[NTG-context] disabling ligatures in selected words

2015-10-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi, in German typography, ligatures are disabled at boundaries between what used to be independent words (Wortfugen). Thusly, in a correct German text, you'd find Anflug (with fl-ligature) but Auf|lage (without ligature). I know that I can prevent a ligature with something like Auf\/lage

Re: [NTG-context] disabling ligatures in selected words

2015-10-23 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi, in German typography, ligatures are disabled at boundaries between what used to be independent words (Wortfugen). Thusly, in a correct German text, you'd find Anflug (with fl-ligature) but Auf| lage (without ligature). I know that I can

[NTG-context] Something weird about PATHs and MkII: wrong pdfTeX picked up

2015-10-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, I jut tried to compile a document with texexec, but here's the weird thing: > which texexec /Users/me/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/texexec > which pdftex /Users/me/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/pdftex > which mtxrun /Users/me/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun > pdftex --version pdfTeX

Re: [NTG-context] Bug with ConTeXt and pgfplot library fillbetween

2015-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Aditya Mahajan 22. Oktober 2015 um 02:52 Hi, The following example fails: \usemodule[pgfplots] \usepgfplotslibrary[fillbetween] \starttext \startformula \left. a \right| \stopformula \stoptext with tex error > tex error on line 7 in file /private/tmp/test.tex: !

Re: [NTG-context] tex error in curent beta

2015-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Jan Tosovsky 22. Oktober 2015 um 21:25 If I recapitulate it, it is apparent regression as it worked in 0.79. That error can be eliminated using a user defined command instead, but that command doesn't seem to be executed as it doesn't produce desired effect.

Re: [NTG-context] New btx code problem with quote protrusion

2015-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Rik Kabel 22. Oktober 2015 um 23:31 On 2015-07-05 19:21, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 18:52:40 -0400 > Rik Kabel wrote: > >> Is this a bug, or simply something not yet ready with the new regime, >> or am I doing

Re: [NTG-context] Two column layout with footnotes do not work as expected

2015-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Dr. Thomas Möbius 23. Oktober 2015 um 17:09 Hi, footnotes in two column layouts are typeset at the bottom of the respected column but with the width of two columns. Expected: 1) Either footnotes spanning the whole page from left to right at the bottom of the

Re: [NTG-context] Something weird about PATHs and MkII: wrong pdfTeX picked up

2015-10-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, Addendum: it turns out that as soon as I remove ruby 2.2 from rbenv from PATH, everything starts working properly. At the moment I'm not yet sure whether there is something wrong or weird with the ruby setup in rbenv or something specific about the version of Ruby. I will try different

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining features from EBGaramond font in ConTeXt

2015-10-23 Thread josephcanedo
Thanks Rik, I’ll install standalone ConTeXt along TexLive then. Is there any place I could find docs on \definecharacterspacing command please ? Could not find any occurrence on the Wiki. Many thanks Best regards Joseph Sent from Windows Mail From: Rik Kabel Sent: ‎Friday‎,

Re: [NTG-context] disabling ligatures in selected words

2015-10-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Aditya Mahajan 23. Oktober 2015 um 20:57 On Fri, 23 Oct 2015, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: This has been asked on tex stackexchange. One option is to use the translate module: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37465/323 http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/28746/323 Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] disabling ligatures in selected words

2015-10-23 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 23.10.2015 21:09, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Take a look at the new replacement mechanism (lang-rep.mkiv): - http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083044.html - http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2015/083034.html Aditya, Wolfgang, thank you both - both solutions look great and

[NTG-context] Error when installing context standalone

2015-10-23 Thread josephcanedo
Hello all, I got the installation zip file following instructions found in: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Windows Unzipped in C:\ConTeXt directory (brand new an empty). Started command: first-setup.bat --context=current --modules=all After a couple of minutes: I get: !

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining features from EBGaramond font in ConTeXt

2015-10-23 Thread Rik Kabel
On 2015-10-23 15:19, josephcan...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any place I could find docs on \definecharacterspacing command please ? Could not find any occurrence on the Wiki. The best description I have seen of it is in Wolfgang’s message on the mailing list at

[NTG-context] Two column layout with footnotes do not work as expected

2015-10-23 Thread Dr. Thomas Möbius
Hi, footnotes in two column layouts are typeset at the bottom of the respected column but with the width of two columns. Expected: 1) Either footnotes spanning the whole page from left to right at the bottom of the page. 2) Or have the footnote be restricted to one column only. How can I

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining features from EBGaramond font in ConTeXt

2015-10-23 Thread Rik Kabel
On 2015-10-23 03:44, josephcan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Wondered if you could figure out what I did wrong with specifying the font. Asked question on TexExchange.org already, with samples. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/274471/obtaining-features-from-ebgaramond-font-in-context

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining features from EBGaramond font in ConTeXt

2015-10-23 Thread josephcanedo
At the moment, I use “\,” between word and question marks. Also “~” between word and “:”. I guess the \definecharacterspacing is more flexible and transparent from text input point of view (only write normal space). IIRC both \, and ~ also avoids line breaking at their location. Is there a way

Re: [NTG-context] Error when installing context standalone

2015-10-23 Thread josephcanedo
Works all fine (also used win64.zip file) if I do not specify --context=current. Thanks Joseph Sent from Windows Mail From: josephcan...@gmail.com Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎October‎ ‎23‎, ‎2015 ‎9‎:‎28‎ ‎PM To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Hello all, I got the installation zip file following

Re: [NTG-context] Obtaining features from EBGaramond font in ConTeXt

2015-10-23 Thread Rik
On 2015-10-23 16:47, josephcan...@gmail.com wrote: At the moment, I use “\,” between word and question marks. Also “~” between word and “:”. I guess the \definecharacterspacing is more flexible and transparent from text input point of view (only write normal space). IIRC both \, and ~ also

Re: [NTG-context] New btx code problem with quote protrusion, redux

2015-10-23 Thread Rik Kabel
On 2015-10-23 14:40, Rik Kabel wrote: At Wolfgang’s request, a new thread for this subject. I have cleaned up the example from the July 5 posting, but the problems are the same as shown there. In July Alan suggested that there might a bug here, but nothing has been done to address it since

[NTG-context] Obtaining features from EBGaramond font in ConTeXt

2015-10-23 Thread josephcanedo
Hello all, Wondered if you could figure out what I did wrong with specifying the font. Asked question on TexExchange.org already, with samples. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/274471/obtaining-features-from-ebgaramond-font-in-context I use texlive 2015 on Windows 8.1 Many thanks,

[NTG-context] New btx code problem with quote protrusion, redux

2015-10-23 Thread Rik Kabel
At Wolfgang’s request, a new thread for this subject. I have cleaned up the example from the July 5 posting, but the problems are the same as shown there. In July Alan suggested that there might a bug here, but nothing has been done to address it since then. Wolfgang suggested