Re: [NTG-context] \coloneqq

2007-09-15 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Jesse Alama wrote: I'd like to use a colon-equals sign symbol to indicate a definition. According to The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, this symbol is available in the txfonts (LaTeX) package. However, it seems that the txfonts support in ConTeXt doesn't contain that

Re: [NTG-context] How to process simple HTML files with LuaTeX

2007-09-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 9/14/07, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mojcasentities = { nbsp = , le = '\\mathematics{\\le}' } local d[k]= d[k]:gsub((.-);,mojcasentities) Yes, I saw it, but didn't try to understand what the (.-) serves for.

Re: [NTG-context] Logos in context / Miscellaneous questions

2007-09-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: B) Is there an equivilent to the RCS package for latex. Basically it parses version control tags from CVS/RCS. There are a couple of RCS packages for LaTeX. Can you elaborate on what functionality you need. Most of it is pretty straightforward to port

Re: [NTG-context] merging data from four files in one document

2007-09-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Jelle Huisman wrote: Hi all, I try to merge data from four files in one document. The source files are simple text files, each with 420 numbered lines of text. I have created a simple natural table with cells for the different pieces of data. I would like to make one

Re: [NTG-context] waiting for mswincontext

2007-09-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: well, if someone keys in my books in a bib file, i'll make a lua variant -) hmm how many books do you have? :) Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] waiting for mswincontext

2007-09-20 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Quoting Joel C. Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 9/20/07, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, we (=I) should move away from bibtex. Has anyone on the list tried CrossTeX (http://crosstex.sourceforge.net/)? I've successfully used it with LaTeX; no idea how much trouble it would be

[NTG-context] Version control tags in context (was Logos in context / Miscellaneous questions)

2007-09-20 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, On 17/09/2007, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: B) Is there an equivilent to the RCS package for latex. Basically it parses version control tags from CVS/RCS. There are a couple of RCS packages

Re: [NTG-context] starttabulate questions

2007-09-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, frantisek holop wrote: good evening, all the examples in the manual use \NC before \NR is this a necessity? Yes. what is the logics behind this? is it more like an ending to the previous \NC ? It is for historic reason. Originally, there was table (\starttable)

Re: [NTG-context] currentheadnumber / doif.. problem

2007-09-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Peter Schorsch wrote: hm.. it still executes always the else-part of the doifelse-function Can you create a minimum example to play with? Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] starttabulate questions

2007-09-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:52:00PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan said that Tabulate started as a mechanism to replace table, so the syntax was kept the same. Right now, tabulate does not implement vertical rules, so in the context of tabulate, having

Re: [NTG-context] no hyphenation for a single word

2007-09-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Gerhard Kugler wrote: Hi, how can I turn off the hyphenation for a single word? If it is a one off thing, \hbox{word}. Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] numbered subitems

2007-09-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Alan Bowen wrote: I need to produce an lengthy itemization of the form: 1. 1.1 1.2 2. 2.1 I can get: 1. 1 2 2. 1 easily enough, but how can I get the main division number to repeat

Re: [NTG-context] numbered subitems

2007-09-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, Aditya, I have adapted this as follows— \startbuffer \item item 1 \startitemize[n,stopper={},width=1em] \item item 1.1 \item item 1.2 \item item 1.3 \stopitemize \item item 2 \startitemize[n,stopper={},width=1em] \item item 2.1

Re: [NTG-context] numbered subitems

2007-10-01 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Alan, On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Alan Bowen wrote: 1. History 1.1 Pre-Greek (Babylonian and Egyptian) sundials 1.2 Greek and Roman sundials 1.3 Byzantine sundials is the goal. Sadly, adding “serried” destroys the indentation of the subitems. I could not find a clean way to

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX and Unicode Math

2007-10-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, While trying to convert some stuff from HTML to PDF (using LuaTeX) I have noticed some minor problems: unicode math characters work OK in text mode (under assumption that the font has them), but not in math mode. In pdfTeX they work OK in both cases. (That behaviour is expected, but not

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with generated PDF

2007-10-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Maurí­cio wrote: Hi, I'm trying to send my resumé to people I know as a PDF file created using Context (the minimal version on Pragma site, running on Ubuntu linux). However, many of them (but no all) say they can't open the file. What are the possible causes for that,

Re: [NTG-context] starttabulate vs starttable

2007-10-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, frantisek holop wrote: hi there, please consider the following minimal examples: \starttext \starttable[|l|l|l|] \NC MidE \VL early ModE \VL ModE \NC \SR \HL \NC ge:s \VL gi:s \VL geese \NC \FR \NC na:m \VL ne:minimal \VL name \NC \MR \NC mi:s \VL

Re: [NTG-context] starttabulate vs starttable

2007-10-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: the tabulate example is basicly the same without the vertical lines, which it seems like it can't do, i get an ! Undefined control sequence. I really don't know much about tabular material in ConTeXt, but from the very first line of

Re: [NTG-context] starttabulate vs starttable

2007-10-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, frantisek holop wrote: i'd like to use tabulate instead of table because of the spacing. i dont need to stretch the content like table does. Compare: \setuptables[depth=0.2,height=0.8] %\tracetablestrue \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] nesting \startitemize

2007-10-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:02:34PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec said that \setupitemize[1][n] \setupitemize[2][a][left=(,right=),stopper=] \setupitemize[3][i] \setupitemize[4][1] % symbol nr. 1 ok, i would like to create 2 types of itemizations like

Re: [NTG-context] encoding/compiling issues (macosx)

2007-10-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Andrea Valle wrote: More: We can't do ctxtools --updatecontext it complaint it cannot fetch the zip you can download the zip-file from pragma-ade.nl or one of the mirrors on unzip the file in your local tex tree Thanks (but why cannot I?) Are you behind a firewall?

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with chemistry in display mode

2007-10-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Shen Chen wrote: Hi all, The following example with the chemical module complains that ! Argument of \mtharrowfill has an extra }.. --- \usemodule[chemic] \starttext $$ \chemical{2H_2,PLUS,O_2,GIVES,2H_2O} $$ \stoptext --- The result pdf looks

Re: [NTG-context] Feature request for backgrounds

2007-10-11 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I know and I used a backgroundcolor and a background simultaneously in my posted example but what I want is a interface in localframed without the overlay solution, the background should also repeated horizontal and vertical

Re: [NTG-context] Repeat (*) key in TaBlE

2007-10-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Restarting an old thread ... On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: What is the correct way of using * key with TaBlE? The following does not work \starttext \starttable[|*{2}l|] This should be [*{2}{l|}] but even then it does not work. \HL \NC A \NC B \NC \NR \HL \stoptable

Re: [NTG-context] Repeat (*) key in TaBlE

2007-10-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Restarting an old thread ... On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: What is the correct way of using * key with TaBlE? The following does not work \starttext \starttable[|*{2}l|] This should be [*{2}{l|}] but even then it does not work

[NTG-context] HTML to ConTeXt

2007-10-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
This is interesting. A website that converts html to context (actually uses markdown behind the scenes). http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/html2x.html This is how the context wiki looks like.

Re: [NTG-context] HTML to ConTeXt

2007-10-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Hi Aditya, On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:50:03 -0600, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is interesting. A website that converts html to context (actually uses markdown behind the scenes). http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/html2x.html

Re: [NTG-context] The easiest way to get jpeg output?

2007-10-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Peter Rolf wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hello, I need transform some presentation into series of jpeg files. Is it possible directly from ConTeXt or I have to use some external tools for conversion? What is the easiest way in any case? use

Re: [NTG-context] itemize and math

2007-10-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: Is there something like an \mathstrut macro? (I know, that there exists a macro with this name, but that uses ')' as height.) For single line math, the height of ) is sufficient. If you want larger heights you can do

Re: [NTG-context] Fatal format file error; I'm stymied

2007-11-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Ernesto Schirmacher wrote: After many years as a LaTeX user I'm attempting to switch over to ConTeXt. I recently upgraded my operating system to Ubuntu 7.10 (on an AMD64 machine) and got the TeXLive and ConTeXt packages from the Ubuntu repositories. I

Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ colour settings

2007-11-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, John Culleton wrote: On Friday 02 November 2007 08:12:31 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have downloaded the latest Notepad++ and ConTeXt settings as suggested by Professor Hamid and I'm enjoying the experience of using them! However, I do not really like the colour scheme

Re: [NTG-context] MathML in Context

2007-11-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Maurí­cio wrote: Hi, I've been trying to learn how to insert MathML in Context file. I found many examples of how MathML code should look like, formula or presentational, but no example on how to actually insert it in Context. I tried \math{ mathml stuff} and it didn't

Re: [NTG-context] How to prevent a page break?

2007-11-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Maurí­cio wrote: Hi, How do I prevent a page break between two paragraphs (actually, between a paragraph and an item list that follows it)? I found '\page[no]' in the documentation, but I don't know if that's the standard way to do that. \startitemize[intro]

[NTG-context] Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, Something is broken in flowcharts. If I typeset the same flowchart twice, the comments are missing from the second chart. For example \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts [%option=test, bodyfont=11pt, nx=4, ny=1, offset=11pt, dx=\bodyfontsize, dy=0.65\bodyfontsize,

Re: [NTG-context] Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, Something is broken in flowcharts. If I typeset the same flowchart twice, the comments are missing from the second chart. For example \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts [%option=test, bodyfont=11pt, nx=4, ny=1, offset=11pt

Re: [NTG-context] Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, Something is broken in flowcharts. If I typeset the same flowchart twice, the comments are missing from the second chart. For example \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts [%option=test, bodyfont=11pt, nx=4, ny=1, offset=11pt, dx

Re: [NTG-context] Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Willi, On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Willi Egger wrote: Your code compiles correctly here. Well with the following version of Context ConTeXt ver: 2007.10.03 12:52 MKII fmt: 2007.10.4 int: english/ english Thank you for checking this. Can you send me the pdf file off-list? I do not get a X_t

Re: [NTG-context] Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Willi Egger wrote: Hi Aditya, Your code compiles correctly here. Well with the following version of Context ConTeXt ver: 2007.10.03 12:52 MKII fmt: 2007.10.4 int: english/ english works here too I am confused. It does not work correctly here (

Re: [NTG-context] doc at minimals

2007-11-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Just discovered http://minimals.contextgarden.net/doc That's not possible, it doesn't exist ... Someone is trying to make us explore the minimals directory structure in detail. I think that this directory has moved to

Re: [NTG-context] [OT]UK TeX FAQ, v3.17, released

2007-11-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, luigi scarso wrote: From http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes What is ConTeXt? ConTeXt is a macro package developed by Hans Hagen of Pragma-Ade. ConTeXt is a document-production system based, like LaTeX, on the TeX typesetting system. Whereas

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
, Willi Egger wrote: I tried to send the files off line to Aditya, I could not get the message through, so it comes to the list ... Wili Begin forwarded message: From: Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 8, 2007 8:28:01 PM GMT+01:00 To: Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: [NTG-context] Context and Lilypond on Miketex with TeXnicCenter

2007-11-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2007-11-14 um 08:48 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use MikeTex TeXnicCenter for writing Context with Lilypond. I don't know if t-lilypond will work on Windows at all. I remember testing t-lilypond on Windows and it worked properly (that is I

Re: [NTG-context] referencing footnotes in another place

2007-11-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Andrea Valle wrote: Hi, just to know, are there other suggestions? There is a module by Guiseppe for epigrams. Maybe it is possible to adapt it for footnotes. Aditya ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] referencing footnotes in another place

2007-11-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Andrea Valle wrote: Ah, thanks, I'll take a look (Where?). http://modules.contextgarden.net/xdesc Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] where is my installer? :)

2007-11-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello, Sorry for the question, but where people can find my installer? I've uploaded it to svn, but cannot find it at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ and have no idea where it also might appear. Is it

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting a formula as a figure

2007-11-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear Dalyoung, On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:56:30 -0700, Jeong Dalyoung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Idris, I have used buffers and \plcadefigures to display formula and figure together. Here is my short sample file. \startbuffer[one]

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] gnupdf.org

2007-11-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Luigi, On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, luigi scarso wrote: http://tinyurl.com/3bahws http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso#Cool_links (well, no so coool..) I collect links about pdf, libray, edit . Given i'm working with python sometimes I use http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ If you know

Re: [NTG-context] Preventing page break in a paragraph

2007-11-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Maurí­cio wrote: Hi, How do I prevent a paragraph to be broken between pages (or columns)? Add a \vbox{} around the paragraph. You can also use \framed[align=normal], or \start-stop framed, which are fancier vboxes and provide more control.

Re: [NTG-context] metafun's smoothed

2007-11-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello Hans, What exactly is the intended function of smooothed? I thought that the following should work and make round corners, but it only takes the bounding box. (I didn't play with it yet, but I assume that punked behaves in a similar way to

Re: [NTG-context] Datenumber

2007-11-27 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Bart Wise wrote: LaTeX has a package called datenumber. It basically allows you to several things: 1) convert a date into a number, 2) add and subtract from that number, in essence adding and subtracting days, and 3) converting a date number into a date string. I use

Re: [NTG-context] Whitespace significance without verbatim

2007-11-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Mike Santy wrote: Is there an environment that preserves whitespace (like typing), but still processes \bf \it and other text formatting commands (unlike typing). \setuplines[space=yes] \startlines write what you want {\bf Either bold} or not \stoplines Aditya

[NTG-context] Automatic breaking of display math equations

2007-12-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, There is a new release of breqn package (http://tug.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/mh/breqn.pdf), now maintained by Morten Hoegholm. For the impatient, just look at the examples on page 12. Need to start thinking about porting this to Context, but no time right now :-( Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] forbidden filenames in context?

2007-12-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Roger Mason wrote: Are some filenames forbidden in Context? texexec.tex (and I think texexec.top). Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] \BL and \CL with MKIV

2007-12-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Hans, On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Münster wrote: Hello, there are 2 problems with the example from the wiki: \BL gives a black box and \CL gives the following error: hm, alignmnts (and math) may behave unexpected in luatex esp becaue attributes are not yet implemented

Re: [NTG-context] synonyms with MKIV

2007-12-06 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The order of key and entry is, the same as in the mkii macro { { v[2], v[3] } }, -- key, entry but you wrote { { v[3], v[2] } }, -- entry, key ok, fixed just wondering ... now we move to a mix of tex and lua code, how

Re: [NTG-context] backward compatibility [URGENT]

2007-12-06 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:31:58 -0700, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to do this, like using sudo ctxtools -- updatecontext and use the respective files from the museum? Where is the museum

Re: [NTG-context] booklet set up

2007-12-06 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: 2) I was always scared by explanation of \showlayout on texshow: Horizontal: (if singleside then outside is at right and inside is at left) === width = width of text area middle: automatic calculation consider A) params fit:

Re: [NTG-context] Semi-verbatim - preserve whitespace - don't escape characters

2007-12-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2007/12/7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I'm working on a document processor that has multiple backends for different output formats (XHTML, nroff, plain text, ConTeXt). The processor uses s-expression syntax with commands such as:

Re: [NTG-context] TeX ligatures in XeTeX/LuaTeX: ``who needs them''?

2007-12-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: just wondering: how many ConTeXt-ers depend on ligatures such as: '' (double quote) and '' (two single quotes) - right double quote `` - left double quote In some old documents. In newer documents I use \quote and \quotation. Then there are

Re: [NTG-context] Semi-verbatim - preserve whitespace - don't escape characters

2007-12-08 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:44:52 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \startlines verbatin text \stoplines Note that everything between start-stop lines is normal tex code. you mean start/stoplines need style and color keys

Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] beta 0.20.1 released

2007-12-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Norbert Preining wrote: On Fr, 07 Dez 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: I have just uploaded the archives for luatex 0.20.1. This Debian sid users will get 0.20.1 soon by normal update. Debian etch users can add deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex/

Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] beta 0.20.1 released

2007-12-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Norbert Preining wrote: On Mo, 10 Dez 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex/ This release of luatex for Debian ships an improved texdoc written in texlua

Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] beta 0.20.1 released

2007-12-11 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi Aditya, On Mo, 10 Dez 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Ubuntu gusty ships with libpoppler 0.6.2.1. However, I do not get any suggested updates because I am using amd64 architecture, and I see that Ok, for you deb http://people.debian.org

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] 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,

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

2007-12-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Santy, Michael wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: but he want to collect the figures on one page and not every on a new page. That's part of the issue, but not the entire issue. Attached is the equivalent LaTeX source and the resultant PDF (both gzipped due to

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV on Ubuntu

2007-12-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: However, mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern=pagella gives MtxRun | unknown script: fonts i sometimes get that too on linux and am not sure why because it works ok my vista machine; o need to look into it (actually, font

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV on Ubuntu

2007-12-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: It looks like mtxrun is scanning the correct directories, but cannot find the font files. On the other hand, mtxrun --script font --reload will create the font name database that mkiv

[NTG-context] texexec completion script for zsh

2007-12-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I just put together a simple completion script for texexec in zsh. Zsh can do some fancy completions with tab. I have written a completion script that gives some command line switches of texexec as part of tab completion in zsh. Here is what the output looks like

