[NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-23 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
Hi, I try to achieve transparently filled objects using the metaobj package. However, transparency is ignored completely in the output, I just get a normal white. Here is my test file: \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=red]

[NTG-context] key=value parameters

2004-07-23 Thread Vit Zyka
Hallo ConTeXters, I am playing with defining my own macro with key=value parameters. Please, consider definition: \def\setupField[#1]#2[#3]{\getparameters[Field!#1!][#3]} \setupField[name][mykey=value,textwidth=2cm] If you let ConTeXt to show the values by \message{

Re: [NTG-context] key=value parameters

2004-07-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Vit, On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:46:10 +0200, Vit wrote: I can imagine next solutions: 1) Do not use predefined keys in my macros, e.g. textWidth instead of textwidth [=user unfriendly]. If you decide on this solution, please use Textwidth instead (at least something that starts with a

Re: [NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-23 Thread Vit Zyka
Sorry, I can not reproduce your example. I get only red page with black page number in header. No white box. And I do not known metaobj macro. But I have a question. It is really needed to surround \definecolor by \startMPenvironment? Since \definecolor has to result to \pdfobj and \pdfliteral

Re: [NTG-context] key=value parameters

2004-07-23 Thread Vit Zyka
Thank you Taco. I can imagine next solutions: 1) Do not use predefined keys in my macros, e.g. textWidth instead of textwidth [=user unfriendly]. If you decide on this solution, please use Textwidth instead (at least something that starts with a capital letter). OK, but I do not like this

Re: [NTG-context] key=value parameters

2004-07-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:53:33 +0200 Vit Zyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is true I was not familiar about \c!... But problem is not in familiarity with ConTeXt source but Dutch language. One should write \c!tekstbreedte instead of \c!textwidth. For non Dutch it means all the time search

Re[2]: [NTG-context] key=value parameters

2004-07-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, July 23, 2004 Vit Zyka wrote: Actually there is no need to define anything, you can just use \rawgetparameters instead of \getparameters. Great, but unfortunately it does not work with empty parameter list []. No I have no time but I will look for better definition of

[NTG-context] Shading transparency / missing linear_shade variant

2004-07-23 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
Hi all, experimenting with transparencies, I have obviously come to a limitation: color shading does not work for transparent colors. What I have in mind is a bar filled with a color gradient, starting from a certain (non-transparent) color and ending transparent, i.e. vanishing into the

[NTG-context] more footnotes:-)

2004-07-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear partners in crime, I have come across a situation where, in a left-to-right document, I need to make the footnotes operate right to left: that is, the footnote numeral and rule should be on the right side of the page. Now when using the global direction changes that eomega/Gamma offers,

Re: [NTG-context] continuous numbering over components?

2004-07-23 Thread Marko Schütz
Hi Hans, From: Hans Hagen Outside [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NTG-context] continuous numbering over components? Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:18:56 +0200 Marko Schütz wrote: I have a project containing products containing components. For one of the products I want to achieve a continuous

Re: [NTG-context] side figure and typing

2004-07-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all ! let us imagine we have defined the following command: \def\SideFigure#1#2#3#4#5% { \placefigure[#1]{#2}{\externalfigure[#3][width=#4\makeupwidth]} #5 } which can be used to put a figure aside a companion text... but, what happens if the text is to be

Re: [NTG-context] key=value parameters

2004-07-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Vit Zyka wrote: Great, but unfortunately it does not work with empty parameter list []. No I have no time but I will look for better definition of \rawgetparameters and \rawsetparameter. I fixed this a while ago, and not have: %D \macros %D {rawgetparameters} %D %D A raw and dirty alternative

Re: [NTG-context] side figure and typing

2004-07-23 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, If you place the 5th parameter in a buffer, it works with the following version of ConTeXt and pdfTeX. pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2c 7.5.2) ConTeXt ver: 2004.6.30 (beta) \startbuffer[test] \starttyping pack .ok .cancel .help -side top \stoptyping \stopbuffer \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with left and right, Part II

2004-07-23 Thread Matt Gushee
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 01:19:57PM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote: I have noticed a couple of cases where ConTeXt macros seem to have confused left and right sides: Just found another: \setuphead [title] [align=right] places the title on the left side, and vice versa. I have also confirmed

Re: [NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-23 Thread Denis Roegel
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:53:22AM +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: Hi, I try to achieve transparently filled objects using the metaobj package. However, transparency is ignored completely in the output, I just get a normal white. Here is my test file: Hi, I have never considered

[NTG-context] Disappearing headers

2004-07-23 Thread Matt Gushee
Hello, all-- I am trying to format a book such that the book title appears in the header of each left-hand page, and the chapter title appears in the header of each right-hand page. I think (though I haven't decided for sure) that I want each chapter to start on a right-hand page. It seems that,