Re: [NTG-context] Issue with 2013.04.30 00:31

2013-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen
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Re: [NTG-context] Issue with 2013.04.30 00:31

2013-05-06 Thread Kip Warner
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[NTG-context] Issue with 2013.04.30 00:31

2013-05-05 Thread Kip Warner
guments #1#2o-#1 \@@pv:l:misc ...{\bgroup \it }{.\egroup \space }{} \insertpubname {}{. }{}\in... \dotypesetapublication ...ative {\bibgetvart {#1}} \removeunwa

Re: [NTG-context] log reporting?

2013-05-02 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Hans, > How do I enable the output of for example: > report_typescripts("unknown library %a or %a",name_one,name_two) `logs.reporter("fonts","typescripts")` returns a function for writing to the log. Calling that function produces this sort of output:

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

2013-04-26 Thread Hans Hagen
ature is set when the font is loaded. I don't know, but as has been said, the defaults in context sort of fit in the expectations. We even have some traditional pseudo ligatures like -- and --- implemented, also because users expect them. Anyhow, if you put \definefontfeature[default][def

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting TOC

2013-04-17 Thread Meer, H. van der
tupid. But these call do nothing. It seems so simple: use the \complete.. mechanism (because this wraps the TOC nicely) to typeset a selection from the TOC using the criterium-mechanism. Which seems to me just made for this sort of action. But nothing comes out of i

[NTG-context] typesetting TOC

2013-04-16 Thread Meer, H. van der
erium-mechanism. Which seems to me just made for this sort of action. But nothing comes out of it. Hans van der Meer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] Two Bibliography questions

2013-04-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
other adjustments do I need to make to correct this > printout of the citation in the text? > > I already have the following in my preamble: > > \usemodule[bib] > \setupbibtex[database={sample},sort=author] > \setuppublications[alternative=harvard] > \setupc

[NTG-context] Two Bibliography questions

2013-04-16 Thread john Culleton
: \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database={sample},sort=author] \setuppublications[alternative=harvard] \setupcite [authoryear] [pubsep={, }, lastpubsep={ and }, compress=yes, inbetween={ }, left={(}, right={)}] Second question: If I wish to restrict the

Re: [NTG-context] float combinations

2013-04-13 Thread Marco Patzer
st like item lists? Sort-of a hybrid between > combination and itemize. I think this could be a useful feature. > Say, > \startcombination [r*c] [item=a] It's not that simple. You need other itemgroup settings as well, otherwise you don't know the lefttext, righttext, stopper, etc.

Re: [NTG-context] float combinations

2013-04-13 Thread Alan BRASLAU
{figure} [fig:scenery]a. The above example raises the following (low priority) feature suggestion: How about some way of automatically numbering/labeling combinations just like item lists? Sort-of a hybrid between combination and itemize. Say, \startcombination [r*c] [item=a] \startitem

Re: [NTG-context] strange index behaviour with entries inside separatedlist

2013-04-12 Thread Hans Hagen
to the next valid paragraph ... anyway, i sort of fixed it for tables .. at some point i will revise the whole binding issue (but it's somewhat tricky as lots of mechanisms then need testing) in the next beta this works : \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD \

Re: [NTG-context] hyperlink bug in \cite

2013-04-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:47:21 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > can probably be solved (by rewriting some low level bin code ... but > as there is no sample attached ...) Minimal example attached. Alan\setupinteraction [state=start] \setupbibtex [database=biblio,sort=author] \setuppublic

Re: [NTG-context] prezi presentations

2013-04-09 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:04:44 +0200 "Thomas A. Schmitz" wrote: > 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 ver

[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 are

Re: [NTG-context] Different Horizontal Lines with Tabulate

2013-03-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
s in the table and I > need to group Item 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 and so on. Due to the > description being quite lengthy in some cases, I would like to use some sort > of horizontal rule between items. It seems I have to following options: > > 1. Using horizontal rules of two

[NTG-context] Different Horizontal Lines with Tabulate

2013-03-29 Thread Malte Stien
so on. Due to the description being quite lengthy in some cases, I would like to use some sort of horizontal rule between items. It seems I have to following options: 1. Using horizontal rules of two different thicknesses (eg. thicker between groups and thinner between items within the same gro

