[NTG-context] placepublications not obeying grid placement

2006-09-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello Taco, The following example is taken from the manual, just a grid is added around it. I don't use grid typesetting very often, but I just noticed that \placepublications confuses proper placement of citatons on the grid. Is this difficult to fix? (I temporary created an ugly patch to fix it,

Re: [NTG-context] Intermediate files in subdirectory

2006-09-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/8/06, Fredrik Sjunnesson wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any way to specify where the intermediate files and log files > generated by context end up? > > Ideally, I would like my working directory to contain tex and pdf files > only. All other files could be stored in a subdirectory. That way all

Re: [NTG-context] 2DOWN imposition gives blank pages

2006-09-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/29/06, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > > texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --2up yourfile.pdf > > I tried a few experiments with no luck. Not sure if it's a context or > texexec problem, or my confusion. I made the multi-page p5.pdf from try --paperformat instead of --paper. texexec --pdfcombine -

Re: [NTG-context] Making context produce dvi file.

2006-09-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/11/06, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Monday 11 September 2006 11:21, Hans Hagen wrote: > > Mari Voipio wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > > >> But how do I get Context to produce a dvi file? > > > > texexec --dvips yourfile > > > > Hans > > Thanks! > That works after ex

Re: [NTG-context] \setuppapersize[XY] not working properly with landscape orientation

2006-09-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/7/06, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > \setuppapersize[XY] is not working properly when paper orientation is > landscape. The following code results in pages of dimensions 29.5 x > 29.5 cm: > > \setuppapersize > [XY][A4,landscape] > \setu

Re: [NTG-context] Help with mswincontext installation

2006-09-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/15/06, Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So wrote: > After upgrading MikTeX, ConTeXt is working no more. What exactly is wrong? Do you use MikTeX 2.5 or do you mean "I updated the packages on MikTeX 2.4"? On my computer it's working OK (after submitting quite some bug reports, but all of them were

Re: [NTG-context] xetex and metapost

2006-09-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/16/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Alex Lubberts wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After switching to `XeConTeXt' my file with MP graphics (which ran fine > > before) results in errors. I include a .mp-file like: > > > > \startuseMPgraphic{dia1} > > input Diagram1 ; > > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \placefigure{Comme

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt problem on Mac mini

2006-09-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
A notice for Hans: can you please browse down for \externalfigure[\jobname-something.tmp] The thing with \AR versus \FR & \LR and table header & footer handling might also be misfeatures, esp. if they have already worked before (I never used them). On 9/15/06, Bernd Militzer wrote: > Hi all, > >

Re: [NTG-context] Help with mswincontext installation

2006-09-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/18/06, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2006, at 12:43 AM, Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So wrote: > > > Hello gang! > > > > I discovered what caused the problem. The shell ! > > I used 4nt instead of cmd, and with 4nt things don't work well. > > I tried again with cmd and I managed to co

Re: [NTG-context] texfont error

2006-09-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/17/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Johan Sandblom wrote: > > Digging further reveals a working texfont.pl installed with debians > > texlive. The two texfonts claim to be the same version (in header) but > > are quite different. Both are included in the attached zip. > > > > R But it's true that some

Re: [NTG-context] Greek hyphenation problem

2006-09-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/16/06, Alan Bowen wrote: > I have not been able to get Greek hyphenation to work. To make sure > that my set up was right (?), > I ran > texfmstart ctxtools --pat > and put the pattern files in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/ > context/patterns > The log file shows > CtxTools |

Re: [NTG-context] does metafun require texexec --final?

2006-09-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/23/06, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > So maybe the best approach is to edit cont-sys.rme directly, then > merge changes (using a revision control system like mercurial or git) > that arrive with the new context distributions. Changes in cont-sys.rme don't happen that often. You can safely create con

Re: [NTG-context] transparent metafun colors turn nearly black

2006-09-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/24/06, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > These were the memory setting in the /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf > configlet that is part of Debian and Ubuntu: > > main_memory = 100 % words of inimemory available; also applies to inimf&mp > main_memory.context = 150 > main_memory.mpost = 150 >

Re: [NTG-context] Update context in Suse 9.3

2006-09-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/25/06, batela wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > In my laptop I have the Suse linux 9.3. This distro has tetex 3, > but I intend to update conTeXt . I tried already some ways, but > without success: download an install (unpack and texexec --make --all) > cont-tmf in the texmf directory, using texlive.

