On 04/23/2014 07:15 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
no schedule ... thomas need to test etc etc ... so not in the tl code
freeze but later (probably kind of stable around the context conference)
Okay, thank you!
Jelle
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On 03/28/2014 03:08 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 3/28/2014 1:29 PM, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
With the latest beta (2014.03.27), my bibliography example below now
works fine. Thank you for fixing that. Now I shall run the whole book
mss through the same beta.
some day soon we will enable the new imp
On 04/20/2012 04:53 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> On 2012-04-20 16:32, Jelle Huisman wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Here is another question. Consider this test file:
>>
>> \starttext
>> \setupspellchecking[state=start,method=2]
>> \
On 04/20/2012 04:52 PM, Marco wrote:
> On 2012-04-20 Jelle Huisman wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to extract the value for ["total"] ('122' in this case)
>> so that I can use that value somewhere else, e.g. in a project file
>> where I want to present a
On 04/20/2012 04:40 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> Hi Jelle,
>
> On 2012-04-20 16:15, Jelle Huisman wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'd like to typeset an RSS feed and I was wondering whether I could
>> instruct ConTeXt to fetch the contents of a url like:
&
Hello all,
Here is another question. Consider this test file:
\starttext
\setupspellchecking[state=start,method=2]
\ctxlua{languages.words.threshold=3}
\input knuth
\stoptext
Typesetting this file produces a word list 'test.words' which ends like
this:
["threshold"]=1,
["total"]=122,
["versi
Hello all,
I'd like to typeset an RSS feed and I was wondering whether I could
instruct ConTeXt to fetch the contents of a url like:
http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml
Thanks for any pointers,
Jelle
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On 08/06/11 19:21, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 8-6-2011 11:43, Otared Kavian wrote:
>> Hi Hans and Taco,
>>
>> Updating the minimals resulted for me in an error message:
>>
>> This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.0)
>>
>>
>> ! I can't open file `metafun'.
>
> can you check ag
On 12/12/10 06:31, Willi Egger wrote:
Dear ConTeXt users!
We are proud to announce that the ConTeXt community has its own
users-organisation. The new association is called ConTeXt Group and registered
in France.
Great!
Jelle
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On 26/10/10 14:31, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:30:08PM +0200, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:28:17PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
Please explain the meaning of "align=left". To me it
is more a raggedleft. (mkiv, TeXLive)
Yes, you're right.
..
On 23/09/10 11:12, Hans Hagen wrote:
As xhtml is just xml converted to other tags, I suppose that at some
day there will be additional converters. I would only come up with one
in the perspective of a project as I have no need for it.
There cannot be a universal one-to-one mapping between cont
On 22/09/10 06:45, Hans Hagen wrote:
\setupbackeds[export=yes]
You will also get a file called .export which represents the
document in xml format. You can postprocess such an export to for
instance html. It's still somewhat experimental but also fun.
Hi Hans,
Thanks! this is a useful step
On 28/06/10 21:37, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
It makes no sense to set values for columnset but use regular columns in
your document
and the correct value for direction you want is 'left' not 'right'.
OK-thanks, this helped me to untangle some messy coding on my part...
Jelle
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Hi all,
Is it possible to tell columnsets which column is the first one?
I use columnset in MKII to typeset Arabic text in a multicolumn layout
and the text starts in the left column. Is there a nice way to force the
text to start in the right column? Something like
\definecolumnset[arabic][n=
On 11/03/2010 09:32, Philipp Gesang wrote:
for inclusion in the minimals ask Mojca.
I'm not sure whether they would stay truly ‘mnml’ with all kinds of niche
modules added. An entry on the modules page would suffice, I guess.
'Minimal' means 'minimal effort' in this context, not 'mi
On 10/03/2010 16:46, luigi scarso wrote:
but today (2010-03-10) minimals seems already ok
Same here.
