[NTG-context] Gray bars on Windows 98se

I am creating an e-book following closely the example program d-en-all.pdf. The color scheme is taken from the orignal without change. On my Slackware Linux box the reulting PDF file shows correctly, black type on a light gray background. But when I look at it on a Windows 98 SE machine (I have two

[NTG-context] Vertical alignment of marginal material

Message: 12 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:14:38 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] alignment of marginal material Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 21:40 22/02/2004, Jonathan Nicholl wrote: I am trying to write a macro which places a picture in the

Re[2]: [NTG-context] manual on style design

> if you're a member of the ntg / dante in a couple of weeks you will get a > (i hope nice) colorful font sampler booklet showing the free fonts on tex > live (at the printer now); it's on my todo list to write an howto for those > fonts i was thinking of system installed fonts. e.g. the reuse o

Re: [NTG-context] manual on style design

At 23:16 23/02/2004, you wrote: hans! very nice indeed this manual! thinking of trivial support tools, is there a (simple) script one could launch to get a list of all installed fonts (with a sample in the font itself), with the necessary instructions included as how to incorporate it in context? t

Re: [NTG-context] manual on style design

hans! very nice indeed this manual! thinking of trivial support tools, is there a (simple) script one could launch to get a list of all installed fonts (with a sample in the font itself), with the necessary instructions included as how to incorporate it in context? that would really make the differ

Re: [NTG-context] Centering two figures on a page

At 21:22 23/02/2004, you wrote: Hello, I have a bunch of figures of the same dimension 3.5x3.5. On each page in a document, I'd like to place a pair of them \ so that -- the figures are exactly at the same location on each page -- there is a specific horizontal gap between the figures -- they ar

Re: [NTG-context] manual on style design

Am Montag, 23.02.04, um 20:40 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Willi Egger: May be that you planned to include it already in the part over presets. It could be an idea to talk a little bit over binding correction and arranging. - Yet an unsolved question would be how to get hold on "kreeping" away ty

[NTG-context] Centering two figures on a page

Hello, I have a bunch of figures of the same dimension 3.5x3.5. On each page in a document, I'd like to place a pair of them \ so that -- the figures are exactly at the same location on each page -- there is a specific horizontal gap between the figures -- they are vertically aligned. In short, I

Re: [NTG-context] manual on style design

Hi Hans, Astonished about this manual! Unbelievable what you are cooking up all the time!! May be that you planned to include it already in the part over presets. It could be an idea to talk a little bit over binding correction and arranging. - Yet an unsolved question would be how to get hold

[NTG-context] manual on style design

Hi, I'm working on a new manual. Some content and a rough outline can be found at: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/style.pdf Just to get an idea (let me know if you miss topics that fit in that approach) Hans

[NTG-context] aligned equation numbers in nath

Hi Giuseppe, I know it's still work in progress, but could you suggest me some workaround in order to number individual aligned equations in nath? Maybe some \label command that would work like this way: \[ \startalign x^2 + y^2 &= a^2 \\ \label[eq:bogus] a^2 &= R^2 \stopalign \

Re: Re[2]: [NTG-context] Not seeing the wood because of so many trees

On Feb 18, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: \textbraceleft and \textbraceright should work ok if encodings are set up correctly. Your're right, it works as expected. Thanks a lot! All best Thomas ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] floats in column sets [was: (no subject)]

At 15:01 23/02/2004, you wrote: > > I find myself with a similar problem with floats not working. Could I > > have a link to 'columns.pdf'. I have searched the website, but no joy. > > what do you mean with 'not working', floats in column sets behave I found columns.pdf, about columnsets. This is

Re: [NTG-context] floats in column sets [was: (no subject)]

> > I find myself with a similar problem with floats not working. Could I > > have a link to 'columns.pdf'. I have searched the website, but no joy. > > what do you mean with 'not working', floats in column sets behave I found columns.pdf, about columnsets. This is useful stuff, but text does

[NTG-context] multi media

Hi, If you have acrobat 6 installed, you can try: http://www.pragma-ade.com/itdemos/internal/media/mediashow.pdf This file accesses - a movie - a flash - a smil - a mpeg however, - the smil does not work on a distance (probably bug in acrobat, resources are not picked up) - the smil does no

Re: [NTG-context] alignment of marginal material

At 21:40 22/02/2004, Jonathan Nicholl wrote: I am trying to write a macro which places a picture in the margin. I would like the centre of the picture to be aligned vertically with the centre of the paragraph in which I call the macro. The following works in simple cases: \def\hazard#1{%

Re: [NTG-context] Two questions about \subject vs \section

At 13:03 10/02/2004, you wrote: Hello all. I have a series of documents which use \section to create a numbered heading and \subject to create an unnumbered one. I would like the unnumbered headings (the \subjects) to do put the titles in the running heads and in the tables of contents, like th

Re: [NTG-context] XY arrangement

At 20:27 11/02/2004, you wrote: I setup the XY arrangement. The etiquettes look o.k. The problem is, that Context ignores the topspace and backspace as setup in \setuppaper. ha, you looked into the source, well, see end of page-imp for a special paper size XY where these are used. % \setuppaper

[NTG-context] Re: [NTG-context] 90° rotation + landscape

At 14:12 11/02/2004, you wrote: Hello list, I want to setup an evelope and the whole output should be rotated by 90° (this is the way my printer gets them). i'll look into it and send you a patch off list (in your case you run into some automatism for catching border cases). The following is the

Re: [NTG-context] Can itemize calculate optimal label widths?

At 10:18 20/02/2004, you wrote: Hi all! Is there a possiblity to have itemize calculate the optimal label width itself? I have an itemize that has rather different labels, e.g.: \startitemize \sym{1.} An item \sym{2.} Another item \sym{103 a.} An item with a very broad label \stopitemize In this

Re: [NTG-context] hyperlinks in PDF

At 14:21 21/02/2004, you wrote: Using the \setupinteraction and \useURL commands, I can now generate active blue email links my PDFs—which is very cool. The downside is that my footnote numbers (both in the text and below) are now blue too. I can go two ways with this. One way would be to set t

Re: [NTG-context] floats in column sets [was: (no subject)]

At 14:11 20/02/2004, you wrote: > At 07:15 05/02/2004, you wrote: > >Hallo, > > > >it seems to me that text surrounding is ignored for floats inside columns, > >see the code below. Am I right? > > yes; see columns.pdf for the many figure options in column sets > > Hans I find myself with a similar

Re: [NTG-context] unwanted pagebreak

At 18:43 21/02/2004, you wrote: Dear Contex'ers, Does anyone know how I can prevent the occurrence of a pagebreak after: \section, \subsection, ... (followed by \startitemize) \head (in an itemization) I do not want to have to check all the section headings and put \page[no] before the heading.