Re: [NTG-context] problem with publication lists in mkiv

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
}{} Hello \stoptext On Jul 15, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, since a few betas ago, I'm experiencing the problem that some commands add unwanted vertical space in mkiv. I think this is the case with \writetolist, but I need to prepare an example for that. I have

Re: [NTG-context] two problems for bib module

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Yanrui, I'm afraid I can't really help you with your problems; I have just a thought on # 2.: at it's core, bibtex is still a 7-bit application. Development on replacements has begun - there's bibtexu, which is in TL2010, there's biber; none of them is quite mature yet. If memory serves

Re: [NTG-context] problem with publication lists in mkiv

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 22, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 22-7-2010 12:58, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, I'm replying to my own question to add one further detail: I have now found a minimal example that demonstrates the error with \writetolist: if you process the following file with mkiv

Re: [NTG-context] problem with publication lists in mkiv

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: so what was that small test file? Hans Here comes: \startpublication[k=intertestualita,t=book, a={intertestualita},y=1995, n=2552,s=int95] \pubyear{1995} \title{Atti del convegno internazionale \quotation{Intertestualit{\`a}}: il

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2010-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 22-7-2010 5:33, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Hans, Thanks for your attention. I looked in context.tex after updating and I do have \edef\contextversion{2010.06.23 12:45} Does

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: tablets

2010-07-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Otared, Hans, William, and all, thanks a lot for your comments and suggestions; there's a lot of useful info in this thread! In my personal workflow, I don't think I could actually use an iPad or a similar device to produce content; so running TeX on it is not something I find interesting. But

[NTG-context] slightly OT: tablets

2010-07-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, this is slightly OT, but maybe someone here has a helpful suggestion: since the announcement of Apple's iPad, tablets have become the rage. I am somewhat underwhelmed by this type of computer, but I see one area where it might be interesting to have one of those babies, and that's

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: tablets

2010-07-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Matthias, that's good to know, but for me, the killer app would be to have both my manuscript and the presentation on the same device (and an iPod would just be too small for that). So the question is: could you see pdf A on the screen and drive pdf B with the TV out cable? Apple told me

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: tablets

2010-07-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:14 PM, luigi scarso wrote: What about ASUS Eee PC T101MT-WHI012M http://www.e-videoshoppingtv.it/frontend/evideoshopping/default.aspx?idvideo=9774idcat=666asus_t101_from=prod Well, that's a netbook/tablet hybrid, not really what I'm looking for. I already have a

[NTG-context] problem with publication lists in mkiv

2010-07-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, since a few betas ago, I'm experiencing the problem that some commands add unwanted vertical space in mkiv. I think this is the case with \writetolist, but I need to prepare an example for that. I have prepared an example for publication lists: the following code produces the expected

Re: [NTG-context] nomarking function in MKIV

2010-07-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 1, 2010, at 8:59 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: This is a very good answer. Now, think about robustness. So called sloppy writing can easily happen in a very big project, or more likely by an inexperienced user. ConTeXt is pretty good in handling this, but not perfect. How many times have

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun error

2010-07-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 2, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: confirmed on osx-intel (OSX 10.5): I had the same problem on OS X, but only on a 32-bit system; my 64-bit system works normally. I copied the version of mtxrun from my 64-bit to my 32-bit system, and now it works. Mojca, maybe an

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun error

2010-07-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 2, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: No, maybe you have an older version that still works; the minimals seem to be broken completely on all the systems. If anyone knows how to fix it, I can do it until Hans is back and uploads a fixed version. (He has some problems reading

Re: [NTG-context] nomarking function in MKIV

2010-07-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: No one has answered my question about to what belongs any text between a proceding \stopchapter and a following \startchapter, as in \startchapter{title} \stopchapter some text \startchapter{next title} \stopchapter Excuse me, but your

