March 2005 - dev-context - NTG Mailing Lists

svg inclusion
by Hans Hagen 08 Apr '05

08 Apr '05

Hi, The last couple of weeks i've been working on - runtime graphic conversion (downsampling, whatever->pdf) - isolating pstopdf from teh example framework - some way of svg converion it's still a bit tricky to let this work together, but in the end ... also, a next step will be to replace texutil.tug by an xml alternative (i have that already for some time but it needs better integration) so ... patrick ... in order to get this working in the wiki (nice testbed) we need there: - ghostscript (>=8.50) - ruby (>=1.81) - imagemagick (>=6.2.0) - inkscape (>=0.41) I'd rather let users test it in the wiki because otherwise we get drowned in mails Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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modules
by Patrick Gundlach 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hi, before I go to bed (in 5 minutes), I'd like to announce a pre pre alpha preview of <http://modules.contextgarden.net>. Suggestions welcome. Happy Easter, Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

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[Fwd: [dev-context] modules]
by Taco Hoekwater 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

> Date: 25 Mar 2005 02:22:49 +0100 > From: Patrick Gundlach <patrick(a)gundla.ch> Dude, you need a social life! :-) > before I go to bed (in 5 minutes), I'd like to announce a pre pre > alpha preview of <http://modules.contextgarden.net>. Suggestions > welcome. Well done! I am impressed with the enormous speed you have implementing these things, so I am a bit scared to make comments. Still... I'm not sure how you handle versioning at the moment (it would be nice if the database/fs could store older versions of stuff as well), and it makes sense to allow/create downloads of "TDS-ed" zip files for easy installation. But it already looks very usable as it is now! Greetings, Taco

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TeXShow Web/XML
by Taco Hoekwater 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi Patrick, I am now working on a rewrite of the texshow perl script, and we still have to come up with an interface for the interface between the perl script and web version. For the immediate (and not so immediate) future, this will be just queries from texshow to the web using a GET url, I have no plans for an editting interface in the script (for now). How do you feel about this URL convention: <cgi>?interface=<interface>&previous=<unixtime> <cgi> == http://texshow.contextgarden.net/query.cgi <interface> == cont-en OR cont-nl OR .. <unixtime> == unix timestamp of the previous query from this particular instance of texshow And then the CGI returns an XML snippet containing all of the changed command definitions. Is that acceptable and doable? Greetings, Taco

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texfont
by Adam Lindsay 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi all, Last I heard, Wybo was re-writing texfont (thanks and apologies!) Seems like there are further changes I'd like to be able to make (handle afm + ttf, some Unicode handling) in the next few months. What's the status? cheers, adam

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Re: Moving to ConTeXt
by Patrick Gundlach 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi Gerben, > The problem is that some people like to use the p* fonts instead of > the u* fonts, which is what the type-akb typescript does; however > -welcome to the font mess- these p* files are not always packages in > distributions, They should, since they are part of LaTeX. The names (p*) of the 35 base fonts should not change. And I'd guess that the metrics of the corresponding tfm files don't change over the time. > or names change, or ... It all has to do with not wanting to ship a > few more tfm files i guess. Even worse: the metrics differ. This is > just one of the reasons why i always generate my own metrics > (texnansi-u* and such) The reference uplr8t Gerben came across is part of the berry typescript, which IMO should be removed from ConTeXt. It just confuses users. Patrick (We should move this discussion to dev-context)

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Extra paper sizes
by Taco Hoekwater 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Hi Hans, As discussed at EuroTeX %D here are some extra paper sizes %D ISO RA (raw A) sizes: \definepapersize [RA0] [\c!width=860mm,\c!height=1220mm] \definepapersize [RA1] [\c!width=610mm,\c!height=860mm] \definepapersize [RA2] [\c!width=430mm,\c!height=610mm] \definepapersize [RA3] [\c!width=305mm,\c!height=430mm] \definepapersize [RA4] [\c!width=215mm,\c!height=305mm] %D ISO SRA (supplementary raw A) sizes: \definepapersize [SRA0] [\c!width=900mm,\c!height=1280mm] \definepapersize [SRA1] [\c!width=640mm,\c!height=900mm] \definepapersize [SRA2] [\c!width=450mm,\c!height=640mm] \definepapersize [SRA3] [\c!width=320mm,\c!height=450mm] \definepapersize [SRA4] [\c!width=225mm,\c!height=320mm] %D Industry invention \definepapersize [A3plus] [\c!width=329mm,\c!height=483mm] %D for orthogonality \definepapersize [undersized] [\c!width=\dimexpr(\paperwidth-1.5cm), \c!height=\dimexpr(\paperheight-1.5cm)]

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.rme files
by Taco Hoekwater 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Hi Hans, Is there a compelling reason for this? I find this behaviour a little bit odd and potentially confusing. (the same is true for texexec.rme). Greetings, Taco -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Re: Palatino? -> bitmap fonts??? Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:07:09 +0100 From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Is there somebody else out there using Gerben's TeXstuff? (I know > there is at least one :-)) I can only guess. Or get a fresh > cont-sys.tex > (www.pragma-ade.com/system/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) > and play with that one. when no cont-sys.tex is found (or when you delete it) context will use cont-sys.rme instead Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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pragma mirror
by Patrick Gundlach 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Hello Hans and Taco (and others), I've set up a mirror at http://mirror.contextgarden.net of pragma-ade.com. Is there anything that refrains me from doing so? Currently it syncs every 6 hours. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

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ExecWrapper.pm
by Taco Hoekwater 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi, Inspired by (but not borrowed from) J.Fine, this is ExecWrapper.pm, a perl module that runs external programs through a user-supplied stdin/stdout filter. Usage should be clear from the example program, but I intend to add some more documentation later (as well as an extension/demo program that mimics QaTeX). Greetings, Taco

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