November 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

XeTeX and built-in glyph generation
by Philipp Reichmuth 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, I have a question regarding ConTeXt, XeTeX and the use of Unicode fonts with diacritic characters which I use quite a lot. (Note also that I'm a novice user.) Consider the following extreme example (using Gentium <http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=gentium>): ------------------- \definetypeface[lucida][rm][Xserif][Lucida Bright] \definetypeface[gentium][rm][Xserif][Gentium] \setupbodyfont[gentium] \starttext Ṯḥíş ıš ā pìėçẹ ȯf ṭēxt. \stoptext ------------------- If you typeset this with 'texexec --xtx', you get very different results with Gentium vis-a-vis Lucida because of the different glyph repertoires of both fonts. This is a bit unsatisfactory because ConTeXt has all the logic already in place to construct most of these these from base characters plus accents where needed. Of course I can go through my Unicode text manually and change all the missing characters to something like \={e}, but that is not a good solution either; having to sift through your entire document because your publisher demands a different font makes you feel more than a bit stupid :) Is there a way to tell ConTeXt what Unicode characters are available in a font and which ones it has to build using TeX's accent functions? I guess in the above example it would be difficult because no regime gets loaded at all. What would be ideal in my case would be a configurable UTF-8 regime where I could specify the following on a per-typeface basis: - character[ range]s which get passed directly to the underlying engine (useful mainly with XeTeX and possibly with Aleph/Omega) - character[ range]s which get constructed from accents - character[ range]s which get used from a different typescript; for example if I have passages or quotations in a script which isn't available in my typescript, it would be nice to say that "all IPA/Greek/Old Church Slavonic" should come from a substitution typescript where these scripts are available and look good. Is such a thing possible? Philipp

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yesterday's beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Just to let you know that yesterday's beta has the same flaw that I reported a few days ago: something is wring with texutil.rb; the index it generates is incorrect. I get lots of warnings about "duplicate references" and these error messages at the end of the run: TeXUtil | parsing file translation.tui TeXUtil | fatal error in plugin (processing): undefined method `rjust' for 0:Fixnum /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:619:in `build' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:845:in `processor' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:844:in `each_index' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:844:in `processor' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:835:in `each' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:835:in `processor' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:127:in `processors' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:125:in `each' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:125:in `processors' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ texutil.rb:1017:in `processed' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1577:in `runtexutil' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1570:in `each' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1570:in `runtexutil' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1854:in `processfile' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1086:in `processtex' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1085:in `timedrun' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1085:in `processtex' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1082:in `each' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/base/ tex.rb:1082:in `processtex' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb: 61:in `process' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb: 51:in `main' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb: 759:in `send' /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb: 759 Also, texexec processes the file many many times; this didn't use to be the case. Best Thomas

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ConTeXt installation problem using i-installer(v 2.85)
by Dalyoung Jeong 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Dear all, Yesterday, I updated ConTeXt using i-installer(V 2.84). It worked fine with XeTeX too. I am able to make presentation using ConTeXt + XeTeX which was not possible before. Today I tried to update ConTeXt in Mac located in school. At this time, I used the upgraded i-installer(V 2.85). But it didn't ask me the permission(no Authenticate window). So it couldn't have a write permission in the directory /usr/local/teTeX/. I got the warning/ error message, "/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local is not writablle. I cannot change a nonwritable TeX. Bailing out...". Hence I couldn't install ConTeXt. What do I have to do to complete the installation? Thank you. Dalyoung

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A new manual
by John R. Culleton 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a common index. The 2001 manual is great, but many of the features discussed daily here are not in it. One must chase around the wiki and the individual manuals like "details", and that is not satisfactory from the point of view of the new user. Most of us have memorized the locations of key information but newcomers have not. If a consolidated manual set were offered for sale there would be a lot of customers. Or an abridged version, something like the 1999 Excursion manual but expanded and updated, would be a possibility. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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pdfTeX-1.40 does not find format
by Peter Münster 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hello, I try to use the beta versions of ConTeXt and pdfTeX now and I find the following issue (on latest TeX-live): with "TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}" in texmf.cnf and pdfTeX-1.40.XXX, texexec --make writes the formats to texmf-config/web2c/pdfetex but pdftex looks only into texmf-config/web2c A symbolic link from texmf-config/web2c/cont-en.fmt to pdfetex/cont-en.fmt solves the problem. Is this issue already known and is there perhaps a better solution? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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temporary solution - Re: ConTeXt installation problem...
by Dalyoung 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Dear all, After changing the mode of texmf.local as writable, I was able to update the ConTeXt. However, it is not the normal installation. Still ImageMagick and \externalfigure are not working properly. I don't know why it is not working in this notebook(G4) only. Thank you. Dalyoung

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Re: [NTG-context] Page number alignment in \placecontent
by Ángel Luis García Fernández 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hi again, you were right, Maarten-Jan. The problem was the following: \setupindenting[medium] I like the first line of each paragraph to be indented, so I put the above command in my "general config" file. The undesired effect is that it also indented the index lines, shifting them to the right. That's the reason why the page numbers appeared in the right margin (is this a bug? I mean, should ConTeXt break the index line instead of put the number in the margin?). Now I have moved the \setupindenting command to the body section of my document, and the \setuplist options you wrote in the previous e-mail work ok (I forgot the "criterium=all" in the \setupcombinedlist command). Thanks for your help, Ángel Luis > From: "M.J. Kallen" <mj_kallen(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 28, Issue 76 > Angel-Luis, > > I'm not sure why you do not get a table of contents, maybe try to add > criterium=all to the \setupcombinedlist command and see if that works? > Also, you have used \placecontent, which you can use instead of > \completecontent. > > I've tried your settings using the live ConTeXt on the wiki and it works > without the page numbers in the margin. Looking at your sample file, the > lines with the sections are somehow shifted to the right. It is not > possible to see why this is happening. Are you shure you have not added > something somewhere to change the appearance of the list? > > Maarten-Jan > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: ?ngel Luis Garc?a Fern?ndez <algarcia(a)ujaen.es> > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:16:24 AM > > > I tried that, but then nothing appears (empty index) > > Angel-Luis > > > Hi Angel-Luis, > > > > looks like you want a LaTeX-like table of contents. I achieved what I > > think you want to achieve as well, using the following commands: > > > > % setup table of contents > > \setupcombinedlist[content][alternative=c,level=section] > > > > % margins, widths and distances are setup such that section lines line up > > with chapter text (change to your liking!) > > \setuplist[chapter][margin=0mm,width=6mm,distance=2mm,style=bold,aligntit > >le =yes,before=\blank] > > \setuplist[section][margin=8mm,width=6mm,distance=2mm] > > > > % place the following in the relevant location > > \completecontent > > > > Hope this ends up looking like you want it to! > > > > Maarten-Jan > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: ?ngel Luis Garc?a Fern?ndez <algarcia(a)ujaen.es> > > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:16:21 PM > > Subject: [NTG-context] Page number alignment in \placecontent > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > sorry for bothering you with this, but I have a problem: I like this > > style for my Index: > > > > \setuplist[chapter][style=bold] > > > > \placecontent[level=section, > > alternative=c, > > criterium=all, > > aligntitle=yes] > > > > But then the section page numbers are placed in the right margin of the > > page instead of in the text area as the chapter page numbers are. (if you > > want a sample: http://wwwdi.ujaen.es/~algarcia/page.pdf . It's just 16 > > KB) > > > > How can I manage to keep all the index structure while moving the section > > page numbers to the left? > > > > ?ngel-Luis > > _______________________________________________ > > ntg-context mailing list > > ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ntg-context mailing list > > ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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Error in m-narrowtt
by Aditya Mahajan 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hi Hans, \usemodule[narrowtt] \starttext \ntype{test} \stoptext gives the following warning: check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'typing' in line 35 (@@tpntypi ng) check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'type' in line 36 (@@tyntype) The last two lines (well, it has only three lines) of m-narrowtt.tex should be \definetyping[n\v!typing][style=\narrowtt] \definetype [n\v!type] [style=\narrowtt] Aditya

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