[NTG-context] PPCHTEX: Reaction troubles

2008-07-18 Thread per.maier
Hi,I already sent this message to the ppchtex mailing list, but apparently it's dead since a few years, so I hope you can help me with my problem.If I write a reaction as shown on the manual on page 1-32 ( or see below) the reaction isn't nicely centered as in the manual, but crammed to the

Re: [NTG-context] PPCHTEX: Reaction troubles

2008-07-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
per.maier wrote: Hi, I already sent this message to the ppchtex mailing list, but apparently it's dead since a few years, so I hope you can help me with my problem. When I run this through context the output looks ok, but that may not mean much as context no longer uses pictex for

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

2008-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I would like to ask some Windows user to test if windows minimals still work OK. just tried the current version (only left out texmf-context). - kpathsea357.dll is missing ('texexec --make --pdftex' complains about it; luatex also doesn't

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I would like to ask some Windows user to test if windows minimals still work OK. just tried the current version (only left out texmf-context). - kpathsea357.dll is

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Rolf wrote: believe me, cache path exists ;) this is a bug in the windows lfs code, akira posted a fix so i expect a new bin any time now - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I would like to ask some Windows user to test if windows minimals still work OK. just tried the current version (only left out texmf-context). -

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: believe me, cache path exists ;) this is a bug in the windows lfs code, akira posted a fix so i expect a new bin any time now But I fetch luatex stable. If we need to switch to development version, let me know. Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec schrieb: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I would like to ask some Windows user to test if windows minimals still work OK. just tried the current version (only left out texmf-context).

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec schrieb: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans Hagen schrieb: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I would like to ask some Windows user to test if windows minimals still work OK. just tried the current version (only left out texmf-context).

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: is 35771 already used by any program?) XeTeX. And I just figured out that I forgot to remove the old one ( kpathsea35671). maybe binaries should have an accompanying 'liblist.txt' file so that it's easier to

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: believe me, cache path exists ;) this is a bug in the windows lfs code, akira posted a fix so i expect a new bin any time now But I fetch luatex stable. If we need to switch to development

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Rolf wrote: believe me, cache path exists ;) this is a bug in the windows lfs code, akira posted a fix so i expect a new bin any time now But I fetch luatex stable. If we need to switch to development

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Ulrich Dirr
Hi, On Friday, July 18, 2008 10:38 AM Hans Hagen wrote: this is a bug in the windows lfs code, akira posted a fix so i expect a new bin any time now I've just installed ConTexT minimals on a new pc with vista 64 and got the 'cache file not writable' messages. Will Mojca give us a hint when we

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Ulrich Dirr wrote: Hi, On Friday, July 18, 2008 10:38 AM Hans Hagen wrote: this is a bug in the windows lfs code, akira posted a fix so i expect a new bin any time now I've just installed ConTexT minimals on a new pc with vista 64 and got the 'cache file

[NTG-context] \startfrontmatter Co.

2008-07-18 Thread Alan Stone
On page 17, the ConTeXt manual mentions the commands \startfrontmatter - \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter - \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter - \stopbackmatter What's the precise use and benefit of these commands, other a cleaner project structure ? Alan

[NTG-context] Metapost beta 1.090 released

2008-07-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, I have just released the archive files for MetaPost 1.090, the first official beta for the new stable version of MetaPost. -- What is new: -- This

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Ulrich Dirr wrote: Will Mojca give us a hint when we can reload/reinstall minimals from contextgarden? Or will it be enough to run the 'first-setup' batch file again? You don't need to reinstall

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: Ulrich Dirr schrieb: Hi, On Friday, July 18, 2008 10:38 AM Hans Hagen wrote: this is a bug in the windows lfs code, akira posted a fix so i expect a new bin any time now I've just installed ConTexT minimals on a new pc with vista 64 and

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Rolf
Mojca Miklavec schrieb: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: i tested the latest luatex ('updated on 2007-07-17') some hours ago and it still has this problem. Not some hours ago. One hour ago. i can rerun the test if you want ;) new binaries will be available at Akira's site

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

2008-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2008-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Diego Depaoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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.

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

2008-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] \startfrontmatter Co.

2008-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On page 17, the ConTeXt manual mentions the commands \startfrontmatter - \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter - \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter - \stopbackmatter What's the precise use and benefit of these commands, other a

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

2008-07-18 Thread Olivier Guéry
I will add to my todo list Write a few lines about font installation for XeTeX and LuaTeX and how to use them in style keys. Here ? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_LuaTex Olivier. -- [Message tapé sur un clavier Bépo : http://www.clavier-dvorak.org ] http://nemolivier.blogspot.com

Re: [NTG-context] \startfrontmatter Co.

2008-07-18 Thread John Devereux
Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On page 17, the ConTeXt manual mentions the commands \startfrontmatter - \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter - \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter - \stopbackmatter What's the precise use and benefit of these commands, other a cleaner project structure ? I

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

2008-07-18 Thread Alan Bowen
My original query has generated some interesting sidelines but no solution, at least none that I can see. So, with all due apologies, I shall presume on your patience by restating my query. In (English) typography the spacing after a period within a sentence is less that that after a period

Re: [NTG-context] minimals TeX Live 2008

2008-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Rolf wrote: Mojca Miklavec schrieb: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Peter Rolf wrote: i tested the latest luatex ('updated on 2007-07-17') some hours ago and it still has this problem. Not some hours ago. One hour ago. i can rerun the test if you want ;) new binaries will be

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost beta 1.090 released

2008-07-18 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, Taco: This MetaPost release is based on MPlib. Oh! My God!!! Such a big change~ So are you sure the code is stable enough? I have to push out the code sometime, otherwise it will never be ready. But it will not be on this year's texlive, that has 'only' mpost 1.005

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

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Rolf
Alan Bowen schrieb: My original query has generated some interesting sidelines but no solution, at least none that I can see. So, with all due apologies, I shall presume on your patience by restating my query. In (English) typography the spacing after a period within a sentence is

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

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, Jul 18 2008, Alan Bowen wrote: In (English) typography the spacing after a period within a sentence is less that that after a period at the end of a sentence. Since the days of Plain TeX, one achieved the proper spacing after an intra- sentence period by entering “.\space”. My

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

2008-07-18 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, Peter. You are right about (Plain) TeX--I just got into the habit of inserting them. Defining my own macro to reproduce the control space is a possibility, and I will do that IF the current behavior of “.\ ’ and the tilde in MKII is not remedied. (I have not switched to MKIV yet,

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

2008-07-18 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, Peter. I was wondering about MKIV. (Switching is on my summer “to do” list.) Best, Alan On Jul 18, 2008, at 15;22,31 , Peter Münster wrote: On Fri, Jul 18 2008, Alan Bowen wrote: In (English) typography the spacing after a period within a sentence is less that that after a period

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

2008-07-18 Thread Alan Stone
Thanks a lot for your helpful comments Wolfgang. I will add to my todo list Write a few lines about font installation for XeTeX and LuaTeX and how to use them in style keys. With the bits and pieces of information ( current and outdated ) about these matters presently being scattered all over

Re: [NTG-context] Highlight changes

2008-07-18 Thread John Devereux
Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 15 2008, John Devereux wrote: Is there a way to automatically highlight changes to a document, such that the resulting PDF has markers showing changed areas? Bars in the margin or some such. Or more generally some other way to easily

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost beta 1.090 released

2008-07-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Yue Wang wrote: Hi, Taco: This MetaPost release is based on MPlib. Oh! My God!!! Such a big change~ So are you sure the code is stable enough? I have to push out the code sometime, otherwise it will never be ready. But it will not be on this year's texlive, that has 'only' mpost 1.005

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

2008-07-18 Thread Andrea Valle
Yes, please. I totally agree with Alan. Sorry if I insist. Best -a- On 18 Jul 2008, at 22:45, Alan Stone wrote: Thanks a lot for your helpful comments Wolfgang. I will add to my todo list Write a few lines about font installation for XeTeX and LuaTeX and how to use them in style keys.

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

2008-07-18 Thread Jesse Alama
Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2008-07-18 Thread Charles P. Schaum
With Ubuntu and fonts there are several things going on. Generally, the system-wide fonts are kept under /usr/share/fonts An alternate place could be /usr/local/fonts That, however, is usually empty because packages put fonts in named directories, e.g., in the ttf dir in /usr/share/fonts