Re: [NTG-context] BUG: % is comment in btx fields

2017-05-08 23:44 GMT+02:00 Henri Menke : > The percent character in btx field is taken as a comment characters > which leads to the rest of the field being discarded. In the MWE > below, the URL is cut off at the % sign and everything after it is > lost. See also

Re: [NTG-context] 10th ConTeXt meeting update

2016-07-11 12:02 GMT+02:00 Taco Hoekwater : > To make it up to you, we will allow an extra few days of early bird > registration. All registrations done during the current week will still be > considered ‘early’, as long as the bank transfer happens at the same time. > The new

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Richard Stallmann Receiving the 2015 ACM Software System Award

2016-04-27 19:10 GMT+02:00 luigi scarso : > http://awards.acm.org/press_releases/technical-awards-2015.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#History I'm not sure if RMS' role in GCC has been beneficial in say the last two decades Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [dante-ev] Kooperation mit der PDF Association

2016-04-21 19:24 GMT+02:00 Hans Hagen : > I suppose that Dante, the largest tex user group being around, being a > member of that group means that the rest of the user groups can save > themselves the trouble and money ... for the few users who need that kind of Also the PDFA is

Re: [NTG-context] two issues with interactive hyperlinks (please comment)

2016-02-22 21:40 GMT+01:00 Alan BRASLAU : > This makes me think: Is there some "standard" way for a PDF to contain > both versions? Adobe introduced something called "portfolios" in PDF 1.7 or later, but I doubt that they work with non-Adobe viewers. Best Martin

[NTG-context] Fwd: [dante-ev] FYI: Hermann Zapf

-- Forwarded message -- From: Juergen Fenn jf...@gmx.net Date: 2015-06-06 0:44 GMT+02:00 Subject: [dante-ev] FYI: Hermann Zapf To: \Diskussionsliste von DANTE e.V. für Mitglieder Diskussionsliste\ dante...@dante.de -- Forwarded message -- From: b...@ams.org Date:

Re: [NTG-context] drops module release

2014-12-08 13:24 GMT+01:00 Peter Rolf indi...@gmx.net: finally(!?) the release of the drops module for ConTeXt. Which does what? Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Reflections on usability ConTeXt for typesetting of mathematics

2014-02-11 10:18 GMT+01:00 Fabrice Couvreur fabrice1.couvr...@gmail.com: Unless I am mistaken, Cambria is a font available for Windows. I'm using Linux, is it possible to install ? Is it free ? If yes, where can I download it ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria_(typeface)#Availability

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Transparency and ConTeXt

2013/9/29 Thangalin thanga...@gmail.com: I ran into what I think is a similar issue with LaTeX and was able to resolve it using the following command in the preamble: \pdfpageattr{/Group /S /Transparency /I true /CS /DeviceRGB} This should be done automagically in pdfTeX (at least it once

Re: [NTG-context] authoring for web and print - suggestions

2013/5/11 Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at: Does anyone have experience with authoring for web and print. I.e., we want to maintain only one format and generate both web pages and printed documentation from it. Is there intrinsic or through addons support in ConteXt for this? Consider

Re: [NTG-context] Enable comments/highlighting in the output PDF

2013/1/22 Devendra Ghate devendra.gh...@gmail.com: I would like to create an output PDF file on which comments can be added by a reader for feedback. Use Adobe Acrobat and add that option to the PDF. Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013/1/10 Keith J. Schultz keithjschu...@web.de: I am kind of confused about the relationship between luatex and ConTeXt. http://www.tug.org/levels.html ConTeXt MkIV needs LuaTeX. Best Martin ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Was: Opening external documents ... - Can ConTeXt reduce size of images?

2013/1/8 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: it's even worse ... all kind of color and other data is present is such a file .. the pstopdf.rb script (comes with mkii) gets rid of some of that We could reduce some of that during pdf inclusion (or use the new build-in pdf library). Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Including movies in pdf files

2012/12/3 Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net: FWIW, Adobe Acrobat Reader 11.0 installs and runs on Xubuntu 12.04 i386 (at least the normal functions run, haven't tried any of the oddball stuff). And where do you get that? It's not listed at

Re: [NTG-context] Updating texlive?

2012/11/27 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: What exactly do you mean with a canonical way? The most reliable way How about delivering a new version through tlcontrib? Best Martin ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] error when using externalfigure

2012/11/26 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: It has 240x160 pixels and 1ppi, so it's 6,096 meters x 4,06400meters I doubt that 1ppi is intended. :-) Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] Images in MultiMarkdown - context - PDF

2012/11/21 Guy Stalnaker jstal...@wisc.edu: I get a very good pdf document, but there is one bewildering issue -- the images in the ConTeXt output pdf document are scaled very small. All of Sounds like the TeX engine gets the wrong idea about the dpi of the images. Are you using MkII or MkIV?

Re: [NTG-context] How to display source in ConTeXt?

2012/11/13 yang.zhao hckjs...@gmail.com: Thank you, it works. PLEASE switch of Comic Sans! http://bancomicsans.com/ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] How to display source in ConTeXt?

2012/11/13 Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de: 2012/11/13 yang.zhao hckjs...@gmail.com: Thank you, it works. PLEASE switch of Comic Sans! http://bancomicsans.com/ Apologies: I forgot a :-) Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and large-paged pdfs

2012/11/8 Taco Hoekwater t...@bittext.nl: Actually, this is a bug report. If you try to include a pdf with a large page size: large being (\maxdimen / 2.8) ? Best Martin PS: What would break if we extended dimens to 64/63 bit in LuaTeX?

Re: [NTG-context] TeX expansion within lua

2012/9/4 Marco Patzer home...@lavabit.com: I am just interested in a text string, not a box with typeset material. I guess that's more difficult, since macros are expanded and not just simply read. http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=682 Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Is it posslible to use remotely loaded image in PDF?

2012/8/29 Rostislav Wolný rostislav.wo...@twobits.cz: I'm just wondering if it is possible to create PDF document which contains image (link to image) which is downloaded from the Internet and displayed at the moment when PDF is opened? No. You can use External Objects (PDF Ref 8.8), but that

Re: [NTG-context] [OT]...I'm sorry for the others, really.

2012/6/19 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/knuth Thanks. And I envy you. And be gentle to Don: He was in SF on Friday/Saturday: http://turing100.acm.org Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012/5/6 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: (btw, I always wonder if the gpl restrictions also apply to the makers too ... i.e. if I extend context for a project should I then also make those extensions public ... quite a hassle if that would be true.) The copyright holders are free to use any license.

Re: [NTG-context] Non-Printing PDFs with ConTeXt

2012/5/4 Malte Stien ma...@stien.de: Is there a way I can get ConTeXt to produce PDFs that are not-printable? You want DRM. ConTeXt as such does not offer that; tools for DRM and PDF exist. Best Martin ___ If

Re: [NTG-context] Rendering differences between PDF viewers

2012/4/18 Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com: I stuck it in my environment file. I wonder if there is a safer way of doing this than via inline asm, so to speak. Also, maybe for my benefit, and anybody else having the same problem, you might be able to explain what was happening? Adobe Reader

[NTG-context] Fwd: [tldev] tlmgr multi repository support

-- Forwarded message -- From: Norbert Preining prein...@logic.at Date: 2012/4/18 Subject: [tldev] tlmgr multi repository support To: tl...@tug.org Dear all, with today's update tlmgr multi repository support has entered into the tlcritical repository and the main svn branch. We

Re: [NTG-context] Rendering differences between PDF viewers

2012/4/18 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote: Adobe Reader needs a special object in the page for it to handle included pdfs or pngs with transparency correctly on the first page (search for pdftex and page groups

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt User Meeting / EuroTeX 2012?

