Re: [NTG-context] spurious text produced by TABLE

2005-05-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear posse, TABLE produces a spurious dot in the following (look closely at the center of the dot is a division line between your span Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] spurious text produced by TABLE

2005-05-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear posse, TABLE produces a spurious dot in the following (look closely at the center of the big box on the right). How can I get rid of this? If this is a bug, Is there a workaround? Best Idris = % output=pdf interface=en

Re: [NTG-context] centering framed boxes

2005-05-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear gang, I need a way to overlay four framed boxes so that each inner box is exactly in the center of its respective outer box. So far I have the following, but careful inspection will show that the boxes are not precisely centered with respect to each other. I could

Re: [NTG-context] centering framed boxes

2005-05-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear gang, I need a way to overlay four framed boxes so that each inner box is exactly in the center of its respective outer box. So far I have the following, but careful inspection will show that the boxes are not precisely centered with respect to each other. I could

[NTG-context] unrelated errors

2005-05-17 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Dear list members, I made the following observation and I am wondering whether that is to be expected: After, with the help of this list, I found out how to insert greek strings, I adjusted the .tex file accordingly. But because I used an automatic replacement procedure (in emacs), one of the

[NTG-context] How to make a PDF workbook structure with index?

2005-05-17 Thread Thomas Schrader
Hi everybody, is anyone experienced in archiving PDF? I need archiving lots of different PDFs in different sizes and formats into workbooks or folders with index files. How could I possibly look into each PDF, getting the title info and generate an index? How do I do clickable references to

RE: [NTG-context] spurious text produced by TABLE

2005-05-17 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Hans = Original Message From Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] = TABLE produces a spurious dot in the following (look closely at the center of the dot is a division line between your span I replaced \VL with \DC and the dot disappears. There is still something wrong with \DL \DC \DR.

[NTG-context] Context, LaTeX, or an XML for academic writing?

2005-05-17 Thread Tobias Wolf
Ask somebody in your field who is really good at TeX for the LaTeX sources of his/her thesis, and use them as templates. Spend as little time as possible thinking about layout and as much as you can about content. You speak the truth. I really want to avoid that. I do have solid experience

RE: [NTG-context] centering framed boxes

2005-05-17 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
= Original Message From Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] = \starttext \definelayer[test][width=12\bodyfontsize,height=12\bodyfontsize] \setlayerframed[test][preset=middle][width=12\bodyfontsize,height=12\bodyfont size]{one} \setlayerframed[test][preset=middle][width= 9\bodyfontsize,height=

Re: [NTG-context] Problems placing figures II

2005-05-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Richard Gabriel wrote: Hello Hans, thanks, but my ConTeXt reports Unknown control sequence. I use TeXLive 2003 (Windows XP) and a ConTeXt distribution downloaded about two moths ago. Browsing the ConTeXt sources, I've found a \doflushfloats macro which seems to do the desired job... Does it

[NTG-context] Re: Context, Latex, or an XML for acaddemic writing?

2005-05-17 Thread David Waller
Just to add a slightly different flavour, I have been using PdfLatex for several years to produce technical manuals for various pieces of software, which have included a lot of graphics and tables. I have recently changed to ConText mainly because it is far easier to set up how you want the text

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Context, Latex, or an XML for acaddemic writing?

2005-05-17 Thread Hans Hagen
David Waller wrote: Just to add a slightly different flavour, I have been using PdfLatex for several years to produce technical manuals for various pieces of software, which have included a lot of graphics and tables. I have recently changed to ConText mainly because it is far easier to set up how

[NTG-context] straight single quote

2005-05-17 Thread Stuart Jansen
While I appreciate TeX's support for attractive curly quotes, when representing console text it is important to use straight single and double quotes. I've been googling, exploring the list archives, reading the source, and beating my head against a nice blue pillar over by the window. None of

Re: [NTG-context] font mapfiles

2005-05-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hans, Adam, thanks for your replies! I just tried with Adam's version and my old version of cont-sys.tex, but it made no difference - do I have to rebuild the formats every time I change this file? I'll do more experiments this weekend, but will be away from my computer from tomorrow till

Re: [NTG-context] How to make a PDF workbook structure with index?

2005-05-17 Thread Peter Rolf
Thomas Schrader schrieb: Hi everybody, is anyone experienced in archiving PDF? I need archiving lots of different PDFs in different sizes and formats into workbooks or folders with index files. How could I possibly look into each PDF, getting the title info and generate an index? How do I do

Re: [NTG-context] font mapfiles

2005-05-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hans, Adam, thanks for your replies! I just tried with Adam's version and my old version of cont-sys.tex, but it made no difference - do I have to rebuild the formats every time I change this file? I'll do more experiments this weekend, but will be away from my

Re: [NTG-context] Context, LaTeX, or an XML for academic writing?

2005-05-17 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:41:00AM +0300, Ville Voipio wrote: One of the mixed blessings (=curses) brought about by computers is that now you need to be an academic writer, a typesetter, and a graphic artist at the same time. At this point the number of should-knows explodes. [snip]

[NTG-context] LaTeX emulation (was: Context, Latex, or an XML for acaddemic writing?)

2005-05-17 Thread Maurice Diamantini
Le 18 mai 05 à 00:13, Mojca Miklavec a écrit : Perhaps one of them would be cloning the default LaTeX style and include it into standard ConTeXt distribution. I guess this would be one reason more for LaTeX people to switch. (I sometimes still use LaTeX if I have absolutely no time and need