Re: [NTG-context] Support for FormCalc ?

2006-04-11 Thread luigi scarso
On 4/10/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: I have downloaded http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/xml/formcalc_2.0.pdf If I have understand it FormCalc seem to be a simple script language Seem that Acrobat 7.0 can do this, but I'm not sure; asap I try

Re: [NTG-context] Support for FormCalc ?

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: On 4/10/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: I have downloaded http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/xml/formcalc_2.0.pdf If I have understand it FormCalc seem to be a simple script language Seem that Acrobat 7.0 can do this, but

Re: [NTG-context] XML and chapter specific bibliographies

2006-04-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johannes Graumann wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: \placepublications[criterium=local] should work. Still struggling with this. Sorry, I had misunderstood \placelist's options. Make that \placepublications[criterium=chapter] at least, that works for me. I have fixed the other problem,

Re: [NTG-context] Support for FormCalc ?

2006-04-11 Thread luigi scarso
hmm, Designer does not show tufte, Acrobat7.0 yes. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Changing page orientation - Landscape/Portrait

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Rolf
Miguel Queiros wrote: Hello Peter, \start ... \stop mark the boundaries of the local (layout) setup, which is defined between \startlocal ... \stoplocal. This way you don't need to redefine your old layout after a local (one page) style change. ConTeXt returns to the prior layout

Re: [NTG-context] long style of a row to put in a macro

2006-04-11 Thread olivier Turlier
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:47:17 +0200, Vit Zyka wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: olivier Turlier wrote: Hi everybody, In writing a glossary of building terms (approx. 400 entries) in a natural TABLE. For each letter, A, B, C, I want a screen background, spanning on 2 colomns, with \bf style, etc. :

Re: [NTG-context] Support for FormCalc ?

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: hmm, Designer does not show tufte, Acrobat7.0 yes. quite cryptic, this message -) i assume that you mean that Designer is flawed with respect to pdf viewing ... no surprise ... the one time i played with it, the pdf's etc also looked like crap, so ... don't take that

Re: [NTG-context] Changing page orientation - Landscape/Portrait

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Rolf wrote: Miguel Queiros wrote: Hello Peter, \start ... \stop mark the boundaries of the local (layout) setup, which is defined between \startlocal ... \stoplocal. This way you don't need to redefine your old layout after a local (one page) style change. ConTeXt returns to

[NTG-context] bug in wiki's urw garamond typescript?

2006-04-11 Thread Karsten Heymann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, after nearly a full day of debugging I found that the urw garamond (installed with the wiki instructions and the wiki typeface) pulls textlines out of grid if on a line with some depth (a `p' or `y` for example) follows a line with a capital

Re: [NTG-context] Support for FormCalc ?

2006-04-11 Thread luigi scarso
On 4/11/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: hmm, Designer does not show tufte, Acrobat7.0 yes. quite cryptic, this message -) Sorry; see http://www.logosrl.it/context/test/s.pdf If I open s.pdf with Designer only one text field is shown (with label example) and no

Re: [NTG-context] itemize (bis)

2006-04-11 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Thanks Taco to help me on this issue. I eventually use (allmost copy-paste from #context): \setbox0=\hbox{--~} \def\indenteddash#1{\hskip\parindent--~} \definesymbol[indentdash][\indenteddash] \setupitemize[each][indentdash,packed,joinedup,intext][indentnext=yes,width=\dimexpr \parindent +

Re: [NTG-context] long style of a row to put in a macro

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
olivier Turlier wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:47:17 +0200, Vit Zyka wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: olivier Turlier wrote: Hi everybody, In writing a glossary of building terms (approx. 400 entries) in a natural TABLE. For each letter, A, B, C, I want a screen background,

[NTG-context] floats spanning columns?

2006-04-11 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi there, a simple one: Is it possible to span a \placetable float over multiple columns defined with \startcolumns ...\ stopcolumns? Or do I have to switch to column sets for that? Yours, Karsten -- | ~ Karsten Heymann ~ | Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel | | Fon: +49 431 880-1186 |

Re: [NTG-context] XML and chapter specific bibliographies

2006-04-11 Thread Johannes Graumann
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Johannes Graumann wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: \placepublications[criterium=local] should work. Still struggling with this. Sorry, I had misunderstood \placelist's options. Make that \placepublications[criterium=chapter] at least, that works for me.

Re: [NTG-context] long style of a row to put in a macro

2006-04-11 Thread olivier Turlier
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:56:48 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: olivier Turlier wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:47:17 +0200, Vit Zyka wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: olivier Turlier wrote: Hi everybody, In writing a glossary of building terms (approx. 400 entries) in a natural TABLE.

[NTG-context] simplify \setuppapersize call

2006-04-11 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Should \setuppapersize automatically assume the same typesetting and printing papersizes, if no optional argument is given? Then you could do \setuppapersize[letter] instead of \setuppapersize[letter][letter] Right now \setuppapersize[letter] \starttext hello \stoptext produces a mixture of

Re: [NTG-context] simplify \setuppapersize call

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Should \setuppapersize automatically assume the same typesetting and printing papersizes, if no optional argument is given? Then you could do \setuppapersize[letter] instead of \setuppapersize[letter][letter] maybe, but i'm hesitant to change this because it has been

[NTG-context] nice new feature

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, Since i needed it right now in a project ... \starttext \input tufte \placefigure [left,none] {} {\startfloatcombination[2*2] \placefigure{alpha}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=1cm]} \placefigure{beta} {\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=2cm]}

[NTG-context] more manuals

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, I uploaded enattab eppchtex esp the nattab manual needs some updating (new features) so if you run into a missing aspect ... Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat

Re: [NTG-context] Units and XML

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Johannes Graumann wrote: Something else: How to define a custom unit (basepairs, bp) with physml/units? something \unit [Basepairs] {bp} {Base Pairs} \defineXMLsingular [Basepairs] {\handlePMLunit\Basepairs} -

Re: [NTG-context] floats spanning columns?

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Karsten Heymann wrote: Hi there, a simple one: Is it possible to span a \placetable float over multiple columns defined with \startcolumns ...\ stopcolumns? Or do I have to switch to column sets for that? if a float is too wide it will be moved around; wide floats spanning columns and

Re: [NTG-context] XML and 'Table of Contents'

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: I was wondering whether there is a possibility to use '(new)texexec' with THREE input files: one describing the XML/ConTeXt mappings, one taking care of document specific ConTeXt stuff (formating) and one for the XML itself? Would make the

Re: [NTG-context] simplify \setuppapersize call

2006-04-11 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
maybe, but i'm hesitant to change this because it has been so from the beginning Reasonable enough. Though the mixed A4/letter dimensions with \setuppapersize[letter] is probably not what a user intends and not useful for backward compatibility. They should probably get a PDF with an a4

Re: [NTG-context] XML and chapter specific bibliographies

2006-04-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Johannes Graumann wrote: \placepublications[criterium=chapter] at least, that works for me. Not here. What's happening now is: the references are being sorted by chapter, but then all appended after the first chapter. So no reference listings for chapters 2-x ... strange. I've tested

Re: [NTG-context] Rows and lines in tables

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Robert Engelhardt wrote: Hello all, I'm a new ConTeXt user (started using it a few days ago) and I do have three problems now with tables which I could not solve reading the manual and the content of the ConTeXt wiki. I've created a minimal example (see below) illustrating my problems:

Re: [NTG-context] feature request: clipping option for externalfigure

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: � wrote: Hello, I would like to clip an external eps-figure as LaTeX does with the clip option. Please consider the attachment as an example for en eps with white border and the following LaTeX and ConTeXt code: \starttext % no clipping

[NTG-context] wrapping a long URL without added spaces

2006-04-11 Thread Alan Bowen
I can wrap a long URL using \hyphenatedurl, but not without getting some unwanted spaces before the numerous “/”s in the URL. I expect that I have missed something elementary, again. Still, my efforts to avoid the spaces have thus far been unsuccessful, so any help would be gratefully

Re: [NTG-context] XML and 'Table of Contents'

2006-04-11 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hans Hagen wrote: is this working ok in the latest release? Yes Sir - was my stupidity to begin with ... had indenting set to '[medium]'. Joh ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Curious blank page

2006-04-11 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, David Arnold wrote: Why is it that the rest of the page after Answers on page 4 of the compiled pdf is blank? I have a similar problem.

Re: [NTG-context] feature request: clipping option for externalfigure

2006-04-11 Thread Vit Zyka
Hans Hagen wrote: Vit Zyka wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: � wrote: Hello, I would like to clip an external eps-figure as LaTeX does with the clip option. Please consider the attachment as an example for en eps with white border and the following LaTeX and ConTeXt code: \starttext % no

[NTG-context] Figure caption on different page?

2006-04-11 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Is it possible to place (for page sized figures) the caption on the next/previous page? Thanks, Joh ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context