From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10814 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: two questions Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 18:35:28 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030206183256.0380ec00@server-1> References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044552960 18305 80.91.224.249 (6 Feb 2003 17:36:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gpwL-0004kX-00 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 18:35:57 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D76E310BAE; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:37:57 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1CE10B49 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:36:05 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-ade.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h16HZwCV004540 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:35:58 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-ade.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h16Ha2gg013894 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:36:02 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:10814 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10814 At 07:13 PM 2/6/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hello All, > >After a number of years working with "classical" TeX/LaTeX I have been >trying out ConTeXt. I like the structured approach and the control it gives >the user and I have been trying it out on some of my working documents. > >Two questions: > >1. On writing tables in LaTeX, there is an option p{ some length } that > enables paragraph mode for one or more of the table's column entries. Is > there something equivalent in ConTeXt? I don't seem to be able to find > it in the manual. \starttable and \starttabulate both accept p(3cm) and alike; in tabulate, if you don't specify the width, it will be automatically calculated >2. My native language is Greek and I would like to have the capability to > write documents in this language. There does not seem to be support for > it in ConTeXt. Are there any directions, notes, how-to's, etc. around, > for how to add support for an additional language in ConTeXt? I'd like to > give it a try. it's not that complicated to implement: (1) what fonts (2) what encoding (3) what labels i have to implement greek anyway (need it for projects), so ...; last time i looked into it, i became puzzled by the many encodings; so, do you have infoin (1) and (2) to start with? 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------