Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and CMYK

2007-02-04 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen wrote: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> luigi scarso wrote: >> >>> On 2/2/07, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I have some questions about cmyk in combination with Metapo

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and CMYK

2007-02-05 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 2/4/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>> On 2/4/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Peter Rolf wrote: >>>> >>>>> But to my surprise ConTeXt auto

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and CMYK

2007-02-05 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 2/5/07, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>> On 2/4/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>>>> On 2/4/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &

Re: [NTG-context] MPtoPDF error

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Willi, Willi Egger wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to compile a file which used to work without problems. Now I > get a fatal error in MPtoPDF. > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.1 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=cont-en > 2007.2.8) 8 FEB 2007 22:46 > entering extended mode > \write18 enabled. > (

Re: [NTG-context] MPtoPDF error

2007-02-11 Thread Peter Rolf
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> >> this is a bug in the current metapost beta (which is already fixed by >> Taco). Simply use the stable version (0.901) instead. A new beta will >> (hopefully) be released this week. > > It won't happen today an

Re: [NTG-context] twocolumn document has trouble with colors

2007-02-11 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Chen, Zhichu Chen wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Does this only happen to me? > No, same problem here. The left column is black, the right one has the desired color. But I have no solution for it (so there was no reply from me earlier). Peter > > On 2/9/07, *Zhichu Chen* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [NTG-context] MPtoPDF error

2007-02-14 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf wrote: > Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> Peter Rolf wrote: >>> this is a bug in the current metapost beta (which is already fixed by >>> Taco). Simply use the stable version (0.901) instead. A new beta will >>> (hopefully) be released this week. >>

Re: [NTG-context] Natural table header mystery.

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi John, John R. Culleton wrote: > The table runs ok with the headers omitted. There are 8 columns. But > when I add these headers it gives me an error. Here are the headers: > - > \bTABLEhead > \bTR > \bTD \eTD \

Re: [NTG-context] Natural table header limitation.

2007-02-25 Thread Peter Rolf
JOHN CULLETON wrote: > The fancy tricks one can to with Natural Tables seem to work within > the body of the table where I don't need them but fail in the header > area where I do need them. > > This example, takein from the wiki, works (of course.) > > \setupTABLE[row][odd][background=color,ba

Re: [NTG-context] Bibtex: empty reference and reference-title / -data

2007-03-01 Thread Peter Rolf
Henning Haeske wrote: > Hi, > > maybe this is a stupid question, but I am "deadlocked" in this case. > > In the text I always getting an empty reference «()» and the listOfReferences > has no title and looks also a little bit discontenting: > > 3 (2001). Leseverhalten in Deutschland im neuen Ja

Re: [NTG-context] problems with complexenumeration

2007-03-04 Thread Peter Rolf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks Aditya for your suggestion. > > The problem is that I already have about 200 separate documents in this > format: > > \startCasus[casus-166][Title: my title] > Text > \stopcasus > > Does anyone have an other idea? > Hi Robert, I just tried your minimal example

Re: [NTG-context] Umlaut causes footnotline to jump

2007-03-15 Thread Peter Rolf
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:05:41 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: >>> \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] >>> \setupencoding[default=texnansi] >>> \mainlanguage[de] >>> \enableregime[mac] >>> >>> \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] >>> >>> \definepa

[NTG-context] figure bases (2nd)

2007-03-20 Thread Peter Rolf
hi, i'm tired of fixing \dogetfigurefilename in every new version. i have already shown that there is something wrong with it in my mail from 17.01.2007 http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070117.153030.344c6989.en.html i don't say, that i understand the complex code for figure inclusion,

Re: [NTG-context] figure bases (2nd)

2007-03-22 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen wrote: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> hi, >> >> i'm tired of fixing \dogetfigurefilename in every new version. i have >> already shown that there is something wrong with it in my mail from >> 17.01.2007 >> >> http://archive.contextgarden.ne

[NTG-context] gray scale conversion of colored text

2007-03-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, I currently have a problem with the conversion of some mp graphics into gray scale. The mp graphics themself look great, but *text is always converted to black*, regardless of its real color. Is there a way to fix this? Peter ___ ntg-context mailing

