Hi Hraban,
On 08.08.2018 08:50, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> I’m also writing a (beginners) book on ConTeXt in German, and I find it
> really hard to decide what I should include. It can’t become a reference, a
> complete one is impossible anyway. You can’t do serious work with ConTeXt
>
On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:38:19 +0200
Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 8/10/2018 5:50 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
> > And I still could smash my primary school teacher: When I asked "what
> > happens if we subtract a bigger number from a smaller?", she answered
> > "that’s not possible". :(
> > She
Am 2018-08-10 um 18:38 schrieb Hans Hagen :
> On 8/10/2018 5:50 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
>> And I still could smash my primary school teacher: When I asked "what
>> happens if we subtract a bigger number from a smaller?", she answered
>> "that’s not possible". :(
>> She could have
On 8/10/2018 5:50 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
And I still could smash my primary school teacher: When I asked "what happens if we subtract a
bigger number from a smaller?", she answered "that’s not possible". :(
She could have easily told me "you will learn that later" or just show me at
Am 2018-08-08 um 18:31 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez :
> Hi Hraban,
> your book will be an important reference, althought it won’t be “the
> reference” (I doubt such a thing might exist).
Thank you for the encouragement!
>> E.g. I wanted margin notes. Like footnotes, but in the margin. No
>> problem
On 08/09/2018 02:17 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:
> [...]
> That (and the footnotes :-) ) covers just about all my typesetting
> needs. I had already prepared numerous smaller documents as practice
> before I started to process the book with ConTeXt, was delighted with
> the results, and so I thought
> On 8. Aug 2018, at 17:28, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> […] I might be totally missing your point here, but it seems to me that you
> try to know what can be achieved in general with ConTeXt, even before to
> learn how to use ConTeXt for your typesetting needs.
Not really. My
On 08/08/2018 08:50 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> [...]
> I’m also writing a (beginners) book on ConTeXt in German, and I find
> it really hard to decide what I should include. It can’t become a
> reference, a complete one is impossible anyway.
Hi Hraban,
your book will be an important
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 17:54:34 +0200
Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 8/8/2018 3:30 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:
>
> > profile = NAME
> > empty = yes no
> > …
> >
> > and similar questions arise: “what kind of profile?”, “what is empty or
> > not?” etc.
>
> it's pretty safe to ignore keys like 'profile'
On 8/8/2018 8:18 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
For MkIV (as Alan mentioned), you have
tex/texmf-context/tex/context/interface/mkiv/i-context.pdf.
also have a look at the test suite ... many examples there
I mean, ConTeXt is a huge task (support for Kannada is one of the many
features we would
On 8/8/2018 3:30 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:
profile = NAME
empty = yes no
…
and similar questions arise: “what kind of profile?”, “what is empty or not?”
etc.
it's pretty safe to ignore keys like 'profile' (if you grep the
documentation tree it's just an example of a potential
On 08/08/2018 03:30 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:
> On 8. Aug 2018, at 00:54, Alan Braslau wrote:
>>
>> tex/context/interface/mkiv/i-context.pdf
>
> Thank you! I didn’t know I already had this updated version of a
> document I’ve already been using. But however useful this document
> already is, it
On 8. Aug 2018, at 00:54, Alan Braslau wrote:
>
> tex/context/interface/mkiv/i-context.pdf
Thank you! I didn’t know I already had this updated version of a document I’ve
already been using. But however useful this document already is, it does
illustrate some of my problems. For instance, in
Hi,
I won’t reply to single points, thus I don’t quote previous mails.
I’m one of the few who work a lot on the wiki. But that means: if I find the
time and if I find issues that I’m able to address.
Often it needs an hour of research to just explain one parameter properly.
Don’t ask about all
On 08/08/2018 12:40 AM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:
> That is it. I have no idea why – but that is the solution.
Dear Robert,
I will try to explain the reason of this (in my very limited
understanding of how ConTeXt works).
Notes in both MkII and MkII have two setup commands. One is for the
group of
tex/context/interface/mkiv/i-context.pdf
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 00:40:37 +0200
Robert Zydenbos wrote:
> > On 7. Aug 2018, at 17:54, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> > On 08/06/2018 11:59 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:
> >> Sorry for all these footnote questions, […]
> >
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> > […]
> On 7. Aug 2018, at 17:54, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>
> On 08/06/2018 11:59 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote:
>> Sorry for all these footnote questions, […]
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> […]
>
> I hope it helps,
>
> Pablo
That is it. I have no idea why – but that is the solution.
(For all readers:)
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