Re: [NTG-context] How to display source in ConTeXt?

2012-11-13 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 13 Nov 2012, Martin Schröder wrote: > PLEASE switch of Comic Sans! > http://bancomicsans.com/ Yang Zhao's message did include a text/plain version too. Unfortunately it seems it may be impossible to display this by default in Gmail: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/4289/how-to-di

Re: [NTG-context] \chapter{} vs \startchapter..\stopchapter

2012-11-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 10 Nov 2012, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Given our interest in pdf production, perhaps we ought to be (more) > involved in opensource pdf viewer development? But I suppose that > acrobat and adobe reader remain the tools having the most widespread > use. It would certainly be nice to have an op

Re: [NTG-context] scripts

2012-11-01 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 01 Nov 2012, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Whats more, bash is found under /usr/local/bin/bash on FreeBSD so > #! /bin/bash > is bound to FAIL. One traditional solution is to use #!/usr/bin/env bash This of course assumes the path to env, but I believe that the env path is more standardized than

Re: [NTG-context] scripts

2012-10-30 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 30 Oct 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: > >FWIW, Debian and Ubuntu have a package ‘devscripts’ which includes a > >program ‘checkbashisms’ to catch such things (Ubuntu started using > >dash as the default sh back in 2006). Ubuntu also has some advice > > hm, so i wonder why setuptex fails on that b

Re: [NTG-context] scripts

2012-10-30 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 30 Oct 2012, Bill Meahan wrote: > On 10/30/2012 01:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >filename 2>&1 > > This has been the correct Bourne shell (POSIX) syntax for many > years. I think it goes all the way back to Bell Labs V7 IIRC > > >instead of &>filename. > > is a "bash-ism" FWIW, Debian a

Re: [NTG-context] Search path.

2012-09-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 10 Sep 2012, Andre Caldas wrote: > > Do you really need to use context mkii? As it's a new project, > > using context mkiv might be a better idea. > > No, I don't. I want to use always the preferred solution. I want to > follow your guidelines and be enlightened... :-) > How did you know I

Re: [NTG-context] Marking a textfragment for later reference

2012-08-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 07 Aug 2012, Robert Blackstone wrote: > Here follows my minimal example. I reasoned that the identifier [topica] > might act as a label, or an anchor, or whatever the correct ConTeXt name is, > for a reference. > ---

Re: [NTG-context] Check brackets and parentheses

2012-07-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 06 Jul 2012, Hongwen Qiu wrote: > >def count(filename, opening, closing): > > print opening, closing > > f = open(sys.argv[1], 'r') > Shouldn't this line be > f = open(filename, 'r') > otherwise the 'filename' parameter will not be used Oops, you're quite correct. Of cours

Re: [NTG-context] Check brackets and parentheses

2012-07-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 05 Jul 2012, Gilbert Houtekamer wrote: > I sometimes find myself looking for misplaced and missing brackets for a long > time, as context may given errors about a completely different location. > > For example this one took me a while >\goto{\url[localhost20381}[url(localhost20381)] >

Re: [NTG-context] Confused again :-)

2012-06-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 07 Jun 2012, Bill Meahan wrote: > Gosh this list is nice! Reminds me of the "good old days" when we > used UUCP, bang-paths and C-News to communicate (or the early > ARPANET days): polite, expert, very willing to share knowledge &c. Wolfgang is ConTeXt's natural language interface. In fac

Re: [NTG-context] bibtex sample file and possible bibtex bug

2012-05-30 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 30 May 2012, Andy Thomas wrote: > I apologize to bumb my own post, but does anyone know, where to put > sample.bib? Or did the default search path for bibtex change? The > basic example on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography_mkiv > does not work as well, because of the same reason. I

Re: [NTG-context] Apology

2012-05-29 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 29 May 2012, yuji sakai wrote: > Cheating, I believe, has a connotation of one bypassing the norms to > gain undue advantage over others. To that, I refuse to admit that > what I did earlier was cheating. As I have said, I had no intention > of disrupting this message board. It was a carele

