Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt meeting moved to October/November

2008-04-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
to take over the organisation. LOL: You really scared me, Mojca ;-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote in section: Compilation stops on TUO file

2008-04-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Constance! Hraban Did you remember to flush the old tuo file first? :-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail

Re: [NTG-context] first steps with XeTeX

2008-04-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:36:23 -0600, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I need to typeset some names with characters outside of ec encoding, I'm just checking out XeTeX. why not luatex? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi

Re: [NTG-context] Any other STM Publishers using ConTeX? (was: Short question regarding PDF bookmarks)

2008-04-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
interested. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] Architecture Sketch

2008-04-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

[NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-04-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
the time is way overdue for a new release. And it is safer to install a fresh distribution than to muck around with replacing the fonts etc. Any news? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-04-17 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
that we have a new minimals system ... Well, mswincontext is rather maximal, not minimal :-) ok, we need to add scite to and docs tree, and... Thanks and Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
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Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-26 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
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Re: [NTG-context] Arabic transliteration

2008-05-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
in ConTeXT? I used to use macros for that purpose, with the latest Latin Modern fonts you should have every Arabic transliteration character you need, including the arc under the h, ie, ḫ. In luatex you just type ḫ. Try it! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic transliteration

2008-05-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
, perhaps Hans could implement a combining command that gives an italics parameter option, though that will differ for regular, bold, etc... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic transliteration

2008-05-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Arabic transliteration chars are there now. If you really do need macros, I can send you my old Arabic transliteration macros and you can use/modify those for the effect you need. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies

[NTG-context] font tables

2008-05-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, Is there an available ConTeXt utility for creating font tables for luatex? \ShowFont does this for 256-char encodings but we need something to create a matrix in pdf through luatex for unicode fonts. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-05-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
is better. Can you give a precise list of the features contained in InDesign that are missing in (lua)TeX or which TeX does not support well? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University

Re: [NTG-context] InDesign/InCopy vs. TeX and friends

2008-06-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
-- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting Arabic today

2008-06-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
that is not in Traditional Arabic font, and that font was designed for Windows systems only. Eventually we will be able to oveload OpenType features to correct this kind of (mis)behavior. Note also that you may only use utf-8, not Windows-1256 etc! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting Arabic today

2008-06-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:43:04 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Omega is dead or nearly dead It's dead, only the funeral and burial remain to be done ;-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting Arabic today

2008-06-07 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi, Burak, On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:09:14 -0600, Burak Emir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Aleph_Guide was once the main guide. Aleph was a merge of etex and Omega, succeeded

Re: [NTG-context] typesetting Arabic today

2008-06-07 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
do you need FF? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX

2008-06-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear Otared, Salaam On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:13:06 -0600, Otared Kavian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I just read the thread started by Burak Emir about Typesetting Arabic today, and tried to typeset the sample sent by Idris Samawi Hamid. One of the Arabic or Persian fonts that I have

Re: [NTG-context] Rendering of ZWNJ and ZWJ

2008-06-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
included. Can this be made an option, so fonts that contain zwj zwnj are not affected? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode

2008-06-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
/surprise.html So this all needs careful thought. On my list... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode

2008-06-09 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
still studying the matter. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Rendering of ZWNJ and ZWJ

2008-06-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:45:31 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Can this be made an option, so fonts that contain zwj zwnj are not affected? ok, the next version will have otf.remove_joiners = true -- default Our main test fonts + professional fonts

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-06-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
processing would be just one among other plug-ins? I wonder what kind of information that engine should share with plug-ins. Do you think such system is possible? Or something else? I would love to hear more of your thoughts on this. Don't hold back! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi

Re: [NTG-context] Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode

2008-06-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
as argument No, this was an abbreviation for both \setcharactermirroring[0] and \setcharactermirroring[1] work in... ;-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode

2008-06-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
are Iranian and they implement both Arabic and Farsi rules correctly, have keyboards etc. AFAIK, no other editor implements the bidi alg as well. I'll forward you something in this regard. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies

Re: [NTG-context] Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode

2008-06-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
:-( Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 unipad-bidi.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: [NTG-context] Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic

2008-06-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic index entries

2008-06-19 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
-urdu etc. databases in the distro. If Hans can tell us what file to emulate/edit etc Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic

2008-06-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
common values shared between several locales? Sorry for asking so much. Not to mention Saudi Arabia, which uses the lunar months... Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic index entries

2008-06-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:14:49 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sort-lan.lua Thanks, Wolfgang! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic

2008-06-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
try to find a conversion algorithm... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic

2008-06-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:03:10 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:11:57 -0600, Khaled Hosny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention Saudi Arabia, which uses the lunar months... But I think this another issue of its own, since SA uses Hijri

Re: [NTG-context] Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic

2008-06-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
for hans to read ;-) Could you evaluate a couple and make a recommendation? Salaam Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic

2008-06-21 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
this as well. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode PDF bookmarks and headers

2008-06-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
text instead, am I missing some thing? You are right, the bookmark text is misencoded, even though I am only getting ASCII representation here (Acrobat 8) Does Acrobat fully support unicode Arabic -- do you have the ME version? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with miktex

2008-06-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
the minimals? What error message do you get? Please give as much detail as possible! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

[NTG-context] Off-Topic: Down With Helvetica

2008-06-27 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, Many of you -- Hello luigi ;-) -- may be interested in this mainstream media article on font design: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/technology/personaltech/26basics.html?emex=1214712000en=a2063db595baad4aei=5087%0A Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor

[NTG-context] ConTeXt, Framemaker, and InDesign

2008-06-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, Framemaker, and InDesign

2008-06-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Martin, On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:18:37 -0600, Martin Schröder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/30 Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What does ConTeXt have that Framemaker does not? I don't know about ConTeXt, but I know that something like LaTeX's \include/\includeonly was a new

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, Framemaker, and InDesign

2008-07-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
, that would be really useful! (so many undocumented features... we really need to start working on that book and shake the tree...) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType cursive attachments

2008-07-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
in the 2 lines). The font is here http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/pub/SimplifiedNaskh/SimplifiedNaskh.ttf Thanks for the report. I will study this carefully tomorrow morning my time. سلام Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies

Re: [NTG-context] Passing unicode characters

2008-07-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
be a way to control the separator char in \setupsection. I'm at work right now but maybe I can look at this later. Can you send a sample file? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE in ConTeXt setup

2008-08-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
/scripts/context/ruby What's missing ? Not presently on linux etc. but did you use the cscite script to launch scite or the setuptex script? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip

2008-08-27 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
and choose custom install if that is available; 3. Uncheck the RubyGems option; That's it! setuptex.bat and the scripts that depend on it (like cscite.bat and my npp.bat) should work now. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Package for Notepad++ v. 5.0.3

2008-09-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
don't know how to remap the directories if necessary... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] Unicode characters

2008-09-26 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:09:28 -0600, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please explain use fallbacks. http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080611.094746.07de5882.en.html Best wishes -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph queries

2006-06-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg

[NTG-context] sectionnumber conversion

2006-06-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
} \chapter{The Body Stuff} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \setupheadnumber[part][+] \part{II}{Appendices} \chapter{Appendix} \stopappendices \stoptext == -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph queries

2006-06-21 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:37:50 -0600, Duncan Hothersall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid (15/06/2006 17:28) said: You could edit the cuni2oar otp (and recompile it) so that it ignores the ligatures you don't like, or you could put a kashidah between the two letters whose ligature

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph queries

2006-06-21 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
at the moment. Let me know what you would prefer and I'll get to it as soon as I can :-) Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph queries

2006-06-21 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
but Duncan seems to be getting 1.2 erugiF even with global Arabic settings. In addition Duncan would like to use a dash instead of a period: 2-1 erugiF Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph queries

2006-06-21 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:05:43 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: In Latin we write Figure 1.2 in Arabic we want the equivalent of 2.1 erugiF but Duncan seems to be getting 1.2 erugiF even with global Arabic settings. so it's only the number that's

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph queries

2006-06-21 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
.} {\externalfigure[cow][width=1.5in]} \stoptext == Hmm, seems to work here; maybe Duncan did not use \bodydir TRT? Hans: How do we configure the .=- separator? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt 2006.06.09 released

2006-06-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
but did not get this announcement. Are these things in sync? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

Re: [NTG-context] Typescripts tutorials?

2006-06-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
new fonts working and I'm trying to figure out typescripts. Specifically, I'm confused about the syntax of the \starttypescript [][][] statements. Is there an explanation of these files in non-code (ie, English)? -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State

Re: [NTG-context] Aleph queries

2006-06-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
from ltr while separated numbers forming a section or float reference should read rtl overall. So we are nearly there, just the cross-references to be dealt with, thank you all very much for this. -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-24 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
formulas, strange number reversion and swapping l/r [since omega has bugs with math i'm not sure what is the reason] maybe duncan/idris/taco have an idea I will look at it; need examples etc. Thnx as always Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-24 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
the entire stack. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
one would write the numeral from r to l and it would look the same. How decimals would be handled in the classical case needs a bit of research Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
else? \appendtoks reset otps intialize other sequence of thenm \to \everymathematics Sometimes someone may want to use the numerals from the omarb in a mathematical context so this may still be useful. Will work on it... Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
}$ \stoptext == On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:38:37 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:08:37 -0600, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is you could just remove the punctuation support from the current OTP

Re: [NTG-context] INstall minimal context system.

2006-06-25 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)

2006-06-26 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
? Anyway, omarb needs an Arabic-script decimal or else map the Arabic comma to it in math mode. The very best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

[NTG-context] sectionnumber conversion redux

2006-06-27 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
I sent this a week ago, still awaiting help :-) Idris On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:20:58 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear fellow gangsters, Consider the following test file; partnumber=on. I would like partnumber to be converted to capital roman numerals while the page

Re: [NTG-context] sectionnumber conversion redux

2006-06-28 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Taco, Thnx for the help :-) On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:18:56 -0600, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: I sent this a week ago, still awaiting help :-) I do not (yet) know how to fix the TOC. It looks to me like you cannot get

[NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

2006-06-29 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
] \useMPgraphic{2squares} \stoptext -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ mm_design.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

[NTG-context] Updating jitters

2006-06-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
tree dumped on top. Whatever advice you can give me on upgrading will be most greatly appreciated! Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

Re: [NTG-context] Updating jitters

2006-06-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
the latest cont-tmf.zip beta? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

2006-06-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
the scaled 1cm part. Is there another macro that handles the global scaling? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

2006-06-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
] := origin ; ? === z[1] = origin ; etc. works though. Is there any advantage to keeping the brackets instead of just z1 etc.? Thnx again Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

[NTG-context] More Metapost alignment

2006-06-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
], and for LABEL.lrt LABEL.urt I get \framed[align=right]. How do I adjust the definition of LABEL above? Thank you Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

2006-06-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:41:15 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:42:16 -0600, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: draw ((2,6) -- (2,5)) scaled 1cm withcolor .625red ; you can use drawoptions(scaled 1cm withcolor .625red

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

2006-06-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
{\usestaticMPfigure[square]} \blank[2*big] \midaligned{\usestaticMPfigure[2squares]} \stoptext = -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Is Indesign CS 2 better than ConTeXt ?

2006-07-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
. Could you post a link to this thread? Putting the thread title into google did not get me anywhere :-) Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

2006-07-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
for the lesson in MP and all the Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

2006-07-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
will do this in a brute force way like you, but using loops for repetitive tasks and allowing metapost to do all the calculations for me. -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost label alignment etc.

2006-07-06 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:39:04 -0600, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/6/06, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Hi, Aditya, (I must admit I'm still struggling with mastering Mojca's approach ;-). I guess that I should read this as please comment your code better next time Thank you

Re: [NTG-context] MyriadPro?

