Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation not working

2005-03-21 Thread Christopher Creutzig
Hans Hagen wrote: I do have a file called hyphen.tex. On Hans' suggestion, I copied this to ushyph1.tex and ushyph2.tex. That didn't help. I also changed my cont-usr.tex file, changing all lines that had ushyp* to hyphen. This also didn't work. did you run mktexlsr ? And in case that's

Re: [NTG-context] Temporarily turning off hyphenation?

2005-03-21 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Gerben Wierda wrote: \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% \startalignment[left]% \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\nohyphens\em #1}% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} \setuphead[chapter]

[NTG-context] Re: how to use Times Roman font

2005-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, [...] TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 your ConTeXt is way too old. It doesn't have type-akb included. Either update your ConTeXt or get type-akb from http://levana.de/context/ . Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

[NTG-context] Re: Available fonts

2005-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Idris, Is there a list of prepackaged fonts/typescripts that comes with (fp/MiK/gw/te)TeX/ConTeXt? Not that I know of. The distributions should supply a list of available fonts. I think it is important for that info to be made very public. I agree completely. I always wanted to

[NTG-context] Re: how to use Times Roman font

2005-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Idris, \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[pos] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \bigskip \stoptext On my system, using the above, the following happens (why??): You don't have psnfss installed. (Wild

AW: [NTG-context] Export from Excel/Openoffice Calc to ConTeXt naturaltables ??

2005-03-21 Thread Michael Fuchs
Hi Luigi! Did you write the XSL from scratch? Or did you have an example to start with? If you found one I would like to have a look for it as well. Regards Michael -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von luigi.scarso Gesendet:

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Layout stuff

2005-03-21 Thread h h extern
Paul Tremblay wrote: There is, of course, \parshape. And I know that Hans does a lot of paragraph trickery (see for example coloumns). If you can get pages with different widths to work, please let me know! Like I said, I posted the problematic code in the wiki. It would be great to get this to

Re: [NTG-context] Title-page overlay / wiki example

2005-03-21 Thread h h extern
Nikolai Weibull wrote: * Willi Egger (Mar 20, 2005 18:00): May be you should try a buffer to put the typing in. In the overlay you can call the buffer with \typebuffer[...] \startbuffer[title] ... \stopbuffer \defineoverlay [TitleGraphic]

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Two problems with my chapter quote setup

2005-03-21 Thread h h extern
Gerben Wierda wrote: On 20 Mar 2005, at 18:05, Patrick Gundlach wrote: [...] http://mail.rna.nl/~gerben/problem-test.tar.gz I get only a blank page. If you open problem-test/products/prd_book.pdf from the archive you will see that on the page numbered 7 (the 9th page in the PDF file) there is

Re: [NTG-context] Temporarily turning off hyphenation?

2005-03-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: You should definitely not have the \starttext / \stoptext pair in there. There should only be one of those in an entire run - they come at the start of your content and the end. indeed; at the document level it does not hurt \starttext \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font

2005-03-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Matthias Weber wrote: Xue, I am not a font expert at all, and we are on different platforms. If I understand correctly, the font mechanism in TeXExec has been changing, and different ConTeXt versions rely on different versions of pdfeTeX (not only for font reasons, but also for pdf features).

[NTG-context] Re: how to use Times Roman font

2005-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
[...] I also wonder why the pdf made at ConTeXtgarden opens in Acrobat with font substitution -- I wonder why. Which fonts are substituted? What is your input file? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net ___ ntg-context mailing list

Re: [NTG-context] Repost: Two problems with my chapter quote setup (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

2005-03-21 Thread h h extern
Gerben Wierda wrote: I forgot one part at the end. Here it is again. I've got this in my environment file: \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% ^^ no \startalignment[left]%

[NTG-context] footnote placement

2005-03-21 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, I think this may have been missed, so I'm sending it again. Best Idris = Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:24:43 -0700== Dear syndicate, 1. When I place footnotes as endnotes, they overflow the page, like an oversize \vbox. 2.

RE: [NTG-context] Re: how to use Times Roman font

2005-03-21 Thread Stefano
Patrick, I tried the following both on the latest (2005-03-16) complete ConTeXt for Windows mswincontext.zip and on live.contextgarden.net ... \usetypescript[times][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \showfontstrip \showbodyfont[times] Roman \bf bold \it italics \stoptext On my

Fwd: RE: Configuring 2 trees [was RE: [NTG-context] Times New Roman]

2005-03-21 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
I have not installed the 3-16 mswincontext.zip yet but could you check this Hans (resend in case you missed it;-)? Idris --- Forwarded message --- From: ishamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailing list for ConTeXt users ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: RE: Configuring 2 trees [was RE: [NTG-context]

[NTG-context] kerning and TFM problems

2005-03-21 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, I want to use OSX HelveticaNeue font. So I open it in FontForge and - because I'd like to use the kerning information - generate the Font with its PFB, AFM and TFM files. According to Bill's help page it should work by (renaming and) placing the phnr8r.tfm in its tfm folder, the phnr8a.afm

Re: [NTG-context] kerning and TFM problems

2005-03-21 Thread luigi.scarso
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, I want to use OSX HelveticaNeue font. So I open it in FontForge and - because I'd like to use the kerning information - generate the Font with its PFB, AFM and TFM files. According to Bill's help page it should work by (renaming and) placing the phnr8r.tfm in its tfm

[NTG-context] Re: Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!

