Re: [NTG-context] beta

2013-08-24 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–08–24 Hans Hagen wrote: On 8/24/2013 2:08 AM, Marco Patzer wrote: On 2013–08–24 Hans Hagen wrote: On 8/23/2013 2:41 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Hans, This is a very nice feature indeed. Out of curiosity, I wondered whether it is possible to to have \placeinitial to work with

[NTG-context] Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry

2013-08-24 Thread J. R. Schmid
Dear list, for better or worse, I'm trying to typeset Arabic poetry in ConTeXt after having become fed up with LaTeX for a variety of reasons. Arabic script itself is not a problem and I already love how easy it is to use whatever font you like and how clean ConTeXt seems to be in its design.

Re: [NTG-context] Cyrillic replacement for TeX Gyre Schola?

2013-08-24 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–08–24 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You missed in the typescript the features setting for the main and also the fallback font. I did, indeed. However, I'm unsure how to do it (I never needed to typeset Cyrillic and I can't even tell if it typesets correctly). The default features should be

Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost label direction prefix

2013-08-24 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–08–24 Hans Hagen wrote: startplaincompatibity ; label(first, origin); pair laboff.foo ; laboff.foo := (.5,-1) ; labxf.foo := labyf.foo := 1 ; label.foo(second, origin); stopplaincompatibity ; Brilliant! Thanks a lot. A few things: 1)

Re: [NTG-context] section headings on a grid: less space above?

2013-08-24 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–08–23 Lars Huttar wrote: \setuphead[subsection][number=no,style=it,grid=top] Add before={\blank[line]} Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ If your question is of interest to others

Re: [NTG-context] Cyrillic replacement for TeX Gyre Schola?

2013-08-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.08.2013 um 13:38 schrieb Marco Patzer li...@homerow.info: On 2013–08–24 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You missed in the typescript the features setting for the main and also the fallback font. I did, indeed. However, I'm unsure how to do it (I never needed to typeset Cyrillic and I

Re: [NTG-context] Typesetting Classical Arabic Poetry

2013-08-24 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi JR, On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:12:54 -0600, J. R. Schmid j...@weitnahbei.de wrote: for better or worse, I'm trying to typeset Arabic poetry in ConTeXt For better :-) after having become fed up with LaTeX for a variety of reasons. Arabic script itself is not a problem and I already love how

Re: [NTG-context] Cyrillic replacement for TeX Gyre Schola?

2013-08-24 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2013–08–24 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I can’t reproduce your problem with the features key. I was surprised that your example was running here, and I noticed that a space makes all the difference: %% fails \definefontsynonym [Serif] [file:texgyrescholaregular] [features=default,

Re: [NTG-context] Cyrillic replacement for TeX Gyre Schola?

2013-08-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.08.2013 um 16:18 schrieb Marco Patzer li...@homerow.info: On 2013–08–24 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: I can’t reproduce your problem with the features key. I was surprised that your example was running here, and I noticed that a space makes all the difference: \definefontsynonym uses

Re: [NTG-context] section headings on a grid: less space above?

2013-08-24 Thread Lars Huttar
Marco wrote, On 2013–08–23 Lars Huttar wrote: / \setuphead[subsection][number=no,style=it,grid=top] / Add before={\blank[line]} Marco Thank you very much, that worked! Can you explain how it works? Does before= override the setting of grid=? Is before= at a lower level? Yet before=