Re: [NTG-context] feature request

2011-11-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:38:42 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: OTOH, why not just use bla bla \message{Here is a note to myself.} bla bla Just curious: Is there anything that \message is missing for what u want? I tried both inline and multiline

Re: [NTG-context] feature request

2011-11-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
by TeX. Thank you both for your insightful answers. I appreciate it! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

[NTG-context] lemmas for headers

2011-11-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
section. Any help or tips greatly appreciated and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shiʿi Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] feature request

2011-11-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
It'll show up in the log file, but who cares? :-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shiʿi Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] lemmas for headers

2011-11-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
did it just for you ;-) http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Headers_and_Footers#Substituting_a_shorter_lemma_for_a_section_header But no time to test each key so I ask others to augment or edit etc. Thanks again for the helpful tip, and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor

[NTG-context] more table trouble ...

2011-11-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
\DR 5 \stoptable 6 \stoptext 7 l.4 \DL\DC \DR = Please advise! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal

Re: [NTG-context] more table trouble ...

2011-11-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:30:01 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 12-11-2011 22:52, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Please advise! fixed in next beta .. also \DL[somecolor] Thanks, I await the beta! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief

Re: [NTG-context] feature request

2011-11-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
as we were working on some critical-edition-related stuff ... I saw the other answers: Could you elaborate more about exactly what you're looking for, just in case their suggestions don't quite hit the spot? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International

[NTG-context] \definestructureresetset

2011-11-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
-def.mkiv with a small edit: What is the diff between \setuphead[part][sectionresetset=default] and \setuphead[part][sectionresetset=continue] etc. Any clarifications appreciated and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies

[NTG-context] \definestructureresetset

2011-11-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
-def.mkiv with a small edit: What is the diff between \setuphead[part][sectionresetset=default] and \setuphead[part][sectionresetset=continue] etc. Any clarifications appreciated and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies

Re: [NTG-context] chapter please ignore part

2011-11-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:24:17 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: \definestructureresetset[continue][0,0][1] \setuphead[sectionresetset=continue] Both esoteric and fascinating! Thanks!! Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal

[NTG-context] righttoleft pars lost

2011-11-08 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
a few weeks ago, Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] righttoleft pars lost

2011-11-08 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
both of you and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question

[NTG-context] chapter please ignore part

2011-11-08 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
, and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] Table bug in MkIV?

2011-11-07 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:09:00 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 07.11.2011 um 03:17 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد: It seems that \starttable has a bug in MkIV: \starttext \starttable{|c|c|c|} Use bracket for the argument and not braces

[NTG-context] Table bug in MkIV?

2011-11-06 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
l.3 \HL ? Works in mkii (this is part of my ongoing work to port my huge mkii project to MkIV). Please advise! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] reference bug: MkiV

2011-11-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
\inmargin[reference=test2]{test} test \at[test1] \stoptext but this does nothing as clever as the annotation code as it's just a basic page reference to the blob that ends up in the margin. Just noticed this ... works in the latest beta! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid

Re: [NTG-context] reference bug: MkiV

2011-11-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:24:53 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: For longer texts you can replace \mymargin{…} with \startmymargin …\stopmymargin. This is a _very_ useful feature :-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief

Re: [NTG-context] stacking marginal notes

2011-11-04 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:32:56 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 04.11.2011 um 01:06 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد: Dear Syndicate, Does stacking work? I've never tried it before, but it would be a godsend to the current porting-to-mkiv

Re: [NTG-context] stacking marginal notes

2011-11-04 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
}{This is a test of the stacking mechanism. } \dorecurse{4}{This is a test of the stacking mechanism. } \stoptext cause there's definitely no stacking here using the latest mkiv :-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shiʿi

Re: [NTG-context] annotation MODULE BUG

2011-11-04 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
mechanism. } \dorecurse{2}{This is a te... ? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shiʿi Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] annotation MODULE BUG

2011-11-04 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:33:41 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:07:40 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Fixed. Hmmm: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.71.0-2011071409 (rev 4332

Re: [NTG-context] reference bug: MkiV

2011-11-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] reference bug: MkiV

2011-11-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
to work well, and I have to give you a BIG THANK YOU!!! -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] reference bug: MkiV

2011-11-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Appears to work well, and I have to give you a BIG THANK YOU!!! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] reference bug: MkiV

2011-11-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
above it makes no difference; inmargin stays in the left gutter. What am I doing wrong? or should we just officially forget about the marginframed mechanism and stick to margindata only?? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies

Re: [NTG-context] reference bug: MkiV

2011-11-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
\inmargin{This is a test of the marginframed system and the inmargin macros}\par } \stoptext and I'll make a note to work on this some more to get more clear. Thnx again, and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī

[NTG-context] annotation MODULE BUG

2011-11-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
of the annotation module and the indenting mechanism} \stoptext = The display=yes option brings back the indentation, but it creates another problem: whitespace. Please advise, thnx in advance, and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief

Re: [NTG-context] annotation MODULE BUG

2011-11-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
lol, the all-caps for 'module bug' was an accident, sorry for the noise! On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:44:52 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: Dear gang, especially Wolf-gang ;-) -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal

Re: [NTG-context] annotation MODULE BUG

2011-11-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:44:52 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: The annotation module seems to cancel indentation, so the paragraph after a note starts with no indentation. More precisely, The annotation module seems to cancel indentation, so

[NTG-context] stacking marginal notes

2011-11-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
= Here the marginal notes overlap. If I'm doing something wrong, please advise! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] adjusting accents under slant

2011-11-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
-coded solution for each char that's fine, I should be able to extrapolate from a template for just one in regular and italic. I've experimented with different ideas, but I'm really out of my league on this one ... please help! :-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor

[NTG-context] adjusting accents under slant

2011-11-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 accent.tex Description: TeX document ___ If your

[NTG-context] reference bug: MkiV

2011-11-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 reference.tex Description: TeX document ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] reference bug: MkiV

2011-11-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

[NTG-context] Project Structure in MkIV

2011-10-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
\starttext \Islam \input tufte \stoptext \stopcomponent == -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 env-aliases.tex Description: TeX document env

Re: [NTG-context] Project Structure in MkIV

2011-10-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:55:02 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 30-10-2011 14:58, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: I am porting a huge project from mkii to mkiv and am running into structure problems. I now realize that - you can run with \enabletrackers[system.jobfiles

Re: [NTG-context] Project Structure in MkIV

2011-10-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] Project Structure in MkIV

2011-10-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:31:02 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: So I'll make a project file and report back Works ... and THANKS! Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy

[NTG-context] grouped commands in MkIV

2011-10-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
? \/ produces an undefined control sequence. Is there another way now? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 groupedcommand.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

[NTG-context] \bodyfontsize in blank: MkIV

2011-10-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] \bodyfontsize in blank: MkIV

2011-10-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:40:08 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 30.10.2011 um 20:59 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد: Dear knights, The following works in mkii but not mkiv: = \starttext test \blank[2\bodyfontsize] test

Re: [NTG-context] grouped commands in MkIV

2011-10-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] \otfchar

2011-09-06 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:11:37 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: It appears that \otfchar is gone ... Undefined control sequence ... Does anyone know the new protocol? Thnx in advance and \fontchar{…} Thanks! -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief

[NTG-context] \otfchar

2011-09-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Dear gang, It appears that \otfchar is gone ... Undefined control sequence ... Does anyone know the new protocol? Thnx in advance and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
to this language also. The fact that Context as well as Vim could handle these fonts well were factors in my trying to learn them. Keep up the good work. Thank you very kindly for the words of encouragement!!! :-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
, which I really don't want to have to learn to do myself; I simply don't have the time and would rather concentrate my skills more efficiently. I hope one of you out there will help me :-):-):-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
must be done in ConTeXt and make it easy for them to do that. We're not at that point yet but that's the holy grail. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:38:42 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: The functionality I can extract from Npp gives a pedagogical advantage that's important for what I'm trying to achieve. For example, dbl-click a word and get a context-menu that allows you

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Martin, On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:35:24 -0600, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de wrote: 2011/8/15 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: Believe me, I've looked at just about every option out there :-) I believe you. And I think the editor is a typical bikeshed

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
vision is for ConTeXt to break out of the shell! :-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-12-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:48:13 -0700, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/30 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: What we need is for new users to be able to say, eg, \setmainlanguage[arabic] \setupdirections[bidi=global] % maybe this should

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:50:58 -0700, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/29 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:03:06 -0700, Khaled Hosny wrote: OK: In that case, let's include the standard Scheharezade as is in the minimals until

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-29 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
you suggest placing Scheharezade in the tree? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shiʿi Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-28 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
it was part of the ConTeXt distro already but I could not find it. I'll check into it later. Khaled, do you have that modified scheherezade somewhere? There is a simpler way to approach this, I'll try to post an example in the coming days. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi

Re: [NTG-context] seeking 'hello world' example for Arabic typesetting with conTeXt

2010-11-28 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:47:08 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: There is an modified version of scheherezade for TeX distros (Khaled and I played with it once upon a time) but I don't know where it is at the moment, as it's been ages since I worked

Re: [NTG-context] New Release Winedt WORKS with MKIV!!

2010-11-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
it because there was no utf-8 or bidi support. limited utf-8 is now available -- so interesting that Aleks made MkIV default --, don't know when/if-ever bidi support will be there ... otherwise the best dedicated tex editor I've ever used... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid

Re: [NTG-context] TEI XML

2010-11-07 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
to this is works here. -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] TEI XML

2010-11-07 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
tuftes etc if it's a matter of propriety etc ... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] TEI XML

2010-11-07 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
think Khaled made some improvements) and is fully unicode etc. Does SIL or someone else have a similar font we can use for Greek? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort

Re: [NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Peter, On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:05:19 -0600, Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote: On Thu, Jul 15 2010, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to newcomers, e.g., in a ConTeXt Book? Hello Idris, For me, it's yes

Re: [NTG-context] imbalanced columns

2010-07-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
. As we work to bring ConTeXt to a wider audience -- I'm currently involved with such efforts, we should keep track of outwardly simple cases like the above ... Thanks again and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies

Re: [NTG-context] imbalanced columns

2010-07-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:12:16 -0600, Peter Rolf indi...@gmx.net wrote: see attached pdf (the box looks centered). Thanks... Could you post the code ;-) (unless this is the same code u posted the first time...) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International

[NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
to have one good way to do things than burdening folks with too much info... and you have a high level interface of \setupTABLE (although I do not know if natural tables support equal column widths) I guess we'll find out soon enough... ;-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid

Re: [NTG-context] imbalanced columns

2010-07-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:43:44 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: I must admit that I haven't used starttable for ages Well then, that settles it; the current project is my last start/stoptable :-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal

[NTG-context] \AR in Tables

2010-07-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Dear gang, In Tables: \NR, \SR, \FR, \MR, \LR those I understand. But what does \AR do? When is it used? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] \AR in Tables

2010-07-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
guessing, and the \S|F|M|LR are there in case \AR guesses wrong... Thanks, Khaled, and سلام Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

[NTG-context] imbalanced columns

2010-07-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
\stoptables \stoptext In row 2, the space between columns 2-3, and 3-4 are not even. Is this a bug? If not, how do I balance them? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort

Re: [NTG-context] imbalanced columns

2010-07-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
pdf attached Best wishes On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:42:29 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: Dear fellow gangsters, MkIV: \starttext \starttables[|c|c|c|c|c|] \HL \VL Sevens \VL \Use{2}[c]{Al-Yaʿqūbī} (d.~283{\sc ah})\VL \Use{2}[c]{Al-Munādī} (d.~334

Re: [NTG-context] imbalanced columns

2010-07-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Peter, On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:26:10 -0600, Peter Rolf indi...@gmx.net wrote: Am 14.07.2010 20:42, schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد: Dear fellow gangsters, MkIV: \starttext \starttables[|c|c|c|c|c|] \HL \VL Sevens \VL \Use{2}[c]{Al-Yaʿqūbī} (d.~283{\sc ah})\VL \Use{2}[c]{Al

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
of a string, choose the init gsub routine etc. The bad thing about Uniscribe is that it adds too much information and spell-checking, restricting typesetting possibilities. In any case, someone interested has to research/provide the details for Indic. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi

Re: [NTG-context] 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

2010-05-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
uniscribe or pango ;-) Peace Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

2010-05-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
some nice texts that illustrate a standard balance, but I'd like to see what Khaled has in mind exactly before I comment further... Peace Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins

Re: [NTG-context] wikipedians: kind request

2010-05-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
of puny trolls Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

