Re: [NTG-context] Org-Mode for ConTeXt

2021-01-11 Thread Roger Mason
Hell Jan, Jan U. Hasecke writes: > Dear all, > > Emacs and Org-Mode is central to my writing workflow as I use org-mode > for organizing my Zettelkasten.[1] > > Now I am looking for a way to extend the workflow an include ConTeXt. > > Is anybody aware of a ConTeXt export tool for Org-Mode? There

[NTG-context] FreeBSD 13.2

2024-02-24 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I've been away from ConTeXt for some time but now I want to install it on my FreeBSD 13.2 system(s) (I have not switched any machines to 14.0 yet). After unpacking, running the install scripts results in: ld-elf.so.1: /home/rmason/Software/Context/bin/mtxrun: Undefined symbol "__libc_star

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

2024-02-25 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Henning, Mojca, Mojca Miklavec writes: > There were some troubles with our infrastructure which led Hans to > build the binaries himself without paying extra attention to > compatibility with older systems. > > You can find the binaries here: > https://build.contextgarden.net/dl/luamet

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

2024-02-25 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Roger Mason writes: > Hello Henning, Mojca, > > Mojca Miklavec writes: > >> There were some troubles with our infrastructure which led Hans to >> build the binaries himself without paying extra attention to >> compatibility with older systems. >&g

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

2024-02-25 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Hraban, Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > Am 25.02.24 um 17:08 schrieb Roger Mason: >> Do I need mtxrun? If so, where are the sources and how do I build >> it? > > Yes, you need it, but it’s just an alias to luametatex: > > ~/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin $ ll &

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

2024-02-26 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > > I guess you’re lacking the main distribution package. > > My installation (tree -dL 4, partly shortened): > > . > ├── bin (installation only) > └── tex > ├── texmf-cache (necessary, but auto-created?) > │   ├── luametatex-cache > │   │   └── con

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

2024-02-26 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Hraban, Henning Hraban Ramm writes: > Usually, you don’t need to set any variables. > The default configuration file is also fine. > > Does "context --version" work? No: mtxrun | forcing cache reload resolvers | resolving | configuration files already identified resolvers

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

2024-02-26 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Hans, Hans Hagen writes: > On 2/26/2024 12:22 PM, Roger Mason wrote: > >> Looks like the unset TEXMF and TEXMFCNF envars are a problem. What >> should they be set to and where should they be set? > fwiw, i'll do an update oen fo these days with the old bi

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

2024-02-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Hans, Hans Hagen writes: >> Please do not go to this trouble on my account. I have decided to >> give >> up on context. > well, i put the older in in the latest anyway Many thanks, I will give it a try in the next day or so and respond to the list. Best wishes, Roger ___

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

2024-02-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Alan, Alan Braslau via ntg-context writes: > On Sun, 25 Feb 2024 14:23:10 +0100 > Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > >> Am 25.02.24 um 13:12 schrieb Hans Hagen: >> > We could add a flag to the installer that doesn't update the >> > binaries but intead (advices) to build the bins but it assumes >>

[NTG-context] Re: FreeBSD 13.2

2024-03-22 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Hans Hagen writes: > well, i put the older in in the latest anyway Rather belatedly, I tested this a few moments ago: it works flawlessly. Many, many thanks. Roger ___ If your question is of interest to oth

Re: [NTG-context] selectively turn off captions

2007-11-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Thomas, "Thomas A. Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gentoo version numbers are not something that many people around here > will know. I assume that 3.0_p1 refers to gentoo's tetex ebuild. This > is ancient, tetex has been unmaintained for almost two years (and > gentoo should be a

Re: [NTG-context] selectively turn off captions

2007-11-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Hans, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Mason wrote: > well, we can misuse the number= key . > > % patch, goes in cont-new.tex > I'm sorry to trouble you but... I applied the patch. When I try to compile my file it fails like this: !

