Re: [NTG-context] chapter-like headings with separate numbering

2008-11-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm experimenting with making a heading that is like a chapter in format
 but has its own numbering (or lettering).  The purpose to have an
 interlude, or extended example, every few chapters.  The following
 almost-minimal example almost does so.  However, the second interlude is
 numbered with 'A' instead of 'B'.  Is there a missing key=value pair, or
 is the approach completely wrong?

It seem that interlude is like a section,
so it's correct that at every chapter there is a reset of the
alphabetical counter



 \definesection[nc]
 \setupsection[nc][conversion=Characters]
 \definehead[interlude][section=nc,default=chapter]
 \setuphead[interlude][incrementnumber=yes]

 \starttext

 \title{Contents}
 \placelist[chapter,interlude]

 \chapter{Chap 1}

 \interlude{Interlude 1}

 \chapter{Chap 2}

 \interlude{Interlude 2}

 \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] embedding 3d pdf

2008-11-26 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear All,

Renaud Aubin wrote:
 See http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/devel/

while the macros there are a great improvement from
what was posted on the list and look extandable for my purposes
(thanks, Renaud),
the other question remains - does it make sense to try to implement
3d model embedding in proper way for public use now or the underlying
luatex/context part has not been developed/updated yet?

LuaTeX roadmap promised that
Think of annotations and object management. The first code will show up
later in 2008.
Did it?
Is there a ConTeXt API to it?
Is it planned to come in some future?
Or  spec-pdf dated 1997.09.20 is what we are to live with?

  Sincerely, Michail


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Re: [NTG-context] difference between TeX behavior and ConTeXt

2008-11-26 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:30:51PM -0600, Lars Huttar napisa#322;(a):
 It makes sense for italicness and serifity to be independently
 changeable.
 What's discouraging to me as a entrant to the whole TeX world (but an
 experienced programmer) is the (apparently undocumented) redefinition of
 a well-established control sequence that used to mean non-italic to
 mean something different (maybe serif -- I still don't know for sure).

Hi,

and welcome to the TeX world;).

Me not being an experienced programmer, but (some kind) of more or less
experienced TeX user, I'd add the following.

In general, there are three 'mainstream' TeX macropackages: plain TeX
(say, plus AMSTeX), LaTeX and ConTeXt.

It seems that the majority of the TeX world uses LaTeX; most people,
when they say TeX, mean essentially LaTeX.  LaTeX is a a big beast,
and if you are new to TeX _and_ don't want to submit papers to math/cs
journals (which are seldom aware of ConTeXt, I'm afraid), learning LaTeX
may not be exactly what you want.

There is also a very small minority using plain TeX (including Knuth,
who doesn't use LaTeX; he was once asked why, and said: I'm afraid of
large systems;)).  The TeXbook is about two things: plain TeX and using
the TeX engine itself.

Then there is another minority (but growing, I believe) of ConTeXt
users.  For example, I am a plain-to-LaTeX and then (after 5 years or
so) LaTeX-to-ConTeXt convert (still using LaTeX when writing papers
which I want to submit somewhere, though, and plain TeX when doing
something really atypical).

It is probably true that plain TeX is weird and incomplete in a sense.
What \rm means in plain TeX is: switch to upright, serif font in 10pt
size.  It _might_ be modified (in the TeXbook spirit) to, e.g., switch
to upright, serif font in _current_ size - but please note that plain
TeX itself has _no_ notion of current size (or, in other words,
current size in plain TeX is fixed at 10pt).  What Knuth mentions in
the TeXbook is that you might want to write some macros to introduce
something like a flexible current size - he even shows how to do it in
Appendix E - but it is no longer plain vanilla TeX then!  So what you
did was to extrapolate plain TeX's meaning of \rm to a situation outside
plain TeX itself (although in Knuthian spirit).

So, everything I said above is trivial when applied just to \rm, but I
wanted to try to explain the differences between plain TeX, LaTeX and
ConTeXt.  So to finish this explanation, I would say the following:

* Plain TeX is a DIY thing.  Cross-references, automatic numbering of
chapters etc., bibliographies, including graphics, etc., etc. -
forget it, it just isn't there.  This is very fine if you're doing
something really unusual (and this happens from time to time) and don't
need such features, but you want to _exactly_ know what is happening
where: plain TeX is small and easy to grasp (at least, when compared to
LaTeX or ConTeXt).

* LaTeX is what they call a document preparation system, but that's a
lie.  LaTeX is a scientific paper/monograph preparation system; you
_may_ typeset a cookbook, a school test, or a software manual in LaTeX,
but it is a (sometimes small, sometimes big) pain.  It is just not the
best tool.  Of course, it flexible, extensible, even Turing complete, so
you can do everything - but it is sometimes like simulating recursion in
BASIC using arrays as a stack: possible, but no-one would like to do it.
The popularity of LaTeX caused, however, the situation when there is a
LaTeX package for everything (and sometimes even three of them, each
with different set of features and bugs...), so the pain is (usually)
not that big, but still sometimes writing stuff in LaTeX is not very
comfortable.

* ConTeXt is something much more universal than LaTeX - without the
scientific bias - but probably less stable than LaTeX, less documented
and with smaller userbase (but: smaller does not mean less active nor
less helpful!).  The flexibility of plain TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt is
obviously similar (well, with ConTeXt actually bigger since the advent
of luatex), but it is sometimes _very_ different in terms of easiness
(and level of frustration), sometimes with LaTeX having more wtf per
minute and sometimes ConTeXt.  It seems, however, that Hans considered
much more special cases when writing ConTeXt, so many thing are more
natural in ConTeXt than in LaTeX (where even simplest things sometimes
need an external package - for example, changing the style of
enumerations).

 If I were choosing a TeX macro package at this point, I would definitely
  look for one that kept semantics of basic TeX command sequences
 consistent with the intent expressed in the TeXbook... to avoid package
 lock-in, as well as to make the learning curve easier and to be able to
 use the resources of the whole TeX community.

As said - almost no-one uses plain TeX.  Both LaTeX and ConTeXt claim to
be built on top of plain TeX, but in both cases it does _not_ mean
saving 

Re: [NTG-context] difference between TeX behavior and ConTeXt

2008-11-26 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, Nov 25 2008, Lars Huttar wrote:

 If it's designed not to do that in ConTeXt -- i.e. the ConTeXt designers
 decided to change the semantics of one of the basic control sequences in
 TeX, rather than merely providing a different one with new semantics --
 you would think one would want that to be prominently documented. (Maybe
 some flashing orange lights? :-)

Hello Lars,

It's in chapter 5 of the user manual (without flashing orange lights):
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf or
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-enp.pdf

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[NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread Yue Wang
hi:

it seems that mpfigure will be in the wrong position using the xetex engine.
here is the  sample file:

% engine=xetex

\starttext

\setupcolors
  [state=start]

\startMPpage
  path p ; color c[] ;
  p := fullsquare scaled 4cm ;
  c[0] := transparent(1,.5,red) ;
  c[1] := transparent(1,.5,green) ;
  c[2] := transparent(1,.5,blue) ;
  for i = 0 upto 2 :
fill p rotated (i*30) withcolor white ;
  endfor ;
  for i = 0 upto 2 :
fill p rotated (i*30) withcolor c[i] ;
  endfor ;
  addbackground withcolor transparent(1,.5,cmyk(0,0,1,0)) ;
\stopMPpage

\stoptext


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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster

Am 26.11.2008 um 10:04 schrieb Yue Wang:

 hi:

 it seems that mpfigure will be in the wrong position using the xetex  
 engine.
 here is the  sample file:

 % engine=xetex

 \starttext

 \setupcolors
  [state=start]

 \startMPpage
  path p ; color c[] ;
  p := fullsquare scaled 4cm ;
  c[0] := transparent(1,.5,red) ;
  c[1] := transparent(1,.5,green) ;
  c[2] := transparent(1,.5,blue) ;
  for i = 0 upto 2 :
fill p rotated (i*30) withcolor white ;
  endfor ;
  for i = 0 upto 2 :
fill p rotated (i*30) withcolor c[i] ;
  endfor ;
  addbackground withcolor transparent(1,.5,cmyk(0,0,1,0)) ;
 \stopMPpage

 \stoptext

Make a entry in the bug tracker or it will be fogotten,
I had a similiar problem quite some time ago:

http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080812.085450.3b06d189.en.html

Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread vafa
ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX.

I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that ConTeXt has 
heaps of bugs.


LaTeX rocks...!

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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX.

yes, true.
Also
LaTeX peaple always have used to say that LaTeX is better than ConTeXt
is true



 I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that ConTeXt
 has heaps of bugs.


There are some bugs.



 LaTeX rocks...!

true, if you are from LaTeX peaple.

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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX.

 I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that ConTeXt has
 heaps of bugs.

 LaTeX rocks...!

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
(A. Einstein)
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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:38:59AM +0100, luigi scarso napisa#322;(a):
 On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX.
 
 yes, true.

Not entirely (see below).

 Also
 LaTeX peaple always have used to say that LaTeX is better than ConTeXt
 is true
 
 
 
  I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that ConTeXt
  has heaps of bugs.
 
 
 There are some bugs.

As in most software projects.  And, that;s true, there _are_ lots of
bugs in ConTeXt.  But still, it is very usable.

 
 
 
  LaTeX rocks...!
 
 true, if you are from LaTeX peaple.

Well, I've been using LaTeX for several years and I don't think it to be
really rocking.  And neither is ConTeXt (yet) - see below.

And the question is: why to start yet another flame war?

I am the proof (by example) that the sets of plain TeX people, LaTeX
people and ConTeXt people have a nonempty intersection.  There are areas
where LaTeX is much better than ConTeXt: when I write a paper on maths,
almost no journal will accept ConTeXt.  Also, LaTeX is very stable and
ConTeXt is not.  OTOH, when ConTeXt reaches the maturity level of LaTeX,
it _will_ be much better - but we'll have to wait a while for it to
happen.

Greets

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Re: [NTG-context] embedding 3d pdf

2008-11-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Michail Vidiassov [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Dear All,

 Renaud Aubin wrote:
  See http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/devel/

 while the macros there are a great improvement from
 what was posted on the list and look extandable for my purposes
 (thanks, Renaud),
 the other question remains - does it make sense to try to implement
 3d model embedding in proper way for public use now or the underlying
 luatex/context part has not been developed/updated yet?

 LuaTeX roadmap promised that
 Think of annotations and object management. The first code will show up
 later in 2008.
 Did it?
 Is there a ConTeXt API to it?
 Is it planned to come in some future?
 Or  spec-pdf dated 1997.09.20 is what we are to live with?

  Sincerely, Michail


BTW, If you are able to make some samples with context mkiv, please do them
and then wikifi it.
Something is better than nothing .
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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Marcin Borkowski 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Dnia Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:38:59AM +0100, luigi scarso napisa#322;(a):
  On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than
 LaTeX.
 
  yes, true.

 Not entirely (see below).

please, note:
not **all** context peaple (whatever peaple means!)
have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX,
but **some** context peaple (I, for example, assuming peaple == people )
You are a counter example .
So the statement is  ** entirely true **.



  Also
  LaTeX peaple always have used to say that LaTeX is better than ConTeXt
  is true
 

yes, as before


 
  
   I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that
 ConTeXt
   has heaps of bugs.
  
 
  There are some bugs.

 As in most software projects.  And, that;s true, there _are_ lots of
 bugs in ConTeXt.  But still, it is very usable.

lots  of bug and still very usable
are contradictory statemens .


 
 
  
   LaTeX rocks...!
 
  true, if you are from LaTeX peaple.


see before .






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true . ** entirely true **.



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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread vafa

 I am on the wrong list because I just said ``LaTeX rocks''?

I would like to apologise you and anyone else from the bottom of my heart if I 
have offended you and others, but honestly I did not mean it.

I am just on this list because I want to study ConText (its TeX programming) 
more deeply.


 


 

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX.
 
 I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that ConTeXt 
 has heaps of bugs.

?

for sure the luatex/mkiv (not to be confused with pdftex/mkii) pair has 
heaps of bugs (which are solved at some point) but it's just because we 
move on and because users here are willing to experiment with new stuff

 LaTeX rocks...!

then you're on the wrong list -)

Hans


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Re: [NTG-context] difference between TeX behavior and ConTeXt

2008-11-26 Thread Lars Huttar
On 11/26/2008 2:41 AM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
 Dnia Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:30:51PM -0600, Lars Huttar napisa#322;(a):
 It makes sense for italicness and serifity to be independently
 changeable.
 What's discouraging to me as a entrant to the whole TeX world (but an
 experienced programmer) is the (apparently undocumented) redefinition of
 a well-established control sequence that used to mean non-italic to
 mean something different (maybe serif -- I still don't know for sure).
 
 Hi,
 
 and welcome to the TeX world;).
 
 Me not being an experienced programmer, but (some kind) of more or less
 experienced TeX user, I'd add the following.

I appreciate your time and the explanations, from an experienced TeX user.
(To all) please pardon the frustration apparent in my previous email,
from a TeX and especially ConTeXt newbie.

