[NTG-context] Story of a newbie looking for a table

2005-12-16 Thread Jérôme Laurens
Hi (bis) I'd like to share my newbie experience about tables. With iPages, the ''fabulous, marvelous, amazing, simple word processor from apple, It took me more or less half an hour to design and fill a table, with fixed width colored cells and so on. Unfortunately, once I saved the document,

[NTG-context] Small capitals for the name in m-bib

2005-12-16 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi all, Taco, surely you're the one able to answer... I want to have last names (and "von") of the authors in small capitals in my bibliography. Since, I'm not m-bib expert, how to manage the point properly ? Taco, I'm translating a bibli-num-fr.tex and bibl-apa-fr.tex, do you want them

Re: [NTG-context] Story of a newbie looking for a table

2005-12-16 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Hello, what you can do is: get a local copy of all manuals and then there is a small program available called docsearcher (is written in java, so it should run on all platforms) http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/ I don't use it on the manuals, because after some time you know

[NTG-context] Re: Story of a newbie looking for a table

2005-12-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] It appears that neither texshow nor garden did help me. That is clearly against the intention of both. I understood that the Google search on context garden wiki was limited to context garden... I then found that some information I was missing about tables was on the context

[NTG-context] Re: Context and Reftex

2005-12-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Is there a management system for references in Context that is similar to Reftex? Not in the emacs world. OK. In another world? There is no other world... No, seriously: not that I know of. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Story of a newbie looking for a table

2005-12-16 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
So, is it possible to have the Google search engine at context garden also look into the manuals? Not that I know of. If somebody could give me a hint (google-link), I can put these in. Until there is a combined search on contextgarden, you can go to

[NTG-context] Re: Story of a newbie looking for a table

2005-12-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Wolfgang, I don't know that much about web-server administration, but I think it should somehow possible to incluce lucene into apache and to use it for indexing pdf files. http://lucene.apache.org/ The manuals *are* indexed. Perhaps I need to emphasize that more. Just try the search

Re: [NTG-context] Small capitals for the name in m-bib

2005-12-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I'm not Taco, but this should work (it works for me):authors' names are set up by commands like \invertedautor (bibtex manual p. 3-4). You can write your own version of that. If you want the last name first, in small caps, like this "AUBIN, Renaud," you can use this

[NTG-context] \starttyping

2005-12-16 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Hello, I wan't to typset some programming code \starttyping code \stoptyping works perfect. But is there a way to use directly the input of a file? When I use \starttyping \input file.m \stoptyping I get the line \input file.m displayed. I think there is an easy way to get this problem

Re: [NTG-context] \starttyping

2005-12-16 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, Wolfgang Zillig wrote: I wan't to typset some programming code \starttyping code \stoptyping works perfect. But is there a way to use directly the input of a file? \typefile ? Tobias ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] \starttyping

2005-12-16 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hello, Wolfgang Zillig wrote: I wan't to typset some programming code \starttyping code \stoptyping works perfect. But is there a way to use directly the input of a file? \typefile ? Tobias ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] \starttyping

2005-12-16 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Sometimes the solution is too simple! I don't know why I did'nt find that solution imediately! Thanks Wolfgang Zitat von Tobias Burnus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Wolfgang Zillig wrote: I wan't to typset some programming code \starttyping code \stoptyping works perfect. But is there a

Re: [NTG-context] Small capitals for the name in m-bib

2005-12-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi all, Taco, surely you're the one able to answer... I want to have last names (and von) of the authors in small capitals in my bibliography. Since, I'm not m-bib expert, how to manage the point properly ? Thanks, Thomas (for answering, you were spot on). Taco, I'm

[NTG-context] New bibliography beta

2005-12-16 Thread David Wooten
Greetings all, esp. Taco, I'm finally working with the new bib module, it works quite well. I've found one curiosity: I have a /defineparagraphs (semi?)-kludge in a modified bibl- file to take care of some wonky (but beautiful) layout demands. It worked perfectly in the last version:

Re: [NTG-context] About \defineshortcut

2005-12-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Radhelorn wrote: Hello All! There is intresting macros in cont-new -- shortcuts. It works pretty well, but I have one question: how to undefine them back? For example after command: \defineshortcut [//] [] [style=\em] I can get slash only by \textslash (which is expected) and it breaks

Re: [NTG-context] New bibliography beta

2005-12-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Wooten wrote: Greetings all, esp. Taco, I'm finally working with the new bib module, it works quite well. I've found one curiosity: I have a /defineparagraphs (semi?)-kludge in a modified bibl- file to take care of some wonky (but beautiful) layout demands. It worked perfectly in

Re: [NTG-context] What about dynamic documentation?

2005-12-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Jérôme, However, this seems rather far from the pdf manuals and does not really help a newbie as I am. Definately it could be improved. In IT, almost everything is suboptimal starting the second after it's birth. Perhaps we should continue this discussion on the developers list, [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] Small capitals for the name in m-bib

2005-12-16 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi Thomas, Thank you, it work for me. Eventually, I use : \def\mynormalauthor#1#2#3#4#5% {\bibdoif{#1}{#1\bibalternative{firstnamesep}}% \bibdoif{#2}{#2\bibalternative{vonsep}}% \bgroup\sc#3\egroup\bibalternative{surnamesep}\unskip \bibdoif{#5}{#5\unskip}} Thomas A. Schmitz a crit: I'm

Re: [NTG-context] interesting font

2005-12-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Yes, sometimes life can be as simple as that: the latest version of lcdf-tools can handle the fonts without a problem. [Aside: according to Gerben's installer, this version is version 2.36, dated 2005/12/29, this is very advanced AFAICT.] Thanks, Adam, I feel a bit stupid now. I like the

[NTG-context] OpenType fonts

2005-12-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi all, OpenType fonts are all the rage today. Are there any critiqes of the format, or discussions of its limitations? How many typesetting applications can actually take full advantage of opentype fonts? What are the chances that OpenType (at least some of its advanced features) will

[NTG-context] Re: interesting font

2005-12-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] I like the font. Maybe we should have a repository somewhere on Contextgarden where to put zips of metrics + map + encodings + typescripts: Patrick? It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this

[NTG-context] Re: What about dynamic documentation?

2005-12-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Taco and Jérôme, However, this seems rather far from the pdf manuals and does not really help a newbie as I am. Definately it could be improved. In IT, almost everything is suboptimal starting the second after it's birth. And it was the starting point of contextgarden (and my first

Re: [NTG-context] Re: interesting font

2005-12-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 16, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote: It would be easiest for me to put them on dl.contextgarden.net and in some subdir. But I guess you wouldn't be too statisfied with this solution, would you? No, that's exactly what I had in mind. I just think some central place for this