Re: [NTG-context] "standard" for bibliographies

2012-05-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 10 May 2012, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > one glaring omission to me was the lack of support for > cross-references within bibliographical lists (e.g., you have a > chapter in a book and want to refer back to item X in your list). > This has been asked again and again on the zotero forums. A

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

2012-05-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 06 May 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: > > > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio wrote: > >> http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ > > """ > > ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document > > Engineering, is not open so

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-12 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 12 Apr 2012, Kip Warner wrote: > Indeed, that is unfortunate. I am a little surprised because I would > think that the people who use ConTeXt tend to be more from the > sciences than the humanities, and so I wouldn't have expected APA > style as the default. Most of the scientific journals

Re: [NTG-context] MLA Bibliography

2012-04-12 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 10 Apr 2012, Kip Warner wrote: > I'd like to use an MLA style bibliography with MKIV. The style is > available here: > > www.reed.edu/cis/help/latex/bibtexstyles.html > > Actually, it doesn't matter to me whether it is that one or any that > supports MLA already that ships with ConTeXt.

Re: [NTG-context] I want cited bib items only in my bibliography

2012-04-05 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 05 Apr 2012, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote: > Dear list, > > What is the right way today to get only the cited items in the > bibliography? I think that what you want is \placepublications[criterium=text] . (Some recent messages suggest that citations are broken in the latest beta, so also ma

Re: [NTG-context] Citation of two books with extra information

2012-04-03 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 03 Apr 2012, Steffen Fritzsche wrote: > Hi all, > > is it possible to cite two books and include page information for each of > them. To give an example I'm looking for something like > > \cite[extras={, p. 123}, extras={, p. 456}][BookOne:2000, BookTwo:1900] > > which should be process

Re: [NTG-context] Cross-document referencing not working!

2012-02-08 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 08 Feb 2012, Verhaag, G.C.H.M. wrote: > When I for example use \useexternaldocument[tst][test][A test > external] together with \from[tst] the test.pdf file is correctly > opened in Acrobat Reader. > > But the \in{section}[tst::crossref] doesn't open the test.pdf file > at all?! The jump t

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on Table of Contents

2012-02-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 07 Feb 2012, Kip Warner wrote: > One other thing, Pont. How do I add a title such as Contents at a > Glance without the actual table of contents including that in the > list it generates? Sorry, don't know about this -- I've never needed it, and I a google of the contextgarden hasn't turne

Re: [NTG-context] Questions on Table of Contents

2012-02-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 06 Feb 2012, Kip Warner wrote: > I am familiar with the \completecontent command, but was wondering if > there is a way to also typeset just a summary of the table of contents > (e.g. just chapters and no sections, sub sections, etc.)? \placelist[chapter] should do it (untested). Pont ___

[NTG-context] Question marks in bibliography entries [solved]

2012-02-04 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Hello all, I am presenting an answer rather than a question, for a change. (Though as usual it's about bibliographies.) Last November, Renald Buter posted a question about how to suppress the full stop which follows a publication title in the case where the publication title itself ends in a quest

[NTG-context] Bibliography problem

2012-02-01 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Hello, Here's a long-standing problem I have with BibTeX databases in ConTeXt Mk IV (I'm currently using version 2011.10.01). If there are multiple publications with the same authors and year, they get suffixes a, b, etc. as is usually expected in bibliographies. Unfortunately these suffixes appea

Re: [NTG-context] \cite fails with “Extra ...”

2012-01-29 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 30 Jan 2012, Philipp Gesang wrote: > Hi all, > > when updating some module documentation I came across this one: > > · > > \startpublication [ > k=mt, > t=book, > a={Bodoni}, > y=1818, > n=1, > s={Manuale}, > ] >

Re: [NTG-context] Documentation for Bibliography on MKIV

2012-01-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 21 Jan 2012, Wagner Macedo wrote: > I will read bib module manual. And, additionally, do you know if > this MkIV support brings some facilities to interact with > bibliography via Lua? I'm not sure. The impression I have is that the new bibliography code is still under development, so usin

Re: [NTG-context] Documentation for Bibliography on MKIV

2012-01-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 21 Jan 2012, Wagner Macedo wrote: > Hello, > > In http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography_mkiv, it's little talked > about bibliography support on MKIV. > > Does yet exist a documentation about how to use it? Although the code has been rewritten, the user interface is largely the same

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 20 Jan 2012, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > None of my tools are able to export this into an usable PDF (I didn't > try to install Inkscape though). But it is also true that I'm not 100 > % sure if PDF knows anything about the "gaussian blur". I think this is the root of the problem: inkscape ras

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 19 Jan 2012, Kip Warner wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 21:13 -0300, Wagner Macedo wrote: > > It would be good if you attach the svg file. > > > > Could you do this? > > Hey Wagner. No problem. > > http://www.thevertigo.com/temp/Pic.svg My PDF file sizes (using 2011.10.01 10:48): ConT

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and file size

2012-01-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 19 Jan 2012, Kip Warner wrote: > Hey Peter. The original SVG is about 7KB. With rasterize off and > exported to PDF, its under 2KB. With rasterize on, its still only 78KB. > Whatever ConTeXt is doing with it, that 7KB SVG gets bloated to nearly a > meg at 976KB. This happens as Logo.svg is

Re: [NTG-context] idea for a ConTeXt keyboard

2012-01-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 10 Jan 2012, rvhassel wrote: > Prepare with ConTeXt a number of keys, for instance parts of > mathematical formulas and functions, or parts of molecules out of > the chemistry. Put them in the keys of one the keyboards, mentioned > above and there can be given a lecture with readable formul

Re: [NTG-context] Citation "Error 2" using BibTeX db

2011-12-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 18 Dec 2011, Chris Lott wrote: > I was testing citation capability with a BibTeX db based on the > Context Garden bibliography page: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography > > The example code using the xampl.bib from my distribution didn't work > at all. So I've tried to make a very

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Welcome to ConTeXt! I'm a relatively new user so my answers will be brief and partial, but I'm sure others will be able to expand on them. On Tue 13 Dec 2011, Chris Lott wrote: > 1) My work is primarily in the humanities and end-user technologies, > with small amounts of coding. So mathematics is

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography: Any styles including URL?

2011-12-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 10 Dec 2011, Paul Menzel wrote: > type setting my thesis with ConTeXt I still use BibTeX to manage my > references. Since a lot of references are available online I want to > include the URL if they are available. > > I read the ConTeXt publication module documentation [1] and as far as I

Re: [NTG-context] Copyright Symbol

2011-12-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 08 Dec 2011, Malte Stien wrote: > How do I get a copyright symbol in ConTeXt, you know the circle with > the 'C' in the centre? I expected it to be \textcopyright as in > LaTeX, but that does not seem to work. If you're using a font which contains the symbol, and if you're using MkIV, you

Re: [NTG-context] \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds

2011-11-24 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 24 Nov 2011, Romain Diss wrote: > - again in french, the liter symbol is lowercase l (althought the > uppercase L is also temporarly accepted). Not only in French, but in most of Europe, I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litre#Symbol . Should probably be explicitly configurable. Pont

Re: [NTG-context] pagenumbering and part options [CORRECTED]

2011-11-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 21 Nov 2011, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > 2. The other, less sophisticated option: How do I get > \setuppagenumbering to simply just reset the current pagenumber to > "1" and start from "1" again? I think that what you want (untested) is \setuppagenumber[number=1] rather

Re: [NTG-context] \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds

2011-11-18 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: > so, best is that those asking for it come up with a list of issues: > which symbols need this option, is it language related or whatever, > so that i can do them all at once. We can already have different > mapping sets so spacing could be part of that. I d

Re: [NTG-context] \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds

2011-11-17 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Robin Kirkham wrote: > > Conventions for setting the degrees of temperature symbol vary; see > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_symbol#Typography and references > > therein. In most professionally published works that I've seen, there > > is no space between the number and

Re: [NTG-context] \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds

2011-11-17 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Robin Kirkham wrote: > > Degrees, minutes and seconds of arc (also degrees Celsius) are an > > exception and are not supposed to have any space between the > > digits and the degree symbol [1], so to be correct, I think > > Context should by default veto any space between dig

Re: [NTG-context] Help with citation layout.

2011-11-16 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 16 Nov 2011, Christian wrote: > I need the help of a BibTeX/citation module expert. I want to modify the > appearance of @INBOOK entries. > Currently they look like this (apa-de style): > > author (year) _booktitle_, Chapter chaptertitle, pages, publisher, edition. > > What I'm aming for

Re: [NTG-context] terrible png placement

2011-11-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 10 Nov 2011, Hans van der Meer wrote: > Something terrible must be done to png pictures, either in ConTeXt or in > luatex. > I have the following minimal sample code and picture. I include the png for > those who want to check. > > % Test png addition. > \starttext > Place png figure.\pa

Re: [NTG-context] Omit part of a caption in a list

2011-11-10 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 11 Nov 2011, Christian wrote: > Dear all, > > is the following possible? > > List of figures > 1.1 Figure caption . . . . . . 2 > > > *imagine figure here > Figure 1.1: Figure caption is a lot longer than it appears in the list of > figures. > > I'd like to shorten the captions in the

Re: [NTG-context] Configure \setuppublicationlayout[article] to not insert a '.' after a title ending with a '?'

2011-11-08 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 07 Nov 2011, Renald Buter wrote: > Possibly people can give me a pointer into the proper direction? > > What I am after is probably something like: > > \setuppublicationlayout[article]{% > ... > \insertarttitle{\bgroup }{\egroup\optionallyinsertdot }{}% > ... > } > > I am not very kno

Re: [NTG-context] Figure Help

2011-11-07 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 07 Nov 2011, Kip Warner wrote: > > \externalfigure[Images/Figure.svg][width=2.5cm] > > Thanks Hans, but all I see is a grey box with the following in it where > I expected to see the image: > > name: dummy > file: > figure:Figure > state: unknown > > I've checked the path and it looks c

Re: [NTG-context] placelist

2011-11-04 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 04 Nov 2011, Willi Egger wrote: > it sound strange but how do I get a TOC where only the sections are > placed but not the subsections? The document contains exclusively > sections and subsections. With \placecontent[level=section] I get as > well the sections as also the subsections. Looki

Re: [NTG-context] Figure Help

2011-11-03 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 03 Nov 2011, Kip Warner wrote: > Two questions. Is it possible to define / declare a figure with one > command instead of having to do something like... > > \useexternalfigure[SomeFigure][Images/Figure.svg] > \externalfigure[SomeFigure][width=2.5cm] Sure, \externalfigure[Images/Figure.svg

Re: [NTG-context] Rearranging existing A5 => A4

2011-11-02 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 02 Nov 2011, Markus Finke wrote: > I have a ready document in A5 and want to rearrange selected pages next > to each other on A4 (homeprinter, proofreading). > > In LaTeX I was using »pdfpages«, e.g.: > > \usepackage[final]{pdfpages} > \begin{document} > \includepdf[pages={42,1-41},landsc

Re: [NTG-context] Recommended table environment?

2011-10-28 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 28 Oct 2011, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > I have a project where I think ConTeXt really fits well, so I have a > first question (after a looong period of absence). Is there a > recommended table environment? Indeed there is -- see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview : * Tabulate (t

Re: [NTG-context] Galleries with photos from ConTeXt meetings: any ideas?

2011-10-26 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 25 Oct 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > - In either case I need suggestions about the best option to store > photos on new server. (Which software to run?) I've been using Gallery ( http://gallery.menalto.com/ ) to host my personal photos for years, and I've found it user-friendly, stable, we

Re: [NTG-context] TOC struggles

2011-10-20 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 20 Oct 2011, Willi Egger wrote: > Hm, i > s there a problem with placing the TOC with restrictions to the > typeset levels? Please refer to the attached example. Hi, I'm afraid I don't have time to run your example, but looking at it I note that you're using ‘\placecontent[level=section]

Re: [NTG-context] Two bibmod questions: first initials and points after question marks, etc. in reference list

2011-10-19 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 19 Oct 2011, Renald Buter wrote: > author = {Hirsch, J.E.}, > ... > - Notice that only the first initial appears? How to get both/all initials? Should be author = {Hirsch, J. E.}, with a space between initials, otherwise bibtex thinks that Hirsch's first name is ‘J.E.’. > -

Re: [NTG-context] \cite doesn't work correctly

2011-10-12 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 12 Oct 2011, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > the \cite command behaves strange, when used in projects: > > The expected output would be: > > Me and You; > Name, P..Test.. > > but it is only > > ; > Name, P..Test.. > > > And this result is the same when run from product or from component.

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

2011-10-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 05 Oct 2011, Charles wrote: > I would like (the journal actually) to remove the spaces between > initials (C.E. instead of C. E.). in the bibliography. > > It seems initials are created during the .bib to .bbl conversion but I > haven't find anything in the .bst style file. Can you plea

Re: [NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-10-02 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 02 Oct 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > The example works if I comment out any of the three lines in the > > \dorecurse, or if I change \dorecurse{3} to \dorecurse{2}. The > > example also fails with 2011.09.20, but works with 2011.02.25. > > page-one.mkiv: > ... Thank you once more; th

Re: [NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-10-02 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 01 Oct 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > I've recently updated my standalone (32-bit Linux) ConTeXT from > > 2011.02.25 to 2011.09.20, and I'm now having some trouble with > > float placement. I'm using MkIV. I'm trying to have figures > > protruding into the outer margins with a double-si

Re: [NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-09-29 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 29 Sep 2011, luigi scarso wrote: > I 've put \page just to show quickly the effect, but maybe there are > still problems > > \setuplayout[location=doublesided,width=20pc] > \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location={margin,header}] > \setupfloat[figure][location=inner] > \showfr

Re: [NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-09-29 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 29 Sep 2011, luigi scarso wrote: > hm , it looks like a bad match with between width=17cm and textwidth > This extreme example seems to works > \setuplayout[location=doublesided,width=20pc] > \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location={margin,header}] > \setupfloat[figure][locati

Re: [NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-09-29 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 25 Sep 2011, Pontus Lurcock wrote: > I've recently updated my standalone (32-bit Linux) ConTeXT from > 2011.02.25 to 2011.09.20, and I'm now having some trouble with float > placement. I'm using MkIV. I'm trying to have figures protruding into > the outer ma

Re: [NTG-context] Missing booktitle in "incollection" bib-entries

2011-09-25 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 25 Sep 2011, Stefan Müller wrote: > I have an @incollection-entry with "booktitle" set in a bib-file used in > a ConTeXt document. Unfortunately there is no \title, generated from > "booktitle", in the respective .bbl file. Only \arttitle, generated > from the bib-key "title", is pr

[NTG-context] Float placement problem

2011-09-25 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Hello, I've recently updated my standalone (32-bit Linux) ConTeXT from 2011.02.25 to 2011.09.20, and I'm now having some trouble with float placement. I'm using MkIV. I'm trying to have figures protruding into the outer margins with a double-sided layout, as described here: http://wiki.contextgar

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography related questions

2011-09-23 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 23 Sep 2011, Christian wrote: > The only flaw of this workaround (besides not being the 'proper > way') is that the first '(' is not part of the link and therefore > not green (but then again, I'll probably set the color of the link > to black, anyway). > A Fix of linked \cite[alternative=

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography related questions

2011-09-23 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 23 Sep 2011, Alexandre Krispin wrote: > The setup pagecite of Pontus Lurcock is exactly what I needed, but > even with a minimal example, it does not produce a reference at the > end with \completepublications. For \completepublications, as for \placepublications, you ne

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography related questions

2011-09-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 22 Sep 2011, Alexandre Krispin wrote: > I am trying to get references working with Context as well as it did > with Biblatex. Since I didn't find anything helpful in the documentation > and the mailing-list, I ask here. It's true that bibliography documentation can be hard to find. The bes

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-15 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 15 Aug 2011, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > On 08/15/2011 09:16 AM, luigi scarso wrote: >> Under linux Wine sometimes does a great job. > > *If* the linux user happens to have 150 bucks and thinks it's a good > idea to give that to Microsoft. Huh? I've been using Wine for a while (though not

Re: [NTG-context] sorted phone directory

2011-08-02 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 02 Aug 2011, Johan Sandblom wrote: > I am maintaining a small vademecum for my workplace. One of the things > it contains is a list of handy phone numbers, which should be sorted. > Until now I have used the attached hack. It has worked reasonably well > until the directory outgrew the one

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography entries not showing up

2011-07-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 06 Jul 2011, Christian wrote: > Also, if anybody thinks mkiv is not ready for productive work, > please scream and stop me. But as far as I've heard it has been used > to typeset books and theses already, so... yeah. I've been writing my thesis in MkIV and haven't hit any serious problems

Re: [NTG-context] How to get the chapter number

2011-07-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 06 Jul 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > What I mean. I have something like: > > \chapter{General description} > . > . > This is explained in chapters 7 to 12. > . > . > \chapter{another} > . > . > \chapter{first explaining} % this is (now) chapter 7 > . > . > \chapter{last explaining} % th

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography is not working

2011-06-25 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 25 Jun 2011, yoraxe wrote: > > Sounds like you need to run mktexlsr. Bibtex uses LS-R to find these > > files. (afaik; at least it helped me when I got that error) > > Wow, thank you. That really worked. :) > Sorry, that I didn't find that in the archives. Please make a note in the wiki

Re: [NTG-context] justify

2011-06-24 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 24 Jun 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: > newspaper: spacing between letters and words are increased or decreased > as necessary. The IE reference says “it is the most sophisticated form > of justification for Latin alphabets.” This appears to be the original source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/e

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography is not working

2011-06-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 22 Jun 2011, yoraxe wrote: > Thanks for the information. I really didn't know that. But > unfortunately this does not change anything. Strange, works here for me (ConTeXt MkIV version: 2011.02.25 22:03, Ubuntu Linux 32-bit) -- files attached. At this point I don't know what else to advise.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt support for DjVu backend

2011-06-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 22 Jun 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: > btw, it would be interesting to have a good open source jbig2 > producer I believe https://github.com/agl/jbig2enc is open source, but I don't know whether it fulfils your other criterion of being good. Pont

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography is not working

2011-06-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 22 Jun 2011, yoraxe wrote: > \setupbibtex[database=bib] > > \starttext > \completepublications > \stoptext You want \completepublications[criterium=all], if you wish to list publications even when they're not referenced in the text. Perhaps you were misled by the name -- \completepublicat

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt support for DjVu backend

2011-06-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 22 Jun 2011, Kip Warner wrote: > Are there any plans to eventually support the DjVu format as an > additional backend alternative to PDF? DjVu is a free standard promoted > as an alternative to PDF. It is allegedly a superior format. There's always http://code.google.com/p/pdf2djvu/ in lie

Re: [NTG-context] Change the appearance of a list of bibliography (\placepublications)

2011-06-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 21 Jun 2011, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: > Is there any possibility to influence the appearance of a list of > bibliography when I make it in MKIV minimals using the command > \placepublications? I've done some very limited hacking about with the bibliography styles -- unfortunately I have

Re: [NTG-context] Editors

2011-06-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 21 Jun 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > TeXworks is configured to use MkII, but there are instructions on > > the wiki to configure it for MkIV. > > The latest TeXworks should have this fixed, but I have no idea how to > build texworks on linux (for Windows and Mac one can download a > bina

Re: [NTG-context] Editors

2011-06-20 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 20 Jun 2011, H. Hodges wrote: > I'm new to ConTeXt, coming from LaTeX. Are there any linux text > editors that are at all useful for creating context documents? There is a summary table in the wiki at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Text_Editors . Apart from the ones listed there is also htt

