Re: [NTG-context] mtx-context - extraordinarily quiet mode

2013-09-29 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/29/2013 2:43 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Thangalin wrote: Hi, I ran the following: context --noconsole --batchmode --nonstopmode filename.tex This wrote information to the console: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.76.0-2013040516 (rev 4627) \write18 enabled.

Re: [NTG-context] mtx-context - extraordinarily quiet mode

2013-09-29 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/29/2013 6:15 AM, Thangalin wrote: Thank you, Aditya. I should have mentioned that I was thinking about it in terms of optimization. Sometimes when a program's debug/logging mode is disabled, the program executes faster. (In the old days just writing to standard out was enough to make a

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Transparency and ConTeXt

2013-09-29 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/29/2013 6:59 AM, Thangalin wrote: Hi, I have written up a question on TeX.SE: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/135543/pdf-colour-space-and-context Aditya mentioned that the problem with transparencies is that it is likely a known bug with Adobe Acrobat Reader: I remember similar

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Transparency and ConTeXt

2013-09-29 Thread Martin Schröder
2013/9/29 Thangalin thanga...@gmail.com: I ran into what I think is a similar issue with LaTeX and was able to resolve it using the following command in the preamble: \pdfpageattr{/Group /S /Transparency /I true /CS /DeviceRGB} This should be done automagically in pdfTeX (at least it once

[NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-29 Thread Mari Voipio
Hello! Inspired by some informal discussions at the recent ConTeXt meeting I started to write a *really* basic ConTeXt tutorial. However, before I get further than the first six chapters, I'd like to get feedback on it, especially on the content, but also on the layout. The file is (at least

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-29 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–09–29 Mari Voipio wrote: Inspired by some informal discussions at the recent ConTeXt meeting I started to write a *really* basic ConTeXt tutorial. I'm happy to see someone willing to invest time and effort to improve the documentation! I did neither attend the meeting, nor take part in

Re: [NTG-context] Repeat second-level registers within index

2013-09-29 Thread Thangalin
Thank you! Warm regards. On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 9/28/2013 12:27 AM, Thangalin wrote: Thank you, Hans. The error still seems to be present. Out of curiosity, what does max 4 mean? Does it limit the index nesting levels? indeed For my

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Transparency and ConTeXt

2013-09-29 Thread Thangalin
Thank you, Hans. The result looks amazing. Kindest regards. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-29 Thread Thangalin
Hi, Some feedback: - The introduction paragraph can be shortened. For example, tell the reader to try the subsequent examples using ConTeXt Live web page (as opposed to 'almost all of the examples in the series can be run online'). On any example that does not work, indicate such at the time. -

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-29 Thread Mari Voipio
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Marco Patzer li...@homerow.info wrote: Then there is a medium sized manual aimed at beginners, “ConTeXt, an excursion” (which is rather outdated, I agree) I was actually aiming at one step lower and in doing things in the order a word processor user would

Re: [NTG-context] Feedback wanted on a ConTeXt tutorial

2013-09-29 Thread Mari Voipio
Hi! On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Thangalin thanga...@gmail.com wrote: - The introduction paragraph can be shortened. For example, tell the reader to try the subsequent examples using ConTeXt Live web page (as opposed to 'almost all of the examples in the series can be run online'). On any

[NTG-context] fake feature “extend” behaving weirdly

2013-09-29 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi Hans, this got posted on the DANTE list today. \definefontfeature [quite_wide] [extend=1.5] \definefont [mainfont] [file:Iwona-Regular.otf] \definefont [widefont] [file:Iwona-Regular.otf*quite_wide] \starttext \mainfont {\widefont foo} %% comment this line and “bar” is fine