[NTG-context] Latest XML advice.

2009-06-20 Thread John Culleton
I have in hand a huge document (587 modules) in xml DocBook format. It constitutes the documentation for Gimp. I also have the Context xml manual but can't seem to figure out how to make it work. The root document (or what I assume is the root document) contains statements like this: Getti

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-20 Thread Maurício
> > Using those options, can I do everything I want with > > fonts? > You can do virtually every thing, I use FontForge mainly for Arabic > fonts. Can I ask you what you use to create arabic fonts? They always have a beatifull caligraphic style, are they usually done with tools like metafont or y

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 07:07:19PM +, Maurício wrote: > > > > I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. > > >  http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > also really cool are > http://unifiedfontobject.org/http://www.robofab.com/http://letterror.com/ > > > > I now u

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-20 Thread Maurício
> > I've been doing some searching on how to create my own fonts. >  http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ > > also really cool are http://unifiedfontobject.org/http://www.robofab.com/http://letterror.com/ > I now understand I can: * Use fontforge ascii file or unified font object to describ

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt minimals installation problem

2009-06-20 Thread Peter Münster
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > I wanted to have one special kind of functionality, namely, being able > to choose which modules to install, which engines to install, which > fonts to install etc. SVN doesn't offer that. Hello Mojca, SVN supports sparse directories¹. Perhaps this ca

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt minimals installation problem

2009-06-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 23:53, Maurí­cio wrote: >> It's counter-intuitive, but I'm afraid that "stable" might be a bi >> broken at the moment. > > I didn't find discussion on that on the list, so I think it > is not bad to ask: has context considered these "new fashion" > version control systems? >

Re: [NTG-context] stand-alone ConTeXt

2009-06-20 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 17:05, Hans Hagen wrote: > Yue Wang wrote: >>> >>> It depends if the Minimals are intended to be a complete TeX system or >>> if they are meant to be a minimal system for ConTeXt, possibly >>> complementing the utility programs from TeX Live. >> >> it is just context minimal