Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.01.09 released

2006-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: On 1/9/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just update to this release, and ... ConTeXt stops work with my files :( ah ... sorry ... i hate this font name mess in type-akb.tex search for: \starttypescript [adobekb,berry] [t5] and comment this typescript

Re: [NTG-context] Monospace Fonts for Verbatim

2006-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Louis Springer wrote: I have a typescript I am using for a custom font, but the custom font has no monospace variant appropriate for verbatim text. I'm attempting to use Courier or some other monospace font for verbatim and maintain my custom font for normally typeset serf text. My

Re: [NTG-context] Right-to-left typesetting in Farsi for Context.

2006-01-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:25:16 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use whatever font your client prefers, particularly if it does not involve a lot of ligatures or vowels (most fonts used in Persian typesetting are pretty basic in this regard, with the very important

[NTG-context] Font memory issues ?

2006-01-10 Thread David Wooten
Greetings ConTeXters, Just recently (after updating to the most recent i-Installer ConTeXt version / but also after writing/tweaking a little more), I am apparently running into some font memory issues.* I have tried to increase the available memory in web2c/texmf.cnf to no avail. One

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ? : bib-module?

2006-01-10 Thread David Wooten
Excuse me for replying to myself, but it is also curious that ConTeXt is trying to call a 12pt font. I have called 11pt in the environment. It looks like these errors are appearing at the Bibliography. Might this be due to something in the the beta bib-module? David On Jan 10, 2006, at

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.01.09 released

2006-01-10 Thread VnPenguin
On 1/10/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, another attempt (attacted file, no need for a format remake) Hans This time it works :-) Thank you, -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.01.09 released

2006-01-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi, On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:14:18 -0700, Jilani Khaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a particular procedure (read sinple) to update MikteX (for Windows) without breaking the already installed distribution? Or to wait for a while until a MikTeX Update is ready? Thanks! The best

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ? : bib-module?

2006-01-10 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Wooten wrote: Excuse me for replying to myself, but it is also curious that ConTeXt is trying to call a 12pt font. I have called 11pt in the environment. It looks like these errors are appearing at the Bibliography. Might this be due to something in the the beta bib-module? Not

Re: [NTG-context] i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?

2006-01-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:23:17 -0700, David Wooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without

Re: [NTG-context] page breaks broken?

2006-01-10 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear gang, Having serious trouble with pagebreaks: For the 'right' to work, you need an extra \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] I don't know what's wrong with the other \page command. Cheers, Taco ___

[NTG-context] Problem with \placefigure

2006-01-10 Thread FrancoisFasoli
The following test file gives a good result with old ConteXtbut gives an error with new ConteXtIt seems that new ConteXt does not accept [center]What is the problem ?Thanks \starttext \placefigure[center]{}{} \stoptext error message :

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ? : bib-module?

2006-01-10 Thread David Wooten
Here are the stats, after removing placepublications: Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 4760 strings out of 60999 76752 string characters out of 611011 32604822 words of memory out of 34111765 40674 multiletter control sequences out of 1+5 1974579 words of font info for 355

[NTG-context] columnsets and footnotes (better explained)

2006-01-10 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Hans, maybe my problem was not clear enough. So please let me try it once more. The following example has main text in 2 columns and footnote text in 3 columns: \setupfootnotes[n=3] \starttext \startcolumns \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte\footnote{\input ward \relax}} \stopcolumns

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ? : bib-module?

2006-01-10 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Wooten wrote: Here are the stats, after removing placepublications: Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 4760 strings out of 60999 76752 string characters out of 611011 32604822 words of memory out of 34111765 40674 multiletter control sequences out of 1+5 1974579 words

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \placefigure

2006-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
FrancoisFasoli wrote: The following test file gives a good result with old ConteXt but gives an error with new ConteXt It seems that new ConteXt does not accept [center] What is the problem ? grep dorechecknextindentation *.tex cont-new.tex: \dorechecknextindentation} core-des.tex:

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ? : bib-module?

2006-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Wooten wrote: Here are the stats, after removing placepublications: Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 4760 strings out of 60999 76752 string characters out of 611011 32604822 words of memory out of 34111765 40674 multiletter control sequences out of

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.01.09 released

2006-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: On 1/10/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, another attempt (attacted file, no need for a format remake) Hans This time it works :-) ok, i'll generate a new zip Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \placefigure

2006-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
FrancoisFasoli wrote: The following test file gives a good result with old ConteXt but gives an error with new ConteXt It seems that new ConteXt does not accept [center] What is the problem ? Thanks \starttext \placefigure[center]{}{} \stoptext error message :

Re: [NTG-context] framed texts for boxing stuff

2006-01-10 Thread Maurice Diamantini (dom)
Le 10 janv. 06 à 00:01, Hans Hagen a écrit : Maurice Diamantini (dom) wrote: As the LaTeX++ concurrent package designer, you should read some page of the LaTeX reference documentation A document Preparation System It is little book (272 pages with the index !) and cover the core of

Re: [NTG-context] framed texts for boxing stuff

2006-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Maurice Diamantini (dom) wrote: Although I guess what it mean, I didn't found the \offset command doc neither. I suppose it has numerous interesting options (on http://texshow.contextgarden.net/)? that;s a new one indeed (that is, old but not yet documented which makes it new -) It could

Re: [NTG-context] framed texts for boxing stuff

2006-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Maurice Diamantini (dom) wrote: the manual as well as examples inside the core-ful.tex file I havent been able to find this file! core-fil.tex exists but doesn't seem to be about using boxes! core-rul.tex Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] framed texts for boxing stuff

2006-01-10 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/10/06, Maurice Diamantini (dom) wrote: Ok, but what I mean is the need of such a documentation on the ConTeXt core, not reimplementing LaTeX in ConTeXt ! Add to the wiki what you've learned! Hans codes much faster than he manages to document things, so it's up to the community to keep

[NTG-context] Updating to Context 2006.01.09

2006-01-10 Thread Jilani Khaldi
The best thing to do is install MiKTeX without ConTeXt support, and then extract cont-tmf.zip into \texmf-local, then refresh the fndb. Just doing: texexec --make or something else? Thanks! jk -- Jilani KHALDI http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com ___

[NTG-context] Why PDF files generated by ConTeXt are so big?

2006-01-10 Thread Jilani Khaldi
I have translated some docs from LaTeX to ConTeXt and I found that the PDF files generated by ConTeXt are almost 3 times bigger than the ones generated by LaTeX (*). Why all this difference? jk (*) MikTeX under Windows -- Jilani KHALDI http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com

Re: [NTG-context] i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?

2006-01-10 Thread Gerben Wierda
On Jan 10, 2006, at 21:22, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ?

2006-01-10 Thread David Wooten
On Jan 10, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: did you remake the format after increasing the memory values? This means texexec --make --all ? I did try the above, but the numbers in the log when running my file do not change. I can only imagine that there is another place to change

Re: [NTG-context] i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?

2006-01-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:00:19 -0700, Gerben Wierda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 10, 2006, at 21:22, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet