Re: [NTG-context] NTG Meeting October 27, 2010

2010-10-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 10/29/2010 11:59 PM, luigi scarso wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Martin Schrödermar...@oneiros.de wrote: 2010/10/28 Hans Hagenpra...@wxs.nl: On 28-10-2010 2:17, luigi scarso wrote: Frans G decided never to print again. And Hans Taco startet a Print-On-Demand shop. :-) And

Re: [NTG-context] transliteration russian

2010-10-30 Thread Hans Hagen
On 30-10-2010 12:05, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:25:20PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: By far the easiest and most portable solution would be if you could convince Taco to implement something like latin a is equivalent to cyrillic a as far as hyphenation is concerned (which

Re: [NTG-context] transliteration russian

2010-10-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 10/30/2010 10:17 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 30-10-2010 12:05, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:25:20PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: By far the easiest and most portable solution would be if you could convince Taco to implement something like latin a is equivalent to cyrillic a

Re: [NTG-context] transliteration russian

2010-10-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:17:11AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 30-10-2010 12:05, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:25:20PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: By far the easiest and most portable solution would be if you could convince Taco to implement something like latin a is

Re: [NTG-context] transliteration russian

2010-10-30 Thread Philipp Gesang
On 2010-10-30 01:06:33, Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk wrote: On 10/30/2010 12:47 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: As others already pointed out, with a small number of strings Steffen might get acceptable results by using the patterns of a similar language. Although real transliterations work best with

[NTG-context] tex @ stackexchange.com

2010-10-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, If you are bored (it is the weekend, after all) please have a look at and consider joining this new QA site: http://tex.stackexchange.com/ A blurb to promote the site itself, not by me: advert StackExchange is specialized StackOverflow, which is a social website for programmers.

[NTG-context] tex.toks cld -- something weird

2010-10-30 Thread Philipp Gesang
Hi all, while playing with the new extended cld stuff I encountered this: 8--- context.starttext() context(\\toks0 = {Something}) context(\\the\\toks0) -- works --context(tex.toks[0]) -- fails

Re: [NTG-context] transliteration russian

2010-10-30 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 30.10.2010 um 00:15 schrieb Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk: Warning: the transliteration used in Steffen's document is (or at least the example is) lossy and as such will likely produce wrong hyphenation output no matter the applied method of making TeX hyphenate it. The transliteration (in

Re: [NTG-context] Grid typesetting

2010-10-30 Thread Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk
On 10/23/2010 06:18 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \setuplayout[grid=yes] %\showgrid \starttext \title{Example texts} \subject{Knuth} \input knuth \subject{Tufte} \input tufte \stoptext Thank you very much. It worked. This puzzled me a lot, as seemingly the same setup refused to work in

[NTG-context] Stop with an error signal

2010-10-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi, I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the settings are wrong stop the current compilation and terminate with an error message. Right now I have \def\ERROR {\writeline \showmessage\??externalfilter??{forbidden}\getexternalfilterdirectory

[NTG-context] Default length units - can I change them from pt to bp or dd?

2010-10-30 Thread Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk
Can I [easily] change the output of commands like \showlayout to show dimensions in bp/dd rather than pt? As a traditionalist I try to stick to dd/cc standard. For compatibility with others I sometimes have to use bp standard. I find TeX native standard of pt useless and very confusing. I would

Re: [NTG-context] Stop with an error signal

2010-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 31.10.2010 um 01:27 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Hi, I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the settings are wrong stop the current compilation and terminate with an error message. Right now I have \def\ERROR {\writeline

Re: [NTG-context] Grid typesetting

2010-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 30.10.2010 um 21:42 schrieb Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk: On 10/23/2010 06:18 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \setuplayout[grid=yes] %\showgrid \starttext \title{Example texts} \subject{Knuth} \input knuth \subject{Tufte} \input tufte \stoptext Thank you very much. It worked. This

Re: [NTG-context] Stop with an error signal

2010-10-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 31.10.2010 um 01:27 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: Hi, I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the settings are wrong stop the current compilation and terminate with an error message. Right now I have \def\ERROR

Re: [NTG-context] Stop with an error signal

2010-10-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Aditya Mahajan wrote: How can I force context (the macro package) to exit with a status of 1 so that context (the program) does not attempt a second compilation? Adding \errmessage{} before \normalend changes the error code to 1. Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] Stop with an error signal

2010-10-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:27:02PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the settings are wrong stop the current compilation and terminate with an error message. Right now I have \def\ERROR {\writeline

Re: [NTG-context] Stop with an error signal

2010-10-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:27:02PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the settings are wrong stop the current compilation and terminate with an error message. Right now I have \def\ERROR

Re: [NTG-context] Stop with an error signal

2010-10-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 01:08:40AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:27:02PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the settings are wrong stop the current compilation and

Re: [NTG-context] Stop with an error signal

2010-10-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 01:08:40AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 07:27:02PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the settings