[NTG-context] texshow

2009-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I can't find a file 'texshow.pl' anymore at my context tree. Is the file excluded in actual minimals? Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

[NTG-context] 2UP

2009-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, years ago I had the same problem: with 2UP the table of contents is not included! Wasn't this a bug? Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] Scite + non-global environbment variables

2009-10-25 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:24:37 +0200 From: Wolfgang Hugemann a...@hugemann.de To: mailing list for ConTeXt users ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Scite + non-global environbment variables Message-ID: 4ae1e6d5.4010...@hugemann.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1;

Re: [NTG-context] footnote

2009-10-14 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 13 Oct 2009 at 23:17, ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl wrote: Hallo Wolfgang, 2.--- I want some space on the left of \start\stoptables. What I get is SOME space, but not that what I wanted! \starttables[|l|] \starttables[o0|i(3cm)l|]

Re: [NTG-context] footnotes

2009-10-13 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 6 Oct 2009 at 12:00, ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl wrote: Hallo, I am a little pressed on time. So I need a solution or a workaround for the following two problems I have posted recently: 1.-- please look at the following example:

[NTG-context] left align and tables

2009-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo I want some space on the left of \start\stoptables. What I get is SOME space, but not that what I wanted! --- \starttext vorher \setupnarrower[left=3cm] \startnarrower[left] \starttables[|l|] \NC hmm \NC\MR \stoptables \stopnarrower nachher \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] Scite + non-global environbment variables

2009-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Wolfgang, I have just started with Context, having been working with LaTeX (i.e. MikTeX / TeXnicCenter under WIndows) for quite a while. I installed Contextminimal and Scite just as proposed as the easiest way to get started. As setting global environments variables would interfere

Re: [NTG-context] footnote

2009-10-06 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hi Taco, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: Hallo, please look at the following example: \starttext {\tfx Bla\footnote{Eins}} \midaligned{Zack\footnote{Zwei}} Blub\footnote{Drei} \stoptext The second footnote is missing verified (both mkii and mkiv

[NTG-context] footnotes

2009-10-05 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, please look at the following example: \starttext {\tfx Bla\footnote{Eins}} \midaligned{Zack\footnote{Zwei}} Blub\footnote{Drei} \stoptext The second footnote is missing and the numbersize of the first is smaller than the third. I use ConTeXt ver: 2009.06.14 21:01. Wolfgang

[NTG-context] ctxtools error

2009-09-19 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I had to install a new ruby and get errors with ctxtools now: - ConTeXt ver: 2009.06.14 21:01 MKII fmt: 2009.8.15 int: english/english ruby --version ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32] texmfstart

Re: [NTG-context] astronomy symbols

2009-08-17 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Wolfgang, But what is wrong with my code? Why does it not work? Take a look at the log file when the font is read. load afm | reading /Users/wolf/context/tex/texmf/fonts/afm/public/wasy/ wasy10.afm load afm | unifying /Users/wolf/context/tex/texmf/fonts/afm/public/

[NTG-context] astronomy symbols

2009-08-15 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I can not produce astronomy symbols. I use: LuaTeX, Version beta-0.40.6-2009070100 (Web2C 2009) ConTeXt ver: 2009.06.14 21:01 MKIV fmt: 2009.7.16 int: english/english Here a testfile: -- \usesymbols[was] \setupsymbolset [wasy astronomy]

Re: [NTG-context] type problems

2009-08-09 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Wolfgang, it is amazing to see, that you are always able to draw a new white rabbit out of your context-hat! is \mono the youngest incarnation of \type, \retype ...? \starttext \mono{\%}\mono{\letterpercent} \mono{\{}\mono{\letterleftbrace} % \mono{\{} works only with MkIV

[NTG-context] type problems

2009-08-06 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I have always problems with verbatim text. Sometimes I found a solution, sometimes a workaround. Are there solutions to - print text with a verbatim '%' sign - print text with a verbatim '{' why is in the following example '#' -- '##'? why is there a newline between 'bla' and 'blub'?

[NTG-context] \quotation and figure

2009-05-21 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, isn't this a very old bug with \quotation and \placefigure? \starttext \placefigure[left]{Bla}{\externalfigure[dummy][height=.3\textheight,wi dth=.3\textwidth]} \quotation{\input tufte } \stoptext Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] \footnotetext

2009-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! with new context the same error with mkiv (mkii is ok): -- texmfstart texexec --autopdf --luatex tst.tex TeXExec | processing document 'tst.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1

[NTG-context] mkII with minimals

2009-05-04 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I just installed the minimals and got the following error - texmfstart texexec --autopdf --pdf antrag.tex TeXExec | processing document 'antrag.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec

[NTG-context] \footnotetext

2009-05-04 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, in order to use footnotes in a table, I use \footnotetext and \note. But it is not workink. The following test \starttext Bla\note[bla]. \footnotetext[bla]{blub} \stoptext gives the following error: - texmfstart texexec --autopdf

[NTG-context] How to update/install minimals

2009-05-01 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I wanted to update a minimal-installation under windows. The first attempt was to invoke: first-detup --keep (found at the garden) The result was the following output, nothing else happend: - receiving incremental file

Re: [NTG-context] colored column

2009-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 21 Jan 2009 at 10:47, ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl wrote: Von:ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl Betreff:ntg-context Digest, Vol 55, Issue 64 An: ntg-context@ntg.nl Antwort an: ntg-context@ntg.nl Datum: Wed, 21 Jan 2009

[NTG-context] Content head

2009-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I would like to def a costum head, but I also want the pure word 'Inhaltsverzeichnis' as content head. I tryed: \def\Vortrag#1#2{#1~Vortrag:~#2}% \setuphead[chapter][command=\Vortrag ] \definehead[contenthead][title] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] colored column

2009-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Hans, What is the problem here? maybe a typo? \{C{red} looks weird See: --- % Key \{: Enclose template in braces. \NewFormatKey \{{% \!taDataColumnTemplate=\!thx{\!thx{\the\!taDataColumnTemplate}}%

Re: [NTG-context] colored column

2009-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Wolf[gang], \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \starttable[ o1 | \{C{red} |] \VL red \VL\SR \stoptable \stoptext This was an older example which worked some years ago (see: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/020803.html), but is not working anymore. What

Re: [NTG-context] colored column

2009-01-18 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Hans, What is the problem here? maybe a typo? \{C{red} looks weird See: --- % Key \{: Enclose template in braces. \NewFormatKey \{{% \!taDataColumnTemplate=\!thx{\!thx{\the\!taDataColumnTemplate}}% \ReadFormatKeys}

[NTG-context] colored column

2009-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \starttable[ o1 | \{C{red} |] \VL red \VL\SR \stoptable \stoptext This was an older example which worked some years ago (see: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/020803.html), but is not working anymore. What is the problem here? Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems

2008-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, Mojca Miklavec wrote: You need \runMPgraphicstrue Yes, this helps! But what are the sideeffects? When is the opposite needed? \runMPgraphicfalse is faster when you need two tex runs anyway, because it collects all the graphics in a single metapost run which is a more

Re: [NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems

2008-10-07 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Mojca, 1. The labels of the first graphic are xscaled (randomly) They are not scaled randomly :P They inherit the sizes from the second graphic. See http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20061204.102337.280a6589.en .html strange You need \runMPgraphicstrue Yes,

[NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems

2008-10-06 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I have a lot of problems with the following example: \usetypescriptfile[type-exa] \usetypescript[iwona][ec] \setupbodyfont[iwona,11pt] \startMPenvironment%[global] \usetypescript[iwona][ec] \setupbodyfont[iwona,8pt] \stopMPenvironment

[NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems

2008-10-06 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I have a lot of problems with the following example: \usetypescriptfile[type-exa] \usetypescript[iwona][ec] \setupbodyfont[iwona,11pt] \startMPenvironment%[global] \usetypescript[iwona][ec] \setupbodyfont[iwona,8pt] \stopMPenvironment

Re: [NTG-context] \definecolor

2008-09-25 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
isn't there a three-parameter version of \definecolor ? It doesn't work. \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor [MyBlue][blue][p=.2] \starttext \color[MyBlue]{Bla} \stoptext \definespotcolor (three args is too messy) Ok! Then there are a lot of wiki-pages wrong. Who is

Re: [NTG-context] \definecolor

2008-09-25 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
isn't there a three-parameter version of \definecolor ? It doesn't work. \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor [MyBlue][blue][p=.2] \starttext \color[MyBlue]{Bla} \stoptext \definespotcolor (three args is too messy) Ok! Then there are a lot of wiki-pages wrong. Who is

[NTG-context] page-log.tex

2008-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! I tried to download and unzip context-setup-mswin.zip. The wiki says 'Run first-setup.bat, go for a coffee.' But thats not possible. I am six times asked for a replacement name for 'page-log.tex' which does not exist. I gave him 'page-log.mkii' and finally all goes ok. Wolfgang --

[NTG-context] \definecolor

2008-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, isn't there a three-parameter version of \definecolor ? It doesn't work. \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor [MyBlue][blue][p=.2] \starttext \color[MyBlue]{Bla} \stoptext Wolfgang ___ If your question

[NTG-context] frameoffset in textbackground

2008-09-11 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I asked this question a week ago, but got no answer. Does anybody know what is 'frameoffset' for? I can not see any difference with and without this parameter. -- \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[strong] [backgroundcolor=lightgray,

[NTG-context] frameoffset in textbackground

2008-09-04 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, what is 'frameoffset' for? There seems to be no difference with and without this key. -- \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[strong] [backgroundcolor=lightgray, location=paragraph, frame=on, frameoffset=5mm] \starttext bla

Re: [NTG-context] letter

2008-04-30 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users ntg-context@ntg.nl Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Wolfgang, it seems to me that referenzline, subject, foldmarks, etc, are about 4mm or 5mm to big (A4 paper). The foldmark for example should be

Re: [NTG-context] letter

2008-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Wolfgang, it seems to me that referenzline, subject, foldmarks, etc, are about 4mm or 5mm to big (A4 paper). The foldmark for example should be 105mm from papertop. It is 110mm from top. The horizontal offset (3.5mm) of foldmarks ist to small. A laserprinter often is not able to print

Re: [NTG-context] letter

2008-04-24 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
have you called luatools --generate because this is neccesary for MkIV to let it find new files in your TeX tree. Ok! I have learned this now. Is this a replacement or an additive to mktexlsr? Wolfgang ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Taco et al \startlua local function finder(name, mode, ftype) if mode==w then return name else return kpse.find_file(name,ftype) end end Jein! Try this, a little more elaborate, version of finder: local function finder(name,

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hi Taco, I can remove that line, it is misleading. The content of the log file is in result.log What do you mean with result? There is only ONE log file and that is tst10.log (the log file of the tst10.tex which runs the above code). Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 19 Apr 2008 at 8:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything I read below says there should be a 'plain.mem' in the folder where you ran theat file in. If there really really isn't, then my only advise to you is to buy a less thieving operating system, as it seems this one steals your

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
\startlua local function finder(name, mode, ftype) if mode==w then return name else return kpse.find_file(name,ftype) end end Jein! The only file in my tex tree which could play that roule is cont-en-mpost.mem in the cache

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 18 Apr 2008 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Wolfgang, I still wait for comments about the user interface to set the values before I will release my module to the public although my last stable version is only available. I still use the LaTeX class scrlttr2 for my letters. I use

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Taco, Everything I read below says there should be a 'plain.mem' in the folder where you ran theat file in. If there really really isn't, then my only advise to you is to buy a less thieving operating system, as it seems this one steals your files before you can even have an

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 16 Apr 2008 at 1:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, (I have temporary appended 'dump;' to plain.mp) After the above, you should have plain.mem in the local directory. No. There is neither a 'plain.fmt' nor a 'plain.mem'! Everything I read below says there should be a

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-15 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 15 Apr 2008 at 13:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Taco, (I have temporary appended 'dump;' to plain.mp) After the above, you should have plain.mem in the local directory. No. There is neither a 'plain.fmt' nor a 'plain.mem'! I have searched in the local directory, where it should

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 13 Apr 2008 at 13:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Taco, thank you for your example. % start low-level \startlua local function finder(name, mode, ftype) if mode==w then return name else return kpse.find_file(name,ftype) end end mp = mplib.new ( {

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 12 Apr 2008 at 9:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \startlua mp = mplib.new ( { hash_size = 10, main_memory = 200, param_size = 10, } ) if mp then res = mp:execute( beginfig(1) draw (0,0) .. (1,1) .. (2,1); endfig; bye; ) tex.print([ ..

Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv

2008-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 12 Apr 2008 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Taco, Real API documentation will be provided once I am past the alpha release stage. At the moment, I do not trust the API enough to expose it to anything except controlled environments (lua mplib, newmpost) Isn't mplib a dll under

Re: [NTG-context] luatexing

2008-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 12 Apr 2008 at 9:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few silly questions about tex.print() To produce $\sqrt{2}=1.4142135623731$ it should be enough to write tex.print($\\sqrt{2}= .. math.sqrt(2) .. $) this is because \\ can mean anything, for instance it

Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv

2008-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, This release of is rather substantial: no longer is metaposts called, but mplib is used instead. is there or will der be a documented interface description for mplib. Wolfgang ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv

2008-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, is there or will there be a documented interface description for mplib. In the luatex reference manual (for now). http://foundry.supelec.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/tags/beta-0.25. 2/manual/?root=luatex This manual is not viewable without deleting a html-frame. Or what I am

[NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, the following compiles ok, but gives me an status 3=fatal error. Can someone please point me to the error? \startlua mp = mplib.new ( { hash_size = 10, main_memory = 200, param_size = 10, } ) if mp then res = mp:execute( beginfig(1) draw (0,0) .. (1,1) ..

[NTG-context] luatexing

2008-04-11 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I have a few silly questions about tex.print() To produce $\sqrt{2}=1.4142135623731$ it should be enough to write tex.print($\\sqrt{2}= .. math.sqrt(2) .. $) or better tex.print([[$\sqrt{2}=]] .. math.sqrt(2) .. $) but that's both not working. The following instead does

[NTG-context] mpost updating

2008-04-10 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I have updated an older ConTeXt (ver: 2007.07.29 22:06 MKII) with a aktuell mpost. I have used 'http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/metapost/mswin/bin/' as source. The command 'texmfstart texexec --autopdf --make --all' produces no metapost formats at all. Calling

Re: [NTG-context] first steps

2008-04-10 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, That's strange. Here this command gives: 103 ~: luatools --all *qplr.* /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/powerpc-darwin/luatools:4392: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil) allthough: 104 ~: find /usr/local -name *qplr.*

Re: [NTG-context] staticMPfigure

2008-04-10 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Hans, the following example is a cooked down version of something I found on the net. Compiling this % \setupcolors[state=start] \forceMPTEXcheck{LABEL} \startMPinclusions vardef [EMAIL PROTECTED](expr s, p)= [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] first steps

2008-04-09 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 9 Apr 2008 at 10:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, Just to make sure - what's the version of ConTeXt and LuaTeX you're using, and do you have the cont-sys.tex file? Werner said he had used: Wolfgang :-) http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip But

Re: [NTG-context] first steps

2008-04-08 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 8 Apr 2008 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using scite with the following command: texmfstart texexec --autopdf --luatex tst3.tex I simply have no idea. I do not understand why windows would object to closing a file that doesn't exist (not even how it could be possible for an

[NTG-context] first steps

2008-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
hallo, I tried to make my first luatex-steps with the following wiki-example - \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] effe fietsen 2: \input tufte $\sqrt{2}$ \eogonek \sc effe fietsen 2: \input tufte $\sqrt{2}$ \eogonek

