[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt "live"

2005-12-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, > In my account, ConTeXt works no prob, I got a perfect PDF. > My problem occurs when I run ConTeXt via web, under Apache's user of course. > How to trace ConTeXt run under web server ? I'd guess it is pretty much impossible to trace under a webserver. Can you install the same environment on

[NTG-context] Re: installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log

2005-12-02 Thread olivier Turlier
Le Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:36:55 +0100, Taco Hoekwater a écrit : > olivier Turlier wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> Starting to try installing correctly tetex3 on ubuntu, I wanted to ask >> tons of questions. While formatting this mail, I've succeed in >> installing tetex3. Maybe what follows can be worth f

[NTG-context] Re: LucidaBright fonts...I'm stumped

2005-12-02 Thread Henk Koster
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:34:07 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > i'm wondering ... do the lucida font nowadays ship with the math > specific tfm files (that used to be the case) > > Hans Well, my copy of the LB (and LB Expert) fonts dates from 1993 (on floppies), although Y&Y sent me a free update with

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Adam Lindsay wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: I can't get the example to compile. Whatever I do, context insists on creating SerifRegular.tfm through mktextfm (sigh). I'm too lazy to figure out what is going on right now, so can someone create a full minimal example, please? I'd like to check this

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt "live"

2005-12-02 Thread VnPenguin
On 2 Dec 2005 16:17:33 +0100, Patrick Gundlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > Changed & tried, but I have the same error. > > well, this was only some additional remarks. Perhaps you can use > strace to find out why ConTeXt can't write mpgraph.mp? In my account, ConTeXt works no prob,

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Some $\mframed{math}$ questions

2005-12-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > 1. What's the best way to frame a formula like here: > > > > \placeformula > > \startformula > > \mframed{x^2+y^2=z^2} > > \stopformula > > > > The problem is that: > > - formula number is shifted downwards in comparison to the formula > > without

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: I can't get the example to compile. Whatever I do, context insists on creating SerifRegular.tfm through mktextfm (sigh). I'm too lazy to figure out what is going on right now, so can someone create a full minimal example, please? I'd like to check this with all tracing on,

Re[2]: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-02 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Friday, December 2, 2005 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Nikolai Weibull wrote: >> We were planning on using Vim for preprocessing things like this instead >> of hacking TeX to do the lexing. I think Mojca (?) had some ideas for >> this and perhaps even a simple implementation, and given that there is

Re: [NTG-context] lot of newbie questions

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For information: I've tried to type them directly on my keybord. They apear on my screen but the final pdf document output black rectangles. (I'm sure that all what I use is configured to use and produce utf8) But the workaround with \leftguillemot

Re: [NTG-context] Placing a scaled symbol within the flow of text

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds) wrote: Hi all, I am attempting to insert a symbol at a reduced size within the text flow but I'm not sure how to achieve this. I've included my test script below. \starttext \definefontsynonym[Dingbats][uzdr] \definesymbol[filledSq][\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char11

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: When I code: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} I find extra space typeset between "abc" and "pqr". This extra space is absent when I code abc {\variant[xyz]pqr} Thus the space in the source between ] and pqr makes a difference in the result. Clea

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-02 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Zeljko Vrba wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:56:36PM +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > We were planning on using Vim for preprocessing things like this > > instead > Vim for preprocessing? Isn't it a bit too painful compared to using a > "real" programming language? You misunderstand. Vim c

Re: [NTG-context] installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
olivier Turlier wrote: Hi everybody, Starting to try installing correctly tetex3 on ubuntu, I wanted to ask tons of questions. While formatting this mail, I've succeed in installing tetex3. Maybe what follows can be worth fore somebody more nbie than me (is that possible?), or for a pre-begin

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: When I code: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} I find extra space typeset between "abc" and "pqr". This extra space is absent when I code abc {\variant[xyz]pqr} Thus the space in the source between ] and pqr makes a difference in the result. Clea

