Re: [NTG-context] Arithmetic Macros

2005-11-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: All, Does anyone have any macros for typesetting common arithmetic explanations, such as +, -, x, and /? There is a small macro package by Donald Arsenau for long divisions, and it looks like that works in context without any change:

Re: [NTG-context] svn manuals

2005-11-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: Hans, Taco, et al, I think it would be a good idea (possibly saving you a lot of list answering time) if you put a README file in each manual directory. This could contain instructions such as: Good idea. 1. Which is the main file to compile. or just display the

[NTG-context] items question

2005-11-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, I'm working on the responses to the mini survey, and quite ofthen there is an itemization with a title of sorts. It makes sense to give such structures a bit different layout from a normal itemization. My question: does anyone know of an easy way to do this: bla di bla di do re mi As

Re: [NTG-context] items question

2005-11-27 Thread Bernd Militzer
Am Sonntag, den 27.11.2005, 10:43 +0100 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Hi, I'm working on the responses to the mini survey, and quite ofthen there is an itemization with a title of sorts. It makes sense to give such structures a bit different layout from a normal itemization. My question: does

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-27 Thread Vit Zyka
Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I 'reorganized' (split) the beginners manual and put it in svn, so anyone who is willing to translate can check out a copy. I didn't yet change anything (only the file structure etc) and the styles need a cleanup (more modern setup). Because each chapter now has its own

Re: [NTG-context] Arithmetic Macros

2005-11-27 Thread David Arnold
Thanks Taco, I'll take a look. On Nov 27, 2005, at 1:23 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, Does anyone have any macros for typesetting common arithmetic explanations, such as +, -, x, and /? There is a small macro package by Donald Arsenau for long divisions, and it

[NTG-context] TEXMFMAIN,TEXMFTE,TEXMFGW

2005-11-27 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Taco, Gerben, et al, With the new release of Context, it looks like you have the same: --ro=TEXMFMAIN I've attached my type-tmf-gw.dat and the type-tmf-gw.log that resulted from a run with: sudo texfont --encoding=ec type-tmf-gw.dat I did this by dropping type-tmf-gw.dat in ~/tmp/.

Re: [NTG-context] Iwona font

2005-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: All, Found this link. Helpful reading. http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hartke/latex/survey/survey.html I downloaded: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/fonts/iwona.zip Unzipped and put only the afm's and the pfb's in ~/tmp/iwona. Ran: iwona $ sudo texfont --ve=public

Re: [NTG-context] Where is \typescriptthree documented?

2005-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: All, I don't understand \typescriptthree. Where is it documented? What does it mean? it's a trick to make efficient typescripts and normally not meant for users to be used (ok, since they look into the files in distributions, users tend to use such low level

Re: [NTG-context] Iwona font

2005-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: My best guess is the zip file didn't contain all the iwona fonts needed. Am I correct? i dunno, i always get the zips from Janusz web site http://www.janusz.nowacki.strefa.pl/kurier.html Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] Where is \typescriptthree documented?

2005-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: David Arnold wrote: All, I don't understand \typescriptthree. Where is it documented? What does it mean? I'm not sure that it is documented, but it is the value of the third argument of \starttypescript, and it valid until \stoptypescipt. If the actual argument

Re: [NTG-context] New tmf files?

2005-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Gerben Wierda wrote: On 26 Nov 2005, at 18:50, David Arnold wrote: Gerben, Does this mean that if I wait the 24-hr period and use Context updater again, I will get these? Only if ConTeXt itself is updated. But in this case I just triggered a rebuild by hand. david: i think that

Re: [NTG-context] TEXMFMAIN,TEXMFTE,TEXMFGW

2005-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, Taco, Gerben, et al, With the new release of Context, it looks like you have the same: --ro=TEXMFMAIN I've attached my type-tmf-gw.dat and the type-tmf-gw.log that resulted from a run with: sudo texfont --encoding=ec type-tmf-gw.dat I did this by dropping

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: I got unexpected positive responce to idea of beginners manual translation on Saturday's Czech/Slovak TUG meeting. The small working group of 5 people was establish there. Nobody but me has context experience now, but I think it is not a serious drawback for translating. i

Re: [NTG-context] Choosing a font for our Math Book

2005-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, On Nov 25, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: \usetypescript[lucida][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[lucida] This doesn't work on my system. However, the attached file does compile and gives me Lucida in Acrobat Professional. You'll note thought that all the math is

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: Hi Hans et al, Just tried to compile ma-cb-en with T5. Here are some remarks: 1. \def\TitlePage#1#2#3 in file ma-cb-style.tex does not work with T5. Because of \definedfont[SansBold at 40pt] I lossed so many vietnamese accented characters. I have to change to

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-27 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: On 11/26/05, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VnPenguin wrote: Just tried to compile: $ texexec --pdf ma-cb-en and I got: [skip] Hi, Please read the beginning of the mfont.tex from manuals thread (http://archive.contextgarden.net). It is the exact

Re: [NTG-context] Iwona font

2005-11-27 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Gerben, No luck. Got the fonts at: http://www.janusz.nowacki.strefa.pl/kurier.html Installed to proper directories. But the sample source below did not work? Couple of things? 1. Do I have to also do an updmap or enable or some such thing? 2. I note that on my office system,

[NTG-context] Drag and Drop and Authenticate on the Mac OS Tiger

2005-11-27 Thread David Arnold
Gerben et al, I am worried about an ownership problem in my texmf.local tree in GWTeX. I get this iwona font, then drag the folder doc/fonts/iwona from the download to /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/doc/fonts using drag and drop and finder. I am asked to authenticate and I do so.

Re: [NTG-context] beginners manual

2005-11-27 Thread VnPenguin
On 11/28/05, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, it's ok. But I have to add: \usemodule[abr-01] into ma-cb-abbreviations.tex in order to fix error \ASCII non defined. no, you need a new version of context -) Release 2005.11.24 is not ok for this ? Thank you, --