Re: [NTG-context] error updating beta WAS: beta

2011-02-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 02 February 2011 14:58:25 Hans Hagen wrote: > some hoops have to be jumped through to get it working for > both machineries ¡Olé! ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] Why does bookmarks show also sections

2011-03-03 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 03 March 2011 15:20:12 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 03.03.2011 um 15:14 schrieb Cecil Westerhof: > > I use: > > \placebookmarks[chapter,section][chapter] > > \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] > > > > As I understand it there should be bookmarks generated for chapters and > > se

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals (was: Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?)

2011-03-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sunday 13 March 2011 07:25:03 luigi scarso wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Pontus Lurcock wrote: > > On Sat 12 Mar 2011, mathew wrote: > >> My experience on Ubuntu is that if you install the ConTeXt minimals > >> in your path, they break a bunch of stuff from TeXLive, such as > >> pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Does MKIV take more time as MKII

2011-03-14 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 14 March 2011 14:02:18 Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > > 2011/3/14 Wolfgang Schuster > > > >>> I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2 > >>> times > >> > >> as slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this possible, > >>

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] VirtualWin

2011-03-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 18 March 2011 15:50:10 luigi scarso wrote: > VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating > system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7). A virtual desktop > manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops > (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] [OT] music player for lua lovers!

2011-03-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
This is off-topic, but I wish to share my experience with a product using lua (and perl) running on an embarked linux system. The Logitech Squeezebox Touch is a small network music player featuring very high quality sound and good ergonometrics. http://www.logitech.com/en-us/54/5745 The software

Re: [NTG-context] Setuplayout bug?

2011-05-16 Thread Alan Braslau
More setupinteraction pagelayout interference: In the example below (compiled using the very latest minimals) the inclusion of \setupinteractionscreen [option=bookmark] shifts the output of the text on the page. Alan % \definepapersize [17x24] [wi

Re: [NTG-context] externalfigure error in current mkiv beta

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Braslau
But it already needs to be updated with "draw externalfigure" :) Alan P.S. The printed manual on paper is really nice! On Wednesday 20 April 2011 07:09:16 Pontus Lurcock wrote: > On Wed 20 Apr 2011, Lutz Haseloff wrote: > > Is there a recent Metafun manual? > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/genera

Re: [NTG-context] \setuplayout fail to \setupinteractionscreen

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Braslau
Still broken, or once again broken. Alan On Tuesday 12 April 2011 23:49:37 Markus Finke wrote: > Hello, > > how can I get a centered paper of A5 on A4 (with crop marks) for the > whole document? A minimal example, only the first page looks correctly: > > > > \setuppapersize [A5][A4] > > \set

Re: [NTG-context] externalfigure error in current mkiv beta

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 23:09:51 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 17-5-2011 10:41, Alan Braslau wrote: > > "draw externalfigure" > > I'm still not sure about that one ... compatibility vs clean > I rather like the new syntax - indeed much cleaner. (However, for compatib

Re: [NTG-context] TOC : Chapter title under its number (separate lines)

2011-05-26 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 01:42:41PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 24.05.2011 um 00:59 schrieb Mathieu DUPONT: > > > Hi, > > Is there a simple way to obtain the following result in the table of > content : > > Contents > CHAPTER 1 > Title of chapter

Re: [NTG-context] TOC : Chapter title under its number (separate lines)

2011-05-26 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:30:55PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 26.05.2011 um 17:13 schrieb Alan Braslau: > > > This solution: [alternative=command,command=\ChapterList] > > breaks interaction; How can one get [interaction=all] to work? > > Something like t

Re: [NTG-context] TOC : Chapter title under its number (separate lines)

2011-05-27 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 08:16:21PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 26.05.2011 um 18:48 schrieb Alan Braslau: > > > \setuplist[chapter][label=yes,alternative=vertical,command=\ChapterList,interaction=all] > > > > Almost works. Almost in that all lines get ind

Re: [NTG-context] TOC : Chapter title under its number (separate lines)

2011-05-27 Thread Alan Braslau
"interaction=sectionnumber" rather than "interaction=all" doesn't seem to help here... Alan On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 09:33:53AM -0400, Mathieu DUPONT wrote: > > As for the interaction patching, in the following example I can't figure out > how to have, for the chapter lines, only "CHAPTER 1" bein

Re: [NTG-context] Fifth ConTeXt meeting, September 2011, France

2011-07-05 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:05:14PM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2010/10/3 Arthur Reutenauer : > >  I hereby announce the next ConTeXt meeting, that will take place on > > the island of Porquerolles off the coast of the French Riviera, > > from Monday, September 19th, 2011, to Saturday, September

Re: [NTG-context] modules in minimals (important)

2011-07-06 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 08:52:23PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 15:40, Peter Münster wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 29 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > >> Hans has changed the command line parameter for modules (--modules=vim > >> should work now). The problem is that he now store

Re: [NTG-context] How to install extra module in the latest context?

