[NTG-context] multipars?

2007-05-31 Thread David Arnold
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[NTG-context] Plural Name on definefloat?

2007-05-31 Thread David Arnold
All, Under what circumstances would you use the plural form of: \definefloat[figure][figures] ? Thanks. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

[NTG-context] Keeping it single valued

2007-04-19 Thread David Arnold
All, This example from the Metapost manual is beyond my expertise. The second figure is sweet, just what I would want. Can anyone wax philosophic for a bit and explain why the y-scaling keeps the second function single valued? starttext \startbuffer[figure] numeric scf, t[]; 3.2scf=2.4in;

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-28 Thread David Wooten
I've just been experimenting with the new bundle. I really appreciate having it, and so far it is working like a charm. Thanks, Dave ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Positioning graphics at positions on a page

2007-03-20 Thread David Arnold
Hi, Measuring from the top left hand corner of US letter paper, I'd like to position four identical metapost graphics, centered at (2in,2in), (6in,4in), (2in,6in) and (6in,8in). The first entry in each pair is the amount I'd like to move to the right from the top left corner of the page.

[NTG-context] \em in typing environment

2007-03-19 Thread David Arnold
All, I have: \startMatlab function output=primary(input) statements---including subfunction calls % first subfunction function out=one(in) statements % second subfunction function out=two(in) statments \stopMatlab Where: \definetyping[Matlab] \setuptyping [Matlab]

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt meeting programme

2007-03-12 Thread David Wooten
I wish I could join you all, it looks like a great programme. I guess I will have to wait until the videos and transcripts are released ;) Dave On Mar. 12, 2007, at Mar 12, 6:10 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hello everybody. Below you will find the final programme of the ConTeXt User meeting

Re: [NTG-context] tree charts

2007-02-23 Thread David Wooten
reason PGF/TikZ is rather appealing to me right now. Although clearly MetaPost/Fun can do it all, it is (or at least seems) more daunting. Perhaps the beautiful examples for TikZ are closer to what I need out of the box (graphs of various kinds) than the beautiful examples from MetaFun. David

[NTG-context] quick question

2007-02-21 Thread David C. Walden
Is there an easy way in ConTeXt to do the equivalent of \enlargethispage{1\baselineskip} in LaTeX? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Ugly matrix spacing

2007-02-19 Thread David Arnold
Try: \placeformula[-] \startformula \left( {\matrix{ {a_1 } {a_2 } {a_3 } \ldots {a_X } \cr {b_1 } 0 0 0 0 \cr 0 {b_2 } 0 0 0 \cr 0 0 \ddots 0 0 \cr 0 0 0 {b_{X - 1} } 0 \cr } } \right), \stopformula On Feb 19, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Vyatcheslav

[NTG-context] Natural table questions

2007-02-13 Thread David Arnold
All, Using natural tales, how can I: 1. get some padding around text in each cell? 2. Increase the height of a cell (or row)? fix the height of a cell (or row)? David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct

[NTG-context] test

2007-02-13 Thread David Arnold
All, please ignore this test. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] new user seeks help

2007-02-10 Thread David C. Walden
Hi, I tried ConTeXt for the first time a couple of days ago and successfully created a 4 page letter. Yesterday I converted a 60 page booklet from LaTeX to ConTeXt where is now successfully compiles (but without lots of formatting that I will need to figure out how to apply). My problem has to

[NTG-context] Test

2007-02-08 Thread David Arnold
All, Sorry, this is just a test. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Letters in ConTeXt

2007-01-31 Thread David Rogers
The very simple example code given on Page 11 does not fail on my machine, though I don't know where to place my information. David ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Letters in ConTeXt

2007-01-31 Thread David Rogers
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:04:26 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:50:07 -0700, David Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:30:27 +0100, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: On 31. jan. 2007, at 9:08, David Rogers wrote: The very simple example code given

Re: [NTG-context] Letters in ConTeXt

2007-01-31 Thread David Rogers
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:30:27 +0100, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: On 31. jan. 2007, at 9:08, David Rogers wrote: The very simple example code given on Page 11 does not fail on my machine, though I don't know where to place my information. yes, that's one of the issues I have

[NTG-context] setup linecorrection

2007-01-19 Thread David Arnold
All, How do you set up: \startlinecorrection[blank] \midaligned{\getbuffer[table]} \stoplinecorrection so ensuing lines are not indented? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] How to squeeze one more line onto a page

