Re: [NTG-context] waiting for mswincontext / injecting

2007-09-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:34:10 +0200 Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Version 0.997 of XeTeX introduced a new concept to assign every character a class value. You can define rules what should happen if you switch for example from class 1 to class 2 and another

Re: [NTG-context] Completelistoffigures, help needed!

2007-09-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:56:33 +0200 G.C.H.M. Verhaag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear ConTeXt Users, Last week I posted a completelistoffigures question, but unfortunately nobody responded to it! That's why I give it another try, because I don't know how to tackle this problem. I'd like to

Re: [NTG-context] waiting for mswincontext / injecting

2007-09-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose another font for them. The second point is some it often neccesary to choose differents fonts for arabic, greek ...

Re: [NTG-context] waiting for mswincontext / injecting

2007-09-23 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
I guess that in LuaTeX you can compose your own font on the fly. That's the virtual fonts Hans mentioned (like a vf in good ol' TeX, but on the fly, as you say). See section 5.2 of the LuaTeX manual (pp. 70-72 as of September 18th), especially the last one with an example. Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] waiting for mswincontext / injecting

2007-09-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: I guess that in LuaTeX you can compose your own font on the fly. That's the virtual fonts Hans mentioned (like a vf in good ol' TeX, but on the fly, as you say). See section 5.2 of the LuaTeX manual (pp. 70-72 as of September 18th), especially the last one with an

Re: [NTG-context] waiting for mswincontext / injecting

2007-09-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:45:41 -0600, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose another font for them. The second point

Re: [NTG-context] waiting for mswincontext / injecting

2007-09-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose another font for them. The second point is some it often neccesary to choose differents fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Completelistoffigures, help needed!

2007-09-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:00:39 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can use the following method, it is very dirty but it works and give you what you want. \setupcaption[figure][distance=\zeropoint] \defineconversion[gobble][\gobbleoneargument]

Re: [NTG-context] Completelistoffigures, help needed!

2007-09-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:00:39 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can use the following method, it is very dirty but it works and give you what you want. \setupcaption[figure][distance=\zeropoint] \defineconversion[gobble][\gobbleoneargument]

Re: [NTG-context] Completelistoffigures, help needed!

2007-09-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Ah.. our stalwart gangster Wolfgang, always the master of dirty tricks. If we ever finish The ConTeXtbook you'll have to do Appendix~D ;-) talking of that book ... how are you progressing? Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] Completelistoffigures, help needed!

2007-09-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:43:50 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: talking of that book ... how are you progressing? working on the funding angle right now (never easy and no guarantees), but I suspect that once mkiv is relatively complete (another 18 months or so?) we'll be in a

Re: [NTG-context] waiting for mswincontext / injecting

2007-09-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:45:41 -0600, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/23/07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: this would be nice because many chinese and japanese fonts have very ugly characters for normal latin texts and would be nice to choose another font

Re: [NTG-context] waiting for mswincontext / injecting

2007-09-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:01:16 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's get even more funky: we could define text direction classes such that switching from LR to RL automatically switches from, say, the latin group (or cyrillic) to the arabic group (or hebrew), and direction switching