 It is probably true that plain TeX is weird and incomplete in a sense.
 What \rm means in plain TeX is: switch to upright, serif font in 10pt
 size.

This is good to know.
However what I'm getting at is not just its concrete definition
(implementation) in Plain TeX, but its general intent.

The reason I ask that question is this: Knuth makes clear in TeXbook ch.
4 that \rm and other macros are intended to be redefined according to
the needs of the book section. Therefore \rm is not intended to remain
defined always specifically as switch to upright, serif font in 10pt
size. But it is *not* intended that \rm be defined to mean reduce the
left margin to the dimension provided by the following argument, or
even switch to italic, serif font in 10pt size. Sure you could define
\rm to mean anything, but your end users would string you up.

Somewhere between those extremes is an intended consistency of meaning
for \rm. If it were not so, macro packages would be gibberish,
intelligible to the executing processor but intractable for humans.

My contention is that the intended invariant of \rm semantics,
communicated in TeXbook (e.g. exercise 4.2 and the bottom of p. 15), is
that of not italic.

 [helpful orientation on the major macro packages snipped]

 (and level of frustration), sometimes with LaTeX having more wtf per
 minute 

I had not heard of that metric before. :-)

 That's right.  I would add one more point: if everyone called the
 software of ConTeXt quality beta, then Windows would be pre-alpha and
 a typical GNU/Linux probably something between alpha and beta.

Except perhaps the documentation. I have yet to find a reference that
clearly describes what \rm is to do in ConTeXt. One responder pointed to
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf. The closest
thing to a definition of \rm there that I could find is on p. 111: The
command \rm is used to switch to a roman/serif/regular style,...
These three terms are not explicitly defined; they are given as names of
styles in an illustrative table above. One may apparently assume that
the meaning serif style here actually is intended to mean that the
typeface has serifs (not a trivial assumption: see 'regular'). However
the examples of serif/regular/roman in the illustrative table are also
all non-italic, and the word regular in typography usually (as far as
I can tell... please enlighten) means upright in contrast to italic.
Yet apparently \rm does not switch to regular (if that means or
includes upright) in ConTeXt.

 Sorry if the above sounds too negative. After all, the TeXbook itself
 does not make the semantics of \rm obvious.
 
 Well, it does, but _not_ in the context of changing sizes/styles/etc...

Again, I think we're talking about two different things: the original
macro definition in Plain TeX, vs. the communicated intended invariant
meaning over redefinitions of \rm in various formats (Knuth's term
which I take to mean macro packages or something like that).

 However, once you dig deep enough it becomes clear that \rm does mean
 switch to a non-italic typeface in Plain TeX.
 
 I'll stress it again: no.  In plain TeX, it means switch to cmr10 at
 10pt, full stop.

See previous comment.

But even in plain TeX, switch to cmr10 at 10pt *does* include
switching to a non-italic typeface, which is what I meant here. I didn't
mean that in plain TeX \rm means *only* switch to a non-italic
typeface. Sorry that wasn't clear.

And the jolt here with ConTeXt is that the meaning of \rm no longer
includes switch to a non-italic typeface, and that this change is not
clearly documented.

Lars
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Re: [NTG-context] chapter-like headings with separate numbering

2008-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster

Am 26.11.2008 um 12:45 schrieb Sanjoy Mahajan:

 luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It seem that interlude is like a section, so it's correct that at
 every chapter there is a reset of the alphabetical counter

 I meant the interludes to be long examples based upon the preceding  
 few
 chapters.  So I think of interludes as at the same level as a chapter.
 But your comments suggests an idea: Is there a key=value pair that  
 says
 Don't ever reset the interlude counter (but do reset section numbers
 when a new chapter appears!)?

Use the archive my dear padawan.

http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20030415.153451.374310d8.en.html

Regards,
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[NTG-context] Weighted colors in MkIV

2008-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi,

in MkIV there is a problem when I set tints for a color.


This is a complete minimal example of my setup:

\setupcolors[state=start,rgb=no,cmyk=yes,spot=yes] % rgb= no needed in  
MkII

\setupcolor [hex]

\definecolor[PantoneOneEightSeven][h=C40F2F,e=Pantone 187 U]

\definespotcolor[dtkred] [PantoneOneEightSeven][p=1.0]
\definespotcolor[dtkredlight][PantoneOneEightSeven][p=0.7]

\starttext

\blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=dtkred,]

\blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=dtkredlight]

\stoptext


I could also reproduce it with a short setup:

\setupcolors[state=start,rgb=no] % rgb= no needed in MkII

\definespotcolor[dtkred] [red][p=1.0]
\definespotcolor[dtkredlight][red][p=0.7]

\starttext

\blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=dtkred,]

\blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=dtkredlight]

\stoptext

With the setting rgb=yes the color dtkred is correct in the output
but dtkredlight is darker than dtkred, with the setting rgb=no
dtkred is black in my document.

Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] difference between TeX behavior and ConTeXt

2008-11-26 Thread Lars Huttar
On 11/26/2008 7:43 AM, Lars Huttar wrote:
...
 and the word regular in typography usually (as far as
 I can tell... please enlighten) means upright in contrast to italic.

I now see that regular (apparently less often) can refer to weight:
not bold or light. Still, the point remains.

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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread Yue Wang
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:28 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX.

 I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that ConTeXt has
 heaps of bugs.


Staying at an older version of ConTeXt (for example, I always use
ConTeXt 2005.01 distributed in teTeX 3.0 for book and journal
production) will have less bugs. And if bugs were found in these
versions, they were always already been fixed some month after this
release, so just copy the related code in the later versions to your
tex file and then everything works fine again.
(in fact, I found no serious bugs in that version).


 LaTeX rocks...!

Latex always run into problems here. hyperlink sometimes give me weird
characters (it will always give wierd characters if the link contains
CJK characters due to the bug in hyperref, whatever driver and engine
you are using).
packages are incompatible with each other and always runs into problem
(I should keep in mind that package A should loaded before package B,
and package A-fix should be place after package B to fix the
incompatibility in package A and B, most packages have this problem,
just to name a few:  memoir, hyperref, amsmath, lucidabr, mnsymbol...
).
And I cannot do grid typesetting or other advanced stuffs there.

In fact, Plain TeX rocks! If you find bug in plain TeX, you can be
famous overnight!
(and I also love Karl Berry's eplain format, it's lightweight and powerful.)

 
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Re: [NTG-context] difference between TeX behavior and ConTeXt

2008-11-26 Thread Taco Hoekwater


Lars Huttar wrote:
 
 Except perhaps the documentation. I have yet to find a reference that
 clearly describes what \rm is to do in ConTeXt. One responder pointed to
 http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf. The closest
 thing to a definition of \rm there that I could find is on p. 111: The
 command \rm is used to switch to a roman/serif/regular style,...

In his first reply to your message, Aditya posted the link to the new
manual chapter on Typography. This chapter and the following one
Fonts are  planned to be the definitive answer to all questions
regarding fonts and font selection in ConTeXt.

If you believe the text could be improved even further beyond the
changes already made compared to the manual at Pragma ADE, please
tell us how (for sure, the meaning of the macro \rm is not going to
change!). We all want the manual to be as good as humanly possible,
but it is often quite hard to write at beginners' level when you
have advanced past that point yourself.

If you can find a good (or at least better) way to express what
\rm,\ss,\tt,\hw and \cg do compared to the current prose in
co-typography, please post it. Just keep in mind that the manual
has to remain independant, so texts that presuppose knowledge of
plain TeX and/or LaTeX are not acceptable except as a side/footnote.

Best wishes,
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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:09:08AM +0100, luigi scarso napisa#322;(a):
 On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Marcin Borkowski 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Dnia Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:38:59AM +0100, luigi scarso napisa#322;(a):
   On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than
  LaTeX.
  
   yes, true.
 
  Not entirely (see below).
 
 please, note:
 not **all** context peaple (whatever peaple means!)
 have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX,
 but **some** context peaple (I, for example, assuming peaple == people )
 You are a counter example .
 So the statement is  ** entirely true **.

ok, I give up;)

 
 
 
   Also
   LaTeX peaple always have used to say that LaTeX is better than ConTeXt
   is true
  
 
 yes, as before
 
 
  
   
I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that
  ConTeXt
has heaps of bugs.
   
  
   There are some bugs.
 
  As in most software projects.  And, that;s true, there _are_ lots of
  bugs in ConTeXt.  But still, it is very usable.
 
 lots  of bug and still very usable
 are contradictory statemens .

No.  Most popular case: M$ Windows (although personally I'll argue about
their usability;)).

The point is that ConTeXt bugs do not crash it in usual scenarios, but
rather when some complex interactions are involved.  So usually
everything is fine, _unless_ you want something strange.  And then -
well, _strange_ things do happen.

 
 
  
  
   
LaTeX rocks...!
  
   true, if you are from LaTeX peaple.
 
 
 see before .
 
