[NTG-context] figure numbering in appendices

Dear list, The following code numbers the figures in appendices with Roman numbers in MKIV (while in MKII there is no difference at all). On top of that it doesn't restart the counter, but simply continues. In my opinion the Roman numerals should be easy to configure, but not set by default, and i

[NTG-context] MKIV/MKII Survey

(was: Info about creating modules for beginners.) On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 19:51, Peter Münster wrote: > > Hello, > > It would be interesting, to know how many people actually use mkii. > Perhaps a survey on the wiki...? I would be interested in that as well. However, a very relevant question woul

Re: [NTG-context] unicode error

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 20:25, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > An obscure unicode error, minimal example: > > \starttext > (≡) should be ($\equiv$) > \stoptext Well, this works: $≡$ (This is not to say that the character ≡ alone should not work, but it may be that it is simply missing in the text font and n

Re: [NTG-context] Update ConTeXt into TL2010... & Ctx in TL2010 & Ctx minimals simultaneously

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 18:43, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: > Thanx... Mojca > Will simultaneously use the ConTeXt minimals and ConTeXt  in the TL2010? > Does anyone with experience? I'd hate to spoil the installation I have two installations of TeX Live, one is somehow globally set somewhere (MacTeX 2

Re: [NTG-context] Update ConTeXt into TL2010...

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 15:11, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: > Hello, > Is there anyone who updated ConTeXt MkIV in TL2010? Is there more > information about how this can be done safely? (where you copy and what to > run ...) You may use tlmgr update --all but this will only update some minor trivia

Re: [NTG-context] How to use a true type font?

2010/9/22 Procházka Lukáš wrote: > > And one more question - maybe due to that I'm not Linux user - > > - what does the "!!" at the begin and the "//" at the and of some paths > mean? Or is it something TeX-special? !! means that a database must be created first. The advantage is that searching is

Re: [NTG-context] How to use a true type font?

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:06, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > 2010/9/22 Procházka Lukáš wrote: >> >> 1) What's the best destination where the BrickToBrick.ttf should be placed? >> (Now, I've copied the file to c:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\BrickToBrick.ttf.) > > You nee

Re: [NTG-context] How to use a true type font?

2010/9/22 Procházka Lukáš : > Hello, > > I'm trying to use the BrickToBrick.ttf font. > > It can be freely downloaded from >  http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/klein05/pic05/brick2brick.htm. > > Problems are: > > 1) What's the best destination where the BrickToBrick.ttf should be placed? >

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP :-(

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 19:00, Marius wrote: > On 27 August 2010 13:22, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 17:40, Florian Baudach wrote: >>> I solved it, but I think in a very ugly way: >>> >>> 1. I downloaded the kpathsea60071.dll via http and

Re: [NTG-context] installing minimals

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 17:49, Charles Doherty wrote: > 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 > follo

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals fail to install on SunOS x86

Dear Marco, (I'm CC-ing Apostolos who compile Solaris binaries for TeX Live.) On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 15:59, Marco wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:54:26 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> For Solaris Sparc we have nobody to compile the binaries at the moment. > I also have

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals fail to install on SunOS x86

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:09, Marco wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to install the minimals on my SunOS remote server (to have access > to MkIV everywhere). > Is SunOS x86 not supported? On the luatex home page I see there are binaries > available. For Solaris Sparc we have nobody to compile the b

[NTG-context] slides from ConTeXt meeting

For those who were unable to attend - the slides from the marvellously organized meeting are being collected here: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2010/talks/ They will be linked from the main meeting page, but at the moment you can just browse through them. Mojca ___

Re: [NTG-context] Designing a ConTeXt thesis template

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 23:05, Andreas Harder wrote: > >> 1) Footnotes and other references' colors alternate between red and >> green (eg. page 7). > > \setupinteraction[state=start,color=green,contrastcolor=green] But that is not the solution ... the color should not alternate since the alternat

Re: [NTG-context] install beta

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 15:30, Hans van der Meer wrote: > I didn't update my context beta for some time and now I seem to have missed > an important(?) change. This is my current installation script and running it > always worked without a hitch: > > #!/bin/bash > CONTEXTVERSION="beta" > CONTEXTD

