Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Brooks Moses
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:48:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any experience in metapost. I would appreciate if someone would please answer this question without me having to do thru tutorials and metapost source code. I was wondering how does metapost talk to TeX? Quicky

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how does it happen in reality? Matthias' reply is better for your situation, but for curiosity's sake, here is what actually happens: - MetaPost is happily reading MetaPost commands when suddenly it sees a btex command. - Now it will throw away everything upto

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Brooks Moses wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:48:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any experience in metapost. I would appreciate if someone would please answer this question without me having to do thru tutorials and metapost source code. I was wondering how does metapost

[NTG-context] Referencing eqalignno-formulas, and some more

2004-08-24 Thread Eeri Kask
Hello, I started using context recently and have encountered some difficulties where I need some help to get over. (1) References in math formulas: \placeformula [Ref] \startformula \eqalignno { ... } \stopformula It seems that referencing to '\eqalignno'-formulas needs some tricks. Is there

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: - The location pointer in the .mpx file is saved for subsequent labels. a small addition: - since we are dealing with parsing, btex .. etex cannot be changed dynamically, which is one of the reasons why metafun has the textext macro which provides an alternative for btex

Re: [NTG-context] Referencing eqalignno-formulas, and some more

2004-08-24 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, Eeri Kask wrote: (1) References in math formulas: \placeformula [Ref] \startformula \eqalignno { ... } \stopformula This should work ok. Try \placeformula[ref] \startformula\eqalignno{ a = b \formulanumber[refa]{a}\cr b =c \subformulanumber[refb]{b}\cr }\stopformula \in[ref], \in[refa],

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-24 Thread Siep Kroonenberg
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 01:26:06AM +0200, Hans Hagen Outside wrote: ok; btw, also take a look at sieps afm2pl since it has some other nice features Hans My belated three cents on some of the things which were discussed in this thread: As to texnansi: this is supported in Latex by

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-24 Thread Siep Kroonenberg
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:09:50PM +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: texnansi does not work with german.sty which I'd say is necessary for german texts. T1 and OT1 is hardcoded. I don't know about babel. Patrick Checking babel.def, I saw that it sets \latinencoding to OT1 if T1 is unavailable

[NTG-context] Footnotes in margin (again)

2004-08-24 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, as the dust has settled over the ancient greeks I would like to re-ask a posting that is about another quite crucial question: How to place footnotes in the margin? Every time I turn on \showframe I think that the margin is such a beautiful place for placing footnotes (per page,