[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

2024-01-29 Thread jbf
] Then at an appropriate point after each \startchapter I have placed (as an example): \writetolist[chron]{}{{\bf 29 April 2017,} Speech, Panama City} This gives me my list, but in page number order. How do I get the date (e.g. 29 April 2017) to be the ordering factor in the list. I assume

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

2024-01-29 Thread Bruce Horrocks
terium=all] >>> >>> Then at an appropriate point after each \startchapter I have placed (as an >>> example): >>> >>> \writetolist[chron]{}{{\bf 29 April 2017,} Speech, Panama City} >>> >>> This gives me my list, but in page number ord

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

2024-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
] At the back of the book: \placelist[chron][criterium=all] Then at an appropriate point after each \startchapter I have placed (as an example): \writetolist[chron]{}{{\bf 29 April 2017,} Speech, Panama City} This gives me my list, but in page number order. How do I get the date (e.g. 29 April

[NTG-context] Re: chronological TOC

2024-01-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
=all] Then at an appropriate point after each \startchapter I have placed (as an example): \writetolist[chron]{}{{\bf 29 April 2017,} Speech, Panama City} This gives me my list, but in page number order. How do I get the date (e.g. 29 April 2017) to be the ordering factor in the list. I assume

[NTG-context] chronological TOC

2024-01-26 Thread jbf
after each \startchapter I have placed (as an example): \writetolist[chron]{}{{\bf 29 April 2017,} Speech, Panama City} This gives me my list, but in page number order. How do I get the date (e.g. 29 April 2017) to be the ordering factor in the list. I assume it will be something to do

Re: [NTG-context] Switching fonts changes framedtext justification

2022-04-08 Thread Thangalin via ntg-context
I certainly can't claim credit for the speech bubbles! https://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Speech_bubble https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2011/056496.html I modified Wolfgang's code to provide a control for the tail, and, thanks to Pablo, a decent font for embedding emojis

Re: [NTG-context] Switching fonts changes framedtext justification

2022-04-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 08.04.22 um 02:25 schrieb Thangalin via ntg-context: Works flawlessly, thank you! Here's a demo with left and right speech bubbles: Thank you for the speech bubbles! This is something I need for the messenger chats in my novel. Will be a good learning experience to adapt your solution

Re: [NTG-context] Switching fonts changes framedtext justification

2022-04-07 Thread Thangalin via ntg-context
Works flawlessly, thank you! Here's a demo with left and right speech bubbles: \definefont [TextFontEmoji] [OpenSansEmoji] \startuseMPgraphic{TextBubble}{side} z1 = (0, 0) ; z2 = (OverlayWidth, 0) ; z3 = (OverlayWidth, OverlayHeight) ; z4 = (0, OverlayHeight) ; offset := 1 ; tail

Re: [NTG-context] Quotation dash issues with semantic markup

2020-01-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/17/2020 8:11 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: It's possible to use leaders to remove multiple dashes and also dashes at the end of a paragraph but this will only work for the PDF. A limitation is that you can't use the existing \speech and \aside commands because they use groups which

Re: [NTG-context] Quotation dash issues with semantic markup

2020-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
~Speech should always have a dash at the start, but none at the end of a paragraph. \quotedash~Dialog asides should not duplicate dashes,~\endash\ he said.~\quotedash\ Also, this doesn't reflect the spacing mentioned in section \in[extra].  \quotedash~nor, as above, add ones at the end

Re: [NTG-context] Quotation dash issues with semantic markup

2019-12-30 Thread Hans Hagen
at this style and cringe, but \cap{A.} I'm not looking for grammatical input, and \cap{B.} I'm intending this for a non-English language where the quotation dash (though still not most common) isn't as out of place. \stopsection \startsection[title=Desired rendering] \quotedash~Speech should

[NTG-context] local command description

2019-04-16 Thread Damien Thiriet
Hi, Last year after my speech at BachoTeX, Hans told me, that we can get a local catalogue of ConTeXt macros. So I wrote on a piece of paper two commands but did not note much more and now I am not sure what do they stand for mtxrun --script server --auto When I run this, I got this on my

Re: [NTG-context] "fake" space for better reflow

2016-11-30 Thread Hans Hagen
(there are quite a number of questions on tex.SX where the heuristic fails, e.g. in code listings), while reflow seems to need glyphs. The speech of Ross Moore on TUG14 seems to indicate that \pdfinterwordspaceon was introduced in pdftex to get around this problem. http://river-valley.zeeba.tv/%E2%80%9Cf

Re: [NTG-context] "fake" space for better reflow

2016-11-30 Thread Ulrike Fischer
heurisitic more or less based on the size of the space (there are quite a number of questions on tex.SX where the heuristic fails, e.g. in code listings), while reflow seems to need glyphs. The speech of Ross Moore on TUG14 seems to indicate that \pdfinterwordspaceon was introduced in pdftex to get

Re: [NTG-context] Ka-Pow comic book effect?

2016-07-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
ector-ka-pow-comic-speech-bubble-cartoon-180152483.jpg > > I would like to use it for one of my slides for my talk at TUG 2016. \startreusableMPgraphic{star} fill dir(90)--dir(-60)--dir(150)--dir(30)--dir(-120)--cycle xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight scaled 3/

[NTG-context] Ka-Pow comic book effect?

2016-07-18 Thread Pavneet Arora
Would anyone have a template on how to create a comic book “Ka-Pow” effect (or something similar) as per: http://thumb101.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/752857/180152483/stock-vector-ka-pow-comic-speech-bubble-cartoon-180152483.jpg I would like to use it for one of my slides for my talk

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

2016-05-15 Thread Alan BRASLAU
For those who want to play with the bibliography/publications module... see attached. Warning: there were many errors in the references, and I corrected the most obvious but otherwise did not check any of the data. Note also that some information (such as publishers or addresses) are missing.

Re: [NTG-context] 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature

2012-11-30 Thread Hans Hagen
of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people. \language[gr]Επειδή η παραγνώριση και η περιφρόνηση των δικαιωμάτων του ανθρώπου οδήγησαν σε πράξεις βαρβαρότητας, που εξεγείρουν

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-10 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Andreas and Wolfgang, I wikified both your examples for future reference: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/speech_bubble (But unfortunatley I don't know how to add the PDF results of the TeX codes, but I don't think this is of importance). Best regards: OK On 8 févr. 2011, at 17:08,

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-10 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 10.02.2011 um 11:23 schrieb Otared Kavian: Hi Andreas and Wolfgang, I wikified both your examples for future reference: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/speech_bubble (But unfortunatley I don't know how to add the PDF results of the TeX codes, but I don't think this is of

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-09 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Wolfgang, Yes, with the latest beta your example works fine. Many thanks and best regards: OK On 8 févr. 2011, at 21:14, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.02.2011 um 21:06 schrieb Otared Kavian: Hi Wolfgang, Just out of curiosity I tested your example file, but mkiv stops upon !

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-08 Thread Philipp A.
@wolfgang: was my example helpful? ___ 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/listinfo/ntg-context webpage :

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 08.02.2011 um 13:09 schrieb Philipp A.: @wolfgang: was my example helpful? Your example doesn’t work and I’m not interested to look into the manual how to fix it. MetaPost’s advantage (with mkiv) is that it’s faster than tikz. What’s is a library with a collection of shapes like tikz

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-08 Thread Andreas Harder
Am 08.02.2011 um 16:44 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 08.02.2011 um 13:09 schrieb Philipp A.: @wolfgang: was my example helpful? Your example doesn’t work and I’m not interested to look into the manual how to fix it. This worked for me. tikz-speechbubbles.tex Description: Binary

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 08.02.2011 um 17:08 schrieb Andreas Harder: This worked for me. Thanks, i wrapped it in a environment. \usemodule[tikz,annotation] \usetikzlibrary[shapes.callouts] \define[2]\SpeechbubbleCommand {\starttikzpicture[remember picture] \node[rectangle callout, draw] (node:ref)

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-08 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Wolfgang, Just out of curiosity I tested your example file, but mkiv stops upon ! Undefined control sequence. l.16 \defineannotation The version I have is ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.05 11:37 MKIV. Best regards: OK On 8 févr. 2011, at 17:38, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 08.02.2011 um 21:06 schrieb Otared Kavian: Hi Wolfgang, Just out of curiosity I tested your example file, but mkiv stops upon ! Undefined control sequence. l.16 \defineannotation The version I have is ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.05 11:37 MKIV. Please update your installation,

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 02.02.2011 um 18:12 schrieb Ian Lawrence: Evening all: Has anyone got a nicer \speechbubble definition up their sleeve? Here is not-nice one, so you know the floor: \define [1] \speechBubble {\blank \framed [width=.6\textwidth ,autowidth=force,align={flushleft},

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-03 Thread Ian Lawrence
Thanks Wolfgang.. In case there are any others who are in need.. Here is one with curvy speech bubbles, left and right, and wrapped up so they don't overhang any text. __ \startuseMPgraphic{speechL} z1 = (0.25cm,0) ; z2=(1 cm,0) ; z3 = (0,-1cm) ; z4 = (2cm,0);z5 = (OverlayWidth-0.25cm,0) ; z6

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-03 Thread Philipp A.
for the record: the TikZ package has built-in parameterized speech bubbles. ___ 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

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.02.2011 um 18:38 schrieb Philipp A.: for the record: the TikZ package has built-in parameterized speech bubbles. Can you make a example? Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well

Re: [NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-03 Thread Philipp A.
Am 3.2.2011 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 03.02.2011 um 18:38 schrieb Philipp A.: for the record: the TikZ package has built-in parameterized speech bubbles. Can you make a example? Wolfgang of course. you can read about it in the pgfmanual in chapter 39.7: \usepackage[tikz

[NTG-context] Speech bubbles

2011-02-02 Thread Ian Lawrence
Evening all: Has anyone got a nicer \speechbubble definition up their sleeve? Here is not-nice one, so you know the floor: \define [1] \speechBubble {\blank \framed [width=.6\textwidth ,autowidth=force,align={flushleft}, background=color, backgroundcolor=darkblue, foreground=color,

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

2011-01-18 Thread Willi Egger
systems, typographers and other users of such systems want to share their thoughts and experience. In addition, we look forward to papers on support that typography systems can offer to the disabled, e.g., in connection with sign languages or generating speech (e.g., from TeX's mathematical

[NTG-context] End of page orphan/widow control

2010-11-29 Thread Honza Hejzl
above manual and wiki… but maybe I am not so technically capable.) In case I have longer text with many quotations, one-line paragraphs and direct speech (typically any novel), I am able to reach a stage without orphans and widows but context do what it want with an end of every problematic page

Re: [NTG-context] Grammar

2010-07-28 Thread Marcin Borkowski
? Only because I don't believe some claims I find to be highly controversial? And BTW, where's the famous freedom of speech? I do not claim that I have any research behind my opinion, but I claim that neither have you. Any experiment in social science involves so many factors that obtaining any

Re: [NTG-context] Grammar

2010-07-27 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
replace some pronoun(s) by a symbol? I don't see how that would work. And even if it was adopted in writing, it would inevitably be used in speech, too, and would just as inevitably gain some particular pronounciation in actual language(s).[*] such as the male/female symbols already mentioned

[NTG-context] hyphenated(ugly)url [URGENT]

2008-07-11 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I need to typeset a document containing several nice url's like \enableregime[utf] \starttext see \hyphenatedurl{www.europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gtdoc=SPEECH/00/475%7C0%7CRAPIDlg=DE } \stoptext Any idea?? Steffen (still MKII

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenated(ugly)url [URGENT]

2008-07-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to typeset a document containing several nice url's like \enableregime[utf] \starttext see \hyphenatedurl{www.europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gtdoc=SPEECH/00/475%7C0%7CRAPIDlg

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenated(ugly)url [URGENT]

2008-07-11 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gtdoc=SPEECH/00/475%7C0%7CRAPIDlg=DE } \stoptext Any idea?? Use the following patch for the moment. \let\normalhyphenatedurl\hyphenatedurl \bgroup \catcode`\%=11 \gdef\hyphenatedurl {\bgroup \catcode`\%=11 \expandafter\egroup

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today? (slightly off-topic, flame and nostalgic)

2008-06-12 Thread Maurí­cio
a window for freedom of speech and expression, (...) Sure. I would like to have something simpler than TeX, not more complex or hardware eater. There are places where people still go outside to relieve themselves, (...) Like myself :) Some folks think abstractly and can whack out macros

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-06-11 Thread Charles P. Schaum
documents for all the world to see even if you are out in the bush with a generator and mosquito netting. So TeX's stability has the interesting potential side effect of giving a voice to the voiceless. Our cast-off hardware becomes a window for freedom of speech and expression, as well as the free

Re: [NTG-context] HZ and DVI

2007-01-12 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
it's not free software (in the free speech sense), so I have two reasons to not use it. One (I hope) short project that's high on my to-do list is to add file watching to xpdf. Maybe using inotify or dnotify, at least on linux. The word on the street is that inotify is the better choice, but I

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: presentation tool

2006-07-12 Thread Johan Sandblom
Looks amazing. Looking at the license it appears in fact to be free as in speech (distributed under GPL 2 or later), which of course only makes it more attractive! Johan 2006/7/12, Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As the subject line says, this is slightly OT, but it may be of interest

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Math 120 textbook for Fall 2006

2006-06-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
, but I'm not sure if math-to-speech converters support that already. Didn't try it out, but the link that Aditya pointed out seems interesting as well. Mojca ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts problem

2006-06-01 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
, and this has not been solved for the final release, it has even become somewhat worse. There's quite a lot of whining on the mailing lists and in the forums, and even some of the developers call this is an intermediate release, which, I guess, is marketing speech for banana ware... Good night

Re: [NTG-context] audio files in pdf

2006-02-10 Thread luigi scarso
, color=] \setupcolors [state=start] \startJSpreamble speech used now function SpeakToMe(str) { tts.qText(str) ; tts.talk() ; } \stopJSpreamble \starttext \startsetups[text] For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with German quotes and kerning

2006-01-27 Thread Hans Hagen
/speech handler is now replaced by the delimited text one although that one is not yet activated; so any adaptions should take place there; i added an option: \setupdelimitedtext[quotation][method=font] test \quotation{test} test or: \definedelimitedtext[whatever][quotation] \setupdelimitedtext

Re: [NTG-context] Bibliography module +BibteX with \cite inside buffer

2006-01-06 Thread Alexandre Billon
}, year = {2003}, author = {Peter Achinstein}, } @ARTICLE{allen2004, author = {Paul P. Allen and M. Collins}, title = {Misattribution of External Speech in Patients with Hallucinations and Delusions}, journal = {Schizophrenia Research}, year = {2004}, pages = {277-287}, } 2006/1/6, Taco

Re: [NTG-context] [ANN] XEmTeX 0.5-RC0

2005-06-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
is a good Unicode editor, particularly in the areas of bidi and Arabic script. There is apparently only one editor in the world that does unicode, bidi, and arabic script correctly, and that's UniPad (http://www.unipad.org/main/ ), but it's not free (as in speech) and lacks many-to-most TeX-related

Re: [NTG-context] Old-style figures throughout the document

2005-04-27 Thread William F. Adams
versions of the old-style figure versions as well). Bringhurst's rule 3.2.3 would seem a better arbiter, ``Refer typographical disputes to the higher courts of speech and thinking.''. Knuth, in ``Typesetting Concrete Mathematics'' (_Digital Typography_, pg. 369) has a cogent observation when he

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-updater i-Package updated

2005-03-04 Thread Uwe Koloska
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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Getting linuxtex.zip working

2004-11-02 Thread Uwe Koloska
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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and the blind

2004-04-15 Thread Bill McClain
approach. If special elements of the text are tagged, then they could be translated appropriately for the blind reader. I use a text-to-speech program for proofing some of my documents and have found it helpful to filter the original text and emit a coded version which makes it easy for the speech

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Announcement: texutil.c

2004-03-19 Thread Uwe Koloska
file. Will this be available for the public? From time to time the question aroses on this list to get a ConTeXt environment without installing a full TeX distribution -- maybe you will have the answer to this :-) Uwe -- voiceINTERconnect www.voiceinterconnect.de ... smart speech applications

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Announcement: texutil.c

2004-03-19 Thread Uwe Koloska
this one? What is needed to expand it for the other systems? Uwe -- voiceINTERconnect www.voiceinterconnect.de ... smart speech applications from germany ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Announcement: texutil.c

2004-03-19 Thread Uwe Koloska
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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Announcement: texutil.c

2004-03-19 Thread Uwe Koloska
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Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: bibloigraphies

2003-12-04 Thread Uwe Koloska
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Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: bibloigraphies

2003-12-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
the zip file). trying to download m-bib.zip: You don't have permission to access /bib/m-bib.zip on this server. Uwe Koloska -- voiceINTERconnect www.voiceinterconnect.de ... smart speech applications from germany ___ ntg-context mailing