Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-12 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
On Dec 12, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Peter Münster wrote: I vote against too. The only mappings, that make sense to me: -- and --- since it's difficult to distinguish them from - in a text-editor and ~ since it's difficult to distinguish the utf unbreakable space from normal space in a

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Wolfgang, Am 08.12.2007 um 10:18 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: 2007/12/8, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think he mean the old methods write for example umlauts and other accents. You write a to get ä, s to get ß ... The last user how needed this suport for german was Steffen

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 12.12.2007 um 07:50 schrieb Peter Münster: I'm german, and I don't see any reason for keeping those mappings. I would vote against supporting them (a, o, u) in LuaTeX, but it's not up to me. nobody voted in favor so far ... I vote against too. Same for me. The only mappings,

Re: [NTG-context] extended dictionary / hyphenation patterns

2007-12-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 11.12.2007 um 16:16 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I guess German is famous for its monstrous compound words ;o( So I have a manually collected lists of hyphenation patterns (like \hyphenation{Selbst-kon-troll-ein-rich-tung}). This I'd like to keep as a two separate

Re: [NTG-context] extended dictionary / hyphenation patterns

2007-12-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: is there [with mkii] a better / more economical way to write those yourfile.tex collections than \hyphenation{Selbst-kon-troll-ein-rich-tung} \hyphenation{Selbst-kon-troll-ein-rich-tun-gen} \hyphenation{Be-triebs-prü-fung} \hyphenation{Be-triebs-prü-fun-gen}

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with Context 2007/12/10 beta

2007-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/12/11, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Santy, Michael wrote: There seems to be a problem introduced in the 2007/12/10 beta related to tables with rowspans. The following doesn't compile: \starttext \setupTABLE[split=repeat] \bTABLE \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC

[NTG-context] Heading styles

2007-12-12 Thread Zeus Gómez Marmolejo
Hi all, Two questions concerning heading styles: 1) How can I control vertical spacing of section headings. I'm doing it now with: \setuphead [subsection] [before=\vskip -7pt, after=\vskip -20pt] But I think this is quite clumsy, because I'm adding a negative spacing. I only want to

Re: [NTG-context] Unwanted information in PDF files

2007-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/12/12, Maurí­cio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, After generating a PDF from a .tex file, I changed the name of the resulting PDF to something else. But when I open that file in 'evince', it still shows the old file name. I opened that file in emacs in saw that I lot of info is stored in the

Re: [NTG-context] Heading styles

2007-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/12/12, Zeus Gómez Marmolejo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Two questions concerning heading styles: 1) How can I control vertical spacing of section headings. I'm doing it now with: \setuphead [subsection] [before=\vskip -7pt, after=\vskip -20pt] But I think this is quite

Re: [NTG-context] extended dictionary / hyphenation patterns

2007-12-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 11.12.2007 um 16:16 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I guess German is famous for its monstrous compound words ;o( So I have a manually collected lists of hyphenation patterns (like \hyphenation{Selbst-kon-troll-ein-rich-tung}). This I'd like to keep as a two separate

Re: [NTG-context] Unwanted information in PDF files

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Rolf
Maurí­cio schrieb: Hi, After generating a PDF from a .tex file, I changed the name of the resulting PDF to something else. But when I open that file in 'evince', it still shows the old file name. I opened that file in emacs in saw that I lot of info is stored in the PDF file: original

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with Context 2007/12/10 beta

2007-12-12 Thread Michael Santy
Hans, The two table-related problems that I reported against the 12/10 beta appear to be fixed in the 12/11 beta. I'll hammer on it some more. Cheers, Mike On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 19:01 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Santy, Michael wrote: There seems to be a problem introduced in the 2007/12/10

Re: [NTG-context] extended dictionary / hyphenation patterns

2007-12-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 11.12.2007 um 16:16 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I guess German is famous for its monstrous compound words ;o( So I have a manually collected lists of hyphenation patterns (like \hyphenation{Selbst-kon-troll-ein-rich-tung}). This I'd like to keep as a two separate

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Bookmarks on unnumbered subjects/titles etc

2007-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/12/11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone managed to get ConTeXt to generate PDF bookmarks for the unnumbered headings such as \title, \subject, etc? I saw the examples on the wiki page but unfortunately they did nothing.

