September 2008 - dev-context - NTG Mailing Lists

(fwd) Bug#480725: mptopdf does not work with beginfig(-1)
by Norbert Preining 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

forwarded 480725 dev-context(a)ntg.nl thanks Dear Hans, dear Taco, on the Debian side we got the attached bug report together with a patch for mptopdf.pl. Can you comment on it, or consider it for inclusion? Thanks and all the best Norbert Please leave 480725(a)bugs.debian.org on the Cc list, thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DARENTH (n.) Measure = 0.0000176 mg. Defined as that amount of margarine capable of covering one hundred slices of bread to the depth of one molecule. This is the legal maximum allowed in sandwich bars in Greater London. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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Norwegian in ConTeXt (a delayed answer)
by Mojca Miklavec 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Mojca/Hans/Mojca/Hans/Mojca wrote: >>>> And we need to improve support for "Norwegian" - the poor user asked >>>> for it more than one year ago. >>>> >>> anyhow, norwegian ... the poor user is not that poor apart from 3 missing hyphenation exceptions -) >> >> No, he also sent translations for all the labels for Nynorsk that have >> never been included into ConTeXt, and language tags nn & nb have not >> been added either. > > hm, must have lost that [So I send this to the mailing list before a private conversation is lost again] It's still there: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context.devel/349/ The point we stopped at was: you wanted to keep no and derive nn & nb from it, but it stopped at hyphenation patterns somewhere (they were submitted to CTAN, but notheng has happened afterwards), and at the fact that nobody came up with a suggestion of how to derive the languages from each other. It really doesn't hurt if we define two languages nb and nn (such as there are multiple languages for Czech/Slovak, Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian), and "remove" no, in the sense that no can be left as a synonym to nb only. Specifically: ------------- Hans F. Nordhaug: > I think "no" should be deprecated and giving a (useful) warning/error - > telling people to switch to "nb". ------------- Karl: To sum up, we need the following language codes: nb and nn. And we need the following mappings: bokmal --> nb bokmål --> nb (if possible) nynorsk --> nn norsk --> nb (with warning) norwegian --> nb (with warning) ------------- Mojca: You also need to ask Hans how to provide a "'no' is not allowed language switch" warning or error. What are you planning to do with the "norwegian" interface? Hans: why is "Norwegian" currently not listed in mult-sys.tex? Because only languages which need something different than "ec" need to be listed there or is there some other reason? Hans, you pointed out the chineese module ... but from what I can see there, one needs to include the module explicitely and ConTeXt users are pampered too much ;) (i.e. everything should happen automatically) - is there a way to say something like this? \startlanguage[nn] \setupitemize[stopper=] \definesymbol[1][\endash] \stoplanguage ------------- Karl/Mojca/Karl: >> leftquotation=\leftguillemot, >> rightquotation=\rightguillemot, > >Are the old values wrong or just an alternative? Well, there are no very strict rules in Norwegian; you *can* use every possible quotation mark. But the guillemots are certainly the preferred ones for (outer) quotations. ------------- Karl: My suggestion is \definesymbol[1][{\symbol[dash]}] \definesymbol[2][{\symbol[star]}] \definesymbol[3][{\symbol[circle]}] \definesymbol[4][{\symbol[bullet]}] \definesymbol[5][{\symbol[triangle]}] and leave levels 6+ at their defaults. Norwegian people, feel free to comment on this. :) ------------- Mojca: so it would really make sense to enable something like \startlanguagespecifics[nb] \setupitemize[stopper=] \definesymbol[1][{\symbol[dash]}] \definesymbol[2][{\symbol[star]}] \definesymbol[3][{\symbol[circle]}] \definesymbol[4][{\symbol[bullet]}] \definesymbol[5][{\symbol[triangle]}] \stoplanguagespecifics Perhaps that exists already, but I don't know how to do it. For Slovenian and Hungarian, the same "problem" exists. Now I use \def\placedotafter#1{#1.} \setuphead[section][numbercommand=\placedotafter] although it would be more clean if one could have something similar to \startlanguagespecifics[sl] \setupheads[stopper=.] \stoplanguagespecifics in default settings once that will be implemented. ------------- Karl: \setupheadtext [\s!nb] [\v!content=Innhold] \setupheadtext [\s!nn] [\v!content=Innhald] \setupheadtext [\s!nb] [\v!tables=Tabeller] \setupheadtext [\s!nn] [\v!tables=Tabellar] \setupheadtext [\s!nb] [\v!figures=Figurer] \setupheadtext [\s!nn] [\v!figures=Figurar] \setupheadtext [\s!nb] [\v!graphics=Bilde] \setupheadtext [\s!nn] [\v!graphics=Bilete] \setupheadtext [\s!nb] [\v!intermezzi=Intermesso] \setupheadtext [\s!nn] [\v!intermezzi=Intermesso] \setupheadtext [\s!nb] [\v!index=Register] \setupheadtext [\s!nn] [\v!index=Register] \setupheadtext [\s!nb] [\v!abbreviations=Forkortelser] \setupheadtext [\s!nn] [\v!abbreviations=Forkortingar] \setupheadtext [\s!nb] [\v!logos=Logoer] \setupheadtext [\s!nn] [\v!logos=Logoar] \setupheadtext [\s!nb] [\v!units=Enheter] \setupheadtext [\s!nn] [\v!units=Einingar] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!table=Tabell ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!table=Tabell ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!figure=Figur ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!figure=Figur ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!intermezzo=Intermesso ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!intermezzo=Intermesso ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!graphic=Bilde ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!graphic=Bilete ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!subsubsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!subsubsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!appendix=] % Tillegg \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!appendix=] % Tillegg \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!part=Del] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!part=Del] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!line=linje ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!line=linje ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!lines=linjer ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!lines=linjer ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!january=januar] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!february=februar] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!march=mars] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!april=april] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!may=mai] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!june=juni] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!july=juli] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!august=august] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!september=september] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!october=oktober] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!november=november] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!december=desember] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!january=januar] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!february=februar] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!march=mars] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!april=april] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!may=mai] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!june=juni] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!july=juli] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!august=august] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!september=september] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!october=oktober] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!november=november] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!december=desember] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!sunday=s\ostroke ndag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!monday=mandag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!tuesday=tirsdag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!wednesday=onsdag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!thursday=torsdag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!friday=fredag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!saturday=l\ostroke rdag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!sunday=sundag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!monday=m\aring ndag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!tuesday=tysdag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!wednesday=onsdag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!thursday=torsdag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!friday=fredag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!saturday=laurdag] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!page=side ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!atpage=p\aring\ side ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!hencefore=som vist over] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!hereafter=som vist under] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!see=se ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!page=side ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!atpage=p\aring\ side ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!hencefore=som vist over] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!hereafter=som vist under] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!see=sj\aring\ ] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!january :\s!mnem=jan.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!february :\s!mnem=feb.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!march :\s!mnem=mars] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!april :\s!mnem=april] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!may :\s!mnem=mai] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!june :\s!mnem=juni] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!july :\s!mnem=juli] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!august :\s!mnem=aug.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!september:\s!mnem=sep.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!october :\s!mnem=okt.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!november :\s!mnem=nov.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nb] [\v!december :\s!mnem=des.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!january :\s!mnem=jan.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!february :\s!mnem=feb.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!march :\s!mnem=mars] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!april :\s!mnem=april] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!may :\s!mnem=mai] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!june :\s!mnem=juni] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!july :\s!mnem=juli] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!august :\s!mnem=aug.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!september:\s!mnem=sep.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!october :\s!mnem=okt.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!november :\s!mnem=nov.] \setuplabeltext [\s!nn] [\v!december :\s!mnem=des.] ------------------ Karl: \installlanguage [nn] [spacing=packed, lefthyphenmin=2, righthyphenmin=2, leftsentence=---, rightsentence=---, leftsubsentence=---, rightsubsentence=---, leftquote=\upperleftsinglesixquote, rightquote=\upperrightsingleninequote, leftquotation=\leftguillemot, rightquotation=\rightguillemot, date={day,{.},\ ,month,\ ,year}, state=stop] This is for Norwegian Nynorsk ('nn'), but the same setup is used for Norwegian Bokmål (the values used for 'day' differ, though -- see below). ------------------ Mojca

