Re: [NTG-context] setupexternalfigures broken ?

2008-03-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 18, 2008, at 11:18 PM, luigi scarso wrote: setupexternalfigures seems broken on ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.11 23:55 MKIV fmt: 2008.3.18 int: english/ english This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.0-2008031821 I'm only able to include images from current dir. Seems to work here with.

[NTG-context] more xml in mkiv

2008-03-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I played some more with the new mkiv xml mechanism and am beginning to see the light: some things that turned out to be very difficult (at least for me) with the old mechanism are easy now. However, I still have a couple of questions: 1. I have this minimal file test.xml: document

Re: [NTG-context] more xml in mkiv

2008-03-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: works here, just to be sure i uploaded a new current Hans Thanks Hans! You're right; I worked on a minimal example for a long time and got confused. I tried again; this example demonstrates the behavior (I tested on two different computers

Re: [NTG-context] more xml in mkiv

2008-03-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: works here, just to be sure i uploaded a new current Hans Thanks Hans! You're right; I worked on a minimal

Re: [NTG-context] more xml in mkiv

2008-03-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: your original example works here too. today's context and latest luatex. hth, peter Wait wait wait ... you mean you get correct output with the example I posted in this thread? In that case, I'm completely baffled, because I get something

Re: [NTG-context] more xml in mkiv

2008-03-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: Wait wait wait ... you mean you get correct output with the example I posted in this thread? In that case, I'm completely baffled, because I get something like this see yourself and beleave ;) Hey, I'm quite willing to believe - but now I

[NTG-context] textbar in mkiv

2008-03-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans, I just saw that textbar is not defined in char-def.lua (0x007C is defined as bar, a math character). Is it possible to add this character, or can every unicode character be present only once? Would be nice to have it as a text character. Best Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] placecontent and arranging

2008-03-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 28, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Andrea Valle wrote: (why?) Many thanks Wolfgang, I'll try it Best -a- This is a FAQ, maybe you could add something to the wiki (I'm sure it's already there). Here's a message from Hans which explains the phenomenon:

Re: [NTG-context] first steps with XeTeX

2008-04-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 6, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Debian installs not so good on a PPC Mac and doesn't run my expensive Adobe apps ;-) (And I doubt if Norbert provides Linux PPC binaries...) Debian installs very well on a PPC mac, and Norbert provides PPC binaries (which I compiled for

Re: [NTG-context] Leopard and ConTeXt

2008-04-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 9, 2008, at 6:44 PM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi MacUsers out there, until yesterday I worked with 10.4 and a recent context: no problem (only mkII). Today I finally set up a new machine with 10.5. and MacTeX, run ctxtools --updatecontext. Running a context-file now gives me the

Re: [NTG-context] new version luatex / mkiv

2008-04-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 10, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, There is a new version of luatex and mkiv. You need to update them together. The best place to get them is the contextgarden (which will probably have the new versions pretty soon). This release of is rather substantial: no longer is

[NTG-context] two easy xml-questions

2008-04-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi gang, speaking of xml... I have two easy questions, but can't find an answer. It's about tweaking the pdf-output I get: 1. How do you add an additional hyphenation to a word? How would I enter the equivalent of super\-duper in an xml-file? I tried superaddhyphen;duper with this

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTex error attempt to index global 'lang' (a nil value)

2008-04-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 13, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Roland wrote: Anybody? Makes no sense to me. I hope Thomas can have a look. Something obviously goes wrong for you, but I have never yet see it go _so_ wrong. Is there a chance of a corrupted download of something? Best wishes,

[NTG-context] bug in mplib?