[NTG-context] latest beta has trouble with notes

2010-06-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, not sure if this has been reported yet, but yesterday's beta has a bug regarding footnotes. Minimal example: \starttext One\footnote{One} Two\footnote{Two} \stoptext The first footnote is repeated for every following note; other notes are dropped. All best Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] minimals

2010-06-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 15, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: you can give it a try What about the cannot open tree:Users/tas/texmf/: No such file or directory error? I'm still getting it... Thomas ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] minimals

2010-06-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 15, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Michael Murphy wrote: Does the directory exist? If there is nothing important there, just delete it. It's my HOMETEXMF tree... ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta (was: status message of mtxrun --ifchanged)

2010-06-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 13, 2010, at 1:49 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Updating using first-setup.sh gives (also tried a fresh install, the same error) sent 32402 bytes received 7755726 bytes 65172.62 bytes/sec total size is 30315844 speedup is 3.89 MTXrun | run: rsync -rpztlv

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta (was: status message of mtxrun --ifchanged)

2010-06-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Same error here on OS X. And another question: I couldn't get my TEXMFHOME recognized under linux-32. One problem was that it is set to ~/texmf-home. I would suggest setting this value back to the canonical ~/texmf. (I had more

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta

2010-06-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-6-2010 7:32, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: TEXMFHOME = ~/texmf-home, -- tree:///~/texmf for mkii, however, it is set in texmf.cnf (l. 31) TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf why these two different values? I consider texmf-home

Re: [NTG-context] Problems using new beta

2010-06-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 7, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Ivo Solnický wrote: Hi, I didn't received answer by mail, so I have to answer this way. Thanks for the help, I updated context and now it works OK. But the problem with recompilation of format file remains. Any idea? Ivo If I understood your first

Re: [NTG-context] first-setup.sh

2010-06-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 2, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: You may try again with --context=experimental as a temporary solution. Mojca, I just tried this (sorry, came home only now), and now I get a version of 2010.06.02 which isn't even announced on the pragma site... So let's hope that Hans talks

[NTG-context] first-setup.sh

2010-06-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, esp. Mojca, I don't know if anything changed recently, but first-setup.sh doesn't fetch the latest beta for me anymore, even when I feed it the -- context=beta switch. At first, I thought it was a glitch, but I have now tried on 3 different computers, and after running

Re: [NTG-context] gentium font doesn't work in latest current

2010-05-27 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com writes: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, the current version doesn't work with the gentium font; it is displayed in a tiny size. Works fine here with current 2010.05.24 and latest beta. Perhaps you should clear the font cache. Best wishes

Re: [NTG-context] gentium font doesn't work in latest current

2010-05-27 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
luigi scarso luigi.scarso at gmail.com writes: Weird. This machine is 32-bit linux, btw. Hm again ttf vs TTF ? bingo. Thomas can you try to rename *TTF in *ttf ? Yes, that solved it for me too! Taco, what can we do about that? AFAICS, unfortunately, the gentium fonts do come with

[NTG-context] gentium font doesn't work in latest current

2010-05-26 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
Hi all, the current version doesn't work with the gentium font; it is displayed in a tiny size. Test file: \usetypescript[gentium] \starttext Hello \switchtobodyfont[gentium] World \stoptext I don't know if other fonts are affected as well; so far, I've only seen this with gentium. This

Re: [NTG-context] existence of file

2010-05-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 5, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Hans van der Meer wrote: Is there a ConTeXt macro that can tell me if a certain file exists? \doiffileelse{}{}{} HTH Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: BTW, I just checked ghostscript fonts shipped with my distro and they don't have any of the crappy Greek glyphs TeX Gyre have (neither do the files linked from TeX Gyre web page), so I don't know from where TeX Gyre got those. I contacted

Re: [NTG-context] line-break index bug

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I am sorry, but in ConTeXt ver: 2010.04.10 MKIV there still is this index/line-break bug! It's not a bug, it's explained somewhere in the manual. Put the \index entry before the indexed word, and all is well. Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] Beta 2010.03.30: mkiv and \dots

