Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-26 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
Hello, On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:19:41 +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On 04/25/2013 07:31 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: Hi Taco, I think it's a good idea to update the security questions --- it's easy to do, it'll probably work, and we can always move on to stronger

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/26/2013 08:31 AM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote: even though I consider myself a serious Ctx user, Dutch is still Greek to me. How about to prompt the user to encode a displayed math, e.g. b/a2^3 to be answered $\frac{b}{a_2^3}$? Well, in that case, I'd actually prefer

Re: [NTG-context] Lettrine module not working?!

2013-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.04.2013 um 14:24 schrieb Verhaag, G.C.H.M. verhaagg...@ziggo.nl: Hi ConTeXt User's, I'm currently experiencing problems using the lettrine module! I know from fairly recent (mail-archive!) issues related to this module but can't figure out why my setup isn't working anymore. I

Re: [NTG-context] table formatting mystery

2013-04-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Lance Larsen lance.c.lar...@gmail.com wrote: I created the following table, but I am running into a mysterious problem. When I include the text 'Geometry Calulations' in row 2, the table row expands as if this text takes up lines of text. However the text fits

Re: [NTG-context] table formatting mystery

2013-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.04.2013 um 17:02 schrieb Lance Larsen lance.c.lar...@gmail.com: I created the following table, but I am running into a mysterious problem. When I include the text 'Geometry Calulations' in row 2, the table row expands as if this text takes up lines of text. However the text fits well

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-26 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Currently we are using QuestyCaptcha w/ ConfirmEdit. This is definitely supposed to be safer than bitmap images unless the images become so complex that even humans get it wrong, which has happened for me on various sites and is the most annoying thing in, like, ever! I do not mind

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Thomas, Am 25.04.2013 um 08:56 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de: On 04/25/2013 08:20 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default. Then you should not be using any form of TeX. ligatures have been part of TeX since its

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: For now, I will quickly invent some of my own questions. and the right answers will be given only to the physical people present at the next context meeting. -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] table formatting mystery

2013-04-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Lance Larsen lance.c.lar...@gmail.com wrote: I created the following table, but I am running into a mysterious problem. When I include the text 'Geometry Calulations' in row 2, the table row expands as if this text takes up lines of text. However the text fits

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 9:41 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: Hi Thomas, Am 25.04.2013 um 08:56 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de: On 04/25/2013 08:20 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default. Then you should not be using any form of

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 09:41:15AM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote: On the other side, I believe, ligatures of off by default in LaTeX, et al. or at least are feature is set when the font is loaded. So you neither use LaTeX nor ConTeXt?

Re: [NTG-context] \setupalign[flushleft] doesn't like ~

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 2:26 AM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: Dnia 2013-04-26, o godz. 01:45:37 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl napisał(a): On 4/26/2013 1:09 AM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: With \setupalign[flushleft], nonbreakable spaces get larger than they should. I'm afraid it's a bug. Best, An MWE: more info

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-26 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:55:52 +0200 Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: Well, in that case, I'd actually prefer Greek - write line 222 of book 2 of the Odyssey in its original Greek, or something like that... That's too easy: σῆμά τέ οἱ χεύω καὶ ἐπὶ κτέρεα κτερεΐξω :)

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-26 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:52:56 +0200 Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com wrote: Or we could go old-school copy protection style: What is the fifth word on page 120 of the TeXbook? :-P \TEX Alan ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.04.2013 um 10:57 schrieb Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:52:56 +0200 Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com wrote: Or we could go old-school copy protection style: What is the fifth word on page 120 of the TeXbook? :-P \TEX Maybe \TeX\ but not \TEX\ which is

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 10:57 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:52:56 +0200 Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com wrote: Or we could go old-school copy protection style: What is the fifth word on page 120 of the TeXbook? :-P \TEX we could go for sound ... pronounce \TEX\ the right way ..

Re: [NTG-context] error: terminal: NOfTextColumns-1, ! Improper final value has been replaced by 0

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/24/2013 5:30 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: Hello, I'm encountering the following error, under ConTeXt ver: 2012.05.30 11:26 MKIV fmt: 2013.3.11 int: english/english: system tex error on line 27 in file data/three-volume-book-book-1.tex: terminal: NOfTextColumns-1 ! Improper final value has

[NTG-context] Heading in setuplayout from a variable

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
It is a long time since I used ConTeXt. I am starting again. I have the following code: \setvariables[meta][type=cecil] \if\getvariable{meta}{type}=cecil \setvariables[meta][ name={Cecil Westerhof}, ] \setvariables[layout][ header=0mm, ] \fi But that does

Re: [NTG-context] Heading in setuplayout from a variable

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 1:27 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: It is a long time since I used ConTeXt. I am starting again. I have the following code: \setvariables[meta][type=cecil] \if\getvariable{meta}{type}=cecil \setvariables[meta][ name={Cecil Westerhof}, ]

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Khaled, When I used LaTeX last if I had fi in my text that is how it came out! Using ConTeXt I noticed that fi becomes a ligature, did not like, but it was not that important. Till I decided to start using ConTeXt I had been using XeLaTeX. regards Keith. Am 26.04.2013 um 10:20

[NTG-context] Fwd: Heading in setuplayout from a variable

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
Send to Hans instead of to the list. :-( -- Forwarded message -- From: Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com Date: 2013/4/26 Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Heading in setuplayout from a variable To: Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl 2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 1:27

Re: [NTG-context] Heading in setuplayout from a variable

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2013/4/26 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: I have the following code: \setvariables[meta][type=cecil] This variable is hard coded. Is it possible to set it with a value I send as a command line parameter? -- Cecil Westerhof

Re: [NTG-context] Cumulating numbered lists

2013-04-26 Thread Alan Bowen
Sorry for the delay in responding—I lost a day in spring busywork. Anyway, warm thanks to Aditya for the workaround and to Hans for the new key (it works perfectly—and the name makes sense to me). I am grateful to you both. Alan On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] Heading in setuplayout from a variable

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 2:35 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2013/4/26 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: I have the following code: \setvariables[meta][type=cecil] This variable is hard coded. Is it possible to set it with a value I send as a command line parameter? \getdocumentargument{myargument}

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 2:12 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: Hi Khaled, When I used LaTeX last if I had fi in my text that is how it came out! Using ConTeXt I noticed that fi becomes a ligature, did not like, but it was not that important. also keep in mind that ligatures are language dependent (if the font

Re: [NTG-context] Heading in setuplayout from a variable

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 2:35 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2013/4/26 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: I have the following code: \setvariables[meta][type=cecil] This variable is hard coded. Is it possible to set it with a value I send as a command line

[NTG-context] How to know I am in frontmatter or bodymatter?

2013-04-26 Thread Tim Li
Sometimes, it is convenient if I know I am in frontmatter or bodymatter. when desinging a book, we make a new chapter open at a right page and design the header to show the chapter title and pagenumber. We have to set the pagenumber at the page where a chapter title is located. \definetext

Re: [NTG-context] How to know I am in frontmatter or bodymatter?

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 4:55 PM, Tim Li wrote: Sometimes, it is convenient if I know I am in frontmatter or bodymatter. when desinging a book, we make a new chapter open at a right page and design the header to show the chapter title and pagenumber. We have to set the pagenumber at the page where a

[NTG-context] Why does startlines not work in a function

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
I have the following code: \startlines \startalignment[center] \setupindenting[no] \doifelse {\getvariable{meta}{personalInfo}} {long} { longline 1 longline 2 longline 3 longline 4 longline 5 longline 6

[NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
I am using a command line parameter to change the generated output. Is it also possible to set the output file name depending on the parameter? -- Cecil Westerhof ___ If your question is of interest to others as

[NTG-context] Supressing a heading from the table of contents

2013-04-26 Thread Lance Larsen
Can anyone tell me how to suppress individual numbered chapter/section/subsection/etc. from the table of contents? Also how do you set the last heading level included in the table of contents. I think I came across this, but am having trouble finding it again. Lance Larsen

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 5:34 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I am using a command line parameter to change the generated output. Is it also possible to set the output file name depending on the parameter? --result=somename -

Re: [NTG-context] Why does startlines not work in a function

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 5:19 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I have the following code: ... But then the text becomes one line instead of several lines. because catcode changes are involved \startbuffer [meta:personalInfo:long] \startlines longline 1 longline 2 longline 3 longline 4 longline 5 longline 6

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/26/2013 09:41 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: I use XeLaTeX and ConText for it control. I have not touched Word in decades, if possible or any other WYSIWYG- system! That being said, take a look at the books printed in this day and age. You will find that the use

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 5:34 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I am using a command line parameter to change the generated output. Is it also possible to set the output file name depending on the parameter? --result=somename That is on the command line. Then you need to

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 6:50 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 5:34 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I am using a command line parameter to change the generated output. Is it also possible to set the output file name depending on the parameter? --result=somename

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 6:50 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 5:34 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I am using a command line parameter to change the generated output. Is it also possible to set the output file name depending

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 7:01 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 6:50 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 5:34 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I am using a command line parameter to change the generated output. Is it also

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
I don’t know what LaTeX you were using, but LaTeX does not and will not disable ligatures by default (there isn’t even a way in original TeX to disable ligatures globally, short of editing TFM files). Regards, Khaled On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:12:07PM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote: Hi Khaled,

[NTG-context] Fwd: Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
Again to Hans instead of to the list. I ‘hate’ gmail. -- Forwarded message -- From: Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com Date: 2013/4/26 Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script To: Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl 2013/4/26 Hans Hagen

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2013/4/26 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: 2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 7:01 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 6:50 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 5:34 PM, Cecil Westerhof

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Khaled, to be honest I never noticed them when I was using LaTeX. It might have been the fonts. I can live with them being on as a default in ConTeXt and know now how to turn them off. regards Keith. Am 26.04.2013 um 20:27 schrieb Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org: I don’t know

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 26.04.2013 um 18:43 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de: Hi Keith, if you look at the books of decent publishers, you will see that most of them still use ligatures (most American university presses, Oxford and Cambridge, German publishers such as Reclam etc.)

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Greetings, Keith, Thomas, and all, On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:43:59 -0600, Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: if you look at the books of decent publishers, you will see that most of them still use ligatures (most American university presses, Oxford and Cambridge, German

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2013/4/26 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: The following script does what I want: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -o errexit set -o nounset declare -r DEFAULT=cecil declare -r DIR=${HOME}/Documenten/CV declare -r FILE=CV-Cecil-Westerhof declare -r

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/26/2013 10:05 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: I never said that they do not have ligatures. I never said XeLaTeX does not have the ability to use them I have read the fontspec manual! You wrote: On the other side, I believe, ligatures of off by default in LaTeX which is wrong. That's

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, Apr 26 2013, Cecil Westerhof wrote: The following script does what I want: Or shorter: --8---cut here---start-8--- #!/usr/bin/env bash context --result=cv-${1:-cecil} CV-Cecil-Westerhof --8---cut here---end---8---

Re: [NTG-context] Why does startlines not work in a function

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2013/4/26 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/26/2013 5:19 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I have the following code: ... But then the text becomes one line instead of several lines. because catcode changes are involved \startbuffer [meta:personalInfo:long] \startlines longline 1 longline 2

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to set the output file name in the script

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2013/4/26 Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr: On Fri, Apr 26 2013, Cecil Westerhof wrote: The following script does what I want: Or shorter: --8---cut here---start-8--- #!/usr/bin/env bash context --result=cv-${1:-cecil} CV-Cecil-Westerhof

[NTG-context] Defined and not defined and better be done global

2013-04-26 Thread Cecil Westerhof
When running ConTeXt I see a lot of this kind of messages: fontsbodyfont 15pt is defined (can better be done global) fontsbodyfont 1.25em is defined (can better be done global) fontsbodyfont 1.25em is not defined fontsbodyfont 1.25em is defined (can

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: to be honest I never noticed them when I was using LaTeX. It might have been the fonts. Someone had to show me the first ligature years ago and when he did that, I had to check every single book and document I had at hand to check if

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 11:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: to be honest I never noticed them when I was using LaTeX. It might have been the fonts. Someone had to show me the first ligature years ago and when he did that, I had to check every single

Re: [NTG-context] Defined and not defined and better be done global

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 10:43 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: When running ConTeXt I see a lot of this kind of messages: fontsbodyfont 15pt is defined (can better be done global) fontsbodyfont 1.25em is defined (can better be done global) fontsbodyfont 1.25em is not defined

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/26/2013 10:17 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: ...It points out that Word is the reason why some people consider ligatures unusual. thinking of it: one reason why a general purpose word processor used by people with no idea about things like ligatures, is that ligatures are language

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:16:42AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/26/2013 11:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I consider this (the fact that one doesn't notice it) part of a good design. It's similar with kerning: one doesn't notice it until/unless it's bad. It's similar in the kitchen also. One