Re: [NTG-context] extended ascii characters

2004-01-03 Thread Pawel Jackowski na Onet
Hi all! I would like to know how I may use extended ascii characters in context, for example character number 167. I'm sure Hans has made a lot of extensions for ,,strange'' character support. But also plain TeX offers \char167 instruction, which returns character 167 according to given font

[NTG-context] Context update

2004-01-03 Thread R. Ermers
Dear friends, First of all, I would like to wish all of you a happy new year! The update of the most recent Contextpackage (04.2.1.) + subsequent installation with Miktex (MiKTeX 2.1) does not work out on my system (Win 98). Miktex does not complete the installation of the context en and

[NTG-context] Re: extended ascii characters

2004-01-03 Thread Gonçalo Morais
Thanks for your help... I am aware of \char167 isntruction but in the next example nothing seems to happen!! Gonçalo Pawel Jackowski na Onet writes: Hi all! I would like to know how I may use extended ascii characters in context, for example character number 167. I'm sure Hans has made

[NTG-context] Re: extended ascii characters

2004-01-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Gonçalo Morais [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for your help... I am aware of \char167 isntruction but in the next example nothing seems to happen!! It surely depends on the fonts you use. Default is cmr, which has, as far as I know, only 7bit encoding. So \char167 will lead to nothing.

[NTG-context] update succeeded

2004-01-03 Thread R. Ermers
Dear Friends, In the mean time I have also updated miktex. Now everything seems to work fine. Sorry for bothering you. Robert Ermers

Re: [NTG-context] Re: extended ascii characters

2004-01-03 Thread Adam Lindsay
Gonçalo, Extended ASCII is relatively uninformative without some information on which encoding you're actually using (ASCII is normative from 0-127). I'll guess you mean '§' (Section mark), which, judging from regi-win and regi-il1, is my guess for the character you mean. (On the mac, it's 'ß' or

[NTG-context] Here's a strange one for Metapost gurus

2004-01-03 Thread David Arnold
All, I've run across an interesting bug that I haven't seen before. In the attached Metpost file, if I delete the last figure (beginfig(8)...endfig), the file compiles. However, with beginfig(8)...endfig, the file gives this error: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] path pen ! Not implemented: