February 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

languages
by Hans Hagen 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Hi, Attached is an xml file that describes the hyphenation pattern files. I'd appreciate checking (some records are incomplete). I'd also like to add (for each language) a couple of tricky hyphenatable words [for testing]. Preferable in utf-8 encoding. There is room for more comments as well, like: prefered input and font encodings etc. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Correction to previous e-mail
by Mats Broberg 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Listmembers, OK, the two chunks of text I mentioned were obviously due to the kind of ASCII text editor I use. I downloaded a different editor one and now the .rme and the .ini files look better. Sorry for taking up bandwidth about that specific issue. Best regards, Mats Broberg

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pdf-mode
by Peter Münster 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hello Hans, I've just read your mmodes.pdf. Very helpful, thanks! Could you also add a pdf-mode? For now, I'm doing it like this: \input ifpdf.sty \ifpdf \enablemode[pdf] \fi Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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XML and context
by Paul Tremblay 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I've been looking over some articles published on context and XML, nameely http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-mag-9.htm. According to this article, there is a Relax schema for an XML version of context. The namespace is 'http://www.pragma-ade.com/rlg/foxet.rng'. This implies that the Relax schema can only be used if using FO, or? I was wondering if could directly convert to the XML at the namespace above and then process the resulting document with context. This would be easier than using the mapping method. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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encoding problem
by h h extern 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Was this problem solved? If not, the problem may be in not loading a map file; typescripts take care of this. btw, one you see the light, typescripts are not that hard, see examples in wiki, Bill M's font page and Adam L's myways. Hans >>>>>> Hello, I'm working on some XSL stylesheets for translating XML documents into Context. Although I've read the document "Fonts in Context" and understood that one could use typescripts for managing fonts, in the context of my stylesheets I'd rather like to stick to the \definebodyfont command, because so far it works and I'm a bit confused about all those indirections one has to use when defining typescripts. The only thing which doesn't seem to work are font encodings. Please, take a look at the following document: %-------------------------------------------- \enableregime[il1] \mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[NewCenturySchoolbook][pncr8r][encoding=texnansi] \definebodyfont[4pt,5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt,9pt,10pt,11pt,12pt,14.4pt,17.3pt][rm] [tf=NewCenturySchoolbook sa 1] \definefont[nctr][NewCenturySchoolbook at 10pt] \setupbodyfont[10pt] \starttext {\nctr \showcharacters} {\showcharacters} \stoptext %-------------------------------------------- Defining the font "directly" with \definefont leads to a texnansi-encoded table of characters, so that I could use the special German umlaut characters (which is my intention, of course). The definition of the font with \definebodyfont produces a default-encoded table with characters, which are *not* texnansi-encoded, because all the umlaut characters are missing. At least using Windows XP, TexLive 2004 distribution (MikTeX). I don't understand why this happens for two reasons: 1. Both commands (\definebodyfont and \definefont) use the same synonym for the font, with an explicitely defined texnansi-encoding. 2. The default encoding of the whole document was set to texnansi. It is getting even more disturbing when I'm setting the body font size to 12pt. (Using the command \setupbodyfont[12pt]). Then both tables are showing a texnansi-encoded font. What has font size to do with encodings? Since I don't want to use a body font size of 12pt in all of my documents, only to be able to use German umlaut characters, any hints to what I'm doing wrong here would be appreciated very much. Thanks in advance, Stefan Ohletz _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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texfont problem on windows
by Duncan Hothersall 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

I'm using the minimal windows installation of ConTeXt, texsync'ed today. The vptovf.exe program as used by the texfont script seems to have a version mismatch. It throws an error saying that it can't find tl80kpse.dll. In fact the version in the minimal tree is tl90kpse.dll. This means that texfont can't install new fonts, since no virtual font files are created. I'm sure I can work around this either by updating my local vptovf.exe or finding the relevant dll on the web somewhere, but it should probably be fixed in the tree if possible. Thanks! Duncan

