December 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

active strings in luatex?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Dear Hans and Taco, This may be of general interest to the Europeans (and indirectly relates to the \sh@ft email): I need the following: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH TILDE;004C 0303 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH TILDE;006C 0303 The proposal is still under consideration for lithuanian and not yet in unicode. In luatex can I make a definition such that such that the string U004C U0303 (l ̃) is always treated as l with tilde above, taking into account italics and without using \~l (which does not work in, eg, footnote)? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Opportunity to include ConTeXt code into a LaTeXe environment
by cyberplaque 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi @ all, I'm glad about the opportunities ConTeXt gives me to create Coverpages. Now that I have a working example of a coverpage my question is, if it is possible to include that ConTeXt-code into Latex to create a book. If yes, how is the procedure to do so. Kind regards Martin

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luatex and context for Debian
by Norbert Preining 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Dear all, I have updated luatex and context so currently I can even run MkIV documents ;-) Debian/sid users should have them already. Debian/etch users should get luatex 0.20.2-1 from deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex/ Currently I have only i386 packages, but will build amd64 for etch soon. And maybe powerpc builds can be organized. For context 2007.12.18-1 please add deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/ Just for completeness, it is good to have: texlive: deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ tl2007/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ src/ latin modern: deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ lmodern/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ lmodern/ For Ubuntu users of the development version (i.e., that tracking sid more or less) luatex can be found at deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex-sid/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ luatex-sid/ Please comment if you find something missing. Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HASSOP (n.) The pocket down the back of an armchair used for storing two-shilling bits and pieces of Lego. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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escaping filenames with externalfigure
by Santy, Michael 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Is there a way to escape special characters in filenames passed to externalfigure. I'm encountering the situation where users are choosing images that may contain brackets or curly braces (e.g., flower[1].jpg or flower{1}.jpg). If I pass filename containing these characters directly to externalfigure, the closing bracket is mistaken for the end of the filename. \externalfigure[flower{1}.jpg] % works \externalfigure[flower[1].jpg] % doesn't work I then tried to define a variable that holds the filename and pass that variable to externalfigure, but it ran into problems with curly braces. \def\myimagefilename{flower[1].jpg} \externalfigure[\myimagefilename] % works \def\myimagefilename{flower{1}.jpg} \externalfigure[\myimagefilename] % doesn't work Does anyone have any idea how I could handle arbitrary filename inputs that contain brackets and curly braces? Cheers, Mike

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ConTeXt-ifying Kile
by Matija Šuklje 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hullo, I've already mentioned that Kate/Kwrite and with that also Kile have a working ConTeXt syntax highlighting file available on kde-files.org What I'm trying to do now is including ConTeXt commands autocompletion in Kile. What I would need for that is a list of the commands (see attachment for more info). I seem to recall someone mentioned a texexec command to list all of these. This would be of great help to me and all the (future) Kile users. I can then edit the .cwl file myself and bug the Kile devs to include it — all I need is (how to get) the list of the ConTeXt commands. Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje

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old style nums
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Dear gang, What is the official way to get old style numerals in 11pt in mkiv? I'm just using lm. Thnx in advance! Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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ppchtex german language compiling problems
by Martin Scholz 02 Jan '08