2008-04-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I just noticed that with the new incarnation of metapost, arrows behave somewhat erratically. Take this minmal example: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{arrowtest} z1=(0,0) ; z2=(3cm,0) ; ahlength := 15pt ; pickup pencircle scaled 5pt ; drawarrow z1--z2 ; \stopuseMPgraphic

[NTG-context] followup: arrows in mplib

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I'm afraid arrows look better now, but they're not yet quite what they used to be. Test: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{arrowtest} z1=(0,0) ; z2=(3cm,0) ; ahlength := 15pt ; pickup pencircle scaled 5pt ; drawarrow z1--z2 withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic

[NTG-context] latest

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all (Hans, Taco...), thre appears to be a problem with font-syn.lua in the latest release. First, there's a typo in l. 291. I think if not filename and not reloaded and fonts.name.autoreload then should be if not filename and not reloaded and fonts.names.autoreload then But even after

Re: [NTG-context] latest

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 16, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Can you test the latest upload? This should be fixed now (arrows forthcoming). Hi Taco, yes, latest upload works. Looking out for arrows... Thanks Thomas ___

Re: [NTG-context] followup: arrows in mplib

2008-04-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 16, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: i uploaded a beta, please check other color things in mp graphics too thanks for testing Hans Yes, the new beta does work. I'll have an eye on other things; so far, I haven't seen anything unusual. Thanks for the swift action! Thomas

[NTG-context] maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

2008-04-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Dear all, maybe this is off-topic, but I just wanted to tell you about my experiences (and sorry if this sounds like a sales pitch, it isn't!). Since I have a fairly long commute to work, I spend a lot of time on the train and like/need to do serious work there. When you have to schlepp

Re: [NTG-context] maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

2008-04-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 19, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: how does luatex run on it? mem consumption and such ... what is 'slow'? how many pages per second for a 100 page document? does it connect well to a beamer? Hans OK, just to give you a very rough estimate: here is the time for

[NTG-context] question about mplib/mkiv

2008-04-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, for my presentations, I have a graphical counter on every slide, so metapost has to write a graphic for every slide/page that ConTeXt produces. This works with mkii, but when I process my file in mkiv, I get this error after page 16: report error: 15 output files written: ..

Re: [NTG-context] question about mplib/mkiv

2008-04-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 24, 2008, at 1:44 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: hm, maybe something messy with the graphic ... i allocate 2MB of memory for metafun so ... anyhow, \appendtoks\ctxlua{metapost.reset(metafun)}\to\everyshipout or so, may help, although it's better to see what's the real reason does

Re: [NTG-context] question about mplib/mkiv

2008-04-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: That error indeed comes from mplib, but from the overflow test in realloc(), not the memory array overflow function. You get this error when you attempt to allocate more than 2^31 bytes. Since that clearly should not happen, there is a bug

Re: [NTG-context] question on the luaTeX installation

2008-04-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 26, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Dalyoung Jeong wrote: Dear all, With a fresh mind, I tried to install luaTeX in my Mac G5(OSX 10.5) as follows: (based on Thomas's instruction) - updating the ConTeXt - making formats - preparing some files like texlua, texluac, luatools, mtxrun. - made a

[NTG-context] two small questions about the mkiv roadmap

2008-04-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, esp. Hans and Taco, just two simple questions about some minor imperfections in mkiv/ luatex. I'm not impatient, just wondering if these are things that you're working on right now or if they will have to wait: 1. processing xml files with a DTD. This is something we discussed a

Re: [NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:06 PM, luigi scarso wrote: I need an opentype like helvetica , plus some times and courier; ie \usetypescript[postscript] is ok. I'm not sure I understand. Why opentype (truetype works as well in mkiv)? And what do you mean with \usetypescript[postscript] is ok?

Re: [NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:37 AM, luigi scarso wrote: I'm not searching for the perfect way, just a way to print a greek pdf Suggestions welcome. Well, the easiest solution is: use a font that does have a full set of Greek characters. The TeXGyre fonts have some Greek characters, but they are

Re: [NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: The TeXGyre fonts have some Greek characters, but they are not really finished and are not usable right now. Just to clarify an ambiguous sentence: they refers to the Greek characters, not to the TeXGyre fonts in general. Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] Greek module still in use?

