[NTG-context] Context index and sorting question

2004-12-29 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hi all, I am currently working on a dictionary with multiple indices of older language stages like, Old English, Old Norse, Greec, Sanskrit, Hittite, etc. Most of these languages have different characters, accents and sorting rules than English. In enco-ini.tex I found the \definesortkey

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead for chapter

2004-12-29 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to define chapter style like the following: -- Chapter 1 This is the name of chapter -- But I can't found the option of

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead for chapter

2004-12-29 Thread VnPenguin
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:18:07 +0100, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VnPenguin wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to define chapter style like the following: -- Chapter 1 This is the name of chapter

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead for chapter

2004-12-29 Thread VnPenguin
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:18:07 +0100, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VnPenguin wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to define chapter style like the following: -- Chapter 1 This is the name of chapter

Re: [NTG-context] Context index and sorting question

2004-12-29 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 04:11, sjoerd siebinga wrote: Hi all, I am currently working on a dictionary with multiple indices of older language stages like, Old English, Old Norse, Greec, Sanskrit, Hittite, etc. Most of these languages have different characters, accents and sorting rules

[NTG-context] Hyphenation peculiarity.

2004-12-29 Thread John Culleton
I noted that context seems to be most reluctant to hyphenate. So I ran a test file through plain tex, pdftex and Context and checked the results. Context hyphenated less than the other two. The manual does not say much about hyphenation. I am using a fresh TeXLive install. Here is the top

Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenation peculiarity.

2004-12-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi John, Your format is probably missing the hyphenation patterns for english (I ran into the same problem last week): # texexec --make en language : no patterns en for en (n=1) (lang-en.pat,ukhyph.tex language : no hyphenations en for en (n=1) language : no patterns uk

Re: [NTG-context] Context index and sorting question

2004-12-29 Thread sjoerd siebinga
On 29 Dec 2004, at 14:41, John Culleton wrote: Could someone tell me how I can use the \definesortkey command or for that matter any other ConTeXt mechanism to define sortrules for individual indices? You might want to look into a separate program called Xindy. It more or less replaces Makindex

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead for chapter

2004-12-29 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:18:07 +0100, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you need to force vmode in order to make blank work \def\MyChapterCommand#1#2{\vbox{\ruledhbox{#1}\blank[2cm]\ruledhbox{#2}}} Hans VnPenguin wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to define chapter style like the

Re: [NTG-context] Context index and sorting question

2004-12-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 29.12.2004 um 15:37 schrieb sjoerd siebinga: I would imagine that ConTeXt must be able to sort a norwegian words in a separate register say \indexnw{kr{\o}ypa}} differently from the english index entries in general \index{} register. Sorry, I can't help with \definesortkey, only wanted to

Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead for chapter

2004-12-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 29.12.2004 um 16:05 schrieb Hans Hagen: you need to force vmode in order to make blank work \def\MyChapterCommand#1#2{\vbox{\ruledhbox{#1}\blank[2cm]\ruledhbox{#2} }} Thanks, it's now in the wiki: http://contextgarden.net/Titles Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

Re: [NTG-context] Sidebars and versals Oh my!

2004-12-29 Thread Tobias Hilbricht
Am So, den 26.12.2004 schrieb h h extern um 21:33: John Culleton wrote: But this is not the only type of versal. Sometimes a large capital letter (perhaps in italics) is centered on the top of the textblock thus: Did you look into supp-fun.tex? I was trying to use the macros provided

Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenation peculiarity.

2004-12-29 Thread John Culleton
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 09:10, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi John, Your format is probably missing the hyphenation patterns for english (I ran into the same problem last week): # texexec --make en language : no patterns en for en (n=1) (lang-en.pat,ukhyph.tex language