[NTG-context] interim fix for aesc-like macro

2008-05-24 Thread Charles P. Schaum
I found an interim fix for the \ae macro in the schemata: put the word with the macro in an hbox, and the problem goes away. I wonder what the mechanics behind that are. I tend to have weird documents with dead languages. Who knows, maybe I want to cite Aelfric using Old English letters or Sir Gawa

Re: [NTG-context] Thanks for the boxes with schems

2008-05-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Charles P. Schaum wrote: > Thanks, Hans, for the suggestion. It works quite well, except the \ae{} > macro starts producing a lowercase j. My guess is this refers to an > encoding issue, since I found that using \sc tends to not do small caps > except for using Computer Modern. what encoding do yo

[NTG-context] Thanks for the boxes with schems

2008-05-24 Thread Charles P. Schaum
Thanks, Hans, for the suggestion. It works quite well, except the \ae{} macro starts producing a lowercase j. My guess is this refers to an encoding issue, since I found that using \sc tends to not do small caps except for using Computer Modern. I did RTFM, but I'm just not making the connection.

Re: [NTG-context] luaTeX and on-the-fly MetaPost compilation

2008-05-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Stephan Hennig wrote: > Note, this is not a pressing feature for me. The advantage is that > MetaPost and TeX code can be held in separate files (which has several > advantages) and users can easily compile the code in a single TeX run, > without knowing about Makefiles. Well, there is the \writ

Re: [NTG-context] luaTeX and on-the-fly MetaPost compilation

2008-05-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Taco Hoekwater wrote: >it is > much easier to correct and diagnose the problem. Although these actions are usually done in reverse order ;-) ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] luaTeX and on-the-fly MetaPost compilation

2008-05-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Stephan Hennig wrote: > Thank you for the outline. For the exact mechanism of how to process an > .mp file I think there are three possible cases: > > 1. Strictly process what's between figure(n)..endfig only. > > 2. Process everything up-to the specified figure, omitting stuff inside > non-matc

Re: [NTG-context] luaTeX and on-the-fly MetaPost compilation

2008-05-24 Thread Stephan Hennig
Hans Hagen schrieb: > glue to tex: > > \def\includeMetaPost#1#2% io.loaddata is part of l-io.lua >{\directlua0{tex.print(filterfromMPblob(io.loaddata("#1",#2)))}} > > of course this need to be embeded in some general mp support > > (i'll add it to my todolist; actually a bit more is involve

Re: [NTG-context] \Asterisk

2008-05-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Jesse Alama wrote: > I was working on a document in which I wanted use a symbol that, > acording to the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, goes by the name of > \Asterisk or \bigast (see p. 22). I saw, though, that this seems to be > missing in ConTeXt. Might it be tucked away in some module, or is

Re: [NTG-context] luaTeX and on-the-fly MetaPost compilation

2008-05-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Stephan Hennig wrote: > Hi, > > I didn't have the opportunity to touch luaTeX yet, but let me ask one > question in advance: Since luaTeX has a built-in MetaPost interpreter, > is it possible to refer to a certain figure in a MetaPost source file > for inclusion, instead of a compiled figure? >

Re: [NTG-context] luaTeX and on-the-fly MetaPost compilation

2008-05-24 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Stephan Hennig wrote: > Hi, > > I didn't have the opportunity to touch luaTeX yet, but let me ask one > question in advance: Since luaTeX has a built-in MetaPost interpreter, > is it possible to refer to a certain figure in a MetaPost source file > for inclusion, instead of a compiled figure? >

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX in ConTeXt

2008-05-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Charles Doherty wrote: > Dear all, > > I have tried to upgrade ConTeXt using > sudo ctxtools --updatecontext > followed by > sudo texmfstart texexec --make en > and > sudo texmfstart texexec --make --xetex en > > Following the upgrade a normal ConTeXt document runs

Re: [NTG-context] Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex

2008-05-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, 23 May 2008 22:29:06 +0200 Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The following specimen was run on live.contextgarden.net with each of > > the three typesetters: > > > > \setupcolors[state=start] > > \starttext > > \input knuth > > > > \bTABLE > > \bTR [ali