[NTG-context] width of definetextbackground

2010-07-16 Thread Armin Varmaz
Hallo, I am wondering if there is an option in \definetextbackground to get the output over the entire width of a page? I mean to go over the width of the \textwidth (for example like \setlayout[width=\textwidth+\outermargintotal])? I played with \setuplayout before calling

Re: [NTG-context] Custom metaobj object in context

2010-07-16 Thread Stefan Müller
On 15.07.2010 07:21, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Can you post a complete metapost file that gives some output.I tried the following mp file: input metaobj; Now that's a good start... It didn't occur to me, that I need to input metaobj as in your example. Thank you very much for that hint. My

Re: [NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-16 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Jul 15 2010, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to newcomers, e.g., in a ConTeXt Book? Hello Idris, For me, it's yes! But newcomers need to pay attention in some cases: - alignment (see issue

[NTG-context] meta post query (MK2) re underlining

2010-07-16 Thread Bowen Alan C.
I have been using \definetextbackground[underline] [location=text,alternative=1,background=,frame=off] for underlining in my documents and \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:columnset} \iftracepositions show_multi_pars \else draw_multi_pars \fi ; path p ; p := boundingbox currentpicture ;

Re: [NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-16 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Peter, On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:05:19 -0600, Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote: On Thu, Jul 15 2010, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to newcomers, e.g., in a ConTeXt Book? Hello Idris, For me, it's yes!

Re: [NTG-context] new beta

2010-07-16 Thread Vedran Miletić
Hi, from what I see, lang-sla.tex has not changed. If the entire file would help, get it here: http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/context/lang-sla.tex.zip Regards, -- Vedran Miletić ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Tables for newbies [WAS Re: imbalanced columns]

2010-07-16 Thread luigi scarso
2010/7/16 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu Hi Peter, On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:05:19 -0600, Peter Münster pmli...@free.fr wrote: On Thu, Jul 15 2010, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Question for all: for MkIV, should we recommend ONLY natural tables to

Re: [NTG-context] meta post query (MK2) re underlining

2010-07-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-7-2010 5:00, Bowen Alan C. wrote: I have been using \definetextbackground[underline] [location=text,alternative=1,background=,frame=off] for underlining in my documents and \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:columnset} \iftracepositions show_multi_pars \else draw_multi_pars \fi ;

Re: [NTG-context] Using stylistic sets in math

2010-07-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:45:57PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: On 15-7-2010 9:24, Khaled Hosny wrote: In XITS I have stylistic sets (ss01-07) for accessing additional alphabets not bresent in Unicode, or variants of exising ones. For example, ss01 maps the script alphabets to an alternate

Re: [NTG-context] Using stylistic sets in math

2010-07-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 07/17/2010 05:49 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: I'm not a big fan of private use area myself, it just makes things more unportable. The approach I used is mapping the new characters to the closest matching existing ones, so calligraphic is mapped to script, sans serif Greek is mapped to serif and

Re: [NTG-context] Using stylistic sets in math

2010-07-16 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 07:43:46AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 07/17/2010 05:49 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: I'm not a big fan of private use area myself, it just makes things more unportable. The approach I used is mapping the new characters to the closest matching existing ones, so