[NTG-context] Russian hyphenation how to use?

2006-07-23 Thread Arkady Shraer
Hello, Recently, I made lang-ru.hyp and lang-ru.pat files from TeX's ruhyphal.tex . I read Hans' Hyphenation patterns and didn't understand how to use my patterns to enable hyphenation (btw, in manual used key --patterns but in current ctxtools used --patternfiles) What I've done: 1. Created

[NTG-context] Question on Itemize

2006-07-23 Thread Helin Gai
Hi, I tried to play with \setupitemize, and I can't figure out what the key distance actually does. For example, the following two lines seem to produce the same effect: \setupitemize[each][packed][width=20pt,distance=15pt] \setupitemize[each][packed][width=20pt,distance=5pt] Can someone

Re: [NTG-context] Margin Kerning Problem

2006-07-23 Thread Alan Bowen
Colin— I think \setupalign has to come before \setupbodyfont is defined. Try \setupalign[hz,hanging] \usetypescript[cmr] \setupfontsynonym[cmr10][handling=hz] \setupfontsynonym[Serif][handling=hz] \setupbodyfont[cmr,10pt] Alan On Jul 23, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Helin Gai wrote: Hi, I used

Re: [NTG-context] Margin Kerning Problem

2006-07-23 Thread Helin Gai
Hi Alan, Thanks for the reply. But it doesn't seem to work either. Colin On Jul 23, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: Colin— I think \setupalign has to come before \setupbodyfont is defined. Try \setupalign[hz,hanging] \usetypescript[cmr] \setupfontsynonym[cmr10][handling=hz]

[NTG-context] scaling reusableMPgraphic some ConTeXt programming

2006-07-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, the answers to these three questions are most probably one-liners, but I don't know which ones ;) 1. How can I scale (an already defined) reusableMPgraphic? Simplified example of what I currently (want to) have: % how should I change this definition?

Re: [NTG-context] Russian hyphenation how to use?

2006-07-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/23/06, Arkady Shraer wrote: Hello, Recently, I made lang-ru.hyp and lang-ru.pat files from TeX's ruhyphal.tex . I read Hans' Hyphenation patterns and didn't understand how to use my patterns to enable hyphenation (btw, in manual used key --patterns but in current ctxtools used

Re: [NTG-context] Margin Kerning Problem

2006-07-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/23/06, Helin Gai wrote: Hi, I used the following code to set up margin kerning: \setupfontsynonym[cmr10][handling=hz] \setupfontsynonym[Serif][handling=hz] \usetypescript[cmr] \setupbodyfont[cmr,10pt] \setupalign[hz,hanging] Can someone please tell me what is going wrong? Thanks!!

[NTG-context] definesynonyms

2006-07-23 Thread Bernd Militzer
Hi all, for a large ancestor-project I defined a set of informations for a lot of persons like you can see below. QUESTION: how many synonyms can I max. define? I need about 4000 defs. or has someone a better idea to handle those informations. thanks for help! Bernd % -- snip %

Re: [NTG-context] Margin Kerning Problem

2006-07-23 Thread Alan Bowen
Colin— Sorry: what I indicated would work for any font but Latin/Computer Modern. This works at my end. \enableregime[mac] \mainlanguage[en] Margin Kerning and Font Expansion \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono,mm][hanging][normal] \setupalign[hz,hanging]

Re: [NTG-context] Russian hyphenation how to use?

2006-07-23 Thread Arkady Shraer
I spent some time and decided to start from the beginning: 1. I deleted all old ConTeXt files from my tetex distribution. 2. Unzipped recent cont-tmf into texmf-local analog in my system. 3. Unzipped recent font metrics to appropriate folder 4. texexec --make --all runs perfectly 5. texexec

Re: [NTG-context] Question on Itemize

2006-07-23 Thread dwarnold45
width is the size of the box containing the item number distance is the distance between the item number box and the beginning of the text of the item. Helin Gai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried to play with \setupitemize, and I can't figure out what the key distance actually

Re: [NTG-context] Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt

2006-07-23 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Hans writes: fyi: there is a new tufte book (don't have it yet but i'm told that it's nice too) It's _Beautiful Evidence_ (2006) and it is beautiful. I think it was typeset in Quark. A few pages from the book, as well some of Tufte's updates on the book's production, are here:

[NTG-context] sorting list

2006-07-23 Thread Hans van der Meer
Some things I do not understand about sorting:This is the example:\def\sortprocess#1{{\bf #1}}\definesorting[city][cities][\callupcities]\setupsorting[city][criterium=all,command=\sortprocess]\city{Londen}\city{Berlijn}\city{New

Re: [NTG-context] Fleurons

2006-07-23 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 02 June 2005 18:25, Hartmut Henkel wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, John R. Culleton wrote: (K.I.S.S. = Keep it simple silly.) wasn't the 2nd S. stupid? Regards, Hartmut ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

[NTG-context] sorting commalist?

2006-07-23 Thread Hans van der Meer
In the article "Context System macros, part1: general macros" there are all sorts of interesting and useful macros. Among these I have set my eye on the processing of commalists.Question: is there a context macro that takes a commalist (either in a token register or \the\tokenregister form) that

Re: [NTG-context] Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt

2006-07-23 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Sanjoy, On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:48:07 -0600, Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's _Beautiful Evidence_ (2006) and it is beautiful. I think it was typeset in Quark. A few pages from the book, as well some of Tufte's updates on the book's production, are here:

Re: [NTG-context] Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt

2006-07-23 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Can TeX/LaTeX/ConTexT-based typesetting can look as good? Perhaps! I'm curious: What is preventing ConTeXt in particular from looking this good? What is the basis of your Perhaps!? What's missing? Mostly my lack of skill with ConTeXt, but the experts could say for sure. A likely trouble

Re: [NTG-context] Russian hyphenation how to use?

2006-07-23 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 7/23/06, Arkady Shraer wrote: I spent some time and decided to start from the beginning: 1. I deleted all old ConTeXt files from my tetex distribution. 2. Unzipped recent cont-tmf into texmf-local analog in my system. 3. Unzipped recent font metrics to appropriate folder 4. texexec --make