Re: [NTG-context] lines tightly fitting together

2011-03-02 Thread Hans van der Meer
On 2 mrt 2011, at 07:05, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 01.03.2011 um 21:59 schrieb Hans van der Meer: > >> Wolfgang, >> >> Replying directly to your address because the message body is too large. >> Pictures are pixel images of DVB subtitles from telvision broadcast, in case >> youre wonder

Re: [NTG-context] lines tightly fitting together

2011-03-02 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Hans van der Meer wrote: > > On 2 mrt 2011, at 07:05, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 01.03.2011 um 21:59 schrieb Hans van der Meer: > > Wolfgang, > > Replying directly to your address because the message body is too large. > Pictures are pixel images of DVB subtitl

Re: [NTG-context] Letter with letterhead

2011-03-02 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, though I am using MKIV only, it should also work with MKII \startsetups[letter:foot] \setlayer[letter:foot] [x=4.5mm,y=-2mm] {... whatever must go in here ...} \stopsetups \startsetups[letter:next

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun Label and externalfigure Problem

2011-03-02 Thread Jeong Dalyoung
Dear Lutz, After replacing "blblogo.pdf" with a figure file in my system and tested it. Otherwise, it shows a gray rectangle. I got no error and the output is fine.( "Test" and the figure are well shown) I don't know "rev 4090" but here is the version of ConTeXt minimal in my system. ... Th

Re: [NTG-context] lines tightly fitting together

2011-03-02 Thread Hans van der Meer
Finally turned to Metapost. Placing things at exactly the right point is much easier there. However, my Metapost has become somewhat rusty. Took me most of the morning to fresh things up a bit and produce something not looking too bad. Hans van der Meer. On 2 mrt 2011, at 09:33, luigi scarso wr

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 22:37, Joseph Wright wrote: > Hello all, > > A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially I really like the particular answer pointing to bugroff licence: http://www.re

[NTG-context] Short words in word list

2011-03-02 Thread Florian Wobbe
Hi, \usemodule[s-lan-03] \setupspellchecking[state=start,method=2] \setupspellchecking[list=words] \ctxlua{languages.words.tracers.showwords()} prints a word list of words with 4+ letters. Is there a way to also include 1-, 2-, and 3-letter words? Thanks, Florian

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Matija Šuklje
On Wednesday 02 of March 2011 11:30:03 Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 22:37, Joseph Wright wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > A question came up recently on the tex.sx site about ConTeXt licensing: > > > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12431/using-context-commercially > > I r

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/3/2 Mojca Miklavec : > I really like the particular answer pointing to bugroff licence: >    http://www.reocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5947/bugroff.html It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD license allows the same freedoms, but is legally clear. Best Martin _

[NTG-context] breaking up long input into metapost pages

2011-03-02 Thread Hans van der Meer
I now have a long input file with many independent sections. For the moment it is processed as follows: \starttext \startTEXpage \startMPcode % variable declarations % macro definitions with drawing code input input_data; \stopMPcode \stopTEXpage \stoptext Now this becomes a bit too large for on

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:41:58AM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2011/3/2 Mojca Miklavec : > > I really like the particular answer pointing to bugroff licence: > >    http://www.reocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5947/bugroff.html > > It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD > license

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/3/2 Khaled Hosny : > I was about to say that, though I'm pro strong copyleft (AKA GPL when > fits) myself, though I highly doubt, for practical reasons ;), that any > one can take a BSD licensed ConTeXt and make a closed source derivative > with any substantial improvement. That may be legall

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, On 03/02/11 11:41, Martin Schröder wrote: > > It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD > license allows the same freedoms, but is legally clear. Same for me, but in collaborative works, that is usually not doable. Once a single line of a project is GPL-ed, all of it has

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:08:35PM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2011/3/2 Khaled Hosny : > > I was about to say that, though I'm pro strong copyleft (AKA GPL when > > fits) myself, though I highly doubt, for practical reasons ;), that any > > one can take a BSD licensed ConTeXt and make a closed

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun Label and externalfigure Problem

2011-03-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Not having blblogo.pdf, I used cow.pdf for the tests below. I use luatex 0.66.0 (rev 4090) hand-built on linux32, and Context 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV (received privately from Hans) With that configuration, all three tests function exactly as they should, so it is almost certainly not luatex th

[NTG-context] A question about data types?

2011-03-02 Thread Ian Lawrence
Sorry. me again...and I have been all over the wiki, mailing lists and manuals... I have this: \setlayer [progresssteps] % name of the layer [hoffset=904 px, voffset= 28\nuggetnumber px] % placement (from upper left corner of the layer) {\stepstack} % the actual contents of the layer And I am

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:40, Matija Šuklje wrote: > > *On topic* I'd also _very_ much like to see what's up with ConTeXt licensing. > From what it seems it looks like TeX Live is relicensing ConTeXt in its > distribution. And both helping the Gentoo Licensing team and being Deputy > Legal Coordina

Re: [NTG-context] A question about data types?

2011-03-02 Thread Stefan Müller
Hi! On 02.03.2011 12:25, Ian Lawrence wrote: Sorry. me again...and I have been all over the wiki, mailing lists and manuals... I have this: \setlayer[progresssteps]% name of the layer [hoffset=904 px, voffset= 28\nuggetnumber px] % placement (from upper left corner of the layer) {\stepstack}

Re: [NTG-context] A question about data types?

