From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23923 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: shading box many times Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:42:18 +0100 Message-ID: <438C68CA.3020300@wxs.nl> References: <438AC79A.7070806@seznam.cz> <438AE71A.2080906@wxs.nl> <438AF9E2.8070308@elvenkind.com> <438B0C95.6000700@wxs.nl> <438BA251.90007@seznam.cz> <438C185B.5060903@wxs.nl> <438C5436.7070303@seznam.cz> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133276995 7932 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2005 15:09:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:09:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Nov 29 16:09:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eh6kR-0006Bh-QU for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:46:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6274D1281D; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:46:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24094-01; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:46:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D449127BC; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:42:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6694127BC for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:42:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23849-02-2 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:42:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01721127B8 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:42:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 5543 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:47:18 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <438C5436.7070303@seznam.cz> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:23923 Archived-At: Vit Zyka wrote: > yes, it works! > > Now it works even on my old distrib also. Seems the crutial line was > inside this vardef: > > vardef add_special_signal = % write the version number > if (length _global_specials_ <> 0) or (length _local_specials_ <> 0) : > special ("%%MetaPostSpecials: 2.0 " & decimal _special_signal_ & " > " & decimal _special_div_) ; > fi ; > enddef ; > indeed, i pass the value to the mp to pdf converter so that old files still work ok; otherwise we get a truckload of compatibility problems Hans