Re: [NTG-context] A font problem with the stand-alone Windows distribution

2006-01-19 Thread Ville Voipio
Try the next two lines instead of those three lines: \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[postscript,11pt] Thank you, thank you, thank you! The problem was not the difference between pos and postscript (they seem to be synonyms, both work) but the magic row:

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
sjoerd siebinga wrote: Hi� Hans, On 19 Jan 2006, at 00:26, Hans Hagen wrote: did you try: \defineunicodefont [MySwitch] [MyOwnFont] % [command=\insertunicodeglyph] \definefontsynonym [MyOwnFontRegular] [Sans] \definefontsynonym [MyOwnFontItalic] [SansItalic] \MySwitch \uchar... \it

Re: [NTG-context] A font problem with the stand-alone Windows distribution

2006-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Ville Voipio wrote: However, the magic row with adobekb is present in almost all examples I've seen. And yet very few people have the real Adobe fonts. So, possibly this should be noted somewhere. The problem *should* go away after the next update of the context distribution. (I have no

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hi Hans,On 19 Jan 2006, at 10:43, Hans Hagen wrote:can you test with: \unexpanded\def\unicodeglyph#1#2% watch the double mapping  {\begingroup   \getvalue{@@\currentucharmapping\strippedcsname\uchar}{#1}{#2}%   \bodyfontsize\unicodescale\bodyfontsize  

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
sjoerd siebinga wrote: Hi Hans, On 19 Jan 2006, at 10:43, Hans Hagen wrote: can you test with: \unexpanded\def\unicodeglyph#1#2% watch the double mapping �{\begingroup � \getvalue{@@\currentucharmapping\strippedcsname\uchar}{#1}{#2}% � \bodyfontsize\unicodescale\bodyfontsize �

[NTG-context] formula in itemlist

2006-01-19 Thread Hans van der Meer
I want to place a math formula in the item of an itemlist, but I keep getting overfull hboxes. A minimal example follows: \starttext \startitemize \item dit is een \item dit is een formule \placeformula[-] \startformula n= 0%

Re: [NTG-context] setuptabulate

2006-01-19 Thread Hans van der Meer
On Jan 18, 2006, at 22:14, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2006-01-18 um 12:32 schrieb Hans van der Meer: What is with tabulation? I use it because I find it handy, but the setuptabulate seems not working. This gives NO alignment and NO rule. Is something wrong? I'm surprised that

Re: [NTG-context] Stand alone Context editing environment

2006-01-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-19 um 09:35 schrieb Ville Voipio: Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this particular zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready to go? Here is a step by step of how it should

Re: [NTG-context] Stand alone Context editing environment

2006-01-19 Thread Ville Voipio
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Thank you, I'm wikifying that. see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation Oh, great if you do it (then I don't need to). Thanks. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Greetings from slightly cool (-22 'C at the moment) Finland. - Ville

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hello Sjoerd! I found this thread rather interesting, even if my font problems are probably in another realm. Could you document your problem solution in the wiki? I just tried to get my hands at the font: http://starling.rinet.ru/downl.php?lan=en#soft But the EXEs aren't self extracting

[NTG-context] Problems with Unicode and i-Installer

2006-01-19 Thread Sebastian Sturm
Hello, after installing the new ConTeXt package (same problem for 1/16 and 1/19 beta), the installation procedure reported some missing 'unic-ext.tex' file; compiling any files that used \enableregime[utf] didn't work anymore. Replacing 'unic-ext' by 'unic-exp' in the file context.tex and doing

Re: [NTG-context] setuptabulate

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: What is with tabulation? I use it because I find it handy, but the setuptabulate seems not working. \starttext \setuptabulate[align=middle,rulethickness=1pt] \starttabulate[|c|c|] \NC abc \NC xyz \NC\NR \NC def \NC uvw \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext This

Re: [NTG-context] setuptabulate

2006-01-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-19 um 11:53 schrieb Hans van der Meer: What is with tabulation? I use it because I find it handy, but the setuptabulate seems not working. This gives NO alignment and NO rule. Is something wrong? I'm surprised that tabulates should have align and rule at all, but texshow states

[NTG-context] placefloat

2006-01-19 Thread Hans van der Meer
(1) My intention was to place some material into the left margin on the page, but did not succeed. Using \startmarginblock ... \stopmarginblock resulted in placement in the margin to the right, could not get it to the left. The I experimented with the placeffloat mechanism and didn't

Re: [NTG-context] setuptabulate

2006-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2006-01-19 um 11:53 schrieb Hans van der Meer: What is with tabulation? I use it because I find it handy, but the setuptabulate seems not working. This gives NO alignment and NO rule. Is something wrong? I'm surprised that tabulates should have align and

Re: [NTG-context] formula in itemlist

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: I want to place a math formula in the item of an itemlist, but I keep getting overfull hboxes. A minimal example follows: \starttext \startitemize \item dit is een \item dit is een formule \placeformula[-] \startformula n= 0% this

[NTG-context] table oddities

2006-01-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
After Hans vdM's question I'm trying to enhance the table documentation in the wiki. I found the following a bit strange: \starttable[|l|l|] \HL \NC Command \VL Meaning \SR % or \NC\AR \HL \NC \tex{NC}\VL next column \AR \NC \tex{HL}\VL horizontal line \AR \NC \tex{VL}

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with Unicode and i-Installer

2006-01-19 Thread Gerben Wierda
Hello, after installing the new ConTeXt package (same problem for 1/16 and 1/19 beta), the installation procedure reported some missing 'unic-ext.tex' file; compiling any files that used \enableregime[utf] didn't work anymore. Replacing 'unic-ext' by 'unic-exp' in the file context.tex and

[NTG-context] type backslash brace oddity

2006-01-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Still documenting tables: \type{\{} or \tex{{} doesn't work, I get the * prompt of the TeX interpreter instead of typing \{ I used {\tt \backslash\{}, but that's not quite the same. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net

Re: [NTG-context] type backslash brace oddity

2006-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Still documenting tables: \type{\{} or \tex{{} doesn't work, I get the * prompt of the TeX interpreter instead of typing \{ FYI: There is a seemingly related bug mentioned in the collector. Taco ___ ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with Unicode and i-Installer

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Gerben Wierda wrote: Hello, after installing the new ConTeXt package (same problem for 1/16 and 1/19 beta), the installation procedure reported some missing 'unic-ext.tex' file; compiling any files that used \enableregime[utf] didn't work anymore. Replacing 'unic-ext' by 'unic-exp' in the file

Re: [NTG-context] Java Applets

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Matthias Weber wrote: Hello all, does anybody know whether i) one can embed Java applets in a PDF file, only if you write a plug in ; only javascript is supported ii) generate the PDF with ConTeXt, iii) so that it works on a Mac? see s-pre-* files for examples Hans

Re: [NTG-context] setuptabulate

2006-01-19 Thread Hans van der Meer
Thanks. I did not realize that the alignment had to do with the paragraphs inside the columns. Centering of a tabulation I now realize with: \starttext \midaligned{\vbox{\starttabulate[|c|c|] \NC a \NC bcd \NC\NR \NC xy \NC finally \NC\NR \stoptabulate}} \stoptext yours

[NTG-context] xml and buffers

2006-01-19 Thread Junod Antoine
Hello gurus, I'm a bit into trouble wih buffers and xml parsing. Here is my problem: I've got a .xhtml with the following lines: [...] meta name=course_name content=Génie Logiciel / meta name=date content=23 décembre 2005 / [...] titleAuction: document d'analyse/title

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread sjoerd siebinga
Hello Hraban, On 19 Jan 2006, at 14:17, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hello Sjoerd! I found this thread rather interesting, even if my font problems are probably in another realm. Could you document your problem solution in the wiki? Of course. But I am wrapped up in work coming three

[NTG-context] Re: type backslash brace oddity

2006-01-19 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Henning, \type{\{} or \tex{{} doesn't work, I get the * prompt of the TeX interpreter instead of typing \{ \type|\{| works fine here. Patrick (...answering your other mail tonight) -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net ___

[NTG-context] marginblock placement

2006-01-19 Thread Hans van der Meer
Encountered some annoying behaviour in placing sidenotes in the margin with \startmarginblock (1) In a previous email I said I could get the notes in the right margin only. That was incorrect. \setupmarginblocks governs the placement and of course the last call gets precedence when several

Re: [NTG-context] xml and buffers

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Junod Antoine wrote: Hello gurus, I'm a bit into trouble wih buffers and xml parsing. Here is my problem: I've got a .xhtml with the following lines: [...] meta name=course_name content=G�nie Logiciel / meta name=date content=23 d�cembre 2005 / [...] titleAuction:

Re: [NTG-context] placefloat

2006-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: (1) My intention was to place some material into the left margin on the page, but did not succeed. Added to the collector. I'm positive that there is at least a little bug somewhere in your list of problems, but I have no time right now to do research. (2) Second

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-01-19 um 17:35 schrieb sjoerd siebinga: I found this thread rather interesting, even if my font problems are probably in another realm. Could you document your problem solution in the wiki? Of course. But I am wrapped up in work coming three weeks. So if afterwards is fine could

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Of course it's not your problem, but Hans is right: If you'd call a car Daimler Bums it would be a trademark infringement nevertheless... And I suspect they even took the code from the original Palatino fonts... so that font should be on the black list and an

[NTG-context] Force indent

2006-01-19 Thread David Arnold
All, What's the proper way to force an indent at the However below? Now, suppose that we're asked to shade all real numbers in the set $\ {x:\,x3\}$. Because this requires that we shade every real number that is greater than 3 (to the right of 3), we use the shading shown in

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ?

2006-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Wooten wrote: Any more clues, patient ones?: texexec --pdf file.tex How about: texexec --passon=-recorder --pdf file.tex That will give you a file named file.fls listing all used files including their path, and then you can easily check which fmt file is actually used.

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ?

2006-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Oh, d**mn. I just had a brainwave. From Web2c's tex.ch comes the following: @!inf_font_mem_size = 2; @!sup_font_mem_size = 200; So font_memory cannot be set larger than 200 and not smaller than 2. Out-of-bounds sizes are silently folded back in line, but that happens

[NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts

2006-01-19 Thread Hooman Javidnia
Hi I am new to ConTeXt. Once I saw the showcase, I thought that this is even much better than LaTeX which I have been using for 3 years. I have MikTeX installed on my WinXP machine and according to the advice tried to setup SciTE to write some practice documents. Still I have problems. I have

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts

2006-01-19 Thread Mari Voipio
Hooman Javidnia wrote: Should I install Ruby on my machine? Yes, you'll need both Ruby and Perl. Both are scripting languages. You must have missed the discussion about this earlier today, but no problem, it got wikified:

Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question

2006-01-19 Thread sjoerd siebinga
On 19 Jan 2006, at 20:44, Hans Hagen wrote: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Of course it's not your problem, but Hans is right: If you'd call a car Daimler Bums it would be a trademark infringement nevertheless... And I suspect they even took the code from the original Palatino fonts...

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ?

2006-01-19 Thread David Wooten
Any more clues, patient ones?: texexec --pdf file.tex Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1449181 words of font info for 262 fonts, out of 200 for 2000 pdfetex --kpathsea-debug=65535 --ini --progname=context plain kdebug:hash_lookup(font_mem_size.context) = 300

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts

2006-01-19 Thread Mari Voipio
It would of course help if I learned to read - I didn't exactly answer your question fully and I'm sorry about that. I cannot quite answer to all parts of your questions, but here's a bit more: Yes, you need to have working installations of Ruby and Perl on your computer. If you can make

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ?

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Oh, d**mn. I just had a brainwave. From Web2c's tex.ch comes the following: @!inf_font_mem_size = 2; @!sup_font_mem_size = 200; So font_memory cannot be set larger than 200 and not smaller than 2. Out-of-bounds sizes are silently folded back in

[NTG-context] ggd

2006-01-19 Thread Hans van der Meer
A very insignificant observation. But in my opinion Hans Hagen is a perfectionist, therefore I dare to throw this bone to him. In Dutch the greatest common divisor is not abbreviated as gcd but as ggd. It is of course a simple matter to redefine this locally with:

Re: [NTG-context] ggd

2006-01-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: A very insignificant observation. But in my opinion Hans Hagen is a perfectionist, therefore I dare to throw this bone to him. In Dutch the greatest common divisor is not abbreviated as gcd but as ggd. It is of course a simple matter to redefine this locally with:

Re: [NTG-context] Force indent

2006-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: All, What's the proper way to force an indent at the However below? Now, suppose that we're asked to shade all real numbers in the set $\ {x:\,x3\}$. Because this requires that we shade every real number that is greater than 3 (to the right of 3), we use the shading

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ?

2006-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Oh, d**mn. I just had a brainwave. From Web2c's tex.ch comes the following: @!inf_font_mem_size = 2; @!sup_font_mem_size = 200; So font_memory cannot be set larger than 200 and not smaller than 2. Out-of-bounds sizes are silently

Re: [NTG-context] Font memory issues ?

2006-01-19 Thread David Wooten
Well, it is certainly very good to know that I'm not crazy (this time round). Thanks very much for tracking this down. Hans' suggestion works very well---the typescript file is pretty big for this font family, so there were quite a few fonts set up with hz that have no need for them.

[NTG-context] Figures in a table?

2006-01-19 Thread David Arnold
All, Has anyone put figures in a table? I'd like to have a 4 row, 3 column table, where the first column contains number lines with intervals of real numbers shaded. The second column would contain the setbuilder notation for the shaded interval, and the third column would contain the

[NTG-context] \getbuffer question

2006-01-19 Thread David Arnold
All, If you do something like: \startbuffer \setupYadaYada . . . . \stopbuffer Then you do: \getbuffer will the setup be in a group, and only pertain to the stuff set with \getbuffer? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Figures in a table?

2006-01-19 Thread David Arnold
All, I've almost answered my own question with: \startbuffer[table] \setupTABLE[c][1][width=0.6\textwidth] \setupTABLE[c][2][width=0.2\textwidth] \setupTABLE[c][3][width=0.2\textwidth] \bTABLE[align={middle,lohi}] \bTR \bTH Number line \eTH \bTH Set-builder notation \eTH \bTH Interval notation

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts

2006-01-19 Thread Hooman Javidnia
Thanks Mari for the very valuable advice. With your help, now I have something that works (kind of): Here is what I did: 1. I installed Ruby. I have no idea why it should be installed on a system so that ConTeXt works. 2. I downloaded texmfstart.exe and put in the texmf bin folder (I have

[NTG-context] Venn diagram

2006-01-19 Thread David Arnold
All, I have: \startMPpage %figure library name: intersection %initialize scale numeric u; 10u=3in; %ellipses path A, B; A:=fullcircle xyscaled (4u,3u); B:=A shifted (2u,0); draw A withcolor red; label.ulft(btex $A$ etex, point 3 of A) withcolor red; draw B withcolor blue;

Re: [NTG-context] Venn diagram

2006-01-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Jan 19, David Arnold wrote --- All, I have: \startMPpage %figure library name: intersection %initialize scale numeric u; 10u=3in; %ellipses path A, B; A:=fullcircle xyscaled (4u,3u); B:=A shifted (2u,0); draw A withcolor red; label.ulft(btex $A$ etex, point 3 of A)

[NTG-context] Text wrapping in SciTE

2006-01-19 Thread Hooman Javidnia
Hi, I was wondering what is the correct way of wrapping text while typing in SciTE. SciTE can wrap the text, but it is basically a virtual wrap, it is a long line tailored to the view of your editing window. On the other hand you can wrap the lines yourself by pressing enter wherever you think it

Re: [NTG-context] xml and buffers

2006-01-19 Thread Junod Antoine
Thanks a lot!!! -AJ On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:55:22PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Junod Antoine wrote: Hello gurus, I'm a bit into trouble wih buffers and xml parsing. Here is my problem: I've got a .xhtml with the following lines: [...] meta name=course_name content=G�nie

Re: [NTG-context] \getbuffer question

2006-01-19 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: Then you do: \getbuffer will the setup be in a group, and only pertain to the stuff set with \getbuffer? No, normally they will live on (buffers often contain definitions). But you can use \setupbuffer[before=\begingroup,after=\endgroup] Cheers, taco