Re: [NTG-context] Problem getting lmtx version up

2021-07-16 Thread George N. White III
ctice to mention your platform in problem reports. For this error, your best source of help will be RPi and OS forums. Once you find a solution it may help others to post the details (including the forum that provided the solution) here. -- George N. White III __

Re: [NTG-context] Header unwanted on first page

2007-12-01 Thread George N. White III
> > > I don't want the header to appear on the first page, I tried various > solutions but failed so far. I use: \noheaderandfooterlines \setupheadertexts[text][XX][YY] -- George N. White III <[EMAIL P

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-29 Thread George N. White III
document with one example of each construct you use. I took Lamport's sample2e.tex, added a figure and a table, and then made a context version which is part of my test suite for new tex installations. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, No

[NTG-context] bib module and pdftex 1.40.7: Virtual memory exhausted using MiKTeX-2.7

2008-02-19 Thread George N. White III
-- I don't see this on my linux machines with older versions of ConTeXt and pdftex. Simple LaTeX documents and ConTeXt documents that don't use the bib module don't give the error, so it looks like the bib module reveals a bug in pdftex-1.40.n, for some n larger than 3.

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographic Databases

2008-04-19 Thread George N. White III
rved for the next user. In practice, people just dump selected refs to a bib file, make the .bbl file, and fix problems there, so fixes rarely make it back to the master database. If they did, we would still have accents and quote marks being switched b

Re: [NTG-context] acroread and reload a PDF

2008-04-23 Thread George N. White III
it is running on the local machine -- it can be very slow over a network), or Emacs DocView just makes a png image of each page -- often enough to make sure some TeX fragment is working properly. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on MikTeX broken

2008-05-06 Thread George N. White III
ve complained.) Don't complain, just switch to a platform/distro where ConTeXt works and use mpm (since few others provide updates with the speed and convenience of MiKTeX). I think MiKTeX should remain focusing on the packages and binaries, and rely on upstream to fix broken packages. --

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on MikTeX broken

2008-05-06 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:29 PM, George N. White III wrote: > > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Mojca Miklavec > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > some time ago some

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

2008-06-30 Thread George N. White III
all that you will need to do to stay up to > date is fetching: > - luatex > - context itself > - maybe luatool & mtxrun > >> Once I copy thse binaries to my TeXLive binary >> directory, what's the next step?

Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live and ConTeXt MKIV installation and maintenance

2008-07-12 Thread George N. White III
lls for the same TL version. The solution is to make sure you use the -sys versions to put configs and formats into the system directories. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia __

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and TeXlive 2008

2008-09-07 Thread George N. White III
is working for me (Fedora 8 32-bit). The environment modules system makes it easy to have multiple TeX systems installed. The current luatex version (from <http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex>) is 0.29. -- Geor

Re: [NTG-context] Texlive 2008 on Windows (Vista)

2008-09-10 Thread George N. White III
rom old TeX installs (many MiKTeX users have TEXINPUTS). -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie Problem With ConTeXt/MacTeX-2008 Distribution

2008-09-27 Thread George N. White III
.27 int: english/english [...] mkiv lua stats : runtime - 8.756 seconds, 3 processed pages, 3 shipped pages, 0.343 pages/second ------------- So the solution lies some

Re: [NTG-context] Miktex

2008-10-01 Thread George N. White III
fTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7) [MP to PDF] (example.1{C:/windows/profiles/gwhite/Local Settings/Application Da ta/MiKTeX/2.7/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}) [1] Output written on example.pdf (1 page, 32785 bytes). Transcript written on example.log. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-10-03 Thread George N. White III
community, there are more and better tools for PDF than for DVI). -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-10-03 Thread George N. White III
efully in a way that will survive updates) and file a bug report with SuSE. Distributions are can only be as "TeX friendly" as their users -- otherwise you get what is needed to build program documents and no more. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets

Re: [NTG-context] showcase on mac?

