Re: [NTG-context] (again) bug with bidi direction and \about references

2014-03-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 07:49:07PM +0100, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Hi Hans, sorry for telling again, but I’m afraid that the following sample shows a serious buggy interaction between \setupdirections[bidi=on] and \about references. \setupdirections[bidi=on] No problem with

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Reflections on usability ConTeXt for typesetting of mathematics

2014-02-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:40:18PM +0100, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote: I do not agree with you. It is not so important to have the same syntax as in LaTeX (exception: it would be nice to get double bars from \| since it does not make sense to have \| yield a single bar since | does) That is the

[NTG-context] [OT] [fred.w...@free.fr: Thank you]

2014-01-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
- Forwarded message from Frédéric WANG fred.w...@free.fr - From: Frédéric WANG fred.w...@free.fr To: www-m...@w3.org www-m...@w3.org, LaTeXML project project-late...@lists.jacobs-university.de Subject: Thank you Dear all, Two months ago, I started a fundraising campaign to help MathML

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Incorrect internal font processing

2013-12-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 09:19:26PM +0100, Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2013-12-01 Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:21:30AM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: Interestingly, after I patched Sorts Mill (a FontForge fork) to avoid duplicates[1] I ended up with a ‘dotlessi.sc’ glyph

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Incorrect internal font processing

2013-12-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:35:01PM +0100, Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2013-11-27 Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2013-11-27 Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/27/2013 10:20 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2013-11-27 Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/27/2013 9:53 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2013-11-27 Hans Hagen wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Incorrect internal font processing

2013-12-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:21:30AM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: It is not clear to me how FontLab arrived to the dotlessi name from the GSUB table, but I need to look into the font a bit more closer. Interestingly, after I patched Sorts Mill (a FontForge fork) to avoid duplicates[1] I ended up

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-25 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:18:47PM +0100, H. Özoguz wrote: It is my believe that Unicode has the wrong properties for Arabic standalone Hamza; in short you should just type a regular Hamza in the middle of the word and it will get positioned correctly. Placing a combining Hamza over a Tatweel

Re: [NTG-context] No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:31:27PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/24/2013 6:09 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: shows me a little sign above the word the only issue i see is that this otf font has 2048 units and gets scaled wrong (in luatex's backend probably) It is actually a TTF font but the

Re: [NTG-context] No full Unicode-Support in ConTeXt?

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:48:05PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/24/2013 6:38 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:31:27PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/24/2013 6:09 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: shows me a little sign above the word the only issue i see is that this otf font has

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 06:52:31PM +0100, H. Özoguz wrote: The extend feature stretches the glyphs to get narrow or wide font but it doesn’t embolden it. The best solution is to get a font with a real bold style, money shouldn’t be a problem because fonts are cheap nowadays. Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] Re: Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 08:49:40PM +0100, H. Özoguz wrote: http://amirifont.org/ / - and more hard to find such a find in this style (Uthmanic). / There is no such a style, it is just a simplified (dumbed down) Naskh style used only in one single Mushaf. Why is that a requirement?

Re: [NTG-context] Converting normal font into bold

2013-11-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 08:53:00PM +0100, H. Özoguz wrote: Again, because arabic seems to be vanished in my first posting, I dont know why. Thanks Khaled, the Naskh-Style is not an absolute requirement, but it is very well known and very common (at least for muslims in germany) - and

[NTG-context] [OT] Crowdfunding project for improving math in ebooks (and the web)

2013-11-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
http://www.ulule.com/mathematics-ebooks/ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage

Re: [NTG-context] dejavu: inline math fraction spacing too tight?

2013-10-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 07:49:59AM +0900, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/25/2013 5:57 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 07:23:43AM +0900, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/24/2013 2:46 PM, H. Özoguz wrote: \setupbodyfont [dejavu,12pt] \starttext $a/b$ $1/2$ $π/3$ \stoptext

Re: [NTG-context] dejavu: inline math fraction spacing too tight?

2013-10-25 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 07:23:43AM +0900, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/24/2013 2:46 PM, H. Özoguz wrote: \setupbodyfont [dejavu,12pt] \starttext $a/b$ $1/2$ $π/3$ \stoptext Is this indeed the desired spacing? What do others think? Thanks. I think you are right, I don't know if this

Re: [NTG-context] open quotation not working

2013-10-21 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 01:57:22PM -0400, john Culleton wrote: On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:30:54 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 13.10.2013 um 06:09 schrieb Ciro A. Soto c...@kavyata.com: sorry, I just saw an old chain of messages about this question... I

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:39:32AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/12/2013 12:19 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: The problem is that OpenType is hard, you already know that. ConTeXt will never be able to dedicate enough resources to catch up with development, so it makes much sense to reuse

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:19:16AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/12/2013 2:15 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: ···date: 2013-10-12, Saturday···from: Hans Hagen··· On 10/12/2013 12:48 AM, Thangalin wrote: Hi (Copperplate is going to be added soon.) Unfortunately, Context Keep in mind it was

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 08:05:03PM -0700, Thangalin wrote: In that case I'd run a separate font checker, as you never know what users upload. Similar issues can occur with those tagged formats that are in fact linked lists. That's a good idea. The TTX font tool was going to be my first

Re: [NTG-context] Bug: Reloading Font

2013-10-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 11:18:47AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/12/2013 9:27 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 02:19:16AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/12/2013 2:15 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: ···date: 2013-10-12, Saturday···from: Hans Hagen··· On 10/12/2013 12:48 AM

Re: [NTG-context] Wrong spacing using stretch effect

2013-10-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 11:20:52AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 10/1/2013 10:05 AM, Marco Patzer wrote: On 2013–09–30 Hans Hagen wrote: these are unrelated mechanisms where the first one just does some pdf magic ... no feedback to tex about widths (ok, i could write something better but

Re: [NTG-context] [***SPAM***] OT: Putting a context to the 2013 ConTeXt Meeting location

2013-09-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:50:31AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Concerning the conference: there are tutorials and qa sessions, so if anyone attending has specific questions of wishes, let them know and they might serve as templates. Of course it has to be reasonable, not 'i want a three

Re: [NTG-context] wrong behaviour with ConTeXt unicode bidi

2013-09-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 02:37:35PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: anyway, it would be nice to see where the three methods fail: Of the three, method one seems to give correct results on all the given tests (I’m yet to test with my own documents). I’m skeptical that bidi can be implemented in a one

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2013-09-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 08:01:30PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I uploaded a beta with additional bidi code. There are now three methods: default : the original one, the fastest, wil be improved a bit one : unicode bidi, derived from khaleds t-bidi, cleaned up and optimized plus some

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB XHTML Format

2013-09-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 09:57:59AM -0700, Thangalin wrote: Hi, div class=section ... div class=... ... div /div i.e. only divs and spans I think that would be a more robust output format, technically, easier to adapt, and more readily conform to the strict XHTML

Re: [NTG-context] Em dash using Hoefler

2013-08-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:00:16PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: great ... another non standard use of names There are no standard glyph names for TrueType/OpenType fonts. AGL is completely optional, and is not part of any standard. Fonts can, and do, use names that does not follow AGL (or no names

Re: [NTG-context] Math accents set too close to capital

2013-08-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:05:18AM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote: Hi, Have you tries U+1024 or LETTER CAPITAL H WITH CIRCUMFLEX? True not all Fonts might not have it and it is TEXT not Math. And you shouldn’t use it in math, even Unicode discourages such use. Accents in text and math are

Re: [NTG-context] Fraktur fonts

2013-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:28:12AM +0200, Rudolf Bahr wrote: both with context and texexec, but I don't achieve the desired result. texexec displays a font somehow similar to Fraktur, but not a very nice one and much to broad; and it seems to have no different s (one inner-word and one

Re: [NTG-context] mathml lim

2013-06-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 04:08:40PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: two details that keep missing is max and lim (see below). mi mathvariant=normallim/mi I do not know MATHML, but this seems like a wrong way to input \lim. The above is roughly

Re: [NTG-context] mathml lim

2013-06-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:12:01PM +0200, Sander Maijers wrote: Is this what you need Steffen: http://zvon.org/xxl/MathML/Output/el_limit.html That is content not presentation MathML, they are quite different. Regards, Khaled

Re: [NTG-context] Font problems

2013-05-31 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:52:22PM +0200, H. Özoguz wrote: Hi there, I cant run the font ramnaclq-webfont.ttf (see attachment) in Context. That is a broken, a so called “ASCII hack” font that (ab)uses ASCII code points for Arabic. In short it is a broken font and will not work. Regards,

Re: [NTG-context] Missing °C symbol in math mode with dejavu font

2013-05-21 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:01:30AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 5/20/2013 11:36 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:22:41PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: My suggestion is to just use \phys_units_text_* always, since the decomposed, two characters is the preferred form for those

Re: [NTG-context] Missing °C symbol in math mode with dejavu font

2013-05-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:57:16PM +0200, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2013 22:29:22 +0200 Romain Diss romain.d...@yahoo.fr wrote: The °C symbol is missing in math mode with the dejavu font. I thought that this should be handled by using the '°' + 'C' symbols instead but it is not

Re: [NTG-context] Missing °C symbol in math mode with dejavu font

2013-05-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:13:16PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 20.05.2013 um 23:04 schrieb Romain Diss romain.d...@yahoo.fr: Le lundi 20 mai 2013, Alan BRASLAU a écrit : On Mon, 20 May 2013 22:29:22 +0200 Romain Diss romain.d...@yahoo.fr wrote: The °C symbol is missing in math

Re: [NTG-context] Missing °C symbol in math mode with dejavu font

2013-05-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:22:41PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: My suggestion is to just use \phys_units_text_* always, since the decomposed, two characters is the preferred form for those two units. “In normal use, it is better to represent degrees Celsius ‘°C’ with a sequence of U+00B0 DEGREE

Re: [NTG-context] font trickery

2013-05-15 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 08:51:28AM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Hi Georg, On Wed, 15 May 2013 00:09:22 -0600, Georg Duffner g.duff...@gmail.com wrote: I’d prefer to stay with the AFF syntax which is well established. I wonder if the latest, virtually frozen

Re: [NTG-context] Arabic typesetting, one more

2013-05-12 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 03:22:27PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Salaam, Huseyin, I missed this and other threads, it's been busy here... On Tue, 07 May 2013 23:35:25 -0600, H. Özoguz h.oezo...@mmnetz.de wrote: But with traditionalarabic it is worse than with

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:03:28PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 5/8/2013 10:58 PM, H. Özoguz wrote: seems like an issue with liga ... i'm not sure if that's a context problem Hmm, see in the attachment the output of MS-Word, with activated ligatures. So it has to do anything with ConText, or

Re: [NTG-context] Installing an arabic font

2013-05-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 05:38:35PM +0200, H. Özoguz wrote: Hoping to annoy not everybody here with my arabic-font-questions. I have found I nice free arabic ttf-font, you can download it here: http://fonts.qurancomplex.gov.sa/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/UthmanTN1-Ver10.zip. One of its

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:28:20PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: thinking of it: one reason why a general purpose word processor used by people with no idea about things like ligatures, is that ligatures are language dependent I don't think that's necessary relevant: the only example

Re: [NTG-context] [luatex-fonts] non-ascii filenames in font cache

2013-04-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:56:25PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/28/2013 12:04 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote: the font cache currently drops non-ascii bytes when creating file names by means of containers.cleanname(). Dohyun Kim sent a fix for data-con.lua (see below). My own test with the

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 09:41:15AM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote: On the other side, I believe, ligatures of off by default in LaTeX, et al. or at least are feature is set when the font is loaded. So you neither use LaTeX nor ConTeXt?