[NTG-context] different page background for chapter title page

2013-03-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I'm sure there must be a solution for this, but I haven't been able to find it yet: I want my chapter titles typeset in a sort of frame which will span the entire page, not only the text area, so I guess the easiest way to do that would be a page background. How can

Re: [NTG-context] reStructuredText module

2013-03-12 Thread Philipp Gesang
pp > > The .class and .container direectives are certainly there with *ML in mind > but I think there might be analog situatins in ConTeXt. > > .. class:: classname > > blah, blah, blah > > exists to stick a class name on the following element for styling with a

Re: [NTG-context] reStructuredText module

2013-03-12 Thread Bill Meahan
tick a class name on the following element for styling with an external stylesheet of some sort. CSS/CSS3 are probably the primary examles but other XML-bases markus apply just as well .. class::classname blab, blab, blab could yield blab, blab, blab blab. blab, blab or anything

Re: [NTG-context] XML Lua engine in ConTeXt

2013-03-05 Thread Hans Hagen
reason, you can load these files explicitly. In one of the upcoming betas I'll add a script that I use for some months now that permits you to build a merged lib out of these (and more) that then can be includes with one require call (and put alongside whatever code you use). The advantage i

Re: [NTG-context] A trouble with setupbodyfontenvironment

2013-03-01 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/1/2013 11:27 AM, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: I'll try to sort out a minimal example; unfortunately neither of those suggestions worked. btw, can it be that you run a new luatex but an old context? if so ... it's a 5.2 hashing issue and you need to update context to ma

Re: [NTG-context] A trouble with setupbodyfontenvironment

2013-03-01 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/1/2013 11:27 AM, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: I'll try to sort out a minimal example; unfortunately neither of those suggestions worked. In the meantime, here's some more info from the log file: - (chapter.tex ! LuaTeX error .../context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/strc-d

Re: [NTG-context] A trouble with setupbodyfontenvironment

2013-03-01 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I'll try to sort out a minimal example; unfortunately neither of those suggestions worked. In the meantime, here's some more info from the log file: - (chapter.tex ! LuaTeX error .../context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/strc-doc.lua:156: attempt to index local 'meta

[NTG-context] footnotes and columns

2013-02-23 Thread Meer, H. van der
difficult to achieve with this sort of placement problems. Hans van der Meer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Locating a figure

2013-02-13 Thread Hans Hagen
default setup for the search is \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global}]. Just curious: how do PDFs from $TEXMF/doc/... sneak in (under default setup)? there is no specific pattern for pdf so so it's a sort of wildcard s

Re: [NTG-context] Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

2013-02-10 Thread Bill Meahan
that early on and knowing that was possible helped me decide I /would/ use pandoc :) Sort of looks like reStructuredText and its "roles" may help quite a bit in mapping to CSS definitions and custom style definitions in ConTeXt environment files. That may well be all I need fo

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-27 Thread Rogers, Michael K
it an empty `[]` of its own to chew on. > > ... > > I can't quite find at the moment what sort of options the [...] can > contain, sorry. It takes the same options as \switchtobodyfont \starttext \startformula[] [x,x]_t = x \stopformula \startformula[small] [x,x]_t = x \stopfor

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
topformula I can't quite find at the moment what sort of options the [...] can contain, sorry. Cheers, Sietse ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] Big with \widehat and \widetilde

2013-01-24 Thread Hans Hagen
anged the virtual ones accordingly). There might be a few more issues coming as we're in a sort of transition now (for instance all arrow code has been redone due to extensions in lm/gur

Re: [NTG-context] Prioritise TEXMFHOME

2013-01-23 Thread Marco Patzer
es always have been picked up from random subdirectories within TEXMFHOME. > At least somewhere under mymodules/tex/ (but I'm not sure if that > alone is 100% safe - that is - I'm not sure about the search/sort > order of two files with the same name under a different path inside

Re: [NTG-context] Prioritise TEXMFHOME

2013-01-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
/context/third/t-gnuplot.tex and not just anywhere on top level of $TEXMFHOME. At least somewhere under mymodules/tex/ (but I'm not sure if that alone is 100% safe - that is - I'm not sure about the search/sort order of two files with the same name under a different path inside the tex

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Pavneet Arora
(3) As there are language dependent user interfaces, we have more formats (cont-en, cont-nl, ...). (4) We use a management script to run the engine with the context format. Reasons for this are: we need to manage multiple runs, we might need to call intermediate programs (in mkii for instance we need

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen
..). (4) We use a management script to run the engine with the context format. Reasons for this are: we need to manage multiple runs, we might need to call intermediate programs (in mkii for instance we need to sort indices). (5) This also permits us to present to user with an engine independen

Re: [NTG-context] how to widen the textwidth

2013-01-06 Thread 土卜皿
ext > > area and the margin area. > > > > There are also the ‘edges’: these are typesetting areas outside the > > margin areas. Some uses I can think of: colouring the edge of the page > > in a guidebook with sections; placing informative marks in general; > > pri

Re: [NTG-context] how to widen the textwidth

2013-01-06 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
etween the text > area and the margin area. > > There are also the ‘edges’: these are typesetting areas outside the > margin areas. Some uses I can think of: colouring the edge of the page > in a guidebook with sections; placing informative marks in general; > printing a sort of ver

Re: [NTG-context] how to widen the textwidth

2013-01-06 Thread Sietse Brouwer
guidebook with sections; placing informative marks in general; printing a sort of vertical header/footer; etc. This is not a bad reference: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout Cheers, Sietse ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] (XeTeX) trouble debugging a "Missing number" error

2012-12-05 Thread Lars Huttar
ntry-report-country_id-15.bbl not found, waiting for bibtex (./country-report-country_id-15.tuo) systems : begin file country-report-country_id-15 at line 2 (./macros/E16pagenohead.tex) (./data/front-matter-report-world-all.tex figures : dimensions of SILlogo.pdf loaded from figurefile itself fonts

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt: Page numbering in words for spanish

2012-11-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:46:44 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > first we need working prototypes for several languages, then I can > wrap it into some general mechanism. I think all languages are > somewhat different so 'general' is 'sort of general'. For example, in French

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt: Page numbering in words for spanish

2012-11-23 Thread Hans Hagen
first we need working prototypes for several languages, then I can wrap it into some general mechanism. I think all languages are somewhat different so 'general' is 'sort of general'. -

Re: [NTG-context] incrementnumber vs. prefixsegments

2012-11-21 Thread Sietse Brouwer
the table of contents. Did you manage to sort this out yet? If not, consider this a *bump*. I'm afraid I haven't quite managed to work it out myself. --Sietse On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:56 AM, plink wrote: > Hi, > > i'm trying to combine two features that somehow d

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt: Page numbering in words for spanish

2012-11-21 Thread Hans Hagen
;y" t[#t+1] = words[b] end end local function compose_two(n,m) if n > (m-1) then local a, b = floor(n/m), n % m if a > 0 then compose_one(a) end t[#t+1] = words[m]

Re: [NTG-context] Beginner question. Chapter heading in words

2012-11-11 Thread Andrew Dowell
g the dorecurse, but presume that was for testing) I'm not sure if Han's example was supposed to be a stand alone or some sort of style file. I tried running ConteXt on it but it stopped half way through. I was using the the set up suggested in the manual of having a project file, and en

Re: [NTG-context] Beginner question. Chapter heading in words

2012-11-11 Thread Andrew Dowell
g the dorecurse, but presume that was for testing) I'm not sure if Han's example was supposed to be a stand alone or some sort of style file. I tried running ConteXt on it but it stopped half way through. I was using the the set up suggested in the manual of having a project file, and en

[NTG-context] apa like bibliography: entries not indexed correctly

2012-11-07 Thread Andreas Mang
, sorttype=bbl ] \setuppublicationlist[] %bibtex support \setupbibtex[database={references-example},sort=author] %\setupbibtex[database={references},sort=author] MINIMAL EXAMPLE \starttext \cite[Firstauthor:2012b,Firstauthor:2011a,Firstauthor:2012a

Re: [NTG-context] Multi-page textbackground ignores topoffset

2012-10-25 Thread Nicholas Ulle
in it (correct me if > this works okay?). A minimal example (note context live doesn't display the > frame, which is sort of necessary to see the problem): > > \definetextbackground[Test][ > location=paragraph, > topoffset=1em, bottomoffset=1em, > leftoffset=1em, rightoffs

[NTG-context] Multi-page textbackground ignores topoffset

2012-10-18 Thread Nicholas Ulle
me if this works okay?). A minimal example (note context live doesn't display the frame, which is sort of necessary to see the problem): \definetextbackground[Test][ location=paragraph, topoffset=1em, bottomoffset=1em, leftoffset=1em, rightoffset=1em, frame=on, framecolor=black] \starttext Th

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt unofficial test suite stub

2012-10-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 17-10-2012 18:57, Marco Pessotto wrote: Marco Patzer writes: Looking at the diffs, many of the differences are really tiny, but differences exist nevertheless. It will take me some time to sort out which ones are just tiny space shifting, and which ones give really different output

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt unofficial test suite stub

2012-10-17 Thread Marco Pessotto
Marco Patzer writes: >> Looking at the diffs, many of the differences are really tiny, but >> differences exist nevertheless. It will take me some time to sort out >> which ones are just tiny space shifting, and which ones give really >> different output. > > That

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt unofficial test suite stub

2012-10-17 Thread Marco Patzer
his database you can display information like “What broke in the last beta”. > Looking at the diffs, many of the differences are really tiny, but > differences exist nevertheless. It will take me some time to sort out > which ones are just tiny space shifting, and which ones give really >

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt unofficial test suite stub

2012-10-17 Thread Marco Pessotto
less. It will take me some time to sort out which ones are just tiny space shifting, and which ones give really different output. To run the tests yourself it's extremely easy: git clone git://github.com/melmothx/context-unofficial-test-suite.git cd context-unofficial-test-suite ./run-te

[NTG-context] Context halting (or sub processes) and not completing

2012-10-15 Thread Hrothgar Boyce
ext/ruby/base/switch.rb:392:in `expand' from /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:789:in `' --- I must have some sort of configur

Re: [NTG-context] RFC: path relative to current file.

2012-10-15 Thread Andre Caldas
;p") > Then you can something: > [...] > \component toppath:/subpath/somefile.tex Nice. > All given that the top of the inputstack is still ok. Maybe the code could have some sort of "assertion" to 1. check for "stack underflow"; and/or 2. chec

Re: [NTG-context] Symbolsets, using Unicode symbols?

2012-10-06 Thread Alan BRASLAU
♥ or ♥ > $♥$ How sweet! (The heart suit in the mathematical font goes along with the diamond, clover and spade and is very serious, intended for the mathematical description of card games. It has been around in TeX forever and is not just some sort of wingding frivolous shorthand. Just to ex

Re: [NTG-context] Frozen callback.

2012-10-02 Thread Sietse Brouwer
/b end function(8,2) --> 4, not 0.25 I do not know what sort of str and filename are being passed to document.MyCharacterMess. (To all the action functions in utilities.sequencers.appendaction, in fact). >> if file.nameonly(filename) == "ward" then >>

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography, unicode strings, @ELECTRONIC, sorting and bibtex

2012-09-18 Thread Marco Patzer
efinitions in my own private style > files, but have never used APA. Same here. > > \setuppublications [alternative=apa, criterium=cite, sort=author] > > You haven't read carefully enough, it's sorttype=author This doesn't work, either: \setupbibtex [data

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography, unicode strings, @ELECTRONIC, sorting and bibtex

2012-09-18 Thread Schmitz Thomas A.
ioned in the wiki). > It does not show up in the references list. I guess no one bothered > adding them and it's up to me to add the corresponding entries. > > Maybe someone has already prepared a working file for the APA style? Possible. I have @ELECTRONIC definitions in my own priv

[NTG-context] Bibliography, unicode strings, @ELECTRONIC, sorting and bibtex

2012-09-18 Thread Marco Patzer
style? 3) How to sort the bibliography by author? According to the bib manual I expected this to work: \setupbibtex [database=sample] \setuppublications [alternative=apa, criterium=cite, sort=author] \starttext \cite[hh2010a] \cite[Eijkhout1991] \placepublications \s

[NTG-context] Ugly Bibliography layout ...

