Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit

2013-04-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 22.04.2013 um 01:13 schrieb Jan Heinen jahei...@gmx.de: In a book I produced with ConTeXt last year, I did a lot of calculation to be able to change the layout dynamicaly. With the actual version of ConTeXt I can't compile the book. I have tried a lot of things today ... without

Re: [NTG-context] ConText on webspace

2013-04-22 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Janis, ConText can run on a server, and therefore on a web-server. Your problem would be getting 1und1 allowing for you to install the binaries. I would suggest you mail 1und1 and ask them if you can do that. You might need to switch your contract inorder to do that. Hope this helps

Re: [NTG-context] setuppagenumber--start at page xy

2013-04-22 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Thank you, Huseyin. Yes, that works; but the question remains: Has \setuppagenumber[number=NUMBER] become obsolete? After all, it's all over contextgarden, both in example documents and in the Commands/ list. Cheers, Jörg H. Özoguz writes: Minimal example: \setuppagenumber[number=3]

Re: [NTG-context] setuppagenumber--start at page xy

2013-04-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 22.04.2013 um 09:44 schrieb Jörg Hagmann joerg.hagm...@unibas.ch: Thank you, Huseyin. Yes, that works; but the question remains: Has \setuppagenumber[number=NUMBER] become obsolete? After all, it's all over contextgarden, both in example documents and in the Commands/ list. Yes, the

Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit

2013-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/22/2013 8:48 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 22.04.2013 um 01:13 schrieb Jan Heinen jahei...@gmx.de: In a book I produced with ConTeXt last year, I did a lot of calculation to be able to change the layout dynamicaly. With the actual version of ConTeXt I can't compile the book. I have

Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit

2013-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/22/2013 1:13 AM, Jan Heinen wrote: %\externalfigure[cow][width=\ColumnABiii] Already for quite a while some commands that take a dimension as well as a keyword need a verbose dimension (so \the\ColumnABiii in your case) because it's handled at the lua end (where at this moment we

Re: [NTG-context] setuppagenumber--start at page xy

2013-04-22 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Wolfgang Schuster writes: Yes, the number option for \setuppagenumber is gone and you have to use \setupcounter. Even though this breaks backward compatibility it’s now constant with \setupheadnumber which is used to change the start value for sections. Thank you, Wolfgang. I added this

Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit

2013-04-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 22.04.2013 um 10:14 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 4/22/2013 8:48 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 22.04.2013 um 01:13 schrieb Jan Heinen jahei...@gmx.de: In a book I produced with ConTeXt last year, I did a lot of calculation to be able to change the layout dynamicaly. With

Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit

2013-04-22 Thread Jan Heinen
Hello, thanks for the helpfull tipps. Only one wasn't working: \defineexpandable\ColumnABii {\ctxlua{context([==[\ColumnA + \ColumnB]==])}} ColumnABii: \ColumnABii The result is: ColumnABii: 30mm+ 40mm And it should be ColumnABii: 70mm And in the other cases I get back:

Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit

2013-04-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
I think this calculating with dimension is not very well documented in the context-wiki. Thus I would like to write a small article about Calculating with dimension units in the wiki.contextgarden.net to help others a bit. Or is there already an article somewhere? Such an article will be

Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit

2013-04-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On 2013-04-22, at 6:43 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: (I've been wondering if we should make measured \the\dimexpr..\relax internally which can save dimexpr at the user end.) +1 +1 from me as well. Having to use \dimexpr...\relax in definemeasure ISS bit

Re: [NTG-context] Missing number error, related to setupcolumnsetlines

2013-04-22 Thread Lars Huttar
On /Fri Apr 19 21:36:41 CEST 2013 /Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/18/2013 11:13 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: / \definecolumnset [abbcolumn] [n=2,distance=5mm,balancing=yes] // // \setupcolumnsetlines[abbcolumn][1][1][60] // \setupcolumnsetlines[abbcolumn][1][2][60] / the 60 exceeds the number

Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit

2013-04-22 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Jan Heinen jahei...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, thanks for the helpfull tipps. Only one wasn't working: \defineexpandable\ColumnABii {\ctxlua{context([==[\ColumnA + \ColumnB]==])}} ColumnABii: \ColumnABii The result is: ColumnABii: 30mm+ 40mm And it

[NTG-context] Accessing documentation repository

2013-04-22 Thread contact
Hello, I would like to access ConTeXt documentation repository to download and study how ConTeXt is used to produce the manuals, but it looks like the repositories are down. I tried the following: - Official(?) repository svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals - Manual translations

Re: [NTG-context] Accessing documentation repository

2013-04-22 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 04/22/2013 05:47 PM, cont...@thomas-corbiere.name wrote: - Manual translations http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/contextman/scmsvn/ That one has only been moved to a new url: https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextman/scmsvn/ Best wishes, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] Missing number error, related to setupcolumnsetlines

2013-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/22/2013 4:24 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: On /Fri Apr 19 21:36:41 CEST 2013 /Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/18/2013 11:13 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: / \definecolumnset [abbcolumn] [n=2,distance=5mm,balancing=yes] // // \setupcolumnsetlines[abbcolumn][1][1][60] //

[NTG-context] ``fallback in Typescript

2013-04-22 Thread Tim Li
Hi, In the wiki, fallback often appears in the definition of typescript. I am curious about this ``fallback, is there a place to learn the fallback in detail? I haven't found this place in our wiki. Regards, Tim

Re: [NTG-context] ``fallback in Typescript

2013-04-22 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi Tim, ···date: 2013-04-22, Monday···from: Tim Li··· Hi, In the wiki, fallback often appears in the definition of typescript. I am curious about this ``fallback, is there a place to learn the fallback in detail? I haven't found this place in our wiki. Regards, Tim

Re: [NTG-context] ``fallback in Typescript

2013-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/22/2013 8:11 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi Tim, ···date: 2013-04-22, Monday···from: Tim Li··· Hi, In the wiki, fallback often appears in the definition of typescript. I am curious about this ``fallback, is there a place to learn the fallback in detail? I haven't found this place in our

Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit

2013-04-22 Thread Jan Heinen
Thank you all!! My book from last year (15.000 lines text + context-code and 1.500 lines macro-code now was compiled without no further problems! I only had to change all \define\variable ... to \defineexpandable\variable ... I think, now I understand a little bit more about ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit

2013-04-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 22.04.2013 um 23:28 schrieb Jan Heinen jahei...@gmx.de: Thank you all!! My book from last year (15.000 lines text + context-code and 1.500 lines macro-code now was compiled without no further problems! I only had to change all \define\variable ... to

Re: [NTG-context] Cumulating numbered lists

2013-04-22 Thread Alan Bowen
Another try: Can someone explain why \setupitemgroup[itemize][broad,joinedup,packed,autointro] \setupitemize[itemalign=flushright] \startitemize[n,repeat] \item level a \startitemize[n,repeat] \item level b \startitemize[A][prefix=no] \item level c \stopitemize \stopitemize \stopitemize yields:

Re: [NTG-context] ``fallback in Typescript

2013-04-22 Thread Tim Li
Thanks. I am reading these codes. Tim Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:31:25 +0200 From: pra...@wxs.nl To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re: [NTG-context] ``fallback in Typescript On 4/22/2013 8:11 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi Tim, ・・・date: 2013-04-22, Monday・・・from: Tim Li・・・ Hi, In the