Re: [NTG-context] ctxtools --updatecontext

2008-04-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: > All, > > If you run: > > ctxtools --updatecontext > > And it just hangs and times out, what should you try? Check you network connection, you could be behind a firewall that prevents direct access to the internet. You can specify a proxy server on the commandline with --pr

Re: [NTG-context] question about mplib/mkiv

2008-04-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: > Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> for my presentations, I have a graphical counter on every slide, so >> metapost has to write a graphic for every slide/page that ConTeXt >> produces. This works with mkii, but when I process my file in mkiv, I >> get this error after p

[NTG-context] ctxtools --updatecontext

2008-04-23 Thread David Arnold
All, If you run: ctxtools --updatecontext And it just hangs and times out, what should you try? D. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg

Re: [NTG-context] question about mplib/mkiv

2008-04-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 24, 2008, at 1:44 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > hm, maybe something messy with the graphic ... i allocate 2MB of > memory > for metafun so ... > > anyhow, > > \appendtoks\ctxlua{metapost.reset("metafun")}\to\everyshipout > > or so, may help, although it's better to see what's the real reason >

Re: [NTG-context] question about mplib/mkiv

2008-04-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > Hi, > > for my presentations, I have a graphical counter on every slide, so > metapost has to write a graphic for every slide/page that ConTeXt > produces. This works with mkii, but when I process my file in mkiv, I > get this error after page 16: > > report >> er

[NTG-context] question about mplib/mkiv

2008-04-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, for my presentations, I have a graphical counter on every slide, so metapost has to write a graphic for every slide/page that ConTeXt produces. This works with mkii, but when I process my file in mkiv, I get this error after page 16: report >> error: 15 output files written: .. Transcr

Re: [NTG-context] Letter module: Public version available

2008-04-23 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, Apr 22 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > @Peter: You could take a look at letter-17.tex, I wrote a first version > for page optimation of the output, feel free to change optimize.nle or > to add additional methods. Hello Wolfgang, Again, thanks a lot for you great module! Yes, one da

Re: [NTG-context] letter

2008-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo, > > I made some tests and want to report: > > > 1.) 'letter-17.tex' with pdftex (ConTeXt ver: 2007.07.29 22:06 MKII > fmt: 2008.4.10 int:

Re: [NTG-context] Date with three-letter month

2008-04-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > I have consulted the manuals and even the source (core-con.tex) but I > cannot find a way of getting a three-letter month using the \date command. > For example, I would like to display today's date as 23-Apr-08. This > gives a short display suitable

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals - how to use?

2008-04-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> There is no existing context script file on my minimal installation. > > It's a Lua script, which means it's in scripts/context/lua (look for > mtx-context.lua). There is a stub now as well, but see the date: Apr 18 22:09 /opt/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/st

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals - how to use?

2008-04-23 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> There is no existing context script file on my minimal installation. It's a Lua script, which means it's in scripts/context/lua (look for mtx-context.lua). Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to oth

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals - how to use?

2008-04-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Diego Depaoli wrote: > > A bit ot... > > running first-setup.sh under FreeBSD I get > > > > /usr/local/bin/rsync > > /usr/local/bin/ruby > > receiving file list ... done > > >

[NTG-context] Date with three-letter month

2008-04-23 Thread richard . stephens
Hello All, I have consulted the manuals and even the source (core-con.tex) but I cannot find a way of getting a three-letter month using the \date command. For example, I would like to display today's date as 23-Apr-08. This gives a short display suitable for use in a margin, but avoids the co

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals - how to use?

2008-04-23 Thread Jan-Erik Hägglöf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David skrev: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:53:10 -0400 (EDT), Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>> For my purposes (my requirements are not large, I'm not in a hurry, and >>> I don't want to waste time learning multiple ways of doing things), I >>> have decided to do

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: > Hi Taco, > >> I can remove that line, it is misleading. The content of the >> log file is in .log > > What do you mean with ? The res.log entry in the lua result table. I had forgotten the variable name. Best wishes, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] acroread and reload a PDF

2008-04-23 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:57 PM, zs wrote: > > > I recommend you to use "evince" viewer. I suppose, its output is > > even nicer than acroread's one. > > C-R reloads are supported. > > > > ZS > > While I like and

Re: [NTG-context] letter

2008-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Wolfgang, > > > > 2.) 'letter-17.tex' with luatex (ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.11 00:07 > > MKIV > > > fmt: 2008.4.11 int: english/english) > > > > > > system : module t-letter not found > > > ! Undefi

