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Suggestions for Latin Modern
by Idris S Hamid 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi, gang I hope this does not come too late:-) I have been using cmr for my work in the humanities up to now, and I have had to tweak things in sometimes satisfactory and other times less unsatisfactory ways. Here are some suggestions for the upcoming Latin Modern if it's not too late: 1. Make old-style numerals the default. This improves cmr for use in the humanities so much I'm almost surprised Knuth did not at least make a global old-style option. Alan Hoenig has made fontinst files for a virtual cmros; I have made a complete typescript for it, including a way to manage the bold case, for which Knuth only made a 10-point oldstyle size. I will present this package to the ConTeXt list in the coming days. There is still a small bug in cmros: it occasionally treats punctuation marks as part of the word when hyphenating, but otherwise I'm quite satisfied with it. 2. The main things I personally need are diacritics for transliteration. I'm using amateurish macros right now but a global font solution would be so much better. I'm including some of my own definitions which don't work in all circumstances. I especially have problems when switching from upright to slanted positions: a. a crescent under the letter `h': \def\h#1{\oalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth\SHIFT{34}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\char'25}\vss}\hidewidth}} example: `\v Sa\h h' is a scientific transliteration of `Shaykh', based on the German ZDMG system. b. The two glottal stops use a special left and right apostrophe respectively. When the following letter is capitalized the apostrophe must be higher. Once again, I have problems getting things consistent from upright to slanted %%=====================ayn-hamzah==================== \def\SHIFT#1{\dimen0=.00#1ex \multiply\dimen0 by\fontdimen1\font \kern-.0156\dimen0} % compensate for slant/italic in lower accents \def\USHIFT#1{\dimen0=.00#1ex \multiply\dimen0 by\fontdimen1\font \kern.0156\dimen0} % compensate for slant/italic in upper accents \def\talign#1{\leavevmode\vtop{\baselineskip0pt \lineskip-2.05ex \ialign{##\crcr#1\crcr}}} \def\ttalign#1{\leavevmode\vtop{\baselineskip0pt \lineskip-2.22ex \ialign{##\crcr#1\crcr}}} \def\lowalign#1{\leavevmode\vtop{\baselineskip0pt \lineskip-1.25ex \ialign{##\crcr#1\crcr}}} \def\highalign#1{\leavevmode\vtop{\baselineskip0pt \lineskip-1.60ex \ialign{##\crcr#1\crcr}}} \def\LowKernH{\kern-1.15ex} \def\LowKernA{\kern-1.2ex} \def\HighKern{\kern-1.4ex} \def\LowHamzah#1{\lowalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth\USHIFT{12}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\the\textfont1\LowKernH\char'55}\vss}\hidewidth}} \def\HighHamzah#1{\highalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth\USHIFT{30}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\the\textfont1\HighKern\char'55}\vss}\hidewidth}} \def\LowAyn#1{\lowalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth\USHIFT{15}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\the\textfont1\LowKernA\char'54}\vss}\hidewidth}} \def\HighAyn#1{\highalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth\USHIFT{30}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\the\textfont1\HighKern\char'54}\vss}\hidewidth}} \def\AynHamzahKern{\kern.0625em} \def\PreAynHamzahKern{\kern0em} \def\IKern{\kern0.10em} \def\Hamzah{\leavevmode\raise.17ex\hbox{\USHIFT{1}\os-}\SHIFT{10}\AynHamzahKern} \def\Ayn {\leavevmode\raise.17ex\hbox{\USHIFT{1}\os,}\SHIFT{10}\AynHamzahKern} \def\HighHamzah{\leavevmode\raise.5ex\hbox{\os-}\SHIFT{10}\AynHamzahKern} \def\HighAyn {\leavevmode\raise.5ex\hbox{\os,}\SHIFT{10}\AynHamzahKern} \def\`{\PreAynHamzahKern\Ayn} \def\'{\PreAynHamzahKern\Hamzah} \def\HA{\PreAynHamzahKern\HighAyn} \def\HH{\PreAynHamzahKern\HighHamzah} ==================================== Here are a couple of applications: s\=a\'il (questioner), \HA Ab\=d (someone's name), \`ayn (spring, eye) A big problem with my macros (I don't know if this is ConTeXt-related): Whenever I use \`, \', \HA, \HH at small point sizes (<10 points), the \the\textfont1\char'54 gets much smaller than one would expect, which is no good. 3. VERY IMPORTANT: When used often, \=i (\=\i in plain TeX) looks terrible; the bar over the `i' is too wide and runs into other letters. When used frequently (it is one of the most used in transliterating Arabic) it is really irritating. What good typesetters have done is make the bar over the `i' shorter. Now I'm sure that Hans and others can come up an elegant trick to redefine \=\i to get this bar shorter, but it seems to me to be wiser to just put it in the font. 4. For more examples that the authors of Latin Modern may like to consider, see the tables in the following article of mine: http://www.gsp-online.org/journals/journaldocs/shi/transliteration.pdf ====================================== If this new font meets our needs, I will be more than happy to showcase latin modern in future issues of my journal, and mention both the font and its authors in the colophon. Best wishes Idris

