Re: [NTG-context] runperl.zip

2004-10-18 Thread h h extern
David Arnold wrote: There is no runperl.zip in the latest distribution. Can someone send me a copy? you can use texmfstart for that instead; texmfstart --make --windows --indirect texexec.pl will create a batch file that you can move to your bin path Hans ---

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Installation Problem

2004-10-18 Thread h h extern
David Arnold wrote: Patrick, Ah! I am looking in cont-tmf.zip and I see that there no longer is a /context/perltk. oeps, i need to fix that; the problem is that we're in a transition from old TDS to new TDS (tex directory structure), so either manuals are behind or ahead (and since some changes a

Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem

2004-10-18 Thread h h extern
David Arnold wrote: Added map +context.map to pdftex.cfg. take a look at the file cont-sys.rme: you can configure auto map loading; the pdftex.cbf file is gone in the latest pdfetex! Got this error: \c!gebied can you do a c: cd \ dir c:\texexec.pl /s and see what texexec's are reported? C:\tem

Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem

2004-10-18 Thread h h extern
Larry Stamm wrote: I got a similar error message on my linux box. The solution was to replace a single occurrence of the instruction "\c!gebied" in texexec.pl with "\c!directory". I suspect this is an errant piece of Dutch language code that escaped the recent tranlation to low-level English. hm,

Re: [NTG-context] Miktex blues

2004-10-18 Thread h h extern
David Arnold wrote: F:\miktex\scripts\context\perl>perl texexec.pl junk TeXExec 5.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 executable : pdfetex format : f:/localtexmf/miktex/fmt/cont-en inputfile : junk output : standard interface : e

Re: [NTG-context] Re: texexec 4.0 to 5.0 update.

2004-10-24 Thread h h extern
Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: OK. I'll try another time. Please don't take it on me, this macrosoft magic ;=) ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.25 fmt: 2004.8.17 int: english mes: english ^ I have applyed a texhash too but no result. How about: texexec --make --all you see

Re: [NTG-context] Re: texexec 4.0 to 5.0 update.

2004-10-24 Thread h h extern
Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: texexec --make en solves the problem. But now my fonts are not embeded to my PDF document as it was with the previous version. I think the way i installed the new archive wasn't fair ? What's the best way to do it ? take a look at cont-sys.rme: maybe you need to enable load

Re: [NTG-context] Re: texexec 4.0 to 5.0 update.

2004-10-24 Thread h h extern
Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: What is the folder script in cont-tmf ? I had to copy manually the texexec.pl from this folder to my bin folder to update texexec with the 5.0 version. Should not that have been done when i unzipped every thing or is it done on purpose (To me it looks like the peltk folder

[NTG-context] lost mail

2004-10-30 Thread h h extern
I lost all friday's mail so if someone expects an answer from me ... Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | f

Re: [NTG-context] Local environment

2004-11-02 Thread h h extern
Fabrice Popineau wrote: HH> \unprotect \setvalue{\v!localenvironment}#1 {\doexecutefileonce{#1}} HH> \protect HH> i'll fix it (in core-job) Thanks. In fact, there is a spurious space in core-job.tex. You mean the one befro the #1? indeed, a leftover from: \def\localenvironment #1 {...} where that s

Re: [NTG-context] \presentationstep

2004-11-02 Thread h h extern
David Munger wrote: Nothing seems to work here. I'm afraid the problem is indeed that Acrobat Reader under Linux is not really JavaScript aware... Would it be possible to implement the steps commands such that steps span over multiple slides instead of being managed by JavaScript? try texexec --pdf

Re: [NTG-context] \mathbb

2004-11-12 Thread h h extern
Otared Kavian wrote: At 10:42 +0100 12/11/04, Tobias Burnus wrote: Well, this should work if you have that font, which is part of standard teTeX and probably also of standard fpTeX and thus TeXLive. Otherwise you can find it on CTAN. Tobias I have the TeX installation of Gerben Wierda, on Mac O

Re: [NTG-context] Invalid directory

2004-11-12 Thread h h extern
Arnold, David wrote: All, In WinXP, ... C:\MATHDEPT>cd \mathdept C:\MATHDEPT>dir Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 50D6-E69D Directory of C:\MATHDEPT 09/28/2004 07:54 PM . 09/28/2004 07:54 PM .. 09/28/2004 07:54 PM Evaluations 10/08

Re: [NTG-context] "[" at beginning of formula ?

