Re: [NTG-context] defineenumeration

2009-02-22 Thread Longmin Wang
\setupenumerations[subRemark][text=subRemark] On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:42:41AM +, batela wrote: > > > Dear Sirs, > > I need to define a enumeration with the text label = "Remark". For that I > define \defineenumeration[Remark][text=Remark]. The label for the subRemark > should be "subRem

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Hi, On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:05:01 -0700, Otared Kavian wrote: %\font\Faarsi=Scheherazade*CrypticFeatures at 14pt % this does not work The following works here: % engine=luatex \definefontfeature [scheherazade-test] [analyze=yes,mode=node, language=dflt,script=arab, ccmp

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:54:51 -0700, Khaled Hosny wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/arabicot/features.htm :-) watch the "The standard order for applying Arabic features encoded in OpenType fonts" ... an earlier mkiv otf handler did this but then we found out that it violat

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Hi Otared, On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:05:01 -0700, Otared Kavian wrote: If a humble opinion from an ordinary user may be issued, I agree with Khaled that it would be extremely useful to have some basic default settings for Arabic fonts, and even more generally for any particular fonts used fo

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:03:56 -0700, Khaled Hosny wrote: I totally agree with you, more ever I hop that at some point in the future, just selecting certain language will be enough to get proper display of it, some thing like: \mainlanguage[arabic] \startext أهلا بالعالم! \stoptext Fonts wil

Re: [NTG-context] Nested sections in interface=xp?

2009-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 21.02.2009 um 00:34 schrieb Kevin D. Robbins: I'm interested to know whether nested sections are supported in the new structure code (strc-*)? Using the following to test, I don't get a section and subsection, but rather two sections. The log file notes a "missing \stopsection". \star

Re: [NTG-context] basic luatex/minimals problem

2009-02-22 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, Thomas. I have moved HOMETEXMF to ~/temf and have set HOMETEXMF = ~/texmf in my configuration file (in ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-local/web2c/). When I first set this up with Mocja, I (we?) had HOMETEXMF = ~/ Library/texmf. Alan On Feb 21, 2009, at 13;56,59 , Thomas A. S

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:41:48PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:39:23 -0700, Khaled Hosny >> wrote: >> >>> Microsoft's OpenType features list page >>> (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ae.htm) gives a "UI >>> su

Re: [NTG-context] Typing unicode

2009-02-22 Thread zs
Hi, try this: \getglyph{name:TeXGyreHeros-Regular}{\char"2013} % your font should have the glyph! If you are in linux and your editor is UTF8 capable, try pressing keys and then type <2013>. This should work when using luatex. ZS On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:48:50 -0300 Maurí­cio wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] strange fontswitching error

2009-02-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Stone wrote: This works, except... the next beta does some more checking (valid fontclass and some fallbacks) Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH

Re: [NTG-context] lists in mkiv

2009-02-22 Thread Johan Sandblom
Further investigation shows that I also cannot produce an index with the following \starttext test\index{test} \placeindex \stoptext This is using the minimals on linux-amd64 and the following versions ~/context$ context --version MtxRun | main context file: /home/johans/context/tex/texmf-contex

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:05:01PM +0100, Otared Kavian wrote: > Hi Hans, Khaled, and Idris, > > If a humble opinion from an ordinary user may be issued, I agree with > Khaled that it would be extremely useful to have some basic default > settings for Arabic fonts, and even more generally for a

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 03:46:50PM -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:39:23 -0700, Khaled Hosny > wrote: > >> Microsoft's OpenType features list page >> (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ae.htm) gives a "UI >> suggestion" for each featu

Re: [NTG-context] Instalation of minimal

2009-02-22 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Maurí­cio wrote: > Hi, > > Are information on this page > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals > > still valid? After following instructions and > successfull (I think) rsync sessions I try: > > source ~/context/tex/setuptex ~/context/tex > > and I'm to

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Karl Berry
Why not just include the SIL arabic fonts? The OFL is fine for a license. TL already has several other OFL'd fonts. If someone puts the fonts on CTAN, I don't mind incorporating them in TL. (As a practical matter, it is a lot of extra work for me to work with any package that is not on CTAN

Re: [NTG-context] lists in mkiv

2009-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 22.02.2009 um 10:24 schrieb Johan Sandblom: For a small manual-type document I am trying to include a phone directory. I would like it to be sorted. The following produces no output other than "test". Shouldn't it? Use the last current/stable version, lists did not work with the current be

Re: [NTG-context] Cyrillic fonts

2009-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 21.02.2009 um 23:08 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Thank you, Hans. But my argument for default Times (or other font) is that it supports Cyrillic, while LM does not. We hat this topic a while ago and Hans suggested one should write a mail to the Latin Modern team to include cyrillic. U

[NTG-context] Updating lang-ita.tex

2009-02-22 Thread Xan
Hi, I send you the latest version of the corrected lang-ita.tex. I update the catalan and spanish languages. Thanks, Xan. %D \module %D [ file=lang-ita, %Dversion=1997.09.03, %D title=\CONTEXT\ Language Macros, %D subtitle=Italic Languages, %D author=Hans H

Re: [NTG-context] Nested sections in interface=xp?

2009-02-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Kevin D. Robbins wrote: I'm interested to know whether nested sections are supported in the new structure code (strc-*)? Using the following to test, I don't get a section and subsection, but rather two sections. The log file notes a "missing \stopsection". \starttext \startsection{Section} \in

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Ilda Khaki
In fact there are some Persian/Arabic fonts in TL08 and there is no need to include them. They are a part of xepersian package. I think they should be at fonts/truetype/xepersian These fonts include SIL's font in addition to farsiweb fonts. Looking at CTAN, it seems that the author of xepersian i

Re: [NTG-context] basic luatex/minimals problem

2009-02-22 Thread Alan Bowen
Aditya— I missed these in my last message: luatools --expand-var HOMETEXMF gets /nonexist kpsewhich --expand-var $HOMETEXMF gets /nonexist kpsewhich --expand-var HOMETEXMF gets HOMETEXMF Alan On Feb 20, 2009, at 18;43,54 , Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Alan Bowen wrote: Adit

[NTG-context] LM typsescript problem

2009-02-22 Thread Alan Bowen
I am currently faced with an unacceptable choice (ConTeXt ver: 2009.01.18 14:39 MKII). My environment file has: \enableregime[mac] \mainlanguage[en] % use \fr, \de, e.g., for local changes Margin Kerning and Font Expansion \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono,mm][hanging][normal] \setupa

Re: [NTG-context] Cyrrilic fonts

2009-02-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 00:00, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > > Sure, mkiv :) I just tried to use gyre fonts, but cannot figure out what > typescripts to use. %( > > The only thing that works for me is > \usetypescriptfile[type-otf] > \usetypescript[times] > \setupbodyfont[times,16pt] > > which gi

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:39:23 -0700, Khaled Hosny wrote: Microsoft's OpenType features list page (http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ae.htm) gives a "UI suggestion" for each feature noting if it should be on by default, Hmm, I think

[NTG-context] Using texexec to prepare single-sided PDF for double-sided printing

2009-02-22 Thread John Devereux
Hi, I would like to use texexec to post-process a large pdf file, so as to prepare it for double sided printing. The existing file has a large left hand "margin" on each page, so as to allow binding. I would like to change this so that odd (right) pages have a large left margin, and even (left)

Re: [NTG-context] basic luatex/minimals problem

2009-02-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Feb 21, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Alan Bowen wrote: Aditya— luatools --expand-var TEXMF gets {/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-project,/Applications/ ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-fonts,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/ texmf-local,/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-osx-intel,/ Applic

[NTG-context] defineenumeration

2009-02-22 Thread batela
Dear Sirs, I need to define a enumeration with the text label = "Remark". For that I define \defineenumeration[Remark][text=Remark]. The label for the subRemark should be "subRemark". Is there a easy way to do that? The subRemark is a son of Remark and the numeration expected is: Remark

[NTG-context] luatex tikz problem

2009-02-22 Thread Mohamed Bana
hi, why does this fail with luatex? also, try \enableregime[utf-8] i got another error message when that's enabled. $ luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.31.3-2008123108, build unknown $ context --version MtxRun | main context file: /home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-con

Re: [NTG-context] basic luatex/minimals problem

2009-02-22 Thread Alan Bowen
Aditya— luatools --expand-var TEXMFHOME gets absolutely nothing, just a blank line and then return to the the main prompt. kpsewhich --expand-var TEXMFHOME gets TEXMFHOME kpsewhich t-ancientgreek.tex gets nothing luatools --localte t-ancientgreek.tex gets a blank line and then a return t

[NTG-context] bold with type?

2009-02-22 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Hi all, I need to have bold characters with type. I tried what is said here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bold_typewriter but cmttb is not on my machine (TexLive 2008 ), and context or texexec are complaining; only the umtypewriter family seems to have bold faces, but it's a bit too ugly for me :-

[NTG-context] automatic footnote rule in MKIV

2009-02-22 Thread Ilda Khaki
as I said before, in Persian we have two footnotes, one for Persian and the other for English, if the first footnote in a pageis English, then footnote rule will appear on left hand side and if the first footnote in a pgeis persian, the footnote appears on right . handside. this is the code taken

[NTG-context] lists in mkiv

2009-02-22 Thread Johan Sandblom
For a small manual-type document I am trying to include a phone directory. I would like it to be sorted. The following produces no output other than "test". Shouldn't it? Johan Sandblom \starttext test \definesorting[telefon][telefoner] \setupsorting[telefon][criterium=all] \telefon{Milad El S

[NTG-context] Cyrillic fonts

2009-02-22 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
no. also, times is even older than lm -) i'd like to default to optima nova or palatino nova but that's no option for most users either because these are commercial fonts Thank you, Hans. But my argument for default Times (or other font) is that it supports Cyrillic, while LM does not. I t

Re: [NTG-context] Vertical lines for tabulate

2009-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Hi, > > there was a question in the german TeX newgroupd how create > a table with borders on all which allows one to split the > content at the end of the page. > > Although he used LaTeX I was looking for a ConTeXt solution, > splitti

Re: [NTG-context] Instalation of minimal

2009-02-22 Thread polytope
Dera Maur??cio, I am sorry to write your name with "??" mark. It is displayed in my computer with ?? I think that wiki's guide is still valid. However, You may read Otared Kavians' following note listed last month. It may help you. Good luck! best regards, Dalyoung Jeong %%% Date: Wed

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, Khaled, and Idris, If a humble opinion from an ordinary user may be issued, I agree with Khaled that it would be extremely useful to have some basic default settings for Arabic fonts, and even more generally for any particular fonts used for other languages. This would not prevent

[NTG-context] Instalation of minimal

2009-02-22 Thread Maurí­cio
Hi, Is information on this page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals still valid? After following instructions and successfull (I think) rsync sessions I try: source ~/context/tex/setuptex ~/context/tex and I'm told ~/context/tex is not a valid TeX directory. I also tried downloadi

[NTG-context] Jalali Calendar for MKIv

2009-02-22 Thread Ilda Khaki
Hi, This is the macro for Jalali Calendar taken from xepersian \newif\i...@leap \newif\i...@kabiseh \newcount...@i \newcount...@y \newcount...@m \newcount...@d \newcount...@latini\newcount...@persiani \newcount...@latinii \newcount...@

Re: [NTG-context] Making necessary OpenType features on by default

2009-02-22 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Hans, Khaled, and Idris, If a humble opinion from an ordinary user may be issued, I agree with Khaled that it would be extremely useful to have some basic default settings for Arabic fonts, and even more generally for any particular fonts used for other languages. This would not prevent

[NTG-context] Instalation of minimal

2009-02-22 Thread Maurí­cio
Hi, Are information on this page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals still valid? After following instructions and successfull (I think) rsync sessions I try: source ~/context/tex/setuptex ~/context/tex and I'm told ~/context/tex is not a valid TeX directory. I also tried download