[NTG-context] Help with LaTeX -> ConTeXt & book typesetting

10 Sep 2004

      Hi,

I'm recently trying to get ConTeXt typesetting my books like with LaTeX
before (or better). But I can't solve some problems ... Maybe someone can
assist me?

o How do I get the chapter number into the heading? I've tried 
    \setupheader[before=\viii,style=normal]
    \setupheadertexts[chapter]
  but this only puts the chapter title into the heading

o How can I get something similar to LaTeX?
    \fancyhead[C]{%
      {\sffamily\footnotesize
      \leftmark
      \pdef\next{\rightmark}%
      \ifx\next\empty\else\ \textbullet\ \rightmark\fi}%
    }
  which will put the chapter mark centered in the headings, and if there is
a 
  sectionmark then a bullet & sectionmark too.

o How can I typeset the chapter title across both columns in a two-column 
  setup?

o How can I tell ConTeXt the distance between columns? Or should I define 
  only the columnwidth? How? My first defintion looks like
    \setuplayout[width=358dd,lines=46,topspace=11mm,backspace=17mm,

margin=0cm,marking=on,location=middle,grid=yes,header=12bp,
                 headerdistance=18bp,footer=12bp,footerdistance=11mm]

o How can I tell ConTeXt to balance the last page? I've tried something
like
    \definecolumnset[two][n=2,tolerance=tolerant,distance=12bp]
    \setupcolumnset [two][balance=yes]
  but this doesn't work.

o Is it possible to setup a project using only didot (or bp) point 
  measurements? How?
  Especially I want a interline space in dd or bp which is flexible like
  \setupinterlinespace[line=1.25\bodyfontsize] but uses dd or bp.

o I've tried to setup the typographical correct quotation marks for german
  in the file cont-sys.tex
    \setuplanguage
        [de]
        [leftquote=\rightsubguillemot,
         leftquotation=\rightguillemot,
         rightquote=\leftsubguillemot,
         rightquotation=\leftguillemot]
  When using it, e.g.,
    \quotation{all right \quote{there} we go}
  and using 
    \showstruts
  I got marks at strange places
    |»all right |there| we go|«
  Should this be corrected somewhere?

o How do I get character protruding and font expansion? (I didn't find the 
  latter in the manual)

o I've tried to use my fontinst installation of HelveticaNeueLT in the main
  document with
    \usetypescriptfile [type-NeueHelvetica]
    \usetypescript [usw][NeueHelveticaLT]
    \setupbodyfont [NeueHelveticaLT, ss, 9.5pt]
  (first I tried 9.5dd but these doesn't showed any effect)
  with type-NeueHelvetica.tex:
    \starttypescript [sans] [NeueHelvetica] [\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-UltraLight]      [lhnj8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-UltraLightItal]  [lhnji8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-Thin]            [lhna8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-ThinItalic]      [lhnai8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-Light]           [lhnl8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-LightItalic]     [lhnli8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-Roman]           [lhnr8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-Italic]          [lhnri8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-Medium]          [lhnm8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-MediumItalic]    [lhnmi8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-Bold]            [lhnb8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-BoldItalic]      [lhnbi8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-Heavy]           [lhnh8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-HeavyItalic]     [lhnhi8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-Black]           [lhnc8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-BlackItalic]     [lhnci8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definefontsynonym [HelveticaNeueLT-BoldOutline]     [lhnbl8t]
[encoding=\defaultencoding]
    \stoptypescript

    \starttypescript [sans] [NeueHelvetica] [name]
      \definefontsynonym [SansBlack]            [HelveticaNeueLT-Black]
      \definefontsynonym [SansBlackItalic]
[HelveticaNeueLT-BlackItalic]
      \definefontsynonym [SansBold]             [HelveticaNeueLT-Bold]
      \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic]
[HelveticaNeueLT-BoldItalic]
      \definefontsynonym [SansHeavy]            [HelveticaNeueLT-Heavy]
      \definefontsynonym [SansHeavyItalic]
[HelveticaNeueLT-HeavyItalic]
      \definefontsynonym [SansMedium]           [HelveticaNeueLT-Medium]
      \definefontsynonym [SansMediumItalic]
[HelveticaNeueLT-MediumItalic]
      \definefontsynonym [Sans]                 [HelveticaNeueLT-Roman]
      \definefontsynonym [SansItalic]           [HelveticaNeueLT-Italic]
      \definefontsynonym [SansLight]            [HelveticaNeueLT-Light]
      \definefontsynonym [SansLightItalic]
[HelveticaNeueLT-LightItalic]
      \definefontsynonym [SansThin]             [HelveticaNeueLT-Thin]
      \definefontsynonym [SansThinItalic]
[HelveticaNeueLT-ThinItalic]
      \definefontsynonym [SansUltraLight]
[HelveticaNeueLT-UltraLight]
      \definefontsynonym [SansUltraLightItalic]
[HelveticaNeueLT-UltraLightItal]
      \definefontsynonym [SansBoldOutline]
[HelveticaNeueLT-BoldOutline]
      \definefontsynonym [SansTitling]          [SansBoldOutline]
    \stoptypescript

    \starttypescript [usw] [NeueHelveticaLT]
      \definetypeface [NeueHelveticaLT] [rm] [serif] [times]
[default] [encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definetypeface [NeueHelveticaLT] [ss] [sans]  [NeueHelvetica]
[default] [rscale=1.00375,encoding=\defaultencoding]
      \definetypeface [NeueHelveticaLT] [tt] [mono]  [default]
[default] [encoding=\defaultencoding]
    \stoptypescript
  I didn't find a way to get dd or bp, so I tried rscale ...
  The first ad hoc try with
    %\starttypescript [usw] [NeueHelveticaLT] [size]
    %  \definebodyfont
    %    [4bp,5bp,6bp,7bp,8bp,9bp,10bp,11bp,12bp,14bp,18bp]
    %    [ss] [sans] [NeueHelvetica]
    %\stoptypescript
  didn't work.

  And maybe there I need something for protruding and font expansion?

  (I have to admit that I don't understand the whole font handling in 
  ConTeXt!)

o Does there exist some support for RCS? In LaTeX I've used 
    \RequirePackage[nofancy]{rcsinfo}
  and then I put in the page area of the crop marks:
  on top
    'Art \& Satz \raise.5pt\hbox{\textbullet} Ulrich Dirr\hfill Seite 
    »\thepage« \the\count1\ von \numpages'
  and on bottom
    <project specific info>\hfill \rcsInfoFile\ Rev.\rcsInfoRevision\hfill
    \the\day.\the\month.\the\year\ \printtime
  How can I put these information on the page? Should I use something you 
  called 'Logo types' in the manual or something like layers?

o Where are the command parameters fully explained? (Even in the manual
they 
  are just listed but not explained.)

o In lang-ger.tex you defined "ck with \discretionary{k-}{k}{ck}.
  But on the other hand dehyphn.tex is used which is the new german 
  hyphenation table. Then 'ck' will no longer be hyphenated like k-k. Or 
  am I missing something?

Thanks in advance
Ulrich Dirr