Re: [NTG-context] math

2006-01-18 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hi Taco,I am not in math mode. I am not sure what happened, but somehow I must have send my reply to the wrong thread. I have since send it to the correct thread, see \uchar and italics question.Sorry for the inconvenience,SjoerdOn 18 Jan 2006, at 08:47, Taco Hoekwater wrote:sjoerd siebinga wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] How many mode statements allowed on compile line

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: All, Are multiple mode statements allowed on a compile line. Suppose I have: print or screen and short or long (answers) How do I compile with screen mode with long answers? there is a modes manual -) \doifmodeelse{screen,short} ... \startmode[screen,long] ... Hans

[NTG-context] setuptabulate

2006-01-18 Thread Hans van der Meer
What is with tabulation? I use it because I find it handy, but the setuptabulate seems not working. \starttext \setuptabulate[align=middle,rulethickness=1pt] \starttabulate[|c|c|] \NC abc \NC xyz \NC\NR \NC def \NC uvw \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext This gives NO alignment and

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi all, Due to the nature of the font I am using (which has horrendous looking combining diacritics), I have to call the unicodeglyphs directly through the \uchar command. Which works fine for the regular face. But I am unable to get the italic glyphs via the same method. So {\it

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: You don't need to put silly \uchar{}{} definitions in the text, I'm indeed, uchar is not for this purpose and has special meaning in cjk (mapping to special fonts) and xetex situations (mapping to unicode) Hans ___

Re: [NTG-context] language issue

2006-01-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: Is there some language mixup here? Funky little bug ;-) core-sec.tex has: \startmessages english library: structures title: structure 1: début de blocsection -- 2: fin de blocsection -- \stopmessages And that really should have been

[NTG-context] XeTeX-ConTeXt format creation error

2006-01-18 Thread Dalyoung
Dear all, Today, I updated ConTeXt and XeTeX and try to make format using sudo texexec --xtx --make en During the process, I got a following error. TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 TeX hash binary : mktexlsr comment : hashing may take a while

[NTG-context] A font problem with the stand-alone Windows distribution

2006-01-18 Thread Ville Voipio
A font problem -- again. I am so sorry. I try to use the URW postscript fonts with the stand-alone mswincontext.zip distribution. Everything else seems to work fine, but when I say: \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript[pos][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[pos,11pt]

[NTG-context] Downloads required?

2006-01-18 Thread David Arnold
All, On: http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm There is the main distribution: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip Then there is: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-fnt.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip

[NTG-context] Stand alone Context editing environment

2006-01-18 Thread David Arnold
All, At: http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm There is: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this particular zip? Is there an editor in this

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-18 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hi Hans and Mojca, Thanks for the quick replies. On 18 Jan 2006, at 15:22, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: You don't need to put silly \uchar{}{} definitions in the text, I'm indeed, uchar is not for this purpose and has special meaning in cjk (mapping to special fonts) and

Re: [NTG-context] Downloads required?

2006-01-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: All, On: http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm There is the main distribution: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip Then there is: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-fnt.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip

Re: [NTG-context] A font problem with the stand-alone Windows distribution

2006-01-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Ville Voipio wrote: A font problem -- again. I am so sorry. I try to use the URW postscript fonts with the stand-alone mswincontext.zip distribution. Everything else seems to work fine, but when I say: \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript[pos][\defaultencoding]

Re: [NTG-context] setuptabulate

2006-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-18 um 12:32 schrieb Hans van der Meer: What is with tabulation? I use it because I find it handy, but the setuptabulate seems not working. This gives NO alignment and NO rule. Is something wrong? I'm surprised that tabulates should have align and rule at all, but texshow

Re: [NTG-context] a little ConTeXt advocacy-)

2006-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-18 um 17:58 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: Also, if someone has time, there is a ConTeXt wiki item that needs editing... http://typophile.com/wiki/ConTeXt As you seem to be active at typophile.com, why don't you just add there a link to the garden? Grüßlis vom Hraban! ---

[NTG-context] Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed

2006-01-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed (with apologies to Maimonides) Dear gang, I have been helping a number of ConTeXt users off-list with getting aleph running, along with right-to-left typesetting. The following notes are meant to help ConTeXt users who want to do RL typesetting,

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed

2006-01-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:47:51 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been helping a number of ConTeXt users off-list with getting aleph running, along with right-to-left typesetting. The following notes are meant to help ConTeXt users who want to do RL typesetting,

Re: [NTG-context] a little ConTeXt advocacy-)

