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Cyrillic replacement for TeX Gyre Schola?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

приве́т! My songbooks are typeset in TeX Gyre Schola (since Century Schoolbook is the default lyrics font of LilyPond, I like it and it’s very readable). Seems like I didn’t need Russian lyrics since the removal of Cyrillic glyphs from TeX Gyre. But now I do. What would you do? Is there an illegal "complete" version around, or can you suggest a replacement (and tell me how to setup ConTeXt to take that font for all Cyrillic letters)? Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry
by J. R. Schmid 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

Dear list, for better or worse, I'm trying to typeset Arabic poetry in ConTeXt after having become fed up with LaTeX for a variety of reasons. Arabic script itself is not a problem and I already love how easy it is to use whatever font you like and how clean ConTeXt seems to be in its design. What is giving me trouble, though, is the face that traditionally, poetry needs to be typeset in two columns. Using an English poem for an example, it'd look a little bit like this: Said Rich Accetta-Evans: 1 My poem delights me 2 My poem is mine 3 It is like fresh bread 4 When I bake it myself 5 It is like my son 6 The day he was born [...] This is to be read in the order of the numbers, so "columns" or "simplecolumns" won't work (I think). The second problem is the way in which Arabic needs to be justified, namely not by adjusting the space between words, but instead by adjusting the connecting line between letters: قال أبو الطيب أحمد بن الحسين المتنبّي أنـا الـذي نـظر الأعمى إلـى أدبي وأسمعـت كـلماتــي مـن به صمم كم تـطلبون لـنا عيبًـا فــيعجزكم ويكره المجد ما تأتـون والكرم ما أبعـد العيب والنقصان عن شرفي أنا الثّريا وذان الشيب والهرم [...] I couldn't find any info on either of these two questions through the documentation or through Google (although I might have been looking for the wrong keywords). Any comments are appreciated! :-) With best regards, J. R. Schmid

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beta
by Hans Hagen 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

Hi, Some new magic in the beta ... \setupbodyfont[pagella] \starttext \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setupalign[tolerant] \definefirstline [fancy] [alternative=line, color=darkred, style=\setfontfeature{smallcaps}] \setfirstline[fancy] \input tufte \par \setfirstline[fancy] \input ward \par \setfirstline[fancy] \input knuth \par \setfirstline[fancy] \input bryson \page \definefirstline [fancy] [alternative=word, color=darkblue, style=bold, n=2] \setfirstline[fancy] \input tufte \par \setfirstline[fancy] \input ward \par \setfirstline[fancy] \input knuth \par \setfirstline[fancy] \input bryson \page \stoptext (Actually, it was rather old magic that I found back in an "early days of mkiv" file). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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LuajitTeX fails to load font
by Marco Patzer 24 Aug '13

24 Aug '13

Hi, the following example compiles fine with LuaTeX, but LuajitTeX fails to find the font. \setupalign[r2l] \definefont[Sheherazade][name:scheherazade*arabic at 18pt] \starttext \Sheherazade أهلا بالعالم! \stoptext fonts > defining > font with asked name 'scheherazade' is not found using lookup 'name' fonts > defining > unknown font 'scheherazade', loading aborted fonts > defining > unable to define 'scheherazade' as 'Sheherazade--0' The font is in the font database and regular LuaTeX succeeds. mtxrun --script fonts --list -all scheh scheherazade scheherazade /home/marco/.fonts/scheherazade/ScheherazadeRegOT.ttf scheherazadenormal scheherazade /home/marco/.fonts/scheherazade/ScheherazadeRegOT.ttf This might be related to the thread from a few days ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/83871/focus=83877 Marco PS: The font can be found here: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/render_download.php?format=file&media_id…

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Systems of equations in ConTeXt?
by Xan 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hi, Simple question: what is the equivalent of: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} 2x - 2y = 0\\ 4x - 2y = 2 \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation*} in ConTeXt? I know mako aligned module, but I can't achive \left\{ and \right. thanks in advance, Xan.

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Hidden sections
by Mikoláš Štrajt 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

Hello all, We are writing a magazine with my friends and I am going to typeset it with ConTEXt. It works fine but I ran into the problem with heads. In our magazine articles will be grouped in sections (e.g. poetry, short stories, programming). I need to hide section heads in text but to show them in TOC and page headers. So there will be no „Poetry“ head in text but „Poetry“ will be shown in page header and TOC. Unfortunately, the trick from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Titles#Flushing_ section_head_data_without_typesetting_them_in_the_text seems to not work for me. Thanks for help. -- Mikoláš Štrajt

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Feature Request: define colour in relation to existing colour
by Thangalin 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '13

Hi, What would it take to extend \definecolor so that: \definecolor[ColourA][ColourB][t=0.5, a=1] defines a new colour (ColourB) based on an existing colour (ColourA)? I know that \definespotcolor[ColourA][ColourB][t=0.5, a=1] works, but it seems like \definecolor would also be a natural fit. Kind regards.

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Feature Request: showframe debugging
by Thangalin 21 Aug '13

21 Aug '13

Hi, \showframe [ labels=on, measurements=on, color=red, ] Would produce an image similar to the attached, but with the black lines drawn in the specified colour. Using labels=on would show the names of the items that can be changed with \setuplayout. Using measurements=on would show the values for each of the items. I don't know if there is any value separating the measurements from the labels. Thank you!

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\looseness query
by Alan Bowen 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

I am currently noticing an occasional difference in the effect of \looseness=-1 between the betas up to May 5 and the three more recent betas. Before I try to make adjustments, I thought it best to ask: Is there a specifically ConTeXt alternative to the \looseness command that allows one to adjust the number of lines in a particular paragraph? Alan

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Em dash using Hoefler
by Martin Moncrieffe 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

Hopefully, this is the correct list for this question. I'm trying to typeset documents using the font Hoefler on MacOSX (10.8.4) with ConTeXt 2013.05.28 from the TeXlive 2013 distribution. All works, but unfortunately, em dashes are not typeset correctly; there are three dashes instead of a continuous line. I'm obviously missing something and would appreciate help in correcting this. A minimal example that produces the error is: \usetypescriptfile[osx] \usetypescript[hoefler] \setupbodyfont[hoefler,11pt] \starttext A test of Hoefler at 10 pt. The emdash--- does not work... \stoptext files are compiled using "context myfile.tex" Thanks. __martin.

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