From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14778 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Not seeing the wood because of so many trees Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:36:50 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040220093552.01c763e8@server-1> References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077272207 8637 80.91.224.253 (20 Feb 2004 10:16:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:16:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Fri Feb 20 11:16:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Au7i2-0003ih-00 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:16:38 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F042610B31; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:14:45 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA14810B2E for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:13:44 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.10/SQL-8.12.10-1/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i1KAFSMg004207 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:15:29 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 5647B2F3DE; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:15:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C09A2F3DB for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:15:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: Original-References: X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira Milter 1.0.6; VAE 6.24.0.4; VDF 6.24.0.11 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:14778 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14778 At 09:17 17/02/2004, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote: >Sorry for going back to an older thread, but I don't think the question >was answered properly. Alexander Klink wanted to know how to typeset "{" >and "}". Suggestions were "\type|{| and \type|}|" or "$\{$ and $\}$". >Neither of which is satisfactory, because it will typeset them either in >typewriter or in math font. We had a discussion about similar questions a >while ago. I still think we should have "\{" and "\}" for >this kind of thing. As long as this isn't available, I see no better >solution than "\getglyph{Serif}{123}" and "\getglyph{Serif}{125}" vel. >sim. For those of us working in the humanities, these curly braces are >sometimes necessary (e.g., in critical editions), and having them in >typewriter or math fonts isn't acceptable. So may I continue my rally for >\{ etc.? The problem is that the cmr fonts are not that complete. Once we switch to the lmr fonts, this problem will disappear (sincethen we can use other encoding vectors) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------