Re: [NTG-context] first steps

2008-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 7 Apr 2008 at 20:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to make my first luatex-steps with the following wiki-example - \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] effe fietsen 2: \input tufte $\sqrt{2}$ \eogonek \sc effe fietsen 2:

[NTG-context] mpost update in minimal windows

2008-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I tried to update my metapost executable in the Windows ConTeXt minimal. In the bin dir I found both mpost.exe (Version 1.000-rc1) and a mpost.dll In the archive 'metapost-1.002-windows.zip' there is mpost.exe (Version 1.002 (Web2C 7.5.5)) and no dll So I downloaded

[NTG-context] staticMPfigure

2008-04-02 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, the following example is a cooked down version of something I found on the net. Compiling this % \setupcolors[state=start] \forceMPTEXcheck{LABEL} \startMPinclusions vardef [EMAIL PROTECTED](expr s, p)= [EMAIL PROTECTED](textext(%

[NTG-context] newlines after keywords

2008-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hello, I would like to separate multiple keywords with newline-chars. The following doesn't work: \setupinteraction[keyword={first\r\n,second\r\n,third},state=start] How can this be done? Gruß, Wolfgang ___ If

[NTG-context] c-code

2008-02-26 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, some times ago, I tried to use the module 'verb-c' but something like the following didn't work: \usemodule[verb-c] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startC *\0 \stopC \stoptext Wolfgang Schuster told me, not to use 'verb-c' and to use for example: \setupcolors[state=start]

Re: [NTG-context] \start\stoplines and image

2008-02-25 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hi Wolfgang, You should use the right command for this purpose. \startfiguretext {none} {\blackrule[height=\textheight,width=.5\textwidth]} \startlines Sie sprach: \quotation{Das ist ein Test.} \stoplines \stopfiguretext Yes, that works. But why is my example wrong?

Re: [NTG-context] itemize and math

2007-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Sorry, I don't understand what the problem is! I have a problem with \startitemize[columns,a] \item $a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$ \item $a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$ \stopitemize Hi, this did not wotk because the second formula is than the first and

Re: [NTG-context] itemize and math

2007-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
I have a problem with \startitemize[columns,a] \item $a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$ \item $a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$ \stopitemize Hi, this did not wotk because the second formula is than the first and -^ (what?)

[NTG-context] itemize and math

2007-10-29 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I have a problem with \startitemize[columns,a] \item $a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$ \item $a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$ \stopitemize which is NOT in columns. \startitemize[columns,a] \item one \item two \stopitemize works! How can I solve this? Wolfgang

[NTG-context] Re :luatex:first steps

2007-09-14 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hi Wolfgang, I have installed the newest windows standalone context package. My first try was with this snippet, found as 'test-2' at luatex.org: %% \lua {tex.print($\string\\sqrt{2} = .. math.sqrt(2) .. $)} \luatex {tex.print($\string\\sqrt{2} =

[NTG-context] luatex:first steps

2007-09-12 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I have installed the newest windows standalone context package. My first try was with this snippet, found as 'test-2' at luatex.org: %% \lua {tex.print($\string\\sqrt{2} = .. math.sqrt(2) .. $)} \luatex {tex.print($\string\\sqrt{2} = .. math.sqrt(2) ..

Re: [NTG-context] verb-c.tex

2007-09-06 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hmm! I can not find the problem. Here is a short example, showing the error. Hope that someone can give me a hint! \usemodule[verb-c] \starttext \startC *\0 \stopC \stoptext and the errormessage: ! Extra \else. \doCtypefiveA ...mment \getpretties {#1}{#2}\else

[NTG-context] verb-c.tex

2007-08-31 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! 'verb-c.tex' stumbles over #define IMPORTFILTER Diary (*.dry)\0*.dry\0Address (*.adr)\0*.adr\0All Files(*.*)\0*.*\0\0 (one line) How can this be fixed? Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to

