Re: [NTG-context] Punctuation in bibliography

2011-05-24 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Yes, I get it too. It's because booklet expects a publisher name; if you add a line publisher = {Publisher}, to the bibtex entry you can see this. I think this can be fixed in context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/bibl-apa.tex by changing this function: \setuppublicationlayout[booklet]{%

Re: [NTG-context] checking mainlanguage setup

2011-05-27 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 27 May 2011, Jeong Dalyoung wrote: Is it possible to check what is the mainlanguage set in document? Now, I use \enablemode[kr] to do something A. But, I'd like to do it automatically if possible. According to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes#System_modes , the mode **kr should be

Re: [NTG-context] newbie questions

2011-05-31 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 31 May 2011, Sanja C. wrote: a) Is the ConTeXt project alive? The newest PDF documentation I could find seems to be from 2007; most of it is dated 2003 or older. Very much alive! See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes for a list of recent releases (though betas come along much

Re: [NTG-context] teletype style in type-win.mkiv

2011-06-02 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 02 Jun 2011, Richard Stephens wrote: \setupbodyfont[helvetica, 10pt] which is indistinguishable from Arial for 99% of the population, and it has the advantage that all the styles are already defined, including \tt. Anyone who can distinguish Helvetica from Arial is likely to have

Re: [NTG-context] Wiki Topics Menu

2011-06-03 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 03 Jun 2011, Mathieu DUPONT wrote: Is there a menu page on the wiki to see all the topics/pages there are, such as these few examples : Do you mean something like http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:AllPages ? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:SpecialPages has some other resources

Re: [NTG-context] undefined control sequence bug with German umlaut in bibliography

2011-06-03 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 03 Jun 2011, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: But I admit it's not easy to know that, bibtex documentation is a real mess Patience please! ‘This document will be expanded when BibTEX version 1.00 comes out’ -- BIBTEXing, February 8, 1988. :-) Pont

Re: [NTG-context] undefined control sequence bug with German umlaut in bibliography

2011-06-04 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 04 Jun 2011, Julian Becker wrote: I'm not familiar with the intricacies and details of UTF8 encoding, but is it possible that there is a byte missing from the ä which has been cut off during the abbreviation process? Well, there *is* more than one way to represent ä in UTF-8, but it's

Re: [NTG-context] undefined control sequence bug with German umlaut in bibliography

2011-06-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 06 Jun 2011, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Well, there *is* more than one way to represent ä in UTF-8 If you mean non-shortest forms such as 0xE0 0x83 0xA4 or 0xF0 0x80 0x83 0xA4, then no, they have been forbidden since Unicode 3 in 2000 (formally Corrigendum #1, see

[NTG-context] Automatic landscape figure rotation

2011-06-14 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Dear ConTeXters, I have a full-page, landscape figure in my double-sided document which I rotate 90° to fit the page. In all the books I've seen, such figures are rotated ‘outward’ -- i.e. with the top towards the binding, so 90° clockwise on verso pages and 90° anticlockwise on recto. Is there a

Re: [NTG-context] Automatic landscape figure rotation

2011-06-14 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Luigi, Wolfgang, Hans, Taco: thank you for the replies. I will update the wiki later today. Ulrike: I take your point about the inconvenience of such figures. Fortunately I don't have any adjacent ones so at least readers won't have to perform any 180° rotations. I'll play with the options and

Re: [NTG-context] Table Column Width

2011-06-18 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 17 Jun 2011, Kip Warner wrote: I have a table with four columns. The first three are fine as fixed width and fairly narrow, but I need the fourth one to be larger to accommodate text that can wrap for two or more lines. How would I go about doing this? I'm guessing something needs to

Re: [NTG-context] Editors

2011-06-20 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 20 Jun 2011, H. Hodges wrote: I'm new to ConTeXt, coming from LaTeX. Are there any linux text editors that are at all useful for creating context documents? There is a summary table in the wiki at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Text_Editors . Apart from the ones listed there is also

Re: [NTG-context] Editors

2011-06-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 21 Jun 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: TeXworks is configured to use MkII, but there are instructions on the wiki to configure it for MkIV. The latest TeXworks should have this fixed, but I have no idea how to build texworks on linux (for Windows and Mac one can download a binary).