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 30, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: did you run luatools --generate before making a format? i moved some math font related issues to other files so that can be a reason Well, something is fishy in the math font department with the latest beta. With one of my own typescripts, I

Re: [NTG-context] Beta 2010.03.30: mkiv and \dots

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: i see, some files are missing in the zip (and as i have them in my dev path it goes unnoticed when i do a run) i'll make a newer beta Hans, sorry, the 19.00 beta doesn't fix it yet, I get the same errors. Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] Beta 2010.03.30: mkiv and \dots

2010-03-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 30, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 30-3-2010 19:15, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hans, sorry, the 19.00 beta doesn't fix it yet, I get the same errors. will take till 20.00 before the garden is in sync You're right, of course, the warnings have disappeared now! Thanks Hans

Re: [NTG-context] header in the middle on doublesided layout

2010-03-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I would like to set a different header on left and right page, but I would like it to be centered on page. How do I do that? The command \setupheadertexts[a][b] puts a b on one page and b a on the other while

Re: [NTG-context] \hyphenation problems

2010-03-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 22, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Tom wrote: I am very confused. Inserting {\definedfont[Serif sa 8]^^45^^78^^61^^6d^^70^^6c^^65^^21} results in Example in very large type being placed in my output and seems not to affect the hyphenation or justification. I think Wolfgang was trying to steer

Re: [NTG-context] \hyphenation problems

2010-03-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Tom wrote: Boy, am I thick. Here is an example that demonstrates the problem. You should be able to see that cfbdatawarehouse.com did not hyphenate. To get the malhyphenation error, it is necessary to uncomment the \hyphenation command. Changing the width of the

[NTG-context] oldstyle numbers in TeXGyre fonts

2010-03-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, Hans, is there or can we have an easy, fast way of setting up the TeXGyre fonts so that they use oldstyle numbers by default? I think this would be attractive at least for the serif fonts termes, pagella, schola, which all have this feature. All best Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 69, Issue 77

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Michael Saunders wrote: I can't imagine anything simpler to use. That may be a lack of imagination on your part. If you want something that follows LaTeX rules, it might be a good idea to use LaTeX. It would have been a good idea to say so from the start instead

Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 13, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Michael Saunders wrote: I don't understand the syntax of \starttypescript. It doesn't appear in the manual. It occurs twice in the typography document. In both cases the first argument appears to be the name of the typescript. In one example, there is only

Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Michael, This is not to disparage Wolfgang's great simplefonts module, but I learnt setting up fonts the old-fashioned way (with typescripts), so I will give a few explanations about this approach. Most of what you want can be achieved easily. I have Garamond Premier myself, and this is how

Re: [NTG-context] xml content and tweaked pdf output

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, very carefully I am trying to make first steps towards XML and ConTeXt (with MkIV). Thus, I have enjoyed reading Thomas' MyWay Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source: I only kept wondering, how to keep control over

Re: [NTG-context] xml content and tweaked pdf output

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Sorry for being confused: In your MyWay you talk about xml and show an xhtml example. It seems I mixed this. xhtml is a subset of xml, AFAIK. But maybe I should add a paragraph explaining this. Exactly, this is what I meant:

Re: [NTG-context] About Thomas Schmitz My Way

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Otared, thanks for the feedback and the kind words! On Mar 10, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Regarding the tutorial you have written, although the typo may be corrected by any cautious reader, I think that, on page 2, lines 5 and 6 of your My Way it should be /body /html

Re: [NTG-context] Working with Arabic

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
OK, you’re the boss. Wolfgang Lieber Gott, du bist der Boss. Amen. Dein Rhinozeros. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] including xml files

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: xml in mkiv is still somewhat experimental although the commands and interfaces will stay; the current implementation is the second one and has the advanage that it stays closer to xpath and also is more roundtrip safe (tables of contents and

Re: [NTG-context] including xml files

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 8, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: ah, context can recognize a couple of suffixes but ignores html so just use --forcexml which will add the wrapper (future versions will not use the wrapper but that's sort of hidden anyway) Excellent, I will add this somewhere to the

Re: [NTG-context] Where to put a module?

