From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3247 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: beginner's questions Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:40:27 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001109184027.014cc100@pop.wxs.nl> References: <20001109175117.A942@wouter.verheijen.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393992 15397 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:26:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: context Original-To: Wouter Verheijen In-Reply-To: <20001109175117.A942@wouter.verheijen.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3247 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3247 At 05:51 PM 11/9/00 +0100, Wouter Verheijen wrote: >Hi, >- Although I am Dutch, I have no problem at all with using the English > words (e.g. \starttext instead of \starttekst). I think this way, I > can avoid language conflicts. Do the Dutch people agree or is it > normal to use the dutch words. Most of my texts are in Dutch, so I mostly use dutch for dutch projects and english for english documents. Especially when you start defining your own structuring it makes more sense to talk about vragen en antwoorden dan questions and answers etc. > the spelling and hypenating language should remain Dutch. \mainlanguage[nl] > I did texexec --make en, but my standard language interface is still > nl. It only works with texexec --int=en. How do I specify the > default? you can add a first line to your file % interface=en When you use english commands, texexec will recognize the doc as having an enmglish interface, unless the doc is so small that there is nothing to determine. You can also specify the default interface in texexec.ini >- The DVI files produced with context show up completely blank in > KDVI. They do work in Xdvi, and my Latex files always worked in Kdvi > as well. Who's to blame? You probably don't have any output or maybe you generated pdf output? >- Most of the work I plan to make with context are small (<20pages) > reports. Mostly text with some tables and pictures, and a few > graphs. Is context the program to handle this, or should I choose > latex? After a quick look at the docs, it seems context is easier to > do most things. Is this correct? that's for others to answer -) Hans PS. Next month the NTG will organize a context course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------