Re: [NTG-context] latest beta - Math error

2009-03-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: does this work at your end? \starttext $\approx$ \stoptext Yes, unfortunately it does... strange, since it works ok here; maybe deleting the font cache helps Hans

Re: [NTG-context] beta release

2009-03-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote: ${\bf y}$ still gives me roman regular y. sure, as i didn't add any bold definitions yet Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt |

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta - Math error

2009-03-03 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: does this work at your end? \starttext $\approx$ \stoptext Yes, unfortunately it does... strange, since it works ok here; maybe deleting the font cache helps If both work, then maybe the

Re: [NTG-context] beta / cjk

2009-03-03 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Yue Wang wrote: beta is not working. failed when generating the format for mkii It still works for me. You are still using ruby 1.8, I assume? TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions Also, it seems that sometimes you get that when you are creating the formats from within

Re: [NTG-context] beta / cjk

2009-03-03 Thread Yue Wang
yes, Taco, you are right. it generated plain.mem and log, metafun.men and log on the c:\Temp. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Yue Wang yuleo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: Yue Wang wrote: beta is not working. failed when

Re: [NTG-context] beta again

2009-03-03 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, Hans: Thanks for the quick fix! I will try the latest beta once it appears on minimals repository. Yue Wang On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Hi, - the problem with creating formats is related to changes in texexec (and other rb modules) that rely on ruby

[NTG-context] modife the style of taspresent

2009-03-03 Thread Bill Long
Dear All, anybody can help me on this problem? As most of the ppt file's background are graphics, but I don't know how to do it by modify the sytelefile. for example bellow style: - %D \module %D [ file=t-horizontalblue, %D

Re: [NTG-context] modife the style of taspresent

2009-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.03.2009 um 11:18 schrieb Bill Long: Dear All, anybody can help me on this problem? As most of the ppt file's background are graphics, but I don't know how to do it by modify the sytelefile. for example bellow style: I try to modify \defineoverlay [lecbackground]

Re: [NTG-context] beta / cjk

2009-03-03 Thread Yue Wang
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: Yue Wang wrote: beta is not working. failed when generating the format for mkii It still works for me. You are still using ruby 1.8, I assume? Yes. TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions Also,

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta - Math error

2009-03-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 3, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Yes, unfortunately it does... strange, since it works ok here; maybe deleting the font cache helps I meant, unfortunately it does work since this made finding the error much harder... Anyway, I have now found a minimal file that shows one

Re: [NTG-context] beta again

2009-03-03 Thread Yue Wang
It's working fine now, thanks a lot, Hans! On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Yue Wang yuleo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Hans: Thanks for the quick fix! I will try the latest beta once it appears on minimals repository. Yue Wang On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta - Math error

2009-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: Anyway, I have now found a minimal file that shows one error. I couldn't make the error appear with a buffer, only when I had xml + environment file. A ConTeXt version of the filecontents for LaTeX would be

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta - Math error

2009-03-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: Anyway, I have now found a minimal file that shows one error. I couldn't make the error appear with a buffer, only when I had xml + environment file. so ... what is the test file

[NTG-context] paragraph question

2009-03-03 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, How do you access the first paragraph of each chapter ? I guess with... \setuphead[chapter][after=\PlayWithFirstParagraph] \def\PlayWithFirstParagraph... How to fill in the dots ? Alan ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta - Math error

2009-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.03.2009 um 12:23 schrieb Hans Hagen: A ConTeXt version of the filecontents for LaTeX would be handy in such cases. i have no clue what this means Thomas was unable to show his problem with a buffer, the filecontents environment is like a buffer but writes the content to a file with

Re: [NTG-context] problem with defineitemgroup command

2009-03-03 Thread Curious Learn
Aditya Mahajan adityam at umich.edu writes: Change this to \setupitemgroup[options][1][a,packed] \setupitemgroup[options][1][stopper=)] You cannot mix options (a, packed, etc) with assignments (key=value). Aditya Thanks Aditya. I appreciate it.

[NTG-context] Two questions - Cross Referencing (Automated label generation + Random items)

2009-03-03 Thread Curious Learn
As I mentioned earlier, I am trying to use Context to make a multiple choice test. I have two questions. (1) Suppose I want to get a list of answers to the the multiple choice questions. One way I can think of doing this is by assigning a label to the CORRECT answer as done in the following code

Re: [NTG-context] experimental repository in mtx-update

2009-03-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: In mtx-update, there is --context=beta switch. What about --repository=experimental? And how these two interfere with each other? This is crucial for me to know to update the installer. afaik beta is the real beta and experimental often alpha

Re: [NTG-context] rulethickness in columns

2009-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 02.03.2009 um 11:41 schrieb Hans Hagen: I would set offset parameters for all four margins before rule values but will us Hans ever grant this wish, it's been on the list from a lot of us for years.

Re: [NTG-context] rulethickness in columns

2009-03-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: If you won't change the MkII version I can live with this but what speaks against a modification of the MkIV version. Don't say performance, MkIV is in many parts slower than MkII (e.g. buffers) but people who use don't care about this. are you sure that it's slower

Re: [NTG-context] rulethickness in columns

2009-03-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 02.03.2009 um 11:41 schrieb Hans Hagen: I would set offset parameters for all four margins before rule values but will us Hans ever grant this wish, it's been on the list from

Re: [NTG-context] rulethickness in columns

2009-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: If you won't change the MkII version I can live with this but what speaks against a modification of the MkIV version. Don't say performance, MkIV is in many parts slower than MkII (e.g. buffers) but people who use don't care

Re: [NTG-context] experimental repository in mtx-update

2009-03-03 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
afaik beta is the real beta and experimental often alpha OK, can I download experimental version using mtx-update? The code comment says 'experimental is not implemented'. Is it? Vyatcheslav ___ If your

[NTG-context] Update script does not work

2009-03-03 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, When I use mtxrun.cmd --script mtx-update.lua --update --force --engine=all --platform=windows --context=beta --texroot=C:\contextminimal the rsync ends up with something like destination and source locations are the same. I had many problems with updating this way, but when

[NTG-context] extra offsets

2009-03-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, concerning the offsets in framed .. - we cannot use leftoffset etc as name because these are already used in mechanisms that build on top of framed and it would add quite some extra code (and probably bugs) to those mechanisms - adding additional rulethickness variants is non trivial

[NTG-context] Switching off Header only on a particular page

2009-03-03 Thread Curious Learn
Hi, Is there a way to switch off just the header on a particular page? The Context manual gives the command \noheaderandfooterlines to switch off both. However, I want the page number (which is in the footer) on the first page, but no headers on the first page. Thanks.

Re: [NTG-context] Switching off Header only on a particular page

2009-03-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Curious Learn wrote: Hi, Is there a way to switch off just the header on a particular page? The Context manual gives the command \noheaderandfooterlines to switch off both. However, I want the page number (which is in the footer) on the first page, but no headers on the first page. just

[NTG-context] Bug in mark to ligature handling

2009-03-03 Thread Khaled Hosny
Marks don't get positioned correctly unless all marks are supplied, if one mark is omitted, the next mark will be positioned at the first anchor point, not in the second one etc, in some cases it'll even not positioned on the anchor point at all. In the attached sample, the first word in the

Re: [NTG-context] Switching off Header only on a particular page

2009-03-03 Thread Curious Learn
Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl writes: just \setupheader[state=empty] or anything else that applies Thanks very much Hans. That works great. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] extra offsets

2009-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.03.2009 um 22:30 schrieb Hans Hagen: Hi, concerning the offsets in framed .. - we cannot use leftoffset etc as name because these are already used in mechanisms that build on top of framed and it would add quite some extra code (and probably bugs) to those mechanisms - adding

Re: [NTG-context] Two questions - Cross Referencing (Automated label generation + Random items)

2009-03-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.03.2009 um 14:17 schrieb Curious Learn: As I mentioned earlier, I am trying to use Context to make a multiple choice test. I have two questions. (1) Suppose I want to get a list of answers to the the multiple choice questions. One way I can think of doing this is by assigning a label

[NTG-context] Why searching fonts in xetex is so slow?

2009-03-03 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, When I use XeTeX, font searching through texmf- tree is very slow. search font through fontconfig is very fast. plain TeX or LaTeX does not have that problem. why is that? anyway to improve it? Yue Wang ___ If