- ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

macro \verticalchineseunicodeglyph may not satisfy the vertical Chinese typeset
by Zhichu Chen 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi, ConTeXters I'm playing some Chinese vertical typesetting. Mr. Wolfgang Shuster helps me a lot about it. In vertical typesetting, the top of each leading Chinese characters at each column are aligned horizontally. But if we changed the size of the bodyfont of some characters and they could wrap to the next column, then the top of the wrapped texts are not aligned with the other columns. So we can give them a raise, but it is not so easy to calculate the dimension to be raised, for ConTeXt will give every Chinese a \strut and makes the original height and depth unavailable. Since we can aligned the \strut-ed characters precisely, the real characters are not. Can Hans or other TeXperts give me a nice solution? In fact, I think in vertical Chinese, we should move the baseline to the top of the character. and make it with height=0pt and depth=width -- Sincerely yours, Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

1 0

Re: [NTG-context] Forward of moderated message (Why It Is So)
by Taco Hoekwater 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi Geoff, (Your messsage was too large, I dropped the attachments) From: geoff.moyle(a)gmail.com: > Thanks > > This problem has been with my version of Contex which is running on windows > XP since I first started maybe 2 years ago and has never bothered me as I > was doing simple jobs. The version is kept up to date and I have in fact > downloaded the base distro again on 14 Dec and updated. I am guessing that > it may be in the parameters given to pdftex which I have just noticed from > googling for something else. Like Luigi said: there is no problem. This is absolutely how it is supposed to look. I do not know what you want precisely, but apparently you are unhappy with the standard ConTeXt page layout. That is fine, after all, it is only a default. Just play with \setuplayout until you are happy (try \showlayout if you want to see all of the currently used parameter values). But there is definately no bug in your installation. Best, Taco > I am happy to test this but I am unsure how > > "\pdfpagewidth (dimension) > This dimension parameter specifies the page width of the pdf output (the > screen, the paper, etc.). pdfTEX reads this parameter > when it starts shipping out a page. After magnification has been changed by > the \mag primitive, check that this parameter > reflects the wished true page width. > If the value is not given, the page width is calculated as wbox being > shipped out + 2 × (horigin + \hoffset). When part of the page > falls off the paper or screen, you can be rather sure that this > parameter is > set wrong." > > On 12/30/06, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 12/29/06, geoff.moyle(a)gmail.com <geoff.moyle(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > Gday >> > >> > I know there must be a fundamental answer, but I cannot fathom why >> > everything is shifted left on the page. >> > >> hmm, I don't see anything wrong;this is the standard setup. >> You can play with >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%5 >> \setuppapersize[A4][A3] >> \setuplayout[location=middle,marking=on] >> \showlayout >> \starttext >> \input tufte >> \stoptext >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >> or >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >> \setuppapersize[A4][A4] >> \setuplayout[horoffset=3cm]%%% bang ! >> \showlayout >> \starttext >> \input tufte >> \stoptext

1 0

Newbie: font sizes
by Elliot Clifton 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Hello, I've read the fonts manual, but I don't understand how to change sizes. How can I change the sizes referred to by the sizes selectors \tfx etc... Thankyou, Elliot

3 2

PSTricks
by Mojca Miklavec 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

(was: Manual (English) Update soon?) For Hans: please read further, some things need to be fixed. On 12/29/06, John R. Culleton wrote: > > Jut FYI PSTricks (which runs on Plain TeX as well as LaTeX) can be run as part > of Context. It requires loading a module and an extra pass. Like many of > the "undocumented" modules there is actually documentation in the module > itself. I suspect that if all the documentation in the source code were > collected and organized in some way we would have a new Context Manual. Thanks for the hint! I really like the example with \dorecurse mixed with PSTricks; although they have their own mechanisms for that, \dorecurse is more familiar and easier to use for me. (I doubt that I'll return to PSTricks now that I've learn metapost and now when TikZ is available and more portable, but it's nice to know that I may use my old code there and for some cases PSTricks are still an easier approach.) I knew that there was something about pstricks available, but I always had a feeling that it's only conditionally working (I never heard anyone talking about PSTricks on the mailing list). However: you're probably running the module with perl-based texexec, right? I just tried it and had the following problems: - filename-texapp.tex has been created (and can only be deleted manually), but instead of dvi it resulted in an empty pdf file - I processed that file manually, so I got the dvi, but then dvips failed - the second was probably "my fault" (dvips sent the result to lpr), but it's how it's set up on the system by default; using -Ppdf switch helped, although I have no idea why/how it works exactly So it would really help a lot: - if the intermediate file would result in .dvi, not in .pdf - if dvips would be called with -Ppdf or perhaps some other more appropriate switch to assure slightly more "works-out-of-the-box" cases (- if temporary files could be deleted with ctxtools if needed) It would also help a lot for tex4ht if the switch --dvi could work as intended (and without unneded dvips run afterwards). Mojca PS (in a joke): why didn't you tell me that before I wrote support for gnuplot ??? Gnuplot can already output PSTricks code which could be read by ConTeXt then.

