[NTG-context] formatting verse

2005-06-22 Thread Gary A. Tucker
I've looked on the wiki and in the manuals for an equivalent to LaTeX's \begin{verse} environment. I found a macro in a file on the wiki, but the definition of it seems to be obsolete. What I'm working on is converting a wedding service set using LaTeX and the booklet package over to ConTeX

Re: [NTG-context] UTF further problems

2005-06-22 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Hans wrote: I attached a small test file. Some trickery is needed to get utf working in mathml - the map patch goes into xtag-map.tex - the other one into xtag-mmp part of the problem is that the current font must provide the characters Hans, thank you very much. I've ben banging my head off

Re: [NTG-context] Struggling with lists

2005-06-22 Thread Christopher Creutzig
Christopher Creutzig wrote: \placelist[Datei]%[alternative=d,criterium=Topic] Sorry for the line noise. criterium=current solves my problem. Does criterium=section only work for numbered sections? Christopher ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-c

Re: [NTG-context] UTF further problems

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: \usemodule[mathml] \starttext\startXMLdata \"{a}\"{o}\"{u}\v{c}\v{s}\v{z} \stopXMLdata\stoptext fails as well. An interesting observation: I tested on live.contextgarden.com, on the latest ConTeXt in MikTeX distribution and in an old minimal ConTeXt distribution for W

[NTG-context] setuphead

2005-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Hello all, I think the solution is quite simple but I don't know how to do it. I want to start a new page with each section, so I tried: \setuphead[section][style=\bfb,tolerance=verytolerant,page=yes] but this does not work. What is is page=yes for? Thanks Wolfgang __

[NTG-context] Re: UTF further problems

2005-06-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] > An interesting observation: I tested on live.contextgarden.com, on the > latest ConTeXt in MikTeX distribution and in an old minimal ConTeXt > distribution for Windows (6.12.2004). The results from MikTeX and > live.contextgarden.net were equal. \v{c} resulted in something like > "leftdou

Re: [NTG-context] setuphead

2005-06-22 Thread Mikael Persson
On 6/22/05, Wolfgang Zillig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I think the solution is quite simple but I don't know how to do it. > I want to start a new page with each section, so I tried: > > \setuphead[section][style=\bfb,tolerance=verytolerant,page=yes] > > but this does not work

[NTG-context] New context release

2005-06-22 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, I wanted to let you know that Hans has uploaded a new version last night. This is a bug fix release, and you are advised to upgrade your system as soon as possible. Release notes are on the wiki, as usual: http://contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Greetings, Taco

[NTG-context] Two further MathML queries

2005-06-22 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Apologies for all the MathML queries. Here are two more, embedded in one test file which will run on live.contextgarden.net: -- \usemodule[mathml] \setupwhitespace[medium] \starttext \TeX{} maths aligns $x$ well.\par MathML aligns \startXMLdatax\stopXMLdata squashed to the right.\par Also:\pa

Re: [NTG-context] setuphead

2005-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Thanks, I found my problem: I use somthing like: \chapter{text} some introduction \section{bla} some more text and then the section starts not at a new page. I think I should no use chapter with some text afterwards. Cheers Wolfgang Mikael Persson wrote: On 6/22/05, Wolfgang Zillig <[EMA

Re: [NTG-context] New context release

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, I wanted to let you know that Hans has uploaded a new version last night. This is a bug fix release, and you are advised to upgrade your system as soon as possible. Release notes are on the wiki, as usual: http://contextgarden.net/Release_Notes thanks, right n

[NTG-context] Page numbers

2005-06-22 Thread David Waller
I am trying to produce a document with roman numerals in the front section, but normal numbers in the main body. I am able to switch from one type to the other, but I would like to reset the page number to 1 in the main body, but I am unable to find a way to do this. I have looked at the manuals bu