2004-11-16 Thread h h extern
Matthias Weber wrote: Hello, I'd like to typeset [\partial,B]=0 but \starttext \placeformula \startformula 0= [ A ,B ] = 0 \stopformula gives just "=0" (see below) while \stoptext \starttext \placeformula \startformula 0= [ A ,B ] \stopformula \stoptext works. What is the meaning of [ at the beg

Re: [NTG-context] nath and \mathematics

2004-11-17 Thread h h extern
Nikolai Weibull wrote: The following has to be added to nath for spacing to work correctly: \def\mathematics#1{\relax\ifmmode#1\else$#1$\fi} adding it anywhere after \def$#1${\@@dollar{#1}} seems to work fine. The problem is that $ is redefined, but \mathematics doesn't catch on so the spacing get

Re: [NTG-context] Czech support (Was: Re: does context support vietnamese?)

2004-11-17 Thread h h extern
David Antos wrote: Hyphenation patterns work OK for Czech. Settings for Czech seem to be reasonable (I'd only redefine subsentence setting and mainly date), generated words (Chapter, ...) work fine, at least it is easy to redefine them to one's personal taste :-) since there are more czech users on

Re: [NTG-context] \mathstrut in \underbrace and nath

2004-11-19 Thread h h extern
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Shall this go in nath? Or, Hans, will you protect those macros? if so, i need to protect the lot, any system/logic behind what to protect ? Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA AD

Re: [NTG-context] Bugs

2004-11-21 Thread h h extern
Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Thanks all. Would be nice to know how to switch the left and right keywords to do the opposite of what it does now. there is a switcj but it would spoil the use of modules, you can use flushleft and flushright as alternatives Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] error messages after installation

2004-11-21 Thread h h extern
Ciro A. Soto wrote: I think TEXEXEC 3.1 is still the latest version. what are new are the you're kidding, i have: >texexec TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 --help overview of all options and their values --help all all about all options --he

Re: [NTG-context] \mathstrut in \underbrace and nath

2004-11-21 Thread h h extern
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Friday, November 19, 2004 h h extern wrote: Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Shall this go in nath? Or, Hans, will you protect those macros? if so, i need to protect the lot, any system/logic behind what to protect ? I have no idea. Everything? What's the downside of prote

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts switching and styles ..

2004-11-22 Thread h h extern
Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Hi all, I am working to setup styles in heads with the typeface karat, that i define as follows: \starttypescript [karat] \definetypeface [karat] [ss] [sans] [karat] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript Here is my head definition: \setuphead[part] [align=

Re: [NTG-context] error messages after installation

2004-11-22 Thread h h extern
ab wrote: Willi Egger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TEXEXEC is way too old. The current version is above 5! After updating your context it appears that it uses still a very outdated version of texexec. I advise you to update your tex-system from CTAN (http://www.tug.org/interest.html). Hi, I am try

Re: [NTG-context] Re: does context support vietnamese?

2004-11-22 Thread h h extern
The Thanh Han wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:45:17AM +, Adam Lindsay wrote: The Thanh Han said this at Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:36:05 +0700: Hi Adam, ET5 was the first proposed font encoding for vietnamese; then it was renamed to X5 with a few modifications. T5 is a minor update -- it's heavily

Re: [NTG-context] columnset BUG - (urgent!)

2004-11-27 Thread h h extern
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, please have a look at testfile below: without a footnote everything works fine, but with the footnote the columnset gets crashed! this is a tricky situation: - the note is built in one column mode - but flushed in column mode (dus to postponing) - so actually what you see

Re: [NTG-context] \setupsystem[random]

2004-11-27 Thread h h extern
Christopher Creutzig wrote: Salvete, the line \setupsystem[random=261113] causes an error for me: ./CDaufdruck.tex:10: Arithmetic overflow. \verynormalnextrandom ...al \multiply \randomi 31 \global \advance \randomi ... \normalnextrandom ...aly

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 5, Issue 58

2004-11-27 Thread h h extern
viveksharma wrote: >>V. Sharma wrote: I would like to install context with scite on my computer. This runs WinXp. Trying to download mswincontext.zip from the pragma site comes up with the message url not found. How do most people install this on a windows system or this is mostly used by linu

[NTG-context] website pod

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Hi, I restarted the webservlet and it seems to respond ok now. Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 03

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Problem with \defintion.

