Re: [NTG-context] Place an annotation before it is defined

2013-01-11 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–01–10 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can try the beta from my bitbucket site [0] which uses a two mechanism for named buffers (\startannotation[NAME] … \stopannotation) which can be accessed with \getannotation[NAME]. It doesn't work for me: \usemodule[annotation]

[NTG-context] References to footnotes in index

2013-01-11 Thread Robert Blackstone
Dear List, I posted this question before, (28 december, ntg-context Digest, Vol 102, Issue 65) but there was little activity on the list around that time and my question may have been overlooked. So that is why I give it another try. The book that I am working on has an index of authors. On

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-11 Thread Meigen, Thomas
Thank you very much for your clarifications! To summarize... 1. The use of additional modules may be nice (as Sietse proposed the complex-slides module), but ConTeXt can achieve very flexible solutions even without these modules. 2. Although the production of slides was not the main issue of my

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-11 Thread Meigen, Thomas
Hi Keith, thank you for your open comments. You exactly understood the questions that I am asking right now. Would it be a good idea to switch to ConTeXt? Yes, I do not have (and I do not want to have) a deeper understanding of proper TeX. Well, I have Knuth's TeXbook in my shelf, but it is

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
You can ignore everything Keith said and you will be just fine. Regards, Khaled On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:32:39AM +, Meigen, Thomas wrote: Hi Keith, thank you for your open comments. You exactly understood the questions that I am asking right now. Would it be a good idea to switch to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/11/2013 11:58 AM, Meigen, Thomas wrote: 1 \usemodule[s-pre-05] crashed for s-pre-05 and most of the other s-pre-XX modules indicates that such crashes have nothing to do with the decision to load modules from other users. The s-pre-XX modules are part of the standalone ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/11/2013 12:32 PM, Meigen, Thomas wrote: But... do I really have to have a knowledge of proper TeX and Lua before I can use ConTeXt? For me, the charme of ConTeXt had always been that those nice documents had been prepared with rather smart code. I dont want to write my own modules (in

[NTG-context] link to component

2013-01-11 Thread Daniel Schopper
Hi, I'm using a product/component structure with interaction but it seems that hyperlink targets pointing to manually set pagereferences in another component file do not work as they should: The line/page numbers on the link is correct, but the hyperlinks points to _component.pdf_ (which

Re: [NTG-context] link to component

2013-01-11 Thread Daniel Schopper
Sorry, I forgot: I'm using MkIV version 2012.12.10 23:20 Am 11.01.13 15:52, schrieb Daniel Schopper: Hi, I'm using a product/component structure with interaction but it seems that hyperlink targets pointing to manually set pagereferences in another component file do not work as they should:

[NTG-context] getnameinfo

2013-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
I have to update LuaTex on a win2k machine. But I get two errors while running mtxrun.exe and texlua.exe resp. via first- setup.bat. There is a call to getnameinfo in WS2_32.dll which is available in winxp and above. Here is an info from ms how to deal with this: The getnameinfo function was

[NTG-context] Layer vs. overlay

2013-01-11 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
Hello, I need to add a text to the FOREGROUND of the page. - Layers can refer to a page (or its size) and elements in a layer are drawn BELLOW the (normal) page content. - Overlays are drawn ABOVE the (normal) page content and their size is given by an element (often \framed) which uses the

Re: [NTG-context] Place an annotation before it is defined

2013-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 11.01.2013 um 09:45 schrieb Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com: On 2013–01–10 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can try the beta from my bitbucket site [0] which uses a two mechanism for named buffers (\startannotation[NAME] … \stopannotation) which can be accessed with \getannotation[NAME].

[NTG-context] two problems with xml processing

2013-01-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I am encountering two problems with xml processing; minimal example below. My questions/observations: 1. How can I prevent every index term to be sorted under x (for \xmlflush)? 2. What is the readon that the \cite command displays this bizarre behavior and the list of references

Re: [NTG-context] Place an annotation before it is defined

2013-01-11 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–01–11 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Use \defineannotation[myannotation][method=buffer] to disable the output from \startmyannotation … \stopmyannotation. \starttext a \getannotation [foo] You need \getmyannotation[foo]. It works perfectly, though I don't have much to

Re: [NTG-context] Layer vs. overlay

2013-01-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/11/2013 4:32 PM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote: Hello, I need to add a text to the FOREGROUND of the page. - Layers can refer to a page (or its size) and elements in a layer are drawn BELLOW the (normal) page content. - Overlays are drawn ABOVE the (normal) page content

Re: [NTG-context] getnameinfo

2013-01-11 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/11/2013 4:04 PM, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: I have to update LuaTex on a win2k machine. But I get two errors while running mtxrun.exe and texlua.exe resp. via first- setup.bat. There is a call to getnameinfo in WS2_32.dll which is available in winxp and above. Here is an info from

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-11 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Thomas, You wrote, a good number of e-mails ago: But would it be possible to use ConTeXt without having to care about bugs in updated code or broken links between different modules...? Thought I'd add a brief note to the conversation about updates and stability. ConTeXt Mark II (can use

Re: [NTG-context] Layer vs. overlay

2013-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 11.01.2013 um 16:32 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. l...@pontex.cz: Hello, I need to add a text to the FOREGROUND of the page. - Layers can refer to a page (or its size) and elements in a layer are drawn BELLOW the (normal) page content. - Overlays are drawn ABOVE