From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5588 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Kuhlmann Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Questions/Comments Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:57:08 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20010910185708.L14168@localhost> Reply-To: Marco Kuhlmann NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396169 2889 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:02:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5588 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5588 Hello! I am currently preparing my first major document with ConTeXt, and just have to admit my astonishment about the great work that lies behind the system. I am so fanatic about it, that I dare to state some questions and comments for improvement. Please do not mind if these issues have been raised before; I have not been subscribed to the mailing list for a long time. - The \setuppagenumbering command should provide a "strut" option to correctly cater for oldstyle digits: If no strut is inserted, the digits "dance" from page to page. - Protruding information should be provided for all the different quotation marks. (I understand that support for protrusion is in an early state of development.) - Is there a way to define custom itemisations? I mean, can one define e.g. a enumeration inparaenum which transforms We distinguish the following classes of problems: \startinparaenum \item neglectable problems, \item easy problems, \item hard problems, \item interesting problems. \stopinparaenum into We distinguish the following classes of problems: (a) neglectable problems, (b) easy problems, (c) hard problems, (d) interesting problems. - When typesetting capitals (like in acronyms), one would like to avoid "screaming" by decreasing the font size a little -- not much, just one point or so. Is there a way to switch to, say, a font with 90% the size of the current bodyfont? I could then write a macro \versal{} for my purposes. - In German, there are a lot of abbreviations that end with a colon, like usw. (und so weiter) etc. What is the correct way to define a synonym \USW which inserts the trailing colon only if no second colon is immediately following? I fiddled with \doifnextcharelse, but were not successful. - I suggest that the \digits mechanism should not trigger math mode automatically: In my document, I want to use oldstyle figures in text mode, while in math mode, upright figures shall appear. (PS. The \digitpowerseperator macro used in supp-num.tex should be named \digitpowerseparator, I guess.) - Do you think that the \digits mechanism can be generalised to cater for phone numbers, bank account numbers, postal codes, etc.? The correct typography for these is language dependent, as well, so it seems to be plausible to merge the mechanisms. Please pardon this extensive mail; I just got intoxicated with the ConTeXt fever and try to shorten the time from me moving from LaTeX to ConTeXt to a minimum, so more might come to my mind. :-) Best regards, Marco -- Marco Kuhlmann marco.kuhlmann@gmx.net