From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25933 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Dense encoding, part II Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:09:23 +0100 Message-ID: <43EF1763.6080908@elvenkind.com> References: <6faad9f00601230737q5a3a248ala84953f04bbdede1@mail.gmail.com> <43D4FC81.4030106@wxs.nl> <43E640B7.7060007@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <6faad9f00602100759w3e217c7avcaa50222ebcb6e2e@mail.gmail.com> <43ECC0EE.2030500@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <6faad9f00602101001n10d30e7anb8fbadf8aeec3c3a@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139742568 7423 80.91.229.2 (12 Feb 2006 11:09:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Feb 12 12:09:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8F6b-0007no-QR for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:09:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1427E127A7; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:09:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30024-07; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:09:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D643127A0; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:09:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2213127A0 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:09:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30082-04 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:09:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id F2C511277B for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:09:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:58960 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1F8F6R-0001A8-A0 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:09:15 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00602101001n10d30e7anb8fbadf8aeec3c3a@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:25933 Archived-At: Hi, Here is my two cents: I agree with Mojca that lots of accents (both uppercase and lowercase) would be nice to have, just in case. I would really like to see the ascii versions of the keyboard symbols: circumflex, doublequote and tilde etc. (Texnansi normally has a sort of orphaned accent instead of the ascii symbol, which is not all that usable) Then there are straightforward symbols like copyright, registered and trademark; The currencies (at least euro, dollar, pound, yen, but preferably many more) A set of itemization bullets and dashes (some fonts have square ones) The 'text-style' calculus operations like multiply and divide, plus and minus, plusminus, arrowleft and arrow right, text fractions. I guess there are still missing punctuation characters as well. Also, as many units and symbols that can appear in running text as possible please. centigrade and perthousan, but also some greek letters like micro, Ohm, alpha & beta (biology), gamma (radiology). These symbols are normally considered part of the text, so they should not depend on math mode. For example, if your write \beta-blocker, you want the \beta to be bold sans-serif inside a bold sans-serif section head. Greetings, Taco