Re: [NTG-context] defining a frame with embedded typing

2004-08-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Floris van Manen wrote: how would i define a frame with the typing environment embedded. the way i thought to solve it does *not* work (of course) \def\startTTinput% {\startframedtext[width=\makeupwidth,background=screen,backgroundscreen=.8] \starttyping } \def\stopTTinput%

[NTG-context] Footnotes in margin?

2004-08-18 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, does ConTeXt provide a way to place footnote (not margin notes!) per page - but not below the body text? A suitable place could be the margin. But there is no \setupfootnotes[location=inmargin] and somthing like \inmargin{\footnote{}The footnote's text.} doesn't flow. Does anybody know a

Re: [NTG-context] Context in Portuguese

2004-08-18 Thread Charles Doherty
On 18 Aug 2004, at 01:03, Miguel Queiros wrote: Every time I use an accentuated character it simply doesn't shows up in the document. I'v read the docs but haven't found a solution to the problem. Miguel, I had the same problem when I started to use ConTeXt. Hans suggested I use \enableregime[mac]

[NTG-context] error with _ in header?

2004-08-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Stefan, I prunned the example to investigate the situation further. Now I have only two pages. Well, how do you think anybody should be able to debug what you have done with all the stuff in your document? You should definitely try to reduce the file size to a minimum, otherwise it

[NTG-context] Re: error with _ in header?

2004-08-18 Thread Stefan Wachter
Hi Patrick, first I want to say that I already spent several hours on that problem and was happy to reduce the file size to 5215 Bytes. Of course I could have done further but I thought that the file is now handy enough for debugging. (I do not know how TeX code is debugged and what tools are

[NTG-context] Re: error with _ in header?

2004-08-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, [...] (I do not know how TeX code is debugged and what tools are available for that task.) There are no tools for problems like yours. So it is very important to have a minimum (non-) working file file. btw: with the error related to other files in the directory: did you run

Re: [NTG-context] error with _ in header?

2004-08-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Eros Albertazzi wrote: Patrick Gundlach wrote: minimum is far from 150 kb. And please avoid external figures if possible (there is cow.pdf hacker.jpg and mill.png for download, so we can all have the same figures to experiment with). nice.. where are them? Maybe it'd be nice to have them in

Re: [NTG-context] a footnote bug?

2004-08-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, when setting the \setupfootnotedefinition with location=margin, or location=inleft there is always a little distance between footnote number and footnote text. Neither width nor distance can affect it. Does this distance cannot be adjusted? can you make me a small

Re: [NTG-context] error with _ in header?

2004-08-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: -- \setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescript[adobekb][texnansi] \usetypescript[postscript][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[postscript,ss,13pt] \setupheadertexts[text][\_][] \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par}

Re: [NTG-context] How to use PostScript font

2004-08-18 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to use the paladino font from urw as my body font (Its the one used in the MetaFUN manual). I tried setting: \setupbodyfont[pos,12pt] but it does not work. What is the name that I should use? [ppl,12pt] may work, but nowadays we say:

Re: [NTG-context] Page break after a section :-(

2004-08-18 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some text that looks like: \section{Flight Controls Model} \startitemize[1] \item The Flight Controls model ... ... \stopitemize ConTeXt has decided to put a page break right after the \section, so my itemized list begins on the next page. I thought \sections

[NTG-context] ConTeXt differences

2004-08-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, The past week has seen two major updates of the context distribution on the pragma-ade web site. As I have done in the past, I have created a fairly detailed list of the changes between these and the previous (2004.06.30) version. Short summary: Context 2004.8.15 -

Re: [NTG-context] How to use PostScript font

2004-08-18 Thread Matt Gushee
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:02:00PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to use the paladino font from urw as my body font (Its the one used in the MetaFUN manual). I tried setting: \setupbodyfont[pos,12pt] but it does not work. What is the name that I should

[NTG-context] Re: error with _ in header?

2004-08-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, -- \setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescript[adobekb][texnansi] \usetypescript[postscript][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[postscript,ss,13pt] \setupheadertexts[text][\_][] \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \externalfigure[cow][scale=1424]

Re: [NTG-context] How to use PostScript font

2004-08-18 Thread Bill McClain
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:16:43 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get errors. I am using Fedora Core 2 with teTex 2.02. The error messages follow this message. I'm using TeXLive 7 and this works for me: \usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r] \usetypescript[palatino][ec] % \setupbodyfont[palatino]

Re: [NTG-context] a footnote bug?

2004-08-18 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, when setting the \setupfootnotedefinition with location=margin, or location=inleft there is always a little distance between footnote number and footnote text. Neither width nor distance can affect it. Does this distance

[NTG-context] Ancient Greek

2004-08-18 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I am about to edit a book with quotes in ancient (polyphonic) greek. How can this be done in ConTeXt? Searching for answers I found the long and painful thread started by Thomas A. Schmitz almost one year ago. Do we have an easier way available today? Steffen Wolfrum

Re: [NTG-context] How to use PostScript font

2004-08-18 Thread Matt Gushee
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:16:43PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone suggsted that I use the actual font names. So I tried: That would be me. But what I really meant was that you may need to know those names in order to solve the problem, not that you can expect to use them directly in

Re: [NTG-context] Context in Portuguese

2004-08-18 Thread Miguel Queiros
Hi ! I had the same problem when I started to use ConTeXt. Hans suggested I use \enableregime[mac] at the beginning of my documents. I use a Mac OSX. The same principle must apply for PCs. It might be \enableregime[win] \enableregime[mac] seems to solve the problem. I just need to add the