2012-09-07 Thread Markus Hubig
[database={thesis}, sort=author] | \setuppublications | [alternative=ams, numbering=short, refcommand=short] You can have a look at the result here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2721576/ugly_bib_1.pdf If I add this additional setup | \setuppublicationlist | [samplesize={XX}] I get this resu

Re: [NTG-context] Promotion of the ConTeXt IRC channel

2012-09-07 Thread Marco Patzer
valuable than the ephemeral presence of any sort of > IM channel. I totally agree. If I get you right, you think that the IRC will receive problem solutions that the mailing list will miss. That's a valid point I had in mind, as well. With another channel the information will be spread out even

Re: [NTG-context] Promotion of the ConTeXt IRC channel

2012-09-07 Thread Bill Meahan
. After being on the internet since the early 1980's I can say with certainty if one person is having a particular problem others have or will have it, too. A searchable archive of answers (like a mailing list archive) is far more valuable than the ephemeral presence of any sort of IM ch

Re: [NTG-context] test for (negative) number

2012-08-21 Thread Hans Hagen
On 21-8-2012 17:13, Procházka Lukáš wrote: I also found another solution reposter before: \ctxlua{commands.testcase(condition)} { If true...} {If false} yes, but testcase is an unfortunate name and sort of obsolete (so best use doifelse

Re: [NTG-context] Figured bass symbols in a text

2012-08-11 Thread Robert Blackstone
ested works better as the distances between the figures are short enough to make it look like one symbol. Which is the way I prefer it in this sort of text. Thanks again, Kind regards, Robert ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] Marking a textfragment for later reference

2012-08-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
df's though, in which I included the source. So I can reconstruct the >> examples. >> I'll try to make it again tomorrow morning. I would be interested to learn >> what sort of errors I committed. >> Kind regards, >&

Re: [NTG-context] Marking a textfragment for later reference

2012-08-07 Thread Robert Blackstone
ad not included a minimal example but I had run some trials. Since they > did not work, and you gave me a good solution, I trashed them. I kept the > pdf's though, in which I included the source. So I can reconstruct the > examples. > I'll try to make it again tomorrow morn

Re: [NTG-context] Marking a textfragment for later reference

2012-08-06 Thread Robert Blackstone
d solution, I trashed them. I kept the pdf's though, in which I included the source. So I can reconstruct the examples. I'll try to make it again tomorrow morning. I would be interested to learn what sort of errors I committed. Kind regards, Robert Blackstone

Re: [NTG-context] inproceedings failes me

2012-08-05 Thread Meer, H. van der
This error rang a bell after sifting (slowly) down into my subconscience, it seemed. But back in september last year I remembered having the same sort of problem. After much detective work I then found the culprit being \bibinsertcrossref. The solution proved to be the following redefinition

Re: [NTG-context] Variables how-to needed

2012-07-25 Thread Rogers, Michael K
.e. my price list? > > (IF this was MS Word or OpenOffice, it would be called Mail Merge, but > in OO it sucks a bit; and I think the operation itself should be easy > if I just figure out how to do it... Does this give you the sort of thing you want? Sorry it's so kludgy (hey, \r

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-25 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 25, 2012, at 1:06 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Rogers, Michael K wrote: >> >> Here's a hack, which sort of works, definitely doesn't handle -- >> there must be a better way. I hope you don't mind my using your tex

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Shriramana Sharma
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Rogers, Michael K wrote: > > Here's a hack, which sort of works, definitely doesn't handle -- > there must be a better way. I hope you don't mind my using your text as > text. :-) Hi thanks for your help. Sorry to keep returning

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:33 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Hi -- is there absolutely no way for obtaining these "fake small caps" > in ConTeXT? Here's a hack, which sort of works, definitely doesn't handle -- there must be a better way. I hope you don't

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2012-07-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
his life, most of this will be lost forever. Now I describe the way I would like to see a critical edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses organized: there is a single huge database (as things stand now, most probably an xml file) which contains every reading in every manuscript. This file resides in som

[NTG-context] Bibliography sectioned

2012-07-22 Thread Robert Blackstone
tone --- \setuppublications[alternative=apa,sort=author] \setuphead[chapter][number=no] \setuphead[section][number=no] \starttext \chapter{References} \section{Articles, Books and Theses} \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={Cam1},totalnumber=2] \startpublication[k=Cunningham:2010

