Peter Davis wrote:
I've been on the periphery of TeX for years, as a casual user of LaTeX
and also as an implementer of publishing software. However, I'm afraid
I haven't kept in as close touch as I'd like, and now I find myself
trying to absorb a lot in a short time. I'm trying to choose
Selon Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk:
Peter Davis wrote:
2. True or False: plain TeX and LaTeX(2e) are warhorses ... been
around for decades, quirks well known, lots of documentation, etc.
Yes, except that while Plain TeX has more-or-less remained
static
On 17-11-2010 11:06, Paul Isambert wrote:
Philip, plain TeX isn't exactly mainstream anymore, and ConTeXt probably beats
it on this point. And ConTeXt is already more than 15 years old, so it's not so
new, although it does keep moving.
fyi, there are two versions of context:
- mkii is a
On 2010-11-18 04:56:27, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 18.11.2010 um 01:36 schrieb Philipp Gesang:
Hi Wolfgang,
of course you are always welcome to deliver this kind of
thorough discussion! The wiki is grateful …
Just two keys remain unexplained: “version” and “comment”. I
guess
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:48, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 18-11-2010 12:00, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Dear Hans,
The following example worked perfectly fine with the version of
ConTeXt MKIV I was using one hour ago (no idea which version, but
something less than two weeks old). It still works OK with
Nice
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Module_Namespaces
Can I register lscarso[a-zA-Z]* ?
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On 2010-11-18 10:13:07, luigi scarso wrote:
Nice
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Module_Namespaces
Can I register lscarso[a-zA-Z]* ?
Maybe we should consider an auction; in the future this could get
as busy as trading domain names.
Philipp
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On 18-11-2010 10:03, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:48, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 18-11-2010 12:00, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Dear Hans,
The following example worked perfectly fine with the version of
ConTeXt MKIV I was using one hour ago (no idea which version, but
something less
Hello,
I'm trying similar code as described on
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Including_pages_from_PDF_document:
---
\starttext
\filterpages[1.pdf][2][width=15cm]
\page
\filterpages[1.pdf][2][width=5cm]
\stoptext
---
But I'm still getting the same picture - scaled to (probably)
Hi Alan,
Thanks for the explanations.
Try style=sans. We also have color= and rulecolor=.
syle=sans works, but not for aligned atoms, e.g. \SL{OH}; a bug? For the
time being, I can use \SL{\ss OH}.
There are some problems still in mkiv, notably with CARBON, NEWMANSTAGGER,
NEWMANECLIPSE,
On Thursday 18 November 2010 10:54:23 Jörg Hagmann wrote:
syle=sans works, but not for aligned atoms, e.g. \SL{OH}; a bug? For the
time being, I can use \SL{\ss OH}.
There are indeed bugs in the use of \SL{} under mkiv. For example, one
currently needs to use \SL{\small CH$_2$} rather
Mojca,
Can you test the beta on the ftp server and see if tikz works better?
(I hate this kind of patching as it is a work around assumptions that
are somewhat wrong, in this case the fact that nullfont has zero
parameters, and it makes the mkiv code messier.)
Hans
Paul Isambert wrote:
And plain TeX doesn't have a lot of documentation. Anyway there isn't much to
document. Basically using plain TeX means you need a very good knowledge of
the
engine, and you'll write tons of macros (in a way there are no plain TeX
users,
only users of personal
Hello,
I'm having some problems using blocks and enumeration together.
I can get it to work using something like this (see complete minimal example
further down):
\beginBlock
\startEnum
Some text A
\stopEnum
\endBlock
But it doesn't seem to work if
Hello,
Whenever I compile a document, it appears that mtxrun and simple fonts
must rebuild/remake/generate every time. mtxrun starts off with:
MTXrun | warning: source mismatch (luv:
144e2249a1a87cb1144311e3cfb4f0e1 bin:
40142b7d400e559a49cf2e9f12599280), forcing remake
It appears to not
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Andrew Starks andrew.sta...@trms.com wrote:
Hello,
Whenever I compile a document, it appears that mtxrun and simple fonts
must rebuild/remake/generate every time. mtxrun starts off with:
Uh, this is the same problem that I have when I cross-compile luatex
On 11/18/2010 12:30 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Andrew Starksandrew.sta...@trms.com wrote:
Hello,
Whenever I compile a document, it appears that mtxrun and simple fonts
must rebuild/remake/generate every time. mtxrun starts off with:
Uh, this is the same problem
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote:
On 11/18/2010 12:30 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Andrew Starksandrew.sta...@trms.com
wrote:
Hello,
Whenever I compile a document, it appears that mtxrun and simple fonts
must
MikTeX 2.9 says ConTeXt is once more available. Winedt 6.0 provides a
drop-down menu However, ConTeXt fails to execute.
I having been waiting sin MikTeX dropped ConteXt support and was SO happy to
see it included once again.
Anyone got any ideas how to make ConTeXt functional using MikTeX 2.9
Am 18.11.2010 10:53, schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.:
Hello,
I'm trying similar code as described on
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Including_pages_from_PDF_document:
---
\starttext
\filterpages[1.pdf][2][width=15cm]
\page
\filterpages[1.pdf][2][width=5cm]
On Thu, Nov 18 2010, Peter Rolf wrote:
\setuplayout[fullpage]
fullpage is not needed. There is already \setuplayout[page].
Cheers, Peter
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Thank you, this works nicely.
Lukas
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:12:36 +0100, Peter Rolf indi...@gmx.net wrote:
Am 18.11.2010 10:53, schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.:
Hello,
I'm trying similar code as described on
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Including_pages_from_PDF_document:
On Nov 12, 2010, at 19:38 , Reviczky, Adam wrote:
Hi,
I've made a MetaPost version for creating Gantt charts.
Florian: The label alignments are fixed in this module. Further, it should be
trivial to place the names into the ganttbars, for both versions.
Thanks! Yes you are right,
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:50 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 18-11-2010 12:22, Andrew Starks wrote:
Hello,
Whenever I compile a document, it appears that mtxrun and simple fonts
must rebuild/remake/generate
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 18-11-2010 5:13, luigi scarso wrote:
OK, now I have the same binaries but
a engine mismatch:
MTXrun | warning: engine mismatch (luv: This is LuaTeX, Version
beta-0.64.0-2010111618 (rev 3961) bin: This is LuaTe
, Version
2010/11/18 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl
After some tracing and hard thinking Taco and I found interesting spaces
showing up in the output that result from a kludge in tikz:
Normally one will use \ignorespaces to catch spurious spaces but tikz
invokes \nullfont assuming that its fontdimen 2 is
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 18-11-2010 5:13, luigi scarso wrote:
OK, now I have the same binaries but
a engine mismatch:
MTXrun | warning: engine mismatch (luv: This is
On 18-11-2010 5:56, Vedran Miletić wrote:
2010/11/18 Hans Hagenpra...@wxs.nl
After some tracing and hard thinking Taco and I found interesting spaces
showing up in the output that result from a kludge in tikz:
Normally one will use \ignorespaces to catch spurious spaces but tikz
invokes
Am 18.11.2010 um 02:20 schrieb Jonas Stein:
Hi,
i would like to write an FAQ for maritime distress radio.
The spoken words and the variables should be highlighted in
a nice way. What would you suggest me to do in context?
My first idea a bracket or stacked words like this example:
Am 18.11.2010 um 12:15 schrieb Glen Callaghan:
Hello,
I'm having some problems using blocks and enumeration together.
I can get it to work using something like this (see complete minimal example
further down):
\beginBlock
\startEnum
Some text A
\stopEnum
Am 18.11.2010 um 10:13 schrieb luigi scarso:
Nice
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Module_Namespaces
Can I register lscarso[a-zA-Z]* ?
Why? The obvious method is to use the same name for the namespace as you use
for your module name or the command names, e.g. the fancybreak module has the
Am Montag, den 15.11.2010, 12:29 +0100 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 23:04, Paul Menzel wrote:
I read about the Gnuplot module [1] and I am wondering whether patching
the Gnuplot binary is still necessary.
Yes.
Can you please send the same message to the gnuplot
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 18.11.2010 um 10:13 schrieb luigi scarso:
Nice
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Module_Namespaces
Can I register lscarso[a-zA-Z]* ?
Why? The obvious method is to use the same name for the namespace
Am 18.11.2010 um 01:25 schrieb Peter Davis:
As an experiment, I'm trying to duplicate a sample InDesign document with
ConTeXt. I'm getting the overall layout (though my image positions need
tweaking), but I'm having some problems with the fonts.
I'm following the examples in
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
(there is no need to use capitals).
Thanks. Old habits die hard.
Aditya
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When I update my minimal via the script first-setup.sh
new files in the directory /tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user
are deleted. If I understand the name correct, then the
script should keep files in this directory
Herbert
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
(there is no need to use capitals).
Thanks. Old habits die hard.
Camel case is not bad at all --- it's a matter of points of view
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
I’m not Aditya but i hope you will also accept my explanation.
This is a much better explanation than I could have written. Just a few
points:
I will start with the first argument and the „type“ key, e.g.
\definenamespace
[fancybreak]
Adobe silently released Reader X, for now only for Windows. It can be
downloaded from:
http://www.adobe.com/go/EN_US-H-GET-READER
Installer for offline installation can be downloaded from.
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.0.0/en_US/
It allows saving PDF after adding comments or
On 18-11-2010 10:19, luigi scarso wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Aditya Mahajanadit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
(there is no need to use capitals).
Thanks. Old habits die hard.
Camel case is not bad at all --- it's a matter of points of view
On 18-11-2010 10:14, Herbert Voss wrote:
When I update my minimal via the script first-setup.sh
new files in the directory /tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user
are deleted. If I understand the name correct, then the
script should keep files in this directory
don't use texmf or texmf-context for
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 18-11-2010 10:19, luigi scarso wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Aditya Mahajanadit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
(there is no need to use capitals).
Thanks. Old habits die hard.
Camel case is not bad
On 18-11-2010 10:48, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 18-11-2010 10:19, luigi scarso wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Aditya Mahajanadit...@umich.edu
wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
(there is no need to use capitals).
Thanks.
Am 18.11.2010 um 22:44 schrieb Glen Callaghan:
Interestingly though, the formatting is slightly different between defining
the blocks and using (recalling) the blocks. When I recall the blocks, the
text appears a line below the enumeration labels (see example + attachment
below).
I can
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 18.11.2010 um 01:25 schrieb Peter Davis:
As an experiment, I'm trying to duplicate a sample InDesign document with
ConTeXt. I'm getting the overall layout (though my image positions need
Hi List, hi Hans,
I want to use the open source MetaFont for suetterlin and
schwellbacher in a document, is there somewhere a guide where to put
them and how to load them in ConTeXt or could they be included into
the ConTeXt tree. If I get a hint how I would also provide a .map
On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:47 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
[...]
Here is a brief list of changes to the gnuplot CVS version:
* support for ConTeXt and plain TeX
Hurray! Thanks a lot.
* removed dependencies for LaTeX packages other than TikZ
* needs TikZ Version = 2.0
* better support for
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
\nameparameter use the value from \currentname while \namednameparameter
has two argument where the first argument is the name of a command or
environment
created with \definename. \detokenized... is important when you pass values
from tex to lua
\usemodule[ruby]
\setupruby[align=center]
\starttext
THIS IS \ruby{TITANIC}{MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY} TITANIC TITANIC
\stoptext
The example does not work here. Will i have to install ruby manual on debian
testing?
I could not find information about the ruby module
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems that I need also to delete luatex.dll
Doing so all things go well
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;)
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Jonas Stein wrote:
\usemodule[ruby]
\setupruby[align=center]
\starttext
THIS IS \ruby{TITANIC}{MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY} TITANIC TITANIC
\stoptext
The example does not work here. Will i have to install ruby manual on debian
testing?
I could not find information about
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Jonas Stein wrote:
\usemodule[ruby]
\setupruby[align=center]
\starttext
THIS IS \ruby{TITANIC}{MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY} TITANIC TITANIC
\stoptext
The example does not work here. Will i have to install ruby manual on
debian
Interestingly though, the formatting is slightly different between defining the
blocks and using (recalling) the blocks. When I recall the blocks, the text
appears a line below the enumeration labels (see example + attachment below).
I can reproduce this but for mkiv (context file) the output
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Andrew Starks andrew.sta...@trms.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems that I need also to delete luatex.dll
Doing so all things go well
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Op woensdag 3 nov 2010 19:41 CET schreef Hans Hagen:
In the past I have used the chart module for a little flow chart in a
presentation. I wanted to make again flow charts. But I did not get it
working. I just compiled my old version again, but this does not work
also. The chart is drawn, but
Op woensdag 3 nov 2010 19:41 CET schreef Hans Hagen:
In the past I have used the chart module for a little flow chart in a
presentation. I wanted to make again flow charts. But I did not get it
working. I just compiled my old version again, but this does not work
also. The chart is drawn, but
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