[NTG-context] paragraph numbering

2005-04-14 Thread piskala upendran
How can I number the paragraphs in ConTeXt similar to the latex parano.sty.? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ___ ntg-conte

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Paul Tremblay wrote: Is inkscape the beast that gave you so much trouble with the glib library? I know I tried to install it and gave up after I couldn't install glib. indeed, but since i use windows as production platform i can wait till i've updated the linux machines; i have no idea how well i

[NTG-context] Re: paragraph numbering

2005-04-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
> How can I number the paragraphs in ConTeXt similar to > the latex parano.sty.? what does the LaTex parano do? You should not assume too much LaTeX knowledge on this list. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context ma

[NTG-context] inkscape 0.41 on mandrake 10.1

2005-04-14 Thread luigi.scarso
Hans Hagen wrote: Paul Tremblay wrote: Is inkscape the beast that gave you so much trouble with the glib library? I know I tried to install it and gave up after I couldn't install glib. indeed, but since i use windows as production platform i can wait till i've updated the linux machines; i have

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Russian

2005-04-14 Thread Albrecht Kauffmann
Dear Mikael, thank you very much for your interest. tfm-files I have generated, and the tex-file is really saved in utf-8-encoding (I proved this with yudit). After editing the lines \starttypescript [map] [computer-modern] [t2a] \loadmapfile[cm-super-t2a.map] \stoptypescript in type-map.tex,

Re: [NTG-context] inkscape 0.41 on mandrake 10.1

2005-04-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, FYI: There is a precompiled rpm in 'i586/media/contrib', version 0.39 for Mandrake 10.1, or version 0.41 for Mandrake Cooker (10.2rc). Taco luigi.scarso wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: On Linux Mandrake 10.1, with some efforts, $>./configure --with-python --with-gnome-vfs works. _

Re: [NTG-context] inkscape 0.41 on mandrake 10.1

2005-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, FYI: There is a precompiled rpm in 'i586/media/contrib', version 0.39 for Mandrake 10.1, or version 0.41 for Mandrake Cooker (10.2rc). when i try that on the most recent linux box we have i get: libatkmm-1.6.so.1 is needed by inkscape-0.41-3mdk libgc.so.1 is neede

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Russian

2005-04-14 Thread Mikael Persson
Hello Albrecht, Hm, I got no idea but to upgrade your context distribution. From the wiki page it seems I tested it on a context from 27th or 30th of january this year, and yours seems to be from th 28th. Sorry for being of no great help... /Micke P On 4/14/05, Albrecht Kauffmann <[EMAIL PROTECT

[NTG-context] mswintex.zip

2005-04-14 Thread Lutz Haseloff
Hi Hans, Hi all, i try to use mswintex.zip (16.03.05). Sometimes there are funny Characters in the pdf i did not typed. For instance the file: - \starttext \stoptext results in the appending pdf. Can someone locate the bug? Greetings Lutz This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20b-2.2

AW: [NTG-context] mswintex.zip

2005-04-14 Thread Michael Fuchs
Hi Lutz! In your TeX file there are three characters in front of your \starttext command. Which editor did you use to create the TeX file? The editor, that comes with WinXP doesn't show these characters. But you open the file with a hex editor you can see them. Best regards Michael > -Ur

[NTG-context] Re: mswintex.zip

2005-04-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Lutz, is your text editor set to utf-16? If yes, set it to utf8 or something else. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Re: mswintex.zip

2005-04-14 Thread Lutz Haseloff
Patrick Gundlach schrieb: Hello Lutz, is your text editor set to utf-16? If yes, set it to utf8 or something else. Patrick I think, my SciTe 1.63 editor puts these characters into every new file. Is this a known problem? Has anybody the same effect? I use SciTe 1.63 for Windows + ConTeXt .proper

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-14 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
Hmm, I just downloaded the latest and greatest beta, and it seems to be broken. The output of "texexec --version" is texexec --version TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.3.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - C

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-14 Thread Johan Sandblom
Sorry for going off topic, but since it is a concern ... Using a linux distribution with an intelligent package/dependencies handling system such as Gentoo or Debian would end your updating woes for all time. In debian testing apt-get install inkscape downloads and installs inkscape 0.41 and upd

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johan Sandblom wrote: Sorry for going off topic, but since it is a concern ... > > apt-get install inkscape > > downloads and installs inkscape 0.41 and updates all dependencies > automatically and in Gentoo mandrake has urpmi: urpmi inkscape which does installs, lookups, dependancy checks & aut

Re: [NTG-context] new beta [OFF TOPIC]

2005-04-14 Thread luigi.scarso
Johan Sandblom wrote: Sorry for going off topic, but since it is a concern ... Using a linux distribution with an intelligent package/dependencies handling system such as Gentoo or Debian would end your updating woes for all time. In debian testing apt-get install inkscape urpmq,urpmi, etc unde

[NTG-context] section head unnumbered but with dots in TOC ?

2005-04-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I am lost in ConTeXt's setup-jungle: I have a section set is unnumbered: \setuphead[LevelThree] [number=no, ...| But in the TOC I would like to have a dot (or another symbol) before the head/title, like this: o Section's Title 17 Is this a matter of \setuphead or \setuplist? Or none o

Re: [NTG-context] section head unnumbered but with dots in TOC ?

2005-04-14 Thread luigi.scarso
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I am lost in ConTeXt's setup-jungle: I have a section set is unnumbered: \setuphead[LevelThree] [number=no, ...| But in the TOC I would like to have a dot (or another symbol) before the head/title, like this: o Section's Title  

[NTG-context] no line break after quotation possible

2005-04-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello out there, after a \quotation no line break is possible. For what reason? Is this a bug or a feature? (I'd consider this as a bug). -- \starttext \tracingparagraphs=1 \tracingonline=1 \pretolerance -1 \tolerance 1 \quotation{Foo bar baz F

Re: [NTG-context] Re: mswintex.zip

2005-04-14 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Lutz, I use exclusively scite 1.63 with the properties files delivered with the Context distr. - I never had this problem. At least with TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) \starttext\stoptext does create the expected empty

Re: [NTG-context] Defining references points

2005-04-14 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Matthias Weber, April 13: > \pagereference[name] or \textreference[name]{text} > > to place a label, and \at{page}[name] to refer to the page number. Actually, it turns out that \reference worked best, but thanks for pointing them out for me. I was actually using them, only in the wrong way...

[NTG-context] Re: mswintex.zip

2005-04-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
>>is your text editor set to utf-16? If yes, set it to utf8 or something >>else. > I think, my SciTe 1.63 editor puts these characters into every new file. > Is this a known problem? > Has anybody the same effect? > I use SciTe 1.63 for Windows + ConTeXt .properties files. are you sure that your

Re: [NTG-context] Re: mswintex.zip

2005-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: are you sure that your scite does not use utf-16 and puts the BOM (byte order mark) there? scite indeed does this (kind of annoying) context can handle that for xml files i can consider handling it automatically (i.e. when BOM before first start-stop, then assume utf-8) Ha

[NTG-context] bib: getting a complete listing of the database, sorted by author

2005-04-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello (Taco?), I'd like to get the list in the bibliography sorted by author. \setuppublications [alternative=apa, sorttype=bbl, criterium=all, ] \setupbibtex [database=umbruchlit, sorttype=author] does not do what I'd like. It lists the entries in the order of \cite. And ho

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Johan Sandblom wrote: ... Comparing the two, the debian testing distribution has never been less than stable while gentoo testing is updated faster, but has given me trouble at some points. Sorry for the noise if this is inappropriate information for this list, no problem; here i have been using

Re: [NTG-context] bib: getting a complete listing of the database, sorted by author

