Re: [NTG-context] Suppress routine messages.

2005-04-06 Thread luigi.scarso
John R. Culleton wrote: When I run texexec against a file with lots (101) chapters plus sections the messages to the console documenting each such subdivision seem to be slowing down the compilation. Is there a switch to suppress all the printout? run -- John Culleton Able Indexers and

[NTG-context] Re: customizing footnote numbers

2005-04-06 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] We are in a fully programmable environment, and it is extremely unConTeXtish to hack the visual appearance. I am an XML author, so am pretty amazed to hear that one should not mix appearance and content in ConTeXt. Most of a ConTeXt document involves visual appearance. What is one

Re: [NTG-context] Re: page on context and XML has moved

2005-04-06 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Hi Piotr, First, if you use TeXML, make sure you download the latest version, 1.25-devel. This version is very stable and robust, and has the texml_con script, which converts directly from XML to PDF or whatever format you require: texml_con any option you can use with texexec infile

[NTG-context] hyphenation within columnsets with background

2005-04-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am preparing a rather large text, completely set in 3 columns, which has lots of text with grey backgrounds. During the preparation of this text, some questions came up : 1 - At first I put a grey background to my texts defining the following macros (they are used within columnsets):

Re: [NTG-context] Re: customizing footnote numbers

2005-04-06 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: [...] We are in a fully programmable environment, and it is extremely unConTeXtish to hack the visual appearance. I am an XML author, so am pretty amazed to hear that one should not mix appearance and content in ConTeXt. Most of a ConTeXt document involves visual

Re: [NTG-context] Re: good-looking tables in context

2005-04-06 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
Good to know about the optional parameter of \HL. I still miss the same things as Patrick: - rules of arbitrary thickness (not only multiples of something) - fine-tuning of vertical spacing, especially around thicker rules - left/right trimming of horizontal lines Patrick, please let me know if

[NTG-context] Is startcombination ... stopcombination broken?

2005-04-06 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
I'm trying to bring two pictures next to each other by using \startcombination, but I always get this error (on my box + on contextgarden): ! Missing { inserted. to be read again \egroup l.5 \stopcombination ? ! Emergency stop. to be read again \egroup l.5

[NTG-context] Re: Is startcombination ... stopcombination broken?

2005-04-06 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Thomas, there is a working example of startcombination in http://texshow.contextgarden.net/cmd=placefloat. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Is startcombination ... stopcombination broken?

2005-04-06 Thread Matthias Weber
\starttext \startcombination[2] \framed{here}{} \framed{there}{} \stopcombination \stoptext Matthias On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hello Thomas, there is a working example of startcombination in http://texshow.contextgarden.net/cmd=placefloat. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki:

Re: [NTG-context] Is startcombination ... stopcombination broken?

2005-04-06 Thread Mari Voipio
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: Minimal example: \starttext \startcombination[2] \framed{here} \framed{there} \stopcombination \stoptext I have tried with all kinds of braces in all possible places, to no avail. Or am I missing anything terribly obvious? It is not terribly obvious, but your \framed

[NTG-context] Line numbering and drop caps

2005-04-06 Thread Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de Sousa
It seems that the two don't go well together. If I use: % % interface=en tex=pdfetex output=pdf language=pt \enableregime [win] \def\MyDroppedCaps% {\DroppedCaps{}{Serif}{2\baselineskip}{0pt}{1\baselineskip}{2}} \setuplinenumbering[start=1,step=5]

Re: [NTG-context] Is startcombination ... stopcombination broken?

2005-04-06 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
Mari, thanks so much, that was it! Yes, the 'why in the #¤%' was on my mind, too! I'm using ConTeXt for my presentations this term, so I have to place externalfigures all the time. Phew, thanks! Best Thomas On Apr 6, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Mari Voipio wrote: Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: Minimal example:

[NTG-context] spacing of values and units ^{-2}

2005-04-06 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
Hi, concerning m-units, it would be nice to configure whether to use a full space or a thinspace between a number and its unit. Furthermore, some space is needed between adjectant units like in 1\Meter\Inverse\Second. I know there are some old threads concerning this topic, initiated by me. But

Re: [NTG-context] run external programs from tex

2005-04-06 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
Thanks for the tips, Hans and Peter. I can see that it is really easy to hack a quick and dirty working solution. But since many of my figures and my gnuplot input will have to be created by external programs anyway, I think I will better use a Makefile to ensure recreation as needed. Greetings,

Re: [NTG-context] Charts

2005-04-06 Thread Willi Egger
Hi David, As Patrick posted on the list, you can use the placefloat mechanism to get the whole chart splitted over several pages. In this case you will not be able to use interactivity within the chart. I feel, that you want to split the chart over two pages. So you need to use \FLOWcharts[...]

Re: [NTG-context] Charts

2005-04-06 Thread David Waller
Thanks for your help. I suspect I would have been a long time spotting it was \FLOWcharts and not \FLOWchart Thanks again On Apr 6, 2005 6:06 PM, Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, As Patrick posted on the list, you can use the placefloat mechanism to get the whole chart

Re: [NTG-context] off topic: acrobat and dde

2005-04-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 30.03.2005 um 17:33 schrieb Severin Obertuefer: if found a small script on the internet that does what I need. It uses dde to control adobe acrobat 7. Link? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net ___

Re: [NTG-context] Another plant in the garden: modules

2005-04-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 03.04.2005 um 18:42 schrieb Patrick Gundlach: I have planted a small bush in the garden, which is called 'modules'. I collect third party modules and put them in one place. One of the Good idea. I wonder why bib and math modules are missing? Are they already gone to the core? Grüßlis vom

Re: [NTG-context] Another plant in the garden: modules

2005-04-06 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
On Apr 6, 2005, at 8:53 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Good idea. I wonder why bib and math modules are missing? Are they already gone to the core? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- % kpsewhich t-bib.tex /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/bib/t-bib.tex % kpsewhich t-nath.tex

[NTG-context] Re: Another plant in the garden: modules

2005-04-06 Thread Patrick Gundlach
% kpsewhich t-nath.tex /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/maths/t-nath.tex Um, that might be unique to your own system. I don't have t-nath on a pretty up-to-date install. that is interesting, it is in tetex 3.0, but not in the distribution. So we should handle it as a

[NTG-context] Textfont in math-formulas?

2005-04-06 Thread Kai Straube
Hi There, I have a little problem with fonts in my document. I use the cm sans serif font in my text and want to have this in the tex-formulas to, but it worked not for me. Simple example: \enableregime[utf] \setupoutput[pdf] \mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \setuppapersize[A4]

Re: [NTG-context] Another plant in the garden: modules

2005-04-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:02:29 +0200: I wonder why bib and math modules are missing? Are they already gone to the core? % kpsewhich t-bib.tex /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/bib/t-bib.tex True. It would be nice if (at least) the documentation could live

[NTG-context] Re: Another plant in the garden: modules

2005-04-06 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hraban and others, I have planted a small bush in the garden, which is called 'modules'. I collect third party modules and put them in one place. One of the Good idea. I wonder why bib and math modules are missing? Are they already gone to the core? Do you think that it would make

[NTG-context] Re: customizing footnote numbers

2005-04-06 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] remove indentation from a paragraph by saying \noindent. So every paragraph had a \noindent before the paragraph (instead of doing it right by saying \noindent0pt). And it was a long talking about teaching: a) it is \parindent=0pt, not \noindent=0pt b) the ConTeXt way is using

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Another plant in the garden: modules

2005-04-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 06.04.2005 um 21:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach: Do you think that it would make sense to list/describe the ones in the distribution as well? Yes, they go unnoticed otherwise. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Another plant in the garden: modules

2005-04-06 Thread Maurice Diamantini
Le 6 avr. 05, à 21:11, Patrick Gundlach a écrit : Hello Hraban and others, I wonder why bib and math modules are missing? Are they already gone to the core? Do you think that it would make sense to list/describe the ones in the distribution as well? Yes, because the modules in the core depend on