March 2009 - 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 0.37.0
by Taco Hoekwater 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi, I have just uploaded luatex 0.37.0. This is a beta in the process towards 0.40.0, the version that will be included in texlive 2009. This beta will be shortlived, the plan is to release the next one in about a week. This release is mainly intended to allow testing of two new things: * The new build process, which is based on the one that will be used for texlive 2009. Lots of build-time stuff is overhauled, and that means that the binary itself as well as the build process needs testing. Please try on your system and let us know if something goes amiss. * The new shell_escape = 'p' functionality invented by Karl and Akira. Karl wrote about that: > As I've mentioned to some of you, Akira and I have been implemented a > restricted version of \write18: only commands which are explicitly > listed in texmf.cnf can be executed. Along with sufficient quoting, I > think that this is secure enough that it can be enabled by default, and > I plan to do this for TeX Live 2009. The texmf.cnf variable for 'acceptable commands' is named shell_escape_commands. In luatex, the variables shell_escape and shell_escape_commands will be fetched from the texconfig table in case of a disabled kpathsea (as context mkiv does). The important thing to note is that if you are typesetting a document with luatex (as opposed to executing a texlua script), these variables now also effect the os.execute(), io.popen(), os.exec() and os.spawn() functions. Unless a non-false value of shell_escape has been read from either texmf.cnf or the texconfig table, these functions will not do anything anymore. Nothing has changed for the case where luatex is used as a script interpreter. ============================================================== Luatex beta-0.37.0 was released 20090331 (commit #2194) ============================================================== * Luatex now implements shell_escape = 'p', a new feature in web2c that intends to make \write18 more secure. * Attributes can now have negative values. The special value for 'unset' is lowered to -0x7FFFFFFF (it used to be -1). * The lua 'kpse' library now has an object-oriented interface as companion to the procedural interface. This is useful for e.g. controlling the discovery of mplib files. * The new internal integer parameter \outputbox allows setting of the output box number (default: 255, max: 65535) * The new primitives \Udelimiterunder and \Udelimiterover complete the set of 'StretchStacks' for OpenType Math. * Fixed a bug in font string conversions on the Macintosh that resulted in warnings about 'unaligned pointers being freed'. * Khaled Hosny spotted a bunch of manual errors. * There was bug in the width of math_accent objects when there were super- or subscripts attached to the accentee. * In PDF mode, TRT \leaders were bugged. * The source tree now uses the new texlive build system that Peter Breitenlohner created. * There is now a single build.sh instead of four separate ones. It has a few options: --make : only make, no make distclean; configure --parallel : make -j 2 -l 3.0 --nostrip : do not strip binary --mingw : crosscompile for mingw32 from i386-linux --ppc : crosscompile for ppc osx on intel osx Note: --parallel still sometimes causes crashes due to timing errors, so use that option with care. * Many compiler warnings have been removed (but not all yet). The archives (now including source again) can be downloaded from supelec as usual: http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex/ You could also check out the sources via anonymous svn: svn co svn://scm.foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/tags/beta-0.37.0 Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org Have fun, Taco

