Re: [NTG-context] crop PDF pages

2011-09-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2011-09-20 um 04:08 schrieb Yue Wang: Hi, powerful context users: I'm wondering why there is no crop setting for \externalfigure or \insertpages. I have a lot of scanned books in PDF format, most of them are double sided. I want to read them on kindle but the huge margins take too

Re: [NTG-context] crop PDF pages

2011-09-20 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Yue Wang yuleo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, powerful context users: I'm wondering why there is no crop setting for \externalfigure or \insertpages. I have a lot of scanned books in PDF format, most of them are double sided. I want to read them on kindle but the

[NTG-context] insert unicode character

2011-09-20 Thread Hans van der Meer
I looked into the recent Fonts in Context book, but could not figure out how to access characters directly in unicode. In my case this is inside a MetaPost picture something like: \switchtobodyfont[courier,24pt] .. label (UNICODE character U+2B06 here… How to? Hans van der Meer

[NTG-context] Problem with \columnsetspan

2011-09-20 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Hello, I tried columnsets today, and the following minimal example shows that something is wrong with columnsetspans (which I wanted to use to make a title). \definecolumnset[main][n=2] \definecolumnsetspan[title][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[main] \startcolumnsetspan[title] \input knuth

Re: [NTG-context] Console Verbosity Optimized Output Generation

2011-09-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2011-09-20 um 01:12 schrieb Kip Warner: On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 14:23 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Separate you document in components and process only the component your working on, this is faster then the whole book (product). I've done that already. The whole book is one product,

[NTG-context] Double interline spacing with headings

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Müller
Hi list, I want to have double line spacing in my document setup, including the headings. But in the following example, the space before the heading is slightly different from the interline spacing between the other lines. How to do this right? (standalone MkIV 2011.09.20 00:09)

[NTG-context] style=bold in \setuphead does not work anymore

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Müller
Hi, In ConTeXt standalone MkIV 2011.08.04 00:42 this used to work: \setuphead[section][style=bold] \starttext \section{Ward} \input ward \stoptext In 2011.09.20 00:09 it doesn't anymore. If I use style=\bf I still get bold face. Is this a bug or was the interface changed deliberately?

[NTG-context] Long word out of text area/No proper line wrap with flushleft

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Müller
Hi again, in one of my documents I want the text to be flushedleft and not hyphenated, see the following example. \setupalign[flushleft, nothyphenated] \starttext \showlayout bb bb bb bb bb aa bb \stoptext However, in

Re: [NTG-context] Long word out of text area/No proper line wrap with flushleft

2011-09-20 Thread Andreas Harder
On 20.09.2011, at 11:31, Stefan Müller wrote: Hi again, in one of my documents I want the text to be flushedleft and not hyphenated, see the following example. \setupalign[flushleft, nothyphenated] \starttext \showlayout bb bb bb bb bb

Re: [NTG-context] Long word out of text area/No proper line wrap with flushleft

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Müller
Ah, thank you very much! Can you tell me why it's called broad? I don't get the intention behind this key... Stefan On 20.09.2011 11:34, Andreas Harder wrote: On 20.09.2011, at 11:31, Stefan Müller wrote: Hi again, in one of my documents I want the text to be flushedleft and not

Re: [NTG-context] Long word out of text area/No proper line wrap with flushleft

2011-09-20 Thread Andreas Harder
On 20.09.2011, at 11:50, Stefan Müller wrote: Ah, thank you very much! Can you tell me why it's called broad? I don't get the intention behind this key… I’ve no clue. Wolfgang Schuster postet this solution a several times, so I've remembered it. Andreas

[NTG-context] MetaObj with labels in built-in objects (MetaObj Standard Library)

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Müller
Hi list, some time ago I posted on this list about problems with MetaObj in ConTeXt when using labels. There's a wiki article about this now [1]. Just recently I was forced to notice that this solution does not work when the label to be drawn is part of the object definition. So the

[NTG-context] Verbatim in framed text

2011-09-20 Thread Felix Ingram
Some of my verbatim lines are overflowing the framed text box I'm putting them in. I see that I could define a pretty printer to handle this but I came up with the following: \starttext \startframedtext[middle][width=.8\textwidth] \startframedtext[left][frame=off, width=.6\textwidth]

[NTG-context] placing endnotes throws a missing number error

2011-09-20 Thread Daniel Schopper
Dear list, I’m running into a strange issue with endnotes. I seem to hit a limit of how many endnotes I can place in a document - although there are only 52 of them in the document. Recursing the following minimal example 12 times works fine on my machine (using today’s beta 2011.09.20 00:09)

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \columnsetspan

2011-09-20 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia 2011-09-20, o godz. 09:13:47 Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl napisał(a): Hello, I tried columnsets today, and the following minimal example shows that something is wrong with columnsetspans (which I wanted to use to make a title). \definecolumnset[main][n=2]

[NTG-context] t-vim: additional space in \inlineX{}

2011-09-20 Thread Romain Diss
Hi, I tried the t-vim module today and I had a line-break problem with \inlineX. I found the thread started by Peter Münster (last week). So I downloaded the last context beta and this problem is gone. But I got another problem : there is an unwanted additional space at the begining of the

Re: [NTG-context] t-vim: additional space in \inlineX{}

2011-09-20 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Romain Diss wrote: I tried the t-vim module today and I had a line-break problem with \inlineX. I found the thread started by Peter Münster (last week). So I downloaded the last context beta and this problem is gone. But I got another problem : there is an unwanted

[NTG-context] Difference in doifinset in MkII and MkIV

2011-09-20 Thread Aditya Mahajan
The following works in MkIV but fails in MkIV: \unprotect \def\!!yesandon{yes,on} \doifinsetelse{yes}\!!yesandon {\writestatus{TEST}{YES}} {\writestatus{TEST}{NO}} \protect This can be fixed by changing the definition \def\p!doifinsetelse#1#2#3#4% {\donefalse