 
 
 
 
 
  --
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  Emacs: Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift.
 
 true . ** entirely true **.

Glad you like it.  (Personally, I use both emacs and vim.  Really.)

BTW: do you know what vim means?  It is an old African word meaning
how do you quit this f#g s##t?

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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX.
 
 I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that ConTeXt 
 has heaps of bugs.

?

for sure the luatex/mkiv (not to be confused with pdftex/mkii) pair has 
heaps of bugs (which are solved at some point) but it's just because we 
move on and because users here are willing to experiment with new stuff

 LaTeX rocks...!

then you're on the wrong list -)

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Re: [NTG-context] chapter-like headings with separate numbering

2008-11-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It seem that interlude is like a section, so it's correct that at
 every chapter there is a reset of the alphabetical counter

I meant the interludes to be long examples based upon the preceding few
chapters.  So I think of interludes as at the same level as a chapter.
But your comments suggests an idea: Is there a key=value pair that says
Don't ever reset the interlude counter (but do reset section numbers
when a new chapter appears!)?

-Sanjoy

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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread Yue Wang
moreover, setupinteraction[state=start, focus=normal] and \goto will
always point to the wrong position in xetex.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Am 26.11.2008 um 10:04 schrieb Yue Wang:

 hi:

 it seems that mpfigure will be in the wrong position using the xetex
 engine.
 here is the  sample file:

 % engine=xetex

 \starttext

 \setupcolors
  [state=start]

 \startMPpage
  path p ; color c[] ;
  p := fullsquare scaled 4cm ;
  c[0] := transparent(1,.5,red) ;
  c[1] := transparent(1,.5,green) ;
  c[2] := transparent(1,.5,blue) ;
  for i = 0 upto 2 :
fill p rotated (i*30) withcolor white ;
  endfor ;
  for i = 0 upto 2 :
fill p rotated (i*30) withcolor c[i] ;
  endfor ;
  addbackground withcolor transparent(1,.5,cmyk(0,0,1,0)) ;
 \stopMPpage

 \stoptext

 Make a entry in the bug tracker or it will be fogotten,
 I had a similiar problem quite some time ago:

 http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080812.085450.3b06d189.en.html

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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread Yue Wang
Hi:


Please, shut up and code: we need to fix these bugs first!


Yue Wang



On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Marcin Borkowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Dnia Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:38:59AM +0100, luigi scarso napisa#322;(a):
 On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX.

 yes, true.

 Not entirely (see below).

 Also
 LaTeX peaple always have used to say that LaTeX is better than ConTeXt
 is true


 
  I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that ConTeXt
  has heaps of bugs.
 

 There are some bugs.

 As in most software projects.  And, that;s true, there _are_ lots of
 bugs in ConTeXt.  But still, it is very usable.



 
  LaTeX rocks...!

 true, if you are from LaTeX peaple.

 Well, I've been using LaTeX for several years and I don't think it to be
 really rocking.  And neither is ConTeXt (yet) - see below.

 And the question is: why to start yet another flame war?

 I am the proof (by example) that the sets of plain TeX people, LaTeX
 people and ConTeXt people have a nonempty intersection.  There are areas
 where LaTeX is much better than ConTeXt: when I write a paper on maths,
 almost no journal will accept ConTeXt.  Also, LaTeX is very stable and
 ConTeXt is not.  OTOH, when ConTeXt reaches the maturity level of LaTeX,
 it _will_ be much better - but we'll have to wait a while for it to
 happen.

 Greets

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Re: [NTG-context] difference between TeX behavior and ConTeXt

2008-11-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Marcin Borkowski wrote:

 Me not being an experienced programmer, but (some kind) of more or less
 experienced TeX user, I'd add the following.

...

makes a nice 'about tex systems' page for the wiki

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Re: [NTG-context] setup/switchtobodyfont question

2008-11-26 Thread Alan STONE
Same question related to setuplayout.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Alan STONE
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 The main manual mentions (ch 5 Typography, pg 92):

 In most cases, the command \setupbodyfont is only used once: in the
 styledefinition.
 Fontswitching is done with \switchtobodyfont. Don't mix these two up
 because this may
 lead to some rather strange but legitimate effects.

 What's recommended when using a product meta-structure
 (standardmakeup-frontmatter-
 bodypart-appendices-backmatter) where the bodyfont (and in some cases also
 the top,
 header, footer, bottom fonts change) from one to the other ?