2007-01-12 Thread David Arnold
All, How can I squeeze one more line onto a page without rewriting text or resizing graphics. Just a one time I want a couple more lines. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] How to squeeze one more line onto a page

2007-01-12 Thread David Arnold
\par l.660 Where should I put this command? On Jan 12, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, David Arnold wrote: How can I squeeze one more line onto a page without rewriting text or resizing graphics. Just a one time I want a couple more lines

Re: [NTG-context] How to squeeze one more line onto a page

2007-01-12 Thread David Arnold
\adaptlayout[lines=+2] On Jan 12, 2007, at 9:25 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, David Arnold wrote: Aditya, Tried: \adaptlayout[lines+=2] Where should I put this command? hmm... I copy pasted from an old project so this code

Re: [NTG-context] Last page number

2007-01-08 Thread David Arnold
: David Arnold wrote: All, How can I get the last page to have a page number in this example? \lastpage \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \definehead[answers][section] \setuphead[answers][page=right] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext \chapter

Re: [NTG-context] Last page number

2007-01-08 Thread David Arnold
Hans, That's what I thought, but this code produces 9 pages. How come? doublesided by default makes an even number of pages \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \definehead[answers][section] \setuphead[answers][page=right] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]

Re: [NTG-context] Header problem in project

2007-01-08 Thread David Arnold
the page numbers at the beginning of this document with the chapter page numbers. Thanks. On Jan 8, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: \placeanswers\kern0pt \stopcomponent When we compile section1exercises.tex with texmfstart texexec -- mode=long

[NTG-context] bad page break

2007-01-07 Thread David Arnold
All, We have a situation where we want to put in a page break to move some text at the bottom of the page to the next page. However, there is a float that hasn't been typeset yet, so the result of \page[yes] is to put the float at the top of a blank page, then page again to continue the

[NTG-context] Header problem in project

2007-01-07 Thread David Arnold
Hans et all, We have a project call book.tex, a product in that called chapter1.tex, and a component in that called section1exercises.tex. We have blocks that we save and then place at the end of section1exercises.tex with a macro defined in our environment file: \def\placeanswers{%

[NTG-context] Last page number

2007-01-07 Thread David Arnold
All, How can I get the last page to have a page number in this example? \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \definehead[answers][section] \setuphead[answers][page=right] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext \chapter{Functions} \input knuth

Re: [NTG-context] Last page number

2007-01-07 Thread David Arnold
=doublesided] \starttext \startbodymatter \chapter{Functions} \input knuth \section{Function Notation} \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth par} \answers{Answers} \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth par} \stopbodymatter \stoptext On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:50 PM, David Arnold wrote: All, How can I get the last

[NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error

2007-01-03 Thread David Arnold
All, Anyone see what I am doing wrong here? \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[gridlines][s=0.7] \startMPinclusions color mygridcolor; mygridcolor=\MPcolor{gridlines}; \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startbuffer[one] % initialize scale numeric u; 10u=4cm; % draw grid for k=-5u step 1u

Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error

2007-01-03 Thread David Arnold
Mojca, Does the code I sent crash on your system with an overflow error? On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Btw: use \sometxt{$\tfx x-2y=4$} instead of btex $\tfx x-2y=4$ etex It's much more efficient. Mojca ___

Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error

2007-01-03 Thread David Arnold
Mojca, Mac OS X 10.4.8. Gerben's GWTeX. LinearFunctions $ texmfstart texexec --version TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: david.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error

2007-01-03 Thread David Arnold
properties. It will then pick up the new default location. Looks like it wants me to install the latest tex. Any advice? On Jan 3, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 1/4/07, David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca, Mac OS X 10.4.8. Gerben's GWTeX. LinearFunctions $ texmfstart

[NTG-context] GWTEX -- Uninstall before installing the new?

2007-01-03 Thread David Arnold
All, GWTeX has some serious updates. Should I uninstall the deprecated tex before installing the new? Or can they both be installed at the same time (in case the new doesn't work well with my old files). ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error

2007-01-03 Thread David Arnold
haven't found that yet. At the moment, from my command line, I am finding the old tex. darnold $ which pdflatex /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex Advice welcome as I proceed. On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 1/4/07, David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error

2007-01-03 Thread David Arnold
Mojca, Looks like I did it. Thanks for the help. All is well at the moment. On Jan 3, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 1/4/07, David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. I am starting anew. I uninstalled the old. Now, I do have some stuff in ~/Library/texmf, and I am at a point

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2007-01-03 Thread David Arnold
Wolfgang, Thanks. I'll wait to see if someone can come up with a file. If not, I'll get back to you. Anyone out there have an existing file for win98 that works? On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: Has anyone modified the batch file in cdwincontext so that it will

[NTG-context] cdwincontext

2007-01-02 Thread David Arnold
All, Has anyone modified the batch file in cdwincontext so that it will run on Windows98? If so, can I get a copy of the batch file? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Figure library -- figures not found but they are there

2006-12-18 Thread David Arnold
LogicFigs-mpgraph.mp LogicFigs-mpgraph.22LogicFigs-mpgraph.mp.keep LogicFigs-mpgraph.23LogicFigs-mpgraph.mpb LogicFigs-mpgraph.24LogicFigs-mpgraph.mpo LogicFigs-mpgraph.25LogicFigs-mpgraph.mpx Any ideas? David Arnold College of the Redwoods

[NTG-context] tagging external figure files in output

2006-12-16 Thread David Arnold
All, Suppose I have in my source: \placefigure [][] {none} {\externalfigure[sec3onea]} Now, when I compile, I'd like to have a label somewhere on the output figure in the pdf that says this figure is using the external file sec3onea. ___

Re: [NTG-context] indenting of first paragraph in (sub)section

2006-12-11 Thread David Rogers
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello, I' trying to figure out why \setupindenting[first,medium,yes] does not indents the FIRST paragraph of a section or subsection. An example follows. Thanks in advance. It is normal to not indent the first paragraph, only second and later paragraphs -

[NTG-context] Spacing of page numbers in list

2006-11-29 Thread David Wooten
... but obviously I have not! Any clues? Best, David \setuplist [part] [style={\scbf},label=no,pagestyle=bf,pagenumber=no] \setuplist [chapter] [style={\sb},distance=-0.5em] \setuplist [section] [pagestyle={\tf},margin=0em,distance=-.5em] \setuplist

Re: [NTG-context] How to get a PhD with ConTeXt (+ hard work ;) )

2006-11-06 Thread David Antos
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:57:51PM +0100, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: May I ask a newbie question? How did you create the lemmas? Hello, today, lemmas can be based on description/enumeration mechanism (I believe it's been in ConTeXt since circa January 2006). Descriptions now accept parameter

Re: [NTG-context] How to get a PhD with ConTeXt (+ hard work ;) )

2006-10-29 Thread David Antos
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:50:08PM +0200, Renaud AUBIN wrote: Maybe some of yours (from the ConTeXt POV) can be interested by my PhD dissertation and my presentation (both in french)... Hi all, I'll also give a link to a PhD ``sample document'' ;). You can find my PhD thesis at

Re: [NTG-context] no indent after figure

2006-09-08 Thread David Arnold
Use \indentation, as in: \indentation Now is the time. On Sep 8, 2006, at 6:29 AM, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: Hallo! I have a problem with indenting. The paragraph following the \placefigure is not indented and I find not any way to achieve this. The following testfile shows the

Re: [NTG-context] layout question

2006-08-21 Thread David Arnold
curspace=2.55in should be cutspace=2.55in On Aug 21, 2006, at 3:12 AM, richard rascher-friesenhausen wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: richard rascher-friesenhausen wrote: Hello, i have a simple (?) layout question. I want to typeset a doublesided text with a larger margin on one side. This

Re: [NTG-context] textmate

2006-08-18 Thread David Wooten
+1 TextMate is a delight. I've been using a bastardized LaTeX bundle, which doesn't do anything useful except some decent highlighting. I'd love to see a good one. David Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi, any textmate users out there? Anybody who has created a bundle yet? Patrick

Re: [NTG-context] Font Question: Specific font sizes not working.

2006-08-11 Thread David Wooten
Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Wooten wrote: Hmm, well I seem to have figured something out: the line \switchtobodyfont[jenson,12pt] used to work. When replaced with \switchtotypeface[jenson][12pt] it now once again does the trick. Is the problem specific

[NTG-context] section headnumber at texexec

2006-08-10 Thread David Arnold
All, If I compile a section with: texmfstart texexec section1 is there a texexec switch that I can use to pass the section number at the command line? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] doifmode[paging]

2006-08-10 Thread David Arnold
Hans et al, I have: \def\startquestions{\exercises{Exercises}\doifmode{copyright} {\footnotetext{Copyrighted material. See: http://msenux.redwoods.edu/ IntAlgText/} }\startcolumnset[exercises]} \def\stopquestions{\stopcolumnset} Then in document, I have: \startquestions

Re: [NTG-context] Font Question: Specific font sizes not working.

