[NTG-context] How to prepare a template for list of names in ConTeXt

2011-07-14 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Hi all, I have an ambitious plan to start (again) to use ConTeXt (MkIV, of course;)), so that I can learn it a bit; also, I'd like to play around with metapost/metafun (after a long break - I'm a metapost to tikz convert;)). I want to prepare a template for a list of names, looking like this (in

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-07-14 Thread Hans van der Meer
On 13 jul 2011, at 22:50, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I uploaded a beta: - Entities in xml mode have a slightly different roundtrip treatment now and hopefully Thomas S as well as Hans vd M files still work ok. No, there must be some error in the new code, I guess, because

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-7-2011 9:19, Hans van der Meer wrote: On 13 jul 2011, at 22:50, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I uploaded a beta: - Entities in xml mode have a slightly different roundtrip treatment now and hopefully Thomas S as well as Hans vd M files still work ok. No, there must be some error in

Re: [NTG-context] [beta] grid head

2011-07-14 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi Hans, the new beta appears to modify the behaviour of long headings on the grid. In the following example the chapter head moves up into the page header which it did not prior to the update (cf. mkii’s behaviour): ·

Re: [NTG-context] [beta] grid head

2011-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-7-2011 10:49, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi Hans, the new beta appears to modify the behaviour of long headings on the grid. In the following example the chapter head moves up into the page header which it did not prior to the update (cf. mkii’s behaviour): forget about mkii, we have a new

[NTG-context] Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?

2011-07-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear ConTeXt-ers, I'm trying to remember why we are shipping dvipdfmx in ConTeXt: was it because of Aleph or because of Eastern scripts? I'm not sure if it is still used or not. I know that it is pretty important in eastern scripts and as a basis for xdvipdfmx, but I don't know to what extent

Re: [NTG-context] Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?

2011-07-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: Dear ConTeXt-ers, I'm trying to remember why we are shipping dvipdfmx in ConTeXt: was it because of Aleph or because of Eastern scripts? I'm not sure if it is still used or not. I know that it is pretty

Re: [NTG-context] Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?

2011-07-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:34, luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm trying to remember why we are shipping dvipdfmx in ConTeXt: was it xetex ? No, many confuse those, but XeTeX is using xdvipdfmx which is largely based on dvipdfmx, but it is not the

Re: [NTG-context] Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?

2011-07-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:34, luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm trying to remember why we are shipping dvipdfmx in ConTeXt: was it xetex ? No, many confuse

Re: [NTG-context] Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?

2011-07-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
I have found http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/#sec-examples ConTeXt examples of usage of dvipdfmx. What I'm not sure about is if minimals provide enough files to properly support dvipdfmx at all. Mojca ___ If

Re: [NTG-context] Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?

2011-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-7-2011 12:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I have found http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/#sec-examples ConTeXt examples of usage of dvipdfmx. What I'm not sure about is if minimals provide enough files to properly support dvipdfmx at all. it does, and actually it's support for the

Re: [NTG-context] [beta] grid head

2011-07-14 Thread Christian
\definegridsnapping[MyOne] [global,strut] \definegridsnapping[MyTwo] [local,strut] \definegridsnapping[MyThree][global,strut,top:3] \definegridsnapping[MyThree][local,strut,top:3] Should'nt the last one be MyFour?

Re: [NTG-context] Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?

2011-07-14 Thread Akira Kakuto
Dear Mojca, I'm trying to remember why we are shipping dvipdfmx in ConTeXt: was it because of Aleph or because of Eastern scripts? Aleph is no more supported as a ConTeXt engine because it is not etex-2.* compatible. Therefore you can remove dvipdfmx from the minimals. Thanks, Akira

Re: [NTG-context] Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?

2011-07-14 Thread Akira Kakuto
Dear Mojca, Therefore you can remove dvipdfmx from the minimals. I'm personally using dvipdfmx in ConTeXt on an engines eptex (experimental), and dvi mode of pdftex. But I believe it is not needed in the 'minimals'. Thanks, Akira

[NTG-context] inner/outer margin: confused width

2011-07-14 Thread Peter Schorsch
Hi, the width of my inner and outer margin are different and the pagelayout is double sided. When I use \ininner and \inouter directly, always the correct width is used. But as soon I put it into a function the wrong margin width is often used. I attached two files: - simple example tex

[NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
Two days ago I already posted about this. But because of a glitch at my side, it became a conversation between me and Hans Hagen. I have almost finished writing documentation with ConTeXt. Now the client also needs to have the possibility to change the document. We are so far that the client will

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com wrote: Two days ago I already posted about this. But because of a glitch at my side, it became a conversation between me and Hans Hagen. I have almost finished writing documentation with ConTeXt. Now the client also needs

[NTG-context] A question about layers

2011-07-14 Thread Marcin Borkowski
OK, after a pm from Mojca concerning my previous question I decided to look into the layers mechanism. It won't work for me - just nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong? Here's a minimal example: \starttext \definelayer[title][x=105mm,y=20mm] \setlayer[title]{This is the title.} \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] [beta] grid head

2011-07-14 Thread Philipp Gesang
On 2011-07-14 11:29:29, Hans Hagen wrote: On 14-7-2011 10:49, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi Hans, the new beta appears to modify the behaviour of long headings on the grid. In the following example the chapter head moves up into the page header which it did not prior to the update (cf. mkii’s

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
Thanks for the speedy reply. 2011/7/14 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com Is this a problem because of the old Adobe version, or the used fonts? If the latter, which fonts should I use to circumvent this problem? At the moment I am using: \usetypescript[helvetica]

Re: [NTG-context] A question about layers

2011-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-7-2011 4:25, Marcin Borkowski wrote: OK, after a pm from Mojca concerning my previous question I decided to look into the layers mechanism. It won't work for me - just nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong? Here's a minimal example: \starttext \definelayer[title][x=105mm,y=20mm]

Re: [NTG-context] A question about layers

2011-07-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 14.07.2011 um 16:25 schrieb Marcin Borkowski: OK, after a pm from Mojca concerning my previous question I decided to look into the layers mechanism. It won't work for me - just nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong? Here's a minimal example: \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the speedy reply. 2011/7/14 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com Is this a problem because of the old Adobe version, or the used fonts? If the latter, which fonts should I use to circumvent this

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-7-2011 4:29, Cecil Westerhof wrote: Thanks for the speedy reply. 2011/7/14 luigi scarsoluigi.sca...@gmail.com Is this a problem because of the old Adobe version, or the used fonts? If the latter, which fonts should I use to circumvent this problem? At the moment I am using:

Re: [NTG-context] [beta] grid head

2011-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-7-2011 4:26, Philipp Gesang wrote: On 2011-07-1411:29:29, Hans Hagen wrote: On 14-7-2011 10:49, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi Hans, the new beta appears to modify the behaviour of long headings on the grid. In the following example the chapter head moves up into the page header which it did

Re: [NTG-context] [beta] grid head

2011-07-14 Thread Philipp Gesang
On 2011-07-14 16:37:55, Hans Hagen wrote: On 14-7-2011 4:26, Philipp Gesang wrote: On 2011-07-1411:29:29, Hans Hagen wrote: On 14-7-2011 10:49, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi Hans, the new beta appears to modify the behaviour of long headings on the grid. In the following example the chapter

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-07-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/13/2011 10:50 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I uploaded a beta: - Project structure related files are now dealt with in lua: it's mostly compatible but somewhat more strict (proper push and pop). In the log file the used structure is summarized. - All writing from lua to tex is now under

Re: [NTG-context] A question about layers

2011-07-14 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia 2011-07-14, czw o godzinie 16:35 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster pisze: Am 14.07.2011 um 16:25 schrieb Marcin Borkowski: OK, after a pm from Mojca concerning my previous question I decided to look into the layers mechanism. It won't work for me - just nothing shows up. What am

Re: [NTG-context] A question about layers

2011-07-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl wrote: So are layers always used as a background?  This seems strange, since I want my document to consist *only* from layers;)... http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2009/042134.html -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/7/14 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com Is this a problem because of the old Adobe version, or the used fonts? If the latter, which fonts should I use to circumvent this problem? At the moment I am using: \usetypescript[helvetica] \setupbodyfont[helvetica]

Re: [NTG-context] Optimal way to defining of macros in Luacode in ConTeXt

2011-07-14 Thread Jaroslav Hajtmar
Thanx very much Hans and Wolfgang too, I converted ALL my ConTeXt definitions (macros) with fixed numbers of parameters by using yours method - ie: interfaces.definecommand { name = , macro = ., arguments = { { content, string }, { content, string

