Re: [NTG-context] New math feature requests

2006-08-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi Hans and Taco, I am back with some more math request Forgot a small request: Can this be added to core-mat.tex \def\intertext#1{\startintertext#1\stopintertext} Aditya ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: since you're typesetting german ... why not using the texnansi encoding instead of the flawed ec encoding? The problem is that it doesn't work with the texnansi encoding either. See my last mails. Andreas ___

Re: [NTG-context] counting the words in a TeX document

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 8/7/06, Hans Hagen wrote: (I'll spare you the fun with sections for some other time,) but since you reminded me that I might have some questions left, here you have another one: how do I replace hyphens, en-dashes and em-dashes with spaces/line breaks?

Re: [NTG-context] safe way of writing arguments

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Jano Kula wrote: Hi! Is it safe to leave spare comma at the end of the key=value list or other list of arguments? in most cases it is ok It is not nice, but when adding/commenting arguments in readable way (one per line) it's faster and while experimenting with parameters one doesn't

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Andreas Schneider wrote: On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: since you're typesetting german ... why not using the texnansi encoding instead of the flawed ec encoding? The problem is that it doesn't work with the texnansi encoding either. See my last mails. if the problem is

Re: [NTG-context] New math feature requests

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi Hans and Taco, I am back with some more math request Forgot a small request: Can this be added to core-mat.tex \def\intertext#1{\startintertext#1\stopintertext} sure, but as: \def\intertext#1%

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Andreas Schneider wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: if the problem is in a font not having glyphs, you can consider making a special encoding vector + enco-* file; not that complex since one can start with an existing one The problem is that it does work with pdftex (tex -

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: in such case you need to add a \dontleavehmode to force tex into starting a paragraph Is that better than using \noindentation (suggested by the other Mahajan)? The one problem with it that I found is an extra space in indentation for the first paragraph. I guess

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Nicolas Grilly wrote: Why does it break column alignment? Is it normal? A quick test looks fine to me. What precisely is wrong? Taco % testfile \setupTABLE[column][each][aligncharacter=yes, alignmentcharacter={,}] \definestartstop[tableau][ before={\blank[2*big]},

Re: [NTG-context] environment files and indenting

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: But if I inline the environment file, to get \startenvironment ne \setupindenting[medium,yes] \stopenvironment \starttext \placeformula\startformula x = 10 \stopformula \stoptext then texexec doesn't produce any overfull \hbox. And also no PDF, because

Re: [NTG-context] buffers

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hans, was this fixed. There is a typo in core-buf.tex and it is still present in latest updateable version (2006.08.02). ok done Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: DemiBold causes problems here... Demibold seems to work cleanly... all should be DemiBold; fixed - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-08 Thread Nicolas Grilly
Taco Hoekwater wrote: A quick test looks fine to me. What precisely is wrong? My test file to reproduce the problem is at the end of this message. When executing this test file, you should see numbers in table 2 are not correctly aligned. When you comment \starttableau and \stoptableau, columns

Re: [NTG-context] safe way of writing arguments

2006-08-08 Thread Jano Kula
Hans Hagen wrote: Jano Kula wrote: Hi! Is it safe to leave spare comma at the end of the key=value list or other list of arguments? in most cases it is ok It is not nice, but when adding/commenting arguments in readable way (one per line) it's faster and while experimenting with

Re: [NTG-context] environment files and indenting

2006-08-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
And also no PDF, because \stopenvironment executes \endinput :-) Whoops! I'd been testing so many variants in order to find the minimal file and had outsourced the checking to 'grep hbox' (rather than reading through the texexec output by hand). So I didn't even notice the lack of a PDF file.

Re: [NTG-context] How to get rid of header

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Taco Hoekwater wrote: I would like to know a clean answer to this as well. I often use code that does something similar to James' solution (posted last week): \startsetups [chapter:before] \page[left] \noheaderandfooterlines \leavevmode \page[right]

Re: [NTG-context] safe way of writing arguments

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Jano Kula wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Jano Kula wrote: Hi! Is it safe to leave spare comma at the end of the key=value list or other list of arguments? in most cases it is ok It is not nice, but when adding/commenting arguments in readable way (one per line)

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-08 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Ok, works with Demi"B"old lbd.afm gives FontName LucidaBright-Demi FullName Lucida Bright Demibold FamilyName LucidaBright Weight DemiBold So, afaiu, you use the Weight to suffix the font's name... But I don't understand why Demibold works ? Strange ? Could you explain ? The result of

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Ok, works with DemiBold lbd.afm gives FontName LucidaBright-Demi FullName Lucida Bright Demibold FamilyName LucidaBright ah, i see, so we should use Demibold Weight DemiBold So, afaiu, you use the Weight to suffix the font's name... But I don't understand why

[NTG-context] \dontleavehmode and indenting after section (was Re: Context 2006.08.04 released)

2006-08-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Hans wrote: Is that better than using \noindentation (suggested by the other Mahajan)? The one problem with it that I found is an extra space in indentation for the first paragraph. I guess it's because there's a space in horizontal mode somewhere that isn't being ignored (as it would

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-08 Thread Renaud AUBIN
I'm agree to use Demibold ;) (my type-buy is ready) Can you test: \placeformula \startformula[lucida] 1 \Gamma \alpha x \stopformula \placeformula \startformula[lucida] 1 \Gamma {\bfm \alpha x} \stopformula \placeformula \startformula[lucidaboldmath] 1 \Gamma \alpha x \stopformula

Re: [NTG-context] \dontleavehmode and indenting after section (was Re: Context 2006.08.04 released)

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: I couldn't find the extra space in the source, but here's the minimal test file in the hope that your eyes and understanding are sharper. The space is created from the linefeed at the end of the line \section{First} but I do not quite see why it is not ignored.

