Re: [NTG-context] Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 10, Issue 21

Kai Straube said this at Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:31:27 +0200: >> \startfontclass[modern] >>    \definefontsynonym [MathRoman]  [Sans] >>    \definefontsynonym [MathItalic] [SansItalic] >> \stopfontclass > >but for me ist results in : > >! Undefined control sequence. >l.15 \startfontclass >

Re: [NTG-context] Installing a non-standard encoding vector

Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:43:33 -0600: >What am I missing here? How can I can install this font with my own encoding >so that \showfont will display it? Idris, You need to have precisely 256 glyphs in your encoding vector. Try padding your vector out with 232 /.notdef

Re: [NTG-context] Another plant in the garden: modules

Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Wed, 6 Apr 2005 21:02:29 +0200: >> I wonder why bib and math modules are missing? Are they already gone >> to the core? > >% kpsewhich t-bib.tex >/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/bib/t-bib.tex True. It would be nice if (at least) the documentation coul

Re: [NTG-context] chancery font

Rob Ermers said this at Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:03:24 +0200: >I completely agree. Context works fine but, like you, I have not >succeeded in installing any new font thusfar. Okay, I get the message: there are quite a few frustrated would-be font users out there. I see it as being something that someo

Re: [NTG-context] chancery font

Ciro Soto said this at Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:00:32 -0500: >Concerning Garamond, I see bunch of files in my system: >ls ./texmf-local/fonts/afm/urw/garamond/ > ugmri8a.afm > ugmr8a.afm > ugmmi8a.afm > ugmm8a.afm The key question is whether you have the fonts/type1/urw/garamond directory with .pfb fil

Re: [NTG-context] Antykwa torunska en oldstyle figures

Willi Egger said this at Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:30:37 +0200: >Though I have no problem to get \os{3} typeset I am not able to have the >date tpeset with oldstyle figures. How can I achieve that? > >\currentdate[dd,{.~},mm,{.~},year] With the new Antykwa Torunska fonts, I also introduced some pre-co

Re: [NTG-context] scaling symbols

Janko Hauser said this at Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:58:23 +0200: >Hello I followed Adams nice way, to include unicode symbols. Now I want >to ask, how these can be scaled, so that they can be used more like >small figures. Any hints? Hmm, it depends a bit on how you get these (I assume) Unicode symbols

Re: [NTG-context] presentation in ConTeXt (XeTeX & MetaPost)

Dalyoung said this at Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:00:20 +0900: >This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.5.3) >(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) >(pre-main-mpgraph.mp >! Extra tokens will be flushed. > >smMyungjoR >l.42 defaultfont:=""smMyungjoR >

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

Paul Tremblay said this at Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:28:49 -0500: >One soluton is to put a type of disclaimer at the top of each page: >"This primary audience for this page is XML authors who want to use >ConTeXt to format an XML document." That would make me happier. Adding some words like "one way o

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

Paul Tremblay said this at Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:55:58 -0500: >> Your prose is fairly clear, but the style tends to be a bit too >> prescriptive for my tastes. I think a lot of it would be alleviated by >> you setting up the context a bit more ("this is what I found works for >> me, coming from the

Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout

Paul Tremblay said this at Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:43:33 -0500: >http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html > >I would appreciate any feedback. I hope the page will be useful in >helping others overcome some of the difficulty I had in trying to >understand layout in ConTeXt. I belie

Re: [NTG-context] extra_mem_bot.context

ishamid said this at Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:04:30 -0700: >Dear musketeers, > >This is a note for aleph users. In _both_ texmf.cnf files that come with the >full ConTeXt distribution, you must comment the line > >%extra_mem_bot.context= 400 >[\texmf\web2c, line 503] > >%extra_mem_bot.co

Re: [NTG-context] \normalsize

Taco Hoekwater said this at Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:08:18 +0100: >> Hello, >> is there a command, that switches to the normal font size (body-font)? >> I tried \tf, but it affects only the shape, not the size. > >There is no 'normal font size'. Or rather, if you've switched using >\switchtobodyfont, t

Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!

Steffen Wolfrum said this at Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:16:22 +0100: >Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> > BTW: >> > >> > Is there also a command to translate TFM (and VF) files to AFM or >> > another human readable format and back again? >> >> There exist the

Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!

On 23 Mar 2005, at 11:54, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Well, then the tilde moves in its right position. But the macron stays left. A font wizard knows what that means?! It means that there's no \omacron in texnansi (or the other major western encodings used for TeX fonts), and you're asking ConTeXt to

Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!

On 22 Mar 2005, at 20:40, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Now it works. Very nice and clear ways to get it. But both goodies don't work with OSX's Helvetica.dfont If you try it with the .ttf you'll get: Error: pdfetex (file Helvetica.ttf): can't find table `OS/2' ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF fi

Re: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)

ishamid said this at Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:30:48 -0700: >! Undefined control sequence. >\pardir #1#2#3->\global \TeXXeTstate > \plusone \if #2L\chardef >\inlinedirecti... >l.1 \pardir TLT Oops, I think I recognize this. This came about when Hans and I were tryin

Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!

On 22 Mar 2005, at 16:14, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Your result looks promising - but duplicating your way showed me my command line limits: $ afm2pl -p `kpsewhich texnansi.enc` HelveticaNeue.afm afm2pl: fatal: default.lig not found. Yeah, Gerben doesn't include that file that afm2pl expects. A qui

Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!

On 22 Mar 2005, at 14:54, Ulrich Dirr wrote: I'm really wondering why there's no kerning. (Maybe I missed something of the previous discussion) Probably you should check the version numbers of the pfb and then take the original AFMs from Adobe/Linotype. Short answer (from what I can tell), Apple

Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!

Hallo Steffen, On 22 Mar 2005, at 12:03, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: I'd also ask why, if you have the superior Helvetica Neue working, you're trying to get the plain, no-oblique Helvetica going as well. I Yes it is, of course! But by using HelveticaNeue as is, there is no kerning information include

Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!

Hi Steffen, Why are you converting to type1 fonts when pdftex will work fine with the .ttf files "embedded" within the .dfont? My approach to using Mac fonts has been: 1) create a temp directory 2) fondu original.dfont from within the temp directory 3) run texfont on the resulting TTFs I've avoid

Re: [NTG-context] Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons

Adam Lindsay said this at Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:57 +: >Although you can use the utf regime with XeConTeXt, you are often better >off not using it. (It depends on which [oops, sent too soon...] Using the UTF regime with XeConTeXt makes you reliant on the characters defined in enco-u

Re: [NTG-context] Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said this at Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:47:28 -0800: >Greetings, hopefully this is a real quickie. > >I'm using XeConTeXt, regime UTF, language en, hoefler encoding uc & >receiving a barred l for any instance of this: Hello David, Although you can use the utf regime with XeConTeXt, y

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation not working

Paul Tremblay said this at Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:20:10 -0500: >> So if I understand what you're saying, that suggests you do have the >> capability for hyphenation somewhere in your system. What is your test >> file? Can you strip it to its barest form? > >Here is the entire file. Luckily, it is ver

Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation not working

Paul Tremblay said this at Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:58:10 -0500: >> 210 hyphenation exceptions >> Hyphenation trie of length 99454 has 4157 ops out of 35111 >> 117 for language 34 >> 31 for language 33 >> <30 lines or so, counting down> .. >> 265 for language 1 >> >> >> perhap

Re: [NTG-context] Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

On 18 Mar 2005, at 15:30, Ulrich Dirr wrote: Adam Lindsay wrote: Faking, whether within ConTeXt or within your driver, seems to be the only option: Small Caps were never designed for Optima, afaik. But it's in Optima Nova http://www.linotype.com/58171/optimanovacdformacandpc- compilation

Re: [NTG-context] Lettrine, \sc, and a font without proper small capitals (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

Hi Gerben, On 18 Mar 2005, at 14:24, Gerben Wierda wrote: When I use the Optima font I do not have real small capitals. It seems \sc does not try to emulate them and also the new \lettrine ignores it. You could emulate them with the \kap command. (and its relatives) I'm not sure what a blown up l

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Palatino? -> bitmap fonts???

