[NTG-context] mptopdf

2008-12-10 Thread David Arnold
: bruce.* is converted to bruce-0.pdf + bruce-1.pdf I tried: tlmgr update context No good. Same error as above after update. Any suggestions? david ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

[NTG-context] Embedded fonts question

2008-10-25 Thread David Wooten
Greetings all, A sad story: My context-typeset dissertation was printed/distributed by a POD publisher with aweful typographical errors (like all commas in the main font being replaced by an ff ligature). Obviously the printer didn't check their results. The file reads fine both for me

Re: [NTG-context] Embedded fonts question

2008-10-25 Thread David Wooten
On Oct 25, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: David Wooten wrote: Greetings all, A sad story: My context-typeset dissertation was printed/ distributed by a POD publisher with aweful typographical errors (like all commas in the main font being replaced by an ff ligature

Re: [NTG-context] Miktex

2008-10-01 Thread David Arnold
I'll check when I get to school. D. On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:57 AM, David Arnold wrote: Mojca, I saw your note on blog.miktex.org: If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file

Re: [NTG-context] Miktex

2008-10-01 Thread David Arnold
Mojca, Thanks. On: http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx At the bottom of the list, these seem to be the errors that another user reports. Please keep me informed. I need to have mptopdf working for my students in the Miktex tree. D. On Oct 1, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] Miktex 2.7 --- Remove quotes from %*

2008-10-01 Thread David Arnold
Mojca, Ouch! Ignore my last email. You had: Input file name: cont-en.tex But I had: Input file name: cont-en.ini I'll have to pay more attention. I'll try this again tomorrow. D. On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:42 PM, [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] Miktex 2.7 --- Remove quotes from %*

2008-10-01 Thread David Arnold
Wolfgang, Thanks. I am aware of this option. But my students are using Latex, so we need Miktex. What I need is to get mptopdf running in Miktex. D. On Oct 1, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 01.10.2008 um 21:42 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mojca, OK. Removed quotes, so

[NTG-context] Miktex

2008-09-30 Thread David Arnold
the filename database, then got stuck. At the dos prompt: $ texmfstart --help Worked just fine. However, $ texmfstart texexec --help Did not work. What am I missing? If I recall I'll need to do: $ texmfstart texexec --make --all Or some such thing. David Arnold College of the Redwoods

Re: [NTG-context] Miktex

2008-09-30 Thread David Arnold
or other and updating the filename database to no avail. I'll give your idea of no spaces a try tomorrow. Meanwhile if you can think of anything less drastic, as I have to do this on 20 different machines, Thanks so much. David. On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-08-28 Thread David Arnold
I followed these directions exactly and scite is working out of the box on mswincontext.zip. To remove RubyGems from a single Ruby installation, from the site_ruby/1.8 directory of that installation, remove: * rubygems.rb (file) * rubygems (directory) If you do not have RubyGems installed in

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-08-27 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Idris, The only thing I know about Ruby is you used to install it in Windows so that Context thru Miktex would work. So, how do I get rid of the gems? D. On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:31 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, A bit frustrated as I cannot seem to get a

[NTG-context] mswintex.zip versus mswincontext.zip

2008-08-27 Thread David Arnold
Hans et al, For our students, I need to have Miktex and at least one of these distributions (mswintex.zip or mswincontext.zip) coexisting side by side. I've got Miktex installed and working with the Texniccener IDE for student use. Now, I need to get context and metapost working properly

[NTG-context] Some Progress on Installing mswincontext.zip

2008-08-27 Thread David Arnold
am aware of mptopdf, but what I am looking for is to configure Scite to compile the metapost file and open it in acrobat reader. Here is the test file I am trying to compile. beginfig(1); numeric u; 10u=4in; drawdblarrow (-5u,0)--(5u,0); drawdblarrow (0,-5u)--(0,5u); endfig; end. David

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-08-26 Thread David Arnold
Idris, Thanks. I'm a Mac person at home now, so I'll have to wait until tomorrow to give this a try on a windows machine at school. What I'll try (unless I get further advice from this list) is download mswincontext.zip again, uninstall it, and NOT run first-setup.bat. Regarding Ruby, I am

