Re: [NTG-context] spreading natural tables across the page

2007-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/4/5, MASON Peter J [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to have my tables extend across the full (\textwidth) of the page. In LaTeX I was using tabular*, specifying a \textwidth for width, and with approp use of @{\extracolsep\fill}} bu am not having any success. Basically, in ConteXT I want

Re: [NTG-context] natural tables - first row not gray

2007-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/4/5, MASON Peter J [EMAIL PROTECTED]: G'day, firstly thanks for your contextgarden.net website and the live-context facility. I checked my results against it. Could I seek help on this please. I'm expecting rows 2-4 of the table resulting from the segment below to have odd columns in

[NTG-context] bookmark, underscore bug?

2007-04-05 Thread Rick Rajter
Hey all, I'm a new Context user, so forgive me if I do not have the standard formalities down... I have come across what I believe to be a bug with respect to filenames containing the underscore character '_' and the ability to generated pdf bookmarks (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: [NTG-context] module and def commands problem

2007-04-05 Thread Bernd Militzer
Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: Replace the four commands in your file with the next ones: \def\Fach#1 {\def\internFach{#1}} \def\Thema#1{\def\internThema{#1}} \def\SchulJahr#1{\def\internSchulJahr{#1}} \def\SpezialTitel{\internFach\hfill\internThema\hfill\internSchulJahr\blank}

Re: [NTG-context] itemize in blocks

2007-04-05 Thread Bernd Militzer
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini schrieb: Hallo, what I am doing wrong with the following snipped? The \par in the \item does not work. --- \defineenumeration[question][location=top,text=Aufgabe] \defineblock[question] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 4/5/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello, I heard that Mac users can typeset in ConTeXt with OpenType fonts. Is it possible on Windows platform? (either in MiKTeX or TeXLive?) The easiest way to use OpenType fonts is to use XeTeX (luaTeX will support them as well, but you would need to

Re: [NTG-context] module and def commands problem

2007-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/4/5, Bernd Militzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Taco, instead of writing a FixMe-module I just started to make my exam-module from 2003 a bit more international. As a first test I set up some commands in german and english see file p-testDE.tex running texexec test1.tex the output is ok but

[NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread Andrea Valle
Hi, I'm a bit confused. Still can't have a clear frame of -TeX stuff. What does this exactly mean (from wikipedia)? XeTeX works well with both LaTeX and ConTeXt. Many thanks Best -a- On 5 Apr 2007, at 12:18, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 4/5/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello, I heard

[NTG-context] module and def commands problem

2007-04-05 Thread Bernd Militzer
Hi Taco, instead of writing a FixMe-module I just started to make my exam-module from 2003 a bit more international. As a first test I set up some commands in german and english see file p-testDE.tex running texexec test1.tex the output is ok but running texexec --mode=english test1.tex I

Re: [NTG-context] module and def commands problem

2007-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/4/5, Bernd Militzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: Replace the four commands in your file with the next ones: \def\Fach#1 {\def\internFach{#1}} \def\Thema#1{\def\internThema{#1}} \def\SchulJahr#1{\def\internSchulJahr{#1}}

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread George N. White III
On 4/5/07, Andrea Valle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit confused. Still can't have a clear frame of -TeX stuff. What does this exactly mean (from wikipedia)? XeTeX works well with both LaTeX and ConTeXt. In the beginning there was tex, a program. I know people who create documents

[NTG-context] texexec.pl vs. .rb

2007-04-05 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, the following command works with the PERL but not with the RUBY version. Is this option obsolete or simply not yet implemented: (texmfstart) texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --print=up test.pdf texexec: works texmfstart texexec: ! Missing number, treated as zero. to be read again

Re: [NTG-context] texexec.pl vs. .rb

2007-04-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hi, the following command works with the PERL but not with the RUBY version. Is this option obsolete or simply not yet implemented: (texmfstart) texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --print=up test.pdf The option --paper should become --papersize. The shortcutted form

