Re: [NTG-context] fret-diagrams in Lilypond + ConTeXt

2007-09-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-09-13 um 10:14 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: For some strange reason it works here if I replace /catcode`/-=/@@letter by /catcode`/-=11 in t-lilypond.tex. Should I change it in the module or is it not save? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Adobe reader 811 on linux

2007-09-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-09-15 um 12:31 schrieb Olivier: Good news, but I would welcome a (speed review) compared to 7.0.8 before I go through the trouble of installing the package. So, if anybody is using it and is willing to share some experiences, that would be much appreciated. I don't know nothing

Re: [NTG-context] numbered subitems

2007-10-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-09-30 um 23:29 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: \startitemize[repeat,4*borad]\getbuffer\stopitemize ^^^ (add this) been too much to the movies, eh? ;-) I guess that should be broad... Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban ---

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX on Mac OS X

2007-10-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-10-02 um 14:27 schrieb Dalyoung Jeong: if not md5.HEX then function md5.HEX(str) return convert(str,% 02X) end end if not md5.hex then function md5.hex(str) return convert(str,% 02x) end end if not md5.dec then function md5.dec(str) return convert(stt,% 03i) end end

Re: [NTG-context] Which ConTeXt editor do you use?

2007-10-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-10-30 um 19:06 schrieb Matija Šuklje: Could anyone suggest a good ConTeXt-aware editor for Linux? Did you have a look at this: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Text_editor It's a bit outdated, but should give you a start. AFAIK Scite is Hans' favourite, so maybe its ConTeXt mode is the

[NTG-context] ordering (combined) lists

2007-10-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Ahoi! In my songbook, I'd like to order the table of contents alphabetically. Is that possible or must I abuse the index features? This is my setup: \definecombinedlist [inhalt] [Titel, TitelKlein, TitelNoPage] [level=Titel, placehead=yes,

[NTG-context] upright sans math

2007-10-31 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Ahoi! I need to typeset some formulae in upright Helvetica (TeX Gyre Heros, URW Nimbus or similar). Is this already pre-made in the ConTeXt distribution? I couldn't find it. Greetlings, Hraban ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] Context and Lilypond on Miketex with TeXnicCenter

2007-11-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-11-14 um 08:48 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use MikeTex TeXnicCenter for writing Context with Lilypond. I don't know if t-lilypond will work on Windows at all. You need: - a rather recent version of ConTeXt (yours seems ok) - a rather recent version of pdfTeX (dito) - latest version of

Re: [NTG-context] encoding for gothic fonts (was: Long s in ConTeXt)

2007-11-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-11-15 um 11:35 schrieb Andreas Hauser: How do I go about finding a font that contains all my special characters? I have at least ſ (long s), aͤ (a^e SMALL e ABOVE), ʒ etc. Most are from a historical context. And a lot of ligatures. As I understand Mac OS is able to produce

Re: [NTG-context] encoding for gothic fonts

2007-11-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-11-18 um 10:30 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: I didn't check yet what characters are contained in which, but I guess ConTeXt would need some logic to enable proper typesetting of blackletter text, e.g. handling s and ſ. Have to look at Yannis' efforts for LaTeX, too. And I guess I must

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] gnupdf.org

2007-11-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-11-24 um 07:33 schrieb luigi scarso: http://tinyurl.com/3bahws http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso#Cool_links (well, no so coool..) I collect links about pdf, libray, edit . Given i'm working with python sometimes I use http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ If you know others,

Re: [NTG-context] \setupbodyfont[handwritten]

2007-11-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-11-26 um 01:19 schrieb Maurí cio: When I use \setupbodyfont[handwritten] or \setupbodyfont[calligraphic], I get fonts which do not look like handwritten or calligraphic. Other options give consistent results (sans, type, serif etc.). What should I check in order to get those to

Re: [NTG-context] Visually replace one character by another one automatically

2007-11-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-11-27 um 17:15 schrieb Jeff Smith: On Nov 27, 2007 10:23 AM, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tlig=yes trep=yes trep! Works perfecly. It it's only about quotes, you should consider using \quote{} and \quotation{} instead of typing more or less correct quotation marks.

Re: [NTG-context] Visually replace one character by another one automatically

2007-11-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-11-28 um 20:07 schrieb Jeff Smith: On Nov 28, 2007 1:26 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It it's only about quotes, you should consider using \quote{} and \quotation{} instead of typing more or less correct quotation marks. Indeed. Anyway I already use \quote. :-) My

Re: [NTG-context] Default LaTeX font

2007-12-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-12-01 um 19:35 schrieb Xan: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:20:46PM +0100, Xavier J. B. L. wrote: I know that Context uses Latin Modern instead of Computer Modern that use Latex. I want to know how to change it. \usepackage[lmodern] should work. Cheers, Peter In context? I want to

Re: [NTG-context] Long s in ConTeXt

2007-12-04 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-11-18 um 10:02 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Andreas Hauser wrote: How do I go about finding a font that contains all my special characters? That's the problem, and it depends somewhat on what you are doing. If your text will be historical, you will probably need lots of old ligatures

Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007-12-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2007/12/5, Arthur Reutenauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No! deo ist modern German in old orthography (pre-2005). OK, so I guess that's what RFC 4646 suggests de-1996 for -- I suppose the reform was first introduced in 1996 and adopted only later? See

Re: [NTG-context] mkiv

2007-12-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-12-07 um 19:17 schrieb Hans Hagen: As a prelude to an independent language mechanism for mkiv (the tex part) I removes a few thingies. I was wondering ... is anyone using language specifics? Active quote stuff? Does that still make sense for mkiv? After all we can have more advanced

Re: [NTG-context] TeX ligatures in XeTeX/LuaTeX: ``who needs them''?

2007-12-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-12-09 um 00:10 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: In some old documents. In newer documents I use \quote and \quotation. Then there are documents that need to move back and forth between latex and context but for them I can easily define appropriate macros in latex. To be honest: I

Re: [NTG-context] chapter without number but in table of contents

2007-12-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-12-15 um 17:33 schrieb Patrick Gundlach: \starttext \completecontent [alternative=c] \chapter{chapter1} \chapter{chapter2} \chapter{chapter3} \definehead[mychapter][chapter] \setuphead [mychapter][number=no,incrementnumber=list] \mychapter{chapter4} \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] ghost in data ?

2007-12-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-12-15 um 20:58 schrieb Patrick Gundlach: But – Patrick you work on Mac, too – in which editor/application can I actually *see* a difference? Don't ask me. I've used emacs and asked it (C-u C-x =) to get me information on the character and it told me the unicode codepoint. I'm on a

[NTG-context] header to register

2008-01-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Ahoi! For a songbook I need a alphabetically sorted TOC. As easy workaround I tried to use an register/index. But I'd like to get my headers into the index without typing \index all the time. But with my following setup I get only garbage numbers instead of my titles: \setuphead[Titel]

Re: [NTG-context] header to register

2008-01-21 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-01-21 um 10:33 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: My .tuo file contains lines like: \listentry{Titel}{2}{}{nihil ita ut videtur}{2--0-1-0-0-0-0-0--1}{3}% ... \registerpage{index}{,}{1}{\dowritetolist \@@koppeling {}{nihil ita ut videtur}\v!head }}\fi \executeifdefined {\??ko Titel\c!

Re: [NTG-context] header to register

2008-01-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-01-22 um 11:31 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: You could try to write \expanded{index{#1}} and use deeptextcommand=\TitleFrame. Thank you, I always forget about \expanded, and I didn't know about deeptextcommand at all... But it doesn't work, it stops with: TitelNoToc : - Inhalt

Re: [NTG-context] header to register

2008-01-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-01-28 um 09:16 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: On Jan 23, 2008 10:04 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2008-01-22 um 11:31 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: You could try to write \expanded{index{#1}} and use deeptextcommand=\TitleFrame. Thank you, I always forget about

[NTG-context] exploring register options

2008-01-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Can someone tell me, if the following options of \setupregister are supposed to have some effect (I couldn't see any): style (pagestyle and textstyle work) command (pagecommand and textcommand work) location (Just fixed the texshow description.) I didn't check those (also undocumented):

Re: [NTG-context] header to register (SOLVED)

2008-01-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-01-29 um 21:01 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: Here's a rather minimal working example that shows the index problem (even if not the failure with my actual project): \setuphead[chapter][page=no, number=no, textcommand=\MyTitle] Sorry, in this case it's solvable with deeptextcommand

Re: [NTG-context] header to register

2008-01-29 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-01-29 um 18:48 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: So do I. But I still use \dots mostly so I did not realize the difference; I thought they were the same (or forgot they are different). Why the different definitions I wonder? Till then I'll proabably \let\textellipsis=\unknown. (there

Re: [NTG-context] header to register

2008-01-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-01-30 um 16:48 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: isn't this just a bug in lmodern? In any decent font, \textellipsis in fact gives exactly the output you get from \unknown here. There may be historical reasons why the glyph looks that way in cm and lm, but it certainly is unexpected

Re: [NTG-context] Need of a new global option for indenting?

2008-01-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-01-30 um 19:53 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Sorry to bother you with this question again, but I didn't get any definitive answer in the previous discussion: wouldn't it be useful to have a new option in \setupindenting that indents EVERY paragraph? I mean even after floats,

Re: [NTG-context] Need of a new global option for indenting?

2008-01-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-01-30 um 19:53 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Sorry to bother you with this question again, but I didn't get any definitive answer in the previous discussion: wouldn't it be useful to have a new option in \setupindenting that indents EVERY paragraph? I mean even after floats,

Re: [NTG-context] Need of a new global option for indenting?

2008-01-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-01-30 um 19:53 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Sorry to bother you with this question again, but I didn't get any definitive answer in the previous discussion: wouldn't it be useful to have a new option in \setupindenting that indents EVERY paragraph? I mean even after floats,

Re: [NTG-context] %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?

2008-01-31 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-01-31 um 16:08 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: I have often seen (in arabic newpapers) the percentage sign set left to the number % 18. Recently I read an article (http://sehstoerung.sonance.net/pdfs/ TitusNemeth_dissertation.pdf) that calls this ... the incorrect placement of the

Re: [NTG-context] week of wiki 1: call for installation instructions

2008-02-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-02-06 um 15:50 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: So, I have a little request: can we devote one week (or 10 days if neded) for improvement of installation instructions? This means: - improve a generic page (Installation) with links, general notes about dependencies (ruby, perl), general

[NTG-context] latest release doesn't make

2008-02-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Ahoi, just tried to update via ctxtools, but making formats stops at Greek hyphenation patterns: (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/patterns/lang- agr.pat ! Nonletter. l.234 ᾿ 2ρ1῾2ρ If I press r to continue I get a long list of more Greek nonletters. Is that

Re: [NTG-context] latest release doesn't make

2008-02-18 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-02-17 um 20:12 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Running 0.20.2 0r 0.22.0 ? I eased the pattern file rules a bit for 0.22.0, it could be that is why Hans has no problems? Whatever the version is that I get at 2007-02-17 22:11 via ctxtools still shows the problem. My setup is TeX Live 2007

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Reader, PNG transparency and colors

2008-02-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-02-20 um 19:54 schrieb Martin Schröder: However, there seems to be one more strange thing (not that big): If I include some transparent stuff on a light background (i.e. a metapost figure on a light gray screen), there's a visible rectangle around it (on the screen). Don't you

Re: [NTG-context] (References title in) Norwegian

2008-02-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-02-22 um 08:26 schrieb Trond Lossius: I was just about to ask how to do the same concerning the list of contents when I realized that it automagically translates itself when using \mainlanguage[no] I remember a discussion whether ConTeXt's Norwegian is Bokmål or Nynorsk (I don't

Re: [NTG-context] Using Postscript Type 1 fonts in ConTeXt/XeTeX?

2008-03-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Some of your statements seem wrong or at least confusing to me: Am 2008-03-01 um 13:19 schrieb Roland: Seems we never posted the conclusion about this problem: XeTeX simply doesn't work with the old Mac Type 1 Postscript fonts on Mac OS X (Leopard or before). The reason is that these old

Re: [NTG-context] Landscape typesetting on portrait page

2008-03-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-03-06 um 12:04 schrieb John Devereux: I have a document containing a wide table. I would like to have the table rotated 90 degrees, along with the text on that page (which would be in three columns above the table). So I would have (view in fixed pitch) Did you try \rotate at all?

[NTG-context] Fwd: Chaos TV #122 «Typesettin g»

2008-03-24 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
If you're interested in historical typesetting, here's a documentary about line-o-type typesetters from the 1960s. (Italian production in English, see last link) Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: Martin Wilhelm Leidig Datum: 24. März 2008 17:58:13 GMT+01:00 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] MKIV Chinese and English typesetting

2008-03-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Just an idea (I know nothing about Asian scripts and don't need those features myself): Would it perhaps possible to hook that font switch into the language mechanism? Like if I change the language between latin-script languages with {\de Deutsch} and get different typography, e.g. other

Re: [NTG-context] UTF-8 characters and gnuplot module

2008-03-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-03-25 um 18:11 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Morgan Brassel wrote: set xlabel 'I\'\ m sorry!' If UTF-8 works, why don’t you just use a proper apostrophe (’ vs. ') then? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

Re: [NTG-context] margins

2008-03-25 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-03-25 um 01:51 schrieb Joel C. Salomon: In other words, you want large inner margins and small outer margins. However, the standard behaviour seems to be the opposite. For very good reason. When a two-page spread is laid flat, it usually looks best if the outer margins are both

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-31 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-03-31 um 17:33 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: How-to-find-your-way-thru-the-source Tutorial for total newbie. The first thing that you need to know is the file where a particular command is defined. You can search the source tree on contextgarden; or grep the files in your computer. After

[NTG-context] Footnote in section: Compilation stops on TUO file

2008-04-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
I don't understand this error: (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tst.tex) interaction : active(./prd_05.tuo) (./prd_05.tuo! Improper alphabetic constant.to be read again\footnote argument \ifnum `\footnote =255

[NTG-context] several details (maybe bugs)

2008-04-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
While typesetting some proceedings, I stumpled upon the following issues: (1) \setupheads seems to do nothing - I must set every option for every head separately. AFAIR this is broken forever, at least it was the same in 2000. (2) \setuphead[chapter][header=none] should switch off the header

[NTG-context] Streams in two columns

2008-04-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
I'm trying to typeset English and German texts in two columns. With the following example every bilingual section goes on a new page. How can I avoid that? (Using only columns instead of columnsets I get single-section pages with alternating languages.) %% setup \definecolumnset[twocol][n=2]

Re: [NTG-context] several details (maybe bugs)

2008-04-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-05 um 17:08 schrieb David: (3) \startitemize[n] Numbered itemizations suddenly(?) start with 0 - as this may be suitable for programmers, but it's, ehm, a bit unusual in every other context. I don't have the final answer on this, but I have run into this starts with zero

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote in section: Compilation stops on TUO file

2008-04-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-05 um 17:35 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: It seems to be caused by this line, i.e. by the footnote: \section{Bildungs- und Erziehungsauftrag\footnote{H. P., Humanist Road to European Citizenship, Zitate aus Verfassungen, 15.\,12.\, 2007

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote in section: Compilation stops on TUO file

2008-04-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-05 um 21:52 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: You can try \section{blah blah \nomarking{\footnote{...}} or \section{blah blah \nolist{\footnote{...}}} Thanks for the hint, but it doesn't work - neither with one nor with both. Did you remember to flush the old tuo file first? :-) I

[NTG-context] first steps with XeTeX

2008-04-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Since I need to typeset some names with characters outside of ec encoding, I'm just checking out XeTeX. - first threshold: If you have \setupoutput[pdftex] in cont-sys.tex, it doesn't work. ;-) (Complains you should use pdftex binaries.) - second threshold: Adapt your typescripts. Since I use

Re: [NTG-context] Footnote in section: Compilation stops on TUO file

2008-04-05 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-05 um 23:11 schrieb zs: Finally I found that all my problems disappear when I avoid using these tables http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table replacing them by http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TABLE So ... if you use tables No, I use TABLEs and tabulates, but not around this

Re: [NTG-context] first steps with XeTeX

2008-04-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-05 um 23:58 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: Since I need to typeset some names with characters outside of ec encoding, I'm just checking out XeTeX. why not luatex? Because I don't like to recompile my binaries all the time. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban ---

Re: [NTG-context] first steps with XeTeX

2008-04-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-06 um 04:35 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Since I need to typeset some names with characters outside of ec encoding, I'm just checking out XeTeX. - first threshold: If you have \setupoutput[pdftex] in cont-sys.tex

[NTG-context] analyzing type-otf.tex

2008-04-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
(1) Shouldn't these typescripts get splitted?: from \starttypescript [serif] [adventor,bonum,cursor,heros,pagella,schola,termes] to \starttypescript [serif] [bonum,pagella,schola,termes] \starttypescript [sans] [adventor,heros] \starttypescript [mono] [cursor] plus \starttypescript

Re: [NTG-context] first steps with XeTeX

2008-04-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-06 um 14:24 schrieb Martin Schröder: why not luatex? Because I don't like to recompile my binaries all the time. So use debian. :-) Norbert provides up-to-date luatex packages. Debian installs not so good on a PPC Mac and doesn't run my expensive Adobe apps ;-) (And I doubt if

Re: [NTG-context] analyzing type-otf.tex

2008-04-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-06 um 13:35 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm: (2) This seems wrong to me (i.e. I don't understand it): \starttypescript [serif] [adventor,bonum,cursor,heros,pagella,schola,termes] \definefontsynonym [\typescriptprefix{n:\typescripttwo}-Regular] [file:texgyre\typescriptthree

Re: [NTG-context] OT: discOSsion (was: first steps with XeTeX)

2008-04-06 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-06 um 15:28 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz: Debian installs not so good on a PPC Mac and doesn't run my expensive Adobe apps ;-) (And I doubt if Norbert provides Linux PPC binaries...) Debian installs very well on a PPC mac, and Norbert provides PPC binaries (which I compiled for

Re: [NTG-context] analyzing type-otf.tex

2008-04-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-07 um 12:58 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: To Hraban: encoding=uc has *zero* effect. To be honest - I doubt that you will be able to extract any more than (theoretical limit of) 256 glyphs from the Type1 font with XeTeX - character slots and font glyphs are in one-to-one correlation, so I

Re: [NTG-context] first steps with XeTeX

2008-04-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-07 um 00:53 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: Else you need to ask on the XeTeX mailing list. (But indeed: why not trying out LuaTeX?) I'm too lazy to recompile my binaries all the time; my old Mac is rather slow... That's why the minimal distribution (minimals.contextgarden.net) has been

Re: [NTG-context] analyzing type-otf.tex

2008-04-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2008/4/8, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Oh? I thought uc encoding would magically enhance my type1 fonts with full unicode range

Re: [NTG-context] analyzing type-otf.tex

2008-04-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-08 um 13:41 schrieb Hans Hagen: To Hraban: oh, I did not understand you joke at first :-) Now I see what you were trying to say with extending the font to the full unicode range :-) And sure enough - LuaTeX doesn't do that either. Sorry, I should know since a few years that my

Re: [NTG-context] ConTEXt - produced book

2008-04-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-08 um 16:15 schrieb luigi scarso: What about to put it on the wiki ? How about a list of books (or everything else) made with ConTeXt? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] random Computer Science paper generator

2008-04-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2008/4/9, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ it would be nice to have something in context. Of course, the site says its botches are context-free ;-) Fortunately in my experience TeX conferences have a somewhat higher subscription standard... Greetlings, Hraban

Re: [NTG-context] first steps with XeTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2008/4/8, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess I'll re-publish my typescripts as soon as I'm actively using luaTeX - and as soon as I relaunch my website on Django (planning that for some months now...) What about Plone ? I only need a lean framework, not an excessive application

Re: [NTG-context] ConTEXt - produced book

2008-04-09 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2008/4/9, Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Andrea Always asked for. But nobody raise a hand...:-) Andrea I would read it eagerly I would even buy it ;) I wouldn't - I've a shelf full of development books but always only use online docs. In this area books simply are too slow. Greetlings, Hraban

Re: [NTG-context] Streams

2008-04-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
is printed on a new page (as Henning Hraban Ramm posted earlier). Is there a work around other than using two pages? It doesn't seem possible - only if you control page/column breaks manually. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net

Re: [NTG-context] Streams

2008-04-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
perhaps the streams module can help you? see streams startting at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Columns#Column_Sets Luigi, Bert, you both completely miss that the OP already tried to use streams (see subject!) and can't achieve what he needs, i.e. streams in columns. That's simply not

Re: [NTG-context] small caps and old numbers with open type fonts

2008-04-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-13 um 20:39 schrieb Antoine Junod: I actually use my font as simple as possible with a \definefont[boum][MyFont at 12pt]. Is it the problem? Yes. You should set up your fonts with a typescript and access small caps / oldstyle as features. Sorry, can't help you further at the

[NTG-context] chapter setup / table of contents

2008-04-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Ahoi! In a volume of proceedings, each chapter has an author and title and sometimes a subtitle. The ToC entry should look like: Author: Title \hfill Page (no indents!) At the moment I've this setup: --- \def\Titel#1#2#3{% author, title, subtitle \page%

Re: [NTG-context] chapter setup / table of contents

2008-04-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-14 um 22:26 schrieb luigi scarso: I've seen in core-lst % \setuplist % [section] % [alternative=MyListItem, %after=\blank, %before=\blank] % % \definelistplacement[MyListItem][none]#1#2#3% % {(#1) (#2) (#3)} Maybe this can help you ? I guess not - these 3

Re: [NTG-context] chapter setup / table of contents

2008-04-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-15 um 10:03 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Try this. \unprotect \resetvalue{\??sw\v!chapter} \startsetups chapter:list \doifsomething{\sectionworldparameter\c!author} {\expanded{\writetolist[\v!chapter] {\sectionworldparameter\c!author:\space

Re: [NTG-context] chapter setup / table of contents

2008-04-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
I have now: \unprotect \resetvalue{\??sw\v!chapter} \startsetups chapter:list \doifsomething{\sectionworldparameter\c!author} {\expanded{\writetolist[\v!chapter] {\sectionworldparameter\c!author:\space \sectionworldparameter\c!text}{}}}

Re: [NTG-context] chapter setup / table of contents

2008-04-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2008/4/16, Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Add style=, to \setuphead[chapter] because the default value influence your own settings. I tried that before but the results were not satisfying (it was unclear to me, where it did apply and where not) - I need a different style for the three

Re: [NTG-context] Fonts and other tips for thesis and other academic works

2008-04-16 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
2008/4/16, Suno Ano [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You want to pick a font family which has entire support for mathematical glyphs like for example - Computer Modern Roman or That's Latin Modern (LM) nowadays. - Lucida Bright AFAIK there are also math fonts for Palatino (px), Times (tx?),

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-17 um 10:13 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Before I start to give you information about my module and give you the chance to mention your own wishes or thoughts about the inteface I'm interested what do you use currently to write you own correspondence (letter, invoices etc.). I

Re: [NTG-context] Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt

2008-04-17 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-17 um 16:32 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: I normally use InDesign for my business letters and invoices. Dou you use a template for your letters. Not an InDesign template file (.idt), but a single document (with master pages) for every purpose (German/Swiss/English, letter/ invoice,

Re: [NTG-context] typescript

2008-04-19 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-19 um 13:06 schrieb Antoine Junod: \starttypescript[serif][garamondpp] \definefontsynonym [GaramondPP-Roman] [GaramondPremrPro] \definefontsynonym [GaramondPP-Bold] [GaramondPremrPro-Bd] \definefontsynonym [GaramondPP-Italic] [GaramondPremrPro-It]

[NTG-context] Fwd: Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press

2008-04-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Von: Martin Schröder Datum: 20. April 2008 16:55:12 GMT+02:00 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press Antwort an: German Language TeX Users Group Communication List TEX- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wonderful 60 minutes of the BBC showing Stephen Fry recreating an the

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press

2008-04-20 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-20 um 23:00 schrieb Keith McKay: I'm not sure if this is available to those of you outside of the UK but here is the link to the BBC iPlayer for the show Unfortunately they block it: http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/download_programmes/outsideuk Greetlings from Lake

Re: [NTG-context] urw garamond typescript

2008-04-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-24 um 13:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Next exercise for me: creation of a new font collection! Could you suggest please, what fonts would fit nicely with garamond, for ss, tt and mm? I suggest palatino (mathpazo?) for math but this would be more a topic for Hraban, you could try

Re: [NTG-context] Comments and marks in PDF

2008-04-26 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-26 um 12:14 schrieb Oleg Kolosov: Adobe Acrobat Reader have special feature, called 'review'. So people can leave marks or comments in PDF file and save them. But AFAIK this can only be done with PDF files generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro. Is there any way to do something similar

Re: [NTG-context] who eats my spaces (was: chapter setup / table of contents)

2008-04-27 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Coming back to my old thread. Here's my latest chapter setup: --- 8 --- \unprotect \resetvalue{\??sw\v!chapter} \startsetups chapter:list \def\\{{\ \nomarking{\nolist\crlf}}} \doiftextelse{\sectionworldparameter\c!author} {\expanded{\writetolist[\v!chapter]

Re: [NTG-context] minimal example for Cyrillic

2008-04-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-28 um 09:16 schrieb Gour: I was able to persuade one user to prepare ConTeXt package for NixOS distro, but, unfortunately, being from Russia he quickly discovered that he minimal example from wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian) does not work, i.e. \enableregime[utf]

Re: [NTG-context] who eats my spaces

2008-04-28 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-28 um 11:45 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: I don't know who eats you spaces, but I assume you could do The period after B in the author filed eats the space, I tried the example with B Rüssel and the space is in the output. Of course, every normal inter-word space is kept; that's why

Re: [NTG-context] who eats my spaces

2008-04-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-29 um 09:05 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: that in titles the space after a dot ... gets eaten. (Ok, it's a full stop, maybe not a dot?) I consider this a very strange bug, can't avoid punctuation in titles. Enclosing the period in braces {.} did work and is a temprorary solution

Re: [NTG-context] Table of contents customization

2008-04-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-29 um 13:27 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: \setuplist [chapter,section,...] [numbercommand=\DotAfterNumber] \def\DotAfterNumber#1{\doiftext{#1}{#1.}} Just wikified that: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table_of_Contents Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban ---

Re: [NTG-context] Itemize numbering

2008-04-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-29 um 17:49 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: I just tried the following on Context Live: \starttext \startitemize[n] \item one \item two \startitemize \item a \item b \stopitemize \item three \stopitemize \stoptext and the first itemize starts at 0. Remove the

Re: [NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-30 um 12:52 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: You could use Microsofts new Vista fonts (Cambria, Corbel, Consolas ...) Can we share a link , or licences problems may arise ? Google for PowerPoint Viewer 2007. Quoting Microsoft's download page: Font Components You may use the fonts

Re: [NTG-context] who eats my spaces

2008-04-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-30 um 14:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: can you send me a example with the setups, I will try to find a solution in the next days. The setups are here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Proceedings_style I can send you the whole project off-list if you like. Greetlings from Lake

[NTG-context] headers and pagenumbering

2008-04-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hello again, just trying to understand some remaining issues with my latest project. --- startcode --- \starttext % Setups \setuppagenumbering[ alternative=doublesided, location={header,right}, strut=yes, state=stop] % chapter title in the header,

Re: [NTG-context] Missing greeks characters in texgyreheros

2008-04-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-04-30 um 19:22 schrieb luigi scarso: Ah yes, at my printing company 1) pfb/pfa : good fonts ( not easy to install in luatex ) 2) otf : good fonts ( easy to install ) 3) ttf : bad fonts ( easy to install ) Of course it's not exactly true (but maybe on average): a mental

Re: [NTG-context] headers and pagenumbering

2008-05-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-05-03 um 07:54 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: (1) % or 0? ;-) I struggled how to leave out the pagina on the ToC page, no setups seemed to work. I just reckognized that I need the \page inside of the braced area. I will use a simple example ti explain where you need to insert a

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-05-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-05-30 um 14:31 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid: There is no denying that many advanced features in InDesign are missing in TeX(like) related software. What's more, the internationalization of InDesign is better. Can you give a precise list of the features contained in InDesign that are

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-05-31 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-05-31 um 04:20 schrieb luigi scarso: There are still some areas where you need a programmable system, even trivia like chapter dependant running titles (in ConTeXt: headertexts). Isn't indesign programmable too ? I know people who use it in an automatic workflow for db publishing

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

2008-06-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-06-12 um 11:00 schrieb Andrea Valle: The fact IMHO is that there's a potentially large base of ConTeXt users which are willing to learn the syntax but are scared about terminals, setting paths etc (well, me too: knowing substantially nothing of unix I'm never comfortable with

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-06-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-06-12 um 20:26 schrieb Maurí cio: The reason for a standard tag language is that the main engine should be able to do some operations on data, like breaking it in pieces like words, paragraphs or staffs on music scores, sometimes without fully understanding what exactly those are.

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

2008-06-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-06-13 um 19:08 schrieb Andrea Valle: Sorry, you can't use TeX in a decent way if you can't use a shell (AKA command line AKA Terminal AKA DOS box). That's not true. Installing mactex doesn't require you to use terminal. It comes with TeXShop. Works out of the box. That was my first

Re: [NTG-context] distro info

2008-06-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-06-13 um 20:26 schrieb Matthias Weber: Even with GUI layout projects I normally have a Terminal open - e.g. for quick (batch) renaming (renaming is one of the few really annoying mis-features of MacOS X - YES I REALLY WANT TO CHANGE THE EXTENSION AND I KNOW WHAT I DO, DAMNED!).

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