November 2006 - dev-context - NTG Mailing Lists

texexec --scale=2 buglet (PATCH)
by Sanjoy Mahajan 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

In documenting as many texexec switches as I can find, I ran across this buglet: $ texexec --pages=1 --pdfcopy --scale=2 xyz.pdf ... ! Number too big. \@@efscale ->2222222222 22222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222... The culprit is line 431 of texexec.rb (v6.2.0): scale = (scale * 1000).to_i if scale.to_i < 10 where the (scale * 1000) should be (scale.to_i * 1000), otherwise ruby is doing like Python: with scale as a string, the * 1000 replicates it 1000 times! While looking at the code, I wondered about the next few lines: f << "\\definepapersize\n" f << " [copy]\n" f << " [width=\\figurewidth,\n" f << " height=\\figureheight]\n" Shouldn't the width be \\figurewidth * (scale/1000), and the same idea for height? Otherwise scale=2000 will expand the figures beyond the page size. -Sanjoy `Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.' (John Lennon)

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texexec vs texmfstart texexec.rb
by Sanjoy Mahajan 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

I'm just checking over the context man pages (which Hans sent me off list) that will go into the next TeXLive. The main change since the old (Perl) days is that texexec is now not a standalone program. Rather, one calls it using texmfstart. So people will be confused when they see a man page for texexec but find no executable with the same name. Similarly, there's a man page for texmfstart but no texmfstart executable. Instead it's a ruby script texmfstart.rb. So I think that the default installation should supply the direct executables. Here's what I do on Linux (no idea whether any of the above or below applies to Windows). For texmfstart: #!/bin/sh ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` "$@" For texexec: #!/bin/sh texmfstart texexec.rb "$@" Both are in ~/bin but ideally for TeXlive they would go to /usr/bin (or wherever TeXlive puts things). -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.

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Gyre enhancements
by Adam Lindsay 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

The attached file is intended to be a drop-in-replacement for type-gyr. I added (sc/osf) variant support for termes/pagella/bonum (and only under those names, not the normal "Adobe" names). Cheers, adam

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Re: [dev-context] dev-context post from mgb@yosemite.net requires approval
by Taco Hoekwater 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi, This reminds me: Hans, can you set the maximum post size for dev-context a bit higher? 40k is so small that the simplest things on this list need to be approved. Taco dev-context-owner(a)ntg.nl wrote: > As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the > following mailing list posting: > > List: dev-context(a)ntg.nl > From: mgb(a)yosemite.net > Subject: Register page number collapse patch for 2006/11/14 beta > Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list > > At your convenience, visit: > > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/admindb/dev-context > > to approve or deny the request. >

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Register page number collapse patch
by Mike Bird 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Greetings, Attached please find a small patch against the Nov 5th beta which fixes a few bugs in register page number compression. --Mike Bird

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<module authors> Contextgarden modules and TeXLive deadline
by Taco Hoekwater 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi all, Hans Hagen wrote: >> > > maybe at least have a release before tex live gets frozen ... 20/11 in reply to Mojca. In fact, this is true for all context modules currently in the garden or still on your harddisks only: if you want your module to be on the next TeXLive / TeX Collection, please make sure that: * your module uses a TeX Directory Structure (TDS) compliant disk layout (ask for help if you don't know how to arrange that) * the to-be-used version of it is on the third party section of http://modules.contextgarden.net on November 18th, no later (ask for help if you don't know how to arrange that) * there is some documentation, preferably with TeX sources, included * the license is filled in, and compatible with TeXLive / TeX Collection (LPPL|GPL|BSD|PD are all fine) * email me !* The more ConTeXt stuff we have on TeXLive, the more useful TeXLive will be for other ConTeXt users, so please consider spending a bit of effort on this in the coming week ! Greetings, Taco *(unless your module is already included in cont-ext.zip)

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