[NTG-context] Re: Some gardening

2005-07-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Mojca, Here's some more work for you Patrick, in case you get bored. Sorry, but I wasn't able to find the last word in my dictionary. I have printed out your suggestions(*), the all make much sense to me, so my plan is to implement them all. I'll report back when I have something to

[NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello David, I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal. This questions can also come from more experienced users :) Which set of instructions should I follow, in order to allow use of Palatino or Times, on Mac OS X, Gerben Wierda's TeX distribution, latest ConTeXt installed?

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
Patrick Gundlach said this at Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:54:06 +0200: Hello David, I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal. This questions can also come from more experienced users :) Which set of instructions should I follow, in order to allow use of Palatino or Times, on Mac OS X,

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Otared Kavian
On 4 juil. 2005, at 9:54, Patrick Gundlach wrote: Hello David, I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal. This questions can also come from more experienced users :) Which set of instructions should I follow, in order to allow use of Palatino or Times, on Mac OS X, Gerben

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread David Rogers
Adam Lindsay wrote: Patrick Gundlach said this at Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:54:06 +0200: Hello David, I am new to ConTeXt, as my question is about to reveal. This questions can also come from more experienced users :) Which set of instructions should I follow, in order to allow use of Palatino or

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
Hi Otared, What you mention sounds like a bug propagated by Hans last month. Take a look at this thread: http://archive.contextgarden.net/thread/ 20050610.172825.65f0c37f.html#20050610.172825.65f0c37f (Assuming you're comfortable with the CLI, I'd suggest verifying the bad file by navigating to

Re: [NTG-context] How to \processcommalist?

2005-07-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I would like to define a command, which would be called in the following way: \TheBossWantsTheWorkToBeDoneOn[monday,wednesday,thursday]{tidy up} so that it would be equivalent to: \WeHaveToDo[monday]{tidy up}

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Otared Kavian wrote: It is right that handling fonts is extremely disappointing and instable... For instance, what used to work does not work anymore properly with the new version of ConTeXt I installed two weeks ago... much of this has nothing to do with context but with - switching from

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: Sadly, that page relies on type-pre, which is deprecated! (Yes, the situation changes again.) hm, i can enable that one again, but will not give guarantees (some fonts have changed, for instance antikwa and we now have proper encoding support for latin modern so all

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Hans Hagen
David Rogers wrote: OK, I tried this setup, and ConTeXt ran without stopping to complain, but (as Otared described, I guess) the font actually produced is very jaggy, both on screen and in print. My nostalgia for dot matrix printers is not as great as one might suppose. :-) So, do you get

Re: [NTG-context] Some gardening

2005-07-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Here's some more work for you Patrick, in case you get bored. (I guess I'll soon be removed from the list as a spammer/abuser if I continue writing mails such as this one :) What do the others think about it? some day others will start expecting you to help patrick

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Adam Lindsay
David Rogers said this at Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:02:56 -0700: I deleted the pdftex.map file you mentioned, ran mktexlsr, and I still get the same effect. (I changed the font in my document from Times to Palatino, in case I was only getting a Times that had been badly generated on my first try with

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread David Rogers
Hans Hagen wrote: David Rogers wrote: OK, I tried this setup, and ConTeXt ran without stopping to complain, but (as Otared described, I guess) the font actually produced is very jaggy, both on screen and in print. My nostalgia for dot matrix printers is not as great as one might suppose.

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Adam, Hans... ...and all of you who are trying to help us solve (and maybe understand) the intricacies of font management! Here is what I did: on Saturday I tried to answer David Rogers' question and so typeset an example file I had, before sending him. Unfortunately everything went

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Radhelorn
David Rogers wrote: OK, I tried this setup, and ConTeXt ran without stopping to complain, but (as Otared described, I guess) the font actually produced is very jaggy, both on screen and in print. My nostalgia for dot matrix fonts : resetting map file list fonts

Re: [NTG-context] Some gardening

2005-07-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Here's some more work for you Patrick, in case you get bored. (I guess I'll soon be removed from the list as a spammer/abuser if I continue writing mails such as this one :) What do the others think about it? some day others will start

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Hans Hagen
David Rogers wrote: I deleted the pdftex.map file you mentioned, ran mktexlsr, and I still get the same effect. (I changed the font in my document from Times to Palatino, in case I was only getting a Times that had been badly generated on my first try with the map file still installed, but it

Re: [NTG-context] How to \processcommalist?

2005-07-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: Taco Hoekwater wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I would like to define a command, which would be called in the following way: \TheBossWantsTheWorkToBeDoneOn[monday,wednesday,thursday]{tidy up} so that it would be equivalent to:

Re: [NTG-context] How to \processcommalist?

2005-07-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Taco's solution already solved my problem, but I believe it would be nice to add some \processenumeratedlist (well, some better name should be given!) command to ConTeXt one day. That way it would be possible to process some commands like \filterpages[file.pdf][1,3,5]

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread Otared Kavian
On 4 juil. 2005, at 23:33, Hans Hagen wrote: Does: \usetypescript [adobekb] [ec] \usetypescript [postscript][ec] \loadmapfile[ec-base.map] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext work? If so, i'll add the map file loading to

[NTG-context] Solved! was Re: Confusion with font instructions

2005-07-04 Thread David Rogers
Radhelorn wrote: \loadmapfile [context-base] % !!! On my machine, this was the missing piece. Thank you for your persistence! (makes a deep bow) :-) David ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context