July 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Chinese in ConTeXt
by Xiao Jianfeng 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

I started to use ConTeXt several weeks ago, and I like it very much :-) I met some problems when I tried to use Chinese in ConTeXt. I have tried to setup Chinese fonts according to the manual "Chinese in ConTeXt" (mchinese.pdf) which seems a little out-of-date. In the manual, programs gbpfb/chpfb, and gbenc are used to perpare the Chinese fonts. But, I chpfb is not shipped with trubolinux anymore . I have googled and couldn't find these programs on the internet. Do someone have some experience of how to setup Chinese in ConTeXt? Thanks in advance! Best wishes. Xiaojf

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Dense Encoding - Comments wanted
by Adam Lindsay 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

Hi all, On Hans's suggestion, I've been working on a "dense" character encoding that does away with combining accents and extraneous symbol-like characters in favor of fully accented characters. <http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/dense.pdf> This encoding is sort of based on the EC encoding, but adds (to the best of my knowledge) support for Romanian, Maltese, Welsh, Lithuanian, and Latvian. The punctuation that I kept was "typographic" in nature, that would fall within a normal text flow, especially those affected by ligatures and/or kerns. The typographic symbols were left out, including monetary symbols. I reckon these could be called as symbols from another encoding. The general intent here is to have strong support for (latin script) modern European languages, in the context of Unicode input. I concentrate on letters, in order to give as good kerning as possible with a 256 character subset. The letters are fully composed, to help hyphenation within TeX. Note that the encoding can't handle general transliteration or other "academic" uses. So with those goals in mind, does anyone notice their favorite *letter* missing? Is there essential punctuation missing? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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Verbatim with linebreaks sillyness
by Taco Hoekwater 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi, I saw this on the wiki: http://contextgarden.net/Verbatim_with_line_breaks and it seemed like a fun idea to play with for a bit. How's this? Cheers, Taco % % BREAK is a special pretty handler that auto-wraps lines % to fit the current hsize. \gdef\BREAKsetspecials% {\dorecurse{256}{\setpretty\numexpr \recurselevel-1\relax=10 }} \gdef\BREAKsethandlers% {\installprettyhandler 10 \BREAKtypeone } \newcount\BREAKcharcounter \newcount\BREAKmaxcharcount \def\BREAKtypeone#1% {\advance\BREAKcharcounter 1 \ifnum\BREAKcharcounter > \BREAKmaxcharcount \hfil\break \BREAKcharcounter=1 \fi \getpretty{#1}} \def\BREAKsetcounters% {\setbox\scratchbox=\hbox{0}% \BREAKmaxcharcount=\hsize \divide\BREAKmaxcharcount \wd\scratchbox \def\flushrestofverbatimline{\BREAKcharcounter=0 }% \BREAKcharcounter=0 } \gdef\setupprettyBREAKtype% {\def\prettyidentifier{BREAK}% \BREAKsetcounters \BREAKsethandlers \BREAKsetspecials} \installprettytype [BREAK] [BREAK] \starttext \framed [width=8cm, align=flushleft]{% \setuptyping[option=BREAK] \starttyping hööah:aloh/aa?lha llol!loh%lloh#allhal\lohhll;ohohal~loll ohalölo \stoptyping } \stoptext

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enumerated lists
by Frank Grieshaber 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Dear all, I have a manuscript with long nested numbered enumerations and I want the numbers of all levels to be printed like: 1. one 1.1 one-one 1.2 one-two 2. two 2.1 two-one 2.2.1 two-two-one ... Using the following prints only the current level's number, not all levels: \startitemize[n,packed] \item \item \startitemize[m,packed] \item \item \stopitemize \item \item \stopitemize For Latex there is the package paralist.sty for doing the desired numbering, how can this be done with ConTeXt? Frank

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Scite spelling support
by Willi Egger 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi Hans, Yesterday I installed the support files you provided on the website. Interesetingly it worked with the version 1.62 of Scite. But not with version !.64 which I downloaded today. Though there are the CTX menue lines in the tools menue I can't get the spellchecker working. Anlike in the older version 1.62. There are no messages during starting Scite. So I am a bit puzzled. During my first tests with the older 1.62 Version I collected some remarks: Uk-wordlist Caps at the beginning of a word are not recognized e.g. "The" is underlined red indicating an error. The section "m" is uncomplete in the spell-uk.txt. It ends with meningo... NL-word-list The word "rug" misses in the Dutch word-list Dutch words are not recognized when starting with a capital letter. e.g. Betreft The article "de" misses in the Dutch word-list. Althogh the "De" is not recognized it is also not underlined with red. At line 8904 in de word-list: d\'eg‚n‚r‚ - Meaning? The word "mag" is not included in the Dutch word-list Otherwise it looks like we will have a nice tool! Willi

