December 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

newbie questions: footer and header?
by Leon 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi all, Could anybody provide an example with the usage of footer and header? Many thanks. Cheers, Leon

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interesting font
by Thomas A. Schmitz 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Dear all, quite by coincidence, I discovered a nice font for download. It is called GFSDidot and can be downloaded at http://greekfontsociety.org/ typefaces.html I became interested because it has a full set of polytoniko Greek characters, but the Latin typeface (which resembles Palatino) is very nice, too; it has (for the Regular variant) a full set of small caps, oldstyle figures, and full f-ligatures, so it's almost an expert font. The font is free; the readme says: "You may use these fonts for personal and commercial use. These fonts may be freely redistributed, provided that you do not alter them in any way and that you credit GFS for this. These fonts are distributed free and may not be sold or resold for any purposes." The font comes in the usual four variants as an OpenType font. However, texfont and the lcdf-tools choked on the bold and bold italic with this message: ../include/lcdf/vector.hh:52: failed assertion `i>=0 && i<_n' After converting them to pfb/afm (via cfftot1), installation was easy. If anyone (Adam??) can figure out what this message means, I'd be grateful nevertheless. Have a look and enjoy! Best Thomas

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[Fwd: Re: Need a little help on sample file]
by Hans Hagen 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

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Example -- Solution Pair
by David Arnold 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

All, Anyone have an environment something along the lines of: \startexample blah, blah, ... \stopexample \startsolution blah, blah, ... \stopsolution With maybe a little square indicating the end of the solution?

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underbar and overbar
by Renaud AUBIN 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi all, I don't understand differences between \underbar and \overbar Someone can explain ?

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blank chapter last page
by M.guravage 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

Hi, ConTeXt's default behavior is to insert a page, when necessary, to force a new chapter to begin on a right hand page. One consequence when using running headers is that they appear on these extra pages too. I use the following code to control a chapter's opening page. % Define heads for chapter opening pages \definetext[chapterstart][footer][pagenumber] \setuphead[chapter][header=empty,footer=chapterstart] I would like those inserted extra pages to be completely blank. Any suggestions how I can disable the running headers for those pages? Thanks. Cheers, Michael A. Guravage

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"Degrading" TABLE column
by Duncan Hothersall 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

I'm trying to solve a problem with a TABLE in a large-ish (600 page) book. The table occurs in an appendix, and the contents of one column are spilling out into the next column on the right. The weird thing is that when I process just that bit of the book, the effect is much smaller, and when I process the whole book (with the table near the end), the contents move all the way to the other side of the next column, moving almost a full column's width to the right. I will try to work up an example, but in the meantime, does this ring a bell with anyone in terms of something (an offset value, and alignment parameter?) which "degrades" over the course of a large run, such that the effect is minimal in a small document, but visible at the end of a large one? Thanks, Duncan

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Exercise sets
by David Arnold 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

All, I'd like to design an exercise environment that will keep both the exercise and solution together. Something like: \startExercise Blah, blah, blah. \startSolution Blah, blah, blah \stopSolution \stopExercise At a higher level, something with parts, like: \startExercise Blah, blah, blah, ... \item Blah, blah, blah, ... \startSolution Blah, blah, blah, .. \stopSolution \item Blah, blah, blah, ... \startSolution Blah, blah, blah, .. \stopSolution \item Blah, blah, blah, ... \startSolution Blah, blah, blah, .. \stopSolution \stopExercise I'd like the exercises to get typeset in place, but the even solutions should go to the end of the text. Has anyone done something similar in Context?

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Re: [Aleph] OpenType-to-TeX and other musings...
by Idris Samawi Hamid 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Thank you Taco and Gábor for your valuable comments-) Based on both of your comments, it seems that the most practical approach in the short run is for Aleph (whose raison d`etre is more focused on the short run->) is to just treat otf's like cid/enriched type1 fonts (a la Latin Modern), which is what ConTeXt (and I guess LaTeX too) are already doing (with smart encodings, etc.) The main thing that aleph offers on this front is >256-glyph encodings. Simple otp's could provide switches to turn on needed features (small caps, superiors, swashes, etc) in a large font without clogging the system with multiple encodings (Occam's razor); only a single encoding vector for the entire raw font would be needed. I know that loading encodings in ConTeXt would certainly be a lot simpler-) On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 06:13:21 -0700, <gabor.bella(a)enst-bretagne.fr> wrote: > 3) OpenType fonts, as Taco has already mentioned, have a declarative > nature: they tell you what to do but not how to do it. In the short run, for Aleph's purposes, these declarations and much/most/all of the metainfo can be treated as "suggestions" for the otp designer to consider in implementing things. There is no need to treat them as something "holy". Based on your comments and my other research, I will focus on enriched/CID type1 (which I guess is equivalent to cff-flavored opentype) font solution in my own work, and not worry about otf declarations for now. In the long run, of course, it would be great if a rewrite of Omega could execute a complete implementation of otf functionality. I wish dear Yannis and Gábor the very best in this regard! Best to all Idris -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Context 2005.12.18 released
by Taco Hoekwater 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip The current release has version 2005.12.18. As usual, there is a page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.12.18 New features since 2005.11.30: * An additional file with some tools for use in the SciTE editor, like spellchecking. * LucidaBright metrics added in cont-fnt.zip * LatinModern updated to 0.99.3 release in cont-lmt.zip * Extended support for the Zapf Font Collection (from linotype) * Improved Chinese support (still experimental) Bug fixes: * many small fixes, too many to mention here. Please see the wiki page for the detailed list. Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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