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/7/14 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl you can look at the list of reported fonts, and put those in the windows/fonts (forget about type1, just stick to the ttf/otf) I executed find . -name '*Gyre*' But that does not find anything. or instead you can use fonts that come with the operating

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/7/14 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com Is this a problem because of the old Adobe version, or the used fonts? If the latter, which fonts should I use to circumvent this problem? At the moment

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 05:09:36PM +0200, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I work with ConTeXt under Linux and Adobe runs under Windows. What do I need to do to get things working. You need to make sure fonts used by ConTeXt are available to Adobe thing, either by 1) installing fonts used by ConTeXt on

[NTG-context] Export problems

2011-07-14 Thread Andreas Harder
Hi, I played a little with the export feature. It's really fun. So far I've two questions/problems. 1. \setupbackend[export=yes,xhtml=yes,css=yes] \starttext before \quotation{test \quote{test}} after \stoptext exports to: before “test ‘test’ ” after -^ (space

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-7-2011 4:47, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: will compile the entire document, and then append the single mycomponent at the end of the document. That can't be right... Can you check with: \enabletrackers[system-jobfiles] and see what gets reported? In the past there was no real push/pop of

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/7/14 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com 2011/7/14 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl you can look at the list of reported fonts, and put those in the windows/fonts (forget about type1, just stick to the ttf/otf) I executed find . -name '*Gyre*' But that does not find anything. Found

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/7/14 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: I can install them without problems? There is no restricting copyright on them? Yes. No. Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-07-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: - Typing gets frontstripped with the number of spaces in front of \stoptyping so that one can have nicely formatted input like: Great. Recently I had added a similar functionality to t-vim using the key 'trimspaces=on|off'. I'll change that to

Re: [NTG-context] Optimal way to defining of macros in Luacode in ConTeXt

2011-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-7-2011 5:12, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: To show what macros I want to convert, I mention these examples: \def\opencsvfile{% \dosingleempty\doopencsvfile% } \def\doopencsvfile[#1]{% \dosinglegroupempty\dodoopencsvfile } \def\dodoopencsvfile#1{% \iffirstargument

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/7/14 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com Found them. The names are all lowercase. I have: ./context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyreheros-regular.otf ./context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyreheroscn-italic.otf

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-07-14 Thread Andreas Harder
Am 14.07.2011 um 17:24 schrieb Hans Hagen: (also see http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-mag-13.htm) So it's recommended to load the \environment before the \start- \stopcomponent and \start- \stopproduct? So far I've done it vice versa, but this changes my page break. Greeting Andreas

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 18:01, Cecil Westerhof wrote: The only problem is that when deleting a page, or adding a page, etc., the index and the page numbering  does not change. But that could be that I do not understand Adobe. Five minutes is hardly enough to learn to work with it. From

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread John Haltiwanger
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/7/14 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com Found them. The names are all lowercase. I have: ./context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyreheros-regular.otf

Re: [NTG-context] Layouts in ConTeXt book finished and available

2011-07-14 Thread Marco Pessotto
Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com writes: PS We have received a ceasedesist for http://www.boekplan.nl/ from the company that owns http://www.boekenplan.nl/, we have switched to the new name H2O Boeken (H2O Books). This new name is based on the first letters of the last names of the owners

Re: [NTG-context] Layouts in ConTeXt book finished and available

2011-07-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 14 jul. 2011, at 18:17, Marco Pessotto melmo...@gmail.com wrote: Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com writes: PS We have received a ceasedesist for http://www.boekplan.nl/ from the company that owns http://www.boekenplan.nl/, we have switched to the new name H2O Boeken (H2O Books).

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/7/14 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com From Adobe's point of view the page number is just a string that has nothing to do with the page number itself. And so is the index. Adobe has no information at all that the thing on the first page is an index and thus won't update it.

