[NTG-context] tex still popular

2008-09-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, i just ran across http://viennateng.com/scrapbook/ (topline looks very texie to me); ok, she has a background in computer science and somehow the tex syntax got burned in Hans - Han

[NTG-context] math font size in captions (and other places)

2008-09-24 Thread Mikael Persson
Dear all, I want small caption texts in a document. However, neither of the following two alternatives work: % %\setupcaptions[style=small] \setupcaptions[style=\tfx] \starttext \placefigure[here][none]{Some math $x=y$}{Dummy figure} \stoptext % In both cases the text is small, but math

Re: [NTG-context] How to get rid of space around itemize?

2008-09-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to remove space before (and after) items in the following > example, but the only way I have managed to do that was by using > \vskip-\lineheight, which I'm not particulary proud of. Any ideas? > > \setupwhitespace > [big] > \setupitemize >

[NTG-context] How to get rid of space around itemize?

2008-09-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I'm trying to remove space before (and after) items in the following example, but the only way I have managed to do that was by using \vskip-\lineheight, which I'm not particulary proud of. Any ideas? \setupwhitespace [big] \setupitemize [joinedup] \setuplayout [gri

[NTG-context] Bibliography: comments not ignored any more

2008-09-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello (Taco), I have no idea when this turned into a problem (the files that I'm recycling are 2 years old, so it must have worked at that time), but percentage sign seems to have lost its original meaning inside publication: \usemodule [bib] \startpublication[k=mybook,t=book,a=Last Name] \au

Re: [NTG-context] Fun with Bibtex

2008-09-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Peter Daum wrote: > Hi all > > I'm using Taco's Bibtex module and got some problems with it. > > \setupbibtex[database=xx,sort=author] > \setuppublications[alternative=apa-de,refcommand=authoryear,monthconversion=month] > \placepublications[criterium=all] > > .

[NTG-context] Fun with Bibtex

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Daum
Hi all I'm using Taco's Bibtex module and got some problems with it. \setupbibtex[database=xx,sort=author] \setuppublications[alternative=apa-de,refcommand=authoryear,monthconversion=month] \placepublications[criterium=all] ... works fine. The references list contains only publications refer

Re: [NTG-context] setupinteraction breaks urls in MK Ⅳ

2008-09-24 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Sep 24 2008, Matthias Wächter wrote: > \setupinteraction[state=start] > \starttext > \useURL[u][http://www.x.com/] > see \from[u]. > \stoptext > > It doesn't work in MKⅣ, no change by updating to latest. Seems to be the same issue as http://archive.contextgarden.net/thread/20080828.21063

[NTG-context] Descriptions ... I wish I understood them

2008-09-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I have some weird problems with descriptions, but let's start at the beginning. (I have more problems with understanding how they work, but more about the rest later.) 1.) How do I get some space between "title" and "abc"? (I currently put the space there manually.) If I set distance=1em,

Re: [NTG-context] page-log.tex

2008-09-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: > Hallo! > > I tried to download and unzip context-setup-mswin.zip. > > The wiki says 'Run first-setup.bat, go for a coffee.' > > But thats not possible. I am six times asked for a replacement name > for 'page-log.tex' which does not

Re: [NTG-context] \definecolor

2008-09-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: > Hallo, > > isn't there a three-parameter version of \definecolor ? > It doesn't work. > > \setupcolors[state=start] > \definecolor [MyBlue][blue][p=.2] > \starttext >\color[MyBlue]{Bla} > \stoptext \definespotcolor (three args is too messy) ---

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation blues

2008-09-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > Am 24.09.2008 um 17:28 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > >> Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >>> >>> ! You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode. >>> \normalend >> >> Jikes. Looks like that is because \color is a \groupedcommand itself. >> This works for this test file (and hopefu

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation blues

2008-09-24 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 24.09.2008 um 17:28 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> >> ! You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode. >> \normalend > > Jikes. Looks like that is because \color is a \groupedcommand itself. > This works for this test file (and hopefully for everything else): > > \def\

[NTG-context] \definecolor

2008-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, isn't there a three-parameter version of \definecolor ? It doesn't work. \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor [MyBlue][blue][p=.2] \starttext \color[MyBlue]{Bla} \stoptext Wolfgang ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation blues

2008-09-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Am 24.09.2008 um 12:57 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > >> Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >>> Am 24.09.2008 um 10:39 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: >>> Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > \def\Textit% > {\groupedcommand\em\/} Try this: \define\Colorit% {\groupedcommand{\co

Re: [NTG-context] setupinteraction breaks urls in MK Ⅳ

2008-09-24 Thread Matthias Wächter
On 9/24/2008 5:31 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hmm indeed. But there will be a new luatex in just a few more days, > maybe you can wait for that? I'd like to, but I can't. Tomorrow is the day for the thesis to get lasered and processed by the bookbinder. :-) Thanks for your support, I am lucky tha

Re: [NTG-context] setupinteraction breaks urls in MK Ⅳ

2008-09-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Matthias Wächter wrote: > > I updated contextminimals using first-setup.bat yesterday. Just did > a re-run of »luatools --generate« and »context --make« for making > sure everything is up-to-date, but to no effect (just the fmt > changed to today's date). > > Hmmm… Hmm indeed. But there will b

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation blues

2008-09-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > ! You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode. > \normalend Jikes. Looks like that is because \color is a \groupedcommand itself. This works for this test file (and hopefully for everything else): \def\Colorit% {\groupedcommand {\startcolor[red]\em\p

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation blues

2008-09-24 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 24.09.2008 um 12:57 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> Am 24.09.2008 um 10:39 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: >> >>> >>> Steffen Wolfrum wrote: \def\Textit% {\groupedcommand\em\/} >>> Try this: >>> >>> \define\Colorit% >>> {\groupedcommand{\color[blue]\em}\/} >> >> >> tried

[NTG-context] page-log.tex

2008-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo! I tried to download and unzip context-setup-mswin.zip. The wiki says 'Run first-setup.bat, go for a coffee.' But thats not possible. I am six times asked for a replacement name for 'page-log.tex' which does not exist. I gave him 'page-log.mkii' and finally all goes ok. Wolfgang -- Mus

Re: [NTG-context] setupinteraction breaks urls in MK Ⅳ

2008-09-24 Thread Matthias Wächter
On 9/24/2008 1:03 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Matthias Wächter wrote: >> Are there any known workarounds? It makes my bibliography >> undeliverable … > > Works for me. What versions are you running? Thanks for checking. I'm running Win32 here and executed a simple > texexec texmfstart --luatex t

Re: [NTG-context] Clickable Subsections in TOC

2008-09-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
holzminister wrote: > Hi! > > Nobody an idea? It seems that interaction=all is currently not supported by alternative d. Best wishes, Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting ruin

2008-09-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: > Hans, > > No need to run it yourself. That is your choice of course, but I highly doubt this will get fixed unless you provide a minimal complete test file. Hans does not have time to create test files himself to search for a bug that may or may not exist on other comp

Re: [NTG-context] setupinteraction breaks urls in MK Ⅳ

2008-09-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Matthias Wächter wrote: > > Are there any known workarounds? It makes my bibliography > undeliverable … Works for me. What versions are you running? Best wishes, Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation blues

2008-09-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Am 24.09.2008 um 10:39 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > >> >> Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >>> \def\Textit% >>> {\groupedcommand\em\/} >> Try this: >> >> \define\Colorit% >> {\groupedcommand{\color[blue]\em}\/} > > > tried it ... but still no hyphenation! You are running pdftex, 'c

Re: [NTG-context] "Typesetters for Hire" wiki page

2008-09-24 Thread Andrea Valle
Me too, using a box. Last one: http://www.fonurgia.unito.it/andrea/pub/mus/scialoje.pdf Best -a- On 23 Sep 2008, at 09:29, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: 2008/9/22 Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I don't think any potential customer would find us there. In web app development you oft

Re: [NTG-context] Clickable Subsections in TOC

2008-09-24 Thread holzminister
Hi! Nobody an idea? Cheers, Eyke 2008/9/22 holzminister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > it's me again. :) > > Why can I only click the green dots left of the words but not the > words themself? (Tested with luatex an pdftex.) > > \setupcolors >[state=start] > > \setupinteraction >

[NTG-context] setupinteraction breaks urls in MK Ⅳ

2008-09-24 Thread Matthias Wächter
minimum source: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \useURL[u][http://www.x.com/] see \from[u]. \stoptext It works: • in MKⅡ • in MKⅣ only if the first line is commented, i.e. without setupinteraction. It doesn't work in MKⅣ, no change by updating to latest. Are there any known work

