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Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hello, I have noticed that ConTeXt uses "gr" for Greek, but the ISO code seems to be "el". Less problematic: should agr be grc instead? (OpenType uses PGR, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.) What do the Greek experts say? Well, English is a story on its own. "us" and "uk" don't have their own codes as a separate language, and even worse: uk should stand for Ukrainian!!! "Norwegian" (which is not a language at all) should be patched (according to an old user request) once. A similar problem exists with: - Chinese (cn instead of zn) - Czech (cz instead of cs) - Vietnamese (vn instead of vi) - Ukrainian (ua instead of uk!!!) A case where I have no opinion: - deo Some languages have already changed their codes in the past: - Spanish: sp -> es - German: du -> de - Slovenian: si -> sl (no trace left, I hope :) My proposal would be to change: - gr -> el - agr -> grc - cz -> cs - vn -> vi - deo -> ? (if at all) gmh - German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500) goh - German, Old High (ca.750-1050) - cn -> zn (with *lots of care*) And to keep all the needed synonyms. (Besides that: to issue a warning if possible.) I have no idea what to do with Ukrainian and UK though. ------------- Another issue: some languages need some little modifications or alternatives: 1.) In German, Slovenian, Croatian, (maybe in other languages as well) ... one can use two types of quotes: - „" U+201E/U+201C & ‚' U+201A/U+2018 (sorry, a bug in gmail reencodes them) - »« U+00BB/U+00AB & ›‹ U+203A/U+2039 It might make sense to be able to say something similar to \mainlanguage [german] [quotes | quotationmarks | quotationstyle = guillemots | guillemets or comma | ninesix] 2.) I could imagine a Serbian user to request being able to typeset in two scritpts (Latin or Cyrillic). That means: - different labels - loading different hyphenation patterns (even though transcription in either direction can be made on the fly - I can confirm that a user has already asked me if I know how to input text in cyrillic and get output in latin - as he wasn't fluent in reading Cyrillic, he wanted to misuse ConTeXt to help him read texts from web) So I could imagine making Cyrillic the default script, but still letting one to use \mainlanguage [serbian] [script=latin, % or even (if any user would be enthusiastic enough to provide code) transliteration=on] and get latin labels and hyphenation patterns. 3.) Solve the problem with English in a more elegant way: \mainlanguage [english] [alternative=us] or \mainlanguage[en][US] % as in "en_US.UTF-8" \mainlanguage[en][GB] \mainlanguage[en][AU] \mainlanguage[de][AT] % if one ever figures out that "German from Germany" isn't good enough Then, [us] should be kept as a synonym for \mainlanguage[en][US]. (The examples above could also be called via \mainlanguage[de][alternative=guillemets] or \mainlanguage[sr][alternative=latin].) 4.) deo \mainlanguage[de][alternative=old] ??? (no idea what that is about) Note that 1.) could be combined (should be "combinable") with this one. Any thoughts? Mojca

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\BL and \CL with MKIV
by Peter Münster 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hello, there are 2 problems with the example from the wiki: \BL gives a black box and \CL gives the following error: ! Missing \endgroup inserted. <inserted text> \endgroup <to be read again> \endtemplate <template> \endtemplate \normalTABLEmultirule #1->& \use {#1}\normalTABLElongrule & \dodocomplexTableGL ...LEmultirule {#3}}\fi \next \doPostTableGL #2 \TABLEgrayline ->\complexTableCOLOR [2,green] \SR ... l.13 \NC \tex{AR} \NC automatic row\NC\SR Here the test file: % engine=luatex \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \starttable[|l|l|] \HL \BL[1]\SR \NC Command \NC Meaning \NC\SR \HL \NC \tex{NC} \NC next column \NC\FR \NC \tex{NR} \NC next row \NC\LR \HL %\CL[green]\SR \NC \tex{AR} \NC automatic row\NC\SR \HL \stoptable \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Newbie Question about Installing on Mac OS X
by Ole Schmidt 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Dear List, I failed to install ConTeXt. I have no experience with ...-Tex. Is there a description somewhere how to install ConteXt on Mac OS X? Do I really need that very big (~ 1.2 Gb) LaTex (MacTex) to install? And if yes how do I concatenate them? (I've took a look at the unix- script from the minimal Mac OS X Installation Download but did not understand if there have to be a folder called tex in the /usr/local/ directory or if the script do create one?) I do know very few about these things so I'am very greatful for some more detailed hints. thank you very much ole

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patch to bibl-ams.tex
by Peter I. Hansen 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hi I'm typesetting a document using the context bib/bibltx modules and the 'ams' style. In the printed bibliography, entries with many authors are converted into: "Hansen et al." as they should, but printed as: "Hansenet al." which looks bad. My output looks much better using the following very simple tweak of the file 'bibl-ams.tex' 99c99 < \c!artauthoretaltext={ {\it et al.\/}}] --- > \c!artauthoretaltext={ {\it\ et al.\/}}] Just wanted to post is in case someone finds this handy. -Peter

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Options file for context
by Maurício 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hi, Is there some kind of file where I can list default options for texexec? For instance, I usually use --purgeall, and would like it to be default in my user environment. Thanks, Maurício

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extending the value of a key
by Peter Münster 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello, I remember, that there is a new mechanism to extend the value of a key, but I forgot how it works. Example to show what I'm searching for: Instead of writing "\setuptyping[style=\doresetattribute{spacing}\tt]" I would prefer something like "\setuptyping[style+=\doresetattribute{spacing}]" Could someone help please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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error with \setcharacterspacing[reset]
by Peter Münster 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello, With \setcharacterspacing[reset] I get the following error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \relax l.5 \setcharacterspacing[reset] But no problem with \doresetattribute{spacing}. Test file: % engine=luatex \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] \starttext bla: bla\blank \setcharacterspacing[reset] %\doresetattribute{spacing} bla: bla \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Long s in ConTeXt
by Andreas Hauser 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hoi, how can I produce a ſ (long s) in ConTeXt? Please CC me, as i'm not subscribed. -- Andy

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Re: [NTG-context] SVG support
by Zeus Gómez Marmolejo 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

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Ligatures in ConTeXt minimals distribution
by Mike Santy 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello, Ligatures seem to be missing when using the ConTeXt minimals distribution (8/8/2007) with the times font (see below example). Note that ligatures are rendered correctly using live.contextgarden.net, so I assume that something needs to be configured on my end. Could someone please be kind enough to tell me what I should configure to get proper ligatures for the times font in the minimals distribution? Cheers, Mike \usetypescript[times][ec] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \blank And this is some maths with PostScript fonts. \startformula {a \over b} = {c \over d} \iff ad - bc = 0, \qquad \int_0^{2\pi}\!\!\! \sin^2(x)dx =\pi, \qquad {\rm e}^{{\rm i}\pi} + 1 = 0, \qquad \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}{1 \over k^2} = {\pi^2 \over 6}. \stopformula Some ligatures: ffi, ffl. \stoptext

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