[NTG-context] Re: Patch to get MetaPost-inclusions to work

2003-03-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dennis Brakhane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, please try \protectbufferstrue \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext and report the result. Patrick (I should put this on a keyboard shortcut :-} ) ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL

[NTG-context] Re: Patch to get MetaPost-inclusions to work

2003-03-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dennis Brakhane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Dennis, Is this a correct patch or am I missing something? did you take into account that one can use the write18 feature to generate the mp stuff on the fly? Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] Re: header/footer suppression

2003-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, [...] now we can define a new page break: \definepagebreak [chapter] [yes,header,right] what is this header keyword? look how much cleaner this looks: \setuphead [chapter] [page=chapter, header=empty, footer=chapter]

[NTG-context] texexec feature request

2003-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Hans, you can say as top line in your doc: % translate=... and texexec wil pick it up it would be nice if one could write this in texexec.ini :) Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: header/footer suppression

2003-03-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Guy Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Guy, I can't get both a blank page inserted whenever a chapter finishes on an odd page and also suppress my header on the first page of a chapter. perhaps this hack will help you? % output=pdftex \starttext \setuphead [chapter]

[NTG-context] Re: Two line head

2003-03-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Nagy Bence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Bence, \define[1]\Sectioncommand{\framed[frame=off,bottomframe=on]{#1}} \define[1]\Sectioncommand{\framed[frame=off,bottomframe=on,align=lohi]{#1}} (puts the material in a vbox) Patrick ___ ntg-context

[NTG-context] funny letters in (type)buffer

2003-03-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Good evening, \enableregime [il1] \starttext \startbuffer funny letters: Ä ü ß \stopbuffer \typebuffer \stoptext gives me in test-test.tmp buffer: funny letters: ^^c4 ^^fc ^^df and this is also typeset like above. Is it possible to get the real letters back without manually editing the

[NTG-context] textbackgrounds

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dear ConTeXt users, i have a question about textbackgrounds. Is there a) something like \setuptextbackground[all][frame=on,...] that sets frame=on for all the textbackgrounds out there? Or better: b) is there any way to inherit parameters? \definetextbackground[A][frame=off]

[NTG-context] Re: A change in textext Metafun maco?

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Michal Kvasnicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Michal, I can't find the reason of the bug. So I send a minimal test file. The problem is, that the frame has title unkonwn, not Example as I expected. Many thanks for your help. Sorry that this won't help you but: it works fine here. teTeX

[NTG-context] Re: A change in textext Metafun maco?

2003-03-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Michal Kvasnicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, \protectbufferstrue Well, this is a solution. What's that? I don't know. It names some of the files differently. It was one of my first prolems with ConTeXt (with the same graph as yours :) Was it set differently in the older ConTeXt, or I'm

[NTG-context] Re: suppressing header on first page of chapter

2003-03-26 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Mark A. Lilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Mark, is there a command to add to the \setuphead to make the chapter and section titles not print on the first page of the chapter (head)? \setuphead[section][header=empty] and of course \noheaderandfooterlines for single

[NTG-context] Re: context + MacOS + accents

2003-03-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Jean-Pierre Le Narzul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Everything seems OK except for inputing accentuated characters ... If I type \'a I got the correct character (accentuated a) but if I type directly the accentuated character from the keyboard, I got no result a wild guess: your

[NTG-context] Re: Context, MacOS, accents

2003-03-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Jean-Pierre Le Narzul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Any idea ? (sorry if it's a Faq but I didn't find any solution in reading the mailing list archive ) this is indeed an faq. This is the second time it was asked within a few hours... ;-) Seriously: have you seen my previous post to

[NTG-context] Re: color band

2003-03-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Idris S Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Idris, I don't get this. My background image comes out at the center of the page; why doesn't the color follow suit? \setupbackgrounds[page][ignored][background={color,backgr},backgroundcolor=blue] should give you a blue page with the backgr

[NTG-context] Re: color band

2003-03-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Idris, I don't know where exactly you want the green-colored rectangular band. Perhaps this one will do what you need: \defineoverlay[helloidris][{\red Hello Idris}] \setupcolors[state=start] \showframe \starttext \setuplayout[top=3cm] \setupbackgrounds[top][text]

[NTG-context] Re: values relative to \textwidth etc.

2003-03-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Matthew Huggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Matthew, Is it possible to specify a value relative to a variable like \textwidth or \pageheight etc. For example, is there a way to get 1/3 of \textwidth? Besides the answer from Willi, I'd like to add that in the specific case of layout

[NTG-context] Re: Mixed page formats

2003-03-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Chris, your snippet produced the expected results with one difference / remaining problem: On the A3 page, only the left half of the space is used, i.e. the right (additional) half of the sheet is empty. The frames indicate, that the width is to small. Do I

[NTG-context] Re: setuphead(s), subject, alternative=inmargin

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this supposed to work?? It is working. What do you mean by this? It is putting the number of the head in the margin. How do I put a subject in the margin, Try this one: == % taken from core-sec.tex \def\MyHead#1#2%

[NTG-context] Re: setuphead(s), subject, alternative=inmargin

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans, I leave it to patrick to explore the following: \starttext \margintext{patrick} \margintext{that's me} Well, I was playing with this before (while looking for the answer for Mathias), but I did not get any margintext. Now I know that it

[NTG-context] Re: setuphead(s), subject, alternative=inmargin

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Mathias Picker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I don't know if that is even possible. sure it is possible. Why not? It should look somewhat like the latex refart classes, e.g. margin|text My Subject header here with more and more text And the text here

[NTG-context] Re: setuphead(s), subject, alternative=inmargin

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: no, it's just flushing previous ones; maybe the next solution will prevent a sleepless night: Great! So we have two different setups now (well, there are 100s more) : % |left || textarea % |margin|| | | % |

[NTG-context] Re: Fonts again in ConTeXt

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Henning, Well, concerning the ss: Just install the Adobe Helvetica (free) and that's it (except for patching ConTeXt ;-) Helvetica belongs to the standard PS fonts as Palatino does, but none of them is free! At Adobe the standard fonts are

[NTG-context] Re: Fonts again in ConTeXt

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, The pfb files from urw are shipped with TeXlive and TeTeX. what is the use of pfb's without the tfm's Used for substituion, I guess. pdftex will include those then. I takes metrics from p* and includes u*. hm, but you can of course make a

[NTG-context] Re: Different margins

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Nagy Bence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, is it possible to give a different layout (different margins) for a small part of a page or pages (like a negative narrower)? Try this, perhaps it does what you want: \showframe \starttext \input tufte \page

[NTG-context] Re: adobekb.tex

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Guo Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Guo, Sorry if this question is very silly. I don't think it is. Where does this 'palatino' come from? I tried 'helvetica', 'helvet' and 'utopia' but none of them worked, while 'times' worked well. It comes from the file type-exa.tex that is

[NTG-context] Re: Mixed page formats

2003-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, please try the file below and ask again if you need more help. == \showframe \starttext \input tufte \page \rotate [width=\textheight, height=\textwidth, rotation=90] {\placetable{My Caption}{ \starttabulate[|p|p|]

[NTG-context] Re: values relative to \textwidth etc.

2003-03-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Martin Kolarík [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Martin, or for sophisticated expressions you can use ConTeXt's \dimexpr: \dimexpr (and some other) are etex not ConTeXt primitives. Not trying to be smart or so, just for those who might use eLaTeX or pdftex wihout e. Patrick

[NTG-context] scaling metapost graphics

2003-03-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Matthew Huggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, let's start with #3 (3) With \useMPgraphic, is there any mechanism to scale the image as with \useexternalfigure? \placefigure [right]{none}{\scale[sx=.6,sy=.6]{\useMPgraphic{}}} If this is all in the documentation, I apologize.

[NTG-context] Re: table and MPpositiongraphic

2003-03-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans, right, this is because it's old crappy code; and so you got me in debugging mode again Hopefully you can get out of this mode on your own ;-) so, \startMPpositiongraphic is now named and handles vars That is so nice! It took me a while to

[NTG-context] Re: 8r vs. ec vs. texnansi

2003-03-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Maarten Sneep [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Maarten, But the disadvantage of 8r is that in most languages the line-breaking algorithm performs badly. Take the dutch verifi\{e}ren. so the 'funny' character is ediaeresis ? It is defined in 8r as well as in ec, so the hyphenation does not

[NTG-context] Re: 8r vs. ec vs. texnansi

2003-03-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Jens-Uwe Morawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Jens and others, some time ago Hans and me discussed how to make TS1 symbols available. I've never tried it but it sounds interesting since it is an unified way to access the symbols. For example for Palatino add to the typescripts

[NTG-context] Re: dashed horizontal line

2003-03-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans and others, [...] draw origin -- (\MPvar{length},0) dashed evenly % change this to what you want withpen pencircle scaled \MPvar{linewidth} withcolor \MPcolor{\MPvar{color}} ; the color does not work for me.

[NTG-context] linewidth/rulethickness/linethickness

2003-03-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, looking at the newest beta (esp. plus-rul.tex), I wondered about the english translation of lijndikte. In mult-com.tex it is linewidth and(!) linethickness, in mult-con.tex it is rulethickness. Is it possible to agree on one name? Patrick ___

[NTG-context] columnsets

2003-03-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, I have a question regarding columnsets: == \definecolumnset[two][n=2] %\setupcolumnset[two][1][width=4cm] %\setupcolumnset[two][2][width=8cm] \starttext \startcolumnset[two] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext

[NTG-context] 8r vs. ec vs. texnansi

2003-03-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Jens-Uwe Morawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Jens and others, \setupencoding[default=8r] what is the advantage of using 8r instead of ec or texnansi? It is a matter of taste and the characters you need. There is no big difference for my german and english texts. texnansi does not work

[NTG-context] Re: lowerleftdoubleninequote

2003-03-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans, another solution is to make a specific font handler (like the hanging one) for a class of fonts like cmr, in that case you can link such a handler to for instance a cmr10 font (see hand-*) I have tried that, but with strange results

[NTG-context] Re: texexec not finding cont-en

2003-03-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Gary, I've installed the default teTeX distribution that comes with Mandrake. I've installed the latest ConTeXt beta How? Did you copy the new files over the old ones? I've edited texexec.ini, commenting out the reference to l:/... You shouldn't need

[NTG-context] breaking text in mp code

2003-03-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello all, I try to get a label in metafun that is broken into two lines: some text the following \break is silently ignored. Putting the textext inside a vbox did not help. == % interface=en output=pdf \starttext \startMPcode label

[NTG-context] module: t-layout now available

2003-03-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dear ConTeXt hackers, I have just uploaded a first version of my layout module. It displays the layout of the current page as well as some dimensions. Get it at http://levana.de/context/ Or directly at http://levana.de/context/layout/t-layout.tex An example pdf is at

[NTG-context] Re: breaking text in mp code

2003-03-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Jens-Uwe Morawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Jens, How do I get the some text in two lines? \rbox{some\\ text} works here not here ... May I have your computer? \starttext \startMPcode label (textext(\rbox{some\\ text}),origin); \stopMPcode \stoptext Do you have any ideas? !

[NTG-context] Re: module: t-layout now available

2003-03-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, and show the layout with \layout I think it is best to name third party macros like \Layout, i.e. use capitals; or in this case (since you kind of reimplement context's \showlayout, call it \ShowLayout) OK, done and updated. Patrick

[NTG-context] Re: Fonts again in ConTeXt

2003-03-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Jens-Uwe Morawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Jens and others, Well, in my opinion, the berry typesript is sub-optimal, since it maps to the urw variants that are a) shipped with a few TeX systems only and b) (even worse) the urw variant helvetica (nimbus sans) is of no real use for the

