[NTG-context] Non-breaking spaces

2013-04-18 Thread H. Özoguz
\nobreakspace \ideographicspace \ideographichalffillspace \twoperemspace \threeperemspace \fourperemspace \sixperemspace \figurespace \punctuationspace \breakablethinspace \hairspace \zerowidthspace \zwnj \zwj \narrownobreakspace or just their utf representation Which of them is like

[NTG-context] Decomposing the glyphs of a font

2013-04-18 Thread Tim Li
Hi, Can I decompose the glyphs of an OpenType font? In other words, I hope to draw the outline of a font and its bounding box.What way has ConTeXt provided? Best regards,Tim

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt mkiv with SciTE on MacOSX

2013-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/18/2013 7:37 AM, Pierre Bovet wrote: Hi all, I recently purchased Scite-Mac OSX to use with ConTeXt, but I don't find an issue for the integration of the *.properties and lexers files which are located in the ConTeXt minimal distribution. Did anyone encounter the same problem and who could

Re: [NTG-context] mptopdf in minimals

2013-04-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:51 PM, John Kitzmiller wrote: Is there something extra needed to use mptopdf with only context minimal? Does it help if you run the following command first? texexec --make mptopdf (it should or at least used to be used in past) Mojca

[NTG-context] Underlay a text with color

2013-04-18 Thread H. Özoguz
Hi, how to underlay a text (or simply one word) with a (grey) colored rectangle, just to highlight – like if I had marked it by hand with a grey marker-pen? Thanks. Huseyin ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt mkiv with SciTE on MacOSX

2013-04-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Pierre Bovet wrote: Hi all, I recently purchased Scite-Mac OSX to use with ConTeXt, but I don't find an issue for the integration of the *.properties and lexers files which are located in the ConTeXt minimal distribution. Did anyone encounter the same problem

Re: [NTG-context] Underlay a text with color

2013-04-18 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–04–18 H. Özoguz wrote: how to underlay a text (or simply one word) with a (grey) colored rectangle, just to highlight – like if I had marked it by hand with a grey marker-pen? \definetextbackground [marker] [background=color, backgroundcolor=yellow, frame=off] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt mkiv with SciTE on MacOSX

2013-04-18 Thread Pierre Bovet
Le 18 avr. 2013 à 11:19, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com a écrit : On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Pierre Bovet wrote: Hi all, I recently purchased Scite-Mac OSX to use with ConTeXt, but I don't find an issue for the integration of the *.properties and lexers files which are

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Underlay a text with color

2013-04-18 Thread H. Özoguz
Marco Thanks Marco, but I was not precise enough: I want this underlied gray in the header for the chapter-marking. The direct attempt below fails: \definetextbackground [marker] [background=color, backgroundcolor=gray, frame=off] \setupheadertexts[][

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt mkiv with SciTE on MacOSX

2013-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/18/2013 11:19 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Pierre Bovet wrote: Hi all, I recently purchased Scite-Mac OSX to use with ConTeXt, but I don't find an issue for the integration of the *.properties and lexers files which are located in the ConTeXt minimal

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt mkiv with SciTE on MacOSX

2013-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/18/2013 11:50 AM, Pierre Bovet wrote: Le 18 avr. 2013 à 11:19, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com a écrit : On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Pierre Bovet wrote: Hi all, I recently purchased Scite-Mac OSX to use with ConTeXt, but I don't find an issue for the integration of

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Underlay a text with color

2013-04-18 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–04–18 H. Özoguz wrote: Thanks Marco, but I was not precise enough: I want this underlied gray in the header for the chapter-marking. The direct attempt below fails: \definetextbackground [marker] [background=color, backgroundcolor=gray, frame=off] \setupheadertexts[][

[NTG-context] Horzontal line between header and text

2013-04-18 Thread H. Özoguz
I forgot and could not find it in the wiki: How to make horizontal lines on every page between header (where the section-titles are) and the textplace? Thanks. Huseyin ___ If your question is of interest to others

[NTG-context] halign broken

2013-04-18 Thread Meer, H. van der
There seems something very much amiss with \halign in later ConTeXt versions. This typesets fine in PlainTeX and is an example taken from a textbook. \tabskip=1em\halign{% \hfil\it#\hfil\hfil#\hfil#\hfil#\crABCD\cr} Also in contextversion 2012.05.30 (from a TeXlive distribution). But it

Re: [NTG-context] halign broken

2013-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2013 um 14:55 schrieb Meer, H. van der h.vanderm...@uva.nl: There seems something very much amiss with \halign in later ConTeXt versions. This typesets fine in PlainTeX and is an example taken from a textbook. \tabskip=1em\halign{% \hfil\it#\hfil\hfil#\hfil#\hfil#\crABCD\cr}

Re: [NTG-context] halign broken

2013-04-18 Thread Meer, H. van der
I see, it is either the nuisance of having to type \ etc. in the text, or the nuisance of having to wrap everything like \halign in \unprotect..\protect and then resorting to \ again. At least there is nothing amiss with \halign itself, which is reassuring. However, I do not feel secure with

