Re: [NTG-context] missing tfm fonts

2003-06-06 Thread Bill McClain
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:05:16 +0200 Johannes Hüsing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In type-enc.tex there is mentioning of "existing tfm and vf files we > provide", such as ec-upl*.*. > > Are these really needed, and how do I obtain them? My Palatino metric > files have names like uplr8t.tfm. In the

Re: [NTG-context] Right-aligning blocks of text

2003-06-05 Thread Bill McClain
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:10:07 -0700 (PDT) Andrew Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to right-align a block of text, e.g. have > the text left-aligned but the block right aligned. An > ascii example would be; Would indenting the left margin do this? If so, look at \startnarrower and \sto

Re: [NTG-context] Lucida again

2003-08-02 Thread Bill McClain
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 12:10:10 -0700 David Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > \usetypescript[lbr] > \setupbodyfont[lbr] I can't test it because I don't have Lucida, but what happens if you add this before the statements above: \usetypescript[berry][ec] -Bill -- Sattre Press

Re: [NTG-context] \placefigure[left] aligning with second line

2003-08-14 Thread Bill McClain
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:11:47 +0100 "Duncan Hothersall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As is seen in the manual, the cow is aligned with the second line of > text, rather than the first. Can anyone help me to move it up? Try adjusting spacing with \setupfloats. I've used this in the past: \setupflo

Re: [NTG-context] \placefigure[left] again!

2003-08-14 Thread Bill McClain
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:31:44 +0100 "Duncan Hothersall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interestingly, it remains broken even if the \bf isn't there, just the > open and close braces. So presumably this is something to do with the > expansion of what comes after the \placefigure? I ran into this also

Re: [NTG-context] Sieve of Eratosthenes

2003-08-17 Thread Bill McClain
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:23:28 -0700 David Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd love to see different approaches. A good opportunity to learn new > technique and ideas for attacking this problem. I'll make a shameful admission: when I have tasks like this, I generate the TeX source from another

Re: [NTG-context] Status update on e-Omega/Aleph

2003-09-08 Thread Bill McClain
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:43:26 +0200 Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to inform you on the current status and short-term > forecast for e-Omega. Could you give some brief comments for we (me, I mean) who haven't been following Omega progress? Please point to web documents if su

Re: [NTG-context] Status update on e-Omega/Aleph

2003-09-09 Thread Bill McClain
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:45:32 -0600 Idris S Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With an otp u can define > the character sequence ".d" so that it always gives you \.d in the > output. I know I could look this up, but briefly: (1) What's an otp? (2) Given a set of pfb and afm files (or a set of tt

Re: [NTG-context] Does Bill McClain's TOC work?

2003-09-16 Thread Bill McClain
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:05:03 +0200 Steffen Wolfrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (the unnumbered headings *are* numbered) You're right, there is something wrong with the example. The technique works properly in my original (very large) document, but not in the reduced file. I'll try to discover wh

Re: [NTG-context] Does Bill McClain's TOC work?

2003-09-16 Thread Bill McClain
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:15:14 -0500 Bill McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (the unnumbered headings *are* numbered) > > You're right, there is something wrong with the example. The technique > works properly in my original (very large) document, but not in the &

Re: [NTG-context] \inmargin{} problems with typsetting inmargin texts

2003-10-12 Thread Bill McClain
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:20:30 +0200 Willi Egger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The strange thing is, that on lefthandpages the inmargin text > is typset in the left (outer) margin but it is typeset on two lines, > indicating that the measures of the leftmargin of the righthandpage is > used. Does

Re: [NTG-context] inmargin text problems remain

2003-10-16 Thread Bill McClain
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:57:12 +0200 Willi Egger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody see the clue, how to tell Context to use the full > marginwidth? The problem is that notes in the left page outer margin do not use the full margin width, right? If you change your setup to use leftmargin=18m

Re: [NTG-context] Dithering (off-topic)

2003-10-31 Thread Bill McClain
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:21:48 +0100 Michal Kvasnicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I typeset a church bulleting. It is printed on a laserjet printer (600 > > dpi), and then copied on a copy machine. As for letters, all is right. > > But figures (photos) are this way spoiled. I guess it would help

Re: [NTG-context] Dithering (off-topic)

2003-11-04 Thread Bill McClain
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 14:34:54 +0100 Michal Kvasnicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, is there some easy way to set the size of the dithering points > (eg. 2x2 pixels, 3x3 pixels), or should I do it ex post in some image > editor (Gimp, imagemagick)? I haven't studied the Floyd-Steinberg algorith

Re: [NTG-context] Indenting all lines in a paragraph, first line excluded

2003-11-13 Thread Bill McClain
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:49:44 +0100 "Tim 't Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want the first line of the paragraph to appear normally, and the > second and all consecutive lines to be indented. So basically you can > also say that I want an 'inverted' paragraph; instead of an indented > first li

Re: [NTG-context] Drop capital

2004-03-08 Thread Bill McClain
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 23:40:29 + Charles Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to use a drop capital at the start of > articles. I have an example in this document: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html -Bill -- Sattre Press

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and the blind

2004-04-14 Thread Bill McClain
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:50:04 -0400 Alan Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, does anyone on the list have ideas about how to produce such files > > from the files I currently have in hand or any experience with this > sort of problem? I have used the pdftotext utility, part of the xpdf packag

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and the blind

2004-04-15 Thread Bill McClain
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:00:12 -0400 Alan Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will explore pdftotext and > the Acrobat _Save As_ options. Another issue with these methods is that the header and footer information on each page will be included, which could

Re: [NTG-context] \title in the table of contents

2004-05-21 Thread Bill McClain
On Fri, 21 May 2004 13:07:26 + Michal Kvasnicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, how can I have not-numbered chapters which don't increment the > chapter number placed in the table of contents? When I've had to do this I have used separate chapter lists. See the section "Table of contents wi

[NTG-context] a problem with \defineprotrudefactor

2004-07-15 Thread Bill McClain
After a long lull, I have installed a recent Context (ver: 2004.6.30) and find that my typescripts that do margin kerning are having trouble. Invoking a typescript that uses \defineprotrudefactor will cause the job to stop; I don't see any error messages. When the problem line is commented out the

Re: [NTG-context] a problem with \defineprotrudefactor

2004-07-15 Thread Bill McClain
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:59:29 +0200 Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've been messing around with that because thanh is updating his > stuff; i need to handle both hz and protruding and more -) I must ask: would this mean adding Context support for the font expansion mentioned in his thes

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses

2004-07-24 Thread Bill McClain
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:41:38 -0600 Matt Gushee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning to publish a book that is typeset using ConTeXt, and > very soon I am going to start contacting printers for estimates. Given > that a shop prints from PDF files, does it matter that the PDFs are > produced b

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt output & commercial printing houses: Thanks!

2004-07-27 Thread Bill McClain
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 00:15:09 -0600 Matt Gushee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Different shops might have different requirements, but Bookmobile > > simply requires an exact image of the book, page size defined to be > > the paper size. Easy. > > You're referring to just the interior, right? I wo

Re: [NTG-context] How to use PostScript font

2004-08-18 Thread Bill McClain
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:16:43 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I get errors. I am using Fedora Core 2 with teTex 2.02. The error > messages follow this message. I'm using TeXLive 7 and this works for me: \usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r] \usetypescript[palatino][ec] % \setupbodyfont[palatino]

Re: [NTG-context] stretched text

2004-10-25 Thread Bill McClain
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:06:10 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Piotr Kopszak) wrote: > Hello, > > I know it's a bad habit to use stretched text, but apparently > formerly people thought differently. I am typesetting old quotations > and would not want to replace stretched text simply by emphasized. Is >

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt in use

2005-07-09 Thread Bill McClain
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 03:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Arun Swarup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't seen any books typset using ConTeXt (excluding ConTeXt > manuals, of courz :P). Have you? All of the ones at the site below. "History of Astronomy" is actually a facimile reprint, so Context is rather incid

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt & Fonts

2005-09-12 Thread Bill McClain
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:53:04 +0200 Peter Rolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts > > There is a bunch of links on this page. I've learned it with help from > Bill McLain's page (includes a step by step font installation), but some > things have changed in the meantim