Re: [NTG-context] alpha release

2009-07-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hi experts, Would someone please provide a basic recipe to correctly install the new alpha release locally. I would like to test the new alpha code but am a bit confused as to what exactly to install and how. 1. on the website, is this indeed

Re: [NTG-context] alpha release

2009-07-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sunday 19 July 2009 20:58:19 Aditya Mahajan wrote: The alpha has now been merged with the beta and so, ... just run first-setup.sh again. Aditya Thanks. I can do that! - ConTeXt ver: 2009.06.14 21:01 MKIV fmt: 2009.7.19 int: english/english - this is luatex, version

Re: [NTG-context] 4th ConTeXt Meeting, update

2010-07-28 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 12:43:42 luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:25 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I've just seen that there is Wolfgang this year... Also Alan... Plotting data with Metafun/Metapost ... explore alternative solutions including

Re: [NTG-context] OT: equality (was Grammar)

2010-07-28 Thread Alan BRASLAU
\startquotation Near Göttingen are two hills that are called Die Gleichen --``The Equals''. They were no doubt given this name because, when viewed from a certain angle, they look almost identical. It is reported that David Hilbert used to ask his students why these hills were so called. None of

Re: [NTG-context] 4th ConTeXt Meeting, update

2010-07-28 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 21:20:55 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Would anyone from Switzerland or southern Germany share a car? (Fastest route for me would be via Stuttgart-Nürnberg, but via Ulm or München would also be possible.) Arthur and I will most likely be coming by car from Paris, the

Re: [NTG-context] part problems

2010-07-30 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 30 July 2010 23:00:16 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2010-07-30 um 22:46 schrieb luigi scarso: Hm, Hraban needs really to come to Brejlov And yes, I'll try to come to Brejlov, still waiting for an answer from my lift... Using parts is not as simple as it seems and is still

Re: [NTG-context] 4th ConTeXt Meeting, update

2010-08-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 02 August 2010 18:38:05 Hans Hagen wrote: On 2-8-2010 5:53, Jano Kula wrote: On 08/02/2010 04:16 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Any love for people who are unable to make it into the meeting, like video recordings or something? We will do our best and see the results after the

Re: [NTG-context] 4th ConTeXt Meeting, update

2010-08-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 02 August 2010 19:04:45 Hans Hagen wrote: On 2-8-2010 6:52, Alan BRASLAU wrote: That is unfair for those *unable* to attend. Hey you *do* attend ... (and you can leak info as no one will check it) But last year I *couldn't* attend. Alan

[NTG-context] scriptfont0 undefined

2010-08-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
scriptfont0 appears to be undefined. This error occurs under certain circumstances that I have not fully understood. Alan -- ! \scriptfont0 is undefined (character 54). \mathematics ... #1\else \Ustartmath #1\Ustopmath \fi l.1

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt meeting luggage

2010-09-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 11 September 2010 11:35:56 Mojca Miklavec wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] Units fonts and spacing

2010-09-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 11 September 2010 16:00:58 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I’m not a friend of the ”m/s” input because you can’t say where a units starts/ends without adding separators between them, here is a example from latex’s siunitx package which supports both methods but although the first is

Re: [NTG-context] weather forecast

2010-09-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 11 September 2010 18:22:39 Jano Kula wrote: Weather forecast is improving. Indian summer is here! Rain only on Wednesday. week temperatures: day: 18-22 Celsius (in shadow, of course) night: 7-12 Celsius Jano 18-22°C - or - 18-22$^{\circ}$C - or - 18-22\degree\Celsius - or -

Re: [NTG-context] export

2010-09-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___ -- Alan Braslau CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC CNRS URA 2464 Orme des Merisiers 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex FRANCE tel: +33 1 69 08 73 15 fax: +33 1 69 08 87

Re: [NTG-context] export

2010-09-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 14:29:08 Andreas Harder wrote: Am 22.09.2010 um 14:25 schrieb Alan BRASLAU: \setupbackend [export=yes] \starttext \startchapter [title=First chapter] \startparagraph \input ward \stopparagraph \stopchapter \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] new beta (index)

2010-09-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 09:43:21 Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I'm dealing with the bugs/anomalies/wishes that showed up during the ctx conference. The following has been done so far: (1) With respect to registers, Jano had a wish to deal with mixed language indexes. As a result the

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts

2010-09-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 15:25:26 John Culleton wrote: You mentioned building a database, and yes that took some time. Is there a way to have it scan fonts in /usr/share/fonts as well? export OSFONTDIR=/usr/share/fonts Alan

[NTG-context] \startchapter syntax

2010-09-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hello, What is the correct syntax to define a reference with \startstructure\stopstructure? \starttext \startchapter [ref] [title=My title] \stopchapter \stoptext Yields: check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'ref' in line 2 (@@ns) Alan

Re: [NTG-context] \startchapter syntax

2010-09-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 21:22:45 Alan BRASLAU wrote: Hello, What is the correct syntax to define a reference with \startstructure\stopstructure? \starttext \startchapter [ref] [title=My title] \stopchapter \stoptext Yields: check : missing or ungrouped '=' after

Re: [NTG-context] Context to MP

2010-09-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 23 September 2010 09:40:36 Procházka Lukáš wrote: Hello, I'd like to ask - - where could I find a list of variables which (Con)TeX(t) defines to MetaPost scope? When I browsed the Hans' presentations, I encountered PaperWidth, PaperHeight, Page etc. (see e.g. s-pre-22.tex).

Re: [NTG-context] Lettrines in MkIV

2010-09-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 23 September 2010 15:49:07 Hans Hagen wrote: we know and we will take a look at it next week (as it takes some time to nail down node allocation bugs) As Hans indicated, he is aware of the problem with the lettrine module and will fix it. In the meantime, you can get by using

Re: [NTG-context] Lettrines in MkIV

2010-09-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 23 September 2010 18:24:05 Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Thursday 23 September 2010 15:49:07 Hans Hagen wrote: we know and we will take a look at it next week (as it takes some time to nail down node allocation bugs) As Hans indicated, he

Re: [NTG-context] Lettrines in MkIV

2010-09-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 23 September 2010 18:46:00 you wrote: Sorry... \placeinitial gobbles \input but here is a standalone example: \setupinitial [ state=start, n=3, distance=-.1pc, ] \starttext \placeinitial This is what Knuth said: \input knuth \stoptext I

Re: [NTG-context] Lettrines in MkIV

2010-09-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 23 September 2010 19:38:46 Aditya Mahajan wrote: %D \macros %D {setupinitial,placeinitial,checkinitial} %D %D {\em To be documented.} Indeed! So you do not consider the source itself as the documentation :) Copied verbatum! I (still) read documentation better

Re: [NTG-context] picture- and formula-references broken with current beta

2010-09-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 12:40:35 Hans Hagen wrote: On 22-9-2010 11:50, Andreas Harder wrote: Hi all, can someone confirm that picture- and formula-references are broken with the current beta. Here is a test file: \starttext

[NTG-context] unicode error

2010-09-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
An obscure unicode error, minimal example: \starttext (≡) should be ($\equiv$) \stoptext ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

[NTG-context] unnumbered chapters

2010-09-27 Thread Alan BRASLAU
A standard (wiki, manual) means of obtaining an unnumbered chapter is to use \title, but this does not create an entry into the toc. So one can create a new head, as in: \definehead [unnumberedchapter] [chapter] \setuphead [unnumberedchapter] [number=no] \definecombinedlist [content]

[NTG-context] metapost: unable to make mpx file error

2010-09-28 Thread Alan BRASLAU
\startOT Wow! experimental metapost version two (does this mean that we get to play with precision?) \stopOT \startQUESTION The following minimal example yields an error: \starttext \startMPcode input circle ; \stopMPcode \stoptext where circle.mp

Re: [NTG-context] poster in context

2010-09-30 Thread Alan BRASLAU
, bottomdistance=0cm, bottomspace=0cm, % location=singlesided] % center header \setupheadertexts[{\framed[frame=off,align=middle,height=4cm]{% {\switchtobodyfont[3cm]\bf title, ...\par} }}] % footer \setupfootertexts[{\tfxx © 2010 Alan Braslau, all rights

[NTG-context] Problem with latest beta: \placepublications

2010-09-30 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Thanks to the course given by Taco, I now know all about 'nil'... However, I did not track down the error, as Hans will find it immediately! Alan ! LuaTeX error ...beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/strc-lst.lua:195: bad argument #1 to 'gsub' (string expected, got nil) stack traceback:

[NTG-context] \placecontent bug

2010-10-03 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hans, Thank you for fixing the \placepublications argument issue bug. I confirm that the current beta now works correctly. I remind you of the \placecontents bug in a structured document. The attached minimal example illustrates the erroneous inclusion of appendix sections in the partial table