[NTG-context] Re: Fonts again in ConTeXt

2003-03-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans and others, 1) TeX macro package (aka LaTeX ;-) asks for Adobe Helvetica, it gets the font metrics from phvtfm. Then, in the map files the users decides whether to use the original adobe fonts or the substitues. Right, and that is

[NTG-context] Re: layout of xsteps-p

2003-03-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Gregory Vanuxem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, That's right, thanks but I have always the same error !! So, did you replace the old ConTeXt stuff with the new one? If you keep getting the same error, what did you do between the failing runs? Pat

[NTG-context] Re: Fonts again in ConTeXt

2003-03-12 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Maarten Sneep [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello! Right. Patrick has a file that maps the ConTeXt names to the pfsnss names, which solves the problem. Although that means you have to adapt the sources of the files you receive to use this intermediate translation file. You don't need to.

[NTG-context] Re: Fonts again in ConTeXt

2003-03-12 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans, At 03:05 PM 3/12/2003 +0100, you wrote: Well, in my opinion, the berry typesript is sub-optimal, since it maps to the urw variants that are a) shipped with a few TeX systems only and b) (even worse) the urw variant helvetica (nimbus sans) is of

[NTG-context] Re: s-mag-01

2003-03-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Bruce D'Arcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hans, are you saying anyone using this to produce a document ought to keep the title specified in the style (which here seems to be {Zero Issue}? In any case, this is confusing (at least to me)... The user variant has the title My Way. No number.

[NTG-context] table and MPpositiongraphic

2003-03-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, while browsing thru the source and trying some examples, I can't sensible output of the following code. (No MP stuff is visible) %output=pdf \setupcolors[state=start] \def\cw#1{\color[green]{#1}} \def\TableShade#1#2% {\startMPpositiongraphic

[NTG-context] Re: Learning ConTeXt: \setupitemize

2003-03-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Gary Pajer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Gary, (If the answers to my question are in some doc somewhere, please tell me where it is!) The answers to your questions are in the context's source code ;-) Consider the file below. I expected to see a hairline above the second itemization,

[NTG-context] Re: Table problem

2003-03-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Willi, However I get very strange results in the last column (p-column) my table/.../ knowledge is very limited, but why don't you just specify p(8cm) there? Don't know what you need but that looks right to me. (Yesterdays ConTeXt version.) Patrick

[NTG-context] Re: why btex...etex or textext() does not work?

2003-03-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Vit Zyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Vit, I am new member in the list so apologize if I ask for something trivial. But I have been looking in documentation, in ConTeXt source code, in the Net... Unsuccessfully. Perhaps someone here will known. I bet you don't have \protectbufferstrue

[NTG-context] combination

2003-03-07 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, shouldn't this file be OK? === \starttext \startcombination[2] {\framed{sometext}} {\framed{somemoretext}} \stopcombination \stoptext === This is pdfeTeX, Version

[NTG-context] Re: Columns in itemizations

2003-03-05 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello again, Missing character: There is no ! in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no 1 in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no 2 in font nullfont! language : language en is active /12:12;12?12!12 looks like some / : ; ? ! catcodes

[NTG-context] Re: Columns in itemizations

2003-03-05 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello again, sorry to bother you all, but perhaps this additional info might help you to help me ;-) some incredibly messed up system I guess so ;-) from the previous file from tracingall: [...] (line 4655, only (besides error messages at beginning)

[NTG-context] nullfont errors in new beta

2003-03-05 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this is strange, it looks like something is wrong with your (preloaded) cmr fonts; how do the formats compare (format logs) besides the version number and the line numbers from the etex messages: (I have substituted the version numbers with -- and the

[NTG-context] no more nullfont errors in latest beta!

2003-03-05 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans (et al.) good news from Germany ;-) Where does the 1 come from? I still have no idea about this. Can it be that your unzipper is wrong? Just to make sure I have got a good cont-tmf.zip I have downloaded it again. And see: this is the beta

[NTG-context] Re: Columns in itemizations

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello again, one other strange test file: === \starttext \defineitemgroup[test] \starttest[A] \item one \item two \item three \item four \item five \stoptest \starttest[n,columns] \item one \item

[NTG-context] Re: Columns in itemizations

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Giuseppe Bilotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Giuseppe, Hans and others, PG I guess you have tried the same file as I posted? Indeed. Are you running via texexec or manually? `texexec columns' And the texexec is the current beta's texexec. Anyway, my log (different pdf-e-TeX version,

[NTG-context] Re: Columns in itemizations

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Willi, I am afraid that I am not of big help. Just to tell you, that here your examples work perfectly. So I now know that my pdfetex version does not have any influence on this behaviour (we have the same version). You use TeX on a Linux box,

[NTG-context] Re: Columns in itemizations

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans et al. /12:12;12?12!12 looks like some / : ; ? ! catcodes being set to letter, or: some incredibly messed up system Well, it appeared with the latest beta. I cannot reproduce this problem with the context/2003.2.11 version.

[NTG-context] Re: Umlaute etc.

2003-02-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Raimund, Using the correct input encoding (such as \enableregime[windows]) you can directly enter ß. Ahh! Works perfectly ... just to be correct: I am using a linux machine - is there a more appropriate command than [windows]? Or is it ok to leave it at

[NTG-context] Re: Using the free PS Fonts with ConTeXt

2003-02-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Jens-Uwe Morawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, The VFs are provided by the Latex PSNFSS system. Thus, if you don't select LaTeX support during TeXLive installation the VFs will not be installed. Maybe this is the case in other distributions as well. Uh, that is a good point. Thanks for

[NTG-context] Announce: Auctex and ConTeXt

2003-02-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello ConTeXt hackers and emacs users, the current cvs version of auctex is now ConTeXt aware. There is no support for *any* fancy feature yet, but at least you are able to distinguish the LaTeX and the ConTeXt commands/modes. It is aimed at people that already use auctex and think that it is

[NTG-context] Re: Inserting a mini toc into the chapter heading

2003-02-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Guy Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Guy, I've also a related question: Berend mentions a visual debugger, I want one! (by the way what is a visual debugger). \showmakeup and you'll see. also works (sometimes) with LaTeX! Patrick

[NTG-context] Re: \setupitemize does no longer work?

2003-02-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Berend de Boer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All, Hello Berend, see my message from Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 23:20:28 +0100 To Eckart Guthöhrlein: == I just noticed that \setupitemize seems to have no effect in the current beta This is

[NTG-context] my way

2003-02-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I uploaded www.pragma-ade.com/temp/mag-.pdf www.pragma-ade.com/temp/mag-0001.pdf This style will be public so that users can make their own contributions (called My Way) and post them Is there the mag-01 module available anyhwere?

[NTG-context] Re: Using the free PS Fonts with ConTeXt

2003-02-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Bruce D'Arcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Bruce, Here's what I see when I run the file you posted: pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-euler.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-adobe-utopia.map pdftex : needs

[NTG-context] Re: lowerleftdoubleninequote

2003-02-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Wolfgang, 'lowerleftdoubleninequote' in german seems to be an double lowerleftninequote, whereas 'upperrightdoublesixquote' seems to be the ligature. actually 'lowerleftdoubleninequote' are two , without any kerning. You can add the

[NTG-context] Re: Using the free PS Fonts with ConTeXt

2003-02-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Maarten Sneep [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Maarten, ``Welcome to typeface hell'', describes my feelings correctly. Welcome to the club. I'm trying to use the free postscript fonts that come with teTeX (urw palatino, times, helvetica, courier and various others, you know the list) in

[NTG-context] Re: lowerleftdoubleninequote

2003-02-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, \definecharacter quotedblbase {,\kern -.1em,} Hans: is there any way to make this default when using cmr? Worse: With some fonts two different commas are used (I guess one from math mode); in my opinion we shouldn't make some

[NTG-context] Re: Lost in the murky detail of designing a page layout

2003-02-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Guy Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, How do I translate these into my \setuplayout parameters? === \startbuffer \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setbox0=\hbox{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz} \setuplayout[width=2.5\wd0,

[NTG-context] Re: Customizing texutil --purge

2003-02-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello again, On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote: there is no way to get rid of the tuo files with texutil. Sigh. One more thing to confuse my users, I'd hoped to be able to get rid of those as well. Now I will instead have to add one more line to my

[NTG-context] Re: de quoteing

2003-02-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Johannes Hüsing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Johannes ... This is an example of a misplaced apostrophe, six or nine, no matter. uuh, it was just a test if there is anybody out there who really reads my mails ;-) Such and suche are both legal imperative forms of suchen, so no

[NTG-context] Re: hanging punctuation

2003-02-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, So, what version of pdf(e)tex are you using? You must have =1,0 because thanh changed it around that time [the current method is not the same as described in his thesis] Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) \write18 enabled.

[NTG-context] Re: hanging punctuation

2003-02-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Adam Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Adam, Same version (on MacOSX), and pretty much same results. Using \setupfontsynonym[Serif][handling=punctuation] does in fact seem to hang the hyphens (partially). I get hanging, but the hyphen is not in the margin. Thank you for your hint!

[NTG-context] Re: new keys of \setupmarking ?

2003-02-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I scanned through the sources, but couldn't find the new keys of \setupmarking that we discussed. Would you help me, please? Henning, you did not read the last issue of the ConTeXt magazine, I guess? IIRC it was at:

[NTG-context] Re: de quoteing

2003-01-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Wolfang, By texexecing this file, the font utmr8r could' nt be found?! Should this be available in a standard debian-distribution? Which debian are you using? In potato the tetex was kind of broken (in this respect). I'll send you a

[NTG-context] Re: de quoteing

2003-01-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello again, What about cmsy \ll ? In LaTeX this is used to build \flqq. come on, \ll is *ugly*. This is a don't do it. But in case you really need this, see example below. But, (I should put this into my signature) Hans has very likely a

[NTG-context] Re: de quoteing

2003-01-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans, signature) Hans has very likely a much better way to switch to the samller font. Too bad \tfxxx is not avaliable... Is there any need for an xxx? it's not that hard to implement that (search for !xx in font-ini and you'll see why), but is it

[NTG-context] Re: changing tt only

2003-01-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, \usetypescript[times][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[times] This switches to a complete new typescript. But is it possible to change the *tt* only? I think that scaling to 1.1 too big. In my opinion 1.03 fits the times' visual appearence. Strange..

[NTG-context] Re: changing tt only

2003-01-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello again, selecting them is a matter of best match, say [key a] or [key a][key b] or ... so \usetypescript [key a] [key b] filters all instances that match those first two keys (actually sets of keys) I have: \starttypescript [aaa] [bbb][ccc]

[NTG-context] Re: Footnote numbering

2003-01-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Chris, is there a possibility to restart the numbering of footnotes? (i.e. i, ii, iii,... in the front matter, and then 1,2,3... in the body). I could switch to the roman numerals quite easily but I could not manage to let the new numbering start at 1.

[NTG-context] changing tt only

2003-01-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello out there, I currently use: \usetypescript[berry][8r] \setupbodyfont[pos] and wish to change the monospace only, let's say to cmtt10. How do I accomplish this? Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: changing tt only

2003-01-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Adam Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Adam, I know no simple way of doing this. I have a typescript set up for this, though: \starttypescript [Time] [..] how do I use this? I have tried for the last hours. The typescript/font mechanism is far too high for me. Is there any

[NTG-context] Re: changing tt only

2003-01-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Adam Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Adam, Sorry I wasn't clear. I assumed too much. I spent an entire weekend working through this stuff at the start. typescript/font mechanism is far too high for me. Patrick, nearly everything I knew about fonts in ConTeXt was learned from Bill

[NTG-context] Re: de quoteing

2003-01-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Wolfgang, sorry for receiving this post twice, it is really late ...) Hello Wolfgang, I have set: \mainlanguage[de] But Apostroph is still 6 not 9. How can I change this? The apostrophe should be 9. This is default in the current version.

[NTG-context] Re: supp-box.tex generates an error...

2003-01-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, (latest beta) to be sure i re-uploaded the fikes, maybe something got messed up (using another secure copy program) I have just downloaded the beta from your homepage: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-tmf.zip its md5sum is

[NTG-context] Re: supp-box.tex generates an error...

2003-01-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Hans, then how come that your log says: ConTeXt ver: 2002.12.20 fmt: 2003.1.13 well, hmm, do you really want to know :) ... 'cause I am a stupid fool. I've forgot to create the nl format... It took an older one from another path. (supp-box is

[NTG-context] Re: What DTD for a thesis

2003-01-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, OK, after i changed steltabulatiein into setuptabulate and stellayoutin - setuplayout I get ... a nicely set document :) is there a dtd for contml? Taco? Greetings, Patrick ___ ntg-context

[NTG-context] Re: supp-box.tex generates an error...

2003-01-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, But: the problem with Willi's tabulate file still persists. i lost that file so i cannot test that I hope I may attach Willi's testfile... Patrick \setupoutput[pdftex] \mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch]

[NTG-context] Re: problem with tabulate environment

2003-01-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, hm, has to do with testing it there is a tabulate head/foot defined; you may play with the following (core-tbl) that works well for me! Thank you. Is there any way to change the thickness of the rules? Let's say that the top rule and the bottom rule

[NTG-context] Re: problem with tabulate environment

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Willi, Hans, There seems to be a problem with the tabulate environment. When running the compilation stops with the following error [...] I am still getting an error with yesterdays beta. Any others? Patrick

[NTG-context] Re: problem with tabulate environment

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Willi, Could you be more specific? I installed tonight the latest beta. After receiving your mail I tested simple and sophisticated tabulate files and there were no problems. I have used the test.tex you have sent in the original post and with

[NTG-context] supp-box.tex generates an error...

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello out there, I just wanted to have a look at supp-box.tex, but texexecing it gives me: (./texexec-texexec.tmp) . [13.11] . . . . . . . . . [14.12] . . . . [15.13] . ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. \stopdocumentation -\par \egroup \complexitem ...pitem

[NTG-context] Re: texexec --pages

2003-01-26 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Willi, texexec --pages=1:3,20 myfile.pdf texexec --pdfselect=1:3,20 myfile.pdf I had the same problem only when I say --result=somefile.pdf. But your command gave me pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map ! Too many

[NTG-context] Re: Buffers and grouping

2003-01-26 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Willi, I thought that \startbuffer and stopbuffer would cause grouping within the buffer. e.g. that is what I've thought, too. You can of course say \setupbuffer[before=\bgroup,after=\egroup] to make them grouping. Patrick -- Just uploaded

[NTG-context] Re: \presentationstep: recent changes?

2003-01-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Eckhart Guthöhrlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Eckhart, The presentationstep mechanism doesn't work with Acrobat Reader for Linux (neither do field stacks). This is not true. I have a pdf file here that uses fieldstack and displays correctly with acroread 4 and 5 on my linux box. But

[NTG-context] Re: \presentationstep: recent changes?

2003-01-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Eckhart Guthöhrlein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, And I'm glad that and wonder how Patrick spotted it. Pure coincidence :) It already took me quite some time... and self-control not to smash my keyboard. :) Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing

[NTG-context] Re: Underlining URLs

2003-01-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anybody know how to accomplish this? i never came to support 'viewer specific' hyperlinks because it is so viewer dependent; if there is a real need for this i can look into it some day; the problem is (1) to get rid of viewer inconsistencies

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt FAQ -- next generation?

2003-01-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hraban [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Henning, I'd like to start another attempt for a ConTeXt-FAQ-o-matic. I'm too busy and too less able to do the whole work myself, so I'd be glad if the appropriate experts would take their part. I'd like to collect the fruits from the effort: Feature

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