Re: [NTG-context] strange (?) exporting from pdf

2005-11-03 Thread Christopher Creutzig
andrea valle wrote: 3.2 translate in ConTeXt via a regular expression based python script I've been there and done that and I won't do it again. Use a real xml parser; regular expression engines are a wonderful thing, but not really usable for parsing nested structures. I'm sure there are

Re: [NTG-context] (Re)installing mswintex

2005-11-03 Thread Sytse Knypstra
Dear Context users, Willi, thank you for your reaction. I redid the whole process in which I inserted your instructions. In detail: 1. Rename the old directory C:\tex into C:\old_tex 2. Download mswintex.zip from Pragma 3. Unzip into C:\ (all files and directories are now under C:\tex) 4.

Re: [NTG-context] adding value to key

2005-11-03 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Peter, I am attaching t-valext.tex, a quicky module I wrote this morning that allows the use of \currentvalue in (I believe) all assignments, like so: \setupexternalfigures[directory={\currentvalue,another/dir}] Run texexec --module t-valext if you want to read the embedded

Re: [NTG-context] (Re)installing mswintex

2005-11-03 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sytse Knypstra wrote: Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-lmr12): Font ec-lmr12 at 72 not found Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 2019 bytes). Still puzzled. Sytse Knypstra Looks like your ConTeXt is not loading the map file pdftex needs to find the lmr12.pfb. If I run this: Hello world!

Re: [NTG-context] (Re)installing mswintex

2005-11-03 Thread Sytse Knypstra
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Looks like your ConTeXt is not loading the map file pdftex needs to find the lmr12.pfb. If I run this: Hello world! \bye I get this output: fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using

Re: [NTG-context] (Re)installing mswintex

2005-11-03 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sytse Knypstra wrote: My cont-sys.tex is present in c:\tex\texmf-local\tex\context\user I didn't modify it after unzipping, so the uncommented lines are: [snip] Yours looks precisely like mine. I'm baffled (no Windows here, so cannot investigate further) Taco

Re: [NTG-context] adding value to key

2005-11-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Peter, I am attaching t-valext.tex, a quicky module I wrote this morning that allows the use of \currentvalue in (I believe) all assignments, like so: \setupexternalfigures[directory={\currentvalue,another/dir}] interesting, may make it into the kernel -) i

Re: [NTG-context] (Re)installing mswintex

2005-11-03 Thread Sytse Knypstra
Sorry for the noise. Mswintex works if I run texexec from the command line (in the CMD shell). It does not work (any more) if I run the following command from my editor TeXnicCenter: c:\tex\setuptex.bat texexec.exe with the arguments: --bat --nonstop --pdf %bm That's still puzzling me, but

Re: [NTG-context] TeX chemistry (was: alignment of figures)

2005-11-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
I'm playing a bit with drawing formulas in metafun, but my question is: are there any guidelines about how a nice formula should look like? (Yes, I have problems to decide how thick the lines have to be, how to draw a triple or a steric bond properly, which size of letters to use). Knuth did

Re: [NTG-context] (Re)installing mswintex

2005-11-03 Thread Jilani Khaldi
Sytse Knypstra wrote: Sorry for the noise. Mswintex works if I run texexec from the command line (in the CMD shell). It does not work (any more) if I run the following command from my editor TeXnicCenter: c:\tex\setuptex.bat texexec.exe with the arguments: --bat --nonstop --pdf %bm That's

Re: [NTG-context] (Re)installing mswintex

2005-11-03 Thread Sytse Knypstra
Thanks to all of you who gave attention to my problem. It was caused by something very stupid: a copy of some cont-sys.tex file was left about in same directory as my test file. After removing it, everything went fine. A suggestion for Hans: wouldn't it be a good idea to insert the following

Re: [NTG-context] (Re)installing mswintex

2005-11-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Sytse Knypstra wrote: Thanks to all of you who gave attention to my problem. It was caused by something very stupid: a copy of some cont-sys.tex file was left about in same directory as my test file. After removing it, everything went fine. A suggestion for Hans: wouldn't it be a good idea

[NTG-context] extra page in presentation styles

2005-11-03 Thread Hans van der Meer
Context presentation style problem: I didn't use the (green-)presentation style for quite some time. Now I suddenly get an EXTRA PAGE before the first \TitlePage. See below for a minimal example and the output produced. Does somebody happen to what is wrong or where I am wrong? By the way, the

Re: [NTG-context] How to use layers or other methods for precise positioning of items

2005-11-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Kári Hreinsson wrote: Hello, I have been trying to use ConTeXt for setting up a book with a list of students in my school, with pictures of them, phone numbers, emails and such. I thought I could use ConTeXt for the job since LaTeX gave me much trouble in trying to alter the layout and

Re: [NTG-context] extra page in presentation styles

2005-11-03 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, On my machine with ConTeXt ver: 2005.09.14 fmt: 2005.10.21 int: english mes: english everything is fine with the sample file you sent. Probably you should update your installation of ConTeXt. Best regards: OK On 3 nov. 2005, at 17:36, Hans van der Meer wrote: Context

Re: [NTG-context] adding value to key

2005-11-03 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote: I am attaching t-valext.tex, a quicky module I wrote this morning that allows the use of \currentvalue in (I believe) all assignments, like so: \setupexternalfigures[directory={\currentvalue,another/dir}] Hello Taco, really great!! Thank you!

Re: [NTG-context] How to use layers or other methods for precise positioning of items

2005-11-03 Thread Kári Hreinsson
Thank you for your replies. This reading material you pointed me to should answer all my questions, else, I might drop a question here again later :). Thanks again, this was really helpful! - Kári Hreinsson On 11/3/05, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kári Hreinsson wrote: Hello,

Re: [NTG-context] extra page in presentation styles

2005-11-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Hans, On my machine with ConTeXt ver: 2005.09.14 fmt: 2005.10.21 int: english mes: english everything is fine with the sample file you sent. Probably you should update your installation of ConTeXt. no problems here either; maybe some spurious character that