Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Yes, that is clear from the emails over a decade or so on the list. But as you will see from my response to Taco, it is possible I can achieve a satisfactory result from Wolfgang's 2016 'stream' suggestion. Julian On 3/4/23 22:04, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: This is one these pr

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Thanks Peter. I took a look at your lua pages. I think I would get entirely lost with that code at this stage, and of course I am not considering (at least not for now) a two-column approach, but facing pages. But at least you achieved what you were trying to do at the time. Hopefully I will al

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Okay Taco, so that's a possibility I can explore, even though it is not a nice one, as you say. I can think of a couple of other not-so-nice ways of achieving a result as well. The manuscript shown me (in MSWord, obviously) has been carefully prepared to ensure no text flows over a page, so we

[NTG-context] separators between non-instantiantiated (foot)notes

2023-04-03 Thread Rudd, Kevin via ntg-context
Is there a better (automatic, consistent) way to insert separators between non-instantiated (foot)notes (i.e., where there is at least one \note involved with an immediately preceeding/following \footnote or \note? looking at the source, the obvious hack was apparent but ... not ideal. Maybe I'm

Re: [NTG-context] bold small caps

2023-04-03 Thread Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
On 4/3/23 09:07, Peter Münster via ntg-context wrote: > Hi, > > I'm quite sure, that this worked some time ago with the standard font (LM): I had the same impression, Peter. But LM fonts don‘t have the OT feature smcp: \setuppapersize[A8] \starttext \doloopoverlist{lm, pagella, termes, he

Re: [NTG-context] Userdata environment

2023-04-03 Thread Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
Fabrice Couvreur via ntg-context schrieb am 03.04.2023 um 21:42: Hi, I have already created a thread on the subject and Wolgang, Marco and Taco have replied but the userdata environment is not yet clear to me. I would like, if possible, to write a definition, a property or a theorem on the lef

[NTG-context] Userdata environment

2023-04-03 Thread Fabrice Couvreur via ntg-context
Hi, I have already created a thread on the subject and Wolgang, Marco and Taco have replied but the userdata environment is not yet clear to me. I would like, if possible, to write a definition, a property or a theorem on the left and illustrate it in the right margin with an example. In the code b

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 03.04.23 um 11:54 schrieb jbf via ntg-context: Q 2: I suppose the third question is whether, since LMTX, there has been any further development in the 'streams' mechanism that might help me? No. This is one these problems that arise once every other year, but so far nobody contributed a u

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread Peter Münster via ntg-context
On Mon, Apr 03 2023, jbf via ntg-context wrote: > Q 1: Has anybody reading this actually produced a bilingual book (it doesn't > have to be en-vn) with ConTeXt? Hi, Only some pages of a book: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Catalogue_raisonné HTH, -- Peter ___

Re: [NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread Taco Hoekwater via ntg-context
> On 3 Apr 2023, at 11:54, jbf via ntg-context wrote: > > Am always up for a challenge, but hope this one is not beyond my > possibilities! Have a request to produce a book with English-Vietnamese > facing pages. The text doesn't have to be strictly in sync, but generally so. > The only ConT

[NTG-context] English-Vietnamese facing pages

2023-04-03 Thread jbf via ntg-context
Am always up for a challenge, but hope this one is not beyond my possibilities! Have a request to produce a book with English-Vietnamese facing pages. The text doesn't have to be strictly in sync, but generally so. The only ConTeXt guidelines I think I have at the moment are (1) an old module c

Re: [NTG-context] bold small caps

2023-04-03 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 4/3/2023 9:07 AM, Peter Münster via ntg-context wrote: Hi, I'm quite sure, that this worked some time ago with the standard font (LM): \setff{smallcaps} Normal and \bf bold Small Caps. (See also https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bold_small_caps). But it does not work with the latest ConTeXt ve

Re: [NTG-context] attempt to index nil value with bidi math in hbox

2023-04-03 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 4/3/2023 7:50 AM, Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote: Hi Hans, This test file: \setupdirections[bidi=global,method=one] \starttext \hbox{$\varepsilon$-TeX} \stoptext gives the following error: callback error: ...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/typo-

[NTG-context] Problems with building texlive/context from its sources

2023-04-03 Thread Jakob Jakobson via ntg-context
Dear developers, I am/become one of the texlive mantainers on flathub a more or less recent and new approach for establishing a linux packaging format. The flatpak packages are usually build from source and so is the texlive package. You can find it under https://github.com/flathub/org.freede

[NTG-context] bold small caps

2023-04-03 Thread Peter Münster via ntg-context
Hi, I'm quite sure, that this worked some time ago with the standard font (LM): \setff{smallcaps} Normal and \bf bold Small Caps. (See also https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bold_small_caps). But it does not work with the latest ConTeXt version. How could I get bold small caps with the latest vers