[NTG-context] MacTex Update

2008-08-21 Thread David Arnold
All, If you have a MacTex installation, how can you safely update the context installation that comes with MacTex? David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold

[NTG-context] Miktex still broken

2008-08-21 Thread David Arnold
All, The context in Miktex is still broken. Has anyone got experience installing the standalone version of context on windows alongside Miktex? And one specific question, will the mptopdf command work in this dual installation? Thanks. David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun:1741: attempt to index a nil value

2008-08-11 Thread David Rogers
the same problem. I then gave the command as: sudo ./first-setup.sh That succeeded, and the resulting ConTeXt installation seems to run correctly - but I'm not smart enough to know why this worked or why it should be necessary. David

Re: [NTG-context] cont-enp.pdf on lulu

2008-07-27 Thread David
be to publicly set a date in the near future (sometime before the end of 2008) as code-freeze day, when development comes to a complete stop and the documentation project begins. Bringing a writer from outside and getting him up to speed has obviously become completely impractical. Sincerely David

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread David
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, David. I tried \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf A.~E.~Samuel \stoptext and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The tilde is not really a good way for me to go. The problem

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread David
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:17 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2008/7/17 David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, David. I tried \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf A.~E.~Samuel \stoptext and can see no difference (ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread David
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:13:15 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, David. I had not realized that there was a command \fixedspaces. Is it documented somewhere? It's in cont-eni on page 72. However, I have not needed the command until recently - I have used the tilde to create narrower spaces

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-16 Thread David
? Or should I go back to my old glasses? Have you tried: \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.~E.~Samuel \stoptext ? Last time I tried, this one worked for me. David ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

Re: [NTG-context] Word-to-LaTex on linux?

2008-07-07 Thread David C. Walden
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote: Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks. I have converted from Word to LaTeX a lot! -- book length documents.

[NTG-context] Generating a list of items

2008-07-05 Thread David
and alphabetical headings as in an index. I would like to get a simple, numbered list of items. Can I tweak the \register commands to do this, or perhaps is there something else I should try? Thanks David ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] Generating a list of items

2008-07-05 Thread David
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:27:00 -0400 (EDT), Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, David wrote: Hi all I'm teaching some classes this summer, and want to make myself a template for lesson planning. One of the things that I'd like to be able to include, if it works easily

[NTG-context] Context on Miktex

2008-07-04 Thread David Arnold
\ruby\texmfstart.rb" "%*" and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate formats, and everything should work again. MojcaMojca David ArnoldCollege of the RedwoodsMathematics DepartmentEureka, CA 955

[NTG-context] Generating a list of items

2008-07-03 Thread David
numbers and alphabetical headings. I just want a numbered list of items. Can I tweak the \register commands to do this, or perhaps is there something else I should try? Thanks David ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] Setting up minimals (saw: Re: distro info)

2008-06-26 Thread David
.profile ; then setuptex will be performed automatically every time you open a new terminal window. (If you plan to use another TeX installation very often, the .profile method might not be convenient. For me it works fine.) David

Re: [NTG-context] Setting up minimals (saw: Re: distro info)

2008-06-26 Thread David
I hope I'm not still an idiot. :-) David ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage

Re: [NTG-context] Setting up minimals (saw: Re: distro info)

2008-06-26 Thread David
You might also need to add /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/bin to your PATH That can be done by adding the following two lines to your .profile: PATH=/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/bin:${PATH} export PATH David

Re: [NTG-context] Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic

2008-06-20 Thread David
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:55:34 +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: Also I didn't translate Intermezzo since I don't have the slightest idea what it is supposed to be, ... An intermezzo (as far as I can tell) is a framed paragraph that interrupts the normal text, usually highlighting an important idea

[NTG-context] ConTeXt manual question

2008-06-11 Thread David C. Walden
At 07:23 AM 6/11/2008, Hans wrote: hm, more recent manuals tend to use even more color ... And it is useful for people who view the pages on the screen or want to print a given page in color. (When I print a big manual, I use my laser printer which does not have color rather than my inkjet

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

2008-06-11 Thread David
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:37:11 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: David wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:34:15 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Andrea Valle wrote: Hmm, with Luatex I can use system fonts like in XeTeX. Am I right? yes, if you set up OSFONTDIR I would like to set up OSFONTDIR, but I don't

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

2008-06-10 Thread David
profile, and that seems to have no effect. What is the correct procedure? (I'm on a Mac, if it matters.) Thanks David ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] bibl-apa.tex wrong?

