On 11/27/2008 3:57 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
> Lars Huttar wrote:
>> something like this:
>>
>> switch to a serif style
>>
>> (if that's what \rm means in ConTeXt -- I still don't know for sure).
>
> \rm in ConTeXT means: switch to the internal style group named "rm"
> (and likewise for \s
Lars Huttar wrote:
>
> something like this:
>
> switch to a serif style
>
> (if that's what \rm means in ConTeXt -- I still don't know for sure).
\rm in ConTeXT means: switch to the internal style group named "rm"
(and likewise for \ss -> "ss" etc.)
Whether "rm" points to a group of fo
On 11/26/2008 8:11 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
> Lars Huttar wrote:
>> Except perhaps the documentation. I have yet to find a reference that
>> clearly describes what \rm is to do in ConTeXt. One responder pointed to
>> http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf. The closest
>> thing t
Lars Huttar wrote:
>
> Except perhaps the documentation. I have yet to find a reference that
> clearly describes what \rm is to do in ConTeXt. One responder pointed to
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf. The closest
> thing to a definition of \rm there that I could find is
On 11/26/2008 7:43 AM, Lars Huttar wrote:
...
> and the word "regular" in typography usually (as far as
> I can tell... please enlighten) means "upright" in contrast to italic.
I now see that "regular" (apparently less often) can refer to weight:
"not bold or light". Still, the point remains.
Lar
On 11/26/2008 2:41 AM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Dnia Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:30:51PM -0600, Lars Huttar napisał(a):
>> It makes sense for "italicness" and "serifity" to be independently
>> changeable.
>> What's discouraging to me as a entrant to the whole TeX world (but an
>> experienced programme
Lars Huttar wrote:
> Interesting.
> As a newbie to typesetting, reading the TeXbook, I certainly wondered
> which "axes" Knuth meant 'roman' to refer to... he simply describes it
> as 'normal "roman"' and gives a visual example. So far, all I'd gathered
> was that it meant "not italic."
you shoul
Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Me not being an experienced programmer, but (some kind) of more or less
> experienced TeX user, I'd add the following.
...
makes a nice 'about tex systems' page for the wiki
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On Tue, Nov 25 2008, Lars Huttar wrote:
> If it's designed not to do that in ConTeXt -- i.e. the ConTeXt designers
> decided to change the semantics of one of the basic control sequences in
> TeX, rather than merely providing a different one with new semantics --
> you would think one would want t
Dnia Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:30:51PM -0600, Lars Huttar napisał(a):
> It makes sense for "italicness" and "serifity" to be independently
> changeable.
> What's discouraging to me as a entrant to the whole TeX world (but an
> experienced programmer) is the (apparently undocumented) redefinition of
>
On 11/25/2008 10:15 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:29:09 -0700, Lars Huttar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> P.S. The same TeX reference reports,
>
> Be careful, PlainTeX is a macropaackage, just as ConTeXt is. One must
> distinguish PlainTeX
On 11/25/2008 5:37 PM, Rory Molinari wrote:
> Lars Huttar wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the explanation.
>> I hope that when the manual is finished it will make this clearer.
>> Currently, the draft chapter says
>> "As will be explained later, the command \rm is used to switch to a
>> roman/serif/regular
Hi,
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:29:09 -0700, Lars Huttar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> P.S. The same TeX reference reports,
Be careful, PlainTeX is a macropaackage, just as ConTeXt is. One must
distinguish PlainTeX commands from the TeX (and pdftex/luaTeX) primitives.
Although some PlainTeX comm
Lars Huttar wrote:
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
> I hope that when the manual is finished it will make this clearer.
> Currently, the draft chapter says
> "As will be explained later, the command \rm is used to switch to a
> roman/serif/regular style"
> which does not seem to be happening.
I
On 11/25/2008 3:27 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Lars Huttar wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been reading through the TeXbook to solidify the foundations for
>> TeX programming. In an exercise on roman and italic text, ConTeXt seems
>> to behave differently from what the book spec
On 11/25/2008 3:21 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
> When I put \show\rm in the .tex file to display the definition of the
> \rm macro, and run texexec, I get:
> > \rm=\protected macro:
> ->\setcurrentfontstyle {rm}.
> l.7 \show\rm
> By contrast, according to
> http://webpages.charter
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Lars Huttar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been reading through the TeXbook to solidify the foundations for
> TeX programming. In an exercise on roman and italic text, ConTeXt seems
> to behave differently from what the book specifies (Plain TEX) at a
> fairly fundamental level.
>
>
Hello,
I've been reading through the TeXbook to solidify the foundations for
TeX programming. In an exercise on roman and italic text, ConTeXt seems
to behave differently from what the book specifies (Plain TEX) at a
fairly fundamental level.
Exercise 4.1 says, "Explain how to typeset a roman wor
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