Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 02:52 +0200, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: > Hello Kip. > If you're interested, then I send you my "simple" AMS sorted solution > ;-) - only for your inspiration your solution. > It's certainly not a step in the right direction, but rather an > emergency solution that helped me ac

Re: [NTG-context] Rendering differences between PDF viewers

2012-04-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 08:54 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > (AR might have flaws but so do all other viewers I've seen.) I don't doubt it, but something that salient is pretty bad though. The whole document looks just awful. > Is there a small example file? Sure.

Re: [NTG-context] Rendering differences between PDF viewers

2012-04-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 17-4-2012 01:44, Kip Warner wrote: On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 18:00 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: keep in mind that acrobat has monitor profiles, simulates paper and has different rendering code when transparencies are used I've crawled all over Adobe's proprietary Reader's settings and I can't find

Re: [NTG-context] How to get info about current [sub-...]section?

2012-04-16 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
Hello, one more question - is there a way how to get values of \structurenumber and \structuretitle in the Lua scope? TIA. Best regards, Lukas On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:26:52 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \defineconversionset[default][n,n,a,r,n][n] \starttext \section{A} \starttabulat

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 02:12 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Maybe that (with explanation) deserves an entry on the wiki, but you > can have a nice exercise. If this doesn't help you, I'll take a look > tomorrow or day after tomorrow. Thanks a lot Mojca. Although I'm not confident in my ConTeXt'ing

Re: [NTG-context] Project structure, (simple)font woes

2012-04-16 Thread Mari Voipio
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 14:19, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > You load the simplefonts module but you don’t use it, instead you try to > define a typescript the old. See, I *was* being stupid. Now it works perfectly. And I found all the additional info I'll need now in the new Font manual/chapter, b

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 02:52 +0200, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: > Hello Kip. > If you're interested, then I send you my "simple" AMS sorted solution > ;-) - only for your inspiration your solution. > It's certainly not a step in the right direction, but rather an > emergency solution that helped me ac

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-16 Thread Jaroslav Hajtmar
Hello Kip. If you're interested, then I send you my "simple" AMS sorted solution ;-) - only for your inspiration your solution. It's certainly not a step in the right direction, but rather an emergency solution that helped me achieve a result which was strictly required by supervisor of thesis.

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:47, Kip Warner wrote: > > If there is a url field in the bibliography > database present for a given entry, how would one have the title > interactive to the url? I didn't try to answer your question directly, but the following example comes from one of my documents (ple

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 12:27 +0200, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: > I agree that the output format can be set as needed (a lots of time of > experimentation). But I needed a special sort of bibliographic items > (numbering according to their occurrence in the text) and that I have > unfortunately faile

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 20:09 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > It requires some time and tedious work, but if you know exactly what > you want, changing the layout should not be too difficult. Here are > some fragments of code that I'm using (I wanted DOI to be printed out, > that's why I changed the w

Re: [NTG-context] Rendering differences between PDF viewers

2012-04-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 18:00 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > keep in mind that acrobat has monitor profiles, simulates paper and > has different rendering code when transparencies are used I've crawled all over Adobe's proprietary Reader's settings and I can't find anything for adjusting monitor profil

Re: [NTG-context] Rendering differences between PDF viewers

2012-04-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 11:07 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Bug in AR. =( > Convince Adobe to fix it or find a way to render that page without > prerequisites for the bug to show up. That's probably not going to happen any time soon, I would think. > I'm not sure about your particular case, but

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-16 Thread Kip Warner
On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 05:51 +0200, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: > Hi Kip ... > I had a similar problem with a bibliography. Supervisor of thesis wants > to have a bibliography in a specific format (sorted AMS like) in which > it can not produce the ConTeXt. Hey Jaroslav. No surprise =( > Maybe this

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Helge Blischke wrote: By trial and eror I found out that context --path=... tries to run the scripts and programs within that directory which leads to abort if e.g. the calling user has no write permission there. Can you summarize your results on the wiki? On the other h

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-16 Thread John Haltiwanger
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: > Thanks Mojca for comments. > I agree that the output format can be set as needed (a lots of time of > experimentation). But I needed a special sort of bibliographic items > (numbering according to their occurrence in the text) and that I

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Helge Blischke
Hans Hagen wxs.nl> writes: > > On 16-4-2012 19:28, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > > But this overwrites the default value of TEXMFHOME. If the mtxrun > > --generate step were not needed, one could do the same with TEXMFPROJECT > > tree. > > One can indeed use texmfhome which is checked at runtime (

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-4-2012 19:28, Aditya Mahajan wrote: But this overwrites the default value of TEXMFHOME. If the mtxrun --generate step were not needed, one could do the same with TEXMFPROJECT tree. One can indeed use texmfhome which is checked at runtime (but a large one will take time of course esp on

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: On 16-4-2012 15:00, Helge Blischke wrote: Hans Hagen wxs.nl> writes: On 15-4-2012 23:57, Helge Blischke wrote: I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-4-2012 15:00, Helge Blischke wrote: Hans Hagen wxs.nl> writes: On 15-4-2012 23:57, Helge Blischke wrote: I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted directory on a different host.

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Helge Blischke
Hans Hagen wxs.nl> writes: > > On 15-4-2012 23:57, Helge Blischke wrote: > > I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from > > the > > current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted > > directory on a different host. > > > > I tried to point

Re: [NTG-context] Project structure, (simple)font woes

2012-04-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:03:23 +0300 Mari Voipio wrote: > If I look at proj-test.log (the whole thing attached), I think the > problem is here: > > loading > ConTeXt User Module / Simplefonts > <+ > C:/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.lua>) > (C:/contex

Re: [NTG-context] typescripts and font loading (was: Project structure, (simple)font woes)

2012-04-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:27:56 +0200 luigi scarso wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Wolfgang Schuster > wrote: > > > BTW: I can give a talk about typescripts and font loading at the > > next conference when there is interest in this. > +1 > make a separate thread for this ++ Alan __

Re: [NTG-context] doublesided PDF - first and last page singlesided

2012-04-16 Thread Jan Heinen
Hello, some were guessing, what I want to achieve. I made a screenshot for you: http://www.imagebanana.com/view/shoayek5/onlinebook.jpg It ist the online-version of a printed book. For printing it was ok to have one bookpage on one sheet of paper. For the online-version I want to have two bo

Re: [NTG-context] Project structure, (simple)font woes

2012-04-16 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > BTW: I can give a talk about typescripts and font loading at the next > conference when there is interest in this. +1 make a separate thread for this -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] Project structure, (simple)font woes

2012-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 16.04.2012 um 13:03 schrieb Mari Voipio: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to teach myself to use the project structure. After a few > rounds of trial and error (...and stupid naming schemes...) I'm almost > there, but got stuck at my font setups. > > > If I do this as a single file, it works fin

[NTG-context] Project structure, (simple)font woes

2012-04-16 Thread Mari Voipio
Hello all, I'm trying to teach myself to use the project structure. After a few rounds of trial and error (...and stupid naming schemes...) I'm almost there, but got stuck at my font setups. If I do this as a single file, it works fine (Win7 and newest ConTeXt, updated it this morning): % FONT

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese hyphenation / line splitting

2012-04-16 Thread John Devereux
Wolfgang Schuster writes: > Am 16.04.2012 um 10:52 schrieb John Devereux: > >> >> Hi All, >> >> We are having a go at typesetting one of our manuals in Chinese >> (gulp). Is there some trick to getting hyphenation working? (Or perhaps >> "line-splitting" is a better term, I don't even know if h

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-16 Thread Jaroslav Hajtmar
Thanks Mojca for comments. I agree that the output format can be set as needed (a lots of time of experimentation). But I needed a special sort of bibliographic items (numbering according to their occurrence in the text) and that I have unfortunately failed. For average amateurs are code modifi

Re: [NTG-context] How to get info about current [sub-...]section?

2012-04-16 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
... Perfect, thank you! Best regards, Lukas On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:26:52 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \defineconversionset[default][n,n,a,r,n][n] \starttext \section{A} \starttabulate \NC Number \EQ \structurenumber \NC\NR \NC Title \EQ \structuretitle \NC\NR \stoptabulate \subsec

Re: [NTG-context] How to get info about current [sub-...]section?

2012-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 16.04.2012 um 12:15 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.: > Hello, > > suppose having the following code: > > > \starttext > \section{A} >\subsection{Aa} > \subsubsection{Aaa} > >Here, in -- % How to get info about current [sub-...]section - texts > "1.1.1"

[NTG-context] How to get info about current [sub-...]section?

2012-04-16 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
Hello, suppose having the following code: \starttext \section{A} \subsection{Aa} \subsubsection{Aaa} Here, in -- % How to get info about current [sub-...]section - texts "1.1.1" and "Aaa"? \stoptext Is there a way how to get info about the current [sub-...]sectio

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 15-4-2012 23:57, Helge Blischke wrote: I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted directory on a different host. I tried to point context to the project directory by specifying it by the

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Marco
On 2012-04-15 Helge Blischke wrote: > I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from > the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted > directory on a different host. NFS is transparent to the applications and should work the same way as lo

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt User Meeting / EuroTeX 2012?

2012-04-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Mari, On 04/13/2012 09:23 AM, Mari Voipio wrote: The page also says that the arrangers can be contacted at , but that address bounces so I had to resort to the list. I fixed that just now, and the address is a mailing list: http://www.ntg.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eurotex Are the d

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese hyphenation / line splitting

2012-04-16 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 16.04.2012 um 10:52 schrieb John Devereux: > > Hi All, > > We are having a go at typesetting one of our manuals in Chinese > (gulp). Is there some trick to getting hyphenation working? (Or perhaps > "line-splitting" is a better term, I don't even know if hyphens are used > in Chinese). > >

[NTG-context] Chinese hyphenation / line splitting

2012-04-16 Thread John Devereux
Hi All, We are having a go at typesetting one of our manuals in Chinese (gulp). Is there some trick to getting hyphenation working? (Or perhaps "line-splitting" is a better term, I don't even know if hyphens are used in Chinese). What I see in the PDF are unbroken lines running off the edge of t

Re: [NTG-context] doublesided PDF - first and last page singlesided

2012-04-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/16/2012 08:48 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: You should make an example yourself, I'm still guessing what it is you want to achieve. I'm not sure what a "pdf-version for the internet" is - pdf is not a web-based format? My guess is that that OP wants to display the pdf the same way Acrobat r