Re: [NTG-context] PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?

2015-02-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 17:55:35 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > this feature relates to (simple) spell checking and collectign words > for dedicated spell check lists and, 4 chars is nearly always avalid > word which is why we discard them English is rich in "four-letter words"! Alan ;-)

Re: [NTG-context] A note on Arabic names in bibliographies and indices

2015-02-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
Of course, language of the cited publication. Nothing else makes sense at all. This field is also to be used for hyphenation of the title field. BUT, the author of the TeX document must control and decide if the bibliography will use an eventual language= field or rather use the language rule in v

Re: [NTG-context] PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?

2015-02-02 Thread Jörg Weger
So I hope you might get bored once in a while before I have to write my bachelor thesis :) Greetings Jörg On 02.02.2015 00:56, Hans Hagen wrote: On 2/1/2015 10:06 PM, Jörg Weger wrote: Is the character count “wc --char ” returns with or without blank spaces? (Which is important for me.) “man

Re: [NTG-context] font search path and subfolders

2015-02-02 Thread Jörg Weger
Just did a complete reinstall and now the subfolders work. Also makes manual uninstall of fonts much more convenient. Cheers Jörg On 31.01.2015 21:07, Jörg Weger wrote: I tried to put the subfolders into a folder ~/fonts/ instead of ~/.fonts/ – same result :-( ls -la returns drwxr-xr-x for ~

Re: [NTG-context] TOC with Grey background for pages belonging to last section of every chapter

2015-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
> Am 02.02.2015 um 14:00 schrieb Keith J. Schultz : > > Hi Wolgang, > > I noticed that \startnamedsection does not add it to the TOC > how would one go about having these „namedsections“ added to the TOC. > > regards > Keith. > >> Am 02.02.2015 um 12:51 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster >> mail

Re: [NTG-context] PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?

2015-02-02 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2015-02-01, at 22:06, Jörg Weger wrote: > Is the character count “wc --char ” returns with or without > blank spaces? (Which is important for me.) “man wc” doesn’t talk about that. > > I had hoped there was a better way than to edit the result of > “pdftotext” in my text editor or in libreo

Re: [NTG-context] A note on Arabic names in bibliographies and indices

2015-02-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/2/2015 3:23 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: The handling of the "vons" issue is cultural and language-dependent. The problem with mucking around with vonsep and other parameters is that one may very well have a mixture of references in a single document (this is often the case for me). I see no solu

Re: [NTG-context] PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?

2015-02-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/2/2015 4:39 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: ConTeXt has an option to count the words (you find the result in .words) in a document but words words shorter than four letters aren’t taken into account. word length under 4 characters : 10 word length =< 4 chars : 20 here you are

[NTG-context] 2UP Arranging

2015-02-02 Thread John Kitzmiller
Using 2UP the rightmargin on odd (recto) pages becomes the leftmargin on even (verso) pages. Is there an option for 2UP doublesided to be printed and folded where the rightmargin is always on the righthand side of each ‘page’ from the reader’s viewpoint? Or another layout scheme to get the same

Re: [NTG-context] PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?

2015-02-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:20:15 +0100 Keith Schultz wrote: > Hello All, > > As a linguist, I can say that not counting words that are shorter is > an absolute NO-GO for an accurate word count and thereby character > count! > > See below, for a non representative proof ! > > > Am 01.02.2015 um 22:1

Re: [NTG-context] How to place text to the right of a brace

2015-02-02 Thread Fabrice
Hi Pablo, By searching, I found this : "Some commands like \framed cause line breaks to happen if used in vertical mode, e.g. at the beginning of a line." This explains my problem and soultion you propose. Thanks, Fabrice ___

Re: [NTG-context] A note on Arabic names in bibliographies and indices

2015-02-02 Thread Alan BRASLAU
The handling of the "vons" issue is cultural and language-dependent. The problem with mucking around with vonsep and other parameters is that one may very well have a mixture of references in a single document (this is often the case for me). I see no solution other than trying to identify some com

Re: [NTG-context] section with \sethupead[section][alternative=text]; other type of section misbehaves..

2015-02-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/2/2015 10:40 AM, Keith Schultz wrote: Hi Hans, All, Am 02.02.2015 um 02:18 schrieb Hans Hagen mailto:pra...@wxs.nl>>: [snip, snip] It's for good reason. Now you can change the style any time. When you define \definehead[one][section] \definehead[two][one] \definehead[three][two] \def

[NTG-context] TOC with Grey background for pages belonging to last section of every chapter

2015-02-02 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Wolgang, I noticed that \startnamedsection does not add it to the TOC how would one go about having these „namedsections“ added to the TOC. regards Keith. > Am 02.02.2015 um 12:51 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster > : > > You have to add „location=paragraph” to the textbackground setup. >

Re: [NTG-context] Grey background for pages belonging to last section of every chapter

2015-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
> Am 30.01.2015 um 21:43 schrieb Rob Heusdens : > > Correction, I added "offset=none,frameoffset=0pt," to the parameters for > the textbackground frame. > > Code again with correction: > > % test background > \setupwhitespace[none] > \setupindenting[yes, small, next] > \setuppagenumbering[alter

Re: [NTG-context] Font switching on title page

2015-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
> Am 01.02.2015 um 12:04 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez : > > On 02/01/2015 11:37 AM, Jörg Weger wrote: >> I have started to design a title page for a paper. >> >> First comes an information block at bodyfont size \tf (all in sans >> serif), followed by the title of the paper in \bfd, then the author

Re: [NTG-context] section with \sethupead[section][alternative=text]; other type of section misbehaves..

2015-02-02 Thread Keith Schultz
Hi Hans, All, > Am 02.02.2015 um 02:18 schrieb Hans Hagen : [snip, snip] > It's for good reason. Now you can change the style any time. > > When you define > > \definehead[one][section] > \definehead[two][one] > \definehead[three][two] > \definehead[four][one] I think what Rob wants to know i

Re: [NTG-context] A note on Arabic names in bibliographies and indices

2015-02-02 Thread Keith Schultz
Hi Hans, All, > Am 02.02.2015 um 01:05 schrieb Hans Hagen : > [snip, snip] > I'm sure we can cook up something. Personally I'd like to get away from this > 'von' and 'junior' thing and use better names, like > > initials (by default taken from firstnames) > firstnames > prefixes (unless specif

Re: [NTG-context] PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?

2015-02-02 Thread Keith Schultz
Hello All, As a linguist, I can say that not counting words that are shorter is an absolute NO-GO for an accurate word count and thereby character count! See below, for a non representative proof ! > Am 01.02.2015 um 22:12 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster > : > [snip, snip] > ConTeXt has an option