Re: [NTG-context] XYPic

2007-05-02 Thread luigi scarso
hmm, some problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe a collision with another macro of context. I will investigate -- luigi If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Which manual for basic drawing?

2007-05-02 Thread James Buchanan
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Official_ConTeXt_Documentation#General_Manuals > > A real-life book on ConTeXt is still needed however. The manuals are a bit > rough around the edges... > > Best > Idris I haven't found the general manuals to be all that useful, since ru

Re: [NTG-context] Which manual for basic drawing?

2007-05-02 Thread James Buchanan
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > PS > > On Wed, 02 May 2007 14:46:12 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:18:46 -0600, James Buchanan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks everyone for your input. I think I have enough to go on now. It >>> does see

[NTG-context] Latin Modern vs Ancient Greek module

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Bowen
The problem is that I no longer seem to be able to produce footnotes when the bodyfont is Latin Modern and I am using the Thomas Schmitz’ ancientgreek module. The following works but only when the two lines installing the ancientgreek module are commented out. \usetypescript[lmodern][\def

Re: [NTG-context] Which manual for basic drawing?

2007-05-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
PS On Wed, 02 May 2007 14:46:12 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:18:46 -0600, James Buchanan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks everyone for your input. I think I have enough to go on now. It >> does seem MetaPost is easiest, but quickly gets c

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost question

2007-05-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hi, > > I want to define a macro in MetaPost which does: > > def myfunc (expr x,y)(text t) = > draw thelabel.rt (btex You passed \quotation{t} etex, (x,y)); > > where t in btex ... text is replaced by the argument. How to do so? You can do that using TE

Re: [NTG-context] Which manual for basic drawing?

2007-05-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:18:46 -0600, James Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks everyone for your input. I think I have enough to go on now. It > does seem MetaPost is easiest, but quickly gets complicated. Then you should definitely try TikZ > I have not > seen any simple geometry exam

[NTG-context] MetaPost question

2007-05-02 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, I want to define a macro in MetaPost which does: def myfunc (expr x,y)(text t) = draw thelabel.rt (btex You passed \quotation{t} etex, (x,y)); where t in btex ... text is replaced by the argument. How to do so? Tobias ___

Re: [NTG-context] \title and \subject parameters.

2007-05-02 Thread Tobias Burnus
John R. Culleton schrieb: > I want the above cited entities to be done in sans serif and bold. The > manual shows \setuphead choices such as "textstyle=boldslanted" but > not my particular selection. > I don't know whether it is the best way to do so, but how about: \setuphead[title][textstyl

Re: [NTG-context] \title and \subject parameters.

2007-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, 2 May 2007 14:57:56 -0400 "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want the above cited entities to be done in sans serif and bold. The > manual shows \setuphead choices such as "textstyle=boldslanted" but > not my particular selection. > > What is the preferred way to designa

[NTG-context] \title and \subject parameters.

2007-05-02 Thread John R. Culleton
I want the above cited entities to be done in sans serif and bold. The manual shows \setuphead choices such as "textstyle=boldslanted" but not my particular selection. What is the preferred way to designate my choice? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at

Re: [NTG-context] XYPic

2007-05-02 Thread luigi scarso
On 5/2/07, Dirard Mikdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't use LaTeX either. This code comes from my thesis which I wrote > in plain TeX. > > Save the following code in a file: > -- > \input xy > \xyoption{all} > \xyoption{dvips} > $$ > \xymatrix{ > & W \ar[dr]^{f_2} [EMAIL PROTECTED]>}[d]_{f} \

Re: [NTG-context] XYPic

2007-05-02 Thread Dirard Mikdad
I don't use LaTeX either. This code comes from my thesis which I wrote in plain TeX. Save the following code in a file: -- \input xy \xyoption{all} \xyoption{dvips} $$ \xymatrix{ & W \ar[dr]^{f_2} [EMAIL PROTECTED]>}[d]_{f} \ar[dl]_{f_1} &&\\ X & X \times Y \ar[l]_{p_1} \ar[r]^{p_2} & Y } $$

Re: [NTG-context] XYPic

2007-05-02 Thread luigi scarso
On 5/2/07, Dirard Mikdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I save the following code in a file, say tt.tex. > Then I just run texec tt.tex. yes, ok How did you used to compile it under LaTeX ? (sorry, I don't use latex from a long time) -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] AMS extensions and Context.

2007-05-02 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
> ConTeXt supports about 95% of AMS features. The few that are not > supported are because no one has really asked for them yet. I wrote an > article "ConTeXt for AMS addicts" in the last issue of MAPS, which > shows how to achieve different features of AMS in ConTeXt. > Unforunately, 2006 issue of

Re: [NTG-context] XYPic

2007-05-02 Thread Dirard Mikdad
I save the following code in a file, say tt.tex. Then I just run texec tt.tex. It compiles. The problem is that the universal arrow is not displayed as it should; i.e. a dotted arrow. --- \input xy \xyoption{all} \starttext \startformula \xymatrix{ & W \ar[dr]^{f_2} [EMAIL PROTECTED]>}[d]_{f} \ar

Re: [NTG-context] AMS extensions and Context.

2007-05-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 2 May 2007, John R. Culleton wrote: > The folks over at Scribus (a Quarkish Open Source page layout program) > are considering using some form of TeX for math typesetting. I > mentioned plain pdftex and Context as forms of TeX to be considered > as well as LaTeX. The question came up: how

Re: [NTG-context] AMS extensions and Context.

2007-05-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/5/2, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The folks over at Scribus (a Quarkish Open Source page layout program) are considering using some form of TeX for math typesetting. I mentioned plain pdftex and Context as forms of TeX to be considered as well as LaTeX. The question came up: how d

[NTG-context] AMS extensions and Context.

2007-05-02 Thread John R. Culleton
The folks over at Scribus (a Quarkish Open Source page layout program) are considering using some form of TeX for math typesetting. I mentioned plain pdftex and Context as forms of TeX to be considered as well as LaTeX. The question came up: how does Context comport with AMS extensions? What

Re: [NTG-context] XYPic

2007-05-02 Thread luigi scarso
On 5/2/07, Dirard Mikdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There seems to be something wrong with the dotted arrows. > I tried different codes. > > The following code compiles. > --- > \input xy > \xyoption{all} > \starttext > \startformula > \xymatrix{ > & W \ar[dr]^{f_2} [EMAIL PROTECTED]>}[d]_{f} \ar

Re: [NTG-context] XYPic

2007-05-02 Thread Dirard Mikdad
There seems to be something wrong with the dotted arrows. I tried different codes. The following code compiles. --- \input xy \xyoption{all} \starttext \startformula \xymatrix{ & W \ar[dr]^{f_2} [EMAIL PROTECTED]>}[d]_{f} \ar[dl]_{f_1} &&\\ X & X \times Y \ar[l]_{p_1} \ar[r]^{p_2} & Y } \stop