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 09:41:15AM +0200, Keith J. Schultz wrote: On the other side, I believe, ligatures of off by default in LaTeX, et al. or at least are feature is set when the font is loaded. So you neither use LaTeX nor ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination fi

2013-04-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:16:42AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/26/2013 11:48 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I consider this (the fact that one doesn't notice it) part of a good design. It's similar with kerning: one doesn't notice it until/unless it's bad. It's similar in the kitchen also. One

Re: [NTG-context] Lucida doesn't work in TL 2013 / latest ConTeXt

2013-04-19 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:12:48AM -0500, Troy Henderson wrote: Did we change something with the type 1? In mkiv ... we probably never finished the mappings ... waste of time now that we have otf. This makes me believe that I will eventually HAVE to purchase (and by purchase I really

Re: [NTG-context] math: size of sqrt to small for fractions

2013-04-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:39:25PM +0200, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 21:25:16 +0200 Xenia yor...@googlemail.com wrote: Oh, I didn't know that. For my feelings, all variables should have the same size here (a,b and c). In this case you should probably use: a = \sqrt{b/c}

Re: [NTG-context] math: ± and ∓ are shifted

2013-04-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:55:40AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/5/2013 12:13 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, Hans Hagen wrote: On 4/4/2013 11:44 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Xenia wrote: Hi context list, I noticed that the ∓ sign is a little higher than

Re: [NTG-context] Representing TeX on the web [Off-topic]

2013-03-31 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:20:41PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: 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?

Re: [NTG-context] Math typesetting problems

2013-01-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:33:52PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: The \frac command uses \vcenter for the content while \dfrac and \tfrac only set the mathstyle before placing the content with the \over primitive. The use of \vcenter seems odd here as it means the fraction rule will no

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
You can ignore everything Keith said and you will be just fine. Regards, Khaled On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:32:39AM +, Meigen, Thomas wrote: Hi Keith, thank you for your open comments. You exactly understood the questions that I am asking right now. Would it be a good idea to switch to

Re: [NTG-context] hbar (and probably some other symbols) doesn't work in latest beta

2013-01-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 02:10:50AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: It looks like hbar (LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH STROKE 0x127) is not in the math fonts. \hbar should be a glyph variant of \hslash (U+0210F), according to STIX people, if the font provides such a variant. Regards, Khaled

Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX, ConTeXt and font/filename quote char

2012-12-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 02:50:06PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 12/23/2012 7:29 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Hi all, Some people have been complaining that it is not possible to use XeTeX with filenames containing parenthesis because XeTeX treats it as filename quote char and this it gets

[NTG-context] XeTeX, ConTeXt and font/filename quote char

2012-12-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
Hi all, Some people have been complaining that it is not possible to use XeTeX with filenames containing parenthesis because XeTeX treats it as filename quote char and this it gets stripped. Anyway, after some searching it turned out this was added in 2004 for ConTeXt to workaround some MetaPost

Re: [NTG-context] \not\in doesn't work properly

2012-12-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 09:07:43PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11/30/2012 10:26 AM, Jeong Dal wrote: Hi, After updating ConTeXt, math command '\not\in' is not shown properly. For example, $a \not\eq b$ is good. but $a \not\in A$ shows two symbols separately. I am using Mac OS X

Re: [NTG-context] 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature

2012-12-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 10:58:56AM +0100, Steve White wrote: Hi all, I finally got something like Pablo's test working on my system. It doesn't show much new. As had already been established, with the right ConTeXt switches, OpenType features of kerning and ligatures work correctly with

Re: [NTG-context] 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature

2012-12-02 Thread Khaled Hosny
is not hard. It has been done in many projects. On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 10:58:56AM +0100, Steve White wrote: Hi all, I finally got something like Pablo's test working on my system. It doesn't show much new

Re: [NTG-context] 'kern': TrueType table and GPOS lookup feature

2012-11-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:58:25AM +0100, Steve White wrote: There was a suggestion that Latin kerns should be activated by {script,lang}={dflt,dflt}. Let me ask, should Devanagari kerns also be activated by {dflt, dflt}? If not, why? My own policy is, unless a feature must be restricted to

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2012-11-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:35:36AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi Khaled these virtual versions are essentially the body font counterparts with lots of display-modifying tweaks piled on to make them behave like math fonts. These virtual versions were used for a time while the math fonts were

Re: [NTG-context] beta

2012-11-21 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:10:19PM +0100, Sietse Brouwer wrote: these virtual versions are essentially the body font counterparts with lots of display-modifying tweaks piled on to make them behave like math fonts. These virtual versions were used for a time while the math fonts were in

Re: [NTG-context] How to display source in ConTeXt?

2012-11-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 02:19:13PM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: 2012/11/13 yang.zhao hckjs...@gmail.com: Thank you, it works. PLEASE switch of Comic Sans! http://bancomicsans.com/ I like Comic Sans (I really do, no idea why it is so much hated).

Re: [NTG-context] xits font: some spacing and scaling problems

2012-09-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:58:11PM +0200, Andreas Mang wrote: Hi there, Not quite sure if this is the right place. I wanted to send this directly to Khaled Hosny, but then I thought it might be good to have some additional opinion on some of these issues (I am not quite sure if some

Re: [NTG-context] xits font: some spacing and scaling problems

2012-09-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:01:35PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Khaled Hosny wrote: None of those glyphs were changed in XITS, they are exactly the same as the ones in STIX fonts, so possibly ConTeXt is using the wrong Unicode character for those symbols. The later two

Re: [NTG-context] superscript spacing: xits math font

2012-08-11 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 07:35:02PM +0200, Andreas Mang wrote: Hi there, Likewise to an issue reported earlier to this list (Math other issues for TL 2012) there seems to be a problem with the spacing of the superscript in the xits math font, which cannot be controlled via the

[NTG-context] [OT] The effect of typefaces on credibility

2012-08-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
This is stuff is usually bogus, but the choice of Computer Modern is interesting: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/hear-all-ye-people-hearken-o-earth/ (for once an OT that is not Luigi's) ___ If your

Re: [NTG-context] Questions apon Questions

2012-08-03 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 02:05:34PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 3-8-2012 13:31, Keith J. Schultz wrote: and putting into the apropriate LuaTeX-datastructures(naturally, GDEF -table would match the other OTF-LuaTeX-Table programming style). Then patching the others functions, if necessary, to

Re: [NTG-context] Font recognition with command context, but not with command texexec

2012-07-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:50:44AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 29-7-2012 22:36, Mojca Miklavec wrote: For MKII the answer is no. MKIV can - to a certain extent - read and interpret fontconfig's XML configuration file. The real

Re: [NTG-context] Font recognition with command context, but not with command texexec

2012-07-30 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:16:44AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I believe it's the other way around: applications on Mac should not use fontconfig ;), but when they do (most of them being ported from linux), they cannot rely on fontconfig's presence on the system. It's more or less the same

Re: [NTG-context] define vs setup

2012-07-26 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 06:15:31PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: LaTeX is in a sense way more stable Which is mostly an illusion, packages do change all the time, hyphenation patterns change, fonts change and engines change (even pdfTeX), and unlike ConTeXt backups are much harder to take (short

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps?

2012-07-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:21:22PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 24-7-2012 21:29, Shriramana Sharma wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: \definehighlight[smallcaps][style=\setff{smallcaps}] Hello and thanks for your help but even if I

Re: [NTG-context] Is startalign broken in mkiv?

2012-07-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:48:31PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote: It was never a problem in TeX to modify the control characters used according to your own pleasure. Except that is not the kind of thing ConTeXt users are supposed to mess with, I feel guilty every time I mess with catcodes in my

Re: [NTG-context] math symbol: blacktriangle

2012-07-18 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:29:52AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 17-7-2012 22:36, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:40:15PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 17-7-2012 19:39, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Andreas Mang wrote: Dear all, The \blacktriangle

Re: [NTG-context] math symbol: blacktriangle

2012-07-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:40:15PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 17-7-2012 19:39, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Andreas Mang wrote: Dear all, The \blacktriangle and \blacktriangledown symbol seem to be missing, though \blacktriangleright and \...-left are defined. Is there a

Re: [NTG-context] Is startalign broken in mkiv?

2012-07-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
The use of (which is a common symbol) as a control character is a long standing idiosyncrasy of TeX that I'm glad ConTeXt has got rid of. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:32:09PM -0400, Matthias Weber wrote: Thanks - I wasn't aware that the human readable version had been deprecated :( Matthias

Re: [NTG-context] Arbitrary font size

2012-07-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 06:34:40PM -0500, Troy Henderson wrote: I would like to know if there is a command like \tfn{0.9} which would allow the user to specify an arbitrary font scale factor since the built-in \tfa, \tfb, \ tfc, \tfd, \tfx, and \tfxx are insufficient for one of my projects.

Re: [NTG-context] Sanskrit font

2012-06-22 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:24:12PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: I'd be interested to see whether you manage to successfully use devanagari with context. (I vaguely remember a mailing list posting that devanagari is not supported...?) ConTeXt MkIV does not have support for indic opentype

Re: [NTG-context] Error with EBGaramond-Regular

2012-06-08 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 09:40:22AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 8-6-2012 06:16, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 06:14:10PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: btw, what are features like cv80 and cv81 supposed to represent? A relatively new OpenType addition. http://www.microsoft.com

Re: [NTG-context] Error with EBGaramond-Regular

2012-06-07 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 06:14:10PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: btw, what are features like cv80 and cv81 supposed to represent? A relatively new OpenType addition. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ae.htm#cv01-cv99 Regards, Khaled

Re: [NTG-context] epub

2012-06-07 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 06:04:39PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi, I couldn't resist ... firefox has a nice 3d view of a page and this is how the context garden looks like. A nice tests for epubs. Now, we want that in ConTeXt ;) Regards, Khaled

Re: [NTG-context] Math other issues for TL 2012

2012-06-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 12:54:11PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hello, With TL freeze that is probably going to happen tomorrow (plus a few days of grace period): what is the current state of problems with math fonts, and possibly any other issues (apart from the known crash on mipsel

Re: [NTG-context] Math other issues for TL 2012

2012-06-01 Thread Khaled Hosny
Currently if the font has a MathConstants table it is considered a new math font. Regards, Khaled On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 08:59:31PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Question for Khaled. What is currently the logic in luatex? There used to be some heuristic to determine if we have a traditional or

Re: [NTG-context] how to write two or three single hyphens?

2012-05-31 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:46:32AM +0200, Jan Pohanka wrote: Also why the latex way -{}- does not work? It is a feature of luatex? {} breaking ligatures is “an accidental feature¹” in traditional TeX that LuaTeX got rid of. Regards, Khaled ¹

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing for {\cal P} in XITS

2012-05-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:19:00PM +0300, Janne Junnila wrote: Hi, I just noticed that the spacing after ${\cal P}$ looks a bit too tight (non-existent?) while using XITS fonts. \setupbodyfont[xits] \starttext The spacing of ${\cal P}$ looks like this. \stoptext I'm not sure if the

Re: [NTG-context] Math fonts in TeXLive 2012

2012-05-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 09:55:49PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: Euler is also used in the magazine ... but of course it is up to Khaled if he doesn't want to include the font. Khaled - would you at least be ready to offer tar.xz file (one sufficient for direct installation into TL) or put it

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing for {\cal P} in XITS

2012-05-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:29:02PM +, Rogers, Michael K wrote: On May 29, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 01:19:00PM +0300, Janne Junnila wrote: Hi, I just noticed that the spacing after ${\cal P}$ looks a bit too tight (non-existent?) while using

Re: [NTG-context] Spacing for {\cal P} in XITS

2012-05-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 05:34:47PM +0300, Janne Junnila wrote: Doesn't seem to be only macs, I'm on Linux using the latest beta. The PDF I get is like the one Michael sent earlier. I tried other calligraphic letters with the vrules, and it seems that some of them have similar issues, just not

Re: [NTG-context] Math fonts in TeXLive 2012

2012-05-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:58:27AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Tim Steenvoorden wrote: P.S. Euler is working in the 2012.05.26 16:40 Standalone version. The version of ConTeXt in TeX Live is almost the same as in minimals (ok, I didn't check in the version

Re: [NTG-context] Small integral signes with Palatino

2012-05-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
AFAIK, no. The code that handles extensible delimiters changed, but IIUC we are not talking about extensible symbol here. Regards, Khaled On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:13:10AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: Hi Khaled, just checking ... did the code related to display operator heights change as

Re: [NTG-context] Simple rings with svg

2012-05-10 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:59:41AM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012, Ian Lawrence wrote: I read on the wiki that now svg is natively supported. Hmm. No. You need to have inkscape installed (and in your PATH) for svg to pdf conversion to work. FWIW, I cannot find the

Re: [NTG-context] greek items broken:

2012-05-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 05:14:39PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: but the future seems Bright ;) We should have named the fonts Lucida Brighter and Lucida Saner etc. ;) Regards, Khaled ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX error after update to ubuntu 12.04

2012-04-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 01:28:42PM -0700, Kip Warner wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 02:10:33PM +0900, S Barmeier wrote: In ubuntu 12.04 all font packages are renamed to fonts-*, rather than ttf-* or otf-* etc. Most, but not all. ttf-ubuntu-font-family and ttf-ubuntu-title appear to be

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX error after update to ubuntu 12.04

2012-04-27 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:25:03PM +0900, S Barmeier wrote: After updating to ubuntu 12.04, my shouts of joy were smothered by the following !LuaTeX error: cannot find OpenType font file for reading () == Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! mtx-context | fatal error:

Re: [NTG-context] Font goodies color schemes by Unicode number

2012-03-24 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 12:09:11AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: On 29-2-2012 14:57, Khaled Hosny wrote: Hi all, Was exploring font goodies and color schemes and so far works great, very nice feature, thanks Hans. Now I've to small questions/feature requests: Can color schemes be defined

Re: [NTG-context] [luatex] Itemize without page break

2012-03-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:49:48PM -0700, Kip Warner wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 06:46 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: TeX has it’s problem with certain errors, accept it. It is not a problem with the program raising an error, it was how it went about doing it. It should not have to take

Re: [NTG-context] [luatex] Itemize without page break

2012-03-20 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:21:35AM +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Am 20.03.2012 um 06:49 schrieb Kip Warner: On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 06:46 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: TeX has it’s problem with certain errors, accept it. It is not a problem with the program raising an error, it was

Re: [NTG-context] \notin not working

2012-03-09 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:46:56PM -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Stefan Müller wrote: Dear list, with one of the last versions (I'm currently using ConTeXt standalone 2012003005 19:49 MkIV) \notin is not working anymore. See \starttext $a \notin b \not\in c$

Re: [NTG-context] Style file for iPad?

2012-03-06 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:40:20PM +1100, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: Yes, but what ebook formats handle mathematics and diagrams? Plus the poor layout support in almost all ebook readers (brain dead paragraph builder, no hyphenation, no OpenType support etc. etc. they are usually pieces of junk

[NTG-context] Font goodies color schemes by Unicode number

2012-02-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
] \setupalign[r2l] \starttext \definedfont[name:amiri*arabic at 36pt] \setfontcolorscheme[1] ضَرَبَ ضُرِبَ ضَرْبًا \setfontcolorscheme[2] ضَرَبَ ضُرِبَ ضَرْبًا \stoptext return { name = Amiri, version = 1.00, comment = Goodies that complement the Amiri font., author = Khaled Hosny

Re: [NTG-context] ! \textfont0 is undefined (character 92)

2012-02-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:50:45PM +0100, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: ... does anybody know what this refers to, ie. what this means? You have broken math fonts setup. Regards, Khaled ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-29 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:29:30AM -0500, William Adams wrote: Scribus isn't that much different from InDesign and Quark, so the criticism holds: Scribus is even worse; it lacks OpenType support, complex text layout, right to left support, a not brain dead paragraph builder etc. Regards,

Re: [NTG-context] Font embedding

2012-02-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:39:04PM +0100, Honza Hejzl wrote: Hi, does anybody know how to really embed fonts into a pdffile? I have checked and read many conversations on that topic here but without the real solution (just a tons of arguments about how problematic/unethic it could be… and so

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