[NTG-context] debian context updates

2006-12-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! I have uploadedanother repetition, this time with new package splitting: package context: all the normal stuff as before package context-nonfree currently only the cowfonts package context-doc-nonfree all the pdf documentation from below, plus style.pdf and

Re: [NTG-context] List of special characters?

2006-12-28 Thread cormullion
I'm really struggling to get this working... I've got some keywords which i want to mark in the text with a special style: -- \starttext \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[pos,9pt] \setupcolors[state=start] \define[1]\Keyword{%

Re: [NTG-context] debian context updates

2006-12-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! Bad timing ... new upstream ... why was there no notice on dev-context? New upstream 2006-12-27 is online. context-nonfree (cow fonts) and context-doc-nonfree stay the same. Best wishes Norbert --- Dr. Norbert

Re: [NTG-context] debian context updates

2006-12-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Norbert Preining wrote: Hi all! Bad timing ... new upstream ... why was there no notice on dev-context? I forgot, sorry. New upstream 2006-12-27 is online. context-nonfree (cow fonts) and context-doc-nonfree stay the same. Taco ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Elevated text blocks

2006-12-28 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:25:38 +0100 Gerhard Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, in the book which I'm translating there are many exercises which should be elevated. The original sets grey bars at the beginning and the end. My solutions tends to light grey background over the whole text

Re: [NTG-context] List of special characters?

2006-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This works great. But then I've got the following keywords: # ! | \ @ ^ + - * / % Just copied from Aditya's code :) \letterhash, \# \letterexclamationmark \letterbar \letterbackslash \letterat \letterhat \letterslash \letterpercent, \% \letterless

Re: [NTG-context] List of special characters?

2006-12-28 Thread cormullion
On 2006-12-28, at 13:15.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 12/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This works great. But then I've got the following keywords: # ! | \ @ ^ + - * / % Just copied from Aditya's code :) \letterhash, \# \letterexclamationmark \letterbar \letterbackslash \letterat

Re: [NTG-context] List of special characters?

2006-12-28 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:00:07 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just copied from Aditya's code \letterhash, \# \letterexclamationmark \letterbar \letterbackslash \letterat \letterhat \letterslash \letterpercent, \% \letterless \lettermore \letterampersand, \ \letteropenbrace, \{

Re: [NTG-context] Elevated text blocks

2006-12-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Gerhard Kugler wrote: Hi, in the book which I'm translating there are many exercises which should be elevated. The original sets grey bars at the beginning and the end. My solutions tends to light grey background over the whole text block. Partially the exercises

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-12-27, at 21:41.0, Aditya Mahajan wrote: If you have vim and are interested in testing, you can be the first tester of the module :) Hi! Yes I can find a vim module, so if you can tell me which files to put where, I'll give it a try!

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-28 Thread cormullion
How does it find the .vim language syntax file for - say - Ruby? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Cyrillic font

2006-12-28 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello all, I've made some progress with your help. (and esp. Mojca's) Following the guidelines from http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html, I 've defined the Regular font as \enableregime[cp1251] \loadmapfile [t2a-urw-timescyr.map]

Re: [NTG-context] List of special characters?

2006-12-28 Thread cormullion
I've just discovered the command \showcharacters. It's not in the manuals, but useful for showing some of the characters available. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Elevated text blocks

2006-12-28 Thread Gerhard Kugler
Hi Aditya, thank you for your detailed answer. The exercises are so much providing the structure of the book, that it may be that I will choose the format (size) of the page considering the solutions of your questions: On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:48:06AM -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: 1. The

Re: [NTG-context] debian context updates

2006-12-28 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Norbert, Here's the latest description, for the debian/control file (sorry I should have explicitly CC'ed you on the list emails revising it): ConTeXt is a document-production system based, like LaTeX, on the TeX typesetting system. Whereas LaTeX insulates the writer from typographical

Re: [NTG-context] Elevated text blocks

2006-12-28 Thread Gerhard Kugler
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:58:02PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: you can keep text togehther by putting them into a vbox and it will move to the next page if it will not fit on the current page. Thank you Wolfgang, this will be an important possibility. Where is the best documentation

Re: [NTG-context] Elevated text blocks

2006-12-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Gerhard Kugler wrote: Hi Aditya, thank you for your detailed answer. The exercises are so much providing the structure of the book, that it may be that I will choose the format (size) of the page considering the solutions of your questions: If choosing page size is

Re: [NTG-context] Elevated text blocks

2006-12-28 Thread Gerhard Kugler
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 03:03:35PM -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: If choosing page size is an option, and there are only a few that are larger than a page, things may be much easier. Keep all of them in one page, and typeset. Note the ones that are larger than a page, and mark them using a

[NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread Douglas Philips
Hello again, I've just recently tried to get up to speed on ConTeXt by reading what I could find on the web, including cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). Recent activity on this list, discussing the Debian packaging, says (and I commented on this a few days

[NTG-context] Newbie: font sizes

2006-12-28 Thread Elliot Clifton
Hello, I've read the fonts manual, but I don't understand how to change sizes. How can I change the sizes referred to by the sizes selectors \tfx etc... Thankyou, Elliot ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Cyrillic font

2006-12-28 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello all, Thanks to everybody, but I've already written the asked typescript for my installed Cyrillic font (NimbusRomanNo9L). Look at my script, if you interested in. --- \enableregime[cp1251] \loadmapfile [t2a-urw-timescyr.map] \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \starttypescript [serif]

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: Hello again, I've just recently tried to get up to speed on ConTeXt by reading what I could find on the web, including cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). That is the most up to date manual and should get you

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

2006-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does it find the .vim language syntax file for - say - Ruby? When you start vim and say set syntax=ruby, vim should find the syntax file automatically. For example under: /usr/share/vim/vimXX/syntax/ruby.vim c:/programs/vim/vimXX/syntax/ruby.vim

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/28/06, Douglas Philips wrote: Hello again, I've just recently tried to get up to speed on ConTeXt by reading what I could find on the web, including cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). Recent activity on this list, discussing the Debian packaging,

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: font sizes

2006-12-28 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi, Elliot Is this what you want: \switchtobodyfont[*dimen*] It's in the user's manual---cont-enp.pdf---rather than in the fonts manual On 12/29/06, Elliot Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've read the fonts manual, but I don't understand how to change sizes. How can I change the

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 28 December 2006 19:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote: then I finally discovered PSTricks which became kind-of-obsolete with pdfTeX or XeTeX. The same story with just about any package for creating slides or changing page layout, headers, footers (and they all took a lot of time to learn

[NTG-context] Fwd: Re: Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread John R. Culleton
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon? Date: Thursday 28 December 2006 20:58 From: John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Cc: Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 28 December 2006 19:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote: then I finally discovered PSTricks

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:58:25 -0700, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most plain TeX (the old stuff) documents will run under Context. Careful! This only works with a subset of Plain TeX documents. Don't remember any examples off hand (digging out of the second blizzard in a

[NTG-context] PSTricks

2006-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
(was: Manual (English) Update soon?) For Hans: please read further, some things need to be fixed. On 12/29/06, John R. Culleton wrote: Jut FYI PSTricks (which runs on Plain TeX as well as LaTeX) can be run as part of Context. It requires loading a module and an extra pass. Like many of the

Re: [NTG-context] PSTricks

2006-12-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: It would also help a lot for tex4ht if the switch --dvi could work as intended (and without unneded dvips run afterwards). Isn't there --nobackends (or something similar) which will then not run any dvips (or dvipdfm)? Aditya