Re: [NTG-context] subfootnote

2010-10-05 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 30 September 2010 18:53:43 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: --- test file: \starttext test \footnote{} text test \startfootnote note \stopfootnote test \startsubfootnote subnote \stopsubfootnote text \stoptext On Thursday 30 September 2010 20:42:39 Wolfgang

[NTG-context] \seeindex

2010-10-05 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Wishlist: add interaction to \seeindex Explaination: \seeindex{index_entry}{see_entry} can be used to add entry to an index that refers one to another entry. Example: \seeindex{DNA}{deoxyribonucleic acid} With \setupinteraction [state=start] one gets active hyperlinks on the page numbers of

Re: [NTG-context] Verbatim typing with numbers inside float

2010-10-07 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 07 October 2010 09:19:42 Hans Hagen wrote: On 7-10-2010 12:02, Stefan Müller wrote: Splitting up long source code in several pieces (one per page) and put them in separate figures doesn't seem right to me. Setting it as numbered paragraph? Putting up a fake caption with

Re: [NTG-context] Page-breakable \subsubsubject?

2010-10-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 10:49:18 luigi scarso wrote: Yes; a good point for three letters for suffix is compatibility with old OS and perhaps MIME questions. What? You mean DOS? And FAT? Maybe we should restrict our coding as well to ascii... Alan P.S. I am still using some real-time

Re: [NTG-context] \setupnote (was subfootnote)

2010-10-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 15:32:27 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 05.10.2010 um 14:41 schrieb Alan BRASLAU: The above example illustrates a *spacing problem* after \startfootnote \stopfootnote (the spacing after the footnote enumerator differs from \footnote{}) The \stopfootnote

Re: [NTG-context] Page-breakable \subsubsubject?

2010-10-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 11:36:26 Taco Hoekwater wrote: But as far as I know, windows still bases its file type detection on extension, so that is something to keep in mind. Oh, Windows... (written with disdain)

Re: [NTG-context] Page-breakable \subsubsubject?

2010-10-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 11:45:28 luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr wrote: P.S. I am still using some real-time applications running on computers under DOS, but I would not dream of trying to put ConTeXt on such a system! Maybe

Re: [NTG-context] \setupnote (was subfootnote)

2010-10-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 13:35:19 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Patch strc-not.mkiv \def\dodoredefinenotecommands#1#2#3% {\unexpanded\expandafter\def\csname\e!start#3#1\expandafter\endcsname\expa ndafter {\expandafter\dosingleempty\csname\s!do\e!start#3#1\endcsname}%

Re: [NTG-context] beta (undocumented feature of the week)

2010-10-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 12 October 2010 16:57:45 Hans Hagen wrote: I uploaded a beta. This weeks undocumented feature: Hi everyone, I suggest a new game: Each week we hold a sort of treasure hunt to try to detect that week's new undocumented feature. (Of course, Wolfgang will not be allowed to

Re: [NTG-context] autopunctuations (and subscripts)

2010-10-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 06 August 2010 20:11:55 Aditya Mahajan wrote: It seems that autopunctuation=no does not affect the spacing in subscripts. Bug or feature? It now appears (I just noticed) that autopunctuation=no is the default. However, including it explicitly seems be misinterpreted and it gets

[NTG-context] structure sanity checks

2010-10-13 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Using \startchapter\stopchapter or \startitem\stopitem could present some logical advantage over the use of \chapter or \item, for example. However, it would be useful to have some sort of sanity check giving warnings at least if the \start\stop symmetry is violated. As a minimal example, the

Re: [NTG-context] How to set the caption length?

2010-10-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 16 October 2010 07:07:01 seasoul wrote: When a figure is placed, but this figure size is much smaller than the textwidth, the caption length will adjust after the figure size. \placefigure [][fig:xxx] {} {\externalfigure[xxx]} when set

Re: [NTG-context] Caption textcommand option

2010-10-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 19 October 2010 20:15:37 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: but it’s possible to get the desired result also with a selector, e.g. example id=2 \defineselector[caption][max=2,n=2] \startsetups select:caption \setupselector[caption][n=1] \stopsetups

Re: [NTG-context] metafun manual

2010-10-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 14:03:03 Hans Hagen wrote: This week we send out the first copies of the (new) metafun manual: Wow! Just in time for Christmas :) Alan ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] Missing cont-fil on minimals ?

2010-10-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 18 October 2010 13:36:33 Hans Hagen wrote: On 18-10-2010 12:28, luigi scarso wrote: Today, first-setup.sh on my linux box says: ! I can't find file `cont-fil'. to be read again \relax l.117 \loadcorefile{cont-fil} in context.mkii/mkiv :

Re: [NTG-context] Missing cont-fil on minimals ?

2010-10-21 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 21 October 2010 11:16:06 you wrote: what is the message + /home/local/context/beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mult-ini.lua) ! I can't find file `mult-fst.mkiv'. to be read again \relax l.68 \loadmarkfile{mult-fst} Please

Re: [NTG-context] Missing cont-fil on minimals ?

2010-10-21 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 21 October 2010 11:33:59 luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2010 11:16:06 you wrote: what is the message + /home/local/context/beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mult-ini.lua ) ! I

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliographies in Mark IV

2010-10-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 22 October 2010 11:38:35 Charles Doherty wrote: When I run the KingsTest.tex in ConTeXt Minimals Mark II I get proper output (I have two extra periods but that is probably my fault). When I run the same file using Mark IV I get the title only in the output. The problem appears to

Re: [NTG-context] metafun

2010-10-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 22 October 2010 16:06:06 Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 10/21/2010 12:42 AM, Kevin D. Robbins wrote: Hi Hans, Is the new MetaFun manual available for download? The only PDFs I could find of the MetaFun manual were dated to 2002. The new version is on the web site now. Hello

Re: [NTG-context] line justification alignment.

2010-10-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 23 October 2010 10:21:01 seasoul wrote: I use the setting, that works. Then the line became ugly, the length of lines are irregular. Is it possible to fine-tune it. Try: \setupalign[verytolerant,stretch] Alan

Re: [NTG-context] line justification alignment.

2010-10-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 23 October 2010 23:20:06 Peter Münster wrote: On Sat, Oct 23 2010, Peter Münster wrote: Oh, stupid answer, I'm sorry. I thought, that you had already been using verytolerant and stretch, that was so ugly... (it *is* ugly) But just perfect for a boss who is probably trained on

Re: [NTG-context] ideas for ConTeXt meetings

2010-10-26 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 26 October 2010 09:31:25 Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: If we meet less far off than Brejlov or Porquerolles, Far from where? Canada or South Africa, just to name a few places from which participants came... In organizing an international meeting, it is always a delicate balance in

[NTG-context] Fwd: [Pgf-users] Version 2.10 released

2010-10-26 Thread Alan BRASLAU
pgf 2.10 Soon to be in the minimals? Alan ---BeginMessage--- Dear community, I have just uploaded pgf 2.10 to sourceforge and CTAN. It will shortly be available to the update mechanisms of MikTeX and TeXLive. Thanks for all who contributed with libraries, patches, by reporting bugs, or by

Re: [NTG-context] ideas for ConTeXt meetings

2010-10-26 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 26 October 2010 13:41:23 Jörg Hagmann wrote: Something else to consider is the date. Quite a few of us work in academia, and the fall term has recently been advanced, at least at many European universities, to just about when the ConTeXt meetings are being held. Of course you

Re: [NTG-context] description

2010-10-26 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 26 October 2010 20:51:15 luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Jelle Huisman je...@jhnet.nl wrote: On 26/10/10 14:31, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:30:08PM +0200, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:28:17PM +0200, Herbert Voss

Re: [NTG-context] beta: interaction (somewhat) broken

2010-11-03 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hi, The latest beta has broken some interaction: not all entries in the table of contents have working links. This also shows up in the bookmarks: those broken also do not show page numbers. Of course, no test file as I am still investigating... Alan

Re: [NTG-context] \quote

2010-11-04 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 04 November 2010 12:47:44 Herbert Voss wrote: the documation says, that \quote gives a single quote. Why do I get a double one for french? \starttext \language[nl]\quote{Nederlandse}, \language[en]\quote{English}, \language[de]\quote{Deutsch} oder \language[fr]\quote{Fran\cc

Re: [NTG-context] problem with beta for linux-64

2010-11-14 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sunday 14 November 2010 18:23:51 Vladimir Lomov wrote: P.S. To ensure that the same problem would not arise in future the 'update' and 'make' procedures should be splitted and between them 'chmod +x bin/texlua tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/luatex' (texmf-$platform) is inserted. Better yet,

Re: [NTG-context] Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

2010-11-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 05:26:18 Andrew Starks wrote: First off, let me say that you all are the nicest set of developers and project team members I have ever seen! Andrew, I have to agree with you and join in your praise of the ConTeXt community. Alan

Re: [NTG-context] Placing boxes anywhere on the page

2010-11-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 22:16:33 Peter Davis wrote: Thanks! I didn't find much in the ConTeXt reference manual on this. Is there more info somewhere? \position is (will be) fully documented in the updated reference manual. :) (I was not aware of positioning, either!) Again, we see

Re: [NTG-context] ppchtex questions

2010-11-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 12:37:34 Jörg Hagmann wrote: I just started using (and liking) ppchtex, and I have a few questions: 1. Is there a way to define a frame offset (there is fit and there are dimensions, but an offset would be more convenient)? [left=,top=] I'll look into your

Re: [NTG-context] ppchtex questions

2010-11-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 16:21:49 Jörg Hagmann wrote: Thanks, Alan. On 11/17/10 2:13 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: 1. Is there a way to define a frame offset (there is fit and there are dimensions, but an offset would be more convenient)? [left=,top=] This gives absolute values. I

Re: [NTG-context] ppchtex questions

2010-11-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 18 November 2010 10:54:23 Jörg Hagmann wrote: syle=sans works, but not for aligned atoms, e.g. \SL{OH}; a bug? For the time being, I can use \SL{\ss OH}. There are indeed bugs in the use of \SL{} under mkiv. For example, one currently needs to use \SL{\small CH$_2$} rather

Re: [NTG-context] ppchtex, color and mkiv

2010-11-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 19 November 2010 09:52:47 Jörg Hagmann wrote: From a thread on this list (May 2009: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20090512.132914.5c29b5f4.en.html) I gather that whereas colouring a whole molecule works fine, colouring groups within a chemical structure is not yet fully

[NTG-context] Convert eps to pdf

2010-11-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
ConTeXt mkiv will take an encapsulated postscript (eps) file through \externalfigure [myfigure.eps] and creates a (compressed) pdf version as m_k_i_v_myfigure.pdf that conserves the vectorial components of the eps file. Other standard conversion tools, notably those based on ghostscript,

Re: [NTG-context] Gnuplot module: Patching of Gnuplot binary still needed?

2010-11-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 22 November 2010 22:19:40 Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Mojca Miklavec wrote: The slow speed of TikZ is not something that you could do much about. Rewrite the pgf backend code in metapost. Or use metapost: \usemodule [graph] Alan

Re: [NTG-context] \starttable ... \stoptable III

2010-11-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 19:06:19 Hans Hagen wrote: ok, thanks for testing it ... I'm stripping that old code so bugs can creep in; I'm also considering removing the CL and such \CL[color] % colored line \BL[number_cells] % grey background (BL = ?) They are useful. What should replace

Re: [NTG-context] \starttable ... \stoptable III

2010-11-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 25 November 2010 09:49:39 Hans Hagen wrote: On 24-11-2010 7:20, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Wednesday 24 November 2010 19:06:19 Hans Hagen wrote: ok, thanks for testing it ... I'm stripping that old code so bugs can creep in; I'm also considering removing the CL and such \CL

Re: [NTG-context] \starttable ... \stoptable III

2010-11-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 25 November 2010 13:16:38 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 25.11.2010 um 11:16 schrieb Alan BRASLAU: So if tabulate is indeed to replace table and tables, perhaps they should be eliminated. For backward compatibility, perhaps starttable and starttables could be synonymes

Re: [NTG-context] Updated manual

2010-11-27 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 27 November 2010 08:55:34 Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, When Hans uploaded the new beta last night, also general/manuals/cld-mkiv.pdf was updated. Best wishes, Taco Are the manuals available with the minimals? If not, could they be, perhaps via an optional switch? Alan

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2010-11-27 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 26 November 2010 23:01:54 Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 22:42, Hans Hagen wrote: On 26-11-2010 10:03, Willi Egger wrote: Hi Hans, just was busy to update Context already fixed Thanks. It seems to work now. The problem is with loading mkiv files.

[NTG-context] OT: Article of the Future

2010-11-29 Thread Alan BRASLAU
http://beta.cell.com/ Is this the future of (scientific) publishing? Whereas it may seem to be simply a web format, its impact may change the way we present information, indeed the way that we write. Alan ___ If

[NTG-context] \registerparoptions ! Extra \else

2010-11-30 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Help! There is an error with \registerparoptions. Of course, I have not (yet) come up with a minimal example as this depends on some condition that not obvious. Looking into the code here (in anch- pos.mkiv?) does not get me any further. ! Extra \else. \registerparoptions ...gisterparoptions

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2010-12-01 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 17:39:54 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 01.12.2010 um 17:03 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: ... mmm ... what exactly did you do with this beta? Lucky you, i can’t even run context without a fatal error like this: meta:TeX wolf$ context test MTXrun | run 1: luatex

Re: [NTG-context] bug: colors in TikZ/ConTeXt MKIV

2010-12-01 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 13:58:23 Hans Hagen wrote: I could probably support \definecolor[xxx][0.5(red,green)] \definecolor[xxx][0.5(red)] which looks better than this ! and is less likely to conflict with names as abc! is a rather value color name. Indeed, a favorite color is

Re: [NTG-context] \starttable ... \stoptable part II

2010-12-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 14:57:36 Hans Hagen wrote: On 24-11-2010 2:54, Herbert Voss wrote: works with mkii, but not with mkiv example is from the documentation: \starttext \starttable[|l|c|c|] \DC\DL[2] \DR \NC\VL Mickey \VL Goofy \VL\SR

[NTG-context] figure and table caption numbering

2010-12-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Very original: figures and table captions suddenly appear to all be numbered by chapter - meaning ALL figures of Chapter 1 are numbered Figure 1, ALL figures in Chapter 2 are numbered Figure 2, ... figures in Appendix A are numbered Figure A. Does anyone else notice this, or do I have to come

Re: [NTG-context] Figure and equation numbers only include chapter number

2010-12-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 03 December 2010 07:37:55 seasoul wrote: Dear All, After my updating context minimal, the equation and figure numbers became very weird. For example, all the figures in chapter 2 labeled as figure 2. all the equations in chapter 2 as (2.). I have seen a report in the

Re: [NTG-context] Redundant equation is a MetaPost bug in MkIV?

2010-12-05 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hello, You should change all of the = to :=, as in u := 1cm; This instructs metapost to assign a value to the variable; the standard form u = 1cm is a formula for metapost to solve. It tries then to resolve u = 1cm; xmin = -2.6u; and xmax = 4u; as a coupled set of equations. Sometimes you can

Re: [NTG-context] Chart module: comment not visible!?

2010-12-06 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 06 December 2010 11:09:42 Verhaag, G.C.H.M. wrote: Hi, I wanted to try the chart module to build some flow diagrams, and tried the example (digital signal processing!) at contextgarden. Unfortunately, the text inside the rectangular shapes shows up properly, but no sign of any

Re: [NTG-context] New ConText Group

2010-12-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
I want to join! Alan P.S. Nicest typeface of any by-laws yet. On Sunday 12 December 2010 12:31:55 Willi Egger wrote: Dear ConTeXt users! We are proud to announce that the ConTeXt community has its own users-organisation. The new association is called ConTeXt Group and registered in

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
I'm around since prehistoric times, before internet, before wifi, before TeX... So, what is the difference between a forum and threads on a mailing list? After all, the mailing list is archived (like a forum) and is searchable. In fact, a google search on typesetting keywords often comes-up

Re: [NTG-context] installation on debian testing/unstable

2010-12-14 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 14 December 2010 02:03:17 Jonas Stein wrote: within the time Norbert Preining prepared a new .deb package including context (2010.07.30-1) its status is experimental for now. There will be context 2009 in debian 6.0 stable. So this might be a good solution for most debian users

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta

2010-12-14 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 09 December 2010 16:47:03 Thomas Schmitz wrote: Hi Hans, the latest beta is looking for files ! I can't find file `/mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/symb-mis.tex'. and ! I can't find file

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2010-12-14 Thread Alan BRASLAU
backgroundscreen is broken. minimal example: \starttext \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=screen,backgroundscreen=.65] Some text. \stoptext ! LuaTeX error main ctx instance:1: unexpected symbol near ')'. \dosetrastercolor ..._raster_,\@@rastervalue ))}

Re: [NTG-context] 4000 pages limit?

2010-12-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 17 December 2010 10:49:27 Martin Schröder wrote: And you'll get problems with pdfs with millions of objects (i.e. pages), as readers can't cope with them. Which readers: do you refer to computer programs or to humans? (This is what Herbert Simon calls bounded rationality.) Alan

Re: [NTG-context] \index{…} causes space

2010-12-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 24 December 2010 11:54:17 Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 12/24/2010 11:48 AM, Andreas Harder wrote: \index{test}test \ignorespaces could be possibly be added to \index in your case, but that does not solve this conceptual problem: what is actually being indexed in that second line?

Re: [NTG-context] \index{…} causes space

2010-12-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 24 December 2010 12:57:26 Andreas Harder wrote: Am 24.12.2010 um 12:53 schrieb Alan BRASLAU: On Friday 24 December 2010 11:54:17 Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 12/24/2010 11:48 AM, Andreas Harder wrote: \index{test}test \ignorespaces could be possibly be added to \index in your

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: setuptex.csh usage

2010-12-31 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hello, setuptex (sh, bash, ...) has most definitions commented out and to work with the minimals seems to need only to set the PATH. I currently use the minimals for ConTeXt, and TeXlive for LaTeX (for article submission, where I cannot use ConTeXt). Having the minimals in my PATH before TeXlive

Re: [NTG-context] How to get graph module (metapost) to work with ConTeXt minimals?

2010-12-31 Thread Alan BRASLAU
The correct method is to use: \usemodule [graph] and then you can type, for example: \startMPcode draw begingraph(8cm,6cm) ; gdraw (0,0)--(1,1) ; endgraph ; \stopMPcode to include a graph with your text. As pointed out, under

Re: [NTG-context] Including xfig graphics

2011-01-07 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hello, Ultimately, you will probably be more satisfied using Metapost graphics natively within ConTeXt. With xfig, you can export to Metapost. This code can probably be directly used by ConTexT, or perhaps with minor modifications. As Taco wrote, if you post an example (file.fig), someone can

Re: [NTG-context] Including xfig graphics

2011-01-08 Thread Alan BRASLAU
the XFig file to MetaPost with fig2dev and use mptopdf. Regards, Florian. PS: Sorry for the duplicate message, Taco. I forgot to CC to the list. -- Alan Braslau CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC CNRS URA 2464 Orme des Merisiers 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex FRANCE tel: +33 1 69 08 73 15 fax: +33 1 69 08 87

Re: [NTG-context] Translating PDF-files

2011-01-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
___ -- Alan Braslau CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC CNRS URA 2464 Orme des Merisiers 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex FRANCE tel: +33 1 69 08 73 15 fax: +33 1 69 08 87 86 mailto:alan.bras...@cea.fr

Re: [NTG-context] Translating PDF-files

2011-01-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
More off topic: A fun 'esercise be to put some text drough google translate into any language, den pass de result back into de o'iginal language. What it is, Mama! (via jive, a good exercise in lex and yacc, very politically incorrect!) On Wednesday 19 January 2011 17:18:35 Alan BRASLAU wrote

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2011-01-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 20:13:36 Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi Hans, On Linux with debian minimals: l.42 \loadmarkfile{catc-ini} Please type another input file name: ! Emergency stop. to be read again \relax l.42 \loadmarkfile{catc-ini} There appears to be a problem

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2011-01-26 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 26 January 2011 19:56:04 Mojca Miklavec wrote: I will rewrite some of the scripts from scratch anyway, but I hope that this should work now. I would have to test whether there is a more elegant way for enforcing some specific type of platform when uname lies. Maybe bash

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2011-01-27 Thread Alan BRASLAU
-2011 3:31, Alan BRASLAU wrote: Here is a log. Notice the instances of Please type another input file name: In your log we find: resolvers: scanning path '/usr/local/context/beta/tex/texmf-context' resolvers: category 'files', cachename '/usr/local/context/beta/tex/texmf

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-02-01 Thread Alan BRASLAU
My update proceedure systematically maintains a previous, presumably working, copy of the minimals. For this, I run a script: #!/bin/sh cd /usr/local/context cd beta echo *** move current to previous *** rsync -av --delete --progress . ../previous echo *** update beta *** rsync -ptv --progress

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-02-01 Thread Alan BRASLAU
-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___ -- Alan Braslau CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC CNRS URA 2464 Orme des Merisiers 91191 Gif-sur

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-02-01 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 16:13:25 Vedran Miletić wrote: Yes, there is a bug when using dots, someone recently triggered it when using versioned names (context-2011.01.18 or something). Not sure if it can be fixed. A good guide should be the use of POSIX Fully portable filenames Lewine,

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