2010-03-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 7, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: Dear listmates, a while ago I made some lua tables to aid myself in transliteration of various scripts. I thought this could be of general interest so I built a module from it and threw in some source documentation and a tiny manual,

Re: [NTG-context] suggestions for context documentation

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:01 AM, richard.steph...@converteam.com wrote: No, not like those. I mean like a real manual. I read the book about Hasselt---a few examples without explanations. I am absolutely gobsmacked (astounded, astonished) at some of the comments on this and other threads!

Re: [NTG-context] Table of contents disappears when \setuparranging is used

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:33 PM, ber...@pobox.com wrote: Hi People, I have a very weird problem. As soon as I star tot use \setuparranging the table of contents and other registers disappear. How to fix that? Hi Berend, run context or texexec with the switch --arrange. HTH Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] no protrusion for hyphen ??

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I have read there were troubles with |-| in MkIV last year. I found another one: the hyphen set by |-| doesn't get protruded. Why do you need this |-| hyphen? Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] no protrusion for hyphen ??

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 3, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: For hyphenation! Just try yourself: with - instead of |-| there is no hyphenation for test-text: \startluacode fonts.protrusions.vectors['stpure'] = { [0x002D] = { 0, 0.50}, -- hyphen } fonts.protrusions.classes['stwpure']

Re: [NTG-context] active chars in xml -- suggestions needed

2010-02-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: Good morning Thomas, thanks very much, this way it works great. But is there any documentation on this apart from lxml-ini.mkiv and the list archive? Philipp I don't think that there is any docu on this particular question. I assume

Re: [NTG-context] active chars in xml -- suggestions needed

2010-02-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 28, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: Dear listmates, I need some suggestions on how to setup non breaking spaces in XML. I tried an empty element nbsp/ to be processed as follows: \startxmlsetups xml:nbsp ~ \stopxmlsetups which was ignored by context. (I'll need

Re: [NTG-context] TeX syntax -- a guide?

2010-02-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:39 PM, James Fisher wrote: Hi, After a few days working in do what the tutorials say mode, I now want to understand TeX from a programmer's mindset. I have not been able just by practise to work out what the syntactic rules of TeX are, and I am hoping that

[NTG-context] MyWay on processing xhtml

2010-02-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Dear all, Parick has just uploaded a MyWay that I've written. It's an introduction to processing xhtml files with ConTeXt. As such, it is probably most suitable for beginners; if you're an old hand at using and processing xml, there won't be anything new here. But if you're interested in

[NTG-context] linetables broken?

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, when I played a bit with linetables today, I found out that something's broken here. Minimal example (simplified from tabl-ltb.mkiv): \starttext \startlinetable \NC[background=color,backgroundcolor=darkred] xxx \NC yy \NC d \NC \NC ff \NC \NR \stoplinetable

Re: [NTG-context] linetables broken?

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 21, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can use the buffer method for linetables \startbuffer[test] \NC[background=color,backgroundcolor=darkred] xxx \NC yy \NC d \NC \NC ff \NC\NR \stopbuffer \processlinetablebuffer[test] Wolfgang Wolfgang, thank you,

Re: [NTG-context] ancient greek module

2010-02-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 13, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, is t-greek-2008.08.11.zip still valid (and recommended for MkIV?) OK, I uploaded a new version of t-ancientgreek. Only a few things have changed in the module itself. I hope the documentation is clearer and more concise, at least

Re: [NTG-context] ancient greek module

2010-02-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 13, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, is t-greek-2008.08.11.zip still valid (and recommended for MkIV?) From contextgarden: The requested URL /modules/t-greek/doc/greek/ancientgreek.pdf was not found on this server. The requested URL

[NTG-context] bib: authornum

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, sorry if this is yet another bib question: the authornum cite style is a recent addition. It doesn't accept all the setup functions that other styles (such as authornum) do. The one thing I miss most ATM is the andtext option between a publication with several authors. It takes the form

Re: [NTG-context] bib: authornum

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 12, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hm, can you try this redefinition? \unprotect \def\bibinsertrefsep {\ifconditional\firstbibrefsep \setfalse\firstbibrefsep \else \ifnum\recurselevel=\bibitemcounter\relax \bibalternative\c!lastpubsep \else

Re: [NTG-context] bib: authornum

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 12, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, Attached is a fairly elaborate patch and test file, please try. If you are happy with it, it can probably go to the core (with a similar patch for bibl-tra.mkii). Besides the \cite[authornum] case, it also adds 'lastpubsep' support

[NTG-context] YABQ - yet another bib question

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, it was quite heartwarming to see how many of us rallied for better bibliographical support when Wolfgang asked what we missed most in ConTeXt... And it's wonderful to see that a new structure for the entire bibliographical stuff is on its way. Hans's xml-based approach will make things

Re: [NTG-context] YABQ - yet another bib question

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Is there a setup option for this, or is a hack needed? I expect adding a \setuppublications[refcommand=num] just before the \completepublications will work. Best wishes, Taco And right you are! I should've thought of that myself!

[NTG-context] two buglets

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, working on a book project with index and bibliography, I discovered two small bugs (at least I think they are bugs): 1. index sorts uppercase letters after lowercase letters. Minimal example: \starttext \index{Aardvark}Aardvark \index{azygous}azygous \page

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: are you sure that that's the convention for english? it's easy to change it ... \startluacode sorters.mappings['en'] = { [a] = 2, [b] = 4, [c] = 6, [d] = 8, [e] = 10, [f] = 12, [g] = 14, [h] = 16, [i] = 18, [j] = 20, [k] = 22,

Re: [NTG-context] two buglets

2010-02-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:29 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: just give them the same code, so A=1, a=1 (we could make that an option: upper first, lower first, mixed) Hans Thank you, Hans, that works nicely! It would be good to have this as an option. And I would vote for having the mixed setting as

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 9, 2010, at 12:40 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: That was it, sorry, I reinstalled minimals and LuaTeX recently and forgot to update ConTeXt. Now the file is processed and I get a pdf file containing the words sortkeys: n id entry and an hrule beneath that. As

Re: [NTG-context] xml entities and trailing space

2010-02-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 9, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: this is not that easy as effectively Atextbar; B becomes A\textbar B and tex will normally gobble that space as part of parsing the input and changing that aspect will not happen chicken or egg so use:

[NTG-context] xml entities and trailing space

2010-02-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, Hans, this is something I had mentioned a few weeks ago, but wanted to complain about it again: when you define xml entities as TeX commands, those used to preserve trailing spaces. This hasn't been the case since a number of version. I would like to recommend havin the old behavior

[NTG-context] DIY toc (or similar list)

2010-02-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi experts, I'm thinking about a new presentation style and need some general advice from the TeXperts. I would like to have a list of topics on some area of the slide (similar to s-pre-19.tex). However, if at all possible, I would like it to be a bit fancier. Let's say I want the list of

Re: [NTG-context] DIY toc (or similar list)

2010-02-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 7, 2010, at 11:16 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: you can do something like this (not sure if it works): \setuplist[...][alternative=command,command=\MyFancyListentry] \define[3]\MyFancyListentry {\doifelse{#2}{\fullstructureheadtitle} % is this the correct value? {...}% fancy

Re: [NTG-context] Linux PPC64 minimals

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Two remarks: 1.) Thomas, can you please send me the patch (I can write it myself, but I will not be 100% to get it right). It seems that we need to modify that in several different places (mtx-something.lua, setuptex and first-setup.sh).

