[NTG-context] disabling ligatures in selected words

2015-10-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, in German typography, ligatures are disabled at boundaries between what used to be independent words (Wortfugen). Thusly, in a correct German text, you'd find Anflug (with fl-ligature) but Auf|lage (without ligature). I know that I can prevent a ligature with something like Auf\/lage

Re: [NTG-context] disabling ligatures in selected words

2015-10-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 23.10.2015 21:09, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Take a look at the new replacement mechanism (lang-rep.mkiv): - http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083044.html - http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083034.html Aditya, Wolfgang, thank you both - both solutions look great and

Re: [NTG-context] markings and syncing

2015-10-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 10/22/2015 05:59 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You have to use the \fetchmark command (which is currently broken but I sent a fix to the dev list) to check the content of both marks because \getmarking isn’t expandable. \startsetups [test header]

[NTG-context] markings and syncing

2015-10-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, I'm trying to set up a header: if a page contains only one marking, it should display this, if it has more than one, display the first and last. Here's what I tried, unsuccessfully: \definemarking [test] \startsetups [test header] \doifelse {\expanded{\getmarking[test][top]}}

Re: [NTG-context] use of preceding-sibling in xmlsetsetup

2015-10-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 10/17/2015 11:19 AM, mf wrote: "reverse-sibling" is ConTeXt specific and very useful: it's a "reversed preceding-sibling", so that you find the nearest sibling at index [1]. I've used it successfully in a \doif statement, but I failed in translating it in a \xmlsetsetup statement, to tell

[NTG-context] setting lineheight in embedded xtables

2015-10-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, I have a small problem with adjusting the height of embedded xtables. Here's my example (the colors are there just to see that all the setups are read and applied): \startbuffer[test] First line of text This is the translation. It is

Re: [NTG-context] use of preceding-sibling in xmlsetsetup

2015-10-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 10/14/2015 01:34 PM, mass...@fastwebnet.it wrote: I've found a better solution: \startxmlsetups xml:p \doif{\xmlattribute{#1}{reverse-sibling::p[1]}{class}}{incipit}{\noindent}% \xmlflush{#1}\par \stopxmlsetups Still I did not manage to put that rule in a xmlsetsetup. Tried this:

[NTG-context] latest beta

2015-10-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans, the latest beta does not replace xml entities for which I have defined something like \xmltexentity{degree}{\textdegree} The problem is not there in 2015.09.13 13:31, but in 2015.10.09 21:28 (sorry don't have all the betas in between). I can make you a test file if you need it,

[NTG-context] footnote in title

2015-10-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I thought something like this had been asked on the list recently, but a search came up empty: how to get footnotes to titles typeset? \automigrateinserts \starttext \startchapter [title={Silly title\footnote{With a silly footnote}}] More text.\footnote{With more footnotes.} \stoptext I

Re: [NTG-context] Oddity: \buildtextaccent shifts glyph right

2015-09-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06.09.2015 17:27, Rik wrote: It seems that \buildtextaccent\textacute q (or \buildtextaccent´q) moves the q to the right within the character’s bounding box. The following example (and attached resulting pdf) demonstrates this. Lines 1 and 2 show the string with and without the

[NTG-context] margindata does not work in latest beta

2015-08-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, margindata have stopped to work in the latest beta. Simple test \setuplayout [leftmargin=2cm] \starttext Thus, I came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large-scale \inleft{100}user; the designer should also write the first user

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/22/2015 03:47 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: There are several different issues. Synchronization can be line-by-line, paragraph-by-paragraph, sectionblock-by-sectionblock... or, as is the case with the posting of this thread, part-by-part (i.e. halves). The different products in multiple

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/22/2015 02:45 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: The project/product/component mechanism can help somewhat. I also know that Thomas had written a streams module to handle the synchronization of texts. However, I am not so sure how to go about this in a real, full-fledged case with a complicated text.

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2015-07-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/11/2015 02:02 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Do you get the same problem when you use the font as main font? \usemodule[newotf] \definefontfamily[mainface][rm][GFS Didot] \setupbodyfont[mainface] \starttext αβγ {\bf αβγ} \stoptext Yes, I do. Pablo Both Wolfgang's file and your

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2015-07-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/09/2015 03:39 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Of course there will be bugs although the test suite runs without crashing. I will use the new code on my machine but you can test it with: \usemodule[newotf] before \starttext (or in cont-loc.mkiv). Hi Hans, did the new font mechanism really make

[NTG-context] rsync server down?

2015-07-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, for several days, I've seen errors while using first-setup.sh to upgrade to the latest version; the rysnc command fails because of server error. I tried on different computers and several networks, so I guess it's not just me but something is amiss there. Is it the heat? But the garden

Re: [NTG-context] removing # in XML identifiers

2015-05-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/06/2015 09:38 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: How could I get the following command working? \ctxlua{tex.print(string.sub(context(\\xmlatt{#1}{href}),2))} I'm not sure that this will ever work - you're mixing and nesting lua and tex code in a messy way. My suggestion would be: if you

Re: [NTG-context] alternative numerical \cite command

2015-05-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/04/2015 06:14 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: You are using the MKII code. It takes the syntax \cite[alternative]{key} which is very intolerant of spacing and the newer module has abandoned this LaTeX style in favor of \cite[key] and \cite[alternative][key] No, that's not quite right, the syntax

Re: [NTG-context] alternative numerical \cite command

2015-05-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I couldn’t find an equivalent for the command \placepublications[criterirum=all] when one needs to give another title to the section containing the bibliography (as in the attached file). As I understand from Alan’s and Thomas Schmitz’ answers, the new bibliography features are not yet

Re: [NTG-context] parsing in child attribute

2015-05-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/03/2015 11:00 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: How could I make that xml:h1 reads the attributes from its parent element (a division)? \xmlattribute {#1} {..//div} {id} should work (as explained in chapter 7 of xml-mkiv.pdf). Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] simple signature boxes

2015-04-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/26/2015 07:12 AM, henman wrote: Thank you for ferreting that out for me. Your correction is what I needed. Much obliged. Sure, glad to be of help. Just one word about your style of coding, after looking at your example again: you want to be careful with all the whitespace in your TeX

Re: [NTG-context] adding extra space before section blocks in the TOC

2015-04-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/26/2015 08:09 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: How could I add some extra space in the TOC before each section block? You're looking for this command: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/writebetweenlist So something like \writebetweenlist [chapter] {{\blank[2*line]}} Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] simple signature boxes

2015-04-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/25/2015 07:34 AM, henman wrote: I now I could use a table to do this but I should also be able to do this with \framed and \startcombination[ cos * rows ]] But no matter what order I give to [ n x c ] the result is always a vertical split and not a horizontal one. You have to add an

Re: [NTG-context] crash with new beta (2015.03.09 19:27)

2015-03-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 03/09/2015 09:28 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: it works here .. can others confirm the issue? Yes, I get the same error here. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] pagebreak after columns

2015-01-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 09 Jan 2015, at 15:34, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: 1 \startcolumns : when balance is yes 2 \startmixedcolumns : when balance is yes 3 \startcolumnset: when balance is yes but balancing is manual guess what ... columnized itemized lists use 1 in mkii and 2 in mkiv Thank

[NTG-context] pagebreak after columns

2015-01-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, a somewhat belated happy new year to all of you! I’ve come across what seems to be a very old bug (I have found references to it in the mailing list from about 10 years ago): I get an unwanted page break after every column environment. Here’s an example with two different ones:

Re: [NTG-context] pagebreak after columns

2015-01-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 09 Jan 2015, at 14:01, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: that's how balance=no works: in that case \column will go to a next column but still fill to the bottom columnsets is actually not meant to be used mixed unless in controlled situations (maybe i will redo columnsets in mkiv some

Re: [NTG-context] bug in hyphenation?

2014-09-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
issue with that command. Many tganks for your help, -- Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Schmitz Geschäftsführender Direktor Institut für Klassische und Romanische Philologie Universität Bonn Am Hof 1e 53113 Bonn http://www.philologie.uni-bonn.de/personal/schmitz

Re: [NTG-context] bug in hyphenation?

