Re: [NTG-context] stand-alone ConTeXt
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 17:05, Hans Hagen wrote: Yue Wang wrote: It depends if the Minimals are intended to be a complete TeX system or if they are meant to be a minimal system for ConTeXt, possibly complementing the utility programs from TeX Live. it is just context minimals' extra... minimals can still be a minimal system for ConTeXt. there will be a goodies option: --goodies=scite,texworks,xml,gs The option --goodies=texworks should work now. Once you run setuptex (or if you have set the path), you should be able to call just texworks filename from command line. Hans ... I suspect that ConTeXt MKII (both pdftex and xetex) are missing from the list ... 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] ConTeXt minimals installation problem
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 23:53, Maurício wrote: It's counter-intuitive, but I'm afraid that stable might be a bi broken at the moment. I didn't find discussion on that on the list, so I think it is not bad to ask: has context considered these new fashion version control systems? I've been using these for a few months (darcs and, recently, mercurial), and I can tell it's really worth, although I don't know if developers do have time to try or plan such kind of switch. The very first plan was to make everything based on svn. The problem is that svn is still very very limited. I was experimenting with darcs, but didn't have enough knowledge about it, and darcs consumes twice the space needed if I remember correctly, so that was somehow ruled out before I even started thinking ... I wanted to have one special kind of functionality, namely, being able to choose which modules to install, which engines to install, which fonts to install etc. SVN doesn't offer that. Darcs does with some clever trickery, but see above. We did consider ... but didn't have the right idea about the exact inplementation. Also, I didn't expect so serious problems with version mismatches. ConTeXt will soon be available with all beta versions as a git repository, but we would have to put everything else into some repository as well. 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] ConTeXt minimals installation problem
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I wanted to have one special kind of functionality, namely, being able to choose which modules to install, which engines to install, which fonts to install etc. SVN doesn't offer that. Hello Mojca, SVN supports sparse directories¹. Perhaps this can solve the problem. ¹ http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.sparsedirs.html Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___ 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] On creating my own fonts
I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ also really cool are http://unifiedfontobject.org/http://www.robofab.com/http://letterror.com/ I now understand I can: * Use fontforge ascii file or unified font object to describe glyphs using a text file; * Use some other tool to create an image for a glyph and then use a tracer to make it into an ouline description for a glyph; * Use fontforge to add OpenType specific tunning. Using those options, can I do everything I want with fonts? Like japanese kanji, or arabic text where the shape of a glyph depends on next and previous ones? Thanks, Maurício ___ 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] On creating my own fonts
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 07:07:19PM +, Maurício wrote: I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ also really cool are http://unifiedfontobject.org/http://www.robofab.com/http://letterror.com/ I now understand I can: * Use fontforge ascii file or unified font object to describe glyphs using a text file; FontForge can read and write unified font object (UFO) files too. * Use some other tool to create an image for a glyph and then use a tracer to make it into an ouline description for a glyph; * Use fontforge to add OpenType specific tunning. Using those options, can I do everything I want with fonts? Like japanese kanji, or arabic text where the shape of a glyph depends on next and previous ones? You can do virtually every thing, I use FontForge mainly for Arabic fonts. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ 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] On creating my own fonts
Using those options, can I do everything I want with fonts? You can do virtually every thing, I use FontForge mainly for Arabic fonts. Can I ask you what you use to create arabic fonts? They always have a beatifull caligraphic style, are they usually done with tools like metafont or you just draw then on the screen? Maurício ___ 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] Latest XML advice.
I have in hand a huge document (587 modules) in xml DocBook format.
It constitutes the documentation for Gimp. I also have the Context
xml manual but can't seem to figure out how to make it work. The
root document (or what I assume is the root document) contains
statements like this:
part
titleGetting Started/title
chapter id=introduction
titleIntroduction/title
xi:include href=introduction.xml/
xi:include href=introduction/whats-new.xml/
/chapter
and so on.
When I tried simply
texexec gimp.xml
I got a one page document that listed the titles in one long string
but none of the content of the subdocs referenced.
So I added near the top
\defineXMLenvironment [gimp] {(} {)}
\enableXML
and got more or less the same results.
Hints?
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