2012/4/13 Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi: Are the dates and the place correct and so settled that I can rely on them while planning the autumn program (both work and otherwise)? And whom should I contact about the conference program and such things? I've got a few suggestions for them... I

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Digital Signatures

2012/3/20 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: If qpdf exists it is probably not a legal issue to do password protection then. Of course. But from the same perspective ... one first needs PDF to be (almost) finished before being able to sign it. One needs to read as-good-as the

[NTG-context] CaLi2CoPi

FYI: On the ghostscript-devel list I came accross this announcement. Don't be frightened by the language: Google can translate catalan. :-) Best Martin -- Forwarded message -- From: Marc Antoni Malagarriga i Picas marcant...@femfum.com Date: 2012/3/1 Subject: Re: [gs-devel]

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012/3/1 William Adams will.ad...@frycomm.com: Unfortunately, there aren't many hooks in InDesign (and none I'm aware of in Quark) to activate scripts automatically, so that a document will build itself --- one which is pretty cool is Dirk Becker's auto-indexing script which will run a

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012/2/29 William Adams will.ad...@frycomm.com: I wrote up a longer comparison once upon a time --- Scribus isn't that much different from InDesign and Quark, so the criticism holds: wikify please! Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Font embedding

2012/2/28 Honza Hejzl honza.he...@gmail.com: satisfy 99 % of modern printing offices. Embedding of all fonts is very typical demand of them. I really need it, sometimes it is not good or Check the yellow pages for a printing house that does not demand that. :-) Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Font embedding

2012/2/28 Honza Hejzl honza.he...@gmail.com: PDF file must be version 1.3 Yellow pages. Now. Choose one that can handle PDF/X-4. PDF 1.4 was released in 2001. If they need 1.3, their software is probably a decade old. Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Any (other) ConTeXt users in Finland?

2011/10/3 Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi: other users as well as the developers, I'm wondering if there are any other ConTeXt users in Finland? And if so, would you be interested in I just checked the nordic TUGS: - Nordic TeX (http://folk.uio.no/dag/ntug/) seems to be long dead - Danish TUG

Re: [NTG-context] new look for wiki

2011/9/27 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: Nice work, thank you very much Siep. Indeed. But where is the option for it to use the full width of my browser window? Best Martin ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] new look for wiki

2011/9/27 Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de: Indeed. But where is the option for it to use the full width of my browser window? Found it, sorry for the noise. Just login and choose a different skin. :-) Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Apple Emoji (was: Smileys)

2011/8/18 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: If you need to quickly find a picture of women with bunny ears for party invitation for example ... http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f46f/index.htm ? :-) http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f5fe/index.htm %-} Was

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011/8/15 Florian Wobbe florian.wo...@awi.de: Have you ever googled for something context related? You end up mostly with false positives because context can appear just in any context. They even have their own conference: http://context-11.teco.edu :-) Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011/8/15 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: Believe me, I've looked at just about every option out there :-) I believe you. And I think the editor is a typical bikeshed. :-) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality I applaud your

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt - LaTeXt - ODT?

2011/7/19 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: was possible to convert ConTeXt to LaTeXt and LaTeXt to an ODT file. This LaTeX - ODT: tex4ht Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt - LaTeXt - ODT?

2011/7/19 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: If you can throw away any formatting you did and if you didn't use too many ConTeXt specific tricks, you can simply rewrite your code to LaTeX with a few regular expressions etc. But in the same spirit it might be way easier to just

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt to Markdown (was Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional)

2011/7/19 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: When you find them, I would be interested in them. And maybe I can improve on them. Pandoc. :-) Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011/7/14 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: I can install them without problems? There is no restricting copyright on them? Yes. No. Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional

2011/7/14 John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com: Pandoc, so I'm not familiar with Context's xhtml capacities. MkIV can create XML. :-) Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] Links

2011/7/12 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: Sure, you have to be a ntg member in order to read the latest two issues. So being a member has some benefits (and also helps tex continue to exist). I got the paper. How can I access the pdf now? Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Fifth ConTeXt meeting, September 2011, France

2011/7/5 Alan Braslau alan.bras...@cea.fr: 11km from the train station to the ferry. Is there a bus? And from the airport? Air France will gladly sell you flights by TGV for Paris - Toulon. :-) Best Martin ___

Re: [NTG-context] How to override the print resolution

2011/7/4 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: pdfTeX supports that with    image_resolution 300 in pdftex.cfg for example (but maybe only if resolution is not defined). Yes. It's only used if the image specifies none or it has a crazy value. Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Fifth ConTeXt meeting, September 2011, France

2010/10/3 Arthur Reutenauer arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org:  I hereby announce the next ConTeXt meeting, that will take place on the island of Porquerolles off the coast of the French Riviera, from Monday, September 19th, 2011, to Saturday, September 24th.  The conference venue has been

Re: [NTG-context] Scaling down the resolution of used pictures

2011/6/29 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: I do not use graphics a lot in my ConTeXt files. But some time ago I used several pictures with a very high resolution. This made the resulting PDF very big. I did not expect the PDF printed on a printer with a higher resolution as 1200 DPI. Is

Re: [NTG-context] Text Background

2011/6/23 H. Hodges freelancer.hod...@gmail.com: I don't know what minimals means. I've tried both of the commands you listed http://lmgtfy.com/?q=context+minimalsl=1 Best Martin ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] compresslevel and png graphics (mkiv)

2011/5/25 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: Normally I convert such images to pdf first (using acrobat or gs) simply because inclusion of pdf is much faster. - podofoimg2pdf --help Usage: podofoimg2pdf [output.pdf] [-useimgsize] [image1 image2 image3 ...] Options: -useimgsizeUse the

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Street-Fighting Mathematics

2011/5/22 Pontus Lurcock p...@talvi.net: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Street-Fighting_Mathematics.pdf - the /ArtBox is an inch too high - for linearizing you can also use qpdf Best Martin ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Javascript PC Emulator - Technical Notes

2011/5/17 Patrick Gundlach patr...@gundla.ch: so it's only a matter of time when TeX runs in the browser. I don't know how/if it is possible to access local files, but that should be doable (dropbox,...) s/run/crawls/ This emulates a pc with 20 bogomips and 30MB RAM. It's probably slower

Re: [NTG-context] lm otf math

2011/5/13 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: The next beta will deal with Schröder math input encoding: :-))) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] lm otf math

2011/5/12 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: \starttext    $e=mc^2$ Shouldn't that be something like e=mc²? Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] Wiki discussion: Fwd: Ctx wiki

2011/4/1 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. l...@pontex.cz: - Why there is %5C in the links above? Any way how to avoid this? Most likely because \ is technically not a valid character in URLs (I didn't check the RFC) and so is hex encoded as %5C. Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Using forms and saving values

2011/4/5 Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr: Why mkvi and not mkv ? Maybe Hans doesn't like Ritchie Blackmore :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Deep_Purple_band_members Best Martin ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011/3/14 Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: The hard part is figuring out the values (font size, spaces after sections, etc) from the LaTeX code. It is difficult to look at http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.cls and figure out what is the title size for a 10pt

Re: [NTG-context] tex-live and MkIV

2011/3/9 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: just install the minimals ... luatex/mkiv is a moving target and we don't bother about versions that old And there's tlcontrib... Best Martin ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011/3/2 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: I really like the particular answer pointing to bugroff licence:    http://www.reocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5947/bugroff.html It's a nice joke, but for practical purposes a one-clause BSD license allows the same freedoms, but is legally clear.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011/3/2 Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org: I was about to say that, though I'm pro strong copyleft (AKA GPL when fits) myself, though I highly doubt, for practical reasons ;), that any one can take a BSD licensed ConTeXt and make a closed source derivative with any substantial improvement.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt licensing

2011/3/1 Joseph Wright joseph.wri...@morningstar2.co.uk: This question seems to require an 'official' response, as things do seem a little confusing (at least to me). I'm happy to post something as a You won't get a more official response than

Re: [NTG-context] using ConTeXt/LuaTeX instead of a spreadsheet program

2011/2/16 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: I would put them in a lua table and access them when needed (you can load that table from an external file) Which precision do we have in luatex? Single or double? Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] qpdf broken with beta since 2001/02/08

2011/2/10 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: best is to make two pdf files that are as small as possible and send them off-list to Luigi and me so that we can look into them. And me, please. The qpdf author is very helpfull, though. :-) Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] platform/architecture (was: new beta)

