Re: [NTG-context] framed items

2009-11-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:52 AM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I mean with not sure that  \hsize and \startitemize must play well together No, sorry, wrong phrase. What I mean is that I already found that \startitemize and \framed with width=broad was not ok, because

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a figure

2009-11-17 Thread R. Bastian
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:16:34 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com scribit: Am 16.11.2009 um 19:37 schrieb Alan BRASLAU: On Monday 16 November 2009 19:29:12 R. Bastian wrote: Hello, is there a way to rotate a pdf-figure ?

[NTG-context] Context Live setup ?

2009-11-17 Thread Vnpenguin
Hi, I would like to make a ConTeXt Live server in LAN for testing purposes, but I can not found any document for setup this kind of server. What are requirements ? Anyone could give me some help please ? Thanks, ___

Re: [NTG-context] Context Live setup ?

2009-11-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, I would like to make a ConTeXt Live server in LAN for testing purposes, but I can not found any document for setup this kind of server. What are requirements ? Anyone could give me some help please ? You can find the sourcecode of live.contextgarden.net at github:

Re: [NTG-context] Context Live setup ?

2009-11-17 Thread Vnpenguin
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:02, Patrick Gundlach patr...@gundla.ch wrote: Hello, I would like to make a ConTeXt Live server in LAN for testing purposes, but I can not found any document for setup this kind of server. What are requirements ? Anyone could give me some help please ? You can

Re: [NTG-context] the meaning of cutspace

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Münster
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: After reading the source 'width=middle' make sense, when both backspace and cutspace are set the width of the textarea is 'paperwidth - backspace - cutspace' but when cutspace is set to 0pt the textarea is 'paperwidth - 2*backspace'. Hello

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a figure

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, Nov 17 2009, R. Bastian wrote: \rotate[rotation=90]{\externalfigure[filename]} \externalfigure[filename][orientation=90] ;) OK, it is the param I hoped to get, but how to find it in the doc ? Hello, I suppose, that you can find orientation=... only in the sources, but

[NTG-context] kpathsea510.dll couldn't be found

2009-11-17 Thread Helmut Schwertner
Hello, if I try to update the contextmininals (command line method under windows) or to reinstall contextminimals I get the message mpost.exe could not found because kpathsea510.dll are not found. The same happens with pdftex.exe. The update or the reinstall stopped. I started the update

[NTG-context] place figure without \placefigure

2009-11-17 Thread R. Bastian
Hello, in a german text I have to place two figures and a table. If I use \placefigure they are well centered - but with french captions: Table or Figure. I dont need the captions. Without \placefigure, the figures are not centered. Is there a way ? Thanks, -- René Bastian www.pythoneon.org

Re: [NTG-context] the meaning of cutspace

2009-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 17.11.2009 um 11:40 schrieb Peter Münster: I'm sorry, I still don't understand... When width=middle adjusts the width to paperwidth - backspace - cutspace, what should width=fit then do? What does middle mean, in the middle of *what*? I suggest, that specifying backspace + cutspace +

Re: [NTG-context] place figure without \placefigure

2009-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 17.11.2009 um 12:26 schrieb R. Bastian: Hello, in a german text I have to place two figures and a table. If I use \placefigure they are well centered - but with french captions: Table or Figure. I dont need the captions. Without \placefigure, the figures are not centered. Is

Re: [NTG-context] spacing between floating figure caption and surrounding text

2009-11-17 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello Taco Normally, you would do \setupfloat[figure][after=] but that does not seem to work very well for side floats, sorry. Thanks for trying to help! :) Actually, I discovered from It's in details that \placefigure[inner, low]{ } is ok for my situation. Another questions is: how to

Re: [NTG-context] place figure without \placefigure

2009-11-17 Thread R. Bastian
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:01:11 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com scribit: Am 17.11.2009 um 12:26 schrieb R. Bastian: Hello, in a german text I have to place two figures and a table. If I use \placefigure they are well centered - but with french captions:

Re: [NTG-context] the meaning of cutspace

2009-11-17 Thread luigi scarso
The first thing context does is to check the value of width: (the width of the textarea is stored in \makeupwidth, not \textwidth) 1. width=middle if cutspace=0pt then cutspace=backspace endif makeupwidth = paperwidth - backspace - cutspace 2. width=fit when i look at the source i

Re: [NTG-context] the meaning of cutspace

2009-11-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
luigi scarso wrote: to wikify ... where ? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout ? Best wishes, Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] the meaning of cutspace

2009-11-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote:  http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout ? OK, I will wait until this evening and then I will do it . -- luigi ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Curiouslearn
I tried Metapost last year for a few graphs and liked the fact that it is tightly integrated with Context. I found John Hobby's document a good place to learn it and then used Hans' Metafun to learn further. The reason I am looking at Asymptote and pstricks is because they have libraries or

Re: [NTG-context] kpathsea510.dll couldn't be found

2009-11-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:22, Helmut Schwertner wrote: Hello, On my contextminimals there ist no file named kpathsea510.dll. Only kpathsea500.dll etc. What can I do? Yell at me for not setting up Arthur's lua code yet. (Though the file should be there now.) Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2009/11/17 Curiouslearn curiousle...@gmail.com: The reason I am looking at Asymptote and pstricks is because they have libraries or functionality which Metapost lacks. For example, the tree drawing library in pstricks. If Metapost has such a library I don't know since I cannot find any

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Curiouslearn
Thanks, Hraban. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net wrote: 2009/11/17 Curiouslearn curiousle...@gmail.com: The reason I am looking at Asymptote and pstricks is because they have libraries or functionality which Metapost lacks. For example, the tree drawing

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Curiouslearn curiousle...@gmail.com wrote: Also I like them : google search Metapost metaobj Metapost metagraph Metapost UML Metapost melusine -- luigi ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] osx-64-binaries/minimals

2009-11-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:33, Andreas Harder wrote: Hi all! If I update the minimals via first-setup.sh I get the 32bit-binaries (luatex) although I'm on Snow Leopard. If I change the binaries myself it works fine and the compilation is notable faster! We had a lengthy discussion about

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 14:40:04 Curiouslearn wrote: I tried Metapost last year for a few graphs and liked the fact that it is tightly integrated with Context. I found John Hobby's document a good place to learn it and then used Hans' Metafun to learn further. The reason I am looking at

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr wrote: The ConTeXt community (and via the minimals distribution) can keep this active... So much to do! yes, true: for example metaobj is in the minimals -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Curiouslearn wrote: Mojca, in case you read this, can you please let me know what the status on asymptote is. I am not Mojca, but I'll comment on this anyways :) I looked into integrating asymptote this summer (spent around a month going to asymptote macro code).

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Curiouslearn curiousle...@gmail.com wrote: Also I like them : google search Metapost metaobj Metapost metagraph Metapost UML Metapost melusine fyi: you can define extra mp instances in order avoid clashes:

Re: [NTG-context] framed items

2009-11-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: from pack-rul:   \else\ifx\localwidth\v!broad     \boxhaswidthtrue     \!!framedwidth\hsize   \else\ifx\localwidth\v!local     \boxhaswidthtrue    

Re: [NTG-context] framed items

2009-11-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: I did not know about width=local (and therefore wanted width=broad to behave like it). Given that, I think that broad behaves just fine. These differnt options need to be documented better. yes, in the wiki... where ? --

Re: [NTG-context] framed items

2009-11-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: I did not know about width=local (and therefore wanted width=broad to behave like it). Given that, I think that broad behaves just fine. These differnt options need to be

Re: [NTG-context] osx-64-binaries/minimals

2009-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:33, Andreas Harder wrote: Hi all! If I update the minimals via first-setup.sh I get the 32bit-binaries (luatex) although I'm on Snow Leopard. If I change the binaries myself it works fine and the compilation is notable faster! We had a

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a figure

2009-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Münster wrote: On Tue, Nov 17 2009, R. Bastian wrote: \rotate[rotation=90]{\externalfigure[filename]} \externalfigure[filename][orientation=90] ;) OK, it is the param I hoped to get, but how to find it in the doc ? Hello, I suppose, that you can find orientation=... only in the

Re: [NTG-context] Producing PDF x/1-a:2001 output.

