Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:29:46 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: >> Can't you check for a free range instead? > sure, but then i also loose some functionality in context (unless i gho > for ugly solutions) ... as all glyphs are supposed to have a name access > by name is a pretty good alternative Well

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/2/2018 1:39 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:29:46 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: Can't you check for a free range instead? sure, but then i also loose some functionality in context (unless i gho for ugly solutions) ... as all glyphs are supposed to have a name access by

[NTG-context] handling an external sag file as a text character

2018-10-02 Thread Floris van Manen
When it is possible to handle an external svg file as a singe character with text, i assume there is someone on the list who could point me to the instructions as how to do that. Thanks Floris signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: [NTG-context] handling an external sag file as a text character

2018-10-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
\setupexternalfigure[location=default] \definefiguresymbol [textmill] [mill] [height=1.7ex] \starttext A \externalfigure[mill][height=1.7ex] B \figuresymbol[mill] C \figuresymbol[mill][height=1.7ex] D \symbol[textmill] E \stoptext Wolfgang Floris van Manen schrieb am 02.10.18 um 20:07:

Re: [NTG-context] Font installation help needed!

2018-10-02 Thread Geert Verhaag
On 01-10-18 01:49, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, Geert Verhaag wrote: Hi, I'm currently using ConTeXt version: mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file:

[NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread David Carlisle
Ulrike and Hans wrote > > It is not only that font. Actually the libertine package broke, > > fontawesome broke, and Coelacanth was only used by Thérèse in the > > example as it is free, her real problem was with using Goudy > > fleurons. > in context i strongly advice against using numbers

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-02 Thread Lutz Haseloff
On Windows, I got it working again with current Context (20180404) and current luatex from win32tex (1.07 development ID 6686) On linux-armhf I did a fresh "./first-setup.sh --engine=luatex" and got: mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 1.02 mtx-context | mtx-context | main

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-02 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:19 AM Lutz Haseloff wrote: > On Windows, I got it working again with current Context (20180404) and > current luatex from win32tex > (1.07 development ID 6686) > > On linux-armhf I did a fresh "./first-setup.sh --engine=luatex" and got: > > mtx-context | ConTeXt Process

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/1/2018 11:11 PM, David Carlisle wrote: If you need to allocate a block for internal use wouldn't it be possible to use one of the high areas Supplementary Private Use Area-A or B (U+F - U+F) (U+10 - U+10) ? The BMP PUA block (U+E000 U+F8FF) just has so many documented

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Tue, 2 Oct 2018 06:55:02 +0200 schrieb luigi scarso: >> For what do you reserve the space in the PUA? > http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/fonts-mkiv.pdf > page 32 of the document : > As we already mentioned in a previous chapter, in ConTeXt we use > Unicode internally. This also

Re: [NTG-context] table making ugly column sizes, how to fix?

2018-10-02 Thread David Walther
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 12:28:44AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: ConTeXt MkIV 2018.09.30 What version are you using? My version is from 2017. Thank you for the confirmation; now I will file a bug report with Debian. David

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/2/2018 7:03 AM, Lutz Haseloff wrote: Hi Hans, hi all, I think, that recent context has a problem with scaling included pdf files. My minimal file: \startMPpage draw externalfigure "cow.pdf" ; \stopMPpage The resulting pdf is, as the original, 97x70.6 mm, all ok. If I try to scale to

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-02 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:03 AM Lutz Haseloff wrote: > Hi Hans, hi all, > > I think, that recent context has a problem with scaling included pdf files. > > > Metapost traditional scaled math has a limited range, you can use doublefun or decimalfun (not more binaryfun) \starttext \startTEXpage

Re: [NTG-context] accessing glyphs in the private area

2018-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/2/2018 9:29 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Tue, 2 Oct 2018 06:55:02 +0200 schrieb luigi scarso: For what do you reserve the space in the PUA? http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/fonts-mkiv.pdf page 32 of the document : As we already mentioned in a previous chapter, in ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-02 Thread Lutz Haseloff
xsized was the solution. I wonder why xscaled worked for me for years. Thanks for the fast help. Lutz Am 2. Oktober 2018 11:10:04 MESZ schrieb Hans Hagen : >On 10/2/2018 7:03 AM, Lutz Haseloff wrote: >> Hi Hans, hi all, >> >> I think, that recent context has a problem with scaling included pdf

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun scaling problem

2018-10-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/2/2018 1:05 PM, Lutz Haseloff wrote: xsized was the solution. I wonder why xscaled worked for me for years. because we used a 1bp image at that time (was needed in two-pass approach) ... we don't have that limitation now (and 1bp is pretty inaccurate anyway) Hans