[NTG-context] handling fonts with missing math (was: math signs in itemize)

2011-09-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:29, R. Ermers wrote: Snippets from log file: ! Math error: parameter \Umathquad\displaystyle is not set. Independent of everything else that has been said in that thread: wouldn't it be nice to simply fall back on Latin Modern for math when some font doesn't provide

Re: [NTG-context] math signs in itemize

2011-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.09.2011 um 00:23 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, R. Ermers wrote: My one and only math item -- $\frac1{40}$ -- does cause a problem though. Apparently there is no math fallback. Hard to say without an example. Any suggestions? Use text mode fractions!

Re: [NTG-context] [Layout] Problem with ConTeXt mkII

2011-09-26 Thread luigi scarso
2011/9/25 Pierre-François Bonnefoi bonne...@unilim.fr: Hello, I use extensively ConTeXt for my work as a teacher. I run into this problem : I've defined the following layout for giving work for my students : \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[

Re: [NTG-context] math signs in itemize

2011-09-26 Thread Alan Braslau
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 09:34:45AM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Any suggestions? Use text mode fractions! \frac{1}{40}. This is still typeset in math mode. A alternative is to write the fraction as “1/40”. ¼÷10, 0.025. How about: \definetypeface [xits] [mm] [math] [xits] [default]

[NTG-context] postion graphics

2011-09-26 Thread Hans van der Meer
I was using something like \setMPpositiongraphic{A1}{syllabus:arrow}{to=B1,bxoff=\celloff} and \hpos{A1}{}\VB \VB \VB \VB \hpos{B1}{}\CR for the placement of arrows (defined with \startMPpositiongraphic on the page. That was mkII. Now the arrows are not placed at the proper

Re: [NTG-context] math signs in itemize

2011-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.09.2011 um 10:49 schrieb Alan Braslau: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 09:34:45AM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Any suggestions? Use text mode fractions! \frac{1}{40}. This is still typeset in math mode. A alternative is to write the fraction as “1/40”. ¼÷10, 0.025.

Re: [NTG-context] math signs in itemize

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 26.09.2011, 11:01 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: \definefontfeature[frac][frac=yes,script=latn] \setupbodyfont[cambria] Is there a font in Standalone which can be used to demonstrate the behavior? \starttext 1/40 {\setff{frac}1/40} \m{\frac{1}{40}} With

Re: [NTG-context] Missing booktitle in incollection bib-entries

2011-09-26 Thread Stefan Müller
Thank you very much Pont. My fault, I found the problem. I had set the crossref-key in my bib-entry, which obviously causes that the booktitle is not in the bbl file. Now I also understand the .bst files there. Indeed, with the crossref set I don't really need the booktitle in the

Re: [NTG-context] math signs in itemize

2011-09-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:31:09AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: Am Montag, den 26.09.2011, 11:01 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: \definefontfeature[frac][frac=yes,script=latn] \setupbodyfont[cambria] Is there a font in Standalone which can be used to demonstrate the behavior? XITS, but

[NTG-context] StretchedBox broken in mkiv

2011-09-26 Thread Michael Guravage
Several years ago Hans cooked up a fix using \CapStretch that allowed me to stretch words. That early version of \stretchedbox appeared in later ConTeXt versions as \StretchedBox as described in strc-sec.mkii and strc-ren.mkiv. This feature worked in the ConTeXt version dated 2011.07.26, but does

Re: [NTG-context] [Layout] Problem with ConTeXt mkII

2011-09-26 Thread Pierre-François Bonnefoi
Hello Luigi, Thanks for the footer ;-) But, currently, I've some difficulties to commit to the Don't panic ! I've tried the following : %% \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[ backspace=3cm, topspace=1.5cm,

[NTG-context] xml processing in lua

2011-09-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, after boring people with xml processing in TeX at the meeting in Bassenge, I'm looking for new challenges and am trying my hand at processing xml in lua. But so far, even the simplest things escape me. Here's an example: \startbuffer[test] a bOne/b cTwo/c /a \stopbuffer

Re: [NTG-context] [Layout] Problem with ConTeXt mkII

2011-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.09.2011 um 20:18 schrieb Pierre-François Bonnefoi: Hello Luigi, Thanks for the footer ;-) But, currently, I've some difficulties to commit to the Don't panic ! This is caused by a bug in the core (page-lay.mkiv), part of the code wasn’t adapted to recent changes in the

Re: [NTG-context] xml processing in lua

2011-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.09.2011 um 20:57 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz: Hi all, after boring people with xml processing in TeX at the meeting in Bassenge, I'm looking for new challenges and am trying my hand at processing xml in lua. But so far, even the simplest things escape me. Here's an example:

Re: [NTG-context] xml processing in lua

2011-09-26 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, after boring people with xml processing in TeX at the meeting in Bassenge, I'm looking for new challenges and am trying my hand at processing xml in lua. But so far, even the simplest things escape me. Here's an example:

Re: [NTG-context] xml processing in lua

2011-09-26 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 09/26/2011 09:15 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, after boring people with xml processing in TeX at the meeting in Bassenge, I'm looking for new challenges and am trying my hand at processing xml in lua. But so far, even the simplest things

[NTG-context] [OT] intelligent commas in math (in LaTeX)

2011-09-26 Thread Mojca Miklavec
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Re: [NTG-context] math signs in itemize

2011-09-26 Thread R. Ermers
Thanks all, for your reactions. I tried them all, but the process still stops at the \frac, which I changed now into \frac{1}{40}, whatever I do. The gentium font does not load properly; the file is typeset in Times instead. I get these strange references to gentium instead. Regards, Robert

Re: [NTG-context] StretchedBox broken in mkiv

2011-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.09.2011 um 19:56 schrieb Michael Guravage: Several years ago Hans cooked up a fix using \CapStretch that allowed me to stretch words. That early version of \stretchedbox appeared in later ConTeXt versions as \StretchedBox as described in strc-sec.mkii and strc-ren.mkiv. This

Re: [NTG-context] postion graphics

2011-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.09.2011 um 10:51 schrieb Hans van der Meer: I was using something like \setMPpositiongraphic{A1}{syllabus:arrow}{to=B1,bxoff=\celloff} and \hpos{A1}{}\VB \VB \VB \VB \hpos{B1}{}\CR for the placement of arrows (defined with \startMPpositiongraphic on the page. That was

Re: [NTG-context] postion graphics

2011-09-26 Thread Meer, H. van der
Thanks. But after having a closer look I decided to abandon the mechanism. It looks fairly sophisticated: finding positions in the TeX-result and producing overlays for them. Because I used it solely inside table-like structures for pointing from one cell to another, I can replace them by