Re: [NTG-context] Listing of typical beginner-questions

2007-03-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/3/30, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am 2007-03-29 um 20:56 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Q: Where to put the commands that apply to the whole document? Is there a 'preferred sectioning' of a Context source? A: You should use \environment's:

Re: [NTG-context] Force all floats on opposite even pages

2007-03-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: What I would like is that all text is put on the odd pages (n), and that all floats are put on the opposite even pages (n-1). It would be nice if this was supported by the output routine, but it is not all that easy. I remember I had a document

Re: [NTG-context] Listing of typical beginner-questions

2007-03-30 Thread Willi Egger
On Mar 29, 2007, at 8:56 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:36:10 +0200 Luuk Beurskens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, Last weekend I had my first hands-on experience with Context. I was told that a listing of the type of problems that I encountered would have a

Re: [NTG-context] Hanging definition

2007-03-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
John R. Culleton wrote: I want to create a definition that is set up similar to an itemize, or more particularly like page 180 in the Context Manual, third example from the top of the page. Here is what I have: --

Re: [NTG-context] figuretext environmnet

2007-03-30 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hans, Sorry for the noise! - Apparently I messed something up, it works also here! Willi On Mar 29, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: \startfiguretext {caption} {\externalfigure[dummy]} \input tufte \stopfiguretext Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph

2007-03-30 Thread List Mail
I know this is a newbie question. However I have read the fine manual (see below), and I still don't know how to indent a paragraph under ConTeXt. The following code does NOT produce an indented paragraph. Can somebody tell me what's wrong? % Begin ConTeXt code \starttext \setupinterlinespace[2]

Re: [NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph

2007-03-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/3/30, List Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know this is a newbie question. However I have read the fine manual (see below), and I still don't know how to indent a paragraph under ConTeXt. The following code does NOT produce an indented paragraph. Can somebody tell me what's wrong? % Begin

Re: [NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph

2007-03-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 30, 2007, at 12:06 PM, List Mail wrote: I know this is a newbie question. However I have read the fine manual (see below), and I still don't know how to indent a paragraph under ConTeXt. The following code does NOT produce an indented paragraph. Can somebody tell me what's wrong? %

Re: [NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph

2007-03-30 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi List Mail, On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:06:57 +0800, List Mail wrote: I know this is a newbie question. However I have read the fine manual (see below), and I still don't know how to indent a paragraph under ConTeXt. The following code does NOT produce an indented paragraph. Can somebody tell

Re: [NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph

2007-03-30 Thread Mari Voipio
List Mail wrote: Also, could somebody point me to where I can download the latest version of the ConTeXt manual. The best I could find using Google's filetype:pdf site:pragma-ade.com is a document named cont-eni.pdf. That's the interactive English full manual. The Pragma website IS sometimes

Re: [NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph

2007-03-30 Thread Mari Voipio
List Mail wrote: \setupindenting[medium] Sanjoy's nifty 'helloworld' document at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Hello_world has this: \setupindenting[medium, yes] It might be the missing 'yes' that's your problem. At least in the Live ConTeXt at http://live.contextgarden.net/ it makes all the

[NTG-context] Descriptions and buffers.

2007-03-30 Thread John R. Culleton
I used the description facility (both definition and use} within a buffer and it did not work. But I removed the passage from the buffer and it worked fine. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Re: [NTG-context] Listing of typical beginner-questions

2007-03-30 Thread Luuk Beurskens
Thank you all for the answers provided to my list of beginner-questions, and also for the suggestions made of using the questions for further documentation. Best regards, Luuk Beurskens The Netherlands ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Force all floats on opposite even pages

2007-03-30 Thread Luuk Beurskens
Thank you Sanjoy, Hans and Taco for the suggestions made. My interpretation of Taco's remark is that Sanjoy's solution might not work as expected, is that correct? My document is rather long, so manual page breaking is not my preferred way of doing it. Myself I was thinking that the floats

Re: [NTG-context] Force all floats on opposite even pages

2007-03-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Luuk Beurskens wrote: Thank you Sanjoy, Hans and Taco for the suggestions made. My interpretation of Taco's remark is that Sanjoy's solution might not work as expected, is that correct? Mostly for practical reasons: it depends on how complex your pages really are. In a document with

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I've uploaded the version 0.3 of my TextMate bundle. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Bundle_for_TextMate and http://dl.contextgarden.net/support/ Direct download: http://dl.contextgarden.net/support/context-tmbundle.dmg Enjoy, Patrick Changes: 0.3: * scope set to

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-30 Thread Helin Gai
Hey Patrick, Very cool update. One question tho, for the old version, I was able to play around with the typeset command to allow typesetting with XeTeX. In this new version, there's only one line in the typeset command: typeset_contextfile. Where can I tweak this then? Thanks! Helin On

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Helin, Very cool update. One question tho, for the old version, I was able to play around with the typeset command to allow typesetting with XeTeX. In this new version, there's only one line in the typeset command: typeset_contextfile. Where can I tweak this then? Oh, sorry. Wait for

[NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello out there, I feel stupid: the following file runs fine on live.contextgarden.net (xetex engine) \font\myfont=Iwona-Regular \myfont \starttext Hello world! \stoptext but not on my local installation: texmfstart texexec --xtx simple TeXExec | processing document 'simple' TeXExec | no ctx

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Very cool update. One question tho, for the old version, I was able to play around with the typeset command to allow typesetting with XeTeX. In this new version, there's only one line in the typeset command: typeset_contextfile. Where can I tweak this then? download and install 0.4. Then

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-30 Thread Helin Gai
Hi Patrick, Thanks for prompt update. Personally, I feel it's probably more flexible to have two distinct command, one for pdftex, and another for xetex... Helin On 3/30/07, Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very cool update. One question tho, for the old version, I was able to

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Helin, Personally, I feel it's probably more flexible to have two distinct command, one for pdftex, and another for xetex... You can set this variable on a per project basis. So for project A set it to xetex, for project B set it to pdftex or unset it. This way you don't have to remeber

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-30 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Any clue what could cause the trouble? Your font is probably only in the texmf tree, it should be installed; that is, on Mac OS X, simply double-click on the font and select “Install”. It will be put in ~/Library/Fonts (probably) and some caching utilities will be run so that in can be found

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Arthur, Your font is probably only in the texmf tree, it should be installed; Ok, that was the problem. If you wonder why it works “out of the box” on ConTeXtgarden Live, well, it must be because someone has installed it (and I should know ;-) Next ConTeXt meeting I won't go to

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello again, Thanks for prompt update. Personally, I feel it's probably more flexible to have two distinct command, one for pdftex, and another for xetex... Here is one for you. It is just a duplicate of 'typeset' with the following command: CTX_ENGINE=xetex typeset_contextfile Same key

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-30 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Next ConTeXt meeting I won't go to sleep at all, just in case I could miss important changes (like switching to xetex at 4:44 a.m) :-)) That's probably the best choice. 24 hours a day are hardly enough anyway :-) ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] TextMate bundle

2007-03-30 Thread Helin Gai
Amazing. Thanks so much! On 3/30/07, Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again, Thanks for prompt update. Personally, I feel it's probably more flexible to have two distinct command, one for pdftex, and another for xetex... Here is one for you. It is just a duplicate of

Re: [NTG-context] How to indent a paragraph

2007-03-30 Thread List Mail
Thanks to all that replied. Comments inline. On 3/30/07, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:06:57 +0800, List Mail wrote: I know this is a newbie question. However I have read the fine manual (see below), and I still don't know how to indent a paragraph under

Re: [NTG-context] xetex problems

2007-03-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 3/31/07, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi Arthur, Your font is probably only in the texmf tree, it should be installed; Ok, that was the problem. Hmmm ... there must be a few additional lines somewhere in fontconfig. If you wonder why it works out of the box on ConTeXtgarden Live,