Re: [NTG-context] unicode and out-of-box usability

Hi Hans. Thanks for the reply. Hans Hagen said this at Sat, 3 Jan 2004 23:38:02 +0100: >>In unic-ini: >>\chardef\utfunihashmode=0 % 1 = enabled >> >>Actually, if I understand things correctly, '1' means "disabled", which >>is what I preferred, having not yet created any unicode vectors. So the >>

[NTG-context] My Way: Unicode Symbols

Hi everyone. There's a new My Way up on my site. It discusses Unicode Symbols and their support in ConTeXt. Also available for download is a symb-uni file that accompanies it. I hope to have a Mac-specific support package up on the site soon, as well as one that discusses Unicode more generally. <

Re: [NTG-context] My Way: Unicode Symbols

For those who are curious, a demo doc is up on the site as well, visualising as many of the symbols from symb-uni that I could find... <http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/AppleSymbolsDemo.pdf> Adam Lindsay said this at Mon, 5 Jan 2004 14:23:28 +: >Hi everyone. > >There's a

Re: [NTG-context] My Way: Unicode Symbols

Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:12:16 +0100: >and of course a \showXMLfile{name.xml} > >The advantage of this method is that too wide lines are handled better i.e. >they are properly indented Thanks, Hans. I tried that a little following your suggestion. It has some trouble with '$' i

Re: [NTG-context] My Way: Unicode Symbols

Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:01:30 +0100: >>The $ mishandling probably is a bug (using Beta from 18 Dec). > >can you try: > > \chardef\XMLtokensreduction\plustwo > >and see if it's better then? Nope. That one doesn't work. Still get: select="[EMAIL PROTECTED] = \bgroup \$\egroup c

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes Without Text Marks?

John McChesney-Young said this at Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:18:07 -0800: >I've also been following the French hyphenation thread with some >interest; my outputs of all the samples posted so far (with TeXShop >1.34) have unfortunately displayed for >the original , and the word at the line end doesn't

Re: [NTG-context] My Way: Unicode Symbols

Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:12:16 +0100: >When reading your my way i noticed a few things: Hi all, FWIW, the Unicode Symbols My Way is now updated according to comments and fixes from Hans. The accompanying symbols demo and symb-uni package also have minor changes, breaking up the

[NTG-context] Mac Way: Apple Symbols

Hi again. The Mac-specific followup to the Unicode Symbols My Way is now up on my site. http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/ This Mac-specific My Way documents some fonts available exclusively on MacOSX 10.3, "Panther," and makes them available to Mac users with fairly minimal installation effort. I

Re: [NTG-context] special font issue 3 user groups

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:30:51 +0100: > http://www.pragma-pod.com/downloads/special/special-s.pdf Looking at the special-s version, I noticed a few things: Special Characters : Euro (& others) (p. 106) The synthesized forms of the Euro, paragraphmark, copyright, registered,

[NTG-context] Fwd: MacOSX-TeX Digest #923 - 02/08/04

Hi folks. The below email showed up recently on the MacOSX/TeX list, and I thought it might be worthy of some ConTeXt-centric discussion. Begin Forwarded Message Subject: MacOSX-TeX Digest #923 - 02/08/04 Date Sent: Sunday, 8 February 2004 20:00 From: TeX on Mac

[NTG-context] can TeX do That?

is: On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Adam Lindsay quoted Hans Hagen saying: > - i still have to find something that cannot be done in tex (apart from > page by page made up documents but that's a different game anyway) Actually, when automated layout styles break down h

[NTG-context] load order?

Hi. Who's familiar with initialisation file loading order? I define some generic formatting options in cont-loc (because it's loaded by default, it doesn't get overwritten, and I use it on several machines). I successfully use them by adding a command at the start of tex source files. I'd like th

Re: [NTG-context] load order?

Thanks. The \doifmode as one of the tokens to prepend seems to work! adam Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:12:47 +0100: >At 12:35 10/02/2004, you wrote: > >>\doifmode {atl} {\LocalSetup[interaction,sansheadings]} >> >>Where should I put it? > >normally, in your cont-sys.tex, or, in con

[NTG-context] Apple Preview.app and bookmarks

Otared Kavian said this at Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:18:52 +0100: >>We need your help in tracking down a possible bug with the >>Apple Preview.app when printing the Metafun manual (pdf) Indeed. I got the same blurry. results... Otared, be sure to fill out the survey at the website with your printer deta

Re: [NTG-context] Apple Preview.app and bookmarks

Otared Kavian said this at Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:11:44 +0100: >>In other, related news, I notice that Apple's Preview.app has trouble >>with ConTeXt-generated (er, pdfTeX, I suppose) bookmarks. They appear >>fine, but the bookmarks, when clicked, don't go to the right places. >>Bookmarks from other

Re: [NTG-context] Apple Preview.app and bookmarks

Otared Kavian said this at Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:26:51 +0100: >Actually I tried the file with a slight modification (see below) and >I don't see, regarding the clickability of the resulting pdf file, >any difference between what happens in Acrobat 6 and Preview.app OK, I'm still not making myself

Re: [NTG-context] ReReRe: something new

Also, Steffen (and other Mac OS X users): Check out the most recent version of the PDF plug-in here: Although it's a for-pay product, it handles links (and therefore in- browser navigation of the Pragma site!) pretty well, now. I also found the fifteen.pdf

Re: [NTG-context] ReReRe: something new

Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:38:51 +0200: >>Check out the most recent version of the PDF plug-in here: >> >> >>Although it's a for-pay product, it handles links (and therefore in- >>browser navigation of the Pragma site!) pretty well, now. > >i

Re: [NTG-context] ReReRe: something new

Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:00:41 +0200: >Hm, it *is* a pay-product, but only for company use: >"PDF Browser Plugin 2 is free for private use at home >for not-for-profit activities and for use at educational >institutions for not-for-profit activities." Very true! I use i

Re: [NTG-context] Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

Stefan Wachter said this at Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:54:27 +0200: >I tried to write a typescript to use the Helvetica PDF base 14 fonts. Interesting problem. I haven't dealt with it, but it seems like a worthy goal. I thought Patrick Grundlach (?) did some work with this, but I'm not sure. Check the

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

Stefan Wachter said this at Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:17:29 +0200: >thanks for the help. After extracting the typescript code into a >seperate typescript file everything works fine! Ah, I remembered what Patrick did, now: \usetypescript[adobekb][texnansi] \usetypescript[times][texnansi] \setupbodyfont

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

Stefan Wachter said this at Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:20:52 +0200: >I tried the code of Patrick. It works for Times and Helvetica. Yet, if I >switch to monospace using \tt then Computer Modern fonts are used / >embedded. In addition, all this typescripts stuff is so confusing for me >that I prefer to

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:52:54 +0100: >When I do \showfont[zd], however, I see something resembling >Unicode vector 0x27nn. All it would take is a re-encoding to put the >glyphs in the right place. Hey, does this PDF file work for everyone? No fonts are embedded in

Re: [NTG-context] Dingbats without fonts

1 Apr 2004 20:25:44 +0200: >It works on a PC with Windows XP and AcrobatReader 6.0, looks great. > >Willi > > >Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > >> >> Am Donnerstag, 01.04.04, um 19:07 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Adam Lindsay: >> >>> Hey, does this PDF fil

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to rotate a single character on a line?

Hello again, Stefan. I'm not exactly sure why I'm doing this, but I'm learning a lot in the process... Stefan Wachter said this at Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:50:31 +0200: >> >> \definesymbol[whatever][\dontleaveh >mode\rotate[rotation=180]{\getglyph{ZapfDingbats}{234}] >> >> >> \symbol[whatever] >Hi Han

Re: [NTG-context] Re: How to rotate a single character on a line?

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:51:39 +0200: >>The mirrored version works fine, and is what you probably want. That's >>ConTeXt for you... sometimes you have to take a step back and realise >>that it can be done more simply! > >clever, i hadn't thought of that -) Well, it works well wi

[NTG-context] \fontrange and \currentfontscale

Hi Hans, TeXnicians. I thought I'd take another look at the \fontrange macros (commented) at the beginning of font-ini. I think they might be one way of adapting different optical sizes for Unicode fonts. I'm trying to work in the current scaling, but I run into some pure dimension math and expa

[NTG-context] bold math

Hi all. I've revisited the euler support scripts with an eye towards bold math. I think I have it right now. I tried applying the same techniques to computer-modern math in order to get bold math going for the TeX default font, and it seems not to switch back to the right font after a grouped \bf

Re: [NTG-context] (Mathe)Problem with $\tilde x$ and $\bar x$

Helmut Schwertner said this at Tue, 25 May 2004 20:24:58 +0200: > >the example further down works fine with the latex standard fonts and >e.g. eulervm, but not with fourier. Could somebody help me? Hello, Helmut: Try adding the following lines. They would normally go into math-fou.tex. \defin

[NTG-context] SciTE Mac

Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:51:54 +0200: >no scite on mac yet http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/#other I spent yesterday doing a "quick" port of SciTE for Mac OS X (XWindow system only!), and bundled up the libraries (and ConTeXt config files, with a couple mac-friendly mods) at th

Re: [NTG-context] TIPA in Context

Hello, Sjoerd. Interesting problem. I just looked at Yes, it sounds like there's a way of using the TIPA *font* in ConTeXt. However, it seems like the job of adapting all of the TIPA package and the T3 encoding for ConTeXt is not trivial.

[NTG-context] Re: SciTE Mac

Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 26 May 2004 18:23:16 +0200: >great! i'll see if i can hook in my menus and thingies Your menus and thingies in (public) ConTeXt are already there. I actually stuck them in the scite/*.properties directory so that it opens up ready to go, ConTeXt-wise. Was that what yo

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Mac

Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Wed, 26 May 2004 22:46:07 +0200: >Thank you for your work - but it doesn't run on Jaguar (my Panther >isn't here yet). >Could you distribute the sources, too? The sources are absolutely unchanged from the Scintilla & GTK+2.0 sources. I just traced through the dep

Re: [NTG-context] Re: SciTE Mac

Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 26 May 2004 19:16:17 +0200: >At 18:39 26/05/2004, you wrote: >>Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 26 May 2004 18:23:16 +0200: >> >> >great! i'll see if i can hook in my menus and thingies >> >>Your menus and thingies in (public) ConTeXt are already there. I actually >>stuck

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Mac

Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Thu, 27 May 2004 18:15:05 +0200: >I'd be glad if you could write together these tricks. >But my installation is so messy (Fink stuff, a lot of self-compiled >stuff and several different ports stuff...) that I probably should wait >until I set up a clean Panther s

Re: [NTG-context] \=i

Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:04:49 +0200: > >take a look at font-ini and search for the definition of \em; but since you >suffered already a lot: Hey Hans, I like this one a lot. It's more of what I imaged when you mentioned "fonts" and "parameters". (But I managed something intere

Re: [NTG-context] SciTE Mac

Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:25:39 +0200: >Thank you - I thought one must fix SciTE, not GTK. SciTE is pretty straightforward, once you have everything else in place. I did have to explicitly 'make GTK2=true' though. >Did you try SciTE installation via Fink (unstable tree)

[NTG-context] Shell escape & ConTeXt (was: Re: [OS X TeX] EPS to PDF--en masse?)

TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List said this at Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:00:01 -0400: >Shell escape is a mechanism which basically stops TeX processing, allows >an external program (like epstopd script) to run and then resume the >processing. The problem is that it allows any program to be run. So if >someone

Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] Re: Switching form portrait to landscape and back to portrait

Found this in my archives. Is that sufficient, or (ick) does the table float? adam Begin Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Re: Switching form portrait to landscape and back to portrait Date Sent: Thursday, 20 February 2003 18:29 From: Hans Hagen <[EMAI

Re: [NTG-context] Phonetic Symbols

Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:45:16 +0200: >> are there phonetic symbols to use in ConTeXt? >> like tipa for LaTeX > >There's no ready module or encoding AFAIK. >But if you have the fonts (e.g. SIL fonts), perhaps have a look how >Adam addresses Unicode symbols: http://homep

[NTG-context] new typeface toy

Hey Patrick, all, I like the wiki a lot. Thanks for getting it going! It's a nice, quick way to get hints out there. As a result, I wrote up a little font-usage hack that wasn't quite big enough for a MyWay, but that I wanted to share with folks:

Re: [NTG-context] new typeface toy

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:46:52 +0200: >if you're happy with type-flx (we can make a synonym btw) we can add it > to the distribution; but only when the dimensions are frozen since it >influences line breaking; Okay, sounds good. I would really appreciate having some other peo

Re: [NTG-context] new typeface toy

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:46:52 +0200: >if you're happy with type-flx (we can make a synonym btw) Oh, no synonym needed for my part (not deployed in a major project). Are you happy with the approach? Do you reckon the 5.16667pt and 6.0pt x- height will be sufficient? (Lucida in

Re: [NTG-context] Virtual font tip

Don't be discouraged, Matt. I think your tool is really nifty--it's precisely one of those "if I have time, I'll learn about VPLs" projects that I wanted to have realised at some point. Your solution goes far beyond the FontSite500 support, as far as I can see. cheers, adam Matt Gushee said this

Re: [NTG-context] example online

Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:42:18 +0200: >i will do that once i have made an xml alternative of the underlying >styles (interface) Ooh, I'll definitely be interested in that. >also, i will use this demo to show apple that some pdf work is is needed >on the mac -) heh, good. I,

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses

Mats Broberg said this at Sun, 25 Jul 2004 12:01:03 +0200: >- I don't quite understand how ConTeXt:ers deal with solid PMS spot >colours Mats, have a look at: Disclaimer: I haven't used spot colours yet, but I know it's in a manual. :) -- =-

Re: [NTG-context] patterns

Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:13:54 +0200: >>> So, what i need is for each language a couple of words that hyphenate >>> in unique ways (i.e. they must hyphenate differently than related >>> languages) This may be old news, but a quick Google turned up this TUGBoat on US vs UK:

Re: [NTG-context] Ancient Greek

Steffen Wolfrum said this at Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:57:05 +0200: >Well, I'd love to use aleph - no doubt! But, as I work with MacOS(X) >I fear I have to find a solution that will work for pdfetex. > >Could someone help me? Hmm. What's your timeframe? I'm working on XeTeX drivers for ConTeXt that sh

Re: [NTG-context] XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:37:18 +0200: > >Am 21.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb Adam Lindsay: >> For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that >> hooks >> into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and us

Re: [NTG-context] Ancient Greek

Steffen Wolfrum said this at Sun, 22 Aug 2004 13:10:28 +0200: >As far as I understood I order to typeset text in xetex you have to use >basically plain TeX-commands. XeTeX is another TeX engine. So it responds to (plain) TeX commands. LaTeX and ConTeXt are macro packages that are written in TeX.

Re: [NTG-context] Re: [FONTS] Japanese Unicode

Nikolai Weibull said this at Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:34:35 +0200: >At least some of the glyphs came out alright, but a lot of them are >missing. For the rest I get little gray squares. I think you're going to have to convert a lot more than just the U+30xx vector... Japanese covers a whole lot of gly

Re: [NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt and Aleph

Hans Hagen said this at Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:33:19 +0200: >if ( $TeXExecutable =~ /etex| >eetex|pdfetex|pdfeetex|pdfxtex|xpdfetex|eomega|aleph/io ) { >$TeXPrefix = "*"; >} Mind adding "xetex" to that list on your next release? :) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [NTG-context] Re: textext() doesn't work on my MikTeX distr.

Mojca Miklavec said this at Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:10:46 +0200: >Thanks a lot to both of you. It finally works. The line I had to change >was in miktex.ini. (I never had to bother about MikTeX specific issues >till now and I didn't expect the problem to lie so deep in the system.) I found it bad t

Re: [NTG-context] Upright greek with Fourier

Sebastian Sturm said this at Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:03:05 +0200: > I'd like to access Fourier's upright greek >alphabet, especially the large omega. However, the font including that >character doesn't seem to be used in math-fou.tex. I'm not a big fourier user, but the key is with the definition o

[NTG-context] i18n in ConTeXt (& some bugs)

Hi Hans, Victor, all. I've been feeling the Unicode love with XeTeX, and I explored lang-* as a major test case for internationalised text. I uncovered a few bugs along the way. In OpenType fonts, \i doesn't compose well with accents, unlike normal TeX fonts. Therefore a couple more definitions

Re: [NTG-context] i18n in ConTeXt (& some bugs)

Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:15:14 +0100: >I had the toughest time getting strings like \v!january to switch >language. I found that this change (from \currentmainlanguage) fixed the >inability to \ShowLanguageValues. In lang-lab: >\def\labellanguage{\def

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX no longer working

rom dvipdfmx. best, adam Christopher Creutzig said this at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:55:41 +0200: >Salvete, > > since mail directly to Adam Lindsay does not seem to get through (I >never got a reply, even when asking if it had got through, so I'm >assuming it didn't), sorry to

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX no longer working

of the important >> dvipdfmx specials, so the next spec-xtx will inherit from dvipdfmx. >> >> best, >> adam >> >> Christopher Creutzig said this at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:55:41 +0200: >> >> >>>Salvete, >>> >>> since mail di

Re: [NTG-context] Re: XeTeX no longer working

Nikolai Weibull said this at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:32:23 +0200: >I'm sorry to barge in on this discussion, but this XeTeX thing? Are you >running Mac OS X to use it, or is there an easy way to get it working on >UN*X? I tried finding information on setting it up on UN*X, but it >didn't seem there

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX no longer working

Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:50:07 +0200: >how exactly do you define a font: > > "Hoefler Text: Ligatures=Diphthongs" at 10pt This first one, thank goodness. It complicates some of your more sophisticated font-handling macros (such as not being able to say \showfont["Hoefler Text

[NTG-context] new release

Hi Hans. I just noticed this morning in your enco-uc (also appears in the new release) that the following is outside the start/stopencoding, and therefore causes some Bad Things (looking for UnicodeRegular20) if people use language settings: \stopencoding \definecharacter endash {\uchar

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Installing a new font.

Dirar BOUGATEF said this at Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:18:19 +: >1. using \ss works >2. \definebodyfont[ss,Karat] does not. > >Second : changing from sans > >3. Changed all refs to "sans" into "serif" in my typescript file karat.tex. >This works too. good. >Now, my font is a sans. What is the best

Re: [NTG-context] m-bib module

Taco Hoekwater said this at Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:44:14 +0200: >It works here, but I am not sure if that means anything. Can you try > > texexec --version > >and perhaps e-mail me a small (wrong) file as well? I just discovered this didn't work for me, either! Latest ConTeXt, just-downloaded

Re: [NTG-context] m-bib module

Martin Kolarik said this at Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:14:55 +0200: >2. if I used simply \placepublications (or \placelist[pubs]) I got nothing. >And after some tracing I found that I did not set criterium=something. Hum. Thanks for the response, but I tried a minimal file, and it all became clear. If

Re: [NTG-context] m-bib module

Martin_Kolarik said this at Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:52:14 +0200: >Yes, I can see my test file :-) -- you should get the list in the test file >if you state > >\setuppublicationlist > [criterium=all] > >or > >\setuppublicationlist > [criterium=section] > >for the list of pubs from the current section

[NTG-context] fontdimen trickery

Hans, Taco, all, Parallel to Taco's mathfontdump, this morning I ran into a problem trying to reassign a fontdimen of a font invoked using ConTeXt's typescript system. If I try it before a \setupbodyfont, it doesn't recognise the font identifier, and if I try it afterwards, I run into a \reactivat

Re: [NTG-context] Re: textools --fixtexmftrees : parse error !

Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:18:03 +0100: >what version of ruby do you run, 1.8.1+? :o good point. My version on an up-to-date MacOSX 10.3 system is: ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [powerpc-darwin7.0] -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Comput

Re: [NTG-context] Re: missing =

Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:04:35 +0100: >> \setupbodyfont[lbr,14pt] >> \starttext >> \startformula >> -1=+1 >> \stopformula >> \stoptext >> >> which typesets -1 1 >> >> removing the \setupbodyfont is the key to the = and + sign. Perhaps >> this is enough for others to track down

Re: [NTG-context] \mathbb

Otared Kavian said this at Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:29:49 +0100: >\def\Real#1{{\Bbb R}} \def\Real{{\Bbb R}} -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lancaster University, InfoLab21+44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA

Re: [NTG-context] Context & Vietnamese UTF-8

VnPenguin said this at Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:42:29 +0100: >Hi all, >I'm newbie of ConTeXt. I use VnTeX (vietnamese package for LaTeX of >Han The Thanh) with UTF-8 without any problem on teTeX 2.x (with >pdflatex). > >Now I would like to try ConTeXt and if it works I'll convert all my >LaTeX src into

Re: [NTG-context] Context & Vietnamese UTF-8

VnPenguin said this at Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:20:21 +0100: >With current vnTeX (vntex.sf.net), we can use viscii, tcvn, vps and >unicode (utf8) for input encoding. Cool. If there are users of things other than viscii or utf8 who come to ConTeXt, then they should be able to be accommodated with a lit

Re: [NTG-context] Re: does context support vietnamese?

Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:05:21 +0100: >The Thanh Han wrote: > >> do you have a test file for another language, for example english or >> czech? Then I can translate that file to get a test file for vietnamese. >> What is the current status of context support for czech? >> >> BT

Re: [NTG-context] Re: does context support vietnamese?

The Thanh Han said this at Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:36:05 +0700: >Hi Adam, > >ET5 was the first proposed font encoding for vietnamese; then it was >renamed to X5 with a few modifications. T5 is a minor update -- it's >heavily based on X5 but I don't remember what has been changed. Thanks. The question

Re: [NTG-context] \setupURL issues

Nikolai-- I just ran into this bug on my own and noticed your message on-list. Did you get it resolved, cos you're right: it's ugly. Nikolai Weibull said this at Mon, 5 Jul 2004 21:02:36 +0200: >\setupURL > [color=blue] > >seems buggy. Try this: > >\setupcolors > [state=start] >\setupinteract

[NTG-context] font variants

Hi all, I just wanted to run this technique by you all, and get a bit of feedback, both on the utility as well as the style of the solution. I'm a bit unhealthily obsessed by fonts, especially with getting the most out of the various features. Unfortunately, each vendor expresses different featur

Re: [NTG-context] Re: the url color problem

Nikolai Weibull said this at Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:54:03 +0100: >Seems to work fine, thanks. Not here. It still gobbles spaces in the label: \unprotect \def\dodouseURL[#1][#2][#3][#4]% {\iffirstargument \iffourthargument \setgvalue{\v!file:::#1}{\doexternaldocument[#2][#3][#4]}%

Re: [NTG-context] Re: the url color problem

Adam Lindsay said this at Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:44:20 +: >\starttext >\useURL[something][something with a space][http://pragma-pod.com/] >link to \from[something] here. >\stoptext Sorry, my bad. This works: \starttext \useURL[something][http://pragma-pod.com/][][something with a

[NTG-context] Fwd: OTF in Context and miktex fails

Dr. Schmidt, I hope you don't mind that I'm forwarding your email to the ConTeXt discussion/help list. I believe you're running into a (common) MikTeX configuration issue here, which is something I can't help with directly. MikTeXers? How do you increase the font memory? best regards, adam

[NTG-context] low level fonts

hi all. what's your best way of getting the current font name, regardless of how it's set (e.g., typescript, unicode, definedfont, low-level \font definitions...)? I certainly know about \truefontname{}, but what to put in the braces? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [NTG-context] low level fonts

Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:11:49 +0100: >tex: \fontname\font Thanks Hans. That's reliable. >also in context: \purefontname\font This fails with the XeTeX quoted-with-spaces fonts (just gives "Chaparral ) . I wasn't looking to test that sort of thing, but there you go. Clearly

Re: [NTG-context] low level fonts

Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:48:40 +: >Clearly \def\splitoffpurefontname#1 #2\\{#1} isn't enough. :/ To answer my own question, this (in spec-xtx?) should be enough (I wanted the quotes stripped so that I could insert things): \def\purefontname#1% {\doiffirst

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \defintion.

Dirar BOUGATEF said this at Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:09:45 +: >I have 2 definitions in my document and every thing compiles until i add a >third one, i get the following error: Dirar, I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Can you send a minimal, complete example that illustrates the

Re: [NTG-context] Recommended Books on Typesetting

Nikolai Weibull said this at Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:24:18 +0100: >I am thinking of getting "The Complete Manual of Typography" by James >Felici, which seems to be a very good book on the subject. I'm a fan of Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style." I know some people don't think much of it

Re: [NTG-context] start with XeTeX

Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:24:37 +0100: >Hello Adam et al! > >I just tried to use XeTeX (installed with Gerben's i-Installer, after >that updated ConTeXt) and followed your instructions in the wiki >(http://contextgarden.net/XeTeX), but I get always this error: > >This

Re: [NTG-context] New context Release notes

Taco Hoekwater said this at Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:40:57 +0100: >Hi there, > >For those of you who are interested, Hans has released a new ConTeXt last >week, and I've created a release notes pages for it here: > > http://contextgarden.net/Context_2004.11.23 Nice. > cont-log.tex: new logo \

Re: [NTG-context] New context Release notes

Taco Hoekwater said this at Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:40:57 +0100: >* Extended support for the XeTeX executable (largely contributed by Adam > Lindsay) Now that Gerben Wierda has updated the Mac installer to support this version, everything should be in place for Mac users to try this r

[NTG-context] Re: testing XeTeX with ConTeXt

[cc'd to list, because it'll be a common problem.] Charles Doherty said this at Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:01:59 +: >Dear Adam, > >Thank you for implementing XeTeX in ConTeXt. I have followed your >instructions following a fresh install from Gerben to ensure everything >was up-to-date but I can't

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Tex Live 2004 + context

VnPenguin said this at Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:22:44 +0100: >On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:52:35 -0800 (PST), Ciro A. Soto ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I am using linux Fedora Core 3. It came with a *very* old tex installation >> with >> context version 2003. If I understand your advice, I should use t

Re: [NTG-context] Phonetic Symbols

John Culleton said this at Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:09:49 -0500: >> Bernd, I'll forward the thing I've come up with off-list. It builds on >> the TIPA fonts in the LaTeX package. >> >This is a bit heretical I know but couldn't one just use a >\font\foo=nameoffont at 12pt >type statement? Wow, this wa

[NTG-context] Re: [XeTeX] Re: Is context working in XeTeX?

Dalyoung said this at Fri, 3 Dec 2004 00:04:24 +0900: Hi, Dalyoung. I'm cc'ing to the ConTeXt list, because I don't see why a context.fmt file (or its equivalent) would be created. >Thank you for your reply. The command >sudo texexec --xtx --make --alone en creates a format >file-context.xfmt

Re: [NTG-context] Phonetic Symbols

Nikolai Weibull said this at Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:16:54 +0100: >Em, I don't want to push this too hard, but I'd be interested in a >Tipa work-alike (or something similar) for ConTeXt as well. I'd >especially like the mapping part, rather than named glyphs, as it would >make more sense in the "sourc

Re: [NTG-context] LaTeX2ConTeXt : external links not work after recompiled

VnPenguin said this at Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:14:18 +0100: >But all external links not work! When I click on them, I go to the 1st >page of document. >Internal links work well. Quy, have you tried it in a different PDF viewer? Not all platforms treat links the same. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [NTG-context] using fonts

Wolfgang Zillig said this at Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:40:24 +0100: >Hello, > >I think I´mgetting confused with all of the font selection within context. Don't worry: it's a bit complicated at first... but it's learn-able (and easier, to my mind, than LaTeX's way of doing things!). >First: I have a mik

Re: [NTG-context] Re: using fonts

Patrick Gundlach said this at Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:41:58 +0100: >> \switchtotypeface[palatino][12pt,rm] > >I have never used \switchtotypeface. \setuptypeface[palatino,12pt,rm] is probably more appropriate here. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Compu

Re: [NTG-context] Re: using fonts -- installation

Rob Ermers said this at Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:30:22 +0100: >The font is simply not recognised (log file message: bodyfont: unknown >variant johanna). Of course, I am still miles away of getting my >cyrillic font working under context... Okay, that sounds odd. How do you define/use the font in ConT

Re: [NTG-context] using fonts -- installation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said this at Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:09:27 +0100: > am puzzled by this line which Hans wrote: > >\definetypeface[johanna][rm][serif][palatino][default] > >Hans further writes that [serif][palatino] is the main typescript filter >and that [rm] is mapped on to [serif][palatino] See ear

Re: [NTG-context] Re: using fonts -- installation

[resent to whole list] Rob Ermers said this at Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:19:13 +0100: >Thanks for your quick reaction. Before ending this eventful day, I ran >texexec as you suggested. (I'm in a meeting the next couple days, so probably won't be as responsive after this email.) >The font in question

Re: [NTG-context] Re: using fonts -- installation

Rob Ermers said this at Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:30:22 +0100: >The font is simply not recognised (log file message: bodyfont: unknown >variant johanna). Of course, I am still miles away of getting my >cyrillic font working under context... Okay, that sounds odd. How do you define/use the font in ConT

Re: [NTG-context] using fonts

Wolfgang Zillig said this at Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:18:43 +0100: >Adam Lindsay wrote: > >> But before that, TeX needs uplr8t.tfm to know how wide characters are so >> it can put boxes in the right place. > >but where do I get the tfm or how to create them? Good question. I

Re: [NTG-context] Re: using fonts

Patrick Gundlach said this at Tue, 7 Dec 2004 10:09:54 +0100: >> Good question. I'll throw it open to the list: >> Metrics for the urw clone 35 used to be commonly found everywhere. Where >> have they gone? > >Do you have psnfss for LaTeX installed? I guess I don't. gwTeX doesn't seem to throw it

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