Re: [NTG-context] Table Column Width

2011-06-18 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 17 Jun 2011, Kip Warner wrote: > I have a table with four columns. The first three are fine as fixed > width and fairly narrow, but I need the fourth one to be larger to > accommodate text that can wrap for two or more lines. > > How would I go about doing this? I'm guessing something need

Re: [NTG-context] Automatic landscape figure rotation

2011-06-14 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Luigi, Wolfgang, Hans, Taco: thank you for the replies. I will update the wiki later today. Ulrike: I take your point about the inconvenience of such figures. Fortunately I don't have any adjacent ones so at least readers won't have to perform any 180° rotations. I'll play with the options and see

[NTG-context] Automatic landscape figure rotation

2011-06-14 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Dear ConTeXters, I have a full-page, landscape figure in my double-sided document which I rotate 90° to fit the page. In all the books I've seen, such figures are rotated ‘outward’ -- i.e. with the top towards the binding, so 90° clockwise on verso pages and 90° anticlockwise on recto. Is there a

Re: [NTG-context] undefined control sequence bug with German umlaut in bibliography

2011-06-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 06 Jun 2011, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > Well, there *is* more than one way to represent ä in UTF-8 > > If you mean "non-shortest" forms such as 0xE0 0x83 0xA4 or 0xF0 0x80 > 0x83 0xA4, then no, they have been forbidden since Unicode 3 in 2000 > (formally Corrigendum #1, see > http://www.

Re: [NTG-context] undefined control sequence bug with German umlaut in bibliography

2011-06-04 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 04 Jun 2011, Julian Becker wrote: > I'm not familiar with the intricacies and details of UTF8 encoding, > but is it possible that there is a byte missing from the "ä" which > has been cut off during the abbreviation process? Well, there *is* more than one way to represent ä in UTF-8, but i

Re: [NTG-context] undefined control sequence bug with German umlaut in bibliography

2011-06-03 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 03 Jun 2011, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > But I admit it's not easy to know that, bibtex documentation is a > real mess Patience please! ‘This document will be expanded when BibTEX version 1.00 comes out’ -- BIBTEXing, February 8, 1988. :-) Pont

Re: [NTG-context] Wiki Topics Menu

2011-06-03 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 03 Jun 2011, Mathieu DUPONT wrote: > Is there a menu page on the wiki to see all the topics/pages there > are, such as these few examples : Do you mean something like http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:AllPages ? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:SpecialPages has some other resource

Re: [NTG-context] teletype style in type-win.mkiv

2011-06-02 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 02 Jun 2011, Richard Stephens wrote: > \setupbodyfont[helvetica, 10pt] > > which is indistinguishable from Arial for 99% of the population, and > it has the advantage that all the styles are already defined, > including \tt. Anyone who can distinguish Helvetica from Arial is likely to have

Re: [NTG-context] newbie questions

2011-05-31 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 31 May 2011, Sanja C. wrote: > a) Is the ConTeXt project alive? The newest PDF documentation I > could find seems to be from 2007; most of it is dated 2003 or older. Very much alive! See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes for a list of recent releases (though betas come along much

Re: [NTG-context] checking mainlanguage setup

2011-05-27 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Fri 27 May 2011, Jeong Dalyoung wrote: > Is it possible to check what is the mainlanguage set in document? > Now, I use \enablemode[kr] to do something A. But, I'd like to do it > automatically if possible. According to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes#System_modes , the mode **kr should b

Re: [NTG-context] Punctuation in bibliography

2011-05-24 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Yes, I get it too. It's because booklet expects a publisher name; if you add a line publisher = {Publisher}, to the bibtex entry you can see this. I think this can be fixed in context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/bibl-apa.tex by changing this function: \setuppublicationlayout[booklet]{%

Re: [NTG-context] [bibliography] publications layout

2011-05-24 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 24 May 2011, Stefan Müller wrote: > is the bibliograph style as mentioned in "If your document design > specification requires a different style of capitalisation, you should > acquire a bibliography style that doesn’t enforce BibTeX’s default > rules." from the website you suggested,

