September 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: Support ... (was: Support bei Einstieg in ConText)
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

>The following message was sent by Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de> on Sat, 27 Sep 2003 07:32:02 +0200. > >> Steffen Wolfrum <wlfrm(a)estfiles.de> writes: >> >> Hi, >> >> > Gibt es etwa B¸cher zum Thema ConTeXt? >> >> come on, guys. Posting in a wrong language can happen. So what. >> Answering (an obviously private mail posted in the ML) here in the >> same language on this mailinglist is not the best thing, but this can happen, >> too. But we should not keep up this german thread. It is not polite >> for the other non-german speaking people out there, that get >> completely bored. So I'd suggest: >> >> \if\language\en\postonthismailinglist=1 >> \else >> \dontexpand & \keepitprivate >> \bye >> \fi >> >> Patrick >> -- >> You are your own rainbow! Hi Patrick, Somehow I really felt like walking on thin ice when I wrote the email you mention. Well, I knew it will be difficult to serve the different aims of communication: - politeness and - political correctness I asked some friends, and we discussed on this topic, trying to find a suitable way, to get the message transferred, and not to hurt anybodies feelings - as the later is very quickly done, and it's a pity, cause often quite unnecessary. So finally, after carefully looking at the pro and cons, I decided to write a bi-lingual answer, exactly one sentence each: > Gibt es etwa Bücher zum Thema ConTeXt? > (Did you ment editing books *on* ConTeXt?) Sure, I have to admit that I used brackets for the second sentence. Btw.: Why didn't you quote that second sentence? So it might have given you the feeling that I made a *main* answer and a less important. But my intention was only to stay in the logical structure of the mail I was answering to: - Jörg once started a threat in German - ok, as you told him this was an initial mistake. - Willi (a typical multilingual Dutch) also answered in German So I wrote my contribution also in the main language of this thread, AND, to stay in the rules of the mailing list, I translated it, as best as I could, into a kind of international English. Obviously my mistake were the brackets. I knew I am walking on thin ice ... and so I forgot to look on my orthography carefully. Thank you Patrick for pointing me to that. Steffen P.S. Who got bored?

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Re: Fwd: [NTG-context] Re: Which Beta Version ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

>The following message was sent by Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de> on Sat, 27 Sep 2003 08:32:27 +0200. > >> Hi, >> >> > But in which file is a note which version this beta actually is - >> > in order to know before installing that it is the recent one? >> >> in context.tex: >> \def\contextversion{2003.9.24} >> >> Patrick >> -- >> I really should post my ConTeXt-install-o-matic Hmm, looking at this gives me \contextversion{2003.9.25}. Hans's website offers > ConTeXt Beta Version > size: 2015146 > date: 2003.9.24.19.0 Can I be sure now to have the current version? Or even a super-current version... Steffen (P.S. I asked cause my modem is to slow for downloading wrong versions)

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Re: Support ... (was: Support bei Einstieg in ConText)
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

>The following message was sent by Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de> on Sat, 27 Sep 2003 07:32:02 +0200. > >> Steffen Wolfrum <wlfrm(a)estfiles.de> writes: >> >> Hi, >> >> > Gibt es etwa B¸cher zum Thema ConTeXt? >> >> come on, guys. Posting in a wrong language can happen. So what. >> Answering (an obviously private mail posted in the ML) here in the >> same language on this mailinglist is not the best thing, but this can happen, >> too. But we should not keep up this german thread. It is not polite >> for the other non-german speaking people out there, that get >> completely bored. So I'd suggest: >> >> \if\language\en\postonthismailinglist=1 >> \else >> \dontexpand & \keepitprivate >> \bye >> \fi >> >> Patrick >> -- >> You are your own rainbow! Hi Patrick, Somehow I really felt like walking on thin ice when I wrote the email you mention. Well, I knew it will be difficult to serve the different aims of communication: - politeness and - political correctness I asked some friends, and we discussed on this topic, trying to find a suitable way, to get the message transferred, and not to hurt anybodies feelings - as the later is very quickly done, and it's a pity, cause often quite unnecessary. So finally, after carefully looking at the pro and cons, I decided to write a bi-lingual answer, exactly one sentence each: > Gibt es etwa Bücher zum Thema ConTeXt? > (Did you ment editing books *on* ConTeXt?) Sure, I have to admit that I used brackets for the second sentence. Btw.: Why didn't you quote that second sentence? So it might have given you the feeling that I made a *main* answer and a less important. But my intention was only to stay in the logical structure of the mail I was answering to: - Jörg once started a threat in German - ok, as you told him this was an initial mistake. - Willi (a typical multilingual Dutch) also answered in German So I wrote my contribution also in the main language of this thread, AND, to stay in the rules of the mailing list, I translated it, as best as I could, into a kind of international English. Obviously my mistake were the brackets. I knew I am walking on thin ice ... and so I forgot to look on my orthography carefully. Thank you Patrick for pointing me to that. Steffen P.S. Who got bored?

