Re: [NTG-context] \getscaledglyph for width-only

2016-08-18 Thread Brian R. Landy
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Hans Hagen wrote: On 8/18/2016 1:12 AM, Brian R. Landy wrote: On Aug 17, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: On 8/17/2016 9:56 PM, Brian R. Landy wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to call \getscaledglyph to scale a glyph only horizo

Re: [NTG-context] \getscaledglyph for width-only

2016-08-17 Thread Brian R. Landy
> On Aug 17, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > > On 8/17/2016 9:56 PM, Brian R. Landy wrote: >> Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to call \getscaledglyph to scale a >> glyph only horizontally, leaving the height untouched? Or maybe an >>

[NTG-context] \getscaledglyph for width-only

2016-08-17 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to call \getscaledglyph to scale a glyph only horizontally, leaving the height untouched? Or maybe an alternate command? I can sort of accomplish this with (for example) \scale[sx=0.75,sy=1.0]{}{A}, but that encloses the glyph in an \hbox, which can be

[NTG-context] Using hyphen in math mode

2016-08-16 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to access the hyphen symbol (0x002D) while in math mode? I want to avoid the standard remapping to Unicode minus 0x2212. It would also be workable if I could select the math font without switching to math mode. The problem with an approach like

Re: [NTG-context] copy/paste text broken with certain ligatures

2016-04-18 Thread Brian R. Landy
On Sat, 16 Apr 2016, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/15/2016 1:31 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote: Am Fri, 15 Apr 2016 00:24:26 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen: On 4/14/2016 3:47 PM, Brian R. Landy wrote: Hi, sometime between version 2015.08.05 and 2016.04.10 the handling of certain ligatures changed (sorry, I

Re: [NTG-context] copy/paste text broken with certain ligatures

2016-04-14 Thread Brian R. Landy
> On Apr 14, 2016, at 6:24 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > >> On 4/14/2016 3:47 PM, Brian R. Landy wrote: >> Hi, sometime between version 2015.08.05 and 2016.04.10 the handling of >> certain ligatures changed (sorry, I don't have intermediate version

[NTG-context] copy/paste text broken with certain ligatures

2016-04-14 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, sometime between version 2015.08.05 and 2016.04.10 the handling of certain ligatures changed (sorry, I don't have intermediate versions to test with). The issue is the ligatures no longer copy/paste as the original two characters, which also breaks text searched of the pdf. Instead they

[NTG-context] breakpoints & dashes in recent betas

2016-04-07 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I noticed this behavior today (on 2016.03.13 and 2016.04.01): \starttext em-dash: 50---70\par em-dash: discussion---largest\par \setbreakpoints[compound] 3 hyphens: 50---70\par 1 hyphen and 1 en-dash: discussion---largest\par \stoptext After \setbreakpoints -- and --- are no

[NTG-context] footnotes spanning margin and textwidth

2015-10-16 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, is it possible to get the footnote area to span the full width of textwidth+margins? For example, in this layout I have a wide left margin and I’d like the footnotes to start at the left edge of the left margin rather than the left edge of the text area, but still extend to the right edge

[NTG-context] bug with definefloat and caption case

2015-08-10 Thread Brian R. Landy
When I setup a custom float with \definefloat[exhibit][exhibits], the word Exhibit in the caption is printed with the first letter uppercased for the first 32 exhibits. However, starting with the 33rd exhibit, the first letter uppercase is lost. For example:

[NTG-context] caption alignment with floats in the margin

2015-04-27 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I am trying to place some floats in the margin and noticed that the caption gets centered instead of following my specification to flushleft. If the float is in the main body it is ok. . I have a small example below. I tested with 2015.04.18 14:41. Is there a way to fix the alignment?

Re: [NTG-context] Character alignment in math mode

2014-06-26 Thread Brian R. Landy
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 25.06.2014 um 23:20 schrieb Brian R. Landy br...@landy.cx: Out of curiosity, how do you do that (i.e., revert back to lining, and tabular, figures in a table, or even in running text)? For example, if I do this: \starttext \bf 12345

Re: [NTG-context] Character alignment in math mode

2014-06-25 Thread Brian R. Landy
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 24.06.2014 um 21:46 schrieb Maggyero maggy...@gmail.com: why use math here? It was to avoid oldstyle figures that I use by default. But finally it's better to use oldstyle figures even in tables. You can enable lining (and tabular)

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta, problem with natural tables and alignment character

2014-06-25 Thread Brian R. Landy
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Hans Hagen wrote: anyhow, i made it work a bit better with tables (extra pass needed) \starttext \enabletrackers[typesetters.characteralign] \bgroup \setupTABLE[column][1][aligncharacter=yes,alignmentcharacter={,}] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD 1,2 \eTD \bTD 1,2 \eTD \bTD

[NTG-context] Luatex crash with x86-64 Linux binary

2012-09-10 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I am running the latest minimals on a 64bit Linux system and ran into a luatex crash with a specific file. I reduced the file down to a simpler version that still triggers the crash, and thought it would be of some interest to post (the resulting pdf, if generated, will be ugly since I

Re: [NTG-context] two problems with natural tables

2012-01-18 Thread Brian R. Landy
This worked perfectly, thanks! Brian On Jan 18, 2012, at 3:47 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 18-1-2012 05:19, Brian Landy wrote: Hi, sorry to dredge up such an old thread, but I recently updated from a Feb 2010 vintage minimals to current (first to 1/12/2012, then to today 1/17).

Re: [NTG-context] parsing issue with \math{} inside natural table

2010-07-12 Thread Brian R. Landy
: On 9-7-2010 10:12, Brian R. Landy wrote: Hi, I ran into a case where a natural table has an issue when it contains inline math and an alignment character is used. Here's a small example which triggers the problem: \starttext \bTABLE \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTD[alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes

[NTG-context] parsing issue with \math{} inside natural table

2010-07-09 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I ran into a case where a natural table has an issue when it contains inline math and an alignment character is used. Here's a small example which triggers the problem: \starttext \bTABLE \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTD[alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes]{\le 4.0\math{-}}\eTD \eTR

Re: [NTG-context] Helvetica Neue and Snow Leopard

2009-09-03 Thread Brian R. Landy
um 05:22 schrieb Brian R. Landy: Is there a location that I could put the dfont file (and I also have access to HelveticaNeue in a set of otf files) that would override ConTeXt locating Apple's ttc, but not be visible to OS X? Till ttc-fonts are fixed you can take the dfont-files from leopard

Re: [NTG-context] Helvetica Neue and Snow Leopard

2009-08-31 Thread Brian R. Landy
On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 31.08.2009 um 06:37 schrieb Brian R. Landy: Hi, I've run into a problem using Helvetica Neue on a Mac under Snow Leopard. The font is provided by Apple and was a dfont package on 10.5, now it is a ttc. What should we say, LuaTeX

[NTG-context] MkIV issue with normal italics text in math mode

2009-08-30 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I've run across what I believe to be a bug in MkIV -- I am unable to access non-math italics from within math mode. A simple example is -- \starttext \math{\text{\it Hello, World}} \stoptext This works in MkII. Or perhaps there some other way I'm supposed to code this? Thanks,

[NTG-context] Helvetica Neue and Snow Leopard

2009-08-30 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I've run into a problem using Helvetica Neue on a Mac under Snow Leopard. The font is provided by Apple and was a dfont package on 10.5, now it is a ttc. I am getting garbled and funny text using it. An example is -- \usetypescriptfile[type-mac] \usetypescript[helvetica-neue]

Re: [NTG-context] math typesetting problem in MKIV

2009-08-18 Thread Brian R. Landy
Thanks Taco, that worked just fine for me. Best regards, Brian On Aug 17, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Brian R. Landy wrote: Hi, I have a small equation I am attempting to typeset. Using MKII it comes out fine, but under MKIV the text non-perf. bal

[NTG-context] math typesetting problem in MKIV

2009-08-17 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I have a small equation I am attempting to typeset. Using MKII it comes out fine, but under MKIV the text non-perf. bal. is not typeset correctly (non-perf is instead nonperf with the dash under the 'p', and extra space appears after 'bal.') \starttext \math{\text{adjusted

Re: [NTG-context] problem with layers and line spacing

2009-08-12 Thread Brian R. Landy
block and passing it via setups= to \framed worked perfectly. Hans, Wolfgang -- thanks for your help! Brian Quoting Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: Brian R. Landy wrote: Understood, but actually it is obeying the 12pt switchtobodyfont for the interline spacing in the backgrounds. It is not using

Re: [NTG-context] problem with layers and line spacing

2009-08-11 Thread Brian R. Landy
, it is the interline spacing that is incorrect. Thanks, Brian On Aug 11, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Brian R. Landy wrote: Hi, I am attempting to do some work with layers that can repeat (and update) using \startsetups \stopsetups. However I find that the line spacing

[NTG-context] problem with layers and line spacing

2009-08-10 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I am attempting to do some work with layers that can repeat (and update) using \startsetups \stopsetups. However I find that the line spacing in a \framed in the layers is not alterable and instead tracks the font size on the page. I'm attaching a simple example (it shows the same

[NTG-context] Context TeXLive 2008

2008-09-26 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I wanted to share some observations from enabling the latest MkIV code (2008.09.24, compiled luatex from svn just now) to run on a new installation of TeXLive 2008 on 64bit Linux. This is my first time trying MkIV. First -- a comment on installing using TeXLive 2008, which hopefully

[NTG-context] Natural Tables, backgroundcolor, and frames

2008-05-05 Thread Brian R . Landy
Hi, I actually posted this last summer, but never got a reply and did not have a chance to follow up. When using natural tables, a cell with backgroundcolor enabled will overwrite the topframe/rightframe from the cell to the left/above. A workaround could be to always use

Re: [NTG-context] factor=fit images don't fit

2007-07-21 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, What version of ConTeXt are you using? I just noticed a difference a few days ago between the version installed by TeXLive 2007 and the April 2007 release (tested locally through contextgarden) placing an image into a natural table, using factor=max. I'll post an example in a

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical text alignment in nested natural tables

2007-03-29 Thread Brian R. Landy
. As an aside, what books are good for learning TeX programming for ConTeXt? Anything besides the TeXBook (and I saw TeX by Topic mentioned on the list the other day). Thanks again, Brian On Mar 29, 2007, at 4:34 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2007/3/28, Brian R. Landy [EMAIL PROTECTED

[NTG-context] Vertical text alignment in nested natural tables

2007-03-28 Thread Brian R. Landy
Hi, I am having a problem using nested natural tables, to which I have a solution but feel that it my not be the proper approach. I'm pretty much a TeX and ConTeXt novice. The problem is that the row height it reduced when a table is nested, breaking vertical text alignment across cells.