August 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

OpenType typescripts
by Pascal de Bruijn 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi, I'm trying to write my own OpenType installation script. So far I have run otftotfm to install my fonts and create tfm files. Now I need to generate a typescript files, but the documentation I've read sofar puzzles me. >From a base font "AGaramond-Pro" containing three weights: - Regular - Semibold - Bold I generate two versions: - tabular lining figures - proportional old style figures Except for non-italic variants of Regular and Semibold which have two additional versions: - small caps + proportional old style figures - caps to small caps + small caps + proportional old style figures How should I write my typescript so I can easily choose between the versions of the fonts? Regards, Pascal de Bruijn -- http://blog.pcode.nl/ http://www.linkselente.nl/

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Installing MKiv
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi all, Following nice reports I read on the list as well as the mag-12 instructions I installed a context minimal linux distribution and lua-5.1.2. After everything seemed ok I lauch a compilation of this test-file (found on the wiki): % engine=luatex \starttext Hello from luatex \blank LUA \startlua a = 1.5 b = 1.8 c = a*b tex.print(c) \stoplua \stoptext But no pdf file appears, and here are some (hopefully) relevant parts of the compilation message: TeXExec | unable to fix backend map path TeXExec | running: luatools --fmt=cont-en test.tex LuaTools | using format name /cont-en.fmt LuaTools | no luc/lua with name /cont-en LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.09 seconds TeXUtil | unable to locate test.tui I do have cont-en.luc and cont-en.lua! tia -- Jean

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font file size
by zs 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hi all, while getting context/luatex to work, I experiment with fonts. I play with DejaVu fonts. I found that when I use DejaVuSerif.ttf I get what I want, but when I use DejaVuSans.ttf context produces nothing. It seems to process document without any error message and gives no pdf. I made some investigation and I guess it has something to do with file size of the font (DejaVuSerif.ttf-242KB, DejaVuSans.ttf-557KB). Result is the same for fonts from collection with similar size. Conversions with fontforge do not help. Is there any limit for size of font? Any other possible reason why? Thanks for suggestions. ZS

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texluac missing
by Hans van der Meer 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Calling "luatools --generate" the error "texluac: command not found" shows up. Where can I find texluac? I installed luatex as both luatex and texlua (why is this) but it seems not enough. Made luatex from the source (sh build.sh) but texluac does not show up in the result. Hans van der Meer

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trouble generating mkiv format
by Hans van der Meer 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

After installing context aug9 and starting up luatex I get the following tex error on luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en ... ) (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/regi-ini.tex (/usr/ local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/regi-ini.mkiv)) (/usr/ local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/enco-ini.tex loading : Context Encoding Macros (ini) encoding : coding def is loaded (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/enco-def.tex ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=93529]. \setvalue ...xpandafter \def \csname #1\endcsname <argument> ...aracterencoding \string cyrillicdze} {dze} \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 l.683 \definecharacter cyrillicdze {dze} ... etc. However, my texmf.cnf has: pool_size = 1250000 (standard texlive2007 values) What is wrong? Hans van der Meer

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Problem with XML entities in titles
by Richard Gabriel 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Hello Hans, I'd like to report a problem (bug) with XML entities in chapter or section titles. I've just upgraded to the recent ConTeXt version (2007.08.09) and started to get errors while processing the .tuo file. Please test the attached minimal example. During the second TeX run, I get the following error: --- cut --- (./test.tuo ! Misplaced alignment tab character &. <argument> This is a testing chapter \listtextcommand #1->\begstrut #1 \endstrut \doattributes ...sname #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4}\dostopattributes <argument> ...ry {This is a testing chapter}} \egroup \ifdim \wd 4=\zero... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dosomelistelement ...hss \dostoplistattributes }} \endgraf \nointerlineskip ... ... l.29 ...p;testing chapter}{2--0-1-0-0-0-0-0--2}{2} --- cut --- (find the complete log in attachment) Till today, I have been using ConTeXt version 2007.04.17 and it had worked fine! Thanks, Richard

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ConTeXt Support Package for Notepad++.
by Idris Samawi Hamid 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

