Re: [NTG-context] tex to txt/doc

2009-10-05 Thread Ciro Soto
Yes, pdftotext works "almost" perfect. It does not produce the "ff", "fi", but the rest is ok. thank you. ciro On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:12 AM, luigi scarso wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > >> not to mention obvious old-school approach xml->anything (includi

[NTG-context] tex to txt/doc

2009-10-04 Thread Ciro Soto
Is there any quick way to print the output of context in txt format? I could do: context-> pdf->txt, but may there is a direct way to do that...? I don't care about the formatting, it is just the text that I am interested in. The reason is that my editor does not understand context (or tex) so I se

Re: [NTG-context] back to Context

2009-08-09 Thread Ciro Soto
2009 at 4:30 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Ciro Soto wrote: >> >> I started a small project of ~100 pages and tried to do it with >> Scribus since it required pictures, inserts, etc. >> I found that Scribus was not going to be able to handle the task so >> easily. So

[NTG-context] back to Context

2009-08-08 Thread Ciro Soto
I started a small project of ~100 pages and tried to do it with Scribus since it required pictures, inserts, etc. I found that Scribus was not going to be able to handle the task so easily. So I am back to Context. Here is my task: in the right pages, I want the text (~50 pages of text) and in the

[NTG-context] checking spelling of a tex document

2009-08-05 Thread Ciro Soto
Hi all I wonder what the people in this list is using for checking the spelling of a tex document I am in Linux and I have going back and forth from tex to OOwriter to do this, but that is a pain. Any other suggestion? thank you Ciro -- Links of your interest: http://www-personal.engin.u

[NTG-context] pages not full

2009-08-04 Thread Ciro Soto
I am having a minor but persistent problem. The text area don't get full of text. It jumps to the next page leaving several (4 ,5, 6) lines empty at the bottom of the text area. It happens in the middle of a paragraph. Any switch I should be setting up? ciro -- -- Links of your interest: http

[NTG-context] framed box in between

2009-08-04 Thread Ciro Soto
I am resending this note in case it got lost when the server was down. ciro Hi all, I would like to have a quote inserted in a framed box that is part in the margin and part in the text, and surrounded by the text. I found the command to have it in the margin or in the text area, but couldn't fi

[NTG-context] lost curved left quotes

2009-08-04 Thread Ciro Soto
I am resending this just in case it got lost when the server was down. Hi all, Somehow my left quotes are straight, not curved as my right quotes. How could I make them curved? (I am using `` for the left quotes, and '' for the right quotes.) (If I use \quotation {qwerty} I get the curved quot

[NTG-context] empty page - how?

2009-07-17 Thread Ciro Soto
Hi All, I want each chapter to start on an odd number page, and the preceding page to be totally empty (no header, no footer). Before the \chapter command, I tried: \page[odd,blank] ... didn't work. I get the header and footer \page[odd,empty] ... didn't work. I get an extra page (empty) \page[

[NTG-context] verses together

2009-07-13 Thread Ciro Soto
I am writing a book with poems and need to maintain four, sometimes five, lines together in the same page. I don't know in advance which four lines will be split at the end of the page. How would I implement this? Using \testpage[n] works, only if I know in advance where the the split happens. th

[NTG-context] Fwd: Fwd: \setuppagenumbering[]

2009-07-09 Thread Ciro Soto
2009 at 8:43 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 06.07.2009 um 14:39 schrieb Ciro Soto: > >> I am still stuck with this problem any help? > > Make a example. > > Wolfgang > > ___ If

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: \setuppagenumbering[]

2009-07-07 Thread Ciro Soto
erest: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~cirosoto/ http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com http://www.myspace.com/sotoaguirre On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 06.07.2009 um 14:39 schrieb Ciro Soto: > >> I am still stuck with this problem

[NTG-context] Fwd: \setuppagenumbering[]

2009-07-06 Thread Ciro Soto
I am still stuck with this problem any help? ciro -- Forwarded message -- From: Ciro Soto Date: Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:06 PM Subject: \setuppagenumbering[] To: context Page numbering in roman style is not working for me. What could the problem be? I get the numbers in

Re: [NTG-context] pdf with password/security

2009-07-03 Thread Ciro Soto
, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Renaud Aubin wrote: > You can also use podofoencrypt (http://podofo.sourceforge.net/) > > Renaud > > Hans Hagen a écrit : >> >> Ciro Soto wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I am planning to offer a poetry book in electronic forma

[NTG-context] pdf with password/security

2009-07-03 Thread Ciro Soto
Hi all, I am planning to offer a poetry book in electronic format as well as paper format. How would I produce the pdf file with security/password using context? thank you Ciro -- Links of your interest: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~cirosoto/ http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.co

[NTG-context] \setuppagenumbering[]