2008-10-03 Thread George N. White III
nk ;-) > > Is there a simple thing I should change to make it work on the mac as > well? works for me with 10.5.5 safari, although there are so many manuals that I can't tell which is which. Time to get a bigger office so I can fit

Re: [NTG-context] pdfetex 1.40.1 + ghosscript problem? More findings

2007-01-20 Thread George N. White III
-try.pdf Title: cont-try Subject: Keywords: Author: Creator:ConTeXt - 2006.08.08 21:51 Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.1 CreationDate: Sat Jan 20 15:29:21 2007 ModDate:20070120 Tagged: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 and including PDFs

2007-03-02 Thread George N. White III
7 > should be handled by pdftex's pdf inclusion. When I try to embed <http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/cis/DesignData3.pdf> I get a document that is much smaller than the original and lacks the 3d views of the original. -- George N. White III <[EM

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType in Windows

2007-04-04 Thread George N. White III
ersion of TeX Live 2007 in a virtual machine, and very likely will work in native Win32, but I haven't tried it. Note that maths still uses the conventional math fonts (e.g., Type 1). -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of S

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, ect was Re: OpenType in Windows

2007-04-05 Thread George N. White III
ge of xetex is that it supports system fonts directly. It is, however, new, so there could be glitches. <http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=latex> has lots of useful information The xetex web site has examples and a FAQ. -- George N. White III <[EMA

Re: [NTG-context] texexec+mpost cmr10 vs CMR10 trouble using dvips backend

2007-04-15 Thread George N. White III
On 4/15/07, Sanjoy Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you set prologues := 1 in the mp file, that should help. > > That still gave Courier fonts after including fig.1 in test.ps. > > > In a new metapost (texlive2007) you can even generate an > > image with the font included by using prologu

Re: [NTG-context] texexec+mpost cmr10 vs CMR10 trouble using dvips backend

2007-04-16 Thread George N. White III
27;t show up correctly in the > pdf file, but only when using non-cmr fonts. I think that was fixed long ago, but I rarely use .dvi anymore. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] PNG output

2007-07-12 Thread George N. White III
you are still having problems, provide a minimal example (.tex source and .png image) along with the software versions so others can try to reproduce the problem. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia __

Re: [NTG-context] PNG output

2007-07-12 Thread George N. White III
> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr

Re: [NTG-context] makempy (pstoedit <-> gs) hangs

2007-07-29 Thread George N. White III
graph.pdf (or .ps) that works. Since pstoedit mucks with ghostscript's SYSTEMDICT it isn't surprising that problems arise for newer gs versions. Maybe it is time for ghostscript to get an mpost driver. -- George N. White III &l

Re: [NTG-context] makempy (pstoedit <-> gs) hangs

2007-07-29 Thread George N. White III
GS version as well. > > Here some infinite loop occurs when I call > pstoedit -ssp -dt -f mpost mpy-bla-mpgraph.pdf mpy-bla-mpgraph.tmp > (which is what ConTeXt does in line 328 of makempy.pl) Older GS exits: ESP Ghostscript 815.04: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 Newer GS (8.60) loops

Re: [NTG-context] makempy (pstoedit <-> gs) hangs

2007-07-30 Thread George N. White III
opping up many times -- it will be a few years before all linux distros have updated to the new version, and some will make backports of the patch. The next people who encounter this will benefit from seeing the explanation so they can make the fix in somewhat different versions of pstoedit.. --

[NTG-context] starting out with MKiV -- oversized math fonts

2007-08-19 Thread George N. White III
int("$\string\\sqrt{2} = " .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$")} There is a problem with the size of math fonts: X$X$X or x$x$x. \stoptext -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _

Re: [NTG-context] starting out with MKiV -- oversized math fonts

2007-08-19 Thread George N. White III
10, the fonts agree. A convenient way to check is \showfontstrip. So, how do I get 12pt body font using MKiV? -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt

2007-08-20 Thread George N. White III
tail, for example the parameters of command > > \setuplayout on the page 24 of cont-enp.pdf. Or am I careless? How shall > > I start to learn? And how shall I go on learning? > > > > Best regards,

