Re: [NTG-context] Bib module...

2009-03-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mohamed Bana wrote: Taco, hi, I've said this before, but I think you need to include a complete example (i.e., the source) with your bib PDF somehow. It wasn't as straight forward as I would have wanted it to be. The manual is a complete example: doc/context/bib/bibmod-doc.tex If you (or

[NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Hans, natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and takes to many lines of code in the document. I wrote a while ago a simple wrapper to use a table/tabulate like syntax for the input,

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2009-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan BRASLAU wrote: Anything :) (for example: \usemodule[chemic] \starttext \startchemical[size=small,scale=200,width=fit,frame=off] \chemical[SIX,B,C,R,RZ][R,R,R,R,R,R] \stopchemical \stoptext see attached result.) ok, typo in the mp/tex bits ... (side effect to otf tracing using

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi Hans, natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and takes to many lines of code in the document. I wrote a while ago a simple wrapper to use a

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi Hans, natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and takes to many lines of code in the document. less code and more

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread John Devereux
Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: [...] Hi Hans, Is there any possible way to use the wiki-style tables like: ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ | Item 1| Item 2 | | Item 3| Item 4 | (Probably with some wrapper) Perhaps this boils down to asking if it is possible to (re)define special

[NTG-context] Help with book of poetry

2009-03-08 Thread Corin Royal Drummond
Dear Friends, I'm down in Mexico recovering from a long illness, which explains my absence on the list. Recently I met a poet who writes in Spanish and Nahatl, and who would like to publish a book of his poems. I'm committed to using ConTeXt to layout his book, but I'm having problems. Here

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
John Devereux wrote: Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: [...] Hi Hans, Is there any possible way to use the wiki-style tables like: ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ | Item 1| Item 2 | | Item 3| Item 4 | (Probably with some wrapper) Perhaps this boils down to asking if it is possible to

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread John Devereux
Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: John Devereux wrote: Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: [...] Hi Hans, Is there any possible way to use the wiki-style tables like: ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ | Item 1| Item 2 | | Item 3| Item 4 | (Probably with some wrapper) Perhaps this

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi Hans, natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \long\def\dododoTABLENC#1\NC {\ifconditional\inTABLEnc\else\settrue\inTABLEnc\parseTR[][]\fi \dodoubleempty\parseTD#1\eTD\NC} I want to be able to give argument with \NC too, it's important for me to be able to use spanned columns/rows in the simple form. i had

[NTG-context] Columnspan in table no possible

2009-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi, the last beta gives a error message for columnspans in tables. \starttext \starttable[|l|l|] \NC one \NC two \NC\AR \NC \TWO three \NC\AR \stoptable \stoptext Runaway argument? \ifnum \mscount \plusone ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning use of \!thLoop. inserted text

Re: [NTG-context] Columnspan in table no possible

2009-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi, the last beta gives a error message for columnspans in tables. \starttext \starttable[|l|l|] \NC one \NC two \NC\AR \NC \TWO three \NC\AR \stoptable \stoptext Runaway argument? ah ... i cleaned up to much so now we run into the span omit parsing problem

Re: [NTG-context] Why searching fonts in xetex is so slow?

2009-03-08 Thread Yue Wang
is that normal? %engine=xetex \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino] \starttext $$\int_0^t$$ \stoptext uses (see the transcript file for additional information) Output written on test.pdf (1 page). Transcript written on test.log. TeXUtil | parsing file test.tui TeXUtil | shortcuts :

Re: [NTG-context] modife the style of taspresent

2009-03-08 Thread Bill Long
Thanks! The grammar is right, but it still can't work. On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:27:53AM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.03.2009 um 11:18 schrieb Bill Long: Dear All, anybody can help me on this problem? As most of the ppt file's background are graphics, but I don't know how to