Re: [NTG-context] context meeting

2008-08-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > I really enjoyed myself at last weeks's meeting. Mojca and friends have > done a great job. In addition to a filled up program we had a wonderful > day going around Slovenia (incredibly silent outside the facilities and > a sky full of stars, s

[NTG-context] Please add Fraktur to the math fonts

2005-10-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
The Fraktur fonts are missing from the standard math definitions. Currently, I have this kind of hack in t-amsl: \definebodyfont [17.3pt,14.4pt,12pt,11pt,10pt,9pt] [mm] [mc=eufm10 sa 1] \definebodyfont [8pt,7pt,6pt] [mm] [mc=eufm7 sa 1] \definebodyfont [5pt]

[NTG-context] Par break/justification problem

2005-10-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
I have a paragraph that is formed by two parts: these are normally run together, except when the last line of the first part ends at less than a certain amount max_amount from the right margin. In this case, there should a 'seamless line break', i.e. a line break with the text still fully justified

Re: [NTG-context] Insufficient symbol fonts error

2005-10-30 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, October 30, 2005 Alan Bowen wrote: > I am getting some puzzling errors when I try to use the Greek fonts > in math formulae (to represent Greek numerals as written in mss.) > In a short file, both > \overbar{\grk{kj}} and > $\overline{\hbox{\grk{kj}}}$ > work as expected, even when they o

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Insufficient symbol fonts error

2005-10-30 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, October 30, 2005 Alan Bowen wrote: > Giuseppe— > I am not using either the amsl or the nath modules. Never had to > before. (The file has compiled successfully in its current form, but > that was about a week ago.) > If I should be using one of these modules, which do you recommend? Sor

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Insufficient symbol fonts error

2005-10-30 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, October 30, 2005 Alan Bowen wrote: > Giuseppe— > I inserted > \usemodule[t-amsl] > into the preamble and got the same error message: > ! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts. > But, when I inserted > \usemodule[t-nath] > the error message was > !TeX capacity exceeded

Re[4]: [NTG-context] Insufficient symbol fonts error

2005-10-30 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, October 30, 2005 Alan Bowen wrote: > Giuseppe— > Actually, it can happen with a very short document too: > \starttext > \grk{\overbar{\grk{kj}} Kull'hnhc > d$^{\hbox{\tfx\grk{ou}}}$ med'eonta > ka`i >Arkad'ihc polum'hlou} > \stoptext > will produce the > ! Math formula deleted:

Re[6]: [NTG-context] Insufficient symbol fonts error

2005-10-31 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, October 31, 2005 Alan Bowen wrote: > Giuseppe— > Thanks for the tip about \high. That works (and looks cleaner in the > source file too). But > \grk{\overbar{\grk{kj}} Kull'hnhc d\high{\tfx\grk{ou}} med'eonta > ka`i >Arkad'ihc polum'hlou} > still chokes on \overbar and returns the “ins

Re[8]: [NTG-context] Insufficient symbol fonts error

2005-10-31 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, October 31, 2005 Alan Bowen wrote: > I removed some of the \grk. ( I had inserted them because I was > uncertain of the effect entering math mode would have on my body font > choice. In Plain TeX, I think it was necessary to specify the font.) > \grk{\overline{kj}} still fails because of

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Bug / feature request tracking

2005-11-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, November 7, 2005 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > 4. and a feature request: it would be good to have some formatting > options like LaTeX makeidx offers: > \index{keyword|textit} will > produce a page-number in italics in the register. That would be > immensely useful to produce a structured i

[NTG-context] Not resetting chapter number on new part

2005-11-10 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
I would like the chapters across all my bodymatter to be numbered sequentially, even when they cross the part boundary. I.e, if I have \part{A part} \chapter{A chapter} \part{Another part} \chapter{Another chapter} I would like the latter to be numbered 2, not 1. I can of course do this by hac

Re[2]: [NTG-context] indentnext question

2005-11-14 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, November 14, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > not 'anymore', more 'not as you expected' -) > this feature is not supported at the specific item group level, only for > all itemgroups (took me a while to see that one, after entering > panic-bug mode); BTW, could you please consider adding the ind

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Not resetting chapter number on new part

2005-11-14 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, November 11, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> I would like the latter to be numbered 2, not 1. I can of >> course do this by hacking \part, but I would like to know if >> there is a way to prevent number reset (something like >> resetc

Re[2]: [NTG-context] indentnext question

2005-11-15 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>BTW, could you please consider adding the indentnext=auto >>option to all places that support indentnext? This is a very >>simple patch I already offered in the list, see for example >>http

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.15 Released

2005-11-15 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: >* New functionality: indentnext=auto > Blank lines in the source are taken into account when > indextnext=auto is in effect. > A really short example of usage would be: > \setupindenting[small,yes] > \setupformul

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.15 Released

2005-11-15 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: >>Hans, I love you, will you marry me? ;) >> > well, sending me a copy of your thesis once it's finished would be a > good start -) That's really not a problem :) >>(BTW, I'm wondering if "auto" should be the default >>indentnext setting for the dis

[NTG-context] URLs and online contents with BibTeX in ConTeXt

2005-11-16 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
What is the preferred way to insert URLs and references to online contents with the bibtex module for ConTeXt? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Drawing oriented paths in MetaFun

2005-11-16 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Does MetaFun provide some macro to draw oriented paths? I would like it to basically add a small arrow *in the middle* of the path? Such a macro draworiented somepath somespecs ; would have to act like drawarrow firsthalf(somepath) somespecs ; draw secondhalf(somepath) somespecs ; Is it availab

Re: [NTG-context] Drawing oriented paths in MetaFun

2005-11-16 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Does MetaFun provide some macro to draw oriented paths? I > would like it to basically add a small arrow *in the middle* > of the path? Such a macro > draworiented somepath somespecs ; > would have to act like > d

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Drawing oriented paths in MetaFun

2005-11-16 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Wednesday, November 16, 2005 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> Does MetaFun provide some macro to draw oriented paths? I >> would like it to basically add a small arrow *in the middle* >> of the path? Such a macro >

[NTG-context] [BIB] Command names in author

2005-11-18 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
The following @article{frechet, author = "M. {Fr\'echet}", title = {Sur quelques points du calcul fonctionel}, journal = "Rendiconti Circ. Mat. Palermo", volume = 22, year = 1906, pages = "1--74" } produces an incorrect entry in the bbl file: \startpublication[k=frechet,t=article, a

[NTG-context] AMS-style bibliography?

2005-11-18 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Is there a pre-rolled bibliography style that looks follows the AMS specs? (BTW, when trying out various alternatives= I found that only aps works, all of the others bomb complaining extra # marks. I'm using a September 2005 version of t-bib ... do I need to upgrade?) __

[NTG-context] Floats page?

2005-11-19 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
How do I tell ConTeXt that I don't mind if the pages are totally filled by floats (two, three, as many as fit) even if there is no text whatsoever? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/

Re[2]: [NTG-context] AMS-style bibliography?

2005-11-19 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, November 19, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> Is there a pre-rolled bibliography style that looks follows >> the AMS specs? > Probably not, but point me to the AMS specs. I also > have a "numbered" style planned, c.f. "plain.bs

Re[2]: [NTG-context] AMS-style bibliography?

2005-11-19 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, November 19, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> Is there a pre-rolled bibliography style that looks follows >> the AMS specs? > Probably not, but point me to the AMS specs. I also > have a "numbered" style planned, c.f. "plain.bs

Re[2]: [NTG-context] AMS-style bibliography?

2005-11-20 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, November 20, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Bug will be fixed in the next release, and I've added your > file, thanks. Cool. Can we please have it released before my deadline? ;) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-c

[NTG-context] [BIB] nocite / criterium=all

2005-11-21 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Small problem with bibtex. I have (in a document different from the one I mentioned before) \setupbibtex[database={mrabbrev,bilotta}] \setuppublications[alternative=ams,criterium=all] but when I do \placepublications[criterium=all] I get nothing. If I \cite[something], that something gets inclu

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Floats page?

