Re: [NTG-context] fonts with luatex

2008-07-09 Thread Alan Stone
PROTECTED] wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Alan Stone wrote: are there really two dots there? ..tma Yes indeed Hans. that's weird, i'm stymied I'm not :) You got that from a bug in the warning message, not the actual file name. input.luasuffix= '.tma' input.report(unable to save %s

Re: [NTG-context] fonts with luatex

2008-07-09 Thread Alan Stone
: . TeXExec | TeXExec | TeXExec | runtime: 0.906651 Exit code: 1 Alan On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You got that from a bug in the warning message, not the actual file name. The .tma and .tmc files are in /opt/context/tex/texmf-cache/ luatex-cache

[NTG-context] fonts with luatex

2008-07-08 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, I have a former ubuntu tex/context installation with fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/truetype (opentype, etc... ) [1] as well as a tex/context minimals installation with fonts in /opt/context/tex/texmf/fonts/truetype (opentype, etc... )[2] the latter using for development under

[NTG-context] luatex: compiling with the context command

2008-07-08 Thread Alan Stone
What's the equivalent texexec's --result option for the context compile command ? Thanks, Alan ___ 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] fonts with luatex

2008-07-08 Thread Alan Stone
messages. Then tried from root ( sudo -i ) which gives -bash: context: command not found Is it serious doctor Lua ? Alan On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Stone wrote: Hi, I have a former ubuntu tex/context installation with fonts in /usr

[NTG-context] table of contents and bookmarks issue

2008-07-07 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, When compiling the same source but with different compiler options... (1) compiled with texmfstart texexec --autopdf --pdf test.tex (2) compiled with texmfstart texexec --xtx test.tex or texmfstart texexec --xetex test.tex All hyperlinks ( table of contents and bookmarks ) jump to the

Re: [NTG-context] table of contents and bookmarks issue

2008-07-07 Thread Alan Stone
Got fed up with context/xetex... Compiled with texmfstart texexec --lua instead and as expected (from a previous thread) bookmarks are scrambled when using accented (french) characters. Hope this (luatex) issue will be resolved very soon. Thanks for the backward compatibility though. Didn't have

Re: [NTG-context] table of contents and bookmarks issue

2008-07-07 Thread Alan Stone
have to get those fonts rendered correctly with luatex... Best, Alan On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Stone wrote: Got fed up with context/xetex... Compiled with texmfstart texexec --lua instead and as expected (from a previous thread) bookmarks

[NTG-context] interactive reference in footer

2008-07-06 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, How do you set an interactive link (hyperlink) to the table of contents in a footer ? I tried with \setupfootertexts[-1-][\but[toctoc]][-4-][-3-] and \reference[toctoc]% \ref[toctoc] gives the same error \placecontent This gives the following compile error: ! Undefined control

[NTG-context] how to comment several lines at once ?

2008-07-02 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer... How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line with the % sign ? Alan ___ If your question is of interest to others as

[NTG-context] screen sizes

2008-07-02 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, From what I understand from the ConTeXt manual, the S3-S6 screen sizes relate to the physical screen dimensions, more precisely the display area width and height. However, the only information I find when searching for the most common screen sizes relates to the screen resolution and/or the

Re: [NTG-context] context manuals sources

2008-07-01 Thread Alan Stone
is there a reference explaining the meaning of ConTeXt compile error messages ? Alan On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, re: http://context.aanhet.net/svn/manuals/context/ I've

Re: [NTG-context] context manuals sources

2008-07-01 Thread Alan Stone
and what I intended to study now how to implement. Would you please advise when uploaded ? Thanks on beforehand, Alan On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, re

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

2008-06-30 Thread Alan Stone
Hi Jesse, 1. What's the difference between getting the texmf tree using rsync, as you suggest, and using ctxtools --updatecontext? Are those equivalent? You might read the underneath thread from here on, as well as its later posts...

Re: [NTG-context] context manuals sources

2008-06-30 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, re: http://context.aanhet.net/svn/manuals/context/ I've downloaded all files from the above directory to a separate folder on my PC and am trying to compile the screen version of the english context manual with texmfstart texexec --pdf --mode=screen cont-en.tex Is that the correct command

[NTG-context] context manuals sources

2008-06-29 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, I'm trying to figure out the meaning and use of the c! and v! prefixes in commands in, for example, the layo-xx.tex source files at http://context.aanhet.net/svn/manuals/context/ aka... \setupcolors [\c!state=\v!start] \setupsystem [\c!random=\v!big] \setuplayout

Re: [NTG-context] pdf bizareness...

2008-06-29 Thread Alan Stone
), Somebody knows the details ? Alan At Saturday 28/06/2008 13:45, you wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep Hans, that one. Ok I won't bother about it any longer. Any clues regarding the other issues, i.e. (1) the scrambled PDF headers ? (2

Re: [NTG-context] context manuals sources

2008-06-29 Thread Alan Stone
Euuuh, other than constant and variable... LHS, RHS and enumeration are like klingon to me. :O) Are these terms important to understand the code ? Alan On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Stone wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out the meaning

Re: [NTG-context] context manuals sources

2008-06-29 Thread Alan Stone
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Alan Stone wrote: Euuuh, other than constant and variable... See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Scratch_Variables Ahaa... I thought they were Scratch_Your_Head_Variables. :O) Thanks

Re: [NTG-context] pdf bizareness...

2008-06-28 Thread Alan Stone
-2.2-0.999.1 (Web2C 7.5.6) Best, Alan On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Stone wrote: FYI, log file in attachment. There's a ( for me obscure ) warning message... you mean ... [1.1] ** WARNING ** Could not open config file dvipdfmx.cfg. stdin

Re: [NTG-context] pdf bizareness...

2008-06-28 Thread Alan Stone
more comprehensible, though I don't have a clue what I'm doing. I just try different things and keep what works. Thanks for all that you do. Have a great weekend, Alan On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Stone wrote: Yep Hans, that one. Ok I won't bother

[NTG-context] pdf bizareness...

2008-06-27 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, - ConTeXt ver: 2008.06.22 17:38 MKII fmt: 2008.6.23 ( ctx minimal) - XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.1 (Web2C 7.5.6) When using (1) \setupinteraction[state=start, title={éèçàù}, subtitle={éèçàù}, author={éèçàù}, keyword={éèçàù}] the accented characters get al scrambled

Re: [NTG-context] pdf bizareness...

2008-06-27 Thread Alan Stone
[ title=ÀÂÆ ÇÉÈÊË ÎÏÔŒ ÙÜŸ, subtitle=àâæ çéèêë îïôœ ùûüÿ, author=àâæ ÀÂÆ, keyword=àâæ çéèêë îïôœ ùûüÿ] \starttext À Â Æ Ç É È Ê Ë Î Ï Ô Œ Ù Ü Ÿ à â æ ç é è ê ë î ï ô œ ù û ü ÿ \stoptext --- end code --- Thanks on beforehand, Alan 2008/6/27 Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi

Re: [NTG-context] pdf bizareness...

2008-06-27 Thread Alan Stone
Thanks Khaled. In the meantime found http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_Bookmarks_and_Headers#PDF_Headers so... --- begin code --- \mainlanguage[fr] \setupinteraction[ state=start, title={ÀÂÆ ÇÉÈÊË ÎÏÔŒ ÙÜŸ}, subtitle={àâæ çéèêë îïôœ ùûüÿ}, author={àâæ ÀÂÆ}, keyword={àâæ çéèêë

Re: [NTG-context] pdf bizareness...

2008-06-27 Thread Alan Stone
FYI, log file in attachment. There's a ( for me obscure ) warning message... Have a good weekend everybody, Alan minifr.log Description: Binary data ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-26 Thread Alan Stone
For your information... http://www.talo.nl/talo/download/documents/Language_Book.pdf There's a whole chapter on hyphenation rules for the European languages. Best, Alan On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Olivier Guéry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember reading that in correct french typo we

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-26 Thread Alan Stone
: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Alan Stone wrote: For your information... http://www.talo.nl/talo/download/documents/Language_Book.pdf There's a whole chapter on hyphenation rules for the European languages. A magnificent reference! At least for Slovenian it's using the deprecated language

[NTG-context] table of contents strangeness...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Stone
this works... \setuplist[chapter][ style=bold, aligntitle=yes, after=\blank] --- that's too much vertical blank space this doesn't... \setuplist[chapter][ style=bold, aligntitle=yes, after=\blank[small]] strange ( see log in attachement ), or not ? alan

Re: [NTG-context] table of contents strangeness...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Stone
Tested and confirmed. :O) Thanks Thomas. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Stone
In a document where \mainlanguage[fr] some words weren't hyphenated correctly so I've put them in a hyphenation pattern \hyphenation{ ap-pa-ren-ce at-ten-dai-ent com-men-cent d'am-bi-tion d'in-flu-en-ce l'ap-pa-ren-ce } The only ones who still don't get hyphenated

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Stone
Will comply. Thanks Olivier On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Olivier Guéry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a document where \mainlanguage[fr] some words weren't hyphenated correctly so I've put them in a hyphenation

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Stone
Hmmm... that means there are a * lot * more words to add to the hyphenation pattern declaration. How do you instruct (Con)TeX(t) to not hypenate before the last « syllable » ? Alan On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will comply. Thanks Olivier On Wed, Jun

Re: [NTG-context] context minimals installation

2008-06-24 Thread Alan Stone
i suspect there's a (configuration) file containing a path specification which scite uses to catch some path setting to the old context directory, hence that path could be modified to first look in the new context directory any clues which file that is and where it's located ? alan

[NTG-context] page header and footer question

2008-06-24 Thread Alan Stone
With... \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] how do you prevent the - page header, and/or - page footer to be displayed on an occasional even blank page between a previous chapter last page and the next chapter page ? Alan

Re: [NTG-context] page header and footer question

2008-06-24 Thread Alan Stone
just found something here... http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Titles will try it out. alan On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With... \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] how do you prevent the - page header, and/or - page footer

[NTG-context] context minimals installation

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Stone
- Ubuntu 8.04 According to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals I installed the context minimals in /opt/context then ( after some research about its definition and use ) created a .bash_profile file (using gedit) to which were added the following instructions #!/bin/bash source

Re: [NTG-context] context minimals installation

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Stone
There's a /home/alan/.bashrc so I've put the command line there... doesn't work either. Will research about how to proceed with the PATH alternative. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Alan Stone wrote: - Ubuntu 8.04

Re: [NTG-context] context minimals installation

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Stone
, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will research about how to proceed with the PATH alternative. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Alan Stone wrote: - Ubuntu 8.04 According to http

Re: [NTG-context] context minimals installation

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Stone
. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:32:08PM +0200, Alan Stone wrote: There's a /home/alan/.bashrc so I've put the command line there... doesn't work either. Will research about how to proceed with the PATH alternative. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [NTG-context] context minimals installation

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Stone
indeed, when running scite from terminal and building, the output window shows ConTeXt ver: 2008.06.22 17:38 MKII fmt: 2008.6.23 int: english/english learned a few new things today. :O) thanks to all for helping out find some other way to pass some environmental variables (at least PATH)

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-21 Thread Alan Stone
Thanks for your extensive comments Aditya. It's (finally) *much* clearer now. Now you have two options: Either isolate minimal context from the one provided by the distribution, or make them co-exist. Isolating them is easy, the minimals even come with a script setuptex which does that. So,

Re: [NTG-context] garden's vs. pragma's minimals

2008-06-21 Thread Alan Stone
Thanks Mojca. Have a nice weekend, Alan On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Alan Stone wrote: Thanks for your extensive comments Aditya. It's (finally) *much* clearer now. Now you have two options: Either isolate

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Stone
At least ctxtools --updatecontext should work. The /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive are there. Or am I (again) missing something ? On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Stone
I don't understand. Please explain... (1) You cannot update the binaries that way (you are not supposed to :). Why can't the binaries be updated that way (why aren't we supposed to) ? (2) On your own risk, you may update the binaries from minimals rsync -av \

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Stone
--updatecontext --- unquote --- Uh ??? Best, Alan On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand. Please explain... (1) You cannot update the binaries that way (you are not supposed to :). Why can't the binaries be updated that way (why aren't we

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Stone
Hi Wolfgang, Hmmm... There's Mac too. However, I don't give up so quickly. :O) I find Linux rather cool. At the same time finding Windows' desktop/window manager more and more boring, considering the personalisation capabilities of GNU/Linux' desktops, etc... Hence, for the time being, I'll

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Stone
Thanks Mojca. If you are lucky, it puts the files where you want them to be, but since every installation works its own way, it's hard to predict where to put them; ... Of course you can. But if you happen to update TL package, your additions will be destroyed. And you need to rebuild all

[NTG-context] SciTE/Linux: how to change font ?