[NTG-context] Re: Some $\mframed{math}$ questions

2005-12-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
<--- On Dec 2, Mojca Miklavec wrote ---> 1. What's the best way to frame a formula like here: \placeformula \startformula \mframed{x^2+y^2=z^2} \stopformula The problem is that: - formula number is shifted downwards in comparison to the formula without a number - I don't know how to do the set

Re: [NTG-context] \sc and dvips

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > In updmap.cfg I had to replace "Map lm.map" by "Map lm-ec.map", now it > > works. > > Then you have to include the other encoding map files as well > (like e.g. lm-texnansi.map and lm-qx.map) The beauty of lm.map > was that there was only one file. >

Re: [NTG-context] GNU Emacs/ AucTeX configuration for ConTeXt

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Renaud AUBIN wrote: > 3. I will use METAPOST in my .tex files, how to manage this within Emacs ? Once upon a time I used the mmm-mode for things like this. Should also work for MP/ConTeXt. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-02 Thread Zeljko Vrba
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:56:36PM +0100, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > We were planning on using Vim for preprocessing things like this instead > Vim for preprocessing? Isn't it a bit too painful compared to using a "real" programming language? > > of hacking TeX to do the lexing. I think Mojca (?

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-02 Thread Zeljko Vrba
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:14:30PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > > what do you mean with source code formatting? > Something akin to lgrind. Pretty-printing C++ source code. I tried to adapt some existing Context code to C and C++ keywords, but failed somewhere.. AFAIR, I may have even once asked on

Re: [NTG-context] German hyphenation patterns

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Tobias Burnus wrote: LaTeX's german.sty and also ConTeXt provide "ck -> k-k "ll -> ll-l "ff ->ff-f (as in Bierde"ckel, Ro"lladen or Schi"ffahrt). Thank you, that was it! Hmm, my Duden of 1996 writes in black "au|�erst" (= new & establis

Re: [NTG-context] bibtexing problems

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Wolfgang, For 1. and 2., see Thomas' reply. Wolfgang Zillig wrote: 3. I have in the bibtex field: "comment = {genauere Analyse des Papers nötig!}," some comments. They are added at the end the individual reference. Is there a possibility to suppress this field? In the bibl-apa.tex file,

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Nikolai Weibull wrote: We were planning on using Vim for preprocessing things like this instead of hacking TeX to do the lexing. I think Mojca (?) had some ideas for this and perhaps even a simple implementation, and given that there is now structured support for preprocessing in texexec I thi

[NTG-context] Placing a scaled symbol within the flow of text

2005-12-02 Thread Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds)
Hi all, I am attempting to insert a symbol at a reduced size within the text flow but I'm not sure how to achieve this. I've included my test script below. \starttext \definefontsynonym[Dingbats][uzdr] \definesymbol[filledSq][\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char110}] \def\FilledSq{\symbol[filledSq]} \de

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-02 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Zeljko Vrba wrote: > A motivation and idea that came to mind while writing a post to > comp.text.tex: > > == > Then again, most (all?) of publishers require Latex source, if my > document ever makes it that far.. And Latex has nicer source code > formatting than Context. so I'm really split betwe

Re: [NTG-context] lot of newbie questions

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting "Thomas A. Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> How could I do french guillemets (<< and >>)? Is it possible? Which inputregime are you using? With \enableregime[utf], you can input them directly, or try \

Re: [NTG-context] LucidaBright fonts...I'm stumped

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: That one even I know how to answer: The Lucida's don't ship with math at the moment. The only LB you can get at the moment is the Bigelow & Holmes version, and that doesn't have the Y&Y math PFB's even. The Y and Y version to be released by TUG is still under negotiation

Re: [NTG-context] German hyphenation patterns

2005-12-02 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Tobias Burnus wrote: LaTeX's german.sty and also ConTeXt provide "ck -> k-k "ll -> ll-l "ff ->ff-f (as in Bierde"ckel, Ro"lladen or Schi"ffahrt). Thank you, that was it! Hmm, my Duden of 1996 writes in black "au|ßerst" (= new & established spelling), which is in

