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