Re: [NTG-context] problems with minimal/pdftex

2008-04-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello again, I've just downloaded a minimal for mac os x/power-pc and experience the following problem: I've thought that the brokenness of the binary in the minimals is only related to image inclusion, but it seems as if this touches more ares. I have no problems in generating new binaries

[NTG-context] ctx usage

2008-04-19 Thread Hans van der Meer
I am an ignoramus I know, but running context starts with the message: TeXExec | no ctx file found It seems quite normal because the first document on the wiki also shows this message. I searched the wiki in vain through ctx and .ctx for an explanation of its purpose. Can someone point

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: Hallo Taco, Everything I read below says there should be a 'plain.mem' in the folder where you ran theat file in. If there really really isn't, then my only advise to you is to buy a less thieving operating system, as it seems this one steals your files

[NTG-context] where luatex cache?

2008-04-19 Thread Hans van der Meer
I have a setup with several users, one acting as system administrator, the others as users. What can be said regarding the setup of the luatex cache? The possibilities I see are: (1) central cache in the /usr/local/texlive tree; (2) decentralized cache per user in its local texmf tree (3)

Re: [NTG-context] ctx usage

2008-04-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: I am an ignoramus I know, but running context starts with the message: TeXExec | no ctx file found It seems quite normal because the first document on the wiki also shows this message. I searched the wiki in vain through ctx and .ctx for an explanation of

Re: [NTG-context] where luatex cache?

2008-04-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Hans van der Meer wrote: I have a setup with several users, one acting as system administrator, the others as users. What can be said regarding the setup of the luatex cache? First advise: use a local disk. Caches on network paths are a bad idea. The possibilities I see are: (1)

[NTG-context] maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

2008-04-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Dear all, maybe this is off-topic, but I just wanted to tell you about my experiences (and sorry if this sounds like a sales pitch, it isn't!). Since I have a fairly long commute to work, I spend a lot of time on the train and like/need to do serious work there. When you have to schlepp

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

2008-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Willi, I will try to provide you with something. The difficulty is, that I do not have LaTeX running. So please some patience. You could also draw something by hand and add values for the distance from the top or left margin and the height and width for the fields. Take a look at the

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

2008-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Apr 2008 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Wolfgang, I still wait for comments about the user interface to set the values before I will release my module to the public although my last stable

[NTG-context] typescript

2008-04-19 Thread Antoine Junod
Hello, List! Follownig your recommendations while playing with fonts, I've started to write one. It's actually very basic but I already have a few questions. Here is the basic, working stuff I did until now: \starttypescript[serif][garamondpp] \definefontsynonym [GaramondPP-Roman]

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

2008-04-19 Thread Antoine Junod
Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

[NTG-context] typesetting modules

2008-04-19 Thread Hans van der Meer
For typesetting a context module I did the following, first making a .ted file and then typesetting it: texmfstart ctxtools --documentation --type=pdf char-utf.tex texmfstart texexec --silent --pdf --autopdf However I got an unknown format cont-nl.fmt. Why is nl chosen? What I am doing wrong

Re: [NTG-context] problems with minimal/pdftex

2008-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-lan.mkii)) [1.1pdftex: Invalid argument weird, looks like an message from pdftex itself Hans - Hans Hagen

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting modules

2008-04-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: For typesetting a context module I did the following, first making a .ted file and then typesetting it: texmfstart ctxtools --documentation --type=pdf char-utf.tex texmfstart texexec --silent --pdf --autopdf However I got an unknown format cont-nl.fmt. Why is nl

Re: [NTG-context] problems with minimal/pdftex

2008-04-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Patrick Gundlach wrote: (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-lan.mkii)) [1.1pdftex: Invalid argument weird, looks like an message from pdftex itself Like Martin said already: you get this kind of magic when the large file support in the binary is

Re: [NTG-context] where luatex cache?

2008-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: I have a setup with several users, one acting as system administrator, the others as users. What can be said regarding the setup of the luatex cache? The possibilities I see are: (1) central cache in the /usr/local/texlive tree; if users share the tree, this is an

Re: [NTG-context] where luatex cache?

2008-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: The cache will also contain files downloaded at runtime from the internet (if any). Truly paranoid security people would be against a central cache for that reason, but otherwise this is best. so maybe at some point we need two caches Hans

Re: [NTG-context] ctx usage

2008-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: I am an ignoramus I know, but running context starts with the message: TeXExec | no ctx file found harmless message; we use ctx file in our projects, so there the message is handy; by using ctxfiles one can simplify command lines; some of

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting modules

2008-04-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: For typesetting a context module I did the following, first making a .ted file and then typesetting it: texmfstart ctxtools --documentation --type=pdf char-utf.tex texmfstart texexec --silent --pdf --autopdf However I

Re: [NTG-context] where luatex cache?