2011/1/27 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: luatex running on 64-bit Mas OS X for example). Somebody would have to write some simple code to check for that though. Somebody, anybody, nobody... ,-) ___

Re: [NTG-context] Translating PDF-files

2011/1/19 Cecil Westerhof cldwester...@gmail.com: Someone asked me how to convert a PDF to XML and back. The reasons is that he has a PDF in English, but he likes to have it also in Russian. His idea It will be _much_ easier to get the original english sources and translate _them_ (and create a

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Public Fonts for Minority Languages of Russia

2011/1/8 Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org: On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 07:25:42AM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: qpdf is MUCH better... I take your word on this, but out of curiosity, better in what sense? pdfopt is ghostscript, that is the pdf is fed into a PostScript RIP, which spits out

Re: [NTG-context] luatex.org down?

2011/1/9 Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de: i get no response at the moment (Sun Jan  9 00:56:38 CET 2011) for luatex.org and its subdomain http://tracker.luatex.org/ It's just you: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.luatex.org http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/tracker.luatex.org

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Public Fonts for Minority Languages of Russia

2011/1/6 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: \usemodule[fnt-31] And what magic generates the linearized pdf? Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Public Fonts for Minority Languages of Russia

2011/1/5 Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org: On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:35:46PM +0100, luigi scarso wrote: Fast Web View : Yes How did you done with mkiv ? pdfopt from GS? qpdf is MUCH better... Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Public Fonts for Minority Languages of Russia

2011/1/6 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: http://texnik.dante.de/misc/PTSerif.pdf seems to be done with context directly, without postprocessing with ghostscript luatex can not generate linearized pdf directly. Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Selecting pdf version

2011/1/2 Jean-Philippe Rey jean-philippe@ecp.fr: I am using the university printshop.  I asked them to upgrade their system.   They answered that it was too costly whereas pdf versions 1.5 and further add only interactive features and don't bring any improvement for printing documents.

Re: [NTG-context] contextgarden down?

2010/12/30 Jan-Erik Hägglöf janerik.hagg...@bredband.net: Is contextgarden down, cannot access it for some reason? http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.contextgarden.net Best Martin ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt beta in MikTeX

2010/12/23 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: from what I understand WinEdt kind-of-works with Unicode (as long as all the characters belong to a single codepade, it is able to save and read the file as UTF-8). It's 2010, not 1995. Forget about editors that don't do Unicode.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt beta in MikTeX

2010/12/22 barndog1...@gmail.com: et voila you now have Context latest beta running under MikTeX via Winedt! Why do you use Winedt with ConTeXt? Winedt is shareware and doesn't really do Unicode. Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Compatibility problem Ctx TeXlive2010 x ctx minimals or error in code??

2010/12/20 Jaroslav Hajtmar hajt...@gyza.cz: I'm looking the reason of non-functioning my context module in the context TeXlive 2010. If your are using ConTeXt with TL2010, you should use tlcontrib. Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010/12/17 Vedran Miletić riva...@gmail.com: How high is the limit now? Just curious, since I saw LuaTeX building _a paragraph_ lasting few hundred pages without problems (on the other hand, pdfTeX couldn't do it). Which limit? For the simple knuth case most likely the size of your harddisk is

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010/12/17 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com: pdf due to its internal limits (luatex will happily create 10GB pdfs). The code allows ca. 1TB; that should be enough for everyone (I hope I don't live to see the day that it isn't :). Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010/12/17 Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr: Which readers: do you refer to computer programs or to humans? Programs. You'll hit implementation limits in Adobe Reader. Best Martin ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] why lua?

2010/12/17 Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de: Why do we use lua and not python or perl or... Where can i find the features for lua for this job? RTFAQ: http://www.luatex.org/faq.html HTH. HAND. ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] Saveable PDF-Files for Adobe Reader

2010/12/8 Daniel Grycman daniel.gryc...@rub.de: how can I create saveable PDF-Files with ConTeXt for Adobe Reader? You can not (if you mean adding comments or saving form fields). Please complain to Adobe about this. Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Master document

2010/11/24 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: What is a master document? I assume he means a document \including other files, which contain parts of the whole work. In LaTeX these parts can be compiled independently using \includeonly, while still maintaining the overall references and page numbers.

Re: [NTG-context] context ltcontrib luatex

2010/11/17, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com: At a guess: you probably need to do a manual $ mtxrun --generate that should fix it. It didn't. Meanwhile, there is a new context at texlive itself, and as a result the one on tlcontrib is currently out of date. That situation should be

[NTG-context] context ltcontrib luatex

Hi, it seems the recent context from TL doesn't work with the latest luatex from TLcontrib: -- tlmgr update --all cannot contact mirror.ctan.org, returning a backbone server! tlmgr: package repository http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet tlmgr: saving backups

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010/11/17, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 16-11-2010 9:41, Peter Münster wrote: Layers or overlays are certainly the right method. But there is also the \position macro: So that is still used? (If so, I should look into optimizing and cleanup as it's real old code). Seems like a feature

Re: [NTG-context] Separate layout and content XML files?

2010/11/12 Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com: Is that clear? It's called database publishing. :-) Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] A pdf-file per XML-node

2010/11/10 Daniel Grycman daniel.gryc...@rub.de: For every worker a separate pdf is needed. It would be also nice to have the name-entry as a file-name. Any ideas? We would have to extend luatex to allow the generation of multiple pdf files from one source document. Not trivial, but quite

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] xkcd Knuth

2010/11/8 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: http://www.xkcd.com/816/ Nice. :-) But Don doesn't write checks in US$ anymore. :-) Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

Re: [NTG-context] greek letters in itemize

2010/10/31 Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org: LM has upper case Greek, no idea why not lower case as well. I still find the idea of greek letters in a font called latin interesting... :-) Best Martin ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] NTG Meeting October 27, 2010

2010/10/28 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 28-10-2010 2:17, luigi scarso wrote: Frans G decided never to print again. And Hans Taco startet a Print-On-Demand shop. :-) Best Martin ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] metafun

2010/10/20 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 14:03, Hans Hagen wrote: Offtopic: I would vote for TikZ manual (if author is still reachable). You mean pgfmanual.pdf? That's free, so it shouldn't be a legal problem. But it's a thick brick... Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Failure to Install minimals on iBook G3

2010/10/19 Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com: allow cross-compilation for Tiger. And the number of Tiger users is not neglegible at all ... Maybe you should ask for donations to get a Tiger PPC build machine for the minimals? Best Martin

Re: [NTG-context] Wanted: ConTeXt: The poster

2010/9/7 Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.net: Am 2010-09-07 um 12:09 schrieb Martin Schröder: for use at a conference booth I'd like to have a poster (A3 up to A0) describing (and of course promoting) ConTeXt. You may assume that the audience already knows (La)TeX. :-) The first use would

Re: [NTG-context] Question for wiki authors

2010/10/8 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com: In doing so, it is not always immediately obvious who is doing what because the 'recent changes' list quite often does not contain a useful summary message. This is understandable, but it would really help if everybody would at least put something

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Mensis

2010/9/11 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com: http://mensis.sourceforge.net/ Interesting. And a perfect example how NOT to structure the home page of an open source program: What's it all about? Well, we have this link here which will tell you everything if you click it, but we don't want to

[NTG-context] Wanted: ConTeXt: The poster

Hi, for use at a conference booth I'd like to have a poster (A3 up to A0) describing (and of course promoting) ConTeXt. You may assume that the audience already knows (La)TeX. :-) The first use would be at OpenRheinRuhr in November. Since most ConTeXt developers will be together next week, could

Re: [NTG-context] questions regarding `\date`

2010/8/31 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com: The Chicago manual (14ed) says that slashed/dotted dates are bad style and should be avoided and that one should use full month names instead. Seconded. And if you have to use a short form, please follow ISO 8601

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2010/8/10 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: \setupbackend  [format=valid pdf/x name,   profile=name.icc,   intent=name.icc,   level=compresslevel, % default 3 Does it correctly handle x-4? That's a lot harder then x-3. Best Martin

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