Re: [NTG-context] Typing unicode

2009-02-20 Thread Longmin Wang
You may try \uchar{20}{19}. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:48:50PM -0300, Maur憝cio wrote: Hi, This is probably a really basic question already asked many times, but I wasn't able to find an answer. How to type an unicode character using its number? Searching for messages, I found things

Re: [NTG-context] one entry, multiple registers

2009-02-20 Thread Femke Snelting
there is no such sharing built in (for context mkiv i will probably provide a merge registers features) \def\VegetableAndOrange#1% {\Vegetable{#1}\Orange{#1}#1} Thanks for your quick answer and we're looking forward to the merge register features groet, Femke

Re: [NTG-context] strange fontswitching error

2009-02-20 Thread Alan Stone
Thanks Hans. This works, except... \usetypescriptfile[tps_timesnewroman] \usetypescript[timesnewroman] \usetypescriptfile[tps_verdana] \usetypescript[verdana] \def\myBodyFontSize{14pt} \def\myHeadFontSize{14pt} \setupbodyfont[verdana,\myBodyFontSize]

Re: [NTG-context] Typing unicode

2009-02-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Maurí­cio wrote: Hi, This is probably a really basic question already asked many times, but I wasn't able to find an answer. How to type an unicode character using its number? Searching for messages, I found things like: \char2019 that one is pretty safe in mkiv make sure to end witha

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt for beginners translation

2009-02-20 Thread Sebastien Mengin
Le 19 fév 2009 à 07:21, Aditya Mahajan a écrit: Hi, I have fixed the makefile, t-setup.tex, ma-cb-styles and ma-cb-setups.tex so that the english documentation compiles. You can try the current svn version. Works perfectly. Thanks! -- Sébastien http://edilibre.net

Re: [NTG-context] local footnotes

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas Floeren
Hi Albrecht, have you tried my proposal from 13.2.08? (http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20090213.144419.432c095e.en.html) Maybe there is a better solution (?) but with my context installation and mkII it just works fine this way. Greetings Thomas \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext

[NTG-context] local footnotes

2009-02-20 Thread Albrecht Kauffmann
Hi all, please have a look to the following small table with its own footnotes: \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \startlocalfootnotes[n=0,conversion=characters] \placetable[here][]{} \placelegend { \tfx \setupTABLE [frame=off] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD 1990 \eTD\bTD 1991 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD

Re: [NTG-context] Cyrrilic fonts

2009-02-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Hi all, I just downloaded and setup latest context beta on my new machine.I made a simple script file for my teaching schedule in UTF-8 encoding and with %engine=luatex prefix. But.. the default font is LMRoman12, and it has no Cyrrilic letters. I need simple

Re: [NTG-context] Putting output in different dierectories

2009-02-20 Thread Michael Bynum
Assuming the lack of responses means that there isn't a way to do that using texexec, you could always use a script to do that. #!/bin/sh PAPER=test texexec $PAPER.tex mv $PAPER.pdf ./newdir mv $PAPER.*./newdir2 mv ./newdir2/$PAPER.tex . Then just execute the script instead of

Re: [NTG-context] strange fontswitching error

2009-02-20 Thread Alan Stone
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Alan Stone wrote: Hi, BF = body font HF = head font A = arial T = times new roman V = verdana OT = 12 = 12pt OF = 14 = 14pt See comments in fontswitch.tex In attachment... - fontswitch.tex: minimal example -

Re: [NTG-context] question for the xml-experts

2009-02-20 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:10 PM, luigi scarso wrote: see http://codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html#namespaces Luigi, thanks so much for your patient replies. I have now begun to play with python's lxml. It offers a lot, maybe too much for a beginner. One advantage for my immediate needs that

Re: [NTG-context] question for the xml-experts

2009-02-20 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:10 PM, luigi scarso wrote: see http://codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html#namespaces Luigi, thanks so much for your patient replies. I have now begun to play with python's lxml. It

[NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
Currently, when defining a font feature one has to enable all features by hand which is IMHO not very user friendly as it implies prior knowledge about OpenType font features and the meaning of each one, not every Arabic user, for example, knows what does 'init', 'medi, etc. ligatures mean yet to

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: Currently, when defining a font feature one has to enable all features by hand which is IMHO not very user friendly as it implies prior knowledge about OpenType font features and the meaning of each one, not every Arabic user, for example, knows what does 'init', 'medi, etc.

