dev-context February 2017

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(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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LuaTeX 1.0.3 announcement
by luigi scarso 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

============================================================== LuaTeX Release 1.0.3 was released 2017021514 ============================================================== This is a minor upgrade and probably this version will go on texlive. There are a couple of fixes and additions. - We added a few a few more helpers in the pdf namespace (like set|get]gentounicode, [set|get]omitcidset and set|get]decimaldigits. Some helpers were moved from the tex to the pdf namespace. - We added a build_page_insert callback for inserts so that one can for instance adapt spacing on demand. - On the agenda has been some more control over word start and end in hyphenation and this is now possible via hyphenationbounds. We also updated the manual with some more details. - An old tracker item with respect to control over spacing around math was revived and has resulted in mathsurroundmode (one can wonder how useful this is). - We improved the resolution detection in included jpeg images. - An ffi library has been added to luatex so that it is more in sync with luajittex. This permits easy and flexible loading of libraries. Our policy is to make luatex as lean as possible with no dependencies and this is a step towards that. Eventually we hope to support all relevant platforms. - The glue and skip register accessors have been improved as a step in freeing the user from glue spec management. - We added a few more getters and setters for nodes in order to get a more consistent set. - Irrelevant fields have been removed from the status table and an engine identifier has been added. - Of course there are numerous fixes and improvements but none of these have consequences for the interfaces. - The manual has been updated but will be improved over time. Have fun, Hans, Luigi, Taco

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\pdfannot
by Taco Hoekwater 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hi Hans, I just tried this with a fairly new ConTeXt: \starttext \message{pdfannot: [\meaning \pdfannot] pdflastannot: [\meaning \pdflastannot] \stoptext reports pdfannot: [\relax] pdflastannot: [\count1160] which is not really useful. It actually hit me inside a file that was actually using \pdfannot to do some fancy stuff, which was working fine a few years back. (I know it is now called "\pdfextension annot", that is not actually the problem) If you do no longer want to support the primitives in ConTeXt, sure. But could you at least produce a message and/or error ? In particular, the \let \pdfannot \relax creates mayhem inside the produced PDF, because of all the associated keywords in the primitive \pdfannot implementation that are now suddenly being typeset as-is, which is rather messy. Best wishes, Taco

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Solarized colors
by Aditya Mahajan 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi, I am wondering if there is any interest in adding solarized colors to the core. I am attaching colo-imp-solarized.mkiv file. (Essentially the same file will work in MkII). For those who do not know, solarized (http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized) is a 16 color palatte designed with a precise LAB lightness between the colors and is supposed to work well in a variety of lighting conditions. I have named the colors such that loading this will override the default color values of yello, orange, red, magenta, violet, blue, cyan, and green (X11 does the same, but X11's color definitions match the default). Another option is to either use CamelCase names or names such as 'solarizedYellow', etc. If you think that it is not worth having such small color palattes in the core, then I can create a separate module that collects these. Aditya

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