2005-04-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hello (Taco?), I'd like to get the list in the bibliography sorted by author. \setuppublications [alternative=apa, sorttype=bbl, criterium=all, ] Try this sequence opf commands instead (not tested, but I have a sudden hunch that this will work): \setuppubli

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-14 Thread Johan Sandblom
I used RedHat five years ago but quickly got fed up having to chase down dependencies and got Debian. Only trouble I have had since then was when I started using recent ConTeXts and couldn't go with the default tetex, but texlive is easy enough to install. I started using gentoo about a year ago o

Re: [NTG-context] bib: getting a complete listing of the database, sorted by author

2005-04-14 Thread David Wooten
Taco, this works for me. Glad this came up—I was going to inquire soon. David Try this sequence opf commands instead (not tested, but I have a sudden hunch that this will work): \setuppublications [alternative=apa] \setuppublications [sorttype=bbl, criterium=all] (and if this w

[NTG-context] confused on font size

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Tremblay
The main manual on ConTeXt give a number of different ways to change font sizes (if I understand it correctly): 1. {\switchtobodyfont[18pt] text} 2. {\tfx font size ??} 3. {\xii some font} What are the advantages of each? I would think that option (1) would be the simplest and clearest to use.

[NTG-context] the right way to do \ref?

2005-04-14 Thread Paul Tremblay
I want to create cross references and just wanted to make sure I am doing it correctly: see \ref[r][mark1] \par \page \reference[mark1]{} foo \par Since my original file will be in XML, I don't need any of ConTeXt's other more advanced features. I will use the above code to generate a TOC, a list

Re: [NTG-context] confused on font size

2005-04-14 Thread Steve Peter
1. {\switchtobodyfont[18pt] text} 2. {\tfx font size ??} 3. {\xii some font} What are the advantages of each? I would think that option (1) would be the simplest and clearest to use. Consider 1 vs. 2 if your editor or journal said, ``No, we don't want 12pt text, we want 10pt text.'' If you've used

Re: [NTG-context] bi-lingual book

2005-04-14 Thread Ciro Soto
well, it seems there is nobody willing to give me any tip on this... FYI, I am thinking in several bi-lingual books: one novel, one book of poems (which is very dificult, but easier for layout as I want since poems are generally short), one cookbook, and possible an engineering book. But all depend

RE: [NTG-context] bi-lingual book

2005-04-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi, Ciro, >= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED], mailing list for ConTeXt users = >well, it seems there is nobody willing to give me any tip on this... >FYI, I am thinking in several bi-lingual books: one novel, one book of >poems (which is >very dificult, but easier for layout as I

[NTG-context] Possible bug in verbatim

2005-04-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear cartel, There is an apparent bug in the verbatim mechanism. In the following example, the `A' is typed but the curly brackets are not typed after \head. \type works as expected in the other two instances. I tried \relax (and a couple of other hacks) but that does not help. Please advise.

[NTG-context] Incidental report: ConTeXt i-Package update

2005-04-14 Thread Gerben Wierda
The ConTeXT updater has changed (automatically) to include the latest ConTeXT beta (Apr 14). This is a completely automatic update, as soon as a new ConTeXt (stable or beta) is released, the i-Package will be updated automatically and uploaded to all reporsitories. Unless I build in reporting t

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2005-04-14 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
Sorry to be a pest, but am I the only one seeing these problems? Has everyone else installed the latest beta without problems? I thought that I may have made a silly mistake installing, so I installed again using Gerben's method, but I get the same error. For all purposes, this beta does seem t

Re: [NTG-context] Possible bug in verbatim

2005-04-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear cartel, \head\relax \type{ {A} } Not a solution, but a workaround: \head\relax \expandafter\type\scantokens{{ {A} }} (I don't know how to solve this) Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/m

[NTG-context] justification

2005-04-14 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Dear list members, After months of trying to figure out what TeX, ConTeXt etc is and how to install everything needed I finally produced my first document. I was thrilled when I saw real pdf pages with footnotes and all! However, I noticed the following problem (no doubt the first of many to co