[NTG-context] \getmyAbstract

2009-09-18 Thread David Arnold
All, At one time I had a style file that handled my abstract. \definebuffer[myAbstract] \startmyAbstract In this activity you will learn how to solve systems of linear equations using LU decomposition, with both forward and back substitution. In addition, you will also be introduced to function

[NTG-context] ActualText

2009-09-18 Thread Barry Schwartz
Please tell me this isn't in a FAQ. :) Is there support for ActualText tags so that searching and extraction will work with OpenType fonts and Unicode? If so, do discretionary hyphens get treated as 00AD instead of 002D? _

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Barry Schwartz
Hans Hagen skribis: > but even then, if a font is not clear about issues, then one can get > unwanted side effects (the frac feature for instance is often quite > bugged and can only be applied selectively) Yeah, I think trying to be fancy with contextual substitutions is a bit like getting dru

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Barry Schwartz
Hans Hagen skribis: > Barry Schwartz wrote: > > > If base mode uses the traditional TeX mechanism for ligatures, I don't > > see any way the font can be blamed. Ant does the same thing, I believe, using the OT tables and heuristics to run the TeX processor. That's okay, as long as the results ar

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Barry Schwartz wrote: If base mode uses the traditional TeX mechanism for ligatures, I don't see any way the font can be blamed. sure Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridders

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Barry Schwartz wrote: The font is unambiguous about it, though. Are you sure the software isn't performing the feature list in order rather than lookup list? Or is the software performing substitutions in its own ad hoc order? in basemode we use built in traditional tex methods, so only ligatu

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 18.09.2009 um 19:57 schrieb Hans Hagen: Question for wolfgang ... do you enable node mode? No. Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Barry Schwartz
Derek CORDEIRO skribis: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > Derek CORDEIRO wrote: > > > > That does not work for me at all. The following does work with generating > >> the same ThOMAS > >> > > > > can you try .. > > > > \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smallcaps][liga=no]

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Barry Schwartz
Hans Hagen skribis: > Barry Schwartz wrote: > > Hans Hagen skribis: > >> could it be a bug in the font? i.e. a Th ligature showing up in > >> smallcaps? if so, then simplefonts should disable ligatures in smallcaps > > > > I'm looking at AGaramondPro-Regular in fontforge and it has the lookup >

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Derek CORDEIRO
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Derek CORDEIRO wrote: > > That does not work for me at all. The following does work with generating >> the same ThOMAS >> > > another test: > > \definefontfeature[default] [default] [mode=node] > \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smallcaps][mod

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Derek CORDEIRO
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Derek CORDEIRO wrote: > > That does not work for me at all. The following does work with generating >> the same ThOMAS >> > > can you try .. > > \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smallcaps][liga=no] > > \usemodule[simplefonts] > > \setmainfont[A

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Barry Schwartz wrote: Hans Hagen skribis: could it be a bug in the font? i.e. a Th ligature showing up in smallcaps? if so, then simplefonts should disable ligatures in smallcaps I'm looking at AGaramondPro-Regular in fontforge and it has the lookup for small caps well above the lookup for li

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Barry Schwartz
Hans Hagen skribis: > could it be a bug in the font? i.e. a Th ligature showing up in > smallcaps? if so, then simplefonts should disable ligatures in smallcaps I'm looking at AGaramondPro-Regular in fontforge and it has the lookup for small caps well above the lookup for ligatures. The software

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Derek CORDEIRO wrote: That does not work for me at all. The following does work with generating the same ThOMAS another test: \definefontfeature[default] [default] [mode=node] \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smallcaps][mode=node] \definefontfeature[oldstyle] [oldstyke] [mode=node] Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Derek CORDEIRO wrote: \usemodule[simplefonts] Question for wolfgang ... do you enable node mode? in basemode, it might be that ligatures are loaded after smallcaps (and base mode is static) and then it's the order of features in the font that determines what happens, if so, then maybe we

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Derek CORDEIRO wrote: That does not work for me at all. The following does work with generating the same ThOMAS can you try .. \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smallcaps][liga=no] \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[A Jenson Pro Regular] \starttext {\sc Thomas} \stoptext if that works, then

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Derek CORDEIRO
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Mika Ritola wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> For some reason, the snippet below outputs 'ThOMAS' instead of 'THOMAS.' >> This seems to be font dependent; at least Adobe Jenson Pro and Adobe >> Garamond Pro produce 'Th,' while the other fonts that I

Re: [NTG-context] \overrightarrow not working in mathmode in Metapost?

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: \let\normaloverrightarrow\overrightarrow \unexpanded\def\overrightarrow{\normaloverrightarrow} ok, i made them all unexpandable - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE

[NTG-context] setting variable on cmd-line

2009-09-18 Thread Peter Münster
Hello, I've a little feature request: It would be nice, to have a command line option like "--setvalue x=y" or similar for the "context" command to define a variable for the job. Modes are already very nice, but often I need just one value for conditional compiling a document instead of many bina

Re: [NTG-context] \overrightarrow not working in mathmode in Metapost?

2009-09-18 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Aditya, > \let\normaloverrightarrow\overrightarrow > \unexpanded\def\overrightarrow{\normaloverrightarrow} I haven't got a clue what this means, but it worked! Thanks! Gr. Matthijs signature.asc Description: Digital signature _

Re: [NTG-context] \overrightarrow not working in mathmode in Metapost?

2009-09-18 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: Hi, I've been trying to use the \overrightarrow command within a metapost graphic, but it doesn't work. Math mode does work, for example \vec works like expected. Outside of metapost, \overrightarrow works as expected. To illustrate the problem, I'

Re: [NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Mika Ritola wrote: Hello all, For some reason, the snippet below outputs 'ThOMAS' instead of 'THOMAS.' This seems to be font dependent; at least Adobe Jenson Pro and Adobe Garamond Pro produce 'Th,' while the other fonts that I've tried produce 'TH', as expected. I don't know whether the bug exi

[NTG-context] Small caps problem/bug with some fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Mika Ritola
Hello all, For some reason, the snippet below outputs 'ThOMAS' instead of 'THOMAS.' This seems to be font dependent; at least Adobe Jenson Pro and Adobe Garamond Pro produce 'Th,' while the other fonts that I've tried produce 'TH', as expected. I don't know whether the bug exists in the fonts them

[NTG-context] \overrightarrow not working in mathmode in Metapost?

2009-09-18 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi, I've been trying to use the \overrightarrow command within a metapost graphic, but it doesn't work. Math mode does work, for example \vec works like expected. Outside of metapost, \overrightarrow works as expected. To illustrate the problem, I've created the following simple testcase: \sta

Re: [NTG-context] Documentation

2009-09-18 Thread Alain Delmotte
Hans Hagen a écrit : Alain Delmotte wrote: I have downloaded a great part of the documentation (59 files or so). But if I understood well, there has been big changes between Mark II and Mark IV/Lua. The documentation seems more linked to MkII. Is mk.pdf the file to use (in conjonction with a

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Thanks for the hint. uplr8... are Palatino fonts, and I have palatino as the math-font in my typescript. Copying them from the mac to the linux setup (where they have gone? with an update? -- my Mac version is old!) did the trick. Thanks again, Jörg luigi scarso wrote: !pdfTeX error: pdftex

Re: [NTG-context] fonts

2009-09-18 Thread luigi scarso
> !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file uplr8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for > readi > ng > ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! > TeXExec | runtime: 2.115894 What is uplr8a.pfb ? Is it on your fontpath ? -- luigi __

[NTG-context] fonts

2009-09-18 Thread Jörg Hagmann
The fonts (linlibertine and gentium) I installed (and which worked) on my ubuntu minimals don't work any more. I can't see any difference between the appropriate files on my mac (where they work) and the linux machine. Maybe somebody can point out the problem based on the message below -- I wou

[NTG-context] [OT] Open Font Format

2009-09-18 Thread luigi scarso
ISO/IEC 14496-22:2009 Information technology -- Coding of audio-visual objects -- Part 22: Open Font Format http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c052136_ISO_IEC_14496-22_2009(E).zip From pdf: "NOTE This specification is based on the OpenType®ii font format specification

[NTG-context] end footnotes before new chapter starts?

2009-09-18 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, is there a way to end ("flush") footnotes of a chapter before the next chapters starts? Please have a look at this double-page spread below, please: http://werksatz.com/attachments/spread.pdf Footnote no. 37 should be the first footnote that is printed under the footnote line of t