2011-07-07 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > You don't need to be sorry. It was fixed 20 minutes ago. > mtx-context | fatal error: no return code, message: luatex: execution interrupted Oops! luatex now dumps core. No minimal test file (yet). (must be triggered by so

Re: [NTG-context] core dump (was: How to install extra module in the latest context?)

2011-07-07 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 05:39:05PM +0200, luigi scarso wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 11:36:32AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> > >> You don't need to be sorry. It was fixed 20 minutes ago. > >>

Re: [NTG-context] Important 5th ConTeXt meeting

2011-07-14 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello everyone. Happy Bastille Day! Last year, I participated in my first ConTeXt meeting at Brejlov in the Czech Republic. It was a very interesting experience and very useful. I had wanted to attend in 2009, but just did not manage to arrange for this. If you are tempted to participate this yea

[NTG-context] metapost question (bug?)

2011-07-21 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello, I have a question for metapost specialists: I am looking for some sort of effect, built upon a zig-zag line. The first graphic in the minimal example below is as I would expect. The second graphic seems to be drawn without the point at (0,0). (Ignore the asymmetry at the end of the path in

Re: [NTG-context] metapost question (bug?)

2011-07-21 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:39:48PM +0200, Peter Rolf wrote: > use > > p2 := p0 & p1; > > the reason for the 'unexpected' output is, that point 1 and 2 of the > path p2 are equal. keep in mind that drawing with an asymmetrical pen > has its own (complex) rules. Thank you -- I forgot about the pat

Re: [NTG-context] relative references

2011-08-11 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 06:05:30PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > The usual payment is a bottle of beer at a TeX conference ;) > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:11:22PM +0300, Mari Voipio wrote: > > This so-called advice is free. :-D > Mari, Do you mean that you will not be coming to Basseng

[NTG-context] problem \vec and gentium font

2011-08-30 Thread Alan Braslau
There seems to be problems with horizontal spacing in math mode using the gentium font. For example: \setupbodyfont[gentium] \starttext $\vec{r}$ \stoptext ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

Re: [NTG-context] math signs in itemize

2011-09-25 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:29:32AM +0200, R. Ermers wrote: > Dear all, > After my update a few days ago I have run into the problem earlier described > under the subject "new beta" (Marco Pessotto). The file processed nicely > until then. I use gentium as the main font. > > \definefont[gentium][

Re: [NTG-context] math signs in itemize

2011-09-25 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 01:02:07PM +0200, R. Ermers wrote: > > But I use very, very little math, only once or twice, as in 7$^{th}$, but I > could solve that otherwise. You may want to use 7\high{th}. > My main problem occurs in itemization. Please have a look at this: > > l.741 \item h >

Re: [NTG-context] math signs in itemize

2011-09-26 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 09:34:45AM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> Any suggestions? > > > > Use text mode fractions! \frac{1}{40}. > > This is still typeset in math mode. A alternative is to write the fraction as > “1/40”. "¼÷10", "0.025". How about: \definetypeface [xits] [mm] [math] [xi

Re: [NTG-context] new look for wiki

2011-09-27 Thread Alan Braslau
*WOW* Alan On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:22:59PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 27.09.2011 um 18:05 schrieb luigi scarso: > > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net > > This is not the official announcement --- but I wasn't able to resist... > > > > Nice work, thank you very much Siep. > > Espe

Re: [NTG-context] slides & proceedings from ConTeXt Meeting

2011-09-28 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:29:56AM +0200, Philipp Gesang wrote: > On 2011-09-28 00:53, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > and most of talks will also be available as articles in printed > > proceedings that will be sent to all new members of the ConTeXt Group > > (group.contextgarden.net). > > For those of

Re: [NTG-context] new look for wiki

2011-09-28 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 06:05:59PM +0200, luigi scarso wrote: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net > This is not the official announcement --- but I wasn't able to resist... > > Nice work, thank you very much Siep. Again, very nice. But, unfortunately, I loose the style when I log in :( Alan

Re: [NTG-context] new look for wiki

2011-09-29 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 01:06:06AM +0200, Philipp A. wrote: > 2011/9/28 Alan Braslau > > Again, very nice. But, unfortunately, I loose the style when I log in :( > > go here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:Preferences#mw-htmlform-skin Thanks (But this should be the

Re: [NTG-context] Finding Minion and Myriad

2011-09-29 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 05:19:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > To use the fonts which are shipped with Adobe Reader you can use two > different methods. > > Method 1: > > \usemodule[simplefonts] > > \setmainfont[Minion Pro][protrusion=quality] > > \setupalign[hanging] > > \starttext\

Re: [NTG-context] Any (other) ConTeXt users in Finland?

2011-10-03 Thread Alan Braslau
CM7 - 2013? On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 03:12:54PM +0300, Mari Voipio wrote: > Hello All! > > > Inspired by the recent ConTeXt meeting where I again enjoyed meeting > other users as well as the developers, I'm wondering if there are any > other ConTeXt users in Finland? And if so, would you be inter

Re: [NTG-context] nocolor in MetaPost

2011-10-05 Thread Alan Braslau
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:46:22PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 5-10-2011 19:56, Hans van der Meer wrote: > > Is there a value that can be given to a color variable in MetaPost that > > might function as some sort of "no color". Thus something like NULL in the > > programming language C. > > no

Re: [NTG-context] Any (other) ConTeXt users in Finland?

2011-10-10 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 03:42:36PM +0300, Mari Voipio wrote: > (Alan is in France and Martin, AFAIK, in Germany, so they don't count > even though they replied to this thread.) My reply was just as a suggestion for the 7th International ConTeXt Users' Meeting in 2013. :) Alan ___

Re: [NTG-context] Plotting a graph of a function f, like f(x) = e^x, with MetaPost

2011-10-11 Thread Alan Braslau
tion 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 : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ &g

Re: [NTG-context] Plotting a graph of a function f, like f(x) = e^x, with MetaPost

2011-10-13 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:30:07AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > MetaPost doesn't know erf and other obscure functions Metapost could possibly be extended to provide all of the functions in the standard math library. In fact, it would be nice if there be some hook to `link' to additional funct

Re: [NTG-context] `\usemodule[graph]` causes error `! Unable to make mpx file.` with ConTeXt ver: 2011.10.14 22:47 MKIV

2011-10-18 Thread Alan Braslau
Confirmed here. OK ConTeXt ver: 2011.09.27 20:05 MKIV fmt: 2011.9.30 not OK ConTeXt ver: 2011.10.17 10:36 MKIV fmt: 2011.10.18 Alan On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 02:41:45PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > Dear ConTeXt folks, > > > using the following minimal example > > \usemodule[grap

Re: [NTG-context] `\usemodule[graph]` causes error `! Unable to make mpx file.` with ConTeXt ver: 2011.10.14 22:47 MKIV

2011-10-27 Thread Alan Braslau
Hans, The use of the graph module is indeed currently broken, both in mkiv and in mkii. Alan On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 03:00:33PM +0200, Alan Braslau wrote: > Confirmed here. > > OK ConTeXt ver: 2011.09.27 20:05 MKIV fmt: 2011.9.30 > not OK ConTeXt ver: 2011.10.17 10:

[NTG-context] wiki.contexgarden.net/Main_Page

2011-11-03 Thread Alan Braslau
Dear context garden administrators (and users): It would be a good idea to have a wiki.contextgarden.net/News page containing an archive of past and present news. Clicking on the "News" label on the Main_Page could go there. Examples of items to include could be: July 2011: TeX Live 2011 release

Re: [NTG-context] wiki.contexgarden.net/Main_Page

2011-11-03 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:00:27PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > > Should this new page be generally editable, or should it be administered? > > Generally editable. It is already editable now, only the main page is > locked because of spammers, but you are free to change contents. > OK - I

Re: [NTG-context] Hello world title not flush left - beginner question?

