On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:48:13 -0700, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com
wrote:
2010/11/30 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu:
What we need is for new users to be able to say, eg,
\setmainlanguage[arabic]
\setupdirections[bidi=global] % maybe this should be
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:03:06 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
I've to dig for it, I'm sure it is there somewhere. However, I've long
abandoned the idea of improving Scheherezade and instead concentrating
on my own (Amiri) font, but it does not work with MkIV right now (and
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 wrote:
\startyoumayignorethis
The only thing that really bothers me are so much
On Thu, 13 May 2010 14:19:52 -0500, Mojca Miklavec
mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Hans_Hagen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Taco_Hoekwater
Don't these people have a life at all? What a bunch
On Thu, 13 May 2010 15:06:09 -0500, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
Something I find very annoying is variable interline spacing, if I've,
for example, a line with some Arabic words vocalized I get some times
too much white space above it that it almost looks like an empty line.
It
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:40:29 -0600, Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 avr. 2010, at 19:00, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
News flash: it's already there! See attached.
Hi Idriss,
That's wonderful!
:-)
Could you please tell us what font you have used
It's very
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 check shows answers...eg
Dear gang,
Here is a gift for our favorite off-topic expert:
Typography Fans Say Ikea Should Stick to Furniture
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/arts/design/05ikea.html?hp
Hans, you have to replace all your IKEA furniture now...
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid,
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:40:49 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 29.08.2009 um 20:06 schrieb Derek CORDEIRO:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Mohamed Bana
mbana.li...@googlemail.comwrote:
i had no idea that the free ver. of minion pro came with small caps
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:35:33 -0600, John Culleton j...@wexfordpress.com
wrote:
Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is the best
place to start learning about it?
Category mistake: luatex is an engine, like pdftex and xetex :-)
luatex is one of three official engines
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:26:31 -0600, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
yatskov...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Looks like my previous message was overlooked. Let mecry again.
^^^
= try
That's what we call a Freudian slip in English ;-)
In my document footnotes' upper line clashes with body text. In
Wolfgang answered your main question, so that leaves
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:41:26 -0600, U Avalos amscopub-m...@yahoo.com
wrote:
How can I get a question answered on this list, BTW?
Very simple: politely send the question a second time if you don't get a
response. I've had to do that
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:13:02 -0600, Stéphane Goujet
stephane.gou...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
Simple questions from end-users
are barely answered while questions from developpers/people with
experience are generaly answered and generate rather long threads.
This is simply not true AFAICT. I've been
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:13:02 -0600, Stéphane Goujet
stephane.gou...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
I have tried posting questions once or twice and I never got a single
answer. The result is that, now, I do not post them here any more.
Just try again and don't take it personally. That's what I've done
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:30:02 -0600, Cecil Westerhof
cldwester...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a RTF document I like to convert to a ConTeXt document. Are
there tools for this?
I would also like the other way around, but I understood that this is
only possible through ConTeXt - PDF - RTF, or has
Hi Aditya,
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:03:44 -0600, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu
wrote:
The math fonts compatible with Palatino are px math and math paza ConTeXt
only has support for px math.
ok, good to know... [I rarely use math these past few years]
[Hint:
it's not LM] I had to roll
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:03:44 -0600, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu
wrote:
What is the best available math font for use with Pagella/Palatino?
The math fonts compatible with Palatino are px math and math paza ConTeXt
only has support for px math.
Turns out that cambria is preset in mkiv
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:06:07 -0600, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu
wrote:
LuaTeX warning (file
C:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-project/fonts/data/asana/Asana-Math.otf): Type2
Charstring Parser: Unknown charstring operator: 0x00
!LuaTeX error (file
Dear gang,
[mkiv only]
What is the best available math font for use with Pagella/Palatino? [Hint:
it's not LM] I had to roll my own typescript so what I need to fill in is
the commented line below
\definetypeface [pagella_ar] [rm] [serif] [pagella_arabic] %
[pagella_arabic]
%
Hi,
As we discussed, I'm submitting structure bugs as we move along to get
this manuscript to the publisher. \nomarking fails:
! Undefined control sequence.
\@@mklimittext -\@@kolimittext
\doifelse #1#2-\edef \!!stringa {#1
}\edef \!!stringb {#2}\ifx
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:05:07 -0600, Kevin D. Robbins
krobb...@alumni.princeton.edu wrote:
Good news! I just wanted to say that including Scite with ConTeXt
support in minimals as an option will be very helpful to me, because I
need to support users who only work on Windows and are not
Hi,
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:21:00 -0600, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
yatskov...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Seems that my GUI-based Word-to-Text converter didn't gain much
attention, but that's OK.
