[NTG-context] Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro

2008-01-12 Thread Carsten Fechtmann
Hello everyone, first off: I am new to ConTeXt (even if not so new to LaTeX) and would like to transfer some of my old macros to ConTeXt... I am well aware, that this means re-programming (most) of them. So be it. Furthermore, I am not sure if this is really the right way (read ConTeXt Way)

[NTG-context] many columns and then one column on the same page

2008-01-12 Thread Yvon Henel
hello all I've failed to find how I could put first some text in two columns and then other text in one column on the same page. After \stopcolumnsep my text goes on a new page. Any hint would be greatly appreciated Many thanks -- Yvon Henel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

[NTG-context] typesetting underscore

2008-01-12 Thread Gour
Hi! Yesterday I played a bit with emacs' muse mode which has option to 'publish' to ConTeXt, but its output was wailing when texeexec-ing due to use of \textunderscore (option in muse). Today I discussed the issue on muse mailing list, got help and the following remark: '...Context gurus don't

Re: [NTG-context] many columns and then one column on the same page

2008-01-12 Thread Yvon Henel
Le samedi 12 janvier 2008, Yvon Henel wrote too quickly! I've failed to find how I could put first some text in two columns and then other text in one column on the same page. After \stopcolumnsep my text goes on a new page. And, after having wrote, began to think and look at the manuals

Re: [NTG-context] Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Carsten, On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Carsten Fechtmann wrote: first off: I am new to ConTeXt (even if not so new to LaTeX) and would like to transfer some of my old macros to ConTeXt... I am well aware, that this means re-programming (most) of them. So be it. Have you looked at enumerations?

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting underscore

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Gour wrote: Yesterday I played a bit with emacs' muse mode which has option to 'publish' to ConTeXt, but its output was wailing when texeexec-ing due to use of \textunderscore (option in muse). Why does \textunderscore wail? \textunderscore should work fine. Today I

[NTG-context] showframe - showgrid = 2pt ??

2008-01-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hans, I know I've asked you this before ... I just can't find the answer anymore ;o( Look at line 43: \newdimen\XVertikal \XVertikal=12pt \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=\XVertikal] \setuplayout [width=113mm,height=\the\dimexpr48\XVertikal-2pt\relax,

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting underscore

2008-01-12 Thread Gour
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:59:39 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does \textunderscore wail? \textunderscore should work fine. See https://mail.gna.org/public/muse-el-discuss/2008-01/msg1.html thread. :) This is how it is done in plain TeX, and both LaTeX and ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro

2008-01-12 Thread Carsten Fechtmann
Hi Aditya, thanks for taking the time to answer this. And yes, I looked at what ConTeXt has already built in. On 12.01.2008 at 18:44 wrote Aditya Mahajan: I haven't looked at your code below. First check if one the in-built stuctural environments of ConTeXt do what you want. As a matter

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting underscore

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Gour wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:59:39 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does \textunderscore wail? \textunderscore should work fine. See https://mail.gna.org/public/muse-el-discuss/2008-01/msg1.html thread. This is just a mistake of the

Re: [NTG-context] Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Carsten, On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Carsten Fechtmann wrote: What this all burns down is, that I /really/ would like to understand, how I can pass a value from a counter as (constant) argument to a self- defined function. As that seems to be the core of the matter/problem here. You need to

Re: [NTG-context] Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro

2008-01-12 Thread Carsten Fechtmann
Hi Aditya, yes, looking at the .tuo did the trick. :-D I had tried things with expanded already, but at that time I still had {\expanded{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{Issue~\IssueCounter:}{\currentdate}}} as command. Which does NOT work (due to the tilde ~ resulting in an error message then) The rest

Re: [NTG-context] Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Carsten Fechtmann wrote: Hi Aditya, yes, looking at the .tuo did the trick. :-D I had tried things with expanded already, but at that time I still had {\expanded{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{Issue~\IssueCounter:}{\currentdate}}} as command. Which does NOT work (due to the

Re: [NTG-context] active strings in luatex?

2008-01-12 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Hello Idris, I didn't see any reply to this e-mail you sent two weeks ago, so I wanted to give it a try: In luatex can I make a definition such that such that the string U004C U0303 (l ̃) is always treated as l with tilde above, taking into account italics and