Re: [NTG-context] Frame around columnsets

2012-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 23-7-2012 22:45, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Marco, I confirm what you observe: I tested your code with Context version 2011.11.29 and as you mention there is no frame, but with Context version 2012.07.23 the columns are surrounded by an unwanted frame, so it seems to be a recent bug. fixed

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides help needed

2012-07-24 Thread Pavneet Arora
Ah, I got it now! \quotation is quite different from \{start|stop}quotation. I was attempting to affect the changes using just \quotation{}, which has no (or in my case asymmetrical and strange) effects on the margins, at least within simpleslides. Now, I don't know whether there should be

[NTG-context] Bug with rule between columns in columnset

2012-07-24 Thread Marco
Hi, this seems like a bug in the MetaFun or column set code. Printing a vertical rule between columns fails with ! terminal: NOfTextColumns-1 ! Improper final value has been replaced by 0. to be read again The code also fails, when the column set code is commented out, but then the

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides help needed

2012-07-24 Thread Sietse Brouwer
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Pavneet Arora pavneet_ar...@waroc.com wrote: Now, I don't know whether there should be a difference in behaviour, [between \quotation and \startquotation], but there definitely is. This is deliberate: \quotation is for inline quotations, while \startquotation

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides help needed

2012-07-24 Thread Pavneet Arora
Yes, indeed the information is there. What makes the wiki sometime impenetrable is that doing a search, even a Google search, with keyword based or topic based queries rather than command based queries leads to varying results. You know what you want to do; you just don't know which commands

Re: [NTG-context] Bug with rule between columns in columnset

2012-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 24-7-2012 12:52, Marco wrote: Hi, this seems like a bug in the MetaFun or column set code. Printing a vertical rule between columns fails with ! terminal: NOfTextColumns-1 ! Improper final value has been replaced by 0. to be read again The code also fails, when the column set code is

[NTG-context] Too large value of \definecolumnsethsize

2012-07-24 Thread Marco
Hi, the following test file has a weird page break, caused by a too wide image set with \definecolumnsethsize. I am talking about the blank space at the right of the image. \definecolumnsethsize defines a with of 202.01262pt, that's too wide, 202pt would be correct, I guess. Is that a rounding

[NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Hello. I'm a veritable noob to both TeX and ConTeXT, so please bear with my ignorance. I request your kind guidance. (BTW as I use Indic scripts a lot, my typesetting engine is XeTeX.) I want to produce small caps like those I can get in LibreOffice by doing Right Click Character Font Effects

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.07.2012 um 21:11 schrieb Shriramana Sharma: Hello. I'm a veritable noob to both TeX and ConTeXT, so please bear with my ignorance. I request your kind guidance. (BTW as I use Indic scripts a lot, my typesetting engine is XeTeX.) I want to produce small caps like those I can get in

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: \definehighlight[smallcaps][style=\setff{smallcaps}] Hello and thanks for your help but even if I copy-paste your example into TeXWorks and typeset it (remember, I'm using ConTeXT with XeTeX) I get the error:

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Marco
On 2012-07-25 Shriramana Sharma samj...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone please advise me what to do to get small caps in my current font like in LibO and other popular GUI word-processing systems? My guess is that DejaVu Sans Condensed has no small caps. That's why you get the unexpected result.

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 24-7-2012 21:29, Shriramana Sharma wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: \definehighlight[smallcaps][style=\setff{smallcaps}] Hello and thanks for your help but even if I copy-paste your example into TeXWorks and typeset it (remember,

[NTG-context] alignment in TABLE

2012-07-24 Thread Peter Münster
Hi, How could I please align vertically the 2 table cells in the following example: --8---cut here---start-8--- \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD 1 \eTD \bTD \framed{1 Über} \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext --8---cut here---end---8---

Re: [NTG-context] alignment in TABLE

2012-07-24 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 24, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Peter Münster wrote: Hi, How could I please align vertically the 2 table cells in the following example: --8---cut here---start-8--- \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD 1 \eTD \bTD \framed{1 Über} \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:21:22PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 24-7-2012 21:29, Shriramana Sharma wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: \definehighlight[smallcaps][style=\setff{smallcaps}] Hello and thanks for your help but even if I

Re: [NTG-context] alignment in TABLE

2012-07-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Peter Münster wrote: Hi, How could I please align vertically the 2 table cells in the following example: --8---cut here---start-8--- \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD 1 \eTD \bTD \framed{1 Über} \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext

[NTG-context] \input filename causes error.

2012-07-24 Thread john Culleton
If I set up my main file thus: \starttext \input title.tex \input copyright.tex \startfrontmatter \completecontent \chapter{Introduction} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \input body.tex \stopbodymatter \startappendices \stopappendices \startbackmatter \chapter{Index} %\chapter{Acknowledgement}

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Thanks to all who replied. On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: My guess is that DejaVu Sans Condensed has no small caps. That's why you get the unexpected result. LibO might fake the small caps, which should usually be avoided, since it often leads to

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Shriramana Sharma wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: My guess is that DejaVu Sans Condensed has no small caps. That's why you get the unexpected result. LibO might fake the small caps, which should usually be avoided, since it often

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Hello Aditya and thanks for your help. However, the following file still does not my particular selected font to be shown in faux small caps: \def\fakesmallcaps{\let\processword\dofakesmallcapped\processwords} \def\dofakesmallcapped#1{\dostartfakesmallcapped#1\dostopfakesmallcapped}

[NTG-context] Variables how-to needed

2012-07-24 Thread Mari Voipio
Hello All, I'm looking for some for dummies information about using variables. I tried looking for it in the wiki, but only found this Internals page that's a bit too advantaged to me: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Inside_ConTeXt#Using_variables I'm obviously missing something important, so I'd

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:33 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: Hi -- is there absolutely no way for obtaining these fake small caps in ConTeXT? Here's a hack, which sort of works, definitely doesn't handle return -- there must be a better way. I hope you don't mind my using your text as text. :-)

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Rogers, Michael K mrog...@emory.edu wrote: Here's a hack, which sort of works, definitely doesn't handle return -- there must be a better way. I hope you don't mind my using your text as text. :-) Hi thanks for your help. Sorry to keep returning with

Re: [NTG-context] alignment in TABLE

2012-07-24 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Rogers, Michael K mrog...@emory.eduwrote: On Jul 24, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Peter Münster wrote: Hi, How could I please align vertically the 2 table cells in the following example: --8---cut here---start-8---