[NTG-context] How to use columns inside another column?

2007-01-14 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi everybody I used --- \definecolumnset[example][n=2] \definecolumnset[innerexample][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\par} \startcolumnset[innerexample] \input knuth\par \stopcolumnset \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\par} \stopco

[NTG-context] Another question about oldstyle numbers

2007-01-14 Thread Helin Gai
Hi, This is a question I posted before, which hasn't been resolved yet... When I use \setuphead[section][numberstyle=os], the dot in the section number becomes a triangle... One fix is to say [numberstyle=sc], but is an alternative available? Thanks! Sincerely, Helin -- Helin (Colin) Gai Class

Re: [NTG-context] Dynamic Elements on Layer

2007-01-14 Thread Helin Gai
Thanks Hans. This works beautifully! Helin On 1/14/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Helin Gai wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm still trying to place my running heads into the margin, 5 cm away > > from the top. My new attempt is to use layer: > > > > \definelayer[colin][width=\paperwidth,hei

Re: [NTG-context] Columns page-break problem

2007-01-14 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Probably worth sending a complete minimal example, and then someone who knows about columns might be able to help. I don't know anything about them, but I tried the example below using the latest context. The last page (page 22) looks a bit strange: two lines in one column, one line in the thir

Re: [NTG-context] Columns page-break problem

2007-01-14 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> What's wrong? Was something changed? Haven't I installed the ConTeXt > properly? I don't think you have. See my response in the "texexec ruby problem" thread. -Sanjoy `Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien) ___ ntg-context mailing lis

Re: [NTG-context] \to in footer?

2007-01-14 Thread andrea valle
> i hav eplans > (some day) It's evident you're busy, Hans :) (Thanks to all) -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing l

Re: [NTG-context] texexec ruby problem

2007-01-14 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> I've just installed new ConTeXt (ver: 2006.08.08 21:51) under SuSE 10.1 How did you install it? What was there before? It sounds like the new one isn't visible, since it's date is 2007.01.12 15:56 (or maybe later). Is 2006.08.08 the version that came with SuSE? What does kpsewhich cont-ne

Re: [NTG-context] Columns page-break problem

2007-01-14 Thread Michal Kvasnicka
BTW, I've replaced my ConTeXt with the newest one (ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII), and the outcome is the same. M.K. Michal Kvasnicka napsal(a): > Good morning. > > I've just installed new ConTeXt (ver. 2006.08.08 21:51), and use perl > TeXExec (ver. 5.4.3). Now my old macros using the colu

[NTG-context] Columns page-break problem

2007-01-14 Thread Michal Kvasnicka
Good morning. I've just installed new ConTeXt (ver. 2006.08.08 21:51), and use perl TeXExec (ver. 5.4.3). Now my old macros using the columns environment have stopped working properly. Even when I type (n being a number) \startcolumns \dorcurse{n}{\input tufte} \stopcolumns a the

[NTG-context] texexec ruby problem

2007-01-14 Thread Michal Kvasnicka
Good morning. I've just installed new ConTeXt (ver: 2006.08.08 21:51) under SuSE 10.1 Linux. I tried to make ruby version of texexec working, but I failed. When I try to run it, I get this error message: /usr/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:10:in `require': no such file to load -- bas

Re: [NTG-context] Dynamic Elements on Layer

2007-01-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Helin Gai wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still trying to place my running heads into the margin, 5 cm away > from the top. My new attempt is to use layer: > > \definelayer[colin][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight,x=0mm,y=0mm] > \setlayer[colin][x=5cm,y=3cm]{\framed{\getmarking[chapter][current]}} > \setu

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt 2007.01.12 problem

2007-01-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: >> that test should go into the test repos >> > > I've committed it to the contexttest repo as > tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex/test-001.tex > > By the way, in dvi mode the file fails unless "mpprocset:=0;" is put in the > \startMPpositiongraphic. Here's the error msg: >

Re: [NTG-context] Yet another math symbol

2007-01-14 Thread Hans Hagen
andrea valle wrote: > (Guessing) > > $\parallel$ > > HTH > > I use a "TeX reference Card" page I found on the web but I really agree > with you > \showmathcharacters sometimes helps - Ha

Re: [NTG-context] Overfull \hbox query

2007-01-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: > I have been processing a number of files using the same environment > file. Each time, early in the log file I get the very same message: > > (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) > Overfull \hbox (13.2pt too wide) detected at line 63 > [] > sys

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a TABLE

2007-01-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 1/14/07, Gerhard Kugler wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:02:43PM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >> >>> What's wrong with \rotate{your table} ? >>> >> Thanks Henning. >> >> But now I still have a problem. The TABLE covers a whole page. This >> page

Re: [NTG-context] \to in footer?

