Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX hangs

2006-05-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 5/27/06, Hans Hagen wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] A question for you

2006-05-28 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, 28 May 2006, nico wrote: BTW, I think that the biggest limitation to have context more used is the installation difficulties: too many dependencies to update by hand (tetex, LM fonts, launching scripts, config files), no standard installation Hello Nico, don't worry, in about 1 or

Re: [NTG-context] A question for you

2006-05-28 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Which typesetting tasks do you NOT do in ConTeXt, and what do you prefer to use for those tasks? Hello Idris, for writing letters I still use LaTeX + lettre.cls or scrlttr2.cls. One interesting feature is the automatic vertical stretching or

Re: [NTG-context] /author parameters in Bib module

2006-05-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Guðmundur J. Kristjánsson wrote: What do #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 stand for? If we look at the doc we get: \author[]{Taco}[T.]{}{Hoekwater} #1 = junior, #4 = von Cheers, taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Space between footnote number and text

2006-05-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 text wrapped around to the

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

2006-05-28 Thread Alan Bowen
Hans— I have updated everything, I think, including Thomas’ Greek module. Now, in processing a file with Greek, the error messages are like the one below: ! Arithmetic overflow. \dododefineprotrudefactor ...\font \fi \fi \relax \rpcode

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

2006-05-28 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

Re: [NTG-context] Space between footnote number and text

2006-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for the response! Here is what I found. The code you suggested... \def\specialcommand#1{\high{#1}~~~}\setupfootnotes[n=0,numbercommand=\specialcommand]\setupfootnotedefinition[distance=0pt] ...actually produced *more* space between the footnote number and the text of the footnote.

Re: [NTG-context] /author parameters in Bib module

2006-05-28 Thread Guðmundur J. Kristjánsson
Hi. Thanks alot. So #3 was middle name? If I´m correct then the parameters are: #1: Junior (as in Jr. (child with same name as father)?). #2: First name. #3: Middle name? #4: von (can this also be used as another middle name?). #5: Last name. Best regards/Kær kveðja, Guðmundur J. Kristjánsson

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

2006-05-28 Thread batela
Thanks very much. In fact, in Context is very easy doing hard tasks. But, it is great if I can do things like: n_exam_versions=3; for (nversion=1 to n_exam_versions) { Final Math Exam Your name: ID: Yor exam version is: #nversion; \startitemize[a,random,packed] \startitem first \stopitem

[NTG-context] missing fonts

2006-05-28 Thread Hans van der Meer
I thought I had a fairly normal tetex tree with the latest lm fonts installed. Can someone guess why I am getting a host of missing font messages in a context run? Something in the wrong place or absent? The log contains: (./front.tex fonts : resetting map file list fonts

[NTG-context] font oddities on mac with i-installer

2006-05-28 Thread Ulf Martin
Hi all! After having fallen back to LaTeX some time ago I thought I should give ConTeXt another try again. But... I just today updated my *entire* TeX installation (teTeX, ConTeXt, LaTeX, etc.) on a Mac OS X 10.3.9 using i-installer. So, I should have a state of the art installation. Now I

[NTG-context] eqno not in math

2006-05-28 Thread Hans van der Meer
Something strange occurs in math, doing: \placeformula\startformula H(K|M,C) = H(K|C) - H(M|C)\eqno{\hbox{(\in{}[eq:keyapp])}} \stopformula produces the following error: ! You can't use `\eqno' in math mode. argument \normalreqno

Re: [NTG-context] font oddities on mac with i-installer

2006-05-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Ulf Martin wrote: Now I have problems with the default fonts. That is, when trying to use good old Computer Modern fonts (which are the default but called Latin Modern, or?) then umlauts, bold face etc. don't work. Also, when MetaFont renders math symbols they become pixelized and don't

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

2006-05-28 Thread Hans Hagen
batela wrote: Thanks very much. In fact, in Context is very easy doing hard tasks. But, it is great if I can do things like: n_exam_versions=3; for (nversion=1 to n_exam_versions) { Final Math Exam Your name: ID: Yor exam version is: #nversion; \startitemize[a,random,packed]

[NTG-context] Paragraph line breaking

2006-05-28 Thread nico
Hello, I'm trying to tweak some parameters to avoid lines going into the margin when it contains long words. Using \setuptolerance[tolerant (or verytolerant)] helps much but sometimes it isn't enough. My questions are: - Using \filename doesn't hyphenate on backslash characters (which is

Re: [NTG-context] font oddities on mac with i-installer

2006-05-28 Thread Hans van der Meer
On May 28, 2006, at 19:01, Ulf Martin wrote: Hi all! After having fallen back to LaTeX some time ago I thought I should give ConTeXt another try again. But... Additionally, there is a mysterious line in the end: warning : use 'texmfstart texexec' instead Now, when I do

Re: [NTG-context] /author parameters in Bib module

2006-05-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Guðmundur J. Kristjánsson wrote: Hi. Thanks alot. So #3 was middle name? If I´m correct then the parameters are: #1: Junior (as in Jr. (child with same name as father)?). Yes, that is the intent. #2: First name. #3: Middle name? It officially stands for inits, but what it means is more

Re: [NTG-context] Making exams in Context

2006-05-28 Thread David Arnold
Hans, No attachment here. I'd like to see this. On May 24, 2006, at 2:07 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: � wrote: I need to prepare an exam. My choice is obviously ContexT, but I have some difficulty in generating multiple choice questions in random order. Each student will have one different