Re: [NTG-context] Virtual font tip

2004-07-08 Thread Matt Gushee
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:25:03PM +0100, Adam Lindsay wrote: > Don't be discouraged, Matt. Oh, I wasn't really discouraged, just mildly sarcastic (as much as I dare to be toward someone who was just trying to help ;-) > I think your tool is really nifty--it's precisely one of those "if I have >

[NTG-context] passing arguments to commands while typing

2004-07-08 Thread Johan Sandblom
While documenting some Matlab code for barely computer literates I wish to use the positional graphics described in the MetaFun manual. Not sure if this is possible of course. I am not at all successful so far since I cannot get the escaping mechanism to accept my code. It appears that the /hpos

[NTG-context] How to define Small Caps when installing a new font

2004-07-08 Thread Fabio Fogliuzzi
A question about fonts. I have successfully installed (for the first time) a font using the texfont utility and creating both small caps and slanted variants of the font. I wrote the following typescript saved in a file named 'Typeface.tex': \starttypescript [map] [texnansi] \loadmapfile [texn

Re: [NTG-context] Stopping text from flowing around sidefloats

2004-07-08 Thread Fabio Fogliuzzi
Il giorno 06/lug/04, alle 18:40, Hans Hagen ha scritto: \forgetsidefloats \flushsidefloats may be of help in manipulating those side floats (more on side floats in details.pdf) Hans Thanks Hans. Placing \flushsidefloats after the figure insertion works in the desired way. It seems that this comma

Re: [NTG-context] Virtual font tip

2004-07-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Don't be discouraged, Matt. I think your tool is really nifty--it's precisely one of those "if I have time, I'll learn about VPLs" projects that I wanted to have realised at some point. Your solution goes far beyond the FontSite500 support, as far as I can see. cheers, adam Matt Gushee said this

Re: [NTG-context] Virtual font tip

2004-07-08 Thread Matt Gushee
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:03:55PM +0200, Holger Schöner wrote: > > > After purchasing the FontSite 500 CD, I wanted to make good use of some > > of the nice text fonts it contains--in particular I wanted to create > > TeX virtual fonts that would add ff, ffi, and ffl ligatures and > > replace th

Re: [NTG-context] Virtual font tip

2004-07-08 Thread Holger Schöner
Hello, On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Matt Gushee wrote: > Hello, all-- > > After purchasing the FontSite 500 CD, I wanted to make good use of some > of the nice text fonts it contains--in particular I wanted to create > TeX virtual fonts that would add ff, ffi, and ffl ligatures and > replace the ugly ( ;

Re: [NTG-context] trim pdf figures

2004-07-08 Thread Taco Hoekwater
epstopdf.sty runs (attemps to run) the epstopdf executable 'inline' On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:24:14 +0200, Henning wrote: > >> I don't know anything about ConTeXt, but does \usepackage{epstopdf} > >> work? (Or something similar?) You then don't need to worry about > >> explicitly converting all

Re: [NTG-context] trim pdf figures

2004-07-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
I don't know anything about ConTeXt, but does \usepackage{epstopdf} work? (Or something similar?) You then don't need to worry about explicitly converting all the eps files, it's automated within the TeX process. Alan, thanks for this-I didn't know. Unfortunately I don't think ConTeXt includes

Re: [NTG-context] How to define Small Caps when installing a new font (repost)

2004-07-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 07.07.2004 um 18:37 schrieb Fabio Fogliuzzi: All seems to work as expected, except for the use of the SansItalicCaps, SansBoldCaps and SansBoldItalicCaps variants. What is the correct way to define a font so that {\bf \sc Some Text} get typeset in the SansBoldCaps variant of the font? No chanc

[NTG-context] Re: [OS X TeX] trim pdf figures

2004-07-08 Thread Nigel King
(I wish there was a way to command the epstopdf bit from within Mathematica to automate the process further.) I don't know anything about ConTeXt, but does \usepackage{epstopdf} work? (Or something similar?) You then don't need to worry about explicitly converting all the eps files, it's automa