Re: [NTG-context] plain tex, context and latex

2007-08-27 Thread George N. White III
was that I > wanted to use some amstex macro's. Is it possible to use amstex in context > as well? What part of amstex?The math-ams module defines characters, but I'm not sure about some of the advanced layout stuff. --

Re: [NTG-context] lost after upgrade

2007-08-27 Thread George N. White III
and removing all the old .fmt files? On my system, fmtuil-sys puts the cont-en.fmt formats in texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/ and texmf-var/web2c/xetex/, but the context tools put them under texmf-config, so it is all easy to end up with multiple versions of the .fmt files. -- George N. White III <

Re: [NTG-context] lost after upgrade

2007-08-27 Thread George N. White III
On 8/27/07, Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 27 août à 17:29:24 "George N. White III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit > notamment: > > | Did you do the step of finding and removing all the old .fmt files? > > > | On my system, fmtuil-sy

Re: [NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread George N. White III
ntry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > _

Re: [NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread George N. White III
t > necessary... I'd try the latest version first. Normally I have my systems configured with a separate texmf-cont tree that I link to cont-tmf- so I can very quickly switch versions. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: [NTG-context] debian: itemize start=0

2007-10-10 Thread George N. White III
ry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___

[NTG-context] luatex on debian

2007-10-12 Thread George N. White III
c | tex engine: luatex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is luaTeX, Version 3.141592-beta-0.11.2-2007092410 (Web2C 7.5.6) (./foo.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKIV fmt: 2007.10.12 int: english/english [...] -- George N.

Re: [NTG-context] Getting the default pdf fonts working on texlive 2007

2007-10-26 Thread George N. White III
original-youngryu-tx {/Data/opt/tex/texlive/svn/Master/texmf-cont/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original- youngryu-tx.map} [1.1] systems : end file test at line 10 ){/Data/opt/tex/texlive/svn/Master/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc} Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 13169 bytes).

[NTG-context] kpse.rb bad guess for distribution (web2c vs miktex)

2007-11-23 Thread George N. White III
'PATH'] =~ /(.*?)miktex[\\\/]bin/i) then ! @@distribution = 'miktex' unless $1 =~ /(texmf\-mswin[\/\\]bin|bin[\/\\]win32)/i end @@re_true = /yes|on|true|1/i -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _

[NTG-context] Re: problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)

2003-09-16 Thread George N. White III
ave a chance to test your patch today. Currently, texexec.pl tries a brute force search if kpathsea fails to find texexec.ini or texexec.rme. On the Win98 PC I'm using, this search takes much longer than I'm willing to wait. Would it be better to exit with a suggestion that the user invest

[NTG-context] Re: Re: problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)

2003-09-17 Thread George N. White III
or the gebied entry in, e.g., test.tmp? Are you using irun generated .exe files for texexec, etc.? -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Re: Re: problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)

2003-09-18 Thread George N. White III
ill require the same change, and they are only to be used for "$dosish" systems. It is past my bedtime, so I'll have to cut this short. Weather permitting, I'll be out of the office until October, but I'll try to post some reasonabl

Re: [NTG-context] texshow (was: keywords)

2003-10-04 Thread George N. White III
.pm is a perl module. It was missing on SGI Irix too. Perl has a tools to automate the installation of modules, but you may need some libraries as well (Tk/Tcl, compression, etc.) which can either be installed under Perl or for use with other applications. You will need the developer tools if you bu

Re: [NTG-context] RME and INI

2003-10-06 Thread George N. White III
27;texexec --verbose', I can see that settings are still taken from > 'texexec.rme'. Could You tell me what is the point in copying RME to INI and > when INI file is used instead RME? Did you run mktexlsr? What do you get from: 'kpsewhich -progname=context -format=&qu

Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 2003 miseries.

2003-10-14 Thread George N. White III
some way I do need to let someone know pronto. I'm not sure about the demo image. If you are using Win32, does texexec.exe find texexec.ini using kpsewhich? -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Re: texfont and type-tmf.dat

2003-10-14 Thread George N. White III
ied to me that printed out the full path > that texfont was looking for files in. The --fontroot option or kpsewhich > lookup appears to be at fault but I have no debugging facilities. > > Any suggestions (other than giving up) gratefully received. You will have to learn a tiny bi

[NTG-context] Re: columns and alignment at the bottom

2003-10-15 Thread George N. White III
.3] [4.4] [5.5] [6.6] [7.7] systems : end file context-align at line 82 ){/opt/texLive/texmf/dvips/tetex/f7b6d320.enc} Output written on context-align.pdf (7 pages, 14051 bytes). Transcript written on context-align.log. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay,

[NTG-context] Re: TeX Live 2003 miseries.

2003-10-16 Thread George N. White III
ll TeX that will play nicely with that (I did suggest that our users would be better off running linux in vmware). -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Permission denied

2003-11-20 Thread George N. White III
contents of an image fileset and copy out individual files. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Update failure: I'm losing my mind

2003-12-12 Thread George N. White III
ybe cheap PC clones can't tolerate ls-R too many times in a short time period. btw -- before the machine died I did notice that the new version of fpTeX has a 1.11b pdftex. I've been asked to put TL2003 on a ThinkPad running XP -- hope it sur

Re: [NTG-context] Perl scripts almost unusable under Win32 MiKTeX

2003-12-24 Thread George N. White III
will want to edit the properties for Maintenance/Add packages to change the command line to use you favorite CTAN mirror, e.g.,: C:\texLive\bin\Win32\TeXSetup.exe --add-package --remote-source-directory ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/0.7/. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] Install again

2003-12-31 Thread George N. White III
texexec.ini: $ mv ./context/config/texexec.rme ./context/config/texexec.ini $ texhash . texhash: Updating /user/gwhite/texmf/./ls-R... texhash: Done. The next step would be to compare "texexec --verbose" for the two configurations, and also the contents of

Re: [NTG-context] how to get an image format flowchart

2004-01-21 Thread George N. White III
t doesn't scale) is a poor choice for figures that consist of lines and text. There are many good tools to do the conversions you mention, starting with a pdf file. It is easy to find these tools on the internet and they are discussed in books such as "The LaTeX Graphics Companion"

Re: [NTG-context] live ConTeXt

2004-02-17 Thread George N. White III
R UID.GID /home/TEXUSER fi mkdir /mnt/NFS_SERVER && mount /mnt/NFS_SERVER The usual config.tbz file will provide modified fstab, group, passwd, etc. files. The TEXUSER.tgz file can provide scripts to add TeX to the user's PATH, etc. Use &quo

Re: [NTG-context] TaBlE Issues

2004-03-01 Thread George N. White III
You need the printed manual for the TaBlE package, which will suggest something alone the lines: \starttable[|l|lp(120pt)|] \NC Something \NC Long description ... \input tufte \NC\AR \stoptable -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada _

Re: [NTG-context] TaBlE Issues

2004-03-02 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > * George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Mar 01, 2004 18:30]: > > You need the printed manual for the TaBlE package, which will > > suggest something alone the lines: > > Hm, and this manual has to be ordered? No do

Re: [NTG-context] TaBle example fails

2004-03-31 Thread George N. White III
e core-tab.tex. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

RE: [NTG-context] Baffling error

2004-04-17 Thread George N. White III
g files to a laptop may not be practical. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] eps to pdf images

2004-05-11 Thread George N. White III
tment) than you can get using pdftex, and you can use different settings for each image rather than rely on some global "default" setting. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada ___ nt

Re: [NTG-context] %%BoundingBox: (atend)

2004-06-02 Thread George N. White III
xmgracefile.ps > xmgracefile.ps.bb" -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada#! /bin/ksh # findbb -- write PostScript BoundingBox to stdout # Notes: # 0. The '-b' flag can be used with .pdf files. # 1. (e)ps files may contain bin

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic-utf-8 (plus a sample)