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Matthias Weber wrote: Put a blank line between your \definitions helps here. indeed, \definition {text} more text emptyline|\par an alternative: \startdefinition {text} more text \stopdefinition i tend to use that alternative Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] pagenumbers in margin

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After a long period of "Context inactivity", I am again into document preparation. I want to put the pagenumbers in a doublesided document in the outer margin. So far no problem at all... but I want the number to be placed in a 3cm wide grey box, wich I do with

Re: [NTG-context] start with XeTeX

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hello Adam et al! I just tried to use XeTeX (installed with Gerben's i-Installer, after that updated ConTeXt) and followed your instructions in the wiki (http://contextgarden.net/XeTeX), but I get always this error: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.

Re: [NTG-context] Recommended Books on Typesetting

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 28.11.2004 um 20:24 schrieb Nikolai Weibull: I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on. If you can read german you should have a look at "Lesetypographie" by Hans Peter Willberg & Frie

Re: [NTG-context] Recommended Books on Typesetting

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Nikolai Weibull wrote: I have also been looking for books by Hermann Zapf, but most seem to be out of print and very, very expensive where available; anyone know if they are worth their steep prices? nikolai His books (and fonts) are real great! I wish i had them all. Keep in mind that typography

Re: [NTG-context] Recommended Books on Typesetting

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Nikolai Weibull wrote: Hi! I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on. i have a bunch but i have to admit that i'm more a browser than a reader; it's on my to do list to make a list of them maybe we can compile a ni

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Problem with \defintion.

2004-11-28 Thread h h extern
Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Still don't know why it worked with 2 \definitions but anyway, i know my error now :) \something bla bla \something bla bla will work in many cases because \something also triggers a \par, but don't depend on it too much Hans ---

Re: [NTG-context] Tables ..

2004-12-03 Thread h h extern
Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Hi, I would like to use multipage tables. I had a look on the wiki and there are 2 ways of doing that. What is the advantage of using \startlinetable ? huge tables, split vertically as well as horizontally, spanning ,ultiple spreads, repeated columns, etc One of these seem

Re: [NTG-context] scite does not build output

2004-12-03 Thread h h extern
Wolfgang Zillig wrote: Hi, I have some problems with scite: it generates no output but generates this error message: >texmfstart texexec.pl --pdf test.tex >Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. (-> this means that the system cannot find the file) for the moment, replace (in one of

Re: [NTG-context] Re: LaTeX2ConTeXt : external links not work after recompiled

2004-12-05 Thread h h extern
Patrick Gundlach wrote: As far as I can see, this tetex ships with ConTeXt ver: 2004.11.23 OK is: ConTeXt ver: 2004.11.16 i think that something went wrong when i patched the \from macro for handling the nested color support. The url support is rather dirty hooked into other mechanisms. I'l

Re: [NTG-context] Re: LaTeX2ConTeXt : external links not work after recompiled

2004-12-05 Thread h h extern
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hello Quy, Thomas, I have looked into your problematic document, and it looks as if the ConTeXt version in the tetex beta is broken in this respect. -- \setupcolors [state=start] \setupinteraction [state=start,color=blue] \

Re: [NTG-context] Re: LaTeX2ConTeXt : external links not work after recompiled

2004-12-05 Thread h h extern
Patrick Gundlach wrote: more serious is (i bet) that that context is also on the texlive tree, and that really _is_ about to ship. don't worry, the bug is is not affecting the whole lot (only \from when used with a url, the other \goto{}[url(...}] stuff is supposed to work; urls can be set in many

