Hello All, After a number of years working with "classical" TeX/LaTeX I have been trying out ConTeXt. I like the structured approach and the control it gives the user and I have been trying it out on some of my working documents. Two questions: 1. On writing tables in LaTeX, there is an option p{ some length } that enables paragraph mode for one or more of the table's column entries. Is there something equivalent in ConTeXt? I don't seem to be able to find it in the manual. 2. My native language is Greek and I would like to have the capability to write documents in this language. There does not seem to be support for it in ConTeXt. Are there any directions, notes, how-to's, etc. around, for how to add support for an additional language in ConTeXt? I'd like to give it a try. TIA Tasos
Tasos Drosopoulos wrote:
2. My native language is Greek and I would like to have the capability to write documents in this language. There does not seem to be support for it in ConTeXt. Are there any directions, notes, how-to's, etc. around, for how to add support for an additional language in ConTeXt? I'd like to give it a try.
If you're _really_ adventurous you could give Gamma, the ConTeXt format for Omega, a try. For Greek it should work pretty well. Omega 1.15 or the latest experimental version 1.23.2 is recommended for this. YMMV... But again, only if you're adventurous:-) Idris
At 07:13 PM 2/6/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Hello All,
After a number of years working with "classical" TeX/LaTeX I have been trying out ConTeXt. I like the structured approach and the control it gives the user and I have been trying it out on some of my working documents.
Two questions:
1. On writing tables in LaTeX, there is an option p{ some length } that enables paragraph mode for one or more of the table's column entries. Is there something equivalent in ConTeXt? I don't seem to be able to find it in the manual.
\starttable and \starttabulate both accept p(3cm) and alike; in tabulate, if you don't specify the width, it will be automatically calculated
2. My native language is Greek and I would like to have the capability to write documents in this language. There does not seem to be support for it in ConTeXt. Are there any directions, notes, how-to's, etc. around, for how to add support for an additional language in ConTeXt? I'd like to give it a try.
it's not that complicated to implement: (1) what fonts (2) what encoding (3) what labels i have to implement greek anyway (need it for projects), so ...; last time i looked into it, i became puzzled by the many encodings; so, do you have infoin (1) and (2) to start with? Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tasos Drosopoulos
1. On writing tables in LaTeX, there is an option p{ some length } that enables paragraph mode for one or more of the table's column entries. Is there something equivalent in ConTeXt? I don't seem to be able to find it in the manual.
if you use the tabulate mechanism (documented in up-004-?.pdf), you can use the p(somelength) specifier. Patrick
Hello Tasos I can only comment on your first question. Context offers you three environments: 1. tabulate \starttabulate[|||] ... \stoptabulate 2. tables \startable [|||] ... \stoptable 3. natural tables \bTABLE \bTR \bTD ... \eTD \eTR \eTABLE Information concerning the first two methods you can find in e.g. mp-cb-en.pdf en cont-enp.pdf The third method you can study in enattab.pdf (examples) and up-008.pdf The third method is probably the most powerful! Zou might have a look at the Pragma ade site where you can download the mentioned files under overview.htm: www.pragma-ade.com Have fun! Willi
Willi Egger (w.egger@boede.nl) wrote:
Information concerning the first two methods you can find in e.g. mp-cb-en.pdf en cont-enp.pdf The third method you can study in enattab.pdf (examples) and up-008.pdf The third method is probably the most powerful!
Please if you can provide info where to find up-008.pdf. Somehow I'm unable to locate it (I've found only up to up-007.pdf). Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour@mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493
At 08:26 AM 2/7/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Willi Egger (w.egger@boede.nl) wrote:
Information concerning the first two methods you can find in e.g. mp-cb-en.pdf en cont-enp.pdf The third method you can study in enattab.pdf (examples) and up-008.pdf The third method is probably the most powerful!
Please if you can provide info where to find up-008.pdf. Somehow I'm unable to locate it (I've found only up to up-007.pdf).
it was replaced by enattab Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Gour,
unable to locate it (I've found only up to up-007.pdf).
Got to www.pragema-ade.com On the welcomescreen there is a link to ovrview.htm Klicking on this link produces a long list of downloadble files where far down you will find the mentioned file. Succes Willi
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