[NTG-context] reference manual for cont-en.lua

2008-04-28 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, Is there a reference manual for the functions in cont-en.lua? Or just a function index? There are really a lot of nice functions, for example table.serialize(), for the every-day usage! Anyway, even without reference: thanks for these tools! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] minimal example for Cyrillic

2008-04-28 Thread Gour
> "Henning" == Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henning> Since I just adapted a ConTeXt based business card generator to Henning> work with cyrillic type, I can assure that it's possible - with Henning> XeTeX or LuaTeX. That's my conviction as well... Henning> There you just ne

Re: [NTG-context] letter

2008-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Wolfgang, > it seems to me that referenzline, subject, foldmarks, etc, are about > 4mm or 5mm to big (A4 paper). The foldmark for example should be > 105mm from papertop. It is 110mm from top. > The horizontal offset (3.5mm) of foldmarks ist to small. A > laserprinter often is not able to print

Re: [NTG-context] Tables in headers

2008-04-28 Thread Stefan Larsson
Thank you very much for your explicit hints Wolfgang. I've learnt a lot from these few lines of code. /Stefan ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-con

Re: [NTG-context] \indenting[next] and math => no vertical space before the formula

2008-04-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Mikael Persson wrote: > Hello again, > > * snip * >> >> I could reproduce the result and have also a fix but I don't know what >> the correct >> reults should be and other people like Aditya should decide if it makes >> sense >> to change the current behaviour. >> >> \de

Re: [NTG-context] chapter setup / table of contents

2008-04-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
I just documented my whole setup at: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Proceedings_style Hope it helps someone with something similar. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) _

Re: [NTG-context] do is impossible to install mark iv in gnu/linux/amd64?

2008-04-28 Thread Peter Münster
On Mon, Apr 28 2008, raven aloof wrote: > $TEXMFCACHE, etc, etc, etc), and ruby install it. The questions are.: Is the > some way to install/update/upgrade context/metafun/LUATEX on > gnu/linux/amd64? The error log, how is it solve? Should there not be a > standard method to install all this?...

Re: [NTG-context] letter

2008-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Wolfgang, it seems to me that referenzline, subject, foldmarks, etc, are about 4mm or 5mm to big (A4 paper). The foldmark for example should be 105mm from papertop. It is 110mm from top. The horizontal offset (3.5mm) of foldmarks ist to small. A laserprinter often is not able to print 5mm

Re: [NTG-context] who eats my spaces

2008-04-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-28 um 11:45 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: >> I don't know who eats you spaces, but I assume you could do > The period after "B" in the author filed eats the space, I tried > the example > with "B Rüssel" and the space is in the output. Of course, every normal inter-word space is kept; th

Re: [NTG-context] minimal example for Cyrillic

2008-04-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-28 um 09:16 schrieb Gour: > I was able to persuade one user to prepare ConTeXt package for NixOS > distro, but, unfortunately, being from Russia he quickly discovered > that > he minimal example from wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian) > does not work, i.e. > > \enableregime[

[NTG-context] do is impossible to install mark iv in gnu/linux/amd64?

2008-04-28 Thread raven aloof
Hi all... Mark IV is a greatest technology but very very difficult to install :(. The trouble is not context or metafun else luatex. There is not way humanly possible to install it in gnu/linux/x86_64! Always I have some error :(... I tried with packages (hardy heron, currently) but I have/get ol

Re: [NTG-context] \indenting[next] and math => no vertical space before the formula

2008-04-28 Thread Mikael Persson
Hello again, * snip * > > I could reproduce the result and have also a fix but I don't know what > the correct > reults should be and other people like Aditya should decide if it makes sense > to change the current behaviour. > > \def\startdisplaymath > {\ifgridsnapping > \beforedispla

Re: [NTG-context] withshade (mlib)

2008-04-28 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Hi, >> >> there are some problems in combination with the 'withshade' operator in >> mlib. >> >> this must be patched in mp-mlib.mp (':=' instead of '='; too much lua ;) > > indeed > > >> i still get an error after this patch, because '_defined_cs_' is

Re: [NTG-context] withshade (mlib)

2008-04-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Rolf wrote: > Hi, > > there are some problems in combination with the 'withshade' operator in > mlib. > > this must be patched in mp-mlib.mp (':=' instead of '='; too much lua ;) indeed > i still get an error after this patch, because '_defined_cs_' is not > increased somehow (donno wh

[NTG-context] Missing character in texgyreheros

2008-04-28 Thread luigi scarso
Sorry for the noise, but i'm in the middle between an old context mkii (2005) and mkiv stylesheet for a greek utf-encoded file and i'm a bit confused. While using Heros font, I have: Missing character: There is no ώ (974) in font /home/usr7/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyreheros-re

[NTG-context] withshade (mlib)

2008-04-28 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, there are some problems in combination with the 'withshade' operator in mlib. this must be patched in mp-mlib.mp (':=' instead of '='; too much lua ;) vardef define_circular_shade (expr a, b, ra, rb, ca, cb) = _defined_cs_ := _defined_cs_ + 1 ; _defined_cs_pre_ [_defined_cs_] :=

Re: [NTG-context] Tables in headers

2008-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Stefan, > I'll try to illustrate using a monospaced font: > > +--+ Company Name > | | > | Logo | > | | > +--+ > > + > Type of document| Page > Re

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals & NixoS

2008-04-28 Thread Gour
> "Taco" == Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Taco> It sounds intriguing, but I have no time to look into it. Yes, it is, but it's better for you to wait a bit and do luatex. NixOS will hopefully become more user-friendly with the time. Let me help 'em to have proper luatex support.

Re: [NTG-context] Tables in headers

2008-04-28 Thread Stefan Larsson
Hi Stefan, On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Stefan Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> First post on this list... >> >> I have been using LaTeX for several large projects during the last 10 years >> and just recently tried to switch to ConTeXt due to the claim of easier >> handling of custom pag

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals & NixoS

2008-04-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Gour wrote: >> "Taco" == Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Taco> If it has .dev or .rpm (or an import function thereof) you could > Taco> use Norberts packages instead of the 'upstream' releases? > > No it uses source deployment, although it's possible to use binaries as > well

Re: [NTG-context] who eats my spaces

2008-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Coming back to my old thread. > > > > Here's my latest chapter setup: > > > > --- >8 --- > > > > \unprotect > > > > \resetvalue{\??sw\v!chapter} > > > > \startsetups chapter:list > > > >

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals & NixoS

2008-04-28 Thread Gour
> "Taco" == Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Taco> If it has .dev or .rpm (or an import function thereof) you could Taco> use Norberts packages instead of the 'upstream' releases? No it uses source deployment, although it's possible to use binaries as well. NixOS puts all the build

Re: [NTG-context] who eats my spaces

2008-04-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Coming back to my old thread. > > Here's my latest chapter setup: > > --- >8 --- > > \unprotect > > \resetvalue{\??sw\v!chapter} > > \startsetups chapter:list > > \def\\{{\ \nomarking{\nolist\crlf}}} I don't know who eats you spaces, but I assume you could do

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals & NixoS

2008-04-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Gour wrote: > Hello! > > Soon I plan to move to NixOS (http://nixos.org/) distro which uses > purely functional package manager (Nix) and does not allow 'destructive' > updates which happen with e.g. ConTeXt Minimals and rsync. If it has .dev or .rpm (or an import function thereof) you could us

[NTG-context] minimal example for Cyrillic

2008-04-28 Thread Gour
Hello! I was able to persuade one user to prepare ConTeXt package for NixOS distro, but, unfortunately, being from Russia he quickly discovered that he minimal example from wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian) does not work, i.e. \enableregime[utf] \useencoding[cyr] \definetypeface [russ

Re: [NTG-context] Bridge between Lua and Ruby

2008-04-28 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Diamantini Maurice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonjour à tous ! > > I just see that there is a bridge between the Ruby language > (used by context tools) and Lua (soon to be part of the next TeX > compiler, via LuaTeX) > > http://rubyluabridge.rubyforge.org

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals & NixoS

2008-04-28 Thread Gour
Hello! Soon I plan to move to NixOS (http://nixos.org/) distro which uses purely functional package manager (Nix) and does not allow 'destructive' updates which happen with e.g. ConTeXt Minimals and rsync. I'd like to use Luatex and due to its rapid development I am interested to know whether it

[NTG-context] Bridge between Lua and Ruby

2008-04-28 Thread Diamantini Maurice
Bonjour à tous ! I just see that there is a bridge between the Ruby language (used by context tools) and Lua (soon to be part of the next TeX compiler, via LuaTeX) http://rubyluabridge.rubyforge.org/ I thought this would be interesting for somebody on this list ;-) -- Maurice Diamantini __