2009-11-17 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 02 November 2009 08:36:41 Hans Hagen wrote: John Culleton wrote: The documentation for pdfx goes through the source section by section and discusses what each does. it's easier for me to preflight a file and see what acrobat reports btw, things like color and fonts are easy as

Re: [NTG-context] kpathsea510.dll couldn't be found

2009-11-17 Thread Helmut Schwertner
Hello Mojca, thank you very much. I played it little bit and curiously and unexpected the file ›kpathsea510.dll‹ is in the directory ›C:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin‹. Perfect. All works fine. Beforehand I copied the ›luatex.exe‹ in the directory ›C:\context\bin‹. Is it possible that there

Re: [NTG-context] Producing PDF x/1-a:2001 output.

2009-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
John Culleton wrote: There are two tasks for crating a PDF x/1-a:2001 file. First limits must be imposed per the standard. Second the pdf file must look like a PDF x1-a:2001 file to the printer and his software. The tag at the top of the file is of course trivial. But there is some xml code

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: fyi: you can define extra mp instances in order avoid clashes: \defineMPinstance[whatever1][format=metafun,extensions=yes,initializations=yes] \defineMPinstance[whatever2][format=mpost]

Re: [NTG-context] spacing between floating figure caption and surrounding text

2009-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello, Another question about figures. How to get rid of big spacing between floating figure caption and surrounding text? In the following example, I want the spacing between Figure 1 and the text below to be twice less. Normally, you

Re: [NTG-context] osx-64-binaries/minimals

2009-11-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:33, Andreas Harder wrote: Hi all! If I update the minimals via first-setup.sh I get the 32bit-binaries (luatex) although I'm on Snow Leopard. If I change the binaries myself it works fine and the compilation is notable

Re: [NTG-context] Sort register (index) by Bible book

2009-11-17 Thread Jelle Huisman
On 17/11/2009 07:48, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Using \index[Samuel 1 1:1]{1 Samuel 1:1} Should change the sort order. Untested, though. He probably wants to get Genesis before Exodus (etc.) instead. So would it be possible to tell the index mechanism to sort certain items in an arbitrary

Re: [NTG-context] kpathsea510.dll couldn't be found

2009-11-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 16:57, Helmut Schwertner wrote: Hello Mojca, thank you very much. I played it little bit and curiously and unexpected the file ›kpathsea510.dll‹ is in the directory ›C:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin‹. Perfect. All works fine. Beforehand I copied the ›luatex.exe‹ in the

Re: [NTG-context] Sort register (index) by Bible book

2009-11-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Jelle Huisman wrote: On 17/11/2009 07:48, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Using \index[Samuel 1 1:1]{1 Samuel 1:1} Should change the sort order. Untested, though. He probably wants to get Genesis before Exodus (etc.) instead. So would it be possible to tell the index mechanism to sort

Re: [NTG-context] osx-64-binaries/minimals

2009-11-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 17:16, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:33, Andreas Harder wrote: Hi all! If I update the minimals via first-setup.sh I get the 32bit-binaries (luatex) although I'm on Snow Leopard. If I change the binaries

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 23:57, Curiouslearn wrote: Thanks everyone for replying. Mojca, in case you read this, can you please let me know what the status on asymptote is. I read it***, but I already forgot what the state was. I had to find the thread where I suggested a few changes, but the

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 15:12, curiouslearn wrote: The reason I am asking is that eventually all the new Context features will be in MKIV. I want to know what graphics packages I can use with it other than Metapost. Answering that question alone: I would go with TikZ. You are free to use

