[NTG-context] Re: [NTG-context]

2003-09-17 Thread ^Nitram^
Hi, >> Other examples does nothing - there is no errors on \setlayer but >> I didn't see any effect - no text is visible ;( > what version do you run? pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.3) ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.9.8 -- Best regards Martin ___

Re: [NTG-context] Re: \setuptyping

2003-09-17 Thread Jean-Pierre Le Narzul
Hi, Thanks for your explanation. I understand the problem now ! But unfortunately, the example you provide is not working for me. The pdf file displays the wrong characters for both \starttyping \stoptyping ... jp PS: sorry for not providing an example in my first mail. I am using yours now

Re: [NTG-context] sorry (off topic)

2003-09-17 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:10:37PM +0200, Pawel Jackowski na Onet wrote: > > % \relax is not always obligatory but treat it as a goode habit > What I wanted to say by 'goode'? While it is not an English word (says the Oxford English Dictionary) there is Goode, Richard (Stephen) (b NY,

Re: [NTG-context] Alternate/Swash Font in ConTeXt, how?

2003-09-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am Dienstag, 16.09.03, um 22:54 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Does any of you cracks has experience in how to use the AGaramondAlternate Font in ConTeXt? Sorry, no, but... I have no problems with the other Expert fonts but this one stays empty. I'd like to know how do you use the

[NTG-context] Re: \setuptyping

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Jean-Pierre Le Narzul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any idea ? Yes: don't use computer-modern fonts. They don't have { } and _ except for typewriter. Use any other font encoded in ec or texnansi or whatever encoding. See for example latin-modern: =

[NTG-context] \setuptyping

2003-09-17 Thread Jean-Pierre Le Narzul
Hi, For typing Java code in a context document, I use \starttyping ... \stoptyping. I have a problem when I configure \setuptyping in the following way : \setuptyping[typing][color=black,style=\ss,escape=/,option=commands] If I put characters like { or _ in my source (between \starttyping and

[NTG-context] Re: How to make empty pages by default empty?

2003-09-17 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Try this: \definepagebreak [chapter] [yes,header,right] \setuphead [chapter] [page=chapter, ] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\i

[NTG-context] sorry (off topic)

2003-09-17 Thread Pawel Jackowski na Onet
Hi > % \relax is not always obligatory but treat it as a goode habit ^ What I wanted to say by 'goode'? Sorry for that... I sent it too fast. Sorry for any other mistakes in my messages. Belive me, it's not my negligence. I work hard on it... Pawe/l __

[NTG-context] Re: Re: problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)

2003-09-17 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Mari Voipio wrote: > It does not seem to bother TeXLive ConTeXt that the .tex files are in a > path with couple of spaces (like c:\Documents and Settings\Mari\My > Documents\ConTeXt\test.tex) as long as TeXLive itself is installed > somewhere without spaces. Thanks for the su

[NTG-context] Re: How to make empty pages by default empty?

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, somehow this message got lost (??), Steffen Wolfrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When a new sectionblock or a chapter (page=right) is starting > and ConTeXt is forced to add before that a left empty page > then this empty page has naked pagenumber. try: \definepagebreak [chapter] [

[NTG-context] Bug? setupinteraction makes footnotenumber bold

2003-09-17 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
For having the bookmarks when viewing my PDF in Acrobat I use \setupinteraction[state=start] But this forces the footnotenumbers (both in the text and in the footer) to be bold. Is this a known bug? Here a minimal example: %\setupinteraction[state=start] \setupfootnotes[style=italic] \startt

Re: [NTG-context] Re: problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)

2003-09-17 Thread Mari Voipio
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, George White wrote: > This is starting to look like too much work. We are supposed to > move from Win98 to WinXP "real soon now". Are these problems also > present for WinXP? For myself, *n*x works, but some groups rely on > Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop and understandably a

[NTG-context] How to make empty pages by default empty?

2003-09-17 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I guess this is very likely a FAQuestion but nevertheless I couldn't find the answer: When a new sectionblock or a chapter (page=right) is starting and ConTeXt is forced to add before that a left empty page then this empty page has naked pagenumber. So what is the code to make empty pages by d

Re: [NTG-context] new version

2003-09-17 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 14:25 17/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > What is needed is a kind of extension to placefigure[top] where figures are *still* placed top/bottom but *also* are surrounded by text (right or left). this is kind of impossible in tex since it works per paragra

Re: [NTG-context] beginner question re: counters

2003-09-17 Thread Pawel Jackowski na Onet
> I apologize for asking such a basic question. What is the correct way > to increment a counter such that each time a macro is used, the counter > is augmented by 1. So far, I have \newcount\MyCounter and have tried > \advance\MyCounter by1 and a few other things I found online, but > when

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of formulas

2003-09-17 Thread Pawel Jackowski na Onet
Hi > one complication is that the last line width is not available outside math > mode (which is a pain) If really needed one can use quite old plain macro which try to soften this pain... However for short paragraphs it needs some changes (\prevgraf can't be less then zero). Meybe this is not ve

[NTG-context] Re: problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)

2003-09-17 Thread George White
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Fabrice Popineau wrote: > > 1. on Win32, kpsewhich often fails to find texexec.ini. I created a > > I have applied a couple of patches to texexec and texutil. They are > attached. The Sept. 5th rc had the patches in texexec.pl, but not in texutil.pl. I don't think my files

[NTG-context] beginner question re: counters

2003-09-17 Thread Matthew Huggett
Hi: I apologize for asking such a basic question. What is the correct way to increment a counter such that each time a macro is used, the counter is augmented by 1. So far, I have \newcount\MyCounter and have tried \advance\MyCounter by1 and a few other things I found online, but whenever

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of formulas

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 17:59 17/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: You don't :\ Sadly, Hans decided that the difference between abovedisplayskip and abovedisplayshortskip was unnecessary. Hans? that's not true -) the problem is that it is quite hard to get the spacing ok in situations like text formula text this has to d

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of formulas

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 22:32 16/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: The question is now: How do I do that? i'll have a look at it, one complication is that the last line width is not available outside math mode (which is a pain) Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] new version

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 14:25 17/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > What is needed is a kind of extension to placefigure[top] where figures are *still* placed top/bottom but *also* are surrounded by text (right or left). this is kind of impossible in tex since it works per paragraph and during that it has no concept of c

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of formulas

2003-09-17 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Emil Hedevang Lohse wrote: > Hello, > Suppose I have the following code: > blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah > \startmpformula > formula > \stopmpformula > and that it yields the following output > blah blah blah blah blah blah blah > bla

Re: [NTG-context] error \handlecompoundcharacter ...

2003-09-17 Thread Pawel Jackowski na Onet
Hi! > >Consider this simple code: > > > >\defineXMLcommand > > [de] {\language[de]} > > > >\defineXMLcommand > > [end] > > {\disableXML} > > > >\starttext > >\enableXML > > > > > > Ich liebe ConTeXt! > > > >\stoptext > > > >It cause en ERROR! It happens ONLY for \language[de] neither pl

Re: [NTG-context] How to set paths

2003-09-17 Thread Pawel Jackowski na Onet
Hello! > you can set the directory (gebied in dutch) with: > >\setupsystem > > or pass --path to texexec Thanks a lot Hans! Although I can't still use \setupsystem properly (even with looking at core-code tricks), --path option seems to be the solution. I've solve processing XML files in thi

Re: [NTG-context] Re: height and width of a figure

2003-09-17 Thread seob
> At 04:26 17/09/2003 +0200, Pawel Jackowski na Onet wrote: > >Hello! > > > > > > > Hi Patrick and all the others > > > > > > thanks for your answer. I think I asked my question a little bit > >unclearly. > > > I wanted to know if i can get the width of a figure, or the > overlaywidth > >of > > >

[NTG-context] Re: [OS X TeX] Alternate/Swash Font in LaTeX, how?

2003-09-17 Thread William Adams
Steffen said: but although I tried nearly every links on your address I couldn't find any link related to .vf. Couldn't you maybe pass me the URL directly? Sorry, that should've been ``.vpl'' It also wasn't where I'd said it would be---it was on my old Portfolio page, http://members.aol.com/wi

[NTG-context] Vertical alignment of formulas

2003-09-17 Thread Emil Hedevang Lohse
Hello, Suppose I have the following code: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah \startmpformula formula \stopmpformula and that it yields the following output blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah formula that is, the final "blah" is placed so

Re: [NTG-context] Soul Package in ConTeXt

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 13:52 17/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: Because of looking for a nice letterspacing solution I had a look at the LaTeX's soul.sty. Melchior Franz wrote that it should also work with ConTeXt: The soul package Melchior FRANZ May 29, 2002 Abstract This article describes the soul package1, which

