Re: [NTG-context] font search path and subfolders

2015-02-02 Thread Jörg Weger
Just did a complete reinstall and now the subfolders work. Also makes manual uninstall of fonts much more convenient. Cheers Jörg On 31.01.2015 21:07, Jörg Weger wrote: I tried to put the subfolders into a folder ~/fonts/ instead of ~/.fonts/ – same result :-( ls -la returns drwxr-xr-x

Re: [NTG-context] PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?

2015-02-02 Thread Jörg Weger
So I hope you might get bored once in a while before I have to write my bachelor thesis :) Greetings Jörg On 02.02.2015 00:56, Hans Hagen wrote: On 2/1/2015 10:06 PM, Jörg Weger wrote: Is the character count “wc --char textfile” returns with or without blank spaces? (Which is important

Re: [NTG-context] superior numbers for footnote numbers?

2015-02-05 Thread Jörg Weger
Thank you very much! I had not thought it was that easy! Jörg On 05.02.2015 13:14, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \definefontfamily [mainface][rm][Linux Libertine O] \definefontfamily [mainface][mm][TeX Gyre Pagella Math] \definefontfeature[f:sups][sups=yes] \setupbodyfont[mainface] \setupnote

Re: [NTG-context] superior numbers for footnote numbers?

2015-02-05 Thread Jörg Weger
the according opentype features. Greetings Jörg On 05.02.2015 23:46, Hans Hagen wrote: On 2/5/2015 2:10 PM, Jörg Weger wrote: Thank you very much! I had not thought it was that easy! Jörg On 05.02.2015 13:14, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: \definefontfamily [mainface][rm][Linux Libertine O

[NTG-context] using context wiki offline?

2015-02-05 Thread Jörg Weger
The recent crash of the context wiki reminded me that for wikipedia it is possible to download the whole wiki and use it offline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download It would be great if you could do that with contextgarden as well. (Maybe you can do that already but I

[NTG-context] superior numbers for footnote numbers?

2015-02-05 Thread Jörg Weger
Better equipped opentype fonts offer so called superior numbers as an opentype feature. Those are special smaller figures for “superscript” (opentype feature “sups”) that are not simply scaled down versions of the normal figures (be they oldstyle or lining) you are normally using. Scaling

Re: [NTG-context] Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

2015-01-19 Thread Jörg Weger
Hello again, After looking once more for all files within ConTeXt with “apa” in their name, I found out that I can start to write my own citation style by changing things in the file “~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/bibl-apa.tex”. It’s not as convenient as I had described in my

[NTG-context] Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

2015-01-15 Thread Jörg Weger
Hello everybody, I am rather new to ConTeXt and I am momentarily stuck with the following: How can I further format the way an inline reference and a bibliographic reference in the publications list are displayed? For example I would like to display the author(s) in spaced-out small caps (I

Re: [NTG-context] Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

2015-01-16 Thread Jörg Weger
+0100 Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com wrote: Hello everybody, I am rather new to ConTeXt and I am momentarily stuck with the following: How can I further format the way an inline reference and a bibliographic reference in the publications list are displayed? For example I would like

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography again: “von” and “van”

2015-01-27 Thread Jörg Weger
this, so there is no switch for it! So, it is up to the author of a text to set up his entries properly, by putting the von in the right part of the name field. regards Keith Am 27.01.2015 um 19:20 schrieb Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com: The default way to diplay (inverted) names

[NTG-context] bibliography again: “von” and “van”

2015-01-27 Thread Jörg Weger
The default way to diplay (inverted) names with “von” and “van” is “von Goethe” and “van Halen” in in-text references and “von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang” and “van Halen, Edward”. The problem with this is that while AFAIK the Dutch “van Halen” means that one of his ancestors came ”from” a

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography again: “von” and “van”

2015-01-27 Thread Jörg Weger
Thank you very much, Hans. I think I had tried something with double braces before (I use them also for German booktitles to keep upper and lowercase intact) but only now I got it working: Writing both “author = {{Johann Wolfgang von} Goethe}” and “author = {Goethe, {Johann Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography: alignment of first hanging lines in publications list, hyphenation

2015-01-28 Thread Jörg Weger
of descriptions To be honest, i don’t know exactly what you mean by „descriptions“. Greetings Jörg On 28.01.2015 10:00, Hans Hagen wrote: On 1/28/2015 8:42 AM, Jörg Weger wrote: Attached are a MWE using plain APA and the corresponding BibTeX file. (Don’t mind the mistakes regarding series/volumes, I

[NTG-context] bibliography: alignment of first hanging lines in publications list, hyphenation

