Re: [NTG-context] Bleeding pictures as floats?

2015-05-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
> Am 04.05.2015 um 13:54 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm : > > Am 2015-05-04 um 17:10 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster > : > >>> Is it possible to use the float placing mechanisms for pictures that go >>> beyond the type area or even beyond the page? >>> >>> In the book I’m typesetting, most pictures ne

Re: [NTG-context] Help with \numexpr

2015-05-04 Thread Keith McKay
Thanks Hans! With your suggestion and initializing \numberText=1, it workes just the way I wanted. I now have a quick and easy of cataloging my photos. Thanks again Keith On 04/05/2015 18:38, Hans Hagen wrote: On 5/4/2015 5:21 PM, Keith McKay wrote: Colleagues I've written some code which

Re: [NTG-context] alternative numerical \cite command

2015-05-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/04/2015 07:03 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Thanks to remarks by Mojca and Alan, I did some testing with mkiv and my old setups for bibliography under mkii, and magically it works also with the new bibliography features of mkiv, that is without saying \usemodule[bib]. However somehow I

Re: [NTG-context] Help with \numexpr

2015-05-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/4/2015 5:21 PM, Keith McKay wrote: Colleagues I've written some code which should extract photos from a directory and a add couple of lines of description to each photo. I'm using a variable (\numberText) as a counter which I was hoping to use with \getfromcommalist[string1, string2,...][\

Re: [NTG-context] alternative numerical \cite command

2015-05-04 Thread Otared Kavian
Thanks to remarks by Mojca and Alan, I did some testing with mkiv and my old setups for bibliography under mkii, and magically it works also with the new bibliography features of mkiv, that is without saying \usemodule[bib]. However somehow I couldn’t find an equivalent for the command

Re: [NTG-context] Removing a single ligature and using swash alternates

2015-05-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/4/2015 3:05 PM, Manuel Blanco wrote: The problem is that it's a 500 page document, I would like a general way to deactivate the Th ligature. If there's no “semiautomated system” (like feature files) to remove ligatures, I guess it could be possible to do a general replacement in the document

Re: [NTG-context] bug with \writebetweenlist and bookmarks?

2015-05-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/4/2015 4:36 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: BTW, will the presentations from BachoTeX be available to download? I’m (and I guess we all are) interested in them. you will have to come to the context meeting ... Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts vs typescripts

2015-05-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/4/2015 6:26 PM, david.boerschl...@juno.com wrote: I have been trying for weeks to set up the Google Noto fonts for ConTeXt. I have tried (but do not understand all the syntax and parameters of) typescripts and simplefonts. It seems that I probably should gravitate towards typescripts be

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie needs help getting started

2015-05-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/4/2015 5:14 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: But the weird thing is that "Fatal format file error; I'm stymied" error was common with pdfTeX. With ConTeXt MkIV the formats are usually regenerated automatically. It's not that weird: pdftex etc have no check on the format so if for instance a new

[NTG-context] simplefonts vs typescripts

2015-05-04 Thread david.boerschl...@juno.com
I have been trying for weeks to set up the Google Noto fonts for ConTeXt. I have tried (but do not understand all the syntax and parameters of) typescripts and simplefonts. It seems that I probably should gravitate towards typescripts because the typescripts seem to be what comes with the dis

Re: [NTG-context] alternative numerical \cite command

2015-05-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/04/2015 06:14 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: You are using the MKII code. It takes the syntax \cite[alternative]{key} which is very intolerant of spacing and the newer module has abandoned this LaTeX style in favor of \cite[key] and \cite[alternative][key] No, that's not quite right, the syntax

Re: [NTG-context] alternative numerical \cite command

2015-05-04 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Mon, 4 May 2015 17:54:31 +0200 Csikos Bela wrote: > I could set up superscript citation for numerical citation based on > contextgarden bibliography page example. A MKII hack... > >Let me understand, though. > >Do you want to mix\high{1} citations with [1] citations? > >That would be rather

Re: [NTG-context] alternative numerical \cite command

2015-05-04 Thread Csikos Bela
Alan BRASLAU írta: >On Mon, 4 May 2015 15:10:06 +0200 >Csikos Bela wrote: > >> These citation styles are predefined in context. >> >> What I would like to do is inserting alternative numerical citations: >> normal superscript citations, like this^1, and occasionally inline >> citations in brackets

[NTG-context] two questions on lpaths

2015-05-04 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Dear list, I have the following sample: \startbuffer[demo] First Title A paragraph Second Title A paragraph refered to the previous section \stopbuffer \startxmlsetups xml:initialize \xmlsetsetup{#1}{div|h1|p|a}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetu

[NTG-context] Help with \numexpr

2015-05-04 Thread Keith McKay
Colleagues I've written some code which should extract photos from a directory and a add couple of lines of description to each photo. I'm using a variable (\numberText) as a counter which I was hoping to use with \getfromcommalist[string1, string2,...][\numberText] to add one line of text.

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie needs help getting started

2015-05-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Johan Råde wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get ConTeXt to run on my Windows machine (Windows 7 SP1). > I already had MiKTeX installed on the machine. > Here is what I did: > > 1. I downloaded context-setup-mswin.zip. > 2. I unzipped and copied the folder to C:/co

Re: [NTG-context] bug with \writebetweenlist and bookmarks?

2015-05-04 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 05/04/2015 10:47 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 5/2/2015 10:16 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >> [...] >> For some strange reason, the \writebetweenlist commands also add >> bookmarks with a question mark to the PDF bookmarks in the PDF file. >> >> Is this a bug or am I missing something? > > line 147

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie needs help getting started

2015-05-04 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 05/04/2015 02:49 PM, Johan Råde wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get ConTeXt to run on my Windows machine (Windows 7 SP1). > I already had MiKTeX installed on the machine. > Here is what I did: > >1. I downloaded context-setup-mswin.zip. >2. I unzipped and copied the folder to C:/context

Re: [NTG-context] alternative numerical \cite command

2015-05-04 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Alan, Excuse-me to jump over a discussion related to the new bibliography features of mkiv, but is it now reasonably stable to swithch completely from mkii to mkiv (I still have some files in mkii which I use only because of the bibliography features I have set up on purpose). And where can

Re: [NTG-context] alternative numerical \cite command

2015-05-04 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Mon, 4 May 2015 15:10:06 +0200 Csikos Bela wrote: > These citation styles are predefined in context. > > What I would like to do is inserting alternative numerical citations: > normal superscript citations, like this^1, and occasionally inline > citations in brackets, like this one [2]. How c

[NTG-context] alternative numerical \cite command

2015-05-04 Thread Csikos Bela
Hello list members: For inserting citations ConTeXt offers several \cite command alternatives. If I understand correctly citations can be inserted like: \cite[key], when the document's default cite type is used, or: \cite[authoryear][key], \cite[author][key] etc., where the citation style is se

Re: [NTG-context] Removing a single ligature and using swash alternates

2015-05-04 Thread Manuel Blanco
The problem is that it's a 500 page document, I would like a general way to deactivate the Th ligature. If there's no “semiautomated system” (like feature files) to remove ligatures, I guess it could be possible to do a general replacement in the document, altough I don't remember the command, I th

[NTG-context] Newbie needs help getting started

2015-05-04 Thread Johan Råde
Hi, I'm trying to get ConTeXt to run on my Windows machine (Windows 7 SP1). I already had MiKTeX installed on the machine. Here is what I did: 1. I downloaded context-setup-mswin.zip. 2. I unzipped and copied the folder to C:/context 3. I ran the command first-setup.bat --context=cur

Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt minimals to latest version

2015-05-04 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, Hans. All is working as it should now. Alan On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 5/3/2015 5:09 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: >> >>> Though version 2015-05-01 is now available, running first-setup.sh >>> retrieves >>> o

Re: [NTG-context] Bleeding pictures as floats?

2015-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2015-05-04 um 17:10 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster : >> Is it possible to use the float placing mechanisms for pictures that go >> beyond the type area or even beyond the page? >> >> In the book I’m typesetting, most pictures need to fill the whole width of >> the page (i.e. plus 3mm bleed), but

Re: [NTG-context] Bleeding pictures as floats?

2015-05-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
> Am 04.05.2015 um 12:53 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm : > > Hi, I hope BachoTeX was a success! > > Is it possible to use the float placing mechanisms for pictures that go > beyond the type area or even beyond the page? > > In the book I’m typesetting, most pictures need to fill the whole width

[NTG-context] Bleeding pictures as floats?

2015-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi, I hope BachoTeX was a success! Is it possible to use the float placing mechanisms for pictures that go beyond the type area or even beyond the page? In the book I’m typesetting, most pictures need to fill the whole width of the page (i.e. plus 3mm bleed), but not all cover a full page. I d

Re: [NTG-context] Removing a single ligature and using swash alternates

2015-05-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/1/2015 4:18 PM, Manuel Blanco wrote: Hello, I'm using Minion Pro, and I would like to remove the Th ligature (but only that one). Also, I'm trying to define a \swash command that uses swash from Minion Pro Italic. Any help? \usemodule [simplefonts] [size=11pt] \setmainfont [Mini

Re: [NTG-context] bug with \writebetweenlist and bookmarks?

2015-05-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/2/2015 10:16 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Dear list, I have the following sample: \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter] \startsectionblockenvironment[bodypart] \writebetweenlist[chapter]{{\blank[3*halfline]}} \stopsectionblockenvironment \

Re: [NTG-context] parsing in child attribute

2015-05-04 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
Hello, On Mon, 04 May 2015 00:09:38 +0200, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: And chapter 7 is especially cryptic to me, In fact, I tried \xmlattribute {#1} {../div} {id} before and it didn’t worked. Now I don’t understand why. I must confirm Pablo's experience with myself - chapter "Example paths" just