December 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\godown
by Adam Lindsay 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi all, I've been TeX-doodling with the font shown on the page below: http://www.typography.com/catalog/hoeflertext/ornaments.html Some of the nicer patterns are predicated on having horizontal as well as vertical elements smashed up next to one another. I find myself having to adjust for little gaps with: \godown[-0.029\bodyfontsize] Does this ring a bell with anyone? I would have thought \godown[0pt] was the answer, but not so, here. The font metrics seem to be right, adding up to 1000 in both directions (or a little more, actually, considering overlapping dots). -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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collector: sorting last change
by Peter Münster 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hello, here a feature request for the collector: it would be fine, if one could sort by "last change". Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Filling framed boxes up to the max
by Alexander Klink 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi, I would like to do the timetable of the Chaos Communication Congress in ConTeXt again. Last year, I used a perl script to convert the iCal file to ConTeXt code. This year, I'd like to do it a bit better. One of the problems I have there is that I would like to fill a framed box with text up to the max. If it is full before everything is typeset, the text should end with »...«. The manual solution (cf. http://www.alech.de/tmp/day1.pdf) involved counting the numbers of letters and perl and estimating a cut-off value. But I guess there is a better method in ConTeXt itself. Maybe someone here has an idea. TIA, Greetings, Alex

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TeX i-Package updated, Easy Mac font support for PDFTeX
by Gerben Wierda 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

The TeX i-Package has been updated. It now contains support for several Mac fonts using the gtamacfonts package. Both LaTeX and ConTeXt are supported. Note: only PDFTeX (not TeX+dvips) is supported. PS trickery like font expansion and pstricks is not supported. This is all because of the formats of the fonts (truetype). Apple ships the fonts packed in socalled "font suit cases". PDFTeX can only use the fonts unpacked. To unpack them a tool called fondu can be used. There is an i-Package for fondu. If fondu is installed *before* TeX is installed, the TeX i-Package will automatically unpack the Mac fonts in the right TeX directory. Note that distributing the Apple fonts (packed or unpacked) is a breach of copyright, hence I do not distribute the fonts and nor should you. After installing fondu and TeX, you can us it like this: To use these fonts with LaTeX, put e.g. the following in your file: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{gtamachoefler} Such a style file will make Hoefler Text the serif (roman) text font and Gill Sans the sans serif font. The following basic styles are available: gtamacbaskerville.sty gtamacdidot.sty gtamacgeorgia.sty gtamachoefler.sty There are more. See the manual for details. For the same effect using ConTeXt, enter e.g.: \usetypescriptfile[type-gtamacfonts] \usetypescript[Hoefler][ec] \setupbodyfont[Hoefler,12pt] Support for ConTeXt is better than support for LaTeX for the simple reason that ConTeXt is more powerful. Example documents and a manual can be found in the texmf.gwtex/doc/ fonts/gtamacfonts subdirectory. To get the manual you can type "texdoc gtamacfonts" in a Terminal window. Also check out "texdoc GTAHoeflerSymbols" in a Terminal window. G PS. I expect to do one more update with this with some changes to the manual and such, but nothing fundamental.

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Updating context on Fedora Core 4
by David Arnold 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

All, What's the standard procedure for updating Context on Linux? We have fedora core 4.

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cal & calligraphic
by Hans van der Meer 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

I am confused about the behaviour of \cal and calligraphic. In a font where the calligraphic letters are in MathItalic all goes well. But, in a font where the calligraphic letters come from another font I get: \definefontsynonym [Calligraphic] [FONT_OTHER_THAN_MathSymbol] in text: \calligraphic{ABC} is ok in text: {\cal ABC} is ok in math: $\calligraphic{ABC}$ is ok in text: ${\cal ABC}$ IS NOT OK, SYMBOLS KEEP COMING FROM MATHSYMBOL I would the font redefinition also being obeyed in math {\cal} ? Why is this the only exception? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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problems with bold small caps
by Peter Münster 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Hello, I would like to get bold small caps, here is my test-file: \enableregime[il1] \definebodyfont [12pt] [sc] [bf=ecxc1200] \definebodyfont [11pt] [sc] [bf=ecxc1100] \definebodyfont [10pt] [sc] [bf=ecxc1000] \definebodyfont [9pt] [sc] [bf=ecxc0900] \definebodyfont [8pt] [sc] [bf=ecxc0800] \starttext {\sc Normal and \bf bold Small-Caps. Accents: àÉßöÜ} \stoptext And here are my problems: 1.) I get bold sc font, but the normal \sc is now the normal font. 2.) It works only with dvi-output, with pdf I get: kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 ecxc1200 mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfzzz and resolution 72; ignoring mode. mktexpk: Can't guess mode for 72 dpi devices. mktexpk: Use a config file, or update me. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. Where should I tell pdfetex the right resolution? 3.) Accented characters are not correct. 4.) Could there be native support for bold small caps in the distribution? TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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German hyphenation patterns
by Thomas A. Schmitz 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

All, German orthography is a mess right now, we now have two sets of rules, old and new. New hyphenation is ugly and rules are constantly changing. I see that ConTeXt has lang-deo.pat, so I was hoping that this would produce "old" patterns, but it doesn't seem to work: \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[deo] \starttext \showhyphens{gestorben} \showhyphens{Bierdeckel} \showhyphens{äußerst} \stoptext gives me: Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] \*10ptrmtf* ge-stor-ben Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] \*10ptrmtf* Bier-de-ckel Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 12--12 [] \*10ptrmtf* ‰u-ˇerst which is identical to \mainlanguage[de]. Patterns should be Bierdek- kel and ‰us-serst. Am I missing something, how can I enable "old" patterns? Thanks Thomas

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extra space after variant
by Hans van der Meer 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

When I code: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} I find extra space typeset between "abc" and "pqr". This extra space is absent when I code abc {\variant[xyz]pqr} Thus the space in the source between ] and pqr makes a difference in the result. Clearly visible in: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} abc {\variant[xyz]pqr}\crlf abc {\Var[xyz]pqr} abc {\Var[xyz] pqr}\crlf I would think that this should not happen. The whitespace goes away by inserting an \ignorespaces in the variant- definition. \def\variant[#1]% slow {\dosetscaledfont \expanded{\definedfont [\truefontname{\fontstringA\fontstylesuffix\fontvariant \fontstringA{#1}} at \scaledfont]}\ignorespaces} Still using version 2005-11-14, forget this if already corrected in the latest version of the 30th. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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update
by Hans Hagen 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Hi, I'm uploading an update. Apart from a few fixes/new-things, the main change in the minimals is that the <platform>tex.zip files now only contain binaries, and justtex.zip the rest. So, in case you use a windows/linux minimal: you need to download two files now. In the case of macosx, gerbens auto-updater takes care of it, I replaced the iwona/kurier/etc map/enc files with the ones that are now shipped. In the meantime i found out that there is also a change in the ams font tfm structure, so if you copy over old trees, make that you remove old instances of those fonts. I hope that i didn't mess up things too much. The normal cont-*.zip files are updates too, and the map files now refer to the new iwona cum suis scheme uploading now, may take a while Hans

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