[NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-12 Thread luigi scarso
I'm a little bit confused about extex (www.extex.org) and xetex (scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=xetex) How do they relate with Context ? luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi scarso wrote: I'm a little bit confused about extex (www.extex.org) and xetex (scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=xetex) How do they relate with Context ? you can use context with xetex; i know nothing of extex apart from that it is a java based tex variant Hans

[NTG-context] texmfstart problem (long time spend somewhere)

2006-12-12 Thread Denis Pinsard
Hello, For near two years I use ConTeXt under the MiTeX distribution. Last weekend I installed the last version of ConTeXt (2006-07-21) available on MikTeX. Since this installation, the program texmfstart don't work correctly. After the command : texmfstart texexec first.tex nothing happen for

[NTG-context] mkii-mkiv

2006-12-12 Thread Hans van der Meer
Scanning the recent issue of the MAPS (Dutch NTG user group magazine) I encountered the interesting article about experiences with the development of luatex and friends. Especially the possibility of having protocols http:// and file:// as input source seems promising. Allow me to suggest

Re: [NTG-context] New Debian context package based on context release 061207

2006-12-12 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Here it does work after installation of cont-fnt.zip. Or the current Debian context package. Hmm, I think the mess of tex configuration files in Unix has finally defeated me, and I will switch to using the debian context package and will retry Aditya's assignment document. That will also

Re: [NTG-context] mkii-mkiv

2006-12-12 Thread luigi scarso
On 12/12/06, Hans van der Meer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scanning the recent issue of the MAPS (Dutch NTG user group magazine) I encountered the interesting article about experiences with the development of luatex and friends. Especially the possibility of having protocols Oh, latest luatex

Re: [NTG-context] mkii-mkiv

2006-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: Scanning the recent issue of the MAPS (Dutch NTG user group magazine) I encountered the interesting article about experiences with the development of luatex and friends. Especially the possibility of having protocols http:// and file:// as input source seems

[NTG-context] strange behaviour of \definedfont['Some Name'] in XeTeX

2006-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I'm probaby misusing the feature (most robably because I just didn't take time to study how to do it properly), but it behaves really strange. In XeTeX I first did \font\f='Some Name' \f which worked OK. But when I tried the same with \definedfont['Some Name'] it resulted in

[NTG-context] small smaller and vertical stretch

2006-12-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, using small and medium rather than 8pt or 10pt gives some vertical stretch. Very useful in some situations: \setupinterlinespace[small] \setupwhitespace[medium] But what to do if small is still too big? And yet the stretch is needed? While I can say ... \blank[.75*medium] ... this

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/12/06, luigi scarso wrote: I'm a little bit confused about extex (www.extex.org) and xetex (scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiid=xetex) How do they relate with Context ? XeTeX is reasonably well supported in ConTeXt (font stuff is better supported in LaTeX for the time

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart problem (long time spend somewhere)

2006-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/12/06, Denis Pinsard wrote: Hello, For near two years I use ConTeXt under the MiTeX distribution. Last weekend I installed the last version of ConTeXt (2006-07-21) available on MikTeX. Try to install MikTeX 2.5. Since the move from 2.4 to 2.5 when the author made our wish true (to move

Re: [NTG-context] small smaller and vertical stretch

2006-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, using small and medium rather than 8pt or 10pt gives some vertical stretch. Very useful in some situations: \setupinterlinespace[small] \setupwhitespace[medium] But what to do if small is still too big? And yet the stretch is needed? While I can say ...

Re: [NTG-context] strange behaviour of \definedfont['Some Name'] in XeTeX

2006-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, I'm probaby misusing the feature (most robably because I just didn't take time to study how to do it properly), but it behaves really strange. In XeTeX I first did \font\f='Some Name' \f which worked OK. But when I tried the same with

[NTG-context] uc-encoded fonts and accents

2006-12-12 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, in enco-uc.tex there are some definitions which use combining accents: \definecharacter textgrave{\uchar3{0}} \definecharacter textacute{\uchar3{1}} \definecharacter textcircumflex {\uchar3{2}} \definecharacter texttilde{\uchar3{3}} \definecharacter textmacron

Re: [NTG-context] small smaller and vertical stretch

2006-12-12 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 12.12.2006 um 18:18 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, using small and medium rather than 8pt or 10pt gives some vertical stretch. Very useful in some situations: \setupinterlinespace[small] \setupwhitespace[medium] But what to do if small is still too big? And yet the

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] extex and xetex

2006-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: XeTeX is reasonably well supported in ConTeXt (font stuff is better supported in LaTeX for the time being, hopefully this will change). I will cook up a decent open type font model for luatex and backport to xetex for as far as possible. Hans

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart problem (long time spend somewhere)

2006-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 12/12/06, Denis Pinsard wrote: Hello, For near two years I use ConTeXt under the MiTeX distribution. Last weekend I installed the last version of ConTeXt (2006-07-21) available on MikTeX. Try to install MikTeX 2.5. Since the move from 2.4 to 2.5 when the

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart problem (long time spend somewhere)

2006-12-12 Thread Denis Pinsard
Mojca Miklavec a écrit : Try to install MikTeX 2.5. ... The standalone version should not be influenced by MikTeX by any means and should work. Same behaviour with MikTeX 2.5 I have renamed the MikTeX directory and suppressed the reference to MikTeX in the PATH; then the stand alone version

Re: [NTG-context] texmfstart problem (long time spend somewhere)

2006-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Denis Pinsard wrote: -- see mojca's answer -- LONG TIME (about 1 min) usually this means that the only way left to locate the script is to scan the whole texmf tree Hans - Hans

[NTG-context] International Profit Associates

2006-12-12 Thread overstock
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[NTG-context] Gregg Steinberg

2006-12-12 Thread overstock
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