Re: [NTG-context] pdftex error

2009-03-09 Thread Yue Wang
Yes. she needs to add that line into her script. for now you can manually get that from w32tex's luatex-dev package. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Fengnan fnst...@hotmail.com wrote: When I updated my context minimal earlier today, at the end of the update process, the cmd window pops up a

Re: [NTG-context] Help with book of poetry

2009-03-09 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Corin Royal Drummond wrote: 2. Many of his poems are short, and I'd like to alternate between poems that are left aligned, and right aligned. I tried \startalignment[right] to switch a block of text (and heading) to one side or the other, but it didn't work. Try

Re: [NTG-context] modife the style of taspresent

2009-03-09 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Bill Long wrote: Thanks! The grammar is right, but it still can't work. Since I wrote that module... Your description is not very descriptive. What do you mean it can't work? Any error messages, what's going wrong? Moreover: taspresent was my first attempt

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 19:03, John Devereux wrote: Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl writes: [...] Hi Hans, Is there any possible way to use the wiki-style tables like: ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ | Item 1    | Item 2 | | Item 3    | Item 4 | (Probably with some wrapper) Perhaps this boils

Re: [NTG-context] luatex tikz problem

2009-03-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 01:02, Aditya Mahajan wrote: The minimals version of tikz is old. Try the latest cvs version which is packaged in a TDS compliant manner at http://www.texample.net/tikz/builds/ I'm sorry. I thought it was up to date. I need to take a look again. I have frozen the version

[NTG-context] Ambitious project (Font Folio)

2009-03-09 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello everybody, I have an ambitious project in mind. I'm in position to make typescripts for the whole Adobe Font Folio 11. By now, I'm only concerned with Western/Cyrrilic Fonts (490+ fonts), and MKIV engine. The benefit is that users will be able to use most popular fonts out-of-the-box,

[NTG-context] Hanging punctuation with Type 1 fonts

2009-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi, is it possible to use hanging punctuation in MkIV with Type 1 fonts, I tried the Lucida fonts but it did not work. I made also a simple test I and converted LucidaBright (the Regular style} into OpenType format and it worked then. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] Ambitious project (Font Folio)

2009-03-09 Thread Yue Wang
There are also LinoType, MonoType and ITC pack installed on my machine. So there are thousands and thousands fonts there. Without an automatic font selecting mechanism / script, it will be very difficulty to do that. ConTeXt's font naming mechanism is very different with commercial fonts. digital

Re: [NTG-context] Hanging punctuation with Type 1 fonts

2009-03-09 Thread Lutz Haseloff
Hi Wolfgang, this works here with MkIV and type1 LucidaBright: \definefontfeature [default][default] [protrusion=quality,expansion=quality,mode=node,script=latn,liga=yes,tlig=yes,trep=yes] \font\lucida=name:lucidabright*default at 12pt \setupalign[hanging] \starttext \lucida \input knuth

Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables

2009-03-09 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:10 PM, John Devereux j...@devereux.me.uk wrote: [...] I find that writing documents for context - once you get used to it - is much nicer than using a wordprocessor. But the process of entering tables remains tedious and error prone, compared to e.g. the Word

Re: [NTG-context] Ambitious project (Font Folio)

2009-03-09 Thread Hans Hagen
... I have an ambitious project in mind. I'm in position to make typescripts for the whole Adobe Font Folio 11. By now, I'm only concerned with Western/Cyrrilic Fonts (490+ fonts), and MKIV engine. The benefit is that users will be able to use most popular fonts out-of-the-box, thus giving the

Re: [NTG-context] Ambitious project (Font Folio)

2009-03-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote: There are also LinoType, MonoType and ITC pack installed on my machine. So there are thousands and thousands fonts there. Without an automatic font selecting mechanism / script, it will be very difficulty to do that. ConTeXt's font naming mechanism is very different with

Re: [NTG-context] Hanging punctuation with Type 1 fonts

2009-03-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi, is it possible to use hanging punctuation in MkIV with Type 1 fonts, I tried the Lucida fonts but it did not work. I made also a simple test I and converted LucidaBright (the Regular style} into OpenType format and it worked then. should work in the same way (as

Re: [NTG-context] Help with book of poetry

2009-03-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2009-03-08 um 19:25 schrieb Corin Royal Drummond: • As I'm learning, it would be wonderful if there were a repository of real-world documents I could use to refer to, to see how other people solve their own problems. I know many of you have written many fabulous ConTeXt documents, and

[NTG-context] beta: \vi (mkiv)

2009-03-09 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, currently trying the latest(?) beta from 08.03.2009. No problems with colors so far... But a simple font size switch like '\vi' has no effect here. \starttext Regular size and {\vi six point}? \stoptext Also the 'lazy' \z@ has vanished (too many sideeffects?). RIP. Best wishes, Peter

