[NTG-context] Fraktur fonts

2013-06-13 Thread Rudolf Bahr
Hello list members, an only-a-few-days-fan of Context writes to you for the first time. I'm pleased to have found a program closer to TeX and younger than LaTeX. In the last years I used LaTeX for a bigger family project with good success, but experienced some difficulties in arranging

Re: [NTG-context] Fraktur fonts

2013-06-13 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Rudolf Bahr qu...@quasi.de wrote: Hello list members, an only-a-few-days-fan of Context writes to you for the first time. I'm pleased to have found a program closer to TeX and younger than LaTeX. In the last years I used LaTeX for a bigger family project

Re: [NTG-context] Fraktur fonts

2013-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:28:12AM +0200, Rudolf Bahr wrote: both with context and texexec, but I don't achieve the desired result. texexec displays a font somehow similar to Fraktur, but not a very nice one and much to broad; and it seems to have no different s (one inner-word and one

[NTG-context] how to print a simple booklet

2013-06-13 Thread Jan Pohanka
Hi, this is probably a question with very simple solution, but I cannot figure it out or find a solution in wiki or manual. I just want to print simple booklet and after and after picking papers from printer do a single fold. With the following code the TITLE PAGE is correctly placed to the

Re: [NTG-context] how to print a simple booklet

2013-06-13 Thread Jan Pohanka
Maybe I have not described my doubts clearly enough. I see that on all arranged pages the backspace and page numbers (specified as footer,left) are in the middle of A4 page, I would expect them on outer edges... Dne 13.6.2013 09:38, Jan Pohanka napsal(a): Hi, this is probably a question

Re: [NTG-context] how to print a simple booklet

2013-06-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 06/13/2013 09:46 AM, Jan Pohanka wrote: Maybe I have not described my doubts clearly enough. I see that on all arranged pages the backspace and page numbers (specified as footer,left) are in the middle of A4 page, I would expect them on outer edges... Works here. Did you forget to compile

Re: [NTG-context] how to print a simple booklet

2013-06-13 Thread Jan Pohanka
Dne 13.6.2013 09:51, Thomas A. Schmitz napsal(a): On 06/13/2013 09:46 AM, Jan Pohanka wrote: Maybe I have not described my doubts clearly enough. I see that on all arranged pages the backspace and page numbers (specified as footer,left) are in the middle of A4 page, I would expect them on outer

Re: [NTG-context] how to print a simple booklet

2013-06-13 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Jun 13 2013, Jan Pohanka wrote: Maybe it is just my misunderstanding but I think that page number should be placed on the left side of page 2, on the right side of page 3, etc. Did you try: \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,right},alternative=doublesided] ? -- Peter

Re: [NTG-context] how to print a simple booklet

2013-06-13 Thread Jan Pohanka
Dne 13.6.2013 10:03, Peter Münster napsal(a): On Thu, Jun 13 2013, Jan Pohanka wrote: Maybe it is just my misunderstanding but I think that page number should be placed on the left side of page 2, on the right side of page 3, etc. Did you try:

Re: [NTG-context] how to print a simple booklet

2013-06-13 Thread Jan Pohanka
Dne 13.6.2013 10:25, Jan Pohanka napsal(a): Dne 13.6.2013 10:03, Peter Münster napsal(a): On Thu, Jun 13 2013, Jan Pohanka wrote: Maybe it is just my misunderstanding but I think that page number should be placed on the left side of page 2, on the right side of page 3, etc. Did you try:

Re: [NTG-context] how to print a simple booklet

2013-06-13 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Jun 13 2013, Jan Pohanka wrote: I always thought that backspace is on the left side of single page, or on the outer sides when the sheets are in a book. So is the problem caused just by my total misunderstanding of page layout? Probably. Backspace is for the back of the book, i.e.

Re: [NTG-context] Mtxrun.exe in minimals not working.

2013-06-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: Am 10.06.2013 10:40, schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:15 AM, DB wrote: I just downloaded the latest version of the standalone package (2013-06-08, 09:15). When I run first-setup.bat, mtxrun.exe crashes just as it's about to

[NTG-context] Test example for problem

2013-06-13 Thread hwitloc
The context docment below shows two anomalies. One is the occurrane of the unknown font latinmodernmath-regular, loading aborted and two is that the compilation process halts on the first 'D' in the word Dutch, and no item bullet is typeset. The line \setmainfont[ipaexm] seems to cause

Re: [NTG-context] Mtxrun.exe in minimals not working.

2013-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/13/2013 1:04 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: Am 10.06.2013 10:40, schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:15 AM, DB wrote: I just downloaded the latest version of the standalone package (2013-06-08, 09:15). When I run

Re: [NTG-context] Typefaces ... how does this work?

2013-06-13 Thread Sander Maijers
On 12-06-13 23:33, luigi scarso wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Sander Maijers s.n.maij...@student.ru.nl mailto:s.n.maij...@student.ru.nl wrote: I want to adjust my document to have Lucida as main typeface, but with brief passages (a few words at most) in a typeface that

Re: [NTG-context] Typefaces ... how does this work?

2013-06-13 Thread S Barmeier
If you are not using all predefined font styles, you could set your monospace, sans, serif, or whichever style you aren't using to the font you want to use and use the predefined command (e.g. \sf) to access that font. Severin On 6/13/13, Sander Maijers s.n.maij...@student.ru.nl wrote: On

Re: [NTG-context] Typefaces ... how does this work?

2013-06-13 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 13/06/13 19:41, Sander Maijers wrote: On 12-06-13 23:33, luigi scarso wrote: Do you know the simplefonts module ? How can I select a different typeface (that can be found by simplefonts) for a specific region of text, like a few words? Hi Sander, \definesimplefont is what you're

Re: [NTG-context] Typefaces ... how does this work?

2013-06-13 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 13/06/13 20:02, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: On 13/06/13 19:41, Sander Maijers wrote: How can I select a different typeface (that can be found by simplefonts) for a specific region of text, like a few words? Hi Sander, this an extension to my previous reply. \definesimplefonttypeface enables

Re: [NTG-context] Fraktur fonts

2013-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/13/2013 9:36 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:28:12AM +0200, Rudolf Bahr wrote: both with context and texexec, but I don't achieve the desired result. texexec displays a font somehow similar to Fraktur, but not a very nice one and much to broad; and it seems to have no

Re: [NTG-context] Typefaces ... how does this work?

2013-06-13 Thread Bill Meahan
This approach works well for me, no modules required: (this is NOT a complete working example!) ... \setupbodyfont[mainface,12pt] ... \definefont[alt][fontname sa 1.0] \starttext Blah blah blah Blah blah {\alt boo hoo hoo} Blah blah blah \stoptext The sa 1.0is

[NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt from the Ground Up

2013-06-13 Thread Malte Stien
Hello Everyone, I have been using ConTeXt for over a year now and worked out how to do most things I need to do. Every now and then, though, I need to do something that I cannot find any information about and in most cases I post a question here on the forum. I have received great help here