[NTG-context] Re: Hyphenation for Indonesian language

2023-12-29 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
Hi Muhammad, On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 01:08:24AM +0700, Muhammad Rizqi Siregar wrote: > I'd like to ask if ConTeXt LMTX has hyphenation for Indonesian language or > a way to enable it. I think Babel package in LaTeX has some pattern files > for the language, although I am not sure whether

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-06 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 10:01:25AM +0200, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > These units can be used in the current upload. In a next upload the "19 feet > max" message that tex issues when reaching a maximum will be adapted to a > more realistic variant. (Actually, because tex has no foot unit,

Re: [NTG-context] Kaktovik numerals

2023-04-18 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 10:57:14AM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: > I just came across this thread about the base-20 system of the Inuit people > and the numerals invented for it in the 1990s: > https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/110215432175491555 > > This makes simple

Re: [NTG-context] Suboptimal German hyphenation

2022-09-29 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 06:49:23AM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: > Thank you, Leah, Max and Wolfgang! I changed that immediately in all of my > ongoing projects, but I don’t think we should change the default after all > these years. Are you sure that the default in ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] french quotation marks

2022-07-26 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 09:51:35PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: > Hi, according to my knowledge (and also Wikipedia), French uses « … » as > double (\quotation) and ‹ … › as single (\quote) quotation marks. > > The current setting in ConTeXt however is « … » for both, just

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting unicode characters

2022-03-30 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:32:11AM -0700, Thangalin via ntg-context wrote: > An XML document includes the  emoji, as shown in the following snippet: > > > > > > Thumbs up emoji: Try the correct escape sequence :-) That’s -- or equivalently Best,

Re: [NTG-context] Force a hyphenation

2022-03-16 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 05:17:46PM +0100, Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context wrote: > So Eiwei-ßes may in fact be correct... But I assume that Arthur has some > authoritative answer to this question. I’ll refer to the German hyphenation pattern list as an authority

Re: [NTG-context] new upload

2022-01-24 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:12:57AM +0530, śrīrāma wrote: > Yes. Just yesterday while trying to fix some devanagari fonts, I was able to > get a partial fix to one of the bugs in rendering. Once that work reaches > some > conclusion, I will make a list of fonts with accompanying typescripts for

Re: [NTG-context] new upload

2022-01-23 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 06:01:42PM +0530, kauśika via ntg-context wrote: > Recently when we were troubled by incorrect rendering of certain conjuncts in > malayalam, Hans added a new font-feature. More below*, but first some > background: from my testing, the main reason for the problems with

Re: [NTG-context] Critical Editions?

2022-01-11 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 08:06:14PM +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > I can add sanskit patterns to the distribution but I wonder: how does this > interact with reordering in fonts? Do we need to postpone hyphenation till > after reordering? If you mean glyph reordering in Indic

Re: [NTG-context] Critical Editions?

2022-01-10 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 02:31:53PM +0100, Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context wrote: > Yves Codet (Assistant Professor at Toulouse University, member of CRAPA an > institutional public research in Humanities in South of France) is involved > in TeX patterns for Greek and Indic languages. He is a

Re: [NTG-context] Critical Editions?

2022-01-10 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 11:46:44PM +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > On 1/9/2022 11:23 AM, hanneder--- via ntg-context wrote: >> 1. In Sanskrit prose it is possible to produce compounds that span a few >> lines. The concept of >>    "word" or "word division" fails here, as are the TeX

Re: [NTG-context] context manuals -- absence of \definefontfamily

2022-01-04 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 11:16:46PM +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > Because Wolfgang has to write a chapter (or a MyWay document) and we're all > mostly volunteers so ... Youssef has got a point, though: \definefontfamily should perhaps be given a tiny bit better treatment on the

Re: [NTG-context] problem with MkIV/TeXlive/TEXMFCACHE

2021-08-30 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 12:48:05PM +0200, Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context wrote: > But, as I said, my texmf.cnf sets TEXMFCACHE to $TEXMFSYSVAR;$TEXMFVAR, > and TEXMFSYSVAR is /var/opt/texlive. Why is that ignored? Do you have write permission on that directory? Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] Use of lettrine module in LMTX

2021-07-23 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 03:10:59PM +0200, Gerben Wierda wrote: > I just made a remark on ConTeXtgarden not mentioning this. The ConTeXt garden is a collaborative effort; feel free to edit the page that contains incomplete or inaccurate information. Arthur

Re: [NTG-context] mp-geo Metapost package with ConTeXt

2021-07-17 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 12:53:33PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > Just as an example, the context meeting is att the attached location: > > 50°45’7” / 5°35’19” > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/export#map=18/50.75175/5.58883 If you want official data you can try the Belgian cadastre:

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic place names

2021-04-11 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 08:47:05AM +1000, jbf wrote: > Thanks for that tip, Arthur. I, too, considered that it might be the font > that was giving me problems (among other things, mainly my lack of > understanding of r2l!), so I swapped to Amiri and then used the setup below > which I then called

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic place names

2021-04-10 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 09:05:37AM +1000, jbf wrote: > The font, BTW is > Arslan Wessam A.ttf Do you need to use this font in particular? I do have problems with it too. Replacing it with e. g. DejaVu Sans gives good results.

Re: [NTG-context] Hyphenation patterns

2021-04-09 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
Denis’ latest question reminded me of an earlier query he had about hyphenation, asking why “applicable” and “obligated” were hyphenated by ConTeXt as ap-plic-a-ble and ob-lig-at-ed, and not ap-pli-ca-ble and ob-li-ga-te(d) like in Merriam-Webster (the discussion started at

Re: [NTG-context] Ligature suppression word list

2021-04-08 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 06:02:10PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > german is just an example, dutch has some specific things, and i bet other > languages have their demands so my aim is some general mechanism I appreciate that, but if you want to have data of sufficiently good quality to use this

Re: [NTG-context] Ligature suppression word list

2021-04-03 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 03:06:22PM +, denis.ma...@ub.unibe.ch wrote: > What do you think? I think you should collaborate with the group of volunteers working on German hyphenation and related topics. They have a mailing list (in German): https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/trennmuster

Re: [NTG-context] VisualStudioCode on Linux

2020-09-25 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 07:50:33AM +0200, Mikael Sundqvist wrote: > I got help from the list, and in the end I did the following (I have > ConTeXt installed in $HOME/ConTeXt-lmtx/). I hope it is complete. > > ln -s > $HOME/ConTeXt-lmtx/tex/texmf-context/context/data/vscode/extensions/context >

Re: [NTG-context] Error setting up ConTeXt in MacTeX 2020

2020-09-18 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
I think I may have found the origin of the error: On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 09:41:23AM +0200, Felix Krause wrote: > resolvers | formats | changing to format path > '/var/folders/rj/hfjmjx796q102y4v23vh038cgp/T/luatex-cache/context/a86c089b384a3076dc514ba966a1fac9/formats/luatex' >

Re: [NTG-context] Tagged PDFs from Context

2020-09-02 Thread Arthur Rosendahl
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 04:41:32PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > From what I understand, the current implementation assumes that the same tag > will be used for all section levels. So, changing the tag at each section > level will require a rewrite of the internal logic. If the current