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modules at supelec
by luigi scarso 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi all I start modules project at http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/modules Suggestions are welcome , of course. Thank you all -- luigi

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Setuptex removal
by Taco Hoekwater 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi, As of about five minutes ago, there is a new beta of context available from pragma-ade. In that, Hans has improved the non-setuptex initialization even more, and it is now close enough to kpathsea that nobody should notice the difference in practise. Here is how it goes: * You still need the 'tex binaries' directory in the PATH. * Based on that, MKIV now always initializes the virtual variables $SELFAUTOLOC, $SELFAUTODIR and $SELFAUTOPARENT * If $TEXMFCNF is not set, the following default is used: '{$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c}' This is a tiny little bit different from texlive, but should not make a difference in practise. (The addition of .local is especially for gwtex, and we dropped $SELFAUTOLOC from this path) * MKIV now also pre-initializes $TEXOS == $SELFAUTODIR and $TEXROOT == $SELFAUTOPARENT as an extra service (and to allow you to mask the weird SELF... variable names from plain view in texmf.cnf) As noted already, MKII does not need those env vars anyway. Best wishes, Taco

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little "bug" in French hyphenation patterns conversion
by Mojca Miklavec 15 May '08

15 May '08

Hello Hans, there is a little bug in conversion of French hyphenation patterns in ctxtools. I guess that these two patterns 1c\oe0 % final zero essential to terminate cs \n{1c\oeOT} % for \oe in OT1 _and_ T1 font encoding should result in a single pattern 1nœ while it results in two weird patterns: 1nö0 1nöOT \oe is converted into ö instead of œ (are there any similar bugs as well?), 0 can probably be removed, \n{...} should probably be ignored and \oeOT should be ... well, it's inside of \n anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you do with it as long as you remove the pattern, but definitely it should not result in uppercase OT. Mojca

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texmfstart & MikTeX
by Mojca Miklavec 09 May '08

09 May '08

Hello, it seems that there's a problem with finding texexec.rb in MikTeX: c:\temp\mojca\docs>texmfstart --verbose texexec texmfstart version 2.0.3 expanding 'texexec' to 'texexec.rb' locating 'texexec.rb' in current path '.' locating 'texexec.rb' in caller path './../ruby' kpse : direct (fallback) fatal error: undefined method `progname=' for nil:NilClass texmfstart.rb:678:in `find' texmfstart.rb:1230:in `execute' texmfstart.rb:981:in `process' texmfstart.rb:1224:in `execute' texmfstart.rb:1249 unable to locate program execution failed In contrast: ---------------- c:\temp\mojca\docs>ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfs tart.rb" --verbose texexec a texmfstart version 2.0.3 expanding 'texexec' to 'texexec.rb' locating 'texexec.rb' in current path '.' locating 'texexec.rb' in caller path 'C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/scripts/contex t/ruby' registering 'texexec' as 'C:/Program Files/MiKTeX 2.7/scripts/context/ruby/texex ec.rb' 'texexec.rb' located in caller path registering 'THREAD' as 'C:/PROGRA~1/MIKTEX~1.7/scripts/context/ruby' starting texexec using 'system' call: ruby C:/PROGRA~1/MIKTEX~1.7/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb a TeXExec | processing document 'a' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file a.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1233 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7) Running pdftex... This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7) (INITEX) entering extended mode systems : system commands are disabled ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\base\pdfr-def.tex") systems : begin file a at line 1 TeXExec | runtime: 20.547 [here, pdfTeX crashes] execution failed c:\temp\mojca\docs>

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cont-en.xml and alike
by Patrick Gundlach 23 Apr '08

23 Apr '08

Hi, how is cont-en.xml and the related files currently maintained? Is this file created of some other file or is it updated manually? What are the current applications that use the xml-files? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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cont-en question
by Patrick Gundlach 21 Apr '08