2015-01-27 Thread Jörg Weger
Attached are a MWE using plain APA and the corresponding BibTeX file. (Don’t mind the mistakes regarding series/volumes, I got that working in my personal setup that overrides plain APA.) APA style defaults with hanging indents in the publications list. The respectively hanging first lines of

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography again: “von” and “van”

2015-01-27 Thread Jörg Weger
As I have already replied to Hans’ post, I don’t mind using the “double braces solution” as an easy workaround to distinguish German “vons” and Dutch “vans”. But I am not sure if that solution solves the problems with French and Spanish name attributes as well. Greetings Jörg On 28.01.2015

Re: [NTG-context] bibliography: alignment of first hanging lines in publications list, hyphenation

2015-01-28 Thread Jörg Weger
at the very left) are indented. Greetings Jörg PS: By the way, Did I thank you for making this great software freely available and for the great quick support on the mailing list? On 28.01.2015 14:39, Jörg Weger wrote: But with \setupbtxlist[alternative=left,margin=0cm,align={hanging,hz

[NTG-context] publications in footnotes (new bibliography mkiv)

2015-01-29 Thread Jörg Weger
I have to prepare a paper in literary science. I need to be able to quote a reference in a footnote instead of a in-text reference. Such a footnote should look the same or similar as the entry in the publications list. I guess that I have to do \setupbtxcitevariant and \definebtxcitevariant

Re: [NTG-context] font search path and subfolders

2015-01-31 Thread Jörg Weger
Do you mean reported by mtxrun --expand-var OSFONTDIR ? Jörg On 31.01.2015 13:54, Hans Hagen wrote: On 1/31/2015 1:40 PM, Jörg Weger wrote: Being able to put opentype font families into subfolders as well would be a great help to keep a clear view of all my fonts. what OSFONTDIR paths

Re: [NTG-context] font search path and subfolders

2015-01-31 Thread Jörg Weger
the OTF files from the subfolders to the parentfolder ~/.fonts/ and run mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force again, the PDF just renders fine. Any ideas? Greetings Jörg On 31.01.2015 16:05, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: On 01/31/2015 01:40 PM, Jörg Weger wrote: In my Linux home

Re: [NTG-context] font search path and subfolders

2015-01-31 Thread Jörg Weger
I tried to put the subfolders into a folder ~/fonts/ instead of ~/.fonts/ – same result :-( ls -la returns drwxr-xr-x for ~/.fonts/ as well as for ~/.fonts/opentype/ and ~/.fonts/truetype/ Greetings Jörg On 31.01.2015 19:26, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: On 01/31/2015 05:35 PM, Jörg Weger wrote

[NTG-context] New mkiv bibliographic engine: bug with “Editor”/“Editors” differentiation (?)

2015-01-26 Thread Jörg Weger
new bibliographic engine: bug with “Editor”/“Editors” differentiation (?) There seems to be a bug in the new MkIV bibliographic engine regarding the differentiation of the “editor” variable into “Editor” (singular) and “Editors” (plural) from BibTeX. I have attached a BibTeX file with only

Re: [NTG-context] Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

2015-01-26 Thread Jörg Weger
journal, volume, number, page). Alan On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:44:56 +0100 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 1/17/2015 7:23 AM, Jörg Weger wrote: Hi Alan What I am trying to achieve is the following (of which typesetting the author’s name is only a detail): setting up an environment that I can use

Re: [NTG-context] New mkiv bibliographic engine: bug with “Editor”/“Editors” differentiation (?)

2015-01-26 Thread Jörg Weger
Thanks for the quick reply, so I will update. Greetings Jörg On 26.01.2015 11:52, Hans Hagen wrote: On 1/26/2015 11:07 AM, Jörg Weger wrote: new bibliographic engine: bug with “Editor”/“Editors” differentiation (?) There seems to be a bug in the new MkIV bibliographic engine regarding

Re: [NTG-context] Font switching on title page

2015-02-01 Thread Jörg Weger
Rodriguez wrote: On 02/01/2015 11:37 AM, Jörg Weger wrote: I have started to design a title page for a paper. First comes an information block at bodyfont size \tf (all in sans serif), followed by the title of the paper in \bfd, then the author (=me) in \bfa. The information block that follows

[NTG-context] PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?

2015-02-01 Thread Jörg Weger
Is there a way to report the “character count including spaces” of the resulting PDF in ConTeXt? Greetings Jörg ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist :

[NTG-context] Font switching on title page

2015-02-01 Thread Jörg Weger
I have started to design a title page for a paper. First comes an information block at bodyfont size \tf (all in sans serif), followed by the title of the paper in \bfd, then the author (=me) in \bfa. The information block that follows then should be in bodyfont size again, but it isn’t, it

Re: [NTG-context] PDF document statistics (character count incl. spaces)?

2015-02-01 Thread Jörg Weger
, 1 Feb 2015, Jörg Weger wrote: Is there a way to report the “character count including spaces” of the resulting PDF in ConTeXt? Given that these counts are never accurate, how about pdftotext filename followed by wc filename Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] Formatting bibliographic inline references and publications list

2015-01-27 Thread Jörg Weger
Now I got it and I got it working :) Thanks a lot! By the way, is there a difference between \cite and \citation? On 27.01.2015 04:59, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:13:09 +0100 Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com wrote: * normal reference in brackets: author space year

Re: [NTG-context] publications in footnotes (new bibliography mkiv)

2015-01-31 Thread Jörg Weger
:). Greetings Jörg On 31.01.2015 12:29, Hans Hagen wrote: On 1/30/2015 10:39 AM, Jörg Weger wrote: At least I have found a workaround for that problem: I will render my complete publications list for the paper by using \placebtxrendering[method=dataset] and copy the entry from the resulting

[NTG-context] font search path and subfolders

2015-01-31 Thread Jörg Weger
In my Linux home folder I have the usual “~/.fonts/” folder in which I have put subfolders “~/.fonts/opentype/” and “~/.fonts/truetype/”. Inside those subfolders I would like font families to have their own subfolders. When I set the font search path by running export

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-07 Thread Jörg Weger
in this regard. Greetings Jörg On 07.03.2015 15:52, Hans Hagen wrote: On 3/7/2015 1:08 PM, Jörg Weger wrote: Metapost’s learnig curve seems to be a lot steeper to me. It is really a pity that ConTeXt mkiv does not save the node coordinates correctly as Wolfgang found out. Is that really

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-07 Thread Jörg Weger
Thank you very much Hans and Aditya for your efforts and sorry for only replying now — momentarily I am writing a paper (of course typeset with ConTeXt :-) ) that has to get finished. For now I have dropped the idea of using that certain type of illustration in the paper as your METAPOST

Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Jörg Weger
Thank you very much for that list. Greetings Jörg On 08.03.2015 13:58, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 13:45 schrieb Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com: You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace. But \thinspace aka \, is a non-breaking space, isn’t

Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Jörg Weger
You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace. But \thinspace aka \, is a non-breaking space, isn’t it? Is there a way to let it break a line if needed in certain circumstances or is there something else like a “non-non-breaking thinspace”? Greetings Jörg On

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-13 Thread Jörg Weger
After putting the definition you proposed last in front of my minimal example in mkiv beta 2015.02.03 it worked once and then not any more. I also tried to remove all auxiliary files after a new pass. But today I installed beta 2015.03.10 (complete fresh install as I keep the older version in

Re: [NTG-context] Selecting fonts using the built-in simplefonts module

2015-03-29 Thread Jörg Weger
Your mistake was that you did not use the correct font family name in the third pair of square brackets. It is simply “Junction”. I have yet to find out if ConTeXt itself can show a font’s true family name. On Linux I am either using a command line tool called otfinfo (that also shows me

Re: [NTG-context] Selecting fonts using the built-in simplefonts module

2015-03-29 Thread Jörg Weger
On 29.03.2015 19:47, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 29.03.2015 um 14:40 schrieb Pavneet Arora pavneet_ar...@waroc.com mailto:pavneet_ar...@waroc.com: Hello everyone, After a long time I have some typesetting work in front of me...yippeee! I am struggling with adapting my templates to the new

Re: [NTG-context] Selecting fonts using the built-in simplefonts module

2015-03-29 Thread Jörg Weger
On 29.03.2015 21:31, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 29.03.2015 um 20:33 schrieb Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com mailto:joerg73@googlemail.com: You need the familyname of the font, you use the font manager of your OS to get the name. \definefontfamily [junction] [rm] [Junction

[NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-02 Thread Jörg Weger
In the minimal working example below inside of a text two words should be printed inside of rounded TikZ rectangles and should be connected by an TikZ arrow pointing from the first word to the other. TikZ offers the remember picture/overlay option for that. The MWE works in MkII (command

[NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-02 Thread Jörg Weger
In the minimal working example below inside of a text two words should be printed inside of rounded TikZ rectangles and should be connected by an TikZ arrow pointing from the first word to the other. TikZ offers the remember picture/overlay option for that. The MWE works in MkII (command

Re: [NTG-context] publications in footnotes (new bibliography mkiv)

2015-01-30 Thread Jörg Weger
it. For the future it be great to have a variant like “\cite[publfootnote][BibTeX_key]” that would render a predefined style of the publication (optionally different from the list entry) into a footnote. Greetings Jörg On 29.01.2015 13:41, Jörg Weger wrote: I have to prepare a paper in literary science. I