Re: [NTG-context] Index sorting again

2006-07-02 Thread Richard Gabriel
I'd consider it more trasparent... But, anyway, Hans has already fixed this problem and he has made it the first way (i.e. symbols including numbers in one group and then the letters). I guess it's OK and consistent with the DocBook XSLT stylesheets which I use for the HTML output.-RichardFrom:

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: > Sanjoy, > > Of course. Thanks. > > But how about an example in latex or tex where a function eats a > brace and crashes, as what happens with this context code: > > \placeformula[-] > \startformula > [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} > \stopformula > > I know I've seen t

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, David Arnold wrote: > Sanjoy, > > Of course. Thanks. > > But how about an example in latex or tex where a function eats a > brace and crashes, as what happens with this context code: > > \placeformula[-] > \startformula > [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} > \stopformula > > I know

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread David Arnold
Sanjoy, Of course. Thanks. But how about an example in latex or tex where a function eats a brace and crashes, as what happens with this context code: \placeformula[-] \startformula [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} \stopformula I know I've seen this in Latex before, but I can't remember wher

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
>> are the same, i.e. the \cs ends at a non-letter and the space is >> gobbled > Can someone give me an example where this happens in either latex or > tex? Not sure if this example is what you're looking for, but a typical case in TeX or LaTeX is: \TeX has a programming language that only

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread David Arnold
Can someone give me an example where this happens in either latex or tex? On Jul 2, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > � wrote: >> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: >> >> >>> David Arnold wrote: >>> \startformula\relax [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} \stopformula >>>

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] man page for mptopdf

2006-07-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Very nice! It contains a lot of typographical buglets -- and a main > one, namely that `mptopdf' isn't mentioned at all. Uh, oh, this man page doesn't handle mptopdf at all... Do you have something better? > I'll fix these and send it to this list so that it can be included > in TeXLive, Con

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] man page for mptopdf

2006-07-02 Thread Frank Küster
Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > i happily leave that to users; technically it should be possible to > process a manual source (to say mptopdf) so that it produces a man > page but not all manuals have the same structure (which means that i'd > have to write additional styles); maybe

Re: [NTG-context] Difficulties using the r module

2006-07-02 Thread Johan Sandblom
\def\runR {\executesystemcommand{texmfstart --ifchanged=\Rfile\space --direct R CMD BATCH "-q --save --restore \Rfile\space \Rfile.out"}} or some such, I do not really understand the quoting. The invocation should change, options should not and redirectors should go away. Not sure if this is bette

Re: [NTG-context] Difficulties using the r module

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Olaf Mersmann wrote: > Hi Hans, > > * Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060702 13:25]: > >> one problem could be that R has this piping; i wonder why a program that >> takes a 50 meg installation does not support something --output or i >> must have missed something >> > > R does support re

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > for tex: > > \bla[ > > and > > \bla [ > > are the same, i.e. the \cs ends at a non-letter and the space is gobbled Ah, I see... Then, the #1 in \def\MyZigzag#1[#2]{% % the #1 makes sure we allow a space before the bracket

Re: [NTG-context] \bTABLE[distance= or columndistance= ??]

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: > Hello, > this is a repost, because I've the feeling, that this question got perhaps > unread: > > What is the difference between distance and columndistance? > I thought the one was just a synonym for the other, but now I see, that you > treat them differently in your patch. > i forgo

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] man page for mptopdf

2006-07-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Here's the one for mptopdf. Very nice! It contains a lot of typographical buglets -- and a main one, namely that `mptopdf' isn't mentioned at all. I'll fix these and send it to this list so that it can be included in TeXLive, ConTeXt, and Debian. Werner _

Re: [NTG-context] Difficulties using the r module

2006-07-02 Thread Olaf Mersmann
Hi Hans, * Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060702 13:25]: > one problem could be that R has this piping; i wonder why a program that > takes a 50 meg installation does not support something --output or i > must have missed something R does support redirecting output to a file. Use R CMD BATC

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >> David Arnold wrote: >> >>> \startformula\relax >>> [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} >>> \stopformula >>> >>> >> indeed, that's the price to pay for optional arguments >> > > Really? Isn't it rather the price for optional space bef

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Münster wrote: > On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >>David Arnold wrote: >> >>>\startformula\relax >>>[9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} >>>\stopformula >>> >> >>indeed, that's the price to pay for optional arguments > > Really? Isn't it rather the price for optional space before the "["?

