January 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] font encodings (glyph lossed with Gentium in T5)
by VnPenguin 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

On 1/21/06, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban(a)fiee.net> wrote: ... > Ok, Gentium is now online including t5 encoding. (That's not yet > mentioned on the page.) > Just tested your package. I loss a glyph which I dont know the name. Its shot is at : http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/shots/gentium-dd.png It seems that you use Gentium 1.01. With Gentium 1.02 in my box, I could use this glyph no problem (the shot was done with Gentium 1.02 in Leafpad editor). I try to replace your ttf by 1.02 release by modifying map file. But this does not help. Maybe we need to recreate files with 1.02 ? Thank you, -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

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footnotes
by Hans van der Meer 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

At the end of the text (or chapter) the last batch of footnotes is not always placed, not even when an index follows. They must be forced with \placefootnotes. It happened both with footnotes bytext and bychapter. Is this the normal behaviour? Must I end (for footnotes bychapter) each chapter with \placefootnotes? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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Problem with German quotes and kerning
by Thomas A. Schmitz 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Hi all, this seems to be a general TeX-problem, not ConTeXt specific, but I'm not sure I understand the details. Here's the problem: when I use mainlanguage[de], I can type "` to get German opening quotes, \quotedblbase „. However, this characters needs some (a lot of) kerning when it comes before, e.g., W or V; it is too far away from the following character. Most font-designers don't care about German typography, so I tried and added the kerning manually. But this works only if I input the character directly via the keyboard or via the symbolic name, it does not work with "` (nor with \quotation{ }); language German seems to make the ` active. In emacs, I find "` the most convenient way to input German quotes. Is there a way to have kerning with this input, or do I have to change my habits? Best Thomas

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request about combinations
by Hans van der Meer 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

A modest request, that is probably in principle not too difficult to fulfil. With many commands (\framed for example) I can do a setup for general behaviour and do something special at the actual call. Like this: \setupframed[options...] \framed[individual options ...] It would be pleasant if I could do the same with combinations, but there I do not get to work a similar behaviour: \setupcombinations[align=middle,location=top] \startcombination[2*1][location=middle] Is it an option for Hans to build this into the code? It would also make ConTeXt's behaviour more regular if every command that has a \setupcommand[options] would always allow \command[options]. If some have it and some not it "strains the brain". yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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setuptyping
by Hans van der Meer 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

I get some unexpected results with setuptyping. According to the manual the style-parameter has options normal, bold, small, etc. But if I use them I get the option back. The only thing that seems to work is style=command. Example: \setuptyping[style=bold] \starttext \starttyping abcd \stoptyping \stoptext Results in typeset text "boldabcd" yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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setupindenting and formula
by Renaud AUBIN 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Hi all, I use \setupindenting[medium,yes] in my document. When I use: ________________________________________________________________________________ \placeformula[GiPivel] \startformula \frac{\overrightarrow{G_iP_i}}{\Delta T} = \frac{d_i.\vec{y_i} + \delta_i.\vec{t_i}}{\Delta T} = -\dot{\theta_i}.\vec{z_i} \wedge l_i.\vec{x_i}+ V_i.\vec{x_i} = -\dot{\theta_i} l_i.\vec{y_i}+ V_i.\vec{x_i} \stopformula Test sentence to check indenting. ________________________________________________________________________________ The test sentence is not indented... Consequently, I have tried: ________________________________________________________________________________ \indent Test sentence to check indenting. ________________________________________________________________________________ Unfortunately, the test sentence isn't indented... To indent or not to indent, that is the question !!! ;-) Renaud

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eqalign name clash
by Hans van der Meer 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

I am afraid that the update of today (28-1-2006) also has generated a problem. This used to work (just a plaintex \eqalign) \starttext \placeformula\startformula \matrix{a&b\cr c&d\cr} \eqalign{ a &= b\cr pq &= t+1\cr } \stopformula \stoptext I see in core-mat.tex a macro \eqalign#1 (line 1514). It is new I think, but its name CLASHES with the standard TeX \eqalign math macro. I do not think that wise and had to comment it out in my working copy. Everything being fine again after that. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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error in patterns treatment?
by Hans van der Meer 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Installing the latest context release (cont-tmf only) I now get the following errors when generating the format: (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/patterns/lang-de.pat ! Nonletter. l.113 .ge5r[ odiaeresis] (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/patterns/lang-de.pat ! Nonletter. l.140 .k[ udiaeresis]5ra etc. The same occurred with the french patterns, others I did not test. Changing back to context version of 16-1-2006 brought everything back to normal. Has something in the system changed? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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texexec --version
by Peter Münster 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Hello, "texexec --version" creates always the files texvers-mpgraph.mp and mpgraph.mp. Is this really necessary? It's not a real problem, since I can make a script "texversion.sh": #!/bin/sh texexec --version rm -f texvers-mpgraph.mp mpgraph.mp Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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no overfull hbox warning
by Peter Münster 30 Jan '06

30 Jan '06

Hello, unfortunately there is no overfull \hbox warning message, when the line is too long in a section title or a float caption: \starttext \section{\dorecurse{100}x} \placefigure{\dorecurse{100}x}{bla} \stoptext In general, I think there should be more error- or warning-messages in ConTeXt, so that one can grep the output for the words "error" or "warning" to test if all is ok. Quite often, you see a problem only in the pdf-file, but there is no warning message in the output (font issus for example). In this area, LaTeX is much better... Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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