Re: [NTG-context] Minimal word-distance?

2013-08-26 Thread H. Özoguz
The following text has protrusion and is justified. \setuplayout [width=6cm] \definefontfeature [default] [default] [protrusion=pure] \setupalign [hanging] \showframe \starttext \spaceskip=1ex plus 1ex minus .2ex \input knuth \stoptext / forcing a constant distance. / If you provide

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Minimal word-distance?

2013-08-26 Thread Peter Münster
On Mon, Aug 26 2013, H. Özoguz wrote: The question is, only to add an minimal distance, wich has not to be undercut \spaceskip=1ex plus 1ex minus 0ex or just \spaceskip=1ex plus 1ex -- Peter ___

Re: [NTG-context] Minimal word-distance?

2013-08-26 Thread Marco Patzer
a constant distance. / If you provide stretch and shrink the distance is not constant. Thank you! I dont understand this command, what does 1ex plus 1ex minus .2ex excactly mean? It's the inter-word glue, which is usually a property of the font and is usually not altered by the user. However

Re: [NTG-context] Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines

2013-04-13 Thread H. Özoguz
100 % automated typesetting with 100 % perfect results is impossible Hans, I dont think so. Manual typesetting is not 100 % perfect, too. Why automated typesetting shouldn't be able to obtain the same results, like men – some day. Of course that needs much more than just typesetting-rules,

Re: [NTG-context] Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines

2013-04-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/13/2013 11:53 AM, H. Özoguz wrote: 100 % automated typesetting with 100 % perfect results is impossible Hans, I dont think so. Manual typesetting is not 100 % perfect, too. Why automated typesetting shouldn't be able to obtain the same results, like men – some day. Of course that needs

[NTG-context] Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines

2013-04-12 Thread H. Özoguz
Hi (sorry for many questions today :)), with German you often have the problem, that words are long (most often much longer than english words). So ConTeXt have to break them. But there is a typographical rule: Do not break words at the end of lines in more than three consecutive lines. So

Re: [NTG-context] Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines

2013-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.04.2013 um 11:02 schrieb H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de: Hi (sorry for many questions today :)), with German you often have the problem, that words are long (most often much longer than english words). So ConTeXt have to break them. But there is a typographical rule: Do not break

Re: [NTG-context] Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines

2013-04-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/12/2013 11:13 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can add \setupalign[stretch] to your document which increases the space between words, it is only a small value and helps in some cases. I could have sworn there was a way to set the maximum number of consecutive lines which can be

Re: [NTG-context] Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines

2013-04-12 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia 2013-04-12, o godz. 12:20:20 Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de napisał(a): On 04/12/2013 11:13 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can add \setupalign[stretch] to your document which increases the space between words, it is only a small value and helps in some cases. I

Re: [NTG-context] Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines

2013-04-12 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/12/2013 8:28 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: In TeX it is possible to discourage two consecutive hyphens, but there is no way to prohibit or strongly discourage three or more. Technically, this would mean a slight extension of the current algorithm by keeping track of the number of hyphens in

[NTG-context] extracting word count from a *.words file

2012-04-20 Thread Jelle Huisman
Hello all, Here is another question. Consider this test file: \starttext \setupspellchecking[state=start,method=2] \ctxlua{languages.words.threshold=3} \input knuth \stoptext Typesetting this file produces a word list 'test.words' which ends like this: [threshold]=1, [total]=122, [version

Re: [NTG-context] extracting word count from a *.words file

2012-04-20 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi again, On 2012-04-20 16:32, Jelle Huisman wrote: Hello all, Here is another question. Consider this test file: \starttext \setupspellchecking[state=start,method=2] \ctxlua{languages.words.threshold=3} \input knuth \stoptext Typesetting this file produces a word list 'test.words

Re: [NTG-context] extracting word count from a *.words file

2012-04-20 Thread Marco
On 2012-04-20 Jelle Huisman je...@jhnet.nl wrote: Is there a way to extract the value for [total] ('122' in this case) so that I can use that value somewhere else, e.g. in a project file where I want to present a word count. I used the word count some time ago. Here's the code I used. I have

Re: [NTG-context] extracting word count from a *.words file

2012-04-20 Thread Jelle Huisman
On 04/20/2012 04:52 PM, Marco wrote: On 2012-04-20 Jelle Huisman je...@jhnet.nl wrote: Is there a way to extract the value for [total] ('122' in this case) so that I can use that value somewhere else, e.g. in a project file where I want to present a word count. I used the word count some

Re: [NTG-context] extracting word count from a *.words file

2012-04-20 Thread Jelle Huisman
Typesetting this file produces a word list 'test.words' which ends like this: [threshold]=1, [total]=122, [version]=1, } Is there a way to extract the value for [total] ('122' in this case) so that I can use that value somewhere else, e.g. in a project file where I want to present a word count

[NTG-context] Word-wrap/hyphenation with very large font size not working consistently

2011-12-03 Thread Pavneet Arora
I am trying to typeset some signs for a construction site. I enclose a (somewhat contrived) for consideration. What I am having difficulty with is to get word wrap and interline spacing to work consistently. I am using \framed, but if there is a better way please let me know. The trouble I

Re: [NTG-context] Word-wrap/hyphenation with very large font size not working consistently

2011-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.12.2011 um 16:31 schrieb Pavneet Arora: I am trying to typeset some signs for a construction site. I enclose a (somewhat contrived) for consideration. What I am having difficulty with is to get word wrap and interline spacing to work consistently. I am using \framed

Re: [NTG-context] Word-wrap/hyphenation with very large font size not working consistently

2011-12-03 Thread Pavneet Arora
, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.12.2011 um 16:31 schrieb Pavneet Arora: I am trying to typeset some signs for a construction site. I enclose a (somewhat contrived) for consideration. What I am having difficulty with is to get word wrap and interline spacing to work consistently. I am using

Re: [NTG-context] Word-wrap/hyphenation with very large font size not working consistently

2011-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.12.2011 um 17:55 schrieb Pavneet Arora: Thanks Wolfgang, I see that the main change was align=broad as an option to \framed. Could you tell me what that does, or point me to where it is described? I see broad described in terms of width and height but not align under the

Re: [NTG-context] Word-wrap/hyphenation with very large font size not working consistently

2011-12-03 Thread Pavneet Arora
Thanks for the clarification! I'll keep that in mind. On 11-12-03 12:14 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 03.12.2011 um 17:55 schrieb Pavneet Arora: Thanks Wolfgang, I see that the main change was align=broad as an option to \framed. Could you tell me what that does, or point me to where it

Re: [NTG-context] accessibility of PDF (inter word space

2011-10-28 Thread Hans Hagen
On 27-10-2011 11:22, Stefan Goßrau wrote: thanks for your answer Hans. Now i found some examples. Bot for me it doesnt work. I tried the documents in http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/context/test/doc/context/tests/mkiv/tags/ but there are no spaces between words in reflow-mode. I am

Re: [NTG-context] accessibility of PDF (inter word space

2011-10-27 Thread Stefan Goßrau
version: 2011.10.14 LG stefan Original-Nachricht Datum: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:46:30 +0200 Von: Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl An: mailing list for ConTeXt users ntg-context@ntg.nl CC: Stefan Goßrau redst...@gmx.net Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] accessibility of PDF (inter word space

Re: [NTG-context] accessibility of PDF (inter word space

2011-10-22 Thread Hans Hagen
On 21-10-2011 12:44, Stefan Goßrau wrote: Hello, I am very new in Context and have my first Problems. I read a lot, but can't find the solution. I try to produce accessible PDF. One Point is, that they have to be reflowed in a PDF-Viewer. But if I reflow my documents, there are no

[NTG-context] accessibility of PDF (inter word space

2011-10-21 Thread Stefan Goßrau
Hello, I am very new in Context and have my first Problems. I read a lot, but can't find the solution. I try to produce accessible PDF. One Point is, that they have to be reflowed in a PDF-Viewer. But if I reflow my documents, there are no interwordspaces. I know that there is no

[NTG-context] Long word out of text area/No proper line wrap with flushleft

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Müller
, in this example the aaa...a-word is not moved to the next line but written partially into the margin instead. I understand this behaviour for right-left-aligned text to avoid extremely stretched-out spaces, but here it doesn't seem right to me. Can I change this behaviour somehow? Thanks

Re: [NTG-context] Long word out of text area/No proper line wrap with flushleft

2011-09-20 Thread Andreas Harder
On 20.09.2011, at 11:31, Stefan Müller wrote: Hi again, in one of my documents I want the text to be flushedleft and not hyphenated, see the following example. \setupalign[flushleft, nothyphenated] \starttext \showlayout bb bb bb bb bb

Re: [NTG-context] Long word out of text area/No proper line wrap with flushleft

2011-09-20 Thread Stefan Müller
Ah, thank you very much! Can you tell me why it's called broad? I don't get the intention behind this key... Stefan On 20.09.2011 11:34, Andreas Harder wrote: On 20.09.2011, at 11:31, Stefan Müller wrote: Hi again, in one of my documents I want the text to be flushedleft and not

Re: [NTG-context] Long word out of text area/No proper line wrap with flushleft

2011-09-20 Thread Andreas Harder
On 20.09.2011, at 11:50, Stefan Müller wrote: Ah, thank you very much! Can you tell me why it's called broad? I don't get the intention behind this key… I’ve no clue. Wolfgang Schuster postet this solution a several times, so I've remembered it. Andreas

[NTG-context] Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv

2011-06-08 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi all, Assuming that we have a set of words or expressions, say {Maths, Physics, Algebra, Analysis, Chemistry, Geometry, Wave equation, Schrödinger equation} is it possible to write a lua function, named for instance randomselectword which returns one of the words or expressions

Re: [NTG-context] Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv

2011-06-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8-6-2011 6:52, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi all, Assuming that we have a set of words or expressions, say {Maths, Physics, Algebra, Analysis, Chemistry, Geometry, Wave equation, Schrödinger equation} is it possible to write a lua function, named for instance randomselectword

Re: [NTG-context] Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv

2011-06-08 Thread Mathieu Dupont
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: [NTG-context] Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv Hi all, Assuming that we have a set of words or expressions, say {Maths, Physics, Algebra, Analysis, Chemistry, Geometry, Wave equation, Schrödinger equation} is it possible to write

Re: [NTG-context] Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv

2011-06-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8-6-2011 7:00, Mathieu Dupont wrote: This following code works, except that the first random is always the same (Analysis) for some reason. Anyone knows why ? \enableregime[il1]\starttext\startluacode userdata = userdata or {} math.randomseed( os.time() )function

Re: [NTG-context] Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv

2011-06-08 Thread Mathieu Dupont
: pra...@wxs.nl To: ntg-context@ntg.nl CC: mathieudup...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv On 8-6-2011 7:00, Mathieu Dupont wrote: This following code works, except that the first random is always the same (Analysis

Re: [NTG-context] Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv

2011-06-08 Thread Otared Kavian
of a word in a set with lua and mkiv Hi all, Assuming that we have a set of words or expressions, say {Maths, Physics, Algebra, Analysis, Chemistry, Geometry, Wave equation, Schrödinger equation} is it possible to write a lua function, named for instance randomselectword which

Re: [NTG-context] Random selection of a word in a set with lua and mkiv

2011-06-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8-6-2011 10:12, Otared Kavian wrote: Thank you very much for your quick thoughts and solutions! It is amazing how fast one gets a solution to one's problem on this list… well, this was an easy one -) Just a note for Mathieu: I think that \enableregime[il1] depends on the input

[NTG-context] Short words in word list

2011-03-02 Thread Florian Wobbe
Hi, \usemodule[s-lan-03] \setupspellchecking[state=start,method=2] \setupspellchecking[list=words] \ctxlua{languages.words.tracers.showwords()} prints a word list of words with 4+ letters. Is there a way to also include 1-, 2-, and 3-letter words? Thanks, Florian

Re: [NTG-context] Word count

2010-10-25 Thread Florian Wobbe
On Oct 21, 2010, at 19:50 , Hans Hagen wrote: On 21-10-2010 7:39, Otared Kavian wrote: On 20 oct. 2010, at 21:43, Hans Hagen wrote: On 20-10-2010 7:08, Matija Šuklje wrote: […] I did implement it for Mojca indeed. A made it a bit more clever so that you can play with it. Thanks

Re: [NTG-context] Word count

2010-10-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 25-10-2010 9:21, Florian Wobbe wrote: Thanks, this is a great feature! BTW, I just tried it with the example text from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Spellchecker and noticed that it misses all words containing the german letter ß like: deßgleichen, deßhalb, Fleiß, weiß, ... fixed in

Re: [NTG-context] Word count

2010-10-25 Thread Matija Šuklje
with a certain word or character limitation and just using 'wc' on the whole source file(s) would not be relevant, is there a way to do this in ConTeXt? http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2006/020549.html […] \setupspellchecking[state=start,method=2] \setupspellchecking[list=tufte] \input