Re: [NTG-context] tables within tabulate environment

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 10:48 17/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: Similar to what you wrote: \starttabulate \NC test \NC Some text here, perhaps followed by an itemized list an a table \startitemize \item first item \item second item \stopitemize And some specifications in the following table: \starttabulatea \NC col1 row1 \

[NTG-context] Re: Soul Package in ConTeXt

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Steffen Wolfrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > But how? > > \input soul.sty > > gives me in ConTeXt: > >> (/Users/steffen/Library/texmf/tex/latex/misc/soul.sty >> ! Undefined control sequence. >> l.49 \NeedsTeXFormat >> {LaTeX2e} >> ? this is because in core-m

[NTG-context] new version

2003-09-17 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, The last hour I fixed a couple of things that came up during the recent dante/gutenberg tex conferences as well as added the table thingies discussed here. (for the split lovers: there was a small bug in the patch i sent earlier; actually the patch b

[NTG-context] Soul Package in ConTeXt

2003-09-17 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Because of looking for a nice letterspacing solution I had a look at the LaTeX's soul.sty. Melchior Franz wrote that it should also work with ConTeXt: The soul package Melchior FRANZ May 29, 2002 Abstract This article describes the soul package1, which provides h y p h e n - a t a b l e l

[NTG-context] new version

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, The last hour I fixed a couple of things that came up during the recent dante/gutenberg tex conferences as well as added the table thingies discussed here. (for the split lovers: there was a small bug in the patch i sent earlier; actually the patch broke some of my existing files -) the ma

Re: [NTG-context] tables within tabulate environment

2003-09-17 Thread Frank
Similar to what you wrote: \starttabulate \NC test \NC Some text here, perhaps followed by an itemized list an a table \startitemize \item first item \item second item \stopitemize And some specifications in the following table: \starttabulatea \NC col1 row1 \NC col2 \NC\NR \stoptabulate \NC\NR \s

[NTG-context] Re: [OS X TeX] Alternate/Swash Font in LaTeX, how?

2003-09-17 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
William Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steffen asked about Adobe Garamond Swash Italic. Yeah, it's a non-standard encoding. You can either manually add it to a .vf, or follow the instructions in Alan Hoenig's wonderful book, _TeX Unbound_ I've samples of it up on my web site at http://mem

Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-context]

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 21:27 16/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: Hi, > layers, see details.pdf Thanks, but I tried examples from there and only \hskip\layoutcolumnoffset{2}{\red Text positioned in column 2!} works fine... Other examples does nothing - there is no errors on \setlayer but I didn't see any effect - no text is

Re: [NTG-context] Re: height and width of a figure

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 04:26 17/09/2003 +0200, Pawel Jackowski na Onet wrote: Hello! > Hi Patrick and all the others > > thanks for your answer. I think I asked my question a little bit unclearly. > I wanted to know if i can get the width of a figure, or the overlaywidth of > this figure as a numeric. I want to make

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie wants to make long tables

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 23:41 15/09/2003 +0100, you wrote: Hans, Thank you again for your speedy response. > \bTABLE[split=yes] > \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR > \bTR[after=\pagina] \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR > \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR > \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR > \bTR \bTD l

Re: [NTG-context] problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)

2003-09-17 Thread Fabrice Popineau
> \input "some path" > (not sure if \input "some path"/somefile also works; can you test > that?) Both seems to be working under win (XP for me) but that's incompatible with unix. Fabrice ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.

Re: [NTG-context] error \handlecompoundcharacter ...

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 08:29 16/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: Hi experts! Consider this simple code: \defineXMLcommand [de] {\language[de]} \defineXMLcommand [end] {\disableXML} \starttext \enableXML Ich liebe ConTeXt! \stoptext It cause en ERROR! It happens ONLY for \language[de] neither pl nor en, nl... ah ...

Re: [NTG-context] tables within tabulate environment

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 10:42 16/09/2003 +0200, Frank wrote: I am working on some documents which are based on a table which is part of the text flow and may break between pages. So I use the tabulate environment. However now I need to include a table inside a tabulate cell, but this does not seem to work. what kin

Re: [NTG-context] How to set paths

2003-09-17 Thread Hans Hagen
At 08:40 16/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: Hello! In some special cases I need to set paths for input files directly from ConTeXt code not from config file. In manuals \setupexternalfigures is described. Is there any similar command for files that are inputed directly by \input, \typefile \processXMLfi