Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-06-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Maybe what is needed is a \beforemathswitch token set. Then one could do \appendtoks \boldmath to \beforemathswitch Already present: \everymathematics ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-06-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: It only gets the size right, not the boldnes. But it can be argued that that is the correct behaviour anyways. Not so long ago you argued that \alpha-sheet, \beta-helix, \gamma-rays, ... should be part of text flow (a reason why the el companion encoding should have

Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-06-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sorry, messed up something. New version followws: \newbox\chemlowbox \def\chemlow#1% {\setbox\chemlowbox\hbox{{\switchtobodyfont[small]#1}}} \def\chemhigh#1% {\ifvoid\chemlowbox \high{{\switchtobodyfont[small]#1}}% \else \lohi[left]{\box\chemlowbox}{{\switchtobodyfont[small]#1}}\fi }

Re: [NTG-context] extentable arrows

2006-06-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: \xrightarrow{big superscipt} Any suggestions? Not completely identical, but similar. The syntax can be made identical (even better) than that of amsmath. Perhaps it syntax should be identical to

Re: [NTG-context] active unicode characters

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 6/28/06, Peter M�nster wrote: On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: With iso-latin I could do \defineactivecharacter X {special meaning} but with utf-encoding, this does not work. And I would like to switch to utf... You can do that with

Re: [NTG-context] \bTABLE[distance=...]

2006-06-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Münster wrote: Hello, when using \bTABLE[distance=...], the table gets wider than the textwidth. A workaround seems to be textwidth=\dimexpr\textwidth-3em\relax Could this be done automatically? I expect it can (and should) be. Stuff sticking out in the margin is always bad ;-)

Re: [NTG-context] Still font issues with I-Installer Mac OSX

2006-06-29 Thread Frank
I did install the updater. Output from texexec is as follows: texexec --version TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004

Re: [NTG-context] extentable arrows

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: The syntax can be made identical (even better) than that of amsmath. \def\xrightarrow{\dosingleempty\doxrightarrow} \def\xleftarrow {\dosingleempty\doxleftarrow} \def\doxrightarrow[#1]{\dodoublegroupempty\dodoxrightarrow{#1}}

Re: [NTG-context] Still font issues with I-Installer Mac OSX

2006-06-29 Thread Frank
I did some more digging around in my system. Previously I used Darwinports TeTeX 3.0 which installs in /opt/local/ I deinstalled and deleted the old tetex distro, but found a texmf in ~/Library. I am not sure if this directory was created by the old tetex installation or from I-installer.

Re: [NTG-context] extentable arrows

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: I am simply trying to copy from amsmath definition. better think context -) \unprotect \def\mtharrfactor{1} \def\mtharrextra {0} \def\domthxarr#1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8% {\begingroup \def\mtharrfactor{1}% \def\mtharrextra {0}% \processaction[#1] % will be sped up

Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-06-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: i didt follow this thread, so i may be wrong, but doesn't the ppchtex (see manuals) module does that kind of stuff? It doesn't retain font styles (at least, I could not make it do that) Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] textbackground trouble

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi Hans and Taco, Something goes wrong when a textbackground occurs right at the page boundary. Please have a look at the attached file (a snippet from an updated copy of Myway on using new math features). so, what goes wrong here?

Re: [NTG-context] beta bib module issues

2006-06-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, The current t-bib beta (t-bib-2006.06.23) available at http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/t-bib-2006.06.23.zip has a problem: I'll fix this an Mojca's problem tomorrow (need a different machine). Mojca, can you send me a minimal

[NTG-context] synonyms in combination with table(s)

2006-06-29 Thread Bernd Militzer
Hi all, using synonyms in combination with table(s) I get an error: systems : begin file FehlerTableSynonyms at line 40 ! Misplaced \omit. \!ttLongHrule -\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule argument Rudolph, Joha\= {n}e Christiane

Re: [NTG-context] synonyms in combination with table(s)

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Bernd Militzer wrote: \PID{67}{Rudolph, Joha\={n}e Christiane Friedericke} \= has a special meaning inside tables, so use \theverboseglyphname instead Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA

Re: [NTG-context] framed and align=no

2006-06-29 Thread Hans van der Meer
On Jun 28, 2006, at 17:45, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: I get the impression that although align=no, there still is a \hfil put in at the right. Yes, but it is an implied fil, from \parfillskip. Because you limited the width of the \framed, it is processed in

Re: [NTG-context] small caps italic and font switching inside math

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Sorry, messed up something. New version followws: \newbox\chemlowbox \def\chemlow#1% {\setbox\chemlowbox\hbox{{\switchtobodyfont[small]#1}}} \def\chemhigh#1% {\ifvoid\chemlowbox \high{{\switchtobodyfont[small]#1}}% \else

Re: [NTG-context] framed and align=no

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: On Jun 28, 2006, at 17:45, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: I get the impression that although align=no, there still is a \hfil put in at the right. Yes, but it is an implied fil, from \parfillskip. Because you limited the width of

Re: [NTG-context] \bTABLE[distance=...]

