December 2002 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: block the header and footer on the first page of a chapter
by Hans Hagen 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

At 04:22 PM 12/16/2002 +0800, you wrote: >How to block the header (and footer) setting in the first page of a chapter? >I designed my own >header, but the header texts and footer texts are still there, if they are >blocked, >then the layout will be nice. \setuphead [chapter] [header=empty, footer=empty] Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Chinese font files
by Matthew Huggett 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

Hi, I've installed the simplified chinese fonts from ftp.ctex.org (ttf,tfm,enc and map file), and TeX seems to be able to find the .enc files but pdftex complains about not being able to open the ttf files. What's the correct location in the texmf-local tree for the ttf files? Below is my context log file: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) (format=cont-en 2002.12.13) 16 DEC 2002 11:44 entering extended mode **&cont-en ChinTest.tex (./ChinTest.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ... specials : fdf,tpd loaded system : macros of module chinese loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-chi-00.tex encoding : coding gbk encoding : coding big5 encoding : coding gbk encoding : coding big5 (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex) bodyfont : variant chi is loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-chi.tex loading : Context Font Macros / Chinese encoding : coding chi is loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/enco-chi.tex encoding : coding big5 encoding : coding gbk ))) system : no macros found in module chi-simplified encoding : coding gbk encoding : coding big5 encoding : coding gbk encoding : coding big5 (./ChinTest.tuo) (./ChinTest.tuo) systems : begin file ChinTest at line 5 [1.1{/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map): invalid entry for `rtxphvbo': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1 fonts Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map): invalid entry for `rtxphvro': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1 fonts Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map): invalid entry for `rtxptmbo': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1 fonts Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map): invalid entry for `rtxptmro': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1 fonts }{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/gbk.map}] systems : end file ChinTest at line 13 ) ... {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-b8.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-c2.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-c3.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-ba.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-c4.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-c8.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-b9.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-d6.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-ca.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-ce.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading </usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb> Output written on ChinTest.pdf (1 page, 7263 bytes). thanks, Matt -- -------------------------------------- Matthew Huggett Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken Japan mhuggett(a)zam.att.ne.jp

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DocbookInContext: new version uploaded
by Simon Pepping 15 Dec '02

15 Dec '02

Hi, I have just uploaded a new version of DocbookInContext. This version enables input with latin-1 and utf-8 encodings and has an implementation of blockquote. epigraph will come later. The distribution can be found at the usual place, www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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cont-sys.tex or cont-sys.rme?
by Emil Hedevang Lohse 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

In the installation manual (minstall.pdf) it is said that if I want to change the defaults, I have to edit the 'cont-sys.tex' file to, say, enable '\setupoutput[pdftex]' as default. However, I cannot find the file. I am using teTeX from Debian 3.0, and when I run 'locate cont-sys' (after a 'updatedb') I get emil:~# updatedb emil:~# locate cont-sys /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-sys.ori /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme Is this a bug in the installation manual? Note that it make the changes suggested in minstall.pdf in the cont-sys.rme file; is this the correct thing to do? Regards, Emil -- Emil Hedevang Lohse <http://home.imf.au.dk/emil/> Alle spørgsmål er lige dumme. Og spørgsmålet "Kan ænder flyve?" er ikke dumt.

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lucida
by Siep 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

How do I turn on Lucida Bright for an entire document? The TeX-installation contains hl... and lb... tfms and lb... pfbs. -- Siep Kroonenberg siep(a)elvenkind.com

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ConTeXt or Omega?
by Matthew Huggett 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Hi: I know that some people are using ConTeXt with Omega. What's the benefit to using Omega instead of a native ConTeXt module? Is it better to develop ConTeXt's language handling capablilities (as with the Chinese package) or use Omega OTPs? Thanks, Matt

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page breakes in \bTD \eTD / \chapter in \bTD
by Tobias Burnus 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Hi, I try to HTML->PDF some HTML pages using ConTeXt. Unfortunally, some of them contain tables for layout reasons. Seemingly there is no pagebreak possible within a \bTD. Any ideas what to do in this case? An additional problem is that <td><h2>foo</h2></td> appear. which gets translated as: \defineXMLsingular[h2] \section \defineXMLenvironment[table] \bTABLE \eTABLE \defineXMLnested[tr] \bTR \eTR \defineXMLnested[td] \bTD \eTD \defineXMLnested[th] \bTH \eTH How should I define "h2" in order to get a section (bookmarks, table of contents) within that bTD ... eTD, currently 'foo' is rendered in the normal textsize. Tobias PS: If you want to play with the very premature version: http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~tburnus/html2pdf-2/?url1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.p… -- This above all: To thine own self be true / And it must follow as the night the day / Thou canst not then be false to any man.

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About texmf.cnf
by Eduardo Cassiraga 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi: My latex-context installation have not the "texmf.cnf" file so I can´t to enable \write18 in order ti run the presentation's styles correctly. Is this a problem of my system? If the "texmf.cnf" must be on my PC, where could I get it, please? Thank you very much. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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MPOST enabled
by Eduardo Cassiraga 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi: I am trying to compile the follow file with context: \usemodule[pre-03] \starttext \TitlePage{A simple presentation} \Topics{Hola1} \Topic{Hola2} \Topic{Hola3} \Subject{Hola4} \Subject{Hola5} \stoptext And the results are not good. The *.log file is the attachment. I can read some "error" sentences about a mpost. Could somebody give me an advise, please? Thank you very much. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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m-bib: simple references not working
by Rob van Swol 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi, I am trying to get my document references right using the m-bib module. All kind of options I played with are doing fine except for the most simple one, which happens to be the one I prefer. Consider de following test document: \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[bib] \startpublication[k=r1] \artauthor[]{Peter}[P.]{}{Peters} \arttitle{Document 1} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=r2] \artauthor[]{Jan}[J.]{de}{Vries} \arttitle{Document 2} \stoppublication \setuppublications[numbering=yes,refcommand=num] \setupcite[num][compress=no] \starttext This is reference two: \cite[r2]. And this is reference one: \cite[r1]. Both references: \cite[num][r1,r2]. \placepublications \stoptext It produces: This is reference two: [2]. And this is reference one: [2]. Both references: [2, 2]. 1 de Vries, J..Document 2. . 2 Peters, P..Document 1. . I always get a reference to document n where n is the number of documents referred to. This is the tui file: c \thisissectionseparator{:} c \thisisutilityversion{1998.12.20} f b {bibtest} c \initializevariable\usedcolorchannels{} c \listentry{pubs}{1}{1}{\typesetapublication {r2}}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1} c \listentry{pubs}{2}{2}{\typesetapublication {r1}}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1} c \mainreference{}{r2}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1}{\bibcounter } c \mainreference{}{r1}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1}{\bibcounter } f e {bibtest} c \initializevariable\lastpage{1} c \initializevariable\lastpagenumber{1} c \initializevariable\totalnumberofMPgraphics{0} c \initializevariable\totalnofpositions{0} c \initializevariable\totalnofparbackgrounds{0} c \initializevariable\currentstrategypass{1} Do we have a bug here or is it something that I don't understand? Regards, Rob -- _____________________________________________________________ Rob W. van Swol National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Tel. +31 527 248252 P.O. Box 153 Fax +31 527 248210 8300 AD Emmeloord E-Mail vanswol(a)nlr.nl The Netherlands http://www.neonet.nl/

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extra spacing
by Hans van der Meer 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

With math followed by a \crlf extra spacing is introduced in the math. For example: Test \crlf (1) inverse $b\rightarrow b^{-1}$ \crlf (2) inverse $b\rightarrow b^{-1}$\hfill\null \crlf (3) inverse $b\rightarrow b^{-1}$ In line (1) extra white is introduced around the white arrow. In line (2) the fix is given, allthough not a problem ii is a nuisance. In line (3) one sees it is the \crlf that lets the math expand because here no extra white. Is this a feature or has this phenomenon escaped attention hitherto? Hans van der Meer

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utf 8 / test file
by Hans Hagen 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Hi, I posted http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/titus.pdf now, one thing with unicode (utf) is that support needs to have an associated font / language switch. Traditionally, tex font mechanisms have been complicated by the fact that there are many shapes per font and math has to be dealt with. If we're dealing with say sanskrit, is it then safe to assume that (1) we can switch to the language (if not yet done) when we encounter a unicode from the associated char/glyph range (2) can we assume that a relatively simple font mechanism is used (normal,bold,slanted) (3) can we assume that only a few (possibly derived from unicode) fonts are used, or at least one main type of font per language (4) can we standardize on utf-8 [and assume some preprocessor if not] [let's try to deal with the practical, so what's the practical usage] Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Presentation that use metafun
by Eduardo Cassiraga 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Hi: I have generated all formats with: texexec --make --alone Now, I am trying to compile the presentation that Hans include in context distribution. The results with original style are perfect but those style that include metafun graphics didn't work. I uncomment the line \runMPgraphicstrue in the cong-sys.tex file (as indicate in the presentation user's guide) but the results are not good. ¿Which is the rigth site of conf-sys.tex file? ¿c:\textmf\context\config\? Thanks a lot. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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how to use system fonts?
by Michael Na Li 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

I've read the relevant docs (mfonts.pdf, etc) but still can't figure out how to switch fonts in context. In LaTeX, I just use \usepackage{times} or \usepackage{utopia} to switch fonts (just the basic ones came with tetex). I expect something similar in ConTeXt but that is not the case. This compiles but doesn't have any effect on fonts, (unknown variant times and utopia). \setupbodyfont[times] \starttext This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \switchtobodyfont[utopia] This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \stoptext If I follow the instruction on http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html and I can create some type-x.tex file for the fonts, like \usetypescriptfile[type-charter] \usetypescriptfile[type-utopia] \usetypescript[Charter] \usetypescript[Utopia] \setupbodyfont[MyCharter] \starttext This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \switchtobodyfont[MyUtopia] This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \stoptext But shouldn't those typescripts be already set up? I'm not installing new fonts here. I can see the names 'times', 'helvet', 'palatino' etc in the system type-*.tex file and those files are read during the compilation. How can I use them? I have \usetypescript [map] [default,\defaultencoding] \usetypescript [berry] [\defaultencoding] in my $TEXMF/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex file. Thanks, Michael -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Na Li Email: lina(a)u.washington.edu Department of Biostatistics, Box 357232 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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texexec
by Matthew Huggett 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Hi: I just re-installed TeX (fpTeX) and I have a question about running texexec. I've followed the instructions in the texexec manual--i.e., customized and copied texexec.rme to texexec.ini-- but I still get the following error when I run texexec: locating ini file : not found by kpsewhich locating ini file : not found by searching locating ini file : no environment variable set locating ini file : not found in own path warning : texexec.ini not found, did you read 'texexec.rme'? the context/perltk directory is in my path. Any ideas as to what I'm missing? thanks in advance Matt

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Latest beta killed cross-referencing?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Hello, I just downloaded the latest beta --and it seems it won't generate cross refs anymore. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Emulating AMS stuff in ConTeXt
by Giuseppe Bilotta 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hello, while trying to build an AMS emulation layer on top of ConTeXt math macros, I defined (among the other) the following macros: \def\startalign{% \startformula \let\\\cr \grabuntil{stopalign}\doeqalign } \def\doeqalign#1{\eqalign{#1\cr}\stopformula} \let\stopalign\relax These allow me to write: \startalign a & = b = \\ & = c \stopalign and everything is fine. Yet I cannot do \placeformula[hook] \startalign a & = b = \\ & = c \stopalign because of expansion problems. Why? How can I define the stuff? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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FontSite 500 CD support
by Bill McClain 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

I've had some email with Christopher League, the author of the Latex support package for the FontSite 500 CD. He is going to work on ConTeXt support in early 2003. When this is ready it will mostly supercede the procedures on my web page. Again, the urls are: http://contrapunctus.net/fs500tex/ http://www.fontsite.com/ -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany info(a)sattre-press.com http://tow.sattre-press.com/

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non western scripts and utf
by Hans Hagen 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hi, http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/test.pdf shows how sanskrit like code will show up in context docs; i still need to get comment working (has to be utf-16) but hyperlinks and alike already work ok what would help testing this kind of things is real example text, so maybe we should start building a collection of test files (like tufte, but then in utf code) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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utf-8
by Simon Pepping 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

The new beta works fine. \unknownchar must be enclosed in braces, to prevent error messages when the unknown char is the only char in a superior or inferior. Many math symbols (unicode range 0x2200) are still missing. Would they be added like this: \definecharacter textSum {\mathematics{\Sum}} ? I will experiment somewhat with this later. Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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Using Fraktur (and Gothic and Calligraphic) fonts in ConTeXt
by Giuseppe Bilotta 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hello, I just wanted to report the conclusions I reached after the hoop-jumping I had to go through to be able to use Fraktur in ConTeXt, especially in math environments: it seems that the \frak, \goth, \cal font switches are ignored in math mode (which is somewhat ridiculous, considering that this is where they are used more often). A workaround (stolen from the old math module) is to define \def\fraktur #1{\ifmmode\@EA\text\fi{{\frak#1}}} \def\gothic #1{\ifmmode\@EA\text\fi{{\goth#1}}} \def\caligraphic#1{\ifmmode\@EA\text\fi{{\cal #1}}} and use \fraktur{a} instead of {\frak a}. This has the disadvantage that you cannot set Fraktur as the (math) font for a complex math construct. Can this be fixed, please? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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BUG in spec-fdf
by Giuseppe Bilotta 08 Dec '02

08 Dec '02

Hello, I just found (rather by chance) a bug in the fdf output definitions: at the end of the file there are the lines \definespecial\dostartgraphicgroup{\pdfliteral{q}} \definespecial\dostopgraphicgroup {\pdfliteral{Q}} Since fdf specials are also used in non-PDF production mode (e.g. by dvipdfm specials) there lines should be changed into \definespecial\dostartgraphicgroup{\PDFcode{q}} \definespecial\dostopgraphicgroup {\PDFcode{Q}} -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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DocBookInContext & multi-languages (newbie)
by Gour 07 Dec '02

07 Dec '02

Hello list! I'm a new in ConTeXt. After few boks done in LyX (LaTeX) I decided to enhance my "publishing". Since I need to write in DocBook, I was thrilled to find DocBookInContext package which enables to map from DocBook to ConTeXt. I prepared a small article in DocBook and converted it to PDF by: texexec --pdf file (I'm running SuSE 8.0 & teTeX). The problem is that I wanted to include some Croatian national characters in the DocBook file, but they are not shown in generated file. What should I do to be able to have both English & Croatian language in ConTeXt? (In LyX, I would simply use latin-2 encoding and write English & Croatian.) Usually documents in DocBook have Unicode encoding (UTF-8). What encoding has to be defined so that conversion DocBook -> ConTeXt will work properly? I also run texexec --make --language=hr,en hr Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Re: [NTG-context] Swedish in lang-ger.tex
by Hans Hagen 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

At 09:52 PM 12/5/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Well, in the generated text is should be "--" with a space before and >after. In >my _opinion_ the spaces should be unbreakable. i changed the --- into the german --'s Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] Swedish in lang-ger.tex
by Hans Hagen 06 Dec '02

06 Dec '02

At 08:57 PM 12/4/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Hi Hans, > >Some weeks ago, before I found this discussion forum, I sent you a mail about >Swedish conventions in ConTeXt. Simce I see that no changes have been made >in "lang-ger.tex" I repeat my comments here: actually, i did change it a while ago; but it probably went unnoticed because the beta link was wrong http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-tmf.zip >As you can see "leftquote", "leftquotation" and "datum" ought to be changed. >Also, in the Swedish language the symbol represented by "---" doesn't exist; >we only use "-" and "--". So I guess "leftsentence", "rightsentence", etc. >should be changed too. think so, what should we do? Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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