Re: [NTG-context] Some update woes on Linux

2007-11-07 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/11/7, Jeff Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I run texexec from inside my editor (Winefish), it still reports the bad format files like I said earlier. I have no idea how that can happen. Linux is really making me feel stupid (my switch from You probably got new formats in

[NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Hello all. I hope this is quite a simple question. I'm using the Chinese module, with the font definitions in font-chi.tex, to typeset UTF-8 content. I can happily use the default sizes a, b, c, d and x, xx, xxx - so \bfd produces large bold, and \tfx produces small normal weight text. But I

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: equivalent of \definedfont? Or a way of adding an e and f size definition to the default set? \definefontsize[e] \setupfontenvironment [default] [e=4] -

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Hans said: \definefontsize[e] \setupfontenvironment [default] [e=4] Ah, thanks. Using \setupbodyfontenvironment as the second command did the trick. I guess there is no easy way of directly calling a specific font at a specific size? No worry, this sort of solution will allow me

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/11/6, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Wolfgang, what a nice 'minimal' example :) I'm no table expert, not even an experienced table user. Anyhow, I think that table is the best choice here. Aside from the bad placing of the horizontal rules, all is working. This is much more than you

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [Fontforge-devel] ORA pro nobis]

2007-11-07 Thread luigi scarso
O'Reilly Associates has finally shipped the English translation of Yannis Haralambous's Fonts Encodings I have it now under my head. -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please

Re: [NTG-context] itemize a list

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: It is my intention to place a list inside an itemize, and therefore prepend a \item before every list item. Thus: \startitemize \placelist[Topic][label=no,pagenumber=no,before=\item]}% \stopitemize However this doesn't work but instead gives the

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: 2007/11/7, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Duncan Hothersall wrote: Hans said: \definefontsize[e] \setupfontenvironment [default] [e=4] Ah, thanks. Using \setupbodyfontenvironment as the second command did the trick. I guess there is no easy way of

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/11/7, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Duncan Hothersall wrote: Hans said: \definefontsize[e] \setupfontenvironment [default] [e=4] Ah, thanks. Using \setupbodyfontenvironment as the second command did the trick. I guess there is no easy way of directly calling a

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems there.) XeTeX can use Chinese fonts since the first day :-) I remember Jonathan

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: Hi Peter, your solution would be really a option but I hope the real bugs will be fixed, I see :) So things could be worse. You have - a workaround (?) - a complete minimal description/example of the problem (as starting point for Hans) - some good

Re: [NTG-context] Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: Hi Aditya, Your code compiles correctly here. Well with the following version of Context ConTeXt ver: 2007.10.03 12:52 MKII fmt: 2007.10.4 int: english/ english works here too -

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Hans (07/11/2007 16:09) said: Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems there.) i bet that duncan uses it in some

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems there.) XeTeX can use Chinese fonts since the first day

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/11/7, Peter Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: Hi Peter, your solution would be really a option but I hope the real bugs will be fixed, I see :) So things could be worse. You have - a workaround (?) you mean your solution with a self defined rule. There is

[NTG-context] \blank[big]

2007-11-07 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, Excuse me, but what 'big' stands for in \blank[big]? Every time I use it, I expect really big white space, but get only hardly noticeable one. Best regards, Vaytcheslav ___ If your question is of interest

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems there.) i bet that duncan uses it in some workflow that has to

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/7/07, Duncan Hothersall wrote: Hello all. I hope this is quite a simple question. But I really need to be able to do the equivalent of \definedfont[Bold at 48pt]. Unfortunately this doesn't work - it produces normal text size and weight. I have absolutely no experience and/or knowledge

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: Hans said: \definefontsize[e] \setupfontenvironment [default] [e=4] Ah, thanks. Using \setupbodyfontenvironment as the second command did the trick. I guess there is no easy way of directly calling a specific font at a specific size? No worry, this

Re: [NTG-context] \blank[big]

2007-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/11/7, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Excuse me, but what 'big' stands for in \blank[big]? Every time I use it, I expect really big white space, but get only hardly noticeable one. Best regards, Vaytcheslav From core-spa: % In earlier versions \type{\bigskipamount}

Re: [NTG-context] Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: Willi Egger wrote: Hi Aditya, Your code compiles correctly here. Well with the following version of Context ConTeXt ver: 2007.10.03 12:52 MKII fmt: 2007.10.4 int: english/ english works here too I am confused. It does not work correctly here (

[NTG-context] doc at minimals

2007-11-07 Thread luigi scarso
Just discovered http://minimals.contextgarden.net/doc -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] doc at minimals

2007-11-07 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Just discovered http://minimals.contextgarden.net/doc That's not possible, it doesn't exist ... Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

[NTG-context] Easy way to start working with cyrillic?

2007-11-07 Thread Klaus Gena
Hi, I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using the manuals. I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make

Re: [NTG-context] doc at minimals

2007-11-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Just discovered http://minimals.contextgarden.net/doc That's not possible, it doesn't exist ... Someone is trying to make us explore the minimals directory structure in detail. I think that this directory has moved to

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/7/07, Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems there.) i bet that duncan