Re: [NTG-context] beta

2011-02-01 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 12:30:40 Hans Hagen wrote: On 1-2-2011 11:51, Alan BRASLAU wrote: ! LuaTeX error ...xt/beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-dir.lua:67: cannot open /home/braslau/.fonts/: No such file or directory is this new? weird as nothing was changed there .. anyway

Re: [NTG-context] error updating beta WAS: beta

2011-02-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 02 February 2011 14:58:25 Hans Hagen wrote: some hoops have to be jumped through to get it working for both machineries ¡Olé! ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] Why does bookmarks show also sections

2011-03-03 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 03 March 2011 15:20:12 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.03.2011 um 15:14 schrieb Cecil Westerhof: I use: \placebookmarks[chapter,section][chapter] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] As I understand it there should be bookmarks generated for chapters and sections. When

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals (was: Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?)

2011-03-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sunday 13 March 2011 07:25:03 luigi scarso wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Pontus Lurcock p...@talvi.net wrote: On Sat 12 Mar 2011, mathew wrote: My experience on Ubuntu is that if you install the ConTeXt minimals in your path, they break a bunch of stuff from TeXLive, such as

Re: [NTG-context] Does MKIV take more time as MKII

2011-03-14 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 14 March 2011 14:02:18 Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2011/3/14 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2 times as slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] VirtualWin

2011-03-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 18 March 2011 15:50:10 luigi scarso wrote: VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual

[NTG-context] [***SPAM***] [OT] music player for lua lovers!

2011-03-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
This is off-topic, but I wish to share my experience with a product using lua (and perl) running on an embarked linux system. The Logitech Squeezebox Touch is a small network music player featuring very high quality sound and good ergonometrics. http://www.logitech.com/en-us/54/5745 The software

Re: [NTG-context] Setuplayout bug?

2011-05-16 Thread Alan Braslau
More setupinteraction pagelayout interference: In the example below (compiled using the very latest minimals) the inclusion of \setupinteractionscreen [option=bookmark] shifts the output of the text on the page. Alan % \definepapersize [17x24]

Re: [NTG-context] externalfigure error in current mkiv beta

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Braslau
But it already needs to be updated with draw externalfigure :) Alan P.S. The printed manual on paper is really nice! On Wednesday 20 April 2011 07:09:16 Pontus Lurcock wrote: On Wed 20 Apr 2011, Lutz Haseloff wrote: Is there a recent Metafun manual?

Re: [NTG-context] \setuplayout fail to \setupinteractionscreen

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Braslau
Still broken, or once again broken. Alan On Tuesday 12 April 2011 23:49:37 Markus Finke wrote: Hello, how can I get a centered paper of A5 on A4 (with crop marks) for the whole document? A minimal example, only the first page looks correctly: \setuppapersize [A5][A4] \setuplayout

Re: [NTG-context] externalfigure error in current mkiv beta

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Braslau
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 23:09:51 Hans Hagen wrote: On 17-5-2011 10:41, Alan Braslau wrote: draw externalfigure I'm still not sure about that one ... compatibility vs clean I rather like the new syntax - indeed much cleaner. (However, for compatibility issues, it might be nice to somehow

[NTG-context] obscure luatex error

2009-10-15 Thread Alan BRASLAU
In trying to compile a LARGE project (585 pages, 260 figures, 27 tables, indexing, bibliography, ...), I produce an obscure luatex error: luatex: ../../../source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/tex/printing.c:266: print: Assertion `c 256' failed. [329.327MTXrun | fatal error, no return code, message:

Re: [NTG-context] obscure luatex error

2009-10-15 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 15 October 2009 16:36:01 luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Matthijs Kooijman matth...@stdin.nl wrote: Hi luigi, Do you think you could compile luatex with CFLAGS=-g, and run it in gdb to get a backtrace? That might help to see where this comes from...

Re: [NTG-context] placefigure broken in mkiv?

2009-10-15 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 15 October 2009 17:29:12 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 15.10.2009 um 16:04 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Hello, A document that was previously compiled successfully a few months ago, now throws an exception. My code: \placefigure [middle] {none}

Re: [NTG-context] obscure luatex error (fixed!)

2009-10-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 16 October 2009 14:16:17 Taco Hoekwater wrote: Ok, I now have committed an official fix. The problem was that when converting lua strings to token lists, utf-8 characters were converted incorrectly. This bug affected *all* luastring-tokenlist conversion, so I am quite surprised it

Re: [NTG-context] Page Numbering Hell

2009-10-21 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Dear Bryant, Your post is slightly exaggerated. The document structure that you want to produce appears to be relatively standard. Whereas, indeed, the learning curve for ConTeXt (as for TeX) can be somewhat slow, the richness and powerfulness is well worth the effort. The documentation for

Re: [NTG-context] Page Numbering Hell

2009-10-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 18:52:21 Bryant Eastham wrote: 1. Should I use mkii or mkiv? If mkii, then what should I plan on as schedule for upgrading? I asked this question recently and was told that it was probably pretty safe now to use mkiv, as the developers use mkiv themselves. My

Re: [NTG-context] Page Numbering Hell

2009-10-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 23 October 2009 10:30:09 Bryant Eastham wrote: Yes, I had looked at all the examples that I could find, I had checked the many references, and could not find documentation on most of the routines that current postings seem to indicate should be used. With the further pointers I

[NTG-context] Metapost+mpgraph and mkiv

2009-11-07 Thread Alan BRASLAU
mpgraph does not appear to work properly under mkiv. %% minimal example %% \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} input graph draw begingraph(16cm,12cm); setrange(whatever,whatever,whatever,whatever); gdraw (0,0) -- (1,1) ; endgraph; \stopuseMPgraphic \startTEXpage

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost+mpgraph and mkiv

2009-11-07 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 07 November 2009 17:21:04 Taco Hoekwater wrote: 1. You should load the MP packages you need in \startMPinclusions (this is where the code really belongs, even in mkii) instead of inside each separate graphic. 2. You have to make sure that you do not re-state equations that were

Re: [NTG-context] After \placefigure the first paragraph of body text is not indented

2009-11-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 09 November 2009 18:57:30 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 09.11.2009 um 18:18 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Hi I noticed that after \placefigure the first paragraph of body text is not indented. Can I enable the indenting after figures? \setupfloat[figure][indentnext=yes] I

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts disappeared after updating ConTeXt

2009-11-15 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sunday 15 November 2009 13:09:42 Mika Ritola wrote: 2009/11/15 luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Mika Ritola the.thin@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I just updated ConTeXt to the latest version (2009.11.13 12:45), and now all the

Re: [NTG-context] system fonts (was: Fonts disappeared after updating ConTeXt)

2009-11-15 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sunday 15 November 2009 22:04:01 Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Sunday 15 November 2009 21:56:10 Peter Wüsten wrote: BTW, if you want Context to find _both_ directories make sure you set your OSFONTDIR in setuptex like this: export OSFONTDIR=$HOME/.fonts;/usr/share/fonts Unfortunately

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 16 November 2009 15:29:14 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Nov 16, 2009, at 3:12 PM, curiouslearn wrote: I apologize if this has been asked before, but would appreciate if anyone could answer this again. (a) Is there an easy way to incorporate asymptote code in a Context

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a figure

2009-11-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 16 November 2009 19:29:12 R. Bastian wrote: Hello, is there a way to rotate a pdf-figure ? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Using_Graphics thanks, \rotate[rotation=90]{\externalfigure[filename]} Alan

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 16 November 2009 23:57:28 Curiouslearn wrote: Thanks everyone for replying. Alan, the tikz module does not work with MKIV. From what I have read before, it seems it will not unless the creator of tikz makes some changes to tikz package so that it works with Context. I am not sure

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 14:40:04 Curiouslearn wrote: I tried Metapost last year for a few graphs and liked the fact that it is tightly integrated with Context. I found John Hobby's document a good place to learn it and then used Hans' Metafun to learn further. The reason I am looking at

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 14:45:57 Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 18:25, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: In past Till has *always* fixed any bug reported, but I have not heard from him since March (neither as reply to off-list requests nor any

Re: [NTG-context] Pstricks and Asymptote

2009-11-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 17:19:13 luigi scarso wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr wrote: There are lots of differences between the latest tikz and the version distributed with tex live. I compare the minimals tex/generic/pgf/ with that installed

Re: [NTG-context] Remove bold face

2009-11-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 02:57:18 anuar lezama wrote: Hello Everybody, My problem is the following: I'm creating chapter's titles with a mix of styles. For example. \chapter{ something {\bolditalic another thing}} This give me the result that I expect with my titles, but when I use this

Re: [NTG-context] Remove bold face

2009-11-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
webpage : http://www.pragma-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

Re: [NTG-context] local footnote (Tables) problem

2009-11-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Alan I believe that you need to use \starttables\stoptables rather than \starttable\stoptable. See: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tables_Overview Alan On Wednesday 18 November 2009 20:20:06 Bowen Alan C. wrote: Wolfgang— I adapted the file that you sent me so that the table extends

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a figure

2009-11-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 16:48:45 Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Münster wrote: On Tue, Nov 17 2009, R. Bastian wrote: \rotate[rotation=90]{\externalfigure[filename]} \externalfigure[filename][orientation=90] ;) \placefigure[here,90]{}{} Yes! However, sometimes we want to turn an

Re: [NTG-context] rotate a figure

2009-11-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 19 November 2009 12:26:40 luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr wrote: On Tuesday 17 November 2009 16:48:45 Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Münster wrote: On Tue, Nov 17 2009, R. Bastian wrote: \rotate[rotation=90]{\externalfigure

Re: [NTG-context] texutil --purgeallfiles

2009-11-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 19 November 2009 20:46:40 Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi, Trying to use the good old days texutil --purgeallfiles, I obtain: ren...@daneel:~/ConTeXt/notes/src$ texutil --purgeallfiles /usr/local/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/base/texutil.rb:1 :in `require': no such file

Re: [NTG-context] How to not gobble space after a command

2009-11-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 20 November 2009 11:41:16 Matthijs Kooijman wrote: \autoinsertnextspace is the context version of \xspace (could be mkii only) Woah, that works (in MkIV). Thanks! *Everywhere* the authors use \CONTEXT\ and \TeX\ followed by an escaped space. (Is this space [sometimes]

Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts

2009-11-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sunday 22 November 2009 13:24:19 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 21.11.2009 um 22:33 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Searching for wiki, I found the line For instance, assuming the Delicious fonts http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/delicious.html are properly installed and recognized by

Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts

2009-11-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Of course, I need \usemodule[simplefonts] Now I *am* impressed! (and I'm not running Windows) /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Times_New_Roman.ttf Alan On Sunday 22 November 2009 14:10:28 Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Sunday 22 November 2009 13:24:19 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 21.11.2009 um

Re: [NTG-context] \vspace

2009-11-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 23 November 2009 11:52:14 Hans Hagen wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: add a note to source nobody else than me should use it :) actually i wanted to say something like that but noticed that you'd posted to the list, probably in order to create a larger momentum -) Yes, the cat is

[NTG-context] MetaPost broken mkiv latest minimals

2009-11-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
MetaPost is broken in mkiv (works in mkii). minimal example: \starttext \startuniqueMPgraphic{circle} pickup pencircle scaled 1pt ; draw fullcircle scaled 2cm ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \uniqueMPgraphic{circle} \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost broken mkiv latest minimals

2009-11-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 21:20:05 luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr wrote: MetaPost is broken in mkiv (works in mkii). minimal example: \starttext \startuniqueMPgraphic{circle} pickup pencircle scaled 1pt

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost broken mkiv latest minimals

2009-11-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 24 November 2009 21:49:06 Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 21:21, Hans Hagen wrote: Alan BRASLAU wrote: MetaPost is broken in mkiv (works in mkii). minimal example: \starttext \startuniqueMPgraphic{circle} pickup pencircle

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting the size of a figure when using placefigure

2009-11-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Luigi, Thank you for bringing to our attention the command \scale allowing the easy rescaling of MP graphics. On Wednesday 25 November 2009 03:20:09 luigi scarso wrote: \definemeasure[textgap] [\dimexpr 1em\relax] Why the \dimexpr? \definemeasure[textgap] [1em] works just fine. Alan

Re: [NTG-context] font-syn.lua error

2009-11-24 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 25 November 2009 08:15:48 luigi scarso wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Just an afterthought to this problem: I discovered yesterday that the same file behaved quite

Re: [NTG-context] font-syn.lua error

2009-11-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:54:36 luigi scarso wrote: That wasn't the point, I was not trying to give a comparative table of pdf-viewers. luatex was buggy, but some viewers displayed the pdf nonetheless. Doesn't make sense to test a dozen viewers because next time around, the subset

Re: [NTG-context] font-syn.lua error

2009-11-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:37:11 Taco Hoekwater wrote: Alan BRASLAU wrote: Maybe unrelated, but maybe a luatex error as well: transparency seems to work correctly when viewed with okular (same library as evince) but not when view with acroread, (including the windows version

[NTG-context] Metapost and mkiv

2009-11-27 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Is this a bug in mkiv metapost? Alan minimal example: \setupcolors [state=start] \starttext \startuniqueMPgraphic{test} for i = 0 upto 10 : draw thelabel(decimal i, (i, 0) scaled 1cm) withcolor red ; % red in mkii, black in mkiv? endfor ;

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost and mkiv

2009-11-28 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 27 November 2009 14:54:53 Willi Egger wrote: Hi Alan, I run in this myself. A possible solution is: \startuniqueMPgraphic{test} for i = 0 upto 10 : draw thelabel(textext(\color[red] decimal i ), (i, -1) scaled 1cm); endfor ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic

[NTG-context] placesidebyside inside combination

2009-12-03 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hello, Nesting \placesidebyside inside \startcombination\stopcombination appears to throw-off the spacing. Alan %%% % Minimal example: % (left pair is misplaced) %%% \setupcombinations [distance=0cm] \starttext \framed [width=8cm] {%

[NTG-context] simpleslides: titlestyle

2009-12-04 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hi, The simpleslides module seems to be ignoring the titlestyle (by default \switchtobodyfont[\TitleSize]) and titlecolor parameters. Minimal example: generic-talk-15min-45min.tex (tex/texmf-context/doc/context/third/simpleslides/solutions) Alan

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals Setup witout rsync?

2009-12-07 Thread Alan BRASLAU
--- On Thursday 23 July 2009 21:40:54 Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 23:03, Alan BRASLAU wrote: I am currently behind a firewall that does not allow rsync:// connections, so ./first-setup.sh fails. However, ssh connections are allowed. I do not (currently) know enough about rsync

[NTG-context] \framed inside \startalignment\stopalignment

2009-12-08 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Strange behavior with \framed or \inframed inside \startalignment [middle] \stopalignment. Alan Minimal example: \starttext \startalignment [middle] \inframed {This {\bf should} be aligned and centered} along with the following. \stopalignment \blank \startalignment [middle] Here, \inframed

Re: [NTG-context] Call for papers (pracjourn mkiv)

2009-12-15 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 15 December 2009 13:05:48 Martin Schröder wrote: Do you propose to flood the issue with articles on ConTeXt? :-) There is a problem with the module pracjourn; compiles fine under mkii, fails under mkiv. Minimal example: \usemodule[pracjourn] \setvariables [pracjourn] [

[NTG-context] metafun/graph \times error (mkiv)

2009-12-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Metapost/graph currently does not handle scientific notation correctly in mkiv: - 1.5imes106 (and does not work at all in mkii) Alan %% minimal example: \usemodule[graph] \starttext \startMPcode draw begingraph(12cm,12cm) ; setcoords(linear,linear) ;

Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-01-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 18 January 2010 13:50:25 Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, views63 wrote: Hi all, I'm using `` complex analysis'' the output is wrong. Not really. We (Hans and I) would say that it is now finally right. ;) but using \ quotation (... ...) can output the correct quotation marks

Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-01-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 20:31:22 Mojca Miklavec wrote: Let me be a bit more nationalistic and exaggerate a bit for a moment (just in order to explain why I find the idea of using `` a bad one; do not take the text below too seriously or personally): I think that the easiest would be for

Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-01-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 08:04:43 Taco Hoekwater wrote: The problem is that all the latex and plain tex books promote the use of `` and '' and people that already use TeX are unlikely to change their habits (and most will not read the context manual as thoroughly as they should). This

Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-01-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 10:10:07 Hans Hagen wrote: in principle we can even drop $ and as we now have primitives for them Can you explain? I ignore the primatives for $E=mc^2$. Whereas Mojca regrets $$ $$, I have long prefered \startformula\stopformula (or \begin{equation}\end{equation}