Re: [NTG-context] Texts after typing environment

2006-09-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/27/06, Zhichu Chen wrote: > Hello everybody, > > If I type: > > --- > \starttyping > some verbatim texts > \stoptyping > > > does ConTeXt treat it as a complete paragraph? > In LaTeX, when I type: > >

Re: [NTG-context] bug?: interaction between columns and background

2006-09-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/29/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > >> I tried it on ConTeXtgarden as well and the problem remained (the > >> installed beta was too old there as well). So it's definitely > >> Patrick's fault! ;)) > >> > > > > If you want, I can run the 'installcontext' script

Re: [NTG-context] MPenvironment \def gives "Parameters must be numbered consecutively"

2006-09-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/29/06, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > This test file (beta 2006.09.28): > > 1.tex > \starttext > \startMPenvironment > \def\2#1#2{\vbox{\halign{\hfil##\hfil\cr #1\cr #2\cr}}} > \stopMPenvironment A lesson that I learned while trying to implement a few functi

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-10-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/29/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Steve Peter wrote: > > There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux. > > And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that > believes it is running on windows... But then it has to be fixed, not thrown away ... I bet that the main reason is one of th

[NTG-context] table: code doesn't work any more with recent beta

2006-10-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello Hans, The following code compiles fine with MikTeX (version 2006.08.22), but fails with a recent beta: \def\room#1{\starttable[ s0 |r|l|]#1\stoptable} \def\student#1#2{\NC#1\NC#2\NC\MR} \starttext \room{ \student{A}{B} \student{C}{D} } \stoptext I get the following error:

Re: [NTG-context] How to make copyable Chinese documents ?

2006-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/3/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My friends can use LaTeX+CJK or LaTeX+CCT to generate Chinese documents > > the Chinese characters in which can be selected and copied. The > > procedure is using > > LaTeX to convert .tex file to .dvi, then using gs to conve

Re: [NTG-context] table: code doesn't work any more with recent beta

2006-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/2/06, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Monday 02 October 2006 13:07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:42:03 +0100 > > > > Sanjoy Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd seen a similar problem but didn't manage to catch it before it > > > slithered away. But I'm pretty sur

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

2006-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/3/06, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > 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 ru

Re: [NTG-context] wiki: debian installation

2006-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/2/06, plink wrote: Thanks a lot for all the comments! Feel free to edit the wiki if nobody else starts doing so (I have some plans in mind about changing/improving installation pages, but it's only a question of starting it and taking some more time ...). I'm only answering a few of the que

Re: [NTG-context] itemize and placefigure

2006-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/3/06, plink wrote: > Hi, > > as soon as I put a placefigure in an \item paragraph, the whole > paragraph starts one line below the stopper. Is this a conceptual issue > or just a weirdness? > > What is the best way to start at the same height? I couldn´t find > anything in the wiki or the det

[NTG-context] bug: MetaFun doesn't speak French

2006-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello Hans, here's a little MetaFun snippet which fails to work because of special treatment of French characters: \useencoding[ffr] \mainlanguage[fr] \startMPcode fill fullcircle scaled 5cm; \stopMPcode \stoptext >> (0,0,5cm.directdiscretionary,0,0,5cm.directdiscretionary) ! Transform compon

Re: [NTG-context] bug?: interaction between columns and background

2006-10-05 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/5/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Hans, can ctxtools be modified to give the option of downloading both > the stable and latest branch? --updatecontext gives the beta which, > being a beta, has occasional bugs. So this method of updating context > can not be recommended to new users. How about a

Re: [NTG-context] \showlayout doesn't (2006.10.04 beta)

2006-10-05 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/5/06, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > I can't test it on the live context (the missing cont-new.mkii) to make > sure it's not something silly on my part. The garden now works again, but only until Hans uploads the new beta, so keep fingers crossed that he won't forget to add that file in the next re

Re: [NTG-context] \showlayout doesn't (2006.10.04 beta)

2006-10-05 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/5/06, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 10/5/06, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > > I can't test it on the live context (the missing cont-new.mkii) to make > > sure it's not something silly on my part. > > The garden now works again, but only until Hans uploads the new beta,

Re: [NTG-context] new (working) LilyPond module

2006-10-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/8/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > Hi ho! > > > > I just uploaded a new version of the LilyPond module into the garden: > > http://modules.contextgarden.net/t-lilypond > > For > http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/t-lilypond/tex/context/third/t-

Re: [NTG-context] context rendering disabled on contextgarden

2006-10-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/8/06, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Hi there, > > just to prevent confusion: the context rendering > (live.contextgarden.net, examples in the wiki) are currently broken. > The sysops are working to get it working again. I'll report back if > things are working correctly. To be more precise: I br

Re: [NTG-context] an encoding for turkish

2006-10-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/11/06, R. Ermers wrote: > Hi, > > I am preparing a document in xml docbook. The general output with > Context is fine. > > However, in my main text (Dutch) I use some Turkish as well. Next to the > xml-editor, I use Textpad, whose unicode support is not optimal, so for > the time being I sa

Re: [NTG-context] Natural table + interlinespacing

2006-10-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/11/06, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > 2006/10/11, Mari Voipio: > > > > I'd love natural tables except for one aspect that drives me crazy: How > > do I diminish the interlinespacing in my table? That is, I want the > > lines in the multiline cells to be closer together. > > The overall interlin

Re: [NTG-context] Two problems with current ruby scripts

2006-10-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/25/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >> Command:texexec --output=dvips foo > >> Should produce: foo.dvi > >> Actually produces: foo.pdf > >> > hm, i need to check that, maybe there is no dvips option > >> Command:texexec --dvi foo > >> Should produce: foo.dvi > >> Act

Re: [NTG-context] In-line syntax highlighting for type

2006-10-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/25/06, Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > >> Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> How can I define a command that is the inline version of \startTEX ... > >>> \stopTEX. (I need to sho

Re: [NTG-context] overlay page background missing

2006-11-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/2/06, Paul Jones wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to put together a wedding book. I would like a nice > watermark behind the text on each page. Left page containing the word > 'together', and right page containing the word 'forever'. I can get > this done with an overlay, but it is alwa

Re: [NTG-context] overlay page background missing

2006-11-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/2/06, Paul Jones wrote: > You gave me hope, but it was dashed upon further experimentation. If everything else fails, here's another idea about what you can do in such cases (or better: what I do when I have no better idea how to tell to TeX where exactly to place things): % "draw \sometxt{

Re: [NTG-context] overlay page background missing

2006-11-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/3/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Paul Jones wrote: > > > > On 11/2/06, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> > >> % "draw \sometxt{forever} withcolor red" is broken at the moment, > >> % but used to/should(?) work otherwise > >&

Re: [NTG-context] Font installation

2006-11-08 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 06 Nov 2006 14:33:11 +0100, Antoine Junod wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to install new fonts in my texmf tree but at each try I > stop at the same point, when compiling my test file: > > (./type-doulos.tex) > ! Font \*doulos12ptrmtfrm*:=DoulosSil at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) > fil

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode stuff (was: Re: Specifying BibTeX engine)

2006-11-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/4/06, Philipp Reichmuth wrote: > I've been starting to reuse some of this work in a script to do active > character assignment for XeTeX depending on what glyphs are present in > an OpenType font, so that those characters for which the font doesn't > have a glyph are generated by ConTeXt. Ba

Re: [NTG-context] unic-xxx.tex glyph lists: minor bugs, questions

2006-11-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/5/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Philipp Reichmuth wrote: > > I've been writing a script that sifts through the unic-xxx.tex files to > > get a readable mapping what Unicode characters are supported using > > \Amacron-style names. > > > mtxtools can create such lists using the unicode consotium glyp

Re: [NTG-context] unic-xxx.tex glyph lists: minor bugs, questions

2006-11-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
> > > The best way out would be if I could enable ConTeXt's UTF-8 regime while > > > running XeTeX in \XeTeXinputencoding=bytes mode, but I haven't gotten > > > that to work yet. That would mean that you loose the whole range of glyphs & scripts outside of the scope which ConTeXt supports (you wou

[NTG-context] combining multiple accents

2006-11-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I always thought that "any accent can be placed on any character" in TeX. However, probably due to some boxes, this fails to work sometimes. So how can I create "a with cedilla and ring above" for example: \r{\c a}? (Yes, I know that I can switch the order: \c{\r a} works as expected, but

Re: [NTG-context] How to get a PhD with ConTeXt (+ hard work ;) )

2006-11-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 10/26/06, Renaud AUBIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Maybe some of yours (from the ConTeXt POV) can be interested by my PhD > dissertation and my presentation (both in french)... > > http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/PhD/ Nice work! I can't read French, but the figures are very nic

Re: [NTG-context] How to get a PhD with ConTeXt (+ hard work ;) )

2006-11-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/13/06, Renaud AUBIN wrote: > > Mojca Miklavec a écrit : > > Nice work! I can't read French, but the figures are very nice and > content is probably interesting as well ;) > > Thanks! > > I didn't know that people were indeed using the module already

Re: [NTG-context] combining multiple accents

2006-11-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/14/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>I always thought that "any accent can be placed on any character" in TeX. > >> > >>However, probably due to some box

Re: [NTG-context] mark ii/iv

2006-11-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/21/06, Hans van der Meer wrote: > In the most recent release notes on contextgarden it is said: I was really curious about what was going to stand on those pages (one of my temporary diffs was about 1MB long), but I really love Taco's most honest comment ;) Mojca ___

Re: [NTG-context] overlay problem with textext

2006-11-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/22/06, Peter Rolf wrote: > Hi all, > > the attached example works with the version from 17.11.|20.11., but not > with the current (22.11.06, 11:02) one. The problem seems to be in the > use of textext, as it 'works' (background is visible) when I exchange > > p:= textext.rt(\MPstring{FunnyF

Re: [NTG-context] mark ii/iv

2006-11-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/22/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > On 11/21/06, Hans van der Meer wrote: > > > >> In the most recent release notes on contextgarden it is said: > >> > > > > I was really curious about what was going to stand on those pages (one

Re: [NTG-context] overlay problem with textext

2006-11-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/23/06, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 11/22/06, Peter Rolf wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > the attached example works with the version from 17.11.|20.11., but not > > with the current (22.11.06, 11:02) one. The problem seems to be in the > > use of textext, as it &#x

Re: [NTG-context] context under miktex (2)

2006-11-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
> Don't use MikTeX 2.4. I can confirm that latest releases of ConTeXt (since the introduction of ruby-based executables) have problems with MikTeX 2.4. Do you have any chances to upgrade MikTeX to 2.5? Mojca ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.

Re: [NTG-context] Context, Metapost \sometxt and color

2006-12-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/2/06, Wim Neimeijer wrote: > Hi > > The following used to work, the text came out in the color red, now it > is shown in black. > Am I doing something wrong here ? Or should I use something else instead ? > Any help appreciated Add \chardef\TeXtextcolormode\zerocount to your document or

[NTG-context] strange behaviour of \definedfont['Some Name'] in XeTeX

2006-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I'm probaby misusing the feature (most robably because I just didn't take time to study how to do it properly), but it behaves really strange. In XeTeX I first did \font\f='Some Name' \f which worked OK. But when I tried the same with \definedfont['Some Name'] it resulted in strange

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/12/06, luigi scarso wrote: > I'm a little bit confused about extex (www.extex.org) and > xetex (scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=xetex) > > How do they relate with Context ? XeTeX is reasonably well supported in ConTeXt (font stuff is better supported in LaTeX for the ti

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart problem (long time spend somewhere)

2006-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/12/06, Denis Pinsard wrote: > Hello, > > For near two years I use ConTeXt under the MiTeX distribution. > Last weekend I installed the last version of ConTeXt (2006-07-21) > available on MikTeX. Try to install MikTeX 2.5. Since the move from 2.4 to 2.5 when the author made our wish true (to

[NTG-context] uc-encoded fonts and accents

2006-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, in enco-uc.tex there are some definitions which use "combining" accents: \definecharacter textgrave{\uchar3{0}} \definecharacter textacute{\uchar3{1}} \definecharacter textcircumflex {\uchar3{2}} \definecharacter texttilde{\uchar3{3}} \definecharacter textmacron

Re: [NTG-context] strange behaviour of \definedfont['Some Name'] in XeTeX

2006-12-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/12/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm probaby misusing the feature (most robably because I just didn't > > take time to study how to do it properly), but it behaves really > > strange. > > > > In XeTeX I

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt update deletes user files?

2006-12-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/10/06, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: > Hello, > > after updating to the latest ConTeXt release (via i-Installer on my > Mac) all my custom files are gone! I put them in .../texmf.local/tex/ > context/user/ and now there is emptiness :-( The installer shouldn't > touch those files, right? As alre

Re: [NTG-context] a German umlaut is broken

2006-12-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/18/06, Hubertus wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > in the new version (7.12.2006) one of the special German characters is > > > broken: > > > > > > > > > \enableregime [il1] > > > \mainlanguage [de] > > > \setupbodyfont[sansserif] > > > \starttext > > > > > > German Umlauts: ???

Re: [NTG-context] uc-encoded fonts and accents

2006-12-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
acter texthungarumlaut {\uchar{2}{"DD}} (second number should be written in decimal, but I don't want to be responsible for a wrong conversion ;) Mojca On 12/12/06, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > in enco-uc.tex there are some definitions which use "combining&

Re: [NTG-context] License stuff for ConTeXt

2006-12-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/22/06, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi all! > > You know what is coming ... > > First statement: I would prefer to have context in Debian proper, but if > we cannot get anyway with this, putting all the stuff into the nonfree > section might be an option, although it doesn't sound right. > > Ok,

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

2006-12-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm going to try to make a 'verbatim- module' (don't know what the > right word is) for another language. I've found: > > /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/verb-pl.tex > > and can probably have a go at making a version of this. Some > questi

Re: [NTG-context] List of special characters?

2006-12-25 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2006-12-25, at 10:46.0, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Is there a list of special characters anywhere (eg \percent, > >> \upperleftsingle6quote, etc) ? I'm trying to insert a "|", at the > >> moment, but I can't find a list... ..

[NTG-context] \ifshellescape

2006-12-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, is there any command to test for write18/shell escape available in ConTeXt? In one of the LaTeX packages I saw: \newif\ifShellEscape ... \ifShellEscape \def\tmpfile{/tmp/w18-test-\the\year\the\month\the\day\the\time} \ifmiktex \immediate\write18{rem >"\tmpfile"} \else

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

2006-12-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/26/06, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > 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,

Re: [NTG-context] \ifshellescape

2006-12-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/26/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > Peter Münster wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > > > >> is there any command to test for write18/shell escape available in ConTeXt? > >> > > There is such a command in pdfTeX-1.40 bu

[NTG-context] shading with stitching functions

2006-12-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I'm still trying to get shading in MetaPost as the one in the attached eps file, but I don't manage to decipher the way how other shandings are done. There's a .tex file attached with a failed (hardcoded) example tries ... but I don't know where to explore further. I would appreciate any

Re: [NTG-context] \ifshellescape

2006-12-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/26/06, Hans Hagen wrote: > > core-job.tex:\ifx\pdfshellescape\undefined \else > core-job.tex:\chardef\systemcommandmode \ifcase\pdfshellescape > \plusone \else \plustwo \fi > > so \systemcommandmode is your friend What exactly is the advantage of using \pdfshellescape over \ifeof18 as th

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Cyrillic font

2006-12-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/26/06, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > > I am sorry to say that this really looks like the INF of the standard > > Times-Roman font that does not have cyrillic glyphs (and the same was > > true of your log file). > > Yes, Taco, you are right. I was muddled by Extensis Suitcase which displayed

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Cyrillic font

2006-12-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/27/06, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > > > I might have missed the point completely, but do you set the file > > encoding anywhere, such as \enableregime[cp1251] (= windows-1251) > > anywhere? I didn't try your examples, but unless you set this > > somewhere cyrilic glyphs unlikely to work pr

Re: [NTG-context] spurious space in figurebase graphics

2006-12-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/27/06, Peter Rolf wrote: > > BTW: Is there a way to upload some file to ConTeXt Live, so that things > like this can be tested on 'neutral ground'? It's fairly simple to add that functionality (let's say for a restricted set of file endings and a restricted file size), but: is live.contextga

Re: [NTG-context] shading with stitching functions

2006-12-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/27/06, Peter Rolf wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > this is also on my wishlist (and christmas is over). Currently I use > several color gradients in a row, to simulate the same effect. But sadly > this way is too viewer dependent (rendering is a matter of luck with > every new version), not to mention

Re: [NTG-context] List of special characters?

2006-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This works great. But then I've got the following keywords: > > # ! | \ @ ^ + - * / % Just copied from Aditya's code :) \letterhash, \# \letterexclamationmark \letterbar \letterbackslash \letterat \letterhat \letterslash \letterpercent, \% \letterless \l

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

2006-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How does it find the .vim language syntax file for - say - Ruby? When you start vim and say "set syntax=ruby", vim should find the syntax file automatically. For example under: /usr/share/vim/vimXX/syntax/ruby.vim c:/programs/vim/vimXX/syntax/ruby.vi

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

2006-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/28/06, Douglas Philips wrote: > Hello again, > > I've just recently tried to "get up to speed" on ConTeXt by reading > what I could find on the web, including > cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). > > Recent activity on this list, discussing the Debian packag

[NTG-context] PSTricks

2006-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
(was: Manual (English) Update soon?) For Hans: please read further, some things need to be fixed. On 12/29/06, John R. Culleton wrote: > > Jut FYI PSTricks (which runs on Plain TeX as well as LaTeX) can be run as part > of Context. It requires loading a module and an extra pass. Like many of > t

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

2006-12-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I think vim works OK here, so this is what I tried: > > ... > \setupcolors[state=start] > > \usemodule[vimsyntax] > > \definetypeVIMfile [typeRUBY] [syntax=ruby] > > \typeRUBY[typeRUBY]{fibo.rb} > > \defineVIMtyping[RUBY][syntax=ruby] > > \startRUBY > # T

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

2006-12-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2006-12-29, at 13:09.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Which version of TeX/ConTeXt are you using? (Perhaps Hans has changed > > something in the meantime, to make that work again.) Are you using > > Gerben's i-Installer? In that cas

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

2006-12-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/29/06, Douglas Philips wrote: > On 2006 Dec 28, at 5:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan indited: > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: > >> cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). > > > > That is the most up to date manual and should get you started for most > > of

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: font sizes

2006-12-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/28/06, Elliot Clifton wrote: > Hello, > > I've read the fonts manual, but I don't understand how to change > sizes. How can I change the sizes referred to by the sizes selectors > \tfx etc... I'm not sure if this is the proper way, but take a look into font-map.tex (I just figured out that t

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt upgrade blues

2006-12-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/30/06, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: > > now, according to several web pages, ec-lmr12 can be found on > pragma's web, but it's not there. It's not there any more since it was considered that they should either be present on the system already or that it would make sense to update the syst

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

2006-12-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/31/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the recommended way to install the latest Context version > (MacOS X)? You have to install at least the following two packages: - gwTeX based on TeX Live (texlive.ii2) - gwTeX Support: ConTeXt updater (context-update.ii2) Perhaps uninstall both ConT

[NTG-context] Problems with "mathalign"

2007-01-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I wanted to keep Aditya busy now that he finished his wonderful new module ;), so ... I first wanted to ask how to number subformulas in a certain way, but that I figured out that numbering is already causing some problems on its own. Consider the following examples: \starttext This i

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, hyphenation

2007-01-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/3/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the hyphenation files that context uses are either in a neutral (verbose > format) or in utf format (standard now) so the question is ... what > encoding are the original nohyph* files in I don't know anything about the language itself, but it s

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

2007-01-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > so I may not have to go to a unicode-font at all. > > I just wish there was some way of accessing all the standard fonts > and symbols that are already a few millimetres away on the hard > disk... :-) > > thanks again! Do you want to say that you would like to

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

2007-01-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-01-03, at 20:01.0, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > The symbol set "was" (Roland Waldi's symbols AKA wasysym) contains > > even more astronomic symbols; check which fit your needs better. > > "was" wasn't mentioned on the symbols pag

Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error

2007-01-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/4/07, David Arnold wrote: > Mojca, > > Attached. You've sent one line too few from your log: [MP to PDF] (./junk-mpgraph.1) color : currentcolor (def) is not defined [MP junk-mpgraph.2] ! Arithmetic overflow. This implies too old ConTeXt anyway ("ctxtools --contextversion"), I'm no

