Re: [NTG-context] FLOWlines with offset to shapes

2004-07-21 Thread Willi Egger
Good afternoon Eckhart, Nice to hear you again on the list. What your question is concerned I believe that this is not foreseen. Of course I stand corrected ... It might take a couple of days if you wait for an answer from Hans. He is at this moment in San Francisco for a TeX-meeting. Kind regar

Re: [NTG-context] Re: A few questions regarding ConTeXt

2004-07-22 Thread Willi Egger
are plenty of knowlegeable and smart users out there. I would suggest that you indeed go for ConTeXt you will not regret this step. Kind regards Willi Egger Hans Hagen Outside wrote: Broberg, Mats wrote: Dear Sir, For some time now, I have been looking for suitable software solutions for my

Re: [NTG-context] side figure and typing

2004-07-23 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, If you place the 5th parameter in a buffer, it works with the following version of ConTeXt and pdfTeX. pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2c 7.5.2) ConTeXt ver: 2004.6.30 (beta) \startbuffer[test] \starttyping pack .ok .cancel .help -side top \stoptyping \stopbuffer \starttext \SideFig

[NTG-context] Strange error ...

2004-07-25 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, I got a simple drawing madeup in Metapost, which is then compiled into a pdf file with context. Now that I want to include this graphic in a text I stumble over the following: pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2c 7.5.2) ConTeXt ver: 2004.6.30 fmt: 2004.7.21 Error: PDF version 1.5 --

Re: [NTG-context] Strange error ...

2004-07-25 Thread Willi Egger
he ConTeXt source-file it creates an undefined controlsequence error. Kind regards Willi Hans Hagen Outside wrote: Willi Egger wrote: Hi, I got a simple drawing madeup in Metapost, which is then compiled into a pdf file with context. Now that I want to include this graphic in a text I stumbl

Re: [NTG-context] Re: A few questions regarding ConTeXt

2004-07-25 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, following this list for a couple of years now, I can not remember that Hans or other list members hinted how to solve arrising problems. - Specially if it concerns interesting / necessary features, Hans has always beeing prepared to cook them up! Kind regards Willi Mats Broberg wrote: -

[NTG-context] TeXshow failing

2004-07-28 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans, Don't know where to fix this: When I try to run texshow from the command line the following error occurs: Empty compile time value given to use lib at c:/mytex/texmf/scripts/context/perl /texshow.pl line 42 Can't locate cont_mis.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Program Files/Perl/lib C:/P

Re: [NTG-context] Installing new fonts ..

2004-08-23 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, Dirar Bougatef wrote: */I've just downoaded a new font from with afm and .pfb files. I have started installing it but have some problems./* Before installing your font i would suggest that youcreate tfm files with the executable afm2tfm. Please refer to the the following site: http://context

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Footnotes in margin? (HELP!)

2004-08-25 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Steffen, I tried your code and indeed I am getting also half-empty pages. I tried then the following: I replaced the dorecurse by \input knuth \mynote{knuth} \blank[1cm] \input ward \mynote{ward} \blank[1cm] \input knuth \mynote{knuth} \blank[1cm] \input ward \mynote{ward} \blank[1cm] \input k

Re: [NTG-context] footnotes and tables

2004-09-07 Thread Willi Egger
Hello Peter, may be the following is suiting your needs: \def\Line{\NC \tex{HL} \NC horizontal line \NC\AR} \starttext Here is some other text followed by a table. \blank \startlocalfootnotes[n=0] \starttablehead \HL \NC command \NC meaning \NC\SR \HL \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL \stoptablet

Re: [NTG-context] column balancing question

2004-09-08 Thread Willi Egger
Good evening, Though Hans has sent already a piece of code ... I saw that you are using height=fit, and width=fit. Did you ever try to compile your file without these options? -- Some time ago I experienced troubles with such options, although my layout was different and the document was not set

Re: [NTG-context] what fonts I have in my systems?

