Re: [NTG-context] Macro for acronyms

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/3/19 Aditya Mahajan > \definestartstop >>> [FancyFirstLetter] >>> [style={\switchtobodyfont[big]\bf}, >>> color=red] >>> >>> \def\FancyUppercase#1% >>> {\dostartFancyUppercase#1\dostopFancyUppercase} >>> >>> \def\dostartFancyUppercase#1#2\dostopFancyUppercase >>> {\FancyFirstLetter{#1}#

Re: [NTG-context] ... and emoticons

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/3/19 Aditya Mahajan > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > > 2011/3/19 Aditya Mahajan >> >> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >>> >>> Are there codes for ... and emoticons in ConTeXt? >>> >>> \setupbodyfont[libertine] >>> \starttext >>> \unknown\ or \ldots >>

Re: [NTG-context] Macro for acronyms

2011-03-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2011/3/19 Aditya Mahajan On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: At the moment I have I my document: {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf M}ust {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf S}hould {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf C}ould {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\

Re: [NTG-context] ... and emoticons

2011-03-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: 2011/3/19 Aditya Mahajan On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: Are there codes for ... and emoticons in ConTeXt? \setupbodyfont[libertine] \starttext \unknown\ or \ldots Works. What is the difference between \unknown\ and \ldots? \l

Re: [NTG-context] ... and emoticons

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/3/19 Aditya Mahajan > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > > Are there codes for ... and emoticons in ConTeXt? >> > > \setupbodyfont[libertine] > \starttext > \unknown\ or \ldots > Works. What is the difference between \unknown\ and \ldots? > ☺☹ > Does not work at the moment. I

Re: [NTG-context] Macro for acronyms

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/3/19 Aditya Mahajan > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > > At the moment I have I my document: >> {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf M}ust >> >> {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf S}hould >> >> {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf C}ould >> >> {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf N}ot now >> >> But I li

Re: [NTG-context] Some problems I experienced when using ConTeXt

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/3/19 Aditya Mahajan > manifests itself when I set lefthyphenmin and righthyphenmin. >> Then sometimes sentences are to long. Would it not be better to >> have a lot of whitespace between the words, but keep the >> formating? >> >> In the document the third line of the first paragraph is to l

Re: [NTG-context] Some problems I experienced when using ConTeXt

2011-03-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: In my explorary journey into ConTeXt I bumped into a few problems. Attached my tex file and the generated PDF. I found a few problems while using ConTeXt. I did my best to reproduce them (the table problem was difficult to reproduce) and make a small

Re: [NTG-context] ... and emoticons

2011-03-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: Are there codes for ... and emoticons in ConTeXt? \setupbodyfont[libertine] \starttext \unknown\ or \ldots ☺☹ \stoptext Aditya___ If your question is of interest to othe

Re: [NTG-context] Macro for acronyms

2011-03-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: At the moment I have I my document: {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf M}ust {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf S}hould {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf C}ould {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf N}ot now But I like to have a macro for this, so I could just do: \Acro

[NTG-context] ... and emoticons

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
Are there codes for ... and emoticons in ConTeXt? -- Cecil Westerhof ___ 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/

[NTG-context] Some problems I experienced when using ConTeXt

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
In my explorary journey into ConTeXt I bumped into a few problems. Attached my tex file and the generated PDF. I found a few problems while using ConTeXt. I did my best to reproduce them (the table problem was difficult to reproduce) and make a small sample document. There is a problem with the

[NTG-context] Macro for acronyms

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
At the moment I have I my document: {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf M}ust {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf S}hould {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf C}ould {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf N}ot now But I like to have a macro for this, so I could just do: \Acronym{Must Should Could Not~now} Is more readabl

[NTG-context] Producing quotesingle glyph

2011-03-18 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Hello, This may be a stupid question, but I can't work out how to produce the ' character (quotesingle, unicode 0x0027) glyph in a document. Just typing the character in the source produces a quoteright as expected. Here are my other attempts: \starttext \quotesingle \getnamedglyphdirect{lm}{quot

Re: [NTG-context] How to get rounded corners and a thicker line with \startframedtext

2011-03-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > 2011/3/18 luigi scarso >> >> also >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Framed > > A very interesting read. I changed my macro to: > \define[2]\Citation{ >   \blank >   \startframedtext[middle][ >     align=middle, >     background=color, >   

Re: [NTG-context] How to get rounded corners and a thicker line with \startframedtext

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/3/18 luigi scarso > also > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Framed > A very interesting read. I changed my macro to: \define[2]\Citation{ \blank \startframedtext[middle][ align=middle, background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgray, corner=round, rulethickness=2bp ]

Re: [NTG-context] How to get rounded corners and a thicker line with \startframedtext

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2011/3/18 Aditya Mahajan > but I like to change two things: >> - I would like to use rounded corners >> > I want to use this to intersperse my document with citations. It is not > bad, > > \defineframedtext[...][corner=round] > > > - I would like to use a slightly thicker line to draw the box >>

Re: [NTG-context] How to get rounded corners and a thicker line with \startframedtext

2011-03-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > >> I am still dabbling with ConTeXt. There is a lot to learn, but it is worth >> it. ;-} >> >> At the moment I have (when finished I make a macro of it): >> \startframedtext[middle] >>  \startal

Re: [NTG-context] How to get rounded corners and a thicker line with \startframedtext

2011-03-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote: I am still dabbling with ConTeXt. There is a lot to learn, but it is worth it. ;-} At the moment I have (when finished I make a macro of it): \startframedtext[middle] \startalignment[middle] {\bf A goal properly set is halfway reached.} \stopalig

[NTG-context] How to get rounded corners and a thicker line with \startframedtext

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
I am still dabbling with ConTeXt. There is a lot to learn, but it is worth it. ;-} At the moment I have (when finished I make a macro of it): \startframedtext[middle] \startalignment[middle] {\bf A goal properly set is halfway reached.} \stopalignment \blank[small] \startalignment[flus

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Version Selection

2011-03-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-3-2011 10:05, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: On 18-3-2011 8:51, Raymond LeClair wrote: Is it possible to select the PDF version that is produced by running "context file.tex"? For example, running "context file.tex" produced "file.pdf" of PDF version _1.5_

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Version Selection

2011-03-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: On 18-3-2011 8:51, Raymond LeClair wrote: Is it possible to select the PDF version that is produced by running "context file.tex"? For example, running "context file.tex" produced "file.pdf" of PDF version _1.5_ on Ubuntu with ConTeXt ver: 2009.11.26 1

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Version Selection

2011-03-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-3-2011 8:51, Raymond LeClair wrote: Is it possible to select the PDF version that is produced by running "context file.tex"? For example, running "context file.tex" produced "file.pdf" of PDF version _1.5_ on Ubuntu with ConTeXt ver: 2009.11.26 16:28 MKIV and of PDF version _1.6_ on Mac

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google)

2011-03-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2011-03-18 um 12:01 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper OpenType magic? I really wonder how relevant advanced typography would be in that case, where it relates to on-screen display. It seems to be more about hinting and similar is

Re: [NTG-context] PDF Version Selection

2011-03-18 Thread Raymond LeClair
Is it possible to select the PDF version that is produced by running "context file.tex"? For example, running "context file.tex" produced "file.pdf" of PDF version _1.5_ on Ubuntu with ConTeXt ver: 2009.11.26 16:28 MKIV and of PDF version _1.6_ on Mac OS X with ConTeXt ver: 2010.05.24 13:05 M

Re: [NTG-context] (RSFS) font installation

2011-03-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-3-2011 5:01, mathew wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:51, Hans Hagen wrote: On 18-3-2011 3:40, mathew wrote: \definetypeface [dingbats][ss][sans][dingbats][default] this assumes a dingbats typescript Sorry, I omitted that when copying my code... \starttext {\dingbats \uchar{39}{7}\

Re: [NTG-context] (RSFS) font installation

2011-03-18 Thread mathew
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:51, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 18-3-2011 3:40, mathew wrote: >> \definetypeface [dingbats][ss][sans][dingbats][default] > > this assumes a dingbats typescript Sorry, I omitted that when copying my code... >> \starttext >> {\dingbats \uchar{39}{7}\uchar{39}{13}\uchar{39}{42

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] VirtualWin

2011-03-18 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Friday 18 March 2011 15:50:10 luigi scarso wrote: > VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating > system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7). A virtual desktop > manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops > (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual

Re: [NTG-context] pageshifting

2011-03-18 Thread Willi Egger
Hello Wolfgang, that is what I thought. Thanks! Still when I run first-setup.sh --context=beta I receive the version of 2011-02-25. with Luatex beta-0.65.0-2010121316 ?? - I heard though that Luatex .66 is available but why not in the minimals? Willi On 18 Mar 2011, at 11:00, Wolfgang Schuste

Re: [NTG-context] (RSFS) font installation

2011-03-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-3-2011 3:40, mathew wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:04, Hans Hagen wrote: Also, I only consider a type 1 font okay when it has both an afm and a pfb file and mkiv can handle that quite well (even beyond the regular tex encodings). Personally I need it for fonts that I have bought and do

[NTG-context] [OT] VirtualWin

2011-03-18 Thread luigi scarso
VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accu

Re: [NTG-context] (RSFS) font installation

2011-03-18 Thread Stefan Müller
Indeed, that works! Thank you very much. So again, structure matters. Kind regards, Stefan. On 18.03.2011 12:39, Hans Hagen wrote: On 18-3-2011 12:26, Stefan Müller wrote: I have the following: texmf-fonts \ fonts \ rsfs \ *.mf texmf-fonts \ fonts \ rsfs \ type1 \ *.pfb texmf-fonts \ fonts \

Re: [NTG-context] (RSFS) font installation

2011-03-18 Thread mathew
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:04, Hans Hagen wrote: > Also, I only consider a type 1 font okay when it has both an afm and a pfb > file and mkiv can handle that quite well (even beyond the regular tex > encodings). Personally I need it for fonts that I have bought and don't want > to buy again. Same

Re: [NTG-context] (RSFS) font installation

2011-03-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-3-2011 12:26, Stefan Müller wrote: I have the following: texmf-fonts \ fonts \ rsfs \ *.mf texmf-fonts \ fonts \ rsfs \ type1 \ *.pfb texmf-fonts \ fonts \ rsfs \ type1 \ afm \ *.afm texmf-fonts \ fonts \ rsfs \ type1 \ map \ *.map texmf-fonts \ fonts \ rsfs \ type1 \ pfm \ *.pfm just pu

Re: [NTG-context] (RSFS) font installation

2011-03-18 Thread Stefan Müller
On 18.03.2011 03:42, mathew wrote: On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:53, Stefan Müller wrote: Yes, I thought so. I just asked, because I couldn't find an environment variable with that name. Even after "setuptex.bat" typing "echo %OSFONTDIR%" did only print "%OSFONTDIR%" and not a list of paths, as I e

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to generate only a table of contents

2011-03-18 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Peter Münster wrote: > Cecil Westerhof writes: > >> Is it possible to generate only a TOC? (\completecontent) When >> creating a document I like to have the 'stakeholders' to have an >> indication of what is going on. For this a TOC is enough. I could >> create t

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google)

2011-03-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:37:40AM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > From TeX-D-L: > > Google sponsors development of a screen-optimized Arabic font. > > >Graham Douglas weist in seinem Blog darauf hin, daß Google derzeit die > >Entwicklung eines arabischen Fonts finanziert, der besonders für d

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google)

2011-03-18 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper > OpenType magic? I really wonder how relevant advanced typography would be in that case, where it relates to on-screen display. It seems to be more about hinting and similar issues. Arthur ___

[NTG-context] Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google)

2011-03-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
From TeX-D-L: Google sponsors development of a screen-optimized Arabic font. Graham Douglas weist in seinem Blog darauf hin, daß Google derzeit die Entwicklung eines arabischen Fonts finanziert, der besonders für die Darstellung auf Bildschirmen optimiert worden ist. Die Entwicklung des Fonts w

Re: [NTG-context] (RSFS) font installation

2011-03-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-3-2011 4:27, Khaled Hosny wrote: But it might not be a bad idea for LuaTeX to automatically perform a pfm2afm conversion and cache the converted files when necessary, and probably not that hard to code. On the other hand, Type 1 fonts are legacy at this point, so it might not be worth it.

Re: [NTG-context] Difference between MKII, XeTeX and MKIV

2011-03-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 18-3-2011 3:54, mathew wrote: On Mar 14, 2011, at 16:49, Marco wrote: I totally agree. But Cecil mentioned in another thread: »My document is mostly text.« Even if a few mp graphics are involved luatex is still noticeably slower. I look at it from the perspective that the last time I used T

Re: [NTG-context] pageshifting

2011-03-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 17.03.2011 um 16:24 schrieb Willi Egger: > Hi, > > it looks as of there is a bug in page-imp in MKIV. The problem does not show > up in MKII. > > When using vertical and or horizontal pageshift lists while arranging an > error occurs: page-imp.mkiv (missing \fi’s at the end of \ifcsname):

Re: [NTG-context] 620 pages limit?

2011-03-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 17-3-2011 7:28, Vnpenguin wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 17:54, Hans Hagen wrote: On 14-3-2011 10:35, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 14.03.2011 um 18:02 schrieb luigi scarso: \starttext \dorecurse{5000} {\input knuth \page } \stoptext A little bit faster but with the same error message:

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to generate only a table of contents

2011-03-18 Thread Peter Münster
Cecil Westerhof writes: > Is it possible to generate only a TOC? (\completecontent) When > creating a document I like to have the 'stakeholders' to have an > indication of what is going on. For this a TOC is enough. I could > create the document and cut out the TOC, but it would be simpler if > t

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to generate only a table of contents

2011-03-18 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 18.03.2011 um 09:32 schrieb Cecil Westerhof: > Is it possible to generate only a TOC? (\completecontent) When creating a > document I like to have the 'stakeholders' to have an indication of what is > going on. For this a TOC is enough. I could create the document and cut out > the TOC, but

[NTG-context] Is it possible to generate only a table of contents

2011-03-18 Thread Cecil Westerhof
Is it possible to generate only a TOC? (\completecontent) When creating a document I like to have the 'stakeholders' to have an indication of what is going on. For this a TOC is enough. I could create the document and cut out the TOC, but it would be simpler if that could be auto generated. -- Ce

Re: [NTG-context] cals tables - UNSOLVED

2011-03-18 Thread R. Ermers
Dear Aditya, thanks greatly for your advice! It works! I now can influence how my tables look like. Do you think it is possible to typeset an xml file that contains On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, R. Ermers wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I am still trying to typeset cals tables. >> >> I have >> 1. an envi