2014-09-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 17 Sep 2014, at 10:03, Pablo Rodriguez oi...@gmx.es wrote: I found a bug in a Greek edition of the Hippocratic oath I’m trying to typeset. Last line from the first page http://www.ousia.tk/hippocratic-oath.pdf. Hyphenation points for this word are: κοι[-||]νώ[-||]σε[-||]σθαι. Sorry,

Re: [NTG-context] E-books and XML.

2014-08-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 26 Aug 2014, at 20:04, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Context users have invested time, often years, in learning how to write Context code. Writing XML is a whole other skillset, comparable to writing xhtml. It's not so different if you're accustomed to structure. To chime in: xml

[NTG-context] weird interference in xml processing

2014-08-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, I encounter a weird interference when setting xml entities. Minimal example: \startbuffer[test] a test sim; test /a \stopbuffer \startxmlsetups xml:testsetups \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{a}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:testsetups} \startxmlsetups xml:a

Re: [NTG-context] Prevent hyphenation of the last word on a page

2014-07-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 01 Jul 2014, at 14:40, H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de wrote: Hello, how to forbid hyphenation of the last word of page? Such that no word is broken onto two consecutive pages like this: page 1: Diese Unter- page 2: brechung ist unschön. I think the question is clear without

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: only surname in small caps

2014-06-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 30 Jun 2014, at 15:08, Joshua Krämer joshua.krae...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list, I would like to have in a bibliography only surnames in small capitals, like this: MÜLLER, B. and SCHNEIDER A. (Müller and Schneider appear in small caps, but everything else like and is still in the

Re: [NTG-context] really strange bug in ConTeXt

2014-06-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06/20/2014 09:49 PM, luigi scarso wrote: So \loggingall near the point of failure. For what it's worth: I have exactly the same problem here with one of my xml documents. Compiling n chapters works fine, n+1 chapters gives the fatal error: no return code, message: luatex: execution

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Twenty Questions for DEK

2014-05-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 21.05.2014 09:54, Hans Hagen wrote: In fact, awareness of pdf as option is (imo) mostly surfacing because html viewers opened their eyes. We can produce highly interactive documents but I still have to meet the first publishers who really wants them (given that they see it as option). It is

Re: [NTG-context] Supported architectures for minimals (any ppc users out there?)

2014-04-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/16/2014 01:55 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I would suggest dropping support for linux-ppc for the ConTeXt distribution unless somebody objects. Hi Mojca, AFAIK, I'm one of the two people who used linux-ppc, but that machine is no longer used as a desktop, so that's completely fine by me.

Re: [NTG-context] bizarre error message

2014-04-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 03/29/2014 11:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Ok, we need indeed some example of this so that we can test. It can for instance relate to some prev pointer still not being ok (which can result in such errors). This means that when context looks back at some node that happens to be a head node, we can

Re: [NTG-context] bizarre error message

2014-04-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/01/2014 11:29 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: no, it's one of those ransom issues where a pointer is not set/reset which needs to b esorted out in luatex itself if you put the test file that fails in the crited repos luigi and i can run it and rather easily (less than a day work -) determine where

[NTG-context] bizarre error message

2014-03-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, I haven't yet been able to reproduce this in a minimal example, but I'm trying to place some images within a mixedcolumns environment, and I get an error message I have never seen before: pagesflushing realpage 5, userpage 5 Node 1150 has an attribute list that is free

[NTG-context] font bug in latest beta?

2014-03-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hans, is it possible that the latest beta has a bug in font handling? As far as I can see, all the usual TeX ligatures etc. do not work: \setupbodyfont[times] \starttext 1--2 o'clock \stoptext would be a minimal example. All best Thomas

[NTG-context] vertical alignment of margindata

2014-03-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, apologies for the slightly silly example, but I hope it shows my problem: from processing an xml file, I have material which is best typeset in some sort of table environment (I think). It also has some sort of sectioning mechanism which is displayed as margindata. If you typeset the

Re: [NTG-context] Accessing current XML node in Lua function

2014-02-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
. Thomas Thomas -- Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Schmitz Geschäftsführender Direktor Institut für Klassische und Romanische Philologie Universität Bonn Am Hof 1e 53113 Bonn http://www.philologie.uni-bonn.de/personal/schmitz

