Re: [NTG-context] Enable hyphenation or how to check it is enabled

2006-08-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
I tried this: \starttext \hyphenatedword{transformational} \hyphenatedword{transformational} \hyphenatedword{transformational} \hyphenatedword{transformational} \hyphenatedword{transformational} \hyphenatedword{transformational} \hyphenatedword{transformational}

Re: [NTG-context] nonbreakablespace

2006-08-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: \starttext A~B \stoptext It works fine here with vanilla ConTeXt ver 2006.08.08 21:51, texexec 6.2.0, tetex 3.0 on Ubuntu (generating pdf). For me, this makes context hang!! Where does it hang? Running tex or pdftex, or in

Re: [NTG-context] How to make startalignment middle not change the linewidth

2006-08-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, It seems that startalignment[middle] does not like long lines. Consider the following example (not strictly minimal, but I can not get such a marginal case with default setup). I get the same actual line breaks in both

Re: [NTG-context] Enable hyphenation or how to check it is enabled

2006-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Berend de Boer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas == Thomas A Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Easiest test would be to try some long and weird words Thomas with \hyphenatedword{transformational} Thomas in your source. If you

Re: [NTG-context] nonbreakablespace

2006-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: \starttext A~B \stoptext It works fine here with vanilla ConTeXt ver 2006.08.08 21:51, texexec 6.2.0, tetex 3.0 on Ubuntu (generating pdf). For me, this makes context

Re: [NTG-context] compiling project files

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/15/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: 2. When compiling projects that include MPgraphics, I have to run that texmfstart line above twice to see changes to MPgraphics in my pdf. I thought that one idea behind texexec is that it takes care of all incantations, like make in programming.

Re: [NTG-context] compiling project files

2006-08-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 8/15/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: 2. When compiling projects that include MPgraphics, I have to run that texmfstart line above twice to see changes to MPgraphics in my pdf. I thought that one idea behind texexec is that it takes care of all incantations, like

Re: [NTG-context] figure directory is sort of searched

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/15/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: I still can't figure this problem one out, from a few months ago, and it happens with a recent ConTeXt (2006.08.08 21:51). The figure searching code gets confused if a file of the same basename (but in a different directory)

Re: [NTG-context] Extra vertical space in intertext

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/16/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, There is an extra vertical space in the first set of formulas, while the vertical spacing in the second set appears to be fine. I can not figure out why this should

Re: [NTG-context] nonbreakablespace

2006-08-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: \starttext A~B \stoptext It works fine here with vanilla ConTeXt ver 2006.08.08 21:51, texexec 6.2.0, tetex 3.0 on Ubuntu (generating pdf). For me, this

[NTG-context] Purpose(s) of texmfstart

2006-08-16 Thread John R. Culleton
I have read a great deal about the details of texmfstart. I still don't have a handle on what its purpose is. Did anyone write a manual on the program or create a comprehensive wiki entry? BTW I solved my problem with texmfstart and with upgrading Context in general by creating the separate,

Re: [NTG-context] How to make startalignment middle not change the linewidth

2006-08-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, It seems that startalignment[middle] does not like long lines. Consider the following example (not strictly minimal, but I can not get such a marginal case with default setup).

Re: [NTG-context] Purpose(s) of texmfstart

2006-08-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
John R. Culleton wrote: I have read a great deal about the details of texmfstart. I still don't have a handle on what its purpose is. Did anyone write a manual on the program or create a comprehensive wiki entry? I love easy questions:

[NTG-context] typeface question: no small capped

2006-08-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I do not get a small capped with the following setup. Can someone explain what I am missing in the definitions. \definetypeface[ieee] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface[ieee] [ss] [sans] [helvetica] [default] [rscale=0.9,encoding=texnansi]

[NTG-context] using \doifnumberelse in a ToC numbercommand=

2006-08-16 Thread Stuart Jansen
I asked this question a couple of days ago, but didn't get any takers. I don't want to be a pest, but it's frustrating to be so close yet unable to solve this final problem. Let's see if rephrasing the question helps. I'm trying to use \doifnumberelse in a \setuplist numbercommand= but it isn't

[NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi! I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of them. The fonts manual mentions how TeX is often qualified as 'the font mess'. Well, yeah,

Re: [NTG-context] typeface question: no small capped

2006-08-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 16, 2006, at 8:42 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, I do not get a small capped with the following setup. Can someone explain what I am missing in the definitions. I'd be very surprised if the free times font has any small caps. I fyou want them, you'll have to fake 'em (but I would

Re: [NTG-context] using \doifnumberelse in a ToC numbercommand=

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/16/06, Stuart Jansen wrote: I asked this question a couple of days ago, but didn't get any takers. I don't want to be a pest, but it's frustrating to be so close yet unable to solve this final problem. Let's see if rephrasing the question helps. I'm trying to use \doifnumberelse in a

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/16/06, Jeff Smith wrote: Hi! I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of them. The fonts manual mentions how TeX is often

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Ricard Roca
Hi! Quick answers: a) Somehow I can't come up with small caps in a Times font. Is this normal? This happens either by using \sc or \setupcapitals[sc=yes] along with \cap. Times font that comes with TeX distros doesn't have real small caps, but \cap should work, as with any font. The only

Re: [NTG-context] using \doifnumberelse in a ToC numbercommand=

2006-08-16 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 21:46 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: My guess is that \doifnunmberelse won't work since it's not only the number hidden there, but also formatting, conversion, ... etc. You're probably right. But I have no idea how to do it in some other way. You may take a look at the

Re: [NTG-context] Purpose(s) of texmfstart

2006-08-16 Thread John R. Culleton
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:09, Taco Hoekwater wrote: John R. Culleton wrote: I have read a great deal about the details of texmfstart. I still don't have a handle on what its purpose is. Did anyone write a manual on the program or create a comprehensive wiki entry? I love easy

Re: [NTG-context] typeface question: no small capped

2006-08-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Aug 16, 2006, at 8:42 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, I do not get a small capped with the following setup. Can someone explain what I am missing in the definitions. I'd be very surprised if the free times font has any small caps. I fyou

Re: [NTG-context] using \doifnumberelse in a ToC numbercommand=

2006-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Stuart Jansen wrote: I asked this question a couple of days ago, but didn't get any takers. I don't want to be a pest, but it's frustrating to be so close yet unable to solve this final problem. Let's see if rephrasing the question helps. I'm trying to use \doifnumberelse in a \setuplist

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 8/16/06, Jeff Smith wrote: Hi! I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of them. The fonts manual

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: b) LaTeX has a package for the International Phonetic Alphabet called tipa. Is it possible to use it in ConTeXt? If not, can anybody point me to the relevant manuals that will help me incorporate official IPA fonts (say, the TTF version) in my ConTeXt installation? I'm

Re: [NTG-context] compiling project files

2006-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 8/15/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: 2. When compiling projects that include MPgraphics, I have to run that texmfstart line above twice to see changes to MPgraphics in my pdf. I thought that one idea behind texexec

Re: [NTG-context] using \doifnumberelse in a ToC numbercommand=

2006-08-16 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 23:36 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: some time ago i made this plugable so you're lucky Thanks! Although my \definehead solution worked in simple documents, in didn't work in my more complex layout. Your solution works perfectly. a better solution would be something

[NTG-context] Different formatting of section numbers for title and references.

2006-08-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I want a setup in which section numbers are Roman (I, II, etc.) and subsection numbers are Character (A, B, etc. without the section number prefixed). This is easy to achieve using \setupsection[section-3][bodypartconversion=Romannumerals]

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff Smith
Thank you all for your answers! A quick follow-up, and a new question at the end: Ad question a) My problem with Times and small caps was just a bad mapping of names on my side. So I'm told that \cap should work, and well, of course it does! :-) Ad question b) Ricard Roca said: I think the way

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/17/06, Jeff Smith wrote: Thank you all for your answers! A quick follow-up, and a new question at the end: Ad question a) My problem with Times and small caps was just a bad mapping of names on my side. So I'm told that \cap should work, and well, of course it does! :-) Ad question

[NTG-context] feature request: external figures with XeTeX

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello Hans, Would it be possible to add high-level support (\externalfigure) for inclusion of external figures in XeTeX? (I didn't know that it worked - I remember a failed experiment from some time ago, but it might have been my fault.) There are two commands: \XeTeXpdffile filename optional

Re: [NTG-context] X char

2006-08-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Horacio Suarez wrote: hello I need this caracter: ¿ I´ve load a module, enco-ec, but I can´t see the ¿. I also tryed \usetypescript[modern][ec] but didn´t work either. It is much simpler than that. Just use utf regime. \enableregime[utf] \starttext ¿ \stoptext I

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Jeff Smith wrote: Mojka answered your other questions. New question: All the examples that I find of \setupparagraphs in the manuals are cases of different paragraphs layed out in columns. Is it still this command I have to use in order to style in advance single-column

Re: [NTG-context] Enable hyphenation or how to check it is enabled

2006-08-16 Thread Berend de Boer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas == Thomas A Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas I have this at an earlier stage. Later, there's a message Thomas that the patterns get loaded: Thomas language : patterns en for en loaded (n=22,e=ec,m=ec) Thomas

Re: [NTG-context] typeface question: no small capped

2006-08-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 16, 2006, at 11:27 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: I want to write a conference paper according to IEEE (latex) format, and this involves copying all the bad font choices in IEEEtran.cls (Times text, cm math, ughh...). I need smallcaps only for section titles, so right now I am doing a