[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello again, Oh come on, this is completely crap. The people at PRAGMA (i.e. Hans) share ConTeXt, wich is the holy grail that PRAGMA is based on (besides the knowledge). It is such a generous gift to the community. Please think about if you write stuff like that. I realize

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Salman, The problem with normal users cooking up new styles is the lack of artistic abilities in some people (like me). But you will never gain artistic abilities by simple copy/paste. One can, obviously go thru the manual cover the cover, but if one does not have creative

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Paulo, Everyone learns a language by example, if you try to teach one you will see, even Patrick, when he was a baby learned his first language by example (real language), it is only natural, it is only human. To argue the contrary is just lack of experience in teaching. Right, but

Re: [NTG-context] Bug report, \frac as redefined in m-newmat.tex

2004-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi Brooks The following simple file works fine if I comment out the \usemodule[newmat] line, but crashes if I put it in. \usemodule[newmat] \starttext \placeformula \startformula \eqalign{\frac{1}{2} \cr} \stopformula \stoptext ah ... the alignment lookahead problem, i think we

Re: [NTG-context] Understanding registers command

2004-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: This looked suspiciously familiar. And indeed, my bib module has the same problem: % Hans, Wat is er mis met [pub][pubs]??? % Werkt absoluut niet! \definieerlijst[pubs][pubs] dunno ... it's not like register definitions \definelist [whatever] [key=value,...]

Re: [NTG-context] PPCHTeX broken

2004-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Münster wrote: On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Tobias Burnus wrote: If I do a dvips -Ppdf test.dvi I get the following warning: dvips: Could not find figure file ./test-mpgraph.4000; continuing dvips: Could not find figure file ./test-mpgraph.3999; continuing dvips: Could not find figure file

[NTG-context] bug fix for ppchtex

2004-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, Concerning the problem with mp graphics in ppchtex, change: \def\pushMPdrawing {\globalpushmacro\MPdrawingdata \globallet\MPdrawingdata\empty} \def\popMPdrawing {\globalpopmacro\MPdrawingdata} in supp-mps.tex (recompilt ormat) or put those def's in cont-new.tex (no new format needed)

Re: [NTG-context] bug fix for ppchtex

2004-08-03 Thread Peter Mnster
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Hans Hagen wrote: Concerning the problem with mp graphics in ppchtex, change: \def\pushMPdrawing {\globalpushmacro\MPdrawingdata \globallet\MPdrawingdata\empty} \def\popMPdrawing {\globalpopmacro\MPdrawingdata} Thank you very much for your fast fix, it works!

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Nikolai Weibull
* Paulo Ney de Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Aug 03, 2004 11:21]: Everyone learns a language by example... What you should really be doing is asking specific questions to problems you're having with ConTeXt on this list. I have gotten almost all my questions answered by now. nikolai -- :::

Re: [NTG-context] bug fix for ppchtex

2004-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Münster wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Hans Hagen wrote: Concerning the problem with mp graphics in ppchtex, change: \def\pushMPdrawing {\globalpushmacro\MPdrawingdata \globallet\MPdrawingdata\empty} \def\popMPdrawing {\globalpopmacro\MPdrawingdata} Thank you very much for your fast

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Nikolai Weibull wrote: * Paulo Ney de Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Aug 03, 2004 11:21]: Everyone learns a language by example... What you should really be doing is asking specific questions to problems you're having with ConTeXt on this list. I have gotten almost all my questions answered by

[NTG-context] Problem with TeXexec

2004-08-03 Thread Michal Kvasnicka
Good afternoon. I have just installed a new Linux system (SuSE 9.1 with teTeX) and the new ConTeXt (texexec version 4.3) -- in the same way as older one. But it doesn't work. It writes a following error message: ... sh: line1: cont-en: command not found ... This is pdfetex... ...

[NTG-context] Metapost variable problem

2004-08-03 Thread Michal Kvasnicka
Good afternoon. I am sorry that I bother you with this offtopic but I don't know where else I can ask. I want to prepare a better interface for my metapost macros. I want to use the record-like variables to store object information. But I don't know how to copy such records. More precisely,

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with TeXexec

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, I have just installed a new Linux system (SuSE 9.1 with teTeX) and the new ConTeXt (texexec version 4.3) -- in the same way as older one. But it doesn't work. It writes a following error message: ... sh: line1: cont-en: command not found ... This is pdfetex... try

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with TeXexec

2004-08-03 Thread Eros Albertazzi
Michal Kvasnicka wrote: Good afternoon. I have just installed a new Linux system (SuSE 9.1 with teTeX) and the new ConTeXt (texexec version 4.3) -- in the same way as older one. But my suggestion is to remove suse tetex in favour of Texlive + (uptodate) context installation hints are in

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Problem with TeXexec

2004-08-03 Thread Michal Kvasnicka
Many thanks. I will read it and try. Many thanks once more to both of you for your prompt answer. M.K. ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost variable problem

2004-08-03 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:37:18 + Michal Kvasnicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon. I am sorry that I bother you with this offtopic but I don't know where else I can ask. There is a mailing list for metafont (and metapost). To subscribe, e-mail: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Paulo Ney de Souza
Patrick, Maybe we should move this discussion off the list to not bother others that may not be so interested in it. What I am trying to say (answering your question) is that learning by example is natural to human behaviour and extremely efficient. If you attend any of my classes here in

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Paulo, Maybe we should move this discussion off the list to not bother others that may not be so interested in it. They should use the killfile and fill it with my name (and erverything related) :-) Seriously: the question concerning ConTeXt documentation and examples is brought up on this

Re: [NTG-context] Bug report, \frac as redefined in m-newmat.tex

2004-08-03 Thread Brooks Moses
At 01:40 PM 8/2/2004, you wrote: ah ... the alignment lookahead problem, i think we can safely patch \mathematics to catch lookahead as well as make frac more robust for unwanted expansion \usemodule[newmat] \unexpanded\def\frac#1#2{\mathematics{\genfrac{}{}{}\donothing{#1}{#2}}}

Re: [NTG-context] Bug report, \frac as redefined in m-newmat.tex

2004-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Brooks Moses wrote: At 01:40 PM 8/2/2004, you wrote: ah ... the alignment lookahead problem, i think we can safely patch \mathematics to catch lookahead as well as make frac more robust for unwanted expansion \usemodule[newmat]

Re: [NTG-context] Bug report, \frac as redefined in m-newmat.tex

2004-08-03 Thread Brooks Moses
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:14:29AM +0200, Hans Hagen Outside wrote: Brooks Moses wrote: That fixes the problem on my end; thanks! Will you be updating the defintions of \tfrac, \dfrac, and so forth in m-newmat to match? I admit to not being too sure whether I think it's a good idea