Re: [NTG-context] gray scale conversion of colored text

2007-03-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf wrote: > Hi, > > I currently have a problem with the conversion of some mp graphics into > gray scale. The mp graphics themself look great, but *text is always > converted to black*, regardless of its real color. Is there a way to fix > this? > Sorry, I made a m

Re: [NTG-context] gray scale conversion of colored text

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Something like >> >> \setupcolors[conversion=always] > > Is there is a reason why you can not use >\setupcolors[state=start] > as well? > Mh, you mean beside from my too little brain? No. ;) This works with th

Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping table

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Johannes, Johannes Kuester wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to typeset a rather simple list or table where each line > should keep the overall grid of my page design. > For this I tried "tabulate", "table", and "TABLE", but all failed. > One way to reach this, is to set the row height of eve

Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping table

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Johannes, Johannes Kuester wrote: > Dear Luigi, dear Rolf, > > thank you for your help. > > Below is a (hopefully) better example of what I try to do and where it > fails. > > The last line in tabulate (starting with "22C6") loses the grid, and I > can't see why. > as I see it, the problem i

Re: [NTG-context] using Make for documents

2007-03-29 Thread Peter Rolf
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > At the recent User Meeting, a few people were interested in how to use > make to maintain complex documents. Here is version 0 of a step-by-step > explanation: > > > > Comments welcome! The URL may change. I'll e

Re: [NTG-context] interlinespace and accented capital

2007-04-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Peter, Peter van Kranenburg wrote: > Hi list, > > I have an accented E (É) somewhere in my text. The height of this > character changes the interlinespace, probably to avoid collision of the > accent and the line above it. Unfortunately it is visually very > disturbing to have a larger inte

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of framed text

2007-04-19 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Vyatcheslav, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > Hello, > > > Thank you Wolfgang, but > > > \defineframed > >[hotkey][offset=4pt,corner=00,location=low] > > > produces too big frames, while > > > \defineframed > >[hotkey][height=\lineheight,offset=4pt,corner=00,location=low] > >

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong SRA3 papersize ?

2007-05-03 Thread Peter Rolf
luigi scarso wrote: > In page-lay.tex > \definepapersize [SRA3] [\c!width=320mm,\c!height=450mm] > maybe is wrong. > It should be > \definepapersize [SRA3] [\c!width=450mm,\c!height=320mm] > > See http://www.theearthpaper.net/paper-sizes.html > but need a confirm > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Re: [NTG-context] CtxTools problem

2007-05-03 Thread Peter Rolf
Keith McKay wrote: > I'm having a bit of a problem when I run > > texmfstart ctxtools --update > > The output is given below. > >> texmfstart ctxtools --update > CtxTools | updating F:/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local > CtxTools | fetching cont-tmf.zip > CtxTools | extracting cont-tm

Re: [NTG-context] [metapost] shading text

2007-05-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Stephan, MP handles text and graphics in different ways. First read http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mmakempy.pdf (this should answer some of your questions). You find the needed tools at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ http://www.pstoedit.net/http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/down

Re: [NTG-context] [metapost] shading text

2007-05-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Stephan Hennig wrote: > Peter Rolf schrieb: > >> I have tested this some years ago and it worked without problems. A fast >> run with the old code ended in the nirvana for pstoedit (3.44) :( > > When I manually run the following commands > >> pdftops mpy-outlin

Re: [NTG-context] short last line

2007-05-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > > looking for a solution to avoid short snippets in a paragraph's last line I > found lefthyphenmin/righthyphenmin. > But as this affects all hyphenations it is not useful. > > Is there also a command that only cares for the last line of a paragraph, > controlling

Re: [NTG-context] short last line

2007-05-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > On Wed, 09 May 2007 12:55:41 +0200, Peter Rolf wrote: >> Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> looking for a solution to avoid short snippets in a paragraph's last >>> line I found lefthyphenmin/righthyphenmin. >>

Re: [NTG-context] Test whether variable has been set

2007-05-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Elliot, Elliot Clifton schrieb: > Hi, > > How can test whether a variable has been set? I couldn't find any > reference to this in the wiki? > What do you mean by "set"? I use \doifnothing{\getvariable{foo}{bar}} {foo:bar contains nothing.\par}% \doifsomething{\getvariable{foo}{bar}} {fo

Re: [NTG-context] Test whether variable has been set

2007-05-27 Thread Peter Rolf
Elliot Clifton schrieb: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks for your reply. I think I may have misunderstood the variable > section on the wiki. I been using \setvariable to both declare and > assign variables from my component files. When I should have been > declaring them in the environment file first, righ

Re: [NTG-context] externalfigure not finding figures in other directories?

