Euro

Euro

[Frans Goddijn]

On
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/english/services/software/latex/localtex/eurosymbol
.html
there's a brief explanation of the way the Euro can be implemented in LaTeX.
I got the big zipfile from
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/english/services/software/latex/localtex/zipped/eur
osymbol.zip
and there's a whole bunch of files in there. Quite confusing to start with
but not surprising as there are several Euro packages shrinkwrapped into one
bag.
The AFM/PFB files need to be retrieved from yet another address:
www.adobe.com/type/eurofont.html

One of the packages is more purist and provides the sans serif Eurosign
which still changes along to its environment into normal, bold and
(bold-)italic like it should. The other one (europs.sty also morphs into a
serif symbol, a typewriter symbol et cetera which I like better.

A while ago I recall there was some discussion about the possible ways
someone could maybe develop a Euro solution for ConTeXt.

I wonder: is this simple to implement in ConTeXt today (for the clever guys
out here) since these Adobe files are there up for grabs anyway?

Groet,

Frans

ConTeXt under Omega

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

Dear friends,

After an exchange with Giuseppe Bilotta on CTT,  I am interested in trying out ConTeXt with Omega. How does one install the ConTeXt format under Omega? I know that the ConTeXt is compiled 
with pdf-e-TeX, and that ConTeXt has hooks into features specific to that format. My situation is that I do a lot of multilingual typesetting under Omega using features not available in pdf-e-TeX. I am 
would like to test the claim of ConTeXt's improved typesetting functionality over LaTeX in a multilingual context (mainly scholarly Arabic). I've looked at the install manual and did a standard install of 
ConTeXt as well, but it's not clear to me exactly how to proceed to compile it under Omega 1.15. Has anyone tried ConTeXt-Omega before? Any reports?

Also:
1. While Omega itself will not support the pdfTeX and e-TeX extensions of ConTeXt, will dvipdfm at least support some of the pdf-related stuff in ConTeXt?

2. R there any documents which give a good comparison and contrast of LaTeX vs. ConTeXt? (But I thnk Giuseppe Bilotta 4 the comments he made on CTT)

3. I am totally new here & have never tried ConTeXt before, nor do I have much experience with iniTeX (since formats r usually loaded during installation of TeX) and am interested in any comments. 
how-to's, or suggestions any of u may have in getting this to work.

Thnx in advance and best wishes
Idris

Re: ConTeXt under Omega

[Hans Hagen]

At 06:26 PM 3/12/2002 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>Dear friends,
>
>After an exchange with Giuseppe Bilotta on CTT,  I am interested in trying 
>out ConTeXt with Omega. How does one install the ConTeXt format under 
>Omega? I know that the ConTeXt is compiled
>with pdf-e-TeX, and that ConTeXt has hooks into features specific to that 
>format. My situation is that I do a lot of multilingual typesetting under 
>Omega using features not available in pdf-e-TeX. I am
>would like to test the claim of ConTeXt's improved typesetting 
>functionality over LaTeX in a multilingual context (mainly scholarly 
>Arabic). I've looked at the install manual and did a standard install of
>ConTeXt as well, but it's not clear to me exactly how to proceed to 
>compile it under Omega 1.15. Has anyone tried ConTeXt-Omega before? Any 
>reports?
>
>Also:
>1. While Omega itself will not support the pdfTeX and e-TeX extensions of 
>ConTeXt, will dvipdfm at least support some of the pdf-related stuff in 
>ConTeXt?

texexec --make --alone --tex=omega en

should do the job; i just tested this and found out that omega needs twice 
as much main mem so you may need to increse the values in texmf.cnf)

Then a simple file

\starttext
   does it work
\stoptext

with

texexec --tex=omega thisfile

should work

Hans
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Re: ConTeXt under Omega

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

3/13/02 3:52:14 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

>texexec --make --alone --tex=omega en

Thanks! I got it working. I'm reading the manual and I have a couple of questions:

I see that NFSS is not part of ConTeXt, but I don't quite get the new scheme. How do I convert

\fontfamily{mtnaskhi}\fontsize{14}{28}\selectfont

to ConTeXt syntax? I tried

\setupbodyfont{mtnaskh,14pt}

but cmr was still invoked. Is there an equivalent to *.fd files in ConTeXt? How do I set up a font family? In my case mtnaskhi is a family and mtnaskh is an OVF within that family

Another question: Is the article on Plain, LaTeX and ConTeX(t)  by Wietse Dol en Erik Frambach available on line anywhere (thnx 2 Karel 4 the reference)?

Thnx again & Best wishes
Idris

Re: ConTeXt under Omega

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

3/13/02 12:24:45 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@attbi.com> wrote:

>Another question: Is the article on Plain, LaTeX and ConTeX(t)  by Wietse Dol en Erik Frambach available on line anywhere (thnx 2 Karel 4 the reference)?

I found the book: http://4tex.ntg.nl/4tex5/manual/.

Will a print or printable copy ever be available again (a la Eijkhout)?

Best wishes
Idris

Re: ConTeXt under Omega

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:24 PM 3/13/2002 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>3/13/02 3:52:14 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> >texexec --make --alone --tex=omega en
>
>Thanks! I got it working. I'm reading the manual and I have a couple of 
>questions:
>
>I see that NFSS is not part of ConTeXt, but I don't quite get the new 
>scheme. How do I convert
>
>\fontfamily{mtnaskhi}\fontsize{14}{28}\selectfont
>
>to ConTeXt syntax? I tried
>
>\setupbodyfont{mtnaskh,14pt}

see font manual (btw, this command uses [] instead of {})

Hans
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Re: Euro

[Hans Hagen]

At 09:57 PM 3/12/2002 +0100, you wrote:

>I wonder: is this simple to implement in ConTeXt today (for the clever guys
>out here) since these Adobe files are there up for grabs anyway?

you can add (uncomment) in cont-sys.tex:

adobe ones: \usesymbols[eur]

vogel one: \usesymbolset[mvs]

with respect to the adobe ones, you need to rename the funny adobe number 
names to more meaningful ones (see symb-eur.tex)

[the symbols scale with the fonts, and the adobe euros with the font style too]

Hans

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Re: Euro

[Frans Goddijn]

> you can add (uncomment) in cont-sys.tex:
> adobe ones: \usesymbols[eur]
> vogel one: \usesymbolset[mvs]

I have one cont-sys.* nin \tex\context\base but it doesn't have that entry,
just:

%%%%%%
% Enabling \CONTEXT\ navigation symbols as well as \euro's.
\usesymbols [nav,mvs]
\setupsymbolset [navigation 1] % not that clever
\setupinteraction [\c!symboolset=navigation 1]
%%%%%%

So I'll search for another more complete copy...

Groet!

Frans