Re: [NTG-context] install older beta

2012-04-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-04-25 um 22:15 schrieb luigi scarso: # git archive --format=zip -v -o 'beta_2012_01_02_17_18.zip' 47864ebdfe2d9916e365c2f278585a94879c813d --format zip (without =) All commands was tested and they work on my Linux box; my man git archive says OPTIONS --format=fmt True,

Re: [NTG-context] Example only works in mkii

2012-04-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-04-26 um 19:38 schrieb Bill Meahan: BTW, the code was literally a copy-'n'-paste from the wiki page without any alteration by me. Probably should be fixed. Just do it, if you're at it, therefore it’s a wiki. Thanks. Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

[NTG-context] fancybreak or alternative

2012-04-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi Wolfgang and others, I had in my book: \usemodule[fancybreak] % https://bitbucket.org/wolfs/fancybreak/ \setupfancybreak[indentnext=no] \def\Space{\fancybreak{\strut}} % i.e. just an empty line But at least with my current version of ConTeXt (i.e. from 2010-11-29) I get: --- ! Undefined

Re: [NTG-context] fancybreak or alternative

2012-04-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-04-27 um 20:15 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: \usemodule[fancybreak] % https://bitbucket.org/wolfs/fancybreak/ \setupfancybreak[indentnext=no] \def\Space{\fancybreak{\strut}} % i.e. just an empty line Why so complicated, use \fancybreak without any argument and you get a blank line

[NTG-context] full page images on fixed pages

2012-05-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
In my current book project, I need to set images on fixed pages (because only a few pages get printed in color), and full-page, i.e. bleeding 3mm. What’s the best way to achieve each? The only way for full-page images that I know of, is via layer/ background, but I find it difficult to

Re: [NTG-context] setup table of contents

2012-05-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-16 um 22:41 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Hi again, seems like it’s impossible to setup the level for combined lists anymore. (MkIV, latest beta). While \placelist[part,chapter] works, I didn’t find a way to \setupcombinedlist[content] just down to chapter level, not deeper

Re: [NTG-context] imposition 2UP = empty pages

2012-05-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-04-23 um 20:10 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Am 2012-04-20 um 17:58 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Hi there, like in January (see mail by Mari), the latest beta produces only empty pages with 2UP imposition schema; others work (tested 2SIDE and 2DOWN). e.g. \setuppapersize [A5

[NTG-context] setup table of contents

2012-05-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi again, seems like it’s impossible to setup the level for combined lists anymore. (MkIV, latest beta). While \placelist[part,chapter] works, I didn’t find a way to \setupcombinedlist[content] just down to chapter level, not deeper. The level key is gone in MkIV, and part,chapter in the

[NTG-context] itemze: alignment breaks spacing

2012-05-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi ho, as soon as I use the align key on an itemization, the effect of packed, joinedup is void. \starttext \input tufte \startitemize[packed,joinedup] %,align=right] \item bla \item fasel \item foo \item bar \stopitemize \input tufte \stoptext Greetlings, Hraban ---

Re: [NTG-context] imposition 2UP = empty pages

2012-05-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2012/5/18 Marco Pessotto melmo...@gmail.com: Version 2011.11.29 23:11 works. I think you can get it on the git repository. There was a thread recently about how to fetch it from there. Yes, e.g. my thread. I'm working with such an old version for the project where I can’t live without 2UP

Re: [NTG-context] imposition 2UP = empty pages

2012-05-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-18 um 18:00 schrieb Hans Hagen: quick hack that you can put in cont-new.mkiv Works for me, too. Thank you very much! Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

Re: [NTG-context] full page images on fixed pages

2012-05-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-17 um 13:49 schrieb Philipp Gesang: In my current book project, I need to set images on fixed pages (because only a few pages get printed in color), I assume with “fixed pages” you mean “always on the page with a certain number”. This, at least, might be solved with the postponing

Re: [NTG-context] Testing TeX Live 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-21 um 21:22 schrieb Marco Pessotto: First case: failing, but no crash. % minimal \starttext \externalfigure[cow] \stoptext % stop Did you try to set a size like \externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth] ? It’s still a bug, but that works for me (setting the size in

[NTG-context] MkII in standalone distribution broken?