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter M�nster wrote: Hello, when using \bTABLE[distance=...], the table gets wider than the textwidth. A workaround seems to be textwidth=\dimexpr\textwidth-3em\relax Could this be done automatically? I expect it can (and should) be. Stuff

Re: [NTG-context] Index sorting again

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Richard Gabriel wrote: Hello Hans, I'd like to remind the 2 persisting problems with the index sorting. 1. Numbers are sorted under A 2. Symbols are sorted under the first letter which follows. See the attached test file. Both these issues are independent on language and on the expansion

Re: [NTG-context] \bTABLE[distance=...]

2006-06-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Could this be done automatically? I expect it can (and should) be. Stuff sticking out in the margin is always bad ;-) % test: \advance\!!dimena-\gettbldis\recurselevel\relax you can enable that line in core-ntb and see what happens works for me ... Peter? Taco

Re: [NTG-context] synonyms in combination with table(s)

2006-06-29 Thread Bernd Militzer
Am 29.06.2006 um 12:31 schrieb Hans Hagen: Bernd Militzer wrote: \PID{67}{Rudolph, Joha\={n}e Christiane Friedericke} \= has a special meaning inside tables, so use \theverboseglyphname instead thanks Hans, but sorry I have no idea where to finde \ theverboseglyphname please giv me a

Re: [NTG-context] Index sorting again

2006-06-29 Thread Richard Gabriel
For example, the DocBook XSLT stylesheets (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/) solve it this way:Symbols (anything unsortable, including numbers)AB...Z---I'd suggest a bit better way:Symbols12...9AB...Z-Richard From: Hans Hagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: mailing list for ConTeXt users

Re: [NTG-context] synonyms in combination with table(s)

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Bernd Militzer wrote: Am 29.06.2006 um 12:31 schrieb Hans Hagen: Bernd Militzer wrote: \PID{67}{Rudolph, Joha\={n}e Christiane Friedericke} \= has a special meaning inside tables, so use \theverboseglyphname instead thanks Hans, but sorry I have no idea where

Re: [NTG-context] Still font issues with I-Installer Mac OSX

2006-06-29 Thread Frank
Finally resolved by: sudo rm -rf /usr/local/tetex sudo rm -rf ~/Library/texmf complete reinstall including ghostscript and cm-super Regards, FS On 29-jun-06, at 10:28, Frank wrote: I did some more digging around in my system. Previously I used Darwinports TeTeX 3.0 which installs in

Re: [NTG-context] textbackground trouble

2006-06-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi Hans and Taco, Something goes wrong when a textbackground occurs right at the page boundary. Please have a look at the attached file (a snippet from an updated copy of Myway on using new math features). so, what goes wrong

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie questions

2006-06-29 Thread Thomas Moore
Dear Hans: it's a stepwise process - first set up a basic page style (next time in a big bookshop i'll take a look at the series) and set up a font; that way you get an idea how well things will fit - then develop the structure + associated style mapping while writing (or

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie questions

2006-06-29 Thread Thomas Moore
Dear Sanjoy:You want\setuppapersize[letter][letter]otherwise you get letter sized pages imposed on A4 paper (not widelyavailable in Pomona probably!) because the default value for thesecond argument is A4. Wow, you are right. I really appreciate your catching

Re: [NTG-context] framed and align=no

2006-06-29 Thread Hans van der Meer
On Jun 29, 2006, at 13:53, Hans Hagen wrote: Thanks. I installed it and it works. Witness the examples below. Will this be installed in next ConTeXt versions? I would be grateful. One question of naming: I think none is a better descriptive name then disable other keywords are already

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie questions

2006-06-29 Thread Thomas Moore
On Jun 28, 2006, at 6:12 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Dear ConTeXt gurus: I am not a context guru, but will still give it a shot ;) Thanks for your help! OK, I have gotten some off-list help from Mojca, who has answered most of my questions and helped me polish the two page version of my

[NTG-context] I think that I need professional help... :-)

2006-06-29 Thread Thomas Moore
I have been looking at what I have left to accomplish before my classes begin in the fall, and I am realizing that I am running out of time that I can afford to spend learning more about ConTeXt. However, I would really like to give ConTeXt a fair shake, because I believe that it might be

Re: [NTG-context] \setuppagenumber? bug in nomarking

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Alan Bowen wrote: Taco� Here is the minimal file you requested. All I can say is that this used to work: The problem goes away if you use \setuppagenumber[location=] instead of \setuppagenumbering[state=nomarking] So it seems there is a bug in

Re: [NTG-context] textbackground trouble

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: I get Runaway argument? {boxgridtype := 0 ; ! Paragraph ended before \flushTeXtexts was complete. to be read again \par argument boxgridtype := 0 ;\par hm, did you use the latest version? (looks like a endofline problem, i.e. some empty line

Re: [NTG-context] formula legend

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: u:vdc=direct current ok, fixed Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax:

Re: [NTG-context] collector's items

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi Hans, Taco et al. I don't want to sound persistent ... but is there a chance that collector's item (see bellow) no. 76 and even more important no. 75 will ever be answered? did you test that with the latest version an dif so, what are your test files? Hans