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 17:57, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 15:12, curiouslearn wrote: The reason I am asking is that eventually all the new Context features will be in MKIV. I want to know what graphics packages I can use with it other than Metapost. Answering that

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: I just forgot to add: MKIV is currently broken in TL 2009 AFAIK it was not a strict target, and anyway I see no problem and asymptote is not part of minimals (yet). nothing against asy, but maybe we don't

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 17:57, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 15:12, curiouslearn wrote: The reason I am asking is that eventually all the new Context features will be in MKIV. I want to know what graphics packages I can use with it other than Metapost.

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: In past Till has *always* fixed any bug reported, but I have not heard from him since March (neither as reply to off-list requests nor any response to the mailing list). Thomas or someone else can you please confirm that the pstricks module works with MKIV. Also, where I

Re: [NTG-context] spacing between floating figure caption and surrounding text

2009-11-17 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello Hans, sidespacebefore sidespaceafter Yes, I played with them, but did not understand their logic. Is 'high' equals to sidespacebefore=0 'low' -- to sidespaceafter=0? In other words, how to duplicate the effect of 'low' using sidespace options? Vyatcheslav

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 18:22, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I just forgot to add: MKIV is currently broken in TL 2009 and asymptote is not part of minimals (yet). In both cases I guess that I'm the one to blame for both. I'll be on health leave (skipping work) for the next 7-10

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Curiouslearn
Thanks to all who made some suggestions about where I can find Metapost libraries. Will look into those. It seems Asymptote + Tikz is a good way to go and also try out Metapost again. Mojca, you said that number of pstricks users are decreasing. Is this amongst Context users, or in general

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 20:35, Curiouslearn wrote: Thanks to all who made some suggestions about where I can find Metapost libraries. Will look into those. It seems Asymptote + Tikz  is a good way to go and also try out Metapost again. Mojca, you  said that number of pstricks users are

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Curiouslearn
I think I should give Metapost a try. There are two reasons, I tried out asymptote (i) Its syntax seems easier to remember (ii) It can find intersections of curves (not only straight lines) quite easily. Can Metapost do the second? Anyhow, I am going to give it a try again to see if I like it.

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Curiouslearn wrote: I think I should give Metapost a try. There are two reasons, I tried out asymptote (i) Its syntax seems easier to remember (ii) It can find intersections of curves (not only straight lines) quite easily. mp can do intersections and future versions of mp might provide new

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 17.11.2009 um 18:25 schrieb Hans Hagen: Thomas or someone else can you please confirm that the pstricks module works with MKIV. Also, where I can find the module? It is not there with the other third party modules. if i'd know where to search i could fix it ... has to do with adding

Re: [NTG-context] the meaning of cutspace

2009-11-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: luigi scarso wrote: to  wikify ... where ?  http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout ? done -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] framed items

2009-11-17 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: .. done at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Framed#Width_broad_and_local -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

[NTG-context] Remove bold face

2009-11-17 Thread anuar lezama
Hello Everybody, My problem is the following: I'm creating chapter's titles with a mix of styles. For example. \chapter{ something {\bolditalic another thing}} This give me the result that I expect with my titles, but when I use this title's string to create a header, part of the header appears

Re: [NTG-context] osx-64-binaries/minimals

2009-11-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: The software test: Yue:context yue$ if test `uname -r|cut -f1 -d.` -ge 10 ; then echo yes; else echo no; fi yes hm, we need to use the methods built in luatex Someone should check what is returned in the os.uname() return table. Mine returns t={ [machine]=x86_64,

Re: [NTG-context] Remove bold face

2009-11-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
anuar lezama wrote: Hello Everybody, My problem is the following: I'm creating chapter's titles with a mix of styles. For example. \chapter{ something {\bolditalic another thing}} This give me the result that I expect with \nomarking {\bolditalic } should do the trick. Best wishes, Taco