Re: [NTG-context] Simple plain presentation style
Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote: Does anybody have a simple presentation style module that has no fancy border/frame graphics or buttons? I need all the real-estate of the screen for a presentation that has images that are tall and formulas that are wide. \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \setuplayout[backspace=12pt,topspace=12pt,width=middle,height=middle,header=0pt,footer=0pt] \starttext ... \page ... \page ... \page \stoptext - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] metafun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made texexec --make metafun to generate metafun format. And it said it generated it. But... I always get these messages kpathsea: Running mktexfmt metafun.mem fmtutil: no info for format `metafun'. texexec ---make --alone metafun move the mem file to the path reported by 'kpsewhich cont-en.efmt' Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] updating context in cygwin by hand
Hi there, after some investigation concluded I did not really installed the latest version of ConTeXt properly. This being the cause of many of my previous messages that Patrick, Hans and others (thanks to all !) so kindly replied. What I have here is a cygwin distro that comes with a texfm distro, in this distro there is ConTeXt, but an older version from what I want installed. So in the texmf tree I put context files. So far so good. But...this cygwin has a texexec shell script in /usr/bin that makes the system to launch a texexec it has in: texfm/context/perltk. I put there the new version of texexec copying into that directory all the texmf/scripts/perl directory that comes in the new version of ConTeXt. Now the new texexec is summoned. Great. I even manage to pass to him the path where to put the en nl and metafun formats (texfm/web2c) and so it does when I asked it: texexec --make --alone en nl metafun But... when trying to do texexec --pdf dummy in /cygdrive/c/documents/versions (a cygwin alias to C:\documents\versions, place where dummy.tex can be found) it says: TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 executable : pdfetex format : /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/share/texmf/web2c/cont-en inputfile : pvm output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 pdfetex: unrecognized option `-fmt=cont-en' Try `pdfetex --help' for more information. return code : 256 run time : 0 seconds total run time : 1 seconds make: *** [pvm.pdf] Error 1 I suspect the pdfetex executable... any ideas? thanks ! Jose ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] command definition
is it possible anything like the following ?
\def\MySomeTable#1%
{
\startbuffer
#1
\stopbuffer
}
\MySomeTable{
\starttable
blah blah blah...
\stoptable
}
I find it difficult...
Jose
___
ntg-context mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] Re: updating context in cygwin by hand
[...] pdfetex: unrecognized option `-fmt=cont-en' Try `pdfetex --help' for more information. known bug... see a message from me in thread installation problem http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/15443 Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062 ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt-Wiki
Le 23 juin 04, à 16:54, Patrick Gundlach a écrit : Hi Maurice, texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062 Not accessible! Perhaps because I'm behind a firewall? I should try at home. I just double checked that the services both run ok. If there is any problem that could be on my side, please tell me. It does work from home, So I cried to our system administaters, and now it does work at work too :-) Thank you very much. OK, It is open source But about the documentation. The easiest way to finf this file is by looking for mreadme.pdf pragma in google! I did 'locate mreadme'. Yes, but I think the top 10 documents should directly be accessible from the reference url. and mreadme.pdf is one of these files *before* installing context ! ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Re: updating context in cygwin by hand
I think I am almost there... followed instructions at levana.de/context/ it seems to be searching first the things at my place as: mktexlsr: Updating /cygdrive/c/ConTeXt/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R... my place goes first then I invoke texexec.pl with fullpath and --tex=pdfetex and copied all scripts in myPLace/texfm/scripts/perl into /usr/share/texmf/perltk (the place intermediate scripts are being called) but... eventually get: --- return code : 0 run time : 2 seconds generating graphics : metaposting mpgraph.mp TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 metapost : mpgraph format : metafun metafun: not found total run time : 1 seconds sorting and checking : running texutil This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) ** ! End of file on the terminal... why? I am stuck even reading the previous posts... [...] pdfetex: unrecognized option `-fmt=cont-en' Try `pdfetex --help' for more information. known bug... see a message from me in thread installation problem http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/15443 Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062 ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] correction
re: might be an error in ConTeXt file prop-mis.tex I had some difficulty with typesetting backgrounds. It seems there is an error in file prop-mis.tex (version 2004-06-21): token \popsplitnegativeproperty is never defined but \popsplitoverprintproperty is twice. I think the second one should be \popsplitnegativeproperty, because then the sequence \startbackground some text \stopbackground does typeset after regenerating the formats. Hope this helps. Hans van der Meer ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] docs
Am 24.06.2004 um 16:13 schrieb Maurice Diamantini: A ConTeXt reference book would be much like an uptodate cont-eni.pdf manual. It would be comparable to the couple LaTeX Lamport + Latex Compagnon Would be, should be, yes. But the reference cont-eni.pdf doesn't talk about math nor biblio. Both are extensions from my point of view. Even if math is typical for TeX, it's not typical for ConTeXt. I think the typical university user is content with LaTeX. ConTeXt is for those who like to design their own layout. I seldom need any formula - TeX/ConTeXt is for me simply the system of choice for big documents (books), presentations and everything scriptable. (For most of my work I use InDesign.) Also there is several means to do tables, and it seams that the two main context reference documents (gettingStart and cont-eni.pdf) doesn't talk about the same table system. Morever, neither of them talk about the last most supported table system which seams to be enattab.pdf!! Yes, that's confusing. I made an overview in my german docs, will transfer it to the Wiki soon. And every latex package has its own docs that you should read - some are books itself (e.g. komascript). Doen't know about it, doen't need it, so I'm glab it is not in the latex manuals :-) The KOMA classes are an enhanced replacement for the standard LaTeX classes my Markus Kohm. If you use LaTeX it's a pity if you don't know them! I think the simplest thing to do is a to make a lite introduction documentation for use as a guide about which docs should be seen as reference (which table to use, how to to biblio, ...) Again, I don't think that bibliographies are basic. But I'm no scientific user. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] docs
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:12:34 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I don't think that bibliographies are basic. But I'm no scientific user. Actually, I think bibliographies are VERY basic. I edit an academic journal; each article has to have its own bib and m-bib can only be used once per document, and the (old) version I use has a few bugs (will try the latest version after some mission-critical stuff is out; I've (amateurishly) hacked the old version so that it at least does what I want for now). But ConTeXt really needs a full-fledged bibliography solution as part of the basic package I think. Question: in what context (no pun intended) do you use InDesign? Where is ConTeXt not so applicable? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] docs
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Even if math is typical for TeX, it's not typical for ConTeXt. I think the typical university user is content with LaTeX. ConTeXt is for those who like to design their own layout. And that's, unfortunately, a poor view to take. I would love to use ConTeXt for more of my academic writing, as it makes a lot of tasks much easier, not just layout and design. Unfortunately, it's inability to play like LaTeX when it comes to even such basic things as footnotes, means that I have to constantly turn back to LaTeX whenever I need to write something for work or school. Again, I don't think that bibliographies are basic. But I'm no scientific user. And for those of us who are, bibliographies are *crucial* and should be considered a basic part of any tpesetting program that wants to be taken seriously. And while m-bib is usually sufficient, it too has enough quirks that it's just not worth the time to even bother if you want to submit a paper that has a special format requirement for the bibliographies. William D. Neumann --- Well I could be a genius, if I just put my mind to it. And I...I could do anything, if only I could get 'round to it. Oh we were brought up on the space-race, now they expect you to clean toilets. When you've seen how big the world is, how can you make do with this? If you want me, I'll be sleeping in - sleeping in throughout these glory days. -- Jarvis Cocker Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL programmers. -- Tony-A (some guy on /.) ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] docs
Am 24.06.2004 um 21:34 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: Question: in what context (no pun intended) do you use InDesign? Where is ConTeXt not so applicable? My main work (at home) is a bimonthly magazine (unitarische blätter for german unitarian religious fellowship); I know Hans (and perhaps some others) could do it with ConTeXt, but not me; I prefer to work visible if I use a lot of pictures and a non-scriptable layout. Further I use it as text processor for letters etc., but therefore I ever wanted to make a ConTeXt environment. At work (a daily newspaper) we use InDesign for all the ads - that is, I work there as a programmer and sysadmin, so I don't really work with InDesign but only test its PostScript code or PDFs. (Today I recognized that it always writes OPI comments for TIFFs and never for EPS, independent from your output options; further it can't separate duplex EPS from PhotoShop, only DCS...) Sorry for being OT. At work I use ConTeXt for presentations (e.g. Acrobat tutorial) and flowcharts. At home for books, my address book, my ConTeXt tutorial and some small stuff. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