2008-05-27 Thread David
On Tue, 27 May 2008 08:36:57 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Matej Baric( wrote: Hello, This (http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm) and just about any other site I look at specifies publisher info as city, state: publisher name, whereas bibl-apa.tex specifies it as

Re: [NTG-context] American-style letters with t-letter?

2008-05-16 Thread David Rogers
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:02 PM, David Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all (but especially Wolfgang Schuster): I'd like to use Wolfgang's t-letter module to set up a very basic American-style letter. I see

[NTG-context] Standalone chart

2008-04-26 Thread David Arnold
All, I am trying to make a standalone chart, a single graphic to be included in a Latex file by a student. I have: \startMPinclusions \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts [option=test, nx=4, ny=3, dx=2\bodyfontsize, dy=2\bodyfontsize, width=12\bodyfontsize, height=7\bodyfontsize,

[NTG-context] ctxtools --updatecontext

2008-04-24 Thread David Arnold
All, If you run: ctxtools --updatecontext And it just hangs and times out, what should you try? D. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] ctxtools --updatecontext

2008-04-24 Thread David Arnold
Taco, Thanks. But it works in my office, but not in my colleague's office. I have gwtex and he has mactex. Admitting my ignorance, what is a proxy server? D. On Apr 23, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, If you run: ctxtools --updatecontext And it just

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals - how to use?

2008-04-22 Thread David
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:15:42 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:08 AM, David wrote: Now my stupid question: How do I actually *use* the minimal ConTeXt installation? Hello David, I have the following line in my .bash_profile (but you can issue that manually if you

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals - how to use?

2008-04-22 Thread David
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:53:10 -0400 (EDT), Aditya Mahajan wrote: For my purposes (my requirements are not large, I'm not in a hurry, and I don't want to waste time learning multiple ways of doing things), I have decided to do everything strictly in mkiv - no mkii and no latex. I want to learn

[NTG-context] Minimals - how to use?

2008-04-21 Thread David
it, it successfully downloaded all the components to a directory. Now my stupid question: How do I actually *use* the minimal ConTeXt installation? Thanks David ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

[NTG-context] Unfill with anglebetween

2008-04-13 Thread David Arnold
All, I was trying to help a student today and the following came up. drawarrow anglebetween(path1, path2, btex $\theta$ etex) Is there some way to typeset the theta with an unfilled background? David. ___ If your

[NTG-context] page numbering question

2008-04-09 Thread David C. Walden
Hi, I have been searching contextgarden.net and the manuals at the Pragma website for more than an hour now, and I have yet to find a way to have ConTeXt decide in two-sided mode that the last page of a book chapter is a even numbered page without anything on it and therefore will also not have a

Re: [NTG-context] page numbering question

2008-04-09 Thread David C. Walden
I am not sure what you want. Do you want the last page of chapters to be numbered or do you want them to be completely empty? I want even numbered last pages of chapters which have no text or images on them to be completely empty. I tried various versions of the code for Truly empty page breaks

Re: [NTG-context] page numbering question

2008-04-09 Thread David C. Walden
Does this do what you want (at least in this test case) \definepagebreak [mychapterpagebreak] [yes,header,footer,right] \setuphead [chapter] [page=mychapterpagebreak] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location={header,margin}] \setupheadertexts[{My special

[NTG-context] problem using protrusion and hz

2008-04-08 Thread David C. Walden
Hi, Adytia pointed me to some examples at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Protrusion I tried the following code with a couple of page test page, - \definepapersize[specialbook][width=5.5in,height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[specialbook][specialbook]

Re: [NTG-context] several details (maybe bugs)

2008-04-05 Thread David
into this starts with zero problem when my corresponding \stopitemize is missing or not in the correct place. David ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-30 Thread David
exactly the same, except we usually use the shoemaker's children instead of the farrier's mare.) David ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Natural tables, offsets

2008-03-29 Thread David
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:23:01 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:02:55 -0700 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I'm using the natural table environment, and would like the text in each cell to have some horizontal offset from the cell boundaries - but I don't

[NTG-context] Natural tables, offsets

2008-03-28 Thread David
Hi all I'm using the natural table environment, and would like the text in each cell to have some horizontal offset from the cell boundaries - but I don't want to change the vertical offset. Is there a way to do this? Thanks David

[NTG-context] Minor error in code, core-tab.tex

2008-03-27 Thread David
\@@otherquote . I hope this helps. David ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http

Re: [NTG-context] Missing ligatures, smallcaps, etc.

2008-03-15 Thread David Wooten
, I'll see what I can do about that. It's likely that that is the issue? Following is the font definition [1] and the map file [2]. Best, David [1] \loadmapfile [texnansi-LIGA-KERN-LNUM-TNUM-SMCP-adobe-minionpro.map] \loadmapfile [texnansi-LIGA-KERN-ONUM

Re: [NTG-context] Missing ligatures, smallcaps, etc.

2008-03-15 Thread David Wooten
Found it, and problem resolved. Sorry for the noise. David On Mar 15, 2008, at 10:05 AM, David Wooten wrote: Thanks for the response, Mojca. I installed a few adobe opentype fonts some years back, using the TeXFont script. The file a_zqd2tu.enc (referenced in the map files) is not found

[NTG-context] Missing ligatures, smallcaps, etc.

2008-03-14 Thread David Wooten
Greetings all, I've just tried to retypeset a file with very recent conTeXt/pdfTeX minimals (as of a few days ago). The file is only a year or so old... but it was originally typeset with a combination of TeX installations. It goes almost okay, except that it doesn't show any ligatures

Re: [NTG-context] hz and protrusion

2008-03-03 Thread David Wooten
Hans, This is great news, thanks a million. Where should I keep an eye out for the interface extensions? Dave On Feb 15, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, The latest luatex beta + mkiv support hz and protruding. The user interface will be extended a bit, but for the moment it goes

[NTG-context] t-lilypond, placement of oversized lines.

2008-01-26 Thread David Wooten
here? Best, David ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma

[NTG-context] Movies

2008-01-17 Thread David Arnold
All, Does anyone have any experience embedding Quicktime or other movies in Context? Either in the document itself or simply a URL that will play the movie in the the user's system player? Can anyone supply some sample code snippets? Appreciated. David Arnold http://online.redwoods.edu

Re: [NTG-context] Windows installer updated

2008-01-10 Thread David Roderick
Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 8, 2008 1:43 PM, David Roderick wrote: Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 7, 2008 9:47 PM, David Roderick wrote: pop-up texlua.exe Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc022) Hello

Re: [NTG-context] Windows installer updated

2008-01-09 Thread David Roderick
Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 7, 2008 9:47 PM, David Roderick wrote: pop-up texlua.exe Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc022) Hello, First: thanks a lot for reporting. (I have no windows here, but I had so many problems with rsync

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt meeting: preliminary registrations opennow

2008-01-09 Thread David Wooten
San Francisco, California ;) Dave On Jan. 9, 2008, at Jan 9, 8:02 AM, Santy, Michael wrote: Make that 3. I'm in beautiful northern Alabama. Cheers, Mike From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Roger Mason Sent: Wed 1/9/2008 5:52 AM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context]

Re: [NTG-context] Windows installer updated

2008-01-08 Thread David Roderick
pop-up texlua.exe Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc022) -- from David Roderick ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

[NTG-context] LuaTeX/MKIV on OS X 10.5 Leopard

2007-11-01 Thread David Wooten
Greetings all, I'm curious whether anyone using MKIV on a Mac has upgraded to 10.5? Any problems after doing so? Regards, David ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] help needed

2007-09-07 Thread David Rogers
, I don't see any application... I suggest you try an application called TeXShop. It is a nice OS X application that allows you to use ConTeXt. You can find it here: http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html David

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV, hz, hanging punctuation

2007-08-29 Thread David Wooten
On Aug. 27, 2007, at Aug 27, 11:47 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: David Wooten wrote: Greetings all, Can someone say when typographic extras like hz hanging punctuation will be available in LuaTeX/MKIV for OpenType fonts? --- or are they already available? I thought I'd read a comment

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV, hz, hanging punctuation

2007-08-29 Thread David Wooten
related tables) because that info will be organized differently Great, thanks for the info. Best, David ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Lilypond MKIV, pstopdf, sysctl errors?

2007-08-27 Thread David Wooten
Miklavec wrote: On 8/27/07, David Wooten wrote: On Aug. 26, 2007, at Aug 26, 6:44 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 8/27/07, David Wooten wrote: Greetings all, In trying to run Mojca's latest Lilypond extension with MKIV (on an Intel Mac), I've been receiving the errors after pstopdf is run

[NTG-context] MKIV, hz, hanging punctuation

2007-08-27 Thread David Wooten
Greetings all, Can someone say when typographic extras like hz hanging punctuation will be available in LuaTeX/MKIV for OpenType fonts? --- or are they already available? I thought I'd read a comment on this from Hans, but cannot for the life of me find it. Best, David

[NTG-context] Lilypond MKIV, pstopdf, sysctl errors?

2007-08-26 Thread David Wooten
-lilypond-1.pdf When it does actually exist, and I have to run texmfstart again to get a changed PDF. I can't find much on the sysctl errors. Anyone see a possible connection? Best, David *** texmfstart texexec --pass=\'-halt-on-error -file-line-error\' LilyLua.tex TeXExec | processing document

Re: [NTG-context] Lilypond MKIV, pstopdf, sysctl errors?

2007-08-26 Thread David Wooten
On Aug. 26, 2007, at Aug 26, 6:44 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 8/27/07, David Wooten wrote: Greetings all, In trying to run Mojca's latest Lilypond extension with MKIV (on an Intel Mac), I've been receiving the errors after pstopdf is run, which I've never seen before

Re: [NTG-context] Buffers (gone) in MK IV (was: MK IV Lilypond)

2007-08-25 Thread David Wooten
Greetings, Did we end up with a working solution for t-lilypond? I've tinkered a bit Hans' response, too, but without luck. Dave On Aug. 21, 2007, at Aug 21, 3:53 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 8/21/07, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 8/21/07, David Wooten wrote: Greetings all

[NTG-context] MK IV Lilypond

2007-08-20 Thread David Wooten
Greetings all, Has anyone had any luck getting the lilypond module to work with mkiv/ luatex engine? It fails for me (works fine with mkii/pdftex). I can send along some log info if others have found it to work. Regards, David

[NTG-context] More on a page

2007-07-29 Thread David Arnold
All, What's the command again to force another line or two on a page? ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

[NTG-context] itemize columns three

2007-07-29 Thread David Arnold
All, Has this bug been fixed? \startitemize[a,columns,three] \item $|x|-5$ \item $|x|0$ \item $|x|4$ \stopitemize ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the

Re: [NTG-context] Bug in itemize

2007-07-13 Thread David Arnold
/ IntAlgText/fall2007/chapter4/section4.pdf Example 13 on page 394. On Jul 13, 2007, at 5:09 AM, John R. Culleton wrote: On Thursday 12 July 2007 15:46, David Arnold wrote: All, Think I found a bug in itemize. \starttext \startitemize[a,columns,three] \item $|x|-5$ \item $|x|0

[NTG-context] Bug in itemize

2007-07-12 Thread David Arnold
All, Think I found a bug in itemize. \starttext \startitemize[a,columns,three] \item $|x|-5$ \item $|x|0$ \item $|x|4$ \stopitemize \stoptext On my system, the first item is not labeled, the second and third are labeled a and b. gimp $ ctxtools --contextversion CtxTools |

[NTG-context] Version Information on each page of text

2007-07-04 Thread David Arnold
Hi, I'd like to put the phrase Version: Fall 2007 on each page of our intermediate algebra textbook. On even-numbered pages, I'd like to put it in the lower left corner of the page, in odd-numbered pages, I'd like it in the lower right corner of the page. I'd like it to be well below the

[NTG-context] We have a problem --- Old file no longer compiles

2007-07-04 Thread David Arnold
Hi, In setting out to update our intermediate algebra textbook for the fall semester (http://msenux.redwoods.edu/IntAlgText/), I've found that a file that would formerly compile under a previous version of context will no longer compile. Preliminaries $ ctxtools --contextversion CtxTools |

Re: [NTG-context] We have a problem --- Old file no longer compiles

2007-07-04 Thread David Arnold
=\frac bc.\index{equations+division} ? On Jul 4, 2007, at 12:30 PM, David Arnold wrote: Hi, In setting out to update our intermediate algebra textbook for the fall semester (http://msenux.redwoods.edu/IntAlgText/), I've found that a file that would formerly compile under a previous

Re: [NTG-context] We have a problem --- Old file no longer compiles

2007-07-04 Thread David Arnold
:57 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, David Arnold wrote: Here is another example, this time not within a block, but within an enumeration again: The newmat module seems to be the culprit. After loading newmat add \unexpanded\def\frac#1#2{\mathematics{\genfrac{}{}{}\donothing{#1

Re: [NTG-context] We have a problem --- Old file no longer compiles

2007-07-04 Thread David Arnold
] \usemodule[fig-base] \usefigurebase[figures/figlibNumberSystemsExercises] On Jul 4, 2007, at 10:02 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, David Arnold wrote: On Jul 4, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, David Arnold wrote: Here is another example, this time

Re: [NTG-context] Back to Metafun Manual

2007-06-07 Thread David Arnold
Taco, After updating my gWTeX, it now works here as well. Thanks., On Jun 7, 2007, at 12:05 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, I am wondering what is wrong with the following. On my system it It runs fine on my system, somehow your metapost output image is broken

Re: [NTG-context] How to make \framed ignore the width of the rule

2007-06-07 Thread David Arnold
Huh? This: \starttext \newdimen\scale \scale\1mm \def\rule#1{\hrule width #1\scale} \rule{10} but you made this \def\scale{1mm} \def\rule#1{\hrule width #1\scale} \rule{10} \stoptext Got me this error: ! Undefined control sequence. l.4 \newdimen\scale \scale\1

[NTG-context] gwTeX problem

2007-06-06 Thread David Arnold
All, After using i-installer to install gwTeX Support : Context Updater, I now get the following message: FatalError : Your format does not match the base files! FormatVersion : 2007.01.02 13:44 MK II FilesVersion: 2007.04.17 12:51 How should I proceed?

Re: [NTG-context] gwTeX problem

2007-06-06 Thread David Arnold
wrote: Quoting David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All, After using i-installer to install gwTeX Support : Context Updater, I now get the following message: FatalError : Your format does not match the base files! FormatVersion : 2007.01.02 13:44 MK II FilesVersion: 2007.04.17 12

Re: [NTG-context] gwTeX problem

2007-06-06 Thread David Arnold
. Not sure how best to proceed. Does ctxtools have an uninstall? Does ctxtools install in texmf.local by default? On Jun 6, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Quoting David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Neither option worked. I am now getting the famous error: Transcript written on mfput.log

Re: [NTG-context] gwTeX problem

2007-06-06 Thread David Arnold
, at 9:23 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Quoting David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Neither option worked. I am now getting the famous error: Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: rm-lmr7.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input rm

Re: [NTG-context] gwTeX problem (I'm back)

2007-06-06 Thread David Arnold
in texmf.local? 2. Which context installation does ctxtools --updatecontext update? Does it interfere with GW's installation? On Jun 6, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Quoting David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Neither option worked. I am now getting the famous error: Transcript written