2008-04-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the greek module still in use? I have been trying to use it wiht xetex but texexec says can't find module ancient greek. I have have some quotations in Ancient Greek. the font I am using is palatino. I haven't finished adapting the

Re: [NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:47 PM, luigi scarso wrote: sorry 1) in my luatex env. \usetypescript[postscript] is linked with tex gyre font collections 2) opentype because they are so easy to install ! Just download in opentype dir, rehash, and it's all ok. OK, but installing truetype is

Re: [NTG-context] Trouble with Index

2008-04-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 30, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \index[Tantrum]Tantrums can be normal for \index{Tantrum} Indeed. Question to the developers: given that our rule of thumb is material within {} will be typeset; material within [] is for setups etc., wouldn't it make sense to have

Re: [NTG-context] Greek module still in use?

2008-05-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 1, 2008, at 4:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have unzipped the folder to my texmf tree so it looks like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ cd /usr/share/texmf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/texmf ls bibtex context dvipsls-R mft text- greek-2008.04.30 bin doc

Re: [NTG-context] two small questions about the mkiv roadmap

2008-05-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The DTD is a problem with the ConTeXts XML parser and has nothing to do with LuaTeX (hope this is right). i need a test file then (can look into it next week; i'm at bachotek now) OK, I hope this is a minimal test:

Re: [NTG-context] two small questions about the mkiv roadmap

2008-05-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 1, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Easier for test because you need only one file. Thanks Wolfgang! Have fun in Poland! It's fathers day :-) I know. My two sons insisted on bringing me breakfast at 6.45. And they wanted to charge for it too :-) Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] Greek module

2008-05-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 2, 2008, at 11:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I managed to install the greek module. Here is where it is placed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/texmf/tex/context/third ls t-ancientgreek [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/texmf/tex/context/third cd t-ancientgreek/ [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost 1.004 announcement

2008-05-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 1, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: -- MetaPost 1.004 -- The sources and

Re: [NTG-context] Greek module

2008-05-03 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 2, 2008, at 10:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see... I cringe so much of Don't. We've all been beginners once and needed help. You just need to learn to follow a systematic approach and read replies to your questions more carefully... Oh boy. This is really not the place where

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost 1.004 announcement

2008-05-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 4, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I have two questions/problems with the new release: 1. for my linux box, I just grabbed the linux tarball, but the binaries in there still declare they're version 1.003. Is that an oversight, or are those indeed

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost on OS X 10.5

2008-05-06 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Taco, Hi Karl, looks like you nailed it: with the new c-std.h, compilation works without a hitch on my 10.5 box! Best wishes Thomas On May 6, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Thomas, Can you please replace the c-std.h in src/texk/kpathsea with the attached one and see if

Re: [NTG-context] bibmod question

2008-05-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 9, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Peter I. Hansen wrote: Hi I'm using the bibmod module with the 'ams' style (bibl-ams.tex). If I have two (or more) references by the same author, from the same year, in my bibtex database. The years are printed in the reference list as eg. 2000a, 2000b, etc.,

Re: [NTG-context] Greek Module

2008-05-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 10, 2008, at 7:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have managed to do the installation: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ kpsewhere t-ancientgreek.tex /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/third/t-ancientgreek.tex This looks good! Still I am missing something else because texexec doesn't go

[NTG-context] modules at the garden

2008-05-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, hi gardeners, there seems to be a problem with the modules section; when I try to open the page, I get the message Service Temporarily Unavailable The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. All

Re: [NTG-context] mlib broken

2008-05-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 13, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: i fixed it i also added support for \SS - SS but i only added an entry for this one character; new keys in char-def are: uccodes and lccodes; this is only supported in luatex i wonder what is broken now -) Hans Thanks Hans, works here. And

Re: [NTG-context] figure not found box (mkiv)

2008-05-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 13, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, one problem fixed, the next one is knocking on the door. This must be the definition of a lucky man ;) Can anybody try the following code? Mhh, no problems on 'context live' (luatex 0.25.2). Nope, no problem here. Are you running luatex

Re: [NTG-context] a question about ConTeXt + AUCTeX

2008-05-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 15, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Dalyoung Jeong wrote: Dear all, Recently I installed Aquamacs Emacs which is nicely working. And I also found AUCTeX macros in the wiki. Since I am a newbie to AUCTeX, I don't know how to apply such codes to Aquamacs. Would someone tell me how to do that?

Re: [NTG-context] a question about ConTeXt + AUCTeX

2008-05-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 17, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 17 mai à 10:11:13 Dalyoung Jeong [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | However, the same command worked well in a terminal. | Maybe the system setup of yours is different from mine. | Usually I run source .luatex first before

Re: [NTG-context] a question about ConTeXt + AUCTeX

2008-05-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 17, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Emacs has a setenv command, so you could do the whole setuptex in elisp with commands like this in your emacs startup script: (setenv TEXMF {$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!! $TEXMFMAIN}) Maybe that is an

Re: [NTG-context] oldstyle features and typing

2008-05-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 17, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Another interesting feature is that numbers in the typing environmnet come out in oldstyle (they look nice, BTW). This is expected, and can be avoided by using a complete typescript and loading tt fonts with fefault features, and other

Re: [NTG-context] oldstyle features and typing

2008-05-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 17, 2008, at 9:06 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: in node-ini ... you can play with this change ... function nodes.process_characters(head) --~ if status.output_active then if false then return head, false -- true else Great! Yes, this seems to take

Re: [NTG-context] Some questions about the taspresent module

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 18, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Hi all (especially Thomas) I have played these days with the last version of the taspresent presentation module, to see how it can be used as such and/or with emacs-muse. I have discovered that due to the \Maketitle macros, which

Re: [NTG-context] Some questions about the taspresent module

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 18, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: no .. a small test file will help us -) Sure thing: \starttext {\font\test=name:NimbusSanL-Bold \test Hello world!} \stoptext Same error: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/helvetic/uhvb8a.pfb ! Emergency stop. * ./test.tex

Re: [NTG-context] Some questions about the taspresent module

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 18, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Great! There is a way to do it! 1 sur 10 is definitely much better (but it is not very elegant either) I need more thinking about that... Of course there's a way to do it; this is ConTeXt, baby... :-) Here is my minimal

Re: [NTG-context] Some questions about the taspresent module

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 18, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Here is my minimal example: ... \usemodule[taspresent][style=greenblue,font=Pagella,size=17pt] \setvariables [taspresent] [author={Jean Magnan de Bornier}, title={Le darwinisme

Re: [NTG-context] Some questions about the taspresent module

2008-05-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 18, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: I see; but the other styles work nicely with lecback where I have put it, don't they? That's a coincidence, and I haven't tested it. If I have to write lecback in that position, my muse styles will be more difficult to set up

Re: [NTG-context] a question about ConTeXt + AUCTeX

2008-05-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 19, 2008, at 6:03 AM, Dalyoung Jeong wrote: By the way, is it normal to run luatools --generate and luatools -- ini --verbose --compile ... whenever I start computer? Or, I missed something in my setup. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung Jeong In the instructions I wrote a

[NTG-context] accented letters in mkiv

2008-05-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, sorry if this is obvious and I have simply overlooked something. I need the character U0113 emacron. It is not present in the font I use. In mkii, I could simply write \=e, and TeX would take care of building (faking) the character. When I try this in mkiv, I get an error: error:

Re: [NTG-context] accented letters in mkiv

2008-05-19 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 19, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: use the feature: combine=yes maybe you're lucky :-) No such luck, unfortunately. I have now found a post by Taco on a similar problem and use this: \catcode`\ē=\active \def ē{\buildtextaccent\textmacron e} Works well! Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] [LUATEX] uname() volunteers needed

