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Expandable lowercase/uppercase
by Taco Hoekwater 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi, I'm thinking about adding two new primitives called \lccoded and \uccoded, with the following rules for \lccoded (you have to imagine a suitable reverse for \uccoded): \let\ea\expandafter \catcode`L=12 \lccode`T=0 \ea\def\ea\test\ea{\lccoded {Some Little Text \AE ?}} make \test equal to \def\test{some Little Text \AE?} so, no expansion occurs in the <general text> following \lccoded, and only characters with \catcode == 11 as well as \lccode <> 0 will be changed, and nothing else. Would that be usable, or is something else/better needed? Greetings, Taco

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Fwd: [NTG-context] margin kerning issues
by Adam Lindsay 10 May '05

10 May '05

Idris brings up protrusion. I don't see his particular problem, but it provides a good test bed (see doc text inline): \setupoutput[pdftex]% \setupfontsynonym[cmr10][handling=normal] \usetypescript[cmr] \setupbodyfont[10pt] \setupalign[hanging] \setuplayout[width=4.2in] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{40}{testing\hyphen\ test\hyphen\ } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing- test- } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing\endash\ test\endash\ } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing-- test-- } %D Which is fine. But this sort of thing has always bothered me: \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing||\ test||\ } %D However, this is my current working hack (I prefer this %D stretched compound hyphen to the current, overlapping one): \definecharacter compoundhyp {\scale[sx=1.5]{\hyphen}} \installdiscretionaries || \compoundhyp \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing||\ test||\ } \stoptext So I wanted to run this past you all. Is this a bad idea on any level? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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Time primitives
by Taco Hoekwater 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi Hans, Would new (pdf)etex primitives like these help benchmarking context? Two static read-only values that amend the normal TeX ones like \time and \year, giving the passed seconds since 1 jan 1970 at start-of-run: \epochseconds % integer part \microseconds % fractional part (between and 0-1000000) And one dynamic one: \microinterval % interval since start-of-run, in microseconds The static seconds and microseconds have be split in two because the multiplication of two C long-s cannot fit in one \count register. I need the initialization values only so that I can create meaningful intervals, but I thought it might be useful to have them available. If you prefer something more or different, let me know. Taco

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C pretty printing
by Taco Hoekwater 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Sounds like something for http://modules.contextgarden.net. It would need a bit of documentation though, even if it is just a single page. I don't have time to look at this now, but I will get back to you in a week or so. Greetings, Taco Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > Anyway, I've attached it here. Perhaps we can make something standard > of it?, > nikolai

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Dense Encoding (was: Re: [dev-context] enco-uc fixes)
by Adam Lindsay 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

[resent without attachment] Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:11:04 +0200: >> 3) The concept sounds sort of like EC encoding (in its relationship with >> TS1), but with less of the backwards-compatibility "cruft". Should I take >> that as a starting point, or work with texnansi? > >qx Okay, take a look at <http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/nieuwxtwo.pdf>. Is that the sort of coverage you're interested in? Do you need Turkish? (I blew dotlessi away earlier on, and forgot to put it back in) The layout (ordering of the characters) needs some work. The strategy for keeping punctuation was those that fall in normal text, and are likely to be governed by a kern/ligature, should stay. Let me know if you object to any that are still in. Characters that fell in (only) Latin, Esperanto, Sami, Greenlandic, or Latin Extended-B didn't make the cut. Thoughts? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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enco-uc fixes
by Adam Lindsay 26 Apr '05

26 Apr '05

Hey all. A couple enco-uc fixes to be confirmed: \definecharacter threequarter {\uchar0{190}} % was threequarters, oops \definecharacter ordmasculine {\uchar0{186}} % wasn't defined \definecharacter ordfeminine {\uchar0{170}} % wasn't defined \definecharacter percent {\uchar0{37}} % wasn't defined \definecharacter textunderscore {\uchar0{95}} % wasn't defined %D Not sure, because it can be a chore to create yet another font: %\definecharacter trademark {\uchar{33}{34}} % wasn't defined %D This isn't defined in many fonts, but it should be consistent: \definecharacter textminus {\uchar{32}{18}} In other news, would a TeX'n'Unicode encoding interest anyone? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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wordright
by Adam Lindsay 22 Apr '05

22 Apr '05

Hi all. In my occasional trawl for goodies, I came across \wordright in core-spa. It seems to try to solve a little problem I encountered a while ago, but in current ConTeXt, it doesn't seem very happy. Reverting back to something suggested in the code seems to make it happier. I'm still learning the internals, so does anyone understand this enough to say why it's a bad idea? \starttext \dorecurse{5}{something } \wordright{--someone} \dorecurse{6}{something } \wordright{--someone} \dorecurse{7}{something } \wordright{--someone} \textrule \unprotect \def\dowordright[#1]% {% don't change \groupedcommand {\removeunwantedspaces \hfill \allowbreak % changed back from \hskip\zeropoint \strut \hfill \quad % decent spacing \hbox} {\doifelse{#1}\v!right{\kern-\rightskip}{\doifsomething{#1}{\kern-#1}}% \parfillskip\zeropoint \par}} \protect \dorecurse{5}{something } \wordright{--someone else entirely} \dorecurse{6}{something } \wordright{--someone else entirely} \dorecurse{7}{something } \wordright{--someone else entirely} \stoptext -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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Re: [NTG-context] new beta
by Adam Lindsay 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

[back to the dev list...] Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:20:03 +0200: >Adam: in texexec.pl the cal to ctxtools should be prefixed by texmfstart >(texmfstart texexec --make ...) I had already tried that (yesterday's beta) when I sent the previous email. Same (null) effect: % ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb texexec --make --all TeXExec 5.3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 total run time : 0 seconds (no, I don't have the texmfstart or ctxtools or other new-ish stubs in my /bin directory) ...or are you saying to edit texexec.pl ? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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bug in cont-int.tex
by David Munger 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Hans, Could you replace line 1210 in cont-int.tex: {\ignorespaces\linklisttoelement{#2}{#3}{#6}{#7}{\box0}\unskip}\\} with this one: {\ignorespaces\linklisttoelement{#2}{#3}{#6}{\box0}\unskip}\\} It fixes the bug from my previous post: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20050411.053220.16c83503.html Thanks, David

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Hi, I uploaded a new beta. This one has a prelude to a new implementation of texexec. I can run texexec --make --all should work as well as: texexec --make --all --engine=pdftex texexec --make --all --engine=aleph texexec --make --all --engine=xetex it assumes a new recent version of pdftex/mpost currently it's juts a call to ctxtools. I'd like to know if it works ok for miktex as well. I want to avoid ini/rme files. i also made a new cversion checker, for the moment use ctxtools --check it does some more testing and later I will add some cnf parsing. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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