Re: [NTG-context] Hanging punctuation with Type 1 fonts

2009-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi, is it possible to use hanging punctuation in MkIV with Type 1 fonts, I tried the Lucida fonts but it did not work. I made also a simple test I and converted LucidaBright (the Regular style} into

Re: [NTG-context] Ambitious project (Font Folio)

2009-03-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2009-03-09 um 14:38 schrieb Hans Hagen: but some kind of structured approach (database, preview, etc) can b ehandy I'd really love if TeX could hook into the system font mechanism (whatever that really is), so that font managers like Linotype FontExplorer could activate (install) fonts

Re: [NTG-context] beta: \vi (mkiv)

2009-03-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, currently trying the latest(?) beta from 08.03.2009. No problems with colors so far... But a simple font size switch like '\vi' has no effect here. \starttext Regular size and {\vi six point}? \stoptext Also the 'lazy' \z@ has vanished (too many sideeffects?). RIP.

Re: [NTG-context] luatex tikz problem

2009-03-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 01:02, Aditya Mahajan wrote: The minimals version of tikz is old. Hmmm ... what exactly did I miss? doc/generic/pgf/ChangeLog starts with 2009-02-26 Christian Feuersaenger ludew...@users.sourceforge.net (I didn't try to figure out what the latest commit was since

Re: [NTG-context] luatex tikz problem

2009-03-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 01:02, Aditya Mahajan wrote: The minimals version of tikz is old. Hmmm ... what exactly did I miss? Updating the description page :) I just looked at the description page which still talks about Current version:

Re: [NTG-context] beta: \vi (mkiv)

2009-03-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, currently trying the latest(?) beta from 08.03.2009. No problems with colors so far... But a simple font size switch like '\vi' has no effect here. \starttext Regular size and {\vi six point}? \stoptext Also the 'lazy' \z@ has

Re: [NTG-context] luatex tikz problem

2009-03-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 17:38, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 01:02, Aditya Mahajan wrote: The minimals version of tikz is old. Hmmm ... what exactly did I miss? Updating the description page :) I just looked at the description page

Re: [NTG-context] beta: \vi (mkiv)

2009-03-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, currently trying the latest(?) beta from 08.03.2009. No problems with colors so far... But a simple font size switch like '\vi' has no effect here. \starttext Regular size and {\vi six point}? \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] beta: \vi (mkiv)

2009-03-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: Hi, currently trying the latest(?) beta from 08.03.2009. No problems with colors so far... But a simple font size switch like '\vi' has no effect here. \starttext Regular

Re: [NTG-context] beta: \vi (mkiv)

2009-03-09 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: And a similar package for LaTeX, having most programming features present in ConTeXt, will be nice :) to some extend, writing a latex compatibilty layer for context should be doable ... a bunch of commands (begin/end ..) and some lua expresions ... but we let others

[NTG-context] ConTeXt T-shirts?

2009-03-09 Thread Xan
Hi, Do you have any cafepress/spreadshirt acount for selling t-shirts, tea cups, etc.? I think it could be useful for fans of ConTeXt. Thanks in advance, Xan ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,

[NTG-context] hyphenation patters for Ukrainian

2009-03-09 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, What bout hyphenation patters for Ukrainian? \language[ru] seems to work, but \language[ua] does not. Best, Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] Hanging punctuation with Type 1 fonts

2009-03-09 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Lutz, thanks for the example, it helped me to track down my problem and I was able to fix my typescripts. Wolfgang On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Lutz Haseloff lutz.hasel...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Wolfgang, this works here with MkIV and type1 LucidaBright: \definefontfeature    

[NTG-context] A few minor questions

2009-03-09 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, 1) I use \setupindenting[yes, big]. How to make the first paragraph (after the section title) to be indented too? 2) I made a command for abstracts (a few lines in the beginning of the paper, one paragraph only). Please, look at my definition, i'd like to know how to implement it in

[NTG-context] font-win.tex

2009-03-09 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Is there a script which can be called font-win.tex, which describes all OS-shipped fonts on Windows platform? If not, why? :o) Best, Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] Help with book of poetry

2009-03-09 Thread Corin Royal Drummond
Thanks Taco and Henning, The link to the Sample Documents was helpful, especially the biochem textbook. As a web developer, I'm used to learning by reading other people's code. I sure do hope other people will post their documents, with or without commentary. It's the quickest way for me

[NTG-context] PDF grayscale conversion (OT)

2009-03-09 Thread Alan Bowen
I have used to ConTeXt to generate a hefty PDF file with b/w text and color images. Is there a way to convert this file to a PDF file with b/ w text and grayscale images (256 shades)? I know I could always convert the images first and then reset the book, but I was wondering if there was a

Re: [NTG-context] My printer vs. Times New Roman

2009-03-09 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Vyatcheslav, On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: I have Samsung ML-1615 laser printer. When I print an MS Word document typesetted in Times New Roman, the printer uses internal (hardware) font resource, and hardcopy is very smooth and nice. When I print a pdf generated by