[NTG-context] update

2025-04-01 Thread Hans Hagen
when testing files of a power user. It was a rather nasty one that only showed up when using equations with no viable solution. In the process we (MS and HH) had to consult the metafont books, because we basically had to check all relevant code, and then fell in love with bitmaps. That ma

[NTG-context] Fwd: lug-boards] BachoTeX 2025: invitation and call for papers

2025-01-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
hould be obvious. > > Authors are invited to submit papers not only directly on the conference > theme, > we encourage you also to relate to the 30th BachoTeX jubilee. We look forward > to > receiving inspirations and hearing of your experiences as impulses for further >

[NTG-context] Fwd: Call for Papers / BachoTeX 2025

2025-01-12 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
and developments. * Papers/presentations Of course we also look forward to the normal mix of TeX, Metafont /  Metapost (please, do not forget the fonts!), ConTeXt, LaTeX, and friends related presentations. We also do upkeep the BachoTeX trend in which we try to bring together programmers and

[NTG-context] Deactivate (back)links of the bibliography

2024-10-05 Thread Gerion Entrup
}, title = {TEX and METAFONT. New directions in typesetting}, year = {1979}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, } @Article{someother, author = {Some Person and Some Otherperson}, title = {Another title}, year = {1900}, } \stopbuffer \usebtxdataset[main

[NTG-context] Re: Specify separator within setupbtx for custom bibliography rendering

2024-06-21 Thread Gerion Entrup
one source). I want > to also specify the separator but did not get it to run. > > Here is a minimal example: > ``` > \setupinteraction[state=start] > > \startbuffer[testdata] > @Book{knuth1, > author = {Donald E. Knuth}, > title = {TEX and METAFON

[NTG-context] Specify separator within setupbtx for custom bibliography rendering

2024-06-01 Thread Gerion Entrup
a minimal example: ``` \setupinteraction[state=start] \startbuffer[testdata] @Book{knuth1, author = {Donald E. Knuth}, title = {TEX and METAFONT. New directions in typesetting}, year = {1979}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, } @Article{someother, author = {Some

[NTG-context] Re: Combine lua and btx setup, was: Re: Customize citation format of a bibliography (use the short form as reference format)

2024-04-25 Thread Gerion Entrup
start] \startbuffer[testdata] @Book{knuth1, author = {Donald E. Knuth}, title = {TEX and METAFONT. New directions in typesetting}, year = {1979}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, } @Article{someother, author = {Some Person and Some Otherperson}, ti

[NTG-context] Combine lua and btx setup, was: Re: Customize citation format of a bibliography (use the short form as reference format)

2024-04-23 Thread Gerion Entrup
[state=start] \startbuffer[testdata] @Book{knuth1, author = {Donald E. Knuth}, title = {TEX and METAFONT. New directions in typesetting}, year = {1979}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, } @Article{someother, author = {Some Person and Some Otherperson}, title

[NTG-context] Re: Customize citation format of a bibliography (use the short form as reference format)

2024-04-17 Thread Gerion Entrup
e exactly the short form). It is more less also > > described here [1]. > > - Highlight publications of a certain author with an extra char (e.g. > > '>') > > > > Here is a minimal example (lets assume, every occurrence of Knuth > > should be highlighte

[NTG-context] Re: Customize citation format of a bibliography (use the short form as reference format)

2024-04-17 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
t; should be highlighted): ``` > \setupinteraction[state=start] > > \startbuffer[testdata] > @Book{knuth1, > author = {Donald E. Knuth}, > title = {TEX and METAFONT. New directions in typesetting}, > year = {1979}, > publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, > }

[NTG-context] Customize citation format of a bibliography (use the short form as reference format)

2024-04-15 Thread Gerion Entrup
[testdata] @Book{knuth1, author = {Donald E. Knuth}, title = {TEX and METAFONT. New directions in typesetting}, year = {1979}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley}, } @Article{someother, author = {Some Person and Some Otherperson}, title = {Another title

[NTG-context] Re: Modernizing Parametric type design A case study of Nupuram Malayalam typeface

2023-11-04 Thread BPJ
oday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday2023.pdf > > <https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday2023.pdf> > > and > > https://twitter.com/santhoshtr/status/1577596445917470722 > > <https://twitter.com/santhoshtr/status/1577596445917470722> &g

[NTG-context] Re: Modernizing Parametric type design A case study of Nupuram Malayalam typeface

2023-11-04 Thread Hans Hagen
tr/status/1577596445917470722> Long live to metapost &  metafont (& mflua :-) :-) :-) ) when the font was released we (MS & HH) played a bit with it and wondered about making a math companion ... Hans -

[NTG-context] Modernizing Parametric type design A case study of Nupuram Malayalam typeface

2023-11-04 Thread luigi scarso
https://typoday.in/spk_papers/Santhosh_Thottingal_Typoday2023.pdf and https://twitter.com/santhoshtr/status/1577596445917470722 Long live to metapost & metafont (& mflua :-) :-) :-) ) -- luigi ___ If your

[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

2023-08-22 Thread Hans Hagen
fine-tuning and additional testing is done, will donate the results to ConTeXt. Good. As for free fonts. MinionPro Opticals should be considered an exception to the free-fonts rubric. After all, i) its multiple-master design base was inspired by MetaFont/Knuth, and hence ii) it's very popular wi

[NTG-context] Re: Fallbacks for design sizes in the current typescripts regime

2023-08-22 Thread Hamid,Idris
of this request. I'm not going to look into this until there is a complete test case for this which means: - free fonts (so that others can also test and use) - design sizes - fallback design sizes As for free fonts. MinionPro Opticals should be considered an exception to the free-fonts r

[NTG-context] Re: mplib: identifiers starting with units

2023-07-05 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/5/2023 3:47 PM, Leah Neukirchen wrote: Hi, I've been trying to use the 'cmarrows' metapost library with ConTeXt/mplib. Essentially it's a thin wrapper around the cmr metafont sources to get the arrowheads. This triggers an incompatibility between mplib and classic mpos

[NTG-context] mplib: identifiers starting with units

2023-07-05 Thread Leah Neukirchen
Hi, I've been trying to use the 'cmarrows' metapost library with ConTeXt/mplib. Essentially it's a thin wrapper around the cmr metafont sources to get the arrowheads. This triggers an incompatibility between mplib and classic mpost/mf: pt#:=1pt; In MetaFont/MetaPost pt# is a

Re: [NTG-context] Off topic: Does a 'free for commercial use' flared-sans font exist in the world?

2023-06-18 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
, with metafont being part of the tex ecosystem, one can argue that tex was quite innovative too. Ecosystem. I would be very careful by including an ecosystem there. Yes. Yes. The TeX ecosystem is obviously part of TeX but is not part of the ecosystem of fonts either. And what is done on ecosystems

Re: [NTG-context] Off topic: Does a 'free for commercial use' flared-sans font exist in the world?

2023-06-18 Thread Carlos via ntg-context
hen tex showed up digital font technology was pretty much in flux. > And, with metafont being part of the tex ecosystem, one can argue that tex > was quite innovative too. Ecosystem. I would be very careful by including an ecosystem there. Yes. Yes. The TeX ecosystem is obviously part of TeX

Re: [NTG-context] Off topic: Does a 'free for commercial use' flared-sans font exist in the world?

2023-06-17 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
what. What happened is that all TeX engines have neglected fonts from the beginning. Really? When tex showed up digital font technology was pretty much in flux. And, with metafont being part of the tex ecosystem, one can argue that tex was quite innovative too. Potscript and its fonts came

Re: [NTG-context] Feynman Diagrams

2023-04-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
ircumflex\^ Underscore\_ %% Grave accent \` Left brace\{ Vertical bar \| %% Right brace \} Tilde \~} %% def subgraph (expr x, y, wd, ht) = begingroup save c, ne, nw, sw, se;

[NTG-context] Fwd: BachoTeX 2023: invitation and call for papers

2023-02-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
models and implementation. Do they help or are they an obstacle? * Papers/presentations Of course we also look forward to the normal mix of TeX, Metafont/Metapost (please, do not forget the fonts!), ConTeXt, LaTeX, and friends related presentations. We also do upkeep the BachoTeX trend in which we tr

Re: [NTG-context] What's the current method for using a variable font in Context and Metapost?

2023-01-20 Thread Lutz Haseloff via ntg-context
\starttext Test Test \definefont[bahnlight][name:bahnschriftlight*default] \startMPcode picture pic; pic := thelabel(textext("\bahnlight This is Bahnschrift light in Metafont 0123456789"), (0, 0)); draw pic; \stopMPcode \stoptext Am 20. Januar 2023 18:28:23 MEZ schrieb Guido Bart

Re: [NTG-context] What's the current method for using a variable font in Context and Metapost?

2023-01-20 Thread Guido Bartolucci via ntg-context
[ss] [bahnschrift] > \setupbodyfont[mainface] > > \ss 123456789 Wild! \medskip > > \startMPcode > picture pic; > pic := thelabel(textext("\ss This is in Metafont 0123456789"), (0, 0)); > draw pic; > \stopMPcode > > > Greetings Lutz > > > Am 20

Re: [NTG-context] What's the current method for using a variable font in Context and Metapost?

2023-01-19 Thread Lutz Haseloff via ntg-context
Hi Guido, this works here: \starttext Test Test \usemodule[fonts-variable] \definefontfamily [mainface] [ss] [bahnschrift] \setupbodyfont[mainface] \ss 123456789 Wild! \medskip \startMPcode picture pic; pic := thelabel(textext("\ss This is in Metafont 0123456789"), (0, 0))

[NTG-context] What's the current method for using a variable font in Context and Metapost?

2023-01-19 Thread Guido Bartolucci via ntg-context
dskip \startMPcode picture pic; pic := thelabel("This is in Metafont 0123456789", (0, 0)); draw pic; \stopMPcode \stoptext ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] (any) neovim users?

2022-10-14 Thread Nicola via ntg-context
rror >> > when using %&context identification at the head of .tex source >> > files. >> >> The ConTeXt plugin (as well as MetaPost and MetaFont ones) has >> recently been rewritten in Vim 9 script (the new scripting language >> embedded in Vim), which NeoVim does not

Re: [NTG-context] (any) neovim users?

2022-10-14 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
t; files. > > The ConTeXt plugin (as well as MetaPost and MetaFont ones) has > recently been rewritten in Vim 9 script (the new scripting language > embedded in Vim), which NeoVim does not support, afaik. See this > thread: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/10968. > > One th

Re: [NTG-context] (any) neovim users?

2022-10-14 Thread Nicola via ntg-context
On 2022-10-14, Alan Braslau via ntg-context wrote: > A recent upgrade of the editor neovim leads to the following error > when using %&context identification at the head of .tex source files. The ConTeXt plugin (as well as MetaPost and MetaFont ones) has recently been rewritten in Vi

Re: [NTG-context] simplifying repeated macro calls in metafun

2021-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
to go further back, whatever already existed in MetaFont. Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman

Re: [NTG-context] upload / some new math stuff

2021-06-11 Thread Fabrice Couvreur
echanisms, but > > this is just a first test of useability). > > > > (I might also extend another mechanism to deal with it but putting > > scripts on top or after is already handles pretty well by regular > > mechanisms, so ...) > > > > Of course only a

Re: [NTG-context] upload / some new math stuff

2021-06-11 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
) > is the same size (only bboxes differ) so there is something fishy in the > otf. I can imagine that at some point we add the 10pt/book ones to the > standard mkiv distribution and maybe only the subset to the lmtx > distribution but for now these book ones are too big for that, but i

Re: [NTG-context] Issue running ConTeXt from TeX Live 2019 on Alpine Linux 3.12

2021-05-01 Thread Nicola
}/bib// BSTINPUTS.pbibtex = $TEXMFDOTDIR;$TEXMF/{pbibtex,bibtex}/bst// % upBibTeX bibliographies and style files. BIBINPUTS.upbibtex = $TEXMFDOTDIR;$TEXMF/{upbibtex,pbibtex,bibtex}/bib// BSTINPUTS.upbibtex = $TEXMFDOTDIR;$TEXMF/{upbibtex,pbibtex,bibtex}/bst// % ConTeXt. TEXINPUTS.conte

Re: [NTG-context] library 'uni' is unknown

2020-10-01 Thread Jairo A. del Rio
mkii is not available for ConTeXt MkIV, but you could make it > work with a proper font set (e.g. Quivira) or better, ask Hans for it. > > Wrt ifsym itself, it is a LaTeX specific package and it won't work out of > the box, so you could 1) use a Unicode alternative instead or 2) a

Re: [NTG-context] library 'uni' is unknown

2020-10-01 Thread Jairo A. del Rio
ou could 1) use a Unicode alternative instead or 2) adjust Metafont files so they could be compiled via Metapost. If you go for 2), the following would work as a poor's man solution for any symbol you need. \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{Flag} %From ifsym.gen draw (3pt,0pt)--(3pt,10pt); fill (

Re: [NTG-context] french translation of ConTeXt interface - progress (v3)

2020-07-20 Thread Hans Hagen
t actually have better alternatives for that ; the same for NormalizeFontHeight (not that many such camelcase names btw, often old macros that come from modules we made first) - Logos like MetaFont: no need for translation - beware of defining primitives (notr sure why kern was in the translat

Re: [NTG-context] Dangerous bend metafont/post code?

2020-05-28 Thread Gerben Wierda
I’ve used:\startMPpage[instance=doublefun]% Inspired by and largely copied from Donald Knuth's METAFONT dangerous bend glyphh=11;u=h/15;w=h*8.5/4.6;heavyline=2;y1=25/27h;x4=0;x1+x1=x1a+x1b=x4b+x2a=x4+x2=x4a+x2b=x3b+x3a=x3+x3=w;x4a=x4b=x4+u; x3b=x1a=x1-2u;y4+y4=y4a+y4b=y3b+y1a=y3+y1=y3a+y1b=y2

[NTG-context] Dangerous bend metafont/post code?

2020-05-27 Thread Gerben Wierda
To honour Donald Knuth, I’ve use his ‘dangerous bend’ (with attribution of course) in one of my publications. But I only had a low res image. Is the code of this symbol available somewhere so I can do it proper justice in a next edition? G ___

Re: [NTG-context] Dangerous bend metafont/post code?

2020-05-27 Thread Herbert Voss
Am 27.05.20 um 21:19 schrieb Gerben Wierda: To honour Donald Knuth, I’ve use his ‘dangerous bend’ (with attribution of course) in one of my publications. But I only had a low res image. Is the code of this symbol available somewhere so I can do it proper justice in a next edition? Knuth use

Re: [NTG-context] Dangerous bend metafont/post code?

2020-05-27 Thread Lutz Haseloff
You can find the code in The Metafontbook, page 106f. Greetings Lutz Am 27. Mai 2020 21:19:26 MESZ schrieb Gerben Wierda : >To honour Donald Knuth, I’ve use his ‘dangerous bend’ (with attribution >of course) in one of my publications. But I only had a low res image. >Is the code of this symbol av

Re: [NTG-context] Dangerous bend metafont/post code?

2020-05-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Sure, it is a character in manfnt.mf (and there is a pfb version of that as well) Taco > On 27 May 2020, at 21:20, Gerben Wierda wrote: > > To honour Donald Knuth, I’ve use his ‘dangerous bend’ (with attribution of > course) in one of my publications. But I only had a low res image. Is the

Re: [NTG-context] Arithmetic Overflow error in MetaFun

2020-05-16 Thread Hans Hagen
ok in the Metafun and Metafont manuals but nothing jumps out at me. In the minimum working example below, this Arithmetic Overflow occurs when xord =13.5 but I can get the calculation to work if I separate out the equation and then add together, since it seems to be failing on the pow(x

Re: [NTG-context] Arithmetic Overflow error in MetaFun

2020-05-16 Thread Keith McKay
g problems with an Arithmetic Overflow error when calculating the x and y values for functions of the form: y = ax^4 + bx^3 + cx^2 + dx + e to which I then add a bit of randomness and other embellishments. I have had a look in the Metafun and Metafont manuals but nothing jumps out at me. In t

[NTG-context] Arithmetic Overflow error in MetaFun

2020-05-16 Thread Keith McKay
Colleagues I'm having problems with an Arithmetic Overflow error when calculating the x and y values for functions of the form: y = ax^4 + bx^3 + cx^2 + dx + e to which I then add a bit of randomness and other embellishments. I have had a look in the Metafun and Metafont manuals but no

Re: [NTG-context] METAPOST: How do I get this 'max' cutafter to work?

2020-04-21 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/21/2020 5:52 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote: Pretty deep into MP now. Even looked up the reference in John Hobby’s manual to the METAFONT book, but that reference did not help. in the end it all has to do with accuracy and rounding ... the intersection_point trickery is probably less sensitive

Re: [NTG-context] METAPOST: How do I get this 'max' cutafter to work?

2020-04-21 Thread Gerben Wierda
sn’t take the previous result. I can’t rely on the length of cuttings being 0, because this is true in the case of no intersection (cuttings equals (0,0)) as well as a ‘perfect’ intersection at the end of the path (cuttings is the point at the end of the path). I could rely on cuttings being

Re: [NTG-context] METAPOST vardef returning multiple and non-numeric types as a single answer?

2020-03-16 Thread Gerben Wierda
s less weird to me because scantokens actually calls the METAPOST parser on a string as if read from a file. > or you could use global variables, of course. > > Main point: Metapost is not an easy language to grasp. If you want to > really understand how it works, you should study the Meta

Re: [NTG-context] METAPOST vardef returning multiple and non-numeric types as a single answer?