2007-05-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Sanjoy, Sanjoy Mahajan schrieb: > externalfigure is not finding figures in other directories, and I'm not > sure if it's something I've messed up while compiling and testing new > Ubuntu edgy backport packages. If I have fig.1 (a metapost eps file) in > the current directory, then this test fi

Re: [NTG-context] Tables & localfootnote alignment

2007-06-15 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Dave, I don't know enough about it, to give you a clean solution. Just ignore the rest, if someone gives a better (more general) solution. Peter Dave schrieb: > Hi all, > > I am trying to add footnotes to a table but need for them to be aligned > on the left (flush) edge of the table. I've

Re: [NTG-context] chapter names in header

2007-06-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Patrick, Patrick Gundlach schrieb: > Hi, > > what is wrong with > > -- > \setuppagenumbering[location=] > \starttext > \setupheadertexts[text][section][chapter] > \dorecurse{8}{\chapter{chapter - \recurselevel} \expanded{\chapter

Re: [NTG-context] acrobat reader does not open a pdf

2007-07-03 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Olivier, Olivier TURLIER schrieb: > Hi everybody, > > Acrobat reader 7 (linux) cannot open "doc-test-gobck.pdf" > > I usually include external documentation (catalogs, etc.) as a clickable > link which open another doc. ("parent-doc-test.{tex,pdf}" --> > "doc-test-gobck.{tex,pdf}") > > On th

Re: [NTG-context] pragma?

2007-07-04 Thread Peter Rolf
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini schrieb: > Hallo! > > I can not get pragma ade website any longer: > > (pragma-ade.com expired on 06/28/2007 and is pending renewal or > deletion) > > Is there an other place to download a current beta? > http://context.aanhet.net/download-2.htm > Wolfgang >

Re: [NTG-context] frames in ConTeXt and metafun

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Thomas, Thomas A. Schmitz schrieb: > This is a very small cosmetic problem, but it bugs me: I'm preparing > a background for a presentation, and I want a frame with a > transparent color to appear on every slide, so I define an overlay > and use metapost. I also want to frame some text el

Re: [NTG-context] Layers in ConTeXt

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Guiseppe, welcome back ;) Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: > Hello all, > > I have a couple of questions concerning the use of layers in > ConTeXt. I'm working with Luigi Scarso on a layout which is > characterized by some fixed-position elements surrounding > the actual main body of text. > > For

Re: [NTG-context] Layers in ConTeXt

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Rolf
Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: > Friday, July 13, 2007 Peter Rolf wrote: > >> Hi Guiseppe, > >> welcome back ;) > > Thanks :) (btw, it's gIUseppe :D) > Sorry for that. Too much GUI (graphical user interface) stuff in my work... :) >> Giuseppe Bilotta schr

Re: [NTG-context] \definestartstop with arguments

2007-07-13 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Vyatcheslav, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky schrieb: > Hello, > > Pleeease, I need a help. > > I might formulate my previous question badly, so let me restate it. > > How to handle optional arguments (one or two) with \definestartstop? More > specifically, how to replace hard-coded "Logging-On" st

[NTG-context] problem with mp clip

2007-07-22 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, it seems, that clipping with a MetaPost path is broken (at least on my machine). I couldn't test it on Contextgarden, as the standard example pictures are not installed (or the !!path is not searched). Anyhow, if someone can test this please. I work with the latest minimal distribution (XP),

Re: [NTG-context] problem with mp clip

2007-07-23 Thread Peter Rolf
Patrick Gundlach schrieb: >> Is there a way to add the test pictures (cont-img.zip) to 'live context'? > > They are already installed, but not in a local path. I have changed > 'live context' so now the sample figures are in the search path. > > Patrick > Thanks Patrick! This makes life easie

Re: [NTG-context] problem with mp clip

2007-07-23 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Hi, >> >> it seems, that clipping with a MetaPost path is broken (at least on my >> machine). I couldn't test it on Contextgarden, as the standard example >> pictures are not installed (or the !!path is not search

Re: [NTG-context] Nested comma list processing problems

2007-07-24 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Giuseppe, Giuseppe Bilotta schrieb: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to get a comma list element from within a > processaction from within a processcommacommand. Just guessing.. If your list contains comma-separated-lists, you should use \processallactionsinset (s. syst-gen.tex). ...but it's

Re: [NTG-context] placefigure

2007-07-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf schrieb: > Hi Liesbeth, > > There is a problem with the bounding box (bb) of the eps file. Although > gs shows it correctly (Info), it uses the media size (default A4) as > border for the pdf. > > You can change the media size by hand (set it to bb), but it's

Re: [NTG-context] placefigure

2007-07-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Liesbeth, There is a problem with the bounding box (bb) of the eps file. Although gs shows it correctly (Info), it uses the media size (default A4) as border for the pdf. You can change the media size by hand (set it to bb), but it's less error prone to use "extract..." or "ps to eps" from the

Re: [NTG-context] placefigure

2007-07-27 Thread Peter Rolf
must first learn the MP-programming > language. I don't know if I have enough time for that. Or is there > another way? > > > Liesbeth > > > 2007/7/26, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > Peter Rolf schrieb: >

Re: [NTG-context] Background image

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Pascal, I spend more than one hour on this, to find a clean solution. So please add this to the wiki. And if you can, send my a copy of the nice background image (never mind if not). I felt in love with this, while testing your example. Anyhow, the cut markings are still lying under the pictur

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv goes beta

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Hi, > > ConTeXt MKiV goes beta. > > Now, why today, 06/08/07? It happens to be the birthday of one of the > most demanding users on this list and when at bachotek 2007 we discussed > the moment of going beta Arthur suggested that this would be the perfect > day. I could n

Re: [NTG-context] Background image

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Pascal de Bruijn schrieb: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:02 +0200, Peter Rolf wrote: >> Hi Pascal, >> >> I spend more than one hour on this, to find a clean solution. So please >> add this to the wiki. > > I will when I'm more comfortable with Con

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Metadata / Attachments

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Pascal de Bruijn schrieb: > Hi, > > With LaTeX I was able to set my own PDF metadata, is this possible with > ConTeXt? I mean things like: Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, Creator, > Producer? > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_Bookmarks_and_Headers#PDF_Headers producer is set by pdftex, subje

Re: [NTG-context] Background image

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Pascal de Bruijn schrieb: > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 19:47 +0200, Peter Rolf wrote: >> Pascal de Bruijn schrieb: >>> Hi, >>> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:02 +0200, Peter Rolf wrote: >>>> BTW: do you set a bleed|crop-box? >>> No clue? How do I do that? Wha

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv goes beta

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Hi, > > ConTeXt MKiV goes beta. > no big problems on windows. only - texmfstart.exe is missing in the binaries - pdftex should be updated to 1.40.5 - luatools.lua: (e)shell output needs a crlf after the last line (prompt is printed directly after the runtime output) - the d

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Metadata / Attachments

2007-08-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Münster schrieb: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Peter Rolf wrote: > >> subject isn't supported yet (feature request needed!?) > > Feature request perhaps not needed: > \setupinteraction[subtitle=my subject] > you are right. no feature reque

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv goes beta

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Hans Hagen schrieb: >>> Hi, >>> >>> ConTeXt MKiV goes beta. >>> >> no big problems on windows. only >> >> - texmfstart.exe is missing in the binaries > > i noticed this, somehow the

[NTG-context] luatex and defaultscale

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Only to make Taco happy ;) donno if this an already known problem. Peter % - - - - - - - - - - \startuniqueMPgraphic{foo} % defaultfont:="\truefontname{Sans}"; defaultscale:=1.1; label("?",origin); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \starttext \null \uniqueMPgraphic{foo} \stoptext _

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv goes beta

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Arthur Reutenauer schrieb: >> 283-–288 (September 1993) \NC \NR >> ^ >> >> for luatex. it is encoded in iso-latin-1 (emacs says so). > > What's in the file is byte 0x96 (vim is smarter than Emacs!). I was ignoring any other encoding than iso-latin-9 'til yesterday. So I guess it's more my f

[NTG-context] luatex and interaction

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
hi, every peace of code with interactive elements gives me this error message systems : begin file walkfield at line 5 (./walkfield.tuo) javascript : loading script set fld (r:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/java-fld.tex) ! Undefined control sequence. \dopresetfieldsymbol #1->\che

Re: [NTG-context] luatex and interaction

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> hi, >> >> every peace of code with interactive elements gives me this error message >> >> >> systems : begin file walkfield at line 5 >> (./walkfield.tuo) >> javascript : loading script s

Re: [NTG-context] luatex and interaction

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Hans Hagen schrieb: >>> Peter Rolf wrote: >>>> hi, >>>> >>>> every peace of code with interactive elements gives me this error message >>>> >>>> >>>> systems

Re: [NTG-context] luatex and defaultscale

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Taco Hoekwater schrieb: > > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Only to make Taco happy ;) > > You mean this, right? > yes (reproducable errors are the easy ones :) > (test-peterrolf-mpgraph.mp > ! Font lmroman10-regular*default not usable: TFM file not found

Re: [NTG-context] installing MKIV

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky schrieb: > Hello Taco, > > I'm installing luatex according to 'This Way'. On the last step, when > generating format files, I get the following: > > C:\TeXLive2007\bin\win32>luatools --generate >log > 'texluac' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > opera

Re: [NTG-context] installing MKIV

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Arthur Reutenauer schrieb: >> luac5.1.exe [TO] luac.exe >> etc. > > Alternatively, you can use LuaTeX itself as the lua interpreter and > compiler. That is, the same binary will act as: > > LuaTeX proper when called luatex(.exe) > lua when called texlua(.exe) (equivalent to luatex --luaonly

Re: [NTG-context] installing MKIV

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Arthur Reutenauer schrieb: >>>> luac5.1.exe [TO] luac.exe >>>> etc. >>> Alternatively, you can use LuaTeX itself as the lua interpreter and >>> compiler. That is, the same binary will act as: >>

Re: [NTG-context] installing MKIV

2007-08-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Joel C. Salomon schrieb: > On 8/8/07, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> So you don't even need lua anymore. >>>> i see. but on windows you waste more than 7mb disk space this way. >>>> installing the lua binaries costs only 288

Re: [NTG-context] Difference between MKIV and MKII

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Aditya, Aditya Mahajan schrieb: > Quoting Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I get significantly different white spaces (and hence page breaks) >>> while using mkiv and mkii. Is this expected, or should I try to create >>> minimal example exhibiting such

Re: [NTG-context] Difference between MKIV and MKII

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf schrieb: > Hi Aditya, > > Aditya Mahajan schrieb: >> Quoting Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I get significantly different white spaces (and hence page breaks) >

Re: [NTG-context] Difference between MKIV and MKII

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Peter Rolf schrieb: >>> Hi Aditya, >>> >>> Aditya Mahajan schrieb: >>>> Quoting Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> >>>>> Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>>>>> Hi,

Re: [NTG-context] Difference between MKIV and MKII

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Hans Hagen schrieb: >>> Peter Rolf wrote: >>>> Peter Rolf schrieb: >>>>> Hi Aditya, >>>>> >>>>> Aditya Mahajan schrieb: >>>>>> Quoting Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [NTG-context] PDF TrimBox

2007-08-14 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Thomas, Thomas Telkamp schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set the PDF TrimBox for every page in the document. > > \setupinteractionscreen[trimbox={[81.6378 96.9449 513.6378 744.9449]}] > > This indeed sets the TrimBox for every page, but it ignores my > dimensions, and sets them to the page si

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv update

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Hans, Hans Hagen schrieb: > Hi, > > I uploaded a new version (no minimals yet). There are also new binaries > (or will be later today) that fix a couple of font issues. > > Later this week I will enable new color handling code. > the definition of \faststartcolor in core-spa.tex is missing h

Re: [NTG-context] MetaFun and different body font size

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Rolf
Oliver Buerschaper schrieb: > Dear folks, > > I'm wondering how to communicate a different default bodyfont size to > MetaFun ... consider this: > > --- > > \setupbodyfont[32pt] > > > \starttext > > \input ward > > \startuseMPgraphic{test} > draw unitsquare scaled BodyFontSize; >

Re: [NTG-context] the stolen comma

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is this a known exception, or is it a nasty little bug? >> >> >> \starttext >> >> |ROTFL|, Rolling on the Floor, laughing. >> >> |ROTFL|; Rolling on the Floor, laughing. >> >> \stoptext > > hm, has to do with special comma treatment, hav et

Re: [NTG-context] Mysterious clipping for shaded MetaFun page background

2007-08-20 Thread Peter Rolf
Oliver Buerschaper schrieb: > Dear folks, > > can anyone reproduce this? (Live ConTeXt on the garden seems to run > into this \faststartcolor thing ... with pdfTeX.) > > Uncomment the page background overlay and the top bit of the frames' > titles will be chipped off ... doesn't happen for the

[NTG-context] color expansion (not colo-new related)

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi all, I tried to seperate some style specific code to external variables. Most things work so far, but the expansion of color causes me problems. I must emphasize that this is no colo-new problem, as my code fails with the old colo-ini too. I have tried several things, but still no luck. What (

Re: [NTG-context] color expansion (not colo-new related)

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I tried to seperate some style specific code to external variables. Most >> things work so far, but the expansion of color causes me problems. I >> must emphasize that this is no colo-new problem, as my co

Re: [NTG-context] visualization problem

2007-09-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Andrea Valle schrieb: > Dear all, > > I've created this. > http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/photoBook.pdf > > (it's 5 mB) > > The cover and the separators in the pages are generated stretching on > layers the same image (a pdf generated by Metapost) > > % cover > \setlayer [mybg] >

Re: [NTG-context] Interactive slides---hidden field on every page

2007-09-17 Thread Peter Rolf
Michal Kvasnička schrieb: > Good morning or whatever you have now in Europe. > > It seems that my mail have come to the list, so I dare to repost it: > sometimes the only way to get an answer :) > I'm preparing my slides. Every slide is divided to three parts > (backgrounds): text, header, and b

Re: [NTG-context] Completelistoffigures, help needed!

2007-09-28 Thread Peter Rolf
G.C.H.M. Verhaag schrieb: > Dear ConTeXt Users, > > Thanks to those that contributed to this thread! The code > > \setupcaption[figure][distance=\zeropoint] > \defineconversion[gobble][\gobbleoneargument] > \setupnumber[figure][conversion=gobble] > \setuplabeltext[figure=] > > just did the tri

Re: [NTG-context] standardmakeup, frontmatter, bodymatter & page numbering

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec schrieb: > Hello, > > I have a document consisting of title page, some introduction which > should have pages numbered with roman numerals, and finally the real > content > > \setuphead[subject][page=odd,style=\ss\bfb] > \setuppagenumbering[location=] > > \starttext > \startstanda

Re: [NTG-context] standardmakeup, frontmatter, bodymatter & page numbering

2007-10-03 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec schrieb: > On 10/3/07, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mojca Miklavec schrieb: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a document consisting of title page, some introduction which >>> should have pages numbered with roman numerals,

Re: [NTG-context] Hiding PDF-Layer

2007-10-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Wolfgang, Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: > Hi, > > I want to include PDF layers in document and the should be hidden by default, > the current behaviour is to show all layers I defined in my document and this > should be later by the user and not when I open the file. > > The following shortened

Re: [NTG-context] need help with creating a grid with context

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Peter, MASON Peter J schrieb: > I'm trying to layout a grid of bullets. The results isn't the expected > one. Perhaps someone could offer help here? Thanks. > > Here's the sort of thing I'm doing > > \setuplayout[leftmargin=0pt, leftmargindistance=0pt, backspace=0pt, > rightmargin=0pt, r

Re: [NTG-context] Hiding PDF-Layer

2007-10-10 Thread Peter Rolf
Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: > 2007/10/9, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi Wolfgang, >> >> Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I want to include PDF layers in document and the should be hidden by >>> default, >>>

Re: [NTG-context] Compatiblity option in pdf

2007-10-22 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi John, John Culleton schrieb: > I created a short document > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf > using Context and with a clickable TOC and one thumbnail. The thumbnail was > created with the Han The Thanh pdftex macro code I mentioned recently. Some thumbnail or bookmark ? > users v

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting bug

2007-10-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Michael, Santy, Michael schrieb: > In our XML->ConTeXt->PDF workflow, we've encountered a few intermittent > problems when using split natural tables. I'm not able to post the > original documents in which the problems are manifesting, but below is a > document that reproduces one of the probl

Re: [NTG-context] Getting the default pdf fonts working on texlive 2007

2007-10-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Berend, Berend de Boer schrieb: [..] > > Very weirdly it uses some lm fonts. It actually makes no difference if > I use ADOBEkw or URWkb in updmap.cfg. So I'm concluding that context > doesn't use updmap.cfg anymore, is that right? > it's no longer in the minimal distribution, so you must be r

Re: [NTG-context] Semi-transparent banners for a cover.

