[NTG-context] Re: how to prevent item appearing in List of Figures

and also no caption, I wouldn’t use floats > (\placefigure) at all, but just plain \externalfigure. > > Hraban ******* CHARLES DOHERTY 13 BANCROFT ROAD TALLAGHT DUBLIN D24 YH2V home: +353 1 2447483 Mobile: +353 863868629 charles.

[NTG-context] how to prevent item appearing in List of Figures

Hi Mikael, > I notice that you addressed Wolfgang, but you also sent to the list. > One way could be to condition on being on a chapter page: > > \setupheadertexts > [\doifelsefirstsectionpage{chapter}{\userpagenumber}{}] > > \setupheadertexts > [\doifelsefirstsectionpage{chapter}{}{\getmarkin

[NTG-context] page number

Dear Wolfgang, I have a book in preparation with running heads. Pagenumber marking |marking Pagenumber The chapter title page has empty headings. The publisher would like the page number centered on the Chapter title page. I manage to put it there but I don’t want it to run on th

Re: [NTG-context] double-sided page number placement

nmargin work in LMTX and MKIV So everything is working for me now. Thank you for taking the time, Charlie > On 12 Jul 2021, at 06:20, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > > On 7/11/21 5:07 PM, Charles Doherty wrote: >> [...] >> the left page of the double spread places the page numb

[NTG-context] double-sided page number placement

Dear Hans, The following file: \setuplayout[location=doublesided] \setuppagenumbering[location=inmargin,alternative=doublesided] \starttext \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth } \stoptext using: > ConTeXt ver: 2021.04.21 11:39 LMTX fmt: 2021.7.11 int: english/english the left page of the double sp

Re: [NTG-context] arm osx

export > PATH=/Users/pothole/data/contextarm64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin:/Users/pothole/data/contextarm64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin > > /Users/pothole/data/contextarm64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun --autogenerate > --script context --autopdf "$1" > > Best Wishes > > Keith

Re: [NTG-context] arm osx

en, and when the Finder tells you whether you really want to > open that file, you say YES… > After this, the install script does what it has to do and you don’t need > anymore to authorize mtxrun to run. > > Best regards: Otared

Re: [NTG-context] About font combination in ConTeXt MKIV

ancient Greek characters (my range being boxdrawing). Hope this helps. Charles On 9/9/20 11:31 AM, MANUEL GONZALEZ SUAREZ wrote: Dear friends: Until now (TeXLive 2018), to write Spanish and ancient Greek in the same document, I used the "simplefonts" module, which is said in the wiki

[NTG-context] Wrong page number when placefigure spans full page in columnset

1, 2, 2, 4, 5. If I reduce the height of the figure (from 15 to 12cm for example), then some main text gets added on the page and page number (3) becomes correct. Is that a bug or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for your help. Charles \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \setuplayout[heigh

[NTG-context] problem using LMTX

The print-out below is from two runs on a Newsletter that I produce. Taco kindly told me to add \loadmarkfile{page-mul} to my input file some months ago to solve a problem with footnotes. I use an engine in TeXShop and I get the result 1) below (which is what I want) in the first example. I am

[NTG-context] getting modules working on luametatex on Mac Catalina

Thanks to Otared Kavian’s instructions I have luametatex working on my Mac OS 10.15.2 (Catalina). I have a file making use of the annotation module but it fails and the log says that it can’t be found (the texmf-modules folder is empty). What command do I need to download the modules? Thanks

[NTG-context] Wrong section space after placefigure with newcolumnsets

e subsection" in the example below. Tested with ConTeXt ver: 2018.04.04 and LuaTeX, Version 1.07.0. This seems to be the opposite problem as the one described recently in the thread "Bug in wrapped placefigure". Any solution or fix? Thank you very much for your help. Char

