Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011-03-13 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Yes, I see that would be a non-trivial problem. Maybe as a stop-gap some ConTeXt files could be provided which at least roughly emulate a few standard LaTeX styles? -Alasdair On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > > For example

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011-03-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: For example. the LaTeX ieee.sty is available at http://delphiwww.cern.ch/delphi$www/private/det/stc/ieee94/mp/ieee.sty and ACM styles at http://www.acm.org/publications/latex_style/. How hard would it be to emulate these in ConTeXt? The hard part

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011-03-13 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
For example. the LaTeX ieee.sty is available at http://delphiwww.cern.ch/delphi$www/private/det/stc/ieee94/mp/ieee.sty and ACM styles at http://www.acm.org/publications/latex_style/. How hard would it be to emulate these in ConTeXt? -Alasdair On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:32 PM, mathew wrote: > On

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011-03-13 Thread mathew
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 19:07, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > Speaking as a raw ConTeXt beginner, I would find it very helpful to have a > library of different styles: LaTeX, journal, conference and book styles. This is what I've been setting out to do, build a set of examples. So far I've got a cust

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011-03-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: Speaking as a raw ConTeXt beginner, I would find it very helpful to have a library of different styles: LaTeX, journal, conference and book styles. Although all the information is probably there, it is very scattered around though manuals, the wiki,

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011-03-13 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Speaking as a raw ConTeXt beginner, I would find it very helpful to have a library of different styles: LaTeX, journal, conference and book styles. Although all the information is probably there, it is very scattered around though manuals, the wiki, and other documents, and so is in consequence not

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals (was: Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?)

2011-03-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2011-03-13 um 06:03 schrieb Pontus Lurcock: I have the minimals installed but with no automatic setup in .bashrc or similar. So when I need to run ConTeXt, I fire up a new terminal and explicitly ‘source /path/to/minimals/context/tex/setuptex’ before doing anything else. Anything I run in a d

Re: [NTG-context] simpleslides/metapost bug ?

2011-03-13 Thread Thomas Schmitz
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:02:32 +0100 zs wrote: Hello everybody. Can you please confirm that following code fails: \usemodule[simpleslides] \starttext \IncludePicture[horizontal][cow][highlight=yes, alternative=circle, x=1, y=1, xscale=1, yscale=1, shadow=bottomleft]{hello} \stoptext And thi

Re: [NTG-context] Is Minimals ready for non-developers to use?

2011-03-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 17:16, Tom wrote: > Dalyoung, > > I attempted to install Minimals on my Windows system--twice--to no avail. I > selected the current option because I don't want to be constantly updating > the software when I am not using anything that remotely resembles cutting > edge featu

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011-03-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Henry House wrote: Procházka Lukáš wrote: [...] 5) how to better promote context to new/latex users? For LaTeX incomers: it would be good to provide a sample setup (module?) which would make Ctx generated .pdf looking very closely to that been generated by LaTeX. Now,

Re: [NTG-context] math spacing

2011-03-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 13:16, Hans van der Meer wrote: > > It might be that I am missing something here. But I don not understand why in > the math expression below the spacing behind the letters is different. With > this behaviour it seems impossible to name a variable PYR and have it typeset

[NTG-context] Is Minimals ready for non-developers to use?

2011-03-13 Thread Tom
Dalyoung, I attempted to install Minimals on my Windows system--twice--to no avail. I selected the current option because I don't want to be constantly updating the software when I am not using anything that remotely resembles cutting edge features. I am using a short, lower-case directory name as

Re: [NTG-context] change interwordspace twice

2011-03-13 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Just as a last question on the ratio interwordspace/spaceskip: When I read the info from \showpardata. And it says, eg.: lmroman12-regular interwordspace: 3.912pt interwordstretch: 1.956pt inerwordshrink: 1.304pt Does that mean, I would achieve exactly the same (default) by writing this? \s

Re: [NTG-context] $n\choose k$-issue with OpenType math fonts

2011-03-13 Thread Andreas Harder
Am 13.03.2011 um 16:51 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Andreas Harder wrote: > >> I'm afraid, I don't get it. Here is what I tried: >> I copied all stack-relevant values from asana-math.tma and put them in = >> the return section of the goodies file (like showed in lm-math.lfg). B

Re: [NTG-context] $n\choose k$-issue with OpenType math fonts

2011-03-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Andreas Harder wrote: I'm afraid, I don't get it. Here is what I tried: I copied all stack-relevant values from asana-math.tma and put them in = the return section of the goodies file (like showed in lm-math.lfg). But = even if I set all values to zero, the output remains th

Re: [NTG-context] $n\choose k$-issue with OpenType math fonts

2011-03-13 Thread Andreas Harder
Am 06.03.2011 um 15:33 schrieb Hans Hagen: > On 6-3-2011 1:22, Andreas Harder wrote: > >> I don't know the best value either, but et least one could manipulate it. > > the next beta will support parameter overload in the goodies > >parameters = { -- test values >FactorA = 12

Re: [NTG-context] Am not getting Roman numeral page numbers in MKIV

2011-03-13 Thread Jeong Dalyoung
Dear Tom, > > What version are you using? > I am using minimal not TeXlive2010. Of course, there are some bugs in beta. But it would be fixed soon. Moreover, you can have more than one Minimal folder. So it is easy to use stable version if the beta has bugs. > > BTW, where did you read to

Re: [NTG-context] math spacing

2011-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 13.03.2011 um 13:16 schrieb Hans van der Meer: > It might be that I am missing something here. But I don not understand why in > the math expression below the spacing behind the letters is different. With > this behaviour it seems impossible to name a variable PYR and have it typeset > as s

[NTG-context] math spacing

2011-03-13 Thread Hans van der Meer
It might be that I am missing something here. But I don not understand why in the math expression below the spacing behind the letters is different. With this behaviour it seems impossible to name a variable PYR and have it typeset as such. Hans van der Meer \starttext $\tfd Q,Y,N,P,Y,Z \quad

Re: [NTG-context] why this error?

2011-03-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 13.03.2011 um 00:29 schrieb Pontus Lurcock: > I managed to fix this simply by removing the \usemodule[bib] from my > source file -- as if by magic, the bibliography kept working! There is no magic happening, Hans added just the module as a core function which is always present. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] hanging on missing picture

2011-03-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12-3-2011 2:39, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 12 mrt. 2011, at 14:23, Hans van der Meer wrote: Requesting a non-existing picture does not produce a warning message, but makes ConTeXt hang. An abort is the only thing that helps. It would however be nice if a "missing file" warning is given. A

[NTG-context] "latex style" (was : Re: Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?)

2011-03-13 Thread Peter Münster
Henry House writes: > I strongly agree that sample set-up code (ideally well-commented so that > it also serves as a tutorial of sorts) to reproduce the style of LaTeX > would be helpful. If you agree, that http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/arbeit.pdf is standard latex style (or koma-script, I

Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

2011-03-13 Thread Thomas Schmitz
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:35:54 -0800 Henry House wrote: I strongly agree that sample set-up code (ideally well-commented so that it also serves as a tutorial of sorts) to reproduce the style of LaTeX would be helpful. The appearance of LaTeX documents isn't perfect but it produces reasonably

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals

2011-03-13 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > On 03/13/2011 08:42 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: >> >> On Sunday 13 March 2011 07:25:03 luigi scarso wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Pontus Lurcock  wrote: On Sat 12 Mar 2011, mathew wrote: > > My experience on U