2007-10-28 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi John, John Culleton schrieb: > A project specifies that for the cover of a brochure there be a photograph as > the background (doable in Context), and semi-transparent rectangles across > the page highlighting the various strings of text. The rectangles darken but > do not completely block o

Re: [NTG-context] The easiest way to get jpeg output?

2007-10-29 Thread Peter Rolf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hello, > > I need transform some presentation into series of > jpeg files. Is it possible directly from ConTeXt or > I have to use some external tools for conversion? > What is the easiest way in any case? > use ghostview/ghostscript to convert your pdf presentati

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

2007-10-29 Thread Peter Rolf
Santy, Michael schrieb: > > In our XML->ConTeXt->PDF workflow, we've encountered a few intermittent > problems when using split natural tables. I'm not able to post the > original documents in which the problems are manifesting, but below is a > document that reproduces one of the problems. The

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

2007-10-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Santy, Michael schrieb: > > Thanks Peter for the pointer to the multipage table in the wiki. I > don't know how I overlooked that example. However, I was still able to > duplicate the problem with this sample table by including a page full of > text before the table (see below). > > If the dor

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Rolf
Santy, Michael schrieb: > >> The same as in my first reply. Look at the first page with the text >> only. There isn't a space behind the sentence(s) and TeX can't break the >> paragraph (text expands it's lower border). This also breaks the >> splitting of the table, as it is (partly) on the same

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Rolf
...just some further tests. i was wrong, as there is no table breaking without the \placetable[split] option. seems my command reference is outdated :( if you don't use \placetable at all, things work again. so there must be some vspace mess with the splitting option of placetable and the one of T

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Rolf
Santy, Michael schrieb: > > Peter, > > There definitely seems to be something wrong with the splitting > behavior, but I'm able to illustrate the same problem regardless of > whether its wrapped in a \placetable (see example below). From my > experiments, wrapping a table in placetable didn't se

Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Santy, Michael wrote: >>> have you tried this with your 'real world' documents? >> Peter, >> >> Although adding the \blank didn't fix the table splitting on this contrived >> document, it actually seems to fix the problem on the few "real world" >> documents that have shown

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Wolfgang, what a nice 'minimal' example :) I'm no table expert, not even an experienced table user. Anyhow, I think that table is the best choice here. Aside from the bad placing of the horizontal rules, all is working. This is much more than you can say from the other candidates. How about d

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: > > Hi Peter, > > your solution would be really a option but I hope the real bugs will be > fixed, I see :) So things could be worse. You have - a workaround (?) - a complete minimal description/example of the problem (as starting point for Hans) - some good hints

[NTG-context] rotate bug?

2007-11-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, This morning I used \rotate to correct some slightly sloped graphics and noticed a weird behavior. In case of the rotation angle interval (-1,0) the negative sign is simply ignored, so the rotation goes to the opposite direction. Donno if negative values for the rotation angle are allowed (th

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-09 Thread Peter Rolf
gt; 2007/11/7, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: >>> Hi Peter, >>> >>> your solution would be really a option but I hope the real bugs will be >>> fixed, >> I see :) >> >> So things could be worse. You hav

Re: [NTG-context] page backgrounds

2007-11-13 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Olivier, olivier Turlier schrieb: > Hi everybody, > I try to draw several metapost page backgrounds (code found at > http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/poulecl/divers/papiers/ ) for manual > sketchs on A4 paper. > Obviously, it does'nt work, and I don't know why. > TIA for any answers. > Not so s

Re: [NTG-context] rotate bug?

2007-11-14 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: > Peter Rolf wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This morning I used \rotate to correct some slightly sloped graphics and >> noticed a weird behavior. In case of the rotation angle interval (-1,0) >> the negative sign is simply ignored, so the rotation

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