Module for ptj

Module for ptj

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Hi Aditya,

I've just played some with your module for the PracTeX journal. This  
is very nice to have, I'm absolutely thrilled! When I wrote for them,  
I just relied on a self-cooked style, but yours looks much closer to  
the official LaTeX template. Just two or three very small remarks:

1. You should mention somewhere that your module necessitates  
installing the texgyre fonts (at least pagella) + the map files. They  
don't come with a normal ConTeXt installation (yet).

2. I haven't really looke into the texgyre fonts yet, but is it  
possible to make mediaeval numbers the default? Given that they are  
used for page and section numbers, that would make sense, IMHO.

3. The line endings in lines 226 and 227 need to be escaped;  
otherwise, you'll get a spurious space in front of the abstract  
buffer (visible in output in demo mode).

Thanks so much for providing this module; I'll certainly use it if I  
write anything for PTJ again!

Best

Thomas

Re: Module for ptj

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> I've just played some with your module for the PracTeX journal. This
> is very nice to have, I'm absolutely thrilled! When I wrote for them,
> I just relied on a self-cooked style, but yours looks much closer to
> the official LaTeX template. Just two or three very small remarks:
>
> 1. You should mention somewhere that your module necessitates
> installing the texgyre fonts (at least pagella) + the map files. They
> don't come with a normal ConTeXt installation (yet).

Ah, I just assumed that everybody would have downloaded TeXGyre fonts 
by now :) I will add a note and the download instructions in the 
documentation.

> 2. I haven't really looke into the texgyre fonts yet, but is it
> possible to make mediaeval numbers the default? Given that they are
> used for page and section numbers, that would make sense, IMHO.

I do not know how to do that (for any font). If you can point me to 
some documentation or example on setting up oldstyle numbers for some 
fonts, I will experiment with it to see if it can be enabled by 
default for PracTeX Journal.

> 3. The line endings in lines 226 and 227 need to be escaped;
> otherwise, you'll get a spurious space in front of the abstract
> buffer (visible in output in demo mode).

Ah, so that was where the space was coming from. I'll correct it. I 
still do not understand when a line in a \def should end in a % and 
when it is alright to omit it.

> Thanks so much for providing this module; I'll certainly use it if I
> write anything for PTJ again!

I hope you find the time to write something more. I really enjoyed 
your previous articles.

Aditya