is a problem. It is compounded by: - Many command options are not documented, so one experiments a lot so .. help us

Re: [NTG-context] Design for Translation

Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi writes: John Devereux wrote: But I would really appreciate any insights anyone may have. I've got some experience on this. I'm sure my way is not optimal, but at least it is an experience. Hi Mari, thank you very much for such a long and detailed answer! Your

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

command? Is there any way at all of knowing if the option did anything (even by examining the log?) -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

Re: [NTG-context] die if a module is missing

Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 12.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb John Devereux: Michael Bynum mdby...@gmail.com writes: This has burned me too. It would be nice if the errors were more prominent, perhaps repeated at the end of the output? Mike While we

[NTG-context] Design for Translation

[installation-1] (german text here) \endDE \beginDE[installation-2] (german text here) \endDE IT.tex: \beginIT[installation-1] (italian text here) \endIT \beginIT[installation-2] (italian text here) \endIT -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

characters, within a region of text. -- John Devereux ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: John Devereux wrote: Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: [...] Hi Hans, Is there any possible way to use the wiki-style tables like: ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ | Item 1| Item 2 | | Item 3| Item 4 | (Probably with some wrapper) Perhaps

Re: [NTG-context] Using texexec to prepare single-sided PDF for double-sided printing

Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 22.02.2009 um 16:00 schrieb John Devereux: I would like to use texexec to post-process a large pdf file, so as to prepare it for double sided printing. The existing file has a large left hand margin on each page, so as to allow

Re: [NTG-context] Using texexec to prepare single-sided PDF for double-sided printing

Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 23.02.2009 um 18:04 schrieb John Devereux: Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 22.02.2009 um 16:00 schrieb John Devereux: I would like to use texexec to post-process a large pdf file, so as to prepare

[NTG-context] Using texexec to prepare single-sided PDF for double-sided printing

and there are plenty of other pdf tools, but none of these seem quite right either. It would seem a common enough requirement but nothing quite works! Thanks, -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest

[NTG-context] Litter in the Garden

There appears to be a spam/hacking attack in progress on the context garden, e.g.: http://texshow.contextgarden.net/command/special http://wiki.contextgarden.net/MetaPost :( -- John Devereux ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] specific document layout with ConTeXt

of this. You must not have space between keywords and options. Write this as I've been using context, on and off, for 5 years and I did not know that! Does anyone know if there is a way to get context to stop when it sees an unknown option, instead of silently ignoring it? [...] -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

, but also lack of knowledge :) -- John Devereux ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

be hyperlinked to an explanation page? -- John Devereux ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

!). - As a native English speaker the word handlings looks strange at first (as if it is a mistake). But after reading it a few times I am growing to like it. -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License#Invariant_sections [...] so if you want to help out in any way, please subscribe to the mailing list via the link above (I don't want to overburden ntg-context with messages on this subject). -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] startbodymatter question

to be fragile now when used in a more complicated document. It seems to work OK when I don't use a sectionblock for the back cover, so perhaps it is related. -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

Re: [NTG-context] startbodymatter question

Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:19 PM, John Devereux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I have been struggling with some similar issues (in MkII). I was getting an extra page at the end of a document which came and went for reasons that were unclear to me

Re: [NTG-context] Highlight changes

Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jul 19 2008, John Devereux wrote: I am still finding errors in the result. Some of these are due to lines commented out with a leading % sign. In others parameter bracket nesting seems messed up. That's why there are these 2 lines: echo

Re: [NTG-context] Highlight changes

Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jul 18 2008, John Devereux wrote: Thanks, but this (your shell script) did not work well for me - there seem to be too many cases where the diff produces invalid tex code. Did you ever make an extended one? Yes. It's attached. Cheers, Peter

Re: [NTG-context] \startfrontmatter Co.

used them because it lets me use \setupsection and \setupsectionblock to customise the appearance of each part, in the setup area (rather than in the document). http://texshow.contextgarden.net/command/detail/298 http://texshow.contextgarden.net/command/detail/296 -- John Devereux

Re: [NTG-context] Highlight changes

Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 15 2008, John Devereux wrote: Is there a way to automatically highlight changes to a document, such that the resulting PDF has markers showing changed areas? Bars in the margin or some such. Or more generally some other way to easily

[NTG-context] Highlight changes

Hi, Is there a way to automatically highlight changes to a document, such that the resulting PDF has markers showing changed areas? Bars in the margin or some such. Or more generally some other way to easily communicate what has been changed (other than a diff on the source). -- John Devereux

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

be fine too (it is a debian derivative) and perhaps more polished for a new user. [...] -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

Re: [NTG-context] Specifying last page when using imposition

Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:25 PM, John Devereux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using imposition to arrange pages in a booklet format, a5 on a4. So after all the pages are printed out (doublesided) I can fold the stack in half to get my booklet

Re: [NTG-context] Specifying last page when using imposition

example. Originally I wanted to put the arrangment commands outside the document, but I then put them inside too in case it helped. -- John Devereux ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

[NTG-context] Specifying last page when using imposition

Cover appears on document page 9, but on page 4 (of 6) of the output pdf. It needs to be on page 1 of the output (i.e. opposite document page 1). Any suggestions? Thanks, -- John Devereux ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot module

Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:27 PM, John Devereux wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: Do you have any suggestions about how to reduce the number of files in some sensible way? The ideal would be an option when processing the source file, to turn off

Re: [NTG-context] Unable to generate luatex formats

John Devereux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm getting the following error when running this command: luatools -- ini --verbose --compile cont-en [...] Hi, I am getting a similar error on debian unstable. Following the instructions in the debian

Re: [NTG-context] Unable to generate luatex formats

\useGNUPLOTgraphic[sin] to make it work. -- John Devereux ___ 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

[NTG-context] gnuplot module

Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:18 PM, John Devereux wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: However I have been using context for years, and may well have messed something up! It seems to work OK with my normal documents. Except I notice \usemodule[gnuplot

Re: [NTG-context] Unable to generate luatex formats

}{1.001} ? -- John Devereux ___ 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] Unable to generate luatex formats

Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Devereux wrote: Michael Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm getting the following error when running this command: luatools -- ini --verbose --compile cont-en Hi, I am getting a similar error on debian unstable. Both of you, can you check

Re: [NTG-context] Unable to generate luatex formats

Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:25 PM, John Devereux wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: Setting TEXMF was missing from the instructions in debian... Or perhaps I messed up my configuration in the past. luatools --ini --compile cont-en

Re: [NTG-context] Architecture Sketch

the distributions packaging system. Then I get into trouble. -- John Devereux ___ 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] Architecture Sketch

Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Devereux wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:38:20 -0600, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And use linux. Well Hans, the lead developer uses windows ;-) and from the messages I see on this list

Re: [NTG-context] Landscape typesetting on portrait page

Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am 2008-03-06 um 12:04 schrieb John Devereux: I have a document containing a wide table. I would like to have the table rotated 90 degrees, along with the text on that page (which would be in three columns above the table). So I would have (view

[NTG-context] Landscape typesetting on portrait page

Is there a way to do this? Thanks, -- John Devereux ___ 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