Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XML, multiple attributes evaluation

2005-11-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johannes Graumann wrote: but this doesn't work ... But it worked fine for me!? Anyway, it is probably a better idea to do it like this: \defineXMLenvironment [list]% {% \let\listoptions\empty \XMLifequalelse{list}{setup}{n} {\appendtocommalist{n}\listoptions} {}% \XMLifequ

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XML, multiple attributes evaluation

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Gabriel
Hello Johannes, I consider your first \XMLifequalelse command a bit strange. This command is intented to be used if you want to convert the attribute values into something else (e.g. "yes" into "packed"). If you need the unmodified parameter value, simply use \XMLpar. So e.g.: \startitemize[

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XML en-dash

2005-11-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I just started to experiment with typesetting XML using ConTeXt ... I ran into this problem which I'm unable to solve: 1) I added the following rule to my xml map file: \defineXMLentity[en]-- That should have been: \defineXMLentity

Re: [NTG-context] I can't find the format file `pdfetex.fmt'!

2005-11-28 Thread ktt
Yes, that's true. --- Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ktt wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I've installed stand-alone CONTEXT editing > environment > >(windows) from Pragma website. > >But it reports problems, when I buil pdf's: > > > >This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2c > >7.5

[NTG-context] ConTeXt, XML, multiple attributes evaluation

2005-11-28 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello again, Another one: I'm trying to expand >\defineXMLenvironment [list]% > {% > \expanded{% > \startitemize% >[% > \XMLifequalelse{list}{packed}{yes}{packed}{unpacked}% >]% > }% > }% > {\stopitemize} which can deal with things like > > > > To something able to deal with m

[NTG-context] ConTeXt, XML en-dash

2005-11-28 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I just started to experiment with typesetting XML using ConTeXt ... I ran into this problem which I'm unable to solve: 1) I added the following rule to my xml map file: \defineXMLentity[en]-- 2) yet calling &en; in my document results in the TeX equivalent of "-"

Re: [NTG-context] shading box many times

2005-11-28 Thread Vit Zyka
Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Vit Zyka wrote: Dear Metafun Wizards, I have noticed some strange behaviour with box shading. It works OK until some number of shadings. Please see example: http://typokvitek.com/tmp/shade-many.pdf Any idea for solving? Next not

Re: [NTG-context] indentation + YandY Lucida on TeXlive2005+debian

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: First of all, thanks for Lucida tips... It work now with my debian install of texlive 2005. I'm working now on the layout and structure of my phd thesis. Due to the fact that my thesis is in french I need to setup indentation of the first paragraph and I've got a problem

Re: [NTG-context] I can't find the format file `pdfetex.fmt'!

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
ktt wrote: Hello, I've installed stand-alone CONTEXT editing environment (windows) from Pragma website. But it reports problems, when I buil pdf's: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.5) \write18 enabled. I can't find the format file `pdfetex.fmt'! pdfetex: unrecognized o

[NTG-context] I can't find the format file `pdfetex.fmt'!

2005-11-28 Thread ktt
Hello, I've installed stand-alone CONTEXT editing environment (windows) from Pragma website. But it reports problems, when I buil pdf's: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.5) \write18 enabled. I can't find the format file `pdfetex.fmt'! pdfetex: unrecognized option `--alia

[NTG-context] indentation + YandY Lucida on TeXlive2005+debian

2005-11-28 Thread Renaud AUBIN
First of all, thanks for Lucida tips... It work now with my debian install of texlive 2005. I'm working now on the layout and structure of my phd thesis. Due to the fact that my thesis is in french I need to setup indentation of the first paragraph and I've got a problem with \setupindenting \

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I have once tried to set up TeX on gentoo, and found this to be the most complicated and least user-friendly distribution I have ever seen. There's a bunch of texmf-trees in all kinds of bizarre locations, and a symlink farm in /etc like you wouldn't believe, and there's not a shred of docu

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-28 Thread VnPenguin
On 11/28/05, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so for vietnamese you need another encoding. > > (i added language modes, so we can now do for vietnamese): > > \startmode[*vn] > \enableregime[utf] > \setupencoding[default=t5] > \stopmode > > \startnotmode[atpragma] > > \usetypesc

