Re: [NTG-context] Updating bug

2009-04-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Yanrui Li wrote: 2009/4/28 Yanrui Li liyanrui...@gmail.com: Linux x86: sent 221 bytes received 975 bytes 265.78 bytes/sec ... ... MTXrun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.lua MTXrun | state: loaded MTXrun | update: start ./bin/mtx-update.lua:266: attempt to get length of global 'individual'

Re: [NTG-context] Updating bug

2009-04-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Yanrui Li wrote: if ok or not force then +local fetched, individual, osplatform = { }, { }, os.currentplatform() ok, i added it - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2009-04-28 um 20:53 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: \setupsectionworld is unknown in latest beta (at least since some betas before). removed from mkiv a *long* time ago, there is now \startchapter etc. Long time in ConTeXt means less than a year... In 2008-08 Hans

[NTG-context] Updating the minimals: is something broken?

2009-04-29 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi all, in particular Mojca, Since yesterday updating, or installing anew, the minimals via the CLI does not work anymore. Here is the output I get: % begining of the transcript MacKavian:context-minimal kavian$ sh first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done sent 37 bytes received

[NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello everybody, What module can you suggest to create promo presentation? Best, Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] Updating bug

2009-04-29 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:08, Hans Hagen wrote: Yanrui Li wrote: Maybe it is related to the table of 'individual' in mtx-update.lua not being created. mtx-update.lua, line 266:

Re: [NTG-context] Updating the minimals: is something broken?

2009-04-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:10, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi all, in particular Mojca, Since yesterday updating, or installing anew, the minimals via the CLI does not work anymore. The question is: is something broken or has the procedure changed? See the other mail [NTG-context] Updating bug.

Re: [NTG-context] Updating bug

2009-04-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: To beta? (Therefore I manually fixed the problem, but the change will be overwritten the next time you upload something, so let's hope that the next upload will be OK.) i'll fix the beta later today -

Re: [NTG-context] Updating bug

2009-04-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:08, Hans Hagen wrote: Yanrui Li wrote: Maybe it is related to the table of 'individual' in mtx-update.lua not being created. mtx-update.lua, line 266:    individual[#individual+1] = { archive, destination } right, there should be a    local individual = { }

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 10:24 schrieb Hans Hagen: I don't understand how to use \startchapter[]{} ... \stopchapter for my needs. \startchapter[title=,reference=,bookmark=,...][optional user data] is optional data in keyval form or normal text and who to use own values for author, date etc. in

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 11:59 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Hello everybody, What module can you suggest to create promo presentation? There is only one module for presentation, simpleslides (was taspresent), Hans use styles for his presentation which are not modules :) Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, you'd better switch to powerpoint or keynote, as they're more powerful (easy to build fancy slides, and better transitions). Yue Wang On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskov...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, What module can you suggest to create promo

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Yue Wang yuleo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, you'd better switch to powerpoint or keynote, as they're more powerful (easy to build fancy slides, and better transitions). Yue Wang well, at this point why not beamer of latex ? -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread R. Bastian
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:24:01 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com scribit: Am 29.04.2009 um 10:24 schrieb Hans Hagen: I don't understand how to use \startchapter[]{} ... \stopchapter for my needs. \startchapter[title=,reference=,bookmark=,...][optional user

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 14:35 schrieb R. Bastian: The \startchapter does not exist in my MinimalContex installation, but I hope one can include it. I dream from a world where people can whether they use MkII or MkIV and what's the date of their ConTeXt version. Anyway: which is the best method to

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 13:32 schrieb luigi scarso: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Yue Wang yuleo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, you'd better switch to powerpoint or keynote, as they're more powerful (easy to build fancy slides, and better transitions). Yue Wang well, at this point why not beamer

[NTG-context] installing minimals

2009-04-29 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Hi, I don't know whether the following is related to what is being discussed at the moment, but when trying to install a new version of minimals (in a separate, fresh directory), compiling a test file fails with the following message: On the Mac (Leopard): Setting

Re: [NTG-context] installing minimals

2009-04-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 14:58, Jörg Hagmann wrote: Hi, I don't know whether the following is related to what is being discussed at the moment, but when trying to install a new version of minimals (in a separate, fresh directory), compiling a test file fails with the following message: I

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:32 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: well, at this point why not beamer of latex ? Umm... You are good at telling jokes:) why not try slideshow of PLT Scheme? #lang slideshow (slide #:title How to Say Hello (t Hello World!)) -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 29.04.2009 um 10:24 schrieb Hans Hagen: I don't understand how to use \startchapter[]{} ... \stopchapter for my needs. \startchapter[title=,reference=,bookmark=,...][optional user data] is optional data in keyval form or normal text and who to use own values

Re: [NTG-context] installing minimals

2009-04-29 Thread Jörg Hagmann
No -- sorry I forgot to mention that I tried all that, on both computers, for mk II and IV. Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 14:58, Jörg Hagmann wrote: Hi, I don't know whether the following is related to what is being discussed at the moment, but when trying to install a new

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Mohamed Bana
Would it be possible to go through a deprecation phase? E.g., allow \section hello world to compile, but prompt the user to acknowledge that it's going to be replaced with \section{hello world} in future versions. On 28/04/2009 19:53, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 28.04.2009 um 19:42

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2009-04-29 Thread Yanrui Li
2009/4/28 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: As I'm redoing the backend as well as cross referencing some interaction features might be broken but normally they are easy to fix (once i know what fails). So, best collect all bugs while i'm away so that i can deal with then at once. The numbering of

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Hi Wolfgang, On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:54:50 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Anyway: which is the best method to get the list of all params one can give to \startSOMETHING (in this case \startchapter and the meanings of this params (some are obvious : title=

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2009-04-29 um 15:53 schrieb Mohamed Bana: Would it be possible to go through a deprecation phase? E.g., allow \section hello world to compile, but prompt the user to acknowledge that it's going to be replaced with \section{hello world} in future versions. Please don't mix your

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2009-04-29 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Yanrui, I tested your file and everything is correct here both with mkii and mkiv (ConTeXt ver: 2009.04.21 16:11 MKIV fmt: 2009.4.25 int: english/english). Best regards: OK On 29 avr. 09, at 16:00, Yanrui Li wrote: 2009/4/28 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: As I'm redoing the backend as

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread R. Bastian
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:07:53 -0600 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu scribit: Hi Wolfgang, On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:54:50 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Anyway: which is the best method to get the list of all params one can give

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread luigi scarso
May be that ConTeXt is not a 'context free language' ;-) than it will be difficult to express something in a BNF grammar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus-Naur_form. hmm. Context is a macro package in TeX language which is Turing Complete. But if (ConTeXt == formal_language), it should

[NTG-context] footnote numbers size in heads

2009-04-29 Thread Horacio Suarez
Hello all: using defaults setings, footnote numbers size in heads are too big. I usually use \chapter{Capitulo 1\switchtobodyfont[9]\footnote{texto del footnote}\switchtobodyfont[11]} and works fine. But if I have a chapter head with a footnote in the middle: \chapter{Capitulo

[NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Let me start with a quote: After using ConTeXt for a while, many users begin to think about producing their presentations with it, too. ConTeXt is ideally suited for this task. In fact, I hate transitions :) And I don't need any animations. I just want professionally-looking pdf pages with

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2009-04-29 Thread Yanrui Li
2009/4/29 Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com: Hi Yanrui, I tested your file and everything is correct here both with mkii and mkiv (ConTeXt  ver: 2009.04.21 16:11 MKIV  fmt: 2009.4.25  int: english/english). Hi Otared, When you would update to Minimals 2009.04.28 08:46, maybe you can get the

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, you can find that on http://modules.contextgarden.net/ but anyway, you won't know how easy it is to place figure/text wherever you want in Keynote. In ConTeXt, you cannot achieve that. Yue Wang On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskov...@gmail.com wrote: Let me

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread R. Bastian
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:55:05 +0200 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com scribit: May be that ConTeXt is not a 'context free language' ;-) than it will be difficult to express something in a BNF grammar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus-Naur_form. hmm. Context is a macro package in

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2009-04-29 Thread Otared Kavian
On 29 avr. 09, at 18:37, Yanrui Li wrote: 2009/4/29 Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com: Hi Yanrui, I tested your file and everything is correct here both with mkii and mkiv (ConTeXt ver: 2009.04.21 16:11 MKIV fmt: 2009.4.25 int: english/ english). Hi Otared, When you would update to

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2009-04-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Yanrui Li wrote: 2009/4/29 Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com: Hi Yanrui, I tested your file and everything is correct here both with mkii and mkiv (ConTeXt  ver: 2009.04.21 16:11 MKIV  fmt: 2009.4.25  int: english/english). Hi Otared, When you would update to Minimals

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, you can find that on http://modules.contextgarden.net/ but anyway, you won't know how easy it is to place figure/text wherever you want in Keynote. In ConTeXt, you cannot achieve that. Sure you can. Use a background layer, and then you can place the

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2009-04-29 Thread Yanrui Li
2009/4/30 Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Yanrui Li wrote: 2009/4/29 Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com: Hi Yanrui, I tested your file and everything is correct here both with mkii and mkiv (ConTeXt  ver: 2009.04.21 16:11 MKIV  fmt: 2009.4.25  int: english/english).

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:46 PM, R. Bastian rbast...@free.fr wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:55:05 +0200 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com scribit: May be that ConTeXt is not a 'context free language' ;-) than it will be difficult to express something in a BNF grammar

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Let me start with a quote: After using ConTeXt for a while, many users begin to think about producing their presentations with it, too. ConTeXt is ideally suited for this task. In fact, I hate transitions :) And I don't need any animations.

