Re: [NTG-context] does metafun require texexec --final?

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Oh, that's not a good idea, because the next context update will overwrite cont-sys.rme. So I should copy cont-sys.rme to cont-sys.tex first, then uncomment the lines in cont-sys.tex. But then a context update will overwrite cont-sys.rme, and the

Re: [NTG-context] calculations

2006-09-26 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: I think I tried everything but didn't get it to work. For the moment I use: \def\LPscale{0.6315789} % downscale the image \def\LPkscale{632} % doesn't work: \def\LPkscale{\numexpr1000\LPscale\relax} Missed this thread so far, but how about this?

Re: [NTG-context] Very strange bug related to textbackground

2006-09-26 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Duncan Hothersall wrote: I have been fighting with this one for ages, and have now narrowed down the culprit, but I do not understand why it happens. Latest (non-beta) ConTeXt, also tested in the live garden (same result): and the beta? Just downloaded and tried beta 'ver 2006.09.25

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: With the new beta, this stress test for \sometxt works fine: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startstaticMPfigure{fig} label(\sometxt{he\color[blue]{ab}lo}, origin) withcolor red; draw fullcircle scaled 1cm

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Ah, you're right and I just realized what happened. 'ctxtools --updatecontext' calls unzip with -uo: -u update existing files and create new ones if needed. This option performs the same function as the -f option, extracting (with

[NTG-context] split natural table over columns

2006-09-26 Thread Johan Sandblom
Is it possible to make a natural table split over columns or columnsets? For instance below I would like three cells in each column \starttext \startcolumns{3} \placetable{}{ \bTABLE[split=repeat] \dorecurse{9}{\bTR\bTD ha \eTD\eTR} \eTABLE} \stopcolumns \stoptext -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC,

Re: [NTG-context] Very strange bug related to textbackground

2006-09-26 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Just downloaded and tried beta 'ver 2006.09.25 23:38 MK II' - same result I'm afraid. then i need a better test file + explanation (or maybe i have some local patch) Hans You are not seeing the effect? I have put some files up on the web, generated with the latest beta. The (bad)

Re: [NTG-context] Very strange bug related to textbackground

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: Duncan Hothersall wrote: I have been fighting with this one for ages, and have now narrowed down the culprit, but I do not understand why it happens. Latest (non-beta) ConTeXt, also tested in the live garden (same result): and the beta? Just

Re: [NTG-context] does metafun require texexec --final?

2006-09-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
sure, that's an option, but up to the user (maybe wikify this suggestion) Patrick: Not sure if it's a firefox-only problem or one that the contextgarden wiki can help with by sending more detailed mime types, but... If I try to edit the top level of a page by clicking the edit tab at the top,

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
\starttext \startMPinclusions input boxes \stopMPinclusions \startstaticMPfigure{fig} boxit.h(btex h etex); drawboxed(h); \stopstaticMPfigure \usestaticMPfigure[fig] xyz \stoptext hm, i'll add the inclusions (here it fails anyway doe to some

[NTG-context] texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

2006-09-26 Thread Ralf Schmitt
Hi all, the ruby version of texexec is missing some command line switches I have been using. I'm missing --result (however, I could live without that) and especially --mode and --passon. Are there any workarounds? Also, texexec doesn't complain when given a command line switch, which it doesn't

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
you can test the beta - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com

Re: [NTG-context] texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Ralf Schmitt wrote: Hi all, the ruby version of texexec is missing some command line switches I have been using. I'm missing --result (however, I could live without that) and especially --mode and --passon. Are there any workarounds? hm, mode and result should work (TeXExec | version

Re: [NTG-context] texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

2006-09-26 Thread Ralf Schmitt
Ralf Schmitt wrote: Hi all, the ruby version of texexec is missing some command line switches I have been using. I'm missing --result (however, I could live without that) and especially --mode and --passon. Are there any workarounds? Apparently I'm a bit mistaken: --mode is working.

