Re: [NTG-context] WYSIWYM editor on top of ConTeXt / Lout

2017-12-07 Thread William Adams
Mentioned on their wiki at: https://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ImportExport On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:55 AM, William Adams wrote: > Is it not an option to use LyX, and then pandoc to convert to ConTeXt? > > http://pandoc.org/ > > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Roger Mason wrote: &

Re: [NTG-context] WYSIWYM editor on top of ConTeXt / Lout

2017-12-07 Thread William Adams
Is it not an option to use LyX, and then pandoc to convert to ConTeXt? http://pandoc.org/ On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Roger Mason wrote: > Hello Jonas, > > Jonas Baggett writes: > > > Thank you for the suggestion. I was first thinking about incrementally > > creating a custom format that e

Re: [NTG-context] Creating SVG: using MetaFun, exporting proper units, conversion to DXF

2017-02-16 Thread William Adams
Another option here would be to use a tool which directly accepts SVGs --- one free/opensource tool for that is PartKAM/MakerCAM. My apologies for the late response --- investigating this sort of thing myself, though I'll likely be using a proprietary tool, Carbide Create to drive either a Nomad o

[NTG-context] Using JDF w/in ConTeXt?

2015-08-01 Thread William Adams
Is this possible? I need to make a .pdf to print specific pages of a .pdf to specific trays. William ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg

Re: [NTG-context] Can I do my next book in ConTeXt?

2014-04-29 Thread William Adams
ning gross markup w/o consideration for final appearance, only doing that at the end. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ If your question is

Re: [NTG-context] Using CMYK for print jobs

2013-10-25 Thread William Adams
: http://www.pdfxreport.com/doku.php?id=en:tools If you can make a valid PDF/X file, you may find a useful tool here: http://www.pdfxreport.com/doku.php?id=en:faq William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx o

Re: [NTG-context] HTML output

2013-02-20 Thread William Adams
a bit more complex than that. One article which seemed even-handed: http://readwrite.com/2011/01/17/w3schools-responds-to-w3fools and some valid discussion at: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/120621/w3fools-alternatives William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communicati

Re: [NTG-context] Sans Serif Math Font

2013-02-01 Thread William Adams
den.net/Lucida and endorsed here: On Sep 12, 2012, at 3:43 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > best is to upgrade the lucida to opentype .. way less hassle and also more > complete > > http://www.tug.org/store/lucida/index.html -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphin

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

2012-03-07 Thread William Adams
ok viewing program)). In the .pdf I believe there > were only one or two places where I let two word stacks stand (because they > were intractable) --- will have to try again using xetex and margin > protrusion and character expansion (I'd used DEK's macro for hanging > pun

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-03-01 Thread William Adams
re addressed in 3B2. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-03-01 Thread William Adams
book be too large to be generated by InDesign in one pass, requiring one to do it in sections, then use a script or a specialty indexing program to merge the sub-indices. Lastly, AIUI InDesign's (and probably Quark's) licensing prohibits remote usage from a server unless one purchas

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-29 Thread William Adams
ng Quark 6 and InDesign CS. Worth going back and reading the original just to see David Kastrup's post which engendered it. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz,

Re: [NTG-context] Scribus vs ConTeXt

2012-02-29 Thread William Adams
ions, but the navigational charts aren't easily read by a traditionally trained navigator at first, although they are fairly compleat and most journey can be carefully worked out, but once one is, it is quite automatic and there's a good auto-pilot option.

Re: [NTG-context] CMYK and Linux

2012-01-06 Thread William Adams
hoose your desired Profile preset. • Hit Analyze. • Adjust your source files accordingly. Not sure if the Linux version of Acrobat Reader has such capabilities or no --- perhaps Ghostscript has some facility at this? William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Commun

Re: [NTG-context] Format of included PNG images

2011-02-17 Thread William Adams
ession. I don't believe there are any pdf-creating tex implementations which will reprocess images in this fashion (normally they're simply encapsulated in the file as is). William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quar

Re: [NTG-context] EPUB workflow from ConTeXt source?

2011-02-17 Thread William Adams
be formal markup can instead be _misused_ for graphical formatting by those accustomed to WYSIWYG and who don't trouble to learn how to properly do CSS. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz

Re: [NTG-context] A rose by any other name ....

2010-09-23 Thread William Adams
HA journal for the balance of the story. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an

Re: [NTG-context] OT: map of the world

2010-08-24 Thread William Adams
isn't a standard option for having a .svg version of such files --- the poster could look quite nice if there were. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz,

Re: [NTG-context] Images missing from PDF when created by Adobe

2010-07-22 Thread William Adams
ript file using Adobe Reader, then distill the .ps file. > BTW, are you located in Mechanicsburg? If so, it's a small world. Not from here (moved up from Virginia a couple of years ago), but living here now. Drop me a line off-list --- we'll have to get together. William --

Re: [NTG-context] Images missing from PDF when created by Adobe

2010-07-22 Thread William Adams
er? If not, use pdf2ps to get a PostScript file from the .pdf, then distill the .ps file w/ the correct settings. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: tablets

2010-07-22 Thread William Adams
.pdf into a Journal or other notebook style program (e.g., OneNote) which while it makes the underlying file into an image, allows richer, more natural annotation in an ink-aware program. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, j

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: tablets

2010-07-20 Thread William Adams
e appropriate toolbars. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wi

Re: [NTG-context] slightly OT: tablets

2010-07-20 Thread William Adams
gn programs like FreeHand and FontLab. Handwriting recognition works well and allows me to not carry the added weight of a keyboard. Using a stylus works well for me and is very expressive (I'll often make .pdfs enabled for commenting on my Mac at work, then mark them up on my Tablet PC). W

Re: [NTG-context] XML schema or DTD for describing pages or ads?

2010-02-03 Thread William Adams
schema?), but that's an interesting idea William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, plea

[NTG-context] XML schema or DTD for describing pages or ads?

2010-01-28 Thread William Adams
Does anyone have any such? Or links? The only reasonable one I'm finding on-line is for an INX builder tool (which makes .inx files which can be loaded into InDesign). http://www.hyperobjects.fr/en/inx-builder/inx-builder-support/xml-syntax/index.html William -- William Adams s

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-03 Thread William Adams
ality, and that one is at the mercy of the h&j of the viewing program and I've yet to see one which puts more than a minimal / brain-dead / greedy --- set as much as will fit on the current line and then break to the next algorithm in. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer

Re: [NTG-context] TeX as an eBook engine?

2009-12-03 Thread William Adams
apabilities of .epub viewing programs. An excellent example of the limitations of the .epub format in comparison to .pdf is _Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy_: http://people.umass.edu/klement/russell-imp.html William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx o

Re: [NTG-context] embed fonts

2009-10-16 Thread William Adams
when the font is installed an such can be dis-allowed where not supported by the fonts' license) William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___

Re: [NTG-context] OT: Kindle

2009-10-08 Thread William Adams
and the main reason I chose the PRS-505 over a 1st generation Kindle is that the latter wouldn't fit in my (rather large) shirt pockets. William (who once had shirts tailor-made w/ pockets to hold his Newton MessagePad) -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communicati

Re: [NTG-context] Duotones with spot colors

2009-07-08 Thread William Adams
On Jul 8, 2009, at 9:45 AM, luigi scarso wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:39 PM, William Adams wrote: What one could do using libtiff is split the channels of the file, toss magenta and cyan, hmm how do you do it ? My apologies, that should have read, ``What one _should_ be able to

Re: [NTG-context] Duotones with spot colors

2009-07-08 Thread William Adams
erprinting of bitmaps, one could handle the balance in it. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ If your question is of interest to others as we

Re: [NTG-context] Duotones with spot colors

2009-07-07 Thread William Adams
hten the spot colour, then save the image (but make sure you keep an original), then I'd use a second action to review all of the files on a calibrated monitor, tweaking as necessary and going back to original images at need. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Commu

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-25 Thread William Adams
time yet. And I still need to do the italic, the bold and the bold-italic William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ If your question is of int

Re: [NTG-context] On creating my own fonts

2009-06-25 Thread William Adams
ng in on a decade-and-a-half) on my effort at a revival of a hot metal typeface --- maybe I'll get back to it this year William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quart

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: [XeTeX] ANN: Custom Stories, Inc. using xelatex now live

2009-05-26 Thread William Adams
ner interface to the server. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wik

[NTG-context] Re: [OS X TeX] Alternate/Swash Font in LaTeX, how?

2003-09-17 Thread William Adams
dle swash fonts, it's listed at http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-free-type.html William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context