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt meeting luggage

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:19, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: > > I fear that without the neoprene in the river no one will swim  - unless > some excellent fan ice water .. So should we put neoprene clothes in the luggage then? How "warm" is the water? Mojca _

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt meeting luggage

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 21:56, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > Should I bring my guitar, or do we spend the nights hacking anyway? > (I'd like to learn a Czech folk song or two, even if I'll have a hard time > pronouncing it ;-)) Guitar is very welcome even if the rest is going to spend as much time

Re: [NTG-context] (Xe)ConTeXt and CJK support

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 21:10, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 10-9-2010 9:03, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >>> P.S.: If you think I'm crazy for trying to mix XeTeX, ConTeXt and tikZ, >>> please tell me now... =) >> >> No, nothing is crazy about that. It's just

Re: [NTG-context] (Xe)ConTeXt and CJK support

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:21, S Barmeier wrote: > Dear ConTeXt users, > > I am trying to write a document (grammar notes) in English and Japanese > and so far have used XeTeX (for Unicode support) with tikZ (for > graphics) quite successfully. However, I wish to convert to (Xe)ConTeXt > in order to

[NTG-context] XeLaTeX logo

Dear Hans, may I request the addition of XeLaTeX logo to ConTeXt core? I'm not sure if there's an official version of it, but I would simply define it the same way as XeTeX logo, only replacing \kern-.15em \TeX} with \kern0em \LaTeX} at the end of definition. (The original XeLaTeX logo def

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals: some statistics of usage

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:31, Philipp Gesang wrote: > On 02/09/2010, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> Hello, >> >> As I have promised some time ago here is some raw statistics from the >> last month (older statistics is not kept on server): >> >> There are 29917 dif

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals: some statistics of usage

Hello, As I have promised some time ago here is some raw statistics from the last month (older statistics is not kept on server): There are 29917 different jobs. There are 379 different IP numbers. Bytes sent: 14,451,171,433 The following numbers represent unique IP numbers that have tried to do

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 18:54, Florian Baudach wrote: > > I will try the installations script at home with my windows vista > installation this week. Unfortunately I have no Win XP Home here, to > reproduce the error :-(. I'm sorry. I forgot that there were two problems. One that I have hopefully

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Migrations: exactly LaTeX margins --> ConTeXt margins

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 09:42, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > On 08/31/2010 09:39 AM, xancorreu wrote: >>> >>> \setuplayout >>> [backspace=\dimexpr 1in+22pt\relax, % [1] + [3] = (1 inch + >>> \hoffset=0pt) + \oddsidemargin=22pt >>> >>> Mojca >> >> Thanks Mojca for trying it now you check that this was

Re: [NTG-context] framed text over multiple pages

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 19:23, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> I'm trying to find the command (in manual, wiki or mailing list) that >> enables using background behind text spanning over multiple pages. > > Hey, you are getti

[NTG-context] framed text over multiple pages

Dear list, I'm trying to find the command (in manual, wiki or mailing list) that enables using background behind text spanning over multiple pages. At the moment I have \startframedtext [width=\textwidth, background=color, backgroundcolor=mycolor1, frame=off, leftframe=on, frame

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 18:58, Florian Baudach wrote: > I tried but it didn't work :(. > I a must confess I am not a experienced windows user. Perhaps my problems > with the minimals depend on the security settings on my office Pc :-? > Greetings Did you try to download the installer from scratch?

[NTG-context] section conversion gets lost in MKIV

Dear list, Here's a minimal example that work correct in MKII, but wrong in MKIV: \setupsection [chapter] [conversion=Characters] \setupsection [section] [conversion=] \starttext \chapter{first} \section{subfirst} \stoptext It results in A first 1.1 subfi

Re: [NTG-context] creating own hyperlinks in bibliography

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 09:02, Otared Kavian wrote: > Hi Mojca, > Could you please post a full example where your newly defined biblio field > works? Sure. In reality it's just two things that you need to do: - \newbibfield[nameofyourkey] - you need to change \setuppublicationlayout for all the b

