March 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Available fonts
by ishamid 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Dear crew, Is there a list of prepackaged fonts/typescripts that comes with (fp/MiK/gw/te)TeX/ConTeXt? I think it is important for that info to be made very public. showfonts.pdf has at least some of them (plus a couple of non-free ones) but I don't know if this is an exhaustive set. A new ConTeXt user (especially one from a non-TeX background) should be able to easily find a list of the fonts/typescripts available in a full (fp/MiK/gw/te)TeX/ConTeXt system. If I am totally clueless and missed this info, then I apologize:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] 5 major problems with mswincontext.zip
by ishamid 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

I just checked: Not only aleph, but pdftex does not work with (o)dvips/dvipdfmx: =========================== \starttext Latin Modern \input tufte.tex \stoptext =========================== If I run (o)dvips from TeXLive, I get =========================== This is dvips(k) 5.94a Copyright 2003 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2005.03.21:1943' -> lm.ps kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 8000 --mag 1+0/8000 --dpi 8000 ec-lmr12 mktexmf: empty or non-existent rootfile! mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for ec-lmr12.kpathsea: Appending f ont creation commands to missfont.log. dvips.exe: Font ec-lmr12 not found, characters will be left blank. =========================== If I run it from C:\ConTeXt I get =========================== This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro =========================== Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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hyphenation not working
by Paul Tremblay 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Has anyone else had problems with hyphenation? I have a brand new version of ConTeXt, and cannot get one of its main features, hyphenation, to work. I looked at the documentation, specifically the file called hypenation patterns. According to this, I should be able to invoke a took called ctxtools, or at least a tool called texmfstart ctxtools. Neither tool exists with my distribution. I do have a file called hyphen.tex. On Hans' suggestion, I copied this to ushyph1.tex and ushyph2.tex. That didn't help. I also changed my cont-usr.tex file, changing all lines that had ushyp* to hyphen. This also didn't work. I am at a loss, and I consider hyphenation pretty important. How do I proceed from here? Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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kerning and TFM problems
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi, I want to use OSX HelveticaNeue font. So I open it in FontForge and - because I'd like to use the kerning information - generate the Font with its PFB, AFM and TFM files. According to Bill's help page it should work by (renaming and) placing the phnr8r.tfm in its tfm folder, the phnr8a.afm and phnr8a.pfb in its respective folders (within my texfm-font tree). Then I need a mapfile texnansi-helveticaneue.map with the line: phnr8r HelveticaNeue 4 < phnr8a.pfb texnansi.enc And my test file looks like this: \loadmapfile[texnansi-adobe-helveticaneue.map] \definefontsynonym[HelveticaNeue][phnr8r][encoding=texnansi] \definefont[MySecondFont][HelveticaNeue] \starttext \MySecondFont I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew. \stoptext But it results in problems with the TFM file. Why? ! Font \**MySecondFont**=phnr8r at 12.0pt not loadable: Bad metric (TFM) file. <to be read again> \relax \dododefinefont ...ontspec {#2}\rawfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \redodefinefont #1#2#3->\dododefinefont {#1}{#2} \doifsetupselse {#3} {\setup... l.7 \MySecondFont I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold th... ? Steffen

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Going crazy with font conversion (diaeresis)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi, using HelveticaNeue (came with OSX) was fine. But using Helvetica (from OSX system fonts) just won't work: - when I have converted the .dfont to .pfb with FontLab the diaeresis of the german Umlaute (äöü) are too far to the right. - when I have converted the .dfont to .pfb with FontForge the diaeresis of the german Umlaute (äöü) are OK, but all other elements like Macron, Cedilla or Ogonek are too far to the left (!). Anybody knows this strange behaviour? And even better what to do to avoid this mess?? Steffen

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RE: Configuring 2 trees [was RE: [NTG-context] Times New Roman]
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >> 1. Remember that I need both aleph and pdfetex formats; can you do that? > >--engine could you give me an example of its use in building a format? >or in texexec.ini (rme): > >set UseEnginePath to true Ok, now I have \texmf-mswin\web2c\aleph \texmf-mswin\web2c\pdfetex but aleph is looking in the wrong directory: This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force ---! c:\CONTEXT\texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) Is there a configuration option I'm missing? Best Idris Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Export from Excel/Openoffice Calc to ConTeXt natural tables ??
by Michael Fuchs 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi! Does anybody have an idea how I can get a Openoffice Calc table in such a way exported, that I can directly use it in ConTeXt? Does anybody had a similar problem earlier? Thanks for your help in advance Michael

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Re: [NTG-context] Temporarily turning off hyphenation?
by Duncan Hothersall 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Gerben Wierda wrote: > \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} > \ClearChapterQuote > \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% > \startalignment[left]% > \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\nohyphens\em #1}% > \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} > \setuphead[chapter] > [page=left, > before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% > \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, > after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% > \noheaderandfooterlines] You should definitely not have the \starttext / \stoptext pair in there. There should only be one of those in an entire run - they come at the start of your content and the end. The following, tested on Live, produces something which looks like it might be what you're after: -- \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{% \startalignment[{left,nothyphenated}]% \startnarrower[4*left]\em #1% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] \starttext \def\ChapterQuote{Something quite long so that we can tell whether or not hyphenation has occurred, hopefully this will do.} \chapter{test} Some text \stoptext -- Duncan

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RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Matthias Weber <matweber(a)indiana.edu> ===== >The following should work with the stable ConTeXt from January: > >\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] >\setupbodyfont[pos] > >\usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] >\setupbodyfont[times,12pt] > >\starttext >\input knuth >\bigskip > >\stoptext On my system, using the above, the following happens (why??): ============================================ This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) (format=cont-en 2005.3.18) 20 MAR 2005 16:52 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. (c:\CONTEXT\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) **&pdfetex/cont-en times.tex (./times.tex <snip> (c:\CONTEXT\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ptmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.4 \setupbodyfont[pos] ? ============================================ But if I comment the first two lines, it works: ============================================ %\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] %\setupbodyfont[pos] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext ============================================ Another way: ============================================ \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [times] [12pt,rm] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext =========================================== BTW, what are the lines \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[pos] for? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Temporarily turning off hyphenation?
by Gerben Wierda 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I haven't been able to find information about temporarily turning off hyphenation. Can it be done? (This is for a non-justified quote at the start of a chapter) G

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