Dear Knights,
A lot of the criticism seems to miss the point :-)
Part of the aim of the Book is to bring in new users, most of us here
already know what we're doing. And M$-Windows dominates the marketplace
for better or for worse.
I want to break out of the usual paradigm of presenting
Hi Pablo,
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:30:42 -0600, Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote:
I'd use TeXworks as the editor
So would I, except that TeXWorks is not as rich in the features I'd like,
nor does it handle arabic-script as well as needed.
Believe me, I've looked at just about every option
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:38:42 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
The functionality I can extract from Npp gives a pedagogical advantage
that's important for what I'm trying to achieve. For example, dbl-click a
word and get a context-menu that allows you
Hi Martin,
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:35:24 -0600, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de
wrote:
2011/8/15 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu:
Believe me, I've looked at just about every option out there :-)
I believe you. And I think the editor is a typical bikeshed
Hi Kip,
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:43:40 -0600, Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote:
And M$-Windows dominates the marketplace
for better or for worse.
Hey Idris. I think what the folks here are saying is that that's not
necessarily true - for ConTeXt.
Yes!! That's _exactly_ the challenge! My
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:07:55 -0600, Russell Urquhart
russurquha...@verizon.net wrote:
As a tech writer for 27+ years, who is a recent Context newbie, I
applaud your efforts and wish you the best. I just recently have been in
the middle of a paradigm change myself, going from Xywrite on
Dear gang,
It appears that \otfchar is gone ... Undefined control sequence ... Does
anyone know the new protocol? Thnx in advance and
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shīʿī Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:11:37 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
It appears that \otfchar is gone ... Undefined control sequence ...
Does anyone know the new protocol? Thnx in advance and
\fontchar{…}
Thanks!
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
Dear gang,
I am porting a huge project from mkii to mkiv and am running into
structure problems. I now realize that
\start-stopproject
no longer compiles the entire project, just stick to products and
components. I am also dividing what was one long book into two books, and
I'd like to
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:55:02 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 30-10-2011 14:58, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
I am porting a huge project from mkii to mkiv and am running into
structure problems. I now realize that
- you can run with \enabletrackers[system.jobfiles
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:24:01 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
So it seems that
\product islamwalayah
in islamcosmology.tex is being ignored ... Is it a bug?
Components read project and environment files but not product files
because this would end in a
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:31:02 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
So I'll make a project file and report back
Works ... and THANKS!
Idris
--
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International Journal of Shīʿī Studies
Department of Philosophy
Dear syndicate,
=
\def\TR{\groupedcommand \it}
% \def\TR{\groupedcommand \it\/}
\def\Test{{\TR Test}}
\starttext
\Test
\stoptext
=
produces the attached strange result: The first letter gets put at the end.
Also, is italic correction no longer supported in mkiv? \/
Dear knights,
The following works in mkii but not mkiv:
=
\starttext
test
\blank[2\bodyfontsize]
test
\stoptext
=
=
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).
system tex error on line 8 in file bodyfontsize.tex: Illegal
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:40:08 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 30.10.2011 um 20:59 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد:
Dear knights,
The following works in mkii but not mkiv:
=
\starttext
test
\blank[2\bodyfontsize]
test
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:50:21 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
I can’t reproduce it, \/ works for me with the last beta but a while ago
Hans posted a document about a new implementation in MkIV.
Ok, updating to the latest beta seems to solve both issues, so I
Dear Hans and gang,
I got this working in mkii -- using other macros --, but mkiv is
frustrating me:
==
%% Hans' bottom accent code
\unprotect
\unexpanded\def\bottomaccent#1#2#3#4#5% down right slantcorrection accent
char
{\dontleavehmode % why this align mess
Dear cabal,
There seems to be a bug in MkIV:
\starttext
This is a test \inoutermargin[ref]{test}
As explained earlier (page \at[ref])
This is a test \inoutermargin[reference=reff]{test}
As explained earlier (page \at[reff])
\stoptext
The reference is not generated
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:59:41 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
The reference is not generated in either method:
===log==
checkmissing or ungrouped '=' after 'ref' in line 2
(@@mcinoutermargin:)
references unknown reference
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:13:25 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
Of course LM does not look so bad but I'm using a different font so this
is just an illustration.
\slantperpoint
is a rather traditional tex/font parameter and not present in opentype
fonts so you have to hard code
Hi Wolfgang,
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:03:04 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Well, that's quite frustrating... I have a 400-page document I'm trying
to port to MkIV full of references, the old \inmargin no longer respect
[align=outer], so I switched to the new
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:03:04 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Well, that's quite frustrating... I have a 400-page document I'm trying
to port to MkIV full of references, the old \inmargin no longer respect
[align=outer], so I switched to the new system, and
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:03:04 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Well, that's quite frustrating... I have a 400-page document I'm trying
to port to MkIV full of references, the old \inmargin no longer respect
[align=outer], so I switched to the new system, and
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:23:28 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
The old \inmargin command is gone, Hans rewrote the whole code for
\inmargin etc.
You can change the alignment global with
\setupmarginframed[align=outer] for for a single
command with
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:04:06 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
What am I doing wrong? or should we just officially forget about the
marginframed mechanism and stick to margindata only??
Just to be clear, the name of the whole thing is margin data and you
Dear gang, especially Wolf-gang ;-)
The annotation module seems to cancel indentation, so the paragraph after
a note starts with no indentation. Regular inmargin etc does not have this
problem:
=
\usemodule[annotation]
\define[2]\MymarginCommand
lol, the all-caps for 'module bug' was an accident, sorry for the noise!
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:44:52 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
Dear gang, especially Wolf-gang ;-)
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:44:52 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
The annotation module seems to cancel indentation, so the paragraph
after a note starts with no indentation.
More precisely,
The annotation module seems to cancel indentation, so
Dear Syndicate,
Does stacking work? I've never tried it before, but it would be a godsend
to the current porting-to-mkiv project:
=
\setupmargindata[inmargin][stack=yes]
\setupmarginframed[inmargin][stack=yes]
\starttext
\dorecurse{2}{This is a test of the annotation
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:32:56 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 04.11.2011 um 01:06 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد:
Dear Syndicate,
Does stacking work? I've never tried it before, but it would be a
godsend to the current porting-to-mkiv
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:47:43 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
Hans, can you say something about the status of this feature?
stacking works
lol ... ok, can you tell me what's wrong with the following example:
\setupmargindata[inmargin][stack=yes]
\starttext
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:07:40 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Fixed.
Hmmm:
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.71.0-2011071409 (rev 4332)
:
! LuaTeX error main ctx instance:1: attempt to index global 'thirddata'
(a nil value)
stack traceback:
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:33:41 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:07:40 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Fixed.
Hmmm:
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.71.0-2011071409 (rev 4332
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:13:14 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 3-11-2011 21:24, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
For longer texts you can replace \mymargin{…} with \startmymargin
…\stopmymargin.
A next version will support
\starttext
\inmargin[reference=test1]{test} test \at[test2] \page
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:24:53 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
For longer texts you can replace \mymargin{…} with \startmymargin
…\stopmymargin.
This is a _very_ useful feature :-)
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
Dear gang,
It seems that \starttable has a bug in MkIV:
\starttext
\starttable{|c|c|c|}
\HL
\VL Test \VL Test \VL Test \VL\FR
\stoptable
\stoptext
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.71.0-2011071409 (rev 4332)
\write18 enabled.
(placetable.tex
ConTeXt ver: 2011.11.05 01:19 MKIV fmt:
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:09:00 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 07.11.2011 um 03:17 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد:
It seems that \starttable has a bug in MkIV:
\starttext
\starttable{|c|c|c|}
Use bracket for the argument and not braces
Dear gang,
Somewhere in the last few updates righttoleft pars have either changed or
are broken:
\starttext
\startTEXpage[align=r2l]
\righttoleft % pardir
Here is some text
And some more
More
\stopTEXpage
\stoptext
r2l textdir is correct but r2l pardir is lost. This worked normally a
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:32:02 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
r2l textdir is correct but r2l pardir is lost. This worked normally a
few weeks ago,
works in current beta
You're right, thnx. I was working with a dinosaur beta from a couple of
days ago :D
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:54:17
Dear Knights,
I seem to remember there was a way to do this, but I can't find it. This
is what i want:
Part Foo
1 Chapter One
2 Chapter Two
Part Foo Moo
3 Chapter Three
4 Chapter Four
But what I always get is, obviously
Part Foo
1 Chapter One
2 Chapter Two
Part Foo Moo
1 Chapter
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:24:17 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
\definestructureresetset[continue][0,0][1]
\setuphead[sectionresetset=continue]
Both esoteric and fascinating! Thanks!!
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal
Dear gang,
I'm looking at strc*.mkiv trying to understand
\definestructureresetset[default][0,0,1,0][1]
etc.
The first argument would appear to control the continued-coupling between
a higher and lower section. If 0, the lower section does not reset; if 1,
the immediately lower section resets
Dear gang,
I'm looking at strc*.mkiv trying to understand
\definestructureresetset[default][0,0,1,0][1]
etc.
