[NTG-context] Escaping reserved/problematic characters

2021-03-11 Thread Benct Philip Jonsson
In a program I'm writing I have a function for escaping characters which are reserved or problematic in LaTeX. I would like to have a corresponding function for ConTeXt, so I'm wondering which ones are different/superfluous/missing from a ConTeXt perspective in the following list (sorry about the f

Re: [NTG-context] PDF viewer poll

2019-10-15 Thread Benct Philip Jonsson
On 2019-10-14 18:55, Marcin Borkowski wrote: Hi, I don't use ConTeXt anymore, but I still get the emails from the list, and I quickly skimmed throught this thread to see if someone writes about my pdf-viewer of choice - pdf-tools (https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools). I too don't use context

[NTG-context] Placing figures with text wrap causes page break

2013-07-05 Thread Philip
I've searched through the ContextGarden documentation and tried Googling this issue, but I must not be hitting the right keywords. Sorry if this has already been answered. When I place a figure with the following code, the document leaves two-thirds of the page before blank and puts the graphic on

Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 90, Issue 67

2011-12-22 Thread Philip Brown
Thank you, Luigi. I see that Context runs from the command line. The problem is that it does not run from emacs context-mode. How can I fix this? On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Philip Brown wrote: > I downloaded texlive on Windows from the the July 2011 Tex Collection dvd. > >

[NTG-context] Context from Texlive

2011-12-14 Thread Philip Brown
I downloaded texlive on Windows from the the July 2011 Tex Collection dvd. Latex works fine, but I get the following error message when I try to run Context: ConTeXt: problems after [0] pages Is there some sort of postcompilation I need to do to get Context running? Regards, Philip

Re: [NTG-context] [texhax] Choosing TeX um ... stuff

2010-11-18 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
> only users of personal formats based on plain). All true, except for the first part, where there is plenty of documentation available : The TeXbook, TeX by Topic, SvB's mammoth \TeX} in Practice, plus many others listed at Nelson Beebe's http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub//tex/bib/texbook1.ht

Re: [NTG-context] [texhax] Choosing TeX um ... stuff

2010-11-18 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
t seems a lot of features like placing text boxes and graphics anywhere, using system fonts, etc. are more available for LaTeX and ConTeXt. Thank you for any comments! Talk to River Valley and/or Sebastian Rahtz; both have considerable knowledge of th

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] Announcing TLContrib

2010-10-09 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Thank you for the clarification, Taco. As far as the phrase "to use this site as a TeX Live repository, point the TeX Live package manager to http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/201"; is concerned, perhaps "as a partial TLR", or perhaps "as an adjunct TLR". Less important : "point X at" is more idiomat

Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] Announcing TLContrib

2010-10-08 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
One comment, two questions Taco : C1: Great idea; this project has my wholehearted support. Q1: When you write "In short, anything that cannot be on TeX Live but can still legally be distributed over the Internet can have a place on TLContrib.", does this not open a hole rather wider than you in

[NTG-context] context installation on Windows XP

2009-07-06 Thread Philip Brown
would be much appreciated, Philip Brown ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage