Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-21 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi, On 8/18/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep the base path for \definehspace and search for line with fr in the tag and you'll see how things can be influences Hans, the answer was in lang-spa.tex! I then regenerated the format and it works absolutely perfectly, my single quotes

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Jeff Smith wrote: Hi, On 8/18/06, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep the base path for \definehspace and search for line with fr in the tag and you'll see how things can be influences Hans, the answer was in lang-spa.tex! I then regenerated the format and it

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-18 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/17/06, Jeff Smith wrote: Hi! Thank you yet another time for the helpful replies. You guys rock! A couple of things: Aditya, the \startMYLAYOUT \stopMYLAYOUT strategy seems to be perfect. Thanks! Now, from Mojca's reply: MB, but it's been updated to the new version today

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-18 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi again, On 8/18/06, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to ask other French guys why they decided to put \c!leftquote=\leftguillemot, \c!rightquote=\rightguillemot, instead of single guillemots there (well, I don't know which ones are the once that should be used by

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-18 Thread Hans Hagen
Jeff Smith wrote: The spacing is retained for the single quotes. But it shouldn't be -- this sort of spacing in French is used with guillemets, but never with single quotes (') or double quotes (). At the very least, I can confirm this is the French Canadian norm, which I want to use. So,

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-17 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi! Thank you yet another time for the helpful replies. You guys rock! A couple of things: Aditya, the \startMYLAYOUT \stopMYLAYOUT strategy seems to be perfect. Thanks! Now, from Mojca's reply: MB, but it's been updated to the new version today anyway, so it might be worth refreshing

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Jeff Smith wrote: Hi! Thank you yet another time for the helpful replies. You guys rock! A couple of things: Aditya, the \startMYLAYOUT \stopMYLAYOUT strategy seems to be perfect. Thanks! Now, from Mojca's reply: MB, but it's been updated to the new version today anyway, so it

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-17 Thread Hans Hagen
Jeff Smith wrote: \let\normalquotation=\quotation \def\quotation#1 {\bgroup\def\quotation##1{\quote{##1}}\normalquotation{#1}\egroup} the next version will support level specific symbols: \quotation{... \quotation{...} ...} \startquotation ... \startquotation... \quotation{...}

[NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi! I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of them. The fonts manual mentions how TeX is often qualified as 'the font mess'. Well, yeah,

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/16/06, Jeff Smith wrote: Hi! I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of them. The fonts manual mentions how TeX is often

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Ricard Roca
Hi! Quick answers: a) Somehow I can't come up with small caps in a Times font. Is this normal? This happens either by using \sc or \setupcapitals[sc=yes] along with \cap. Times font that comes with TeX distros doesn't have real small caps, but \cap should work, as with any font. The only

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 8/16/06, Jeff Smith wrote: Hi! I'm fairly new to ConTeXt (which I greatly admire, by the way) and after reading a couple of provided manuals, I have some lingering questions. I thank anyone in advance for replying to any number of them. The fonts manual

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Mojca Miklavec wrote: b) LaTeX has a package for the International Phonetic Alphabet called tipa. Is it possible to use it in ConTeXt? If not, can anybody point me to the relevant manuals that will help me incorporate official IPA fonts (say, the TTF version) in my ConTeXt installation? I'm

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Jeff Smith
Thank you all for your answers! A quick follow-up, and a new question at the end: Ad question a) My problem with Times and small caps was just a bad mapping of names on my side. So I'm told that \cap should work, and well, of course it does! :-) Ad question b) Ricard Roca said: I think the way

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/17/06, Jeff Smith wrote: Thank you all for your answers! A quick follow-up, and a new question at the end: Ad question a) My problem with Times and small caps was just a bad mapping of names on my side. So I'm told that \cap should work, and well, of course it does! :-) Ad question

Re: [NTG-context] A few questions (mostly about fonts)

2006-08-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Jeff Smith wrote: Mojka answered your other questions. New question: All the examples that I find of \setupparagraphs in the manuals are cases of different paragraphs layed out in columns. Is it still this command I have to use in order to style in advance single-column