2008-05-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 21, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Because I do not want to alter the lua return values, that means I will have to interpret the contents of the returned structure a bit. To do that, I would appreciate it if the people on a non-linux32intel platform would compile and run the

Re: [NTG-context] [LUATEX] uname() volunteers needed

2008-05-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 21, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Yue Wang wrote: Are you sure you copy the right source code? Here is the result on Mac OS X intel 10.5: $ gcc -Wall test.c -o test epicalyx:c jjgod$ ./test sysname: Darwin nodename: epicalyx.local release: 9.2.2 version: Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue

[NTG-context] mplib/metafun broken in latest beta

2008-05-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans and Taco, it looks like mplib is broken in the latest beta. Simple file: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw fullcircle scaled 5cm ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext produces no output. I tested on several different computers, so it doesn't look like a

Re: [NTG-context] mplib/metafun broken in latest beta

2008-05-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 28, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: indeed, we're experimenting with a couple of nasty bugs and in the process mess aroudn with beta's; sorry ... i'll upload a new one (new bins later) Hans Hi Hans, new beta does indeed produce output, but every MP graphic is centered (which

Re: [NTG-context] mplib/metafun broken in latest beta

2008-05-28 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On May 28, 2008, at 11:41 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: hm i wonder why ... maybe you use raggedcenter? Hans Just try the minimal example I sent this afternoon and compile it with mkii and mkiv and you'll see the difference. Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

2008-06-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 13, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2008-06-12 um 11:00 schrieb Andrea Valle: The fact IMHO is that there's a potentially large base of ConTeXt users which are willing to learn the syntax but are scared about terminals, setting paths etc (well, me too: knowing

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

2008-06-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 14, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Andrea Valle wrote: Thomas, I do not know what Oliver is actually doing. But just 2c: - suppose you have a ConTeXt distro (the minimal) inside a mac app. At the end a mac app is typically a folder containing different programs/libraries etc - suppose you

[NTG-context] TeXLive 2008

2008-06-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, Hans, Taco, this is kind of a continuation of the thread about installers etc. I'm currently test-driving TeXLive 2008 and was wondering if we could make it a bit easier for new users to just try out ConTeXt. The binaries reside in tl2008-directory/2008/bin/arch; the installer gives

Re: [NTG-context] TeXLive 2008

2008-06-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 16, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: This is already taken care of. It is not in the current 'testing' because Karl is still working on it, but the files are committed and this will be done. A similar solution exists for windows, btw. Excellent, and sorry for the noise. Thanks

[NTG-context] metapost question

2008-06-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, probably an easy question: for a presentation, I would like to have an area of my slide highlighted by placing a transparent grey layer on top of the slide and having one area of this layer completely transparent, a bit like this screenshot:

Re: [NTG-context] metapost question

2008-06-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 18, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: \startuniqueMPgraphic{dim:and:focus}{fw,fh,fx,fy,c} begingroup save q ; path q; q:= (unitsquare xyscaled(\MPvar{fw},\MPvar{fh}) smoothed 4px) shifted (\MPvar{fx},\MPvar{fy}); fill OverlayBox--reverse q-- cycle withcolor

Re: [NTG-context] Howto float text around an image on layer (in a frame, inside standardmakeup)?

2008-06-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 24, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: \starthangaround That's a great name for an environment! :-) Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] table of contents strangeness...

2008-06-25 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 25, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Alan Stone wrote: this doesn't... \setuplist[chapter][ style=bold, aligntitle=yes, after=\blank[small]] try \setuplist[chapter][ style=bold, aligntitle=yes, after={\blank[small]}] (untested) Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] AUCTeX and ConTeXt

2008-06-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 28, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Charles P. Schaum wrote: yields the message buffer: Updating define menu... Updating setup menu... Updating other macro's menu... Updating project structure menu... Updating section block menu... Updating section menu... Updating...done Type `C-c C-l' to

[NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I would like to make the exclamation mark active within my Greek environment; it should remain a normal letter outside of these commands and environments. (Why? Exclamation marks aren't used in Greek, and in mkii, I had mapped it to the sublinear dot which is used for epigraphical

Re: [NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 7, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: forget about the past, think about what kind of functionality you want for instance, we need a language dependent feature that remaps characters so, what are the specs; maybe other languages need similar things (there is already something

Re: [NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: so, you define a fallbackfont for your greek font Hans That looks good; I'll have a go at it (I guess the fallback can be enabled on the typescript level, right?). However, I'm still left wondering if it doesn't make sense to make the !

Re: [NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 7, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: no, active chars are a pain ... because they need to adapt to all kind of situations then, i'm glad that i got rid of the active : cum suis of course we can add a new core-spa feature that remaps chars (kind of like french spacing) OK, OK, you

[NTG-context] Adobe ArnoPro in mkiv

2008-07-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I'm trying to use the Adobe ArnoPro font (just testing if it will work with ConTeXt). The font does work with ConTeXt/XeTeX, but not in mkiv. When I try to compile my test file with mkiv, I get this error message (which isn't very helpful to me):

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe ArnoPro in mkiv

2008-07-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: what does texexec --lua do? (it looks like either luatex is not run or crashed; i'll try to give a more meaningful message) Hans Hmm, with texexec --lua, I get no errors on the console, but no pdf is produced, and the log file is empty. The

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe ArnoPro in mkiv

2008-07-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Can you send the typescripts, it's weird to use different files for XeTeX and LuaTeX because one should work for both. Wolfgang I don't think you can use all the features with XeTeX, bit know precious little about XeTeX, my money is

Re: [NTG-context] last beta and mkiv

2008-07-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Wolfgang, are you referring to this one? context version: 2008.07.10 09:58 It works without problems on my Mac. Thomas On Jul 13, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi Hans, the last beta is not working on my Mac in MkIV mode. It start with the problem that context.tex is not

Re: [NTG-context] Strange error in using backgrounds with enumerations

2008-07-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 13, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: I do not know if it is an error in my setup, or some bug in context. I cannot check it on garden, since live is broken at the moment. Hi Aditya, do you think you could make your test more minimal? This doesn't compile at all, e.g. !

[NTG-context] another bib-question

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, Taco, yet another question re the bib-module: I am wondering how to deal with place names (or other elements) in different languages. E.g., if a book has been published in Munich, I'd like the place to read Munich when the language of the document in which the bibliography occurs

Re: [NTG-context] more xml in mkiv

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
circumstances, have trouble with linebreaks within the xml-subtree it is trying to pick up? That would explain the mystery which had me baffled back in May. All best Thomas On Mar 25, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [NTG-context] another bib-question

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 14, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You could try \doifelse\currentmainlanguage{de}{M\uumlaut nchen} {Munich}. Regards Wolfgang Thanks Wolfgang! That did the trick nicely. All best Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] more xml in mkiv

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 14, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Can you test the following definition for item a while: \startxmlsetups xml:item \startitem \xmlflush{#1} \stopitem \stopxmlsetups Regards, Wolfgang I have something very similar in my environment: \startxmlsetups xml:item

Re: [NTG-context] fonts (in luatex) (again)

2008-07-15 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 15, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm not sure, but .dfont looks like AAT format and no extension like Mac-specific way of storing Type 1. Both doable, but someone needs to do that. You can run fondu on .dfont files and then use the resulting files (ttf or pfb, I guess)

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography Module -- Footnote/Endnote citation possible?

