[NTG-context] Beginner problem with Itemize

2004-07-14 Thread Salman Khilji
I am trying to run the following example from the beginner's guide: \starttext Hasselt lies in. \startitemize \head kraamschudden \hfill (child welcoming) When a child is born \head nabuurschap (naberschop) \hfill (neighbourship) Smaller communities. \stopitemize \stoptext I get

[NTG-context] How to read syntax descriptions

2004-07-14 Thread Salman Khilji
In the beginner's manual, we have for \startitemize the following: \startitemize[..,..,..][..,..=..,..] ... \stopitemize I was wondering how do you read this in english? Based on the examples, am I correct to say the following? 1) The \startitemize is optionally followed by a comma separated

[NTG-context] Understanding registers command

2004-07-22 Thread Salman Khilji
From the BM, I copied the following and created a file named junk.tex. \starttext \defineregister[street][streets] \street{Ridderstraat} \placestreets \stoptext However, texexec gives me the following: ! Undefined control sequence. recently read \placestreets l.4 \placestreets ?

[NTG-context] PDFTeX sources

2004-07-29 Thread Salman Khilji
1) I want to know the simplest way (and the minimal way) to compile PDFTeX on Windows. From the manual, I see that you have to download web-7.3.tar.gz web2c-7.3.tar.gz pdftex.tar.gz However, this assumes that you have ./configure available (means UNIX or Cygwin). While I have been using

[NTG-context] \CAP command does not work

2004-08-09 Thread Salman Khilji
Why don't I see capitals in the following example? \setupbodyfont [cmr,12pt] \starttext \startbuffer[test] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. \stopbuffer \getbuffer[test] \CAP{\getbuffer[test]} \stoptext ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] Custom Numbering Problem

2004-08-11 Thread Salman Khilji
Two problems: 1) With the following: \setuphead[section][ownnumber=yes] \setupbodyfont[cmr,12pt] \starttext \completecontent \section{1a0101}{Objective} There is no objective at this moment. \stoptext There is no spacing between the text 1a0101 and Objective in the table of contents---this

[NTG-context] Cannot TeX this

2004-08-16 Thread Salman Khilji
Why can't I process the following from the manual? \def\HeadTitle#1#2% {\hbox to hsize {\hfill % \framed[height=1cm,width=2cm,align=left]{#1}% \framed[height=1cm,width=4cm,align=right]{#2}}} \setuphead[subsection][command=\HeadTitle] \starttext \subsection{Test}{Test} This is a

Re: [NTG-context] Cannot TeX this (SOLVED)

2004-08-16 Thread Salman Khilji
On Monday 16 August 2004 10:35 pm, Salman Khilji wrote: {\hbox to hsize OOPS! Sorry about this one. Couldn't see the hsize instead of \hsize Salman ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-21 Thread Salman Khilji
On Friday 20 August 2004 09:40 am, Patrick Gundlach wrote: So [EMAIL PROTECTED] should report again. Still no luck!!! :-( Okay, so I got really upset with teTeX so I decided to get rid of it. Earlier I said that I was using Fedora Core 2. Now I am sitting on a SuSE 8.0 Pro machine. I

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-21 Thread Salman Khilji
I found out that while trying to install the latest ConTeXt over whatever came with texlive2003-inst-20030928.iso, I screwed up somewhere and ConTeXt would not even generate me a pdf file with cmr fonts. So here is what I did. 1) I deleted everything about TeX from my system 2) Installed

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font (SOLVED)

2004-08-21 Thread Salman Khilji
Okay. Problem solved. The thing is that I did not ask the texlive distribution to install the extra fonts package. The palatino fonts were part of the extra fonts. Now I have another question. It seems like \setupbodyfont[palatino] produces different results than \setupbodyfont[ppl]. The