 Declare one (1) setupbodyfont and switchtobodyfont from one meta-structure
 element to the
 other or use a dedicated setupbodyfont for each ?

 --
 Best,
 Alan

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Re: [NTG-context] embedding 3d pdf

2008-11-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Michail Vidiassov wrote:
 Dear All,
 
 Renaud Aubin wrote:
 See http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/devel/
 
 while the macros there are a great improvement from
 what was posted on the list and look extandable for my purposes
 (thanks, Renaud),
 the other question remains - does it make sense to try to implement
 3d model embedding in proper way for public use now or the underlying
 luatex/context part has not been developed/updated yet?
 
 LuaTeX roadmap promised that
 Think of annotations and object management. The first code will show up
 later in 2008.
 Did it?
 Is there a ConTeXt API to it?
 Is it planned to come in some future?
 Or  spec-pdf dated 1997.09.20 is what we are to live with?

spec-fdf and spec-pdf are occasionally extended (but nowadays pdf itself 
is not so much evolving)

there will bea dedicated luatex/mkiv backend module next year; first i 
need to rewrite lots of other code (currently i'm redoing the reference 
related code, and when that's done, the backend rewriting is easier)

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Re: [NTG-context] difference between TeX behavior and ConTeXt

2008-11-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Lars Huttar wrote:

 Interesting.
 As a newbie to typesetting, reading the TeXbook, I certainly wondered
 which axes Knuth meant 'roman' to refer to... he simply describes it
 as 'normal roman' and gives a visual example. So far, all I'd gathered
 was that it meant not italic.

you should keep in mind that plain tex is not meant as general puspose 
macro package but as base under Don Knuths own book related styles

for instance, there is no general font system, just a bunch of 
definitions related to computer modern and math; also there is some math 
setup, some register management, some structure commands and a bit of 
tabular stuff

at that time i think that the general idea was that one would write a 
style for each book (or series) and that a plain like package can be 
used as basis

context is (like latex, lamstex, inrstex, amstex, ...) a more generic 
and configurable macro package

both methods (dedicated vs generic) have their (dis)advantages

 If it's designed not to do that in ConTeXt -- i.e. the ConTeXt designers
 decided to change the semantics of one of the basic control sequences in
 TeX, rather than merely providing a different one with new semantics --

not in tex, since tex itself has no macros defined, but in plain tex


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Re: [NTG-context] bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position

2008-11-26 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:28:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa#322;(a):
 ConTeXt peaple always have used to say that ConTeXt is better than LaTeX.
 
 I have been recieving emails from CoNTeXt list and it seems that ConTeXt has 
 heaps of bugs.
 
 
 LaTeX rocks...!

Sorry, but I just can't resist a joke: what you call a bug in ConTeXt
world is called a feature in LaTeX.

And to be more serious:  I think I was rather fair in my previous post
on the difference between (plain) TeX and ConTeXt.

Also, LaTeX is frozen in some sense: the latest news on the LaTeX
project site comes from 2005, IIRC.  So the LaTeX core (or kernel)
is very stable (and, one has to admit, has very few bugs - and very
limited features...).  And LaTeX packages are quite a jungle.  But
still: there are lots of them which are very stable (or frozen), and
some which are under constant development (pgf, for instance).

Also, LaTeX documents are (usually) much simpler than ConTeXt documents,
so it is much easier to have few bugs - there is less room for complex
interactions (aside from package clashes, which happen from time to
time).

So if you want a stable document preparation and markup system with a
large userbase, though sometimes limited functionality (try to do a
two-column enumerate in LaTeX automatically, something like:
1) ...3) ...
2) ...4) ...
without resorting to general multicolumn hackery - and the multicol
package, which is not entirely free!), then yes, LaTeX is better.  And
if you want some features _not_ present in LaTeX or you need to typeset
_really_ complex documents (complex in terms of layout, for example), or
your documents are not scientific papers then ConTeXt is probably better.

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Re: [NTG-context] setup/switchtobodyfont question

2008-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster

Am 26.11.2008 um 12:43 schrieb Alan STONE:

 The main manual mentions (ch 5 Typography, pg 92):

 In most cases, the command \setupbodyfont is only used once: in the  
 styledefinition.
 Fontswitching is done with \switchtobodyfont. Don't mix these two up  
 because this may
 lead to some rather strange but legitimate effects.

 What's recommended when using a product meta-structure  
 (standardmakeup-frontmatter-
 bodypart-appendices-backmatter) where the bodyfont (and in some  
 cases also the top,
 header, footer, bottom fonts change) from one to the other ?

 Declare one (1) setupbodyfont and switchtobodyfont from one meta- 
 structure element to the
 other or use a dedicated setupbodyfont for each ?

 From font-ini:

The next two macros are user ones. With \setupbodyfont
one can set the document bodyfont size, font family, style
and/or options defined in files, for example:

\setupbodyfont[cmr,ams,12pt,roman]

This command affects the document as a whole: text, headers
and footers. The second macro however affects only the text:

\switchtobodyfont[10pt]

Both macros look alike. The second one also has to take
all kind of keywords into account.

Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] columnset running into footer when using \setupheader[state=high]

2008-11-26 Thread Jelle Huisman
Jelle Huisman wrote:
 % columnset running into footer area
 \definelayout[1][]
 \setupheader[state=high]
 \definetext[footerpagenumber][footer][pagenumber]
 \setuphead[chapter][page=yes,header=high,footer=footerpagenumber,number=no,align=middle]
 \definecolumnset[columnl][n=2]
 \showgrid \showframe
 \starttext
 \chapter{One}
 \startcolumnset[column]
 \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth}
 \stopcolumnset
 \stoptext

 Looking in the mail archive it looks like this is an old problem (see: 
 http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060516.092742.d455b795.en.html 
 ) but I'm wondering about a solution. Any thoughts?

One way around this is to use \setupcolumnsetlines[][][] to balance the 
columns. With a 1200 page publication: no fun.

Jelle
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[NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello,

Here's a tiny question. The following command complains about
undefined control sequence.

\starttext
\startluacode
print('a\tb')
\stopluacode
hello
\stoptext

There is a workaround:
print(string.format('a\t%s', 'b'))
but I find it weird. Even if the line above gets commented out with
two dashes it still complains.

I understand approximately why this happens, but is that intended?
Should I be using something else than \startluacode in the plethora of
different lua triggering commands?

Thanks,
   Mojca
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Re: [NTG-context] printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails

2008-11-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster

Am 26.11.2008 um 20:07 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

 Hello,

 Here's a tiny question. The following command complains about
 undefined control sequence.

 \starttext
 \startluacode
 print('a\tb')

print('a\t b')

 \stopluacode
 hello
 \stoptext

 There is a workaround:
print(string.format('a\t%s', 'b'))
 but I find it weird. Even if the line above gets commented out with
 two dashes it still complains.

 I understand approximately why this happens, but is that intended?
 Should I be using something else than \startluacode in the plethora of
 different lua triggering commands?

\start/stopluacode is defined as \startluacode#1\stopluacode
(simplified) and you should take care of TeXs parsing rules.

If you want Lua comments and format command (\n, \t ...) use
a external file for your Lua code.

Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] End Notes and Minimals

2008-11-26 Thread Bart C. Wise
Hans,

What's the chances on getting this fixed?  Or is there a stable branch 
somewhere that I can grab?

Thanks!
Bart

On Tuesday 25 November 2008 11:47:38 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
 Am 25.11.2008 um 19:39 schrieb Bart C. Wise:
  Below are four different ways I've tried to get endnotes to work.
  When I
  compile with texexec it work fine --- I get endnotes.  However,
  when I
  compile with texexec --lua the footnotes are placed on the page
  where they
  are referenced.  I would prefer to have the footnote/placefootnotes
  work so
  that I can easily change the output.  Any ideas?
 
  *** #1
  \setupfootnotes[location=none]
  \starttext
  \dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{eee}\endgraf}
  \page
  \placefootnotes[location=none]
  \stoptext
 
  *** #2
  \setupfootnotes[location=none]
  \starttext
  \dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{eee}\endgraf}
  \page
  \placefootnotes
  \stoptext
 
  *** #3
  \setupnote[endnote][location=none]
  \starttext
  \dorecurse{100}{test \endnote{eee}\endgraf}
  \page
  \placenotes[endnote]
  \stoptext
 
  *** #4
  \starttext
  \dorecurse{6}{ \input tufte \endnote{\input knuth\relax} }
  \page
  \placenotes[endnote]
  \stoptext

 It's a bug in the \expdoifcommonelse macro used in MkIV,
 it evaluates always the true value and you get footnotes.

 Here is a example for Hans:

 \starttext

 \doifcommonelse{text,page}{none}
{true}
{false}

 \expdoifcommonelse{text,page}{none}
{true}
{false}

 \stoptext

 Wolfgang

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