h h extern said this at Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:38:27 +0100:
\unprotected \def\XMLtex#1%
{\begingroup
\disableXML
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@XMLdata:#1\endcsname}%
\endgroup}
Okay. More strange and wondrous magic. Thanks!
I notice there's a \let\XMLtex already in xtag-ini...
h h extern said this at Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:38:27 +0100:
Also, what's the status of contml? I like the idea of it as a simple,
structural, basic markup that ConTeXt handles with zero effort, but is
anyone actually using it?
we sometimes mix it into other xml docs; i have no problem with
Richard Gabriel said this at Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:48:05 +0100:
So I defined a macro to process the programlisting tag from the XML file:
\defineXMLenvironment[programlisting]{\starttyping}{\stoptyping}
Richard,
Have you taken a look at x-contml to see how it solves this problem with
verbatim?
[CC'd to ConTeXt list.]
Jonathan Kew said this at Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:30:25 +:
I think I may have a temporary fix for the [][][][][][] problem, until
such time as I correct the real bug in XeTeX and release a new version.
I've been able to reproduce the problem here, and identified a
Willi Egger said this at Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:41:31 +0100:
sorrz for having sent mz replz to Tobias ...
Is someone visiting germany? :D
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Fergal Grimes said this at Fri, 17 Dec 2004 07:59:53 -0700:
The problem is that when I run TeXFont it just copies the AFM and PFB files
into the directory tree at C:\Program Files\TeXLive\texmf-local\fonts. (I'm
using TeXLive distribution for Win32.)
file = c:/Program
c:/Program.gz: No such
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said this at Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:56:40 +0100:
In Latex the combination \{a} can mean two things:
1. in most fonts: show the charachter on the a given numerical position,
which means that there is one character ä.
2. in some other fonts \{a} means: combine with a and make an ä.
I haven't seen it mentioned on this list yet. It may have been mentioned
out there elsewhere in TeXland:
Adobe Reader 7.0 is out.
It installs a web plugin for the Mac.
It seems to work on the Pragma/POD site.
Rock on.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
as usual.
adam
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VnPenguin said this at Sat, 25 Dec 2004 00:35:36 +0100:
I'm trying the example at page 236 Graphics and macros (metafun-s.pdf).
I use vietnamese utf-8 input with T5.:
--- code ---
\enableregime[utf]
\setupencoding[default=t5]
\loadmapfile[urwvn]
h h extern said this at Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:33:44 +0100:
Context already has mechanisms for flowing or wrapping text around a
graphic.
How well the wraparound feature works when more than one short
paragraph is
involved I have not tested yet.
the mp based background mechanism can handle
John Culleton said this at Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:10:06 -0500:
Adam is right. Think of an intermezzo with a gray background but either in
the margin,or placed in the outer part of the text block like an
illustration, or protruding from the text block. The term sidebar is
American magazine usage.
Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:24:55 +0100:
\framed[corner=round,background=color,backgroundcolor=red]{HELLO}
Thanks. I had never grappled with the corner option in \framed before:
corner = framecorner + backgroundcorner
That actually makes sense. :)
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John Culleton said this at Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:29:10 -0500:
\setupfloat
[intermezzo]
[leftmargindistance=-\outercombitotal,
rightmargindistance=-\outercombitotal,
default=outer,high]
The only defect I can spot, and this is really a nit-pick, are the short
lines
in the main body
Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:19:18 +0100:
Delving further into details.pdf (I got this from a day of playing with
it--which is hardly adequate for really digesting one of Hans's manuals)
will probably yield even better results.
ok, i know they're sub optimal,
Not meant to be a
Hi all,
Sorry, but I'm announcing another Mac-only thing to the ConTeXt list.
I'd like a few testers on an export script. OmniOutliner Pro makes for an
interesting structured editor, and I've written an export plug-in that
outputs ContML code that can easily be run through ConTeXt. I could use
hi all.
What's happening here?
\starttext
hello world.\par
\framed{hello} world.\par
hello \framed{world}.\par
\stoptext
It looks like an extra \par is inserted after the first \framed.
Is this new? (Using latest beta.)
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Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:44:05 +0100:
this one of those tex side effects (\framed is a vbox)
hello \dontleavehmode \framed
Okay, I came across it when testing my export format. I'll not worry
about it, as it's a weird case. :/
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Willi Egger said this at Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:33:08 +0100:
language : patterns en for en loaded (n=1)
(c:\NEWCON~1\tex\texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ushyph.tex)
language : no hyphenations en for en (n=1)
Yeah, huh. I got the same, too. Empirically, it works:
\starttext
Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:44:21 +0100:
Expect also cleanup in the font area:
- csr/plr/aer/vnr will be dropped in favor of lmr (also makes minimals
smaller)
Cool.
Not directly relevant, but if you're considering the minimals, the antt
font got a stunning update somewhere at the
Zeljko Vrba said this at Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:35:27 +0100:
I'm trying to design a universal markup that will be easy to convert both
to PDF and HTML.
Hi there. Sounds as if we're after similar things. I've been working on
similar stuff, expanding on the existing x-contml module with code in
this
Peter Münster said this at Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:34:34 +0100:
Do I have to register somewhere?
It's the standard 404 - Not found error.
You probably are looking for:
http://www.pragma-ade.com/dir/context/
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Hans Hagen said this at Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:32:27 +0100:
- csr/plr/aer/vnr will be dropped in favor of lmr (also makes minimals
smaller)
What will this entail, exactly?
less font files because latin modern has all those glyphs in it (once
vietnamese
is in there some 600 glyphs per font);
[apologies for the cross-post.]
Hi all,
My export plugin for OmniOutliner is now available for use with both
OmniOutliner Professional and Standard:
http://oo2contml.sourceforge.net/
It exports structural markup to an XML file that's able to be processed
directly by the ConTeXt TeX macro
h h extern said this at Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:19:10 +0100:
Your latin-modern typescripts accept ec, but the tfm files are called cork.
(I'm only wondering about this now for antt support.)
for the ant, use ec- since that's what texfont provides
Ah, I invoked Latin Modern because (since Jacko
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 all by hand now?
I noticed your
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}
c n='eacute'/
Um, I'm not sure, but I think Hans
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
Rob Ermers said this at Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:12:24 +0100:
Introducing scedilla in the file, as you suggested, seems not necessary:
Bac n='scedilla'/ sokac n='gbreve'/c n='dotlessi'/.
Right. You've figured this out, but in case anyone else was following
along, Hans's element-based solution used
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}
It
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 now
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 written
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 app for
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 picked
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!
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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
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 know what
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
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 typesetting
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
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
bold
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
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
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 have
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
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
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:
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
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
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
want to
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 to
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
produce the
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...
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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 notionally keep such
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 opaque
[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
[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
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 http://
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
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
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
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
http://contextgarden.net/Layout clearer.
This page is my best effort at describing how someone who is used
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!
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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, you
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 discussion,
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][
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 there also
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) generation
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):
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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 increase by a factor
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?
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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 to proceed
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 measured
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,
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.
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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,
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?
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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
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]
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
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 eth
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 I
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.html
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
perhaps you also need to
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 very
[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, you
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
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Using the UTF regime with XeConTeXt makes you reliant on the characters
defined in enco-uc/unic-0xx
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
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),
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
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 trying to
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
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
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 Knuthian programs
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, then from
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.context
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