2006-07-07 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
with MinionPro as well? I have written an article on MinionPro this that might help you: http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/expertfonts.pdf The procedure for Myriad should be analogous. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, Charts, and transparency

2006-07-12 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, Charts, and transparency

2006-07-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:33:13 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear syndicate, So it's not a graphical charts module but I'm curious anyway: Could someone explain why the following sample file apparently does not work or what I am missing? did you

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, Charts, and transparency

2006-07-18 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
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Re: [NTG-context] Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt

2006-07-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000262topic_id=1 Can TeX/LaTeX/ConTexT-based typesetting can look as good? Perhaps! I'm curious: What is preventing ConTeXt in particular from looking this good? What is the basis of your Perhaps!? What's missing? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-07 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
to \fighei into \global\setbox\foundexternalfigure\naturalvbox to \fighei so that figures work in global RL? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com

[NTG-context] part conversion

2006-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
define my own conversion for a few pages. Can someone remind me how to do that (assuming that's the only way)? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com

Re: [NTG-context] part conversion

2006-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:59:27 -0600, Bernd Militzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \setuppagenumbering[state=start,partnumber=no,left={I-},right=,conversion=numbers] Beautiful, THNX! Just one modification: left={I--} Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado

[NTG-context] framed-vtop

2006-10-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
{Instructor, Physics, Upward Bound Math/Science Regional Center \crlf University at Buffalo, State University of New York}} \stoptext I can't seem to find the right options for \framed so that the year is flush with the top line of its argument. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid

[NTG-context] external table alignment

2006-10-04 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
2001 \NC Fall \NC\SR \stoptable Some text \stoptext === Thank you Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

[NTG-context] font switches, tables, and grouping

2006-10-04 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
is happening here and how do I fix it? Also, how do I control the blank space between \stoptable and the beginning of the next par? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client

Re: [NTG-context] external table alignment

2006-10-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear knights, I still need help with this one. How do I get the table flush left (no offset)? Best Idris On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:14:31 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear consortium, I need to get the argument of \start-stoptable aligned flush left. Even

Re: [NTG-context] external table alignment

2006-10-06 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:00:50 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \starttable[o(0pt)|l|l|] \HL \NC 2001 \NC Fall \NC\SR \HL \stoptable The o(xxx) key is your friend. Thank you for this, and for the wiki reference. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department

[NTG-context] OpenOffice export

2006-12-02 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
had some TeX-related proposals funded so...). Please write me if you are interested in a grant, or else we can just discuss it on dev-context@ntg.nl and get it done another way! Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: [NTG-context] OpenOffice export

2006-12-03 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:39:30 -0700, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Hi gang, I just learned that OOo 2.04 has a LaTeX export (downloading now). Any of you bright programmers up to writing a ConTeXt export (or porting the LaTeX filters to ConTeXt)? I'm

Re: [NTG-context] OpenOffice export

2006-12-04 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
a stronger version control to enable this feature. Can you explain what you mean by this? (Sorry if I'm clueless-) Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

[NTG-context] \head and pagebreak

2006-12-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, Is there a way to absolutely forbid a pagebreak between \head and its following paragraph? [intro] tries hard but sometimes fails. I tried \setupitemize[each] [inmargin,autointro] \setuptolerance[vertical,stretch] but I still get pagebreaks. Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi

Re: [NTG-context] \head and pagebreak

2006-12-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
not work properly (maybe because the [] option is not always used). Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail

[NTG-context] Fwd: coupling register with head

2006-12-15 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear knights, I sent this earlier, never got a response... I'm sure I'm not the first to ask this question, seems like a pretty common register-task. But if it's impossible, please let me know that too! Best Idris --- Forwarded message --- From: Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: coupling register with head

2006-12-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Taco, On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:53:13 -0700, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear knights, I sent this earlier, never got a response... I'm sure I'm not the first to ask this question, seems like a pretty common register-task. But if it's impossible

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