Dear fellow gangsters, At long last, I have completed a ConTeXt setup package for Notepad++. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/images/8/87/Npp_ConTeXt.zip Some background: I come from the WinEdt world originally. However WinEdt, while a fantastic TeX editor (perhaps the best), has a couple of problems: a) Geared towards LaTeX; b) No utf-8 support present or immediately planned (at least when I was using it); c) No Right-to-left support present or immediately planned (at least when I was using it); a) is not really a problem; one could easily configure WinEdt to be ConTeXt editor, but b) and c) were showstoppers. Scite is nice, but seems to me to be a real regression when compared to WinEdt's features. Finally I came across Notepad++, hereafter called Npp (actually it was Hans who told me about it first). This is one amazing text editor. Like Scite, it is based on Scintilla. It is a programmer's editor, but for a non-programmer user like myself it is amazingly easy to configure. Like scite, it has utf-8 support. It also has global utf-8 support (as opposed to local utf-8 support which scintilla does not support). Npp is just loaded with features. It supports plugins, and some of the available plugins are now indispensable to me. For more information about Npp go to http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm ================================== For ConTeXt, I have implemented 1) Syntax highlighting. There are six kinds: a) \start-stops b) TeX primitives c) setups d) comments e) sectioning f) general ConTeXt commands g) operator arguments h) numbers 2) Folding a) Since discovering folding, my efficiency in writing long documents has really increased. All \start-stops are foldable, and you can easily add your own in the User-Defined-Language dialog; just select "ConTeXt" and you can edit all entries. Fellow gangster Wolfgang Schuster has provided a small module, t-startstops, which converts section headings like \chapter into \startchapter-\stopchapter, etc. You can add more. Look at the files t-startstop.tex and startstop.tex. NOTE: Hans will eventually implement official support for startstops, and the syntax will in all likelihood be different than the one used here (\startpart[title=,ref=]). 3) Auto completion. There is a notepad++ api file context.api, which has a list of perhaps all english ConTeXt commands. From the scite properties files you can find more keyword for your your own language and roll your own version. The nice thing is that Npp has a sorting utility so you can easily add your keywords and alphabetically sort them into your own api list. 4) ConTeXt utilities. a) The Run menu mimics the one in Hans's distribution of Scite, and mostly uses the same shortcuts. You can add more by pressing F5 and saving your command, which will allow you to define a shortcut. I deleted a few utilities that come with the default Npp setup but which did not seem relevant to context. If you want them back just look at the original shortcuts.xml file and copy the ones you want. A few nice tricks are there. For example, \input file.tex After selecting "file.tex" you can run "open file" and Npp will open file.tex for you. From selected text, you can also do a Google search , wiki search. Perhaps we could add a ConTeXt wiki search.... next version perhaps. b) Npp comes with a Console plugin, NppExec, which allows you to run scripts. Most of the Run commands have been implemented as scripts in NppExec. Here you can play around with the commands, test different options etc. 5. Integrated Explorer plugin. This is one of favorite tools. I have just added some tex-related filters Both NppExec and the Explorer are dockable. They can also be docked into one another outside of the main editor, separately outside, or separately inside. You'll have lots of fun with these two. 6. Color. I have implemented a color theme that is easier on the eyes than the default pure white background. It makes use of four shades of DADADA. For non-TeX languages you may need to tweak the settings a bit in Settings > Styler Configurator. 7. I have removed most of the languages from the Language menu, but you can bring back any language you need from Settings > Preferences > Language Menu. 8) The Shortcut Mapper has been slightly changed: Ctrl-Shift-Z does undo now. shortcut.xml controls this. 9) Added four functions to the context menu (right-click that is): Split lines, Join Lines, Text Direction RTL Text Direction LTR ========================= Nearly everything above is easily configurable. I could not implement support for non-startstop folding with sectioning like \chapter etc. because that would mean compiling the scintilla lexer, something I'm not interested in doing. If anyone knows how to do lexer programming and is interested, feel free;-) ========================= This package depends on Npp 4.2, so if you already have Npp then upgrade to the latest version. The documentation.bat file is based on code from Adrian Drury. Eventually it may be replaced with the mtxrun utility. I offer the package to the community but I am no OS guru so I cannot promise any support. OTOH please do make suggestions for improvement. Finally, I need a volunteer to post this on the wiki and to update the Text Editor page. Enjoy! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid 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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magazine demo hangs forever
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Hello, The script %engine=luatex \starttyping texmfstart texexec --mode=demo s-ptj-01.tex \stoptyping hangs forever... -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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em = slanted?
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 12 Aug '07

12 Aug '07

Hello, Just a question for my curiousity: why \em switches to Slanted, not Italic? (I found this while setting up my own typescript for luatex.) Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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can't find file `context.tex'
by zs 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Hi all. I've updated context by way recommended in mag-0012. I've set env. variables (env | grep TEX): TEXMFCACHE=/tmp TEXMF={/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf} TEXMFCNF={/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c} If I run: luatools context.tex I get: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex The command: luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en ends with error message: LuaTools | version 1.1.1 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT LuaTools | skipping configuration for /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/892bdbf68d574f1472c0c2a0dcccac69/trees/45016b2bec096137ef905785b0b02d6a LuaTools | loading configuration for /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/892bdbf68d574f1472c0c2a0dcccac69/trees/6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374 LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007 LuaTools | loading files for /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/892bdbf68d574f1472c0c2a0dcccac69/trees/1f08e3a96247a4bd25d903ca1cb00c0e LuaTools | loading files for /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/892bdbf68d574f1472c0c2a0dcccac69/trees/2adb941cffe60c990191225deee5cf98 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 This is luaTeX, Version 3.141592-snapshot-2007080810 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex ! I can't find file `context.tex'. l.16 \input context.tex Can anybody help me to sort this out. ZS

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