2012-05-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Just a short notice, can’t debug ATM: Since yesterday evening, ConTeXt doesn’t seem to be able to build MkII formats (via the first-setup script on OSX 10.5.8 Intel), it claims, cont-nl.mkii, cont-en.mkii, metafun would be missing. As far as I saw, MkIV builds. Greetlings, Hraban

[NTG-context] multi-page floats

2012-05-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi again, in my current book project there are sets of full-page graphics, where there’s first a drawing, to be printed on transparent paper, followed by a water colour picture as background, i.e. a series of right page: foreground graphic right page: background graphic The transparent

Re: [NTG-context] multi-page floats

2012-05-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-28 um 19:27 schrieb Hans Hagen: \startpostponing might help (you can add [pagenumber] or [+pagenumber] if needed) Oh, of course, Philipp Gesang recently reminded me. I would like to use \startpostponing[right], but fixed pages are ok. This works: \starttext \startpostponing[3]

Re: [NTG-context] multi-page floats

2012-05-31 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Ok, some days later I'm still not where I'd like to be (and my deadline is overdue). Let’s resume: A running text is to be interrupted by spans of 3 pages. Postponing (\startpostponing) works well for that, but I need to switch off page numbering on two of that 3 pages - as far as I tried,

[NTG-context] ebook from project: hyphenation lost

2012-06-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Ahoi, I never managed to get a proper eBook from a project, the content was mostly missing, a whole while even \setupbackend[export=yes] led to an error. At least that I don’t get an error any more, I’ll try to debug the missing content later. One bug I can nail down is: As soon as I add

Re: [NTG-context] ebook from project: hyphenation lost

2012-06-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-06-04 um 11:14 schrieb Andy Thomas: Hello, I followed Marco's description on tex.sx with quite good results. http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/43052/8631 Thanks for the link! He explicitly states: Hyphenation is also present. ConTeXt inserts soft hyphen (0x00AD) characters where

[NTG-context] ebook from project: observations/oddities

2012-06-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
(Yesterday’s beta in suite=minimals, OSX-Intel) With \setupbackend[export=example.xml,xhtml=example.xhtml,css=example.css] in my project’s environment, I get both example.xml and example.xhtml (as well as example- images.css and example-style.css), starting with the same content (up to line

Re: [NTG-context] multi-page floats

2012-06-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-05-31 um 23:48 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 31-5-2012 20:25, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Ok, some days later I'm still not where I'd like to be (and my deadline is overdue). Let’s resume: A running text is to be interrupted by spans of 3 pages. Postponing (\startpostponing) works well

Re: [NTG-context] multi-page floats

2012-06-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Sorry for coming back again and again, but I’m still stuck, and my deadline is overdue. * I need full-page pictures on defined pages in the middle of a chapter. * I don’t care if I must define on page x or on the next right page after the current paragraph. - The only way for full-page

Re: [NTG-context] multi-page floats

2012-06-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-06-05 um 14:33 schrieb luigi scarso: Can you show me a way to use layers within postponing, please? A first step --- still quite similar to your macro. Hope it helps just for now. Thank you! Good hint to de-couple postponing and the rest. \page[right] doesn’t work with this version,

Re: [NTG-context] multi-page floats

2012-06-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-06-05 um 14:42 schrieb luigi scarso: Another one \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \definelayer[bg][x=0mm,y=-3mm,width=\dimexpr(\paperwidth+3mm),height= \dimexpr(\paperheight+6mm)] \unexpanded\def\DoDoublePicAt#1{ \page[right] % tried also makeups...