[NTG-context] verb-c.tex

2007-08-31 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! I forgot to say that I am using a patched version. See the following discussion: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/020934.html The 'verb-c.tex' in the distribution does not work with backslashes at all. In my example the problem is with the '*\0\0' part of the string. I

Re: [NTG-context] itemize start=2

2007-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
how can I start an itemization with 2 I have tried snippets like \setupitemgroup[[itemize][start=2] \startitemize[n] \item zwei \item drei \stopitemize but could'nt found a solution. Btw.: Is there a differenz between \setupitemize[] and

[NTG-context] itemize start=2

2007-08-28 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, how can I start an itemization with 2 I have tried snippets like \setupitemgroup[[itemize][start=2] \startitemize[n] \item zwei \item drei \stopitemize but could'nt found a solution. Btw.: Is there a differenz between \setupitemize[] and \setupitemgroup[[itemize][] Wolfgang

[NTG-context] TEXapplication

2007-08-20 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, while playing with m-pstric I realized that there is an other problem. m-pstric uses the TEXapplication start/stop mechanism, but the resulting box has no extend. The commented version which does not make use of TEXapplication works ok. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] m-pstric

2007-08-19 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
- If dvi is not the default, what is the right switch? ('texexec --dvi ...' has no effect) --dvi would have been more intuitive, but it's --dvips. That was the solution Thank you Mojca! Wolfgang ___ If your

[NTG-context] m-pstric

2007-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I tried the example in the module pstric, but it is not working. Running my 'tst.tex' loads the module and since it is in pdf-mode a line pstricks : using indirect method; enable write18 was written. But in 'tst-texapp.log' appears the same line: pstricks : using indirect method;

Re: [NTG-context] MetaFont

2007-08-17 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
But this does massivly restrict metafonts capabilities. Pens for example are not allowed (Metafont with applied handbrake)! I agree, metatype1 is not very easy to use if you are familiar with metafont already. For existing fonts, mf2pt1 is in general the best approach, I think.

Re: [NTG-context] MetaFont

2007-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
But this does massivly restrict metafonts capabilities. Pens for example are not allowed (Metafont with applied handbrake)! I agree, metatype1 is not very easy to use if you are familiar with metafont already. For existing fonts, mf2pt1 is in general the best approach, I think. There is

[NTG-context] Scite

2007-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! I had a little problems to install scite 1.74 for conTeXt under Windows. First, I tried to import both 'context.properties' and 'default.properties' in this order in 'SciteGlobal', but only the second(?) was imported. I tried to comment a few other imports, which I don't use, but

Re: [NTG-context] MetaFont

2007-08-15 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Has anybody ever tried to rewrite metafont to produce type1 fonts? Yes. The Gyre project is using an extended Metapost to generate Type1 and OTF fonts. Best Martin That's MetaType1? But this does massivly restrict metafonts capabilities. Pens for example are not allowed

Re: [NTG-context] MetaFont

2007-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
I am still using MetaFont typefaces. Will too LuaTeX support MetaFont as PdfTeX does? Yes (as Hans and Martin said already). But you really should consider switching to outline fonts. I am looking for a good way to convert these fonts to type1, but textrace and mftrace don't run under

[NTG-context] MetaFont

2007-08-13 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I am still using MetaFont typefaces. Will too LuaTeX support MetaFont as PdfTeX does? Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType in ConTeXt

2007-08-07 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
It is nice to have such scripts. But I would like to know what goes on behind the scene. In principle one has to know all the steps to do it by hand. Just use the great otftotfm by hand and you know what is missing. Then try to read the source code of otfinstall and try to underst

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType in ConTeXt

2007-08-07 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
well, i still use texfont for type 1 fonts, but for open type i use luatex anyway which can handle it directly (actually, mkiv also usese afm files instead of tfm when available, so texfont is not needed any more) How stable/reliable is LuaTeX for general use? Well, not at all is

Re: [NTG-context] adventor

2007-08-06 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
I must admit that I find this a bit frustrating. The tex-gyre font project looks so promising, but users need a simpler syntax to use the fonts (I know we want need this anymore with luatex, but it needs to be fixed anyway). This type of patch to type-gyr.tex should help:

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType in ConTeXt

2007-08-06 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Why should I use otfinstall instead of texfont, besides the fact that texfont doesn't work? Do you really need another reason? Have you tried otfinst? The point of all these scripts is to make your life easier in generating metrics, auxiliary fonts and map files; if you tear yourself

Re: [NTG-context] adventor

2007-08-04 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Luigi! I have some problems useing the font adventor from gyre project. After downloading the fonts and the context map-files from the gyre-site, I tried the following: \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] \definetypeface[adventor][ss][sans][adventor][default][encoding=ec]

[NTG-context] adventor

2007-08-03 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I have some problems useing the font adventor from gyre project. After downloading the fonts and the context map-files from the gyre- site, I tried the following: \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] \definetypeface[adventor][ss][sans][adventor][default][encoding=ec]

Re: [NTG-context] itemize with zero start

2007-08-01 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: Hallo, has nobody tested this with did you update? No, I have not updated yet! I would like to understand this error first. Can you please explain, why a comment can toggle an error? Filtering comments should be very low level (plain TeX or ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] itemize with zero start

2007-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, has nobody tested this with ConTeXt version = 2007.07.03 19:38 MKII? Wolfgang Here is an other example! Remove the three-line-comment, and the error is gone! Strange what? Wolfgang - \setupbodyfont[sansserif,11pt]

Re: [NTG-context] makempy (pstoedit - gs) hangs

2007-07-30 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! I think I've identified the problem: in the PostScript prologue file for pstoedit you find the following bit of code (slightly simplified): /getorigfont { dup /OrigFont known { /OrigFont get getorigfont } if }

Re: [NTG-context] itemize with zero start

2007-07-29 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! Here is a minimal example of how this happens. I had posted it sometime back. \starttext \setupitemize[each][][stopper=:] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD \startitemize[a] \item Bla \item Blub \item Bautz \stopitemize \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Here is an other example! Remove the

Re: [NTG-context] makempy (pstoedit - gs) hangs

2007-07-28 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! Downgrading to gs version 8.11 does NOT help, but downgrading to 8.11 AND changing the makempy methode from pdf to ps helps! gs 8.57 hangs with ps too. If an ps guru can interpret the gs error message, I will send this of list!? Wolfgang the following code let ghostscript fail.

[NTG-context] itemize with zero start

2007-07-27 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! I have a problem with \startstopitemize with \setupitemize[each][][stopper=:] After some \startitemize ... \stopitemize groups conTeXt(ver. 2007.07.25) starts to count from zero (not longer from one). I get : Bla a: Blub b: Bautz not a: Bla b: Blub c: Bautz A few weeks ago

Re: [NTG-context] makempy (pstoedit - gs) hangs

2007-07-23 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! the following code let ghostscript fail. What is wrong her? Wolfgang \setupcolors [state=start] \starttext \useMPlibrary[txt] \startlinecorrection \TightText{\ss\bf 123}{0cm}{3cm}{red} \stoplinecorrection \stoptext % %ConTeXt ver: 2007.07.03 19:38 MKII

[NTG-context] TABLE problems

2007-07-20 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I have two problems/questions with the following tables: 1. Should'nt all the columns be .2\textwidth, as in the last table? 2. Why expands column width to \textwidth in the second table? Has to do with \type{} and/or color! 3. Why behaves table 1 (with \type{}) as table 3 (whitout

[NTG-context] makempy (pstoedit - gs) hangs

2007-07-20 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, the following code let ghostscript fail. What is wrong her? Wolfgang \setupcolors [state=start] \starttext \useMPlibrary[txt] \startlinecorrection \TightText{\ss\bf 123}{0cm}{3cm}{red} \stoplinecorrection \stoptext % %ConTeXt ver: 2007.07.03 19:38 MKII %pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL

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