Re: [NTG-context] RFC: 'What would you like in an Text Editor?'

2006-03-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Jeffrey, Jeffrey Drake wrote: If you were going to use an editor for context usage (potentially integrated into a Context suite), what features would you like from it? * Good spellchecking, including private and special-purpose dicts. * A re-wrap paragraph implementation that leaves lines

Re: [NTG-context] Guide on align (was Help : Unknown references)

2006-03-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: [1] On my college computer texexec --version gives I can send you a pdf sometime later today. TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 Taco, do you need this one for the museum :) Can you find a version number somewhere? or the filesize of texexec.pl? filesize

Re: [NTG-context] intertext for aligned equations

2006-03-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Aditya Mahajan wrote: This seems to be working fine. However, \intertext defined in amsmath.sty seems to be doing a lot more (I just can't figure out what it is doing?) Can someone suggest how to make the above command more robust on the lines of \intertext? It inserts a

Re: [NTG-context] XML and 'Table of Contents'

2006-03-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I'm writing a XML style sheet for ConTeXt, which contains the following definitions: \defineXMLargument [chapter] {\chapter{\XMLvar{chapter}{title}{}}} I don't remember the correct syntax off-hand, but this would match: chapter title=Title

Re: [NTG-context] TL2005 perl problems [was: Re: Struggling with Old Style numerals!]

2006-03-27 Thread G.C.H.M. Verhaag
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Well, there's some info around on the web that you may want to have a look at: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#selectfont- typescript (a bit dated, but still correct and very useful) http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-1/wierda/wierda.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Struggling with Old Style numerals!

2006-03-27 Thread G.C.H.M. Verhaag
Mojca Miklavec wrote: ... TeXLive 2004? Hans would probably call it ancient. If it is (was) OK I've removed that one and installed TeXLive 2005! I was afraid of other problems, and indeed that's exactly what happened. ... So what should be my next move? I don't

Re: [NTG-context] Frontmatter setup

2006-03-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
nico wrote: Hello, Is there a \setup... command to configure the frontmatter section block? I haven't found a clear information about this. Yes, there is: \setupsectionblock [name] [number=yes|no, page=yes|right, before=\command, after=\command] You can put your setup

Re: [NTG-context] More on margin figs

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, I sent this to the list a couple of days ago. I'm wondering if you saw it, or if it is actually a bug that will take some time to fix. Or, alternatively, am I missing the point? Hans et al, Maybe I am missing the point, but this example has output that is

Re: [NTG-context] Trouble with margin floats

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: All, Is this a bug? yes, use ...[cutspace]... instead (i'll fix it) - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The

Re: [NTG-context] XML and 'Table of Contents'

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I'm writing a XML style sheet for ConTeXt, which contains the following definitions: \defineXMLargument [chapter] {\chapter{\XMLvar{chapter}{title}{}}} \defineXMLargument [tableofcontents] {\completecontent} When reading a file like document

Re: [NTG-context] Struggling with Old Style numerals!

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: ... TeXLive 2004? Hans would probably call it ancient. If it is (was) OK I've removed that one and installed TeXLive 2005! I was afraid of other problems, and indeed that's exactly what happened. ...

[NTG-context] ConTeXt 2006.03.25 released

2006-03-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip

Re: [NTG-context] intertext for aligned equations

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, Aditya Mahajan wrote: This seems to be working fine. However, \intertext defined in amsmath.sty seems to be doing a lot more (I just can't figure out what it is doing?) Can someone suggest how to make the above command more robust on the lines of

Re: [NTG-context] Feature Request: mathmatrix enhancement

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, See attachment. The final value of the align= list is repeated for any leftover columns, and align=middle is default, of course. Cheers, taco PS The alignment preamble uses \hskip instead of \tabskip, because that was the only solution I could find that does all

Re: [NTG-context] intertext for aligned equations

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, Aditya Mahajan wrote: This seems to be working fine. However, \intertext defined in amsmath.sty seems to be doing a lot more (I just can't figure out what it is doing?) Can someone suggest how to make the above command more robust on the lines of

Re: [NTG-context] definelogo alignments

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So wrote: to no avail. Any hints? use layers (comparable featureset) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The

Re: [NTG-context] RFC: 'What would you like in an Text Editor?'

2006-03-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
OK, what the man said, plus: * not only different encodings, but also easy way of reencoding files; * fonts and colors are easily customizable (maybe different schemes for syntax highlighting); * line numbers in the margin; * large chunks of text can be commented out easily; * I would love the

Re: [NTG-context] intertext for aligned equations

2006-03-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: can someone wrap up the accumulated patches/suggestions for the math environments? I hope someone else can do that (Aditya?) I lost track myself Cheers, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

[NTG-context] Automatic typesetting of catalogue entries

2006-03-27 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Hello list, This is a more general question so I'm not attaching any specific code examples but rather will try to explain what I'm thinking about. I'm going to typeset a catalogue of about 200 objects. Each entry consists of two main parts: a block of text and a photograph of the object. As we

Re: [NTG-context] Guide on align (was Help : Unknown references)

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Here are a few details of _how I understand_ the align mechanism of context. Hope that others will find it useful. Any suggestions for improvement are welcome. why not add this to the wiki? some day taco and i will make a manual for math and then we can use such

Re: [NTG-context] Guide on align (was Help : Unknown references)

2006-03-27 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Mar 27, Hans Hagen wrote --- Aditya Mahajan wrote: Here are a few details of _how I understand_ the align mechanism of context. Hope that others will find it useful. Any suggestions for improvement are welcome. why not add this to the wiki? some day taco and i will make a manual for

Re: [NTG-context] intertext for aligned equations

2006-03-27 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Mar 27, Taco Hoekwater wrote --- Hans Hagen wrote: can someone wrap up the accumulated patches/suggestions for the math environments? I hope someone else can do that (Aditya?) I lost track myself I have a list of all the patches that were sent to the ML but have not been included

Re: [NTG-context] More on margin figs

2006-03-27 Thread David Arnold
Worked beautifully! Thanks. On Mar 27, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: David Arnold wrote: Hans, I sent this to the list a couple of days ago. I'm wondering if you saw it, or if it is actually a bug that will take some time to fix. Or, alternatively, am I missing the point? Hans et

Re: [NTG-context] Automatic typesetting of catalogue entries

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Piotr Kopszak wrote: Hello list, This is a more general question so I'm not attaching any specific code examples but rather will try to explain what I'm thinking about. I'm going to typeset a catalogue of about 200 objects. Each entry consists of two main parts: a block of text and a

Re: [NTG-context] RFC: 'What would you like in an Text Editor?'

2006-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Drake
Thank you for both your replies. The thing I am looking at right now is using scintilla for the basis of a windows editor (windows api) and scripted with TCL. The interface I am envisioning is one of an old dos editor I used to use (called Programmer's Editor). It attached all functions to the

Re: [NTG-context] Automatic typesetting of catalogue entries

2006-03-27 Thread Piotr Kopszak
i have no time to explain the details so it's up to you to wikify this ... \showframe \newcounter\WhateverCounter % quick and dirty, each text + figure gets half a page and the % graphic fills the available area \long\def\StartWhatever[#1]#2\StopWhatever {\blank #2

[NTG-context] TeXlive 2005 and ConText (was: Struggling with Old Style numerals!)

2006-03-27 Thread Maurice Diamantini
Le 27 mars 06 à 13:55, Hans Hagen a écrit : I've removed that one and installed TeXLive 2005! I was afraid of other problems, and indeed that's exactly what happened unfortunately the latest tex live has problems with context and lm Is there any simple way to solve these problems?

Re: [NTG-context] RFC: 'What would you like in an Text Editor?'

