Kai Militzer wrote:
I'm slowly getting there, only two more problems to solve ;) The first
thing is, that to use some of the characters in the fontset I have to
use \th to display them, but I have no idea how to accomplish that in
context as everytime I use \somerunes \th, or \somerunes{\th}
latex-specific). After looking at the texexec output and some try and
error, I finaly got all working. So if I now do a texexec --pdf I get a
pdf-file with the font included.
how does your code look?
That is my code for testing (nothing more in there, the following is the
whole document
mentioned in the readme to the font (which where
latex-specific). After looking at the texexec output and some try
and error, I finaly got all working. So if I now do a texexec --pdf
I get a pdf-file with the font included.
how does your code look?
That is my code for testing (nothing more
Hello!
Thanks for all who helped me, but I finaly solved the problem. I define
glyphs for the characters I want like that
\definesymbol [thorn] [\getglyph{frumbr}{\char254}]
and then simply use \symbol[thorn] in the text ...
Looking back I have to say that it's done pretty quick, if one
to the font (which where
latex-specific). After looking at the texexec output and some try and
error, I finaly got all working. So if I now do a texexec --pdf I get
a pdf-file with the font included.
how does your code look?
That is my code for testing (nothing more in there, the following
Brooks Moses wrote:
At 04:28 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
I'd particularly appreciate any comments on the \newcommand and
counters implementations -- those are in the t-ltcmds and t-ltcnts
modules, though \newcommand also depends on t-lterrs and t-ltbase.
i just took a
I've recently been doing a little work on implementing a few LaTeX kernel
bits in ConTeXt, to simplify porting LaTeX code over. It's now at a point
where a few of the pieces might actually be useful, and certainly to a
point where some comments would be welcomed, so I've put up a version
Brooks Moses wrote:
I've recently been doing a little work on implementing a few LaTeX
kernel bits in ConTeXt, to simplify porting LaTeX code over. It's now
at a point where a few of the pieces might actually be useful, and
certainly to a point where some comments would be welcomed, so I've
At 04:28 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote:
Brooks Moses wrote:
I'd particularly appreciate any comments on the \newcommand and counters
implementations -- those are in the t-ltcmds and t-ltcnts modules, though
\newcommand also depends on t-lterrs and t-ltbase.
i just took a quick look at the code; if
Hi,
I am trying to move from latex to context, but it seems that the
defaults of both differ. Consider the following
\defineenumeration
[theorem]
[
headstyle=bold,
style=italic,
location=hanging,
text=Theorem,
between=\blank
]
\starttext
cetera
pp.
As John already pointed out: Using pdflatex this is also possible with
LaTeX (well, both use PDFTeX behind the scenes).
I've seen Hrabans' ciee juxtaposition of ConTeXt and LaTeX, and after
searching the list I am not sure whether going for a KOMA class
wouldn't be better considering
Ask somebody in your field who is really good at TeX for the LaTeX
sources of his/her thesis,
and use them as templates. Spend as little time as possible thinking
about
layout and as much as you can about content.
You speak the truth. I really want to avoid that. I do have solid
experience
to be displayed and you don't need to
include lots of additional packages which often have side effects with
each other and need to be included in the correct order.
I have also found it very easy to modify Latex input to Context input
and particularly like the separation possible with graphics
you want the text to be displayed and you don't need to
include lots of additional packages which often have side effects with
each other and need to be included in the correct order.
I have also found it very easy to modify Latex input to Context input
and particularly like the separation possible
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:41:00AM +0300, Ville Voipio wrote:
One of the mixed blessings (=curses) brought about by computers
is that now you need to be an academic writer, a typesetter, and
a graphic artist at the same time. At this point the number
of should-knows explodes.
[snip]
Le 18 mai 05 à 00:13, Mojca Miklavec a écrit :
Perhaps one of them would be cloning the default LaTeX style and
include it into standard ConTeXt distribution. I guess this would
be one reason more for LaTeX people to switch.
(I sometimes still use LaTeX if I have absolutely no time and need
pp.
This is my first post to the list and I'm happy that CB just
formulated my main requirements. The hard contraints are certainly 2,
3 and 5.
I've seen Hrabans' ciee juxtaposition of ConTeXt and LaTeX, and after
searching the list I am not sure whether going for a KOMA class
wouldn't be better
On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:45 pm, Tobias Wolf wrote:
Dear NTG-context denizens,
today I went to work to make up my mind about whether it would be a
good idea to go ahead and produce my BSc. Thesis with ConTeXt.
It's clear, I'm very much attracted to it's approach, I do like the
syntax and
Actually your comment here might suggest how far we have to go then, as
I'd consider my wishlist a very roughly stated but really quite minimal
set of requirements for academic writing.
Well, if you drop the RTF part, then your wishlist is not that
difficult. However, there are some
Ville Voipio wrote:
I am not saying HTML is bad and PDF good. HTML is extremely good for
many purposes. Wiki is a good example of this, and so are many web
pages. But as HTML is not necessarily a good form for a book,
concentrating on PDF is probably a better idea.
I hadn't thought of half
or an XML dtd (tbook or DocBook?) plus appropriate tools. I'm ruling out
Word (having wrestled with it at work), and am reluctant to use anything
similar like OpenOffice. I have used LaTeX for some things in the past.
I was in a similar situation a few years ago (writing my PhD thesis). I
Hi,
I'm returning to graduate study after a few years out in the workplace.
I'm a bit rusty on what good stuff there is out there for academic
writing, and after a bit of research I've come up with: ConTeXt, LaTeX
or an XML dtd (tbook or DocBook?) plus appropriate tools. I'm ruling out
Word
Subject line says it all. Is there?
Thanks,
G
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Hello Gerben,
Subject line says it all.
Actually, it doesn't, since at least one person here does not have a
deep insight of LaTeX. You should describe a little what \parbox does.
Is there?
Have you tried \framed{} with [frame=off] as a parameter? You can
set the width, the height
Hello again,
it is getting late, i forgot to add the example:
\starttext
\framed[width=5cm,align=lohi,frame=off]{\input tufte \par}
\stoptext
Patrick
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I tried this and the drop.tex example from Taco with
texexec --pdf drop.tex
but this ends in disaster:
system : macros of module lettri loaded
(./t-lettri.tex
! Illegal parameter number in definition of \LettrineFontEPS.
to be read again
1
l.99
- The text font seems to be defaulted to small capitals.
However, this
is merely one of the conventions how text after a dropcap is set.
Other conventions include e.g. roman or italic caps, roman
or italic
lower case etc.
You can set the 'TextFont' parameter to something else.
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:37:21 -0800 (PST), Ciro A. Soto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
trivial question from a novice:
What are the steps to use a new module
like the lettrine.sty? Where do I put this file?
what command should I type to make is available to
context? etc...
thank you
ciro
Hi Mats,
I followed this thread. Basically the t-lettri.tex must be placed in a
path known to TeX. Indeed if you place it in \base or \user this is the
case. - In earlier discussion I think to remember that one could best
create a directory \third (or similar) where such files can be placed.
Another question, this one is for Hans:
I tried your file from feb 27:
supp-fu3.tex.
I typed texexec --pdf supp-fu3.tex
and got:
Undefined control sequence.
\doDroppedCaps ...arindent \fi \keeplinestogether
{#4}\setbox 0\hbox {#1{#6}...
l.190 \NiceDroppedCaps {\red}{Serif}{0pt}{3}{W}
\input
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:34:44 +0100, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mats Broberg wrote:
- I tested with the inital H and
[Lines=4,Hang=.1,Nindent=20pt,Findent=20pt]. This makes the H itself be
indented too (see enclosed dump). It seems that Findent adds space both
before and
VnPenguin wrote:
There is a strange behaviour of \placefigure[right] when using
\lettrine (see PDF at http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/context/drop.pdf )
Any ideas ?
Unfortunately, this cannot be helped. It is a limitation
of the \parshape primitive.
Greetings, Taco
trivial question from a novice:
What are the steps to use a new module
like the lettrine.sty? Where do I put this file?
what command should I type to make is available to
context? etc...
thank you
ciro
PS: I am using Fedora Core 3 + texlive2004 + context
from February 2005.
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:37:21 -0800 (PST), Ciro A. Soto
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
trivial question from a novice:
What are the steps to use a new module
like the lettrine.sty? Where do I put this file?
what command should I type to make is available to
context? etc...
thank you
ciro
PS: I
Mats Broberg wrote:
- I tested with the inital H and
[Lines=4,Hang=.1,Nindent=20pt,Findent=20pt]. This makes the H itself be
indented too (see enclosed dump). It seems that Findent adds space both
before and after the dropcap, when it only should add after the dropcap.
That was a bug, so,
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
basically you want to follow a shape; this is not that hard to
implement so i can have a look at it; lettrines is then an instance of it
Lettrine is easier than that, actually. I thought this would be quite
funny, so here is a brand new module called t-lettri.tex, and an
h h extern wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Lettrine is easier than that, actually. I thought this would be quite
funny, so here is a brand new module called t-lettri.tex, and an example.
ah, nice, so, lettrines only does a slanted shape?
Yes, only slopes (both directions). And it allows the user to
auto-lettrines (dropcaps etc) are kind of complex in the
sense that it's not
trivial to pick up the first 'something' in a paragraph in a
robust way [we may
want some extension to tex for that (so we have something to
discuss during our
trip to eurotex -)
Hans
If I may chime in:
Mats Broberg said this at Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:51:04 +0100:
Different
typefaces and different characters need different level of protruding
into the left margin, as well as other actions of tweaking.
Ah, but when Hans says this:
it's a good testbed for playing with
things like glyph shape
functionality as provided by \LettrineOptionsFor{...} in LaTeX
The one thing I could not/did not solve is how to make ConTeXt shut
up about 'bodyfont 112.5pt is defined (can better be done global)'.
just do something
in setup: LettrineFont = Serif
in code: \definedfont[Serif at ...]
instead
Ok, so I *should* be doing other stuff, but this is just a lot
of fun, so here is the 3rd version, with three bugfixes
- No more font messages
(followed Hans' advice)
- No more \sbox redefinition
(used it's expansion instead)
- The page breaks unless the lettrine actually fits
(this is an
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Ok, so I *should* be doing other stuff, but this is just a
lot of fun, so here is the 3rd version
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Gerben Wierda wrote:
how do you handle additions like this in your ConTeXt distribution?
Will they become part of it for instance?
Hans usually asks authors whether they want the module to be part
of the distribution. Mostly, authors say yes, but not always.
This is just
as provided by \LettrineOptionsFor{...} in LaTeX
The one thing I could not/did not solve is how to make ConTeXt shut
up about 'bodyfont 112.5pt is defined (can better be done global)'.
I think I've covered all of lettrine.sty now, but I may have
overlooked a bug or two ;-)
Greetings, Taco
t-lettri.tex
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
This is just a port of lettrine.sty, and I do not believe it should
be part of standard ConTeXt.
Why not?
Thanks a lot for this port, Taco, it's great!
Cheers, Peter
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Would someone be able to take lettrine.sty as an example and produce a
version that works with ConTeXt (and plain TeX)?
Thanks,
G
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Hoi Gerben,
Probably, but .. I do not know what it is that lettrine does that
\DroppedCaps does not do. Please do not assume that context users
have any specific knowledge of what latex packages do.
Gerben Wierda wrote:
Would someone be able to take lettrine.sty as an example and produce
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Probably, but .. I do not know what it is that lettrine does that
\DroppedCaps does not do.
Hello Taco,
could you please give an example how to do the same with \DroppedCaps, what
is shown on page 30 of http://pmrb.free.fr/work/cours/latex-intro.pdf
how to do the same with \DroppedCaps, what
is shown on page 30 of http://pmrb.free.fr/work/cours/latex-intro.pdf ?
Peter
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used as dropped capital by an image in eps format
(latex) or in pdf, jpg, etc. format (pdflatex); this needs the graphicx
package to be loaded in the preamble of course.
\lettrine[image=true]{A}{n exemple} or just \lettrine[image]{A}{n
exemple} will load A.eps or A.pdf instead of letter
Mats Broberg wrote:
I am not quite yet a ConTeXt user (struggling with the installation),
but having a background as typographer, graphic designer, and printer, I
feel that the lettrine.sty package could serve very well as a model for
something similar in ConTeXt.
...
basically you want to
Hans Hagen wrote:
basically you want to follow a shape; this is not that hard to implement
so i can have a look at it; lettrines is then an instance of it
Lettrine is easier than that, actually. I thought this would be quite
funny, so here is a brand new module called t-lettri.tex, and an
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:04:11 +0100, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
basically you want to follow a shape; this is not that hard to implement
so i can have a look at it; lettrines is then an instance of it
Lettrine is easier than that, actually. I thought this
Sorrry about that, last-minute change :-)
VnPenguin wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:04:11 +0100, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the src t-lettri.tex if I change
\def\LettrineFontEPS{#1}{%
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Hmm, this is great.
However, I can't seem to get it to accept an image (Image=true or
Image=yes). Anyone else have some luck?
On Feb 25, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Sorrry about that, last-minute change :-)
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Holger Peters wrote:
Hi,
I want to use a LaTeX Package (clrscode), or at least I want to port it
to Context.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/clrscode/
hm, not complex but mostly calls to latex font switches ans such
Is there some way to use LaTex Packages (I guess not).
so you need to rewrite
Hi,
thanks, that's a good start for me.
-- Holger
h h extern wrote:
Holger Peters wrote:
Hi,
I want to use a LaTeX Package (clrscode), or at least I want to port
it to Context.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/clrscode/
hm, not complex but mostly calls to latex font switches ans
Holger Peters wrote:
Hi,
I want to use a LaTeX Package (clrscode), or at least I want to port
it to Context.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/clrscode/
Is there some way to use LaTex Packages (I guess not).
Is there documentation about writing ConTeXt modules? (I didn't find
any).
-- Holger
Hello Holger,
I want to use a LaTeX Package (clrscode), or at least I want to port
it to Context.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/clrscode/
Is there some way to use LaTex Packages (I guess not).
No. The low level commands are different in LaTeX and ConTeXt. The
named package does not use
Bonjour à tous !
Le 25 janv. 05, à 22:16, Patrick Gundlach a écrit :
Hello Holger,
I want to use a LaTeX Package (clrscode), or at least I want to port
it to Context.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/clrscode/
Is there some way to use LaTex Packages (I guess not).
No. The low level commands
Ulrich Dirr wrote:
Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hello Hans and Ulrich,
[...]
Woran arbeiten Sie? wurde Herr K. gefragt. Herr K. antwortete:
Ich habe viel Mhe, ich bereite meinen nchsten Irrtum vor. (B.
Brecht) Aber Hallo! \quotation{all right \quote{there} we go}
\stoptext
hm, what do
Hello Hans and Ulrich,
[...]
Woran arbeiten Sie? wurde Herr K. gefragt. Herr K. antwortete:
Ich habe viel Mhe, ich bereite meinen nchsten Irrtum vor. (B.
Brecht) Aber Hallo! \quotation{all right \quote{there} we go}
\stoptext
hm, what do other german users experience/think?
I experience the
Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hello Hans and Ulrich,
[...]
Woran arbeiten Sie? wurde Herr K. gefragt. Herr K. antwortete:
Ich habe viel Mhe, ich bereite meinen nchsten Irrtum vor. (B.
Brecht) Aber Hallo! \quotation{all right \quote{there} we go}
\stoptext
hm, what do other german users
Ulrich Dirr wrote:
That's great. Can I combine this setup with another one for left even
right odd numbered pages? E.g.,
((PAGE 2))
King 1 The King
((PAGE 3))
1 The King Queen
So that I can combine, say
is not protruded at all. BTW where do I define in
ConTeXt my font specific microtypographic values? In LaTeX I wrote
\input{protcode-helvetica}
\input{efcode-helvetica}
\pdfprotrudechars=2
\pdfadjustspacing=2
\def\setupfont{\setprotcode\font}
\def\setupEFfont{
\setprotcode\font
\resetefcode
Hi,
first, thank you very much for your help!
Hans Hagen wrote:
Ulrich Dirr wrote:
Hi,
I'm recently trying to get ConTeXt typesetting my books like with LaTeX
before (or better). But I can't solve some problems ... Maybe someone
can
assist me?
o How do I get the chapter number
Ulrich Dirr wrote:
Hi,
I'm recently trying to get ConTeXt typesetting my books like with LaTeX
before (or better). But I can't solve some problems ... Maybe someone can
assist me?
o How do I get the chapter number into the heading? I've tried
\setupheader[before=\viii,style=normal
in
LaTeX, so for multiline you might have more luck using the
nath module, which is available on CTAN. There is no manual,
but you can use the LaTeX package manual as a reference.