Re: [NTG-context] selectively turn off captions

2007-11-30 Thread Roger Mason
Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > then you run an old context and have to wait till the next current > (soon, when the luatex beta is out) is it not possible to update to the current context? I'm running 3.0_p1 (on a Gentoo linux box so I'm acustomed to compiling from source). Thanks, R

Re: [NTG-context] selectively turn off captions

2007-12-01 Thread Roger Mason
"Idris Samawi Hamid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Middle Ages, almost BC in ConTeXt time... > > Must update, I'd start with a fresh, clean TeX if I were you. > I think I just made it to the renaissance: TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD Cheers, Roger ___

Re: [NTG-context] selectively turn off captions

2007-12-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you can try the current beta It did not work with my updated version: texexec --version TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD ctxtools --contexttools CtxTools | version 1.3.3 - 2004/2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD figures : dime

Re: [NTG-context] selectively turn off captions

2007-12-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (./main.ctx.tuo)) > > where does that name come from ... ctx is reserved for context job > control files The file name being compiled is main.ctx.tex. I'm using the dual extension .ctx.tex as a way of telling my editor (emacs) to invoke the context mode

Re: [NTG-context] selectively turn off captions

2007-12-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Jean & Peter, Jean Magnan de Bornier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, AucTeX does recognize a LaTeX file from a ConTeXt file; no need for > that! I did it like that because I have (setq-default TeX-master nil) in my .emacs so it asks then inserts the local variables that Peter mentione

[NTG-context] forbidden filenames in context?

2007-12-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have two identical files, one named main.ctx.tex and the other tmp.ctx.tmp. The latter was made by copying the former. Both files contain just this: \starttext \stoptext %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: context %%% TeX-master: t %%% End: tmp.ctx.tex compiles fine, but main.ctx.tex f

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

2007-12-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, Thanks for the responses. Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ctx suffixes are kind of special (depends a bit how used, but as part of > workflows context will read them as xml files and lookup mapped names) > and tmp is used for buffers and such (but normally the buffer name

[NTG-context] defining a command

2007-12-17 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have this definition: \def\oneplot#1#2#3% {\placefigure [here][#3] {\bfc #2} {\hfil \scale[width=10.5cm]{#1} \hfil} } (It is modified from an example on the wiki that takes only the first two arguments). I use it like this: \oneplot % image % caption % reference {\externalfigure

Re: [NTG-context] defining a command

2007-12-18 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Wolfgang, "Wolfgang Schuster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > \define[3]\oneplot > {\placefigure[here][#3]{\bfc#2}{\scale[width=10.5cm]{#1}}} > > \starttext > \oneplot{\blackrule[width=1cm,height=1cm]}{Blackrule}{plot:blackrule} > See at \in{Plot}[plot:blackrule]. > \stoptext > > Alternativ

Re: [NTG-context] defining a command

2007-12-18 Thread Roger Mason
Hello again, "Wolfgang Schuster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > \definefloat[plot][plots][figure] > \setupfloat[plot][command={\scale[width=5cm]}] What would the plural form be used for? Could I use it to define a combination? If so, how? Thanks for the help, Roger ___

Re: [NTG-context] preview-context

2007-12-23 Thread Roger Mason
Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since I plan to move to ConTeXt using AUCTeX, I'm interested to hear if > there is some interest here (amongst emacs users) to have preview-context > withing AUCTeX package? I'm interested in improved Context support in Auctex in general. I am a recent convert

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt meeting: preliminary registrations open now

2008-01-09 Thread Roger Mason
"Jeff Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On appearances it sometimes feels like I'm the only North American > user of ConTeXt (which is surely not true, though)! You are not alone! I'm in St John's, Newfoundland. So n >= 2. Cheers, Roger ___

[NTG-context] processing xml

2008-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have a document converted from rtf to xml that I'd like to attempt to typeset using Context. As a starting point I tried to follow the procedure in a document from the wiki: mag-0008-1.pdf "Dealing with XML". Having copied the first example document and stylesheet from that article and

Re: [NTG-context] processing xml

2008-05-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Wolfgang, "Wolfgang Schuster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > take a look into the XML manual, the magazine is a little bit special and > not the best starting point. > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-man-15.htm Thank you _very_ much. That was just what I needed: to quote the example I jus

[NTG-context] letter module

2008-08-13 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I just downloaded the letter module and installed it by unzipping the t-letter.zip file into /usr/local/context_minimal/. When I try a test letter: \usemodule[letter] \starttext \startletter It is raining again. \stopletter \stoptext context fails with: systems : system comma

Re: [NTG-context] letter module

2008-08-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Wolfgang, "Wolfgang Schuster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I just downloaded the letter module and installed it by unzipping the >> t-letter.zip file int

Re: [NTG-context] letter module

2008-08-14 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Wolfgang & Mojca, "Wolfgang Schuster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: and "Mojca Miklavec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >&g

[NTG-context] switching to Context

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm thinking of making the switch from latex to context, indeed I'm working on my first non-trivial document as a trial. I have some questions. (1) Is it possible to do conditional compilation? I wish to use context to write lecture notes with embedded pictures. I'd like to compile the

Re: [NTG-context] switching to Context

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Mason
Luigi and Thomas, Thank you both very much for your suggestions. It appears that much is possible beyond the simple inclusion/exclusion I had considered. Just yesterday(!) I extracted from a pdf file the text to pass on to a colleague. Now why did I not think of that when I had the same need!

[NTG-context] selectively turn off captions

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm making progress in using modes - thanks again for the help so far that was given in the "switching to Context" thread. I have followed Thomas Schmitz' practex article and have set up modes for presentation and manuscript. I am using external figures on most of the slides. In presenta

Re: [NTG-context] selectively turn off captions

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Wolfgang, "Wolfgang Schuster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > \setupfloat[figure][default=none] Thanks, but that did not work. The only thing that seems to work is to put {none} for the caption. However, that means I'm not going to have captions in the manuscript version either. Cheers, Roge

[NTG-context] Letter module and letterhead

2016-09-28 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Is it possible to use the letter module with letterhead? If so, is there an exaple somewhere? Thanks, Roger ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

[NTG-context] Systemwide installation does not work

2016-10-18 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, System: FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p18. I deleted my old context installation and followed the instructions here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Standalone for a 'System-wide installation' in /opt/context Here is what happens: sh ./first-setup.sh --modules=all receiving inc

Re: [NTG-context] Systemwide installation does not work

2016-10-18 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, Alan Braslau writes: > After forcing a rebuild of the freebsd binaries and committing them to > the garden, first-setup.sh now seems to work correctly. Would you try > again installing on your system? > > I will try to see with Mojca what went wrong with the server: why > committing o

Re: [NTG-context] problem with math: "\left" leads to "udefined symbol"

2017-01-24 Thread Roger Mason
Hans Hagen writes: > > this just works here ... so can others confirm it? > > \starttext > > \startformula > x = \left ( 1 + 2 \right ) > \stopformula > > \stoptext > > Here too: resolvers | trees | analyzing 'home:texmf' resolvers | globbing | confusing filename, name: 'README.

[NTG-context] Line numbers in output

2017-08-21 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Is there a switch to enable lines to be numbered in the output pdf document? I have seen the garden entries on numbering for sections of verbatim text but I would like the whole document to have line numbers. My ConTEXt version is 2016.01.04 15:47. Maybe it is time to update! Thanks, Ro

Re: [NTG-context] Line numbers in output

2017-08-21 Thread Roger Mason
"Schmitz Thomas A." writes: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/startlinenumbering is what you > find when you search for “linenumbering” on the wiki. Thanks Thomas. I searched on 'context garden add line numbers'. Cheers, Roger _

[NTG-context] Obtaining an old standalone

2017-09-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Is there a means of obtaining an old standalone? I would like to get ConTeXt ver: 2016.01.04 15:47 MKIV beta fmt: 2016.1.4 Thanks, Roger ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining an old standalone

2017-09-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Aditya, Aditya Mahajan writes: > I have the zips for 2015.12.29 and 2016.02.15, if either of those > would work. For which operating system? Thanks, Roger ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, p

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining an old standalone

2017-09-06 Thread Roger Mason
Aditya Mahajan writes: > On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Roger Mason wrote: > >> Hi Aditya, >> >> Aditya Mahajan writes: >> >>> I have the zips for 2015.12.29 and 2016.02.15, if either of those >>> would work. >> >> For which operating system? &

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining an old standalone

2017-09-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Parchd, Parchd writes: > According to > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Reverting_to_an_older_installation > I think something like `sh ./first-setup.sh --context=2016.1.4` should > help you. Thank you. That is well worth a try. Cheers, Roger _

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining an old standalone

2017-09-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Parchd writes: > According to > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Reverting_to_an_older_installation > I think something like `sh ./first-setup.sh --context=2016.1.4` should > help you. This is what I did: sh ./first-setup.sh --context=2016.1.4 --all . ~/Context/tex/setu

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining an old standalone

2017-09-06 Thread Roger Mason
Aditya Mahajan writes: > > These are each 200MB, so sending by email might not work. > > I uploaded them temporarily to > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dg8xuyab5x3anju/AAA-tALrMZuDUCgMXRaYK6JCa?dl=0 > > The versions might be off by one (i.e., the 2016-02-15 tar file might > contain the tex files for

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining an old standalone

2017-09-08 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dalyoung, Jeong Dal writes: > > I also had a similar problem recently after installing texlive 2017. > But it is resolved now by doing the following according to the suggestions: > > run mtxrun —generate and luatools —generate > > May be, “ luatools —generate" is OK. > I am using TeXshop in

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining an old standalone

2017-09-10 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Aditya, Aditya Mahajan writes: > > Note that this should be luatools --generate (two hyphens, which got > changed to an endash in the previous email). > Unfortunately 'luatools --generate' produces the same error. I have worked round the problem that sparked my original post, so, with thank

Re: [NTG-context] WYSIWYM editor on top of ConTeXt / Lout

2017-12-03 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Jonas Baggett writes: > This is a blog post I recently published: > https://jonas17b.wixsite.com/monsite/home/wysiwym-editor-on-top-of-context-lout. > It > is about some ideas I have for a WYSIWYM editor like LyX, but it would > be designed for using more than 1 backend (e.g. ConTeXt, Lo

Re: [NTG-context] WYSIWYM editor on top of ConTeXt / Lout

2017-12-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Jonas, Jonas Baggett writes: > Thank you for the suggestion. I was first thinking about incrementally > creating a custom format that evolves as features are implemented. And > for translating the custom format into a backend format, I was > thinking of creating files with translations rul

[NTG-context] luatex binary is too old

2018-01-15 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I just updated ConTeXt: context --version resolvers | trees | analyzing 'home:texmf' resolvers | globbing | confusing filename, name: 'README.txt', lower: 'readme.txt', already: 'ReadMe.txt' mtx-context

Re: [NTG-context] luatex binary is too old

2018-01-15 Thread Roger Mason
Hans Hagen writes: >> : Your luatex binary is too old, you need at least version 1.05! >> >> Where do I get the updated luatex binary? >> >> I'm running on FreeBSD 10.3, 32 bit. > Does that binary come from the garden too? > > Hans Yes, I did not compile it myself, if that is what you are a

[NTG-context] large delimiters for equation

2013-11-25 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'd like to have delimiters that match the height of the fraction in an expression like this: \startformula c\Delta T = t\big{(} \frac{c}{v_s} - \frac{c}{v_f} \big{)}. \stopformula I looked in the docs and tried a few likely solutions without luck. Please accept my apologies if this

Re: [NTG-context] large delimiters for equation

2013-11-25 Thread Roger Mason
Thanks Aditya. Roger On 11/25/2013 12:21 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: \left( \frac \right) Aditya ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context

[NTG-context] module not found?

