Re: [NTG-context] Character alignment in math mode

2014-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.06.2014 um 02:49 schrieb Maggyero maggy...@gmail.com: You can access the current font alternative with the \fontalternative command Thanks Wolfgang, that was exactly the command I was looking for! A last question: how can one get italic greek in TEXT MODE? The following code

Re: [NTG-context] letter-module: the first letter is lost

2014-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.06.2014 um 02:42 schrieb Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr: Hi, With latest context, the T is lost: \usemodule[letter] \starttext \startletter This is a letter. \stopletter \startletter TThis is a workaround. \stopletter \stoptext I put a new version online with fixes this, you

Re: [NTG-context] Character alignment in math mode

2014-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/25/2014 12:29 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 24.06.2014 um 21:46 schrieb Maggyero maggy...@gmail.com: why use math here? It was to avoid oldstyle figures that I use by default. But finally it's better to use oldstyle figures even in tables. You can enable lining (and tabular)

Re: [NTG-context] Problem in natural tables with nc= and alignmentcharacter

2014-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/24/2014 9:53 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: On 2014-06-24 08:03, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6/23/2014 10:50 PM, Peter Münster wrote: On Mon, Jun 23 2014, Peter Münster wrote: No solution, just a smaller MWE: Yet smaller, but I don't know, if it's still the same problem: \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD

[NTG-context] Character alignment in math mode

2014-06-25 Thread Maggyero
\let\Test\fontstylesuffix a bit different output Thank you Hans. The command \mathgreekitalic can only be used in math mode, when you want a italic alpha in text mode you need a font which has greek characters (e.g. Gentium). Okay Wolfgang, I thought Latin Modern also had greek characters,

[NTG-context] database module: the first letter is lost

2014-06-25 Thread Michael Green
This appears to be the same as the problem Peter Münster found with the letter module \usemodule[database] \defineseparatedlist[MyTable] [separator=tab, before=\bTABLE,after=\eTABLE, first=\bTR,last=\eTR, left=\bTD,right=\eTD] \starttext The first letter of

[NTG-context] issues with list items

2014-06-25 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Dear list, I have the following sample (compiled http://www.ousia.tk/list-items.pdf#page=1): \showframe\showgrid \setupbodyfont[pagella,15pt] \starttext \chapter{Chapter title} \section{Section title} \dorecurse{11}{\dorecurse{10}{Sentence. }\par} \startitemize

Re: [NTG-context] database module: the first letter is lost

2014-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/25/2014 7:21 PM, Michael Green wrote: This appears to be the same as the problem Peter Münster found with the letter module \usemodule[database] \defineseparatedlist[MyTable] [separator=tab, before=\bTABLE,after=\eTABLE, first=\bTR,last=\eTR,

[NTG-context] First letter lost possible cause: \grabbfferdata

2014-06-25 Thread Rik Kabel
Recently there have been reports of the first letter of a line of text being lost in the database and letter modules. I tracked down what appears to be the same problem and developed a work-around. The problem appears to be with the \grabbufferdata command. Something has changed in the way

Re: [NTG-context] First letter lost possible cause: \grabbfferdata

2014-06-25 Thread Rik Kabel
On 2014-06-25 15:51, Rik Kabel wrote: Recently there have been reports of the first letter of a line of text being lost in the database and letter modules. I tracked down what appears to be the same problem and developed a work-around. The problem appears to be with the \grabbufferdata

Re: [NTG-context] First letter lost possible cause: \grabbfferdata

2014-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/25/2014 10:03 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: On 2014-06-25 15:51, Rik Kabel wrote: Recently there have been reports of the first letter of a line of text being lost in the database and letter modules. I tracked down what appears to be the same problem and developed a work-around. The problem

Re: [NTG-context] Orphans/Widows in the Index

2014-06-25 Thread Jan Tosovsky
On 2014-06-23 Jan Tosovsky wrote: On 2014-04-23 Jan Tosovsky wrote: in my auto-generated two column index (registry) there are several cases of widows - it is the last item of the given letter which overflows to next column/page: --- (start page) --- Usti 29

