[NTG-context] latest beta

2008-10-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Hans, the latest beta has a problem with font handling: in my Greek output, the letters sigma and sigmaalt don't work anymore; they're replaced either by some undefined character (box with letter X in it) or by empty spaces. I tried to find out where something has changed, but haven't

Re: [NTG-context] XML

2008-10-08 Thread luigi scarso
A bit OT Do you know http://opendocumentfellowship.com/development/projects/odfpy -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems

2008-10-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: You need \runMPgraphicstrue Yes, this helps! But what are the sideeffects? When is the opposite needed? \runMPgraphicfalse is faster when you need two tex runs anyway, because it collects all the graphics in a single metapost run which is a more efficient way of

Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column

2008-10-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:24 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Every columnset starts a new page. Maybe I need to try simplecolumns now :) Or well ... \bTABLE ... \eTABLE. Aren't columnset powerful enought ? From the manual Probably they are, I just need to swap contents

[NTG-context] how to typeset this formula ?

2008-10-08 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I have a DOC-file with a lot of quite complex math formulae. Trying to find a good workflow from doc to context I was experimenting with the Word plugin MathType, resp. with the different translator options (any better tip very welcome!). The best results I had with typesetting the

Re: [NTG-context] XML

2008-10-08 Thread Johannes Graumann
luigi scarso wrote: A bit OT Do you know http://opendocumentfellowship.com/development/projects/odfpy To do what in this context :) ? Joh ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] how to typeset this formula ?

2008-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a DOC-file with a lot of quite complex math formulae. Trying to find a good workflow from doc to context I was experimenting with the Word plugin MathType, resp. with the different translator options (any

Re: [NTG-context] how to typeset this formula ?

2008-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a DOC-file with a lot of quite complex math formulae. Trying to find a good workflow from doc to context I was experimenting with

Re: [NTG-context] XML

2008-10-08 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: A bit OT Do you know http://opendocumentfellowship.com/development/projects/odfpy To do what in this context :) ? pre-parsing As I wrote, a bit OT. -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] how to typeset this formula ?

2008-10-08 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Potzblitz! Wolfgang wieder, wer sonst ;o) Ja, genau so soll das aussehen. Aber ich fürchte, Du hast das von Hand geschrieben, richtig? Da ich in der originalen DOC-Datei aber noch hunderte in dieser Preisklasse habe, wäre ich für einen sehr guten Konvertierungs-Tipp super-dankbar!!!

Re: [NTG-context] How to obtain blackboard bold?

2008-10-08 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:54:01AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan napisa#322;(a): On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Marcin Borkowski wrote: As in subject;) I found out that {\mb R} gives me the symbol for the real line; is it _the_ ConTeXt way or should I do it in another way? The context way is \reals

Re: [NTG-context] substitutions

2008-10-08 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:16:42 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans and Taco can probably tell you more. it all depends on what we want to achieve ... - we can have font fixers (dynamically extend fonts with features, but this demands knowledge of the font) - we can have

Re: [NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems

2008-10-08 Thread Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini
Hallo, Mojca Miklavec wrote: You need \runMPgraphicstrue Yes, this helps! But what are the sideeffects? When is the opposite needed? \runMPgraphicfalse is faster when you need two tex runs anyway, because it collects all the graphics in a single metapost run which is a more

[NTG-context] more bad news about latest beta

2008-10-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
OK, I have more bad (for me) news about the latest beta: it simply refuses to play with some of my fonts; most importantly for me with the Gentium fonts. Whenever I try to compile something with Gentium in it, I get the error message !luaTeX error (file

Re: [NTG-context] how to typeset this formula ?

2008-10-08 Thread Oliver Buerschaper
If you are allowed to make some minor adjustments you may probably even leave out most of the \cdot commands, which will turn the formula even sleeker ... Just my two cents, Oliver \starttext \startformula \frac{g_a}{\theta} = \startcases[left={\left[},right={\right]}] \NC

Re: [NTG-context] substitutions

2008-10-08 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:53:40 -0600, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد Sometimes I use the following for simple substitutions: \defineactivecharacter ' {\otfchar{quoteright}} But is there a more general mechanism

Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column

2008-10-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:24 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Every columnset starts a new page. Maybe I need to try simplecolumns now :) Or well ... \bTABLE ... \eTABLE. Aren't columnset powerful enought ? From the manual Probably they are, I just need

Re: [NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems

2008-10-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: I did this, but 'cont-usr.tex' is never included (windows minimal). cont-usr is read by texexec --make (at format generation time) The file 'core-job.tex' should do this but it is itself not included. but it does (at format generation time)

Re: [NTG-context] more bad news about latest beta

2008-10-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, I have more bad (for me) news about the latest beta: it simply refuses to play with some of my fonts; most importantly for me with the Gentium fonts. Whenever I try to compile something with Gentium in it, I get the error message Sorry, I should have warned

Re: [NTG-context] substitutions

2008-10-08 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: I would like to be able to do things like Mohamed - Muḥammad which would save me a lot of time in proofreading, editing, etc. It's easy to write a simple ruby/perl(or even lua) script that will do such changes for

Re: [NTG-context] substitutions

2008-10-08 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:46:21 -0600, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: I would like to be able to do things like Mohamed - Muḥammad which would save me a lot of time in proofreading, editing, etc. It's

Re: [NTG-context] Has anybody used asymptote without LaTeX?

2008-10-08 Thread Zhichu Chen
Hi Michail, It's a little late for me to check my mailbox. Thank you for your work and yes, I'm interested in it. Can I get a copy of it? On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Michail Vidiassov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, And how to embed .prc files into the .pdf document? I have made a

Re: [NTG-context] more bad news about latest beta

2008-10-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, I have more bad (for me) news about the latest beta: it simply refuses to play with some of my fonts; most importantly for me with the Gentium fonts. Whenever I try to compile something with Gentium in it, I get the error message

[NTG-context] Math drawings for dummies

2008-10-08 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, for those who are afraid of Metapost (or simply think that it takes too much time to program a simple figure with not too fancy features), there's a magnificent point-and-click tool for creating mathematical drawings with perfect precision and TeX labels matching the style of your

[NTG-context] new beta

2008-10-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, the new beta has some optimizations wirh regards to the font memory footprint (at the cost of convenience but that only concerns me) Hans for chinese users: there is not much more memory to gain (unless we accept more mess)

Re: [NTG-context] substitutions

2008-10-08 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: I would like to be able to do things like Mohamed - Muḥammad Before you get the mkiv code you can start collecting wrong words :) Mojca usage: ruby scriptname.rb input.tex output.tex #!/usr/bin/env ruby