Re: [NTG-context] \goto and email

2009-06-11 Thread Joel C. Salomon
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > I have success with \goto instead of \useURL. Actually, I like \goto > even more, because it is more simple. > > \goto{http://url.com/index.html}[url(http://url.com/index.html)] > > My question is: how to mark a email in this way? (So that clicking on it > opened m

Re: [NTG-context] Tables query (notes, MKII)

2009-06-11 Thread Bowen Alan C.
] Kind regards Willi On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Bowen Alan C. wrote: I need a table that has local notes, but have not been able to get them into the proper position (at the left margin of the table) or the the proper length ( extending full length of table if needed). What am I missing in the

[NTG-context] inserting Chinese characters (MKII)

2009-06-11 Thread Bowen Alan C.
I have absolutely no knowledge of Chinese, but I am publishing a review which inserts two Chinese characters into a document as follows, third century alchemist Ge Hong 葛洪 as another So which of the two Chinese modules on http:// modules.contextgarden.net/ should I install or do I need them

Re: [NTG-context] Tables query (notes, MKII)

2009-06-09 Thread Bowen Alan C.
After some experimentation, it became clear that to place the local notes properly, one must use \note[...] and \footnotetext[...]{}, and put the series of \footnotetext entries just before \placelocalfootnotes. A. On Jun 9, 2009, at 11;43,46 , Bowen Alan C. wrote: I need a table that

[NTG-context] Tables query (notes, MKII)

2009-06-09 Thread Bowen Alan C.
I need a table that has local notes, but have not been able to get them into the proper position (at the left margin of the table) or the the proper length ( extending full length of table if needed). What am I missing in the following reduced example? \starttext \startlocalfootnotes[conv

Re: [NTG-context] \from query

2009-06-05 Thread Bowen Alan C.
Thanks, Hans! That’s exactly what I needed. Alan On Jun 5, 2009, at 17;29,03 , Hans Hagen wrote: Bowen Alan C. wrote: Is there a way to configure \from[MyExternalDocument] or \useexternaldocument so that when the link to MyExternalDocument is selected in the PDF output file, Acrobat opens

[NTG-context] \from query

2009-06-05 Thread Bowen Alan C.
Is there a way to configure \from[MyExternalDocument] or \useexternaldocument so that when the link to MyExternalDocument is selected in the PDF output file, Acrobat opens a new window? Alan ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta problem (minimals)

2009-05-29 Thread Bowen Alan C.
That’s got it. Many thanks! Alan On May 29, 2009, at 17;35,03 , Hans Hagen wrote: Bowen Alan C. wrote: The installation process is interrupted by report I can't find file `core-dat.tex'. i'll fix it; in contex.mkii remove the lin

[NTG-context] latest beta problem (minimals)

2009-05-29 Thread Bowen Alan C.
The installation process is interrupted by report I can't find file `core-dat.tex'. Alan ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http:

Re: [NTG-context] Latest beta and MKII problem

2009-05-29 Thread Bowen Alan C.
Thanks, Hans! Alan On May 29, 2009, at 09;50,46 , Hans Hagen wrote: Bowen Alan C. wrote: The latest beta (ConTeXt ver: 2009.05.28 14:36 MKII fmt: 2009.5.28 int: english/english) no longer processes my files: all I get is complaints about an extra \else. That is, repaired (a file got

[NTG-context] Latest beta and MKII problem

2009-05-29 Thread Bowen Alan C.
The latest beta (ConTeXt ver: 2009.05.28 14:36 MKII fmt: 2009.5.28 int: english/english) no longer processes my files: all I get is complaints about an extra \else. That is, \definehead[LevelCHead][chapter] \setuphead[LevelCHead][style={\tf \it},alternative=text,number=no,page=no] \star

[NTG-context] tables with notes

2009-05-13 Thread Bowen Alan C.
• mark the notes with the letters, a, b, c,... • put the notes immediately beneath the table caption (in single column text) and to keep the notes with the table, and • maintain the proper sequence of numbered footnotes in the surrounding text. Any suggestions or pointers to previous discussions

Re: [NTG-context] ConTexT minimals problem

2009-05-01 Thread Bowen Alan C.
Thanks again, Mocja. I am currently in between projects (next starts on Monday), so have some time to “play around” this weekend. All best, Alan On May 1, 2009, at 03;31,36 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 23:04, Bowen Alan C. wrote: It still does not work for me. I tried

Re: [NTG-context] ConTexT minimals problem

2009-04-30 Thread Bowen Alan C.
It still does not work for me. Alan On Apr 30, 2009, at 16;21,04 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 22:14, Bowen Alan C. wrote: Thanks, Mocja. I will play around with it. We now tried to fix texmf.cnf, so maybe that helps. (It works here, but my system might be set up in some

Re: [NTG-context] ConTexT minimals problem

2009-04-30 Thread Bowen Alan C.
Thanks, Mocja. I will play around with it. Alan On Apr 30, 2009, at 15;50,10 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 20:38, Bowen Alan C. wrote: The latest beta (Minimals) fails to compile and complains: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 7.5.7) \write18 enabled

[NTG-context] ConTexT minimals problem

2009-04-30 Thread Bowen Alan C.
The latest beta (Minimals) fails to compile and complains: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 7.5.7) \write18 enabled. (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx) I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'! and context --version gets MTXrun | unknown script

Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)

2009-03-30 Thread Bowen Alan C.
Would http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installation help? Alan On Mar 30, 2009, at 16;11,58 , Robert Blackstone wrote: Thank you, Mojca and Aditya, for your comments and advice. It will take me, being no virtuoso with Terminal, a while to figure out what exactly I have to d

Re: [NTG-context] Tables query (MKII, latest beta)

2009-03-26 Thread Bowen Alan C.
Many thanks as ever, Hans. Best, Alan On Mar 26, 2009, at 17;10,38 , Hans Hagen wrote: Bowen Alan C. wrote: Thanks, Wolfgang! This is a great improvement---here is no crowding any cell now. There remain , however, a few (many fewer) crowded rows. So here’s hoping that Hans can get to this

Re: [NTG-context] Tables query (MKII, latest beta)

2009-03-26 Thread Bowen Alan C.
26.03.2009 um 18:51 schrieb Bowen Alan C.: This sample will show the crowding within a cell and between rows. Alan \starttext \setuptables[bodyfont=9pt] \starttables[|l|p(15pc)|] You could use this for the time being but I hope myself Hans can fix the spacing. \starttable[|l|b

Re: [NTG-context] Tables query (MKII, latest beta)

2009-03-26 Thread Bowen Alan C.
eros, facilisis vel, eleifend non, auctor dapibus, pede.\NC\AR \NC C\NC read 2002 for 2003 \NC\AR \NC 9.1.13.2\NC read \quote{provided} for \quote{providing} \NC\AR \NC 18.2.7.5\NC read Ictinus for Icinus architect of the Parthenon \NC \AR \NC 83.3.9.13\NC read 2002 for 2003 \NC\AR

[NTG-context] Tables query (MKII, latest beta)

2009-03-26 Thread Bowen Alan C.
I have a simple, multi-page table that is currently defined by \setuptables[bodyfont=9pt] \starttables[|l|p(15pc)|] The problem is that the text in the cells on the right that have more than one line is set almost solid and is often too close to the next row. So how can I adjust/control th

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta (MKII/Greek module)

2009-03-22 Thread Bowen Alan C.
Thanks, Hans and Thomas! Alan On Mar 22, 2009, at 12;22,27 , Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Mar 22, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: ok, new beta for testing Works here! Thanks Thomas ___ If your question i

[NTG-context] latest beta (MKII/Greek module)

2009-03-22 Thread Bowen Alan C.
I am finding that the latest beta fails when asked to set ancient Greek using Thomas’ module and the MKII engine. The error message reads: ! Missing \endcsname inserted. \@@laagrpatterns \dodosetnormallanguage ...fcsname \??la \??la #1#2

Re: [NTG-context] TeXshop instructions on Context Minimals (Mac installation)

2009-03-18 Thread Bowen Alan C.
Hi! You need to set the executable bit of the file ConTeXt-MKIV.engine. In Terminal try: cd Users/Name/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ and then chmod +x ConTeXt-MKIV.engine which will allow you to execute the file. See http://www.ss64.com/bash/chmod.html for an overview of chmod if you wish to r

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode Math - what it is

2009-02-13 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > The following works OK also in mkii: >∑_{i=1}^∞\frac{1}{2^n} Be careful to note that you are using U+2211 N-ary Summation (∑) rather than U+03A3 Greek Capital Letter Sigma (Σ). Note also that Murray Sargent's "nearly plain text" includ

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode Math - what it is

2009-02-13 Thread Joel C. Salomon
of encoding math, distinct from TeX, MathML, &c., but with the advantage that it looks nearly like plain (Unicode) text. The paper was written by Murray Sargent of Microsoft, who works with the MS Office Math component and maintains a blog about it at <http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/>. The input to

[NTG-context] Remove leading spaces

2009-02-05 Thread Bart C. Wise
When a function is called, I would like to remove any leading space. Then the function can control the spacing. If I don't remove spaces, it then makes a difference whether or not I have a space before the function is called. I would like the output of the following two lines to be equal: This

[NTG-context] Bug? thinrule in natural table & MKIV

2009-02-05 Thread Bart C. Wise
I put a thinrule in a table as follows: \starttext \bTABLE \bTR\bTD\thinrule\eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext It worked fine under MKII. However, when I switched to MKIV (both current and beta) I got the following error message: ! Missing { inserted. { & ...b

Re: [NTG-context] Dimensions

2009-01-26 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Mon January 26 2009 11:12:48 am Hans Hagen wrote: > Bart C. Wise wrote: > > How do I specify a dimension that is an arithmetic expression? > > > > For example, > > \framed[width=\dimexpr\textwidth-12pt\rela

Re: [NTG-context] Centering a defined text frame

2009-01-26 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Mon January 26 2009 10:57:23 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 26.01.2009 um 17:51 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > Thanks Wolfgang for the insight. > > Here is one that did exactly you wrote, nothing else. > > \defineframedtext[CenteredTextFrame][width=fit,location=middle] >

[NTG-context] Dimensions

2009-01-26 Thread Bart C. Wise
How do I specify a dimension that is an arithmetic expression? For example, \framed[width=\textwidth-12pt]{} Thanks, Bart ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maill

Re: [NTG-context] Centering a defined text frame

2009-01-26 Thread Bart C. Wise
did not help in your case, > something like LaTeXs \newenvironment, I wrote a simple version below. > > \unprotect > > \def\ev{ev} > > \def\environmentparameter#1% > {\csname\ev\currentenvironment#1\endcsname} > > \def\defineenvironment > {\dodoubleemp

Re: [NTG-context] Centering a defined text frame

2009-01-26 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Sun January 25 2009 5:11:25 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 24.01.2009 um 15:30 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > I'm trying to have a centered text frame. There are two examples in > > the code > > below. > > 1) This one works. It uses a text frame that is in line i

Re: [NTG-context] Centering a defined text frame

2009-01-24 Thread Bart C. Wise
> \startalignment[center] > \dontleavehmode > \CenteredText{ > \startlines > The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. > \stoplines} > %\stopCenteredText > > > Willi > > On Jan 24, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Bart C. Wise wrote: > > \defineframedtext[Ce

[NTG-context] Centering a defined text frame

2009-01-24 Thread Bart C. Wise
I'm trying to have a centered text frame. There are two examples in the code below. 1) This one works. It uses a text frame that is in line in the code. 2) This one does not work! It's using a defined text frame and flushes the text frame to the left. How do I fix this? Thanks, Bart \definef

[NTG-context] New wiki

2009-01-23 Thread Bart C. Wise
Is the google search going to be moved to the new wiki? I found it to be an invaluable tool. Bart ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.n

