December 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

new release
by Thomas A. Schmitz 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Oops, I was too fast upgrading... luatex fails to produce format files on my system: luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.0-2007120515 luatools --ini --compile cont-en LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-en LuaTools | using library path : /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/ context/base LuaTools | using lua libraries: l-string.lua l-table.lua l-boolean.lua l-number.lua l-unicode.lua l-md5.lua l-os.lua l-io.lua l-file.lua l- dir.lua l-utils.lua l-tex.lua luat-lib.lua luat-inp.lua luat-tmp.lua luat-zip.lua luat-tex.lua LuaTools | using compiled initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "/usr/ local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \dump Error in lua file loading: ?:0: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.37 seconds Taco, Hans? All best Thomas

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synonyms with MKIV
by Peter Münster 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hello, I get unexpected output with this test-file: % engine=luatex \definesynonyms[test][tests] \test{testOne}{first test} \test{testTwo}{second test} \starttext \testOne \placelistoftests \stoptext I would expect: testOne testOne first test but I get: testOne test testOne (Perhaps a problem with parameter numbers #1, #2 etc. ?) Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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gettimeofday under XP
by Peter Rolf 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hi, I run into the following error with the new version: 'luatools --generate' results in Error in lua file loading: r:\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\luatools.lua:1402: attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value) There seems to be no 'os.gettimeofday' under Windows XP. This patch of luatools.lua works here (better check twice) :D if os.gettimeofday then os.clock = os.gettimeofday local startuptime = os.gettimeofday() function os.runtime() return os.gettimeofday() - startuptime end end -- if os.gettimeofday then -- os.clock = os.gettimeofday -- end -- do -- local startuptime = os.gettimeofday() -- function os.runtime() -- return os.gettimeofday() - startuptime -- end -- end Best wishes, Peter

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awful vertical spacing with MKIV
by Peter Münster 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hello, When comparing the vertical spacing (around section-heads) of the following test file, you'll see that it's not very beautiful with MKIV: \starttext \dorecurse{5}{ \section{sec} \subsection{subsec} \input tufte \subsection{subsec} \starttabulate[|l|l|] \NC bla \NC bla \NC\AR \NC bla \NC bla \NC\AR \stoptabulate \subsection{subsec} \startitemize \item bla \item bla \item bla \item bla \item bla \stopitemize \subsection{subsec} \setupTABLE[split=yes] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD bla \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD bla \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD bla \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD bla \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD bla \eTD\eTR \eTABLE} \stoptext Versions used: luaTeX-0.11.2 and ConTeXt-2007.09.28 Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hello, I have noticed that ConTeXt uses "gr" for Greek, but the ISO code seems to be "el". Less problematic: should agr be grc instead? (OpenType uses PGR, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.) What do the Greek experts say? Well, English is a story on its own. "us" and "uk" don't have their own codes as a separate language, and even worse: uk should stand for Ukrainian!!! "Norwegian" (which is not a language at all) should be patched (according to an old user request) once. A similar problem exists with: - Chinese (cn instead of zn) - Czech (cz instead of cs) - Vietnamese (vn instead of vi) - Ukrainian (ua instead of uk!!!) A case where I have no opinion: - deo Some languages have already changed their codes in the past: - Spanish: sp -> es - German: du -> de - Slovenian: si -> sl (no trace left, I hope :) My proposal would be to change: - gr -> el - agr -> grc - cz -> cs - vn -> vi - deo -> ? (if at all) gmh - German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500) goh - German, Old High (ca.750-1050) - cn -> zn (with *lots of care*) And to keep all the needed synonyms. (Besides that: to issue a warning if possible.) I have no idea what to do with Ukrainian and UK though. ------------- Another issue: some languages need some little modifications or alternatives: 1.) In German, Slovenian, Croatian, (maybe in other languages as well) ... one can use two types of quotes: - „" U+201E/U+201C & ‚' U+201A/U+2018 (sorry, a bug in gmail reencodes them) - »« U+00BB/U+00AB & ›‹ U+203A/U+2039 It might make sense to be able to say something similar to \mainlanguage [german] [quotes | quotationmarks | quotationstyle = guillemots | guillemets or comma | ninesix] 2.) I could imagine a Serbian user to request being able to typeset in two scritpts (Latin or Cyrillic). That means: - different labels - loading different hyphenation patterns (even though transcription in either direction can be made on the fly - I can confirm that a user has already asked me if I know how to input text in cyrillic and get output in latin - as he wasn't fluent in reading Cyrillic, he wanted to misuse ConTeXt to help him read texts from web) So I could imagine making Cyrillic the default script, but still letting one to use \mainlanguage [serbian] [script=latin, % or even (if any user would be enthusiastic enough to provide code) transliteration=on] and get latin labels and hyphenation patterns. 3.) Solve the problem with English in a more elegant way: \mainlanguage [english] [alternative=us] or \mainlanguage[en][US] % as in "en_US.UTF-8" \mainlanguage[en][GB] \mainlanguage[en][AU] \mainlanguage[de][AT] % if one ever figures out that "German from Germany" isn't good enough Then, [us] should be kept as a synonym for \mainlanguage[en][US]. (The examples above could also be called via \mainlanguage[de][alternative=guillemets] or \mainlanguage[sr][alternative=latin].) 4.) deo \mainlanguage[de][alternative=old] ??? (no idea what that is about) Note that 1.) could be combined (should be "combinable") with this one. Any thoughts? Mojca

