From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4650 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: documentation of presentation modules? Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:01:54 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010511180154.016ff100@server-1> References: <200105111359.PAA14401@sol.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395297 27461 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:48:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Patrick Gundlach In-Reply-To: <200105111359.PAA14401@sol.cs.uni-dortmund.de> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4650 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4650 At 03:59 PM 5/11/01 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: >Hi there, > >1) is there any documentation about the presentation styles? in the styles and there is also a doc at our site [if i'm right] >2) what use is the %D stuff in all the modules? Is there any way >to get the documentation out of these modules? texexec --modu --pdf somefile will give you an annotated source [some modules have quite detailed examples]. >3) (new beta) using it without extended mode (etex) did not seem >to work because of some \ifcsname uses. don't ask me where, I >have to look it up again. i already repaired that but cannot upload a new beta because i'm in the middle of merging new otr code into the core [and splitting main-*.tex files in the process. This means that the next release will be a major update: additional encoding support, a whole new font layer [which permits quick mixing of any combinations of typefaces plus more] and a new (additional) column mechanism to start with. As a bonus that versions runs upto 40% faster on complicated documents [with backgrounds, menus and alike] and i expect much more speed gain when i clean up the still messy old modules [all relatively new stuff is optimized to the max already]. Ah, and there will also be more math support (among which mixed math char sets). >4) how do I use the hz-like stretching/shrinking with the 'new' font >mechanism? not yet there, but will come >5) why are there so many encodings around :-> ? because we love accents and funny characters, but for most people texnansi or ec will do. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------