Re: [NTG-context] trouble with typescripts

2005-12-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Replying to my own ooold question: this problem has disappeared in newer versions of ConTeXt, as I just found out -- thanks for taking care of it! Taco, one wish for the bug collector: could we have a place for resolved bugs (or is it there and I just didn't find it)? I knew there had

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun example doesn't work

2005-12-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi David, To me it looks like it does work, but perhaps I am not looking at it correctly. Here is what I compiled: \setupcolors[state=start] \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \startMPgraphic draw unitsquare xscaled 5cm yscaled 1cm withpen pencircle scaled 2mm withcolor .625

Re: [NTG-context] trouble with typescripts

2005-12-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Taco, one wish for the bug collector: could we have a place for resolved bugs (or is it there and I just didn't find it)? I knew there had been a bug report wrt this problem, and it would've been reassuring to see a resolved tag attached to it. The collector has

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun example doesn't work

2005-12-18 Thread David Arnold
It compiles, but the figures should not be identical according to the Metafun manual, page 201. On Dec 18, 2005, at 1:01 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi David, To me it looks like it does work, but perhaps I am not looking at it correctly. Here is what I compiled: \setupcolors[state=start]

Re: [NTG-context] Legal Project Structure

2005-12-18 Thread Vit Zyka
David Arnold wrote: All, I have files: ~/IntermediateAlgebraText/book.tex ~/IntermediateAlgebraText/bookenv.tex ~/IntermediateAlgebraText/chapter1/chapter1.tex ... ~/IntermediateAlgebraText/chapter8/chapter8.tex I also have: ~/IntermediateAlgebraText/chapter1/section1.tex

Re: [NTG-context] textbackground bug

2005-12-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: Therefore I suspect it has something to do with the output routine where \s is taken as the next macro. A simpe experiment (\def\s{something}) shows that indeed a macro \s is executed. Is someone here messing up the catcode's of the letters? Yes, the \startJAVA

Re: [NTG-context] Need to compile individual components with proper numbering, etc.

2005-12-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: All, With the structure (posted below for completeness), I will need to compile the individual components (small chunks to post online for students with modems). I know this is possible, with say texexec section1. However, if that is section1.tex of chapter8.tex, then

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun example doesn't work

2005-12-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: It compiles, but the figures should not be identical according to the Metafun manual, page 201. Ah, I see now. The second argument is dropped, because it was assumed that it was never actually used. See the two disjunct definitions of \insertMPfile in supp-mps.tex (the

[NTG-context] Re: Story of a newbie looking for a table

2005-12-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] However, if you use the google frame integrated into contextgarden, you can choose between four options where to search (in the second step): contextgarden. pragma, ctan or everywhere. Try it. That's cool, I didn't know that. Thanks Mojca! Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more:

Re: [NTG-context] Re: interesting font

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:15 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Why not pretend that these things are a 'module' and put them on modules.contextgarden.net? It would also make installation easier for other users Not quite sure how I'd do that -- the stuff

Re: [NTG-context] including swf files?

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi, out of curiosity: how do I include a swf file into a pdf? So I can click on 'play' (or wherever) to start it? it's in the mediademo/mediashow files (i should be somewhere on the site -) Hans ___ ntg-context mailing

[NTG-context] Re: including swf files?

2005-12-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
out of curiosity: how do I include a swf file into a pdf? So I can click on 'play' (or wherever) to start it? it's in the mediademo/mediashow files (i should be somewhere on the site -) I've seen mediashow.pdf, but how do I integrate this in one of my own documents? Patrick -- ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Re: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: In the short run, for Aleph's purposes, these declarations and much/most/all of the metainfo can be treated as suggestions for the otp designer to consider in implementing things. There is no need to treat them as something holy. in the near future pdftex will

Re: [NTG-context] Re: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

2005-12-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:16:31 -0700, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the short run, for Aleph's purposes, these declarations and much/most/all of the metainfo can be treated as suggestions for the otp designer to consider in implementing things. There is no need to treat them as

[NTG-context] cont-fr interface ?

2005-12-18 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi all, I know that ConTeXt supports some interfaces like de, ro, cz, nl, etc. but it seems that nobody has developed a french interface. Am I right ? Since I'm just a user, it's difficult to me to apprehend how much work is needed to write such interface. I'm ready to do this work but I

Re: [NTG-context] Legal Project Structure

2005-12-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hi David, your setup looks o.k. to me. Still I have suggestions: - setup the output in the environment file \setupoutput[pdftex] - move the startbodymatter - stopbodymatter up into the project file. - reverse the \product and the \projec tline in the component file (I do not know whether this

Re: [NTG-context] Need to compile individual components with proper numbering, etc.