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luatex beta 0.36.0
by Taco Hoekwater 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Hi, I have just uploaded luatex 0.36.0. This is a beta in the process towards 0.40.0, the version that will be included in texlive 2009. This beta will be shortlived, the plan is to release the next one in about a week. The main reason for a release now is to prepare for a bunch of important user-visible changes: * The lua code for tex.enableprimitives() etc. is now there, but for this beta all the new primitives are still provided to the user. In next week's beta, these will be gone indeed, and only \directlua will remain present by default. See the mailing list archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/luatex/2009-March/000360.html for more information, the final syntax is explained in the manual. * Multiple lua states have been removed and the old syntax now produces a (rather annoying) informational message. * The fontforge table is renamed to fontloader. The old name is still there for the moment, but also produces a warning message. A more detailed 'what's new': * The included fontforge code is stripped considerably, and the lua table to access the code is renamed to 'fontloader'. The old name ('fontforge') will remain present for a while, but will eventually go away. * New lua functions: tex.primitives(), tex.extraprimitives, tex.enableprimitives(). This is a prelude to a big change in the next beta: iniluatex will from now on start up with only the TeX82 primitives and \directlua, everything else has to be bootstrapped via tex.enableprimitives(). See the manual for more details. * Support for multiple lua states has been removed, and at the same time support for adding name ids to lua chunks has been added, and \closelua has been removed. See the manual for more details. * More changes to the PDF backend to make it support non-latin directions (form and image placement, vertical typesetting, synctex). * The kpathsea library is updated. Highlights: cleaner build process (thanks to Peter Breitenlohner), cleaner mingw32 (cross)compilation support, and a new reentrant API. * Some possible endless loops within extended delimiters in math mode are now trapped. * Movements inside VF font characters were considerably off due to a wrong conversion routine. * Error handling for \outer has been reinstated, but can be suppressed via the new primitive \suppressoutererror. * The new primitives: \suppresslongerror and \suppressifcsnameerror that can be used to suppress errors for \par in non-long macros and for non-expandable objects inside \ifcsname ... \endcsname, respectively. * New lua function: node.vpack() via a patch from Khaled Hosny that also improves error handling in node.hpack(). * Fix the typo that caused \charic (instead of \charit) to be defined as a primitive. * Suppression of hyphenation via \hyphenchar\font=-1 now works again. * The lua functions tex.print(), tex.sprint(), tex.write() now accept an array of strings as well as vararg list of strings to print. * A change to be build process: luatex.p is no longer split int smaller pieces before running the C compiler. * Melissa O'Neill contributed a bugfix to the Type1 font subsetting code. * A bunch of smaller bugfixes and cleanups (as usual). The archives (now including source again) can be downloaded from supelec as usual: http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex/ You could also check out the sources via anonymous svn: svn co svn://scm.foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/tags/beta-0.36.0 Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org Have fun, Taco

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luatex beta 0.35.0
by Taco Hoekwater 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi, I have just uploaded luatex 0.35.0. This is a beta in the process towards 0.40.0, the version that will be included in texlive 2009. We have two big developments underway right now: * Hartmut is working on the DVI and PDF output, aiming for full support of all direction specifiers in both modes. * Taco is working on extending the math engine, aiming for complete support of the OpenType and MathML concepts. Both developments are well under way, but neither is perfect yet. The main goal of this release is to give Hans' ConTeXt mkiv code and its users a chance to catch up and test the progress so far. What's new: * The math handling portions of LuaTeX are converted to C code, and extended to support Unicode math. There are a great many related changes, see the new Math chapter in the manual for details. * A nasty bug in the paragraph breaking routine was fixed. (All lines except the first one were believed to be wider then they really were. This affected which nodes were considered as active breakpoints) * Various changes to the PDF backend to make it support non-latin directions. * Fixed the behaviour of the page offsets. Placement of the output on the physical page should now work correctly in all directions, both in DVI and PDF. There now are \pageleftoffset and \pagetopoffset primitives. * fontforge.apply_featurefile() was broken since 0.31.0 * The lua profiler library is added. * The included lua filesystem library is now 1.4.1. * Reading of pk files fixed. * An optional space afer a <direction specifier> for \textdir c.s. is ignored from now on. * \bodydir and \pagedir can now be (re)set even after the first page has been output. * The new callback mlist_to_hlist can be used to intercept the normal conversion of math lists to horizontal lists. * The programs ttf2afm and pdftosrc are removed from the luatex distribution (these belong to pdftex). * fontforge.open() now uses much less memory when opening large (CJK) fonts. * The included libpng is now 1.2.35. * Quite a lot of smaller bugfixes and cleanups (as usual). The archives (just binaries at this time, hopefully there will be a source package later) can be downloaded from supelec as usual: http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex/ If you need the sources, please check out via anonymous svn: svn co svn://scm.foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/tags/beta-0.31.3 Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org Have fun, Taco

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