For an example of the sorts of things I end up
doing:
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\lefteqn{
\frac
At the very first moment I saw some manuals I was highly impressed of
what ConTeXt was able to do and decided to switch from LaTeX to the new
typesetting system. I've put (probably to much) effort to typeset my
first presentation and a couple of other documents in ConTeXt after
which I realised
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:07:43PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I'm not sure if these are only the problems at the beginning (since I
have to look for almost any command I use) and would soon disappear or
would the general advice be don't use ConTeXt if LaTeX suits your
needs. What are your
advice be don't use ConTeXt if LaTeX suits your
needs. What are your opinions about that?
Try it for a bit and see whether you like it. Some people find that
it makes things simpler and more logical. It is a different way of
working, which may or may not suit you.
For me personally, somehow Context
At 04:42 AM 7/27/2004, you wrote:
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:31:24PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote:
[things I need to translate from LaTeX to ConTeXt]
\renewcommand{\vec}[1]{{\boldsymbol{#1}}}
\renewcommand{\hatn}{\hat{\vec{n}}}
\newcommand{\filter}[1]{\overline{#1}}
You can use the tex
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:31:24PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote:
First, by way of introduction: I've been using LaTeX for about five years
now, but am quite new to ConTeXt. I'm a grad student in mechanical
engineering, so my primary uses of ConTeXt in the near future are likely to
be for my
At 11:05 12/05/2004, you wrote:
Ik kwam bij toeval op uw site terecht ik ben bezig met het programma LaTeX
en ik wil de regelafstand in mijn gehele document op 1.5 pt hebben. Zou u
mij kunnen vertellen hoe ik dit voor elkaar krijg? Alvast bedankt voor de
moeite.
what do you mean by linedistance
Hallo,
Ik kwam bij toeval op uw site terecht ik ben bezig met het programma LaTeX en ik wil de regelafstand in mijn gehele document op 1.5 pt hebben. Zou u mij kunnen vertellen hoe ik dit voor elkaar krijg? Alvast bedankt voor de moeite.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Johan BosMSN Zoeken, voor
I don't speak Dutch, so I am partly guessing at what you are asking for. Look at the
LaTeX package setspace, which may be found at
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/setspace.
The package is described at pages 106-08 of The LaTeX Companion (2nd ed. 2004). The
package adjusts
Dear List users,
I just heard about ConTeXt on the lingtex list.
I am a rather old and experienced Latex user, and, although rather
unsatisfied, I have tons of latex sources for constant reuse.
My first questions are
Is there any hope that I can painlessly reuse my Latex code in Context
Am Montag, 10.05.04, um 20:20 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Viktor Tron:
Is there any hope that I can painlessly reuse my Latex code in Context?
Hardly.
Is there any hope that I can ever use Latex styles (some more
complicated
macro defs) in Context?
No.
Have a look at Bill's beginner's page
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hi,
Like all TeX related things you can find it in CTAN, exactly in
well, not *all* TeX relatet stuff is on CTAN...
All right, you will agree that you can find *all*most all TeX relatet
stuff :-)
Zunbeltz
with
this backslash, the formatting is strange. I'd suggest something like
this (warning: ugly(!!) LaTeX code ahead):
\begingroup
\catcode`\|=13
\catcode`\=13
\gdef\EBNF
{\list{???}%
{%
\def|{$\mid$}%
\def\makelabel##1{##1 ::=}%
\def\Cat##1{$\langle${\it ##1\/}$\rangle
Hi Adam,
I have an ebnf grammar which I need to put in a context doc and have a
specific style file (ebnf.sty). Is there an easy way to convert it
for use in context.
How should we know? I don't have ebnf.sty on my system so this is
probably not a well known package. If you provide some
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hi Adam,
I have an ebnf grammar which I need to put in a context doc and have a
specific style file (ebnf.sty). Is there an easy way to convert it
for use in context.
How should we know? I don't have ebnf.sty on my system so this is
William Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steffen asked about Adobe Garamond Swash Italic.
Yeah, it's a non-standard encoding. You can either manually add it to a
.vf, or follow the instructions in Alan Hoenig's wonderful book, _TeX
Unbound_
I've samples of it up on my web site at
Steffen said:
but although I tried nearly every links on your address I couldn't
find any link related to .vf.
Couldn't you maybe pass me the URL directly?
Sorry, that should've been ``.vpl''
It also wasn't where I'd said it would be---it was on my old Portfolio
page,
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