Re: [NTG-context] Pagebreak only after stanzas

2007-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Bert Tr�ger wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> i am a fresh convert to Context from Latex and deeply impressed by >> it's ability to set multiple pages on one page, even doublesided >> ones. >> For setting a collection of poems I use \obeylines and \smallskip >>

Re: [NTG-context] \unknown

2007-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Hi Hans... > > \unknown > well, not all fonts have elipses -) i use \unknown as placeholder for something (yet) unknown Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] bibtex: "et al." and missing spacing before "et"

2007-04-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hello, > > if I tex the following example, I get: > "Hu{\it et al.}" without space between "Hu" and "et". > > Any idea why this happens? This is with: Probably a to-eager \ignorespaces. The best solution is to start the texts in bibl-aps.tex: \c!authoretaltext={\ {\it

Re: [NTG-context] page numbering in words?

2007-04-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I have just noticed this thread (I cannot really catch up reading all the stuff here) and remembered that I have some really old files lying somewhere on my computer. The file dates back to the time when Brooks Moses & Hans have implemented \defineconversion [sl] [a] [\sloveniancharact

Re: [NTG-context] using of field failed when arrange subpages

2007-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Zhichu Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried Hans' example introduced at mwidget-p.pdf, it's perfect. > But when > I was trying some subpage arrangements, it just failed. How could it > happen? > I guess either shiping out subpages forget the fields or something has > covered over them. Here's a small

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

2007-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
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 updating shouldn't a

[NTG-context] Pagesize < papersize: Writing jobname/date outside page area

2007-04-17 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, I have pagesize < papersize and use crop marks. What I actually miss is the possibility to put text (Project name, date/time) outside the page. Currently, ConTeXt only prints there the colour bars, the page numbers and the crop marks. Example: http://glossary.ippaper.com/default.asp?req=gl

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

2007-04-17 Thread Zhichu Chen
Thanks Hans, It works. But only the /Contents part was converted correctly, the /T part is still not so good. So I redefined your \doPDFinsertcomment macro and changed the third line from \doifelsenothing{#1} {\let\PDFidentifier\empty} {\def\PDFidentifier{/T (#1

Re: [NTG-context] loading hyphen patterns

2007-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: > > > Does this mean that the hyphenation patterns are not loaded (although > present in the cont-tmf.zip)? And if so, how do I accomplish loading > them? each run reports the patterns that are loaded (languages + font encodings) Hans

[NTG-context] Side caption in floats

2007-04-17 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, I want to a normal caption next to a float: ## ## ## Fig. 1: Some object desc. ## in this caption. where the text should be bottom aligned unless the text is much longer: ## Fig. 2: Some textual ## description to a rather small f

Re: [NTG-context] using of field failed when arrange subpages

2007-04-17 Thread Zhichu Chen
Thank you any way. I hope it won't be a problem one day. On 4/17/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zhichu Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried Hans' example introduced at mwidget-p.pdf , it's perfect. > But when > I was trying some subpage arrangements, it just failed. How could it > happen

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

2007-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Zhichu Chen wrote: > 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. > can you try

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

2007-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Zhichu Chen wrote: > Thanks Hans, > > It works. But only the /Contents part was converted correctly, the /T > part > is still not so good. So I redefined your \doPDFinsertcomment macro and > changed the third line from > > \doifelsenothing{#1} > {\let\PDFidentifier\e

Re: [NTG-context] loading hyphen patterns

2007-04-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: > Does this mean that the hyphenation patterns are not loaded (although > present in the cont-tmf.zip)? Not by itself. Further down in the log file, you should see something like this: system : cont-fmt loaded (./cont-fmt.tex) language: patterns en fo

[NTG-context] loading hyphen patterns

2007-04-17 Thread Hans van der Meer
In the process of updating to the Texlive2007 distribution I came across the folowing messages in the log when generating the context formats: ) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/lang-ctx.tex loading : Context Language Macros / Generic Patterns language:

[NTG-context] Vertical alignment of framed text

2007-04-17 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, I want to insert "hotkeys", surrounded by a round frame, into a paragraph text. I almost have achieve it, except of proper vertical alignment. Now it is the frame that is aligned with the text bottom line. But, I want the text inside a frame to be aligned with the rest of line. (I foun

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of framed text

2007-04-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:27:03 +0300 Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > \defineframed >[hotkey][height=\lineheight,offset=4pt,corner=00] Hi, \defineframed [hotkey][offset=4pt,corner=00,location=low] Wolfgang > > \starttext > Another way to start or stop the device is to

Re: [NTG-context] Pagesize < papersize: Writing jobname/date outside page area

2007-04-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Tobias Burnus wrote: > Hello, > > I have pagesize < papersize and use crop marks. What I actually > miss is > the possibility to put text (Project name, date/time) outside the > page. > Currently, ConTeXt only prints there the colour bars, the page numbers > and t

Re: [NTG-context] Pagesize < papersize: Writing jobname/date outside page area

2007-04-17 Thread Tobias Burnus
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I wrote a module > for my own use that has similar features. > That is exactly what I was looking for. (For colour registering marks, one would have to print the marks in all colours (usually CMYK and/or spot colou

[NTG-context] bib + local & global citations

2007-04-17 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, I use bibl-aps which has references of the form "[1]". I want to have a global bib index (\placepublications[criterium=all]), but in two sections I want to have a local bib index (\placepublications[criterium=section]) too. The numbers should not be reseted in between. Currently, I get: \

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical alignment of framed text

2007-04-17 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, Thank you Wolfgang, but \defineframed [hotkey][offset=4pt,corner=00,location=low] produces too big frames, while \defineframed [hotkey][height=\lineheight,offset=4pt,corner=00,location=low] produces nice tight frames but places the text very BELOW the line text. (Previously the

[NTG-context] Output from texexec

2007-04-17 Thread John R. Culleton
Under TeXLive 2007 version of context when I run even a trivial program I get reams of output referring to the same typefiles over and over again. Then I get a little message (in the log file) about fonts being reset. Then I get messages about the fonts I actually use. The purpose of compiler

Re: [NTG-context] Output from texexec

2007-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
John R. Culleton wrote: > Under TeXLive 2007 version of context when I run even a trivial > program I get reams of output referring to the same typefiles over > and over again. Then I get a little message (in the log file) about > fonts being reset. Then I get messages about the fonts I actually

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

2007-04-17 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi, Hans It may be useless, but I really hope I can pass some options to the comment. e.g., use \comment[color=blue][title]{some contents} will make "some contents" blue. So I think we can use /RC instead of /Contents. On 4/17/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zhichu Chen wrote: > Tha

Re: [NTG-context] Pagesize < papersize: Writing jobname/date outside page area

2007-04-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Tobias Burnus wrote: > > >> Hello, >> >> I have pagesize < papersize and use crop marks. What I actually >> miss is >> the possibility to put text (Project name, date/time) outside the >> page. >> Currently, ConTeXt only prints there th