Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Lars Huttar wrote: On 12/16/2008 3:15 PM, luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com mailto:t...@elvenkind.com wrote: Hi Lars, Lars Huttar wrote: So the question comes up, can TeX runs take advantage of parallelized

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Martin Schröder wrote: 2008/12/16 Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org: Good point... although doesn't the page optimization feed back into paragraph layout? No. :-( But from Lars' POV, that is good :) There are some interesting ideas in this discussion, but with the current state of the code

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-17 Thread luigi scarso
you need to keep an eye on where tex spends its time on, and much is related to loading fonts, reading files, saving output, etc and with multiple threads one would have to coordinate that and make sure the time spent on it does not become larger overall for instance, in your document

Re: [NTG-context] setupdelimitedtext: linespacing in final quoted paragraph

2008-12-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Thanks for the responses. I've wikified a short example, putting it at end of this page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Long_quotations_and_extracts Feel free to move or improve. Will LuaTeX's paragraph builder have the same restriction -- perhaps for

Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?

2008-12-17 Thread Lars Huttar
Thanks, everybody, for the discussion on running TeX distributed / in parallel. I am much educated about the state of the art. :-) Summary ... - There is plenty of optimization that normally can be done. If a ConTeXt run is taking a really long time, chances are that something is not being done

[NTG-context] starting headings at top of column

2008-12-17 Thread Lars Huttar
Hello, I've started talking to people in charge about contributing some money to this mailing list, or the wiki, or something ... we're certainly getting a lot of help from it. Is there an org or project to contribute to? Anyway, my current challenge is this. We have a two-column layout using

Re: [NTG-context] setupdelimitedtext: linespacing in final quoted paragraph

2008-12-17 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: ...that does not remove the need to insert \par's in between paragraphs. Right, although I think that the \par, or blank line, should go after the \stopdelimitedtext in some cases. I was imagining (and using) quotations within a single larger

[NTG-context] Contributing [was: Re: starting headings at top of column

2008-12-17 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Hi Lars, On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:57:41 -0700, Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org wrote: I've started talking to people in charge about contributing some money to this mailing list, or the wiki, or something ... we're certainly getting a lot of help from it. Is there an org or project to

Re: [NTG-context] starting headings at top of column

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Lars Huttar wrote: Hello, I've started talking to people in charge about contributing some money to this mailing list, or the wiki, or something ... we're certainly getting a lot of help from it. Is there an org or project to contribute to? a few ideas: - at the tug web page there is a

Re: [NTG-context] mpost manual

2008-12-17 Thread luigi scarso
There is a bugtracker for this http://tracker.luatex.org/ http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=137 project mplib -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

[NTG-context] mpost manual

2008-12-17 Thread Hans van der Meer
This might be considered a little off topic but I take the liberty to draw your attention to a problem with the mpost distribution. If there is really a problem with that distribution, I think it is in our interest to remedy it. I made mpost from the mpost-1.101 distribution (sh build.sh),

[NTG-context] Unescaped $ and in texts

2008-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and in text without escaping them with a backslash, is not needed to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used. In text only documents I want also the % as normal character where I don't need comments. What do you think, with

Re: [NTG-context] Unescaped $ and in texts

2008-12-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and in text without escaping them with a backslash, is not needed to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used. Also add # to the list. Basically, we can just define a catcode regime

Re: [NTG-context] interactionbuttons question

2008-12-17 Thread Alan STONE
How do you get the buttons within the edge's left and right margins while keeping the button width=\rightedgewidth ? \setuplayout[ rightmargin=0mm, rightedge=15mm] \showframe \def\myButtons{ \vtop { \interactionbuttons[ width=\rightedgewidth, height=20pt] [StartMovie] \blank

Re: [NTG-context] Unescaped $ and in texts

2008-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 17.12.2008 um 21:46 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and in text without escaping them with a backslash, is not needed to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used. Also add # to the list.

Re: [NTG-context] Unescaped $ and in texts

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and in text without escaping them with a backslash, is not needed to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used. Also add # to the list. Basically, we can just

[NTG-context] Reset linenumbers on each page

2008-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi, How can I reset the linenumber on each new page. \starttext \startlinenumbering \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth\par} \stoplinenumbering \stoptext Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,