Re: [NTG-context] crash with pdftex-1.40

2007-01-05 Thread luigi scarso
It breaks here on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, latest pdftex, latest context distro t is \starttext \def\myCMD#1{%.. \stoptext t1 is \starttext \input \string|echo -n bla \stoptext luigi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# texmfstart texexec --pdf t TeXExec | processing document 't' TeXExec | no ctx file found

Re: [NTG-context] Error with --modu for core-mis

2007-01-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, luigi scarso wrote: If someone compile this $texmfstart texexec --pdf --modu core-mis then he should be send to me (luigi.scarso at gmail.com) core-mis.tex Change line 2829 from %D {\somekindoftab} ^^^ This causes the problem to %D {somekindoftab}

Re: [NTG-context] Error with --modu for core-mis

2007-01-05 Thread luigi scarso
On 1/5/07, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, luigi scarso wrote: If someone compile this $texmfstart texexec --pdf --modu core-mis then he should be send to me (luigi.scarso at gmail.com) core-mis.tex Change line 2829 from %D {\somekindoftab} ^^^

Re: [NTG-context] \externalcommand?

2007-01-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there's something in ConTeXt called \externalcommand. Can this be used to hand over a section of source text for processing by an external program during the ConTeXt-ing of a document? How does it work, exactly?

Re: [NTG-context] crash with pdftex-1.40

2007-01-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: But this should be enough to reproduce it: \starttext \input \string|echo -n bla \stoptext Breaks here too, using pdftex 1.40.0, context 2006.12.27, Ubuntu i386: This bug is found and fixed and will be corrected in the next pdftex release. Best, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] Error with --modu for core-mis

2007-01-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:51:00 +0100 luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luigi On 1/5/07, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, luigi scarso wrote: If someone compile this $texmfstart texexec --pdf --modu core-mis then he should be send to me

Re: [NTG-context] error with metafun

2007-01-05 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Münster wrote: On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Münster wrote: with the latest ConTeXt on TeX-live 2007 and this input file: No error here, but my context and metapost are newer and my pdftex is older than TL, so that may not mean much. Did you use the --dvi

Re: [NTG-context] Error with --modu for core-mis

2007-01-05 Thread luigi scarso
add %D \stopbuffer on line 84 OK; I'm ready for another module (hmmm-cweb.. ) luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Using vim's syntax highlighting in (TeX) publicaions (fwd)

2007-01-05 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: just in case anyone is interested in typesetting publications using vim's syntax highlighter. This is a new module written in ConTeXt (a flavour of TeX) that can be used in documents: Hello Aditya and Mojca, it's great! It would be nice, to have

[NTG-context] another problem with \starttables

2007-01-05 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, shouldn't there be a line on the top of each page: \starttext \starttablehead \HL \stoptablehead \starttables[|l|] \NC test \NC\FR \dorecurse{100}{\NC test \NC\MR} \NC test \NC\LR \stoptables \stoptext ? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

[NTG-context] HZ with latest ConTeXt

2007-01-05 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, I've just seen the page about hanging and hz on the wiki, so I've tried the example for lm: \starttext \input tufte \page \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][normal] \setupalign[hanging] \usetypescript[modern-base][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[modern]

Re: [NTG-context] Error with --modu for core-mis

2007-01-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, luigi scarso wrote: On 1/5/07, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, luigi scarso wrote: If someone compile this $texmfstart texexec --pdf --modu core-mis then he should be send to me (luigi.scarso at gmail.com) core-mis.tex Change

Re: [NTG-context] Using vim's syntax highlighting in (TeX) publicaions (fwd)

2007-01-05 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: just in case anyone is interested in typesetting publications using vim's syntax highlighter. This is a new module written in ConTeXt (a flavour of TeX) that can be used in documents: Hello Aditya and Mojca, it's great! It

Re: [NTG-context] \externalcommand?

2007-01-05 Thread cormullion
On 2007-01-04, at 23:10.0, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Perhaps the R module is easiest to understand. That method will work for most cases where you simply want to capture part of tex source and write it verbatim to a file, and then read the output back into tex. I'm really grateful for your

Re: [NTG-context] Error with --modu for core-mis

2007-01-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: This is great work. Now, I just wish that I could have a printed copy of the whole thing which automatically updated everytime there was a new ConTeXt release. Maybe I should try out eletronic ink technologies ;)

Re: [NTG-context] \externalcommand?

2007-01-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-01-04, at 23:10.0, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Perhaps the R module is easiest to understand. That method will work for most cases where you simply want to capture part of tex source and write it verbatim to a file, and then read the

Re: [NTG-context] Error with --modu for core-mis

2007-01-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: This is great work. Now, I just wish that I could have a printed copy of the whole thing which automatically updated everytime there was a new ConTeXt release. Maybe I should try out eletronic ink technologies ;) http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad

Re: [NTG-context] HZ with latest ConTeXt

2007-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Friday 05 January 2007 12:04, Peter Münster wrote: I can get hanging but no hz (no difference between 2nd and 3rd page). What is needed to get hz? This answer is not definitive but based only on my own experiences. 1) I was unable to get hz in some fonts. If I haven't missed anything

Re: [NTG-context] HZ with latest ConTeXt

2007-01-05 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
2) As hz is sometimes not obvious when viewed, I check the fonts in the resulting PDF to see if any are extended. Most PDF viewers list the fonts under File/Properties or similar They might not be used with pdftex 1.40, which (from what I gathered reading the NEWS file) can adjust the local

[NTG-context] dvipos outputs scaled points, which confuses context

2007-01-05 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
To stress-test things and because xdvi renders crisper text than any pdf viewer, I just tried 'texexec --dvi --nobackend notes'. It failed with: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex) (./notes.tuo ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). to be read again -

[NTG-context] wiki: linux installation updates

2007-01-05 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I updated the Linux installation pages on the wiki, mostly the Debian one, but also the tetex 3.0 page and I added a short entry for Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy). The Debian page now describes how to install using Norbert's context packages. It describes a system-wide install based on those and the