2014-05-06 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm running through Aditya's tutorial on makeing slides (http://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/creating-a-clean-presentation-style-in-40-commits/) I'm running standalone ConTeXt ver: 2014.05.06 14:35 MKIV beta fmt: 2014.5.6 int: english/english and I installed visualcount

[NTG-context] Setting width of table column

2011-05-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I cannot find how to set the width of a table column. I am running MkII. The manual gives this: w<> set minimum column width at specified value I have currently: \starttable[|l|l|w5cm l|p|] but that italicises the content of column 3. I have tried variations to no avail. Thanks for an

Re: [NTG-context] Setting width of table column

2011-05-12 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Wolfgang, Wolfgang Schuster writes: > You need parentheses! > > … | l w(5cm) | … > Many thanks. If I may presume on your patience a little more... I now have: \starttable[| l s1 | s1 l | s0 lp w(10cm) | s0 l |] However, the entries in column 3 have line-feeds roughly every two words and

Re: [NTG-context] Setting width of table column

2011-05-12 Thread Roger Mason
Wolfgang Schuster writes: > Don’t mix “p” and “w” keywords, “w” sets the width for a cell where > you don’t want a line break in the cell while “p” is for paragraphs > where you can set the width of the cell with “p(10cm)”. Many thanks Wolfgang. I've been using Context exclusively now for sever

Re: [NTG-context] Setting width of table column

2011-05-13 Thread Roger Mason
Wolfgang Schuster writes: > When you need a certain layout for a table you should consider switching > to natural tables but a few of the nice features (e.g. loffset and > the setups key) are only available in mkiv. I'll look into that. Thanks again. Roger _

[NTG-context] Zoom image in presentation

2011-11-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, I'd like to be able to zoom an image during a presentation. My thinking is that it might be possible by turning layers on and off interactively. I see in this message: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20110426.183109.fc46c5a5.en.html that Hans said (enigmatically :-)) "And th

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

2011-12-14 Thread Roger Mason
Chris, Chris Lott writes: > > 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to > efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting > them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word... > is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? this isn't super-high

[NTG-context] Draft version of document

2012-08-04 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, Having used MkII to make a nicely formatted version of a document, I now need to make a draft version document in order to submit it to a journal. They want the figure captions as a list at the end of the document and the figures collected on pages at the end too. The draft versi

Re: [NTG-context] Draft version of document

2012-08-07 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Sietse, On 08/06/12 13:44, Sietse Brouwer wrote: Hi Roger, Firstly: drafts are indeed the way to go. \completelistoffigures places a complete list of figure *captions*, so that takes care of that. I have made this reply long because I lack the time to make it short. Cheers, Sietse Man

[NTG-context] DocBook

2012-12-18 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, I have a manuscript to review that I have managed to coerce into DocBook xml. I'd like to turn it into context so that I can mark it up in a comfortable environment. I just tried Simon Pepping's DocBookInContext package from 2003, but it fails on the provided test document: ! Un

Re: [NTG-context] DocBook

2012-12-18 Thread Roger Mason
Wolfgang, Thomas, Hans, On 12/18/2012 09:51 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 12/18/2012 12:47 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 18.12.2012 um 12:31 schrieb Roger Mason : Hello all, I have a manuscript to review that I have managed to coerce into DocBook xml. I'd like to turn it into conte

Re: [NTG-context] How to capture a typeset page into a box instead of shipping it out

2009-02-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, "Kevin D. Robbins" writes: >Thanks for the suggestions Wolfgang and Luigi. I've now got several >good options to research. >Kevin > I use 3 modes for teaching: manuscript -- notes that go on-line for students to download presentation -- pictures for use in class speakernote

[NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, There was thread a while ago about converting Word docs to Context. Did anyone make progress in setting up a workflow? Cheers, Roger ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry t

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Vyatcheslav, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky writes: > I did only some basic steps. )) Nothing to mention yet. > > What kind of documents you need to convert? Only simple ones, or > containing formulaes, etc.? It is just a problem that comes up from time to time, rather than an extensive collectio

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Idris, "Idris Samawi Hamid" writes: > Buggy but usable: > > OOo: doc -> odt > > odt2txt: odt -> markdown > > pandoc: markdown -> context > > the buggeist part of the workflow is odt2txt: sometimes it skips > footnotes or entire paragraphs. Thank you. I take it you mean odt2txt.py? Ther

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-24 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, "J.A.J. Pater" writes: > It is pretty easy when you use the word-to-latex program > (http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/) > See: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Word-to-LaTeX (Which could be > renamed Word-to-ConTeXt?) > Though I had some problems using the XML example from the abo

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-24 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Luigi, luigi scarso writes: >You can give a look also at >http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odfpy Thanks for the suggestion, I will have a look at it. Cheers, Roger ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-25 Thread Roger Mason
Wolfgang Schuster writes: > > You could try to ask Steffen Wolfrum, he's a professional typesetter [1] > and should have knowledge about word2context conversion, that's what I > got > from a few older mails from him. Thanks for the suggesttion Wolfgang. Best wishes, Roger __

[NTG-context] Landscape printing

2009-06-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I made a document that needs to be printed in landscape orientation on letter paper. I have this in the document: \setuppapersize[letter,landscape][letter,landscape] It looks fine in xpdf, but when I print the page has a very wide left margin and the last column of my table is off the ri

[NTG-context] Letter with letterhead

2011-03-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I must write a multi-page letter with only the first page as (pre-printed) letterhead. I adapted the Letterhead example from the wiki to fit the style of my institution. I would like to know how to revert the second and subsequent pages to use a default layout. If someone know how to use

Re: [NTG-context] Letter with letterhead

2011-03-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Willi, Willi Egger writes: > though I am using MKIV only, it should also work with MKII > > \startsetups[letter:foot] > \setlayer[letter:foot] > [x=4.5mm,y=-2mm] > {... whatever must go in here ...} [snip] Many thanks. Yes,

[NTG-context] Context & emacs-muse [possibly OT]

2009-10-17 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm using emacs-muse to write a document to be published to ConTeXt. The document contains a little math. According to this wiki page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_and_emacs-muse#Math it is possible to include math in muse using and tags, which trigger corresponding $ markup in

Re: [NTG-context] Context & emacs-muse [possibly OT]

2009-10-19 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Jean, Jean Magnan de Bornier writes: > > The< math> tag is indeed part of the official muse. > > A muse file containig only this: > > \sum type = nMn > > works OK here. Are you sure you did'nt insert spaces like in "< math >", > which ought to give a result like yours? Yes, I'm sure. >

Re: [NTG-context] Context & emacs-muse [possibly OT]

2009-10-19 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Jean, Jean Magnan de Bornier writes: > All correct then. > If I understand correctly you use gentoo's muse package. Maybe the problem > is there, but it is hard for me to test that, I have a non-packaged muse > installation. > > Can you show the value of muse-context-markup-specials-document?

Re: [NTG-context] Context & emacs-muse [possibly OT]

2009-10-19 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Jean, Jean Magnan de Bornier writes: > Le 19 octobre à 20:38:18 Roger Mason écrit notamment: > Hi Roger, > > Sorry I'm so slow today!! > You have to say (require 'muse-latex2png) > > This is the file where the and tags are defined. > ch

Re: [NTG-context] Usage of filename in document

2009-11-05 Thread Roger Mason
Martin, Martin Scholz writes: > is there a way in conTeXt how I can use a filename, so that I can write a > text where I can refer to it for using it in the following scenario: > > I need 4 documents with nearly the same content. what I like to do is to > switch in the document depending on th

Re: [NTG-context] mailing list question/problem

2009-11-16 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Bernhard, Bernhard Rosensteiner writes: > >Please can somebody write back only that i can by certain that my >messages become properly posted - thanks. I see your message. Best wishes, Roger ___ If y