3 2

Why Is It So
by geoff.moyle＠gmail.com 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Gday I know there must be a fundamental answer, but I cannot fathom why everything is shifted left on the page. TIA Geoff Moyle Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

2 1

Font for enumeration
by Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

consider the following setup: \startitemize[m] \item this \item that \item the other \stopitemize this should give enumeration using oldstyle numbers. now, I have created my own typescript file that sets everything to Sabon, except the oldstyle numbers in question, which are set using computer modern's oldstyle numbers. what do I do to get the base font here? I have set up my typescript file so that {\Var[osf] 123} are set using the base fonts oldstyle numbers. -- Rolf Lindgren roffe(a)extern.uio.no

3 5

Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: font sizes (Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Hello Elliot, I'm a newbie too but I change font sizes as follows. {\tfa Big text} {\tfa\bf Big and bold} ... Font size selectors from the smallest to the biggest are \tfxx \tfx \tfa \tfb \tfc \tfd You told about a manual, but there are a lot of manuals around. -- With best regards Vyatcheslav mailto:yatskovsky@gmail.com

1 0

Elevated text blocks
by Gerhard Kugler 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Hi, in the book which I'm translating there are many exercises which should be elevated. The original sets grey bars at the beginning and the end. My solutions tends to light grey background over the whole text block. Partially the exercises exceed a page. If possible they should kept as wholes. What is the suitable logical isolation of these blocks in context? Framedtexts? Textblocks? Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

3 7

Fwd: Re: Manual (English) Update soon?
by John R. Culleton 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon? Date: Thursday 28 December 2006 20:58 From: "John R. Culleton" <john(a)wexfordpress.com> To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Cc: "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> On Thursday 28 December 2006 19:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote: then I finally discovered PSTricks which became > kind-of-obsolete with pdfTeX or XeTeX. The same story with just about > any package for creating slides or changing page layout, headers, > footers (and they all took a lot of time to learn how to use them), > not to mention the changes in base LaTeX (documentstyle -> > documentclass{article} -> Komma script) and the fact that most > packages become unmaintained after they have been written. Jut FYI PSTricks (which runs on Plain TeX as well as LaTeX) can be run as part of Context. It requires loading a module and an extra pass. Like many of the "undocumented" modules there is actually documentation in the module itself. I suspect that if all the documentation in the source code were collected and organized in some way we would have a new Context Manual. > > And so I am wondering if ConTeXt is still too fresh... If I have a simple job I use pdftex. If the layout gets complicated at all, or I need to impose a smaller page on a full size page, or anything else like that I turn to Context. > It's always full of surprizes. But what do you mean with "too fresh"? > If you're worried that your colleagues don't have the latest version > of ConTeXt installed (and thus won't be able to compile your code) > then you're probably right. (But if you want to use the latest packeg > from LaTeX, there's even more chance that they won't have it. In > ConTeXt you know at least that downloading one thing should suffice.) The bad thing about Context is that many errors in parameters etc. are simply not reported when you compile a document. One of the many good things is that the elaborate structure is there but not required. Most plain TeX (the old stuff) documents will run under Context. Make a file with: Hello world \bye and run it through Context. It will work. But with LaTeX you must have a LaTeX specific statement or two or it won't work. > > and if I'll > > have any chance of figuring out what/how to use it without having > > been on this list for the past 4+ years... I store all messages on this list forever in a directory. It is more convenient for me to search that directory than on the wiki. My earliest is dated in April 2002. Font handling is a bear but font handling in any version of TeX more complex than plain is a bear. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com ------------------------------------------------------- -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

1 0

Re: [NTG-context] Installing Cyrillic font
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Hello all, Thanks to everybody, but I've already written the asked typescript for my installed Cyrillic font (NimbusRomanNo9L). Look at my script, if you interested in. --- \enableregime[cp1251] \loadmapfile [t2a-urw-timescyr.map] \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \starttypescript [serif] [timescyr] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [NimbusNo9L-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [NimbusNo9L-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [NimbusNo9L-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [NimbusNo9L-Bold-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [timescyr] [t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Roman] [t2a-n021003l] [encoding=t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Bold] [t2a-n021004l] [encoding=t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Italic] [t2a-n021023l] [encoding=t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Bold-Italic] [t2a-n021024l] [encoding=t2a] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [myTimesCyr] [rm] [serif] [timescyr] [default] [encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont[myTimesCyr] --- Ukrainian works as good as Russian; font variants could be selected as well. I haven't tested the script as a separate file yet. Suggestions are welcome! -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav mailto:yatskovsky@gmail.com

1 0