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texfont
by Adam Lindsay 22 Mar '05

22 Mar '05

Hi all, Last I heard, Wybo was re-writing texfont (thanks and apologies!) Seems like there are further changes I'd like to be able to make (handle afm + ttf, some Unicode handling) in the next few months. What's the status? cheers, adam

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Re: Moving to ConTeXt
by Patrick Gundlach 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi Gerben, > The problem is that some people like to use the p* fonts instead of > the u* fonts, which is what the type-akb typescript does; however > -welcome to the font mess- these p* files are not always packages in > distributions, They should, since they are part of LaTeX. The names (p*) of the 35 base fonts should not change. And I'd guess that the metrics of the corresponding tfm files don't change over the time. > or names change, or ... It all has to do with not wanting to ship a > few more tfm files i guess. Even worse: the metrics differ. This is > just one of the reasons why i always generate my own metrics > (texnansi-u* and such) The reference uplr8t Gerben came across is part of the berry typescript, which IMO should be removed from ConTeXt. It just confuses users. Patrick (We should move this discussion to dev-context)

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Extra paper sizes
by Taco Hoekwater 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Hi Hans, As discussed at EuroTeX %D here are some extra paper sizes %D ISO RA (raw A) sizes: \definepapersize [RA0] [\c!width=860mm,\c!height=1220mm] \definepapersize [RA1] [\c!width=610mm,\c!height=860mm] \definepapersize [RA2] [\c!width=430mm,\c!height=610mm] \definepapersize [RA3] [\c!width=305mm,\c!height=430mm] \definepapersize [RA4] [\c!width=215mm,\c!height=305mm] %D ISO SRA (supplementary raw A) sizes: \definepapersize [SRA0] [\c!width=900mm,\c!height=1280mm] \definepapersize [SRA1] [\c!width=640mm,\c!height=900mm] \definepapersize [SRA2] [\c!width=450mm,\c!height=640mm] \definepapersize [SRA3] [\c!width=320mm,\c!height=450mm] \definepapersize [SRA4] [\c!width=225mm,\c!height=320mm] %D Industry invention \definepapersize [A3plus] [\c!width=329mm,\c!height=483mm] %D for orthogonality \definepapersize [undersized] [\c!width=\dimexpr(\paperwidth-1.5cm), \c!height=\dimexpr(\paperheight-1.5cm)]

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.rme files
by Taco Hoekwater 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Hi Hans, Is there a compelling reason for this? I find this behaviour a little bit odd and potentially confusing. (the same is true for texexec.rme). Greetings, Taco -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Re: Palatino? -> bitmap fonts??? Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:07:09 +0100 From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Is there somebody else out there using Gerben's TeXstuff? (I know > there is at least one :-)) I can only guess. Or get a fresh > cont-sys.tex > (www.pragma-ade.com/system/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) > and play with that one. when no cont-sys.tex is found (or when you delete it) context will use cont-sys.rme instead Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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pragma mirror
by Patrick Gundlach 17 Mar '05

17 Mar '05

Hello Hans and Taco (and others), I've set up a mirror at http://mirror.contextgarden.net of pragma-ade.com. Is there anything that refrains me from doing so? Currently it syncs every 6 hours. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

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ExecWrapper.pm
by Taco Hoekwater 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Hi, Inspired by (but not borrowed from) J.Fine, this is ExecWrapper.pm, a perl module that runs external programs through a user-supplied stdin/stdout filter. Usage should be clear from the example program, but I intend to add some more documentation later (as well as an extension/demo program that mimics QaTeX). Greetings, Taco

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texexec --autopdf
by Patrick Gundlach 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Dear fellows, it looks as if I have wasted my time again trying to make texexec --autopdf work on Panther (Mac OS X 10.3). I found out that Adobe Reader 7.0 and Apple's Preview.app are not (Apple-)scriptable, so reloading the pdffile don't work with these two. TeXshop's previewer is scriptable, and I was able to write a small script that opens and reloads the file while keeping the view when a document got typeset with texexec. Yeah, I was happy, because this is a nice feature. Then I found out that TeXshop already has this feature built in (same with TeXniscope), and there is no need for --autopdf on the Mac. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

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mirror question
by Taco Hoekwater 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hi Hans, A question: can you change the "home" link on the login page: http://www.pragma-ade.com:20080/login so that it links to http://www.pragma-ade.com/index.htm instead of http://www.pragma-ade.com:20080/index.htm ? My mirror does not 'do' port 20080, but wget did, so it now a) downloadedthe website twice, and b) creates a broken link on the mirror My mirrored http server will only do port 80 (unless Pragma-ADE can afford/is willing to pay for full-blown duplication services, of course :-)). I will switch to using only rsync this afternoon, that will get rid of the wget weirdness, but the the 'broken link' problem will remain. At the same time, I intend to move the mirroring frequency up, perhaps to once an hour. Greetings, Taco

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m-layout
by Adam Lindsay 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hey there. I've been playing with m-layout, and I think there's a bug in preset-2-1. I only found it because I was trying to implement the exact same layout, and because I really was struggling with the computational order of precedence in the \dimexpr's (anyone have a good reference for that?) The final line of preset-2-1 should be: \c!bottomspace=\dimexpr((2\layoutvstep)-\layoutparameter\c!header- \layoutparameter\c!headerdistance) [(2\layoutvstep) should be grouped. I don't entirely know why.] ...if it's doing what i think it wants to do! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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[Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] "uninitialized value"]
by Taco Hoekwater 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Hi Hans, Would you apply this fix please? The problem only shows up using Patrick's install script, because the 'normal' distributions use a stub that always calls perl without the -w switch (<sigh>). Also, it would be prudent to start the scripts with an explicit "use warnings;" line to prevent these problems in the future. Greetings, Taco -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [NTG-context] "uninitialized value" Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:18:31 -0500 From: Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0502021731360.24505@localhost> K. David Prince wrote: > What am I missing? > > Dave Your system is fine, so no worries. Those warning lines are annoying but harmless. They'll be fixed in the next release, but in the mean time, you can change lines 344 and 348 of texexec.pl yourself, if you dare: $ diff texexec.pl.old texexec.pl 344c344 < if ($ENV{openin_any} eq 'p') { --- > if (defined $ENV{openin_any} && $ENV{openin_any} eq 'p') { 348c348,349 < if (($ENV{shell_escape} eq 'f') || ($ENV{SHELL_ESCAPE} eq 'f')) { --- > if ((defined $ENV{shell_escape} && $ENV{shell_escape} eq 'f') || > (defined $ENV{SHELL_ESCAPE} && $ENV{SHELL_ESCAPE} eq 'f')) { Greetings, Taco

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