Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey -- Community

2005-11-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
andrea valle wrote: Just a curiosity. Can anyone estimate how many people are using ConTeXt? My guess would be somewhere from 100 to 200 active true users (people that are runing texexec themselves). I expect there to be about the same number of people that have used ConTeXt in the past but

[NTG-context] Re: Creatin metafun.mem on OSX

2005-11-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
andrea valle wrote: I think I found the mem file. In fact, I created a .mem file and when I substitute the old with the new one, nothing get printed out anymore. Do you mean this in a good or a bad way? I'm getting really lost with all this unix-filename always repeating in different

[NTG-context] [Fwd: [Fwd: MetaPost to SVG Converter]]

2005-11-08 Thread Tobias Burnus
Original Message Original-Nachricht Betreff: MetaPost to SVG Converter Datum: 7 Nov 2005 22:00:00 -0800 Von: tlhiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organisation: http://groups.google.com Newsgruppen: comp.text.tex For all that are interested, I've setup a page which

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Creatin metafun.mem on OSX

2005-11-08 Thread andrea valle
Bad way. I substituted all the m-spec.mp I was able to find (2).I runned a texexec, obtained a new metafun.mem, and substituted the old one. Something changed, in the sense that I have no output at all: a blank page. -a- On 8 Nov 2005, at 09:34, Taco Hoekwater wrote: andrea valle wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Creatin metafun.mem on OSX

2005-11-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
andrea valle wrote: Bad way. I substituted all the m-spec.mp I was able to find (2).I runned a texexec, obtained a new metafun.mem, and substituted the old one. Something changed, in the sense that I have no output at all: a blank page. That would/should have worked, as far as i can tell. I

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Bug / feature request tracking

2005-11-08 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, November 7, 2005 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: 4. and a feature request: it would be good to have some formatting options like LaTeX makeidx offers: \index{keyword|textit} will produce a page-number in italics in the register. That would be immensely useful to produce a structured

Re: [NTG-context] maximum of \externalfigure in MP

2005-11-08 Thread andrea valle
(Taco, thanks for all the infos. Now, just trying to understand). Why the bug manifest itself in this particular tex file? I mean: I have made other pieces, both with far less either with far more included pdfs and everything was ok. What's special in the bug-raiser tex we discussed about?

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Creatin metafun.mem on OSX

2005-11-08 Thread Gerben Wierda
Andrea, what kind of installation are you using? Gerben's i-installer or fink or have you installed tetex on your own? If you want to find out where different files reside, run this command: kpsewhere mp-spec.mp on my system (Gerben's architecture), I get:

Re: [NTG-context] maximum of \externalfigure in MP

2005-11-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
andrea valle wrote: (Taco, thanks for all the infos. Now, just trying to understand). Why the bug manifest itself in this particular tex file? I mean: I have made other pieces, both with far less either with far more included pdfs and everything was ok. What's special in the bug-raiser tex

Re: [NTG-context] conTeXt distros on MACOSX

2005-11-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
andrea valle said this at Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:59:03 +0100: If I invoke texexec from terminal, default is located in sw/bin. It's 3.1 version: Danger! Danger! (Sorry, that's a bit cruel and extreme.) However, it seems that you, once upon a time, installed the Fink package system, and tried to

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey -- Community

2005-11-08 Thread Hans Hagen
andrea valle wrote: Just a curiosity. Can anyone estimate how many people are using ConTeXt? hard to say - the list currently has some 435 members of which some are dormant - people come and go but the list is still growing - i know of people using context and not on the list (personal

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: around, but if you just want a job done, ConTeXt can be a bit daunting. The wiki is just beginning to take off, and when Hans and/or Taco are away or are too busy to answer questions on the list, it becomes a bit discouraging because there are so many questions

Re: Re[2]: [NTG-context] Bug / feature request tracking

2005-11-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Giuseppe, Vit, I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing this out -- I'm ashamed I didn't look past p. 213 of the manual. And of course this is much more flexible than the LaTeX way - how could I ever doubt it? I will correct the entry in the bug collector and apologize for the noise.

Re: [NTG-context] xml, context and hyphenation

2005-11-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Wolfgang Zillig wrote: Hello Taco, when I try to compile your example file: Then I get no output! The logfile is at the end of the message! That was intentional. \showhyphens only writes a message to the terminal, no typesetting was doen. It complains about that

Re: [NTG-context] maximum of \externalfigure in MP

2005-11-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: andrea valle wrote: It's the same file but I commented out a part of the section dedicated to importing and drawing little notes attached to arrowlines between music fragments. Everything not commented is now displayed: on my machine it seems to be deterministic.

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-08 Thread Vit Zyka
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question: What do you do with ConTeXT? - proceedings from individual PDFs, - presentations, - posters, - logos, visiting cards,

RE: [NTG-context] placing headings (solution on wiki)

2005-11-08 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi gang, Ok, I figured out a solution and have posted it here (bottom of page): http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Headers_and_Footers I have never edited the wiki before so I hope the maintainer will check to make sure I did not do something wrong-) If there is a way to improve my solution please

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-08 Thread Lutz Haseloff
Taco Hoekwater schrieb: Hi all, For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question: What do you do with ConTeXT? We think it would be nice to see all the various ways in which people