[NTG-context] Re: LaTeX2ConTeXt : external links not work after recompiled

2004-12-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Adam, Quy, But all external links not work! When I click on them, I go to the 1st page of document. Internal links work well. Quy, have you tried it in a different PDF viewer? Not all platforms treat links the same. I had a look at the PDF file and it is broken. I just downloaded

[NTG-context] Re: LaTeX2ConTeXt : external links not work after recompiled

2004-12-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, In fact I have no problem with 2.99.4-beta. ConTeXt works fine, even with Vietnamese Unicode input file. But all external links were broken :( [ ] working ConTeXt [ ] correct external links [ ] Vietnamese Unicode Input pick two. Patrick (sorry I am of no help yet) -- ConTeXt wiki:

[NTG-context] Re: \setuptolerance

2004-12-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Richard, \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] ( or \setuptolerance[horizontal,verytolerant,stretch] ) will result to \tolerance 4500\emergencystretch\bodyfontsize [from my memory] yes. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] Re: Wrap a url

2004-12-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] I am seeing here and there that the syntax for \useURL is: \useURL[][][][] Hi, I have put an example in texshow-web (http://texshow.contextgarden.net/cmd=useURL) Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] Re: Table question

2004-12-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Holy cow, this was it! Thanks so much, this works! Wonderful, now I get the tables I always wated. Hope this might help other people, too. Patrick, would this be of interest for the wiki? Hi, I don't know if this is in the manuals, or not. If it is

[NTG-context] BNF module (was: Wrapping \type{})

2004-12-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Nikolai, after I lng time I finally managed to try your bnf module. It looks very good. And it even works with \mainlanguage[de] (it wasn't obvious, because you use ... as a delimiter). Thanks for it, Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] Re: LaTeX2ConTeXt.tex can't compiled

2004-12-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, [...] I have tried with pdfetex 1.10b 1.20b. But the same error was found. Anyone could tell me how to fix this please. perhaps this helps: in screen.tex: -- \startenvironment screen \usetypescript[adobekb] [ec] \setupbodyfont[pos]

[NTG-context] Re: LaTeX2ConTeXt.tex can't compiled

2004-12-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Is it possible to have ConTeXt/LaTeX generate the pure TeX code one would have after expanding all macros? \tracingall + some scripting could get you an end i guess but it's no fun Make sure you got some gigabytes left on your hard disk. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki:

[NTG-context] Re: Tex Live 2004 + context

2004-11-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Today I was about to install TeX Live 2003, to then install Context lastest release. But I found that Tex Live 2004 was released the 27th (3 days ago). I notice the texmf directory structure has been changed in 2004. What do you guys recommend? 2003+context? Or is the latest context

[NTG-context] Re: Tex Live 2004 + context

2004-11-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Ciro, I am using linux Fedora Core 3. It came with a *very* old tex installation with context version 2003. If I understand your advice, I should use texlive2003 and the latest context from last week upload in pragma? No, something more recent then texlive 2003. Perhaps texlive 2004

[NTG-context] Re: pagenumbers in margin

2004-11-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Geert, your testfile just stops. No pdf output to have a look at!?!? Please make sure that your testfile is complete (but minimal) so we can try it out, without guessing. -- TeXExec 4.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004

[NTG-context] Re: Table of contents, alternative d

2004-11-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dirar BOUGATEF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From the whole batch of answers i have received i could assume that there is no solution to this problem. You could also conclude from the lack of answers that nobody feels to make a working example of what you wanted to achieve. You (and others, of

[NTG-context] Re: pagenumbers in margin

2004-11-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] \stelnummeringin [variant=dubbelzijdig, plaats=] \stelvoettekstenin I am definitely doing too little ConTeXting at the moment. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: Table of contents, alternative d

2004-11-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Dirar, Great idea, i now have a working sample (What i want is to control the right margin distance for both parts and chapters - Here i can control only the left margin distance which is 1.7cm for chapters) Where exactly do you want to control the distance? In the list? You know about

[NTG-context] Re: pagenumbers in margin

2004-11-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Beste Geert, [...] This also works more or less, but (see if I can explain this in plain english without using figures !!.) : You should post a complete but minimal example that shows what you do and then a few words what is wrong with it. That way we can imagine better what your

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with \defintion.

2004-11-28 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Dirar, This is an example: [this is what I mean with complete, but minimal example. The itemize environment has nothing to do with the problem] \definedescription [definition] \starttext \definition{HMV} blablabla \definition{TTV} blablabla % uncomment this to see the error %

[NTG-context] Re: installing context (Hans Hagen)

2004-11-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I tried but the website www.pragma-pod.nl does not load. It looks as if the webserver is not responding currently. It is early (1:26 a.m.) in the morning here in europe and the server is proably sound asleep. Pat ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] Re: Lurker fails ..

2004-11-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Taco, It happens for me as well. Start here: http://archive.contextgarden.net/mindex/[EMAIL PROTECTED] and click on the 'white arrow on blue circle' thingies. The problem is that the needed @ sign in the url becomes lt;atgt; . Thanks for the exact pointer. I have changed my

[NTG-context] Re: pstoedit

2004-11-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Jorge, I have been trying to use pstoedit to generate a .mp file but it doesn't work :-( I have followed these steps: 1.- With Gimp: test.gif - Save as: test.ps can pstoedit trace bitmap files? I've never used it, but I'd guess that with ps only vector based postscript graphics are

[NTG-context] Re: MathML mover element for accents?

2004-11-09 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Duncan, [...] (PS (Patrick) - I tried to get a minimal file working on live.contextgarden but couldn't get any maths formatting to come out. Perhaps MathML support is not enabled there?) It should work out of the box. Could you send me a small test file? I just double checked that the

[NTG-context] Re: Tex or Context Editors.

2004-11-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dirar BOUGATEF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Am using eclipse as my editor (eTex) but it is really too heavy, anyone knows of an editor that works fine within tex and windows. See: http://contextgarden.net/Text_editor especially emacs... Please share your experience on the wiki :-) --

[NTG-context] Re: Lurker fails ..

2004-11-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Dirar, Every time i make a search i get a result page (which is good), but when i try to access the following pages with the arrow button on top of the page i get an error page with the following message: [...] Hmm, strange. I cannot reproduce the problem. It works fine for me

[NTG-context] Re: Layout

2004-11-08 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello David, This is what is needed, but even in more detail. [...] We need a picture(s) indicating all of the various layout parameters and their location on the page, as shown in the figure generated when you run the Latex code above. So you have tried out my t-layout? I guess you have

[NTG-context] Re: \setuplayout --- what do parameters mean?

2004-11-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi David, [...] I have a hard time working out what it means. I know I can do \showframe, but that doesn't indicate everything I need to see. Does anyone have a macro that shows ALL of these parameters in a visual way, similar to that on page 182 of the Latex User Guide, 2nd ed., Lamport?

[NTG-context] Re: Override starttyping environment

2004-11-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello David, [before={\startframedtext[width=\makeupwidth, and \startalignment[middle] don't work together. Perhaps you can put your \startmatlab in a framed box with specific width and frame=off. P. -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] font install script

2004-11-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi out there, has anybody got a (unix) script for installing the base fonts with texfont? I need the metrices so you can use these fonts without the adobekb typescript (no, I don't want to switch, its for garden) Patrick PS: don't send me complete trees, I don't have a good internet connection)

[NTG-context] Re: missing =

2004-11-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
From: David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where did the equal sign go? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:25:19 -0700 Please use the following method to make the error more clear for us: * delete everything unecessary * post the resulting code * (there is no step three)

[NTG-context] Re: subsubsubsection

2004-11-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Steffen, [...] Hah, it was just an forgotten entry in the darkest corner of my environment setup: Good news that you've got it. If you had posted a complete but minimal example, you might have gotten your answer earlier. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] Re: Failing on Mac OS X

2004-11-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Shivkumar Chandrasekaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.07 fmt: 2004.11.1 int: english mes: english systems: pdfTeX version 111 - please update current pdftex is something around This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-rc7.1-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.3) systems:

[NTG-context] Re: subsubsubsection

2004-11-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Steffen, Actually that's how I found the answer - while writing a minimal example! Minimal examples always invite to get a fresh look again, don't they? right! This is a pretty normal bug-finding procedure for me: 1) something with $SOFTWARE goes wrong 2) open mail client, start mail to

[NTG-context] Re: startyping modification

2004-10-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello David, \starttyping y = x.^2 -2*x - 3 \stoptyping I'd like, just this one time, to typeset this so it fall in the middle of the page, with a slightly enlarged fontsize. What is the middle of the page? centered vertically and horizontally? If only horizontal alignment: use

[NTG-context] Re: subsubsubsection

2004-10-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, According to the manual I did it like that: \definesection[section-6] \setupsection[section-6][conversion=characters,previousnumber=no] \definehead[LevelFive][section-6] \definehead[LevelFive][section=section-6] Patrick (and please post a minimal but complete example for testing!)

[NTG-context] Re: side-by-side

2004-10-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello David, this is far from perfect, but perhaps worth a tryout: -- \setupcolors[state=start] \setuptyping [before={\startframedtext[width=\localhsize,background=screen, backgroundscreen=0.8]}, after={\stopframedtext}, color=darkred]

[NTG-context] Re: minimal ConTeXt tree

2004-10-31 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Steffen, I wanted to give my TeX a fresh start, deleted the complete tetex folder and downloaded Hans' macosxtex.zip. Could someone please share his/her experience what to do now - in order to get the files in this zip work? This sounds to me as if you want to shoot yourself in your

[NTG-context] Re: \useencoding[ffr] with \placebookmarks crashes (sometimes!)

2004-10-29 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Steffen, processing a file like the one below breaks with an error (see log below too). But when \section is used instead of \EbeneZwei it works. your code runs fine on live.contextgarden.net Perhaps something wrong with your distribution? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki:

[NTG-context] Re: Installing a new font.

2004-10-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Dirar, I can't see any suspicious error messages. Does your problem persist when you enable pdf output? What are the last lines of your pdf-logfile? Are the fonts mentioned there? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net ___

[NTG-context] Re: Installing a new font.

2004-10-27 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, htmldiv style='background-color:'PHi Patrick,/P PI don't see any pdf log file. What's it's it extension ?/P That is what I ment. OK, it looks as if ConTeXt not knowing to use your fonts. (The other source of error would be that pdftex cannot find your .pfb files, the fonts) sans and

[NTG-context] Re: Insert a figure

2004-10-26 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello David, What's the best suggestion for inserting a graphic with no Figure label and no caption? \externalfigure[cow] or \placefigure{none}{\externalfigure[cow]} Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] Re: stretched text

2004-10-25 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have it... (in spite of its

[NTG-context] Re: texexec 4.0 to 5.0 update.

2004-10-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Dirar, your message is still completely unreadable, see: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20041022.185441.3949557f.html Your texexec finds an old version of ConTeXt (2003.9.25). How did you install the new ConTeXt? Make sure you run texhash (or mktexlsr) to update the database of

[NTG-context] Re: no connection to contextgarden

2004-10-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, is it just me having problems connecting to the http://contextgarden.net Strange. It is up and running. Could this be a network error between your site and contextgarden? At pretty much the same time I sucessfully worked on garden. If this error does not vanish, could you send me a

[NTG-context] Re: Help

2004-10-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, \setuplayout [cutspace=1in, what is this cutspace? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Re: \part centered vertically.

2004-10-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dirar BOUGATEF writes: [some html stuff] could you please switch to sending text only mails. It would help reading the mails very much. I have difficulties with all the br, pre and other tags in my brain... If this was ConTeX markup, I wouldn't say anything ;-) Thanks and sorry I don't have

[NTG-context] Re: contextgarden

2004-10-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Vit, My Mozzila 6 redirects http://contextgarden.net/ to http://contextgarden.net/Main_Page This is correct so far. but shows nothing. It is problem somewhere between me and the garden or garden itself? Darn. I had the same trouble yesterday on my test wiki (I updated the

[NTG-context] Re: contextgarden

2004-10-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Vit, Meanwhile I have switched back to the old software, so everything should work the way it is supposed to. Thanks, Patrick, I just wanted to sent a reply with your contextgarden link to the Czech TeX mailing list. Good thing -- I checked the site ;-) I will do it now! OK, back to

[NTG-context] Re: Installation Problem

2004-10-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi David, does http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20041011.122555.3827e19a.html help? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Re: textext() doesn't work on my MikTeX distr.

2004-10-15 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Mojca, I can only guess, since I (do I repeat myself?) don't have MikTeX installed. It seems that you don't have shell-escape or write18 enabled. This feature lets you run external programs from your tex-run. This is a potential security hole, so it is disabled by default. You have two

[NTG-context] Re: textext() doesn't work on my MikTeX distr.

2004-10-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Mojca Miklavec, The following example works on [EMAIL PROTECTED], but on my computer it only writes unknown at the place of x. btex etex also doesn't work in ConTeXt (metaplay) on my computer, although it does without any problems in metapost/mptopdf. do you have \protectbufferstrue

[NTG-context] Re: textext() doesn't work on my MikTeX distr.

2004-10-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Mojca, do you have \protectbufferstrue in cont-sys.tex? I renamed the file once for some reason (I don't remember why, but I've probably read something about removing the file; my apologises if I accused MikTeX for that). Now I renamed the file back,

[NTG-context] Re: website

2004-10-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Any one can tell me how to acess the new site. just point your browser to http://www.pragma-ade.com/ (as usual). Or did I miss the point? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: cygwin/tetex or miktex?

2004-10-10 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello rb, Is one of these two preferable when running ConTeXt on windows? please don't use the subject alone, it is confusing. You can also use fptex (or texlive). I'd prefer fptex over miktex over tetex/cygwin. But I am not the person to ask, since I haven't seen a windows system in a while.

[NTG-context] Re: Wiki and source code browser

2004-10-01 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Christopher, BTW: I have installed yet another service at contextgarden.net, the source browser. Nice. But I think the search should ignore the fmt files, they won't be displayed anyway. I'd also welcome an option not to search in *.tws nor *-scite.properties, I have not found

[NTG-context] Wiki and source code browser (was: positioning layers again)

2004-09-30 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Willi, I believe that the most convenient way of making your work available would be to put the essentials into the Wiki: I agree on this, but http://contextgarden.net/Context/show/HomePage is outdated :-) See signature for the link. BTW: I have installed yet another service at

[NTG-context] answering without replying

2004-09-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
I have 2 questions: I have 1 answer: 1. Is there anyway to answer the messages on this archive without replying to the corresponding received mail? I would like to update a previous post but can't manage to do it. You can't update previous posts on the mailing list. You have to answer your

[NTG-context] Re: Installatie ConTeXt hapert

2004-09-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Beste Mike, Ik ben een sufferd. In 'miktex.ini' staat een variabele 'pool_size' die je een andere waarde kunt geven. Probleem opgelost, bedankt. The next time you have a problem with ConTeXt (or anything related), please post in english, so more people can participate in solving your problem.

[NTG-context] Re: Metapost animation

2004-09-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Michal, [...] As for your example, I don't understand it. It does work under Windoze with Acrobat 4.0 and Acrobat Reader 5.0, but not under Linux with Acrobat Reader 5.x. That is Acrobat Reader. :-( Accept it as a fact that you need to do your JS for a specific version of Adobe

[NTG-context] Re: Problems with Acrobat Reader, animation, sound, JavaScript etc.

2004-09-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello again, 6) If I want to learn how to use JavaScript in the ConTeXt, what Adobe document should I read first? Is somewhere explained to integrate it in the ConTeXt (more that the widgets manual)? If you are looking for an adobe document, search for Technical Note #5431 Acrobat

[NTG-context] Re: struts in \quotation{..}

2004-09-14 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, [...] but ... what is wrong with that? The question is, do the struts affect the typesetting (kerning)? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net List archive: http://archive.contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] struts in \quotation{..} (was: Help with LaTeX - ConTeXt book typesetting)

2004-09-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans and Ulrich, [...] Woran arbeiten Sie? wurde Herr K. gefragt. Herr K. antwortete: Ich habe viel Mhe, ich bereite meinen nchsten Irrtum vor. (B. Brecht) Aber Hallo! \quotation{all right \quote{there} we go} \stoptext hm, what do other german users experience/think? I experience the

[NTG-context] Re: Metapost animation

2004-09-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Now to my next question. I have seen a great thing: Metapost pictures were animated (probably with the JavaScript code). You can found some examples here: You need automatic steps? If not, take a look at http://dl.contextgarden.net/examples/euro-anim/euro-anim.pdf (this is explained in

[NTG-context] Re: externalfigure

2004-09-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Jan-Mark, using mptopdf externalfigure nue-logo-1.jpg scaled 10; results in a figure that doesn't retain the original image ratio. [...] I don't think it is possible. As far as I can see, the externalfigure command just includes a reference to the figure and metapost never

[NTG-context] Re: externalfigure

2004-09-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] So I thing the case should work as expected. Could you send complete-and-minimal example? \starttext \startMPcode externalfigure hacker.jpg scaled 300; \stopMPcode \stoptext where hacker.jpg is from the official samples. P. -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web:

[NTG-context] Re: Docbook - pdf with ConTeXt

2004-09-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Frank, I am interested in using ConTeXt to create PDF's from Docbook documents and found one older resource trying to integrate both. What is the current status of docbook formatting with ConTeXt? The last time I talked to the authors of Docbook in ConTeXt, they were both turning away

[NTG-context] Re: new stuff for brave users

2004-08-26 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Tobias, Floris and others, [live.contextgarden.net] i would opt for a better 'result-ready' flag (e.g. providing the link to the result) instead of opening a log file that is of not too much interest when everything went OK. How about something like that: Show an intermediate page

[NTG-context] Re: Lucida Bright Fonts from StarOffice

2004-08-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans and others, Are these fonts exactly the same as the ones that you buy from yandy.com? I don't know. probably not, i once did a project where graphics came from all kind of organizations, we ended up with (looking in the final pdf file) quite some different lucida clones; the

[NTG-context] Re: Lucida Bright Fonts from StarOffice

2004-08-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I assume that CE stands for Central European (normally, when you buy a font, that means not that many accented characters, i.e. many CE fonts are not suitable for german). A quick test (showfont and aesop-de) shows that at least well known accents are there. Anyway, it looks like these

[NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Here is the essence of your problem: kpathsea: Running mktexmf ec-uplr8a ! I can't find file `ec-uplr8a'. * ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-uplr8a You don't have the proper font files in place to use the postscript typescripts as they come in the default ConText.

[NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font (SOLVED)

2004-08-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, Okay. Problem solved. The thing is that I did not ask the texlive distribution to install the extra fonts package. The palatino fonts were part of the extra fonts. Right, I did aks you if you have psnfss installed? Hmm, perhaps I forgot, because I think that everybody has it

[NTG-context] Re: Lucida Bright Fonts from StarOffice

2004-08-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For right now, I am giving up on the postscript fonts. Lets try something else. :-) Those fonts are also postscript fonts. [...] Is there any way I can use these fonts with ConTeXt? If yes, where do I need to copy them and what do I rename them to? Use the

[NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] The following works at live.contextgarden.net, but not on my Fedora Core 2 installation. Oh damned. The adobekb file does not exist on your system and ConTeXt doesn't feel like giving an error message :-( install http://levana.de/context/font/adobekb.tex into your homedir/TeX system.

[NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-20 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans, [...] but type-akb.tex should be there ... \usetypescriptfile[type-akb] Hmm, shouldn't \usetypescript[adobekb][..] be enough to load the file? I have just deleted my tetex 2 installation, so I can't verify. type-akb.tex didn't get loaded with fedora linux that the person

[NTG-context] Re: error with _ in header?

2004-08-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans, [...] fix (in core-fig.tex:) solves the problem here. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net List archive: http://archive.contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL

[NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans, [.. psnfss fonts ..] Concerning those fonts, there are differences between distributions: different metrics, different subpaths, urw instances either or not present; i got the feeling that sometimes fixes/changes take place when a font contributer finds out that his/her system

[NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] I get errors. I am using Fedora Core 2 with teTex 2.02. the ConTeXt in tetex 2.02 should be new enough to handle what Mari and I have pointed out. Please post an error message on the things that we have written. (But I doubt you will get any.) Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki:

[NTG-context] error with _ in header?

2004-08-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Stefan, I prunned the example to investigate the situation further. Now I have only two pages. Well, how do you think anybody should be able to debug what you have done with all the stuff in your document? You should definitely try to reduce the file size to a minimum, otherwise it

[NTG-context] Re: error with _ in header?

2004-08-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, [...] (I do not know how TeX code is debugged and what tools are available for that task.) There are no tools for problems like yours. So it is very important to have a minimum (non-) working file file. btw: with the error related to other files in the directory: did you run

[NTG-context] Re: error with _ in header?

2004-08-18 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, -- \setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescript[adobekb][texnansi] \usetypescript[postscript][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[postscript,ss,13pt] \setupheadertexts[text][\_][] \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \externalfigure[cow][scale=1424]

Re: [NTG-context] getting context going

2004-08-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Floris van Manen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i did find textools.rb in the folder C:\texlive\texmf-local\scripts\context\ruby It is not really necessary to run ConTeXt. Did you try your installation? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web:

[NTG-context] Re: Is there a bug during pagination of external figures?

2004-08-13 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Stefan Wachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Hans, I attach an example Context file and the included graphics. Unfortunately the example is by far not minimal. The file is just a few bytes, no need to mention... Just looking at the error message, I bet your problem is at:

[NTG-context] Re: no graph after compilation

2004-08-12 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Hans and Floris, This is indeed strange. Any metapost experts? how did the graphic definition look? Hans Well, a look at the source while being awake (although this is hardly possible without coffee yet) made it clear, that there is a simple drawoptions() missing to erase the former

Re: [NTG-context] no graph after compilation

2004-08-12 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Floris, i got the update from pragma-ade.com, unzipped the files in c:\texlive\texmf i did run the texexec --make but i still have texexec 4.0 running... Any windows / texlive users should be able to tell you more. But unzipping it on top of the texlive was not the very best idea I'd

Re: [NTG-context] no graph after compilation

2004-08-12 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Floris, that is explaining the situation. But for an end-user (i try to keep myself on that level) it is *not* very convenient left with this situation (not knowing it exists in the first place) Not all hope is lost. IIRC there were two important differences from your texlive upto now: 1)

Re: [NTG-context] no graph after compilation

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Floris van Manen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VZ Floris, you are not alone. I also have not find the quick solution. So I VZ call texexec two times when working with MP graphics, VZ color definitions, ... :-( running it twice is something i can live with, but if it will not solve the problem,

Re: [NTG-context] no graph after compilation

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Floris, where do i do this? in C:\texLive\texmf\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme ? and what do i type there? see the wiki: http://contextgarden.net/Cont-sys.tex and http://contextgarden.net/Texmf.cnf Does this help? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web:

Re: [NTG-context] no graph after compilation

2004-08-11 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, i did, but it has side-effects... it will scale, but the color disappears too. try. This is indeed strange. Any metapost experts? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net List archive: http://archive.contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] new stuff for brave users

2004-08-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Dear ConTeXt users, I have started another service. Please note that this is not finished yet and might change or get out of service once in a while (I have no experience with such a service). You can process your ConTeXt documents online. Just point your browser to

[NTG-context] Re: new stuff for brave users

2004-08-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Vit, Two weeks ago and again two days ago I asked Patrick what to do if I want to write some macro description but the macro is not present in texshow. But no response I have received yet. So the above Patrick's annoucement is a bit funny for me ;-) OK, I ask here in the list again,

[NTG-context] texshow-web

2004-08-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Taco, This also raises another problem: what to do if the syntax definition is wrong? The very first definition is wrong: \about's syntax is \about [ref] not \about {text} [ref] I fixed that in the garden, but will that new definition be destroyed at the next

[NTG-context] Re: new stuff for brave users

2004-08-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] I fixed that in the garden, but will that new definition be destroyed at the next automatic update? (my change also didn't update the display, btw.) best send such patches to me, or maybe collect them as comment so that they can be fed back to me Hans I collect all the changes in

[NTG-context] Re: new stuff for brave users

2004-08-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Mojca, Here is what I wrote yesterday, but haven't sent yet :) Did I send this accidentaly ? :) :) :) No, but my looking-forward-in-time-gadget sent me a copy of your message ;-) It's a great service, it would just make sense to connect the wiki and code rendering, so that the code

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello again, Oh come on, this is completely crap. The people at PRAGMA (i.e. Hans) share ConTeXt, wich is the holy grail that PRAGMA is based on (besides the knowledge). It is such a generous gift to the community. Please think about if you write stuff like that. I realize

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Salman, The problem with normal users cooking up new styles is the lack of artistic abilities in some people (like me). But you will never gain artistic abilities by simple copy/paste. One can, obviously go thru the manual cover the cover, but if one does not have creative

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Paulo, Everyone learns a language by example, if you try to teach one you will see, even Patrick, when he was a baby learned his first language by example (real language), it is only natural, it is only human. To argue the contrary is just lack of experience in teaching. Right, but

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with TeXexec

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, I have just installed a new Linux system (SuSE 9.1 with teTeX) and the new ConTeXt (texexec version 4.3) -- in the same way as older one. But it doesn't work. It writes a following error message: ... sh: line1: cont-en: command not found ... This is pdfetex... try

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Paulo, Maybe we should move this discussion off the list to not bother others that may not be so interested in it. They should use the killfile and fill it with my name (and erverything related) :-) Seriously: the question concerning ConTeXt documentation and examples is brought up on this

[NTG-context] Re: Collecting command arguments in a startstop environment

2004-08-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] Anyhow, I'm finding myself wanting to do this in ConTeXt, with of course replacing \newenvironment with \definestartstop. I didn't want to fiddle with \definestartstop, but here is a quick hack: -- \long\def\foo#1{ Hello #1!}

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, This is one of the sore points of ConTeXt and of the development effort. People at Pragma are willing to show off but not willing to share code and teach by example... contrary to most opensource projects I have seen. Oh come on, this is completely crap. The people at PRAGMA (i.e.

[NTG-context] new mailinglist archive

2004-07-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello again, I have also setup yet another mailinglist archive. I am currently testing it. It is located at http://archive.contextgarden.net Why yet another archive? * all (?) messages from May 1 1998 upto now are archived * searchable * quick the ntg archive is not searchable and has only

[NTG-context] Re: Disable Metapost rendering?

2004-07-24 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, The only way I know of is to disable all mpost runs with texexec --nomp .. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Re: Problem with Figures (Fixed)

2004-07-17 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] In this case, this bug or typo ought to be fixed in the beginner's manual. Shall we collect all typos and errors in the manuals? as a start, please put it in: http://members.ping.de:8062/context/show/Typos+in+beginners+manual Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061

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