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 17:07 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد: Hi Wolfgang, On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:54:50 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Anyway: which is the best method to get the list of all params one can give to \startSOMETHING (in this case

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:14:38 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: \startchapter[title=,reference=,bookmark=,...][optional user data] Could you [or someone] give a couple of example of how to use [optional user data] Also, where in the base files does this stuff

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:14:38 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: \startchapter[title=,reference=,bookmark=,...][optional user data] Could you [or someone] give a couple of example of how to use [optional user data]

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2009-04-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Yanrui Li wrote: 2009/4/29 Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com: Hi Yanrui, I tested your file and everything is correct here both with mkii and mkiv (ConTeXt ver: 2009.04.21 16:11 MKIV fmt: 2009.4.25 int: english/english). Hi Otared, When you

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 20:23 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد: ok, thnx! OTOH, I did not see any illustrative examples of the use of [optional user data] \setuphead[title][align=middle,command=\TitleCommand] \define[2]\TitleCommand

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 20:23 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد: ok, thnx! OTOH, I did not see any illustrative examples of the use of [optional user data] \setuphead[title][align=middle,command=\TitleCommand] \setuphead[chapter][align=middle,command=\TitleCommand]

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:31:27 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 29.04.2009 um 20:23 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد: ok, thnx! OTOH, I did not see any illustrative examples of the use of [optional user data]

[NTG-context] simpleslides

2009-04-29 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
I gave a try to Simple slides... It seems to be very nice, but a few questions raised immediately 1) I get warnings (in mkiv): (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/third/simple-slides/simpleslides-f-default.tex simpleslides: loading default font setup fonts : beware:

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Wolfgang, your script in mkiv produces It's not as hard you think, just show him a few nice things and he is happy. See section 1 at page *11.1*. I don't understand why \at{page}[sec:happy] outputs section number. Vyatcheslav

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 21:01 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Wolfgang, your script in mkiv produces It's not as hard you think, just show him a few nice things and he is happy. See section 1 at page *11.1*. I don't understand why \at{page}[sec:happy] outputs section number. weird because i

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Otared Kavian
On 29 avr. 09, at 21:05, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 29.04.2009 um 21:01 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Wolfgang, your script in mkiv produces It's not as hard you think, just show him a few nice things and he is happy. See section 1 at page *11.1*. I don't understand why

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 21:13 schrieb Otared Kavian: Thanks for your nice example, but I too get See section 1 at page 11.1. with ConTeXt ver: 2009.04.21 16:11 MKIV fmt: 2009.4.25 int: english/english. MTXrun | current version: 2009.04.28 08:46 Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 17:11 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: I try to understand here, how to redo my chapter setup that once worked using sectionworld commands. At the moment I get no output for the chapter title at all. My input reads: \Titel{Author}{Title}{Subtitle} You never needed the

Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?

2009-04-29 Thread R. Bastian
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:00:07 +0200 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com scribit: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:46 PM, R. Bastian rbast...@free.fr wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:55:05 +0200 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com scribit: May be that ConTeXt is not a 'context free

Re: [NTG-context] footnote numbers size in heads

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi, please repost your question (with a working example - \starttext ... \stoptext) in a new thread and don't hijack other threads for your question, the messages are hard to find. Wolfgang ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides

2009-04-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: I gave a try to Simple slides... It seems to be very nice, but a few questions raised immediately 1) I get warnings (in mkiv): (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/third/simple-slides/simpleslides-f-default.tex simpleslides:

[NTG-context] BNF grammar for ConTeXt (was: What happened with sectionworld?)

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 23:16 schrieb R. Bastian: I think that a bnf or lpeg grammar is really useful for a sort of standard-ConTeXt or minimal-ConTeXt or light-ConTeXt ie a ConTeXt to use as reference Exactly what I need : standard, minimal and light How could a BNF grammar help to learn

[NTG-context] FiXme module

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi all, for the people who're looking for a equivalent of the FiXme package for LaTeX, there is a first version only with the basic commands. I can extend the module if there is interest but I don't want to integrate margin notes and highlighted as the todonotes package has. URL:

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2009-04-29 Thread Wei-Wei Guo
Yanrui Li 写道: Hi, The numbering of footnotes are abnormal. Simple example: \starttext \chapter{T} This is a test\footnote{t}. \chapter{E} This is a test\footnote{e}. \chapter{S} This is a test\footnote{s}. \chapter{T} This is a test\footnote{t}. \stoptext The numbering of four footnotes

Re: [NTG-context] FiXme module

2009-04-29 Thread Yanrui Li
2009/4/30 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com: Hi all, for the people who're looking for a equivalent of the FiXme package for LaTeX, there is a first version only with the basic commands. I can extend the module if there is interest but I don't want to integrate margin notes

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Yue Wang
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, you can find that on http://modules.contextgarden.net/ but anyway, you won't know how easy it is to place figure/text wherever you want in Keynote. In ConTeXt, you cannot

Re: [NTG-context] FiXme module

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.04.2009 um 03:29 schrieb Yanrui Li: 2009/4/30 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com: Hi all, for the people who're looking for a equivalent of the FiXme package for LaTeX, there is a first version only with the basic commands. I can extend the module if there is