[NTG-context] Metapost and TeX [OT]

2004-08-23 Thread skhilji
I don't have any experience in metapost. I would appreciate if someone would please answer this question without me having to do thru tutorials and metapost source code. I was wondering how does metapost talk to TeX? Quicky glancing through the metafun book, I found out that you can super-impo

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font

2004-08-20 Thread skhilji
- Original Message - From: Patrick Gundlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:01 pm Subject: [NTG-context] Re: How to use PostScript font > > Please post an error message on the things that we have written. (But > I doubt you will get any.) > The following works at

[NTG-context] Lucida Bright Fonts from StarOffice

2004-08-19 Thread skhilji
For right now, I am giving up on the postscript fonts. Lets try something else. At http://home1.vr-web.de/~was/lucidayy/, you will see some files that tell you how to use the Lucida Bright fonts that come with StartOffice 5.2 with LaTeX. I copied all the pfb and afm files from StarOffice52 into

Re: [NTG-context] How to use PostScript font

2004-08-19 Thread skhilji
None of the commands that I was told worked. I donT think its my installation. To my surprise, the following does not work at live.contextgarden.net. If you see the log file, it says that the TFM file not found. Even the server at contextgarden is missing the package that I am missing from m

Re: [NTG-context] How to use PostScript font

2004-08-18 Thread skhilji
- Original Message - From: Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 11:02 am Subject: Re: [NTG-context] How to use PostScript font > > > > > [ppl,12pt] > > may work, but nowadays we say: > > \usentypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] > \setupbodyfont[palatino,1

[NTG-context] How to use PostScript font

2004-08-17 Thread skhilji
I'd like to use the paladino font from urw as my body font (Its the one used in the MetaFUN manual). I tried setting: \setupbodyfont[pos,12pt] but it does not work. What is the name that I should use? ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NTG-context] Page break after a section :-(

2004-08-17 Thread skhilji
I have some text that looks like: \section{Flight Controls Model} \startitemize[1] \item The Flight Controls model ... ... \stopitemize ConTeXt has decided to put a page break right after the \section, so my itemized list begins on the next page. I thought \sections were supposed to be set

Re: [NTG-context] Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-02 Thread skhilji
Adding to this thread (I don't mean a reply to Paulo, but rather a reply to what Hans was saying earlier)...The problem with "normal users" cooking up new styles is the lack of artistic abilities in some people (like me). One can, obviously go thru the manual cover the cover, but if one does no

Re: [NTG-context] Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-01 Thread skhilji
I'd like to see the sources of all the PDF files available at pragma-ade. Its much easier to look at examples and learn from it than to ask for complete documentation. Salman ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/li

[NTG-context] How to use m-cweb module

2004-07-17 Thread skhilji
I was looking at the CWEB demo off the pdfTeX page. Can someone please tell me how I would use the m-cweb package on TeX, the program web file. The first step would be to create the tex file itself using 'weave tex.web' Than I suppose I have to create an input file for conTeXt. What would be t

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with Figures (Fixed)

2004-07-17 Thread skhilji
- Original Message - From: Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:08 am Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Problem with Figures (Fixed) > > > That's because you use \placefigure - it must know what your > figure is. > In this case, this bug or typo ought to be