2005-03-21 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Steffen, But using Helvetica (from OSX system fonts) just won't work: using? With ConTeXt? With LaTeX? With TeX? Is this a ConTeXt related problem? Or is the problem with your font? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net ___

Re: [NTG-context] Available fonts

2005-03-21 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:28:47 +0100, Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Idris, Yes indeed there sould be a file to test the built-in fonts. Recently I was working on that. The file is in the meantime sent to Hans, so that he can give me advice how to finalize it.- May be within short notice

Re: [NTG-context] How do I create a table like this in ConTeXt?

2005-03-21 Thread Gerben Wierda
On 19 Mar 2005, at 20:38, Willi Egger wrote: Hi Gerben, There are different options. first of all I would have a look into \bTABLE ...\eTABLE constructs see enatab.pdf manual. Where do I find this manual? Thanks, G secondly you might use \starttabulate ..\stoptabulate look at MAPS22 Voorjaar

Re: [NTG-context] How do I create a table like this in ConTeXt?

2005-03-21 Thread Gerben Wierda
On 19 Mar 2005, at 20:38, Willi Egger wrote: secondly you might use \starttabulate ..\stoptabulate look at MAPS22 Voorjaar 1999, pp 153. I did look at that. I cannot see how that helps me recreating the example I posted, sorry. G PS. Is it me or is tabulating in ConTeXt a bit counterintuitive?

Re: [NTG-context] How do I create a table like this in ConTeXt?

2005-03-21 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
You can download it here: https://www.pragma-pod.com/dir/general/manuals/enattab.pdf Best Thomas On Mar 21, 2005, at 8:18 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote: Where do I find this manual? Thanks, G ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] How do I create a table like this in ConTeXt?

2005-03-21 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, Gerben Wierda wrote: On 19 Mar 2005, at 20:38, Willi Egger wrote: There are different options. first of all I would have a look into \bTABLE ...\eTABLE constructs see enatab.pdf manual. Where do I find this manual? As always: Go to http://www.pragma-ade.com/dir/ and look around.

Re: [NTG-context] how to place figures next to each other

2005-03-21 Thread Peter
Matthias Weber wrote: The best I can get is \starttext \useexternalfigure[myfigure][filename][width=1in] \placetable[here][tab:2figures]{none} [...] Thanks for the try. I've also tried columns. But the floating mechanism and columns/tables doesn't cooperate very well... Maybe there is a way to

Re: [NTG-context] How do I create a table like this in ConTeXt?

2005-03-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Tobias Burnus wrote: Well, in prinziple two \NC would be enough col1 \NC col2 \NC col3 \NR; interesting thought -) as with most table mechanism that use halign, some separator is needed; also, in context actually there are (hidden) extra columns used for spacing issues; i once had a bunch of

Re: [NTG-context] How do I create a table like this in ConTeXt?

2005-03-21 Thread Hans Hagen
Gerben Wierda wrote: On 19 Mar 2005, at 20:38, Willi Egger wrote: secondly you might use \starttabulate ..\stoptabulate look at MAPS22 Voorjaar 1999, pp 153. I did look at that. I cannot see how that helps me recreating the example I posted, sorry. G PS. Is it me or is tabulating in ConTeXt a

Re: [NTG-context] 5 major problems with mswincontext.zip

2005-03-21 Thread ishamid
I just checked: Not only aleph, but pdftex does not work with (o)dvips/dvipdfmx: === \starttext Latin Modern \input tufte.tex \stoptext === If I run (o)dvips from TeXLive, I get === This is dvips(k) 5.94a Copyright 2003

[NTG-context] Bold item separator?

2005-03-21 Thread dw
Greetings, I can't seem to get an itemize list to have bold item separators, namely the R UC Roman Numeral series. I bet it's really obvious *grinding teeth*. Anyone give me a clue? Regards, David ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

[NTG-context] Chapter numbers in the right margin

2005-03-21 Thread Randall Skelton
Hi all, Does anyone have a setuphead snipit and definition to place a large chapter number in the right margin of the page on the first page of each chapter? I believe this should be similar (but simplier) than what is done in 'ConTeXt an Excursion' but I wasn't able to find a definition for

Re: [NTG-context] Chapter numbers in the right margin

2005-03-21 Thread luigi.scarso
Randall Skelton wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have a setuphead snipit and definition to place a large chapter number in the right margin of the page on the first page of each chapter? I believe this should be similar (but simplier) than what is done in 'ConTeXt an Excursion' but I wasn't able to