March 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

current fontsize in both marks
by Peter Rolf 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi, for my overprinting macro I need the actual font size (no overprinting if size is greater 23pt). After searching and a lot of tries I found \scaledfont (mkii) and \somefontsize (mkiv), which seem to show the right values. Both macros are bound exclusively to only one mark. Is there a better (more generic and mark independent) way? Peter -- "Es ist doch ein Trost, das Geldgier manchmal blöd macht." - Kottan in "Kottan ermittelt", Folge 9: "Die Einteilung" -

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Re: [NTG-context] Tikz updated in minimals but file does not compile
by Lutz Haseloff 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi all, shame on me :-( The tikz problem solution was by: >From adityam at umich.edu Sat Mar 7 21:42:27 2009 From: adityam at umich.edu (Aditya Mahajan) Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 15:42:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: [NTG-context] luatex tikz problem Wolfgang and Aditya, please excuse my wrong citation. Lutz

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Let's Polish the math!
by Marcin Borkowski 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi, how to do this: here in Poland we have some conventions as for typesetting math; for example, we don't use \leq, but \leqslant; we don't write "tan" for tangent, but "tg"; we don't write "arcsin", but "arc\,sin"; etc. Would it be possible to have such typographic conventions (I could provide a more comprehensive list, of course) enabled by \mainlanguage[pl]? A related problem is dashes; where the English use an em-dash without any spaces, the Polish use an en-dash with spaces of around 0.2em (the left one "unbreakable", i.e., with \penalty10000). Also, we put periods after section numbers, so no "1.2 Section", but rather "1.2. Section". What is the ConTeXt way to have such things for different languages? Regards -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl) This program is written in Perl. While stronger people find reading Perl code character-building, it should not be shown to people in their formative years. The author will not accept any responsibility for any moral grief caused. (The McKornik Jr. Public License)

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pinyin in context
by Bill Long 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

I input pinyin above Chinese character in bellow way: ------------------------------------------- \documentclass{article} \usepackage[overlap, CJK]{ruby} \usepackage{pinyin} \usepackage{CJK} \begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{song} \begin{document} \renewcommand{\rubysep}{.3ex} \renewcommand{\rubysize}{.5} \ruby{静}{\jing4} \ruby{夜}{\ye4}\ruby{思}{\si1} \end{CJK*} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------ but it has poor line break, Does contex support pinyin ? and how to implement? Thanks. -- 卷829_3 【怀香炉峰道人】贯休常思峰顶叟，石窟土为床。日日先见日，烟霞多异香。冥心同槁木，扫雪带微阳。终必相寻去，斯人不可忘。

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Re: [NTG-context] \startMPinclusions[+]
by Hans van der Meer 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

On 17 mrt 2009, at 20:14, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 13:19, Hans van der Meer wrote: >> In mkii this could be used to add material to metapost runs: >> \startMPinclusions[+] >> ..... >> \stopMPInclusions >> >> This stopped working in the latest stable version I have seen: >> ConTeXt ver: 2008.10.31 13:58 MKIV fmt: 2008.12.17 >> >> Is it already fixed? Or can a quick patch be given? > > What does the [+] do? I usually put multiple \startMPinclusions and > they are all respected (at least it mkii; in mkiv they were not, but > Hans probably fixed something in this respect two weeks ago; I did not > have a chance to test that yet). > > Mojca In january 2006 Hans Hagen wrote to me about the following he promised to include. Could it be this has been forgotten in the mean time? > Hans van der Meer wrote: > >> I thought to incrementally add to MPinclusions by successive blocks >> >> \startMPinclusions >> ...... >> \stopMPinclusions >> >> \startMPinclusions >> ...... >> \stopMPinclusions >> etc. >> >> But according to the generated mp-file it seems to incorporate the >> last one only. >> Is this correct and if so, is it an option to allow appending in >> the above manner? >> Or will that be too difficult to build. > > > (patch supp-mps.tex) > > \def\startMPinclusions > {\dosingleempty\dostartMPinclusions} > > \long\def\dostartMPinclusions[#1]#2\stopMPinclusions % document wide > {\doifelse{#1}{+} > {\@EA\long\@EA\def\@EA\theMPinclusions\@EA > {\theMPinclusions > \writeMPgraphic{#2}}} > {\long\def\theMPinclusions > {% \expanded ! > \@EA\expanded\@EA{\@EA\writeMPgraphic\@EA{\the\MPextensions;}} > % new > \writeMPgraphic{#2}}}} > > \def\MPinclusions > {\dosingleempty\doMPinclusions} > > \long\def\doMPinclusions[#1]#2% > {\startMPinclusions[#1]#2\stopMPinclusions} > > now you can say > > \startMPinclusions[+] .... > > i'll add this feature > > Hans > _______________________________________________

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type-win.tex
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hello, Can someone pls test my typescript? It defines the following standard Windows fonts: Arial Arial Black Comic Sans MS Courier New Franklin Gothic Medium Georgia Impact Lucida Console Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif Palatino Linotype Sylfaen Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana Waiting for responses, Vyatcheslav

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Thumbtabs on edge of pages.
by John Culleton 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Apparently this facility exists in primitive form via some special styles in LaTeX. Is there any facility for same in Context? Ideally the thumbtabs would line up with the corresponding chapter entries in the first (summary) TOC. Of course one can always cobble something up, but I am hoping that someone has already done the cobbling. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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\FlushStep in module s-pre-50 adds too much space
by Curious Learn 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hello, I tried using module s-pre-50 to get stepwise revelation of the content in my presentation today. I noticed that the command \FlushStep adds what seems to be too much space between successive items. Is there a way, I can prevent \FlushStep from adding this much space. Thank you.

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\startMPinclusions[+]
by Hans van der Meer 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

In mkii this could be used to add material to metapost runs: \startMPinclusions[+] ..... \stopMPInclusions This stopped working in the latest stable version I have seen: ConTeXt ver: 2008.10.31 13:58 MKIV fmt: 2008.12.17 Is it already fixed? Or can a quick patch be given? Hans van der Meer

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Which revision control system do you use?
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi all, to start the threat here is what I use(d). On my old Windows machines I used Subversion because it was easy to use with TortoiseSVN but since I'm on my Mac I use Mercurial for my files. Wolfgang

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