2008-06-19 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, Is it possible to use the available True/OpenType fonts ? If so, how ? Thx, Alan PS Ubuntu 8.04, SciTE 1.75 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE/Linux: how to change font ?

2008-06-19 Thread Alan Stone
Thanks Hans. I meant changing the font of the SciTE editor. Meanwhile I found how. Best, Alan On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Stone wrote: Hi, Is it possible to use the available True/OpenType fonts ? If so, how ? on the wiki search for xetex

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-14 Thread Alan Stone
Thanks all for kindly posting your precious recommendations and tips. (K)Ubuntu and PC-BSD Live CD's it will be... as an appetizer. :O) For future reference for people considering giving it a go, here are some useful links: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution -

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)

2008-06-14 Thread Alan Stone
Wow... this is a good one: Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go... http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ Results were *very* close to your suggestions. Alan On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all for kindly posting your

Re: [NTG-context] TeXCalc

2008-06-12 Thread Alan Stone
, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Michael Hallgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mercredi 11 juin 2008 à 20:28 +0200, Alan Stone a écrit : I downloaded Taco's TeXCalc script at http://tex.aanhet.net/utils/texcalc and installed the required perlTk thingie. Newbie question... How do you run

Re: [NTG-context] TeXCalc

2008-06-12 Thread Alan Stone
That's the way you would do if you were using a Unix alike system. Mama mia ! That definitely doesn't motivate me to switch to something Unix-ish. Forgive me, I'm a simple soul. ;O) Good you've put it here for future reference nevertheless. Best, Alan

Re: [NTG-context] TeXCalc

2008-06-12 Thread Alan Stone
12, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Alan Stone wrote: That's the way you would do if you were using a Unix alike system. Mama mia ! That definitely doesn't motivate me to switch to something Unix-ish. Forgive me, I'm a simple soul. ;O) On Windows you can create a file texcalc.bat with contents

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt manual question

2008-06-11 Thread Alan Stone
on beforehand for taking my small rant ;O) into consideration. All the best, Alan On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intend to print the http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont

[NTG-context] TeXCalc

2008-06-11 Thread Alan Stone
I downloaded Taco's TeXCalc script at http://tex.aanhet.net/utils/texcalc and installed the required perlTk thingie. Newbie question... How do you run this silly script (*) ? Using ActivePerl and sciTE. Thanks, Alan (*) No, no it's not me who said it first... Taco wrote it himself ! ;O)

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt manual question

2008-06-11 Thread Alan Stone
hm, more recent manuals tend to use even more color ... Good for HP, Epson, ..., cartridge manufacturers and resellers. Not for our wallets. Besides this detail... very well written manual though! ;O) Best, Alan On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan

Re: [NTG-context] How to implement this document's navigational system ?

2008-06-10 Thread Alan Stone
Thanks to all for your prompt response. Got something to scratch my head about. ;O) Beste groeten/Regards, Alan ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] How to implement this document's navigational system ?

2008-06-10 Thread Alan Stone
For your information... After installing ConTeXt with ContextMinimalInstall.exe, which didn't succeed, I took http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip but couldn't figure out how to configure sciTE - even after reading the SciTE in ConTeXt manual several times it still was

[NTG-context] ConTeXt manual question

2008-06-10 Thread Alan Stone
I intend to print the http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-enp.pdf manual ( dated 2001.11.12 ). However, before proceeding... Is there's an updated version available ? Thanks, Alan ___ If your question is

[NTG-context] How to implement this document's navigational system ?

2008-06-09 Thread Alan Stone
Hi, Having discovered LaTeX a few weeks ago, I'm considering switching to ConTeXt instead. :O) Hence, while playing with ConTeXt, I'd like to know... How to implement this type of document navigational system/panel: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf ? Thanks, Alan

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