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\BL and \CL with MKIV
by Peter Münster 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hello, there are 2 problems with the example from the wiki: \BL gives a black box and \CL gives the following error: ! Missing \endgroup inserted. <inserted text> \endgroup <to be read again> \endtemplate <template> \endtemplate \normalTABLEmultirule #1->& \use {#1}\normalTABLElongrule & \dodocomplexTableGL ...LEmultirule {#3}}\fi \next \doPostTableGL #2 \TABLEgrayline ->\complexTableCOLOR [2,green] \SR ... l.13 \NC \tex{AR} \NC automatic row\NC\SR Here the test file: % engine=luatex \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \starttable[|l|l|] \HL \BL[1]\SR \NC Command \NC Meaning \NC\SR \HL \NC \tex{NC} \NC next column \NC\FR \NC \tex{NR} \NC next row \NC\LR \HL %\CL[green]\SR \NC \tex{AR} \NC automatic row\NC\SR \HL \stoptable \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Newbie Question about Installing on Mac OS X
by Ole Schmidt 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Dear List, I failed to install ConTeXt. I have no experience with ...-Tex. Is there a description somewhere how to install ConteXt on Mac OS X? Do I really need that very big (~ 1.2 Gb) LaTex (MacTex) to install? And if yes how do I concatenate them? (I've took a look at the unix- script from the minimal Mac OS X Installation Download but did not understand if there have to be a folder called tex in the /usr/local/ directory or if the script do create one?) I do know very few about these things so I'am very greatful for some more detailed hints. thank you very much ole

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patch to bibl-ams.tex
by Peter I. Hansen 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hi I'm typesetting a document using the context bib/bibltx modules and the 'ams' style. In the printed bibliography, entries with many authors are converted into: "Hansen et al." as they should, but printed as: "Hansenet al." which looks bad. My output looks much better using the following very simple tweak of the file 'bibl-ams.tex' 99c99 < \c!artauthoretaltext={ {\it et al.\/}}] --- > \c!artauthoretaltext={ {\it\ et al.\/}}] Just wanted to post is in case someone finds this handy. -Peter

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Options file for context
by Maurício 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hi, Is there some kind of file where I can list default options for texexec? For instance, I usually use --purgeall, and would like it to be default in my user environment. Thanks, Maurício

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extending the value of a key
by Peter Münster 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hello, I remember, that there is a new mechanism to extend the value of a key, but I forgot how it works. Example to show what I'm searching for: Instead of writing "\setuptyping[style=\doresetattribute{spacing}\tt]" I would prefer something like "\setuptyping[style+=\doresetattribute{spacing}]" Could someone help please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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