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Typographical Engineering in Context
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

[Disclaimer: NOT a joke!] Dear gang, cabal, and knights of the context table, FYI: I am presently working on a book: Typographical Ontology and Engineering: Structured and Automated Authoring in Context It is a book on ConTeXt, but NOT a ConTeXtBook, ConTeXt Companion, or other clone. Rather, it aims to introduce Context as a general tool for typographical and typesetting engineering. Some of the philosophy of book design and layout will be discussed, and it will contain a strong reference to commands etc. NB: MKIV ONLY! The basic outline is I. Ontology and Theory II. Typographical Engineering in Context [including special topics, advanced techniques of luatex, opentype etc] III. A Typographical Engineer's Reference [organization of options and commands, glossary] IV. Appendix: Authoring in Notepad++ [or some other tool] V. Indices So no knowledge or familiarity with TeX is assumed at all. We will cover some advanced topics as well, including introductions to luatex scripting etc I was not planning to announce this for some time yet, but given the buzz around the topic on ConTeXt documentation Hans thought it would be a good moment to introduce this project and to get your feedback. So please use this thread to make suggestions: What would you all like to see covered in the planned book project: Typographical Ontology and Engineering: Structured and Automated Authoring in Context I look forward to your feedback and suggestions! 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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Re: [NTG-context] simplebib
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

> > on the garden there is am module called 'simplebib' > > which has commands \bibitem and \bibsource > > > > Are these two commands meant alternativly? > > > Both are unrelated to each other, they are two different ways to > create a bibiliography without the bib module and a bib file. > > Wolfgang Sorry, I meant the first only. There are two commands \bibitem and \bibsource which are not clear to me. Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] How to define your own math character (MK-IV)
by gummybears 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hi Hans & Aditya Please be patient as I am not a developer just someone who writes documents. I discovered the integral symbols starting at the double integral are now composed by repeating the normal integral symbol n-times. However in an earlier email I commented that they didn't look right (something to do with setting the displaystyle (I think)) Then I discovered the Asana math font which has "correct" glyphs The missing symbols for math-vfu.lua are Asana math font 0x222B normal integral \int 0x222C double integral \iint 0x222D triple integral \iiint 0x222E contour integral \oint 0x222F surface integral \oiint 0x2230 volume integral \oiiint I also need the space-time integral \iiiint (4 i's) but could not find it in the Asana font Note for the other math stuff the Asana math font does not work like vectors and such. For $\vec{r}, \vec{R}$ the vector symbol is shifted to the right and not aligned above the character (hope this make some sense otherwise forget it for the moment). Kind regards gummybears

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line-break index bug
by Steffen Wolfrum 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hi, I am sorry, but in ConTeXt ver: 2010.04.10 MKIV there still is this index/line-break bug! See example below please: \setuplayout [width=113mm,location=middle] \usetypescript[postscript] \definetypeface[postscript][rm][serif][times][default] \mainlanguage[de] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] \setupalign[line,block] \starttext dieses ist dabei typisch für den Bereich der Architekten- oder Ingenieurleistungen\index{Ingenieurleistungen}. Warum? \stoptext Steffen

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simplebib
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hallo, on the garden there is am module called 'simplebib' which has commands \bibitem and \bibsource Are these two commands meant alternativly? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Help needed: texshow-web/command reference
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

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bug/feature request tracker?
by Michael Saunders 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

>it's not that complex to deal with it (but i'd only do it in mkiv) gien >time and motivation ... you can put a feature request in the tracker so >that i can look at it when i'm reworking marging notes the mkiv way >(first come floats) Where is this "tracker"?

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no protrusion or hz
by Michael Saunders 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

\definefontfeature[default][mode=node,language=dflt,script=latn,kern=yes,liga=yes,tlig=yes,trep=yes] \definefontfeature[body][default][protrusion=quality,expansion=quality] \starttypescript [test] \definetypeface[test][rm][serif][palatino][default][features=body] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[test] \setupalign[hanging,hz] \setupbodyfont[test,12pt]% \mainlanguage[en-us] \showgrid \starttext \addff{body} \input{knuth} \stoptext Results in no protrusion or hz. What's wrong?

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Aligning text to bottom of page
by Tom 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Is there a command that will align the text that follows to the bottom of the page? Copyright pages are often oriented this way. Another example of this is the end of chapter page in "The TeXbook" by Knuth. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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difference between a and b alternatives in \blackrule
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hello, What is the difference between a and b alternatives in \blackrule? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/setupblackrules#Description Regards, Vyatcheslav

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