2006-03-27 Thread Maurice Diamantini
Le 27 mars 06 à 18:32, Jeffrey Drake a écrit : Thank you for both your replies. The thing I am looking at right now is using scintilla for the basis of a windows editor (windows api) and scripted with TCL. The interface I am envisioning is one of an old dos editor I used to use (called

Re: [NTG-context] TeXlive 2005 and ConText (was: Struggling with Old Style numerals!)

2006-03-27 Thread John R. Culleton
On Monday 27 March 2006 14:59, Maurice Diamantini wrote: Le 27 mars 06 à 13:55, Hans Hagen a écrit : I've removed that one and installed TeXLive 2005! I was afraid of other problems, and indeed that's exactly what happened unfortunately the latest tex live has problems with context and

Re: [NTG-context] \setupmarginrules

2006-03-27 Thread Vit Zyka
frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:12:01PM +0200, Vit Zyka said that \defineparagraphs [poem][n=2] \setupparagraphs[poem][1][width=.25\textwidth] \setupparagraphs[poem][2][rule=on] \setupmarginrules [rulethickness=5pt] this sets rules for

[NTG-context] TeX i-Package update: Charis SIL font (ConTeXt)

2006-03-27 Thread Gerben Wierda
The TeX i-Package for Mac OS X has been updated. This update contains the new Charis SIL fonts in Truetype format and support for those for use with ConTeXt. To use the font, just add \usetypescriptfile[type-silcharis] \usetypescript[SilCharis][ec] \setupbodyfont[SilCharis,12pt] or variants

Re: [NTG-context] xml / docbook

2006-03-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:24:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hi, Could anyone give some tips how to make Docbook work with context? I followed the documentation, but somehow it does not work. Please elaborate that. ( show your converting XSL files, show your XML source files

Re: [NTG-context] XML and 'Table of Contents'

2006-03-27 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hans Hagen wrote: \defineXMLenvironment [chapter] {\defineXMLargument[title]{\chapter} \defineXMLprocess[content]} {} \defineXMLargument [tableofcontents] {\completecontent} chapter title Title /title content

Re: [NTG-context] RFC: 'What would you like in an Text Editor?'

2006-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Drake
Ce serait probablement une bonne chose à s'assurer que le rédacteur localise facilement. I am using windows api with scintilla to keep it very small. But otherwise using tcl. I am hoping to discover some very nice way for editing interface. I might sometime do a Qt4 version for unix, but my idea

[NTG-context] Miktex, Metapost and \loadfontfilesoncetrue

2006-03-27 Thread WN
Hi, I am using Miktex (latest updated version) and the latest Context on WindowsXP (write18 enabled). This is what happens : 1) First run of texexec gives me ! Undefined control sequence l 1 \global \loadfontfileoncetrue 2) Second texexec run compiles fine, and the Metapost code is processed

Re: [NTG-context] RFC: 'What would you like in an Text Editor?'

2006-03-27 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:24:36AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater said that * Good spellchecking, including private and special-purpose dicts. * A re-wrap paragraph implementation that leaves lines that do not start with alphanumerics alone * support for different input encodings, notably utf-8

Re: [NTG-context] Frontmatter setup

2006-03-27 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater said that \setupsectionblock [name] [number=yes|no, page=yes|right, before=\command, after=\command] this doesn't seem to work with ver: 2006.02.15 \setupsectionblock [frontmatter][number=no]

Re: [NTG-context] Frontmatter setup

2006-03-27 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 02:19:54AM +0200, frantisek holop said that hmm, on Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:25:42AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater said that \setupsectionblock [name] [number=yes|no, page=yes|right, before=\command, after=\command] this doesn't seem to work

Re: [NTG-context] TeXlive 2005 and ConText

2006-03-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Maurice Diamantini wrote: Le 27 mars 06 � 13:55, Hans Hagen a �crit : I've removed that one and installed TeXLive 2005! I was afraid of other problems, and indeed that's exactly what happened unfortunately the latest tex live has problems with context and lm Is