Re: [NTG-context] miktex searching

2004-05-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote:

 Hi,

 Because i frequently use texmfstart to locate/launch/etc binaries, scripts
 and other things in the textree, i need to make sure that it also works
 with miktex. Do miktex users have kpsewhich on their system (or is this an
 option), or should i use a miktex specific search tool?

MiKTeX has a kpsewhich that tries to emulate the teTeX/fpTeX
one, but you'd  better off use the native MiKTeX tool,
findtexmf

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Re[2]: [NTG-context] \=i

2004-05-28 Thread Hans Hagen
At 12:31 27/05/2004, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
 Could not interest anyone in the \=i problem, I guess. Anyway, could
 someone tell me how ConTeXt defines \=i (so as to always get plain \=\i)?
ah, we stand you sitting there crying over tex, can we?
in addition to gb's solution:
Very funky stuff, accents in ConTeXt. You'd have to dig up in
enco-acc plus the other enco-* files.
\=i becomes \imacron
which by default (enco-def) becomes
\definecharacter imacron  {\buildtextaccent\textmacron \dotlessi}
which you can study in enco-ini :)
you can play with:
\starttext
% \startencoding[...]
\defineaccent = {idris} {\idris}
\definecharacter idris {sirdi}
% \stopencoding
he \={idris}!
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] Re: Overwritten metapost files

2004-05-28 Thread Nikolai Weibull
* Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [May 28, 2004 09:30]:
 texexec --path=.. masters-project.tex

 i suppose that you have a good reason for doing that -) you may try:

Probably not as good a reason as I think, but yes, the reason being that
I want all texexec output to go into a separate directory.  My directory
structure is basically:

thesis/ - top level project directory
thesis/includes - include files
thesis/output - where output goes
thesis/thesis - the actual thesis with chapters and so on

I don't know of a better way than to run texexec in the thesis/output
directory.

 \recycleMPslotsfalse

That didn't help, but brought me to the actual problem.  \write18 had
been disabled somehow (I don't remember reinstalling) and so when I
turned \recuclyMPslots to false it made for undefined images instead of
the same image over and over and so I figured something else was wrong
and sure enough...

Thanks for your help,
nikolai

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main(){printf(linux[\021%six\012\0],(linux)[have]+fun-97);}
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Re: [NTG-context] pagination bug

2004-05-28 Thread Nigel King
Hans and all,
I do not use grid mode perhaps somebody who does could check that 
nothing is wrong.

On 27 May 2004, at 22:27, Hans Hagen wrote:
so the patch was easy but the solution may be wrong (i didn't test it 
in grid mode)
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[NTG-context] Re: Grid, section, grid=top

2004-05-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dear ConTeXt hackers,

 did you look at the options described in details.pdf? maybe grid=page
 will help;

OK, yesterday I have played with my problem a bit and here is a
testfile. I need grid=top for the extra distance between the
previous paragraph and the sectionheading. So grid=page can only be an
option if the section starts at the first line on a page. (Which
indeed solves my problem; just saying \setuphead[somehead][grid=top]
for the problematic section headings works fine, but this is ... well
I guess I don't have to explain).

 another option is to set the topskip to strutheight (something
 \setupinterlinespace[top=.72])

Hmm, no effect I can see.

I don't remember why I used the \definesection stuff.

--
\showgrid
\definesection
[foo]

\setupsection
[foo]
[previousnumber=no]

\definehead
[somehead]
[section=foo]

\setuphead
[somehead]
[grid=top] 

\setuplayout[width=fit,
 grid=yes,
 height=\dimexpr(21\lineheight+\footerheight+\headerheight),
]

\starttext

\dorecurse{4}{%
\somehead{Dummy}

\input tufte

}
\stoptext
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[NTG-context] Getting { in the input.

2004-05-28 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Again I'm having some problems generating my ASCII table, this time it's
{ and } that are the culprits.  I'm currently using $\{$ and $\}$ for
them, but it would be great if there was a way to get them rendered like
the other characters that have \type{...} surrounding them.  There
doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this...is there perhaps a hard one?
nikolai

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[NTG-context] Re: Getting { in the input.

2004-05-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Nikolai,

 Again I'm having some problems generating my ASCII table, this time it's
 { and } that are the culprits.  

try one of these:


\starttext
\textbraceleft
\type-{-
\stoptext


Patrick
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[NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] amsl: startcases/stopcases

2004-05-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, May 28, 2004 David Munger wrote:

  Indeed, I used to like nath a lot, but as I pointed out in this
 thread
  http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/005306.html
  there are bugs which prevent me from using it at the moment.
 
 Yes, it's still in my TODO list. Sadly, I don't have enough
 time to work on it these days :\

 What you've done so far is already a great piece of work. :) Without
 it, I wouldn't be writing my physics thesis using ConTeXt.

Thank you. Of course most of the work has actually been done by
others so far, and my only job has been that of bringing things
together :)

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[NTG-context] Known nath bugs?

2004-05-28 Thread Sebastian Sturm
Hello all,
is there a list of know nath bugs somewhere on the web? I tried to find 
one using Google, but unfortunately without success.

The reason I'm asking this is that I'm encountering some problems with 
the module and would like to know if they are common or if it's related 
to my configuration. First of all, using the units module together with 
nath doesn't seem to work - for instance, $1\Micro\Coulomb$ works as 
expected without nath, but produces the error message Please don't say 
\def cs{...}, say \def\cs{...} when used together with nath. I also 
thought that delimiters like ( or [ should automatically adjust to the 
formula they contain, but (\sum_{something} 
\frac{something}{something}) only produces standard parentheses. 
Commands like \lbrace or \lbrack work as expected, though.

If these problems are unknown, I can post a small example file and my 
logfile.

Best regards,
Sebastian
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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Overwritten metapost files

2004-05-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am Freitag, 28.05.04, um 10:16 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Nikolai 
Weibull:
Probably not as good a reason as I think, but yes, the reason being 
that
I want all texexec output to go into a separate directory.  My 
directory
Did you try
texexec myfile --result=output/myfile
?

Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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Re: Re[2]: [NTG-context] \=i

2004-05-28 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Thu, 27 May 2004 23:47:07 +0200, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ah, we stand you sitting there crying over tex, can we?
Sometimes I want to curse TeX, believe me... Seriously though, I have a 
real phobia for all that low low-level stuff...

Did u have a chance 2 look at my general solution 4 medium fonts? I would 
like to generalize it to bold and small caps but I don't understand how to 
set up a conditionals macro that expands in accordance with the 
surrounding font. I need sthing like

\ifboldtrue
\IBARA % parameterized for bold fonts
\else
\ifsctrue
\IBARB % parameterized for sc fonts
\else
\IBAR  % parameterized for medium fonts
\fi\fi
you can play with:
\starttext
% \startencoding[...]
\defineaccent = {idris} {\idris}
\definecharacter idris {sirdi}
% \stopencoding
he \={idris}!
\stoptext
I don't get it; when I run this as given I don't get any accents; I just 
get
he sirdi! Am I missing something?

Thnx 2 all
Idris
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Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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