Re: [NTG-context] redefining paragraph breaks

2012-01-06 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Chris Lott wrote: I know I could do it manually, but that makes the source ugly, so is there a way to redefine paragraph breaks so that instead of actual breaks in the output they are kept as running text separate

Re: [NTG-context] redefining paragraph breaks

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Chris Lott wrote: I know I could do it manually, but that makes the source ugly, so is there a way to redefine paragraph breaks so that instead of actual breaks in the output they are kept as running text separate by a paragraph symbol, e.g.: This is paragraph 1. This is

[NTG-context] \inpu

2011-12-31 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
I thought I'd see if I could use ConTeXt. Here is my first try, hello.tex. \starttext \input header Hello, World!\startlua a = 1.5 b = 1.8 c = a * b tex.print(c) \stoplua plus1. \stoptext Didn't work because the file header.tex could not be found, even though kpsewhich can find it.

[NTG-context] Resubscribe, please

2011-12-28 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
Moderator, the last message I received from the list was on 24 October. I've attempted to re-subscribe but am told I'm still subscribed. Back then there was a fault at this end which caused mail to be rejected. ___

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-11 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, Martin Schr?der wrote: 2010/7/10 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: avoiding PDF for all costs makes sense or not. Expressed in other words: what usually happens when one sends PDF to PostScript printer? Does it print the document almost-natively or not?

[NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
I've just installed ConTeXt minimal and had a look at ConTeXt, The Manual. I typed in the example document that starts at the bottom of page 13 (called it eg.tex) and ran context. It produced the file eg.pdf and I notice that it ran luatex with the option --backend=pdf. Thanks, those who have

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Vedran Mileti?~G wrote: 2010/7/9 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: pdf and dvi are ??the only backend . In mkiv (I suppose you are using mkiv because of ??context ) the pdf backend is actually the only backend. Luigi has summarized it pretty much. Even though LuaTeX can

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: Oh, yes. May have a look at MkII. But does it use LuaTeX? The possibility of easy macros in Lua rather than difficult macros in TeX would be one attraction of ConTeXt. Maybe Eplain LuaTeX is what I need. Let me correct that. Confused

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-09 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, luigi scarso wrote: Let me correct that. ??Confused ravings. ??I was really looking for (1) font management making it easier to install new and unusual fonts without delving up to my armpits in tfm, pk, whatever, (2) something with Metapost more integrated, allowing easy

[NTG-context] Trash in messages

2010-04-10 Thread Michael Talbot-Wilson
I read this mailing list on a Linux VT (virtual terminal), and I think it is an unintelligent intrusion for there now to appear at the bottom of every message, between lines of dashes more than 80 characters wide when a VT only supports a width of 80 characters, a request for the contents of