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m-letter stationary
by Rob Ermers 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Dear Contexers, I have succeeded in creating letters on my pdf stationary-1. Beautiful. Now I want to print the second and following pages on paper with on a slightly different stationary (stationary-2), as is costumary. Does anyone how to set this up? (The example on the wiki is too complicated for me. I sticked to sample files from Hans Hagen, which makes it possible to use an xml address database.) The present set up for the background is given below. Kind regards, Robert Ermers \useexternalfigure[achtergrond][stationary-1.pdf][] \definelayer[achtergrond] \setupbackgrounds[page][state=repeat,background={achtergrond}] \setlayer[achtergrond][x=0in,y=0in]{\externalfigure[stationary-1.pdf]}

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Paper size & page arranging
by Mojca Miklavec 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

The command \setuplayout[location=middle,scale=.5] scales the document correctly, but if I use \setuparranging[2*2] for example, the original scaling is broken. What effect exactly does 'scale=...' in \definepapersize have? There must surely exist a very simple and elegant solution to typeset usual A4 pages scaled down to A5, so that two pages are placed on one in lanscape mode, like in: 1. page (A4 landscape with two A4 pages scaled to A5) *---*---* | | | | 1 | 2 | | | | *---*---* 2. page *---*---* | | | | 3 | 4 | | | | *---*---* ... or that "any" page number (n*n or 2n*n in landscape mode, maybe some other number if page proportions are different; and some blank space is left on the borders) is placed on one page, like in (for 6*3): *--*--*--*--*--*--* | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| *--*--*--*--*--*--* | 7| 8| 9|10|11|12| *--*--*--*--*--*--* |13|14|15|16|17|18| *--*--*--*--*--*--* \setuparranging[...] does the job, but it is only suitable if someone really wants to make a booklet out of it and one has to supply "original" page sizes (for example A6 to be printed as 2*4 on A4). Thank you, Mojca

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arabtex support
by mohd zamri murah 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

there is a thread a while back about this from R. Elmers. search contextgarden.net for detail. I am using context 2005.31.1 and arabtex 3.11m on MacOSX , bas-ed on gwTeX. I did play around this and found a few interesting things. The result is simply wonderful. \placecontent and \section can appear in arabic! 1) I rename font-arb.tex to m-arabtex.tex and \usemodule[arabtex]. it works. ( as to why it works and was it OK to do it, I cannot explain ) 2) need to add at top of document , ( probably any font definition ) font-arb.tex did mention something about font macro. \usetypescript[postscript] \switchtotypeface[postscript] if you did not, the body text will appear in \em . 3) there is some spurious arabic text, align left. I believe there is bug in \startarabic ... \stoparabic code. my request; can Hans look over font-arb.tex, see if there need some updating/changes. It was written way back in 1999. can font-arb be turn into a module? My reason; I am hoping to write a paper using jawi script, which is supported by arabtex. I am aware of omega, aleph + context , xetex. but, unfortunately, these 3 doesn't have the necessary jawi glyph. with a bit of polishing, it believe arabext and context would be a great tool for me. many thanks in advance. minimal test file below =============== test.tex =========================== \usemodule[arabtex] \usetypescript[postscript] \switchtotypeface[postscript] % without this lines, body font appear in \em \setarab % \<..> will not work if we skip this \novocalize \starttext \placecontent \section{\<mu.hammad>} % short arabic use \< .. > \startarabic mu.hammad 'i_d q"aAm zay"d" + i_d yaqUm zyd + A_d zyd q"aAm mu.hammad 'i_d q"aAm zay"d" + i_d yaqUm zyd + A_d zyd q"aAm \stoparabic \section{\<al-maq.sad>} \startarabic mu.hammad 'i_d q"aAm zay"d" + i_d yaqUm zyd + A_d zyd q"aAm \stoparabic \stoptext ============================================= zamri

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new small manual
by Hans Hagen 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

A small manual on modes (i need a place to discuss system modes -) http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-man-41.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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