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting ruin

2008-09-24 Thread Hans van der Meer
Hans, No need to run it yourself. It has to do with the interpretation/ assignements of the 'fit' options in: \setupinteractionscreen [option=max, width=fit, height=fit] Replacing 'fit' by an explicit height seems to repair it. But I have no idea why the behaviour of 'fit' suddenly

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation blues

2008-09-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > \def\Textit% > {\groupedcommand\em\/} > Try this: \define\Colorit% {\groupedcommand{\color[blue]\em}\/} Best wishes, Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, pleas

Re: [NTG-context] luatex run: edit (E) on syntax error

2008-09-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Hello, > > (Learning to use mkIV under Debian) > > Under luatex (texexec --lua) > it seems that choosing to edit (E) > the source file upon detection of a > syntax error echos > "You want to edit file ./filename.tex at line 68" > and then continues without launching > the ed

[NTG-context] luatex run: edit (E) on syntax error

2008-09-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hello, (Learning to use mkIV under Debian) Under luatex (texexec --lua) it seems that choosing to edit (E) the source file upon detection of a syntax error echos "You want to edit file ./filename.tex at line 68" and then continues without launching the editor. Has anyone else seen this? (of cour

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation blues

2008-09-24 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 24.09.2008 um 10:39 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > > > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> \def\Textit% >> {\groupedcommand\em\/} > > Try this: > > \define\Colorit% > {\groupedcommand{\color[blue]\em}\/} tried it ... but still no hyphenation! Steffen __

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Minimals Fails

2008-09-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Erich R Fickel wrote: >> I am having trouble installing the context minimals. I am using Linux >> (Xandros 4.5, Debian Etch). During execution of first-setup.sh, I >> receive the following year: >> >> - >> loading : Context P

Re: [NTG-context] Strange spacing before \reference

2008-09-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Olivier Guéry wrote: > > I saw this… but is it a feature ? Must I allway stuck my « \reference » > (or other) to the word before ? It's not easy to read when you have a > lot of reference or other synthax in the file. I normally write bla bla bla special% <- percent sign here

Re: [NTG-context] Strange spacing before \reference

2008-09-24 Thread Olivier Guéry
2008/9/24 Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Olivier Guéry wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I played with the cross references today… > > > > \starttext > > Here is a text > > \reference[foo]{bar} > > with reference in it. My \quote{goto} syntax point to him. It works > > great but there's a big ga

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Package for Notepad++ v. 5.0.3

2008-09-24 Thread Alan Stone
(1) For specifics about Npp's settings xml files: Where are Notepad++ settings saved? http://notepad-plus.wiki.sourceforge.net/FAQ (2) Remains... Making NppLW's console talk with the context minimal installation in /opt/context In the meantime, you can edit your files with NppLW and compile thro

[NTG-context] hyphenation blues

2008-09-24 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, please have a look at the following unfairness: \mainlanguage[en] \enableregime[utf] \showframe \setupcolors[state=start] \def\Textit% {\groupedcommand\em\/} \define[1]\Colorit% {\color[blue]{\groupedcommand\em\/ #1}} \starttext text text text text text text text text text text text

Re: [NTG-context] Strange spacing before \reference

2008-09-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Olivier Guéry wrote: > Hello, > > I played with the cross references today… > > \starttext > Here is a text > \reference[foo]{bar} > with reference in it. My \quote{goto} syntax point to him. It works > great but there's a big gap between « text » and « with », just where > y put the « referenc

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting ruin

2008-09-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: > A year ago I had my presentation sheets typeset with ConTeXt. > Now, USING MY SAME SOURCES, with ConTeXt ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 > MKII fmt: 2008.7.5 the severely clipped picture below results. I did > the setup with > > \usemodule[pre-general] > % followed by:

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Minimals Fails

2008-09-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Erich R Fickel wrote: > I am having trouble installing the context minimals. I am using Linux > (Xandros 4.5, Debian Etch). During execution of first-setup.sh, I > receive the following year: > > - > loading : Context Page Macros / Layout Specificat

[NTG-context] Strange spacing before \reference

2008-09-24 Thread Olivier Guéry
Hello, I played with the cross references today… \starttext Here is a text \reference[foo]{bar} with reference in it. My \quote{goto} syntax point to him. It works great but there's a big gap between « text » and « with », just where y put the « reference » tag. \stoptext Am I using this the wro