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: I think some font features should be on by default, so that \definefontfeature[script=arabic] should be enough to get an Arabic font btw, this is why we already have arabic as featureset defined -

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:57:22 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: Currently, when defining a font feature one has to enable all features by hand which is IMHO not very user friendly as it implies prior knowledge about OpenType font features and the meaning of each one,

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 07:57:22PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: Currently, when defining a font feature one has to enable all features by hand which is IMHO not very user friendly as it implies prior knowledge about OpenType font features and the meaning of each one, not

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 07:58:11PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: I think some font features should be on by default, so that \definefontfeature[script=arabic] should be enough to get an Arabic font btw, this is why we already have arabic as featureset defined I wasn't aware

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:31:49PM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:57:22 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: Currently, when defining a font feature one has to enable all features by hand which is IMHO not very user friendly as

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:02:58 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: Microsoft's OpenType features list page (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ae.htm) gives a UI suggestion for each feature noting if it should be on by default, I think those are what most

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: I think we can make default features per script (HarfBuzz seems to do that). if it was trivial i'd already done it -) I know :) just my two cents. how about making a wiki page where we collect fontnames + assumed default features (+ test if possible); the problem is

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 07:58:11PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: I think some font features should be on by default, so that \definefontfeature[script=arabic] should be enough to get an Arabic font btw, this is why we already have arabic as featureset

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Khaled: Have you considered making an inventory of available Arabic fonts? Or does one already exist? We could put together a table of what's available, checking for available OT features, etc. also, it would be nice to have some quality otf arabic

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:10:52 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Khaled: Have you considered making an inventory of available Arabic fonts? Or does one already exist? We could put together a table of what's available, checking for available OT

[NTG-context] basic luatex/minimals problem

2009-02-20 Thread Alan Bowen
I have been revising my notes for newbie Mac installation of the ConTeXt Minimals and was about to put them online when I discovered that, when I try to process a file using MKIV, it does not find my personal texmf folder (~Library/texmf). There is no problem when I process the same file

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:39:23 -0700, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: Microsoft's OpenType features list page (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ae.htm) gives a UI suggestion for each feature noting if it should be on by default, Hmm, I think this page is more

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:07:08PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: I think we can make default features per script (HarfBuzz seems to do that). if it was trivial i'd already done it -) I know :) just my two cents. how about making a wiki page where we collect fontnames +

Re: [NTG-context] basic luatex/minimals problem

2009-02-20 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Alan Bowen wrote: I have been revising my notes for newbie Mac installation of the ConTeXt Minimals and was about to put them online when I discovered that, when I try to process a file using MKIV, it does not find my personal texmf folder (~Library/texmf). There is no

Re: [NTG-context] basic luatex/minimals problem

2009-02-20 Thread Alan Bowen
Aditya— luatools --expand-var TEXMF gets {/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-project,/Applications/ ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-fonts,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/ texmf-local,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel,/

[NTG-context] Nested sections in interface=xp?

2009-02-20 Thread Kevin D. Robbins
I'm interested to know whether nested sections are supported in the new structure code (strc-*)? Using the following to test, I don't get a section and subsection, but rather two sections. The log file notes a missing \stopsection. \starttext \startsection{Section} \input tufte

Re: [NTG-context] basic luatex/minimals problem

2009-02-20 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Alan Bowen wrote: Aditya— luatools --expand-var TEXMF gets