February 2013 - 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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[mp-implementors] MetaPost 1.790
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

I am happy to announce a new test release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.790 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a third test release for the new functionality planned in MetaPost 1.800. Besides a few bug fixes, this version has lots of internal speed-ups so that its running times should now be comparable to the MetaPost 1.50x series. All the reported new bugs in 1.780 have been fixed, but I may have introduced new problems while adding the speed optimizations. Use with care, and *do* let me know if something is wrong! This version will not be uploaded to CTAN / TLcontrib yet. The plan is to wait another for a few weeks before releasing 1.800. That will then be an official end-user release. The win32 binary can be downloaded immediately from files section at https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ The new foundry software is still not quite up to speed, so there is no source tarball uploaded yet (it was too large for the web form). If you want to build this latest MetaPost either wait a few days while Fabrice fixes foundry, or do an anonymous subversion checkout yourself: $ svn checkout --username anonsvn https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/metapost/tags/1.790 The password is anonsvn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in MetaPost version 1.790: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Lots of speed-ups. * Fixed bug in division expressions that started with a literal number. * A few problems with bad deallocations were solved. * A bug where after saving and redefinition of primitives, they later were restored to 'undefined' instead of to their primitive meaning. * The "double" literal number parser now only accepts scientific notation if the character following 'E' or 'e' is '+', '-', or a digit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost; with a bug tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org/. Please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, February 17, 2013.

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Difference between LM and CM font size
by Aditya Mahajan 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Hi, While checking my context article for tugboat, Karl Berry found that typewriter fonts were coming out a bit smaller than expected. The following test file shows this: \starttext {\font\myfont = cmtt9 \myfont externalfigure[logo.pdf][width=1cm]} {\font\myfont = ec-lmtt9 \myfont externalfigure[logo.pdf][width=1cm]} \stoptext With ConTeXt MkIV 2013.01.27 (and also with ConTeXt TL), I get the attached output. Notice that the first and second line are of different height. Both lines are of the same height and width with MkII and with plain TeX. Any ideas on what is happening here? And more specifically, how can I get a typing environment whose font size is the same as that of cmtt9. Using \setuptyping[bodyfont=9pt] switches to font size that is the same as ec-lmtt9 in the above example. Aditya

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