Re: [NTG-context] which is the best/right element for elements in cover and title pages?

2016-01-25 Thread Ibn Saeed
Pablo Rodriguez gmx.es> writes: Have you tried \startstandardmakeup for Title Pages ? ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] which is the best/right element for elements in cover and title pages?

2016-01-25 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 01/26/2016 05:13 AM, Ibn Saeed wrote: > Pablo Rodriguez writes: > > Have you tried \startstandardmakeup for Title Pages ? Many thanks for your reply, Ibn. I use a makeup for the title pages (in fact \startitlepage could be written as \startmakeup[titlepage]). I mean the individual

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-25 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Am 25.01.2016 um 21:11 schrieb Saša Janiška: > How does ConTeXt compare for the purpose vs LaTeX/Beamer? For the sake of completeness, have a look at Pandoc, which produces presentations from simple markdown sources in various formats including beamer and some nice looking html based

Re: [NTG-context] which is the best/right element for elements in cover and title pages?

2016-01-25 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Pablo, I wanted just to congratulate you for the nice manual you have written… I don’t know Pandoc and what it can be used for, but after seeing your manual I willing to learn about it! Best regards: OK > On 25 Jan 2016, at 21:54, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > > Dear list, > >

Re: [NTG-context] documentation sprint at 10th ConTeXt meeting

2016-01-25 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Am 25.01.2016 um 15:55 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: > Hans has a version info on his page for each PDF, e.g. > http://pragma-ade.com/show-man-1.htm In the "Manual" and in "Getting started" there is no mention of the new startchapter command, which is mentioned on the wiki as a replacement of the

Re: [NTG-context] XML interface commands

2016-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Jan U. Hasecke 25. Januar 2016 um 15:14 Dear list, I am currently trying to setup a small documentation about ConTeXt and I would like to use the \showsetup command to introduce the documentation of a command. But it seems that not all commands are

Re: [NTG-context] documentation sprint at 10th ConTeXt meeting

2016-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Jan U. Hasecke 25. Januar 2016 um 15:44 Dear list, are there any plans to have a documentation sprint at Kalenberg? I am currently trying to setup a small documentation about ConTeXt in order to better learn how to use it, and I face several issues. 1.

[NTG-context] Numbering and module visualcounter

2016-01-25 Thread Fabrice Couvreur
Hello, In the code below, I use the module visualcounter The numbering is obtained 1.1 1.2 1.3 How to have 1 2 3 ? thank you, Fabrice \usemodule[visualcounter] \unprotect \definevisualcounter [randomcircle] [ mp=visualcounter::randomcircle, rulethickness=1pt, ]

[NTG-context] XML interface commands

2016-01-25 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Dear list, I am currently trying to setup a small documentation about ConTeXt and I would like to use the \showsetup command to introduce the documentation of a command. But it seems that not all commands are accessible through this command. Eg. startchapter etc. is not accessible. Are there

[NTG-context] documentation sprint at 10th ConTeXt meeting

2016-01-25 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Dear list, are there any plans to have a documentation sprint at Kalenberg? I am currently trying to setup a small documentation about ConTeXt in order to better learn how to use it, and I face several issues. 1. documentation is scattered. Sources of documentation are the Wiki and a lot of PDF

Re: [NTG-context] Numbering and module visualcounter

2016-01-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Fabrice Couvreur 25. Januar 2016 um 14:20 Hello, In the code below, I use the module visualcounter The numbering is obtained 1.1 1.2 1.3 How to have 1 2 3? thank you, Fabrice \usemodule[visualcounter] \unprotect You can drop the \unprotect and \protect

[NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-25 Thread Saša Janiška
Hello, I have just checked that my first post to this list was more than 10yrs ago (end of 2002). Then I was working on some full-sized books and ended up with LyX/LaTex. Later, had few attempts to switch to ConTeXt, but as a result I reduced even my LyX/LaTeX usage and was using light markups

Re: [NTG-context] documentation sprint at 10th ConTeXt meeting

2016-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/25/2016 3:44 PM, Jan U. Hasecke wrote: Dear list, are there any plans to have a documentation sprint at Kalenberg? yes I am currently trying to setup a small documentation about ConTeXt in order to better learn how to use it, and I face several issues. 1. documentation is scattered.

Re: [NTG-context] Numbering and module visualcounter

2016-01-25 Thread Fabrice Couvreur
Hi Wolfgang, Without your help, I would not have found. I'll try to understand but as of today my knowledge is not yet sufficient. Thank you Fabrice 2016-01-25 16:08 GMT+01:00 Wolfgang Schuster : > Fabrice Couvreur > 25. Januar 2016 um

Re: [NTG-context] XML interface commands

2016-01-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/25/2016 3:56 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Jan U. Hasecke 25. Januar 2016 um 15:14 Dear list, I am currently trying to setup a small documentation about ConTeXt and I would like to use the \showsetup command to introduce the documentation of a command.

Re: [NTG-context] documentation sprint at 10th ConTeXt meeting

2016-01-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:44:09 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > > I would like to propose a documentation sprint at the meeting in > > Kalenberg this fall to improve the situation. > > sure, just mail an abstract to Alan (who chairs the prog committee) Documentation is an ongoing

Re: [NTG-context] documentation sprint at 10th ConTeXt meeting

2016-01-25 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Am 25.01.2016 um 18:20 schrieb Alan BRASLAU: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:44:09 +0100 > Hans Hagen wrote: > >>> I would like to propose a documentation sprint at the meeting in >>> Kalenberg this fall to improve the situation. >> >> sure, just mail an abstract to Alan (who chairs

Re: [NTG-context] XML interface commands

2016-01-25 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Am 25.01.2016 um 17:41 schrieb Hans Hagen: > We're also extending the system a bit to cover more variants of commands > (currently I'm updating the xml manual and adding setups there too). Great, for me this system would be the first place to look up commands if it covers everything. juh

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:11:06 +0100 Saša Janiška wrote: > Hello, > > I have just checked that my first post to this list was more than > 10yrs ago (end of 2002). Then I was working on some full-sized books > and ended up with LyX/LaTex. Later, had few attempts to switch to >

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-25 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi, I have been using Context for all my presentations for many years and I think it is easier to use than any Latex package, since out of the box I can add pictures, menus, graphs of functions, etc. Now, depending on the complexity of what one wants to do, it would be more or less easy to

[NTG-context] which is the best/right element for elements in cover and title pages?

2016-01-25 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Dear list, I have a template to generate book cover and title page for different documents. A sample of the output may be found at https://github.com/ousia/from-pandoc-to-context/blob/master/doc/from-pandoc-to-context_A4.pdf (first two printed pages). Right now, their layout is hardcoded, such

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-25 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2016-01-25, at 21:55, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Beamer presentations look like ... beamer presentations. Or like presentations given from The One Editor: http://mbork.pl/download/Slides_about_LaTeX_editing.pdf ;-) > For something simple using ConTeXt, you might want to

Re: [NTG-context] Fieldstacks are broken

2016-01-25 Thread Jeong Dal
Dear Wolfgang, > The key has no effect because there is only one style for the buttons. > I see. I think that the other options: menu, menu color, framerate are enough for me. Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

Re: [NTG-context] Fieldstacks are broken

2016-01-25 Thread Fabrice Couvreur
Dear Wolfgang and Jeong, Sorry for the noise! I simply make a copy and paste the code without reading because the subject of the question interested me. This works perfectly correcting the errors reported by Wolfgang. With Evince or Xpdf is impossible to play the movie, but with Acroread yes.