[NTG-context] latest beta
Hi Hans, the latest beta has a problem with font handling: in my Greek output, the letters sigma and sigmaalt don't work anymore; they're replaced either by some undefined character (box with letter X in it) or by empty spaces. I tried to find out where something has changed, but haven't found anything so far. If you don't have an immediate idea what's wrong, I'll try to investigate further. Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] XML
A bit OT Do you know http://opendocumentfellowship.com/development/projects/odfpy -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems
Mojca Miklavec wrote: You need \runMPgraphicstrue Yes, this helps! But what are the sideeffects? When is the opposite needed? \runMPgraphicfalse is faster when you need two tex runs anyway, because it collects all the graphics in a single metapost run which is a more efficient way of generating the graphics (in mkii), that is its reason for existence. But sometimes it doesn't work, so having \runMPgraphicstrue in your cont-usr.tex is not a bad idea. Best wishes, Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:24 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Every columnset starts a new page. Maybe I need to try simplecolumns now :) Or well ... \bTABLE ... \eTABLE. Aren't columnset powerful enought ? From the manual Probably they are, I just need to swap contents between more columns (content in first column, image in the second one, content in second column, image in the first one...), but I can treat text as figure and place it on the right. normal columns permit stopping and starting new columns in the middle of the page, while columnsets apparently don't. The simplecolumns are perhaps the best idea. \column has been broken since before the turn of the century. :-( Best wishes, Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] how to typeset this formula ?
Hi, I have a DOC-file with a lot of quite complex math formulae. Trying to find a good workflow from doc to context I was experimenting with the Word plugin MathType, resp. with the different translator options (any better tip very welcome!). The best results I had with typesetting the code with newmath. Only one kind of formula with arrays gave errors. I attach the respective formula as a doc file here. Does anybody know a better way to deal with this kind of formulae in ConTeXt? Any help very much appreciated!! Steffen formula.doc Description: MS-Word document ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] XML
luigi scarso wrote: A bit OT Do you know http://opendocumentfellowship.com/development/projects/odfpy To do what in this context :) ? Joh ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] how to typeset this formula ?
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have a DOC-file with a lot of quite complex math formulae.
Trying to find a good workflow from doc to context I was experimenting with
the Word plugin MathType, resp. with the different translator options (any
better tip very welcome!).
The best results I had with typesetting the code with newmath.
Only one kind of formula with arrays gave errors.
I attach the respective formula as a doc file here.
Does anybody know a better way to deal with this kind of formulae in
ConTeXt?
Any help very much appreciated!!
\starttext
\startformula
\frac{g_a}{\theta} =
\startcases[left={\left[},right={\right]}]
\NC \displaystyle
H_M \cdot z^{1 - \phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma -
\phi} \cdot \frac{(1 - \phi) \cdot \gamma}{1 - \sigma}
- H_S \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma -
\phi} \cdot \frac{(1 - \phi) \cdot \gamma}{1 - \sigma}
+ \gamma \cdot H_S \cdot z^{-\phi}
\NR
\NC \displaystyle
- \gamma \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma
- \phi} \cdot z \cdot H_M
+ \gamma \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma
- \phi} \cdot H_S
\NR
\stopcases
\stopformula
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] how to typeset this formula ?
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have a DOC-file with a lot of quite complex math formulae.
Trying to find a good workflow from doc to context I was experimenting with
the Word plugin MathType, resp. with the different translator options (any
better tip very welcome!).
The best results I had with typesetting the code with newmath.
Only one kind of formula with arrays gave errors.
I attach the respective formula as a doc file here.
Does anybody know a better way to deal with this kind of formulae in
ConTeXt?
Any help very much appreciated!!
\starttext
\startformula
\frac{g_a}{\theta} =
\startcases[left={\left[},right={\right]}]
\NC \displaystyle
\startcases[left={\left[},right={\right]},style=\displaystyle]
\NC
H_M \cdot z^{1 - \phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma -
\phi} \cdot \frac{(1 - \phi) \cdot \gamma}{1 - \sigma}
- H_S \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma -
\phi} \cdot \frac{(1 - \phi) \cdot \gamma}{1 - \sigma}
+ \gamma \cdot H_S \cdot z^{-\phi}
\NR
\NC \displaystyle
\NC
- \gamma \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma
- \phi} \cdot z \cdot H_M
+ \gamma \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma
- \phi} \cdot H_S
\NR
\stopcases
\stopformula
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] XML
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: luigi scarso wrote: A bit OT Do you know http://opendocumentfellowship.com/development/projects/odfpy To do what in this context :) ? pre-parsing As I wrote, a bit OT. -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] how to typeset this formula ?
Potzblitz! Wolfgang wieder, wer sonst ;o)
Ja, genau so soll das aussehen.
Aber ich fürchte, Du hast das von Hand geschrieben, richtig?
Da ich in der originalen DOC-Datei aber noch hunderte in dieser
Preisklasse habe, wäre ich für einen sehr guten Konvertierungs-Tipp
super-dankbar!!!
Steffen
Am 08.10.2008 um 10:29 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I have a DOC-file with a lot of quite complex math formulae.
Trying to find a good workflow from doc to context I was
experimenting with
the Word plugin MathType, resp. with the different translator
options (any
better tip very welcome!).
The best results I had with typesetting the code with newmath.
Only one kind of formula with arrays gave errors.
I attach the respective formula as a doc file here.
Does anybody know a better way to deal with this kind of formulae in
ConTeXt?
Any help very much appreciated!!
\starttext
\startformula
\frac{g_a}{\theta} =
\startcases[left={\left[},right={\right]}]
\NC \displaystyle
H_M \cdot z^{1 - \phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma -
\phi} \cdot \frac{(1 - \phi) \cdot \gamma}{1 - \sigma}
- H_S \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma -
\phi} \cdot \frac{(1 - \phi) \cdot \gamma}{1 - \sigma}
+ \gamma \cdot H_S \cdot z^{-\phi}
\NR
\NC \displaystyle
- \gamma \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma
- \phi} \cdot z \cdot H_M
+ \gamma \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma
- \phi} \cdot H_S
\NR
\stopcases
\stopformula
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] How to obtain blackboard bold?
Dnia Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:54:01AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan napisa#322;(a):
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
As in subject;)
I found out that {\mb R} gives me the symbol for the real line; is it
_the_ ConTeXt way or should I do it in another way?
The context way is \reals
Other symbols defined are (in math-ams.tex)
\definemathcommand [integers] {\blackboard{Z}}
\definemathcommand [reals] {\blackboard{R}}
\definemathcommand [rationals] {\blackboard{Q}}
\definemathcommand [naturalnumbers] {\blackboard{N}}
\definemathcommand [complexes] {\blackboard{C}}
\definemathcommand [primes] {\blackboard{P}}
You can also use \blackboard{R} instead of {\mb R}.
Aditya
Thank you!
I've added a relevant page (Blackboard bold) on the wiki.
Greets
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can be divided into two groups and those who don't.
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Re: [NTG-context] substitutions
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:16:42 -0600, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans and Taco can probably tell you more. it all depends on what we want to achieve ... - we can have font fixers (dynamically extend fonts with features, but this demands knowledge of the font) - we can have replacements in the node list (attribute driven, relatively easy to implement) so before i start looking into this, we need to investigate what is needed (and what for) For things like my journal, I get lots of inconsistent transliterations, and we are not yet at the stage where we can enforce behavior on authors. I would like to be able to do things like Mohamed - Muḥammad which would save me a lot of time in proofreading, editing, etc. Getting the transliteration for the entire journal consistent is a tedious pain, and eventually I can have a nice database that will cover most cases. This is also much more convenient than using control-sequence definitions and watching out for spaces etc. (only mkiv) Indeed ;-) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems
Hallo, Mojca Miklavec wrote: You need \runMPgraphicstrue Yes, this helps! But what are the sideeffects? When is the opposite needed? \runMPgraphicfalse is faster when you need two tex runs anyway, because it collects all the graphics in a single metapost run which is a more efficient way of generating the graphics (in mkii), that is its reason for existence. But sometimes it doesn't work, so having \runMPgraphicstrue in your cont-usr.tex is not a bad idea. I did this, but 'cont-usr.tex' is never included (windows minimal). The file 'core-job.tex' should do this but it is itself not included. Is 'core-job.tex' not needed? 'cont-sys.tex' has a commented entry \runMPgraphicstrue uncommenting this works. There is also a variable \runMPTEXgraphicstrue. What is this for? Should this be uncommented, too? Will this be overwritten with the next update? Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] more bad news about latest beta
OK, I have more bad (for me) news about the latest beta: it simply refuses to play with some of my fonts; most importantly for me with the Gentium fonts. Whenever I try to compile something with Gentium in it, I get the error message !luaTeX error (file /Users/tas/Library/Fonts/GenAR102.ttf): Invalid glyph index (gid 1699) == Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MtxRun | fatal error, code: 70 I have now compared the latest beta and an older one, and I think the culprit is this line: load otf | featurefile: /Users/tas/texmf/fonts/fea/context/greek- babel.fea luatex then goes on to create luatex-cache/context/408a90c432ceda2c1e4a80ad5d0e5350/fonts/otf/[EMAIL PROTECTED] luatex-cache/context/408a90c432ceda2c1e4a80ad5d0e5350/fonts/otf/[EMAIL PROTECTED] The thing is, I know that Gentium doesn't work with this fea file; that's why I wrote one specifically for this font. Gentium is nowhere connected to this fea file. When I use an older version, this fea file is not used and [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not created. The newer version creates it, and I have no clue why... Very puzzled Thomas ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] how to typeset this formula ?
If you are allowed to make some minor adjustments you may probably
even leave out most of the \cdot commands, which will turn the formula
even sleeker ...
Just my two cents,
Oliver
\starttext
\startformula
\frac{g_a}{\theta} =
\startcases[left={\left[},right={\right]}]
\NC \displaystyle
\startcases[left={\left[},right={\right]},style=\displaystyle]
\NC
H_M \cdot z^{1 - \phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma -
\phi} \cdot \frac{(1 - \phi) \cdot \gamma}{1 - \sigma}
- H_S \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma -
\phi} \cdot \frac{(1 - \phi) \cdot \gamma}{1 - \sigma}
+ \gamma \cdot H_S \cdot z^{-\phi}
\NR
\NC \displaystyle
\NC
- \gamma \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma
- \phi} \cdot z \cdot H_M
+ \gamma \cdot z^{-\phi} \cdot \frac{\phi - \sigma \cdot \phi}{\sigma
- \phi} \cdot H_S
\NR
\stopcases
\stopformula
\stoptext
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Re: [NTG-context] substitutions
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:53:40 -0600, Mojca Miklavec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Sometimes I use the following for simple substitutions:
\defineactivecharacter ' {\otfchar{quoteright}}
But is there a more general mechanism to do things
\definesubstitution{string1}{string2}
eg
\definesubstitution{--}{–}
Of course ConTeXt already provides this particular substitution
In mkii it doesn't. Fonts do that substitution. In mkiv a hack is
applied to fonts (not to TeX macros), so that this particular
substitution works.
Hmm, so this is much more complicated than I thought...
but I'm
interested in such a mechanism for more general purposes.
In mkii this is not possible, except with some ugly hacks. You can
easily substitute a single character by making it active. To
substitute whole words, you either need to modify fonts, or write some
dirty macros.
I see. In any case, mkii is obsolete for my purposes, if/when I get to
writing a book on ConTeXt it will cover mkiv only.
In mkiv you can either apply some patches to fonts (search for tlig
in ConTeXt source, for example font-otf.lua, also, there are some fea
files in fonts/fea/context capable of doing that), or change input
text while reading/digesting some TeX file.
tlig was buggy, but it works in the latest beta. Thank you, Hans!
Hans and Taco can probably tell you more.
And Thank you, Mojca!
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Re: [NTG-context] misbehaving \column
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:24 AM, luigi scarso wrote: Every columnset starts a new page. Maybe I need to try simplecolumns now :) Or well ... \bTABLE ... \eTABLE. Aren't columnset powerful enought ? From the manual Probably they are, I just need to swap contents between more columns (content in first column, image in the second one, content in second column, image in the first one...), but I can treat text as figure and place it on the right. normal columns permit stopping and starting new columns in the middle of the page, while columnsets apparently don't. The simplecolumns are perhaps the best idea. \column has been broken since before the turn of the century. :-( because ther eis no native column mechanism, \column comes in some variants and it depends on the circumstances what works best (esp related to grids and such) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems
Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote: I did this, but 'cont-usr.tex' is never included (windows minimal). cont-usr is read by texexec --make (at format generation time) The file 'core-job.tex' should do this but it is itself not included. but it does (at format generation time) 'cont-sys.tex' has a commented entry \runMPgraphicstrue uncommenting this works. yes, that is fine also There is also a variable \runMPTEXgraphicstrue. What is this for? Should this be uncommented, too? I think so, yes. (iirc, this is for textext() in mkii) Will this be overwritten with the next update? No, cont-sys.tex is never distributed Best wishes, Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] more bad news about latest beta
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, I have more bad (for me) news about the latest beta: it simply refuses to play with some of my fonts; most importantly for me with the Gentium fonts. Whenever I try to compile something with Gentium in it, I get the error message Sorry, I should have warned you guys. This is a bug in 0.30.0, there will be a 0.30.1 later today. Best wishes, Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] substitutions
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: I would like to be able to do things like Mohamed - Muḥammad which would save me a lot of time in proofreading, editing, etc. It's easy to write a simple ruby/perl(or even lua) script that will do such changes for you *before* typesetting articles. That's probably much better, since you also want to have clean sources at some point. Of course, writing the list of substitutions still needs to be done by you, but that's in either case. If you need that, write kind-of-specification how you would like to use such a command. Mojca ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] substitutions
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:46:21 -0600, Mojca Miklavec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
wrote:
I would like to be able to do things like
Mohamed - Muḥammad
which would save me a lot of time in proofreading, editing, etc.
