Re: [NTG-context] showcase on mac?

2008-10-03 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, This is strange. I use also the 8.1.2 version of Acrobat Reader on a MAC with OS 10.4. I have precisely the same problems als Frans mentioned. - I now realize that I encountered this already a longer time ago, but due to the fact that I download manuals directly from the tree, I

Re: [NTG-context] Mojca, Miktex, and seeming success!

2008-10-03 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:57:40 +0200 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: makefmt: pdftex failed on cont-en.ini. initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason. I got that one lots of time as well, but no idea why. It simply means that a format generation didn't work. If you get a bunch of such

Re: [NTG-context] Mojca, Miktex, and seeming success!

2008-10-03 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:53:39 -0500 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, I extracted cont-tfm.zip to c:\Contet, used Miktex2.7-Settings to add it as a Root, refreshed the filename database, but the formats will still not build in Miktext2.7-Settings-Format cont-en.pdftex. Creating the

Re: [NTG-context] Mojca, Miktex, and seeming success!

2008-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2008 um 12:01 schrieb Ulrike Fischer: Am Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:53:39 -0500 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, I extracted cont-tfm.zip to c:\Contet, used Miktex2.7-Settings to add it as a Root, refreshed the filename database, but the formats will still not build in

[NTG-context] new beta

2008-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
hi, - the current beta has some speedups and mem improvements for fonts - for huge fonts (like chinese) general mem consumption can be made smaller (at the cost of some runtime) by \ctxlua{garbagecollector.enabled=true} although this is not that neccessary when you used the upcoming beta

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-10-03 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Armando Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea about the most Tex-friendly Linux distribution, please? Thomas Schmitz told me OpenSuse (which I 've been using for a year...) is not that Tex-friendly... You need to say a bit more about your circumstances

Re: [NTG-context] The most Tex friendly distribution?

2008-10-03 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Peter Münster wrote: You're right, but I've to protect suse a bit: this was only an issue with a very new MKIV (new logic how to use TEXINPUTS), and suse could really not know about

Re: [NTG-context] Mojca, Miktex, and seeming success!

2008-10-03 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:09:26 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: I downloaded cont-tfm.zip and looked into the zip: There are no cont-en.ini there. So from where did you get this .ini and what's its content? ConTeXt use the cont-xx.tex files to generate the formats, the ini files need to be

[NTG-context] hz MkIV

2008-10-03 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, in MkIV hz is bound to the found (thus the speed increase). Now, how do I assign different degrees of hz to different areas? Say, moderate hz in the normal text and more drastic in controlled situation, like this: % main text: \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupalign[block,hanging,hz]

Re: [NTG-context] hz MkIV

2008-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, in MkIV hz is bound to the found (thus the speed increase). Now, how do I assign different degrees of hz to different areas? Say, moderate hz in the normal text and more drastic in controlled situation, like this: remind me end of next week

Re: [NTG-context] Listings

2008-10-03 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Oct 02 2008, Mohamed Bana wrote: Maybe someone should ask the authors of listings.sty if they're are willing to port it to ConTeXt. Here's the relevant link; http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/ I've done that in the old days of MKII: there was too much

[NTG-context] rotated cell bTABLE

2008-10-03 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, the content (word Umfang) of the the (nr=2) first row of this example should but turned +90°. Hmm ... just how to rotate the content of a cell? Thanks, Steffen === \starttext \bTABLE[align={middle,lohi}] \bTR \bTD[nr=2] {\bf Umfang} \eTD \bTD Absolut\eTD \bTD

Re: [NTG-context] rotated cell bTABLE

2008-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2008 um 14:43 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Hi, the content (word Umfang) of the the (nr=2) first row of this example should but turned +90°. Hmm ... just how to rotate the content of a cell? Thanks, Steffen === \starttext \bTABLE[align={middle,lohi}] \bTR

Re: [NTG-context] showcase on mac?

2008-10-03 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Frans Goddijn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Willi Egger helped me get a minimal install working on my mac and I'm working on a collection of columns illustrated with pictures. It's been a while since I used Context so I want to download some basic manuals to

Re: [NTG-context] rotated cell bTABLE

2008-10-03 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 03.10.2008 um 14:59 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 03.10.2008 um 14:43 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Hi, the content (word Umfang) of the the (nr=2) first row of this example should but turned +90°. Hmm ... just how to rotate the content of a cell? Thanks, Steffen === \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] relative file locations when compiling from different folders (in projects)

2008-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello Hans, On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I'm just wondering if there's some recipe about how to simplify the work when icluding other files and images in projects, when one is compiling from different folders. \usepath[..]

Re: [NTG-context] rotated cell bTABLE

2008-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2008 um 18:25 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Am 03.10.2008 um 14:59 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 03.10.2008 um 14:43 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Hi, the content (word Umfang) of the the (nr=2) first row of this example should but turned +90°. Hmm ... just how to rotate the content

[NTG-context] misbehaving \column

2008-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, The \column command does not want to obey me ... The text following \column simply jumps to the next page. This time I cannot think of any workaround :( Well, in the worst case I can still insert a table. \starttext \section{first} \dorecurse{80}{dummy } \startcolumns

Re: [NTG-context] rotated cell bTABLE

2008-10-03 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 03.10.2008 um 18:33 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 03.10.2008 um 18:25 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Am 03.10.2008 um 14:59 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 03.10.2008 um 14:43 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: Hi, the content (word Umfang) of the the (nr=2) first row of this example should but

[NTG-context] PiechartMP module and SetupPercent

2008-10-03 Thread batela
Dear Sirs, I want to include in my document some nice pie charts with the piechartmp module, but i'm find some problems in set the percent symbol. The sentence SetupPercent( this, %) don't work. Did you know a way to fix that? Thanks a lot best regards \startreusableMPgraphic{P1} input

Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column

2008-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Hello, The \column command does not want to obey me ... The text following \column simply jumps to the next page. This time I cannot think of any workaround :( Well, in the worst case I can still insert a table. \starttext \section{first}

Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column

2008-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, The \column command does not want to obey me ... The text following \column simply jumps to the next page. ... or, sometimes (rather often), the content after column stays on the same column and continues infinitely way below the

Re: [NTG-context] relative file locations when compiling from different folders (in projects)

2008-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello Hans, On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I'm just wondering if there's some recipe about how to simplify the work when icluding other files and images in projects, when one is compiling from different folders.

[NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-03 Thread Diego Depaoli
Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ; setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; draw p withcolor .8white ; xyscale_currentpicture(\the\leftmarginwidth,\the\textheight) ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic

Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column

2008-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.10.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Hello, The \column command does not want to obey me ... The text following \column simply jumps to the next page. This time I cannot think of any workaround :( Well, in the worst case I

Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column

2008-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2008 um 21:46 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.10.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Hello, The \column command does not want to obey me ... The text following \column simply jumps to the next page. This time I cannot

Re: [NTG-context] ansi codes

2008-10-03 Thread Alan Stone
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alan Stone wrote: Is there a (preferably free) Linux or Windows font tool out there which allows to print a font's characters and corresponding character codes ?

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Diego Depaoli wrote: Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ; setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; draw p withcolor .8white ;

Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column

2008-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.10.2008 um 21:46 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.10.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Hello, The \column command does not want to obey me ... The text following

Re: [NTG-context] hz MkIV

2008-10-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, in MkIV hz is bound to the found (thus the speed increase). Now, how do I assign different degrees of hz to different areas? Say, moderate hz in the normal text and more drastic in controlled situation, like this: % main text:

Re: [NTG-context] metapost and luatex (or xetex)

2008-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Diego Depaoli wrote: Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ; setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; draw p withcolor .8white ;

Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column

2008-10-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.10.2008 um 23:57 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.10.2008 um 21:46 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.10.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Hello, The \column command

Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column

2008-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: One more question: how can I say please keep this content together when typsetting in columns on grid? \vbox behaves a bit weird, but most important: it does not align baselines properly. \interlinepenalty=1 So like this:

Re: [NTG-context] Listings

2008-10-03 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Peter Münster wrote: On Thu, Oct 02 2008, Mohamed Bana wrote: Maybe someone should ask the authors of listings.sty if they're are willing to port it to ConTeXt. Here's the relevant link; http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/ I've