Re: [NTG-context] Word count

2010-10-21 Thread Hans Hagen
On 21-10-2010 7:39, Otared Kavian wrote: On 20 oct. 2010, at 21:43, Hans Hagen wrote: On 20-10-2010 7:08, Matija Šuklje wrote: […] I did implement it for Mojca indeed. A made it a bit more clever so that you can play with it. Thanks a lot Hans! That's fantastic… However the file

[NTG-context] Word count

2010-10-20 Thread Matija Šuklje
Hullo, since many texts (academic and otherwise) have to comply with a certain word or character limitation and just using 'wc' on the whole source file(s) would not be relevant, is there a way to do this in ConTeXt? Also it would be very useful, if it was possible to get some more detailed

Re: [NTG-context] Word count

2010-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 20.10.2010 um 15:26 schrieb Matija Šuklje: Hullo, since many texts (academic and otherwise) have to comply with a certain word or character limitation and just using 'wc' on the whole source file(s) would not be relevant, is there a way to do this in ConTeXt? http://www.ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Word count

2010-10-20 Thread Matija Šuklje
Dne sreda 20. oktobra 2010 ob 17:54:27 je Wolfgang Schuster napisal(a): Am 20.10.2010 um 15:26 schrieb Matija Šuklje: Hullo, since many texts (academic and otherwise) have to comply with a certain word or character limitation and just using 'wc' on the whole source file(s) would

Re: [NTG-context] Word count

2010-10-20 Thread Hans Hagen
On 20-10-2010 7:08, Matija Šuklje wrote: Dne sreda 20. oktobra 2010 ob 17:54:27 je Wolfgang Schuster napisal(a): Am 20.10.2010 um 15:26 schrieb Matija Šuklje: Hullo, since many texts (academic and otherwise) have to comply with a certain word or character limitation and just using 'wc

Re: [NTG-context] Word count

2010-10-20 Thread Matija Šuklje
Dne sreda 20. oktobra 2010 ob 21:43:38 je Hans Hagen napisal(a): On 20-10-2010 7:08, Matija Šuklje wrote: I did implement it for Mojca indeed. A made it a bit more clever so that you can play with it. Cool, thanks :) Will check it out some day soon-ish. Cheers, Matija -- gsm:+386 41

Re: [NTG-context] Word count

2010-10-20 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 20.10.2010 um 22:14 schrieb Matija Šuklje: Will check it out some day soon-ish. Another example from the spellchecker: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Spellchecker Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest

[NTG-context] Weird \Word behaviour

2010-06-14 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
))) Can please someone explain me why it happens? \def \sps {special-purpose digital computers} \starttext \Word{\sps}%Special-purpose digital computers \Word{\sps} %special-purpose Digital computers \stoptext -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

[NTG-context] redefine word Figure for a specific language

2010-05-02 Thread Fabio Tiriticco
Hi all, this is my first post here, and only because I couldn't find an answer in the database. I am using ConTeXt for an italian document (I used LaTeX years ago for my thesis and I like ConTeXt much better!) I would like to redefine the word used in figure captions. The default english is Figure

Re: [NTG-context] redefine word Figure for a specific language

2010-05-02 Thread Otared Kavian
ConTeXt much better!) I would like to redefine the word used in figure captions. The default english is Figure. If I switch to \mainlanguage[it] the word becomes Fig. How can I arbitrarily decide what to show there? thanks for the attention, Fabio

Re: [NTG-context] MS Word/HTML examples needed

2009-06-11 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Thanks for kind replies. So, does anyone dare to send me an example document with footnotes? ;) Regards, Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

[NTG-context] MS Word/HTML examples needed

2009-06-10 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, Seems that my GUI-based Word-to-Text converter didn't gain much attention, but that's OK. I'm expected to write an article about it for the upcoming conference, so I want to ask everybody to send me any documents (MS Word/HTML) that are to be converted into TeX. I expect to test my

Re: [NTG-context] MS Word/HTML examples needed

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 10, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hello, Seems that my GUI-based Word-to-Text converter didn't gain much attention, but that's OK. I'm expected to write an article about it for the upcoming conference, so I want to ask everybody to send me any documents (MS Word

Re: [NTG-context] MS Word/HTML examples needed

2009-06-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
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

Re: [NTG-context] TexPaste alpha - my Win application converting Word/HTML to TeX

