Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and tikz

2008-08-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Marcin Borkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got yet another problem with ConTeXt... I was using MkII and \usemodule[tikz]. Everything went smoothly until I tried MkIV; it can't find the tikz module. What I did was: 1. I installed the ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Some layout questions

2008-08-28 Thread Ulrich Dirr
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Ulrich Dirr wrote: After defining a typescript (see comlete example attached) I want to use protrusion and expansion (I've followed the description in co-typography.pdf): \definetypeface[kievit][rm][sans][kievit][default][features=hz]

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with itemization, continued

2008-08-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Marcin Borkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, it's me again... I managed to finish my first serious ConTeXt project (in fact, it was a two-page math test for my wife, who teaches maths;)). But I encountered quite a few problems with itemizations. To sum it

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with itemization, continued

2008-08-28 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:56:54AM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster napisa#322;(a): On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Marcin Borkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, it's me again... I managed to finish my first serious ConTeXt project (in fact, it was a two-page math test for my wife, who

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-08-28 Thread David Arnold
I followed these directions exactly and scite is working out of the box on mswincontext.zip. To remove RubyGems from a single Ruby installation, from the site_ruby/1.8 directory of that installation, remove: * rubygems.rb (file) * rubygems (directory) If you do not have RubyGems installed in

Re: [NTG-context] setting mode in ctx-file

2008-08-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Münster wrote: Hello, How can I set a mode in a ctx-file? I would like to pass such a file to context --ctx=file ... If further modes are passed with --mode=..., these modes should not replace the mode in the ctx-file, but should be added. ?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?

Re: [NTG-context] Some Progress on Installing mswincontext.zip

2008-08-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:01 PM, David Arnold wrote: I tried to add metapost.properties to the global with import metapost. I can Build a file, but the Go command does not work because I don't have gv installed. So I opened metapost.properties and tried changing the gv command to gsview32

Re: [NTG-context] Still confused about \setuplayout

2008-08-28 Thread Yue Wang
There is a context reference project, you can help to document it~ On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you, or somebody else, know of any such other basic and precious documents which should be included in the main manual, instead of (for whatever reason)

[NTG-context] wiki and MkIV

2008-08-28 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Hello! Is it possible to use on the wiki something like context source=yes ... some ConTeXt code ... /context with MkIV support? Thanks in advance -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.faculty.fmcs.amu.edu.pl) ___ If

Re: [NTG-context] wiki and MkIV

2008-08-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Is it possible to use on the wiki something like context source=yes ... some ConTeXt code ... /context with MkIV support? Not at the moment. Is this a strong feature request? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

Re: [NTG-context] Some layout questions

2008-08-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ulrich Dirr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Ulrich Dirr wrote: After defining a typescript (see comlete example attached) I want to use protrusion and expansion (I've followed the description in co-typography.pdf):

Re: [NTG-context] Reorganization of the main page

2008-08-28 Thread Yue Wang
in fact i like the logo on the photo. It's cool On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another request: can the photo please go to blog rather than being on the first page of the wiki? (It's been fun, but I feel that promoting Union on the first page is not

Re: [NTG-context] Some layout questions

2008-08-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Ulrich, Ulrich Dirr wrote: Afaics, everything else looks ok. But has no effect :-( I was apparently still sleeping when I wrote that. Here is what works for me: % engine=luatex \definefontfeature [default][default] [protrusion=quality,expansion=quality,mode=node,script=latn]

Re: [NTG-context] context meeting

2008-08-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I really enjoyed myself at last weeks's meeting. Mojca and friends have done a great job. In addition to a filled up program we had a wonderful day going around Slovenia (incredibly silent outside the facilities and a sky full of stars,

Re: [NTG-context] context meeting

2008-08-28 Thread Yue Wang
will www.river-valley.tv broadcast it? btw, I want to see all the presentations, but there are only a few on context garden:( On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I really enjoyed myself at last weeks's

Re: [NTG-context] context meeting

2008-08-28 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
will www.river-valley.tv broadcast it? btw, I want to see all the presentations, but there are only a few on context garden:( It will be updated (with the presentations we have, obviously). Arthur ___ If

