[NTG-context] TeXexec MkII, ConTeXt MkIV

2010-10-03 Thread Tom Maynard
Hello, I have pretty recent installations of TeXLive 2010 (for Cygwin) and ConTeXt Minimals (for Windows). In both installations, running TeXexec reports it is ConTeXt MkII ... but running ConTeXt directly reports itself as MkIV. I would like to synchronize TeXexec and MkIV ... as MkIV

Re: [NTG-context] TeXexec MkII, ConTeXt MkIV

2010-10-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Tom Maynard wrote: Hello, I have pretty recent installations of TeXLive 2010 (for Cygwin) and ConTeXt Minimals (for Windows). In both installations, running TeXexec reports it is ConTeXt MkII ... but running ConTeXt directly reports itself as MkIV. I think that you

Re: [NTG-context] TeXexec MkII, ConTeXt MkIV

2010-10-03 Thread David Rogers
* Tom Maynard t...@maynard.com [2010-10-02 17:25]: Hello, I have pretty recent installations of TeXLive 2010 (for Cygwin) and ConTeXt Minimals (for Windows). In both installations, running TeXexec reports it is ConTeXt MkII ... but running ConTeXt directly reports itself as MkIV. I would

Re: [NTG-context] Stange behavior of \startluacode

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2010 um 01:46 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Hi, The following snippet \startluacode -- \undefined why should a comment matter a = 10 \stopluacode fails with system error on line 4 in file bug.tex: Undefined control sequence ... -- \undefined

Re: [NTG-context] Stange behavior of \startluacode

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2010 um 01:46 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Hi, The following snippet \startluacode -- \undefined why should a comment matter a = 10 \stopluacode fails with system error on line 4 in file bug.tex: Undefined control sequence ... -- \undefined

[NTG-context] \placecontent bug

2010-10-03 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hans, Thank you for fixing the \placepublications argument issue bug. I confirm that the current beta now works correctly. I remind you of the \placecontents bug in a structured document. The attached minimal example illustrates the erroneous inclusion of appendix sections in the partial table

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-10-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, Hans, On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: 1. index sorts uppercase letters after lowercase letters. Minimal example: \starttext \index{Aardvark}Aardvark \index{azygous}azygous \page \setupregister[index][n=1] \placeregister[index] \stoptext I would

Re: [NTG-context] Stange behavior of \startluacode

2010-10-03 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: Hi, The following snippet \startluacode  -- \undefined why should a comment matter  a = 10 \stopluacode fails with system           error on line 4 in file bug.tex: Undefined control sequence ...  -- \undefined  

Re: [NTG-context] Stange behavior of \startluacode

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2010 um 10:28 schrieb luigi scarso: Bug or limitation? Limitation, but it should be doable to remedy in TeX. Possible but is it worth the effort, when you start with “--” the percent should also behave like in Lua etc. \starttext \bgroup\obeylines \gdef\texcomment#1 {} \egroup

Re: [NTG-context] Stange behavior of \startluacode

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2010 um 11:02 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 03.10.2010 um 10:28 schrieb luigi scarso: Limitation, but it should be doable to remedy in TeX. Possible but is it worth the effort, when you start with “--” the percent should also behave like in Lua etc. The problem is that there

Re: [NTG-context] TeXexec MkII, ConTeXt MkIV

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-10-2010 8:11, David Rogers wrote: * Tom Maynard t...@maynard.com [2010-10-02 17:25]: Hello, I have pretty recent installations of TeXLive 2010 (for Cygwin) and ConTeXt Minimals (for Windows). In both installations, running TeXexec reports it is ConTeXt MkII ... but running ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] TeXexec MkII, ConTeXt MkIV

2010-10-03 Thread Vedran Miletić
2010/10/3 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: % engine=pdftex at the top of the file and the context script will understand that ad run texexec ... handy if you run context from within an editor and only want one command A bit off topic: is there still a plan to reimplement texexec in Lua and get rid

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-10-2010 10:24, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, Hans, On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: 1. index sorts uppercase letters after lowercase letters. Minimal example: \starttext \index{Aardvark}Aardvark \index{azygous}azygous \page \setupregister[index][n=1]

