[NTG-context] Easy way to start working with cyrillic?

2007-11-07 Thread Klaus Gena
Hi, I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using the manuals. I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Contex

Re: [NTG-context] doc at minimals

2007-11-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> Just discovered >> http://minimals.contextgarden.net/doc > > That's not possible, it doesn't exist ... Someone is trying to make us explore the minimals directory structure in detail. I think that this directory has moved to http://minimals.conte

Re: [NTG-context] doc at minimals

2007-11-07 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Just discovered > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/doc That's not possible, it doesn't exist ... Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/7/07, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) > > for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works > > and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems > > there.) > > i bet t

[NTG-context] doc at minimals

2007-11-07 Thread luigi scarso
Just discovered http://minimals.contextgarden.net/doc -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listin

Re: [NTG-context] Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-07 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: > Willi Egger wrote: >> Hi Aditya, >> >> Your code compiles correctly here. Well with the following version of >> Context >> >> ConTeXt ver: 2007.10.03 12:52 MKII fmt: 2007.10.4 int: english/ >> english > > works here too I am confused. It does not work co

Re: [NTG-context] Flow charts forgetting text

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Willi Egger wrote: > Hi Aditya, > > Your code compiles correctly here. Well with the following version of > Context > > ConTeXt ver: 2007.10.03 12:52 MKII fmt: 2007.10.4 int: english/ > english works here too -

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: [Fontforge-devel] ORA pro nobis]

2007-11-07 Thread luigi scarso
> O'Reilly & Associates has finally shipped the English translation of > Yannis Haralambous's > Fonts & Encodings I have it now under my head. -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, pleas

Re: [NTG-context] itemize a list

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: > It is my intention to place a list inside an itemize, and therefore > prepend a \item before every list item. Thus: > > \startitemize > \placelist[Topic][label=no,pagenumber=no,before=\item]}% > \stopitemize > > However this doesn't work but instead gives t

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 2007/11/7, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Duncan Hothersall wrote: >>> Hans said: \definefontsize[e] \setupfontenvironment [default] [e=4] >>> Ah, thanks. Using \setupbodyfontenvironment as the second command did >>> the trick. >>>

Re: [NTG-context] \blank[big]

2007-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/11/7, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Excuse me, but what 'big' stands for in \blank[big]? > > Every time I use it, I expect really big white space, but get only hardly > noticeable one. > > Best regards, > Vaytcheslav >From core-spa: % In earlier versions \type{\big

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/11/7, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Duncan Hothersall wrote: > > Hans said: > >> \definefontsize[e] > >> > >> \setupfontenvironment > >>[default] > >>[e=4] > >> > > Ah, thanks. Using \setupbodyfontenvironment as the second command did > > the trick. > > > > I guess there is no ea

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: > Hans said: >> \definefontsize[e] >> >> \setupfontenvironment >>[default] >>[e=4] >> > Ah, thanks. Using \setupbodyfontenvironment as the second command did > the trick. > > I guess there is no easy way of directly calling a specific font at a > specific size

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) >> for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works >> and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems >> there.) > > XeTeX can use Chinese fonts since the f

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Hans (07/11/2007 16:09) said: >> Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) >> for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works >> and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems >> there.) >> > > i bet that duncan uses it in

[NTG-context] \blank[big]

2007-11-07 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, Excuse me, but what 'big' stands for in \blank[big]? Every time I use it, I expect really big white space, but get only hardly noticeable one. Best regards, Vaytcheslav ___ If your question is of interest t

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) > for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works > and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems > there.) XeTeX can use Chinese fonts since the first day :-) I remember Jonathan

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) > for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works > and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems > there.) i bet that duncan uses it in some workflow that has

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 11/7/07, Duncan Hothersall wrote: > Hello all. I hope this is quite a simple question. > > But I really need to be able to do the equivalent of \definedfont[Bold > at 48pt]. Unfortunately this doesn't work - it produces normal text size > and weight. I have absolutely no experience and/or knowl

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: > > Hi Peter, > > your solution would be really a option but I hope the real bugs will be > fixed, I see :) So things could be worse. You have - a workaround (?) - a complete minimal description/example of the problem (as starting point for Hans) - some good hints

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/11/7, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Wolfgang Schuster schrieb: > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > your solution would be really a option but I hope the real bugs will be > > fixed, > > I see :) > > So things could be worse. You have > > - a workaround (?) you mean your solution with a self defi

Re: [NTG-context] table layout

2007-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/11/6, Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Wolfgang, > > what a nice 'minimal' example :) > > I'm no table expert, not even an experienced table user. Anyhow, I think > that table is the best choice here. Aside from the bad placing of the > horizontal rules, all is working. This is much more

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Hans said: > \definefontsize[e] > > \setupfontenvironment >[default] >[e=4] > Ah, thanks. Using \setupbodyfontenvironment as the second command did the trick. I guess there is no easy way of directly calling a specific font at a specific size? No worry, this sort of solution will allo

Re: [NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Duncan Hothersall wrote: > equivalent of \definedfont? Or a way of adding an e and f size > definition to the default set? \definefontsize[e] \setupfontenvironment [default] [e=4] -

[NTG-context] Font sizes using Chinese module

2007-11-07 Thread Duncan Hothersall
Hello all. I hope this is quite a simple question. I'm using the Chinese module, with the font definitions in font-chi.tex, to typeset UTF-8 content. I can happily use the default sizes a, b, c, d and x, xx, xxx - so \bfd produces large bold, and \tfx produces small normal weight text. But I r

Re: [NTG-context] Some update woes on Linux

2007-11-07 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/11/7, Jeff Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When I run texexec from inside my editor (Winefish), it still reports > the bad format files like I said earlier. I have no idea how that can > happen. Linux is really making me feel stupid (my switch from You probably got new formats in ~/.texlive2007/