Re: [NTG-context] docs

2004-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
William D. Neumann wrote: In LaTeX, you get something that looks like: text text text texttext text text text text text text texttext text text text text text text texttext text text text text text text texttext text text text text text text texttext text text text text text[1]

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Can \note repeat its footnote?

2004-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Stefan Wachter wrote: Hi Hans, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately your solution does not work correctly. The following example produces one footnote at the first page but no footnote on the second page. \starttext funny\myfootnote[funny]{funny} funny\mynote[funny] \page funny\mynote[funny] fu

Re: [NTG-context] docs

2004-06-25 Thread William D. Neumann
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Hans Hagen wrote: > William D. Neumann wrote: > > >And that's, unfortunately, a poor view to take. I would love to use > >ConTeXt for more of my academic writing, as it makes a lot of tasks much > >easier, not just layout and design. Unfortunately, it's inability to play > >

Re: [NTG-context] new typeface toy

2004-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: Hey Patrick, all, I like the wiki a lot. Thanks for getting it going! It's a nice, quick way to get hints out there. As a result, I wrote up a little font-usage hack that wasn't quite big enough for a MyWay, but that I wanted to share with folks: interesting, the last time

[NTG-context] new typeface toy

2004-06-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hey Patrick, all, I like the wiki a lot. Thanks for getting it going! It's a nice, quick way to get hints out there. As a result, I wrote up a little font-usage hack that wasn't quite big enough for a MyWay, but that I wanted to share with folks:

Re: [NTG-context] command definition

2004-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible anything like the following ? \def\MySomeTable#1% { \startbuffer #1 \stopbuffer } buffers use catcode trickery, so cannot be used in macros'; you can use \setbuffer[name]{...} with \getbuffer[name] \MySomeTable{ \starttable blah blah blah... \stoptable }

Re: [NTG-context] docs

2004-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
William D. Neumann wrote: And that's, unfortunately, a poor view to take. I would love to use ConTeXt for more of my academic writing, as it makes a lot of tasks much easier, not just layout and design. Unfortunately, it's inability to play like LaTeX when it comes to even such basic things as fo

Re: [NTG-context] math in ConTeXt

2004-06-25 Thread Otared Kavian
is ConTeXt prepared for math? I mean...can I do... $\sum_{i=1}^{n}{x_{i}}$ as I used to in LaTeX ? I don't make the \Sigma to be under and over characterised by i=1 and n. Jose Hi Jose, Indeed ConTeXt contains all the plain TeX commands and you can use them (in this case \sum). So these formulas g

Re: [NTG-context] Hans political ConTeXt orientation request!

2004-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Maurice Diamantini wrote: About math, biblio and context2html missing features mentionned in previous discussion, some poeples talk about standard document writing, I dont't think every body need to write chimical formula, but there is a powerfull ConTeXt extension to do it, so it's not a valid arg

Re: [NTG-context] docs

2004-06-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:21:03 +0200, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Idris, If you tell me what you want from the bib package, chances are that it will be added (if you don't, it won't be). Thnx, Taco, u r right of course; I am just waiting till I can test the latest version of m-

Re: [NTG-context] Re: updating context in cygwin by hand

2004-06-25 Thread jimarin
the blue thing was a mistake of mine...it is solved now ! will see what is failing with the update of texexec.pl...if I find the reason I will report it I like ConTeXt !! thanks Jose > > [...] > >> but I cannot place a blue thing in the background...I have some overlay >> with a blue strip I

Re: [NTG-context] math in ConTeXt

2004-06-25 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is ConTeXt prepared for math? With regard to mathematics ConTeXt can do all things which plain TeX can. I mean...can I do... $\sum_{i=1}^{n}{x_{i}}$ as I used to in LaTeX? Yes. For displaymath you can use plain TeX's $$\sum$$ or better \placeformula \startformu

[NTG-context] Re: updating context in cygwin by hand

2004-06-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] > but I cannot place a blue thing in the background...I have some overlay > with a blue strip I wan to put in the background and it won't come up, > another overlay in the normal text area goes fine... You might think of posting the not-working file, so we could see what is going wrong. >

[NTG-context] math in ConTeXt

2004-06-25 Thread jimarin
is ConTeXt prepared for math? I mean...can I do... $\sum_{i=1}^{n}{x_{i}}$ as I used to in LaTeX ? I don't make the \Sigma to be under and over characterised by i=1 and n. Jose ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/

Re: [NTG-context] Re: updating context in cygwin by hand

2004-06-25 Thread jimarin
yep... I have re-started once again the whole thing and I am almost there...now it does not stop on the "natural" file I suspect of a bug in recent texexec.pl file, I am using the "old" one I have from a previous version (3.1) Jose but I cannot place a blue thing in the background...I have some

Re: [NTG-context] correction

2004-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
dr. Hans van der Meer wrote: re: might be an error in ConTeXt file prop-mis.tex I had some difficulty with typesetting backgrounds. It seems there is an error in file prop-mis.tex (version 2004-06-21): token "\popsplitnegativeproperty" is never defined but "\popsplitoverprintproperty" is twice

[NTG-context] Re: Installation problem

2004-06-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Matt Gushee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> texexec --make en de nl > > Yes, I knew about that, and had already created the en and nl formats > (since I don't work with German documents at all, I don't need de, do > I?). No, you don't need de. Even when you want to typeset german documents, you do

[NTG-context] Re: updating context in cygwin by hand

2004-06-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] > format : metafun > metafun: not found Did you copy the metafun.mem into the web2c directory? Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062 ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] Re: filename

2004-06-25 Thread Thomas Lohmann
Many thanks, Greetings Thomas Lohmann ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context