2009-07-02 Thread Ciro Soto
Page numbering in roman style is not working for me. What could the problem be? I get the numbers in the footer, but it prints in Arabic numbers (1,2,3 ...). This is the command I use: \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] thank you Ciro -- Links of your interest: http://www-personal

Re: [NTG-context] spanish tilde-n lost

2009-06-28 Thread Ciro Soto
http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~cirosoto/ http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com http://www.myspace.com/sotoaguirre On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 01:16, Ciro Soto wrote: >> >>> Hi a

[NTG-context] spanish tilde-n lost

2009-06-27 Thread Ciro Soto
Hi all, I finally got around the intallation of context minimals. Thank you for those who helped. I ran my old tex files (in spanish) and found that \~n is not working now. It should create an n with a tilde on top, but what happens is that there is no letter printed at all. What is the fix for th

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-16 Thread Ciro Soto
=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf Ciro -- Links of your interest: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~cirosoto/ http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com http://www.myspace.com/sotoaguirre On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Ciro Soto wrote: > the mtxrun file and the luatools file in the bin p

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-14 Thread Ciro Soto
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Ciro Soto wrote: > > I ran the selfupdate: >> > > /home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin/mtxrun >> MtxRun | *unable to locate new script* >> > > ok, so that point in th edirection of a path p

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-14 Thread Ciro Soto
ort TEXMF={$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFCONTEXT,$TEXMFEXTRA,$TEXMFMAIN} export TEXMFDBS=$TEXMF export TEXFORMATS=$TEXMFOS/web2c{/$engine,} export MPMEMS=$TEXFORMATS unset TEXINPUTS MPINPUTS MFINPUTS PATH=$TEXMFOS/bin:$PATH export PATH # TODO: OSFONTDIR export RUBYLIB=$TEXMFCONTEXT/scripts/context/ruby:$RUBYLIB # just to make sure that the binaries are exe

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-13 Thread Ciro Soto
0 TeXUtil | reductions: 0 TeXUtil | divisions : 0 TeXUtil | loaded files: 0 TeXUtil | temporary files: 0 TeXUtil | commands: 0 TeXUtil | programs: 0 TeXUtil | tuo file saved TeXExec | runtime: 0.134492 please advise what to do. thank you Ciro On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Ciro Soto

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-13 Thread Ciro Soto
http://www.myspace.com/sotoaguirre On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Ciro Soto wrote: > I did run luatools --generate. I get:* > > luatools --verbose --generate > *LuaTools | version 1.2.2 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT > > LuaTools | variable SELFAUTOLOC set to > /home/c

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-13 Thread Ciro Soto
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Ciro Soto wrote: > >> I am getting closer to the solution. This is my new environment: >> >> % env | grep -i tex >> TEXMFOS=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux >> TEXMFCACHE=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-ca

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-12 Thread Ciro Soto
I am getting closer to the solution. This is my new environment: % env | grep -i tex TEXMFOS=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-linux TEXMFCACHE=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-cache TEXMFPROJECT=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-project TEXMFLOCAL=/home/ciro/context/tex/texmf-local PATH=/home/ciro/context/tex/

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-12 Thread Ciro Soto
I just installed the minimals from the link given by Mauricio, and followed instructions for the linux installation. I still get: %sudo mtxrun -script fonts --list MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-12 Thread Ciro Soto
I installed lutex 0.28.0-2 Then I ran the command that Khaled told me, and I got % sudo mtxrun -script fonts --list MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MtxRun | unknown script: fonts s

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-11 Thread Ciro Soto
How do I solve the problem then? here is what I have: /usr/bin/texi2pdf*/usr/bin/texfont* /usr/bin/texconfig-sys* /usr/bin/texi2dvi*/usr/bin/texfind* /usr/bin/texconfig-dialog* /usr/bin/texindex*/usr/bin/texexec* /usr/bin/texconfig* /usr/bin/texutil* /usr/bin/texmacs* /usr/

Re: [NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-10 Thread Ciro Soto
ration.com http://www.myspace.com/sotoaguirre On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:41:04PM -0400, Ciro Soto wrote: > > Hi all, > > what would be the command to list all fonts available in my installation > via > > context? > > m

[NTG-context] finding out what font are available

2009-06-09 Thread Ciro Soto
Hi all, what would be the command to list all fonts available in my installation via context? thank you Ciro -- Links of your interest: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~cirosoto/ http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com http://www.myspace.com/sotoaguirre

Re: [NTG-context] I can't find file `TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic'.

2009-06-03 Thread Ciro Soto
It's working now. Intalled the tex-gyre font from the site indicated. thank you. c On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Mojca Miklavec < mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 02:59, Ciro Soto wrote: > > No I don't have it. > > The only dire

Re: [NTG-context] I can't find file `TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic'.

