Re: [NTG-context] collecting user wishes for streams related functionalities

2010-08-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
they just discuss the same subject with no direct correlation (not a critical edition). I'd like to be able to reproduce such layout. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] xits font in ~/.fonts

2010-08-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
to work. That what I ended up doing while ago (actually, my master copy is on the local git repository, and I've symlinks in ~/.fonts and ~/texmf). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] xits font in ~/.fonts

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
the typescript references font names. and \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Cambria] \setmathfont[Cambria] both work. Because there already a working typescript? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
to converting them to type1 fonts), does luatex support (or plan to support) that feature? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:34:57PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 08/17/2010 03:05 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Do PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX subset the font in this way? Yes, this is the default. So unless you have manually interfered, the included fonts are always subsetted. I'm

Re: [NTG-context] xits font in ~/.fonts

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:08:23PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 17-8-2010 3:00, Khaled Hosny wrote: The typescript uses file names, however ConTeXt can not load system fonts by filename. Hans, I think it would be nice to be able to load fonts by either font name or file name regardless

Re: [NTG-context] xits font in ~/.fonts

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:26:19PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 17-8-2010 4:53, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 03:08:23PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 17-8-2010 3:00, Khaled Hosny wrote: The typescript uses file names, however ConTeXt can not load system fonts by filename. Hans

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___ -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org

Re: [NTG-context] an issues with punk module

2010-08-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
] http://github.com/khaledhosny/punk-otf Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] an issues with punk module

2010-08-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:16:18PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6-8-2010 2:34, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:19:54PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 5-8-2010 4:52, views63 wrote: \usemodule[punk] \usetypescript[punk] \setupbodyfont[punk, 32pt] \starttext All animals are equal

Re: [NTG-context] an issues with punk module

2010-08-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:33:27PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6-8-2010 5:23, Khaled Hosny wrote: Just in case you missed it, I changed file names slightly yo be consistent with my other fonts, so it is now punknova-regular.otf and punknova-bold.otf. The fonts were uploaded to CTAN too

Re: [NTG-context] 4th ConTeXt Meeting, update

2010-08-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
and creating a flyer (by Willi) and more workshops can be added if there are specific requests. I hope to see you all in Brejlov! Any love for people who are unable to make it into the meeting, like video recordings or something? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member

Re: [NTG-context] 4th ConTeXt Meeting, update

2010-08-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 06:38:05PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 2-8-2010 5:53, Jano Kula wrote: On 08/02/2010 04:16 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Any love for people who are unable to make it into the meeting, like video recordings or something? We will do our best and see the results after

Re: [NTG-context] Grammar

2010-07-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
usually stop reading at that point. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] Using stylistic sets in math

2010-07-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:45:57PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 15-7-2010 9:24, Khaled Hosny wrote: In XITS I have stylistic sets (ss01-07) for accessing additional alphabets not bresent in Unicode, or variants of exising ones. For example, ss01 maps the script alphabets to an alternate

Re: [NTG-context] Using stylistic sets in math

2010-07-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 07:43:46AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 07/17/2010 05:49 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: I'm not a big fan of private use area myself, it just makes things more unportable. The approach I used is mapping the new characters to the closest matching existing ones, so

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong Pi and Gamma with XITS

2010-07-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:25:47AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 14-7-2010 11:22, Khaled Hosny wrote: Sorry, I should have mentioned that I'm testing against texlive-2010 pretest. Already months ago texlive 2010 was frozen and therefore the context on it is one of a few month ago. I get

[NTG-context] Using stylistic sets in math

2010-07-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
{fonts.otf.features.register_base_substitution('ss01')} \definefontfeature[math-text][mode=base,script=math,ss01=yes] \setupbodyfont[xits] $\cal ABCDEF$ \stoptext Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] \AR in Tables

2010-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:23:54AM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Dear gang, In Tables: \NR, \SR, \FR, \MR, \LR those I understand. But what does \AR do? When is it used? Automatic Row? it guesses the appropriate new row command for you? -- Khaled Hosny

