Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] Affiliation change

2009-04-02 Thread Otared Kavian
Is all of this an April 1st hoax? Now that we are April 2nd, please put an end to our anxiety… Best regards: OK On 2 avr. 09, at 09:40, Hans Hagen wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 01.04.2009 um 20:33 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: But I fear that even all of that together will generate enough

Re: [NTG-context] beta release

2009-03-01 Thread Otared Kavian
On 1 mars 09, at 19:53, Hans Hagen wrote: Yue Wang wrote: Oh, Hans, another bug report, pls test this (come from my thesis): \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm] \starttext \placeformula\startformula P_{(i,j)}=\sum_{n=1}^{n_s} P_{{\rm straight},n} \sum_{n=1}^{n_b} P_{{\rm

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, Khaled, and Idris, If a humble opinion from an ordinary user may be issued, I agree with Khaled that it would be extremely useful to have some basic default settings for Arabic fonts, and even more generally for any particular fonts used for other languages. This would not prevent

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, Khaled, and Idris, If a humble opinion from an ordinary user may be issued, I agree with Khaled that it would be extremely useful to have some basic default settings for Arabic fonts, and even more generally for any particular fonts used for other languages. This would not prevent

Re: [NTG-context] number of lines ?

2009-01-22 Thread Otared Kavian
On 22 janv. 09, at 15:39, Alan Stone wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Alan Stone software.list.1e...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a command which returns the number of lines for a given

Re: [NTG-context] Choosing ConTeXt install method on Mac

2009-01-21 Thread Otared Kavian
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[NTG-context] Math align with \startcases

2009-01-19 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi everyone, This question is primarily intended for Aditya… but I guess other fellows on the list can also help me solve the following alignment problem: Is it possible to have an alignment like the rsult of the following with \startcases...\stopcases? \starttext \startformula

Re: [NTG-context] Math align with \startcases

2009-01-19 Thread Otared Kavian
On 19 janv. 09, at 15:38, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Otared Kavian wrote: [...] So my question is: whether one can use \startcases ...\stopcases instead of \startmatrix ... \stopmatrix in order to obtain the result of the plain TeX example? No, but there is not much

Re: [NTG-context] Math align with \startcases

2009-01-19 Thread Otared Kavian
On 19 janv. 09, at 19:49, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Otared Kavian wrote: […] Should I add this to the wiki? Please do. Aditya Done: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/\startcases Best regards: OK

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv and MetaPost

2009-01-14 Thread Otared Kavian
On 14 janv. 09, at 08:57, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: Thanks Aditya for your explanation, but I must say that it is not convincing because with mkiv one of the buffers is processed with \processMPbuffer, while the other is not… So there must be some other hidden behaviour

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv and MetaPost

2009-01-14 Thread Otared Kavian
On 14 janv. 09, at 09:31, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: By the way, in one of your messages some time ago you said that there is a command \luatexversion but it doesn't exist on my installation: is it removed or I understod wrong? Try \the\luatexversion

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv and MetaPost

2009-01-14 Thread Otared Kavian
On 14 janv. 09, at 11:30, Hans Hagen wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: I will leave it for Hans to figure what exactly goes wrong, but the problem is caused by the comment characters in the axes-1 buffer. core-buf.lua: line 253 return concat(t,separator or \n) -- \n

[NTG-context] mkiv and MetaPost

2009-01-13 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi all, I have a file which contains the lines below: I can typeset it and obtain a correct result with mkii, but not with mkiv (the second buffer named axes-1 does not result in a MetaPost graphic when one says \processMPbuffer[axes-1]). The file and the resulting PDF can be found on

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv and MetaPost

2009-01-13 Thread Otared Kavian
On 14 janv. 09, at 06:51, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi all, I have a file which contains the lines below: I can typeset it and obtain a correct result with mkii, but not with mkiv (the second buffer named axes-1 does not result in a MetaPost graphic

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

2009-01-08 Thread Otared Kavian
On 8 janv. 09, at 01:29, Hans Hagen wrote: […] […] can you test this with the alpha from our website? Hi Hans, I compiled a brand new version of LuaTeX from the SVN repository, having now LuaTeX revision 0, (LuaTeX date stamp 2009010808), ConTeXt version 2008.11.10 21:40,

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

2009-01-08 Thread Otared Kavian
On 8 janv. 09, at 09:13, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: On 8 janv. 09, at 01:29, Hans Hagen wrote: […] […] can you test this with the alpha from our website? Hi Hans, I compiled a brand new version of LuaTeX from the SVN repository, having now LuaTeX revision 0, (LuaTeX

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

2009-01-07 Thread Otared Kavian
Dear Hans, Thank your very much for your attention and your remarks about the sample Faarsi file I sent. Thanks also for your valuable time you spend on such questions from non experts… On 7 janv. 09, at 09:38, Hans Hagen wrote: […] i can look into it if i have samples + fonts + expected

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

2009-01-06 Thread Otared Kavian
On 6 janv. 09, at 10:53, Ilda Khaki wrote: can someone send me a sample file to type farsi? Hi Ilda, Here is a sample file for writing Faarsi with XeConTeXt (that is XeTeX + ConTeXt). In principle one can also use ConTeXt-mkiv, that is ConTeXt with the LuaTeX engine, but at this point I

[NTG-context] mkiv and \recycleMPslotstrue

2008-11-12 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi all, With the minimals (ConTeXt ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.11.12 int: english/english) and mkiv, I get from time to time: (cont-sys.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.123 \recycleMPslotstrue but, despite this, a correct PDF is produced, when I hit return

Re: [NTG-context] about error unable to identify cnf file

2008-11-11 Thread Otared Kavian
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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV on texlive2008

2008-11-03 Thread Otared Kavian
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[NTG-context] mkiv: bug in processMPbuffer

2008-10-24 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans and Taco, The latest beta solves the problems metioned by Thomas Schmitz and myself concerning \uniqueMPgraphic: many thanks for your attention. However, I observed the following regarding \processMPbuffer: some grahpics don't show up when tyepset with mkiv, while they are fine

[NTG-context] Problem with mkiv and MPgraphic

2008-10-23 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi everyone, Sorry for posting this message again: I am not sure it went through… The following doesn't show the swelled rule defined below in mkiv, while on mkii it is fine? So my question is: is there a new way to define MPgraphic in mkiv? Best regards: OK %% defining swelled ruel, or

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with mkiv and MPgraphic

2008-10-23 Thread Otared Kavian
On 23 oct. 08, at 14:44, Peter Rolf wrote: luigi scarso schrieb: works ok here. maybe you need an update. ...maybe you need a downgrade ;) What is your setup ? Not here, with minimals-beta : luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with mkiv and MPgraphic

2008-10-23 Thread Otared Kavian
On 23 oct. 08, at 16:13, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, This is rumour control. Here are the facts! Yes, there is a bug in the latest beta, and Hans is dealing with it. The situation is well taken care of. ;-) Hi Taco, Thanks for your attention… But there is no worry about such bugs: I

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: Bug in Right to Left numerals?

2008-10-22 Thread Otared Kavian
On 22 oct. 08, at 09:02, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 oct. 08, at 15:13, Khaled Hosny wrote: This isn't actually a bug, \textdir TRT will reverse all text, try setting \setupdirection[bidi=global] to enable

Re: [NTG-context] TeXshop

2008-10-22 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Willi, Yes I did install mkiv through the ConTeXt Minimals (thanks to Luigi Scarso) and I invoke that installation in TeXShop: everything works fine. However I have not added any environment variables as you have done in your .bashrc. saying env | grep TEX in a Terminal window

Re: [NTG-context] TeXshop

2008-10-22 Thread Otared Kavian
On 22 oct. 08, at 12:57, Willi Egger wrote: Hi all, is there anybody who has TeXshop running with the COnTeXt minimals? I tried to make a new engine which looks up to now as stated her under. however I get an error message: Hi again Willi, If you have installed ConTeXt-Miimal for MacOS

Re: [NTG-context] TeXshop

2008-10-22 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Wolfgang and Willi, As soon as I saw Wolfgang's message about TeXworks, I tried to install and use it, but without success (I even didn't figure out what Willi says about the libraries and so on). Maybe, in the sense of Mac OS X, it is not yet an application? I am stymmied too… Best

[NTG-context] Problem with mkiv and MPgraphic

2008-10-22 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi, The following doesn't show the swelled rule defined below in mkiv, while on mkii it is fine? So my question is: is there a new way to define MPgraphic in mkiv? Best regards: OK %% defining swelled ruel, or English rule... \setupMPvariables[SwelledRule][height=2pt,breadth=.667\localhsize]

[NTG-context] mkiv: Bug in Right to Left numerals?

2008-10-21 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, Taco, Idriss and the mkiv team, Since I have been unable to use mkiv until very recently I am not aware whether the following bug has been addressed or not (Luigi Scarso taught me how to install and use mkiv on Mac OS, last Sunday…). Below is a minimal file which shows that the

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv: Bug in Right to Left numerals?

2008-10-21 Thread Otared Kavian
\setupdirection [bidi=global] ? Process aborted Is this feature so experimental that it is not yet included in the latest beta? Best regards: OK On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Hans, Taco, Idriss and the mkiv team, Since I have

Re: [NTG-context] luatex 0.30.1

2008-10-19 Thread Otared Kavian
On 19 oct. 08, at 09:41, luigi scarso wrote: […] If you have a small example , I will check it too . Hi Luigi, Here is a small example which doesn' work for me… (I have compiled LuaTeX svn checkout 1564, and installed it) but only a blank PDF is produced: %% begin file basic-test.tex

Re: [NTG-context] luatex 0.30.1

2008-10-19 Thread Otared Kavian
, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 oct. 08, at 09:41, luigi scarso wrote: […] If you have a small example , I will check it too . Hi Luigi, Here is a small example which doesn' work for me… (I have compiled LuaTeX svn checkout 1564, and installed it) but only

Re: [NTG-context] luatex 0.30.1

2008-10-19 Thread Otared Kavian
Dear Luigi, Thanks for you help. Below are some comments on what you wrote: On 19 oct. 08, at 14:44, luigi scarso wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Luigi, Thanks for having taken the time to test the file I gave in my message. Indeed my

Re: [NTG-context] luatex 0.30.1

2008-10-19 Thread Otared Kavian
On 19 oct. 08, at 21:50, luigi scarso wrote: With the finger crossed I will start tomorrow a project in mkiv Good luck, or as you say in Italy in bocca al lupo!… but I would like to test what Hans, Taco and others are doing, at least to help find bugs for the Right to Left typesetting.

Re: [NTG-context] Texlive2008 and updating context

2008-09-29 Thread Otared Kavian
On 29 sept. 08, at 14:59, Mojca Miklavec wrote: […] And also clean up --updatecontext procedure. I need to finish several things in the following days, but will come back to it. The confusing info spread all over the wiki definitely needs to be cleaned up. Mojca Hi Mojca, That's why I

Re: [NTG-context] Descriptions ... I wish I understood them

2008-09-25 Thread Otared Kavian
On 24 sept. 08, at 20:45, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I have some weird problems with descriptions, but let's start at the beginning. (I have more problems with understanding how they work, but more about the rest later.) 1.) How do I get some space between title and abc? (I currently put

Re: [NTG-context] Updating LuaTeX after MacTeX-TeXLive 2008 (again)

2008-09-22 Thread Otared Kavian
on the wiki. I presume it will be helpful for others too… Thank you for your time! Best regards: OK updating-context Description: Binary data On 21 sept. 08, at 22:44, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: On 19 sept. 08, at 20:31, Mojca Miklavec

Re: [NTG-context] Updating LuaTeX after MacTeX-TeXLive 2008 (again)

2008-09-20 Thread Otared Kavian
On 19 sept. 08, at 20:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Has something changed recently in the ways TEXMFCNF has to be set? On Mac, the situation with LuaTeX configuration has changed *considerably* and in some very important ways after ConTeXt

[NTG-context] Updating LuaTeX after MacTeX-TeXLive 2008 (again)

2008-09-19 Thread Otared KAVIAN
Dear ConTeXters, I apologize for sending twice this message: since I did not receive it myself, I thought it has been lost… So here is my help request: I just updated my TeX installation with the latest MacTeX-TeXLive 2008, and since the version of LuaTeX included there was 0.25.0, I built a

Re: [NTG-context] Updating LuaTeX after MacTeX-TeXLive 2008 (again)

2008-09-19 Thread Otared Kavian
On 19 sept. 08, at 18:00, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Otared KAVIAN wrote: […] luatools --selfupdate results in: LuaTools | to be replaced old script /usr/texbin/luatools LuaTools | unable to locate new script LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.082 seconds I do not know how

[NTG-context] Updating LuaTeX on MacTeX-TeXLive 2008

2008-09-18 Thread Otared Kavian
Dear ConTeXters, I just updated my TeX installation with the latest MacTeX-TeXLive 2008, and since the version of LuaTeX included there was 0.25.0, I built a binary version LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.29.0-2008091817. Now the problem is that my usual procedure for generating mkiv doesn't

Re: [NTG-context] MacTex Update

2008-08-22 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi David, Recently I updated to MacTeX 2008 which can be found at (thanks to Mojca…) www.uoregon.edu/~koch/MacTeX-2008.mpkg.zip After that, in a Terminal window I just did the usual thing: sudo ctxtools --updatecontext and my ConTeXt installation was updated smoothly. In order to

Re: [NTG-context] release and MacTeX

2008-08-08 Thread Otared Kavian
On 7 août 08, at 10:52, Hans Hagen wrote: […] when did you last update? was that successful? afaik nothing changed in the 'normal' zips that should affect an update but keep in mind that the minimals (zips) have now the structure of the minimals at the garden Hans Hi again Hans,

Re: [NTG-context] release

2008-08-07 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, For your information, yesterday I updated my ConTeXt installation with the command: sudo ctxtools --updatecontext and the result is that I cannot anymore typeset any file with mkii, nor mkiv… Out of despair, I removed my whole MacTeX install (running texlive 2007 on Mac OS

Re: [NTG-context] release

2008-08-07 Thread Otared Kavian
am in Italy and my Internet connection are not very smooth… so maybe I have to wait a while before I can experiment the minimals). Best regards: OK On 7 août 08, at 10:52, Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Hans, For your information, yesterday I updated my ConTeXt installation

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-31 Thread Otared Kavian
On 30 juil. 08, at 23:53, Andrea Valle wrote: Thanks Taco for your efforts. BTW, I will try to contribute to the new doc project. (well, I have svn from a while, but this is the occasion to understand how to use it :) Hi Andrea, If you are on MacOS X, you can use SvnX, a free

[NTG-context] Latest beta + LuaTeX

2008-07-15 Thread Otared Kavian
Dear magicians, I just updated to the latest betas (ConTeXt and LuaTeX taken on svn://scm.foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex and I tried to build luatex on my machine (MacBook Pro under Mac OS X 10.5.4): everything goes fine, the binary is there, that is in trunk/build/texk/web2c/luatex but trying

Re: [NTG-context] Paragraph on the bottom of a page

2008-07-03 Thread Otared Kavian
How about this: \starttext \phantom{nothing} \vfill \input knuth \stoptext Best regards: OK On 3 juil. 08, at 21:37, Horacio Suarez wrote: Hello: this works in linux but doesn´t in windows XP, both latests context versions. \starttext algún texto \page ~ \vfill cualquier texto

Re: [NTG-context] Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode

2008-06-17 Thread Otared Kavian
On 10 juin 08, at 23:30, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: […] Maybe people on the list from Arabic-speaking countries, Israel or Iran can tell us more (in particular, what do one type on a standard keyboard to input an opening bracket?). Arthur Hi Arthur, Sorry for answering to this

[NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
Dear all, I just read the thread started by Burak Emir about Typesetting Arabic today, and tried to typeset the sample sent by Idris Samawi Hamid. One of the Arabic or Persian fonts that I have and LuaTeX can find is Nadeem (working on Mac OS X 10.5.3), but what I get after typesetting is

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 11:23, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: […] What happens with the following setups from Idris. \definefontfeature [test] [mode=node,language=dflt,script=arab, init=yes,medi=yes,fina=yes,isol=yes, liga=yes,dlig=yes,rlig=yes,clig=yes,

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 17:09, Burak Emir wrote: […] Hi Otared, I also tried with Nadeem, and I had exactly the same problem. Hi Burak, Thank you for testing that font. As a matter of fact I am not especially attracted to that font, but for some reason, unknwon to me, it is the only one (in

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 18:07, Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: Indeed… it so simple! But how should one let LuaTeX know about those fonts? set the OSFONTDIR environment variable Many thanks Hans: indeed that's what I did export OSFONTDIR=Library/Fonts export OSFONTDIR

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Otared Kavian
On 9 juin 08, at 18:53, Mojca Miklavec wrote: […] You need to use export OSFONTDIR=/Library/Fonts;/System/Library/Fonts;~/Library/ Fonts Not sure if LuaTeX handles the tilde; in case it doesn't, put the whole path there. Mojca Hi Mojca and all, As a matter of fact here is what I

Re: [NTG-context] maybe OT? ConTeXt on an EEEPC

2008-04-20 Thread Otared Kavian
How about the MacBook Air?… It is some 1300 grams (but indeed more expensive). Best regards: OK On 19 avr. 08, at 11:42, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Dear all, maybe this is off-topic, but I just wanted to tell you about my experiences (and sorry if this sounds like a sales pitch, it isn't!).

Re: [NTG-context] Pb with ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.16 17:34 and mkiv

2008-04-17 Thread Otared Kavian
Problem solved as mysteriously as it appeared, after updating anew ConTeXt… Thanks for your attention: OK On 17 avr. 08, at 01:15, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: For your information, I am running this on MacBook Pro Intel running MacOS X

[NTG-context] Pb with ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.16 17:34 and mkiv

2008-04-16 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans and Taco, I would like to report a problem with the latest release: I just updated my ConTeXt installation and got the following error message: […] This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.2-2008041100 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex

[NTG-context] Nonletter again: ConTeXt ver: 2008.02.13 12:11 MKII

2008-02-13 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans and Thomas, The issue I reported on yesterday, when updating, is still present at a different location though. I updated to ConTeXt ver: 2008.02.13 12:11 MKII fmt: 2008.2.13 int: english/ english and got the following:

Re: [NTG-context] Nonletter bug in ConTeXt ver: 2008.02.11 10:35 MKII

2008-02-12 Thread Otared Kavian
On 12 févr. 08, at 16:49, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: […] Oops, that is due to a typo which Hans and I introduced while we were experimenting with Greek hyphenation. Hans, could you merge the latest patch I sent you yesterday? Otared, if this keeps you from working, I can send you a correct

[NTG-context] Nonletter bug in ConTeXt ver: 2008.02.11 10:35 MKII

2008-02-12 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi all, I just tried to update my ConTeXt installation with the command: sudo ctxtools --updatecontext and after several lines of output I got: […] language: patterns agr for agr loaded (n=16,e=ec,m=ec) (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/tex/context/patterns/lang-agr.pat ! Nonletter. l.65

[NTG-context] Blackboard bold \Bbb and MKIV

2008-02-12 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi all, In my first steps in experimenting MKIV, I typeset the following minimal example \starttext Let ${\bf c} \in {\Bbb R}$. \stoptext with luatex, but the Blackboard Bold {\Bbb R} doesn't appear. The same file is fine with MKII. LuaTeX gives hundreds of warnings such as: luaTeX warning

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt book

2008-02-06 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi all, Indeed the documents mentioned by Taco are great, but some time ago there was a discussion on the list about an update of those manuals (dating from 1999, according to the colofon) and about how we users can contribute to the job by finding the possible bugs, errors, misprints,

Re: [NTG-context] {{ double braces }}

2008-02-06 Thread Otared Kavian
On 6 févr. 08, at 10:11, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: […] If someone knows an editor that does syntax coloring with lua or gema, I'd be very interested! Hi Steffen, Smultron does this on MacOS X: http://smultron.sourceforge.net/ In fact one can define easily a set of syntax colouring for almost

Re: [NTG-context] %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?

2008-02-01 Thread Otared Kavian
On 1 févr. 08, at 12:15, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: […] Maybe I missed the point: don't both lines produce the same output: ۱۲۳ ۴۵۶ ۷۸۹ ? \TeXXeTstate=1 \definedfont[GeezaPro at 16pt] \starttext ۱۲۳ ۴۵۶ ۷۸۹ \beginL ۱۲۳ ۴۵۶ ۷۸۹ \endL \stoptext ... or was this a confusion of

Re: [NTG-context] %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?

2008-01-31 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi all, I checked in some Persian printed books, and noticed that the rule is to write 18% or rather ۱۸% However I don't know of any book in Persian on rules of typography. But I am asking some people in Iran about the issue. Regarding the treatment of numbers, indeed numbers are written

Re: [NTG-context] latest release(s) and XeTeX

2008-01-19 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Thomas, I may confirm that on my installation the same thing happens. I use: ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.16 13:49 MKII fmt: 2008.1.19 int: english/ english and the log file is identical to yours (I have a MacBook running Mac OS X 10.5.1). Of course I have no idea what is going wrong

Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] luatex not compiling

2007-12-26 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Yannis, I had recently a new MacBook Pro (my good old PowerBook was stolen…) and so I installed MacOS X 10.5 on my Intel based MacBook. I confirm that I cannot run LuaTeX (actually I never could run anything other than very simple ConTeXt mkii files with luatex…). Following up the

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX on Mac OS X

2007-10-11 Thread Otared Kavian
Dear Joeng, dear Thomas, Thank you so much for your message and your invaluable help. Indeed thanks to Thomas' instructions, after correcting a few details, I could install LuaTeX and typeset the file test-1.tex with the command texexec --lua test-1.tex However, the execution stops

Re: [NTG-context] metapost question

2007-10-08 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Thomas, I think you can find what you are looking for at: http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/poulecl/albums/espace3/ Best regards: OK On 8 oct. 2007, at 15:47, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Just because I hope that someone may have done this already: does anyone have metapost code to draw the

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX on Mac OS X

2007-10-04 Thread Otared Kavian
... Once again thanks for your patience and help though! Best regards: OK On 2 oct. 2007, at 19:53, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Dear Dalyoung, Like many other ConTeXt users I followed up the many threads about how to install, successfully, LuaTeX

[NTG-context] LuaTeX on Mac OS X

2007-10-01 Thread Otared Kavian
Dear Dalyoung, Like many other ConTeXt users I followed up the many threads about how to install, successfully, LuaTeX. In particular I was interested in your experience since I had more or less the same problems as the ones you described in your latest messages on the list. Now my question

[NTG-context] An interview

2007-08-16 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi all, I just came across the following interview (dating back to April 2007) with Jonathan Kew, which I think may interest those who have not seen it: http://www.tug.org/interviews/interview-files/jonathan-kew.html Thank you Jonathan for your valuable contributions! Best regards: OK

Re: [NTG-context] prevent hyphenation (flush left)

2006-07-18 Thread Otared Kavian
On 18 juil. 2006, at 17:27, Mojca Miklavec wrote: \setuppapersize [S6][S6] %\definetypeface [iwona] [ss] [sans] [iwona] [default] [encoding=ec] %\setupbodyfont [iwona,12pt,ss] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=page] \definelayer [page]

[NTG-context] Mac OS X and texmfstart... [was: texmfstart newbie]

2006-06-28 Thread Otared Kavian
On 28 juin 2006, at 15:11, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: with the content ruby path-to-context-ruby-scripts/texmfstart.rb What I have is this simple script (and it should work on MacOSX just as well). Name it 'texfmstart', make it executable, fill in the correct path and put it

