RE: [NTG-context] Language issues

2005-03-06 Thread Mats Broberg
should be fixed in the next upgrade. I'll keep you informed. === Pity! What TeX distributions are the other Windows users running, if not MikTeX? Thanks for all listmembers' help, anyway. Best regards, Mats Broberg ___

RE: [NTG-context] Language issues

2005-03-06 Thread Mats Broberg
I should change the memory settings in a different file then. MikTeX users out there - any pointers to what file I should be looking for? I checked the installation PDF but there is no reference to the name of the file. Best regards, Mats Broberg ___ ntg-cont

RE: [NTG-context] Language issues

2005-03-06 Thread Mats Broberg
> > Then I tried searching for the file texmf.cnf, but it is > nowhere to be > > found. > > On my system, it's in texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -- if that helps at all. > > regards, > > Matt Thanks, Matt - I looked there but there is no su

RE: [NTG-context] Language issues

2005-03-06 Thread Mats Broberg
nal command, operable program or batch file. Then I tried searching for the file texmf.cnf, but it is nowhere to be found. Best regards, Mats Broberg ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

RE: [NTG-context] Language issues

2005-03-05 Thread Mats Broberg
nclosing the cont-en.log. As you can see, Swedish is not loaded. I hunted down the cont-usr.tex file and uncommented this line about Swedish: % \installlanguage [\s!sv] [\c!state=\v!start] % swedish ran texexec --make --all again, but the log says Swedish is still not loaded. Best regard

RE: [NTG-context] Language issues

2005-03-04 Thread Mats Broberg
ansi:texnansi->5->2 :2 fr->ec:ec->6->2:2 es->default:default->7->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:2 it->ec:ec->9->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->10->2:2 nl->ec:ec->11->2:2 loaded So something is wrong and the patterns are not loading. Best regards,

RE: [NTG-context] Language issues

2005-03-04 Thread Mats Broberg
. Regretfully, no change. Still overfull lines and incorrect hyphenation the few times the text is hyphenated. Any ideas to what I am doing wrong? Best regards, Mats Broberg ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Language issues

2005-03-03 Thread Mats Broberg
Dear listmembers, When setting a language (in this case Swedish) for a document, is there something else one is supposed to do than putting \language[sv] on a single line somewhere before \starttext? I get overfull, non-hyphenated lines in the section I am typesetting. Best regards, Mats

RE: [NTG-context] Fixed spaces & overfullrule

2005-03-02 Thread Mats Broberg
Peter, Thanks - is there a similar method to display 'underfull' lines? Best regards, Mats Broberg > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Münster > Sent: den 2 mars 2005 20:36 > To: mailing list for Co

[NTG-context] Fixed spaces & overfullrule

2005-03-02 Thread Mats Broberg
fraction of an em. 2: Is it possible to have the overfull rules printed out in the margins? That way one can flip through the pages fast and instantly get an idea of the quality of the typesetting. Best regards, Mats Broberg ___ ntg-context mailing

RE: [NTG-context] lettrine.sty, but not LaTeX

2005-03-02 Thread Mats Broberg
quot;texhash". That's all :) > > HTH, > Q. OK, so this is the 'standard of procedure'? Not to put it in \base and run mktexlsr? Best regards, Mats Broberg ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

RE: [NTG-context] lettrine.sty, but not LaTeX

2005-03-02 Thread Mats Broberg
he > character "L". > > I will keep this in mind for a future extension > > > - Sometimes there is a need to indent the dropcap slightly itself, > > e.g. if one uses a quotation mark before the dropcap. So a > parameter > > to control that

RE: [NTG-context] lack of hyphenation

2005-03-02 Thread Mats Broberg
is used in the ledmac package for LaTeX? I don't have the documentation at hand, but if I don't remember wrong, if e.g. a pagebreak starts oscillating, the value of the \ballast is subtracted from the set of different values that makes the pagebreak

RE: [NTG-context] lettrine.sty, but not LaTeX

2005-03-01 Thread Mats Broberg
Ciro, Being a novice, I asked myself that too, before I took the plunge and put the .sty file in the C:\texmf\tex\context\base\ folder. Then I typed "mktexlsr" in the DOS prompt and after the computer had done whatever it does when one types that, it worked like a charm. Best reg

RE: [NTG-context] lack of hyphenation

2005-02-28 Thread Mats Broberg
> Hej Mats! > > I would like to recommend the interesting document > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/style.pdf > > Mvh, Micke P > > PS > Fun to see another swede here on the list > DS Thanks - I knew about that manual already. Best regards, Ma

RE: [NTG-context] lack of hyphenation

2005-02-28 Thread Mats Broberg
projects hundreds of pages long, this is something you'd want to automate. Don't know if it is possible in ConTeXt to automate this, but it would be great if it was. Best regards, Mats Broberg > Ciro A. Soto wrote: > > The knowlegeable John Culleton said in one of the > > l

