Re: [NTG-context] Background for current page only

2009-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 03.04.2009 um 22:54 schrieb Khaled Hosny: How to set a background for the current page only? \setupbackgrounds sets backgrounds for all pages, I don't seem to find a way to turn it on/off for certain pages (\setupbackgrounds[state=start/stop] has no effect). Tricky thing, here is a (not s

Re: [NTG-context] Perfect Mac OS X Installation?

2009-04-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:35, Markus Hubig wrote: > Hi @all, > > i've done a fresh install of ConTeXt Minimals on my Mac OS X box. > Now I like to put my setup steps into a small script so my brother can > use it. It wold be nice if someone can give me some comments ... > maybe I missed something,

[NTG-context] Perfect Mac OS X Installation?

2009-04-04 Thread Markus Hubig
Hi @all, i've done a fresh install of ConTeXt Minimals on my Mac OS X box. Now I like to put my setup steps into a small script so my brother can use it. It wold be nice if someone can give me some comments ... maybe I missed something, maybe I did something stupid! - Markus ---8<---schn

Re: [NTG-context] \framed (and others) don't honor directional switches

2009-04-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:17:25PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: a better example of the mess we're dealing with: \starttext \pagedir TRT \bodydir TRT \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \startTEXpage \input tufte \stopTEXpage \pagedir TLT \bodydir TRT \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \startTEXp

Re: [NTG-context] base- vs. node-kerning

2009-04-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Andreas Harder wrote: Hello, the kerning with mode=node seems not to work as desired, the gaps after the kerned character are to big. Here is a test file: \setupcolors[state=start] \definefontfeature[base][mode=base,kern=yes] \definefontfeature[node][mode=node,kern=yes] \definefont[MinBase

Re: [NTG-context] base- vs. node-kerning

2009-04-04 Thread Andreas Harder
Am 04.04.2009 um 12:48 schrieb Hans Hagen: Andreas Harder wrote: Hello, the kerning with mode=node seems not to work as desired, the gaps after the kerned character are to big. Here is a test file: \setupcolors[state=start] \definefontfeature[base][mode=base,kern=yes] \definefontfeature[nod

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] adobe_reader_91_for_linux

2009-04-04 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 15:06:46 luigi scarso wrote: > http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2009/03/adobe_reader_91_for_linux_and.html Precision: 32 bit binary; a 64 bit binary is not (yet) available... Alan ___ If you

Re: [NTG-context] Perfect Mac OS X Installation?

2009-04-04 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 4, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Markus Hubig wrote: Hi @all, i've done a fresh install of ConTeXt Minimals on my Mac OS X box. Now I like to put my setup steps into a small script so my brother can use it. It wold be nice if someone can give me some comments ... maybe I missed something, maybe I

Re: [NTG-context] Background for current page only

2009-04-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 10:45:09AM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 03.04.2009 um 22:54 schrieb Khaled Hosny: > >> How to set a background for the current page only? \setupbackgrounds >> sets backgrounds for all pages, I don't seem to find a way to turn it >> on/off for certain pages (\setupb

Re: [NTG-context] \framed (and others) don't honor directional switches

2009-04-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 12:35:30PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > Khaled Hosny wrote: > indeed, so we're looking into it now (an dlet's forget about the > page/bodydir for the moment) > > since textdir and pardir go hand-in-hand i suggest the following > > \setuplayout[direction=r2l]% also influe

[NTG-context] Arabic shaping

2009-04-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
Currently 'font-ota.lua' hard codes the Arabic shaping properties,and it doesn't seem to be complete (e.g. the ڤ as in أڤاست is not joined), I think such information belong to 'char-def.lua' and should be derived from UCD, which provide 'ArabicShaping.txt[1]', covering Arabic, Syriac and N'Ko scri

[NTG-context] scratch commands, getparameters, blank, doattributes

2009-04-04 Thread afsmith
Can anyone please explain what is going on in... http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Document_Titles#In_ConTeXt:_A_more_advanced_solution (in case your browser does not redirect you to it as intended, I specifically mean the "A more advanced solution" section) If I know what's going on I'll gladly expa

Re: [NTG-context] scratch commands, getparameters, blank, doattributes

2009-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 04.04.2009 um 18:01 schrieb afsmith: Can anyone please explain what is going on in... http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ Document_Titles#In_ConTeXt:_A_more_advanced_solution (in case your browser does not redirect you to it as intended, I specifically mean the "A more advanced solution" secti