[NTG-context] Wrong Pi and Gamma with XITS

2010-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
I get double struck instead of regular ones. \setupbodyfont[xits] \starttext $\mathit{Γ\quadΠ}$ \stoptext -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question

[NTG-context] Wrong upright Greek instead of Italic

2010-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
This gives me upright Greek, but I was expecting italic: \setupbodyfont[xits] \starttext $\mathit{ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ}$ $\mathbi{ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ}$ \stoptext -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong upright Greek instead of Italic

2010-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:16:14PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: This gives me upright Greek, but I was expecting italic: \setupbodyfont[xits] \starttext $\mathit{ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ}$ $\mathbi{ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ}$ \stoptext What

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong Pi and Gamma with XITS

2010-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:18:07PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: I get double struck instead of regular ones. \setupbodyfont[xits] \starttext $\mathit{Γ\quadΠ}$ \stoptext This was fixed a while back. Not sure if Hans released a beta after

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong upright Greek instead of Italic

2010-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:42:30PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:16:14PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: This gives me upright Greek, but I was expecting italic: \setupbodyfont[xits

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong upright Greek instead of Italic

2010-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
selecting the style, the setup should make no difference, which is indeed the case with Latin. Best regards: OK On 14 juil. 2010, at 16:33, Khaled Hosny wrote: This gives me upright Greek, but I was expecting italic: \setupbodyfont[xits] \starttext $\mathit{ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong upright Greek instead of Italic

2010-07-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:08:41AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: BTW, I did not know that you could use \setupbodyfont without the \ usetypescript line. I learnt it by accident, looks like some mkiv goody or something. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free

Re: [NTG-context] Example ConTeXt document: PS output

2010-07-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
loader written in PostScript. Don't ask me why I remembered this now, but I always found it one of most weird uses of PostSscript I've ever seen. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] A problem with combining characters

2010-07-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
BELOW}\N{COMBINING CARON BELOW}' |./uconv -t utf-8 -x name-any ạ̬ \stoptext Tested with Pango, the two marks overlap, very likely to be a font issue (no mark to mark anchor attachment). Looks good in DejaVu Sans (but not Serif) BTW. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member

Re: [NTG-context] two languages hyphenation

2010-06-25 Thread Khaled Hosny
be found by file names. Since file and font names are essentially the same, once normalized, in case of xits, I suggest that font names are used so it works for both scenarios (system vs. texmf installation). (I myself have a self may typescript just for that) Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny

Re: [NTG-context] TL 2010 and gentium typescript: weird errors with XeTeX

2010-06-23 Thread Khaled Hosny
font, then anything from : onwards should go, only good old TeX font syntax is allowed here. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] TL 2010 and gentium typescript: weird errors with XeTeX

2010-06-23 Thread Khaled Hosny
to features Very likely, as shown by the error message (there shouldn't be any featured passed to tfm fonts). (2) xetex has changed how does your tex file looks like (not that i'm too keen into diving into a xetex related font proble right now) -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member

Re: [NTG-context] ssty feature is not activated for math

2010-06-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 07:29:43AM +0200, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Khaled, Thanks for your attention to my remarks. On 18 juin 2010, at 23:15, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:33:56PM +0200, Otared Kavian wrote: • With stix fonts, the integral sign doesn't scale up

Re: [NTG-context] XITS fonts

2010-06-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
it? It is, but the font files are not. 2) is it Times-compatible (I mean looks good with Times text) It should be, the fonts can be used for text as well (but no small caps and no kerning except for Latin). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free

Re: [NTG-context] ssty feature is not activated for math

2010-06-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:33:56PM +0200, Otared Kavian wrote: On 18 juin 2010, at 17:43, Khaled Hosny wrote: Compare the size of the primes with xits, cambria and modern, only the later is correct. Hi Khaled, Hi Hans, Thank you so much to bith of you and all other people involved

Re: [NTG-context] Strange Font problem

2010-06-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:09:11AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 16-6-2010 3:19, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 02:32:48AM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote: Hello, since one of the last betas (I guess two weeks ago), a strange problem appears in my current document. The first ~10

Re: [NTG-context] Strange Font problem

2010-06-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
some strange color issues with ConTeXt generated PDFs and Adobe's reader in the past, namely any page with images would have the colors brighter than other pages, since the print was fine (and I don't use Adobe's for screen reading, I didn't bother). Yours might be something similar. -- Khaled

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
. IIRC, there is a bit of engine level glyph reordering involved with Indic rendering. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:15:35PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:07:55PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on specific features in the microsoft engine? Most opentype features are quite generic and should

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:19:50PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:15:35PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:07:55PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on specific features in the microsoft

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
, and the apparent failure of AAT), just try to reach more people in the Indic community and come out with a clear specification and tests that Hans can implement. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

[NTG-context] [OT] How TeX Gyre small caps were generated?

2010-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
for XITS fonts, since STIX didn't provide small caps, and I'm not into hand designing hundreds of LGC small caps. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] ↦ in xits

2010-06-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
+21A6 in Latin Modern virtual font and then use the proper code point everywhere (may be this what is actually done but I misinterpreted it). -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] ↦ in xits

2010-06-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 09:07:17PM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:19:08PM +0400, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote: Hi! I use $x↦2x$ in xits, and it prints x→2x instead of x↦2x. The same file works with latin modern. It seems that xits-math

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http

Re: [NTG-context] XITS fonts - second beta

2010-06-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:24:57PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 9-6-2010 9:05, Khaled Hosny wrote: Is there a chance this typescript gets into texlive? As I'm trying to get the font ready by the time of texlive2010, I think having the updated typescript will make installation instructions

Re: [NTG-context] problem with 'kpse.find_file'

2010-06-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
). -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http

Re: [NTG-context] XITS fonts - second beta

2010-06-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:14:42AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6-6-2010 9:43, Khaled Hosny wrote: I just uploaded a second beta of XITS fonts, this mainly introduces XITS text fonts, regular, bold, italic and bold italic. No changes to the math font. This release features also a rudimentary

Re: [NTG-context] Lua in LuaLaTeX is diferent??

2010-06-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
or LuaPlain and then load the library? How can I retrieve LuaLib? Where can I get more information? I did some Googling but without success. Thanx Jaroslav Dne 6.6.2010 4:46, Khaled Hosny napsal(a): On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:35:23AM +0200, Jaroslav Hajtmar wrote: Hi, I am sending examples

[NTG-context] XITS fonts - second beta

2010-06-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
' feature * text fractions, through 'frac' feature As usual, it is available from github: http://github.com/khaledhosny/xits-math/downloads Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] Lua in LuaLaTeX is diferent??

2010-06-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
: http://contextgarden.net ___ -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Script to automatically generate typescripts

2010-06-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
non-luatex code, I'll pick python anytime of the day, a light language with almost no standard library is not what one always need. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

[NTG-context] XITS Math font - first beata

2010-06-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
of math aesthetics and sharp eyes to spot error better than what I can ever do. Others are highly welcomed to test against other OpenType MATH implementations, namely unicode-math (with both XeTeX and LuaTeX) and MS Office 2007 and higher. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser

Re: [NTG-context] XITS Math font - first beta

2010-06-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
=math\mathsizesuffix] -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

Re: [NTG-context] unicode subscripts

2010-05-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
discrepancies). -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Two problems about CJK fonts with the beta (2010.05.22)

2010-05-23 Thread Khaled Hosny
always resolve to 'tfmtable.format = specification.format'. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add

Re: [NTG-context] 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

2010-05-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:35:58PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-5-2010 11:26, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:25:06PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-5-2010 10:06, Khaled Hosny wrote: Nothing special, I always expect interline space to be fixed, I don't know if TeX always

Re: [NTG-context] 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

2010-05-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 02:54:49PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 14-5-2010 2:37, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:35:58PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-5-2010 11:26, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:25:06PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-5-2010 10:06, Khaled Hosny

Re: [NTG-context] Issue with \setupinterlinespace

2010-05-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 02:55:54PM +0200, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: Wgat is wrong with this example: \setuplayout[grid=force] \setupinterlinespace[height=1.081em, depth=.7em, distance=.018em] \starttext \input knuth

Re: [NTG-context] Issue with \setupinterlinespace

2010-05-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 03:20:21PM +0200, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: I see, in the wiki:   height: ration|size of strut (e.g. 0.72 or 9pt)   depth:  ration|size of strut (e.g. 0.28 or 3pt) And I assumed .7em

Re: [NTG-context] 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

2010-05-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
to force fixed interline spacing? -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

2010-05-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 05:00:01PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-5-2010 4:32, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 04:16:12PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-5-2010 3:42, Mojca Miklavec wrote: \startyoumayignorethis The only thing that really bothers me are so much different vertical

Re: [NTG-context] 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

2010-05-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 01:46:28PM -0500, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2010 10:00:01 -0500, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 13-5-2010 4:32, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 04:16:12PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-5-2010 3:42, Mojca Miklavec

Re: [NTG-context] wikipedians: kind request

2010-05-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
into a bureaucratic monster controlled by people who would trust blog posts as reliable independent sources, I just gave up arguing with such people. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] 10+ reasons why I still use MKII

2010-05-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:25:06PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-5-2010 10:06, Khaled Hosny wrote: Nothing special, I always expect interline space to be fixed, I don't know if TeX always make interline spacing variable, but this wasn't an issue with English text. However, with Arabic

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt name/branding

2010-04-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
! but given the original post it then should be latex iv i.e. no funny uppercase Metatex IV Pro, this sounds professional (the non-pro can be the plain variant). -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
with Jacko. I'm used to open source projects where sending patches with your bug reports is more appreciated, and I always feel it is a bit rude to do otherwise (specially in an area like fonts where I should be able to fix bugs myself). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 04:21:27PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-4-2010 8:07, Khaled Hosny wrote: Apparently not, again for some reason I'd always the feeling that they are not interested in feedback (I also usually try to provide fixes with my bug reports, but I can't really do here

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:13:49PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-4-2010 12:58, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:41:59PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 12-4-2010 9:43, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 09:23:02PM +0200, Marco wrote: With MkIV \cap and \nocap is no longer

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
design sizes is not usually good idea since they have different metrics and hinting zones etc. making the merge pointless. You can use TTC to collect several fonts in one file, though. Regards Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:00:39PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-4-2010 1:03, Khaled Hosny wrote: They already shipped glyphs with such poor artistic value, being in the Ghostscript fonts is not an excuse, they could have resorted to the original URW fonts, which were released under GPL, from

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
in... ? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 07:33:22PM +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: BTW, I just checked ghostscript fonts shipped with my distro and they don't have any of the crappy Greek glyphs TeX Gyre have (neither do the files linked from TeX Gyre

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 07:37:04PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 01:06:47PM +0200, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: I don't go to TeX conferences, so mailing lists is the only place I can discuss such stuff, and TeX Gyre fonts don't have a mailing list, AFAIK

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
reason I'd always the feeling that they are not interested in feedback (I also usually try to provide fixes with my bug reports, but I can't really do here). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
, but they don't have a source repository and their work flow depends on proprietary software that I cannot afford. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question

Re: [NTG-context] \nocap does not work

2010-04-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:41:59PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 12-4-2010 9:43, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 09:23:02PM +0200, Marco wrote: With MkIV \cap and \nocap is no longer necessary when you have a opentype font with the smcp (smallcapitals) and c2sc (capitals

Re: [NTG-context] pk-directory

2010-03-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
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Re: [NTG-context] pk-directory

2010-03-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
, using FontForge, for example. No, neither OpenType or TrueType support bitmap-only, they can embed bitmaps besides the regular outlines (X11 have there own OpenType bitmap-only format, but it isn't a standard). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team

Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts

2010-03-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
there is support for a single font file with different optical sizes. Fontloader already expose the size info if present, we wrote some code for LaTeX that loads the best optical size automatically based on the requested font size, it isn't that hard. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic

Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-03-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
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Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-03-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
understanding why it looks OK here ;) (I know it is an old thread, but I just started reading it now) Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] using `` '' the output is wrong.

