Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt & Fonts
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:53:04 +0200 Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts > > There is a bunch of links on this page. I've learned it with help from > Bill McLain's page (includes a step by step font installation), but some > things have changed in the meantime (typescrips,?). So it doesn't harm > to follow other links too. You're right, my page is out of date. I will revise it eventually, but I don't actually do anything with Context except when I'm typesetting a book, and am stuck on other projects now. I'm way behind on new developments. -Bill -- Sattre PressIn the Quarter http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sattre-press.com/itq.html ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt in use
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 03:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Arun Swarup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't seen any books typset using ConTeXt (excluding ConTeXt > manuals, of courz :P). Have you? All of the ones at the site below. "History of Astronomy" is actually a facimile reprint, so Context is rather incidental, although it is used to assemble all the pages. -Bill -- Sattre Press History of Astronomy http://sattre-press.com/ During the 19th Century [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Agnes M. Clerke http://sattre-press.com/han.html ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] stretched text
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:06:10 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Piotr Kopszak) wrote: > Hello, > > I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently > formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations > and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is > it absolutely discouraged in ConTeXt or is there any way to have > it... (in spite of its ugliness). It's still recommended in certain cases, for example in all capital or small cap titles. Sometimes I do it and sometimes not. You can do it in Context. See: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#typography-letterspacing You might have to look into the sources to find other options. -Bill -- Sattre PressIn the Quarter http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sattre-press.com/itq.html ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] How to use PostScript font
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:16:43 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I get errors. I am using Fedora Core 2 with teTex 2.02. The error > messages follow this message. I'm using TeXLive 7 and this works for me: \usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r] \usetypescript[palatino][ec] % \setupbodyfont[palatino] I have other typeface examples in the "Predefined fonts" section of this document: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sattre-press.com/tow.html ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:15:09 -0600 Matt Gushee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Different shops might have different requirements, but Bookmobile > > simply requires an exact image of the book, page size defined to be > > the paper size. Easy. > > You're referring to just the interior, right? I would think that > covers have to have a bit of bleed, no? For the front and back covers I've just used the interior paper size. Given a page count the printer specifies the spine width, and perhaps they allow a little exapansion there? For the cover I create a single PDF file with the panels joined as so: back|spine|front -Bill -- Sattre Press Pagan Papers http://sattre-press.com/by Kenneth Grahame [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sattre-press.com/pp.html ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:41:38 -0600 Matt Gushee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning to publish a book that is typeset using ConTeXt, and > very soon I am going to start contacting printers for estimates. Given > that a shop prints from PDF files, does it matter that the PDFs are > produced by ConTeXt? I've only dealt with one print shop (www.bookmobile.com) for my books, but have never had any problems with pdf files produced by Context->pdftex. You have to be somewhat self-sufficient, in that if you ask questions they'll tell you all about the right Pagemaker settings, etc. Obviously, you should have all fonts embedded. Different shops might have different requirements, but Bookmobile simply requires an exact image of the book, page size defined to be the paper size. Easy. This has all been for digital printing and perfect-bound paperbacks. I would like to know if an offset press generating folded and gathered signatures takes the same pdf input. And where to go for sewn hardcovers in small quantities and short run leatherbound books for "collector's editions." I haven't explored those issues yet but will do so eventually. -Bill -- Sattre Press Pagan Papers http://sattre-press.com/by Kenneth Grahame [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sattre-press.com/pp.html ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] a problem with \defineprotrudefactor
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:59:29 +0200 Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've been messing around with that because thanh is updating his > stuff; i need to handle both hz and protruding and more -) I must ask: would this mean adding Context support for the font expansion mentioned in his thesis? I've wanted to experiment with that but as far as I can tell it has previously required too much (for me) font manipulation outside of tex. -Bill -- Sattre PressCuriosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/by Garrett Serviss [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://sattre-press.com/csky.html ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
[NTG-context] a problem with \defineprotrudefactor
After a long lull, I have installed a recent Context (ver: 2004.6.30) and find that my typescripts that do margin kerning are having trouble. Invoking a typescript that uses \defineprotrudefactor will cause the job to stop; I don't see any error messages. When the problem line is commented out the job completes. I've attached a minimal example. -Bill -- Sattre PressCuriosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/by Garrett Serviss [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://sattre-press.com/csky.html example.tex Description: TeX document type-billmc.tex Description: TeX document example.log Description: Binary data ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] \title in the table of contents
On Fri, 21 May 2004 13:07:26 + Michal Kvasnicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, how can I have not-numbered chapters which don't increment the > chapter number placed in the table of contents? When I've had to do this I have used separate chapter lists. See the section "Table of contents with different sections" in: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html -Bill -- Sattre Press History of Astronomy http://sattre-press.com/ During the 19th Century [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Agnes M. Clerke http://sattre-press.com/han.html ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and the blind
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:00:12 -0400 Alan Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will explore pdftotext and > the Acrobat _Save As_ options. Another issue with these methods is that the header and footer information on each page will be included, which could be irritating or helpful, depending on the application. > One of the problems for all_and perhaps > it is insuperable_is the ability of such reading software to present > phrases in foreign languages and mathematical expressions. I haven't done any XML writing, but I think that would be the superior approach. If special elements of the text are tagged, then they could be translated appropriately for the blind reader. I use a text-to-speech program for proofing some of my documents and have found it helpful to filter the original text and emit a coded version which makes it easy for the speech program to read, and easier for me to understand. I'll have it say "quote", "endquote", "italics", etc. I'm working from the Context source directly, but XML sources could be used similarly, and there are lots of XML tools in the world. -Bill -- Sattre Press History of Astronomy http://sattre-press.com/ During the 19th Century [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Agnes M. Clerke http://sattre-press.com/han.html ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and the blind
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:50:04 -0400 Alan Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, does anyone on the list have ideas about how to produce such files > > from the files I currently have in hand or any experience with this > sort of problem? I have used the pdftotext utility, part of the xpdf package, for similar tasks. In the case of hyphenated line endings, the word will be hyphenated and broken across lines just as in the pdf, and that might be a problem for the reader program. -Bill -- Sattre PressThe King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sattre-press.com/kiy.html ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Drop capital
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:40:29 + Charles Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to use a drop capital at the start of > articles. I have an example in this document: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sattre-press.com/tow.html ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Indenting all lines in a paragraph, first line excluded
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:49:44 +0100 "Tim 't Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want the first line of the paragraph to appear normally, and the > second and all consecutive lines to be indented. So basically you can > also say that I want an 'inverted' paragraph; instead of an indented > first line, I want all the other lines to be indented instead. I don't know if there is a more Context-way of doing it, but I've used this: \hangafter=1 \hangindent=1em in each paragraph that needs it. -Bill -- Sattre PressCuriosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/by Garrett Serviss [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://csky.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Dithering (off-topic)
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:34:54 +0100 Michal Kvasnicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, is there some easy way to set the size of the dithering points > (eg. 2x2 pixels, 3x3 pixels), or should I do it ex post in some image > editor (Gimp, imagemagick)? I haven't studied the Floyd-Steinberg algorithm, but it seems to be an error-difusion technique that handles that automatically. The resulting pixel dimensions of the image are the same as the original. There are other halftoning methods you can experiment with in pgmtopbm. Although I did some experimentation, I am by no means an expert at this. My method is simply to expand the orginal image to so that a pixel in the image will be a dot on the output. Using the example I posted before, the image was 3.5 inches wide, the printer was 600 dots per inch, so I sized the graphic to 3.5 x 600 = 1950 pixels before halftoning. I've dealt with only one printer so far, but the results have been good. Depending on the original grayscale image, it may need to be normed (pgmnorm) or smoothed (pgmsmooth) before halftoning. -Bill -- Sattre Press Pagan Papers http://sattre-press.com/by Kenneth Grahame [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pp.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Dithering (off-topic)
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:21:48 +0100 Michal Kvasnicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I typeset a church bulleting. It is printed on a laserjet printer (600 > > dpi), and then copied on a copy machine. As for letters, all is right. > > But figures (photos) are this way spoiled. I guess it would help > either to force PDF to print the figures in some very low resolution > (150 dpi), or (probably better) to dither the figures and include them > in PNG (instead of ordinary JPEG). Can some of you tell me how to do > it? I tried ImageMagick's convert to dither the photos, but outcomes > were really poor. Is there some good free software for this (in the > best case in Linux)? Or can I do it some way in PDF? I suspect you need to halftone the photos before including them. All the gray pixels must be converted into a pattern of black and white equivalents. On Linux you have the netpbm package which has everything you need. The specific utility is pgmtopbm with various switches. There are other utilities for converting to and from the netpbm file formats. Here is an example of a pipeline I use to do several manipulations at once: pnmscale -width=1950 pleiades.pnm | pnmsmooth -size 5 5 | pgmtopbm -fs -value 0.5 | pnmtopng > pleiades.png pnmscale: expand to a known size pnmsmooth: try to obscure the halftone of the original photo pgmtopbm: apply new halftone, -fs = "floyd-steinberg" halftoning pnmtopng: convert to png for inclusion into pdf The trouble with halftone images is that they are not resolution-independent. You may have to adjust the image size and parameters depending on your printer. Also, halftoned images do not display well in some graphics programs, although acroread does a pretty good job when they are included in pdf files. -Bill -- Sattre PressThe King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kiy.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] inmargin text problems remain
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:57:12 +0200 Willi Egger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody see the clue, how to tell Context to use the full > marginwidth? The problem is that notes in the left page outer margin do not use the full margin width, right? If you change your setup to use leftmargin=18mm it will match the outer margin on the right pages, which is already set to 18mm. If this case, rightmargin and leftmargin seem to refer to the outer margins on the right and left pages, not the outer and gutter margins on a single page. -Bill -- Sattre PressThe King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kiy.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] \inmargin{} problems with typsetting inmargin texts
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:20:30 +0200 Willi Egger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The strange thing is, that on lefthandpages the inmargin text > is typset in the left (outer) margin but it is typeset on two lines, > indicating that the measures of the leftmargin of the righthandpage is > used. Does \showframe show symmetrical left and right margin areas? I have a margin notes example on my help page. I define the right and left margin areas explicitly like so: \setuplayout[backspace=0.9375in, width=3.25in, rightmargindistance=.25in, rightmargin=1.125in, leftmargindistance=.25in, leftmargin=1.125in] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] -Bill -- Sattre PressCuriosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/by Garrett Serviss [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://csky.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Does Bill McClain's TOC work?
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:15:14 -0500
Bill McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (the unnumbered headings *are* numbered)
>
> You're right, there is something wrong with the example. The technique
> works properly in my original (very large) document, but not in the
> reduced file. I'll try to discover why.
Ok, I'm not sure why, but the techninque shown on my page works only
when the body of the text is surrounded by \startbodymatter ...
\stopbodymatter. The example should read:
\startbodymatter
\chapter{The Windows of Absolute Night}
...etc...
\stopbodymatter
I also use \startfrontmatter ... \stopfrontmatter to delimit the
Contents, Preface, Introduction, etc, and \startbackmatter ...
\stopbackmatter around the Index and colophon. But the behavior you
found is controlled by the example above.
I'll correct the page.
-Bill
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Re: [NTG-context] Does Bill McClain's TOC work?
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:05:03 +0200 Steffen Wolfrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (the unnumbered headings *are* numbered) You're right, there is something wrong with the example. The technique works properly in my original (very large) document, but not in the reduced file. I'll try to discover why. -Bill -- Sattre PressCuriosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/by Garrett Serviss [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://csky.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Status update on e-Omega/Aleph
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:45:32 -0600 Idris S Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With an otp u can define > the character sequence ".d" so that it always gives you \.d in the > output. I know I could look this up, but briefly: (1) What's an otp? (2) Given a set of pfb and afm files (or a set of ttf files) how do I define such things for Aleph? -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tow.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Status update on e-Omega/Aleph
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:43:26 +0200 Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to inform you on the current status and short-term > forecast for e-Omega. Could you give some brief comments for we (me, I mean) who haven't been following Omega progress? Please point to web documents if such exist: * If I'm a pdftex/Context user, what does it take become an Aleph/Context user? * Are there special considerations for "fonts in Aleph"? It's a entirely new setup, isn't it? * Could you compare and contrast the quality and capabilities of dvipdfmx with pdf generation in pdftex? * If my work is entirely in English, is there any benfit of Aleph for me? Regards, -Bill -- Sattre PressCuriosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/by Garrett Serviss [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://csky.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Sieve of Eratosthenes
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:23:28 -0700 David Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd love to see different approaches. A good opportunity to learn new > technique and ideas for attacking this problem. I'll make a shameful admission: when I have tasks like this, I generate the TeX source from another language, usually Python these days. A REAL TeX user would be more clever, or use metapost, which I've never used. -Bill -- Sattre PressCuriosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/by Garrett Serviss [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://csky.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] \placefigure[left] again!
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:31:44 +0100
"Duncan Hothersall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Interestingly, it remains broken even if the \bf isn't there, just the
> open and close braces. So presumably this is something to do with the
> expansion of what comes after the \placefigure?
I ran into this also and wrote:
>I've found that it has to do with the content of my text. Any paragraph
>beginning with a block does not flow properly. The best workaround I
>have found is to insert a \strut at the beginning of the text where it
>starts with a block.
To which Hans replied:
> right, this is a known weakness: if you start a par with a \command,
> you may end up with yes/no indentation or some everypar interference
> (can for instance be due to the fact that the command can start a
> group and aftergroup things can be messed up), your \strut solution is
> ok (\indent\ noindent or \dontleavehmode is also ok), since they start
> the paragraph
So begin your text with:
\strut {\bf }
or one of the other commands. \strut is a zero-width character.
-Bill
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Re: [NTG-context] \placefigure[left] aligning with second line
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:11:47 +0100 "Duncan Hothersall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As is seen in the manual, the cow is aligned with the second line of > text, rather than the first. Can anyone help me to move it up? Try adjusting spacing with \setupfloats. I've used this in the past: \setupfloats[spacebefore=0pt, spaceafter=0pt, sidespacebefore=0pt, sidespaceafter=0pt, margin=4pt] -Bill -- Sattre PressThe King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kiy.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Lucida again
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 12:10:10 -0700 David Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > \usetypescript[lbr] > \setupbodyfont[lbr] I can't test it because I don't have Lucida, but what happens if you add this before the statements above: \usetypescript[berry][ec] -Bill -- Sattre PressThe King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kiy.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] missing tfm fonts
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:05:16 +0200 Johannes Hüsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In type-enc.tex there is mentioning of "existing tfm and vf files we > provide", such as ec-upl*.*. > > Are these really needed, and how do I obtain them? My Palatino metric > files have names like uplr8t.tfm. In the same file are lines such as: \definefontsynonym [ec-uplr8a] [uplr8t] [encoding=ec] creating a synonym for the existing tfm file. This should work without any new files: \usetypescript[berry][ec] \usetypescript[palatino][ec] \setupbodyfont[palatino] -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tow.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
Re: [NTG-context] Right-aligning blocks of text
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:10:07 -0700 (PDT) Andrew Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to right-align a block of text, e.g. have > the text left-aligned but the block right aligned. An > ascii example would be; Would indenting the left margin do this? If so, look at \startnarrower and \stopnarrower, and see the examples under "Indenting" at: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html -Bill -- Sattre PressCuriosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/by Garrett Serviss [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://csky.sattre-press.com/ ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
