Re: [NTG-context] total with of TABLE ?

2005-04-22 Thread luigi.scarso
Peter Münster wrote: Do you know, if this is possible with TABLE: \starttext \SetTableToWidth{10cm} \starttable[|c|c|c|] \HL \VL xxx \VL xxx \VL x \VL\AR \HL \stoptable \stoptext Cheers, Peter Hmm, I change a little your code to better understand it \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] inheriting size characteristics

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: I don't have time to really delve into the implementation details, but it looks like the difference is that ConTeXt isn't so responsive with user- defined alternatives with more than two characters. Compare the stripped down version with your own. Your \scsb has been changed to

Re: [NTG-context] new beta (again)

2005-04-22 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 at 10:44:08+0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working? in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false As mentioned before, that didn't help. the problem is that engine

[NTG-context] table questions

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, I'm fighting deadlines right now, but later i'll try to get a look at the current table thread (maybe someone can summarize the problem) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] proposed convention for variation switching [wasRE:inheriting ...

2005-04-22 Thread Vit Zyka
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Let's keep \sc. After all, ConTeXt already contains many redundancies (and that's a good thing imho-) Yes. (I think that \Var[up] (for upright figures) is more intuituve that \Var[ns]), at least in English:-))) I agree, both Adams's \Var[lf] and Idris's \Var[up] is

Re: [NTG-context] proposed convention for variation switching [wasRE:inheriting ...

2005-04-22 Thread Vit Zyka
also, whatever system we cook up ... there are so many bold variants nowadays in some fonts ... in practice one will not mix semi bold and bold in a running text, so again, this can be done by typefaces as well: \definetypeface[normalface] [...] \definetypeface[bolderface] [...]

Re: [NTG-context] proposed convention for variation switching [wasRE:inheriting ...

2005-04-22 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, What about: light \lf medium \mf if medium is \tf (as it is now), semibold \sf bold \bf lightitalic \li italic \it then italic could be \ti, and all four would be consistent: (l|t|s|b)(t|i) (but I may have missed some reason why this will not work) Greetings, Taco semibold italic \si bold

Re: [NTG-context] total with of TABLE ?

2005-04-22 Thread luigi.scarso
Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I'm fighting deadlines right now, but later i'll try to get a look at the current table thread (maybe someone can summarize the problem) Hans \SetTableToWidth{10cm} \starttable[|c|c|c|]...\stoptable set width to 10 cm, but if I don't care about cell I can have an overfull

Re: [NTG-context] total with of TABLE ?

2005-04-22 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Luigi wrote: \SetTableToWidth{10cm} \starttable[|c|c|c|]...\stoptable set width to 10 cm, but if I don't care about cell I can have an overfull box. So the problem seem to be Can I set the total width of a TABLE using a macros like \setupTABLE[tablewidth=10cm] ? To solve this problem, I

Re: [NTG-context] total with of TABLE ?

2005-04-22 Thread luigi.scarso
Duncan Hothersall wrote: If you want your TABLE to find natural column widths to fit the content, use [option=stretch] on the \bTABLE command. (NB it doesn't work as an option to \setupTABLE, only on the actual \bTABLE.) Then, assuming you don't need splitting over pages, you can set your TABLE

Re: [NTG-context] proposed convention for variation switching [wasRE:inheriting ...

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: Hi Idris, I've brought the subject up repeatedly on the list, and got not a lot of response. I have to think that 1) people are happy with the standard 7 font styles, 2) people have their own hand-rolled solution (like yourself, myself or Vit--see his Storm fonts support for

[NTG-context] Re: PracTeX Journal Number 2 out

2005-04-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, Patrick, can we mirror the context articles in the wiki? Thanks to the authors for their permission to mirror the nice articles. I have added a link to http://dl.contextgarden.net/practexjournal/ to the wiki:Web_resources. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] Re: total with of TABLE ?

2005-04-22 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
luigi.scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I'm fighting deadlines right now, but later i'll try to get a look at the current table thread (maybe someone can summarize the problem) Hans ... So the problem seem to be Can I set the total width of a TABLE using a macros

[NTG-context] Re: total with of TABLE ?

