Re: [NTG-context] Minor date formatting issue

2013-08-10 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Perhaps someone should update the wiki? I suppose I could get an account and fix it myself ... if people don't mind someone as inexpert as me messing around in there ... It would be very nice if you could do that. Don’t worry about inexpertise -- people improving the documentation of how

Re: [NTG-context] \typesetbuffer at wiki

2013-08-10 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Pablo, This is probably a backend problem. I know that examples where multiple pages are imposed onto one sheet also don’t work; this is probably similar. I might look into it at some point, try to improve the php, but it’s not a priority. (Unless you think it should be.) Cheers, Sietse On

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure doesn't find mps file in subdirectory

2013-08-06 Thread Sietse Brouwer
you can test with this (line 767 in grph-inc): askedformat = format -- new per 2013-08-05 elseif trace_figures then report_inclusion(unknown format %a,askedformat) end That fixes the problem, hooray! \o/ Cheers, Sietse

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure doesn't find mps file in subdirectory

2013-08-05 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Sanjoy, Sorry for the late reply; I had to dig around in grph-inc.lua, and I'm a bit rusty at source-diving. Yep, that’s a problem all right. A bug, even: when you put `simple.1` in the same directory as the `.tex` file, it is correctly identified as MetaPost; when you put the exact same file

Re: [NTG-context] Passing macro parameters to lua

2013-08-05 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Matt Gushee wrote: It took me a while to figure that out, though, since the wiki example does not show quotes. Hans Hagen wrote: indeed you need quotes Yep. I've updated the wiki. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Programming_in_LuaTeXaction=historysubmitdiff=21966oldid=13667

Re: [NTG-context] Math accents set too close to capital

2013-07-31 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Tangential to your issue, but nota bene: instead of $...$ for inline math, ConTeXt lets you use \math{...} or \m{...}. Which is a bit more explicit, and can be easier to debug. You might prefer it. For display math, you really should use \startformula...\stopformula if you aren’t using it

Re: [NTG-context] Opening quotes problem with context.

2013-07-23 Thread Sietse Brouwer
John Culleton wrote: I use slackware linux 14, the 64 bit version. What is the proper code for opening quotes in context? Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Use “quoted word” or \quotation{quoted word}. Since you're using Linux: if you set your keyboard layout to `English (international AltGr dead

Re: [NTG-context] INstalling the context version of TeX distro.

2013-07-17 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello John, Ah, I see everybody else has already linked you to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Windows I do apologize for the state of that page. Hans van der Meer sent me (well, he sent it to Hans Hagen and Hans H sent it to me) a much-improved draft of installation

Re: [NTG-context] Table cell spanning multiple columns in tabulate

2013-07-15 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Thomas Friedrich wrote: I am switching from texexec to context, and from table to tabulate. Question: What is the equivalent for \use{2}\ReFormat[c]{text} in the \table environment, when you what to do the same in the \tabulate environment? I couldn't find the answer in the context garden.

[NTG-context] Page numbers off-by-one in latest beta

2013-07-14 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Hans, all, In the latest beta, \starttext asdf \stoptext produces a document that starts numbering at page 2. A 4-page document will be numbered 2, 3, 4, 5. Cheers, Sietse ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

2013-06-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Instead of choosing our own default PDF viewer, we should probably invoke the user's default PDF viewer. Every OS has a command-line program to open a file with the system default program: On OS X: open myfile.pdf On Windows: start myfile.pdf On Linux, there separate programmes for KDE, new

Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

2013-06-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
A summary of things people have said in this thread. NB: everything is paraphrased, so blame me if anything seems overly terse in tone. Bill doesn't have or want SumatraPDF Hans made SumatraPDF the default because it has lots of nice properties that Acrobat doesn't have Luigi thinks maybe

Re: [NTG-context] Bold Small Caps

2013-06-25 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Malte wrote: Thank you. However, I am getting an undefined control sequence here: l.4 {\bf This is bold {\feature [+][f:smallcaps] and bold small caps} and jus... However, the wiki page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Featuresets confirms your syntax. What am

Re: [NTG-context] What is the status of ConTeXt's various test suites?

2013-06-25 Thread Sietse Brouwer
On 25 June 2013 11:49, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. l...@pontex.cz wrote: here are my scripts I'm using to test Ctx. Thanks, Lukáš! Also thanks for the explanation of what files go where, and what to run --- that's very helpful. I hope to be able to play with this soon, and then add

Re: [NTG-context] wrong interlinespace or wrong font?

2013-06-25 Thread Sietse Brouwer
I cannot compile your code either on my system or on http://live.contextgarden.net/. I don't know what the error might be, but I'm not able to compile it. Yeah, that one's all my fault. I copy-pasted my working code to the e-mail, then decided to add one little change (the extra \blackrule),

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV in the wiki?

2013-06-24 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Pablo, MkIV-compilation is already enabled -- just use context mode=mkiv source=yes (showing the source is optional, but usually what you want) /context For more info on the `context` tags: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Help:Context Cheers, Sietse

Re: [NTG-context] wrong interlinespace or wrong font?

2013-06-24 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Pablo, I think this is a problem with the Unifraktur Maguntia font. I just downloaded it [1], and measured it using \blackrule -- and the x-height is indeed ridiculously low. [1] from here: http://unifraktur.sourceforge.net/maguntia.html \setupinterlinespace[line=3.2ex]

Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts wiki page added

2013-06-24 Thread Sietse Brouwer
I have added a new simplefonts page for new users. (I hope it isn't full of errors ;-).) It's beautiful. A model of completeness and clarity, and I am especially delighted that you took the trouble to remove the duplicate info from [[Fonts in LuaTeX]]. Nice work! I made two minor changes: *

Re: [NTG-context] What is the status of ConTeXt's various test suites?

2013-06-24 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Lukáš, On 6/10/2013 12:59 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: There appear to be a number of test suites in existence. (1) The suite on pragma-ade.com. I suspect this is the one Hans actually uses. http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm (click on cont-tst.7z) QUESTION: when one downloads

Re: [NTG-context] Including a large SVG image

2013-06-10 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Sander wrote: All graphics except for one gets properly included in my ConTeXt document. Since it's just the one graphic: Luigi, perhaps you could send Sander a copy of the .pdf you produced that didn't show problems? Luigi wrote: $ inkscape --version Inkscape 0.48.3.1 r9886 (Jan 29 2013)

[NTG-context] What is the status of ConTeXt's various test suites?

2013-06-10 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi, all, There appear to be a number of test suites in existence. (1) The suite on pragma-ade.com. I suspect this is the one Hans actually uses. http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm (click on cont-tst.7z) (2) The project on foundry.supelec.fr. Most recent file is 3 years old, and most of

Re: [NTG-context] Including a large SVG image

2013-06-09 Thread Sietse Brouwer
I'm afraid I can't help, as this seems to be a PDF problem and I know nothing about the PDF format. ConTeXt correctly produces the converted file `m_k_i_v_scatterplot_of_WER_vs_PPL.svg.pdf`, and that PDF displays correctly when I open it standalone. But when I try to include the PDF with

Re: [NTG-context] How to hack the lua files

2013-06-07 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Lance Larsen wrote: If I modify a core lua file how do I remake the format file? luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: context --make Now documented on the page about the `context` script. I've added a page about formats, too, which also mentions how to remake them. (MkIV only. Don't know

Re: [NTG-context] How to hack the lua files

2013-06-07 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Wolfgang and Luigi wrote: texexec --make Thanks, guys. Technical question: * Does `texexec --make` create only the mkii formats, and `context --make` create only the mkiv formats; * Or is it so that both commands create both the mkii *and* the mkiv formats? Cheers, Sietse

Re: [NTG-context] Including a large SVG image

2013-06-05 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Sander wrote: The inkscape command works okay from the command line. Thanks for checking this! Hmm, so Inkscape is not the problem... Does ConTeXt still fail to include the picture when you make a minimal document containing only some text and the problematic SVG? Should I upload the SVG and

