April 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Defining new font switches
by Idris Samawi Hamid 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Dear crew, I am having trouble defining my own font switches. I get an undefined control sequence for, e.g, \mv, with the following: ================================ % output=pdf interface=en \definestyle [myvariant] [\mv] [] \starttypescript [serif] [modern] [size] \definebodyfont [9pt,10pt,11pt,12pt,14.4pt,17.3pt,20.7pt] [rm] [mv=Serif sa 1] \stoptypescript \usetypescript [serif] [modern] [size] \starttext This is a test. \mv This is a test. \stoptext ================================ What am I missing? Thnx in advance! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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struggle for booktabs
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Hi again, since I often need row and column spanning, I have tried to use natural tables to produce good looking tables (booktabs-like, as discussed in the recent thread). I think it will be possible to achieve what I want, but I have some open points. For those interested, I have attached a file showing what I have devised to get the job done. The code is not very elegant, and the parameters controlling spacing and rule thickness are just for testing. But the main idea becomes clear: I use dummy rows with a height determined by rule thickness and vertical separation. The rules are drawn by metapost. Any comments and suggestions are very welcome. Now, my questions/remarks: - How to control spacing between table rows and columns? I can't simply set the offset, since I must be able to set vertical and horizontal spacing independently. - To have each cell entry centered horizontally and vertically, I have to say \setupTABLE[row][each][align={middle,lohi}]. I think it should also be possible to do this via \setupTABLE[align={middle,lohi}] which currently has no effect. - I think I will come to the point where I want to define macros of my own wich can take a key=value list of arguments with the ability to set defaults using a setup command. Can someone give me a pointer where to look in order to learn how this is done? Thanks for your help and comments, Eckhart

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Left + right justification at once.
by Dirar BOUGATEF 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Hi all, Am using \vbox{\hsize8cm text} to typeset my document with blocks of text. This makes a left and right justification of the text, but most of the time it does work alright and i get a ragged right text. What do i have to do in order to avoid this and get my text justified at both sides ? Thanks for any help. Dirar

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Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 10, Issue 21
by Kai Straube 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Am Donnerstag, 7. April 2005 12:00 schrieb Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl>: > % define a typeface > > \definetypeface [modern] [rm] [serif] [modern-base] [default] > \definetypeface [modern] [ss] [sans] [modern-base] [default] > \definetypeface [modern] [tt] [mono] [modern-base] [default] > \definetypeface [modern] [mm] [math] [modern-base] [default] > > % overloaad a mapping > > % \startfontclass[modern] > % \definefontsynonym [ComputerModernMath-Roman] [ComputerModernSans] > % \definefontsynonym [ComputerModernMath-Italic] > [ComputerModernSans-Italic] % \stopfontclass > > \startfontclass[modern] > \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [Sans] > \definefontsynonym [MathItalic] [SansItalic] > \stopfontclass > > % initialize the typeface > > \setupbodyfont[modern,ss] > > \starttext > Some text, we can read it without serifs. But the formula: $ \frac{1}{x-2} > $ is not in the same font. > \stoptext > > you can put this in one of the dark corners of the wiki -) Thank you Hans, but for me ist results in : ! Undefined control sequence. l.15 \startfontclass [modern] Whats wrong? Kai

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Re: [NTG-context] Activating urls
by Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Dear Everyone, I am a really disenchanted user of MS Word and absolutely new to the world of Tex. Will someone virtually hold my hand and recommend a version of Tex and some tutorial that tells me how to install the program, compile a .tex file, execute, etc.? I hope I can learn enough in three months and ask better questions then! Thank you all. Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid(a)lamar.colostate.edu> wrote: Dear knights, How do I get url hyperlinks? The following does not work, so I am missing something: \starttext {\tt \useURL [Adobe] [http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design_MM_Fonts.pdf… ][] }. \stoptext Also, is there a manual that covers this topic? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context Regards, Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad

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RE: [NTG-context] Activating urls (works now)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Thank you Robert, it works now. I was missing the \from[], and \url[] only prints the url, it does not link to it. So the following works: ================================================= \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=darkgreen] \setupurl [color=darkgreen] \useURL [Adobe] [http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design_MM_Fonts.pdf] [] [{\tt http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design\_MM\_Fonts.p…] \starttext \from[Adobe]. \stoptext ================================================= Thank you very much Robert (Nikolai too)! Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] Activating urls
by Idris Samawi Hamid 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >How are you viewing this? Perhaps your application doesnât support >hyperlinks, or they have been disabled in it?, Hi (and thnx 4 your advice), Upon compiling the following file, I get hyperlinks in the table of contents, I get colors for both contents and hyperlinks, but the url hyperlink still does not work. That is, Acrobat does not point out the link or allow me to click on it. Any idea what's missing? Is it a bug? I'm running the 3-16 mswincontext version. Best Idris =========================== % output=pdf interface=en \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=darkgreen] \setupurl [color=darkgreen] \useURL [Adobe] [http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design_MM_Fonts.pdf] \starttext \placecontent \page \chapter{Test} \section{Test} \url[Adobe]. \stoptext =========================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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controlling space between paragraphs in list
by Paul Tremblay 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

According to the big ConTeXt manual, one should use \head for an item in a list with more than one paragraph: \startitemize \head first paragarph...\par second paragraph... \stopitemize Is there a way to control the amount of space *between* head paragraph that are part of the head? I know how to control the space between items, but what if you want a different space between the paragraphs in an item. (This is not so unusual a desire; you might want to less space to make things tighter.) Right now, I can do this: \setupwhitespace[8pt] \startitemize \item first paragarph...\par second paragraph... \stopitemize But then ConTeXt might not take care of the paragraphs nicely when breaking between pages. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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RE: [NTG-context] Installing a non-standard encoding vector
by Idris Samawi Hamid 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Hi Adam, >===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> ===== >>What am I missing here? How can I can install this font with my own encoding >>so that \showfont will display it? > >Idris, > >You need to have precisely 256 glyphs in your encoding vector. Try >padding your vector out with 232 /.notdef tokens, and you *should* be in >business! Thnx very much for pointing this out! Also: I have a suggestion to you and Hans for the next version of texfont: Along with installing the pfb's and afm's into the texmf-fonts/fonts tree, it would be useful to also install the user-defined encoding files into /texmf-fonts/fonts/enc/dvips/<myfont-enc>/ whenever the --en switch calls for it. As it is now I have to install them manually. But thank you very much; I am indeed ""back in business"! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Activating urls
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Dear knights, How do I get url hyperlinks? The following does not work, so I am missing something: \starttext {\tt \useURL [Adobe] [http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design_MM_Fonts.pdf… ][] }. \stoptext Also, is there a manual that covers this topic? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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