2010-03-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
\textgrave a} \stoptext Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki

Re: [NTG-context] suggestions for context documentation

2010-03-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
to be 5--12 years old. *The LaTeX manual* is 16 years old. http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/ LaTeX-A-Document-Preparation-System/9780201529838.page But LaTeX didn't change since then, unlike ConTeXt (even MkII is under documented). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] TEX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript

2010-02-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:38:11PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/ PS: the author comes from the second nicest country in the world :) Combined with jsMath, I think we can now reimplement TeX in JS :D Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote Failure

2010-02-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
] } \stoptext And this one aspect of ConTeXt I can't get comfortable with, \useURL is great and every thing, but it is overkill for my simple url use; I just need a very simple, one call command, some thing like \URL[http://...]{foo}. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote Failure

2010-02-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:36:02PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 22-2-2010 18:23, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:11:56PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: btw, why not put the url defs somplace in your preamble, that way you have one spot to maintain them \setupinteraction[state=start

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
for it. ConTeXt already has a BiDi implantation (typo-mir.{lua,mkiv}), but I gave up using it because it is buggy and can be hardly used for any thing. [1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ [2] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/ Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:56:05PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 9-2-2010 18:50, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:25:58PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Hi all, ConTeXt has many features but sometimes there is something missing, what feature or package do you miss which

Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?

2010-02-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 12:12:00PM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Salaam, Khaled, On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:44:55 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: IIRC, I reported all of that months ago but I usually get no answer. Are you sure about that? A quick

Re: [NTG-context] Minimals installation problem OS X 10.6.2

2010-01-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
how far compatible is it). -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

Re: [NTG-context] Automated Quotation/Punctuation Placement

2010-01-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
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Re: [NTG-context] Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched

2009-12-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
, and it was looking for it. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] Ligatures

2009-12-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
to an existing thread, though you changed the subject, makes following threads harder. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [NTG-context] auto-sizing of nested parentheses

2009-12-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
: $\Bigg(\bigg(\Big(\big((..).\big)..\Big)\bigg)..\Bigg)$ Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[NTG-context] Simplefonts and math fonts

2009-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
Though there is a \setmathfont command, it doesn't seem to work. The following example still typeset in LM. \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmathfont[Asana Math] \starttext $\sqrt{x+y}=z$ \stoptext Any idea? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free

Re: [NTG-context] font-syn.lua error

2009-11-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
' (a nil value) What operating system? I don't know if that can be a problem, but some platforms don't have LuaTeX beta-0.45.0 yet (freebsd, linux and linux-ppc; if you are on Mac, you can try to update once again). I get the same error with both 0.44 and 0.45 on Linux. -- Khaled Hosny

Re: [NTG-context] font-syn.lua error

2009-11-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
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Re: [NTG-context] mtx-texworks.lua can't find TeXworks on linux

2009-11-21 Thread Khaled Hosny
commands are windows specific (mtxrun.cmd, cmd.exe etc.) Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ If your

[NTG-context] mtx-texworks.lua can't find TeXworks on linux

2009-11-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
it is a semicolon separated list, but on linux it is a colon separated list). Even after getting around this, the executable name it is looking for is 'TeXworks' while it should be 'texworks'. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

Re: [NTG-context] mtx-texworks.lua can't find TeXworks on linux

2009-11-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:40:07PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: Running it gives: $ mtxrun -script texworks -start MTXrun | unable to locate TeXworks Though I've texworks on my path: $ which texworks /usr/bin/texworks I found that the file.split_path

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