Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On 04/25/2013 08:20 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default. Then you should not be using any form of TeX. ligatures have been part of TeX since its invention (TeXbook, p. 4), and they have been part of fine typesetting since Gutenberg. It's

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-24 Thread Keith J. Schultz
Hi Wolfgang, All, First I think it better if ligatures should be off as a default. Now, to my actual question. Is there a way in ConText to selectively true certain ligatures on/ff. for example fl could be on, but fi off. I know that I can set up the the editor to do it, or use unicode directly,

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX has troubles with contextual kern

2013-04-24 Thread Georg Duffner
Hi, Am 2013-04-24 12:46, schrieb Hans Hagen: On 4/24/2013 11:07 AM, Georg Duffner wrote: Hi, in EB Garamond I have some contextual lookups in the kern feature with which LuaTeX in context standalone (updated today in the morning) seems to have problems (the issue is not new, I’ve already repor

Re: [NTG-context] Accessing string contents of a macro in Lua.

2013-04-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/24/2013 6:50 PM, luigi scarso wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: Hi all, Below are three methods of defining a dimension / dimension string in ConTeXt --- the first two boil down to storing a string in a macro, the last is a proper TeX dimen. I want to access th

Re: [NTG-context] [luatex-fonts] error with Amiri due to inclusion of font-otp.lua

2013-04-24 Thread Philipp Gesang
· > On 4/24/2013 12:02 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote: > >Hi, > > > >including font-otp triggers an error with the Amiri font: > > > > ! LuaTeX error ./luaotfload-merged.lua:10471: invalid value > > (nil) at index 1 in table for 'concat'. > > > >Which corresponds to line 192 of font-otp.

Re: [NTG-context] Accessing string contents of a macro in Lua.

2013-04-24 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > Hi all, > > Below are three methods of defining a dimension / dimension string in > ConTeXt --- the first two boil down to storing a string in a macro, > the last is a proper TeX dimen. I want to access these dimensions from > Lua. > > I can

[NTG-context] Accessing string contents of a macro in Lua.

2013-04-24 Thread Sietse Brouwer
Hi all, Below are three methods of defining a dimension / dimension string in ConTeXt --- the first two boil down to storing a string in a macro, the last is a proper TeX dimen. I want to access these dimensions from Lua. I can access the dimen via tex.dimen.ColumnC, but how can I access the macr

[NTG-context] error: terminal: >> NOfTextColumns-1, ! Improper final value has been replaced by 0

2013-04-24 Thread Lars Huttar
Hello, I'm encountering the following error, under ConTeXt ver: 2012.05.30 11:26 MKIV fmt: 2013.3.11 int: english/english: system > tex > error on line 27 in file data/three-volume-book-book-1.tex: terminal: >> NOfTextColumns-1 ! Improper final value has been replaced by 0.

Re: [NTG-context] Missing number error, related to setupcolumnsetlines

2013-04-24 Thread Lars Huttar
On /Mon Apr 22 18:59:07 CEST 2013, Hans Hagen wrote: / > On 4/22/2013 4:24 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: > >/ On /Fri Apr 19 21:36:41 CEST 2013 /Hans Hagen wrote: > />>/ On 4/18/2013 11:13 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: > />>>/ / \definecolumnset [abbcolumn] [n=2,distance=5mm,balancing=yes] > />>/ />/ > />>/ />/

Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX has troubles with contextual kern

2013-04-24 Thread Hans Hagen
On 4/24/2013 11:07 AM, Georg Duffner wrote: Hi, in EB Garamond I have some contextual lookups in the kern feature with which LuaTeX in context standalone (updated today in the morning) seems to have problems (the issue is not new, I’ve already reported it in january but perhaps that was a bit to

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.04.2013 um 11:00 schrieb Peter Münster : > On Wed, Apr 24 2013, H. Özoguz wrote: > >> The second attachment shows the same word written in MS-Word, again with >> Adobe >> Garamond Pro, without this curiosity. > > Perhaps a bug in M$-Word...? ;) Microsoft added support for opentype lig

[NTG-context] LuaTeX has troubles with contextual kern

2013-04-24 Thread Georg Duffner
Hi, in EB Garamond I have some contextual lookups in the kern feature with which LuaTeX in context standalone (updated today in the morning) seems to have problems (the issue is not new, I’ve already reported it in january but perhaps that was a bit too confusing). The test document is: \de

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-24 Thread H. Özoguz
Ok thanks, feature, not a bug, embarassing ... but good to learn :) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/li

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-24 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Apr 24 2013, H. Özoguz wrote: > The second attachment shows the same word written in MS-Word, again with Adobe > Garamond Pro, without this curiosity. Perhaps a bug in M$-Word...? ;) -- Peter __

Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.04.2013 um 10:39 schrieb H. Özoguz : > Hi, > > \usemodule[simplefonts] > \setmainfont[AGaramondPro] > \starttext > Amficool > \stoptext > > gives an "i" without dot, see attachment. And the letters "i" and "f" are > curiously bonded. > > The second attachment shows the same word written

[NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"

2013-04-24 Thread H. Özoguz
Hi, \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[AGaramondPro] \starttext Amficool \stoptext gives an "i" without dot, see attachment. And the letters "i" and "f" are curiously bonded. The second attachment shows the same word written in MS-Word, again with Adobe Garamond Pro, without this curiosity