[NTG-context] patterns

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Hi, The last few years we have encountered problems with changes in pattern files and names (dutch was dropped, czech was invalid, and us filenames also changed in undocumented ways). To get a bit more control over this can of worms, we need a test file that can be added to the tex live test su

Re: [NTG-context] Downsampling images in pdfTeX

2004-07-27 Thread Vit Zyka
Having checked the pdfTeX documentation, doesn't the internal parameter \pdfcompresslevel deal with this? The documentation says: "compress level This integer parameter specifies the level of text and in-line graphics compression. pdfTEX uses zip compression as provided by zlib. A value of 0 means

[Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] unicode editor? [please forward]]

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
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Re: [NTG-context] Downsampling images in pdfTeX

2004-07-27 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Mats Broberg wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George N. White III As a general principle, it makes no sense for pdftex to provide image manipulation capabilities. Such capabilities are useful to a much wider audience than the users of pdft

RE: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread Mats Broberg
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Gushee > Well, yes. Many printers here do prefer PDF. However, there's > a small problem in some cases--I know this is true for > Kinko's, and was wondering if it's true for regular printers, > too: they think that PDF mea

[NTG-context] Downsampling images in pdfTeX

2004-07-27 Thread Mats Broberg
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George N. White III > As a general principle, it makes no sense for pdftex to > provide image manipulation capabilities. Such capabilities > are useful to a much wider > audience than the users of pdftex, so there are lots of

Re: [NTG-context] Shading transparency / missing linear_shade variant

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:37:06PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: But anyway, transparency is ignored when using shading. Is there any possibility to achieve a gradient from, i.e., completely transparent to completely intransparent white? no(t yet), i dunno if pdf sup

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brooks Moses wrote: At 11:15 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote: - Also, I don't know whether it is possible to downsample images in PDF's that you generate from ConTeXt. If it is, avoid it. That raises an important question: i

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread Bill McClain
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:15:09 -0600 Matt Gushee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Different shops might have different requirements, but Bookmobile > > simply requires an exact image of the book, page size defined to be > > the paper size. Easy. > > You're referring to just the interior, right? I wo

Re: [NTG-context] Shading transparency / missing linear_shade variant

2004-07-27 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:37:06PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > >But anyway, transparency is ignored when using shading. Is there any > >possibility to achieve a gradient from, i.e., completely transparent to > >completely intransparent white? > > > > > no(t yet), i dunno if pdf supports that -) T

Re: [NTG-context] Converting math from LaTeX to ConTeXt

2004-07-27 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:31:24PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote: > First, by way of introduction: I've been using LaTeX for about five years > now, but am quite new to ConTeXt. I'm a grad student in mechanical > engineering, so my primary uses of ConTeXt in the near future are likely to > be for m

Re: [NTG-context] Shading transparency / missing linear_shade variant

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:36:03AM +0200, Vit Zyka wrote: Furthermore, the shading variants for linear_shade do not correspond with those listed in the metafun manual, page 180. Variant 2 is missing and behaves like variant 3 should. Not so exactly. The today re

Re: [NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: The problem seems to be that all objects in metaobj are filled using a non-transparent white by default. Subsequent filling with a completely transparent color then of course gives just white. ah, maybe denis uses the metapost 'backgroundcolor' which is white; i'd say:

Re: [NTG-context] Shading transparency / missing linear_shade variant

2004-07-27 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:36:03AM +0200, Vit Zyka wrote: > >Furthermore, the shading variants for linear_shade do not correspond > >with those listed in the metafun manual, page 180. Variant 2 is missing > >and behaves like variant 3 should. > > Not so exactly. The today reality is a bit richer t

Re: [NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-27 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:38:28AM -0700, Hans Hagen Outside wrote: > >>If I use the fillcolor as an argument to the object > >> > >>newBox.test(btex Transparent? etex) "filled(true)" > >>"fillcolor(\MPcolor{Durchsichtig})"; > > > can you try > fillcolor \MPcolor{...} >

Re: [NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-27 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:28:36AM +0200, Vit Zyka wrote: > I, of course, checked if the package metaobj is installed and loaded. > Perhaps my is too old (v0.83)? That's the current version. -- Eckhart ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Fwd: (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma [please forward]

2004-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, July 26, 2004 Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: > Well, this is pretty old news, so I'm not sure if a reply is still > called for; whatever, here comes: I'm not quite sure why Giuseppe is > trying to use eomega instead of plain ole pdftex. I mean, you're not > writing Greek in Unicode, right? If you

[NTG-context] suppressing hyphenation and setlayerframed

2004-07-27 Thread Eros Albertazzi
1- I would like to suppress hypenation in a text of a \startfiguretext within a \setlayerframed I am aware of the thread in jan 03 on the list and the fact that\setupalign[nothyphenated] (or \nohyphens) overshoot the right margin On the other hand I do not know where to put the align={left,nothy

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma [please forward]

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: Well, this is pretty old news, so I'm not sure if a reply is still called for; whatever, here comes: I'm not quite sure why Giuseppe is trying to use eomega instead of plain ole pdftex. I mean, you're not writing Greek in Unicode, right? If you're still interested, drop m

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread Siep Kroonenberg
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:33:03PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote: > At 11:15 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote: > > >> The printer > >> expects CMYK images (not RGB!) where the resolution is approx. 2 times > >> the screen count in the final print

RE: [NTG-context] unicode editor?

2004-07-27 Thread ishamid
Thnx 4 this reference; I'll try it! Best Idris >= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = >Hello, >What about Mined http://towo.net/mined/ ? >It's utf-8 and right to left. >Untested ;). ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: [NTG-context] unicode editor?

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen
ishamid wrote: In any case, I would still like to try SciTE if Hans' support files are available somewhere. Quick question: how does one activate utf-8? they're in the archive (under context/data) Hans -

RE: [NTG-context] unicode editor?

2004-07-27 Thread Mikael Persson
> Hi Henning, > >>= Original Message From Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >>> Hans and others use SciTE. Does it provide Unicode/bidirectional >>> support >>> support? >> >>You can set it up to use UTF-8, but I don't think it supports r-t-l or >>bidi. > > That's really too bad:-((

RE: [NTG-context] unicode editor?

2004-07-27 Thread Mikael Persson
> Thnx 4 this reference; I'll try it! > > Best > Idris > Hello Idris, I don't know on what platform you are, but gedit may be a possible choice too. I made a screenshot available at http://www.math.chalmers.se/~mickep/gedit.png gedit is available from http://gedit.sourceforge.net/ Good luck! Re

RE: [NTG-context] unicode editor?

2004-07-27 Thread ishamid
>What about Mined http://towo.net/mined/ ? >It's utf-8 and right to left. >Untested ;). Drat! it runs from a terminal:-(( Oh well, I'll try it anyway... Best Idris ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-

RE: [NTG-context] unicode editor?

2004-07-27 Thread ishamid
Hi Henning, >= Original Message From Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >> Hans and others use SciTE. Does it provide Unicode/bidirectional >> support >> support? > >You can set it up to use UTF-8, but I don't think it supports r-t-l or >bidi. That's really too bad:-(( I actually h

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread Tobias Hilbricht
Am Di, den 27.07.2004 schrieb Matt Gushee um 08:15: > they think that PDF > means "Adobe PDF"--i.e. they believe that Adobe software is *the* way to > produce PDF, and are mostly unaware that there is such a thing as a PDF > standard. Now, I don't fully understand the issue, but apparently Adobe >