December 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Fwd: Former Y&Y Lucida fonts available from TUG
by Brooks Moses 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

Hello! The following message was posted to comp.text.tex yesterday; I thought some of you who don't read the newsgroup regularly would like to hear about it, and so I'm passing it along. For those who haven't been following the story: Since the demise of Y&Y, there hasn't been a place to obtain a legal copy of their Lucida font distribution, which was the only place to get the Lucida New Math fonts needed for doing TeX math properly in Lucida. TUG has been in negotiations with the relevant copyright holders for a while in order to be able to distribute the fonts; this has finally come to fruition, and the fonts are now available again -- for prices considerably lower than what I gather Y&Y charged, and with a license that allows embedding the fonts in PDF files. - Brooks ======================================================================== Subject: Lucida fonts available from TUG Date: 10 Dec 2005 15:26:44 -0800 From: Karl Berry <karl(a)tug.org> Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Hi everyone, The Lucida fonts are now available through TUG; visit http://tug.org/lucida if you're interested. In short, the "complete set" offered by TUG is exactly the same 41 Lucida fonts which Y&Y sold. (The pfb's are completely unchanged.) There is also a "basic set" with 22 fonts -- all the math fonts and the essential text fonts. Both individual and site licenses are available. There is a substantial discount for TUG members. Due to legal and overhead considerations, we aren't currently planning to offer the fonts one at a time, or in any other bundles. Hopefully the price is low enough that this will not be a significant problem. The Lucida TeX support metrics and lucidabr (psnfssx) macros have been (slightly) updated. They have been uploaded to CTAN and should appear there in due course. Of course all the support files are included in the downloads from tug; they're on CTAN primarily for the benefit of Y&Y users who already have the fonts. We have also established a mailing list lucida(a)tug.org for user questions, suggestions, bug reports, etc. Please feel free to post and/or join. http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/lucida A separate address, lucida-admin(a)tug.org, should be used for licensing, billing, and other such admin questions. Font samples, documentation, and more are available on the web site. Although we still expect to offer a license upgrade for Y&Y users, this has proven legally complicated, so it's not online quite yet. I'll post again when it is ready; it might be a few more weeks, given the holidays (and lawyers' usual working pace, anyway :). I didn't want this to delay making the fonts available, so decided to go ahead. Major thanks to Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes for generously allowing TUG to offer this to the TeX community - and especially for designing this remarkable typeface in the first place. Also thanks to Walter Schmidt for creating and updating the TeX font support files, PCTeX for sponsoring him and allowing his work to be redistributed, and to Morten Hoegholm for working on the samples and other TeXnical help. Happy Lucida holidays, Karl (R) Lucida is a trademark of Bigelow & Holmes Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and other jurisdictions.

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An idea
by Zeljko Vrba 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

A motivation and idea that came to mind while writing a post to comp.text.tex: == Then again, most (all?) of publishers require Latex source, if my document ever makes it that far.. And Latex has nicer source code formatting than Context. so I'm really split between Latex and Context.. None of them individually fit all (I admit, vague) requirements.. Context being able to chew up Latex .cls files and still allowing for its advanced formatting directives, long tables, and other goodies would be a perfect match. == Basically, rewrite standard Latex environments and commands (\chapter, \section, itemize, enumerate, etc..) present in article.cls and report.cls to expand to Context commands that give an equivalent layout.. How much work would it be? Either a Latex emulation environment or a new implementation of "Latex classes" for Context? I have to admit that I don't have time to start implementing either. I'm just interested in some feasibility opinions.. 80% of Latex<>Context transition can be done with a few simple regexes. Other 20% have to be translated by hand, and it is very painful, esp. if tables are in question..

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Blasphemy-)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Dear gang, I am now on WinXP now (up from W2000) and only use mswincontext.zip for my TeX'ing needs. However, I need to install LaTeX for legacy purposes (mainly Lambda/Aleph critical edition stuff). fpTeX is gone, I can't find XemTeX (broken link https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/downloads/xemtex-0.5-rc0.msi ) so I guess that leaves MiKTeX. Any advice on choosing/installing a minimal LaTeX distribution? Updated links? Sorry for the sacrilege-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Chinese
by Duncan Hothersall 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Tobias Burnus asks: > What would be needed to get UTF-8 input running with Chinese? If there is a recipe, I would like to help cook it. Getting UTF-8 input running with Chinese would be a godsend to me too. Duncan

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mail delays
by Hans Hagen 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi, I'm away for a few days so there may be delays in answering mails Hans

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Output PDF version
by Mikael Persson 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi all, I just came across a situation where I must produce a pdf that has version 1.3 (or in worst case 1.4). I did not find anything on contextgarden or in the archives. Is there any ConTeXt command for this? I tried with \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=3 in the beginning of the file (as suggested on comp.text.tex), but still, acroread says it is a pdf version 1.5... /Micke P

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Re: (No subject header)
by Hans Hagen 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Shankar Ramaswamy wrote: > Dear Sir, > This is shankar, one of your many admirers. I beg your pardon for > disturbing you with my problem. > > I am a user of METAPOST. Lately I've started using your METAFUN. I > thank you, for it is more fun working with METAFUN. > > The problem is, the macro "drawpointlabels" works well and produced > the output as shown in metafun-p.pdf only in RedHat 9. But the labels > will not appear when the same program is run either in Fedora or > Slackware. I compared the macros present in RedHat 9 with those in > Fedora and Slackware. There seems no difference. > > Please suggest a solution to overcome this problem with porting the > program. > metafun assume at some points a cooperation between mp and tex, so maybe that piece is failing does texexec --automp --pdf yourfile work? (if this is time-critical, you can try the minimal linus distribution on the website) btw, best post this to the context mailing list since there may be fedora users out there Hans

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NTG bijeenkomst in Eindhoven
by Willi Egger 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Beste lezer, Op 16 decembar a.s. houdt de NTG de tweede bijeenkomst van 2005. Ook niet leden zijn van harte welkom. We ontmoeten elkaar op het volgende adres: Philips High Tech Campus Prof. Holstlaan 100 Building HTC 5656 AA Eindhoven Routebeschrijving: http://www.hightechcampus.nl/contact/ Programma: 10:00 Opening 10:05 Ledenvergadering 11:00 Hans Hagen: LuaTeX 11:30 Piet v. Oostrum: Nieuwe woordenlijst/samenwerking met Taalunie/OSOS/derden 12:00 Lunch 13:30 Taco Hoekwater: Condensed Latin Modern Monospaced 14:00 Maarten Sneep: TeX op de Mac, Mac-kelijker kan het niet 14:30 Ronald Rietman: TeX Point: PowerPointpresentaties met LaTeX 15:15 Theepauze 15:30 Ruimte voor vragen over TeX, verhalen van reislustige NTG-leden over de ontwikkelingen in de TeX-wereld en voor het uitwisselen van tips en gegevens. Dus laptop en memory-stick niet vergeten 16:30 Sluiting van de dag Ook wordt voor de inwendige mens gezorgd met koffie, thee en een lunch. Na afloop van de bijeenkomst nemen we een borrel. Voor wie zich heeft opgegeven volgt een gezamenlijk diner. Geef je op door een mailtje naar de secretaris (ntg-secretaris(a)ntg.nl) met opgave van de etensvoorkeur. Tot 16 december in Eindhoven, vriendelijke groeten Willi Egger Secretaris NTG

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Font Question
by Aditya Mahajan 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

I want to use palatino text with euler math in my document. This is how I proceed. 1. I downloaded latest mswincontext environment from pragma website. 2. To test if palatino works correctly, I tested the simple document. %--------- \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \switchtobodyfont[palatino,11pt] \starttext This is a test . \stoptext %--------------- Everything works fine, and the text is in pallatino (the urw clone). However, when I look at fonts included in the document, Latin Modern is also there. I am just curious as how LM got into the document, and can I get rid of it. 3. I am not sure on how to include euler. I looked at Euler in ConTeXt (using Euler math font) by Adam Lindsay. I already have eulervm vf and tfm directories in $TEXMF/fonts/tfm/public/eulervm and $TEXMF/fonts/vf/public/eulervm There is a math-eul.tex at $TEXMFLOCAL/tex/context/base. The My Way by Adam says that I also need type-eul.tex, but I do not know where to get it from. I tried %----------------- \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \switchtobodyfont[palatino,11pt] \usetypescriptfile[type-eul] \usetypescript[eul] \switchtobodyfont[eul] \starttext This is a test and $a = b$. \stoptext %--------------------- I do not get any errors while compiling, but the math is not euler. The output is same if I comment the three lines containing eul. The log is at the end of the email. I do not really understand how fonts in Context work. Can someone please explain what is going wrong and how can I get pallatino+euler working. Thanks Aditya %------------log---------------- This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.5) (format=cont-en 2005.11.30) 7 DEC 2005 17:43 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. **test.tex \emergencyend (./test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.11.30 fmt: 2005.11.30 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex color : palette rollover is available ) system : cont-old loaded (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns nl->texnansi:texnansi->1->2:2 nl->ec:ec->2->2:2 fr-> texnansi:texnansi->3->2:2 fr->ec:ec->4->2:2 de->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:2 de->e c:ec->6->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->7->2:2 it->ec:ec->8->2:2 pt->texnansi:texna nsi->9->2:2 pt->ec:ec->10->2:2 hr->ec:ec->11->2:2 pl->pl0:pl0->12->2:2 pl->ec:e c->13->2:2 pl->qx:qx->14->2:2 cz->il2:il2->15->2:2 cz->ec:ec->16->2:2 sk->il2:i l2->17->2:2 sk->ec:ec->18->2:2 sl->il2:il2->19->2:2 sl->ec:ec->20->2:2 en->ec:e c->22->2:2 da->ec:ec->23->2:2 sv->ec:ec->24->2:2 af->ec:ec->25->2:2 no->ec:ec-> 26->2:2 deo->ec:ec->27->2:2 uk->ec:ec->28->2:2 us->ec:ec->29->2:2 es->ec:ec->30 ->2:2 ca->ec:ec->31->2:2 la->ec:ec->32->2:2 ro->ec:ec->33->2:2 tr->ec:ec->34->2 :2 fi->ec:ec->36->2:2 hu->ec:ec->37->2:2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `test.tui'. system : test.top loaded (./test.top specials : loading definition file tpd (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) \openout0 = `test-mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-buy.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-buy.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-buy.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-buy.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-buy.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (e:\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-buy.tex)) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) systems : begin file test at line 8 fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using map file: ec-public-lm fonts : using map file: ec-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-public-lm fonts : using map file: texnansi-base fonts : using map file: texnansi-urw-palatino fonts : using map file: original-youngryu-px fonts : using map file: texnansi-public-lm [1.1{e:\context\tex\texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-empty.map}{e: \context\tex\texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base.map}{e:\context \tex\texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ec-public-lm.map}{e:\context\tex\texm f-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ec-base.map}{e:\context\tex\texmf-local/fonts/ map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base.map}{e:\context\tex\texmf-local/fonts/map/ pdftex/context/original-public-lm.map}{e:\context\tex\texmf-local/fonts/map/pdf tex/context/texnansi-base.map}{e:\context\tex\texmf-fonts/fonts/map/pdftex/cont ext/texnansi-urw-palatino.map}{e:\context\tex\texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/cont ext/original-youngryu-px.map}{e:\context\tex\texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/conte xt/texnansi-public-lm.map}] systems : end file test at line 10 ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 2006 strings out of 211042 39210 string characters out of 1373258 2535649 words of memory out of 4043974 38107 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+75000 160348 words of font info for 122 fonts, out of 1000000 for 2000 232 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 45i,18n,61p,334b,632s stack positions out of 10000i,500n,6000p,200000b,40000s PDF statistics: 16 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 <e:\context\tex\texmf/fonts/type1/public/pxfonts/rpxr.pfb>{e:\context\tex\tex mf/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc}<e:\context\tex\texmf/fonts/type1/urw/palatino/u plri8a.pfb>{e:\context\tex\texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/base/texnansi.enc}<e:\context\ tex\texmf/fonts/type1/urw/palatino/uplr8a.pfb>{e:\context\tex\texmf/fonts/enc/d vips/lm/lm-ec.enc}<e:\context\tex\texmf/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmr12.pfb> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 35542 bytes).

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\totalnumberofpages & texexec --pages=1:2
by Tobias Burnus 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hi, I use 'texexec --batch --pages=1:2' and "Page \pagenumber\ of \totalnumberofpages". What I get is: "Page 1 of 1" and "Page 2 of 2". I of cause like to see: "Page 1 of 2". Any ideas how to get this? Tobias

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