Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt ultraminimals

Ubuntu alternate cd lets you do a text-only install. Afterwords, you can add whatever you want. > > aren't there those tiny linuxes of some 50 meg ? > > > > Hans > > Slackware allows you to pick and choose which software you install. > And a CDR variant, Slax, will ru

Re: [NTG-context] Word-to-LaTex on linux?

ugh you can call it from outside Word (which is not recommended). -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] Tex drawing tool

experiance with it? > > B. It also looks like a good way to get eps- and pdf output from Windows graphics programs, since it can pick up emf info from the clipboard with its `Capture EMF' tool. The cited page links to a pdf of its import capabilities, and I did a quick test with

Re: [NTG-context] expert font access

, you can also specify ligatures in a separate lig file. But I don't know how to use such custom enc or lig files in the context of the texfont utility. -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext problems

be possible to specify a larger environment when starting up a dos box. In a distant past, I used to create specialized dos boxes for TeX with a larger environment and the necessary environment variables. This was for w95. This comment may be way off-base since I haven

Re: [NTG-context] encodings

dvips manual. Much of it also applies to font handling by pdftex. -- Siep Kroonenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] texexec

t since I use my own hand-compiled teTeX I have no opinion to offer how well the Debian teTeX maintainers do their job. Siep -- Siep Kroonenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] searchable mailinglist archive

lent is the goldfish in its bowl > ___ > ntg-context mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context There is http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/, although isn't exactly search

Re: [NTG-context] Greek font

d remap this? TeX doesn't use a space glyph. Instead, there is a fontdimen space and there may be boundarychar kerns and ligatures to replace space kerns and -ligs. If you want more complete documentation: get a TeX source tree, run weave on pltotf.web or vptovf.web and compile the resulting

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

eriment a bit. Call it coarse.pro and give dvips a parameter -h coarse.pro -- Siep Kroonenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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

capable of imposing normally paginated pdfs into signatures for offset printing. I've never done imposition myself. -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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

- Brooks For a screened picture, you can often get away with less than twice the lpi, especially if there are no sharp transitions. On the other hand, pure black-and-white line drawings are best printed without screening. For such images, higher resolutions are better. 600dpi is enough for l

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs. LaTeX

ay in a package of its own, you wouldn't have to let that bother you. LaTeX source code is generally well-documented, and much easier to find your way around in than Context code. For presentations there are pdfscreen and pdfslide, and David Storey has done nt

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

et in the TeX Live source tree, last time I checked. -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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

nencoding to OT1 if T1 is unavailable - which might explain some encoding-related oddities I have run into in the past. Guess some patches for babel and german are needed. -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Docbook and Context

k/docbook/tools.html I don't have personal experience with this. -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Dictionnnaries ..

ized format for spelling dictionaries, supported by Mozilla, OpenOffice and TeXnicCenter and probably others. You can download such dictionaries from http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/spell_dic.html But if your editor or graphical frontend doesn't support it then of course this is of no use

Re: [NTG-context] Dictionnnaries ..

ikTeX with Context. We added a build profile for Context with texexec taking the place of latex. Unfortunately, at the moment I don't have a TeX installation handy where I can easily retrace those steps. Sorry. -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ ntg-cont

Re: [NTG-context] Black generation in cmyk output

> > Piotr pdftops, part of the xpdf suite, should be able to do that with something like pdftops -eps -paper match -f pageno -l pageno file.pdf file_pageno.eps -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] Black generation in cmyk output

nto account. So you are more, not less dependent on your printer by going for CMYK. At least, this is the theory. Anyhow, it is a good idea to discuss color with your printshop if color fidelity is an issue. -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ ntg-context mailing

Re: [NTG-context] WYSIWYM editor on top of ConTeXt / Lout

On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 08:42:59AM +0100, Jonas Baggett wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is a blog post I recently published: > https://jonas17b.wixsite.com/monsite/home/wysiwym-editor-on-top-of-context-lout. See screenshot showing your website in my browser. -- Siep

Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview

pdf at least --- so in the end > I also installed sumatrapdf.exe under linux . For Linux, have a look at qpdfview. -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to

Re: [NTG-context] logo from wiki

nkscape svg. It is probably still somewhere on the site, but in case it is not, I am attaching it here. -- Siep Kroonenberg <>___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wik

[NTG-context] Portable Context

oded paths. Is there any way to avoid hard-coded paths? -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.

Re: [NTG-context] Portable Context

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:44:49AM +0100, luigi scarso wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Siep Kroonenberg wrote: > > For a usb stick install, it would be nice if there were no > > hard-coded paths anywhere. A texmfcnf.lua with content > > > > return { >

Re: [NTG-context] Portable Context

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:03:34PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:53, Siep Kroonenberg wrote: > > > >> > Is there any way to avoid hard-coded paths? > >> Isn't minimals path-aware ? > >> With setuptex I can put context wherev

Re: [NTG-context] new look for wiki

ffect. -- Siep Kroonenberg ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage :

Re: [NTG-context] Convert eps to pdf

I wrote a Ruby script epspdf with a gui Tcl/Tk wrapper epspdftk (http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/) for arbitrary conversions between eps, ps and pdf in any direction, with optional cropping and grayscaling. Epspdf and epspdftk are included in TeX Live. -- Siep Kroonenberg