December 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Last luatex + mkiv
by luigi scarso 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Last luatex compile well, and I have made my first big pdf with it: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/modules.pdf#Luatex (757 pages) . Also I have compiled a "normal" document from zs, and also it seems also ok (it hangs with a previous release). -- luigi http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/Merry_Christmas_2007 .... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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no ctx file found
by Hans van der Meer 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

After starting afresh after an os update and much trouble in getting all those texmf.cnf parameters in order followed by context specialities, I finally managed to get the cont-en.fmt in /usr/local/ texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt. But now (running in TeXShop) typesetting will not occur: TeXExec | processing document 'test.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file test.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1100 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.5 (Web2C 7.5.6) \write18 enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) TeXExec | runtime: 0.601367 In texmf.cnf I have TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}// (worked in the past) What's wrong here? Hans van der Meer

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[Dev-luatex] beta 0.20.2 released
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hi all, I have just uploaded the archives for luatex 0.20.2. This is a simple bugfix release for last week's beta: * some portability fixes to the build scripts * a fix for multi-\span in alignments causing unbreakable loops * manual improvements from Jonathan Sauer * fix for undefined csnames in \directlua if web2c's hash_extra is nonzero * fix for LR text inside of a RL document * fix for open_read_file callback not being called unless find_read_file was also registered * removed the ocp status message when \ocps are not actually used * "unicodeenc" in the fontforge to_table renamed to "unicode" for improved consistency I have uploaded source and linux/win32 binaries to http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luatex/ Have fun, Taco

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TeX Live 2008: LuaTeX?
by Tobias Burnus 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hi all, does anyone know whether LuaTeX will be part of TeX Live 2008? If I browse the SVN correctly, it currently contains a 1 year old ConTeXt, checked in by Taco, and no LuaTeX. It would be great if at least an up-to-date ConTeXt and possible LuaTeX could be included. (Esp. since several Linux distributions have their TeX based on TeX Live and are reluctant to create extra packages.) Tobias

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color expansion at runtime
by Peter Rolf 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hi, I desperately need runtime defined colors (state dependent) for my macros. The macros are used with different graphic styles, which is the reason why I want to avoid any style dependent part inside them. To give you an example. I need something like this \color[{\StateDependentColor[stateA=green,stateC=blue,whatever=yellow,...]}] If flag 'stateA' is true at runtime, then color 'green' is used (and so on; order is significant). I have written such a macro, but sadly it crashes when used inside \color or \definecolor. Tried to debug it, but this is my first experience with the trace commands (probably not the best example to start with). Sigh, still so much to learn.. :) Any hints are welcome. Regards, Peter \setuppagenumber[state=stop] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[colorA] [red] \definecolor[colorB] [green] \definecolor[colorC] [blue] \newconditional\CondA \newconditional\CondB \newconditional\CondC \unprotect \def\GetStateDependentColor[#1]% {\bgroup \rawgetparameters[SDC@][A=,B=,C=,#1]% \def\MYdocommand##1% {\doifdefined{Cond##1} % conditional is known.. {\expandafter\ifconditional\csname Cond##1\endcsname % ..AND true.. \edef\CurrentColor{\csname SDC@##1\endcsname}\else \def\CurrentColor{}\fi \doifelsenothing\CurrentColor % ..AND a color is assigned \donefalse\donetrue}% \ifdone\CurrentColor\expandafter\quitcommalist\fi}% \processcommacommand[A,B,C]\MYdocommand % raw version does not work! why? \egroup} \protect \starttext \setfalse\CondA \settrue\CondB \settrue\CondC \tracingonline=1 %\tracingall=1 %\tracingmacros=1 %\tracingcommands=2 color is -\GetStateDependentColor[A=colorA,C=colorC]- % works so far %\tracingmacros=0 %\tracingall=0 % crashes %\tracingall=1 %\tracingmacros=1 %\tracingcommands=2 %\definecolor[testcolor][{\GetStateDependentColor[A=colorA,C=colorC]}] %\color[testcolor] %\color[{\GetStateDependentColor[A=colorA,C=colorC]}] %\expandafter\color\expandafter[\expandafter{\GetStateDependentColor[A=colorA,C=colorC]}] %\tracingall=0 TEST \stoptext

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chapter without number but in table of contents
by Patrick Gundlach 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hi, I know that this must be an faq and I seem to have lost my context knowledge: I'd like to get an unnumbered chapter, but it should appear in the table of contents. This is what I've tried so far: -------------- \completecontent [alternative=c] \definehead[mychapter][chapter] \setuphead [mychapter][number=no] \mychapter [sec:somechapter]{Some Chapter Without A Number} \input tufte ---------------- The chapter heading looks fine, but the entry is missing from the table of contents. Any idea? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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Customising Table of Contents
by Saji N. Hameed 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Dear All, Sorry this may be a trivial issue. The document I am preparing has two parts - a main one and appendices. In the table of contents (toc), I want to list chapter names and section names for the main part. However for the appendices, I want to list only the chapter names. I would appreciate any advice on how to achieve this. The toc should look like 1. Chapter 1 1.1 section 1 2. Chapter 2 2.1 section 2.2 section A. Appendix 1 B. Appendix 2 C. Appendix 3 Thanks in advance, saji -- Saji N. Hameed APEC Climate Center +82 51 668 7470 National Pension Corporation Busan Building 12F Yeonsan 2-dong, Yeonje-gu, BUSAN 611705 saji(a)apcc21.net KOREA

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HTML to Context with Regular Expressoin
by Jan Kraljič 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hello, I'm trying to create WYSWYG editor for Context. I started with FCKeditor which is great HTML WYSWYG. My idea was to use html code generated by FCKeditor than to use regular expression so ContexT. Thats giving me headache. In contextgarden I found some solution for changing HTM to ConTeXt but i didn't find any that would use regular expression. Now i wonder if there is any list of expressions for replacing HTML with ConTeXt or should I start somewhere on contextgarden and hope for help to complete. I believe that such replacement table can help few to thinking about using ConTeXt. Best regards, Jan -- Macs are for those who don't want to know why their computer works. Linux is for those who want to know why their computer works. DOS is for those who want to know why their computer doesn't work. Windows is for those who don't want to know why their computer doesn't work.

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filepath on format generation
by Hans van der Meer 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

I migrated my texlive2007 tree to a new disk and now I encounter permission difficulties on context format generation. Calling the bashrc alias: alias formats='texmfstart texexec --make en; texmfstart texexec --make --alone metafun After the normal (error) messages about ls-R updating I get a permission error: TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich' TeXExec | updating file database mktexlsr: Updating /Users/hans/Tex/texmf-private/ls-R... mktexlsr: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf: directory not writable. Skipping... <these are expected, no access for me to these directories> mktexlsr: Done. TeXExec | using tex engine pdftex TeXExec | using tex format path ./pdftex TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions and on calling the following alias: alias texversion='texmfstart texexec.pl --version; rm mpgraph.mp texvers-mpgraph.mp' I get: fmtutil: format directory `/web2c' does not exist. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt fmtutil: format directory `/web2c' does not exist. In my .bashrc I have: # TeX variables CONTEXT_RUBY=/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby TEX_HOME=/usr/local/texlive/2007 TEXMFCACHE=/Users/hans/Temp OSFONTDIR=/Library/Fonts TEXMFCNF=/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c TEXMF="{/Users/hans/Tex/texmf-private,/usr/local/texlive/texmf- context,/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,/ usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc,/usr/ local/texlive/2007/texmf-var}" TEXFORMATS=/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c nor did work: TEXFORMATS=/Users/hans/.texlive2007/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex The idea is to have the formats locally under .texlive2007 in my home directory. Can someone enlighten me where the base of respectively ./pdftex and / web2c is supposed to be? I thought I did set my environment variables just as I did previously, when it worked. Why suddenly these apparently incomplete paths? I MUST have some pathvariable WRONG, but which one is it? Hans van der Meer

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Flowed text around figures in columns
by Zeus Gómez Marmolejo 17 Dec '07

17 Dec '07

Hi, I have this code: \definecolumnset[example][n=3] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \input knuth \placefigure{}{\externalfigure[placeholder][width=170pt]} \input knuth \input knuth \stopcolumnset \stoptext I can't manage to tell context to flow the text around the picture in the second column. Is it possible? Thanks, Zeus.

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