Re: [NTG-context] sidebyside figures

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, The normal double column mechanism tries to place a graphic, stores it when there is no place, and flushes it as soon as possible. The \startcolumns mechanism works well intermixed with the standard one column mode. In your case, esp for vertical chinese, use columnsets:

Re: [NTG-context] Table problem

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 08:50 AM 3/10/2003 +0100, you wrote: Hi Hans, I need to make a set of tables, which are quite simple. I wanted to use the \starttable..\stoptable environment. However I get very strange results in the last column (p-column) Please have a look at the test.tex file. Do I something in a wrong

Re: [NTG-context] m-bib question

2003-03-11 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
Am Dienstag, 11. März 2003 04:35 schrieb Bruce D'Arcus: IIRC, isn't it the case that texexec should take care of the bibtex run needed for mbib? Am finding I need to run bibtex before texexec to get it to work... To my knowledge, m-bib is not yet integrated in texexec. -- Eckhart

Re: [NTG-context] m-bib question

2003-03-11 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
Am Dienstag, 11. März 2003 05:11 schrieb Bruce D'Arcus: How do I get (Author, Date: cited page)? So, something like (Smith, 1999: 23). -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Subject: Re: [NTG-context] bibtex Date: Freitag, 14. Februar 2003 11:07 From: Adam Lindsay [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] s-mag-01

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 05:15 PM 3/10/2003 -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: Just been playing a bit with the magazine style. First, about this: % This style is used for producing explanationary documents. % Don't misuse it for other purposes, since it may confuse % users. Don't change the title either, since it provides

Re: [NTG-context] Re: lowerleftdoubleninequote

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 11:53 PM 3/10/2003 +0100, you wrote: What ist the correlation between 'punctuation', 'alpha' and 'def' ??? hanging punctuation is the traditional simple model of - , ; : . and ! hanging into the margin; pdftex goes beyond that and let's you hang any char into the margin, so this is

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Table problem

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 07:38 PM 3/10/2003 +0100, you wrote: To me this way of coding a table lacks logic. - However it works now. this is the original TaBlE's way of doing things Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] new version, new manuals, new files

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 03:22 PM 3/10/2003 +0100, you wrote: www.pragma-ade.com/show-fil.pdf (made nicer, watch the new image archive), this one is now really there The mill.png in the cont-img.zip is broken. Gimp tells me that i zipped and uploaded everything again Hans

Re: [NTG-context] m-bib question

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 09:15 AM 3/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: Am Dienstag, 11. März 2003 04:35 schrieb Bruce D'Arcus: IIRC, isn't it the case that texexec should take care of the bibtex run needed for mbib? Am finding I need to run bibtex before texexec to get it to work... To my knowledge, m-bib is not yet

Re: [NTG-context] new version, new manuals, new files

2003-03-11 Thread Hans van der Meer
Hi Hans, On zondag, maa 9, 2003, at 23:14 Europe/Amsterdam, Hans Hagen wrote: Next in my list of manuals is finishing the correspondence manual (letters and envelops and alike), the pstopdf manual, and a few more. That is nice. From time to time I like to scan sites like pragma for updates I

[NTG-context] Re: s-mag-01

2003-03-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Bruce D'Arcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hans, are you saying anyone using this to produce a document ought to keep the title specified in the style (which here seems to be {Zero Issue}? In any case, this is confusing (at least to me)... The user variant has the title My Way. No number.

Re[2]: [NTG-context] sidebyside figures

2003-03-11 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, March 10, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: HH However, it seems that you want something: HH \starttext HH \startbuffer HH \startcombination HH{\externalfigure[cow][frame=on, width=3cm]} HH {\placefloatcaption[figure]{x}} HH{\externalfigure[cow][frame=on, width=3cm]} HH

[NTG-context] \inframed in table

2003-03-11 Thread varheit
Hi, maybe a very simple question: In the following table the formatting of the framed elements is strange - cut - \starttext \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTH Keyboard Shortcut \eTH\bTH Description \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTD \inframed{:} +

Re[2]: [NTG-context] sidebyside figures

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 10:27 AM 3/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: HH This special feature (separate captions) was introduced quite some time ago HH for Karel W so you should buy him a beer. Hey, I thought it was me who requested this feature? (I remember needing it for side by side floating tables when it still wasn't

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Displayed material, again

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 11:08 AM 3/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: HH btw, here are shorter defs: HH \def\startdisplay HH{\relax\ifvmode\else\endgraf\noindent\fi\ignorespaces} HH \def\stopdisplay HH{\par\doifnextcharelse\par\donothing\noindent} HH watch the \relax (prevents