2009-05-31 Thread Ciro Soto
54 PM, Mojca Miklavec < mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 23:10, Ciro Soto wrote: > > Wolfgang, > > thank you for your help. Here is a simple example that generates the > error. > > You can copy and paste the following lines into a t

Re: [NTG-context] I can't find file `TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic'.

2009-05-31 Thread Ciro Soto
://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com http://www.myspace.com/sotoaguirre On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Wolfgang Schuster < schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Am 31.05.2009 um 00:08 schrieb Ciro Soto: > > I had a file fully functional, but after I did a "ctxtool --upda

[NTG-context] I can't find file `TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic'.

2009-05-30 Thread Ciro Soto
I had a file fully functional, but after I did a "ctxtool --updatecontext" it is not working anymore. it complains with the messages below. I am running in linux Ubuntu 9.04 - the Jaunty Jackalope. How do I fix this problem? thank you Ciro PS: FYI: CtxTools | context version: 2009.05.29 23:34 (/u

Re: [NTG-context] Keeping up-to-date under TeXLive

2007-12-26 Thread Ciro Soto
Hello all, I used Context to write an entire novel in 2005 (under Fedora linux). Since then I didn't do any work in Context until now. I am now coming back to write a second book (under Ubuntu this time), and found myself totally confused with all this new business of luatex, mkii, mkiv, installati

Re: [NTG-context] smaller symbol

2005-12-27 Thread Ciro Soto
]> wrote: On 12/26/05, Ciro Soto wrote:> Invisible Friends:>>  I am trying to use \ll and \gg instead of quotation marks.>  The problem is that they are too big for my taste.>  What would be the easiest way to make them, say 0.75\bodyfontsize ?I guess that \leftguillemot inste

Re: [NTG-context] spanish symbols for interrogation and exclamation

2005-12-26 Thread Ciro Soto
I think using a definition like \question (or \pregunta    if we use a spanish keyword) would be useful. ciroOn 12/26/05, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:>> >> How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side>> down?>> >> also>> >> How do I write the

[NTG-context] smaller symbol

2005-12-25 Thread Ciro Soto
Invisible Friends: I am trying to use \ll and \gg instead of quotation marks. The problem is that they are too big for my taste. What would be the easiest way to make them, say 0.75\bodyfontsize ? thank you Ciro PS: thank you for the help with the upside down question marks... _

Re: [NTG-context] spanish symbols for interrogation and exclamation

2005-12-24 Thread Ciro Soto
I didn't understand Hans's instructions. What should I do? Mojka's solution worked fine. I used \def\qd{\questiondown} to shorten the keyword. c On 12/23/05, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote:>Ciro Soto wrote:>>>>Hi team:>>&

[NTG-context] spanish symbols for interrogation and exclamation

2005-12-22 Thread Ciro Soto
Hi team: How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down? also How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up-side down? thank you ciro ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-06 Thread Ciro Soto
I wrote my novel using ConTeXt. Inside figures with metapost, the cover layout with Scribus. See http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com Ciro ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] footnote twiks

2005-08-26 Thread Ciro Soto
no,no. My problem is with the V that appears in the text, not in the footnote! thank you, though. c On 8/26/05, Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting "Ciro Soto" : > > -- was [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Aug 25, 2005 at 10:56:05PM -- > > > Twik 1: > >

[NTG-context] footnote twiks

2005-08-25 Thread Ciro Soto
Hello, I need two more twiks for my footnotes: I am using asterisk instead of numbers or letter for the footnotes. Twik 1: My font is too slanted and the asterisk (*) is printed too close to the last word in the sentence. Example: Charles IV \footnote[]{asdfasdf} will print an asterisk touching

Re: [NTG-context] footnotes with one *

2005-08-22 Thread Ciro Soto
Thank you for your replies. They helped. I need two more twiks... Twik 1: My font is too slanted and the asterisk (*) is printed too close to the last word in the sentence. Example: Charles IV \footnote[]{asdfasdf} will print an asterisk touching the V letter. How do I instruct context to give

[NTG-context] footnotes with one *

2005-08-22 Thread Ciro Soto
I looked at two context manuals and can't find the setting to get footnotes with * instead of a letter or a number. I need 4 footnotes in 4 different pages, and I would like them all of them with one sigle * thank you Ciro - * like this -- === "A

[NTG-context] extra pages after backmatter

2005-08-21 Thread Ciro Soto
Hello, I am getting 2 extra pages after the backmatter. Is there any way delete them? thank you Ciro \starttex \starfrontmatter \input frontmatter.tex \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \input a_file.tex \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \input backm

