February 2006 - dev-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] Dense encoding, part II
by Adam Lindsay 05 Feb '06

05 Feb '06

Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> The fact that all Polish fonts (lm, iwona, kurier, antt) now ship with >> el-* files makes me wonder: is there time to do the next step and >> finish the second encoding with symbols? >> >> > indeed Oop. Sorry, I hadn't been watching that. I've suggested texnansi as a starting point, at least within ConTeXt. What symbols do people want that *aren't* within texnansi? (Hint: Here are some symbols present in some Unicode-y fonts, but there's really little pattern to the coverage within "typical" professional fonts: http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/UnicodeSymbolDemo.pdf ) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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[Fwd: new fonts from SIL]
by Taco Hoekwater 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

Hi, Nelson Beebe forwarded this to tex-live, but tex-live 2006 is still very, very far away. Is anybody interested in making a context module/typescript for this font, perhaps? :) Taco -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tex-live] new fonts from SIL Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 08:04:51 -0700 (MST) From: Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe(a)math.utah.edu> To: tex-live(a)tug.org CC: beebe(a)math.utah.edu The Unicode list this morning carried this announcement, and I think that we should examine the license to see whether it could be included in future TeX Live distributions (also, list readers who are Debian folks, with their different views of licensing, may wish to do the same): >> ... >> SIL International is pleased to announce the official release of the >> Charis SIL Unicode fonts (http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont) Charis >> SIL provides a single Unicode-based font family that contains >> near-complete coverage of all the characters defined in Unicode 4.1 for >> Latin and Cyrillic-based writing systems, whether used for phonetic or >> orthographic needs. In addition, there is provision for other characters >> and symbols useful to linguists. These fonts make use of state-of-the-art >> font technologies to support complex typographic issues, such as the need >> to position arbitrary combinations of base glyphs and diacritics >> optimally. >> >> Charis SIL is a serif, proportionally-spaced font optimized for >> readability in long printed documents, and is similar in design to >> Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed specifically for laser >> printers. It is highly readable and holds up well in less-than-ideal >> reproduction environments. It also has a full set of styles - regular, >> italic, bold, and bold italic. It has been released under SIL's Open Font >> License (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL) >> >> The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide >> development of cooperative font projects, to support the font creation >> efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide an open >> framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with >> others. >> >> The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and >> redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The >> fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, >> redistributed and sold with any software provided that the font names of >> derivative works are changed. The fonts and derivatives, however, cannot >> be released under any other type of license. >> >> At the same time, SIL has also released an update of the Doulos SIL font >> (See http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSILfont) to match the character set >> represented in Charis SIL. >> ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe(a)math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe(a)acm.org beebe(a)computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ TeX Live mailing list http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-live

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context release packaging
by Taco Hoekwater 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Hi Hans (esp.), Please consider: * Cont-pat.zip (Standalone distribution of pattern files) Is it not sensible to remove this? Most people should have a new one with patterns included now, and when not, it is wiser to let them upgrade their base files as well. * Cont-msw.zip (Font support files for microsoft verdana and arial) I suggest merging the windows support files with cont-fnt.zip. * Cont-ext.zip (Third party ConTeXt additions) This is nearly empty. I guess at least nath and amsl should be added, since they are widely used. Also, I'ld like to see the bib module moved to this zip. WDYT? * Cont-win.zip (texmfstart.exe for windows) Is this still needed/does it work to have only texmfstart as executable and the others as .rb? (I just don't know). * Cont-lmt.zip (Latin Modern font distribution) Now that Latin Modern is becoming more stable, perhaps this is no longer needed? Cheers, Taco

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Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] Paragraph itemization
by Taco Hoekwater 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Hans Hagen wrote: > \startitemize[r,text] > \item The first thing, > \item the second thing, and > \item finally, the last thing. > \stopitemize Added to the wiki. Cont-XX.xml should be updated as well, of course. Cheers, Taco

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[Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] setupframedtexts]
by Taco Hoekwater 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

AFAICS, margin is indeed ignored, but it is documented in the xml files. Looks like a leftover from the dutch days. Taco Hans van der Meer wrote: > The manual gives as settable parameter "margin = standard,yes,no. > However there is no visible effect when using "margin=no" in the setup. > Inspecting the code for setupframedtexts I could not foun something > like \c!margin. > > Is this an obsolete parameter? Or will it be implemented. > does setting "leftoffset=0pt" work? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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