Re: [NTG-context] What is the luatex version of \pdfescapehex

2010-01-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-1-2010 2:33, Zhichu Chen wrote: Hi, I've written a very old module which used a lot of pdf primitives like \pdfescapehex and \pdfescapename etc. and it turns out not they don't work in mkiv. So I just want to know are there any alternatives? just lua code as placeholders for primitives

Re: [NTG-context] startbuffer fails with %

2010-01-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5-1-2010 15:27, H. van der Meer wrote: \startbuffer[ABC]% {} Braces at beginning fails with buffer \stopbuffer \starttext \getbuffer[ABC] \stoptext the buffer content is all lines between startbuffer and stopbuffer and both commands hav eto be on a line of their own with startbuffer having

Re: [NTG-context] What is the luatex version of \pdfescapehex

2010-01-06 Thread Zhichu Chen
Thank you Hans, On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 6-1-2010 2:33, Zhichu Chen wrote: Hi, I've written a very old module which used a lot of pdf primitives like \pdfescapehex and \pdfescapename etc. and it turns out not they don't work in mkiv. So I just

Re: [NTG-context] Natural Tables Cell Borders

2010-01-06 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 05.01.2010 um 04:02 schrieb Curiouslearn: Thanks Wolfgang. I am not yet proficient enough in Metapost or Context to understand your code. But will look at it more carefully later. Meanwhile, is there any further work going on on Natural Tables? Are there plans to introduce the ability

[NTG-context] cutmarks length setting?

2010-01-06 Thread Hans van der Meer
I would like to make the cutmarks (those placed around the four corners of a page) a little longer. I have looked into the sources (contextbeta) but could not spot where to set the length of these lines. What do I have to do to vary their length? Hans van der Meer

Re: [NTG-context] cutmarks length setting?

2010-01-06 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 06.01.2010 um 13:27 schrieb Hans van der Meer: I would like to make the cutmarks (those placed around the four corners of a page) a little longer. I have looked into the sources (contextbeta) but could not spot where to set the length of these lines. What do I have to do to vary their

[NTG-context] TeX Gyre and (no) Cyrillic

2010-01-06 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Dear Cyrillic users, this is just to let you know (in particular Vyatcheslav) that minimals still contain an outdated version of TeX Gyre fonts. Below you can read part of font development history. Simply put: Cyrillic support has been removed a few months ago (I didn't follow closely and didn't

[NTG-context] resetting local footnote number (conversion = character)

2010-01-06 Thread Bowen Alan C .
Yet another try. I have some local footnotes (conversion = character) and would like to reset set the counter (a) to “a” and (b) to a specific value other than “a”. How can I do this? re (a) \resetnumber[localfootnote] does not work. ! Missing \endcsname inserted. to be read

Re: [NTG-context] What is the luatex version of \pdfescapehex

2010-01-06 Thread Zhichu Chen
Sorry to my previous posts. I found a LaTeX package named pdftexcmds and the lua script works just fine. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] TeX Gyre and (no) Cyrillic

2010-01-06 Thread Vladimir Lomov
Hi. Before begin bothering people I would like to know what these words mean: we were unable to receive a similar permission from Valek Filippov. That is, TeX Gyre project was unable to contact with Valek or he rejected they idea? (I know that this mailing list is wrong place for this question

Re: [NTG-context] Natural Tables Cell Borders

2010-01-06 Thread Curiouslearn
Thanks very much Wolfgang. Will try to play with this during this week. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 05.01.2010 um 04:02 schrieb Curiouslearn: Thanks Wolfgang. I am not yet proficient enough in Metapost or Context to

Re: [NTG-context] TeX Gyre and (no) Cyrillic

2010-01-06 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
That is, TeX Gyre project was unable to contact with Valek or he rejected they idea? Valek rejected the idea. Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the