2004-06-06 Thread George N. White III
8 and several TeX encodings. From the manual: "It is easy for a programmer to add a new charset to `recode'. All it requires is making a few functions kept in a single `.c' file, adjusting `Makefile.am' and remaking `recode'." -- George N. White III <[EMAIL P

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread George N. White III
ns. All that pdftex should do is support inclusion of pdf. The limited support for including png images is a convenience, but if you are being careful you would want to make pdf images. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margaret

Re: [NTG-context] Downsampling images in pdfTeX

2004-07-27 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Mats Broberg wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George N. White III As a general principle, it makes no sense for pdftex to provide image manipulation capabilities. Such capabilities are useful to a much wider audience than the users of

Re: [NTG-context] Lucida doesn't work in TL 2013 / latest ConTeXt

2013-04-19 Thread George N. White III
://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________ > -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] Pi, Theta symbols are not rendered

2011-04-25 Thread George N. White III
ugh detail (host OS, commands used to format the document) and a minimal example so someone can reproduce your problem. Have you tried viewing the output with other viewers and/or platforms? -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Sco

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography basics

2011-04-29 Thread George N. White III
c.pdf that is identical to the one available from the above URL. -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] lm otf math

2011-05-12 Thread George N. White III
a TeXCharTool that does BabelMap stuff but provides annotations describing appropriate TeX usages and can be searched using legacy TeX markup (e.g., to assist with converting old docs to unicode). -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography: current status, Wiki page Bibliography, [[error 2]] and bibltx

2011-05-20 Thread George N. White III
try to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki     : http://contextgarden.net > _

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV : MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua'

2011-05-23 Thread George N. White III
> Mathieu Not near my Mac system, but I seem to recall there was a change in the name of the directory for the programs from "texmf-osx-intel" to "texmf-osx-64" so you would need to adjust the PATH setting fro

Re: [NTG-context] compresslevel and png graphics (mkiv)

2011-05-26 Thread George N. White III
image to pdf tools that all do the easy cases adequately but don't give the level of control needed for the difficult cases. SVG is different because much of it is based on a graphics model that resembles PDF. Some SVG documents translate directly to PDF, but others, e.g., markers, may &qu

Re: [NTG-context] a tiny set of documents for introduction to ConTeXt (for MacTeX)

2011-05-31 Thread George N. White III
is: does anyone have any good ideas what to put there? I used to send people who wanted to find out what ConTeXt can do to <http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf>, but it doesn't work for me on linux, only windows (the Mac here isn't on the network). -- George N. White III Head

Re: [NTG-context] newbie questions

2011-05-31 Thread George N. White III
ause printers understandably don't like dealing with unknown software. It takes some time to train the printers to trust ConTeXt or LaTeX produced documents, and then the company goes under or is bought out by a bigger company and you have to start over. -- George N. White III Head of St. Marg

Re: [NTG-context] Any MacTeX users here?

2011-06-26 Thread George N. White III
/modules.sourceforge.net/>), to switch between TeX distros. This adjusts the environment in the current shell. -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot

2011-08-19 Thread George N. White III
t likely you are missing some of the "build" tools. Look for a package called "build-essential". You may need to add some -dev packages for various libraries needed by gnuplot. You might check the dependencies for debian gnuplot and make sure you have the -

Re: [NTG-context] epub

2012-02-20 Thread George N. White III
express a concept that could be more accurately conveyed by a simple equation. I suppose it is time to start collecting examples of epub docs with maths and filing bugs against readers that don't handle them properly. -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-09 Thread George N. White III
rd equivalent that many will be used to. Many of my tables are results from some numerical computation, I usually write a short program to print the data in the required ConTeXt/LaTeX format. The others I try to find some similar existing table and update the text. -- George N. White III Head of

Re: [NTG-context] font switching questions

2009-03-19 Thread George N. White III
graphics) it isn't appropriate to provide all the background in a TeX documentation, so what is needed is a some pointers to the required background material. I do expect a reader who comes without the required background to find things they don't understand, but the way to handle that

Re: [NTG-context] Perfect Mac OS X Installation?

