Re: [NTG-context] Navigation of pragma-ade.nl site.
On Saturday 19 February 2005 14:23, John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 19 February 2005 09:52, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > Please do this: > > > > 1. goto http://www.pragma-ade.com (html page) > > 2. click on 'about' link (top menu, opens new html page) > > 3. Now you can navigate using 'previous' and 'next' links (right bottom) > > 4. idem for the main links 'overview', 'download', 'links', 'documents' > > > > This is not what you want? > > > > Greetings, Taco > > As usual, Taco to the rescue. It is not self-evident that one must go to > the About button first. I was going directly to some of the other buttons > along the bar. Now following the above instruction everything works > perfectly of course. I still didn't fully understand. It is only the Showcase button that one must be wary of. That takes you to PDF navigation. Live and learn :) -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book packagers/coaches/consultants: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf Printers who are SPAN sponsors: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/printers.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Navigation of pragma-ade.nl site.
On Saturday 19 February 2005 09:52, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi John, > > Please do this: > > 1. goto http://www.pragma-ade.com (html page) > 2. click on 'about' link (top menu, opens new html page) > 3. Now you can navigate using 'previous' and 'next' links (right bottom) > 4. idem for the main links 'overview', 'download', 'links', 'documents' > > This is not what you want? > > Greetings, Taco As usual, Taco to the rescue. It is not self-evident that one must go to the About button first. I was going directly to some of the other buttons along the bar. Now following the above instruction everything works perfectly of course. If you remember the previous home page it had distinct and labelled anchors for html navigation versus pdf navigation. When I refer people to the page I will need to mention the requirement to select "About" first when navigating via html (as many of us have to.) Thanks, John Culleton ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Navigation of pragma-ade.nl site.
> I had problems recently navigating the pragma-ade site. I use > Slackware Linux but I also have Win 2000. Unfortunately the > browsers haven't kept up with pdf navigation of sites, except for > Internet Explorer. The others I tested, Konqueror, Opera, Mozilla, > Lynx etc. cannot navigate the site because they use external > plugins for interpreting pdf code, and the environment for those > interpreters is local to my computer and not to > pragma-ade.nl. (Lynx of course doesn't have pdf facilities at all.) As far as I can see, everything on www.pragma-ade.com is html except, of course, for the manuals. I don't see what is difficult about using the site. If people can't load PDFs in their browsers, they can always download the files and load them offline in their PDF reader of choice. Loading PDFs in IE and Mozilla-based browsers should be trivial anyway. As far as the "forward and back buttons" not working, I'm running both Firefox and IE, and both seem fine. I'm sure Konqueror must be fine as well. Regards, Matt ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Which version is best for MSWindows users.?
> I am writing some e-books on free software. I am recommending TeX > (of course) and Context instead of LaTeX. The vast majority of my > readers will be using some flavor of MSWindows. Unfortunately > there have been problems in synchronizing Context releases and > Miktex releases, in re. hyphenation and fonts in general. I need > to recommend a download package for readers who will be newcomers > to the world of TeX. Which is the safest pointer? I see Miktex as > a possibility but also the stripped versions of the TeX > distribution maintained on the Context site. So how would you > start an absolute newbie to e.g., Context and pdfetex? Where would > you point them for their first download? I think both MikTeX and Hans' minimal tree are good. The MikTeX installer might feel a bit more familiar to a newbie, but if you give them instructions on how to install the minimal tree, it shouldn't be anymore challenging than MikTeX. Also, I think it's easier to stay in sync with Hans' development of ConTeXt using the minimal windows distribution and updating via the texsync script. Although, using texsync would also entail installing Ruby and Cygwin (to get the Rsync program). I think the only unexpected thing I had to do to get the minimal windows tree working was to make the files in texmf-mswin\bin executable (the permissions were not right). Matt ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Navigation of pragma-ade.nl site.
Hi John, Please do this: 1. goto http://www.pragma-ade.com (html page) 2. click on 'about' link (top menu, opens new html page) 3. Now you can navigate using 'previous' and 'next' links (right bottom) 4. idem for the main links 'overview', 'download', 'links', 'documents' This is not what you want? Greetings, Taco John Culleton wrote: I had problems recently navigating the pragma-ade site. I use Slackware Linux but I also have Win 2000. Unfortunately the browsers haven't kept up with pdf navigation of sites, except for Internet Explorer. The others I tested, Konqueror, Opera, Mozilla, Lynx etc. cannot navigate the site because they use external plugins for interpreting pdf code, and the environment for those interpreters is local to my computer and not to pragma-ade.nl. (Lynx of course doesn't have pdf facilities at all.) It is possible to navigate through many Context pdf pages using the forward and back buttons as suggested by Hans but this facility is not universal. Formerly the pages gave a choice between html navigation and pdf navigation. If it is not feasible to restore this dual pattern then perhaps we need to find another solution. Even Windows user often do not want to use IE on line because of security reasons. And of course many present/potential Context users may have Linux or OS X as their base systems. If a change is made in this direction I would be happy to run my various browsers against the Pragma site to make sure everything works as expected. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] Navigation of pragma-ade.nl site.
I had problems recently navigating the pragma-ade site. I use Slackware Linux but I also have Win 2000. Unfortunately the browsers haven't kept up with pdf navigation of sites, except for Internet Explorer. The others I tested, Konqueror, Opera, Mozilla, Lynx etc. cannot navigate the site because they use external plugins for interpreting pdf code, and the environment for those interpreters is local to my computer and not to pragma-ade.nl. (Lynx of course doesn't have pdf facilities at all.) It is possible to navigate through many Context pdf pages using the forward and back buttons as suggested by Hans but this facility is not universal. Formerly the pages gave a choice between html navigation and pdf navigation. If it is not feasible to restore this dual pattern then perhaps we need to find another solution. Even Windows user often do not want to use IE on line because of security reasons. And of course many present/potential Context users may have Linux or OS X as their base systems. If a change is made in this direction I would be happy to run my various browsers against the Pragma site to make sure everything works as expected. -- John Culleton ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] Which version is best for MSWindows users.?
I am writing some e-books on free software. I am recommending TeX (of course) and Context instead of LaTeX. The vast majority of my readers will be using some flavor of MSWindows. Unfortunately there have been problems in synchronizing Context releases and Miktex releases, in re. hyphenation and fonts in general. I need to recommend a download package for readers who will be newcomers to the world of TeX. Which is the safest pointer? I see Miktex as a possibility but also the stripped versions of the TeX distribution maintained on the Context site. So how would you start an absolute newbie to e.g., Context and pdfetex? Where would you point them for their first download? -- John Culleton ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Simple itemize format that eludes me
Willi Egger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on 2005-02-16, 20:14 (+0100 GMT): > may be not a very nice solution but ... > > \startitemize[none,packed] > \item LONG-UGLY-STRING-LIKE-THIS > > \startnarrower[left] > A few sentences, indented somewhat from the left margin, that > relate to the long ugly string above. The indentation allows the > reader to scan the ugly strings (which might well be in > alphabetical order. > \stopnarrower > \stopitemize Thanks - this works fine. (I think this might be the DD/DT construct in HTML that Iâm trying to reproduce...) :-) ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