Re: [NTG-context] extra blank page in front of standardmakeup

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 08:59, Otared Kavian wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > Both your example and Wolfgang's suggestion work fine with my installation > (Minimals on Mac OS X 10.6.3, ConTeXt  ver: 2010.08.20 00:00) either with > mkii, or mkiv. > > Maybe you ahve a problem with your installation? I'm sor

Re: [NTG-context] creating own hyperlinks in bibliography

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:40, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > On 08/27/2010 01:00 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> Dear Taco, >> >> I would like to add some additional fields to bibliography. >> >> I would like to have >> >

Re: [NTG-context] extra blank page in front of standardmakeup

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:47, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >  Am 27.08.10 12:28, schrieb Mojca Miklavec: >> >> Dear list, >> >> how can I prevent a blank page in front of title page in MKIV (apart >> from the fact that font switching is not working)? In MKII

Re: [NTG-context] tiny failure with bib module

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 15:42, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > On 08/27/2010 12:13 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> Dear Taco, >> >> the following minimal example: >> >> \usemodule[bib] >> >> \startpublication >>        [k=key,t=book] >

[NTG-context] creating own hyperlinks in bibliography

Dear Taco, I would like to add some additional fields to bibliography. I know that I have already asked the same question twice (for url and doi) and each time it has been built into the core functionality, while my current request is "too local" to do that. I would like to have \newbibfield[cob

[NTG-context] extra blank page in front of standardmakeup

Dear list, how can I prevent a blank page in front of title page in MKIV (apart from the fact that font switching is not working)? In MKII this is working perfectly fine. \starttext \startstandardmakeup {\switchtobodyfont[50pt]\bf\centerline{Title}} \vskip 3cm {\switchtobodyfont[20pt]\centerline{

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP :-(

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 17:40, Florian Baudach wrote: > I solved it, but I think in a very ugly way: > > 1. I downloaded the kpathsea60071.dll via http and copied the file to > /context/bin > 2. I downloaded also curl.exe (Don't know if it was necessary :-( ) > 3. The I got the errors: MSVCP71.DLL

[NTG-context] font sizes not obeyed

Dear list, yes, I do understand that it is somehow polite to use some kind of \definebodyfontenvironment for weird font sizes (but don't understand why this is needed), but the following example somehow works in MKII and produces really weird result in MKIV: \starttext Title \switchtobodyfont[5p

[NTG-context] tiny failure with bib module

Dear Taco, the following minimal example: \usemodule[bib] \startpublication [k=key,t=book] \title{Title} \author[]{Author}[A.]{}{The} \stoppublication \starttext \cite[alternative=data][key] \stoptext creates an error in mkii (and works fine in mkiv): ! Undefined contr

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals and TEXMFCACHE

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:54, Nicola wrote: > In article > , >  Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> The variable TEXMFCACHE is set in >>     tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua >> and that one should do the job. Under usual circumstances at least. >> >> If that one

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Minimals and TEXMFCACHE

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 21:03, Nicola wrote: > Hi, > according to the wiki “ConTeXt minimals does not touch anything outside > its installation folder”, but if TEXMFCACHE is not set by setuptex, > actually many files may be written outside the ConTeXt minimals folder, > and (as in my case) they ma

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 23:57, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > Hi! > > Why not to use my Win installer? ;) > > @Mojca or someone at the server: I see that > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInstall.exe > contains quite old version of the installer. Can you ple

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP :-(

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 17:40, Florian Baudach wrote: > I solved it, but I think in a very ugly way: > > 1. I downloaded the kpathsea60071.dll via http and copied the file to > /context/bin In theory that file should be in the new setup zip now, even though it is true that these files do not get u

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP :-(

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 15:15, Florian Baudach wrote: > > we work here with WinXP and the first-setup.bat fails with the following > error: > > mtxrun.exe – Komponente nicht gefunden (mtxrun.exe – component not found) > > Die Anwendung konnte nicht gestartet werden, weil kpathsea60071.dll nicht > g

Re: [NTG-context] Tikz calendar: \pgfutil undefined

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 21:57, Christian Feuersaenger wrote: > Hello, > > thank you for the bug report. I have fixed the problem in TikZ. Wow, thanks a lot for the fast fix. (I didn't try it out yet, but see below.) Now, from what I remember ... In minimals we currently have the version of TikZ t

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt meeting Lua tutorials

[the following is just some brainstorming] On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 13:48, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi all, > > Today I started preparations for my activities at the ConTeXt meeting. > > There are two small lua tutorials in the program, and I am looking > for input on both. There is one that is supp

Re: [NTG-context] Tikz calendar: \pgfutil undefined

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 23:21, Fabrice Larribe wrote: > >> \unprotect >> \usemodule[tikz] >> \usetikzlibrary[calendar] >> \protect > > This works ! Thanks a lot for your help. > > Regarding the post of David Rogers, this seems > to be a problem which depends on the Context and/or > Tikz distributio

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with the minimals

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 21:56, Florian Baudach wrote: > Hi, > I have installed the minimals for Linux. If I am using texexec now I am > getting the following error: > /usr/bin/mktexfmt: 926: /home/florian/context/tex/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr: > not found > fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found

Re: [NTG-context] Tikz calendar: \pgfutil undefined

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 14:36, David Rogers wrote: > * Fabrice Larribe [2010-08-19 06:17]: > >> Hello, >> >>        I have a problem to use the calendar from the Tikz/Pgf module; here >>        is a minimal example: >> >> %--- >> \usemodule[tikz] >> \usetikzlibr

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals & Windows PowerShell

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 15:17, luigi scarso wrote: > With cmd.exe > call C:\luatex\minimals-beta\context\tex\setuptex.bat > C:\luatex\minimals-beta\context\tex > does it's job correctly. You should not even need the second argument. > I would like to know the same for Windows PowerShell: > .  C:

[NTG-context] (Open) Solaris & minimals

Based on the following message: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-turns-its-back-on-OpenSolaris-1059239.html ... is there still any interest for OpenSolaris support in minimals? (At the moment OpenSolaris binaries are supposed to work, even though most probably nobody uses them.)

Re: [NTG-context] an issues with punk module

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 17:16, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6-8-2010 2:34, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> May be you can try the PunkNova font[1]. > > which gives much smaller files and also does random Are letters completely random (that is: "randomly generated on the fly") or do you use a fixed number of ran

Re: [NTG-context] comments, font catalogue

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 14:02, R. Bastian wrote: > > 2. > In the Minimal tree there are many .afm, .tfm and other font files. > Is there a sort of font catalogue (visualization of the fonts) ? There is a luatex-based web server that shows all the OpenType fonts, but I'm not sure how to call it and

Re: [NTG-context] MTXrun | error, no format found with name: cont-en, aborting

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 14:23, Paul Dostert wrote: > Worked... although I need to know why :-) > > What didn't work when I just installed the minimals, and what did > luatools --generate and context --make do? Apart from what Vedran told you ... this should have been fixed (but only after we have g

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals on windows 32 bit fails ?

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:49, Martin Althoff wrote: > Luigi, > > check out Mojca's reply to my : "minimals update issues" The fastest quick-and-dirty fix is to replace the contents of lang-agr.pat with an empty set of patterns (as long as you don't need ancient Greek patterns) or simply do somethi

Re: [NTG-context] minimals update issues

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 06:29, Martin Althoff wrote: > Just ran ./first-setup.sh (yesterday it ran fine, now=5:20AM GMT 3.Aug) and > it ends very ungracefully: > > A section from some the first (of more) failure. Am I doing something wrong? > > (/Users/martin/contextMini/tex/texmf-context/tex/conte

Re: [NTG-context] Palatino math in MKII/XeTeX?

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 16:00, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 2-8-2010 3:35, Riobard wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering how I can use Palatino for math in MKII/XeTeX? The following >> works in MKIV but not in MKII (still get Computer Modern for Math, though >> main text is in Palatino). Thanks very much!

Re: [NTG-context] Errors with MacTeX/TeXLive installation

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 17:10, Grant W. Petty wrote: > > I am using a fresh installation of TeX Live 2009 (installed via MacTex > on a MacBook running Mac OS X 10.6), You may prefer to install MacTeX 2010 (this is just a link to testing page, but that's more or less what will get burnt into DVDs):

Re: [NTG-context] new current

> Extracted  & copied luatex.dll & luatex.exe from luatex-dev.zip into > "C:\context\bin". No, not that one, but C:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin. > Ran "context --generate" already. But the same error. > > Is there any way to return to previous release ? It's quite annoying for me :( You can try

Re: [NTG-context] new current

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 16:39, Hans Hagen wrote: > > It works ok here ... what platform are you on? maybe luatex is not yet 0.61 > for your platform? Only cygwin, freebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-* lack the proper binaries. Oh, and windows ... but there's not much that I can do with it since http://w32t

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals without rsync - again?

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 15:42, Richard Stephens wrote: > > At the above address, there is a .zip file called mswin.zip which > appears to contain binaries etc (dated 28-May-2010). Plus another one > called mswincontext.zip which presumably contains everything else > (dated 17-April-2008). How woul

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 19:00, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > > I uploaded a new beta that can deal with the new mplib. The biggest side > effect of the new lib is that no longer formats are made and that the > 'format related code' (read: metafun) is loaded at runtime. mtx-update still seems to gener

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals without rsync - again?

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:49, Richard Stephens wrote: > Hi all, > > On the wiki at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/FAQ is says: > > "Blocked Firewall port > You are most probably behind a firewall. Make sure that port 873 is > open. If you cannot make any changes yourself and if you

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals Beta on Windows 64bit

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 14:04, Andreas Schneider wrote: > > Since one of the last Betas mtxrun seems to be aware of 64bit windows, but > all the stubs and scripts seem to be missing support for that resulting in > the whole setup to not work at all. > > First-setup fails with stuff like that: > MTX

[NTG-context] [OT] Lua interface in VIM

Hmmm ... maybe Hans will change his favorite editor? :) :) :) http://groups.google.com/group/vim_announce/browse_thread/thread/22eac70dd4aa3d87 Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.3b BETA ... The biggest additions since 7.2: ... - Lua interface ... http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?scr

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2010/7/22 Vedran Miletić : > > Same here. Perhaps Mojca is busy and minimals didn't get updated. I was away and offline for a great deal of time in the last two weeks (and I will probably keep being offline during the next days), but the minimals should usually update automatically. (I need to cat

Re: [NTG-context] \sc missing in Antykwa Torunska

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 06:42, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 17.07.10 23:41, schrieb Mojca Miklavec: >> >> Dear list, >> >> I didn't yet figure out why, but small caps font for Antykwa Torunska >> doesn't work in MKIV: >> >> \usetypescript[ant

[NTG-context] \sc missing in Antykwa Torunska

Dear list, I didn't yet figure out why, but small caps font for Antykwa Torunska doesn't work in MKIV: \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska] \setupbodyfont[antykwa] \starttext abc \sc def \stoptext The bug is also present in TL 2010. It works fine with MKII. Mojca ___

Re: [NTG-context] Better support for Croatian in lang-sla.tex (patch included)

2010/7/12 Hans Hagen : > On 11-7-2010 11:46, Vedran Miletić wrote: >> >> Here is a better patch, with new strings translated and v!appendix >> commented as in lang-ger.tex. >> >> I could also add support for Serbian latin, but I have no idea how to >> add new language that will allow both latin and

[NTG-context] How to sort in Lua using locale?

Hello, I would like to create a document using some functionality that is pretty close to creating an index, but the built-in index creation code doesn't suffice. My main question is: how do I sort strings using the built-in sorting rules for the current language? Here is an example with a table

[NTG-context] Serbian: Latin vs. Cyrillic

2010/7/11 Vedran Miletić wrote: > > I could also add support for Serbian latin, but I have no idea how to > add new language that will allow both latin and cyrilic. It would be great if ConTeXt supported: \mainlanguage [serbian] [script=latin | cyrillic] as well as \mainlanguage [en

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 17:46, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote: > > I have a PostScript printer.  I'd prefer not to have to run pdf2ps. Unrelated to the question of PS output of ConTeXt: I have a PostScript printer (at home and in the office) as well, but my general impression has always been as if PD

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Context Minimals on Windows

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:52, John Devereux wrote: > > Using the command line method I get a message about a vtable error when > I try to run context. (It looked like the one mentioned in earlier > postings, sorry I don't have the exact message now). Does it help if you re-download the zip (for th

Re: [NTG-context] Best version of ConTeXt

On 2010-07-08, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: > > Context Minimals is "context-only" TeX distribution. If you don't need > LaTeX, you can use minimals, else install TeXLive 2010 (context Mark IV is > broken in TeXLive 2009). But it is true that minimals sometimes break. TL won't change for at least a y

Re: [NTG-context] Best version of ConTeXt

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 13:54, Tom wrote: > > From which site should Americans download Tex Live 2010? Minimals only? http://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html http://www.tug.org/texlive/mirmon/ > I assume that the beta version is the latest 2010 > version, bugs and all, and that the stable version

Re: [NTG-context] Best version of ConTeXt

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 02:03, Tom wrote: > What would be the best version of ConTeXt to recommend to a friend who > writes novels on a PC running Windows? The person has no programming skills. > He would probably require some assistance installing Tex-Live or whatever > and would need a stable vers

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: floats with Context 2009 (Ubuntu). How do I use this workaround?

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 00:10, Pascale Julia wrote: > My last question if I may: So I may not reply to the other question then? :) > I am using Kile as an editor, and warming up to using Emacs. How is this > minimals installation accessed by either of those two programs? I don't know those two pr

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: floats with Context 2009 (Ubuntu). How do I use this workaround?

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 00:26, Pascale Julia wrote: > Ok, I installed the minimals, it went fast. > > But I get this: > pascale-desktop ~ # context --version > MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' In case that you have already set up the new installation (either by running ".

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: floats with Context 2009 (Ubuntu). How do I use this workaround?

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 23:45, Pascale Julia wrote: > Thanks for your answer. > I tried what you suggest a while back but the installation process seemed > stalled as there was no activity for a couple of hours. I wondered if > everything was hung or whether I was being impatient, but I aborted it.

[NTG-context] 8th BayTeX in Munich (July 31, 2010)

On Saturday July 31 there is a Bavarian TeX meeting in München: Is any ConTeXt advocate going to be present? Mojca ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] Shaded frame with colored text

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 14:07, Tom wrote: > Now, How do I insert multi-page PDFs created > elsewhere in an appendix. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Including_pages_from_PDF_document Mojca ___ If your question is of inte

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun error

Li Yanrui, thanks a lot for the patch and sorry for the delay. It's supposed to be fixed now, but reports of contrary observations are always welcome. Mojca ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, pleas

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun error

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:20, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > On Jul 2, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > >> confirmed on osx-intel (OSX 10.5): > > I had the same problem on OS X, but only on a 32-bit system; my 64-bit system > works normally. I copied the version of mtxrun from my 64-bit

Re: [NTG-context] CSS glitch in the garden

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 17:00, Otared Kavian wrote: > Hello Hraban, Patrick, > > I just checked the website > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page > with Safari 5.0 and Mac OS X 10.6.3 and everything seems allright, as it is > with FireFox. > Also using various different « User Agent » (in the

Re: [NTG-context] [metapost] mptopdf from the command line in ConTeXt minimals?...

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 02:45, Stuart Hungerford wrote: > > I've seen references to a "mptopdf" script and there is a Perl > script of that name but it looks like it needs to be installed > somewhere.  Is there some post-setup procedure I need to follow > to access "mptopdf" or another one I've see

Re: [NTG-context] \numstr errors out in chapter star logic

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 23:41, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > That's abother way but the \numstring code is a mess (why so many > unnecessary comment signs?) > and it needs a proper rewrite (Lua?) before it can be used. It was written in 2005. I don't remember who wrote it originally (maybe Hans or

Re: [NTG-context] Converting numerals to text

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 22:31, Tom wrote: > Is there a command or macro that converts a numeral to its English language > equivalent? For example, I would like to display Thirteen for 13. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Page_numbering_in_words http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/33962/fo

Re: [NTG-context] two languages hyphenation

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 14:19, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > Hello, > > I have two languages in my document: English and Russian, and want to enable > hyphenation for both. (By default, only English words are hyphenated). How > to achive this? \mainlanguage[ru] \starttext some russian text {\la

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with Mark IV (MacTeX 2009)

2010/6/25 David Abdurachmanov wrote: > Hi, > After finding out that line numbering works different in Mark IV I tried > using this version on Mac OS X via MacTeX 2009. Don't. MacTeX 2009 doesn't work with Mark IV, and even if it would, it's way too old. If you want to install and use MacTeX,

Re: [NTG-context] TL 2010 and gentium typescript: weird errors with XeTeX

> .. what does > > \settrue\tracexetexfonts > > return? did they change the error recovery code, that is, this > > \suppressfontnotfounderror In TL I get: fonts : no checking 3a: "Zapfino:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;" fonts : no checking 3a: "Zapfino:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;" fo

Re: [NTG-context] TL 2010 and gentium typescript: weird errors with XeTeX

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:48, Hans Hagen wrote: > > also runs ok Yes, in minimals it works fine. Also if I copy the XeTeX binary from TL, it still works OK, it's only TL that is failing. Is it possible that some settings in kpathsea/xetex font searching settings are different? Is it possible to

Re: [NTG-context] TL 2010 and gentium typescript: weird errors with XeTeX

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 18:31, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 23-6-2010 5:58, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> True. But lmmi7 *is* an old tfm font. > > i don't think that i changed anything at the mkii end so there are two > possibilities then > > (1) the math font definition ha

Re: [NTG-context] TL 2010 and gentium typescript: weird errors with XeTeX

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 17:11, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:24:09PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 23-6-2010 1:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> >when processing it with >> >     texexec --xtx filename >> >> so ... xetex ... you'

[NTG-context] TL 2010 and gentium typescript: weird errors with XeTeX

Dear list, does anyone have any idea why I get the following error with \usetypescriptfile[type-gentium] \usetypescript[gentium] \setupbodyfont[gentium] \starttext something \stoptext when processing it with texexec --xtx filename (/Users/mojca/soft/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/

Re: [NTG-context] [OT][Fwd: Re: Proposal of a new Q&A site centered on Latex]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 20:57, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Well, nearly off-topic, at least. But it is an interesting idea. First off-topic question: Do you know a good place to buy latex clothing [products]? First on-topic question: Why do we need [to] \protect? This will rate as x-page on search

Re: [NTG-context] metapost: shading and transparency

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > From what I understand/remember, combining transparency and shading > needs special treatment that hasn't been implemented. At least not > yet. ... but it may work in TikZ (I would not bet that t

Re: [NTG-context] metapost: shading and transparency

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:19, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Marco wrote: >> >> while using shading in metapost I cannot get transparency work. >> The transparency is simply ignored and the result is the same colour as >> with >> no transparency specified. > > Same here, but I am not sure whether this is

Re: [NTG-context] Writing a Curriculum Vitae/Resume

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:21, Matija Šuklje wrote: > > Hm, I suppose I should upgrade TeX Live to 2009 on my Gentoo :P I would upgrade to 2010 instead. ConTeXt in 2009 is kind of broken. http://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html All you need to do is to run a script and you can put all the fil

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 23:06, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > OK, thanks for the info. I used to have my own configuration, but environment > variables aren't used any more. How does mkiv store the config information > now? How could I overwrite the values that mtxrun --variables shows? I didn't t

Re: [NTG-context] Strange nieuw directory after updating with first-setup.sh

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:32, Willi Egger wrote: > Hi, > > I just updated the minimals and I see a strange directory: > > > This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.1-2010042810 > Current version: 2010.06.10 15:24 > > .../lua60.1 is the texroot. > > ../lua60.1/tex/lua60.1 >                         ^

Re: [NTG-context] error in first-setup.sh

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 19:35, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 9-6-2010 3:30, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> I have also noticed the complaint about missing texmf-project. It >> should be harmless, but it may be better not to make it look like an >> error. > > how about adding

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