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Is it important to have -u? dunno, probably only for speed reasons, so maybe we should use just -o I agree. Correctness over speed, I think. -u makes testing reports less reliable and can cause subtle bugs when all the files don't share the same version (I noticed it soon in this case only

Re: [NTG-context] does metafun require texexec --final?

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Oh, that's not a good idea, because the next context update will overwrite cont-sys.rme. So I should copy cont-sys.rme to cont-sys.tex first, then uncomment the lines in cont-sys.tex. But then a context update will overwrite cont-sys.rme,

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
you can test the beta This gives the clearboxes error: === box.tex === \startMPinclusions input boxes \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startstaticMPfigure{fig} boxit.h(btex h etex); drawboxed(h); \stopstaticMPfigure \usestaticMPfigure[fig] \stoptext

[NTG-context] eqnalign

2006-09-26 Thread Adam Duck
Hello list, Is it possible to break eqalign across pages? If not, is there any other possibility to have math formulas aligned and broken across pages? cu, Adam. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Hans Hagen wrote: test case: \setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=red] \starttext red \color[green]{green \startMPcode label(\sometxt{green\color[blue]{blue}green}, origin) withcolor red; draw fullcircle scaled 1cm xscaled 2;

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: test case: \setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=red] \starttext red \color[green]{green \startMPcode label(\sometxt{green\color[blue]{blue}green}, origin) withcolor red; draw fullcircle

Re: [NTG-context] split natural table over columns

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Johan Sandblom wrote: Is it possible to make a natural table split over columns or columnsets? For instance below I would like three cells in each column \starttext \startcolumns{3} \placetable{}{ \bTABLE[split=repeat] \dorecurse{9}{\bTR\bTD ha \eTD\eTR} \eTABLE} \stopcolumns \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Ralf Schmitt wrote: Ralf Schmitt wrote: Hi all, the ruby version of texexec is missing some command line switches I have been using. I'm missing --result (however, I could live without that) and especially --mode and --passon. Are there any workarounds? Apparently I'm a bit

Re: [NTG-context] calculations

2006-09-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-26 um 08:53 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: I think I tried everything but didn't get it to work. For the moment I use: \def\LPscale{0.6315789} % downscale the image \def\LPkscale{632} % doesn't work: \def\LPkscale{\numexpr1000\LPscale\relax} Missed this thread so far, but how about

Re: [NTG-context] split natural table over columns

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Johan, Johan Sandblom wrote: Is it possible to make a natural table split over columns or columnsets? see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview what is possible and what is not. Currently only *linetable* is supporting horizontal splitting. The syntax looks similar to TABLE, but I

Re: [NTG-context] texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen wrote: Ralf Schmitt wrote: Ralf Schmitt wrote: Hi all, the ruby version of texexec is missing some command line switches I have been using. I'm missing --result (however, I could live without that) and especially --mode and --passon. Are there any workarounds?

[NTG-context] mp to pdf inline conversion adds whitespace (2006.09.26 beta)

2006-09-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I'm using the 2006.09.26 beta, and noticed an extra gap before some external metapost figures. Here is a small test: test.mp = beginfig(1) draw fullcircle scaled (0.75in) xscaled 1.5; endfig; end

[NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-09-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Yeah, I finally got it working with recent versions of LilyPond! (The most important change was from linewidth to line-width, and I overlooked that far too long...) The module still has lots of issues (e.g. paths for external command like lilypond are hardcoded), but it does what I want it

Re: [NTG-context] split natural table over columns

2006-09-26 Thread Johan Sandblom
Hi But I don't understand why you want to split a table over columns. You can reach this effect by using offsets (or empty columns if you use backgrounds or frames), beside from the (in my eyes) strange look. And how will you guarantee that a complete table line is horizontally aligned

Re: [NTG-context] mp to pdf inline conversion adds whitespace (2006.09.26 beta)

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: I'm using the 2006.09.26 beta, and noticed an extra gap before some external metapost figures. Here is a small test: test.mp = beginfig(1) draw fullcircle scaled (0.75in) xscaled 1.5; endfig; end

Re: [NTG-context] mp to pdf inline conversion adds whitespace (2006.09.26 beta)