Re: [NTG-context] Questions about tables

2009-01-22 Thread Bart C. Wise
VL Datum \VL Km-stand \VL Kilometers \VL c/l \VL Liter > \VL Prijs \VL \SR > \HL > \VL \VL \VL \VL\VL \VL > \VL \VL \SR > \HL > \stoptable > > There are two problems with it: > - The horizontal line at the top disappears becaus

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Meta Tags

2009-01-21 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Tue January 20 2009 7:06:58 am Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > 2009/1/20 Bart C. Wise : > > I talked to the publisher again and he said that he would send me the > > exact error message, but I have not received it yet. But he did say that > > his printing shop wants the abi

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Meta Tags

2009-01-20 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 08:19:04 am Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > But he did say that his > > printing shop wants the ability to download just the header information > > from a pdf rather than the whole pdf file which may be up to 80 mbytes. > > O

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Meta Tags

2009-01-20 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Tue January 20 2009 4:33:27 am luigi scarso wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Arthur Reutenauer < > > arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org> wrote: > > > I call that BS: I've never heard of such "meta tags" for PDF giving > > > the page count. The page count is in the root /Pages object per

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Meta Tags

2009-01-19 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Mon January 19 2009 10:06:37 pm Bart C. Wise wrote: > I received the following message from a publisher: > > [The PDF generator] you used flattens the file such that is has no meta > tags whatsoever. We need the tags that give page separations, page count, > header info, etc. &

[NTG-context] PDF Meta Tags

2009-01-19 Thread Bart C. Wise
I received the following message from a publisher: [The PDF generator] you used flattens the file such that is has no meta tags whatsoever. We need the tags that give page separations, page count, header info, etc. How do I get those meta tags enabled? Would setting \interaction[state=start] d

[NTG-context] t-lettrine - broken?

2009-01-16 Thread Bart C. Wise
A while back, there was a thread that was dealing with an Findent problem in the t-lettrine package (http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg- context/2005/009097.html). The problem was that the Findent was indenting the dropped-capital then indenting the first line of text. It should only indent from t

Re: [NTG-context] TreatFirstLine: loss of spaces

2009-01-15 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 15 January 2009 12:18:20 pm Hans Hagen wrote: > Bart C. Wise wrote: > > > \TreatFirstLine {\sc} {} {} { } > > > > > > ^ space > > > > Your output looks great. However, with the code below, I still get no > > spaces on the first line. &

Re: [NTG-context] TreatFirstLine: loss of spaces

2009-01-15 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 15 January 2009 11:26:57 am Hans Hagen wrote: > Bart C. Wise wrote: > > The code below changes the first line. However, there are no spaces > > between words and therefore, the justification is also off. You can even > > leave the first parameter empty and you

Re: [NTG-context] TreatFirstLine: loss of spaces

2009-01-15 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 15 January 2009 10:44:07 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 15.01.2009 um 18:06 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > The code below changes the first line. However, there are no spaces > > between words and therefore, the justification is also off. You can > > even leave the

[NTG-context] TreatFirstLine: loss of spaces

2009-01-15 Thread Bart C. Wise
The code below changes the first line. However, there are no spaces between words and therefore, the justification is also off. You can even leave the first parameter empty and you get the same results. Am I missing something? \starttext \TreatFirstLine {\sc} {} {} {} The combined color and

Re: [NTG-context] Framing the text area of a part page w/ tikz/pgf.

2009-01-14 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 12:03:51 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 14.01.2009 um 19:42 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > Ultimately I want to load an image and have it framed for the > > background on the part page. I like the ability that tikz gives me > > to adjust the opacity o

Re: [NTG-context] Framing the text area of a part page w/ tikz/pgf.

2009-01-14 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 11:21:02 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > \defineframedtext >    [partframed] >    [width=\textwidth, >     height=\textheight, >     rulethickness=5pt, >     top=\vfill, >     bottom=\vfill\vfill] > > \setuphead >    [part] >    [before=\startpartframed, >     after=\stop

[NTG-context] Framing the text area of a part page w/ tikz/pgf.

