Hello!
The following message was posted to comp.text.tex yesterday; I thought some
of you who don't read the newsgroup regularly would like to hear about it,
and so I'm passing it along.
For those who haven't been following the story: Since the demise of Y&Y,
there hasn't been a place to obt
It looks like someone is currently actively going through the Wiki and
deleting pages (and creating some blank useless pages, such as the one
named "Brooks").
Can someone block this before the damage gets worse?
- Brooks
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At 04:18 AM 9/22/2005, Alan Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Though I have asked this question before and there was no response, I
thought I would ask the following once more (before going through my
source files and making the changes by hand).
Does anyone know how to modify or adapt \note so t
At 01:15 PM 9/18/2005, Brooks Moses wrote:
At 12:41 PM 9/18/2005, Hans Hagen wrote:
what is a small matrix? small font?
Look in the m-newmat.tex file -- according to the comments, you had
exactly the same question about what it was supposed to be when you
implemented it! (It's a co
At 12:41 PM 9/18/2005, Hans Hagen wrote:
David Arnold wrote:
In amsmath, there is
\begin{smallmatrix}
\end{smallmatrix}
Don't know how in Context. I'll find out.
Does anyone on the context list know how to do this?
\usemodule[newmat]
\startsmallmatrix
\stopsmallmatrix
what is a small ma
(Andre: I'm sending this reply back to the ConTeXt list, because I think a
fair bit of my reply might be generally useful to other people who want to
try to convert LaTeX packages to ConTeXt. I hope that's ok!)
At 01:58 PM 9/13/2005, Andre van der Vlies wrote:
Brooks Moses said:
&
At 01:44 AM 9/13/2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Andre van der Vlies wrote:
I use 'lgrind' to format my 'source code' (C, python, sricpts, etc.). I
like the 'layout' (highlighting, line numbering...). Is there something
equivalent (or better :) in/for ConTeXt?
I personally do not know of anything
At 04:58 PM 9/12/2005, Brooks Moses wrote:
At 04:42 PM 9/12/2005, Jilani Khaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have tried with:
\startcases
.. \stopcases
and many others variations but I have got only errors.
Any hint?
Much like the bmatrix environment, the cases environment is an A
At 04:42 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote:
I have tried with:
\startcases
.. \stopcases
and many others variations but I have got only errors.
Any hint?
Much like the bmatrix environment, the cases environment is an AMSmath
package feature, and ConTeXt at present has very few of the direct
equivalen
At 02:16 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote:
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:08 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> Very nice! I would like them to lay closer to a standard baseline,
> though,
I'm not sure what you mean by "lay closer to a standard baseline". The
baseline of the glyph inside the key is aligned with
At 02:16 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by "lay closer to a standard baseline". The
baseline of the glyph inside the key is aligned with text outside the
key. I waffled back and forth trying to find the most attractive
position while building the font. The majority of keycaps
At 01:40 AM 9/12/2005, Jilani Khaldi wrote:
Hi All,
how tow write these matrices in Context?
% []
\begin{bmatrix}
1&2\\
3&4
\end{bmatrix}
ConTeXt uses Plain TeX syntax for math, mostly. Thus, you use Plain TeX's
\matrix command to create the matrices:
\left[\matrix{
1&2 \cr
2&4 \cr
}\r
At 10:40 AM 9/9/2005, Christopher Creutzig wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
> Not quite, as it doesn't generate a number I can reference. What I'm
> thinking of is something that does what \nomarkfootnote does in the
> following example:
>
> A sentence\footno
I have a number of concerns about wording of the ConTeXt license (as given
in the readme file), which I'd like to bring up. In virtually all cases,
my concern is simply that the actual wording of the license does not appear
to be sufficient to provide the permissions that it intends to -- that
At 02:40 AM 9/4/2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
5.) In LaTeX, there's a means to place a footnote (and generate a number
and reference for the footnote) without typesetting the number in the
text, in order to handle cases where the "real" footnote mechanism break
In playing with footnotes on the Wiki, I've come across a number of bugs,
as well as the questions I mentioned earlier.
Consider the following example text:
\setupfootnotes[n=3]
\starttext
\strut\vfill % A hack to shorten the page, for Wiki use.
This\footnote[footA](Or that\footnote{
Replying to myself (sorry); I discovered the answer to one of these
questions already.
At 01:39 PM 9/3/2005, I wrote:
6. When I reference a footnote's number using \note[ref], I get the number
typeset as a superscript. This looks a little odd to me in sentences such
as "See footnote \note[ref
The Wiki page on TABLE contains the following example:
\setupTABLE[r][each][height=1cm]
\setupTABLE[c][each][width=1cm]
\setupTABLE[r][1][height=0cm,frame=off]
\bTABLE
\bTR \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \eTR
\bTR \bTD[nc=2,nr=2] r1c1 \eTD \bTD r1c3 \eTD \bTD[nr=
I've been updating the Footnotes page on the Wiki, and have a few questions
as a result:
1.) Footnotes in footnotes in footnotes. Are these possible? When I do
something like \footnote{A note\footnote{With a note\footnote{With a third
footnote.}.}.}, only the first two notes are included in
At 10:03 PM 9/2/2005, David Arnold wrote:
We got the note below from our college president today. What does anyone
know about making context and pdf accessible to student with vision problems?
I don't know that much offhand. However, with web pages, one of the
simpler ways of testing compatib
At 06:20 AM 9/1/2005, John R. Culleton wrote:
Looking to the future, if I see a post with "errata" in the subject
line I can inspect it and mark up my manual. At that point I
don't need the particular post any more.
If instead we are to use the wiki, then someone (not me) needs to
explain the in
At 06:04 AM 8/29/2005, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
* A read-only CVS containing as many of the old ConTeXt releases as
we can find, for reference and regression checks.
subversion -)
i'll set that up as soon as possible and taco can mirror that (interesting
At 05:57 AM 8/22/2005, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think like this:
\defineconversion[starred][*]
\setupfootnotes[conversion=starred]
Untested, but should work
It doesn't quite work.
If you give a single argument to \defineconversion, it expects the
conversion to
At 04:58 AM 8/22/2005, you wrote:
Thanks for your reaction. My original proposal was:
\startitemize
\beginblockA
\item Apple
\endblockA
\beginblockB
\item Pomme
\endBlockB
\beginblockA
\item Pear
\endblockA
\beginblockB
\item Poire
\endBlockB
\stopitemize
This do
At 12:33 AM 8/15/2005, Hans Hagen wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
[...]
\starttext
\tfc
The variables are $u$ and $p$.
\stoptext
This causes the math to be in roman instead of italic. (It's not in
"text font" per se; an \it after the \tfc will italicise the text bu
Consider the following simple document, with is a minimalist version of the
slides that I'm currently working on:
\starttext
The variables are $u$ and $p$.
\stoptext
This works fine; the text is in roman and the math in italics, just as I
desire. However, I need a larger font for my sli
At 12:31 AM 7/7/2005, Frank Grieshaber wrote:
Hello all (esp. the ConTeXt-Developers),
some time ago I sent the following email to this list and got no reply so
I'm resending it.
Dear all,
I have a manuscript with long nested numbered enumerations and I want the
numbers of all levels to be pr
At 06:25 AM 8/3/2005, Wolfgang Zillig wrote:
Hello Brooks,
nice presentation! With which software do you produce your graphics?
Thanks!
I used TecPlot for those, since our department has a site
license. (Unfortunately, it seems to be one of the sorts of software that
is difficult to purcha
At 12:09 AM 8/3/2005, Jessica Holle wrote:
I've searching for a dokumentation how to build a presentation, like
in Powerpoint but better :-) with ConTeXt.
I haven't found somethink in the PDF's on the Pragma page and on the
Wiki.
Only the Raw Steps module, which I doesn't understand.
Has somebody
At 01:47 PM 7/31/2005, Tobias Wolf wrote:
Hey,
what do you people actually think about E. Tufte's Sparklines?
They are a great and innovative thing in my mind; both in the
information mediating and the typographic sense.
There's a bare-bones LaTeX package on CTAN, but when I think about it,
this
At 01:25 PM 7/31/2005, Hans Hagen wrote:
\let\normalsqrt\sqrt % \dohandlemathtoken {sqrt}
\def\sqrt{\doifnextcharelse[\notsosqrt\normalsqrt}
\def\notsosqrt[#1]{\root#1\of}
$\sqrt[3]{10}$
Do you want this in the kernel?
I'd like to have it there, yes. Thanks!
- Brooks
_
While I'm thinking about it, here are a couple more things from LaTeX's
math stuff that might be useful to include in m-newmat:
The \stackrel command is listed as "a disguise for plain TeX's \buildrel",
much like \frac is a "disguise" for \over:
\def\stackrel#1#2{\mathrel{\mathop{#2}\limits
LaTeX offers the following way to write a cube root: $\sqrt[3]{x}$. Is
there a way to do this in ConTeXt other than the TeX way of $\root 3\of x$?
Also, Hans, if there isn't a direct way to do this, the following code is
pretty much how LaTeX implements it, with an extra line at the top to mak
At 01:25 AM 7/27/2005, you wrote:
Attached is pdfr-ec.tex. I don't really understand what is going on,
so the texnansi version is out of my reach. Also, I cannot/will not
test because AR7 has no problem with ffi anyway.
I'm perfectly glad to test this, but I'm not at all sure how to use
it. W
(This came up on comp.text.tex in a question about LaTeX, but it also
applies to ConTeXt, and the proposed solution for LaTeX doesn't apply.)
Consider the following document:
\starttext
Some ligature tests: ff, fi, ffi, fl, ffl.
\stoptext
If I process that with texexex -pdf, load it into
Oh, one more thing
At 05:29 PM 7/26/2005, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I'm looking forward to what my LaTeX colleagues will say about that
when I present them ConTeXt and the tricks like that :)
After you've had your fun with them, you can give them the
slovenianletters.sty file (and the associa
I just noticed that when I compile ConTeXt files with texexec -pdf, my copy
of Acrobat 5 complains about "the PDF version of this file is too new for
this viewer", but when I compile LaTeX files with pdflatex, I don't get
that complaint.
Is there some way to set ConTeXt and texexec to create P
At 05:29 PM 7/26/2005, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
> Ok; I've updated the versions on my website to include the other two extra
> characters as well.
>
>http://dpdx.net/context/slovenian/
>
> Does the test file look like it does all of the enumerations c
At 04:35 PM 7/26/2005, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
So, anyhow, I wrote up a short third-party module to handle Slovenian
character enumeration (can I presume that the rest of the alphabet
ordering is the same as English?),
Ordering is the same, but in English some very strange
At 02:01 PM 7/26/2005, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello Hans, Today I saw a webpage of someone, who is very active in the
field of translation and localisation of free software into Slovenian. It
astonished me the way he numered the items on his webpage: (a)
approximation ... (b) Gauss ... (c) numer
At 02:01 PM 7/26/2005, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello Hans, Today I saw a webpage of someone, who is very active in the
field of translation and localisation of free software into Slovenian. It
astonished me the way he numered the items on his webpage: (a)
approximation ... (b) Gauss ... (c) numer
At 04:28 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
I'd particularly appreciate any comments on the \newcommand and counters
implementations -- those are in the t-ltcmds and t-ltcnts modules, though
\newcommand also depends on t-lterrs and t-ltbase.
i just took a quick look at the cod
I've recently been doing a little work on implementing a few LaTeX kernel
bits in ConTeXt, to simplify porting LaTeX code over. It's now at a point
where a few of the pieces might actually be useful, and certainly to a
point where some comments would be welcomed, so I've put up a version of it
At 01:40 PM 7/19/2005, you wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
The other alternative I know of for doing math in XML is embedding bits
of LaTeX code within the XML. Since most "conversion to non-PDF formats"
involves converting the math to bitmap images anyway (or, at least, any
conversi
At 09:18 AM 7/19/2005, Elena Fraboschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, I have been delving into ConTeXt, and I like its syntax: far
"cleaner" than LaTeX. I have also read that there is work in progress
to convert XML to ConTeXt --- my question is, any thoughts, hints,
recommendations about reve
At 09:18 AM 7/18/2005, you wrote:
Am 2005-07-18 um 00:36 schrieb Hans Hagen:
\showcharacters
\showaccents
BTW I finally created the wiki page "Visual Debugging" for all
the \show... commands; I guess there are even more than I listed
there, and some descriptions are still missing (had no tim
At 12:21 PM 7/17/2005, Radhelorn wrote:
Christopher Creutzig wrote:
I believe in ConTeXt you'd usually(?) use \start and \stop instead of
\bgroup and \egroup, though. What do the experts say about this?
I've seen \start \stop pairs in some examples, but there are so many of
them in sources
At 11:16 PM 7/16/2005, you wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
After scratching my head over "no macros found in module mymodule", I
decided to try replacing the line with "\input{t-mymodule}".
This produced the very cryptic result of a "I can't find the file
Just now, I was trying to figure out how to write a module that ConTeXt
would load. Should be simple, right? I wrote a file called
"t-mymodule.tex", put it in a directory next to a test file that had the
line "\usemodule[mymodule]", and tried processing it.
After scratching my head over "no
At 12:44 PM 7/13/2005, Hans Hagen wrote:
\setupcolors[state=start]
\definecolor [luigi] [r=1,t=.5,a=1]
\definecolor [scarso] [b=1,t=.5,a=1]
\starttext
\startTEXpage
\blackrule[width=2cm,height=2cm,color=luigi]\hskip-1cm
\blackrule[width=2cm,height=2cm,color=scarso]
\stopTEXpage
\stoptext
si
I'm working on doing my own math alignment routines. After a lot of poking
about in core-mat.tex, I came to the conclusion that \startinnermath and
\stopinnermath were probably the things to modify, and the "most polite"
way to do that was by defining my own alignment name. So, the following
I was recently going through the core-mat.tex file (the one from teTeX
3.0.whatever-it-is) and trying out some of the examples given in the
comments, and came across an odd little bug. Consider the following:
\tracemathtrue
\setupformulas[align=middle]
\placeformula \startformula \fakefo
I'm working on a presentation in ConTeXt, and running into a problem with
some figures; I can't seem to figure out how to get things to do what I
want. Here's a small file that demonstrates the problem:
-
\setupoutput[pdftex]
\starttext
\tfd \setupinterlinespace
At 07:10 AM 5/18/2005, you wrote:
Maurice Diamantini wrote:
But this is much work for somebody who is more interested by the content
of its document than by the envelope.
So this thing (context template) will take much time in collaborating.
What kind of stuff do we need for, say, an "article" LaTe
At 11:53 AM 9/29/2004, you wrote:
I need to typeset a few (simple) diagrams in ConTeXt,
like the ones mathematicians use, with arrows. In LaTeX, one can use
pictex or DCpic. The latter claims also to work with ConTeXt, but I
couldn't find an example. Has anybody managed to do something like this?
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:21:29PM +0200, Floris van Manen wrote:
> >> I'm going to 'finish' the metafun manual, so if you have topics that
> >> need to be covered ...
If you'd like volunteers to proofread the finished version, I'd be glad
to help with that.
My main request is the addition of an
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:48:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't have any experience in metapost. I would appreciate if someone would
> please answer this question without me having to do thru tutorials and
> metapost source code.
>
> I was wondering how does metapost talk to TeX? Qu
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 06:18:31PM +0200, Floris van Manen wrote:
> how would i define a frame with the typing environment embedded.
>
> the way i thought to solve it does *not* work (of course)
>
> \def\startTTinput%
> {\startframedtext[width=\makeupwidth,background=screen,backgroundscreen=.8]
>
At 04:32 AM 8/13/2004, you wrote:
...it is not that I am inpatient - it's curiosity:
Does really nobody knows the answer to my question,
or is it just that it's too trivial to answer?!
I was busy with other things, and hadn't had a chance to answer.
There is no such thing as a question too trivial
At 11:48 AM 8/10/2004, Hans Hagen wrote:
or:
\starttext
\defineframedtext
[myframed]
[background=color,
backgroundcolor=gray,
frame=on,
strut=yes,
offset=2mm,
width=broad,
framecolor=black,
align=right]
\definetyping[mytyping]
\setuptyping
[before=\startmyframed,
after=\stopmyfra
At 11:00 AM 8/10/2004, you wrote:
Am 10.08.2004 um 19:30 schrieb Brooks Moses:
In the document I'm working on, I'd like to put some typed code bits in
frames, to get an appearance sort of like the code excerpts on the
ConTeXtWiki. However, I've found myself needing to do a c
I'm doing a document which has a large logo in the upper right corner of
the page. The logo (which is on a background layer) intrudes into the text
area by a small amount, and so it would be nice to have the text wrap
around it rather than having to do the wrapping by manual spacers and
line-b
In the document I'm working on, I'd like to put some typed code bits in
frames, to get an appearance sort of like the code excerpts on the
ConTeXtWiki. However, I've found myself needing to do a couple of rather
ugly hacks to get that to work right, and I'm hoping for some suggestions
on how t
At 10:25 AM 8/8/2004, you wrote:
* I'm going to add some multi-lingual support to m-bib. My idea is, to
replace in cont-XX.bst and bibl-XXX.tex "page" by "\pagename", "and" by
"\andname" and so on. Is this method ok? If not, how should I do it (not
too complicated please ;) ?