Re: [NTG-context] halign broken

2013-04-18 Thread Meer, H. van der
There seems to be more to it: This works: \unprotect\halign{\hfil\it#\hfil\hfil#\hfil#\hfil#\hfil\cr ABCD\cr ABB\cr}\protect But these generate a missing } after the \halign: \unprotect\framed{\halign{\hfil\it#\hfil\hfil#\hfil#\hfil#\hfil\cr ABCD\cr ABB\cr}}\protect

Re: [NTG-context] halign broken

2013-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2013 um 15:26 schrieb Meer, H. van der h.vanderm...@uva.nl: There seems to be more to it: This works: \unprotect\halign{\hfil\it#\hfil\hfil#\hfil#\hfil#\hfil\cr ABCD\cr ABB\cr}\protect But these generate a missing } after the \halign:

Re: [NTG-context] halign broken

2013-04-18 Thread Meer, H. van der
Why does the [align=middle] makess such a difference? Hans van der Meer On 18 Apr 2013, at 3:34 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 18.04.2013 um 15:26 schrieb Meer, H. van der h.vanderm...@uva.nl: There seems to be more to it: This works:

Re: [NTG-context] Two Bibliography questions

2013-04-18 Thread john Culleton
On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:38:07 -0400 john Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com wrote: On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:08:34 +0200 Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr wrote: [refcommand=authoryears,criterium=cite] A further question: I want to include the ISBN in the biblio entry. I find reference to the

Re: [NTG-context] halign broken

2013-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2013 um 15:39 schrieb Meer, H. van der h.vanderm...@uva.nl: Why does the [align=middle] makess such a difference? \framed can use a \hbox or a \vbox to place the content, by default it uses a \hbox but when you set the correct value for the align key it uses a \vbox. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] mptopdf in minimals

2013-04-18 Thread John Kitzmiller
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:51 PM, John Kitzmiller wrote: Is there something extra needed to use mptopdf with only context minimal? Does it help if you run the following command first? texexec --make mptopdf (it should or at least used to be used in past) Mojca -- Thank you Mojca,

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Syntax and placement of \startplacetable

2013-04-18 Thread H. Özoguz
With \placetable[force][] one can force to set the table here. Other keywords like here, auto etc. do work aswell. But with \starplacetable it does not work, how to do it correctly? My try was: \startplacetable[force][title={Blub}]{table} But that does not work, the table is shifted to a

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Syntax and placement of \startplacetable

2013-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2013 um 15:54 schrieb H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de: With \placetable[force][] one can force to set the table here. Other keywords like here, auto etc. do work aswell. But with \starplacetable it does not work, how to do it correctly? My try was:

Re: [NTG-context] halign broken

2013-04-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/18/2013 3:16 PM, Meer, H. van der wrote: I see, it is either the nuisance of having to type \ etc. in the text, or the nuisance of having to wrap everything like \halign in \unprotect..\protect and then resorting to \ again. At least there is nothing amiss with \halign itself, which is

Re: [NTG-context] Horzontal line between header and text

2013-04-18 Thread Tim Li
Maybe, this can solove this problemhttp://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/010917.html Tim Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:08:18 +0200 From: h.oezo...@mmnetz.de To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: [NTG-context] Horzontal line between header and text I forgot and could not find it in the wiki:

Re: [NTG-context] halign broken

2013-04-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
which reminds me that one of these days on the context dev list we should discuss this one \catcode`€=\mathshiftcatcode \starttext €e=mc^2€ \stoptext for typesetting math with continental style presets. And maybe make it default whenever one wishes to use comma as a decimal

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Syntax and placement of \startplacetable

2013-04-18 Thread H. Özoguz
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/startplacefigure Wolfgang Ok, thanks! I have searched startplacetable, but that gave no helping results. (Just to say I don't ask to annoy anybody :)) ___ If your question is

[NTG-context] Command only if \testpage is active

2013-04-18 Thread H. Özoguz
Hi, for subsections I use \setuphead[subsection] [after=\vskip-1.6mm, before={\testpage[5]\vskip1.6mm}] The reason is perfect distances between text-subsection-text with activated gridding. If the subsection is not set by \testpage on the next page, then everything workes fine! But if,

[NTG-context] Horzontal line between header and text

2013-04-18 Thread H. Özoguz
Maybe, this can solove thisproblemhttp://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/010917.html Tim Indeed, that was it, thanks! Huseyin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the

Re: [NTG-context] Underlay a text with color

2013-04-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, H. Özoguz wrote: Hi, how to underlay a text (or simply one word) with a (grey) colored rectangle, just to highlight – like if I had marked it by hand with a grey marker-pen? http://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com/2010/10/31/can-i-borrow-your-highlighter-please/

Re: [NTG-context] Command only if \testpage is active

2013-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2013 um 17:44 schrieb H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de: Hi, for subsections I use \setuphead[subsection] [after=\vskip-1.6mm, before={\testpage[5]\vskip1.6mm}] The reason is perfect distances between text-subsection-text with activated gridding. If the subsection is not