Re: [NTG-context] solutions and problems

2014-02-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 02/20/2014 01:22 PM, Xan wrote: If you comment one solution, then, you get Answer to question 1, instead of Answer of question 2, which is really. No always a question has an answer provided by me;-) Thanks, Obviously you will have to give every question|answer|hint some sort of unique

Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 01/17/2014 07:39 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Thomas and Rik most probably need just the existing mechanism to work properly. Well, it might be slightly different for Thomas where Ancient Greek has a limited set of letters, but then such a list should better be defined in an ancient greek

[NTG-context] latest beta

2014-01-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, the following test file gives an error with the latest beta: \setupbodyfont[gentium,12pt] \starttext \buildtextaccent\greekdasia\greekalphamacron \stoptext it works with a somewhat older one (2013.12.30). The error is ! Missing number, treated as zero. system tex error on

Re: [NTG-context] trouble with the title page using the FramedTitle style of the simpleslides module

2014-01-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 01/08/2014 10:58 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: What I notice is that the text on the title page (title, author, date) is * in red on a red background (quite hard to read), and * not centered (even though in the documentation for the simpleslides module and the examples it contains the content on

Re: [NTG-context] Keeping titles together with the following text when grid is on

2013-12-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 12/02/2013 09:02 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: Thanks, it works! Another magic command not documented anywhere in the ConTeXt Guide or Wiki... So have you added it yet? Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography - maybeyear

2013-11-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 11/28/2013 06:37 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hello, Using \setuppublications [alternative=num] for example, should not append letters to the publication years when encountering multiple publications by the same author(s) per year. So, in the use of bibliographies, I have not understood how to

Re: [NTG-context] (critical edition) orphan and widows in lines environment

2013-11-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 11/18/2013 09:35 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Dear Thomas, Luigi and Hans, Hi Pablo, thanks for your examples, they will go into the test repository. We'll have to think about the nested linenotes; I'm not sure that this is a good way to code an apparatus (and since we're taking TEI xml as

[NTG-context] announcement and call

2013-11-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Dear list, today, I have an announcement to make and a call for contributions. We have obtained a medium-sized grant at my university to further development of ConTeXt. Specifically, our project wants to facilitate typesetting critical editions after the TEI xml standard and bibliographical

Re: [NTG-context] announcement and call

2013-11-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 11/14/2013 08:06 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Many thanks for this project, because it benefits us all. Hans has already answered your questions, so just one word: you have been using linenotes a lot and you sent lots of examples and bug reports. If you collect those, they could go into a

[NTG-context] TEXpage problem in lare betas

2013-11-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, the latest betas have problems with TEXpage. The following example gives the expected result with an older version of context (2013.06.10 22:51), but fails with several betas from November (empty page created, no error); unfortunately, it is an older file, and I have no idea when exactly

Re: [NTG-context] announcement and call

2013-11-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 11/14/2013 09:40 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote: What I’d consider the most pressing issue, pertaining both to Context and to TeX as a whole, would be text streams a.k.a. parallel typesetting. It was discussed on the list a couple times already and at one point someone collected examples [1]. Also,

Re: [NTG-context] TEXpage problem in lare betas

2013-11-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 11/14/2013 09:43 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: i'm not sure what interferes but \dontleavehmode in front helps Yes, that is a workaround, thank you! On 11/14/2013 09:45 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: It’s a \framed bug, when you change “align=normal” to “align=line” the frame os correct. OK,

Re: [NTG-context] TEXpage problem in lare betas

2013-11-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 11/14/2013 10:01 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \startTEXpage[offset=0.5ex,align=] Mmh, thanks, but: in my original file, I have two tables; this has the unfortunate effect of rendering them next to each other (instead of vertically). Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] TEXpage problem in lare betas

2013-11-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 11/14/2013 10:08 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: \let\synchronizeinlinedirection\relax OK, new example: \let\synchronizeinlinedirection\relax \startTEXpage[offset=0.5ex,align=] \bTABLE[frame=off,loffset=1ex,roffset=1ex,align={middle,lohi}] \bTR \bTD A \eTD \bTD B \eTD \bTD C

Re: [NTG-context] TEXpage problem in lare betas

2013-11-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 11/14/2013 10:14 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Remove “align=” from \startTEXpage. Wolfgang Now we're talking! Yes, that works, thanks a lot! Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

Re: [NTG-context] error when installing ConTeXt Standalone

2013-09-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 25.09.2013 22:50, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: It worked with Fedora 16, but after installing Fedora 19 it doesn’t work. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/83357 Thomas ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun --script server help broken

2013-09-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 09/16/2013 09:31 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: mtxrun --script server --auto and then go to the reported url should work the --auto makes the server resolve its document root The error I reported occurs with --auto; while mtx-server-ctx-fonttest.lua runs OK, mtx-server-ctx-help.lua throws an

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun --script server help broken

2013-09-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 09/16/2013 10:38 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: weird .. can you put some prints in mtx-server-ctx-help.lua and see if it is loaded? it works okay here Hmm, no, it looks like it isn't loaded at all, I put a print statement in and don't see anything on the console.

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun --script server help broken

2013-09-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 09/16/2013 10:38 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: weird .. can you put some prints in mtx-server-ctx-help.lua and see if it is loaded? it works okay here Wait: is the last line a hint, at the beginning of the start? mtxrun --script server --auto mtx-server | running at port: 31415 mtx-server

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun --script server help broken

2013-09-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
This still isn't working, AFAICS. On 07/03/2013 07:02 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi, was trying to use the help server this morning while I was offline, and it doesn't work, AFAICS. Here's the error: mtx-server | running at port: 31415 mtx-server | document root: /mnt/shared

Re: [NTG-context] Module simpleslides error

2013-09-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 09/13/2013 12:01 PM, Xan wrote: Hi, If I choose BottomSquares in presentation, I receive an error: I'm sorry, I know that some of the styles aren't working at the moment (at least not the versions on the garden; I think all of them work on my system). Aditya and I need to upload a fresh

[NTG-context] imposition 2SIDE: feature request

2013-09-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
, but adds exactly one blank (unnumbered) page at the beginning of the document so odd pages end up on the right and every arranged page looks like a book spread? Thanks, and all best Thomas -- Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Schmitz Abteilung für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie Universität Bonn Am Hof 1e

Re: [NTG-context] xmlfilter in lua

2013-07-31 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Gentlemen and noble ladies, may I rerun this question? It was posted on Sunday and may have escaped those of you who celebrated this day in some manner. Thanks for your attention! T On 07/28/2013 02:07 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi, hope this is comprehensible without a full example: I

[NTG-context] xmlfilter in lua

2013-07-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, hope this is comprehensible without a full example: I want to do some operations on my xml, and that's easier to do in Lua. However, I cannot find how to filter my results and pass them on to a command. In TeX, I would do this: \startxmlsetups xml:a

Re: [NTG-context] xmlfilter in lua

2013-07-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 28.07.2013 12:59, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi, hope this is comprehensible without a full example: I want to do some operations on my xml, and that's easier to do in Lua. However, I cannot find how to filter my results and pass them on to a command. In TeX, I would do this: \startxmlsetups

Re: [NTG-context] problem with setuptex

2013-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/10/2013 11:24 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I would gladly help, but I don't know how zhs works and I didn't find any hints during a quick search. My suggestion would be to put export PATH=$HOME/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:$PATH or something similar into the file that you are sourcing.

[NTG-context] problem with setuptex

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, especially Mojca, I guess, I have a somewhat bizarre problem with the setuptex script under the latest Fedora and zsh (version 5.02). Here's what happens: source ~/context/tex/setuptex /mnt/shared/context/tex is not a valid TEXROOT path. (There is no file

Re: [NTG-context] linenumbering in columnsets (or different solution?)

2013-07-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/10/2013 12:06 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 7/9/2013 7:36 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I want a document with two columns; left column is poetry, so I want the lines to be numbered. Unfortunately, linenumbering doesn't appear to work in columns(ets), so my next attempt was to produce a third

[NTG-context] linenumbering in columnsets (or different solution?)

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, I want a document with two columns; left column is poetry, so I want the lines to be numbered. Unfortunately, linenumbering doesn't appear to work in columns(ets), so my next attempt was to produce a third, very narrow column which displays the line numbers. However, columnsets with

[NTG-context] suggestion: setups for \startitem

2013-07-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, this is just a small suggestion for the interface: since a while, we've had \startitem \stopitem. Would it be possible / feasible / interesting to add a bit of configuration to it? I tried looking at the source. but couldn't find anything. This minimal example explains what I mean:

[NTG-context] mtxrun --script server help broken

2013-07-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, was trying to use the help server this morning while I was offline, and it doesn't work, AFAICS. Here's the error: mtx-server | running at port: 31415 mtx-server | document root: /mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua mtx-server | main index file:

[NTG-context] how to use \dimexpr and fractional values

2013-06-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, long story short: I want to calculate a width or height from user input, which is in the form 0.x (as in 0.3\textwidth) since I want to use that number differently in different circumstances. Problem is that \dimexpr doesn't like decimal values. Example (uncomment second

Re: [NTG-context] how to use \dimexpr and fractional values

2013-06-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06/28/2013 09:16 AM, Peter Münster wrote: On Fri, Jun 28 2013, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: %\externalfigure[mill][height=\dimexpr10cm*\myfactor\relax] \externalfigure[mill][height=\myfactor\dimexpr10cm\relax] Sigh... Thanks Peter, I should have tried this myself. I think I'm losing

[NTG-context] spaces in xml index

2013-06-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, back with a question on index entries in xml. I have the problem that my processing command inserts empty spaces. \removeunwantedspaces does not remove the unwanted spaces; \ignorespaces removes even wanted spaces. Can anybody help? Thanks and all best Thomas \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] spaces in xml index

2013-06-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06/26/2013 02:51 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: There is a space at the end of this line, remove it and it will also disappear from the output. Boy, how embarrassing! Yes, it was a tab - no idea how it got there... Thanks a lot, Wolfgang! Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] Output from Context standalone (actual version) has wrong utf-8 encoding

2013-06-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06/17/2013 07:29 PM, Christian Prim wrote: I used texlive (2012) before standalone. There was never a problem. Same editor, same viewer. With standalone there is a problem just for printing from viewer evince. Just some anecdote: I was working on a presentation style last week and was

Re: [NTG-context] Output from Context standalone (actual version) has wrong utf-8 encoding

2013-06-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06/17/2013 08:22 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Hmmm Remind me: PDF stands for Portable Document Format, or something else? Yes, it is very curious, but unfortunately, pdf viewers behave very inconsistently, especially on linux. When you use something like shading or transparencies, you can

Re: [NTG-context] how to print a simple booklet

2013-06-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06/13/2013 09:46 AM, Jan Pohanka wrote: Maybe I have not described my doubts clearly enough. I see that on all arranged pages the backspace and page numbers (specified as footer,left) are in the middle of A4 page, I would expect them on outer edges... Works here. Did you forget to compile

[NTG-context] register in xml

2013-06-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, may I interest you in a rerun of a question I asked half a year ago? How do you do an index from xml? Here is my naive approach, which ends in all entries being filed under x, which is less than ideal. What would be the proper way of doing this? Thanks Thomas \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] register in xml

2013-06-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06/11/2013 01:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \expanded{\index{…}} Wolfgang Sigh... things can be so easy; I should have tried that myself! Thanks a lot, Wolfgang! Thomas ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] bug with paragraph notes

2013-06-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06/09/2013 01:01 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: Would it be possible that this bug could be fixed? (This is specially important for critical apparati.) apparati, eh? Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] Enclosing the year in round brackets in online citation.

2013-05-31 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/31/2013 04:53 PM, Thomas Friedrich wrote: I couldn't find any reference what I can do with \cite and what possibilities there are. Any idea? Thank you for your help. This seems to work, though it looks bizarre to me: \def\onlinecite{\cite[inbetween={ },right={)}]} \setuppublications

Re: [NTG-context] authoring for web and print - suggestions

2013-05-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/11/2013 12:26 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: Does anyone have experience with authoring for web and print. I.e., we want to maintain only one format and generate both web pages and printed documentation from it. Is there intrinsic or through addons support in ConteXt for this? Any suggestion

Re: [NTG-context] Bracets in tables

2013-05-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/07/2013 12:48 AM, MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ wrote: Hello everyone How can I draw a vertical bracet that spans multiple cells in a table? Search is your friend: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/049601.html Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] TEXpage filename

2013-05-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/05/2013 02:27 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: Wolfgang: OK—but a clarification. Yes, that will give me the individual component files, but not with the page numbers etc that they would have when they are compiled as part of the product. http://pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-1103.pdf HTH

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta and ancient greek module

2013-05-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 05/01/2013 04:13 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: oh, i can add it ... i just saw it and wondered if it was used and couldn't grep it in is it still wanted / needed? Not by me, at least, I separated the file into mkii and mkiv, which is cleaner anyway. But a tiny word wof warning would have been

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta and ancient greek module

2013-04-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/30/2013 03:24 AM, Alan Bowen wrote: The latest beta (ConTeXt ver: 2013.04.30 00:31 MKIV beta) seems to have a problem with the ancient greek module: Indeed. Hans has removed support for \beginOLDTEX etc. - would have been nice if he had told us... I have uploaded a new version which

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/26/2013 08:31 AM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote: even though I consider myself a serious Ctx user, Dutch is still Greek to me. How about to prompt the user to encode a displayed math, e.g. b/a2^3 to be answered $\frac{b}{a_2^3}$? Well, in that case, I'd actually prefer

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/26/2013 09:41 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: I use XeLaTeX and ConText for it control. I have not touched Word in decades, if possible or any other WYSIWYG- system! That being said, take a look at the books printed in this day and age. You will find that the use

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/26/2013 10:05 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: I never said that they do not have ligatures. I never said XeLaTeX does not have the ability to use them I have read the fontspec manual! You wrote: On the other side, I believe, ligatures of off by default in LaTeX which is wrong. That's

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/25/2013 08:20 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default. Then you should not be using any form of TeX. ligatures have been part of TeX since its invention (TeXbook, p. 4), and they have been part of fine typesetting since Gutenberg.

Re: [NTG-context] [wiki] fake account spam

2013-04-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/25/2013 07:31 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: Hi Taco, We're getting 3-12 new accounts created per day. If nothing else, they're cluttering up the recent changes list. I think it's a good idea to update the security questions --- it's easy to do, it'll probably work, and we can always move on

Re: [NTG-context] Can't make ISBN print in bibliography

2013-04-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/19/2013 01:03 AM, john Culleton wrote: Any suggestions? Using MKIV currently. Use \setuppublicationlayout[book] (explained in the bib manual). Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] the difference between \def and \define

2013-04-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/16/2013 11:05 AM, Marco Patzer wrote: It doesn't make sense to use named parameters with \define, since you explicitly pass the parameter*number* in brackets. You cannot refer to a number by name. Well, you could theoretically, but I'd strongly object. Just out of curiosity: why would

Re: [NTG-context] Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines

2013-04-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/12/2013 11:13 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can add \setupalign[stretch] to your document which increases the space between words, it is only a small value and helps in some cases. I could have sworn there was a way to set the maximum number of consecutive lines which can be

[NTG-context] prezi presentations

2013-04-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, this is a very far shot, but just maybe... I have been looking at prezi (http://prezi.com/). There's lots of aspects there that don't appeal to me, but I find the general idea very nice: a presentation is sort of a big poster, with some background graphics. You define areas on this

Re: [NTG-context] userpagenumber

2013-03-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 03/26/2013 06:07 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 1. \setuppagenumber is a synonym for \setupuserpagenumber 2. The “number=XX” setting doesn’t work in MkIV and you have to use \setupcounter. Thank you for your words of wisdom, Wolfgang. Wouldn't it make sense to have backwards compatibility?

[NTG-context] userpagenumber

2013-03-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, shouldn't this work? \setupuserpagenumber[number=34] \starttext \dorecurse{20}{\userpagenumber \page} \stoptext I must admit that I'm pretty confused about pagenumbering; there are too many options of \setup...pagenumber and \setup...pagenumbering for my simple brain now, and I often

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