Seeing this thread, I wonder now if there's any more interest in helping ship a cont-sys.tex and a texexec.ini (before it goes away) that is tuned to gwTeX? adam On 16 Mar 2005, at 19:08, Matthias Weber wrote: Patrick tracked this down do an old cont-sys.rme, and my guess is that it is erroneo

Re: [NTG-context] Color separation

On 17 Mar 2005, at 16:52, Hans Hagen wrote: \setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=cyan,overprint=yes] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=magenta] Wow. That's a really obnoxious-looking document. Well done! :D adam ___ ntg-context maili

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX w. ConTeXt question

sfpno said this at Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:33:38 -0800: > >(/usr/local/TeTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex >systems : you should use pdfTeX binaries >\wait= >) That error should be long gone by now. Which version of ConTeXt are you using? >Looking in spec-tpd.tex, this erro

Re: [NTG-context] Times New Roman

A few comments/hints: On 16 Mar 2005, at 14:40, ishamid wrote: TeXFont 1.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2001 (STILL BETA) The TeXfont I'm running is 2.2.1! (I know I added a little bit of .ttf processing code after 2.1) I tried things manually without the --pattern option and got a texnansi-micro

Re: [NTG-context] iso latin 2 ; storm fonts

Vit Zyka said this at Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:23:05 +0100: > enco-st1.tex - ec encoding with storm glyph extension > enco-st2.tex - xl2 encoding with storm glyph extension > enco-st3.tex - variants (additional glyph) for enco-st1 and enco-st2 Vit, I would refer you to this thread with Thomas S

Re: [NTG-context] Re: kpsewhich issues

On 15 Mar 2005, at 14:21, Patrick Gundlach wrote: I'd bet that you have done it: you did run texhash after putting the format into web2c/xetex? I would have bet that I did it, too, after years of giving the same advice. But I didn't. Ugh. Thanks, adam _

[NTG-context] kpsewhich issues

Okay, I'll not be afraid in parading my ignorance in front of everybody. I see web2c configuration as a form of voodoo. Sometimes it works for me, but clearly my mental model is insufficient, because it really can surprise me, as well. I'm having some kpathsea issues on a new reinstall of gwT

Re: [NTG-context] Microtype & ConTeXt question

Gerben Wierda said this at Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:19:08 +0100: > >1. How does one set up the use of margi kerning in ConTeXt given that >my ConTeXt (without me having selected it myself) uses Latin Modern? I only know a little bit about microtype (hanging/handling) in ConTeXt. This is the code that

Re: [NTG-context] Initial Font Installation Question (Mac)

David Wooten said this at Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:07:25 -0800: >> Hmm. What do your typescript definitions look like, then? Does ConTeXt >> know you're using 8r as the encoding for the font? > >I believe so. An example from the typescript file: > >\usetypescriptfile [type-buy] >\loadmapfile [8r-stf-an

Re: [NTG-context] Initial Font Installation Question (Mac)

David Wooten said this at Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:40:14 -0800: >That is, when I try to use >any special glyph, be it an accented character of any kind, or e.g. an >eth. Hi David, I took a look at your file (off-list), and it looks like you're using the 8r encoding. Interesting that you bring the "

Re: [NTG-context] Initial Font Installation Question (Mac)

David Wooten said this at Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:40:14 -0800: >After an initial successful installation of the purchased fonts, I've >come to find that there is a serious quirk. That is, when I try to use >any special glyph, be it an accented character of any kind, or e.g. an >eth. The result of s

Re: [NTG-context] Helvetica ?

