Re: [NTG-context] Suggestions on fonts and foundries

2010-03-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2010-03-01 um 04:54 schrieb Tom: Some time back I recall seeing a message in which someone discussed using fonts available from foundries and recommended certain ones. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find that message. I will probably need one serif font for the text of the book, a plain

Re: [NTG-context] Math in MKIV - HOWTO

2010-03-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1-3-2010 17:26, Zhichu Chen wrote: Hi, I got some time today and checked some symbols of hlcra.tfm (LucidaNewMath-Arrows), and got this table: so that table replaces lbr-ma in math-vfu? mojca/aditya: can you check this and send me an updated/patch for math-vfu?

Re: [NTG-context] bookmarks point to page, not to section start

2010-03-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 26-2-2010 14:09, Mojca Miklavec wrote: The behaviour seems to be the same in both MKII and MKIV (MKII only doesn't respect the accented characters; but I understand the pain of recoding). technically mkii should be able to to the right accents when you enable unicode pdf output but by

Re: [NTG-context] Margin terminology -- badly documented, undocumented, or misdocumented

2010-03-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 25-2-2010 21:17, James Fisher wrote: Hi Hans, Thanks for the reply -- and sorry for the rather grumpy way in which I posed the question. The problem for me was this mysterious width=middle, height=middle -- this is fairly undocumented at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout . There is a

Re: [NTG-context] [ntg-context] ppchtex questions and maybe buglets

2010-03-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 26-2-2010 15:04, Bernhard Rosensteiner wrote: ppchtex is really nice. after experimenting with it i found some buglets: Can you coordinate this with Alan? Just collect bugs and make small test files so that i can look at them in a batch. Hans

Re: [NTG-context] Math in MKIV - HOWTO

2010-03-02 Thread Zhichu Chen
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: On 1-3-2010 17:26, Zhichu Chen wrote: Hi, I got some time today and checked some symbols of hlcra.tfm (LucidaNewMath-Arrows), and got this table: so that table replaces lbr-ma in math-vfu? yes. And don't forget the correction:

Re: [NTG-context] Suggestions on fonts and foundries

2010-03-02 Thread John Haltiwanger
This site might provide a good place to ask further advice: http://typedia.com/forum/viewcategory/1/ On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm hra...@fiee.netwrote: Am 2010-03-01 um 04:54 schrieb Tom: Some time back I recall seeing a message in which someone discussed using

Re: [NTG-context] Math in MKIV - HOWTO

2010-03-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2-3-2010 12:25, Zhichu Chen wrote: 0x021D8] = 0x65, -- Downrightarrow ok, i'll make a beta with that vector - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt |

Re: [NTG-context] Math in MKIV - HOWTO

2010-03-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Mojca/aditya: can you check this and send me an updated/patch for math-vfu? What's pretty important is to fill the char-def.lua as well (maybe together with some additional comments that the glyph names come from the LaTeX package from Lucida, just that we'll know where the names come from next

Re: [NTG-context] Math in MKIV - HOWTO

2010-03-02 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2-3-2010 14:49, Mojca Miklavec wrote: What's pretty important is to fill the char-def.lua as well (maybe together with some additional comments that the glyph names come from the LaTeX package from Lucida, just that we'll know where the names come from next time when we see some clashes).

[NTG-context] Math integral symbols (cambria) , MK-IV

2010-03-02 Thread gummybears
Hi, When using font Cambria, the integral symbols \iint and \iiint look funny compared to \int. The contour, surface and volume integrals look fine. Version ConText version 2010.02.25 19:46. LuaTeX version 50,0 Test file \usetypescript[cambria] \setupbodyfont[cambria] \starttext \startformula

Re: [NTG-context] Math in MKIV - HOWTO

2010-03-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 15:28, Hans Hagen wrote: On 2-3-2010 14:49, Mojca Miklavec wrote: hm, but for me name compatibility with every latex math package is no objective; i'd rather that we're unicode math compiant (and i don't care too much what route latex follows) I would not care too much

Re: [NTG-context] Math in MKIV - HOWTO

2010-03-02 Thread Zhichu Chen
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 15:28, Hans Hagen wrote: On 2-3-2010 14:49, Mojca Miklavec wrote: hm, but for me name compatibility with every latex math package is no objective; i'd rather that we're unicode math

Re: [NTG-context] Math in MKIV - HOWTO

2010-03-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 16:41, Zhichu Chen wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: It's not about messing things up, but about missing mathname= in char-def.lua for all the unicode entries for special glyphs. If those glyphs worked in MKII from the very beginning, they

[NTG-context] MetaPost bug? in MKIV

2010-03-02 Thread Troy Henderson
The following example produces expected output with MKII (texexec) but fails the compilation process with MKIV (context). \startuseMPgraphic{foo} input graph; path p; gdata(data.d, $, augment.p($1,$2);); draw begingraph(4in,2.5in); gdraw p; endgraph; \stopuseMPgraphic

Re: [NTG-context] Math integral symbols (cambria) , MK-IV

2010-03-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, gummybears wrote: Hi, When using font Cambria, the integral symbols \iint and \iiint look funny compared to \int. \iint and iiint are set using \repeatintegrals and it seems that for some reason they are in textsize rather than displaysize. I will have a look. Hans, we

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost bug? in MKIV

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Troy, I don't have the graph.mp file, but I have seen similar errors here. I guess if you change the lines into Gmargin.low:=-.07; Gmargin.high:=1.07; things work again. Sorry, I can't remember the reason why equations cause trouble in mplib. But I'm quite sure that this is only an

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost bug? in MKIV

2010-03-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Rolf wrote: Hi Troy, I don't have the graph.mp file, but I have seen similar errors here. I guess if you change the lines into Gmargin.low:=-.07; Gmargin.high:=1.07; things work again. Sorry, I can't remember the reason why equations cause trouble in mplib. But I'm quite sure

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost bug? in MKIV

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Rolf
Am 02.03.2010 19:42, schrieb Peter Rolf: Hi Troy, I don't have the graph.mp file, but I have seen similar errors here. I guess if you change the lines into Gmargin.low:=-.07; Gmargin.high:=1.07; things work again. Sorry, I can't remember the reason why equations cause trouble in

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost bug? in MKIV

2010-03-02 Thread Troy Henderson
When using \startMPinclusions input graph; \stopMPinclusions or not even including the MPinclusions at all (and thus not doing `input graph;') seems to give the same result. The log of what happens during the compile process is attached. Troy log Description: Binary data

Re: [NTG-context] Margin terminology -- badly documented, undocumented, or misdocumented

2010-03-02 Thread James Fisher
That makes sense. The main thing confusing me on contextgarden is: if cutspace == 0pt then cutspace = backspace end Which I would guess is meant to allow you to just specify backspace if you want symmetrical margins; but what if we want a 0pt cutspace? A minor other thing confusing

Re: [NTG-context] METAPOST's superellipse with superness0.5 does not give a superellipse

2010-03-02 Thread James Fisher
Thanks, Rory. In hind-sight I guess my presumptions look pretty silly. The reason I'm making mistakes like this is that I can't find any introductory text along the lines of 'TeX for programmers'; i.e. people coming from your typical modern imperative languages, who will (after looking at TeX

Re: [NTG-context] Margin terminology -- badly documented, undocumented, or misdocumented

2010-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 02.03.10 22:33, schrieb James Fisher: That makes sense. The main thing confusing me on contextgarden is: if cutspace == 0pt then cutspace = backspace end Which I would guess is meant to allow you to just specify backspace if you want symmetrical margins; but what if we want a

[NTG-context] Super- and sub-script in text mode, or, fonts in math mode

2010-03-02 Thread James Fisher
Hi, A minor problem: I'm trying to place superscripted text in the text body -- things like '2^nd March'. I can't see anything like 2{\sup nd}, so my only known solution at the moment is math mode: $2^{nd}$. Despite this not being 'math', I don't really have an aversion to it. However,

Re: [NTG-context] Margin terminology -- badly documented, undocumented, or misdocumented

2010-03-02 Thread James Fisher
Fairy muff! James On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 02.03.10 22:33, schrieb James Fisher: That makes sense. The main thing confusing me on contextgarden is: if cutspace == 0pt then cutspace = backspace end Which I

Re: [NTG-context] Super- and sub-script in text mode, or, fonts in math mode

2010-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 02.03.10 22:58, schrieb James Fisher: Hi, A minor problem: I'm trying to place superscripted text in the text body -- things like '2^nd March'. I can't see anything like 2{\sup nd}, so my only known solution at the moment is math mode: $2^{nd}$. Despite this not being 'math', I don't

[NTG-context] Blank page at end of chapter

2010-03-02 Thread Tom
I can't figure out how to turn off running headers on the blank pages that are inserted into a document to make the first page of the next chapter start on a right page. I'm probably overlooking something. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

Re: [NTG-context] Blank page at end of chapter

2010-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 02.03.10 23:07, schrieb Tom: I can't figure out how to turn off running headers on the blank pages that are inserted into a document to make the first page of the next chapter start on a right page. I'm probably overlooking something.

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost bug? in MKIV

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Rolf
Am 02.03.2010 21:02, schrieb Troy Henderson: When using \startMPinclusions input graph; \stopMPinclusions or not even including the MPinclusions at all (and thus not doing `input graph;') seems to give the same result. The log of what happens during the compile process is attached.