21 Apr '08

Hi, I guess I'll start bugging you about cont-en.xml more often now. installlanguage has a type attribute in cd:constant <cd:keywords> <cd:constant type="cd:name"/> </cd:keywords> in resettextcontent there is a name attribute: <cd:keywords optional="yes"> <cd:constant name="lefttext"/> <cd:constant name="middletext"/> <cd:constant name="righttext"/> </cd:keywords> What is the difference? It could make sense to have * "type" for a class like attribute, eg. a name, that is a string of characters that may not contain spaces, funny accents etc * "name" for a keyword. But the point is, that the "name" attribute is only in "resettextcontent". Bug or feature? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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spaces in filenames
by Mojca Miklavec 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Hello Hans & Taco, one more little problem. If I "install" ConTeXt to "c:\a b\" then format generation fails for luatex (but works ok for xetex). Mojca TeXExec | tex engine path: c:/a b/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/xetex TeXExec | mps engine path: c:/a b/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c TeXExec | TeXExec | tex: 19/04/2008 00:32:25 > c:/a b/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt (4485827) TeXExec | tex: 19/04/2008 00:32:22 > c:/a b/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/xetex/cont-nl.fmt (4525855) TeXExec | mps: 19/04/2008 00:32:26 > c:/a b/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/metafun.mem (490504) TeXExec | TeXExec | runtime: 6.656 report >> run: texexec --make --all --fast --luatex cont-nl metafun cont-en TeXExec | using search method 'kpsefast' TeXExec | using existing database TeXExec | using tex engine luatex TeXExec | using tex format path c:/a b/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/luatex TeXExec | generating tex format cont-nl LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-nl LuaTools | using library path : c:/a b/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/contex t/base LuaTools | using lua libraries: l-string.lua l-lpeg.lua l-table.lua l-boolean.lu a l-number.lua l-set.lua l-unicode.lua l-md5.lua l-os.lua l-io.lua l-file.lua l- url.lua l-dir.lua l-utils.lua l-tex.lua luat-env.lua luat-lib.lua luat-inp.lua l uat-tmp.lua luat-zip.lua luat-tex.lua LuaTools | using compiled initialization file cont-nl.luc LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-nl.luc LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-nl.luc" "c:/a b/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-nl.tex" \dump ! I can't find file `c:/a.tex'. <*> c:/a b/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-nl.tex \dump (Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit) Please type another input file name:

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context stubs
by Mojca Miklavec 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Hello Norbert, that's not too important (you may ignore it if you want), but there's one more thing that came to my mind concerning the packaging of ConTeXt. There is a rather recent context "stub". See http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/context/current/scripts/context/s… (and other files in the same folder). The content is a bit buggy. It says #!/bin/sh mtxrun --script context $@ but should be #!/bin/sh mtxrun --script context "$@" context filename.tex is supposed to do almost the same as texexec, except that it calls luatex by default instead of pdftex. The contents of scripts/context/stubs/unix, as well as mtxrun and luatools, are supposed to be present somewhere in binary path. If you think that it's worth considering that addition (given the fact that you also have luatex available now), feel free to add it. If not, it's also OK without it. It might also be that you have already added that, I don't know as I don't have debian to try it out. Mojca

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Debian luatex and context
by Norbert Preining 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

On Fr, 18 Apr 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > I have just uploaded the archives for luatex 0.25.3, yet On Fr, 18 Apr 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hot on the heels of the luatex 0.25.3 release Hans has released > (yet another) new context current (the sixth or seventh this week). Debian packages: context (for sid and etch): deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/ luatex for sid deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex-sid/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex-sid/ luatex for etch deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex/ Please give it a test try. After some more tests I will upload the stuff to sid and sid users will get by normal operation. I tried this combination with my test cases and context/luatex according to README.MarkIV in the Debian package. Next release of TeX Live packages will PROBABLY contain updates to xetex/xdvipdfmx. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EWELME (n.) The smile bestowed on you by an air hostess. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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New context release
by Taco Hoekwater 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Hi, Hot on the heels of the luatex 0.25.3 release Hans has released (yet another) new context current (the sixth or seventh this week). There are a few bugfixes for the mkiv bugs reported yesterday, but that's about it. If you are curious anyway: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Unless there is a massive outcry (unlikely), this release goes to CTAN in less than an hour. Have fun, Taco

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