Re: [NTG-context] Problems placing figures II

2005-05-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Richard Gabriel wrote: Hi all, regarding my problems with figure placing (posted on 2005-05-05), I've found out that problems occur only if there are too many unplaced figures (pending floats). After a lot of googling, I've only found out that in LaTeX, there's a command \clearpage which places

Re: [NTG-context] Context, LaTeX, or an XML for academic writing?

2005-05-16 Thread Matthias Weber
Hi Tobias, here is my recommendation: Ask somebody in your field who is really good at TeX for the LaTeX sources of his/her thesis, and use them as templates. Spend as little time as possible thinking about layout and as much as you can about content. You only will have the energy to strive for

Re: [NTG-context] Presentation Styles

2005-05-16 Thread Otared Kavian
At 16:19 +0200 16/05/05, M.guravage wrote: Hello, I recently prepared a presentation using pre-05. The Topics, represented as buttons in a column on the left, are now each preceeded by a number. This was not the case when I last used the style back in January. Interestingly, s-pre-05.tex has not ch

Re: [NTG-context] Context, LaTeX, or an XML for academic writing?

2005-05-16 Thread John R. Culleton
On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:45 pm, Tobias Wolf wrote: > Dear NTG-context denizens, > > today I went to work to make up my mind about whether it would be a > good idea to go ahead and produce my BSc. Thesis with ConTeXt. > It's clear, I'm very much attracted to it's approach, I do like the > syntax a

[NTG-context] Context, LaTeX, or an XML for academic writing?

2005-05-16 Thread Tobias Wolf
Dear NTG-context denizens, today I went to work to make up my mind about whether it would be a good idea to go ahead and produce my BSc. Thesis with ConTeXt. It's clear, I'm very much attracted to it's approach, I do like the syntax and the focus on PDF output (I never used DVI before) et cetera p

[NTG-context] Paragraph numbering

2005-05-16 Thread piskala upendran
Thanks Taco, It works perfectly works as desired. with the addition of \doglobal with paragraph enumeration, it is solved. __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail _

Re: [NTG-context] Hanging punctuation again.

2005-05-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Mon, 16 May 2005 19:41:17 +0200, Vit Zyka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Hmmm, I was playing with this, for Palatino it is OK, but not for the Computer Modern (see the code bellow). I do not know where is the problem; I solved it for myself manually (if you are interesti

Re: [NTG-context] Hanging punctuation again.

2005-05-16 Thread Vit Zyka
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Hi John, Isn't [thanh] obsolete? See hand-def.tex for details: I think you want [normal], which hangs puntuation ([pure]), the Latin alphabet ([alpha]), and the rest of ascii characters ([extended]). Then you get full hanging. I tested palatino and the following works h

Re: [NTG-context] Re: try compiling Tex showcase source : program_sample.tex

2005-05-16 Thread Vit Zyka
Hans Hagen wrote: olivier Turlier wrote: I was trying to compile Program-sample.tex because I find the transparent white frame over the grey background very nice to see for a pure electronic pdf. In the same range, the vit Zyka font demo catalog interesting document (maybe there should be a copy on

[NTG-context] Presentation Styles

2005-05-16 Thread M.guravage
Hello, I recently prepared a presentation using pre-05. The Topics, represented as buttons in a column on the left, are now each preceeded by a number. This was not the case when I last used the style back in January. Interestingly, s-pre-05.tex has not changed since then. This behavior is the sam

[NTG-context] Problems placing figures II

2005-05-16 Thread Richard Gabriel
Hi all, regarding my problems with figure placing (posted on 2005-05-05), I've found out that problems occur only if there are too many unplaced figures (pending floats). After a lot of googling, I've only found out that in LaTeX, there's a command \clearpage which places all unprocessed floats