[NTG-context] texteuro

2005-11-28 Thread Hans van der Meer
I clearly have some misunderstanding about the typesetting of the euro sign. In an attempt to implement the MathTimes font and expert fontset, I came across a problem with typesetting the euro. I could not redefine the \texteuro. In \showcharacters it stays empty. Doing \definecharacter tex

[NTG-context] blackboard bold and calligraphic

2005-11-28 Thread Hans van der Meer
BLACKBOARD There is a problem with the Blackboard symbols, when used in regular and bold forms both. In the Lucida fontset there is a regular series in lbma (or hlcra), and a bold series in font lbmad (or hlcda). As I understand from the current code, switching from regular to bold should

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > I've followed the instructions listed at > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't > > quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup > > as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/l

Re: [NTG-context] Iwona font

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, Frustrating and I agree. So, perhaps the way to go is through trouble shooting advice in the manuals. This advice should take the form of "If you see this, then do this..." that won't help ... if filenames change and files come and go ... The difficulty, at l

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-28 Thread VnPenguin
On 11/28/05, Mari Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > finding anything on Pragma website (*never* install newer Acrobat Reader > on a Windows that already has an older full Acrobat...). \startOT At work, I have Acrobat 5.0 (full) + Acrobat Reader 7.x => work perfectly :-) \stopOT

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread VnPenguin
On 11/28/05, Nikolai Weibull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've followed the instructions listed at > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't quite > give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup as a base > and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/lo

Re: [NTG-context] Iwona font

2005-11-28 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Frustrating and I agree. So, perhaps the way to go is through trouble shooting advice in the manuals. This advice should take the form of "If you see this, then do this..." The difficulty, at least for me, is the fact that I don't understand the sequence of engines that are brought

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Nikolai Weibull wrote: I've followed the instructions listed at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/local/share. Does anyone know what opti

Re: [NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Nikolai Weibull wrote: I've followed the instructions listed at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/local/share. Does anyone know what optio

[NTG-context] Building and installing pdftex 1.30 on teTeX 3.0

2005-11-28 Thread Nikolai Weibull
I've followed the instructions listed at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation, but it won't quite give. The problem is that I use the Gentoo installation setup as a base and have the latest ConTeXt installed in /usr/local/share. Does anyone know what options to pass to pdftex's co

Re: [NTG-context] shading box many times

2005-11-28 Thread Peter Rolf
Vit Zyka wrote: > Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> Hans Hagen wrote: >> >>> Vit Zyka wrote: >>> Dear Metafun Wizards, I have noticed some strange behaviour with box shading. It works OK until some number of shadings. Please see example: http://typokvitek.com/tmp/shade-many.pdf >>

Re: [NTG-context] Iwona font

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, I did, but I'll try again: you can try this; the price is that you get messages about missing map files that you can ignore; i'm not in the mood for renaming and reorganizing my system(s) now Hans type-map.tex Description: TeX document __

Re: [NTG-context] Iwona font

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, I did, but I'll try again: well, the log says: Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-iwona.map): cannot open font map file and i took a look at the latest zip and there they use iwona-*.map names instead of *-iwona.map so ... another uncommunicated change in name

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: [NTG-context] shading box many times

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Whether or not that makes dividing by 10.000 safe is not clear to me. I have to read up on what is going on first. for i=1 upto 1 : show i/1 ; endfor ; indicates that indeed the precision is ok i put a version for testing purposes at www.pragma-ade.com/temp

Re: [NTG-context] Iwona font

2005-11-28 Thread David Arnold
Hans, I did, but I'll try again: sudo texhash And got this response: Password: texhash: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/ls-R... texhash: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/ls-R... texhash: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/ls-R... texhash: Updating /usr/local/teTeX/shar

Re: [NTG-context] Installing YandY Lucida Bright fonts

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Sytse Knypstra wrote: But unfortunately I don't have these files. How can I create them? Or should I take the identically named files from Hans's recent (bh-)lucida.zip file? these files come with the (formerly) yandy floppies/cd; just take them from the posted zip (i suppose that in a while

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Mari Voipio wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: I 'reorganized' (split) the beginners manual and put it in svn, so anyone who is willing to translate can check out a copy. OK, I'm either out of the loop (had off-the-Internet holiday) or just a dummy Windows user, but the above doesn't really parse he

Re: [NTG-context] Drag and Drop and Authenticate on the Mac OS Tiger

2005-11-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
> fonts $ ls -l > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x8 root wheel 272 Nov 20 19:59 cm-super > drwxrwxr-x 14 darnold wheel 476 Nov 27 19:27 iwona > > See how the result is owned by darnold:wheel? Is that gonna cause a > problem? Should it be changed to root:wheel? > Would it be OK to change to /usr/lo

Re: [NTG-context] shading box many times

2005-11-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: it's related to the fact that there can be 1000 specials only (this /1000 in mp-spec) Why? if you add: \def\MPrgbnumber#1{\expandafter\doMPrgbnumber#1.0\relax} \def\doMPrgbnumber#1.#2#3#4#5#6\relax{#2#3#4#5} \startMPinclusions _special_div_ := 1 ; \stopMPin

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-28 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Mari Voipio schrieb: Hans Hagen wrote: I 'reorganized' (split) the beginners manual and put it in svn, so anyone who is willing to translate can check out a copy. OK, I'm either out of the loop (had off-the-Internet holiday) or just a dummy Windows user, but the above doesn't really parse

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, The SVN repository is here: svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals but that only works when you have subversion client installed. In the mean time or for people that cannot get subversion running at all: I have an automatic checkout script that gets called every hour, and the working directory

Re: [NTG-context] shading box many times

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Vit Zyka wrote: Dear Metafun Wizards, I have noticed some strange behaviour with box shading. It works OK until some number of shadings. Please see example: http://typokvitek.com/tmp/shade-many.pdf Any idea for solving? Next not-minimal but small

Re: [NTG-context] shading box many times

2005-11-28 Thread Vit Zyka
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Vit Zyka wrote: Dear Metafun Wizards, I have noticed some strange behaviour with box shading. It works OK until some number of shadings. Please see example: http://typokvitek.com/tmp/shade-many.pdf Any idea for solving? Next not-minimal but small a

[NTG-context] Installing YandY Lucida Bright fonts

2005-11-28 Thread Sytse Knypstra
Hi all, Recently a number of ConTeXt users (Hans van der Meer, David Arnold, Renaud Aubin, me) is trying to install the YandY lucida bright fonts, including (bold) math. Wouldn't it be nice if this resulted into a (wikifiable) recipe? I started as follows (please correct me if I am taking a w

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-28 Thread Mari Voipio
Hans Hagen wrote: I 'reorganized' (split) the beginners manual and put it in svn, so anyone who is willing to translate can check out a copy. OK, I'm either out of the loop (had off-the-Internet holiday) or just a dummy Windows user, but the above doesn't really parse here so cannot even get

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

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: 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 of fil

Re: [NTG-context] shading box many times

2005-11-28 Thread Vit Zyka
Hans Hagen wrote: Vit Zyka wrote: Dear Metafun Wizards, I have noticed some strange behaviour with box shading. It works OK until some number of shadings. Please see example: http://typokvitek.com/tmp/shade-many.pdf Any idea for solving? Next not-minimal but small and illustrative example

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

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: I've been debugging this, and the reason for the thing not coming up for parts after the first is that when resetnumber=no the current level is not properly detected: in one case you get \currentlevel ->:1 in the other \currentlevel ->:2:2:4:2 Which is obviously wron

Re: [NTG-context] shading box many times

2005-11-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Vit Zyka wrote: Dear Metafun Wizards, I have noticed some strange behaviour with box shading. It works OK until some number of shadings. Please see example: http://typokvitek.com/tmp/shade-many.pdf Any idea for solving? Next not-minimal but small and illustrative example

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-28 Thread Mari Voipio
Hans Hagen wrote: I'm going to clean up the beginners manual Yippee! :-) Having read one printout to shreds I really appreciate this... - what should go in As has been suggested here to an extent, there should be attachments (or separate smaller manuals) on how to install and update ConTe

Re: [NTG-context] shading box many times

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: Dear Metafun Wizards, I have noticed some strange behaviour with box shading. It works OK until some number of shadings. Please see example: http://typokvitek.com/tmp/shade-many.pdf Any idea for solving? Next not-minimal but small and illustrative example can help. works

Re: [NTG-context] Linux binaries

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Duncan Hothersall wrote: I just foolishly downloaded the 2005-11-16 linuxtex.zip minimal linux distribution and copied it on top of my previous one, and I now discover that the binaries are linked to a more recent version of glibc than I have on my

