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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 02 Jul '08

02 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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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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Luatex arranging
by Diego Depaoli 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Wolfgang and Hans have just solved a problem and I'm here again to ask for help. Is arranging already supported in Luatex? If I call context --arrange (undocumented) with the following simple code I get the toc, but the text is only on the left side of the paper. \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2UP] \setuplist[section][alternative=c] \starttext \placelist[section] \section{One} \dorecurse{15}{\input ward} \section{Two} \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth} \section{Last} \dorecurse{20}{\input tufte} \stoptext Thanks in advance -- Diego Depaoli

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distro info
by Andrea Valle 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Hi to all, I've briefly presented ConTeXt to the students of my course in Visual Identities. They were all enthusiastic. So they asked me if I can give an introductory but "real" seminar. At my lab the students are all on macosx 10.4/5. Now the probem: All my students comes from humanities, no computer science background at all. I cannot ask them to be aware of low level installation aspects. My ideal would be something like the standard ConTeXt I was working with an year ago. One installs MacTeX and can start working. Now, we need easy font switching. I'm actually using XeTeX. But it has been complicated to set it up. I don't think I can have my students dig into installations ("patch this" etc). Is there any chance to have luatex into the next MacTeX distro? Any ideas? Many 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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texfont fails for font Cataneo BoldSwash
by Andreas Schneider 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Hello, when I install the font Cataneo (from a Corel CD) with texfont, 4 of the 5 font files (Light, Regular, RegularSwash, Bold) proceed correctly, but on the 4th (BoldSwash) texfont produces an error message an creates empty files. I'm using texlive 2007 from the Debian Lenny GNU/Linux distribution. texmfstart texfont --fontroot=debian/font-cataneo/usr/share/texmf --vendor=bitstrea --collection=cataneo --encoding=texnansi --makepath --install TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 encoding vector : texnansi vendor name : bitstrea source path : . font collection : cataneo texmf font root : debian/font-cataneo/usr/share/texmf map file name : texnansi-bitstrea-cataneo.map source path : . processing files : all on afm path locating afm files : using pattern ./*.afm locating afm files : using pattern * copying files : afm copying : CataneoBT-Bold.afm copying : CataneoBT-BoldSwash.afm copying : CataneoBT-Light.afm copying : CataneoBT-Regular.afm copying : CataneoBT-RegularSwash.afm copying files : pfb copying : CataneoBT-Bold.pfb copying : CataneoBT-BoldSwash.pfb copying : CataneoBT-Light.pfb copying : CataneoBT-Regular.pfb copying : CataneoBT-RegularSwash.pfb no map file at : debian/font-cataneo/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/texnansi-bitstrea-cataneo.map no map file at : debian/font-cataneo/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/texnansi-bitstrea-cataneo.map no map file at : debian/font-cataneo/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfm/context/texnansi-bitstrea-cataneo.map font identifier : CataneoBT-Bold -> text -> tfm + vf generating raw tfm/vpl : texnansi-raw-CataneoBT-Bold (from CataneoBT-Bold) generating new vf : texnansi-CataneoBT-Bold (from texnansi-CataneoBT-Bold) B expected: ! syntax error C 83 ; WX 495 ; N S ; B-78 -137 458 637 ; ^ font identifier : -> text -> tfm + vf generating raw tfm/vpl : texnansi-raw-CataneoBT-BoldSwash (from CataneoBT-BoldSwash) B expected: ! syntax error C 83 ; WX 495 ; N S ; B-78 -137 458 637 ; ^ generating new vf : texnansi-CataneoBT-BoldSwash (from texnansi-CataneoBT-BoldSwash) font identifier : CataneoBT-Light -> text -> tfm + vf generating raw tfm/vpl : texnansi-raw-CataneoBT-Light (from CataneoBT-Light) generating new vf : texnansi-CataneoBT-Light (from texnansi-CataneoBT-Light) font identifier : CataneoBT-Regular -> text -> tfm + vf generating raw tfm/vpl : texnansi-raw-CataneoBT-Regular (from CataneoBT-Regular) generating new vf : texnansi-CataneoBT-Regular (from texnansi-CataneoBT-Regular) font identifier : CataneoBT-RegularSwash -> text -> tfm + vf generating raw tfm/vpl : texnansi-raw-CataneoBT-RegularSwash (from CataneoBT-RegularSwash) generating new vf : texnansi-CataneoBT-RegularSwash (from texnansi-CataneoBT-RegularSwash) updating map file : texnansi-bitstrea-cataneo.map (for pdftex) updating map file : texnansi-bitstrea-cataneo.map (for dvipdfm) updating map file : texnansi-bitstrea-cataneo.map (for dvips) generating : ls-r databases mktexlsr: Updating /home/andreas/LaTeX/cataneo/debian/font-cataneo/usr/share/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. What causes the error? How can I correct it? Thanks for your help Andreas

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