Re: [NTG-context] Dictionnnaries ..

2004-11-25 Thread Siep Kroonenberg
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:07:23PM +, Dirar BOUGATEF wrote: > Thanks Siep. Have you tried customizing TeXnicCenter for use with Context ? > Does it have command completion ? > > Looks like a great editor. > > Dirar At one time. I helped someone setting up TeXnicCenter/MikTeX with Context. W

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Re: installing context (Hans Hagen)

2004-11-25 Thread Hans Hagen
viveksharma wrote: V. Sharma wrote: I would like to install context with scite on my computer. This runs WinXp. Trying to download mswincontext.zip from the pragma site comes up with the message url not found. How do most people install this on a windows system or this is mostly used by linux us

[NTG-context] Metapost produces "unknown"

2004-11-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I tried an example for generating linear text placement. % File text.mp input mp-tool ; % some initializations and auxiliary macros input mp-spec ; % macros that support special features prologues := 2; beginfig(1) draw hlintext.lft(0, 20, 5, 20cm, "@3e") ; draw vlogtext.bot(0, 10, 9, 10cm, "@

[NTG-context] low level fonts

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
hi all. what's your best way of getting the current font name, regardless of how it's set (e.g., typescript, unicode, definedfont, low-level \font definitions...)? I certainly know about \truefontname{}, but what to put in the braces? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [NTG-context] low level fonts

2004-11-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: hi all. what's your best way of getting the current font name, regardless of how it's set (e.g., typescript, unicode, definedfont, low-level \font definitions...)? I certainly know about \truefontname{}, but what to put in the braces? tex: \fontname\font also in context: \purefo

Re: [NTG-context] low level fonts

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:49 +0100: >tex: \fontname\font Thanks Hans. That's reliable. >also in context: \purefontname\font This fails with the XeTeX quoted-with-spaces fonts (just gives "Chaparral ) . I wasn't looking to test that sort of thing, but there you go. Clearly

Re: [NTG-context] low level fonts

2004-11-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:48:40 +: >Clearly \def\splitoffpurefontname#1 #2\\{#1} isn't enough. :/ To answer my own question, this (in spec-xtx?) should be enough (I wanted the quotes stripped so that I could insert things): \def\purefontname#1% {\doiffirstcharelse"{\exp

Re: [NTG-context] low level fonts

2004-11-25 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: Clearly \def\splitoffpurefontname#1 #2\\{#1} isn't enough. :/ if this fails ... \unprotected \def\purefontname#1% [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] \\} ... then you're stuck for a few days (tomorrow i'm away) Hans -

[NTG-context] Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 5, Issue 58

2004-11-25 Thread viveksharma
>>V. Sharma wrote: I would like to install context with scite on my computer. This runs WinXp. Trying to download mswincontext.zip from the pragma site comes up with the message url not found. How do most people install this on a windows system or this is mostly used by linux users. thanks vs

[NTG-context] columnset BUG - (urgent!)

2004-11-25 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, please have a look at testfile below: without a footnote everything works fine, but with the footnote the columnset gets crashed! I noticed this bug in a bigger book project: The columnset is at the end as a seperate document (\component). And the footnote was added 300 pages and 5 component