Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Jeff Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On 8/18/06, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> grep the base path for \definehspace and search for line with "fr" in >> the tag and you'll see how things can be influences > > Hans, the answer was in lang-spa.tex! I then regenerated the form

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-21 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi, On 8/18/06, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grep the base path for \definehspace and search for line with "fr" in > the tag and you'll see how things can be influences Hans, the answer was in lang-spa.tex! I then regenerated the format and it works absolutely perfectly, my single quo

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Jeff Smith wrote: > > The spacing is retained for the single quotes. But it shouldn't be -- > this sort of spacing in French is used with guillemets, but never with > single quotes (') or double quotes ("). At the very least, I can > confirm this is the French Canadian norm, which I want to use. So

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-18 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi again, On 8/18/06, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have to ask other French guys why they decided to put >\c!leftquote=\leftguillemot, >\c!rightquote=\rightguillemot, > instead of single guillemots there (well, I don't know which ones are > the once that should be used

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/17/06, Jeff Smith wrote: > Hi! > > Thank you yet another time for the helpful replies. You guys rock! A > couple of things: > > Aditya, the \startMYLAYOUT \stopMYLAYOUT strategy seems to be > perfect. Thanks! > > Now, from Mojca's reply: > > > MB, but it's been updated to the new version

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Jeff Smith wrote: >> \let\normalquotation=\quotation >> \def\quotation#1 >>{\bgroup\def\quotation##1{\quote{##1}}\normalquotation{#1}\egroup} >> the next version will support level specific symbols: \quotation{... \quotation{...} ...} \startquotation ... \startquotation... \quotation

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Jeff Smith wrote: > Hi! > > Thank you yet another time for the helpful replies. You guys rock! A > couple of things: > > Aditya, the \startMYLAYOUT \stopMYLAYOUT strategy seems to be > perfect. Thanks! > > Now, from Mojca's reply: > > >> MB, but it's been updated to the new version today an

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-17 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi! Thank you yet another time for the helpful replies. You guys rock! A couple of things: Aditya, the \startMYLAYOUT \stopMYLAYOUT strategy seems to be perfect. Thanks! Now, from Mojca's reply: > MB, but it's been updated to the new version today anyway, so it might > be worth refreshing

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Jeff Smith wrote: Mojka answered your other questions. > New question: > > All the examples that I find of \setupparagraphs in the manuals are > cases of different paragraphs layed out in columns. Is it still this > command I have to use in order to style in advance single-co

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/17/06, Jeff Smith wrote: > Thank you all for your answers! > > A quick follow-up, and a new question at the end: > > Ad question a) My problem with Times and small caps was just a bad > mapping of names on my side. So I'm told that \cap should work, and > well, of course it does! :-) > > Ad qu

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff Smith
Thank you all for your answers! A quick follow-up, and a new question at the end: Ad question a) My problem with Times and small caps was just a bad mapping of names on my side. So I'm told that \cap should work, and well, of course it does! :-) Ad question b) Ricard Roca said: "I think the way

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >>b) LaTeX has a package for the International Phonetic Alphabet called >>tipa. Is it possible to use it in ConTeXt? If not, can anybody point >>me to the relevant manuals that will help me incorporate official IPA >>fonts (say, the TTF version) in my ConTeXt installation?

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 8/16/06, Jeff Smith wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and >> after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering >> questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of >> them. >> >> The fo

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Ricard Roca
Hi! Quick answers: > a) Somehow I can't come up with small caps in a Times font. Is this > normal? This happens either by using \sc or \setupcapitals[sc=yes] > along with \cap. Times font that comes with TeX distros doesn't have real small caps, but \cap should work, as with any font. The only

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/16/06, Jeff Smith wrote: > Hi! > > I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and > after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering > questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of > them. > > The fonts manual mentions how TeX is often

[NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi! I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of them. The fonts manual mentions how TeX is often qualified as 'the font mess'. Well, yeah, my