Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

2008-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Diego Depaoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/16 Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Many thanks in advance for your enlightening help. For some obscure reason right fontnames are linked with wrong filenames. This is the output of mtxrun --script fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

2008-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Alan, calm down. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1) \definefont[myChapterFont][myHeadingsFont sa 1.728] You could either use a real font name like 'Arial' or a symbolic name defined with \definefontsynonym like 'Serif', 'SerifBold', 'Sans',

Re: [NTG-context] Reading modules from zip files

2008-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi again, is there now a solution for my problem or should ask again in a few months. I don't need this feature for the moment but it is nice for tests with new beta version without the need to overwrite my global version in the tex tree. Wolfgang On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] Latest beta + LuaTeX

2008-07-17 Thread Peter Rolf
Martin Schröder schrieb: 2008/7/16 Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the results (don't continue to read if you want a happy end): pdftex 1.40.3 produces a pdf, that shows no side effects when it's included by the same version of pdftex (1.40.3). if i include that pdf with the current 1.40.9-rc1 i

Re: [NTG-context] fonts (in luatex) (again)

2008-07-17 Thread Andrea Valle
Ok, as I'd really like to teach ConTeXt with font switching :) I repost here a real important question IMHO, solemnly promising to wikify the answer: Could anyone comment this famous piece of code? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV#A_.28Complete. 29_Typescript_Example I'd like to add

Re: [NTG-context] Latest beta + LuaTeX

2008-07-17 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf schrieb: Martin Schröder schrieb: 2008/7/16 Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the results (don't continue to read if you want a happy end): pdftex 1.40.3 produces a pdf, that shows no side effects when it's included by the same version of pdftex (1.40.3). if i include that pdf with

Re: [NTG-context] Latest beta + LuaTeX

2008-07-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Peter Rolf wrote: Martin Schröder schrieb: 2008/7/16 Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the results (don't continue to read if you want a happy end): pdftex 1.40.3 produces a pdf, that shows no side effects when it's included by the same version of pdftex

Re: [NTG-context] Latest beta + LuaTeX

2008-07-17 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec schrieb: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Peter Rolf wrote: Martin Schröder schrieb: 2008/7/16 Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the results (don't continue to read if you want a happy end): pdftex 1.40.3 produces a pdf, that shows no side effects when it's included by the same

Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

2008-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1) \definefont[myChapterFont][myHeadingsFont sa 1.728] You could either use a real font name like 'Arial' or a symbolic name defined with \definefontsynonym like 'Serif', 'SerifBold', 'Sans', 'Dummy-Regular' etc. in the second

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, David. I tried \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf A.~E.~Samuel \stoptext and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The tilde is not really a good way for me to go. The problem is that I publish a journal in which the bibliography is punctuated

Re: [NTG-context] Reading modules from zip files

2008-07-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi again, is there now a solution for my problem or should ask again in a few months. ask gain later, i have no time now to look into it -) - Hans Hagen |

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Alan Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii. One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by typing .\space, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the inter-word spacing in \starttext A. E.

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread Alan Bowen
That is my understanding too, Wolfgang. But I am just not seeing it either in the example or in my documents. So what’s up? As I said in a more recent posting, this is affecting my journal adversely. Alan On Jul 17, 2008, at 07;56,25 , Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKIV

2008-07-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Willi, Willi Egger wrote: If the same drawing-set is compiled with texexec in MKII mode (This is MetaPost, version 1.085 (kpathsea version 3.5.6dev), some elements are distorted. It concerns elements, which are rotated and shifted. The fullcircle contained in the drawing is

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread David
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, David. I tried \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf A.~E.~Samuel \stoptext and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The tilde is not really a good way for me to go. The problem is

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2008/7/17 David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, David. I tried \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf A.~E.~Samuel \stoptext and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The tilde is not really a good way

[NTG-context] \setuphheadertexts for titles.

2008-07-17 Thread John Culleton
Here is my current \setupheadertexts \setupheadertexts[text] [chapter][pagenumber][pagenumber][Don't Leave Your Company's Money on the Table] It works fine for chapters. I have a few titles that I want to have running heads for also, such as Preface, Introduction and so on. I tried using a

[NTG-context] installing fonts

2008-07-17 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Hi, after watching the list for some time, I decided to try luatex. On ubuntu, I installed the minimals as indicated in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals (in my home folder) A simple testfile works with texmfstart texexec file (Mk II) and context file (Mk IV). I then tried to

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphheadertexts for titles.

2008-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:02 PM, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my current \setupheadertexts \setupheadertexts[text] [chapter][pagenumber][pagenumber][Don't Leave Your Company's Money on the Table] It works fine for chapters. I have a few titles that I want to have running

Re: [NTG-context] installing fonts

2008-07-17 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Jörg Hagmann wrote: Hi, after watching the list for some time, I decided to try luatex. On [snip] 2. Shouldn't mktexlsr be enough, if you use Mk II? mktexlsr is enough for MkII, but MkII used pdftex and not luatex and using ttf fonts with MkII is complicated (You need

Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

2008-07-17 Thread Alan Stone
Thanks Wolfgang. calm down. Done. I've let some steam off earlier on.OoOo:O) \setuphead[chapter][style=\ myHeadingsFont\myChapterFont] You have to load 'myHeadingsfont' typescript before you can use them because they are not available on outer level, only fonts used as bodyfont can

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, David. I had not realized that there was a command \fixedspaces. Is it documented somewhere? The sample file \starttext \fixedspaces A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf A.~E.~Samuel \stoptext still produces the same spacing for “A. E. Samuel” and “A.\ E.\ Samuel”. The spacing

Re: [NTG-context] installing fonts

2008-07-17 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Jörg Hagmann wrote: Hi, after watching the list for some time, I decided to try luatex. On [snip] 2. Shouldn't mktexlsr be enough, if you use Mk II? mktexlsr is enough for MkII, but MkII used pdftex and not luatex and using ttf fonts with

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread David
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:17 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2008/7/17 David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, David. I tried \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf A.~E.~Samuel \stoptext and can see no difference (ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

2008-07-17 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/7/17 Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Diego Depaoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/16 Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Many thanks in advance for your enlightening help. For some obscure reason right fontnames are linked with wrong filenames.

[NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I would like to ask some Windows user to test if windows minimals still work OK. And another issue - TeX Live has switched to universal binaries for Mac. Oliver has asked me to do that some time ago, but I didn't want to mess up with having to (cross-)compile the basic binaries as well.

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I would like to ask some Windows user to test if windows minimals still work OK. And another issue - TeX Live has switched to universal binaries for Mac. Oliver has asked me to do that some time ago, but I didn't want to mess up with having to

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-17 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
And another issue - TeX Live has switched to universal binaries for Mac. Oliver has asked me to do that some time ago, but I didn't want to mess up with having to (cross-)compile the basic binaries as well. What do others think? I would really favour universal binaries if we're able to

[NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-17 Thread Jesse Alama
Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of invalid fontname errors when compiling some documents: $ texmfstart texexec --xtx file.tex TeXExec | processing document 'file.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-17 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of invalid fontname errors when compiling some documents: $ texmfstart texexec --xtx file.tex TeXExec |

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-17 Thread Jesse Alama
Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of invalid fontname errors when compiling some documents: $

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread David
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:13:15 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, David. I had not realized that there was a command \fixedspaces. Is it documented somewhere? It's in cont-eni on page 72. However, I have not needed the command until recently - I have used the tilde to create narrower spaces