Re: [NTG-context] \pdfannot and \tooltip won't work with Chinese characters

2007-04-13 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi I've been looking at some core codes and the PDF reference, still have no idea. Somehow, I was told that LaTeX can do such things using hyperref package and \pdfstringdef\temp{???}, then \pdfannot{... /Contents(\temp) ...} should be OK. On 4/11/07, Zhichu Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [NTG-context] Interesting interview

2007-04-13 Thread Maurice Diamantini
Le 12 avr. 07 à 07:37, Thomas A. Schmitz a écrit : ... There are fast approaching competitors that will eventually overtake LaTeX if we continue to stagnate. (Not to mention ConTeXt, which has surpassed LaTeX in essentially every area. Maybe the solution is just for everyone to switch to

[NTG-context] macro for api-documentation

2007-04-13 Thread Janko Hauser
Hello everyone, good morning europe, I want to generate an API- documentation. For this I use a table (bTABLE) for every function definition. That's a lot of code, which is in part dynamic (number of rows for example depends on number of arguments). Here is a simple example, but I will need

Re: [NTG-context] Interesting interview

2007-04-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Maurice Diamantini wrote: Le 12 avr. 07 à 07:37, Thomas A. Schmitz a écrit : ... There are fast approaching competitors that will eventually overtake LaTeX if we continue to stagnate. (Not to mention ConTeXt, which has surpassed LaTeX in essentially every area. Maybe

Re: [NTG-context] macro for api-documentation

2007-04-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/4/13, Janko Hauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello everyone, good morning europe, I want to generate an API- documentation. For this I use a table (bTABLE) for every function definition. That's a lot of code, which is in part dynamic (number of rows for example depends on number of arguments).

Re: [NTG-context] Killing the space after a section.

2007-04-13 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: On 4/12/07, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the file set up with no parindent and one blank line between paragraphs. but I want to kill the extra space after \section headers. The current definition is:

Re: [NTG-context] Interesting interview

2007-04-13 Thread Jelle Huisman
Op 13-apr-2007, om 9:20 heeft Aditya Mahajan het volgende geschreven: While starting ConTeXt, I found ConTeXt an excrusion and ConTeXt manual to be extremely well written, much better than what I had read for LaTeX (but then, I never bought a LaTeX book). What do you find missing in the

Re: [NTG-context] Interesting interview

2007-04-13 Thread luigi scarso
Except for reference documentation or book (no need for a s here!). This is exactly why I'm doing modules That's why I come back to LaTeX Very sad about that. I would like www.ensta.fr/~diam/latex/pst-uml/ in context some day. luigi ___ ntg-context

[NTG-context] Announcing: XPSTeX . A joke. Really ?

2007-04-13 Thread luigi scarso
ok, it's a joke http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pdftex/3404 (but the best is http://www.google.com/tisp/ ) But my question is: Will be easy in luatex to implement a new output format (dvi,pdf,xps,my-xml,my-bin-format) driven by command line ? Actually $texmfstart texexec --pdf a.tex ==

Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Kuester
Dear Luigi, luigi scarso wrote: hmm maibe i have not understand, but \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter \vrule width 0.1pt height 1em depth2em }{}% %% or this %% \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter \blank Mlg() }{}% breaks the rule. Or not ? Yes, it does, definitely. So it's my (or any

Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread luigi scarso
I still have to see how to deal with large symbols (bigops and integrals). Maybe with \blank[medium] in between (and some \smash), so that every second line will be on the grid again. Maybe a strategy is to use a vbox with ht+dp multiple of a grid space ...but the first line of every page has

Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread luigi scarso
Among others, see and criticize http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf#modules.pdf Of course, the main starting point is http://wiki.contextgarden.net exp.Search wiki luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] The ConTeXt Companion (was: Interesting interview)

2007-04-13 Thread Ulf Martin
Jelle Huisman schrieb: Op 13-apr-2007, om 9:20 heeft Aditya Mahajan het volgende geschreven: While starting ConTeXt, I found ConTeXt an excrusion and ConTeXt manual to be extremely well written, much better than what I had read for LaTeX (but then, I never bought a LaTeX book). What do you

Re: [NTG-context] Announcing: XPSTeX . A joke. Really ?

2007-04-13 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: ok, it's a joke http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pdftex/3404 (but the best is http://www.google.com/tisp/ ) But my question is: Will be easy in luatex to implement a new output format (dvi,pdf,xps,my-xml,my-bin-format) driven by command line ? in

Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Johannes Kuester wrote: Dear Luigi, luigi scarso wrote: hmm maibe i have not understand, but \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter \vrule width 0.1pt height 1em depth2em }{}% %% or this %% \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter \blank Mlg() }{}% breaks the rule. Or not ? Yes, it does,

Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now

2007-04-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello Paul, Thanks a lot for help with Xetex+Context on Windows. And by the way, what is the uc encoding? It is not mentioned on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes -- With best regards Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now

2007-04-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 4/13/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello Paul, Thanks a lot for help with Xetex+Context on Windows. And by the way, what is the uc encoding? It is not mentioned on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes That page should be improved. uc stands for Unicode. It might be

