Re: [NTG-context] Problems with ConTeXt version 2006.05.11

2006-05-15 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Otared Kavian wrote: > If this can be of any help, I noticed that when using the palatino > font, some ligatures disappear as well (like "fi" in "first"). Your pdf document did not include the palatino font at all. When I look at it in Acroread, I see "Adobe Serif MM", pretending to be raw palat

Re: [NTG-context] Bib-module: crossreferences

2006-05-15 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: >>From Taco (Fri Oct 7 16:18:28 CEST 2005): > > >>>Are crossreferences supposed to work in the new bib module? According to the > The new module has \nocite. The solution is still a workaround, but now you can say \nocite[] I believe this is fixed in the current b

[NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, I played a bit with texmfstart on the (so so slow Q3) mac and i think that i managed to get texmfstart working with less problems. I now also ship a texmfstart with all the used (context/ruby/base) libraries merged in (new undocumented feature) so that there is no longer a need to set

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Gilles Pérez-Lambert
Hi, On 5/15/06, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?) I personnaly do: sudo -s when I need to become root for several commands. And then I: exit Gilles. ___ ntg-c

Re: [NTG-context] how to create texmfstart.exe?

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi Christian > I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I > don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe > (Makefile) I can start with? > I'm switching from perl to ruby, so texmfstart is a ruby script. Say that the next code is put in ruby2ex

Re: [NTG-context] how to create texmfstart.exe?

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Christian Schenk wrote: > I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I > don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe > (Makefile) I can start with? > > btw, i can ship the pseudo binaries in a separate zip if you like that Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Repeating tabulate head/tail on every page

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hello, > > I have a long tabulate which spans several pages. > > I use: > > \starttabulatehead > \HL > \NC Energy \NC Temp. \NC Magn. \NC Wavenumb. \NC Wavelength \NC Freq. > \NC Energy \NC Energy \NC\NR > \HL > \stoptabulatehead > > \starttabulatetail > \HL > \stoptabula

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> (btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real > root?) Ubuntu Linux also uses sudo instead of a root login. There I get around it with: $ sudo bash (or your favorite shell) Password: ... # cmd1 ... -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable

Re: [NTG-context] how to create texmfstart.exe?

2006-05-15 Thread Christian Schenk
Hans Hagen wrote: > Christian Schenk wrote: >> I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I >> don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe >> (Makefile) I can start with? >> >> > btw, i can ship the pseudo binaries in a separate zip if you like

Re: [NTG-context] Repeating tabulate head/tail on every page

2006-05-15 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, Hans Hagen schrieb: > \setuptabulate[header=repeat] may work Hmm, it does somehow, but very strangely: See http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~tburnus/tmp/energy-tabulate.pdf and http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~tburnus/tmp/energy-tabulate.tex Without repeat it looks ok: =page 1===

Re: [NTG-context] How to preserve a TeX token list across passes (the ConTeXt way)?

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Jyrki Ruuskanen wrote: > Ok, the module is read in cont-sys.rme with \usemodule[jtex]. It > initializes the lists inside protect / unprotect pair with > \newtoks\usedAbbreviations and \newtoks\usedReferences along with > macro definitions. first of all, here is an alternative to setting your tex

Re: [NTG-context] project files searched for using TEXINPUTS

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > In experimenting with projects, products, and components, I was tracing > file searches (using Linux, teTeX 3.0 and kpathsea). > > >From the cont-eni.pdf manual (p. 26 of the PDF file), explaining more > about components and project structure: > > >> Many TEX implementati

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Maurice Diamantini
Le 15 mai 06 à 09:23, Hans Hagen a écrit : > Hi, > > I played a bit with texmfstart on the (so so slow Q3) mac and i > think that i managed to get texmfstart working with less problems. > I now > also ship a texmfstart with all the used (context/ruby/base) libraries > merged in (new undocum

Re: [NTG-context] How to preserve a TeX token list across passes (the ConTeXt way)?

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Jyrki Ruuskanen wrote: > Ok, the module is read in cont-sys.rme with \usemodule[jtex]. It > initializes the lists inside protect / unprotect pair with > \newtoks\usedAbbreviations and \newtoks\usedReferences along with > macro definitions. > > Abbreviations are introduced with > \setAbbreviatio

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Maurice Diamantini wrote: > Le 15 mai 06 � 09:23, Hans Hagen a �crit : > > >> Hi, >> >> I played a bit with texmfstart on the (so so slow Q3) mac and i >> think that i managed to get texmfstart working with less problems. >> I now >> also ship a texmfstart with all the used (context/ruby/b

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Maurice Diamantini wrote: > > Not quite related to this subject, but as you are going to make the > ConTeXt > installation more and more robust. It would be nice if the ConTeXt > independant > distrib could be use **without positionning any TEXMF like variables**. > This would allow to use u

[NTG-context] Possible users meeting?

2006-05-15 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, On the trip to (and from) Bachotek, Hans and I have discussed a great many topics related to ConTeXt. One of the things we discussed was this: If there is sufficient interest, we could organize a ConTeXt (mini)conference. Tentative programme: friday night : arrivals saturday

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Dalyoung
Dear Hans, Thank you for your work to make everything works fine, and I am sorry to ask you so many things. I made texmfstart working and created the format files using the commands texmfstart texexec --make en texmfstart texexec --make --xetex en It runs OK.

