[NTG-context] miktex

2005-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, I'm trying to make texexec more miktex aware and run into a problem pdfetex --alias=context -initialize *cont-en ! I can't read TEX.POOL. does anyone know what is wrong here? (btw, Christian Schenk now provides a bin only zip so that i can make minimals for testing which makes it easier

Re: [NTG-context] how to number poetry?

2005-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Paul Tremblay wrote: What is the best way to number lines of poetry? 1 This is the first line This is the second line ... 5 this is the fifth ... 10 this is the tenth. This is a solution, written in plain TeX. I hope it is commented well enough so that you can change it if

Re: [NTG-context] how to number poetry?

2005-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Paul Tremblay wrote: What is the best way to number lines of poetry? 1 This is the first line This is the second line ... 5 this is the fifth ... 10 this is the tenth. This is a solution, written in plain TeX. I hope it is commented well enough so

Re: [NTG-context] Visual Debugging (was: Basic question)

2005-07-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2005-07-18 um 00:36 schrieb Hans Hagen: \showcharacters \showaccents BTW I finally created the wiki page Visual Debugging for all the \show... commands; I guess there are even more than I listed there, and some descriptions are still missing (had no time to try them all). (\trace...

[NTG-context] Translation of the manual ConTeXt ...

2005-07-18 Thread VnPenguin
Hi all, I would like to know the status of translating idea which found here: http://contextgarden.net/Revision_and_translations_of_%E2%80%9CConTeXt%2C_an_excursion%E2%80%9D There are some students in our community in summer holidays :) So if it's possible, I would like to start the vietnamese

Re: [NTG-context] control text color of \about[], \at[]

2005-07-18 Thread VnPenguin
On 7/17/05, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \setupinteraction[color=red,contrastcolor=red] Oh, it's exactly what I'm looking for! Thank you a lot, Hans :) Regards, Quy -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community ___

[NTG-context] colorizing item numbers

2005-07-18 Thread Jason Knight
I'm new to ConTeXt and puzzling over a text I'm trying to set a text where item numbers (or letters, or symbols for that matter) need to be either color or grayscale. Here's what I'm thinking, though, obviously the code doesn't work: \startitemize[\color[darkred]{n}, packed, inmargin] . . .

Re: [NTG-context] Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt

2005-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: regi-lat.tex is interesting, made just for typesetting Croatian :) Perhaps I can add some stuff there too. \defineactivetoken đ {\pseudoencodeddj} \defineactivetoken Ð {\pseudoencodedDJ} This should be \dstroke and \Dstroke. ok, changed Thank

Re: [NTG-context] Visual Debugging (was: Basic question)

2005-07-18 Thread Brooks Moses
At 09:18 AM 7/18/2005, you wrote: Am 2005-07-18 um 00:36 schrieb Hans Hagen: \showcharacters \showaccents BTW I finally created the wiki page Visual Debugging for all the \show... commands; I guess there are even more than I listed there, and some descriptions are still missing (had no time

Re: [NTG-context] Visual Debugging

2005-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Brooks Moses wrote: I had also put some lists of all the \show... and \trace... commands I found in the sources on the Discussion page for Visual_Debugging; it may be useful to go through and compare our lists. Note that the \trace... commands seem to be defined with \newif; thus, they come

Re: [NTG-context] Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt

2005-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: \Dstroke has some problems anyway, at least in cmr (lmr?). The stroke should be on the left, but it is on the right. I thought it was just because \tt don't have that glyph, but also the roman version is rendered extremely bad. in case of doubt, you can discuss this

Re: [NTG-context] Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt

2005-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: maybe a better name is regi-ce or just regi-1250 regi-ce is a bad name as there are 4 central european encodings (IBM-853, ISO-8859-2, MacCE and Windows-1250) plus Croatian. 1250 alone is probably OK, but there's no hint in file name about which encoding is meant

Re: [NTG-context] horoffset + itemize + positiongraphics = misaligned graphics

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 23:39 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: I'm working on a rather complex document containing frequent use of positional graphics. Unfortunately, I've discovered what I expect will be a pretty nasty problem to fix. When I combine horoffset, startitemize, positiongraphics the

Re: [NTG-context] colorizing item numbers

2005-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Jason Knight wrote: I'm new to ConTeXt and puzzling over a text I'm trying to set a text where item numbers (or letters, or symbols for that matter) need to be either color or grayscale. Here's what I'm thinking, though, obviously the code doesn't work: \startitemize[\color[darkred]{n},

Re: [NTG-context] Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt

2005-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: (concerning eregi-* files: you can define filesynonyms so we need a list of filesynonyms and regimesynonyms) What do you mean by writing file synonyms? Where would it be used? \definefilesynonym [mojka] [mojca] \definefilesynonym [moika]

[NTG-context] keyboard style tilde

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Jansen
How do I get a keyboard style tilde? As in: ~sjansen The tilde character is roughly aligned with the middle horizontal part of the s. \~ and \lettertilde produce a tilde that has been raised so that it can be used as an accent. I don't want that. -- Stuart Jansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guru Labs,

Re: [NTG-context] keyboard style tilde

2005-07-18 Thread Matthias Weber
Hi Stuart, I think what you get when you type ~ depends on the font you use. For instance, you can try the plain TeX character access in Palatino: \usetypescript [adobekb] [ec] \loadmapfile [context-base] \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt]

Re: [NTG-context] colorizing item numbers

2005-07-18 Thread Jason Knight
Thanks for the pointer. The color option was not one I found in the manual, and my combing through the source code wasn't as fruitful as I woulda hoped. jason On 7/18/05, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Knight wrote: I'm new to ConTeXt and puzzling over a text I'm trying to set a