Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 14 décembre à 21:32:46 pmli...@free.fr (Peter Münster) écrit notamment: | On Wed, Dec 14 2011, Hagmann Jörg wrote: > | > Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from | > there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a home-brewed | > ruby script whi

Re: [NTG-context] xml attribute conditional

2011-12-14 Thread Jon Crump
Hans, Thanks for this. It's almost what I need. I truly appreciate the effort, and it does give me some ideas about things to try. However, if I change your example buffer slightly (for clarity) to this: arab foo arab bar english eggs english ham

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: `\setupheadtext[de][pubs=Quellen]` does not update the table of contents.

2011-12-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-12-2011 14:18, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear ConTeXt folks, the following minimal example changes the default text for the title for the publication list [1]. In the table of content there is still the default name though. \mainlanguage[de] \setupbibtex[database=sample, sort=

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: `\setupheadtext[de][pubs=Quellen]` does not update the table of contents.

2011-12-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-12-2011 14:18, Paul Menzel wrote: Dear ConTeXt folks, the following minimal example changes the default text for the title for the publication list [1]. In the table of content there is still the default name though. \mainlanguage[de] \setupbibtex[database=sample, sort=

Re: [NTG-context] \placelist summary alternative solution

2011-12-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-12-2011 17:50, Felix Ingram wrote: I've ended up delving into the dark art that is Lua for this solution: \define[0]\SummaryTable{% \placetable[force, none]{}{% \setupTABLE[frame=off] \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR\bTH Reference\eTH\bTH Title\eTH\bTH Page\eTH\eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \startlu

Re: [NTG-context] xml attribute conditional

2011-12-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-12-2011 19:33, Jon Crump wrote: @xml:id==string.sub('#N020-18', 2) -> (ll.at and ll.at['xml:id'])==string.sub('#N020-18', 2) ! Missing number, treated as zero. lua error with sub .. not sure what you want t o test here indeed an error will prevent the multipass file to be saved (fe

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Dec 14 2011, Hagmann Jörg wrote: > Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from > there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a home-brewed > ruby script which covers the most common layout commands Have you already considered writing `org-c

Re: [NTG-context] xml attribute conditional

2011-12-14 Thread Jon Crump
>> @xml:id==string.sub('#N020-18', 2) -> >>     (ll.at and ll.at['xml:id'])==string.sub('#N020-18', 2) ! Missing >> number, treated as zero. > > > lua error with sub .. not sure what you want t o test here > > indeed an error will prevent the multipass file to be saved (feature) > > > Hans Thanks

Re: [NTG-context] MnSymbol (math) support in ConTeXt

2011-12-14 Thread Peter Park Nelson
Minion Math does appear to be ideal for this application. However, given current budget constraints, it is unlikely that my department can purchase Minion Math for this project (an open-access academic journal). We already own Minion Pro. Thus my interest in MnSymbol. If adding MnSymbol support w

[NTG-context] Context from Texlive

2011-12-14 Thread Philip Brown
I downloaded texlive on Windows from the the July 2011 Tex Collection dvd. Latex works fine, but I get the following error message when I try to run Context: ConTeXt: problems after [0] pages Is there some sort of postcompilation I need to do to get Context running? Regards, Philip

Re: [NTG-context] MnSymbol (math) support in ConTeXt

2011-12-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 18:44, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 14.12.2011 um 18:38 schrieb Khaled Hosny: > >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 06:16:29PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>> the same author as MnSymbol: >> >> Is he? > > No, MnSymbol is from Achim Blumensath and Minion Math from Johannes Küster.

Re: [NTG-context] MnSymbol (math) support in ConTeXt

2011-12-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 14.12.2011 um 18:38 schrieb Khaled Hosny: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 06:16:29PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> the same author as MnSymbol: > > Is he? No, MnSymbol is from Achim Blumensath and Minion Math from Johannes Küster. Wolfgang ___

Re: [NTG-context] MnSymbol (math) support in ConTeXt

2011-12-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 06:16:29PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > the same author as MnSymbol: Is he? Regards, Khaled ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] MnSymbol (math) support in ConTeXt

2011-12-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 23:32, Peter Park Nelson wrote: > Hello, > > Also, any recommendations of other math fonts suitable for use with Minion > Pro would be welcome. Minion Math by the same author as MnSymbol: http://www.typoma.com/en/fonts.html Mojca ___

[NTG-context] \placelist summary alternative solution

2011-12-14 Thread Felix Ingram
I've ended up delving into the dark art that is Lua for this solution: \define[0]\SummaryTable{% \placetable[force, none]{}{% \setupTABLE[frame=off] \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR\bTH Reference\eTH\bTH Title\eTH\bTH Page\eTH\eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \startluacode for k, v in ipairs(structures.lis

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-12-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-12-2011 10:16, Romain Diss wrote: Hi Hans, Reading the new code (just to see what the clean-up looks like), I saw that a lot of "intermediate" macros are now named whith a new scheme : underscore separated words, and something like a namespace in the macro name. So the question (just for c

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Hagmann Jörg
On Dec 14, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Chris Lott wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Hagmann Jörg wrote: >> >> Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and >> from there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a >> home-brewed ruby script which covers the m

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Chris Lott
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Hagmann Jörg wrote: > > Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and >from there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a >home-brewed ruby script which covers the most common layout commands >(and I'm mentioning that here

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Chris Lott
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Roger Mason wrote: > >> 4) How about X/HTML? this is my lowest level need but, again, it would be >> nice. > > One option would be to use markdown with pandoc. > [...] >  I mostly write in > ConTeXt, but if I know I must share with users of word processors then >

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Hagmann Jörg
On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:14, Chris Lott wrote: >> >> 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to >> efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting >> them into something they can open with their belov

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:14, Chris Lott wrote: > > 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to > efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting > them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word... > is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? t

Re: [NTG-context] Mailing list archive (archive.contextgarden.net) will be down or at least not updated

2011-12-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi all, Mojca has found a way to keep archive.contextgarden.net updated, so you can use it again. Her statement about the future of it is still true. > So: copy of mailing list archive (archive.contextgarden.net) won't be > updated for at least some time, but there is also a chance that it > wil

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Roger Mason
Chris, Chris Lott writes: > > 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to > efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting > them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word... > is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? this isn't super-high

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-12-14 Thread Romain Diss
Hi Hans, Reading the new code (just to see what the clean-up looks like), I saw that a lot of "intermediate" macros are now named whith a new scheme : underscore separated words, and something like a namespace in the macro name. So the question (just for curiosity)... Are there any documents whi

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-12-14 Thread Andreas Harder
On 14.12.2011, at 00:10, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 13-12-2011 21:07, Otared Kavian wrote: >> Hi Hans, >> >> Thanks for the new beta. >> It seems that with the new beta there is a bug with itemize: no numbers show >> up with \item. >> >> \starttext >> \startitemize[n] >> \item One >> \item Two >>

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Welcome to ConTeXt! I'm a relatively new user so my answers will be brief and partial, but I'm sure others will be able to expand on them. On Tue 13 Dec 2011, Chris Lott wrote: > 1) My work is primarily in the humanities and end-user technologies, > with small amounts of coding. So mathematics is