[NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everybody, Thank you for your help with the documentation. Inorder to teach myself ConTeXt I have to decided to write a learning by doing manual for ConTeXt. First off, I know I can get the formatting needed, by using defineparagraph and setupparagraphs, but then have I have to use

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/30/2013 10:00 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: Hi Everybody, Thank you for your help with the documentation. Inorder to teach myself ConTeXt I have to decided to write a learning by doing manual for ConTeXt. First off, I know I can get the formatting needed, by using defineparagraph and

[NTG-context] Invisibile page numbers for TOC

2013-01-30 Thread H. Özoguz
Hi together, I use \completecontent for the TOC. How to deactivate the printing of the pagenumbers on TOC-pages? But they should be counted invisibely, so that the first text-page begins with the real page number. Best Regards Huseyin

[NTG-context] \goto links to figures are inactive

2013-01-30 Thread Alan Bowen
The following compiles in the latest beta standalone but with dead links to the Figure: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \goto{Figure A}[fig:Figure.pdf] \goto{Text A}[TextA] \page \useexternalfigure[Graphic][Figure.pdf][] \placefigure [here,page,force,nonumber] [fig:Figure.pdf]

Re: [NTG-context] Invisibile page numbers for TOC

2013-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.01.2013 um 12:23 schrieb H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de: Hi together, I use \completecontent for the TOC. How to deactivate the printing of the pagenumbers on TOC-pages? But they should be counted invisibely, so that the first text-page begins with the real page number.

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Alain Delmotte
Hi, First I would like to ask not to change messages' subject if you want to see another point. Changing subject breaks the normal links of threads, further it becomes very difficult to find a message embedded in another subject. For a new subject create a new message/thread. I also search

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Alain Delmotte
I forgot to give the link : http://wiki.contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt Alain Le 30/01/2013 16:07, Alain Delmotte a écrit : Hi, First I would like to ask not to change messages' subject if you want to see another point. Changing subject breaks the normal links of threads, further it

Re: [NTG-context] Multi-page textbackground ignores topoffset

2013-01-30 Thread Andre Caldas
Nicholas, Is there any way to get a multi-page textbackground to respect topoffset on each page? From the second page onwards, it leaves no offset at the top. I have the same problem. A small-not-so-good-hack would be to define a tiny backgroundoffset as well. This messes the layout a

Re: [NTG-context] Multi-page textbackground ignores topoffset

2013-01-30 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/30/2013 6:25 PM, Andre Caldas wrote: Nicholas, Is there any way to get a multi-page textbackground to respect topoffset on each page? From the second page onwards, it leaves no offset at the top. I have the same problem. A small-not-so-good-hack would be to define a tiny

[NTG-context] Scale argument for copypages broken

2013-01-30 Thread Marco Patzer
Hi, the scale argument for \copypages does not work any more in a recent beta: \starttext \copypages [cow] [scale=100] \stoptext Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Scale argument for copypages broken

2013-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.01.2013 um 18:58 schrieb Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com: Hi, the scale argument for \copypages does not work any more in a recent beta: \starttext \copypages [cow] [scale=100] \stoptext \copypages[cow][][scale=100] Hans explained this change a while ago. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Alain, Am 30.01.2013 um 16:07 schrieb Alain Delmotte espera...@swing.be: Hi, First I would like to ask not to change messages' subject if you want to see another point. Changing subject breaks the normal links of threads, further it becomes very difficult to find a message embedded

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 01/30/2013 07:03 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: I have already seen these. My needs are more sophisiticated and I need programmers manuals and no such users manuals. Thanx regards Keioth. Wow. I think you misspelled your name. And the words thank you. And you may be too

Re: [NTG-context] Scale argument for copypages broken

2013-01-30 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–01–30 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \copypages[cow][][scale=100] Hans explained this change a while ago. I found the thread. Thanks. Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–01–30 Keith J. Schultz wrote: First I would like to ask not to change messages' subject if you want to see another point. Changing subject breaks the normal links of threads, further it becomes very difficult to find a message embedded in another subject. For a new subject

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Alain Delmotte
Thomas, It's better not start such a discussion. When I was younger ( :-) ) I was reacting this way, so I understand, but this never helped!!! Regards to both, and, Keith, I'd like to see your programming manual when you have it ready. Alain Le 30/01/2013 19:13, Thomas A. Schmitz a

[NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Bill Meahan
I scoured the wiki and mailing-list without finding a definite answer. The most recent discussion I can find is from 2006 and at that time it was possible but nobody had yet developed the appropriate template, XSLT style-sheet, module or whatever to actually do it. For a number of reasons

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Bill, On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:31:51 -0700, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote: I scoured the wiki and mailing-list without finding a definite answer. The most recent discussion I can find is from 2006 and at that time it was possible but nobody had yet developed the

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Bill Meahan
On 01/30/2013 02:45 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Have you considered using markdown/pandoc? You can either I appreciate the suggestion but it does not meet my needs. I currently use GNU Emacs and YASnippet. All my work-to-date is already in raw context which YASnippet and

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Alain Delmotte
Hi, Le 30/01/2013 19:49, Thomas A. Schmitz a écrit : On 01/30/2013 07:42 PM, Alain Delmotte wrote: Thomas, It's better not start such a discussion. When I was younger ( :-) ) I was reacting this way, so I understand, but this never helped!!! Regards to both, and, Keith, I'd like to see your

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.01.2013 um 10:00 schrieb Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de: Hi Everybody, Thank you for your help with the documentation. Inorder to teach myself ConTeXt I have to decided to write a learning by doing manual for ConTeXt. First off, I know I can get the formatting needed,

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 30/01/13 20:45, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Hi Bill, On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:31:51 -0700, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote: I scoured the wiki and mailing-list without finding a definite answer. The most recent discussion I can find is from 2006 and at

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Bill Meahan wrote: An XSLT stylesheet would allow direct export of a document from LO-W which could then be be tweaked if necessary. Another option is to uncompress the odt file (IIUC, it is just a zip), and process it directly in ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.01.2013 um 22:12 schrieb Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Bill Meahan wrote: An XSLT stylesheet would allow direct export of a document from LO-W which could then be be tweaked if necessary. Another option is to uncompress the odt file (IIUC, it is just a

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 01/30/2013 10:12 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Bill Meahan wrote: An XSLT stylesheet would allow direct export of a document from LO-W which could then be be tweaked if necessary. Another option is to uncompress the odt file (IIUC, it is just a zip), and process it

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Bill Meahan
On 01/30/2013 04:21 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: ConTeXt is able to read from zip files. Hans posted a simple example to process odt files a few years ago. Wolfgang Hmm. Didn't show up when I used the list search. Perhaps I simply missed it, I'll look again. Thanks. -- Bill Meahan

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:48:15 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On 01/30/2013 10:12 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Bill Meahan wrote: An XSLT stylesheet would allow direct export of a document from LO-W which could then be be tweaked if necessary.

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: If I can go out on a limb: What Bill seems to want is a general WYSIWYG-ConTeXt solution. Generalizing Thomas's remark, I'm not sure that the word-processor paradigm is appropriate for such a thing (unless one is very

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Bill Meahan
On 01/30/2013 05:13 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: But in general odt is too much of a mess for my limited skills. And although Bill does not like it in the least I am not aware of a better cross-format solution than markdown/pandoc whenever I am forced to deal with M$-Word

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-01-30 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Alain, If I bring it to fruition, I will offer it to the community. regards Keith Am 30.01.2013 um 19:42 schrieb Alain Delmotte espera...@swing.be: [snip, snip] Regards to both, and, Keith, I'd like to see your programming manual when you have it ready.