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Sparklines to be in ConTeXt?
by Tobias Wolf 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hey, what do you people actually think about E. Tufte's Sparklines?² They are a great and innovative thing in my mind; both in the information mediating and the typographic sense. There's a bare-bones LaTeX package on CTAN, but when I think about it, this technique could find a perfect place in ConTeXt's framework (say MetaPost, XML, Scripting and so on. There's even some kind of Ruby implementation³). - Tobias ² http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1 ³ http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/sparklinesForMinimalists.html

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\placelist is influensed by \completeregister ??
by Vit Zyka 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Dear Hans, Taco, ... I noticed strange behaviour. When I use \completeregister lists I have defined are ignored: ------------------------------ \defineregister[letter][letters] \definelist[somelist] \starttext Hello! \letter{Letter S} \writetolist[somelist]{List entry, part A}{List entry, part B} %\placeregister[letter] \completeregister[letter] \placelist[somelist] \stoptext --------------------------------- I discovered that the source of the bug is probably \headtext the line \expanded{\systemsuppliedchapter[\currentregister]{\noexpand\headtext{\currentregister}}}% in the \completeregister definition. Please can somebody have a look on it? vit ---------------------------------- \unprotect \def\docompleteregister[#1][#2]% {\iffirstargument \begingroup \edef\currentregister{#1}% % the expansion is needed because we don't want \v!'s in the tuo file (french) % \expanded{\systemsuppliedchapter[\currentregister]{\noexpand\headtext{\currentregister}}}% \placeregister[\currentregister][#2]% \page[\v!yes]% \endgroup \fi} \protect -- ======================================================= Ing. Vít Zýka, Ph.D. TYPOkvítek database publishing databazove publikovani data maintaining and typesetting in typographic quality priprava dat a jejich sazba v typograficke kvalite tel.: (+420) 777 198 189 www: http://typokvitek.com =======================================================

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new minimals
by Hans Hagen 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

I uploaded new minimals 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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Non-square roots?
by Brooks Moses 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

LaTeX offers the following way to write a cube root: $\sqrt[3]{x}$. Is there a way to do this in ConTeXt other than the TeX way of $\root 3\of x$? Also, Hans, if there isn't a direct way to do this, the following code is pretty much how LaTeX implements it, with an extra line at the top to make it work in ConTeXt. Would it be reasonable to put something like this (or something that implements this syntax) in m-newmat? \let\sqrtsign=\sqrt \def\sqrt{\@ifnextchar[\@sqrt\sqrtsign} \def\@sqrt[#1]{\root #1\of} - Brooks

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A couple more suggestions for m-newmat.
by Brooks Moses 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

While I'm thinking about it, here are a couple more things from LaTeX's math stuff that might be useful to include in m-newmat: The \stackrel command is listed as "a disguise for plain TeX's \buildrel", much like \frac is a "disguise" for \over: \def\stackrel#1#2{\mathrel{\mathop{#2}\limits^{#1}}} There's also the \lefteqn command: \def\lefteqn#1{\rlap{$\displaystyle #1$}} The \lefteqn command is useful for doing partly-aligned equations, of the sort that get displayed as: long left-hand-side = long right-hand-side part 1 + long right-hand-side part 2 + long right-hand-side part 3 Essentially, you'd write that in an eqalign (or something like it), as: \placeformula \startformula \eqalign{% \lefteqn{long left-hand-side}\qquad & \cr &= long right-hand-side part 1 \cr &\quad {}+ long right-hand-side part 2 \cr &\quad {}+ long right-hand-side part 3 \cr } \stopformula As can be seen, \lefteqn lets the long left-hand-side overlap the alignment point, without shifting it excessively to the right. It's not perfect -- for one thing, if the left-hand-side extends farther to the right than the right-hand-sides, the equation won't be centered -- but it's a good start and works right most of the time. :) - Brooks

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