[NTG-context] pararaph indent in footnote

2005-06-22 Thread Alan Bowen
How does one get ConTeXt to indent and space paragraphs in footnotes according to the same rules as the body text? I have checked the manual but do not see how to adapt \setupfootnotes to do this, and my attempts thus far with \setupfootnotedefinition have not been unsuccessful either. T

Re: [NTG-context] Page numbers

2005-06-22 Thread Vit Zyka
David Waller wrote: I am trying to produce a document with roman numerals in the front section, but normal numbers in the main body. I am able to switch from one type to the other, but I would like to reset the page number to 1 in the main body, but I am unable to find a way to do this. I have lo

Re: [NTG-context] New context release

2005-06-22 Thread Otared Kavian
On 22 juin 2005, at 12:27, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, I wanted to let you know that Hans has uploaded a new version last night. This is a bug fix release, and you are advised to upgrade your system as soon as possible. Release notes are on the wiki, as usual: http://contextgarden.net/Rel

Re: [NTG-context] New context release

2005-06-22 Thread Otared KAVIAN
On 6/22/05, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to let you know that Hans has uploaded a new version > last night. This is a bug fix release, and you are advised to > upgrade your system as soon as possible. Release notes are on > the wiki, as usual: > >http://con

[NTG-context] cross-reference query (\note)

2005-06-22 Thread Alan Bowen
\note[xx] produces the footnote number of a note named “xx” as a superscript. What I need is a reference of the form [see 4na above] say, where a is the footnote number. So how can I get/print this footnote number as regular (unsuperscripted) text? Again, thanks for any help or pointers. Al

Re: [NTG-context] pararaph indent in footnote

2005-06-22 Thread Steve Grathwohl
My solution (worked out with Steve Peter and Hans at PracTeX Chapel Hill:   \def\MyNum#1{\hskip2em\relax#1. }%\hskip your indent here \setupnote[footnote][numbercommand=\MyNum] \setupnotedefinition[footnote][location=left,hang=1]   Of course, to have a superscripted number you say \def\MyNum#1{\hsk

Re: [NTG-context] pararaph indent in footnote

2005-06-22 Thread Alan Bowen
Steve—Thanks for the reply, but it seems to me that this will affect only the spacing and placement of a footnote number in relation to the footnote proper—which is very cool and I will use what you have relayed. My immediate problem, however, is the paragraph indent in footnotes that have more tha

Re: [NTG-context] pararaph indent in footnote

2005-06-22 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Alan Bowen wrote: > My immediate problem, however, is the paragraph indent in > footnotes that have more than one paragraph. I don't know better, but this works: \setupindenting[small] \let\footnoteO\footnote \long\def\footnote#1{\footnoteO{\setupindenting[small]#1}} %% or

[NTG-context] unicode / utf

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, I uploaded a new beta archive with under context/extras a file showunic.tex. The resulting pdf can be fetched from the website (manuals -> fonts -> ...) When playing with this i could not get the hebrew vector working. I think that we need (a volunteer) to make (us) some kind of hebrew/ara

Re: [NTG-context] New context release

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared KAVIAN wrote: On 6/22/05, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I wanted to let you know that Hans has uploaded a new version last night. This is a bug fix release, and you are advised to upgrade your system as soon as possible. Release notes are on the wiki, as usual: ht

Re: [NTG-context] formatting verse

2005-06-22 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Gary, I do not know what this LATeX package is able to do. However in Context you can use \startalignment[middle] %[left] or [right] ... \stopalignment You may play with \startnarrower[left] %[3*left] [right] or whatever you want the indentation to be. ... \stopnarrower You can use \starli

Re: [NTG-context] New context release

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared Kavian wrote: body fonts to other sizes than 10 (or 12?) points. Here is a minimal 10 11 12 14.4 17.3 .. or other defined bodyfont environments -) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] setuphead

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Zillig wrote: Hello all, I think the solution is quite simple but I don't know how to do it. I want to start a new page with each section, so I tried: \setuphead[section][style=\bfb,tolerance=verytolerant,page=yes] but this does not work. What is is page=yes for? it does work, but

Re: [NTG-context] Two further MathML queries

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: I have done a fair bit of source- and archive-surfing on both these but no luck. Many thanks for any help. hm i need to take a closer look; now you know why i favor content mml over presentation mml -) Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Two further MathML queries

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: #2 Display MathML doesn't reduce font size for content such as fractions within fractions. mtext is a hbox; try $$\frac{\frac{\hbox{\rm Q}}{\hbox{\rm P}}}{\hbox{\rm R}}$$ in mml we have: startXMLdata

RE: [NTG-context] unicode / utf

2005-06-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Hans, I've been dealing with getting Unicode Arabic working for the Arabic project so I'll be glad to help with the Arabic part. I have some fresh ideas for a new standard in this regard also... Best Idris >= Original Message From Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >I think that >we n

Re: [NTG-context] New context release

2005-06-22 Thread Otared KAVIAN
On 6/22/05, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hm, this is related to the change of \dodefineunknownbodyfont, which you can > change back to: (font-ini.tex) > > \def\dodefineunknownbodyfont#1#2% see *** >{\doifdefined{\s!default\s!default#2}% somehow related to */* > {\donetrue >

Re: [NTG-context] Two further MathML queries

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: #1 Inline MathML has a wide space before, and no space after. the space before is a bug: in xtag-ini, locate: .unexpanded.defand add the * (comment token) which prevents the spurious space. (interesting that this went unnoticed so long) the space after ... well, it

Re: [NTG-context] unicode / utf

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Hi Hans, I've been dealing with getting Unicode Arabic working for the Arabic project so I'll be glad to help with the Arabic part. I have some fresh ideas for a new standard in this regard also... ok, so how about a proper combined arab/hebrew font/encoding first (

Re: [NTG-context] Two further MathML queries

2005-06-22 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Thanks a million Hans. I guess my only issue now is displaying spaces within text inside what I used to have as , but that can be done explicitly with elements for the time being. Thanks for taking the time to understand and solve. Duncan ___ ntg-co

[NTG-context] Tolerance etc.

2005-06-22 Thread John R. Culleton
Now and then, particularly with narrow pages, a paragraph just doesn't come out right and a line sticks into the right margin. In plain I always fiddled with \tolerance, \pretolerance and occasionally used \looseness to fix things up. Should I continue to use these primitives or is there a more

Re: [NTG-context] Two further MathML queries

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: Thanks a million Hans. I guess my only issue now is displaying spaces within text inside what I used to have as , but that can be done explicitly with elements for the time being. Thanks for taking the time to understand and solve. btw, can you add your test/example

Re: [NTG-context] Tolerance etc.

2005-06-22 Thread Hans Hagen
John R. Culleton wrote: Now and then, particularly with narrow pages, a paragraph just doesn't come out right and a line sticks into the right margin. In plain I always fiddled with \tolerance, \pretolerance and occasionally used \looseness to fix things up. Should I continue to use these pri

Re: [NTG-context] pararaph indent in footnote

2005-06-22 Thread Alan Bowen
Peter— Many thanks for your help! This solves the problem very nicely. All best, Alan On Jun 22, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Peter Münster wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Alan Bowen wrote: My immediate problem, however, is the paragraph indent in footnotes that have more than one paragraph. I don't k

Re: [NTG-context] pararaph indent in footnote

2005-06-22 Thread Alan Bowen
Peter— On further testing, I see that while I now have indented paragraphs in my footnotes, I no longer have the ability to name and cross- reference them. \footnote{footnote text} works well, but \footnote [name]{footnote text} now seems broken. Alan On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Alan Bowen wrote

Re: [NTG-context] unicode / utf

2005-06-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:05:49 +0200: >I uploaded a new beta archive with under context/extras a file showunic.tex. showunic.pdf is very attractive, but I think you need some encoding vectors for VN stuff-you're using the fallbacks there. I have them on my machine, and will cle