Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts or Typecripts

2010-08-14 Thread Gour D.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:58:55 +0200 Hans == Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Hans it depends ... simplefonts uses some heuristics and therefore can Hans make it easier but not all fonts fit into a systematic approach I see. Hans for a long time project making a few typescripts (just use those

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Philipp Gesang
On 2010-08-14 07:19:17, Gour D. wrote: Finally, for the high-quality output, we plan to convert to ConTeXt (via pandoc since there is no ConTeXt writer for sphinx/docutils) for high-quality PDF output (if rst2pdf won't be satisfying or if we would like to provide paper putput. Hi Gour,

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread John Haltiwanger
This was exactly what I was wondering last night: How hard would it be to just write the converter into LuaTeX? Does LuaTeX's position as a moving target affect this at all? As you suggest Phillip, it might not be so difficult. It certainly sounds like a worthwhile project. Seeming as how there

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
There is a lua markdown converter: http://github.com/jgm/lunamark It can output html and latex, I don't think it would be hard to make it output context and integrate it in some way. On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:31:06AM +, John Haltiwanger wrote: This was exactly what I was wondering last

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-8-2010 11:23, Philipp Gesang wrote: Has somebody already made some steps in that way? (I'm thinking about doing so for quite some time now but then, it's not that pressing either.) is there a precise spec? (I'm still looking for a few examples that I can use at the ctx conference.)

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Philipp Gesang
On 2010-08-14 11:52:12, Hans Hagen wrote: On 14-8-2010 11:23, Philipp Gesang wrote: Has somebody already made some steps in that way? (I'm thinking about doing so for quite some time now but then, it's not that pressing either.) is there a precise spec? You mean something like this?:

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2010-08-14 um 11:23 schrieb Philipp Gesang: did you consider directly processing reST or similar markdown with context using lua? Certainly it has advantages to have a converter output context (backslash style) code and being able to finalize it. But implementing some .rst processing

[NTG-context] Issues with MetaPost boxes

2010-08-14 Thread Andreas Schneider
Since some weeks I have strange problems with MetaPost in MKIV (beta). The attached example should (and did in the past) output a central box (Fakt) surrounded by five boxes named Dimension. However some of them (in that particular example one) is drawn wrong: the box is on the right spot, but the

Re: [NTG-context] Issues with MetaPost boxes

2010-08-14 Thread taco
Andreas Schneider wrote: Since some weeks I have strange problems with MetaPost in MKIV (beta). The attached example should (and did in the past) output a central box (Fakt) surrounded by five boxes named Dimension. However some of them (in that particular example one) is drawn wrong: the box is