2006-08-10 Thread David Wooten
Hmm, well I seem to have figured something out: the line \switchtobodyfont[jenson,12pt] used to work. When replaced with \switchtotypeface[jenson][12pt] it now once again does the trick. dw David Wooten wrote: Greetings all, In the last week or so I started having

Re: [NTG-context] columns - columnsets introduces problems

2006-08-09 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Taco, I had a \Tindex inside a display math, something like this. \placeformula \startformula x^2 \Tindex{sample} \stopformula I think that might have been it, because now I have a compile. On Aug 9, 2006, at 1:11 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: \Tindex #1-\index

[NTG-context] column sets and column breaks

2006-08-09 Thread David Arnold
All, What's the best way to do a column break with column sets? I am just using \column. Is that OK? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] t-lilypond: no longer needs eps step?

2006-08-09 Thread David Wooten
Greetings, I've just noticed that in the development branch change log [1] of LilyPond (2.9) the following notice has been posted about the LaTeX module lilypond-book: lilypond-book now includes support for PDFTeX. I'm curious as to whether that means Generating a pdf directly always creates

[NTG-context] Font Question: Specific font sizes not working.

2006-08-09 Thread David Wooten
in \definebodyfont those sizes are definitely listed: \starttypescript [serif] [Opticals] [size] \definebodyfont [13pt,12pt,11pt,10pt,9pt,8pt][rm] ... \stoptypescript Any clues? Kind regards, David ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http

[NTG-context] core-buf from Hans

2006-08-09 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Taco, et al, This is a FYI. After updating my Context through Gerben's site: chapter2 $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA

[NTG-context] Subsection header last item on a page

2006-08-09 Thread David Arnold
All, A subsection head should not be the last item to appear on a page. What setting should prevent this? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Subsection header last item on a page

2006-08-09 Thread David Arnold
there are some things we could set for widow and orphan control. On Aug 9, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, A subsection head should not be the last item to appear on a page. What setting should prevent this? \page[no] but normally you should not do

[NTG-context] Footnote not marked in narrative

2006-08-08 Thread David Arnold
All, How can I have a footnote that is not marked in the narrative? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Column problem

2006-08-08 Thread David Arnold
Hans et al, In making the final pass at our book, I have a problem with the \column command. In trying to start a new column to avoid a widow, I put a \column command at the end of the first of two columns on a page. The result is I get a start of a new column, but it is on a new page.

[NTG-context] columns - columnsets introduces problems

2006-08-08 Thread David Arnold
Hans et al, When we discovered that \column doesn't work reliably with \startcolumns[n=2] ... \stopcolumns, we made some changes to our style files: %\setupcolumns % [tolerance=stretch, % balance=yes, % blank=flexible, % rule=off, % distance=2.5em]

[NTG-context] Extra pages

2006-08-06 Thread David Arnold
All, Can anyone explain why the output of this source has two blank pages at the end? \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering [state=start, alternative=doublesided, location=, way=bytext]

[NTG-context] Black and White

2006-08-06 Thread David Arnold
Hans et al, Is there switch to throw to texmfstart texexec so that interactive green links go a nice dark color when printed to black and white? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] completecontent, completeindex

2006-08-06 Thread David Arnold
Taco, Thanks. We're trying that now. See: http://msenux.redwoods.edu/IntAlgText/chapter0/chapter0.pdf On Aug 6, 2006, at 2:12 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, If you use \completecontent or \completeindex, how do you manipulate the heads of these constructs? Most

Re: [NTG-context] Extra pages

2006-08-06 Thread David Arnold
Huh? What shoud it be then? On Aug 6, 2006, at 2:22 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, Can anyone explain why the output of this source has two blank pages at the end? The extra extra page is caused by the next line: alternative=doublesided, location=, way

[NTG-context] adding an icon (flushed left) in a displayed formula with equation number

2006-08-05 Thread David Arnold
All, We have: \placeformula[eq:commonb] \startformula (1)^2+(\sqrt{4x+13})^2=(2x)^2, \stopformula This gives us a centered equation with an number pushed to the right edge of the page (I probably should say text area). What we'd like to do, just in this one example (not globally), is add

[NTG-context] How to get rid of header

2006-08-05 Thread David Arnold
All, how do I get rid of the header on the second page of output? \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering [state=start, alternative=doublesided, location=, way=bytext] \definetext[chapter][footer][pagenumber] \setuphead

[NTG-context] completecontent, completeindex

2006-08-05 Thread David Arnold
All, If you use \completecontent or \completeindex, how do you manipulate the heads of these constructs? Can I change the text of the header, Contents to Table of Contents? Can I change the color? Can I change the font size and style? Can I suppress the headertext? Somewhat like

Re: [NTG-context] \in

2006-08-04 Thread David Arnold
A partial

Re: [NTG-context] column overflow at times --- any thoughts?

