Dear gang,
Consider the following MWE (for a sequential multiple-choice exam), using
some old and ugly TeX code:
===
\setupbodyfont[schola]
\noheaderandfooterlines
\setupwhitespace[big]
\def\CHOICE#1#2{\leavevmode\vbox{\tabskip=0pt\everycr={}
\halign{\strut\hfil##\hfil\cr
Dear gang,
Generally, I do not use endnotes - see Robert Bringhurst's criticisms of
endnotes in typography - but a publisher is demanding them. Converting
footnotes to endnotes must be quite simple yet I'm missing it:
\setupnotation[footnote]
[way=bychapter]
% \setupnote[footnote]
% [way=b
On Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:17:15 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
\setupnote
[footnote]
[location=none]
That did the trick; many thanks!
==
\setupnote
[footnote]
[location=none]
\starttext
\startsection[title={},reference={}]
\input ward
\startfootnote
\input ward
\stopfoot
On Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:06:31 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 6/3/2021 10:09 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Dear gang,
Generally, I do not use endnotes - see Robert Bringhurst's criticisms
of endnotes in typography - but a publisher is demanding them.
Converting footnot
Dear gang,
In the past I updated to the latest via installing cont-tmf.zip (and
luatex.exe if needed) manually, but recently I switched to
first-setup.bat. I got things working on one 64-bit machine (vista), and
want to set up context on another (windows7), also 64-bit. Normally all I
nee
Dear syndicate,
As mentioned in my other message, "first-setup.bat weirdness I: cloned
system" I've now switched to the first-setup.bat way of updating. Two
pieces of weirdness on the main machine:
1. mtx-context | running command: xetex --ini --etex --8bit
cont-en.mkii \dump
makes
Dear gang,
Using pagella (palatino) for a project here. Unfortunately
texgyrepagella-math.otf has a rather unattractive set of \cal caps;
schola, termes, bonum etc. all use the same and much better-looking set.
So I decided to try and define a palatino math set with the \cal caps from
sch
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 12:33:53 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
wrote:
Dear gang,
Using pagella (palatino) for a project here. Unfortunately
texgyrepagella-math.otf has a rather unattractive set of \cal caps;
schola, termes, bonum etc. all use the same and much better-looking
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 13:17:35 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <mailto:idris.ha...@colostate.edu>
14. August 2016 um 20:33
Dear gang,
Using pagella (palatino) for a project here. Unfortunately
texgyrepagella-math.otf has a rather unattractive set o
Dear gang,
This just in. Slightly off-topic, but in the wake of the recent markdown
thread some of you may find this approach interesting or a source of ideas
for doing something similar in ConTeXt.
Best wishes
Idris
--- Forwarded message ---
From: "Albert Krewinkel"
To: pandoc-di
Dear Pablo,
On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 14:02:24 -0600, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
Dear list,
I have the following sample:
\starttext
This is \linenote{abed intended.
\stoptext
From which I get the error:
close source> level 2, order 3, name '/home/ousia/untitled.tex'
close source>
On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 02:09:48 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 6/7/2017 7:02 AM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 06/06/2017 10:56 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
[...]
Would it be any way to make ConTeXt report that \linenote{ hasn’t been
closed?
Just check your file before running it
On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:11:14 -0600, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
(but i have to admit that i normally just run files and redo after
fixing an error, running is fast enough)
My question here isn’t about speed. If a source may load twenty source
files and it actually loads five source files, the prob
On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:08:21 -0600, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
And creating a keyboard shortcut to launch the script automatically
helps a lot.
Scite: Ctrl-0
Notepad++: Ctrl-Shift-0
(new n++ setup for context currently under development)
Idris
--
Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor
Department of Phil
On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:33:05 -0600, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 06/07/2017 10:16 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:08:21 -0600, Pablo Rodriguez
wrote:
And creating a keyboard shortcut to launch the script automatically
helps a lot.
Scite: Ctrl-0
Dear gang,
Given a set body font and text, how does one replace all characters of
that font in that text with the corresponding rectangular bounding boxes?
Once an answer to the above is spelled out: How does one control the width
of the lines which make up the bounding boxes?
Thank you i
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:31:00 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 7/20/2017 3:04 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Dear gang,
Given a set body font and text, how does one replace all characters of
that font in that text with the corresponding rectangular bounding
boxes?