Re: [NTG-context] Linux PPC64 minimals

2010-02-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Roger Mason wrote: Hello, I just tried to install the minimals on: uname -a Linux perthite 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #6 SMP Wed Jan 13 17:59:36 NST 2010 ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported PowerMac7,3 GNU/Linux but got: sh ./first-setup.sh Error: your system

[NTG-context] bib in mkiv

2010-01-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, shouldn't this work in mkiv as well? It does work in mkii. In mkiv, I see in the log file publications: warning: cite argument * is unknown on line 175 so it looks like it's interpreting the \nocite[*] literally. Any thoughts on this? All best Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] bib in mkiv

2010-01-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: so it looks like it's interpreting the \nocite[*] literally. Any thoughts on this? not that many as you forgot to tell what the * is supposed to do -) :-) It's supposed to include everything, i.e. all the references in the bbl.

Re: [NTG-context] negative kerning

2010-01-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 18, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: MkIV only: \definecharacterkerning[packed] \setupcharacterkerning[packed][factor=-.125] \starttext \input knuth \start \setcharacterkerning[packed] \input knuth \stop \stoptext Wolfgang Wow!! That is one of the

Re: [NTG-context] New current context: 2009.11.26

2009-11-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 27, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, Hans released a new current context yesterday. This is mostly a bugfix/ catchup release for mkiv functionality, but there are also a few other bugfixes. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2009.11.26 for details. Best

Re: [NTG-context] font-syn.lua error

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: that line says data_state = resolvers.data_state(), so resolvers has no data_state entry which in turn means that you run an old mtxrun, so maybe you need top copy mtxrun.lua manually to where it currently sits in yout path (as

Re: [NTG-context] font-syn.lua error

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Sounds like this bug in 0.44 that was fixed already: Bug fixes in 0.45: Yes, the bug has been fixed, and I should have mentioned that; I just wanted to point out that tests may be sometimes deceptive: when I see an empty pdf in preview

Re: [NTG-context] font-syn.lua error

2009-11-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:15 AM, luigi scarso wrote: 1. In evince under linux, the file looked fine, no problems were apparent. what about xpdf and ghostscript? Can you also try with mupdf ? That wasn't the point, I was not trying to give a comparative table of pdf-viewers. luatex was buggy,

Re: [NTG-context] Heros condensed and Font switching

2009-11-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Wolfgang Murth wrote: Hi all, Sorry for popping up that question again, but has anybody a hint for me how to solve it or where I can read more about it? I'm working on converting my lecture papers from latex to ConTeXt, where I also use a condended

Re: [NTG-context] hz off?

2009-11-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I am running the current stable MkIV (ConTeXt ver: 2009.10.27 16:35 MKIV) but can't get hz/hanging with the old method (see below). Do we have some other way today? Steffen --- \showframe

Re: [NTG-context] font-syn.lua error

2009-11-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: $ mtxrun --script font --reload ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value) that line says data_state = resolvers.data_state(), so resolvers has no data_state

[NTG-context] latest beta: trouble with font loading

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans, all, the two latest betas have trouble loading fonts from my own typescripts. All errors point to the same line in font-syn.lua. I don't have a minimal example yet, but here's a minimal command line that triggers the error on my box: mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern=*gentium*

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta: trouble with font loading

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi Hans, all, the two latest betas have trouble loading fonts from my own typescripts. All errors point to the same line in font-syn.lua. I don't have a minimal example yet, but here's a minimal command line that triggers the error on

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta: trouble with font loading

2009-11-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: do you have a small test file? Not yet. It looks like it has something to do with font features, but I can't reproduce it with a minimal file yet (it occurs in a presentation with our simple-slides module). I'll try and see if I can find a

