Re: [NTG-context] [dev-context] New context release

2008-04-17 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 17 Apr 2008, Will Robertson wrote: Sorry, I didn't know how you went about actually creating this package. The packages are created from the actual TeX Live release, or better from the security branch of the subversion repository, the tag 2007.1 or how it is called. It sounds like it

Re: [NTG-context] [dev-context] New context release

2008-04-17 Thread Will Robertson
On 17/04/2008, at 2:48 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: And we should at the same time update the necessary packages (is euenc and fontspec enough?) xltxtra has seen a couple of bug fixes too. That one -is- in the current repository. W smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [NTG-context] [dev-context] New context release

2008-04-17 Thread Will Robertson
On 17/04/2008, at 3:08 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: Honestly, I fear to open a pandora's box here. Bleah, I can see your concern. Sorry, I didn't know how you went about actually creating this package. It sounds like it would be easiest to stick with the official releases of TeXLive, despite

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ultraminimals (was re: Perl/Ruby dependency)

2008-04-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slight tangent: Is there any support for using any of the OpenType math fonts (I know of Cambria Math, STIX, and Asana Math—this last on tug.org) in mkiv? cambria ...

Re: [NTG-context] Unable to generate luatex formats

2008-04-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you update luatex, texlua, texluac? How can I tell? The banners (first line of luatex --version, texlua --version, texluac --version) should all be the same and mention at least snapshot-0.25.2

Re: [NTG-context] [dev-context] New context release

2008-04-17 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 17 Apr 2008, at 1:09 am, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 16 Apr 2008, at 7:56 pm, Norbert Preining wrote: Given that there won't be TL2008 in lenny, I think it would be very desirable to update xetex to a more recent version than 0.996 as

Re: [NTG-context] Unable to generate luatex formats

2008-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you update luatex, texlua, texluac? they all should be the same binary but with different names -

Re: [NTG-context] announce of new version of Context Minimals Installer for Windows

2008-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello I've commited new version of Context Minimals Installer for Windows. http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInstall.exe Added possibility to select between Beta and Stable (current) version + new rsync + internal

Re: [NTG-context] [dev-context] New context release

2008-04-17 Thread Jonathan Kew
On 17 Apr 2008, at 7:23 am, Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 17 Apr 2008, Will Robertson wrote: Sorry, I didn't know how you went about actually creating this package. The packages are created from the actual TeX Live release, or better from the security branch of the subversion repository,

[NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi all, Preface most of the discussions in the last weeks on the list concerned LuaTeX and MkIV with the topic fonts, xml and bugs, currently not implemented functions and bug and in the last few days also mplib. I will try start with this mail a hopefully interesting discuassions wuth many

[NTG-context] announce of new version of Context Minimals Installer for Windows

2008-04-17 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello I've commited new version of Context Minimals Installer for Windows. http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInstall.exe Added possibility to select between Beta and Stable (current) version + new rsync + internal changes. --- The question to Hans: why

Re: [NTG-context] t-bib and interactivity for url= and doi=

2008-04-17 Thread Tobias Burnus
Tobias Burnus wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: I can fix that pretty easily, but a small real-life testfile will be helpful, also for the DOI problem. See attached TeX file. Here is it again. Any idea? (Sorry for the length, but \setuppublicationlayout and \startpublication make it a bit

Re: [NTG-context] t-bib and interactivity for url= and doi=

2008-04-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Tobias Burnus wrote: Tobias Burnus wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: I can fix that pretty easily, but a small real-life testfile will be helpful, also for the DOI problem. See attached TeX file. Here is it again. Any idea? (Sorry for the length, but \setuppublicationlayout and

Re: [NTG-context] Pb with ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.16 17:34 and mkiv

2008-04-17 Thread Otared Kavian
Problem solved as mysteriously as it appeared, after updating anew ConTeXt… Thanks for your attention: OK On 17 avr. 08, at 01:15, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: For your information, I am running this on MacBook Pro Intel running MacOS X

Re: [NTG-context] [dev-context] New context release

2008-04-17 Thread Norbert Preining
On Do, 17 Apr 2008, Jonathan Kew wrote: If I do this, and create a tag 2007.1 in TL with the updated branch2007 version, are you able to use this as the base for your Of course, that would be great. And if you want to be nice to me, too, send me a simple diff (svn diff output) of what you did

Re: [NTG-context] Adding custom key/value pairs

2008-04-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Can't the abstract just placed after the text has been set with \start/\stopabstract. Better not, because placement and spacing around and between and relative ordering of abstracts and keywords are often bound to very specific rules. Rules you don't want to burden