RE: [NTG-context] Additional steps taken since the first e-mail

2005-02-28 Thread Mats Broberg
Hans, OK, and what should I do to remedy this? I am using ConTeXt out of the box, as it is when you install MikTeX. Should I download something else from your site? A more recent distribution? My log says: ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.24 Best regards, Mats Broberg On Behalf Of h h extern

RE: [NTG-context] lettrine.sty, but not LaTeX

2005-02-27 Thread Mats Broberg
p. So a parameter to control that would be great. However, bear in mind that I installed ConTeXt for the first time yesterday and have never used TeX and children before, so I may very well have done something wrong when I used the module...! :) Best regards, Mats Broberg > -Original Mess

RE: [NTG-context] lack of hyphenation

2005-02-27 Thread Mats Broberg
and not a single line had a > hyphenated word at the end. > > So, my question is: Is it okay? Oops - sorry for the misreading! I thought you asked if it was _typographically_ okay - hence my lengthy answer about H&J, Bartels et al...! Best regards, Mats Broberg __

RE: [NTG-context] lettrine.sty, but not LaTeX

2005-02-27 Thread Mats Broberg
er actions of tweaking. As an example, the automated drop caps in some of the more famous DTP programs are useless. Best regards, Mats Broberg ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

RE: [NTG-context] Additional steps taken since the first e-mail

2005-02-27 Thread Mats Broberg
s and functions, but all listmembers seem to be very helpful and hopefully I could eventually get help cooking up those. Best regards, Mats Broberg On Behalf Of Johannes Werner > newinstaller, > i struggled more than one day with installation of context. > i'm using a > diff

RE: [NTG-context] lack of hyphenation

2005-02-26 Thread Mats Broberg
or two ems from the right margin. Beautiful, and probably mathematically impossible to achieve. If I don't remember wrong, DEK writes about Bartels in one of his books and suspects he rewrote the text while handsetting the lines. I would agree with that. Best regards, Mats Broberg > -

RE: [NTG-context] Additional steps taken since the first e-mail

2005-02-26 Thread Mats Broberg
ation to fptex and tetex, but for miktex the corresponding line says: for miktex set TeXHashExecutable to initexmf --update-fndb Best regards, Mats Broberg Matthew Huggett wrote > Have you also generated the formats? From texexec.rme: > > , > | % If this file is called '

[NTG-context] Additional steps taken since the first e-mail

2005-02-26 Thread Mats Broberg
ext\perltk" to the PATH (however, there is no "context" or "perltk" folder in the "miktex" folder. Shouldn't there be?) However, the problem still persists. Best regards, Mats Broberg ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] Correction to previous e-mail

2005-02-26 Thread Mats Broberg
Listmembers, OK, the two chunks of text I mentioned were obviously due to the kind of ASCII text editor I use. I downloaded a different editor one and now the .rme and the .ini files look better. Sorry for taking up bandwidth about that specific issue. Best regards, Mats Broberg

[NTG-context] Installation för (complete) novices

2005-02-26 Thread Mats Broberg
In the command line window I typed texexec --test and got the reply: "unknown file type: texmfscripts" I would be very grateful if someone could hint what I have done wrong and/or lead me through any following installation steps. Many t

RE: [NTG-context] lettrine.sty, but not LaTeX

2005-02-25 Thread Mats Broberg
us setting a specific color for the initial, but that is handled by ConTeXt's standard features (I guess). Best regards, Mats Broberg > Ah ok, I see. No you cannot do that with DroppedCaps, as is. > > Will post something later ... > > Taco > > Peter Münster wrote: &

RE: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread Mats Broberg
quite a bit higher (300-500 lpi are not uncommon), which requires higher resolutions. Also, if you are using a different screening technology - e.g. frequency-modulated screening, or a hybride screening - your images may need to be of a higher resolution too. Talk to your printer. Best regards, Ma

[NTG-context] Downsampling images in pdfTeX

2004-07-27 Thread Mats Broberg
evel of text and in-line graphics compression. pdfTEX uses zip compression as provided by zlib. A value of 0 means no compression, 1 means fastest, 9 means best, 2..8 means something in between. Just set this value to 9, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise - 0 is great for testing

RE: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses

2004-07-25 Thread Mats Broberg
Yes, I eventually found it in that manual - sorry for using bandwidth for RTFM issues... :) Best regards, Mats Broberg > -Original Message- > From: Adam Lindsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: den 25 juli 2004 13:59 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'mailing list for

RE: [NTG-context] Re: A few questions regarding ConTeXt

2004-07-25 Thread Mats Broberg
es is how to solve a problem in ConTeXt if it suddenly becomes clear this or that feature is not implemented. Best regards, Mats Broberg ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

RE: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses

2004-07-25 Thread Mats Broberg
e physical size on the paper. So if you have an image in your PDF that is 10 cms /4 in. wide, and you want it printed in a 150 lpi (lines per inch) screen, make sure the original resolution is 300 dpi @ 10 cms / 4 in. All the best, Mats Broberg __