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Re: [NTG-context] Auto selecting optical sizes for a font
by Andres Conrado Montoya 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Thank you so much, Hans. :) It works great!. I must agree, however, with Georg's considerations. I am very grateful for the current solution, but an automatic selection of optical sizes could be insanely good, from a book designer point of view (I'm a book designer). Just for the curious, these are some links that go deeper in the theme of Optical Sizes for Typography: 1. http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/opticalsize.html 2. http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/8552/should-i-be-concerned… 3. http://ilovetypography.com/2012/04/11/designing-type-systems/ 4. Book: Typography Monographs Vol. 2 - "Size-specific Adjustments to Type Designs: An Investigation of the Principles Guiding the Design of Optical Sizes" by Tim Ahrens, MA. http://markbattypublisher.com/books/typography-monographs-volume-2-size-spe… Thank you all. :) Andrés Conrado Montoya El Andi andresconrado(a)gmail.com http://chiquitico.org http://twitter.com/conradolandia ---------------------------------------- Los fines no justifican los medios, porque la medida verdadera de nuestro carácter está dada por los medios que estamos dispuestos a utilizar, no por los fines que proclamamos. ---------------------------------------- “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’” — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell

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mixed columns
by Peter Münster 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hi, I have several questions concerning mixed columns. Here at first a minimal example: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \useURL[test][http://www.site.com/very/long/long/long/long/long/long/long/long/url] \def\Section#1{% \startsection[title=Title] \dorecurse{#1}{\dorecurse{12}{bla }} \stopsection} \starttext \startmixedcolumns[n=2] \Section{15} \startsection[title=Title] \dorecurse{10}{\dorecurse{12}{bla }} \footnote{\url[test]} \stopsection} \Section{9} \Section{9} \Section{2} \stopmixedcolumns \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- 1.) How can I avoid, that the footnote overwrites the last line? 2.) How can I get balanced columns? 3.) Why is there additional vertical space around the section titles (even with \setuphead[section][before=, after=] there is space)? TIA for any hints, -- Peter

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Working with layers ... with example
by Sander Maijers 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

At http://ideone.com/D6Mmj3 there is the title page for my document. I want to place the table in the middle of the A4 page (horizontally and vertically) and the logo beneath it, preferably at the bottom of the page. When I failed to get the table placed where I want it, at some point, I tried to use a layer. In the end the table was placed okay, but in a messy way I suppose. Now I have tried to add another layer but the logo appears to the right of the table or not at all. As far as I understand there can only be one background layer, so that trick with the table will not work again for the logo I guess. Can someone please help me to use multiple layers that I can exactly position?

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Disabling interactive citations
by Sander Maijers 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

I want to disable the clickable citations (in MkIV) while keeping other interaction for things like cross-references. So far I unsuccessfully tried some commands in my environment file like: \setupcite[interaction=stop,compress=yes] This is just my guesswork as I haven't found documentation for (setup)cite. P.S.: As for my motives, the links: 1. are missing when using the 'authoryear' alternative with APA bibliography style; 2. link to "references.pdf" while my project is one document in one differently named file and references.tex is just one product in it.

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simplefonts wiki page added
by Pablo Rodríguez 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Dear list, I have added a new simplefonts page for new users. (I hope it isn't full of errors ;-).) There may be some missing information, because I don't understand how the standard font handling in ConTeXt works. And I removed duplicated content from the font handling in LuaTeX (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Fonts_in_LuaTeX&action=histor…) Just in case it helps, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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faked fonts not working
by Pablo Rodríguez 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Dear list, as far as I can remember, this used to work in the past: \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic] \usemodule[simplefonts] \definefontfeature[fakeitalic][default][slant=.25] \definefontfeature[fakebold][default][extend=2] \definefontfeature[fakebolditalic][default][slant=.25, extend=2] \setmainfont[Larabiefont][italicfont={* Regular}, boldfont={* Regular}, bolditalicfont={* Regular}, italicfeatures=fakeitalic, boldfeatures=fakebold, bolditalicfeatures=fakebolditalic] \starttext regular, {\em fake italics (actually slanted)}, {\bf fake bold} and {\bf\em fakebolditalics}. \stoptext Is this a bug, or have I forgotten something? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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(mathematics) Stretching Unicode big operator
by Sander Maijers 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

If I decide to use, for instance, "Σ" instead of "\sum", this operator is no longer stretched/scaling regardless of the sub/superscripts specified tot it. Is it possible to keep stretching/scaling while using Inicode characters for such operators?

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Re: [NTG-context] Auto selecting optical sizes for a font
by Georg Duffner 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Am 2013-06-24 10:27, schrieb Keith J. Schultz: > as such ConTexT should support the use of the size table in its font handling, > but as Hans has mentioned design sizes a very special and few actually know > what that information means and put it to a useful purpose. > > Question would be in far this font feature should be rudimentarily supported. IMO, they should be fully supported. There are not so many fonts with that property and even less in the free software world, so one can assume that somebody possessing such font knows what that means and probably expects its support. I think, context should by default use the appropriate font for each font-size corresponding to the design range defined in the font’s table, while providing an interface to override that automatism. Best regards, Georg

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Re: [NTG-context] Auto selecting optical sizes for a font
by Georg Duffner 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Am 22.06.2013 16:57, schrieb Hans Hagen: > We have no feature 'size' (or I must have forgotten about it). As > there is no consistency in designsizes and there is always some > esthetic choice involved no automatic mechanism is (and will be) > build in. Hi, There is a 'size' table in opentype fonts which contains informations about the design size, the design range and a style-ID and -name. Fonts that come with different optical sizes do in fact use that table exactly for the purpose desired by Andrés. Latin Modern does so, Adobe fonts do so and EB Garamond happens to use that table too. XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX interpret it correctly (by means of fontspec, IIRC). So perhaps it’s worth reconsidering this. Best regards, Georg

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MkIV in the wiki?
by Pablo Rodríguez 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Dear wiki administrators, is it planned to enable MkIV compilation in the wiki? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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