[NTG-context] Minor date formatting issue

2013-08-08 Thread Matt Gushee
Hello, all-- I am experimenting with the \currentdate command. I am finding that \currentdate [weekday,{,~},month,day+,{,~},year] which should work according to the Wiki, produces: Thursday, Augustday+, 2013 This command: \currentdate [weekday,{,~},month,day,{,~},year] works as expecte

Re: [NTG-context] include two pages from typesetbuffer

2013-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2013 10:15 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 8/8/2013 9:01 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: Dear list, I would like to be able to include the first two pages of a typeset buffer (included with \typesetbuffer[sample][frame=on]). Is there any way to do this? I’d like to avoid to save the buffer to a fil

Re: [NTG-context] include two pages from typesetbuffer

2013-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2013 9:01 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: Dear list, I would like to be able to include the first two pages of a typeset buffer (included with \typesetbuffer[sample][frame=on]). Is there any way to do this? I’d like to avoid to save the buffer to a file. \typesetbuffer[sample][frame=on,page

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, special effects in Indic font for Kannada

2013-08-08 Thread Rajeesh K Nambiar
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > > forget about xetex, first check what context mkiv van do > Sorry to hijack this thread, but... Hans, it would be great to see Indic languages support in context/mkiv. At the moment I am typesetting, for example, in Malayalam using mkii+xetex.

Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts doesn’t select the font

2013-08-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 08.08.2013 um 20:01 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez : > Dear list, > > I have the following sample: > >\starttext >\startbuffer[testbuffer] >\setuppapersize[A7] >\usemodule[simplefonts][size=10.5pt] >\setmainfont[TeX Gyre Pagella] >\starttext >This isn’t \TeX\ Gyre Pagell

[NTG-context] include two pages from typesetbuffer

2013-08-08 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Dear list, I would like to be able to include the first two pages of a typeset buffer (included with \typesetbuffer[sample][frame=on]). Is there any way to do this? I’d like to avoid to save the buffer to a file. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

[NTG-context] simplefonts doesn’t select the font

2013-08-08 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
Dear list, I have the following sample: \starttext \startbuffer[testbuffer] \setuppapersize[A7] \usemodule[simplefonts][size=10.5pt] \setmainfont[TeX Gyre Pagella] \starttext This isn’t \TeX\ Gyre Pagella. \stoptext \stopbuffer \typesetbuffer[testbuffer]

Re: [NTG-context] unwanted extra interline space in typing environment

2013-08-08 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 08/08/2013 07:24 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8/8/2013 4:50 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: >>[...] >> Isn’t it a bug? > > yes, but in fact a side effect of trying to fix another page-crossing > issue ... i'll try a different trick Many thanks for the fix, Hans. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk _

Re: [NTG-context] unwanted extra interline space in typing environment

2013-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2013 4:50 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: On 08/07/2013 11:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 8/7/2013 10:52 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: On 08/07/2013 08:00 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 07.08.2013 um 19:47 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez : [...] How can avoid the unwanted extra interline space in the ty

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, special effects in Indic font for Kannada

2013-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2013 2:26 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: Is there any way to find out the font's possibilities, if one doesn't have any technical documentation about it? looking at tables in the font ... in fact, this font is somewhat messed up as it uses latin glyph names for kannaga ligatures concern

Re: [NTG-context] unwanted extra interline space in typing environment

2013-08-08 Thread Pablo Rodríguez
On 08/07/2013 11:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8/7/2013 10:52 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote: >> On 08/07/2013 08:00 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >>> Am 07.08.2013 um 19:47 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez : >>> [...] How can avoid the unwanted extra interline space in the typing environment? > [...] > you

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, special effects in Indic font for Kannada

2013-08-08 Thread Robert Zydenbos
Hans, Just now I tried your suggestions: On Aug 8, 2013, at 13:51 , Hans Hagen wrote: >> Here I see two possibilities: >> >> (1) use the XeTeX parameters FakeSlant and FakeBold, which I have done in >> LaTeX. But I do not know how this is done in ConTeXt. > > \starttext > > \definefontfeatu

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, special effects in Indic font for Kannada

2013-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2013 1:00 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: On my Mac (Mountain Lion) I would like to use ConTeXt with a complex OpenType font named Kedage for the Indian language Kannada, and I thought that I could do this using XeTeX (because LuaTeX seems unable to handle Indic fonts at present). forget

[NTG-context] ConTeXt, XeTeX, special effects in Indic font for Kannada

2013-08-08 Thread Robert Zydenbos
On my Mac (Mountain Lion) I would like to use ConTeXt with a complex OpenType font named Kedage for the Indian language Kannada, and I thought that I could do this using XeTeX (because LuaTeX seems unable to handle Indic fonts at present). This freely available font (found on Linux systems, for

Re: [NTG-context] Feature-Request: Sort bibliography entries in alphabetical order by the entries' “short” value

2013-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 8/8/2013 9:29 AM, Michael Scholtz wrote: Here an example for testing: uploading a beta .. we now have: sorttype=cite|short|reference Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridde

Re: [NTG-context] Feature-Request: Sort bibliography entries in alphabetical order by the entries' “short” value

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Scholtz
On 07.08.2013, at 22:13, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 8/7/2013 7:40 PM, Michael Scholtz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the publication list can be configured with `\setuppublications` to be >> sorted by cite order (`sorttype=cite`) or the order of the publication >> entries (`sorttype=bbl`). >> >> With the fo