2004-09-14 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans Hans Hagen wrote: ciro wrote: Is there a set of commands to know what fonts I have in my installation of context? and How do I show them all together without going one by one in the subdirectories... thank you there is no program for that you can play with: http://www.ntg.nl:8061/fonttest

Re: [NTG-context] what fonts I have in my systems?

2004-09-14 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans et al. Aha, some times "big steps won't bring you home earlier" as the Dutch say. Indeed with the http:/www.ntg.nl:8061/exalogin everything work fine! - Playing with this tool is fun and allows experimenting in an easy way. Thanks Hans. Willi Hans Hagen wrote: Volker RW Schaa wrote: Hi

Re: [NTG-context] items vertical spacing

2004-09-21 Thread Willi Egger
Hello Piotr, Itemizations can be setup with \setupitemgroup[itemize][each][inbetween={\blank[5cm]}] This should do the trick. A good source of information is also http://texshow.contextgarden.net/ Kind regards Willi Piotr Kopszak wrote: Hello, I'm probably missing something simple. How can I setu

Re: [NTG-context] website

2004-10-11 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, Just because I fall in this trap myself. It is normally not enough to point with the browser to the given link. Because of caching you need to reload the web-site ... Willi Hans Hagen wrote: Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Hi, Any one can tell me how to acess the new site. just www.pragma-ade.com: w

Re: [NTG-context] positioning layers again

2004-09-30 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Eckhart, I believe that the most convenient way of making your work available would be to put the essentials into the Wiki: http://contextgarden.net/Context/show/HomePage I would say that just these newer features could profit from examples! Kind regards Willi Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: Hi all

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts in ConTeXt

2004-10-01 Thread Willi Egger
Context support out of the box the freely available fonts delivered with TEX-live. Beyond this, it supports a couple of commercial fonts like lucida bright. For other commercial fonts you will have to setup typescripts and map files. Kind regards Willi Werner Struckmann wrote: We have installed

Re: [NTG-context] first element in radio field

2004-10-05 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Peter I tried your example wit the alpha version: This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2c 7.5.2) ... ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.1 fmt: 2004.10.2 int: english mes: english Indentation as mentioned in your mail I can not see. -- however there are three things I do not really understand:

Re: [NTG-context] Wrap a url

2004-11-02 Thread Willi Egger
there is \hyphenatedurl{http://www} May be this is what you are looking for. Willi David Arnold wrote: All, I have: \setupurl [style=bold] \useURL[craig][http://online.redwoods.cc.ca.us/instruct/darnold/CalcProj/Fal l98/CraigA/project3.htm] \from[craig] But it runs off my slide before wrappin

Re: [NTG-context] precompiling inline mp to pdf?

2004-11-02 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Christopher, In my case I prepared all the metapost code and had Context to prepare each figure as a \startTEXpage ... \stopTEXpage. Later I included the figures by referring to the different pages of that pdf-file. \placefigure[margin][fig:sample]{none}{\externalfigure[mpfigure-pdf][page=27]

Re: [NTG-context] Losing frames in table

2004-11-02 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, When testing your code, indeed there are no partial frames as setup by \setupTABLE. What I detected is, that you can only switch on the outer lines of the table \setupTABLE[column][first][leftframe=on]%was:\setupTABLE[column][first][rightframe=on] \setupTABLE[row][last][bottomframe=on]%was:\

Re: [NTG-context] Losing frames in table

2004-11-03 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, Hans Hagen wrote: Willi Egger wrote: Hi, When testing your code, indeed there are no partial frames as setup by \setupTABLE. What I detected is, that you can only switch on the outer lines of the table \setupTABLE[column][first][leftframe=on]%was:\setupTABLE[column][first][rightframe=on

Re: [NTG-context] Compiling questions

2004-11-06 Thread Willi Egger
Hi David, here your code from the second example runs without problem as well started from Scite as also from the cmd.box. I thought that may be you should check your cont-sys.tex file, there should exist two lines as follows: \runMPgraphicstrue \runMPTEXgraphicstrue Willi David Arnold wrote: All

Re: [NTG-context] Tex or Context Editors.

2004-11-08 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Dirar, I would suggest that you try Scite. This editor integrates very nicely with Context and Hans has done a great job providing this integration. Willi Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Hi, Am using eclipse as my editor (eTex) but it is really too heavy, anyone knows of an editor that works fine withi

Re: [NTG-context] Vector or bitmapped?

2004-11-13 Thread Willi Egger
Hi John, Metapost generates postscript. Willi John Culleton wrote: After generating a graphic via Metapost and Metafun, is the result a vector graphic or a bitmapped graphic? ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listin

Re: [NTG-context] error messages after installation

2004-11-19 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, The delivered TeX distributions with Linux are mostly way too old. If you look at the messages given by your texexec run you can see it already. TEXEXEC is way too old. The current version is above 5! After updating your context it appears that it uses still a very outdated version of texexec

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts switching and styles ..

2004-11-22 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Dirar, I is not enough to give the commands which typescripts/files to use, you must setup first a bodyfont and then switch to other fonts Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: i have tried this, and leads to: bodyfont : unknown variant MyFont \usetypescriptfile[karat-type] \usetypescript[karat] \usetyp

[NTG-context] Najaarsbijeenkomst NTG, 26-11-2004 in Leuven

2004-11-22 Thread Willi Egger
f the NTG: http://www.ntg.nl/bijeen/bijeen34.html The meeting takes place at: Campus Bibliotheek Arenberg (C.B.A.) Willem de Croylaan 6 3001 Heverlee Willi Egger Secretaris NTG ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts switching and styles ..

2004-11-23 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Dirar, What you have is apparently different already defined typefaces. So use switchtoypeface to change from karat to opulent. Then switchtobodyfont[karat,12pt] or whatever. You can not use the command definebodyfont in the way you do. For details for this command please refer to the manual mf

Re: [NTG-context] Recommended Books on Typesetting

2004-11-29 Thread Willi Egger
This would be very nice! In the case this is to happen, I would suggest to add the following tow books to the list: Jan Tschichold. Ausgew\"ahlte Aufs\"atze \"uber die Fragen der Gestalt des Buches und der Typographie. Birkh\"auser Verlag Basel 2. Auflage. ISBN-3-7643-1946-1 Some of the articl

Re: [NTG-context] Table of contents, alternative d

2004-11-29 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Dirar, As mentioned by Patrick, live would be easier to help, if you would provide a complete test-code ... % Table of contents Dirar Bougatef \setupoutput[pdftex] % \definelist[part] \setuplist[part][before={\blank[big]},after=\blank] % \definelist[chapter] \setuplist [chapter]

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Wrap a url

2004-12-05 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, thanks Patrick for the example. The only thing is, that \useURL does not hypenate. In Context there is also a command \hyphenatedurl: From: \hyphenatedurl{http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0218:book=1:line=1} However you will loose the interactivity. Anothe

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Wrap a url

2004-12-05 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, thanks Patrick for the example. The only thing is, that \useURL does not hypenate. In Context there is also a command \hyphenatedurl: From: \hyphenatedurl{http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0218:book=1:line=1} However you will loose the interactivity. Another ap

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with DocbookInContext

2004-12-05 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, Context's low level commands are all translated into English. The Docbook module for Context is setup by Simon Pepping. As far as I see this module has not been updated. So lowlevel commands used inthere cause the errors mentioned by you. Kind regards Willi profile wrote: Hello, I tried to

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Wrap a url

2004-12-06 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Patrick, Oeps, indeed! I was a bit in a hurry and I saw that there was a slash in front of the external link ... Willi Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hello Willi, [...] [\tex{Odysee from Homeros on the Internet}] you should not use \tex{...} here of course. Unless you have an unknown TeX interpre

Re: [NTG-context] fonts installation

2004-12-08 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Robert, Context/pdftex is looking for a file ec-uplr8a.tfm, which is apparently not on your system or not in the searchpath of kpsewich or it is not in your mapfile. . If you are using the minimal-distribution from Pragma, then you obtain this file free of charge. If you use another distribu

Re: [NTG-context] figure base

2004-12-08 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Wolfgang, I believe that there is nothing wrong with the result you have. The overlapping picture just indicates how big it is compared to the A4 page (white) in the background. Check the dimensions reported nect to the picture :-( Kind regards Willi Wolfgang Zillig wrote: Hello, I have a pr

Re: [NTG-context] fonts installation

2004-12-08 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Robert, Context/pdftex is looking for a file ec-uplr8a.tfm, which is apparently not on your system or not in the searchpath of kpsewich or it is not in your mapfile. . If you are using the minimal-distribution from Pragma, then you obtain this file free of charge. If you use another distribution

Re: [NTG-context] fonts installation

2004-12-08 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Robert, Context/pdftex is looking for a file ec-uplr8a.tfm, which is apparently not on your system or not in the searchpath of kpsewich or it is not in your mapfile. . If you are using the minimal-distribution from Pragma, then you obtain this file free of charge. If you use another distribution

Re: [NTG-context] figure base

2004-12-08 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Wolfgang, as far as I can see there is nothing wrong with the result you have. The overlapping picture indicates its dimensions compared to a A4 page (white background). This is in accordance with the dimensions given of your picture in the info section to the right. :-) Willi Wolfgang Zillig

Re: [NTG-context] Re: fonts installation

2004-12-10 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Rob, I see that struggling keeps going on. As far as I can see you are able to use the palatino font through the adobekb typescript. - Afaik you use now the files as used by e.g. LaTeX. In order to come to use your Hudson font we need to be able to use the verbose naming-scheme of ConTeXt. Fro

Re: [NTG-context] Bad link -- Login?

2004-12-14 Thread Willi Egger
Hi David, Indeed the given link returns an error ... Try this http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-mag.pdf Just choose one of the magazines and then you can scroll through the titlepages by pressing page-down and page-up Willi David Arnold wrote: All, Perhaps a bad link? http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-

Re: [NTG-context] No bonds visibel with ppchtex

2004-12-16 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Kai, sorry for having sent my reply to Tobias ... tonight I installed a minimal TeX'distribution from Pragma. Hereafter I compiled your code and got a perfectly fine result. pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 ConTeXt ver: 2004.12.06 fmt: 2004.12.16 TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-20

Re: [NTG-context] No bonds visibel with ppchtex

2004-12-16 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Kai, sorrz for having sent mz replz to Tobias ... tonight i installed a minimal TeX'distribution from Pragma. Hereafter I compiled your code and got a perfectly fine result. pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 ConTeXt ver: 2004.12.06 fmt: 2004.12.16 TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-20

Re: [NTG-context] No bonds visibel with ppchtex

2004-12-17 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Adam, Some times I have to switch my keyboard to Ge - often forgetting then to set it back to En. Sorry for the cryptical typing. Willi Adam Lindsay wrote: Willi Egger said this at Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:41:31 +0100: sorrz for having sent mz replz to Tobias ... Is someone visiting germany? :D

Re: [NTG-context] No bonds visibel with ppchtex

2004-12-16 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Tobias, I tried your code here with: Texexec 5.0, Context 2004.10.1 fmt: 2004.10.2 and pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 With this I get the expected result. The question is then which version are you running? Kind regards Willi Tobias Hilbricht wrote: Am Do, den 16.12.2004 schrieb Kai Str

[NTG-context] \coupledocument

2004-12-31 Thread Willi Egger
reen --suffix="-s" linked-file % Minimal file for testing interactive links between % paper- and scree-versions of the same document % CONTEXT file % filename: linked-file.tex % Sample is based on code provided by David Arnold % Willi Egger % 31-12-2004 \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupcolors [

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-02 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Steffen, if my installation is not yet outdated: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) ConTeXt ver: 2004.12.06 then the annswer is no. As you can see my installation based on mswincontext.zip is just 3 weeks old. Kind regards Willi Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I am thinking

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-02 Thread Willi Egger
. Furthermore if you do not use Scite, you could download the mstex.zip which is roughly 38MB instead of 140MB ... I downloaded myself also the mswintex.zip. Later I added Scite. Willi Willi Egger wrote: Hi Steffen, if my installation is not yet outdated: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?

2005-01-04 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, During this conversation I visited also CTAN. Indeed there is a 120b version in FPTEX. Willi Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi Hans, happy new year! When do you think you could provide us a mswincontext.zip that includes pdfTeX 1.20b ? w

Re: [NTG-context] alpha release

2005-01-05 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, I donwloaded your latest release ... After generating the format files I checked the log files of format-generation. Following up the discussion on another thread (hyphenation peculiarity) I would like to ask how the follwing lines should be interpreted: language : patterns en for en l

[NTG-context] bibdemo.tex

2005-01-05 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, Testing the file provided by Taco before installing the new alpha-Context did not result in a reference from \cite[don], only a () is typeset. After installing the new alpha-Context, the problem with the \section command is indeed solved. Still there is only a () from the citation. What is

Re: [NTG-context] alpha release

2005-01-05 Thread Willi Egger
Thanks Taco! This makes things clear. Willi Taco Hoekwater wrote: Adam Lindsay wrote: Willi Egger said this at Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:33:08 +0100: language : patterns en for en loaded (n=1) (c:\NEWCON~1\tex\texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ushyph.tex) language : no hyphenations en for en (n=1

Re: [NTG-context] bibdemo.tex

2005-01-06 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Taco, Sorry, I should have studied the manual ... Anyway its good to know that it is actually all sound with the bib-module! Willi Taco Hoekwater wrote: Willi Egger wrote: Hi, Testing the file provided by Taco before installing the new alpha-Context did not result in a reference from \cite[don

Re: [NTG-context] acro bat 7

2005-01-08 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, Indeed there was upon a time such a discussion ... Though not remembering the details, I found a test file and after a small adaptation it gives two pages: - first page: page-background green (as defined by Context) - second page: page-background as the first page, text area gets a transpare

Re: [NTG-context] new technote

2005-01-10 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, Nice demonstration! Is reinstall from scratch i.e. with TeXfont the only solution to be sure about the files used? Willi Hans Hagen wrote: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/technotes/tfmetrics.pdf -

[NTG-context] \setuppagenumbering

2005-01-15 Thread Willi Egger
]{Test} See also the attached minimal testfile bycd.tex Am I missing something? Kind regards Willi % Bug? % CONTEXT file % filename: bycd.tex % Willi Egger % 15-01-2005 \setuppagenumbering[way=bycd:chapter] \starttext \dorecurse{3}[% \chapter[Ch-Test]{Test} \input tufte

[NTG-context] \bTABLE .. \eTABLE

2005-01-15 Thread Willi Egger
oks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktb... ... l.14 \eTABLE Kind regards Willi % Bug? % CONTEXT file % filename table.tex % Willi Egger % 15-01-2005 \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD Document: \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopt

[NTG-context] Setting up a sombined list ...

2005-01-20 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, I am trying to setup a special TOC which should show the version instead of a pagenumber. My approach was to setup newheads with \definehead[][] and defining a new combined list. The struggle is that I can't manage to get the list entries numbered and the lower level listentries are not inden

Re: [NTG-context] How to learn ConTeXt?

2005-01-21 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Marcin If you have a working TeXlive thats ok. You can use this. - Another approach is to take a minimal distribution from Pragma. I have both on my computer.Hans's ditribution does perfectly what I need. If you want to stay with ConTeXt then I see no reason to take on board more than Hans p

Re: [NTG-context] fundamental problem with headings

2005-01-24 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Steffen, I used your code here just adding \setupoutput[pdftex] The result seems ok. to me. See attachment. Running: TeXExec 5.2.3 pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.13 fmt: 2005.1.18 int: english mes: english Willi Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, there seems

Re: [NTG-context] fundamental problem with headings

2005-01-24 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Steffen Hm, so I misinterpreted your first mail. Indeed, the emphasized part is at bodyfontsize... Sorry for the wrong answer Willi Taco Hoekwater wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, Each kind of "emphasizing" - like \it \bf \cap \sc etc. - > lets the respective phrase fall back to the documen