Re: [NTG-context] LucidaBright fonts...I'm stumped

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
That one even I know how to answer: The Lucida's don't ship with math at the moment. The only LB you can get at the moment is the Bigelow & Holmes version, and that doesn't have the Y&Y math PFB's even. The Y and Y version to be released by TUG is still under negotiation (afaik), and it has not

Re: [NTG-context] GNU Emacs/ AucTeX configuration for ConTeXt

2005-12-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Which auctex version are you using? The latest ones have context mode built in. All you need to do is M-x context-mode Syntax highlighting, environment and font commands, compiling, most things work. I don't know about metapost. Thomas On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:36 AM, Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi al

Re: [NTG-context] lot of newbie questions

2005-12-02 Thread toto
Quoting "Thomas A. Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I've got a lot of newbie questions. I'm writing a technical document with context for the first time to try it. I come from a TeX/LaTeX world. -> How to print a tilda? I'm tr

Re: [NTG-context] German hyphenation patterns

2005-12-02 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: German orthography is a mess right now, we now have two sets of rules, old and new. New hyphenation is ugly and rules are constantly changing. I see that ConTeXt has lang-deo.pat, so I was hoping that this would produce "old" patterns, but it doesn't seem to work

Re: [NTG-context] LucidaBright fonts...I'm stumped

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Richard Gabriel wrote: Hello Henk, I reply to your request only beacause I'm also using the Lucida Bright fonts. At least, you must also have the appropriate .tfm files for your fonts. In addition, I also have some virtual fonts (.vf) that have been created for Lucida fonts for the particula

Re: [NTG-context] installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
olivier Turlier wrote: Hi everybody, Starting to try installing correctly tetex3 on ubuntu, I wanted to ask tons of questions. While formatting this mail, I've succeed in installing tetex3. Maybe what follows can be worth fore somebody more nbie than me (is that possible?), or for a pre-begi

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt "live"

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: On 2 Dec 2005 15:21:45 +0100, Patrick Gundlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have no idea what is wrong. But you can (remark on Hans' reply) set openout_any = p already defined in texmf.cnf openin_any = p in texmf.cnf, that doesn't hurt. Changed & tr

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space?

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Zillig wrote: Could't it be done by metapost? no, that is overkill, but what can be done is: \startbuffer the label \stopbuffer \externalfigure[buffer][factor=max] or \scale[factor=max]{\framed[align=normal]{the label text}} that would scale each label to fit best but it would l

Re: [NTG-context] \sc and dvips

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
� wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Hans Hagen wrote: with the recent version (2005.11.30), I get a strange font in dvips output, when using \sc. dvips messages don't show any error: This is dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2005.11.30:2115' -> t

Re: [NTG-context] lot of newbie questions

2005-12-02 Thread toto
Quoting "Thomas A. Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> How could I do french guillemets (<< and >>)? Is it possible? Which inputregime are you using? With \enableregime[utf], you can input them directly, or try \leftguillemot and \rightguil

[NTG-context] Re: GNU Emacs/ AucTeX configuration for ConTeXt

2005-12-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, > 1. ConTeXt mode from Berend de Boer is now included in AucTeX > 2. Some people use Emacs with ConTeXt and METAPOST, but with special >.el files that seems not really up-to-date I haven't updated my AUCTeX for some time now, but I use ConTeXt/MP with AUCTeX. > I didn't found usefull inf

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt "live"

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: On 12/2/05, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it has to do with the tex distribution being configured as too paranoid which means no writing can you try the --notparanoid switch? Just added this option to texexec, but it does not help. The problem is still there

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space?

2005-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Could't it be done by metapost? Wolfgang Hans Hagen schrieb: Daniel Pittman wrote: Hints about that, or a native TeX method[1], would be very much appreciated. At the moment it is a relatively slow process of manual trial and error. this is something tex is pretty good at and it runs as

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt "live"

2005-12-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, > Changed & tried, but I have the same error. well, this was only some additional remarks. Perhaps you can use strace to find out why ConTeXt can't write mpgraph.mp? What does your cont-sys.tex look like? Do you have write18 enabled (disable it on the public webserver, of course!). >>

Re: [NTG-context] bibtexing problems

2005-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
For a more detailed description: I use Jabraf to organise my literature. The output is a bib file. As example: @ARTICLE{Hameury2005, author = {Hameury, S.}, title = {Moisture buffering capacity of heavy timber tructures directly exposed to an indoor climate: a numerical study}, journal

[NTG-context] enco-pfr.tex - support for Adobe Acrobat

2005-12-02 Thread Richard Gabriel
Hello Hans, Taco and others!I would like to know how the "enco-pfr.tex" module works and how to properly use it.Besides of other languages, I also typeset documents in Czech. The search doesn't work (in recent Acrobat 7.0.5) for particular Czech letters (e.g. č,ž etc.). If I try to search for

Re: [NTG-context] lot of newbie questions

2005-12-02 Thread toto
Quoting Jörg Hagmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> I'm trying to put a metapost graphic in the margin like te example in the manual reference (page 47) using the following command: \definestartstop[important][command={\inmarge{\useMPgraphic{bang}

Re: [NTG-context] \sc and dvips

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter M�nster wrote: But I've found the solution: In updmap.cfg I had to replace "Map lm.map" by "Map lm-ec.map", now it works. Then you have to include the other encoding map files as well (like e.g. lm-texnansi.map and lm-qx.map) The beauty of lm.map was that the

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt "live"

2005-12-02 Thread VnPenguin
On 2 Dec 2005 15:21:45 +0100, Patrick Gundlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have no idea what is wrong. But you can (remark on Hans' reply) set > > openout_any = p already defined in texmf.cnf > openin_any = p > > in texmf.cnf, that doesn't hurt. Changed & tried, but I have the same er

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Zeljko Vrba wrote: A motivation and idea that came to mind while writing a post to comp.text.tex: == Then again, most (all?) of publishers require Latex source, if my document ever makes it that far.. And Latex has nicer source code formatting than Context. so I'm really split between Latex and

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt "live"

2005-12-02 Thread VnPenguin
On 12/2/05, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > it has to do with the tex distribution being configured as too paranoid > which means no writing > > can you try the --notparanoid switch? > Just added this option to texexec, but it does not help. The problem is still there. Thanks -- http

[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt "live"

2005-12-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, I have no idea what is wrong. But you can (remark on Hans' reply) set openout_any = p openin_any = p in texmf.cnf, that doesn't hurt. You should be extremly careful when interfacing TeX to the public. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net _

Re: [NTG-context] LucidaBright fonts...I'm stumped

2005-12-02 Thread Richard Gabriel
Hello Henk,I reply to your request only beacause I'm also using the Lucida Bright fonts.At least, you must also have the appropriate .tfm files for your fonts. In addition, I also have some virtual fonts (.vf) that have been created for Lucida fonts for the particular encondings (namely ec). In

[NTG-context] Some $\mframed{math}$ questions

2005-12-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I would like to ask a couple of questions about frames and numbers in math formulas. 1. What's the best way to frame a formula like here: \placeformula \startformula \mframed{x^2+y^2=z^2} \stopformula The problem is that: - formula number is shifted downwards in comparison to the formula

Re: [NTG-context] bibtexing problems

2005-12-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
These questions have nothing to do with ConTeXt, only with bibtex, which is still a seven-bit application, so you can't use anything outside ASCII. On Dec 2, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Wolfgang Zillig wrote: Hallo, I've started to add bibliography to my documents. Now I have some questions: 1. H

Re: [NTG-context] lot of newbie questions

2005-12-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I've got a lot of newbie questions. I'm writing a technical document with context for the first time to try it. I come from a TeX/LaTeX world. -> How to print a tilda? I'm trying to write an URL with a tilda in it with the

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.30 Released (bis)

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Hans, Taco, Just installed the newest update and update my manual tree via svn. I can report that the uplt8r problem has not gone away. I know how to fix it, but I thought you wanted to see this and address type-diz or something like that? (/usr/local/teTeX/share/tex

Re: [NTG-context] lot of newbie questions

2005-12-02 Thread Jörg Hagmann
On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> I'm trying to put a metapost graphic in the margin like te example in the manual reference (page 47) using the following command: \definestartstop[important][command={\inmarge{\useMPgraphic{bang} [width=\marginwidth]}}] But (of course :

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt "live"

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
VnPenguin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build a page "ConTeXt live" on a Apache web server with PHP. Here is the simple test - \enableregime[utf] \setupencoding[default=t5] \usetypescript[berry][t5] \usetypescript[palatino][t5]

Re: [NTG-context] GNU Emacs/ AucTeX configuration for ConTeXt

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Renaud AUBIN wrote: Hi all, Is there someone using GNU Emacs with ConTeXt. After some googlelyzing, I've learnt : 1. ConTeXt mode from Berend de Boer is now included in AucTeX 2. Some people use Emacs with ConTeXt and METAPOST, but with special .el files that seems not really up-to-date I

[NTG-context] installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log

2005-12-02 Thread olivier Turlier
Hi everybody, Starting to try installing correctly tetex3 on ubuntu, I wanted to ask tons of questions. While formatting this mail, I've succeed in installing tetex3. Maybe what follows can be worth fore somebody more nbie than me (is that possible?), or for a pre-beginner doc. Following http:

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space?

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Daniel Pittman wrote: Hints about that, or a native TeX method[1], would be very much appreciated. At the moment it is a relatively slow process of manual trial and error. this is something tex is pretty good at and it runs as fast as normal how does your current code look? (the solution d

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: When I code: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} I find extra space typeset between "abc" and "pqr". This extra space is absent when I code abc {\variant[xyz]pqr} Thus the space in the source between ] and pqr makes a difference in the result. Clearly visible in: abc

[NTG-context] ConTeXt 2005.12.01 (Scite problems)

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Hans Hagen wrote: Wolfgang Zillig wrote: I assume this is due to "import scite-ctx" and in that file there is "ext.lua.startup.script=$(SciteDefaultHome)/scite-ctx.lua" which I don't have. My solution: I commended "import scite-ctx" out ah, i see, i forget to copy the lua script into

Re: [NTG-context] IPA/TIPA support in Context?

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Jason, Jason Knight wrote: What support is there for IPA/TIPA in Context at this point? I've had I think the answer is zero or nearly zero. If you have a bit of patience, I can do a port of tipa.sty (quite easy), but it will take some time befo

Re: [NTG-context] \sc and dvips

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Münster wrote: But I've found the solution: In updmap.cfg I had to replace "Map lm.map" by "Map lm-ec.map", now it works. Then you have to include the other encoding map files as well (like e.g. lm-texnansi.map and lm-qx.map) The beauty of lm.map was that there was only one file. I g

Re: [NTG-context] Re: LucidaBright fonts...I'm stumped

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Henk Koster wrote: As a follow-up to my earlier message... I don't understand why ConTeXt cannot use the LB .afm/.pfb/.tfm files that are already present (for the texnansi encoding) in my LaTeX setup. Why does texfont need to duplicate all these files? Does ConTeXt not use the directory path se

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.24 Released

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
VnPenguin wrote: Subject : Context 2005.11.24 Released ? Q. cut&paste error, should have been 2005.11.30. Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] IPA/TIPA support in Context?

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Jason, Jason Knight wrote: What support is there for IPA/TIPA in Context at this point? I've had I think the answer is zero or nearly zero. If you have a bit of patience, I can do a port of tipa.sty (quite easy), but it will take some time before I can start on it

[NTG-context] fonts / lucida

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Hi, I uploaded a new cont-fnt.zip file. This ons has lucida metrics (ec and texnansi). If I did things right, one only needs to copy the lucida pfb files to the .../fonts/type1/bh/lucida path. Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl h

[NTG-context] Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space?

