Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

> So, I've been contemplating whether I should move "up" the > abstraction ladder to ConTeXt or "down" to plain TeX and really > learn to build the world from boxes and glue. :-) I wrote my dissertation using plain TeX plus eplain, and spent several days learning about insertions so that I could f

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: font sizes

On 12/28/06, Elliot Clifton wrote: > Hello, > > I've read the fonts manual, but I don't understand how to change > sizes. How can I change the sizes referred to by the sizes selectors > \tfx etc... I'm not sure if this is the proper way, but take a look into font-map.tex (I just figured out that t

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

On 12/29/06, Douglas Philips wrote: > On 2006 Dec 28, at 5:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan indited: > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: > >> cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). > > > > That is the most up to date manual and should get you started for most > > of

Re: [NTG-context] PSTricks

> Isn't there --nobackends (or something similar) which will then not > run any dvips (or dvipdfm)? It's --nobackend Here's the revised (ruby) texexec man page (as PDF) -- see p.3. It's in the Debian packages and will go into the 2006 TeXLive. -Sanjoy `Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.

Re: [NTG-context] Why Is It So

On 12/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gday > > I know there must be a fundamental answer, but I cannot fathom why > everything is shifted left on the page. > hmm, I don't see anything wrong;this is the standard setup. You can play with 5 \setuppapersize[A4][A3]

Re: [NTG-context] Font for enumeration

On 29. des. 2006, at 3:44, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: >> On 29. des. 2006, at 10:39, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> >> >>> Untested, but should work: >>> >>> \def\varosfnumbers#1{{\Var[osf] #1}} >>> >>> \defineconversion[varosf][\varosfnumbers] >>> >>> \startitemize[va

[NTG-context] Why Is It So

Gday I know there must be a fundamental answer, but I cannot fathom why everything is shifted left on the page. TIA Geoff Moyle Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse? onpaget.tex Description: TeX document onpaget.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document __

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

On 2006-12-29, at 13:09.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Which version of TeX/ConTeXt are you using? (Perhaps Hans has changed > something in the meantime, to make that work again.) Are you using > Gerben's i-Installer? In that case and if you have a chance, can you > please test the new TeXLive-based di

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

> Well, maybe I'm missing something. But if you need to use ConTeXt on a mac you can use Gerben's distro, which also set up a crontab for you, and when you update it simply does all the boring stuff for you (I hate TeX tree structure ...) http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html Best -a- >

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

On 12/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2006-12-29, at 13:09.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Which version of TeX/ConTeXt are you using? (Perhaps Hans has changed > > something in the meantime, to make that work again.) Are you using > > Gerben's i-Installer? In that case and if you have a chance,

Re: [NTG-context] Font for enumeration

Hi Rolf, Here I tested two situations and they work, though with a small adaptation: I bought once the Lino-Type Palatino, which includes also oldstyle figures in one of the fonts. This font-collection works correctly also with Taco's definition \def\varosfnumbers#1{{\Var[osf] #1}} On the oth

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

On 2006-12-29, at 15:59.0, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > This is the perl version of texexec I do everything from TeXShop () and BBEdit so I have no idea where anything TeX-y is... I spent half an hour finding out how to 'enable write 18'... ;-) Poking around

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Well, the ConTeXt manual is one of the most stable components of > ConTeXt indeed ;) ;-) should be wikified ... >> (IIRC, Hans is also a core team member of LuaTeX, so perhaps I should >> just suck it up with LaTeX until LuaTeX is viable?) > > No reason for, as Aditya al

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: font sizes (Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky)

Hello Elliot, I'm a newbie too but I change font sizes as follows. {\tfa Big text} {\tfa\bf Big and bold} ... Font size selectors from the smallest to the biggest are \tfxx \tfx \tfa \tfb \tfc \tfd You told about a manual, but there are a lot of manuals around. -- With best regards Vyatches

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

On 2006 Dec 28, at 5:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan indited: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: >> cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). > > That is the most up to date manual and should get you started for most > of the basic features. The features that are not in

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

On 2006 Dec 28, at 7:43 PM, Mojca Miklavec indited: > Well, the ConTeXt manual is one of the most stable components of > ConTeXt indeed ;) :-) > But consider it from the bright side: > yes, it's still fully usable (after two years of using ConTeXt it's > still hard to do anything without using it

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2006-12-29, at 13:09.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > Which version of TeX/ConTeXt are you using? (Perhaps Hans has changed > > something in the meantime, to make that work again.) Are you using > > Gerben's i-Installer? In that case and if you have a

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 12/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OK, I think vim works OK here, so this is what I tried: > > > > ... > > \setupcolors[state=start] > > > > \usemodule[vimsyntax] > > > > \definetypeVIMfile [typeRUBY] [syntax=ruby] > > > > \typeRUBY[typeRUBY]{fib

Re: [NTG-context] Font for enumeration

Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: > On 29. des. 2006, at 10:39, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > >>Untested, but should work: >> >> \def\varosfnumbers#1{{\Var[osf] #1}} >> >> \defineconversion[varosf][\varosfnumbers] >> >> \startitemize[varosf] >> \item this >> \item that >> \item the other >>

Re: [NTG-context] Font for enumeration

On 29. des. 2006, at 10:39, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Untested, but should work: > >\def\varosfnumbers#1{{\Var[osf] #1}} > >\defineconversion[varosf][\varosfnumbers] > >\startitemize[varosf] >\item this >\item that >\item the other >\stopitemize alas, no: --

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

On 12/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I think vim works OK here, so this is what I tried: > > ... > \setupcolors[state=start] > > \usemodule[vimsyntax] > > \definetypeVIMfile [typeRUBY] [syntax=ruby] > > \typeRUBY[typeRUBY]{fibo.rb} > > \defineVIMtyping[RUBY][syntax=ruby] > > \startRUBY > # T

Re: [NTG-context] Font for enumeration

Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote: > consider the following setup: > > \startitemize[m] > \item this > \item that > \item the other > \stopitemize > > this should give enumeration using oldstyle numbers. now, I have > created my own typescript file that sets everything to Sabon, except > the ol

Re: [NTG-context] Elevated text blocks

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:34:03 +0100 Gerhard Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Gerhard, > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:58:02PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > > you can keep text togehther by putting them into a vbox and it will > > move to the next page if it will not fit on the current pag

Re: [NTG-context] Making a verbatim file for another language

OK, I think vim works OK here, so this is what I tried: ... \setupcolors[state=start] \usemodule[vimsyntax] \definetypeVIMfile [typeRUBY] [syntax=ruby] \typeRUBY[typeRUBY]{fibo.rb} \defineVIMtyping[RUBY][syntax=ruby] \startRUBY # This is a ruby program puts "Hello World" \stopRUBY ... Error