August 2005 - dev-context - NTG Mailing Lists

kpse
by Hans Hagen 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Hi, The latest distribution has an experimental ruby kpse class in kpsefast.rb (expects updates -). As far as i can measure it's not slower than native kpse and once loaded in a ruby prog it's faster of than reinvoking kpse each time; it can (optionaly) dump the database in a home/temp path which halves loading time. I will probably use this mechanism in the coming texexec/texutil (maybe also in texmfstart). The associated variant of kpsewhich is 'tmftools' (no help yet). Apart from basic kpsewhich functionality it will harbor more tree tools. texmfstart tfmtools --analyze --root=/whatever/tex texmfstart tfmtools --analyze --root=/whatever/tex --trees=texmf,texmf-local can be very instructive on duplicate files on your machine and point you to problems. It has a --delete option which can be used as follows texmfstart tfmtools --analyze --root=/whatever/tex --delete "texmf-local/fonts/.*/lm" this will remove dups in texmf-local (to be sure, one needs to pass --force as well) 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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lua
by Hans Hagen 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi Hartmut, think of this: rewrite the map file mess in lua -) pseudo coded: \lua { <open file> <while not eof> <read and interpret line> pdftex.mapline(...) <end> <close file> } 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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lua
by Hans Hagen 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Hi, Recently i've started looking into Lua, a language meant for embedding in programs. It has a small footprint, and by reading themanukl i get the impression that it's a pretty well designed and clever language. So (after playing with lua and scite, which has it embedded) i started wondering about including lua in pdftex. Of course i'm dependent on others but i'm curious abotu wat members of this list think of it. It has quite a clever function model. Especially because it has a small footprint (some 100-150 k) it would add a lot to pdftex but at little cost. think of on the one hand: \dimen0=\lua{tex.todimen(tex.thedimen(0)+tex.thedimen(2)} kind of things, or \setbox2=\hbox to \lua{tex.todimen(somevar)} {\lua{tex.text("abcde")}} and alike. Of course the interface is to be determined, but a startingpoint can be access to box dimensions and registers and the ability to pipe text (strings) back into teh tex inpt stream. whatdoyouthink ... 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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Re: lua
by Thanh Han The 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:53:38PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > > Recently i've started looking into Lua, a language meant for embedding > in programs. It has a small footprint, and by reading themanukl i get > the impression that it's a pretty well designed and clever language. So > (after playing with lua and scite, which has it embedded) i started > wondering about including lua in pdftex. Of course i'm dependent on > others but i'm curious abotu wat members of this list think of it. It > has quite a clever function model. Especially because it has a small > footprint (some 100-150 k) it would add a lot to pdftex but at little cost. > > think of on the one hand: > > \dimen0=\lua{tex.todimen(tex.thedimen(0)+tex.thedimen(2)} > > kind of things, or > > \setbox2=\hbox to \lua{tex.todimen(somevar)} > {\lua{tex.text("abcde")}} > > and alike. Of course the interface is to be determined, but a > startingpoint can be access to box dimensions and registers and the > ability to pipe text (strings) back into teh tex inpt stream. > > whatdoyouthink ... sounds interesting. I did a quick search on google to learn more on this, and I like more the idea. Lua seems to be quite suitable for this purpose: small, fast, simple syntax. Having it embedded certainly makes a lot of fun. Who will give it a try? :) Thanh

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Re: Cron <tex@server> /var/www/aanhet.net/context/bin/cron/context-mirror
by Taco Hoekwater 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi Hans, Cron Daemon wrote: > context/current/cont-tmf.zip This zip contains a whole series of extra map files in two new subdirs of map/pdftex/context: fonts/map/pdftex/context/new/*.map fonts/map/pdftex/context/old/psclean.map fonts/map/pdftex/context/old/texnansi-bh-lucida.map as well as: fonts/map/pdftex/context/conbinemap.rb I just want to verify that that is intentional. Taco

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