2009-01-14 Thread Bart C. Wise
The code below frames the text area of a part page. The part page removes the footer and headers, then I use definelayout to change the text height & width. It works find until I load the pgf and/or tikz modules. When either of those modules are loaded, the frame is forced to the next page.

Re: [NTG-context] Dynamic frame height

2008-12-15 Thread Bart C. Wise
Thanks Wolfgang! Bart On Monday 15 December 2008 04:48:03 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 16.12.2008 um 00:29 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > I'm trying to create a section at the bottom of a page that has a > > number of > > blank lines for writing notes. However, I want t

[NTG-context] Dynamic frame height

2008-12-15 Thread Bart C. Wise
I'm trying to create a section at the bottom of a page that has a number of blank lines for writing notes. However, I want the frame and the lines to be automatically generated from the remaining space on the page. How do I control the number of lines and the frame height to achieve the desir

Re: [NTG-context] ! Extra \else error

2008-12-11 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 11 December 2008 08:07:01 am Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Bart C. Wise wrote: > > When I run the code below (via minimals), I get the following error, why? > > > > \newcount\startcnt > > \newcount\tempcnta > > > > \def\myloop#1{% &

Re: [NTG-context] ! Extra \else error

2008-12-11 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 11 December 2008 08:28:40 am Zhichu Chen wrote: > Hi Bart, > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Bart C. Wise > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chen, > > > > Thanks. That makes sense now. However, when I take your code and run > > it, it

Re: [NTG-context] ! Extra \else error

2008-12-11 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 11 December 2008 07:29:15 am Zhichu Chen wrote: > Hi Bart, > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Bart C. Wise > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I change the loop to be the following, I still get the same error: > > > > \def\myloop#1{% &

Re: [NTG-context] ! Extra \else error

2008-12-11 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 11 December 2008 07:17:51 am Hans Hagen wrote: > Zhichu Chen wrote: > > Hi Bart > > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Bart C. Wise > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When I run the code below (via minimals), I get the

Re: [NTG-context] ! Extra \else error

2008-12-11 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 11 December 2008 07:05:05 am Zhichu Chen wrote: > Hi Bart > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Bart C. Wise > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I run the code below (via minimals), I get the following error, why? > > > > enter loop >

[NTG-context] ! Extra \else error

2008-12-11 Thread Bart C. Wise
When I run the code below (via minimals), I get the following error, why? enter loop ! Extra \else. \@@plniterate ...\expandafter \@@plniterate \else \fi \myloop ...by 1 \ifnum \tempcnta >#1\else \repeat

[NTG-context] Building tables at runtime via --mode= option

2008-12-09 Thread Bart C. Wise
I'm trying to build a table in a project that will be built based on a commandline parameter. Currently, I'd like to use the "--mode=<>" command. However, I've run into a number of snags that I have attempted to solve without any luck. I've included some sample code of what I would like to do

[NTG-context] \recurselevel in a table

2008-12-08 Thread Bart C. Wise
I'm trying to get the \recurselevel in a table; however, every time it's called, the number returned is zero. How do I get the recurselevel? \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \dorecurse{3}{\bTD Cell: \recurselevel\eTD} \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Bart __

Re: [NTG-context] Dangling lines.

2008-12-08 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Monday 08 December 2008 03:40:55 am Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Bart C. Wise wrote: > > Is there a way to tell ConTeXt to treat the author's signature (the > > dangling line) as part of the previous paragraph? > > If \nobreak didn't work, then your paragraph wasn

Re: [NTG-context] Dangling lines.

2008-12-08 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Sunday 07 December 2008 03:56:11 am Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Bart C. Wise wrote: > > I created an Author's note (code below). It is designed to print out a > > note, skip a line, and then follow with the Author's signature. The > > problem I'm having is t

[NTG-context] Dangling lines.

2008-12-06 Thread Bart C. Wise
I created an Author's note (code below). It is designed to print out a note, skip a line, and then follow with the Author's signature. The problem I'm having is that ConTeXt will break the page just before the author's signature leaving it dangling on the next page. If I use a \vbox, that has

Re: [NTG-context] definepagebreak: problem at the end of front, body & backmatter

2008-12-03 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:09:53 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 03.12.2008 um 19:43 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > > You tried to enable doublesided documents with \setuplayout > > > but the option location control the location of your document > > > on the real pa

Re: [NTG-context] definepagebreak: problem at the end of front, body & backmatter

2008-12-03 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 05:11:23 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 02.12.2008 um 15:43 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > In the sample code below, I defined the document to be doublesided > > and that > > chapters should open on the right. If the chapter ends on an odd > >

Re: [NTG-context] definepagebreak: problem at the end of front, body & backmatter

2008-12-02 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 07:43:26 am Bart C. Wise wrote: > In the sample code below, I defined the document to be doublesided and that > chapters should open on the right. If the chapter ends on an odd page, I > want to leave the even page completely blank (no headers, footers, page

Re: [NTG-context] Centering an image in framed.

2008-12-02 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:23:05 am Bart C. Wise wrote: > I am using framed and externalfigure commands. I want to put a rule around > the image; however, the image has space around all sides. It appears that > the top, right, and left sides has the same gap. However, the bo

[NTG-context] Centering an image in framed.

2008-12-02 Thread Bart C. Wise
I am using framed and externalfigure commands. I want to put a rule around the image; however, the image has space around all sides. It appears that the top, right, and left sides has the same gap. However, the bottom side has a huge (by comparison) gap. So I can't use a negative offset to f

[NTG-context] definepagebreak: problem at the end of front, body & backmatter

2008-12-02 Thread Bart C. Wise
In the sample code below, I defined the document to be doublesided and that chapters should open on the right. If the chapter ends on an odd page, I want to leave the even page completely blank (no headers, footers, page numbers, etc.). The code below works except for the last chapter in the f

Re: [NTG-context] End Notes and Minimals

2008-11-27 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 27 November 2008 14:00, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 27.11.2008 um 21:43 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > Thanks Wolfgang. > > > > I looked at Taco's diff file and changed the routines in syst-lua.lua. > > However, I followed you're lead and change

Re: [NTG-context] End Notes and Minimals

2008-11-27 Thread Bart C. Wise
tes combination to product the end notes. Help! Bart On Thursday 27 November 2008 13:04, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 27.11.2008 um 20:44 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > Hans, > > > > I tried the changes, but now footnotes do not appear at all! > > > > Here's a c

Re: [NTG-context] End Notes and Minimals

2008-11-27 Thread Bart C. Wise
Hans, I tried the changes, but now footnotes do not appear at all! Here's a copy of the code that I used (combining both Hans' and Taco's changes -- although I tried several variants). local s = lpeg.Ct(lpeg.splitat(",")) local h = { } function commands.doifcommonelse(a,b) local ha = h

Re: [NTG-context] End Notes and Minimals

2008-11-26 Thread Bart C. Wise
Hans, What's the chances on getting this fixed? Or is there a stable branch somewhere that I can grab? Thanks! Bart On Tuesday 25 November 2008 11:47:38 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 25.11.2008 um 19:39 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > Below are four different ways I've tried

Re: [NTG-context] End Notes and Minimals

2008-11-25 Thread Bart C. Wise
nput knuth\relax} } \page \placenotes[endnote] \stoptext Help!! Bart On Tuesday 25 November 2008 06:57:58 am Bart C. Wise wrote: > I've tried several things to get end notes working with the Minimals > distribution (MkIV). However, nothing seems to work and what worked for >

[NTG-context] End Notes and Minimals

2008-11-25 Thread Bart C. Wise
I've tried several things to get end notes working with the Minimals distribution (MkIV). However, nothing seems to work and what worked for MkII does not work now. Is there a new method for getting end notes in MkIV? Thank, Bart

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals, Linux & OSFONTDIR

2008-11-25 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 06:45:23 am Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 06:24:51AM -0700, Bart C. Wise wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 November 2008 03:48:29 am Khaled Hosny wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:56:20PM -0700, Bart C. Wise wrote: > > > > I

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals, Linux & OSFONTDIR

2008-11-25 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 03:48:29 am Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:56:20PM -0700, Bart C. Wise wrote: > > I have more that two path for my fonts: > > - /usr/local/share/fonts > > -/usr/share/fonts > > > > When I do one path, it works fin

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals & \placefootnotes

2008-11-25 Thread Bart C. Wise
Anyone have any thoughts? On Monday 24 November 2008 01:30:09 pm Bart C. Wise wrote: > I have loaded the minimals packaging on my system. In running through some > code I'm finding that \placefootnotes does not appear to be working (or at > least it's different than MkII. Wit

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals, Linux & OSFONTDIR

2008-11-25 Thread Bart C. Wise
Taco, Thanks for the hint. It works! Bart On Tuesday 25 November 2008 12:20:01 am Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Bart C. Wise wrote: > > I have more that two path for my fonts: > > - /usr/local/share/fonts > > -/usr/share/fonts > > > > When I do one path, it works fin

[NTG-context] Minimals, Linux & OSFONTDIR

2008-11-24 Thread Bart C. Wise
I have more that two path for my fonts: - /usr/local/share/fonts -/usr/share/fonts When I do one path, it works fine; however, if I put two paths as follows: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts:/usr/share/fonts it does not pick up the fonts in both directories. Admitedly, this is my fa

[NTG-context] Minimals & \placefootnotes

2008-11-24 Thread Bart C. Wise
I have loaded the minimals packaging on my system. In running through some code I'm finding that \placefootnotes does not appear to be working (or at least it's different than MkII. With the minimals, the footnotes always appear at the bottom of the page, not where the \placefootnotes command

[NTG-context] startstandardmakeup and page numbering

2008-11-21 Thread Bart C. Wise
I use a standardmakeup to define a "part" page. However, when I do so, the page counter does not get incremented. Therefore, after every part, the page numbers are inaccurate. Is there a way to keep the page counter incrementing on a standardmakeup? Thanks, Bart _

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond & dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-21 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Friday 21 November 2008 11:11:39 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 21.11.2008 um 18:25 schrieb Bart C. Wise: > > Fontforge shows no ligatures for Adobe Garamond; however, it does show > > ligatures for the Tallys fonts. So that probably explains why there > >

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond & dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-21 Thread Bart C. Wise
nt problem? Or is this something I'm doing wrong (and what)? Thanks once again, Bart On Friday 21 November 2008 10:00:14 am Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Bart C. Wise wrote: > > I think the error I got was not having enough sleep :-) because I worked > &g

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond & dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-21 Thread Bart C. Wise
t On Friday 21 November 2008 09:01:13 am Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Bart C. Wise wrote: > > Mojca, > > > > Thanks for all you time in helping out. I'm still having problems. The > > \quote and \quotation work. However, as you pointed

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond & dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-20 Thread Bart C. Wise
n=yes, tlig=yes, script=latn, mapping=tex-text] Any more hints? Bart On Thursday 20 November 2008 09:44:05 pm Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Bart C. Wise wrote: > > The code below is used to load the Adobe Garmond fonts. The problem is > > that quotes (

[NTG-context] XeTeX, Adobe Garmond & dash, quotes, etc.

2008-11-20 Thread Bart C. Wise
The code below is used to load the Adobe Garmond fonts. The problem is that quotes (``) produces two single quotes. Similar with dashes: an en dash produces to dashes, an em dash likewise produces three dashes. What am I doing wrong (again)! \starttypescript[serif][agaramond][ec] \definef

Re: [NTG-context] \placecontent doesn't place content after \chapter{}

2008-11-20 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 20 November 2008 03:05:20 pm Hans Hagen wrote: > Bart C. Wise wrote: > > The code below displays the "Contents" chapter header; however, the table > > of contents is not shown. If I remove the \chapter{Contents}, then the > > table of contents is d

[NTG-context] \placecontent doesn't place content after \chapter{}

2008-11-20 Thread Bart C. Wise
The code below displays the "Contents" chapter header; however, the table of contents is not shown. If I remove the \chapter{Contents}, then the table of contents is displayed. What's wrong? \starttext \chapter{Contents} \placecontent \chapter{One}\input tufte \chapter{Two}\input tufte \chapt

[NTG-context] XeTeX and lmtypewriter10-regular

2008-11-19 Thread Bart C. Wise
I'm running TeXLive 2008. When I compile for XeTeX (texexec --xtx) I get the following output that appears to be generating the lmtypewriter10-regular font. The bad part is that this is very slow. The part that's even worse, it does this probably 20...30...40 times? A compilation takes 145 se

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex & Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
Wolfgang, This one does work. Thanks again, Bart On Tuesday 18 November 2008 03:28:45 pm Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 18.11.2008 um 23:00 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: > >> One quick question (again expressing my ignorance). Why can't I > >> take the code > >> above and change it to the following

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex & Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
That seems to work. I just renamed the fontname and family (removing the colon), generated a new ttf and loaded that into the system. So this works: \definetypeface[MaraFontNFPlain][rm][Xserif][MaraFontNFPlain] \starttext \startfont[MaraFontNFPlain] This is a test. \stoptext And yes, the url is

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex & Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
One thing of possible interest is that when I load the font in fontforge, I get the following warning: Bad Font Name The Postscript font name "MaraFontNF Plain:" is invalid. It should be printable ASCII, must not contain (){}[]<>%/ or space and must be shorter than 63 characters. Is the colon

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex & Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
I also tried plugging it into the typescript (not what I want), but that didn't work either. I tried both the "name:" and the "file:" options. Still lost, Bart On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:54:49 am Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the famil

Re: [NTG-context] XeTex & Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
I tried prepending "name" and it didn't work. I also tried "file:marafont", but that didn't work either. Your code yesterday was great and I have not tried to plug in the mara font into a typescript. There are some fonts that I just want to put in one section of the text without having to wri

[NTG-context] XeTex & Mara Font

2008-11-18 Thread Bart C. Wise
I am currently trying to get the mara font loaded into XeTeX. Here's some information about the font (via fontforge): file: marafont.ttf Fontname: MaraFontNFPlain: Family Name: MaraFontNF Plain: (yes, the colons are in the name) I've tried a couple of ways, using both the fontname and the family

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts with XeTeX

2008-11-17 Thread Bart C. Wise
Arthur, This works! Thanks for your help. Bart On Monday 17 November 2008 02:25:15 pm Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > Hello Bart, > > Try > > \starttypescript[serif][caslon][uc] > > \definefontsynonym[CaslonRegular][name:CaslonOldFaceBT-Roman][encoding=uc] > \definefontsynonym[Caslon

[NTG-context] Fonts with XeTeX

2008-11-17 Thread Bart C. Wise
I am having difficulties writing a typescript for the Caslon font that's on my system. The following works: \definetypeface[Caslon-Bold][rm][Xserif][CaslonOldFaceBT-Heavy] \definetypeface[Caslon-Italic][rm][Xserif][CaslonOldFaceBT-Italic] \definetypeface[Caslon-Regular][rm][Xserif][CaslonOldFace

Re: [NTG-context] Kerning

2008-11-13 Thread Bart C. Wise
On Thursday 13 November 2008 12:46:27 am Hans Hagen wrote: > Bart C. Wise wrote: > > Wolfgang, thanks so much for your help so far. > > > > I was able to take the code and make it work correctly to stretch the > > chapter title. What I want is two lines for a chapter h

Re: [NTG-context] Kerning

2008-11-13 Thread Bart C. Wise
Wolfgang, Thanks so much for your help! It works exactly as I desire. Bart On Thursday 13 November 2008 01:36:11 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Bart C. Wise > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wolfgang, thanks so much for your help so far.

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