Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-07-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/13/2011 10:50 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I uploaded a beta: - Project structure related files are now dealt with in lua: it's mostly compatible but somewhat more strict (proper push and pop). In the log file the used structure is summarized. - All writing from lua to tex is now under

Re: [NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting news

2011-07-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/08/2011 08:32 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, Hi Taco, I'm extremely grateful that you're taking over and making this meeting possible - I was fearing it might have to be called off. Despite being on the context group's board, I hadn't registered myself because I found it

Re: [NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting news

2011-07-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Oops, sorry for the noise, this was supposed to go to Taco, not to the list... On 07/08/2011 09:09 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On 07/08/2011 08:32 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, Hi Taco, I'm extremely grateful that you're taking over and making this meeting possible - I was fearing

Re: [NTG-context] Influencing of horizontal arrangement of list of publications

2011-06-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 27, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: Hello ConTeXtist. After some experimentation, I found a satisfactory solution of my problem. Setting margins, distance and alignment can be done by redefining the global macro \bibalignednumber. Default defining of this macro (eg. in

[NTG-context] where to place \index (again)

2011-06-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I'm in the final phase of editing a scholarly book with a pretty big index. What follows is less a question than an observation: no matter where I place the \index command, there can always be unwanted side effects: foo\index{bar}: here, the entry may point to the page following the

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-06-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, here is another problem with the latest beta - this used to work, but maybe Hans has developed a different mechanism for it? \startbuffer[test] aHellothinspace;World/a \stopbuffer \startxmlsetups xml:testsetups \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{a}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-06-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Its a chicken-egg problem when to expand some of them. I uploaded a beta that makes a destinction: \xmlsetentity{thinspace-a}{\,} \xmltexentity{thinspace-b}{\,} Great, xmltexentity does what I need - it's just that the interface has

Re: [NTG-context] xml syntax for \externalfigure

2011-06-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 4, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Peter Münster wrote: \startluacode function my_externalfigure(file, t) local args_present for k, v in pairs(t) do if v == then t[k] = nil else args_present = true end end

Re: [NTG-context] undefined control sequence bug with German umlaut in bibliography

2011-06-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 3, 2011, at 8:38 PM, Julian Becker wrote: I came across an issue in context (context ver. 2011.05.18 22:26, LuaTeX ver: beta-0.65.0-2010121421 (rev 4034) ) when trying to cite a bibliography item having an author with a German umlaut ä From btxdoc, which is part of texlive: you

[NTG-context] xml syntax for \externalfigure

2011-06-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I'm pulling my hair - thought this was easy, but turns out to be more difficult. The \externalfigure command can take a width and/or a height parameter, and context will be happy to take either one into account. I'm trying to translate that into xml syntax. Here's a minimal example

Re: [NTG-context] xml syntax for \externalfigure

2011-06-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 3, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: (untested) \exeternalfigure[...][height=\doifemptyelse{\xmlatt{#1}{height}}{fit}{\xmlatt{#1}{height}}] Aditya Hmm, almost... Gives the dreaded Missing number, treated as zero error. But your fit gave me an idea: this works:

Re: [NTG-context] xml syntax for \externalfigure

2011-06-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 3-6-2011 10:19, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hmm, almost... Gives the dreaded Missing number, treated as zero error. But your fit gave me an idea: this works: [height=\xmlattdef{#1}{height}{fit}] but only if I have a real dimension

Re: [NTG-context] [bibliography] publications layout

2011-05-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 24, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Pontus Lurcock wrote: ? I'm using ams there and realized that the title tag of @book is not treated that way (so with @book there are caps inside the title without extra {} in the bib-file). This is the case for most bibliography styles: journal articles

Re: [NTG-context] bug in luatex on osx-ppc

2011-05-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 24, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Thomas, Some time ago I had an analogous problem related to a new version of LuaTeX (on Mac OS X 10.6.7, Intel processor). I can't say anything about the error message you get, but what I did was the following: --- I erased

