Re: [NTG-context] Labels in MetaPost (MetaObj)

2011-01-20 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 01/18/2011 01:17 PM, Stefan Müller wrote: Hi list, I'm having some trouble with MetaPost in general and MetaObj in particular. The core problem is that context mkiv loads the metapost code twice when you are typesetting labels, and that causes trouble for metaobj which does not expect

Re: [NTG-context] Translating PDF-files

2011-01-20 Thread Yury G. Kudryashov
Alan BRASLAU wrote: A fun exercise is to put a text through google translate into any language, then pass the result back into the original language. via Russian: Fun exercise is to put the text through Google Translate in any language, and then pass the result back to the original

Re: [NTG-context] How to run Typesetting in MetaPost example (MetaFun)?

2011-01-20 Thread Verhaag, G.C.H.M.
Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Verhaag, G.C.H.M. wrote: Hi, I wanted to try (using ConTeXt minimals MkIV) the example on page 228 of the MetaFun manual, dealing with typesetting in MetaPost. I haven't look at the metapost manual ... but The code is given as:

Re: [NTG-context] How to run Typesetting in MetaPost example (MetaFun)?

2011-01-20 Thread luigi scarso
You can also use mkii as command line drawing tool: # mtxrun texexec test.tex \starttext \startTEXpage \resetMPdrawing \startMPdrawing picture pic[] ; numeric wid[], len[], pos[], n ; wid[0] := len[0] := pos[0] := n := 0 ; \stopMPdrawing \def\whatever#1% {\appendtoks#1\to\MPtoks

Re: [NTG-context] \getscaledglyph

2011-01-20 Thread Willi Egger
Hi Thomas, I had to do some work with regard to this issue recently. What was mentioned on this list, is, that \fontchar is a command which will stay. \setupbodyfont[Myfont,rm,12pt] \definesymbol[Q.alt] [\fontchar{Q.alt}] \def\Qa{\symbol[Q.alt]} The easiest way to get a stable environment is

[NTG-context] delimitedtext, spacebefore and grid

2011-01-20 Thread Oliver Heins
Hello, I want to have both a halfline space before and after blockquotations. Normally, this works fine; after the quotation the main text snaps back to the grid (see page 3 of the example file). \setupdelimitedtext [blockquote] [spacebefore=halfline] However, this fails when the blockquote

Re: [NTG-context] delimitedtext, spacebefore and grid

2011-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 20.01.2011 um 17:04 schrieb Oliver Heins: Hello, I want to have both a halfline space before and after blockquotations. Normally, this works fine; after the quotation the main text snaps back to the grid (see page 3 of the example file). \setupdelimitedtext [blockquote]

Re: [NTG-context] delimitedtext, spacebefore and grid

2011-01-20 Thread Oliver Heins
Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com writes: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:04 schrieb Oliver Heins: Hello, I want to have both a halfline space before and after blockquotations. Normally, this works fine; after the quotation the main text snaps back to the grid (see page 3 of the

Re: [NTG-context] \getscaledglyph

2011-01-20 Thread Thomas Floeren
Thank you, Willi, I wasn't aware of this nice font module! (btw, running it on ArialUnicode with 2 columns and 10pt produces 500 PDF pages and a peak memory usage of 1.2 GB!). I like the idea of using glyph names rather than unicode numbers. For my actual purpose your suggestion works