2009-04-05 Thread George N. White III
ment, called "environment modules": <http://modules.sourceforge.net/> <http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/resources/software/os/modules.html> This was standard kit on SGI Irix -- now that we are replacing the SGI workstations with MacOSX at

Re: [NTG-context] Ubuntu and Context MKIV

2010-08-19 Thread George N. White III
agma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki     : http://contextgarden.net > ___ > -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Ubuntu and Context MKIV

2010-08-19 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Xan wrote: > Al 19/08/10 12:52, En/na George N. White III ha escrit: >> >> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Xan  wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have installed context package >>> [http://packa

Re: [NTG-context] Ubuntu and Context MKIV

2010-08-19 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Xan wrote: > Al 19/08/10 15:48, En/na George N. White III ha escrit: >> >> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Xan  wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Al 19/08/10 12:52, En/na George N. White III ha escrit: >>> &

Re: [NTG-context] Ubuntu and Context MKIV

2010-08-20 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Xan wrote: > >> Al 19/08/10 12:52, En/na George N. White III ha escrit: >>> >>>  On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Xan  wrote: >>> >>> >  Hi, >>> > >  I

Re: [NTG-context] Ubuntu and Context MKIV

2010-08-20 Thread George N. White III
etc/texmf/web2c/pdftex on my system. On debian/ubuntu /etc/texmf/web2c is for configuration files, but perhaps some program tried to put formats and logs there instead of the proper /var/lib/texmf: $ locate texmf/web2c/pdftex /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/amstex.fmt /var/lib/t

Re: [NTG-context] Ubuntu and Context MKIV

2010-08-21 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Xan wrote: > Al 21/08/10 00:30, En/na George N. White III ha escrit: >> >> O >> When I run luatools --generate (as normal user) there are no errors. >> >> I don't have /etc/texmf/web2c/pdftex on my system.   On de

Re: [NTG-context] Ubuntu and Context MKIV

2010-08-22 Thread George N. White III
gt; desktop. Is it possible to change that directory into a hidden directory > e.g. ~/.luatex-cache? Yes -- see "/usr/share/doc/context/README.MarkIV" -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia __

Re: [NTG-context] Ubuntu and Context MKIV

2010-08-22 Thread George N. White III
2c. It may be too much to expect luatools to recover when things are not where they belong and files under $HOME are not owned by the user. -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ If your q

Re: [NTG-context] Ubuntu and Context MKIV

2010-08-23 Thread George N. White III
ing: 1. document the current status: run (as normal user) "luatools --variables", then use the value of TEXMFCACHE for: "ls -lR " (e.g., paste in the value shown for TEXMFCACHE) 2. check that the luatex caches have suitable permissions, or just delete them and

[NTG-context] typo in bibl-tra.mkii: firstiftwoarguments --> firstoftwoarguments

2009-09-13 Thread George N. White III
unknown}% \secondoftwoarguments}} --- 1183,1189 \def\doifbibreferencefoundelse#1% {\preloadbiblist \doifdefinedelse{pbdk-#1} ! {\firstoftwoarguments} {\showmessage\m!publications{5}{#1 is unknown}% \secondoftwoarguments}} -- George N. White III Head of

Re: [NTG-context] Using ConTeXt for a thesis?

2009-12-19 Thread George N. White III
http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki     : http://contextgarden.net > ___

Re: [NTG-context] Ajami script

2023-01-01 Thread George N. White III via ntg-context
s and writing systems were too often imposed on indigenous peoples in N. America. It would not surprise me to learn that some West African kids were never exposed to "anything written in a non-Arabic language with Arabic script". -- George N. White III __

Re: [NTG-context] tikz error upgrading to texlive version (artix)

2023-04-02 Thread George N. White III via ntg-context
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 4:01 PM Xavier B. via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I use artix linux (a fork of arch with systemd alternative init systems). > I get the same error for TL2023 in Windows, with additional output: Please don't say '\def cs{...}', say '\def\cs{...}'. I