2005-04-22 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
For example: I'd like to set a total width that fits both tables without specifying also the 2nd and 3rd column: \setupTABLE[totalwidth=10cm,offset=5pt] \setupTABLE[column][1][width=1cm,align=left] \setupTABLE[column][5][width=1cm,align=middle] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD aa \eTD\bTD bb \eTD\bTD cc \eTD\bTD

Re: [NTG-context] Re: [dev-context] Re: new beta Re: Context index and sorting question

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: in a similar fashion, much texutil functionality is already present in ctxtools, which is a prelude to rewriting texutil i.e. a new sorting / index etc mechanism (maybe xml based) Great Hans you are thinking about (Czech:) sorting. How do you want to implement national

Re: [NTG-context] Re: total with of TABLE ?

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
setting the total width is not that complex, (maxwidth is already taken so i use textwidth) \starttext \unprotect \def\dobTABLE[#1]% {\pushTBL \bgroup \ifhmode\kern\zeropoint\fi % blocks \removeunwantedspaces: check this on icare handelingsschema \resetcharacteralign % new

Re: [NTG-context] arranging + multipage \bTABLE + transparent color = bug?

2005-04-22 Thread Johan Sandblom
Outstanding, thank you! -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite -- Bertrand Russell - Original Message - From: Vit

Re: [NTG-context] arranging + multipage \bTABLE + transparent color = bug?

2005-04-22 Thread luigi.scarso
Johan Sandblom wrote: The following code compiles flawlessly but the pdf that is generated opens with the error Could not find the Extended Graphics State named 'Tr1'. in Acrobat Reader 7 for Linux (and Windows for that matter). Earlier readers give less informative messages but in all cases the

[NTG-context] Re: total with of TABLE ?

2005-04-22 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Luigi, luigi.scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: For example: I'd like to set a total width that fits both tables without specifying also the 2nd and 3rd column: \setupTABLE[totalwidth=10cm,offset=5pt] \setupTABLE[column][1][width=1cm,align=left]

Re: [NTG-context] Will the real palatino please stand up?

2005-04-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
John R. Culleton said this at Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:49:09 +: In the typescript file type-syn.tex the palatino font is defined four times, twice for math and twice for serif. The headers in each pair are identical, e.g.: \starttypescript [serif] [palatino] [name] Assume I want to use the

Re: [NTG-context] arranging + multipage \bTABLE + transparent color = bug?

2005-04-22 Thread Vit Zyka
luigi.scarso wrote: Johan Sandblom wrote: The following code compiles flawlessly but the pdf that is generated opens with the error Could not find the Extended Graphics State named 'Tr1'. See the thread http://archive.contextgarden.net/search/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:arranging,sb:pages,sb:with.html

Re: [NTG-context] Will the real palatino please stand up?

2005-04-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Adam Lindsay said this at Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:40:04 +0100: ...allows you to get oldstyle figures with markup like {\Var[os]123}. And to learn more on the backdrop of fontvariants, see my original mail to the list: http://archive.contextgarden.net/search/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: font,sb:variants.html

Re: [NTG-context] TABLE: spacing, before/after

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: - control over column and row spacing - material before/after a cell, e.g. \setupTABLE[row][first][before=bla] - command hooks like \setupTABLE[1][3][hook=\dowithentry] Hi Hans, sorry for being a pain in the neck, but is there any chance that this will be supported by

Re: [NTG-context] proposed convention for variation switching [wasRE:inheriting ...

2005-04-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:55:19 +0100, Adam Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:36:02 -0600: In any case whatever high-level framework we come up with should largely be determined by your decision on the low/mid-level framework. See, I beg to differ.

[NTG-context] TeX Showcase updated

2005-04-22 Thread Gerben Wierda
I have finally gotten around to adding a few entries to the TeX Showcase at http://tug.org/texshowcase (some were submitted 2 years ago and at that time put in a To Do mailbox because I was to busy studying, I am reasonably ashamed it took me so long to catch up) The added entries (some

Re: [NTG-context] arranging + multipage \bTABLE + transparent color = bug?

