Thanks - it's at least useful to know what I needn't waste my time on!
I see that I shall also have to master ConTexT's commands for tables,
though I hope they are customizable (as per my training at OUP a lifetime
ago, I like a half-point rule at the beginning and end but a quarter-point
rule between headings and the data). Plain (Xe)TeX's \halign command works
only for that generally useless item, a table with only one column - if you
try add an extra column the setting halts and one is presented with the
false information that there is more than one instance of # between
instances of & in the setup of the table. They lie!
I'm disappointed that I can't use \catcode = \active to do anything useful
- I do often use that, particularly to fetch a character not in the
typeface. For example, if I want a yogh and am obliged to use a
particular typeface (because of house style for a journal or book series)
that doesn't have the character, I would give in the file header in XeTeX:
\catcode"0292=\active
\defʒ{\yogh}
(I have \yogh defined as 'put \char"0292 here, grouped within {}, from
Junicode'.) That allows me to keep the character ʒ in the input file and
leave it to TeX to carry out the appropriate instruction whenever it
encounters it.
This is prohibited in ConTexT, I find, but I'll have to learn a new way of
achieving the same thing.
But I *did* promise not to bombard the list with silly newbie questions!
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 13:47, Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2025, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> > On 6/14/2025 4:32 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2025, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> > >
> > >> The pstricks module isn't supported anymore and even in the past it
> worked
> > >> only when you used postscript as output format.
> > >
> > > The pstricks module created a temp file, processed it using texexec,
> and
> > > converted the generated ps to pdf using ps2pdf. You could automate it
> using
> > > filter module (by processing the figures using latex!)
> > >
> > > Something along the lines of:
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/462257/323
> >
> > Actually, there is a ps interpreter (m-escrito) that taco wrote a few
> decades
> > ago when postscript was still hip and that I redid / optimized one
> decaded
> > ago, which is still around .. you can run that file and get this tiger; i
> > suppose I could actually optimize it a bit more and even integrate it
> with
> > pstricks but i bet no one will revert back to pstricks so i never
> bothered.
> > We keep it around for the fun of it and those who like to program in
> > postscript.
>
> Thanks. I'll check it.
>
> But I agree. Postscript is a really esoteric programming language and IMO
> the pstricks wrapper not very elegant. So there is very little value in
> providing a wrapper around it.
>
> Aditya
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