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context2html or context2xml | xml2html ??
by Maurice Diamantini 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Bonjour à tous, Is there something (an executable or a context package) which would allow us to write some (basic) context file, to html? I read that there is some work with context and xml, so perhaps there is a mean for translating a context document to html? context --> xml --> html ? I think to something like latex2html or hevea ? Cordialement, Maurice. P.S I use linux and MacOSX -- Maurice.Diamantini(a)ensta.fr - ENSTA/LMA École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées http://www.ensta.fr/~diam

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Footnotes
by Willi Egger 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi everybody, I have to typset several footnotes. I setup a bodyfont (sanserif, Helvetica like). Why are the footnotes typset in cmr? Consider the following minimal testfile \starttext \startitemize \head Rug rugggenbord dikte 0.5\Milli\Meter \startlocalfootnotes[0] \starttabulate[|lm|lm|] \NC L_R \EQ L_P \NC\NR \NC B_R \EQ D_{boekblok} \footnote{Rugdikte gemeten langs de ronding van het boekblok met een strook papier} \NC\NR \stoptabulate {\placelocalfootnotes} \stoplocalfootnotes \stopitemize \stoptext In the logfile I find the following statement: check : missing or ungrouped '=' after '0' in line 9 (@@vn) I used this mechanism earlier. But can't understand this behaviour in this case. Any hints?/ Willi

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ncie trick
by Hans Hagen 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi, If you want to have breakpoints in a section title dependent on a version of a document, herw is a trick: \definetextmodediscretionary wb {\\} \definetextmodediscretionary ib { } \definetextmodediscretionary wb { } \definetextmodediscretionary ib {\\} \starttext \chapter{first|wb|second|ib|third} \stoptext (legal misuse of the || mechanism) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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FONT-CHI.TEX
by Matthew Huggett 23 Sep '03

23 Sep '03

Hi again: Line 660 of FONT-CHI.TEX has a \starttabulate while ln 812 has \starttabel . Is this a mistake? They should both be Dutch, shouldn't they? Matt

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M-GAMMA.TEX
by Matthew Huggett 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Hello All: I was just trying to generate a pdf of M-GAMMA.TEX. TeX complains that \OTP\ in line 16 of the source, << %D We define a couple of symbolic \OTP\ filters >> hasn't been defined. I was able to process the file by replacing \OTP\ with \type{\OTP\} Matt

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Re: METAPOST problem
by Emil Hedevang Lohse 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Apparently it takes some time for my suggestion to get through to the mailing list, so I send you a direct answer: Isn't it easier to use arctime and the specify A and B as lengths instead of points? For example: A := 1cm; B := 1cm; draw subpath (arctime A of c, arctime (arclength c) - B of c) of c; The code is not tested. Regards, -- Emil Hedevang Lohse <http://home.imf.au.dk/emil/> Alle spørgsmål er lige dumme. Og spørgsmålet "Kan ænder flyve?" er ikke dumt.

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newbie tabulate question
by Thomas A.Schmitz 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

This is probably an easy one, but I couldn't figure it out: I want to set up a tabulation with a whitespace of 0.5 lines between rows. But no matter where I put my \blank, the tabulation always appears as packed. Thanks for your help! (Is there any more elaborate docu on tabulate than the three pages in the manual and the few lines in core-tbl.tex?) Thomas

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(no subject)
by Thomas A.Schmitz 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

Sorry if this is a double post; I sent this message on Friday, and I think it somehow got lost. In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange about the topic "critical editions in context" here in ntg-context; the main question was whether the functionality of edmac could be implemented in context. I'd be curious to know whether anything came out of it, I couldn't find any follow-up. Best Thomas

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Again: How to make empty pages by default empty?
by Steffen Wolfrum 22 Sep '03

22 Sep '03

> > So I don't have to post so many (unanswered) questions any more... > > Posting ConTeXt questions is fun, so don't stop doing this. > > > Patrick Alright! So maybe I am also allowed to send again one of my favorite problems from last week? Still unanswered. Still unsolved. Very interesting! To whom it may concern - don't hesitate to post an answer... Thank you all, Steffen Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 10:05 19/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > >Hi Steffen, > > > > > > \definepagebreak > > > [chapter] > > > [yes,header,right] > > \definepagebreak > [chapter] > [empty,header,right] Sorry, but that doesn't work. When changed the minimal example to... \definepagebreak [chapter] [empty,header,right] \setuphead [chapter] [page=chapter,] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext \startfrontmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stopbodymatter \stoptext ... we have page numbers on (empty) page number 4, 18 and 19! Plus there are two strange empty empty pages before the TOC?! Steffen

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