[NTG-context] Line Numbering (blank lines)

2010-06-13 Thread David Abdurachmanov
Hi, How make ConTeXt to number blank lines? Blank lines by default are skipped. Especially when giving programming examples (source code) in ConTeXt documents, I would prefer blank lines still have number. david

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta (was: status message of mtxrun --ifchanged)

2010-06-13 Thread luigi scarso
/tmp/context/bin/mtxrun:8497: bad argument #3 to 'format' (string expected, got no value) I am on linux-64, if that matters. The same on my linux 32bit box -- luigi ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta (was: status message of mtxrun --ifchanged)

2010-06-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 13, 2010, at 1:49 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Updating using first-setup.sh gives (also tried a fresh install, the same error) sent 32402 bytes received 7755726 bytes 65172.62 bytes/sec total size is 30315844 speedup is 3.89 MTXrun | run: rsync -rpztlv

Re: [NTG-context] sgf package

2010-06-13 Thread Ivo Solnický
Thank you for your info. I am interested in improving games module, but I will send you private e-mail. Ivo On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 10.06.10 14:48, schrieb Ivo Solnický: Hi, what is the status of the SGF package? When I

Re: [NTG-context] ↦ in xits

2010-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12-6-2010 11:09, Hans Hagen wrote: Ideally, it should be done the other way around, fake U+21A6 in Latin Modern virtual font and then use the proper code point everywhere (may be this what is actually done but I misinterpreted it). indeed the idea is to have only the right unicode chars

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta

2010-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-6-2010 1:49, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: On 11-6-2010 4:19, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi, When I run mtxrun --ifchanged, it echoes the status messages on stdout. This makes it impossible to use mtxrun --ifchanged as part of a standard unix pipe. What is the

Re: [NTG-context] failure with luatools --generate

2010-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11-6-2010 6:17, Eythan Weg wrote: Thank you. I ran mtxrun --generate MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to '/usr/bin' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/usr' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/' MTXrun | fileio: variable

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 11-6-2010 9:14, Michael Saunders wrote: My first experiments aren't going well. For example: using the free font, BNBDOT0N.ttf, from Deutsche Welle here: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3219221,00.html next time make a simple example .. you caniidentity features with mtxrun

[NTG-context] bibtex failure on latest minimals

2010-06-13 Thread Alan BRASLAU
An update today of the minimals breaks the bibtex search path: This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2010/pretest) Capacity: max_strings=15, hash_size=15, hash_prime=127507 The top-level auxiliary file: Livre.aux I couldn't open style file cont-no.bst ---line 2 of file Livre.aux :

[NTG-context] pdf options

2010-06-13 Thread Jan Pohanka
Hello, this code \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,margin},alternative=doublesided] forces a pdf viewer to show the document as doublepages. How can I suppress it, please? Is there any document that describes the pdf options changing in Context? Unfortunately I was not able to find

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Michael Saunders
next time make a simple example .. you caniidentity features with mtxrun --script font --info --list --file BNBDOT0N.ttf anyhow, only one features is applied. It lookslike some gpos feature is not used. \usemodule[fnt-20] \definefontfeature  [indic]  [mode=node,analyze=yes,  

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta (was: status message of mtxrun --ifchanged)

2010-06-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Same error here on OS X. And another question: I couldn't get my TEXMFHOME recognized under linux-32. One problem was that it is set to ~/texmf-home. I would suggest setting this value back to the canonical ~/texmf. (I had more

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-6-2010 6:58, Michael Saunders wrote: next time make a simple example .. you caniidentity features with mtxrun --script font --info --list --file BNBDOT0N.ttf anyhow, only one features is applied. It lookslike some gpos feature is not used. \usemodule[fnt-20] \definefontfeature

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:07:55PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on specific features in the microsoft engine? Most opentype features are quite generic and should work ok but if something special is needed more info is needed.