[NTG-context] Command only if \testpage is active

2013-04-18 Thread H. Özoguz
I can't reproduce the problem, the text on the second page stays on the grid. Wolfgang Sorry, my fault, wrong number in \dorecurse. Now you can reporduce it, I think. \setuplayout[grid=yes] \showgrid

Re: [NTG-context] Command only if \testpage is active

2013-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2013 um 18:51 schrieb H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de: I can’t reproduce the problem, the text on the second page stays on the grid. Wolfgang Sorry, my fault, wrong number in \dorecurse. Now you can reporduce it, I think. \setuplayout[grid=yes] \showgrid

[NTG-context] Cumulating numbered lists

2013-04-18 Thread Alan Bowen
I need a list structure that can be numbered in different ways as the occasion warrants. In this case, I need: 1. text 2. text 2.1. text 2.2. text Text Text A. text B. text The problem seem to be in turning off the cumulation of numbers in

Re: [NTG-context] Cumulating numbered lists

2013-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.04.2013 um 19:57 schrieb Alan Bowen bowenala...@gmail.com: I need a list structure that can be numbered in different ways as the occasion warrants. In this case, I need: 1. text 2. text 2.1. text 2.2. text Text Text A. text

Re: [NTG-context] Cumulating numbered lists

2013-04-18 Thread Alan Bowen
Hi, Wolfgang— Thanks for this—I will be more careful in keeping the two apart. In this instance, however, when I make the change, the problem persists. I am using ConTeXt ver: 2013.04.17 18:36 MKIV beta fmt: 2013.4.17 int: english/english Alan On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Wolfgang

[NTG-context] Command only if \testpage is active

2013-04-18 Thread H. Özoguz
Don’t use such odd values for the spaces before/after the heading which don’t make sense when you use the grid. When you have a heading with more text or a bigger font size try to change the value for the grid-key in \setuphead. Wolfgang Ok, I tried. Best result so far is:

[NTG-context] Missing number error, related to setupcolumnsetlines

2013-04-18 Thread Lars Huttar
Hello, I've got a Missing number error, treated as zero. I've whittled the problem code down to this minimal example: \definecolumnset [abbcolumn] [n=2,distance=5mm,balancing=yes] \setupcolumnsetlines[abbcolumn][1][1][60] \setupcolumnsetlines[abbcolumn][1][2][60] \starttext

[NTG-context] Can't make ISBN print in bibliography

2013-04-18 Thread john Culleton
Still having trouble with that pesky ISBN field in my bibliography. The file makes it to the book.bbl file but never prints no matter what .bst file I reference. Here is an extract from the generated book.bbl file: \startpublication[k=Bah2011,t=book, a={{Bah}},y=2011, n=4,s=Bah11]

[NTG-context] \setupbreakpoint[compound] not working

2013-04-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I do not get a line-break after a dash if I set \setupbreakpoint[compound] Minimal example (tested with 2013.04.14 MkIV) \setbreakpoints[compound] \setuppapersize[S3] \showframe \starttext ABCD node-to-node node-to-node node-to-node node-to-node

[NTG-context] stoppers in section heading without having stoppers in references?

2013-04-18 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
In MkIV, is there a way to get a stopper (e.g. .) in the section heading, along the lines of 1. First heading but without a reference to it having the stopper? Thus, the reference should be just In Chapter 1 we learn, not In Chapter 1. we learn? I have tried many variants of the following

Re: [NTG-context] \setupbreakpoint[compound] not working

2013-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 19.04.2013 um 01:53 schrieb Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: Hi, I do not get a line-break after a dash if I set \setupbreakpoint[compound] Minimal example (tested with 2013.04.14 MkIV) \setbreakpoints[compound] \setuppapersize[S3] \showframe \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] stoppers in section heading without having stoppers in references?

2013-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 19.04.2013 um 05:16 schrieb Sanjoy Mahajan san...@olin.edu: In MkIV, is there a way to get a stopper (e.g. .) in the section heading, along the lines of 1. First heading but without a reference to it having the stopper? Thus, the reference should be just In Chapter 1 we learn, not In

Re: [NTG-context] \setupbreakpoint[compound] not working

2013-04-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On 2013-04-19, at 12:34 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 19.04.2013 um 01:53 schrieb Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: Hi, I do not get a line-break after a dash if I set \setupbreakpoint[compound] Minimal example (tested with 2013.04.14 MkIV)

Re: [NTG-context] Can't make ISBN print in bibliography

2013-04-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/19/2013 01:03 AM, john Culleton wrote: Any suggestions? Using MKIV currently. Use \setuppublicationlayout[book] (explained in the bib manual). Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

[NTG-context] ! LuaTeX error [string \directlua ]:1: invalid escape sequence

2013-04-18 Thread Kip Warner
Hey list, I am having problems typesetting the following minimal to try and extract the current revision number from my revision control system: % Bzr revision... \def\initializeBzr {\ctxlua{context(\\global\\edef\\BzrRevision{\%s},