Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space?

2005-12-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: G'day Hans. Hints about that, or a native TeX method[1], would be very much appreciated. At the moment it is a relatively slow process of manual trial and error. this is something tex is pretty good at and it runs as fast as normal

Re: [NTG-context] Re: installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log

2005-12-03 Thread VnPenguin
On 12/2/05, olivier Turlier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command # gzip -dc tetex-texmf.tar.gz \| (umask 0; cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist;tar xvf -) was impossible : bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' I've tried , as a blind experiment : remove parenthesis, umask

Re: [NTG-context] IPA/TIPA support in Context?

2005-12-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
I think the answer is zero or nearly zero. If you have a bit of patience, I can do a port of tipa.sty (quite easy), but it will take some time before I can start on it. in the process taco and i can discuss low level support issues as well; it's all a matter of demand and time; of course after

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt live

2005-12-03 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hi, In my account, ConTeXt works no prob, I got a perfect PDF. My problem occurs when I run ConTeXt via web, under Apache's user of course. How to trace ConTeXt run under web server ? Reversing the order will hopefully give a clue on how to proceed: make ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] IPA/TIPA support in Context?

2005-12-03 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Perhaps this is a stupid question, but do we need more than some definitions in the Unicode encoding vectors and typescripts for some fonts? Is (T)IPA support about more than using some phonetic chars? Please enlighten me. AFAICT, there are: - 2 new font

[NTG-context] Re: Re: installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log

2005-12-03 Thread olivier Turlier
Le Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:12:39 +0100, VnPenguin a écrit : On 12/2/05, olivier Turlier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command # gzip -dc tetex-texmf.tar.gz \| (umask 0; cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist;tar xvf -) was impossible : bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' I've

Re: [NTG-context] GNU Emacs/ AucTeX configuration for ConTeXt

2005-12-03 Thread Johan Sandblom
2005/12/2, Renaud AUBIN [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Is there someone using GNU Emacs with ConTeXt. After some googlelyzing, I've learnt : 1. ConTeXt mode from Berend de Boer is now included in AucTeX 2. Some people use Emacs with ConTeXt and METAPOST, but with special .el files that seems

[NTG-context] fontvariants

2005-12-03 Thread Hans van der Meer
I was probing into the font variant mechanism. This did not work, th Light font could not be made to typeset: \starttypescript [calligraphy] [mathtimeyy] [name] \definefontsynonym [CalligraphyRegular] [Calligraphy] \definefontsynonym [Calligraphy] [MathTimes-Calligraphy]

Re: [NTG-context] lot of newbie questions

2005-12-03 Thread toto
Quoting Adam Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hans Hagen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For information: I've tried to type them directly on my keybord. They apear on my screen but the final pdf document output black rectangles. (I'm sure that all what I use is configured to use and produce

[NTG-context] cal calligraphic

2005-12-03 Thread Hans van der Meer
I am confused about the behaviour of \cal and calligraphic. In a font where the calligraphic letters are in MathItalic all goes well. But, in a font where the calligraphic letters come from another font I get: \definefontsynonym [Calligraphic] [FONT_OTHER_THAN_MathSymbol] in text:

[NTG-context] Re: Some $\mframed{math}$ questions

2005-12-03 Thread Aditya Mahajan
--- On Dec 2, Mojca Miklavec wrote --- 1. What's the best way to frame a formula like here: \placeformula \startformula \mframed{x^2+y^2=z^2} \stopformula The problem is that: - formula number is shifted downwards in comparison to the formula without a number - I don't know how to do the

Re: [NTG-context] fontvariants

2005-12-03 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans van der Meer wrote: I was probing into the font variant mechanism. QUESTION: Is the variant mechanism exclusively tied to the series Serif (\rm) and Sans (\ss)? Yes, pretty much, in the implementation's design. If otherwise, what am I doing wrong then? Nothing. Except, is that Math

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-03 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Nikolai Weibull wrote: It would require very little programming. syntax/2html.vim, which converts the buffer to a HTML document with syntax highlighting, is 526 lines in the current CVS incarnation. A syntax/2context.vim would be even shorter, perhaps 150 to 200 lines. If I find the time