[NTG-context] ConTeXt for beginners translation

2009-02-19 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Hi, I am new to ConTeXt and, in order to learn a bit of it, I am intending to translate some documentation into French. I followed the link on the wiki and registered/dowloaded the source files for the ConTeXt beginner manual and the ConTeXt reference manual. Everything's ok but I have the

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt for beginners translation

2009-02-20 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 19 fév 2009 à 07:21, Aditya Mahajan a écrit: Hi, I have fixed the makefile, t-setup.tex, ma-cb-styles and ma-cb-setups.tex so that the english documentation compiles. You can try the current svn version. Works perfectly. Thanks! -- Sébastien http://edilibre.net

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-08 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 08 févr. 2010 à 12:25, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit: Hi all, ConTeXt has many features but sometimes there is something missing, what feature or package do you miss which is already available in another TeX system or unavailable in any TeX system? I once tried to list the different

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-08 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 08 févr. 2010 à 01:14, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit: Am 08.02.10 12:43, schrieb Sebastien Mengin: I once tried to list the different points missing regarding the french language support and think of a way to integrate them as a module for ConTeXt, as frenchb [1] does for LaTeX

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-10 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 09 févr. 2010 à 11:30, Peter Münster a écrit: Hello Sebastien, Hi Peter, Thanks for your interest. Anyway, it was not the latest version. In the current version of MKIV, there is no support for language-specifics, so there is actually no support for switching back from French to

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-10 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 09 févr. 2010 à 11:48, Hans Hagen a écrit: 1. the 1. paragraph of each section is indented (LATEX only); 2. the default items in itemize environment 3. vertical spacing in general LATEX lists is shortened; to me these sounds like a design issue, not related to french Note that the frenchb

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-10 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 10 févr. 2010 à 09:33, Hans Hagen a écrit: On 10-2-2010 9:22, Peter Münster wrote: At some point, someone should decide, what is triggered by \mainlanguage[fr] and what is provided by such french-module. For me, \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] is the border case. the problem is

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-11 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 10 févr. 2010 à 03:04, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit: Am 10.02.10 10:07, schrieb Sebastien Mengin: 1. French quotation marks \quotation{...} There I should probably dive in the doc cause I'd be surprised nothing is set up for the following issue, but, in French, if we have a quotation

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-11 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 11 févr. 2010 à 11:12, Steffen Wolfrum a écrit: I miss a command to force a manual line break at any point in a \hyphenatedurl string. Like, e.g. * in \hyphenatedurl{http://www.a_ridiculous_very_long_alpanum*eric_sequence} +1 also. is * never part of a url then? This was

[NTG-context] [translation] Context, an excursion

2010-02-11 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Hi, More than a year ago, I started to participate to the translation project of the context for the beginers guide: ConTeXt, an excursion. For some reasons, I had to stop this. Now, I'd like to try again. Is this doc still accurate? I mean, does it worth to work on its translation or should I

Re: [NTG-context] [translation] Context, an excursion

2010-02-12 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 11 févr. 2010 à 01:36, Aditya Mahajan a écrit: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Alain Delmotte wrote: Hi! Sebastien Mengin a écrit : Hi, More than a year ago, I started to participate to the translation project of the context for the beginers guide: ConTeXt, an excursion. participate ! Does

Re: [NTG-context] The ConTeXt book

2010-04-01 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 01 avril 2010 à 07:08, Arthur Reutenauer a écrit: Hello, This is to inform you that's I've been commissioned by Hans and Taco to work on a manual for ConTeXt, under their supervision, during the next 12 months. After the recent discussions about documentation on this list, they

[NTG-context] page layout

2010-04-02 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Hi, Say I want to typeset a 10 x 18 cm book and print proofs on a A4 paper. Margins : top = 1cm bottom = 1.5cm left right = 1cm I'd like crop marks to. My attempts based on the docs fail. Sorry, but this simple request is not easy to deduce directly from the beginners doc -- although I

Re: [NTG-context] page layout

2010-04-06 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 02 avril 2010 à 01:56, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit: Am 02.04.10 12:13, schrieb Sebastien Mengin: Hi, Say I want to typeset a 10 x 18 cm book and print proofs on a A4 paper. Margins : top = 1cm bottom = 1.5cm left right = 1cm I'd like crop marks to. \definepapersize[book][width

Re: [NTG-context] page layout

2010-04-06 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 06 avril 2010 à 08:52, Willi Egger a écrit: Hi, Hi, you will have to give more paramters to the \setuplayout command ... leftmargign=1cm, leftmargindistance=.5\em, rightmargin=2cm, rightmargindistance=.5\em, width=fit ... I think I'm

Re: [NTG-context] page layout

2010-04-06 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 06 avril 2010 à 08:58, Willi Egger a écrit: Sorry for replying to my own mail. I was just a little to fast with my answer concerning the t-cropmarks. I realize that it is not in the list of the third-party modules on the wiki. No problem, I saw a mail of yours on the archive and got the

Re: [NTG-context] page layout

2010-04-06 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 06 avril 2010 à 09:43, Willi Egger a écrit: Hi, \setuplayout [backspace=1cm, % am I right to comment out this line? - No backspace defines where the textblock starts from the left % leftedge=1cm,%edge is reserved for screendocuments, where you can have margin

Re: [NTG-context] page layout

2010-04-07 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 06 avril 2010 à 11:45, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit: Am 06.04.10 21:23, schrieb Sebastien Mengin: Here's what I use, it's almost satisfying but I've a small amount of space at the left edge of each pages and the whole layout isn't double-side. To set 1cm at the left side and 2cm

Re: [NTG-context] page layout

2010-04-07 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 07 avril 2010 à 03:16, Vianney le Clément a écrit: I'm trying to find a French equivalent for back/cutspace... any idea? Marge intérieure / marge extérieure? No, this would be the equivalent of Inner margin / outer margin, I guess. The thing is that I don't know and don't find printers

Re: [NTG-context] page layout

2010-04-07 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 07 avril 2010 à 03:23, Taco Hoekwater a écrit: Vianney le Clément wrote: I'm trying to find a French equivalent for back/cutspace... any idea? mult-def.lua holds the database of translations of keywords. This database is used to create the mult-xx files for context mkii. Thanks.

Re: [NTG-context] page layout

2010-04-07 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 07 avril 2010 à 03:39, Vianney le Clément a écrit: retourarriere is a litteral translation (to my opinion) and is not reflecting what the keyword backspace really means. In fact, I find it quite exotic in a definition of a page layout... I agree on that one. Maybe we can try some

Re: [NTG-context] footnote marks fail

2010-04-13 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 13 avril 2010 à 01:24, Peter Münster a écrit: Hello, See here: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20100413.111638.965cf779.en.html and here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/setupfootnotes It's not a detailed documentation of \setupfootnotes but at least you get an

Re: [NTG-context] footnote marks fail

2010-04-13 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 13 avril 2010 à 08:13, Taco Hoekwater a écrit: Sorry, a bit off topic, but: is \setupfootnotes[] a synonym for \setupnote[footnote][] ? Yes, the actual definition is: \def\setupfootnotes {\setupnote [\v!footnote]} Thanks a lot. which reminds me: at some point we should add wiki