Re: [NTG-context] Textext Question

2006-05-27 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 27 mai à 00:06:16 Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: On 26 mai 2006, at 22:24, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 26 mai à 18:10:43 Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: Hi Jean Magnan, You should add \useMPlibrary[txt] in order to get textext working. Further

Re: [NTG-context] A question for you

2006-05-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-05-27 um 04:01 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: Which typesetting tasks do you NOT do in ConTeXt, and what do you prefer to use for those tasks? I use InDesign CS(2) for most of my print work, because... - I do design for a living, and my colleagues and sometimes customers must be able

Re: [NTG-context] Textext Question

2006-05-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 26 May 2006, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 26 mai � 18:10:43 Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] �crit notamment: Hi Jean Magnan, You should add \useMPlibrary[txt] in order to get textext working. Further define AX as a path only. In the dummy-graphic

Re: [NTG-context] t-greek module and Latin Modern

2006-05-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: *B.* If I *do* reinstall the Latin Modern, I get �Arithmetic overflow errors� when there is Greek in the footnotes. My code for this is: hwo does the error message look? (the metrics of cm and lm are the same but there may be additional glyohs) Hans

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX hangs

2006-05-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared Kavian wrote: As told above, ConTeXt is called from within TeXShop, but doing texexec eth-hans-2.tex --pdf in a Terminal window gives the same result (I apologize for not being still up dto date with texmfstart... :-) ) I wanted to let you know that I am gathering a number of issues

[NTG-context] making multiple choice questions exams

2006-05-27 Thread batela
Hi, I need to make several versions of a multiple choice questions exam. In each exam the questions have to appear in a different order. Did you know a easy way to do that? Thanks Jorge ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

[NTG-context] Space between footnote number and text

2006-05-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know of a way to get rid of the space between a footnote number and the footnote text? I am formatting my footnotes in paragraph form (n=0) and sometimes the footnote numbers actually appear at the end of a line with the textwrapped around tothe beginning of the next line (which

Re: [NTG-context] A question for you

2006-05-27 Thread gnwiii
On 5/26/06, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which typesetting tasks do you NOT do in ConTeXt, and what do you prefer to use for those tasks? I'm involved with a report series for a small scientific organization. Years ago the organization hired a designer who knew PageMaker. A

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-27 Thread Christopher Creutzig
Hans Hagen wrote: texmfstart --verbose --unix --stubpath=yourbinpath --make all That is a cool feature. But it does not set executable bits on the stubs yet, could you fix that? Regards, Christopher ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] new release

2006-05-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Christopher Creutzig wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: texmfstart --verbose --unix --stubpath=yourbinpath --make all That is a cool feature. But it does not set executable bits on the stubs yet, could you fix that? if you tell me what magic code is needed ... Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Stuck in texmfstart

2006-05-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Neal Lester wrote: At 10:38 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote: On 5/26/06, Neal Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:17 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote: This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the loop at line 262. Placing puts f below line 266 (

Re: [NTG-context] notes on columnset typesetting (not only about)

2006-05-27 Thread Vit Zyka
Hans Hagen wrote: Vit Zyka wrote: Firstly, let us show some examples: - transparency frames ftp://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/pub/cmp/users/zyka/vg-ex/vg05-ex-body1.pdf - two columnsets + marginals + figures + balancing ftp://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/pub/cmp/users/zyka/vg-ex/vg05-ex-body2.pdf - two

Re: [NTG-context] Stuck in texmfstart

2006-05-27 Thread Neal Lester
At 07:06 AM 5/27/2006, you wrote: What I did is copy setuptex to /etc/profile.d/setuptex.sh and then hard coded the value of TEXROOT in setuptex.sh instead of having the script set it from the command line argument. echo $TEXMFCNF prints $TEXROOT/texmf{-local,}/web2c i'm puzzled

Re: [NTG-context] notes on columnset typesetting (not only about)

2006-05-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: hm, worth investigating but maybe wait for what pdftex will bring some day soon you mean things about lua? no, more things like 32 bit, unicode, opentype and such (the impact of lua will most noticably in interfacing areas) perhaps; but imagine different

Re: [NTG-context] making multiple choice questions exams

2006-05-27 Thread Hans Hagen
batela wrote: Hi, I need to make several versions of a multiple choice questions exam. In each exam the questions have to appear in a different order. Did you know a easy way to do that? i did post some example code, didn't i?

Re: [NTG-context] A question for you

2006-05-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Which typesetting tasks do you NOT do in ConTeXt, and what do you prefer to use for those tasks? I do not use ConTeXt for letters and invoices. I guess I could, but I see little point, since I do not really care about how they look as long as can get my point (or

Re: [NTG-context] Textext Question

2006-05-27 Thread Willi Egger
Humble I got this one wrong! Willi Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 26 May 2006, Willi Egger wrote: Hi Jean Magnan, You should add \useMPlibrary[txt] in order to get textext working. Why is this so? I could not find anything in meta-txt.tex to suggest that it is needed for

Re: [NTG-context] making multiple choice questions exams

2006-05-27 Thread batela
Thanks for the reply. Currently I make my examinations with MUCH+LaTeX, but I am exploring ConTeXT and would like to know all its potentialities before dedicating it more intensive atttention. However, as a teacher I recognize the importance of good examples in the pedagogical actions. Thanks

Re: [NTG-context] making multiple choice questions exams

2006-05-27 Thread Hans Hagen
batela wrote: Thanks for the reply. Currently I make my examinations with MUCH+LaTeX, but I am exploring ConTeXT and would like to know all its potentialities before dedicating it more intensive atttention. However, as a teacher I recognize the importance of good examples in the

[NTG-context] /author parameters in Bib module

2006-05-27 Thread Guðmundur J. Kristjánsson
Hi all. I´m a relative newbie in ConTEXt but have used LaTEX for a couple of years. I recently decided to write me master's thesis in ConTEXt and so far it has been sweet... I was looking into the Bib module and there is only one thing that I can't find in the documentation. What are

Re: [NTG-context] A question for you

2006-05-27 Thread nico
On Fri, 26 May 2006 20:01:57 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which typesetting tasks do you NOT do in ConTeXt, and what do you prefer to use for those tasks? I don't use context for any technical documentation that requires several output formats (HTML, PDF, troff for