02 Jan '08

Hi there, I'm new to ConTeXt and found out how nice it is to construct coverpages. So it would be nice to have an opportunity to include the whole procedure into an LaTeXe environment. As far as I already read up to now there is now possibility. But today I think I found a bug in the german version of ppchtex. I used the following little script to set an example formula. The used code is the following: \verwendemodule[pictex,chemie] \starttext \stellechemieein[breite=passend,oben=1500,unten=3500] \startchemie \chemie[ONE,Z0,DB1,SB3,SB7,Z3,Z7,MOV1,Z0,SB1,SB3,Z3,MOV1,Z0,DB1,SB3,Z3,MO V1,Z0,SB3,SB7,Z3,Z7][C,H,H,C,H,C,H,C,H,H] \textunter{1,3-Butadieen} \stopchemie \stoptext with the following commands I got the same errormessages. texexec --dvi --mainlanguage=de chemie.tex texexec --ps --mainlanguage=de chemie.tex texexec --pdf --mainlanguage=de chemie.tex texexec --mainlanguage=de chemie.tex The resulting errormessage is the following: TeXExec | processing document 'chemie.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file chemie.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1016 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-de This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./chemie.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2007.12.29 int: german/german Sprache : Sprache de ist aktiv system : cont-new geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii)) system : cont-old geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) Fliesstext : 12pt rm ist geladen Sprache : Trennmuster en->ec:ec->1->2:2 uk->ec:ec->2->2:2 de->texnansi: texnansi->3->2:2 de->ec:ec->4->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:2 fr->ec:ec->6-> 2:2 es->ec:ec->7->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:2 nl->ec:ec->9->2:2 it->texna nsi:texnansi->10->2:2 it->ec:ec->11->2:2 deo->ec:ec->12->2:2 geladen spezielles : tex,postscript,rokicki geladen system : chemie.top geladen (./chemie.top check : Fehlendes '=' nach 'de' in Zeile 8 (@@lade) spezielles : lade Definitionsdatei dvi (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-dvi.tex) spezielles : tex geladen spezielles : lade Definitionsdatei ps (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-ps.tex) spezielles : tex,postscript geladen spezielles : lade Definitionsdatei tr (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-tr.tex) spezielles : tex,postscript,rokicki geladen ) systems : system commands are disabled system : Modul pictex geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/m-pictex.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/thrd-pic.tex)) system : Modul chemic geladen (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/m-chemic.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/ppchtex.tex ppchtex : using PiCTeX and MetaPost )) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/sort-def.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex) (./chemie.tuo) (./chemie.tuo) systems : begin file chemie at line 4 [MP as EPS ./chemie-mpgraph.4000] [MP color conversion ./chemie-mpgraph.4000 ! Argument of \dodohandleMPcolor has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \includeMPasEPS ...\the \!!heightb }\doinsertfile }\wd \scratchbox \!!widthb... \loadMPgraphic ...Pgraphics \insertMPfile {#1}{#2} \fi } \doloadcurrentMPgraphic ...\currentMPgraphic }{#1} \deallocateMPslot \current... \getMPdrawing ...Pgraphic \loadcurrentMPgraphic {} \deallocateMPslot \current... ... l.10 \stopchemie Would be nice if somebody has an idea how to solve the problem or where something went wrong in the code. Another question is how I could get ppchtex to work in a LaTeXe-environment. Would be nice if there also would be the possibility to load the german version. Thanks to all for there help and have a happy new year everybody. Martin

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Is contextgarden.net down?
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Jan '08

01 Jan '08

Hello, Is contextgarden.net down? I cannot access it. Vyatcheslav

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logos in luatex
by Idris Samawi Hamid 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Dear consortium, Logos blow up in luatex (example below). Is there a workaround, or another method that I should use? Best wishes Idris ========================= % engine=luatex \setuphead[title][after={\placelogos[ijss]}] \definelogo[ijss][footer][left][command=$\aleph$] \starttext \title{Test} \stoptext ========================= layout : calculating logospace ! LuaTeX error ...onTeXt/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/attr-ini.lua:262: stack overflow. \finalizeobjectbox ...s_page(tex.box[\number #1])} \finalizeshipoutbox ...ctbox \finalizedshipoutbox \hbox {\ctxlua {states.flu... \actualshipout ...0\hbox {\finalizeshipoutbox {#1} }\setbox \scratchbox \hbox... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...agebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... ... l.9 \stoptext -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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What's the ps_name of AdobeMingStd-Light?
by Zhichu Chen 31 Dec '07

31 Dec '07

Hi, I searched the mail list for a while and I got that if I didn't specify the font file, it will not be embeded and Acrobat Reader will just use its own fonts to show the characters. I want to make some Chinese documents and I think if I don't embed any fonts, it will be much smaller than it used to be. And there is a cool font AdobeMingStd-Light.otf coming along with Acrobat Reader so I wish I can use it. I converted it to ttf and then tfm files (I don't know whether it is legal) and write the map file like: ================================ uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-00 "Adobe Ming Std" " Unicode00Encoding ReEncodeFont " <uni-00.enc ================================ I think the first column is for the tfm files, and I do get the uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-00.tfm to uni-AdobeMingStd-Light-ff.tfm files. And the second column is for the PS name of the font. I really don't know how to write it because it has spaces in it, and when I replaced it with another PS name that has no spaces or other special characters in it, say SimSun as a common Simplified Chinese font in Windows, it worked fine. So, any suggestions? -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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