Re: [NTG-context] Unwanted information in PDF files

2007-12-12 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/12/12, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: \doPDFaddtoinfo{/ConTeXt.Version (\contextversion)}% \doPDFaddtoinfo{/ConTeXt.Time (\number\normalyear.\twodigits\normalmonth.\twodigits\normalday\space \twodigits\currenthour:\twodigits\currentminute)}% %% \doPDFaddtoinfo{/ConTeXt.Jobname

[NTG-context] installing latest beta

2007-12-12 Thread Alan Bowen
I have been unable to install the latest ConTeXt beta—both sudo texhash sudo fail (stall) when updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/ls-R... The last beta worked as expected and, so far as I know, there have been no changes in my installation. Any suggestions? Alan

Re: [NTG-context] extended dictionary / hyphenation patterns

2007-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Am 11.12.2007 um 16:16 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I guess German is famous for its monstrous compound words ;o( So I have a manually collected lists of hyphenation patterns (like \hyphenation{Selbst-kon-troll-ein-rich-tung}). This I'd like to

Re: [NTG-context] installing latest beta

2007-12-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Alan Bowen wrote: I have been unable to install the latest ConTeXt beta—both sudo texhash sudo fail (stall) when updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/ls-R... The last beta worked as expected and, so far as I know, there have been no changes in my installation. Any

Re: [NTG-context] installing latest beta

2007-12-12 Thread Alan Bowen
I did some basic housecleaning of caches and so forth and tried again. sudo texhash now works, though it took 10 minutes (as opposed to the usual 30 seconds). No idea why. sudo texexec --make --all ran as expected. Anyway all I needed was patience. Sorry to impose on yours. A. On Dec 12,

Re: [NTG-context] extended dictionary / hyphenation patterns

2007-12-12 Thread Ulrich Dirr
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Am 11.12.2007 um 16:16 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I guess German is famous for its monstrous compound words ;o( So I have a manually collected lists of hyphenation patterns (like \hyphenation{Selbst-kon-troll-ein-rich-tung}). This I'd like

Re: [NTG-context] What's the ps_name of AdobeMingStd-Light?

2007-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/12/11, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2007/12/11, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I run LuaTeX on a songle core pentium M with 1.7 GHz and 512 MB ram, I made now a smell test file and the problem the speed with this file is not

[NTG-context] LaTeX float pages in ConTeXt

2007-12-12 Thread Santy, Michael
I've been playing around with the float placement options in ConTeXt, but I could find no way to enable float pages. If you're not familiar with float pages, here's a quick blurb: If there are too many floats to fit on a page, LaTeX pushes them on to the next page, and the next; eventually,

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX float pages in ConTeXt

2007-12-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Santy, Michael wrote: I've been playing around with the float placement options in ConTeXt, but I could find no way to enable float pages. If you're not familiar with float pages, here's a quick blurb: If there are too many floats to fit on a page, LaTeX pushes them

[NTG-context] FLOWchart clipping or offset

2007-12-12 Thread Johan Sandblom
Consider this example. As it stands, the cells in the flow chart are clipped on the horizontal extremes. On the other hand if the offset is uncommented, a vertical offset is introduced which makes the bottom of the chart depart from the page (or at least it does in the real world use from which

Re: [NTG-context] extended dictionary / hyphenation patterns

2007-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/12/07, Ulrich Dirr wrote: btw another question: will luatex interpret ligature rules which are language specific? At least from otf fonts? LuaTeX (MK IV, not plain LuaTeX) will pass the language to the font automatically (lang=DEU for \mainlanguage[de] for example). Unfortunately most

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX float pages in ConTeXt

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Michael, maybe this is a help http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070221.092820.718b7eb5.en.html untested, as I have no time.. Best wishes, Peter Santy, Michael schrieb: Thanks, Aditya. However, I'm don't think that \setupfloat[figure][default=here,top,bottom,page] addresses my

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX float pages in ConTeXt

2007-12-12 Thread Santy, Michael
Thanks, Aditya. However, I'm don't think that \setupfloat[figure][default=here,top,bottom,page] addresses my need for float pages. If you compile the document below, you'll notice that the figures at the end of the first section are floated throughout sections 2-4. I would like the

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:26:08AM +0100, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Another German, and I agree, too, with every point Peter makes. As an addition: I would vote for keeping ` and '. I know that \quotation{ } is better and have been using it for a while now, but I also know that many

[NTG-context] hanging with \bTD[nc=3]

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, With the latest ConTeXt-versions (current and beta), the compilation of the following test-files hangs with 100% cpu-usage: % engine=luatex \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD[nc=3] x\eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext No problem with nc=2. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] What's the ps_name of AdobeMingStd-Light?