Once an
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:05:31 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 7/20/2017 8:06 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:31:00 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 7/20/2017 3:04 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Dear gang,
Given a set body font and text, how
Dear gang,
There appears to be something awry with type-imp-cambria.mkiv or
type-imp-dejavu.mkiv. Consider the following:
===
\setupbodyfont
[cambria,12pt]
\starttext
Test % {\it Test} {\bf Test} {\bi Test}
\stoptext
===
This produces a pdf with Cambria Italic instead of Cambria R
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:34:25 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 8/2/2017 10:21 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Dear gang,
There appears to be something awry with type-imp-cambria.mkiv or
type-imp-dejavu.mkiv. Consider the following:
===
\setupbodyfont
[cambria,12pt
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:15:59 -0600, Aditya Mahajan
wrote:
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:34:25 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 8/2/2017 10:21 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> Dear gang,
> There appears to be som
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:17:07 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 8/2/2017 11:05 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
On Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:34:25 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 8/2/2017 10:21 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Dear gang,
There appears to be something awry with
On Thu, 03 Aug 2017 01:41:42 -0600, Henning Hraban Ramm
wrote:
Am 2017-08-02 um 23:46 schrieb Aditya Mahajan :
I occasionally experience a similar issue (after an update wrong
fontface is used, especially with math fonts) and reloading the fonts
database with --force always fixes the iss
Dear syndicate,
Not sure if there is a canonical way to do numbered paragraphs. In the
following, I use subsections to mimic numbered paragraphs:
===section-intext.tex===
\setuphead[section][style=\bfa,after={\blank[big]},before={\blank[big,medium]},color=walayahblue]
\setuphead[subsecti
[Sent this a couple of days ago, maybe will get some takers this time -)]
Dear syndicate,
Not sure if there is a canonical way to do numbered paragraphs. In the
following, I use subsections to mimic numbered paragraphs:
===section-intext.tex===
\setuphead[section][style=\bfa,after={\bla
On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 14:08:28 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
wrote:
[Sent this a couple of days ago, maybe will get some takers this time -)]
Dear syndicate,
Not sure if there is a canonical way to do numbered paragraphs. In the
following, I use subsections to mimic numbered
Hi Wolfgang,
On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 03:09:16 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
\setupwhitespace[big]
\definelabel[ParagraphNumber][text=Paragraph,closesymbol={\hspace[big]}]
\setupparagraphintro[each][\ParagraphNumber]
\starttext
\section{Section}
\input ward
\input ward
\input ward
\stoptext
On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:28:30 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
wrote:
The parameter insidesection= helps:
\setupwhitespace[big]
\def\SPACE#1{#1\hskip2em\hbox{}}
\setuphead[section]
[style=\bf,
after={\blank[big]},
before={\blank[big,medium
On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 13:39:50 -0600, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 08/06/2017 03:54 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
[...]
Something along the lines of the following would be a sufficient (and
easier) first step for the current project, although we may want to
revisit the above for
On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 13:49:37 -0600, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 08/06/2017 03:54 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
In addition to the two dropbox links above, see the following:
https://people.umass.edu/klement/tlp/tlp.html#bodytext
https://people.umass.edu/klement/tlp/tlp.pdf
Hi Hans,
https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2017/089431.html
For the current writing project: It seems I've gotten about as far as I'm
going to get on the list with this. Could you kindly take a look at the
two automation challenges at the end of the message when you get a chance?
Hi Wolfgang,
On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:17:21 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <mailto:idris.ha...@colostate.edu>
7. August 2017 um 15:54
Hi Hans,
https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2017/089431.html
For the current writing project: It seem
On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 13:57:56 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Simpler version:
\defineseparatorset [ParagraphNumber][.,]
\definecounter[ParagraphNumber][numberseparatorset=ParagraphNumber,criterium=all]
\define\ParagraphNumber
{\incrementcounter[ParagraphNumber]%
\convertedcounter[Pa
Hi Hans, Pablo,
On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:03:41 -0600, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 08/07/2017 08:57 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 8/7/2017 5:08 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
[...]
I mean, in a common sectioning structure a \subsubsection comes after a
\subsection. But I don’t think it must be mandatory.
On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 01:36:00 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 8/7/2017 11:03 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 08/07/2017 08:57 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 8/7/2017 5:08 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
[...]
