Re: [NTG-context] Characters per inch with ConTexT

2007-02-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing a document where the guidelines say that I should use > Times Roman font at 10pt with 15 characters per inch and 6 lines per > inch. I am using thermes from tex gyre rscaled=1.015 as the bodyfont. > At this setting I get a bit more less than 6 lines

[NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I understood that … \bTABLE[option=stretch] … gives a horizontal stretch, so that a TABLE snaps left and right to the frame (\showframe text edges). When along table is split over several pages with \bTABLE[split=yes] it is very unlikely that the bottom-line of the bottom most row sits

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie question: math font and bibliography

2007-02-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Zulkifli Hidayat wrote: > > Furthermore, could you give pointers to style alternatives documentation > or links? None that I know of exist, but it is harmless to try them, so you could just do a few runs with various style settings. Best, taco ___ nt

Re: [NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread luigi scarso
On 2/14/07, Steffen Wolfrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > I understood that … > > \bTABLE[option=stretch] > > … gives a horizontal stretch, so that a TABLE snaps left and right to the > frame (\showframe text edges). > > > When along table is split over several pages with \bTABLE[split=ye

Re: [NTG-context] bold versions of fonts

2007-02-14 Thread Jörg Hagmann
> > There is one [ too many in this definition... Don't be too > embarrassed, when you've looked at a file or a line for three hours, > you don't see anything anymore. Thanks a lot. I AM embarassed, especially since I suspected something of the sort but didn't see it. And also because I successf

Re: [NTG-context] bold versions of fonts

2007-02-14 Thread Janko Hauser
Am 14.02.2007 um 11:34 schrieb Jörg Hagmann: I am editing the Annual Report of an ornithological society. In the past, this has been done with Word, the font was Gentium. I haven't changed to ConTeXt yet, because Gentium has no bold version and I want to stick with the same font (Word produces

Re: [NTG-context] bold versions of fonts

2007-02-14 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 14, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Janko Hauser wrote: > As I do not understand fonts at all, but is it really so, that one > needs to have the bold fontpackage if one wants to set a word in > bold in tex? Asked another way, can tex not do the same as word in > this regard? > > with regards, > >

Re: [NTG-context] Natural table questions

2007-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:38:57 -0800 David Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, Hi David, > > Using natural tales, how can I: > > 1. get some padding around text in each cell? you can currently use one value for the padding on all four sides in a table cell. \setupTABLE[offset=5mm] \bTABLE

[NTG-context] Bolding the words "Figure 2-1"

2007-02-14 Thread John R. Culleton
I too am stuck in specification hell. The specifier is ovenamored of stretching text and the like. I worked through that with the TeX/LaTeX macro soul.sty. My immediate problem is with putting the caption of a table in a different font. Currently I have: -

[NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

2007-02-14 Thread John R. Culleton
I have a specification for a chapter head that is so complex I have little hope of modifying the Context head within any reasonable time frame. But I still prefer to use the Context chapter head for TOC, numbering of figures and the like. So I decided to hand code the head but still use \chapter

Re: [NTG-context] Bolding the words "Figure 2-1"

2007-02-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 2/14/07, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too am stuck in specification hell. The specifier is ovenamored of > stretching text and the like. I worked through that with the TeX/LaTeX macro > soul.sty. > > My immediate problem is with putting the > caption of a table in a different

Re: [NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread luigi scarso
On 2/14/07, Steffen Wolfrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Luigi, > > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:44:20 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: > >> Is there also a kind of \bTABLE[split=yes,option=vstretch] that > >> gives this little stretch over the page's respective rows so that > >> there is also a vertical

Re: [NTG-context] Characters per inch with ConTexT

2007-02-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am writing a document where the guidelines say that I should use >> Times Roman font at 10pt with 15 characters per inch and 6 lines per >> inch. I am using thermes from tex gyre rscaled=1.015 as the bodyfont. >> At

Re: [NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

2007-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:21:18 -0500 "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a specification for a chapter head that is so complex I have little > hope of modifying the Context head within any reasonable time frame. But I > still prefer to use the Context chapter head for TOC, numbe

Re: [NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

2007-02-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, John R. Culleton wrote: > I have a specification for a chapter head that is so complex I have little > hope of modifying the Context head within any reasonable time frame. But I > still prefer to use the Context chapter head for TOC, numbering of figures > and the like. So I d

Re: [NTG-context] Bolding the words "Figure 2-1"

2007-02-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:11:37 -0500 "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too am stuck in specification hell. The specifier is ovenamored of > stretching text and the like. I worked through that with the TeX/LaTeX macro > soul.sty. > > My immediate problem is with putting the > ca

Re: [NTG-context] Characters per inch with ConTexT

2007-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > That is what I found. Can I tweak spacefactor and spaceskip to give an > impression that there are 15 cpi. > you can create a shinked font i.e. make an instance with .85% wide chars (contrary to an extended one) > I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960,

Re: [NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Luigi, thanks for the offer. On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:45:46 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: > I usually give my best with a complete working example > 'I-have-this--I-want-that'.tex > or 'this-doesn't-work-as-expected'.tex > or 'i-don't-understand-this'.tex > Can you made an example ? See attached

[NTG-context] mails

2007-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
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[NTG-context] TOC (was: register) fine tuning

2007-02-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi Hans, fine-tuning a TOC is horrible when you have a lot of tables and figures in a larger project: you have to wait and wait and wait … Could you also provide a comparable solution like the one below (for the placeregister), please? Something like … \completecontent[file=testtest] That

Re: [NTG-context] vertical stretch for TABLE ?

2007-02-14 Thread luigi scarso
On 2/14/07, Steffen Wolfrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Luigi, > > thanks for the offer. > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:45:46 +0100, luigi scarso wrote: > > I usually give my best with a complete working example > > 'I-have-this--I-want-that'.tex > > or 'this-doesn't-work-as-expected'.tex > > or 'i

Re: [NTG-context] Suppressing printing of chapter head.

2007-02-14 Thread JOHN CULLETON
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 10:14, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > [location=top, >spaceinbetween=0pt, % <-- your friend >style=bold, >width=max] That works as far as the bolding is concerned. Many thanks. But the "Figure 2-1" and the "Comparison of Corporate and Government Bond Portfol

Re: [NTG-context] Characters per inch with ConTexT

2007-02-14 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960, and others are > blindly copying them. Maybe, I should typeset everything in monotype > font :) I remember we had a ball-based typewriter at Kluwer Academic that had variable width characters as well as different f

Re: [NTG-context] MPtoPDF error

2007-02-14 Thread Peter Rolf
Peter Rolf wrote: > Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> Peter Rolf wrote: >>> this is a bug in the current metapost beta (which is already fixed by >>> Taco). Simply use the stable version (0.901) instead. A new beta will >>> (hopefully) be released this week. >> It won't happen today anymore, I am afraid. Bu

[NTG-context] \writetolist vs \writebetweenlist

2007-02-14 Thread JOHN CULLETON
I can use \writebetweenlist to add a line to my TOC. I have to put the page number in manually. Here is the statement: \writebetweenlist[part]{\nimbus\zy{Part 1 Prerequisite for Success}\hfil 22\rm } It would seem more sensible to use \writetolist and let Context determine the page number. But