Re[2]: [NTG-context] array ?

2004-09-12 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, September 12, 2004 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Am 12.09.2004 um 15:25 schrieb Giuseppe Bilotta: >> It's probably better to put them under \context\user, and if >> possible under the *local* texmf tree, if you have one >> ... >> \usemodule[amsl] should

Re[2]: [NTG-context] array ?

2004-09-12 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, September 12, 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > please forgive my ignorance but... > shall I copy the files > t-amsl.tex > t-nath.tex > into > \texmf\tex\context\base It's probably better to put them under \context\user, and if possible under the *local* texmf tree, if you have one >

Re: [NTG-context] array ?

2004-09-12 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, September 12, 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > in latex is possible to work with matrices. > How can I have matrix, array o something similar in ConTeXt ? Use the amsl and nath modules for ConTeXt. You can find them on CTAN. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Absolute positioning of graphics on the page

2004-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, September 7, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote >> >>This surely works ok for "top left". But how can I guarantee >>that "top right" has its *top right* corner in the position? I >>would have to calculate the coordinates manu

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Absolute positioning of graphics on the page

2004-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, September 7, 2004 Martin Kolarik wrote: > Hi Giuseppe, > try: > \setuppositioning[unit=cm,factor=0.5] > \starpositioning > \position(1,1){top left text} > \position(40,1){top right text} > \stoppositioning > Of course, the unit can be almost all of well known TeX units (pt, mm, em

[NTG-context] Part number in formula numbers?

2004-09-07 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello, what I'm trying to achieve is a way to have formula numbers contain the part number together with the chapter number, as in: a = b (part.chapter.formula) instead of a = b (chapter.formula) which is what you have by default, or a = b (part.formula) which i

[NTG-context] Absolute positioning of graphics on the page

2004-09-06 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Is this possible without using layers? IOW, it there some kind of command that allows: \somecommand[some setups]{content} where the setups specify where the content should be positioned, and towards where it should extend? (e.g., positioned in the top right corner, extending to the bottom left)

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Re: alpha version low level english

2004-09-01 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, September 1, 2004 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:49:59 +0200, Hans wrote: >> >With every change you make, there's almost always a complaint. :) Here's mine: >> >In English (American & British), "criterium" is more correctly >> >"criterion". Similarly, "palet" is "palett

[NTG-context] Re: Some proposed improvements for t-amsl.tex.

2004-08-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello Moses (uh ... I hope that's the name and Brooks is the surname ... :)), thank you very much for your email; it's very detailed and useful, which is why I've only replied this late (well, also because vacation-style RL popped in, but I digress :)) I'll address a couple of points replying und

Re: [NTG-context] nath problems and patches

2004-08-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, August 13, 2004 Christopher Creutzig wrote: > Giuseppe, > you may or may not know about these problems already, so I decided to > simply send them all. I'm using t-nath.tex 2003.12.08, updated five > minutes ago from www.tug.org, ConTeXt 2004.6.26, and pdfeTeX > 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Re: Re: nath catcode issues

2004-08-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, August 8, 2004 Nikolai Weibull wrote: > * Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Aug 08, 2004 16:30]: >> ConTeXt ver: 2004.6.30 fmt: 2004.7.27 int: english mes: english > Me too. >> [Example] > Argh, that doesn't happen here... >> This is p

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Ancient Greek

2004-08-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, August 23, 2004 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Download Claudio Beccari's fonts. (cbgreek) > Well, I did download the whole archive (71MB). > I used to install type1 fonts in ConTeXt with ONE afm file > and O

Re: [NTG-context] Ancient Greek

2004-08-21 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > I am about to edit a book with quotes in ancient (polyphonic) greek. > How can this be done in ConTeXt? > Searching for answers I found the long and painful thread > started by Thomas A. Schmitz almost one year ago. > Do we have an easie

