Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-14 Thread Herbert Voss
Am 15.08.2011 08:42, schrieb Martin Schröder: 2011/8/15 Kip Warner: On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 16:39 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: unicode, bidi is just a non-starter. TeXWorks has a long way to go, and although I'm a fan of Qt its open-type implementation is buggy; so some Arabi

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-14 Thread Martin Schröder
2011/8/15 Kip Warner : > On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 16:39 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي > حامد wrote: >> unicode, bidi is just a non-starter. TeXWorks has a long way to go, and >> although I'm a fan of Qt its open-type implementation is buggy; so some >> Arabic-monospaced fonts don't show up cor

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-14 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 16:39 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > Wow, that would be great if we got tens of millions of users to buy the > Book :D :D :D ;) > Well, most people using Linux have some technical facility, so they can > configure their own editors. I don't know abo

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-14 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 14:45 +1000, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > Maybe I'm missing the point, but what about Emacs? There are versions for > most operating systems, and emacs+auctex is surely the editing system of > choice for any TeX-based system. > > -Alasdair Emacs I'm sure is great, but it's re

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-14 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
Maybe I'm missing the point, but what about Emacs? There are versions for most operating systems, and emacs+auctex is surely the editing system of choice for any TeX-based system. -Alasdair 2011/8/15 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد > Hi Kip, > > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:16:58 -0600, Kip Wa

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Kip, On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:16:58 -0600, Kip Warner wrote: As some of you may know, I'm working on a professional introductory book for learning ConTeXt. Part of the philosophy of this book is to be as self-contained as possible, so we'll be using a preferred editor. Hey Idris. I think w

Re: [NTG-context] dejavu fonts

2011-08-14 Thread Andreas Harder
On 14.08.2011, at 21:41, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 19:50, Hans Hagen wrote: >> >> Am I right that there is no monospace condensed (imo more useful than the >> other condensed), > > Sadly that's the same conclusion that I came to earlier. Hi, I just found http://permalink

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-14 Thread Kip Warner
On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 14:23 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > Dear gang, > > As some of you may know, I'm working on a professional introductory book > for learning ConTeXt. Part of the philosophy of this book is to be as > self-contained as possible, so we'll be using a pref

Re: [NTG-context] Bib-module

2011-08-14 Thread Willi Egger
Hoi Hans, in the minimal example there is one \cite command. The argument hereof is not recognized. In the bbl file there are 6 article references with k=Hess. is different in all 6 cases. Not quite understandably I get 12 literature references in the output which are all the same (las

Re: [NTG-context] Bib-module

2011-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-8-2011 8:53, Willi Egger wrote: backend> xmp> using file '/Applications/lua-experimental/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-pdx.xml' LuaTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{1:unknown}) has been already used, duplicate ignored this means that you use the

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-14 Thread amca01
Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: "Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" To: ntg-context@ntg.nl, "dev-cont...@ntg.nl" Sent: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 6:23 AM Subject: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help! Dear gang, As some of you may know, I'm working on a profes

[NTG-context] ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

2011-08-14 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Dear gang, As some of you may know, I'm working on a professional introductory book for learning ConTeXt. Part of the philosophy of this book is to be as self-contained as possible, so we'll be using a preferred editor. Not one editor/ide out there is ideal for ConTeXt (including bidi editi

Re: [NTG-context] Bib-module

2011-08-14 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 14.08.2011 um 20:53 schrieb Willi Egger: > Any update on how to use the bib module is welcome! At least on the long run there is hope: As far as I have seen in the ctx meeting's program we will be able to join a comprehensive workshop on this: Tuesday, 16:30h - 18:00h :o) Steffen ___

Re: [NTG-context] dejavu fonts

2011-08-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 19:50, Hans Hagen wrote: > > Am I right that there is no monospace condensed (imo more useful than the > other condensed), Sadly that's the same conclusion that I came to earlier. Mojca ___ If

[NTG-context] Bib-module

2011-08-14 Thread Willi Egger
Hi bib-module gurus! I think I need some hints how to get enclosed example working... The log sys: (/Users/willi/Documents/TEXdata/Hufbeschlag/test/publist-test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2011.08.08 23:54 MKIV fmt: 2011.8.12 int: english/english ... (/Applications/lua-experimental/tex/texmf-context/

Re: [NTG-context] dejavu fonts

2011-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-8-2011 5:17, Mojca Miklavec wrote: btw, dejavu is already defined in mkiv  I saw it in Wolfgangs' module, but I didn't check the core. I see it now for MKIV, but the condensed variant is missing. May I request adding the typescript for XeTeX and pdfTeX to the core then? Am I right that

Re: [NTG-context] mlib plugin question

2011-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10-8-2011 8:00, Peter Rolf wrote: Usage: btransp(normaltransparency,.5); etransp; Officially draw image ( whatever ) withtransparency (normaltransparency,.5) should work, but there is a (known) bug in mplib with respect to applying scripts to the components of a picture (color works

Re: [NTG-context] dejavu fonts

2011-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-8-2011 5:17, Mojca Miklavec wrote: btw, dejavu is already defined in mkiv  I saw it in Wolfgangs' module, but I didn't check the core. I see it now for MKIV, but the condensed variant is missing. May I request adding the typescript for XeTeX and pdfTeX to the core then? I wasn't aware

Re: [NTG-context] dejavu fonts

2011-08-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
> btw, dejavu is already defined in mkiv  I saw it in Wolfgangs' module, but I didn't check the core. I see it now for MKIV, but the condensed variant is missing. May I request adding the typescript for XeTeX and pdfTeX to the core then? Mojca

Re: [NTG-context] dejavu fonts

2011-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-8-2011 2:30, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:59, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: For MkIV you can put the definition in “type-.mkiv” and when put “\setupbodyfont[]” in your document ConTeXt loads the file without the need for \usetypescriptfile. Thank you. That is very useful

Re: [NTG-context] dejavu fonts

2011-08-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:59, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > For MkIV you can put the definition in “type-.mkiv” and when > put “\setupbodyfont[]” in your document ConTeXt loads the file > without the need for \usetypescriptfile. Thank you. That is very useful to know. > When you want to support X

Re: [NTG-context] dejavu fonts

2011-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 13.08.2011 um 20:07 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > Hello, > > CTAN has a new font package for dejavu fonts (http://ctan.org/pkg/dejavu). > > The package contains original fonts (suitable for XeTeX and LuaTeX) as > well as many tfm files. > > The author is willing to add support for ConTeXt. In m