2007-01-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > andrea valle wrote: > >> Hi to all, >> >> I wanted to use in footer an arrow so I went with: >> \setupfootertexts[$\to$ help] >> >> It raises an error. >> I solved with $\rightarrow$, but I was curious about this fact >> Why does it happen? >> > > The \to creates int

Re: [NTG-context] rightframe=on

2007-01-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > [call this test file q.tex] > >>> \starttext >>> \framed[corner=14, frame=on, framecolor=darkred, >>> rulethickness=2pt]{\tttf TEST MORE~} >>> \stoptext >>> > > >> I don't see any artefacts, but I see the whole frame in the dvi >> file, and only the right frame

Re: [NTG-context] texexec --mode=xxx --mode=yyy

2007-01-14 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: > Hello, > > is it possible to make "texexec --mode=xxx --mode=yyy" behave the same as > "texexec --mode=xxx,yyy" ? > > I need it, because I have a server that automatically generates pdf-files > via "texexec --mode=xxx ..." and the rest of the command-line can be > anything found in the t

Re: [NTG-context] Yet another math symbol

2007-01-14 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Exactly! Oliver > Do you mean something like 1 at the end of eq (23) page 4 (3231) at > http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam/publications/conferences/ > cdc2006.pdf ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-c

Re: [NTG-context] Dynamic Elements on Layer

2007-01-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Helin Gai wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still trying to place my running heads into the margin, 5 cm away > from the top. My new attempt is to use layer: > > \definelayer[colin][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight,x=0mm,y=0mm] > \setlayer[colin][x=5cm,y=3cm]{\framed{\getmarking[cha

Re: [NTG-context] Yet another math symbol

2007-01-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm struggling to typeset the math symbol "identity" ... it looks > like a "1" but with double vertical lines. Hints very welcome ;-) Do you mean something like 1 at the end of eq (23) page 4 (3231) at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adit

[NTG-context] Dynamic Elements on Layer

2007-01-14 Thread Helin Gai
Hi, I'm still trying to place my running heads into the margin, 5 cm away from the top. My new attempt is to use layer: \definelayer[colin][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight,x=0mm,y=0mm] \setlayer[colin][x=5cm,y=3cm]{\framed{\getmarking[chapter][current]}} \setupbackgrounds[page][background=c

Re: [NTG-context] Yet another math symbol

2007-01-14 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
No, it's not this one, but really the figure "1" only featuring a double vertical stroke ... like {\Bbb R}. Oliver > (Guessing) > > $\parallel$ > > HTH > > I use a "TeX reference Card" page I found on the web but I really > agree > with you > > Best > > -a- > > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm strugglin

Re: [NTG-context] Yet another math symbol

2007-01-14 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Wicked! That already comes quite close to a nice lookup table ... However, I can't see my little identity symbol :-( Any other ideas? Is it perhaps contained in \Bbb in some character slot? Oliver >> I'm struggling to typeset the math symbol "identity" ... it looks >> like a "1" but with doubl

[NTG-context] Overfull \hbox query

2007-01-14 Thread Alan Bowen
I have been processing a number of files using the same environment file. Each time, early in the log file I get the very same message: ... (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) Overfull \hbox (13.2pt too wide) detected at line 63 [] system : module ancientgr

Re: [NTG-context] rightframe=on

2007-01-14 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
> Is it on windows? It seems -- unless your tests too are on linux Yes, it is on windows (Acrobat Reader 7.0.8 and 7.0.9) I tried with ghostscript 8.53, and all is ok. Don't know what with AcroRead 8. Wolfgang ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@n

Re: [NTG-context] Keeping section heading with following text?

2007-01-14 Thread cormullion
On 2007-01-13, at 16:29.0, Willi Egger wrote: > Insert a \page[bigpreference] before the mentioned subsection command thanks Willi, that's useful to know. It would fix a single occurrence, but wouldn't be applicable to all section and subsection headings... Still, it's useful to have a 'lay

Re: [NTG-context] Yet another math symbol

2007-01-14 Thread cormullion
On 2007-01-14, at 11:46.0, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: > I'm struggling to typeset the math symbol "identity" ... it looks > like a "1" but with double vertical lines. Hints very welcome ;-) > > What if we put together an extensive table of all math symbols > available in ConTeXt at some point? no

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a TABLE

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Gerhard, Gerhard Kugler wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:02:43PM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >> What's wrong with \rotate{your table} ? > > Thanks Henning. > > But now I still have a problem. The TABLE covers a whole page. This > page should habe a colored background (grey). I get th

Re: [NTG-context] Yet another math symbol

2007-01-14 Thread andrea valle
(Guessing) $\parallel$ HTH I use a "TeX reference Card" page I found on the web but I really agree with you Best -a- On 14 Jan 2007, at 12:46, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm struggling to typeset the math symbol "identity" ... it looks > like a "1" but with double vertical lin

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a TABLE

2007-01-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 1/14/07, Gerhard Kugler wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:02:43PM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > > What's wrong with \rotate{your table} ? > > Thanks Henning. > > But now I still have a problem. The TABLE covers a whole page. This > page should habe a colored background (grey). I get

[NTG-context] Yet another math symbol

2007-01-14 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
Hi all, I'm struggling to typeset the math symbol "identity" ... it looks like a "1" but with double vertical lines. Hints very welcome ;-) What if we put together an extensive table of all math symbols available in ConTeXt at some point? Oliver __

Re: [NTG-context] \to in footer?

2007-01-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
andrea valle wrote: > Hi to all, > > I wanted to use in footer an arrow so I went with: > \setupfootertexts[$\to$ help] > > It raises an error. > I solved with $\rightarrow$, but I was curious about this fact > Why does it happen? The \to creates interference with the keyword scanner in the foot

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a TABLE

2007-01-14 Thread Gerhard Kugler
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:02:43PM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > What's wrong with \rotate{your table} ? Thanks Henning. But now I still have a problem. The TABLE covers a whole page. This page should habe a colored background (grey). I get the background, but shifted. It begins (vertica

Re: [NTG-context] Index formatting: column leaks over page margin

2007-01-14 Thread cormullion
On 2007-01-13, at 17:59.0, luigi scarso wrote: > On 1/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a tiny problem > Can you post an example ? Hi luigi - there's a draft at and there's an example of the