Re: [NTG-context] how to create many blank pages

2005-07-07 Thread Ciro Soto
thank you all... ciroOn 7/7/05, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stuart Jansen wrote:>>\dorecurse{300}{\ \page}>>> Argh! Finally a question I could answer and you beat me by less than 60> seconds... Oh well, at least I can confirm that works (although I used > \crlf\page instead of \ \page).o

[NTG-context] how to create many blank pages

2005-07-07 Thread Ciro Soto
I need to create a book with many blank pages (with its header & footer texts). Is there any easy way to create, say, 300 blank pages one after the other, wihout using \page 300 times? I guess what I need is to know how to loop within context. thank you Ciro ___

[NTG-context] fontsite 500 CD

2005-04-21 Thread Ciro Soto
I've read about the fontsite CD (in the Bill Mcclain page) and I wonder if it is worth to buy it, and whether there are other similar alternative to get such large number of fonts. thank you Ciro ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://ww

Re: [NTG-context] oldstyle figures

2005-04-18 Thread Ciro Soto
Hi Idris, this didn't work for me: \usetypescript [URWGaramond][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont [urwgaramond,11pt] \starttext 123456 \stoptext Any help? thank you ciro ___ ntg-context mailing l

[NTG-context] paul tremblay's pages

2005-04-15 Thread Ciro Soto
I wonder what happened with the nice pages in http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html they are gone now... and no re-direction exists. Ciro -- === "All problems are at the interface. Each one of them has a solution." from: "The Guitar M

Re: [NTG-context] bi-lingual book

2005-04-14 Thread Ciro Soto
depends on whether the layout is easy to make. regards ciro On 4/13/05, Paul Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:42:15PM -0400, Ciro Soto wrote: > > > I am thinking in producing a book in two languages. > > One language will be in the verso

[NTG-context] bi-lingual book

2005-04-13 Thread Ciro Soto
I am thinking in producing a book in two languages. One language will be in the verso side of the paper sheet, and the second language will be in the rector side. Trying to be as mirror images so the reader could (if so desired) learn one language from the other. Questions: 1) Is there a way to do

Re: [NTG-context] chancery font

2005-04-03 Thread Ciro Soto
Idris, thank you very much for your explanations... they are very helpful. regarding ttf translation, I have in my system (I guess it came with texlive2004) a little software "ttf2pt1" that does the job. unix> ttf2pt1 -b fontname.ttf and it produces the two files: fontname.afm, fontname.pfb which t

Re: [NTG-context] chancery font

2005-04-03 Thread Ciro Soto
My problem goes beyond fonts. What I think I need is a simple explanation of the TeX-like package system. For instance: I see tetex,pdftex,contex, latex,web2c,...and so on, but I don't understand their interrelation/dependency. Why the livetex tree is like it is? What is needed for a context u

Re: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond

2005-04-02 Thread Ciro Soto
Idris, I just noticed that your type-ugm.tex file has the italic and bold faces swapped. Just to let you know. Ciro On Apr 2, 2005 7:15 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear syndicate, > > [Garamond is a nice font. Now that there is a free version, this would be a > nice defa

Re: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond

2005-04-02 Thread Ciro Soto
Idris ... great... my garamond is working now. A couple of things ... for a real novice like me... you need to tell where the type-* file should be located, and whether we need to do a texhash after moving the type-* file. On Apr 2, 2005 7:15 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond

2005-04-02 Thread Ciro Soto
Idris, I forgot to give you my thanks for posting the steps... I'll try with my verdana font. ciro On Apr 2, 2005 10:13 PM, Ciro Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Idris ... great... my garamond is working now. > A couple of things ... for a real novice like me... you need

Re: [NTG-context] chancery font

2005-04-02 Thread Ciro Soto
> > (untested, but hopefully you get the idea...) > > adam unfortunately, I have a mental mess with the font business in tex. How can one keep track with so many directories, encodings, file types, maps, etc... I am tired of trying to undestand. Manuals are useless because they are outdated, tre

Re: [NTG-context] chancery font

2005-04-02 Thread Ciro Soto
install verdana (magazine009) but couldn't make it work either... so, the problem is likely to be in my installation... Ciro On Apr 2, 2005 2:21 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 13:29:16 -0500, Ciro Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [NTG-context] chancery font

2005-04-02 Thread Ciro Soto
illi Egger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ciro, > > AFAIK chancery has no typeface associated. So you need to do that yourself > > \usetypescript[chancery][texnansi] > \definetypeface > [myfont][cg][calligraphy][chancery][default][encoding=texnansi] > \setupbodyfont[myf

[NTG-context] chancery font

2005-04-02 Thread Ciro Soto
When I try the commands \usetypescript, \setupbodyfont, etc,etc I can't find the right combination of switches to make use of the Zapf Chancery or Garamond fonts. All other fonts work find (bookman, modern, palatino, etc). I am using Linux/fedoraCore3, texlive2004, and: TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / P