Re: [NTG-context] \startfrontmatter Co.

2008-07-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: itself (search for bodyfontenvironment in the mail archive). The most, though still scarce information is available at http://texshow.contextgarden.net Sorry, I meat \setupsectionblock and \startsectionblockenvironment.

Re: [NTG-context] \index versus makeindex.

2008-07-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 7:38 PM, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usually I use makeindex for indexing but for my current job I thought the Context \index command would be convenient. However I discovered that the \index command does not provide for page ranges. If I index the same item

Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

2008-07-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \starttypescript[myFonts] \definetypeface [mySerifFont] [rm] [serif] [mySerifFont] [default] \definetypeface [mySansFont] [ss] [sans] [mySansFont] [default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[myFonts]

Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

2008-07-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:25 PM, John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 06:03:43 am Alan Stone wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Charles P. Schaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With Ubuntu and fonts there are several things going on. Which begets the question...

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes

2008-07-21 Thread Ulrich Dirr
Hi Aditya, thank you for your help! On 2008-07-20 Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Ulrich Dirr wrote: I'm recently testing mkiv/luatex (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.18 18:38 MKIV fmt: 2008.7.19 installed; compiling with 'context file') for a new project. I don't know if my questions depend

Re: [NTG-context] Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]

2008-07-21 Thread Alan Stone
You're playing games with me, do you? Nope. I'm playing with ctx/ltx, testing by trial and error what's possible. You need the same name for both typefaces. Hmmm... I was definitely interpreting this too literally then. Thanks for your support enabling me to better understand ctx/ltx

[NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-21 Thread Ulrich Dirr
Hi, I've adapted the complete luatex/markiv typescript example at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV#Opentype_features for FF Kievit Pro I. It works quiet nice out of the box (aaah, nomore fiddling with font installation!). \starttypescript [sans] [kievit] \definefontsynonym

[NTG-context] End notes and compile per chapter question

2008-07-21 Thread Gerben Wierda
I have a book project with a structure I copied a few years ago from some instructional page. The product file looks like this: \startproduct prd_book \project project_teoada \starttext \start \startstandardmakeup \ss \hairline \start \switchtobodyfont[20pt]\bf \leftaligned{Test

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Ulrich Dirr wrote: Hi, I've adapted the complete luatex/markiv typescript example at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV#Opentype_features for FF Kievit Pro I. It works quiet nice out of the box (aaah, nomore fiddling with font installation!).

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Ulrich Dirr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've adapted the complete luatex/markiv typescript example at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV#Opentype_features for FF Kievit Pro I. It works quiet nice out of the box (aaah, nomore fiddling with font

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 21, 2008, at 11:09 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I'm only guessing without trying: You have \definefontsynonym [KievitProRegular] [name:KievitPro-Regular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [KievitProRegular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [Sans]

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-21 Thread Andrea Valle
Really, let's try to update/increase docs. I'm sorry, I know I'm asking other people to work for me. To be clear, I'm quite grateful to devs and helpers (and I'd really like to come to Bohinj...), but IMHO it does not make much sense to keep on posting code snippets without giving general

Re: [NTG-context] mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors

2008-07-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Jesse Alama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[NTG-context] How to read sources? (was:) Footnotes

2008-07-21 Thread Joachim Kreimer-de Fries
Goden Dag, although my primary field of ConTeXt questions is marginal notes, I use to read the footnote threads on NTG-context with curiousness as well . Am 20.07.2008 um 19:50 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: When the manual is inadequate, I look at the sources. = Which sorces, wich directory

Re: [NTG-context] How to read sources?

2008-07-21 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: P. S. An OT-question besides: does anyone know an file manager program instead of the mac Finder, which allows me to find files in the hidden directories of Mac-OSX in a GUI way instead of unix terminal commands cd, ls and find you can type open

Re: [NTG-context] How to read sources? (was:) Footnotes

2008-07-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: = Which sorces, wich directory and kind of files are meant, if one says look at the source, where do I find them? (On my TeX-life distribution on Mac OSX 10.4x Tiger with actualized ConTeXt I didn't find the later mentioned

Re: [NTG-context] How to read sources?

2008-07-21 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Jörg Hagmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: P. S. An OT-question besides: does anyone know an file manager program instead of the mac Finder, which allows me to find files in the hidden directories of Mac-OSX in a GUI way instead of

Re: [NTG-context] How to read sources?

2008-07-21 Thread Andrea Valle
Finder - Go - Goto Yes, if you know where to go: Open the Terminal and type defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES relaunch the Finder and you can see everything (and back with NO and relaunch) Best -a- Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] How to read sources? (was:) Footnotes

2008-07-21 Thread Andrea Valle
= Could one comunicate how to scan them for infomation or must that stay a secret? they are easy to understand. [I repeat: easy to understand!] I totally agree with you, it's really useless to invite to read the sources without providing a tutorial on source reading for non expert

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: caps. To be honest, \sc could work without so much trickery in XeTeX and LuaTeX (it could simply add +smcp to the current font), but definition of \sc has not been adapted to work like that yet. Following a suggestion on this list, I sometimes use

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes

2008-07-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Ulrich Dirr wrote: O.k. I could look in the source too, but where did you read 'location=normal'? That is just from knowing how the footnotes work. In ConTeXt footnotes consist of two this, a number and the note definition. The note definition is defined as a

Re: [NTG-context] How to read sources? (was:) Footnotes

2008-07-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: Goden Dag, although my primary field of ConTeXt questions is marginal notes, I use to read the footnote threads on NTG-context with curiousness as well . Am 20.07.2008 um 19:50 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: When the manual is inadequate, I

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes

2008-07-21 Thread Ulrich Dirr
Hi Aditya, Thank you very much for your explanations. Where in the documentation did you find 'serried'? I think my biggest problem is that I don't know which values are possible options and what's the meaning (this should be in the docs I think). Best regards, Ulrich On 2008-07-21 Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] Footnotes

2008-07-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Ulrich Dirr wrote: Hi Aditya, Thank you very much for your explanations. Where in the documentation did you find 'serried'? serried is in the documentation for desciprtions. texshow also lists serried as one of the options for descriptions. I know the options for

Re: [NTG-context] OpenType beginners question

2008-07-21 Thread Ulrich Dirr
Hi Wolfgang, this works perfectly well, thanks. On 2008-07-21 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Ulrich Dirr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've adapted the complete luatex/markiv typescript example at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV#Opentype_features for FF

[NTG-context] greek again

2008-07-21 Thread cidadaum
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, cidadaum at sapo.pt wrote: Where did you unzip the module? Aditya Here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/third/greek ls t-ancientgreek.mkii t-ancientgreek.tex type-agr.mkii type-agr.tex t-ancientgreek.mkiv t-oldgreek.tex type-agr.mkiv

Re: [NTG-context] greek again

2008-07-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, cidadaum at sapo.pt wrote: Where did you unzip the module? Aditya Here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/third/greek ls t-ancientgreek.mkii t-ancientgreek.tex type-agr.mkii type-agr.tex

[NTG-context] cont-enp.pdf on lulu

2008-07-21 Thread abbg770
Hi, Why not submit cont-enp.pdf (ConTeXt the manual) to lulu? I do appreciate the hard work that's going into the documentation, but at some places the english doesn't flow that well. Out of curiosity how many people proof read the documentation before they're released? -- Thanks Mohamed

Re: [NTG-context] cont-enp.pdf on lulu

2008-07-21 Thread John Culleton
On Monday 21 July 2008 07:58:55 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Why not submit cont-enp.pdf (ConTeXt the manual) to lulu? I do appreciate the hard work that's going into the documentation, but at some places the english doesn't flow that well. Out of curiosity how many people proof read the

Re: [NTG-context] greek again

2008-07-21 Thread cidadaum
Citando Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, cidadaum at sapo.pt wrote: Where did you unzip the module? Aditya Here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/third/greek ls t-ancientgreek.mkii

Re: [NTG-context] greek again

2008-07-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Citando Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, cidadaum at sapo.pt wrote: Where did you unzip the module? Aditya Here: [EMAIL