2005-11-21 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, November 21, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>How do I tell ConTeXt that I don't mind if the pages are >>totally filled by floats (two, three, as many as fit) even >>if there is no text whatsoever? >> >> >> > \setupfloat

[NTG-context] interline space?

2005-11-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
How do I get a double-spaced document? \setupinterlinespace[big] seems to do nothing ... ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] No page number in appendix

2005-11-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello, I just noticed that the appendix number suppresses page numbering. Is there a reason for that? Shouldn't this be configurable? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-c

[NTG-context] A blank entry in the bibliography

2005-11-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
I'm seeing a blank entry in the bibliography. However, since it's not referenced in the text, I can't tell which one is it. Some debug options to find out? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/

Re: [NTG-context] New bib module beta

2005-11-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi, > I've created a new beta of the bib module, and uploaded it to my > server. You can get it here: >http://tex.aanhet.net/bib/m-bib-beta-20051123.zip >- bibl-ams.tex: AMS style (from Giuseppe) > * renamed citation type 'number' to

Re: [NTG-context] New bib module beta

2005-11-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi, > I've created a new beta of the bib module, and uploaded it to my > server. You can get it here: >http://tex.aanhet.net/bib/m-bib-beta-20051123.zip \setupheadtext[it][\biblistname=Bibliografia] -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re: [NTG-context] New bib module beta

2005-11-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi, > I've created a new beta of the bib module, and uploaded it to my > server. You can get it here: >http://tex.aanhet.net/bib/m-bib-beta-20051123.zip Hm. criterium=all doesn't seem to work anymore, regardless of whether I place it in \

[NTG-context] Indenting totally disappeared?

2005-11-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Since I upgraded my ConTeXt, even doubling the \setupindenting[medium,next] fails to give me any paragraph indentation. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Halfway between itemizations and descriptions

2005-11-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello, does ConTeXt have something which is halfway between itemizations and descriptions? I have a small set of properties that should be enumerated together. Right now I'm doing it by defining a \description and then doing \desc{something} stuff \par \desc{something else} other stuff \par etc

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Halfway between itemizations and descriptions

2005-11-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>Hello, >> >>does ConTeXt have something which is halfway between >>itemizations and descriptions? I have a small set of >>properties that should be enumerated together. Right now I'm

Re[3]: [NTG-context] Halfway between itemizations and descriptions

2005-11-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: >> you want more space for the sym? >> \startitemize[5*broad] >> \item {word} >> \item {another} >> \stopitemize >> (if needed, you can define

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Halfway between itemizations and descriptions

2005-11-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 24, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > Something like this? Yes, that's a good start :) however, I would leave the option to have both the symbol and the text, exactly as if it was run-in \head (i.e. with the actual item test following the \head text on the same line). However, yo

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Halfway between itemizations and descriptions

2005-11-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 24, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: >> Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> >>> Yes, that's a good start :) however, I would leave the >>> option to have both the symbol and the text, exactly as if >>> it was run-in \head (i

[NTG-context] No partial contents for parts after the first

2005-11-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
I'm using the latest ConTeXt reported here, and I'm noticing that partial contents for the second, third etc part are not available. I have a bunch of files each of which goes like \part{some part} Some text (not always) \placecontent \chapter{some chapter} Each of this file is \input from the

Re: [NTG-context] No page number in appendix

2005-11-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Hello, I just noticed that the appendix number suppresses > page numbering. Is there a reason for that? Shouldn't this > be configurable? Forget about this, I was using the wrong commands. The correct way of doing it \s

Re[2]: [NTG-context] interline space?