2020-03-16 Thread Hans Hagen
s, of course. Main point: Metapost is not an easy language to grasp. If you want to really understand how it works, you should study the Metafont book by DEK. > As you can clearly see, even experienced users are likely to make mistakes. it's the mixture of delayed parsing and expansion

Re: [NTG-context] METAPOST vardef returning multiple and non-numeric types as a single answer?

2020-03-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
ou could use global variables, of course. Main point: Metapost is not an easy language to grasp. If you want to really understand how it works, you should study the Metafont book by DEK. As you can clearly see, even experienced users are likely to make mistakes. Best wishes, Taco _

Re: [NTG-context] Question to installation ConTeXt from TeXlive

2020-03-01 Thread Tomas Hala
he Installer] # > # >+ Additional fonts # >+ ConTeXt etc. # >+ LuaTeX # >+ MetaPost and Metafont # # probably not as we have mplib buil tin # # >+ Recommended Fonts # >+ TeXWorks # # probably not unless you use it # # >+ Auxillary programmes for W. # # mkiv ... i gu

Re: [NTG-context] Question to installation ConTeXt from TeXlive

2020-02-18 Thread Hans Hagen
possible to use with ConTeXt MkIV (on W.). (The aim is not to install unusable stuff.) Legend: %=I guess no +=I guess yes ?=I am not sure [translated from the Czech version of the Installer] + Additional fonts + ConTeXt etc. + LuaTeX + MetaPost and Metafont probably not as we have mplib buil tin

[NTG-context] Question to installation ConTeXt from TeXlive

2020-02-18 Thread Tomas Hala
.). (The aim is not to install unusable stuff.) Legend: %=I guess no +=I guess yes ?=I am not sure [translated from the Czech version of the Installer] + Additional fonts + ConTeXt etc. + LuaTeX + MetaPost and Metafont + Recommended Fonts + TeXWorks + Auxillary programmes for W. % Additional for

Re: [NTG-context] (fake) bold as font feature

2018-03-28 Thread Hans Hagen
glyph should be transformed instead of apply to all the glyphs the same transformation (which is faster, this is sure). This is the key concept of metafont --- in my opinion better than the variable fonts . I am not saying that this impossible to do in context-mkiv ( *it is* possible: just see 5.3 Vi

Re: [NTG-context] (fake) bold as font feature

2018-03-28 Thread luigi scarso
things must match. As Knuth shown , the right way is to design from the beginning how each glyph should be transformed instead of apply to all the glyphs the same transformation (which is faster, this is sure). This is the key concept of metafont --- in my opinion better than the variable fonts . I

Re: [NTG-context] [metapost] ANN: Updated Vim scripts for METAFONT/MetaPost

2016-10-05 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Nicola wrote: > FYI: > https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/2ec618c9feac4573b154510236ad8121c77d0eca > > Click on "changed files". > good. Btw http://www.guitex.org/home/meeting -- luigi __

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] 2 years of METAFONT

2016-09-22 Thread luigi scarso
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:28 AM, luigi scarso wrote: > http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/MFtalk.pdf > > page 52 > page 56 -57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LR_lBEy7qU -- luigi ___ If your question is of

[NTG-context] [OT] 2 years of METAFONT

2016-09-22 Thread luigi scarso
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/MFtalk.pdf page 52 page 56 -57 -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.

Re: [NTG-context] ANN: Updated Vim scripts for METAFONT/MetaPost

2016-09-18 Thread Nicola
On 2016-09-18 12:09:12 +, luigi scarso said: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Nicola wrote: Hello, as a Vim user, I was not satisfied with its support for MetaPost (especially indenting). I have updated the {mf,mp}.vim scripts in Vim, which you find attached, and which I have forwarded to

Re: [NTG-context] [metapost] ANN: Updated Vim scripts for METAFONT/MetaPost

2016-09-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Nicola wrote: > Hello, > as a Vim user, I was not satisfied with its support for MetaPost > (especially indenting). I have updated the {mf,mp}.vim scripts > in Vim, which you find attached, and which I have forwarded to > the respective maintainers. Hopefully, the

Re: [NTG-context] ANN: Updated Vim scripts for METAFONT/MetaPost

2016-09-18 Thread Nicola
On 2016-09-18 10:46:44 +, Nicola said: I have updated the {mf,mp}.vim scripts in Vim ConTeXt users will benefit from these scripts, too, inside MetaPost environments. Put these lines in ./vim/after/ftplugin/context.vim: setlocal omnifunc=syntaxcomplete#Complete let g:omni_syntax_group