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV on Ubuntu

2007-12-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I reinstall Ubuntu, and unzipped cont-tmf.zip to $HOME/texmf, set TEXMFCNF to /usr/share/texmf/web2c (the ubuntu texmf.cnf directory), got the latest luatex binary from the minimal distribution, copied the latest helper scripts to the PATH, and tried again. well the reinstall of os was

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV on Ubuntu

2007-12-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Things in windows and linux are different! Why did luatools decide not to scan my user texmf trees? luatools only scans trees with a ls-R database. For some reason mktexlsr only generates ls-R in /usr/local/share/texmf and /var/lib/texmf/ I

Re: [NTG-context] Last luatex + mkiv

2007-12-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, luigi scarso wrote: Last luatex compile well, and I have made my first big pdf with it: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf#Luatex (757 pages) . Out of curiousity. What is the run-time of compiling luatex.pdf with mkii and mkiv? Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV on Ubuntu

2007-12-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: LuaTools | locating list of /usr/share/texmf-{texlive LuaTools | locating list of tetex} Bug in line 2498 of luatools local t = instance.treepath:splitchr(',') Should be split taking the braces into account. Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV on Ubuntu

2007-12-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: Why did luatools decide not to scan my user texmf trees? Since the new files are located at /home/adityam/texmf and this tree is not scanned, format generation does not work. maybe

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV on Ubuntu

2007-12-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: LuaTools | locating list of /usr/share/texmf-{texlive LuaTools | locating list of tetex} Bug in line 2498 of luatools local t = instance.treepath:splitchr(',') Should

Re: [NTG-context] stable new-minimals distribution?

2007-12-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Santy, Michael wrote: I see on the wiki that there are plans to create a stable, beta, and broken branches of the new minimals distribution on minimals.contextgarden.net. Is the eventual goal of this to replace the current mechanism for obtaining minimals and

Re: [NTG-context] texexec completion script for zsh

2007-12-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Matija Šuklje wrote: Dne ponedeljek 17. decembra 2007 je Aditya Mahajan napisal(a): I just put together a simple completion script for texexec in zsh. Sweet, thanks :] This is my first attempt to write a zsh completion script. Any feedback is welcome. Well, I'm a Zsh

[NTG-context] Zapf Chancery and mkiv

2007-12-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, There is something wrong with the mappings for zapf chancery in mkiv. Minimal example \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] \definetypeface [mainface] [rm][serif][pagella][default][encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [mainface] [cg][calligraphy][chancery][default]

Re: [NTG-context] Zapf Chancery and mkiv

2007-12-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: There is something wrong with the mappings for zapf chancery in mkiv. Have you installed TeX Gyre Chorus on your system? It has been released quite recently (September 26th). Yes, I have Chorus installed. But I only have

Re: [NTG-context] Zapf Chancery and mkiv

2007-12-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, There is something wrong with the mappings for zapf chancery in mkiv. There is a typo in type-otf.tex. The following is wrong \starttypescript [calligraphy] [chancery] \definefontsynonym [Chancery] [texgyrechorus-regular] [features=default

Re: [NTG-context] Zapf Chancery and mkiv

2007-12-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, luigi scarso wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 5:48 AM, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, There is something wrong with the mappings for zapf chancery in mkiv. There is a typo in type-otf.tex. The following is wrong

Re: [NTG-context] Zapf Chancery and mkiv

2007-12-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: PS: Why encoding=texnansi? I am still learning mkiv :). This was just a stripped down version of one of my mkii documents that was failing with mkiv. Aditya ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Zapf Chancery and mkiv

2007-12-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, luigi scarso wrote: error define font: font with name texnansi-qplr is not found. But that's the problem of a missing font. Here it works OK. What Arthur pointed out should be fixed though. Yes, it is not an error . So, it's a way to signal that there is a reference

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with using PPCHTEX in LaTeX

2007-12-20 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 11:31 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Erik Stempel wrote: Dear Mr. Hagen, I have a problem with using PPCHTEX with LaTeX (MikTeX 2.6). After reporting this problem at GoogleGroups I get a message to report the problem directly to you. The

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with using PPCHTEX in LaTeX

2007-12-20 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 11:31 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Erik Stempel wrote: Dear Mr. Hagen, I have a problem with using PPCHTEX with LaTeX (MikTeX 2.6). After reporting this problem

Re: [NTG-context] Keeping up-to-date under TeXLive

2007-12-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Joel C. Salomon wrote: My new Ubuntu installation includes TeXLive version 2007-10. Is there a way for me to keep the ConTeXt part of this up-to-date with current (stable) versions? I am in the same situation. Ubuntu 7.10, but the context version of the latest texlive

Re: [NTG-context] preview-context

2007-12-23 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Gour wrote: Hi! I've asked on auctex ml about the prospects of getting preview-context, similar to preview-latex and here is the reply: There are no ConTeXt users among the active developers (actually, there is not even much activity in the LaTeX

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Gour wrote: 5) I read LaTeX in proper ConTeXt pdf, but I'm interested is there some helper to convert classical LaTeX book (book class) to ConTeXt? I've two books which I'm considering to publish as one (~1000p) in the future, so any help in conversion would be nice.

Re: [NTG-context] Keeping up-to-date under TeXLive

2007-12-26 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote: (One question though: doesn't Ubuntu provide pretty recent files already, or is that only in unstable versions?) Ubuntu 7.10 ships with context 2007.04.17. For me that is not recent enough. Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] Keeping up-to-date under TeXLive

2007-12-26 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Ciro Soto wrote: Hello all, I used Context to write an entire novel in 2005 (under Fedora linux). Since then I didn't do any work in Context until now. I am now coming back to write a second book (under Ubuntu this time), and found myself totally confused with all this

Re: [NTG-context] Permission Policy

2007-12-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Hans van der Meer wrote: I ran into trouble with luatools --generate which does not seem to work with sudo luatools --generate The seem applies to texmfstart and friends. What error message do you get? Why this manco? I want to keep my system as safe as possible

Re: [NTG-context] First document — problems with bi b module and layout

2007-12-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Matija, I can provide partial answers to your questions. On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Matija Šuklje wrote: * this might be a tough one — (at least in Slovenia's legal circles) legal documents get cited for the first time (e.g. with \cite) the same way as in the bibliography (full name, abbrev,

Re: [NTG-context] nested tables?

2008-01-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Yvon Henel wrote: Hello again, I would like to nest a table inside a table, something like this: \starttable[|c|c|] \NC {\bf ATout Choeur} \NC {\starttable[|c|] \NC Number 2008--1\FR \NC january 2008\LR \stoptable}\MR \NC {\tfa Something} \NC \LR \stoptable

Re: [NTG-context] Weird behavior about metafun

2008-01-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Zhichu Chen wrote: Hi Hans and Wolfgang, I'm just trying to make some illustrations about the Chinese typesetting features. So I choose the way which is described in Chapter 5 of the metafun manual. And I wanna draw a line from the text I wanna comment on to the marginal

Re: [NTG-context] Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Carsten, On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Carsten Fechtmann wrote: first off: I am new to ConTeXt (even if not so new to LaTeX) and would like to transfer some of my old macros to ConTeXt... I am well aware, that this means re-programming (most) of them. So be it. Have you looked at enumerations?

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting underscore

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Gour wrote: Yesterday I played a bit with emacs' muse mode which has option to 'publish' to ConTeXt, but its output was wailing when texeexec-ing due to use of \textunderscore (option in muse). Why does \textunderscore wail? \textunderscore should work fine. Today I

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting underscore

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Gour wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:59:39 -0500 (EST) Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does \textunderscore wail? \textunderscore should work fine. See https://mail.gna.org/public/muse-el-discuss/2008-01/msg1.html thread. This is just a mistake

Re: [NTG-context] Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Carsten, On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Carsten Fechtmann wrote: What this all burns down is, that I /really/ would like to understand, how I can pass a value from a counter as (constant) argument to a self- defined function. As that seems to be the core of the matter/problem here. You need to

Re: [NTG-context] Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Carsten Fechtmann wrote: Hi Aditya, yes, looking at the .tuo did the trick. :-D I had tried things with expanded already, but at that time I still had {\expanded{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{Issue~\IssueCounter:}{\currentdate}}} as command. Which does NOT work (due to the

[NTG-context] Feature Request: \startitemize[text]

2008-01-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Hans, I have always found the space at the beginning of each item in \startitemize[text] to be too large. Currently, this is hard coded to be \emwidth plus \intertwordstretch minus \interwordshrink (line 1132 of core-itm.tex with the comment new per 2006/10/20). I always end of copying the

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