On my Mac I use the PDF Browser Plugin by Manfred Schubert
www.schubert-it.com
That makes everything work right on the web for Mac. And the browser has
personal as well as commercial licenses.
On Ubuntu Linux things work fine on the web. I still run (and shall
continue to run) Windows 98 for me
Might it be helpful for the Garden or even Mac TeX to have links like
the following for OS X Aqua users and the terminal app / UNIX world?
http://www.osxfaq.com/tutorials/LearningCenter/
http://www.google.com/search?q=Unix+tutorials
http://www.google.com/search?q=Unix+tutorials+%22os+x%22
/tex')
Alan
On Aug 23, 2008, at 21;04,37 , Charles P. Schaum wrote:
Here's a start:
What's in your path? Typing set in the terminal window should tell
you.
Second, did you add
source ~/path/to/context/tex/setuptex ~/path/to/context/tex
to your ~/.profile
You need
Open Applications/Utilities/Terminal from the finder
Type (or cut n paste from Mail/Entourage) and don't put a carriage
return between these lines (they are wrapped automatically)
chmod a+x
Users/alancbowen/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXtMinimals.engine
If that fails - and it should not - try:
Hi Folks,
I wanted to confirm that Hans is **Correct** about font fitting. In
fact, I think that scaling is superior.
One thing I did find is that one must go real easy with the scaling,
e.g., compute the difference between the size you want/need, and see
that it isn't too great, as the test
which indicates that Texlive 2007 was used.
Alan
Note: the text of ConTeXtMinimals.engine reads
#!/bin/bash
source /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex /Applications/
ConTeXtMinimals/context/tex
texexec $1
On Aug 23, 2008, at 12;20,09 , Charles P. Schaum wrote:
Open
which indicates that Texlive 2007 was used.
Alan
Note: the text of ConTeXtMinimals.engine reads
#!/bin/bash
source /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/setuptex /Applications/
ConTeXtMinimals/context/tex
texexec $1
On Aug 23, 2008, at 12;20,09 , Charles P. Schaum wrote:
Open
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 09:49 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
in my opinion letterspacing only makes sense in titles, not in the main
body of text (i consider kerning to be part of the font design)
Thanks, Hans!
Actually titles is where I would have used it. ;-) I generally agree
with you there.
A while ago I mentioned a ``Problems after [n] pages'' issue in AUCTeX
when using ConTeXt with it.
Recently I used LaTeX and, hey presto, I was able to reproduce the same
message. I ran LaTeX, then re-ran it to get the references right. I then
ran it again and got a ``Problems after [0] pages''
Hi all,
Quite a while ago I mentioned letter spacing, or the normal absence
thereof, in TeX and friends. True, you could skin this cat by
mathematically scaling the text (font size) by steps to fit the box ---
the code is out there. But that was not the only way, thought I. Some
programs also
Alan,
If you wand quick and dirty because you are against a hard deadline, use
inline math mode and insert negative space $\!$ AFTER the x. and
IMMEDIATELY BEFORE the next bit. You could also define a macro \negspace
to do it as well:
\def\negspace{$\!$}
so that
x, x. \negspace x x
will yield
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:29 +0100, Armando Martins wrote:
Any advice about Tex friendly distros?
Well, I can only say this: My best experiences for out of the box
functionality are from Ubuntu. Like Debian, they have taken TeXlive and
broken it up into a number of packages to allow for some
Why not, if all else fails, do a run of the completed matter to see what
the pagination would be, then do something like:
\newif\ifhidden
% Uncomment this if you want to hide content.
% \hiddentrue
\ifhidden
% . . . preferrably use ConTeXt-friendly pagination
% commands; this was taken from a
With Ubuntu and fonts there are several things going on.
Generally, the system-wide fonts are kept under /usr/share/fonts
An alternate place could be /usr/local/fonts
That, however, is usually empty because packages put fonts in named
directories, e.g., in the ttf dir in /usr/share/fonts
That's right; use fondu. Fontforge can read a .dfont (data fork
resource) but it cannot specify something within that to load without
user input.
The only files that use .dfont are from Apple for Apple. The Mac knows
what is basically coded into these files and works with them
accordingly. That
The whole issue of typesetting URL's is dodgy because style manuals like
Chicago don't want them broken.
Now, Chicago is pretty conservative and has the idea that people are
going to type stuff in verbatim from printed bubs and furthermore that
they will always interpret a line break as a return
Consider this slightly altered text from a mock-up I did for page
headers:
% Set up double-sided page numbering, backspace, and margins.
\setuppagenumbering[location=footer,alternative=doublesided]
% Use a format that does not autonumber chapters.
% Put at least the chapter in the heading.
%
Oh, I WISH I had Framemaker...
But this might be interesting. Setting up margin notes in InDesign is
considered to be an Intermediate to advanced feature. It may well be
possible to have more recurrent structured elements in Framemaker, but I
would suggest that only TeX and friends can do
I did put the question mark where there was none, and I still got the
behavior.
Charles
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 08:10 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
Le 29 juin à 12:34:36 Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment:
| On Jun 28, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Charles P. Schaum wrote
Question:
Has anyone ever thought of integrating something dot-like into ConTeXt
or LaTeX? One thing that I have done is avail myself of the constrained
graphs for doing anything like timelines. It would be fantastic to get
that in TeX and friends.
Or would that fall under dot - MetaPost?
In a parser, a piece of code that interprets a set of structured rules
(grammar) from a (partially or fully) tokenized input stream from the
lexical analyzer at the front end, LHS is something on the left hand
side of an equation or term (thus, on the left-hand parse tree) and RHS
is on the right
This first bit differentiates a backend that refers to your font and a
frontend that you normally work with. Why?
Macros, macros, macros. Let's put it this way: You could have a myriad
of styles. That's what many in the WYSIWYG world do. Then ... they have
to keep track of them all.
But TeX, as
I really like the support that AUCTeX gives for ConTeXt. Actually, in
general it does well with any flavor. I'll have to RTFM to see what I
can do to start a new file specifically in ConTeXt, plain, or whatever,
not just LaTeX.
The weird thing is that it reports unspecified problems at the end of
If anyone is interested in a list of web links that I update roughly
quarterly and use both professionally and personally, s/he is welcome to
visit
http://yoel.info/links.htm
The links have lots of computing and humanities resources, among others.
Charles
Unfortunately, these chaps haven't read their Duden Band 1, Die Deutsche
Rechtschreibung. I checked their examples against it and they are quite
in error at times. That makes it notoriously difficult to figure out the
proper from the improper.
So they theoretically could have a good product and
Some calendar links, FYI:
http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html
http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html
http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html
I would be happy to make available the C code for an Easter date
calculator that I implemented on the
);
handled = true;
break;
}
return handled;
}
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 19:38 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Charles P. Schaum wrote:
Some calendar links, FYI:
http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html
http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html
http
The issues of indexing, c., probably fall into two issues:
a. Is is something European-derivative in reference to a work or
b. It is something entirely for native-speaking use and expectations?
I've been on the Ivritex list for quite a while and there has been some
long-running issues on how to
What could perhaps occur is this:
Get PC-BSD's PBI technology working with something like DarwinPorts or
whatever BSD ports tree exists for the Mac. IIRC, they now have a
relatively automated way of getting from ports to PBI's.
But you would need cooperation, legal protection or licensing for
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 01:05 +0200, Diego Depaoli wrote:
Furthermore let me doubt that a simplified installation it's enough to
persuade new users since ConTeXt requires manuals reading which is
universally considered a waste of time.
In many cases, the nouveau Linux culture or Win/Mac users
I had a poor experience with commercial design software on Windows (by
Serif, a company based out of the UK.) That pushed me to Linux.
I started with Debian woody and right away I had to fetch and compile
kernel modules from an Intel code base. I actually got Debian working
well under the 2.4
There is your unified system. XML rulez - for better or for
worse. It's really no fun to write XML by hand.
But, as you said, TeX and Lilypond have a similar syntax. I belive
they could share some kind of common language.
What you are thinking about is probably a master document
Do you mean like Scrivener on the Mac?
What, in any case, constitutes a universal layout approach? Does one
exist?
For example, I can do things with plain TeX that mighty InDesign must
balk at. Yet some see TeX as yesteryear's solution because of subsequent
tech advances.
I hardly believe that
You should just be able to drop in the math code as such:
\starttext
This is an example of the $\le$ operator.
\stoptext
You will get the proper encoding from the PDF generated.
You could theoretically do:
\def\LE{$\le$}
\starttext
This is an example of the \LE\ operator.
\stoptext
The
I would say that TeX is a way in which a mathematician / theoretical
computer scientist that is well-steeped in music, languages, art,
literature, and other areas might approach the issue. InDesign is the
way in which a large number in the design community might approach the
issue.
I use mainly
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 08:24 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
how do they deal with non compatible new features; for instance, at
bachotek i learned that some otf features that are not supported in
older versions are supported in new ones (or are supported
differently);
is there some compatibility
Thanks, Wolfgang. Now it's all good. Typescripts are a little opaque to
me. I need to learn a lot more, to be sure.
I want to thank the ConTeXt team for the great work on the product and
the docs. I do respect that TeX has a culture and one cannot design a
product that is alien to that. I have
Thanks, Hans, for the suggestion. It works quite well, except the \ae{}
macro starts producing a lowercase j. My guess is this refers to an
encoding issue, since I found that using \sc tends to not do small caps
except for using Computer Modern.
I did RTFM, but I'm just not making the connection.
I found an interim fix for the \ae macro in the schemata: put the word
with the macro in an hbox, and the problem goes away. I wonder what the
mechanics behind that are. I tend to have weird documents with dead
languages. Who knows, maybe I want to cite Aelfric using Old English
letters or Sir
Greetings,
I have been using ConTeXt since April, plain TeX since March, and
LaTeX/LyX for about a year. I have been working on multilingual texts
and, until the recent permutations of Word, no WYSIWYG product, with the
possible exception of Mellel for Hebrew, did any good job. Now I don't
like
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