Re: [NTG-context] Local TOC after each chapter title

2012-07-19 Thread Hans Hagen
a while for the garden to refresh the search index. Now you can find it by typing “insidesection” in the search box. In mkiv we use a different cloning model and as a consequence the plural setup commands are sort of redundant in which case they are aliased to the singular variant. However, the plu

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.07.10)

2012-07-13 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 09:16 +0200, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > The subject of this ongoing string is not very informative > and indeed slightly unpleasant considering the efforts that > many contributors make towards the development of ConTeXt. > > The present message is not intended to

Re: [NTG-context] Broken Nightly (2012.07.10)

2012-07-13 Thread Alan BRASLAU
The subject of this ongoing string is not very informative and indeed slightly unpleasant considering the efforts that many contributors make towards the development of ConTeXt. The present message is not intended to start any sort of debate; it only represents a reaction to a latent feeling that

Re: [NTG-context] setupbars

2012-07-09 Thread Meer, H. van der
lready happened and did I miss that? And of course, the easiest solution would be if the code itself could sort out the difference between having been given a fraction or a length. Hans van der Meer On 8 jul. 2012, at 22:44, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.07.2012 um 22:24 schrieb Meer, H

Re: [NTG-context] setupbars

2012-07-08 Thread Meer, H. van der
de itself could sort out the difference between having been given a fraction or a length. Hans van der Meer On 8 jul. 2012, at 22:44, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.07.2012 um 22:24 schrieb Meer, H. van der: This gives an error: \starttext \setupbars[rulethickness=4pt] \stoptext !

Re: [NTG-context] xtable

2012-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
. It would be simpler when stables >> had a counter like \currentxtablecolumn >> which could be accessed to make a test like “if \currentxtablecolumn = 1 >> then … fi” but this isn’t the case. > > I see. No hope here. > > But I found some sort of solution which I commun

Re: [NTG-context] xtable

2012-06-22 Thread Meer, H. van der
ke a test like “if \currentxtablecolumn = 1 then > … fi” but this isn’t the case. I see. No hope here. But I found some sort of solution which I communicate here. It is bit of a kludge but does more or less what I had in mind. The following macros do the work in my xml=>xtable module: als

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and SciTE

2012-06-20 Thread Bill Meahan
l-checking by removing the 'language=uk' line restored keyword highlighting throughout the whole file. SciTE 3.1.0 on FreeBSD-9.0-i386 The wordlist(s) tried were from SCOWL 7.1 at http://wordlist.sourceforge.net formed by cat en*80 | sort | uniq >spell-uk.txt Yes, that is a big

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and SciTE

2012-06-19 Thread Bill Meahan
27;ll have to investigate a bit. on linux it's a bit more complex as you need to figure out where scite keeps its properties files and that's sort of hard coded in the binary (but it does work on linux) Finding the properties files is pretty easy (/usr/local/share/scite/), Not sure w

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and SciTE

2012-06-19 Thread Hans Hagen
on linux it's a bit more complex as you need to figure out where scite keeps its properties files and that's sort of hard coded in the binary (but it does work on linux) on osx it&

Re: [NTG-context] back-up.lua; mtx-epub.lua

2012-06-08 Thread Hans Hagen
. So I tried to sort out the options. filter the first page of the pdf and convert it to svg or png (which is what I did a couple of times) - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] back-up.lua; mtx-epub.lua

2012-06-08 Thread Hans Hagen
that is true. So I tried to sort out the options. 1) Always take cover.png in the current directory; not very elegant 2) add cover={…} to \setupinteraction; hijacks the pdf interaction macro 3) add a \setupepub; might be overkill, but maybe more options are added later 4) ? \setupbackend[coverimage

Re: [NTG-context] back-up.lua; mtx-epub.lua

2012-06-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hello all, I am thinking about the best way to implement the cover image for the epub. This is a mandatory requirement to work properly. The cover image is not necessarily present in the pdf version of the document and it might be the only item where that is true. So I tried to sort out the

Re: [NTG-context] back-up.lua; mtx-epub.lua

2012-06-08 Thread Andy Thomas
Hello all, I am thinking about the best way to implement the cover image for the epub. This is a mandatory requirement to work properly. The cover image is not necessarily present in the pdf version of the document and it might be the only item where that is true. So I tried to sort out the

[NTG-context] directory structure

2012-06-08 Thread Jan Pohanka
Hello, here's next of my newbie questions. I have a template for some sort of documents, lets say a report in one file as an environment. It contains also a definition for a footer with an image. I'd like to have the image on some other path than documents together with the tem

Re: [NTG-context] back-up.lua; mtx-epub.lua

2012-06-07 Thread luigi scarso
end up in the distro ASAP. > > > I wonder if Luigi already tested the patches (as he's sort of in charge of > the epub device/viewer testing) .. no, still in my todo queue -- busy in other stuffs -- luigi __

Re: [NTG-context] back-up.lua; mtx-epub.lua

2012-06-07 Thread Hans Hagen
my current project (even if th eprint version is much more important), I’m very grateful for your enhancements! I hope they end up in the distro ASAP. I wonder if Luigi already tested the patches (as he's sort of in charge of the epub device/viewer testing) ..

Re: [NTG-context] how to write two or three single hyphens?

2012-05-31 Thread Hans Hagen
effect of traditional tex and sort of a hack too Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74

Re: [NTG-context] bibtex sample file and possible bibtex bug

2012-05-30 Thread Andy Thomas
.g. '\input tufte', but I could not make it work. > > example document: > > \setupbibtex[database=sample,sort=author] > \setuppublications[alternative=apa] > > \starttext > document.\cite[Eijkhout1991] > \placepublications[criterium=all] > \stop

[NTG-context] bibtex sample file and possible bibtex bug

2012-05-27 Thread Andy Thomas
Hello, while looking to include a citation in a sample document, I was wondering if the 'sample.bib' in 'standalone/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/sample.bib' can be used the same way as e.g. '\input tufte', but I could not make it work. example document: \se

Re: [NTG-context] indexing puzzle

2012-05-26 Thread Alan Bowen
. As you note, the system works for page numbers > 99 where line > numbers < 99. When line numbers > 99, I adapt the sort key differently: > thus, for Cleomedes, *Cael*. I have [CleomCael105001] for 1.5.1. This > works (in MKII) but only because the number of entries is very smal

Re: [NTG-context] indexing puzzle

2012-05-26 Thread Rogers, Michael K
helpful response. 1. \unskip works well. 2. What I currently have is admittedly an ad hoc system for encoding my indices. As you note, the system works for page numbers > 99 where line numbers < 99. When line numbers > 99, I adapt the sort key differently: thus, for Cleomedes, Cae

Re: [NTG-context] indexing puzzle

2012-05-26 Thread Alan Bowen
Michael— Thank you so much for your very helpful response. 1. \unskip works well. 2. What I currently have is admittedly an ad hoc system for encoding my indices. As you note, the system works for page numbers > 99 where line numbers < 99. When line numbers > 99, I adapt the

Re: [NTG-context] indexing puzzle

2012-05-24 Thread Rogers, Michael K
MKII solution. Well, I'm embarrassed at how long I took to do the MKII, but I'm not good at controlling expansion. Anyway, it automatically generates sort keys for the pages by converting digits to letters and padding with initial a's, so that each page or line number is a fixed length

Re: [NTG-context] indexing puzzle

2012-05-24 Thread Alan Bowen
For anyone interested in producing classical indices locorum, I have devised a way that seems to work, although it is not that elegant. The first step is to modify the sort keys by counting the number of digits in the page number: thus, [AuthorText01] for pages 1–9, [AuthorText02] for pages 10–99

[NTG-context] indexing puzzle

2012-05-22 Thread Alan Bowen
I have been trying to index the passages cited in a book and would be grateful for some tactical advice. There are several works by a single author, and it is customary to cite each text by page and line number, as in 1253.12 (page 1253, line12), for example. I have a sort key for each work. But

Re: [NTG-context] footnotes

2012-04-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
ote{Note.} > > \page > > \input{dawkins}\footnote{Another note.} > > \stoptext > > Counter settings are applied with the \setupnotation command. So, this is a treasure hunt! I tried \setupnotation[footnote][way=bypage,numberconversion=set 2] and this works, (I just

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