[NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I understood that … \bTABLE[option=stretch] … gives a horizontal stretch, so that a TABLE snaps left and right to the frame (\showframe text edges). When along table is split over several pages with \bTABLE[split=yes] it is very unlikely that the bottom-line of the bottom most row sits

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie question: math font and bibliography

2007-02-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Zulkifli Hidayat wrote: Furthermore, could you give pointers to style alternatives documentation or links? None that I know of exist, but it is harmless to try them, so you could just do a few runs with various style settings. Best, taco ___

Re: [NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread luigi scarso
On 2/14/07, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I understood that … \bTABLE[option=stretch] … gives a horizontal stretch, so that a TABLE snaps left and right to the frame (\showframe text edges). When along table is split over several pages with \bTABLE[split=yes] it is

Re: [NTG-context] bold versions of fonts

2007-02-14 Thread Jörg Hagmann
There is one [ too many in this definition... Don't be too embarrassed, when you've looked at a file or a line for three hours, you don't see anything anymore. Thanks a lot. I AM embarassed, especially since I suspected something of the sort but didn't see it. And also because I

Re: [NTG-context] bold versions of fonts

2007-02-14 Thread Janko Hauser
Am 14.02.2007 um 11:34 schrieb Jörg Hagmann: I am editing the Annual Report of an ornithological society. In the past, this has been done with Word, the font was Gentium. I haven't changed to ConTeXt yet, because Gentium has no bold version and I want to stick with the same font (Word produces

Re: [NTG-context] bold versions of fonts

2007-02-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 14, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Janko Hauser wrote: As I do not understand fonts at all, but is it really so, that one needs to have the bold fontpackage if one wants to set a word in bold in tex? Asked another way, can tex not do the same as word in this regard? with regards,

[NTG-context] Bolding the words Figure 2-1

2007-02-14 Thread John R. Culleton
I too am stuck in specification hell. The specifier is ovenamored of stretching text and the like. I worked through that with the TeX/LaTeX macro soul.sty. My immediate problem is with putting the caption of a table in a different font. Currently I have:

[NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

2007-02-14 Thread John R. Culleton
I have a specification for a chapter head that is so complex I have little hope of modifying the Context head within any reasonable time frame. But I still prefer to use the Context chapter head for TOC, numbering of figures and the like. So I decided to hand code the head but still use

Re: [NTG-context] Bolding the words Figure 2-1

2007-02-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 2/14/07, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too am stuck in specification hell. The specifier is ovenamored of stretching text and the like. I worked through that with the TeX/LaTeX macro soul.sty. My immediate problem is with putting the caption of a table in a different font.

Re: [NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread luigi scarso
On 2/14/07, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luigi, On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:44:20 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: Is there also a kind of \bTABLE[split=yes,option=vstretch] that gives this little stretch over the page's respective rows so that there is also a vertical snap to the

Re: [NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

2007-02-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, John R. Culleton wrote: I have a specification for a chapter head that is so complex I have little hope of modifying the Context head within any reasonable time frame. But I still prefer to use the Context chapter head for TOC, numbering of figures and the like. So I

Re: [NTG-context] Bolding the words Figure 2-1

2007-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:11:37 -0500 John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too am stuck in specification hell. The specifier is ovenamored of stretching text and the like. I worked through that with the TeX/LaTeX macro soul.sty. My immediate problem is with putting the caption of

Re: [NTG-context] Characters per inch with ConTexT

2007-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: That is what I found. Can I tweak spacefactor and spaceskip to give an impression that there are 15 cpi. you can create a shinked font i.e. make an instance with .85% wide chars (contrary to an extended one) I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960, and

Re: [NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Luigi, thanks for the offer. On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:45:46 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: I usually give my best with a complete working example 'I-have-this--I-want-that'.tex or 'this-doesn't-work-as-expected'.tex or 'i-don't-understand-this'.tex Can you made an example ? See attached

[NTG-context] mails

2007-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
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[NTG-context] TOC (was: register) fine tuning

2007-02-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Hans, fine-tuning a TOC is horrible when you have a lot of tables and figures in a larger project: you have to wait and wait and wait … Could you also provide a comparable solution like the one below (for the placeregister), please? Something like … \completecontent[file=testtest] That

Re: [NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread luigi scarso
On 2/14/07, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luigi, thanks for the offer. On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:45:46 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: I usually give my best with a complete working example 'I-have-this--I-want-that'.tex or 'this-doesn't-work-as-expected'.tex or

Re: [NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

2007-02-14 Thread JOHN CULLETON
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 10:14, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: [location=top, spaceinbetween=0pt, % -- your friend style=bold, width=max] That works as far as the bolding is concerned. Many thanks. But the Figure 2-1 and the Comparison of Corporate and Government Bond Portfolios are

Re: [NTG-context] Characters per inch with ConTexT

2007-02-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960, and others are blindly copying them. Maybe, I should typeset everything in monotype font :) I remember we had a ball-based typewriter at Kluwer Academic that had variable width characters as well as different

Re: [NTG-context] MPtoPDF error

2007-02-14 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: this is a bug in the current metapost beta (which is already fixed by Taco). Simply use the stable version (0.901) instead. A new beta will (hopefully) be released this week. It won't happen today anymore, I am afraid. But 'real soon

[NTG-context] \writetolist vs \writebetweenlist

2007-02-14 Thread JOHN CULLETON
I can use \writebetweenlist to add a line to my TOC. I have to put the page number in manually. Here is the statement: \writebetweenlist[part]{\nimbus\zy{Part 1 Prerequisite for Success}\hfil 22\rm } It would seem more sensible to use \writetolist and let Context determine the page number. But