April 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\stretched fails with accents
by David Munger 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hello, Both of these fail (the second one is assumed to be unicode). \hbox to \textwidth {\stretched{pr\'edoctoral}} \hbox to \textwidth {\stretched{prédoctoral}} Regards, David

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Tutorial
by Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hi Everyone, Could one of you please recommend a document that tells me what to download and how to install and run a Tex application such as "Context" and how to compose and compile a document such as a booklet or more? I like to learn and use Tex and have absolutely no experience with it. Thank you all. Regards, Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad

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numbering paragraph in ConTeXt document
by piskala upendran 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

how to number the beginning of a paragraph in context document like this. 1. this is first paragraph. 2. this is another paragraph. 3. this is another paragraph __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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symbol parameter of \setuplist
by David Munger 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hello, I fear I cannot figure out what is the meaning of the `symbol' parameter of \setuplist. From all the documentation or mailing list archives, the only use I can find is "symbol=1". Is there a way to use it to draw bullets, say, before each list item, like those in the itemize environment? If not, what would be the best way of achieving this? With \placelist[command=...] maybe? Regards, David

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Re: [dev-context] [Fwd: [NTG-context] Re: storm font]
by Adam Lindsay 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:21:09 +0200: >t-type-xxx.txx > >of course we can set up some mechanism for assigning names, but for the >moment >the additional t- prefix sounds ok to me Without extra support, won't that run into name length problems with module loading? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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iso latin 2
by Hans Hagen 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

I wonder, \definecharacter Aring {\ilencodedrA} \definecharacter Lstroke {\ilencodedL} \definecharacter lstroke {\ilencodedl} where do these come from? is that because csr does not provide those glyphs? (which makes il2 like aer (almoet ec) something almost il2 -) 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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Another font problem
by Thomas A.Schmitz 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

I just ran into a smallish yet annoying font problem. After getting the Adobe Type Classics for Learning CD, I prepared a couple of fonts for work with ConTeXt. I was mostly successful. I wanted to have a Garamond with oldstyle figures as default, so I used a custom encoding vector; the only difference to texnansi was zerooldstyle etc instead of zero etc. This works well, but: in German, (mainlanguage[de]), I can't get the baseline double quotes to work. In the "normal" Garamond, "` in the source produces the desired result. In the oldstyle Garamond, I don't get the ligature (character 132 in texnansi), but instead what appears to be two commas juxtapposed. I assume this is some fallback defined somewhere. So the question is: what feature defines this ligature? It is language-specific and works only wihtin German text. And, more importantly: why doesn't this work with my modified texnansi-variant? Best Thomas

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Font encoding: \uppercased
by David Wooten 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Greetings all, Taco mentioned the command \uppercased{to get all uppercase letters}, and it works just fine…until I try to use my self-installed fonts. The quirks come up with diacritics, and this leads me to believe that there is an [encoding] or [regime] issue here, as I had similar issues earlier with the font in general. For example, with \uppercased{Krübel} I receive: KRüBEL. Do I need to "make a statement of my intent" in a typescript file or somewhere else to resolve this? Kind regards, David

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table won't break across page
by Paul Tremblay 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

I am trying to create a table that breaks across pages. I used the example from the wiki. The table repeated its headers like it should have, but it did not break across a page; it stuck the table on one page. Here is an excerpt from the file: \placetable[here][tab:insurance]{Percentage of People without health insurance in US}{\start \starttablehead \HL \VL State \VL 3-year average(2001-2003) \VL 2-year average(2001-2002) \VL\SR \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL[4] \stoptabletail \starttables[|l w(30mm)|l|l|] \VL Alabama \VL 13.3 \VL 13.5 \VL\FR \HL \VL Alaska \VL 17.8 \VL 18.8 \VL\MR \HL ... \stoptables \stop} Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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RE: [NTG-context] Open Type trickery [was Re: Encoding and mapping glyphs from an expert font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> ===== >Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:27:21 -0600: >>While we will still need huge fonts, the processing of complicated accents >>should be much faster with the approach I have in mind (smaller otp's and >>ovf's). >It sounds a bit tricky with the eTeX line, because of the 256-character- >per-TeX-font limit. Aleph gives us 64,000-characters/font plus etex so that's not a problem. But with some font/otp creativity we can still get some rather small fonts (compared to the 10,000-character ovfs I'm using now...) >Not necessarily impossible, but certainly >contortionate. I'm led to think about XeTeX--a fair number of people on >the list are happy with the AAT/OpenType support they get with some very >sophisticated Arabic fonts. If you can have one of your friends send me some pdf samples, that would be nice. I am especially interested in accent handling over ligatures. OTOH, I have yet to see a normal Arabic-script font with a full accent palette plus a very complete set of ligatures (except mine of course->) Yes, there are certainly some (outrageously expensive) Mac programs that come with really beautiful and complete calligraphy Arabic fonts; I'll have to have a look at those one day... >And when you consider the educational price >of a Mac mini, you're still way below the price of some software >packages... :) I'll look into it (Hans made a similar suggestion to me a few days ago), though my own goal with my Arabic-script package is platform independence. OTOH, aleph has much better bidi/large font/transcription support than pdfetex. Maybe I will come to a TeX conference and lobby for integration of these two. Then all will be well in the world... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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