[NTG-context] framed items

2009-11-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, maybe there is already code for that, but I haven't found it: is it possible to have itemgroups where every single item is within a frame (this is something that may be interesting for presentations)? Just to give you an idea of what I want to achieve, here's a short example:

Re: [NTG-context] framed items

2009-11-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 16, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: The problem is the vertical alignment of the item number, which should be at the top of the frame. Is this possible? Add location=top to \setupframed. Aditya Oh, that's good, thanks Aditya! The baselines still don't quite agree, but

Re: [NTG-context] framed items

2009-11-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 16, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: If you hadn't notice the item is wider then the running text, in MkIV you can say 'width=\dimexpr\textwidth-\itemgrouplistwidth\relax' (not the best method but \localhsize is not available) Wolfgang Aditya, Wolfgang, thanks a lot, I

Re: [NTG-context] BibTeX/Publications

2009-11-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 16, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Andreas Harder wrote: No, it is bibtex, which is not utf-8 aware so it breaks the encoding for the ü in the middle. What about bibtex8, isn't it utf-8 aware? No, it's 8-bit aware, thusly it can handle some latin encodings, but not utf8. I think this means

Re: [NTG-context] mailing list question/problem

2009-11-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Bernhard Rosensteiner wrote: Hello all, i´m new to the mailing list. i posted a few questions on the mailing list for a while but got never an answer. The last thing i posted was in the [NTG-context] BibTeX/Publications thread:

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 16, 2009, at 3:12 PM, curiouslearn wrote: I apologize if this has been asked before, but would appreciate if anyone could answer this again. (a) Is there an easy way to incorporate asymptote code in a Context document, like there exists in Latex. In latex you can include it

Re: [NTG-context] BibTeX/Publications

2009-11-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 15, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Andreas Harder wrote: Hi all! I've two or more problems with bibliographies: 1) look at the attached attachment, the first brace. I guess you mean the parenthesis. That appears to be a bug with the refcommands author and authoryears. If you use

Re: [NTG-context] gtamac symbols and mkiv

2009-11-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 11, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Jörg Hagmann wrote: Thanks -- I did expect something of the kind. I need just Fleuron and Crown; could you give me a hint as to where I should look for an example -- a macro doing the same thing, something that could get me going? Cheers, Jörg The easies

Re: [NTG-context] Where is the bib module link?

2009-11-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:40 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On what timeframe is that? because at the moment there is absolutely zero documentation available to users which is somewhat silly considering that there is a perfectly usable manual. Should I just reinstate the module page until Thomas is

Re: [NTG-context] IncludePicture problem with adityam / simple-slides

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 2, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Thomas, we would need to update a new version to contextgarden. This bug will affect all new versions of mkii. Aditya, will do. Are you trying to sort out the problem with the \noexpand in simpleslides-s-Split.tex? If so, I would wait a

Re: [NTG-context] IncludePicture problem with adityam / simple-slides

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Nov 2, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Thomas, I have corrected that. I also don't use the module with mkii, so at some point we need to properly test everything with mkii again. I haven't updated the documentation (two new styles, BoxedTitle and PlainCounter), but that can

Re: [NTG-context] presentation (simple-slides?) master-like feature?

2009-10-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Bruce, very briefly: I'm very very short on time this week, so won't be able to look into this until middle of next week, but I just wanted to let you know that I find your idea great. I had been thinking of adding an xml template for simple presentations. your html-based stuff looks

Re: [NTG-context] Curiosity about math.random in LuaTeX

2009-10-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 25, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Otared KAVIAN wrote: Indeed I guess that this is due to the random seed used by LuaTeX: is it possible to force a new random seed upon each typesetting? The randomseed is set by context, and saved between consecutive runs of the same

Re: [NTG-context] footnote-number alignment

2009-10-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:09 PM, ac...@jander.de wrote: Hello, after struggling some weeks to get everything to work, i'm now nearly satisfied with typsetting via context. But there is one problem left for that i cant find any solution, even after googling for hours. I am typesetting documents

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