Re: [NTG-context] Fraction with a fraction in the denominator

2013-06-04 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hoi Sander, Sander wrote: This gives basically three equally long division lines The fraction line of a nested fractions is in fact shorter than that of its parent fraction, but by a very small amout. This seems to be the standard behaviour -- I tried the formula in LaTeX, and the difference is

Re: [NTG-context] Including a large SVG image

2013-06-03 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hoi Sander, Sander Maijers wrote: I have a few SVG graphics of multiple megabytes. They contain a lot of objects (text/shapes). All graphics except for one gets properly included in my ConTeXt document. Marco Patzer wrote: Maybe inkscape failed to convert the file. Is a corresponding

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Understanding the imposing-mechanism

2013-05-25 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Huseyin, This is not a direct answer to your question, but have you tried reading the reference manual's chapter 3, on page design [1]? It is a rather complete overview of (a) page layout, and (b) positioning multiple pages on a sheet. In particular the \setuppaper command [2] may interest

Re: [NTG-context] Faux font

2013-05-23 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Sietse wrote: NB: I also have some recollection of dummy text composed of hollow rectangles rather than solid black ones, but like you I cannot remember where I saw that. Maybe the document also showed kerns, in pretty colors? I can't remember. Wolfgang wrote: One of these examples can be

[NTG-context] Installing Scribuntu, for Lua on the wiki

2013-05-23 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Taco, I'd like to propose thse three extensions for the wiki: * Scribunto [1], which allows writing wikicode extensions in Lua. I ran into a limitation of the template expansion system the other day. Also, this may come in useful for the command reference. [2] [1]

Re: [NTG-context] partial derivatives with bonum/pagella font

2013-05-22 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Mikael, is there a quick fix/hack that somehow allows me to get it look almost like it should in a small document today with bonum? This might get you somewhere. I hope you don't have too many double primes in your document... NB: `%macros=mkvi` has to be the first line in the file.

Re: [NTG-context] Faux font

2013-05-22 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi John, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: In some Context manuals (can't remember which ones) there is a faux font that just consists of little rectangles of two different sizes. What is the name of that font? Is it included in e.g. TeXLive? Wolfgang wrote: Do you mean \fakeword?

Re: [NTG-context] \digits get \times instead of \cdot before exponent

2013-05-21 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Hans, Christian Prim wrote: is it possible to change the behaviour of \digits to have \cdot [...] instead of \times [...]? Hans wrote: there are several ways we can deal with this: [...] or maybe a key/value in setuptimes .. not sure yet We've already got \setdigitmode, \setdigitorder,

Re: [NTG-context] BROKEN LINK TRANSLATIONS

2013-05-17 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello Manuel, On what page is the link broken? And what is the non-working link? Cheers, Sietse On 17 May 2013 12:42, MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ gonzalezsman...@uniovi.es wrote: Hello everyone. In Context Wiki page is broken the link that refers to the SVN Repository. How could I get the

Re: [NTG-context] BROKEN LINK TRANSLATIONS

2013-05-17 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi all, Hans: in x-set-02.mkii, the following change is required: -\input mult-\userinterfacetag +\input mult-\userinterfacetag.mkii Otherwise, compiling ConTeXt, an Excursion gives the following complaint: ! I can't find file `mult-en'. [...] Please type another input file name:

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV problem+fix with \framed[location=depth / height / hanging]

2013-05-15 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Sietse wrote: \setupcolors[state=start] Hans wrote: this is no longer needed in mkiv where colors are enabled by default Leaving it in allowed me to use the same code to test MkII and MkIV. :-) .. added to test zip ... I haven't heard of that. Is that the unofficial test suite [1], or is it

Re: [NTG-context] Makeup layout

2013-05-15 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Andrew, Andrew wrote: I have heard that layers can be used. But there is no section on layers in the current reference manual. Where does one find information on this aspect of ConTeXt? You are right that there is no complete, from-the-ground-up, description and explanation of the layers

[NTG-context] MkIV problem+fix with \framed[location=depth / height / hanging]

