Re: [NTG-context] Epub format Was: Re: Context to epub: itemize

2015-02-18 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hraban, Good to know. I will investigate at another time and give feed back. I am in the middle of moving, so I do not have much time. We ought to think of making a export specific to epub in the long run! regards Keith. > Am 18.02.2015 um 09:14 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm : > > >

[NTG-context] Epub format Was: Re: Context to epub: itemize

2015-02-16 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Axel, All, You have mentioned that most current ebook readers can not display MathML. Well, the problem lies in the epub guidelines for the readers. The problem is even worse. many readers do not even implement the full HTML5 standard. though that is the standard used in the latest epub stadn

Re: [NTG-context] need defaults for \definehighlight

2015-02-08 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, Irdis, All, It might sound like splitting hairs, but I find we should be careful how we call this beast! Basically, a highlight allows one so setup a font style and color to be applied to it contents. The problem is that is this REALLY a Highlight! A style and color is applied so, wh

[NTG-context] TOC with Grey background for pages belonging to last section of every chapter

2015-02-02 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Wolgang, I noticed that \startnamedsection does not add it to the TOC how would one go about having these „namedsections“ added to the TOC. regards Keith. > Am 02.02.2015 um 12:51 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster > : > > You have to add „location=paragraph” to the textbackground setup. >

Re: [NTG-context] A note on Arabic names in bibliographies and indices

2015-02-01 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Idris, All, We have here the classical database problem of finding a format that fits all. But, as any body working with databases knows this will not work with a rigid format. Here we have 3 fields for the authors can can be misused. The von is the most problematic. It seems due to its cultur

Re: [NTG-context] Can I use mkii and mkiv side by side?

2015-01-27 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Gerben, Sorry, one typo! The file is tools-mkiv.pdf. It is not in the MacTeX distribution! You get it with Standalone, I normally use that! But you can get it at: http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/tools-mkiv.pdf regards

Re: [NTG-context] Context modules not on CATN and not in TeX Live (slightly OT)

2015-01-26 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mojca, Thank you for clarifying a few things. I have not seen any information how to contribute modules to ConTeXt or how they are passed up the stream! A few caveats though! 1) Who „authorizes“ ConTeXt modules for CTAN ? 2) Do not CTAN and TeXLive have pretty much the same

Re: [NTG-context] Can I use mkii and mkiv side by side?

2015-01-21 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Otared, actually, just setting the PATH variable will work, but you have to set it with the proper command! The Standard TexShop engines use the tcsh shell and not bash !! either change the first line to #!/bin/tcsh or set the path bash style export PATH=/Volumes/OK/context-minimal/tex/texm

Re: [NTG-context] Can I use mkii and mkiv side by side?

2015-01-21 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Gerben, Mkii and Mkiv are to different animals and live side by side. You do not need to change your TeX setup at all! All you need to do is change the call to start the processing. Mkiv can be called with the context … or mtxrun -script context … What I do not know is in what kind of „en

Re: [NTG-context] Catalan especial character (l·l) in ConTeXt

2015-01-08 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, All, Your solution is naturaly better, but I was trying to use \topaccent to solve the problem. Yet, in my test I noticed that there maybe a bug in the spacing of the Middle Dot in the default font of ConTeXt, as you can see using my MWE. Depending on the font used, the result looks

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt gobble my mind

2014-11-06 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Pierre, I think you are approaching your problem from the wrong direction! The way I understand your problem is that you have certain criteria in your slides when encountered decides whether it should be output or not. If this is the case then what you have is a classical parsing problem. T

Re: [NTG-context] pgfplots broken?

2014-11-05 Thread Keith J. Schultz
tion has anything to do with our problem. But, I doubt it. 2) no field package.preload['pgfluamath.functions'] Now, this msg does give me concern, they should have been preloaded or am I missing something! 3) I look at the different versions of pgfluamath,functions.lua and n

Re: [NTG-context] pgfplots broken?

2014-11-04 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Can confirm not working in latest Beta. BUT, works in TeXLive version!! so, something has changed on our side! regards Keith. > Am 04.11.2014 um 12:42 schrieb Mikael P. Sundqvist : > > Hi, pgfplots seems broken with the latest standalone.With the example > > \usemodule[pgfplots] > \st

Re: [NTG-context] Structure of titles in MkIV

2014-10-16 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Alan, In a way I agree one can live without the added syntax and semantic error reporting, But, as you say you have been using it for ten years. All are not that lucky. Then there are those beginners that simply have no idea what is going on. Because they do not know ConTeXt, TeX, or LaTeX, etc

Re: [NTG-context] frac and tfrac with sqrt

2014-10-09 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 07.10.2014 um 09:20 schrieb Hans Hagen : > On 10/7/2014 7:33 AM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Wolfgang Schuster >> wrote: >>> \setupmathradical[alternative=default] >> >> Very good! >> >> Hans, will the default be default in next beta? :) > > no, but there

Re: [NTG-context] Class diagram in Ctx?

2014-08-13 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Lukáš, Both Metapost and TikZ have modules for doing what you want. There is metauml and pgf-umlcd. regards Keith. Am 13.08.2014 um 09:49 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. : > Hello, > > I'd like to create a "class diagram" (or "hierarchy chart") with ConText, > somet

Re: [NTG-context] How to make floats extend into the outer margin

2014-07-24 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hello, I assume others might have need for this, so it might be a good idea to put this into the core with a name of something like \widefigure or \ placewidefigure! Just, a thought! regards Keith. Am 24.07.2014 um 10:36 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster : > > Am 23.07.2014 um 17:48 schrieb

Re: [NTG-context] typewriter style with Constantia

2014-04-03 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, I do not know the complexity of the under the hood working of font loading, but how about a a command to force the loading of fonts that are not loaded, yet: \forceloadingoffonts or \updatefontsnow or the like! would be a nice feature for such cases! regards Keith. Am 28.0

Re: [NTG-context] proposal about link borders

2014-03-22 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, If we are going this then it would be nice to define the color of the link border. I will leave the details or a syntax up to the implementors. regards Keith. Am 21.03.2014 um 18:30 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez : > Hi Hans, > > many thanks for fixing the issue with links (and ot

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Reflections on usability ConTeXt for typesetting of mathematics

2014-02-13 Thread Keith J. Schultz
might not be reading this. regards Keith. Am 13.02.2014 um 14:40 schrieb Mikael P. Sundqvist : > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Keith J. Schultz > wrote: > Hi Mikael, > > Basically, I see your problem with ConTeXts handling of math as a matter of > taste! > That is

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Reflections on usability ConTeXt for typesetting of mathematics

2014-02-12 Thread Keith J. Schultz
11.02.2014 um 14:18 schrieb Mikael P. Sundqvist : > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Keith J. Schultz > wrote: > > Am 11.02.2014 um 09:57 schrieb Mikael P. Sundqvist : > >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 2/10/2014 9:24 AM, Mikael P. Sundq

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Reflections on usability ConTeXt for typesetting of mathematics

2014-02-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 11.02.2014 um 09:57 schrieb Mikael P. Sundqvist : > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 2/10/2014 9:24 AM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote: > Hi, > > I used ConTeXt (mkii) to write my PhD thesis in Mathematics in 2008. It > worked just fine. > > At the moment I write some exam

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Reflections on usability ConTeXt for typesetting of mathematics

2014-02-10 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Jaroslav, Math support in ConTeXt is quite good. For beginners there are pages in the Wiki. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math I have to admit some pages are dated, but still give valid examples. The Wiki is a good starting point and have links to external example pages. regards Kei

Re: [NTG-context] A default editor for ConTeXt standalone?

2014-02-05 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi, As nice as it would be to have ConTeXt Standalone offer an editor, I personally believe that it should not be done. 1) Those that have TeXlive already TeXWorks At least it is setup for TeXLive and can be set up to use ConTeXt Standalone and other distros at the same time. 2) ConTeX

Re: [NTG-context] two questions on ConTeXt terminology

2014-02-04 Thread Keith J. Schultz
start/stop and > the begin/end pairs. > > But I think structure is fine. Structural element seems too complex to me. > > Many thanks for your help again, > > Pablo > > > On 02/03/2014 10:07 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi Pablo, >> >> The

Re: [NTG-context] two questions on ConTeXt terminology

2014-02-03 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Pablo, The start/stop mechanism in ConTeXt is not easy to relate to LaTeX. As the name indicates it means "start/stop doing 'something' "! This "something" can be either equivalent to "Command" or "Enviroment" in LaTeX. e.g: \startbuffer ... \stopbuffer starts storing "things" in a buffer(

Re: [NTG-context] Testpage with extras

2014-02-01 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hagen : > On 1/31/2014 10:46 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >> Personally, I find the names used sub-optimal! > > we had testpage and that one stays anyway and checkpage is close to that > (overloading testpage with a new syntax is messy) > >> I would think some

Re: [NTG-context] Testpage with extras

2014-01-31 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, Personally, I find the names used sub-optimal! I would think something like conditionalbreak or conditionalpagebreak would be better and verbose. Other names could be ifpagelength, ifpagelengthstill, leftonpage, or something similar. I assume you have implemented checkpage as an added

Re: [NTG-context] Change the default text colour for entire document

2014-01-27 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everybody, If I remember right colors can be defined in ConTeXt, right? So why not just redefine black! If this is stupid, the defaults get initialize before a redefined occurs! forget it! Just a stupid simplistic idea! regards Keith. Am 27.01.2014 um 12:10 schrieb Hans Hagen :

Re: [NTG-context] unknown library 'loc'

2014-01-13 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, Suppressing the message of a loc that is not needed would be the cleanest method. IMHO, it should not be even causing a warning. regards Keith. Am 12.01.2014 um 23:50 schrieb Hans Hagen : > On 1/12/2014 11:23 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi Hans, >> >

Re: [NTG-context] unknown library 'loc'

2014-01-12 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, Am 07.01.2014 um 00:24 schrieb Hans Hagen : > On 1/3/2014 2:33 PM, H. van der Meer wrote: >> Has someone an idee what causes the unknown library message as in the >> log below? Is it harmful? >> >> fonts > typescripts > unknown library 'loc' > > you can add a file type-loc.mk

Re: [NTG-context] Rebuilding the font cache: segmentation fault 11

2013-12-25 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Actually, it is false permissions!! I change it so that all have read permission and all went well! regards Keith Am 22.12.2013 um 11:52 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster : > > Am 21.12.2013 um 23:02 schrieb Willi Egger : > >> Hello all, >> >> did anyone else experience this: >> >>

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] OT: Generating Command reference from source code

2013-12-04 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, Am 04.12.2013 um 00:44 schrieb Hans Hagen : [snip, snip] > > > the problem with tex (and therefore context) is that we are dealing with > quite some interaction between unpredictable user input, macro (expansions), > tex-internals, resources like fonts, patterns and whatever, etc. an

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi, You do not understand my point. I one uses XML why use ConTeXt. Yet, I one wants to use ConTeXt and do ebooks and they have experience why force them to XML. As I stated the idea use ConTeXt to do the markup with commands that will ensure proper input of HTML5 for making ebooks that will

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
t screen size or orientation. ConTeXt is built upon a page morphology. ebooks are not! So any decent approach has to keep this in mind. regards Keith. > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Keith J. Schultz > wrote: > > Am 18.11.2013 um 16:33 schrieb Hans Ha

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-18 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 18.11.2013 um 16:33 schrieb Hans Hagen : > On 11/18/2013 4:11 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi Hans, >> >> >> Am 18.11.2013 um 13:21 schrieb Hans Hagen : >> >>> On 11/18/2013 10:00 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >>> >>>>

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-18 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, Am 18.11.2013 um 13:21 schrieb Hans Hagen : > On 11/18/2013 10:00 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >> 2) Now, what a EPub-READER must implement to handle is very >> little. There are HARDLY ANY provisions that a certified >> EPuB-READER has >

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-18 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, I find that the ConTeXt approach to creating the EPub is flawed is a fundemental way! NOT TECHNICALLY. The EPub Standard is a big mess and if you really look at not a true standard in a true sense. Let me explain. 1) The file structure is well documented and properly defines

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-18 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 16.11.2013 um 17:51 schrieb Bill Meahan : > On 11/16/2013 11:00 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi Bill, >> >> Using a PDF as a basis for creating an Epub ebook is actually a lost cause. >> EPUB is a container format that just wraps around your PDF. I do not know

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB woes

2013-11-16 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Bill, Using a PDF as a basis for creating an Epub ebook is actually a lost cause. EPUB is a container format that just wraps around your PDF. I do not know of any ereader that can actually adjust the formatting/layout of a pdf in any significantly useful way. You are stuck with the formattin

Re: [NTG-context] announcement and call

2013-11-16 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 15.11.2013 um 13:06 schrieb Hans Hagen : > On 11/15/2013 11:31 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi Thomas, >> [snip, snip ] >> The problem with the two page setup is synchronizing the comments, notes, >> discussion of the critical edition's author. For a ha

Re: [NTG-context] TEXpage problem in lare betas (slightly OT)

2013-11-15 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi, I have had similar problems with such side effects in my projects. My question is where can read up on side effects. On the wiki and in the manuals side effects are not listed. It would be nice to read up on the side effects so that one can try to avoid them or find a work around instead

Re: [NTG-context] announcement and call

2013-11-15 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Thomas, Am 14.11.2013 um 21:55 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz : > On 11/14/2013 09:40 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote: >> What I’d consider the most pressing issue, pertaining both to >> Context and to TeX as a whole, would be text streams a.k.a. >> parallel typesetting. It was discussed on the list a co

Re: [NTG-context] MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

2013-10-24 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Wolfgang, The PROBLEM is that Skia.ttf has the wrong permissions! Everyone is set to none. meaning this file can not be read! Solution copy to somewhere else, remove from /Library/Fonts and reinstall. This suggest to me that when scanning the fonts and building the support files there is

Re: [NTG-context] MacOsX Mavericks and Luatex

2013-10-24 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Pierre, I have Mavericks installed and no problems. But, I did a clean install, migrated User Folder from a TM-Backup, and my ConTeXt Suite (latest beta) work fine. Since I did a clean install I had to install MacTeX. -- Tried an older LuaLaTeX and got an error -- Ran TeXLive Utility and

Re: [NTG-context] Need help defining command.

2013-10-22 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Wolfgang, Am 22.10.2013 um 11:31 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster : > > Am 22.10.2013 um 10:34 schrieb Keith J. Schultz : > >> HI All, >> >> I remember seeing some seeing what I want to do but I can not find it. >> >> I would like to define a command tha

Re: [NTG-context] Need help defining command.

2013-10-22 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Wolfgang, to be honest one of my design considerations was to this work using MetaPost. But, my knowledge of MetaPost is minimal and it would be involved calculating the positions of the Frames/boxes and I need to know the sizes of the formatted text, etc Another approach would be to use laye

[NTG-context] Need help defining command.

2013-10-22 Thread Keith J. Schultz
HI All, I remember seeing some seeing what I want to do but I can not find it. I would like to define a command that takes an optional key-valued list and 1 or 2 manditory ones. Something like \unexanded\def\MyCommand[#1]#2% {% \NassiGroupFrame[#1]{#2}% }% or \unexanded\def\MyCommand[#1]#2% {

Re: [NTG-context] Is this possible for the Frames

2013-10-21 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Am 21.10.2013 um 08:41 schrieb "Keith J. Schultz" : > Hi Wolfgang, all, > > Thanx for the example/help. > > I have a few questions sothat I understand properly what is going on and > how to maybe do some more fancy things. > > 1) \dimexpr allows the

Re: [NTG-context] Is this possible for the Frames

2013-10-21 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Wolfgang, all, Thanx for the example/help. I have a few questions sothat I understand properly what is going on and how to maybe do some more fancy things. 1) \dimexpr allows the calculation of a dimention 2) \dimexpr is closed by \relax or if I need more complicated calculation something

[NTG-context] Updated Wiki Mac Installation page

2013-10-14 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everbody, I have revised the Mac Installation Page on the wiki. Critic invited. I am somewhat uncertain how much I should use the finder or the Terminal. Discussion invited. regards Keith. ___ If your qu

Re: [NTG-context] Possibly bug in ConTexT with TikZ

2013-10-13 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Using version 2013.10.10 it works for me as stated in my last post. regards Keith Am 11.10.2013 um 09:55 schrieb Xan : > With version 2013-09-07 (sh ./first-setup.sh --context=2013-09-07 > --modules=all --engine=luatex) it works > With version 2013.10.09 it does not > > So there is a b

Re: [NTG-context] Possibly bug in ConTexT with TikZ

2013-10-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi, I just tested the below MWE! It worked with the latest beta MKIV (--modules=all), an three day old beta, and with the TeXLive 2013 (MacTeX) No errors. Running via TeXShop on a Mac OS 10.85 I can only assume that something is wrong with your set-up! maybe a path problem and the wrong TiKZ

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

2013-10-02 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Thanx for the pointer. Am 02.10.2013 um 13:28 schrieb Aditya Mahajan : > On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >> Hi Mari, All, >> >> I have redone/modified the Mac Installation page for Installing MacTeX, >> ConTeXt Standalone and >> TeXShop. >

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

2013-10-02 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mari, All, I have redone/modified the Mac Installation page for Installing MacTeX, ConTeXt Standalone and TeXShop. Not quite finished, yet and needs polishing. Critic invited. regards Keth Am 01.10.2013 um 08:30 schrieb Mari Voipio : > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Keit

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

2013-09-30 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mari, As some already mentioned "In" is not correct either use or "On"! In section 1.1.1 the last sentence is: TeXLive comes with a quite nice editor, TeXShop, that works well with ConTEXt 1) Missing period 2) TeXShop is Mac only. You probably meant to to say TeXWorks!

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] OT: Putting a context to the 2013 ConTeXt Meeting location

2013-09-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
The only problem with povray is that it is quite aged and to my knowledge no longer in development at least the Mac side! regards Am 19.09.2013 um 22:18 schrieb Alan BRASLAU : > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 21:47:13 +0200 > luigi scarso wrote: > >>> Do you mean something like >> http://asymptote.sour

Re: [NTG-context] Trouble with editors on Mac

2013-08-16 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mari, I use TeXShop. TeXWorks is based on TeXShop. For ConTeXt Standalone I use: set path= (/Users/quayjay/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin $path /usr/local/bin) mtxrun --script context --autogenerate --synctex=1 "$1" This ensures that the environment is setup right. Hope this helps regards

Re: [NTG-context] Math accents set too close to capital

2013-07-31 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi, Have you tries U+1024 or LETTER CAPITAL H WITH CIRCUMFLEX? True not all Fonts might not have it and it is TEXT not Math. Just a thought. regards Keith. Am 31.07.2013 um 00:04 schrieb Michael Murphy : > Hello all, > > I'm trying to typeset 'H' with a circumflex (or hat) in math mo

Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

2013-06-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
would be in their call to context. regards Keith. Am 28.06.2013 um 12:34 schrieb Hans Hagen : > On 6/28/2013 10:56 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I would agree that the users default should be respected. >> >> I will have to contra

Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

2013-06-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, I would agree that the users default should be respected. I will have to contradict my last post them. My suggestion them is to use a system variable such as ConTeXtViewer. This variable would contain the program to be called. If it is not set or empty context simply finishes up what ev

Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

2013-06-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, I have been following this thread with some amusement. There is no real optimal answer to this question short of developing a dedicated pdfviewer for ConTeXt. But, is this the best use of our resources. Furthermore, how about a dedicated editor? ;-)) (just joking, but I am sure somebody w

Re: [NTG-context] Auto selecting optical sizes for a font

2013-06-24 Thread Keith J. Schultz
HI Georg, All, as such ConTexT should support the use of the size table in its font handling, but as Hans has mentioned design sizes a very special and few actually know what that information means and put it to a useful purpose. Question would be in far this font feature should be rudimentarily

Re: [NTG-context] Failure building standalone

2013-06-21 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Keith. Am 21.06.2013 um 11:16 schrieb Mojca Miklavec : > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi All, Mojca, >> >> please excuse my ignorance of the inner workings of windows, but >> would it not be possible to have the permissions correcte

Re: [NTG-context] Failure building standalone

2013-06-21 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Mojca, please excuse my ignorance of the inner workings of windows, but would it not be possible to have the permissions corrected by the first-setup.sh script after the rsync? regards Keith. Am 21.06.2013 um 07:56 schrieb Mojca Miklavec : > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:39 PM, wr

Re: [NTG-context] Help understanding framed!

2013-05-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
s not need to worry about finer parts of the context syntax. regards Keith. Am 20.05.2013 um 22:01 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster : > > Am 20.05.2013 um 21:28 schrieb Keith J. Schultz : > >> Hi Everybody, >> >> I am trying to develop a module for writing Nassi-Sch

[NTG-context] Help understanding framed!

2013-05-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Everybody, I am trying to develop a module for writing Nassi-Schneidermann-Diagrams. I thought I would use framed and metafun. But, I have run into, for me at least, strange behaviour. I have given MWE and attach the result and a second file which is required. What I do not understand is why

Re: [NTG-context] MPLibrabray "txt" broken!?

2013-05-15 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, I had updated around 2100 last night. Did not catch your upload after 2300. Sorry. Am 15.05.2013 um 13:04 schrieb Hans Hagen : > On 5/15/2013 12:15 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >> O.K. just rebuilt formats! > > i had that already fixed last night so you probabl

Re: [NTG-context] MPLibrabray "txt" broken!?

2013-05-15 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans,Am 14.05.2013 um 19:57 schrieb Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl>:On 5/14/2013 2:23 PM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:Hi All, Hans,I want to use  build_parshape and shapetext with the latest standaloneConTeXt  ver: 2013.05.12 22:16 MKIV beta  fmt: 2013.5.13  int:english/englishwith the Example b

[NTG-context] MPLibrabray "txt" broken!?

2013-05-14 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Hans, I want to use build_parshape and shapetext with the latest standalone ConTeXt ver: 2013.05.12 22:16 MKIV beta fmt: 2013.5.13 int: english/english with the Example below I get a small box with the top part of a T in it. Interresting enough the example works with the TexLive 2012

Re: [NTG-context] Automatic replacement?

2013-05-03 Thread Keith J. Schultz
HI Everybody, If I remember correctly Lua is not rl-compatible. There the below code can not work! regards Keith. Am 03.05.2013 um 17:20 schrieb H. Özoguz : > Thanks luigi, but it does not work for my characters, see here: > > \definefont[tradoa][name:trado*arabic at 20pt] % or > fil

Re: [NTG-context] Offset MP text with font change

2013-04-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Marco, All, agreed you can avoid the spaces by putting the usetypescript in the "preamble", but should not the loading of a typescript not bleed any spaces! regards Keith. Am 28.04.2013 um 22:03 schrieb Marco Patzer : > On 2013–04–28 Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >&g

Re: [NTG-context] Offset MP text with font change

2013-04-28 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, can someone explain to me why loading a file/typescript is producing spaces If the code that does load the file/s produced spaces for debugging purposes that is fine, but should not they actually going somewhere else? Then with a decent message!? Personally, I find it a bug if load

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-26 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 26.04.2013 um 18:43 schrieb "Thomas A. Schmitz" : > > Hi Keith, > > if you look at the books of decent publishers, you will see that most of them > still use ligatures (most American university presses, Oxford and Cambridge, > German publishers such as Reclam etc.) However, many smaller pu

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-26 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Khaled, to be honest I never noticed them when I was using LaTeX. It might have been the fonts. I can live with them being on as a default in ConTeXt and know now how to turn them off. regards Keith. Am 26.04.2013 um 20:27 schrieb Khaled Hosny : > I don’t know what LaTeX you were u

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-26 Thread Keith J. Schultz
schrieb Khaled Hosny : > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 09:41:15AM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> On the other side, I believe, ligatures of off by default in LaTeX, et >> al. or at least are feature >> is set when the font is loaded. > > So you ne

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-26 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Thomas, Am 25.04.2013 um 08:56 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz : > On 04/25/2013 08:20 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default. > > Then you should not be using any form of TeX. ligatures have been part of TeX > since its

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-24 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Wolfgang, All, First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default. Now, to my actual question. Is there a way in ConText to selectively true certain ligatures on/ff. for example fl could be on, but fi off. I know that I can set up the the editor to do it, or use unicode directly,

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 K

[NTG-context] Test

2013-04-12 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Sorry for the noise. For some reason I am have been recieving mail from this list. regards Keith. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : n

Re: [NTG-context] command reference (was: upto current)

2013-03-25 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, I agree that for the command reference should be fairly output format free, but we have to keep in mind we will need a unified look for: 1) Wiki 2) PDFs Also, we should not forget that we need examples with explanations. regards Keith. Am 22.03.2013 um 17:07 schr

Re: [NTG-context] command reference (was: upto current)

2013-03-25 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Peter, All, Sorry for the late reply. As such looks good! I have no preferences, as to the formats, that is something the community or those involved should decide. regards Keith. Am 22.03.2013 um 09:26 schrieb Peter Münster : > Hi Keith, > > What about one lua table per command

Re: [NTG-context] upto current

2013-03-25 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Bill, Am 22.03.2013 um 15:19 schrieb Bill Meahan : > On 03/22/2013 03:31 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Maybe, we could setup a collaborative work group to do the documentation. >> >> That is a group of us are responsible for certain groups

Re: [NTG-context] upto current

2013-03-22 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Maybe, we could setup a collaborative work group to do the documentation. That is a group of us are responsible for certain groups of commands. This way the manuals can become more complete. That way some of the more advance stuff that is hardly documented finally gets documented. What w

Re: [NTG-context] Subjects on this list - general request

2013-03-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Robert, I see no advantage in your suggestion. just search the subject. As for the [***Spam***] that is inroduce by mail servers. A user should maybe remove it to avoid it. But a nuisance, yes, a problem no. regards Keith. Am 20.03.2013 um 16:12 schrieb Robert Blackstone : > Dear a

Re: [NTG-context] Bug in \column

2013-03-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
OOOsss! Do I have to kill myself! ;-))) Would like to have a reference for this kind of stuff! regards Keith. Am 20.03.2013 um 10:40 schrieb Hans Hagen : > > For Wolfgangs eyes only: > > \installcolumnbreakmethod \s!multicolumn \v!yes > {\penalty\c_page_mix_break_forced\relax} >

Re: [NTG-context] upto current

2013-03-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Am 20.03.2013 um 09:25 schrieb Marcin Borkowski : > Dnia 2013-03-20, o godz. 09:12:21 > "Keith J. Schultz" napisał(a): > >> [snip, snip] >> My suggestion would be to have garden have a manuals download >> area where one can get the up to date manuals fro

Re: [NTG-context] upto current

2013-03-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Am 20.03.2013 um 07:05 schrieb Otared Kavian : > > On 19 mars 2013, at 19:47, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >> […]Although most active users use ConTeXt standalone and are willing to >> update frequently, TL still plays an important role in introducing new users >> to ConTeXt. An experienc

