Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun:1741: attempt to index a nil value

2008-08-12 Thread Yue Wang
Hi > sudo ./first-setup.sh I always update the context minimals in this way, so I have never heard about this problem:( Yue Wang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki

Re: [NTG-context] Font bugs on Windows (TeXLive 2008)

2008-08-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Vasile Gaburici wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Try this instead: >> >> C:\tlhome\Vasile>context hellolua.tex > > Yeah, this works properly, so with the 0.25.4 version of luaTeX what > ships with TeXLive 2008, one needs to pass plain TeX i

Re: [NTG-context] greek

2008-08-12 Thread Jörg Hagmann
A postscript to greek issues: As I wrote, everything works fine now---with Mark II, which is what I still use. When I try "context mygreekfile.tex", without any font specification, the following characters are missing: lower case: c (end of word sigma), m (mu), and s (sigma) upper case: same I

[NTG-context] Box can't be reshaped

2008-08-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi, Rotated text in \framed dproduce the following error message: ! Incompatible list can't be unboxed. \doreshapeframedbox ...hapebox \unvcopy \framebox \endofshapebox \global \@@... I run into this problem with a natural table. \starttext \s

[NTG-context] Flow chart, XeTeX and transparent colors

2008-08-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi, the background for the cells in flow charts are moved to the left when you use transparent colors in a document and XeTeX as engine. \usemodule[chart] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[tred][r=1,t=0.5,a=1] \setuphead[section][color=tred] \starttext \section{Section} \setupFLOWchart

Re: [NTG-context] greek

2008-08-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 12, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Jörg Hagmann wrote: > A postscript to greek issues: Thanks for the report. > > As I wrote, everything works fine now---with Mark II, which is what I > still use. > > When I try "context mygreekfile.tex", without any font specification, > the following characters are

Re: [NTG-context] Box can't be reshaped

2008-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Hi, > > Rotated text in \framed dproduce the following error message: > > ! Incompatible list can't be unboxed. > \doreshapeframedbox ...hapebox \unvcopy \framebox > \endofshapebox \global > \@@... > > > I run into th

Re: [NTG-context] Box can't be reshaped

2008-08-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Rotated text in \framed dproduce the following error message: >> >> ! Incompatible list can't be unboxed. >> \doreshapeframedbox ...hapebox \unvcopy \framebox >>

[NTG-context] Font problems with latest minimals on Linux

2008-08-12 Thread Vasile Gaburici
I've switched to the rsync-ed minimals on Linux. There are still some problems with fonts: 1) Bold is still missing from fonts pulled via OSFONTDIR, e.g.: verdana Verdana /usr/share/fonts/vista/Verdana.ttf verdana bold italic Verdana Bold Italic /usr/share/

[NTG-context] headstyle for synonyms

2008-08-12 Thread Matthias Wächter
Folks, Just wanted to send the following patch, requesting inclusion to ConTeXt. It adds support for headstyle option in \setupsynonyms by passing it to \definedescription. Maybe the \style option of \definedescription could be set by an additional option for \setupsynonyms as well, but as I

[NTG-context] \setuplayout question

2008-08-12 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, Some/oftentimes, the more I read the scattered documentation, the more I'm confused... and wasting my valuable time testing and trying to figure out how things work. Here is, for example, why... (1) From \showlayout topspace \topspace top\topheight (2) From "ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun:1741: attempt to index a nil value

2008-08-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2008/8/9 Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> This error occurrs on a Mac G5 (PPC) running OSX 10.4; ConTeXt >> is installed in /usr/local/ConTeXt. > Thanks for the other hint about PPC. Can you please retry the installation? All is well again, thank you! Greetlings, Hraban __

[NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Maurí­cio
Hi, I need to write ' in a text. However, since it's a special tag in wiki language, I really need it to be 5 times U0027, not ””’ (U201C and U2018). How can I do that? Thanks, Maurício ___ If your question is o

Re: [NTG-context] \setuplayout question

2008-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Stone wrote: > Hi, > > Some/oftentimes, the more I read the scattered > documentation, the more I'm confused... and > wasting my valuable time testing and trying to > figure out how things work. (1) main layout areas: keywords to \setuplayout: header text footer dimension variabl

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, Aug 12 2008, Maurí­cio wrote: > I need to write ' in a text. However, since > it's a special tag in wiki language, I really > need it to be 5 times U0027, not ””’ (U201C and > U2018). How can I do that? \starttext With 0-kern: '\kern0pt'\kern0pt'\kern0pt'\kern0pt' The easy way: \dor

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Maurí­cio
>> I need to write ' in a text. However, since >> it's a special tag in wiki language, I really >> need it to be 5 times U0027, not ””’ (U201C and >> U2018). How can I do that? > \starttext > With 0-kern: '\kern0pt'\kern0pt'\kern0pt'\kern0pt' > > The easy way: \dorecurse5' > \stoptext > > C

[NTG-context] texmfstart texexec

2008-08-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Dear gang, I am upgrading my system to the latest mswincontext distro. After some hiccups, context.cmd finds its target script, so I can generate the mkiv format But for texmfstart.exe texexec I keep getting ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError) texmfstart --locate texexec.rb

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Hi Maurí­cio, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:50:07 -0600, Maurí­cio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> \starttext >> With 0-kern: '\kern0pt'\kern0pt'\kern0pt'\kern0pt' >> >> The easy way: \dorecurse5' >> \stoptext >> >> Cheers, Peter >> > > Neither of them work. ' (Unicode 0027) is still > converted to ’ (U

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:50:07 -0600, Maurí­cio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I need to write ' in a text. However, since >>> it's a special tag in wiki language, I really >>> need it to be 5 times U0027, not ””’ (U201C and >>> U2018). How can I do that? > >> \starttext >> With 0-kern: '\kern

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Maurí­cio
I need to write ' in a text. However, (...) I really need it to be 5 times U0027, not ””’ (U201C and U2018). (...) > \starttext > \dorecurse5'{} > % or \dorecurse{5}{'{}} > \stoptext > Even better: > > \starttext > \defineactivecharacter ' {\otfchar{quoteright}} >

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 12, 2008, at 9:47 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > \starttext > \dorecurse5'{} > % or \dorecurse{5}{'{}} > \stoptext > > works here. I copied the text from the pdf into a unicode editor and > it > gives 0027. It doesn't work here either. What does work is: \def\fiver{

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:12:04 -0600, Maurí­cio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to write ' in a text. However, > (...) I really need it to be 5 times U0027, > not ””’ (U201C and U2018). (...) > > > \starttext > > \dorecurse5'{} > > % or \dorecurse{5}{'{}} > > \stoptex

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Maurí­cio wrote: > Hi, > > I need to write ' in a text. However, since > it's a special tag in wiki language, I really > need it to be 5 times U0027, not ””’ (U201C and > U2018). How can I do that? this is the result from the trep feature; ok, i can provide a switch to turn it off (i might

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart texexec

2008-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid ? ? wrote: > Dear gang, > > I am upgrading my system to the latest mswincontext distro. > > After some hiccups, context.cmd finds its target script, so I can generate > the mkiv format > > But for > > texmfstart.exe texexec > > I keep getting > > ruby: no suc

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, Aug 12 2008, Maurí­cio wrote: > Both also didn't work. Are you using Mark IV? I'm > using regular Context (the one that comes with > Ubuntu), maybe that's the difference. Indeed! I just tried MKII, and this is the result: pdftotext test.pdf - | hexdump -C 31 0a 0a 57 69 74 68 2

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart texexec

2008-08-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Hi Hans, On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:59:20 -0600, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> texmfstart --locate texexec.rb >> >> gives me >> >> /texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb >> >> Any ideas on what's wrong? > some messy ruby in your path > you can make a small bat file that starts texm

Re: [NTG-context] When I don't want quotes

2008-08-12 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, Aug 12 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: > two solutions: > > (1) use tt (since there trep is off) > > {\tt '} > > (2) reload the bodyfont > > \definefontfeature >[default] >[default] >[trep=no] > > \setupbodyfont[reset] This works only for MKIV. The OP uses MKII, and his prob