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
What does this exactly mean (from wikipedia)? XeTeX works well with both LaTeX and ConTeXt. XeTeX, PDFTeX, eTeX, and TeX (Knuth's original TeX) are conceptually at the same level. The ConTeXt documents (and kpathsea) call this level the engine. They all understand basically the same macro

Re: [NTG-context] texexec.pl vs. .rb

2007-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/4/5, Tobias Burnus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, the following command works with the PERL but not with the RUBY version. Is this option obsolete or simply not yet implemented: (texmfstart) texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --print=up test.pdf Hi Tobias, replace --paper by --paperformat

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread luigi scarso
On 4/5/07, Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does this exactly mean (from wikipedia)? XeTeX works well with both LaTeX and ConTeXt. XeTeX, PDFTeX, eTeX, and TeX (Knuth's original TeX) are conceptually at the same level. The ConTeXt documents (and kpathsea) call this level the

Re: [NTG-context] texexec.pl vs. .rb

2007-04-05 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
(texmfstart) texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --print=up test.pdf The option --paper should become --papersize. The shortcutted form --paper resolves to --paperoffset nowadays. Shouldn't it be --paperformat? From the texexec manpage: --paperformat=KEY For typesetting

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread Andrea Valle
Thanks Sanjoy for the exhaustive infos. I knew the relations among Tex, LaTeX and ConTeXt but couldn't understand at which level XeTeX was positioned. So, I was interested in XeTeX because (if I understood clearly) I can use resident fonts. Is it true? What I have to do in order to do

[NTG-context] Scite folding

2007-04-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear syndicate, Can Scite be configured for folding based on TeX keywords, or is that something that is hardwired in Scintilla/Scite? I would like to feed Scite all the \start-\stop's, {}, \bgroup-\egroup etc. I looked in the context properties files but did not find anything, and it's

[NTG-context] mptopdf

2007-04-05 Thread Steve MC Han
Could someone give some help for me? If I do metapost I have an error message: this is the exact error message C:\Han\slidempost --tex=latex 2MS6 This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) (2MS6.mpmakempx: Command failed: mpto -tex 2MS6.mp 2MS6.mp 2MS6.mpx ! Unable to make

Re: [NTG-context] Scite folding

2007-04-05 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi Idris, AFAIK, one can modify one of the source files --- LEXTeX.cxx --- and compile it again. But I'm sure there should be some more sophisticate way. On 4/5/07, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear syndicate, Can Scite be configured for folding based on TeX keywords, or is

Re: [NTG-context] Scite folding

2007-04-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Zhichu, On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:52:19 -0600, Zhichu Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, one can modify one of the source files --- LEXTeX.cxx --- and compile it again. I am not a programmer, and would really like to avoid this option ;-) But I'm sure there should be some more

Re: [NTG-context] Scite folding

2007-04-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:20:21 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notepad++ (also scintilla-based) supports this through a nifty define-your-own-language dialog, as well as global RTL (no interlinear bidi), I forgot the note: I am happy to share my context

Re: [NTG-context] itemize in blocks

2007-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hi Bernd! what I am doing wrong with the following snipped? The \par in the \item does not work. --- \defineenumeration[question][location=top,text=Aufgabe] \defineblock[question] \starttext \chapter{Aufgaben} \beginquestion

Re: [NTG-context] Scite folding

2007-04-05 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Idris, bit hesitant about switching from WinEdt to Notepad++. Notepad++ also supports folding in TeX-mode for things like \chapter, \section (without ending tags; adopted from Visual TeX) How does it find the end of the chapter then? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more:

Re: [NTG-context] Scite folding

2007-04-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Patrick, On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:34:37 -0600, Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bit hesitant about switching from WinEdt to Notepad++. Notepad++ also supports folding in TeX-mode for things like \chapter, \section (without ending tags; adopted from Visual TeX) How does it find

Re: [NTG-context] itemize in blocks

2007-04-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: Hi Bernd! what I am doing wrong with the following snipped? The \par in the \item does not work. --- \defineenumeration[question][location=top,text=Aufgabe] \defineblock[question] \starttext