[NTG-context] Input path with spaces

2004-08-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello, I just found out that I cannot compile ConTeXt documents using TeXexec 4.3 when the input path of the original document contains spaces, at least on MiKTeX 2.4 with pdf-e-TeX 1.20a-rc4. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] Converting math from LaTeX to ConTeXt

2004-08-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hi Brook, sorry for the horrible delay with which I'm replying to you. I think I have a part of the solution to your problems. Monday, July 26, 2004 Brooks Moses wrote: > Also, many of these equations run over multiple lines using the macros from > the amsmath package (the "split" environment in

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Re: nath catcode issues

2004-08-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, July 5, 2004 Nikolai Weibull wrote: > * Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jul 05, 2004 14:00]: >> Weird indeed. I'm not using the latest ConTeXt. (Actually I'm >> quite back with the updates ... gotta get down to it.) I'll see >> if upgrading

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Fwd: (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma [please forward]

2004-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, July 26, 2004 Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: > Well, this is pretty old news, so I'm not sure if a reply is still > called for; whatever, here comes: I'm not quite sure why Giuseppe is > trying to use eomega instead of plain ole pdftex. I mean, you're not > writing Greek in Unicode, right? If you

[NTG-context] Fwd: (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma [please forward]

2004-07-26 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
I'm sure that editing the otp's will get you the result u wanted quite easily, but in the year since u wrote this u've probably figured that out already:-) Best Idri [NTG-context] (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma Giuseppe Bilotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:40:35 +020

[NTG-context] Re: unicode editor? [please forward]

2004-07-26 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, July 26, 2004 ishamid wrote: > [for forwarding to the list] > Dear knights of the round table, > I generally do my Arabic work in Aleph/eomega in Latin transcription mode, but > things are at a point now where I would like to code TeX using unicode (and a > unicode otp filter). Now I use

Re[2]: [NTG-context] key=value parameters

2004-07-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, July 23, 2004 Vit Zyka wrote: >> Actually there is no need to define anything, you can just use \rawgetparameters >> instead of \getparameters. > Great, but unfortunately it does not work with empty parameter list []. > No I have no time but I will look for better definition of > \rawge

Re: [NTG-context] Re: nath catcode issues

2004-07-05 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, July 5, 2004 Nikolai Weibull wrote: > * Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jul 05, 2004 12:10]: >> Well, the nath catcodes only apply in math mode, and indeed in >> math mode , will trigger [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) > Hm, not here... [snip] > Your example ab

Re[10]: [NTG-context] Known nath bugs?

2004-07-05 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, July 4, 2004 Sebastian Sturm wrote: >> I will look into the interaction with MPenvironment. To solve >> the subscript problem, please change line 2738 of t-nath.tex >> from >> >> \ifdim\wd\!!boxa>[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> to >> >> \ifdim\wd\!!boxa>[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] nath catcode issues

2004-07-05 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, July 4, 2004 Nikolai Weibull wrote: > It seems that the code to enable catcode handling in nath math mode > isn't working. Currently, nath uses [snip] > to set it up, but as far as I can see this doesn't actually do anything > as [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't get invoked for commas and \dot

Re[2]: [NTG-context] High level user macro (howto?)

2004-06-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, June 28, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>What is the difference between setvariable and getparameters? >> >> > the second one does interface translations Sorry, I meant rawgetparameters -- Gi

Re[2]: [NTG-context] High level user macro (howto?)

2004-06-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, June 28, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: > There is > \setvariables [yournamespace] [yourvar=yourval] > which operates independent of the language interface > \getvariable{yournamespace}{yourvar} > can be used to pick up a var What is the difference between setvariable and getparameters?

Re[2]: [NTG-context] compile problems

2004-06-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, June 28, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: > Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >>> TeX run : 1 >>> >>> EOMEGA: unrecognized option `-translate-file=natural.tcx' >>> Try `EOMEGA --help' for more information. >> > Maybe GB/Olaf can let aleph/eomega ignore that (or other > unknown) switches? (s

Re: [NTG-context] High level user macro (howto?)

2004-06-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, June 26, 2004 Maurice Diamantini dom wrote: > Bonjour à tous, > One thing is missing in context (or not documented in reference manual?) > is a standard and easy way to build arbitrary parametrised high level > macros. > For exemple, instead of > \def\myCommand#9{...} > That I shou

Re[2]: [NTG-context] compile problems

2004-06-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, June 27, 2004 Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Hi, > There is really something screwy going on with the latest beta; what is > the problem calling upon the /texmf/web2c/natural.tcx file?? I hope > someone can help with this soon; this is like having a flat tire in the > middles of nowhere...

Re[8]: [NTG-context] Known nath bugs?

2004-06-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, June 6, 2004 Sebastian Sturm wrote: > Hi, >> If you could please provide some example file showing the >> problems, I'll see if I can nail them down. > the problem with delimiter autosizing seems to be caused by > MPenvironment; however, the problem with subscripts still seems very > st

Re: [NTG-context] compile problems

2004-06-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, June 26, 2004 Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Hi gang, > I'm having trouble compiling the eomega format with the latest ConTeXt > (6-21): > \texmf-var\web2c>eomega --ini *plain \dump > works, but then > \texmf-var\web2c>texexec --make --alone en -tex=eomega > eomega: unrecognized option

Re[8]: [NTG-context] Known nath bugs?

2004-06-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, June 8, 2004 Gary Pajer wrote: > Thank you very much, yes, the new version does work. > Giuseppe, please note: I waited a few days to make sure CTAN was up to > date. When I first looked for the file, there were different versions on > different mirrors. One was dated 2003.12.07, the

Re[4]: [NTG-context] Arabic-utf-8 (plus a sample)

2004-06-05 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, June 6, 2004 Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Hi Giuseppe (Is it not way past your bedtime;->), Yes it is, and it shows. But since I'm up and not having any particular urge to go to bed in this very moment, here's a tested alternative that works here: == #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warni

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Arabic-utf-8 (plus a sample)

2004-06-05 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, June 6, 2004 Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Here is the whole file once again: > == > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > use strict; > use open ':utf8'; > open(NEW,">new.tex"); #opens file to print out the result > while (<>); { #this opens the file for reading > $_ =~

Re[6]: [NTG-context] Known nath bugs?

2004-06-05 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, May 30, 2004 Sebastian Sturm wrote: > OK, I'll try that. At the moment I'm having all kinds of issues with > nath (even without any preamble at all), like \binom{\frac 12}{a} not > working, \to, \ot and \otto arrows not adjusting to the lengths of > their subscripts, etc... and I can hardl

Re[6]: [NTG-context] Known nath bugs?

2004-06-05 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, June 1, 2004 Gary Pajer wrote: > Let me point out, mainly for the record, that ConTeXt / nath does not seem > to work properly under MikTeX. > The following script works fine with Linux / teTeX, but with MikTeX, the > in-line versions of the math is wrong. > -gary > --

Re[4]: [NTG-context] Known nath bugs?

2004-05-30 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, May 29, 2004 Sebastian Sturm wrote: >> Yes, this is generally true. All modules should get loaded >> before \starttext. > Well, I had loaded it before \starttext in both cases. But when I > loaded it in the first line of my file, it didn't adjust the > delimiters; after moving the \use

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Known nath bugs?

2004-05-29 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, May 29, 2004 Sebastian Sturm wrote: > Hi, > the delimiter sizing is working now; i had to load the module directly > before \starttext. Yes, this is generally true. All modules should get loaded before \starttext. > However, the units module still isn't working when nath is > loaded.

[NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] amsl: startcases/stopcases

2004-05-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, May 28, 2004 David Munger wrote: >> > Indeed, I used to like nath a lot, but as I pointed out in this >> thread >> > http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/005306.html >> > there are bugs which prevent me from using it at the moment. >> >> Yes, it's still in my TODO list. Sadly, I d

Re: [NTG-context] miktex searching

2004-05-28 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > Because i frequently use texmfstart to locate/launch/etc binaries, scripts > and other things in the textree, i need to make sure that it also works > with miktex. Do miktex users have kpsewhich on their system (or is this an > option), or should

[NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] amsl: startcases/stopcases

2004-05-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, May 27, 2004 David Munger wrote: > Indeed, I used to like nath a lot, but as I pointed out in this thread > http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/005306.html > there are bugs which prevent me from using it at the moment. Yes, it's still in my TODO list. Sadly, I don't have enough

Re[2]: [NTG-context] \=i

2004-05-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, May 26, 2004 Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Could not interest anyone in the \=i problem, I guess. Anyway, could > someone tell me how ConTeXt defines \=i (so as to always get plain \=\i)? Very funky stuff, accents in ConTeXt. You'd have to dig up in enco-acc plus the other enco-* files.

[NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] amsl: startcases/stopcases

2004-05-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, May 25, 2004 David Munger wrote: >> > Is there some way of telling startcases/stopcases to behave in >> display >> > mode? >> >> Yup, I just changed a couple of things and now we have a >> \startbigcases ... \stopbigcases for this. Will upload new >> version soon. > Oh, great! I'm reall

Re: [NTG-context] amsl: startcases/stopcases

2004-05-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, May 20, 2004 David Munger wrote: > Hello Giuseppe, > I'm having a little trouble with the cases in amsl. > Compiling this: > \[ > f(x) = > \startcases > 0& \text{if $x < -\epsilon$} \\ > \frac12 & \text{if $x > \epsilon$} > \stopcases > \] > results in an err

Re[3]: [NTG-context] Page-breakable framed text

2004-02-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, February 26, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: > At 15:22 26/02/2004, you wrote: >>But watch out, they gobble footnotes ... > hm, i seldom use them, so i didn't notice, so i need to implement forbidden > areas ... since you didn't mention it before i assume that it has a low > priority -) I didn

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Page-breakable framed text

2004-02-26 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, February 26, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: > At 16:41 25/02/2004, you wrote: >>Hi! >> >>Is there a way to produce a page-breakable framed >>text? I've already spent several hours on this and >>still can't find the solution. Or, may be there's a >>better way to achieve the effect, shown in the

Re: [NTG-context] bfmath in nath

2004-02-19 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 David Munger wrote: > Hello, > The following outputs a nice bold displayed omega (the first one), and > a thin normal inline one (the second one): > \usemodule [nath] > \setupbodyfont [12pt] > \definebodyfont [12pt] [mm] [mibf=cmmib10 sa 1] > \starttext > \[\bfmath \o

[NTG-context] \setupsection ... works how?

2004-02-19 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hi there, while replying to a post on comp.text.tex I made the interesting discovery that \setupsection[section-2][conversion=Romannumerals] cannot be replaced by \setupsection[chapter][conversion=Romannumerals] even though chapter is section-2 ... why is it? Shouldn't it be possible to use th

Re[2]: [NTG-context] t-nath difficulty

2004-02-19 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, February 16, 2004 Gary Pajer wrote: > Gary Pajer wrote: >> I'm taking a look at nath (via t-nath). Here's the very first thing I >> tried: >> >> In the following code, the first formula typesets as I want, and the >> second doesn't. But the syntax in the second looks correct. >> Bug or

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Not seeing the wood because of so many trees

2004-02-19 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: > Sorry for going back to an older thread, but I don't think the question > was answered properly. Alexander Klink wanted to know how to typeset > "{" and "}". Suggestions were "\type|{| and \type|}|" or "$\{$ and > $\}$". Neither of which is sati

Re[2]: [NTG-context] numexpr in etex / bug ?

2004-02-14 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, February 14, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: >>So always put a \relax after an expression :) > yes, but i'm occasionally surpised when a \relax is pushed back in the list > (and for instance acrobat does not like "/Whatever 12\relax" Well, that's not a \relax that comes from an \..expr command

Re: [NTG-context] numexpr in etex / bug ?