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread John Haltiwanger
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/7/14 John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com I installed them. (When you know what to do, it is not hard.) Now I can change the document. The only problem is that when deleting a page, or adding a page,

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/7/14 John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com I installed them. (When you know what to do, it is not hard.) Now I can change the document. The only problem is that when deleting a page, or adding a page, etc., the index and the page numbering does not change. But that could be that I

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/7/14 John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com This would be a funciton of typesetting. The table of contents is indexed to the document as it is typeset, not dynamically throughout its existence. If you were to delete all the pages except for the table of contents, it would still

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Jul 14 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: The problem is that my document already is finished. First I could just deliver a PDF file. Now they want to edit it themselves. They could install context on their computer... -- Peter

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 19:17, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I typesetted my document yes.  The client has to receive a deliverable this weekend, so my stress hormones will be high the coming days. I have to count my options and select the best. (Or least bad.) If there are tiny corrections to do

Re: [NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting

2011-07-14 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello everyone. Happy Bastille Day! Last year, I participated in my first ConTeXt meeting at Brejlov in the Czech Republic. It was a very interesting experience and very useful. I had wanted to attend in 2009, but just did not manage to arrange for this. If you are tempted to participate this

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/7/14 Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr The problem is that my document already is finished. First I could just deliver a PDF file. Now they want to edit it themselves. They could install context on their computer... They could, but they will not. Some facts of life are not easily

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/7/14 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com I typesetted my document yes. The client has to receive a deliverable this weekend, so my stress hormones will be high the coming days. I have to count my options and select the best. (Or least bad.) If there are tiny corrections

Re: [NTG-context] Layouts in ConTeXt book finished and available

2011-07-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-7-2011 6:22, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Yes for now. Changing bank account information is a slow process. also, the 'domain' and 'company name' are different entities (when buying a a shop I'm often puzzled by names when I see the bank drafts) Hans

[NTG-context] Fw: A question about layers

2011-07-14 Thread Marcin Borkowski
I am sorry, Hans, I sent this (and the next message) to you instead of to the list. Here's a forward: Dnia 2011-07-14, czw o godzinie 16:29 +0200, Hans Hagen pisze: On 14-7-2011 4:25, Marcin Borkowski wrote: OK, after a pm from Mojca concerning my previous question I decided to look

[NTG-context] Fw: A question about layers

2011-07-14 Thread Marcin Borkowski
And the second message accidentally sent to Hans: Dnia 2011-07-14, czw o godzinie 16:29 +0200, Hans Hagen pisze: On 14-7-2011 4:25, Marcin Borkowski wrote: OK, after a pm from Mojca concerning my previous question I decided to look into the layers mechanism. It won't work for me -

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/7/14 John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com: Pandoc, so I'm not familiar with Context's xhtml capacities. MkIV can create XML. :-) Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011-07-14 Thread John Haltiwanger
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote: 2011/7/14 John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com: Pandoc, so I'm not familiar with Context's xhtml capacities. MkIV can create XML. :-) That is something I have heard much more than I have seen. If it can so

[NTG-context] UTF8 / TeXUtils parsing error

2011-07-14 Thread Brian Wedde
Minimal example: \enableregime[utf] \defineregister[Index][Indeces] \starttext \Index{x}x. \pagebreak \placeIndex \stoptext When compiling, TeXUtils has a heart attack: . . . TeXUtil | parsing file filename.tui TeXUtil | fatal error in plugin (processing): invalid multibyte

[NTG-context] Trouble making basic MetaPost graphics using ConTeXt Minimals

2011-07-14 Thread Kevin D. Robbins
Using a fresh install of ConTeXt Minimals today (ConTeXt version 2011.07.14 16:09, luatex version beta-0.70.1-2011051918) I am trying to build the following MetaPost graphics: ---8--- file: test.mp fontmapfile =lm-math.map ; beginfig(1) draw fullcircle scaled 3cm ; endfig ; beginfig(2) ;

Re: [NTG-context] UTF8 / TeXUtils parsing error

2011-07-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Brian Wedde wbr...@onlineed.com wrote: Minimal example: \enableregime[utf] \defineregister[Index][Indeces] \starttext \Index{x}x. \pagebreak \placeIndex \stoptext When compiling, TeXUtils has a heart attack: . . . TeXUtil | parsing file filename.tui

Re: [NTG-context] Trouble making basic MetaPost graphics using ConTeXt Minimals

2011-07-14 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Kevin D. Robbins krobb...@alumni.princeton.edu wrote: Using a fresh install of ConTeXt Minimals today (ConTeXt version 2011.07.14 16:09, luatex version beta-0.70.1-2011051918) I am trying to build the following MetaPost graphics: ---8--- file: test.mp