Re: [NTG-context] textbackground trouble

2006-06-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: I get Runaway argument? {boxgridtype := 0 ; ! Paragraph ended before \flushTeXtexts was complete. to be read again \par argument boxgridtype := 0 ;\par hm, did you use the latest version? (looks like a

[NTG-context] [Fwd: CTAN update: antt, iwona, kurier fonts]

2006-06-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Original Message Subject: CTAN update: antt, iwona, kurier fonts Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:10:49 +0200 (CEST) From: CTAN Announcements ctan-ann@dante.de Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany To: ctan-ann@dante.de Newsgroups: comp.text.tex References: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] beta bib module issues

2006-06-29 Thread Johannes Graumann
Taco Hoekwater wrote: * add \type{symbol=none} to \type{\setuplist} in unnumbered mode to prevent typesetting of bare numbers Works now - thanks! Joh ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] ConTeXt + asymptote

2006-06-29 Thread John Bowman
In regard to adding support for ConTeXt or plain TeX to Asymptote, it should be no problem to do this, but perhaps someone on this list can help provide some preliminary information, particularly regarding item 1 below on how best to rotate text at an arbitrary angle. Also, since I am not sure

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart with figure library

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: All, I have a file figlibSection3.xml which starts like this: ?xml version='1.0'? ?context-directive job module fig-make ? ?context-directive job mode letter ? figurelibrary language=en description organizationCollege of the Redwoods Mathematics Department/

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: CTAN update: antt, iwona, kurier fonts]

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted updates for the font packages antt (v2.06) iwona (v0.97) kurier (v0.97) a pitty that those files contain tex files as well, which basically makes them latex zips, now i need to filter them, sigh Hans

[NTG-context] iwona cum suis

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, this is how i update such fonts: - mkdir new - fetch iwona.zip. antt.zip kurier.zip - unzip them in new then run: textools --update new e:\tex\texmf and see what gets reported; if you feel comfortable, run textools --update new e:\tex\texmf --merge --force --delete and then

Re: [NTG-context] \bTABLE[distance=...]

2006-06-29 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: % test: \advance\!!dimena-\gettbldis\recurselevel\relax you can enable that line in core-ntb and see what happens works for me ... Peter? Yes, thanks! But the next issues follow immediately: just consider leftmargindistance= and

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt + asymptote

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
John Bowman wrote: In regard to adding support for ConTeXt or plain TeX to Asymptote, it should be no problem to do this, but perhaps someone on this list can help provide some preliminary information, particularly regarding item 1 below on how best to rotate text at an arbitrary angle. Also,

Re: [NTG-context] \bTABLE[distance=...]

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: % test: \advance\!!dimena-\gettbldis\recurselevel\relax you can enable that line in core-ntb and see what happens works for me ... Peter? Yes, thanks! But the next issues follow immediately: just consider

[NTG-context] unequal framed's

2006-06-29 Thread Hans van der Meer
This is a problem I am anxious to solve.Run this program:\starttext\newbox\testbox\hbox{%% centered\setbox\testbox=\vbox{\vskip5mm\framed[frame=on,align=disable,width=1cm,height=2cm,offset=0pt,location=depth,top=\vss,bottom=\vss]{lp}\vskip5mm}\the\ht\testbox \box\testbox%

[NTG-context] Greek hyphenation patterns

2006-06-29 Thread Peter Heslin
A few weeks ago, I looked at Context, because I wanted utf-8 hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek, but then I saw that the patterns shipped with Context have serious bugs. I had hoped to patch ctxtools, but the required changes went beyond my knowledge of Ruby. I recently posted a Perl script

Re: [NTG-context] Greek hyphenation patterns

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi Peter I recently posted a Perl script to the xetex mailing list that should perform the conversion to utf-8 correctly. I would be happy to modify the script to make the output more useful to Context users, but I don't use Context myself. Feedback is welcome. i leave that to the ones

Re: [NTG-context] unequal framed's

2006-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: This is a problem I am anxious to solve. Run this program: \starttext \newbox\testbox \hbox{% % centered \setbox\testbox=\vbox{\vskip5mm\framed[frame=on,align=disable,width=1cm,height=2cm,offset=0pt,location=depth,top=\vss,bottom=\vss]{lp}\vskip5mm}

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt + asymptote

2006-06-29 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
In regard to the remark I saw posted about monster eps files That was from me. The size was one issue and probably, as you say, disappears in the size of the final pdf file (I didn't test it extensively but I think that happened). However, a related issue to the size is that ConTeXt parses the

[NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

2006-06-29 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear knights, I spent a few hours today with MetaPost and MetaFun, my first serious stab at Meta in many years, so I'm a virtual newbie (used PSTricks back in the LaTeX days). I am trying to basically duplicate the attached pdf graphic and need help with the following: 1. This code is

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

2006-06-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear knights, I spent a few hours today with MetaPost and MetaFun, my first serious stab at Meta in many years, so I'm a virtual newbie (used PSTricks back in the LaTeX days). I am trying to basically duplicate the attached pdf graphic and