Re: [NTG-context] First letter lost possible cause: \grabbfferdata

2014-06-25 Thread Rik
On 2014-06-25 16:07, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6/25/2014 10:03 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: On 2014-06-25 15:51, Rik Kabel wrote: Recently there have been reports of the first letter of a line of text being lost in the database and letter modules. I tracked down what appears to be the same problem and

Re: [NTG-context] database module: the first letter is lost

2014-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.06.2014 um 21:44 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 6/25/2014 7:21 PM, Michael Green wrote: This appears to be the same as the problem Peter Münster found with the letter module \usemodule[database] \defineseparatedlist[MyTable] [separator=tab,

Re: [NTG-context] Character alignment in math mode

2014-06-25 Thread Brian R. Landy
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 24.06.2014 um 21:46 schrieb Maggyero maggy...@gmail.com: why use math here? It was to avoid oldstyle figures that I use by default. But finally it's better to use oldstyle figures even in tables. You can enable lining (and tabular)

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta, problem with natural tables and alignment character

2014-06-25 Thread Brian R. Landy
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Hans Hagen wrote: anyhow, i made it work a bit better with tables (extra pass needed) \starttext \enabletrackers[typesetters.characteralign] \bgroup \setupTABLE[column][1][aligncharacter=yes,alignmentcharacter={,}] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD 1,2 \eTD \bTD 1,2 \eTD \bTD

Re: [NTG-context] Character alignment in math mode

2014-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.06.2014 um 23:20 schrieb Brian R. Landy br...@landy.cx: On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 24.06.2014 um 21:46 schrieb Maggyero maggy...@gmail.com: why use math here? It was to avoid oldstyle figures that I use by default. But finally it's better to use

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta, problem with natural tables and alignment character

2014-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/25/2014 11:26 PM, Brian R. Landy wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Hans Hagen wrote: anyhow, i made it work a bit better with tables (extra pass needed) \starttext \enabletrackers[typesetters.characteralign] \bgroup \setupTABLE[column][1][aligncharacter=yes,alignmentcharacter={,}] \bTABLE

Re: [NTG-context] database module: the first letter is lost

2014-06-25 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6/25/2014 11:13 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 25.06.2014 um 21:44 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl: On 6/25/2014 7:21 PM, Michael Green wrote: This appears to be the same as the problem Peter Münster found with the letter module \usemodule[database]

Re: [NTG-context] database module: the first letter is lost

2014-06-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Hans Hagen wrote: but I’m interested what’s the purpose of the fifth argument for \buff_start_indeed. that was wrong; the pickup macro has a fifth argument (\plusone here) but goes unnoticed when you add \obeylines in which case the first 'obeyedline' ended up in #5

Re: [NTG-context] database module: the first letter is lost

2014-06-25 Thread Rik Kabel
On 2014-06-25 19:04, Hans Hagen wrote: On 6/25/2014 11:13 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 25.06.2014 um 21:44 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl: On 6/25/2014 7:21 PM, Michael Green wrote: This appears to be the same as the problem Peter Münster found with the letter

Re: [NTG-context] database module: the first letter is lost

2014-06-25 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Rik Kabel wrote: As I wrote before, I do not have a way to more extensively test the other effects of the change. Since this affects grabbuffer, it will also affect the filter module. I have an extensive set of tests for the filter module

Re: [NTG-context] database module: the first letter is lost

2014-06-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 26.06.2014 um 01:19 schrieb Rik Kabel cont...@rik.users.panix.com: Adding \obeylines as Wolfgang indicated did not resolve the issue with my test case (shortened below), while removing #5 as Hans suggested does resolve it. There is a difference between \startFOO … \stopFOO and

Re: [NTG-context] database module: the first letter is lost

2014-06-25 Thread Rik Kabel
On 2014-06-25 19:34, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 26.06.2014 um 01:19 schrieb Rik Kabel cont...@rik.users.panix.com: Adding \obeylines as Wolfgang indicated did not resolve the issue with my test case (shortened below), while removing #5 as Hans suggested does resolve it. There is a

Re: [NTG-context] latest beta, problem with natural tables and alignment character

2014-06-25 Thread Brian Landy
On Jun 25, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 6/25/2014 11:26 PM, Brian R. Landy wrote: When you say next beta do you mean a subsequent minimals release (i.e., this fix should be the 2014.06.22 release)? Or do you mean a new beta that you announce more formally on the