Re: [NTG-context] Math Sets (ConTeXt port of braket.sty)

2007-02-24 Thread Zulkifli Hidayat
> > Hi, > > I find myself writing a lot of probability expressions where I want > the delimiters to scale automatically, and | (conditional sign) to > scale automatically, and the spacing around | to be correct. In LaTeX, > I used to use braket package to do this. Since moving to ConTeXt, I > was d

[NTG-context] FYI

2007-02-24 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Info for the gang: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=223940&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=18135068#18135322 (last paragraph) This does not affect me or many of us but it's good to know the vibes out there. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Col

Re: [NTG-context] tree charts

2007-02-24 Thread John R. Culleton
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:18, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > > Dear cabal, > > > > Do any of you have any examples of tree charts done in, say, > > MetaFun? Are there any macros, libraries etc. for easy tree > > charts in \ConTeXt? > > > > Example: >

[NTG-context] Limitation on natural tables.

2007-02-24 Thread John R. Culleton
The fancy tricks one can to with Natural Tables seem to work within the body of the table where I don't need them but fail in the header area where I do need them. This example, takein from the wiki, works (of course.) \setupTABLE[row][odd][background=color,backgroundcolor=red, width=.2\textwi

Re: [NTG-context] Feature request for font-ini

2007-02-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> Hi Hans, >> >> Can the following be added to font-ini? >> >> \definealternativestyle [\v!boldsans,\v!sansbold] [\bf\ss] [] >> >> Writing >> >> \setuphead [section,subject] [textstyle=\bf\ss, numberstyle=\bf\ss] >> >> does not feel

[NTG-context] Natural table header limitation.

2007-02-24 Thread JOHN CULLETON
The fancy tricks one can to with Natural Tables seem to work within the body of the table where I don't need them but fail in the header area where I do need them. This example, takein from the wiki, works (of course.) \setupTABLE[row][odd][background=color,backgroundcolor=red, width=.2\textwi

Re: [NTG-context] Question about defining a math macro

2007-02-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> >> >>> Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>> Hi, Can I define a math macro, say \EXP that does the following: 1) \EXP{something} gives me, say E(something) 2) \EXP_a^b{

[NTG-context] No TOC and other lists with \setuparranging

2007-02-24 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Hello list, The following gives me TOC and list of defined heads called przepis at the end of the file: \definehead[przepis][section] \setuphead [chapter] [number=no] \setuphead [section] [number=no] \definepapersize[mysize][width=10cm,height=19cm] \setuppapersize[mysize][mysize] \setuplayout[b

Re: [NTG-context] installationproblem with context-dis tribution: xetex not working

2007-02-24 Thread Henning Haeske
Thanks, it is working after I copied the relevant files from my texmf-fonts/ into the texmf-local/ folder. The disjunction into the different texmf-... folders: texmf/ texmf-local/... texmf-font/ texmf-extra/... texmf-linux/ is a little bit confusing to me. Is this seperati

[NTG-context] texfont aborts with charisSIL

2007-02-24 Thread Henning Haeske
Hi, after my first installation was successful I am trying to install the latest IPA-font from SIL (Charis - http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=IPAhome#Charis ). I followed the instruction from the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installing_a_TrueType_font,_step_by_

Re: [NTG-context] debian tikz module

2007-02-24 Thread Ralf Stubner
Frank Küster wrote: > (517)[21:48:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ kpsewhich --progname=context t-tikz.tex > (518)[21:48:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls > /usr/share/texmf/context/pgf/frontendlayer/t-tikz.tex > /usr/share/texmf/context/pgf/frontendlayer/t-tikz.tex ^ shouldn't there be a 'tex' pat

[NTG-context] simplecolumns

2007-02-24 Thread Hans van der Meer
\simplecolumns have served me well. However, it seems a bit shy to respond to \setupcolumns (although in file page-mul.tex the definition of \setupcolumns preceeds that of \startsimplecolumns). For example, the following typesets 2 columns instead of 4; to set 4 columns \startsimplecolumns[4]

Re: [NTG-context] breaking framed text across pages

2007-02-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 2/21/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm struggling against framed text and is beaten again. >> >> If the text below doesn't fit the page, it goes below footer and stops pdf >> file without explanations. After many experiments I should note that frame

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt release 2007.02.20

2007-02-24 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gday > > I am having a problem on mswincontext since this the update > 2007.02.20. Even > "hello world" will not compile. i uploaded a new one (but untested) Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Question about defining a math macro

2007-02-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > >> Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Can I define a math macro, say \EXP that does the following: >>> >>> 1) \EXP{something} gives me, say E(something) >>> 2) \EXP_a^b{something} gives my E_a^b(something) >>> >>>

[NTG-context] Math Sets (ConTeXt port of braket.sty)

2007-02-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I find myself writing a lot of probability expressions where I want the delimiters to scale automatically, and | (conditional sign) to scale automatically, and the spacing around | to be correct. In LaTeX, I used to use braket package to do this. Since moving to ConTeXt, I was doing this b

Re: [NTG-context] Question about defining a math macro

2007-02-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Can I define a math macro, say \EXP that does the following: >> >> 1) \EXP{something} gives me, say E(something) >> 2) \EXP_a^b{something} gives my E_a^b(something) >> >> That is, I want to write a macro that will only

Re: [NTG-context] Yet another math symbol

2007-02-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Oliver Buerschaper wrote: > 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 Since I needed to use it in ConTeXt also, here is how to use it. http://w

Re: [NTG-context] Question about defining a math macro

2007-02-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Hi, > > Can I define a math macro, say \EXP that does the following: > > 1) \EXP{something} gives me, say E(something) > 2) \EXP_a^b{something} gives my E_a^b(something) > > That is, I want to write a macro that will only be used in the math > mode, that does something w

[NTG-context] Question about defining a math macro

2007-02-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, Can I define a math macro, say \EXP that does the following: 1) \EXP{something} gives me, say E(something) 2) \EXP_a^b{something} gives my E_a^b(something) That is, I want to write a macro that will only be used in the math mode, that does something with its argument. But, I also want it to