I mean, in a common sectioning structure a \subsubsection comes after
a
\subsection. But I don’t t
[off-topic]
Hi Jean-Pierre,
On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 01:34:28 -0600, Jean-Pierre Delange
wrote:
Hi Idriss, Pablo, Wolfgang and Hans,
It has been a long time since I have read the Wittgenstein
"Tractacus-Logico-Philosophicus". I remember, when I was 20, that I was
very puzzled by this asser
On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 01:29:12 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 8/8/2017 12:32 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Thank you again, Wolfgang. After playing with this, figured out how to
do the full decimal version; just toggle
% \defineseparatorset [ParagraphNumber][.,] % no second
On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 13:57:56 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Simpler version:
\defineseparatorset [ParagraphNumber][.,]
\definecounter[ParagraphNumber][numberseparatorset=ParagraphNumber,criterium=all]
\define\ParagraphNumber
{\incrementcounter[ParagraphNumber]%
\convertedcounter[Paragra
On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:13:22 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Here is a first attempt to combine this paragraph numbering with
sectioning:
\defineseparatorset [ParagraphNumber][.,] % no second decimal for
susubparagraphs
% \defineseparatorset [ParagraphNumber][.,.] % second
On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 22:14:15 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
wrote:
Wikified by Pablo:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Paragraph_Enumeration#Using_Section_Numbering_to_Improve_Paragraph_Numbering
And coming soon to a beta near you:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Titles
Hi Herbert,
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 02:18:34 -0600, Herbert Voss
wrote:
Hello all,
is it possible to get additional frames around words and
the whole line?
\definefontfeature[default][default][boundingbox=frame]
\starttext
»Tee for Two« shows negative kerning.
\input sapolsky
\stoptext
Cur
Der gang,
For the following \definefont scenario, the footnote symbol in the main
text is not raised:
===
\setuppapersize[letter][letter]
% \setupbodyfont[schola,12pt]
\definefont[PagellaRegular] [texgyrepagella-regular.otf at 14pt]
\definefont[PagellaRegularSmall][texgyrepagella-reg
Dear Pablo,
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:47:13 -0700, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 11/16/2017 06:11 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
What do we need to do to get a raised footnote symbol in the main text
(line 6 of the pdf)? Thanks in advance.
BTW, I mixed the number which had to be
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:11:50 -0700, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 11/16/2017 06:57 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:47:13 -0700, Pablo Rodriguez
wrote:
[...]
You should rewrite your \setupnote command in the following way:
\setupnote[footnote
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:40:40 -0700, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 11/16/2017 07:18 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Yes, but the point of this scenario is to do everything with
\definefont.
pagella is just for purposes of a MWE: otherwise the scenario calls for
using a font that
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:06:02 -0700, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
With average user, I mean I don’t fully understand the code that I read
(and I cannot write code for ConTeXt [either TeX or Lua]). Otherwise, I
would be contributing code to ConTeXt.
But what you contribute by answering and helping is
Dear gang,
Midsentences in the ConTeXt sense are quite common. Consider the following:
===
\setuplanguage[en]
[leftsentence={{} \endash\nobreakspace},
rightsentence={{} \endash\nobreakspace},
leftsubsentence={{} \textbar\nobreakspace},
rightsubsentence={{} \textbar\nobreakspace},
midsent
On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:56:40 -0700, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 2/11/2018 5:20 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Is there an analogous symbol for a midsentence, which requires a mark
only at its beginning?
|=|
Excellent!
--
Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor
Department of Philosophy
Dear gang,
Here's a strange situation:
In approach I) we get the subject heading in the TOC, but style=bold
doesn't work.
In approach II) style=bold works, but the subject heading doesn't show up.
For each approach, how do we get both subject heading and style=bold in
the TOC?
Between I
On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 02:47:17 -0700, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 3/4/2018 4:27 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Dear gang,
Here's a strange situation:
In approach I) we get the subject heading in the TOC, but style=bold
doesn't work.
In approach II) style=bold work
On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 06:29:53 -0700, Hans Hagen wrote:
A working minimal example follows. Is this the recommended practice?
Can it be streamlined further?
:
\placecontent
\placelist[content]
[subject,section,subsection,subsubsection]
Hm, toggling lines 12-13 below: Line 13 makes the T
Dear ConTeXt gang,
A continuing desideratum for ConTeXt is a user-friendly writing and
editing environment, where the range of application of the category
“user-friendly” includes especially non-experts in programming or software
development. The lack of such an environment is one factor th
Dear gang,
Consider the following:
==
\starttext
\startframedtext[width=fit,frame=off,offset=0pt]
% \startlocalfootnotes[n=2]
\startlocalfootnotes
\input ward
\startfootnote
\input ward
\stopfootnote
\placelocalfootnotes
\stoplocalfootnotes
\stopframedtext
\stoptext
==
On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:29:01 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <mailto:idris.ha...@colostate.edu>
25. März 2018 um 17:04
Dear gang,
Consider the following:
==
\starttext
\startframedtext[width=fit,frame=off,offset=0pt]
% \startlocalfootnot
On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:34:08 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <mailto:idris.ha...@colostate.edu>
26. März 2018 um 00:24
2) Alternatively, would like to be able to define a conversion that
sets the footnote numeral to 2.
3) Uncommenting th
Dear gang,
Just put together a macro that appears to do what's desired. However, is
there a cleaner, more ConTeXt-like way to do this?
===
\newcount \MQT
\MQT=1
\define[1]\NUM{%
\framed[offset=overlay,frame=off,background=color,backgroundcolor=green]
{\starttabulate[|c|]
\NC \mbox{\the\MQ
Dear gang,
Related to the last thread ("Numbered, counted snippets in running text").
Let us consider the same macro:
===
\newcount \MQT
\MQT=1
\define[1]\NUM{%
\framed[offset=overlay,frame=off,background=color,backgroundcolor=green]
{\starttabulate[|c|]
\NC \mbox{\the\MQT} \NR
\NC #1 \NR
On Sat, 19 May 2018 16:40:13 -0600, Wolfgang Schuster
wrote:
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <mailto:idris.ha...@colostate.edu>
20. Mai 2018 um 00:30
Dear gang,
Related to the last thread ("Numbered, counted snippets in running
text"). Let us conside
On Sat, 19 May 2018 16:47:34 -0600, Henri Menke
wrote:
On 05/20/2018 09:34 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Dear gang,
Just put together a macro that appears to do what's desired. However, is
there a cleaner, more ConTeXt-like way to do this?
===
\newcount \MQT
\
]
\starttext
\dorecurse{5}{Unnumbered Text \NUM{Numbered Text} }
\stoptext
Wow.. many thanks!
Idris
Wolfgang
Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <mailto:idris.ha...@colostate.edu>
19. Mai 2018 um 23:34
Dear gang,
Just put together a macro that appears to do what's desired. However,
is ther
Greetings,
mtx-context | current version: 2018.06.02 22:34
In the following, bidi does not work:
===
\setupdirections[bidi=global]
\starttext
\definedfont[file:almfixed.otf*arabic at 14pt]
Test امتحان test
\righttoleft
Test امتحان test
\stoptext
===
See attached. This used to wor
Dear Knights,
What is the canonical way to break a ligature in MkIV? The canonical TeX
way, e.g.
f{}i
does not work if the feature liga=yes.
The zero-width joiner or non-joiner will do it but that seems ad hoc or
abusive ;-) since those are really for cursive scripts like Arabic and
Syr
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:22:31 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
quite a claim ... afaik devanagari also needs them
Ah, interesting!
anyhow, just don't enable ligatures if in doubt (some fonts have
language dependent ligatures) ... it's somewhat arbitrary to have only
'f' related ligs anyway
On W
Dear gang,
I made a wiki page for \feature et al:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Open_Type_Fonts_and_Featuresets_in_MkIV
Towards the end we need a graphical sample of the sample file, but I do
not know how to do that. See
===
Now let us review the results:
[output/graphic here]
===
Dear gang,
My apologies if the answers to the following are already well-known and if
I'm being completely clueless:
What is the standard way of representing the symbol '\TeX' in html and the
like?
Related: Is there any movement to have '\TeX' registered as a Unicode
symbol?
Thanks in
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:34:11 -0600, Arthur Reutenauer
wrote:
Related: Is there any movement to have '\TeX' registered as a
Unicode symbol?
I really hope not.
Why not?
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 805
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:34:11 -0600, Arthur Reutenauer
wrote:
^^
Time travel ;-)
TEX
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:14:52 -0600, Khaled Hosny
wrote:
span.TEX {letter-spacing: -0.1em;}
span.TEX span.E {left: -0.04em; position: relative;top: 0.5ex;}
TEX
On Sun, 31 Mar
Dear gang,
The tikz module works, as per the attached attached test file. I need some
commutative diagrams and found something relatively recent and interesting:
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikz-cd
But \input'ing the file tikz-cd.tex after the tikz module does not work; I
get an undefined cont
Hi Hans,
These commands are good to know!
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:16:41 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
\narrownobreakspace
If a font does not have U+202F defined, what's the best way to redefine
this to, say, one half of the current font's regular space U+0020 (with no
shrinking or stretching
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:56:41 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 4/17/2013 3:30 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Hi Hans,
These commands are good to know!
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:16:41 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
\narrownobreakspace
If a font does not have U+202F defined, what&#
Hi,
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:08:30 -0600, H. Özoguz wrote:
How to make it non-breaking?
See also my reply to Hans, basically you need a
\penalty1
(See TeXBook, page 353, 110)
Best wishes
Idris
--
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collin
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:51:37 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
\defineactivecharater + {\narrownobreakspace}
و+الباب
(untested, but on my list)
But per the current definition I should be able to define U+"202F as,
e.g., .7ex in the font and get the same effect, right?
why make a character active a
[no cc]
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:35:43 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 4/17/2013 5:28 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
(Eventually I have to port the ConTeXt support package for Npp to a
lexer/plugin where I can define these things explicitly, but first I
need someone who knows
Greetings, Keith, Thomas, and all,
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:43:59 -0600, Thomas A. Schmitz
wrote:
if you look at the books of decent publishers, you will see that most of
them still use ligatures (most American university presses, Oxford and
Cambridge, German publishers such as Reclam etc.
Salaam, Huseyin,
I missed this and other threads, it's been busy here...
On Tue, 07 May 2013 23:35:25 -0600, H. Özoguz wrote:
But with traditionalarabic it is worse than with arabtype. What could be
a way to fix this?
Traditional Arabic is a uniscribe-compliant font, but not a fully openty
Hi Hans,
On Tue, 14 May 2013 12:01:36 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
I'm on-and-off working on the more technical font manual and in the
process also check some old code i've laying around (deciding on what to
include and not). I'm also revising the tracer styles.
Which makes me wonder: are the
Hi Georg,
On Wed, 15 May 2013 00:09:22 -0600, Georg Duffner
wrote:
I’d prefer to stay with the AFF syntax which is well established.
I wonder if the latest, virtually frozen FontForge supports the current
AFF syntax or still uses an earlier version. Before AFF was complete
George adde
Dear gang,
Is there a \dimen variable for the local key for the width of a text
column? Take a look at the attached pdf: Clearly local is different from
\textwidth and \makeupwidth.
=
\starttext
\framed[width=\textwidth,frame=on]{\type{\textwidth}}
\framed[width=\makeupwidth,fra
This is an *immense* help... Thanks a million!!
Best wishes
Idris
On Fri, 17 May 2013 17:08:15 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
\showframe
\startbuffer
\setlocalhsize
\dontleavehmode\framed[width=\hsize]
{\the\hsize,\the\localhsize,\setlocalhsize\the\localhsize,\type{\hsize
}} \par
\dontleav
On Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:10 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
indeed. however the biggest challenge in patching a font runtime is
where to inject the patches in the look up sequence ...
Indeed, I was thinking exactly the same thing! It needs some thought...
The simplest and safest idea may be to s
Dear gang,
With a couple of modifications I got tikz-cd (a package to make
commutative diagrams for categories and toposes etc. by Florêncio Neves)
working in mkiv:
http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tikz-cd/tikz-cd-doc.pdf
It depends on the tikz module, already supported in mkiv.
The
Salaam, Huseyn,
On Fri, 31 May 2013 07:24:20 -0600, H. Özoguz wrote:
With the font file "maddina.ttf" I have the same problems. But this font
is clearly not broken, you can download it here:
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/free/quran-madina.htm (or see attachment
of this mail).
But is t
Salaam Huseyin,
If you have not done so already, you can also try the Quran fonts listed
at the bottom of this page:
http://al-quran.info/page/about
Scheherazade you are already familiar with. I have not done much testing
of the others but they are all OT I believe.
Best wishes
Idris
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Greetings, Michael,
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:15:11 -0600, Michael Ash
wrote:
Is there a standard way to send unicode text to this list?
Your Unicode text came through perfectly:
\textdir TRT
\hebrew
לָכֵן חַכּוּ־לִי נְאֻם־יְהוָה לְיוֹם קוּמִי לְעַד כִּי מִשְׁפָּטִי
לֶאֱסֹף גּוֹיִם לְקָב
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:31:12 -0600, Michael Ash
wrote:
Also it's typesetting fine in ConTeXt except for the vowel placement.
Any suggestions there? Thank you again.
You probably need the opentype features activated. Ezra has two features
from what I can tell, so try something like this
Hi JR,
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:12:54 -0600, J. R. Schmid 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 easy it is to use
Dear gang,
Does anyone here remember how to toggle Unicode control characters like
the zero-width joiners, non-joiners etc? For example, some fonts map the
control character to a symbol but we usually don't want that symbol
showing up in normal text output. I know there is (used to be?) a s
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:09:22 -0600, Hans Hagen wrote:
\setcharacterstripping[1]
(experimental code ... probably never used)
It works and thanks!!
Idris
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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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Dear gang,
Re: Arabic poetry thread:
Hans has just implemented high-level support for hemistiches and caesuras
(using here the technical names for the style of poetry structure used in
Arabic and other classical literature).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemistich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:07:48 -0600, J. R. Schmid wrote:
That's what I understood from the ConTeXt Standalone wiki page, and also
why I'm so confused about this - my Standalone installation is brand
new, and I started it roughly 3 hours after Hans' post about the new
module. I just ran firs
Dear gang,
Since I work with context at both my home and my work machines, I'm
thinking of moving my context tree to dropbox and just keeping that one
tree updated. Have any of you tried something like this, and are there any
unforeseen issues that could arise?
Or are there any other thou
Salaam, Vafa,On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:34:23 -0600, Vafa Khalighi wrote:it is about stretching words.It can be done manually, of course, by just manual insertions of U+0640. Did you mean something else by 'manual'?As for automatic, it is in the pipeline and my hope is it will be done by Spring if no
Salaam,
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 06:09:46 -0600, H. Özoguz wrote:
I found the following bug in \inframed, getting problems with inframing
arabic words, try the following example
\definefont[arab][name:arial*arabic at 18pt]
\define[1]\awort{{\hbox{\setupalign[r2l]\arab#1}}}
\starttext
\awort{بِال
Dear gang,
I have an urgent project that needs three outputs: pdf, epub, and kindle.
The formatting needs are pretty basic. In your experience:
What is the recommended, more efficient workflow for this sort of thing?
Should I start with markdown and then generate context and epub (then
co
On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 15:12:10 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
wrote:
What is the recommended, more efficient workflow for this sort of thing?
Should I start with markdown and then generate context and epub (then
convert epub=>kindle I presume)? Or does one context file w
Dear gang,
How do we activate/control whitespace (and indenting) within framed texts?
The following seems to fail:
==
\setupframedtexts
[frame=off,
location=middle,
before={\blank[medium]\setupwhitespace[medium]},
after={\blank[medium]}]
\setupwhitespace[medium]
\setupindenting[y
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 16:35:32 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
wrote:
See attached.
Attached
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Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
framedtexts.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 16:46:00 -0600, Aditya Mahajan
wrote:
On Jul 13, 2014, at 6:35 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
wrote:
Dear gang,
How do we activate/control whitespace (and indenting) within framed
texts? The following seems to fail:
==
\setupframedtexts
[This announcement is dedicated to the 110% recovery and return of our
visionary and fearless leader Hans Hagen: Three cheers to you, Hans!!!]
Dear gang,
It's my pleasure to announce the release of Arabic-Latin Modern Fixed, a
monospaced font that extends TeX-Gyre Latin Modern Mono 10 Regula
Dear gang,
I'm trying to setup a definition that uses a natural table and could use
some guru help. Here is what I have so far:
===
\def\Glyphbox{%
\setupframed[frame=off,align=middle,offfset=none]
\framed{\cbox{
\bTABLE[align=middle]
\bTR \bTD \gulistan#1 \fontchar{#2} \eTD \eTR
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