2013-05-14 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Hans, I believe that in MkIV some \framed[location=...] keys are not working, namely `depth`, `height`, and `hanging`. In MkIV these all place the bottom of the frame flush with the baseline, like [location=]. In MkII they behave more sensibly, as follows: * depth: place bottom of frame

[NTG-context] Grid typesetting: aligning section to top of textarea

2013-05-13 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Dear list, I am making a foray into grid typesetting, and would like to align the top of my (possibly multi-line) section titles with the top of the textarea. I thought I could do that with \setuphead[subject][grid={broad,high}], but this is not working. I have tried nearly every other

Re: [NTG-context] extra line after switchtobodyfont

2013-05-04 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Hans, everybody, Hans van der Meer wrote: Would be nice. But doing this is left to other people than me, I feel not qualified to tinker with that code. You would like to challenge Hans Hagen? Last week's thread about ligatures got unpleasantly close to flaming at times; so, just in case,

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote disappear in placeongrid

2013-05-02 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Wolfgang wrote: Add the \automigrateinserts command to your document, it is necessary when you have footnotes in a box, e.g. \framed or \placeongrid. Would it make sense for \setupalign[grid] to automatically call \automigrateinserts, or are there situations when (a) one typesets on a grid,

Re: [NTG-context] use plain LuaTeX in ConTeXt standalone

2013-05-02 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Hans, Currently mtxrun --script font --reload --simple creates luatex-fonts-names.lua, the font list/database for Plain LuaTeX; and mtxrun --script font --reload creates names.tma and names.tmc, the font list for ConTeXt. Perhaps it makes sense if mtxrun --script font --reload

Re: [NTG-context] log reporting?

2013-05-02 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Hans, How do I enable the output of for example: report_typescripts(unknown library %a or %a,name_one,name_two) `logs.reporter(fonts,typescripts)` returns a function for writing to the log. Calling that function produces this sort of output: fonts typescripts bla bla bla

Re: [NTG-context] TEXpage filename

2013-05-01 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Alan wrote: In the production of (scientific) articles for journal submissions, one is often expected to supply the figures as separate files. One workflow can be through the use of \startTEXpage\stopTEXpage followed by an external extraction of single pdf pages to separate files. It might

Re: [NTG-context] square in Cambria font

2013-05-01 Thread Sietse Brouwer
a thinner outline then boxtimes. Of the three fonts I tried (cambria, lmodern, lucidaot) it seems lmodern is the only one doing it right. Hans van der Meer On 1 May 2013, at 12:17 AM, Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Hans, The bad news: I think it's the font. The good

[NTG-context] square in Cambria font

2013-04-30 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello Hans, The bad news: I think it's the font. The good news: here comes MetaPost to the rescue! I don't have Cambria, so I plucked a cambria.ttf file off the Internet somewhere, which contains both Cambria and Cambria Math. I don't know whether you have the same file/version, so YMMV, but it

Re: [NTG-context] How to center with picture taken into consideration

2013-04-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello Cecil, I have a LuaTeX-based start for you, but there is one important thing I do not know: how to obtain the an image's width and/or height from Lua. Although that would also depend on whether you want to resize images to a fixed with, etc. Anyway, now that the typesetting code is

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-25 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Taco, We're getting 3-12 new accounts created per day. If nothing else, they're cluttering up the recent changes list. I think it's a good idea to update the security questions --- it's easy to do, it'll probably work, and we can always move on to stronger measures that require more work.

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-25 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Confirm account means that a new user will not be able to quickly correct typos etc. Isn't there a simple way to add a captcha to mediawiki. Just found one (I had missed it when I sent my previous e-mail): http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA, nowadays merged into

Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenation documentation

2013-04-21 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Wolfgang, hi Hans, Thanks, I've updated the documentation accordingly. You have to use type 5 to create a rule for this, do you have a example where this is needed besides the one mentioned in the duden [1] example for a closing bracket. No, this was just a gut reaction. I can see the

Re: [NTG-context] csname not applicable?