Re: [NTG-context] context meeting

2008-08-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: I probably forget a few things You mean, like, git? right, how could i forget! Hans ps. and of course all those sessions regarding the right pronouciations of italian names -) -

Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

2008-08-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Marcin Borkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dnia Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:05:18PM +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz napisa#322;(a): On Aug 25, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: * Is TeX Gyre support already working in MkIV? Yes * The page about Minimals

Re: [NTG-context] Still confused about \setuplayout

2008-08-28 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
There is a context reference project, you can help to document it~ I concur. This would be immensely more useful than contributing huge threads and smart-arse remarks to this mailing-list (I especially like the irony of your -- Alan's -- complaints about wasting [your] precious time).

Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

2008-08-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Marcin Borkowski wrote: And one more problem, just out of curiosity: is \usetypescriptfile[type-otf] really necessary? Why is it not the default (at least in MkIV)? it is loaded by default -

Re: [NTG-context] wiki and MkIV

2008-08-28 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:48:11AM +0200, Patrick Gundlach napisa#322;(a): Hi, Is it possible to use on the wiki something like context source=yes ... some ConTeXt code ... /context with MkIV support? Not at the moment. Is this a strong feature request? Not really - rather

Re: [NTG-context] Some layout questions

2008-08-28 Thread Ulrich Dirr
Hi Taco, On 2008-08-28 Taco Hoekwater wrote: % engine=luatex \definefontfeature [default][default] [protrusion=quality,expansion=quality,mode=node,script=latn] \definetypeface[kievit][rm][serif][times][default] \definetypeface[kievit][ss][serif][times][default]

Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

2008-08-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Marcin, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Marcin Borkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again... I tried to put some info on the wiki (as promised): http://wiki.contextgarden.net/A_Beginner's_Guide_to_Using_Fonts_in_Mark_IV However, I had serious problems

Re: [NTG-context] Some layout questions

2008-08-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Ulrich Dirr wrote: Interesting is that you instruct me not to use any features in \definefontsynonym -- I had just copied this from the wiki. Then the wiki should be updated ;-) Well, the wiki (Wolfgang) is more right than I am. I was trying to shortcut something and then later it became

Re: [NTG-context] Patching glyphtounicode.tex directly?

2008-08-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Vasile Gaburici wrote: There are a number of problems with the (global namespace) data in glyphtounicode.tex. Should submit a patch directly for this file, or is there a script somewhere that regenerates it? pdfr-def % comment : generated by mtxrun --script chars --pdf uses data in

Re: [NTG-context] passing dimensions to metapost

2008-08-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, cleaning up the code in my module, I run into a very interesting problem. I want to pass a user-defined value to Metapost. Until now, the value scale had to be numeric, and I used it like this: draw fullcircle scaled \MPvar{scale}mm and Metapost was

Re: [NTG-context] paragraphs in columns query

2008-08-28 Thread Alan Bowen
It has been more than 15 hours since I last sent this , so I am trying again. Apologies for any duplication. A. ** Hans— Here is the text that produces the problem on the wiki (pdfTeX/MKII option). \starttext adeo aberratum est, ut C. Caesar pontifex maximus suo

Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

2008-08-28 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:58:35AM +0200, Hans Hagen napisa#322;(a): Marcin Borkowski wrote: And one more problem, just out of curiosity: is \usetypescriptfile[type-otf] really necessary? Why is it not the default (at least in MkIV)? it is loaded by default Thanks, it's my mistake.

[NTG-context] Patching glyphtounicode.tex directly?

2008-08-28 Thread Vasile Gaburici
There are a number of problems with the (global namespace) data in glyphtounicode.tex. Should submit a patch directly for this file, or is there a script somewhere that regenerates it? ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] paragraphs in columns query

2008-08-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Alan Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has been more than 15 hours since I last sent this , so I am trying again. Apologies for any duplication. A. Read my other mail, I already gave you a working solution! Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

2008-08-28 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:05:18PM +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz napisa#322;(a): On Aug 25, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: * Is TeX Gyre support already working in MkIV? Yes * The page about Minimals on the wiki mentions LM, Antykwa Torunska, Iwona, Kurier, TeX Gyre, ams.

Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

2008-08-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Marcin Borkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dnia Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:29:41PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater napisa#322;(a): Hi Marcin, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Marcin Borkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks again... I tried

Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

2008-08-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Marcin Borkowski wrote: I looked a bit at the type-otf.tex file. At the beginning, it says something like \starttypescriptcollection[examples]. Typescripts from this \start...\stop block work correctly (with the exception of Antykwa Torunska). Typescripts from the outside don't work (with

Re: [NTG-context] paragraphs in columns query

2008-08-28 Thread Alan Bowen
Wolfgang— I apologize for this. There has been an intermittent glitch in my mail service. Some of my recent own posts and the replies have not make it to my box. Anyway, I have now checked the Archive and applied your solution. It works perfectly. Many thanks indeed! Alan On Aug 28,

Re: [NTG-context] paragraphs in columns query

2008-08-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: It has been more than 15 hours since I last sent this , so I am trying hm, we need some time for sleeping as well again. Apologies for any duplication. A. \setuptabulate[split=yes] it's auto by default which is kind of wrong (i'll fix it)

Re: [NTG-context] \placefigure not centering

2008-08-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Marcin Borkowski wrote: Dnia Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:14:26AM +0200, Marcin Borkowski napisa#322;(a): Why this does not center the figure horizontally? What should I do to center it? \placefigure{none}{ \starttikzpicture[scale=0.3] \draw (0,0) -- (5,0) -- (4.5,6) --

Re: [NTG-context] passing dimensions to metapost

2008-08-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 28, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hans, thanks a lot for your reply. Amazing - the lua code is so simple that even I can understand it! I'm certain to use it later; for the time being, I want to remain compatible for mkii and XeTeX as well. \startluacode document.mymodule =

Re: [NTG-context] Patching glyphtounicode.tex directly?

2008-08-28 Thread Vasile Gaburici
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vasile Gaburici wrote: There are a number of problems with the (global namespace) data in glyphtounicode.tex. Should submit a patch directly for this file, or is there a script somewhere that regenerates it? As Hans

Re: [NTG-context] paragraphs in columns query

2008-08-28 Thread Alan Bowen
On Aug 28, 2008, at 08;02,41 , Hans Hagen wrote: Alan Bowen wrote: It has been more than 15 hours since I last sent this , so I am trying hm, we need some time for sleeping as well My concern here was that I had not yet received a copy of my original post (never did get one). Not

Re: [NTG-context] context meeting

2008-08-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Yue Wang wrote: will www.river-valley.tv broadcast it? Yes, but we have only recorded about a half of presentations (we did that for the first time, so I'm still quite lucky that we did what we did), and some will not be public (if we don't get permission by the

[NTG-context] Padding in natural tables

2008-08-28 Thread B. Tommy Jensen
Hi,, I have been searching the documentation on natural tables (\bTABLE), but haven't been able to resolve the following issue: I would like to specify an internal padding in the table cells, e.g. text content should start 0.4cm from the left edge of the table cell. Also, it would be nice to

Re: [NTG-context] Still confused about \setuplayout

2008-08-28 Thread Alan Stone
Hi Arthur, I would sooner have you hate me for telling the truth than adore me for telling lies. - Pietro Aretino As for the invitation to the reference project, thanks a lot. I have some work to finish first, then will have some free time to gladly contribute. Wishing you a nice day ( no

[NTG-context] space code trickery needed

2008-08-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, please have a look at this (probably ugly) code: \starttext \definestartstop[MyFootNote] [before={\footnote},after={}] \def\startFN[#1]{\startMyFootNote\ignorespaces} \def\stopFN{\stopMyFootNote} This is a \startFN[65] test \stopFN and this is another \startFN[B65] test \stopFN.

Re: [NTG-context] Patching glyphtounicode.tex directly?