Re: [NTG-context] Linux binaries

2005-11-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: what puzzles me most is that since tex is not that demanding, it is still so dependent (maybe only pdftex with its graphic libraries is a problem) It is only dependent because it was created on my (brand new) machine. If it was recompiled on an older machine, that executab

Re: [NTG-context] Linux binaries

2005-11-28 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Hans wrote: > yes, you can use the old binaries, no problem; > > hm, a copy of previous binaries ... i can make a zip of an old tree That would be great, thanks! Thanks Taco for the suggestions, I was exploring both of those in parallel to hoping that someone had kept a copy of the old ones.. T

Re: [NTG-context] Linux binaries

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hi, Taco Hoekwater wrote: indeed annoying (and depressing); it also means that you cannot copy an old tree to a new linux installation (this is what i found out recently); on windows, one does not have this problem (since it carries previous versions of libraries); i do

Re: [NTG-context] Choosing a font for our Math Book

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, Yep. bin $ locate yandy- /Users/darnold/tmp/lucida/texnansi-yandy-lucida-mpgraph.mp /Users/darnold/tmp/lucida/texnansi-yandy-lucida.log /Users/darnold/tmp/lucida/texnansi-yandy-lucida.pdf /Users/darnold/tmp/lucida/texnansi-yandy-lucida.tex /Users/darnold/tmp/lucida/te

Re: [NTG-context] Linux binaries

2005-11-28 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, Taco Hoekwater wrote: indeed annoying (and depressing); it also means that you cannot copy an old tree to a new linux installation (this is what i found out recently); on windows, one does not have this problem (since it carries previous versions of libraries); i don't know how sensitive

Re: [NTG-context] Iwona font

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: 1. Do I have to also do an updmap or enable or some such thing? no, context loads the files needed at runtime 2. I note that on my office system, /usr/local/teTeX is owned by root:wheel. But done in my fonts directory, some files are owned by darnolddarn:admind and s

Re: [NTG-context] Linux binaries

2005-11-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Duncan Hothersall wrote: I just foolishly downloaded the 2005-11-16 linuxtex.zip minimal linux distribution and copied it on top of my previous one, and I now discover that the binaries are linked to a more recent version of glibc than I have on my linux box. Eek. indeed

Re: [NTG-context] Linux binaries

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: I just foolishly downloaded the 2005-11-16 linuxtex.zip minimal linux distribution and copied it on top of my previous one, and I now discover that the binaries are linked to a more recent version of glibc than I have on my linux box. Eek. indeed annoying (and depress

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-28 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: On 11/28/05, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, it's ok. But I have to add: \usemodule[abr-01] into ma-cb-abbreviations.tex in order to fix error \ASCII non defined. no, you need a new version of context -) Release 2005.11.24 is not ok for this

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-28 Thread Vit Zyka
Hans Hagen wrote: Vit Zyka wrote: I got unexpected positive responce to idea of beginners manual translation on Saturday's Czech/Slovak TUG meeting. The small working group of 5 people was establish there. Nobody but me has context experience now, but I think it is not a serious drawback for

Re: [NTG-context] Linux binaries

2005-11-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Duncan Hothersall wrote: I just foolishly downloaded the 2005-11-16 linuxtex.zip minimal linux distribution and copied it on top of my previous one, and I now discover that the binaries are linked to a more recent version of glibc than I have on my linux box. Eek. I will clearly need to update

[NTG-context] Problem with Lucida Fonts

2005-11-28 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi all, I'm trying ConTeXt for a week so maybe my question seems stupid but... I have the Y&Y Lucida fonts and i've run sudo texfont --en=ec --ve=bh --co=lucida --in --ma --so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN to get ec-bh-lucida.map So I want to check if my installation is working with an experiment : _

[NTG-context] shading box many times

2005-11-28 Thread Vit Zyka
Dear Metafun Wizards, I have noticed some strange behaviour with box shading. It works OK until some number of shadings. Please see example: http://typokvitek.com/tmp/shade-many.pdf Any idea for solving? Next not-minimal but small and illustrative example can help. Thanks in advance Vit -

[NTG-context] Linux binaries

2005-11-28 Thread Duncan Hothersall
I just foolishly downloaded the 2005-11-16 linuxtex.zip minimal linux distribution and copied it on top of my previous one, and I now discover that the binaries are linked to a more recent version of glibc than I have on my linux box. Eek. I will clearly need to update the linux machine in due cou