Re: [NTG-context] Best version of ConTeXt

2010-07-09 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 07/08/2010 11:10 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: There are only 2 different versions of ConTeXt, called Mark II and Mark IV (MkII, MkIV). They are always distributed together and still share a lot of code. MkII is stable, MkIV is the development version with several enhanced features and a

[NTG-context] Installing Context Minimals on Windows

2010-07-09 Thread John Devereux
Hi, I normally use linux, but I now need to install context on Windows (7). Right now the minimals installation fails for me in various ways, depending on how I do it. Running the graphical installer I get two dialogs update failed error code 1 and make failed error code 1. Using the

Re: [NTG-context] horizontal alignment

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Murphy
On 09/07/10 01:32, Michael Goerz wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to do some horizontal alignment, for typesetting poetry. How would you solve this kind of problem? I've considered defining a macro \BrokenLine[line1][line2] that does the above. But, there are also instances where there are two or

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Context Minimals on Windows

2010-07-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:52, John Devereux wrote: Using the command line method I get a message about a vtable error when I try to run context. (It looked like the one mentioned in earlier postings, sorry I don't have the exact message now). Does it help if you re-download the zip (for the

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Context Minimals on Windows

2010-07-09 Thread John Devereux
Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:52, John Devereux wrote: Using the command line method I get a message about a vtable error when I try to run context. (It looked like the one mentioned in earlier postings, sorry I don't have the exact message

Re: [NTG-context] m-barcodes error

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Green
On Jul 7, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 07.07.10 20:34, schrieb Hans Hagen: On 7-7-2010 7:35, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 07.07.10 19:18, schrieb Michael Green: I can’t get the example in the m-barcodes module to work. I have no urgent need to print barcodes; I was just

[NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
I've just installed ConTeXt minimal and had a look at ConTeXt, The Manual. I typed in the example document that starts at the bottom of page 13 (called it eg.tex) and ran context. It produced the file eg.pdf and I notice that it ran luatex with the option --backend=pdf. Thanks, those who have

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Michael Talbot-Wilson m...@view.net.au wrote: I've just installed ConTeXt minimal and had a look at ConTeXt, The Manual.  I typed in the example document that starts at the bottom of page 13 (called it eg.tex) and ran context.  It produced the file eg.pdf and I

Re: [NTG-context] installing metauml in context

2010-07-09 Thread Kevin D. Robbins
Hi all, I am also interested in using MetaUML with ConTeXt mkiv. I tried compiling the attached test-metauml.tex with the versions (I updated today): MTXrun | main context file: /opt/context/beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex MTXrun | current version: 2010.06.23 12:45 and This

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread Vedran Miletić
2010/7/9 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: pdf and dvi are  the only backend . In mkiv (I suppose you are using mkiv because of  context ) the pdf backend is actually the only backend. Luigi has summarized it pretty much. Even though LuaTeX can actually produce DVI, I'm not sure if it can

[NTG-context] parsing issue with \math{} inside natural table

2010-07-09 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I ran into a case where a natural table has an issue when it contains inline math and an alignment character is used. Here's a small example which triggers the problem: \starttext \bTABLE \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTD[alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes]{\le 4.0\math{-}}\eTD \eTR

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Vedran Mileti?~G wrote: 2010/7/9 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: pdf and dvi are ??the only backend . In mkiv (I suppose you are using mkiv because of ??context ) the pdf backend is actually the only backend. Luigi has summarized it pretty much. Even though LuaTeX can

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Michael Talbot-Wilson m...@view.net.au wrote: Thanks for your reply.  Both.  But Luigi seems to say LuaTeX can NOT actually produce DVI.  Or is that just ConTeXt? LuaTex aims to become the next pdftex, and it already has a dvi output mode. ConText mkiv today is

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: Oh, yes. May have a look at MkII. But does it use LuaTeX? The possibility of easy macros in Lua rather than difficult macros in TeX would be one attraction of ConTeXt. Maybe Eplain LuaTeX is what I need. Let me correct that. Confused

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Michael Talbot-Wilson m...@view.net.au wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: Oh, yes.  May have a look at MkII.  But does it use LuaTeX?  The possibility of easy macros in Lua rather than difficult macros in TeX would be one attraction of

Re: [NTG-context] horizontal alignment

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Goerz
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Michael Murphy michael.mur...@uni-ulm.de wrote: On 09/07/10 01:32, Michael Goerz wrote: I'm trying to do some horizontal alignment, for typesetting poetry. How would you solve this kind of problem? I've considered defining a macro \BrokenLine[line1][line2] that

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, luigi scarso wrote: Let me correct that. ??Confused ravings. ??I was really looking for (1) font management making it easier to install new and unusual fonts without delving up to my armpits in tfm, pk, whatever, (2) something with Metapost more integrated, allowing easy