Re: [NTG-context] upto current

2013-03-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, All, The biggest crux in using ConTeXt is its documentation. True, things have gotten a lot better in the past year! Yet, there is no ONE definitive place to get comprehensive and EASY to find documentation. 1) Garden is really not that easy to navigate 2) Garden is lo

Re: [NTG-context] next beta

2013-03-20 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, All, I find this nomenclature confusing and a little confusing from a design standpoint! 1) Color of the text background should be separate from the rest of the cell background 2) the names should reflect to what they apply That said we should have:

Re: [NTG-context] TOC: Chapters with and without page-numbers

2013-03-15 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi, I could find any options to do what you want. I assume you would have to redefine completecontent command to get the functionality you need. I have not checked, but I assume that completecontent accesses a Lua-table with the TOC information. It should be easy enough to use this table to crea

Re: [NTG-context] reStructuredText module

2013-03-14 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, following this thread and with my beginners knowledge of ConTeXt, I would say that div or container from RST should be mapped to a combination in ConTeXt. Though I do admit that I have not looked into combinations yet. regards Keith. _

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] File access for sourc, graphic, and pictures

2013-03-11 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, Am 08.03.2013 um 09:02 schrieb Marco Patzer : > On 2013–03–08 hwit...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I am just learning ConTeXt, so please bare with me. In all of the >> documentation that I've read so far, it shows the names of >> imported photographs, graphs, blocks, etc as a simple filename

Re: [NTG-context] \| should give two || and not one

2013-02-19 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Mikeal, Am 19.02.2013 um 10:50 schrieb Mikael P. Sundqvist : > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: >> [snip, snip] >> a next step (already partially done) is that we organize the names in >> dictionaries as in open math (a bit of work) >> >> >>> Me, I prefer names that re

Re: [NTG-context] \| should give two || and not one

2013-02-18 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi All, In a way, it is correct that for compatibility reasons and and convert it is good to keep the old syntax. Yet, ConTeXt is suppose to be more natural. Personally, I find some of the names used in TeX and LaTeX often hard to find. Whenever, I needed a function or symbol I to often go look

Re: [NTG-context] Failing MPruns

2013-02-14 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Marco, It is not much, but I do see it. Maybe around a tenth of a millimeter is missing! just a guess. Looking closer the top is, also clipped! regards Keith Am 14.02.2013 um 09:23 schrieb Marco Patzer : > On 2013–02–14 Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >> with your exa

Re: [NTG-context] Failing MPruns

2013-02-13 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Hans, All, with your example below I noticed that the red circle is not quite in the graphic. it seems to be clip on the right! Just mentioning this. regards Keith. Am 13.02.2013 um 17:54 schrieb Hans Hagen : > On 2/13/2013 1:39 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The following us

Re: [NTG-context] Alignment problem with labels and textext

2013-02-13 Thread Keith J. Schultz
.lft (textext("left") , origin) ; > label.bot (textext("bottom") , origin) ; > \stopMPpage > \stoptext > > If i run it by texexec(mkii), all is ok, with context(mkiv) the labels > overlap. > > I try to add the problematic mkiv pdf. > > Greetings Lutz &

Re: [NTG-context] Alignment problem with labels and textext

2013-02-13 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Lutz, With This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.74.0-2012122517 (rev 4541) ConTeXt ver: 2013.02.05 22:32 MKIV fmt: 2013.2.9 int: english/english Things look fine. Actually, without textext the left and right seem to be aligned on the baseline. Where with textext it is aligned in the middle of

Re: [NTG-context] Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

2013-02-01 Thread Keith J. Schultz
x to whoever did the work and to you, too. regards Keith. Am 01.02.2013 um 04:58 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster : > > Am 31.01.2013 um 23:02 schrieb "Keith J. Schultz" : > >> Hi Wolfgang, >> >> You do seem to understand what I am getting at! >> &g

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