Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2015-07-22 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 07/22/2015 09:26 PM, Talal wrote: [...] I would like to be able to automate (through macros) the making of a critical apparatus' note. This is for two reasons. First, the body text and the lemma in the note below should be identical: as such, they ideally not have to be typed twice, as it

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2015-07-22 Thread Talal
Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl writes: Actually ranges have always been supported ... Maybe I should add those commands. Hans Picking up on an old thread, again. The document below lays out the three basic parts of a critical apparatus of a critical edition of a text: (1) the body text;

Re: [NTG-context] SyncTeX (TeXworks) - \enabledirectives[system.synctex] (now with attachments)

2015-07-22 Thread Procházka Lukáš Ing . - Pontex s . r . o .
Hello, any answer to \enabledirectives[system.synctex] functionality or deprecateness? Best regards, Lukas On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 09:43:29 +0200, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. l...@pontex.cz wrote: Hello, two questions related to SyncTeX (and maybe on TeXworks): 1. The following

[NTG-context] User-Defined Commands With Key-Value Options

2015-07-22 Thread Joas Yannick
On 7/20/2105 11:28 AM Joas Yannick wrote: On 7/20/2105 0:50 AM Hans Hagen wrote: So how would you like to use lua? Is the data stored in lua? Yes, I imagine that the data (for instance, the value of the keys number, name, abbreviation, title, etc.) is stored somewhere when the compilation

[NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread tala...@fastmail.fm
Dear all, I am producing a book that is divided into two sections. The book is published in English, and thus it runs left to right. Part one is an academic study in English. Part two is a critical edition of an Arabic text. The book is exactly 100 pages long, with fifty pages going to the

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:54:17 +0200 Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On 07/22/2015 02:45 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: The project/product/component mechanism can help somewhat. I also know that Thomas had written a streams module to handle the synchronization of texts.

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 05:58:04 -0600 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد idris.ha...@colostate.edu wrote: That said: You could typeset both books as distinct products or components within a single project file - see page 20 of cont-eni.pdf (I once did two books this way). Then you can do

Re: [NTG-context] Critical editions with ConTeXt

2015-07-22 Thread tala...@fastmail.fm
Dear Pablo, Thank you very much for what you proposed — it did work indeed. I tried to achieve the same at some length this afternoon. I think I understand what is going on in the first macro, but wouldn’t have been able to arrive at the the second one for \variant, or the counter (and still

Re: [NTG-context] fonts not found with newotf

2015-07-22 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 07/20/2015 10:47 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Pablo Rodriguez 20. Juli 2015 17:08 Many thanks for your fix, Hans. It works perfectly fine. The font was an improved conversion from a Type1 font I got from CTAN. Improved in which way? Wolfgang, at least, I added the space character

Re: [NTG-context] issue with mailbox.org

2015-07-22 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 07/21/2015 09:17 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 20 Jul 2015, at 19:09, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: 82.165.159.42 That is mout-xforward.gmx.net, which is on the spamhaus list at the moment. Not much we can do about it, it is not our server. I would have tried to contact gmx.net, but

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/22/2015 03:47 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: There are several different issues. Synchronization can be line-by-line, paragraph-by-paragraph, sectionblock-by-sectionblock... or, as is the case with the posting of this thread, part-by-part (i.e. halves). The different products in multiple

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Dear Talal, Salaam. See below: On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 03:49:29 -0600, tala...@fastmail.fm tala...@fastmail.fm wrote: Dear all, I am producing a book that is divided into two sections. The book is published in English, and thus it runs left to right. Part one is an academic study in

Re: [NTG-context] reverse page order and reverse page numbering in one part of a book

2015-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 07/22/2015 02:45 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: The project/product/component mechanism can help somewhat. I also know that Thomas had written a streams module to handle the synchronization of texts. However, I am not so sure how to go about this in a real, full-fledged case with a complicated text.