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: If test.mp draws a square or rectangle instead of an ellipse, then there's no difference (both versions of test.tex work). looks like a bbox error Hans - Hans

Re: [NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-09-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-26 um 20:34 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Yeah, I finally got it working with recent versions of LilyPond! No, it doesn't. :-( And it's strange: the external command for lilypond gets called, but not that for epstopdf: % I tried different methods to convert the LilyPond EPS to PDF:

Re: [NTG-context] calculations

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Hraban, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2006-09-26 um 08:53 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: I think I tried everything but didn't get it to work. For the moment I use: \def\LPscale{0.6315789} % downscale the image \def\LPkscale{632} % doesn't work: \def\LPkscale{\numexpr1000\LPscale\relax}

Re: [NTG-context] calculations

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Rolf wrote: I like 'Tex by Topic' alot. Don't know if that fits your needs. http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060901.140544.1fe86b32.en.html that ons is ok (apart from a buggy index) and i use that most of the time it also helps to have the tex book around the advanced

Re: [NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: % I tried different methods to convert the LilyPond EPS to PDF: \def\LP{/usr/local/bin/lilypond -b eps -f eps -dno-gs-load-fonts - dinclude-eps-fonts } %\def\TU{/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil } \def\TU{perl

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: you can test the beta This gives the clearboxes error: === box.tex === \startMPinclusions input boxes \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startstaticMPfigure{fig} boxit.h(btex h etex); drawboxed(h); \stopstaticMPfigure

Re: [NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-09-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-09-26 um 22:23 schrieb Hans Hagen: use texmfstart! texmfstart whateverscript whateverargs will free you from adding the path lilypond -b eps -f eps -dno-gs-load-fonts -dinclude-eps-fonts or texmfstart bin:lilypond conversion to pdf: texmfstart pdftops somefile.eps if may be

Re: [NTG-context] split natural table over columns

2006-09-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Johan, Johan Sandblom wrote: Hi But I don't understand why you want to split a table over columns. You can reach this effect by using offsets (or empty columns if you use backgrounds or frames), beside from the (in my eyes) strange look. And how will you guarantee that a complete table

Re: [NTG-context] LilyPond module for LilyPond 2.9.x

2006-09-26 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Hraban! This is great! Recently I was trying Lilypond again and thought, that this music-typesetting environment should be used within ConTeXt. - Your module worked, after adapting the three path-defs under Windows! Thanks Hraban and Chritopher! Willi Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Yeah, I

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: indeed, another option is to replace more of mp's color stuff by context but then we may end up in other problems I'm guessing that pdftex+lua will make it easier to meld tex and metapost. -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of

Re: [NTG-context] \sometxt in staticMPfigure

2006-09-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Hans Hagen wrote: the problem (if you look into the mp file) is that there is *no* beginfig; this is because we now use a more stupid (stripped down) variant of saving the graphic. Right, I looked into the mp file and saw the new plan. \startstaticMPfigure{fig} beginfig(1);

Re: [NTG-context] texexec command line switches missing in ruby version

2006-09-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Ralf Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently I'm a bit mistaken: --mode is working. --result is not. None is listed in texexec --help. I haven't noticed problems with those. But could you post a short test file and the full command line that you use? Then I can test it here (running

Re: [NTG-context] mp to pdf inline conversion adds whitespace (2006.09.26 beta)

2006-09-26 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If test.mp draws a square or rectangle instead of an ellipse, then there's no difference (both versions of test.tex work). looks like a bbox error I didn't think so, because after mptopdf got hold of the figure, the whitespace around the figure was right

Re: [NTG-context] chinese characters in an itemize environment

2006-09-26 Thread Lutz Haseloff
Peter Rolf schrieb: Lutz Haseloff wrote: Peter Rolf schrieb: just guessing (but worth a try): \setupitemgroups[inbetween=any fixed dimen] The default is .5ex, which depends on the current font (see end of core-itm.tex). HTH, Peter \setupitemgroups[inbetween=2cm] doesn't work.