On 8/16/06, Jeff Smith wrote: > Hi! > > I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and > after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering > questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of > them. > > The fonts manual mentions how TeX is often qualified as 'the font > mess'. Well, yeah, my head hurts right now... :-( Here are some > font-related issues that are very important to me:
Some of the font mess might disappear when the new pdfTeX comes out (next year). If you're a font fan and if you're in a hurry, you might try XeTeX (it supports Unicode & OpenType fonts, which are much easier to use than if you want to install your own font into TeX tree and use it with standard pdfTeX), but when I last tried it, it didn't support inclusion of external figures on Windows. (I don't know if Hans has included it into the standalone Windows version already.) > a) Somehow I can't come up with small caps in a Times font. Is this > normal? This happens either by using \sc or \setupcapitals[sc=yes] > along with \cap. Left for someone else to answer. > b) LaTeX has a package for the International Phonetic Alphabet called > tipa. Is it possible to use it in ConTeXt? If not, can anybody point > me to the relevant manuals that will help me incorporate official IPA > fonts (say, the TTF version) in my ConTeXt installation? I'm using the > stand-alone Windows distribution, btw. It's not there yet, but as far as I can remember someone (probably Taco?, I might be wrong) was willing to help incorporating it if one of the users would describe what exactly is neeeded and help testing it. (with XeTeX and a proper OpenType font you would probably get them out-of-the-box) > Two language related issues: > > c) There was a French language specific package in LaTeX that made > possible the direct use of accented characters in the source text > (like é, à, ô) without using the explicit commands themselves. Can > this be achieved in ConTeXt (because right now their direct use simply > halts the compiling)? I would believe so, since the manual for French > documents by Peter Münster shows how to set up automatic spacing > before the strong punctuation marks (! ? ; :) without explicit > commands every time. I'm guessing the strategy would be the same with > accented characters, but so far I haven't been able to make it work. > > d) Is it possible to build some sort of macro that would automatically > make \quotation marks different when inside another \quotation > command? Basically, we use « » (the French guillemets) as standard > quotation marks, but we use single quotes instead inside another > quotation. At this point, I'd only need a yes or no answer. It would > ease my mind to know there can be a way to streamline this usage of > quotation marks, thereby simplifying greatly the input text. The answer to both questions: \enableregime[utf-8] % or latin9/iso-8859-15 or cp1252 \mainlanguage[fr] See lang-ita.tex. I didn't understand which quotes exactly you want to have, but if you want the english ones for some reason: \setuplanguage[fr] [leftquote=\upperleftsinglesixquote, rightquote=\upperrightsingleninequote] Mojca _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context