Re: [NTG-context] Re: using fonts -- installation

2004-12-06 Thread h h extern
Adam Lindsay wrote: Rob Ermers said this at Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:30:22 +0100: The font is simply not recognised (log file message: bodyfont: unknown variant johanna). Of course, I am still miles away of getting my cyrillic font working under context... there is support for cyrillic in context but

Re: [NTG-context] Re: using fonts -- installation

2004-12-06 Thread h h extern
Rob Ermers wrote: The font is simply not recognised (log file message: bodyfont: unknown variant johanna). Of course, I am still miles away of getting my cyrillic font working under context... that message is an indication that you didn't define it as bodyfont for instance: \definetypeface[joha

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with DocbookInContext

2004-12-09 Thread h h extern
profile wrote: undefined control sequence : stelsectiein this style is not adapted to low level english reimplementing this style could be a nice exercise (and tutorial) in doing xml with context, so if there are docbook users out there, a way to go can be: - someone makes a sample showing one do

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Update ConTeXt 2004-12-06 for teTeX 2.99.4-beta: map files

2004-12-09 Thread h h extern
Hi Thomas Oops... So, I should stop using these aliases and distribute the .sty files instead. Last time that I looked at these .sty files, they just loaded the .tex files without any additional code. indeed; the currenr version are more latex compliant; i've forgotten when this change was made,

Re: [NTG-context] using \startfiguretext ... \stopfiguretext

2004-12-10 Thread h h extern
Nikolai Weibull wrote: * David Munger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Dec 09, 2004 17:10]: It might not be the only way, this should work: \placefigure [here] [fig:somelabel] {Caption} \placelegend{Figure} {Text} Hm, yeah, that works OK. I was hoping for something that made a little ik, let's give you

Re: [NTG-context] XML & s

2004-12-10 Thread h h extern
Adam Lindsay wrote: Hi all. I want to use XML, but in a non-doctrinaire way: I much prefer TeX formula writing to mathml by hand. I looked at xtag-mml, and the \defineXMLenvironment [formula] looked like just what I wanted. However, when trying it, the XML catcode regime was still in effect, and

Re: [NTG-context] XML & s

2004-12-12 Thread h h extern
Adam Lindsay wrote: So do you reckon that this is an acceptable elaboration? \defineXMLenvironmentsave [formula] [label=] {} {\startformula[\XMLop{label}] \XMLtex{formula} \stopformula} (it runs okay on limited variations here) should be ok Hans ---

Re: [NTG-context] Converters to XML

2004-12-12 Thread h h extern
David Arnold wrote: All, I understand very little about MathML and XML. Is it possible to take a Context document and convert it into XML and MathML to be displayed in a XML and MathML aware browser? And what browsers are "aware" for this task? Is it possible to take a Context document and convert

Re: [NTG-context] \bfm broken

2004-12-13 Thread h h extern
David Munger wrote: \bfm seems broken in 2004.12.06 in font-bfm, change the \dosetskewchar lines into: \dosetskewchar\mifam\defaultskewcharmi \dosetskewchar\syfam\defaultskewcharsy (i added an 'fam' argument to \dosetskewchar some time ago, but didn't change these lines for bold math) Hans --

Re: [NTG-context] NTG-Context, Robots and Privacy ..

2004-12-18 Thread h h extern
Nikolai Weibull wrote: mailing-list archive or not. Furthermore, I have not received any spam to my context-users email alias so far, so it's strange that it affects that's because non members cannot post; there was atiem when i had to discard hundreds of spams per day, but currently the spam fil

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with uniqueMPgraphic

2004-12-18 Thread h h extern
Adam Duck wrote: \def\aidul{\dosingleempty\doaidul} \def\doaidul[#1]{\inframed[background=underline,frame=off,#1]} So, one last question remains: why doesn't this work? \def\uli{backgroundcolor=peachpuff} \aidul[\uli]{test} parsing \def\doaidul[#1]{\expanded{\inframed[background=underline,fra

Re: [NTG-context] TeXFont Problem

2004-12-18 Thread h h extern
Fergal Grimes wrote: font identifier : Sabon-Bold -> text -> tfm + vf generating raw tfm/vpl : texnansi-raw-SAB (from SAB) ! need at most two non-option arguments generating new vf : texnansi-SAB (from texnansi-raw-SAB) vptovf.exe: texnansi-raw-SAB.vpl: No such file or directory strange,

[NTG-context] Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 6, Issue 37

2004-12-18 Thread h h extern
Kai Straube wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: can you try texexec --pdf --automp yourfile it may be that your context is configured for runtime mp processing while your tex does not have write18 enabled Thank you for your answer, but this results in no other output ;-( strange, check your cont-sys.tex f

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical justification of each slide

2004-12-18 Thread h h extern
Laurent Chéno wrote: (* please excuse my poor english *) Hi, I use ConTeXt for presentations : I wish text on each slide to be vertically justified and vertically centered (between 2 occurrences of "\page"). There is surely a simple way to achieve that, but I don't found it. Do you can he

Re: [NTG-context] French quotes ..

2004-12-18 Thread h h extern
Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: Hi Hans and thanks :=) Does Context come with latin modern installed ? How can i find the typescript to use then ? \usetypescript[modern][texnansi] \setupbodyfomt[modern,10pt] etc -

Re: [NTG-context] s-faq-01 question

2004-12-18 Thread h h extern
VnPenguin wrote: I attached some files as example. Nowadays i'd do it a bit different i guess. (using setvariables and so). in cont-new.tex, add: \let\useurl\useURL % an alias, else you get an error Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Bibtex & SVG

2004-12-21 Thread h h extern
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 20.12.2004 um 13:48 schrieb MichaÅ Morawski: Is it possible to include graphics (or even animations) in SVG format into the pdf documents ? Which graphics formats you can use depends from the TeX processor. AFAIK there's none that can handle SVG. Not even Adobe's Dis

Re: [NTG-context] \FrameTitle not recognized.

2004-12-26 Thread h h extern
John Culleton wrote: Please note the following file: \starttext \FrameTitle{Zapf (1)} \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} beginfig(1); endfig; \stopuseMPgraphic{dummy} \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptex --- the \FrameTitle comman

Re: [NTG-context] Sidebars and versals Oh my!

2004-12-27 Thread h h extern
John Culleton wrote: But this is not the only type of versal. Sometimes a large capital letter (perhaps in italics) is centered on the top of the textblock thus: Did you look into supp-fun.tex? A matter of continuing interest is the sidebar, which can be placed in the outer margin, or flush left

Re: [NTG-context] algorithms style : need \starttyping with TeX and math feature

2004-12-27 Thread h h extern
Christmas present ... \unprotect \setuplines[\c!space=\v!default] \def\startlines {\@@rgbefore \whitespace %\page[\v!preference]} gaat mis na koppen, nieuw: later \nobreak \begingroup \def\@@rgstepyes{\parindent\zeropoint}% \def\@@rgstepno {\parindent\zeropoint}% \edef\@@rgparind

Re: [NTG-context] acro bat 7

2005-01-09 Thread h h extern
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Are you sure it isn't only the overprint preview or the color management profiles setup? no, it looks like the usual cache/anti-aliasing mess in zero versions; my guess is that at adobe they test at 256 color / 768x1024 displays -) nothing to do with overprint / proofi

Re: [NTG-context] m-letter.tex -- backslash interpretation error

2005-01-10 Thread h h extern
Rob Ermers wrote: Dear Friends, It seems I am really having a problem. The backslash in my import document yields “. \startsetups[letter:content] \input brieftekst \stopsetups My document (brieftext.tex) among other things contains the following string: ge\"interesseerde, which yields --> ge“”i

Re: [NTG-context] next version

2005-01-10 Thread h h extern
Hans van der Meer wrote: May I also make a suggestion? I think it will be useful when the versiondate of the documents, especially the manuals, can be put along the download link. Like is done for the context zipped updates in the download page. It will make spotting updates much easier en preve

Re: [NTG-context] next version

2005-01-10 Thread h h extern
Adam Lindsay wrote: Okay, here's a question: what's the plan for ec-lmr*.tfm files? indeed a problem, i will provide an extra a typescript that maps the ec-lm* files onto cork-lm-*; in addition to that i will ship copies of ec-lm* as well as il2-lm* and pl0-lm* [or maybe polish can move to qx-lm*

Re: [NTG-context] \dostopfloattext problem...

2005-01-10 Thread h h extern
Martin Kolarík wrote: Hi Hans, I've found the small problem (but I did not trace it fully, so the sugesstions could be false...) -- if one uses \startfiguretext...\stopfiguretext and the figure oversizes criterium defined in \setupfloat[figure][criterium=...] the float placement mechanism probably

Re: [NTG-context] m-letter backslash codes in xml database

2005-01-14 Thread h h extern
Rob Ermers wrote: Contexers, That the best way for coding diacritics in the xml database which you wish to use for your mailing is by using the appropriate iso-latin1 or unicode number: J. Schöttelndreher J. Schöttelndreher Laan der Drieëenheid

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \button

2005-01-14 Thread h h extern
François Fasoli wrote: I have found the following somewhere in the documentation. \button{...}[the chapter on whatever] \button{...}[otherdoc::some topic] \button{...}[previouspage] \button{...}[PreviousJump] I have tried them : all run very well except \button{...}[otherdoc::some topic] How can I

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt tool for enabling comments in PDF ?

2005-01-18 Thread h h extern
Vit Zyka wrote: So, to do that, pdfTeX should start to calc document diggest and there should be standard(?) process of signing this value. how is that one calculated, imagine that in the %! fields you fill in placeholders like hereshouldgosomemagiccode, then one can run a script over the pdf, c

[NTG-context] Re: \bTABLE .. \eTABLE]

2005-01-18 Thread h h extern
Willi Egger wrote: \@@tblprefix \c!each should be v!each - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 7

Re: [NTG-context] Greek font in Footnote problem

2005-01-21 Thread h h extern
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:54 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: enablegreek relies on catcode changes, so it cannot work inside commands. It should be redefined to make use of e-TeX's \scantoken feature so that it can re-parse its i

Re: [NTG-context] shading in meta[post/play] & PDF

2005-01-21 Thread h h extern
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Problem description: I have a computer program, which carries the data about the grid points on a sphere (possibly with different colors defined in these points) and how the points are connected with each other to form a grid. I would take these triangles (or quadrilaterals

Re: [NTG-context] New ConTeXt cz interface - apologize

2005-01-21 Thread h h extern
Michal Kvasnicka wrote: BTW, can someone explain me what is the logic behind the TeXLive directory tree? Why isn't so simple as the old teTeX was? Why some configuraton files are there two or three times, sometimes with different content? :-( Is somewhere an explanation of these wonders? :-( Har

Re: [NTG-context] How to learn ConTeXt?

2005-01-21 Thread h h extern
Willi Egger wrote: The easiest way to pick up ConTeXt is to start with the "ConTeXT an excursion" manual. A good place for info and tips is the ConTeXt wiki (http://contextgarden.net/Main_Page) a bigger example is the pdftex manual Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] processaction in keyval lists[SOLVED]

2005-01-23 Thread h h extern
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: [SomeFont1 =>\def\MyFont{somefont }, SomeFont2 =>\def\MyFont{someotherfont }] no spaces before the => Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridders

Re: [NTG-context] Russia (cyrillic letters)

2005-01-24 Thread h h extern
Mikael Persson wrote: I am looking for a way of writing some home exercises in my Russian course in ConTeXt. However, so far I have not succeed with it. Should it work out of the box without installing any new fonts (I am having the fonts from a full install of TeXLive2003 now)? I have looked a bit

Re: [NTG-context] finishing a module

2005-01-24 Thread h h extern
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: I spent some (too much) time today improving my Greek module. For the time being, two questions remain; I'm confident that they're not too difficult for the experts; any help would be appreciated. what exactly do you want to achieve, if it's only some font following the

Re: [NTG-context] finishing a module

2005-01-25 Thread h h extern
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: Oh dear, thanks so much! This does it, and I'm so impressed what you -) \define\crux {{\Gf \char 43}} depending on how you use this, you can consider making those symbols an other option is \define\crux{\getglyph{\getvariable{Greek}{font}}{43}} or so (untested); such g