Re: [NTG-context] TeXexec MkII, ConTeXt MkIV

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-10-2010 12:24, Vedran Miletić wrote: 2010/10/3 Hans Hagenpra...@wxs.nl: % engine=pdftex at the top of the file and the context script will understand that ad run texexec ... handy if you run context from within an editor and only want one command A bit off topic: is there still a plan

Re: [NTG-context] Stange behavior of \startluacode

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-10-2010 1:46, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, The following snippet \startluacode -- \undefined why should a comment matter a = 10 \stopluacode fails with system error on line 4 in file bug.tex: Undefined control sequence ... -- \undefined why should a comment matt a = 10 \dodostartluacode

Re: [NTG-context] TeXexec MkII, ConTeXt MkIV

2010-10-03 Thread Vedran Miletić
Datuma 3. listopada 2010. 12:30 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl je napisao/la: in principle the context script can replace the texexec one apart from index sorting; I have a lua variant of that somewhere but untested If you are willing to post it, I'm willing to test it. -- Vedran Miletić

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-10-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 3, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: indeed, and in a nice obscure way ... \setuplayout[topspace=1cm,height=middle] \setupbodyfont[11pt] \starttext \def\Test#1% {\vbox{{\bf#1}\blank\placeregister[index][language=cz,n=1,method={#1}]}\blank} wanted result: oá öb Oč Öď Oo

Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-Context] How to compute correct page number for handout

2010-10-03 Thread Pierre-François Bonnefoi
Dear Peter, I run into some problem with font handling in MKIV so I'm stuck in MKII for some time. I've tried the following : \starttext \def\ChapterPrefix#1{% \the\numexpr\number#1/4\relax } \setupcombinedlist[content][level=1]

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-10-2010 12:58, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Oct 3, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: indeed, and in a nice obscure way ... \setuplayout[topspace=1cm,height=middle] \setupbodyfont[11pt] \starttext \def\Test#1%

Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-Context] How to compute correct page number for handout

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-10-2010 4:16, Pierre-François Bonnefoi wrote: Dear Peter, I run into some problem with font handling in MKIV so I'm stuck in MKII for some time. I've tried the following : \starttext \def\ChapterPrefix#1{% \the\numexpr\number#1/4\relax } \setupcombinedlist[content][level=1]

Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-Context] How to compute correct page number for handout

2010-10-03 Thread Pierre-François Bonnefoi
So, I've to forget it... I'm a little bit disappointed that it's not possible. But the waiting time for my students to get the lecture notes is over : I'll give them the handout with no page numbers. Thank you for your support. I hope that I could use MKIV in near future, kind regards,

Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-Context] How to compute correct page number for handout

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-10-2010 5:25, Pierre-François Bonnefoi wrote: So, I've to forget it... I'm a little bit disappointed that it's not possible. But the waiting time for my students to get the lecture notes is over : I'll give them the handout with no page numbers. you can try to use

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-10-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 3, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: mm zm pm : use mapping order, add -1,0, +1 to different case and use shape info for missing entries (similar shapes) mc zc pc : use mapping order, add -1,0, +1 to different case uc: unicode order so, you define a sequence of comparisons

Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-Context] How to compute correct page number for handout

2010-10-03 Thread Pierre-François Bonnefoi
But this function \structurelistrealpagenumber is not defined in MKII. ok, ok I've to go to MKIV some day ;-) Le 3 oct. 2010 à 17:34, Hans Hagen a écrit : On 3-10-2010 5:25, Pierre-François Bonnefoi wrote: So, I've to forget it... I'm a little bit disappointed that it's not possible. But

Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-Context] How to compute correct page number for handout

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.09.2010 um 13:13 schrieb Pierre-François Bonnefoi: Hello, I'use extensively context to write my lecture notes and for all of my printing needs. For my students, I've made some lecture presentations in color, and I print them in blackwhite, with four pages on one page for the

Re: [NTG-context] \placecontent bug

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-10-2010 10:19, Alan BRASLAU wrote: I remind you of the \placecontents bug in a structured document. The attached minimal example illustrates the erroneous inclusion of appendix sections in the partial table of contents in the bodymatter chapters. (Chapter 1 toc also includes Appendix A

Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-Context] How to compute correct page number for handout

2010-10-03 Thread Pierre-François Bonnefoi
You saved my day ! Le 3 oct. 2010 à 17:52, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 29.09.2010 um 13:13 schrieb Pierre-François Bonnefoi: Hello, I'use extensively context to write my lecture notes and for all of my printing needs. For my students, I've made some lecture presentations in

Re: [NTG-context] Lettrines in MkIV

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, Just a note: the node-freeing bug that showed up in the lettrine module has been solved (it took taco and me a while to nail down the exact circumstances and location in the luatex source -- it had to do with some broken linked list prev chain). As the solution is in the binary

Re: [NTG-context] TeXexec MkII, ConTeXt MkIV

2010-10-03 Thread Tom Maynard
On 10/3/2010 1:16 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: I think that you are confused by the terminology. I was, but you have resolved that. Your answer was, as you perfectly well know, completely correct. Thank you (all of you!) for your help in getting me straightened out. I'm (rather obviously)

Re: [NTG-context] Sortingstyle

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 14.09.2010 um 09:17 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Hi, there is a typo in the sorting macros. \unexpanded\def\doinsertsort#1#2% name tag {\begingroup % no kap currently, of .. we need to map cap onto WORD \edef\currentsorting{#1}% - \dosetsynonymattributes\c!style\c!color +

[NTG-context] Lists and labeltexts

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Hans, lists ignore the sectionblock for the labeltext \setuplabeltext[chapter=Chapter~,appendix=Appendix~] \setuplist[chapter][label=yes,width=2cm] \setuphead[chapter][bodypartlabel=appendix] \starttext \completecontent \chapter{Foo} \stoptext Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] placing a paragraph with non-standard interlinear spacing onto the grid

2010-10-03 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Dear all, By way of further definition and clarification of the issue: back in the world of LaTeX, I was kindly given the following code on CTT by Donald Arseneau to produce the desired effect. Mind you, it was only meant to work with a paragraph if the entire paragraph was on one page; it

Re: [NTG-context] placing a paragraph with non-standard interlinear spacing onto the grid

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-10-2010 9:14, Talal Al-Azem wrote: Dear all, By way of further definition and clarification of the issue: back in the world of LaTeX, I was kindly given the following code on CTT by Donald Arseneau to produce the desired effect. Mind you, it was only meant to work with a paragraph if

Re: [NTG-context] placing a paragraph with non-standard interlinear spacing onto the grid

2010-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2010 um 00:23 schrieb Talal Al-Azem: Dear all, This is important for anyone working with mixed language (font) texts. In my example, the overall document is Latin-based (e.g. English), with a paragraph of Arabic text; I want this Arabic paragraph as a whole to fit onto the

[NTG-context] Fifth ConTeXt meeting, September 2011, France

2010-10-03 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Hello everyone, This must be the second thread I initiate this year on the list, but unlike my previous post (http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/048296.html), this is actually serious. I hereby announce the next ConTeXt meeting, that will take place on the island of

Re: [NTG-context] Fifth ConTeXt meeting, September 2011, France

2010-10-03 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 03.10.2010 um 22:25 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: Hello everyone, This must be the second thread I initiate this year on the list, but unlike my previous post (http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/048296.html), this is actually serious. I hereby announce the next ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Updating ConTeXt using TeX Live 2010 (Linux)

2010-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 16:52, Daniel Grycman wrote: Hello list, after updating ConText to beta I get the following error message. ../mtx-context.lua:669: attempt to call field 'locateformat' (a nil value) Any ideas? How exactly did you update ConTeXt in TeX Live? One can do that in

Re: [NTG-context] placing a paragraph with non-standard interlinear spacing onto the grid

2010-10-03 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Hello Hans and Wolfgang, Hans: Thanks for your reply. No, simply setting up the grid does not work. Because of the size of Arabic fonts relative to latin fonts, the Arabic paragraph naturally needs a bit more interlinear spacing; as such, I do not expect the paragraph to lineup on the grid

Re: [NTG-context] Updating ConTeXt using TeX Live 2010 (Linux)

2010-10-03 Thread Daniel Grycman
I did the update process via rsync and chosed the beta. Afterwards followed the update of luatex and the commands luatools --generate and context --make. Daniel On 03.10.10 23:20, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 16:52, Daniel Grycman wrote: Hello

[NTG-context] present state of critical editions with ConTeXt MKIV ?