Re[3]: [NTG-context] sidebyside figures

2003-03-11 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: BTW, AFAICS there is no way to make a reference (à la \infigure) to a single element in a /combination/ ... can this be done? HH there is a trick for that, but i cannot find it right now; however, the HH floatcaption command accepts a second optional arg

Re: [NTG-context] s-mag-01

2003-03-11 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 03:00 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hans, are you saying anyone using this to produce a document ought to keep the title specified in the style (which here seems to be {Zero Issue}? In any case, this is confusing (at least to me)... no, i mean the main title (* Way)

Re: [NTG-context] s-mag-01

2003-03-11 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 03:00 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Also, IIRC, shouldn't the grey border surround the entire page, and extend to the edge? I am getting a thinner border in the shape of an L, with white space at the page edge. works ok here, puzzled On this, the only thing I changed

Re: [NTG-context] s-mag-01

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 09:11 AM 3/11/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 03:00 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hans, are you saying anyone using this to produce a document ought to keep the title specified in the style (which here seems to be {Zero Issue}? In any case, this is confusing (at least to

Re: [NTG-context] \inframed in table

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 11:47 AM 3/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: how can I make sure both framed texts stay on one line without using \hbox. There is enough space in the cell so the line break should not occur at all. a typical tex problem, use \noindent or \dontleavehmode; th eproblem is that when a command (using

Re[3]: [NTG-context] sidebyside figures

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 01:26 PM 3/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: Yup, floatcaptions can do it all, nice. Now the question is: is it normal for the combination to stick to the left margin? Shouldn't hm, it probably is when you put some \maxdimen width content in it it be centered horizontally? I can achieve the effect by

Re: [NTG-context] s-mag-01

2003-03-11 Thread Adam Lindsay
Bruce D'Arcus said this at Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:34:08 -0500: On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 03:00 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Also, IIRC, shouldn't the grey border surround the entire page, and extend to the edge? I am getting a thinner border in the shape of an L, with white space at the page

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts again in ConTeXt

2003-03-11 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Yes and no... ConTeXt is looking for fonts with names that are totally unusual compared to the ordinary TeX (LaTeX) System. Most TeX systems (and I guess GW TeX as well) support psnfss, the postscript font system to be used with

Re[3]: [NTG-context] Displayed material, again

2003-03-11 Thread Hans Hagen
At 12:47 PM 3/11/2003 +0100, you wrote: \def\synchronizeindentation {% \doifvalue{\??dd#1\c!springvolgendein}\v!nee\noindentation \doifvalue{\??dd#1\c!springvolgendein}\v!auto\noindent} }% saves keying and also provides a hook Hans

[NTG-context] table and MPpositiongraphic

2003-03-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, while browsing thru the source and trying some examples, I can't sensible output of the following code. (No MP stuff is visible) %output=pdf \setupcolors[state=start] \def\cw#1{\color[green]{#1}} \def\TableShade#1#2% {\startMPpositiongraphic

[NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt: \setupitemize

2003-03-11 Thread Gary Pajer
I'm learning ConTeXt, and I've chosen to beat up on \setupitemize to see how things work. (If the answers to my question are in some doc somewhere, please tell me where it is!) Consider the file below. I expected to see a hairline above the second itemization, and indeed I do. But if I remove

RE: [NTG-context] layout of xsteps-p

2003-03-11 Thread Gregory Vanuxem
Yes, I mean the style. In fact just how have the margin or edge ??? in black (with footer end header), and the great title in (right and horizontal left). Cheers. -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Hans Hagen Envoye :

Re: [NTG-context] sidebyside figures

2003-03-11 Thread Lei Wang
Well, here you run into the difference between columns and columnsets. Columnsets can be mixed with one column mode, but you need to balance (automatic balancing is pretty hard for complex columnsets, so this is not yet in the kernel, but manual balancing is (one can set the number of lines

[NTG-context] Re: Learning ConTeXt: \setupitemize

2003-03-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Gary Pajer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Gary, (If the answers to my question are in some doc somewhere, please tell me where it is!) The answers to your questions are in the context's source code ;-) Consider the file below. I expected to see a hairline above the second itemization,

Re: [NTG-context] Re: What DTD for a thesis

2003-03-11 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:12:17 +0100: well, the x-contml.xds is in the distribution (but probably not 100% ok, since at the time of writing validators differed, and i have removed xml spy from my machine because it claims even txt and log suffixes as being xml) I was

Re: [NTG-context] sidebyside figures

2003-03-11 Thread K.H. Wesseling
Dear Lei, It's silly, all I did was ask a question. Then Hans starts working on answering it and takes care via you to send me beer. It's generosity to the limit. Don't. We all owe context to hans and to his able debuggers and enjoy using it. For me he has made typesetting documents easier