[NTG-context] metapost:animations

2005-07-25 Thread luigi.scarso
Maybe someone doesn't know: http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/metapost/animations/ (for swf: http://www.quiss.org/swftools/) luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] installing context

2005-07-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:10:57 +0200: >recovering from a disk crach and running those generator scripts is a >stresstest -) for you or the machine? :) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lanca

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX \newcommands in ConTeXt.

2005-07-25 Thread Brooks Moses
At 04:28 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote: Brooks Moses wrote: I'd particularly appreciate any comments on the \newcommand and counters implementations -- those are in the t-ltcmds and t-ltcnts modules, though \newcommand also depends on t-lterrs and t-ltbase. i just took a quick look at the code; if

Re: [NTG-context] scite

2005-07-25 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans, Since I use SCITE heavily I would welcome such extensions and would be prepared to help in testing Willi Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I made a spell checking extension (tex/xml aware), wrapper and some more stuff for scite. Should work with any recent scite version. Of course the challe

Re: [NTG-context] Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm still slighlty confused by the encoding files (texnansi, ec,..., in one case iso-8859-7 is used). Does it mean that it is impossible (or at least very complex or slow) to access more than 256 characters from a single font at once? indeed and since it's related to hyp

Re: [NTG-context] New ConTeXt and chinese module

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Lutz, This is surely a bug. My analysis: The macro \doreadfontdefinition file is re-implemented to handle the newer typescript classs (in type-ini.tex), but the new definition does not take care of the old font- style filenames (like the original macro in font-in

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX \newcommands in ConTeXt.

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Brooks Moses wrote: I've recently been doing a little work on implementing a few LaTeX kernel bits in ConTeXt, to simplify porting LaTeX code over. It's now at a point where a few of the pieces might actually be useful, and certainly to a point where some comments would be welcomed, so I've

Re: [NTG-context] Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE

2005-07-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On the wiki (http://contextgarden.net/Vertically_centred) a while ago someone asked how to do the following in ConTeXt: %% \documentclass{article} \begin{document} a box with a table: \fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par a midaligne

Re: [NTG-context] test suite in the garden

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2005-07-25 um 22:04 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: It is perhaps a lot of work included, but extending the contextgarden.net in such a way that users could provide test cases which would be typeset with different ConTeXt versions and PNGs compared afterwards ... could ma

Re: [NTG-context] installing context

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Stuart Jansen wrote: Okay, I give up. What's the most correct, easiest way to install ConTeXt on Linux? There's so many different instructions floating around I'm not sure what is authoritative. Some make it look like texsync is a good idea, now it looks like it isn't being updated. Grabbing lin

Re: [NTG-context] music typesetting for ConTeXt

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hi there! Here is another suggestion for something that I'd like to do with ConTeXt but can't hack myself: There's a nice music typesetting program called GNU LilyPond (www.lilypond.org); in opposite to some years before it now engraves really beautiful music

[NTG-context] installing context

2005-07-25 Thread Stuart Jansen
Okay, I give up. What's the most correct, easiest way to install ConTeXt on Linux? There's so many different instructions floating around I'm not sure what is authoritative. Some make it look like texsync is a good idea, now it looks like it isn't being updated. Grabbing linuxtex.zip seems easy, bu

Re: [NTG-context] inline MP refresh problem

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 at 17:21:56+0200, Hans Hagen wrote: when I change inline MP graphics, these are not recreated during the subsequent texexec run. I need to call texexec once again to have them refreshed. I have just installed a new box, but I think I have though

RE: [NTG-context] \placecontent problems

2005-07-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Hans, >= Original Message From Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >by default the list >commands give a local list, so in your appendix you need: > >\placesynopsis[criterium=text] % or all \startbuffer[synopsis] \appendix{Synopsis of Principles} \placesynopsis[criterium=text] \stopbu

[NTG-context] music typesetting for ConTeXt

2005-07-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi there! Here is another suggestion for something that I'd like to do with ConTeXt but can't hack myself: There's a nice music typesetting program called GNU LilyPond (www.lilypond.org); in opposite to some years before it now engraves really beautiful music sheets. (MusiXTeX seems to be

Re: [NTG-context] Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: It may actually be that the penalty for an underfull box is bigger than for the overfull one. This explains strange placing of the numbers then. let's eee what taco says ... our tex source magician may knows the dirty details ... but in the latest ConTeXt version it

Re: [NTG-context] Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Elena Fraboschi wrote: Dear Mojca: I think I see what the problem is. If, instead of typing \bTR\bTD a midaligned parbox: \eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph 1 2 3 \eTD\eTR you type 1\ 2\ 3\ you get what is wanted, namely, 1 2 3 My guess is th

[NTG-context] test suite in the garden (was: Strange behaviour of \bTABLE)

2005-07-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2005-07-25 um 22:04 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: It is perhaps a lot of work included, but extending the contextgarden.net in such a way that users could provide test cases which would be typeset with different ConTeXt versions and PNGs compared afterwards ... could make it easier to discover any

Re: [NTG-context] Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, On the wiki (http://contextgarden.net/Vertically_centred) a while ago someone asked how to do the following in ConTeXt: %% \documentclass{article} \begin{document} a box with a table: \fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par a midaligned parbox:

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command

2005-07-25 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Elena Fraboschi wrote: > I'll test tonight what you says happens automatically (gobbling up > whitespace at the top of a new page). I'll use a grid to make sure > that that's the case: to the naked eye, it seemed as though there was > an awful amount of whitespace at the top of the page, but we'l

Re: [NTG-context] Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE

2005-07-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Elena Fraboschi wrote: > My guess is that there is a built-in bias not to split a line > but, rather, give you an overfull \hbox. I "forced" the > issue by defining each column to be less than 1em (because "1" > is a very narrow char that surely takes less than 1 em), and > by adding a typescript

Re: [NTG-context] indentaion

2005-07-25 Thread Willi Egger
Hans, humble, I do not use it. Willi Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, In the process of fixing odd/even indentation (handy for verse) i also cleanup the code a bit. I'm wondering if we can make \setupindenting and \indenting equivalent. Is anyone using \indenting[no] to suppress the next indentation?

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command

2005-07-25 Thread Elena Fraboschi
Wonderful, nikolai, many thanks. I'll test tonight what you says happens automatically (gobbling up whitespace at the top of a new page). I'll use a grid to make sure that that's the case: to the naked eye, it seemed as though there was an awful amount of whitespace at the top of the page, but we

Re: [NTG-context] \placecontent problems

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: 1. If I place the content list within a chapter, the list disappears. It works if I place it before the chapter heading. Thus, I need a way to do \placesynopsis beneath a chapter heading; \chapter{...} \placesynopsis \section{...} will give a toc of the chapter \c

Re: [NTG-context] scite

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi Scite users, I put a zip at: www.pragma-ade.com/context/scite/cont-sci.zip Short note: - use scite 1.64 of later - copy scite-ctx.lua to ..\scite\wscite - copy scite-ctx.properties to wherever context.properties lives - add "import" to context.properties - create path for spell files and p

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command

2005-07-25 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Elena Fraboschi wrote: > (1) any ConTeXt command to gobble-up unwanted vertical space before a > section header, when the section header appears right at the top of a > new page? Hm, isn’t this done automatically? > (2) any ConTeXt way to do a \setuphead such that the text following > the header

Re: [NTG-context] Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE

2005-07-25 Thread Elena Fraboschi
Dear Mojca: I think I see what the problem is. If, instead of typing >\bTR\bTD > a midaligned parbox: >\eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph > 1 2 3 >\eTD\eTR you type 1\ 2\ 3\ you get what is wanted, namely, 1 2 3 My guess is that there is a built-in bias n

[NTG-context] Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE

2005-07-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, On the wiki (http://contextgarden.net/Vertically_centred) a while ago someone asked how to do the following in ConTeXt: %% \documentclass{article} \begin{document} a box with a table: \fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par a midaligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3}

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command

2005-07-25 Thread Elena Fraboschi
Hi nikolai, Many thanks for the hint in re right and left. (The next one to ask about this, I'll relieve you from the burden of having to answer and will answer it myself! :-)) So I now have only two questions left unsolved, which are (1) any ConTeXt command to gobble-up unwanted vertical space

Re: [NTG-context] scite

2005-07-25 Thread David Munger
Hans Hagen : > Hi, > > I made a spell checking extension (tex/xml aware), wrapper and some more > stuff for scite. Should work with any recent scite version. Of course > the challenge is to get it working for all kind of encodings. > > Is there any interest for this kind of things? > > Hans I

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command

2005-07-25 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Elena Fraboschi wrote: > (2) Horizontal alignment. This problem is almost funny. Consider > these two setups: > > \setuphead[section][ > align=middle > ] > > \setuphead[subsection][ > align=left, > ] > > The section will appear just fine, centered between the left and

Re: [NTG-context] inline MP refresh problem

2005-07-25 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 at 17:21:56+0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > >when I change inline MP graphics, these are not recreated during the > >subsequent texexec run. I need to call texexec once again to have them > >refreshed. > >I have just installed a new box, but I think I have thought of the usual > >stuf

[NTG-context] \placecontent problems

2005-07-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
[Dear syndicate: I sent this Saturday with no response yet. Sorry 4 being a pest, but I've got to get this (much-delayed) book to the publisher this week; hope someone can help...:-)] Dear gang: I have a \placecontent-type problem. I want to collect all the subsections and subsubsections of the

Re: [NTG-context] Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt

2005-07-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2005-07-23 um 00:20 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: I'm still slighlty confused by the encoding files (texnansi, ec,..., in one case iso-8859-7 is used). Does it mean that it is impossible (or at least very complex or slow) to access more than 256 characters from a single font at once? TeX as an ol

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command

2005-07-25 Thread Elena Fraboschi
Dear all: I just conducted some follow up experiments on my previous questions, and found out that... (1) In re producing run-in text following a subsection header: neither [after={\blank[none]},] nor [after=\nowhitespace,] have any impact: I still get the subsection header on one line, and the

Re: [NTG-context] inline MP refresh problem

2005-07-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: Hi all, when I change inline MP graphics, these are not recreated during the subsequent texexec run. I need to call texexec once again to have them refreshed. I have just installed a new box, but I think I have thought of the usual stuff in texmf.cnf and cont-sys.tex,

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command

2005-07-25 Thread Elena Fraboschi
Dear All: I amhaving my own private warfare with the \setuphead command, and I wonder whether anyone can give me a hint. I have three problems, which I describe in detail below. They are: (1) how to setup run-in text after a subhead, (2) how to align the section, subsection, ... headers left o

[NTG-context] inline MP refresh problem

2005-07-25 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
Hi all, when I change inline MP graphics, these are not recreated during the subsequent texexec run. I need to call texexec once again to have them refreshed. I have just installed a new box, but I think I have thought of the usual stuff in texmf.cnf and cont-sys.tex, and I am a little clueless at

Re: [NTG-context] bug / feature portal

2005-07-25 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Still not accessable - though the site learnt English meanwhile (see below). Steffen Site error This site encountered an error trying to fulfill your request. The errors were: Error Type AttributeError Error Value portal_transforms Request made at 2005/07/25 06:38:24.765 GMT-4 Steffen Wo

Re: [NTG-context] New ConTeXt and chinese module

2005-07-25 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Lutz, This is surely a bug. My analysis: The macro \doreadfontdefinition file is re-implemented to handle the newer typescript classs (in type-ini.tex), but the new definition does not take care of the old font- style filenames (like the original macro in font-ini.tex did). I will not

Re: [NTG-context] aquamints symbols

2005-07-25 Thread Vit Zyka
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: can some native english sea wolf check the symbol names Especially I not sure with appropriateness of fattree, seaegg, and geoarrow. I'm no native either, but... Thank you, Henning, I incorporated your suggestions. The AquaMints symbol support is available on th