Re: [NTG-context] \starttables and \footnote

2005-01-28 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Peter, May be the \startlocalfootnotes[n=0]...{\placelocalfootnote}\stoplocalfootnotes is an option. Sorry I do not know what the [n=0] is meaning ... Willi Peter Münster wrote: Hello, could someone help me with placing a footnote in a multipage-table? Here an example, where the table overwri

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation mess

2005-02-02 Thread Willi Egger
Hans Hagen wrote: ... I'll try to catch the new names in the next version, and in the meantime start wondering if it makes sense to add consistently names and structured hyphenation files to the context distribution. Its a pitty that there is no consense on these aspects. - I still vote for the

Re: [NTG-context] patterns

2005-02-14 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans, I set up a minimal Context with the mswintex.zip. The included Context was updated with the latest alpha cont-tmf.zip. After running mktexlsr I started texmfstart cxtools --patternfiles all in the alpha-context/tex directory. All pat and hyp files where then transferred into a new direc

Re: [NTG-context] Simple itemize format that eludes me

2005-02-16 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, may be not a very nice solution but ... \startitemize[none,packed] \item LONG-UGLY-STRING-LIKE-THIS \startnarrower[left] A few sentences, indented somewhat from the left margin, that relate to the long ugly string above. The indentation allows the reader to scan the ugly strin

Re: [NTG-context] reference error with startproduct

2005-02-17 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Peter, your code works if you say \in{section}[bla]. \in is normally used with a indicator what you are referencing. \at{page}[bla] \about[bla] Using TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.26 fmt: 2005.1.26 i

Re: [NTG-context] strange color change

2005-02-17 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Peter, your code does work here i.e. no colorchange in the last two subsections. Using: TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.26 fmt: 2005.1.26 int: english mes: english Willi Peter Münster wrote: Hello, c

Re: [NTG-context] strange color change

2005-02-17 Thread Willi Egger
Oeps! Sorry for this one. - One should look closer before answering, especially I should know, that my red-green abilities are not 100% ;-] Willi Willi Egger wrote: Hi Peter, your code does work here i.e. no colorchange in the last two subsections. Using: TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] reference error with startproduct

2005-02-17 Thread Willi Egger
Münster wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Willi Egger wrote: your code works if you say \in{section}[bla]. \in is normally used with a indicator what you are referencing. \at{page}[bla] \about[bla] Using TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3

Re: [NTG-context] reference error with startproduct

2005-02-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, yes indeed I changed the code of Peter in that sense and made a separate file of the product-code before testing. I did this not because I knew it, but it looked just more Context-like to me ;-) Willi \setupoutput[pdftex] \useencoding[ffr] \mainlanguage[fr] % This is the project file: \start

Re: [NTG-context] Code to product several versions PDF with different fonts

2005-02-20 Thread Willi Egger
If you have the modes defined in a layout.tex you can say in the main file: \enablemode[times] %\enablemode[palatino] %\enablemode[..] \environment layout. So by adding the appropriate \enablemode you even do not need to run the commandline ... Willi Adam Lindsay wrote: VnPenguin said this at Sun

Re: [NTG-context] languages

2005-02-24 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Vit Sorry for this! - It is corrected in the meantime. Willi Vit Zyka wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, Attached is an xml file that describes the hyphenation pattern files. I'd appreciate checking (some records are incomplete). I'd also like to I do not known any relation about 1998-

Re: [NTG-context] Paper size & page arranging

2005-02-24 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Mojca, The most elegant way would of course be to have the document setup with suitable pages. Then you can use the \setuparranging[XY] command, which is basically meant for preparing businesscards and labels. This looks then like \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuppapersize [A5,portrait][A4,landsc

Re: [NTG-context] lettrine.sty, but not LaTeX

2005-03-02 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Mats, I followed this thread. Basically the t-lettri.tex must be placed in a path known to TeX. Indeed if you place it in \base or \user this is the case. - In earlier discussion I think to remember that one could best create a directory \third (or similar) where such files can be placed. Ki

Re: [NTG-context] Language issues

2005-03-06 Thread Willi Egger
Hi MAts, I use different installations: c:\alpha-context a minimal distribution of Hans with the alpha version of ConTeXt (mswintex.zip + cont-lmt.zip) c:\mytex a TeXlive installation based on TeXlive 2004 c:\newcontext a minimal distribution with the beta-version of ConTeXt (mswintex.zip + cont-

Re: [NTG-context] Why I needed \parbox and why does \framed not work here?