2006-01-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:41:57 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2006-01-18 um 17:58 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: Also, if someone has time, there is a ConTeXt wiki item that needs editing... http://typophile.com/wiki/ConTeXt As you seem to be active at typophile.com,

Re: [NTG-context] Stand alone Context editing environment

2006-01-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip is all that I use. Dump it as C:\ConTeXt add it to your PATH, or add a CALL setuptex C:\ConTeXt\tex to you batch files, editor, whatever, before invoking texexec read the README and u're good to go. Just need to be clear on which

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
sjoerd siebinga wrote: Hi Hans and Mojca, Thanks for the quick replies. On 18 Jan 2006, at 15:22, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: You don't need to put silly \uchar{}{} definitions in the text, I'm indeed, uchar is not for this purpose and has special meaning in cjk (mapping

Re: [NTG-context] Stand alone Context editing environment

2006-01-18 Thread Miguel Queiros
http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this particular zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready to go? I'm using it. You just

Re: [NTG-context] Stand alone Context editing environment

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: All, At: http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm There is: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this particular zip? Is

[NTG-context] minimals appear to be broken

2006-01-18 Thread Stuart Jansen
I tried grabbing the latest justtex.zip and linuxtex.zip from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm and texexec --make --all is dying on: --- assuming engine : mpost This is MetaPost, Version 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.5) (INIMP)

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed

2006-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-18 um 23:47 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: I hope that someone can take this and add it to the wiki. I can then edit the wiki myself and improve the clarity, etc. Perhaps I will also write an augmentation to Hans' Aleph manual later. Ok, just working on it, see

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed

2006-01-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:48:14 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have a support utlities package that could be placed on the wiki or somewhere else. Is there anyone who can upload it for me? Why don't you do it yourself? Sure, just tell me how and where-) Best

Re: [NTG-context] minimals appear to be broken

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Stuart Jansen wrote: I'm basically doing the following. I'm pretty sure it has worked in the past. Is it not correct? mkdir ­p $TEXDIR unzip justtex.zip ­d $TEXDIR unzip linuxtex.zip ­d $TEXDIR chmod a+x $TEXDIR/tex/texmf­linux/bin/* source $TEXDIR/tex/setuptex $TEXDIR/tex cd /tmp ; texexec

Re: [NTG-context] Stand alone Context editing environment

2006-01-18 Thread David Arnold
Hans, I don't see cdwincontext on http://pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm Where can I find it? On Jan 18, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, At: http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm There is: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip Can

[NTG-context] beta

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, i'm uploading a beta with - some changes/cleanups/extensions in the utf code - reorganization of chinese and japanese [new] - mathalignment (in core-mat) so don't use the posted math-ext now - a few fixes/extensions here and there (more info in release notes when there is a new current

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed

2006-01-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:48:14 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope that someone can take this and add it to the wiki. I can then edit the wiki myself and improve the clarity, etc. Perhaps I will also write an augmentation to Hans' Aleph manual later. Ok, just working

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed

2006-01-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-19 um 01:05 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: I also have a support utlities package that could be placed on the wiki or somewhere else. Is there anyone who can upload it for me? Why don't you do it yourself? Sure, just tell me how and where-)

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed

2006-01-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:57:36 -0700, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2006-01-19 um 01:05 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: I also have a support utlities package that could be placed on the wiki or somewhere else. Is there anyone who can upload it for me? Why don't you do it

Re: [NTG-context] math

2006-01-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Jan 17, Hans Hagen wrote --- Hi, Attached is a new version of math-ext - multiple columns - alignment per column See examples in source (mixed |cr and NC|NR is no longer supported). Thanks a lot. This takes care of 95% of my math needs, and I have finally started using context for

[NTG-context] [Ann-context] ConTeXt Revisions

2006-01-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, It has taken us a long time to get to this point, but I am glad to announce that the ConTeXt Revisions project that has been talked about for nearly two years now is finally available to the public. ConTeXt Revisions is two things: a museum of old ConTeXt release zips, as well as an

[NTG-context] About ArabTeX

2006-01-18 Thread Ahmad Zareef
Al salamu Alaikum Prof. IdrisI have read your message herehttp://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/004974.htmland I wonder if I can have a look of your modified package pf ArabTeX. I am Ahmad Zareef, an Electronics and communications engineer graduated 2005 from cairo University.

Re: [NTG-context] math

2006-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: --- On Jan 17, Hans Hagen wrote --- Hi, Attached is a new version of math-ext - multiple columns - alignment per column See examples in source (mixed |cr and NC|NR is no longer supported). Thanks a lot. This takes care of 95% of my math needs, and I have finally