[NTG-context] Example -- Solution Pair

2005-12-19 Thread David Arnold
All, Anyone have an environment something along the lines of: \startexample blah, blah, ... \stopexample \startsolution blah, blah, ... \stopsolution With maybe a little square indicating the end of the solution? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-cont

[NTG-context] Request for some sample technical document layouts.

2005-12-19 Thread R S Ananda Murthy
Hello, I am required to typeset a technical book having several chapters with lot of figures, equations etc. I have set this type of document using Komascript-book class earlier. Now I want to try ConTeXt. I am new to ConTeXt. Can I get some sample document layouts suitable for technical book

Re: [NTG-context] Exercise sets

2005-12-19 Thread Willi Egger
Hi David, the answer must be found in \defineenumeration[question][..] and \defineenumeration[answer][...] further you can use the defineblock[...] mechanism. Please refer to the cont-enp.pdf pages 262 ff. Kind regards Willi David Arnold wrote: All, I'd like to design an exercise environm

[NTG-context] Re: Exercise sets

2005-12-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello David, I think this solution is from one of the ConTeXt pdfs. Or from the mailinglist. Or -- \defineblock[question] \defineblock[answer] \defineenumeration[question][location=top,text=Frage] \defineenumeration[answer][location=top,text=An

Re: [NTG-context] CSRoman again

2005-12-19 Thread Vit Zyka
Hans Hagen wrote: Hi I've spent some time experimenting with LatinModern font. After all I was able to use it, but I found I hate it. 1) The have accents positioned in a ugly way (or at least, in a way not common in the Czech typesetting) Do you have the current version - 0.99.3? 2) Some a

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Was: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

2005-12-19 Thread David Wooten
On Dec 19, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: David Wooten wrote: . . . Just out of curiosity, Hans, does this mean that pdftex will (in the near future;) natively support OpenType fonts, namely without having to go through all the TeX font installation trickery? that's the idea; o

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.12.18 released

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: On 12/19/05, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: for those who want to upgrade ... later today i will post a version that has the pfr stuff fixed (intereference with otr) Hans Could I safely update to release 2005.12.18 now ? yes, i just uploaded again (inclu

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Was: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
David Wooten wrote: . . . Just out of curiosity, Hans, does this mean that pdftex will (in the near future;) natively support OpenType fonts, namely without having to go through all the TeX font installation trickery? that's the idea; of course we need some tex specific things because we w

[NTG-context] Exercise sets

2005-12-19 Thread David Arnold
All, I'd like to design an exercise environment that will keep both the exercise and solution together. Something like: \startExercise Blah, blah, blah. \startSolution Blah, blah, blah \stopSolution \stopExercise At a higher level, something with parts, like: \startExercise Blah, blah,

[NTG-context] [OT] Was: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...

2005-12-19 Thread David Wooten
. . . Just out of curiosity, Hans, does this mean that pdftex will (in the near future;) natively support OpenType fonts, namely without having to go through all the TeX font installation trickery? Dave On Dec 18, 2005, at 6:16 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: In the short

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.12.18 released

2005-12-19 Thread VnPenguin
On 12/19/05, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for those who want to upgrade ... later today i will post a version that > has the pfr stuff fixed (intereference with otr) > > Hans > Could I safely update to release 2005.12.18 now ? Thanks -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Softwar

Re: [NTG-context] CSRoman again

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi I've spent some time experimenting with LatinModern font. After all I was able to use it, but I found I hate it. 1) The have accents positioned in a ugly way (or at least, in a way not common in the Czech typesetting) 2) Some accents do no work, for instance \"o (at least this doesn't work:

[NTG-context] "Degrading" TABLE column

2005-12-19 Thread Duncan Hothersall
I'm trying to solve a problem with a TABLE in a large-ish (600 page) book. The table occurs in an appendix, and the contents of one column are spilling out into the next column on the right. The weird thing is that when I process just that bit of the book, the effect is much smaller, and when I pr

Re: [NTG-context] Offtopic: TeX in MetaPost?

2005-12-19 Thread John R. Culleton
On Monday 19 December 2005 10:28 am, Michal Kvasni?ka wrote: > Good evening. > > I apologize that I dare to post here such offtopic, but I feel this is > the right place to get an answer. > I try to write some general-purpose MetaPost macros for me with > ConTeXt-like interface. For instance, I'd l

[NTG-context] CSRoman again

2005-12-19 Thread Michal Kvasnička
Good evening. I've spent some time experimenting with LatinModern font. After all I was able to use it, but I found I hate it. 1) The have accents positioned in a ugly way (or at least, in a way not common in the Czech typesetting) 2) Some accents do no work, for instance \"o (at least this do

[NTG-context] Offtopic: TeX in MetaPost?

2005-12-19 Thread Michal Kvasnička
Good evening. I apologize that I dare to post here such offtopic, but I feel this is the right place to get an answer. I try to write some general-purpose MetaPost macros for me with ConTeXt-like interface. For instance, I'd like something like this: label(point, "label=$A$, xlabel=$x_A$, yl

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.12.18 released

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Yup, seems to work here after regenerating the formats. Lovely!! Thanks, and all best Thomas On Dec 19, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Oops, something with Unicode support is broken in the new release. Typesetting Unicode Greek with my module, ConTeXt type

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.12.18 released

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Oops, something with Unicode support is broken in the new release. Typesetting Unicode Greek with my module, ConTeXt typesets the named glyphs in Greek letters (so I get something like greeklambda greekpi greekalpha etc. in my pdf). Using the name itself (\greeklamb

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.12.18 released

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Oops, something with Unicode support is broken in the new release. Typesetting Unicode Greek with my module, ConTeXt typesets the named glyphs in Greek letters (so I get something like greeklambda greekpi greekalpha etc. in my pdf). Using the name itself (\greeklamb

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.12.18 released

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Oops, something with Unicode support is broken in the new release. Typesetting Unicode Greek with my module, ConTeXt typesets the named glyphs in Greek letters (so I get something like greeklambda greekpi greekalpha etc. in my pdf). Using the name itself (\greeklamb

Re: [NTG-context] TUO loading bug

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, Renaud AUBIN wrote: [failing \cite commands in a component file] I've found the problem, and it is in fact not related to the bib module (and not really to the project structure either). The real culprit was a bug in the tuo file loader, triggered by your \u

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.12.18 released

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Oops, something with Unicode support is broken in the new release. Typesetting Unicode Greek with my module, ConTeXt typesets the named glyphs in Greek letters (so I get something like greeklambda greekpi greekalpha etc. in my pdf). Using the name itself (\greeklambda) gives the desired gly

[NTG-context] Context 2005.12.18 released

2005-12-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.cont

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Am 08.12.2005 um 19:01 schrieb Adam Lindsay: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: I'd like to prepare some more symbol fonts - any requests? (I always like to do nice font stuff while I should something more important... ;-)) What, you too? What about Apostrophic Labs

Re: [NTG-context] mfun-004.tex \startuseMPgraphic

2005-12-19 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, In mfun-004.tex, I find: \startuseMPgraphic{axis} tickstep := 1cm ; ticklength := 2mm ; drawticks unitsquare xscaled 4cm yscaled 3cm shifted (-1cm,-1cm) ; tickstep := tickstep/2 ; ticklength := ticklength/2 ; drawticks unitsquare xscaled 4cm yscaled 3cm shifte

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-19 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Am 08.12.2005 um 19:01 schrieb Adam Lindsay: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: I'd like to prepare some more symbol fonts - any requests? (I always like to do nice font stuff while I should something more important... ;-)) What, you too? What about Apostrophic Labs' very nice "Hard Talk" (http: