Re: [NTG-context] inline diagrams/charts?

2007-08-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
luigi scarso wrote: > On 8/16/07, Adam Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> sparklines? >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline > Welcome back ? Nah, that was just a chance meeting. You'll probably notice

Re: [NTG-context] inline diagrams/charts?

2007-08-15 Thread Adam Lindsay
sparklines? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hi there! > > A long time ago there was a discussion about some kind of tiny block > charts that run within the text. Now I would need such for the > summary of a poll. > But I can't remember the name, and thus I

Re: [NTG-context] small new feature on the wiki

2006-07-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> If we agree on a common page size, I could easily put it in there. If >> we don't agree on one, I could perhaps say > width="13cm">. This would take a few more minutes to implement (I >> still have to implement that the source and the results are next to >> each other (lef

Re: [NTG-context] "infinite" paper height

2006-07-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > 5m is "inifinite enough" for me (I hope). I only need to fit the whole > article on a single page and I guess that no article will go over this > limit. FWIW, Acrobat 6 and earlier had severe problems with document dimensions over 200cm, so keep that in mind for compatibi

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt, Charts, and transparency

2006-07-15 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: > Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >> Yes, but that seems mainly geared towards flow charts, not graphical >> charts. Can m-chart do things like the example png attached at the start >> of the thread? >> > i lost that one; actually, willy egger is the most experienced chart user b

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt + XeTeX + Adobe Bembo Std = ???

2006-07-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi Paul. You almost got it. You slightly misunderstood the use of the definetypface line... Paul Hoffman wrote: > But that's a hack. So I create a file "type-bembo.tex": > >\starttypescript[bembo][uc] not quite. try: \starttypescript[serif][bembo][uc] > \definetypeface [bembo] [rm]

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt + XeTeX + Adobe Bembo Std = ???

2006-07-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 7/12/06, Paul Hoffman wrote: >> The example on the _Fonts in XeTeX_ page in the wiki works fine except >> for small caps, which (not surprisingly) don't show up in this first >> attempt: >> >>\definetypeface[bembo][rm][Xserif][Bembo Std] >>\setupbodyfont[bembo] >>

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: presentation tool

2006-07-12 Thread Adam Lindsay
Nice one, Thomas. A few comments for the Mac folks: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > screen with your mouse pointer. There are some disadvantages: it has > a lot of pythonish dependencies (on OS X, I could install them via > darwinports, but it's a lot more difficult on most linux distros), it I

Re: [NTG-context] \bar missing in euler

2006-07-11 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> I do not know what is the equivalent of 'operators' family in context. >> Any idea how to pull them out of the text fonts? >> > if this is only euler, we may use something I believe this is euler only. The other math fonts I have dug into have bee

Re: [NTG-context] \bar missing in euler

2006-07-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > gives just "a". I do not get any bar over "a". Yup. You seem to be the first to have noticed (or complained), as well. > This is how eulervm.sty defines these characters for T1 encoding. > ... That's the key, though, it apparently pulls in the text accents as well, and

Re: [NTG-context] symbolset

2006-07-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > IIRC, some of the Unicode symbol sets require commercial fonts > (from MacOS X). Eh, "require" is such a strong word... There are some placeholders in there, since the Mac OS X fonts were easy (for me) to get. The XeTeX code that named the fonts explicitly (hmm, bad old

[NTG-context] TL2005 perl problems [was: Re: Struggling with Old Style numerals!]

2006-03-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: > I've removed that one and installed TeXLive 2005! I was afraid of other > problems, and indeed that's exactly what happened. >... > The Perl script texexec doesn't launch!! I get the following Perl error > message: > > Can't locate Digest/MD5.pm in @INC (@INC contains:

Re: [NTG-context] [XeTeX] no space after item no.

2006-03-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Dalyoung Jeong wrote: > Dear all, > > Yesterday, I made a short text including itemized list more than 10. > I have run it using XeTeX+ConTeXt and got a nice pdf file except one thing. > > there is no space between item no and the sentence. > > I tested the same file using ConTeXt(Mac Os Roman e

Re: [NTG-context] Struggling with Old Style numerals!

