October 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

more bad news about latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

OK, I have more bad (for me) news about the latest beta: it simply refuses to play with some of my fonts; most importantly for me with the Gentium fonts. Whenever I try to compile something with Gentium in it, I get the error message !luaTeX error (file /Users/tas/Library/Fonts/GenAR102.ttf): Invalid glyph index (gid 1699) ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MtxRun | fatal error, code: 70 I have now compared the latest beta and an older one, and I think the culprit is this line: load otf | featurefile: /Users/tas/texmf/fonts/fea/context/greek- babel.fea luatex then goes on to create luatex-cache/context/408a90c432ceda2c1e4a80ad5d0e5350/fonts/otf/GenAR102(a)greek-babel.tma luatex-cache/context/408a90c432ceda2c1e4a80ad5d0e5350/fonts/otf/GenAR102(a)greek-babel.tmc The thing is, I know that Gentium doesn't work with this fea file; that's why I wrote one specifically for this font. Gentium is nowhere connected to this fea file. When I use an older version, this fea file is not used and GenAR102(a)greek-babel.tma is not created. The newer version creates it, and I have no clue why... Very puzzled Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Some Metapost Problems
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hallo Mojca, > > 1. The labels of the first graphic are xscaled (randomly) > > They are not scaled randomly :P > They inherit the sizes from the second graphic. > > See > > http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20061204.102337.280a6589.en > .html strange > You need > \runMPgraphicstrue Yes, this helps! But what are the sideeffects? When is the opposite needed? > These settings are used exclusevely for btex ... etex and textext. > \sometxt uses the surounding font. > > There could be some settings for fonts in metapost graphics, but > I'm not aware of any. > However, it's rather easy to either: > > a) write your own metapost macro for placing labels that scales > down > everything by 20% > label.top(myscaled(\sometxt{Samstag}), z0) ; > where > vardef myscaled(expr t) = (t scaled 0.8) enddef; This works. > b) write your own handle > \definetextext[scaled]{\switchtobodyfont[8pt]\strut} > and then > label.top(\sometxt[scaled]{Samstag}, z0) ; This works, too. Where is this documented? > c) write your own macro or put some font size switch in front of > the graphic (I did not try it out) > \long\def\startuseMPgraphicwithscaledtext#1\stopuseMPgraphicwithscal > edtext > {\bgroup\switchtobodyfont[8pt]\startuseMPgraphic#1\stopuseMPgraphic\ > egroup} This is not working. Even an explizit {\switchtobodyfont[8pt] \startuseMPgraphic <mp-code> \stopuseMPgraphic } didn't work. I will use one of the other solutions. Thank you very much! Wolfgang

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latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Oct '08

08 Oct '08

Hi Hans, the latest beta has a problem with font handling: in my Greek output, the letters "sigma" and "sigmaalt" don't work anymore; they're replaced either by some "undefined" character (box with letter "X" in it) or by empty spaces. I tried to find out where something has changed, but haven't found anything so far. If you don't have an immediate idea what's wrong, I'll try to investigate further. Thomas

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t-vim problem
by Zhaopeng Xing 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hi Aditya, I am using t-vim 2008.09.15, but the following sample runs problem with the hightlighting file name. \usemodule[vim] \starttext \definevimtyping [RUBY] [syntax=ruby] \startRUBY #! /usr/bin/ruby # This is my first ruby program puts "Hello World" \stopRUBY \stoptext The message is saying: ! I can't find file `untitled-1-vimsyntax.tmp-vimsyntax.tmp'. <to be read again> \relax \dodotypevimfile ...\input #2-vimsyntax.tmp\relax \egroup \@@vsafter l.8 \stopRUBY Please type another input file name: I checked the directory. The file should be named to untitled-1-vimsyntax.tmp instead of untitled-1-vimsyntax.tmp-vimsyntax.tmp. Can you show me how to figure out such a problem? Thanks. -- Zhaopeng XING Tinbergen Institute

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How to get the ligatures back in mkiv?
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hello, A while back, script=latn has been removed from features=default. It was an extremely sad story, but at that time it was possible to redefine it at least. Now I cannot make it work any more, or at least I'm doing something fundamentally wrong, but I don't get the fi ligature with the following code: \definefontfeature [default] [script=latn,liga=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,trep=yes] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Roman] [AGaramondPro-Regular] [features=default] I have switched to XeTeX for now (\font\a='Adobe Garamond Pro' at 15pt\a works OK), but that's not the solution. MtxRun | current version: 2008.10.03 23:45 Help anyone? Thanks a lot, Mojca

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metapost and luatex (or xetex)
by Diego Depaoli 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hi all, from metafun manual, page 157, I took this example \startuniqueMPgraphic{copyright} picture p ; p := btex COPYRIGHT etex rotated 90 ; setbounds p to boundingbox p enlarged 1pt ; draw p withcolor .8white ; xyscale_currentpicture(\the\leftmarginwidth,\the\textheight) ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \setuptexttexts [margin] [] [\uniqueMPgraphic{copyright}] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext but compiling it I get some trouble texexec --pdf works as expected texexec --lua drops colors (COPYRIGHT is black) texexec --xtx gives no output (linux and FreeBSD) All normal? Regards -- Diego Depaoli

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relative file locations when compiling from different folders (in projects)
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hello, I'm just wondering if there's some recipe about how to simplify the work when icluding other files and images in projects, when one is compiling from different folders. For example: articles/08/01/art-one.tex (product) articles/08/01/art-two.tex (product) articles/08/02/art-three.tex (product) articles/08/02/art-four.tex (product) articles/08/magazine_2008.tex (product) components/funny.tex (component) img/08/01/img-1.png img/08/01/img-2.png img/08/01/img-3.png img/08/02/img-2.png magazine_all.tex (project) layout.tex (environment) If I do > cd articles/08/01 > texexec art-one then images are expected to be set up as ../../../img/08/01 and if I need to \input somefile from the project (like "funny.tex"), even if that's a component, I need to provide some explicit location. But then I would want to compile > cd articles/08 > texexec magazine_2008 and then all relative paths break, even when specified in subfolders. Now I would need to set up ../../img/08/01 as image directory. Even though the article provides relative path, that path is now relative to the document I compile one folder lower in hierarchy, not to the document that defines the relative path (which is a bit weird, but I understad why it is so). Also ... is there some elegant way to include "funny.tex" from an article, so that it will work both in article and magazine? (I'm thinking about putting \def\projectroot{../../} at the top of files, but that's a bit ugly.) I can solve the problem in my own ways with some weird macros, like the ones that set image directory to "directory={../../../img/08/01,../../img/08/01,img/08/01}" at the top of every article file, but my solutions are all a bit ugly. (Another thing is that it needs to be flexible enough, so that I don't need to change every single article in case that I decide to move images or articles to another location in project.) If some elegance exists to solve that, I would welcome any hints or suggestions. But as I said: it's all solvable in one way or another, so this is just a low-priority request for sharing your ideas. I'm posting this because I would almost bet that there's some one-liner to solve it all :) :) :) Thanks, Mojca

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showcase on mac?
by Frans Goddijn 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Willi Egger helped me get a minimal install working on my mac and I'm working on a collection of columns illustrated with pictures. It's been a while since I used Context so I want to download some basic manuals to refresh my memory and learn new things. On my Windows machine I can view/navigate and download manuals from the http://www.pragma-ade.nl/showcase.pdf page, but on my mac this doesn't work. In the Safari browser, nothing happens if I click on the "manuals" link. In Firefox, the showcase PDF is downloaded and I can open it. After allowing the file to go full screen, I get error messages for the links "there was an error opening this document/ the file cannot be found', execpt on the "quit" link ;-) Is there a simple thing I should change to make it work on the mac as well? Groet, Frans Goddijn www.kostverlorenvaart.nl

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Downloading problem
by Mehdi Omidali 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hi everyone, I tried to download the linux minimal several times but I couldn't and the download progress stoped after 26%. Is the link correct? Thanks MO

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strange problem with mkiv (windows)
by Peter Rolf 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Hi, the following code breaks compilation here (XP SP3). \starttext \limitatefirstline{\underbar{WqTextdummy}}{8ex}{...} \stoptext [..] systems : begin file crop2 at line 2 ! Emergency stop. \processisolatedwords ...latedlastskip \lastskip } \setbox 2\normalvbox {\lef... \redounderbar ...sisolatedwords {#2}\dodounderbar \egroup \limitatefirstline ...ratchbox \hbox {\begstrut #1 \endstrut }\ifdim \wd \scr... l.4 ...firstline{\underbar{WqTextdummy}}{8ex}{...} ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MtxRun | loading configuration for r:/tex/texmf/web2c from r:/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/d0b787cd25b9175dc4eaa276af366360/trees/b69cd8db662fdc8e4c09165909c3f8af MtxRun | run 1: luatex --fmt="r:/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/d0b787cd25b9175dc4eaa276af366360/formats/cont-en" --lua="r:/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/d0b787cd25b9175dc4eaa276af366360/formats/cont-en.lua" "./crop2" MtxRun | fatal error, code: 1 I also tried with latest untouched minimals, but same result. If I remove the \underbar macro, things work ok. My first thought was, that this is related to attributes. *Strangely the example has no problems on contextgarden.* Can anyone with Windos OS test, if this is a general (windows) problem? Thanks. Best wishes, Peter

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