Re: [NTG-context] Hello, on html and LaTeX

2007-01-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/3/07, mario wrote: > hello, > > my first post. > I am looking for tools to convert Html to LaTeX. > It has been suggestd to me that ConTeXt could be used to do so. Is it > the case? If yes, how? There is no "html2latex" command available in ConTeXt (if that's what you're looking for), but if

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

2007-01-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The following example is not very ConTeXt-ish, but it should work (if > > you got the unicode glyph right): > > > > \font\astro='name of your font with astro symbols or unicode font' > > \def\neptune{{\astro ♆}} > > > > \starttext > > \neptune > > \stoptext >

Re: [NTG-context] placing a tikz/pgf figure

2007-01-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/9/07, Hans Hagen wrote: > Willi Egger wrote: > > Indeed I also get the results as you describe them. When looking at the > > file *.tmp then you see, that the figure is generated on the fly. When > > external figure is issued, then the textwidth is the base and therefore > > the figure ends up

Re: [NTG-context] placing a tikz/pgf figure

2007-01-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
(abstract of Maarten-Jan's sample) > \usemodule[tikz] > > \starttext > > \startbuffer[tikz] > \starttikzpicture > \draw[red,thick] (0,0) -- (1,1) >{[rounded corners] -- (2,0) -- (3,1)} > -- (3,0) -- (2,1); > \stoptikzpicture > \stopbuffer > > \placefigure > {The f

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and LM

2007-01-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/10/07, Peter Münster wrote: > Hello, > what is needed to get LM working with XeTeX? > I've no success with such a minimal file (imagine utf8 encoding, which is > not the case in this email): > > \startext > à è ö € œ ± > \stoptext Just to answer what you have been asking for: \font\f="[lm

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode Character Problem

2007-01-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/8/07, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having trouble defining a new unicode character: > > 'versuch.tex' reads: > \defineXMLentity[\#9633] {\symbol[8]} It should be \defineXMLentity[9633] {\symbol[8]} > 'versuch.xml' reads: > □ > > Trying to compile this like so: >

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and LM

2007-01-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/10/07, Peter Münster wrote: Hello, what is needed to get LM working with XeTeX? \font\f="[lmroman12-regular]" \f You can take a look at my naive example (I just replaced everything that came to my mind, but that's wrong). Of course, it doesn't work. It seems that low-level macros need som

Re: [NTG-context] HZ and DVI

2007-01-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/13/07, Peter Münster wrote: > > on my system, when watching the file, gv issues very often some errors > after modification of the pdf-file and that's annoying. > (Am I the only one with this problem?) You're not the only one. On windows gv is a perfect choice for watching files created by pd

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a TABLE

2007-01-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/14/07, Gerhard Kugler wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:02:43PM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > > What's wrong with \rotate{your table} ? > > Thanks Henning. > > But now I still have a problem. The TABLE covers a whole page. This > page should habe a colored background (grey). I get

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode Character Problem

2007-01-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/16/07, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > >> I'm having trouble defining a new unicode character: > >> > >> 'versuch.tex' reads: > >> \defineXMLentity[\#9633] {\symbol[8]} > > > > It should be >

Re: [NTG-context] Module `database' and UTF8?

2007-01-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, you seem to be the first one (beside me and Taco) to complain about that bug, so perhaps Hans will have one reason more to try to fix it now (or perhaps to port it to lua, but then you'll have to wait for some time). My observations are (were - I'm currently not behind a ConTeXt machine) a

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/21/07, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > I'm trying (once again) to find out if learning something about XeTeX > is worth the trouble. So far, I haven't seen any compelling reason, > but I'd like to experiment a bit more. Here are two questions I have > run into: > > 1. in the wiki pages "Talk:XeTeX,

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/21/07, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > But one would also need \definedfont["[KalligraphiaLTStd]" at 40pt] or > a similar command (double brackets look ugly anyway) to pass the same Have you tried \definedfont[{"[KalligraphiaLTStd]" at 40

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/21/07, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > > > I requested that feature in XeTeX and yet: it's now implemented in > > LaTeX, but not in ConTeXt. (When Adam became a father, sad times have > > started for f

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