2004-02-14 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, February 12, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > A numexpr either ends with a \relax or is delimited by () > So, the following works as expected: >\number\numexpr(1) test > but ... the following gives an error message: >\number\numexpr(1) /test > so, the expr parser looks beyond

Re: [NTG-context] (no subject)

2004-02-02 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, February 1, 2004 Vit Zyka wrote: > Hallo ConTeXt debater, > this buffer storage works perfectly: > > \starttext > \startbuffer[TMP] > Bla > \stopbuffer > \getbuffer[TMP] > \stoptext > > but why not this one? > > \starttext > \def\tmp{% > \startbuffer[TMP] >

Re: [NTG-context] Pb running ex-gui

2004-01-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, January 23, 2004 olivier Turlier wrote: > A question on Ruby : does it accept a namespace in a path? > (like Program Files) >^ > Here, I list all the unsuccessfull commands (from the command line in > Scite) (see a complete listenig attached): > ruby examp

[NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] Indentation after formulas

2004-01-21 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 David Munger wrote: >> Try \setupformulas[indentnext=yes], rather. Of course, you do >> know that indenting the text following a formula when the text refers to >> the formula is not a typographical/structural good idea, don't >> you? ;) > Ahhh... It works fine with \s

[NTG-context] Re: Re : [NTG-context] Indentation after formulas

2004-01-21 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 David Munger wrote: >> Let >> \placeformula >> \[ >> f(x) = x^2, >> \] >> where $x$ means nothing. > I've found that inserting > \let\startformula\startmpformula > \let\stopformula\stopmpformula > before \usemodule[nath] does the trick. But I feel it's not a very goo

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Unable to customize publication list

2004-01-20 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hi, > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:23:23AM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> It definitely doesn't seem to work here ... >> Just to clarify, the \cites[..] do appear with brackets, it's >> the list that doesn'

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Localizing the bibliography

2004-01-20 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi Giuseppe, > These "words" are all part of the bibl-XXX.tex input files. The best > way to change them is to make a copy of one of these files and > make changes in the (renamed) copy. Different styles you different > "words" in different place

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Unable to customize publication list

2004-01-20 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hi, It definitely doesn't seem to work here ... Just to clarify, the \cites[..] do appear with brackets, it's the list that doesn't have them. Using ConTeXt ver: 2004.1.13 fmt: 2004.1.14 int: english mes: english Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi, > This > \def\mynum

[NTG-context] Footnotes with(out) backgrounds

2004-01-19 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello, a user on it.comp.software.tex just discovered a bug in handling footnotes when backgrounds are present. Brief example: \starttext \setupfootnotes[rule=on] \setupbackground[topoffset=7pt,bottomoffset=7pt] % \startlocalfootnotes[n=0] \startbackground La {\bf locomozione} è un tipo di spost

Re[2]: [NTG-context] \enableregime, \setupbodyfont and the amsl module

2004-01-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, January 13, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: > At 17:15 13/01/2004, you wrote: >>Hi Hans and all, >> >>a user on it.comp.software.tex just noticed a funny interaction >>between the amsl module and an appropriate choice of fonts and >>encodings. The following minimal test file shows the problem: >>

[NTG-context] \enableregime, \setupbodyfont and the amsl module

2004-01-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hi Hans and all, a user on it.comp.software.tex just noticed a funny interaction between the amsl module and an appropriate choice of fonts and encodings. The following minimal test file shows the problem: \setupbodyfont[ber,pos] \usemodule[nath] \enableregime[il1] \starttext \`e è un'attività \

[NTG-context] Unable to customize publication list

2004-01-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hi, another m-bib problem from it.comp.software.tex ... it seems that none of the "list customizations" options (i.e. neither the \setuppublicationlist nor \setuplist[pubs] allows to change the numbercommand parameter (e.g. to put brackets around the bibref number in the list); a quick glance at t

[NTG-context] Localizing the bibliography

2004-01-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hi all, as a follow-up to a request on it.comp.software.tex (ya know, I managed to trick a couple of Italians in using ConTeXt ;)): the m-bib module and companion files have a bunch of strings that get inserted in the bibliography list; some of them are localizable (e.g. the "and" or the "et.al.")

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Perl scripts almost unusable under Win32 MiKTeX

2004-01-04 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, January 4, 2004 Hans Hagen wrote: > At 10:12 23/12/2003, you wrote: >>Recent ConTeXt updates have rendered some Perl scripts >>(texshow.pl & modules) unusable under MiKTeX because they >>heavily rely on web2c methods to find binaries and >>complementary files. > it would help if there was

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

2003-12-23 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Recent ConTeXt updates have rendered some Perl scripts (texshow.pl & modules) unusable under MiKTeX because they heavily rely on web2c methods to find binaries and complementary files. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL P

Re[4]: [NTG-context] Update failure: I'm losing my mind

2003-12-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, December 13, 2003 Gary Pajer wrote: > Ok. > I gronked MiKTeX's ConTeXt. I wrote a one line batch file that calls > explicitly c:\localtexmf\context\perltk\texexec.pl > This seems to work. Good to know :) If you have Windows NT or Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you can actually do without

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Update failure: I'm losing my mind

2003-12-11 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, December 11, 2003 Gary Pajer wrote: > Thanks, but that didn't work. I still have a nagging feeling that I'm > forgetting something simple. > MiKTeX comes with a texexec.exe. Putting texexec.ini in the same directory > doesn't do it either. First of all, don't use the ConTeXt package t

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

2003-12-11 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, December 11, 2003 Gary Pajer wrote: > MiKTeX. > I've done this half a dozen times. This time it doesn't work. I feel > stupid. What have I forgotten? > Things were working perfectly. I decide to update, so I download > cont-tmf.zip to \localtexmf. Then I unzip, overwritting all the

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ntg-context digest, Vol 1 #581 - 7 msgs

2003-12-10 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, December 10, 2003 Christopher G. D. Tipper wrote: > You missed the point. You markup and style your document using Word > stylesheets, and then XML is a matter of search and replace. A hold load > better than a lame text-editor. Ok, I see what you mean now. In this case OOo is even bet

Re[2]: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Switcher?

2003-12-09 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, December 10, 2003 Christopher G D Tipper wrote: > This is probably taboo, but surely the smart thing to do > is start from Word, generate some XML with macros, and > produce some HTML with stylesheets, some PDF with ConTeXt. > BTW you can generate some simple Context with VB macros and

Re[2]: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Switcher?

2003-12-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, December 8, 2003 Bob Kerstetter wrote: > I know XML source should work, but at least for me, creating XML source > is unproductive. I work with a text editor and find writing this: > ``Hello world,'' says HAL. > much more productive than writing this: > “Hello world”, says HAL. > Mayb

Re: [NTG-context] Gathered equations with t-amsl and t-nath

2003-12-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, December 8, 2003 David Munger wrote: >> Monday, December 8, 2003 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> >> > Regarding your problem(s): >> >> > * with the ConTeXt version I have (2003.09.26), all lines in >> > the gather are separate. The whole block h

[NTG-context] Re[2]: [NTG-context] Re : [NTG-context] Gathered equations with t-amsl and t-nath

2003-12-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, December 8, 2003 David Munger wrote: >> What version of ConTeXt are you using? > texexec says: > ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2003.10.4 int: english mes: english > I'm using the version included in debian unstable's tetex package. That's pretty old. May I suggest an upgrade? (It woul

[NTG-context] Re: [NTG-context] Re: [NTG-context] Re : [NTG-context] Gathered equations with t-amsl and t-nath

2003-12-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, December 8, 2003 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Regarding your problem(s): > * with the ConTeXt version I have (2003.09.26), all lines in > the gather are separate. The whole block has a single number, > though. This is both with, and without nath. > * formula (sub)numberi

[NTG-context] Re: [NTG-context] Re : [NTG-context] Gathered equations with t-amsl and t-nath