[NTG-context] Back to Metafun Manual

2007-06-06 Thread David Arnold
All, I am wondering what is wrong with the following. On my system it produces the error that follows. \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \usetypescriptonce [map] [times,helvetica,palatino] [texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [serif][times][name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [sans]

Re: [NTG-context] gwTeX ghostscript

2007-06-05 Thread David Arnold
Bernd, Thanks. But even though I used i-installer to install Ghostscript, I have no gv on my system. On Jun 5, 2007, at 12:14 AM, Bernd Militzer wrote: David Arnold schrieb: All, I anyone is running gwTeX on a mac, may I ask two questions: 1. Is the i-installer still running Context

Re: [NTG-context] How to format the line Table of Contents ?

2007-06-05 Thread David Arnold
Does this help? \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \definehead[TocHead][chapter] \setuphead [TocHead] [number=no, incrementnumber=no, before=\blank, after=\blank] \definecombinedlist [content] [part, chapter,section,subsection,

[NTG-context] Enabling write 18 via texmfstart and texexec

2007-06-04 Thread David Arnold
All, Is there a way to enable write18 via command line when compiling with texmfstart texexec filename? ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

[NTG-context] Beautiful source code

2007-06-04 Thread David Arnold
Hans, I'm revisiting the metafun manual and I am marveling at the format of the source code. For example: \starttabulate[|lT|l|] \HL \NC \METAPOST\ code \NC mathematical equivalent \NC \NR \HL \NC (x,y) shifted (a,b) \NC $(x+a,y+b)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) scaled s \NC $(sx,sy)$

[NTG-context] gwTeX ghostscript

2007-06-04 Thread David Arnold
All, I anyone is running gwTeX on a mac, may I ask two questions: 1. Is the i-installer still running Context Updater properly? 2. How do I access ghostscript from the command line? ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] ctxtools --purgefiles

2007-06-04 Thread David Arnold
All, Why does ctxtools --purgefiles meta miss the two files shown below (.keep is ignored and .tuo is not removed)? context $ ctxtools --purgefiles meta CtxTools | purging temporary files : meta CtxTools | checking files that match 'meta-*.*' CtxTools | checking files that match 'meta.*'

Re: [NTG-context] ctxtools --purgefiles

2007-06-04 Thread David Arnold
| removed files : 11 CtxTools | kept files : 0 CtxTools | persistent files : 0 CtxTools | reclaimed bytes : 27017 context $ ls meta* meta-mpgraph.mp.keepmeta.pdfmeta.tex On Jun 4, 2007, at 1:38 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, Why does ctxtools --purgefiles

[NTG-context] z0---z1---z2---z3---cycle strange effect

2007-06-04 Thread David Arnold
All, In working through the beginning chapters of the metafun manual, I am getting a very unusual effect when I open the resulting pdf file in Preview on Mac OS X. Here's a snapshot of what I see. http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/context/meta.gif In acrobat, it looks fine.

[NTG-context] drawarrowpath

2007-06-04 Thread David Arnold
All, Doesn't look like drawarrowpath accepts options, as advertised in the metafun manual. Comments? \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \usetypescriptonce [map] [times,helvetica,palatino] [texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [serif][times][name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [sans]

Re: [NTG-context] Prepare exams with ConTeXT

2007-06-03 Thread David Arnold
Aditya, As usual, great work. I don't understand the purpose of the fourth argument to \dowritelist: \def\savescore{\expanded{\dowritetolist{Score} {\convertednumber[Answer]}{\countervalue{totalscore}}{Question}}} There are 4 arguments here, as in \dowritelist#1#2#3#4. It appears that:

Re: [NTG-context] Prepare exams with ConTeXT

2007-06-02 Thread David Arnold
You can find some ideas here: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/mahajan/ On Jun 2, 2007, at 5:22 AM, batela wrote: Hello to all: I need to prepare an exam. The layout must be the following one: Questions page Scores page Answers For example: \startquestion In a body with mass=2

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