Thanks - it's at least useful to know what I needn't waste my time on!
I see that I shall also have to master ConTexT's commands for tables,
though I hope they are customizable (as per my training at OUP a lifetime
ago, I like a half-point rule at the beginning and end but a quarter-point
rule between headings and the data). Plain (Xe)TeX's \halign command works
only for that generally useless item, a table with only one column - if you
try add an extra column the setting halts and one is presented with the
false information that there is more than one instance of # between
instances of & in the setup of the table. They lie!
I'm disappointed that I can't use \catcode = \active to do anything useful
- I do often use that, particularly to fetch a character not in the
typeface. For example, if I want a yogh and am obliged to use a
particular typeface (because of house style for a journal or book series)
that doesn't have the character, I would give in the file header in XeTeX:
\catcode"0292=\active
\defʒ{\yogh}
(I have \yogh defined as 'put \char"0292 here, grouped within {}, from
Junicode'.) That allows me to keep the character ʒ in the input file and
leave it to TeX to carry out the appropriate instruction whenever it
encounters it.
This is prohibited in ConTexT, I find, but I'll have to learn a new way of
achieving the same thing.
But I *did* promise not to bombard the list with silly newbie questions!
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 13:47, Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 14 Jun 2025, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 6/14/2025 4:32 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jun 2025, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
The pstricks module isn't supported anymore and even in the past it worked only when you used postscript as output format.
The pstricks module created a temp file, processed it using texexec, and converted the generated ps to pdf using ps2pdf. You could automate it using filter module (by processing the figures using latex!)
Something along the lines of: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/462257/323
Actually, there is a ps interpreter (m-escrito) that taco wrote a few decades ago when postscript was still hip and that I redid / optimized one decaded ago, which is still around .. you can run that file and get this tiger; i suppose I could actually optimize it a bit more and even integrate it with pstricks but i bet no one will revert back to pstricks so i never bothered. We keep it around for the fun of it and those who like to program in postscript.
Thanks. I'll check it.
But I agree. Postscript is a really esoteric programming language and IMO the pstricks wrapper not very elegant. So there is very little value in providing a wrapper around it.
Aditya
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