[NTG-context] bug in luatex on osx-ppc

2011-05-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, after updating the minimals to the latest beta on osx-ppc, I can't compile any document, I always get this error: context test mtx-context | run 1: luatex --fmt=/Users/tas/context/tex/texmf- cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/ cont-en

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 23, 2011, at 10:45 PM, Stefan Müller wrote: +1 for Zotero I tried Mendeley some time ago. It's standalone but sill quite similar to Zotero. Browser-integration works via a special bookmark. It also has an embedded pdf-viewer, which is very neat. Reason for changing to Zotereo were

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 23, 2011, at 11:32 PM, John Haltiwanger wrote: I hope my question does not come off as too aggressive, but why on earth are we still using BibTeX? Or, more accurately, when can we _stop_ using BibTeX and move onto something that has native UTF-8 support and can also integrate with

Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-conte​xt] How to retreive the bibentry number and use it somewhere?

2011-05-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 9, 2011, at 11:47 AM, seasoul wrote: Hi, I sorted the reference by the squence they appear in the text. I want to retreive a bibentry number, but use it at other places. I try to use \onlinecite, this number is the same as \cite[xxx]. Its number will become smaller if I put it

Re: [NTG-context] [t-rst] inclusion into Minimals, i. e. installation using `./first-setup.sh --extras='t-rst'`

2011-05-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 8, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Marco wrote: Having a GUI installer for the minimals (to make it more user-friendly and enable the user to choose what modules and fonts to install). Just a (maybe stupid) idea: What about making the existing windows GUI install and/or update all

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography basics

2011-05-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 5, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Hagmann Jörg wrote: Hi Taco, Thanks, but my problem is not sorting, it is the appearance of the references in the list of references. When using \setuppublications[alternative=num,criterium=text,sorttype=cite], I get the sequence first name-surname- etc.

[NTG-context] quotation marks for language latin

2011-05-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, Hans, in lang-def.mkiv (line 623) and and lang-ita.mkii (line 101), we have \installlanguage % the same as italian [\s!la] [\c!rightquote=\lowerrightsingleninequote, \c!rightquotation=\lowerrightdoubleninequote, ... This can't possibly be right (is there a language which has

Re: [NTG-context] quotation marks for language latin

2011-05-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 1, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On Sunday 01/05/2011 at 4:09 pm, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, Hans, in lang-def.mkiv (line 623) and and lang-ita.mkii (line 101), we have \installlanguage % the same as italian [\s!la] [\c!rightquote

Re: [NTG-context] rscale (only for integers?)

2011-03-31 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 31, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, in a typescript I need to set sansserif font proportional bigger than serif font. Using rscale? As far as I have seen this only works when integers are used for bodyfont: \starttypescript [times] \definetypeface [times] [ss]

Re: [NTG-context] Minimal example for Cyrillic

2011-03-31 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Your example is very nice, and I appreciate that you took the time to comment all this. But actually, all you need is: \setupbodyfont[gentium,12pt] and then your text. Explanation: gentium is in the minimal distribution, there's a typescript for it

Re: [NTG-context] \setuppublications problem

2011-03-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 10, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Using the last mkiv from the minimals, \setuppublications seems out of order. If I write: .. \setupbibtex [database=/home/jean/biblio] \setuppublications[alternative=apa] \starttext {\bf

Re: [NTG-context] Numbering again..

2011-03-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 2, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Ian Lawrence wrote: The following is untested (since you don't include a working example, just snippets of code) I have a counter that I'd like to reset \newcounter \nuggetnumber \def \numberofnuggets{0} \definehead [nugget] [section] \setuphead [nugget]

Re: [NTG-context] problems with bib

2011-03-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 28, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Stefan Müller wrote: \usepublications[criterium=text] I'm not sure where to put this command and how to adapt other commands. But \completepublications[criterium=text] works for me. So that's okay with me. Yes, sorry, I was typing too fast. Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] No widows and orphans

2011-03-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 1, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I do not want to have widows and orphans. Because of this I use: \clubpenalty=1 \widowpenalty=1 But this has no effect. Still the last two lines of a paragraph are put on the next page instead of the complete paragraph. I think

