Re: [NTG-context] minimal example of some problems

2010-04-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Michael Saunders wrote: 1. Leftward protrusion doesn't work. 2. I don't think hz is working in footnotes. The font I'm using is Adobe Garamond Premiere Pro. If you think there might be a problem with the typescript, I can show you that too. These two are related to

[NTG-context] raisebox (was: Re: minimal example of some problems)

2010-04-04 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Apr 04 2010, Michael Saunders wrote: \raisebox{1em}\hbox{--} Hooray! Something works! Often, there even more than one solution: \offset[y=-1em]{--} or \high{--} Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] The ConTeXt book

2010-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 04.04.10 02:39, schrieb Aditya Mahajan: 9. \raisebox? What is the proper way to raise or lower a bit of text? I just spent ... \raisebox{1ex}{?} When I try: \raisebox{1ex}{--} Context stops on the error: A box was supposed to be here \raisebox{1ex}{ --} Provide a box :-)

[NTG-context] new error in Context under Linux

2010-04-04 Thread Alain Delmotte
Hi! I got an new error compiling the example p28-30 of the Excursion with \startcombination...\stopcombination !load otf : file size: 112404 !load otf : enhancing ... !load otf : saving in cache: /home/alain/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman8-bold.otf !

Re: [NTG-context] new error in Context under Linux

2010-04-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Alain Delmotte wrote: Hi! I got an new error compiling the example p28-30 of the Excursion with \startcombination...\stopcombination !load otf : file size: 112404 !load otf : enhancing ... !load otf : saving in cache:

Re: [NTG-context] new error in Context under Linux

2010-04-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Alain Delmotte wrote: } \@@kjtabletitle -Use of \type {\setuptables } This looks suspiciously like the '\type in captions' bug, again. Oupss! You are right. I did use an uncorrected version of my source. Sorry for taking time for my fault. Actually, my (latest) context

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-04 Thread John Haltiwanger
2010/4/3 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: Let's distinguish typographical engineering from typographical programming. This will not be a book on the latter per se. Typographical engineering can be done by a non-programmer -- structured and automated processing using

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-04 Thread John Haltiwanger
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Marcin Borkowski mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl wrote: My 3 cents: if you want to have your thesis done *quickly* and in an easy, howto - recipe - faq way, just use LaTeX (probably with amsrefs/tikz/memoir/a few others).  If you want to do more unusual things, and

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3-4-2010 7:00, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: News flash: it's already there! See attached. more precisely: the mechanisms are there in mkiv to do that kind of coloring (already for a while) but for advanced arabic you will need that font to get similar results note:

Re: [NTG-context] new error in Context under Linux

2010-04-04 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4-4-2010 10:43, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Alain Delmotte wrote: Hi! I got an new error compiling the example p28-30 of the Excursion with \startcombination...\stopcombination !load otf : file size: 112404 !load otf : enhancing ... !load otf : saving in cache:

Re: [NTG-context] new error in Context under Linux

2010-04-04 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Apr 04 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: btw there will be no beta this weekend as we need to be in sync with the upcoming 0.60 there will probably be a few betas next week and then a current once 0.60 is out Isn't it out yet ?? - http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/luatex/frs/ Cheers,

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-04 Thread John Haltiwanger
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:58 PM, John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com wrote: Would that make it feasible to somehow chain Parrot's Lua to LuaTeX? parrot ~ luajit cfr. http://luajit.org/ Maybe some day luatex

[NTG-context] interlinespace in table of content

2010-04-04 Thread Marco
Hi, given the following MWE %% \setupinteraction [state=start] % OK, if commented out \setuplayout [grid=yes]% OK, if commented out \starttext \completecontent \dorecurse{3}{ \chapter{chapter} \section{section} \subsection{subsection}} \stoptext %% you can see

[NTG-context] Need help with the letter module

2010-04-04 Thread Matija Šuklje
Hullo, I'm trying to write a letter, but it gets all screwy. The first batch of letter settings works OK (opening, closing, signature); but then the from* and to* blocks fail resulting in a PDF that just quotes that code on a separate page. Clearly I'm doing something wrong although I'm

Re: [NTG-context] interlinespace in table of content

2010-04-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Marco wrote: Hi, given the following MWE %% \setupinteraction [state=start] % OK, if commented out \setuplayout [grid=yes]% OK, if commented out \setuplayout [grid=verytolerant] (the struts from the interaction link are getting in the way) Best wishes, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] Need help with the letter module

2010-04-04 Thread Andreas Schneider
Matija Šuklje wrote: Hullo, I'm trying to write a letter, but it gets all screwy. The first batch of letter settings works OK (opening, closing, signature); but then the from* and to* blocks fail resulting in a PDF that just quotes that code on a separate page. Clearly I'm doing

Re: [NTG-context] interlinespace in table of content

2010-04-04 Thread Marco
\setuplayout [grid=verytolerant] (the struts from the interaction link are getting in the way) Many thanks Taco. Works like a charm now. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] Need help with the letter module

2010-04-04 Thread Matija Šuklje
Dne nedelja 4. aprila 2010 ob 16:01:44 je Andreas Schneider napisal(a): The following should not be a separate parameter. If you put another \setupletter in front of it, it should work. Or just leave out the additional [] pairs. -- \setupletter[opening=..., closing=..., signature=...,

Re: [NTG-context] Need help with the letter module

2010-04-04 Thread Matija Šuklje
New problem: Using the \ps{} command results in failure to generate the PDF, claiming \ps is not defined. Is it perhaps not included in MkII (or Tex Live 2008)? Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suk...@gabbler.org

[NTG-context] Metafun in MacTeX 209 distribution

2010-04-04 Thread jindrich Ruzicka
Hello people, I installed Mac TeX -2009 Distribution on a new iMAC. when I try to run texexec on a Context file that includes a metapost program, I receive no picture that is defined in metapost part. (btw in my linux installation it works) What I can find in log file is: ...

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun in MacTeX 209 distribution

2010-04-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 10:58:13 -0400, ntg-context-boun...@ntg.nl wrote: Hello people, I installed Mac TeX -2009 Distribution on a new iMAC. when I try to run texexec on a Context file that includes a metapost program, I receive no picture that is defined in metapost part. (btw in my

Re: [NTG-context] Need help with the letter module

2010-04-04 Thread Matija Šuklje
Is it normal that an empty line in the letter module does *not* trigger a paragraph? Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suk...@gabbler.org ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] SVG 2 MetaPost/MetaFun

2010-04-04 Thread Matija Šuklje
Is there a SVG to MetaPost/MetaFun converter available? I want to get this quite simple logo to converted from SVG into a ConTeXt- native vector graphic. Cheers, Matija P.S. Too bad SVG is not ConTeXt-native (yet?) -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp:

[NTG-context] Mk II, textstyle=cap not working

2010-04-04 Thread Michael Ewe
Hello ConTeXt gurus, as a newbie I checked the example from ConTeXt an excursion page 11 (Hasselt makes headlines). The manual says: use textstyle=cap to format a chapter's head in capitals. Short story:the manual lies ;-) The sample does not work (at least in Mk II) Longer story: Sample

Re: [NTG-context] Need help with the letter module

2010-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 04.04.10 16:56, schrieb Matija Šuklje: New problem: Using the \ps{} command results in failure to generate the PDF, claiming \ps is not defined. Is it perhaps not included in MkII (or Tex Live 2008)? The \ps, \cc etc. commands where added after the TeXLive 2008 release. Using the

Re: [NTG-context] SVG 2 MetaPost/MetaFun

2010-04-04 Thread Peter Wüsten
I just tried using an SVG image directly in MkIV, and it worked like a breeze. Apparently ConTeXt converts the image to PDF on the fly as I found a PDF-file with a similar name (m_k_v_i_your SVG filename.pdf) in the same directory as the SVG-file. If you would still love to convert your

Re: [NTG-context] SVG 2 MetaPost/MetaFun

2010-04-04 Thread Matija Šuklje
Dne nedelja 4. aprila 2010 ob 19:23:18 je Peter Wüsten napisal(a): I just tried using an SVG image directly in MkIV, and it worked like a breeze. Apparently ConTeXt converts the image to PDF on the fly as I found a PDF-file with a similar name (m_k_v_i_your SVG filename.pdf) in the same

[NTG-context] weird en/em dash behaviour

2010-04-04 Thread Marco
Hi, I've found some in my opinion weird behaviour concerning en/em dashes. Have a look at the following two MWEs. %% \starttext - % shows up -- % missing --- % missing \endash % missing \emdash % missing \stoptext %% %% \setupbodyfont [11.9pt] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] weird en/em dash behaviour

2010-04-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Marco wrote: Hi, I've found some in my opinion weird behaviour concerning en/em dashes. Have a look at the following two MWEs. %% \starttext - % shows up -- % missing --- % missing \endash % missing \emdash % missing \stoptext %% Works here

