[NTG-context] vertical bar spacing in Antykwa-Poltawskiego

2013-07-23 Thread Alan Bowen
I am using Antykwa-Poltawskiego to set a French text that includes ancient Greek. In the Greek text, there is a vertical bar (to mark the end of a column). The custom is to set the spacing about the bar so that (a) when the bar is inside a word, the bar appears as a normal character (b) when the b

Re: [NTG-context] vertical bar spacing in Antykwa-Poltawskiego

2013-07-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 23.07.2013 um 13:20 schrieb Alan Bowen : > I am using Antykwa-Poltawskiego to set a French text that includes ancient > Greek. > > In the Greek text, there is a vertical bar (to mark the end of a column). The > custom is to set the spacing about the bar so that > (a) when the bar is insid

Re: [NTG-context] vertical bar spacing in Antykwa-Poltawskiego

2013-07-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/23/2013 1:32 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 23.07.2013 um 13:20 schrieb Alan Bowen : I am using Antykwa-Poltawskiego to set a French text that includes ancient Greek. In the Greek text, there is a vertical bar (to mark the end of a column). The custom is to set the spacing about the b

Re: [NTG-context] vertical bar spacing in Antykwa-Poltawskiego

2013-07-23 Thread Alan Bowen
Wolfgang, Hans—many thanks to you both! Part of the problem was that i was using \| instead of \textbar. I now have: \setupbodyfont[antykwa-poltawskiego] \def\test {\ifnum\lastnodetype=\gluenodecode \| \else \textbar \fi} \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] \starttext left\tes

Re: [NTG-context] vertical bar spacing in Antykwa-Poltawskiego

2013-07-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 23.07.2013 um 15:42 schrieb Alan Bowen : > Wolfgang, Hans—many thanks to you both! > > Part of the problem was that i was using \| instead of \textbar. I now have: > > \setupbodyfont[antykwa-poltawskiego] > > \def\test > {\ifnum\lastnodetype=\gluenodecode > \| >\else > \tex

Re: [NTG-context] vertical bar spacing in Antykwa-Poltawskiego

2013-07-23 Thread Alan Bowen
Thanks, Wolfgang. I will start experimenting. Alan On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Wolfgang Schuster < schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Am 23.07.2013 um 15:42 schrieb Alan Bowen : > > > Wolfgang, Hans—many thanks to you both! > > > > Part of the problem was that i was using \| instead

Re: [NTG-context] Opening quotes problem with context.

2013-07-23 Thread Sietse Brouwer
John Culleton wrote: >> I use slackware linux 14, the 64 bit version. >> What is the proper code for opening quotes in context? Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Use “quoted word” or \quotation{quoted word}. Since you're using Linux: if you set your keyboard layout to `English (international AltGr dead

[NTG-context] footnotes on wrong page

2013-07-23 Thread Alan Bowen
What is the setting that forces ConTeXt to keep footnotes on the page where they are called? In the following example, \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupnotation[footnote][interaction=yes,way=bytext] \setupnotation[footnote][split=verystrict] \starttext \dorecurse{50}{some text\footnote{a fo

Re: [NTG-context] Can this layout be done in Context

2013-07-23 Thread David Rogers
Russell Urquhart writes: > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:19:27PM -0700, David Rogers wrote: >> To summarize: A page header with page number and guide word (the guide >> word showing which chapter of which book of the Bible begins on this >> page), two columns of regular text, "margin notes" *for bot

Re: [NTG-context] Can this layout be done in Context

2013-07-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/23/2013 9:47 PM, David Rogers wrote: Russell Urquhart writes: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:19:27PM -0700, David Rogers wrote: To summarize: A page header with page number and guide word (the guide word showing which chapter of which book of the Bible begins on this page), two columns of re

Re: [NTG-context] footnotes on wrong page

2013-07-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 7/23/2013 9:22 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: What is the setting that forces ConTeXt to keep footnotes on the page where they are called? In the following example, \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupnotation[footnote][interaction=yes,way=bytext] \setupnotation[footnote][split=verystrict] \startt

[NTG-context] About Hyphenation

2013-07-23 Thread Andres Conrado Montoya
Hi List, I am very grateful with you all. Thanks for all the teaching. Sorry if the message is too long. I have read in several places that the commands \doublehyphendemerits and \finalhyphendemerits are not a "real" way of dealing with the design issue of too many hyphens in a row and/or avoiding

Re: [NTG-context] About Hyphenation

2013-07-23 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–07–23 Andres Conrado Montoya wrote: > \setupalign[verytolerant,stretch,lesshyphenation,hz,hanging] From my experience, stretch often leads to rather terrible spacing. I avoid it if wherever I can. > 1. Is there any definitive way of avoiding […] hyphens at the end of a page? The penalty