[NTG-context] \placefigure problems in Xetex

2007-04-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello Unfortunately, I get dummy boxes instead of .pdf figures in the XeteXed document. I know, it has been discussed already in the list. However, I downloaded and installed the fresh version of TexLive2007 today, and no problems from updating shouldn't arise. The log says: figures :

Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now

2007-04-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello Mojca, Thanks a lot. In other words, XeTeX handles Unicode-coded fonts and the author creates UTF-coded documents. Then those encodings are merged somewhere inside. Do I think right? On 4/13/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello Paul, Thanks a lot for help with Xetex+Context on

Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Kuester
Hans Hagen wrote: there is some some gridmath support available; see details.pdf Hans Yes, I know, I use that already. Very helpful for my display formulas. I didn't try it yet on my symbols list, here the module from Wolfgang and blanks will do, I think. Johannes -- Johannes Kuester

Re: [NTG-context] Grid-keeping list (again)

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Kuester
Maybe a strategy is to use a vbox with ht+dp multiple of a grid space ...but the first line of every page has another height Each first line will be some heading, so that's not a problem in my case. My grid-keeping list problem is solved, the module by Wolfgang serves my purpose very well.

[NTG-context] XeTeX is broken after ConTeXt update

2007-04-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, To get rid of dummy boxes instead of figures in XeTeX output, I've decided to update the stuff (I already has installed fresh latest TeXLive). I typed ctxtools --update then texexec --xtx --make en and even recreated format files from TeXLive GUI. After all, I get

Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now

2007-04-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
I admit it. I admit everything. I'm the guily one for the whole mess about XeTeX! http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes_in_XeTeX Some time ago Hans has decided to ignore \enableregime in XeTeX. I could have written more (and cite things), but I'm in a hurry right now and I will

[NTG-context] book by hermann zapf

2007-04-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, For those who like beautiful books and are not a Dante member ... http://www.linotype.com/26/merchandise.html you can order Hermann Zapfs latest book here, apart from being an interesting and well designed book, it's also also a nice palatino showcase (nova and sans), perfect paper,

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX is broken after ConTeXt update

2007-04-13 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Hi Vyatcheslav, I encountered the same problem a couple of weeks ago ... and it will probably not be fixed until luaTeX is out. The reason is that Hans is currently reworking bits and pieces of ConTeXt in order to prepare for the transition to luaTeX ... and font handling is apparently one

Re: [NTG-context] \placefigure problems in Xetex

2007-04-13 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Hi, again, I've been through this a couple of days ago so I'm happy to share my experience with you ;-) For me the problem was not having installed ImageMagick in the first place. But judging from your log this doesn't seem to be the problem. Let me think ... perhaps your glitch might be

[NTG-context] Updates with older dates

2007-04-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Sorry, just found a strange thing. A month old distribution of TeXLive contains bib-mod.doc file dated November 4, 2006. And current cont-tmf.zip contains the same file but dated... September 7, 2006. Strange, isn't it? Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

[NTG-context] No way to use XeTeX

2007-04-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello Oliver, I reinstalled TeXLive2007 from scratch -- fonts work fine, but .pdf images are replaced by dummy rectangles. (ImageMagik makes no difference.) After manually updating ConTeXt files to the current release -- font handling is broken. So, there is no way to use XeTeX for me. :(((

Re: [NTG-context] \placefigure problems in Xetex

2007-04-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello Unfortunately, I get dummy boxes instead of .pdf figures in the XeteXed document. I know, it has been discussed already in the list. However, I downloaded and installed the fresh version of TexLive2007 today, and no problems from

Re: [NTG-context] No way to use XeTeX

2007-04-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello Oliver, I reinstalled TeXLive2007 from scratch -- fonts work fine, but .pdf images are replaced by dummy rectangles. (ImageMagik makes no difference.) This sounds like the command execution extension is turned off. Whether or not ConTeXt is allowed to

Re: [NTG-context] Updates with older dates

2007-04-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Sorry, just found a strange thing. A month old distribution of TeXLive contains bib-mod.doc file dated November 4, 2006. And current cont-tmf.zip contains the same file but dated... September 7, 2006. I'll check. The differences can't be big. It looks like I

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX is broken after ConTeXt update

2007-04-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Oliver Buerschaper wrote: Hi Vyatcheslav, I encountered the same problem a couple of weeks ago ... and it will probably not be fixed until luaTeX is out. It appears to me that reverting back to the situation from three months ago would already be a step forward from what we have now, yes?

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX is broken after ConTeXt update

2007-04-13 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
I encountered the same problem a couple of weeks ago ... and it will probably not be fixed until luaTeX is out. It appears to me that reverting back to the situation from three months ago would already be a step forward from what we have now, yes? As far as fonts are concerned ...

[NTG-context] Fwd: Re[2]: No way to use XeTeX

2007-04-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, Taco and Anita, you are geniuses! shell_escape was set to false, indeed. However, it fails further. My ch6.pdf output file isn't created at all whenever I insert \externalfigure[f01.pdf]. The log says ... systems : begin file ch6 at line 10 [EMAIL