2011-11-03 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:33:48PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > How is a framedtext more logical than a dictum or epigraph environment, > with my solution you can also change the definition of the code to place > the epigraph format without any change in the text while your framed text > is

Re: [NTG-context] gangs (was: annotation MODULE BUG)

2011-11-04 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 08:43:42AM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Am 2011-11-03 um 23:44 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي > حامد: > > > Dear gang, especially Wolf-gang ;-) > > AFAIK a wolf gang is called a pack or pride ;-) > One says a pack of wolves, a pride of lions, a pod of

[NTG-context] mp-chem.mpiv bug

2011-11-07 Thread Alan Braslau
There is a (new) problem typesetting text in chemical structures. Alan Minimal example: \starttext \startchemical \chemical [ONE,Z0] [O] \stopchemical \stoptext ! terminal: (/usr/local/context/beta/tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mp-chem.mpiv) >> labtype-10 ! Unknown relation wi

Re: [NTG-context] Textbackgrounds

2011-11-07 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:34:19PM +0200, Andreas Harder wrote: > > Am 22.07.2010 um 16:37 schrieb Hans Hagen: > > > On 22-7-2010 3:50, Andreas Harder wrote: > >> \definetextbackground > >> [test] > >> [location=paragraph, > >>% frame=off, % -> no round corners anymore > >>corner=ro

[NTG-context] defineselector

2011-11-07 Thread Alan Braslau
Hi, One can select between short and long figure captions (for an index of figures and the figure display itself, respectively) using a selector. The syntax is: \defineselector [caption] [max=2,n=2] % alternate {short}{long} captions \starttext \placefigure [here] [fig:reference] {\sel

Re: [NTG-context] Textbackgrounds

2011-11-15 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:58:10PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 7-11-2011 14:59, Alan Braslau wrote: > > > Something is now broken with textbackgrounds : > > fixed in next beta (low level we're now scaled points so a conversion is > missing) > textbackground

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] rasperry 4

2019-06-24 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:30:48 +0200 luigi scarso wrote: > just seen > https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ > > I would like to know your impressions > No SDIO stack (yet) on FreeBSD, so no WIFI support on the Raspberry Pi. (so one is somewhat *stuck* with GNU/linux).

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] rasperry 4

2019-06-24 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:58:54 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/24/2019 6:41 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:30:48 +0200 > > luigi scarso wrote: > > > >> just seen > >> https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/ > >

Re: [NTG-context] IEEE Citation Style

2019-06-27 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 06:39:56 -0400 (EDT) Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Julian Gompper wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am currently writing a technical documentation with ConTeXt, and I > > would like to use the IEEE citation style. > > > > I have found this file on github,

Re: [NTG-context] feature request

2019-07-04 Thread Alan Braslau
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 11:16:22 -0400 (EDT) Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > BTW, I constantly convert Beamer documents into ConTeXt's > > simpleslide documents recently and it is very convenient > > if I can use \pmatrix{a&b\cr c&d\cr} style because it is similar > > to LaTeX documents. > > You can crea

Re: [NTG-context] reference containing parentheses causes trouble

2019-07-11 Thread Alan Braslau
This is why it is always a good idea to preface references with a (personal) identifier. However, perhaps Hans, Wolfgang, or someone else can explain the use of colons (:) and double colons (::) in references and in other tags in general (they have to do with namespaces, instances, etc.). Alan O

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing after combination

2019-07-16 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 22:32:39 +0200 Marco Patzer wrote: > However, I'd prefer to not have another environment around the > combinations, but if there's no other way, I'd settle for your > approach. So far that seems to be the best choice. A combination is a construction, not really an "environmen

Re: [NTG-context] Side figure bug in mkiv?

2019-07-19 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:52:37 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Henri Menke schrieb am 18.07.2019 um 23:29: > > For what it's worth, the MKIV way to switch to bold face is > > \bold{text} instead of {\bf text} but it also doesn't fix your > > problem because neither of the two start a new paragraph

Re: [NTG-context] currently supported platforms

2019-07-19 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:21:40 +0200 Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > In the wiki it says kfreebsd would be still supported via Debian - > > is this still true? > > No clue. Probably nobody ever tested for ages. I'm gnu-less... From https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD i

Re: [NTG-context] Quotation marks

2019-07-19 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:54:08 +0300 Dmitry Starostin wrote: > I understand it might have been deliberately and for various reasons, > but ConTeXt has no analogue for {``} and {''} for quotes. \quotation > is a replacement, but it is awkward if you write a draft in ConTeXt > and make the final vari