[NTG-context] Linux PPC64 & minimals

2010-02-01 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I just tried to install the minimals on: uname -a Linux perthite 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #6 SMP Wed Jan 13 17:59:36 NST 2010 ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported PowerMac7,3 GNU/Linux but got: sh ./first-setup.sh Error: your system "Linux ppc64" is not supported yet. Please report to the ConTeXt m

Re: [NTG-context] Linux PPC64 & minimals

2010-02-01 Thread Roger Mason
hello Thomas, "Thomas A. Schmitz" writes: > On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Roger Mason wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I just tried to install the minimals on: >> >> uname -a >> Linux perthite 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #6 SMP Wed Jan 13 17:59:36 NST 2010

Re: [NTG-context] Linux PPC64 & minimals

2010-02-01 Thread Roger Mason
Mojca Miklavec writes: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 15:43, Roger Mason wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I just tried to install the minimals on: >> >> uname -a >> Linux perthite 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #6 SMP Wed Jan 13 17:59:36 NST 2010 >> ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec support

Re: [NTG-context] Linux PPC64 & minimals

2010-02-01 Thread Roger Mason
Roger Mason writes: > > Thanks. It is downloading now. I'll let you know how it turns out. > MKII works: texexec --mode=manuscript --result=Manuscript.pdf --purge TheFourCs.tex ConTeXt ver: 2010.02.01 11:19 MKII fmt: 2010.2.1 int: english/english The document is made

Re: [NTG-context] Linux PPC64 & minimals

2010-02-02 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Mojca, Mojca Miklavec writes: > 2.) The error is not related to minimals/wrong architecture. There may > be several reasons. Agreed. I see the same problem on an X86_64 system. > Different shell? echo $SHELL -> /bin/bash (4.0_p28) > Missing mkiv formats? (Can you > try "luatools --gene

Re: [NTG-context] Linux PPC64 & minimals

2010-02-02 Thread Roger Mason
Taco Hoekwater writes: > Different ruby version? I have no errors here, and > > $ ruby -v > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux] ruby 1.8.6 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 369) [powerpc-linux] Cheers, Roger

Re: [NTG-context] texexec --purge

2010-02-02 Thread Roger Mason
Mojca Miklavec writes: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 15:34, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > The problem goes away if I comment out the lines 2053 and 2054 of > tex.rb. I suspect that > Kpse.runscript('ctxtools',rawbase,'--purge') if > getvariable('purge') > doesn't call the ctxtools script with

[NTG-context] [OT] ASCII text output

2010-02-16 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I need to convert an exam written in ConTeXt to an ascii text file like the following: NewQuestion,MC, Title,Which is gem, QuestionText,Which one of the following is regarded as a gem? Points,1, Difficulty,1, Image,, Option,0,Feldspar,, Option,100,Ruby,, Option,0,Sodium chloride,, Option,0

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] ASCII text output

2010-02-16 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Aditya, Aditya Mahajan writes: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Roger Mason wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I need to convert an exam written in ConTeXt to an ascii text file like >> the following: >> >> >> Before I go to the trouble of creating a parser to

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] ASCII text output

2010-02-18 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Aditya, Aditya Mahajan writes: > If you are willing to add more markup, then TeX can do the parsing for > you. > > \startquestion[title={Ruby coloured by}, points=1, difficulty=1] > A ruby is a gem of corundum colored > \startoptions > \option Rutile > \option Calcium > \co

[NTG-context] (no subject)

2010-02-22 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I'm working on a project to set up exams, basing the work on Aditya's asignment class that was published in Practex in 2006. I have a problem getting title information printed correctly. This is a cut-down version: \setupcolors [state=start] \definecolor [colorone][r=0.625,g=0,b=0]

[NTG-context] Exams

2010-02-22 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, Sorry, I sent this message to the list without a subject earlier today. I'm working on a project to set up exams, basing the work on Aditya's asignment class that was published in Practex in 2006. I have a problem getting title information printed correctly. This is a cut-down version:

Re: [NTG-context] Exams

2010-02-22 Thread Roger Mason
Aditya Mahajan writes: > You need to use \Exam... to access the values. Again, many thanks. Roger ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.