Steffen Wolfrum said this at Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:59:30 +0100: >> \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] >> \usetypescript [postscript][\defaultencoding] >> \setupbodyfont[pos,ss,12pt] I'm taking a leap with this, because I don't have my gwTeX box at hand, but try \usetypescript [adobekb

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt equivalent for \ensuremath?

Gerben Wierda said this at Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:54:38 +0100: >But my way also doesn't work. I get empty output as a result of the >\bit{b}{off} command. > >Help? This is probably not satisfying, because you probably want to get new mathematics commands working, but if this is to be used solely in

Re: [NTG-context] xecontext/bibtex issue ?

Mark Smith said this at Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:56:06 +0100: >The problem is that bibtex "can't read" the .aux file that is generated >by xextex. Okay, can we see a copy (or reduction) of that file, then? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dep

Re: [NTG-context] fundamental problem with headings

Steffen Wolfrum said this at Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:33:13 +0100: >In fact, this is something I would like to have also for other >purposes (for example to use a second set of oldstyle figures): >defining my own *myserif* or *mysans* that could be used then in a >typescriptfile the same way as sans

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Palatino?

Patrick Gundlach said this at Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:57:16 +0100: >Yes go to the garden and search for palatino. You'll find: > >http://contextgarden.net/Psnfss > And, IIRC, the \defaultencoding most appropriate for gwTeX, is 8r. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= A

Re: [NTG-context] fundamental problem with headings

Steffen Wolfrum said this at Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:11:41 +0100: >But if the heading should be set in general in a bold face what do I >use instead of \rm so that italic parts of he heading will be typeset >in bold-italic (and \sc parts to bold-smallcaps)? >I guess something (next to serif, sans, m

Re: [NTG-context] Line break after unit or \cite command

Michael Fuchs said this at Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:11:10 +0100: >How can I create a space after the unit and have correct >line breaking at the same time? Hallo, Michael. This is a standard TeX thing. Follow the macro with "\ ". (backslash-space). So: ... energies up to 3 \EVolt\ were measu

Re: [NTG-context] XeConTeXt set up issue

Mark Smith said this at Tue, 8 Mar 2005 16:11:17 +0100: >xplain.tex is indeed nowhere to be found > >I reinstalled TeX then XeTeX and then ConTeXt from Gerben's and >Jonathan's i-Packages choosing "2004 Stable" for TeX and "beta" for ConTeXt. > >Went through the same procedure. Same result. > >How

Re: [NTG-context] No performance improvement under OS X with new beta?

Matthias Weber said this at Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:35:13 -0500: >> Were both runs from the same point--were they "virgin" runs? >> Did you precede the texexec command with a "texutil --purgeall" >> command, >> for example? >> -- >> > > >My TeX source file is a single file with images. Most of the Te

Re: [NTG-context] No performance improvement under OS X with new beta?

Matthias Weber said this at Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:13:50 -0500: >Old version: > >ConTeXt ver: 2004.11.23 fmt: 2004.12.16 >TeXExec 5.2.3 > >total run time : 324 seconds > > >New version: > >ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.02 fmt: 2005.3.4 > total run time : 416 seconds > >And I was hoping for a speed increas

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-updater i-Package updated

David Wooten said this at Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:03:17 -0800: Let's count the guys that use OSX with ConTeXt (and possibly i-Packages): -- One -- >> >>> -- Two -- >> >> -- Three -- > >-- Four -- -- Vijf -- -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T

Re: [NTG-context] Re: TeX run : 8

Patrick Gundlach said this at Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:05:15 +0100: >> [And boy, it sure is faster than the setup I had on my PowerBook!] > >Don't say that ;-). I just got a new PowerBook. My _two-year-old_ 12" PowerBook. The Mac mini'd be just a shade slower than the current (very attractive) generati

Re: [NTG-context] My way: Generating Small PDF Documents - more questions

Stefan Wachter said this at Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:58:14 +0100: >2. I would also like to use the builtin symbol character sets Zapf >Dingbats and Zapf Chancery. Adam Lindsay already showed how Zapf >Dingbats can be used without embedding (cf. >http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/). But is

Re: [NTG-context] \definelayout question

Paul, I can't really address the bulk of your question (I consider myself a beginner in the art of the \layout, and am still working through some of its invocation options), but I do notice a couple things: Paul Tremblay said this at Thu, 3 Mar 2005 02:45:01 -0500: >\definelayout[odd][ > header=

Re: [NTG-context] Re: TeX run : 8

Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:38:11 +0100: >> [And boy, it sure is faster than the setup I had on my PowerBook!] > >if it runs ok on your old box ... is it related to the version of perl? Old box is in for repair--can't test it. :/ It was a slower processor, with heavier TeX trees, a

Re: [NTG-context] Re: TeX run : 8

Patrick Gundlach said this at Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:46:05 +0100: > >> dunno, the mac is not updated yet and actually not sitting on my desk >> but in my library; best let patrick and/or adam test that since they >> normally have the latest (alpha/beta/current) versions I can't add much to this discu

Re: [NTG-context] FO and ConTeXt: my new wiki page

Paul Tremblay said this at Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:48:49 -0500: >> Perhaps you could make a family of pages like FO_Layout and FO_Fonts, to >> make "The FO Way" clearer--these things are informative to people coming >> from ConTeXt and XSL-FO alike... > >I see. So if I am understanding things correctly

Re: [NTG-context] small caps

Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:54:35 +0100: >about code ... wybo dekker has cleaned up the texfont code, so that will >be the >starting point for extensions Wow. Thanks, Wybo! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAI

Re: [NTG-context] FO and ConTeXt: my new wiki page

Paul Tremblay said this at Wed, 2 Mar 2005 02:04:26 -0500: >http://contextgarden.net/Page_layout Thanks for your contribution... I would feel a bit better if you made the relationship to clearer. >This page is my best effort at describing how someone who is use

Re: [NTG-context] small caps

Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Wed, 2 Mar 2005 07:18:29 +0100: >However, your post made me think: I know nothing about XSLT, but enough >perl to shoot myself in the foot. I guess if I had a version of >texnansi.enc with the unicode values in addition to the names, that >would be a good starting

Re: [NTG-context] lettrine.sty, but not LaTeX

Mats Broberg said this at Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:51:04 +0100: > Different >typefaces and different characters need different level of protruding >into the left margin, as well as other actions of tweaking. Ah, but when Hans says this: > it's a good testbed for playing with >things like glyph shape

Re: [NTG-context] small caps

Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:57:36 +0100: >I looked into it, and it turns out that Apple (?) has >given new names even to quite "normal" characters - eacute becomes >e_acute etc. So if you want to produce a tfm for that font, you have to >invent a specific encoding vector.

Re: [NTG-context] small caps

Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:13:00 +0100: >In the last days, I played around with some truetype fonts, preparing >them for use with ConTeXt by creating tfms via the texnansi encoding. Hello (again) Thomas, This is good stuff. I've tried to advocate a naming convention that

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and DocBook - beginner's questions

Paul Tremblay said this at Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:32:40 -0500: >> >> One of the key ideas to take away from ConTeXt's XML manual > www.pragma-ade.com/show-man-15.htm> is that there are *many* different >> paths to take when processing XML. > >But this makes me confused. Sorry, I was writing for a

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and DocBook - beginner's questions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said this at Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:38:27 -0500: >> Hans began that with ContML, a simplified XML structure for basic >> documents, mirroring familiar ConTeXt commands (take a look at the x- >> contml.tex source). He enabled a lot more with the tricks features in >> This Way #9 (the

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and DocBook - beginner's questions

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said this at Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:17:29 -0500: >As the author of the second page concedes, you need somewhat complicated >syntax to directly map XML to ConTeXt. Many of the examples mix XML and >non XML. You guys are aware of foXet, right? That's ConTeXt's XSL-FO processor mod

Re: [NTG-context] pdf-mode

h h extern said this at Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:17:41 +0100: >I'll add \jobsuffix as systemmode: > >\startmode[*pdf] ... >\startmode[*dvi] ... > >be aware of the fact that this is only true when a driver is loaded I never was sure of that, by the way: the true output of a xetex job is .xdv It's an o

Re: [NTG-context] XML and context

luigi.scarso said this at Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:53:01 +0100: >>Some paragrah in XmL >> >>with >> >>space >>\par >> >>Which would produce 3 paragrahs. > >I remember DocBook In Context customization in 2002 Indeed. And since this the whitespace processing is with an XSLT transform, you can notio

Re: [NTG-context] Moving to ConTeXt

o stretching) > >no problem, (adam lindsay can probably best help you with that in relation to >the fonts that you have on th emac) Who, me? As you probably know, protrusion doesn't work with XeTeX, only pdf(e)TeX. Glad you don't need stretching, cos I haven't worked with that

Re: [NTG-context] Re: new small manual

Jojo said this at Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:14:45 +0800: >request http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-man-41.html cannot be honored Just clicking on the link htm worked for me... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] Initial Font Installation Question (Mac)

Thomas A.Schmitz said this at Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:01:50 +0100: >Just a quick reply: > >having the afm is already very good. The file without an extension >looks suspiciously like a Mac font resource. Can you try running the >utility "fondu" on it (from the command line)? That will usually >prod

Re: [NTG-context] Code to product several versions PDF with different fonts

VnPenguin said this at Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:17:41 +0100: >I'm preparing a document and I would like to product several versions >PDF with different fonts. >I would like to use command line. Could you give me a simple example please. % I've adapted this for gwTeX default encodings. % Convert back

Re: [NTG-context] Code to product several versions PDF with different fonts

VnPenguin said this at Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:58:41 +0100: >I dont know how to organize it : is there simple structure >"if-then-else" ? could I use ConTeXt's "mode" or "environment" for >this goal ? These are all possibilities. It depends on how you want to change them. Modes sound promising if you

Re: [NTG-context] Unconventional page number placement

Hi Matt. I don't have a total solution, but I think you were much closer than you thought. Matt Gushee said this at Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:40:22 -0700: > * Use negative dimensions to cause the header and footer to overlap > the text area, e.g.: > > \setuplayout [...,headerdistance=-0.35i

Re: [NTG-context] Choosing an encoding - what are the consequences?

Stefan Wachter said this at Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:38:02 +0100: >I am on the burdensome path to understanding font handling in ConText. >Now I wonder what the consequences are with choosing certain encodings. I'll give an answer based on what I understand. Mind you, I'm lucky enough to write almost

Re: [NTG-context] Widows, flush bottom, and word breaks

Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:45:15 +0100: >\setuplayout[height=10cm] \setuptolerance[vertical,verytolerant] > >\setupalign[line] Okay, that's the command I *should* have found, right? :) Sigh, and it's right there in the manual. What I found today was \alignbottom (and its relative

Re: [NTG-context] Widows, flush bottom, and word breaks

Jack M. Lyon said this at Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:43:10 -0700: >> I'm curious because it's the flip side of the grid typesetting I was >> learning about earlier this week. > >I'd be grateful if you could tell me what you learned about this. Nothing ground-breaking. Mostly that it's set up with: \

Re: [NTG-context] Widows, flush bottom, and word breaks

Peter Münster said this at Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:08:27 +0100: >> \setupinterlinespace[stretch=0.08] % experimentation needed! > >I'm also very interested in these kinds of problems (and solutions ;). I'm curious because it's the flip side of the grid typesetting I was learning about earlier this w

Re: [NTG-context] Widows, flush bottom, and word breaks

Jack M. Lyon said this at Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:35:05 -0700: >I'm trying to learn to use ConTeXt for book publishing (wonderful program!) >but can't seem to find answers to a couple of questions: > >1. How can I turn *off* protection against widows? (Last line of paragraph >at top of page.) This is

Re: [NTG-context] Layout stuff

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:50:09 +0100: >no, but you can set up left and right page layouts etc > >\setuplayout[odd|even|pagenumber|yourownid] Yeah, I just stumbled across the even/odd thing earlier this week. Oddly, it didn't seem to respect the offset parameter, which would hav

[NTG-context] Layout stuff

Hi all. I've been trying to get layouts working, and wanted to verify some things (as I haven't really worked much in that space before). Is there any way to "inherit" a layout's parameters, such as: \definelayout [preset-1-1] [mypresettomodify] \setuplayout [mypresettomodify][width=65\aver

Re: [NTG-context] Re: [XeTeX] vertical spacing

Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:08:03 +0100: >here are a few secrets: > > \showminimalbaseline > >and > > \setupinterlinespace > [height=.72, > depth=.28] > >you may want to change the inlinespace settings depending on the max >height/depth values of a font Thanks, Hans.

Re: [NTG-context] iso latin 2

Vit Zyka said this at Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:33:59 +0100: >But ... seeing Andulka, some support has already exists >there, has not it? I would not like to discover wheel ;-) no, it's just a trick of the light. I picked that font name just as a dummy example to get your attention. :) I can't afford

Re: [NTG-context] iso latin 2

Vit Zyka said this at Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:34:13 +0100: >The question is how to elegantly switch from standard (st2) tfm to >extended (st3) tfm when the glyph is not present in st2 - with >preserving \rm, \bf, \it, \bi. > >Example: {\bf Bold text with special char \textplus} where \texplus is >bo

Re: [NTG-context] alpha release / latin modern

Vit Zyka said this at Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:54:41 +0100: >>> Font design is very subjective game, I know. There is my comment: I'm reminded of this quote: "The Polish prefer it more upright. The Czechs prefer it more flat." -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [NTG-context] alpha release / latin modern

Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:51:24 +0100: >what cmr does xetex use? a special version? we can of course make a xetex >specific typescript to setup the default fonts It's a straight opentype encapsulation of the CMR type1 fonts from CTAN, as far as I can tell. Getting LM in there

Re: [NTG-context] alpha release / latin modern

Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:41:26 +0100: >> Also, something I just realised (thanks to Vit's example): XeTeX hasn't a >> clue when it comes to grid typesetting. (Has to do with the difficulty of >> getting the metrics from the platform fonts, I think.) > >context does grid typesetti

Re: [NTG-context] alpha release / latin modern

Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:11:29 +0100: > latin modern fonts instead of cmr/plr/csr/aer/vnr: Ah, here's a conflict: XeTeX doesn't have latin modern yet. (Needs to be converted to OpenType, with some special table enabled... JK hasn't documented it yet.) Do you have a switch to avo

Re: [NTG-context] Setting up layout - basic questions

Vit Zyka said this at Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:31:46 +0100: >> Also, is it generally possible to make all the headings start at the >>left margin, with everything else (eg paragraphs, lists, etc) indented? Eg: > >something like > >\setuphead > [chapter] > [alternative=inmargin] Actually, I think I

Re: [NTG-context] alpha release / latin modern

Vit Zyka said this at Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:30:20 +0100: >So problem is at the very beginning stage. I check if input file is >exactly in il2 encoding, yes it is. 'ì' has catcode letter. So a the >letter is should enter the font. > >Where is problem? I think it's with two things: 1) you're not using

Re: [NTG-context] alpha release / latin modern

Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:28:43 -0700: >No, but I use old-style numerals as default Out of curiosity, are the old-style numerals from CM (cmmi*, I presume) in any shapes other than roman? I had the impression there were no real italic or bold variants, but I could be wro

Re: [NTG-context] Displayed math--vertical space

David Antos said this at Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:47:37 +0100: >A short line followed by a formula >$$\bigcup_{1\le n}$$ >a text follows in the same paragraph. The big cup is too >close to the text. How about this? A short line followed by a formula \startformula \bigcup_{1\le n} \stopformula a text f

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt 31 jan 2005

Taco Hoekwater said this at Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:02:18 +0100: >There are (new (new (new))) context release note pages at the wiki, Hey, thanks again, Taco, for taking on this task... it's a *great* help to all of us, even though we may not say it often! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [NTG-context] Russia (cyrillic letters)

Mikael Persson said this at Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:50:13 +0100: >> (Adam: what to do with names, we have Greeka GreekA etc maybe it should be >> greeka greekA, but maybe that will clash some day; same for cyrillic) >> >> Hans Ack! You're asking me? I always thought you had a logic to it... I just p

Re: [NTG-context] Russia (cyrillic letters)

Mikael Persson said this at Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:59:57 +0100: >OK, so here they are. Hope I understood correctly how it works... :) >enco-004.tex >and >enco-uc-add.tex Nice work. It holds up to spot-checking with my Mac OSX Unicode "Character Palette". >I used the names from gucharmap (char map a

Re: [NTG-context] Russia (cyrillic letters)

Mikael Persson said this at Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:38:50 +0100: >I also thought more about the utf. Is there anyway, now, to use utf8 >encoding of the file, and somehow (from enco-uc.tex or how it would >work) get the russian letters (that is for example \uchar4{"11} to be >\cyrillicB, as it is writt

Re: [NTG-context] Gerben's TeX+ConTeXt packages: can't find the format `cont-nl.fmt' ?

Hi Steffen. This is more of a MacOSX installer problem, but... Steffen Wolfrum said this at Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:14:20 +0100: >in the past I could use Gerben's TeX and ConTeXt distributions for Mac >without manual changes. > >Last night I downloaded the "2004 stable" and Context-updater. >If I n

Re: [NTG-context] UTF-8 XML to IL2

Vit Zyka said this at Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:06:55 +0100: > >please, I have UTF-8 XML file and I want to typeset with IL2 (czech) >font. What I have to do? > >Thank you >Vit Zyka > >P.S. I tried: > \useregime[utf] > \defineXMLenvironment[doc] \starttext \stoptext > \processXMLfile{manaana.xml}

Re: [NTG-context] (resolved) m-letter backslash codes in xml database

Rob Ermers said this at Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:12:24 +0100: >Introducing scedilla in the file, as you suggested, seems not necessary: >Ba soka. Right. You've figured this out, but in case anyone else was following along, Hans's element-based solution used ConTeXt's internal glyph names (very extensi

Re: [NTG-context] html to context

ishamid said this at Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:12:34 -0700: >Have any of you guys a script or something to convert simple html to ConTeXt? >There are apparently a couple of html2latex converters out there but is there >anything for ConTeXt? Huh, that's funny. I was just thinking about that in the con

Re: [NTG-context] m-letter backslash codes in xml database

Rob Ermers said this at Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:31:32 +0100: >h h extern wrote: >> if you want to move things around in an encoding neutral way: >> >> \defineXMLsingular >> [c] >> [n=unknowncharacter] >> {\executeifdefined {\XMLop{id}} \unknowncharacter} >> >> Um, I'm not sure, but I think Han

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt dont work with fonts after last miktex update

Matthias C. Schmidt said this at Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:48:24 +0100: >The file was made by special texfont provided by Adam Lindsay in his >package "OpenType in ConTeXt". >But also all files of Henning Hraban Ramm have also the blank and other to. > >Must I change this al

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