Re: [NTG-context] Adding custom key/value pairs

2008-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wolfgang, On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Why not,

[NTG-context] Strange problem with metapost graphics

2008-04-17 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hi all, Here is minimal example of some trouble I have: ... \startMPinclusions numeric u; u=1cm; \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} drawarrow (0,0)..(8u,0); label.bot(\sometxt{temps}, (7u,-.5u)); \stopuseMPgraphic

Re: [NTG-context] Strange problem with metapost graphics

2008-04-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: - luatex: first label in the second graphic appears with bad size and font, and second label disappears; but if I comment out the label in the first graphic, the second graphic is as expected. Any idea? A much smaller luatex test is possible:

Re: [NTG-context] Strange problem with metapost graphics

2008-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Hi all, Here is minimal example of some trouble I have: ... \startMPinclusions numeric u; u=1cm; \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} drawarrow (0,0)..(8u,0); label.bot(\sometxt{temps}, (7u,-.5u));

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
This may be a surprise, but I use only oowriter/oocalc currently. Why? Traitor ;-) ___ 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] announce of new version of Context Minimals Installer for Windows

2008-04-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: And why it reloads all files, not synchronize them? Maybe that has happend only after you have upgraded rsync. Does in still reload everything if you try it for the second time? Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-04-17 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:18:49 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There has not been an update to mswincontext.zip since last August... Are there any plans to update this? For years now mswincontext.zip has been my one and only TeX distribution. With the new TeX-Gyre and Latin

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The discussion Before I start to give you information about my module and give you the chance to mention your own wishes or thoughts about the inteface I'm interested what do you use

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-04-17 Thread Yue Wang
ok, we need to add scite to and docs tree, and... and ruby, perl, unzip, xml tools. ___ 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] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
The discussion Before I start to give you information about my module and give you the chance to mention your own wishes or thoughts about the inteface I'm interested what do you use currently to write you own correspondence (letter, invoices etc.). This may be a

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Olivier Guéry
Happy to read that I'm not the only one ! But with a « great letter module » (with french positions, of course :))… Show me a few example or give me values for the positions (address block, opening, line distance etc.) I can only provide solutions if you give me information. Of

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Olivier Guéry
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The discussion Before I start to give you information about my module and give you the chance to mention your own wishes or thoughts about the inteface I'm interested what do you

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot module

2008-04-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:24 PM, John Devereux wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: I really like gnuplot and the gnuplot module. It is great to be able to include the data inline with the document. And it would be nice to see it part of the distribution. I am using a stock debian gnuplot, so I

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Wolfgang, On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:13:54 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take the following minimal example \usemodule[letter] \setupletter [sender] [name={Mike Meiers}, address={Mustergasse 12\\25694 Musterstadt}] \setupletter [address] [name={Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-17 um 10:13 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Before I start to give you information about my module and give you the chance to mention your own wishes or thoughts about the inteface I'm interested what do you use currently to write you own correspondence (letter, invoices etc.). I

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Olivier Guéry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy to read that I'm not the only one ! But with a « great letter module » (with french positions, of course :))… Show me a few example or give me values for the positions (address block, opening, line

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2008-04-17 um 10:13 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Before I start to give you information about my module and give you the chance to mention your own wishes or thoughts about the inteface I'm interested what do you

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot module

2008-04-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:27 PM, John Devereux wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: Do you have any suggestions about how to reduce the number of files in some sensible way? The ideal would be an option when processing the source file, to turn off file deletion. Like texexec document.tex

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wolfgang, On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:13:54 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take the following minimal example \usemodule[letter] \setupletter [sender] [name={Mike Meiers},

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot module

2008-04-17 Thread John Devereux
Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:27 PM, John Devereux wrote: Mojca Miklavec writes: Do you have any suggestions about how to reduce the number of files in some sensible way? The ideal would be an option when processing the source file, to turn off

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-17 um 16:32 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: I normally use InDesign for my business letters and invoices. Dou you use a template for your letters. Not an InDesign template file (.idt), but a single document (with master pages) for every purpose (German/Swiss/English, letter/ invoice,

[NTG-context] Windows tools in XeTeX - what do they do?

2008-04-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, There are some new executables in w32tex's XeTeX. sfconv.exe teckit_compile.exe txtconv.exe What are they used for (I have no windows computer here to try)? So far, I only kept extracting the following files: fc-cache.exe fc-list.exe icudt38.dll kpathsea35671.dll msvcp71.dll

Re: [NTG-context] Windows tools in XeTeX - what do they do?

