Re: [NTG-context] Modules how?

2005-10-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Boris Pedrofiets wrote: Looking at the files s-mag-01.tex and mag-.tex from the context distribution I created a file with layout and defs myself. My question: how can I use my-module? Rename the file you made, so the name starts with p- and ends with the extension .tex, like:

Re: [NTG-context] Q: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Thumb_index

2005-10-02 Thread Olivier
Quoting Alexander Lazic : -- was [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Oct 01, 2005 at 11:02:39PM -- I don't have found a debian package for this therefore i have used the zipfile from: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip This will work but mess the Debian packaging :( One solution for

Re: [NTG-context] Q: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Thumb_index

2005-10-02 Thread Alexander Lazic
On Son 02.10.2005 11:19, Olivier wrote: Quoting Alexander Lazic : I don't have found a debian package for this therefore i have used the zipfile from: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip This will work but mess the Debian packaging :( Well if there isn't any package,

[NTG-context] Foxit pdf tools

2005-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, FYI: I just came across this alternative to Adobe Reader for Windows. Maybe it has features useful to some of us (e.g., it's very small)... http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php They have some other pdf products too: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products.htm Best Idris

Re: [NTG-context] \noalign?

2005-10-02 Thread Peter Rolf
Christopher Creutzig wrote: Salvete, which tables allow using \noalign and in what places? E.g., the first of these works, but I'd also like to be allowed the second one (ignore what \pause does for the moment ...): \starttable[|c|c|c|] \HL \NC one \NC two \NC three \NC\AR

[NTG-context] Re: [metapost] MPtoPDF problem

2005-10-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
2005/9/30, Mau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have been using MPtoPDF (included in the MikTeX distribution, under Win2K) to convert mp output to pdf. Everything went smoothly until the end of July. Now it seems that MPtoPDF cannot produce any output. I suspect some problems with a newer

Re: [NTG-context] Modules how?

2005-10-02 Thread Boris Pedrofiets
Hi, From: Taco Hoekwater p-boris.tex Now you can start your documents with \usemodule[boris] This works when I put the module file in the same directory as my textfile. When the file is in the same dir as s-mag-01.tex, context can't find it. How can I achieve this? And where do I place

[NTG-context] Q: about \externalfile from metafun-p.pdf

2005-10-02 Thread Alexander Lazic
Hi, i'm starting to learn context and therefore i have copied some examples from metafun-p.pdf and get the following error: --- ! Undefined control sequence. l.42 \externalfile [mprun.21][width=5cm] --- --- texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

Re: [NTG-context] \noalign?

2005-10-02 Thread Christopher Creutzig
Peter Rolf wrote: how about \TABLEnoalign (see core-tab.tex for defintion) I did try that. But I don't see why it should help. After all, the place I'm trying to do a \noalign is not inside some other \noalign and that's the only thing \TABLEnoalign adds – as far as I read the source.

Re: [NTG-context] Modules how?

2005-10-02 Thread Christopher Creutzig
Boris Pedrofiets wrote: This works when I put the module file in the same directory as my textfile. When the file is in the same dir as s-mag-01.tex, context can't find it. How Please run texhash or mktexlsr, whichever exists on your system. You need to do that every time you update your

Re: [NTG-context] Q: about \externalfile from metafun-p.pdf

2005-10-02 Thread Christopher Creutzig
Alexander Lazic wrote: i'm starting to learn context and therefore i have copied some examples from metafun-p.pdf and get the following error: --- ! Undefined control sequence. l.42 \externalfile [mprun.21][width=5cm] Probably a typo in metafun-p.pdf; try

Re: [NTG-context] Q: about \externalfile from metafun-p.pdf

2005-10-02 Thread Alexander Lazic
On Son 02.10.2005 19:54, Christopher Creutzig wrote: Probably a typo in metafun-p.pdf; try \externalfigure instead. Thanx this works ;-) Oh btw: i have see in the syntax-diagramm sin. 1.) is this the sinus function? 2.) i have try --- \startreusableMPgraphic{sin} sin (1);

[NTG-context] Foxit pdf tools

2005-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, FYI: I just came across this alternative to Adobe Reader for Windows. Maybe it has features useful to some of us (e.g., it's very small)... http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php They have some other pdf products too: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products.htm Best Idris

[NTG-context] installing context

2005-10-02 Thread Rob Ermers
Dear Friends, I have updated miktex and context today. Latex works normally, but I can't get context working right. cont-en and cont-nl are causing problems. Miktex cannot generate an (e)fmt file of cont-en, con-nl. Last time I upgraded, something was wrong with the English hyphenation files.

Re: [NTG-context] using 1 layout on several documents

2005-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Rolf wrote: Boris Pedrofiets wrote: Thank you Peter! Just wondering... Looking at the files s-mg-01.tex and mag-.tex from the context distribution, there is a different approach. Here I find \usemodule. What are the differences? And, when use with? Or is it just a metter of

Re: [NTG-context] Foxit pdf tools

2005-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear gang, FYI: I just came across this alternative to Adobe Reader for Windows. Maybe it has features useful to some of us (e.g., it's very small)... http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php They have some other pdf products too:

Re: [NTG-context] Q: about \externalfile from metafun-p.pdf

2005-10-02 Thread Christopher Creutzig
Alexander Lazic wrote: Oh btw: i have see in the syntax-diagramm sin. 1.) is this the sinus function? Sure. (The sine function as used by mathematicians. If you want the sine of an angle expressed in degrees, I believe you want sind.) 2.) i have try --- \startreusableMPgraphic{sin}

Re: [NTG-context] \noalign?

2005-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Christopher Creutzig wrote: Salvete, which tables allow using \noalign and in what places? E.g., the first of these works, but I'd also like to be allowed the second one (ignore what \pause does for the moment ...): \starttable[|c|c|c|] \HL \NC one \NC two \NC three \NC\AR

[NTG-context] bib module: doubling publications list

2005-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear Taco and gang, Ok, I'm migrating my journal over to the new bib module (ConTeXt from 8-31). First issue: Under some strange circumstances (perhaps if the bbl file and tex file have the same name?), sometimes the list of publications gets repeated. I cannot always repeat this though;

[NTG-context] bib module: \setupcite macro

2005-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Another issue: My definition for \citeyear crashes. This used to work-) \def\citeyear[#1]{% {\cite[year][#1]% }% } log: == ! You can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode. \p!doifinstringelse ...tringelse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] bib module: \setupcite macro

2005-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
I thought it was my macro but the following fails also: == \starttext \dots as Afghani points out \cite[year][afghani60]. \section{References}{\tfx\setupinterlinespace {\placepublications}} \stoptext == Best Idris

Re: [NTG-context] \noalign?

2005-10-02 Thread Peter Rolf
Christopher Creutzig wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: how about \TABLEnoalign (see core-tab.tex for defintion) I did try that. But I don't see why it should help. After all, the place I'm trying to do a \noalign is not inside some other \noalign and that's the only thing \TABLEnoalign adds –

[NTG-context] bib module: author-date macros

2005-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Here are some macros that I use; I was wondering if the new bib module has a better way to implement the following, since this sort of thing is used quite frequently in the author-date system that t-bib defaults to. See the examples in the following file (three depend on \cite[year] which has a

[NTG-context] bib module: multiple bibs and alphabetical order

2005-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
1. Does t-bib now support multiple bibliographies? For past issues of the journal, I had to define a new bib-env file for each article that required a bibliography, otherwise the bibliography of, say, article two would include the bibliography for article one. Is there a general solution for

Re: [NTG-context] bib module: multiple bibs

2005-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
1. Does t-bib now support multiple bibliographies? For past issues of the journal, I had to define a new bib-env file for each article that required a bibliography, otherwise the bibliography of, say, article two would include the bibliography for article one. Is there a general solution for this?