2013-04-21 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Why doesn't it seem possible to have the following macro \def\docall#1{\csname xmlprocess#1\encsname{}{}} and use it with \docall{buffer}? How then accomplish this? encsname -- endcsname might do the trick. Cheers, Sietse

[NTG-context] Hyphenation documentation

2013-04-20 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello all, I've just pulled together some questions of mine and their answers, and written them up into a hyphenation QA. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Hyphenation http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definebreakpoint Unfortunately, there are still some holes in the documentation I wrote.

Re: [NTG-context] Mismatched font size when switching fonts in the chapter title

2013-04-17 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Tim, [PalatinoRoman sa 1] This means PalatinoRoman scaled at 1 x bodyfontsize. The document's body font size is 12 pt, but chapter headers usually are ... like, about 2.4 * body font size? Hence the size mismatch. [PalatinoRoman sa *] This means AnotherFont is PalatinoRoman scaled to 1 x the

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Updating Context or \Never change a running System\?

2013-04-17 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello Janis, The closest you will get to a changelog, at the moment, is the git mirror of the source: http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git That is not so useful if you want to know what new features have arrived in the past year, but I thought I should mention it anyway. I think one could also find

Re: [NTG-context] Title of figure not below the figure, but on the right side

2013-04-16 Thread Sietse Brouwer
How can I now tell, where to place the figure? There are keys like here, or force, or bottom and so on, how to use them in this configuration? (my tries failed so far) I don't know! \startplacerightfigure[location=bottom,...] should work, but doesn't. (MWE below.) Perhaps somebody else knows?

Re: [NTG-context] combinations

2013-04-15 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Hans, Is the following correct? (1) [alternative=...] is a new key for \definecombination (2) \definecombination[mycombiA][alternative=text] means you specify the combination's contents as item, caption, item, caption, etc. \startcombination[mycombiA][nx=2,ny=1] {item}{caption}

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Title of figure not below the figure, but on the right side

2013-04-15 Thread Sietse Brouwer
But now I have a figure, where the (pretty long) title-text should be on the right side, how to get this? Define a float type `rightfigure` that inherits from `figure`; then setup that float's caption with \setupcaption[rightfigure][...=...]. Like so:

Re: [NTG-context] combinations

2013-04-15 Thread Sietse Brouwer
, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 4/15/2013 3:40 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: Is the following correct? indeed - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt

[NTG-context] TeX Live 2013 --- until when can we work on the man pages?

2013-04-05 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello all, I didn't get around to working on the man pages these past 2 weeks. Now, I just saw this timing plan on the TeX Live website: http://www.tug.org/texlive/ March 27: sources committed, builds begin. April 8: tlnet (and TL'12) frozen, tlpretest starts, CTAN updates continue there. May

Re: [NTG-context] setuphead and Table of Content

2013-03-31 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Malte, On 31 March 2013 11:53, Malte Stien ma...@stien.de wrote: \definehead[foosection][section] \setuphead[foosection][number=yes, ownnumber=yes, sectionsegments=section] However, I need them to show up in the table of content. What's the trick? This is the trick:

Re: [NTG-context] man pages for ConTeXt: looking for volunteers

2013-03-26 Thread Sietse Brouwer
mtx-epub mtx-patterns mtx-update mtx-fcd mtx-pdfmtx-watch --Sietse On 26 March 2013 10:38, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 3/26/2013 1:15 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: Sietse wrote: 5. Lastly, I think it would be good to include a standard SEE ALSO block at the end of each

Re: [NTG-context] \setupenumerations, alternative=serried is ignored when setting up multiple enumerations

2013-03-26 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Tobias, When I try to use \setupenumerations in the latest beta (2013.03.22 12:06) for multiple enumerations, the alternative=... is ignored for all but the first enumeration. It's not just the enumeration; e.g. the color key, too is applied to only to the first enumeration class named. I

Re: [NTG-context] man pages for ConTeXt: looking for volunteers

2013-03-25 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Sietse wrote: 5. Lastly, I think it would be good to include a standard SEE ALSO block at the end of each man page, to list all the scripts we have man pages for. Hans wrote: sure, we can add stuff How about this? seealsos seealso name=contextCompile a ConTeXt file or recompile

Re: [NTG-context] command reference

2013-03-24 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Sietse wrote: NB1: I waffled a lot about wiki templates in the previous e-mail, but of course it is also an option to use the Lua tables format and store those files on the wiki. That gives us the visibility and editability of the wiki without binding us to the wiki template format. Hans

Re: [NTG-context] command reference (was: upto current)

2013-03-22 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi all, Peter wrote: What about one lua table per command? See also: - http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2010/talks/2010-09-14-peter-referencelua/ Lukáš wrote: Some connection to wiki would be useful, too - once a command definition is prepared for PDF manual, it would be good to have a

Re: [NTG-context] wiki page for \feature

2013-03-22 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Dear Idris, I have merged your output graphic into the article --- perhaps a bit large, but I wanted to be sure the features were legible. Thank you for including the PDF, that made things easier. I have taken the liberty of moving the page title to [[Featuresets]] ---easier to remember, I

Re: [NTG-context] Hiding text

2013-03-22 Thread Sietse Brouwer
is it possible to define a start-stop command to hide text within? Something like: \definestartstop[Hidden][before=\starthiding,after=\stophiding] Just define any buffer, and don't call \getbuffer[mybuffer]. Buffers are not typeset, by default, until you get them. The below is shamelessly

Re: [NTG-context] command reference (was: upto current)

2013-03-22 Thread Sietse Brouwer
on the wiki. That gives us the visibility and editability of the wiki without binding us to the wiki template format. --Sietse On 22 March 2013 15:42, Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Peter wrote: What about one lua table per command? See also: - http

Re: [NTG-context] Hiding text

2013-03-22 Thread Sietse Brouwer
} \starttext AAA \startHidden BBB \stopHidden \WWW \stoptext Any idea? TIA. Best regards, Lukas On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:42:27 +0100, Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com wrote: is it possible to define a start-stop command to hide text within? Something like

Re: [NTG-context] man pages for ConTeXt: looking for volunteers

2013-03-21 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Mojca wrote: Hans just implemented auto-conversion of help into man pages for the lua scripts. but if there are any volunteers to help polishing out and provide either more extensive descriptions, examples, ... or overall improvements, An excellent idea. To cut the work into bite-sized

Re: [NTG-context] placefigure

2013-03-21 Thread Sietse Brouwer
On 21 March 2013 17:26, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: while fixing some buglets that showed up in the test suite I ran into \placenamedfloat maybe worth wikifying (bug will be solved in beta) Wikified: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/placenamedfloat Below is what I wrote; is that

Re: [NTG-context] (no subject)

2013-03-20 Thread Sietse Brouwer
non-null hwit...@gmail.com wrote: I want to be able to adjust the vertical white space between the list introduction text and the list of items. How can this be accomplished? Probably \setupitemgroup[itemize][before={\blank[0em]}] will do what you want. For a complete list of parameters:

Re: [NTG-context] (no subject)

2013-03-20 Thread Sietse Brouwer
the original thread. :-) Cheers, Sietse On 20 March 2013 13:09, Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl wrote: Dnia 2013-03-20, o godz. 12:35:11 Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com napisał(a): non-null hwit...@gmail.com wrote: I want to be able to adjust the vertical white space between

Re: [NTG-context] next beta

2013-03-19 Thread Sietse Brouwer
i.e. we already had CL CM and CR, so CT is new .. should be wikified. The wiki [1] describes these \C* commands: \CR color is applied to the background of the text and the remaining space on the right; \CC color is applied to the background of the text only; \CM color is applied

Re: [NTG-context] garden example at fault

2013-03-12 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello Hans, I think \setupbackgrounds now requires you to specify both the column(s) *and* the row(s) you want to fill in. % does not work \setupbackgrounds[header][background=color, backgroundcolor=blue] % does not work \setupbackgrounds[header][][background=color, backgroundcolor=blue] %