2011-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 02.03.2011 um 12:25 schrieb Ian Lawrence: > Sorry. me again...and I have been all over the wiki, mailing lists and > manuals... > > I have this: > > \setlayer [progresssteps] % name of the layer > [hoffset=904 px, voffset= 28\nuggetnumber px] % placement > (from upper le

Re: [NTG-context] A question about data types?

2011-03-02 Thread Ian Lawrence
Thank you both. I got as far as \dimexpr (expressions) page in the Wiki, and all the words made sense, more or less, but not the whole. In case anyone else find this useful, I have success with Wolfgang 2 and 3, with (2) being the simplestbut that may just be the fit to my brain. It's buil

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2-3-2011 12:10, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, On 03/02/11 11:41, Martin Schröder wrote: It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD license allows the same freedoms, but is legally clear. Same for me, but in collaborative works, that is usually not doable. Once a single line

[NTG-context] Numbering again..

2011-03-02 Thread Ian Lawrence
Sorry...Again I am stumped. I have a counter that I'd like to reset \newcounter \nuggetnumber \def \numberofnuggets{0} \definehead [nugget] [section] \setuphead [nugget] [number=yes,page=yes, before=\increment \nuggetnumber, after=\savecurrentvalue \numberofnuggets{\countervalue{nuggetnumbe

Re: [NTG-context] Numbering again..

2011-03-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 2, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Ian Lawrence wrote: The following is untested (since you don't include a working example, just snippets of code) > I have a counter that I'd like to reset > > > \newcounter \nuggetnumber > \def \numberofnuggets{0} > > \definehead [nugget] [section] > \setuphead [nu

Re: [NTG-context] Letter with letterhead

2011-03-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Willi, Willi Egger writes: > though I am using MKIV only, it should also work with MKII > > \startsetups[letter:foot] > \setlayer[letter:foot] > [x=4.5mm,y=-2mm] > {... whatever must go in here ...} [snip] Many thanks. Yes,

[NTG-context] compare locations of two pagereferences

2011-03-02 Thread Daniel Schopper
Dear all, how can one compare the locations of two pagereferences for conditional processing? I tried it with this (mkiv, 2011.01.10): \starttext \pagereference[page:a]bla \pagereference[page:b]bla \at[page:a] % 1 \at[page:b] % also 1 \doifsamestringelse{\at[page:a]}{\at[page:b]}{same page}{di

Re: [NTG-context] compare locations of two pagereferences

2011-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 02.03.2011 um 18:05 schrieb Daniel Schopper: > Dear all, > how can one compare the locations of two pagereferences for conditional > processing? I tried it with this (mkiv, 2011.01.10): There is nothing predefined in the core but it’s not so hard to write your own command: \def\doifelsesam

[NTG-context] Work available

2011-03-02 Thread Ian Lawrence
Hi all, I think for the sake of my sanity I am going to stop building prototypes now. I am very grateful to those who have been very helpful along the way, answering what must have seemed like foolish questions. I'd have to say that getting to grips with Context has taken longer than I bargained f

[NTG-context] \setupinmargin no more known

2011-03-02 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, Bug or feature? -- Peter ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpag

Re: [NTG-context] \setupinmargin no more known

2011-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 02.03.2011 um 18:10 schrieb Peter Münster: > Hello, > Bug or feature? Hans rewrote the margintext code and the new commands are - \definemargindata to create a new command (different syntax than the old code) and - \setupmargindata and - \setupmarginframed to change the values of ea

[NTG-context] What is the best way to implement a table like this

2011-03-02 Thread Cecil Westerhof
I want to implement a table like: http://www.hooversbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/coveyquad.bmp What is the best way to do this? -- Cecil Westerhof ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, plea

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011-03-02 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 02 Mär 2011, Martin Schröder wrote: > *On topic* I'd also _very_ much like to see what's up with ConTeXt licensing. > From what it seems it looks like TeX Live is relicensing ConTeXt in its ??? How do you come to that conclusion? TeX Live is *NOT* relicensing *anything*. THe REDAME and COP

Re: [NTG-context] What is the best way to implement a table like this

2011-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 02.03.2011 um 23:32 schrieb Cecil Westerhof: > I want to implement a table like: > http://www.hooversbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/coveyquad.bmp > > What is the best way to do this? \starttext \setupTABLE[r][1][height=1cm,style=bold] \setupTABLE[c][1][width=1cm,style=normal,orienta

[NTG-context] m-obsolete.tex has an undefined control sequence

2011-03-02 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi Hans, I guess it should be \writestatus\m!system{skipping obsolete module} but somehow the file in the latest beta reads \writestatus\m!systems{skipping obsolete module} I have to define this macro to \def\m!systems{\m!system} before loading the bib module so that I can keep the system untouc

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun Label and externalfigure Problem

2011-03-02 Thread Lutz Haseloff
2011/3/2 Taco Hoekwater : > > Hi, > > Not having blblogo.pdf, I used cow.pdf for the tests below. > I use luatex 0.66.0 (rev 4090) hand-built on linux32, and > Context 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV (received privately from Hans) > > With that configuration, all three tests function exactly > as they should