Re: [NTG-context] environment files and indenting

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: So that leaves the original problem, which is why the hbox is overfull in this minimal file (that produces a PDF!): The overfull box is caused by a strut. It is easily removed by \def\verticalstrut {\normalvbox {\hsize \zeropoint \noindent\strut }} Taco

Re: [NTG-context] New math feature requests

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: 2. In amsmath, most of alignment constructs exist in two forms: outer and inner. The mathalignment implemented in core-mat.tex corresponds to outer alignment. The inner alignment is same as outer alignment, but is only as wide as necessay. The most common amsmath

Re: [NTG-context] New math feature requests

2006-08-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: 2. In amsmath, most of alignment constructs exist in two forms: outer and inner. The mathalignment implemented in core-mat.tex corresponds to outer alignment. The inner alignment is same as outer alignment, but is only as wide

Re: [NTG-context] \dontleavehmode and indenting after section (was Re: Context 2006.08.04 released)

2006-08-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
The space is created from the linefeed at the end of the line \section{First} but I do not quite see why it is not ignored. Right in front of my nose (I was looking in the source files for a line that needed a % at the end). Is it because tex is still in horizontal mode thanks to the

Re: [NTG-context] environment files and indenting

2006-08-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
The overfull box is caused by a strut. It is easily removed by \def\verticalstrut{\normalvbox {\hsize \zeropoint \noindent\strut }} Easily removed, but not so easily found! Thanks, that fixes it. Looking at the standard definition of \verticalstrut (in core-spa.tex): \def\verticalstrut

Re: [NTG-context] environment files and indenting

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: The overfull box is caused by a strut. It is easily removed by \def\verticalstrut{\normalvbox {\hsize \zeropoint \noindent\strut }} Easily removed, but not so easily found! Thanks, that fixes it. Looking at the standard definition of \verticalstrut (in

Re: [NTG-context] \dontleavehmode and indenting after section (was Re: Context 2006.08.04 released)

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: The space is created from the linefeed at the end of the line \section{First} but I do not quite see why it is not ignored. Right in front of my nose (I was looking in the source files for a line that needed a % at the end). Is it because tex is still in horizontal

Re: [NTG-context] marking files for delition in the next texutil/ctxtools --purge run

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, is it possible to mark the files somehow, so that they are deleted in the next run of ctxtools --purge[files]? (I create a lot of temporary files with different macros and would like to get rid of them at the end.) This is supported in the new release, just say

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation by default off in lists ?

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, is hyphenation by default off in lists? This is resolved in the latest release. It allows control of the alternative=(a|b|c) parameters by \setuplistalternative[a] See texshow for the precise details. Cheers, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.08 released

2006-08-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.08 released

2006-08-08 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Same thing happens here... (Aditya was faster... ;) ) Renaud Aditya Mahajan a crit: Something broke with formula numbering, and it is due to the numbering changes. \preparethenumber is commented from core-sec.tex, dododoformulanumber in core-mat.tex still uses it. As a result even the

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.08 released

2006-08-08 Thread Renaud AUBIN
What's the meaning of automatically calls bibtex now. We don't have to call: texexec --once mydoc bibtex mydoc texexec mydoc anymore ? Renaud Taco Hoekwater a écrit : Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.08 released

2006-08-08 Thread Renaud AUBIN
I have finally read bibmode-doc... (Sorry to pollute the ML with dumb post...) Renaud AUBIN a écrit : What's the meaning of automatically calls bibtex now. We don't have to call: texexec --once mydoc bibtex mydoc texexec mydoc anymore ? Renaud

Re: [NTG-context] \dontleavehmode and indenting after section (was Re: Context 2006.08.04 released)

2006-08-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Taco wrote: Right in front of my nose (I was looking in the source files for a line that needed a % at the end). Is it because tex is still in horizontal mode thanks to the \dontleavehmode, and also because spaces after } are not ignored automatically? The answer is yes (the new

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.08 released

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Renaud AUBIN wrote: I have finally read bibmode-doc... (Sorry to pollute the ML with dumb post...) Renaud AUBIN a écrit : What's the meaning of automatically calls bibtex now. We don't have to call: texexec --once mydoc bibtex mydoc texexec mydoc anymore ? Correct. Taco