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Gerben The problem is, that \starttable[|c|c|c|] is for oneliners only. Replace the statement with \newcommand{\xttable}[7]{\starttable[|p|p|p|]\HL % Kind regards Willi Gerben Wierda wrote: I am trying to convert to ConTeXt and I have a text with a lot of truth tables using a \ttable an

Re: [NTG-context] \raggedright?

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
% Context file % filename: ragged-Wierda.ex % Willi Egger % 13-03-2005 \setupoutput[pdftex] \mainlanguage[en] \setuptolerance[tolerant,stretch] \startbuffer[Ward] \input ward \stopbuffer \startbuffer[Knuth] \input knuth \stopbuffer \startbuffer[Zapf] \input zapf \stopbuffer

Re: [NTG-context] alignment questions

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
goats. B I was unable to get any of these alignments. Patrick % ALigning three blocks of text % PAtrick Gundlach % Context file % filename: textblockalignment-Gundlach.tex % Willi Egger % 13-03-2005 \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupbodyfont[rm,12pt] \starttext % Alignment of

Re: [NTG-context] Document structure - some questions

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Marcin, Marcin Borkowski wrote: Hello! I have quite a few questions about ConTeXt (and more coming, I guess!). As a newbie, many things seem difficult for me. For now, the questions are: How does \part exactly work? I could see: messing with pagenumbers; part title not appearing; strange b

Re: [NTG-context] alignment questions

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
n the same baseline as the last row) from the chaff and seperate A the sheeps from the goats. B I was unable to get any of these alignments. Patrick % ALigning three blocks of text % PAtrick Gundlach % Context file % filename: textblockalignment-Gundlach.tex % Willi

Re: [NTG-context] Why I needed \parbox and why does \framed not work here?

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Gerben, There is no worry about the mentioned chaos. You might be lucky, that your definition is giving a result at all. If you consult the manual or read the article in the MAPS22 on tabulating, you will see, that you missed a correct setup of the tabulation. I attach my version and it work

Re: [NTG-context] Why I needed \parbox and why does \framed not work here?

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
Indeed, there is no \starttable info in the manuals. You might have a look into the sources:core-tab.tex. But what I can see, is, that you do not use vertical lines. If all tables are such, then I would suggest to use \starttabulate instead. KR Willi Gerben Wierda wrote: Here is the example ag

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Learning ConTeXt, typical hurdle

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Gerben, Due to a mistaken handling you roriginal mail I lost it :-( In that mail in the last part, I believe it was an example \component I saw, that you said \starttext ... \stoptext. You do not need this pair, The handling of starting and stopping is done by the \startproject ... \stopproje

Re: [NTG-context] alignment questions

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
goats. B I was unable to get any of these alignments. Patrick % ALigning three blocks of text % PAtrick Gundlach % Context file % filename: textblockalignment-Gundlach.tex % Willi Egger % 13-03-2005 \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupbodyfont[rm,12pt] \starttext % Alignment of

Re: [NTG-context] Why I needed \parbox and why does \framed not work here?

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
paragraph 2 cm wide and sets the text in it. The height of the box is the result of that typesetting.) G On Mar 13, 2005, at 16:05, Willi Egger wrote: Hi Gerben, There is no worry about the mentioned chaos. You might be lucky, that your definition is giving a result at all. If you consult the

Re: [NTG-context] Some extra empty pages, why? And how to get an initial blank page with page number 0?

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Gerben, I puzzeled with your project code. First you are not allowed to use \starttext \stoptext in a definition. Your definitione interferes with the chapter mechnism. So more knowledge is necessary which I do not have at the moment. in the "before" option you say \page=right, seems to create

Re: [NTG-context] FLOWcharts

2005-03-13 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Adam, hm, the same here also with alpha-context of february 2005. May be, that one should use a single \comment only. Still there is a problem then with \comment[t]{text}, which causes the text in the second cell to move down. I think this is somethin for Hans ... Kind regards Willi Adam Duc

Re: [NTG-context] ppchtex

2005-03-15 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Johannes, I looked at your coding. The use module line has two typo's It should be \usemodule[pictex,chemic] The statements are not complete i.e. you forgot the \stopcombination. Further when starting a combination one needs to give the number of rows and columns e.g. [2*3]. with only [6] all

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Palatino? -> bitmap fonts???

2005-03-16 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Mathias, your example runs smoothly here, using: pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.26 fmt: 2005.1.26 1. Which version of ContTeXt do you run? A new version requires the map-files to be placed in ...\fonts\map. 2. Niew versions of pdftex do nomore use

Re: [NTG-context] How do I create a table like this in ConTeXt?

2005-03-19 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Gerben, There are different options. first of all I would have a look into \bTABLE ...\eTABLE constructs see enatab.pdf manual. secondly you might use \starttabulate ..\stoptabulate look at MAPS22 Voorjaar 1999, pp 153. Willi Gerben Wierda wrote: In LaTeX, a tabular environment produces a box

Re: [NTG-context] Title-page overlay

2005-03-20 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Nikolai, May be you should try a buffer to put the typing in. In the overlay you can call the buffer with \typebuffer[...] Willi Nikolai Weibull wrote: I would like to put a rather large and complicated regular expression into the title-page of a document I'm writing. So far, I haven't had mu

Re: [NTG-context] Imposition of A7,landscape on A4

2005-03-20 Thread Willi Egger
% filename: imposition-Zillig.tex % Willi Egger % 20-03-05 \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuppapersize[A7,portrait][A3,landscape]% \setuparranging [2*8,doublesided] \setuplayout [location=middle] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,marginedge},state=start] \setupcolors[state=start] \showframe[edge] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] module and environment

2005-03-20 Thread Willi Egger
Sorry Peter, I did not intend to give you a new name ;-) Willi Peter Münster wrote: Hello, what is the difference between a module and an environment? What are the guidelines to decide where to put some code? TIA for any hints, Peter ___ ntg-context maili

Re: [NTG-context] module and environment

2005-03-20 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Wolfgang, I would say, that a module makes part of the ConTeXt package e.g. m-chart.tex or m-units.tex. There are also third-party modules which start then with t- e.g. t-lettri.tex. An environment is a file containing layout-instructions belonging to a certain project or a personal environme

Re: [NTG-context] Available fonts

2005-03-21 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Idris, Yes indeed there sould be a file to test the "built-in" fonts. Recently I was working on that. The file is in the meantime sent to Hans, so that he can give me advice how to finalize it.- May be within short notice we will have a demo file. Kind regards Willi ishamid wrote: Dear crew,

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

2005-03-27 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Paul, First of all I find your pages a good starting point. Still I believe that Adam's suggestions are correct. Within the ConTeXt environment most of the time more than one approach is possible. Humble but neither put the option width=fit nor to say layout=middle is the way to go when layo

Re: [NTG-context] How to use Times Roman font for body text.

2005-03-27 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Anand, In recent threads a lot of possible struggles where discussed concerning your question. However the following should work with a recent distribution: Either: \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[pos] Or: \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times

Re: [NTG-context] Multiple image directories

2005-03-30 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Gerben, If you need to add more than one parameter to one option then use {...} % \setupexternalfigures [\c!gebied={e:/fig/eps,t:/mine/figs}] from cont-sys.tex Groet Willi Gerben Wierda wrote: I tried to use two image directories, but that does not work. Can I do something like that? E.g. \se

Re: [NTG-context] Another directories question (to avoid littering)

2005-03-30 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Matthias, I don't know. But you can use texutil --purge (will keep the *.tuo files) texutil --purgeall (will delete all auxiliary files from the directory) Willi Matthias Weber wrote: When using metapost (like when doing backgrounds), the directory in which my project file resides is being litt

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