Re: [NTG-context] increase space on the left of pages included using \copypages

2011-02-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Curiouslearn (if you're older than 13 years, I'd appreciate a real name), it's not easy to see what you want to do. The included pages, like the document where you want to include them, are letter size. If you simply include them, they will take the entire width. The small margin left and big

Re: [NTG-context] increase space on the left of pages included using \copypages

2011-02-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Curiouslearn wrote: I will try to do this using lua loop. I should learn it. I am learning so many new things currently that I have not had a chance to learn Lua. lua is not all that different from other languages such as python or perl; once you've grasped the

Re: [NTG-context] filtering xml

2011-02-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 21, 2011, at 11:37 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 21-2-2011 8:11, Thomas Schmitz wrote: Hi all, this must be easy, but I don't find the solution. Given an xml structure like this: X Adog/A ABcat/B/A ABmouse/B/A /X which \xmlfilter expression do I need to get the first A element

Re: [NTG-context] some equivalent of latex beamer \itemuncover@1?

2011-02-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Not in the short term, i might give it a try some day but I hate mechanisms that interfere with others in unpredictable ways as do such multiple page solutions (references, spacing etc) unless one sticks to predictable structure and wants to

[NTG-context] problem with bibliography

2011-02-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans and all, the current beta has a problem with a bibliography entry I have in my project. I can't quite put my finger to it, but here's a fairly minimal example. It compiles without problems with an older version I happen to have on my disk (2011.01.06 17:08), but not with the current

Re: [NTG-context] [PATCH] tex/context/base/strc-ref.mkii: Typo. s/mechsnism/mechanism/

2011-02-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: The same typo is present in the ConTeXt user manual [1] in chapter 13 »Figures«. There is also a wording issue in my opinion. Normally, users need not concern themselves … I would change that to Normally, users do not need

[NTG-context] mkii broken in latest beta?

2011-01-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, am I the only one having this problem? On OS X, the latest beta ver: 2011.01.18 19:34 MKII fmt: 2011.1.21 breaks with any and every input, even a simple \starttext hello world \stoptext, with this error: systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) )

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: verbatim lua eats my quotes

2011-01-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 10, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 9-1-2011 10:16, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: \starttext \startLUA require 'lpeg' sep = lpeg.P(,) \stopLUA \stoptext I'll put a beta on the ftp for testing. You can configure the string content as well as the quotes. Hi Hans

[NTG-context] mkiv: verbatim lua eats my quotes

2011-01-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, is this a bug or a feature: in verbatim lua code, my double and ' single quotation marks are eaten up in mkiv (everything is colorless, but correct in mkii). Example: \starttext \startLUA require 'lpeg' sep = lpeg.P(,) \stopLUA \stoptext Thanks Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Re: xml-processing: missing or ungrouped '='

2011-01-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 8, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Achim Jander wrote: Hi Hans, sorry, i'll try to make it more clear: Excuse me, your example makes my head spin. Just from looking at it, there appears to be a fundamental error: you flush the content of title into a context \startchapter \stopchapter environment,

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Re: xml-processing: missing or ungrouped '='

2011-01-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 8, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Achim Jander wrote: Hi Thomas, yes, of course you are right, but thats not making the problems. Its switched in while making a minimal example. My problem or maxbe misunderstanding ist what I try to achieve with Sorry, but I still don't have the faintest idea

Re: [NTG-context] howto start with presentations?

2011-01-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 8, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I found nice designs like pre-22 where can i find a good example for the text structure (like table of contents and headlines)? Take a look at the simpleslides module. Which, however, doesn't do TOCS. Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] counter values as label names

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 3, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Daniel Schopper wrote: Dear list, this seems a really basic question (and probably not even strictly ConTeXt-focused) - so please accept my apologies… I'm trying to construct a macro which first creates two labels in the text (\start/stopline and

Re: [NTG-context] counter values as label names

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 3, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Daniel Schopper wrote: \setupfootnotes[ location=text, numberconversion=empty, paragraph=, ] \newcount\entrycounter \entrycounter=0 \def\appentry#1#2{% \startline[line:\the\entrycounter]%

[NTG-context] another cld question!

2010-12-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Since y'all are playing with cld, here's my little question: how can I write me a language test? Here is what I've been playing with: \mainlanguage[fr] \starttext \startluacode function doit(s) if tex.language == 2 then context(ENGLISH: ) context.currentmainlanguage() context(s) else

Re: [NTG-context] another cld question!

2010-12-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 23, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: if languages.current() == en then Thanks Hans, but it still doesn't work properly: \starttext \startluacode function doit(s) if languages.current == en then context(ENGLISH: ) context(s) else context(NOT ENGLISH:) context(s) end

Re: [NTG-context] another cld question!

2010-12-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 23, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 12/23/2010 05:12 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Dec 23, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Compare: if languages.current() == en then and if languages.current == en then The first is testing the result of a function

Re: [NTG-context] \note and \footnote

2010-12-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 23, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Jon Crump wrote: Attached is a minimal working example, along with the pdf output I got running: context --environment=doublefoot.tex doublefoot.xml Why do you use the intermediate step of creating a macro? I think this does what you want: \startxmlsetups

Re: [NTG-context] \note and \footnote

2010-12-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 23, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Jon Crump wrote: My thought, ill-informed perhaps, was simply for clarity: to make it clear that I'm using the same value in both \note[] and \footnote[]. In any case, sadly, using what you suggest still gets me the same result. I get correct output here. Try

Re: [NTG-context] \note and \footnote

2010-12-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 23, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Jon Crump wrote: mysterious: I tried that and got the same output; both for your version and mine Here's mine. Are you using the same version? ConTeXt ver: 2010.12.22 20:18 MKIV fmt: 2010.12.23 int: english/english doublefoot.pdf Description: Adobe PDF

Re: [NTG-context] Marginal line numbers

2010-12-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Jon Crump wrote: Thomas, et alia. Thanks so very much! I now have this: \startluacode function filter(s) if math.mod(s,5) == 0 then context.color( { darkred }, s ) end end \stopluacode \define[1]\MyNumber% {\ctxlua{filter(#1)}\endgraf}

Re: [NTG-context] Marginal line numbers

2010-12-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Jon Crump wrote: Thomas, et alia. Thanks so very much! I now have this: \startluacode function filter(s) if math.mod(s,5) == 0 then context.color( { darkred }, s ) end end \stopluacode \define[1]\MyNumber% {\ctxlua{filter(#1)}\endgraf}

Re: [NTG-context] Marginal line numbers

2010-12-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:33 PM, Jon Crump wrote: All, Thanks to Thomas's help, I've been making my way up the learning curve. My TEI xml has empty lb elements indicating lines in the original and corresponding lb elements in the translation. I'd like to be able to set these numbers in the

Re: [NTG-context] TEI - conTeXt

2010-12-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 11, 2010, at 8:56 PM, Jon Crump wrote: I've done as you suggest and downloaded the minimals beta leaving the TeX-live distribution behind, so I can be on the same page with you all. Hans's fix has worked. I'm gratified that my intuition about how @xml:id should work was not wrong.

[NTG-context] bib problems

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
All, I've begun summarizing the bibliography problems. Could you all see if your particular problem is mentioned here? If I missed something, please send your test files to the list or to me, please use the sample.bib which is now included in the minimals, and please make the test cases as

Re: [NTG-context] for each script a different font

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 7, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Then: \definefontsynonym [Serif][name:vollkornregular][fallbacks=arrows] But I don't know how to use multiple fallbacks. You can define as many fallbacks as you wish. Here's a silly example: \definefontfallback [Foo]

[NTG-context] custom colors for verbatim in mkiv

2010-12-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, pardon my ignorance, but how can I define custom colors for pretty printing xml in current mkiv? I tried defining a palet, I tried defining the usual colors prettyone etc., but to no avail. And, on a related note: are the files pret-lua.lua pret-mp.lua pret-tex.lua pret-xml.lua no

Re: [NTG-context] custom colors for verbatim in mkiv

2010-12-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 2, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: there is more granularity now: see v-xml.mkiv Ahh, I see! Yes, that's indeed a very nice way to define colors! Thanks a lot! Thomas ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] bib problems

2010-12-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, the last days have brought a couple of bug reports on bibliographies in ConTeXt. I will try and create a number of examples so Hans can test and debug. In order to facilitate the creation of minimal examples for all users, we have a couple of suggestions: 1. There is now a dedicated

Re: [NTG-context] TEI - conTeXt - pdf

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 24, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Jon Crump wrote: All, Having abandoned apache's FOP, I've now been trying to get my arms around XML typesetting with conTeXt with the help of Thomas's excellent tutorial at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TEI_xml. With some difficulty I got the

[NTG-context] problems with vertical spacing and boxes

2010-11-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I need a somewhat unusual vertical setup for typesetting a play. Here is some ASCII art that may show what I want: SP XXX XX15 So: beginning of the line has a fixed space for the abbreviation of the speaker (if there is a speaker designation attached to the

Re: [NTG-context] problems with vertical spacing and boxes

2010-11-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Oh, I forgot one important detail: I have protrusion enabled, so I need protrusion for the main text (argument #2). This works with the low-level approach, but not with the other ones, I think. On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, I need a somewhat unusual vertical

Re: [NTG-context] problems with vertical spacing and boxes

2010-11-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 9, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You have to enable protrusion for natural tables your self with „align=hanging“. Another solution for your problem is to use descriptions: Thanks Wolfgang, I must remember align=hanging (had a similar problem with footnotes recently).

Re: [NTG-context] problems with vertical spacing and boxes

2010-11-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 9, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Another solution: \setupbodyfont[termes,12pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=4.5ex] \setupalign[hanging] \defineitemgroup[myline][width=1cm,symstyle=bold] \define[3]\MyLine {\startmyline\hsize=7cm \sym{#2}#3\wordright[2em]{#1}%

Re: [NTG-context] TEI XML

2010-11-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 7, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Daniel Grycman wrote: Hi Thomas, the pdf output consists only of the text with no structure in it, like linenumbering for example. Daniel Oh wait, now I see: you were trying to use the entire file structure on the wiki, the example text and the style file,

Re: [NTG-context] TEI XML

2010-11-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
need to rewrite some parts of it... All best Thomas On Nov 7, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Hi Thomas, On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:38:18 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: If you want to see that/how it works, I can send you

Re: [NTG-context] TEI XML

2010-11-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 7, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: We don't have a free default Greek for MkIV? I think Scheherezade from SIL is default for Arabic (or should be anyway -- I think Khaled made some improvements) and is fully unicode etc. Does SIL or someone else have a

Re: [NTG-context] \quote

2010-11-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010 12:47:44 Herbert Voss wrote: the documation says, that \quote gives a single quote. Why do I get a double one for french? \starttext \language[nl]\quote{Nederlandse}, \language[en]\quote{English},

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with bib and \completepublications, \placepublications

2010-11-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 4, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Michael Murphy wrote: \starttext \startbodymatter I can cite single authors, like this \cite[Bailey], and I can also do more than one citation \cite[Bailey,Bay1]. \blank[medium] \placepublications \completepublications \stopbodymatter

Re: [NTG-context] Spanning in \start/stop-table?

2010-11-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 3, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote: Hello, just to confirm - - is it possible to span several columns (rows) in tables created by \starttable ... \stoptable? I cannot find such an example, so I guess it's not possible. - I mean something like

Re: [NTG-context] transliteration russian

2010-10-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 29, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi all, I am just about to typeset a book of a russian author written in english, but with a lot of russian literature listed in the bibliography: The titles of theses sources are russian but in latin transliteration, like this ... O

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographies in Mark IV

2010-10-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 22, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Charles Doherty wrote: Dear Thomas and Hans, Thanks for looking at this and apologies for not sending the bib file. I attach a .tex file and a .bib file for Hans to test. I make my .bib file in BibDesk on the Mac (the preview style is abbrev). BibDesk uses

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographies in Mark IV

2010-10-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 22, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: we could have a bib file that describes all context related publications but someone has to volunteer for that Hans You mean we have to wait till Idris finishes THE BOOK? Seriously: we need a sample of different publication forms - books,

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographies in Mark IV

2010-10-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 22, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: fixed in next beta ... it probably never worked in mkiv so it went unnoticed quite long Excellent - works now! Charles should look into the output; those spurious periods are not quite right, but I don't have time now to look into them.