Re: [NTG-context] Change the appearance of a list of bibliography (\placepublications)

2011-06-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 21 Jun 2011, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: Is there any possibility to influence the appearance of a list of bibliography when I make it in MKIV minimals using the command \placepublications? I've done some very limited hacking about with the bibliography styles -- unfortunately I have

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt support for DjVu backend

2011-06-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 22 Jun 2011, Kip Warner wrote: Are there any plans to eventually support the DjVu format as an additional backend alternative to PDF? DjVu is a free standard promoted as an alternative to PDF. It is allegedly a superior format. There's always http://code.google.com/p/pdf2djvu/ in lieu

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography is not working

2011-06-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 22 Jun 2011, yoraxe wrote: \setupbibtex[database=bib] \starttext \completepublications \stoptext You want \completepublications[criterium=all], if you wish to list publications even when they're not referenced in the text. Perhaps you were misled by the name -- \completepublications

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt support for DjVu backend

2011-06-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 22 Jun 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: btw, it would be interesting to have a good open source jbig2 producer I believe https://github.com/agl/jbig2enc is open source, but I don't know whether it fulfils your other criterion of being good. Pont

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography is not working

2011-06-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 22 Jun 2011, yoraxe wrote: Thanks for the information. I really didn't know that. But unfortunately this does not change anything. Strange, works here for me (ConTeXt MkIV version: 2011.02.25 22:03, Ubuntu Linux 32-bit) -- files attached. At this point I don't know what else to advise.

Re: [NTG-context] justify

2011-06-24 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 24 Jun 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: newspaper: spacing between letters and words are increased or decreased as necessary. The IE reference says “it is the most sophisticated form of justification for Latin alphabets.” This appears to be the original source:

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography is not working

2011-06-25 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 25 Jun 2011, yoraxe wrote: Sounds like you need to run mktexlsr. Bibtex uses LS-R to find these files. (afaik; at least it helped me when I got that error) Wow, thank you. That really worked. :) Sorry, that I didn't find that in the archives. Please make a note in the wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] How to get the chapter number

2011-07-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 06 Jul 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: What I mean. I have something like: \chapter{General description} . . This is explained in chapters 7 to 12. . . \chapter{another} . . \chapter{first explaining} % this is (now) chapter 7 . . \chapter{last explaining} % this is (now)

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography entries not showing up

2011-07-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 06 Jul 2011, Christian wrote: Also, if anybody thinks mkiv is not ready for productive work, please scream and stop me. But as far as I've heard it has been used to typeset books and theses already, so... yeah. I've been writing my thesis in MkIV and haven't hit any serious problems so

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-15 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 15 Aug 2011, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On 08/15/2011 09:16 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Under linux Wine sometimes does a great job. *If* the linux user happens to have 150 bucks and thinks it's a good idea to give that to Microsoft. Huh? I've been using Wine for a while (though not for

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography related questions

2011-09-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 22 Sep 2011, Alexandre Krispin wrote: I am trying to get references working with Context as well as it did with Biblatex. Since I didn't find anything helpful in the documentation and the mailing-list, I ask here. It's true that bibliography documentation can be hard to find. The best

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography related questions

2011-09-23 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 23 Sep 2011, Alexandre Krispin wrote: The setup pagecite of Pontus Lurcock is exactly what I needed, but even with a minimal example, it does not produce a reference at the end with \completepublications. For \completepublications, as for \placepublications, you need to use

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography related questions

2011-09-23 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 23 Sep 2011, Christian wrote: The only flaw of this workaround (besides not being the 'proper way') is that the first '(' is not part of the link and therefore not green (but then again, I'll probably set the color of the link to black, anyway). A Fix of linked

[NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-09-25 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Hello, I've recently updated my standalone (32-bit Linux) ConTeXT from 2011.02.25 to 2011.09.20, and I'm now having some trouble with float placement. I'm using MkIV. I'm trying to have figures protruding into the outer margins with a double-sided layout, as described here:

Re: [NTG-context] Missing booktitle in incollection bib-entries

2011-09-25 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 25 Sep 2011, Stefan Müller wrote: I have an @incollection-entry with booktitle set in a bib-file used in a ConTeXt document. Unfortunately there is no \title, generated from booktitle, in the respective .bbl file. Only \arttitle, generated from the bib-key title, is present.

Re: [NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-09-29 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 25 Sep 2011, Pontus Lurcock wrote: I've recently updated my standalone (32-bit Linux) ConTeXT from 2011.02.25 to 2011.09.20, and I'm now having some trouble with float placement. I'm using MkIV. I'm trying to have figures protruding into the outer margins with a double-sided layout

Re: [NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-09-29 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 29 Sep 2011, luigi scarso wrote: hm , it looks like a bad match with between width=17cm and textwidth This extreme example seems to works \setuplayout[location=doublesided,width=20pc] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location={margin,header}]

Re: [NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-09-29 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 29 Sep 2011, luigi scarso wrote: I 've put \page just to show quickly the effect, but maybe there are still problems \setuplayout[location=doublesided,width=20pc] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location={margin,header}] \setupfloat[figure][location=inner] \showframe

Re: [NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-10-02 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 01 Oct 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I've recently updated my standalone (32-bit Linux) ConTeXT from 2011.02.25 to 2011.09.20, and I'm now having some trouble with float placement. I'm using MkIV. I'm trying to have figures protruding into the outer margins with a double-sided

Re: [NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-10-02 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 02 Oct 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The example works if I comment out any of the three lines in the \dorecurse, or if I change \dorecurse{3} to \dorecurse{2}. The example also fails with 2011.09.20, but works with 2011.02.25. page-one.mkiv: ... Thank you once more; this now

Re: [NTG-context] Inits without space in bibliography

2011-10-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 05 Oct 2011, Charles wrote: I would like (the journal actually) to remove the spaces between initials (C.E. instead of C. E.). in the bibliography. It seems initials are created during the .bib to .bbl conversion but I haven't find anything in the .bst style file. Can you please

Re: [NTG-context] \cite doesn't work correctly

2011-10-12 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 12 Oct 2011, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: the \cite command behaves strange, when used in projects: The expected output would be: Me and You; Name, P..Test.. but it is only ; Name, P..Test.. And this result is the same when run from product or from component. Hmm. When I

Re: [NTG-context] Two bibmod questions: first initials and points after question marks, etc. in reference list

2011-10-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 19 Oct 2011, Renald Buter wrote: author = {Hirsch, J.E.}, ... - Notice that only the first initial appears? How to get both/all initials? Should be author = {Hirsch, J. E.}, with a space between initials, otherwise bibtex thinks that Hirsch's first name is ‘J.E.’. -

Re: [NTG-context] TOC struggles

2011-10-20 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 20 Oct 2011, Willi Egger wrote: Hm, i s there a problem with placing the TOC with restrictions to the typeset levels? Please refer to the attached example. Hi, I'm afraid I don't have time to run your example, but looking at it I note that you're using ‘\placecontent[level=section]’.

Re: [NTG-context] Galleries with photos from ConTeXt meetings: any ideas?

2011-10-26 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 25 Oct 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: - In either case I need suggestions about the best option to store photos on new server. (Which software to run?) I've been using Gallery ( http://gallery.menalto.com/ ) to host my personal photos for years, and I've found it user-friendly, stable,

Re: [NTG-context] Recommended table environment?

2011-10-28 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 28 Oct 2011, Patrick Gundlach wrote: I have a project where I think ConTeXt really fits well, so I have a first question (after a looong period of absence). Is there a recommended table environment? Indeed there is -- see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview : * Tabulate

Re: [NTG-context] Rearranging existing A5 = A4

2011-11-02 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 02 Nov 2011, Markus Finke wrote: I have a ready document in A5 and want to rearrange selected pages next to each other on A4 (homeprinter, proofreading). In LaTeX I was using »pdfpages«, e.g.: \usepackage[final]{pdfpages} \begin{document}

Re: [NTG-context] Figure Help

2011-11-03 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 03 Nov 2011, Kip Warner wrote: Two questions. Is it possible to define / declare a figure with one command instead of having to do something like... \useexternalfigure[SomeFigure][Images/Figure.svg] \externalfigure[SomeFigure][width=2.5cm] Sure, \externalfigure[Images/Figure.svg]

Re: [NTG-context] placelist

2011-11-04 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 04 Nov 2011, Willi Egger wrote: it sound strange but how do I get a TOC where only the sections are placed but not the subsections? The document contains exclusively sections and subsections. With \placecontent[level=section] I get as well the sections as also the subsections. Looking

Re: [NTG-context] Figure Help

2011-11-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 07 Nov 2011, Kip Warner wrote: \externalfigure[Images/Figure.svg][width=2.5cm] Thanks Hans, but all I see is a grey box with the following in it where I expected to see the image: name: dummy file: figure:Figure state: unknown I've checked the path and it looks correct.

Re: [NTG-context] Configure \setuppublicationlayout[article] to not insert a '.' after a title ending with a '?'

2011-11-08 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 07 Nov 2011, Renald Buter wrote: Possibly people can give me a pointer into the proper direction? What I am after is probably something like: \setuppublicationlayout[article]{% ... \insertarttitle{\bgroup }{\egroup\optionallyinsertdot }{}% ... } I am not very knowledgeable

Re: [NTG-context] Omit part of a caption in a list

2011-11-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 11 Nov 2011, Christian wrote: Dear all, is the following possible? List of figures 1.1 Figure caption . . . . . . 2 page break *imagine figure here Figure 1.1: Figure caption is a lot longer than it appears in the list of figures. I'd like to shorten the captions in the

Re: [NTG-context] terrible png placement

2011-11-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 10 Nov 2011, Hans van der Meer wrote: Something terrible must be done to png pictures, either in ConTeXt or in luatex. I have the following minimal sample code and picture. I include the png for those who want to check. % Test png addition. \starttext Place png figure.\par

Re: [NTG-context] Help with citation layout.

2011-11-16 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 16 Nov 2011, Christian wrote: I need the help of a BibTeX/citation module expert. I want to modify the appearance of @INBOOK entries. Currently they look like this (apa-de style): author (year) _booktitle_, Chapter chaptertitle, pages, publisher, edition. What I'm aming for is

Re: [NTG-context] \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds

2011-11-17 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Robin Kirkham wrote: Degrees, minutes and seconds of arc (also degrees Celsius) are an exception and are not supposed to have any space between the digits and the degree symbol [1], so to be correct, I think Context should by default veto any space between digits and

Re: [NTG-context] \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds

2011-11-17 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Robin Kirkham wrote: Conventions for setting the degrees of temperature symbol vary; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_symbol#Typography and references therein. In most professionally published works that I've seen, there is no space between the number and the °,

Re: [NTG-context] \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds

2011-11-18 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: so, best is that those asking for it come up with a list of issues: which symbols need this option, is it language related or whatever, so that i can do them all at once. We can already have different mapping sets so spacing could be part of that. I

Re: [NTG-context] pagenumbering and part options [CORRECTED]

2011-11-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 21 Nov 2011, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: 2. The other, less sophisticated option: How do I get \setuppagenumbering to simply just reset the current pagenumber to 1 and start from 1 again? I think that what you want (untested) is \setuppagenumber[number=1] rather than

Re: [NTG-context] \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds

2011-11-24 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 24 Nov 2011, Romain Diss wrote: - again in french, the liter symbol is lowercase l (althought the uppercase L is also temporarly accepted). Not only in French, but in most of Europe, I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litre#Symbol . Should probably be explicitly configurable. Pont

Re: [NTG-context] Copyright Symbol

2011-12-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 08 Dec 2011, Malte Stien wrote: How do I get a copyright symbol in ConTeXt, you know the circle with the 'C' in the centre? I expected it to be \textcopyright as in LaTeX, but that does not seem to work. If you're using a font which contains the symbol, and if you're using MkIV, you

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: Any styles including URL?

2011-12-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 10 Dec 2011, Paul Menzel wrote: type setting my thesis with ConTeXt I still use BibTeX to manage my references. Since a lot of references are available online I want to include the URL if they are available. I read the ConTeXt publication module documentation [1] and as far as I can

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Welcome to ConTeXt! I'm a relatively new user so my answers will be brief and partial, but I'm sure others will be able to expand on them. On Tue 13 Dec 2011, Chris Lott wrote: 1) My work is primarily in the humanities and end-user technologies, with small amounts of coding. So mathematics

Re: [NTG-context] Citation Error 2 using BibTeX db

2011-12-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 18 Dec 2011, Chris Lott wrote: I was testing citation capability with a BibTeX db based on the Context Garden bibliography page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography The example code using the xampl.bib from my distribution didn't work at all. So I've tried to make a very

Re: [NTG-context] idea for a ConTeXt keyboard

2012-01-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 10 Jan 2012, rvhassel wrote: Prepare with ConTeXt a number of keys, for instance parts of mathematical formulas and functions, or parts of molecules out of the chemistry. Put them in the keys of one the keyboards, mentioned above and there can be given a lecture with readable formulas.

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 19 Jan 2012, Kip Warner wrote: Hey Peter. The original SVG is about 7KB. With rasterize off and exported to PDF, its under 2KB. With rasterize on, its still only 78KB. Whatever ConTeXt is doing with it, that 7KB SVG gets bloated to nearly a meg at 976KB. This happens as Logo.svg is

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 19 Jan 2012, Kip Warner wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 21:13 -0300, Wagner Macedo wrote: It would be good if you attach the svg file. Could you do this? Hey Wagner. No problem. http://www.thevertigo.com/temp/Pic.svg My PDF file sizes (using 2011.10.01 10:48): ConTeXt : 978k

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 20 Jan 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote: None of my tools are able to export this into an usable PDF (I didn't try to install Inkscape though). But it is also true that I'm not 100 % sure if PDF knows anything about the gaussian blur. I think this is the root of the problem: inkscape

Re: [NTG-context] Documentation for Bibliography on MKIV

2012-01-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 21 Jan 2012, Wagner Macedo wrote: Hello, In http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography_mkiv, it's little talked about bibliography support on MKIV. Does yet exist a documentation about how to use it? Although the code has been rewritten, the user interface is largely the same as

Re: [NTG-context] Documentation for Bibliography on MKIV

2012-01-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 21 Jan 2012, Wagner Macedo wrote: I will read bib module manual. And, additionally, do you know if this MkIV support brings some facilities to interact with bibliography via Lua? I'm not sure. The impression I have is that the new bibliography code is still under development, so using

Re: [NTG-context] \cite fails with “Extra ...”

2012-01-29 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 30 Jan 2012, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi all, when updating some module documentation I came across this one: · \startpublication [ k=mt, t=book, a={Bodoni}, y=1818, n=1, s={Manuale}, ]

[NTG-context] Bibliography problem

2012-02-01 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Hello, Here's a long-standing problem I have with BibTeX databases in ConTeXt Mk IV (I'm currently using version 2011.10.01). If there are multiple publications with the same authors and year, they get suffixes a, b, etc. as is usually expected in bibliographies. Unfortunately these suffixes

[NTG-context] Question marks in bibliography entries [solved]

2012-02-04 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Hello all, I am presenting an answer rather than a question, for a change. (Though as usual it's about bibliographies.) Last November, Renald Buter posted a question about how to suppress the full stop which follows a publication title in the case where the publication title itself ends in a

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on Table of Contents

2012-02-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 06 Feb 2012, Kip Warner wrote: I am familiar with the \completecontent command, but was wondering if there is a way to also typeset just a summary of the table of contents (e.g. just chapters and no sections, sub sections, etc.)? \placelist[chapter] should do it (untested). Pont

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on Table of Contents

2012-02-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 07 Feb 2012, Kip Warner wrote: One other thing, Pont. How do I add a title such as Contents at a Glance without the actual table of contents including that in the list it generates? Sorry, don't know about this -- I've never needed it, and I a google of the contextgarden hasn't turned

Re: [NTG-context] Cross-document referencing not working!

2012-02-08 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 08 Feb 2012, Verhaag, G.C.H.M. wrote: When I for example use \useexternaldocument[tst][test][A test external] together with \from[tst] the test.pdf file is correctly opened in Acrobat Reader. But the \in{section}[tst::crossref] doesn't open the test.pdf file at all?! The jump to the

Re: [NTG-context] Citation of two books with extra information

2012-04-03 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 03 Apr 2012, Steffen Fritzsche wrote: Hi all, is it possible to cite two books and include page information for each of them. To give an example I'm looking for something like \cite[extras={, p. 123}, extras={, p. 456}][BookOne:2000, BookTwo:1900] which should be processed as

Re: [NTG-context] I want cited bib items only in my bibliography

2012-04-05 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 05 Apr 2012, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote: Dear list, What is the right way today to get only the cited items in the bibliography? I think that what you want is \placepublications[criterium=text] . (Some recent messages suggest that citations are broken in the latest beta, so also make

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-12 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 10 Apr 2012, Kip Warner wrote: I'd like to use an MLA style bibliography with MKIV. The style is available here: www.reed.edu/cis/help/latex/bibtexstyles.html Actually, it doesn't matter to me whether it is that one or any that supports MLA already that ships with ConTeXt.

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-12 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 12 Apr 2012, Kip Warner wrote: Indeed, that is unfortunate. I am a little surprised because I would think that the people who use ConTeXt tend to be more from the sciences than the humanities, and so I wouldn't have expected APA style as the default. Most of the scientific journals

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 06 May 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document Engineering, is not open

Re: [NTG-context] standard for bibliographies

2012-05-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 10 May 2012, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: one glaring omission to me was the lack of support for cross-references within bibliographical lists (e.g., you have a chapter in a book and want to refer back to item X in your list). This has been asked again and again on the zotero forums.

Re: [NTG-context] Apology

2012-05-29 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 29 May 2012, yuji sakai wrote: Cheating, I believe, has a connotation of one bypassing the norms to gain undue advantage over others. To that, I refuse to admit that what I did earlier was cheating. As I have said, I had no intention of disrupting this message board. It was a careless

Re: [NTG-context] bibtex sample file and possible bibtex bug

2012-05-30 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 30 May 2012, Andy Thomas wrote: I apologize to bumb my own post, but does anyone know, where to put sample.bib? Or did the default search path for bibtex change? The basic example on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography_mkiv does not work as well, because of the same reason. I

Re: [NTG-context] Confused again :-)

2012-06-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 07 Jun 2012, Bill Meahan wrote: Gosh this list is nice! Reminds me of the good old days when we used UUCP, bang-paths and C-News to communicate (or the early ARPANET days): polite, expert, very willing to share knowledge c. Wolfgang is ConTeXt's natural language interface. In fact,

Re: [NTG-context] Check brackets and parentheses

2012-07-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 05 Jul 2012, Gilbert Houtekamer wrote: I sometimes find myself looking for misplaced and missing brackets for a long time, as context may given errors about a completely different location. For example this one took me a while \goto{\url[localhost20381}[url(localhost20381)]

Re: [NTG-context] Check brackets and parentheses

2012-07-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 06 Jul 2012, Hongwen Qiu wrote: def count(filename, opening, closing): print opening, closing f = open(sys.argv[1], 'r') Shouldn't this line be f = open(filename, 'r') otherwise the 'filename' parameter will not be used Oops, you're quite correct. Of course it

Re: [NTG-context] Marking a textfragment for later reference

2012-08-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 07 Aug 2012, Robert Blackstone wrote: Here follows my minimal example. I reasoned that the identifier [topica] might act as a label, or an anchor, or whatever the correct ConTeXt name is, for a reference. ---

Re: [NTG-context] Search path.

2012-09-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 10 Sep 2012, Andre Caldas wrote: Do you really need to use context mkii? As it's a new project, using context mkiv might be a better idea. No, I don't. I want to use always the preferred solution. I want to follow your guidelines and be enlightened... :-) How did you know I was

Re: [NTG-context] scripts

2012-10-30 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 30 Oct 2012, Bill Meahan wrote: On 10/30/2012 01:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: filename 21 This has been the correct Bourne shell (POSIX) syntax for many years. I think it goes all the way back to Bell Labs V7 IIRC instead of filename. is a bash-ism FWIW, Debian and Ubuntu have a

Re: [NTG-context] scripts

2012-10-30 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 30 Oct 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: FWIW, Debian and Ubuntu have a package ‘devscripts’ which includes a program ‘checkbashisms’ to catch such things (Ubuntu started using dash as the default sh back in 2006). Ubuntu also has some advice hm, so i wonder why setuptex fails on that box then

Re: [NTG-context] scripts

2012-11-01 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 01 Nov 2012, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Whats more, bash is found under /usr/local/bin/bash on FreeBSD so #! /bin/bash is bound to FAIL. One traditional solution is to use #!/usr/bin/env bash This of course assumes the path to env, but I believe that the env path is more standardized than

Re: [NTG-context] \chapter{} vs \startchapter..\stopchapter

2012-11-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 10 Nov 2012, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Given our interest in pdf production, perhaps we ought to be (more) involved in opensource pdf viewer development? But I suppose that acrobat and adobe reader remain the tools having the most widespread use. It would certainly be nice to have an

Re: [NTG-context] How to display source in ConTeXt?

