Hello!
I am currently preparing my first major document with ConTeXt,
and just have to admit my astonishment about the great work that
lies behind the system. I am so fanatic about it, that I dare to
state some questions and comments for improvement. Please do not
mind if these issues have been raised before; I have not been
subscribed to the mailing list for a long time.
- The \setuppagenumbering command should provide a "strut" option
to correctly cater for oldstyle digits: If no strut is
inserted, the digits "dance" from page to page.
- Protruding information should be provided for all the different
quotation marks. (I understand that support for protrusion is
in an early state of development.)
- Is there a way to define custom itemisations? I mean, can one
define e.g. a enumeration inparaenum which transforms
We distinguish the following classes of problems:
\startinparaenum
\item neglectable problems,
\item easy problems,
\item hard problems,
\item interesting problems.
\stopinparaenum
into
We distinguish the following classes of problems: (a) neglectable
problems, (b) easy problems, (c) hard problems, (d) interesting
problems.
- When typesetting capitals (like in acronyms), one would like to
avoid "screaming" by decreasing the font size a little -- not
much, just one point or so. Is there a way to switch to, say, a
font with 90% the size of the current bodyfont? I could then
write a macro \versal{} for my purposes.
- In German, there are a lot of abbreviations that end with a
colon, like usw. (und so weiter) etc. What is the correct way
to define a synonym \USW which inserts the trailing colon only
if no second colon is immediately following? I fiddled with
\doifnextcharelse, but were not successful.
- I suggest that the \digits mechanism should not trigger math
mode automatically: In my document, I want to use oldstyle
figures in text mode, while in math mode, upright figures shall
appear. (PS. The \digitpowerseperator macro used in
supp-num.tex should be named \digitpowerseparator, I guess.)
- Do you think that the \digits mechanism can be generalised to
cater for phone numbers, bank account numbers, postal codes,
etc.? The correct typography for these is language dependent,
as well, so it seems to be plausible to merge the mechanisms.
Please pardon this extensive mail; I just got intoxicated with
the ConTeXt fever and try to shorten the time from me moving from
LaTeX to ConTeXt to a minimum, so more might come to my mind. :-)
Best regards,
Marco
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Marco Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