[NTG-context] \setuplabeltext[chapter=Chapter ] (or mkiv document structure/TOC)

2010-01-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
In a large project, a book with parts, chapters, appendices, etc. I have set the table of contents to display the label Chapter yielding: Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Part II Chapter 4 ... Through the following (mkiv): % % section headings % \definestructureresetset [default] [0,0] [1]

[NTG-context] minimals: kfreebsd-i686 (debian)

2010-01-26 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Hello, I just installed kfreebsd-i686 Debian/GNU. It is now officially supported as core architecture by Debian as an alternative to the linux kernel, but is not yet supported by the ConTeXt minimals. luatex 0.50.0-1 is available as a standard debian package on this architecture. I

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-08 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 08 February 2010 12:25:58 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi all, ConTeXt has many features but sometimes there is something missing, what feature or package do you miss which is already available in another TeX system or unavailable in any TeX system? Wolfgang Hello, I have been

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-09 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 03:50:27 Curiouslearn wrote: I hope (and this perhaps has nothing to do with the brilliant Context development team) is that journals start accepting Context files. While I use context for my personal and class notes, for articles I am still forced to go to latex

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-09 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 08 February 2010 12:25:58 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi all, ConTeXt has many features but sometimes there is something missing, what feature or package do you miss which is already available in another TeX system or unavailable in any TeX system? Wolfgang What I would really

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-09 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 23:30:56 Peter Münster wrote: Yes. I attach a recent t-french.tex file, that supports most of frenchb. \usemodule[french] Should not these rules automatically come into play through \mainlanguage[fr] rather than as a module? Also (for Hans), lang-ita.tex needs

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 09:36:10 Hans Hagen wrote: we can add them commented as i don't think that users want to see Chapter 1 every time I have raised this question before. In fact, the strings *should* be defined by the language and some (other) mechanism (option) should activate

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 10:07:26 Sebastien Mengin wrote: 4. Commands \primo, \secundo, \tertio and \quarto print 1o, 2o, 3o, 4o. \FrenchEnumerate{6} prints 6o. obtained via the commands \No, \Nos, \no, \nos. 6. Two commands are provided to typeset the symbol for \degre

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 10:52:22 Hans Hagen wrote: On 10-2-2010 10:45, Sebastien Mengin wrote: Le 10 févr. 2010 à 09:33, Hans Hagen a écrit: On 10-2-2010 9:22, Peter Münster wrote: At some point, someone should decide, what is triggered by \mainlanguage[fr] and what is provided by

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 11:34:15 you wrote: some english english quote blabla french quote ... makes most sense to me if here we use the english quotes and not the french ones in the second case; I don't do things that way, rather: “some English” followed by « une citation en

Re: [NTG-context] indent lost after \placefigure

2010-02-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 05:07:15 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 11.02.10 02:14, schrieb Tom: When I place a figure at the bottom of a page, everything is fine if it splits a paragraph, but if it falls between paragraphs, indentation of at least one of the paragraphs, generally the one

[NTG-context] automatic lettrine

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
I like the \usemodule [lettrine] package (a quick and dirty conversion of the LaTeX package of the same name). It would be nice to include this functionality (perhaps cleaned-up) in the ConTeXt base macros. Then, it would also be nice to be able to activate an automatic mechanism to begin a first

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 11:10:19 Sebastien Mengin wrote: Le 10 févr. 2010 à 03:04, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit: Am 10.02.10 10:07, schrieb Sebastien Mengin: 1. French quotation marks \quotation{...} There I should probably dive in the doc cause I'd be surprised nothing is set up

Re: [NTG-context] indent lost after \placefigure

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 08:57:21 Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Thursday 11 February 2010 05:07:15 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 11.02.10 02:14, schrieb Tom: When I place a figure at the bottom of a page, everything is fine if it splits a paragraph, but if it falls between paragraphs

Re: [NTG-context] indent lost after \placefigure

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 02:14:12 Tom wrote: When I place a figure at the bottom of a page, everything is fine if it splits a paragraph, but if it falls between paragraphs, indentation of at least one of the paragraphs, generally the one coming after the figure, is lost. It appears that

Re: [NTG-context] indent lost after \placefigure

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 18:55:01 Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote: PS: Your opinion is not so humble, and I do not really see the rational why indentnext=no is the default for most things* rather than indentnext=auto. Below is my understanding

Re: [NTG-context] zotero

2010-02-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 11 February 2010 22:10:31 Salil Sayed wrote: zotero is a firefox plugin Thus, of limited generality... ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

[NTG-context] \setuplabeltext [appendix=Appendix ] broken mkiv

2010-02-15 Thread Alan BRASLAU
1. Setting the labeltext appendix=Appendix with \startappendices is broken in mkiv; somewhat works in mkii. What am I doing wrong? 2. How to set the label correctly in the TOC? Alan Minimal example \setuplabeltext [chapter=Chapter ] % with trailing space; blank by default \setuplabeltext

[NTG-context] MkIV \placecontent [level=section]

2010-02-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
\placecontent[level=section] or \completecontent [level=section] doesn't seem to work in MkIV, that is level= is ignored. \quote{Minimal} example (for Hans or Taco): contextref.tex (yes, I am getting back to working on the revision under MkIV...) Alan

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV \placecontent [level=section]

2010-02-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 14:56:54 Mikael Persson wrote: What is the level=section supposed to mean? You do not mean criterium=section, do you? No. criterium=section produces a partial list pertinent to that level. For example, \placecontent [criterium=chapter] prints the per-chapter

Re: [NTG-context] MkIV \placecontent [level=section]

2010-02-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 14:54:37 Alan BRASLAU wrote: \placecontent[level=section] or \completecontent [level=section] doesn't seem to work in MkIV, that is level= is ignored. Another funny thing is taking place in the TOC under MkIV: \placecontent (alone) within a \chapter indeed

Re: [NTG-context] \setuplabeltext [appendix=Appendix ] broken mkiv

2010-02-17 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 23:21:31 Hans Hagen wrote: On 16-2-2010 22:39, Mojca Miklavec wrote: While you keep Hans and others busy, here's another thing that puzzled me: \definehead[appendix][chapter] \definehead[subappendix][section] \starttext \startappendices

Re: [NTG-context] Magazine imposition.

2010-02-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:35:00 Willi Egger wrote: So, that is a short cut! I did not know weather the magazine was in context or not. Anyway is there a possibility to rotate pages in a already typeset pdf? Kind regards Willi pdftk is a pretty powerful tool:

Re: [NTG-context] Framed text with arrows

2010-02-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 19 February 2010 14:16:39 Xan wrote: How can we change the width, height and color of the second node (chart) in this example: \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts[height=3\lineheight] \startFLOWchart[example] \startFLOWcell \name {flow} \location {1,1} \text {Flow}

Re: [NTG-context] Mixed math (was: Wiki page)

2010-02-20 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 20 February 2010 15:07:31 Mojca Miklavec wrote: There's alyaws times roman something, where something corresponds to - I = 1 - X = 10 - C = 100 - M = 1000 So the times only tells you how many zeros to add to result. Mojca PS: Arthur will implement the parser to also

Re: [NTG-context] MPinclusions/MetaPost sarith (graph) package

2010-03-08 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 08 March 2010 09:18:38 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \startMPinclusions[+] input sarith; \stopMPinclusions This probably explains other problems that I had experienced concerning \startMPinclusions\stopMPinclusions... Indeed, as metapost is processed in one run under mkIV, I had

Re: [NTG-context] suggestions for context documentation

2010-03-08 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 08 March 2010 13:31:28 Hans Hagen wrote: As I was on the Dante 2010 meeting and as I could not access my mail last week, today I ran into the long thread about documentation. I will not reply to each mail but stick to this summary. Now, I understand that there is a lack of

Re: [NTG-context] data manipulation (was sarith)

2010-03-08 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Monday 08 March 2010 15:35:14 luigi scarso wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Alan BRASLAU alan.bras...@cea.fr wrote: (Currently I externally use awk via \immediate\write18 to manipulate data.) In mkiv you should be able to manipulate your data with lua lpeg. You gain

Re: [NTG-context] Dezimalkomma

2010-03-10 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 06:28:52 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 09.03.10 22:33, schrieb Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini: Hallo, if I write $0,8$ the distance between the ',' and the '8' is too big. I can write $0,\!8$ or an other kern, but I don't see how I can write a macro to avoid the

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Small is Beautiful

2010-03-29 Thread Alan BRASLAU
\startquotation I have said that the soul loves truth; nevertheless, in most things, one would like to see some sort of symmetry. This appears to present somewhat of a contradiction that I shall now explain: One of the principal sources of pleasure to our soul when we see objects is in our

Re: [NTG-context] The ConTeXt book

2010-04-01 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Thursday 01 April 2010 19:43:51 Hans Hagen wrote: On 1-4-2010 19:40, Sebastien Mengin wrote: Do you plan to work on a French version as a basis and translate it afterward? that's indeed a problem. as there is some european funding involved as well as from somefrench academy it has to

Re: [NTG-context] The ConTeXt book

2010-04-03 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 03 April 2010 07:37:36 Gour wrote: However, when I ask somewhere about the support for ConTeXt I'm getting answers like: This is the project which has only 5 or 6 users. Who actually uses it? Use LaTeX! :-( You can use MS-Word - it has a *huge* user base! Alan

Re: [NTG-context] The ConTeXt book: A summary

2010-04-03 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 03 April 2010 19:14:20 John Haltiwanger wrote: Also, I want to say that this kind of anonymous poetry is, to me, proof-positive of an excellent community. Beers all around (in Prague next September)! Alan

Re: [NTG-context] Looking for the copyleft symbol

2010-04-21 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 22:34:01 Helmut Schwertner wrote: with \copyright I get the copyright-symbol in context. How can I get the copyleft symbol? \mirror{\copyright} :) ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] PPCHTEX with PSTricks option

2010-05-07 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 07 May 2010 10:23:20 Hans Hagen wrote: On 7-5-2010 9:12, Alan BRASLAU wrote: ppchtex has been rewritten for conTeXt using luatex and line drawing has been considerably improved. However, I do not believe that this version will (ever) be adapted for use with LaTeX. Perhaps Hans

Re: [NTG-context] How to get randomly coloured text in metapost?

2010-05-11 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 17:48:09 Marco wrote: Hi, how to get random colours for text inside textext? Take a look at the following example (MKIV). \definecolor [static] [r=.9, g=.7, b=.8] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic {1} def col=

[NTG-context] math alignment broken? (was \startmathalignment vertical spacing)

2010-05-19 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Is \startformula\startalign\stopalign\stopformula broken in context mkiv? After just updating the minimals, I now get (using the example below): ! Missing $$ inserted. to be read again \Ustopdisplaymath \stopdisplaymath ...opinnermath \Ustopdisplaymath

Re: [NTG-context] \setuplabeltext [appendix=Appendix ] broken mkiv

2010-05-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 22:36:19 Hans Hagen wrote: On 17-2-2010 22:30, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I defined the second list for that purpose (really ugly, but the fastest way to get it done). But there was a tiny problem with that as well (mkii more problematic) - I didn't manage to get

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2010-05-23 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sunday 23 May 2010 15:38:27 Hans Hagen wrote: On 23-5-2010 3:05, Vnpenguin wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 14:51, Hans Hagenpra...@wxs.nl wrote: Hi, I uploaded a new beta with a few fixes. Available for all platform ? betas are platform independent, no new luatex binaries

Re: [NTG-context] 64-bit kfreebsd

2010-05-29 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Saturday 29 May 2010 10:09:07 you wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2010 18:09:17 +0200 Mojca Miklavec wrote: (I do not know why, for freebsd x86_64 maps to freebsd and not freebsd- amd64) I am not sure what this discussion is about, I just got this part forwarded by Mojca. But if you talk about

Re: [NTG-context] Title page layout

2010-06-01 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Tuesday 01 June 2010 00:31:11 Scott Steele wrote: I'm trying to anchor a table or box containing my title and subtitle to the bottom right corner of the textblock (on a title page). The following comes very close to doing what I want, but there is still some vertical space between the

Re: [NTG-context] Numbered bookmarks in PDF

2010-06-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
B. Tommy Jensen wrote: I am struggling a bit with numbered bookmarks in generated PDF files. On Wednesday 27 August 2008 19:03 Hans Hagen wrote: since bookmarks do use lists the info is there but mkii bookmarks are not going to be extended; you have to wait for the mkiv overhaul Would be

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