Re: [NTG-context] Zapf Dingbats font

2012-06-03 Thread Steve Peter
On Jun 3, 2012, at 3:04 AM, Alfredo Catalina wrote: This is a workaround for the meantime: - Download the free True Type font Zapf Dingbats BT from http://www.com/fonts/zapf-dingbats-bt.html Beware of sites like this. There are many commercial fonts there. Steve

Re: [NTG-context] Small integral signes with Palatino

2012-05-29 Thread Steve Peter
On May 27, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: BTW, what is the status of Pagella Math? Nearly complete from what I hear. Steve ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to

Re: [NTG-context] Times New Roman

2008-12-01 Thread Steve Peter
On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Yue Wang wrote: Termes is a TeX Gyre version of Times Roman (almost the same glyphs). Which stems from URW Nimbus, a clone of Linotype version of Times Roman. Times New Roman is a Microsoft version of Times Roman. Actually, TNR is the Monotype version of the

Re: [NTG-context] Creating account on wiki contextgarden

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Peter
On Jul 29, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2008-07-29 um 19:55 schrieb Hans Hagen: I must admit that I will feel confused if the question will be mixed with ancient maya numbers . well, you're an original 'roman' guy so you'll get the easy creation question So, someone

Re: [NTG-context] Lulu

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Peter
On Sep 3, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Andrea Valle wrote: In my last post I was saying that I'm tinkering about the idea of using Lulu. It seems to be difficult with ConTeXt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu.com#_note-3 (Lack of full support for open formats) Hmm. I know that this:

Re: [NTG-context] supressing number on the first page

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Peter
On Jul 29, 2007, at 6:30 PM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Sorry for the question as old as ConTeXt :), but how can I prevent the page number from being paced on the first page? To clarify, I want no number placed on the first page, '2' placed on the second page and so on.

Re: [NTG-context] test

2007-02-13 Thread Steve Peter
On Feb 13, 2007, at 10:24 PM, David Arnold wrote: please ignore this test. Too late. I've already read it. Steve ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Peter
On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:35 PM, John R. Culleton wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 09:45, Jeremy Johnson wrote: I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec on my Gentoo system. I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager: Miktex is for Windows, not Linux. There is now a

Re: [NTG-context] Optional Arguments for cite

2006-06-20 Thread Steve Peter
On Jun 20, 2006, at 8:46 AM, John R. Culleton wrote: My bibtex manual is from Boris Patashnik Boris? I wonder if he is related to Oren. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

2006-05-05 Thread Steve Peter
On May 4, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? I think Ruby is now installed on enough machines out there. At this point, I have no objection to the switchover. Steve

Re: [NTG-context] Manual or Book

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Peter
On Mar 13, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: Does this ML have publishers subscribed that have some VC to burn? Or does see someone else see a possibilty for a ConTeXt book? Adam Lindsay and I are planning on writing one. We've got a detailed outline, but our schedules have been

Re: [NTG-context] palatino fonts

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Peter
indeed, they could have made a companion font to the urw paladio Hans Then it would be a hans serif! ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Peter
On Dec 8, 2005, at 6:08 PM, Adam Lindsay wrote: tessellating Arabesque borders lately, I think the Patriot Act bans that in the US. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] IPA/TIPA support in Context?

2005-12-06 Thread Steve Peter
On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:15 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: Jason Knight wrote: get into the guts at the time. This threaed gets me thinking: how far away from proper is the tipa package under LaTeX? How much work is a proper implementation likely to be? this is something you and steve peter (also

Re: [NTG-context] Lucida Fonts

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Peter
On Nov 23, 2005, at 9:47 PM, David Arnold wrote: Now that YandY is defunct, where would one now purchase the Lucida font. We used to be able to get the entire set from YandY, math included. Does that set still exist and where can it be purchased? The set with math will soon be available

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Peter
On Nov 21, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: you need a proper subversion client; steve peter told me he had that running on hsi mac so maybe he has some recommendation; one you have that you can connect to svn.pragma-ade.com and check out the manuals tree The easiest thing to do

Re: [NTG-context] New PracTeX Journal issue

2005-11-13 Thread Steve Peter
On Nov 13, 2005, at 1:49 AM, David Arnold wrote: Link not found: http://tug.org/pracjourn/2005-4/guravage/bruchure.pdf Thanks for pointing that out David. We'll fix the link on the article page. You can get the brochure via this link:

[NTG-context] New PracTeX Journal issue

2005-11-12 Thread Steve Peter
A new issue of the PracTeX Journal is now live, featuring two ConTeXt topics: 1. Michael Guravage uses ConTeXt to typeset a brochure 2. I explore a bit of MetaPost in my \starttext column http://tug.org/pracjourn/ Comments welcome. Steve ___

Re: [NTG-context] \externalfigure[cow.pdf][scale=0.8]

2005-10-23 Thread Steve Peter
On Oct 23, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Christopher Creutzig wrote: according to texshow, \externalfigure accepts scale as an option.  For me,\starttext\externalfigure[cow.pdf][scale=0.8]\stoptextresults in getting ".8.8.8.8" in front of the image.The scaling factor is in units of 1000. To get 80% size, use

Re: [NTG-context] Skrinking distance between bullet and text in itemize

2005-06-12 Thread Steve Peter
On Jun 12, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote: Id like to have the bullet appear closer to the text being itemized inside a \startitemize. I changed the symbol being used to a \cdot and now the text appears to far away from the bullet itself. Is there a way to fix this? Try

Re: [NTG-context] Re: PracTeX Journal Number 2 out

2005-04-20 Thread Steve Peter
Patrick, can we mirror the context articles in the wiki? We would need the OK from the authors because of copyright. You have my OK. Steve ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] how to create subscripts and superscripts

2005-04-18 Thread Steve Peter
On Apr 18, 2005, at 10:50 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: But I couldn't find it in the index, Truth be told, I usually just use the Find function on Adobe Reader. :-) Steve ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] confused on font size

2005-04-14 Thread Steve Peter
1. {\switchtobodyfont[18pt] text} 2. {\tfx font size ??} 3. {\xii some font} What are the advantages of each? I would think that option (1) would be the simplest and clearest to use. Consider 1 vs. 2 if your editor or journal said, ``No, we don't want 12pt text, we want 10pt text.'' If you've

Re: [NTG-context] undefined guillemots

2005-04-11 Thread Steve Peter
On Apr 11, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Patrick Gundlach wrote: I guess you are right, but the Postscript Name for this glyph is eg. guillemotleft, the unicode name (U+00AB) is 'Left Pointing Guillemet', so guillemot is a slightly reasonable name for that glyph, even if it is wrong ... I realize I will never

Re: [NTG-context] can't get table to work

2005-04-09 Thread Steve Peter
On Apr 9, 2005, at 11:19 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: I am trying to create a table with the middle cell merged vertically. I am trying to draw bottom lines for the left and right columns: \placetable[here][tab:insurance]{Percentage of People without health insurance in US} \starttable[|l

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-updater i-Package updated

2005-03-04 Thread Steve Peter
On Mar 4, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: Let's count the guys that use OSX with ConTeXt (and possibly i-Packages): Six I guess that makes me lucky 7. Wouldn't it be better to do this as a survey question on the ConTeXt wiki? Steve ___

Re: [NTG-context] link

2005-01-18 Thread Steve Peter
You don't have permission to access /pracjourn/2005-1/ on this server. The TUG server seems to be down right now. The main TUG disk crashed, but it has been fixed (thanks to Kaja Christiansen). The Practical TeX Journal is now back online. Steve ___

Re: [NTG-context] XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

2004-08-21 Thread Steve Peter
On Aug 21, 2004, at 2:37 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage? http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiitem_id=xetex Steve ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and Aleph

2004-08-17 Thread Steve Peter
On Aug 17, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Bob Kerstetter wrote: aleph aleph is the omega snip-off? aah. spin-off, not snip-off. but anyway, is that what aleph is? It's even an FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=aleph, which says The Aleph project aims to build a usable version of Omega,

[NTG-context] Re: page setup

2004-01-06 Thread Steve Peter
On Tuesday, Jan 6, 2004, at 17:20 America/New_York, Patrick Gundlach wrote: I still wonder why there is an empty page... This is slightly annoying. \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2SIDE] With [2SIDE], I don't get an empty page. I do get an extra page with a 0 down at the