[NTG-context] loading xml error

2020-06-23 Thread Hans van der Meer
Please can someone explain the following error and why the one specific XML input fails? It turns out that a single node is not accepted by the core whereas others are ok. This is the error message in the log, first line from my debug statement: HVDM-VOC> load vocabulary from buffer

Re: [NTG-context] METAPOST's uniformdeviate is not truly random (seed)

2020-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
    Gerben Wierda schrieb am 23.06.2020 um 17:57: I’m trying to get a real random number in METAPOST MWE: \startMPpage[instance=doublefun] show uniformdeviate 60; \stopMPpage Every time I run this, it shows the same result. I tried playing around with the randomseed, but for instance when I

[NTG-context] METAPOST's uniformdeviate is not truly random (seed)

2020-06-23 Thread Gerben Wierda
I’m trying to get a real random number in METAPOST MWE: \startMPpage[instance=doublefun] show uniformdeviate 60; \stopMPpage Every time I run this, it shows the same result. I tried playing around with the randomseed, but for instance when I do two runs shortly after each other they still are

[NTG-context] CMYK workflow. How to set and should I worry about

2020-06-23 Thread Keith McKay
Colleagues I'm getting ready to send  a book to the  printers and in their blurb they state "/Ensure that you are using a CMYK workflow and export to PDF/X-1a:2001" . /I can set the pdf format using \setupbackend but I'm unsure as to what to do about CMYK workflow. The book has no colour

Re: [NTG-context] CMYK workflow. How to set and should I worry about

2020-06-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
> Am 23.06.2020 um 22:28 schrieb Keith McKay : > > Colleagues > > I'm getting ready to send a book to the printers and in their blurb they > state "Ensure that you are using a CMYK workflow and export to PDF/X-1a:2001" > . I can set the pdf format using \setupbackend but I'm unsure as to

Re: [NTG-context] spacing before items

2020-06-23 Thread Mike Cooper
> -Original Message- > From: On Behalf Of David Rogers > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 3:18 PM > > > Mike Cooper writes: > > > Thanks Tomáš! > > > > 1. Where can this solution be found? > > > Mike, I know how you feel. The reasons that the documentation is > so sparse and difficult

Re: [NTG-context] spacing before items

2020-06-23 Thread David Rogers
Mike Cooper writes: Thanks Tomáš! 1. Where can this solution be found? Mike, I know how you feel. The reasons that the documentation is so sparse and difficult to find are the same reasons behind a lot of things: time, money, and ability. Good documentation requires all three of those

Re: [NTG-context] CMYK workflow. How to set and should I worry about

2020-06-23 Thread Keith McKay
Thanks for your reply, Hraban Best Wishes Keith On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, 22:06 Henning Hraban Ramm, wrote: > > > > Am 23.06.2020 um 22:28 schrieb Keith McKay : > > > > Colleagues > > > > I'm getting ready to send a book to the printers and in their blurb > they state "Ensure that you are using a