Re: [NTG-context] Initials and short paragraph

2017-06-20 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 06/20/2017 10:15 PM, Martin Oppegaard wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions! Is there a way to get the amount of > horizontal space the initial takes so that can be put in manually in > front of the next paragraph? Martin, how about making the initial transparent? \definecolor[transparentbl

Re: [NTG-context] Initials and short paragraph

2017-06-20 Thread Martin Oppegaard
Thanks for the suggestions! Is there a way to get the amount of horizontal space the initial takes so that can be put in manually in front of the next paragraph? On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > On 06/09/2017 07:05 AM, Martin Oppegaard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When placing

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

2017-06-20 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/20/2017 11:53 AM, Thomas Widmann wrote: On 20 June 2017 at 10:41, Henri Menke wrote: On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 09:22 +0100, Thomas Widmann wrote: I recently started experimenting with using ConTeXt (mkiv) for dictionary typesetting. It's a much more attractive option than plain TeX or LaTe

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ module not found (TeX Live problem?)

2017-06-20 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/20/2017 4:15 PM, Gerion Entrup wrote: Am Dienstag, 20. Juni 2017, 13:25:42 CEST schrieb Gerion Entrup: Am Dienstag, 20. Juni 2017, 11:45:19 CEST schrieb Henri Menke: On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 02:34 +0200, Gerion Entrup wrote: Good day, I'm very new to ConTeXt, so maybe this is a fairly simpl

Re: [NTG-context] Initials and short paragraph

2017-06-20 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 06/09/2017 07:05 AM, Martin Oppegaard wrote: > Hi, > > When placing an initial and the paragraph is short, the initial is > laid over the next paragraph. Example: > > \starttext > \placeinitial > Knuth writes: > > \input knuth > \stoptext > > Is there anything to do about this? Hi Martin,

Re: [NTG-context] Initials and short paragraph

2017-06-20 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, Perhaps this?: \starttext \placeinitial Knuth writes: \hfill\break \input knuth \stoptext There may be a more ConTeXt-idiomatic way, in which case someone else will probably say. Note that structurally the above combines "Knuth writes:" and the first text segment (up to the first blank li

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ module not found (TeX Live problem?)

2017-06-20 Thread Gerion Entrup
Am Dienstag, 20. Juni 2017, 13:25:42 CEST schrieb Gerion Entrup: > Am Dienstag, 20. Juni 2017, 11:45:19 CEST schrieb Henri Menke: > > On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 02:34 +0200, Gerion Entrup wrote: > > > Good day, > > > > > > I'm very new to ConTeXt, so maybe this is a fairly simple question. > > > > > >

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ module not found (TeX Live problem?)

2017-06-20 Thread Gerion Entrup
Am Dienstag, 20. Juni 2017, 11:45:19 CEST schrieb Henri Menke: > On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 02:34 +0200, Gerion Entrup wrote: > > Good day, > > > > I'm very new to ConTeXt, so maybe this is a fairly simple question. > > > > I want to use TikZ in the document. The specific part of the document is: > >

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

2017-06-20 Thread Thomas Widmann
On 20 June 2017 at 10:41, Henri Menke wrote: > > On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 09:22 +0100, Thomas Widmann wrote: > > > > I recently started experimenting with using ConTeXt (mkiv) for dictionary > > typesetting. It's a much > > more attractive option than plain TeX or LaTeX because of the support for >

Re: [NTG-context] Initials and short paragraph

2017-06-20 Thread Henri Menke
On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 06:05 +0100, Martin Oppegaard wrote: > Hi, > > When placing an initial and the paragraph is short, the initialĀ is laidĀ over > the next paragraph. > Example: > > \starttext > \placeinitial > Knuth writes: > > \input knuth > \stoptext > > Is there anything to do about this?

Re: [NTG-context] TikZ module not found (TeX Live problem?)

2017-06-20 Thread Henri Menke
On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 02:34 +0200, Gerion Entrup wrote: > Good day, > > I'm very new to ConTeXt, so maybe this is a fairly simple question. > > I want to use TikZ in the document. The specific part of the document is: > snip > \usemodule[tikz] > \usetikzlibrary[positioning] > /snip

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

2017-06-20 Thread Henri Menke
On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 09:22 +0100, Thomas Widmann wrote: > Hello, > > I recently started experimenting with using ConTeXt (mkiv) for dictionary > typesetting. It's a much > more attractive option than plain TeX or LaTeX because of the support for > typesetting on a grid. > > However, grid types

[NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

2017-06-20 Thread Thomas Widmann
Hello, I recently started experimenting with using ConTeXt (mkiv) for dictionary typesetting. It's a much more attractive option than plain TeX or LaTeX because of the support for typesetting on a grid. However, grid typesetting can easily result in a large number of orphans and widows, which rea

[NTG-context] TikZ module not found (TeX Live problem?)

2017-06-20 Thread Gerion Entrup
Good day, I'm very new to ConTeXt, so maybe this is a fairly simple question. I want to use TikZ in the document. The specific part of the document is: snip \usemodule[tikz] \usetikzlibrary[positioning] /snip - The problem seems to be that ConTeXt does not find the TikZ module

[NTG-context] Footnotes in paragraph form + annotating them in margin

2017-06-20 Thread Michelle Rodzis
Dear list, in my document I have several kinds of footnotes including footnotes in paragraph form. In some cases I need to annotate these. The annotation should to appear in the outer margin of the page and in line with the annotated footnote. I tried a few different approaches, but none yields

[NTG-context] Initials and short paragraph

2017-06-20 Thread Martin Oppegaard
Hi, When placing an initial and the paragraph is short, the initial is laid over the next paragraph. Example: \starttext \placeinitial Knuth writes: \input knuth \stoptext Is there anything to do about this? Regards, Martin Oppegaard

Re: [NTG-context] how to prevent stupid typos?

2017-06-20 Thread Brian Ballsun-Stanton
Hi Pablo, Your script doesn't have texroot set. You either need to source ~/.profile (or whatever sets texroot) or explicitly set it. At the top of my compile script, I've got: TEXROOT=/opt/context/tex/ TEXMFOS=$TEXROOT/texmf-linux-64 export PATH=$TEXMFOS/bin:$PATH I think the fact that you're