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Re: lokale
by Hans Hagen 16 Oct '02

16 Oct '02

At 03:59 PM 10/15/2002 +0200, Hans van der Meer wrote: >Hans, > >Misschien een niet zo belangrijke en vooral perfectionistische issue; ik >waag het toch maar om het te vragen. In nederlandse teksten heb ik graag >GGD i.p.v. het engelse GCD. Dat lukt me wel als ik herdefinieer: > \definemathcommand [gcd] [limop] {\mfunction{ggd}} >Maar zou het na > \language[nl] % hyphenation > \mainlanguage[nl] % label texts >voor nederlandse tekst niet ook automatisch kunnen? Of zit het er al in en >zie ik het over het hoofd? \ggd kent context in ieder geval niet. you can make it into a label (see lang-* files, and lang-lab) or use the quick and dirty: \definemathcommand [gcd] [limop] {\mfunction{\translate[nl=GGD,en=GCD]}} this will adapt itself to the language 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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background color problem
by Manfred Lotz 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

I try to create some text with background color. The following code snippet doesn't work however. ___________________________________________ \definecolor [darkgreen] [r=.0, g=.5, b=.0] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startbackground \setupbackgrounds [text][text] [background=color, backgroundcolor=darkgreen, backgroundoffset=1.25mm] Background color should be darkgreen \stopbackground \stoptext ___________________________________________ I know that the problem might be sitting in front of the monitor. So, where am I wrong? Manfred

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Another font question...
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

[It seems that my previous message ended up in a queue and got deleted in the end - I hope I have better luck with this one. I'm badly in need of an answer...] Hello, everybody! Sorry to disturb you with my stupid font questions again, but it seems that I still haven't learned some things... I'm running TeXLive+ConTeXt, one system is in WindowXP and the other one is in Windows2000, but they now behave authentically (=have the same problem). After the usual fight with the fonts (some of the afm files are zipped in my TeXLive and need unzipping by hand and charter has wrong vendor name in the batch file, too, but I solved all these) my pos fonts almost work - i.e. they work if I just try to typeset something with very little formatting. However, the annoying part is that when I try to run my "real" file, which works perfectly on my work computer (TeXLive+WinNT), both my home computers complain Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-raw-uhvro8a): Font ec-raw-uhvro8a at 600 not found a) What is wrong? Something with Helvetica, but what and why? As some of the helvetic .afm files were gzipped, I had to run separate texfont installation and that seems to have worked fine, at least as far as I understand from the log: (lots of other uhvr entries removed) --- font identifier : NimbusSanL-ReguItal -> text -> tfm + vf generating raw tfm/vpl : ec-raw-uhvro8a (from uhvro8a) generating new vf : ec-uhvro8a (from ec-raw-uhvro8a) missing pfb file : uhvro8a.pfb --- generating : ls-r databases --- b) How to fix this problem? Any quick fix for the whole helvetica set? Or how to tell texfont that I want to create it exactly at 600? c) Would upgrading ConTeXt possibly help? I burned the TeXLive CD about 6 weeks back, but its contents seem to be from June. And/Or should I upgrade TexFont separately, anyone have any experience about this? d) When I find bugs in the combination TeXLive+ConTeXt+Windows, to whom should I report them? ConTeXt people, TeXLive people, both or nobody? Thank you for any help you can give, Mari Voipio

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mailing list changes
by Erik Frambach 14 Oct '02

14 Oct '02

Dear subscribers to ntg-xxxxx mailing lists, There have been a few changes in the mailing list software and hardware. The NTG mailing lists are now installed on a new server running "mailman" instead of "majordomo". The most significant change from a user's point of view is the easy web inferface for subscribing, unsubscribing, accessing the archives, changing your preferences, etc. See the web page for details: http://ref.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo The email addresses of the mailing lists have not changed. If there are any problems please report them to one of the NTG mailing lists administrators. Greetings, Erik Frambach, Jules van Weerden NTG mailing lists administrators

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Re: bigger font families
by Hans Hagen 01 Apr '02

01 Apr '02

At 02:19 PM 4/1/2002 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >Ahoi! > >Is there a way for other type classes than roman, sans, math and mono? >E.g. I need sometimes an additional casual/script/handwriting font family >(think of Lucida...) and would like to address it as style=\hd or like that. > >I tried to define it with usual typescripts and "hand" instead of "sans" etc. >but had no success. If such *should* work, then I'll review it and look for >mistakes, but if it *can't* work I must abuse one of serif/sans/mono. > >An other way would be mapping the script font to an "exotic" style like >\sc\it -- what do you think? there is \hw and \cg for handwritten and calligraphy, and you can define more if you want (peek into font-ini.tex); also, in some type-* files you will find casuals; in principle you can create your own names (we do that for things like semi fonts), so we do things like: \definetypeface [mainfont] [rm] [serif] ... \definetypeface [semifont] [rm] [semi-serif] /... that's the nice thing of typefaces/scripts, that you can cook up your own names. the rm, ss, tt cg, hw entries are predefined which means that they will be recognized and have associated commands, if you want more (with as restiction that they should have two char names) you can define them with \definefontstyle; in a similar fashion you can define \tfp|q|r if you want or even map names onto families (math) etc etc 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-ade.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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