Re: [NTG-context] Quotation marks

2019-07-19 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 08:58:27 +0900 Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > It is true quotes are language dependent but sometime we need > language independent quotes. So it will be nice if we can use > {``}, {''} and \quotation at the same time “” __

Re: [NTG-context] Place footnote after reference

2019-07-22 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:27:45 +0200 Denis Maier wrote: > llI don't know a solution for this, but would be very interested. > With LaTeX you can use the `atbegshi`-package that gives you a > command ` \AtBeginShipoutNext`: > > ``` > \footnotemark > \clearpage > \AtBeginShipoutNext{\footnotetext{Te

Re: [NTG-context] Place footnote after reference

2019-07-22 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:34:34 +0200 Huseyin Özoguz wrote: > The problem is, that Context (or Tex) skips lines, which is poor > typesetting, too many even than necessary in some cases, and that is > not suitable. Endnotes are no solutions aswell, I need footnotes. So > the solution to have referenc

Re: [NTG-context] consecutive full stops in "num" bib style after "et al"

2019-07-29 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:37:15 -0400 Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > Here's a minimal example: > > \setupbibtex[database=tmp] > \setuppublications[alternative=num] You are using the old mkii bibtex module. Alan ___ If yo

Re: [NTG-context] Figure labels in combinations

2019-07-30 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 11:20:03 +0200 Luca Mauri wrote: > I am trying to typeset two or more figures next to each other, inside a > floating environment, each with its own label. I am familiar with a mechanism > of the form > > \startplacefigure[reference=pic] > \startcombination[3*1] > {figure 1

[NTG-context] \setupheadertexts \setupfootertexts

2019-08-02 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello, \setupheadertexts [{center}] sets a centered header (and wipes-out any left and right header) \setupheadertexts [{left}] [{right}] sets the left and right headers (and keeps the centered header) \setupheadertexts [{left odd}] [{right odd}] [{left even}] [{right even}] sets the left and ri

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts \setupfootertexts

2019-08-02 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 21:08:00 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Thank you > When you use three arguments the first is used for the position of text, > i.e. above the text, margin or edge areas. I know this, and I find the syntax unfortunate, to say the least. > Only six or seven arguments work i

Re: [NTG-context] \setupheadertexts \setupfootertexts

2019-08-02 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 23:36:47 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > we have a lot or areas ... and if you really want you can do this ... > > > > \setuplayouttext > > > > Has been there for ages ... (but I never use that method). > > I has the same question a few years ago but I never used it > beca

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong MetaPost text output

2019-08-11 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 11:12:55 -0700 Henri Menke wrote: > Thank you for the quick repsonse. This looks good to me. However, > could you tell me a way to get the correct baseline with textext? When > I use > > \startMPpage > draw btex dummy etex shifted (0,0); > draw btex foo etex

Re: [NTG-context] metafun 2

2019-08-16 Thread Alan Braslau
We have eofill in MP (in pdf/ps in fact) and that likely will do what you need. Alan On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:31:38 +0100 Adam Reviczky wrote: > Hi Hans, > > One MetaPost feature that I was looking forward to is the ability to create > a fill between two shapes. > Something like a difference fu

Re: [NTG-context] PDF viewer poll

2019-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 12:43:14 +0200 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hi, I’d like to update my list of (usable!) PDF viewers. > Which one do you use? (Current version?) On Mac OS, there is skim, which has better features than preview but uses the same Apple rendering engine (with all of its bugs).

Re: [NTG-context] tikz

2019-11-27 Thread Alan Braslau
You may want to take a look at the ConTeXt nodes module: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb39-1/tb121braslau-nodes.pdf Alan On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:42:43 + Ursula Hermann wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I have: > \usemodule{tikz} > > \starttext > \starttikzpicture > node {root} > child {node {

Re: [NTG-context] problem with a new installation of LMTX

2019-12-08 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 00:35:13 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > I have no clue. Normally there is a check if directories can be accessed > and written to, so where then do these files go to? > > I fear that other mac users have to help (no new mac here). Maybe Mojca > knows as she knows all there is to

Re: [NTG-context] problem with a new installation of LMTX

2019-12-08 Thread Alan Braslau
On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 12:15:26 +0100 Otared Kavian wrote: > but otherwise as Floris suggests in his response, maybe we have to abandon > MacOS in the near future… No, simply we need to adapt our procedures (installation scripts) to be compatible with MacOS policy. Alan __

Re: [NTG-context] A question about whatever (Metapost)

2020-01-26 Thread Alan Braslau
What error are you getting? (perhaps you need "save carre,p,a,b,c,d,N,P,M ;") A perpendicular line is also the line "rotated 90" (about the intersection point). Alan On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:09:38 +0100 Fabrice Couvreur wrote: > Hi, > The point M is such that the line (CM) is perpendicular to

[NTG-context] reference a paragraph

2020-03-25 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello, One creates references for structure elements as, for example, \startsubject [reference=sub:mysubject] ... \stopsubject and then can refer to these using, e.g. \on{page} [sub:subject] How might one reference a *paragraph*, for example? Parallel syntax might suggest \startparagraph

Re: [NTG-context] What alternative for scantokens( "btex " & texcommands & " etex")?

2020-03-30 Thread Alan Braslau
On 29/03/20 07:06, Gerben Wierda wrote: I’m trying in METAPOST to build a command to pass on to ConTeXt using btex/etex. picture p; p := scantokens( "btex " & texcommands & " etex”); btex/etex is better replaced by textext(). Nevertheless, this does not change anything. Context intercepts an

Re: [NTG-context] How to define an array of pens

2020-06-22 Thread Alan Braslau
On 22/06/20 01:17, Otared Kavian wrote: for j = -1 step 1 until 1 : MyPens[j] := pencircle scaled 2pt ; % I would like to say here (2+j) pt endfor MyPens[j] := pencircle scaled (2+j)*pt ; pt is just a variable, and one can write 2pt implicitly implying the mul

Re: [NTG-context] LSP support

2020-06-27 Thread Alan Braslau
A start: lua-lsp A Language Server for Lua code, written in Lua. Supports Lua 5.1-5.3 and Luajit Alan On 27/06/20 04:13, Saša Janiška wrote: Hello, yesterday while exploring features/plugins of Kakoune (https://kakoune.org/) editor I, naturally, asked about ConTeXt/LaTeX support and was told

Re: [NTG-context] Translation of ConTeXt interface

2020-06-27 Thread Alan Braslau
fonte ? (police) principale ? (corps) ... Alan On 26/06/20 16:04, Garulfo wrote: Math. I get the following error : fonts  > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts  > defining > font with asked name 'fichier' is not found using lookup 'file' fonts  > defining > unknown font 'fic

Re: [NTG-context] Broken PDF with latest MkIV

2020-07-12 Thread Alan Braslau
On 12/07/20 03:48, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hi, I just installed the latest ConTeXt MkIV (LuaTeX 2.06 20200706 + ConTeXt MkIV 2020.07.09 14:51) to check if the CG journal will look the same as with my "old” installation (LuaTeX 1.11 7215 + ConTeXt MkIV 2020.01.30 14:13). All looks well in Pr

[NTG-context] \documentvariable (used in environment)

2020-07-22 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello, I have put the following in an environment \startenvironment MYENVIRONMENT \setupdocument [metadata:title={\documentvariable{title}}, metadata:subtitle={\documentvariable{subtitle}}, metadata:author={\documentvariable{author}}, metadata:keywords={\documentvariable{keywords}}]

Re: [NTG-context] \documentvariable (used in environment)

2020-07-24 Thread Alan Braslau
On 22/07/20 22:36, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: What exactly doesn't work and do you get the same problems when you set the values in the following minimal example (everything has to be in the same file). begin example \setupdocument   [metadata:title={\documentvariable{title}},    metadata

Re: [NTG-context] \documentvariable (used in environment)

2020-07-25 Thread Alan Braslau
(without the .tex extension) of the main file (and filename.tex under File). I'll chase it down... Alan On 25/07/20 02:40, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 25.07.2020 um 10:20 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster : Alan Braslau schrieb am 25.07.2020 um 00:21: On 22/07/20 22:36, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-01-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 18 January 2010 13:50:25 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi, > > views63 wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm using `` complex analysis'' the output is wrong. > > Not really. We (Hans and I) would say that it is now finally right. ;) > > > but using \ quotation (... ...) can output the correct quot

Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-01-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 20:31:22 Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Let me be a bit more "nationalistic" and exaggerate a bit for a moment > (just in order to explain why I find the idea of using `` a bad one; > do not take the text below too seriously or personally): I think that the easiest would be for

Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-01-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 08:04:43 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > The problem is that all the latex and plain tex books promote > the use of `` and '' and people that already use TeX are unlikely > to change their habits (and most will not read the context manual > as thoroughly as they should). > Th

Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-01-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 10:10:07 Hans Hagen wrote: > in principle we can even drop $ and & as we now have primitives for them Can you explain? I ignore the primatives for $E=mc^2$. Whereas Mojca regrets $$ $$, I have long prefered \startformula\stopformula (or \begin{equation}\end{equation

[NTG-context] \setuplabeltext[chapter=Chapter ] (or mkiv document structure/TOC)

2010-01-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
In a large project, a book with parts, chapters, appendices, etc. I have set the table of contents to display the label "Chapter" yielding: Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Part II Chapter 4 ... Through the following (mkiv): % % section headings % \definestructureresetset [default] [0,0] [1

[NTG-context] minimals: kfreebsd-i686 (debian)

2010-01-26 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hello, I just installed kfreebsd-i686 Debian/GNU. It is now officially supported as core architecture by Debian as an alternative to the linux kernel, but is not yet supported by the ConTeXt minimals. luatex 0.50.0-1 is available as a standard debian package on this architecture. I downloaded

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

2010-02-08 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 08 February 2010 12:25:58 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 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? > > Wolfgang Hello, I have be

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

2010-02-09 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 03:50:27 Curiouslearn wrote: > > I hope (and this perhaps has nothing to do with the brilliant Context > development team) is that journals start accepting Context files. > While I use context for my personal and class notes, for articles I am > still forced to go to la

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

2010-02-09 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 08 February 2010 12:25:58 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 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? > > Wolfgang What I would real

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

2010-02-09 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 23:30:56 Peter Münster wrote: > > Yes. I attach a recent t-french.tex file, that supports most of frenchb. > > \usemodule[french] > Should not these rules automatically come into play through \mainlanguage[fr] rather than as a module? Also (for Hans), lang-ita.tex n

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

2010-02-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 09:36:10 Hans Hagen wrote: > we can add them commented as i don't think that users want to see > "Chapter 1" every time > I have raised this question before. In fact, the strings *should* be defined by the language and some (other) mechanism (option) should activate

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

2010-02-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 10:07:26 Sebastien Mengin wrote: > > > 4. Commands \primo, \secundo, \tertio and \quarto print 1o, 2o, 3o, 4o. > > > \FrenchEnumerate{6} prints 6o. > > > > > > > > > obtained via the commands \No, \Nos, \no, \nos. > > > > > > 6. Two commands are provided to typeset th

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

2010-02-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 10:52:22 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 10-2-2010 10:45, Sebastien Mengin wrote: > > 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

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

2010-02-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 11:34:15 you wrote: > some english blabla ... > > makes most sense to me if here we use the english quotes and not the > french ones in the second case; > I don't do things that way, rather: “some English” followed by « une citation en français ». \quotation{som

Re: [NTG-context] indent lost after \placefigure

2010-02-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 05:07:15 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 11.02.10 02:14, schrieb Tom: > > When I place a figure at the bottom of a page, everything is fine if it > > splits a paragraph, but if it falls between paragraphs, indentation of at > > least one of the paragraphs, generally the o

[NTG-context] automatic lettrine

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
I like the \usemodule [lettrine] package (a quick and dirty conversion of the LaTeX package of the same name). It would be nice to include this functionality (perhaps cleaned-up) in the ConTeXt base macros. Then, it would also be nice to be able to activate an automatic mechanism to begin a first

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

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 11:10:19 Sebastien Mengin wrote: > 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

Re: [NTG-context] indent lost after \placefigure

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 08:57:21 Alan BRASLAU wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010 05:07:15 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 11.02.10 02:14, schrieb Tom: > > > When I place a figure at the bottom of a page, everything is fine if it > > > splits a paragraph, but if

Re: [NTG-context] indent lost after \placefigure

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 02:14:12 Tom wrote: > When I place a figure at the bottom of a page, everything is fine if it > splits a paragraph, but if it falls between paragraphs, indentation of at > least one of the paragraphs, generally the one coming after the figure, is > lost. It appears that

Re: [NTG-context] indent lost after \placefigure

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:55:01 Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > > PS: Your opinion is not so humble, and I do not really see the rational > > why indentnext=no is the default for most things* rather than > > indentnext=auto. > >

Re: [NTG-context] zotero

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:10:31 Salil Sayed wrote: > zotero is a firefox plugin > Thus, of limited generality... ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

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