Re: [NTG-context] Rotated table shifted on the layout

2014-01-17 Thread Joshua Krämer
Am Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:38:04 +0100 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com: \startplacetable [location={force,90,none}] Thanks, it works. Interestingly, it works also if I write location={90, page} instead of location={page, 90}. Kind regards, Joshua

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/16/2014 11:23 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi, the following test file gives an error with the latest beta: \setupbodyfont[gentium,12pt] \starttext \buildtextaccent\greekdasia\greekalphamacron \stoptext it works with a somewhat older one (2013.12.30). The error is ! Missing number,

Re: [NTG-context] No bibliography in the output, depends on file name

2014-01-17 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2014–01–15 Nicola wrote: maybe this is a known issue, It's a known fact that context has a different notion of valid file names than your operating system does. This is by design. To quote the manual: “It is highly recommended, that all input files, i.e. the ConTEXt source and other

Re: [NTG-context] No bibliography in the output, depends on file name

2014-01-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/17/2014 1:15 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: On 2014–01–15 Nicola wrote: maybe this is a known issue, It's a known fact that context has a different notion of valid file names than your operating system does. This is by design. To quote the manual: “It is highly recommended, that all input

[NTG-context] A problem with itemize in columns - once again, now with an MWE

2014-01-17 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Hi all, once again I have a problem with itemization in columns. This time, I finally managed to isolate the problem and prepare an MWE. The problem does not appear with Latin Modern fonts, but does with Pagella (I didn't test other fonts). It seems that the height of the square root sign is

Re: [NTG-context] A problem with itemize in columns - once again, now with an MWE

2014-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 17.01.2014 um 16:05 schrieb Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl: Hi all, once again I have a problem with itemization in columns. This time, I finally managed to isolate the problem and prepare an MWE. The problem does not appear with Latin Modern fonts, but does with Pagella (I

Re: [NTG-context] A problem with itemize in columns - once again, now with an MWE

2014-01-17 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia 2014-01-17, o godz. 16:19:48 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com napisał(a): Am 17.01.2014 um 16:05 schrieb Marcin Borkowski mb...@wmi.amu.edu.pl: Hi all, once again I have a problem with itemization in columns. This time, I finally managed to isolate the problem

[NTG-context] Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?

2014-01-17 Thread Elspeth McGullicuddy
[Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?; plus: Metapost variable text with \definetextbackground; plus: {\input ward}] Hi list, What would be the best, also the more up to date, way to put colored background behind text, that could cross page boundaries. I have found three ways of

Re: [NTG-context] Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?

2014-01-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Elspeth McGullicuddy wrote: [Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?; plus: Metapost variable text with \definetextbackground; plus: {\input ward}] Hi list, What would be the best, also the more up to date, way to put colored background behind text, that could

Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/17/2014 5:04 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: On 2014-01-17 06:22, Hans Hagen wrote: no, side effect of substantial optimizations (where i simply couldn't test everything ... you're probably the only user building accents) Hans It is needed to create what might otherwise be LATIN SMALL LETTER Q

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenating \ConTeXt

2014-01-17 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 01/15/2014 11:56 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: On 2014–01–15 Pablo Rodriguez wrote: how should I invoke \hyphenation so it hyphens the \ConTeXt command? \ConTeXt is defined as “Con\TeX t” and \TeX uses kerns and boxes, both of which suppress hyphenation. AFAIK there's no easy way around it.

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenating \ConTeXt

2014-01-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: On 01/15/2014 11:56 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: On 2014–01–15 Pablo Rodriguez wrote: how should I invoke \hyphenation so it hyphens the \ConTeXt command? \ConTeXt is defined as “Con\TeX t” and \TeX uses kerns and boxes, both of which suppress

Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: do we need a module with predefined 'missing from unicode' characters? I don't think so. We can end up with a neverending and always incomplete list (with theoretically unlimited number of entries), usable only to those few people who will care

Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/17/2014 7:39 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: do we need a module with predefined 'missing from unicode' characters? I don't think so. We can end up with a neverending and always incomplete list (with theoretically unlimited number of

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenating \ConTeXt

2014-01-17 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 01/17/2014 07:18 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: [...] I would like to hyphenate ConTeXt as the standard English word (Con-TeXt). Sorry for having to explain that ;-), but I’m writing an introduction to ConTeXt in Spanish. I had already rewritten two

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenating \ConTeXt

2014-01-17 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2014–01–17 Pablo Rodriguez wrote: On 01/15/2014 11:56 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: On 2014–01–15 Pablo Rodriguez wrote: how should I invoke \hyphenation so it hyphens the \ConTeXt command? \ConTeXt is defined as “Con\TeX t” and \TeX uses kerns and boxes, both of which suppress

Re: [NTG-context] Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?

2014-01-17 Thread Elspeth McGullicuddy
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Elspeth McGullicuddy wrote: [Colored text's background, which the more lcd-mkiv?; plus: Metapost variable text with \definetextbackground; plus: {\input ward}] Hi list, What would be the best,

[NTG-context] issues with \setuplist

2014-01-17 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Dear list, generating a table of contents with the following sample: \setupinterlinespace[line=3.5ex] \setuplist[section][alternative=d, style={\itx\setupinterlinespace}, separator={·}] \starttext \placecontent \dorecurse{5}{\chapter{Chapter}\dorecurse{10}{\section{Long Section Title}}}

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenating \ConTeXt

2014-01-17 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 01/17/2014 08:04 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: On 2014–01–17 Pablo Rodriguez wrote: [...] I would like to hyphenate ConTeXt as the standard English word (Con-TeXt). Sometimes I'm missing the obvious and make things more complicated than necessary. Many thanks for the reply and for your help,

Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 01/17/2014 07:39 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Thomas and Rik most probably need just the existing mechanism to work properly. Well, it might be slightly different for Thomas where Ancient Greek has a limited set of letters, but then such a list should better be defined in an ancient greek

Re: [NTG-context] Need for \buildtextaccent, was Re: latest beta

2014-01-17 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
I don't think so. We can end up with a neverending and always incomplete list (with theoretically unlimited number of entries), usable only to those few people who will care to contribute. I couldn't agree more. Unicode already has mechanisms to encode just about any accented character, and