One problem with
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:51:13AM +0200, Hans Hagen Outside wrote:
> so ... not you can write a myway about it -)
I seem to have lost my link to the existing MyWays, if I ever had
one. Where can I find them?
Thanks,
- Brooks
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On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:14:29AM +0200, Hans Hagen Outside wrote:
> Brooks Moses wrote:
> > That fixes the problem on my end; thanks!
> >
> > Will you be updating the defintions of \tfrac, \dfrac, and so forth in
> > m-newmat to match? I admit to not being too sure
At 01:40 PM 8/2/2004, you wrote:
ah ... the alignment lookahead problem, i think we can safely patch
\mathematics to catch lookahead as well as make frac more robust for
unwanted expansion
\usemodule[newmat]
\unexpanded\def\frac#1#2{\mathematics{\genfrac{}{}{}\donothing{#1}{#2}}}
\def\mathematic
Giuseppe and ConTeXt list members -
Having figured out how to use \grabuntil (see my previous messages to this
list), I've realized that it's really an inconvenient solution in some
cases, because it's searching for a literal bit of text rather than an end
to the appropriate grouping level. (Ap
To answer my own question:
At 10:39 PM 8/1/2004, I wrote:
There's a nice little problem that arises in LaTeX, of wanting to write a
bit of code like the following, to define an environment that passes the
contents of the environment to a command as an argument:
\newcommand{\foo}[1]{...}
\new
The following simple file works fine if I comment out the
\usemodule[newmat] line, but crashes if I put it in.
\usemodule[newmat]
\starttext
\placeformula
\startformula
\eqalign{\frac{1}{2} \cr}
\stopformula
\stoptext
- Brooks
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At 01:37 AM 8/2/2004, you wrote:
> Anyhow, I'm finding myself wanting to do this in ConTeXt, with of
> course replacing \newenvironment with \definestartstop.
I didn't want to fiddle with \definestartstop, but here is a quick
hack:
--
\long\def\foo#1{
There's a nice little problem that arises in LaTeX, of wanting to write a
bit of code like the following, to define an environment that passes the
contents of the environment to a command as an argument:
\newcommand{\foo}[1]{...}
\newenvironment{fooenv}{%
\foo\bgroup
}{%
\egroup
In my efforts to learn ConTeXt, I'm continually getting stuck by a lack of
having complete documentation. For example, consider the \definestartstop
command, which I was recently looking at.
* In the cont-enp.pdf manual, it's not mentioned.
* In the mp-cp-en.pdf manual, there's an example of it
At 12:56 AM 7/31/2004, you wrote:
If I google for pdfTeX homepage, then I get the following link:
http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
However, this must not be the official homepage as it seems to not have been
updated in a long time and also does not mention anything about the available
1.20 v
At 04:42 AM 7/27/2004, you wrote:
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:31:24PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote:
[things I need to translate from LaTeX to ConTeXt]
> \renewcommand{\vec}[1]{{\boldsymbol{#1}}}
> \renewcommand{\hatn}{\hat{\vec{n}}}
> \newcommand{\filter}[1]{\overline{#1}}
You can us
At 11:15 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote:
> - Also, I don't know whether it is possible to downsample images in
> PDF's that you generate from ConTeXt. If it is, avoid it.
That raises an important question: if downsampling is done, is it
obvious
First, by way of introduction: I've been using LaTeX for about five years
now, but am quite new to ConTeXt. I'm a grad student in mechanical
engineering, so my primary uses of ConTeXt in the near future are likely to
be for my thesis and associated presentations, all of which will likely
have
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