Re: [NTG-context] How to insert a full page pdf.

2005-04-19 Thread luigi.scarso
David Munger wrote: Hi John, John R. Culleton : I need to insert some example pages from one document into another. Both are 8.5 x 11. I have read the old posts about \startTEXpage etc. and looked at the source code. But I still have a few questions: 1. Can I select e.g., just page 2 from the

Re: [NTG-context] how to control placement of floats

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:24:35AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > From: Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Paul Tremblay wrote: > >The manual and others have given good advice on how to do the most > >basic placment of floats, such as forcing it onto a new page. > > > >How does one get even more contr

Re: [NTG-context] How to insert a full page pdf.

2005-04-19 Thread David Munger
Hi John, John R. Culleton : > I need to insert some example pages from one document into > another. Both are 8.5 x 11. > > I have read the old posts about \startTEXpage etc. and looked at > the source code. But I still have a few questions: > 1. Can I select e.g., just page 2 from the external d

[NTG-context] Strange behaviour of width parameter in \setuplayout (Was: Floating table caption extends textwidth)

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Fuchs
Hi! I have problems creating a "multi-line" caption for a floating table. If the caption is too long it will extend the defined text width. The following example shows this problem. I was able to find out, that this problem only appears if the variables "width" in the "setuplayout" command was us

Re: [NTG-context] how to control placement of floats

2005-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Paul Tremblay wrote: The manual and others have given good advice on how to do the most basic placment of floats, such as forcing it onto a new page. How does one get even more control. For example, if I want a particular table to have 2 inches of space from the left margin, or if I want to center

[NTG-context] How to insert a full page pdf.

2005-04-19 Thread John R. Culleton
I need to insert some example pages from one document into another. Both are 8.5 x 11. I have read the old posts about \startTEXpage etc. and looked at the source code. But I still have a few questions: 1. Can I select e.g., just page 2 from the external document to insert in my document? How? 2

[NTG-context] is there a way to control kearning and word spacing

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Tremblay
I know that ConTeXt does a good job kearning and determing spaces between words. However, is there a way to actually specify different kearning and word spacing than the default? Thanks Paul -- *Paul Tremblay * [EMAIL PROTECTED]* _

[NTG-context] how to control placement of floats

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Tremblay
The manual and others have given good advice on how to do the most basic placment of floats, such as forcing it onto a new page. How does one get even more control. For example, if I want a particular table to have 2 inches of space from the left margin, or if I want to center my figures. Thanks

Re: [NTG-context] TABLE: spacing, before/after

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:56:58PM +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 at 12:19:28-0400, Paul Tremblay wrote: > > Yes, I agree with the limitations of the TABLE module. Sorry I > > couldn't provide any better answer. > > > > When I get a chance, I'll put something on the pa

Re: [NTG-context] TABLE: spacing, before/after

2005-04-19 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 at 12:19:28-0400, Paul Tremblay wrote: > Yes, I agree with the limitations of the TABLE module. Sorry I > couldn't provide any better answer. > > When I get a chance, I'll put something on the page stating that a > limitation of TABLE is the inability to set the space between

RE: [NTG-context] bug in \setuphead?

2005-04-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
>= Original Message From Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >> \appendix{Test} > >shouldn't that be \appendix{MyOwnNumber}{Test} I get it now-) It's amazing how one can try 101 things and still miss the obvious... Now that I can handle this manually, what I really want to do is have the f

[NTG-context] typing questions

2005-04-19 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, here a few questions about typing: - Is there a module for pretty-printing C-code? - How could I change the tabulator-width? - First tab is only 7 spaces, the other 8, why? - How could I embed ConTeXt macros? - Where does the vertical space in \framed come from? Some of these questions

Re: [NTG-context] bug in \setuphead?

2005-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: This bug is not benign:-) Please advise... \appendix{Test} shouldn't that be \appendix{MyOwnNumber}{Test} Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27

Re: [NTG-context] TABLE: spacing, before/after

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:15:04PM +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: > From: Eckhart Guthöhrlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users > Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:15:04 +0200 > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] TABLE: spacing, before/after > User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i > > On Tue, 19 Apr

[NTG-context] inheriting size characteristics

2005-04-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
An error, but does not affect the problem (forgot the `=default'): \definetypeface [lmtest] [rm] [serif] [lm] [lm] [encoding=default] Idris Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___

[NTG-context] inheriting size characteristics

2005-04-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear fellow knights, Given predefined switches like \tf and \bf, one inherits the size characteristics of the one already declared. But for user-defined switches this does not work. The following minimal files (typescript and test) is a bit long, but it accurately illustrates the problem and us

Re: [NTG-context] TABLE: spacing, before/after

2005-04-19 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 at 10:04:09-0400, Paul Tremblay wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > three questions: > > - How can I control horizontal spacing of columns in natural tables? > > - What about vertical spacing? > > - How can I insert

[NTG-context] bug in \setuphead?