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographies in Mark IV

2010-10-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 20, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Charles Doherty wrote: Dear all, The file below produces a bibliography using Mark II but only a title when using Mark IV. Have things changed or do I need a new approach? I am using Minimals. Thanks, Charlie \usemodule[bib]

[NTG-context] pictures in tabulate

2010-10-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to use pictures inside a tabulate environment. Unfortunately, newer versions of ConTeXt don't take the picture height into account. The following code gives a somewhat disappointing result both in mkii and mkiv: \starttext \starttabulate[|rw(3em)|p|] \NC YYY \NC

Re: [NTG-context] pictures in tabulate

2010-10-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 18, 2010, at 12:20 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: When there is a 'p' in the preamble, lines are forced to lineheights but as I needed images in tabulate a while ago too, I added: \tabulatesplitlinemode 2 So maybe that helps. It might become an option some day. Hans Excellent, this

Re: [NTG-context] Updating via TLContrib

2010-10-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 10/12/2010 05:22 PM, Daniel Grycman wrote: Hi list, I updated my TeXLive 2010 (MacTeX) installation using the TLContrib repository. Now I get the following error message when I use context --version. Try mtxrun --generate Best

Re: [NTG-context] Updating via TLContrib

2010-10-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 12, 2010, at 9:50 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: For the record: I'm getting the exact same error when trying to install a new minimals tree on my linux-ppc box: The executable bit was missing. (I think that you should have the credentials to fix it with svn propset svn:executable on

[NTG-context] typesetting xml targets

2010-10-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I'm currently experimenting with the TEI schema for critical editions. There's one thing that goes beyond my minimal understanding: for internal references, the guidelines strongly suggest defining them with the xml:id attribute. Let's take the example of a textual witness, which could

Re: [NTG-context] placepublications does not place publications

2010-10-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 6, 2010, at 10:21 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 5-10-2010 3:04, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, the following code works in mkii. It used to work in mkiv as well, but doesn't anymore with the latest beta (I can't tell at which version it stopped working, sorry). Maybe a side-effect

[NTG-context] question about \inouter cum suis

2010-10-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Dear gang, consider the following: \setuppapersize[A6][A6] \setuplayout [width=middle, height=middle, backspace=3cm, margin=1.5cm, location=doublesided] \starttext This nation, \inouter{1}turning 100 years old, had no {\em Odyssey}, no St.~George slaying the dragon, no

Re: [NTG-context] question about \inouter cum suis

2010-10-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 6, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided] inner/outer tracking only kicks in when in doublesided mode DUH! (to quote a well-known cartoon character). Of course! I thought my location=doublesided in \setuplayout did this, but I was wrong!

Re: [NTG-context] question about \inouter cum suis

2010-10-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 6, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: It’s “D’oh” :) Wolfgang \dorecurse{2}{D'oh!} Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] question about \inouter cum suis

2010-10-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
OK, another question, hopefully less stupid: \defineinmargin [MyOuter] [outer] [normal] [distance=1cm] \starttext test \MyOuter{1}test \stoptext gives ! You can't use `\dimexpr' in restricted horizontal mode. but the definition is taken from page-mar.mkiv Thomas

[NTG-context] placepublications does not place publications

2010-10-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, the following code works in mkii. It used to work in mkiv as well, but doesn't anymore with the latest beta (I can't tell at which version it stopped working, sorry). Maybe a side-effect of the new structure code? All best Thomas \startpublication[k=ackermanmyth,t=book,

Re: [NTG-context] placepublications does not place publications

2010-10-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:12 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Thomas, Your test file gives me the same result in mkii or mkiv: using ConTeXt ver: 2010.10.01 23:14. Best regards: OK Thanks Otared, that would mean it stopped working with the version I have here, which is 2010.10.03 18:07. All

