Re: [NTG-context] Double bar means hyphen?

2003-06-14 Thread Hans Hagen
At 23:21 13/06/2003 +0100, you wrote: Ed L Cashin said this at Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:12:13 -0400: >I always use explicit hyphen like this: > > Don't second|-|guess me. If it really is always, you can save a little effort with: \setuphyphenmark[sign=-] (This relates to an issue I mentioned earlier

Re: [NTG-context] Runtime graphics

2003-06-14 Thread Hans Hagen
At 01:34 13/06/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hi, I run this simple test file test.tex : %&cont-en \setupoutput[pdftex] \runMPgraphicstrue \starttext \startMPrun input graphserieA \stopMPrun \externalfigure[mprun.1] \externalfigure[mprun.2] % \startMPrun input graphserieB \stopMPrun \externa

Re: [NTG-context] differences of table modes

2003-06-14 Thread Hans Hagen
At 18:32 12/06/2003 +0200, you wrote: Ahoi! I just reviewed my german ConTeXt tutorial and tried to tell the truth about all the table modes. Please correct me if I'm wrong: * tabulate - can break over several pages - [start|stop]tabulate[head|tail] should define a repeated head/tail, but it doe

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2003-06-14 Thread Hans Hagen
At 11:01 12/06/2003 -0400, you wrote: I've been a debian woody user for a long time, now, and the conclusion I eventually came to was this: * debian's strict adherence to directory structure conventions has made the tetex package difficult to maintain, since it's split into many parts,

Re: [NTG-context] start a program with a particular file

2003-06-14 Thread Hans Hagen
At 11:12 12/06/2003 +0200, you wrote: Dear ConTeXt users, Can anybody tell me whether it is possible to start a program with a particular file? Let's say I want to start mediaplayer with the file MyMusic.wav. in addition to adam's answer, you can use \goto {something} [program(somefile)] to ge

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2003-06-14 Thread Siep Kroonenberg
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:30:08AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > At 11:01 12/06/2003 -0400, you wrote: > > >I've been a debian woody user for a long time, now, > >and the conclusion I eventually came to was this: > > > > * debian's strict adherence to directory structure > >conventions has made

[NTG-context] Gridsetting

2003-06-14 Thread Matthias Vogel
Hi, I'm new to this list and have quite a lot of questions. (Questions of course I can not answer after reading the contributions to the list.) I'll start with three of them in individual threads. Its funny that the ability to set gridfitting text, is often characterized as something that belongs i

[NTG-context] Improving the Documentation of Context

2003-06-14 Thread Matthias Vogel
I think it would be nice to have the manuals improved in the following not very costly way (??? indicates my ignorance): \setuplayout[..,..=..,..] width dimension fit middle .width, ??? and orientation of main text heightdimension fit middle .height of main

[NTG-context] centered Chapter-Headings

2003-06-14 Thread Matthias Vogel
Hi, when I set up the Chapter in the following way (*** indicating the relevant option) \setuphead[chapter] [style={\switchtobodyfont[15pt]}, grid=bottom, number=yes, ownnumber=no, page=no, co

Re: [NTG-context] Improving the Documentation of Context

2003-06-14 Thread Matthew Huggett
Matthias Vogel wrote: I think it would be nice to have the manuals improved in the following not very costly way (??? indicates my ignorance): \setuplayout[..,..=..,..] width dimension fit middle .width, ??? and orientation of main text heightdimension fit middle .

Re: [NTG-context] Runtime graphics

2003-06-14 Thread Pierre VINET
Hi Hans, Thank you for your reply. Here is the modified test.tex file following your indications : \starttext \def\MPrunfile#1{\bufferprefix \MyMpRunFile.#1} \def\MyMpRunFile{graphserieA} \startMPrun input graphserieA \stopMPrun \externalfigure[\MyMpRunFile.1] \externalfigure[\MyMpRunFile.2] %