[NTG-context] poster, howto for beginner

2004-07-06 Thread Eros Albertazzi
I would like to start using ConText to create a scientific presentation poster to be printed in A0 or smaller size A single sheet of pubblication in which text and figures with captions, can be framed (i.e. boxed) and putted on the page in row and colum, equally distibuted or not. A loose layout

Re: [NTG-context] basic graphics

2004-07-06 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: I need an, e.g., \mirror command which inverts its argument along the horizontal or vertical axis. Is this already there? yes Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

[NTG-context] Configuration of SciTE under Linux

2004-07-06 Thread Willi Egger
Dear Contexters As a bit of a newby on the Linux platform I can't get running everything as wanted. One of the problems I have is, that I am unable to compile a TeX source from within SciTE. I got the context.properties and the SciTEUsers.properties in my home directory. The other porperties

[NTG-context] poster, howto for beginner

2004-07-06 Thread Eros Albertazzi
I would like to start using ConText to create a scientific presentation poster to be printed in A0 or smaller size A single sheet of pubblication in which text and figures with captions, can be framed and putted on the page in row and colum, equally distibuted or not. A loose layout example can

[NTG-context] poster, howto for beginner

2004-07-06 Thread Eros Albertazzi
I would like to start using ConText to create a scientific presentation poster to be printed in A0 or smaller size A single sheet of pubblication in which text and figures with captions, can be framed and putted on the page in row and colum, equally distibuted or not. A loose layout example can be

[NTG-context] Stopping text from flowing around sidefloats

2004-07-06 Thread Fabio Fogliuzzi
I'm a newbie in Context (and TeX) typesetting, but I'm seriously thinking of switching from my current wokflow, FrameMaker based, to a new one based on this system, impressive for its quality and flexibility. The main work at my office is the producing of technical manuals (250-500

Re: [NTG-context] Stopping text from flowing around sidefloats

2004-07-06 Thread Hans Hagen
Fabio Fogliuzzi wrote: ... \forgetsidefloats \flushsidefloats may be of help in manipulating those side floats (more on side floats in details.pdf) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] poster, howto for beginner

2004-07-06 Thread Hans Hagen
Eros Albertazzi wrote: I would like to start using ConText to create a scientific presentation poster to be printed in A0 or smaller size A single sheet of pubblication in which text and figures with captions, can be framed (i.e. boxed) and putted on the page in row and colum, equally distibuted

Re: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt?

2004-07-06 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi, Was anyone able to look at this? :-) Best Idris On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:51:58 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi syndicate, I have found a serious problem in the latest ConTeXt: when using \rotate[]{}, \raise does not seem to work probably. Consider the following example,

[NTG-context] Virtual font tip

2004-07-06 Thread Matt Gushee
Hello, all-- After purchasing the FontSite 500 CD, I wanted to make good use of some of the nice text fonts it contains--in particular I wanted to create TeX virtual fonts that would add ff, ffi, and ffl ligatures and replace the ugly ( ;-) ) lining numerals with old-style figures. After