From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1629 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Page break in columns Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 16:35:03 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000203163503.01619100@pop.wxs.nl> References: <3.0.6.32.20000203135010.008b0780@pop.wxs.nl> <200001311752.CAA00706@yha.att.ne.jp> <3.0.6.32.20000203135010.008b0780@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392450 1928 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:00:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:00:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hans Hagen , Kei Furuuchi , "Context" Original-To: Kei Furuuchi In-Reply-To: <14489.38090.977240.849477@133.pool9.yokohama.att.ne.jp> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1629 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1629 At 11:46 PM 2/3/2000 +0900, Kei Furuuchi wrote: >Hans Hagen writes: > > >Also I noticed that as far as mixing languages german as applied in > > >format "con-en" is sporadicly changed between roman font and gothic or > > >bold font. I convert german into tex format by using "cstocs" perl > > >script from latin1, I believe. > > > > The experts in german and fonts are on the context mailing list. This > > 'misfeature' does not sound familiar to me, but maybe they know. I see. In ConTeXt \ss is used to switch to sans serif. Use \SS instead. Also, in de-mode, you can say things like "u and "s to get them fast. Less portable, but useful when a language has so many "'s (in polish it's /z and so). Maybe \es would be a nice alternative? What do the germans on this list think of it? Some day I make a \sf and let users choose -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------