2010-05-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
arabic will want a bit extra interlinespace to begin with, so that forcing will generally give good results. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:40:29 -0600, Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 avr. 2010, at 19:00, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: News flash: it's already there! See attached. Hi Idriss, That's wonderful! :-) Could you please tell us what font you have used It's very

Re: [NTG-context] New package for typesetting bibliographies

2010-04-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
thus depends entirely on the user's skill in TeX. So it's a package for TeXperts? Anyway, worth learning more, although I no longer use bib files but rather bbl with \start/stoppublication. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies

[NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
advanced possibilities Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Typographical Engineering in Context

2010-04-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:41:31 -0600, John Haltiwanger john.haltiwan...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/4/3 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu: It is a book on ConTeXt, but NOT a ConTeXtBook, ConTeXt Companion, or other clone. Rather, it aims to introduce Context as a general

Re: [NTG-context] The ConTeXt book: A summary

2010-04-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] The ConTeXt book: A summary

2010-04-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
in Hamid is on the first syllable, Otherwise pronouncing it will be untenable ;-) -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

[NTG-context] ConTeXt wiki page

2010-02-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
and some cool feature other than/in addition to the usual maths... There is a famous German politician who has joined the Developer(s), so ConTeXt has political support for the moment... Peace Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
on the backburner but there is already a TON of other things on the plate so ... I use formatting characters + mirroring in the meantime ... I -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO

Re: [NTG-context] Selectively not using a font feature

2009-12-07 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
} effects For accumulative effects you need \addfs/\subfs, but those are broken at the moment. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] bib module, mkiv, and section

2009-12-06 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:35:44 -0700, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: If i uncomment \subject{References} the bibliography disappears. Am I missing something You need \placepublications[criterium=all] if you use sectioning. Thanks

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
, and supports ConTeXt to some degree. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

[NTG-context] bib module, mkiv, and section

2009-12-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
-- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ calltips

2009-11-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
command and it works, let me try some more. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ calltips

2009-11-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
:19 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:21:34 -0700, richard.steph...@converteam.com wrote: After some experiments, I think the problem is that Notepad++ is ignoring the case of the commands when searching for calltips. By re

Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ calltips

2009-11-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
, it will be a major task to fill out all calltips for context.xml, unless there is a minimally structured source file for all context command options that can be sorted by text-processing [beyond my skill set]. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International

Re: [NTG-context] Wiki pages for Scite and Notepad++

2009-11-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
is needed. So the dir-structure next updates to the Npp package will be vista only, although I welcome anyone's help in keeping it compatible with XP. Thanks again and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department

Re: [NTG-context] How to set \tfa to 10pt?

2009-11-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
: \starttypescript [serif] [myfont] [size] \definebodyfont [9pt,10pt,11pt,12pt,14.4pt] [rm] [tfx=Serif sa .9] \stoptypescript etc. I've used this technique plenty of times in mkii, but there _may_ be subtleties in mkiv for your case, so experiment. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi

Re: [NTG-context] How to set \tfa to 10pt?

2009-11-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:23:05 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: Hi, On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:10:42 -0700, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskov...@gmail.com wrote: I use TimesNR 11pt as body font. How to instruct ConTeXt Mkiv that I want \tfx

[NTG-context] interstrutline spacing redux

2009-10-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Dear gang, Got no response the last time, trying again. Problem 2 is the most important at the moment, and any help is appreciated! Best wishes Idris --- Forwarded message --- From: Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu To: mailing list for ConTeXt users ntg

[NTG-context] interstrutline spacing [with tex file!]

2009-10-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
a nice module... Any help or tips to improve this background will be greatly appreciated! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 interstrutlines.pdf

[NTG-context] interstrutline spacing

2009-10-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
a nice module... Any help or tips to improve this background will be greatly appreciated! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 interstrutlines.pdf

[NTG-context] spread lines

2009-10-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
-- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

Re: [NTG-context] spread lines

2009-10-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
{This is an evenly spread sentence.} \framed{This is an evenly spread sentence.} {This is an evenly spread sentence.} {This is an evenly spread sentence.} \stoptext Thanks a million! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department

[NTG-context] Offtopic: a gift for Luigi

2009-09-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Dear gang, Here is a gift for our favorite off-topic expert: Typography Fans Say Ikea Should Stick to Furniture http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/arts/design/05ikea.html?hp Hans, you have to replace all your IKEA furniture now... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor

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