The first argument would appear to control the continued-coupling between
a higher and lower section. If 0, the lower section does not reset; if 1,
the immediately lower section resets
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:34:28 -0700, Steffen Wolfrum
cont...@st.estfiles.de wrote:
quite often I wish we could have a kind of in line comment:
Something like ¿this is my comment¡ this.
I think the mechanism for fancy in-line comments is already there,
developed one-or-two years ago as
Dear gang,
Here's another table that worked fine in MkII but not MkIV:
=
\starttext
\starttable[|l|l|]
\VL test \VL \LOW{test} \VL\FR
\DL\DC \DR
\stoptable
\stoptext
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:30:01 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 12-11-2011 22:52, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Please advise!
fixed in next beta .. also \DL[somecolor]
Thanks, I await the beta!
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
Dear gang,
Consider the following global setup:
\setupheadertexts%
[][section][chapter][]
Sometimes a given section heading may be too long to comfortably fit in
the header. Is there any mechanism or good workaround that will allow me
to define, for a given header, a lemma such that
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:22:17 -0700, Steffen Wolfrum
cont...@st.estfiles.de wrote:
I just wanted to answer Idris question and wait what he thinks.
Your request is a bit different from what I had in mind ...
OTOH, why not just use
bla bla \message{Here is a note to myself.} bla bla
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:49:01 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
\startchapter[title={a lot of bla bla},marking={just bla}]
title list marking bookmark
given that you bring up an issue that has quite probably been answered
before you have to wikify it for future reference
Ok, I
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:38:42 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
OTOH, why not just use
bla bla \message{Here is a note to myself.} bla bla
Just curious: Is there anything that \message is missing for what u want?
I tried both inline and multiline
Dear Aditya, Wolfgang,
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:11:55 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
When you use \gobbleoneargument you can omit the output in the log.
:
To avoid this I added \removeunwantedspaces to my \hide command.
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:28:24 -0700,
Dear gang,
Ok this is embarrassing, but I can't seen to figure this one out. To solve
the current issue I need either
1. a \part, let's define it as \partsuper, that does one thing and ONLY
one thing:
\starttext
\partsuper{Super Part 1}
text page numbers 1, 2, 3, , n
\partsuper{Super
[please ignore other one]
Dear gang,
Ok this is embarrassing, but I can't seen to figure this one out. To solve
the current issue I need either
1. a \part, let's define it as \partsuper, that does one thing and ONLY
one thing:
\starttext
\partsuper{Super Part 1}
text page numbers 1, 2, 3,
[please ignore other one]
Dear gang,
Ok this is embarrassing, but I can't seen to figure this one out. To solve
the current issue I need either
1. a \part, let's define it as \partsuper, that does one thing and ONLY
one thing:
\starttext
\partsuper{Super Part 1}
text page numbers 1, 2, 3,
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:02:51 -0700, Pontus Lurcock p...@talvi.net wrote:
On Mon 21 Nov 2011, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
2. The other, less sophisticated option: How do I get
\setuppagenumbering to simply just reset the current pagenumber to
1 and start from 1 again?
I
Hi Aditya,
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:09:23 -0700, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu
wrote:
There is also \setupuserpagenumber[number=1] and
\setupuserpagenumber[way=bysuperpart] (if superpart is defined using
\definehead).
Hmm, I was wondering if there was something like this in the system
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:18:46 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
Could the recent work on cross-document referencing (
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-1103.pdf ) remove this
requirement?
Now this I was unaware of ... I will study
Dear Knights,
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-1103.pdf
mentions a 4-file test site, but I can't find it in my context tree ...
Can someone point me to it?
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shīʿī Studies
Department of
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:25:43 -0700, Andreas Harder
ahar...@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
http://pragma-ade.com/download-4.htm
There you will find a folder named project …
Excellent .. thnx!!
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shīʿī
Dear gang,
Consider the following:
=
\definefloat[tablecw]
% \setupfloat[tablecw]
\setupcaption[tablecw][prefix=Table]
\starttext
\setupfloats[location=middle]
\placetable
[here]
[tablecw:test]{A Caption.}
{\starttable[|c|c|c|]
\HL
\VL Test \VL Test
Dear inner circle,
I have two components, each a book in its own right, and each with
multiple \part's, \chapter's, \section's etc. Through products and
components I have all crossreferences between the two books set up, thanks
to the mechanisms put in place this fall by Hans.