2005-11-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > Charles Doherty wrote: >> >> On 23 Nov 2005, at 08:55, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> >>> How do I get a double-spaced document? >>> \setupinterlinespace[big] seems to do nothing ... >>> >>>

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Halfway between itemizations and descriptions

2005-11-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 24, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>>(PS. I cannot send mail to your address, it bounces, do you have an >>>alternative one?) >>> >>> >> >>Hm, which address is bouncing? bigfoot is long dead, use

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Halfway between itemizations and descriptions

2005-11-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 24, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> However, I find it really 'funny' that there are n different >> methods to create items in an enumeration ... should these >> be rather enumeration options, so that you can use the sam

Re[2]: [NTG-context] interline space?

2005-11-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 24, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > \def\setuprelativeinterlinespace[#1]% > {\processallactionsinset % \regelwit = dummy ! > [#1] > [ \v!on=>\oninterlineskip, >\v!off=>\offinterlineskip, > \v!reset=>\setfontparameters,% just \setstrut, test first >

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Halfway between itemizations and descriptions

2005-11-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 24, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > this is a variant of taco's posted solution: [snip] > so, this way you can hook in a command that is executed after the symbol > placement I like it! (Ok, I won't use it this time because in the mean time I reworked the text to use \head, with the

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Halfway between itemizations and descriptions

2005-11-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 24, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>Thursday, November 24, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: >> >> >> >>>this is a variant of taco's posted solution: >>> >>> >> >>[snip] >> >&g

[NTG-context] Two framed texts on the same line

2005-11-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello, I would like to achieve this kind of typographical effect: two text blocks, one of them aligned to the left margin, the other with left-aligned text but with the right margin at the right margin of the page. I can obtain each of them with for example the following: \defineframedtext[lepi][

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Two framed texts on the same line

2005-11-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, November 25, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > depends a bit on the usage; the following shows you a few tricks > \defineframedtext > [gb] > [align=raggedright, >width=.5\textwidth, >offset=0pt, >frame=off, >before=, >after=] > \startbuffer[left] > \startgb[none] > \input

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Two framed texts on the same line

2005-11-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, November 25, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > \def\dodostopframedtext#1#2% % no \baselinecorrection, see faq docs > {\endgraf >\removelastskip >\doifvalue{\??kd#1\c!depthcorrection}\v!on % local and global > {\forgetall > \vskip-\struttotal > \verticalstrut > \egro

Re: [NTG-context] Two framed texts on the same line

2005-11-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
For what it's worth, I'm now using the following: \defineframedtext[lepi][align=raggedright,width=fit,offset=0pt,frame=off,location=none] \defineframedtext[repi][align=raggedright,width=fit,offset=0pt,frame=off,location=none] \definepairedbox[lrepi][location={right,top}] \noindent \startlepi[non

[NTG-context] Empty page at the end of the document

2005-11-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
I'm having a totally blank page at the end of the document. The document has a page number, but nothing is on it. I remember this being a known bug when front/body/backmatter was used ... is there a known fix? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ ntg-con

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Empty page at the end of the document

2005-11-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, November 25, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > beware, if you you nil the page commands, you may need to make sure > yourself that the pagebreaks between section blocks are forced at the > right moment in order to reset for instance marks (used in running > headers); > think of: > end of frontpar

Re: [NTG-context] No partial contents for parts after the first

2005-11-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 24, 2005 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > I'm using the latest ConTeXt reported here, and I'm noticing > that partial contents for the second, third etc part are not > available. I have a bunch of files each of which goes like > \part{some part} &

Re: [NTG-context] No partial contents for parts after the first

2005-11-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 24, 2005 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > I'm using the latest ConTeXt reported here, and I'm noticing > that partial contents for the second, third etc part are not > available. I have a bunch of files each of which goes like > \part{some part} &

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Empty page at the end of the document

2005-11-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, November 25, 2005 Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hi, > Hans Hagen wrote: >> beware, if you you nil the page commands, you may need to make sure >> yourself that the pagebreaks between section blocks are forced at the >> right moment in order to reset for instance marks (used in running >> headers

Re[2]: [NTG-context] No partial contents for parts after the first

2005-11-26 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, November 25, 2005 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Thursday, November 24, 2005 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> I'm using the latest ConTeXt reported here, and I'm noticing >> that partial contents for the second, third etc part are not >> available. I have a bunch o

Re[2]: [NTG-context] No partial contents for parts after the first

2005-11-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, November 28, 2005 Hans Hagen wrote: > sure, but i need a small test file -) \setuphead[part][placehead=yes,resetnumber=no] \starttext \part{Part one} \placecontent \chapter{One} \section{One-one} \chapter{Two} \section{Two-one} \part{Part two} \placecontent \chapter{Three} \cha

Re[2]: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-02 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, December 2, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Nikolai Weibull wrote: >> We were planning on using Vim for preprocessing things like this instead >> of hacking TeX to do the lexing. I think Mojca (?) had some ideas for >> this and perhaps even a simple implementation, and given that there is

Re[2]: [NTG-context] pushed text in description

2005-12-30 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, December 29, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > You latex example does what I *thought* \txt did. > My guess is Hans misunderstood Giuseppe a bit, and Giuseppe never > really tested the code, because what happens now is a bit nonsensical. It's true, I never got around to testing the code, sin

Re: [NTG-context] Nath bug?

2006-01-22 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, January 12, 2006 Aditya Mahajan wrote: > The following does not work? Everything is fine if I replace the nath > module with amsl. Any suggestions on how to make this work. > \usemodule[nath] > \starttext > \startalign > a &= \underbrace{b}_{c} \\ > c &= d > \stopalign > \stoptext S

[NTG-context] Layers in ConTeXt

2007-07-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, I have a couple of questions concerning the use of layers in ConTeXt. I'm working with Luigi Scarso on a layout which is characterized by some fixed-position elements surrounding the actual main body of text. For the fixed-position elements, I'm using layers. However, my ConTeXt is a l

Re: [NTG-context] Layers in ConTeXt

2007-07-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, July 13, 2007 Peter Rolf wrote: > Hi Guiseppe, > welcome back ;) Thanks :) (btw, it's gIUseppe :D) > Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: >> The first one is very simple: is there a way to 'fix' the >> layer's content "until they change"? I'

Re: [NTG-context] Layers in ConTeXt

2007-07-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, July 13, 2007 Peter Rolf wrote: >>> Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: >>>> The first one is very simple: is there a way to 'fix' the >>>> layer's content "until they change"? I've currently set them >>>> as page backgroun

[NTG-context] Linetables ROW alignment

2007-07-14 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all again, I'm using linetables, because despite their lack of documentation they've been rather easy to set up to achieve the effects I needed (colors, alignment, etc). I have a small problem with the title row though, because I would like its entries to be all typeset centered (whereas th

[NTG-context] Section marking forgotten on next even page?

2007-07-14 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, why does \page[even] reset the section marks? Shouldn't this feature be configurable by the user? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry t

Re: [NTG-context] Layers in ConTeXt

2007-07-15 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, July 14, 2007 Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> Hello all, > Welcome back Giuseppe. I had benifitted a lot from your efforts of > improving the math support in ConTeXt. Had it not been for the amsl > module, I might have never s

[NTG-context] Symmetrical layer positioning?

2007-07-16 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, is there a "secret power switch" to tell ConTeXt that a particular layer has different positioning depending on wether it's on a left or right page? I can of course do it manually, either by changing the layer position on each page or by using two layers instead of one, but I wanted to

Re: [NTG-context] Symmetrical layer positioning?

2007-07-16 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, July 16, 2007 Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> is there a "secret power switch" to tell ConTeXt that a >> particular layer has different positioning depending on >> wether it's on a le

Re: [NTG-context] Symmetrical layer positioning?

2007-07-16 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, July 16, 2007 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Monday, July 16, 2007 Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> is there a "secret power switch" to tell ConTeXt that a >>> particular layer

Re: [NTG-context] Symmetrical layer positioning?