2009-06-08 Thread J.A.J. Pater
something useful for ConTeXt I found that what I in fact really need to preserve from a Word file are italics and footnotes. To make the long story short. IMHO the only reasonable way to go is via XSL stylesheet for ooffice. Fortunately you don't have to develop a new one from scratch which would

Re: [NTG-context] TexPaste alpha - my Win application converting Word/HTML to TeX

2009-05-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2009-05-28 um 00:05 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: I'm glad to report that I made a simple application (sorry, only forWindows at the moment) that coverts text from Ms Word (or other editors) or HTML pages (web sites) into TeX. The app recognizes at the moment only following formats

Re: [NTG-context] TexPaste alpha - my Win application converting Word/HTML to TeX

2009-05-28 Thread luigi scarso
I guess I should build a new converter suite (there's also a InDesign Tags to ConTeXt converter anywhere on my harddisk). But I won't make GUI apps, just scripts. That's sound good ! If in python, even better ! If only scripts, the best ! Can we have more details ? -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] TexPaste alpha - my Win application converting Word/HTML to TeX

2009-05-28 Thread Piotr Kopszak
Hello list, Inevitably, it's a recurring subject. Here are my 2p. After playing with all sorts of convertors to TeX, Latex, HTML and scraping the output with Perl to obtain something useful for ConTeXt I found that what I in fact really need to preserve from a Word file are italics and footnotes

[NTG-context] TexPaste alpha - my Win application converting Word/HTML to TeX

2009-05-27 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, I'm glad to report that I made a simple application (sorry, only forWindows at the moment) that coverts text from Ms Word (or other editors) or HTML pages (web sites) into TeX. DOWNLOAD LINK (280 KB): http://ul.to/hmpy60 The app recognizes at the moment only following formats/tags

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-25 Thread Roger Mason
Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: You could try to ask Steffen Wolfrum, he's a professional typesetter [1] and should have knowledge about word2context conversion, that's what I got from a few older mails from him. Thanks for the suggesttion Wolfgang. Best wishes,

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-24 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, J.A.J. Pater jajpa...@gmail.com writes: It is pretty easy when you use the word-to-latex program (http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/) See: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Word-to-LaTeX (Which could be renamed Word-to-ConTeXt?) Though I had some problems using the XML example

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-24 Thread luigi scarso
Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately it only runs in the Windows OS. I use Linux (sorry, I should have said so at the outset). You can give a look also at http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odfpy -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-24 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Luigi, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com writes: You can give a look also at http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odfpy Thanks for the suggestion, I will have a look at it. Cheers, Roger ___

[NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, There was thread a while ago about converting Word docs to Context. Did anyone make progress in setting up a workflow? Cheers, Roger ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-23 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, I did only some basic steps. )) Nothing to mention yet. What kind of documents you need to convert? Only simple ones, or containing formulaes, etc.? Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of interest to

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:46:20 -0600, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: There was thread a while ago about converting Word docs to Context. Did anyone make progress in setting up a workflow? Buggy but usable: OOo: doc - odt odt2txt: odt - markdown pandoc: markdown - context the buggeist

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-23 Thread Roger Mason
an extensive collection of documents arriving on my desktop in one go. Most people in my department use Word, and, although I have OpenOffice, I don't use it other than as a means of opening and converting the Word and Excel files that come my way. The current document is short, simple and I dealt

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hello Idris, Idris Samawi Hamid isha...@colostate.edu writes: Buggy but usable: OOo: doc - odt odt2txt: odt - markdown pandoc: markdown - context the buggeist part of the workflow is odt2txt: sometimes it skips footnotes or entire paragraphs. Thank you. I take it you mean

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 23.04.2009 um 13:46 schrieb Roger Mason: Hello, There was thread a while ago about converting Word docs to Context. Did anyone make progress in setting up a workflow? You could try to ask Steffen Wolfrum, he's a professional typesetter [1] and should have knowledge about word2context

Re: [NTG-context] converting Word to Context

2009-04-23 Thread J.A.J. Pater
I send this message already but I don't know if it is still awaiting moderation, because I added a large file, but here it is again. If it's posted already sorry for the noise. There was thread a while ago about converting Word docs to Context. Did anyone make progress in setting up

Re: [NTG-context] \Word broken

2008-08-05 Thread Matthias Wächter
and a description of expected behaviour Sure, here it is. removing the comment on the \word version works only in MKIV, i.e. LuaTeX, but that’s not the issue anyway. \starttext assert \WORDS{oNe two} = ONE TWO (works in MKII + MKIV) %% \word is not defined in MKII, just in MKIV % assert \word

Re: [NTG-context] \Word broken

2008-08-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Matthias Wächter wrote: Do you know how this can be fixed? Is the descripion descriptive enough? will be fixed in the next release (tomorrow we plan to do a formal release) Hans - Hans

Re: [NTG-context] \Word broken

2008-08-05 Thread Matthias Wächter
On 8/5/2008 6:37 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Matthias Wächter wrote: Do you know how this can be fixed? Is the descripion descriptive enough? will be fixed in the next release (tomorrow we plan to do a formal release) Thanks! I am looking forward to the change as I am curious what’s the proper

Re: [NTG-context] \Word broken

2008-08-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Matthias Wächter wrote: On 8/5/2008 6:37 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Matthias Wächter wrote: Do you know how this can be fixed? Is the descripion descriptive enough? will be fixed in the next release (tomorrow we plan to do a formal release) Thanks! I am looking forward to the change as I am

Re: [NTG-context] \Word broken

2008-08-05 Thread Matthias Wächter
On 8/5/2008 6:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Matthias Wächter wrote: On 8/5/2008 6:37 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Matthias Wächter wrote: Do you know how this can be fixed? Is the descripion descriptive enough? will be fixed in the next release (tomorrow we plan to do a formal release) Thanks! I am

Re: [NTG-context] \Word broken

2008-08-05 Thread Hans Hagen
with a value that tells to do Words the tricky thing here is that when i process Word, i need to erase following casing attributes at some time in the future, context mkiv will provide a mechanism for user attributes (attribute processing can take place at several moments by intercepting

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-08-04 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, Hans. I simplified the test file. \mainlanguage[en] \unexpanded\def\ {\mathortext\normalspaceprimitive\space} \starttext A. E. Samuels. A.\ E.\ Samuels. \stoptext Do you see the required difference at your end? On my screen, the two lines look exactly the same (regardless of the

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-08-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, Hans. I simplified the test file. \mainlanguage[en] \unexpanded\def\ {\mathortext\normalspaceprimitive\space} \starttext A. E. Samuels. A.\ E.\ Samuels. \stoptext Do you see the required difference at your end? On my screen, the two lines look

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-08-04 Thread Alan Bowen
That’s got it, Hans! I have replaced all my old “.\ ” with “.|~|”. My pages look much better now. Many thanks indeed. All best, Alan On Aug 4, 2008, at 10;23,22 , Hans Hagen wrote: Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, Hans. I simplified the test file. \mainlanguage[en] \unexpanded\def\

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: I apologize to all, but circumstances oblige me to pick up a very pedestrian thread for the third time. As Peter Münster noted: in the following test-file \starttext x. x, x x\crlf x, x. x x\crlf x,\ x.\ x\ x\crlf x.\ x,\ x\ x\crlf X. X, X X\crlf X, X. X X\crlf

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-08-03 Thread Alan Bowen
it converted to Word and get it in on time. The very memory is traumatic. Charles On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 18:57 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: I apologize to all, but circumstances oblige me to pick up a very pedestrian thread for the third time. As Peter Münster noted: in the following test-file

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-08-03 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, Hans. In my test file I now have \mainlanguage[en] \unexpanded\def\ {\mathortext\normalspaceprimitive\space} \starttext x. x, x x\crlf x, x. x x\crlf x,\ x.\ x\ x\crlf x.\ x,\ x\ x\crlf X. X, X X\crlf X, X. X X\crlf X,\ X.\ X\ X\crlf X.\ X,\ X\ X \stoptext Unfortunately, I do not see

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, Hans. In my test file I now have \mainlanguage[en] \unexpanded\def\ {\mathortext\normalspaceprimitive\space} \starttext x. x, x x\crlf x, x. x x\crlf x,\ x.\ x\ x\crlf x.\ x,\ x\ x\crlf X. X, X X\crlf X, X. X X\crlf X,\ X.\ X\ X\crlf X.\ X,\ X\ X

[NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-08-02 Thread Alan Bowen
I apologize to all, but circumstances oblige me to pick up a very pedestrian thread for the third time. As Peter Münster noted: in the following test-file \starttext x. x, x x\crlf x, x. x x\crlf x,\ x.\ x\ x\crlf x.\ x,\ x\ x\crlf X. X, X X\crlf X, X. X X\crlf X,\ X.\ X\ X\crlf X.\ X,\ X\ X

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-08-02 Thread Charles P. Schaum
the spacing that x, x.\ x x ought to. It's an UGLY hack, but you'd be surprised at how ugly I hacked my own thesis in LaTeX to get it converted to Word and get it in on time. The very memory is traumatic. Charles On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 18:57 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: I apologize to all

Re: [NTG-context] \Word broken

2008-07-30 Thread Matthias Wächter
On 7/29/2008 11:22 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: Matthias Wächter wrote: Hans, do you feel something about the issue? only if i get a test file and a description of expected behaviour Sure, here it is. removing the comment on the \word version works only in MKIV, i.e. LuaTeX, but that’s

[NTG-context] \Word broken

2008-07-29 Thread Matthias Wächter
On 7/25/2008 11:30 AM, Matthias Wächter wrote: On 7/24/2008 9:49 PM, Peter Münster wrote: On Thu, Jul 24 2008, Matthias Wächter wrote: What am I doing wrong? \Word, \Words and \WORDS cannot be applied to synonyms, they are displayed unmodified which is a pity as these words should

Re: [NTG-context] \Word broken

2008-07-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Matthias Wächter wrote: Hans, do you feel something about the issue? only if i get a test file and a description of expected behaviour Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

Re: [NTG-context] \word of synonyms

2008-07-25 Thread Matthias Wächter
On 7/24/2008 9:49 PM, Peter Münster wrote: On Thu, Jul 24 2008, Matthias Wächter wrote: What am I doing wrong? \Word, \Words and \WORDS cannot be applied to synonyms, they are displayed unmodified which is a pity as these words should be capitalized at the beginning of a sentence

[NTG-context] \word of synonyms

2008-07-24 Thread Matthias Wächter
Hi list! What am I doing wrong? \Word, \Words and \WORDS cannot be applied to synonyms, they are displayed unmodified which is a pity as these words should be capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. Is there a solution? \starttext \definesynonyms[term][terms] \setupsynonyms[term][headstyle

Re: [NTG-context] \word of synonyms

2008-07-24 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Jul 24 2008, Matthias Wächter wrote: What am I doing wrong? \Word, \Words and \WORDS cannot be applied to synonyms, they are displayed unmodified which is a pity as these words should be capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. Is there a solution? Try texexec --luatex file

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:17 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2008/7/17 David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, David. I tried \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf

[NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-18 Thread Alan Bowen
My original query has generated some interesting sidelines but no solution, at least none that I can see. So, with all due apologies, I shall presume on your patience by restating my query. In (English) typography the spacing after a period within a sentence is less that that after a period

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Rolf
Alan Bowen schrieb: My original query has generated some interesting sidelines but no solution, at least none that I can see. So, with all due apologies, I shall presume on your patience by restating my query. In (English) typography the spacing after a period within a sentence is

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Münster
problem is that this no longer seems to work with recent versions of ConTeXt/MKII: “.\space” does not seem to have any effect at all. There are 2 kinds of spaces: - inter-word space, that means a normal (strechable) space betweem words, examples: * word word * word, word * WORD. word

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-18 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, Peter. You are right about (Plain) TeX--I just got into the habit of inserting them. Defining my own macro to reproduce the control space is a possibility, and I will do that IF the current behavior of “.\ ’ and the tilde in MKII is not remedied. (I have not switched to MKIV yet,

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-18 Thread Alan Bowen
kinds of spaces: - inter-word space, that means a normal (strechable) space betweem words, examples: * word word * word, word * WORD. word * word.\ word * \mainlanguage[fr] word. word - bigger space after period in english text: * \mainlanguage[en] word. word And if you

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread Alan Bowen
the spacing after an initial by by typing “.\space”, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the inter-word spacing in \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel \stoptext If the is a difference here, I am having trouble seeing it; and on a typeset page, the gaps after the initials just

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Alan Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii. One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by typing .\space, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the inter-word spacing in \starttext A. E. Samuel

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread Alan Bowen
:26 PM, Alan Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii. One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by typing .\space, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the inter-word spacing in \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel

Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

2008-07-17 Thread David
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote: Thanks, David. I tried \starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf A.~E.~Samuel \stoptext and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The tilde is not really a good way for me to go. The problem is

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