Sorry, I did not catch that post earlier... but I'm very interested
indeed! My minimal needs
On Fri, 15 May 2009 00:21:58 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
\definefontfeature[onum][default][onum=yes]
What is the second option for?
\definefontfeature[onum][onum=yes] should work as well.
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid,
Hi Wolfgang,
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:54:50 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Anyway: which is the best method to get the list of all params
one can give to \startSOMETHING (in this case \startchapter and
the meanings of this params (some are obvious : title=
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:14:38 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
\startchapter[title=,reference=,bookmark=,...][optional user data]
Could you [or someone] give a couple of example of how to use
[optional user data]
Also, where in the base files does this stuff
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:31:27 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 29.04.2009 um 20:23 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد:
ok, thnx! OTOH, I did not see any illustrative examples of the use of
[optional user data]
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:39:58 -0600, Michail Vidiassov mas...@iaas.msu.ru
wrote:
If mkiv does not produce dvi (now? never will? not intended to?),
what about mkii?
sure, mkii can produce dvi for several drivers
And what about the first part of the question?
mkiv does not now, probably
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:40:12 -0600, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
The attached patch adds Arabic coma, semicolon, full stop (used in Urdu)
and question mark to font-ext.lua for protrusion.
Now, combined with glyph expansion, I don't get any overfull boxes.
Arabic-script
On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:24:36 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
Khaled Hosny wrote:
The font seems to have a buggy (too big) GPOS kerning table (it does
cause
fontforge to hang writing the font). If 'kern' is set to 'yes', I get
this
error:
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:08:48 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
you can comment this in cont-new.mkiv
% \def\pagedir{\expandafter\gobblethreearguments}
% \def\bodydir{\expandafter\gobblethreearguments}
i'm trying to figure out what dirs make sense (even when all are
enabled the
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:40:26 -0600, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com
wrote:
As Arthur emailed me already: you people are just too gullible ! :)
Actually, I guessed that it was a joke in the first few minutes after
receiving it .. It was a well-staged prank, but your talk of selling the
Hi,
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:49:57 -0600, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
yatskov...@gmail.com wrote:
How to instruct TeX to relax and allow more spacing between words (or
more stretching?)
\setuptolerance .. options in the manual
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
Dear gang,
The following, using the latest beta, moves the last recurse to the next
page:
\setuplayout
[lines=12]
\starttext \pardir TRT
\dorecurse{12}{This is a recursive line. \crlf}
\stoptext
so we get only 11 lines on page 1. Is this a bug?
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:05:03 -0600, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
(I know this an old thread, but I just happen to exactly the same
feature Idris was asking for)
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:53:47AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
usage: ruby scriptname.rb input.tex output.tex
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:27:09 -0600, Bruce D'Arcus
bdarcus.li...@gmail.com wrote:
c) that there's no reason at all to make a distinction between free
and professional fonts in such a repository
I absolutely agree with Bruce on this point :-)
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi
Hi Pierre,
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:51:31 -0600, Pierre Huyghebaert
pie...@speculoos.com wrote:
Quite new in the TeX field, and having traveled a bit through LaTex and
Xetex, I couln't figure how to make it work.
Given Mojca's comments, have you considered luatex/mkiv instead of xetex?
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:41:39 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
Not too bad a font. Like Lotus, it works best at smaller text sizes, not
greater than 12 point.
The فلله lig should be off by default, there are other Arabic word
combinations that use that combo that have nothing
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:02:39 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
I'm not very fond if Scheherazade as it has many wrong glyphs (most of
the Quranic glyphs are completely wrong) and it doesn't even have an الله
ligature, which most Arabic users won't accept.
There is a hadith
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:51:13 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:56:07AM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
So just start with Arabic, then Farsi, and forget the rest for now. No
need for perfection at the outset ;-)
Actually, I suggest forgetting about
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:03:56 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
I totally agree with you, more ever I hop that at some point in the
future, just selecting certain language will be enough to get proper
display of it, some thing like:
\mainlanguage[arabic]
\startext
أهلا بالعالم!
Hi Otared,
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:05:01 -0700, Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com wrote:
If a humble opinion from an ordinary user may be issued, I agree with
Khaled that it would be extremely useful to have some basic default
settings for Arabic fonts, and even more generally for any
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:54:51 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/arabicot/features.htm
:-)
watch the The standard order for applying Arabic features encoded in
OpenType fonts ... an earlier mkiv otf handler did this but then we
Hi,
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:05:01 -0700, Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com wrote:
%\font\Faarsi=Scheherazade*CrypticFeatures at 14pt % this does not work
The following works here:
% engine=luatex
\definefontfeature
[scheherazade-test]
[analyze=yes,mode=node,
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:57:22 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
Khaled Hosny wrote:
Currently, when defining a font feature one has to enable all features
by hand which is IMHO not very user friendly as it implies prior
knowledge about OpenType font features and the meaning of each one,
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:02:58 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
Microsoft's OpenType features list page
(http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ae.htm) gives a
UI
suggestion for each feature noting if it should be on by default, I
think those are what most
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:10:52 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Khaled: Have you considered making an inventory of available Arabic
fonts? Or does one already exist? We could put together a table of
what's available, checking for available OT
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:39:23 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
Microsoft's OpenType features list page
(http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ae.htm) gives a UI
suggestion for each feature noting if it should be on by default,
Hmm, I think this page is more
Hi,
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:17:26 -0700, Ilda Khaki ilda.kh...@gmail.com
wrote:
I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between
different
TeX engines to decide the best one. Can anyone send a samplwe file for
typesetting Arabic in Plain TeX over luatex where the alphabets
Dear gang,
I have uploaded the latest version of the ConTeXt support package for
Notepad++.
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Image:Npp_ConTeXt-Uni.zip
It has been updated to 5.1.4, the latest stable version.
There are now two versions of Notepad++: ANSI and Unicode. The ANSI
version is
Salaam, Khaled,
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:51:56 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org
wrote:
I'm trying to typeset an Arabic book with Arabic bibliography, I'm using
bib module, but bibtex doesn't support unicode. Any workaround or another
alternative?
Can you port your database to bbl
Hi Lars,
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:57:41 -0700, Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org
wrote:
I've started talking to people in charge about contributing some money
to this mailing list, or the wiki, or something ... we're certainly
getting a lot of help from it. Is there an org or project to
Hi,
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:30:33 -0700, Michail Vidiassov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
among advertised advantages of TeX there used to be optical scaling,
It still is
when text in the same font but in different sizes has different shapes of
glyphs. That used to be the feature of metafont
Hi,
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:29:09 -0700, Lars Huttar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
P.S. The same TeX reference reports,
Be careful, PlainTeX is a macropaackage, just as ConTeXt is. One must
distinguish PlainTeX commands from the TeX (and pdftex/luaTeX) primitives.
Although some PlainTeX
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:53:33 -0700, Renaud Aubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Blender (+type1 font) then Right Hemisphere for the conversion...
What is Blender -- the name is too generic for google...
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shi`i Studies
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:57:58 -0700, Matija Šuklje
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.blender.org/
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:10:56 -0700, Renaud Aubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See http://www.blender.org/ and
http://www.righthemisphere.com/products/dexp/de_std.html (I've used an
old windows
Salaam, Khaled,
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:12:34 -0600, Khaled Hosny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
See the attached files, the mark features seem to work but contextual
forms (init, medi amnd fina) don't
As a workaround, try using a fallback, defining two fontfeature's and
letting arabtype fall
Hi,
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:14:50 -0600, Mauricio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Original Tex is not an option, since PDF, today's font formats
(and Unicode) and many algorithms didn't exist when Knuth decided
no features would be added anymore. Maybe I should hack the source
code of pdftex or
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:22:08 -0600, Flavien Lambert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all, I am trying to build a presentation with specific
requirements. I
would like to have the title of the presentation on the middle (both
vertical and horizontal) of the first page. I tried, on one hand,
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:10:02 -0600, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What is wrong with my installation (or my document)?
Can you attach your log file? Does adding \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr]
on
top of the document help?
Adding that line doesn't change the behavior. I've
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:15:19 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a next release will have
sectioning redone
so will we finally get
\startsection
\stopsection
etc.? :-)
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shi`i Studies
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:31:46 -0600, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:15:19 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a next release will have
sectioning redone
so will we finally get
Hi,
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:13:04 -0600, Rory Molinari
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm having problems with Palatino sans serif in my documents.
Consider the following small file:
\usetypescript[palatino][ec]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt]
\starttext
\ss Hello world!
{\tfa\ss tfa}
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:16:42 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hans and Taco can probably tell you more.
it all depends on what we want to achieve ...
- we can have font fixers (dynamically extend fonts with features, but
this demands knowledge of the font)
- we can have
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:53:40 -0600, Mojca Miklavec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Sometimes I use the following for simple substitutions:
\defineactivecharacter ' {\otfchar{quoteright}}
But is there a more general mechanism
Dear gang,
Sometimes I use the following for simple substitutions:
\defineactivecharacter ' {\otfchar{quoteright}}
But is there a more general mechanism to do things
\definesubstitution{string1}{string2}
eg
\definesubstitution{--}{–}
Of course ConTeXt already provides this particular
Hi Mehdi,
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:10:41 -0600, Mehdi Omidali [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi Idris and others,
In the latest font-otf.lua some farsi characters are not included in
isol_final
and isol_final_medi_init functions. Here they are
isol_final: 0698
isol_final_medi_init: 06AF 06A9
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:58:21 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Khaled Hosny wrote:
Figures are shifted to the right (the left edge is where right edge
should) when I set \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT.
\pagedir TRT \bodydir TRT
\setupheadertexts[from left to right]
\starttext
\input
Hi,
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:27:37 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All,
A bit frustrated as I cannot seem to get a mswincontext scite
combination going. I gave up on:
http://pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswintex.zip. I got absolutely
nowhere with the installation and trying to
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:26:20 -0600, Alan Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the readme.txt you wrote...
13. A note: In Preferences, always leave the option Remember the last
operation directory unchecked.
What's the reason for this recommendation ?
It used to be the case that Npp would
Hi,
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:29:56 -0600, Alan Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(1) FYI, Application Data.zip also contains a 'Program Files' folder
which has the same contents as 'Program Files.zip'
Strange; I'll correct it.
From readme.txt :
(2) 9. Copy the directory Program
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:58:44 -0600, Alan Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Correction...
* Encoding: UTF 8, UTF 8 with BOM - what must be selected for ConTeXt ?
What must be selected for ConTeXt-MK IV ?
Either will work fine, since luatex always assumes utf-8 input. My own Npp
setup
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:56:03 -0600, Alan Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two other questions, if I may...
(1) The folding feature behaves strangely.
- Instead of folding it collapses everything what's underneath.
- Once a folding section gets initiated from within the ConTeXt setup
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:13:09 -0600, Alan Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are different levels of folding, 0--8: Alt-0, Alt-1, Alt-8.
Alt-0 collapses all, use Alt-Shift-n to uncollapse to the desired
degree.
These work ok indeed. Nevertheless, the folding marks and foldings
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:03:55 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason I use acrobat.lnk is because it does not rezize my acrobat
window the way texexec's autopdf option does. I want my Acrobat window
to
be positioned in the same place and size whenever I open it.
Best wishes
Idris
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:00:00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems like Idris forgot to include the readme
thnx, i uploaded a new version with the updated readme. I'll polish it
later.
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shi`i Studies
Hi Alan,
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:54:05 -0600, Alan Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If texexec and company choke on directory names with characters like
'+' in them why would one nevertheless assume that the directory name
remains 'Notepad++' ?
Because that's the default and I don't try
Dear gang,
I have uploaded the latest version of the ConTeXt support package for
Notepad++.
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Image:Npp_ConTeXt.zip
It has been updated to 5.0.3, the latest stable version. The main
difference in the package is the new autocompletion file format. See
Mohamad, سلام,
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:35:33 -0600, Mohamed Bana [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Idris, thanks alot! Also what OS do you happen to be using?
XP
On my Vista 64bit box I had trouble running the default Process ConTeXt
file
(pdf) command, the document compiles fine but fails on
Hi Hans,
I am using a module -- non-distributed as far as I know -- created by
Wolfgang. It provides grouped sectioning and footnotes:
startstop-t.tex==
\unprotect
\def\se{se}
\def\definegroupedsection[#1]%
{\setvalue{\e!start#1}[##1]%
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:53:06 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Khaled Hosny wrote:
Unicode has many control characters that only control text behaviour
and shouldn't be rendered visually in the text, such as Bidi_Control and
Join_Control chars (see
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:15:39 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:26:02 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Could there be something screwy in cscite.bat? Or
Hi Mojca,
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:06:59 -0600, Mojca Miklavec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But for
texmfstart.exe texexec
I keep getting
ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError)
texmfstart --locate texexec.rb
gives me
/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb
Any ideas
Hi Hans, Mojca, and all,
I uninstalled ruby and reinstalled: no joy.
Then I uninstalled ruby and reinstalled without installing RubyGems.
Believe it or not that worked! I can compile the format and run mkii now.
This still leaves open the question as to how RubyGems and cscite.bat
(which is
Dear gang,
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:59:20 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ? ? wrote:
Dear gang,
I am upgrading my system to the latest mswincontext distro.
After some hiccups, context.cmd finds its target script, so I can
generate
the mkiv
Hi Hans,
I think I found a clue:
If I start a command shell (no scite or npp or other editor) and do
setuptex c:\context\tex
texmfstart texexec
I get
TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
TeXExec | --checkcheck versions
TeXExec | --figures generate overview of
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:26:02 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Could there be something screwy in cscite.bat? Or setuptex.bat?
what does
echo %PATH%
report?
\testecho %PATH%
Dear gang,
I am upgrading my system to the latest mswincontext distro.
After some hiccups, context.cmd finds its target script, so I can generate
the mkiv format
But for
texmfstart.exe texexec
I keep getting
ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError)
texmfstart --locate texexec.rb
Hi Maurício,
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:50:07 -0600, Maurício [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
\starttext
With 0-kern: '\kern0pt'\kern0pt'\kern0pt'\kern0pt'
The easy way: \dorecurse5'
\stoptext
Cheers, Peter
Neither of them work. ' (Unicode 0027) is still
converted to ’ (Unicode 2018).
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:50:07 -0600, Maurício [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I need to write ' in a text. However, since
it's a special tag in wiki language, I really
need it to be 5 times U0027, not ””’ (U201C and
U2018). How can I do that?
\starttext
With 0-kern:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:12:04 -0600, Maurício [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I need to write ' in a text. However,
(...) I really need it to be 5 times U0027,
not ””’ (U201C and U2018). (...)
\starttext
\dorecurse5'{}
% or \dorecurse{5}{'{}}
\stoptext
Even better:
Hi Hans,
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:59:20 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
texmfstart --locate texexec.rb
gives me
/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb
Any ideas on what's wrong?
some messy ruby in your path
you can make a small bat file that starts texmfstart
@echo off
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:19:03 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:06:24 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
incrementnumber=list
Thank you guys, I knew it had to be something simple [that one's not
documented]...
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor
Dear gang,
This used to work:
=
\definehead[intro][chapter]
\setuphead [intro][numberstyle=normal,
number=no,
ownnumber=no,
incrementnumber=no,
continue=no,
Hi Hans,
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:03:19 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ? ? wrote:
Is this a bug? If not, how can I get a non-numbered head into the toc?
\startfrontmatter
... \chapter{...} ...
\stopfrontmatter
Ok thnx a lot. But is that just a
Dear Mehdi,
سلام
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:48:46 -0600, Mehdi Omidali [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi everyone,
Is it possible to pass a character to another in MKIV, I mean, like
XeTeX in which one can pass one unicode character to another one (this
is done in some mapping files with some lines
Hi Ulrich,
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:55:02 -0600, Ulrich Dirr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
does there exist a package (typescript) for Adobe's MinionPro (with
optical)? By now I've used LaTeX for MinionPro because of the MinionPro
package which has a lot of features ...
See
Dear Mehdi,
سلام
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:13:12 -0600, Mehdi Omidali [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I use context+luatex to write farsi texts. A problem that I have been
faced is that some characters (those that are in farsi and not in
arabic like Gaf, Kaf, Ya and Che) are shown only in isolated
Dear Mehdi,
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:15:09 -0600, Mehdi Omidali [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I use context+luatex to write farsi texts. A problem that I have been
faced is that some characters (those that are in farsi and not in
arabic like Gaf, Kaf, Ya and Che) are shown only in isolated
form.
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:20:24 -0600, Mohamed Bana [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد ishamid at colostate.edu writes:
Are you using mkii or mkiv? I have Minion Pro and Myriad Pro for mkii...
I'm using the minimals from the site, so I guess I'm using mkiv.
not
Hi Muhammad,
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:50:56 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Does anyone have the typescripts for these fonts with or without the
opticals?
Are you using mkii or mkiv? I have Minion Pro and Myriad Pro for mkii...
2. Has anyone come across a guide for installing the optical
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