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:15:35PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:07:55PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on specific features in the microsoft engine? Most opentype features are quite generic and should

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:19:50PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:15:35PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:07:55PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on specific features in the microsoft

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Michael Saunders
As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on specific features in the microsoft engine? They all carry the .ttf extender. Arial Unicode MS is clearly True Type. I've seen some of the free fonts widely described as Open Type, but they are all amateur products---maybe

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-6-2010 9:15, Khaled Hosny wrote: On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:07:55PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on specific features in the microsoft engine? Most opentype features are quite generic and should work ok but if something

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 02:29:40PM -0500, Michael Saunders wrote: As Khaled mentioned ... are these proper otf fonts or do they rely on specific features in the microsoft engine? They all carry the .ttf extender. Arial Unicode MS is clearly True Type. I've seen some of the free fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Removing Introduction section number

2010-06-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, I'm still in need of help with numberless sections. While using front, body,and back matter sounds goos, but it makes new pages. \subject is perfect, but it does not appear in contents. Most simple (if there is no other options) seems to use \subject, but add it to the TOC. How can I

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-6-2010 9:50, Khaled Hosny wrote: So, what we have here is that ConTeXt has no special knowledge about Indic scripts, and thus it will not apply the feature properly according the linguistic rules. So, instead of waiting for a more modern font to come along (which unlikely to happen any

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi, On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:41:38 -0600, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: the interesting question then is .. where does one draw the line between engine and clever fonts contextual analysis in Arabic provides an example: init, medi, and fina provide the gsub's, the engine has to know the

Re: [NTG-context] Removing Introduction section number

2010-06-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
...or preventing startbodymatter from making new page. -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] problem with \ref[t][...]

2010-06-13 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, Jun 11 2010, Peter Münster wrote: A related question: how can I get rid of the quotation marks of \about[]? Ok, found it: \setupreferencing[left=, right=] Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta

2010-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-6-2010 7:32, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Same error here on OS X. And another question: I couldn't get my TEXMFHOME recognized under linux-32. One problem was that it is set to ~/texmf-home. I would suggest setting this value back to

[NTG-context] Itemize, margins and nowhite

2010-06-13 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello, Strange, but if I specify margins for itemize, then nowhite losts its effect, and I need to specify it again in every itemize group. \setupitemize[1,leftmargin=1cm, rightmargin=1cm, nowhite] \startitemize[nowhite] %duplicate, but does not work without it \item a \item b \stopitemize

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta

2010-06-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jun 13, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 13-6-2010 7:32, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: TEXMFHOME = ~/texmf-home, -- tree:///~/texmf for mkii, however, it is set in texmf.cnf (l. 31) TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf why these two different values? I consider texmf-home as

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta

2010-06-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 23:06, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, thanks for the info. I used to have my own configuration, but environment variables aren't used any more. How does mkiv store the config information now? How could I overwrite the values that mtxrun --variables shows? I didn't

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta

2010-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-6-2010 11:13, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm working on someone else's computer and don't find it too comfortable to test anything from here (I'm not even able to type on qwerz any more). I see there were many other error reports in the last few days as well ... i'm looking into it ... one

Re: [NTG-context] Error in installing new beta

2010-06-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 13-6-2010 11:06, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, thanks for the info. I used to have my own configuration, but environment variables aren't used any more. How does mkiv store the config information now? How could I overwrite the values that mtxrun --variables shows? environment variables

Re: [NTG-context] can Context render complex scripts?

2010-06-13 Thread Michael Saunders
OpenType (just ignore file extension for the moment) is a rather dump standard in the sense that it requires the engine to have some knowledge about the writing system at hand. ... So, what we have here is that ConTeXt has no special knowledge about Indic scripts, and thus it will not apply

[NTG-context] [OT] How TeX Gyre small caps were generated?

2010-06-13 Thread Khaled Hosny
I'm just wondering how TeX Gyre were generated, did they use some MetaType1 magic, or was it designed by hand. I've vague memories suggesting the former, but I can't find anything about this right now, nor I can find MataType sources of the fonts (if there are). I'd like to use such technique for