2005-12-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Taco, David, You can indeed compile a component which will inherit the settings of the project. Unfortunately one runs into troubles with references pointing to not included files and of course the numberings will be started at one. - Indeed I would welcome a procedure to be able to

Re: [NTG-context] cont-fr interface ?

2005-12-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Renaud, ASFAIK the interface is defined in a file called mult-com.tex. Adding a new interface would mean to place translations of the defined items into this file. Willi Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi all, I know that ConTeXt supports some interfaces like de, ro, cz, nl, etc. but it seems

Re: [NTG-context] cont-fr interface ?

2005-12-18 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Thank you Willi, What about tex/context/interface/cont-{en,nl,de}.xml ? Willi Egger a écrit : Hi Renaud, ASFAIK the interface is defined in a file called mult-com.tex. Adding a new interface would mean to place translations of the defined items into this file. Willi

Re: [NTG-context] cont-fr interface ?

2005-12-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Renaud, Humble, formerly it was the mentioned file. But I remember that Hans is generating a lot of the stuff from xml. So you are right. Willi Renaud AUBIN wrote: Thank you Willi, What about tex/context/interface/cont-{en,nl,de}.xml ? Willi Egger a écrit : Hi Renaud, ASFAIK the

[NTG-context] sed question

2005-12-18 Thread David Arnold
All, How would I use sed to erase %output=pdf from any file ending with .tex in the current directory and any subdirectories below it? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] cont-fr interface ?

2005-12-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Willi Egger wrote: Hi Renaud, ASFAIK the interface is defined in a file called mult-com.tex. Adding a new interface would mean to place translations of the defined items into this file. There are two big jobs to be done, one of which is optional: 1) add translations to mult-com.tex and

Re: [NTG-context] cont-fr interface ?

2005-12-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Willi Egger wrote: Renaud AUBIN wrote: Thank you Willi, What about tex/context/interface/cont-{en,nl,de}.xml ? These are generated from mult-com.tex and mult-con.tex Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

[NTG-context] How to upgrade ConTeXt on a pre-installed version coming with tetex-3.0?

2005-12-18 Thread R S Ananda Murthy
Hello, I am using Slackware 10.2 which comes with tetex-3.0. In this, I want to upgrade ConTeXt to the latest version. How to do this? Thanks for your help, Anand ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] sed question

2005-12-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: All, How would I use sed to erase %output=pdf from any file ending with .tex in the current directory and any subdirectories below it? I don't know about sed, but here is a find/perl solution that would work on linux: find . -name \*.tex -exec perl -npi -e

Re: [NTG-context] sed question

2005-12-18 Thread VnPenguin
On 12/18/05, David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, How would I use sed to erase %output=pdf from any file ending with .tex in the current directory and any subdirectories below it? Delete the line containing %output=pdf: $ find . -name *.tex | xargs sed -i '/%output=pdf/d' Remove only

Re: [NTG-context] sed question

2005-12-18 Thread David Arnold
IntermediateAlgebraText $ find . -name \*.tex -exec perl -npi -e 's/% output=pdf/%/g' \{\}\; find: -exec: no terminating ; On Dec 18, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, How would I use sed to erase %output=pdf from any file ending with .tex in the current

Re: [NTG-context] sed question

2005-12-18 Thread David Arnold
IntermediateAlgebraText $ find . -name *.tex | xargs sed -i '/% output=pdf/d' sed: 1: ./book.tex: invalid command code . MacOSX Tiger On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:05 AM, VnPenguin wrote: On 12/18/05, David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, How would I use sed to erase %output=pdf from any

Re: [NTG-context] How to upgrade ConTeXt on a pre-installed version coming with tetex-3.0?

2005-12-18 Thread Radhelorn
R S Ananda Murthy wrote: Hello, I am using Slackware 10.2 which comes with tetex-3.0. In this, I want to upgrade ConTeXt to the latest version. How to do this? Thanks for your help, Just follow instructions in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation I've upgraded ConTeXt on my

Re: [NTG-context] sed question

2005-12-18 Thread Radhelorn
David Arnold wrote: IntermediateAlgebraText $ find . -name *.tex | xargs sed -i '/% output=pdf/d' sed: 1: ./book.tex: invalid command code . Strange. Command is valid and works for me. -- Radhelorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] sed question

2005-12-18 Thread David Arnold
I'll post on the MacOSX-TeX list and see what's up with this command. On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Radhelorn wrote: David Arnold wrote: IntermediateAlgebraText $ find . -name *.tex | xargs sed -i '/% output=pdf/d' sed: 1: ./book.tex: invalid command code . Strange. Command is valid and

Re: [NTG-context] cont-fr interface ?