Re: [NTG-context] [bibliography] publications layout

2011-05-23 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Tue 24 May 2011, finkler wrote: > in my publication list from the bibliography, every word, except the > first starts in small case letters. How can I change this? This might help: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=capbibtex Pont __

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-23 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Mon 23 May 2011, Stefan Müller wrote: > Okay, then I should definitely take a look at JabRef. Anyhow, maybe I'm > naive here, but I don't see a reason why Zotero should support BibTeX > Strings. If I type the BibTeX file manually, sure. But Zotero reads the > (e.g.) Journal names from the

Re: [NTG-context] OT: What reference management software do you use?

2011-05-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sat 21 May 2011, Paul Menzel wrote: > using ConTeXt and not LaTeX you maybe also use a nice reference > management software the main stream does not know about. But > probably it is not related to ConTeXt at all since it is BibTeX in > the end. As someone using stone-age reference management (

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography: current status, Wiki page Bibliography, [[error 2]] and bibltx

2011-05-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 22 May 2011, yoraxe wrote: > Besides the title is a german one, but all letters except for first > one, are lower-case. This might help: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=capbibtex Pont ___ If you

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Street-Fighting Mathematics

2011-05-22 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 22 May 2011, luigi scarso wrote: > Street-Fighting Mathematics > The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving > Sanjoy Mahajan > Foreword by Carver A. Mead > > The book is made with ConTeXt mkii > (so it's not a 100% off-topic, because we know that Sanjoy uses ConTeXt)

Re: [NTG-context] mtxrun fails after update to ubuntu 11.04

2011-05-08 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 08 May 2011, S Barmeier wrote: > Is there any savvy way to update to a newer release of ConTeXt > without meddling too much with the existing texlive installation? The best way is to install the minimals; it's a complete stand-alone ConTeXt system that can go anywhere (including your home

Re: [NTG-context] [t-rst] inclusion into Minimals, i. e. installation using `./first-setup.sh --extras='t-rst'`

2011-05-08 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 08 May 2011, Marco wrote: > If we prefer TK over GTK why not use the lua Tk bindings? When I saw this discussion starting I googled the Lua Tk bindings, and it turned out [1] that they apparently haven't been updated since 1998. A shame, since Tk is usually a good bet for easy cross-platfo

Re: [NTG-context] [garden] captcha: zip-code of Hasselt?

2011-05-05 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 05 May 2011, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > the wiki just asked me to verify my humanity through Hasselt’s > > zip code. From [1] I inferred that it would be the string > > “8061GH”, which was promptly rejected -- the next quiz proved to > > be easier and I finally won another wiki commit. Nev

Re: [NTG-context] Pull quotes

2011-04-27 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 27 Apr 2011, mathew wrote: > Has anyone implemented pull quotes using ConTeXt? What would be the > best approach to take? Why not just put it in a float? Pont ___ If your question is of interest to others as w

Re: [NTG-context] The appendices envrionment and title in toc

2011-04-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 21 Apr 2011, Pontus Lurcock wrote: > On Thu 21 Apr 2011, Reviczky, Adam wrote: > > > Why does this not work with > > \mainlanguage[uk] > > > > Hmm, good point. It seems to work with several \mainlanguage settings > I've tried: en, fr, nl, sv, fi, cs

Re: [NTG-context] The appendices envrionment and title in toc

2011-04-21 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Thu 21 Apr 2011, Reviczky, Adam wrote: > Why does this not work with > \mainlanguage[uk] > Hmm, good point. It seems to work with several \mainlanguage settings I've tried: en, fr, nl, sv, fi, cs, ru, de. But it fails for uk and en-gb. Pont ___

Re: [NTG-context] The appendices envrionment and title in toc

2011-04-20 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Wed 20 Apr 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 20.04.2011 um 11:10 schrieb seasoul: > > > Oh, thanks. > > > > But is there a by-pass to solve it? A thesis without any appenix seems not > > that complete. > > Define a \appendix command. Thank you. One pleasant thing about this list is that

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