[NTG-context] % prevents linebreaks in \startlines ... \stoplines

2010-04-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, Here is an interesting example \starttext \startlines one % two % three % \stoplines \stoptext This gives no linebreaks! Can this be prevented? I doubt it since TeX never sees the \n. In which case, we should call it a feature :-) Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] weird en/em dash behaviour

2010-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 04.04.10 21:04, schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Works here with both MkII and MkIV. But I am using an old version (2010.03.20). Maybe a bug was introduced later? Works here with the latest beta too. Wolfgang ___ If

Re: [NTG-context] weird en/em dash behaviour

2010-04-04 Thread Marco
My version: ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.30 18:56 MKIV This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.52.0-2010032402 (rev 3515) marco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] weird en/em dash behaviour

2010-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 04.04.10 21:07, schrieb Marco: My version: ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.30 18:56 MKIV This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.52.0-2010032402 (rev 3515) MTXrun | current version: 2010.03.30 18:56 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.52.0-2010031913 Mac OS X 10.6.3 Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] weird en/em dash behaviour

2010-04-04 Thread Marco
Am Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:10:13 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com: Am 04.04.10 21:04, schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Works here with both MkII and MkIV. But I am using an old version (2010.03.20). Maybe a bug was introduced later? Works here with the latest beta too.

Re: [NTG-context] % prevents linebreaks in \startlines ... \stoplines

2010-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 04.04.10 21:08, schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Hi, Here is an interesting example \starttext \startlines one % two % three % \stoplines \stoptext This gives no linebreaks! Can this be prevented? I doubt it since TeX never sees the \n. In which case, we should call it a feature :-)

Re: [NTG-context] weird en/em dash behaviour

2010-04-04 Thread Marco
Am Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:19:49 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com: Am 04.04.10 21:07, schrieb Marco: My version: ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.30 18:56 MKIV This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.52.0-2010032402 (rev 3515) MTXrun | current version: 2010.03.30 18:56 This

Re: [NTG-context] Mk II, textstyle=cap not working

2010-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 04.04.10 18:12, schrieb Michael Ewe: Hello ConTeXt gurus, as a newbie I checked the example from ConTeXt an excursion page 11 (Hasselt makes headlines). The manual says: use textstyle=cap to format a chapter's head in capitals. Short story:the manual lies ;-) The sample does not work (at

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-04 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:15 PM, John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:08 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:58 PM, John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com wrote: Would that make it feasible to somehow chain

Re: [NTG-context] SVG 2 MetaPost/MetaFun

2010-04-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 19:29, Matija Šuklje wrote: Dne nedelja 4. aprila 2010 ob 19:23:18 je Peter Wüsten napisal(a): I just tried using an SVG image directly in MkIV, and it worked like a breeze. Apparently ConTeXt converts the image to PDF on the fly as I found a PDF-file with a similar name

[NTG-context] Shaped paragraphs

2010-04-04 Thread Erik Margraf
Hi, I have some problems using shaped paragraphs. I tried to follow the procedures described in METAFUN in the chapter about talking to TeX. The output I get from running context (latest minimals) is wrong (or at least unexpected ;-). The shape of the text paragraphs doesn't match the backgrounds.

Re: [NTG-context] learning LuaTeX (was: Hans' presentation: using plain TEX (from TUG 2009) [apologies if OT])

2010-04-04 Thread Graham Douglas
Hello Patrick who said... Besides the gdb part, this is pretty much how I learned LuaTeX (still on my path). I suggest you stay with plain, then add features as you go along: * write your own font handler (see the bluewiki page) - LuaTeX supports many different kinds of fonts * write

Re: [NTG-context] weird en/em dash behaviour

2010-04-04 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote: Am Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:19:49 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com: Am 04.04.10 21:07, schrieb Marco: My version: ConTeXt  ver: 2010.03.30 18:56 MKIV This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.52.0-2010032402

Re: [NTG-context] Mk II, textstyle=cap not working

2010-04-04 Thread Michael Ewe
Thank you very much, that works well! But: how can I find out? Its not in the manual, its not in the manual's source. The wiki page about chapter headers says textstyle=cap and mentions \textcommand and \deeptextcommand Feeling kind of lost here ! Best Regards Michael Ewe, Germany

Re: [NTG-context] Mk II, textstyle=cap not working

2010-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 04.04.10 22:58, schrieb Michael Ewe: Thank you very much, that works well! But: how can I find out? Its not in the manual, its not in the manual's source. The wiki page about chapter headers says textstyle=cap and mentions \textcommand and \deeptextcommand Feeling kind of lost here !