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2013-03-11 Thread Sietse Brouwer
{my%wpoints}, x) context.par() context(my %w points, x) \stopluacode \stoptext And perhaps somebody could add two columns to the wiki with example input and output? Cheers, Sietse -- Sietse Brouwer -- sbbrou...@gmail.com -- +31 6 13.456.848 Thorbeckehof 101 -- 2343 DR Oegstgeest

[NTG-context] [OT] For Dutch TeXies: exposition in Leiden on 330 years of academic typesetting+publishing

2013-02-19 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello all, (This will probably only interest Netherlands-based TeXies, sorry. But I'll write it in English, so at least everyone can read it. ^_^) There's an exhibition on in Leiden about historical academic typesetting, to celebrate the 330th anniversary of the publishing house Brill. Perhaps

Re: [NTG-context] Node for startbuffer.

2013-01-31 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi André, Anyone can suggest a category for it? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Commands Nodes? Yep. Creating [[Category:Command/Nodes]] seems like a good idea. To create the command page, navigate to the intended title (e.g. Command/boxmarker), click ‘Create’ in the top right, and

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Janne, Janne wrote: I've run into a couple of problems with math typesetting. (I'm using the latest ConTeXt standalone beta.) The following doesn't print [x,x] at all: \startformula [x,x]_t = x \stopformula This is because \startformula can take one optional argument in square brackets,

Re: [NTG-context] Layers, overlays

2013-01-24 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello Lukáš, I don't understand layers and overlays. This is what I could learn about \tightlayer from the source; I hope that reviving your question will help somebody else actually answer it. \tightlayer is defined in pack-lyr.mkiv. \unexpanded\def\tightlayer[#1]% {\hbox

Re: [NTG-context] buffers (append)

2013-01-15 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Alan, In addition to \startbuffer \stopbuffer it would be nice to have \startappendbuffer \stopappendbuffer. I see that the lua function buffer.append() exists but I have not worked-out how to add this functionality cleanly as conTeXt macros. Here you go! % We want to join appended

Re: [NTG-context] Controlling Appearance of \inoutermargin

2013-01-13 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Malte, This mail contains (1) an answer to your question; (2) a minimal working example; (3) an explanation of how I found this out (I had never heard of inoutermargin before). (1) An answer to your question. I grepped the ConTeXt source code for `inoutermargin`, and found out it is an

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-11 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Thomas, You wrote, a good number of e-mails ago: But would it be possible to use ConTeXt without having to care about bugs in updated code or broken links between different modules...? Thought I'd add a brief note to the conversation about updates and stability. ConTeXt Mark II (can use

Re: [NTG-context] How to use module simpleslides' SideToc

2013-01-09 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello PengCZ, This is not exactly what you want, because it took me very long to remember to look at SideToc.pdf. But it is close, and I have tried to put in a lot of comments. Hopefully you can solve it from here? Cheers, and good luck, Sietse % * We use \Topic to set the current topic, and to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-09 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hello Thomas, Just to widen your options a bit: I have greatly enjoyed using the \complexslides module by Aditya (and co?). I've attached an example document, which shows inter alia how easy it is to override a design component. (The fontscheme, in this case.) Cheers, Sietse

Re: [NTG-context] how to widen the textwidth

2013-01-06 Thread Sietse Brouwer
but the rightmarginwidth = 3.7569cm, not 0.1cm, I do not know why? what should I do to widen the texwidth? http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2012/064650.html In which Wolfgang wrote: The horizontal dimensions are determined by the three values - backspace (distance from the

Re: [NTG-context] \savebuffer

2013-01-02 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Which file extension would this use, “tmp” as the current \savebuffer command or a requested with is applied with the filename (e.g. “file=myfile.tex”) or a extension key (e.g. “extension=tex”). with prefix=no it uses the given filename (so no suffix if not given) `prefix=no` doesn't really

Re: [NTG-context] here is ae

2012-12-16 Thread Sietse Brouwer
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/xmlinclude Wikified, but sans example for now. Thomas, could I leave that to you? Writing about things I don't understand is one thing, but producing working code that I don't understand is something I am happy to leave to the experts. ;-) Cheers, Sietse

Re: [NTG-context] here is ae

2012-12-16 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Wikified, but sans example for now. Thomas, could I leave that to you? Writing about things I don't understand is one thing, but producing working code that I don't understand is something I am happy to leave to the experts. ;-) The horror :-) That was pseudo-code, and I have not the

Re: [NTG-context] New module: simplesteps.

