April 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Updates with older dates
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Sorry, just found a strange thing. A month old distribution of TeXLive contains bib-mod.doc file dated November 4, 2006. And current cont-tmf.zip contains the same file but dated... September 7, 2006. Strange, isn't it? Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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book by hermann zapf
by Hans Hagen 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi, For those who like beautiful books and are not a Dante member ... http://www.linotype.com/26/merchandise.html you can order Hermann Zapfs latest book here, apart from being an interesting and well designed book, it's also also a nice palatino showcase (nova and sans), perfect paper, hard cover and bound, so go for it ... Dante members got this book as gift sponsored by Hermann Zapf. Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now
by Mojca Miklavec 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

I admit it. I admit everything. I'm the guily one for the whole mess about XeTeX! http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes_in_XeTeX Some time ago Hans has decided to ignore \enableregime in XeTeX. I could have written more (and cite things), but I'm in a hurry right now and I will probably be offline for the whole weekend. The wiki pages need a massive adaption! Really. On 4/13/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <yatskovsky(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Mojca, > > And what is more, you have said that other input regimes should work as well, but the following fragment doesn't work. (arbitrary symbols are substituted) I said that it could have worked ... I didn't say that it actually works ;) \enableregime should be adapted in my opinion. I had a patch already, but I don't have time to look for it right now. The following should work though: Either \XeTeXinputencoding "bytes" % uncomment the line which prevents loading of regimes in XeTeX \enableregime[cp1251] or \XeTeXinputencoding "cp1251" > \enableregime[cp1251] > \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Times New Roman] > \setupbodyfont[myface, 12pt] > \starttext > Hello World! > Привет! > \stoptext > > (I really saved the file in that encoding - Windows Cyrillic, 1251) > > It is quite disappointing, because that encoding would cover my English-Russian-Ukrainian typesetting needs fully. UTF is amazing but not as convenient as cp1251. There should really be no problem in adapting the \enableregime to cover those regimes (it's really a simple patch). From the fact that Hans added quite some new files and definitions during transition to luaTeX ... I guess that he might still be willing to adapt that behaviour in XeTeX as well. Mojca

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Grid-keeping list (again)
by Johannes Kuester 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello, I'm still trying to typeset a "grid-keeping" list (or table). Wolfgang Schuster supplied me off-list with the attached module. This works fine except for one problem: Only the first few lines are placed on the grid, then the grid is lost. After the next pass (i.e. after the next "texmfstart texexec testfile"), some more lines are placed on the grid. (So I need many passes to typeset the complete list correctly). Why? Any idea? (I fiddled around with \synchronizegrid, \placeongrid, \moveongrid, and \startlinecorrection \stoplinecorrection, but none of these seems to work.) You could try the effect with the following example: %%%%%%%%%% \setuplayout[grid=yes, columns=2] \showgrid %\showstruts \usemodule[gridlist] \starttext \startcolumns[n=2, balance=no] %% (columns are not necessary to show the effect) \dorecurse{20}{ \zeichen{0001}{a}{first letter}{}% \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter}{}% \zeichen{0002}{c}{third letter, this one has a longer entry which needs more than one line}{}% } \stopcolumns \stoptext %%%%%%%%%% (This should result in an annotated list of mathematical symbols, showing the Unicode number, the math symbol, and some explanation (and where the explanation could need more than one line); quite similar to the list I published in "Detailtypografie" (2nd ed. 2004), but for another -- quite pressing -- project.) Johannes -- Johannes Kuester typoma mailto:jk@typoma.com http://www.typoma.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello Paul, Thanks a lot for help with Xetex+Context on Windows. And by the way, what is the "uc" encoding? It is not mentioned on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes -- With best regards Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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"Announcing: XPSTeX" . A joke. Really ?
by luigi scarso 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

ok, it's a joke http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pdftex/3404 (but the best is http://www.google.com/tisp/ ) But my question is: Will be "easy" in luatex to implement a new output format (dvi,pdf,xps,<<my-xml>>,<<my-bin-format>>) driven by command line ? Actually $>texmfstart texexec --pdf a.tex ==> a.pdf $>texmfstart texexec a.tex ==> a.dvi ie, tex=>pdf or tex=>dvi because pdftex has two native output format. Of course one can use workflows tex=>dvi=>ps=>pdf tex=>dvi=>html by external tools, or one can write a tex macro that write on file whatever one wants, but it's not what I mean. luigi

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Killing the space after a section.
by John R. Culleton 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

I have the file set up with no parindent and one blank line between paragraphs. but I want to kill the extra space after \section headers. The current definition is: \setuphead[section][number=no,style=\SectSans,page=no,after={\vskip 2sp}] ...but the blank line remains. Do I need to use a negative \vskip? \SectSans is a font I set up (bold, sans serif and slightly larger. ) If there is a way to specify both bold and sans serif at a larger (e.g. \tfb) size I would be happy to use that instead. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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macro for api-documentation
by Janko Hauser 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello everyone, good morning europe, I want to generate an API- documentation. For this I use a table (bTABLE) for every function definition. That's a lot of code, which is in part dynamic (number of rows for example depends on number of arguments). Here is a simple example, but I will need colors and different fonts, different lines between in/out and so on. \startalignment[middle] \midaligned{\ss \bTABLE \bTR \bTD[nc=3] validateRegistration \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nr=3] \rotate[rotation=90]{Input} \eTD \bTD parameter1 \eTD \bTD Beschreibung zu Parameter 1 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD parameter2 \eTD \bTD Beschreibung zu Parameter 2 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD parameter2 \eTD \bTD Beschreibung zu Parameter 2 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nr=3] \rotate[rotation=90]{Output} \eTD \bTD parameter1 \eTD \bTD Beschreibung zu Parameter 1 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD parameter2 \eTD \bTD Beschreibung zu Parameter 2 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD parameter3 \eTD \bTD Beschreibung zu Parameter 3 \eTD \eTR \eTABLE} \stopalignment Are there any examples to do this more generally or better approaches to set this up? With regards, __Janko -- Janko Hauser email: jhauser(a)zscout.de mobile: +49 1721 641552

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broken section number
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hallo! I need help with referencing a subsubsection-number and the following setup: --------------------------------------- \setuphead[chapter][number=no] \setuphead[subsection][resetnumber=no] \setuphead[subsubsection][ numbercommand={\determineheadnumber[section]\currentheadnumber .}] \setupsection[section][previousnumber=no,conversion=Romannumerals] \setupsection[subsection][previousnumber=no,conversion=Characters] \setupsection[subsubsection][previousnumber=no] \starttext \section{Eins} \subsection{Zuerst} \subsubsection{Test} \subsubsection[LAB]{Test} \subsubsection{Test} \subsection{Danach} \subsubsection{Test} \subsubsection{Test} \section{Zwei} \subsection{Und dann} \subsubsection{Test} In \in[LAB] % <---- problem \stoptext --------------------------------------- The numbering of the subsub's is prefixed (arabic, not roman) and reset by the section-number (not the subsection-number). This works. The problem is, that section-number-prefix is not used for the reference. What is the solution? Btw. I have not found any explanations for the 'prefix' and the 'ownnumber' options. Where can I read and learn about these options? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now
by Paul Schalck 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

An easy way to test OpenType fonts with Context/Xetex from scratch under Windows (XP): 1. Get Texlive 2007 2. Install the Context collection with the Texlive Manager (Xetex is included) 3. Create a little test file: \enableregime[utf] \definetypeface[myface][ss][Xsans][Arial]%or any else font in your /windows/fonts folder; run "fc-list >namelist.txt" to get them all \setupbodyfont[myface, 12pt] \starttext Hello World! \stoptext 4. Run "texexec --xtx test.tex" Sources: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_XeTeX http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192

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