Re: [NTG-context] Table of Contents

2003-06-18 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hi John, John Culleton wrote: I want to typeset a book with chapters and sections, but with no numbering, either on the chapter heading itself or in the TOC. I do want both chapters and sections in the TOC. I prefer the dotleader layout (alternative=c). I fought over this also for my

[NTG-context] Arabic support for ConTeXt

2003-07-25 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hi gang, A few of you have written to me about Arabic support for ConTeXt as well as modifying EDMAC to use RL support in Omega. It is my intention to provide some info/how-to on this in the next couple of weeks, as soon as I finish some research. In the meantime, I suggest anyone interested in

Re: [NTG-context] Re: CJK support in ConTeXt

2003-08-27 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hans Hagen wrote: Hi Chof, So, alternative way is to use ASCII pTeX for Japanese. Basically looks no problem but I worry eTeX extension features. Is it possible to run ConTeXt without eTeX extension features, Hans? in principle yes, but you loose xml handling and a few other things. And

Re: [NTG-context] CJK support in ConTeXt

2003-08-27 Thread Idris S Hamid
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: HH At 12:37 27/08/2003 +0200, you wrote: (I hate replying to myself, but ...) Ok, since it seems that e-Omega is starting to get some mass interest, I'm thinking about setting up a mailing list for it. Maybe two, one

[NTG-context] Arabic-ConTeXt

2003-09-09 Thread Idris S Hamid
Dear gang, I still have not had time to prepare the new how-to on Arabic and ConTeXt, but I completely forgot that I already wrote one a year ago! Just compile the ConTeXt format with eOmega and read the following: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega-example.html

Re: [NTG-context] Status update on e-Omega/Aleph

2003-09-09 Thread Idris S Hamid
Idris S Hamid wrote: ...Ahh! I found it;-) http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega-example.html More to the point: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega/font-instructions.txt Best Idris

Re: [NTG-context] critical editions in context

2003-09-23 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hi Thomas, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange about the topic critical editions in context here in ntg-context; the main question was whether the functionality of edmac could be implemented in context. I'd be curious to know whether

[NTG-context] italic correction

2003-09-23 Thread Idris S Hamid
Dear syndicate, Sometimes I make a definition like \def\TR{\it} for certain purposes (structural consistency, etc.). How do I modify this to automatically do an italic correction the way \em is set up to do in \ConTeXt? == By the way, did Hans ever make a final ConTeXt

[NTG-context] Permission denied

2003-11-13 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hi guys, just reinstalled things, and eomega plus gamma gives me the following: This is e-Omegak, Version 3.14159--1.15--2.1 (Web2c 7.4.5) %-line parsing enabled. Copyright (c) 2002 the e-Omega task force eomega.exe: context.fls: Permission denied Any idea what I'm missing? best Idris

Re: [NTG-context] Permission denied

2003-11-13 Thread Idris S Hamid
file in a given directory from read-only? Apparently, texexec and eomega each creates fls files on each run. context.fls lists the installation directories, etc. Best Idris Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: Thursday, November 13, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote: Any idea what I'm missing? No. This looks like

Re: [NTG-context] Permission denied

2003-11-19 Thread Idris S Hamid
: Thursday, November 13, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote: I backed up some stuff on a cd; when I transferred the files to my other computer all the file properties read read-only, so whenever eomega tried to modify a temporary file (fls, log, etc) it was denied permission