Re: [NTG-context] What are your ten (10) favorite typography books of the last 50 years? (*not* OT)

2016-05-15 Thread Alan BRASLAU
n und Werk des Typographen Jan Tschichold}, publisher = {Verlag der Kunst}, language = {german}, } @Book{Knuth1979, author= {Knuth, D. E.}, year = {1979}, title = {TeX and METAFONT}, subtitle = {new directions in typesetting}, publisher = {American Mathematical Socie

Re: [NTG-context] deprecated startMPenvironment

2016-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
obodyfont[small]\stopMPenvironment \startMPpage % metafont code \stopMPpage \stoptext \endinput This is called by context --run --once etc. producing the figure and in this case modifying the font to a smaller size. Note, the context call occurs on the fly inside a \directlua{{os.execute(..)}. You may find t

Re: [NTG-context] deprecated startMPenvironment

2016-04-04 Thread Meer, Hans van der
On 04 Apr 2016, at 00:12, Hans Hagen mailto:pra...@wxs.nl>> wrote: On 4/3/2016 4:07 PM, Meer, Hans van der wrote: Previously I could do the following \starttext \startMPenvironment[+]\switchtobodyfont[small]\stopMPenvironment \startMPpage % metafont code \stopMPpage \stoptext \endinput

Re: [NTG-context] deprecated startMPenvironment

2016-04-03 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/3/2016 4:07 PM, Meer, Hans van der wrote: Previously I could do the following \starttext \startMPenvironment[+]\switchtobodyfont[small]\stopMPenvironment \startMPpage % metafont code \stopMPpage \stoptext \endinput This is called by context --run --once etc. producing the figure and in

[NTG-context] deprecated startMPenvironment

2016-04-03 Thread Meer, Hans van der
Previously I could do the following \starttext \startMPenvironment[+]\switchtobodyfont[small]\stopMPenvironment \startMPpage % metafont code \stopMPpage \stoptext \endinput This is called by context --run --once etc. producing the figure and in this case modifying the font to a smaller size

[NTG-context] Fwd: BachoTeX 2015 - call for papers and registrations open

2015-03-17 Thread Willi Egger
phy > == > Since several years we are trying not to forget what TeX/MetaFont and > their variants and combinations are for. Remember why Prof. Knuth set > out to create TeX? We will continue in this spirit also during the > forthcoming BachoTeX conference. Here is Andrzej Tomasze

[NTG-context] BachoTeX 2015: Various faces of typography

2015-03-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jerzy Ludwichowski BachoTeX 2015: Various faces of typography == Since several years we are trying not to forget what TeX/MetaFont and their variants and combinations are for. Remember why Prof. Knuth set out

Re: [NTG-context] Samples updates and bibtex entries

2014-06-07 Thread Hans Hagen
g and clearly well executed, Not only is the concept exciting and clearly well executed, There are a few other differences, but these are most likely due to publisher's style sheet and the lack of availability of logotypes for TeX and Metafont. knuth.tex is from page 50 of the book

[NTG-context] Samples updates and bibtex entries

2014-06-06 Thread Rik Kabel
ences, but these are most likely due to publisher's style sheet and the lack of availability of logotypes for TeX and Metafont. knuth.tex is from page 50 of the book from the chaff and separate the sheep from the goats. from the chaff, and separate the sheep from the goats. --

Re: [NTG-context] \MetaFont in 2014-06-05 MKIV

2014-06-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/6/2014 10:12 PM, Rik wrote: The following produces two lines with the Metafont logo when using TL13, but fails in the current MKIV with the identical complaint for either of the lines commented out: Type1: Could not understand Type1 font: C:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/type1/hoekwater/mflogo

[NTG-context] \MetaFont in 2014-06-05 MKIV

2014-06-06 Thread Rik
The following produces two lines with the Metafont logo when using TL13, but fails in the current MKIV with the identical complaint for either of the lines commented out: Type1: Could not understand Type1 font: C:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/type1/hoekwater/mflogo/logo10.pfb \starttext

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Group Journal 2012 Table of Contents

2013-10-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
carso We present MFLua, a MetaFont version which is capable of code instrumentation and has an embedded Lua interpreter that allows glyphs curves extraction and post-processing. We also show and discuss an example of a MetaFont source processed by MFLua to output an OpenType font

[NTG-context] Fwd: EuroBachoTeX 2013 ante portas

2013-03-05 Thread Willi Egger
gt; We count on your participation - if you visited one of the previous > conferences, > you will remember that it worth coming. And it will be so this year! > > Papers/presentations > ==== > And now the conference content "as usual": we look forward to the &

Re: [NTG-context] Emoticons ;-)

2013-02-12 Thread Hans Hagen
least partially on MetaFont code by Taco from 1998? I am aware that one can use images as characters as well, but I am looking for a cleaner solution. Incidentally (and irrelevant for my current purposes), my dream/nightmare would be to have animated emoticons in a PDF file. Is that at all pos

[NTG-context] Emoticons ;-)

2013-02-11 Thread Matthias Weber
Dear all, I hope this doesn't get me banned from the ConTeXt list. What is the easiest/best way to add emoticons in ConTeXt as letters/symbols? In LaTeX, there is a package wasysym that gives \smiley and \frownie. It appears to be based at least partially on MetaFont code by Taco from 199

Re: [NTG-context] A series of articles about text-editors for the MAPS

2012-08-08 Thread Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz
l for writing TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt documents. > > So setup is: > > * emacs > * auctex > * ConTeXt > * reftex > * preview-latex > * etexshow (a Browser for ConTeXt commands) > * metapost-mode+ (metapost preview) > * meta-mode

Re: [NTG-context] A series of articles about text-editors for the MAPS

2012-08-08 Thread luigi scarso
> * auctex > * ConTeXt > * reftex > * preview-latex > * etexshow (a Browser for ConTeXt commands) > * metapost-mode+ (metapost preview) > * meta-mode (for metafont and metapost) > > so far the best setup I had and where I will stay :) > > I'm also with emacs and

Re: [NTG-context] A series of articles about text-editors for the MAPS

2012-08-08 Thread Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz
. Together with auctex and reftex emacs is in my opinion the best tool for writing TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt documents. So setup is: * emacs * auctex * ConTeXt * reftex * preview-latex * etexshow (a Browser for ConTeXt commands) * metapost-mode+ (metapost preview) * meta-mode (for metafont and metapost) so

Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] new/missing feature in luamplib

2012-08-07 Thread Hans Hagen
and expansion compared to tex there are also some conceptual issues involved. It also relates to input buffers (and file reading) and io is somewhat messy in mp and on the agenda for cleaning up. (Luigi Scarso has done this with metafont, so that mig

Re: [NTG-context] ntg-style error

2012-06-06 Thread Taco Hoekwater
-.55\wd\scratchbox \raise\scratchdimen\hbox{\lower\ht\scratchbox\copy\scratchbox}% \kern-.2\wd\scratchbox\TeX}} \def\CONTEXT{Con{\TeX}t} \def\ConTeXt{Con{\TeX}t} \def\METAFONT{Metafont} \def\METAPOST{MetaPost} \def\POSTSCRIPT{PostScript} \def\acro#1{{\switchtobodyfont[9pt]#1}} %%%

[NTG-context] strange output in pdf when using the filter module

2012-02-22 Thread Jan-Erik Hägglöf
terateHaskell, Lua, M3u, Makefile, Mandoc, Matlab, Maxima, Mediawiki, Metafont, Mips, Modula2, Modula3, Monobasic, Nasm, Noweb, Objectivec, Objectivecpp, Ocaml, Octave, Pango, Pascal, Perl, Php, Pike, Postscript, Prolog, Python, R, Relaxngcompact, Rhtml, Ruby, Scala, Scheme, Sci, Sed, Sgml,

Re: [NTG-context] MnSymbol (math) support in ConTeXt

2011-12-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
th and Minion Math from Johannes Küster. Shame on me. I remember Johannes fiddling with Minion shapes and metafont to type1 conversions since I first met him about 7 year ago, as well as work on the motionmountain.net book being done in Minion, using the most complex combinations of LaTeX packages

Re: [NTG-context] metapost question

2011-10-21 Thread Meer, H. van der
following question in Knuth's Metafont book. >> The following definition with a trailing text argument: >> >> def mydef (expr a, b, c) text modifier = >> if : > > Have you already tried > >if modifier = "" : > >> else

Re: [NTG-context] metapost question

2011-10-21 Thread Nicola
In article <0e2e620e-1148-41ad-9966-54a594fcc...@xs4all.nl>, Hans van der Meer wrote: > I cannot find the answer to the following question in Knuth's Metafont book. > The following definition with a trailing text argument: > > def mydef (expr a, b, c) text modifier = >

Re: [NTG-context] metapost question

2011-10-21 Thread Meer, H. van der
On 21 okt. 2011, at 17:13, Peter Rolf wrote: > Am 21.10.2011 15:05, schrieb Hans van der Meer: >> I cannot find the answer to the following question in Knuth's Metafont book. >> The following definition with a trailing text argument: >> >> def mydef (expr a,

Re: [NTG-context] metapost question

2011-10-21 Thread Peter Rolf
Am 21.10.2011 15:05, schrieb Hans van der Meer: > I cannot find the answer to the following question in Knuth's Metafont book. > The following definition with a trailing text argument: > > def mydef (expr a, b, c) text modifier = > if : Have you already tried

[NTG-context] metapost question

2011-10-21 Thread Hans van der Meer
I cannot find the answer to the following question in Knuth's Metafont book. The following definition with a trailing text argument: def mydef (expr a, b, c) text modifier = if : else: fi enddef; How can I do the switch on an empty or nonempty modifier argument?

Re: [NTG-context] metapost not adding picture

2011-10-09 Thread Peter Rolf
rrentpicture := currentpicture + v; use addto currentpicture also v; > \stopMPpage > > The error is: ! Not implemented: (picture)+(picture). > Yet Knuth's metafont book in Chapter 13 tells me, quote: "Pictures can be > added or subtracted;" > Is the c

[NTG-context] metapost not adding picture

2011-10-09 Thread Meer, H. van der
)+(picture). Yet Knuth's metafont book in Chapter 13 tells me, quote: "Pictures can be added or subtracted;" Is the current metafont implementation lacking this feature? Will it be implemented in the near future? Ha

[NTG-context] [punknova][PATCH] README.md: Fix typos

2011-08-17 Thread Paul Menzel
(http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb09-2/tb21knut.pdf). -The Original Metafont sources were adapted to a more Metapost friendly -form by Taco Hoekwater et. al. +The original Metafont sources were adapted to a more MetaPost friendly +form by Taco Hoekwater et al. Punk is a dynamic font, every time a gly

[NTG-context] metapost fill between outlines

2011-02-20 Thread Reviczky, Adam
background colors, so the use of this is very limited. How does it work with fonts (Metafont)? Who's filling that out, because thats also just based on outlines, right? Thanks Adam ___ If your question is of intere

Re: [NTG-context] some equivalent of latex beamer \item?

2011-02-19 Thread Pau
e-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-ghz.

[NTG-context] Fwd: EuroBachoTeX 2011 -- Call for papers

2011-01-18 Thread Willi Egger
ants will be given the opportunity to present their TeX > and typographic results in the form of posters. We will provide > exhibition space. Perhaps new ideas or solutions will emerge? > > CALL FOR TeX PEARLS > > We are continuing the tradition of ``The Pearls of TeX Programming&#

Re: [NTG-context] Metafont usage

2010-11-20 Thread Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz
In article , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 17:14, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote: >> In article <4ce65d02.7060...@elvenkind.com>, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >>> On 11/18/2010 11:33 PM, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote: >>>>  

Re: [NTG-context] Metafont usage

2010-11-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 17:14, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote: > In article <4ce65d02.7060...@elvenkind.com>, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> On 11/18/2010 11:33 PM, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote: >>>     I want to use the open source MetaFont for suetterli

Re: [NTG-context] Metafont usage

2010-11-19 Thread Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz
In article <4ce65d02.7060...@elvenkind.com>, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > On 11/18/2010 11:33 PM, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote: >> Hi List, hi Hans, >> >> I want to use the open source MetaFont for suetterlin and >> schwellbacher in a docume

Re: [NTG-context] Metafont usage

2010-11-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 11/18/2010 11:33 PM, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote: Hi List, hi Hans, I want to use the open source MetaFont for suetterlin and schwellbacher in a document, is there somewhere a guide where to put them and how to load them in ConTeXt or could they be included in

[NTG-context] Metafont usage

2010-11-18 Thread Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz
Hi List, hi Hans, I want to use the open source MetaFont for suetterlin and schwellbacher in a document, is there somewhere a guide where to put them and how to load them in ConTeXt or could they be included into the ConTeXt tree. If I get a hint how I would also provide a .map

Re: [NTG-context] Gnuplot module: Patching of Gnuplot binary still needed?

2010-11-15 Thread Mojca Miklavec
hat the number of ConTeXt/Gnuplot users might be small, alone for the fact that the number of ConTeXt users (several thousand?) is much smaller than the number of LaTeX addicts, but I would be glad to see 20 users of metafont terminal when not even the output of metapost terminal is satisfact

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