Re: [NTG-context] rotated accented character

2005-08-22 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Thank you, Hans! This macro solved two problems at once :) Now I can also define \udoublegrave (the Aditions for Slovenian and Croatian section of Unicode ;) by simply putting \mirror{\texthungarumlaut} as an argument to \topaccent. hm, your little private tex

Re: [NTG-context] pdflatex and mpost -tex=latex

2005-08-22 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
David Arnold wrote: All, Does anyone know if pdflatex -shell-escape filename automatically forces metapost to run with -tex=latex? dunno, but you can so mptopdf --latex yourfile.mp Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] extra pages after backmatter

2005-08-24 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Ciro Soto wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt in MikTeX distribution

2005-08-24 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi, Just list another one, font files received from the vendor is usually in capital letters, such as PJN_.PFB, but the copy_files routine in texfont.pl only copy *.pfb, then all the type1 files will not be copy to texmf... This, of course, is a problem

Re: [NTG-context] bug with active :!;?

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Olivier wrote: Hi, Seems like the following crashes conTeXt: see patch below Strangely enough, the bug doesn't seem to occur in \placeformula[eq:A] references get their labels cleaned up Many thanks for hinting a fix, \unprotect \def\dopreventmode[#1]% {\protect

Re: [NTG-context] footnote twiks

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Ciro Soto wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] How to customize the default verbatim colors

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Taco Hoekwater wrote: %% allows XML tag names to continue after colons (namespaces) \input verb-xml % TRICK \appended\gdef\XMLsetspecials{\setpretty`\:=10 } thanks, patched Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Issues: framedtext and tables inside itemized list

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Mojca Miklavec wrote: However, in ConTeXt the linewidth is reserved for rule thickness or something similar. Which is the ConTeXt alternative to LaTeX's \linewidth? \setlocalhsize \the\localhsize Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Palatino truetype: help!

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
VnPenguin wrote: \usetypescriptfile[type-pala] \usetypescript[MSPalatino] \usetypescript[MSPalatino][t5] or \usetypescript[MSPalatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[MyPalatino,12pt] -

Re: [NTG-context] Suitable mechanism for Theorems and Definitions

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi David, Not sure if you are still interested, but here is my optional title hack, revamped for a modern context distro. It creates a second extra optional argument for the enumeration, nothing too fancy. The example also shows a way in which you can access the number.

Re: [NTG-context] \AtBeginDocument

2004-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Peter Münster wrote: \let\startproductO=\startproduct \def\startproduct{something\startproductO} ? hm, starttext is called anyway so it should work with product as well you code is wrong, think about something (untested): \let\petermunstersstartproduct\startproduct

Re: [NTG-context] macro expansion in bookmarks

2004-06-16 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Peter Münster wrote: Hello, is there a switch to turn on macro expansion in bookmarks? Here an example, to show what I mean: \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] \definesynonyms[Acro][acronymes][\Full] \Acro{ST}{some text} \placebookmarks[section] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] footnote in paragraph

2004-06-16 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Peter Münster wrote: Hello, how could I place a footnote in a startParagraph environment? \defineparagraphs[Par][n=3] \starttext \startPar bla\Par bla\footnote{a footnote, that gets hidden...}\Par bla \stopPar \stoptext \startPar bla\Par bla\postponefootnotes\footnote{a footnote, that gets

Re: [NTG-context] update

2004-06-19 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Willi Egger wrote: Thanks indeed! Willi Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 18.06.2004 um 22:00 schrieb Willi Egger: I was looking into the TeXtools manual. Then I looked into the cont-tmf.zip and could not find the mentioned ruby scripts. Do you provide them separately? Did you look in cont-exa?

Re: [NTG-context] update

2004-06-19 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Gary Pajer wrote: - Original Message - From: Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Hans, I was looking into the TeXtools manual. Then I looked into the OK, I must be blind. Where is the TeXtools manual? nicely hidden on the same page (inshow-man.pdf) as texmfstart I will add

Re: [NTG-context] Re: update

2004-06-20 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Patrick Gundlach wrote: any chance that you update the context.www or the list of downloadable files? sure, later Are xmldir and xmltools different docs? xmltools will include all kind of thing i need so that one will grow, xmldir covers the xmldir functionality of xmltools only Hans