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-10-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 5, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi Thomas and others, technically speaking the problem is solved by ISO 14651.[1] In praxi multilingual sorting depends on local rules, of which “One index per script|language.” seems to be the most common. Yes, that's what I was

Re: [NTG-context] fitting page around content

2010-10-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 4, 2010, at 7:57 PM, Michael Goerz wrote: Hi Everyone! is there a way to tell ConTeXt to fit the page tightly around the content? In LaTeX, I can do this with \usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview} The purpose is to create a standalone tikz figure of potentially unknown size.

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-10-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, Hans, On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: 1. index sorts uppercase letters after lowercase letters. Minimal example: \starttext \index{Aardvark}Aardvark \index{azygous}azygous \page \setupregister[index][n=1] \placeregister[index] \stoptext I would

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-10-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 3, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: indeed, and in a nice obscure way ... \setuplayout[topspace=1cm,height=middle] \setupbodyfont[11pt] \starttext \def\Test#1% {\vbox{{\bf#1}\blank\placeregister[index][language=cz,n=1,method={#1}]}\blank} wanted result: oá öb Oč Öď Oo

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-10-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 3, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: mm zm pm : use mapping order, add -1,0, +1 to different case and use shape info for missing entries (similar shapes) mc zc pc : use mapping order, add -1,0, +1 to different case uc: unicode order so, you define a sequence of comparisons

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with latest beta: \placepublications

2010-10-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl writes: On 30-9-2010 11:00, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Thanks to the course given by Taco, I now know all about 'nil'... However, I did not track down the error, as Hans will find it immediately! ah, I wanted to log off but you force me to check it now ... in

Re: [NTG-context] pagenumbers in metafun

2010-09-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Sep 20, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Here's a question that has been on my mind for a while now and that I would have loved to ask Taco and Hans at Brejlov: we now have shiny new \userpagenumber and \realpagenumber etc. Is any of these available and accessible from

[NTG-context] pagenumbers in metafun

2010-09-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, first, for thosw of you who went to the meeting: welcome back home from the ConTeXt meeting - looking at the slides and at the pictures made me really sad I couldn't come; I really hope I will be able to make it next year to Porquerolles! Here's a question that has been on my mind for

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2010-08-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 19, 2010, at 12:22 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: anyhow, the beta is somewhat bugged (side effect of drastic cleanup of lua code) but i'll upload a beta tomorrow After the kudos, now the bug reports :-) The all new and shiny interface for tagged pdf is broken; test file:

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2010-08-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 19, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: \setupstructure[state=start] \starttext \startsection[title=One] Test \stopsection \stoptext structure demands structure True :-) but this document still gives an error: ! LuaTeX error

[NTG-context] new beta

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I just ran the latest beta and saw a new way of indicating errors, indicating and quoting line numbers. Is this all new and improved? I hadn't seen this before. Maybe I'm making a complete ass of myself, but I just wanted to mention that this looks incredibly helpful and informative.

Re: [NTG-context] xits font in ~/.fonts

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:01:13PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: Dunno then, it is very confusing, some fonts are found by file name and some are not. Putting them in TEXMF tree makes them found. Wild guess: could

Re: [NTG-context] footnotes again

2010-08-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: this works again: \starttext \showframe \setupnotedefinition[footnote][location=left,width=1cm] \setupnote[footnote][location=page,numbercommand=] test \footnote{test} \stoptext Great, this is what I need! I have adapted it like so

Re: [NTG-context] Grammar

2010-07-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 28, 2010, at 11:29 AM, John Haltiwanger wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Marcin Borkowski I am not sure that I understood your point, but I am quite convinced that the low percentage of women in mathematics or IT is caused primarily by the simple fact that an average female

[NTG-context] lecturer

2010-07-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Just saw this on ctt. Does anyone know more about this? Thomas Name of contribution: lecturer Author's name: Paul Isambert Location on CTAN: macros/generic Summary description: On-screen presentations with PDF features for (almost) all formats. License type: lppl

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