Re: [NTG-context] Russia (cyrillic letters)

2005-01-25 Thread h h extern
Mikael Persson wrote: larm1000 SFRM1000 "T2AEncoding ReEncodeFont" and I got sfrm1000.pfb and cm-super-t2a.enc files... So, in order to have the cm-super fonts working, do I have to generate some files or do something more? you need tfm (larm1000.tfm) files but i dunno where to find them, maybe in

Re: [NTG-context] Using LateX packages

2005-01-26 Thread h h extern
Holger Peters wrote: Hi, I want to use a LaTeX Package (clrscode), or at least I want to port it to Context. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/clrscode/ hm, not complex but mostly calls to latex font switches ans such Is there some way to use LaTex Packages (I guess not). so you need to rewrite it

Re: [NTG-context] cz support

2005-01-26 Thread h h extern
Vit Zyka wrote: Hallo Hans and other ConTeXters, I have started to collect and clean up Czech ConTeXt localization. And I have discovered that Tomas Hudec includeded Czech (non-trivial) sorting rules into texutils.pl (calling czsort.pl from Jan Pazdziora). Unfortunately it was not incorporated i

Re: [NTG-context] pdfeTeX crashes

2005-01-30 Thread h h extern
Mojca Miklavec wrote: The problem was most probably caused by PNG images, exported from MS PowerPoint slides, an example is on http://pub.mojca.org/mailinglists/context/alpha.png. I forwarded your mail to the pdftex dev list Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] style.pdf

2005-01-30 Thread h h extern
Taco Hoekwater wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In updating my context documentation today, I managed to overwrite my copy of ".../general/manuals/style.pdf", which I was studying. Is this document still available, perhaps renamed - it don't find it in the list of files in http://www.pragma-ade.nl/w

Re: [NTG-context] help - spine centered figure

2005-01-30 Thread h h extern
Ciro A. Soto wrote: I am hoping to get the version 1. The other version is like an exercise for me, to see how it would be done. well, the machinery is there, and there are several solutions, of which i show only one (watch further on how we enable clipping); don't forget to submit this example

Re: [NTG-context] help - spine centered figure

2005-01-30 Thread h h extern
Ciro A. Soto wrote: Sorry, I made a typo error. The title of the book I am reading is "Goodbye Gutenberg" by Valerie Kirschenbaum. A book I recommend for any person interested in book design, typography, history, reading, fonts, etc. hm, i dunno that one; sounds kind of sad, this 'goodbye' -) i wo

Re: [NTG-context] Russia (cyrillic letters)

2005-01-30 Thread h h extern
Mikael Persson wrote: Hm, I am entering utf8 code. I am not sure how it got converted in the email, however, when I type my .tex file I am sure that it is in utf-8. But you mean that this example should work? I attatch the testfile and the resulting pdf and logs and so on... tracing shows that the

Re: [NTG-context] runaway argument context(mswintex)

2005-01-30 Thread h h extern
Julian Haworth wrote: \c!directory ={\setupsystem [\c!n =1] \setupsystem [inputfile=hello.t\ETC. ! File ended while scanning use of \dosetupsystem. looks like a messed up cont-opt.tex or whatever, there can be no \setupsystem inside a key=value; maybe some messed up texexec.pl file? Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Using capsule versoion of TeX from Pragma.

2005-01-30 Thread h h extern
Peter Münster wrote: If Ruby is necessary to make the minimal linux package offered on Pragma functional it would be helpful to specify that in the readme. I thought the Pragma Linux TeX package was self-contained. It would also be helpful if a fmtutil.cnf file were included so that fmtutil wou

Re: [NTG-context] Help: Context update problem

2005-01-30 Thread h h extern
Fei He wrote: Hello folks, I ran into this strange problem today. First, I was trying to use Chinese in Context. After I generated those font files, it occurred to me that I might want to run: texexec --make. However, I got the following error message: C:\localtexmf\tex\context\base\font-uni.tex

Re: [NTG-context] Using capsule versoion of TeX from Pragma.

2005-01-30 Thread h h extern
John Culleton wrote: I will at some point write a list of what I had to do to make the minimal Linux-TeX package work and submit it to Hans as a howto and/or a todo list. Anyhow it works currently and the infamous hyphenation problem is no more. you mean the minimal one from our website? just ru

Re: [NTG-context] permissions in texmf/scripts/context/*

2005-02-07 Thread h h extern
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: True, but that's not what mtexmfstart.pdf says... if one uses texmfstart, you only need to set the permission of texmfstart in the bin path; nowadays, my calls to script in the bin paths look like: texexec -> #!/bin/sh texmfstart texexec.pl $@ that way i'm independent of

Re: [NTG-context] permissions in texmf/scripts/context/*

2005-02-07 Thread h h extern
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: I'm wondering if this is a bug: I tried to play around with the texmfstart script, but couldn't get it to work. I think the latest cont-tmf.zip installs those files with wrong permissions. Here's what I got: -rw-r--r--1 tas 15k Jan 6 13:41 concheck.rb -rw-

Re: [NTG-context] limit the scope of Chinese

2005-02-07 Thread h h extern
Fei He wrote: Hello, I have been working on a document that mixes a little Chinese and more of the rest English. How do I limit the scope of the Chinese module? For example, I want Chinese to show up in the title, which is done by loading the Chinese module. But the date of the document changed to

[NTG-context] Re: server down ?

2005-02-13 Thread h h extern
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip but there is no connection to pragma-ade.com or .nl at all. hm, a spontaneuous reboot etc etc; i need to fix a cpu fan i guess; normally you can use www.pragma-pod.com which has the same stuff or taco's mirror at:

Re: [NTG-context] server down ?

2005-02-13 Thread h h extern
VnPenguin wrote: It's the time to think about several mirrors around the world ? before that i need to fix the machine; drive there, open the box, etc -) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] title, subject & table of contents

2005-02-13 Thread h h extern
VnPenguin wrote: But if I replace \chapter by \title; \section by \subject, I can not have a TOC at all. This is the code: that's because those are not written to the list; \startfrontmatter \charter{xxx} \stopfrontmatter gives you unnumbered entries but written to the list; (it is possible to conf

Re: [NTG-context] Bad page breaks!

2005-02-13 Thread h h extern
G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: Dear ConTeXt-users, I'm trying to typeset a small book using ConTeXt (TeXLive 2004), and use the following setup: \setupbodyfont[rm,12pt] \definepapersize[BOOK][width=140mm,height=210mm] \setuppapersize[BOOK][A4] \setuplayout[ [topspace=24mm, header=8mm, headerdistance=

Re: [NTG-context] Thumb indexes

2005-02-13 Thread h h extern
cormullion wrote: My last question! :-) I would like to have the various âpartsâ of a book marked with black rectangles at the right side of each page, visible when the reader flips through the pages. I googled successfully to find âfancyhdrâ, but thatâs a LaTeX package, so I donât think it will w

Re: [NTG-context] XML and context

2005-02-24 Thread h h extern
Paul Tremblay wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:33:40AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: The mapping variant discussed in the magazine can be seen as a future xml based layer around the context tex core; a kind xml based typesetting engine so that one can do without tex programming and stick to xml tools

Re: [NTG-context] arabtex support

2005-02-24 Thread h h extern
mohd zamri murah wrote: testing and result. == test.tex \input font-arb % the new font-arb you send me \starttext \setarab \novocalize % normal arab document doesn't have the vocal signs. Some texts in arab. some random thought. here are some arabic word

Re: [NTG-context] m-letter stationary

2005-02-24 Thread h h extern
Rob Ermers wrote: Hans, Thank you very much for your code. Both types of the stationary come out smoothly. There is however a small bug in it. I need a different stationary starting from every second page of my letter. If my file contains 4 letters consisting of 8 pages, his means the following

Re: [NTG-context] m-letter stationary

2005-02-24 Thread h h extern
Rob Ermers wrote: I'm sorry, I tried to apply the code in various ways, but I cannot get it running. The variables are all gone now [page] has taken their place. How do I have to apply this code? \definelayer[test][doublesided=yes,state=repeat] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=test] \setlayer[t

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