[NTG-context] \bTABLE[distance= or columndistance= ??]

2006-07-02 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, this is a repost, because I've the feeling, that this question got perhaps unread: What is the difference between distance and columndistance? I thought the one was just a synonym for the other, but now I see, that you treat them differently in your patch. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.fr

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > David Arnold wrote: > > > > \startformula\relax > > [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} > > \stopformula > > > indeed, that's the price to pay for optional arguments Really? Isn't it rather the price for optional space before the "["? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.f

Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > Seems like understanding \expandafter would solve 90% of my problems. > I tried to understand that part in TeX book, but it's so cryptic (too > short) ... I understand the concept, but I'm not able to write the > code for it yet :( The trick to \expandafter is that yo

Re: [NTG-context] Difficulties using the r module

2006-07-02 Thread Johan Sandblom
2006/7/2, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Johan Sandblom wrote: > > I can't really think why it wouldn't work then. Perhaps it is to do > > with \write18 and the right of TeX to run external programs? Or maybe > > R on the mac does not take the same command-line options? In that case > > the outp

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] man page for mptopdf

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi Werner > can you provide a man page (which I favour) or any other documentation > for mptopdf in TeXLive? > hm, i occasionally use manpages (but more often print manuals) of progs; i must admit that i don't even know how to make man pages the problem is that once i start writing man pages

Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-07-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/2/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > >>>It works perfect except in a single case: \title{\molecule{SF_6}} > >> > >>I had seen that, but not yet bothered to fix it. Still, it is > >>fairly easy to change the macro, try the version below. > > Sorry, I thought you were talkin

Re: [NTG-context] Difficulties using the r module

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Johan Sandblom wrote: > I can't really think why it wouldn't work then. Perhaps it is to do > with \write18 and the right of TeX to run external programs? Or maybe > R on the mac does not take the same command-line options? In that case > the output of the texexec run should be revealing. R takes m

Re: [NTG-context] Malicious little bugger

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: > All, > > Came across this again. > > \placeformula[-] > \startformula > [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} > \stopformula > > Got it to compile with: > > \placeformula[-] > \startformula\relax > [9,\infty)=\{x:\,x\ge 9\} > \stopformula > > indeed, that's the price to pay for optiona

Re: [NTG-context] minor console file queries

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: >>The problem does not appear to be in my source file or in my >>environment file. >> > > grep for 'location' probably related to a background, so double-check those as well. Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl ht

Re: [NTG-context] Extend the fraction bar

2006-07-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/2/06, David Arnold wrote: > All, > > How can I extend the main fraction bar in the following expression, > making it a tad longer? > > \placeformula > \startformula > \dfrac{\dfrac{9+3x-2x^2}{x^2-16}}{\dfrac{4x^3-9x}{2x^2+5x-12}}. > \stopformula I don't know what \dfrac should be (I assumed \

Re: [NTG-context] minor console file queries

2006-07-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: > I processed a file using texmfstart texexec. In the console file, I > see the lines > > (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) > (/Users/acbowen/Library/texmf/tex/context/type-alanmodern.tex) > (/Users/acbowen/Library/texmf/tex/context/third/greek/t

Re: [NTG-context] Extend the fraction bar

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: > All, > > How can I extend the main fraction bar in the following expression, > making it a tad longer? Just add a bit of whitespace to the right and left: \dfrac{\,\dfrac{9+3x-2x^2}{x^2-16}\,} {\,\dfrac{4x^3-9x}{2x^2+5x-12}\,} You may want to add a \vphantom

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with columnsets and \startbackground \stopbackground

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Olaf Mersmann wrote: > Hi list, > > The second \subject{} causes a page break instead of wrapping into the > second column. Is this a bug, or am I missing something when using > \start- / \stopbackground? It is probably a bug, but it is not likely that it will get fixed soon. \startbackground is

Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-07-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >>>It works perfect except in a single case: \title{\molecule{SF_6}} >> >>I had seen that, but not yet bothered to fix it. Still, it is >>fairly easy to change the macro, try the version below. Sorry, I thought you were talking about the spacing between F and 6. > Didn't