Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: ConTEXt Newbie: Column/table background color - which table model/command?]

2005-08-29 Thread luigi.scarso
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, Forwarding this from c.t.t. It looks like perhaps the OP's code is correct and something in ConTeXt is wrong (at least I cannot find anything wrong with the example code, even with \setupcolors[state=start], I get no background color). Perhaps somebody who has

Re: [NTG-context] Upgrading ConTeXt and testing

2005-08-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Idris (and all), Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: When a new ConTeXt is released, Taco or someone else could then document which bugs are fixed, features added, and, most importantly, what features are changed or broken. Whenever someone reports a problem, the release notes on the wiki enable

Re: [NTG-context] bug with active :!;?

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Olivier wrote: Hi, Seems like the following crashes conTeXt: see patch below Strangely enough, the bug doesn't seem to occur in \placeformula[eq:A] references get their labels cleaned up Many thanks for hinting a fix, \unprotect \def\dopreventmode[#1]% {\protect

Re: [NTG-context] footnote twiks

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Ciro Soto wrote: Hello, I need two more twiks for my footnotes: I am using asterisk instead of numbers or letter for the footnotes. Twik 1: My font is too slanted and the asterisk (*) is printed too close to the last word in the sentence. Example: Charles IV \footnote[]{asdfasdf} will print

Re: [NTG-context] How to customize the default verbatim colors

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Taco Hoekwater wrote: %% allows XML tag names to continue after colons (namespaces) \input verb-xml % TRICK \appended\gdef\XMLsetspecials{\setpretty`\:=10 } thanks, patched Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Issues: framedtext and tables inside itemized list

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Mojca Miklavec wrote: However, in ConTeXt the linewidth is reserved for rule thickness or something similar. Which is the ConTeXt alternative to LaTeX's \linewidth? \setlocalhsize \the\localhsize Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Palatino truetype: help!

2005-08-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
VnPenguin wrote: But unfortunatly my PDF has always CMR12 font, no Palatino at all :( I'm completly newbie with typescript font in ConTeXt. Same result here, and I don't understand why (however, I not very familiar with typescripts myself). Taco

Re: [NTG-context] Upgrading ConTeXt and testing

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Idris (and all), Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: When a new ConTeXt is released, Taco or someone else could then document which bugs are fixed, features added, and, most importantly, what features are changed or broken. Whenever someone reports a problem, the release

Re: [NTG-context] New context version

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Rob Ermers wrote: Hi everybody, Taco solved the problem in a private exchange of emails this evening by suggesting, based on the log file I sent him, that the ushyphmax file in my system could be in the wrong format. It was wrong indeed. where did you get that faulty file from? Hans

Re: [NTG-context] bug with active :!;?

2005-08-29 Thread BILLET Olivier
Quoting Hans Hagen Outside : -- was [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Aug 29, 2005 at 06:50:51PM -- With the next pdftex we will not need this active mess any more since pre-char spacing will be supported natively; by that time we need to adapt the ffr files This is a good news indeed. By the way,

Re: [NTG-context] New context version

2005-08-29 Thread r . ermers
It just happened to be in my Miktex system. It was wrong in the sense that it was outdated, but may be still working for Latex. My earlier version of Context worked normally with it. The new version almost did. This is one of the reasons I tend to postpone updates. Robert Rob Ermers wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] footnote twiks

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: Just a question: why use 'italic correction' only for it/bi/sl/bs and not in every time (where is usually = 0pt but not necesserily)? It is part of font design. We are affraid of bad-designed fonts? i remember situations where i got an italic correction in spite fo the font

Re: [NTG-context] New contexts version

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: And that's the problem. You now have two cont-en format files on your disk, and the new one is ignored. (probably because texexec has put it in a location that is not searched or searched later than the old format). just remove all cont-fmt files on your system and

Re: [NTG-context] Issues: framedtext and tables inside itemized list

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Yes, I think so. Something like \localtextwidth maybe. there is already \setlocalhsize and \localhsize Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA

Re: [NTG-context] bug with active :!;?

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen
BILLET Olivier wrote: This is a good news indeed. By the way, does this include the possibility to treat the character in different ways depending on the current mode (math/text)? Because, in the current setting, if you request for 3cm before `:' and then define a mathematical function $f :

Re: [NTG-context] Issues: framedtext and tables inside itemized list

2005-08-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Yes, I think so. Something like \localtextwidth maybe. there is already \setlocalhsize and \localhsize I actually knew (or rather: should have remembered) that. :-/ Taco

Re: [NTG-context] Upgrading ConTeXt and testing

2005-08-29 Thread Brooks Moses
At 06:04 AM 8/29/2005, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: * A read-only CVS containing as many of the old ConTeXt releases as we can find, for reference and regression checks. subversion -) i'll set that up as soon as possible and taco can mirror that (interesting

[NTG-context] Problem with \startcombination

2005-08-29 Thread John R. Culleton
Here is a code fragment: \section{Gallery} \useexternalfigure[B008][B008.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B009][B009.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B010][B010.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B013][B013.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[picnic.jpg] \placefigure{}

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \startcombination

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen
John R. Culleton wrote: Here is a code fragment: \section{Gallery} \useexternalfigure[B008][B008.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B009][B009.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B010][B010.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B013][B013.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[picnic.jpg]

Re: [NTG-context] Palatino truetype: help!

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
VnPenguin wrote: \usetypescriptfile[type-pala] \usetypescript[MSPalatino] \usetypescript[MSPalatino][t5] or \usetypescript[MSPalatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[MyPalatino,12pt] -

Re: [NTG-context] Suitable mechanism for Theorems and Definitions

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi David, Not sure if you are still interested, but here is my optional title hack, revamped for a modern context distro. It creates a second extra optional argument for the enumeration, nothing too fancy. The example also shows a way in which you can access the number.

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \startcombination

2005-08-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
John R. Culleton wrote: Here is a code fragment: \section{Gallery} \useexternalfigure[B008][B008.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B009][B009.jpg][scale=2000] ... \placefigure{}{ \startcombination[2] {\externalfigure[B008]}{} {\externalfigure[B009]}{} \stopcombination } Just a pair of

Re: [NTG-context] headers in PDF document

2005-08-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: VnPenguin wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: How can I add Author/Title/Creator/Keywords/... to PDF documents, possibly with non-ascii characters? Try: \setupinteraction [state=start, title={...}, author={...}, keyword={...}]

Re: [NTG-context] headers in PDF document

2005-08-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hans Hagen wrote: \PDFunicodetrue How is it used?. \enableregime[utf] \PDFunicodetrue \setupinteraction [state=start, title={Košček Železa}] \starttext x \stoptext doesn't help, it still results in Koscek Zeleza. Mojca ___ ntg-context

[NTG-context] Antykwa math support \Longrightarrow

2005-08-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, a slightly strange question. I re-compiled a pretty old ConTeXt document a couple of days ago. In the old good times it was typeset with \setupbodyfont[ant,18pt] and an equation with $a\Longrightarrow b$. Apparently math support was added inbetween. I'm not asking for any backward

Re: [NTG-context] Palatino truetype: help!

2005-08-29 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater said this at Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:42:04 +0200: Same result here, and I don't understand why (however, I not very familiar with typescripts myself). Hmm. What's the pdftex output at the font-inclusion stage? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T.

Re: [NTG-context] Upgrading ConTeXt and testing

2005-08-29 Thread jjgod
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Lately, we get a lot of bug reports for miktex, which is problematic since none of us use miktex: I believe Hans has a fptex-ish system, and most other 'core' people are either linux or macintosh based. The problem is, currently MikTeX (2.4) does not have a SDK, the