Re: [NTG-context] symbolset

2006-07-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: IIRC, some of the Unicode symbol sets require commercial fonts (from MacOS X). Eh, require is such a strong word... There are some placeholders in there, since the Mac OS X fonts were easy (for me) to get. The XeTeX code that named the fonts explicitly (hmm, bad old

Re: [NTG-context] \bar missing in euler

2006-07-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Aditya Mahajan wrote: gives just a. I do not get any bar over a. Yup. You seem to be the first to have noticed (or complained), as well. This is how eulervm.sty defines these characters for T1 encoding. ... That's the key, though, it apparently pulls in the text accents as well, and

Re: [NTG-context] \bar missing in euler

2006-07-11 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Aditya Mahajan wrote: I do not know what is the equivalent of 'operators' family in context. Any idea how to pull them out of the text fonts? if this is only euler, we may use something I believe this is euler only. The other math fonts I have dug into have been

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: presentation tool

2006-07-12 Thread Adam Lindsay
Nice one, Thomas. A few comments for the Mac folks: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: screen with your mouse pointer. There are some disadvantages: it has a lot of pythonish dependencies (on OS X, I could install them via darwinports, but it's a lot more difficult on most linux distros), it I

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt + XeTeX + Adobe Bembo Std = ???

2006-07-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 7/12/06, Paul Hoffman wrote: The example on the _Fonts in XeTeX_ page in the wiki works fine except for small caps, which (not surprisingly) don't show up in this first attempt: \definetypeface[bembo][rm][Xserif][Bembo Std] \setupbodyfont[bembo] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt + XeTeX + Adobe Bembo Std = ???

2006-07-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi Paul. You almost got it. You slightly misunderstood the use of the definetypface line... Paul Hoffman wrote: But that's a hack. So I create a file type-bembo.tex: \starttypescript[bembo][uc] not quite. try: \starttypescript[serif][bembo][uc] \definetypeface [bembo] [rm]

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, Charts, and transparency

2006-07-15 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Yes, but that seems mainly geared towards flow charts, not graphical charts. Can m-chart do things like the example png attached at the start of the thread? i lost that one; actually, willy egger is the most experienced chart user but he's

Re: [NTG-context] infinite paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: 5m is inifinite enough for me (I hope). I only need to fit the whole article on a single page and I guess that no article will go over this limit. FWIW, Acrobat 6 and earlier had severe problems with document dimensions over 200cm, so keep that in mind for

Re: [NTG-context] small new feature on the wiki

2006-07-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: If we agree on a common page size, I could easily put it in there. If we don't agree on one, I could perhaps say context source=... width=13cm. This would take a few more minutes to implement (I still have to implement that the source and the results are next to each

Re: [NTG-context] inline diagrams/charts?

2007-08-15 Thread Adam Lindsay
sparklines? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Hi there! A long time ago there was a discussion about some kind of tiny block charts that run within the text. Now I would need such for the summary of a poll. But I can't remember the name, and thus I can't

Re: [NTG-context] new version

2005-05-26 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 25 May 2005 17:34:24 +0200: the next (main) release will probably have a new texexec (ruby version, smoother, faster, more clever, no ini file etc) Hmm. I hand-updated to the latest, and now texexec wants to rebuild the format on every run. I'm not used to seeing

Re: [NTG-context] new version

2005-05-27 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 27 May 2005 01:34:57 +0200: what does texmfstart newtexexec --make --all do? Interesting... It builds the formats (not engine aware in terms of where it puts the .fmt files--at least it uses different switches compared to what I'm used to), but (old)texexec did

[NTG-context] Dense Encoding - Comments wanted

2005-05-28 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi all, On Hans's suggestion, I've been working on a dense character encoding that does away with combining accents and extraneous symbol-like characters in favor of fully accented characters. http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/dense.pdf This encoding is sort of based on the EC encoding, but adds

Re: [NTG-context] Fleurons

2005-05-30 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 30 May 2005 23:52:42 +0200: easy to read. In Bringhurst's book he mentions fleurons - A horticultural dingbat which I would like to access. I have looked through the Context if you can track down the font, it's no problem to get it typeset I've been revisiting

Re: [NTG-context] Fleurons

2005-05-31 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 31 May 2005 12:14:44 +0200: ps. i know that thomas has a minimalistic approach: as less files as possible and this is one source of the aliasses file; maybe fine for tetex, but potentially disastrous for tex live All good points. The solution (work-around that fits

