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contextgarden.net
by Patrick Gundlach 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Hi, as I have mentioned on the conference: I am looking for a person (or a group) to take over the server contextgarden.net. Not only the wiki or the modules section or ..., but the complete server. I have started everything more then seven years ago and we have all made it possible that contextgarden.net is now used by more then 500 unique visitors each day (the wiki alone). The average time a user spends on the wiki is three and a half minute (according to the stats, but this is inaccurate, of course), I think that is pretty good! But as usual in a setting like this, I have shifted my focus. This does not mean I like ConTeXt less then several years ago! By no means! But I am too busy with my new job and my family so there is pretty much no server maintenance (except for a reboot once in a while). I really hope that someone steps in and I can hand over all the files/databases and the domain name before the next conference. Do you think that this is worth posting on the main mailing list as well? Patrick

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Luatex 0.65.0 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi, I have just uploaded the archives for a new luatex release, 0.65.0. This release mostly fixes a number of bugs, but it also deprecates a number of existing lua and macro commands. Please read the News section carefully if you are the current maintainer of a luatex macro package. News: * The Aleph and Omega version primitives are deprecated. * The Apple Snow Leopard Truetype font collections now work properly. * Libpng has been updated to 1.4.4, and zlib to 1.2.5. * New lua functions node.next() and node.prev(). * The already deprecated for some time node.protrusion_skipable() function has been removed. * fontloader.apply_featurefile() and fontloader.apply_afmfile() now return nil,<errortable> on failure. * The various node list fields in the lua node interface have been renamed from 'list' to 'head', e.g. tex.box[0].head, and the 'list' name is deprecated. For now, the deprecation is silent, as 'list' will stay for quite some time. Please update your lua source as soon as possible, though. * The call node.type(<node>) now returns "node". The existing functionality is otherwise unchanged. * Luafilesystem has been updated to 1.5.0. NOTE: there is an incompatible change in the directory iterator method. * The restriction on linebreak_filter has been eased: at least one horizontal box should be returned, but that is not necessarily the last node any more. * Backward compatibility has been restored for \meaning\mathchar * node.first_character() has been renamed to node.first_glyph() to better match its actual functionality. * The \Umathaccent primitive now supports both/bottom keywords, and \Umathbotaccent / \Umathaccents are now deprecated. * The \Umathaccent primitive now also supports the fixed keyword, which supports non-growing math accents even if the font says there are extensible variants. * Ongoing work on the epdf library. Bugfixes: * Assignment to \dimen65535 was broken earlier. * <box>.head.prev is now always initialized to null (0). * luatex -lua=<script> '\relax' no longer exits immediately, instead going into interactive mode as it should. * The \jobname was initialized wrongly for input file names with multiple dots in them. * The synctex file is now written in the right place when --output-directory is given. * \letterspacefont could cause crashes, especially when combined with font expansion. * Luatex would crash on linux32 systems if it was build in an environment where LFS (>2GB files) was enabled by default. * Node lists created by node.copy_list() could not be hyphenated due to an assertion error. * Synctex support was partially broken since 0.60.0. * With OpenType math fonts, accents with multiple parts (like the \vec arrow) forgot to include all parts if the accentee was too narrow. * With OpenType math fonts, accents over any class except 0 and 7 were misplaced. * kpse.lookup("plain", {all = true}) was broken in kpathsea itself (no extension given as well as --all specified). * A FontForge bug made Cambria Math accents look bad, and the placement of math top accents did not allow a marker at the origin (patches by Stefan Philipp) * Cut&Paste from PDF was sometimes broken due to bad ToUnicode map. * Many small manual improvements (thanks to Paul Isambert) * An other bugfix to lpeg 0.9 (from Roberto Ierusalimsky) * Some small fixes to writet1.w (from Han The Thanh) * A build failure because of bad libz configuration on Win32 The archives can be downloaded from supelec as usual: http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/luatex/ You could also check out the sources via anonymous svn: svn co http://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/tags/beta-0.65.0 Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org Have fun, Taco

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Luatex 0.64.0 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hi, I have just uploaded the archives for a new luatex release, 0.64.0. This is a development release, but it also fixes a few rather annoying bugs in 0.63.0. News: * New lua functions pdf.refobj(), pdf.maxobjnum() and pdf.objtype() * New lua function node.is_node() * The max_strings configuration variable's maximum value is raised to be identical to texlive's maximum (2097151), and same for param_size (32767). * The embedded mplib is now 1.503. * Minor cleanups in the output of fontloader.to_table(): - removed out-of-range altuni's from the output - don't dump the extra encodings, just the actual font encoding - export the encoding's name also as 'enc_name' at one level up - no longer exporting unset macstyles, nor zero uniqueids - fix creationtime and modification time * Ongoing work on the epdf library Bugfixes: * Fix a bug where an explicit hyphen prevented hyphenation for the whole rest of the paragraph * Internal font copying forgot to copy the last font dimen * os.selfdir() is now documented * patch quad (\fontdimen6) in \letterspacefont to be compatible with pdftex * Multi-page pdf inclusion was very slow in 0.63.0 * Some extra checks added to the handling of glue_spec node objects in lua code. * Some node.prev pointers have been corrected (but this is not quite finished). * A small fix to lpeg 0.9. The archives can be downloaded from supelec as usual: http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/luatex/ You could also check out the sources via anonymous svn: svn co http://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex/tags/beta-0.64.0 Bugs and feature requests can be added to the issue tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org Have fun, Taco

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MetaPost 1.503 (beta version)
by Taco Hoekwater 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

We are happy to announce a new beta release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.503 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The standalone distribution package and a win32 binary can be downloaded immediately from http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/metapost/ This is a beta release following the major internal rewrite done for 1.500. Also, this is the last 1.50x version to be released as development/testing; the next release will be in the stable release tree, to replace the current 1.2xx series. The win32 binary is intended for texlive or a similar web2c-based installation, this executable will *not* work for miktex. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of the message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in MetaPost version 1.503: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * String comparisons have been fixed, these were broken in previous 1.50x versions. * verbatimtex ... etex processing had a horrible bug that is now fixed. * A fix has been applied for a bug that made redeclared variable subscript tags disappear. * The behavior of the %{<internal>} escape sequence in 'outputtemplate' changed (but not that of the single-letter shortcuts). Internal variables within %{...} are neither rounded nor zero-padded. * A very long list of improvements to the manual. * MetaPost now adheres to the openin_any / openout_any settings in texmf.cnf * The 'prologues:=3 output' with embedded labels was unreliable, especially when the resulting eps was included into a TeX document via dvips. * 'newinternal numeric' has been fixed, it generated an error in metapost 1.211 and earlier 1.50x versions. * Label regeneration sometimes failed to run when the file time stamps were close together. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/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, October 22, 2010

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Catcodes in bib module
by Aditya Mahajan 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, Try this example: \newcatcodetable\arbitcatcodes \startcatcodetable\arbitcatcodes \catcode`\@=0 \stopcatcodetable \setcatcodetable\arbitcatcodes @starttext Hello @stoptext This results in the entire bxml-apa.mkiv being typeset! The file bxml-apa is called by \def\dodoloadbibtexpublicationalternative#1% {\doonlyonce{#1} {\readsysfile{bxml-#1.mkiv} {\showmessage\m!publications{6}{bxml-#1}} {\showmessage\m!publications{1}{bxml-#1}}}} in bibl-bib.mkiv I don't know if this should be considered a bug or not. Aditya

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Typing in footnotes
by Aditya Mahajan 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi, Typing in footnote worked (and still works) in MkII. For example: \starttext Hello \footnote{Typing in footnote \starttyping test \stoptyping } \stoptext However, in MkIV this gives: Runaway argument? test \stoptyping \endstrut \dostopstoreddescription \egroup \the \everyafternoteinsert \ETC. ! File ended while scanning use of \dododowithbuffer. system > error on line 0 in file : File ended while scanning use of \dododowithbuffer ... <empty file> <inserted text> \par <*> ./backend.tex I can work around this by using \start-stop buffer outside the footnote and \typebuffer inside the footnote, but that does not work when the ConTeXt file is generated from markdown using pandoc. Is this something that can be fixed (not immediately, but in the long run). If so, I will open a tracker item for it. Aditya

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Greek without Latin
by Mojca Miklavec 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

>From the XeTeX mailing list: [XeTeX] Greek XeLaTeX Hans, here's a challenging question from the XeTeX mailing list. Somebody gave a challenge of how one writes units or rather: if it is possible to get rid of latin keyboard entirely, for example if one is able to retype \includegraphics[width=10cm,scale=5]{...} in arabic/possibly greek interface without using the latin keyboard)? In either case I think that one should convince the author to take ConTeXt instead of LaTeX to rewrite the commands ... Mojca 2010/10/12 Alexandros Gotsis <gotsis(a)science.tuc.gr> wrote: > Dear friends, > > I am trying to "greekify" XeLaTex in order to make it easier for greek writers to use. I have translated almost all the commands (e.g., instead of \begin{document} I can use \αρχή{κειμένου}, etc.) that I could think of and made new article, book etc. classes with the greek commands. These new classes just renew the commands etc. and they work rather well. There are a few errors still that I try to figure out, but there are also a couple of things that I do not know how to do and, therefore, ask your advise/help. > > 1. I could replace almost all commands of (Xe)LaTeX, but I can do nothing with the very first one: \documentclass{}! Is there a way to change the name of this command so that the XeLaTeX engine still understands it? I am looking for solutions that will not include any extra (latin) text in the source file, as this would defy the purpose. > > 2. While I have changed the names for "Chapter", "Figure", the dates, the numbers, capitalisation etc. (thanks for all this go to the work of Syropoylos in Xanthi), I do not know how to change things as, e.g., [c] (center) to [κ] (κέντρο), the length units (from mm το χ etc.). For the time being I would not change anything in the math environments. > > 3. I do not know how to change the alphabetical order in "makeindex". Usually the accented vowels follow the corresponding unaccented ones in a greek index,. This is not the case for "makeindex", as it follows the unicode listing. which is defined differently, and the result looks wrong in a greek index list (ευρετήριο). > > The idea behind the changes is that a writer of greek text (or arab, chinese etc.) should not be obliged to change his/her computer keyboard to latin for the commands and back again for the text. Also the names of the commands would be more transparent for non-english speakers. followed by: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 13:54, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:13:41 +0200 schrieb Khaled Hosny: > >>>> The idea behind the changes is that a writer of greek text (or >>>> arab, chinese etc.) should not be obliged to change his/her >>>> computer keyboard to latin for the commands and back again for >>>> the text. Also the names of the commands would be more >>>> transparent for non-english speakers. > > Well I don't know much about ConTeXt, but at first ConTeXt is a > rather monolitic and selfcontained format. It doesn't have to handle > lots of packages. Also I have some doubts that this localised > formats translates really everything down to units like mm or > numbers to other scripts. Or is their an completly arabic > counterpart to \includegraphics[width=10cm,scale=5]{...}? ... Mojca

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Re: [dev-context] [XeTeX] Localized XeLaTeX: was Greek XeLaTeX
by Wolfgang Schuster 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Am 14.10.2010 um 14:57 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > 2010/10/14 Ulrike Fischer wrote: >> >> I don't have a context currently to try, but what would happen if >> you use it e.g. this way: >> >> \usemodule[translate] >> \translateinput[im][mm] >> >> \enableinputtranslation >> >> \starttext\tt >> \scratchdimen=2mm 2mm: \the\scratchdimen\crlf >> \scratchdimen=1im 1im: \the\scratchdimen >> immens >> \stoptext >> >> Would this replace every occurence of "im" in the input? Including >> the "im" in \scratchdimen, the "im" in the second 1im and the "im" >> in immens? > > Yes. This is why I said that the solution cannot work out-of-the-box > (it could work for a limited number of cases). Another way is to use the string library from lua to replace μμ with mm: \unprotected\def\interfaceddimension#1% {\ctxlua{commands.interfaceddimension(\!!bs\detokenize{#1}\!!es)}} \startluacode function commands.interfaceddimension(str) if string.match(str,"\\") then -- dimension or macro else str = string.gsub(str,"μμ","mm") end tex.print(str) end \stopluacode \setupbodyfont[palatino] \starttext \def\foo{4mm} \def\bar{\textwidth} \scratchdimen\interfaceddimension{2mm} 2mm: \the\scratchdimen\crlf \scratchdimen\interfaceddimension{1μμ} 1μμ: \the\scratchdimen\crlf \scratchdimen\interfaceddimension\foo foo: \the\scratchdimen\crlf \scratchdimen\interfaceddimension\bar bar: \the\scratchdimen \stoptext Wolfgang

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TLContrib is ready for testing
by Taco Hoekwater 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hello all, Please, if you have moment to spare, have a good look at the TLContrib website and associated repository: http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/ The system should now be ready for the initial kickoff (I hope). Mojca, Hans and me have already tried and tested various things, but it is quite likely that there are still bugs. I decided to post to a small group of people before doing an announcement on tex-live(a)tug.org / c.t.t hoping that perhaps more people can have a look, and that the remaining bugs can then be fixed before 'normal' users start using the site. Please also let me know what you think could be improved, but before you suggest extra features, have a look at the page below to make sure your suggestion is not planned already: http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/todo.html Best wishes, Taco PS Mojca: I deleted your luatex darwin package to get a fresh start in the distribution database, sorry. Please, can you re-add it?

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[***SPAM***] http://wiki.contextgarden.net - Contact needed
by Martin Vermont 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

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