Re: [NTG-context] Overwritten text with newcolumnsets

} \stopcolumnset \stoptext On 02/08/2018 04:38 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2018-02-08 um 05:22 schrieb Charles Vejnar : I am trying to add a figure now using \placefigure. But the placement in brackets is always ignored. AFAIK it's normal to get a figure at the top of a new page when it

Re: [NTG-context] Overwritten text with newcolumnsets

it horizontally centered (on the top of the next page as it is already). Any way to achieve that? Thanks again for your help. Charles On 02/06/2018 06:03 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 2/6/2018 9:51 PM, Charles Vejnar wrote: Hi, I am trying to get a two-column document with figures. After failing wit

[NTG-context] Overwritten text with newcolumnsets

this problem was also reported on Sept 22, 2016 by Jose Luis Arellano on this mailing-list. Do you confirm the problem? Any way/plan to fix it? Thanks so much for your help. Best, Charles % start of example \usemodule[newcolumnsets] \definecolumnset[example][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset

Re: [NTG-context] Parameter scale in copypages in latest beta

Le 15/10/2012 17:22, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 15.10.2012 um 17:12 schrieb Charles : Hi, I was importing a PDF inside my document, but the scale parameter is now ignored. It's reproducible with any PDF with: \starttext \copypages[tt.pdf][scale=500] \stoptext Any idea ? Can yo

[NTG-context] Parameter scale in copypages in latest beta

Hi, I was importing a PDF inside my document, but the scale parameter is now ignored. It's reproducible with any PDF with: \starttext \copypages[tt.pdf][scale=500] \stoptext Any idea ? Thanks Charles _

[NTG-context] Problem with placefigure in a new page with latest beta

[]} \stoptext Any idea why? Thanks Charles ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] Paragraph width in table of contents

Le 10/04/2012 17:32, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 10.04.2012 um 15:59 schrieb Marco: On 2012-04-10 Charles wrote: With an older version of Context […] the paragraphs with the section title were shorter and not overlapping with the page number. I don't see any overlapping here.

[NTG-context] Paragraph width in table of contents

shorter and not overlapping with the page number. How can I obtain again that property? Thanks for your help Charles \starttext \section{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, maecenas malesuada, ut tellus ac a egestas donec, lectus aliquam, purus orci fermentum porta sed. Ut quis risus suspendisse

Re: [NTG-context] Float on opposite page

Le 01/03/2012 18:17, Aditya Mahajan a écrit : On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Charles wrote: Hi, I have a problem with float positioning. I would like to have text on even pages and text on odd pages. I tried: - "\placetable[opposite]" but then the tables are not included. - "\placetable[

[NTG-context] Float on opposite page

figures/tables on a new even page, but if 2 figures/tables fit on one page, they should not be on two different pages but together on the same even page (I was thinking "opposite" should do that). Thanks for your help Charles \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \startte

[NTG-context] Length of section line in a table of contents

shorter and not overlapping with the page number. How can I obtain again that property? Thanks Charles \starttext \section{Text and more text and even more text and still more text till it stops} \section{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, maecenas malesuada, ut tellus ac a egestas donec, lectus

Re: [NTG-context] Linebreak in a framed for a chapter setuphead

Le 29/02/2012 16:18, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 29.02.2012 um 16:05 schrieb Charles: Le 29/02/2012 12:42, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 29.02.2012 um 12:19 schrieb Charles: Hi, I have a problem with the following definition of chapter header. I would like to have the chapter title

Re: [NTG-context] Linebreak in a framed for a chapter setuphead

Le 29/02/2012 12:42, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 29.02.2012 um 12:19 schrieb Charles: Hi, I have a problem with the following definition of chapter header. I would like to have the chapter title on the left side and the number, with higher size, on the right side. The \mychap seems to

[NTG-context] Linebreak in a framed for a chapter setuphead

Hi, I have a problem with the following definition of chapter header. I would like to have the chapter title on the left side and the number, with higher size, on the right side. The \mychap seems to work while used directly. Any solution? Thanks Charles \def\mychap#1#2{\framed[frame

[NTG-context] \starttabulate inside a \placelegend is not working

Hi, I would like to put a table (\starttabulate ... \stoptabulate) inside a \placelegend in order to have local footnotes. The compilation is OK for \starttable but failing with \starttabulate. Some help please? Thanks Charles \starttext \startlocalfootnotes \placetable{A table with

Re: [NTG-context] Document with only figures

I put the \placefigure (w/o the page option) of the first figure inside a \centerbox and it's working. Thank you very much for your help. Charles Le 16/11/2011 13:37, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 16.11.2011 um 13:26 schrieb Charles: Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for your reply. But I would

Re: [NTG-context] Document with only figures

Hi Wolfgang, Thanks for your reply. But I would like to have a figure (with placefigure) and the centerednextbox doesn't center vertically. Charles Le 16/11/2011 12:26, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 16.11.2011 um 12:20 schrieb Charles: Hi, I would like to have a document with

Re: [NTG-context] Document with only figures

Hi Willi, Sorry for the mistakes. But the default in centered horizontally but not vertically on the page, and I would like to have this. Charles Le 16/11/2011 12:40, Willi Egger a écrit : Hi Charles, If I use your example I get an error. The \placefigure command needs the structure

[NTG-context] Document with only figures

s own page). I was expecting \placefloats to do what I want, but it's not working. And \placefigure doesn't have a 'center' option. Any ideas? Thanks Charles ___ If your question is of interest

[NTG-context] Automatically add \stopXX when a new \startXX of same type occurs

when a new one is started in the XML output? Thanks Charles ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] Inits without space in bibliography

work as every "field" is separated by a space later. But I found here [1] a function to remove the spaces. Thanks Charles [1] ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/doc/btxFAQ.pdf ___

[NTG-context] Inits without space in bibliography

Hi, I would like (the journal actually) to remove the spaces between initials (C.E. instead of C. E.). in the bibliography. It seems initials are created during the .bib to .bbl conversion but I haven't find anything in the .bst style file. Can you please help ? Thanks Ch

Re: [NTG-context] HTML export

OK. Then how to make the journal (for example) in the bibliography to be in an element of the structure rather than only some style ? Thanks Charles Le 30/09/2011 15:42, Henning Hraban Ramm a écrit : Am 2011-09-30 um 14:29 schrieb Charles: I would like to export my document to HTML. I am

[NTG-context] HTML export

some style (italic) which isn't present in the XHTML output. How can have it present somehow? Thanks Charles ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

[NTG-context] background and footnotes

Dear Wolfgang, Thank you again for the previous fix. I am attaching the same file but with a complete text. When I use the background it either comes down over the footnotes or pushes them on to the following blank page. Also see the footnote generated in the margin that seems to use the margin

Re: [NTG-context] Loss of footnotes while using background colour

Dear Wolfgang, Once again thank you very much. It works perfectly. Charlie On 11 Apr 2011, at 08:24, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Add “\automigrateinserts” to your preamble. > > Wolfgang ___ If your question is of i

[NTG-context] Loss of footnotes while using background colour

Dear all, I am making a manual for students of Irish hagiography. I am setting source material whether original or in translation against a middle gray background. When I do this as you see in the attached sample file the footnotes are not printed. I would be grateful if anyone can give me a so

[NTG-context] Hoefler font in Mark IV

Dear all, I have been using Hoefler font successfully in a newsletter. I am now processing it in MarkIV but I don't get bold or bold italic. Italic is not quite the same either. I am using simplefonts. I have the .dfont and the .ttf on my system. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, C

Re: [NTG-context] What are the best fonts to use

Thank you Hraban, It is falling into place now. Charlie On 16 Mar 2011, at 13:18, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > But use "bp" instead of "pt" - TeX's point is smaller than a PostScript > point, we had that recently... > see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography) ___

Re: [NTG-context] What are the best fonts to use

Ah Willi, It is quite clear now. I did think along those lines but wasn't sure. Thank you very much, Charlie On 16 Mar 2011, at 12:59, Willi Egger wrote: > Hi, > > Graphic designers describe in this way the font-size and linespacing. > > So one can do things like this: > > \definedfont[Bask

Re: [NTG-context] What are the best fonts to use

Dear all, In light of the question on fonts I have wondered how ConTeXt deals with this Monotype Baskerville 11/12.5 pt or Monotype 11 on 12 point Bembo that I see at the beginning of books. Are there commands to achieve this. There probably are but I haven't recognised them. Thanks, Charl

Re: [NTG-context] Simplefonts

Dear Wolfgang, Thank you very much. It works a treat! Best wishes, Charlie On 11 Mar 2011, at 18:30, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 11.03.2011 um 13:28 schrieb Charles Doherty: > >> Dear Wolfgang, >> >> I sent an e-mail about problems with my simplefonts. I got no

[NTG-context] Simplefonts

Dear Wolfgang, I sent an e-mail about problems with my simplefonts. I got no reply since my example had fonts that were probably not available to you. But the problem does not relate to the Gaelic fonts that I had been using. I am sending this file instead. The fonts below can be swapped about.

[NTG-context] Simplefonts

Dear Wolfgang, The file from which the extract is taken worked fine a few months ago. I have since updated minimals and also simplefonts but I now have a problem. This update was today. The main font is typeset as Gentium Basic as requested but the Gaelic font is set as a roman italic. The swit

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographies in Mark IV

Dear Thomas and Hans, Thanks for looking at this and apologies for not sending the bib file. I attach a .tex file and a .bib file for Hans to test. I make my .bib file in BibDesk on the Mac (the preview style is abbrev). BibDesk uses LaTeX to produce the preview and that looks perfect. When

[NTG-context] Bibliographies in Mark IV

Dear all, The file below produces a bibliography using Mark II but only a title when using Mark IV. Have things changed or do I need a new approach? I am using Minimals. Thanks, Charlie \usemodule[bib] \setuppublications[criterium=all,numbering=no] \setupbibtex[database={Kings},sort=aut

Re: [NTG-context] installing minimals

Thanks David, I did look at that but it seems ok. Thanks again, Charlie On 18 Sep 2010, at 15:23, David Rogers wrote: > Here's a total shot in the dark (I don't use OS X anymore): > > Last time that I used TeXShop, it had an "engine" file in the library > folder that I sometimes had to modify i

Re: [NTG-context] installing minimals

: 0.156153 From the above it seems to be a problem with the format. Thanks for any help, Charlie On 17 Sep 2010, at 20:52, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Dear Charles, > > I'm not sure about what could go wrong. Which instructions exactly > were you following and at what point

[NTG-context] installing minimals

Dear all, I had installed minimals in a folder 'context' in my home directory. I am using a Macbook 10.6.4. I have been using MarkIV successfully for a number of months. I recently decided to update but I get the result below. I followed the instructions on Contextgarden as before in the ConTe

Re: [NTG-context] EnglishRule and Lua / Simplefonts module

Dear Wolfgang, I deleted the luatex cashe. I got the same output. Then I ran the scripts. This is the result: dejavuserif dejavuserif /Library/Fonts/DejaVuSerif.ttf dejavuserifnormal dejavuserifitalic /Library/Fonts/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf Charlie On 24 Nov 2009, at 17:07, Wolfgang Schus

Re: [NTG-context] EnglishRule and Lua / Simplefonts module

Here it is:Thanks for taking the time.Charlie EnglishRuleTest.log Description: Binary data On 24 Nov 2009, at 15:36, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:Am 24.11.2009 um 15:52 schrieb Charles Doherty:Dear Wolfgang,I deleted my Minimals folder and did a complete re-install following instructions on

Re: [NTG-context] EnglishRule and Lua / Simplefonts module

; I still get the results as described below. Charlie On 24 Nov 2009, at 13:38, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 24.11.2009 um 13:57 schrieb Charles Doherty: > >> Dear Hans and Wolfgang, >> >> I have started experimenting with the Lua engine through TeXShop. I us

[NTG-context] EnglishRule and Lua / Simplefonts module

Dear Hans and Wolfgang, I have started experimenting with the Lua engine through TeXShop. I use \EnglishRule in a Newsletter to separate major items. When I use it in the attached file it works as always when I use the ConteXt engine (TL2009) and in my minimals installation it works fine using

[NTG-context] Problem with bibl-aps style?

Dear Taco, When I use bibl-aps [9] below is incollection and [10] is book. As you can see the title is missing in [9]. I did a fresh download of Minimals this morning in case my bibl-aps was corrupt but the result is as below. Any advice? And apologies for bothering you so soon again. V

Re: [NTG-context] indices

Dear Taco, You are a genius. Works a treat! Thank you very much. Charlie On 24 May 2009, at 17:05, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Remember this: \unprotect \def\insertkeywords#1#2#3% {\bibdoifelse{\@@p...@keywords} {% #1\@@p...@keywords #2% \processcommacommand[\@@p...@keywords]\index

[NTG-context] indices

at to automatically generate indices based on the keywords that do not appear in the bibliography itself. If this can be done can someone show me how to go about that. Thank you in advance. Charlie Doherty *** Mr Charles Doherty, Early Irish History, Room K113, School of History,

[NTG-context] Problem getting output

Dear all, When I try to typeset a file using XeConTeXt METAFONT is called and goes into a loop trying to make the fonts you see below. I have made a clean TeX installation from the MacTeX site but the result is the same. As an alternative I installed Minimals and created an MinXeConTeXt.e

Re: [NTG-context] File fails to compile

very much! I don't know why and I don't care but it worked. Thanks again, Charlie > > On Nov 30, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Charles Doherty wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I made a poster about two months ago. Today I cloned it to make a >> different one. I am

[NTG-context] File fails to compile

Dear all, I made a poster about two months ago. Today I cloned it to make a different one. I am using MacTex 2008 distribution and XeConTeXt . I am using fonts such as Hoefler, Gentium, Junicode etc. The original file and the new one stick at the console readout below. I uninstalled 2008 d

Re: [NTG-context] showcase on mac?

and the like without depending directly on a packaged TeX distro, allowing easy use of the tl-installer and the minimals as well. If KDE 4 is more stable in the next release cycle or if I remain a glutton for Gnome punishment, I may go that direction again, lack of Flash (except under Wine) or no

[NTG-context] Helping Mac users with the Bourne-again shell

Seems that this could be a time saver for all concerned. My problem is keeping straight what idiosyncratically does what on the given *nix I happen to be using. They all differ just enough... Charles ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] Happy ConTeXt Community Day :)

and developing whatever users around > the World desire. ******* Mr Charles Doherty, Early Irish History, Room K113, School of History, John Henry Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Te

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals on Mac

onds to /home on other Unix-like systems. And this brings up a good point. With UNIX pathnames, you have two alternatives for spaces in pathnames, e.g., from your home dir: "~/The Directory/and/its leaves" ~/The\ Directory/and/its\ leaves HTH Charles > But, sad to say, I get t

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals on Mac

he .bashrc. That way, stuff under Aqua see the right environment. If you just do cmdline, then .bashrc is OK. That's similar to GNOME under Linux/BSD. See what happens after you do that. Charles On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 13:16 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: > Charles, > > I ran the last com

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals on Mac

alled minimals - is find out the means to point your files to the right installation or else they will look for the old one. I would suggest to check the wiki until I look into things moew. Charles On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 13:16 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: > Charles, > > I ran the last command

[NTG-context] Kerning and Scaling

sizes. I found this exercise to be fun for learning about macro expansion, as well as dealing with multiple constraints and tail recursion. Charles Cut Here- %Testing insertion of kerns and stuff \newif\ifhavecontext %\havecontextfalse \havecontexttrue % Here we have two kerns tha