2003-12-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, December 8, 2003 David Munger wrote: >> > \placeformula >> > \startgather >> > f(x) = x \\ >> > g(x) = x^2 \\ >> > h(x) = x^3 >> > \stopgather >> I will look into this. Are you using amsl only or nath too? > It works well with amsl only. Though it would be nice to have an option to

Re: [NTG-context] Gathered equations with t-amsl and t-nath

2003-12-07 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, December 7, 2003 David Munger wrote: > [Sorry if this is a repost. The first time, I posted from the wrong email > account.] > --- > Hello Giuseppe, you've done a great work with amsl an nath modules! > Seems that there is a little bug when you try to gather more tha

Re[2]: [NTG-context] t-amsl and t-nath

2003-12-07 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, December 7, 2003 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > I uploaded a new ctx-math.zip to CTAN, containing the updated > files. If you want to grab the new modules before they get > distributed properly, see if you can get it from the UK node. > Also note that now nath will automatically

Re: [NTG-context] t-amsl and t-nath

2003-12-06 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, December 2, 2003 Boris Hollas wrote: > Hello! > I tried the modules t-amsl and t-nath. This is what I noticed or have > questions about: > 1. The bracket for \cases{} is too small when t-nath is used, as in > this example: > \usemodule[amsl] > \usemodule[nath] > \starttext > We denot

Re: [NTG-context] t-amsl and t-nath

2003-12-06 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, December 2, 2003 Boris Hollas wrote: > Hello! > I tried the modules t-amsl and t-nath. Thank you very much :) > This is what I noticed or have questions about: > 1. The bracket for \cases{} is too small when t-nath is used, as in > this example: > \usemodule[amsl] > \usemodule[nath]

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Updated Nath/AmSL modules

2003-12-03 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, December 1, 2003 Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hi, > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:24:16PM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> And for the "I'm stupid" series, I reintroduced an old bug in >> fixing another, so here we are again. > Hmm, I saved that file (nath.ta

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Updated Nath/AmSL modules

2003-12-01 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, December 1, 2003 Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hi, > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:24:16PM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >> And for the "I'm stupid" series, I reintroduced an old bug in >> fixing another, so here we are again. > Hmm, I saved that file (nath.ta

Re: [NTG-context] Updated Nath/AmSL modules

2003-12-01 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, November 29, 2003 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Hello guys, > for those among you who need to do math stuff, I updated the > nath and amsl modules, fixing a couple of bugs (no new features > yet). And for the "I'm stupid" series, I reintroduced an old bug in fix

[NTG-context] Updated Nath/AmSL modules

2003-11-29 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Hello guys, for those among you who need to do math stuff, I updated the nath and amsl modules, fixing a couple of bugs (no new features yet). Let me know how they fare. NATH.TAR.BZ2 Description: Binary data

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Permission denied

2003-11-20 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote: > Thnx Ed and Giuseppe 4 your help & direction. > Question: When backing up to cd is there any way to > maintain write-permission upon > retransfer to hard disk? I use Nero for back-up. This is getting off-topic I > know... No because the read-on

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Permission denied

2003-11-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 13, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote: > I think I found the problem: > I backed up some stuff on a cd; when I transferred the files to my other > computer all the file properties read "read-only", so whenever eomega tried > to modify a temporary file (fls, log, etc) it was denied permi

Re: [NTG-context] Permission denied

2003-11-13 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, November 13, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote: > Hi guys, > just reinstalled things, and eomega plus gamma gives me the following: > This is e-Omegak, Version 3.14159--1.15--2.1 (Web2c 7.4.5) > %&-line parsing enabled. > Copyright (c) 2002 the e-Omega task force > eomega.exe: context.fls: Per

Re[4]: [NTG-context] resolution

2003-10-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, October 25, 2003 Severin Obertuefer wrote: >> Saturday, October 25, 2003 Severin Obertuefer wrote: >> >> > i get an error when I try this: "pstopdf" can not be found ... >> > I use MS Windows and Miktex. GS is installed >> >> Is it in the path? > c:\programme\ruby\bin; > C:\Programme\

Re[2]: [NTG-context] resolution

2003-10-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Saturday, October 25, 2003 Severin Obertuefer wrote: > i get an error when I try this: "pstopdf" can not be found ... > I use MS Windows and Miktex. GS is installed Is it in the path? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAI

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Visual creators for ConTeXt

2003-10-15 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, October 15, 2003 Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There already is (was) a ConTeXt-documentation project on >> SourceForge, with a mailing list and all. > I searched for context and documentation on sf.net, but did not

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Visual creators for ConTeXt

2003-10-15 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, October 14, 2003 Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Hi, >> (btw, do you use the xml alternative of the command reference?) > (why "alternative"? ;-)) > This is a very good question! I'd like to know, too :) > We could establish a cont-??.xml working group. Or a technical > committee. There a

Re: [NTG-context] keywords

2003-10-02 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, October 2, 2003 Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> - always surprised by the amount of unexpected keywords... > you know about the reference (setup-en.pdf..) and (e)texshow? What's etexshow? (I know about texshow) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov"

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Context Ruby scripts

2003-09-30 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Tuesday, September 30, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: > At 16:30 30/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >>Downloaded the beta, there are no files with extension rb. On the >>Pragmasite/context/beta is no rubz folder > ah, i see, i don't zip *.rb -) BTW Hans, could you please switch to .tar.bz2 for the packa

Re[2]: [NTG-context] TeX capacity exceeded in MikTeX

2003-09-29 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, September 29, 2003 ^Nitram^ wrote: > Hi, >> > ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000]. >> In MiKTeX the file is miktex.ini, not texmf.cnf; you should >> find a hash_size= entry there. > There was no entry like this ;( > But I created it (and also hash_size_def) in section MikTe

Re[2]: [NTG-context] math in context

2003-09-29 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, September 26, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: > At 06:51 26/09/2003 +0100, you wrote: >>I woul like to know where I may find a complete list of symbols like >> >>$\Bbb{R}$ >> >>to use in context while I am typing maths. >> >>The main hurdle that I have today in change my personal typset work from >

Re: [NTG-context] TeX capacity exceeded in MikTeX

2003-09-29 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Sunday, September 28, 2003 ^Nitram^ wrote: > Hi, > I have the same problem as was reported at 8.04.2003 - anybody > resolved it ?... I have a document (about 80 pages) and error when I > compile whole. Below I attach my log file - anybody have any good idea > - I need this paper today ;((( > log

Re: [NTG-context] \let \def \relax ?

2003-09-25 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, September 25, 2003 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > for reasons of consistency I'd like to define a kind of master-line. > So I have everywhere the same proportions even when changing this master value. > My idea was > \def\MyGrid{15pt} > and to use it for example like > width=1.5\My

Re: [NTG-context] Aligment?

2003-09-24 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Wednesday, September 24, 2003 ^Nitram^ wrote: > Hi, > When I trying with new commands I noticed that: > \framed[align=left,width=broad]{left} > \framed[align=right,width=broad]{right} > produced: > |---| > | left| > |---| > |---| > |r

Re[5]: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of formulas

2003-09-18 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, September 18, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: > At 17:31 18/09/2003 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>proposes something like >> >>\parfillskip = .5\hsize plus .092\hsize minus .5\hsize > hm, we need a way to parametrize this, will think of it I was hoping you would :

Re[4]: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of formulas

2003-09-18 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Thursday, September 18, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: > yes, but a very short last line will make uit look quite ugly, i.e. there > is already quite some space there; i'd rather tend to have a different > threshold then (say 4em instead of 2em, which boils down to: > some long text > fo

Re[3]: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of formulas

2003-09-18 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
>>Hans, that is *not* supposed to work in those cases because a >>\par or an empty line determine an end-of-paragraph, so the >>formula starts a new paragraph and the lenght of the previous >>line is *irrelevant* --you don't have a mid-paragraph display. >> >>I know that you like those freeform spa

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