[NTG-context] Re: [External] Re: Looking for itemize help

2024-01-15 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi Jim, I think you want alternative “a”, if the dot instead of a letter is the problem and not the whitespace: %% \starttext This is a short paragraph. This is a line before a {\bf packed, joinedup} itemization. \startitemize[a,packed,joinedup] \item First item. \item Second item. \s

[NTG-context] cont-new.mkiv and \everymathematics

2024-01-20 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi all, In writing class notes, I frequently make one-letter macros for formatted symbols, such \v and \w for vectors. Generally speaking, one-letter names for function/macros/variables is frowned upon in programming, but I find this localized use very convenient. In cont-new.mkiv, one finds d

[NTG-context] Re: [External] Extra space in numbers

2024-07-15 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, Braces around the comma, $10{,}000$, works for me. It’s the plain TeX way. If there’s a way to set up mathematics in ConTeXt to do this, perhaps someone else will fill us in. Michael On Jul 15, 2024, at 10:01 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: Suppose I have $10,000$ then in the output there

Re: [NTG-context] sqrt(3)/2 with metafun

2017-02-02 Thread Rogers, Michael K
This seems to work in place of 0.866cm: sqrt(3)/2*cm Michael On Feb 2, 2017, at 3:54 PM, Fabrice Couvreur mailto:fabrice1.couvr...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, I wanted to use sqrt(3)/2 but without success. Instead, I replaced this value with an approximate value 0.866 How should it be done ? Tha

[NTG-context] Encoding reserved characters in URI query strings

2017-02-05 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Let's say I want a link to plot x+2 in Wolfram|Alpha. I need to catenate "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i="; and "plot+x%2B2". Is there any way already available in ConTeXt to translate reserved characters like "+" to the percent-hexcode "%2B"? Something like \encode[plot x+2] wou

Re: [NTG-context] Encoding reserved characters in URI query strings

2017-02-05 Thread Rogers, Michael K
> On Feb 5, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Feb 2017, Rogers, Michael K wrote: > >> Let's say I want a link to plot x+2 in Wolfram|Alpha. I need to catenate >> "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i="; and "plot+x%2B2".

Re: [NTG-context] Initials and short paragraph

2017-06-20 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, Perhaps this?: \starttext \placeinitial Knuth writes: \hfill\break \input knuth \stoptext There may be a more ConTeXt-idiomatic way, in which case someone else will probably say. Note that structurally the above combines "Knuth writes:" and the first text segment (up to the first blank li

[NTG-context] \pmatrix changed?

2018-02-16 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, This sort of thing worked a year ago and two years ago (sorry, not sure of the versions now): %% \starttext \startformula A = \pmatrix{ 0.006525 \hfill& 0.006331 \hfill& 0.006828 \hfill\cr 1.006\hfill& 0.009352 \hfill& 1.010 \hfill\cr 0.002385 \hfill& 0.006376 \hfill& 1.001 \hfill

Re: [NTG-context] \pmatrix changed?

2018-02-16 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Thank you very much, Hans. On Feb 16, 2018, at 10:52 AM, Hans Hagen mailto:pra...@wxs.nl>> wrote: On 2/16/2018 3:16 PM, Rogers, Michael K wrote: This sort of thing worked a year ago and two years ago (sorry, not sure of the versions now): because it's too fragile for general u

[NTG-context] Using \stretched in macro fails

2013-04-06 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, Below \stretched works by itself, but causes a fatal error when in the macro (\Name). I get the same result with all variants. Perhaps there's a better way? MWE: \def\Name{\stretched[width=]} %\def\Name#1{\stretched[width=]{#1}} %\define[1]\Name{\stretched[width=]{#1}} \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] Using \stretched in macro fails

2013-04-06 Thread Rogers, Michael K
OK, it's not the macro. This fails (same error: ! This can't happen (add_disc_widths)): \starttext St. \stretched[width=]{Banac} \stoptext This works: \starttext St. \stretched[width=]{Bana} \stoptext Strange. On Apr 6, 2013, at 10:26 AM, "Rogers, Michael K" wrot

Re: [NTG-context] MAC (preview, finder) and ConTeXt pdf

2013-05-30 Thread Rogers, Michael K
I do not have this problem with the documents I produce on my Mac. I have had it with some (but not all) documents on ConTeXt sites, such as Hans' "ConTeXt Lua Documents." Also I can select text but copy/paste does not work. Perhaps it has to do with fonts. Michael On May 30, 2013, at 5:00

Re: [NTG-context] joinedup in itemize changed?

2014-05-02 Thread Rogers, Michael K
The keys packed and joinedup seem to control the keys before, after, and inbetween. You can use these keys directly to get whatever style you like. The setting packed is equivalent to \startitemize[3][before=\blank,after=\blank,inbetween=] The setting joinedup is equivalent to \startitemize[

Re: [NTG-context] Deprecated $…$ for inline math?

2016-02-17 Thread Rogers, Michael K
I use $…$. And for copying text from one TeX to another (e.g. ConTeXt <—> PlainTex/Latex/Markdown/Jax), it would be a pain if I couldn't. Michael > On Feb 17, 2016, at 1:24 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > >> However, I can see situations where one might

Re: [NTG-context] Length range control of the last line of paragraph

2016-03-21 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Perhaps this? (I'm still better at Plain TeX than ConTeXt.) \starttext \setupindenting[yes,40pt] \dimen0=\hsize \advance\dimen0 by -\parindent \advance\dimen0 by -2em \parfillskip=2em plus \dimen0 \tolerance=0 % strictly enforces glue dimensions/stretching - may have unwanted

Re: [NTG-context] Command in enumeration title

2012-02-26 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Feb 26, 2012, at 6:44 AM, Stefan Müller wrote: > Hi list, > > there is possibly an easy explanation for my following problem, but I don't > know it. Why does \Word have no effect in the following example, and how can > I make it work? In my real document I have \Word in a macro inside the

Re: [NTG-context] Command in enumeration title

2012-02-26 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi Stefan, I didn't know about \Word. It retried your example and it works as is in my version of ConTeXt, which is an earlier one that yours it seems. [Your other enumeration example, with way=bychapter etc., works the way you want, too.] Sorry, I don't think I can help. Perhaps one of the

Re: [NTG-context] Linebreak between Chapter Number and Name

2012-02-26 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Feb 26, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Marc Trius wrote: Hi, I am trying to format a chapter heading so that there is a linebreak between the number and the name. The only way I managed to do this is this: \setuphead[ chapter][command=\ChapTitle] \def\ChapTitle#1#2% {\framed[height=2cm,width=broad]{#1\\

Re: [NTG-context] Formatting Indexed Words Within the Text

2012-03-23 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Malte Stien wrote: > Is it possible to format indexed words in a particular style within the text > more or less automatically. For example, if I write > > There are some \index[ducks] in the zoo. > > ...I would like the term "ducks" to appear in small-capitals to in

Re: [NTG-context] how can I use framewidth in calculations

2012-03-23 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: But is there a method for similar calculations inside a frame? Here's what I tried, but it doesn't give the expected result (the image is much smaller than expected): \starttext \framed[width=7cm]{\externalfigure[cow][width=\the\dimexpr0.9

Re: [NTG-context] Problem Nesting defineitemgroups

2012-03-25 Thread Rogers, Michael K
You can use \startitemize[1] directly. (You can put it in a macro, so if you ever want to change the style of bullets, you just have to adjust the macro.) \startnlist \item Foo \startitemize[1] \item Some bullet item 1, \item Some bullet item 2. \stopitemize \item Baz \startnlist % start level=2

Re: [NTG-context] Commands with arguments with MetaPost

2012-04-25 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Apr 25, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Troy Henderson wrote: > I would like to be able to do something like this > > \def\foo#1{ >\startMPcode >fill (0,0)--(598,0)--(598,50)--(0,50)--cycle withcolor green; >label.rt(btex #1 etex),(50,25); > \stopMPcode > } > Looks like a misplaced p

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \inmargin on \item lines

2012-05-02 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, It is not a bug. It is standard TeX: a space counts after "}" and is ignored immediately after a control sequence such as "\item". To override either, you have to be explicit, "\ignorespaces" as Hans suggested in your case and "\ " (backslash-space) in the other to put a space in. My pref

Re: [NTG-context] drawarrow and transparency

2012-05-03 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On May 3, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: I believe that this is somewhat a bug with transparency under MetaFun. For I tried the following: \startMPcode picture pic ; pic := image(drawarrow origin--(1cm,0)) ; draw pic withtransparency(1,.5) ; draw pic rotated 90 withtransparency(1,.5) ; \s

Re: [NTG-context] atpage || number comparing

2012-05-15 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, I'm a neophyte using last year's TeXLive context. An expert can probably improve my answer. Does this work for you?: \def\atPage[#1]% {\doifnot{\doifreferencefoundelse{#1}{\currentreferencepage}{?}}{\currentpage}% {\at[#1]}% } I adapted it from code in strc-ref.mk

Re: [NTG-context] Insertion of a Document I.D.

2012-05-15 Thread Rogers, Michael K
\jobname yields the filename (in my last year's TeX Live ConTeXt). On May 15, 2012, at 11:08 PM, wrote: > > I want to generate a document i.d. from the .tex source filename and the > current date and put it into the footer. > > This might be possible already, but I could find it by searching

[NTG-context] Local modules not found

2012-05-17 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, I upgraded to the latest beta from the 2011 stable version for the first time. Now my local modules are not found. Having searched the wiki and the mailing list, I can find no help. Any ideas? Error messages: \usemodule[homework-fmt] --> resolvers > modules > not found: 'h

Re: [NTG-context] Local modules not found

2012-05-17 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On May 17, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Marco Pessotto wrote: > "Rogers, Michael K" writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I upgraded to the latest beta from the 2011 stable version for the >> first time. Now my local modules are not found. Having searched the >> wiki and th

[NTG-context] Lists and alternative=command

2012-05-17 Thread Rogers, Michael K
I'd love help with this: I have list that uses alternative=command, and it stopped working when I switched from last year's TeXLive context to a recent beta. I've minimized the problem to this example: \definelist [MyList] \define[3]\MyListEntry{:#1:#2:#3:} \setuplist [MyList] [

Re: [NTG-context] Lists and alternative=command

2012-05-17 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On May 17, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 17.05.2012 um 20:29 schrieb Rogers, Michael K: > >> I'd love help with this: I have list that uses alternative=command, and it >> stopped working when I switched from last year's TeXLive context to a r

[NTG-context] References to itemize items

2012-05-18 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, Under the beta version (ConTeXt ver: 2012.05.14 16:00 MKIV fmt: 2012.5.16), item numbers in references (with \in[..]) are not converted automatically in the way they used to be done under last year's "current" ConTeXt. I have macros that do something like below that no longer work. The

Re: [NTG-context] References to itemize items

2012-05-22 Thread Rogers, Michael K
I'll try again: ConTeXt used to match the conversion style in a reference to the itemize item with the number/character of the item. Now it doesn't convert numbers to characters. Does this happen to anyone else? Example: \setupitemgroup[itemize][1][n] \setupitemgroup[itemize][2][a] \starttex

Re: [NTG-context] indexing puzzle

2012-05-24 Thread Rogers, Michael K
1. For \ab you might want \def\ab{\unskip} since the space is not the same as the width of a digit. 2. Does your solution work with line numbers greater than 99? I tried to implement your idea and I got the order 25.7, 25.117, 25.37. Probably more than 99 lines never occurs on a page, so i

Re: [NTG-context] References to itemize items

2012-05-24 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On May 24, 2012, at 6:06 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 23-5-2012 04:54, Rogers, Michael K wrote: >> I'll try again: >> >> ConTeXt used to match the conversion style in a reference to the itemize >> item with the number/character of the item. Now it doesn't con

Re: [NTG-context] Linenumbering

2012-05-25 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On May 25, 2012, at 6:33 AM, Willi Egger wrote: > Hi, > On May 25, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Willi Egger wrote: > >> Oh dear, stupid me… >> >> Still I have two things: >> >> - It appears that the intent option is not honored and the numbers appear >> always in the margin. > > should read as intext ..

Re: [NTG-context] indexing puzzle

2012-05-26 Thread Rogers, Michael K
ast of my MKII projects. So I am also interested in, and very grateful, for your MKIV solution. All best, Alan On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Rogers, Michael K mailto:mrog...@emory.edu>> wrote: 1. For \ab you might want \def\ab{\unskip} since the space is not the same as the width

Re: [NTG-context] Use figures without file extension

2012-05-26 Thread Rogers, Michael K
I don't know if this helps but the following tells what the type of the image file is. (In my case I copied a jpg to img1 and a png to img2, without extensions of course.) \startluacode userdata = userdata or { } function userdata.mytype(s) context(img.scan({filename=s}).imagetype) end

Re: [NTG-context] Use figures without file extension

2012-05-27 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On May 26, 2012, at 10:49 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: using the inbuilt library is definely simpler! Yes, but as you said earlier, you'll still have to do something about GIFs. It would be nice if luatex had at worst a non-fatal error on scanning a non-supported file. Michael _

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing for {\cal P} in XITS

2012-05-29 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On May 29, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:19:00PM +0300, Janne Junnila wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just noticed that the spacing after ${\cal P}$ looks a bit too tight >> (non-existent?) while using XITS fonts. >> ... > > Looks fine here (in my eyes at least), can yo

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing for {\cal P} in XITS

2012-05-29 Thread Rogers, Michael K
'too-close P'. I > also tried the newest font files from yesterday, but still no luck. Hope that > help finding the bug. > > Andy > > P.S. Is there more to be considered than only the font files (the .otf s)? > > > > On 29.05.2012, at 14:39, Khaled Hosny wr

Re: [NTG-context] transluency/transparency

2012-06-04 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jun 4, 2012, at 5:45 AM, Jan Pohanka wrote: >> See page 204, section 8.5 of the metafun book >> >> loadfigure "gracht.mp" number 1 scaled .5 ; >> addto currentpicture also >> (currentpicture softened .8) >> shifted (bbwidth(currentpicture)+.5cm,0) ; >> > > thank you for the hint, but it seems,

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure and factor=max

2012-06-07 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Marco wrote: > Hi, > > according to the wiki the \externalfigure key “factor” has the > options: > > max: aspect ratio is kept, the image is scaled to > the bigger (oversized) variant > > fit: aspect ratio is kept, the image is scaled to > the smaller (fitted) va

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

2012-06-07 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jun 7, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Bill Meahan wrote: > I'm getting a handle on page layout and headings but there are some things I > haven't figured out. > > 1) How does one specify they want the "outer" margin to be a different size > than the "inner" margin? "Outer," of course, is the right margi

Re: [NTG-context] Portrait -> Landscape -> Portrait

2012-06-11 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jun 9, 2012, at 7:08 AM, pddzaic wrote: Hello context-friends, I have switched from Latex to Context and my first impression of Context is: WOW :-) Unfortunately, I did not understand how to switch between landscape and portrait. Here a minimal working example: \mainlanguage[en] \setupl

Re: [NTG-context] clutter with \start and \stop

2012-07-04 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 4, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Peter Münster wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> no, mixing this way is asking for troubles, if not now, than maybe in the >> future >> >> just use \section > > Yes, but isn't \startsection the recommended method for the future and > needed for XML outp

Re: [NTG-context] clutter with \start and \stop

2012-07-04 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 4, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Peter Münster wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05 2012, Rogers, Michael K wrote: > >> Have you considered structuring your example like this?: > > The output is not the same... Sorry, I misunderstood. This e-mail mess

Re: [NTG-context] clutter with \start and \stop

2012-07-05 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 4, 2012, at 10:56 PM, luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Rogers, Michael K mailto:mrog...@emory.edu>> wrote: XML seems a nice way for machines to deal with data. But it's not a very human way to speak. I mean, if I write "\section{One}...\sectio

Re: [NTG-context] clutter with \start and \stop

2012-07-05 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 5, 2012, at 1:23 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Rogers, Michael K mailto:mrog...@emory.edu>> wrote: XML documents should form a tree, so a structure like \startA % \startB % \stopA % \stopB % won't translate to XML. Grouping in TeX follo

Re: [NTG-context] Returning...need advice on manuals for MKIV

2012-07-15 Thread Rogers, Michael K
I'm familiar with TeX, not with LaTeX, and started ConTeXt last December. Here are what I've found most useful: 1. In my TeXLive 2011, there is texlive/2011/texmf-dist/doc/context/manuals/reference/en/contextref.pdf, dated July 2011 and unfinished. (The change to MKIV is immense and has outpa

Re: [NTG-context] Informations about nodes

2012-07-16 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 16, 2012, at 4:13 AM, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: > Hallo ConTeXist. > > is there anything about nodes for beginners? I think any manual or practical > examples. I would like trying make anything experiments with this. > I found anything only on wiki > (http://wiki.luatex.org/index.php/TeX_wi

Re: [NTG-context] Returning...need advice on manuals for MKIV

2012-07-17 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 16, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: > · > >> 3. And then there is the source, which has some helpful >> comments in it. The explanation of the system macros, >> http://tex.aanhet.net/context/syst-gen-doc.pdf, has been helpful >> in many ways, including guessing at what the

Re: [NTG-context] Is startalign broken in mkiv?

2012-07-17 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Here's a backward-compatibility hack that works on your minimal example. Maybe it will save the dozens of files without changing all the &s: \let\oldstartalign=\startalign \let\oldstopalign=\stopalign \let\oldbs=\\ \def\startalign{\catcode`&=4\let\\=\cr\oldstartalign} \def\stopalign{\oldstopalig

Re: [NTG-context] A "Lorem ipsum" module?

2012-07-18 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On 2012-07-18 Marcin Borkowski wrote: > in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called "lipsum", for > typesetting varioud amounts of "Lorem ipsum" stuff. Is there anything > like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc., > but that is not exactly what I have in mind, espe

Re: [NTG-context] alignment in TABLE

2012-07-24 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 24, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Peter Münster wrote: > Hi, > > How could I please align vertically the 2 table cells in the following > example: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > \starttext > \bTABLE > \bTR \bTD 1 \eTD \bTD \framed{1 Über} \eTD \eTR > \eTABLE >

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:33 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Hi -- is there absolutely no way for obtaining these "fake small caps" > in ConTeXT? Here's a hack, which sort of works, definitely doesn't handle -- there must be a better way. I hope you don't mind my using your text as text. :-) \us

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-25 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 25, 2012, at 1:06 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Rogers, Michael K wrote: >> >> Here's a hack, which sort of works, definitely doesn't handle -- >> there must be a better way. I hope you don't mind my using your tex

Re: [NTG-context] Variables how-to needed

2012-07-25 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jul 25, 2012, at 12:50 AM, Mari Voipio wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm looking for some "for dummies" information about using variables. > I tried looking for it in the wiki, but only found this "Internals" > page that's a bit too advantaged to me: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Inside_ConTeXt#Usi

[NTG-context] Database module gives an error

2012-07-25 Thread Rogers, Michael K
There is an example of an address label in Mojca'shttp://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/csv.pdf that throws an error in the current beta. I changed "\def\SendMe" to "\unexpanded\def.." which fixed one error. But now I get the following. Can it be fixed? \usemodule[database] \unexpanded\def\SendM

Re: [NTG-context] 2 columns: 1 language per column (solved)

2012-07-31 Thread Rogers, Michael K
If you wish to use TeXShop, you can set it up...in my typically kludgy way. This mimics the TeXShop setup for Context Standalone (see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone/Mac_Installation) and assumes that "context" is in your regular execution path. Create a new plain-text file in

Re: [NTG-context] 2 columns: 1 language per column (solved)

2012-08-01 Thread Rogers, Michael K
error (here context-minimal is the directory where I have the latest version of the standalone ConTeXt)... On 1 août 2012, at 00:41, "Rogers, Michael K" mailto:mrog...@emory.edu>> wrote: ... If you like, add these three lines to the beginning of your .tex file to force

Re: [NTG-context] Can't generate an epub - what am I doing wrong?

2012-08-09 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, I don't seem to have an epub reader that can format the output. (MS Word complain there was no xslt file, But the xhtml file produced contains the metadata and the document structure. Output pasted below. Michael On Aug 9, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: Hello all, my proble

Re: [NTG-context] Figured bass symbols in a text.

2012-08-10 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, Since no one has offered a quick ConTeXt solution, I offer my usual -- a dumb Plain TeX solution: \def\lomihi#1#2#3{${\scriptstyle{#2}}\limits_{#1}^{#3}$} With the Computer Modern font, the top is a little further away from the middle than the bottom. It can be adjusted with something lik

Re: [NTG-context] Figured bass symbols in a text.

2012-08-12 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Aug 12, 2012, at 5:00 AM, Robert Blackstone wrote: > On 10 aug. 2012, at 21:09, 19:59:36, Hans Hagen wrote >> The next beta has: >> >> \starttext >> >> \definelow [MyLow] [style=\txx] >> \definehigh [MyHigh] [style=\txx] >> \definelowhigh [MyLoHi] [style=\txx] >> \definelowmidh

[NTG-context] Lua: document v. userdata

2012-08-22 Thread Rogers, Michael K
In a recent thread, Hans used the document namespace, where I (naively) expected userdata: On Aug 22, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: \ctxlua{document.myluadimension = "200pt"} Is there a reason not to use userdata.myluadimension? Or is document.myluadimension safe, because myluadimension

Re: [NTG-context] Stretching width in natural TABLEs

2012-09-03 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Sep 3, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, Michael Rogers wrote: > >> On Sep 2, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to stretch the widths of each column in natural TABLEs, so >>> that the widths are in a certain propotion? For example, supp

Re: [NTG-context] Include chapter number in figure numbering

2012-09-04 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Sep 4, 2012, at 4:00 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: how do I include the chapter number in the figure numbering? > >>> Untested: >>> \setupcaptions[prefixsegment=chapter] > >> This works with beta 2011-11-29, but unfortunately not in a current >> one. Does it work for you? > > You're right: it

Re: [NTG-context] Change color of EPS file.

2012-09-15 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Sep 15, 2012, at 1:36 AM, luigi scarso mailto:luigi.sca...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Troy Henderson mailto:thend...@gmail.com>> wrote: and which uses Cairo and Poppler for its conversion. Now in order for my simplistic filter to function, Why 'simplistic' and not

[NTG-context] \everymath

2012-09-15 Thread Rogers, Michael K
I often want every math mode (between single $) be \displaystyle. In Plain TeX, you do something like \everymath={\displaystyle} Is the best ConTeXt way to do something like this? \appendtoks\displaystyle\to\everymathematics Or is there a key in \setupmathematics? Thanks, Michael _

Re: [NTG-context] Ctx: list of commands

2012-09-18 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Sep 18, 2012, at 2:44 AM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. mailto:l...@pontex.cz>> wrote: It seems that my question is not so straightforward - I didn't think it would it could be problem to separate "public macros" (= public ConTeXt commands = these that are cited in manuals, on wiki

Re: [NTG-context] Conditionals

2012-09-28 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Sep 28, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Troy Henderson wrote: > I have a list of numbers, > > 2, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 186, 188, 316, 318, 354, 372, 376 > > that I would like to use as exceptions in a \dostepwiserecurse loop. That > is, within the loop if \recurselevel is NOT EQUAL to either of these

[NTG-context] Error with \section name

2012-10-05 Thread Rogers, Michael K
I encountered a strange error. If the section name contains "iffer" then an error is produced, with some joke-like comments. Minimal example: \starttext \chapter{One} \section{iffer} \stoptext The original title was "Differentiating an integral" but I kept taking away until I got to "iffer".

Re: [NTG-context] Error with \section name

2012-10-05 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Actually it happens with the text "iffer": \starttext iffer \stoptext On Oct 5, 2012, at 9:44 PM, "Rogers, Michael K" wrote: > I encountered a strange error. If the section name contains "iffer" then an > error is produced, with some joke-like comments. &

[NTG-context] Misplaced figure

2012-10-09 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, I wanted to start a proof with "Proof:" in italics and place a figure next to the right margin. There are many ways to accomplish this, but my normal way, {\it Proof:\/}, fails. Is this a bug or am I making a mistake? \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{ProofPQR} numeric u; u:=2.5cm; draw ((0,

Re: [NTG-context] TABLE: header with a thick bottom line

2012-10-23 Thread Rogers, Michael K
One issue is that the overlay overlaps the text space (reduces whitespace or potentially overlaps letters). One could use a blank row with a black background, but a row seems to have a minimum height of about 2mm. I discovered the "boffset" key, which can be used with the overlay, but it's kl

Re: [NTG-context] \overrightarrow{AB} gives under rightarrow

2012-11-02 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, It seems fixed with the current beta (2012.10.30 21:13) and broken with a beta from a week or two ago. (I just updated after your example failed.) -mkr On Nov 2, 2012, at 6:09 AM, Jeong Dal mailto:hak...@me.com>> wrote: Dear all. The following short sample gives a under right arrow inst

Re: [NTG-context] Is http://source.contextgarden.net/ down? [EOM]

2012-11-03 Thread Rogers, Michael K
I cannot get to it…. This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified tha

Re: [NTG-context] Paths for ConTeXt in Texworks

2012-11-16 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Nov 16, 2012, at 5:25 AM, "H. Özoguz" wrote: > > So which paths I have to add to get the standalone version working with > texworks? > Have you tried the procedure in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Setting_up_TeXworks ? Michael This e-mail message (includi

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with Standalone ConTeXt

2012-11-18 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Nov 18, 2012, at 8:30 AM, "H. Özoguz" wrote: > After installing the standalone version (was quite hard for me with > TexWorks), now several problems arises. The simplest document > > \starttext > Test > \stoptest > > compiles without problems. But my book gives now several errors. F.e.: … >

[NTG-context] Odd bug with \startitemize

2012-11-18 Thread Rogers, Michael K
For some reason I used someone's earlier posting to test something about my tex software and accidentally happened upon this odd behavior. If the \startitemize code below is repeated 10 or more times, either with \dorecurse or by pasting it ten times, only one is typeset. If nine times, then a

Re: [NTG-context] Including movies in pdf files

2012-12-02 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Dec 2, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was updating the wiki entry on \externalfigures >> (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/externalfigure) and noticed that I >> cannot get ConTeXt to include a movie. >> >> [...] >>

[NTG-context] Math not loaded?

2012-12-06 Thread Rogers, Michael K
The following gives the error with the latest beta: ! Math error: parameter \Umathquad\displaystyle is not set. with or without setting the font. Is there a quick fix? %\usetypescript[pagella] %\setupbodyfont[pagella,12pt] \starttext $f$ \stoptext Thanks, Michael __

Re: [NTG-context] Math not loaded?

2012-12-06 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Dec 6, 2012, at 8:39 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: >> >> are there messages on the console with respect to missing fonts? > > The font is now called "latinmodernmath-regular.otf". You need to > change or add that name. Yes, that's one it compla

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost Animations

2012-12-28 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On 12/28/2012 8:41 PM, Troy Henderson wrote: > I've created several animations using MetaPost/ConTeXt, and I have also > created a webpage with these animations. The URL to the page is > > http://www.tlhiv.org/animations/ > > Feedback is appreciated, and if there is a particular animation that yo

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost Animations

2012-12-28 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Dec 28, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Troy Henderson mailto:thend...@gmail.com>> wrote: One thing, which you may know, gear teeth do not normally have rectangular profiles. This must be what Hans was talking about. I thought Hans was talking about the animations of the construction of Bezier curves, w

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost Animations

2013-01-07 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jan 7, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Marco Patzer mailto:home...@lavabit.com>> wrote: On 2013–01–07 Troy Henderson wrote: http://www.tlhiv.org/animations There is one in particular that, I think, is quite impressive. It is an animation of a function f(x,y,t) where t is time. I love that one. Very im

[NTG-context] Any ConTeXt-Lua changes

2013-01-14 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi, I wrote Lua routines a while back that parse a string representation of a weekly schedule to create a table representation of the schedule. It worked last fall. Certainly in August, 2012 and I think at least as late October. I just tried it again, but it failed; and it failed on the same

Re: [NTG-context] Any ConTeXt-Lua changes

2013-01-14 Thread Rogers, Michael K
ks in any case, whether you can think of something or not. On Jan 14, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 14.01.2013 um 15:08 schrieb "Rogers, Michael K" : > >> Hi, >> >> I wrote Lua routines a while back that parse a string representation of

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Bookmarks

2013-01-26 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jan 26, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Troy Henderson wrote: > I would like to create PDF bookmarks in my ConTeXt document, but I do not > want my document arranged in "normal" chapter/sections. I know that I can do > > \setupinteraction[state=start] > \placebookmarks[chapter,section,subsection][chapter

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Bookmarks

2013-01-26 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jan 26, 2013, at 4:21 PM, Troy Henderson wrote: > \chapter{Foo}\page[no] > \copypages[path/to/file.pdf] > > did the trick. > > Troy This should work, too: \setuphead[chapter,section,subsection][number=no,placehead=no,page=no] This e-mail message (includi

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-27 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Jan 27, 2013, at 7:09 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > This is because \startformula can take one optional argument in square > brackets, and [x,x] is interpreted as that argument. You can make > \startformula stop looking for [...] either by telling it to `\relax`, > or by giving it an empty `[]

Re: [NTG-context] block with different formatting per line?

2013-02-02 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Ingo Hohmann wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to define a block, where lines are automatically formatted > differently? > For example: > first line in caps, > second in bold, > others normal. > > Is this possible? And how? If you mean input lines, then yes. But if y

Re: [NTG-context] \goto links to figures are inactive

2013-02-02 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Hi Alan, Try something like this: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \define[1]\MyCaptions{My caption is \quotation{#1}} %\define[1]\MyCaptions{} % gives empty caption \setupcaptions[command=\MyCaptions] \startplacefigure[reference=fig:cow.pdf,title=Figure A][here,page,force,nonumber] \e

Re: [NTG-context] block with different formatting per line?

2013-02-06 Thread Rogers, Michael K
On Feb 6, 2013, at 1:04 AM, Ingo Hohmann mailto:cont...@ingohohmann.de>> wrote: On 02/03/2013 04:56 AM, Rogers, Michael K wrote: On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Ingo Hohmann <mailto:cont...@ingohohmann.de> wrote: Hi, is it possible to define a block, where lines are automatical

[NTG-context] Math \not

2019-09-07 Thread Rogers, Michael K
In plain TeX you can get a slash through $\equiv$ with $\not\equiv$. When I do the same in ConTeXt, the slash next to the $\equiv$. Is there a way to get a not-equivalent sign in ConTeXt? Thanks, - Michael \starttext $\not\equiv$ \stoptext This e-mail mess

Re: [NTG-context] [External] Re: Math \not

2019-09-07 Thread Rogers, Michael K
Thanks! I should have tried that. -mkr > On Sep 7, 2019, at 12:59 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: > > Hi you should use \nequiv as in > > \starttext > Let $f \nequiv 0$ be a function > \stoptext > > Best regards: OK > >> On 7 Sep 2019, at 18:35, Rogers, Micha

[NTG-context] Command completion in TeXShop

2019-09-19 Thread Rogers, Michael K
I was looking into command completion in TeXShop (MacOS) and came across this two-year-old call for help by one of the developers (I assume) for implementing it for ConTeXt: http://macosx-tex.576846.n2.nabble.com/TeXShop-Command-Completion-ConTeXt-td7586673.html As far as I found, command compl

Re: [NTG-context] [External] special case of hskip...?

2021-09-28 Thread Rogers, Michael K via ntg-context
Can you stick "\phantom{Introduction:}" in front of “DIsability”? Michael > On Sep 28, 2021, at 11:08 PM, jbf via ntg-context wrote: > > In just one instance I would like the following to work differently: > > \startchapter[title={Introduction\\Disability and > marginalisation},list={Introdu