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals on Mac

ng UNIX (as Mac OS X proudly touts) you might want to snag a reference on shell scripting and basic UNIX commands. Welcome to the world beyond Aqua. That should do it. Charles On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 09:23 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: > I have installed the Context Minimals following the newbie >

[NTG-context] AUCTeX issues not necessarily ConTeXt-related

way, I can live with the situation as long as my output is correct. Charles ___ 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/mai

Re: [NTG-context] Intraword spacing proof of concept

rious formats is an essential part of getting a handle on things; and (3) buying the books really does help. But I'm glad I had 36 comp sci credit hours. Without a few courses on algorithms and data structure

[NTG-context] Intraword spacing proof of concept

seems like the code might allow that, then a version that "spaces in" and "spaces out" could well be possible. So here's the proof of concept, for those so interested. Charles \starttext % macros for non-centered displays \outer\def\begindisplay{\obeylines\startdispl

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

the spacing that x, x.\ x x ought to. It's an UGLY hack, but you'd be surprised at how ugly I hacked my own thesis in LaTeX to get it converted to Word and get it in on time. The very memory is traumatic. Charles On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 18:57 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: > I apologiz

Re: [NTG-context] greek again

on Plan 9. My last MikTeX experience yielded non-portable DVI files, that meaning all DVI viewers under Linux that I tried could not read a DVI generated by MikTeX. I think PDF works, though. But it's Microsoft . . . Charles

Re: [NTG-context] hiding content

\else % Put all your usual content here. \fi It's a kludge, but it should work in a pinch. Charles On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 15:21 +0200, Alan Stone wrote: > >And you want to hide part of the content for ... > > Enabling people to view the pdf preview version (limited, containing > e

Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

sure what ramifications exist there. There is a way to make things like otf fonts in your texmf trees visible to defoma, but I have yet to RTFMP, except to install the cm-super XII package. HTH Charles On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 23:22 +0200, Diego Depaoli wrote: > 2008/7/18 Wolfgang Schuster

Re: [NTG-context] fonts (in luatex) (again)

r the task Charles On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 21:19 +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > On Jul 15, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > I'm not sure, but ".dfont" looks like AAT format and no extension like > > Mac-specific way of storing Type 1. Both doable,

Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenmark and composed words

les like Endnotes, though the implementation eludes me. Lehman's biblatex seems to do that via LaTeX. Charles On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 12:22 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Olivier Guéry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/7/11 Wolfgang Schuster &

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: chapter page on right.

Consider this slightly altered text from a mock-up I did for page headers: % Set up double-sided page numbering, backspace, and margins. \setuppagenumbering[location=footer,alternative=doublesided] % Use a format that does not autonumber chapters. % Put at least the chapter in the heading. % Cent

[NTG-context] dot/graphviz and Tex/friends

ost? Charles ___ 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 webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / h

Re: [NTG-context] AUCTeX and ConTeXt

I did put the question mark where there was none, and I still got the behavior. Charles On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 08:10 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Le 29 juin à 12:34:36 "Thomas A. Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: > > | On Jun 28, 2008, at 8:08 PM

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, Framemaker, and InDesign

Oh, I WISH I had Framemaker... But this might be interesting. Setting up margin notes in InDesign is considered to be an "Intermediate to advanced feature." It may well be possible to have more recurrent structured elements in Framemaker, but I would suggest that only TeX and friends can do someth

Re: [NTG-context] context manuals sources

inks.htm Best wishes, and welcome to the world of artificial languages. Charles On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 13:09 +0200, Alan Stone wrote: > Euuuh, other than constant and variable... > > LHS, RHS and enumeration are like klingon to me. :O) > > Are these terms important to understa

[NTG-context] AUCTeX and ConTeXt

e running on GTK Emacs 22 / Ubuntu 8.04. By contrast, I have minimal to no problems on my OS X installation. Charles ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] fonts (in luatex) (again)

This first bit differentiates a "backend" that refers to your font and a "frontend" that you normally work with. Why? Macros, macros, macros. Let's put it this way: You could have a myriad of styles. That's what many in the WYSIWYG world do. Then ... they have to keep track of them all. But TeX,

[NTG-context] Web links

If anyone is interested in a list of web links that I update roughly quarterly and use both professionally and personally, s/he is welcome to visit http://yoel.info/links.htm The links have lots of computing and humanities resources, among others. Charles

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation question

t the free market sort it out. I can hyphenate all sorts of languages in Ubuntu just fine. Charles On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 12:29 +0200, Alan Stone wrote: > For your information... > > http://www.talo.nl/talo/download/documents/Language_Book.pdf > > There's a whole chapter on

Re: [NTG-context] Calendar resources

FldSetTextPtr(J1,Orthodox_Julian); FldSetTextPtr(J2,Orthodox_Gregorian); FldSetTextPtr(G,Western); } // Repaint form on open FrmDrawForm(form); handled = true;

[NTG-context] Calendar resources

Some calendar links, FYI: http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html I would be happy to make available the C code for an Easter date calculator that I implemented on the

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic index entries

The issues of indexing, &c., probably fall into two issues: a. Is is something European-derivative in reference to a work or b. It is something entirely for "native-speaking" use and expectations? I've been on the Ivritex list for quite a while and there has been some long-running issues on how t

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

ine or downloadable, wouldn't be bad to have. I actually have some of my own ideas for the topology of something like that. One thing that trips me up is not knowing when some bit of plain TeX should or should not be used. In any case, everyone using something TeX-related can benefit from

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

TeTeX and staying current with CTAN pretty much precludes depending on a "distro" anyway. Charles ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-co

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

do like the idea, but I think that balancing details over against abstractions (the Suenden that LaTeXers commit at times come to mind) is always going to be a sort of np-complete issue. Charles ___ If your question

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

ne's ideology about "freedom" of some sort butting into otherwise perfectly good software packages and delimiting the "non-free" stuff, resulting in, for example, the hyperlinked ConTeXt manuals not finding their links. With the BSD's you don't have this politickin

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

there be new stuff? Sure. But an exploration of type, typography, layout, and design also points us to some of our basic thoughts on preferences, identity, habituation, etc. Charles On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 21:12 -0300, Maurí­cio wrote: > Sorry to insist, but I would be really interested in appro

Re: [NTG-context] unicode feature request

ncept. Charles On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 22:18 +0200, Peter Münster wrote: > Hello, > > Just as the signs <, >, + and −, it would be nice if also other signs such > as ≤ (less-than or equal to, 2264) or ⇒ (rightwards double arrow, 21D2) > worked in text mode and not only in mat

[NTG-context] InDesign/InCopy vs. TeX and friends

makeup, sectioning, and other features to be substantially superior to LaTeX, where the publishers do the styles and the scientists write the content, or plain, where you have to do everything (not always bad, but Herculean for a large project). Charles _

Re: [NTG-context] InDesign

ucts and substituting version bumps for bugfixes. I can only bleed so much to sate someone's greed and I found OSS to be far friendlier regarding version compatibility, bugfixes and robustness. AFAIK no real pressure for a compatibility mode exists in the commercial DTP sector. senecadesign.com has

[NTG-context] fonts and typescripts

es in a parallel workflow. Grep searching has also been integrated. It seems to me that if something like Scribus had a means to interlink with ConTeXt, cvs / svn or the like, and had a means of automatically generating code and previews, you would have a typesetting system that could co

[NTG-context] interim fix for aesc-like macro

Gawain or whatever Middle High German with a yogh or similar glyph. Come to think of it, Gothic would be cool, too. So, figuring out the mechanics would be helpful. Thanks, Charles ___ If your question is of interest to

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