[NTG-context] Typesetting conversion tables, ref charts, scales, rulers in ConTeXt

2024-06-20 Thread John Magolske
es, etc for use in the machine shop and lab. Cheers, John -- John Magolske http://b79.net/contact ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-c

[NTG-context] Re: Typesetting conversion tables, ref charts, scales, rulers in ConTeXt

2024-06-22 Thread John Magolske
ions. Your typometer looks really cool! John -- John Magolske http://b79.net/contact ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mai

[NTG-context] \totalnumberofpages and \setuparranging [2UP]

2005-12-14 Thread John Magolske
Hi all, I'm having trouble getting \totalnumberofpages to display while using \setuparranging [2UP]. What I'd like to do is print a letter, two columns to a page, then cut the page in two so the letter is in long columns with fractional page numbering at the bottom of each column, 1/4, 2/4,

Re: [NTG-context] \totalnumberofpages and \setuparranging [2UP]

2005-12-15 Thread John Magolske
Yes, the --arrange option does the trick! Thankyou Tobias and Johan for the informative replies. What a nice system ConTeXt is, it's becoming one of my favorite tools. John Could it be that texexec needs to be run with texexec --arrange Johan 2005/12/15, Tobias Burnus <>: &g

[NTG-context] Where to place typescripts so that they are globally accessable?

2011-05-20 Thread John Magolske
type-lemonde.tex ...but can't seem to get anything to work. Thanks for any help, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the W

Re: [NTG-context] Where to place typescripts so that they are globally accessable?

2011-05-20 Thread John Magolske
* Jannis Pohlmann [110520 13:48]: > Fri, 20 May 2011 13:40:26 -0700 John Magolske wrote: > > I've tried several things including: > > > > ~/context/tex/texmf-fonts/tex/context/user/type-lemonde.tex > > > > ...but can't seem to get anything to work.

Re: [NTG-context] Where to place typescripts so that they are globally accessable?

2011-05-20 Thread John Magolske
* Jannis Pohlmann [110520 14:20]: > Fri, 20 May 2011 13:58:17 -0700 John Magolske : > > * Jannis Pohlmann [110520 13:48]: > > > Fri, 20 May 2011 13:40:26 -0700 John Magolske : > > > > I've tried several things including: > > > > > >

Re: [NTG-context] Where to place typescripts so that they are globally accessable?

2011-05-20 Thread John Magolske
* Hans Hagen [110520 14:42]: > On 20-5-2011 11:27, John Magolske wrote: > >> ~/texmf/type-lemonde.tex >> >> then ran `context --generate` ... but still no luck. > > ~/texmf/tex/context/user/type-lemonde.tex > > it need to be somewhere under ../

[NTG-context] Apostrophes not converting to typographical curly apostrophes

2012-03-21 Thread John Magolske
nym [SansItalic] [LeMondeSans-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [lemonde-1] \definetypeface [lemonde] [rm] [serif][lemonde] \definetypeface [lemonde] [ss] [sans] [lemonde] \stoptypescript This is using MkIV, recently updated minimals. Thanks for any help, John -- Joh

Re: [NTG-context] Apostrophes not converting to typographical curly apostrophes

2012-03-26 Thread John Magolske
* Hans Hagen [120322 22:24]: > On 22-3-2012 07:32, John Magolske wrote: > > I'm having difficulty getting straight 0x0027 apostrophes to convert > > into typographical single-quotes when using a given typescript. > [...] > search the wiki for 'features

[NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-16 Thread John Magolske
ndence with the vendor: "We just ask that you subset the font when exporting the PDFs ..." Do PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX "subset the font" in this way? Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact ___

[NTG-context] Debian_installation - repositories not found

2010-08-17 Thread John Magolske
://people.debian.org context/ Sources 404 Not Found [IP: 206.12.19.5 80] Are there other repositories to point to for the most recent packages? Maybe these are just temporarily unavailable? Or am I missing something else? Thanks for any suggestions, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Debian_installation - repositories not found

2010-08-18 Thread John Magolske
IV. I was under the impression the steps listed in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Debian_installation would accomplish this. I'm also considering installing the minimals instead, but it would be nice to be able to apt-get a recent ConTeXt if possible. I'd like to keep LaTeX on my system a

Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: Debian_installation - repositories not found

2010-08-27 Thread John Magolske
n for now. I hope > that I can manage it in the next weeks. I decided to install the minimals for now so as to be able to follow the latest ConTeXt developments. Thanks for maintaining the Debian packages, volunteering for various projects myself, I understand it all takes time. Regards, John

[NTG-context] Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV

2010-08-27 Thread John Magolske
fonts. The *.ttf fonts installed alongside them in ~/.fonts do show up, and I can create PDFs with those ttf fonts using the `context` command, but I'm not sure how to proceed with the Postscript fonts. Thanks for any suggestions, John -- John Magolske http://

Re: [NTG-context] Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV

2010-08-28 Thread John Magolske
* Hans Hagen [100828 15:34]: > On 28-8-2010 1:16, John Magolske wrote: >> I'd like to get some Postscript Type1 fonts working with MK IV >> (installed via the minimals under Linux). > > put the afm files in the tree as well > > - either in the afm subtree (with pf

Re: [NTG-context] Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV

2010-08-29 Thread John Magolske
* Taco Hoekwater [100829 00:24]: > On 08/29/2010 08:50 AM, John Magolske wrote: >> >> Is it inherently tricky to get Type1 PS Mac fonts working with ConTeXt >> & luatex on Linux? > > It should not be. > >> load afm> reading /home/john/.fonts/SomeMacint

Re: [NTG-context] Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV

2010-08-29 Thread John Magolske
* Khaled Hosny [100829 08:37]: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:50:38PM -0700, John Magolske wrote: > > > > Also, the SabonLT-Roman.afm file that came from Linotype has a section > > titled "StartKernData", but .afm files generated using type1afm, > > font

Re: [NTG-context] Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV - [SOLVED]

2010-08-30 Thread John Magolske
some reason I was trying $HOME/context/tex/texmf/fonts/data previously, which didn't work. But things are now working quite nicely now -- thank you all. Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact __

Re: [NTG-context] Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV - [SOLVED]

2010-09-01 Thread John Magolske
* Khaled Hosny [100831 13:16]: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:27:00PM -0700, John Magolske wrote: > > > > % mkdir -p ~/texmf/fonts/data > > % mv *.{pfb,afm} ~/texmf/fonts/data > > % export OSFONTDIR="$HOME/.fonts;$HOME/texmf/fonts/data" > > I think