Re: [NTG-context] Permission denied

2003-11-19 Thread Idris S Hamid
MAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thursday, November 13, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote: > I backed up some stuff on a cd; when I transferred the files to my other > >> computer all the file properties read "read-only", so whenever eomega tried > >> to modify

Re: [NTG-context] Permission denied

2003-11-13 Thread Idris S Hamid
lly change every file in a given directory from read-only? Apparently, texexec and eomega each creates fls files on each run. context.fls lists the installation directories, etc. Best Idris Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Thursday, November 13, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote:> Any idea what I'm &g

[NTG-context] Permission denied

2003-11-13 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hi guys, just reinstalled things, and eomega plus gamma gives me the following: This is e-Omegak, Version 3.14159--1.15--2.1 (Web2c 7.4.5) %&-line parsing enabled. Copyright (c) 2002 the e-Omega task force eomega.exe: context.fls: Permission denied Any idea what I'm missing? best Idris __

Re: [NTG-context] Suggestions for Latin Modern

2003-09-23 Thread Idris S Hamid
Minutae-) > \HA Ab\=d (someone's name) \HA Ab\=id (someone's name) Idris ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

[NTG-context] italic correction

2003-09-23 Thread Idris S Hamid
Dear syndicate, Sometimes I make a definition like \def\TR{\it} for certain purposes (structural consistency, etc.). How do I modify this to automatically do an italic correction the way \em is set up to do in \ConTeXt? == By the way, did Hans ever make a "final" ConTeXt lo

[NTG-context] Suggestions for Latin Modern

2003-09-23 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hi, gang I hope this does not come too late:-) I have been using cmr for my work in the humanities up to now, and I have had to tweak things in sometimes satisfactory and other times less unsatisfactory ways. Here are some suggestions for the upcoming Latin Modern if it's not too late: 1. Make ol

Re: [NTG-context] critical editions in context

2003-09-23 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hi Thomas, "Thomas A.Schmitz" wrote: > In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange about > the topic "critical editions in context" here in ntg-context; the main > question was whether the functionality of edmac could be implemented in > context. I'd be curious to know whether

[NTG-context] Re: [Aleph] Arabic-ConTeXt

2003-09-11 Thread Idris S Hamid
> in your preamble. You will need to add a > > \hoffset=-8cm > > to compensate for an omega bug in \bodydir. Actually the bug is probably in \pagedir, not \bodydir. Idris ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo

Re: [NTG-context] Status update on e-Omega/Aleph

2003-09-09 Thread Idris S Hamid
Idris S Hamid wrote: ...Ahh! I found it;-) http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega-example.html   More to the point: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega/font-instructions.txt Best Idris

[NTG-context] Arabic-ConTeXt

2003-09-09 Thread Idris S Hamid
Dear gang, I still have not had time to prepare the new how-to on Arabic and ConTeXt, but I completely forgot that I already wrote one a year ago! Just compile the ConTeXt format with eOmega and read the following: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega-example.html http://www.dtek.chalmers.se

Re: [NTG-context] Status update on e-Omega/Aleph

2003-09-09 Thread Idris S Hamid
Bill McClain wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:45:32 -0600 > Idris S Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With an otp u can define > > the character sequence ".d" so that it always gives you \.d in the > > output. > > I know I could look this up

Re: [NTG-context] Status update on e-Omega/Aleph

2003-09-09 Thread Idris S Hamid
> * If my work is entirely in English, is there any benfit of Aleph for > me? Sure. Consider, for example, the problem of transliteration. You may want to define a series of character mappings using otps to avoid using a lot of control sequences for accents and the like. Let's say u have an accent

Re: [NTG-context] Editor for ConTeXt ?...

2003-09-09 Thread Idris S Hamid
^Nitram^ wrote: > Anybody know about any editor with ConTeXt support ?... > For windows unfortunately... If u're stuck with Windows, I don't think anything is better than WinEdt. It's awesome and easy to use. For ConTeXt, I just redefined the pdfTeX batch file to call texexec, and made another

Re: [NTG-context] Re: CJK support in ConTeXt

2003-08-27 Thread Idris S Hamid
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Hong Feng wrote: > > >> It's time to discuss the topic "CJK support in ConTeXt" in a more public > >> place. > > HF> I can support this idea! I can build a mailing list with > HF> GNU Mailman on my upcoming server. > > Isn't this a good enough

Re: [NTG-context] CJK support in ConTeXt

2003-08-27 Thread Idris S Hamid
Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Wednesday, August 27, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: > > HH> At 12:37 27/08/2003 +0200, you wrote: > >>(I hate replying to myself, but ...) > >> > >>Ok, since it seems that e-Omega is starting to get some "mass" > >>interest, I'm thinking about setting up a mailing list for it. >

Re: [NTG-context] Re: CJK support in ConTeXt

2003-08-27 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi Chof, > > So, alternative way is to use ASCII pTeX for Japanese. Basically looks no > >problem > >but I worry eTeX extension features. Is it possible to run ConTeXt without > >eTeX > >extension features, Hans? > > in principle yes, but you loose xml handling and a few other

[NTG-context] Arabic support for ConTeXt

2003-07-25 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hi gang, A few of you have written to me about Arabic support for ConTeXt as well as modifying EDMAC to use RL support in Omega. It is my intention to provide some info/how-to on this in the next couple of weeks, as soon as I finish some research. In the meantime, I suggest anyone interested in t

Re: [NTG-context] Table of Contents

2003-06-20 Thread Idris S Hamid
> Here is what my customer want:s: > 1. A TOC > 2. No chapter or section numbers anywhere. Ok, I think we've solved this part. > 3. Certain blocks of text which occur before the TOC to be listed in the TOC > with the correct page number. This I don't understand. Could you explain a bit more?:-)

Re: [NTG-context] Table of Contents

2003-06-18 Thread Idris S Hamid
> > I fought over this also for my journal. Here is what I came up with > > (including some extraneous, journal-specific stuff). Note that you can use > > and instead of and , since the former > > is generally unnumbered anyway: > > > Best wishes > > Idris > > > > ___

Re: [NTG-context] Table of Contents

2003-06-18 Thread Idris S Hamid
Hi John, John Culleton wrote: > I want to typeset a book with chapters and sections, but with no numbering, > either on the chapter heading itself or in the TOC. I do want both chapters > and sections in the TOC. I prefer the dotleader layout (alternative=c). I fought over this also for my journ