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Luatex beta 0.30.0 released
by Taco Hoekwater 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi all, I have just uploaded the archives for luatex 0.30.0. This release matches SVN revision #1521. New features: * Readable \tex internal params that are counts, attrs, or dimens are now returned as numbers instead of strings, and skips as node objects. Read-write access to tex's skip registers added: tex.skip[0] etc. * new callback: 'linebreak_callback' to replace the internal paragraph breaking code * the tex table now supports more readable 'convert' values: tex.fontname, tex.pdffontname, tex.pdffontobjnum, tex.pdffontsize, tex.uniformdeviate, tex.number, tex.romannumeral, tex.pdfpageref, tex.pdfxformname (each takes a number as argument) * new readable parameter: tex.fontidentifier(number) returns the \csname associated with that font id * luatex now outputs \FONT<nr> instead of \^^@ in Overfull/Underfull messages if the font's id text is zero (like for expanded fonts) (#77) * luatex --version is split into --version and --credits * There is now (again) an svn revision number in luatex --version (#91) * Add support for more read-only internal access from lua: tex.lastpenalty, tex.lastkern, tex.lastskip, tex.lastnodetype, tex.inputlineno, tex.badness, tex.pdftexversion, tex.pdflastobj, tex.pdflastxform, tex.pdflastximage, tex.pdflastximagepages, tex.pdflastannot, tex.pdflastxpos, tex.pdflastypos, tex.pdfrandomseed, tex.pdflastlink, tex.luatexversion, tex.Alephversion, tex.Omegaversion, tex.Alephminorversion, tex.Omegaminorversion, tex.eTeXminorversion, tex.eTeXversion, tex.currentgrouplevel, tex.currentgrouptype, tex.currentiflevel, tex.currentiftype, tex.currentifbranch, tex.pdflastximagecolordepth (#81) * the old --src-specials are replaced by --synctex (#63) * the \expanded primitive is backported from pdftex 1.50 (#43) * luatex now comes with libpng 1.2.32 * experimental: tex.definefont(string, number) associates a csname string with a font id number Bugs fixed compared to 0.29.0: * dashes were exported wrongly by MPlib * multi-item \discretionaries were broken in various ways (#78, mailinglist) * read_font_info was sometimes called recursively from lua-loaded virtual fonts * do_vf was sometimes called on lua-loaded fonts that where already known to be virtual * trailing junk in tfm files is now ignored (needed for ecrm fonts) * pdf_ignored_dimen was initialized too late, breaking \prevdepth handling and causing output lines to overlap eachother (#72) * pdf.immediateobj() had a printf-related bug * the fontname terminal logging is fixed for strange font file names * lua tex array assignments now listen to the globaldefs setting (tex.count[0] etc) (#92,partial) * \parshape was broken (#70) * there is no longer a ".tex" extension forced on very input file (#74) * eof() for mapfiles was true one byte too soon (#76) * out of range \lefthyphenmin and \righthyphenmin settings now actually disable hyphenation (#90) * tex.unset_attribute() looked too far ahead when a to-be-unset attribute id not only did not exist in the node, but was also higher than the highest set attribute on the node. (#65) * the parameters attr and page_name of read_image() were swapped (this broke \pdfimage with attributes) * tex filenames with spaces in them on the command line are now allowed again (#30) * sometimes pfb fonts were included multiple times without valid reason (#29) * some parts of the pdftex 1.40.9 PNG transparancy hack were still present and caused transparant png handling to fail * \localinterlinepenalty and \localbrokenpenalty were broken * special case catcode tables are now handled better (#23) * the handling of missing .notdef charstrings in old pfb fonts is fixed (#27) The archives (source and binaries) can be downloaded from supelec, as usual: http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex/ Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org Have fun, Taco

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Re: [dev-context] [Dev-luatex] Luatex beta 0.30.0 released
by Norbert Preining 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

On Di, 30 Sep 2008, Yue Wang wrote: > I dont know why Debian and Debian-like distributions have an old > tradition to link tex-related program to dynamic library. Ever heard about security related items? Do YOU want to wade through thousands of packages and check whether they use xpdf code, zlib code, or whatever, and fix in all of them a severe security bug? If not, then learn how big distributions have to work. That is life. I don't use the system lua because lua has been changed in luatex, same with xetex and libice (and I am surprised where you got the information that ubuntu did that, because ubuntu takes my packages from Debian, and I never did that). So thanks for the useless contribution. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCHRANZA (n.) The long unaccomplished wail in the middle of a Scottish folk song where the pipes nip around the corner for a couple of drinks. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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Re: [dev-context] derived colors (mkiv)
by Hans Hagen 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Peter Rolf wrote: > Hans Hagen schrieb: >> so, what exactly do you need the number for > > for overprinting (text only) i have to test if the current color is > black. overprinting should be activated for all text elements, but if > the print color is non black, overprinting should be disabled. so, how about something that just works -) \setupcolors[state=start] \startluacode function ctx.isblack(ca) -- name might change local cv = ca > 0 and colors.value(ca) return (cv and cv[2] == 0) or false end \stopluacode \def\doifblackelse#1% {\ctxlua{commands.doifelse(ctx.isblack(\thecolorattribute{#1}))}} \def\doifdrawingblackelse {\ctxlua{commands.doifelse(ctx.isblack(tex.attribute[attributes.numbers['color']]))}} \starttext \definecolor[foo][black] {\red red {\foo (\doifblackelse{foo}{YES}{NO} \doifdrawingblackelse{YES}{NO}) black} red} \definecolor[foo][green] {\red red {\foo (\doifblackelse{foo}{YES}{NO} \doifdrawingblackelse{YES}{NO}) green} red} \stoptext less code and more abstract ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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derived colors (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Hi, there is currently no bookkeeping ('name-->id') for derived colors in mkiv; i.e. \definecolor[foo] [black] does not register 'foo'. \csname(ca:foo)\endcsname is the only way to access the color id. While this in no problem in TeX code, using this in lua is not very handy. I tried ugly stuff like c_id = format("\\csname(ca:%s)\\endcsname",c) but when I compare 'c_id' with the id of black, the values '1' and 1 (id of black) differ when compared. Mhhhh. I think that the best way to handle derived colors properly is to add their name to the attributes list too. It's only a small patch and it shouldn't do any harm. Best wishes, Peter

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ConTeXt MK IV possibility to run different language options
by Martin Scholz 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hi I've got an wish for an additonal command option in the context command. Up to now there is no possibility to run context in MK IV mode in different languages. Here is a way one could solve this: as far as I see it context invokes the luatools command and for a non-english source-file one could use luatools --run cont-de myfile Now why can't wan edit the context-command with a --lang option in the following way context --lang=xx myfile so that the --lang=xx option has a change-option in luatools so that the --run option is change. context myfile invokes luatools --run cont-en myfile context --lang=xx invokes luatools --run cont-xx myfile, where xx stands for the countrycode. Thanks for your patience Greetings Martin

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metafun & textext problems in mkiv
by Mojca Miklavec 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hello Hans, this fails in mkiv: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startMPpage picture p; p := textext("abc"); draw p withcolor red; draw p shifted (3cm,0) withcolor blue; \stopMPpage \stoptext Mojca

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