Re: [NTG-context] urw-garamond with MKIV

2008-04-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Lutz Haseloff wrote: > Hi Taco, Hi all, > > with the brandnew luatex (build 1186) there is no glyph to be seen in the pdf > but i can copy and paste the invisible text into my texteditor. Should be fixed in #1187. Best wishes, Taco __

[NTG-context] GNU Emacs - Context Command Reference

2008-04-23 Thread Suno Ano
I was looking for a command reference that includes all Context commands. There are a few choices to pick from [0] (see "Find Definition"). However, since I am a big GNU Info fanboy -- I love to not leave Emacs while writing Context source etc. -- I was looking for something "faster" than fiddling

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals - how to use?

2008-04-23 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, Maybe this is because the old FreeBSD binaries I have made. Sorry. I should have updated these binary earlier in time, just after the 0.25.3-release. Trust me, this Friday, you will get the new working binaries for luatex/pdftex/xetex/mpost. (give me some time to figure out how to remove my wi

Re: [NTG-context] acroread and reload a PDF

2008-04-23 Thread zs
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:43:04 +0200 "Thomas A. Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Compile this and then have a look at the pdf file in acroread and in > evince. Evince is not perfect and it will probably always be behind acroread. I know continuous gradients are not shown perfectly, but it's

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hi Taco, > I can remove that line, it is misleading. The content of the > log file is in .log What do you mean with ? There is only ONE log file and that is tst10.log (the log file of the tst10.tex which runs the above code). Wolfgang __

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals - how to use?

2008-04-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Diego Depaoli wrote: > A bit ot... > running first-setup.sh under FreeBSD I get > > /usr/local/bin/rsync > /usr/local/bin/ruby > receiving file list ... done > > sent 98 bytes received 149 bytes 164.67 bytes/sec > total size is 4219262 speedup is 17082.03 >

Re: [NTG-context] letter

2008-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo Wolfgang, > > 2.) 'letter-17.tex' with luatex (ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.11 00:07 > MKIV > > fmt: 2008.4.11 int: english/english) > > > > system : module t-letter not found > > ! Undefined control sequence. > > l.5 \setupletterstyle > > > > but > > > > kpsewhich t-letter > > d:/context/

Re: [NTG-context] urw-garamond with MKIV

2008-04-23 Thread Lutz Haseloff
Hi Taco, Hi all, with the brandnew luatex (build 1186) there is no glyph to be seen in the pdf but i can copy and paste the invisible text into my texteditor. the log: snip (C:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (C:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkiv)) specials :

Re: [NTG-context] letter

2008-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo, > > I made some tests and want to report: > > > 1.) 'letter-17.tex' with pdftex (ConTeXt ver: 2007.07.29 22:06 MKII > fmt: 2008.4.10 int:

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals - how to use?

2008-04-23 Thread Diego Depaoli
A bit ot... running first-setup.sh under FreeBSD I get /usr/local/bin/rsync /usr/local/bin/ruby receiving file list ... done sent 98 bytes received 149 bytes 164.67 bytes/sec total size is 4219262 speedup is 17082.03 MtxRun | version 1.0.2 - 2007+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT MtxRun | skipping con

[NTG-context] letter

2008-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, I made some tests and want to report: 1.) 'letter-17.tex' with pdftex (ConTeXt ver: 2007.07.29 22:06 MKII fmt: 2008.4.10 int: english/english) ! Undefined control sequence. \letterstopoptimizeyes ...er!value!skip \minust

Re: [NTG-context] mplib

2008-04-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: > > Example 1: my test file with your finder. > -- > MPlib finder: mpost.mem -> So it was running the kpse.find_file instead of returning a local name, and it is not found. There is a silent error

Re: [NTG-context] Bug in mkiv

2008-04-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > I think that I finally understand what math-ini.lua does. I will add > entries from math-tex.tex, so that atleast traditional tex symbols work. > (It will be slightly slow, in a week or so). good! keep track of anomalities, because we can use a 'wishlist' for the upcomi

Re: [NTG-context] acroread and reload a PDF

2008-04-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:57 PM, zs wrote: > I recommend you to use "evince" viewer. I suppose, its output is > even nicer than acroread's one. > C-R reloads are supported. > > ZS While I like and use evince on linux, I must also say that it's still not a very good viewer. Just to give you an e