Re: [NTG-context] Splitting natural tables

2011-11-30 Thread Christian
Hello, is it still not possible to split a table so that it covers one half page an then another half page? It is my understanding that splitting moves the table to the next page and then splits it to the following if it gets too long for one entire page. Would a manual split be

Re: [NTG-context] Splitting natural tables

2011-11-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.11.2011 um 10:29 schrieb Christian: Hello, is it still not possible to split a table so that it covers one half page an then another half page? It is my understanding that splitting moves the table to the next page and then splits it to the following if it gets too long for one

Re: [NTG-context] Splitting natural tables

2011-11-30 Thread Christian
Hello, is it still not possible to split a table so that it covers one half page an then another half page? It is my understanding that splitting moves the table to the next page and then splits it to the following if it gets too long for one entire page. Would a manual split

Re: [NTG-context] Splitting natural tables

2011-11-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.11.2011 um 10:47 schrieb Christian: Hello, is it still not possible to split a table so that it covers one half page an then another half page? It is my understanding that splitting moves the table to the next page and then splits it to the following if it gets too long for one

Re: [NTG-context] Splitting natural tables

2011-11-30 Thread Christian
Hello, is it still not possible to split a table so that it covers one half page an then another half page? It is my understanding that splitting moves the table to the next page and then splits it to the following if it gets too long for one entire page. Would a manual split

Re: [NTG-context] Splitting natural tables

2011-11-30 Thread Christian
Hello, is it still not possible to split a table so that it covers one half page an then another half page? It is my understanding that splitting moves the table to the next page and then splits it to the following if it gets too long for one entire page. Would a

[NTG-context] TeX Output

2011-11-30 Thread Martin Fechner
Hi all, in my project I use an environment with lua-code, xml-setups and some other definitions and settings. Is there an simple way to get an output of the TeX-Stream, which will be used to generate the PDF? So it would be possible to manipulate some TeX-parts manually where the PDF-output

[NTG-context] no color with interaction and reference format

2011-11-30 Thread Stefan Müller
Hi list, when I am using reference formats to put text in front of my text references, I get no color. Please see the following minimal example \setupinteraction[state=start] \definereferenceformat[insec][text=section~] \starttext \section[mylabel]{A Section} A Reference to

Re: [NTG-context] Error while compiling : ! String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence.

2011-11-30 Thread Alexandre Krispin
Hello, I had no response for the problem related to the script hanzi, and the reason may be that I have done a mistake since I have sent a mail only to Wolfgang Schuster and not to the mailing list. So in case there would be a solution to solve the problem of misplaced dots that the script hanzi

Re: [NTG-context] no color with interaction and reference format

2011-11-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.11.2011 um 12:56 schrieb Stefan Müller: Hi list, when I am using reference formats to put text in front of my text references, I get no color. Please see the following minimal example \setupinteraction[state=start] \definereferenceformat[insec][text=section~] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] Why does the oldstyle numerals switch, \os, also switch off m-dashes?

2011-11-30 Thread Pavneet Arora
Many thanks Wolfgang! On 11-11-30 01:30 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 30.11.2011 um 02:19 schrieb Pavneet Arora: I enclose a minimal example as well as the output. It would seem that the \os causes the m-dash to come out as three hyphens. Is this the expected behavior? Write {\os

Re: [NTG-context] Splitting natural tables

2011-11-30 Thread Hans Hagen
On 30-11-2011 11:06, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: @Hans: Can you make this change in strc-flt.mkvi? \unexpanded\def\thecurrentfloatnumbersuffix {\doifsomething{\floatcaptionparameter\c!suffix} {\floatcaptionparameter\c!suffixseparator % \floatcaptionparameter\c!suffix}}

Re: [NTG-context] page number in margin

2011-11-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2011-11-29 um 19:18 schrieb Hans Hagen: As you know your way around context the following example probably helps a bit figuring it out ... Thank you very much! I had a bit of a thinker's block - idea to use a framed was missing. I'm using ConTeXt far too seldom. Greetlings from Lake

[NTG-context] Escaping a special character in a MetaPost figure within a ConTeXt document fails

2011-11-30 Thread Raymond LeClair
I have escaped the '#' character in the usual way, using a backslash, as '\#' in a btex...etex picture as part of a MetaPost figure created within a ConTeXt document, but the escaped character still causes the ConTeXt processing to fail. Here is an example... \pdfminorversion=5

Re: [NTG-context] Escaping a special character in a MetaPost figure within a ConTeXt document fails

2011-11-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Try: using \letterhash instead of \# or \startasciimode \def \FrontMatterTitle { \startreusableMPgraphic{frontmattertitle:\overlaywidth:\overlayheight} matter_paper_width := 4.25in; matter_paper_height := 6.875in; front_left_margin := 0.3889in; top_margin :=

Re: [NTG-context] Splitting natural tables

2011-11-30 Thread Christian
@Hans: Can you make this change in strc-flt.mkvi? \unexpanded\def\thecurrentfloatnumbersuffix {\doifsomething{\floatcaptionparameter\c!suffix} {\floatcaptionparameter\c!suffixseparator % \floatcaptionparameter\c!suffix}} \floatcaptionparameter\c!suffix

Re: [NTG-context] Why does the oldstyle numerals switch, \os, also switch off m-dashes?

2011-11-30 Thread Pavneet Arora
Okay another anomaly: I used the example in the FAQs to try to set the feature across the entire document, which is really what I want. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/FAQ#How_can_I_get_the_.E2.80.9Coldstyle_numbers.E2.80.9D_.28text_figures.29_in_a_document.3F In a manuscript length project, I

Re: [NTG-context] Export to epub

2011-11-30 Thread Keith McKay
Hans Updated Context and ran my test file. It seems to work as I would expect on my computer. The output from Scite is below. Thanks again for your help. Keith McKay mtx-epub| creating paths in tree test.tree mtx-epub| copying toc.ncx to test.tree/OPS/toc.ncx mtx-epub

Re: [NTG-context] Why does the oldstyle numerals switch, \os, also switch off m-dashes?

2011-11-30 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Pavneet, I do not know which font/kind of font you intend to use. So provided the font is a otf-type the following works: \setupbodyfont[times,rm,12pt] \definefontfeature[oldstyle][sript=latin,onum=yes] \starttext \addff{oldstyle} 1234567890 A Pause---between yes and no. 1234567890 A

[NTG-context] Math in metapost

2011-11-30 Thread Hans van der Meer
I would like to put some math in metapost pictures. For the moment I am using textext for the typesetting in my metapost macro: pic := textext(\setbox0=\hbox{\color[textcolor]labeltext}\dp0=0pt\box0); picture pic will be placed in the metapost figure. Simple math like $p=2$ works fine, but the

Re: [NTG-context] Math in metapost

2011-11-30 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi, I am not a specialist, but I use the « btex etex » commands, such as dotlabel.bot (btex \switchtobodyfont[10pt] \strut $R$ etex, z1) I just tested with the latest beta, and everything works fine, but not the \pmatrix construct (I tried also with ${k}\choose{n}$, which works fine

Re: [NTG-context] Why does the oldstyle numerals switch, \os, also switch off m-dashes?

2011-11-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.11.2011 um 20:19 schrieb Pavneet Arora: Okay another anomaly: I used the example in the FAQs to try to set the feature across the entire document, which is really what I want.

Re: [NTG-context] Math in metapost

2011-11-30 Thread Hans Hagen
On 30-11-2011 20:59, Hans van der Meer wrote: I would like to put some math in metapost pictures. For the moment I am using textext for the typesetting in my metapost macro: pic := textext(\setbox0=\hbox{\color[textcolor]labeltext}\dp0=0pt\box0); picture pic will be placed in the metapost

Re: [NTG-context] Why does the oldstyle numerals switch, \os, also switch off m-dashes?

2011-11-30 Thread Pavneet Arora
Works a charm, Wolfgang. Thanks again. On 11-11-30 04:19 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 30.11.2011 um 20:19 schrieb Pavneet Arora: Okay another anomaly: I used the example in the FAQs to try to set the feature across the entire document, which is really what I want.

Re: [NTG-context] Why does the oldstyle numerals switch, \os, also switch off m-dashes?

2011-11-30 Thread Hans Hagen
On 30-11-2011 22:19, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 30.11.2011 um 20:19 schrieb Pavneet Arora: Okay another anomaly: I used the example in the FAQs to try to set the feature across the entire document, which is really what I want.

Re: [NTG-context] Splitting natural tables

2011-11-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.11.2011 um 18:15 schrieb Christian: @Hans: Can you make this change in strc-flt.mkvi? \unexpanded\def\thecurrentfloatnumbersuffix {\doifsomething{\floatcaptionparameter\c!suffix} {\floatcaptionparameter\c!suffixseparator % \floatcaptionparameter\c!suffix}}

[NTG-context] mptopdf TeX text problem

2011-11-30 Thread Martin Bruchanov
Hello, what is the proper way of using MetaPost with TeX text? I have two examples: beginfig(1); draw unitsquare scaled(1cm); draw textext($\pi$) shifted((0.5,0.5)*cm); % label(btex $\pi$ etex, origin); endfig; end mptopdf --metafun produces only unknown where the Pi