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Thank you Willi, What about tex/context/interface/cont-{en,nl,de}.xml ? there are two files you need to edit (extend): mult-con.tex mult-com.tex in addition you need to provide message translations (these are spread over other files); in principle these are

Re: [NTG-context] Re: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 07:16:31 -0700, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the short run, for Aleph's purposes, these declarations and much/most/all of the metainfo can be treated as suggestions for the otp designer to consider in implementing things. There is

Re: [NTG-context] How to upgrade ConTeXt on a pre-installed version coming with tetex-3.0?

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
R S Ananda Murthy wrote: Hello, I am using Slackware 10.2 which comes with tetex-3.0. In this, I want to upgrade ConTeXt to the latest version. How to do this? there is info on that in the wiki (contextgarden.net) Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] cont-fr interface ?

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Each time, you add 'french' to the language list at the top, then add a new translation for each keyword. You *cannot* skip a translation within a command list (the number of translated items has to match up), but you *can* skip an entire command block

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun example doesn't work

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: It compiles, but the figures should not be identical according to the Metafun manual, page 201. Ah, I see now. The second argument is dropped, because it was assumed that it was never actually used. See the two disjunct definitions of

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun example doesn't work

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi David, To me it looks like it does work, but perhaps I am not looking at it correctly. Here is what I compiled: \setupcolors[state=start] \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \startMPgraphic draw unitsquare xscaled 5cm yscaled 1cm withpen pencircle scaled

Re: [NTG-context] Re: including swf files?

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: out of curiosity: how do I include a swf file into a pdf? So I can click on 'play' (or wherever) to start it? it's in the mediademo/mediashow files (i should be somewhere on the site -) I've seen mediashow.pdf, but how do I integrate this in one of my

[NTG-context] Tables --- what is current recommendation?

2005-12-18 Thread David Arnold
All, There's a nice summary of Tables on: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview I'm wondering. If one is starting anew with Context, what would users recommend as the best choice of table environment? What choice would I make if I have no need of backward compatibility and am

Re: [NTG-context] cont-fr interface ?

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hans Hagen a écrit : Renaud AUBIN wrote: Thank you Willi, What about tex/context/interface/cont-{en,nl,de}.xml ? there are two files you need to edit (extend): mult-con.tex mult-com.tex in addition you need to provide message translations (these are spread over

Re: [NTG-context] textbackground bug

2005-12-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: Forcing the typesetting to run further the output contains the rest of the source of macro \startpdffontresource[ec] . I.e. the output then shows (the \s has disappeared): tartpdffontresource[ec] /CIDInit /ProcSet findresource begin ... - and goes on until

Re: [NTG-context] Tables --- what is current recommendation?

2005-12-18 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, David Arnold wrote: I'm wondering. If one is starting anew with Context, what would users recommend as the best choice of table environment? I think it really depends on the type of table you need. For something with a simple layout like vocabulary or address lists I would use tabulate,

[NTG-context] drawdot fails?

2005-12-18 Thread David Arnold
All, I am wondering why my dots are not filled with the drawdot command. \startuseMPgraphic{yeqx2} %define function vardef f(expr x)= x*x enddef; %define clipping path path cpath; cpath:=(-5,-5)--(5,-5)--(5,5)--(-5,5)--cycle; %create function path path p; p:=(-5,f(-5));

Re: [NTG-context] drawdot fails?

2005-12-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: All, I am wondering why my dots are not filled with the drawdot command. Works for me. (-2,4), (-1,1), (0,0), (1,1) and (2,4) are black dots on a blue line. texpdf files mailed separately. Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] drawdot fails?

2005-12-18 Thread David Arnold
Look more closely. The dots are not filled. On Dec 18, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, I am wondering why my dots are not filled with the drawdot command. Works for me. (-2,4), (-1,1), (0,0), (1,1) and (2,4) are black dots on a blue line. texpdf files mailed

Re: [NTG-context] drawdot fails?

2005-12-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: Look more closely. The dots are not filled. I assure you that I see them filled, in Acroread, as well as in xpdf. I'll send you a screenshot. :-) Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] drawdot fails?

2005-12-18 Thread David Arnold
Aha! In Previewer on my Mac, the dots are not filled. But when I open the same document in Acrobat Professional, they're filled! Thanks. On Dec 18, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: Look more closely. The dots are not filled. I assure you that I see them

Re: [NTG-context] drawdot fails?

2005-12-18 Thread David Arnold
As an alternative, replace the drawdot command with the draw command. Then the dots fill. On Dec 18, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, I am wondering why my dots are not filled with the drawdot command. Works for me. (-2,4), (-1,1), (0,0), (1,1) and (2,4)