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. One of the things I (ab)use ConTeXt for is printing little text labels to Avery stock. This works quite well, and I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to get working with some hints from Hans in the archives of this list. The labels, over time, have varying lengths of text on them,

Re: [NTG-context] Scite problems after update of Scite

2005-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Hans Hagen schrieb: Wolfgang Zillig wrote: FTYPE LuaScript=c:\data\system\lua\bin\lua.exe %%1 %%* ASSOC .lua=LuaScript do I need Lua installed on my computer? no, lua is compiled into scite (lua adds some 50-100 k to a binary), just as lua will some day soon be compiled into tex (if t

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.30 Released (bis)

2005-12-02 Thread Vit Zyka
Taco Hoekwater wrote: New features since 2005.11.24: > * Extension for the use of marks in column sets using a new, three-argument, call to \getmarking : \getmarking[subsection][first][1] % column 1 \getmarking[subsection][first][3] % column 3 If Hans did not change a syntax after te

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.30 Released (bis)

2005-12-02 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Taco, Just installed the newest update and update my manual tree via svn. I can report that the uplt8r problem has not gone away. I know how to fix it, but I thought you wanted to see this and address type-diz or something like that? (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/b

[NTG-context] blackboard and calligraphic

2005-12-02 Thread Hans van der Meer
    From:       [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Subject:     blackboard bold and calligraphic    Date:     November 28, 2005 17:46:07 GMT+01:00    To:       ntg-context@ntg.nlBLACKBOARDThere is a problem with the Blackboard symbols, when used in regular and bold forms both.In the Lucida fontset there is a reg

Re: [NTG-context] texteuro

2005-12-02 Thread Hans van der Meer
On Nov 29, 2005, at 12:36, Hans Hagen wrote: I could not redefine the \texteuro. In \showcharacters it stays empty. Doing \definecharacter texteuro to_some_value in a typescript does not work (giving: Runaway argument?) has to do with \definecharacter being space delimited and typesc

Re: [NTG-context] \sc and dvips

2005-12-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Hans Hagen wrote: > >with the recent version (2005.11.30), I get a strange font in dvips output, > >when using \sc. > >dvips messages don't show any error: > >This is dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software > >(www.radicaleye.com) > >' TeX output 2005.11.30:2115' -

[NTG-context] GNU Emacs/ AucTeX configuration for ConTeXt

2005-12-02 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi all, Is there someone using GNU Emacs with ConTeXt. After some googlelyzing, I've learnt : 1. ConTeXt mode from Berend de Boer is now included in AucTeX 2. Some people use Emacs with ConTeXt and METAPOST, but with special .el files that seems not really up-to-date I didn't found usefull i

[NTG-context] FarsiTeX equivalent?

2005-12-02 Thread John R. Culleton
A person on the internet needs help using FarsiTeX, a bidirectional typesetting engine for Farsi and English. It only runs on LaTeX 2.09. If the same task were approached in Context, what would he need to do beyond the regular Context stuff? Are there documents he should read? This is not a cli

[NTG-context] lot of newbie questions

2005-12-02 Thread toto
Hello list, I've got a lot of newbie questions. I'm writing a technical document with context for the first time to try it. I come from a TeX/LaTeX world. -> How to print a tilda? I'm trying to write an URL with a tilda in it with the font \tt. \widetilda, \tilda do not output any character. E

Re: [NTG-context] items question

2005-12-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Bernd Militzer wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > I'm working on the responses to the mini survey, and quite ofthen > > there is an itemization with a title of sorts. It makes sense to > > give such structures a bit different layout from a normal > > itemization. My question: does anyone know of an

[NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-02 Thread Hans van der Meer
When I code: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} I find extra space typeset between "abc" and "pqr". This extra space is absent when I code abc {\variant[xyz]pqr} Thus the space in the source between ] and pqr makes a difference in the result. Clearly visible in: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} abc {\

[NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-02 Thread Zeljko Vrba
A motivation and idea that came to mind while writing a post to comp.text.tex: == Then again, most (all?) of publishers require Latex source, if my document ever makes it that far.. And Latex has nicer source code formatting than Context. so I'm really split between Latex and Context.. None of t

[NTG-context] bimath vs bfmath

2005-12-02 Thread Hans van der Meer
Why does $\bfmath a \rightarrow b$ % b-f-math behaves different from $\bimath a \rightarrow b$ % b-i-math In the first I get a bold arrow, not in the second one. In bfmath the symbol font switches to bold, but in bimath it does not. The variables do change correctly to bolditalic in bo

[NTG-context] IPA/TIPA support in Context?

2005-12-02 Thread Jason Knight
What support is there for IPA/TIPA in Context at this point? I've had a look through the mailing list archive and the last comment I saw about it was from the first half of 2004. Has anyone done more hacking on this? Jason -- Jason Knight Systems-Analyst-at-large "They fix 'em, I break 'em. Thus,

Re: [NTG-context] IPA/TIPA support in Context?

2005-12-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Jason, Jason Knight wrote: What support is there for IPA/TIPA in Context at this point? I've had I think the answer is zero or nearly zero. If you have a bit of patience, I can do a port of tipa.sty (quite easy), but it will take some time before I can start on it. Cheers, Taco _

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex from manuals

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: I tried to run texfont demofont.dat, but failed. First off, Hans, am I missing a runtools.rb? I can't find it. indeed, i need to add that one to the zip (i'll send you a copy) Secondly, I think the current demofont.dat has a bug because it triggers an obscure texfont f

[NTG-context] GNU Emacs/ AucTeX configuration for ConTeXt

2005-12-02 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi all, Is there someone using GNU Emacs with ConTeXt. After some googlelyzing, I've learnt : 1. ConTeXt mode from Berend de Boer is now included in AucTeX 2. Some people use Emacs with ConTeXt and METAPOST, but with special .el files that seems not really up-to-date I didn't found usefull i

[NTG-context] Re: LucidaBright fonts...I'm stumped

2005-12-02 Thread Henk Koster
As a follow-up to my earlier message... I don't understand why ConTeXt cannot use the LB .afm/.pfb/.tfm files that are already present (for the texnansi encoding) in my LaTeX setup. Why does texfont need to duplicate all these files? Does ConTeXt not use the directory path search of teTeX? It se

[NTG-context] ConTeXt "live"

2005-12-02 Thread VnPenguin
Hi, I'm trying to build a page "ConTeXt live" on a Apache web server with PHP. Here is the simple test - \enableregime[utf] \setupencoding[default=t5] \usetypescript[berry][t5] \usetypescript[palatino][t5] \setupbodyfont[palat

Re: Getting texfont to do batch installs on gwTeX (was Re: [NTG-context] Palatino)

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Changing each occurrence of TEXMFMAIN in type-tmf.dat to TEXMFMAIN,TEXMFTE,TEXMFGW produces the following result: Quiz Four.tex texnansi-adobe-utopia.tex QuizFour.auxtexnansi-bitstrea-charter.tex QuizFour.log

Re: [NTG-context] LucidaBright fonts...I'm stumped

2005-12-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Henk Koster wrote: I've been using teTeX - LaTeX - LucidaBright fonts for many years, but am unable to make these fonts work in ConTeXt. My present setup after installing teTeX (a Debian or Ubuntu package): 1. Make a directory /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/type1/yandy 2. Copy the LB .pfb files

[NTG-context] bibtexing problems

2005-12-02 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Hallo, I've started to add bibliography to my documents. Now I have some questions: 1. How can I handle multilanguage bibtex files (entries in German and English)? I'm writing english texts but I need to cite german documents and in all german references all capital letters are trasfered to sm

[NTG-context] bimath vs bfmath

2005-12-02 Thread Hans van der Meer
Why does $\bfmath a \rightarrow b$ % b-f-math behaves different from $\bimath a \rightarrow b$ % b-i-math In the first I get a bold arrow, not in the second one. In bfmath the symbol font switches to bold, but in bimath it does not. The variables do change correctly to bolditalic in bo

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.24 Released

2005-12-02 Thread VnPenguin
Subject : Context 2005.11.24 Released ? Q. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] German hyphenation patterns

2005-12-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
All, German orthography is a mess right now, we now have two sets of rules, old and new. New hyphenation is ugly and rules are constantly changing. I see that ConTeXt has lang-deo.pat, so I was hoping that this would produce "old" patterns, but it doesn't seem to work: \enableregime[utf]