Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for improving documentation of ConTeXt

2016-10-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, Jonas Baggett wrote: The basic idea I have is a database of ConTeXt documents, where everyone can add his own documents. We have also to make it easy to find there insightful examples in ConTeXt that will help someone to achieve

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for improving documentation of ConTeXt

2016-10-09 Thread Jonas Baggett
Hello Wolfgang, Le 09. 10. 16 à 22:51, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Many of the old manuals got updates by Hans and he included the PDF’s (together with the source files) in the normal ConTeXt download, you can find them in the doc folder in your ConTeXt installation. Ok, I don't have enough

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for improving documentation of ConTeXt

2016-10-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 9 Oct 2016, Jonas Baggett wrote: The basic idea I have is a database of ConTeXt documents, where everyone can add his own documents. We have also to make it easy to find there insightful examples in ConTeXt that will help someone to achieve what he is trying to do. Then users,

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for improving documentation of ConTeXt

2016-10-09 Thread Jonas Baggett
Le 09. 10. 16 à 15:49, Yi Qingliang a écrit : GOOD IDEA! Thanks for the encouragement :-). ___ 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] Ideas for improving documentation of ConTeXt

2016-10-09 Thread Jonas Baggett
Hello Henri, Le 09. 10. 16 à 21:31, Henri Menke a écrit : please don't be disappointed but you are not the first person to suggest such a thing. You may now ask, why doesn't such a thing exist then? Well, the basic answer is, go ahead and implement it. I won't go ahead and implement it if I

Re: [NTG-context] Unable to use Martin Vogels Symbols

2016-10-09 Thread Jonas Baggett
Hello Henning, Thanks for the feed-back! I first thinked it could be a bug that only occurs when ConTeXt has to find the martin vogel symbol font for the first time and update its cache, which would explain why the bug doesn't occur with the live ConTeXt compiler since the font is already in

Re: [NTG-context] Question about natural tables

2016-10-09 Thread Fabrice Couvreur
Hi Wolfgang, Thanks Fabrice 2016-10-09 21:58 GMT+02:00 Wolfgang Schuster : > Fabrice Couvreur > 9. Oktober 2016 um 10:42 > > Hello, > I do not succeed in having two sub-columns of the same width in the third > column. > > Your table has

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for improving documentation of ConTeXt

2016-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Jonas Baggett 9. Oktober 2016 um 13:18 Hello everyone, I am new to new to ConTeXt and I was thinking about how to improve documentation to help users and then make ConTeXt more appealing. Because, if there is one weak point in my eyes with ConTeXt, it is the lack

Re: [NTG-context] Question about natural tables

2016-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Fabrice Couvreur 9. Oktober 2016 um 10:42 Hello, I do not succeed in having two sub-columns of the same width in the third column. Your table has four columns but you set only the width for the first three, adding a width setting for the fourth column

Re: [NTG-context] Slides/material from the Context User Meeting

2016-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Meer, Hans van der 9. Oktober 2016 um 17:55 Is there a list of the recently new and updated ones? Because to download all of the files on the overview page might be a massive overkill for me. Alas, the entries in the list do not have a production date attached.

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV caption separator, revisited

2016-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Meer, Hans van der 9. Oktober 2016 um 14:36 Is this still valid? Using \setupcaptions[prefixconnector=-] doesn't seem to make a difference for \startplacefigure. Do you have a example? Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] Unable to use Martin Vogels Symbols

2016-10-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2016-10-09 um 11:36 schrieb Jonas Baggett : > Le 07.10.16 à 22:53, Jonas Baggett a écrit : > >> Hello, >> >> I am using debian testing and I am trying to use Martin Vogels Symbols with >> no success so far. I have compiled a file containing the following : >>

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for improving documentation of ConTeXt

2016-10-09 Thread Henri Menke
Dear Jonas, please don't be disappointed but you are not the first person to suggest such a thing. You may now ask, why doesn't such a thing exist then? Well, the basic answer is, go ahead and implement it. Most probably no one else will volunteer to do it and especially the people from

Re: [NTG-context] Slides/material from the Context User Meeting

2016-10-09 Thread Meer, Hans van der
Is there a list of the recently new and updated ones? Because to download all of the files on the overview page might be a massive overkill for me. Alas, the entries in the list do not have a production date attached. Hans van der Meer On 09 Oct 2016, at 17:19, Mohammad Hossein Bateni

Re: [NTG-context] Slides/material from the Context User Meeting

2016-10-09 Thread Mohammad Hossein Bateni
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Am 2016-10-06 um 18:16 schrieb Mohammad Hossein Bateni : > > > If I recall correctly someone mentioned on the list that you typically > collect the slides during the meeting. Would it be possible to

Re: [NTG-context] \showmathfontcharacters ?

2016-10-09 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/9/2016 1:07 PM, Meer, Hans van der wrote: Not more than 3 years ago the addition of \usemodule[math-10] solved the Undefined control sequence error for \showmathfontcharacters. But at least in ConTeXt ver: 2016.07.23 13:35 this problem cropped up again. Where is \showmathfontcharacters

Re: [NTG-context] Access ConTeXt dimensions in Lua

2016-10-09 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/8/2016 10:41 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hi all, I’m trying to write some dimensions to a file, e.g. \startluacode io.savedata("settings.txt", context("\\textwidth")) \stopluacode But that context() construct is nil. There’s probably a simple solution... ;) \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for improving documentation of ConTeXt

2016-10-09 Thread Yi Qingliang
GOOD IDEA! On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Jonas Baggett wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am new to new to ConTeXt and I was thinking about how to improve > documentation to help users and then make ConTeXt more appealing. Because, > if there is one weak point in my eyes with

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV caption separator, revisited

2016-10-09 Thread Meer, Hans van der
Is this still valid? Using \setupcaptions[prefixconnector=-] doesn't seem to make a difference for \startplacefigure. Hans van der Meer On 22 Apr 2014, at 08:25, Wolfgang Schuster > wrote: Am 22.04.2014 um 02:57 schrieb Rik

[NTG-context] Ideas for improving documentation of ConTeXt

2016-10-09 Thread Jonas Baggett
Hello everyone, I am new to new to ConTeXt and I was thinking about how to improve documentation to help users and then make ConTeXt more appealing. Because, if there is one weak point in my eyes with ConTeXt, it is the lack of documentation, which is too bad because ConTeXt seems to be

Re: [NTG-context] \showmathfontcharacters ?

2016-10-09 Thread Meer, Hans van der
Not more than 3 years ago the addition of \usemodule[math-10] solved the Undefined control sequence error for \showmathfontcharacters. But at least in ConTeXt ver: 2016.07.23 13:35 this problem cropped up again. Where is \showmathfontcharacters defined nowadays? Hans van der Meer > On 01 May

Re: [NTG-context] How do I compile a "flat" pdf?

2016-10-09 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/9/2016 3:32 AM, Alan Braslau wrote: Also pdftk But, it is naive to believe that a pdf can be "protected" from copying or extracting, isn't it? indeed, in a similar fashion as copy protected cd (by making then fagile for reading on computers) ... 100 years form now they will either

Re: [NTG-context] Unable to use Martin Vogels Symbols

2016-10-09 Thread Jonas Baggett
Le 07.10.16 à 22:53, Jonas Baggett a écrit : Hello, I am using debian testing and I am trying to use Martin Vogels Symbols with no success so far. I have compiled a file containing the following : \usesymbols[mvs] \setupsymbolset [martinvogel 2] \starttext Telephone : \symbol[Telephone]

[NTG-context] Question about natural tables

2016-10-09 Thread Fabrice Couvreur
Hello, I do not succeed in having two sub-columns of the same width in the third column. Thank you. Fabrice \useMPlibrary[dum] \startsetups[table:initialize] \setupTABLE[start][align={middle,lohi},offset=0.8ex] \setupTABLE[column][2][width=0.5\textwidth]