July 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

nbsp U+00A0 don’t work
by Olivier Guéry 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hello, As you can see in my signature, I had remap my french keyboard layout according to dvorak rules. I have the nbsp (U+00A0) on Shift+Space because we use it a lot in french (all the symbols who needs it are on Shift too). I discover today that context don't seem to recognise it : I found a « ; » alone at the beginning of a line. Context deal with the nbsp when it's the « ~ », but with the U+00A0, not. The symbol is here, my vim highlight it. I tried with and without \setcharacterspacing [frenchpunctuation] with no effect. I use context --version : MtxRun | main context file: /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex MtxRun | current version: 2008.06.11 22:25 Speaking about french punctuation, I remember that Arthur Reutenauer speaks about rules he wrote for frenchpunctuation, can we make a wiki page with all that rules ? I'd like to ask french typograph to look at them. Cheers, Olivier. PS : hard to do a minimal exemple, but I can try if you need it. -- [Message tapé sur un clavier Bépo : http://www.clavier-dvorak.org ] Olivier nemolivier(a)gmail.com http://nemolivier.blogspot.com

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Re: [NTG-context] context manuals sources
by Alan Stone 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hi, re: http://context.aanhet.net/svn/manuals/context/ I've downloaded all files from the above directory to a separate folder on my PC and am trying to compile the screen version of the english context manual with texmfstart texexec --pdf --mode=screen cont-en.tex Is that the correct command ? I'm receiving compile errors (log file in attachement). Best, Alan - XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.1 (Web2C 7.5.6) - ConTeXt ver: 2008.06.22 17:38 MKII fmt: 2008.6.23 ( ctx minimal) - Ubuntu 8.04

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AUCTeX and ConTeXt
by Charles P. Schaum 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

I really like the support that AUCTeX gives for ConTeXt. Actually, in general it does well with any flavor. I'll have to RTFM to see what I can do to start a new file specifically in ConTeXt, plain, or whatever, not just LaTeX. The weird thing is that it reports unspecified "problems" at the end of running context but no such problems really exist. The trivial snippet: \starttext Hello, world! \stoptext yields the message buffer: Updating define menu... Updating setup menu... Updating other macro's menu... Updating project structure menu... Updating section block menu... Updating section menu... Updating...done Type `C-c C-l' to display results of compilation. ConTeXt: problems after {1} page. The pdf generated is, however, entirely satisfactory, as are all texted documents. My strategy is to ignore it. This appears specific to AUCTeX, in this case running on GTK Emacs 22 / Ubuntu 8.04. By contrast, I have minimal to no problems on my OS X installation. Charles

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dot/graphviz and Tex/friends
by Charles P. Schaum 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Question: Has anyone ever thought of integrating something dot-like into ConTeXt or LaTeX? One thing that I have done is avail myself of the constrained graphs for doing anything like timelines. It would be fantastic to get that in TeX and friends. Or would that fall under dot -> MetaPost? Charles

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