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

2004-07-27 Thread Matt Gushee
Thanks for all the responses. I got some very useful information here. I do have a couple of quick follow-up questions. On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote: Different shops might have different requirements, but Bookmobile simply requires an exact image of the book,

RE: [NTG-context] unicode editor?

2004-07-27 Thread ishamid
What about Mined http://towo.net/mined/ ? It's utf-8 and right to left. Untested ;). Drat! it runs from a terminal:-(( Oh well, I'll try it anyway... Best Idris ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] unicode editor?

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen
ishamid wrote: In any case, I would still like to try SciTE if Hans' support files are available somewhere. Quick question: how does one activate utf-8? they're in the archive (under context/data) Hans -

[NTG-context] suppressing hyphenation and setlayerframed

2004-07-27 Thread Eros Albertazzi
1- I would like to suppress hypenation in a text of a \startfiguretext within a \setlayerframed I am aware of the thread in jan 03 on the list and the fact that\setupalign[nothyphenated] (or \nohyphens) overshoot the right margin On the other hand I do not know where to put the

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Fwd: (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma [please forward]

2004-07-27 Thread Giuseppe Bilotta
Monday, July 26, 2004 Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: Well, this is pretty old news, so I'm not sure if a reply is still called for; whatever, here comes: I'm not quite sure why Giuseppe is trying to use eomega instead of plain ole pdftex. I mean, you're not writing Greek in Unicode, right? If you're

Re: [NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-27 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:28:36AM +0200, Vit Zyka wrote: I, of course, checked if the package metaobj is installed and loaded. Perhaps my is too old (v0.83)? That's the current version. -- Eckhart ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] Shading transparency / missing linear_shade variant

2004-07-27 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:36:03AM +0200, Vit Zyka wrote: Furthermore, the shading variants for linear_shade do not correspond with those listed in the metafun manual, page 180. Variant 2 is missing and behaves like variant 3 should. Not so exactly. The today reality is a bit richer than

Re: [NTG-context] metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: The problem seems to be that all objects in metaobj are filled using a non-transparent white by default. Subsequent filling with a completely transparent color then of course gives just white. ah, maybe denis uses the metapost 'backgroundcolor' which is white; i'd

Re: [NTG-context] Shading transparency / missing linear_shade variant

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:36:03AM +0200, Vit Zyka wrote: Furthermore, the shading variants for linear_shade do not correspond with those listed in the metafun manual, page 180. Variant 2 is missing and behaves like variant 3 should. Not so exactly. The today

Re: [NTG-context] Converting math from LaTeX to ConTeXt

2004-07-27 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:31:24PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote: First, by way of introduction: I've been using LaTeX for about five years now, but am quite new to ConTeXt. I'm a grad student in mechanical engineering, so my primary uses of ConTeXt in the near future are likely to be for my

Re: [NTG-context] Shading transparency / missing linear_shade variant

2004-07-27 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:37:06PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: But anyway, transparency is ignored when using shading. Is there any possibility to achieve a gradient from, i.e., completely transparent to completely intransparent white? no(t yet), i dunno if pdf supports that -) That's

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

2004-07-27 Thread Bill McClain
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

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

2004-07-27 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brooks Moses wrote: At 11:15 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Bill McClain wrote: - Also, I don't know whether it is possible to downsample images in PDF's that you generate from ConTeXt. If it is, avoid it. That raises an important question:

Re: [NTG-context] Shading transparency / missing linear_shade variant

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:37:06PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: But anyway, transparency is ignored when using shading. Is there any possibility to achieve a gradient from, i.e., completely transparent to completely intransparent white? no(t yet), i dunno if pdf

[NTG-context] Downsampling images in pdfTeX

2004-07-27 Thread Mats Broberg
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George N. White III As a general principle, it makes no sense for pdftex to provide image manipulation capabilities. Such capabilities are useful to a much wider audience than the users of pdftex, so there are lots of tools

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

2004-07-27 Thread Mats Broberg
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Gushee Well, yes. Many printers here do prefer PDF. However, there's a small problem in some cases--I know this is true for Kinko's, and was wondering if it's true for regular printers, too: they think that PDF means

Re: [NTG-context] Downsampling images in pdfTeX

2004-07-27 Thread Vit Zyka
Having checked the pdfTeX documentation, doesn't the internal parameter \pdfcompresslevel deal with this? The documentation says: compress level This integer parameter specifies the level of text and in-line graphics compression. pdfTEX uses zip compression as provided by zlib. A value of 0 means

[NTG-context] patterns

2004-07-27 Thread Hans Hagen Outside
Hi, The last few years we have encountered problems with changes in pattern files and names (dutch was dropped, czech was invalid, and us filenames also changed in undocumented ways). To get a bit more control over this can of worms, we need a test file that can be added to the tex live test