2008-04-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Sorry, wrong mailing list ... Mojca On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, There are some new executables in w32tex's XeTeX. sfconv.exe teckit_compile.exe txtconv.exe What are they used for (I have no windows computer here to try)? So

Re: [NTG-context] Windows tools in XeTeX - what do they do?

2008-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, There are some new executables in w32tex's XeTeX. sfconv.exe teckit_compile.exe txtconv.exe What are they used for (I have no windows computer here to try)? just wait till something fails ... the less binaries the better

[NTG-context] Bug with typing in mkiv

2008-04-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Hans, In MKIV, \starttyping ignores the block if it starts with a blank line. For example, \starttext blah blah blah \starttyping Can you see me \stoptyping \stoptext Aditya ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Bug with typing in mkiv

2008-04-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi Hans, In MKIV, \starttyping ignores the block if it starts with a blank line. For example, Another bug (not sure if it is a bug, just something that is different from mkii). In mkiv, starttyping block gets indented; mkii used to ignore

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-04-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
and ruby, perl, unzip, xml tools. It's not public yet, but I have prepared ruby, perl scite. If you can send me exact urls and instructions, I will add xml tools as well. gswin is on the stack (didn't touch it yet). Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] Strange problem with metapost graphics

2008-04-17 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 17 avril à 13:17:44 Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: | Hi all, | Here is minimal example of some trouble I have: | | ... | \startMPinclusions | numeric u; u=1cm; | \stopMPinclusions | \starttext |

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: and ruby, perl, unzip, xml tools. It's not public yet, but I have prepared ruby, perl scite. If you can send me exact urls and instructions, I will add xml tools as well. gswin is on the stack (didn't touch it yet). http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/xsltproc2.html

Re: [NTG-context] announce of new version of Context Minimals Installer for Windows

2008-04-17 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've commited new version of Context Minimals Installer for Windows. http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInstall.exe Could you please update the online source as well?

[NTG-context] Bibliographic Databases

2008-04-17 Thread Robin Kirkham
Dear all, I want to set up a shared bibliographic reference database for my research group, and I'm looking at software like refbase http:// refbase.sourceforge.net/ or refdb http://refdb.sourceforge.net/ to replace the somewhat random collection of personal BibTeX .bib files we have.

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographic Databases

2008-04-17 Thread Andreas Wagner
Hello Robin, hello list, * Robin Kirkham wrote on Apr/18/2008: I want to set up a shared bibliographic reference database for my research group, and I'm looking at software like refbase http://refbase.sourceforge.net/ or refdb http://refdb.sourceforge.net/ to replace the somewhat

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Gour
Wolfgang == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wolfgang LaTeX has two packages to create invoices and we could also Wolfgang have one for ConTeXt but it makes only sense to use it with Wolfgang LuaTeX, TeX's arithmetic to limited for longer calculations. Let me just say that I'd found a use for invoices

[NTG-context] Roll-Your-Own Stand-Alone (Was re. ConTeXt ultraminimals)

2008-04-17 Thread Joel C. Salomon
I'm working on ConTeXt+SciTE-on-a-USB-Stick. A downloadable program is still far off, as is a version that can be put on PortableApps.com, but I've gotten to the point of mapping out the basic parameters: • We need to have a start-up program, which will set up the environment and start SciTE

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Apr 17 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: After nearly one and a helf years and 2 major revisions I have nearly finished my module and would will make it now available also to other users. But before I make my last stable version online I want to discuss a few points with interested

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Apr 17 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote: * Quite a bit of correspondence is invoices and quotes, with automatic calculations in them (VAT etc). Hello Taco, Quite funny: Just 3 days ago, I wrote t-invoice.tex for my personal needs, just 1 command and very very simple: \startInvoice

Re: [NTG-context] Roll-Your-Own Stand-Alone (Was re. ConTeXt ultraminimals)

2008-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Joel C. Salomon wrote: I'm working on ConTeXt+SciTE-on-a-USB-Stick. A downloadable program is still far off, as is a version that can be put on PortableApps.com, but I've gotten to the point of mapping out the basic parameters: • We need to have a start-up program, which will set up the

Re: [NTG-context] Roll-Your-Own Stand-Alone (Was re. ConTeXt ultraminimals)

2008-04-17 Thread Joel C. Salomon
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to defer working on [Perl Ruby]. we dont't need full perl and ruby; perl only when you want to use mptopdf, which is not needed because texexec can do the same; so, a small ruby is enough So does anyone on