2005-04-22 Thread Johan Sandblom
Mine is TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) context : ver:

Re: [NTG-context] euro question

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simple and perhaps one hundred times answered but, how can I make the euro symbol in ConTeXt ? \euro if the font does not have it, you can load a symbol set \usesymbols[mvs] (or \usesymbols[eur] if you have the free adobe ones) Hans

[NTG-context] Re: Another plant in the garden: modules

2005-04-22 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, Am 06.04.2005 um 21:11 schrieb Patrick Gundlach: Do you think that it would make sense to list/describe the ones in the distribution as well? Yes, they go unnoticed otherwise. OK, I have updated the modules section on garden. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more:

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType, Jenson, handling

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
David Wooten wrote: Greetings all, Adam, Have you had any success in using hanging alignment handling with Adobe Jenson Pro? The last reference to this I've found was in your 2003 My Way on the subject. it's indepent of the font, \usetypescript[serif][hanging][pure] (see type-exa for other

Re: [NTG-context] arranging + multipage \bTABLE + transparent color = bug?

2005-04-22 Thread luigi.scarso
Johan Sandblom wrote: Mine is Did you compile the document with texexec --arrange --pdf ? Ok, now I can confirm your bug. luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Re: total with of TABLE ?

2005-04-22 Thread luigi.scarso
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: For example: I'd like to set a total width that fits both tables without specifying also the 2nd and 3rd column: \setupTABLE[totalwidth=10cm,offset=5pt] \setupTABLE[column][1][width=1cm,align=left] \setupTABLE[column][5][width=1cm,align=middle] Try

Re: [NTG-context] Re: PracTeX Journal Number 2 out

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hello, Patrick, can we mirror the context articles in the wiki? Thanks to the authors for their permission to mirror the nice articles. I have added a link to http://dl.contextgarden.net/practexjournal/ to the wiki:Web_resources. great, btw, adam's myways are missing in

Re: [NTG-context] Turning off background(s), additional.

2005-04-22 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 21 April 2005 08:27 am, Hans Hagen wrote: John R. Culleton wrote: \setupbackgrounds[page][state=start,background=color,backgroundcolor=yell ow] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow] \starttext \startfrontmatter \startstandardmakeup ...(title

[NTG-context] arranging + multipage \bTABLE + transparent color = bug?

2005-04-22 Thread Johan Sandblom
The following code compiles flawlessly but the pdf that is generated opens with the error Could not find the Extended Graphics State named 'Tr1'. in Acrobat Reader 7 for Linux (and Windows for that matter). Earlier readers give less informative messages but in all cases the pdf has almost

Re: [NTG-context] proposed convention for variation switching [wasRE:inheriting ...

2005-04-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:36:02 -0600: In any case whatever high-level framework we come up with should largely be determined by your decision on the low/mid-level framework. See, I beg to differ. Whatever high-level framework(s) we come up with should largely be

[NTG-context] Will the real palatino please stand up?

2005-04-22 Thread John R. Culleton
In the typescript file type-syn.tex the palatino font is defined four times, twice for math and twice for serif. The headers in each pair are identical, e.g.: \starttypescript [serif] [palatino] [name] Assume I want to use the second serif typescript, the one that uses the Palladio fonts.

Re: [NTG-context] Re: PracTeX Journal Number 2 out

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:46:07 +0200: btw, adam's myways are missing in the archive (maybe other mayways as well) I agree that they should be archived, (I'm susceptible to bit-rot like everyone else), but boy, some of them feel really out-of-date already! I

[NTG-context] euro question

2005-04-22 Thread jimarin
Simple and perhaps one hundred times answered but, how can I make the euro symbol in ConTeXt ? thanks for being there, ji --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.788 / Virus Database: 533 - Release Date: 2004/11/01

Re: [NTG-context] new beta (again)

2005-04-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 at 10:44:08+0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working? in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false As mentioned before, that didn't help. can you

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType, Jenson, handling

2005-04-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:36:43 +0200: David Wooten wrote: Greetings all, Adam, Have you had any success in using hanging alignment handling with Adobe Jenson Pro? The last reference to this I've found was in your 2003 My Way on the subject. it's indepent of the font,

Re: [NTG-context] Re: PracTeX Journal Number 2 out

2005-04-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:46:07 +0200: btw, adam's myways are missing in the archive (maybe other mayways as well) I agree that they should be archived, (I'm susceptible to bit-rot like everyone else), but boy, some of them feel really out-of-date already! I retract any

Re: [NTG-context] Re: total with of TABLE ?

2005-04-22 Thread luigi.scarso
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Not much left of those defined spaces, right? Sorry, now I see. I had made the pdf before postings, but I had not understood well it. (option=stretch seem related with \hsize; I must admit that when I 'm typeset tables, I always fix dimension, to avoid surprises: I never