Re: [NTG-context] minimals

2012-09-27 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, Is minimals.contextgarden.net offline? Until we figure out what exactly is wrong one can use the mirror: rsync://metatex.org/minimals/ http://minimals.metatex.org/ Mojca

[NTG-context] xits font: some spacing and scaling problems

2012-09-27 Thread Andreas Mang
Hi there, Not quite sure if this is the right place. I wanted to send this directly to Khaled Hosny, but then I thought it might be good to have some additional opinion on some of these issues (I am not quite sure if some of this is intended behaviour). I have collected some examples for

[NTG-context] \define a command with square-bracket arguments

2012-09-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi all, As I understand it, \define[2] is preferred over \def#1#2 because it refuses to overwrite existing commands. \define[2]\mycommand{code code code} defines a command to be invoked with \mycommand{...}{...} Can I use \define, or a related command, to define a command that takes

Re: [NTG-context] \define a command with square-bracket arguments

2012-09-27 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 09/27/2012 05:45 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: Hi all, As I understand it, \define[2] is preferred over \def#1#2 because it refuses to overwrite existing commands. \define[2]\mycommand{code code code} defines a command to be invoked with \mycommand{...}{...} Can I use \define, or a related

Re: [NTG-context] \define a command with square-bracket arguments

2012-09-27 Thread Marco Patzer
2012-09-27 Sietse Brouwer sbbrou...@gmail.com: Hi Sietse, As I understand it, \define[2] is preferred over \def#1#2 because it refuses to overwrite existing commands. \define overwrites existing commands with pleasure. In contrast to \def it prints a message to the log file: “\mycommand is

[NTG-context] Parsing [key=value, key2=value2, ...] with Lua

2012-09-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi all, I've found a helper function that does this: utilities.parsers.settings_to_hash('ape=1, note=2, mice=3') -- { [ape] = 1, [note] = 2, [mice] = 3 } This makes me very happy. This function and its friends are stored under utilities.parsers, and defined in util-prs.lua; I've listed

Re: [NTG-context] xits font: some spacing and scaling problems

2012-09-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:58:11PM +0200, Andreas Mang wrote: Hi there, Not quite sure if this is the right place. I wanted to send this directly to Khaled Hosny, but then I thought it might be good to have some additional opinion on some of these issues (I am not quite sure if some of this

Re: [NTG-context] xits font: some spacing and scaling problems

2012-09-27 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:58:11PM +0200, Andreas Mang wrote: Hi there, Not quite sure if this is the right place. I wanted to send this directly to Khaled Hosny, but then I thought it might be good to have some additional opinion on some of these

Re: [NTG-context] xits font: some spacing and scaling problems

2012-09-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:01:35PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Khaled Hosny wrote: None of those glyphs were changed in XITS, they are exactly the same as the ones in STIX fonts, so possibly ConTeXt is using the wrong Unicode character for those symbols. The later two

[NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt (MkIV), Hebrew and ligatures

2012-09-27 Thread Simo Ojala
This is a problem originally posted in TeX/StackExchange. However, since I have not had any luck in finding a solution I post it here too. I am confident that somebody here should know the answer. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73970/problem-with-context-mkiv-hebrew-and-ligatures

[NTG-context] verbatim text: \type, \tex and co.

2012-09-27 Thread Alan Braslau
Hello, Can someone indicate how to typeset $L_{α+β}$ as verbatim text? (\arg{} doesn't help here...) Furthermore, I suppose that typesetting Greek characters verbatim depends also upon which \tt font is being used. Alan

Re: [NTG-context] verbatim text: \type, \tex and co.

2012-09-27 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Can someone indicate how to typeset $L_{α+β}$ as verbatim text? (\arg{} doesn't help here...) Untested: \type{...} should work. (Definitely did work a couple of months ago). Furthermore, I suppose that typesetting Greek characters verbatim depends also upon which \tt font is being used. CM

Re: [NTG-context] Current source directory.

2012-09-27 Thread Andre Caldas
Thank you for yor time, Peter. But this is not what I wanted... :-( Is there a way to know the directory of the currently being processed source file? This works with mkiv: \starttext PWD: \cldcontext{io.popenpwd:read()} \stoptext This gives the directory where the context command was

[NTG-context] [tabulate] colored background

2012-09-27 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi all, the background mechanism of tabulations is quite simplistic: it extends only to the first line of a cell irrespective of its length. Example: ··· \starttext \starttabulate[|p|r|] \CM [red] \input knuth \NC was said by

Re: [NTG-context] [tabulate] colored background

2012-09-27 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Philipp Gesang wrote: Hi all, the background mechanism of tabulations is quite simplistic: it extends only to the first line of a cell irrespective of its length. Example: ··· \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] Current source directory.

2012-09-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
I want to know a function that returns /fullpath_to_project/products/ when I call it from the script products/product.tex. And I want it to return /fullpath_to_project/products/product/ when I call it from the script products/product/article.tex. Finally found it, after lots of

Re: [NTG-context] Referring to multiple elements

2012-09-27 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi Marco, (PS for Hans), Marco wrote: \in{figure}[alpha,beta,gamma] This outputs “figure 1”. What I'd like to have is “figure 1-3”. The attached quasi-module seems to do it! On my computer, at least. (I call it 'quasi' because it is really nothing more than code in a file of its own. No