2008-04-19 Thread Hans van der Meer
On 19 apr 2008, at 14:42, Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: The cache will also contain files downloaded at runtime from the internet (if any). Truly paranoid security people would be against a central cache for that reason, but otherwise this is best. so maybe at some point we need

Re: [NTG-context] ctx usage

2008-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: I am an ignoramus I know, but running context starts with the message: TeXExec | no ctx file found It seems quite normal because the first document on the wiki also shows this message. I searched the wiki in vain through ctx and .ctx for an explanation of

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting modules

2008-04-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: For typesetting a context module I did the following, first making a .ted file and then typesetting it: texmfstart ctxtools --documentation --type=pdf char-utf.tex texmfstart texexec --silent --pdf --autopdf However I got an unknown format

Re: [NTG-context] graphictext broken

2008-04-19 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, this doesn't work any more (mkii and mkiv). Same error on live.contextgarden. I use pstoedit3.45 (updated today from 3.44) and the latest context/luatex. i uploaded a beta; from now on mpenvironments are only passed to graphictexts because

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
On 19 Apr 2008 at 8:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything I read below says there should be a 'plain.mem' in the folder where you ran theat file in. If there really really isn't, then my only advise to you is to buy a less thieving operating system, as it seems this one steals your

Re: [NTG-context] typescript

2008-04-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-19 um 13:06 schrieb Antoine Junod: \starttypescript[serif][garamondpp] \definefontsynonym [GaramondPP-Roman] [GaramondPremrPro] \definefontsynonym [GaramondPP-Bold] [GaramondPremrPro-Bd] \definefontsynonym [GaramondPP-Italic] [GaramondPremrPro-It]

[NTG-context] LaTeX maths with array...

2008-04-19 Thread Pau
Hi, I am preparing an e-journal for astro and I have many articles with lots of equations. Unfortunately, authors are using LaTeX maths and this is giving me trouble. I have read and followed the steps of http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LaTeX_Math_in_ConTeXt and

Re: [NTG-context] maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

2008-04-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 19, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: how does luatex run on it? mem consumption and such ... what is 'slow'? how many pages per second for a 100 page document? does it connect well to a beamer? Hans OK, just to give you a very rough estimate: here is the time for

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographic Databases

2008-04-19 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Robin Kirkham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX maths with array...

2008-04-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Pau wrote: Hi, I am preparing an e-journal for astro and I have many articles with lots of equations. Unfortunately, authors are using LaTeX maths and this is giving me trouble. I have read and followed the steps of http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LaTeX_Math_in_ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

2008-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Apr 19, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: how does luatex run on it? mem consumption and such ... what is 'slow'? how many pages per second for a 100 page document? does it connect well to a beamer? Hans OK, just to give you a very rough estimate: here

Re: [NTG-context] maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

2008-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Olivier Guéry wrote: Eee pc wit ubuntu here (and context). Great small computer. The 900 comes in a few month… 8,9′ and maybe 20Go of ssd… 400€. the 900/20G would be my choice indeed .. plus an extra battery Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] new options for \setupinteractionscreen

2008-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: Dear ConTeXters, for PDF document one can set /PageLayout. It is a mode in which reader shows us pages (Single, Continous, Facing, ...). in ConTeXt one can set \setupinteractionscreen[option=doublesided] which set layout /TwoColumnRight (understand two facing

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
\startlua local function finder(name, mode, ftype) if mode==w then return name else return kpse.find_file(name,ftype) end end Jein! The only file in my tex tree which could play that roule is cont-en-mpost.mem in the cache

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: \startlua local function finder(name, mode, ftype) if mode==w then return name else return kpse.find_file(name,ftype) end end Jein! The only file in my tex tree which could play that roule is cont-en-mpost.mem in

Re: [NTG-context] problems with minimal/pdftex

2008-04-19 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Patrick Gundlach wrote: (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-lan.mkii)) [1.1pdftex: Invalid argument weird, looks like an message from pdftex itself Like Martin said already: you get this

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: \startlua local function finder(name, mode, ftype) if mode==w then return name else return kpse.find_file(name,ftype) end end Jein! Try this, a little more elaborate, version of finder: local function finder(name,

Re: [NTG-context] problems with minimal/pdftex

2008-04-19 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/4/19, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is that I only build the ppc binaries and never have a chance to test them. I hope that I'll be able to build _and_ test the ppc binaries on Patrick's computer in the future. Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] problems with minimal/pdftex

2008-04-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Martin, I hope that I'll be able to build _and_ test the ppc binaries on Patrick's computer in the future. I'll give you an account on my machine on monday... So we(=you :) might be able to track down this problem. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

Re: [NTG-context] graphictext broken

2008-04-19 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Peter Rolf wrote: just tested. mkii still stops with the following error ah, there is some code commented (left over from test) report error: ! Extra tokens will be flushed. to be read again withdrawcolor * ...:=5; graphictext \ONEfont 1

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX maths with array...

2008-04-19 Thread Pau
Thanks for the answer. The (now deprecated) amsl module provided something similar to LaTeX array. Have you tried using that part of the code? yes, I followed exactly the steps of the wiki... For now the only way of fixing this was to rewrite the arrays per hand. But LaTeX compiles them, so