June 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)
by Alan Stone 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

( Oops, pushed inadvertedly some key on my keyboard and the message was away while in GMail - here's the sequel... ) Having heard Linux is, amongst other things, far more stable I might be tempted to play with it and progressively build some experience with it, master the beast and then switch some applications, amongst which ConTeXt, to it. As I presently don't know a thing about Linux, which distribution do you recommend ? Many thanks, Alan At Friday 13/06/2008 12:28, you wrote: >Hi, > >Yesterday WXP crashed and it took me a whole day to >repair the thing and get it up and running again. > >Ha

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Problem installing ConTeXt Minimals
by Tomi Lindberg 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

I've been trying to install ConTeXt Minimals to my other computer but I just can't get it to work. Installer exits with Error Code 1 and the first-setup.bat from the command line tools doesn't seem to get the required files either (after the script has run the folder is about 6.5Mb). I've installed Ruby, Perl, GhostScript and rsync as required. This might be a firewall issue but I couldn't find any notion of opening ports from installation instructions and with quick Googling I got the impressions that it shouldn't be required to open ports for rsync. So, can I fix this by opening something from my firewall or is the problem somewhere else? What exactly does that Error Code 1 mean? Thanks, Tomi Lindberg

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Arabic index entries
by Khaled Hosny 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

Arabic index entries are all listed under "unknown" instead of its respective Arabic letters. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a misconfiguration from my side. See the attached example. Regards, -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Empty page at the end of document
by Tomi Lindberg 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

After reading Wiki and searching this list I still have problems with the additional empty page appearing at the end of my document. This only happens when that said extra page would make the document to have even number of pages but as my document is meant to be singlesided I see no reason why it would be required to have an even number of pages. Here's my product file (in environment loaded in project there is a line "\setupsectionblock[backpart][page=]": \startproduct book \project atkmom \component images \startfrontmatter \environment fmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \environment body \component intro \component osbasics \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \completeindex[title=Hakemisto] \stopbackmatter \stopproduct So is there any way to get rid off that extra page in documents that would otherwise be odd pages long? -- Thanks, Tomi Lindberg

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Custom starting text of table and figure labels
by Aleksandr 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Hello, Is it possible to define custom starting text of a table of picture label? For example so that figure would have a label like "Picture 1" instead of "Figure 1" or a table would have "Spreadsheet 1" instead of "Table 1". Thank you! Bye!

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SciTE/Linux: how to change font ?
by Alan Stone 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi, Is it possible to use the available True/OpenType fonts ? If so, how ? Thx, Alan PS Ubuntu 8.04, SciTE 1.75

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\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] no more working
by Peter Münster 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hello, In version 2008.06.11, \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] is no more working. Here a test file: % engine=luatex \starttext test: oeps {\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]x: xx \bfd x: xx} oeps: test \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode
by Khaled Hosny 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Luatex does not mirror characters that has a Bidi_Mirrored property when the text direction is set to RTL (TRT in Aleph), according to http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Mirroring, the different types of parenthesis that has Bidi_Mirrored property should be mirreored in RTL mode, but this isn't what I get. Is this a bug, feature, or am I missing some thing? Thanks, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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ConTeXt manual
by TeXWorld 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hello, Where can I find the lastest version of ConTeXt the manual. Mine is november 12, 2001 Maybe there are better manuals today. Can you tell me please where I can find them. Thank you.

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metapost question
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hi all, probably an easy question: for a presentation, I would like to have an area of my slide highlighted by placing a transparent grey layer on top of the slide and having one area of this layer completely transparent, a bit like this screenshot: http://debaday.debian.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/key3.jpg Any suggestions for the easiest way to achieve this effect? Thanks Thomas

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