July 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

how to comment several lines at once ?
by Alan Stone 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi, Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer... How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line with the % sign ? Alan

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startregister <-> stopregister
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi, converting a MSWord Doc file to TEI-XML gives me this kind of index range: <anchor type="bookmark-start" xml:id="Index216"/> <anchor type="bookmark-end" corresp="#Index216"/ ><index><term>Verfassungsvertrag</term></index> Unfortunately in ConTeXt the register entry is required the other way round: \startregister[index][knuthrange1]{Knuth} \stopregister[index][knuthrange1] Could it be possible also to provide something like ... \startregister[index][Index216] \stopregister[index][Index216]{Verfassungsvertrag} ... in mkii, please? Steffen

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unusual behavior for ``
by Andrea Valle 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi I'm using minimals. always input with \enbleregime[utf] Now, I was used to input ``and '' to obtain apices. Now, the second is rendered fine, the first remains `` e.g. ``l'ambiente dei suoni'' is rendered as in the pdf attached) why? what have I to do? Thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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LuaTeX problems
by Tomi Lindberg 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

ConTeXt minimals is up and running but I have problems with LuaTeX. First the files I assume to be important: % Project \startproject atkmom \environment environ \product book \stopproject % Product \startproduct book \project atkmom \component images \startfrontmatter \environment fmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \environment body \component intro \component osbasics \component files \component opera \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \completeindex[title=Hakemisto] \stopbackmatter \stopproduct With "texexec" my project results in proper .pdf file except the additional empty page at the end of it. With "context" the process ends after line "\product book" (I get a proper notice about the end of product book) in project file and i get the "*" prompt. It seems like LuaTeX can't see the "\stopproject" at all and thinks that the file has unexpectedly ended. Also with context I get messages that every \at, \in and \about that refers to something in component other than the one they're in is an unknown reference. They all work fine with texexec. Any idea what's wrong?

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screen sizes
by Alan Stone 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi, >From what I understand from the ConTeXt manual, the S3-S6 screen sizes relate to the physical screen dimensions, more precisely the display area width and height. However, the only information I find when searching for the most common screen sizes relates to the screen resolution and/or the screen diagonal size. Any idea where to find reliable data about the most common screen (physical) sizes ? Alan

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Documentation [a bit OT]
by Diego Depaoli 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Looking for help I've spent a lot of time switching between wiki and mailing list, so I created a Google Custom Search, focused on Context,.located here http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=003194008888283590192:0plsycrlzcu Suggestions and improvements are welcome. Regards -- Diego Depaoli

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Trivial question about texexec --pdfsplit
by Diego Depaoli 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

How texexec --pdfsplit somefile.pdf works? I'm trying to split my booklet [A5][A4,landscape], texexec runs but I get only the last page in texexec.pdf. Cheers -- Diego Depaoli

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ConTeXt, Framemaker, and InDesign
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Dear gang, There has been some discussion on the list lately comparing ConTeXt with InDesign. Are there any Framemaker users on the list? I'm interested in comparisons between ConTeXt and Framemaker, with cross-comparisons with InDesign as appropriate. What does ConTeXt have that Framemaker does not? What does Framemaker have that ConTeXt does not? (svg integration comes to mind -- there's been some svg discussion here the last couple of days). From what I know of Framemaker -- structured processing etc, it seems that would be a more a~propos comparison with ConTeXt than InDesign. Eventually I would like to establish a wiki page with detailed and accurate comparisons between ConTeXt, InDesign, Framemaker, and perhaps other DTP applications as well. I even plan to get my hands on the "competition" so I can get more 1st hands knowledge for my own edification. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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How to set up bookman font.
by John Culleton 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

After all these years font handling in Context still eludes me. I want to use Bookman font and all its variants. Here is what I have: \usetypescriptfile[type-syn] \usetypescript[bookman] \setupbodyfont[bookman,12bp] But I still get a default font. Be gentle :<) -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

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OpenType cursive attachments
by Khaled Hosny 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Enabling "curs" font feature doesn't seem to enable it, in the attached example I enabled "curs" for the first line and disabled it for the second one, but it doesn't seem to get applied (the same output in the 2 lines). The font is here http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/pub/SimplifiedNaskh/SimplifiedNaskh.ttf -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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