Re: [NTG-context] SVG 2 MetaPost/MetaFun

2010-04-04 Thread Matija Šuklje
Dne nedelja 4. aprila 2010 ob 22:36:07 je Mojca Miklavec napisal(a): I don't know of any waterproof way to convert from SVG to metapost (all you can do is to convert it to PDF and use that PDF logo), but here's an approximation of your logo in metapost (the legs are wider - you'll need to fix

[NTG-context] using xmlsetups

2010-04-04 Thread Hans van der Meer
I cannot get multiple separate \xmlsetsetup's working. Obviously I am doing something wrong. My idea was: file included contains: \startxmlsetups xml:commoncontext:commonsetups \xmlsetsetup{}{error|tex|html|nbsp|...|br}{xml:commoncontext:*} \stopxmlsetups

Re: [NTG-context] SVG 2 MetaPost/MetaFun

2010-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 04.04.10 23:12, schrieb Matija Šuklje: BTW, is there a special command I'm missing to turn on the colours in ConTeXt? \setupcolors[state=start] Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] SVG 2 MetaPost/MetaFun

2010-04-04 Thread Matija Šuklje
Dne nedelja 4. aprila 2010 ob 23:16:26 je Wolfgang Schuster napisal(a): Am 04.04.10 23:12, schrieb Matija Šuklje: BTW, is there a special command I'm missing to turn on the colours in ConTeXt? \setupcolors[state=start] /me is ashamed ...I found it the minute you sent the e-mail. Cheers,

Re: [NTG-context] SVG 2 MetaPost/MetaFun

2010-04-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 23:12, Matija Šuklje wrote: I'll dig through the manuals to figure out what that codeblock actually does and try to fix it. Start with http://www.tug.org/docs/metapost/mpman.pdf and maybe the metafun manual. Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] SVG 2 MetaPost/MetaFun

2010-04-04 Thread Matija Šuklje
Dne nedelja 4. aprila 2010 ob 23:23:10 je Mojca Miklavec napisal(a): Start with http://www.tug.org/docs/metapost/mpman.pdf and maybe the metafun manual. Thanks yet again :] Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suk...@gabbler.org

Re: [NTG-context] InteractionsBar - another shot

2010-04-04 Thread Matthias Weber
So what do you recommend: - not use the interactionbuttons - pray that they will start working some time in the future - buy Hans a beer (I would have done that a while ago, but shipping is more expensive than the product. Maybe there is a service in Holland where you can have beer

Re: [NTG-context] weird en/em dash behaviour

2010-04-04 Thread Marco
Am Sun, 4 Apr 2010 22:56:26 +0200 schrieb luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: OK. The version are the same. I use linux but that should not cause the problem. Maybe something wrong with the fonts? I also have TeXLive installed. same bug here on linux x86 # context --version MTXrun |

[NTG-context] Splitting a page in given ratios

2010-04-04 Thread Matthias Weber
Dear all, this is probably even easy in plain TeX, but as I have never learned it properly, I am asking anyway: I would like to have a way to split a part of a page into two columns of different width, so something like \startsplitpage[columns=2,spacing=fill] \startcolumn[1][width=.6

[NTG-context] Hanging indents

2010-04-04 Thread Tom
I have a series of paragraphs for which the first line of each should not be indented, but the following lines should be. I can't figure out what option or combination of options will give me this result. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

[NTG-context] There are some math fonts can't be found with the beta 2010.03.30 and luatex 0.52

2010-04-04 Thread 李延瑞
Hi, A sample: \starttext \startformula \left[\matrix{1\cr 0\cr 0}\right]. \stopformula \stoptext The warning informaton: LuaTeX warning (file lmex10): Font lmex10 at 720 not found -- Best regards, Li Yanrui (李延瑞)

[NTG-context] New package for typesetting bibliographies

2010-04-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Just saw this on CTAN announce. http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/librarian.html It says that it works with ConTeXt. Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] There are some math fonts can't be found with the beta 2010.03.30 and luatex 0.52

2010-04-04 Thread views63
2010/4/5 Li Yanrui (李延瑞) liyanrui...@gmail.com: Hi, A sample: \starttext \startformula \left[\matrix{1\cr 0\cr 0}\right]. \stopformula \stoptext I find it was worked with LuaTeX Version beta-0.53.0-2010040221 (rev 3568) but don't worked with LuaTeX revision 3584 btw the LuaTeX