2012-12-15 Thread Sietse Brouwer
\begingroup \grabbufferdata[simplesteps][startframe][stopframe]% } With the \grabbufferdata command the content beginning from \startframe until \stopframe is stored in a buffer with the name “simplesteps”. (1) What does the \begingroup do? I could not find a \endgroup in the patch, nor

Re: [NTG-context] New module: simplesteps.

2012-12-15 Thread Sietse Brouwer
in the background explanation. Cheers, Sietse On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: Am 15.12.2012 um 11:28 schrieb Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com: \begingroup \grabbufferdata[simplesteps][startframe][stopframe]% } With the \grabbufferdata command

Re: [NTG-context] [IN TOPIC] new interview

2012-12-13 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Yes, very nice! I liked the bit where Dave asked about the process Mari's company uses, and that Mari also went into the issue of so *we* use it, but how do we deal with others who don't use it? An enjoyable read, thank-you to all involved. --Sietse On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Andre Caldas

Re: [NTG-context] Cumulating Numbered Lists

2012-12-07 Thread Sietse Brouwer
I tried adapting this example to make the item numbers display as '1a1.' instead of '1.a.1.'. Didn't work: both right= and stopper= seem to affect what happens after all the number segments are placed. I couldn't find any key ('punctuation'?) which affects what comes between numbers, so that you

Re: [NTG-context] Cumulating Numbered Lists

2012-12-07 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Add these two lines to your itemize setups: \defineseparatorset[none][][] \setupcounter[itemgroup:itemize][numberseparatorset=none] Thanks; I've added that (and the repeat key) to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Enumerations#Customization_details_and_examples --Sietse

Re: [NTG-context] A problem with autopunctuation

2012-12-04 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi, all, Hans has done some work on autopunctuation which made it into yesterday's beta (2012.12.03 11:33). This includes a 'set it like I type it' mode people have been asking for. There are now three options to \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=...]: * autopunctuation=no — default TeX

Re: [NTG-context] Problematic Nightly (2012.12.01 13:03)

2012-12-02 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Kip, I had the same problem. This is the advice I got (in an unrelated off-list e-mail): Sietse wrote: ! Math error: parameter \Umathquad\displaystyle is not set. Aditya wrote: That usually means that the math font is not set. And indeed the math font is not set, due to a filename error.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimal Installer for Windows

2012-12-01 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Lukáš wrote: One note - ContextMinimalInstall.exe should rather be named ContextStandaloneInstall.exe or ContextSuiteInstall.exe... as ConTeXt Suite is (now) the preferred name... Is that so? I'd missed that. Should I add change references to 'ConTeXt Standalone' into 'ConTeXt Suite' to the

Re: [NTG-context] italic smallcaps

2012-11-28 Thread Sietse Brouwer
\setff{X} enables font feature X in the current scope --- do I understand this correctly? --Sietse On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote: Am 28.11.2012 um 09:58 schrieb Andreas Mang m...@imt.uni-luebeck.de: Dear all, is there a simple way to

Re: [NTG-context] Find all words set into the margin

2012-11-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Huseyin wrote: Is there a command like \showallmarginruns, which gives something like this: Margin runs on p. 34,67,101,145,204,298 - it may use somehow the blocks of \version[temporary], that would be perfect for me. Could I make clear, what I am looking for (sorry for my leck of English)?

Re: [NTG-context] fonts list

2012-11-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hans wrote: it's more the reverse ... some flag give more info when --all is given i.e. --list triggers an action Oh, then my text would be misleading. How about using this as the help text? help text --all show all found instances + --all show all found

  1   2   3   >