2012-11-13 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 13 Nov 2012, Martin Schröder wrote: PLEASE switch of Comic Sans! http://bancomicsans.com/ Yang Zhao's message did include a text/plain version too. Unfortunately it seems it may be impossible to display this by default in Gmail:

[NTG-context] Bibliography bug

2011-02-26 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Greetings everyone, Since this is my first post here, I would like to start by saying thank you to all the ConTeXt developers and documenters for a great system. I'm using ConTeXt to typeset my doctoral dissertation, with (so far) reasonable success. But I've run into what I think is a minor bug

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography bug

2011-02-27 Thread Pontus Lurcock
to the definition of \insertpublisher immediately preceding it in the file. I hope that this can be integrated into the next beta, if it doesn't turn out to be a horrendous mistake... Regards, Pont On Sun 27 Feb 2011, Pontus Lurcock wrote: Greetings everyone, Since this is my first post here, I

Re: [NTG-context] No hypenation on words like e-book

2011-03-01 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 01 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: You need MkIV! I just installed the default version from my distribution (openSuse). What is the best way to upgrade? I think the usual recommended approach is to install the minimals: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals . Pont

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011-03-12 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 12 Mar 2011, C. wrote: 2) why they my be reluctant to install the minimals? Because they already have it in miktex, texlive. What they don't know is that these versions are outdated and due to the heavy development pretty far behind. Plus, it should say Context Standalone because that

Re: [NTG-context] why this error?

2011-03-12 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 12 Mar 2011, Hans van der Meer wrote: (.././literature.tex resolversmodules loaded: 'bib' (/Users/hans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/m-obsolete.tex ! Undefined control sequence. I managed to fix this simply by removing the \usemodule[bib] from my source file --

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011-03-12 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 12 Mar 2011, mathew wrote: My experience on Ubuntu is that if you install the ConTeXt minimals in your path, they break a bunch of stuff from TeXLive, such as pdfcrop. I have the minimals installed but with no automatic setup in .bashrc or similar. So when I need to run ConTeXt, I fire

Re: [NTG-context] What are the best fonts to use

2011-03-14 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 14 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: At the moment I use for my ebook: \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] Does not look to bad, but layout is not my forte. So if people have tips about the fonts to use, I like to hear them. A discussion about ‘best

[NTG-context] Producing quotesingle glyph

2011-03-18 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Hello, This may be a stupid question, but I can't work out how to produce the ' character (quotesingle, unicode 0x0027) glyph in a document. Just typing the character in the source produces a quoteright as expected. Here are my other attempts: \starttext \quotesingle

Re: [NTG-context] Producing quotesingle glyph

2011-03-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Thanks, Mojca and Khaled! Taking trep out of the default features works nicely, but since in this case I want quote-replacement as the default and straight quotes only occasionally, I ended up with the following solution: \definefontfeature[default][liga=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,trep=yes,mode=node]

Re: [NTG-context] Producing quotesingle glyph

2011-03-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 20 Mar 2011, Pontus Lurcock wrote: Will wikify later today in case anyone else ever needs this. Done: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Quotesingle . At present it is only linked from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Visuals , because I couldn't find many appropriate related pages. Pont

Re: [NTG-context] Producing quotesingle glyph

2011-03-20 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 20 Mar 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Another option is to disable only a single feature: \definefontfeature[notrep][trep=no] \def\realquotesingle{{\addfs{notrep}'}} Thanks, that's more elegant. I've updated the wiki page to include it. Pont

[NTG-context] More bibl-apa.tex modifications

2011-03-20 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Hello, I have found another minor problem in the bibl-apa style (ConTeXt v. 2011.02.25 22:03), this time for Master's theses, which get an extra space between the phrase ‘Master's Thesis,’ and the university's name and address, thus: Smith, A. B. (2000). A Thesis Title. Master's thesis, City,

Re: [NTG-context] ... and emoticons

2011-03-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 21 Mar 2011, Philipp A. wrote: oh, i guess you’d like to file a bug request for this. it’s quite useful and has no drawbacks at all. Well, the drawback is that it takes up a key combination :-). For example, in the US-international dead-key layout, AltGr+. applies an overdot diacritic

Re: [NTG-context] Which standard installed font displays ' and ` good

2011-03-23 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 23 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I have to change all my ‘quotes’ again. It's advisable to use \quote{...} or \quotation{...} for quotation marks. That way, if you do need to change them, you only do it in one place rather than throughout the document. Pont

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