January 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

How many mode statements allowed on compile line
by David Arnold 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

All, Are multiple mode statements allowed on a compile line. Suppose I have: print or screen and short or long (answers) How do I compile with screen mode with long answers?

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Generating a caret in non-math mode
by David Arnold 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

All, How can I typeset a caret ^ in non-math mode?

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Re: [NTG-context] \uchar and italics question
by sjoerd siebinga 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

On 17 Jan 2006, at 23:54, Hans Hagen wrote: > > does {\it blabla} give italic? Yes it does. But when I place the \uchar{1}{01} inbetween the bla bla's the glyph remains regular. Sjoerd

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Special Title
by Andreas Wapf 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hello I'm searching a way to place a title on top of a new page with \title and sometimes an additonal text (name of the author or something else) directly under the title. But the main text should always start some distance from the header and not from the title. Is this possible? As an example: with a little text: header ---------- title 1 author x y main text 4 new lines from the header without the short text: header ---------- title 1 main text 4 new lines from the header Thanks, Andreas

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ConTeXt bug?
by Gerben Wierda 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Have a look at this file: ============================ \definefont[SectionFont][SerifBold sa b] \setuphead[section][style=\SectionFont] \starttext \LaTeX {\bf \LaTeX} \subject{\LaTeX} \stoptext ============================ The \LaTeX in the subject is wrong. Something wrong the the \LaTeX definition? G

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About ArabTeX
by Ahmad Zareef 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Al salamu Alaikum Prof. Idris I have read your message here http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/004974.html and I wonder if I can have a look of your modified package pf ArabTeX. I am Ahmad Zareef, an Electronics and communications engineer graduated 2005 from cairo University. my graduation project was also based on ArabTeX and it aimed to expand it so that it be able to typeset traditional Arabic. we (my team and I) hope to start an EgTUG Egyptian TUG and we are working on our modified package now and I think it will be too useful to have a look on your package. By the way, we also are preparing a new font now but this as you mentioned consumes time and work. If I can be of any benefit please tell me. Ahmad --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP.

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\uchar and italics question
by sjoerd siebinga 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all, Due to the nature of the font I am using (which has horrendous looking combining diacritics), I have to call the unicodeglyphs directly through the \uchar command. Which works fine for the regular face. But I am unable to get the italic glyphs via the same method. So {\it \uchar{1}{01}} renders the 'normal' regular glyph. Could somebody help me out? Sjoerd

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Bug collector reminder
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all, I want to remind everybody of the existance of the context bug and feature request collector: http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector If you have found a bug or requested a new feature in the past few months, please consider adding a collector item. This is especially relevant if you have not yet received/ seen any reply or test code from Hans or me. We always strive to answer/aknowledge all bug- or feature related e-mail messages, but sometimes something slips through, and (at least for me) backtracking through the e-mail archive is just not feasible these days. Happy TeXing, Taco

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ConTeXt Revisions
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all, It has taken us a long time to get to this point, but I am glad to announce that the ConTeXt Revisions project that has been talked about for nearly two years now is finally available to the public. ConTeXt Revisions is two things: a museum of old ConTeXt release zips, as well as an incremental subversion repository. Currently it contains information of more than 110 releases of ConTeXt, dating back as early as October 1997. The homepage of the project is on the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Revisions Happy TeXing, Taco

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indexing suggestion
by Hans van der Meer 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

When I started to do my syllabus again but in ConTeXt, I also began to set up an index. Readily it became a nuisance to type each time: in this sentence \index{sentence} etc. Making this into a macro I am now typing: in this \indexed{sentence} etc. It is a small difference but not only is it less typing, it also keeps the text more readable. I coded this macro: \def\indexed#1{\index{#1}#1} Note, \index{#1} preceeds typesetting of the text #1, otherwise the next space is eaten by \index. Of course the full macro would be something like \indexed[whatever] {sentence}, and all the other options in \index[]{}. However if have not enough experience with the way such things are cooked in ConTeXt and do not want to pollute the code with halfbaked code of my own. Maybe Hans and Taco feel this suggestion useful enough to pick it up. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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