2010-10-03 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Dear all, My apologies for flooding the mailing list as I try to come up to speed quickly with some of the perhaps more arcane usages of ConTeXt over the weekend. I have come to understand that ConTeXt MKIV can indeed produce beautiful critical editions (including those of Arabic texts). I've

Re: [NTG-context] Updating ConTeXt using TeX Live 2010 (Linux)

2010-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 23:59, Daniel Grycman wrote: I did the update process via rsync and chosed the beta. Afterwards followed the update of luatex and the commands luatools --generate and context --make. You need to update at least mtxrun as well. Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] Updating ConTeXt using TeX Live 2010 (Linux)

2010-10-03 Thread Daniel Grycman
After compiling the file via context file.tex the following messages appear. MTXrun | forcing cache reload MTXrun | resolvers: skipping configuration file '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | the resolver databases are not present or

Re: [NTG-context] placing a paragraph with non-standard interlinear spacing onto the grid

2010-10-03 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Dear Hans and Wolfgang (et al), Unfortunately, I think I may have spoken too soon, as I've run into a small problem. :-) Using Wolfgang's suggestion of baselinecorrection: \startbaselinecorrection\setupinterlinespace[line=5ex] ... \stopbaselinecorrection I can no longer get footnotes which

Re: [NTG-context] rotated (landscape) pages in portrait document

2010-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 18:12, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 01.10.2010 um 17:41 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Dear list, First one question: what is the MKIV-way of doing something like \startbuffer[a] % set text width for formula somehow \startformula\startalign \NC a \NC = b \NR

Re: [NTG-context] Updating ConTeXt using TeX Live 2010 (Linux)

2010-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 00:29, Daniel Grycman wrote: After compiling the file via context file.tex the following messages appear. MTXrun | forcing cache reload MTXrun | resolvers: skipping configuration file '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun |

Re: [NTG-context] rotated (landscape) pages in portrait document

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4-10-2010 12:57, Mojca Miklavec wrote: you can treat buffers like images: \rotate[rotation=90]{\externalfigure[a.buffer][width=5cm]} - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] TeXexec MkII, ConTeXt MkIV

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-10-2010 12:50, Vedran Miletić wrote: Datuma 3. listopada 2010. 12:30 Hans Hagenpra...@wxs.nl je napisao/la: in principle the context script can replace the texexec one apart from index sorting; I have a lua variant of that somewhere but untested If you are willing to post it, I'm

Re: [NTG-context] present state of critical editions with ConTeXt MKIV ?

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4-10-2010 12:14, Talal Al-Azem wrote: My apologies for flooding the mailing list as I try to come up to speed quickly with some of the perhaps more arcane usages of ConTeXt over the weekend. I have come to understand that ConTeXt MKIV can indeed produce beautiful critical editions

Re: [NTG-context] placing a paragraph with non-standard interlinear spacing onto the grid

2010-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4-10-2010 12:40, Talal Al-Azem wrote: Dear Hans and Wolfgang (et al), Unfortunately, I think I may have spoken too soon, as I've run into a small problem. :-) Using Wolfgang's suggestion of baselinecorrection: \startbaselinecorrection\setupinterlinespace[line=5ex]

Re: [NTG-context] placing a paragraph with non-standard interlinear spacing onto the grid

2010-10-03 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Unfortunately, I think I may have spoken too soon, as I've run into a small problem. :-) Using Wolfgang's suggestion of baselinecorrection: \startbaselinecorrection\setupinterlinespace[line=5ex] \stopbaselinecorrection I can no longer get footnotes which are in the Arabic

Re: [NTG-context] present state of critical editions with ConTeXt MKIV ?

2010-10-03 Thread Talal Al-Azem
Dear Hans, Thank you once again for your response. I have attached a sample file showing examples of each of the matters discussed below which you requested. It was produced using LaTeX and Uwe Lück's excellent ednotes package. Of course, I couldn't produce an example of parallel texts,