2007-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Yes I did this and I changed my font settings for the title page to \definedfont in my document takes now 80 seconds for a single run but it spends most of the time for font loading. much overhead is related to things like setting up math, synchronizing encodings,

Re: [NTG-context] extended dictionary / hyphenation patterns

2007-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Ulrich Dirr wrote: btw another question: will luatex interpret ligature rules which are language specific? At least from otf fonts? is already supported - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Münster wrote: ! Missing \endcsname inserted. to be read again \def \dohandlemathpunctuation #1#2-\def could be a bug, or a changed definition of something math .. -

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/12/07, Peter Münster wrote: Hello, In general, I vote against keeping such features just for some old documents, because: Also, if one decides to use LuaTeX/XeTeX instead of pdfTeX (s)he must have some reason and might be willing to do some minor changes to the document if needed.

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: (Disabling regimes would be an interesting experiment too :-) :-) :-) Not that I was the one who has forced their support :-) you mean in mkiv? the price is not that big there (also, it's of by default) But yes - before recompiling an old document, a backup is not a

Re: [NTG-context] hanging with \bTD[nc=3]

2007-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Münster wrote: Hello, With the latest ConTeXt-versions (current and beta), the compilation of the following test-files hangs with 100% cpu-usage: % engine=luatex \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD[nc=3] x\eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext No problem with nc=2. latest beta does this ok

Re: [NTG-context] hanging with \bTD[nc=3]

2007-12-12 Thread luigi scarso
On Dec 12, 2007 9:34 PM, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, With the latest ConTeXt-versions (current and beta), the compilation of the following test-files hangs with 100% cpu-usage: % engine=luatex \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD[nc=3] x\eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext No problem

Re: [NTG-context] hanging with \bTD[nc=3]

2007-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: On Dec 12, 2007 9:34 PM, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, With the latest ConTeXt-versions (current and beta), the compilation of the following test-files hangs with 100% cpu-usage: % engine=luatex \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD[nc=3] x\eTD\eTR \eTABLE

[NTG-context] MkIV on Ubuntu

2007-12-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I am trying to install mkiv on ubuntu. I installed luatex from Norbert Preinin's Debian sources and used ctxtools --update to get the latest version of ConTeXt. In order to get luatools --generate to work, I needed to TEXMFCACHE and SELFAUTOPARENT environmental variables. After that,

[NTG-context] Combining eps figures into a single document

2007-12-12 Thread Dave
Hi all, I am not sure if there is an easy way to do this with a generic ConTeXt document but I thought I'd ask anyways. I have a folder full of identically sized data plots saved as eps/pdf files and I was wondering if there was a quick way to shrink and tile them into a multi-page document so

Re: [NTG-context] hanging with \bTD[nc=3]

2007-12-12 Thread luigi scarso
% engine=luatex \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD[nc=3] x\eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext can you try todays binary? hmm, frozen again. I have download nove last context release: This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.1-2007120806 (Web2C 7.5.6) (./test0010.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.12.07 19:14 MKIV

Re: [NTG-context] hanging with \bTD[nc=3]

2007-12-12 Thread luigi scarso
On Dec 13, 2007 12:22 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: On Dec 12, 2007 9:34 PM, Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, With the latest ConTeXt-versions (current and beta), the compilation of the following test-files hangs with 100% cpu-usage: %

[NTG-context] [OT] Merry_Christmas_2007

2007-12-12 Thread luigi scarso
ok, until the end of this year I will be a bit.. ahem, ..well , hard to say, busy around the world expecially in between 24 and 25 dec., It's a temporary job, only for this year, and I have no experience at all because it's my first time; so any comments and suggestions to improve the service

Re: [NTG-context] hanging with \bTD[nc=3]

2007-12-12 Thread luigi scarso
(repost --sorry --) can you try todays binary? Also ok with trunk from svn This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.1-2007121306 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=cont-en 2007.12.13) 13 DEC 2007 07:12 **test0010.tex (./test0010.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.12.07 19:14 MKIV fmt: 2007.12.13 int: english/english

Re: [NTG-context] hanging with \bTD[nc=3]

2007-12-12 Thread luigi scarso
can you try todays binary? This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.1-2007121306 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=cont-en 2007.12.13) 13 DEC 2007 07:12 **test0010.tex (./test0010.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.12.07 19:14 MKIV fmt: 2007.12.13 int: english/english -- luigi ... it's new . it's powerful . it's

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-12 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 10:39:50PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: (Disabling regimes would be an interesting experiment too :-) :-) :-) Not that I was the one who has forced their support :-) Indeed, since now we're living in an utf-world! - it's easy to burn a CD-ROM with an old