Re: [NTG-context] Dingbats without fonts

2004-04-01 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hey, thanks for the quick feedback, guys... So the package is in the usual place. This time the watchword is "minimal" so it can work on as many systems as possible. 23kb for the documentation/demo, 7.2kb for the zip file itself... This is a cut-down version of

[NTG-context] \its == item versus item == \its ?

2004-04-01 Thread Helmut Schwertner
Hello, for a questionnaire I use the \its command in the following way: \starttext \startitemize[left,5,packed][width=8em,distance=2em,items=5] \ran {no\hss yes} \its I can not do without \TeX. \its I will use \TeX\ forever. \its I expect an alternative to \TeX\ in the next few years. \stopitemi

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

2004-04-01 Thread Otared Kavian
At 06:07 pm +0100 1/04/04, Adam Lindsay wrote: Hey, does this PDF file work for everyone? No fonts are embedded in its 19Kb, but it gives a good outline of what's available in the PDF-native ZapfDingbats font. Hi Adam, Your PDF file works fine on Mac OS X 10.3.3 with: Acrobat 5.0.5, Adobe Reader

Re: [NTG-context] context2html converter (was: ConTeXt Switcher? )

2004-04-01 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Bob Kerstetter wrote: > I have contacted a friend who is a tex4ht power user and asked if he > could help with making tex4ht work with ConTeXt. He said his > "uneducated guess" is that tex4ht can be made to work with ConTeXt, but Hello Bob, any news about TeX4ht for ConTeXt

Re: [NTG-context] Dingbats without fonts

2004-04-01 Thread Willi Egger
It works on a PC with Windows XP and AcrobatReader 6.0, looks great. Willi Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am Donnerstag, 01.04.04, um 19:07 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Adam Lindsay: Hey, does this PDF file work for everyone? No fonts are embedded in its 19Kb, but it gives a good outline of what's a

[NTG-context] Dingbats without fonts (was: Typescript for Helvetica)

2004-04-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am Donnerstag, 01.04.04, um 19:07 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Adam Lindsay: Hey, does this PDF file work for everyone? No fonts are embedded in its 19Kb, but it gives a good outline of what's available in the PDF-native ZapfDingbats font. It works on MacOS X 10.2 with Acrobat 5.05, Reader 6.0, Pr

[NTG-context] splitting a rotated tabulate...

2004-04-01 Thread Marko Schuetz
I have a long table with many columns which I'd like to rotate and then have it split across as many pages as necessary. I have experimented with tabulates and tables, splitfloat and rotate but did not find a working combination. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Marko pgp0.pgp Des

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

2004-04-01 Thread Adam Lindsay
Adam Lindsay said this at Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:52:54 +0100: >When I do \showfont[zd], however, I see something resembling >Unicode vector 0x27nn. All it would take is a re-encoding to put the >glyphs in the right place. Hey, does this PDF file work for everyone? No fonts are embedded in its 19Kb,

Re: [NTG-context] Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

2004-04-01 Thread Thomas A . Schmitz
Try this: \enableregime[il1] \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[leftmargindistance=0cm] \setupheadertexts[] \usetypescriptfile [adobekb] \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[pos,11pt] \starttext {\ss This is Helvetica, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi b

Re: [NTG-context] TaBle example fails

2004-04-01 Thread Christopher G D Tipper
On 31 Mar 2004 at 8:44, George N. White III wrote: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Christopher G D Tipper wrote: > > > I am learning the TaBle package and I get the following from a verbatim > > example from the manual. > > ConTeXt uses heavily modified macros. There is \ObeyTableBarAndQuote, > but you

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

2004-04-01 Thread Adam Lindsay
Stefan Wachter said this at Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:20:52 +0200: >I tried the code of Patrick. It works for Times and Helvetica. Yet, if I >switch to monospace using \tt then Computer Modern fonts are used / >embedded. In addition, all this typescripts stuff is so confusing for me >that I prefer to

[NTG-context] Re: How to rotate a single character on a line?

2004-04-01 Thread Stefan Wachter
Hans Hagen wrote: At 16:22 23/03/2004, you wrote: Hi all. I want to use some arrows of the ZapfDingbats fonts. Most of the arrows included in this font are directed from left to right. I tried to use \rotate to produce arrows directed to different directions. Yet, rotate produces new lines. E

[NTG-context] Re: Typescript for Helvetica - what's wrong?

2004-04-01 Thread Stefan Wachter
Adam Lindsay wrote: Stefan Wachter said this at Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:17:29 +0200: thanks for the help. After extracting the typescript code into a seperate typescript file everything works fine! Ah, I remembered what Patrick did, now: \usetypescript[adobekb][texnansi] \usetypescript[times][texn