Re: [NTG-context] Mac OS X and texmfstart... [was: texmfstart newbie]

2006-06-28 Thread Otared Kavian
On 28 juin 2006, at 19:25, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Thanks for all the Mac-specifics. Can you plese put this on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mac_Installation? Hi Mojca, I did plant in the Garden the procedure for texmfstart:

[NTG-context] i-Install er and ConTeXt updater

2006-06-23 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Gerben, When trying to update ConTeXt with i-Installer, I see this: Remote Package: Remote is being updated since 2006/06/23 04:02:30 Is it a normal situation? Thanks in advance: OK ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

[NTG-context] i-Installer and ConTeXt updater

2006-06-23 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Gerben, When trying to update ConTeXt with i-Installer, I see this: Remote Package: Remote is being updated since 2006/06/23 04:02:30 Is it a normal situation? Thanks in advance: OK ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Math: Matrix question

2006-06-15 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Tobias, Probably it is possible to do want with mathalign stuff developped in ConTeXt, but the following gives a reasonable result (using only Plain TeX commands...): $$\eqalign{ \matrix{ \hphantom{\left({E}\right.} c d \cr} \cr \matrix{ a\cr b\cr}\; \pmatrix{ E F \cr G H \cr} \cr }$$

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems (Palatino)

2006-05-31 Thread Otared Kavian
On 31 mai 2006, at 23:40, Johan Blixt-Dackhammar wrote: When trying to typeset for example a document using the mag-01 module I get an error that from what I understand is font related. I'm using MacOS 10.4.6 (on intel), and I do have the Palatino font. Why do I get the error and how can the

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX hangs

2006-05-26 Thread Otared Kavian
On 26 mai 2006, at 12:10, Hans Hagen wrote: Otared Kavian wrote: On 24 mai 2006, at 10:07, Hans Hagen wrote: what do you get when you run that with \tracingall� \tracingall� Testing... � and what does� \show � return? and what� Testing... �aaa Hans� Hi Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Textext Question

2006-05-26 Thread Otared Kavian
On 26 mai 2006, at 22:24, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 26 mai à 18:10:43 Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: Hi Jean Magnan, You should add \useMPlibrary[txt] in order to get textext working. Further define AX as a path only. In the dummy-graphic say drawdblarrow

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX hangs

2006-05-24 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Mojca, Trying your minimal file on my Mac OS X, with XeConTeXt or with plain XeTeX, I observe the same hanging... However, the following, taken out of an example sent to you by Jonathan K., works fine with both (indeed commenting out \starttext and \stoptext in plain XeTeX): \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX hangs

2006-05-23 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Mojca, Trying your minimal file on my Mac OS X, with XeConTeXt or with plain XeTeX, I observe the same hanging... However, the following, taken out of an example sent to you by Jonathan K., works fine with both (indeed commenting out \starttext and \stoptext in plain XeTeX): \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] New release and XeTeX - XeConTeXt

2006-05-14 Thread Otared KAVIAN
On 5/13/06, Christopher Creutzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, XeConTeXt does not work as expected in the current version:Hi Christopher,I tried the file you suggest with the latest version of ConTeXt and generated a new XeConTeXt (ConTeXt ver: 2006.05.11 10:30 fmt: 2006.5.13, on MacOS X

[NTG-context] Problems with ConTeXt version 2006.05.11

2006-05-14 Thread Otared KAVIAN
Dear all,I installed the latest version of ConTeXt (that is version 2006.05.11) and although some problems have disappeared, some other are still there. Indeed I thank Hans H. and all the wizards working with him for having fixed some of the issues reported previously. For your information, I am

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with ConTeXt version 2006.05.11

2006-05-14 Thread Otared KAVIAN
On 5/14/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You need to specify the desired encoding on this line: \usetypescript[palatino][ec]Hi Taco, Thanks for your attention.Indeed I had tried to add the encoding option, but then using either [ec] or \defaultencoding there appears a conflict

[NTG-context] New release and XeTeX - XeConTeXt

2006-05-09 Thread Otared KAVIAN
Dear all, After upgrading to the latest release (that is TeXExec 5.4.3, and ConTeXt ver: 2006.05.08 12:59 fmt: 2006.5.9 int: english mes: english), when I tried to generate the format with XeTeX (that is to generate XeConTeXt), with the command sudo texexec --make --xtx en I get the

Re: [NTG-context] Search in ConTeXt PDF files

2006-03-01 Thread Otared KAVIAN
On 3/1/06, Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hans I uploaded a small test file with its pdf in a zip file (46.7 kb) to this link: http://rapidshare.de/files/14396912/teste.zip.html I searched the word Kephalaia, which appears in the header, but Acrobat (v.

Re: [NTG-context] Search in ConTeXt PDF files

2006-03-01 Thread Otared KAVIAN
the word Kephalaia. Did you search the word in the pdf I uploaded? Greetings Marcus Vinicius Otared KAVIAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/06, Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So wrote: Hi, Hans I uploaded a small test file with its pdf in a zip file (46.7 kb) to this link

Re: [NTG-context] [OS X TeX] formats for ConTeXt-XeTeX

2006-02-13 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Steffen, A few months ago I sent to the XeTeX list the following message regarding the use of XeConTeXt (that is a format mixing XeTeX and ConTeXt) from within TeXShop: 1) Create a (text) file called XeConTeXt.engine containing the lines: #!/bin/tcsh set path= ($path

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-24 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, Thank you for your great work. Regarding the beginners manual your are going to update, I have two or three suggestions. To begin with, I think we should designate a volunteer group of people on this list to do some tasks in parallel: 1) Since the installation of ConTeXt seems to

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-24 Thread Otared KAVIAN
Hi Hans, Thank you for your great work. Regarding the beginners manual your are going to update, I have two or three suggestions. To begin with, I think we should designate a volunteer group of people on this list to do some tasks in parallel: 1) Since the installation of ConTeXt seems to be not

[NTG-context] Setting up items...

2005-11-21 Thread Otared KAVIAN
HI all, I have a rather long sequence of items in which each one is numbered with a right stopper, a right parenthesis. Items numbered from 1) to 9) are correctly aligned and what I want is to have items 10) to 12) (for instance) be aligned in the same way, that is: (9) item number 9. (10) item

Re: [NTG-context] Setting up items...

2005-11-21 Thread Otared KAVIAN
={)}, alignment=left] Cheers Thomas On Nov 21, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Otared KAVIAN wrote: HI all, I have a rather long sequence of items in which each one is numbered with a right stopper, a right parenthesis. Items numbered from 1) to 9) are correctly aligned and what I want

Re: [NTG-context] Setting up items...

2005-11-21 Thread Otared KAVIAN
: OK On 11/21/05, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I forgot one detail: On Nov 21, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Otared KAVIAN wrote: Hi Thomas and Taco, Thanks for your help, which solves my secondary question... Actually the following works, as suggested by Thomas: \starttext

[NTG-context] Contest for ConTeXt?

2005-11-20 Thread Otared Kavian
On 5 nov. 2005, at 9:03, Mikael Persson wrote: Hello *snip* What do you do with ConTeXT? I am mostly playing around abit. However, since I work with math it is mostly something that has to do with math. Some examples: Hi Mikael, I had a look at your nice sudoku example mentioned in your

Re: [NTG-context] extra page in presentation styles

2005-11-03 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, On my machine with ConTeXt ver: 2005.09.14 fmt: 2005.10.21 int: english mes: english everything is fine with the sample file you sent. Probably you should update your installation of ConTeXt. Best regards: OK On 3 nov. 2005, at 17:36, Hans van der Meer wrote: Context

[NTG-context] Number of rows in tables

2005-09-21 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi everyone, In the process of learning the table mechanism I followed the discussions on the list, but could not figure out whether it is possible to create a table with a given number of rows. For instance, is it possible to add something to Mojca's solution for cells with backgrounds

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