Re: [NTG-context] fleurons - reprise

2005-05-31 Thread Adam Lindsay
Keith McKay said this at Tue, 31 May 2005 20:16:19 +0100: Thanks to Hans and Adam for the helpful advice. The code from Adam looked a bit daunting to me as a learner at first but when I changed [pzdr] to [uzdr] it worked fine. Oh good. The available fonts and metrics (sadly) vary with every

[OT: Re: [NTG-context] tcsh]

2005-06-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
Thomas A. Schmitz said this at Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:33:00 +0200: And you should probably stop using tcsh, bash is the standard with newer versions of OS X. There may be other reasons for using bash, but I wouldn't say that it being the current default is one. Apple doesn't rely on your choice of

Re: [NTG-context] tcsh

2005-06-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater said this at Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:24:39 +0200: Otared Kavian wrote: Dear Contexters, Recently I upgraded to MacOS X 10.4 and after that ConTeXt didn't work: upon trying to typeset a file it says: tcsh: /sw/bin/init.csh: No such file or directory. Sound like a problem in

Re: [NTG-context] tcsh

2005-06-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:36:41 +0200: Driver? their x-windows system (on top of their own stuff); it was that part that conflicted with finks' x-stuff Yes, Apple's X11 is *so* much better than just about any other option now. --

Re: [NTG-context] upshaped \textmu

2005-06-10 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater said this at Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:12:27 +0200: Isn't there a possibility to use ec-encoding for the main-font, and for some exceptions such as \textmu another encoding? I'd been wrestling with that for a while before I wrote the remark, but I could not make that work in ConTeXt.

Re: [NTG-context] unicode / utf

2005-06-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:05:49 +0200: I uploaded a new beta archive with under context/extras a file showunic.tex. showunic.pdf is very attractive, but I think you need some encoding vectors for VN stuff-you're using the fallbacks there. I have them on my machine, and will

[NTG-context] (monotonic) Greek

2005-06-27 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hey all. Hans and I are working on sorting out the greek Antykwa Torunska font support, and I noticed in the existing files that there is a fairly minimal iso-8859-7 greek encoding already implemented (enco-grk). Here's the question: does anyone encode their fonts using this? Is anyone so

Re: [NTG-context] (monotonic) Greek

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Lindsay
Torunska font-sets? - Can't comment on your question, sorry. Willi Adam Lindsay wrote: Hey all. Hans and I are working on sorting out the greek Antykwa Torunska font support, and I noticed in the existing files that there is a fairly minimal iso-8859-7 greek encoding already implemented (enco

Re: [NTG-context] Pseudo Small Caps

2005-06-29 Thread Adam Lindsay
Vit Zyka said this at Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:06:41 +0200: {\tt {Ahoj \sc Ahoj}\par {\it Ahoj \sc Ahoj}\par } Vit, Nice application of variants. However, it has to be pointed out that the fake smallcaps with \tt will be dangerous for some applications: the .8 scaling loses the

Re: [NTG-context] Apple Baskerville typescript

2005-06-30 Thread Adam Lindsay
Steven Lumos said this at Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:17:28 -0700: \starttypescript [serif] [baskerville] [texansi] \definefontsynonym [Baskerville] [Baskerville] [encoding=texansi] \definefontsynonym [Baskerville-Bold] [Baskerville-Bold] [encoding=texansi] \definefontsynonym [Baskerville-Italic]

Re: [NTG-context] International characters in math

2005-07-01 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec said this at Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:16:47 +0200: \definetypeface[somename][mm][math][euler][euler] \setupbodyfont[somename] \starttext $$\sqrt{\acute{a}+\bar{b}+\dot{c}}$$ \stoptext I don't get any accents. Am I doing something wrong? No, I am. You can verify further by adding:

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
Patrick Gundlach said this at Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:54:06 +0200: Hello David, I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal. This questions can also come from more experienced users :) Which set of instructions should I follow, in order to allow use of Palatino or Times, on Mac OS X,

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi Otared, What you mention sounds like a bug propagated by Hans last month. Take a look at this thread: http://archive.contextgarden.net/thread/ 20050610.172825.65f0c37f.html#20050610.172825.65f0c37f (Assuming you're comfortable with the CLI, I'd suggest verifying the bad file by navigating to

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
David Rogers said this at Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:02:56 -0700: I deleted the pdftex.map file you mentioned, ran mktexlsr, and I still get the same effect. (I changed the font in my document from Times to Palatino, in case I was only getting a Times that had been badly generated on my first try with

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-05 Thread Adam Lindsay
David Rogers said this at Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:18:45 -0700: But if I change every times to lucida, typesetting reverts to cm (or lm or whatever it is) and no lucida appears. What am I missing? Have you bought the lucida fonts for TeX? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [NTG-context] Why does ConTeXt try to load Latin Modern?

2005-07-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Giuseppe Bilotta said this at Wed, 6 Jul 2005 14:02:10 +0200: \setupbodyfont[ppl,rm,12pt]% ppl is defined in type-pre, which is apparently deprecated in the latest ConTeXt. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] Why does ConTeXt try to load Latin Modern?

2005-07-07 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 7 Jul 2005 15:39:23 +0200: BTW, does ConTeXt support the pazo family of fonts? never tried them ... question for adam -) Me neither, but they look to be of good quality, but of lesser glyph coverage (lacking AMS symbols) than the PX fonts. That said, the basic

Re: [NTG-context] Hiding the content (drawing empty boxes?)

2005-07-07 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec said this at Fri, 8 Jul 2005 00:33:38 +0200: Just a hint: don't ever expect my secrets to be hidden that way. They are way too precious to be seen by others by simply switching them on again in Acrobat :) It's not hidden in other PDF viewers, such as Apple's native one. --

Re: [NTG-context] Hiding the content (drawing empty boxes?)

2005-07-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 8 Jul 2005 09:12:01 +0200: as long as it's only mojca's password that needs to be hidden :) Well, someone could cut-and-paste that invisible text... But that certainly works better on Apple's Preview.app, and probably is mostly appropriate for the intended use...

Re: [NTG-context] Why does ConTeXt try to load Latin Modern?

2005-07-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Giuseppe Bilotta said this at Fri, 8 Jul 2005 10:11:01 +0200: Thursday, July 7, 2005 Adam Lindsay wrote: Me neither, but they look to be of good quality, but of lesser glyph coverage (lacking AMS symbols) than the PX fonts. That said, the basic three fonts are 99.8% glyph compatible

Re: [NTG-context] Why does ConTeXt try to load Latin Modern?

2005-07-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Giuseppe Bilotta said this at Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:39:22 +0200: Is it possible to set mathpazo as the default math font for Palatino, and setting px as the fallback? Interesting. My first thought (and this probably can apply to your other issue within this thread) was to probe for tfm files with

Re: [NTG-context] Why does ConTeXt try to load Latin Modern?

2005-07-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:14:29 +0200: ...but that doesn't work. Does anyone know how you can look for non-.tex files from within ConTeXt? you probably need to add the font paths you your tex input paths Hmm. That doesn't make for a satisfying general solution, then. --

Re: [NTG-context] How to override a font in a typescript

2005-07-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Giuseppe Bilotta said this at Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:24:10 +0200: Ok so far, but having to rewrite all of it just to override a single value seems excessive, to me. Isn't there a simple way to only override only some things? I had tried a \definetypeface line on its own, but it didn't seem to work

Re: [NTG-context] Bold Greek Math with Fourier Font

2005-07-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
Randall Skelton said this at Sat, 9 Jul 2005 14:57:29 -0400: \starttypescript [bfmath] [fourier] [name] \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [Fourier-Math-Letters-Bold] \definefontsynonym [MathItalic][Fourier-Math-Letters-Italic-Bold] \definefontsynonym [MathSymbol]

[NTG-context] Re: re-using ConTeXt typescripts ?

2005-07-11 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi Steffen, You're pretty close. It's best not to rewrite your old scripts, rather, to make a new type-enc style script to replace your existing [serif] [agaramond][ec] script. This way, when changing engines, it's a simple step of changing the (default, perhaps?) encoding... \starttypescript

Re: [NTG-context] Re: re-using ConTeXt typescripts ?

2005-07-12 Thread Adam Lindsay
Steffen Wolfrum said this at Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:07:34 +0200: Isn't is possible when processing with XeTeX to continue using those precious hand-made virtual fonts? *ohhh* I see. Sorry about the confusion. I thought you were talking about using converted OpenType fonts, and then using them in

Re: [NTG-context] Font installation help

2005-07-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Arun Swarup said this at Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:21:41 -0700: this, seems to be my problem, when i try to install an OpenType font http://www.geocities.com/arunswarup/error.txt The key line for the .otf stuff is here: TeXFont 1.8 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2003 It's way too old. The version

Re: [NTG-context] Not possible to redefine inbetween in \definedescription

2005-07-14 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater said this at Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:30:10 +0200: So every command with brackets needs to be grouped? Maybe something else? Where to look at it? I know of nothing else, just brackets. Any bracket, not just as part of a command, but also in cases like this:

Re: [NTG-context] Not possible to redefine inbetween in \definedescription

2005-07-14 Thread Adam Lindsay
Radhelorn said this at Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:25:50 +0400: If you think of the braces as quoting the parameter values, you'll probably be alright. I mean parameter values. Then why not have ConTeXt add braces to every parameter? Or there will be slowdown Taco mentioned? Sort of. That, I

Re: [NTG-context] Texfont / OTF / Font installation.

2005-07-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
David Wooten said this at Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:10:45 -0700: ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.4.3 int: english mes: english David, It looks like you're using an older ConTeXt. I made some bug fixes in TeXfont in June, and Hans silently updated TeXfont (different, but still v2.2.1) in a

Re: [NTG-context] Texfont / OTF / Font installation.

2005-07-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
Cool. I'm glad it was that easy. David Wooten said this at Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:01:59 -0700: Adam Hans, Thanks once again---you'd think I'd know by now to check the updates. Now at 5.4.2, and working fine. Regards, Dave On Jul 22, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Adam Lindsay wrote: David Wooten said

Re: [NTG-context] installing context

2005-07-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:10:57 +0200: recovering from a disk crach and running those generator scripts is a stresstest -) for you or the machine? :) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Dense Encoding - Comments wanted

2005-08-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Patrick Gundlach said this at Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:34:11 +0200: Hi Adam, So with those goals in mind, does anyone notice their favorite *letter* missing? Is there essential punctuation missing? Looks fine so far, but I have only checked the chars I use (mostly german). Did you consider posting

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Dense Encoding - Comments wanted

2005-08-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Vit Zyka said this at Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:42:18 +0200: So with those goals in mind, does anyone notice their favorite *letter* missing? Is there essential punctuation missing? OK for Czech chars too. Thanks. Good to know. Only tcaron char is not searchable (if in my AR7 search for any letter,

Re: [NTG-context] Palatino truetype: help!

2005-08-29 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater said this at Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:42:04 +0200: Same result here, and I don't understand why (however, I not very familiar with typescripts myself). Hmm. What's the pdftex output at the font-inclusion stage? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T.

Re: [NTG-context] Relative font scaling

2005-08-31 Thread Adam Lindsay
Olivier said this at Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:53:56 +0200: moreover the math font is correctly rscaled) but the tt font isn't rscaled at all. Any idea where the issue might come from? I suspect it's in your local specifics. As we don't have access to your rfont/mfont/tfont typescripts, here's a

Re: [NTG-context] Relative font scaling

2005-08-31 Thread Adam Lindsay
Olivier said this at Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:03:57 +0200: Quoting Adam Lindsay : -- was [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Aug 31, 2005 at 04:44:35PM -- Olivier said this at Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:53:56 +0200: moreover the math font is correctly rscaled) but the tt font isn't rscaled at all. Any idea where

Re: [NTG-context] Problem following OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt article

2005-09-07 Thread Adam Lindsay
Gavin Sinclair said this at Sat, 3 Sep 2005 15:42:36 +1000: Greetings (first post), Hi Gavin, Two things: Are you running texfont from the directory that contains all the .otf files? (This doesn't look like the problem here, but) Are you running the latest ConTeXt? There was a bug in the

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:38:25 +0200: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, I'm answering my own post. The plot thickens. It looks like this has something to do with file names. It only happens when I have a name with a period in it. Bug or feature? You decide, Hans! bug; but

Re: [NTG-context] lilypond inclusion + pdf crop (getting off-topic)

2005-09-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
andrea valle said this at Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:13:33 +0200: Here are two of the resulting scores (not totally finished yet) www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi-I.pdf www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi-II.pdf Wow. Fantastic stuff. Having just returned from the ICMC and ISMIR conferences, it

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt to RTF Conversion

2005-09-21 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec said this at Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:09:32 +0200: 1. The best quality can be achieved if you prepare all your stuff in XML and then write both a stylesheet for conversion into HTML and a couple of ConTeXt definitions to handle formating for output in PDF documents. I never did that

Re: [NTG-context] Block of text with natrual width but right-aligned

2005-09-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Giuseppe Bilotta said this at Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:39:32 +0200: First line of text | Second line of text | One more line of text| How do I achieve this? One quick and easy way,

Re: [NTG-context] Block of text with natrual width but right-aligned

2005-09-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Talking to myself... Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:22:18 +0100: (I played with location= in \framedtext, but it didn't have the results I expected.) (Silly mistake...) \defineframedtext[Giuseppe] [align=raggedright,width=fit,offset=0pt, frame=off,location=right

Re: [NTG-context] More problems installing OpenType fonts

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi Emil. I wrote that article and am pretty baffled by the problems you have. (I just did a test run of the same command, running an identical texfont, identical otftotfm version) The ConTeXt installation looks fine. There are two discrepancies that I see here, though: otftotfm is running

Re: [NTG-context] Re: More problems installing OpenType fonts

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
Emil Hedevang said this at Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:30:18 +: I have tested otftotfm, and it seems to work: You're right... this is why it's so baffling: all the pieces seem to work. After running texfont (with the --lcdf option), there should be a texfont.map left over in the current directory.

Re: Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] XML

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:29:17 +0200: Am 2005-09-22 um 09:53 schrieb Jessica Holle: There I don't find something which helps me. The input must not be only XML. In can also be CVS or something else... You will have to convert your XML file to become a ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Cont 2005.08.31: problem with vietnamese utf8

2005-09-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:31:32 +0200: VnPenguin wrote: I do a small test with Vietnamese UTF-8 input and the PDF is very strange: accented characters were modified all, see the shot http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/context/test/test-vn.png In the log file I see: ...

Re: [NTG-context] footnote for author (\thanks)

2005-09-26 Thread Adam Lindsay
Albrecht Kauffmann said this at Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:04:45 +0200: has ConTeXt any equivalent to the \thanks command in LaTeX that types a footnote with a * as number and doesn't alter the footnote counter? Hello, Albrecht, Does the following handle the cases you need:

Re: [NTG-context] bugs?

2005-09-26 Thread Adam Lindsay
Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:22:45 -0600: The footnote numeral `1' is indented further than the footnote numeral `2'. I'm not sure I see this: the width of `1' is less than `2', but the default LM font has monospaced numbers, so the visual space to the left of the `1' may

Re: [NTG-context] How up-to-date is cont-enp.pdf

2005-09-27 Thread Adam Lindsay
Alexander Lazic said this at Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:17:18 +0200: - a general overview of context will be provided by a book written by steve peter and adam lindsay Do you know when the book will arrive? No. :) It's in the early stages yet

Re: [NTG-context] DOC/RTF to ConTeXt via XML

2005-09-27 Thread Adam Lindsay
Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:10:27 -0600: Adam (privately) suggested hiring someone to write a structured format for authors. Is that where docbook comes in? Ah, sorry about that. I meant you *could* hire someone to design a format, but the bigger point was that it would

Re: [NTG-context] German ß

2005-10-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
Wolfgang Zillig said this at Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:57:35 +0200: The font I use is from the hfbright package (the hfbright package is a free version of the cmbright font) but when I created that typescript I did't relalize that a full font package was available and I renamed the fonts (therefore I

Re: [NTG-context] German ß

2005-10-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
[Wolfgang, I hope you don't mind me copying parts of your response to the list. -adam] Wolfgang Zillig said this at Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:06:32 +0200: Hello Adam, thanks for your answer! Hi. I'm just catching up with this issue. Mojca is giving you the right information. I've installed hfbright

[NTG-context] OT: PDF word counts?

2005-11-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but does anyone here know of good tools for doing a word count directly on existing PDFs? cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lancaster University, InfoLab21

Re: [NTG-context] Re: OT: PDF word counts?

2005-11-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Patrick Gundlach said this at Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:15:10 +0100: what about pdftotext from xpdf?: Perfect. That's certainly sufficient for my needs. I had never looked at xpdf before because of the general level of PDF support on MacOSX, but those associated tools look quite handy. The tools alone

Re: [NTG-context] conTeXt distros on MACOSX

2005-11-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
andrea valle said this at Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:59:03 +0100: If I invoke texexec from terminal, default is located in sw/bin. It's 3.1 version: Danger! Danger! (Sorry, that's a bit cruel and extreme.) However, it seems that you, once upon a time, installed the Fink package system, and tried to

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.11 Released

2005-11-11 Thread Adam Lindsay
Karl Berry said this at Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:16:08 -0600: Is this a Halo release for TeXLive? I don't know what that means, but no, this context release won't be on I should have been more precise. I've heard of halo releases being the last set of bug fixes for a given software series (such

Re: [NTG-context] diacritics in Utopia/Fourier

2005-11-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Alan Bowen said this at Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:56:55 -0500: I hope that we can resolve this—I need Fourier/Utopia for a book series. But right now not even \quote works properly in the roman typeface. Sorry I haven't had the time to engage with this issue. There's something suspect in your

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex

2005-11-21 Thread Adam Lindsay
David Arnold said this at Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:58:39 -0800: Hans, Steve, et al, OK. I have subversion client installed. Now what? What commands will download what I need? Presuming you're in a directory where you want the stuff (and svn is in your path, etc): svn checkout

Getting texfont to do batch installs on gwTeX (was Re: [NTG-context] Palatino)

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
David, Sorry I've been quiet on this front. I've been busy with other, non- ConTeXt things for a while, and am in the process of re-engaging with it. In order to run type-tmf.dat, you need a way around the hard-coded -- rootlist=TEXMFMAIN that's in the .dat file. gwTeX keeps the fonts we need in

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex from manuals

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
I tried to run texfont demofont.dat, but failed. First off, Hans, am I missing a runtools.rb? I can't find it. Secondly, I think the current demofont.dat has a bug because it triggers an obscure texfont filtering feature. I changed the comments at the head of the file to work around it: # we

Re: Getting texfont to do batch installs on gwTeX (was Re: [NTG-context] Palatino)

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:39:55 +0100: batch line : --en=texnansi --ve=public --co=antp -- so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN are you sure that you replaced it? It's weird. Looking through the rest of David's log, it replaced some of them, but not all. I never claimed to

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex from manuals

2005-11-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
On 25 Nov 2005, at 01:37, David Arnold wrote: \startnotmode[atpragma] \startMPenvironment[global] %\usetypescript[handwriting,map][lucida][texnansi] %\definefontsynonym[TitlePage-Bold][LucidaHandwriting-Italic] usetypescript[calligraphy,map][chancery][texnansi]

Re: [NTG-context] Home now --- More work with type-tmf.dat and mfonts.tex

2005-11-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
That looks like a success to me. You should now be able to run one of the texnansi-blah-blah.tex test files, as I outlined in an earlier message. adam On 24 Nov 2005, at 02:56, David Arnold wrote: On my home machine now (Mac Tiger GWTeX). I have the attached type- tmf-gw.dat in ~/tmp and

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex from manuals

2005-11-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
On 25 Nov 2005, at 22:42, Gerben Wierda wrote: No pstoedit on my system. If I recall I looked into pstoedit a while back. The fact that I did not release a package probably means there were problems getting it to compile on OS X. I seem to recall similarly trying and failing about 11

Re: [NTG-context] IPA/TIPA support in Context?

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Jason, Jason Knight wrote: What support is there for IPA/TIPA in Context at this point? I've had I think the answer is zero or nearly zero. If you have a bit of patience, I can do a port of tipa.sty (quite easy), but it will take some time

Re: [NTG-context] fontvariants

2005-12-03 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans van der Meer wrote: I was probing into the font variant mechanism. QUESTION: Is the variant mechanism exclusively tied to the series Serif (\rm) and Sans (\ss)? Yes, pretty much, in the implementation's design. If otherwise, what am I doing wrong then? Nothing. Except, is that Math

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-05 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: variants are Adam's speciality so he should provide the solution for the precize definition -) Only the original concept. I'm far enough from that low-level hackery (at this point) that all I can do is endorse yours and Hans's solution as advancing the cause of font

Re: [NTG-context] \godown

2005-12-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Adam Lindsay wrote: having to adjust for little gaps with: \godown[-0.029\bodyfontsize] Does this ring a bell with anyone? I would have thought \godown[0pt] was the answer, but not so, here. The font metrics seem to be right, adding up to 1000 in both directions

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2005-12-08 um 09:39 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Cool! http://modules.contextgarden.net ? Why not? It's PD. ;-) I'd like to prepare some more symbol fonts - any requests? (I always like to do nice font stuff while I should something more important... ;-)) What,

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2005-12-08 um 19:01 schrieb Adam Lindsay: I'd like to prepare some more symbol fonts - any requests? (I always like to do nice font stuff while I should something more important... ;-)) What, you too? There's this, probably this month only, as well: http

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hi, Xiao Jianfeng wrote: What would be needed to get UTF-8 input running with Chinese? If you use vim to edit your tex file, maybe you can try set encoding=utf8, then save and compile. As far as I know, GBK is compatible with unicode. No, that does not work - that

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-12 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Warning: pdfetex (file qx-bitstream-vera.map): cannot open font map file and then complaints about not being able to create a long list of bitmap fonts,�when I try to compile your vera-test.tex. do you need qx? (eastern european languages)

Re: [NTG-context] problems with bold small caps

2005-12-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: I wrote: \sc and \bf are defined at the same level in ConTeXt, so they (normally) exclude each other. My guess is that it is very unlikely that this will be fixed, but ... make that be changed, but .. Because it is not a bug, the behaviour is intentional. Yes,

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Chinese

2005-12-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: what we need is a set of encoding files like /UniEncoding52 [ /uni52DF /uni52E0 I hate to be negative, but I have doubts about how generic this approach may be. In some tentative experiments, I discovered that many (most?) CJK fonts don't use traditional postscript

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Chinese

2005-12-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Adam Lindsay wrote: Fortunately, ttf2tfm's -w [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ notation seems to address this in most of the old test cases I tried. afaik pdftex can handle the index and unic entries as alternatives for glyphnames Yes. Sorry I wasn't clear on that. It's just

Re: [NTG-context] th nd and rd

2006-01-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
John R. Culleton wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 04:35 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote: \def\enordinalnumber#1% {#1\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=11 \highordinalstr{th}% \else\ifcase\lastdigit{#1}% \highordinalstr{th}% \or % 1 \highordinalstr{st}% \or % 2 \highordinalstr{nd}% \or

Re: [NTG-context] write18

2006-02-05 Thread Adam Lindsay
Gerben Wierda wrote: On 5 Feb 2006, at 05:10, David Arnold wrote: Gerben, With a default install of Context, I don't believe write18 is enabled nor run time development of Metapost graphics. Do you do any of that? If a change would require a non-secure standard config, I will not do

Re: [NTG-context] Dense encoding, part II

2006-02-05 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, The fact that all Polish fonts (lm, iwona, kurier, antt) now ship with el-* files makes me wonder: is there time to do the next step and finish the second encoding with symbols? indeed Oop. Sorry, I hadn't been watching that. I've

Re: [NTG-context] hanging in captions

2006-02-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Peter Münster wrote: \setupcaptions[align={hz,hanging}] I don't believe that is supposed to work, but I do not understand why the handling is reset inside the caption. This works (but is unwieldy if you have lots of floats): \placefigure%

Re: [NTG-context] Dense encoding, part II

2006-02-10 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 2/5/06, Adam Lindsay wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, The fact that all Polish fonts (lm, iwona, kurier, antt) now ship with el-* files makes me wonder: is there time to do the next step and finish the second encoding with symbols? indeed

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType and XeConTeXt

2006-02-14 Thread Adam Lindsay
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, using ConTeXt with XeTeX seems to be an nice option for us MacOSX users. But I get always confused with the names for these rich features like Style Option, Ligatures, Variants. I mean: how do I know how many variants and style options a font has and how they

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot mode

2006-02-15 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: what is this hlhr8r? a font filename? Yes, one of the Lucida ones. ()when installing lbr using texfont, did you (manually) move the math pfb files and tfm files? (maybe i should distribute the lbr math tfm files) Or, maybe I should finish that type-dis typescript to

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot mode

2006-02-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Adam Lindsay wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: what is this hlhr8r? a font filename? Yes, one of the Lucida ones. ()when installing lbr using texfont, did you (manually) move the math pfb files and tfm files? (maybe i should distribute the lbr math tfm files

Re: [NTG-context] How to \bf for math?

2006-02-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
Adam Lindsay wrote: \startmathcollection[default] %eventual patch for math-tex? \definemathcharacter [a] [nothing] [mi] [61] \definemathcharacter [b] [nothing] [mi] [62] \definemathcharacter [c] [nothing] [mi] [63] \definemathcharacter [d] [nothing] [mi] [64] \definemathcharacter [e

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