It's easy to write a simple ruby/perl(or even lua) script that will do
such changes for you *before* typesetting articles. That's probably
much better, since you also want to have clean sources at some point.
Yes, but the above is just one kind of example. Indeed, what I am thinking
of is just an extension of the kind of configurability texies like to do.
For your average user -- or a secretary -- we don't want to have to point
them to lua or ruby etc...
Of course, writing the list of substitutions still needs to be done by
you, but that's in either case.
If you need that, write kind-of-specification how you would like to
use such a command.
Maybe I misunderstand... I could see something like I mentioned in the
original mail
\definesubstitution{string1}{string2}
or even a database approach:
\definesubstitutions[
string1,string1'|
string2,string2'|
string3,string3'
]
Here is another example. I generally prefer an en-dash padded with spaces
-- and with a no-break space after -- to an em-dash for parenthetical
constructions. So I would like to do, eg
\definesubstitution{emdash}{ endash~}
Again, this saves time in extensive editing, and I can stay in TeX without
fiddling so much with scripting, CTRL-F/H/R etc. It maintains control in
case I change my mind and want to revert etc. For long documents and
projects this gets unwieldy pretty fast and I end up with lots of typos
etc.
I guess we could get really funky and add a regular expressions engine
using lua:
\definesubstitution[regex]{string1}{string2}
And I'm sure Hans, Taco, and other programmers can think of other nifty
macros...
But the basic functionality would suffice for now :-)
Best wishes
Idris
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Re: [NTG-context] Has anybody used asymptote without LaTeX?
Hi Michail, It's a little late for me to check my mailbox. Thank you for your work and yes, I'm interested in it. Can I get a copy of it? On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Michail Vidiassov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, And how to embed .prc files into the .pdf document? I have made a standalone embedder some time ago, reproducing capabilities of movie15 LeTeX package and somewhat extending them. If anybody is interested it can be put in shipable state. Sincerely, Michail ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___ -- Best Regards Chen Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] more bad news about latest beta
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, I have more bad (for me) news about the latest beta: it simply refuses to play with some of my fonts; most importantly for me with the Gentium fonts. Whenever I try to compile something with Gentium in it, I get the error message Sorry, I should have warned you guys. This is a bug in 0.30.0, there will be a 0.30.1 later today. Then again, on re-reading, maybe this is a different problem, maybe related to the mkiv code itself. So, let's just say that on my side of things there is *a* bug relating to fonts that may or may not be the cause of this issue. Taco ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Math drawings for dummies
Hello, for those who are afraid of Metapost (or simply think that it takes too much time to program a simple figure with not too fancy features), there's a magnificent point-and-click tool for creating mathematical drawings with perfect precision and TeX labels matching the style of your document. (If you want to find itersection of curves, or curves going through several points, you don't need to pretend that you have hit the intersection as you would do in Corel Draw.) The prerelease version has TikZ export (with plain/LaTeX/ConTeXt support included). http://www.geogebra.org - future Mojca ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] new beta
Hi, the new beta has some optimizations wirh regards to the font memory footprint (at the cost of convenience but that only concerns me) Hans for chinese users: there is not much more memory to gain (unless we accept more mess) - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl - ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] substitutions
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
I would like to be able to do things like
Mohamed - Muḥammad
Before you get the mkiv code you can start collecting wrong words :)
Mojca
usage: ruby scriptname.rb input.tex output.tex
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
subs_hash = {
Mohamed = Muḥammad,
Idris = ادريس,
}
while line = STDIN.gets
subs_hash.each do |key,value|
line.gsub!(Regexp.new(key), value)
end
puts line
end
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