Re: [NTG-context] Standalone Installation Question

2013-10-20 Thread d.henman
My platform is cygwin, which gives Posix compatibility. The inital loading shell script noticed thsi provided the cygwin dll. If necessary, I can build from source if available. But, ts possile that x86 would work due the the cygwin interface, but I'm not sure. What to do to complete

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] TexLive on Cygwin (native-ish)

2013-10-20 Thread d.henman
The shell script, context which runs MKIV comes from this in TeXLive /texmf-dist/scripts/context/stubs/unix/context and not from MS-Windows. The unix in the above link to context leads me to believe that it is a unix Posix version of Context. Regardds

[NTG-context] bug or needs warning documentation

2013-10-12 Thread d.henman
I found what I consider a bug in startcombination processing. context version used: version: 2013.09.03 16:23 Examples: 1.) Good compilable source and 2.) source that fails The bad thing about this is that one, at least checks and checks syntax for errors and the error in fact is simply a

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Simple Context Application to Cards

2013-08-04 Thread d.henman
This is a trivial appliation for Context, but a useful one. I plan on designed some business cards, but am new to Context. My idea to to have a logo image in the upper left hand corner, with the company name to the right of it. This would be two block elements at the top of the card. In

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: [***SPAM***] How to reduce vertical spacing after this table

2013-07-08 Thread d.henman
Wolfgang, thank you very much, for the solution to the problem I was having. I am surprised tha placelegend was necessary. I thought that simiply putting the placefootnotes inside the caption would be sufficient. The solution you provided works well. Much appreciated.

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Placement of a table's footnotes

2013-07-05 Thread d.henman
Here is a minimal example of my attempt to get a footnot(s) just below a table. As it is the footnote is dislayed to the right of the table. Minimal example: %--- \starttext \midaligned { \startlocalfootnotes % [conversion=set fnsym]

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Can't find recommended tool

2013-06-23 Thread d.henman
Pable, thanks, but it doesn't work. so easily. mxtrun only see what is in the TeX directory tree and uses that font database. My question is how to register the font to that system so that mtxrun can find it. How does one do that with a ttf font file? Thanks Pablo Rodríguez

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Celsius or Me

2013-06-15 Thread d.henman
I am using the latest TeXLive update version of MKIV (used tlmgr to update). In a compile time message Context says that it doesn't like: ! Argument of \celsius has an extra }. system tex error on line 15 in file degree-problem.tex: Argument of ...

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Error can't define..

2013-06-12 Thread d.henman
I encountered this error, when changing over to a Japanese language document. fonts defining unable to define latinmodernmath-regular.otf as [simplefonts:1-8pt-mm-mb--1] --- fonts math: unset for global bodyfont simplefonts:1 at 12pt

Re: [NTG-context] Using Product-component

2013-04-16 Thread d.henman
As far as I know nothing in the project-component framework has a directive such as you have in the line below: Testing \testing That could be the problem. Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: Has something changed recently on how product-component structure is supposed to be used?

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Symbols for footnotes not working

2013-03-29 Thread d.henman
Thank you both, Wolfgang and Hans for helping me be able to use user specified footnote bulltes. I am using it in a table which I encapsulate with localfootnotes. I call \setupnotation[footnote][numberconversion=fnsym] % change footnote symbols after the startlocal, and it works in the table,

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] What am I doing wrong?

2013-03-19 Thread d.henman
While reading the ConTeXt Manual I tried the following two commands, which didn't work. Here is the sample souce. \starttext First line. %\hskip With text here, this causes an compile time error. \hskip3em Indented?\crlf \hskip 3em Indented?\crlf \hskip3cm Indented?\crlf %\sym{on} This causes

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] File access for sourc, graphic, and pictures

2013-03-08 Thread d.henman
Marko, thanks for the clear and very useful information. Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com wrote: Avoid hard coded path names in your files, it makes them less portable. ConTeXt adds the file name extension automatically, there's usually no need to specify it manually. . Have a look

Re: [NTG-context] Question about current ConTeXt with XeTeX

2013-02-22 Thread d.henman
Thanks for the clear and detailed explanation. It helped clear up the difference, or lak thereof between the -xtxx anf --xetex options for the different scripts/programs. Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:25 PM, hwit...@gmail.com wrote: I

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Asian Language Support

2012-05-08 Thread d.henman
Yusuke-san, Thank you too for writing. It seems like one or the other so far, platex does not give good western style characters but is great for Japanese, which the other option, simplefonts gives good western characters and according to you bad Japanese charac ters. Is it the font or