[NTG-context] Problems with font encodings

2005-02-21 Thread Stefan Ohletz
Hello, I'm working on some XSL stylesheets for translating XML documents into Context. Although I've read the document Fonts in Context and understood that one could use typescripts for managing fonts, in the context of my stylesheets I'd rather like to stick to the \definebodyfont command,

Re: [NTG-context] Framed text splitting over pages

2005-02-21 Thread Slawek Zak
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:26:03PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Slawek Zak wrote: I'd like to split some source code over a couple of pages. I'd like it to have distinct background and rounded frame around. Search on google comes up with an email from Hans answering some fellow wanting the

[NTG-context] Can't install ConTeXt

2005-02-21 Thread Paul Tremblay
I've just dowloaded the ConTeXt form the website http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm I've downloaded both the the main CONTEXT distribution as well as the minimal CONTEXT distribution (linux) Both distributions give me a bunch of directories and scrits, but no instructions on where to put

Re: [NTG-context] Which version is best for MSWindows users.?

2005-02-21 Thread Bruce Horrocks
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes So how would you start an absolute newbie to e.g., Context and pdfetex? Where would you point them for their first download? Mswintex.zip is another option for a basic (Context only) setup that avoids the frighteningly large

Re: [NTG-context] Initial Font Installation Question (Mac)

2005-02-21 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
Just a quick reply: having the afm is already very good. The file without an extension looks suspiciously like a Mac font resource. Can you try running the utility fondu on it (from the command line)? That will usually produce the pfbs (very likely, there's more than one: roman, italics, bold

[NTG-context] Initial Font Installation Question (Mac)

2005-02-21 Thread David Wooten
Greetings all, I've been having a lot of fun struggling with the installation of a newly purchased font, and wanted to double check a preliminary question before I give in and ask a more thorough question ;) I'm working with Mac OS X, so I bought a font-set with both Mac TTF and Postscript

Re: [NTG-context] Initial Font Installation Question (Mac)

2005-02-21 Thread Adam Lindsay
Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:01:50 +0100: Just a quick reply: having the afm is already very good. The file without an extension looks suspiciously like a Mac font resource. Can you try running the utility fondu on it (from the command line)? That will usually produce the

Re: [NTG-context] Problems with font encodings

2005-02-21 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Stefan, I do not claim to understand all of it, but I can help you a bit: Stefan Ohletz wrote: \definefontsynonym[NewCenturySchoolbook][pncr8r][encoding=texnansi] This line is wrong. pncr8r is not texnansi, but '8r', an internal encoding that is not intended to be used directly. In a standard

Re: [NTG-context] Can't install ConTeXt

2005-02-21 Thread VnPenguin
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:24:47 -0500, Paul Tremblay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just dowloaded the ConTeXt form the website http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm I've downloaded both the the main CONTEXT distribution as well as the minimal CONTEXT distribution (linux) How about teTeX

Re: [NTG-context] strange color change

2005-02-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Münster wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Münster wrote: Hello, could anybody explain, why the last 2 subsections have another color? \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \placecontent \dorecurse{6}{\section{a section}}

Re: [NTG-context] Unconventional page number placement

2005-02-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: Hi Matt. I don't have a total solution, but I think you were much closer than you thought. Matt Gushee said this at Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:40:22 -0700: * Use negative dimensions to cause the header and footer to overlap the text area, e.g.: \setuplayout

Re: [NTG-context] Bad page breaks!

2005-02-21 Thread Hans Hagen
G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: h h extern wrote: . no, more with the default penalties, compare: (for adam: take a look at core-spa, the default setups in there may answer a few of the questions in your postings) \starttext \startsetups [test] \resetpenalties\widowpenalties

Re: [NTG-context] help needed with special macro

2005-02-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Münster wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Münster wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Hans Hagen wrote: \expanded{\bTR ... \eTR} table data is collected and processed four times so you need to freeze the content can you send me a small sample Of course: \newcount\MyVersion

Re: [NTG-context] Strange interaction of \chapter and \AutoDroppedCaps

2005-02-21 Thread Slawek Zak
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 04:06:56PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Slawek Zak wrote: Hi, In this document: \setupindenting[medium] \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupbodyfont[16pt] \starttext \chapter{This is a test} \AutoDroppedCaps \input tufte \input tufte \stoptext I get output

[NTG-context] lucida fonts

2005-02-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, Now that yandy has gone into a more fancy business (www.yandy.com, looking at the menu it looks like they now also sell special latex stuff -) i wonder where one can get the usual bunch of lucida fonts needed for tex; any ideas? Hans

Re: [NTG-context] lucida fonts

2005-02-21 Thread Taco Hoekwater
It seems that nothing is known yet, you should subscribe/ask on the yandytex support mailing list, I guess. It is linked from http://tug.org/yandy Greetings, Taco Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, Now that yandy has gone into a more fancy business (www.yandy.com, looking at the menu it looks like

Re: [NTG-context] Strange interaction of \chapter and \AutoDroppedCaps

2005-02-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Slawek Zak wrote: Tried that. Same problem. Should I patch the original ConTeXt file? I just put your code in the document. Sorry for a lame question. patch supp-fun.tex and regenerate the format -

[NTG-context] Euro-sign

2005-02-21 Thread Johannes Werner
Hello, what i have to do, to get the euro into my document? Is there any documentation ? (surely i'm not the first with this question, but i cannot find something) I tried \euro, but nothing happened. mfg, Johannes Werner ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] Can't install ConTeXt

2005-02-21 Thread Paul Tremblay
Responding to my own email. I finally found the documentation for installing ConTeXt burried in one of the distribution I downloaded. However, this documenttion only told me to unzip the archive in the appropriate directory. It did not tell me what that appropriate directory was. This page

Re: [NTG-context] help needed with special macro

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Münster
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Hans Hagen wrote: \def\MyMacro#1{% \getgparameters[XXX][#1] \global\advance\MyVersion by 1 \bTR \bTR\expanded{\bTD \the\MyVersion \eTD} \expanded{\bTD \XXXDate \eTD}\eTR } Thank you very much, Hans! In fact, I should have tried just a bit more: I tried

Re: [NTG-context] Euro-sign

2005-02-21 Thread Peter Münster
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Johannes Werner wrote: what i have to do, to get the euro into my document? Is there any documentation ? (surely i'm not the first with this question, but i cannot find something) I tried \euro, but nothing happened. mfg, Johannes Werner \texteuro But \euro works here

Re: [NTG-context] Euro-sign - problem solved

2005-02-21 Thread Johannes Werner
need no help anymore - it was a configuration problem Johannes Werner wrote: Hello, what i have to do, to get the euro into my document? Is there any documentation ? (surely i'm not the first with this question, but i cannot find something) I tried \euro, but nothing happened. mfg, Johannes

[NTG-context] numbering lines

2005-02-21 Thread Ciro A. Soto
is there a quick way to generate the number of each linein the margin of the page? thank you ciro___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] numbering lines

2005-02-21 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
\setuplinenumbering[step=5,location=inmargin] \startlinenumbering [and don't forget the \stoplinenumbering at the end, or ConTeXt will complain] Best Thomas On Feb 21, 2005, at 8:49 PM, Ciro A. Soto wrote: is there a quick way to generate the number of each line in the margin of the page? thank