2008-08-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Vasile Gaburici wrote: There are a number of problems with the (global namespace) data in glyphtounicode.tex. Should submit a patch directly for this file, or is there a script somewhere that regenerates it? As Hans said, context uses pdfr-def.tex, not glyphtounicode.tex (perhaps that is used

Re: [NTG-context] Padding in natural tables

2008-08-28 Thread B. Tommy Jensen
Sorry for polluting the mailing list with my question - I just discovered an offset property in the mail list archive that seems to do what I want. The TABLE package in Context is really powerful - it would be very nice to have an updated documentation for it, summarising all available options.

Re: [NTG-context] space code trickery needed

2008-08-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, please have a look at this (probably ugly) code: \starttext \definestartstop[MyFootNote] [before={\footnote},after={}] \def\startFN[#1]{\startMyFootNote\ignorespaces} \def\stopFN{\stopMyFootNote} This is

Re: [NTG-context] space code trickery needed

2008-08-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 28.08.2008 um 16:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, please have a look at this (probably ugly) code: \starttext \definestartstop[MyFootNote] [before={\footnote},after={}]

Re: [NTG-context] Padding in natural tables

2008-08-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 28, 2008, at 5:04 PM, B. Tommy Jensen wrote: Sorry for polluting the mailing list with my question - I just discovered an offset property in the mail list archive that seems to do what I want. Glad you found what you were looking for. One little hint about pollution: don't take an

Re: [NTG-context] Reorganization of the main page

2008-08-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, But the wiki search really sucks. Search for example for 'my Way': no matches found. Would it make sense to default to wiki search for the google search? Mojca, can this be done? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

Re: [NTG-context] mswintex.zip versus mswincontext.zip

2008-08-28 Thread Mohamed Bana
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskovsky at gmail.com writes: Hello,Don't know whether it is already answered or not, but if you have to run scite.bat from mswincontext folder, not first-setup.bat. It should work out of the box. First of all, build format files (Oprtions or Tools menu, don't remember

Re: [NTG-context] Reorganization of the main page

2008-08-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Aditya Mahajan wrote: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page_New If everyone agrees with the new design, I will replace the current main page. Since almost everyone liked the new design better, I have changed the main page. Aditya

[NTG-context] problem with \useURL

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, The colon is misplaced here: % engine=luatex \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \useURL[xxx][http://www/]\from[xxx] \stoptext If you cannot reproduce this problem, try to delete your luatex-cache first. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] Reorganization of the main page

2008-08-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, But the wiki search really sucks. Search for example for 'my Way': no matches found. Would it make sense to default to wiki search for the google search? Mojca, can this be done? It must be some very basic

Re: [NTG-context] mswintex.zip versus mswincontext.zip

2008-08-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Mohamed Bana wrote: Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskovsky at gmail.com writes: Hello,Don't know whether it is already answered or not, but if you have to run scite.bat from mswincontext folder, not first-setup.bat. It should work out of the box. First of all, build format files (Oprtions or

Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

2008-08-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: * The page about Minimals on the wiki mentions LM, Antykwa Torunska, Iwona, Kurier, TeX Gyre, ams. Does this means they are available there? (And what about Antykwa Poltawskiego...?) That font is a bit messy. It uses its own

[NTG-context] vertical position of framed sucks!

2008-08-28 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, in order to write a command=... for \setuphead I am fighting with the following \framed: \starttext \showframe \def\TestFrame% {\hbox to \hsize\bgroup% \tbox{\midaligned\framed[frame=on,align=middle,width=0.85\textwidth] {{\kern0.75em}Test}}% \egroup} \TestFrame %Test% - \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] big are big with lucida

2008-08-28 Thread Yue Wang
Are you sure? see the first line of the attachment. On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Eric DÉTREZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello The bigl, bigr ans so on are really BIG (huge even) when used with lucida. I think that math-lbr is guilty : it says **

Re: [NTG-context] Reorganization of the main page

2008-08-28 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:35:18PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan napisa#322;(a): On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Aditya Mahajan wrote: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page_New If everyone agrees with the new design, I will replace the current main page. Since almost everyone liked the new design

Re: [NTG-context] Font questions once again...

2008-08-28 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:55:29AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec napisa#322;(a): On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: * The page about Minimals on the wiki mentions LM, Antykwa Torunska, Iwona, Kurier, TeX Gyre, ams. Does this means they are available there? (And what