Re: [NTG-context] reference problem

2004-06-20 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
dr. Hans van der Meer wrote: In the ConTeXt manual (cont-eni.pdf) it says in the chapter on references by way of example: can you try the version i uploaded yesterday? (i introduced a feature and therefore bug but don't know yet why it fails on those cases) Hans

Re: [NTG-context] { in input file names

2004-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Nikolai Weibull wrote: Hi. Another one of my sort of weird questions. I have a file with { in it's weird indeed, are you searching for the limits of tex/context/your-os? file name and context doesn't seem to enjoy it much: i only enjoy names that match [a-z0-9\-] % mkdir {test} % cd {test}

Re: [NTG-context] textbackground

2004-06-26 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
dr. Hans van der Meer wrote: Hans, I definitely see problems with the \starttextbackground[]-\stoptextbackground environment (discussed in the displays-brochure). When the textbackground falls at a page crossing -- i.e. starts at the top of a page -- the coloring extends backwards on the page

Re: [NTG-context] a problem with \defineprotrudefactor

2004-07-16 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Bill McClain wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:59:29 +0200 Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been messing around with that because thanh is updating his stuff; i need to handle both hz and protruding and more -) I must ask: would this mean adding Context support for the font expansion

Re: [NTG-context] continuous numbering over components?

2004-07-16 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Marko Schütz wrote: Hi, I have a project containing products containing components. For one of the products I want to achieve a continuous numbering (as I get when `texexec`ing the product file) but I want a single pdf per component. I expect that there is an elegant solution, but didn't find it

Re: [NTG-context] ftp mirror

2004-07-21 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:39:41PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: What about an ftp mirror of all pragma-ade's material, like ftp.wau.nl some time ago? I don't think that is done at the moment. Why do you want that, BTW? Here's my wget commandline for the

Re: [NTG-context] side figure and typing

2004-07-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all ! let us imagine we have defined the following command: \def\SideFigure#1#2#3#4#5% { \placefigure[#1]{#2}{\externalfigure[#3][width=#4\makeupwidth]} #5 } which can be used to put a figure aside a companion text... but, what happens if the text is to be

Re: [NTG-context] key=value parameters

2004-07-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Vit Zyka wrote: Great, but unfortunately it does not work with empty parameter list []. No I have no time but I will look for better definition of \rawgetparameters and \rawsetparameter. I fixed this a while ago, and not have: %D \macros %D {rawgetparameters} %D %D A raw and dirty alternative

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with left and right

2004-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Matt Gushee wrote: Hello-- I have noticed a couple of cases where ConTeXt macros seem to have confused left and right sides: 1) I want to format some text in two columns, where the left column is right-aligned and the right column is left-aligned. I found I had to do this:

Re: [NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Denis Roegel wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:53:22AM +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: Hi, I try to achieve transparently filled objects using the metaobj package. However, transparency is ignored completely in the output, I just get a normal white. Here is my test file: Hi, I have never

Re: [NTG-context] side figure and typing

2004-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Willi Egger wrote: \startbuffer[test] \starttyping pack .ok .cancel .help -side top \stoptyping \stopbuffer \startbuffer[test] pack . \stopbuffer \starttext \SideFigure{right}{pack2}{figure.jpg}{0.25} { \getbuffer[test] \typebuffer[test] } Hans ___

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Problems with left and right

2004-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Patrick Gundlach wrote: [...] Furthermore, this usage of 'align=side' is inconsistent with some other things in ConTeXt, such as \rightaligned, which behaves as I would expect it to. I really wish that this align=wrong would change. Isn't there a switch for that? you may try:

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Disable Metapost rendering?

2004-07-24 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi, The only way I know of is to disable all mpost runs with texexec --nomp .. there is also --automp - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 |

[NTG-context] [Fwd: ocplist interactions [please forward]]

2004-07-26 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
-- - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com

[NTG-context] [Fwd: SciTE? [please forward]]

2004-07-26 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
-- - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com

[NTG-context] patterns

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Hi, The last few years we have encountered problems with changes in pattern files and names (dutch was dropped, czech was invalid, and us filenames also changed in undocumented ways). To get a bit more control over this can of worms, we need a test file that can be added to the tex live test

Re: [NTG-context] Bug report, \frac as redefined in m-newmat.tex

2004-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Brooks Moses wrote: At 01:40 PM 8/2/2004, you wrote: ah ... the alignment lookahead problem, i think we can safely patch \mathematics to catch lookahead as well as make frac more robust for unwanted expansion \usemodule[newmat]

Re: [NTG-context] rectangle-words (like in details.pdf)

2004-08-15 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Brooks Moses wrote: However, \fakewords doesn't seem to be a part of my ConTeXt distribution (and it's the latest version), so I'm not sure where Hans's files are getting it from. from the 50% files in my source directory that never made it into the distribution -) however, the already quite

Re: [NTG-context] texutil malformed UTF-8 character error

2004-08-22 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Duncan Hothersall wrote: I'm running the latest beta on top of a TeXlive 2003 install on linux. The job I'm currently running needs various tables of contents (and a set of bookmarks) but texutil (v. 8.2) seems to be choking on the .tui file at the very end of the run with this message:

Re: [NTG-context] Re: texutil malformed UTF-8 character error

2004-08-22 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Duncan Hothersall wrote: I wrote: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at /usr/TeX/texmf/scripts/context/perl/texutil.pl line 1520, TUI line 3. etc. Forgot to say, the /tui file in question has this at line 3: c \thisisbytesequence{^^G^^[#} which certainly does look a bit funny.

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Hi Patrick, Yes, but what is the problem? We are not talking about other fonts, just the ones preinstalled by psnfss. We know ervery bit of those fonts, so no need to reflect the spacing etc. in the filename, since e.g. phvr8t will always have the same characteristics thougout all distributions.

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Lucida Bright Fonts from StarOffice

2004-08-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Are these fonts exactly the same as the ones that you buy from yandy.com? I don't know. probably not, i once did a project where graphics came from all kind of organizations, we ended up with (looking in the final pdf file) quite some different lucida clones; the

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Salman Khilji wrote: I found out that while trying to install the latest ConTeXt over whatever came with texlive2003-inst-20030928.iso, I screwed up somewhere and ConTeXt would not even generate me a pdf file with cmr fonts. So here is what I did. 1) I deleted everything about TeX from my

Re: [NTG-context] Ancient Greek / a few modules for SW with thanks to GB

2004-08-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Use the attached cbgreek.tex typescript file (Hans, maybe it's the case to add it to the distribution?) and you should then be able to type something like this: interesting, it worked right away after adding \loadmapfile[cbgreek.map] so you know greek, interesting; it's

Re: [NTG-context] Text overwrites float instead of wrapping around it

2004-08-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Adam Warner wrote: {\bf Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,} consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod this is one of those cases where a par started with a group interferes with other things: \noindent (or \indent, of \dontleavehmode) {\bf Lorem is the way out

Re: [NTG-context] Ancient Greek / a few modules for SW with thanks to GB

2004-08-23 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: Sorry for my belated reaction, but I was away from my e-mail for two weeks. I'm very excited to see that things are moving on the Greek front. Hans, I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean when you say we need a greek vector and named glyphs. unicode does asign a

Re: [NTG-context] location of texsync.rb/minimal ConTeXt installation

2004-09-04 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Nikolai Weibull wrote: Where is texsync.rb located at the moment? It is not on http://www.pragma-ade.com/system/texsync.rb or anywhere in that directory, nor in the /context/ one. isn't it under texmf-*/scripts/context/ruby ? Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Re: location of texsync.rb/minimal ConTeXt installation

2004-09-04 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Nikolai Weibull wrote: In linuxtex.zip.bz2 you mean? (why the double compression?) the zip is not compressed, just use as storage container, bzipping the whole unzipped lot is more efficient Then no. Neither is it in any of the cont-*.zip files; nor in

Re: [NTG-context] Help with LaTeX - ConTeXt book typesetting

2004-09-10 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Ulrich Dirr wrote: Hi, I'm recently trying to get ConTeXt typesetting my books like with LaTeX before (or better). But I can't solve some problems ... Maybe someone can assist me? o How do I get the chapter number into the heading? I've tried \setupheader[before=\viii,style=normal]

Re: [NTG-context] Help with LaTeX - ConTeXt book typesetting

2004-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Ulrich Dirr wrote: That's great. Can I combine this setup with another one for left even right odd numbered pages? E.g., ((PAGE 2)) King 1 The King ((PAGE 3)) 1 The King Queen So that I can combine, say