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New MyWay from Idris about installing Minion Pro Expert font
by Patrick Gundlach 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Hello ConTeXters, Idris Samawi Hamid has allowed me to store his interesting new MyWay titled 'Installing Expert Fonts: Minion Pro' on garden and post this announcement. You can find it at <http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/> as well as the source file. Enjoy it and big thanks to Idris for this MyWay! Patrick (I'll update the wiki page now) -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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OpenType installation basics for ConTeXt
by David Wooten 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Greetings all, and esp. Adam :) Been toying with Adam Lindsay's recent PracTeX Journal guide for installing OpenType. The sample with torunska works (though the noted GPOS errors are there) up to the point where I issue the command: texexec --pdf --mode=compact --once texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.tex Whereupon I receive the following (I've cut it perhaps too severely, let me know what more would be helpful to see): [ v. much cut out ] systems : end file texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska at line 63 kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMe d-Regular mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Regular. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ) Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Regular): Font tex nansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Regular at 72 not found kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMe d-Italic mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for texnansi-LIGA-KERN-AntykwaTorunskaMed-Italic. [ cut: same for each font variant ] Output written on texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.pdf (17 pages, 364611 byte s). Transcript written on texnansi-LIGA-KERN-public-torunska.log. return code : 0 run time : 51 seconds total run time : 52 seconds --- Each of the named variants seems to have been installed correctly in tetex.local, and I did texhash, etc. Thanks very much, David Wooten

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hi, There is a new beta as well as a new magazine: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0010.pdf concerning the beta, i hope that engine path support is now better in texexec; there is also a new version of pstopdf (for the moment called newpdftops); when inkscape is installed (v 0.41) you mag give svg to pdf a try concerning on the fly conversion ... i need to make a new manual (or magazine) explaining it first; among the new things is 'typescript definitions in your source file' (makes sense for small typescripts, not for large ones); see cont-sys.rme for a new option (\preloadtypescripts; it burns some memory but it's faster) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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How to insert a full page pdf.
by John R. Culleton 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

I need to insert some example pages from one document into another. Both are 8.5 x 11. I have read the old posts about \startTEXpage etc. and looked at the source code. But I still have a few questions: 1. Can I select e.g., just page 2 from the external document to insert in my document? How? 2. Does Context automatically bump its page counter to compensate for the inserted page or pages, or do I have to adjust it after each such insertion? TIA John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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storm font
by Vit Zyka 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hallo ConTeXters, I filally prepared first version of Storm fonts support. For now next 10 families are included: Lido, Aichel, Dynamo RE, Biblon, Libcziowes, Preissig (text+antikva), Preissig1918, Solpera, Serapion, Tyfa (text). Lido is free for non-commertioal use, so you can play with. Since now OpenType and TrueType versions of Lido are available from www.stormtype.com but unfortunately no Type1 version, I included Type1 to this distrib (see its licence). There is a catalog: http://typokvitek.com/stormcontext/stocat-prj.pdf Files: stormcontext.zip support itself stormcontext-lido.zip support only for Lido font stormcontext-cat.zip catalog and its sources storm-lido.zip Type1 Lido: read the licence before installing! http://typokvitek.com/stormcontext/index.html I would like to incorporate the distr to the garden, but I believe it needs some file/dir name changes. Suggestions are welcomed. vit

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how to control placement of floats
by Paul Tremblay 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

The manual and others have given good advice on how to do the most basic placment of floats, such as forcing it onto a new page. How does one get even more control. For example, if I want a particular table to have 2 inches of space from the left margin, or if I want to center my figures. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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looking for document ...
by Paul Tremblay 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

About a week ago I came across a very nice and interesting document in ConTeXt, and now for the life of me I can't fine it and want to. I believe the author is someone on this mailing list. The example was a book on astronomy or physics. The author described himself as a serious book maker. The actual book itself was set with very narrow pages with scholarly notes. There were two pages from the book. The second pages started with a graphic. Sound familiar? Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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TABLE: spacing, before/after
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hi, three questions: - How can I control horizontal spacing of columns in natural tables? - What about vertical spacing? - How can I insert material after/before each cell, something like \setuptable[row][first][before=bla bla] ? Thanks, -- Eckhart

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Strange behaviour of width parameter in \setuplayout (Was: Floating table caption extends textwidth)
by Michael Fuchs 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hi! I have problems creating a "multi-line" caption for a floating table. If the caption is too long it will extend the defined text width. The following example shows this problem. I was able to find out, that this problem only appears if the variables "width" in the "setuplayout" command was used to define the textwidth. If you comment the line containing the "width" parameter (see comment in example) the caption will not extend the table. Regards Michael Example: -------------- \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[ backspace=25mm, cutspace=25mm, width=16cm, % <-- COMMENT THIS TO SEE THE EXAMPLE WORK footer=10mm, footerdistance=5mm, bottom=5mm] \starttext \placetable[here][tab:Referenz] { \input tufte } { \setupTABLE[x][1][width=4cm, align=middle] \setupTABLE[x][2,3,4,5][width=3cm, align=middle] \bTABLE \bTR \bTH Anzahl \eTH \bTH Daten \eTH \bTH MC \eTH \bTH Daten \eTH \bTH MC \eTH \eTR \eTABLE } \stoptext

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is there a way to control kearning and word spacing
by Paul Tremblay 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

I know that ConTeXt does a good job kearning and determing spaces between words. However, is there a way to actually specify different kearning and word spacing than the default? Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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