Re: [NTG-context] \framed (and others) don't honor directional switches

2009-04-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 12:35:30PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: indeed, so we're looking into it now (an dlet's forget about the page/bodydir for the moment) since textdir and pardir go hand-in-hand i suggest the following \setuplayout[direction=r2l]

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic shaping

2009-04-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: Currently 'font-ota.lua' hard codes the Arabic shaping properties,and it doesn't seem to be complete (e.g. the ڤ as in أڤاست is not joined), I think such information belong to 'char-def.lua' and should be derived from UCD, which provide 'ArabicShaping.txt[1]', covering

Re: [NTG-context] New module simpleslides

2009-04-05 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Thomas, Can you remove the date from the filename. No, I'm afraid it doesn't let me change this any more. This looks realy strange - if I create the zip with textools, I get a filename t- XXXt-2009.03.31.zip, and when I upload this to the garden, it will append the date and the extension

[NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Yanrui Li
These days I have been reading co-fonts.pdf because I plan to write a document about ConTeXt MkIV for our Chinese users. When I reached the part of Defining body fonts, for testing bodyfont model, I made an example as following: \definefontsynonym[Song][AdobeSongStd-Light]

Re: [NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 05.04.2009 um 15:07 schrieb Yanrui Li: I want to know why I can not override the preloading rm font. Dunno but it works for a complete definition. \definefontsynonym [Song] [file:AdobeSongStd-Light] \definefontsynonym [Hei] [file:AdobeHeitiStd-Regular] \definefontsynonym

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic shaping

2009-04-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:16:55AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: Currently 'font-ota.lua' hard codes the Arabic shaping properties,and it doesn't seem to be complete (e.g. the ڤ as in أڤاست is not joined), I think such information belong to 'char-def.lua' and should be derived

Re: [NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Yanrui Li
2009/4/5 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com: Am 05.04.2009 um 15:07 schrieb Yanrui Li: I want to know why I can not override the preloading rm font. Dunno but it works for a complete definition. If I use other font size, it can work, such as: \definebodyfont[11pt][rm]

[NTG-context] Bug with Adobe Arabic font kerning

2009-04-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
The font seems to have a buggy (too big) GPOS kerning table (it does cause fontforge to hang writing the font). If 'kern' is set to 'yes', I get this error: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-inj.lua:62: attempt to index local 'kb' (a nil value) I had to put if..then around that

Re: [NTG-context] Perfect Mac OS X Installation?

2009-04-05 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote: On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Markus Hubig wrote: Hi @all, i've done a fresh install of ConTeXt Minimals on my Mac OS X box. Now I like to put my setup steps into a small script so my brother can use it. It

[NTG-context] Michael Wigston is out of the office. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-04-05 Thread Michael Wigston
I will be out of the office starting 06/04/2009 and will not return until 20/04/2009. I will respond to your message when I return. Please consider the environment before printing this document NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the addressee(s) only and may be

Re: [NTG-context] New module simpleslides

2009-04-05 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 01:27, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 01:12, Mohamed Bana wrote: thank you both. is there any chance that this will ship with the minimals, that is, so i don't have to download and extract it manually?  i've never been content with slides that come as

[NTG-context] version control for modules (was: New module simpleslides)

2009-04-05 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 14:51, Patrick Gundlach wrote: I have finally fixed the name. I will do some code changes to ensure a more reasonable user interface. Patrick, Can we create a bunch of version-controlled repositories instead of fancy user interface? I would prefer being able to say svn

Re: [NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 05.04.2009 um 17:16 schrieb Yanrui Li: I want to know why I can not override the preloading rm font. Dunno but it works for a complete definition. If I use other font size, it can work, such as: It has to do with the default setting which is 12pt roman.

[NTG-context] ConTeXt color=red!40!yellow

2009-04-05 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I might be dreaming already, but on last Tuesday (I don't know which version though) this code kept generating orange balls in ConTeXt MKII: \shade[ball color=red!40!yellow] (0,0) circle (.15cm); Now I get a black one. Has anything with respect to color handling mechanisms changed in

Re: [NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 05.04.2009 um 17:16 schrieb Yanrui Li: I want to know why I can not override the preloading rm font. Dunno but it works for a complete definition. If I use other font size, it can work, such as: It has to do with the default setting which is 12pt roman.

Re: [NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 05.04.2009 um 22:04 schrieb Hans Hagen: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 05.04.2009 um 17:16 schrieb Yanrui Li: I want to know why I can not override the preloading rm font. Dunno but it works for a complete definition. If I use other font size, it can work, such as: It has to do with the

Re: [NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 05.04.2009 um 22:04 schrieb Hans Hagen: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 05.04.2009 um 17:16 schrieb Yanrui Li: I want to know why I can not override the preloading rm font. Dunno but it works for a complete definition. If I use other font size, it can work, such

Re: [NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 05.04.2009 um 23:14 schrieb Hans Hagen: \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[mymodern] Did not work because reset alone use the roman style also for italic and bold and he don't use his own typeface, your dummy mymodern lead us back to the start. tricky ... --mode=*nofonts Not

Re: [NTG-context] Bug with Adobe Arabic font kerning

2009-04-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: The font seems to have a buggy (too big) GPOS kerning table (it does cause fontforge to hang writing the font). If 'kern' is set to 'yes', I get this error: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-inj.lua:62: attempt to index local 'kb' (a nil value) I had to put

Re: [NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 05.04.2009 um 23:14 schrieb Hans Hagen: \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[mymodern] Did not work because reset alone use the roman style also for italic and bold and he don't use his own typeface, your dummy mymodern lead us back to the start. tricky ...

Re: [NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 05.04.2009 um 23:25 schrieb Hans Hagen: sure, but i'm not too eager to add that kind of hackery so loading a new typeface then makes more sense My hack can be done in a cleaner way with \appendtoks\letcsnamecs \csname\newfontidentifier\endcsname\undefined\to\everystarttext but a new

Re: [NTG-context] Bug with Adobe Arabic font kerning

2009-04-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:24:36PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: The font seems to have a buggy (too big) GPOS kerning table (it does cause fontforge to hang writing the font). If 'kern' is set to 'yes', I get this error:

Re: [NTG-context] Why can not rm or rmtf fonts be set up by \definebodyfont macro?

2009-04-05 Thread Yanrui Li
2009/4/6 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com: Am 05.04.2009 um 23:25 schrieb Hans Hagen: sure, but i'm not too eager to add that kind of hackery so loading a new typeface then makes more sense My hack can be done in a cleaner way with

Re: [NTG-context] Bug with Adobe Arabic font kerning

2009-04-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:24:36 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: The font seems to have a buggy (too big) GPOS kerning table (it does cause fontforge to hang writing the font). If 'kern' is set to 'yes', I get this error: