On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:34:00 +0100, Johannes Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
newinstaller,
i struggled more than one day with installation of context. i'm using a
different OS (redhat linux) and have a different tex-distribution on it
(tetex), but maybe this hint is useful for you too:
in the
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
I suppose there is a problem then ...right?
Yes, there is.
I'm sorry I missed that you were using plain earlier, I must be getting
too old for this stuff. ;-) Thanks Patrick!
This thread is (almost certainly) discussing the same problem:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
basically you want to follow a shape; this is not that hard to
implement so i can have a look at it; lettrines is then an instance of it
Lettrine is easier than that, actually. I thought this would be quite
funny, so here is a brand new module called t-lettri.tex, and an
Hans Hagen wrote:
..
did you try:
\widowpenalty=0
\clubpenalty=0
Sorry, for the somewhat delayed response!
I tried these penalty settings but they seem to have not effect at all!
The only way out is probably rearranging several paragraphs.
However I find it strange that I can't influence
VnPenguin wrote:
Vietnamese lang uses empty hyphenation pattern.
ok, se i've now added:
description language='vn'
commentVietnamese needs no patterns./comment
/description
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Hans Hagen |
h h extern wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Lettrine is easier than that, actually. I thought this would be quite
funny, so here is a brand new module called t-lettri.tex, and an example.
ah, nice, so, lettrines only does a slanted shape?
Yes, only slopes (both directions). And it allows the user to
auto-lettrines (dropcaps etc) are kind of complex in the
sense that it's not
trivial to pick up the first 'something' in a paragraph in a
robust way [we may
want some extension to tex for that (so we have something to
discuss during our
trip to eurotex -)
Hans
If I may chime in:
Peter Münster wrote:
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
This is just a port of lettrine.sty, and I do not believe it should
be part of standard ConTeXt.
Why not?
In it's current state, I will not offer support for this code because
it is essentially a quick and dirty query-replace hack
Mats Broberg said this at Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:51:04 +0100:
Different
typefaces and different characters need different level of protruding
into the left margin, as well as other actions of tweaking.
Ah, but when Hans says this:
it's a good testbed for playing with
things like glyph shape
Rob Ermers wrote:
Hans,
Thanks again for the new code.
I tried it in my document with my stationary, but it did not work.
When I create a new test document with the code you suggested, all pages
have VERY ODD in the upper left corner.
did you add
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
Hans
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
David Wooten wrote:
Hmm, this is great.
However, I can't seem to get it to accept an image (Image=true or
Image=yes). Anyone else have some luck?
It couldn't work. Here is a new version, with fixed image support,
some cleanups in the code, and support for per-argument setup
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
The knowlegeable John Culleton said in one of the
lists that he could recognize if a book was typeset
with
MS-word by looking at the rivers and the lack of
but tex is *not* avoiding rivers, since it does not look at it -)
hyphenation. I then checked my 310-page book I am
Arabic processor `ArabTeX' [20050124 patch level 3.11m (24.01.2005)]
I believe the version is 3.11, patch level m. The one I from CTAN dated
at 24/01/2005.
On 25-Feb-05, at AM 06:00, h h extern wrote:
mohd zamri murah wrote:
Using test.tex and your new m-arabtex.tex, it fail. log and my
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Try this: \showhyphens{hyphenation}
It should print
Underfull \hbox (badness 1) in paragraph at lines 2--2
[] \*10ptrmtf* hy-phen-ation
on your terminal. If it doesn't, ConTeXt refuses the hyphenate
English, possibly because the patterns were not loaded in the
format
Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hello Hans,
MS-word by looking at the rivers and the lack of
but tex is *not* avoiding rivers, since it does not look at it -)
Not yet :-)
It is easy to make TeX look, but not as easy to make it see :-)
Taco
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Ciro A. Soto wrote:
I have this 310-page book with a table of content
that is alsways fine when I use a single page layout.
When I switch to
\setuparranging [2UP,rotated,doublesided]
it also prints the table of content, however,
if I rerun the job for a second time using
the 2UP, the table of
Thanks very much!
Now it works perfectly!
In hindsight everything is simple.
Robert
h h extern wrote:
Rob Ermers wrote:
Hans,
Thanks again for the new code.
I tried it in my document with my stationary, but it did not work.
When I create a new test document with the code you suggested, all
pages
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
The knowlegeable John Culleton said in one of the
lists that he could recognize if a book was typeset
with
MS-word by looking at the rivers and the lack of
hyphenation. I then checked my 310-page book I am
typesetting with context and not a single line had a
hyphenated
Ok, so I *should* be doing other stuff, but this is just a lot
of fun, so here is the 3rd version, with three bugfixes
- No more font messages
(followed Hans' advice)
- No more \sbox redefinition
(used it's expansion instead)
- The page breaks unless the lettrine actually fits
(this is an
Taco,
Great work. I did some tests of this and have a few comments:
- I tested with the inital H and
[Lines=4,Hang=.1,Nindent=20pt,Findent=20pt]. This makes the H itself be
indented too (see enclosed dump). It seems that Findent adds space both
before and after the dropcap, when it only should
Mats Broberg wrote:
However, when I run the test file, I still get the unknown file type:
texmfscripts as the first entry, but the test file seem to be processed
anyway. Does this mean I can forget about this warning?
seesm like your tex binaries and context scripts are not in sync;
Also, what
Adam Lindsay wrote:
This is good stuff. I've tried to advocate a naming convention that would
be appropriate to this. I would suggest calling this texnansi-osfsc.enc,
as baseencoding-variant.enc. This is so a modified encoding can
masquerade as the base encoding within ConTeXt.
i'll add the
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Gerben Wierda wrote:
how do you handle additions like this in your ConTeXt distribution?
Will they become part of it for instance?
Hans usually asks authors whether they want the module to be part
of the distribution. Mostly, authors say yes, but not always.
This is just
Adam Lindsay wrote:
These namespaces contain elements with different levels of abstraction.
ContML is higher-level, more structural, fx (just a demonstration, so
far) was a bit more low-level, somewhere between ConTeXt and FO.
one of the downsides of xml is that it comes with set of 'standard
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hello Hans,
MS-word by looking at the rivers and the lack of
but tex is *not* avoiding rivers, since it does not look at it -)
Not yet :-)
It is easy to make TeX look, but not as easy to make it see :-)
It has to do with grayness, so i wonder what
Johannes Werner wrote:
newinstaller,
i struggled more than one day with installation of context. i'm using a
different OS (redhat linux) and have a different tex-distribution on it
(tetex), but maybe this hint is useful for you too:
in the tetex-distro there is a file .../texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
mzm wrote:
Arabic processor `ArabTeX' [20050124 patch level 3.11m (24.01.2005)]
I believe the version is 3.11, patch level m. The one I from CTAN dated
at 24/01/2005.
hm, i run 3.08 (texlive) and that one runs ok; can you try 3.08
Hans
G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
..
did you try:
\widowpenalty=0
\clubpenalty=0
Sorry, for the somewhat delayed response!
I tried these penalty settings but they seem to have not effect at all!
The only way out is probably rearranging several paragraphs.
However I find it strange
Janko Hauser wrote:
luigi.scarso schrieb:
I'm try do make something useful with Python and pdftex using swig.
Any suggestions ?
Have you looked at pytex? It does nothing with pdftex, but I do not know
what do you want to actually do.
__Janko
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