Re: [NTG-context] Natural tables, offsets

Wolfgang, Can you use the leftoffset/rightoffset on individual table cells? Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Wolfgang Schuster Sent: Fri 4/11/2008 8:13 AM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Natural tables, offsets On Sun,

Re: [NTG-context] ConTEXt - produced book

Very nice! Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jörg Hagmann Sent: Tue 4/8/2008 8:16 AM To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: [NTG-context] ConTEXt - produced book Dear list members, My biochemistry textbook has been published by orell

[NTG-context] MKIV/LuaTeX roadmap

I've been following the MKIV developments on the list, but don't have a good feeling for the overall stability/robustness/completeness of the new code. Can someone who has the high-level insight (Hans, Taco?) please add a page to the wiki that gives the community a general roadmap for new

[NTG-context] externalfigure sizing problem

Hello, I've noticed that the images included with externalfigure appear at about 95% of their specified size on a printed page. The example below can be compiled on contextgarden to replicate the behavior. This problem is nothing new and has existed for at least a couple of months. Is there

Re: [NTG-context] externalfigure sizing problem

Sure enough that worked. Thanks, Taco! Try turning off the fit to printer margins in the Acroread print dialog. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

for this benchmark? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Hans Hagen Sent: Fri 3/14/2008 12:46 PM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] mplib Santy, Michael wrote: Hans, Sounds pretty impressive. As a point of reference, do you have timing data

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

Hans, Sounds pretty impressive. As a point of reference, do you have timing data for the existing MKII and MKIV image processing code? Cheers, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Hans Hagen Sent: Fri 3/14/2008 12:21 PM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users

[NTG-context] setupreferenceformat questions

Due to some fairly unique customer requirements for bibliography, we're using the simple bibliography discussed in the wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Bibliography). While this approach gives us more flexibility, I'm having trouble with a couple of things... 1) The code below

Re: [NTG-context] PDF/A with ConTeXt

Good idea. I'll take a look. Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of luigi scarso Sent: Thu 2/7/2008 10:59 AM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] PDF/A with ConTeXt Records management systems prefer to receive their PDFs

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt book

We would also be really interested in such a book (even if it was a bit pricey). Cheers, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Matija Suklje Sent: Mon 2/4/2008 9:42 AM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt book Dne ponedeljek 4.

[NTG-context] multi-page table numbering

Hello, By default, ConTeXt numbers the table on each page in a multi-page table with a different number (e.g., 1a, 1b, 1c for a three page table). I don't see this as a problem except for that each page of a multi-page table will be called out in the list of tables. Does anybody know how

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

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] ConTeXt meeting: preliminary registrations opennow Jeff

[NTG-context] non-typographic apostrophe

How do I include a non-typographic apostrophe in ConTeXt? If I type ' (U+0027), it is automatically converted to a typographic (directional) apostrophe. Cheers, Mike ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] non-typographic apostrophe

Thanks, Thomas. That worked like a champ. Cheers, Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Thomas A. Schmitz Sent: Fri 1/4/2008 11:09 AM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] non-typographic apostrophe On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Santy

[NTG-context] escaping filenames with externalfigure

Is there a way to escape special characters in filenames passed to externalfigure. I'm encountering the situation where users are choosing images that may contain brackets or curly braces (e.g., flower[1].jpg or flower{1}.jpg). If I pass filename containing these characters directly to

Re: [NTG-context] escaping filenames with externalfigure

, 27 Dec 2007 08:09:55 -0600 Santy, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to escape special characters in filenames passed to externalfigure. I'm encountering the situation where users are choosing images that may contain brackets or curly braces (e.g., flower[1].jpg or flower{1

Re: [NTG-context] escaping filenames with externalfigure

filenames with externalfigure Santy, Michael wrote: Is there a way to escape special characters in filenames passed to externalfigure. I'm encountering the situation where users are choosing images that may contain brackets or curly braces (e.g., flower[1].jpg or flower{1}.jpg). If I pass

Re: [NTG-context] escaping filenames with externalfigure

users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] escaping filenames with externalfigure Santy, Michael wrote: Is there a way to escape special characters in filenames passed to externalfigure. I'm encountering the situation where users are choosing images that may contain brackets or curly braces (e.g

Re: [NTG-context] stable new-minimals distribution?

Thanks, Mocja. When do you anticipate the new minimals to be stable and ready? I'm particularly interested in the Sun distribution since one is not provided by Pragma. Cheers, Mike ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] stable new-minimals distribution?

I see on the wiki that there are plans to create a stable, beta, and broken branches of the new minimals distribution on minimals.contextgarden.net. Is the eventual goal of this to replace the current mechanism for obtaining minimals and cont-tmf as zip files from Pragma? If so, when is

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX float pages in ConTeXt

Wolfgang Schuster wrote: but he want to collect the figures on one page and not every on a new page. That's part of the issue, but not the entire issue. Attached is the equivalent LaTeX source and the resultant PDF (both gzipped due to ridiculously low 40k email limit). LaTeX appears to

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX float pages in ConTeXt

Sorry about that, the PDF and TeX (that compiles) is now attached. Cheers, Mike floats.pdf Description: floats.pdf \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document} \def\ipsum{% \par Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt

[NTG-context] LaTeX float pages in ConTeXt

I've been playing around with the float placement options in ConTeXt, but I could find no way to enable float pages. If you're not familiar with float pages, here's a quick blurb: If there are too many floats to fit on a page, LaTeX pushes them on to the next page, and the next; eventually,

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX float pages in ConTeXt

Thanks, Aditya. However, I'm don't think that \setupfloat[figure][default=here,top,bottom,page] addresses my need for float pages. If you compile the document below, you'll notice that the figures at the end of the first section are floated throughout sections 2-4. I would like the

Re: [NTG-context] Ligatures in ConTeXt minimals distribution

OK, fair enough. What I don't understand is why do I see ligatures when compiling the following on live.contextgarden.net using pdftex: \usetypescript[times][ec] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext Some ligatures ffi, ffl, fi, fl \stoptext Cheers, Mike -Original Message- From:

Re: [NTG-context] Ligatures in ConTeXt minimals distribution

Thanks for the suggestion. Don't worry about looking further into this issue, I'm just going to use the texnansi times encoding instead of the ec encoding. I'm not going to spend to much time on fancy fonts for my documents until LuaTeX is ready for prime time. Cheers, Mike

Re: [NTG-context] line breaking hints?

Taco, Your solution definitely makes sense. I wanted the content ragged right as you suggested. I'll play around with these penalty settings until it comes out like I want. Cheers, Mike ___ If your question is

[NTG-context] line breaking hints?

Hello, I'm looking for a way to give ConTeXt's line breaking algorithm a hint on where it is allowed to break a line. For example, I want ConTeXt to break lines, if necessary, when it encounters '//' in a string. I don't want to force a line break there, but if context needs to break the

[NTG-context] TABLE splitting on entry spanning multiple rows

Hello, I'm using ConTeXt as part of an XML-PDF workflow that is heavy on tables. The XML table model allows cells to span rows and columns. While ConTeXt has handled row/column spanning perfectly up to this point, I believe I have found an issue. When an entry that spans multiple rows is

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

Hagen, Hans wrote: it's always a problem to determine what's left on a page \def\blah{The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy stupid dog.} \dorecurse{62}{\blah} \synchronizeoutput this will force the otr but is not always fails safe (i.e. vertical spacing may be messed) ... one of

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

Peter, There definitely seems to be something wrong with the splitting behavior, but I'm able to illustrate the same problem regardless of whether its wrapped in a \placetable (see example below). From my experiments, wrapping a table in placetable didn't seem to fix the broken tables or

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

have you tried this with your 'real world' documents? Peter, Although adding the \blank didn't fix the table splitting on this contrived document, it actually seems to fix the problem on the few real world documents that have shown this behavior. Although some of the breaks are still not

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

Thanks Peter for the pointer to the multipage table in the wiki. I don't know how I overlooked that example. However, I was still able to duplicate the problem with this sample table by including a page full of text before the table (see below). If the dorecurse is set to 62 or 63, the

[NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

The same as in my first reply. Look at the first page with the text only. There isn't a space behind the sentence(s) and TeX can't break the paragraph (text expands it's lower border). This also breaks the splitting of the table, as it is (partly) on the same page. Peter, all of the

[NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

In our XML-ConTeXt-PDF workflow, we've encountered a few intermittent problems when using split natural tables. I'm not able to post the original documents in which the problems are manifesting, but below is a document that reproduces one of the problems. The first page of the document is

[NTG-context] natural table splitting bug

In our XML-ConTeXt-PDF workflow, we've encountered a few intermittent problems when using split natural tables. I'm not able to post the original documents in which the problems are manifesting, but below is a document that reproduces one of the problems. The first page of the document is

[NTG-context] split table widows/orphans and splitting threshold

Hello, I'm using ConTeXt as part of a XML - PDF workflow for technical documentation. These documents often have large tables, so I am using placetable[split] for table placement. While placetable[split] works as advertised, the output quality often suffers. One of the issues that I've

[NTG-context] externalfigure and uppercase extensions

Hans, You asked me to remind you this week to look into problems externalfigures and filenames with uppercase extensions. Have you gotten a chance to look into the problem? Cheers, Mike ___ If your question is

[NTG-context] externalfigure rotation

Hello, I'm looking to rotate an externalfigure inside of its bounding box in increments of 90 deg. Its real easy with 0 and 180, you can just do: \externalfigure[blah.pdf][width=5.0in, height=2.0in] \rotate[rotation=180]{\externalfigure[blah.pdf][width=5.0in, height=2.0in]} Both commands

[NTG-context] externalfigure and uppercase extensions

Hello, I'm using conTeXt as the renderer in a XML workflow and have run into a problem with externalfigure. When a user chooses to include a PNG, PDF, or JPG image with an extension that is capitalized (or more generally, not all lower case), the externalfigure just includes a grey box like