I compile
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:32:04 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
1. How do I change the prefix that heads the caption of a table? For
example, \definefloat[tablecw] produces
Tablecw 1
I want to keep the command name of the float but change the prefix
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:32:04 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu wrote: 2. \placelistoftablescws produces an undefined control sequence: What am I missing here?Experimenting from here, it seems there has been a protocol change:Given \definefloatwe used to have
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:17:43 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
It works when you give \definefloat a second argument with the plural
name of your float.
Ah! Thank you, Wolfgang, for pointing that out! Missed it completely ...
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor
Hi Otared,
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:11:05 -0700, Otared Kavian ota...@gmail.com wrote:
By the way, you had a mistyping in your code:
2. \placelistoftablescws produces an undefined control sequence: What
am I missing here?
………..^
… it should be \placelistoftablecws
Then everything works
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:34:07 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
Will be in the next beta. And *you* are going to wikify it!
Ok, done :-)
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table_of_Contents#Tables_of_contents_.28and_other_lists.29_via_project_structures
And thanks for implementing this!
Hi pablo,
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:07:25 -0700, Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote:
Otherwise, things like this happen every time I compile a ConTeXt
document.
Once I had a luatex.dll file out of sync with the latest version of luatex
-- don't ask me how it happened -- and it caused loading
Hi Alan,
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:21:31 -0700, Alan Bowen bowenala...@gmail.com
wrote:
What is the best way to produce ayn and alif in transliterated Arabic
using
MKII (Latin Modern)?
Why MkII? MkIV is much better for this.
Anyway, the old approaches are obsolete, since LM now has the
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:38:09 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 13-12-2011 13:08, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
For a book of fairy tales, I used (working!):
...
So, what’s the preferred way to get dropped capitals / initials?
I’d like to wikify that, since it seems nowhere
Dear gang,
The following used to work in mkiv, but no longer (works in mkii):
===
% stretchline.tex
\startsetups stretchline
\spaceskip=0pt plus 2 fill \relax
\stopsetups
\setupframed[frame=on,width=\textwidth,setups=stretchline,
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:55:37 -0700, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:07:44 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
The following used to work in mkiv, but no longer (works in mkii):
Setups come before setting the alignment and alignments sets the
spaceskip too
Dear gang,
Did not hear back on this, trying again ...
Best wishes
Idris
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:07:44 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
Dear gang,
The following used to work in mkiv, but no longer (works in mkii):
===
% stretchline.tex
Hi Jaroslav,
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:43:26 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 17-4-2012 21:33, Luiz Borges wrote:
Hi Jaroslav,
Notepad++ also supports TeX out the box, but I don't know if it can be
configured to provide autocompletion and which Run Commands I need to
create (and
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:49:18 -0600, Luiz Borges luizbgom...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello Hans,
There is a page on the wiki
(http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Notepad%2B%2B) but it was modified 3
years ago and targets a 2007 version of Notepad++ (4.2).
Actually 2009:
Dear Gang,
I have made a new ConTeXt package for Notepad++ (Npp). Unfortunately the
wiki is not letting me update the zip file (Patrick? Mojca?):
Upload warning | Files of the MIME type application/zip are not allowed
to be uploaded.
So for now, here is a dropbox link:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:14:59 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
Notes:
1. This updated package contains a new feature:
snip
8. I forgot to mention that acrobat.bat has been replaced by sumatra.bat.
Sumatra PDF reader works much better than Acrobat
Dear gang,
I have a paper done in ConTeXt that I would like to put online. I _could_
manually convert my input to markdown, but I was wondering if the
xml/xhtml export options could be used to accomplish the same thing.
Although I have done a lot of doc-to-context conversions via pandoc
On Sun, 06 May 2012 14:29:58 -0600, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu
wrote:
On Sun, 6 May 2012, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
I have a paper done in ConTeXt that I would like to put online. I
_could_
manually convert my input to markdown, but I was wondering if the
xml
On Sun, 06 May 2012 16:37:18 -0600, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu
wrote:
If you set
\setupbackend
[export=yes,
xhtml=yes,
css={context-export.css},
]
then the exported xhtml file should link to context-export.css file and
most modern browsers render the xml correctly (at least
On Sun, 06 May 2012 22:52:50 -0600, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu
wrote:
Am I still missing something? Thanks again, Aditya!
You need to provide context-export.css file! There is an sample css file
in the distribution. See export-example.{tex,css}. You can tweak it to
style the resultant
On Mon, 07 May 2012 12:24:44 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
you can just use the example css file as starting point (make a copy)
and see how bad things look (the default is quite acceptable)
Actually it looks quite acceptable indeed! Just a few things need
fiddling: quotation
On Mon, 07 May 2012 12:37:19 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
[BTW: At first glance I find all css code quite ugly and off-putting,
but that's just me...]
That was poorly put: What I mean is that I find css in general to be an
ugly language
Dear Knights of the ConTeXt Table,
I am sad to report that our beloved Taco has gone over to the dark side:
http://tacosw.com/latexian/
Is there a Merlin among us to bring back our holy grail? Wolfgang? Luigi?
:D
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Dear gang,
First: Here's wishing you all the most happy holidays and an early happy
new years.
=
ConTeXt ver: 2012.08.14 10:44 MKIV
\starttext
\overbar{test}
\setupbars[color=green,offset=7]
\overbar{test}
\setupbars[color=red,dy=7]
\overbar{test}
\stoptext
=
Thanks a million, Wolfgang, for your always invaluable and timely
explanations!
Best wishes
Idris
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:58:17 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster
wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote:
Am 27.12.2012 um 02:17 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu
Hi Bill,
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:31:51 -0700, Bill Meahan
subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote:
I scoured the wiki and mailing-list without finding a definite answer.
The most recent discussion I can find is from 2006 and at that time it
was possible but nobody had yet developed the
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:48:15 -0700, Thomas A. Schmitz
thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote:
On 01/30/2013 10:12 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Bill Meahan wrote:
An XSLT stylesheet would allow direct export of a document from
LO-W which could then be be tweaked if necessary.
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:51:46 -0700, Bill Meahan
subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote:
What made the difference is a little editor, written entirely in Python
so it is cross-platform, called ReText. It is less powerful than Emacs
but has the advantage of almost-real-time preview of what the
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:47:22 -0700, Bill Meahan
subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote:
Glad you found something that works well.
Retext seems to have better support than MarkdownPad for some pandoc
markdown extensions like footnotes:
Here is a footnote
Dear gang,
Has the behavior of \definestyle changed? In my typescript I have e.g.
\definestyle [semibold] [\sb] []
It worked for years but now I get
=
! Undefined control sequence.
system tex error on line 1 in file
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:07:08 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster
wolfgang.schus...@gmail.com wrote:
Am 05.03.2013 um 20:55 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Replace \definestyle with \definealternativestyle. In MkII and earlier
MkIV versions the \definestyle
was a synonym
Dear gang,
Here is the situation: For an upcoming book project I may use a set of
proprietary fonts whose license that does not allow modification even for
personal, private use. Some characters I need are absent, but the
components I need are there (macrons, dots, etc). So I can
Hi Hans,
Thanks for the reply:
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:01:30 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 3/11/2013 5:51 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Dear gang,
Here is the situation: For an upcoming book project I may use a set of
proprietary fonts whose license that does
Hi Hans,
This is interesting, because I was thinking about this issue this past
weak, and was planning to send a test file:
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:39:50 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
There is a new experimental feature and (at least for now) it's also
called \feature (maybe not
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:07:02 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
\start
fijn fietsen 123
\type{[+os]}\addfeature{f:oldstyle}
fijn fietsen 123
\type{[+sc]}\addfeature{f:smallcaps}
fijn fietsen 123
\type{[=os]}\replacefeature{f:oldstyle}
Dear Knights,
What is the canonical way to break a ligature in MkIV? The canonical TeX
way, e.g.
f{}i
does not work if the feature liga=yes.
The zero-width joiner or non-joiner will do it but that seems ad hoc or
abusive ;-) since those are really for cursive scripts like Arabic and
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:22:31 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
quite a claim ... afaik devanagari also needs them
Ah, interesting!
anyhow, just don't enable ligatures if in doubt (some fonts have
language dependent ligatures) ... it's somewhat arbitrary to have only
'f' related ligs
Dear gang,
I made a wiki page for \feature et al:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Open_Type_Fonts_and_Featuresets_in_MkIV
Towards the end we need a graphical sample of the sample file, but I do
not know how to do that. See
===
Now let us review the results:
[output/graphic here]
===
Dear gang,
My apologies if the answers to the following are already well-known and if
I'm being completely clueless:
What is the standard way of representing the symbol '\TeX' in html and the
like?
Related: Is there any movement to have '\TeX' registered as a Unicode
symbol?
Thanks
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:34:11 -0600, Arthur Reutenauer
arthur.reutena...@normalesup.org wrote:
Related: Is there any movement to have '\TeX' registered as a
Unicode symbol?
I really hope not.
Why not?
Best wishes
Idris
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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado
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