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Gerben Wierda
On 15 May 2006, at 09:23, Hans Hagen wrote: > (btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become > real root?) This depends on what you want to do and on which system. On most unixes, you can say. You can in perl (and probably also ruby which I do not know) set all kinds of uni

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Dalyoung wrote: > Dear Hans, > > Thank you for your work to make everything works fine, and I am sorry > to ask you so many things. > > I made texmfstart working and created the format files using the > commands > texmfstart texexec --make en > texmfstart texexec --m

Re: [NTG-context] Bib-module: crossreferences

2006-05-15 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
From:Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > \setbox\scratchbox=\hbox{\placepublications} > > \startnointerference > \placepublications > \stopnointerference I still get only 1 page (i.e. with no bib) from this file: \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=xampl] \starttext Tric

[NTG-context] Table nesting

2006-05-15 Thread nico
Hello, I try to nest some tables, but the following case crashes, telling about some tex capacity exceeded. But i don't really believe in some capacity problem since it works fine when removing the enclosing of \bTABLEbody \eTABLEbody. BTW, is there some method/option to change the space si

Re: [NTG-context] Ruby and Context

2006-05-15 Thread Willi Egger
Hi John, the answer is YES! - In the latest release the texexec.pl script is replaced by texexec.rb! Willi John R. Culleton wrote: > Until a few minutes ago my Linux Slackware system dd not have a > Ruby interpreter. Yet Context runs fine. I seem to remember > something about some components of

Re: [NTG-context] Reference for the \but command

2006-05-15 Thread Willi Egger
I suggest you search Hans' presentation styles. e.g. s-pre-04.tex Willi Peter Münster wrote: > On Sat, 13 May 2006, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > > >> Where can I find the list of all keywords recognized by the \but command >> to set up interaction? >> (Honest, I searched the manual!)

Re: [NTG-context] Possible users meeting?

2006-05-15 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Taco, Hans, Definitely a great idea. I feel that so many things are moving that it could be a good point to establish a new "baseline". Humble, I would definitely be prepared to help you in whatever respect if ever my knowledge is big enough: presentation, tutorial ... Kind regards Willi

[NTG-context] Several publication lists

2006-05-15 Thread nico
Hello, I wonder if it is possible to display several publication lists. Can we achieve this with the bib module? What I would like to do is to split the publication list into different sections, like this: \section{Bibliography} \subsection{Specifications} ... Here are the list of publication

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:03:15AM +0200, Hans Hagen said that > I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any > strong objections to this? > > Also, i'd like the stubs to run texmfstart as launcher. For that > purpose i'll add a /scripts/context/stubs/[mswin|unix]

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:11:23PM +0200, Hans Hagen said that > > Warning: pdfetex (file > > /usr/local/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/original-base.map): > > invalid entry for `fmvr8x': font file missing > > > > It works if i remove (or rename) the dvipdfm directory. > > > >

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:03:15AM +0200, Hans Hagen said that > >> I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any >> strong objections to this? >> >> Also, i'd like the stubs to run texmfstart as launcher. For that >> purpose i'll add a /s

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-15 Thread Hans Hagen
frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:11:23PM +0200, Hans Hagen said that > >>> Warning: pdfetex (file >>> /usr/local/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/original-base.map): >>> invalid entry for `fmvr8x': font file missing >>> >>> It works if i remove (or rename)

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:15:55AM +0200, Hans Hagen said that > > i just did: > > > > # rm -r /usr/local/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context > > # rm -r /usr/local/share/texmf-local/fonts/map/dvips/context > > # texhash > > > > aren't these files awfully old anyway? are they needed?

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:23:21AM +0200, Hans Hagen said that > (btw, is there a clever way to avoid this sudo stuff and become real root?) i think i missed why you need to become root. is this for regular runs of context in the future? -f -- "will you leave me alone if i give you a quote?

[NTG-context] narrower

2006-05-15 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am trying to make a document in the form of a movie script ACTOR hi there ACTRESS and hi over there i thought this would work nicely: \startnarrower \midaligned{\sc actor} hi there \stopnarrower but the default narr

[NTG-context] Bibliography and whitespace

2006-05-15 Thread nico
Hello, When I use \placebublications the white space I've set is no more taken into account. Besides, in the example below the space between the heading (Biblio) and the publication is also too small. Regards, BG \usemodule[bib] \setupwhitespace[big] \setuppublications[criterium=all] \start

Re: [NTG-context] some patches

2006-05-15 Thread Dalyoung Jeong
Dear Hans, Thank you for your answer. Since it worked perfectly before, I created XeTeX-ConTeXt format using texexec --make --xtx en for a test and run "texexec --xtx file.tex". It run OK and I got a pdf output. I think that it is not only the font problem unless texmfstart uses fonts

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt utf support on apple mac

2006-05-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 5/11/06, Alex Mikhalev wrote: > Hello all, > I am struggling to get a utf support for Context on mac working with > cyrrilic (Russian). > I am using this example: > \enableregime[utf] > \useencoding[cyr] > \definetypeface [russian] > [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] > >

Re: [NTG-context] how to create texmfstart.exe?

2006-05-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 5/12/06, Christian Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to include texmfstart.exe in the MiKTeX distribution, but I > don't know how to build texmfstart.exe. Is there a simple recipe > (Makefile) I can start with? Great news! MikTeX is going to be[come] ConTeXt-friendly again ;) Th

[NTG-context] No header line on chapter page + potential columnset problem?

2006-05-15 Thread Ehrt, Michael
Hi there, I'm having problems with removing the header background from a chapter start page. I'm using \setupbackgrounds[header][text][bottomframe=on] \setupheadertexts[part][chapter] for a header line and part/chapter texts, and \setupheader[state=empty] to remove the header texts on the fir