2008-07-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 20, 2008, at 2:43 AM, Michael Hofer wrote: Hi! Is there a possibility to use footnotes or endnotes with the citation system of the bib module? I didn't found anything about that topic in the mailing list archive, Context wiki or module documentation. Thanks. Best regards,

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 21, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm only guessing without trying: You have \definefontsynonym [KievitProRegular] [name:KievitPro-Regular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [KievitProRegular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [Sans]

Re: [NTG-context] How to read sources? (was:) Footnotes

2008-07-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: = Which sorces, wich directory and kind of files are meant, if one says look at the source, where do I find them? (On my TeX-life distribution on Mac OSX 10.4x Tiger with actualized ConTeXt I didn't find the later mentioned

Re: [NTG-context] greek again

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 23, 2008, at 10:34 AM, Armando Martins wrote: (Suppose something is wrong...). By the way I am using TexLive from a CD along with context minimals. We need more information: 1. What is your operating system? How do you set up TeXLive from the CD? How do you set up the minimals?

Re: [NTG-context] greek again

2008-07-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 23, 2008, at 11:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenSuse 10.3 If memory serves right, SuSE has a few problems with its TeX setup: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080320.203129.aec3fb49.en.html But this is not the problem now. How do you set up TeXLive from the CD?

Re: [NTG-context] greek

2008-08-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 4, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Jörg Hagmann wrote: Two questions concerning greek modules: 2. I wanted to try the t-greek-2008.05.11 module and unzipped in texmf-local (where I keep my fonts). The Greek in proper context etc. articles seem to be outdated, but from the sources I gathered

Re: [NTG-context] release and MacTeX

2008-08-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi again Hans, It is not possible to update to the latest release with sudo ctxtools --updatecontext. In order to inform other Mac users, and possibly prevent them to update, I am reporting my (bad) experience: DO NOT UPDATE UNLESS YOU

Re: [NTG-context] greek

2008-08-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 11, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Jörg Hagmann wrote: Thanks. Looking forward to the new version. New version has been uploaded; let me know if this one works B. \usemodule[oldgreek] works with the default font or with Teubner (mark ii and mark iv). But not with Gentium, although the TrueType

Re: [NTG-context] greek

2008-08-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 12, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Jörg Hagmann wrote: A postscript to greek issues: Thanks for the report. As I wrote, everything works fine now---with Mark II, which is what I still use. When I try context mygreekfile.tex, without any font specification, the following characters are missing:

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 12, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: \starttext \dorecurse5'{} % or \dorecurse{5}{'{}} \stoptext works here. I copied the text from the pdf into a unicode editor and it gives 0027. It doesn't work here either. What does work is:

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 13, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: That leaves just \tt as option, really. None of the 'normal' encodings in mkii have a straight quote. texnansi does: grep quotesingle /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/enco- ans.tex \definecharacter quotesingle 129

Re: [NTG-context] Lastest Build on TeXlive 2008 and MikTeX 2.7

2008-08-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 13, 2008, at 5:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok so I'm trying to install cont-tmf.zip on a Fedora 9 box with TexLive 2008 into my local ~/texmf/. $ kpsexpand '$TEXMFHOME' /home/mohamed/texmf $ ls ~/texmf/ bibtex cont-ext.zip cont-img.zip cont-ppc.zip doc metapost tex web2c

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 14, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: the order is just one factor. what actually happens is that there is a compensation for buggy font names (as happens often in afm files) so in practice one entry might become three entries; taco noticed that one of the fallbacks create

Re: [NTG-context] Lastest Build on TeXlive 2008 and MikTeX 2.7

2008-08-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 14, 2008, at 12:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typesetting the bare minimal file works, but lua or xetex doesn't; You need to make the formats for these as well: texexec --make --all --xtx (and run texhash again after creating the formats; when you think about it, it'll make sense)

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe ArnoPro in mkiv

2008-08-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schmitz at uni-bonn.de writes: Hi all, I'm trying to use the Adobe ArnoPro font (just testing if it will work with ConTeXt). The font does work with ConTeXt/XeTeX, but not in mkiv. When I try to compile

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