Re: [NTG-context] Typescript for Linotype NimbusSanL-BoldCond

2007-01-22 Thread luigi scarso
On 1/19/07, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone put together a typescript for some or all of the Nimbus family? I have the font referenced above and ran it through texfont. It is specified by a customer's designer for a book I am working on. I can of course do the old plain

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-22 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Well don't laugh: I tried your suggestion and found that this works: \definedfont[{{[GFSDidot] at 20pt}}] the two pairs of braces seem to be needed. Not a pretty sight, though... [GFSDidot] is not a prettu sight anyway; does it fail

[NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread Claudia Lanzl
Hello, I have a question on (absolute) positionning of figures/images. I try to position my images in that way shown in the layout in this attachment (hope I can post images this way?). I try to do it with the following lines: \useexternalfigure[pic01][pic01]

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Well don't laugh: I tried your suggestion and found that this works: \definedfont[{{[GFSDidot] at 20pt}}] the two pairs of braces seem to be needed. Not a pretty sight, though... [GFSDidot] is not a prettu sight anyway; does it fail when you don;t use those

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Claudia, Claudia Lanzl wrote: Hello, I have a question on (absolute) positionning of figures/images. I try to position my images in that way shown in the layout in this attachment (hope I can post images this way?). I try to do it with the following lines:

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread luigi scarso
My 2 cents: Why not use a table ? luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Rolf
luigi scarso wrote: My 2 cents: Why not use a table ? maybe also an option, but how will you set the different widths for pic01 and pic04 (2,3 and 5) in the same column? i know that you can span columns, but can you set the width of every column at row level? i must say, that i haven't tried

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread Claudia Lanzl
Hi Peter, your simple but great idea works fantastically! Thank you very much! Anyhow you can combine pic02 and pic03 {\vbox{\externalfigure[pic02.jpg][scale=1000] \blank[whatever is needed] \externalfigure[pic03.jpg][scale=1000]}} {Caption} and use two [2*1] combinations. Just a fast

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread Claudia Lanzl
Hi Peter, hi Luigi, didn´t think of tables and I don´t know much about it, but maybe a combination of your ideas? Two tables (the first for picture 1, 2 and 3) and a second one for picture 4 and 5? Greetings, Claudia Peter Rolf wrote: luigi scarso wrote: My 2 cents: Why not use a table ?

[NTG-context] Columns and components

2007-01-22 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi! I'm toying with a complex document environment involving multiple components, both in order to learn in general and to accomplish particular objectives. So I want a 2-column layout for all the document, which is made up of a bunch of components appended one after the other in a continuous

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread Peter Rolf
Claudia Lanzl wrote: Hi Peter, hi Luigi, didn´t think of tables and I don´t know much about it, but maybe a combination of your ideas? Two tables (the first for picture 1, 2 and 3) and a second one for picture 4 and 5? i don't think that using two tables brings you any advantage

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:17 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: fonts is more than definitions; esp a the level of supporting features and runtime manipulating fonts, xetex and luatex will undoubtely differ; also, xetex uses external font libraries, while luatex does things internaly and under

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 21, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: In summer I almost lost my nerves when I had to make a presentation with Lithuanian, Turkish, Romanian, ... Vietnamese names (and had only one night to make it ready). One letter was missing in Unicode vectors for pdfTeX,

Re: [NTG-context] Index formatting: column leaks over page margin

2007-01-22 Thread luigi scarso
On 1/15/07, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm line map 17, 33, 52, 69, 70, 70, 70, 71, 71, is too much right? I've played with index settings some time ago: I will refresh my memories. luigi Ok, I hope these can help you. % \setupcolors[state=start] %%

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread luigi scarso
On 1/22/07, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Claudia Lanzl wrote: Hi Peter, hi Luigi, didn´t think of tables and I don´t know much about it, but maybe a combination of your ideas? Two tables (the first for picture 1, 2 and 3) and a second one for picture 4 and 5? i don't think

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX questions

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: [GFSDidot] is not a prettu sight anyway; does it fail when you don;t use those []'s? Hans Yes, it breaks without the []. Just came back from a day of excruciatingly boring meetings... Thanks Thomas

[NTG-context] get XML data and put it in a table

2007-01-22 Thread Claudia Lanzl
Hello again, yet another problem :( I have got the following table: \bTABLE \bTR \bTD {\ss Name } \eTD \bTDFAMILY NAME \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD {\ss Role}\eTD \bTDROLE \eTD \eTR

[NTG-context] Can't create more than about 240 footnotes

2007-01-22 Thread Mike Bird
I run out of space around the 240th footnote in a document. It appears that ConTeXt may be reloading or redefining a footnote font for each footnote or footnote number. Is this a known problem with a known solution? Thanks, --Mike Bird references : unknown reference [][fnt:t:240]

Re: [NTG-context] Can't create more than about 240 footnotes

2007-01-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Mike Bird wrote: I run out of space around the 240th footnote in a document. It appears that ConTeXt may be reloading or redefining a footnote font for each footnote or footnote number. Is this a known problem with a known solution? No. This works fine here

Re: [NTG-context] Figures (images) at a special position

2007-01-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, luigi scarso wrote: On 1/22/07, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Claudia Lanzl wrote: Hi Peter, hi Luigi, didn´t think of tables and I don´t know much about it, but maybe a combination of your ideas? Two tables (the first for picture 1, 2 and 3) and a second one

[NTG-context] Default preference for float location

2007-01-22 Thread Robin Kirkham
Hi, I'd like to set up floats (figures, tables, etc) so they float to the bottom of the page, by default (as if you always wrote \placefigure [bottom][...]{}{}). There does not seem to be an option to \setupfloats[] that will do this, or have I missed something? Robin

[NTG-context] Long and short captions

2007-01-22 Thread Robin Kirkham
Hi again, Is there a way in ConTeXt to have long and short versions of a figure caption, as one can in LaTeX? The long caption is placed with the figure, the short one for the list of figures. Thanks, Robin ___ ntg-context mailing list