Re: [NTG-context] typesetting in Cyrillic with Times

2006-12-17 Thread gnwiii
On 12/16/06, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I typeset in Cyrillic while using the Adobe Times or Utopia fonts? I don't believe that they contain no cyrillic glyphs. It is very disappointing to be limited to weird-looking computer modern. I don't believe that they

Re: [NTG-context] context under miktex (2)

2006-11-27 Thread gnwiii
On 11/27/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Hans, for your quick reply. My MikTeX installation contains a natural.tcx file. I am afraid that I do not quite grasp the rest of your reply. What do you suggest me to do? ask christian schenk to either

Re: [NTG-context] new bib module

2006-11-05 Thread gnwiii
On 11/4/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Nov 4, 2006, at 8:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ texmfstart texexec try-ctx [...] Completed box being shipped out [1.1] Memory usage before: 1751690230; after: 397690074; still untouched: 939301 title

Re: [NTG-context] new bib module

2006-11-05 Thread gnwiii
On 11/5/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that linux looks for the program bibtex try-ctx due to the escaped space. Never give up, never surrender! (new release uploaded) Thanks. If you haven't had days like that you haven't done enough

Re: [NTG-context] new bib module

2006-11-04 Thread gnwiii
On 11/4/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Thanks Taco! Right now, I get a 404 error when I try to download. Sorry, re-uploaded (I gave the wrong revision id). Should be ok now. I was able to download the new version, but it is failing on the simple example

Re: [NTG-context] color question

2006-10-10 Thread gnwiii
On 10/10/06, Alan Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is OT, my apologies to all. I am currently using ConTEXt to produce PDFs with a colored background which I specify using R G B settings. Unfortunately, this background does not look the same when others open the files on their

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-10-02 Thread gnwiii
On 10/1/06, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Steve Peter wrote: There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux. And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that believes it is running on windows... ConTeXt should adjust to the

Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-09-29 Thread gnwiii
On 9/28/06, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a common index. The 2001 manual is great, but many of the features discussed daily here are not in it. One must

Re: [NTG-context] counting the words in a TeX document

2006-08-05 Thread gnwiii
On 8/5/06, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to ask how difficult it would be to count the number of words in a TeX/ConTeXt document. If it's too complex, please ignore the rest of the message. It wasn't too complex for Michael Downes using LaTeX:

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-07-05 Thread gnwiii
On 6/23/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John R. Culleton wrote: Let me start all over. Assuming a working TeX installation (either tetex or texlive 2005) what incantation must I perform to [...] After following those instructions, everything should be ok except for the new

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart newbie

2006-06-27 Thread gnwiii
On 6/27/06, David Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I've updated to the latest context via Gerben's i-installer on my mac osx 10.4.6. I have no idea what texmfstart is nor do I understand its purpose. I imagine the first thing I have to do is configure, because it is certainly not found

Re: [NTG-context] keeping output

2006-06-16 Thread gnwiii
On 6/14/06, Hans van der Meer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question must have been asked before, but I cannot find it. Running texexec a number of messages flash by: error in metapost run : syllabus-s-mpgraph.mp:397 Alas, al the intermediate results disappear, especially the mpgraph

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts problem

2006-06-01 Thread gnwiii
On 6/1/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Thanks, that was a very interesting read! Personally, if it weren't for the really bad tex installation, I would favor gentoo over most other linux distros I have tried (the new SUSE 10.1 is a disaster, hm, i could

Re: [NTG-context] Another texmfstart question

2006-05-29 Thread gnwiii
On 5/29/06, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just made on my linux-gentoo box a fresh install using (exactly) this howto: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation But using texmfstart texexec toto gives texmfstart not found; I tried with the full path

Re: [NTG-context] A question for you

2006-05-27 Thread gnwiii
On 5/26/06, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which typesetting tasks do you NOT do in ConTeXt, and what do you prefer to use for those tasks? I'm involved with a report series for a small scientific organization. Years ago the organization hired a designer who knew PageMaker. A

Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem

2006-05-26 Thread gnwiii
On 5/25/06, Neal Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How I installed Context in /usr/local on Redhat EL WS v4 using BASH: Verify that the native RedHat version of tetex is not installed on your system; it is not compatible with Contex: Actually, it is possible to have both without resorting to

Re: [NTG-context] Stuck in texmfstart

2006-05-26 Thread gnwiii
On 5/26/06, Neal Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the loop at line 262. It seems that in my thrashing around yesterday I made some transient change to the environment (I shut this system down at night). Any idea what that is?

Re: [NTG-context] Stuck in texmfstart

2006-05-26 Thread gnwiii
On 5/26/06, Neal Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:17 AM 5/26/2006, you wrote: This morning, when I try to run texexec, texmfstart gets stuck in the loop at line 262. Placing puts f below line 266 ( f.gsub(...) do prints: $TEXROOT/texmf/{-local,}/web2c/texmf.cnf (over and over

Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem

2006-05-25 Thread gnwiii
On 5/24/06, Neal Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:07 AM 5/24/2006, you wrote: Hans mentioned the minimal context linux distribution. OK, I deleted everything I did yesterday and started over. This time I (think) I tried the minimal contex distribution. Things still aren't working. I

Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem

2006-05-25 Thread gnwiii
On 5/25/06, Neal Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I renamed my input file to temp.tex. Now I get: kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt mktexfmt: No such file or directory I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt' The file cont-en.fmt is in texmf-linux/web2c/pdfetex I added the

Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem

2006-05-25 Thread gnwiii
On 5/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The '-a' option shouldn't hurt. I don't see any files flagged as text in the archives. Hmm. I expected a 't' in the 'unzip -l' or 'unzip -lv', but clearly unzip -a thinks mktexlsr is a text file and (since it is run on linux) is deleting

Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem

2006-05-25 Thread gnwiii
On 5/25/06, Neal Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:20 AM 5/25/2006, you wrote: I don't get these sed errors using Fedora Core 4. I suspect these come from mktexlsr. I have: $ rpm -q sed sed-4.1.4-1 $ sed --version GNU sed version 4.1.4 $ which sed /bin/sed The problem was in

Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem

2006-05-24 Thread gnwiii
On 5/24/06, Neal Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:49 AM 5/24/2006, you wrote: Neal Lester wrote: I am trying to verify my installation. When I try to run texexec against the test file given in the installation instructions I don't get a dvi or pdf file. The output is: What

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong image size evaluation

2006-05-18 Thread gnwiii
On 5/18/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about a new pdftex primitive: \pdfimagepixel, which would force using a unit. Then the above would be done by \pdfimagepixel=1bp You can (as always) propose it on the pdftex list, but i personally do not see the point. Bear in mind

[NTG-context] Missing space in gs.rb from recent con-tmf.zip

2006-05-17 Thread gnwiii
The line in scripts/context/ruby/graphics/gs.rb with -dSAFER needs a space before the closing quote. The corrected line is: arguments -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -dBATCH -dSAFER -- George N. White III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

[NTG-context] First hack at new ruby-aware texexec script for linux/unix

2006-05-17 Thread gnwiii
There are two classes of users: 1) most error messages are ignored up to and including the ones that promise global thermonuclear war if you click on Yes, or 2) minor warnings bring all work to a halt until explained. In honor of the latter class, who ask about the suggestion to use texstart