Jelle
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Hi all,
I'm updating my ConTeXt (minimals) installation (on Linux-64) and get
this error:
(/home/jelle/context/tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mp-form.mp
! I can't find file `string'.
l.81 input string
Please type another input file name:
Eventually I did Ctrl-C, but both ConTeXt an
On 23/12/2009 03:45, Horacio Suarez wrote:
Hi Horacio,
Hans, thankyou very much, I see you answer in gname, but I didnt
received that mail yet.
I made a marking from each entry in the dictionary and its works, but
there is a problem because the entry printed is the second, not the first.
S
On 26/11/2009 15:47, Hans Hagen wrote:
texmfstart --path=path-where-you-want-to-run texexec --path=
No joy, actually I run texexec.rb directly (but that's a different
story). I'll see if I can run in C:\temp.
Thanks,
Jelle
On 26/11/2009 15:25, Hans Hagen wrote:
why not just run in c:\temp or so
Because I have the ConTeXt application in a subdirectory of the main
application directory and I don't want to mess around on some else's
computer. Running in c:\temp means that I would have to copy the ConTeXt
tree to
Hi all,
I use the XeTeX/ConTeXt MkII combi as part of another application. This
(Windows) application is installed in the C:\Program Files tree which
apparently is marked 'read only' in Vista/Windows 7. Would it be
possible to redirect the temp files (*.top, *tui, *.log, *.mp) to a
different
On 17/11/2009 07:48, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Using
\index[Samuel 1 1:1]{1 Samuel 1:1}
Should change the sort order. Untested, though.
He probably wants to get Genesis before Exodus (etc.) instead. So would
it be possible to tell the index mechanism to sort certain items in an
arbitrary
On 30/10/2009 13:05, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
\framed[,align=justify]
should do the trick.
It did the trick, thanks!
Jelle
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Hi all,
I want to place a table of contents in a floating frame but somehow all
the entries are placed in one line (see example) How do I get a proper
ToC? I know that I can add a height to the \framed but with the real
data I'm working with I don't know in advance how many lines I need.
Addi
On 28/10/2009 16:54, Hans Hagen wrote:
\startxmlsetups xml:h3
\xmldoifnot {#1} {[text()='Skip title']} {
\subject{\xmlflush{#1}}
}
\stopxmlsetups
or:
\xmlsetsetup {main} {h3[text()='Skip title']} {-}
OK thanks, that's even better.
Jelle
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On 28/10/2009 15:32, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
The next does not deserve a price for elegance, but because
\xmlflush is expandable (this is its best feature, I think!)
you can use the traditional tex toolkit macros:
\startxmlsetups xml:h3
\doifinstringelse{Skip title}{\xmlflush{#1}}
{}
Hi all,
First of all a big thank you to Hans for MkIV xml support which is so
much easier to understand than the MKII based method (or is that just
me?) Anyway, I'm processing a rather messy html file and I would like to
do some conditional processing based on the actual content of the
elemen
Bowen Alan C. wrote:
Does any one recall how to get urls to break AFTER “.” and “/” etc.
in MK II using \useURL?
I know this was discussed a long time ago, but I have not found it.
You're maybe thinking about this discussion:
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20081118.211245.eb1cbbe
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 23.03.2009 um 18:27 schrieb Jelle Huisman:
Hi all,
I try to get text flowing nicely around a figure but since I'm
working in a columns environment \placefloat related stuff doesn't
work. Using \starthangaround I get precisely what I want but I need
Hi all,
I try to get text flowing nicely around a figure but since I'm working
in a columns environment \placefloat related stuff doesn't work. Using
\starthangaround I get precisely what I want but I need to place figures
to the right instead of to the left. I modified the definition for
\st
Hans Hagen wrote:
\starttext
\showgrid
\startalignment[center] AA \stopalignment\blank
\startcolumns[n=2,balance=yes]
%\dorecurse{40}{a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a } % << this
works
\dorecurse{42}{a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a } % << this
pushes columns (BB) to the next
Hans Hagen wrote:
Jelle Huisman wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
the problem is that the paragraph is larger than two columns and
that's tricky to handle without too much messing around (i'll redo
the balancer in mkiv once i've arrived at it; i see where the catch
takes place but
Hans Hagen wrote:
the problem is that the paragraph is larger than two columns and
that's tricky to handle without too much messing around (i'll redo the
balancer in mkiv once i've arrived at it; i see where the catch takes
place but i'd rather not touch the mkii code now)
so, what you can do
Hi,
I'm typesetting a dictionary using \startcolumns[n=2,balance=yes] to get
balanced columns. I have 26 balanced columns with simple headers in
between and a lot of situations with two columns on one page. (see
example). As long as the number of lines of the first columns (AA) is
fewer than
Hi all,
It looks like rulethickness can only be applied to all 4 sides of a cell
all at once, or is there a way to specify the thickness of
left|right|top|bottom? As the example shows I get a thicker frame around
the 2 rows, but I want to use the normal frame thickness inside the cells.
\start
Jelle Huisman wrote:
> % columnset running into footer area
> \definelayout[1][]
> \setupheader[state=high]
> \definetext[footerpagenumber][footer][pagenumber]
> \setuphead[chapter][page=yes,header=high,footer=footerpagenumber,number=no,align=middle]
> \definecolumnset[columnl
Hi all,
I have a fairly standard setup with the usual code to move the
pagenumber to the footer on the first page of the chapter. This works
fine, except when I place the text in a columnset, in which case the
columnset on page 2 (and all following pages) runs into the footer area.
I'm fairly
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Is it possible to make this work? (maybe an extra \chapter command
before the combination that triggers the header-footer setup, but that
is not printed after all?)
I would put the externalfigure in the before= of the chapter head,
maybe wrapped in some form of \doif
Hi all,
Another question, this time about \headers and \footers. On the first
page of the chapter I have the page number in the footer and on all
other pages they are in the header. This works fine, as expected.
However I have to include an \externalfigure *before* the \chapter
command and I d
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> There is only \brokenpenalty :
>\brokenpenalty 1
>\def\defaultbrokenpenalty {1}
>\def\defaultgridbrokenpenalty {1}
>
> This prevents ConTeXt from breaking any page after any line that ends
> with a hyphen. That is not quite to what you asked, but
Hi all,
In my project I \input a number of text files into a double-column
layout. One of the layout requests is: "no hyphenation over right page
breaks allowed". I can't think of a way to do this, but I would be happy
if someone knew a way to prevent hyphenation of the last word of the
last l
Hi all,
Is there a way to get the value of the height of a columnset after it is
balanced? I'm looking for some sort of "\columnsetheight" that I can
reuse as height=\columnsetheight in a \framed command in a layer. Hope
this makes sense, or is the content of a layer supposed to be static?
Tha
Jelle Huisman wrote:
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
\startuseMPgraphic{columnrule}
path p ; p := unitsquare xyscaled (OverlayWidth+5mm,OverlayHeight) ;
draw (xpart(urcorner p),ypart(urcorner
p)-\the\dimexpr\noflines\lineheight\relax) -- urcorner p ;
setbounds currentpicture to p
luigi scarso wrote:
Can you put on the wiki ?
I will do that, but preferably together with an answer to my question...
The only problem is that the height of the columnrule is fixed, which
doesn't look right with balanced columns :-( Would it be possible to
force this MPgraphic{co
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> \startuseMPgraphic{columnrule}
> path p ; p := unitsquare xyscaled (OverlayWidth+5mm,OverlayHeight) ;
> draw (xpart(urcorner p),ypart(urcorner
> p)-\the\dimexpr\noflines\lineheight\relax) -- urcorner p ;
> setbounds currentpicture to p ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
Thanks Wolfga
Jelle Huisman wrote:
> Maybe I miss something, but it looks there is no rule=on command for use
> in columnsets? I just want a vertical line between the columns in my
> columnset, how do I get that?
Answering myself: I have found this solution, using an MP backgrou
Hi all,
Maybe I miss something, but it looks there is no rule=on command for use
in columnsets? I just want a vertical line between the columns in my
columnset, how do I get that?
Thanks,
Jelle
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Jelle Huisman wrote:
When I try to do something with \placefigure I get a "floatblocks :
order disturbed" error and no figure placed.
Please make a example because this works for me:
I solved my immediate problem by using a separate layout with a slightly
bigger text
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Hi Hans,
Is there a way to do this [force] with \externalfigure in a macro
def like:
\def\picturefile #1#2#3{{\rotate[rotation=#1]{\externalfigure[#2]
[width=#3mm]}}}
When I try to do something with \placefigure I get a "floatblocks :
order disturbed" error and
Hans Hagen wrote:
I try to get a picture on a page using
\externalfigure[name.pdf][width=\textwidth] The image is pushed to the
next page, even though there is no text on the current page and the
height of the image itself is smaller then \textheight, so it should
fit. How do I force image pla
[it looks like this mail didn't make it to the list, sorry if double posted]
Hi again,
I try to get a picture on a page using
\externalfigure[name.pdf][width=\textwidth] The image is pushed to the
next page, even though there is no text on the current page and the
height of the image itself is
Hi again,
I try to get a picture on a page using
\externalfigure[name.pdf][width=\textwidth] The image is pushed to the
next page, even though there is no text on the current page and the
height of the image itself is smaller then \textheight, so it should
fit. How do I force image placement *
Hans Hagen wrote:
> \setuplayout[key-values] % defines global one
>
> \setuplayout[somename][key-values] % defines named one
Thanks Hans,
Does this mean that \definelayout is not needed?
Jelle
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Hi,
Is it possible to give a layout definition a name? It would be really
helpful to be able to say \definelayout[name=one][...]
\definelayout[name=two][...]
and then to be able to say: \setuplayout[one] and somewhere else in the
document \setuplayout[two]
(This would mirror the way it is possib
Hi Aditya,
> I had a hard time getting texexec to work with cygwin ruby? Although I
> do not think that finding images is related to ruby. Try installing
> windows ruby and run everything from cmd.exe. (And check the paths
> carefully). This way you eliminate cygwin from the picture (It is
> in
Hi Aditya,
> Is he trying to compile the file on cygwin or on cmd.exe?
Both don't work.
> Was ruby
> installed for windows or for cygwin?
For cygwin.
> Was another tex package installed on
> cygwin which may be interfering with context binaries (cygwin resets the
> paths when it is started).
N
Hi all,
I try to help a colleague who has successfully installed ConTeXt using
the Windows installer and has started typesetting some documents. His
installation has problems finding files. Using something like "\input
./path/to/file.tex" works OK, but this doesn't:
\externalfigure[./path/to/f
Thank you Patrick and Aditya,
I think I'll use \defineitemgroup etc., but I'm still curios what the
difference is between these two:
\startbulletlist \startbulletlistitem{One}\stopbulletlistitem
\stopbulletlist % this works
\startbulletlist{ \startbulletlistitem{One}\stopbulletlistitem
}\s
Hi all,
I try to understand why this doesn't work as I expected?
\definestartstop
[bulletlist]
[before={\startitemize[packed]},
after={\stopitemize}]
\definestartstop
[bulletlistitem]
[before={\item},
after={ }]
\starttext
\startbulletlist{
\startbulletlistitem{One}\stopb
Hans Hagen wrote:
> ok, you suffered enough ... so, this is for your eyes only because
> otherwise i get complaints about a non documented feature:
> \synchronizegrid (we needed it once in a project; it worked ok there but
> was never tested being that which is why it's still on cont-new)
>
(
Jelle Huisman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have text with a small intro section in a double column environment.
> The main text is set on a grid and the intro text is slightly off-grid
> with a \vskip -2pt before and a \vskip 2pt after the intro. As this
> sample shows this works fin
Hi,
I have text with a small intro section in a double column environment.
The main text is set on a grid and the intro text is slightly off-grid
with a \vskip -2pt before and a \vskip 2pt after the intro. As this
sample shows this works fine, until the intro text is broken over two
columns. I
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> What special fonts or features do you use with XeTeX which are not
> possible with LuaTeX.
I need to support Graphite enabled fonts for the rendering of complex
non-roman scripts [1], Graphite can currently only be used with XeTeX.
Anyway, I'll reformat my source file t
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> You should be switch to MkIV if possible, it is easier to select
> the elements and you don't need different commands for normal
> div elements as environments or as commands.
Problem is that I have to use XeTeX for some special fonts, so I have to
stay with MkII for thi
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Yes, I know that the xhtml is not very nice (if only I could write my
own xml...) The situation is that I get this file from a customer and I
want to avoid having to reformat it (for compatibility reasons). That's
why I try to make it work, but it seems I'm out of luck he
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> You're misusing the div element for something it is not meant, could
> you use h1 ... elements in your html and map them to ConTeXt's own
> header commands.
Yes, I know that the xhtml is not very nice (if only I could write my
own xml...) The situation is that I get this
Hi again,
I'm working on my xhtml file again but somehow I don't get it...
Consider this bit of xml:
A a
I want to pickup the "A a"-bit and put it in a \chapter. I tried a good
number of variations like this:
\defineXMLargument [div] \chapter{\XMLpar{div}
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> You could also switch between different typescripts. If you really want to
> relly
> on \switchtobodyfont use it inside of a group because the font switch will be
> local to the group and you go back to the global font after the group.
Thanks Wolfgang, I'll try the types
Hans Hagen wrote:
> grep for \XMLmapvalue and \XMLval and so ... faster than processaction
You mean \mapXMLvalue? (can't find \XMLmapvalue...) Time for example.pdf
again :-)
Thanks,
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Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
\Mywordstyle is a font switch:
\def\Mywordstyle #1 {\switchtobodyfont[GentiumItalics]{#1}
\switchtobodyfont[Gentium]}
Do you really want a font switch, isn't a style switch enough in your case
from roman to italic and back.
Since I also need to be able to switch t
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Did this come closer to what you want.
>
Almost, however I added "xlanguagetag=>\let\FormatSpan\bold" to get to
the nested span element and that didn't work. Any suggestions?
> \defineXMLenvironment [span] [class=]
> {\bgroup
>\processaction
> [\XMLpar{span
Thanks Hans, but for this bit of data:
>> papa
this code:
> \defineXMLargument
> [span]
> [class=word]
> {\Mywordstyle{\XMLpar{span}{class}{default-value}}}
>
applies the \Mywordstyle to the class attribute "word", whereas I'm
looking for a solution that applies the style to the wor
Hello,
I want to process have a rather complicated xhtml file with dictionary
data containing lots of entries like:
papa
Eng
daddy
I tried to write some code to get the individual data elements into my
ConTeXt-module, but I didn't succeed. This:
\defineXMLargument [span
class="
Hans Hagen wrote:
Unbelievable stuff! Byzantine notation!! I never dared to hope that
all this is available (and even non-commercial) with fonts ...
indeed
how about adding such top level links to the wiki (some font resource page)
I have added the link to the page "Fonts by Unicode char
Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to typeset various symbols (as examples included in normal
> text lines) from musical notation from the 14th century
> ("Mensuralnotation"). These symbols can be seen in
>
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf
>
> I just have absolutely no idea
Hi Aditya,
What is the best way to
automate this process?
Write a script in your favourite language to create the 420 natural
tables.
I think it's time to make Lua my favorite language :-)
Thanks,
Jelle
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Hi all,
I try to merge data from four files in one document. The source files
are simple text files, each with 420 numbered lines of text. I have
created a simple natural table with cells for the different pieces of
data. I would like to make one document with 420 tables, each with the
right d
Hi Andrea,
> I saw that many tmp .rli files are generated. Apart form the
> increasing compiling time, the first problem is that I had to run
> several times texexec --xtx in order to generate them all. Is it normal?
This (many .rli files) is normal if you use \externalfigure in an older
version
> I desperately need your help ... why does the following code not
> produce my formula?
>
> \starttext
> \startformula
> [-iH(A),-iH(B)]=-iH([A,B])
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
Hi Olivier,
I don't know what ConTeXt is doing behind the scenes, but I found two
solutions:
\starttext
\startformula
> Hallo
Hallo Wolfgang,
> I can not get pragma ade website any longer:
Try pragma-ade.nl
Gr,
Jelle
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Hello Aditya,
Do you have a blank line between the two lines? If so, see below.
No, I don't have a blank line. (well, I can change my test file, but
that is not the solution I am looking for.)
To process the tags I have defined some macro's, like this one:
\def\TAGc#1
{\dosomething{#1} % the \
Hello,
I try to create a macro for processing a document tagged with some
non-standard tags, like:
\TAGc The title of this chapter
\TAGs Here starts a new section with a lot of bla bla bla text. More bla
bla. And yet another piece of bla bla.
To process the tags I have defined some macro's, li
On the other hand, it would be convenient if we could quickly upgrade
to the latest ConTeXt on a Mac.
ctxtools --update
gives me
unable to fetch cont-tmf.zip
same here (OSX 10.4.9)
Maybe you are behind a firewall?, we discussed this on the list earlier
this year. (BTW upgrading will brea
On Wed, May 23, 2007 6:38 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 5/23/07, luigi scarso wrote:
>> Are there any pdf/slides about EuroBachoTeX2007?
>> The only thing that i have found is program, see
>> http://www.gust.org.pl/BachoTeX/EuroBachoTeX2007/prog.html
>
> I'm not sure if anyone has collected slide
Op 13-apr-2007, om 9:20 heeft Aditya Mahajan het volgende geschreven:
> While starting ConTeXt, I found ConTeXt an excrusion and ConTeXt
> manual to be extremely well written, much better than what I had read
> for LaTeX (but then, I never bought a LaTeX book). What do you find
> missing in the Co
> I'm afraid there still seems to be a problem with the XeTeX
> engine ... try to compile the following (I guess you can choose
> whichever OpenType font you have on your machine):
[snip]
> The same file used to compile with the January release of ConTeXt
> (2007.01.12) ... perhaps something has
Op 20-mrt-2007, om 15:02 heeft Thomas A. Schmitz het volgende
geschreven:
> I must admit that I always do this manually, I never use ctxtools. If
> you've already dlded the file, just unzip it. From the command line:
Of course I can do it manually, but since there is a tool for it, why
not us
Op 20-mrt-2007, om 13:46 heeft Lutz Haseloff het volgende geschreven:
> Hi Jelle,
>
> do you have to use a Proxy?
Hello Lutz,
No, as far as I know I don't use a Proxy. But I will try again when I
am at home (other network, other provider...)
Greetings,
Jelle
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Op 20-mrt-2007, om 11:32 heeft Taco Hoekwater het volgende geschreven:
> Hi all,
>
> I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen
> can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its
> mirrors.
Hello,
I have another question about installing updates.
Op 20-mrt-2007, om 11:32 heeft Taco Hoekwater het volgende geschreven:
> Hi all,
>
> I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen
> can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its
> mirrors.
Hello,
I try to update ConTeXt using "ctxtools --updateco
Hello,
The 'Web resources' page on the wiki has a link to an interface that
"can be used to generate sheets with labels (stickers) or other grid
oriented content." It links to http://www.pragma-ade.com/labels.html,
but that link doesn't work. Is this interface available elsewhere, or
can I
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