2005-04-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, The [ownnumber=yes] option overflows ConTeXt's memory, and I have not found an adjustment to texmf.cnf to fix it (mswincontext 3-16, 2005). I increased the param and stack sizes by an entire order of magnitude. Other options such as [ownnumber=no] work fine. This bug is not benign:-

RE: [NTG-context] oldstyle figures

2005-04-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
>= Original Message From Eckhart Guthöhrlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> should do everything you need: since u're not mixing text in \digits do you >> really need a global math font reencoding? > >In principle yes. For example, $f(x)=3x+7$ should come out with oldstyle >figures, if these are used by

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-19 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
Thanks, Adam. At least some consolation... On Apr 19, 2005, at 2:43 PM, Adam Lindsay wrote: Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:18:55 +0200: My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the latest beta: This is being discussed on the dev-context list:

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-19 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
On Apr 19, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Adam Lindsay wrote: Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:18:55 +0200: My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the latest beta: yesterdays beta or todays? That was today's beta, sorry. This is being discussed on the

Re: [NTG-context] TABLE: spacing, before/after

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: > > Hi, > > three questions: > - How can I control horizontal spacing of columns in natural tables? > - What about vertical spacing? > - How can I insert material after/before each cell, something like > \setuptable[row][f

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-19 Thread David Munger
Solved. Insert the usual escaping command before line 2769 of texexec.pl: ... unless ( $dosish && !$escapeshell ) { $cmd =~ s/[^\\]\&/\\\&/io ; } $Problems = system("$cmd $MpMpName"); David ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http:/

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:18:55 +0200: My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the latest beta: yesterdays beta or todays? This is being discussed on the dev-context list:

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-19 Thread David Munger
Le mardi 19 avril 2005 Ã 09:43 +0200, Hans Hagen a Ãcrit : > David Munger wrote: > > Hans, > > > > That's not enough. There is another problem when ConTeXt text has to be > > rendered from inside MetaPost graphics. Consider the following code: > > > > \starttext > > \startuseMPgraphic{mptest} > >

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:18:55 +0200: >My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the >latest beta: This is being discussed on the dev-context list: -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-19 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
My installation has lost the ability to regenerate formats in the latest beta: sudo texexec --make en de nl metafun TeXExec 5.3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 total run time : 1 seconds sudo fmtutil --byfmt cont-en.fmt fmtutil: no info for format `cont-en.fmt'. Clueless??? Thomas ___

Re: [NTG-context] texexec in a shell script

2005-04-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:55:20 +0200: >Some alternative solutions are also possible: > >You could > > - Install the (fairly standard unix tool) 'sed', that is obviously >missing from your darwin install if /usr/bin/sed is missing, a lot else will be missing, too. I wou

Re: [NTG-context] TABLE: spacing, before/after

2005-04-19 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 at 10:09:11+0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: > - How can I control horizontal spacing of columns in natural tables? > - What about vertical spacing? > - How can I insert material after/before each cell, something like > \setuptable[row][first][before=bla bla] ? Does anybo

Re: [NTG-context] texexec in a shell script

2005-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Robert Ullrey wrote: I know someone out there has the answer to this. If I run texexec through a shell, even with the full path to texexec, I get an error, "//usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec: line 1: sed: command not found `.pl' not found." you can use the call: texmfs

Re: [NTG-context] oldstyle figures

2005-04-19 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 at 16:30:04-0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > >So, how to tell \digits to use oldstyle > >figures, and/or how to make them the math mode default? > > Since it switches to math mode, one has to reencode the math fonts, i guess. > In the meantime: > > \def\OSdigits#1{\digits{\o

Re: [NTG-context] texexec in a shell script

2005-04-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Robert Ullrey wrote: I know someone out there has the answer to this. If I run texexec through a shell, even with the full path to texexec, I get an error, "//usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec: line 1: sed: command not found Some alternative solutions ar

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
David Munger wrote: Hans, That's not enough. There is another problem when ConTeXt text has to be rendered from inside MetaPost graphics. Consider the following code: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{mptest} label (btex test etex, origin); \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{mptest} \stoptext Even with

Re: [NTG-context] Another verbatim bug?

2005-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Nikolai Weibull wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid, April 17: \type{texfont --help} â The bug is apparently in \type: it only generates one dash. the Latin Modern fonts are in 'ec' encoding, and \type does not take that into account (yet). If you switch to texnansi encoding, the pro