Re: [NTG-context] resume template?

2005-12-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Leon, Don't count on me. I have never written a resume in my life ;-) Taco leon wrote: Dear all, I need to finish up a CV in 2 weeks. I'd appreciate if you can point out some resources on writing resume using conTeXt. Many thanks. Cheers ___

Re: [NTG-context] Red framed text

2005-12-23 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Jilani Khaldi wrote: \framed [align=middle,background=shadow,frame=off] {\input zapf \relax} Very nice! Thank you. But is there a simple way to get the text left justified with a centered title Attention!? \framed

Re: [NTG-context] resume template?

2005-12-23 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, leon wrote: I need to finish up a CV in 2 weeks. I'd appreciate if you can point out some resources on writing resume using conTeXt. Many thanks. I only know the LaTeX style currvita.sty. It's nice, perhaps you can translate the macros to ConTeXt? Cheers, Peter --

[NTG-context] backspace makeupwidth tradeoff

2005-12-23 Thread M.guravage
Hi, I'd like to increase the backspace at the expense of the makeupwidth. I like to do this by adding either a scalar or a percentage of the backspace. In the following bit of code I'd expect both sets of \mybackspace and \mywidth macros to yield identical results, but the don't. The scalar

Re: [NTG-context] followup metapost textext?

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Hans van der Meer wrote: I finally managed to contrive two simple examples, one that works here and one that doesn't. The next code typeset with texexec --pdf with lines commented OUT does work: \setupcolors[state=start] \usetypescript[luc]\setupbodyfont[luc,10pt] \startMPenvironment

Re: [NTG-context] spanish symbols for interrogation and exclamation

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Ciro Soto wrote: Hi team: How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down? also How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up-side down? thank you ciro \enableregime[utf] % for utf-8, may be something else as well (depending

Re: [NTG-context] A font question.

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi John, John R. Culleton wrote: I use Context for highly formatted non-fiction, but I am a bit reluctant to use it for much of my work because of the strange (to me) font handling arrangements. I see no purpose for the multiple synonyms of the same font. That just adds

Re: [NTG-context] Red framed text

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: Very cool. First time I ever could figure out what \relax does. When I deleted it from this source, I got: ! I can't find file `zapf}'. l.25 {\input zapf} Please type another input file name: Good learning experience for me. I've seen and ignored this type of error

Re: [NTG-context] MikTeX and font problems (again)

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I did that, but it didn't help. The problem was solved when I copied two files (sy-anttr.tfm and mi-anttr.tfm from your context distr. into MikTeX). Is this a matter of different naming conventions between LaTeX and ConTeXt or anything else? I thought that something could

Re: [NTG-context] backspace makeupwidth tradeoff

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
M.guravage wrote: % default makeupwidth is 15cm %\def\mywidth{\dimexpr(\makeupwidth - \abcor)} \def\mywidth{\dimexpr(\makeupwidth - \pbcor\backspace)} \setuplayout [location=middle, backspace=\mybackspace, width=\mywidth] you refer to \backspace but you cannot say whether it;s set

Re: [NTG-context] Character names

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'll send the files (full content is already on my page), but I need to know how to split/group them (I guess it would be a bad idea to have one file for each encoding). Should there be one file for iso-8859 and one for windows encodings? What about those regimes that are

Re: [NTG-context] Character names

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: \defineregimesynonym[windows-1250][cp1250] the synonym features is already in the kernel; the following patch to regi-ini will permit file name synonyms, so \definefilesynonym[regi-win][...] patch: \def\douseregime#1% nearly identical to encoding

[NTG-context] Re: resume template?

2005-12-23 Thread leon
Peter Münster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, leon wrote: | | I need to finish up a CV in 2 weeks. I'd appreciate if you can point out | some resources on writing resume using conTeXt. Many thanks. | | I only know the LaTeX style currvita.sty. It's nice, perhaps you can

Re: [NTG-context] Character names

2005-12-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans Hagen wrote: PLEASE FIX: in enco-def.tex replace \cdots by something (\dots, I suppose, but I'm not sure) \definecharacter textellipsis {\mathematics\cdots} (I guess this bug was the reason for changing some definitions in regimes/encodings elsewhere.) Should \textellipsis be used

Re: [NTG-context] Character names

2005-12-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Should \textellipsis be used for 2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS Yes. But on the baseline, so: OK, thanks. \definecharacter textellipsis {\periods\relax} So perhaps fix the unic-032.tex again then. I believe there is a four-dot leader in unicode as well, but I

Re: [NTG-context] MikTeX and font problems (again)

2005-12-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I did that, but it didn't help. The problem was solved when I copied two files (sy-anttr.tfm and mi-anttr.tfm from your context distr. into MikTeX). Is this a matter of different naming conventions between LaTeX and ConTeXt or anything else? I thought

[NTG-context] How to use the module [bib] to get Bibliografia and not References?

2005-12-23 Thread Jilani Khaldi
Hi All, I am using \usemodule[bib] for bibliography reference in an italian environnement : \mainlanguage[italian] \setupbodyfont[12pt] \setuppapersize[A4] \enableregime[il1] \usemodule[bib] ... but I get as a final result: References ... instead of: Bibliografia ... It seems I have missed

Re: [NTG-context] Character names

2005-12-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: \NC 0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT \NC \textgrave \NC \NR \NC 0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE \NC \texthookabove \NC \NR \NC 0303 COMBINING TILDE\NC \texttilde \NC \NR \NC 0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT \NC \textacute

Re: [NTG-context] How to use the module [bib] to get Bibliografia and not References?

2005-12-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Jilani Khaldi wrote: Hi All, I am using \usemodule[bib] for bibliography reference in an italian environnement : \mainlanguage[italian] \setupbodyfont[12pt] \setuppapersize[A4] \enableregime[il1] \usemodule[bib] ... but I get as a final result: References ... instead of:

Re: [NTG-context] How to use the module [bib]-- solved!

2005-12-23 Thread Jilani Khaldi
I solved using: \setupheadtext[it][pubs=Bibliografia] jk -- Jilani KHALDI http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] How to use the module [bib] to get Bibliografia and not References?

2005-12-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
\setupheadtext[it][pubs=Bibliografia] % and one more request for me: \setupheadtext[sl][pubs=Literatura] I will add the translations. Thanks, Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Character names

2005-12-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I thought so. But the issue is not a matter of font designers, but of underlying software. If TeX can't unget a character and replace it with the accented one, you can't ask font designers to add dozens of ligatures. Knuth didn't write TeX with Unicode conventions in

Re: [NTG-context] MikTeX and font problems (again)

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I did that, but it didn't help. The problem was solved when I copied two files (sy-anttr.tfm and mi-anttr.tfm from your context distr. into MikTeX). Is this a matter of different naming conventions between LaTeX and

Re: [NTG-context] Character names

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'll consider this as leave Windows Vietnamese encoding unsupported (they have two other encodings anyway). indeed (also, i never heard vnpenquin ask for it -) Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] MikTeX and font problems (again)

2005-12-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I did that, but it didn't help. The problem was solved when I copied two files (sy-anttr.tfm and mi-anttr.tfm from your context distr. into MikTeX). Is this a matter of different naming conventions between

[NTG-context] Columns (text alignment)

2005-12-23 Thread Fabio Mancinelli
Hi everybody. I am experimenting with ConTeXt and columns. I am creating a simple style and I setup 3 columns and redefined some heading (section, subsection, subsubsections). Now the problem is that the text at the end of the columns is not aligned (i.e., the columns end at different

Re: [NTG-context] Columns (text alignment)

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Fabio Mancinelli wrote: Hi everybody. I am experimenting with ConTeXt and columns. I am creating a simple style and I setup 3 columns and redefined some heading (section, subsection, subsubsections). Now the problem is that the text at the end of the columns is not aligned (i.e., the

Re: [NTG-context] MikTeX and font problems (again)

2005-12-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: sy* usually bear an additional z at the end and mi* an additional i, but please check it again. what a mess, maybe i should skip next years bachotek in order not to be exposed to new fonts and just wait till things are settled i'll send you a file to check (also

[NTG-context] setbounds question

2005-12-23 Thread David Arnold
Ah, Not a bigger pen, but a bigger background shows the difference. % output=pdf \setupcolors[state=start] \startuniqueMPgraphic{shadow} fill OverlayBox shifted (20pt,-20pt) withcolor .8white ; fill OverlayBox withcolor white ; draw OverlayBox withcolor red ; setbounds

Re: [NTG-context] Character names

2005-12-23 Thread VnPenguin
On 12/23/05, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'll consider this as leave Windows Vietnamese encoding unsupported (they have two other encodings anyway). indeed (also, i never heard vnpenquin ask for it -) Hi all, In fact, VnTeX supports UTF-8, VISCII, TCVN, VPS.

[NTG-context] developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source

2005-12-23 Thread David Arnold
Hans, Taco, et al, Our intermediate algebra text will require a large number of figures. I have two thoughts. 1. It's really inefficient to compile the entire context source file just to see what will happen to one figure. So, it seems that we should probably have a library of graphs for

[NTG-context] more font packages

2005-12-23 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Here's a present for you: http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4 I made some more font packages and also published some symbol packages (Apostrophe HardTalk, FontShop FFDingbests, Klein RudolfsBats and my own Unitas2). The additional files of the newer packages are finally in the right