Re: [NTG-context] multi-page floats

2012-06-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-06-05 um 18:17 schrieb luigi scarso: ! File ended while scanning use of \buff_gobble. Uhm I've tested but maybe I've made a wrong cut and paste. Re-check now. Ah, it 's a side effect of the previous code What did you change? I also overlooked that there is no image, i.e. layer is

Re: [NTG-context] multi-page floats

2012-06-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-06-05 um 19:55 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Sorry for coming back again and again, but I’m still stuck, and my deadline is overdue. * I need full-page pictures on defined pages in the middle of a chapter. * I don’t care if I must define on page x or on the next right page after

[NTG-context] postponing conflicts with footnotes

2012-06-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Me again... If a footnote doesn’t fit on the same page as its anchor, it gets placed on the next page - even if that’s a postponed one. I’d like to keep my postponed pages free of interfering text. \starttext \startpostponing[3] This page incidentally left blank. \page

Re: [NTG-context] back-up.lua; mtx-epub.lua

2012-06-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-06-07 um 00:00 schrieb Andy Thomas: Hello all, I do not know, how many people are using the epub export, but here are two more changes in order to achieve a valid epub file with information from the context source: Since I need ePub for my current project (even if th eprint

Re: [NTG-context] multi-page floats

2012-06-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2012-06-06 um 11:52 schrieb luigi scarso: And maybe this is what you want errata/corrige Thank you for your effort, I’ll test it this weekend, but I resolved to Wolfgang’s solution using \offset instead of backgrounds, since that’s much easier and enough for my needs. Greetlings,

Re: [NTG-context] Open Type fonts and Context

2006-06-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-06-12 um 19:39 schrieb John R. Culleton: It may be attributable to the fact that texfont tries to update maps that are particular to my login name rather than the original ones in /usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf I tried specifying the /usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf path but that doesn't

Re: [NTG-context] wasy symbols

2006-06-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-06-21 um 22:23 schrieb Hans van der Meer: Thanks, but now I am at a loss about the line \definesymbol [checked] [\WaldiSymbol {8}] What is its purpose then? (Curious, as always :-) See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Symbols \symbol[checked] have a look into the source to

[NTG-context] table splitting in columns

2006-06-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
this used to work but doesn't since the (my) last update: \starttext \setupTABLE[split=repeat, frame=off] \setupTABLE[c][1][align=right] \setupTABLE[c][2][align=left, style=bf, width=4em] \startcolumns[n=2, balance=no] \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR\bTD\bf Verzeichnis \eTD\bTD\hbox{Dateien}\eTD\eTR

[NTG-context] table splitting in columns

2006-06-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
this used to work but doesn't since the (my) last update: \starttext \setupTABLE[split=repeat, frame=off] \setupTABLE[c][1][align=right] \setupTABLE[c][2][align=left, style=bf, width=4em] \startcolumns[n=2, balance=no] \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR\bTD\bf Verzeichnis \eTD\bTD\hbox{Dateien}\eTD\eTR

Re: [NTG-context] Mac OS X and texmfstart... [was: texmfstart newbie]

2006-06-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-06-28 um 18:07 schrieb Otared Kavian: On 28 juin 2006, at 15:11, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: with the content ruby path-to-context-ruby-scripts/texmfstart.rb What I have is this simple script (and it should work on MacOSX just as well). Name it 'texfmstart',

Re: [NTG-context] OT: formulae in InDesign (was: infinite paper height)

2006-07-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-07-18 um 15:56 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: That's not my problem any more. They asked me to prepare long continuous text with TeX (so that formulae and everything else will be OK) - they intend to use the resulting PDF to design a magazine in InDesign after that (I don't know how they're

[NTG-context] LilyPond module

2006-09-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi there! I'm trying to fix the LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x (find my current version attached). One of the problems is, that the EPS/PDF produced by LilyPond is always too big (doesn't obey the ordered dimensions, but is uniformly upscaled). The code after line 250 should shift the

Re: [NTG-context] calculations

2006-09-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-19 um 23:34 schrieb nico: I need to downscale every score to 63%, and the shown width check should use the corrected width. How can I do that? (FigWidth should be LPscale * figurewidth) I don't know what you really want to do, but an example of computation could look like this:

Re: [NTG-context] calculations

2006-09-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-20 um 00:40 schrieb nico: \figurewidth is not a dimension. I guess the following should work: \def\LPscale{.6315789} % downscale the image \ifvmode \getfiguredimensions[\bufferprefix lilypond-\the\lily!figures.pdf][]% \leavevmode% \newdimen\FigWidth

Re: [NTG-context] calculations

2006-09-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-21 um 21:12 schrieb Peter Rolf: \externalfigure[\lily!img][scale=\dimexpr(1000\LPscale)]% \numexpr should work here ..[scale=\numexpr1000\LPscale\relax]% thank you, that seemed what I looked for, but: ! You can't use `\numexpr' in horizontal mode. BTW, Hans' hint

Re: [NTG-context] calculations

2006-09-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-25 um 11:46 schrieb Peter Rolf: \externalfigure[\lily!img][scale=\dimexpr(1000\LPscale)]% \numexpr should work here ..[scale=\numexpr1000\LPscale\relax]% thank you, that seemed what I looked for, but: ! You can't use `\numexpr' in horizontal mode. One of my favourite

Re: [NTG-context] calculations

2006-09-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-26 um 08:53 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: I think I tried everything but didn't get it to work. For the moment I use: \def\LPscale{0.6315789} % downscale the image \def\LPkscale{632} % doesn't work: \def\LPkscale{\numexpr1000\LPscale\relax} Missed this thread so far, but how about

[NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-09-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Yeah, I finally got it working with recent versions of LilyPond! (The most important change was from linewidth to line-width, and I overlooked that far too long...) The module still has lots of issues (e.g. paths for external command like lilypond are hardcoded), but it does what I want it

Re: [NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-09-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-26 um 20:34 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Yeah, I finally got it working with recent versions of LilyPond! No, it doesn't. :-( And it's strange: the external command for lilypond gets called, but not that for epstopdf: % I tried different methods to convert the LilyPond EPS to PDF

Re: [NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-09-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-26 um 22:23 schrieb Hans Hagen: use texmfstart! texmfstart whateverscript whateverargs will free you from adding the path lilypond -b eps -f eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts or texmfstart bin:lilypond conversion to pdf: texmfstart pdftops somefile.eps if may be

Re: [NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-09-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-27 um 09:55 schrieb Hans Hagen: If I add --ifchanged to the lilypond call, it never does anything; without it's called twice (like before, I couldn't find out why). --ifchanged=filename Ah, great! Here's the new version again (Willi, please try this, no need for patching any

Re: [NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-09-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Aaargh! It still doesn't work right; I should have tested with more than one LilyPond snippet. \lily!figures is the image counter; if I use it in the definition of the command, it stays 1. If I use it like below, I get ! Use of \LP doesn't match its definition. --- code ---

Re: [NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-10-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hello again, I'm still stuck with the counter problem, unfortunately I got no response... ConTeXts writes out all the LilyPond pieces as myfile-lilypond- #.tmp, sequential numbered. Then it should run LilyPond and epstopdf on the snippets, but runs them always only on no.1 I.e. the counter

Re: [NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-10-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-10-03 um 23:59 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: I cannot test since lilypond is not working properly on my computer, but I get the proper numbers. Here's an excerpt from the log file (I changed lilypond to echo): systems : begin file test1 at line 2 test1-lilypond-1.tmp system(echo

[NTG-context] programming: doifdefined friends

2006-10-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
While I can't cope with counters, I'm trying other stuff that I don't understand: How must I use \doifdefined friends? Consider this snippet: - \starttext \def\myvar{JAJAJA} \input tufte \doifdefined{\myvar}{\par bla \myvar blub\par} \input tufte \stoptext - I'd guess it would

Re: [NTG-context] programming: doifdefined friends

2006-10-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-10-05 um 02:42 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: - \starttext \def\myvar{JAJAJA} \input tufte \doifdefined{\myvar}{\par bla \myvar blub\par} \input tufte \stoptext - Sorry for bothering you, I found it myself: I must leave out the backslash in the condition. But so I'm

Re: [NTG-context] programming: doifdefined friends

2006-10-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Sorry, last one for tonight. Just forget my question - it wouldn't work this way anyway. - the \doif stuff got printed in the LilyPond file instead of executed - my LilyPond font settings can't work at that place, because \overrides must stand in their appropriate score section :-(

[NTG-context] new (working) LilyPond module

2006-10-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hi ho! I just uploaded a new version of the LilyPond module into the garden: http://modules.contextgarden.net/t-lilypond Docs: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond It should work with GNU LilyPond from version 2.8 (tested with latest 2.9) and got some new features: - change the fonts (e.g.

Re: [NTG-context] Can ConTeXt make dynamic barcoded forms?

2006-10-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-10-10 um 17:53 schrieb Zhichu Chen: I've seen some marvelous samples on Adobe' official site about dynamic barcoded forms using XML: can someone tell me that is it possible to build such pdfs using ConTeXt? Not yet ;-) I can think of 3 possibilities for a static barcodes module: -

Re: [NTG-context] color question

2006-10-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-10-10 um 13:52 schrieb Alan Bowen: I am currently using ConTEXt to produce PDFs with a colored background which I specify using R G B settings. Unfortunately, this background does not look the same when others open the files on their computers. Is there anything I can do at my end to

Re: [NTG-context] Can ConTeXt make dynamic barcoded forms?

2006-10-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-10-10 um 22:40 schrieb Hans Hagen: barcodes ... if i need them i will play with metapost a bit (i never looked into barcodes) I collected some docs on barcodes for a project some years ago, I could sent that to you or anyone else. But I guess the best would be to look into the code

Re: [NTG-context] Can ConTeXt make dynamic barcoded forms?

2006-10-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-10-11 um 04:48 schrieb Zhichu Chen: Drawing static barcodes is very easy, Then you could easily write a barcode module for ConTeXt? That would be nice! Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an

Re: [NTG-context] Context and CD labels

2006-10-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-10-18 um 20:34 schrieb Maurício: Has anyone ever tried to use Context to create music CD labels? Any tips on what should I do, pages I can read or results I can expect? Dou you mean what gets printed on the CD (or a separate label to be stuck on the CD)? Why not use a page of

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt installation problem using i-installer(v 2.85)

2006-11-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-11-01 um 05:18 schrieb Dalyoung Jeong: Today I tried to update ConTeXt in Mac located in school. At this time, I used the upgraded i-installer(V 2.85). But it didn't ask me the permission(no Authenticate window). So it couldn't have a write permission in the directory

[NTG-context] the same old \column problem

2006-11-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hans et al, did \column ever work or is it supposed to? I.e. I guess I should be able jump to the next column in \startcolumns ... \column % next column ... \stopcolumns Without the \column, it works only for longer paragraphs, but e.g. not with \startlines - I'm trying to typeset lyrics,

Re: [NTG-context] relative scaling for fonts

2006-11-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-11-12 um 22:17 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez: I'm using XeTeX one of the features that I miss at most from XeLaTeX (from fontspec), is the possibility to set automatically the scaling of fonts so that they match the lowercase or uppercase letters of the roman font. I wonder whether

Re: [NTG-context] the same old \column problem

2006-11-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
no comments on that? Am 2006-11-08 um 21:38 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Hans et al, did \column ever work or is it supposed to? I.e. I guess I should be able jump to the next column in \startcolumns ... \column % next column ... \stopcolumns Without the \column, it works only

Re: [NTG-context] the same old \column problem

2006-11-22 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-11-15 um 22:36 schrieb Hans Hagen: Without the \column, it works only for longer paragraphs, but e.g. not with \startlines - I'm trying to typeset lyrics, and the column *always* breaks within a verse instead of between, even if all the verses have the same number of lines, so that it

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-12-25 um 11:38 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: There a few definition files already there, and you should start from the one that is closest to the language you want to define (especially wrt comment and string syntax). ... Good luck, Taco I found that interesting and wikified it at http://

Re: [NTG-context] \ifshellescape

2006-12-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-12-26 um 19:57 schrieb Peter Münster: is there any command to test for write18/shell escape available in ConTeXt? There is such a command in pdfTeX-1.40 but I don't remember the name (I think it's \ifshellescape). \ifeof18 From the t-lilypond sources: %D If \type{\ifeof18}

Re: [NTG-context] Easy insertion of Unicode symbols?

2007-01-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-12-31 um 15:59 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I need to insert a few Unicode symbols...(Just the symbols for the solar system planets)... Is this going to be easy - doable inside ConTeXt with a few preparatory mystic runes, or will it require running scripts, moving files around, etc...?

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2007-01-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-12-30 um 10:28 schrieb Douglas Philips: Arg. My bane. Fonts. The one thing that pulls me ever so slightly to using Pages... Not because I want a garish mix of goofball junk fonts, but because I love Palatino for newletters and Papyrus for cards and short notes... I figured out how

Re: [NTG-context] Easy insertion of Unicode symbols?

2007-01-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
The symbol set reference was great - the planet symbols are accessible in: \usesymbols[mvs] \showsymbolset[astronomic] so I may not have to go to a unicode-font at all. The symbol set was (Roland Waldi's symbols AKA wasysym) contains even more astronomic symbols; check which fit your

Re: [NTG-context] HZ and DVI

2007-01-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-01-10 um 00:36 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: What other viewers do you know watch files? GSView and other GhostScript GUIs Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) smime.p7s Description:

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a TABLE

2007-01-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-01-13 um 11:25 schrieb Gerhard Kugler: I want to rotate a TABLE (to landscape) within a normal (portrait) text. The TABLE covers one page. Which commands or options in commands do I have? What's wrong with \rotate{your table} ? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban ---

Re: [NTG-context] Keeping section heading with following text?

2007-01-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-01-14 um 15:00 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Insert a \page[bigpreference] before the mentioned subsection command thanks Willi, that's useful to know. It would fix a single occurrence, but wouldn't be applicable to all section and subsection headings... try

Re: [NTG-context] Working with environments and projects

2007-01-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-01-16 um 17:14 schrieb Jeff Smith: What I am doing wrong? Is it right not to use \starttext ... \stoptext here? Yes it it. And I can't see why it shouldn't work. Perhaps add some blank lines. The filenames are of course the same as in your definitions? Reference:

Re: [NTG-context] Another \setuparranging

2007-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-01-18 um 21:44 schrieb Willi Egger: There is no implemented 3SIDE arranging. There is. You wrote it yourself for me: \unprotect % New pageimposition scheme 3SIDE by Willi Egger 21-07-2003 % put this in your environment or into page-imp.tex \installpagearrangement 3SIDE

Re: [NTG-context] problem with pdftex-1.40.1 and Gentium ligatures

2007-02-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2007/2/2, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying to work this out, but I obviously miss the gentium font files (metric and map files, as wel as the actual fonts). I can get the ttfs from the sil site, but where did the tfms and map files come from? Take mine:

Re: [NTG-context] Letters in ConTeXt

2007-02-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-02-01 um 18:25 schrieb Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini: I found: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/015766.html http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/015774.html so, maybe Hraban can say something about the modules m-letter and m-corresp? Indeed I found the files in my

Re: [NTG-context] Math symbols in Gentium

2007-03-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-03-21 um 09:13 schrieb Kumar Appaiah: I have found Gentium to be a nice free alternative font for my documents. I was wondering why the Greek symbols don't get used in documents which use Gentium. They sem to use the same cmr fonts for the math parts. Is it expected to work that way,

Re: [NTG-context] HelvNeue

2007-03-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-03-21 um 18:09 schrieb luigi scarso: I'm a bit pressed by a work with HelveticaNeueLTStd . Is there anyone that has made a type script file for this family ? see http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4lang=en in http://www.fiee.net/texnique/material/typescripts.zip you'll find

Re: [NTG-context] capitals in heads

2007-03-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
\setuphead[subsection][style=cap] %aborts compilation. (But slanted works) I also unsuccessfully tried style=\cap (or \kap etc.), command= \cap etc. (But style=\sc works. I don't want small caps, though). Did you try \WORD{} ? see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Basic_Text_Formatting AFAIK

Re: [NTG-context] capitals in heads

2007-03-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2007/3/26, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: \setuphead [section] [style=normal, deeptextcommand=\WORD] works for me. I didn't know deeptextcommand myself, but it's explained at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Titles#Formatting_Titles_with_.5Csetuphead Greetlings, Hraban

Re: [NTG-context] Listing of typical beginner-questions

2007-03-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-03-29 um 22:10 schrieb Sanjoy Mahajan: I'll accumulate such items in a file to upload from time to time to the Wiki -- with the goal of making a _ConTeXt cookbook_, subtitled _Or how do I do X in ConTeXt?_. I once planned such a cookbook myself, so there's already a title picture:

Re: [NTG-context] Listing of typical beginner-questions

2007-03-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-03-29 um 20:56 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Q: Where to put the commands that apply to the whole document? Is there a 'preferred sectioning' of a Context source? A: You should use \environment's: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Project_structure Not always, makes sense only for

Re: [NTG-context] Microsoft Word - Context

2007-04-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-04-03 um 09:20 schrieb Mari Voipio: Note! If your files contain graphics, for ConTeXt you have to ask people to send them in separately as pdf, png or jpg (instead of putting them inline in the Word file). I have found *this* hard to achieve once in a while and I still often

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong SRA3 papersize ?

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-03 um 21:19 schrieb Willi Egger: Consider A4 which is portrait because of the grain direction (Laufrichtung) in the height. Otherwise A3 is two A4 and hence the grain direction is in the shorthand. - Generally speaking the graindirection is in the direction of the longer edge in

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting musical scores

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-04-25 um 16:00 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Is there a way to typeset (simple) musical scores with ConTeXt/ XeTeX? I found Lilypond, but whether it is supported now is obscure. There is a lilypond module for ConTeXt. It passes on the music typesetting to Lilypond and imports the pdf back

Re: [NTG-context] embedded fonts

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-04 um 13:38 schrieb Jörg Hagmann: I have a possibly off-topic and certainly naive question. But unfortunately it's urgent, and a systematic search would take too long: I just finished a 84 page document and sent it to the printer. They say the fonts are not embedded. Is there a

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong SRA3 papersize ?

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-04 um 14:51 schrieb luigi scarso: see also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PaperSizes wow! I never heard of RA/SRA sizes before (doubt that they're standardized), hmm, see http://www.edsebooks.com/paper/naukeupaper.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_217 Thank you! Looks

Re: [NTG-context] embedded fonts

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-04 um 16:06 schrieb Jörg Hagmann: You don't tell us which fonts you use and which TeX engine / output workflow. I use gentium and -- for bold -- LinLibertine. I installed these fonts myself with texfont. The engine is pdftex (I think). I run texmfstart texexec --pdf myfile.tex.

[NTG-context] differences of perl/ruby texexec

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Ahoi! While processing my LilyPond/ConTeXt songbook, I experience still the same behaviour as in 2006-10: The checking, if a LilyPond buffer/temp file has changed, works only with the old Perl texexec, the recent Ruby version creates/processes the files only if they're missing completely

Re: [NTG-context] embedded fonts

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hello Jörg, I just checked your PDF. Your printshop is right, even if the font (Gentium) *is* embedded. How's that? You've some error in the formatting of your uppercase words after the initial and same formatting in some subtitles - that addresses an other Gentium face that isn't embedded

Re: [NTG-context] embedded fonts

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-04 um 17:52 schrieb Jörg Hagmann: Could it be that it's because: I made pseudosmallcaps of Gentium myself (with texfont) and used those in a few places? If so, I will simply replace them with uppercase. There are no (pseudo)SC in your document! There's condensed uppercase in

Re: [NTG-context] differences of perl/ruby texexec

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-04 um 20:17 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: I usually find the output of texmfstart --verbose texexec --verbose to be useful in seeing what is going wrong. I think that the R module also uses the --ifchanged switch. If something has broken, it will also affect the R module.

Re: [NTG-context] differences of perl/ruby texexec

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-04 um 21:15 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: \global\advance\lily!figures\plusone \edef\lily!filename{\bufferprefix lilypond-\the\lily!figures} ... \edef\LP{texmfstart --ifchanged=\lily!filename.tmp --exec bin:lilypond -b eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts \lily! filename.tmp}

Re: [NTG-context] differences of perl/ruby texexec

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-04 um 21:50 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: \global\advance\lily!figures\plusone \edef\lily!filename{\bufferprefix lilypond-\the\lily!figures} ... \edef\LP{texmfstart --ifchanged=\lily!filename.tmp --exec bin:lilypond -b eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts \lily

Re: [NTG-context] differences of perl/ruby texexec

2007-05-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-04 um 23:03 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Example: My songbook is a product. Every song is a component. If I change the order of the components in the product, ConTeXt (texmfstart, texexec, whoever) doesn't reckognize that, so I get the scores in the old order, i.e. with the wrong title

Re: [NTG-context] embedded fonts

2007-05-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-08 um 11:21 schrieb Jörg Hagmann: Did I use the term pseudo small caps incorrectly? I assumed that the version I generated is pseudo because it wasn't expressly designed. That's also how the term is used in the wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Pseudo_Small_Caps). But there is

Re: [NTG-context] lilypond newbie

2007-05-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-09 um 13:47 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: \enableregime[utf] \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext \startlilypond % Telemann, TWV 40:11 \version 2.6.3 far tool old! use the latest LilyPond 2.10.x! (the module works only with LilyPond 2.8, as mentioned on the wiki page) \relative c’ {

Re: [NTG-context] lilypond newbie

2007-05-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-10 um 15:44 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: * The version of the Lilypond module on CTAN isn't actually that new since it dates back to September 2005 (according to the date of t-lilypond.pdf). Now even without that date, we can spot it in the code since it mentions the version of

Re: [NTG-context] lilypond newbie

2007-05-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-14 um 09:45 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: So, after extensive testing (with support from Arthur) using the lilypond-module (as described) just doesn't work at all. What to do now? As it seems to be a question of several parts working / not working together, who feels responsible?

Re: [NTG-context] installprogram problem (was: lilypond newbie)

2007-05-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-14 um 23:39 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Did you try old Perl texexec? (As I wrote several times, LilyPond doesn't get called - or one time at max - with Ruby texexec.) But it seems to need one Ruby run afterwards. I tried to track down my problem with texexec calling LilyPond

Re: [NTG-context] installprogram problem

2007-05-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2007/5/24, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I guess the command or counter or whatever in \installprogram is expanded at runtime. I tried \expanded, but it didn't help. You have to run \installprogram{} on each separate, expanded commandline. I thought that was what I do.

Re: [NTG-context] installprogram problem

2007-05-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-05-24 um 13:41 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: So I guess the command or counter or whatever in \installprogram is expanded at runtime. I tried \expanded, but it didn't help. You have to run \installprogram{} on each separate, expanded commandline. I thought that was what I do.

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