Re: [NTG-context] I need bold math italic and symbols

2009-01-07 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: This method works well for most letters, both bold and italic, but for capital Greek \Omega \Gamma etc, bold but upright. Do you know how to make these letters in italic? That is how Euler capital letters are supposed to look. It imitates the handwriting of

Re: [NTG-context] alpha

2009-01-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 04.01.2009 um 23:54 schrieb Hans Hagen: Hi, I uploaded a new alpha. - partial rwewrite of the open type feature processor code which is also somewhat faster now (the most recent luatex bin is slower due to redundant ff code, so eventually we might geven ain a

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

2009-01-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared Kavian wrote: On 6 janv. 09, at 10:53, Ilda Khaki wrote: can someone send me a sample file to type farsi? Hi Ilda, Here is a sample file for writing Faarsi with XeConTeXt (that is XeTeX + ConTeXt). In principle one can also use ConTeXt-mkiv, that is ConTeXt with the LuaTeX engine,

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

2009-01-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared Kavian wrote: On 6 janv. 09, at 10:53, Ilda Khaki wrote: can someone send me a sample file to type farsi? Hi Ilda, Here is a sample file for writing Faarsi with XeConTeXt (that is XeTeX + ConTeXt). In principle one can also use ConTeXt-mkiv, that is ConTeXt with the LuaTeX engine,

Re: [NTG-context] Looking for ConTeXt commands for ...

2009-01-07 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 05.01.2009 um 19:36 schrieb Mohamed Bana: ! Undefined control sequence. \CVTITLE ...\ss \bfa #1} \blank [medium]{\ss \tfe #2} }\blank [2*big] l.139

Re: [NTG-context] I need bold math italic and symbols

2009-01-07 Thread Zhaopeng Xing
Thank you for the information. I can still bear to use upright \Omega. 2009/1/7 Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com Aditya Mahajan wrote: This method works well for most letters, both bold and italic, but for capital Greek \Omega \Gamma etc, bold but upright. Do you know how to make these

[NTG-context] transparency in MP (alpha)

2009-01-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Hans, transparency in MetaPost is broken here. No \scratchdimen involved this time... ;) MtxRun | current version: 2009.01.07 00:35 This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.32.0-2009010322, build 1724 Regards, Peter \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[ghost] [a=1,t=.7,s=1] \starttext

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

2009-01-07 Thread Otared Kavian
Dear Hans, Thank your very much for your attention and your remarks about the sample Faarsi file I sent. Thanks also for your valuable time you spend on such questions from non experts… On 7 janv. 09, at 09:38, Hans Hagen wrote: […] i can look into it if i have samples + fonts + expected

Re: [NTG-context] alpha

2009-01-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: i did that already Hans OK, let the fun begin: the new alpha is a bit picky about fonts. A run with Microsoft's TimesNewRoman font (ttf) doesn't produce a pdf. Compilation doesn't stop; in the log, these are the last lines: load otf |

Re: [NTG-context] alpha

2009-01-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 07.01.2009 um 21:31 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz: OK, let the fun begin: the new alpha is a bit picky about fonts. A run with Microsoft's TimesNewRoman font (ttf) doesn't produce a pdf. Compilation doesn't stop; in the log, these are the last lines: load otf | loading:

Re: [NTG-context] alpha

2009-01-07 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 07.01.2009 um 21:31 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz: OK, let the fun begin: the new alpha is a bit picky about fonts. A run with Microsoft's TimesNewRoman font (ttf) doesn't produce a pdf. Compilation doesn't stop; in the log, these are the last lines: load otf |

Re: [NTG-context] Sample farsi file

2009-01-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared Kavian wrote: 1) When using Arabic short vowels such as U+064F (ARABIC DAMMA) U+0650 (ARABIC KASRA) U+0651 (ARABIC SHADDA) the ligatures between characters breaks down. For instance compare the typesetting of the following words in XeTeX, XeConTeXt and mkiv (actually, in

Re: [NTG-context] alpha

2009-01-07 Thread Yue Wang
Thanks a lot, Fengnan and Mojca, it works! On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:54 AM, GAOFengnan fnst...@hotmail.com wrote: Sorry I forget to mention that Mojca taught me those two commands . Fengnan Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:45:19 + From: yuleo...@gmail.com To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re:

[NTG-context] bug in beta

2009-01-07 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, Hans: I run into problem using my original typescript (it works last year). What's wrong there? [...@localhost ~]$ context --version MtxRun | main context file: /usr/home/yue/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex MtxRun | current version: 2008.11.10 21:40 Here is the