Re: [NTG-context] Creating SVG: using MetaFun, exporting proper units, conversion to DXF

2016-06-29 Thread Jan Tosovsky
On 2016-06-29 Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > I want to play with CNC and don't yet have any experience with CAD > software (nor the licence for the expensive ones) other than perhaps > some Blender, so I decided to try to use the super ugly route with > metapost -> svg -> dxf -> g-code for the first

Re: [NTG-context] Creating SVG: using MetaFun, exporting proper units, conversion to DXF

2016-06-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 29 June 2016 at 14:12, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/29/2016 12:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I want to play with CNC and don't yet have any experience with CAD >> software (nor the licence for the expensive ones) other than perhaps >> some Blender, so I decided to try to use the

Re: [NTG-context] Italic in margins and footntes

2016-06-29 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 06/29/2016 06:06 PM, Jean-Pierre Delange wrote: > > Dear ConTeXt wizards, > > I am currently writing a course. I need some notes in the left > margin. I have written this in the preamble : > > \setuppapersize[A4] > \setuplanguage[fr] > \setuplayout [backspace=40mm] >

[NTG-context] Italic in margins and footntes

2016-06-29 Thread Jean-Pierre Delange
Dear ConTeXt wizards, I am currently writing a course. I need some notes in the left margin. I have written this in the preamble : \setuppapersize[A4] \setuplanguage[fr] \setuplayout [backspace=40mm] \setuppagenumbering[location={header,inright}] \setupmargindata[inmargin][location=left]

Re: [NTG-context] crop marks

2016-06-29 Thread Thomas Fehige
Thanks Wolfgang and Thomas, that was it. Now, what if I want crop marks only outside the printed area? As it is now, they appear also where the cutting lines cross each other between the single "pages". That way they'll end up on either the one or the other of the adjacent pages, maybe half a

Re: [NTG-context] crop marks

2016-06-29 Thread Thomas Fehige
Thanks Wolfgang and Thomas, that was it. Now, what if I want crop marks only outside the printed area? As it is now, they appear also where the cutting lines cross each other between the single "pages". That way they'll end up on either the one or the other of the adjacent pages, maybe half a

Re: [NTG-context] Creating SVG: using MetaFun, exporting proper units, conversion to DXF

2016-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/29/2016 12:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hi, I want to play with CNC and don't yet have any experience with CAD software (nor the licence for the expensive ones) other than perhaps some Blender, so I decided to try to use the super ugly route with metapost -> svg -> dxf -> g-code for

Re: [NTG-context] smallcaps

2016-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Meer, Hans van der 29. Juni 2016 um 11:26 Thanks. For those who are curious as to how I became confused about the uppercase-lowercase for smallcaps: look at session "803 Typography and Fonts" in Apple's WWDC2016 conference, just after 23 minutes and you will

Re: [NTG-context] smallcaps

2016-06-29 Thread Alan Bowen
Hans— Try “ABC {\sc abc}”. Alan On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 4:05 AM, dr. Hans van der Meer wrote: > I do not understand the behaviour of the \sc macro. I thought smallcaps > would turn out to be smaller than capitals. But I see no difference between > them except a subtle

Re: [NTG-context] smallcaps

2016-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
dr. Hans van der Meer 29. Juni 2016 um 12:39 The above issue being solved, I guess there is something else in my setup not being as it should be. Because the code: \starttext \setupbodyfont[lucidaot] {\sc abc} \stoptext Does give me abc in smallcaps, but placing

Re: [NTG-context] smallcaps

2016-06-29 Thread dr. Hans van der Meer
> On 29 Jun 2016, at 10:05, dr. Hans van der Meer wrote: > > I do not understand the behaviour of the \sc macro. I thought smallcaps would > turn out to be smaller than capitals. But I see no difference between them > except a subtle difference in letterspacing. Am I doing

Re: [NTG-context] crop marks

2016-06-29 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
> On 29 Jun 2016, at 12:14, Thomas Fehige wrote: > > \definepapersize[Labelpaper][width=95mm,height=90mm] > \setuppapersize[Labelpaper][A4,portrait] > > \setuplayout[ > backspace=3mm, > margin=0mm, > topspace=3mm, > header=0mm, > footer=0mm, >

Re: [NTG-context] crop marks

2016-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Thomas Fehige 29. Juni 2016 um 12:14 I wonder how I can get crop marks to work. This is what I have, but they don't show: %=== MWE = \definepapersize[Labelpaper][width=95mm,height=90mm] \setuppapersize[Labelpaper][A4,portrait] \setuplayout[ backspace=3mm,

[NTG-context] Creating SVG: using MetaFun, exporting proper units, conversion to DXF

2016-06-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, I want to play with CNC and don't yet have any experience with CAD software (nor the licence for the expensive ones) other than perhaps some Blender, so I decided to try to use the super ugly route with metapost -> svg -> dxf -> g-code for the first time. I have a few questions. (1) I

[NTG-context] crop marks

2016-06-29 Thread Thomas Fehige
I wonder how I can get crop marks to work. This is what I have, but they don't show: %=== MWE = \definepapersize[Labelpaper][width=95mm,height=90mm] \setuppapersize[Labelpaper][A4,portrait] \setuplayout[ backspace=3mm, margin=0mm, topspace=3mm, header=0mm,

Re: [NTG-context] smallcaps

2016-06-29 Thread Meer, Hans van der
Thanks. For those who are curious as to how I became confused about the uppercase-lowercase for smallcaps: look at session "803 Typography and Fonts" in Apple's WWDC2016 conference, just after 23 minutes and you will understand. Hans van der Meer On 29 Jun 2016, at 11:00, Wolfgang Schuster

Re: [NTG-context] smallcaps

2016-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
dr. Hans van der Meer 29. Juni 2016 um 10:05 I do not understand the behaviour of the \sc macro. I thought smallcaps would turn out to be smaller than capitals. But I see no difference between them except a subtle difference in letterspacing. Am I doing something

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and LilyPond problem

2016-06-29 Thread Robert Blackstone
On 28 Jun 2016, at 14:16 , Mojca Miklavec wrote >> >> On 27 June 2016 at 16:11, Robert Blackstone wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I am trying to get the combination of ConTeXt and LilyPond working. >>> I copied the example that I found on

Re: [NTG-context] smallcaps

2016-06-29 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:05 AM, dr. Hans van der Meer wrote: > I do not understand the behaviour of the \sc macro. I thought smallcaps would > turn out to be smaller than capitals. But I see no difference between them > except a subtle difference in letterspacing. Am I

[NTG-context] smallcaps

2016-06-29 Thread dr. Hans van der Meer
I do not understand the behaviour of the \sc macro. I thought smallcaps would turn out to be smaller than capitals. But I see no difference between them except a subtle difference in letterspacing. Am I doing something wrong here? Hans van der Meer Minimal example and output: