Re: [NTG-context] strange behavior of startbackground

2005-12-04 Thread Xiao Jianfeng
Xiao Jianfeng wrote: >Hello, > >I came across a problem when I was trying to compile my tex file. >The attached file is an example. > >I have to process Chinese, so "\loadmapfile[gbk]" and >"\usemodule[chinese]" are essential. > >I'm using the lastest release of ConTeXt. >ConText ver:2005.12.01, t

[NTG-context] strange behavior of startbackground

2005-12-04 Thread Xiao Jianfeng
Hello, I came across a problem when I was trying to compile my tex file. The attached file is an example. I have to process Chinese, so "\loadmapfile[gbk]" and "\usemodule[chinese]" are essential. I'm using the lastest release of ConTeXt. ConText ver:2005.12.01, texExec 5.4.3, to be exact. And I

Re: [NTG-context] Dropped caps and indenting

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: \TextDroppedCaps In general, Baroque letterforms appear more \noindenting \TextD or replace this in supp-fun.tex \def\DroppedCaps#1#2#3#4#5#6#7% does not yet handle accented chars {\convertargument#7\to\asciia \convertcommand \DroppedString\to\a

Re: [NTG-context] Re: LucidaBright fonts...I'm stumped

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Henk Koster wrote: Hans, you said that you posted an updated version of cont-fnt.zip, but all I could find was the 1-12-2005 version without texnansi fmt-files (only the ec ones). Anyway, I have enough information now to apply the LB fonts if I choose to do so. Again, many thanks for the respons

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: Also, thanks for the fix for adapting sizes, back a few months. It means that the EC Companion/TS1 support can now become feasible. Shall I try to nudge that forward again? yes, because it would solve the mu-problem (repported in the collector) The biggest issue is prob

Re: [NTG-context] extra space after variant

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hans Hagen wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: When I code: abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} I find extra space typeset between "abc" and "pqr". This extra space is absent when I code abc {\variant[xyz]pqr} Thus the space in the source between ] and pqr makes a differenc

Re: [NTG-context] Placing a scaled symbol within the flow of text

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds) wrote: Hi all, I am attempting to insert a symbol at a reduced size within the text flow but I'm not sure how to achieve this. I've included my test script below. \starttext \definefontsynonym[Dingbats][uzdr] \definesymbol[filledSq][\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char1

Re: [NTG-context] GNU Emacs/ AucTeX configuration for ConTeXt

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Johan Sandblom wrote: I think possibly that the reason for the sparse syntax highlighting is the higher frequency of inline definitions in ConTeXt, making it impossible to keep up with it. I think it should be parsable, but requires emacs-lisp skills way beyond mine. it's not that hard; i've

Re: [NTG-context] fontvariants

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Adam Lindsay wrote: Hans van der Meer wrote: I was probing into the font variant mechanism. QUESTION: Is the variant mechanism exclusively tied to the series Serif (\rm) and Sans (\ss)? Yes, pretty much, in the implementation's design. more precisely, it;s related to rm|ss|tt (mapped o

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space?

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Gerben Wierda wrote: While we're at it. can I get the name of the current font somehow? \fontname\font or often (in context): \lastfontname Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] dvipdfmx

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: Dear Hans, Taco, Chof, and all, Just installed 051130, and I am happy to report that, so far anyway, dvipdfmx map files work fine-) good, thanks for testing Hans ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://ww

[NTG-context] Dropped caps and indenting

2005-12-04 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear gang, I am having difficuly getting dropped caps and the new indenting mechanism coordinated; the dropped cap goes into the margin. Try this: === \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupindenting[medium,next,yes] \def\TextDroppedCaps{% \DroppedCaps% {} %

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Christopher Creutzig wrote: Nikolai Weibull wrote: this than I have is welcome to finish it. The \highlight command should be defined something like this (pseudo-tex-code): \pdef\highlight[#1]{#2}% {\bgroup \setupcolorforgroup[#1]% \type{#2}% \egroup} #1 is a group name, such as S

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-04 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Hans Hagen wrote: [good tips on how to implement the TeX side of things] Great, thanks! > [it's what i did with the scite exporter -- i output highligting in a > compact XML where even spaces are tagged] Is there (going to be) any support for this export format in ConTeXt so that I can just ge

[NTG-context] dvipdfmx

2005-12-04 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Dear Hans, Taco, Chof, and all, Just installed 051130, and I am happy to report that, so far anyway, dvipdfmx map files work fine-) Best Idris Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 ___

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Nikolai Weibull wrote: Nikolai Weibull wrote: It would require very little programming. syntax/2html.vim, which converts the buffer to a HTML document with syntax highlighting, is 526 lines in the current CVS incarnation. A syntax/2context.vim would be even shorter, perhaps 150 to 200 lin

[NTG-context] synonyms

2005-12-04 Thread Ganguin Michel
Hi I want to define synonyms with accentued characters (utf8) how can I do That? \definesynonyms[mysyn][mysans][\mysynfull] \mysyn{wordwithé}{Description of wordwithé} and what is the fourth optional brackets from \definesynonyms? I see that it is a command, but what dos this command? Thanks Mi

Re: [NTG-context] An idea

2005-12-04 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Christopher Creutzig wrote: > Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > > this than I have is welcome to finish it. The \highlight command > > should be defined something like this (pseudo-tex-code): > > > > \pdef\highlight[#1]{#2}% > > {\bgroup > >\setupcolorforgroup[#1]% > >\type{#2}% > >\egro

Re: [NTG-context] tetex3 ubuntu install (was : installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log)

2005-12-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
OK, since you're having so much trouble, I'll try to explain a few things: 1. Your trouble with Ubuntu: you copied the command "as is" from the document INSTALL in tetex: gzip -dc tetex-texmf.tar.gz \| (umask 0; cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist; tar xvf -) In the tetex document, the "\

Re: [NTG-context] installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log

2005-12-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
olivier Turlier wrote: Hi everybody, Starting to try installing correctly tetex3 on ubuntu, I wanted to ask tons of questions. While formatting this mail, I've succeed in installing tetex3. Maybe what follows can be worth fore somebody more nbie than me (is that possible?), or for a pre-begin

Re: [NTG-context] tetex3 ubuntu install (was : installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log)

2005-12-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, olivier Turlier wrote: Hi everybody, I still have pbs for this (begin to be) hard to achieve task (compared of unziping mswincontext.zip on a :\C drive...) 1) I can't succed in adding executables to the path, with my various tryies, here is my .bash_profile : Have you tried to put your P

[NTG-context] tetex3 ubuntu install (was : installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log)

2005-12-04 Thread olivier Turlier
Hi everybody, I still have pbs for this (begin to be) hard to achieve task (compared of unziping mswincontext.zip on a :\C drive...) 1) I can't succed in adding executables to the path, with my various tryies, here is my .bash_profile : if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt logo

2005-12-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Wonderful, thanks Taco! I see that somebody had played around with kerning the \TeX-part, there was a commented line. I tried a somewhat higher value than the default 0.667em, and it seems to be looking better now! Best Thomas On Dec 4, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Thomas A. S

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt logo

2005-12-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: All (and especially Hans...), where is \CONTEXT (the logo) defined? Looking at the output I get, I wonder if it doesn't need a bit of kerning between Con and the following T; there's quite a gap between these two letters (at least in the font I'm using). Have a l

[NTG-context] ConTeXt logo

2005-12-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
All (and especially Hans...), where is \CONTEXT (the logo) defined? Looking at the output I get, I wonder if it doesn't need a bit of kerning between Con and the following T; there's quite a gap between these two letters (at least in the font I'm using). Thanks and all best Thomas __

Re: [NTG-context] page numbering

2005-12-04 Thread toto
Quoting Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, How could I reset the page number counter? I can't find that information neither on the wiki nor in the manual. \startstandardmakeup ... \stopstandardmakeup for the title page, the page counter will not be inc

Re: [NTG-context] page numbering

2005-12-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, How could I reset the page number counter? I can't find that information neither on the wiki nor in the manual. Use: \setnumber[page]{42} Also defined are (at least): \resetnumber[page] \incrementnumber[page] \decrementnumber[page] \sa

Re: [NTG-context] cal & calligraphic

2005-12-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hans van der Meer wrote: I am confused about the behaviour of \cal and calligraphic. In a font where the calligraphic letters are in MathItalic all goes well. But, in a font where the calligraphic letters come from another font I get: \definefontsynonym [Calligraphic] [FONT_OTHER_THAN_Math

[NTG-context] page numbering

2005-12-04 Thread toto
Hello list, How could I reset the page number counter? I can't find that information neither on the wiki nor in the manual. I would like to have a title page without a page number and that the page that follow has the number one. I can say to context not to print the page number on the page ti

Re: [NTG-context] Is it possible to automatically determine font size to fit text to a given space?

2005-12-04 Thread Gerben Wierda
While we're at it. can I get the name of the current font somehow? G On Dec 2, 2005, at 15:02, Hans Hagen wrote: Daniel Pittman wrote: Hints about that, or a native TeX method[1], would be very much appreciated. At the moment it is a relatively slow process of manual trial and error. this