2006-03-12 Thread Adam Lindsay
G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: > Adam Lindsay wrote: >> For Latin Modern, look in the mail archive: >> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20050616.125032.05b714af.en.html >> > Thanks for your suggestion! > > But sorry, I don't get any old-style numerals when I

Re: [NTG-context] Struggling with Old Style numerals!

2006-03-11 Thread Adam Lindsay
G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote: > I'd like to know whether it is possible to change all the 'normal' > numerals to old-style ones throughout the entire book. I need serif, > sansserif and italic old-style numerals! > > Frankly speaking, I don't even know whether anything like that is > possible with e

Re: [NTG-context] problems with uppercase Greek letters in math

2006-03-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > (Is [encoding=\typescripttwo] used in "math" or may it be left out?) I tend to leave it out. I believe the encoding= value there is ignored. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lancaste

Re: [NTG-context] problems with uppercase Greek letters in math

2006-03-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > The uppercase Greek letters in the following example don't work since > the letters are taken from ec encoding, while the default TeX encoding > is assumed in the definitions of Phi, Psi, ... ("mr", math roman font) > > Any suggestions how to fix this strange be

Re: [NTG-context] Force an indent

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Lindsay
[I realised this other part of my draft answer would be good for the archive:] David Arnold wrote: > I do not want to do this: > > \setupformulas[indentnext=auto] > >... > Because that has the effect that paragraphs following formulae are > always indented. I don't want that. I want to be ab

Re: [NTG-context] Force an indent

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Lindsay
[someone else beat me to the punch.] (\indentation instead of \indent) That's not the most obvious choice of command name, but it works, eh?. To protect yourself, you could add more "logical" markup and say something like this in your environment: \let\NewPar\indentation and then mark all para

Re: [NTG-context] columns in framedtext

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans van der Meer wrote: > > > On Feb 20, 2006, at 16:18, Hans van der Meer wrote: > >> I have been experimenting with columnsets too. >> There I encounter the problem that I cannot set the distance between >> the columns at will. > > That has been solved. Just had to dig a little deeper in col

Re: [NTG-context] Arggh, Nimbus font instead of original Adobe

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Lindsay
Berend de Boer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Adam Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Read the previous email messages. > > Ah, you included a map file, had overlooked that with my first quick > test. Wanted to try the

Re: [NTG-context] Arggh, Nimbus font instead of original Adobe

2006-02-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Berend de Boer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Adam Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> What fails? >> That is to say, could you please give a more detailed report? > > Just that it still includes the Nimbus font. Re

Re: [NTG-context] Arggh, Nimbus font instead of original Adobe

2006-02-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Adam Lindsay wrote: > Berend de Boer wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Adam Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> However, if you're independent or otherwise control everybody's >>> viewer, try t

Re: [NTG-context] Arggh, Nimbus font instead of original Adobe

2006-02-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Berend de Boer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Adam Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> However, if you're independent or otherwise control everybody's >> viewer, try this: > &

Re: [NTG-context] Arggh, Nimbus font instead of original Adobe

2006-02-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Berend de Boer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I'm again hit by the disapperance of the Adoboe default fonts. When I create a PDF document, I get the Nimbus (urw) fonts, instead of the Adobe. If you do _not_ have the Adobe binary fonts, t

Re: [NTG-context] How to \bf for math?

2006-02-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
David Munger wrote: > Adam Lindsay wrote : >> David Munger wrote: >>> Very interesting, but with these definitions, I can't get roman >>> characters in formulae. For the moment, the best solution for me is >>> still the hbox wrapper. >> Okay. >

Re: [NTG-context] How to \bf for math?

2006-02-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
David Munger wrote: > Very interesting, but with these definitions, I can't get roman > characters in formulae. For the moment, the best solution for me is > still the hbox wrapper. Okay. What do you mean by "can't get roman characters"? Can you give an minimal ex

Re: [NTG-context] How to \bf for math?

2006-02-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
Adam Lindsay wrote: > \startmathcollection[default] %eventual patch for math-tex? > \definemathcharacter [a] [nothing] [mi] ["61] > \definemathcharacter [b] [nothing] [mi] ["62] > \definemathcharacter [c] [nothing] [mi] ["63] > \definemathchara

Re: [NTG-context] How to \bf for math?

2006-02-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Taco, thanks for the answer. I managed to change the whole math family > into bold, but I can't get the following example working: > > \switchtobodyfont[iwona-light,ss] > $$normal {\bf bold}{\bfm bold}{\bfmath bold}$$ > > \bf and \bfmath result in cm fonts, \bfm has no inf

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot mode

2006-02-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: > Adam Lindsay wrote: >> Hans Hagen wrote: >> >> >>> what is this hlhr8r? a font filename? >>> >> Yes, one of the Lucida ones. >> >> >>> ()when installing lbr using texfont, did you (manually) mo

Re: [NTG-context] unic-037

2006-02-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
luigi scarso wrote: > I'm working on unicode vector 37 (I'm using > http://bibliofile.duhs.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Unicode.html ) > Since I'm a novice in this area, any suggestion is welcome. Hmm, not to discourage this effort, but I already defined these as symbols: http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/Un

Re: [NTG-context] gnuplot mode

2006-02-15 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: > what is this hlhr8r? a font filename? Yes, one of the Lucida ones. > ()when installing lbr using texfont, did you (manually) move the math pfb > files and tfm files? > > (maybe i should distribute the lbr math tfm files) Or, maybe I should finish that type-dis typescrip

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType and XeConTeXt

2006-02-14 Thread Adam Lindsay
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > > using ConTeXt with XeTeX seems to be an nice option for us MacOSX users. > But I get always confused with the names for these rich features like > Style Option, Ligatures, Variants. > > I mean: how do I know how many variants and style options a font has and > h

Re: [NTG-context] [OS X TeX] formats for ConTeXt-XeTeX

2006-02-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: OK, a while ago I've found the XeTeX page in Patrick's garden: http:// wiki.contextgarden.net/XeTeX Now it works with both (pdfetex and xetex). Works fine in Terminal: texexec --xtx text.tex But the next problem is TeXShop. How do I trigger ConTeXt-XeTeX in TeXShop?

Re: [NTG-context] Dense encoding, part II

2006-02-10 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 2/5/06, Adam Lindsay wrote: >> Hans Hagen wrote: >>> Mojca Miklavec wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> The fact that all Polish fonts (lm, iwona, kurier, antt) now ship with >>>> el-* files ma

Re: [NTG-context] hanging in captions

2006-02-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Peter Münster wrote: >> \setupcaptions[align={hz,hanging}] > > I don't believe that is supposed to work, but I do not > understand why the handling is reset inside the caption. > > This works (but is unwieldy if you have lots of floats): > > \placefigure% >{\setupalig

Re: [NTG-context] Dense encoding, part II

2006-02-05 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> The fact that all Polish fonts (lm, iwona, kurier, antt) now ship with >> el-* files makes me wonder: is there time to do the next step and >> finish the second encoding with symbols? >> >> > indeed Oop. Sorry, I hadn't been watching t

Re: [NTG-context] write18

2006-02-05 Thread Adam Lindsay
Gerben Wierda wrote: >> On 5 Feb 2006, at 05:10, David Arnold wrote: >> >>> Gerben, >>> >>> With a default install of Context, I don't believe write18 is >>> enabled nor run time development of Metapost graphics. Do you do >>> any of that? > > If a change would require a non-secure standard config,