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Andreas Schneider
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Somehow you yourself (and not texfont!) have created a font map file called bgj.map for dvips, and that file is wrong. Hmm, I have created it just for LaTeX. Since it contains only entries for ec-bgj* (without 'raw') it should not interfere with the

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.08 released

2006-08-08 Thread Willi Egger
Great that the new Cows-letter-font is released! Will you kindly provide some hints how to use this font? - I remember some trickery you presented at the NTG meeting. . Last but not least, what am I missing trying to get the cows show up? \loadmapfile[koeieletters]

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.08 released

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: Something broke with formula numbering, and it is due to the numbering hm, i really need this ultra light portable to carry around at home which beeps when someone sends such a mail -) anyway, with a bit of delay ... new zips uploaded (unchecked -) Hans

Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt with ctxtools

2006-08-08 Thread Alan Bowen
Sanjoy—thanks for pointing me to the thread. I must have missed it the first time around.I inserted Hans’f.write("#{program} #{callname} \"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"\012")in my texmfstart, changing the original  012 to 015 as Taco suggested for the Mac. But now I get syntax error near unexpected token

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.08 released

2006-08-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
anyway, with a bit of delay ... new zips uploaded (unchecked -) I just tested Aditya's example \starttext \placeformula \startformula a = b \stopformula \stoptext and found that it worked fine (with 2006.08.08 21:51), so I guessed that some fast updating happened! I've added that example to

Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt with ctxtools

2006-08-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
In any case, I have probably misunderstood the thread. Has a summary been posted somewhere that I might consult? I need to summarize all the Linux installation methods on the Wiki, once I get it all straight in my head. Right now in reality and in my head it's a nightmare because of all the

[NTG-context] ctxtools.rb (was Re: Context 2006.08.08 released )

2006-08-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Hans, The latest ctxtools.rb has: def locatedlocaltree tree = `kpsewhich --expand-path $TEXMFLOCAL`.chomp rescue nil unless tree FileTest.directory?(tree) then tree = `kpsewhich --expand-path $TEXMF`.chomp rescue nil

Re: [NTG-context] updating ConTeXt with ctxtools

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: In any case, I have probably misunderstood the thread. Has a summary been posted somewhere that I might consult? I need to summarize all the Linux installation methods on the Wiki, once I get it all straight in my head. Right now in reality and in my head it's a

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Andreas, Andreas Schneider wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Somehow you yourself (and not texfont!) have created a font map file called bgj.map for dvips, and that file is wrong. Hmm, I have created it just for LaTeX. Since it contains only entries for ec-bgj* (without

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: The second problem: texfont simply does not 'do' EC correctly (at least not on my machine). There are simply no fi ligatures, not in pdftex either. I will investigate this further. how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non existing ligs into

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: When you create a map file for dvips for a texfont-installed font family, it needs to have those *-raw-* entries that will map the fonts to the real postscript font files on your harddisk, and those were missing from your bgj.map. the reason why i create the map files

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.08 released

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Willi Egger wrote: Great that the new Cows-letter-font is released! Will you kindly provide some hints how to use this font? - I remember some trickery you presented at the NTG meeting. . Last but not least, what am I missing trying to get the cows show up? This should work:

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: The second problem: texfont simply does not 'do' EC correctly (at least not on my machine). There are simply no fi ligatures, not in pdftex either. I will investigate this further. how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non

[NTG-context] Footnote not marked in narrative

2006-08-08 Thread David Arnold
All, How can I have a footnote that is not marked in the narrative? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.08 released

2006-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: Great that the new Cows-letter-font is released! Will you kindly provide some hints how to use this font? - I remember some trickery you presented at the NTG meeting. .. Last but not least, what am I missing trying to get the cows show up? just load the symb-cow

[NTG-context] Column problem

2006-08-08 Thread David Arnold
Hans et al, In making the final pass at our book, I have a problem with the \column command. In trying to start a new column to avoid a widow, I put a \column command at the end of the first of two columns on a page. The result is I get a start of a new column, but it is on a new page.

Re: [NTG-context] modules

2006-08-08 Thread Nikolai Weibull
On 4/4/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to be able to generate new zips i'd like the modules in the wiki to be tds compliant as soon as possible. Ive kept this mail starred since I first saw it and haven't put any thought into what you're actually asking about here. Now,

[NTG-context] columns - columnsets introduces problems

2006-08-08 Thread David Arnold
Hans et al, When we discovered that \column doesn't work reliably with \startcolumns[n=2] ... \stopcolumns, we made some changes to our style files: %\setupcolumns % [tolerance=stretch, % balance=yes, % blank=flexible, % rule=off, % distance=2.5em]

Re: [NTG-context] modules

2006-08-08 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
TDS is the Tex Directory Structure, designed so that the various tex distributions use the same file structure. See http://www.tug.org/tds/ -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.

Re: [NTG-context] texfont: installed font only works with pdftex

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 8, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: how does -afmpl perform? i always suspected afm2tfm not to take non existing ligs into account Just as bad (here, at least). I'll get back to you about this tomorrow, it is too late for me to do serious work. I've experimented with