October 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

A problem on lousy code of certain Chinese fonts in pdf
by Yanrui Li 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hi, When I used SimSun font in the newest MkIV (2008.10.3), I found lousy code in pdf document, as an example attached to in this email, and I am sure that there is no this problem in the version 2008.10.1. Best wishes. Li Yanrui

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PiechartMP module and SetupPercent
by batela 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Dear Sirs, I want to include in my document some nice pie charts with the piechartmp module, but i'm find some problems in set the percent symbol. The sentence SetupPercent( this, "%") don't work. Did you know a way to fix that? Thanks a lot best regards \startreusableMPgraphic{P1} input piechartmp; SetupColors((.7, .7),this, this); SetupPercent( this, "%") ; Segment( 50, "first") ; Segment( 30, "second") ; Segment( 10, "third") ; PieChart(4cm, 0.15, 60, 0, 0) ; Label.auto(0)(name)(outwards,0) ; Label(1,2,3)(percent)(inwards,0) withcolor (1,1,0); \stopreusableMPgraphic

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rotated cell bTABLE
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Hi, the content (word "Umfang") of the the (nr=2) first row of this example should but turned +90°. Hmm ... just how to rotate the content of a cell? Thanks, Steffen === \starttext \bTABLE[align={middle,lohi}] \bTR \bTD[nr=2] {\bf Umfang} \eTD \bTD Absolut\eTD \bTD {\bf +} \eTD \bTD {\bf +} \eTD \bTD {\bf +} \eTD \bTD {\bf +} \eTD \bTD {\bf -} \eTD \bTD {\bf -} \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Relativ\eTD \bTD {\bf -} \eTD \bTD {\bf -} \eTD \bTD {\bf -} \eTD \bTD {\bf -} \eTD \bTD {\bf +} \eTD \bTD {\bf +} \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext

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Mojca, Miktex, and seeming success!
by dwarnold45＠suddenlink.net 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Mojca, OK, saw your new post on: http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx So, I extracted cont-tfm.zip to c:\Contet, used Miktex2.7->Settings to add it as a Root, refreshed the filename database, but the formats will still not build in Miktext2.7->Settings->Format cont-en.pdftex. Creating the cont-en.pdftex format file... Running pdftex... This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7) (INITEX) entering extended mode ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\config\cont-en.ini") ! Emergency stop. <*> cont-en.ini No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. makefmt: pdftex failed on cont-en.ini. initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason. And my new format attempt won't build either: ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\patterns\lang-hu.pat" ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pattern memory=300000]. l.1243 ^^c3^^a1h1ors No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. makefmt: pdftex failed on cont-en.tex. initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason. Finally, I gave up on trying to use Miktex2.7->Settings to build the formats, opened a DOS box, and typed: $ texmfstart texexec --make --all I refreshed the filename database, now things seemingly work. This file: \starttext Hello, World! \stoptext Does compile with: $ texmfstart texexec --pdf junk.tex And this file: input mp-tool beginfig(1); numeric u; 10u=4in; drawdblarrow (-5u,0)--(5u,0); label.rt(btex $\theta$ etex, (5u,0)); drawdblarrow (0,-5u)--(0,5u); label.top(btex $\phi$ etex, (0,5u)); endfig; end. Does compile with: $ mpost junk.mp And more importantly, mptopdf now seemingly works, as I can now do: $ mptopdf junk.1 Which produces junk-1.pdf and opens correctly with the correct fonts. So, we'll see how this stands up .... Thanks for the help. Still open to further suggestion if any critique of my method. D.

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The most Tex friendly distribution?
by Armando Martins 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

Any idea about the most Tex-friendly Linux distribution, please? Thomas Schmitz told me OpenSuse (which I 've been using for a year...) is not that Tex-friendly... Thanks Armando -- A utilizar o cliente de correio revolucionário da Opera: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

hi, - the current beta has some speedups and mem improvements for fonts - for huge fonts (like chinese) general mem consumption can be made smaller (at the cost of some runtime) by \ctxlua{garbagecollector.enabled=true} although this is not that neccessary when you used the upcoming beta Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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context --result=... overwrites pdf-file
by Peter Münster 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hello, The new context script overwrites a pdf-file when used with the --result option. Example: %%% file test.tex %%% \starttext bla \stoptext context test ### this creates test.pdf context --mode=blub --result=test-blub test ### this removes test.pdf -> nor more test.pdf file ... :( Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] A problem in fallback fonts of MkIV
by Yanrui Li 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:55:46, Wolfgang wrote: > \spaceskip .25em plus .25em \relax It works. Thank you Wolfgang. Best wishes. Li Yanrui

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Miktex won't allow cont-en.tex change
by dwarnold45＠suddenlink.net 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Mojca, I tried running Miktex2.7->Settings->Formats, selecting cont-en.pdftex, then tried changing input filename from cont-en.ini to cont-en.tex, but I was "not allowed to change built-in" something or other. I tried adding a new format, calling it cont-en, compiler pdftex, and input filename cont-en.tex, but when I tried to build, it erred with: No pages of output. ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\patterns\lang-fi.pat") language : hyphenations fi for fi loaded (n=41,e=ec,m=ec) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\patterns\lang-fi.hyp") language : patterns hu for hu loaded (n=42,e=ec,m=ec) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\context\patterns\lang-hu.pat" ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pattern memory=300000]. l.1243 ^^c3^^a1h1ors No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. makefmt: pdftex failed on cont-en.tex. initexmf.EXE: The operation failed for some reason. Not sure what to try next. D.

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A problem in fallback fonts of MkIV
by Yanrui Li 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, Hans: When I used AdobeSongStd-Light as my main font and used LMRoman10-Regular as the fallback font, I found that the spaces between Chinese characters and English words are perfect, for example: \definefontfeature [zh][mode=node,script=hang,lang=zhs] \definefontsynonym [zhserif][name:AdobeSongStd-Light][features=zh] \definefontfallback [westernserif] [name:LMRoman10-Regular][0x0000-0x0400][force=yes] \definefontsynonym [song][zhserif][fallbacks=westernserif] \definefont[myfont][song at 12pt] \starttext \myfont 中文 English 之间的间隔\par 中文~English~之间的间隔\par 中文\;English\;之间的间隔 \stoptext But, when I used SimSun instead of AdobeSongStd-Light, the spaces between Chinese characters and English words became larger and ugly. In previous example, spaces in the first two lines of text are larger than those in the third one, even the spaces between English words also become larger. I remerbered what you said, the fallback fonts can be independent of the main font. However, I think the spaces between the words are releated to the main font. Would you give me a method for solving this problem? The pdf files used as comparison are attached to in the mail and you can do a comparative analysis. Thanks. by Li Yanrui

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