2007-07-17 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 2007/7/17, Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Apparently, I mistook what the doublesided option does for >> layers. I've currently solved the problem in the following >> way: > \definelayer[test

[NTG-context] factor=fit images don't fit

2007-07-19 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, I have to place a number of images into some given-size frames in a layer. The images should be scaled proportionally to fit into the frame. The code I'm working with is: \defineframed[framedimg][ frame=on,framecolor=elux, background=color, backgroundcolor=white, width=\wdfig,

Re: [NTG-context] factor=fit images don't fit

2007-07-20 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, July 20, 2007 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Hello all, > I have to place a number of images into some given-size > frames in a layer. The images should be scaled > proportionally to fit into the frame. The code I'm working > with is: > \defineframed[framedimg][ >

Re: [NTG-context] factor=fit images don't fit

2007-07-22 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, July 21, 2007 Brian R. Landy wrote: > Hi, > What version of ConTeXt are you using? I just noticed a difference a > few days ago between the version installed by TeXLive 2007 and the > April 2007 release (tested locally & through contextgarden) placing > an image into a natural table, u

Re: [NTG-context] factor=fit images don't fit

2007-07-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, July 23, 2007 luigi scarso wrote: >> the fit assumes operating on a page not in a box; an alternative is: >> >> \framed[width=5cm,height4cm] >> >> {\externalfigure[mill.png][maxwidth=4cm,maxheight=5cm,width=10cm]} >> >> i.e. setting the maximum values > hmm, > \frame can be slow. > May

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheader: leftstyle & rightstyle

2007-07-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, July 22, 2007 Mojca Miklavec wrote: > However, there seems to be a little bug. This works perfectly well for > section (\getmarking[section]), but for chapter the chapter labels > seem to be erased after the first appearance. Do you have a \page[even] in between? I've found that the marki

Re: [NTG-context] factor=fit images don't fit

2007-07-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, July 22, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote: > the fit assumes operating on a page not in a box; Ah, didn't know that. I couldn't even tell from the sources, since it uses enclosing box dimensions and not page or paper sizes. I suspect the logic is broken at the page level too though, let me explain w

[NTG-context] Typo in xtag-pre.tex

2007-07-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base$ grep letterhar * xtag-pre.tex:\defineXMLentities [tex-hat]{\letterhar}{\^{}} [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base$ grep letterhat * cont-new.tex: \let\normalsuper\letterhat cont-new.tex: {\let\normals

[NTG-context] Framing a linetable?

2007-07-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, is it possible to put a frame around a linetable? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / ht

Re: [NTG-context] Framing a linetable?

2007-07-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> is it possible to put a frame around a linetable? > you mean the whole table? > probably a matter of hooks; linetables work page-wise which may > complicate things a bit so

[NTG-context] Linetable columns with natural width

2007-07-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, I really like linetables, but there's one thing I'm having problems with: setting its column to have a 'natural' width depending on maximum content width, and letting ConTeXt calculate this automatically. Is it possible? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta _

[NTG-context] Nested comma list processing problems

2007-07-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, I'm trying to get a comma list element from within a processaction from within a processcommacommand. "Obviously", ConTeXt gets confused by which commalistelement is which, and bombs out complaining about incomplete paragraphs and so. Is there a set of macros which I have to push/pop wh

Re: [NTG-context] Nested comma list processing problems

2007-07-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hi Peter, > Just guessing.. > If your list contains comma-separated-lists, you should use > \processallactionsinset (s. syst-gen.tex). > ...but it's not quite clear to me, what's your exact problem. > A minimal example would help. Thanks for the reply. We've radically changed the way we han

[NTG-context] Vertical align inside a frame?

2007-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, how do I tell ConTeXt that I want the frame content to be top, bottom or middle aligned? I found no way to specify *vertical* alignment except by nesting frames and specifying the location= of the inner frame as desired. Am I missing something obvious? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta _

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical align inside a frame?

2007-07-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, July 28, 2007 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > Are you maybe looking for p. 254 of cont-eni.pdf? Oh yes! top and bottom. Thanks a lot! -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical align inside a frame?

2007-07-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, July 28, 2007 Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Hi Giuseppe, >> the location= of the inner frame as desired. Am I missing >> something obvious? > I don't think so, this was an example from Hans: > \framed[width=2cm,align=middle,location=hanging]{location\\equals\\hanging} > \framed[width=

Re: [NTG-context] Framing a linetable?

2007-07-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> is it possible to put a frame around a linetable? > you mean the whole table? > probably a matter of hooks; linetables work page-wise which may > complicate things a bit so

[NTG-context] Linetable height (actually, depth) bug

2007-07-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, as I mentioned in the 'framing a linetable' thread, there is a bug in the stable (march '07) version of ConTeXt concerning the linetable *depth*. Example file: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \setuplinetable[r][2][height=30pt,background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] \startlinetabl

Re: [NTG-context] Non-printing macro disturbs line justification.

2007-07-29 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, July 28, 2007 John R. Culleton wrote: > I did a big project in Context and becuse I wanted to use the special > features of eplain's interface to makeindex I wrote my own indexing > macro. Every place I inserted a call to this macro extra space > appeared at that point. Here is my macro

[NTG-context] Boxed items don't like sidefloats

2007-07-31 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello all, here's a test document: \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \newbox\testbox \starttext \setbox\testbox\vbox{% \placefigure[outer,none,fit]{}{% \framed[width=.2\hsize,height=.2\hsize,offset=none]{}% }% \startitemize \item some test \item \input knuth \ite

Re: [NTG-context] Linetable height (actually, depth) bug

2007-07-31 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, July 29, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> as I mentioned in the 'framing a linetable' thread, there is >> a bug in the stable (march '07) version of ConTeXt >> concerning the linetable *depth*. >

Re: [NTG-context] Boxed items don't like sidefloats

2007-07-31 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > you can use ConTeXt's stream mechanism. > \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] > \usemodule[streams] > \definestreamlayer[giuseppe][width=\textwidth] > \newbox\giuseppe > \starttext > \startstreamlayer[giuseppe] > \placefigure > [out

Re: [NTG-context] Boxed items don't like sidefloats

2007-07-31 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > you can use ConTeXt's stream mechanism. > \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] > \usemodule[streams] > \definestreamlayer[giuseppe][width=\textwidth] I've noticed that specifying width= in the streamlayer definition is not enough to forc

Re: [NTG-context] Boxed items don't like sidefloats

2007-07-31 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> >> Ah, excellent, it works perfectly, thanks a lot! Of course, >> I'm still curious about the reason why a standard vbox >> wouldn't do it ... > sidefloats hook into the output routin

Re: [NTG-context] Boxed items don't like sidefloats

2007-08-01 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> You know, seeing how streams work made me think about an >> extension I was considering for Alpeh: \pageboxnumber, being >> 255 by default but which could be changed at runtime, >> choosing whic

Re: [NTG-context] Boxed items don't like sidefloats

2007-08-02 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> This is a very good thing. I have big hopes up for it. Also, >> as part of my ?getting back into the loop?, do you think >> there's some where/some how I can give a hand? > well, mplib ... ap

Re: [NTG-context] installing MKIV

2007-08-10 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, August 8, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote: > has to do with unix where the shebang line will only work with texlua > since "luatex --luaonly" cannot be given, but there it's a symlink Actually, /usr/bin/luatex --luaonly could be used as shebang. It doesn't work on all systems, but it should work

Re: [NTG-context] [ot] \relax

2007-08-10 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, August 10, 2007 luigi scarso wrote: > Martina was born on thursday,August 09 2007 (09/08/07). > Mum and baby are allright, daddy a bit blurred, as the photo says . Congratulazioni! :) Ora comincia il bello ... Congratulations! :) Now the fun starts ... -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re: [NTG-context] installing MKIV

2007-08-11 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, August 10, 2007 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> >> Actually, /usr/bin/luatex --luaonly could be used as >> shebang. It doesn't work on all systems, but it should work >> on most modern installations. > Yes, but #!/usr/bin/env luatex -

  1   2   3   4   >