Re: [NTG-context] th nd and rd

2006-01-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
John R. Culleton wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 04:35 pm, Mojca Miklavec wrote: \def\enordinalnumber#1% {#1\ifnum\lasttwodigits{#1}=11 \highordinalstr{th}% \else\ifcase\lastdigit{#1}% \highordinalstr{th}% \or % 1 \highordinalstr{st}% \or % 2 \highordinalstr{nd}% \or

Re: [NTG-context] \celsius and \inch

2006-01-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Peter Münster wrote: The symbol for \inch is strange: "}". What is \char125 supposed to be, doesn't it depend on the font encoding? indeed ... what \symbolicnameofquotes do you suggest? i never use inches -) What about Ux2033, double prime? Or - i

Re: [NTG-context] interesting font

2005-12-15 Thread Adam Lindsay
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: The font comes in the usual four variants as an OpenType font. However, texfont and the lcdf-tools choked on the bold and bold italic with this message: ../include/lcdf/vector.hh:52: failed assertion `i>=0 && i<_n' After converting them to pfb/afm (via cfftot1), in

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Chinese

2005-12-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Adam Lindsay wrote: Fortunately, ttf2tfm's -w [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ notation seems to address this in most of the old test cases I tried. afaik pdftex can handle the index and unic entries as alternatives for glyphnames Yes. Sorry I wasn't clear on that.

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Chinese

2005-12-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: what we need is a set of encoding files like /UniEncoding52 [ /uni52DF /uni52E0 I hate to be negative, but I have doubts about how generic this approach may be. In some tentative experiments, I discovered that many (most?) CJK fonts don't use traditional postscript na

Re: [NTG-context] problems with bold small caps

2005-12-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: I wrote: \sc and \bf are defined at the same level in ConTeXt, so they (normally) exclude each other. My guess is that it is very unlikely that this will be fixed, but ... make that > be changed, but .. Because it is not a bug, the behaviour is intentional. Yes, a

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-12 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Warning: pdfetex (file qx-bitstream-vera.map): cannot open font map file > and then complaints about not being able to create a long list of > bitmap fonts,�when I try to compile your vera-test.tex. do you need qx? (eastern european languages)

Re: [NTG-context] Chinese

2005-12-09 Thread Adam Lindsay
Tobias Burnus wrote: Hi, Xiao Jianfeng wrote: What would be needed to get UTF-8 input running with Chinese? If you use vim to edit your tex file, maybe you can try "set encoding=utf8", then save and compile. As far as I know, GBK is compatible with unicode. No, that does not work - that

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2005-12-08 um 19:01 schrieb Adam Lindsay: I'd like to prepare some more symbol fonts - any requests? (I always like to do nice font stuff while I should something more important... ;-)) What, you too? There's this, probably this month only, as w

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2005-12-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2005-12-08 um 09:39 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Cool! http://modules.contextgarden.net ? Why not? It's PD. ;-) I'd like to prepare some more symbol fonts - any requests? (I always like to do nice font stuff while I should something more important... ;-)) What,

Re: [NTG-context] Font Question

2005-12-07 Thread Adam Lindsay
clude euler. I looked at Euler in ConTeXt (using Euler math font) by Adam Lindsay. I already have eulervm vf and tfm directories in $TEXMF/fonts/tfm/public/eulervm and $TEXMF/fonts/vf/public/eulervm There is a math-eul.tex at $TEXMFLOCAL/tex/context/base. The My Way by Adam says that I also need

Re: [NTG-context] What about dynamic documentation?

2005-12-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Jérôme, Before you go any further on this, please check out: http://texshow.contextgarden.net The backbone of texshow-web is a set of XML files that are already present in the distribution (look for cont-en.xml) Or even here: http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/co

Re: [NTG-context] Weird godown, dorecurse, colors and page-fitting interaction

2005-12-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: a long story ... to which ttp wizzard taco might want to add comment ok, a fix first (missing \fi) \def\godown[#1]% {\relax \ifhmode\endgraf\fi \ifvmode\nointerlineskip\vskip#1\relax\fi} okay. Those missing \fi's were troubling. what you observe is some interference; t

Re: [NTG-context] \godown

2005-12-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Adam Lindsay wrote: Hi all, I've been TeX-doodling with the font shown on the page below: http://www.typography.com/catalog/hoeflertext/ornaments.html Some of the nicer patterns are predicated on having horizontal as well as vertical elements smashed up next t

Re: [NTG-context] \godown

2005-12-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Adam Lindsay wrote: having to adjust for little gaps with: \godown[-0.029\bodyfontsize] Does this ring a bell with anyone? I would have thought \godown[0pt] was the answer, but not so, here. The font metrics seem to be right, adding up to 1000 in both directions (or a

[NTG-context] Weird godown, dorecurse, colors and page-fitting interaction

2005-12-05 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi all, What's happening here? \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startTEXpage \dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]} \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage \startcolor[yellow] \dorecurse{2}{abc\godown[0pt]} \stopcolor \stopTEXpage \stoptext -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T

[NTG-context] \godown

2005-12-05 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi all, I've been TeX-doodling with the font shown on the page below: http://www.typography.com/catalog/hoeflertext/ornaments.html Some of the nicer patterns are predicated on having horizontal as well as vertical elements smashed up next to one another. I find myself having to adjust for litt

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-05 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: variants are Adam's speciality so he should provide the solution for the precize definition -) Only the original concept. I'm far enough from that low-level hackery (at this point) that all I can do is endorse yours and Hans's solution as advancing the cause of font variant

Re: [NTG-context] fontvariants

2005-12-03 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans van der Meer wrote: I was probing into the font variant mechanism. QUESTION: Is the variant mechanism exclusively tied to the series Serif (\rm) and Sans (\ss)? Yes, pretty much, in the implementation's design. If otherwise, what am I doing wrong then? Nothing. Except, is that Math

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater wrote: I can't get the example to compile. Whatever I do, context insists on creating SerifRegular.tfm through mktextfm (sigh). I'm too lazy to figure out what is going on right now, so can someone create a full minimal example, please? I'd like to check this with all tracing on,

Re: [NTG-context] lot of newbie questions

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For information: I've tried to type them directly on my keybord. They apear on my screen but the final pdf document output black rectangles. (I'm sure that all what I use is configured to use and produce utf8) But the workaround with \leftguillemot

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: When I code: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} I find extra space typeset between "abc" and "pqr". This extra space is absent when I code abc {\variant[xyz]pqr} Thus the space in the source between ] and pqr makes a difference in the result. Clea

Re: [NTG-context] IPA/TIPA support in Context?

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi Jason, Jason Knight wrote: What support is there for IPA/TIPA in Context at this point? I've had I think the answer is zero or nearly zero. If you have a bit of patience, I can do a port of tipa.sty (quite easy), but it will take some time befo

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex from manuals

2005-11-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
On 25 Nov 2005, at 22:42, Gerben Wierda wrote: No pstoedit on my system. If I recall I looked into pstoedit a while back. The fact that I did not release a package probably means there were problems getting it to compile on OS X. I seem to recall similarly trying and failing about 11 mo

Re: [NTG-context] Home now --- More work with type-tmf.dat and mfonts.tex

2005-11-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
That looks like a success to me. You should now be able to run one of the texnansi-blah-blah.tex test files, as I outlined in an earlier message. adam On 24 Nov 2005, at 02:56, David Arnold wrote: On my home machine now (Mac Tiger GWTeX). I have the attached type- tmf-gw.dat in ~/tmp and r

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex from manuals

2005-11-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
On 25 Nov 2005, at 01:37, David Arnold wrote: \startnotmode[atpragma] \startMPenvironment[global] %\usetypescript[handwriting,map][lucida][texnansi] %\definefontsynonym[TitlePage-Bold][LucidaHandwriting-Italic] usetypescript[calligraphy,map][chancery][texnansi] definefontsyno

Re: Getting texfont to do batch installs on gwTeX (was Re: [NTG-context] Palatino)

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:39:55 +0100: >> batch line : --en=texnansi --ve=public --co=antp -- >> so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN > >are you sure that you replaced it? It's weird. Looking through the rest of David's log, it replaced some of them, but not all. I never claimed

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex from manuals

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
I tried to run texfont demofont.dat, but failed. First off, Hans, am I missing a runtools.rb? I can't find it. Secondly, I think the current demofont.dat has a bug because it triggers an obscure texfont filtering feature. I changed the comments at the head of the file to work around it: # we as

Getting texfont to do batch installs on gwTeX (was Re: [NTG-context] Palatino)

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
David, Sorry I've been quiet on this front. I've been busy with other, non- ConTeXt things for a while, and am in the process of re-engaging with it. In order to run type-tmf.dat, you need a way around the hard-coded -- rootlist=TEXMFMAIN that's in the .dat file. gwTeX keeps the fonts we need in

Re: [NTG-context] mfonts.tex

2005-11-21 Thread Adam Lindsay
David Arnold said this at Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:58:39 -0800: >Hans, Steve, et al, > >OK. I have subversion client installed. Now what? > >What commands will download what I need? Presuming you're in a directory where you want the stuff (and svn is in your path, etc): svn checkout svn://ctx.pragma

Re: [NTG-context] diacritics in Utopia/Fourier

2005-11-18 Thread Adam Lindsay
Alan Bowen said this at Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:56:55 -0500: >I hope that we can resolve this—I need Fourier/Utopia for a book >series. But right now not even \quote works properly in the roman >typeface. Sorry I haven't had the time to engage with this issue. There's something suspect in your sy

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.11 Released

2005-11-11 Thread Adam Lindsay
Karl Berry said this at Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:16:08 -0600: >Is this a "Halo" release for TeXLive? > >I don't know what that means, but no, this context release won't be on I should have been more precise. I've heard of "halo" releases being the last set of bug fixes for a given software series

Re: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.11 Released

2005-11-11 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco, Hans, Is this a "Halo" release for TeXLive? If so, it would help to make sure that Dick Koch's repackaging (of gwTeX's redistribution) for the MacTeX portion of the DVD includes this release. adam Taco Hoekwater said this at Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:36:25 +0100: > >Hello all, > >I am pleased t

Re: [NTG-context] conTeXt distros on MACOSX

2005-11-08 Thread Adam Lindsay
andrea valle said this at Tue, 8 Nov 2005 10:59:03 +0100: > >If I invoke texexec from terminal, default is located in sw/bin. It's >3.1 version: Danger! Danger! (Sorry, that's a bit cruel and extreme.) However, it seems that you, once upon a time, installed the Fink package system, and tried to

Re: [NTG-context] Re: OT: PDF word counts?

2005-11-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Patrick Gundlach said this at Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:15:10 +0100: >what about pdftotext from xpdf?: Perfect. That's certainly sufficient for my needs. I had never looked at xpdf before because of the general level of PDF support on MacOSX, but those associated tools look quite handy. The tools alone

[NTG-context] OT: PDF word counts?

2005-11-02 Thread Adam Lindsay
Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but does anyone here know of good tools for doing a word count directly on existing PDFs? cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lancaster University, InfoLab21+4

Re: [NTG-context] German ß

2005-10-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
[Wolfgang, I hope you don't mind me copying parts of your response to the list. -adam] Wolfgang Zillig said this at Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:06:32 +0200: >Hello Adam, > >thanks for your answer! > >>Hi. I'm just catching up with this issue. >>Mojca is giving you the right information. I've installed hf

Re: [NTG-context] German ß

2005-10-17 Thread Adam Lindsay
Wolfgang Zillig said this at Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:57:35 +0200: >The font I use is from >the hfbright package (the hfbright package is a free version of the >cmbright font) but when I created that typescript I did't relalize that >a full font package was available and I renamed the fonts (therefore

Re: [NTG-context] DOC/RTF to ConTeXt via XML

2005-09-27 Thread Adam Lindsay
Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:10:27 -0600: >Adam (privately) suggested hiring someone to write a structured format for >authors. Is that where docbook comes in? Ah, sorry about that. I meant you *could* hire someone to design a format, but the bigger point was that it would

Re: [NTG-context] How up-to-date is cont-enp.pdf

2005-09-27 Thread Adam Lindsay
Alexander Lazic said this at Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:17:18 +0200: >>- a general overview of context will be provided by a book written by >>steve peter and adam lindsay > >Do you know when the book will arrive? No. :) It's

Re: [NTG-context] bugs?

2005-09-26 Thread Adam Lindsay
Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:22:45 -0600: >The footnote numeral `1' is indented further than the footnote numeral `2'. I'm not sure I see this: the width of `1' is less than `2', but the default LM font has monospaced numbers, so the visual space to the left of the `1' may

Re: [NTG-context] footnote for author (\thanks)

2005-09-26 Thread Adam Lindsay
Albrecht Kauffmann said this at Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:04:45 +0200: >has ConTeXt any equivalent to the \thanks command in LaTeX that types a >footnote with a "*" as number and doesn't alter the footnote counter? Hello, Albrecht, Does the following handle the cases you need: \definenote[thanks][con

Re: [NTG-context] Cont 2005.08.31: problem with vietnamese utf8

2005-09-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:31:32 +0200: >VnPenguin wrote: > >>I do a small test with Vietnamese UTF-8 input and the PDF is very >>strange: accented characters were modified all, see the shot >>http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/context/test/test-vn.png >> >>In the log file I s

Re: Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] XML

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:29:17 +0200: >Am 2005-09-22 um 09:53 schrieb Jessica Holle: > >> There I don't find something which helps me. >> The input must not be only XML. In can also be CVS or something >> else... > >You will have to convert your XML file to become a Con

Re: [NTG-context] Re: More problems installing OpenType fonts

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
Emil Hedevang said this at Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:30:18 +: >I have tested otftotfm, and it seems to work: You're right... this is why it's so baffling: all the pieces seem to work. After running texfont (with the --lcdf option), there should be a texfont.map left over in the current directory.

Re: [NTG-context] More problems installing OpenType fonts

2005-09-23 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi Emil. I wrote that article and am pretty baffled by the problems you have. (I just did a test run of the same command, running an identical texfont, identical otftotfm version) The ConTeXt installation looks fine. There are two discrepancies that I see here, though: otftotfm is running updm

Re: [NTG-context] utf-based lang-* files?

2005-09-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Christopher Creutzig said this at Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:25:01 +0200: >Sure. But editing the file is oh so much easier when I can just type >\def\japChapterNumber#1{µ⁄#1’¬} >than if I have to look up the unicode numbers first and type >\def\japChapterNumber{\uchar{123}{44}#1\uchar{122}{224}} True,

Re: [NTG-context] utf-based lang-* files?

2005-09-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Christopher Creutzig said this at Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:17:57 +0200: > Is it possible to simply enclose the file in a >\startregime[utf]...\stopregime pair or do I risk havoc by doing this? Well, if you're using a regime, it still (usually) depends on symbolic character names being defined under th

Re: [NTG-context] Block of text with natrual width but right-aligned

2005-09-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Talking to myself... Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:22:18 +0100: >(I played with location= in \framedtext, but it didn't have the results >I expected.) (Silly mistake...) \defineframedtext[Giuseppe] [align=raggedright,width=fit,offset=0pt, frame=off,loc

Re: [NTG-context] Block of text with natrual width but right-aligned

2005-09-22 Thread Adam Lindsay
Giuseppe Bilotta said this at Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:39:32 +0200: > First line of text | > Second line of text | > One more line of text| > > >How do I achieve this? One quick and easy w

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt to RTF Conversion

2005-09-21 Thread Adam Lindsay
Mojca Miklavec said this at Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:09:32 +0200: >1. The best quality can be achieved if you prepare all your stuff in XML >and then write both a stylesheet for conversion into HTML and "a couple" >of ConTeXt definitions to handle formating for output in PDF documents. >I never did

Re: [NTG-context] lilypond inclusion + pdf crop (getting off-topic)

2005-09-16 Thread Adam Lindsay
andrea valle said this at Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:13:33 +0200: >Here are two of the resulting scores (not totally finished yet) >www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi-I.pdf >www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi-II.pdf Wow. Fantastic stuff. Having just returned from the ICMC and ISMIR conferences,

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-13 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:38:25 +0200: >Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > >> OK, I'm answering my own post. The plot thickens. It looks like this >> has something to do with file names. It only happens when I have a >> name with a period in it. >> >> Bug or feature? You decide, Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Problem following "OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt" article

2005-09-06 Thread Adam Lindsay
Gavin Sinclair said this at Sat, 3 Sep 2005 15:42:36 +1000: >Greetings (first post), Hi Gavin, Two things: Are you running texfont from the directory that contains all the .otf files? (This doesn't look like the problem here, but) Are you running the latest ConTeXt? There was a bug in the OpenT

Re: [NTG-context] Relative font scaling

2005-08-31 Thread Adam Lindsay
Olivier said this at Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:07:42 +0200: >> \definetypeface [MyFnt] [mm] [math] [euler] [default] >[rscale=0.99,encoding=default] >which did the trick perfectly well. Ideally, you should be using the euler size typescript as well: \definetypeface [MyFnt] [mm] [math] [euler] [euler]

Re: [NTG-context] Relative font scaling

2005-08-31 Thread Adam Lindsay
Olivier said this at Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:03:57 +0200: >Quoting "Adam Lindsay" : >> -- was [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Aug 31, 2005 at 04:44:35PM -- > >> Olivier said this at Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:53:56 +0200: >> >> >moreover the math font is >> >cor

Re: [NTG-context] Relative font scaling

2005-08-31 Thread Adam Lindsay
Olivier said this at Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:53:56 +0200: >moreover the math font is >correctly rscaled) but the tt font isn't rscaled at all. >Any idea where the issue might come from? I suspect it's in your local specifics. As we don't have access to your rfont/mfont/tfont typescripts, here's a si

Re: [NTG-context] Palatino truetype: help!

2005-08-29 Thread Adam Lindsay
Taco Hoekwater said this at Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:42:04 +0200: >Same result here, and I don't understand why (however, I not very >familiar with typescripts myself). Hmm. What's the pdftex output at the font-inclusion stage? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. L

Re: [NTG-context] latin modern / czech polish vietnamese

2005-08-24 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 8 Aug 2005 22:19:28 +0200: > As far as i know il2 and pl0 are >only used for computer modern. A side note, really: the only freely available PS version of the Concrete font is in pl0 encoding. (Hmm. I wonder who did that conversion...) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Dense Encoding - Comments wanted

2005-08-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Vit Zyka said this at Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:42:18 +0200: >>>So with those goals in mind, does anyone notice their favorite *letter* >>>missing? Is there essential punctuation missing? >> > >OK for Czech chars too. Thanks. Good to know. >Only tcaron char is not searchable (if in my AR7 search for a

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Dense Encoding - Comments wanted

2005-08-19 Thread Adam Lindsay
Patrick Gundlach said this at Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:34:11 +0200: >Hi Adam, >> So with those goals in mind, does anyone notice their favorite *letter* >> missing? Is there essential punctuation missing? > > >Looks fine so far, but I have only checked the chars I use (mostly >german). Did you consider

Re: [NTG-context] A wee bit more about OpenType (Myriad Pro)

2005-08-10 Thread Adam Lindsay
David Wooten said this at Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:19:25 -0700: > Before I display some error messages, I want to >ask, Adam, why the Myriad Pro fontsynonyms in your typescript do not >have any of the OpenType features—liga? kern? Is this due to Myriad >Pro's particulars? David, really briefly b

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