January 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

permissions in luatex-cache
by Peter Münster 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello, What directories in luatex-cache should be world writable? It seems to me, at least some sub-dirs in $TEXMFCACHE/luatex-cache/context/XXX/fonts And do these world writable directories present any security risk? (For example: user A writes some evil code into file $TEXMFCACHE/luatex-cache/context/XXX/fonts/otf/file.otf that makes user B remove all his files when running "texexec --luatex document.tex") Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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xindy
by Gour 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello! After several days spent lying in a bed, I got up few hours before and saw a long-waited announcement on xindy ml that (finally) xindy-2.3 is out. Let's t hope it will make it in new TexLive... For now, I'm interested whether and/or how one uses xindy in ConTeXt? Wiki is empty in regards :-( Sincerely, Gour

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Context Minimal Linux installation on MAC Leopard
by Giulio Bertellini 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

I thought I could install the Context Minimal Linux installation also ona Mac with Leopard. I did not succeed. Has anybody tried it. What is the suggested minimal distribution for Context to install on a Mac with Leopard? All suggestions are welcome. Giulio Bertellini

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Weird behavior about metafun
by Zhichu Chen 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi Hans and Wolfgang, I'm just trying to make some illustrations about the Chinese typesetting features. So I choose the way which is described in Chapter 5 of the metafun manual. And I wanna draw a line from the text I wanna comment on to the marginal notes which my comments lay on. To highlight them, I drew an underline below the contexts which is to be commented and put a square around the comments. Everything is under control except I put \fpos and \tpos around the comments, the framed box is not exactly what I want. It seems that metafun still thought it's in the main text so it drew the bounding around the body. I found the mpos:par was defined in core-pgr.tex and it used show_par or draw_par which are defined in mp-core.mp. I don't think it's a good way to define another MPpositiongraphic called like mpos:marginpar to match my case. Do you think it's possible to change some of the core codes to make metafun recognize where she is. -- 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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Footnotes in PDF bookmarks
by Marco Costa 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello I'm having a problem: footnotes that I've placed in chapter titles are appearing in PDF bookmarks (after the title text). The Table of Contents is OK, the footnotes are ignored there. Is there some way of making the footnotes not appear in PDF bookmarks? (I'm using XeTeX). Thanks.

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symbols in luatex?
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi all, first, a very happy new year 2008 to all of you! May ConTeXt continue to prosper and develop at a brisk pace :-) What better way to start the new year than asking a stupid question on the list? Here comes: I must be missing something really obvious here. I have a font (otf) with a number of (metrical) symbols which I use in a module. In mkii, I defined an encoding within this module to address the symbols: \startencoding[metr] \definecharacter metricbreve 66 \stopencoding so I can use the symbold with \metricbreve. Works great in mkii. But how do I do this in mkiv, which doesn't seem to read and use the encoding anymore? All best Thomas

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latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi all, Taco, Hans, this combination of latest betas: This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.2-2007121721 CtxTools | context version: 2008.01.03 16:25 gives me output without the usual TeX ligatures (fi etc.). I'm uncertain whether it is worth reporting such things or whether, given the rapid change of luatex and mkiv, you think this is unnecessary? All best Thomas

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ConTeXt 2008.01.02
by luigi scarso 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

At pragma site last release is ConTeXt 2008.01.02 , while at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes last release is Context 2007.12.31 -- luigi .... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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weird (italic) math braces in antt
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hello, I don't understand why I get italic braces in the following example. The font itself seems to be OK (and if I recall correctly, this has already worked OK in the past). \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][ec] \starttext $\{a\}$ \showfont[lmex10] \setupbodyfont[antykwa,16pt] $\{a\}[]$ \showfont[ex-anttr] \stoptext Thanks a lot, Mojca

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Module documentation under MarkIV
by Wolfgang Schuster 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hi, the documentation module x-set-11 did currently not work work under MarkIV, the entries from the xml-file are written as normal text in the output and is not interpreted in xml mode. \usemodule[set-11]\loadsetups \starttext \setup{setuplayout} \stoptext Wolfgang

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