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substitute for hangafter
by John Culleton 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

I have a classic \hangafter situation in a bibliography. However this TeX primitive seems to be crippled in Context. What should I use instead? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Which Beta Version ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

> or in the beta i just posted: > > ... > > Hans Well, I do have a folder on my desktop that is a lately downloaded beta: cont-tmf.zip But in which file is a note which version this beta actually is - in order to know before installing that it is the recent one? Lost in the versions, Steffen

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Presentationstep in pre-fuzzy
by Shivkumar Chandrasekaran 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

Hi, I have tried every combination of presentationstep and the NextStep button in pre-fuzzy presentation style, and nothing seems to work. I have the latest (ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.25 fmt: 2003.9.26 int: english mes: english) running on Mac OS X (10.2.8) with Gierben Wierda's teTex distribution. Can some one help me get presentationstep working in pre-fuzzy? Thanks, --shiv--

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Please: \adaptlayout[*here*][height=...] needed!
by Steffen Wolfrum 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Hi, I really need a way to enlarge some certain pages. Because the pagenumbering is not fixed yet I cannot use \adaptlayout[71,82][...] in the preamble. What's the command to place \adaptlayout (or something similar) right at that position in the text where the page needs to be larger? Something like \enlargethispage{15pt}. Again, thank you for your help, Steffen

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\setupblock[name][file=name]
by Bernd Militzer 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Hi, the example \setupblock[homework][file=student] that Hans describes in his docu does not work for me! Help needed! Thanks in advance Bernd

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Re: [pdftex] Including \textcolor in metapost in pdf
by Hans Hagen 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

At 18:40 26/09/2003 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: >I would like to include colored text in metapost, but dvitomp does not >manage color. > >I saw solutions using ConTexT --- but I do not know ConTexT (not this >year, maybe next year). I use only the mptopdf macros from ConTexT >(loaded automatically by the pdfdriver). > >Do people out ther know how to do that ? > >(btw, my metapost is something like >label(btex The answer is \textcolor{\teacheronly}{42} etex,(0,0)); > >However, the color specification is in the dvi used as an intermediate >format by mpost, just the dvi -> MP extraction does not work good. > >Remark: there seems to exist a patch on a spanish speaking page, but >this is a patch in C, not web. The following code can give you a clue on how to do this; keep in mind that specials (used to switch color) get lost in mp! \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \startMPpage draw image ( draw btex The answer is etex ; draw btex { }42 etex shifted (xpart lrcorner currentpicture,0) withcolor red ; ) ; \stopMPpage \stoptext or if you need more of that: \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \startMPpage def append expr txt = draw btex \strut{ }\strut etex shifted (xpart lrcorner currentpicture,0) ; draw txt shifted (xpart lrcorner currentpicture,0) enddef ; draw image ( draw btex The answer is etex ; append btex 42 etex withcolor red ; ) ; \stopMPpage \stoptext (the mp code should work with any-mp/tex) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Support bei Einstieg in ConText
by ml-context＠dr-kopp.com 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

I try it again in english: I stopped a long suffer with Winword - and want to write/print longer documents with Context now. Since I don\'t have enough time do learn Context properly at this moment - but need some documents printed for students I ask you for some payed support: - Install a Context Environment - tips for layouting my documents - converting some of my existing winword-documents to context (I think there will be a lot of handwork for you) - tips and suggestions: \"digital-printer-company\" (Digitaldruck-Firma) and how to work together with them. I am german and have to use \"deutsche Umlaute\" - therefore I think it will be the best to get support from a german speaking person. > [for those who are interested: The rest of the original posting was > about support request for layout, converting documents, etc.] > Patrick Please excuse me, Patrick. It\'s my first time in a mailing-list ... and I made another mistake: I\'ve send my question twice. So, please be patient with me. I promise less mistakes :-) best regards Jörg mailto: ml-context(a)dr-kopp.com

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