Re: [NTG-context] Indents, enumerations, and modes (mk2+mk4)

2010-06-01 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 02.06.10 00:14, schrieb Matthias Weber: Dear all, I have two questions regarding using spacing in enumerations. Depending on a mode being enabled, I would like to add a command at the beginning of an enumeration (I want to place something in the margin, but it doesn't actually matter what

[NTG-context] Indents, enumerations, and modes (mk2+mk4)

2010-06-01 Thread Matthias Weber
Dear all, I have two questions regarding using spacing in enumerations. Depending on a mode being enabled, I would like to add a command at the beginning of an enumeration (I want to place something in the margin, but it doesn't actually matter what I do, only when). As shown in the minima

Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)

2010-06-01 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 01.06.10 00:29, schrieb Scott Steele: If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still unsolved, I think. ——— In Latex, \fancybreak was pa

[NTG-context] Slides: uncover things piecewise

2010-06-01 Thread Marco
Hi, I use the »simpleslides« module for a presentation and I wonder if it is possible to uncover things piecewise. Take the following example: \usemodule [simpleslides] \starttext \SlideTitle {My Topic} \startitemize \item First % Visible by default \item Second % Gray by default \item Thi

Re: [NTG-context] BibLaTeX

2010-06-01 Thread taco
Peter Park Nelson wrote: Both BibLaTeX and ConTeXt use e-TeX, and the internals of BibLaTeX appear not to be LaTeX-specific. So, would it be possible to write a ConTeXt module that bypasses Bib and provides an interface between ConTeXt bibliography commands and BibLaTeX/Biber? It should be p

[NTG-context] BibLaTeX

2010-06-01 Thread Peter Park Nelson
I frequently use LaTeX with BibLaTeX and the BibLaTeX-Chicago Style package to typeset scholarly material. For me, BibLaTeX is a great tool. However, I am attracted to ConTeXt because, coming from a desktop-publishing background, ConTeXt gives me more/easier control over document layout and structu

Re: [NTG-context] first-setup.sh

2010-06-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:49, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, esp. Mojca, > > I don't know if anything changed recently, but first-setup.sh doesn't fetch > the latest beta for me anymore, even when I feed it the "--context=beta" > switch. At first, I thought it was a glitch, but I have now tried

Re: [NTG-context] first-setup.sh

2010-06-01 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, esp. Mojca, > > I don't know if anything changed recently, but first-setup.sh doesn't fetch > the latest beta for me anymore, even when I feed it the "--context=beta" > switch. At first, I thought it was a glitch, but I have now t

[NTG-context] first-setup.sh

2010-06-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, esp. Mojca, I don't know if anything changed recently, but first-setup.sh doesn't fetch the latest beta for me anymore, even when I feed it the "-- context=beta" switch. At first, I thought it was a glitch, but I have now tried on 3 different computers, and after running first-setup.

[NTG-context] floatcombinations, localfloats [mkiv]

2010-06-01 Thread Thomas Floeren
Hello, I can't get floatcombinations to work in mkiv: \starttext \placefigure [none]{} {\startfloatcombination [2*1] \placefigure {.}% {\externalfigure [.]} \placefigure {.}% {\externalfigure [.]} \stopfloatcombination} \stoptext (some definitions are missing: forcelocalfloats, resetlocalfloat

Re: [NTG-context] Strange expansion behavior in XML/luatex

2010-06-01 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1-6-2010 10:17, Martin Kolařík wrote: I the case probably yes. Now I have new info how to continue with my MkII-->MkIV conversion, so I will do. I prefer to keep the XML schema and the style as clean and simple as possible, but this does not necessarily mean that the typesetting code itself wi

Re: [NTG-context] Strange expansion behavior in XML/luatex

2010-06-01 Thread Martin Kolařík
I the case probably yes. Now I have new info how to continue with my MkII-->MkIV conversion, so I will do. I prefer to keep the XML schema and the style as clean and simple as possible, but this does not necessarily mean that the typesetting code itself will be clean and simple too :-), Thank

Re: [NTG-context] Title page layout

2010-06-01 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 00:31:11 Scott Steele wrote: > I'm trying to anchor a table or box containing my title and subtitle to the > bottom right corner of the textblock (on a title page). The following comes > very close to doing what I want, but there is still some vertical space > between the bo

Re: [NTG-context] Strange expansion behavior in XML/luatex

2010-06-01 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1-6-2010 9:03, Martin Kolařík wrote: I see, and for the single case it works. Also saving is fine, I am using it. Unfortunately, my example was too reduced :-). In fact, I have a problem with more complex documents, for example, think about: Some caption Text. Now, if I want not to only

Re: [NTG-context] Strange expansion behavior in XML/luatex

2010-06-01 Thread Martin Kolařík
I see, and for the single case it works. Also saving is fine, I am using it. Unfortunately, my example was too reduced :-). In fact, I have a problem with more complex documents, for example, think about: Some caption Text. Now, if I want not to only typeset a caption, but also to store i