2006-08-03 Thread David Arnold
Taco,Nice try, but didn't help.On Aug 3, 2006, at 12:08 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:\displaywidowpenalty0\brokenpenalty0 The difficulty might be that Exercise #27 is in a textblock.% Exercise

Re: [NTG-context] column overflow at times --- any thoughts?

2006-08-03 Thread David Arnold
Thanks for trying, Taco. Appreciate the help. On Aug 3, 2006, at 1:00 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: Taco, Nice try, but didn't help. If the \column break works out ok, then I am not going to spend any more time on this, ok? No doubt there is a bug somewhere, but without

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-03 Thread David Arnold
Taco, Hans, This would be terrific if we had a working bat for Win98. My colleague would be extremely happy. Thanks for considering this. On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:30 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: If the batch file is still functionally equivalent, it would make sense to include

[NTG-context] \startMPenvironment : personal font weirdness

2006-08-03 Thread David Wooten
viewer auto-updates). Any clues? Many thanks, David ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] e sends error to bbedit

2006-08-03 Thread David Arnold
All, I have an error here: \setupcolors[state=start] \startuniqueMPgraphic{demo circle} path p; p:=fullcircle xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight; fill p with color .85whwite; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .625red; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[demo

Re: [NTG-context] \startMPenvironment : personal font weirdness

2006-08-03 Thread David Wooten
Hans Hagen wrote: \startMPenvironment [global] \usetypescriptfile[minionpro-diss] \usetypescript[Minion] \switchtobodyfont[Minion,12pt] \stopMPenvironment dangerous to use such a upper/lowercase mix (typos) I see what you mean. hm, looks like a bronwser

Re: [NTG-context] \startMPenvironment : personal font weirdness

2006-08-03 Thread David Wooten
Hans Hagen wrote: what is the label font then? probably defaultfont so you need to set that as well also, label does not use tex, use label(\textext(very),z46) That's it, indeed (though without the back-slash for textext): label(textext(very),z46) and friends Hans Many thanks! David

[NTG-context] scite line endings

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, I know where the line endings choice is on the menu in scite. Seems to default to cr+lf in windows regardless of the file it is reading, or am i mistaken? Is there way to have it interpret the line endings and keep whatever form is used when the file is opened?

[NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
Taco, Is this also true about: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? No, it doesn't work. Command.com is not smart enough to process

[NTG-context] Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today. If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise. Thanks.

Re: [NTG-context] Figures disappear with subtextblocks

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
Hans, What does generate formats under tools mean? I have to do something more than: texmfstart texexec --make all ? I'm afraid I don't know what tools are yet. On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: David Arnold wrote: Hans, Gerben, Thanks. However, this raises another issue

[NTG-context] texmfstart texexec --make all on the Mac

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, Looks like: texmfstart texexec --make all Put the format files in: ~/Library/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/ I'll have to remember to delete these when I update using Gerben's Context updater. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Figure number off one time

2006-08-01 Thread David Arnold
On Aug 1, 2006, at 1:01 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, David Arnold wrote: All, I would like to use: \placefigure [right][fig:pythagoras] {An early portrait of Pythagoras.} {\getbuffer[figure]} And I would like to turn off the figure number

Re: [NTG-context] Figure number off one time

2006-08-01 Thread David Arnold
Aditya, Excellent! Where do you learn this stuff? On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Quoting David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Very nice. This worked well. Thanks Hans. In connection with this same question, consider the small example that follows. My thinking was that I

[NTG-context] column overflow at times --- any thoughts?

2006-08-01 Thread David Arnold
Hans et al, Any thoughts on this? We are using: \setupcolumns [tolerance=stretch, balance=yes, blank=flexible, rule=off, distance=2.5em] However, once in a while we get column overflow. See page 55 on:

[NTG-context] No page break

2006-07-31 Thread David Arnold
All, Anyone know why my Answers and Exercises don't break to a new page? \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \usemodule[colors] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[gridlines][s=0.7] \definecolor[exercolor][r=0.0,g=0.3,b=0.7] \definecolor[oceanfoam][b=1,g=0.75,t=0.12,a=1]

[NTG-context] column overflow at times

2006-07-31 Thread David Arnold
Hans, We are using: \setupcolumns [tolerance=stretch, balance=yes, blank=flexible, rule=off, distance=2.5em] However, once in a while we get column overflow. See page 55 on: http://msenux.redwoods.edu/IntAlgText/chapter0/chapter0.pdf Are we doing this

[NTG-context] Figure number off one time

2006-07-31 Thread David Arnold
All, I would like to use: \placefigure [right][fig:pythagoras] {An early portrait of Pythagoras.} {\getbuffer[figure]} And I would like to turn off the figure number in this caption, but just for this graphic, not for any other I place. I want the number off, but I want to keep the caption

Re: [NTG-context] Figure number off one time

2006-07-31 Thread David Arnold
Aditya, Most excellent. Thanks. On Jul 31, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, David Arnold wrote: All, I would like to use: \placefigure [right][fig:pythagoras] {An early portrait of Pythagoras.} {\getbuffer[figure]} And I would like to turn off the figure

[NTG-context] Figure 1.

2006-07-31 Thread David Arnold
All, Anyone know how to put a period after Figure 1 in a figure caption? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] calling texmfstart from perl in context distribution

2006-07-30 Thread David Arnold
All, I have cdwincontext installed and I am trying to run texmfstart from a perl script on windows. I tried associating file extension .rb with the ruby that comes with the context distro. Am I missing something here? #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $os; if ($^O =~ /darwin/i

[NTG-context] core-buf.tex?

2006-07-27 Thread David Arnold
All, In looking at core-buf.tex to see if I could find anything about subblocks, I came across at line 518: \def\setblocklevel#1% sign {\global\advance\blocklevel #11 \ifcase\blocklevel\doingblocksfalse\else\doingblockstrue\fi} Is that 11 correct?

[NTG-context] keepblocks

2006-07-27 Thread David Arnold
All, Can anyone explain what this is supposed to do? \keepblocks ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Success and a question.

2006-07-26 Thread David Arnold
did you make texmfstart.rb executable? as well as all the ruby scripts? On Jul 26, 2006, at 3:59 PM, John R. Culleton wrote: I successfully updated to the latest cont-tem zip but it wasn't easy. Karl Berry suggested the following: cd $TMPDIR dir=`pwd` wget

Re: [NTG-context] mails

2006-07-25 Thread David Arnold
How hot? California is roasting. Power grid threatened. Just got back from L.A. and Sacramento at 115 degrees Fahrenheit. On Jul 25, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, Sorry if i'm a bit slow with answering mails ... it's pretty warm here (and noisy since we need to open the server

[NTG-context] Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt

2006-07-21 Thread David Wooten
others use... is R an efficient method to produce elegant charts? Is straight MetaPost preferable? Many thanks, David [1] http://www.tug.org/TUG99-web/pdf/doumont2.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg

Re: [NTG-context] Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt

2006-07-21 Thread David Wooten
into it ;) David ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Why doesn't this inherit?

2006-07-18 Thread David Arnold
Hans et all, We don't understand, why we have to uncomment the commented line in the code below to make section numbers go away? Why doesn't the enumeration inherit? \usemodule[colors] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[lavender][r=0.25,b=0.75,t=0.095,a=1] \defineframedtext[MyBox]

[NTG-context] Figure. 3

2006-07-18 Thread David Arnold
All, Anyone know how to get a period after Figure in figure caption. I tried: \setupcaptions[separator=.] \starttext \placefigure [][fig:one] {Caption.} {\externalfigure[blank]} \stoptext And \let\floatcaptionsuffix=. \starttext \placefigure [][fig:one] {Caption.}

[NTG-context] Losing Chapter Number

2006-07-18 Thread David Arnold
Hans et al, Why do we lose the chapter number in headers (and other places) with this: \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \def\headermarkleft{\bold{\pagenumber}\headerskip{\sc\headerskip Chapter \headnumber[chapter]\headerskip\getmarking[chapter][current]}}

[NTG-context] linecorrection

2006-07-16 Thread David Arnold
All, I've been using this construct a lot. \startlinecorrection[blank] \midaligned{\getbuffer[table]} \stoplinecorrection My thinking was that it put a blank before and after, but now I am not sure. Am I missing something? ___ ntg-context mailing

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